Punch: Punch (75.1878)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [December 14, 1878.

A murky morning, for a melancholy
business—the opening of a December
Parliament. As out of season as a
Dog-day Pantomime.

To a House empty of Lords, and
crowded with Ladies, enter the Lord
Chancellor. To him, first enter,
then exeunt, then re-enter the Royal
Commissioners " dispersedly." These
entrances and exits settled, after some
difficulty,
The Queen's Speech,
Snort, but not sweet, and on the whole more like Punch's last week's anticipa-
tion of it than might have been expected.
Here it is—with rhyme—to point its reasons:—

" Sorry to bring you up from your pleasant country quarters,

But here's the Ameer, has got himself, and us, into troubled waters.