Punch: Punch (76.1879)

March 22, 1879.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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PUNCH'S MYSTERY.

Find the Portrait in the Bower Made by Banner, Staff, and Flower.

PREACHERS IN PARLIAMENT.

Is it likely that any removal of clerical disabilities would have the
effect of inducing more than a few exceptional Clergymen to enter
Parliament ? Would not the habit of holding forth to a congregation
tend to incapacitate a Parliamentary ex-parson for addressing
Mr. Speaker? A pulpit orator is not accustomed to be inter-
rupted with ironical laughter and cries of " Question ! " and " Oh I
oh! " Such interruptions would be very likely to disconcert an
honourable and no longer reverend gentleman on his legs out of the
pulpit. The Bishops, it is true, get on tolerably well in the Lords,
in spite of having been accustomed to preach; but then the Bishops
are select Senators as well as selected Parsons, and, besides, the
Upper House of Parliament is not the Lower.

The only " Round'Sum."—A cipher.

query—according- to SOME indian authorities.

Considering what things were in India under^John Company, and
what they are under the rule that he has made room for, can J ohn
Bull honestly say, that his Room is better than his Company ?

coaling and calling over the coals.

" fran(

" are still
over the coals" ?

nce, Spain, and Egypt," we are told by Eastern telegraph,
11 coaling." Should it not have been " Egypt is being called

specially seasonable.

Best stock for our soupe maigre, among seasonably sent ills,
Of all Man's given blessings there 's'none that equals Lent-ils.