Punch: Punch (78.1880)

AN ASSAULT OF ARMS

Between General Sword and Captain Pen—(2 propos of the Zulu Campaign).

FROM OUR WESTMINSTER SCHOOL-BOY.
(Horace, Odes, III. 3.)

JusTjnr et tenacem propositi virum

The independent Member below the gangway

Non civium ardor prava jubentium,

Despises the machinations of Liberal caucuses,

Non vultus instantis tyranni,

Fears not the frown of the Cabinet Minister,
Mente quatit solida, neque Auster
Nor feels in the least alarmed by
Dux inquieti turbidus Hadrice,

The excited leaders of the Home-Rule party,

Nec fulminantis magna Jovis inanus ;

Nor the violent gesticulations of the hero of Midlothian.
Sifractus illabatur orbis,

Even if there be a dissolution,

Impamdum ferient ruince.

He will fearlessly face bis constituents I

“FOR THIS RELIEF MUCH THANKS!”

Punch congratulates Lord Edmund Fitzmattrice—who has a
hereditary right to clear sight, sound sense, and wise moderation in
matters political — for his well-weighed and temperate speech at
Caine on the political situation of the Government at home and
abroad. In these days of oratorical mud-flinging and vitriol-
throwing, when violent abuse and rampant denunciation are used so
freely to the grievous obscuring of the broad daylight of common
sense, and the blotting out of all political beacons and steering
lights, this calm Caine compendium of pros and cons, in the red-hot
regions of Turkey, Zulu-land, and Afghanistan, is not only refresh-
ing in itself, hut comforting, from the hope it holds out that
tornado-time is passing away from the atmosphere of public affairs,
and “cool weather” coming in at last.

Qtxery.—The connection between Lent Lectures and Bought
Sermons ?