DOI issue:
May 22, 1880
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17763#0236
mat 22, i860.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 231
A STRAIGHT “ TIP.”
Tramp. “Whose ’Ouse is this, Sir?”
Gardener. “ Squire Noakes’s.”
Tramp. “Do you think I could get anything there?”
Gardener. “Well, I don’t know—the last o’ your Sort got Twenty-One Days!”
But where was Harcourt ? Echo answered “ Where,” and our
heading explains why. (Is it true that the venerable Charles
Yilliers goes to the Upper House, and that faithful Wolver-
hampton will furnish a life-buoy to the “ Man overboard” without
going to the Chiltern Hundreds for one ?)
Meantime, to the cry of “ Floreat Aula,” Hall took his seat for
Oxford, if not to music of barrel-organs, to chorus of loud and lusty
Conservative hurrahs.
“ Let’s laugh, and quaff, and make good cheers,
Now Oxford’s Hall is Westminstere’s.”
Counter-cheers from the Government side as the young man from
Leeds,—“My son, Sir!”—took his seat, and the oath. Punch
would like to know why the Benches were dissolved in laughter as
the ex-Judge-Advocate kissed the book ?
After oaths, notices-. By Sir Henry Hayelock-Allan to
look into the short-comings of Short Service. An announcement
much cheered by the Opposition, as a confession of failure of the
system on the side of the parents that begat it.
Ultima Thule has its eye on India. Samuel Laing, ex-Indian
financial Secretary, means to ask Lord Haktington when he will
help the House to look the yawning Strachey and Lytton deficit
in the face from the vantage-ground of a thorough overhauling of
Indian accounts.
Mr. Baxter is going to call over the coals the Laws relating to
the transfer, ownership, and tenancy of the soil.
“ So, landlords and lawyers, make ready for me,
I’m for heckling o’ Land Laws, says Bonnie Dundee ! ”
On Lord Richard Grosvenor, giving notice of nomination of the
Bradlaugh Committee for to-morrow, the Wolee all but flew at the
Speaker, who begged him to wait till to-morrow, as that was
the' day for the Bradlaugh Bait, when the Wolff could have his
‘‘run,” with which assurance the Wolee was, with much ado,
“tailed off.” (It is refreshing to find oneself involuntarily reverting
to the vocabulary of the bull-ring and the bear-garden.)
Tuesday.—Notices to abolish—
By Mr. Monk, conge d'elire, for Bishops;
By Mr. Ritchie, conge de detruire, by African Consuls ;
By Sir George Balfour, the office of Advocate-General;
By Mr. P. Taylor, the use of the Navy Cat;
And to call attention—
By Professor Thorold Rogers, and Sir C. Roundell, to the
Oxford Commissioners and their reports.
By Mr. Paget, to the maintenance of our reads, and the rates for
their repair ;
By Mr. H. J. Balfour, to a little bird in the India Office, who
had been blabbing;
By Mr. Coope, to the reasons for opening the National Gallery on
more days, and for more hours in the day.
The Secretary of the Treasury could not oblige Mr. Callan
with any information about the Parliamentary movements of Mr.
Sullivan, who declines to sit with him for Louth.
Mr. Parnell, that Paris of Parliament, among the three con-
stituencies that sue for his choice—Meath, Mayo, and Cork—has
thrown the apple to Cork.
“Then, great Intransigent, of cheer be brighter,
And, thanks to Cork, upon the House sit lighter.”
This pretty little lot of business and pleasure cut out for it, the
House turned to the Bradlaugh Committee.
Lord Richard Grosvenor added the Attorney and Solicitor-
General to the list already given.
Then fiercely forth sprang Wolff, and, unreproved
By adverse looks, the Previous Question moved.
“ The Cause of its Assembling undeclared,.
The Bill for its First Beading unprepared,
With no Queen’s Speech whereto its life to pin,
There was no House such business to begin.
Wherefore this haste, defying Faith’s alarms,
i To take affirming Bkadlaugh to your arms ?
A STRAIGHT “ TIP.”
Tramp. “Whose ’Ouse is this, Sir?”
Gardener. “ Squire Noakes’s.”
Tramp. “Do you think I could get anything there?”
Gardener. “Well, I don’t know—the last o’ your Sort got Twenty-One Days!”
But where was Harcourt ? Echo answered “ Where,” and our
heading explains why. (Is it true that the venerable Charles
Yilliers goes to the Upper House, and that faithful Wolver-
hampton will furnish a life-buoy to the “ Man overboard” without
going to the Chiltern Hundreds for one ?)
Meantime, to the cry of “ Floreat Aula,” Hall took his seat for
Oxford, if not to music of barrel-organs, to chorus of loud and lusty
Conservative hurrahs.
“ Let’s laugh, and quaff, and make good cheers,
Now Oxford’s Hall is Westminstere’s.”
Counter-cheers from the Government side as the young man from
Leeds,—“My son, Sir!”—took his seat, and the oath. Punch
would like to know why the Benches were dissolved in laughter as
the ex-Judge-Advocate kissed the book ?
After oaths, notices-. By Sir Henry Hayelock-Allan to
look into the short-comings of Short Service. An announcement
much cheered by the Opposition, as a confession of failure of the
system on the side of the parents that begat it.
Ultima Thule has its eye on India. Samuel Laing, ex-Indian
financial Secretary, means to ask Lord Haktington when he will
help the House to look the yawning Strachey and Lytton deficit
in the face from the vantage-ground of a thorough overhauling of
Indian accounts.
Mr. Baxter is going to call over the coals the Laws relating to
the transfer, ownership, and tenancy of the soil.
“ So, landlords and lawyers, make ready for me,
I’m for heckling o’ Land Laws, says Bonnie Dundee ! ”
On Lord Richard Grosvenor, giving notice of nomination of the
Bradlaugh Committee for to-morrow, the Wolee all but flew at the
Speaker, who begged him to wait till to-morrow, as that was
the' day for the Bradlaugh Bait, when the Wolff could have his
‘‘run,” with which assurance the Wolee was, with much ado,
“tailed off.” (It is refreshing to find oneself involuntarily reverting
to the vocabulary of the bull-ring and the bear-garden.)
Tuesday.—Notices to abolish—
By Mr. Monk, conge d'elire, for Bishops;
By Mr. Ritchie, conge de detruire, by African Consuls ;
By Sir George Balfour, the office of Advocate-General;
By Mr. P. Taylor, the use of the Navy Cat;
And to call attention—
By Professor Thorold Rogers, and Sir C. Roundell, to the
Oxford Commissioners and their reports.
By Mr. Paget, to the maintenance of our reads, and the rates for
their repair ;
By Mr. H. J. Balfour, to a little bird in the India Office, who
had been blabbing;
By Mr. Coope, to the reasons for opening the National Gallery on
more days, and for more hours in the day.
The Secretary of the Treasury could not oblige Mr. Callan
with any information about the Parliamentary movements of Mr.
Sullivan, who declines to sit with him for Louth.
Mr. Parnell, that Paris of Parliament, among the three con-
stituencies that sue for his choice—Meath, Mayo, and Cork—has
thrown the apple to Cork.
“Then, great Intransigent, of cheer be brighter,
And, thanks to Cork, upon the House sit lighter.”
This pretty little lot of business and pleasure cut out for it, the
House turned to the Bradlaugh Committee.
Lord Richard Grosvenor added the Attorney and Solicitor-
General to the list already given.
Then fiercely forth sprang Wolff, and, unreproved
By adverse looks, the Previous Question moved.
“ The Cause of its Assembling undeclared,.
The Bill for its First Beading unprepared,
With no Queen’s Speech whereto its life to pin,
There was no House such business to begin.
Wherefore this haste, defying Faith’s alarms,
i To take affirming Bkadlaugh to your arms ?