Punch (78.1880)

June 12, I860.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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Mr. Chaplin might, take it that Mr. Gladstone had
called the Anglo-Turkish Convention an “insane in-
strument.” But then the instrument was in the
European Concert, and must he taken into account in
the orchestra, sane or insane.

A long and barren fight over the composition of the
Bradlaueh Committee. The Opposition, who have eleven
to the Government dozen, besides two Home-Rulers,
complain, rnirabile dictu, by the Liberal lips of Lord
Randolph Churchill, that the Committee includes
only two Nonconformists, one Catholic, and no Scotch-
man. Considering that their own eleven numbers ten
English Churchmen, and an ex-Irish Attorney-General,
while the Government dozen includes three Non-con-
formists, one Roman-Catholic, one Jew, and one Member
for a Scotch Borough, though not a Scotchman, Mr.
G. 0. Trevelyan—“ CaleAoniis ipsis Caledonior ”—this
complaint is rather cool. Though the Motion for ad journ-
ment, moved by Sir H. D. Wolef, and seconded by
Sir Baldwin Leighton—Arcades ambo—was defeated
by 256 to 100, the Irreconcileables mean to have another
hammer at it on Monday, before the Opposition Eleven,
and the Ministerial Eleven, with one added, go in for
their match.

Then to Supply. Three hours wasted on Irish Secret
Service Vote, of 25,000, Mr. Parnell withdrawing his
Motion on being assured by Mr. Forster that he hoped
to keep to his determination not to use any of the money
in any way his conscience disapproved of, and trusted
next year to be able to get rid alike of the vote and the
need of it. Let Irish Members give their best support
to law and order, and Irish Secret Service Money might
soon be an ugly memory of the past. “ So mote it be,”
says Grand-Master Punch.

Monday (Lords).—An edifying little Education debate,
Lord Norton urging a return to the sweet simplicity
of the Three R’s, and discouragement of the “fancy
subjects,” which now help to addle pupils’ heads and
to fill teachers’ pockets, ex-President Duke of Richmond,
con., and Lord Sherbrooke, late Lows, now exalted,
speaking for the first time from his higher sphere, pro.
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REGULATION.

iith Barter (to Naval Officer, who has had his hair cut). “ Beard
(Sir—yes, Sib,—Gunnery or Torpedo, Sir ? ” (Customer looks
1 “Which the Torpedo Horficers generally has their Beards
nd the Gunnery Gents wears theirs a little more Rounded,

and which the Honse insisted on his withdrawing. There never was
mamittee struck, and if the Whips never did worse, none conld ever
vas the white of their eye.

aniest thing in the discussion is the sudden solicitude on the Oppo-
for the due representation of Nonconformists on the Committee, at
Richard poked very fair fun.

. was the defeat of Sir Walter’s attempt to weight one scale of the
’s balance, by 267 to 148.

w the Bradlaugh Committee may set to work, and the sooner it gets
eable business disposed of the better. The temper that has been im-

0 its appointment, has, certainly, not cleared its way to a judicial
;s inquiry.

/ (Lords).—Lord Cairns’s Land Bills, were read a Second Time, with

1 that the Government did not promise them support, intending to
the subject as a whole themselves as soon as possible.

ms.)—The very unsatisfactory bottle of Cyprus, which so offended the
: Mr. Childers in Mr. Punch's “Derby Lunch,” uncorked by Mr.

He is for remedying all the evils which the late advisers of the
va potens Cypri,” Her Gracious Majesty, have established or intro-
•e, as forced labour, arbitrary exile, limitations on land sales and the
y. depression of the Greek tongue and. Greek tribunals under Turkish,
r. Rylanrs wants to know whether we conldn’t introduce the Cypriots
isings of our own election system.

s if Cyprus knew all we do, it might not be so eager for this latter
ever grateful for the others.

arles Dilke gave a full and frank answer, about as satisfactory as
uld he, on this very unsatisfactory “dependency,” or “ acquisition,”
riment,” or “model farm,” or ’“place of arms.” or whatever the
of Venus and fantasy of Fakredeen should be called,
and is to he turned over from the hands of the Foreign Office to the
Dffice. They do know something there about governing “ depen-
and have constitutional apparatus in stock of all sorts, sizes, and
Something may he found to fit even Cyprus. Sir R. Biddulph had
seeived instructions to do all he could in the way of easing the chafe of
la'ws, and healing the fret of harsh ordinances.