DOI issue:
July 10, 1880
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July 10, 1880.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
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dons length of actually proposing that, from the week beginning the 5th of July,
the Woolsack should be placed at the north end of the House, so that the Lord
Chancellor should sit with his face instead of his back to it!
The bare idea of this hitherto unheard-of, and unimagined, this wild, fearful,
and reckless, not to say revolutionary innovation, horrified the House, and the
proposal of it was of course withdrawn. Shunt the Woolsack! Had the
suggestion of such an enormity been entertained in the House of Lords for a
moment, there would have been an end of everything. Treat the Woolsack as
a moveable ! The Roman Senate would as soon have thought of displacing the
Capitoli immobile saxum.
The other two Resolutions were agreed to without a division, and their
Lordships presently adjourned.
{Commons.)—Sir S. Northcote gave notice of moving, as an Amendment to
Mr. Gladstone’s Motion on the Bradlaugh mess, a counter-Resolution declaring
that the House cannot consent to regale itself on its own recent vote.
Proposed declaration of non possumus cheered by the Opposition.
Mr. Gorst also gave notice that he would ask the Speaker, as a point of
order, whether, as virtually raisiug a question which the House has already
decided in the current Session, such a Resolution can be put at all ?
Adjourned debate on Confiscatory Compensation of Disturbance (Hibernian)
Bill resumed, and by-aud-by adjourned again ; sitting suspended at seven till
nine, when Mr. D. O'Conor beginning to talk about the disfranchisement of
Sligo, the House was counted out in ten minutes’ time.
Wednesday {Commons).—The House resolved itself into a sort of legislative
Eisteddfodd, Mr. Roberts moved the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday
(Wales) Bill for totally closing all the publichouses on Sunday throughout the
Principality. Another Sabbatarian project, look you.
If, said the Member for Flint, the Government, in the debate of last Friday,
had promised a Sunday Closing Bill for England and Wales, he would not
have pressed his own. There was a strong and almost unanimous feeling in
Wales in favour of closing publichouses on Sunday.
That is to say, the Cymry desire to be once a week deprived of their crw.
Mr. Warton, in moving the rejection of the Bill, very naturally asked—“ If
the working classes of Wales were so anxious not to visit publichouses on
Sunday, why did they do it ? ” The only possible answer, if that is indeed
so, is that they are so extremely imbecile as to be incapable of self-control.
Mr. A. Peel, speaking from the Treasury Bench, having remarked that he was
practically addressing a Welsh Parliament, pointed out to Sabbatarian legisla-
tors that it would not do to go beyond public opinion, and that the Premier
had promised legislation on the licensing question with which the measure
before the House would interfere. There was a Welsh consensus in favour of
that measure which he did not like to resist. He couldn’t support the Bill, and
wouldn’t oppose it.
Amendment negatived. Welsh Sabbatarian Bill read a Second Time. If
publichouses are to be closed throughout Sunday in Wales, surely dairies will be
allowed to remain open, so that poor little Taffy may at least be enabled to
quench his thirst with the milk which is good for babes.
Mr. Litton put his oar into Irish Land Legislation by moving the Second
Reading of his Fixity of Tenure Bill, which of course brought him into a fix with
Mr. Forster, who, as might have been expected, moved the previous question-
carried by 187 to 45. Shut up.
Thursday {Lords).—Lord Galloway again brought the subject of the Mar
Peerage before the House, moving a Resolution to rescind an Order of their
Lordships relative thereto. Amendment moved by Lord Redesdale, and, after
a long discussion, the Mar Motion rejected. “ All that ’a spoke is marr’d.”
{Commons.)—Final stage, we may hope, of the Bradlaugh bore. After
preliminary business, of small account, Mr. Speaker, in reply to Mr. Gorst,
ruled that there was an essential difference between Mr. Gladstone’s Resolu-
tion and Mr. Labouchere’s, and that the former could therefore be moved, in
order.
Mr. Gladstone thereupon proceeded to move his Resolution, rescinding the
previous Resolution which excluded Mr. Bradlaugh, and in support of his
Motion especially urged the necessity of protecting the dignity of the House and
maintaining its police. The decency of the House had only been maintained by
Mr. Bradlaugh being made aware that such a Motion as this would be made ;
and but for that knowledge there would have been a repetition of the painful
scenes of last week.
In point of fact, if the House did not accede to the Motion, its dignity and
order would remain at the mercy of Mr. Bradlaugh.
Partly impressed perhaps by this consideration, but rather, of course, with
a sense of the necessity of getting out of au untenable position, the House, in
spite of forcible speeches from Sir S. Northcote and Sir R. Cross, and impas-
sioned protests from Mr. Sullivan and other Roman Catholic Members, finally
adopted Mr. Gladstone's proposal, and by a majority of 303 to 249 con-
sented to devour its previous decision, amid much cheering from the Ministe-
rial benches. It then rejected a rider proposed by Mr. Sullivan, which would
have excluded Bradlaugh personally, and having agreed on the Motion of
Mr. Gladstone to make the Resolution of which Mr. Bradlaugh was the hero,
and has thus become master of the situation, a standing order, adjourned.
STATE OF THE TIDE.
“Sir Sydney Waterlow, the Liberal Candidate for Gravesend, was yesterday
returned by a majority of 220 over Sir Robert Peel.”
It is low water with the Tories just now, at Gravesend.
COMMON SENSE V1CTORIIGUS.
“ Short dresses are now good form in the ball-room.”
Alt, hail. Good Sense!
Fair Reason, hail!
Hail, Fashion’s
groaning slaves, set
free
From galling bonds
of shirt and tail
To rtvel in sweet
liberty !
Too long we’ve borne
the foolish toils
That F ashion weaves
for each poor slave,
Who, hampered with
her monstrous coils,
Has battled on, dis-
traught but brave.
So, when her tyrant
edict bound
A frightful cage
about cur kin,
We’ve uttered no
rebellious sound,
But borne it with a
Spartan grin.
And when Unreason’s hand has tied
Soft sinuous forms iu bands of steel
That marred their gracious lines, we ’ve sighed,
But scorned to utter what we feel.
Yet later, when in clinging fold
She swathed and cramped each pliant frame,
And tacked to Nature’s perfect mould
An irksome tail to trip and lame—
E ’en then we’ve smiled a patient smile,
And wondered at such needless pains;
Still keeping wary watch the while,
Lest, stumbling, we might curse their trains.
For all too oft the
Fair but False
Have shuddered at
a muttered oath,
When, tripping in
the painful valse,
A crash has made
their partners
wroth.
And now that trail-
in g trains are
“ out,”
Send paint and
powder, pointed
shoe,
High heels, wasp-
waists, to right-
about,
With all their
ghastly, maiming
crew !
For modest grace
beats Modiste’s art,
And your own forms are quite enough,
My dears, to break your Punch's heart,
Without all this pernicious stuff.
So, when the future ages scan
The page of Fashion’s folly dense,
They shall confess this year began
An era of sound Common Sense !
Easily Guessed.
In a new weekly periodical, the Pen, in a notice of
Samuel Smiles, it is stated that some of his books have
been translated into every European language, except
one. It will not surprise anyone to learn that the solitary
European language in which the works of the Author of
Self-Help and Thrift are not to be found, is the—Turkish.
5
dons length of actually proposing that, from the week beginning the 5th of July,
the Woolsack should be placed at the north end of the House, so that the Lord
Chancellor should sit with his face instead of his back to it!
The bare idea of this hitherto unheard-of, and unimagined, this wild, fearful,
and reckless, not to say revolutionary innovation, horrified the House, and the
proposal of it was of course withdrawn. Shunt the Woolsack! Had the
suggestion of such an enormity been entertained in the House of Lords for a
moment, there would have been an end of everything. Treat the Woolsack as
a moveable ! The Roman Senate would as soon have thought of displacing the
Capitoli immobile saxum.
The other two Resolutions were agreed to without a division, and their
Lordships presently adjourned.
{Commons.)—Sir S. Northcote gave notice of moving, as an Amendment to
Mr. Gladstone’s Motion on the Bradlaugh mess, a counter-Resolution declaring
that the House cannot consent to regale itself on its own recent vote.
Proposed declaration of non possumus cheered by the Opposition.
Mr. Gorst also gave notice that he would ask the Speaker, as a point of
order, whether, as virtually raisiug a question which the House has already
decided in the current Session, such a Resolution can be put at all ?
Adjourned debate on Confiscatory Compensation of Disturbance (Hibernian)
Bill resumed, and by-aud-by adjourned again ; sitting suspended at seven till
nine, when Mr. D. O'Conor beginning to talk about the disfranchisement of
Sligo, the House was counted out in ten minutes’ time.
Wednesday {Commons).—The House resolved itself into a sort of legislative
Eisteddfodd, Mr. Roberts moved the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday
(Wales) Bill for totally closing all the publichouses on Sunday throughout the
Principality. Another Sabbatarian project, look you.
If, said the Member for Flint, the Government, in the debate of last Friday,
had promised a Sunday Closing Bill for England and Wales, he would not
have pressed his own. There was a strong and almost unanimous feeling in
Wales in favour of closing publichouses on Sunday.
That is to say, the Cymry desire to be once a week deprived of their crw.
Mr. Warton, in moving the rejection of the Bill, very naturally asked—“ If
the working classes of Wales were so anxious not to visit publichouses on
Sunday, why did they do it ? ” The only possible answer, if that is indeed
so, is that they are so extremely imbecile as to be incapable of self-control.
Mr. A. Peel, speaking from the Treasury Bench, having remarked that he was
practically addressing a Welsh Parliament, pointed out to Sabbatarian legisla-
tors that it would not do to go beyond public opinion, and that the Premier
had promised legislation on the licensing question with which the measure
before the House would interfere. There was a Welsh consensus in favour of
that measure which he did not like to resist. He couldn’t support the Bill, and
wouldn’t oppose it.
Amendment negatived. Welsh Sabbatarian Bill read a Second Time. If
publichouses are to be closed throughout Sunday in Wales, surely dairies will be
allowed to remain open, so that poor little Taffy may at least be enabled to
quench his thirst with the milk which is good for babes.
Mr. Litton put his oar into Irish Land Legislation by moving the Second
Reading of his Fixity of Tenure Bill, which of course brought him into a fix with
Mr. Forster, who, as might have been expected, moved the previous question-
carried by 187 to 45. Shut up.
Thursday {Lords).—Lord Galloway again brought the subject of the Mar
Peerage before the House, moving a Resolution to rescind an Order of their
Lordships relative thereto. Amendment moved by Lord Redesdale, and, after
a long discussion, the Mar Motion rejected. “ All that ’a spoke is marr’d.”
{Commons.)—Final stage, we may hope, of the Bradlaugh bore. After
preliminary business, of small account, Mr. Speaker, in reply to Mr. Gorst,
ruled that there was an essential difference between Mr. Gladstone’s Resolu-
tion and Mr. Labouchere’s, and that the former could therefore be moved, in
order.
Mr. Gladstone thereupon proceeded to move his Resolution, rescinding the
previous Resolution which excluded Mr. Bradlaugh, and in support of his
Motion especially urged the necessity of protecting the dignity of the House and
maintaining its police. The decency of the House had only been maintained by
Mr. Bradlaugh being made aware that such a Motion as this would be made ;
and but for that knowledge there would have been a repetition of the painful
scenes of last week.
In point of fact, if the House did not accede to the Motion, its dignity and
order would remain at the mercy of Mr. Bradlaugh.
Partly impressed perhaps by this consideration, but rather, of course, with
a sense of the necessity of getting out of au untenable position, the House, in
spite of forcible speeches from Sir S. Northcote and Sir R. Cross, and impas-
sioned protests from Mr. Sullivan and other Roman Catholic Members, finally
adopted Mr. Gladstone's proposal, and by a majority of 303 to 249 con-
sented to devour its previous decision, amid much cheering from the Ministe-
rial benches. It then rejected a rider proposed by Mr. Sullivan, which would
have excluded Bradlaugh personally, and having agreed on the Motion of
Mr. Gladstone to make the Resolution of which Mr. Bradlaugh was the hero,
and has thus become master of the situation, a standing order, adjourned.
STATE OF THE TIDE.
“Sir Sydney Waterlow, the Liberal Candidate for Gravesend, was yesterday
returned by a majority of 220 over Sir Robert Peel.”
It is low water with the Tories just now, at Gravesend.
COMMON SENSE V1CTORIIGUS.
“ Short dresses are now good form in the ball-room.”
Alt, hail. Good Sense!
Fair Reason, hail!
Hail, Fashion’s
groaning slaves, set
free
From galling bonds
of shirt and tail
To rtvel in sweet
liberty !
Too long we’ve borne
the foolish toils
That F ashion weaves
for each poor slave,
Who, hampered with
her monstrous coils,
Has battled on, dis-
traught but brave.
So, when her tyrant
edict bound
A frightful cage
about cur kin,
We’ve uttered no
rebellious sound,
But borne it with a
Spartan grin.
And when Unreason’s hand has tied
Soft sinuous forms iu bands of steel
That marred their gracious lines, we ’ve sighed,
But scorned to utter what we feel.
Yet later, when in clinging fold
She swathed and cramped each pliant frame,
And tacked to Nature’s perfect mould
An irksome tail to trip and lame—
E ’en then we’ve smiled a patient smile,
And wondered at such needless pains;
Still keeping wary watch the while,
Lest, stumbling, we might curse their trains.
For all too oft the
Fair but False
Have shuddered at
a muttered oath,
When, tripping in
the painful valse,
A crash has made
their partners
wroth.
And now that trail-
in g trains are
“ out,”
Send paint and
powder, pointed
shoe,
High heels, wasp-
waists, to right-
about,
With all their
ghastly, maiming
crew !
For modest grace
beats Modiste’s art,
And your own forms are quite enough,
My dears, to break your Punch's heart,
Without all this pernicious stuff.
So, when the future ages scan
The page of Fashion’s folly dense,
They shall confess this year began
An era of sound Common Sense !
Easily Guessed.
In a new weekly periodical, the Pen, in a notice of
Samuel Smiles, it is stated that some of his books have
been translated into every European language, except
one. It will not surprise anyone to learn that the solitary
European language in which the works of the Author of
Self-Help and Thrift are not to be found, is the—Turkish.