DOI issue:
July 24, 1880
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17764#0042
34 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [July 24, 1880.
GROUND GAME, &c.!!
Squire {rather perplexed). “ Hullo, Pat! Where did you get the Hare?”
Pat. “ Shure, Sure, the Cr’attjr’ was wand’rin’ about, an’ I thought I’d take’t to the ‘Wanes’!”
Squire. “ But did the Keeper see you?”
Pat. “ Bliss yer Honour, I’ve been lookin’ for him iver since I caught it ! !”
definite course, will wait till they can lay all the facts before the
House, and will take time to consider.
On again with Committee on Mr. Forster’s little Irish Bill, or
bantling. Discussion of his £30 Amendment on Mr. Gibson’s £15
Amendment resumed by Mr. Biggar, who, of course, opposed all
limitations of the Bill whatever. So did Mr. Daly, Sir J. M’Kenna,
and Mr, Shaw. Parnell recommended postponement. Mr.
Forster offered, with the consent of Mr. Gladstone, to give up his
Amendment of an Amendment. Mr. Gibson taxed the Government
and the Premier with further change of mind and front.
If Mr. Gladstone has changed his front, has he changed his
“dickey”? Has he ever changed his shirt-collar—except for the
wash ?
Our William deprecated the heat and extravagance with which,
he said, a second-rate matter had been treated, and asserted the
right of the Government to accommodate every section of Irish
Members.
Granted the right, query the possibility, William.
Sir Stafford Northcote having, in his turn, fallen foul of
repeated changes of the Bill in deference to Mr. Parnell, Mr. For-
ster’s Amendment was negatived, and Mr. Gibson’s withdrawn.
Three other Amendments then also successively came to nothing,
and further “progress” was adjourned till the morrow.
Lord Byron is all right. His Indemnity Bill passed through all
of its stages.
Friday [Lords).—In answer to Lord Middleton, Lord Enfield
said the Local Government Board hoped to introduce a Noxious
Yapours Prevention Bill next Session. In the meanwhile, chemical
and other works will go on emitting effluvia.
In Committee, the Preamble and Clauses of the Educational
Endowments (Scotland) Bill were agreed to with a few alterations,
and, possibly, improvements.
(Commons, Morning.)—Much time taken up with talk on the
complaint of Mr. Dillwyn that the Lord Byron Indemnity Bill,
brought down from the Lords, had been read three times at two
o’clock before noon. Then Compensation for Disturbance (Ireland)
Bill on again in Committee. Amendment moved by Mr. Glad-
stone “ that a landlord shall not he relieved from the payment of
compensation if he has refused a tenant’s reasonable offer without
himself offering a reasonable suggestion,” partly carried after pro-
tracted prattle, the remainder talked upon by Mr. Biggar, until
the hour came for suspending the sitting, and so talked out.
{Evening.)—Resolution moved by Mr. Briggs, and amended at the
suggestion of Mr. Beresford Hope, that the erection of a statue to
the memory of the late Prince Imperial in Westminster Abbey,
would be inconsistent with the national character of the edifice,
after a Division on the Motion for going into Committee of Supply,
finally carried by 171 to 116; neither the majority nor the minority
including Ministers, who, instead of going into the lobby, withdrew
from the House, amid ironical cheers and laughter. A question which
ought never to have been raised is now, perhaps, settled.
A Derby Ditty
In these days of characteristic ballad-writing, when every sport
and pursuit, down to deep-sea diving, has had its song, why doesn’t
some one take advantage of a pending squabble and immortalise the
Turf ? “ Bend O'er me Gently ” would make a capital title, and, if
the Duke of Westminster could only be persuaded to write the
words himself, somebody’s fortune would be made. _ Messrs. Brewer
and Blanton have shown considerable energy in their recent handling-
of Robert the Devil, Why shouldn’t they publish it ?
A Word for Him,
{By One of Thim.)
What ! Biggar satisfied ! Shure—there’s a flaw—
He’d niyer swallow what was backed by Laic.1
GROUND GAME, &c.!!
Squire {rather perplexed). “ Hullo, Pat! Where did you get the Hare?”
Pat. “ Shure, Sure, the Cr’attjr’ was wand’rin’ about, an’ I thought I’d take’t to the ‘Wanes’!”
Squire. “ But did the Keeper see you?”
Pat. “ Bliss yer Honour, I’ve been lookin’ for him iver since I caught it ! !”
definite course, will wait till they can lay all the facts before the
House, and will take time to consider.
On again with Committee on Mr. Forster’s little Irish Bill, or
bantling. Discussion of his £30 Amendment on Mr. Gibson’s £15
Amendment resumed by Mr. Biggar, who, of course, opposed all
limitations of the Bill whatever. So did Mr. Daly, Sir J. M’Kenna,
and Mr, Shaw. Parnell recommended postponement. Mr.
Forster offered, with the consent of Mr. Gladstone, to give up his
Amendment of an Amendment. Mr. Gibson taxed the Government
and the Premier with further change of mind and front.
If Mr. Gladstone has changed his front, has he changed his
“dickey”? Has he ever changed his shirt-collar—except for the
wash ?
Our William deprecated the heat and extravagance with which,
he said, a second-rate matter had been treated, and asserted the
right of the Government to accommodate every section of Irish
Members.
Granted the right, query the possibility, William.
Sir Stafford Northcote having, in his turn, fallen foul of
repeated changes of the Bill in deference to Mr. Parnell, Mr. For-
ster’s Amendment was negatived, and Mr. Gibson’s withdrawn.
Three other Amendments then also successively came to nothing,
and further “progress” was adjourned till the morrow.
Lord Byron is all right. His Indemnity Bill passed through all
of its stages.
Friday [Lords).—In answer to Lord Middleton, Lord Enfield
said the Local Government Board hoped to introduce a Noxious
Yapours Prevention Bill next Session. In the meanwhile, chemical
and other works will go on emitting effluvia.
In Committee, the Preamble and Clauses of the Educational
Endowments (Scotland) Bill were agreed to with a few alterations,
and, possibly, improvements.
(Commons, Morning.)—Much time taken up with talk on the
complaint of Mr. Dillwyn that the Lord Byron Indemnity Bill,
brought down from the Lords, had been read three times at two
o’clock before noon. Then Compensation for Disturbance (Ireland)
Bill on again in Committee. Amendment moved by Mr. Glad-
stone “ that a landlord shall not he relieved from the payment of
compensation if he has refused a tenant’s reasonable offer without
himself offering a reasonable suggestion,” partly carried after pro-
tracted prattle, the remainder talked upon by Mr. Biggar, until
the hour came for suspending the sitting, and so talked out.
{Evening.)—Resolution moved by Mr. Briggs, and amended at the
suggestion of Mr. Beresford Hope, that the erection of a statue to
the memory of the late Prince Imperial in Westminster Abbey,
would be inconsistent with the national character of the edifice,
after a Division on the Motion for going into Committee of Supply,
finally carried by 171 to 116; neither the majority nor the minority
including Ministers, who, instead of going into the lobby, withdrew
from the House, amid ironical cheers and laughter. A question which
ought never to have been raised is now, perhaps, settled.
A Derby Ditty
In these days of characteristic ballad-writing, when every sport
and pursuit, down to deep-sea diving, has had its song, why doesn’t
some one take advantage of a pending squabble and immortalise the
Turf ? “ Bend O'er me Gently ” would make a capital title, and, if
the Duke of Westminster could only be persuaded to write the
words himself, somebody’s fortune would be made. _ Messrs. Brewer
and Blanton have shown considerable energy in their recent handling-
of Robert the Devil, Why shouldn’t they publish it ?
A Word for Him,
{By One of Thim.)
What ! Biggar satisfied ! Shure—there’s a flaw—
He’d niyer swallow what was backed by Laic.1