Punch (79.1880)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August 14, 1880.

PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.


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PLIMSOLL’S ADIEU !

“His Heart vr.-is true to Pol-itios.”

j (But it was only an overladen Phantom Ship, that couldn't take him

on hoard.)

Monday, August 2 (Lords).—“ Proputty, proputty, proputty!”;
Pitched battle among the Peers over the Compensation for Disturb- ;
ance (Ireland) Bill; prodigious press of Peeresses to witness the first j
round.

“ In their gay fal-lal-eries,

They thronged the galleries,

And filled the passages, and choked the floor-ways;

Peers’ wives and daughters,

Crushed in closest quarters,

And sat contented in the open doorways.”

Fancy a Peeress sitting in a doorway—and probably a draught—
to hear an Irish Bill discussed ! Patience on a monument smiling at
Grief, seems nowhere in comparison.