DOI Heft:
August 18, 1883
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17755#0087
August 18, 1883.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
75
A VERY SWEEPING MEASURE!
“ After a private consideration of the Manchester Ship Canal Bill for not quite ten minutes, the Chairman of Committees in the House of Peers
announced that ‘they had arrived at the decision that it was not expedient to proceed with the Bill in the present Session of Parliament.’ The decision
caused profound surprise.”—Daily Taper.
DOBBS!
[Mr. Dobbs has been finally successful in his contest with the Grand
Junction Waterworks Co., the House of Lords having set aside the judgment
of the Court of Appeal, and restored that of the Queen’s Bench Division.]
Here’s a health—not in water—to stout Mr. Dobbs,
Who has floored the big ogre who bullies and robs.
Not mighty Achilles, who fought with the rivers,
Was more of a hero; the man who delivers
The prey from Monopoly’s terrible maw,
Who tracks through the labyrinth windings of Law
The new Minotaur, must be stiff in the back
As classical Theseus or Nursery Jack.
He’s the hero who tackles herculean jobs,
Though he bear the scarce classical nomen of Dobbs.
The fame of which name mayn’t be slighter or shorter
Because, in one sense, it is “ written in water” !
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Can we wonder at the Ocean being occasionally rough, when we
consider how continually it is “ crossed ” F
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
75
A VERY SWEEPING MEASURE!
“ After a private consideration of the Manchester Ship Canal Bill for not quite ten minutes, the Chairman of Committees in the House of Peers
announced that ‘they had arrived at the decision that it was not expedient to proceed with the Bill in the present Session of Parliament.’ The decision
caused profound surprise.”—Daily Taper.
DOBBS!
[Mr. Dobbs has been finally successful in his contest with the Grand
Junction Waterworks Co., the House of Lords having set aside the judgment
of the Court of Appeal, and restored that of the Queen’s Bench Division.]
Here’s a health—not in water—to stout Mr. Dobbs,
Who has floored the big ogre who bullies and robs.
Not mighty Achilles, who fought with the rivers,
Was more of a hero; the man who delivers
The prey from Monopoly’s terrible maw,
Who tracks through the labyrinth windings of Law
The new Minotaur, must be stiff in the back
As classical Theseus or Nursery Jack.
He’s the hero who tackles herculean jobs,
Though he bear the scarce classical nomen of Dobbs.
The fame of which name mayn’t be slighter or shorter
Because, in one sense, it is “ written in water” !
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Can we wonder at the Ocean being occasionally rough, when we
consider how continually it is “ crossed ” F