Punch (86.1884)

June 14. 1884.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 279

THE ANGEL IN i THE HOUSE ;5 ” OR, THE RESULT OF FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

(A Troubled Dream of the Future.)

times interfering with the omnibus and cab traffic, and causing some
ugly, though not unamusing accidents at sudden turns and corners,
Mr. Northumberland Dean dragged after him the now perspiring
Chancellor more furiously than ever. The scene down Parliament
Street, owing to the presence of a strong force of mounted police, called
j out hy the Authorities for the purpose of keeping the uproarious spirits
of the Representative Committee' somewhat in check, was quite
remarkable. A brisk discussion, too, arose opposite the Treasury,
at which point several Members of the Government, returning from a
Cabinet Council, were inadvertently caught in the steel-rope, and
hurried along, helplessly protesting, and with the loss of their hats,
in the direction of Palace Yard.

At this moment, a tremendous explosion, which appeared to come
from the House itself, arrested the progress of the party; Mr. North-
umberland Dean simultaneously removing the coal-sack from his
head, and saying that he feared something had gone wrong with
the conditions, inquired of the Lord Chancellor where he had

deposited the object to be concealed. The prompt reply, “ Under
the Woolsack,” was the signal for a shout of laughter; but when it
transpired, as it subsequently did, by the immediate rush of eight-
and-twenty fire-engines, that, owing to the carelessness of an Official,
the dynamite had gone off rather earlier than was expected, there
were some signs of disappointment. The Horse Guards having now
turned out, and cleared the street as far as Charing Cross with the
flat side of their sabres, Mr. Northumberland Dean acknowledged
that, with some persons, it was absolutely impossible to divine their
thoughts or their motives.

As a last experiment, to illustrate the detection of crime, the
Chairman of the North-Eastern Banking Company was held, against
his will, under water in one of the fountains by several members of
the Representative Committee, but the experimenter, who expressed
himself as much overstrung and fatigued, declined either to look for
him, or even to assist in pulling him out.

The proceedings then terminated.