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February 5, 1887
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February 5, 1887.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
71
INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS. No. 46.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 27th, 1887.
Lord Randolph Churchill. Design for Fresco. The Great Scene-
Churchill's Explanation.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 27th, 1887.
All Our Special Artist saw of Lord Bandolpih Churchill's Explanation
in a fog.
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
extracted from
THE DIARY OP TOBY, M.P.
, Thursday, January 27.—Thought I'd make my way down early
to the House this morning. Well to get a good seat on Opening Day ;
these new Members are so eager; necessary to he up early in
order to circumvent them. Eleven o'Clock hadn't struck when
-t crossed Palace Yard, hut evidently wasn't first. Familiar figure
disappearing under gateway leading to entrance to House of Com-
mons. It vras Randolph, who, hearing the patter of feet, waited
10^me with his usual urbanity.
„ Ah, Toby, old man," he said, " going to get a seat, I suppose f
°o am I. Might have corner seat behind Treasury Bench, but that
SJ? .°ommon place for me. Everyone goes there after leaving a
fawi? ^ mean t° get old corner seat below Ike Gangway, sacred
to the memory of Gobst and Wolffy. Fancy I'll make W. H.
+Jfilri? when he comes, and finds me sitting there. Nuisance to have
w> Be down so early, but well to be on safe side."
hel £eo- House together. Randolph made straight for corner seat
" A?w Gangway. "Hallo ! " he cried, halting midway, and pointing,
j? startled expression, towards corner seat. " "What's that ? "
oaiir mi8taj£e on tkis point. It was a hat. Randolph advanced
P-ro~- 7\Dut firmly, and taking up the intrusive object, anxiously
examined the lining.
£•>'-" he read out. " Can't be Childers. Of course not.
O rPe darell't do it- Chaplin, by Jove! "
fraW £lef! Co^d-11'* help glow of pride suffusing this mortal
me wnen I discovered this proof of our Chief's presence of mind,
and fertility of resource. That trip to Monaco evidently brightened
him.
"I wonder, now," said Randolph, reflectively, " if I were to sit
on it, and have it removed by one of the attendants, how that would
work. But then Chaplin would come, find me here, and guess at
once. Ho, I must leave it, and go into old. quarters."
Strode up the Gangway to corner seat, in which Ex-Ministers sit,
and take benevolent interest in procedure of old colleagues. Expected
to see him deposit his hat. Instead, took oif his gloves, and, with
haughty gesture, flung them on the Bench. Then he wrote on a card
these lines,— . ...
" Who dares this pair of gloves displace
Must meet R. Churchill face to face."
Pinned the cartel to the gauntlet, and, turning, left the House.
Pleasant, after this stormy scene, to come upon Joseph Gillis.
Hardly knew him at first. Has been growing beard and moustache.
Not much yet, but full of hope.
"I'm agin repression anywhere," said Joseph Gillis. "Why
should an Irishman every morning, razor in hand, put in practice a
Coercion Act, levelling and evicting the honest attempt of whiskers
to establish themselves, and refusing to put in a moustache as
caretaker ? I'm a man of principle, and carry it into practice into
things big or little. Besides, I don't see why Randolph should
have the only moustache talked of in the House; and, since
Macfarlane left, there hasn't been a beard on any Bench worth
looking at. I mean to grow one."
House crowded later to hear Randolph's speech. Cunningly
conceived, and admirably delivered. Like most speeches from this
particular corner seat, vociferously cheered by Opposition. Con-
71
INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS. No. 46.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 27th, 1887.
Lord Randolph Churchill. Design for Fresco. The Great Scene-
Churchill's Explanation.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 27th, 1887.
All Our Special Artist saw of Lord Bandolpih Churchill's Explanation
in a fog.
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
extracted from
THE DIARY OP TOBY, M.P.
, Thursday, January 27.—Thought I'd make my way down early
to the House this morning. Well to get a good seat on Opening Day ;
these new Members are so eager; necessary to he up early in
order to circumvent them. Eleven o'Clock hadn't struck when
-t crossed Palace Yard, hut evidently wasn't first. Familiar figure
disappearing under gateway leading to entrance to House of Com-
mons. It vras Randolph, who, hearing the patter of feet, waited
10^me with his usual urbanity.
„ Ah, Toby, old man," he said, " going to get a seat, I suppose f
°o am I. Might have corner seat behind Treasury Bench, but that
SJ? .°ommon place for me. Everyone goes there after leaving a
fawi? ^ mean t° get old corner seat below Ike Gangway, sacred
to the memory of Gobst and Wolffy. Fancy I'll make W. H.
+Jfilri? when he comes, and finds me sitting there. Nuisance to have
w> Be down so early, but well to be on safe side."
hel £eo- House together. Randolph made straight for corner seat
" A?w Gangway. "Hallo ! " he cried, halting midway, and pointing,
j? startled expression, towards corner seat. " "What's that ? "
oaiir mi8taj£e on tkis point. It was a hat. Randolph advanced
P-ro~- 7\Dut firmly, and taking up the intrusive object, anxiously
examined the lining.
£•>'-" he read out. " Can't be Childers. Of course not.
O rPe darell't do it- Chaplin, by Jove! "
fraW £lef! Co^d-11'* help glow of pride suffusing this mortal
me wnen I discovered this proof of our Chief's presence of mind,
and fertility of resource. That trip to Monaco evidently brightened
him.
"I wonder, now," said Randolph, reflectively, " if I were to sit
on it, and have it removed by one of the attendants, how that would
work. But then Chaplin would come, find me here, and guess at
once. Ho, I must leave it, and go into old. quarters."
Strode up the Gangway to corner seat, in which Ex-Ministers sit,
and take benevolent interest in procedure of old colleagues. Expected
to see him deposit his hat. Instead, took oif his gloves, and, with
haughty gesture, flung them on the Bench. Then he wrote on a card
these lines,— . ...
" Who dares this pair of gloves displace
Must meet R. Churchill face to face."
Pinned the cartel to the gauntlet, and, turning, left the House.
Pleasant, after this stormy scene, to come upon Joseph Gillis.
Hardly knew him at first. Has been growing beard and moustache.
Not much yet, but full of hope.
"I'm agin repression anywhere," said Joseph Gillis. "Why
should an Irishman every morning, razor in hand, put in practice a
Coercion Act, levelling and evicting the honest attempt of whiskers
to establish themselves, and refusing to put in a moustache as
caretaker ? I'm a man of principle, and carry it into practice into
things big or little. Besides, I don't see why Randolph should
have the only moustache talked of in the House; and, since
Macfarlane left, there hasn't been a beard on any Bench worth
looking at. I mean to grow one."
House crowded later to hear Randolph's speech. Cunningly
conceived, and admirably delivered. Like most speeches from this
particular corner seat, vociferously cheered by Opposition. Con-