DOI issue:
August 17, 1889
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76 PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August 17, 1889.
RATHER TOO HOT FOR HIM !
[A London Resident’s View of Paris.)
Le Brav’ G&niral {loquitur), “ Well, all things taken into con-
sideration, PERHAPS I AM BETTER OFF WHERE I AM ! ”
self-possession of Treasury Bench. First of all wanted to ask
Chief Secretary ; Chief Secretary absent. Then Solicitor-
General for Ireland ; Solicitor-General knew nothing about it.
Then the Secretary to the Treasury ; but MacNeill, blustering
around Jackson, was something like
angry sea beating about Beachy Head.
Unmoved, imperturbable, with unhas- fkf y
tened speech, Jackson said he didn’t fyj
MacNeill, the potato getting hotter f Yjh
than ever, turned next upon the
Sfeaker. Speaker blandly pointed
out that it was not for him to answer
the question. Then MacNeill flung
himself, potato and all, upon broad
bosom of Old Morality, “ fountain
of all knowledge,” as he called him. v||jM
“The bathering-ram, what of the Mil
bathering - ram ? ” he hoarsely whis-
“If,” said Old Morality, backing
out of the warm embrace, “ the Hon.
Member will give notice of the ques- liiii llii Mr /
tion, I will endeavour to answer it.” ||! fl 11 If Jj [/IlA}
Business done.—Education Yotes in ihjljj Jjl |l Jjl
Tuesday.— Whirroo! Erin go bragh! |' !j ! || |j|ft
Ireland once more. Balfour moves A vlil
Constabulary Yote in Committee ; Irish
ranks close up; the British disappear. .
George Wyndham and Hayes Fisher, . Valkyrie.
Balfour’s private secretaries, quietly take up their seats on Bench
behind him, with daggers in their boots, resolved to sell his life dearly.
For the rest, blank spaces on all the Government Benches. Front
Opposition Bench deserted save for Henry Fowler, who makes
incisive and damaging speech on cost of Irish Constabulary, and
Shaw-Lefevre, who furnishes Balfour with opportunity for one
of his stinging remarks,—a passing arrow shot with charming grace
and going home with cruel effect. Been loud complaints of employ-
ment of Irish Constabulary to dog the footsteps of Members of
Parliament visiting Ireland for philanthropic purposes.
“It’s an indignity,” Shaw-Lefevre protested; “an altogether
unconstitutional course.”
“Iam very sorry,” said Arthur, “that any Member of this
, House should be subjected toincon-
'Y "N venience on his visits to Ireland,
JL . ) and if the police knew the Right
Hon. Gentleman, the Member for
Bradford, as well as I do, they
y would not have taken the trouble
to shadow him. But it must be
recollected that everybody is not
ns innocuous as the Right Hon.
Few Ministerialists present
aM shouted with delight. Irish Mem-
bers groaned in disgust. “Well,
they are hard to please, any way,”
wMl/ said Sir James Corry. “ If Bal-
^ four had said that Shaw-Lefevre
Mml, s , J was noxious, there would have
been fearful row. He says he’s
Jf innocuous, and they are equally
(\ Mpr Later, row broke out in fresh
wifflk / place. Swift MacNeill, having
exhausted his ammunition, gone
out to kitchen to get fresh hot
^ 1 potato. T. W. Russell took op-
Corry-O’lanus. portunity in his absence to accuse
him of having applied for Government appointments. MacNeill,
apprised of incident, returned in state of tremendous excitement.
Could almost see the steam curling about his lips as he challenged
Russell for proof. Russell rose to reply, but somehow or other,
Redmond glided into altercation with Chairman. When this
finished, Harrington, in equally mysterious manner, had come
in contact with the Chair. Members popping up from all sides.
Arthur BalfouRj determined not to be out of it, was on his feet at
same moment as six other Members.
“ Order! Order! ” roared Courtney.
But uproar continued; firing right and left; three-cornered duel
in Midshipman Easy a perfectly straightforward, proceeding com-
pared with this. Lasted several minutes, till, breath being
exhausted, uproar subsided; Debate proceeded from point at which
incursion of MacNeill and the hot potato had diverted it.
Business done.—Irish Yotes in Supply.
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.
House of Commons, Monday, August 5.—Fancy very few people
have heard of Dunra yen's little achievement. Beats the record in
the yachting world. Yesterday afternoon I saw him at Spithead,
skimming over sapphire sea in the Valkyrie. This afternoon, at five
o'clock, he was at Westminster moving his amendment to Cruelty to
Children Bill. It was after four o’clock when he put up the helm at
Spithead, and bore away East-by-North-half-East; passed Beachy
Head running free; fluttered by Dungeness; rounded South Fore-
land; ditto the North Foreland ; sighted the mouth of the Thames
at half-past two this afternoon; ran up with bellied sail and
jumped ashore on the steps at Westminster just as Lords were going
into Committee on Bill! This is brief outline of log of Valkyrie on
wonderful voyage. Hope it will be published in full. Nothing
more interesting or more thrilling in yachting records.
A full House ; Archbishop of Canterbury, in nice white surplice,
read long sermon directed against employment of children on the
stage. Something like tremor passed along Episcopal Bench when
Primate disclosed alarming familiarity with stage affairs; talked
quite trippingly about. Katti Lanner, rehearsal, performance,
wings, and flies. Archbishop subsequently privately explained that
in performance of his duties had been absolutely necessary to make
himself acquainted with these things. Growing coolness thus checked
and harmony again prevailed.. The Judicious Heesciiell arranged
compromise whereby opposition to Dunk a yen’s proposal so far
modified that on a Division it was carried by 31 Yotes to 24.
Galloway rose to explain that he had voted in the wrong Lobby.
1 “Don’t mention it, my dear Lord,” said Granville, with his
sweetest smile. “ It’s not of the slightest consequence.”
In the Commons, Swift MacNeill bubbling with excitement, and
struggling with larger and hotter potato than usual in his mouth,
jj wanted to know in what vote in Estimates they would find charge
|| for bathering-ram? Not a difficult question. Had notice been
| given, and question put in ordinary form, might have been answered
j right off. But this sudden incursion of spluttering gentleman upset
RATHER TOO HOT FOR HIM !
[A London Resident’s View of Paris.)
Le Brav’ G&niral {loquitur), “ Well, all things taken into con-
sideration, PERHAPS I AM BETTER OFF WHERE I AM ! ”
self-possession of Treasury Bench. First of all wanted to ask
Chief Secretary ; Chief Secretary absent. Then Solicitor-
General for Ireland ; Solicitor-General knew nothing about it.
Then the Secretary to the Treasury ; but MacNeill, blustering
around Jackson, was something like
angry sea beating about Beachy Head.
Unmoved, imperturbable, with unhas- fkf y
tened speech, Jackson said he didn’t fyj
MacNeill, the potato getting hotter f Yjh
than ever, turned next upon the
Sfeaker. Speaker blandly pointed
out that it was not for him to answer
the question. Then MacNeill flung
himself, potato and all, upon broad
bosom of Old Morality, “ fountain
of all knowledge,” as he called him. v||jM
“The bathering-ram, what of the Mil
bathering - ram ? ” he hoarsely whis-
“If,” said Old Morality, backing
out of the warm embrace, “ the Hon.
Member will give notice of the ques- liiii llii Mr /
tion, I will endeavour to answer it.” ||! fl 11 If Jj [/IlA}
Business done.—Education Yotes in ihjljj Jjl |l Jjl
Tuesday.— Whirroo! Erin go bragh! |' !j ! || |j|ft
Ireland once more. Balfour moves A vlil
Constabulary Yote in Committee ; Irish
ranks close up; the British disappear. .
George Wyndham and Hayes Fisher, . Valkyrie.
Balfour’s private secretaries, quietly take up their seats on Bench
behind him, with daggers in their boots, resolved to sell his life dearly.
For the rest, blank spaces on all the Government Benches. Front
Opposition Bench deserted save for Henry Fowler, who makes
incisive and damaging speech on cost of Irish Constabulary, and
Shaw-Lefevre, who furnishes Balfour with opportunity for one
of his stinging remarks,—a passing arrow shot with charming grace
and going home with cruel effect. Been loud complaints of employ-
ment of Irish Constabulary to dog the footsteps of Members of
Parliament visiting Ireland for philanthropic purposes.
“It’s an indignity,” Shaw-Lefevre protested; “an altogether
unconstitutional course.”
“Iam very sorry,” said Arthur, “that any Member of this
, House should be subjected toincon-
'Y "N venience on his visits to Ireland,
JL . ) and if the police knew the Right
Hon. Gentleman, the Member for
Bradford, as well as I do, they
y would not have taken the trouble
to shadow him. But it must be
recollected that everybody is not
ns innocuous as the Right Hon.
Few Ministerialists present
aM shouted with delight. Irish Mem-
bers groaned in disgust. “Well,
they are hard to please, any way,”
wMl/ said Sir James Corry. “ If Bal-
^ four had said that Shaw-Lefevre
Mml, s , J was noxious, there would have
been fearful row. He says he’s
Jf innocuous, and they are equally
(\ Mpr Later, row broke out in fresh
wifflk / place. Swift MacNeill, having
exhausted his ammunition, gone
out to kitchen to get fresh hot
^ 1 potato. T. W. Russell took op-
Corry-O’lanus. portunity in his absence to accuse
him of having applied for Government appointments. MacNeill,
apprised of incident, returned in state of tremendous excitement.
Could almost see the steam curling about his lips as he challenged
Russell for proof. Russell rose to reply, but somehow or other,
Redmond glided into altercation with Chairman. When this
finished, Harrington, in equally mysterious manner, had come
in contact with the Chair. Members popping up from all sides.
Arthur BalfouRj determined not to be out of it, was on his feet at
same moment as six other Members.
“ Order! Order! ” roared Courtney.
But uproar continued; firing right and left; three-cornered duel
in Midshipman Easy a perfectly straightforward, proceeding com-
pared with this. Lasted several minutes, till, breath being
exhausted, uproar subsided; Debate proceeded from point at which
incursion of MacNeill and the hot potato had diverted it.
Business done.—Irish Yotes in Supply.
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.
House of Commons, Monday, August 5.—Fancy very few people
have heard of Dunra yen's little achievement. Beats the record in
the yachting world. Yesterday afternoon I saw him at Spithead,
skimming over sapphire sea in the Valkyrie. This afternoon, at five
o'clock, he was at Westminster moving his amendment to Cruelty to
Children Bill. It was after four o’clock when he put up the helm at
Spithead, and bore away East-by-North-half-East; passed Beachy
Head running free; fluttered by Dungeness; rounded South Fore-
land; ditto the North Foreland ; sighted the mouth of the Thames
at half-past two this afternoon; ran up with bellied sail and
jumped ashore on the steps at Westminster just as Lords were going
into Committee on Bill! This is brief outline of log of Valkyrie on
wonderful voyage. Hope it will be published in full. Nothing
more interesting or more thrilling in yachting records.
A full House ; Archbishop of Canterbury, in nice white surplice,
read long sermon directed against employment of children on the
stage. Something like tremor passed along Episcopal Bench when
Primate disclosed alarming familiarity with stage affairs; talked
quite trippingly about. Katti Lanner, rehearsal, performance,
wings, and flies. Archbishop subsequently privately explained that
in performance of his duties had been absolutely necessary to make
himself acquainted with these things. Growing coolness thus checked
and harmony again prevailed.. The Judicious Heesciiell arranged
compromise whereby opposition to Dunk a yen’s proposal so far
modified that on a Division it was carried by 31 Yotes to 24.
Galloway rose to explain that he had voted in the wrong Lobby.
1 “Don’t mention it, my dear Lord,” said Granville, with his
sweetest smile. “ It’s not of the slightest consequence.”
In the Commons, Swift MacNeill bubbling with excitement, and
struggling with larger and hotter potato than usual in his mouth,
jj wanted to know in what vote in Estimates they would find charge
|| for bathering-ram? Not a difficult question. Had notice been
| given, and question put in ordinary form, might have been answered
j right off. But this sudden incursion of spluttering gentleman upset