Punch (103.1892)

106 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [September 3, 1892.

AN OLD AND NEW PEER.

A LITTLE VAGUE!

Affable Landlady {to lier new Artist Lodger). "And I suppose, Sir, you comes from Abroad?"
Foreign Lodger. "So! I gome vrom Austria."

A. L. "Do you hixdeed, Sir? From Hostria I Ah 1 now that's where the Hostriches
comes from, I suppose ? I ! "

Dear Mr. Punch, — Look here!
I 've done good service in my time,
and no one likes to see himself de-
prived of an honoured title, or forced
to take a back seat. I've been
trodden under-foot over and over
again—but I've borne it with forti-
tude, and never, never given way.
Now, what do I hear ? That a
Gentleman, a Government Whip, for
whom I have the highest esteem and
respect, is now to assume the title
which, by right of position, place,
time,and prescription, belongs to me,
and to me only. I can bear much,
but, after so many years of devoted
service, during which, with all my
opportunities, I have never once
made any attempt to leave my
place to go higher up, or to go lower
down, or, in either case, to go with
the tide, I cannot, and, indeed, will
not, yield mv title to anyone, how-
ever good and useful to his Party he
may have been, but proudly declar-
ing myself as good as any " Sprig of
Nobility," even as this one who
cometh up as a Flower, I beg, pro-
testingly, to remind the world at
large that I am " Nulli Secundus"
and de facto et dejure,

The Only Battersea Peer.

P.S.—Spell it with an "i" or
"e," it's all one. If my "i" is put
out, and "Ae" has got in instead,
that's a mere quibble or quebble.

MEMBERS WE SHALL MISS.

Our Old Parliamentary Artistic Hand been at it again; looking
with eyesight blurred with sorrow on familiar forms of some Members
stranded at General Election. Dis-membered, and, for some time at
least, not to be re-membered. Cowley Lambert always been a
rover. Went Midland Circuit for short time, and having made
the Circuit, made for home. Then he accomplished "A Trip to
Cashmere and Ladak." Opportunity now for varying itinerary, and
making a "Trip to Ladak and Cashmere." Must be moving

Cowley Lambert. H. Campbell.

somewhere. Wrote himself down in Dod a Progressive Con-
servative." Has now progressed out of sight of the Chair. This
particular Campbell is neither coming nor going. He's gone.

Puleston seems quite pleased to find Llewellyn sitting there, all
unconscious of his doom. Puleston a
little astonished himself when things went
bad at Carnarvon. Only short time ago
made Constable of Castle; thought P. C.
Puleston sure to come in at head of poll;
but, " from information received," appears
he didn't.

E. H. Llewellyn. Sir J. IL Puleston

Observe the eye of Havelock-Allan on the alert. He cannot see
behind his back, but instinctively knows there is an Irish Member
in the vicinity. His teeth close, his moustache curls, his eyes glare.
He once publicly, in course of debate, sat upon an Irish Member;
not metaphorically, but physically. Irish Member, when he wriggled
from under, appealed to Speaker on point of order. Speaker ruled
proceeding decidedly out of order. "But I sat on him, Toby,
dear boy," Havelock said, triumphantly; "and I shall retain the
impression to end of my life."