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House wanted to hear

NORTHAMPTON. When COVENTRY presented himself, fearful row
kicked up. He stood there till silence partially restored, then he said in
deep voice, as who should say "My name is--Norval,"--
[Illustration: "AU REVOIR!"]
"I am Lord COVENTRY. A few words from me. I think the country is
in a safe state, and I hope to find it placed in the hands of the Duke of
WELLINGTON. My Lords, I hope I have not detained you."
Then he sat down.
In the Commons, debate lasted four days; majority against Government
91.
The LABBY of 1841 spoke at length, and was followed by Mr.
D'ISRAELI (he spelt it with an apostrophe in those days): a good
Disraelian ring about the last sentence of his speech.
"The House," he said, "ought now to act as it had been acted upon in
times when Parliament was unreformed, when DANBY found himself
in a dungeon, and STRAFFORD on a scaffold. Now the Whigs hold
office by abusing the confidence of the Sovereign, and defying the
authority of Parliament."
After him came the still budding BERNAL OSBORNE, CHARLES
NAPIER, ROEBUCK, JOHNNIE RUSSELL, fighting to the last with
his back to the wall; COBDEN, HENRY GRATTAN, PAM, MILNER
GIBSON, O'CONNELL, PEEL, and Colonel SIBTHORP.
* * * * *
[Illustration: MR. PUNCH KEEPS HIS EYE ON CRICKET.
THEN (1841) and NOW (1891).]
* * * * *
[Illustration: PUNCH PRESENTING YE TENTH VOLUME TO YE
QUEENE. (1846.)]
* * * * *
FROM W.M. THACKERAY TO MR. PUNCH. (FEBRUARY, 1849.)
MR. PUNCH,--"When the future inquirer shall take up your volumes,
or a bundle of French plays, and contrast the performance of your booth
with that of the Parisian theatre, he won't fail to remark how different
they are, and what different objects we admire or satirise. As for your
morality. Sir, it does not become me to compliment you on it before
your venerable face; but permit me to say, that there never was before
published in this world so many volumes that contained so much cause

for laughing, and so little for blushing; so many jokes, and so little
harm. Why, Sir, say even that your modesty, which astonishes me more
and more every time I regard you, is calculated, and not a virtue
naturally inherent in you, that very fact would argue for the high sense
of the public morality among us. We will laugh in the company of our
wives and children; we will tolerate no indecorum: we like that our
matrons and girls should be pure."
* * * * *
[Illustration: "ON WE GOES AGAIN!"]

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