ENGLAND'S LAMENT For the loss of the Iron-clad Flag-ship "Victoria," rammed accidentally by her consort H.M.S. "Camperdown," and sunk of Tripoli, with the loss of Admiral Tryon and some 400 of her Crew, June 22, 1893. "TOLL for the brave!" Ah! not since Lost, lost! Four hundred glad and gallant TRYON, like KEMPENFELT, sank near the COWPER sang "The Royal George," when round the land there rang One universal plaint, Has sorrow stricken thus our sea-girt isle, With news that chills the glow of woman's smile, And makes the man's heart faint! As though a sudden storm from Heaven's AD EXAMINATOREM. But now I decidedly feel That a vigorous protest is due ; Such feats as your latest success Are not to be tamely endured, And if ever we meet in the college or street Which did not much trouble my mind, I had led them to see that to gain a degree But you, and the rest of your kind, That women be placed with the men! Which thus you 've absurdly allowed? That sister whom, up to this day, lives, At one chance stroke! Vainly the spirit To stand against the shock. Not summoned swift to fall in battle brave, Or dashed upon the rock. But dragged, from Admiral to Gunner, down Unwarned and unaware. Oh, gallant TRYON! oh, great-hearted host! IN THE "RESTORED ANTIQUITIES" LORD CHANCELLOR is importing American PLEADERS AT PLAY. SCENE-Hall of one of the Inns of Court, during the progress of a Barristers' Strike, organised after the recent Spanish model. "Strike Committee," consisting of BenMr. Bluebag. It's quite true. A wagchers, Queen's Counsel, and representa- the last hour been driven up to the entrance gonette containing twenty of them has within tives of Junior Bar, in consultation. of the Law Courts. (Groans.) I am glad, Mr. Feetail, Q.C. How much does our however, to say that the very strong picket Strike Fund amount to at present ? stationed there, consisting of University Mr. Bluebag (Organising Secretary). athletes taken from the ranks of the newlyOnly £500, I fear. The public are not sub-called, have proved quite equal to dealing scribing at all readily, in spite of the tact with them. Cheers, and cries of "Down that collecting-boxes are placed outside the with Free Labour!") Yes, those of them Bankruptcy Court, the Central Criminal that are not removed to the hospitals are on Court, and other likely spots, and that the their way back to America by first steamer. wives of several struggling young Barristers are stationed at various street-corners in the more fashionable suburbs soliciting help. Mr. Feetail, Q. C. (gloomily). Then we shall only be able to pay seven and sixpence on Saturday night to the strikers. Is there any confirmation of the report that the [Laughter and cheers. Mr. Feetail, Q.C. (with more cheerfulness). Well, that's satisfactory, anyhow. I should have thought that the total failure of the LORD CHANCELLOR's attempt to bring a boat-load of Indian "vakeels" to plead in our Courts would have been a lesson to him. And shore, And that brave crew the fated vessel bore, They led no charge, they rushed upon no But England mourns the loss, and she will know How to award the crown. Toll for the brave! And let a reverent sigh For those whose kindred and whose comrades Beneath the inland ocean's waters blue how is the system of litigants conducting their own cases succeeding? Mr. Bluebag. I am pleased to say, as badly as might have been expected. A case that ought to last three days now takes thirty. Plaintiff and Defendant occupy the benches set apart for Queen's Counsel (loud cries of "Shame!"), and are separated by a strong iron partition, which has recently been erected. The accumulation of arrears is frightful. Several Judges who are known to be privately favourable to us don't begin hearing cases till twelve, and rise punctually at three. [Sympathetic cheering. Mr. Feetail, Q. C. (rising). That's all right. Nothing else to settle, is there? Oh, I may as well mention that Mr. Alderman TILLETT will address the strikers at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon, in the Inner Temple Gardens, on "How to treat legal Blacklegs," and it has been unanimously decided to elect him and Messrs. JOHN BURNS, TOM MANN, and KEIR-HARDIE, as Benchers of the Honourable Society on condition that they will get a weekly levy in aid of our Strike Fund, from their trades. [Cheers, and the Committee disperses. Again we come to thee, Savoy !" 42 "All a-blowing!" 188, 216 All in (French) Play, 309 Conversational Hints to Young Shooters, F. R. S.'s Vade Mecum (The), 274 22, 25, 37, 69 Court Out! 201 Cracked! 278 Credit without Cash, 195 Cry of the Cue-ist (The), 157 Full Measure of Justice (A), 113 Curiously Appropriate Conjunction of Genuine Philanthropist (A), 147 Names, 1 "Cut and Come Again," 12 All Round the "May" Week at Cam- DARK Saying (A), 27 "All's Well that Ends Well," 45 bridge, 292 Among the Savoyarda, 257 "Angling," 270 Aniline, 237 Anti-Epidemic Treatment, 228 Anti-? (The), 66 "Apparent Failure," 1 Appeal for Inspiration (An), 241 Appreciation of Gold (The), 69 Ars Longissima, 265 "Art, how she is Learned," 154 Assault (The), 126 At an Afternoon Entertainment, 100 At Ancient Drury, 4 At the Confectioner's, 148 At the New Gallery, 244 At the Westminster "Tournament," 270 "At the Window," 89 Author (The), 159 BACK to School, 162 Ballade of an Oxonian, 261 Ballad of Wealthy Wooing (A), 97 B. and 8. Drama at the Adelphi, 189 64 Bang went Saxpence !" 1 Bank Note (A), 65 Basqueing in a New Language, 17 Beastly Superiority, 78 Becket, not a Becket (The), 81 Before the Private View, 197 Between the Rounds, 114 Big Lion among the Little 'Uns (A), 90 Biography à la Mode, 277 Bow-wow Days (The), 292 Brighton Boors, 125 Bubble Shop (The), 145 Building the Snow Man 18 Buridan's Ass, 74 Business Letter (A), 241 Butters Buttered, 13 By George! 193 CANDID Friend (A), 78 Charley's Old 'Aunt at the Royalty, 40 Cheap at any Price, 183 Cit to Sir John (A), 264 Civil Note for the Military (A), 245 Coleridge adapted to a Current Controversy 298 Coming Car (The), 277 Coming Coal-Scuttle (The), 117 Coming of the Bogeys (The), 27 Complaint and Simple Remedy (A), 129 Dearth of Dancing-men, 57 Derby "Sweep;" or, The Gipsy's Warning (The), 258 Der Cophetualischehochzeitverein, 93 Double Ballade of Proper Names, 178 EARLY and Late, 181 Easter Regulations for Volunteers, 153 Eligible Parti (An), 1:3 Employment for the Unemployed, 61 End of the Drought (The), 243 English as she is Spoke, 217 Gilbert White, 306 Gladstone's Aside on the Irish Members, 90 "Going," but not "Gone," 265 "Going Strong," 41 Good Sir John, 292 "HAPPINESS in Folkestone," 111 Hare-ing his Diplomacy, 100 Heathen Chinee in the House (The), 188 His Little Game at the Comedy, 60 Holiday Tasks for the Recess, 1:0 House that Bill (Sykes) Burgled (The), 89 Idyll of the Crowd (An), 9 In a Pickwickian Sense, 61 In a Tight Place, 282 Lien on the Lea (A), 196 Lines on the Author of the Labour Lion and Lamb, 159 Liquid Air. 123 Inaudible Proceedings at the Hotel Vic- Mr. Punch's Child's Guide to Knowledge, toria, 245 Essence of Parliament, 58 70, 82, 94, 106, 118, 130, 142, 154, 166, 178, 190, 202, 208, 220, 238, 250, 274, 286, 298, 304 "Eternal Feminine" (The). 60 Ethnographical Alphabet, 30 Evident, 78 "FACTS and Figures," 53 Fair Play at the World's Fair, 266 Far too Previous, 137 First Bal Masqué of the Season (The), 53 In the Key of Ruthene, 210 Lament of the (would-be) Irish Emigrant, 105 Mr. Punch to the Betrothed Pair, 219 "Much Ado about Nil," 201 Muse v. Mechanic, 219 My Doctor, 181 My Landscape, 9 Nana would not give me a Bow-wow ! 230 New Coinage (The), 93 New (Norwegian) Nonsense Song, 105 Next Egyptian Lesson (The), 41 No Doubt as to the Answer, 105 Nursery Rhyme for the Neo-Crinolinists, 73 Nuts for Knutsford, 117 Old Frenchman and the Young (The), 96 On an Old Quartette, 15 One for the Other Side, 117 Opening of the Imperial Institute, 229 Operatic Notes, 249, 261, 269, 285, 289, 305 Our Booking-Office, 24, 29, 45, 53, 72, 77, 105, 111, 123, 125, 137, 161, 172, 181, 198, 229, 262, 279, 298 Our Own Ambassador, 234 Out of Work, 51 Overheard at the Oval, 301 PAIR of Spectacles (A), 221 Pathetic Lament (A), 205 Patriotism at the Law Courts, 60 "Per damna, per cædes," Perambulator, 188 Phantasma-gore-ia ! 73 Pick of the Pictures, 227 Pick of the R.A. Pictures (The), 214, 226 Plea of the Party Man (The), 187 "Plucky" Answer (A), 93 Polite Speaker (The), 90 Politics and Politeness, 225 Politics and Trade, 187 Politics in Play, 75 Poor Man and his Beer (The), 171 Popular Songs Re-sung, 117 Possible Bungler (A), 117 Private View (The), 195 Problem, 12 Prodigious! 277 Prof. Whitewash's Guide to History, 125 Puff, Puff! 301 Punch to Mr. Berrett, 281 Put a Stop to it! 93 Putting it Pleasantly, 103 "Putting Off!" 188 Q. E. D., 221 Queer Queries, 53, 72, 121, 157, 180, 262 Questions and Answers for a Criminal College, 172. Quite a Chic Cargo! 154 Quite Another Thing, 107 Quite the First Mrs. Tanqueray, 278 RACES in Paris, 291 Radical Riddle (A), 187 Railway Servants' Vade Mecum, 36, 48 Recently-Elected R.A.'s (The), 233 Reflection by a Reader of "Reminiscences," 15 Rhyme by a Rad, 65 Rhymes for Readers of Reminiscences, 73 Rhymes on the Decay of Romance, 219 Robert at the Boat-Race, 149 Robert on the Great Question of the Day, 3 Robert on the Weather, 801 Robert with the Children at Gildhall, 29 Robin Poor Fellow! 24 Round the Royal Academy, 268 Royal Rewards to Good Players, 119 SAD, but True, 96. Safe Predictions for the Year, 12 Science of There and Back (The), 806 Scottish Trevelyanderer (The), 210 Shooting the "Chutes," 286 "Sic Itur," 9 Sic Itur ad-Astor! 287 "Silver Shell" (The), 180 Simple Stories, 40 Sketch after the Italian (A), 265 Small by Degrees, 133 "Some Day 1" 51 "Some Talk of Alexander," 5 Something for Nothing, 287 Song of the Shirt (The), 2 Songs of Society, 165 Sovereign Maxim (A), 231 Sporting Answers, 157, 177, 185, 196 Star of Hope (The), 62 "Stiff Job" (A), 66 Stray Thoughts on Play-writing, 198 Suggestion for Pantomime (A), 86 Suggestions for Ride Park, 89 "Supposititious," 107 Suspiria, 241 Swinburne (A), 221 TAKEN in, but not Done for, 202 Tartarin à Londres, 262 Telephonic Love-Song (The), 153 Thank You! 225 That Cassowary's Complaint, 270 "That's Swear it is 1" 228 Thin Brown Line (The), 14 Those Silent Boots, 153. Thrilling Escape from the Bastille, 280 To Molly-an April Fool, 153 Too Bad to be True, 196 To the Royal Geographical Society, 269 Transformation Scene, 29 ""Twas Merry in (St. James's) Hall," 290 Tweedledum and Tweedledee, 154 " "Two Gentlemen of Verona at Oxford (The), 77 UNCLE Toby and Widow Wadman, 186 VALENTINE Verses, 78 Very Civil Law, 10 Very Complete Angleress (The), 303 "Very Latest" (The), 21 Very Natural, 135 Village Beauty and the Rival Swains, 147 "Waite for the End," 72 Waiting for the Processions, 232 Will Waterproof's Monologue, 142 LARGE ENGRAVINGS. "AFTER the Banquets are over-"? 295 Assault (The), 127 Back to School; or, Dr. Gladstone and or, The Gipsy's Warning (The), 259 Fisherman and the Genius (The), 55 French "Serpentine Dance;" or, Pas de Panama (The), 7 "In a Tight Place !" 283 "In the Doldrums," 307 Lullaby (A), 91 "Point to Point Race" (The), 211 Shocking Trade Outrage! 31 SMALL ENGRAVINGS. American Family visiting Oxbridge, 114 Back Seat on a Friend's Dog-cart, 231 Curate and Little Fox-hunter, 118 Grand Old Marionette (The), 83 May 10, 1893, 223 "Minstrel Boy" (The), 247 Mischief, 43 Old Woman and her Pig (The), 79 Our Own Ambassador, 285 Pilgrim's Progress (A), 175 LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW & CO., LIMITED, WHITEFRIARS. Irish Doctor Chaffs a Patient, 209 Little Simpkins and Departed Great, 210 Military Tournament (The), 275 M.P.'s Smashed Hat (The), 85 Mr. G.'s Room in the Commons, 95 Mr. Punch's Skating Party, 23 Mrs. Columbia-Squeers and her Boys, 266 Murphy's View of Home Rule, 183 Practical Use of a Clairvoyante, 277 Punch Skating, 1 Putting Conservative Heads together, 287 Rich People having a Golden Wedding, 87 Settling whom they shall have to Eat, 245 Ulster Ladies practising Shooting, 190 Undergraduate's Governor's Money, 219 "Urgent Private Theatricals," 54 Vicar and Shoemaker's Son, 45 Vicar Four-Armed (The), 270 Victim of the Sex (A), 166 Village Beauty and Rival Swains, 146 |