PUNCH VOL LXX - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...statements that reach Officials. (Commons.)--Mr. Disraeli (in answer to Ms. Beuceiis unable to ftx a day for the discussion of affairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and when the day does come, thinks the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition the right person to raise the discussion. The Papers on the Eastern Question may be looked for, Punch is glad to learn, at the beginning of next week. Mb. Disbaeli, like Lord Derby in another 'place, administered the official cold douche to Mb. Forster, who had questioned him as to the reported atrocities in Bulgaria. The Premier's answer was not in good taste. It is unbecoming the Head of Her Majesty's Government to get a laugh out of the extent of prison accommodation in Bulgaria, or the Bashi-Bazouks' habits of throat-cutting. From our Consuls at Ragusa, Cettigne, and Belgrade, and even at Phillipopolis and Adrianople, the Government may have received "no accounts in which these details are mentioned," and yet the details may be in the main true. It seems strange that the Daily News s "Own Correspondent" should be so much more fully informed than our own Government's! But all England must wish, with Punch, that the most cold-drawn account may prove the truest. Great fight on going into Committee on Education Bill between the Secularists and Nonconformists, under the lead of Mh. Richard, and the supporters of the Government Bill of all shades of moderate opinion. Mk. Richard, under cover of his Amendment declaring compulsion unjust till all elementary schools are under public management, moved up his Vis guns, double-shotted with all the grievances of the Nonconformists, social and theological, as well as educational. Briskly answered by the batteries of Hubbard, Greene, Paget, Hall, Cowper-temple, and G...