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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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s Pirates. The Noble Landowner characteristically selected,as the severest term he could apply to a Privateer, the phrase Sea-Poacher. Lord Gbanville repeated what Sir George Lewis hadsaid on the previous night, and it should be notified far and wideto all adventurous British spirits, that if captured in a Privateer tho^espirits will be hanged, and not a word in their favour will be saidby our Government. In both Houses the Syrian question was discussed. We are to hopethat the French will evacuate that country at the appointed time, anda Governor is to be appointed who will, if possible, keep the tribes inorder. Lord John Russell delivered a hopeful kind of speech aboutAustria, and said he did not mind being called an old-fashioned poli-tician holding obsolete notions. To adopt, and therefore to crystalliseand immortalise, an ancient saying, a man is an ass who minds Icalled anything provided he is not called too late for breakfast. I 208 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (May 18, 1861.
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a DOING A BIT OF PAPER. Pam. Go in ; they ll do it tor you ! HUMBUGS IN THE HOUSE OE COMMONS. There are Humbugs in the House of Commons. Yes, there are. It is no breach ofprivilege to say so. A few Humbugs occasionally contrive to get themselves introducedinto the Strangers Gallery. But, of course, there are no Humbugs among HonourableMembers. Accordingly, our contemporary, the Observer, in an article on a late division,makes a great mistake in the following remarks :— But it is really too bad to come to those Members who continue to fill Liberal seats, and who had formerlybeen in office with the party at the head of the Government, and who are, no doubt, annoyed because thereare not enough of offices left for them now. Some of these are right honourable gentlemen, who owe theirrank to the persons they now oppose, and who ought to hesitate before they helped, so far as they could, torisk the chances of a dissolution, and the increase of confusion at home and abroad. It is utterly im

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