Punch . year. Trains will run from London during the Summer, in time to see theFountain of Trinity play. A Scullery is to be built on the banks of the Cam, as a depository forthe smaller kind of oars. Three new Funnies will be launched on the Cam on Whit-Monday. A LIKELY JOKE. The following statement has found its way into a respectablejournal :— Rumoured Visit op Her Majesty to Berlin.—A report is current in Berlinthat, should the prospects of war disappear, Her Majesty will visit the Prussiancapital, to be present at the baptism of the newly-born daughter of the Crown-Princess. Bismarck woul
Punch . year. Trains will run from London during the Summer, in time to see theFountain of Trinity play. A Scullery is to be built on the banks of the Cam, as a depository forthe smaller kind of oars. Three new Funnies will be launched on the Cam on Whit-Monday. A LIKELY JOKE. The following statement has found its way into a respectablejournal :— Rumoured Visit op Her Majesty to Berlin.—A report is current in Berlinthat, should the prospects of war disappear, Her Majesty will visit the Prussiancapital, to be present at the baptism of the newly-born daughter of the Crown-Princess. Bismarck would doubtless be glad to get plunder, bloodguiltiness,and flat self-contradiction honoured with a visit from the Queen opEngland. The grandmother of the newly-born daughter of theCrown-Princess op Prussia, at the baptismal font would have tomeet that Royal infants grandfather. It has, perhaps, appeared toBismarck, regarding Schleswig and^Holstein, that the poor abuses ofthe time want countenance. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [April 28, 1866. PARLIAMENT. anolite is a mineral, calledalso (says TJre) axinite,because its crystals re-semble an axe. Hatchet-throwing in Parliamentrecommenced on Monday,April 16. The Debate onthe Franchise Bill wasresumed, and • Mr. Ma-GtriRE led off with a calmclever speech for the mea-sure. TJlick, Lord Dun-kellin, who is the son ofLord Clanricarde, andwho was taken prisoner inthe Crimea, and graciouslyreleased by the Emperor,delivered himself fluentlyagainst the F. B., thougnhe is a Liberal. He wasnot going to swallow thepowder of franchise in thefaith of the promise of thejam of distribution. Ulickis a bachelor, or wouldknow that a sensibleMamma gives the jambefore the powder, where-by the infantine tonguescarcely perceives thenasty W. E. Forster, who is an advanced Liberal as well as aMinister, advocated the F. B. as a Conservative measure. He said onething which will be quoted. Ridiculing the Conservatives for theirterror of
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