. Punch . lieve, used principally by the Deputies of the gauche. The English table exhibits a striking contrast to the French ; owing insome measure, no doubt, to the fact of many of our excellent membersdining and supping at Bellamys, while the Deputies buvette opens withthe debates at two and closes, by sound of dinner-bell, at six. HoweverJustice may fare, it is clear that Legislation goes on better after diunerthan before it. Digestion requires coolness, and it is impossible to bemalignantly patriotic after a well-dressed and heartily-eaten meal. Wereit not for Bellamys, the country gentle
. Punch . lieve, used principally by the Deputies of the gauche. The English table exhibits a striking contrast to the French ; owing insome measure, no doubt, to the fact of many of our excellent membersdining and supping at Bellamys, while the Deputies buvette opens withthe debates at two and closes, by sound of dinner-bell, at six. HoweverJustice may fare, it is clear that Legislation goes on better after diunerthan before it. Digestion requires coolness, and it is impossible to bemalignantly patriotic after a well-dressed and heartily-eaten meal. Wereit not for Bellamys, the country gentlemen ere this would have been inopen rebellion. If Louis-Philippe wants to make the Opposition moremanageable, he should try our plan. If he paid for the dinners of theministerial party it would be all the better. The absence of whiskey from the English table, is no doubt owingto the patriotic Parliamentary absenteeism of the Irish members. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 153 SIR J. BOWLEY AND HIS We understand that, during the Easter Holydays, Sir Robert Peel gave an experimental entertainment,founded on the last new tariff, to the poor in his immediate neighbourhood. The provisions included most ofthe luxuries on which the duty has just been repealed, and the hospitable board groaned beneath theweight of whales fins, fustic, and other similar delicacies, which the Premiers policy has rendered accessibleto his poorer countrymen. Besides this munificent repast, every poor family was allowed two pounds ofbeef-wood, four ounces of divi-divi, a couple of hoofs, a quarter-of-a-pound of bees-wax, and a quart of generoussanguis draconis to wash them down with. We understand that the Premier will endeavour to introduce fustic as an article of general consumptionamong the labourers on his estate, and will distribute ginseng to all who will pledge themselves to eat it. These are real proofs of what Sir Robert Peel has done for the poor man by the new tariff. Genteel Christiani
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