Punch . e 3ft?f0rm 33tlt was read a lirst Time, and theSecond Reading was fixed for the 12fch April. To this admirable compendium of the Grand Debate, wemerely add that there was little else in the week. OnWednesday a union of Scotch and Irish Sabbatariansdefeated a Bill for preventing certain Irish railway peoplefrom depriving the public of Sunday trains. On Thursdaythe Conservatives showed their strength on the Oath Bill,and numbered 222 to the 236 who rejected part of theamendment which Mr. Disraeli had been compelled, byhis party, to invent. We should not have liked to see hisintellectual
Punch . e 3ft?f0rm 33tlt was read a lirst Time, and theSecond Reading was fixed for the 12fch April. To this admirable compendium of the Grand Debate, wemerely add that there was little else in the week. OnWednesday a union of Scotch and Irish Sabbatariansdefeated a Bill for preventing certain Irish railway peoplefrom depriving the public of Sunday trains. On Thursdaythe Conservatives showed their strength on the Oath Bill,and numbered 222 to the 236 who rejected part of theamendment which Mr. Disraeli had been compelled, byhis party, to invent. We should not have liked to see hisintellectual face over such a task—invitd Minerva. Andon Friday, in the Lords, Earl Grey made a long speechon Ireland, and recommended the destruction of the IrishCburch, and the division of her income among Episcopalians,Catholics, and Presbyterians. He was cleverly answered ina roseate speech by Lord Ddffebin. The Commonstalked of Woolwich and Sandhurst, and Irish riots, andvoted vast sums for combative A SKETCH AT ALDERSHOTT. Oh, yes, Dear, Im quite Safe! I have a Firm Hold. GROSS CASE OF CLEMENCYfAT WINDSOR. The following case, related by the Tost, is one which would, a few years ago,have been animadverted on by sentimental writers in language expressive of a feelingsupposed to be excited in the minds of some persons by cruelty and injustice,even although the sufferers of that injustice and cruelty are other persons; afeeling which, in those years, used to be described by the single word indigna-tion, unexplained by the significant epithet virtuous :— A Harsh Judgment.—At the last Berks Petty Sessions, held at the Town Hall, Windsor, beforeMessrs. P. H. Crutchley and T. J. Hercy, George Gally, apparently half-starved, was chargedwith stealing a turnip, the property of George Allen, Old Windsor. The poor fellow pulleda turnip on the previous Sunday morning, and actually ate half of it before he was detected insuch a dreadful crime. The defendant pleaded guilty, and in de
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