The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-06-12
MEMORIES OF LONDON.
PROPAGATION IN PARLlAMENT-HOW
JOHN BULL MANAGES 1T.
The WORKOUT Ceremony of an Ehete
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Up the
British Lion-OId Nor
man French.
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We put ourselves under the diplomatic /
shadow of our minister TO witness the process I
bv which Her Gracious Majesty the Queen can .
rid herself and the country Of her Parliament ,
and enjoy her little estate at Osborne, her /
brown stout and stout Brown in peace, /
Since dead is Brown, but TO memory dear /
We had no idea that this proroguing was 4
such a troublesome, tedious business 1t /
bothers Her Gracious Majesty and old Glad
stone. now in feeble political and physical /
strength, TO get clear of their Parliament
The prorogue has 10 be sent by special mes
senger from Osborne Isle of Wight, where
the Queen, aided b. her constitutional adj
visers, makes it some days in advance
Whether it is baked, fried or boiled do not
know. From the way it is spoken OF by the
press I am inclined to think it is Matched.
The Journals say the council sat upon it. be
that as it may, it is exceedingly slow and tire
some.
We prorogue things in the States with much
greater ease We all know that when the
hour approaches for our representatives TO
return to their constituents things grow
more lively and rapid than ever. The only
part our chief executive takes in prOrogulng
is to approve all the steals the last house
gives birth to.
When Henry Clay prorogued James K
Polk, he merely shook mis- long finger at the
little speaker and Numbered out: ''Go home,
-- you where you belong" 1t was
not necessary tc use i'll the propagation OF
James K such strong language, but the
Kentucky statesman was a very profane
man. l am panied to write it, but Henry
made use of a great many bad words that
had better be forgotten. But he did pro-
rogue James K in that abrupt manner, and
it seemed to serve the purpose. j. b. went
home.
We accompanied our envoy extraordinary
to the House of Lords, and arrived there
about p NJ 1t was proposed to prorogue
| at 2P NJ We could scarcely call it a good
! day for peers, for not one could be discovered
/ on the benches below, nor when the Commons
! appeared at the bar to be dismissed for the
HOLIDAYS did over half dozen respond to the
! summons. This formal matter is evidently
not treated with much respect.
! The spectators were mainly made up OF
/ General Schenck's little crowd. But specta-
tors are not encouraged, as l have noted
before. One American lady, the brilliant
pen-driver, Mrs Barnard, arriving too late
/ RAOSoNS-O-
matte wing, was arrested at every entrance
Nothing but her cool perseverance and Cen
eraI Schenck's popularity with the ministry
enabled her to win her way to the charmed
interior As it was her approaches were slow
and tiresome, and she met retiring, evidently
baffied and disappointed, titled English ladies
who were accustomed, III all human proba-
bility. to go where they pleased at all other
| times.
There was evidence of q hitch somewhere.
We sat waiting patiently for the prorogue TO
make its appearance four weary hours. In
the meantime all sorts of rumors were ahoat.
One said the original prOrogue had been
lost in the channel while crossing over,
and Her Gracious Majesty the Queen had
to make another Then it was asserted
that a railroad collision had occurred, and
that the prorOgue was under no end OF
smashed-up trains, with three hundred vOlun-
teers digging it out Another rumor had 1t
that Her Gracious Majesty, after consulta-
lions with John Brown, had positively re
fused prorogue and the ministry were on
their official knees begging the old lady to let
them rest while.
In the meantime at intervals, gentleman
in knee-breeches and a sword would hurry
into the vacant hall below, perSpire freely
and then hurry out. One of these looked IN
the corners and under the seats as if some
peer had dropped his prayerbook. Justice
Miller corrected this by saying that an Eng
lishInan's prayerboOk was the book OF The
Peerage," and that it could not be dropped.
General Schenck suggested that probably he
was looking for the prorogue. Two hours
went by without any demonstration, and
weary hours they were. Waiting for dinner
when one is hungry tries the patience and
the stomach. Waiting in dreary station
for a late train will make one wish he were
dead. But neither of these trials compare tC
that of small party of restless Americans
deprived of their tobacco and denied the ex
Guisite privilege of putting their republican
feet above their republican heads, with short
inteImissions for refreshments in the way OF
mixed drinks while waiting for q WORKOUT
, ceremony of an effete despotisni We could
, not even talk politics The State Department
in Washington has but one instruction to 1t!
diplomatic agents in Europe, and that is u
keep the eagle Gagged.
ooh! look here, General cried one o
our party, I've only twenty-four hours u
do London Can't you hurry this thing up
f little! haven't seen the Tower yet"
5 ''My Christian friend, J." responded the min
ister my right to hurry up the British iol
might be questioned
Il wish somebody would twist his royal OLE
> tail" sighed the impatient citizen. Il wan
to see the Tower and the waxworks.n
. But. General" asked fair lady. ''suppos
. the prorogue doesn't come, what then!"
r "a mutton chop and glass of ale" re
q sponded our minister.
n At last a gentleman in robes, accompanies
5 by gentleman without robes, entered tn
u deserted house. and Robes, taking up hug
card. proceeded to read, with the singson
- chant peculiar to ''Ludsn when Engaged
= this sort of thing. 1t took old obes som
l. time TO get through with this When b
. ended. the other man, without Robes, threv
= himself in a kneeling position into a chat
and continued the chant without a card. HI
Il position indicated prayer, but the way b
chung to his hat and cast uneasy glances
one side. as if in search of his umbrella, prove
It that his thoughts did not elevate to any e.
q tent Ending this prayer, old Robes cracke
= a Joke. at which both laughed heartily as the
e passed out.
h Then we had nearly two more hours
> patient waiting. General Schenck, requrs
ing two of his stoutest friends to awaken hi
A. arrived drowned INF