The Press. — 1856-02-02 (London, England)

NEWS-LETTER TO A COUSIN IN FOREIGN PARTS. The news of the week you are asking, Well, Heaven be praised ! there's nolack, And my memory won't need much tasking As I call the occurrences back.  :x;l4 M  First, you know there's the Cambridge Election, Where Walpole, the honest and true, Is opposed by a man whose rtjection There's no doubt of between me and you.  Have you seen a vile scurrilous letter Mr. Denman's friends put in the Times? You'll not wonder its taste was no better When you learn that epistle was Pryme's.  A man—but my Terse I'll not sully With the mention of creatures like that, A low University Bully— We all know what the Fellow is at.  Then you've heard of the Parliament's meeting To give ear to the Speech of the Queen, All our cleverest guesses defeating To divine what her Ministers mean.  a  For of course you are not so disloyal As to deem that our Sovereign could write A discourse so absurd and un-Royal— 'Tis the work of her Ministers quite.  'Tis they who ignore liars' existence, Nor give Williams one word of applause, Nor allude to the Yankees' resistance  To our blundering scorn of their laws ;  Who don't heed her colonial possessions, And despise their true tilith to the Crown, Nor deplore the disgraceful oppressions Which in India her subjects grind down. General Evans has promised a motion, A daft one as ever I heard, To abolish the sale of promotion, And that merit aloile be preferred.  I don't see much sense in this bobbery, And think that one service at least Might be free from political jobbery, And saved front the mark of the beast.  Then Lord Derby—l wish he'd the steerage Of our ship in this perilous strait— Denounces the foolish Life Peerage Judge Parke has accepted of late.  Then the Times won't allow a fair trial To Palmer, who's tried for his lire, And won't hear of his counsel's denial That he murdered his brother and wife.  Now I've finished my news and my paper, And giv'n you the knowledge you seek ; If my Muse has let some things escape her You shall hear than, dear cousin, next we,  • /  "TIM* • . ._•. • E S S. 109 ess. (Cheers.) I tell you the aristocracy interfere in all the 'etions. ( Yours?) Yes, mine. (Cheers.) I can tell you that a lady, f••• hionably dressed, alighted last week from a cab at the door of a rthy grocer in Lambeth, one of my warmest friends, and, alter ling some purchases, insisted on paying for the articles. Ility ud offered to make out a bill, but she said, with a meaning smile, Zo, I hate Williams, and trust never to see one brought in again." uld he misunderstand that? And who do you think it was, going out poisoning the minds of the electors against me ? A gent in the :ablishment, who gets orders for the Opera, and therefore is acainted with the Peerage, stated at once that it was the Viscountess the Viscountess --. I've forgot the name, but it was someing like Appledaddy—(great laughter)—but the moral's the same. • 'teem) I have been called a teller of cock-and-bull storieF;, but I can 1 the House that, if it does not mind, there will be a tale of a French :!k and an English bull that will make it laugh on the wrong side of • mouth. People won't pay war taxes if the aristocracy interfere in • .ctions ; and then what becomes of your blessed alliance ? (Hear, tr.) I consider, therefore, that if this war, or this negotiation, is to properly carried on, you must take order with the House of Peers ; d I intend, upon an early day, to move, as an addition to the • anding Orders, that "the same rule shall be adopted with peers as th soldiers, and that, at elections, they shall be ordered to move ay a certain distance from any borough or county." (Shouts of vizier.) Yes. (A voice, " Where are they to go at a general elecn? ") That's their business. (Cheers.) To France if they like ; ' are fond enough of travelling for their own pleasure, let them " • for our profit—" and stop away until the last writ is returned." peers.) Sir, the existence of an aristocracy is so incompatible -Mr Hayter here begged to be allowed to move some new writs, L.. d the Honourable Billy deferred his larger view of the subject until other evening. A