1829. ] A jfairs in General.” 411 
They stopped at the neighbouring bookseller’s shop, 
Said they, “ We’re of Trinity College, 
Come down to support the Romanists’ cause, 
Without the Master’s knowledge.” 
They saw the non-Regents preparing to vote, 
They reckoned the hoods, black and white ; 
And, ‘‘ Now, Mr. Dean,” they whispered, ‘“‘ we ween, 
Our own sly cause goes right.” 
They saw the Vice-Chancellor taking his seat, 
A seat of good report ; 
And the lawyers grinned, for it put them in mind 
Of their own sweet Chancery Court. 
They saw swim down through the learned tide 
A Lamps, with vast celerity ; 
Oh! he cut his own throat, and they thought the while 
Of the Porr, whom he wished prosperity. 
They stood by St. Marv’s, and heard the sound 
Of the deep and solemn bell ; 
And the lawyers paused, for it gave them a hint 
That the soul goes to heaven or hell. 
They saw the Soricrror-GENnERAL’s face 
Lengthen with consternation ; 
So they hied them back in the Pappineron stage, 
In fiendish exultation. 
Sir Nicuoras grinned, and twitched his brief tails, 
But not with admiration, 
For he thought that his seat in the Parliament 
Was lost through Emanerpation.—[John Bull. 
« Parliamentary language,” as it is called, is proverbially absurd, 
* Now that Iam on my legs—I am free to confess,” and that whole slip- 
shod family, have long fallen under the lash ; but what is called “ Par- 
liamentary courtesy,” is to us much more detestable. We waive the 
nonsense of calling every one, that a man has ever talked three words to, 
“my honourable friend,” and we are by no means sure, that “ honour- 
able member,” applied to every individual who works his way into what 
Sir Francis Burdett was accustomed, in his patriot days, to call “ that 
room,” may not be sometimes productive of odd emotions. But our 
complaint is of more serious things ; it is of the actual injury to the 
good cause, and the offence against truth, contained in the application of 
the words “honourable friend,” and its expletives, to persons whom, in 
their souls, the speakers believe to be the very reverse of honourable ; 
whom they dislike and scorn, as committing, in their idea, the very 
basest acts ; and whom it would be their duty to exert all their means to 
detect and degrade for the good of the country, and the example to 
- mankind. 
We have, at the present moment, questions of the most signal import- 
ance agitated in pailiament. The Opposition desire, if they are sincere, 
to overcome those measures by the most condign species of extinction. 
What can they think of the men who have proposed those measures ? 
The answer is plain. But what is their language? One high-minded 
oppositionist prefaces his speech with “I beg to assure the Home Secre- 
tary that my opinion of him is of the same-high order that it always 
was.” Another merely varies the phrase, and pronounces that, “ though 
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