"THE YOUNG IDEA."

THE BRITISH LION SECURE.

MR. PUNCH will have seen that his friend, the MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, discussing the question of "Concurrent Endowment," adverted to the change, remarkable enough, which has taken place in the mind of the British Public, touching Roman Catholicism, since the time of the Papal Aggression-a change, says the Times, "such that the Ecclesiastical Titles Act is daily violated, although it is still retained on the statute book."

Yes; and Mr. Punch, will have noted that a change has also taken place in the affairs of Europe. Since the time of the Papal Aggression, the Kingdom of Italy has been created-in a great measure by the help of Mr. PunchConstitutional Government, has, with the same assistance, been established in Austria. ISABELLA THE SECOND, through not attending to Mr. Punch, has been obliged to fly her queendom with FATHER CLARET at her tail, and, owing much to Mr. Punch, religious liberty triumphs in Spain. All these changes have been made in perfect accordance with the advice of Mr. Punch, and entire opposition to the preachments of the Roman Catholic Clergy and the fulminations of the POPE, and his Syllabus. The British Public accordingly thinks it has now no longer any reason to be afraid of Popery. It has not, and had not when it rebuffed Papal Aggression, any objection to Roman Catholicism as a mere religion-for those who belong to it, or choose it. The Ecclesiastical Titles Act has done its work. Perhaps, Mr. Punch will possibly subjoin. Nobody ever wanted it enforced. Almost everybody would willingly see it repealed-provided they first saw the French garrison finally withdrawn from Rome. Eh, Mr. Punch?

In the meanwhile it will perhaps be Mr. Punch's opinion that if ARCHBISHOP MANNING Would have his order, and their flocks, show gratitude to those who have been their best friends, and greatest benefactors, he should exhort them to subscribe handsomely for the presentation of testimonials to VICTOR-EMMANUEL, GARIBALDI, and VON BEUST. So at least Mr. Punch will think if the honour of thinking with Mr. Punch has been vouchsafed to his humble servant the unsleeping MUSTELA.

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

JULY 5, Monday. Irish Church Bill in House of Lords Committee. Archbishop Tait. MR. GLADSTONE fixes the date from which Private Endowments are reserved to us at 1660. We have older rights. Let's say second year of ELIZABETH? Statute of Uniformity, don't you see? Lord Chancellor. No, I don't. The Primate's argument is faulty. That statute was meant for the religious benefit of all the Irish.

Lord Granville. Come, business, I should like to do a bit of business with you this evening. We'll give the Church Half a Million for all her Private Endowments. Is it a bargain?

Lord Cairns. I think you'd better put it in writing-on the paper. Archbishop. We Bishops are not attorneys for the Church. We look at the date from far higher interests. Still, I'm sure that's very conciliatory, very conciliatory indeed of the noble Earl. I will withdraw my amendment. (Much applause.)

Archbishop. Well, now, about those Glebe Lands in Ulster-Protestant province, you know. Given us by the King, my countryman, KING JAMES. We really must keep those.

Lord Dufferin. I say! Why, they're worth a million. Bishop of Derry. So much the better. And pray remember what good fellows the Ulster men are.

Lord Monck. Ulster may not like their being taken, but Ireland will. Lord Grey. I might have supported the Archbishop, but for that absurd vote of Friday against giving homes to the Priests. Touching which I say we are not delegates to register the decisions of out-door meetings, and at hustings. Government ought to have agreed to giving the homes.

Lord Kimberley. Really, we couldn't.

Lord Cairns. You ought, I tell you. Keep faith with Ulster, which was colonised on a solemn undertaking that Protestantism should be maintained there.

Lord Chancellor. Your historical knowledge is imperfect. And I tell

a FRESH field.

EARL GREY that we are as high-minded as he is, only he is for a paternal sort of Government, while we think the national will should be consulted.

Lord Punch. How can the national Will be consulted until the nation

is dead and the will has been proved? My noble friend PENZANCE will tell you better than that. (Great disapprobation.) I have as much right to talk nonsense as any other Peer, and I will, too.

Bishop of Ely. You ought to have given the houses to the Priests. But to strip our Church naked and turn it out to fight by the side of largely endowed churches, and to expect it to succeed is to ask a miracle.

Lord Punch. If you, my dear Lord, call all those millions nakedness, I should like to see your tailor's bill. (Shouts of "Order!") Division. Archbishop victor by 105 to 55.

Lord Salisbury. On the Landowner's redemption of tithe rents I beg to say that I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and only remark that this Bill is full of conjuring tricks. However, I prefer landlords to lunatics.

Clauses up to 67 got through, with much controversy. Tuesday. The Bill was resumed.

Lord Cairns. Now, as to this Surplus. Don't let us decide, by the Bill, how it shall be applied. Let it be left to the subsequent discretion of Parliament.

Lord Granville. Your amendments have made an awful hole in it. Don't let 's keep the rest dangling as a bone of contention.

Lord Malmesbury. Yes, do. For it will give time for public opinion to come round to Concurrent Endowment.

Lord Punch. Concurrent, my dear Lords, means-1. Acting in conjunction, agreeing in the same act, operating with. 2. Denotes union, or concomitance. (Loud cries of "Shut up!")

Duke of Cleveland. I see no objection to the delay. Public opinion is changing on that subject.

Duke of Argyll. Ireland approves the Government Bill. Do not let us stultify ourselves. This is a plan to undo the decision of Friday. Lord Salisbury. You, Ministers, are many of you for Concurrent Endowment, only you say that it is now impossible. Very well, let us hold on, and wait till it becomes possible.

Lord Kimberley. Don't lose all your amendments by one that will make it impossible for the Commons to accept the Bill. Lord Grey. I approve the amendment.

Lord Granville. Do be cautious. Do be considerate. "Shan't."

Majority of 160 to 90.

Postponed Clauses taken. Preamble "amended;" that is, the declared principle that the surplus should not be applied for any Church or Clergy knocked out. Bill passed through Committee.

Friday. Lord Cairns. Now, we'll finally fix the date of the end of the Church at 1st May, 1871.

Lord Stanhope. I have been observing (through a Stanhope lens) the Armagh Observatory. It enjoys certain tithes, which it ought to keep. This is in accord with the spirit of the Bill, as the Observatory looks after the Lunatics.

Lord Dufferin. The scope of the Bill doesn't include the telescopes, but we 'll take care of them.

Various wild or uninteresting proposals.

Lord Clanricarde. I insist on the Church being made to pay the building charges on the glebe houses.

Lord Denbigh. I am a Catholic. I said the other night that we would accept houses for our priests. I am desired by our superior clergy to retract that statement.

Lord Russell. Reconsider that Friday vote.

Majority of 91 to 56. "Shan't, we tell you." Archbishop. Now, about that Half-Million so obligingly offered. We are agreeable. Let us enact to that effect. We only ask a pittance of Three Millions in all-a fifth of our present property.

Lord Granville. Oh! Ah! Yes! But after I made the offer, you took the Ulster glebes. The bargain doesn't stand.

Frantic Chorus, "Yah! yah! Shirk!"

Chancellor. Very fine; but we mean what we say.
Archbishop. Well, we'll put the bargain into the Bill, anyhow.
Bargain inserted without division.

Lord Clancarty. I shall move, on Third Reading, the Rejection of

the Bill.

Having thus dramatised proceedings which, without such treatment by Mr. Punch would certainly not be understood, probably not heeded, he reverts to his usual narrative form, and descends to the House of Commons, where on

Monday, among various matters, MR. FAWCETT made some observations on SIR JOHN COLERIDGE's being retained for the defence in the Overend-and-Gurney case, and therefore being unable to serve the Crown and the country as a public prosecutor. The SOLICITORGENERAL thought proper to fire up terrifically, and to come down in blazing wrath on MR. FAWCETT. People abused the practice of lawyers without understanding it. Any man had a right to the services of any barrister not previously engaged. It was because barristers could not select cases, but must take what came, that their profession was that of a gentleman. If they exercised any judgment, they would be open to the base charge of selling their convictions and opinions. Was an advocate to refuse any brief because some day he might become an officer of the Crown? He did not desire to be taught his duty by MR. FAWCETT. The latter endured all this storm of barrister indignation in defence of the conventionality for which such nonsense is no defence at all, but for which there is a real one in the convenience of the system, and quietly said that he had meant no personality.

MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON (Postmaster-General) explained the Telegraph Scheme, for which the nation has mainly to thank MR. SCUDAMORE. You don't want details, but here are a few points :

Government has a monopoly in the matter, just as with letters. All messages, not exceeding 20 words, are to be a Shilling. You will have forms, to which you will affix payment in stamps, and you may put the forms, when you have written your message (stupid), into any receiving-box or pillar, and the message will be forwarded. He did not say what would be done if you are careless enough not to put stamps enough-the message should be forwarded, and your friend made to pay the balance, as this will promote good feeling.

Next year you are expected to send 8,815,443 messages, which will produce about £514,000 to the revenue.

He did not say this, but we hope it will be made law. At present it is nuisance enough to come home at night, and find your hall table spotted with a lot of letters, which you open, and find wine-sellers' puffs, charity petitions, coal-vendors' price-lists, dentists' invitations, missionary appeals, and tradesmen's bills. To have these things electrotyped will be maddening. Let it be enacted, therefore, that to send anything of this sort by telegram shall be felony, and decidedly without

benefit of clergy, for the parsons are among the worst and most pertinacious of mendicants. A few executions for such crimes will do a deal of good.

Tuesday. Contagious Diseases in Animals Bill discussed in the Commons. We take leave to avoid an unpleasant topic. We always do. The simple rule is, that animals which are Contagious must not be Contiguous with animals which are not. The House's "talk was of bullocks," as SHAKSPEARE contemptuously observes.

MR. RICHARD, Welshman, stated, at great length, that all the landlords in Wales are Conservatives and Churchmen, and all other persons latter for voting according to their convictions. He was accused of there are Liberals and Dissenters, and that the former oppress the personality, but how can you deal with such matters unless you prove cases? He was also accused of exaggeration, of which he was possibly guilty, for the Welsh imagination is vivid (though it appeareth not in Welsh poetry) but those who know the Cambrian landlord know that he hath amazing notions of his rights. But Parliament should refuse all reform or relief to Wales until Welshmen begin to call themselves by distinctive Christian names.

Wednesday was devoted to the Second Reading of the Bill for legalising Trades Unions, so as to give them power to protect their funds. The Bill was read a Second Time, but MR. BRUCE does not think it satisfactory, and promises Government legislation. Understand the grievance. Unions are unlawful, therefore any rascal of a treasurer, or other official who steals the cash-box, cannot be punished.

Thursday. LORD MALMESBURY, on the Third Reading of LORD RUSSELL'S Bill for making Life Peers, attacked it, but probably the "situation" in which Lords and Commons are, just now, had more to do with the issue than his Lordship's arguments. Anyhow, and with small wail, the small Bill was massacred by 106 to 77. It died very easily. Bankruptcy and Imprisonment for Debt Bills introduced to those who can neither be bankrupt nor go to prison for debt. The subject is not very interesting, but the Bills are very good.

SIR HENRY BULWER, at the earnest request of the PREMIER, abandoned his intention to raise a discussion on the questions between us and America. But he maintained that it would be better to discuss them. We disagree, and prefer CHAUCER's Sumner's Tale to BULWER'S. In Supply, MR. LAYARD was attacked for having given some directions for House of Commons adornments without getting a specific vote of leave. He defended himself with spirit, and successfully, having a general and continuous right to deal with mere details. He paid a deserved tribute to MESSRS. MOORE and POYNTER, had been much struck with the works of the former in the Academy, and said that the gentlemen," and had been made still more popular by a celebrated latter's great picture of the Israelites in Egypt was known to most and remarkable Political Caricature." Mr. Punch's artist was not in the gallery, or would (he says) have made a neat speech in acknowledgment of the compliment, and we rather wish he had, as he would immediately have been taken into custody.

University Tests Bill read a Third Time and passed, amid cheers. It will be passed into infinite space, amid cheers, in another place. It is distinctly of the Essence of Parliament (and if it wasn't, we shouldn't care) to state that the Lords and the Commons-seven of each-met at Wimbledon to let off rifles, and that whereas Coronets beat Hats last year, Hats beat Coronets, signally, this year. Division, 353 to 315. Best shots among Lords, SPENCER and DENBIGH (a Catholic, ha! where's WHALLEY ?) best among Commons, FORDYCE, M.P. for Aberdeenshire. They all shot with Small Bores-but we refrain from a jest that is old, obvious, offensive, and inappropriate. In fact, it never occurred to us.

Friday. A wonderfully learned discussion on Central Asia. We have sent to MR. STANFORD for maps, and will publish the whole debate, with illustrations, charts, and original anecdotes of SHERE ALI (all sheer inventions,) in a double Supplement.

Much fun on the question whether the grating should be removed from the front of the Ladies' Gallery. A very lively letter from a lady, read by MR. LAYARD-quite Punchy. The grating is not to be removed. It was justly remarked that the ladies who want only to see and hear can do so, and others ought not to have "another evening amusement" provided for them by the Legislature.

The Juvenile Stakes.

In this year's competition at Wimbledon all ages have been provided for, down to the very youngest, for whom the "Enfield Nursery Prizes" seem specially designed. But is it not a great risk to entrust an Enfield to such inexperienced hands? Would not a popgun be safer?

SCOTLAND'S LONE FLOWER.

LORD ELCHO has forbidden flower-gardens in the Camp of the Royal Scottish. On second thoughts, however, his Lordship has made an exception in favour of the gigantic thistle before the Scottish mess-tent. None but an ass would think of meddling with that!