The Irish white elephant

The horse and the ass

Mr. Mitchell Henry (to Atchbishop of Tuam, August 15th)-"I can't run away from my colours." Ditto (to Times, September 4th)-"Under existing circumtances there is no chance."/

The "Times" in a hole.-Caught in its own trap

The forger to its Pals-"You put me out, or I'll pull you in." ; Attorney-General to W. H. Smith-"You must send Justice off on a wild-goose chase to America, until we get our friend out of this mess."/

The Bantry Band

Conductor-Mr. Justin McCarthy/

"Independent opposition."

Grand Old Wizard [William Ewart Gladstone] -"There's no deception - you see the performer is swallowing his own words".

Lord Randolph's Christmas Pantomime

"Foiled!"

An Incendiary Peer is caught at his old game /

Hoist with their own petard!

Pether the Packer and his accomplices are scourged out of Green Street by their own Packed Jury /

The beggars' opera.

Mendicant musicians - For pity's sake gentlemen, contribute something towards the expenses of the entertainment. Skedadolling audience - (sotto voce) - Alas, we are beggars all! (Aloud). - What a lovely ceiling to be sure.

Balfourism and Pigottism - much of a muchness

Balfour the Brave to Webster the Pious. - You stab the middle man in the back. I'll settle the other two /

The Shaughraun at the castle

Harvey Duff-(Mr. G. E--ng-n)-Oh, Mishter [sic] Kinshella, Mr. Kinshella what'll I do at all, at all? What'll become of me? We're completely found out. Corry Kinshella-(L--d S---c-r)-Deuce take you, what you do I care what becomes of you. I'll have more than enough to do to take care of myself. To the d---l with you and your whining. Con the Shaughraun-(Mr. Pat. Ireland)-Aha, my bold pair of boys, you're caught at last! Be my soul but you'll get your walking papers now/

Picking up humpty-dumpty

(Earl Spencer [John Poyntz Spencer] has been entertained at a banquet by his admirers). Hartington [Spencer Compton Cavendish] - Never mind, Jacky, cheer up, old man! It's not such a bad fall, after all. See this lovely cake your English friends have provided for you! Spencer - Yes ; but-I'm-so-sore! Boo-oo-oo! /

Realizing the police tax.

"When mule meets mule"./

"The key to the position."

John Bull-"Who'll strike off those chains that cumber my strength? I can neither fight nor march." ; Hartington-"Go ahead, old boy ; keep on, never minding." Chamberlain-"With my nineteenth brand new Birmingham file I'll cut them off in no time." ; Balfour-"I'll batter them off with this old sledge hammer in twenty years." ; Gladstone-"Allow me, gentlemen, here's the key."/

Baby's dream

The Irish juggernaut

Balfour and Rack-Renter together

"Lay it on hard and heavy, Wrench, and you will drive them into our trap."/

Caught in the act

Sexton (to chancellor of Exchequer)-"That's Ireland's contribution, Sir William, towards strengthening our Navy." Pat-"And so ye join with them to rob us, and ye knowing that these poor Islanders are starving. But Ireland will remember it to ye."/

The "Devil's work" in Ireland

Balfour the Brave -"For you I have lied without shame, and tortured without pity. Bloody Graves, Ruined Villages, and Prisons crammed with your Victims, testify my zeal in your case. I dare do no more." / The infernal Clanricarde -"You have sold yourself to the Devil, and must do his bidding to the end." / "We understand that Mr. Balfour has at length refused the forces of the Crown to further aid in the wholesale extermination of his tenants by 'The Most Noble' the Marquis of Clanricarde"- Morning Papers/

Lively

"The session going out like a lamb"-and a frolicksome ram lamb at that. [See Judas Chamberlain's Speech at the Birmingham "Small and Early."]/