Young 'Olden.
Everybody saw quite clearly. Quite a pleasure to see Isaac Holden (etat. eighty, but full of youthful vigour) starting off to try the new experiment. Got through all right. But, half an hour later, Gilbert Greenall found in recesses of ventilating cellars, where, he said, he was "looking for door E."
Business done.—Report on Coercion Bill.
Tuesday.—Wilfrid Lawson made admirable suggestion to-night. Proposes that, when titles or honours are conferred upon anyone, a statement should accompany announcement, setting forth the public services on account of which the honour has been conferred. It is so done in respect of Victoria Cross. List of Honours conferred in connection with Jubilee show the necessity of extending custom.
"Who's he?" said Sir Borthwick, Bart., looking down the Gazette when it came out. "Never heard of him, nor him either. I seem to be really the only distinguished person in the lot."
"Who's he?"
List notable not only for what it includes but for what it omits. House of Commons united in expectation of one recognition, looked for in vain. If "Barnets" were to be made in Jubilee time, why was Joseph Gillis overlooked? This thought in everyone's mind, as Joey B. turned up to-night telling in a division against the Government. His public appearance now so rare that its recurrence was an event. Since he came into possession of Castle Butlerstown the alteration, long-working, made sudden and complete advance. His moustache, now past the indefinite stage, is an unquestionable reality, and to see Joey B. twirling it à la Randolph, is a delight to the quiet mind. Joseph feels his new responsibilities. When reproached by Tim Healy with his excessive respectability he is not moved.
"It's all very well for you, Tim, to be brow-beating the Speaker, interrupting Hon. Members opposite, moving the adjournment and the like. But it's different for a man who has a Castle, a drawbridge, a moat, and a moustache."