_Friday._--More about Charities as affected by Parish Councils Bill. Opposition got their back up. They love the Bill more than ever; but they will not let it pass. A great deal said about charity; but there's no lovingkindness. Encouraged by hunt of last night turn again upon SOLICITOR-GENERAL. A thirst for information. PRINCE ARTHUR insinuatingly suggests that House would be happy if RIGBY would only give his views as to the precise meaning of phrase "parochial charities." RIGBY affects not to hear. Diligently makes notes on his brief with preoccupied air. JOSEPH runs in from behind and pulls the hair of his right hon. friend the SQUIRE OF MALWOOD. The SQUIRE, nothing loath, lets fly from the shoulder. Rumpus; somebody moves Closure; Chairman takes no notice; at end of two hours Committee divide. Coming back, approach identical question from slightly different point of view; talk round it for another two hours. At twelve o'clock we go home with uneasy feeling that for all practical purposes, as far as progress of Bill is concerned, we might as well have stopped there. _Business done._--None. * * * * * ERRATIC.--There was an odd-looking misprint in _Le Figaro_ for Wednesday last of an "r" for an "i," so that what was intended for "la Cour d'assises à Old Bailey" read "la Cour d'assises à Old Barley." Our friend in _Punch_, "Old BILL BARLEY," would be pleased to find himself famous in French. * * * * * THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS.--Death to dealers in death! * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Page 282: 'glosing' is an archaic word. (Glose) n. & v. See Gloze. Chaucer. (Gloze) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing.] [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation.] 1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer. (etc., from Webster's 1913 Online Dictionary). * * * * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 16, 1893, by Various