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    • A COUNCIL UNDER THE CLOCK.
    • QUESTIONABLE INQUISITIONS.
    • " WHERE AND OH WHERE ? »
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      A Council Under The Clock.

      A COUNCIL UNDER THE CLOCK .

      Scene.—A Room At The Horse Guards. Prese...

      Scene . —A Room at the Horse Guards . Present : . The Duke . The Military Secretary . The Adjutant General . The The Demi Quartermaster -Quartermaster General General . . The Demi-Semi-Quartermaster General . & c , & c . whilst The reserved Duke . — forces It is of are no so use unreserved jabbering in their about indisci Army line Reform and disorder . Before the Army is touched the Volunteers p should certai something nly be better put throug than an h their involuntary facings , rabble so as . to They make seem them to think that cold , wet , and hunger should modify instead of invigorat intended e to the allot provision privations s of to the the Mutiny soldier , Act and — thus a law render specially him lamblike and amenable to his superior authorities . The M . Sec . —Your Royal Highness is well able to jud the ge soldier of the has shortcomings outside and of the these less in Irregulars , the better . The is he more adapted wet for his high calling . What a noise those fellows made when they were being collected for the review the other day . sidered The obnoxiou Duke . — s Noise to the ! military Every expression ear was freel that y indul may ged be in , con and - if should they had have been been regular corrected troops ba their little wholesome state of insubordination lication of that lash which warms the body y and consoles the app mind . The A . G . —Ah J I was looking over some punishment returns how often of 1784 and the how other soundl day , and the it backs was reall of y the refreshing soldiers to then see testified to the perfection of our y military system . If Mr . Otway much could be improved once flogged . Branding even yet is a the good tone measure of the service , but flogg mig ing ht be is a better . The O . M . G . —Those House of Commons theorists don ' t understand the soldier mind . They think that he has rights absolut as well e as necessity wrongs , and of governing they seem him to be through quite unaware the mean of s the of wrongs The onl Duke y . . —We shall have the place filled with crotchets if we don ' t make a determined stand . The service is being stand degraded much . We more had of this better sort give of interference notice that , and the that Army if people won ' t who are not tried carefu to commit l it will suicide resign . , or How something about the of case that of kind that , man and respecting whom the War Office has been so anxious for correspondence ? to A know . G . — whether We are the still value writing of the about cartridge it . The , which War the Office man wants fired letter without to the orders commanding , has been -officer duly recovered of his regiment , and asking I have for sent this a information . It is very odd that someT notice was not taken of this matter before . before The the Duke peop . — le Perhaps at the War nobody Office ever started thoug the ht of idea such , supposing a thing what that the would man then had have blown been out done his buttons ? , instead of his brains , have The been Q . required M . G . —Probabl to pay y for the them captain , for of if his I remember company would right , Article 1016 of the Clothing Regulations states that when a soldier wilfully and maliciously The Duke . —Blows out his buttons instead of his brains 1 The Q . M . C . —No—not exactly that , but—by Jove , what does it state ? The A . G . —All the nonsense possible I know . your The Royal M . Sec Highness . —Nothing wish worth us , howe quoting ver , to at discuss any rate the . subject Does we have recorded for consideration to-day . The DuKE . —What is it ? soldier The Q and . M . his G . — frock Something —1 st . Together about the . 2 relative nd . Separate weight . 3 of rd . the In Europe The . Duke 4 th . . — In I India thought . 5 th that . In we Heli had goland settled . that 6 th . . In The A . G . —So did I . The Duke . —No ? Well , we won ' t bother about it to-day , it

      Scene.—A Room At The Horse Guards. Prese...

      will are there do just now as at well the some War Office other 1 time . How many committees they The were A . being G . —I appointed tried to count too rap them idly the for other me , and day left and my failed cal — - they culation accumulate sadly behind quickl — y I . will try again in a week ' s time , but The Duke . —I think we may now adjourn ? our The next M meeting . Sec . — ? What date does your Royal Highness fix for The A . G . —This day three weeks 1 The Duke . —No , this day three months . Exeunt Ontnes .

      Questionable Inquisitions.

      QUESTIONABLE INQUISITIONS .

      Railway Colonel Accident Rich , Has And ...

      Railway Colonel Accident Rich , has and just in it issued he declares his report that on he the believes Abergel the e London and North Western Railway Company ' s line to be one of the best regulated in the country , and that he considers its line arrangement ; but as he as also good shows as , if not that better the " than excellent , those arrangements of any other " of which he speaks were entirely the cause of last year ' s catasthe trop object he , it is of difficult Colonel to Rich arrive ' s report at any . definite conclusion as to way Reall companies y , this persisten by highly t justification -placed official of the s is proceedings becoming of past rail a - joke . We are told that the railway interest is the strongest influence in the House of Commbns , but that can . be no reason that an independent officer should permit his judgment to be discharge warped by of any the consideration duties imposed s other upon than him those . If of Colonel an equitable Rich vows allegiance to the railway companies , and gives them , his horrible support in disasters those lax , the arrangements sooner he app which lies for have the led secretaryship to so many of evidentl half-a-dozen mistaken of his the vocation principal and lines has the become better , unsuited for he has for the duties y he is now called upon , to discharge .

      " Where And Oh Where ? »

      " WHERE AND OH WHERE ? »

      Again Now On That The The Tapis Question...

      again Now on that the the tapis question , and the of rival the site localities of the of new Chancery law courts lane and is to the be Thames wondered Emb at ankment that other are * battling suggestions for possession should be it broug is not ht forward ing propositions . We hear have , therefore been embodied , with no in surprise bills which that will the shortly followbe introduced into the House of Commons : — Site No . i . —The vacant plot of ground at South Kensington on which the Great Exhibition of 1862 formerly stood . Suggested by Mr . Cole , C . B . Billintroducedby Lord Stanley . Site Theatre No . 2 . — wh The ich s has pot recently now occup been ied rebuilt by , Her but which Majesty by ' s arrangement , is not to , be utilisedfor operatic performances . Suggested by Messrs . Gye and Mapleson . Bill introduced by Colonel Brownlow Knox . Site No . 3 . —The enclosure of Grosvenor Squaire . Suggested by the Marquis of Wesminster . Bill introduced by Captain Grosvenor . Site Catholic No . 3 . — Cathedral The ground and Bethlehem on which Hosp St . ital George now ' s stand Roman . Suited Btll introduced by ) I M WHALLEY . re W ard e in fear the tha res as ective opinions merits of t evidently he several loca much lities a divided lre ady gg p proposed time must as necessarily suitable for elapse the erection before anything of the new can courts be done , some in the matter ; but as the estimated expense of the designs varies from that the a million public and will a be -half content to six to million let the s per settlement plan , we of dare the diffi say - culty rest until the Chancellor of the Exchequer is able to declare a surplus to the extent of the amount required .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 1, 1869, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_01051869/page/4/