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    • ON TRIAL.
    • BRITANNIA IN TROUBLE.
    • PRIZE RIDDLE.
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      Friend J Ohn, — Thou Must Often Have Ref...

      The love of liberty , friend , is a very noble passion ; but it should be coupled with a reverence for order , which thou hast not . Thou , wouldst do a great deal to keep thy country from war , but thou dost all thou can to plunge her into revolution . Thou choosest too a time to do this when Reform is not scouted and resisted by an overwhelming force , but when , on all sides , there is an earnest desire , and a hearty effort , to deal with all abuses as effectively and severely as possible . This is an ill time to inflame passions which spring from turbulence and disloyalty , not from a sense of injustice and oppression . Thou art too but a bad son to thy country , friend , if thou aidest violence and sedition in their efforts to turn Reform into Rebellion , and progress into ruin . I am , thy friend , but not admirer , Tomahawk .

      212 The Tomaha Wk. [May 15, 186 9.

      212 THE TOMAHA WK . [ May 15 , 186 9 .

      On Trial.

      ON TRIAL .

      A British House Of Commons. Appeared Alt...

      A British House of Commons . appeared Althoug to be h the the C om ntere mi s t attaching ioners met to at the aa pres earl en y hour t inq , uiry so gr that eat that to suffocati portion on of the ortl room y after set the apart opening for public of the use doors was . crammed member The first . " He witness said called : I have described been a member himself as of a the " thirty House years for some considerable time . I have had some experience of its mean the ways least . this It intell is to apply ec least tual to all d ebatin gnified its sittings g , societ most . y It collo in does qu Europe ial possess , and . I certainl men do not of y un the allude questionable stumb to its ling average , the talent stu character p and idity satisfactory with . The whic dreariness h it oratorical disposes , the capacity of monotony its ordi . I - , nary world Oxford work renowned Union baffle Society assembl description need . . not No The dread I have boys , a who not comp contributed talk arison politics with at much this the to the speaking power y of the , House . I have been returned throug I mean h b family famil interest interest these the last thirty to coerce years for and Bil cow gebprough a set of . men who y ought to y exercise their power vote freely , and give it according to the dictates of their conscience , into a cringing submisthat sion to is , local the views power . of I the do vast not really majority represent of its Bilgeboroug inhabitants h ; — I time represent whom I these do Lord talk peop Screwover about le are the the , who lories political owns of the the slaves best British . part Yes Constitution of , at it , election and of . g allude No , I to do them not believe on the in hustings them . in I the do not sam go e sense into Parliament in which I with tion any and patriotic an opportunity motive whatever of dipping . M my y sole hand objects into the are public posiit purse exalted pay for very in the well these benefit hitherto sentiments of myself . I confess . and If famil you there insist y . is Yes nothing on , I pressing have noble made the or question , I admit I am a cur . I am a very bad speaker . I kno flecting w nothing booby . of I p am olitics a dense .- I vote , pig- for headed my party shameless like an dummy unre- . I down am an . average M . P . The witness was here , ordered to stand

      at Jl the great chairman party leaaer he said was : I then have called been . a After Prime a Minister smile and . I a know sneer all successful about everything parliamentary , . I consider career to the be eloquence three great , impudence requisites , for and a greed never . uttered I have , a I flatter single myself word from , spoken my tolerably heart in in the my whole time . course I have of player my c regards areer . his I regard pieces . the He interests is willing of to the sacrifice nation them as a when chess - sacrificed ever necessary a considerable for the benefit number of his of own pieces " little in game prosecuting . ' I have my own . I do not care whether the nation goes to the dogs tomorrow I am actuated , provided by these I can practical fill my own considerations pockets . I have over shown and over that pede again , . as I far have as they hounded can , on the the progress mongrels of who great follow national me to mea im - - hesitation sures . I have of those done in this power in the might hope give that me some an opportunity chance slip or of

      A British House Of Commons. Appeared Alt...

      kicking them out and grabbing the public money once more . A but tradesman a tradesman would is not scarcel a statesman y descend . No to I such am black not ashamed guardism of , it allude . My to friends me as mistrust an unprinci me , p and led mounteb they are , ank right , and . they My enemies are not far wrong . I am indifferent to both . I am indifferent because in deeds political with life fine , we words have . I a regret happy knack alsothat of g a lozing successful over knave filthy , has parliamentary always the life pull . of I can honest prove fools , what . , I Yes say , , knaves by referrin abound g you in to years at least . No two , the hundred British appointments nation has nothing made to within be proud the last of in ten its legislature able flunkeys . I . mean I consider by the British the House nation good , a great enoug mass h for of miser them - . While managed it exists assembl in its y , present in which condition the welfare , as an of irresponsible the nation is , b pros adly - tives tituted , I for shall the certainly purpose continue of filling to the be a pockets statesman of its . representadignation The witness , which here , however stood , down appeared , amid to a cause strong him outburst considerable of inamusement . —The Committee then adjourned .

      Britannia In Trouble.

      BRITANNIA IN TROUBLE .

      " H The Eigho More ! Ther My E Troubles ...

      " H The eighO more ! ther my e troubles are , the are mo indeed re they unceasing keep increasing ; . At Abroad home , , for I ' m me wor there ried ' s care my enoug next h door and ne labou ighbou r ; r , Whose One constan chron t ic harp grumblin ing on g in my r Er ear in ' s ding wrongs -dong . s Whate v I strive to do , ' tis plain to me T In vain more all I favour try the I more attempt she to won smother 't agree ; . I When ' m hissed sense by of one justice side , I hoote would d by fain the insp other ire , — . Municipal bellows fan the hidden fire—In Is fired vino with veritas ardour , when treasonable ev ' ry rogue brogue And To after muddled -dinner Munster glory , points hiccoug the hs way a H , urrah ! And Shall such Britain a dinner ' s name meet be with dragg no dessert led in the ? dirt , With Or shall the they time rave -serving unchecked cotton wool ? I stuff of fear my ? ear While Deaf to mobs all outrage unbitten , sit pull mumchance my lion ' s , tail and ? pale , I ' ve Hei tried gho the ! the opiat remed e of y the I seek Prince , where ' s visit is : it 1 But With North what , concession and Sonth , can results " I drow are n much the flame the same ? — On both sides insult- —threats from ev ' ry grade , — Patriots and wine , —or mobs * and Orange-aid I What medicine for this case is most expedient ? Delays Is Disestablishment are dangerous the : something sole ingredient I must ? settle : I Britannia 'll keep my is , c I ourse may : say although , on her some mettle say I , in spite , To I am work too in old earnest to growl I , must much now less be to turning bite— , And drop my fiddle whilst this Rome is burning . "

      Prize Riddle.

      PRIZE RIDDLE .

      Insertion The Following . We Shall Myste...

      insertion The following . We shall mysterious b « s happy paragrap to receive h has been solutions sent to in us our for next Ice : — for I sis !— -Harvard and Oxford Universities have agreed of the Isis upon lest the terms Yankee of a four rivals -oared bear race from . Look to all it the , ye glory sons your will send name four , gained really your . The best Harvard men . Let men us mean hope a you th strugg at O le xford . They will with do the her same choice , and . What let no we have favouritism said about or cli th queism is matter interfere of oars should be taken , as matter of course .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 15, 1869, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_15051869/page/4/