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    THE TOMAHAWK: A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATI...

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    No. 76.] LONDON, OCTOBER 17, 1868. [Pric...

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    THE PETTICOAT PARLIAMENT.

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    Letter No. 2. miss leonora loring, m.p.,...

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    The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

    THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

    No. 76.] London, October 17, 1868. [Pric...

    No . 76 . ] LONDON , OCTOBER 17 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

    The Petticoat Parliament.

    THE PETTICOAT PARLIAMENT .

    Letter No. 2. Miss Leonora Loring, M.P.,...

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    how my darling I can smile old monitress now , when , you Ruin see I ( in am deep as giddy mourning as ever ) seems , though to , / sit brooding 't know , . We women gigantic are camp wonderful stool , ov creatures er this — devoted but I know land , the you but want tinged me to with get a on mocking , and so g I lory must which —thoug fades h my as it retro mixes spect with is beam cloud lowering of the present over the , and future leaves of our but devoted an amber and -coloured noble sex storm . - is one g do igantic I say chaos that hateful , stirred , word but occasionall 1 I do not y know by th — e my omni mind

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    paper , able Singleto bachelors n would at prese ve for nt residing " a return or of domiciled the number in Great of marriage Britain - and Ireland ; and also for a similar return of the number of wick marriageable ed practice spinsters of celibacy or widows which , with had a attained view to aboli to su s hin r that ave dimensions as to threaten the prosperity of the country . " This

    motion I never was vehemently told that opposed our resolution by the to Government abolish the . distinc By the - tions part way , of the political male parties you members had of resulted the House in a , similar and that move the present on the posed Government as follows , or rather : — the then existing Government , was com-Urst Lord of the Treasury { in Cojnmission )— .

    Ri Riffht Ri ght ht Hon Hon Hon . . . W W B . . . Disraeli E E . . Gladstone Gladstone . .. Rig g ht Hon . J . Bradlaugh . Chancellor oj the Exchequer Ri { in ht Com Hon ? . nission G . Goschen )— . . Ri Ri g g ht ht Hon Hon . . J Sir . Roebuck Morton . Peto . g

    President of the Council . —Lord Commissioner Ker . Secretary of State for the War Ri Department ht Hon . J . Bri { in ht Commission . ) . — gg Ri Colonel ght Hon Fane . J . . Hardy . First Lord of the Admiralty ( in ht Commission Sir )— .

    Ri Rig ht Hon Hon . . Sir Edward George Bowye Head . r . Rig g ht Hon . T . Milner Gibson . President of the Board of Trade Right { Hon in Commission . Peter Tay ) lor — . . Ri Ri Bart g g ht ht Hon . Hon . . E Sir . Moses Henry and Edwards Son . ,

    amal There gamated ! that is quite fight enough the battle to show of men you against how all the parties superior have part Well of creation this motion . which I have mentioned met with a very r seve ude re opposition , whip we from succeeded the above in carry Happy ing Famil it . y This J However was our , by first a the victory factious ; and opposition flushed with and the sneering glow of triump criticisms h , and of irritated the other by creatures guiding , star we determined ( as Lord Lytton to take would a bold say ) step you . will Camilla I know , my

    d approve evoted We held to that a our determination meeting convenience in the . for Tea the Room occasion ( which ) , and was deter exclusivel , mined y , women at once to to propose bring in to a any Bill unmarried which should men enable of their all acquaintance unmarried jected ment who paid to on , som any inco e other me other tax ground unmarried , and than that " that woman if the of an said that impending proposal the male were engage re - - ¦ rejecting ¦ M . «¦> ^^^^ VJk ** fcK the »•* . » ^^ proposal » rf * ta ^^ Y ^ % ^ k # xv » « should ^ • ^» «>•«>«¦» forfeit < m > «^ A •* ^« * w one ^** *• ^* - , hal — w «« f of -+-r » his — — — . v inco — — — v - — person - me — — — — to — —

    the fort , proposer as she , should to be emp think loyed fit . " by This her for Bill her was sole opposed use and in com the - so most low virulent as to way rule at several every points step , and of order the Speaker against even us j stooped but we triumphed our supporte at r last s , w , and had spite hitherto of the secretl cruel desertion y , or openl of y , many counte of - nanced our efforts at self-assertion , we obtained a majority so decisi Mr . v Low e as e ' s sp co eech mpel on the this Ministry occasion to resi I shall gn . never forget , and harp we will ies who never , swo forgive oping do : w he n on compared the humble us fare to " the the crowd Trojan of

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 17, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_17101868/page/1/