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    • TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
    • MILITARY REFORM.
    • A VERY BOLD DRAGOON !
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      The Re-Action Has Come At Last Over The ...

      have and there occurred , at the which Gymna one se , recalls or the with Franqai leasure s , occasional nearlall pieces the houses have resorted to spectacle to fill p their seats , . y We do not doubt for one instant that nausea has at last taken hold of literary Paris ; but they will not like to own on the Boulevards that they have brought the disease on themselves .

      And yet it is so . There is a lack of delicacy , with all their grace and gallantry , about French men—and French women on too unchecked , we are sorry , degenerates to say , which into vice , allowed . Wh like y are all young faults , French to run girls kept so rigidly in leading strings by their mothers ? Because there is a licence in society—a liberty to indulge in scanonl dalous y corrupt conversati the on mora —a le looseness of a girl , in alread fact , of y by mc the eurs atmosp , which here can she has been bred in only too apt to , understand half-way . Why , Messieurs , when a novel like Fan ? iy or the Affaire Clemenceau appears , instead of manfully and honestly , for the

      there sake of onl wive too s and evident daughters set , hissing aside the aloud adverse at the criticism coarse blots and say , such y and such passages , you are cleverare full of wit or humour , or graceful sentiment , let us cover , one eye while we admire with the other , and so encourage the festering sore to finds spread a . reflection And it does on our , and own has shores spread . The , and stage - we regret has seen to say this , , last year or so such liberties of undress as would have made our mothers blush . Our novels are tainted with the adulterous plague , and wanton vice holds her head up where five years ago for the she beam crept in about our concealed eye has been . Let getting us clean very our heavy own of doorstep late . s ,

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      Technical Education.

      TECHNICAL EDUCATION .

      We Are Happy To Be Able To Announce That...

      We are happy to be able to announce that the Government ever anxious to carry out Administrative Reforms of any and every character , have determined to establish at once , a comthe prehensive following and Minute extensive which scheme has been of made technical by the education Lords of , and the Committee of Council on Education , will enable our readers to appreciate the advantages to arise from the new system .

      My Lords consider the subject of trade instruction with a view to extend and improve it . 1 . They refer to all consumers , customers , and generally to everybody also refer who to has , th to e Christmas do with any bills tradesman which are whatever flowing , in they at this period of the year . 2 . My Lords perceive that there is the greatest difficulty in getting anybody to make a decent pair of boots , a respectthf abl y riKtnm cut coat , or spnHinp a hat with in bills any nncl character rallinp in for it navm ; and that is

      on the increase . 3 . In order to assist the classes interested , my Lords resolve to aid individual efforts by founding schools for their instruction in trade and proper principles . 4 . My Lords propose so to instruct the young men of the country that the next generation of shop-keepers shall be at least an endurable class of creatures . 5 . In the schools to be established , the tailor will be taught the aesthetics of cutting and showing—the hatter elevated to the crowning principles of his art—the bootmaker carried beyond his last—and all trade taught upon the improved principles which have enabled foreign nations to persuade the jurors at the Paris Exhibition that they are better workmen than we are . 6 . The tradesman or master will also be instructed in his

      business , and be shown that it is his duty and privilege to supply goods of the best description , on the worst chance of payment , and he will be taught to avoid the error of judgment now so generally deplored , which leads to the demand for cheques on account , or other payments , subversive of those principles of mutual confidence which should exist " between all classes . 7 . The cus tom ience of a and ll it s offici Department als to an will of the mak s e tuden a grant ts who of ma the y y

      distinguish themselves by passing a satisfactory examination to be conducted by a joint committee of men about town and creditors . 8 . Transmit a copy to the Treasury , and request sanction to provide in the estimate for payment of the increased debts likely to be incurred under this Minute .

      Military Reform.

      MILITARY REFORM .

      There Is Little Doubt But That The Subje...

      There is little doubt but that the subject of Military Reform must attract considerable interest in the coming session , even though the last months of the expiring Parliament will doubtless be mainly devoted by the members to preparing characters for themselves for use on the hustings already looming in the near future . Doubtless also Financial Reform will be loudly

      paraded by Ministers as the best card left them now that the pack is so nearly played out . But it is not difficult to see that the union of Army Reform and Financial Reform or Retrenchment will not be an easy one , or wholly unattended with the usual incompatibility of such forced unions . The great question of Army Reform—the abolition of the purchase system—must await a new Parliament . It is a matter too vast in all its bearings to be grappled with by an expiring House . That and its sister question of Tl / Ml r \ l ^^ i ^ rttrilvntYl £ ^ vr * + ¦ U * ai <* I * * -i * -fc-t ^ k « - \ 4- * - » ¦*•¦» y 4 mi - l- \ vaii n * hi 4 mu -T- * A \ A 7 o i- A ^ inirfni '

      uuuuig vjwv ^ iuim-iii . x i . iaiiiciii . ai y uugu vnu i > iiiiioi ^ i j and prerogative through the Commander-in-Chief , must " bide a wee . " Other military questions , secondary indeed to these very large ones , but of a good deal of importance in themselves , will , however , engage the attention of the House during" the session of this year . These are points relating directly to the administration of the Army ; and first of all there must be ranged the question of the enormous machine , the unwieldy and overgrown machine , in Pall Mall . The organisation of the War Office itself really calls for immediate attention . The steps recently

      taken to infuse new blood into the decrepit body tends rather to aggravate the disease—plethora—from which that body already suffers , unless some substantial reductions are made , and that in time for this year's estimates , the enormous cost of the War Office will form a very uncomfortable item of hustings declamation and hustings pledges . It is well known that the officials in Pall Mall are so numerous , that literally it is impossible for them to move without treading on each others' toes , and the confusion which so many persons capable of forming a sound judgment on the matter predict as inevitable in case of a war breaking out , is

      mainly the result ol tne overcrowded condition or trie Upper Appointments in the War Office . Nor is it possible to avoid the the hi conclusion ghest posts , that in Pall with Mall so , many it cannot Major be -Generals very necessary filling all to have as many more Major-Generals a few hundred yards off to be controlled by them . When the fight—the great battle of Double Government—does come on , as come it will some fine day , the Military Chiefs at the Horse Guards , who now so greatly rejoice that the Military element has got so firm a footing in the Civil Departments at Pall Mall , may then find that the country thinks that two military bodies are not absolutely necessary in one system of administration , and may desire to dispense with the staff at the Horse Guards altogether .

      A Very Bold Dragoon !

      A VERY BOLD DRAGOON !

      Private O'Bean Of The Royal Irish Fusili...

      Private O'Bean of the Royal Irish Fusiliers gets taken down to " the Dashing Dragoon" in the slums adjoining the Rotbury himself Barracks b , y and all after the degrading imbibing means the lowest at the of disposition gin , and exciting of the " some Dashing silly sli Dragoon ght on " her and Majesty his landlord whose , shilling is caug and ht blustering uniform have out forced him from the plough . He is immediately seized , put under arresttried for treason-felony , and condemned to at least two years' , imprisonment . Hector O'Sullivan of the " Four-leaved are Shamrock respectable , " or Miles literary Blathevan men—editors , Esq ., of of the organs '' Fenian of some Fire- power eater , " . and They generall are allowed y foam to at insult the the mouth Queen on , rave the at top the ic Government of England , , doing all in their blood-shot frenzy to suggest evil of every kind divinity , to the which unhappy hedges rebels an Irish who support rebel editor them , . and What in what is the is Private O'Bean more culpable i We should like a prompt answer to arrive through the Government .

      A Pretty Puff For A Pretty Thing.—Why Is...

      A Pretty Puff for a Pretty Thing . —Why is the First Volume of the Tomahawk like Tennyson ? Because 'tis bound to a-muse .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 18, 1868, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_18011868/page/3/