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    23 8 THE TOMAHAWK. IJtme 18, 1870.

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    Now ready, price 7 s. 6d., VOL. III. OF ...

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    LONDON, JUNE 18, 1870.

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    THE WEEK.

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    It seems that since the commencement of ...

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    If crime and disaster are good for the n...

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    The West End water carts need something ...

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    OUT OF TRAINING.

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    We must indeed be a physically degenerat...

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    AN" OFFICIAL REGENERATION:

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    The new scheme for regulating admissions...

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    Of course, the Civil Service Commissione...

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    23 8 The Tomahawk. Ijtme 18, 1870.

    23 8 THE TOMAHAWK . IJtme 18 , 1870 .

    Now Ready, Price 7 S. 6d., Vol. Iii. Of ...

    Now ready , price 7 s . 6 d ., VOL . III . OF BRITANNIA , Edited by Arthur a'Beckett , Illustrated in Colours by Matt Morgan .

    VOL . V ., price % s ., of THE TOMAHAWK , Edited by Arthur a'Beckett ; Illustrated by Matt Morgan . Office : 199 Strand .

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    London, June 18, 1870.

    LONDON , JUNE 18 , 1870 .

    The Week.

    THE WEEK .

    It Seems That Since The Commencement Of ...

    It seems that since the commencement of the session , which \ is now getting on for five months old , fourteen Acts of Parliament have been made . This is at the rate of about one in every twelve days , which , with an average of an eight hours' debate , gives close on a hundred hours' talk to each Act of Parliament . The talk this session has not only been tall , but long .

    If Crime And Disaster Are Good For The N...

    If crime and disaster are good for the newspapers , our contemporaries must have been driving a roaring traffic for the last ten days . What with horrible murders , hideous trials , and wholesale losses of life , space has been at a premium . No wonder that we have not heard the complaint lately that there is " nothing in the papers . " Even the monster gooseberry crop has failed .

    The West End Water Carts Need Something ...

    The West End water carts need something more than vestrymen and parish beadles to look after them . During" the recent dry and dusty weather , instead of proceeding upon a fixed principle , they seem to have utterly neglected their mission . Although ! late at night , and early in the morning , when the streets have been comparatively empty they may have been seen about , at middav . when the traffic has been at its height , and the dust at

    its worst , they have been nowhere to be found . That twelve o ' clock is the dinner hour , and that in this hot weather a siesta after the substantial meal is by no means unpleasant , is probably the solution of their disappearance at the time they are most wanted ; but this would not happen . if it were that the water-cart men were put under the direction of the nolice

    authorities . It may be urged in objection that the policemen themselves are always conspicuous in their absence when they are most wanted ; but on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief the principle we advocate would no doubt be found to answer . We commend the point to the consideration of vestrymen in search of a grievance .

    Out Of Training.

    OUT OF TRAINING .

    We Must Indeed Be A Physically Degenerat...

    We must indeed be a physically degenerate race when such Standard advertisements , are found as the necessary following ;— , which we have culled from the WANTED , ONE or TWO MEN , with good address , to country push houses a , new on liberal PATENTED commission ARTICLE , samples , weig much h wanted three or in fou all r pounds . —Apply by letter , stating what references can be given , to not That to lift it should , but onl require y to push the united , an object strength weighing of a coup onl le y three of men or , four done . pounds The appointment , proves that of it a is Royal time that Commission something on . shoul Physical d be Strength , or the institution of a society for the supply of quinine and iron gratis to the multitude must soon become a necessity .

    An" Official Regeneration:

    AN" OFFICIAL REGENERATION :

    The New Scheme For Regulating Admissions...

    The new scheme for regulating admissions into the Civil Service has at length been published . As has been long since promised , all junior appointments in the Government offices are to yet be been thrown said about open to the public subjects competition in which candidates , but nothing are has to be as examined . As the new regime is not to come into force until August next , we suppose that sucking Civil Servants must bide ever their , will time be patientl of any y use . If to specimen them , the " following examination are papers very much , how at

    -IUC 11 SUVJLC . " Foreign Office . 2 1 . . Have Have you a a brother title , or in how the nearl Guards y are ? you related to a peer ? 3 . What you has been your average expenditure for the following articles ( 3 ) 4 pomade . Show during , how ( 4 ) g the love last s would ? five years t : an ( 1 ) invitation clothes , ( 2 to ) flowers dine at , Lord — ? you accep free 5 . translation Quote a passage . from La Grande Duchesse , and give a 6 . State ( 1 ) your private means , ( 2 ) the amount of your debts ,

    ( 3 ) your expectations . Somerset House . 1 . State the names of six families residing at Bayswater or Clapham . with whom you are on visiting terms . 2 . For whom did your father vote at the last election ? the 3 . words Have " you chaps ever , " " been chink to , " a a Grammar nd " bug . " School ? If so , define 4 . Give a short history of one of your pipes . 5 . Show how you would accept a bill , and state the difference between note , with the reference execution to of the that Treasurv document Minute and of of a 1 promissory 867 on the

    subject of the bankruptcy of Civil Servants of the Crown ? 6 . Are you in the habit of going to the Derby , and how ? Post Office . on 1 their . Wh books o are your ? Specif parents y Members ? If tradesmen of Parliament , whose names Heads are of Departments . and 2 . to Are undertake you prep not ared to to keep itate f wife r an increase family of on . £ 90 ? a year , 3 . Have you ever been ag a crossing-sweeperor pay fulfilled any nfh AY * nrteifiAn + r \ o + urAiiln WUU 1 U 41 "fi f- ivah \ J Wl 1 / VU * \*» 4 \ % 1 a / 4 i « 4 > iae > \ « , CV n ** 1 a ** 1 v * «** 4-tt ^

    WW-LXWJL . J ^ VSh ?* K . J . WJ . J . l ** AC 4 . b Jf IAW UUWlUiS JM , ViWllV XXX L 11 C Savings' Bank Department of the Post Office ? 4 . How would you borrow five shillings ? Look round the examination room , and try to do it . take 5 . Vance Will you or Ar promise thur Llo to yd be as particular your model in ? your dress , and to 6 . Can you remember if you ever went to school ? )

    Of Course, The Civil Service Commissione...

    Of course , the Civil Service Commissioners are already busily employed in making arrangements for the forthcoming examination . We understand that they are in treaty to obtain Mr . Spurgeon ' s Tabernacle or the Agricultural Hall as an examination room for the competitors for the first clerkship which is to be given away .

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), June 18, 1870, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_18061870/page/6/