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    • EMPTY "HEADS."
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      N6 The Tomahawk. [March 21, 1868.

      n 6 THE TOMAHAWK . [ March 21 , 1868 .

      Pity The Poor Agents!

      PITY THE POOR AGENTS !

      An Whether Appeal To Public Messrs Chari...

      an Whether appeal to public Messrs charity . Alston by , going Bidwell in , procession and Co . contemp through late the know streets . with They placards have addressed setting an forth appeal their ad wrongs misericordiam , we do not in the shape of an address to the House of Commons . They have , also converted Mr . Layard , who once gave strong evidence against the system of agencies . The arguments used to make

      cogent the Bull ones y of . Nineveh The agents change , viewing his opinion the proposed must have abolition been very of tion their . pleasant This is perquisites a proof of their with consternation guileless nature , demand . If the compensa practice - is to an ask abuse them of to the refund public some service of their , surely profits it would than be to more pay them just for The relinquishing question seems an improper to us source to be of a very gain . simple one . If it ¦ ¦ abroad really is that an advantage their salary 111 to should the consuls be received k ¦ and forei and gn payments ministers

      made 1 \\ ^^ M , ^^ ^ v ^ . for I , v ^ # them vw mr ^ A A ^^ b *» y their 1 ^ 0 . * t * ^^ m agents r ^^ A * ^^ A at ^— a *^ ^ t ^ charge ^^^ ^^ ^^ » v of ^^ m , w 1 " ^^^ per ^ mm ™*» cent r ^ J ^ . , «* - and ^ «»^ ^* ^^ of if such the office an agency is the cheapest is absolutel by y which necessary it can , and be the carried machinery out , by b all y means Government let us retai and n let the their agents just , gains only let be them considered be recognised as part of" the emoluments , of their position . heavil If , on y on the the other poorer hand members , this charge of the is di unnecessary plomatic service , and , presses surely

      vening free Government of ; any or should extra should make charge provide up , and the some loss without means to them any of pay by middleman ing a corresponding them direct inter- , thing increase that of within salary . the It walls certainl of a y government seems to us office a very certain indefensible clerks , hard who are twenty working are supposed times brethren better to receive in paid other than amp departments nineteen le salary out , , and should of twent who be y certainl allowed of their y amount to carry in on two a sort cases of half to - the recognized salary of trade a cabinet , the earnings minister of , which while the duties are ridiculously trivial .

      they To are sum not up ; if our the remarks former : let These Government agencies are provide necessary for them , or being Our op carried inion is on that , if a the banker latter would let perform them be all at the once offices abolished of an . thoug agent h quite he mig as ht effectuall not be able y and to exercise cheaply so as much a privat influence e agent as , the the agent official does interests in procuring , of his client the . advancement , and promoting persist One word in demanding to Messrs compensation . Alston , Bidwell , let , and them Co remember . —Before they that in some matters if Silence is golden , Speech is brazen .

      Empty "Heads."

      EMPTY " HEADS . "

      What An Infatuated Set Of Noodles Are Th...

      What an infatuated set of noodles are those { block f ) Heads of Colleges who have affixed their signatures to the Oxford Address to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1 The Right Reverend published Prelates , N as obl having e Lords si , gned & c , whose this " names large-hearted have alread " document y been ¦ may . ^ A ^ m * V ^ F J perhaps ^ w ^ t *^ ^™ l ^ v ^ " ^^^ V w *^ v ^^ have i ^ ^ r * - ~ ^ p w ^^^ been v ^ V ^^ v ^ r 1 ^ 4 ^ ^ influenced ^ ^ v ^ v ^ * w ^ r v ^^ v ^^ ^ w - ^* - ^^ r ^^ " ^^^ b w ^^ y m ir a ^ desire ^^ V ^> ^^^ ^^ tr ^ v ^ W ^^^ to ^^ ^^^ rescue ^^ ^ l ^ ' ^^^ ^^ r * ^>^ V ^^^ ^ from ^ ^^ ^^^ V > ^^ ^^

      destructive influences the souls of undergraduates yet unborn . they But what wish to could witness these the " process Heads" of have ploug been hing thinking transferred of ? from Do the rang victims les of their of " smalls respective , " " mods colleges , " and ? Instead " greats of " to encourag the quad ing - the crops development growing up to of their wild very oats , doors do they ? want Because to see if they bond reall Jide y have inclination to join in a haymaking after the manner of

      ^ fr ^^ V ^ V T ^ ¦ ^^ any V *^ F ^ V ^~ W ^^ ^* ^^ ^ V ^^ ^* ^ ^~ ^^^* ^^ ^ V ^^^ ^ ~* ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ m ^^ ^^ ^* ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ " ^*^^^ J ^^ ^* ^ W ^^^~ * ^^ ^ " ^* ^* ^ V ^ K ^*^^ F ^ v ^^ ^^^ *^ v ^ F ^^ ^ ^^^ ^ r ^ ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^* BV ^ B > ~^^ v *^ ^ Q ^ P ^^ the ancients , or to see how far Virgil's Georgics could be practhe tically right app way lied to to e the ffect fertilising their object of . " Can Wadham they , imagine " they are that going because they are in a perpetual staht quo that ¦ the world is not rolling on faster and faster every day ? A few years ago Oxford iV ^* ' ^ B ^^ . ^ B ' "" s lig ^^ V ^ H ^& ht * ^ " ^* was v * ^^ r ^^ ^^ V burning W ^^ Wf ^^ ^^ ^ B ^ ^* ^ P ^ H ^ h with ~ ~ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ¦ a ^^^* brilliancy *^^ ^^ ^ " ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ¦ ^ ^^ ^^ V equal ^^^ - ^^^ f ^ r ~^ m' ^^ to ^^ - ^ w that ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ rr of ~^^ v ^* r ^ a ^^^ r tal ^^ ^^ r ^ r ^ B -

      the low operation candle that was wanted successfully snuffing achieved ; the snuffing by the came advent at last of , His and Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . But the wick is growing the terribl Ab y olition long again of Snuffers , and this . For Address can it will be act expected like a th Decree at in the for present state of society any of the " Upper Ten " will care to

      What An Infatuated Set Of Noodles Are Th...

      be bored and bet waddled by the stupefying ponderosity of the present spectability catalogue did very of Professors well for our 1 All fathers this , but quiet we humdrum want some re- - we thing venture more to in consider keeping with identical the sp with irit of the the " angelic age—a power spirit " whom who caused the Ancient Mariner ' s vessel " to drive northward faster than Prince human Albert life Victor could would endure ever . " For be sent instance to encounter , is it likel the y slow that

      stagnant influences that are at present fixed halos round each Addresses but professional though will ug chair ly avert , it ? threatens the Oxford inevitable to has be no very blow doub real . t Radical had , and an no ug changes amount ly vision will of ; The come , most and these inveterat " Heads e teetotallers " had better will swallow submit with an infinity a good of grace the . tals strongest of the brand pillars y and of the water University medicinall accord y . Let a tranquil , then , these advent cap to isome such scheme as the following : —

      UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD . Notice Hebdomadal is hereby Council given , that will on elect the Professors ist of April , Official next s the , & c new . in the following Departments : — DEPARTMENT . CANDIDATES . Pub Pnhiir lic Orator Orifor \ Ednmnd . Beales , M . A ., Esq . Q RWhalleVj EsqMp

      ^ ^ Keeper of the Archives j f &* £ - ~ ^ Rev . A . H . Mackonochie . Regius Professor of Divinity Reverend Bishop of C Carlisle . Spiu' . geon . Archbishop Manning . S . G . O .

      Regius Professor of Medicine < ( ( Mr Dr Professor . . B Knaggs urrows Hollo , . of way St . . Pancras . Regius Professor of Hebrew < ( C Mr Mr Baro . . © Moses n israeli Rothschild , of . Holborn . . ( Archdeacon Wordsworth . Regius Professor of Greek < ( Mr T he . Exe Denman cutors , P of iccadill ex-King y . Otho . . Rev . Wm . Rogers , of

      Billings-Margaret Professor of Divinity < \ Rev gate . Morley . Punshon . ^ I Mr King . Hep Theodore worth . Dixon . Professor of Music , with Offices of ) \ ( Mr Arthur . Wallerstein Lloyd , Esq . . Choragus and Precentor ) 1 ( Dr Claribel . Covfe . . Professor of Poetry 3 ) ) ( Mr gj Martin r Robert Bradshaw F . Tupp Walt er er , Carden D . C . L . .

      . . ( Mr . Mortimer Collins . We regret that want of space forbids us from inserting the whole to the list candidates . We can as onl a whole y say , that they if had any better of the be " Heads taken " at object once on " a voyage to Laputa . " Their poor twaddling old " occiputs few not " can sprightl there y be atoms convenientl intermixed y and with safel the y frozen sawn curds open , which and a do duty for brains in the " Heads of Oxford .

      Military Reform.

      MILITARY REFORM .

      Double One Government Would Have Thought...

      double One government would have thought of the army that mi the ght important perhaps be question shelved of over the this session . But the Government—that is to say the authorities at the War Office—would seem to be anxious to raise the questionat once , judging from the manner in which the Estimates ¦ just » - ^ m ~ ^ lai - ™ 1 '"^ ' ^ ™ " d ^ ' ^ ¦ before ~^ - " — ^ " — — ' " ^^ Parliament — ^ - ¦ " ^ —^~ " » ^ " ^ - ^ —¦ ^ — blazon ' ™ " —* —^ - ~ - " ^^ ~^" r ^ " - ^ forth - ™ - ^^ ^** ^ m ^ m ^ m the ^ ^™ . ^^ v ^ 7 w ^ nilitary w ^ ^ r 1 F ^ F ^^ r * W ™ status ^ ^ F **^ ^ P ^ f ^ ^^ F of ^^ ^*

      so It many appears of the by official the Estimates s at the civil taken department in connection in Pall with Mall . the A Under rmy Li Secretary st , published -of-State "b is y authority a , Lieutenant , " that -Gener the al Permanent the Controller Parliamentary -in-Chief is Under a Major Secretary -General , is as a is also Colonel his , assistant the , Military , the Assiri Assistant ant Under a Colonel Secretary , the - Comp of-State iler a of Retire Statistics d Captain a Major besi d the es ,

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 21, 1868, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_21031868/page/4/