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    • COURT AND FASHION.
    • OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
    • THE SCHOOLMASTER AMONG THE CABMEN. NO. I.
    • PORTER versus SUPPORTERS.
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      May 2c-, 1867.] The Tomahawk. 29

      May 2 c-, 1867 . ] THE TOMAHAWK . 29

      Court And Fashion.

      COURT AND FASHION .

      Osborne, May 22. The Queen, Accompanied ...

      Osborne , May 22 . The Queen , accompanied by Princess Louise , drove out yesterday His Royal . Highness Prince Leopold , attended by Colonel Ponsonby , spent the morning in digging on the sands . Mortimer Mortimer Mr . Legg Sackville Sackville , Major West West General , were were Sir also also T . in in M . attendance attendance Biddulph , on on the horse norse Hon -- .

      back . , Marlborougk House , May 22 . The Her infant Royal Princess Highness in the the Princess course of of the Wales morning progresses , cut a slowly tooth . . Gen . Sir W . Knoilys , and Major Teesdale were in attendance on On horseback Tuesday . evening , the Prince honoured the Alhambra Sir

      Palace Knollys , and Leicester Major square Teesdale , with weru his again presence in attendance . Gen . on horse W - . Gen l )? i Ori clc . Sir Wednesday W . Knollys His , Royal the King Highness of Greece received , and a the visit Hanlon from Brothers On Wednesday . the Prince rode out , visited the Hanlon versed VCx Brothers bCU LllCCi cheerfull and lUll the with vriwil King the iuu of latter xaLLUi Greece for m . \ ji . some His **** - few * Royal w » »• minutes «« , «•• Hi « . «~* g hness -. cony y yv hness

      suite by Hon ' On His . honoured Wednesday H Royal . Byng Hi , the g Maj evening hness or Teesdale the , His Duke Hall Royal , Gen of of Cambridge Hig . Fine Sir Arts W . , Knoll , accompanied Westminster Colonel ys , and the Canterbury , bridge , road , with his presence . Windsor , Wednesday . morning Maj His or Royal Teesdale . His Hig Royal and hness Gen Hi Prince . g Sir hness W Arthu . was Knoll r , as sli ys pped usual , both , off accompanied on the horseback slopes this b . y

      Our Special Correspondent.

      OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT .

      Janus Respiciens (From The Times)'. Bold...

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      about It is a , 160 rich 000 country at the and last fairl census y cultivated . There . were The 23 population large towns was 261 market , townsand 826 small villages or hamlets . The in- , habitants idoms . They speak are a , very excessivel pure French y morose , slightl in y tainted their dispositions with Dutch . There cathedrals sheep , 6 are , 201 within the lamb princi s , the and pal province 5 , at 641 Rouen goats 3 , 200 . or The kids bullocks . chief There product or are oxen also * , of 4 > four the 459 920 country 000 vines is , wine producing . There annuall are 324 on w different »« the —— average —— vineyards 10 7— 082 , growing 7 000000

      thoug grapes \ J £ i \ , , J + \ h . ^\ perhap V ^ ** The J . Vrf « Jj , wine s * - a » little ¦* is >¦* »** a yellowish resembling »*••••*••— . — y white port — — wine — . It , not O contains unlike ,, a sherry large , , proportion ported . The of sum sugar received . The Last women year for wine wear there annually their were hair 280 by , 462 the long ^ country butts ex is - £ 86 ^ 923 1 8 s . 4 ^ d . in plaits . , a The species men are of cake much made addicted of potatoes to smoking , flavou . They red with live leeks chiefly and on raisins A Ulwlitwi . that the

      Louis You Phili will learn is with dead great . The surprise empire and may sorrow now be regarded King as , in some sort ppe established , in France . I have not had time yet to who gather now any sits particulars on the throne relating of the to Bourbons the distinguished but I shal individual l forward you Monsieur some brief Thiers biograp it is hy said of him will at shortl the earliest be , a opportunity candidate for . a are seat also in the likel Corps y to join , Legislatif the ranks . , M of . the Jules Opposition Favre y and . M . Berryer year There in Paris is a . report I am that not prepared there is to to state be a Great whether Exhibition the report this is founded on fact or not .

      Janus Respiciens (From The Times)'. Bold...

      I Best ht beetroot to mention sugar that is there now 3 are francs 100 centimes ^ 20 centimes in a franc the pound . . oug P . S . —I open my letter to say that it is quite true that there is an Exhibition in Paris this year .

      The Schoolmaster Among The Cabmen. No. I.

      THE SCHOOLMASTER AMONG THE CABMEN . NO . I .

      The Attention Of The Government Having B...

      The attention of the Government having been drawn of late tions quently to the having condition displayed been of by the made that London as individual to cabmen the lamentabl as , to —and the many exact e ignorance situation representa fre of - - all many cabmen localities shall in henceforward the Metropolis receive . It their has been appointment determined directl that y from examination Government before , and the Civil shall Service previously Commissioners undergo a . competitive We have say proposed been that favoured they to be are by set distinguished these at learned the first torturers by examination that eminentl with . some We y practical of need the papers hardl , and y ,

      unpedantic unnpHantic sp snirit irit which which has has always alwavs animated animated the the Commissioners Commissioners and their employes . Ou Cosmogonical Geology and Universal History . 1 . Illustrate process by in pre means -Adamite of a synthetical Man , and compare parallax carefully the digestive and 2 . Extract criticall the y ovi the parous CEsophag process i of Prediluvian of a silicious Marsupalia Pterodacty . le . 3 . Calculate of the friction as nearly produced as possible by the the effect annual on the migration earth ' s surface of the

      Termitic Ants . 4 . Deduce the probable from a comparison amount of brass of Mediaeval possessed with by the Tubal Black Cain Art . , 5 . How Ark many supposing times did him the , at Moose the time -Deer of his shed entering his horns it , to in have the had , none at all ? 6 Extract the truth from the Blue Lias strata

      . . 7 . The the exact Philistines age of the was ass with twelve whose jaw- seven bone Samson months smote two weeksand fou , r Jewish days years . How , old would he , have been if , he had been a mule ? 8 . Trace the probable results to the whole of mediaeval Europe : —

      ( { 6 a ) ) If If he Romulus had died had of died the whoop of the ing measles -cough at . an early age . 9 . Give Xerxes' hotel account during his invasion of Greece . 10 . Assign approximate dates to the following events : — (&) ( a ) The Cain ' earliest s wedding fact breakfast in Chinese . history . ( ( d c ) ) The The apotheosis incursus of of the Rameses first flea the . First .

      ( e ) The discovery of the native oyster . 11 . Relate any story you may remember . fession important This is elevated a facts step , the in his the London own right bosom direction cabman swelling will . Having not with only mastered honest feel his pride these pro- , gence while , his like very a jewelled badge , g order litters of with merit the , but rays he of will conscious feel that to intelli find - his way from St . Paul ' s to Piccadilly is now , indeed , a simple and easy problem .

      Porter Versus Supporters.

      PORTER versus SUPPORTERS .

      Consented By Ing Is The Of There Sale A ...

      consented by ing Is the of there sale a to paragrap anything of allow bottled the h dishonourable stout which munificent ? announces If there restorer in the is not acquisition that of , what Dublin Her is Majesty of the Cathedra a fortune mean has l - hitherto " to bear restricted supporters to to the his peerage arms . " . " This The , it day appears s when , is " cabs a * honour sport real coronets gentlemen , and Lord have Mayor to do ' s titles with go tinsel from of sire this to sort son the , the better less . The worthiest " supporters " of the name of " Guinness " are the gothic chapter shafts Of course of Dublin the , — mistaken and they will liment be to is the paid end to of the the

      public benefactor . , —not to the brewer comp . As to the claim of the by latter one to who " supporters has quartered for his with arm the s , " Kings it would all scarcely over the be country urged . Howeverthe above paragraph is a fact , and shows that we , or some of us , , are still excellent snobs to the core .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 25, 1867, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25051867/page/3/