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118 THE TOMAHAWK. [March 26, 1870.
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Now ready, price ys. 6d.} VOL. II. OF B ...
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LONDON, MARCH 26, 1870.
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TJ7JS WEEK.
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Some one has suggested this week that fa...
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We hear that Sir Salar Jung, the Nizam's...
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Mr. Charles Dickens has retired from his...
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Mr. Odger, the working man's candidate, ...
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Mr. Leatham has been forcing the running...
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Alderman Cotton has been fining the keep...
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A certain sum of public money has been a...
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A cheap rate of postage for the conveyan...
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PARENTS AND GUA1UDIANS TO WIT.
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We do not know whether this year's Navy ...
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118 The Tomahawk. [March 26, 1870.
118 THE TOMAHAWK . [ March 26 , 1870 .
Now Ready, Price Ys. 6d.} Vol. Ii. Of B ...
Now ready , price ys . 6 d . } VOL . II . OF B R I T A N N 1 A , Edited by A . a'Beckett , Illustrated in Colours by Matt Morgan .
VOL . V ., price 8 s ., of THE T O M A H A W K , Edited by Arthur a'Beckett ; Illustrated bv Matt Morgan . Office : 199 Strand .
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London, March 26, 1870.
LONDON , MARCH 26 , 1870 .
Tj7js Week.
TJ 7 JS WEEK .
Some One Has Suggested This Week That Fa...
Some one has suggested this week that fashionable bankrupts \ should have the benefit of a jury when their cases are called on . I Surely this would be superfluous . Most fashionable bankrupts 1 go to a Jew-ry long before they get to Basinghall street .
We Hear That Sir Salar Jung, The Nizam's...
We hear that Sir Salar Jung , the Nizam ' s Minister , has arrived at Bombay , This gentleman is not Mr . Sala , the author of the tragedy of Wat Tyler . The report originated in the rumour that Mr . Sala was quite at sea when he wrote his last , burlesque ! _ ?
Mr. Charles Dickens Has Retired From His...
Mr . Charles Dickens has retired from his profession of " Publiq SSSiftertainer . " Reading before the footlights prevented our popular novelist from writing behind the library lamp . This retirement is the real explanation of the " Mystery of Edwin Drood . "
Mr. Odger, The Working Man's Candidate, ...
Mr . Odger , the working man ' s candidate , " who has . no work ( apparently ) to do , " has submitted to take his chance of standing for Bristol on the results of a ballot with the other Liberal candidates . We hope he will not get in . His style and language are scarcely suited to St . Stephen's . He would be all at sea at Westminster . If he answers that he is fond of the ocean let him add a " C " to his name and become a Codger .
Mr. Leatham Has Been Forcing The Running...
Mr . Leatham has been forcing the running of the Ballot Question . The Government were preparing a Bill upon the subject when the Hon . Member introduced his measure . Perhaps he thought the Ministers were too timid to handle the matter ; still , he ought to have respected them . If he considered them sheepish , he must have known they would consequently love the ba—lot ! ( Ballot ?)
Alderman Cotton Has Been Fining The Keep...
Alderman Cotton has been fining the keepers of a gambling house in Aldgate . It may strike some people that
Alderman Cotton Has Been Fining The Keep...
certain West End clubs should share a like fate . It may be urged that the punishment of the more aristocratic delinquents is equal , if not greater , than the City sinners . The East End is very properly fined , and the West End , if not fined , is refined . Won ' t that fact satisfy the grumblers ?
A Certain Sum Of Public Money Has Been A...
A certain sum of public money has been again voted in the Estimates to defray Prince Christian ' s expenses in his trips from Dover to Calais . We regret to learn that this popular German has such straitened means that he cannot actually pay his own railway fare ! With all due respect we might suggest that a
subscription could be got up to pay His Royal Highness ' s expenses to a more distant spot . We will willingly head the list with an ample donation if he will take a run over to Bath , or better still , to Jericho !
A Cheap Rate Of Postage For The Conveyan...
A cheap rate of postage for the conveyance of printed matter would , without doubt , be a great gain to the public , and if it cost the Post-office half a million , the money could well be spared . The Post-office contributes , we believe , about a million and a half to the revenue yearly , a figure which , in fact , represents a
tax levied on letter-writing . This should be reduced at once , and the country taxed indirectly in some other shape . On these merits alone the question rests . As to the clap-trap about the gain to knowledge by the greater spread of literature , one may dismiss that together with the nonsense of the same kind
talked some years ago when the paper-duty was being abolished . All that was spread by cheap paper was cheap literature , and that was vicious , and no doubt has done the country a good deal of harm . As the Police News may be regarded as the fruit of an abolished paper-duty , so may its provincial spread
be confidently looked upon as the result of a halfpenny stamp . And there are a good many worse things than the Police News . In a word , we would remind the Government that there is no great moral gain at stake in this postage question . It is merely a matter of public convenience , and Englishmen have , of course ,
a right to get their trashy literature reasonably delivered to them . If mere morality were the point at issue , we very much question whether a twopenny , rather than a halfpenny stamp , would not be the wiser amendment on the existing state of things .
Parents And Gua1udians To Wit.
PARENTS AND GUA 1 UDIANS TO WIT .
We Do Not Know Whether This Year's Navy ...
We do not know whether this year ' s Navy Estimates show the worth of a boy ' s life ; but if a Naval cadet has any monea tary considerable value , the Admiralty defect in this authorities account are b going their treatment the way to of create the invalids on board the Britannia at Plymouth y . Unfortunately , both small-pox and scarlet fever have broken out on the
training which -ship are , and terrible the combined bogies when spirits they of red get tape united and retrenchment , are working , hard to make the worst of the unhappy occurrence . For ininvalids stance , we in hear the most that unhealthy a house has and been crowded taken part for certain of the of town the , and that the Admiralty refuses to sanction the removal of the lads to open and healthy quarters on the score of expense .
bours Bad as and this we is for cannot the poor wonder cadets that , it the is still institution worse for of the a tempo neigh- - rary small , -pox hospital in a thickly populated quarter has crecondemnation ated a panic , a of salient Mr . Childers feature of and which his economy is a deep . This and gentle hearty - man events has , something had too must many have com turned pliments his pai head d him , or . he latel would y ; at not all count adage pence that time when is money life and , but death in this are in affair the time scale is . life It , is a truism an old the which precious we hope moments Mr . Childers have passed may , realize and he becomes act upon powerless before to avert a dreadful catastrophe .
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 26, 1870, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_26031870/page/4/
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