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244 THE TOMAHA WK. [November 27, 1869.
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TOMAHAWK ALMANACK \ FOR 1870. PRICE THRE...
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The following notice has been posted up ...
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Some people say that the Lord Mayor gene...
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The Government seem to be of opinion tha...
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Already a cry of distress is rising from...
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Not a week passes without some case of j...
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Probably all M. Rochefort's admirers hav...
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We fully expected to hear that St. Pancr...
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Why cannot the Times, that usually manag...
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Queen The (and only more Sov of ereign h...
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244 The Tomaha Wk. [November 27, 1869.
244 THE TOMAHA WK . [ November 27 , 1869 .
Tomahawk Almanack \ For 1870. Price Thre...
TOMAHAWK ALMANACK \ FOR 1870 . PRICE THREEPENCE . SHORTLY .
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The Following Notice Has Been Posted Up ...
The following notice has been posted up in the office of the Treasury , Downing street . " To Government Contractors , and others . —All jobs must be completed before Christmas . "
We Hasten To Contradict The Report That ...
We hasten to contradict the report that Mr . Gladstone intends transferring the Bishop of Bond Street to the See of Oxford , in the room of the Right Rev . Dr . Mackarness { who could not be found ) . This is a silly fiction .
Some People Say That The Lord Mayor Gene...
Some people say that the Lord Mayor generally loses , pecuniarily at least , by his Mayoralty . Sir James Clark Lawrence , Bart ., cannot say that this is his case , for he has made a haxo-net profit .
The Government Seem To Be Of Opinion Tha...
The Government seem to be of opinion that " out of corruption springs incorruption . " At least , we can account on no other grounds for the appointment of Messrs . Fenwick and Schneider , both convicted by Parliament of gross bribery and of debauching and corrupting a constituency , to the commission of the peace for the county of Northumberland .
Already A Cry Of Distress Is Rising From...
Already a cry of distress is rising from far and near at Mr . Lowe ' s infamous Budget . We invite all persons who earn their income by precarious labour to refuse to pay any Income-tax . They cannot be assessed , except on their own statement ; and let them have the courage to maintain a dignified silence in the presence of the robbers whom the Chancellor of the Exchequer may send to try and pick their pockets . When all the humbugs of this Government begin to be found out , we prophesy that the Right Honourable Robert Lowe will occupy a prominent position in that interesting collection .
Not A Week Passes Without Some Case Of J...
Not a week passes without some case of juvenile depravity , undoubtedly caused by reading the mischievous literature sold to boys , for a halfpenny , in the form of a weekly paper . Surely , if there is a censorship of the drama there might be some restrictive power over periodical literature . We do not think that the Government ought to have the power of preventing any person establishing a newspaper ; but on an affidavit that the contents of any publication were injurious to public morality , an inquiry might be held by a magistrate , and , if the offence was proved , a fine might be inflicted sufficiently heavy to make the repetition of the offence too expensive a luxury for anyone to indulge in .
Probably All M. Rochefort's Admirers Hav...
Probably all M . Rochefort ' s admirers have read his neat little speech about his own domestic concerns , and congratulated themselves on the fact that , as a man and a father , he has had the zeal and earnestness to announce to the world that ; he has a child of eight years old who has never been baptized , and who
Probably All M. Rochefort's Admirers Hav...
never , as far as he can help it , shall be . Apart from the utter vulgarity of the revelation , we should like to know what an average of a man who nglishman makes , this of sort even of advanced manifesto reli to gious his political views , thinks supporters . We do not hesitate to say that to English ears , at present , it has a disgusting sound . We may go to some lengths in this country , but we have not yet got to respect the candidate for Parliament who looks on rank irreligion as his trump card . The time may come when a member may find it expedient on the hustings to assure his party that his family have been hitherto , and shall continue to be , reared without any knowledge of God ; but it has not come yet . We respectfully invite the attention of the Birmingham educationalists to the subject . It is a highly interesting , if not very cheerful one .
We Fully Expected To Hear That St. Pancr...
We fully expected to hear that St . Pancras Workhouse and Infirmary were models of ventilation , cleanliness , and comfort . It is always so . People can very easily be found to go through such a place for a few minutes and declare that they neither see nor smell anything disagreeable . If they would only try twentyfour hours in it , their evidence would be of some importance . We confess , however , that we are very much disappointed to find the Vicar of St . Pancras supporting the Guardians through thick and thin . This estimable but obtuse gentleman marshalled a small band of ecstatic optimists through the Infirmary wards , and headed the list of names appended to the laudation of the establishment , which appeared in the papers the next day . On Thursday last the Vicar writes a letter to the Standard , in which he describes the Infirmary as a sort of Heaven on earth , u where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest ; " he is of opinion that as a luxurious retreat for the aged pauper St . Pancras Workhouse Infirmary is unequalled . Are the clergy always to be on the side of ignorant obstructiveness and dogged obstinacy ? One thing in the letter of this worthy defender of Guardians we fully believe , —viz ., that the homes of many of the poor are worse than the Infirmary , which now literally stinks in the nostrils of the public .
Why Cannot The Times, That Usually Manag...
Why cannot the Times , that usually manages to supply its readers with the best information on all subjects , secure the services of some really reliable and intelligent writer for the purpose of dealing with the subject of the approaching Council at Rome ? It is scarcely fair to the public , who are willing to pay threepence for good information , to treat them , to the mere claptrap and schoolboy logic that falls , as a matter of course , from the pen of a third-rate man , like Dr . Cumming , for instance . The letter of his that appeared the other day , save as a bitter blow at his own little party , had no right to monopolize the important space vouchsafed to it in a first-class journal . At a season when all men who think at all are deeply interested in the profound and subtle questions at issue between the two great philosophical armies now ranged against each other , it is rather too bad to thrust forward the mere platform twaddle that twenty years ago alternately delighted and paralysed old women at tea meetings . Great minds are arrayed on both sides , and the music of the controversy , if terrible , is still grand . In these days of learned Reviews and thoughtful disquisitions , it is monstrous that an intellectual medium , such as the Times boasts itself to be , should content itself with the squeak of a penny tin trumpet . Why does not the Times take a lesson from that capital weekly sheet , the Spectator ?
Queen The (And Only More Sov Of Ereign H...
Queen The ( and only more Sov of ereign her ) . Remedy for Distress . —The
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Nov. 27, 1869, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_27111869/page/4/
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