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    • THE WEEK.
    • A WAR WITHOUT A MEDDLE.
    • EVERY LITTLE MAKES A MICKLE.
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      92 The Tomaha Wk. {August 28, 1869.

      92 THE TOMAHA WK . { August 28 , 1869 .

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      London, August 28, 1869.

      LONDON , AUGUST 28 , 1869 .

      The Week.

      THE WEEK .

      The Poor Late Prince Consort! His Name H...

      The poor late Prince Consort ! His name has been hawked about in every conceivable fashion , and now an Insurance Office has played false with it ! "Well , why should not a commercial company cling to a'bad policy when greater institutions set the example ?

      A Fuss Has Been Made About Formosa's Imm...

      A FUSS has been made about Formosa ' s immorality . This is silly . The piece is very bad and very dull , but there ' s nothing in it to furnish food for even the most prurient-minded libertine to gloat over . You may take your grandmother to see it with perfect safety . It won ' t harm her morals , although it may send her to sleep .

      Why Has Dr. Cumming, Of All Men In The W...

      Why has Dr . Cumming , of all men in the world , rushed forward at the present moment as the champion of England in the forthcoming CEcumenical Council ? He does not even represent the National Church ; and Oxford certainly would not be proud of his classical attainments . His Latin letter was a very bald , schoolboy ' s effort . Many religious controversialists , through their lack of logic and mathematical reasoning , may fairly be said to draw up at the fions asinorumj Dr . Cumming , however , seems bent on a double feat . He cannot even get through the Latin Gate \

      Can'any One'guess What Place This Is ?—"...

      CAN ' any one ' guess what place this is ?— " Below the level of the ground , and totally unfit for human occupation . The ceiling ment . ^ is The two floor " inches [ is sunken only ~ above , and Jhe the level walls of damp the * street Hundreds paveof rats infest the room , and the emanation of the drains is quite unbearable . " A dungeon in a Neapolitan prison ? Some Eastern lock-up ? Nothing of the kind ! This is simply an apartmentjprepared ^ by a Christian country for the reception of its poor ; in other words , the " Male Ward " in a British workhouse in 1869 . We have not done with this subject .

      Who Does Write The Queen's Speeches ? We...

      Who does write the Queen's Speeches ? We have a theory of our own on the subject , that they are written by some of the inferior officials in the department of the Board of Green Cloth , who , having nothing on earth to do at any other time , are indulged on the occasion of the opening and closing of the Parliamentary Session , with this honourable task . It must be a beautiful sight , these talented gentlemen sucking their pens and rubbing their heads in the agony of composition , with the ' Elegant Guide to Public Speakers" by their sides , culling choice sentences from the laboriously florid exercises of vestryroom orators .

      Who Does Write The Queen's Speeches ? We...

      M . DE Cassagnac is quite an anomaly . His journal , ~ Le Pays , is the only one that speaks with disapproval of the liberal amnesty granted by the Emperor on the occasion of \ i \ sfite There is no surer proof of the wisdom and justice of any action than ^ the fact that it is not is approved an an by the Pays . In another respect ^ M / de Cassagnac omaly . He is the only remnant of that unpleasant race , the professional duellists , whose skill with the sword or pistol in a country where duelling is an institution , enables them to insult ' with * their sarcasm and waggery every gentleman who is fool enough to accept their challenge or to call them out , and so give them an opportunity of disposing of him . We wonder that Frenchmen , and journalists especially , have not the courage to combine against this nice man for the purpose of extirpating him , and by treating his waggery as it deserves with a good-humoured smile , and something more , and by steadily refusing to give him that satisfaction which is only due to—well , never mind the rest .

      A War Without A Meddle.

      A WAR WITHOUT A MEDDLE .

      The Duke Of Edinburgh Seems To Be Enjoyi...

      The Duke of Edinburgh seems to be enjoying himself at the Antipodes , and there is no doubt but that he has been very welcome at the Australian colonies he has visited , His out trip altogether to New Zealand a success , however . The , does New not Zealanders appear to have have taken turned it into their heads that the holiday employment of a ship of war is in scarcel their y waters a decent , while proceeding they are ; and engaged a bitter in a fe deadl eling y is conflict arising , against the Imperial Government , whose care for the amusement of a Prince contrasts unpleasantly with their care for the honour and safety of British colonists . The local papers declare that it is an insult to New Zealand to send there one of the finest specimens of the British Navy , fully equipped in men within and material a few miles , to lie of idl where y in the their Galatea waters is in moored holiday the trim colonists , while , have been engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the , ferocious race whose atrocities have devastated the whole neighbourhood . Of course , we as loyal Englishmen are not going to admit that there is any reason in the complaint . What has the Duke of Edinburgh and Her Majesty ' s ship Galatea to do with such vulgar episodes as robberies and massacres ? Of course it is too absurd to suppose that His Royal Highness can for a moment be supposed to be called upon to mix himself up in things such yulgar into consideration colonial broils it . would Perhaps have , however been better , taking if the all Galatea had wended her way , to some port other than Hobartown ; for her tantalising appearance at that place has evidently been too whose much irritability even for may the admitted perhaps be loyalty partiall of the y excused unhappy under colonists the circumstances of having their wives outraged and , children massacred almost under the very guns of an English man-ofwar .

      Every Little Makes A Mickle.

      EVERY LITTLE MAKES A MICKLE .

      This The Time Hounslow , Though, Powder ...

      This The time Hounslow , though , Powder only two men lls have are reported once more to have gone been off . injured , which is a great falling off from former efforts of the and mills . on On former the last occasion explosion s we remember before this to four have lives seen were ^ the lost list , of killed amount to a dozen or so souls . On the other hand it must Mills be blew noted up , once that whereas three formerl or four y years the Hounslow they now explode Powder consideration about every t if hree the months modern which catastrop of hes course are , must a little be less taken whole into - sale than heretofore . The proprietors , however , need not the despai death r , for -ra if te they will keep not up be an seriousl average of diminished four explosions from a-year the orthodox standard . One fact is very y plain : the owners do not reside on the premisesor the concern would not be so soon put back again in working , order after these little quarterly episodes .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 28, 1869, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_28081869/page/6/