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    • A MERRY CONCEIT.
    • MUSICAL CLAY.
    • BUMBLEJDOM AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
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      There Is No Doubt That St. Pancras Workh...

      company rats are- —especially when they come ; from the drains , they are sweet playfellows , are your sewer rats ! So fyll of life , so poetical , so loaded with perfumes of Arabia ! It really makes us pity the poor Guardians to think that fortune should not have cast their lot in such pleasant places . What jovial nights

      those sick paupers must have passed , huddled together on the floor , coughing , sneezing-, wheezing , gasping in chorus . ' How they must have looked forward to the nights , especially in the cold weather , when they could not open the windows , and the smells — had — — it - ¦ - all — ~ m' ^~ -v ~ r their v ^_ - ^ v ^ __ own ^^ v * ^_^ B way w m ^ — g h , and ~ ^ m ^ m ^ n > the * W ^* ^ m ^ tgF ^ air ' ^ ¦ 0- ^™ got V . k ^^ W ^ fouler ^ ^^ ^^~ ^* ^^ *™ ^ and ^»^» . » ^ V ^ b ^ fouler ™ ~ a |~ W ^ »^ ^ " ,

      till every breath they fetched was a triumph of nature , if not of art ! It is such a charming picture that we can hardly tear ourselves away from it . When death came to join the party , struggling through the fetid air , with his hour-glass to nis nose , what peals of laughter must have met himwhat shouts of

      welcome ! What well-to-cLo smug tradesman , dozing in his armchair , half stupid from his ale or whiskey an 4 water , would not envy the charming vicissitudes , the alluring varieties , the thrilling excitements ^ of such a life as this—or the perfect peace , the luxurious repose , of such a death ?

      Yes , this is the only true method of making the pauper happy . Why prolong his life ? what will come of it ? Will industry , will honest independence ever come to him ? If this wretched where man , whose can he coug to h ? Home hacking . Yes him home to pieces to the , were bare to room recovery to be shared by go his wife and his son , and his daughter and his

      baby ! Home to the fire-side with no fire ! Home to the table with no meal spread on it ; to the cupboard with nothing but a half starved mouse or two in it . Or shall he stay in the workhouse ? Will he get work there that can ever make him again a free man ? No . Will he wear the badge of disgraceof profitless

      drudgery ? will he be exposed to contumely , insul , t , brutality ? will he be grudged the scanty food that keeps the dull spark of life alight ? Yes . Is this a future for hope to look forward to ? Is this a life for which he would care to have ipassed through the valley of the shadow of death ? No j let him go home to

      his real , his only home . The home where there is no Poorlaw Board , where there are no guardians , no workhouses , no infirmaries , where there are no beadles . Let him go to his home froin which no one can turn him out ; let him go to his graveto his home beyond the gravewhere the suffering that

      he has , known here may be held by a , just but merciful Judge to have been enough , where he may know that perfect joy and peace , the faintest ray of which could never have come to him—No , not even in his dreams—upon this earth .

      252 The Tom Ah A Wk. [December 4, 1869.

      252 THE TOM AH A WK . [ December 4 , 1869 .

      A Merry Conceit.

      A MERRY CONCEIT .

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      man The . " At Earl the of annual Dartmouth soiree has of the set Meeke himself and up Walkers as a " funny Edudisestablishing speech cational , in Instit which ute the he at . Irish maintai Hasthwaite Chur ned ch that , the and no other spoke good day had in favour been delivered done of reli by - gious should education be added , remarking to what that are popularl a fourth y know represe n as nti the ng reli t < r three gion was R ' s . " In lead fact , the to whole his Lordshi point p ' s little a very joke long . -winded Such exhibition address should > members ji . i . vsu . * . v * . be w «^ of put frub « a * ii stop Educational iuj ; to \ . \ j ; y for * wjl it 11 . Institute ia is absolutely a , ua \ JL \ x should \ . Miky i cru » i \ x be el \ ii . that I . lici inflicted t , v even . vcu with the \ , HM

      an the a coup public le of atte hours ntion ' ga is bble that fro he m a happens speaker to w be hose a Lord onl y . clai If m Lord on Dart lain mo e u th to , in stead audie of nc holding e the forth circum on stances things u in nder general which , had he late thoug exp electio ht hi ns mself , his justified discourse in would interfering have been with far his more tenants edif at ying the . bear proceeding Perhaps repetition as for his . a Lordship practical is joke such . a If confirmed so , like all wag jokes , he , meant it will not the

      Musical Clay.

      MUSICAL CLAY .

      Our We Active Are Composers Glad To Welc...

      our We active are composers glad to welcome . He has Mr been . Frederick too long Clay idle , agai in a n musical among in point German voice of view Reed and . ' s .. small He has company written a charmi : some . Miss deli Fanny addition ghtful Holland music to that is for , both Mr . c and country ircle Mr ; and . in Arthur cap Mr appearance ital . German Cecil form as . JR , funny Mrs . e § 4 . German has , , as returned ori ng ginal Reed , fromhis as is sweet indefati tour voiced gable in cosy the as , labour ever ¦ ' Mr . . ing This Clay 1 < as - is it - deserves does saying under a . - good great the deal disadvantage credit . - , - for ¦ - ; his - of being pleasing wedded music to , a rather feeble and inane libretto . We shall return to the subject times ir i , and a future want number to hear . it ; < ( We again ihave . ' . Can listenejd we say to more the music ? three

      Bumblejdom At Buckingham Palace.

      BUMBLEJDOM AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE .

      Of The State Sooner The Better The It Lo...

      of The state sooner the better the it Lord will Mayor be * for g the ives Civic up shows dignity and . procession On Thurs - pf day his last provincial , when his brethren Lordsi * , ip went , suF * po to . , rte Buc 4 fey kingham some three Palace hundred to . prewa pent rd an created address the to the mildest King of enthusiasm the Belgians notwithstandi , his progress west that - the served line by of a 4 route ouble very the was row , of carefull pplicsnien y and ,, wkojpi quite , unnecessaril teried tlae best ng y part pre-Whitechapei pf a tiiei . day ff way arid ^ n Islington $ tran , 4 were 4 n in H busil + Pall 9 $ . y ty ' erLgk ? mail $ > while ged there in the the thieve practic ? in e

      po pf licemen r jprpfession than spectators . . Indeed ; , an " ^ even at the " bottom were of more St . James PqudIcj ' s of street erd , iri wh ? irUy ere intelli the provincial gent . cpnft ., Mayors ^ e ^ woul fel 4 l into ; haye lin be e , en a wou Thurs amp l l y d impl s iiffipient was y tnat a fof j ' as the m ^ Vp al f dut ' ^ fail S iips ^ P u . * - t ? ^ ; , * ' we ^ .- ' ^ fr 1 ® ankly ^ ^ taydr admit ' Although pr that ocessi it on was this of quite November worth the peeing M ^ , ce In iBe the ^ er J always -prd Mayor ppmes ' s ' S in how for on the the heaviest 9 th pf ^ amount . nd ge ' neiral * of " c chaff umbersdmeness / r as tnb meamnglessness / bf the ' absurd ; 'baubl , inutility e he , ug supports liness , Idio at once tic feature is recognised in the V + »^ ' procession and 'accepted but k ^ imag par in -excellence three y the most jhun f

      jiuiut . lv ^ cc ^ vwic m pt vn , ca ? iuii ^ 1 / 141 .- ii « iagi «; v e ; oujhu some v * m «~ v ; * a « 4 i- » - - dr as ed to Mayorp what was , who re evide gulation ntly had in the come way td ^ pf no robes definite , ea conclusion ch with a hi Mace red for Bearer the great and a event Mace !• on Why the box these of gentlemen the fly which ( who deserve been th every e King qre 4 of it far tbe 'having 3 e % ians come ) , should to , town nave (< o popped pay their these respects ungainly to and weapon toothbrush s into the we car can pet not bag understand which contained ; but as they their one nig and htshirt all seem to have agreed the Mace' was' de rigueur on the occasion , than TTT we . » V / . ; ' »>< can >»** only V ** d - / « assume *»» Let T . « _ 1 * M » . *» W- ' ' $ J [ 1 ** hat _ » - * V . _ they fc * however 11 iW ^ kn «»*»? pw # WT that J more «« -l fM J « - V the ^ 1 sw - about > rv > did J A ? » -1 the I , U not - __ V < 4 matter ^> HtlV »

      their we badge o s , of office ' us hope Into , the Royal ^ presence . y and that carr the y althoug baubles h were there left may in the be umbrella no objectio -stand n to in ¦ the num hall , . r of Seriously officials , meeting together for a purpose such as that ; which called them The the together la Co ughing ntinental last stock week appreciation , of they the , should town , of even forbear the if dignity th from . ejr happen and making position to be themselves . Mayors of the , * * w for JLord itho eign u M t visitors ayo any r ' fresh 1 st . certainl What complication y will exaggerated the of . Belgians ideas and . , being think undefined forced of Eng enoug upon land h when their King goes home and tells . then * that he has actually is received too perp three lexing 'hundr and ed distracting Lord Mayors to dwell at a upon time . ? The thought

      Self Historic 'Airs ?—When Al.—On He Wha...

      self Historic ' airs ?—When al . —On he what bought occasion a wig , , did . George IV . give him-THte Battle of InJcer-mArt . — -Messrs * Parkins and Gotto nave produced a new work of art , called the " Tomahawk Inkholds stand . " the It consists while of the a blade tomaliavvk contains , ; t ] tie the handle ink . of Not which inappropriate pens by , any means—our hatchet is represented by a goose the sword -quill . —a To powerful make our weapon meaning — -some plainer say , more we fight powerful with than cold steel , but we draw ink in , preference to shedding blood .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Dec. 4, 1869, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_04121869/page/2/