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    252 THE TOM AH A WK. {December 12, 1868.

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    Erratum.—Mr. Finlen said he was the only...

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    PULLING TOGETHER!

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    we To beg those most who respectfully lo...

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    My Right Honourable Friend,—I Did Not Th...

    during the discussion of the Reform Bill ? He must have done something which offended you very sorely , or you never would have had the heart to inflict " so fearful a punishment on him . Had you only left him alone , and appointed him to some harmless sinecure , who ever would have heard of , much

    less praised , or blamed , the Earl of Mayo ? And yet , my dear friend , there was something noble about your conduct on the Irish Church matter . To attempt to arouse the " No Popery" cry , with all its attendant bitterness and bigotry , was one of those humorous tricks of your sarcastic

    nature which you cannot help . But it certainly showed your good-nature—I suppose you had tired of the fun—not to drag your party into further ridicule and disgrace , by making them give up the Irish Church . No , you spared them that blow , and , I must repeat , it was really noble of you ! As for your

    resignation , so admirably timed , it is the cleverest thing you have done ; it looks so like a generous and patriotic action . What are you going to do now ? Not stick to your prin . ciples , or what may be left of them ? Don ' t say that , please ! What on earth is to become of the country if you do % Why ,

    such an action would be like the death of Garrick ; it would " eclipse the mirth of nations . " No ; you cannot be so cruel as that : you will badger Gladstone , and spring all sorts of mines under him , and sneer at Bright ( though you generally get the worst of that ) , and you will exhaust the tempers , and

    perhaps the prudence , of your opponents , till you see the country won ' t stand it any more ; and then you will let the Bill for disendowing and disestablishing the Irish Church pass the Commons , at least . But after that ? Do you intend to destroy the House of Lords by inciting them to a useless

    resistance to the national policy 1 Or better still , will you ally yourself with the extreme Radicals and Irish patriots , and move for a repeal of the Union ? It would be just like you . Would not it be capital fun ! Do you look forward to another lease of office , and will Freedom of Religion , and the Divorce

    of Church and State , be coupled with the name of Benjamin Disraeli , leader of the great Conservative party % Unlikelier things have happened . By my faith , what a capital speech you would , make against the English Establishment I But I don't think your party is quite enough educated for that .

    However , made virtute , Benjamin ! and who knows what you may make them do yet ? It is very hard to say good bye to you as Premier , indeed it is . Gladstone after you is like Fidelio after the Barbiere . It is very grand , but it is very dull . But , alas ! life is not all

    comedy . Even clowns have wives and children , and other serious cares that can ' be painted out , or grinned away . The greatest comedian sighs sometimes , and dies once . It is a very pleasant thing to sit in court and roar till your sides ache at a funny barrister , but J ustice cannot always wear the cap and

    bells , and she has another sword than Harlequin ' s . Long may you be spared , greatest of successful men , to adorn the Senate of your country ; to infuse into that body some of that airy grace and comic versatility which it so much needs J Long may it be before the voice of Benjamin Disraeli is silent ,

    before his well-known form is absent from that bench to which he is an honour—no , not the Treasury—but the Opposition Bench of the House of Commons . Your faithful admirer , Tomahawk .

    252 The Tom Ah A Wk. {December 12, 1868.

    252 THE TOM AH A WK . { December 12 , 1868 .

    Erratum.—Mr. Finlen Said He Was The Only...

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    Pulling Together!

    PULLING TOGETHER !

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    we To beg those most who respectfully look confidentl to offer y on the the following future ideas of the , picked country up , recentl le y in in various the cours circumstances e of conversations of life . held We by offer us no with comment various . peop THE OPINIONS OF Marmaduke Hawkswith , Esq Beds ., of . Breckhurst , Great Grobford ,

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    my wedge Queen , and and I trust country I ha , as ve a faithfull true minister y discharged of the my go dut spel y to of peace pressed , in upon having my , during flock the the manifest last four dangers months , of mos doing t urgentl unto y others Canterbury as you there would is they but should one step do , unto and you the . Eng From lish Dublin See , as to to necessity fall , West , would Whiffington immediatel would y follow be the swept Irish away . And like were a straw that upon \ . L LSVFXJL the VJ >* W lose strea W fcJ . Vb % m * AA , « « and -V ** V * J , i 1 U n the VAAV chaos VAAI ^ VW that bUl Oh ^ k would ¥¥ W *** % * dear set MWar in U Sir <« , I A believ should UAAV UAU

    me possibl , the y country my would ^ 439 per not annum suffer that . " - no , my , e The Honourable Charles Languard , ofH . M . $ rd Dragoons . all " that Well sty , yes le , you of thing see , — I confess no . But — aw— ' as go to that for fellaw politics Glad and - And stone— as aw for — thes I sho e other uld say fellaws that — he you was know —aw the , — fellaws ' , yo I u mean know — . the yes , park Bright — should aw— mm and say that that fellaw they that ought pull n ed ot up to the be allo railings wed to in

    allowed stand ^ p ^ bflh ^ mr W'mT , ^* VOK and ^^^ to ^ , 9 ^^^ — do mmr yes — mwma ^ mr yes ^ pw , ^^^ stan v . ¦ ^ mr ™ You ^ d — mr ^^ mmmrmr th see mr at , mrmmmm ' s if ' ^ . "" ^ what M these ^^ r ™ pi ^^^ B th sort ^^ e - ^^— y - ^ v — of ' ought ^ m - ^ v feliaws r ^ v ^ m * not w ^^ v ^ v ^ were mr w w to ^ mw ^ m ^ m be to ^ v ^^^ get or so up meth a row ing , — it aw mig — of interfere that kind w ; and that * R wouldn ow / or ' the do opera at all , , you know . In fact , it would quite spoil a fellaw ' s seasonyes . " John Mactoovey , Esq . ) of Ballacreey County Cork .

    " What ! touch the glorious work of 1688 and insult William of else ble , but ssed lay m half emory a fing ! Let er on the just Qu as een mu of ch Engla as a nd brick , or anyone of the one Church end , and to the the other Orange to boys the t shall une of deluge Bo Ireland Water in ! blood What fro do m you say Orangemen , are not loyal ? Sure , they know their duty , throw to their itsel colour f into s , drums their scale , and , so pocket much s ; the and worse if the for Crow the Crown doesn ' t ,

    that ' s all . " Edward Hetherington D'Arcy , Esq ., of the Junior Carlton . Disra " These eli is the Liberals man to want fix the keep lines ing . in As check to their , and majority Benjamin , such hamper as it is , that in the when Lower decisive House action , we is shall required be . per In fectl the y event able , to of can course rely , of on this them spoliation to teach measure the country being sent the great to the lesson Lords it , we at

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Dec. 12, 1868, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_12121868/page/2/