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    • TALKING IT OVER.
    • BY AUTIIORITY.
    • THE NEXT ELECTION.
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      November 28, 1868.] The Tom Ah A Ivk. 23...

      November 28 , 1868 . ] THE TOM AH A IVK . 237

      Talking It Over.

      TALKING IT OVER .

      Mr. Benjamin Disraeli And Mr. John Bull....

      Mr . Benjamin Disraeli and Mr . John Bull . now Mr ? . John Bull . —Well , Sir , and what do you mean to do friend Mr . Benjamin ? Disraeli . — " Mean" to do , my dear Mr . J . B . —Don ' t call me your " dear friend , " Sir ; I don ' t like it

      XliVU Al > . * stand Mr . me B . ! D . { smiling softly ) . — Not ? Ah , you do not under-Mr . ] . B . ( growling ) . —No , nor does anybody else . But you come can , Sir , possibl don ' t wa y get ste yoursel my time f . to Just be stra say , ig in htforward plain Eng fo lish r two , if minutes together , what you are going to be up to now ? mo Mr re . softly B . D , . — and Still as susp if he iciou had s not ? heard But ne him ver . ) mind You . were { Smil say ing

      ing J . B . — your You know pardon what I was sayin j . Confound it all , Sir Mr , what . B . ' D your . —Policy policy ? 1 Ah That 1 yes ' s what , to be I sure ask you Wh . y , honesty , of course Mr . . J . That B . ( very is the angry best ) . — policy The , p oet the be poet calm Mr , . my B . dear D . ( in friend terrup . ting ( Movement hint ) . —Oh on fie the ! part But co of me Mr , let . yohn us be Bull . ) Let us be calm , and I will state , briefly as I can , and

      p what lainl line y , honestl of conduct y , and I cate have gori proposed cally , as to I myself always as do— most ( smiles fitting ) — in the present condition of affairs . hear Mr . . J . B . —Exactly . Out with it , Sir ; that ' s what I want to a should Prime Mr . . B Minister . Well D . — , Of the to n course , consider in the it first the is ; p interests lace and , I very think of his natural it is country the that duty above you of re all spect other for interest the statesman s ; and as in I that do position consider who this , would I can not not fling feel

      crisis his own demands personal the reputation sacrifice . to ( the Takes winds breath when . ) a great imperial froth Mr for . J . me B . . ( impatiently ) . —Come , Sir , come : none of this l cerned proposition isten Mr . . B myself Having . D , . I ( , quieting will I , should th n e refo h re im regard , on ) submitted . — " myself Froth say that , to " as my you , a as traitor dear that far Sir as to phil ? my I os You am op Queen hical con just - , my Mr country . J . B . , — and Pocket my —go on , sir . M R . B . D . ( smiling sweetly ) . —Pocket , were I to abandon the

      helm helm of of the the State State under under any anv combination combination , of of circumstances circumstances whateve is , I cannot r . think You see it the —( watching duty of a the true effect patriot of his to g words ive over )—that the not control know of the what vessel he is to about incompetent . I do . hands So , you . see Gladstone , thinking does it better —should that anything should happen rather than that I should Mr ill Mr . . J B rf « . . B D Jfc- ^ . — . # — Let Thank Mt AAbV go I , 4 nh ; of you V % the * ** , yes J public WW ; that *»** W purse * W ** is ^ the « - strings »* W * idea ^*^ fc % . —let * WI * go ^ 3 of *^* the *»»* W

      public Mr . purse J . B . — -strings Pitch — your I mean old colleagues to stay in myself all overboard , and— together and—— ? shall Mr then . B . , D through . —The what idea call again a just ; yes appreciation , overboard of together the politi . I - to We cal Office the necessities will , woolsack get hav Beales e Brig of . the in ht Then for day for Green , Fore as make to i wich gn Odger up Affairs , a and new and , push Potter Cabinet Mill him I in dare . somehow Let the say me Home they see on . rest would , I be useful in the Upper House . With regard to the Mr Mr . J B . B D . — — Gladstone You are , quite for instance riht ? Of course we would not

      forget . him . . . A—a—( smiling very g sweetl . y )—colonial governorship—say St . Helena 1 sure Mr s ? , J . B . ( suppressing his indignation )— , And your meashoul Mr d . B ab . olish D . —To the suit Irish the Church necessities , and of the the English age of course Church . , and We duties the House , and the of standing Lords , and army the , and Constitution , and the Excise Mr Mr . . J B . . B D . — . — Any Yes thing , we should else ? establish universal suffrage , and

      the ri mi ghts ght ballot , and , agre a nd e e equal peop e to le division all ' c parties harter of landed , . and— property in fact , , anythi and wom ng t a , n s price Mr , . however J . B . —In low sh it ort be , Sir , for , you pow mean er 1 to tell me you will pay any Mr Mr . . B . D . — ( indi M gn y dear antly friend ) . —The , you n know have , hit Sir it , that exactl I y won . I 't do hav . e you at any price . I ' ve had quite enough of you already , and m to ean to and kick now you oat . There . , Sir , that ' s what I ' ve got to say you , you may go

      By Autiiority.

      BY AUTIIORITY .

      Mai Our Kable Contemporary For The Exclu...

      mai Our kable contemporary for the exclusive , the Daily ness of News its , information is becoming . quite One day relast reports week of , when the boroug its pages h elections were inconvenientl , the place of cr honour owded b imme y the - diatel lowing y interesting below the last announcem leading ent article : — was reserved for the folhas " used The plain Queen note , who paper , since in the her lamented correspondence death of , has the adopted Prince Consort a mono , - consisting of the regal R under an imperial crownwith the

      le gram gend Victoria across the letter . The design , which has received , its last black impro and vements silver . " from her Majesty ' s own hand , is being executed in acquainted The paragrap with the does name not and en address d here , of but the we hi are ghly even -honoured made individual who has been entrusted with the execution of the design .

      peop ch aracter le who otice of do the the not Penny annou entertain n P ceme ress , n a may t , proper as take we f it ear respect into that their for badl mischievous the y-disposed exalted he nothing ads to more suggest nor that less this than tit a -bit paid of -for " exc advertisement lusive information . Not " is a th bit e of para it . grap We h are in questio happy n to headed be able the to most assure important our readers items that of the etended day ' s news to be , . Is it e likel no sign that of a being ctable anything but what en in it th reduced pr e public circumstances a paid-for ad , would vertisement y stoop for respe so a low bit of as the paper to latest pal , m news off on ? annals Impossible of British . Such journalism a subterfuge . would be unprecedented in the

      The Next Election.

      THE NEXT ELECTION .

      The It Hustings Really Would Last Week S...

      the It hustings really would last week seem , , that from the are outrages , indeed , that becoming occurre the d before " barbarous " nation alluded to so frequently by " our lively neightio bours n , absolutel " the French teemed . The newspapers with tales , of at the murder time of and the blood Elec- . , y " free Shooting and independent dead " and electors bayoneting as means were for both attaining resorted their to b ends y the . French

      Talk about " cruelty" and " Spanish brutality / ' why the neither word can . The compare Irish with Church Eng question lish murder has ! nothing Yes , " in murder common " is a with solution leaden without bullets— the the aid problem of cold of steel Reform . But may there be the worked matter to be is over no worse for the . present Stilla sensible : let us hop man e cannot that the shut next his election , to may the fact that from bad we , seldom bour own accord eyes to better

      grow y . if It's we not live impossible to welcome that in we the may see 1890 something . like the following year DULL 13 OROUGH ELECTION . November j 61890 . ,

      borough To-day , the being Hustings the day were appointed thronged from for the a very polling early at hou this r in the mail morning a costume . The which Clerk save s of d them the Returning from Officer a sabre were cut clad and in not a , few bullets . It was feared that the many Liberals had under , mined Register a part to atoms of the . Happ booth , y with the rumour the intention turned of out blowing to be false the . At guns about on the noon roof the of Conservatives the Town H , all who , opened had mounted fire on some the voters heavy . At the request of the police ( who explained that the guns were

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Nov. 28, 1868, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_28111868/page/9/