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22 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [July 14, 1855.
DE BELLO CIVIET.
It is sometimes said, that civility costs nothing,
hut it would seem that the civility of the Civil
Service m civilly waiting to have justice doDe to
them in the matter of superannuation may cost
a great deal. Every civil servant with a salary
above one hundred a year, has five per cent,
taken from him to meet a claim for retired allow-
ances, which it is said that one per cent, would
fully satisfy. Several successive Chancellors of
the Exchequer have acknowledged the injustice
of this arrangement, and promised a.remedy; but
this promise has not yet been fulfilled. So gross
is the injustice ot the tax, that the "opposition "
offered to do the civil thing to the Civil Service,
if the Government neglected it, and an indepen-
dent member also pledged himself to introduce a
measure on the subject; but, as it happens to
be everybody's business, it shares the fate of
nobody's business, and is not done at all. Every
civil servant appointed since a certain date is
paying twelve pounds out of every hundred by
way of income tax, or rather he is getting
eighty-eight instead of every hundred pounds he
is supposed to receive. It has generally been
thought a capital joke to victimise a recipient
of the public money, and to talk of " bloated
officials," of whom certain clerks at Somerset
House, with some half-dozen children and in-
comes varying from eighty to two hundred and
fifty pounds per annum, are not very obese speci-
mens ; but though the public mav have its laugh,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer should
take care that the Civil Service when smarting
under an admitted hardship should not find its
cry in vain.
A HOMOEOPATHIC SUNDAY.
Lord Robert Glosvenor is, it is well known,
a horiioeopathist. Doubtlessly, it is in this cha-
racter that he would wish to give the people
a homoeopathic Sunday ? He would administer
to them infinitesimal doses of recreation ; the
smallest globules of pleasure, mixed up with
brimming pailsful of abstinence and privation.
He would have them limited, if he could, to the
billionth part of a ride in an omnibus, with the
500,000th part of a dram of a glass of ale, and
the ra^oo °ftne crumb of a sandwich, by way of
refreshment; not a scruple of anything excepting
religious scruples, and as many of those as you
like—the scruples being against shaving, reading,
dining (unless you have a French cook to dress
your dinner for you at home), eating, drinking,
(except you have a good cellar and larder in your
own house, or belong to a club), and against all
rational and innocent forms of amusement in
general. We doubt, however, if this Hahne-
mannising the British Public would have been
exactly humanising them, or would have put them
into the most fitting humour for going to church.
BATTLE OF THE HYDE PARK. We are afraid that many a poor fe'low with a
j hungry stomach would have wished that homceo-
Gallant and Daring Act of Private Lobbs (of the Crushers), who, by Himself, pathy had never been applied to politics: and
Stormed an Old Tree, and vert nearly Captured Three Small Boys. : iu his anger would have inveighed bitterly against
_ _______ Lord Robert for being such an exceedingly
homoeopathic legislator.
Infallible Cure for a Short Sisrht.
The sudden acquisition of a large fortune is the best care. It has been known to cure
persons of short-sightedness in a minute, upon whom all other experiments had failed. It Peace and War, by Lord John Russell,
will bring a person (a poor relation, for instance) prominently forward, making him, and his
merits even, eminently conspicuous, whereas both had previously been for years quite We understand, that it is the intention of
invisible to the naked eye. It extends one's views wonderfully; and, strengthened with an Lord John Russell's constituents to solicit him
aid of such wonderful power, the eye will carry to any distance, and has actually been known to sit, for a double portrait of Peace and War,
before now to bring home a Rich Uncle all the way from India. j to Sir Edwin Landseer. The noble Lord, in
__ I imitation of the picture of Death and the Lady,
„ „ . . will be duly divided. One half of him will appear
happy land (for debtors). in the umform 0f a British Life Guardsman, and
An Insolvent Contributor, after reading the recent reports of successes in the Sea of the other m the simple, buttonless dress of an
Azoff, says that, unlike Horace, he both wonders at and envies the Allied Fleet, for the more olive-hearing friend. Joseph Sturoe himself
Straits it gets into., the brighter are its prospects. ! has offered the loan of his drab and beaver.
DE BELLO CIVIET.
It is sometimes said, that civility costs nothing,
hut it would seem that the civility of the Civil
Service m civilly waiting to have justice doDe to
them in the matter of superannuation may cost
a great deal. Every civil servant with a salary
above one hundred a year, has five per cent,
taken from him to meet a claim for retired allow-
ances, which it is said that one per cent, would
fully satisfy. Several successive Chancellors of
the Exchequer have acknowledged the injustice
of this arrangement, and promised a.remedy; but
this promise has not yet been fulfilled. So gross
is the injustice ot the tax, that the "opposition "
offered to do the civil thing to the Civil Service,
if the Government neglected it, and an indepen-
dent member also pledged himself to introduce a
measure on the subject; but, as it happens to
be everybody's business, it shares the fate of
nobody's business, and is not done at all. Every
civil servant appointed since a certain date is
paying twelve pounds out of every hundred by
way of income tax, or rather he is getting
eighty-eight instead of every hundred pounds he
is supposed to receive. It has generally been
thought a capital joke to victimise a recipient
of the public money, and to talk of " bloated
officials," of whom certain clerks at Somerset
House, with some half-dozen children and in-
comes varying from eighty to two hundred and
fifty pounds per annum, are not very obese speci-
mens ; but though the public mav have its laugh,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer should
take care that the Civil Service when smarting
under an admitted hardship should not find its
cry in vain.
A HOMOEOPATHIC SUNDAY.
Lord Robert Glosvenor is, it is well known,
a horiioeopathist. Doubtlessly, it is in this cha-
racter that he would wish to give the people
a homoeopathic Sunday ? He would administer
to them infinitesimal doses of recreation ; the
smallest globules of pleasure, mixed up with
brimming pailsful of abstinence and privation.
He would have them limited, if he could, to the
billionth part of a ride in an omnibus, with the
500,000th part of a dram of a glass of ale, and
the ra^oo °ftne crumb of a sandwich, by way of
refreshment; not a scruple of anything excepting
religious scruples, and as many of those as you
like—the scruples being against shaving, reading,
dining (unless you have a French cook to dress
your dinner for you at home), eating, drinking,
(except you have a good cellar and larder in your
own house, or belong to a club), and against all
rational and innocent forms of amusement in
general. We doubt, however, if this Hahne-
mannising the British Public would have been
exactly humanising them, or would have put them
into the most fitting humour for going to church.
BATTLE OF THE HYDE PARK. We are afraid that many a poor fe'low with a
j hungry stomach would have wished that homceo-
Gallant and Daring Act of Private Lobbs (of the Crushers), who, by Himself, pathy had never been applied to politics: and
Stormed an Old Tree, and vert nearly Captured Three Small Boys. : iu his anger would have inveighed bitterly against
_ _______ Lord Robert for being such an exceedingly
homoeopathic legislator.
Infallible Cure for a Short Sisrht.
The sudden acquisition of a large fortune is the best care. It has been known to cure
persons of short-sightedness in a minute, upon whom all other experiments had failed. It Peace and War, by Lord John Russell,
will bring a person (a poor relation, for instance) prominently forward, making him, and his
merits even, eminently conspicuous, whereas both had previously been for years quite We understand, that it is the intention of
invisible to the naked eye. It extends one's views wonderfully; and, strengthened with an Lord John Russell's constituents to solicit him
aid of such wonderful power, the eye will carry to any distance, and has actually been known to sit, for a double portrait of Peace and War,
before now to bring home a Rich Uncle all the way from India. j to Sir Edwin Landseer. The noble Lord, in
__ I imitation of the picture of Death and the Lady,
„ „ . . will be duly divided. One half of him will appear
happy land (for debtors). in the umform 0f a British Life Guardsman, and
An Insolvent Contributor, after reading the recent reports of successes in the Sea of the other m the simple, buttonless dress of an
Azoff, says that, unlike Horace, he both wonders at and envies the Allied Fleet, for the more olive-hearing friend. Joseph Sturoe himself
Straits it gets into., the brighter are its prospects. ! has offered the loan of his drab and beaver.