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July 26, 1856
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 26, 1&>6.
Impudent Boy. "I say, Bill! Come and see the Conjuring—Here's this here Gal a goin' to Sqtjeege herself into
that there Broom ! "
GOOD NEWS EOR THE ARMY.
Gallant Cambridge becoming Commander-in-Chief
To the mind of the soldier how great a relief !
Bor the Duke is expected no nonsense to stand,
And let nobody over his shoulders command.
INCIVILITY TO CIVIL SERVANTS.
Everybody knows that the Civil Service of the country has been for
some time complaining that it is deprived of five per cent.—or one-
twentieth of its income—for the pretended purpose of paying a super-
annuation allowance, which very few get in any shape, and which
nobody can set from the money that is stopped, inasmuch as the whole
I ae defenders of Britain a strong hope express am0uht is swamped for general purposes. The Civil Service, feeling
• hat no tricks will, henceforward, be played with their dress. that it had a grievance, has been for some years trying to get the
Yes, the heroes who, save in advance, never run, grievance redressed, aad it is now proposed to send away the grumblers,
1 rust no more to be rigged out like figures of fun. , with one of those tremenrj0us fleas which Governments seem to keep
Light Dragoons' polka-jackets, they now fear not, will ifor the PurPosf, of P^g into the ears of the most^reasonable,^d
Be Vandyked at the hem, or adorned with a frill.' ! consequently the most troublesome^malcontents. TheCml Serosa
What a comfort to both light and heavy Dragoons, , *re C1V^ enough told, that they are qmte right m saving^ they have
Not to dread being drest in the garb of buffoons ! | ^ £gtfggSi tS^^f^A
process of not giving it to them to pay—or in simple language, thev are
threatened with a reduction of five per cent, on their salaries. This
mode of settling the matter seems to bs very much as though a person
who had been ^systematically robbing another for some time were to
say to the victim,'"It is very true I have been taking from you what is
your own, but in future I'll call it mine, and then you can't say 1 m
robbing you."
The conclusion come to by the select cnmmittee savours very much
of a rather heartless joke, for after having been many months con-
sidering how an admitted grievance can be redressei, the committee
proposes a plan for cutting at the root of the evil by lopping ofl
The Labouring: Classes " altogether the income which is tha source of the obnoxious super-
. , n, , ' annuation tax. The mode of adjustment proposed, is just as if a man
No more danger of belta and a pair of long ears
To their caps being fixed for our bold Grenadiers.
Of a cavalry, skirted like tall turkey-cocks,
Or an infantry marching in little boys' frocks.
A more soldierly taste will on uniforms tell,
The connection is close of the taste with the smell.
Now the perfume of powder to Cambridge is known:
He '11 thank those who don't know it to let him alone.
At the Chelmsford Agricultural gathering, a toast was given, " Thu
Labouring Classes." Why was nor, the toast replied to ? Surely there
must have been present two or three samples of the humau commodity.
Perhaps, however, they were forgotten except in the cups of the merry-
makers. If so, no doubt the error will be amended at the next meeting.
VV hen. pig* are made such objects of attentive interest, it is rather hard
that no place should be devoted to a single specimen of Chawbacon
himself.
aceusedof treadiag on his neighbour's corns, were to say, "Very true, I
had no right to tread carelessly on your corns, but I'll just cut off your
foot, and then you'll have no corns to tread upon." Such is the
principle involved in the recommendation of the committee, which
amounts merely to this : "The Civil Servants complain justly of having
to pay five per cent., and therefore the five per cent, had better be taken
from them, so that when they have not got it to pay, they cannot
complain of paying it."
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 26, 1&>6.
Impudent Boy. "I say, Bill! Come and see the Conjuring—Here's this here Gal a goin' to Sqtjeege herself into
that there Broom ! "
GOOD NEWS EOR THE ARMY.
Gallant Cambridge becoming Commander-in-Chief
To the mind of the soldier how great a relief !
Bor the Duke is expected no nonsense to stand,
And let nobody over his shoulders command.
INCIVILITY TO CIVIL SERVANTS.
Everybody knows that the Civil Service of the country has been for
some time complaining that it is deprived of five per cent.—or one-
twentieth of its income—for the pretended purpose of paying a super-
annuation allowance, which very few get in any shape, and which
nobody can set from the money that is stopped, inasmuch as the whole
I ae defenders of Britain a strong hope express am0uht is swamped for general purposes. The Civil Service, feeling
• hat no tricks will, henceforward, be played with their dress. that it had a grievance, has been for some years trying to get the
Yes, the heroes who, save in advance, never run, grievance redressed, aad it is now proposed to send away the grumblers,
1 rust no more to be rigged out like figures of fun. , with one of those tremenrj0us fleas which Governments seem to keep
Light Dragoons' polka-jackets, they now fear not, will ifor the PurPosf, of P^g into the ears of the most^reasonable,^d
Be Vandyked at the hem, or adorned with a frill.' ! consequently the most troublesome^malcontents. TheCml Serosa
What a comfort to both light and heavy Dragoons, , *re C1V^ enough told, that they are qmte right m saving^ they have
Not to dread being drest in the garb of buffoons ! | ^ £gtfggSi tS^^f^A
process of not giving it to them to pay—or in simple language, thev are
threatened with a reduction of five per cent, on their salaries. This
mode of settling the matter seems to bs very much as though a person
who had been ^systematically robbing another for some time were to
say to the victim,'"It is very true I have been taking from you what is
your own, but in future I'll call it mine, and then you can't say 1 m
robbing you."
The conclusion come to by the select cnmmittee savours very much
of a rather heartless joke, for after having been many months con-
sidering how an admitted grievance can be redressei, the committee
proposes a plan for cutting at the root of the evil by lopping ofl
The Labouring: Classes " altogether the income which is tha source of the obnoxious super-
. , n, , ' annuation tax. The mode of adjustment proposed, is just as if a man
No more danger of belta and a pair of long ears
To their caps being fixed for our bold Grenadiers.
Of a cavalry, skirted like tall turkey-cocks,
Or an infantry marching in little boys' frocks.
A more soldierly taste will on uniforms tell,
The connection is close of the taste with the smell.
Now the perfume of powder to Cambridge is known:
He '11 thank those who don't know it to let him alone.
At the Chelmsford Agricultural gathering, a toast was given, " Thu
Labouring Classes." Why was nor, the toast replied to ? Surely there
must have been present two or three samples of the humau commodity.
Perhaps, however, they were forgotten except in the cups of the merry-
makers. If so, no doubt the error will be amended at the next meeting.
VV hen. pig* are made such objects of attentive interest, it is rather hard
that no place should be devoted to a single specimen of Chawbacon
himself.
aceusedof treadiag on his neighbour's corns, were to say, "Very true, I
had no right to tread carelessly on your corns, but I'll just cut off your
foot, and then you'll have no corns to tread upon." Such is the
principle involved in the recommendation of the committee, which
amounts merely to this : "The Civil Servants complain justly of having
to pay five per cent., and therefore the five per cent, had better be taken
from them, so that when they have not got it to pay, they cannot
complain of paying it."