DOI issue:
October 6, 1866
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16878#0156
MISS LAVINIA BROUN JONES.—No. 8
She comes suddenly on a strange Structure—apparently a Native Fort, and is just going to Sketch it, when a Savage
of Gigantic Stature, and Armed to the Teeth, starts from an Ambush, and Menaces her in Gaelic !
THE ARMY AND NAVY RE-ORGANISED.
The Re-organisation of the Array and Navy appears to be in course
of being accomplished by private enterprise. One day last week a
contemporary announced that
“ At the Annual General Meeting of the United Service Company (Limited), held
on the 13th instant, a dividend of five per cent, was declared for the past year."
The United Service thus appears to be now in the hands of a private
company. How quietly the transfer from the War Office and the
Horse Guards ana the Admiralty has been effected ! It must have
been authorised by an Act of Parliament, smuggled with wonderful
secresy through both Houses. As the*speculation pays five per cent., it
is a profitable one. Let us hope that, since the United Service Company
is thriving, the United Service has improved. Perhaps the money
which has heretofore been squandered will henceforth be saved, and
partly devoted to a reasonable increase of soldiers’ and sailors’ pay.
Very likely the grievances of the Army and Navy surgeons will soon
be redressed, and their just demands will be conceded, insomuch that
the United Service Company will not have to advertise, as the Govern-
ment which it seems to have superseded had, for medical officers of an
inferior description. The fact that the United' Service is now under
the management of a joint-stock company (limited) is not generally
known. When it comes to be, then, perhaps, there will be no longer
any lack of duly qualified and decently educated candidates for medical
commissions in Her Majesty’s land and sea forces.
Facetiae.
Shortly will be published, in three volumes folio, condensed from
the columns of the morning papers, and profusely illustrated with
comic cuts and initial letters, Broad Grins of Bribery, and Cachmations
of Corruption,” being a collection of the “ good things,” “ spicy say-
ings,” “ rich repartees,” and “ choice chaff,” of the Royal Commis-
sioners for inquiring into the Totnes, Reigate, Lancaster, and Yar-
mouth elections. Dedicated, without permission, to the Editor of Bunch. I
A WEIGHTY MATTER.
Strange are the stage wants we every week see advertised. For
instance, look at this :—
YU ANTED, to Open on Saturday, September 13 th, A Heavy Gentle-
* * man, who can play Macbeth, Othello, Richard the Third, &c. Address, &c.
The verb “ to open ” is an active one. What then is the substantive
omitted after “ open ” in the above establishment F Is it “ doors,” or
“ oysters,” or “ champagne bottles,” or what ? And pray why is a
“heavy” gentleman required ? Is it requisite to have a man of sub-
stance for Othello ? Can a man not play Macbeth unless he be of certain
weight ? If so, how many pounds, pray, are deemed needful for the
part ? Surely the amount should have been precisely stated, so that
applicants might go to scale before applying for the post. Suppose a
heavy gentleman to have answered the advertisement, and been ap-
proved of by the manager, how awkward he would find it, while dressing
For Othello, to be told he was too light to undertake the part! We
often hear of actors being “ overweighted.” Do heavy gentlemen, we
wonder, like jockeys in a handicap, strap belts of shot about them, to
bring them to the right amount of heaviness required ?
Cotton-Waste.
We are told in one of Tuesday’s papers of the various claims to
honour of Cotton, the successor in the Aldermanic Chair of the inge-
nious Mechi. We are glad to believe Cotton is the right man in the
right place; but it was surely superfluous to tell us that the said
Cotton was “ a conspicuous member of the Lancashire Relief Com-
mittee.” Surely everybody would have taken that for granted of
Cotton.
a passing thought.
The great difference between the young and the old is this—the
young have the world before them, whilst the old are behind the world.
She comes suddenly on a strange Structure—apparently a Native Fort, and is just going to Sketch it, when a Savage
of Gigantic Stature, and Armed to the Teeth, starts from an Ambush, and Menaces her in Gaelic !
THE ARMY AND NAVY RE-ORGANISED.
The Re-organisation of the Array and Navy appears to be in course
of being accomplished by private enterprise. One day last week a
contemporary announced that
“ At the Annual General Meeting of the United Service Company (Limited), held
on the 13th instant, a dividend of five per cent, was declared for the past year."
The United Service thus appears to be now in the hands of a private
company. How quietly the transfer from the War Office and the
Horse Guards ana the Admiralty has been effected ! It must have
been authorised by an Act of Parliament, smuggled with wonderful
secresy through both Houses. As the*speculation pays five per cent., it
is a profitable one. Let us hope that, since the United Service Company
is thriving, the United Service has improved. Perhaps the money
which has heretofore been squandered will henceforth be saved, and
partly devoted to a reasonable increase of soldiers’ and sailors’ pay.
Very likely the grievances of the Army and Navy surgeons will soon
be redressed, and their just demands will be conceded, insomuch that
the United Service Company will not have to advertise, as the Govern-
ment which it seems to have superseded had, for medical officers of an
inferior description. The fact that the United' Service is now under
the management of a joint-stock company (limited) is not generally
known. When it comes to be, then, perhaps, there will be no longer
any lack of duly qualified and decently educated candidates for medical
commissions in Her Majesty’s land and sea forces.
Facetiae.
Shortly will be published, in three volumes folio, condensed from
the columns of the morning papers, and profusely illustrated with
comic cuts and initial letters, Broad Grins of Bribery, and Cachmations
of Corruption,” being a collection of the “ good things,” “ spicy say-
ings,” “ rich repartees,” and “ choice chaff,” of the Royal Commis-
sioners for inquiring into the Totnes, Reigate, Lancaster, and Yar-
mouth elections. Dedicated, without permission, to the Editor of Bunch. I
A WEIGHTY MATTER.
Strange are the stage wants we every week see advertised. For
instance, look at this :—
YU ANTED, to Open on Saturday, September 13 th, A Heavy Gentle-
* * man, who can play Macbeth, Othello, Richard the Third, &c. Address, &c.
The verb “ to open ” is an active one. What then is the substantive
omitted after “ open ” in the above establishment F Is it “ doors,” or
“ oysters,” or “ champagne bottles,” or what ? And pray why is a
“heavy” gentleman required ? Is it requisite to have a man of sub-
stance for Othello ? Can a man not play Macbeth unless he be of certain
weight ? If so, how many pounds, pray, are deemed needful for the
part ? Surely the amount should have been precisely stated, so that
applicants might go to scale before applying for the post. Suppose a
heavy gentleman to have answered the advertisement, and been ap-
proved of by the manager, how awkward he would find it, while dressing
For Othello, to be told he was too light to undertake the part! We
often hear of actors being “ overweighted.” Do heavy gentlemen, we
wonder, like jockeys in a handicap, strap belts of shot about them, to
bring them to the right amount of heaviness required ?
Cotton-Waste.
We are told in one of Tuesday’s papers of the various claims to
honour of Cotton, the successor in the Aldermanic Chair of the inge-
nious Mechi. We are glad to believe Cotton is the right man in the
right place; but it was surely superfluous to tell us that the said
Cotton was “ a conspicuous member of the Lancashire Relief Com-
mittee.” Surely everybody would have taken that for granted of
Cotton.
a passing thought.
The great difference between the young and the old is this—the
young have the world before them, whilst the old are behind the world.