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The Model Nation has its national debt of one thousand pounds, due to the Commissariat chest; and this burthen of the State costs his Excellency many a sleepless night, spent in vain conjectures as to the best mode of relieving the financial embarrassments. It is pleasant to learn from the model, how Government patronage is disposed of in the Parent country.
Selina Clarkson was a fine showy girl, with the sort of beauty to inspire boyish admiration, and Griff's had been a standing family joke, even my father condescending to tease him when the young lady married Sir Henry Peacock, a fat vulgar old man who had made his fortune in the commissariat, and purchased a baronetcy. He was allowing his young wife her full swing of fashion and enjoyment.
They threw doubts on the veracity of those with whom they conversed, and warned the Government to be cautious about believing, to the full, the statements made by individuals, committees, or newspapers. Sir Randolph Routh, the head of the Commissariat Department, in a letter to Mr.
The War Council, presided over by the War Minister, supervises all financial matters in connection with the army. There are also a High Court of Appeals, and the Head-quarters Staff, who supervise the execution of all military duties. Commissariat, artillery, engineer, medical, military education, Cossack, and judge-advocate departments complete the list of bureaus.
"'The commissariat and the staff? "'English to a man. "'The dockyard people? "'English. "'The postmaster giniral? "'English. "'What, English? sais you, and look all surprise, as if you didn't know. 'I thought he was a colonist, seein' the province pays so much for the mails. "'No, he'll say, 'not now; we have jist sent an English one over, for we find it's a good thing that.
The Public Prosecutor took the matter up very thoroughly, seeing, as he supposed, that only two inferior agents were implicated; but Johann Fischer, uncle to your Chief of the Commissariat Department, finding that he was to be brought up at the Assizes, stabbed himself in prison with a nail.
"But for goodness' sake, don't put me on sick rations! I'll die, sure, if you do." "I've ordered you the best the commissariat boasts heaps of meat, butter, even eggs, my boy. Think of it eggs you lucky young Turk!" laughed the surgeon. Then followed nights and days of torture. The "boys" would line up to the "sick-room" four times daily, and blandly ask how he was.
Our fish was swimming around finely, at the end of his cord, when the executioner arrived, and when finally hung up in a tree was safe from the marauders. This morning the fisherman was around again, hoping to obtain another dime from the commissariat; but though we had breakfasted creditably from the little "cat," we had no thought of stocking our larder with his kind.
Memorandum to Commissary-General Hewetson. Commissariat Series, p. 452. "A great deal of delay on the part of the Board of Works in the respect of drainage was occasioned by that body involving themselves in legal intricacies which were not necessary under the Act." O'Connell's Speech at the Baronial Sessions of Caherciveen.
If they threatened one another to confess the crime, it was merely to strike terror into each other and drive away the thought, for they would never have had strength to speak and seek peace in punishment. On more than twenty occasions, they went as far as the door of the commissariat of police, one following the other.
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