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g d8P8fc r» THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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INDIA Am> THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON. The Over...
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MAURICE'S LECTURES. The fourth lecture o...
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"THE SANCTITY OF DOMESTIC INTERCOURSE." ...
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< l ^^^^^^ p JD ^ ag away , and , doubtless , you will \* Hte ^^^ mjffiMirfielsingfors and its giant protector fi \ S ? fea ^^^| ffi || l tfiSen bombarded . * Don't you be-> # ^^ i dt # at eac . § un fired **» the Gulf of . j ^^ M ^^^^^^ eij ^ lhousarid echoes in England , and ~ s \ ^ yt ^^^ f ^^^ jesf ^ vonted veracity and fertile imagi' \^ afaan ^ pr | ate 8 '' victories for the million where no b & ffiU & Xw'fteen fought aJad no gun fired . We did not communicate , and poor old W ., our assistantsurgeon , who has a brother in the Baltic , is not one inch nearer seeing him now than he was when separated from him by the North Sea . There is a chance , however . Sixteen sail are in the ofijng as I write ; probably Sir Charles , with some of the French division in company . What a sight ! At anchor in Baro Sound we have twenty sail , including Belleisle and Resistance .
"lam going with others to land to-day or tomorrow . From the top of Baro Lighthouse the eye plunges into fielsingfors , and we can count fourteen sail of Russian liners in the mole . Jolly ! There was an exciting chase about one a . m . : four of the divisional guard boats after a powerful gunboat that sneaked out from one of the myriad of islands which encircle this iron and barbarous coast ; she escaped , however . These gunboats have eighty men on board , pull sixty oars , with two 32-pounders , one forward and one aft , and two 18-pounder carronades .
" God bless you . I will write again shortly , and if anything occurs you shall hear . If you were only to see the nature of this rocky , threatening land you would say it is impossible to do great things in a hurry ; and nothing can be done of importance without some miraculous intervention of chance , and an army of 200 , 000 men to assist and co-operate . The land is not high—far from it , —but thousands of intricate islands , hidden shoalsand
, other dangers to mariners , combine to throw obstacles in the path of ships ; and the only glorious thing here is the eternal daylight . The sun sets at a quarter to ten , and xises at a quarter past two , and we have not lighted a lamp even in the foggiest weather . Success to old England , and bad luck to the Czar 1 Fancy , only twenty-eight miles from an enemy ' s fortress , and as comfortable as if we were riding at Spithead .
" This goes by Dantzic . "We sent old Charley a sheep , and have disposed of all our private stock in favour of the poor devils who have been cruising for the last six-weeks without anchoring .
G D8p8fc R» The Leader. [Saturday,
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India Am> The Russian Squadron. The Over...
INDIA Am > THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON . The Overland Mail brings news to the 23 rd of May from Bombay ; and to the 6 th of May from Hong Kong . The monsoon in Burmah was ushered in on the 23 rd of April by a tornado , which extended several hundred miles into the interior , and occasioned much loss of life on the Irrawaddy and its affluents . A fleet of 35 boats left Moulmein on the 19 th ult ., having on board the head-quarters of the 36 th Madras Native Infantry and the third of a company of European Artillery , for Sitang and Showgeen . They were , caught , it seems , in the terrific gale of the 23 rd , when about 30 miles below Sitang . One
boat ' s company have reached Pegue , and reported that the * ' bore" came mountains high , and caused the -whole of the rest of the fleet to disappear . Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone , who was proceeding to join his regiment at Tonghoo , being in a good boat , weathered the " bore" and the wind , and got safe into Sitang , where , however , ho waB robbed of all he possessed by the Burmese . He saw , it is said , 10 boats , with men in them , go down . What has become of the other 25 boats is not known . The Burmese , however , were of opinion that many of those missing when the accounts left might yet turn up from creeks in which they had sought shelter . " In Eagoon , " says the Chronicle ,
Barracks and houses were unroofed , the Government bazaar was destroyed , trees were torn up , and , from the quantity of nun which fell , the foundations of many houses wore loosened . One native schooner went down in tho river , and tho Pluto stoainboat , which was proceeding from Mou mom to Bassein , with 800 troops on board , was seen making signals of distress . From tho latest news wo gather thftt this boat had been able to put buck to Moulmoiii , but with the loss of cargo and guns . Tho head-quarter detachment of the 8 th irregular cavalry that marched for Fromo have had to come back . They returned on tho 1 st , having found tho wholo country two feet deep under water . The troops are healthy , nnd tho condition of tho province of Aopuo is * decidedly improving . Lnrco and Nourishing villages ore springing up , nnd tho capabilities of tho country aro oxoiting great expectations . ' " . ! i | , J > ;
**»<» now charter camo into operation on tho 4 th ot May ; the alteration will principally affect tho Bengal Presidency , which will ho greatly benefited by the change . Under tho former state of things tlio Governor-General was prevented by other claims on nlB time from attending sufficiently to the affairs of bo quiet a province as Bengal , and ho had not tho local experionco so desirable In regulating tho affliirs ot a subordinate Government which is possessed by the new X-ieutennnt-Qovernor , Mr . HaUiday . Tho
emoluments of this governorship are to be 10 , 000 / - per annum , an official residence , and an establishment of attendants at the cost of 60 / . monthly . The secretary to the Government of Bengal is to draw 3600 J . yearly , and each of the two under secretaries 1500 / . The Lieutenant-Governor will carry on his duties in direct correspondence with the Governor of India , but reports are to be made direct to the Home Government . He will have authority over all the territories hitherto under the authority of the Governor of Bengal , excepting the Tenasserim provinces
and Pegue . 3 Tr . John Peter Grant has succeeded Mr . Halliday in the Council of India , but will draw only 8000 Z . per annum . The first meeting of the legislative Council of India was to have taken place on the 20 th inst . Mr . C . Allen and Mr . Cecil Beaden are mentioned as nominees of the Lieutenant-Governors of Bengal and the North-West provinces . Madras is to send Mr . Daniel Elliott ; and Mr . Arthur Malet has already left Bombay to take his seat . The number is completed by Sir L . Peel , the Chief Justice , the Hon . Mr . Peacock , and Mr . Mills , of the Calcutta , Sudder Court .
At their first meeting on the 20 th Sir Lawrence Peel intended to move for leave to bring in a bill for the revision and codification of Indian law . This , if adopted , will at once place the Legislative Council of India in antagonism with the Indian law commission in England , and the motion is so intended . Sir Lawrence Peel has always expressed his opinion very strongly regarding the necessity of legislating for India in India , and I think it likely that he will carry the majority of the Legislative Council with him .
Colonel Cautley , the engineer of the lately opened Ganges Canal , has left India , and the Governor-General has issued a most complimentary order on the occasion . Deeming it one in . which the ^ rules and precedents of the service may ~ be broken through , he directs that lie shall embark on board the Governor-General ' s yacht , and shall receive , as he passes , a special salute of 13 guns from the ramparts of Fort William . The Russian squadron is supposed to have taken refuge on the coast of Kamschatka . One of its
vessels was seen about 30 days since at Woosung , where she had put in for intelligence . After deducting the vessels ordered home , our naval force in those seas consists of 15 vessels of the Royal navy , mounting 234 guns ; of 27 steamers of the Indian navy mounting 120 guns of very large calibre and heavy metal , and of 12 sailing ships of the same service , mounting 109 guns ; thus making a total of 54 vessels and 463 guns , exclusive of the French squadron . It is not the Russian squadron that is feared by our mercantile marine so much as pirates from California sailing under Eussian colours .
Maurice's Lectures. The Fourth Lecture O...
MAURICE'S LECTURES . The fourth lecture of the course , delivered on Thursday last , was full of interesti ng matter connected with the main subject . The difficulty of furnishing instruction for the working-classes , of such a kind , and in such n form as shall bo acceptable to them , was first dwelt on . The lecturer instanced the powerful effect of music ( as it has , in these latter years , been taught by Mainzer , Hullah , and others ) in working upon the inert nature and latent faculties of the mechanical and agricultural labourer . Tho beneficial result of learning music is now felt and appreciated throughout the land by the more intelligent among the labouring classes . Neither they themselves , nor their teachera , could perhaps give a clear and coherent account of the way in which this art acts upon the mind—raising the feelings—softening tho manners—clarifying tho intellect . The lecturer was particularly happy in las description of the subtle mysterious influence wrought on the emotional nature of the most ignorant rustic by soft , exhilirating , or elevating melodies ; and through the emotional nature upon the abiding affections and tho intelligence . Ho then touched upon tho philosophy of tho matter — especially as regards Englishmen . Ho said it soomed to him that music was an art particularly adapted to our countrymen , since it appealed at once to two of the strongest instructive feelings within us , viz .: tho love of freedom and the lovo of order ; and to this circumstance he attributed tho success of all attempts to impart popular musical education . Ho thence took occasion to speak with emphasis his own conviction that any sort of education offered to working men must gratify their lovo of freedom and their lovo of ordort that unless it did this they would look
with suspicion upon any system of education offered them , or perhaps reject it . Ho would not have his hoarora suppose that tho love of freedom was stronger in the he art of tho English working man than tho lovo of order . On tho contrary , ho felt that the dcsiro for order in thoir lifo , for organisation in work , was essential to their happiness . This was clearly apparent to all persons who lund read attentively tho accounts of tho lato strike at Preston . In tho seeming anarcliy and contusion there , it was evident that ordor and a sense of its iinportnnco to them and to
the object they had to bring about was prevalent among the -workmen . Education to be acceptable to the labouring classes must not have regard only to making them better labourers but better men . It must make them free —it must consider them not as " hands" but as souls —not as things but as persons . Again , nothing should be taught them for the sake of supporting something else . Physical science should be taught without any view to the doctrines of Christianity Well-meaning , religious persons often do harm to the cause of Christianity as well as the minds of those they seek to benefit , by not allowing secular instruction to stand on its own basis . No truth , i . e ...
no part of the great absolute truth , can be subversive of any other truth , i . e ., of any other portion of the great absolute truth . All those engaged in carrying out the useful hint concerning the teaching of common things should bear that in mind . The teaching o f uncommon things , of high and spiritual things , not immediately connected with the working man ' s work , here , on this earth , is that sort of teaching which , the best among them-will always crave for the most . This must be provided for . Mr . Maurice spoke of the good points he would borrow from the systems of the secular teachers , on the one hand , and the religious teachers on , the other j he touched on the admirable adaptation of the training
m the Jesuit schools to the end which their conductors have in view ; but this end was the reverse of that "which he wished to inculcate . Men , and especially working men , must not be made into intelligent machines ,, but into thinking :, self-acting creatures . The end of all education is to mnke man free ;—free from the tyranny of other men ' s passions and desires ;—and from his own ; which last is eminently difficult of attainment . On that account we would earnestly press it upon the thoughtful reader . Education of the right kind , intellectual and moral , can alone make a free roan or a great man . To the end of time the ancient aphorism will be a deep truth , " Greater is he that ruleth his own spirit than he that taketh a city . "
We have given but an imperfect reflex of the light which pervaded this lecture . It was the best we have yet heard , both as to the matter and the mode of illustration . It often bordered on imaginative and poetic eloquence , and it was throughout characterised by the earnest feeling and scholarly thought for which the lecturer is famous .
"The Sanctity Of Domestic Intercourse." ...
" THE SANCTITY OF DOMESTIC INTERCOURSE . " A case of libel iu its moat cowardly form , was tried before Chief Justice Jervis in the Court of Common Pleas , on Saturday . The plaintiff was Mr . Lefroy , a solicitor in Piccadilly ; the defendant a " gentleman " dnd magistrate of Somersetshire . His Dame was Cridland . He married iu 1831 , but his wife falling into delicate health , he left her and lived -with another woman . In 1848 Mr . Lefroy acted as tho solicitor of Mrs . Cridland in Obtaining a divorce a mensd et thoro } and Cridland was ordered to allow her 350 / . a-year . Since then she had lived with her sister-in-law , Mrs . Upliarn , at Taunton . The libel was contained in a letter enclosed in an envelope addressed to Mr . Upham . Tluit gentlemaa opened th « enclosure by Mrs . Cridland ' s directionsread the
, letter and forwarded it to Mr . Lefroy . Hence the action . The letter was addressed to tho defendant ' s wife as " madam , " and it commenced by accusing her of having pawned his knives , forks , barometer , clock , and God knows what ; ' * and contained some scandalous imputations against Mrs . Cridland and her sister , accusing them in tho grossest terms of gaining their living by ^ immoral practices . The * writer threatened to inquire among pawnbrokers for his property , and if not successful to advertise the matter in tho Times , nnd ho concluded by referring to Mr . Lefroy , in a passago which constituted tho libel com plained or : Ho said , " You need not rdvr mo to your solicitor , Mr , Lefroy , for tho sneaking bruto cannot look mo in tho face without looking as if ho had been guilty of some dirty transaction . " And tlld vvrifni' tllf > n in frlin fnrrn nf n nnnutUn inaimiatiui
that Mr . Lefroy ' a bill had been paid by grossly immoral conduct on tlio part of Mrs . Cridland and her sister . The truth , was that Mr . Lefroy'a bill for tho proceedings in tho ecclesiastical court would hivvo been about 150 / ., but from a feeling , of kindness he hud only charged tho amount of money wbioh . he had boon out of pocket . Mr . Uplunn , Mrs . Cridland , and Mrs . Mary Cridland , her sister , wore examined , and sustained tho ubovo statement . Mr . Lofroy was also examined ; in the course of cross-examination he declared that ho had never mud he would send the letter in question to every magiatrato in Mio county of Somerset ., but ho nuid that no had a good mind to msml it to tho cimirmau of tho magistrates , for such a man no tho defondunt was not iit to be a magistrate , nnd to uit with ; gontlemen .
Tho defence rolled on by Mr . Serjeant Bjlcs waa that tho letter luul boon written " in tho sanctity of domestic iutorcourne , " und wa » n privileged communication . Tho Lord Chief Juwtico j in Humming up , said thnfc this was not a chbo of n nrnn writing " under tho jwnctily of domoatio intercourse , " in which ho applied to tho maternal head of lila family for counsel and nnsistanoo from her affection , nnd experience ; but it was tho case of a man writing i \ ( liaRUHtinfj , low . vulgar , abusivo loiter to n woman who was divorced irorn nor hunband : nnd ho f « r from tho dofondunt writing under t , ho sanctity of domestic intercourse , ho had sonb n letter culling hiu wife and lior aistur protttitutew . and bud tho impudenoo to say to hia own wife that ho hud had iutoroourflo with her eietor . Aa to tho diunngcu .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 1, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01071854/page/10/
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