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MISS NIGHTINGALE. (To tie Editor of the ...
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ARCHDEACON DENISON. (To the Editor of th...
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To all my dear friends who addressed to ...
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PRINCE ALBERT. (To the Editor of the Lea...
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SUNDAY TRADING ONCE MORE. (To the Editor...
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Rhinoceroses in Somersetshire,—At tUo an...
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Itaxy For The Italians. (To The Editor O...
bent on forcing her sheets to ^ Uon Austna & S 2 T & 5 SSSSTf f S ^ Stftstf sy ^ KssssW ^ ISS ^ ieK S ^»^ g as shall give him time to return before any be agreed UI l ! et Italians make the Peninsula their own ; let it be formed into what government or governments
they please , so that they be but Italian , arid are bound together by one common league ; let those governments educate the people and improve their physical condition by wise economical ltiws and administration ; let the Italian army be such as Italian soldiers can form , and the navy be such a one as Italy ' s geographical position w arrants , and then let us see what opposition Europe will offer to tfce "just rights" of Italians , and , if offered , what it shall bcapable of effecting against them .
e . This is not mere paper-staining . National independence and prosperity for Italy may be slowly and certainly achieved if the one desideratum , unity , be
not wanting . . . The question of an Anglo-Italian legxon has too many sides to be to uched on slightly , but we think , if "An Italian" can overlook the apparent incongruity of a nation fighting the battles of other nations while the ir own rem ains unfought , he may yet find advantages in Italians being instructed and practised in the use of arms when it shall be time to wield them in their own defence . ¦ ,. ~ , Let not " An Italian" misconstrue our differing with him on the one point of Italy ' s failure into any desire to palliate the conduct e ither of Europe or England . We feel Italian unity so all important to be obtained , and so omnipotent if obtained , that we must risk censure that we may be open to in having
tried to show how deficient it has been in the past . That if not we , our children and our children ' s children shall witness the union of Italians as a nation , and behold them prosperous in their national independence as the result of that union , is the faith of A BEUEVER IN ITALT FOR THE ITALIANS .
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THE LEADER . P * ° - > Saturday , __
Miss Nightingale. (To Tie Editor Of The ...
MISS NIGHTINGALE . ( To tie Editor of the Leader .. ) Sib , —I see by this week ' Leader that subscriptions are being raised to enable Miss Nightingale to establish an hospital on her own system of unpaid nursing . Perhaps it is hardly fair to make remarks on a statement which does not emanate from Miss Nightingale herself ; perhaps her friend Mrs . Herbert may not have intended to indicate the plan in its details ; yet while the subject is fresh in the minds of all readers of newspapers , I would wish to say a few words . We have in England no vast influence at once exciting and controlling like that of the Catholic Churchnone of the materials for creating an order of unpaid Sisters of Charity from the higher classes—for this is what an" unpaid system implies . Undoubtedly there are characters of a peculiarly noble and devoted stamp—such characters as that of Florence Nightingale herself , who & in carry out such a career with unabating energy—but among independent women , tempted as they are by all the employments and amusements of their rank , can she reckon on finding lifelong coadjutors ? Besides which , such a system would leave unaided one of the great movements of the age—a movement which it might so easily include—that of the endeavour to find freah modes of securing a livelihood to the female sex . There are so many women energetic , kind , patient , capable of perceiving the moral beauty of such work as Miss Nightingale ' s , to whom money is , however , a necessity , both for themselves and for those near and dear to them . Where is the moral dishonour of working , even in a noble cause , for money ? Man shall live by the sweat of his brow ; and whatever the social-creed , it is but too plain , and often too sad a fact , that woman must too . The barrister pleading for life , the judge administering justice , the physician healing the sick , the clergyman labouring for souls , —all these work for use , for benevolence , for religion , but also for money ; and is not the labourer worthy of his hire ? Apart from some extraordinary religious sanction , such as the Protestant religion cannot supply , no cause succeeds , no movement penetrates vitally in the heart of society which is not interwoven with the laws of that society . The same reasons which render the exertions of private companies . and contractors so infinitely more efficient than those of government functionaries , give a double weight to those efforts of moral enthusiasm which are based on what I may term the political economy of the case . Schools are never truly satisfactory till thoy are selfsupporting ) what people pay for they value and use to the uttermost * and for what they value thoy aro willing to pay . I am quite aware that it will be said 4 | that the poor need nurses ; but surely those nurses
might be instructed and paid on the same principle as the functionaries of all other benevolent institutions ; but the rich and the middle ciass also need nurses , need them wotully , and would gladly secure intelligent service by . paytnent . Those who wfll devote themselves to this work for the love of Christ and the human race , may still do so unpaid ; when we find them , we will honour them as we do her whom a whole nation honours ; without
but to let this great opportunity pass some effort to extend the sphere of paid occupations tor those many women , earnest and good , to whom it is a matter of daily bread , would indeed be to throw away a chance of organising one of those wiselyplanned schemes which strike deep into the social life of a people , and fructify a hundred-fold , not in one , but many directions . I am , sir , your obedient servant , A Subscriber—B * . Carisbrook , August 29 th , 1855 .
Archdeacon Denison. (To The Editor Of Th...
ARCHDEACON DENISON . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ') Dear Sir , —I should-be obliged if you would publish the enclosed letter . Yours truly , Joseph Wolff . Isle-Brewers Vicarage , August 27 , 1855 .
To All My Dear Friends Who Addressed To ...
To all my dear friends who addressed to me letters of remonstrance for having given evidence in favour of the Venerable Archdeacon of Taunton , the Rev . George A Denison : My dear friends , for thus I consider you , though we are totally at variance on this subject . You find fault with me , and therefore I shall at once lay before you , with the utmost candour , the sentiments and conviction of my heart and mind , and the motives by which I am actuated ! About ten years ago I myself fell into the mistake of protesting against the appointment of a gentleman to a highly responsible office on some foreign station . Now , though I could not retract at my dying hour one single iota of the
observations I made at that time , I nevertheless expressed my deep regret for the step I had taken , for I felt that it savoured of a spirit of persecution . I therefore not only communicated frankly my sincere sorrow to my frierid the Rev . Doctor McNeile , of Liverpool , and also the E arl of Shaftesbury and others , but took good care ever since not to appear again as an accuser , and stood aloof in the cases of Dr . Hampden and the Rev . Cornelius Gorham ; and only a few months ago , when I was excited with indignation At the Popish practice prevailing , not in a society composed of members of the High Church or Tractarian party , but in a society composed of members of the so-called Low Church or Evangelical party ,
I was about to protest openly against that Popish practice ; but on reconsideration of the whole matter , I wrote to a friend that I would not give trouble to my old friends , and I desisted from my purpose . But it is another thing to be a persecutor , and another thing to stand up as the friend , defender , and advocate of a godly , pious , philanthropic , zealous , devoted servant of Christ , and conscientious pastor of his flock , as I consider my most excellent friend the Archdeacon Denison to be , and , moreover , an attentive reader of the' Sacred Scripture . I was present , I say—i Was his guest—when he was studying th $ subject of the Real Presence , and let me only state a dialogue which took place between him and me on that most important subject .
I said to him : " Denison , let us examine the sentiments of the Fathers on this point ! " Denison , in his usual manner , swung his arms about , and replied : "No , I have nothing to do either with the Fathers or tradition ; I shall stick to the Scripture /" And to the Scripture he only adhered ; and the result of his investigation was , that the packed commis " sion at Clevedon , though they had perfectly made up their mind before they congregated to crush that excellent man , were forced to admit that his sentiments were not Romish ! What are they , therefore ,
I ask ? 1 hear that they are condemned as Lutheran . Let this be granted for a moment for argument's sake . Has the Church of England not decreed that any candidate for orders in the Church of England may be ordained by the Bishop of Jerusalem by simply subscribing the Augsburg Confession f And was not Bishop Gobat exalted to the sky by having offered openly in the Church of Jerusalem his right hand of fellowship to the Lutheran minister Valentiner , sent without episcopal ordination to superintend the Lutherans in Jerusalem ? Is a doctrine to bo considered orthodox at Jerusalem and heretical at
East Brent ? Let me declare openly to you , that if you succeed in depriving Archdeacon Denison of his endowments , you have deprived his poor parishioners of an affee * tionato and benevolent shepherd . I want to know whether the Rev . Joseph Ditcher would over give up the greater part of his parsonage for a school for the middle classes as Mr . Denison has done ? Alas there is frequently a great deal of truth in what the infidels say , ' that the Protestants have at times been
the greatest persecutors . " And this is also confirmed by the conduct of the Protestants towards Kepler , Hugo Grotius , and others ; and I only declare to you openly , that if my friend Denison is not suffered to live in peace , I shall produce more example for strengthening the assertions of Hunte , Tholuck , aud Sidney Smith I I am , my dear friends , Yours affectionately , Joseph Wolff .
Prince Albert. (To The Editor Of The Lea...
PRINCE ALBERT . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Sir , —Will you oblige your French readers by stating the offices ( with substantial incomes attached ) which are united in the person of Prince Albert ? It will be interesting to know how far one so high in station has protested by his example against the immoralities of favouritism , pluralities , and sinecures ; vices which it is now pretty evident have largely contributed to sap the foundations of England ' s strength . Enquirer . Paris , August 25 , 1855 .
Sunday Trading Once More. (To The Editor...
SUNDAY TRADING ONCE MORE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . " ) Sir , —In a former number , " One of the Mob" sneers at my previous advocacy of a day ' s rest to the shopkeeper ; but he neither denies any thing advanced , nor yet palliates anything I denounced ; indeed , he as completely mistakes my position as the mob do the whole question . The real question is , Shall we have one day in seven for repose or recreation , or shall we not?—it being understood , pay all tlie same . If we are to have a Sunday ' s rest , 1 beg to ask both " of , " and the whole mob , Why are shopkeepers to be excepted from that regulation ? Is their labour , so light that they ' need to be lengthened in their
hours , and days also ? or is it impossible that in . six days the people cannot , i they will , supply themselves with all they . require , swipes included ? I will not insult the mob by saying they cannot ; and it thus becomes a case of will . Now , if it is for convenience required of shopkeepers to labour at their calling on Sunday , pray , dear mob , do be consistent , and agree to do the same yourselves ; because it would be very convenient to your masters that you should do the same ; and mark , if the law did not protect you , competition and necessity would soon compel it . Judaswhwill
There is ever some Jew , or some , o be stepping over wholeso me regulations , and compelling habits publicly injurious . The Factories Act both regulates the hours per day and the days per week to the labouring class , and that vastly to their advantage ; and why we should be cut out of the same right or priviledge of law , is to one shopkeeper a complete mystery . Of course , I may shut up my shop if I choose , but if my neighbour does not , I lose what he gains ; but if all are compelled , none lose , for all have the same chance of time . But it is useless
to argue for a day of rest , for none deny its advantages , both personal and social ; what I contend for , is the enforcement by law , in « rder that all may enjoy it . Of course , the " all" ia Bound by sheer necessity ; and I have again to afflrni there is no necessity in the metropolis for Sunday trading , in either food or clothing . It is argued , " wages are paid too late . " Let that be altered then ; and the best way of arriving at it is by a strict enforcement of " no Sunday trading , " and by an earlier closing on Saturday nights . One of the surest signs of social improvement is a fitting of means to the end for social wellbeing ; the retailers , as a class , are far too long employed already , and to add Sunday to their already too long six days' hours is too bad , oven for tho
mob . It appears , however , the mob have no wish to injure the shopkeeper ; but that their rest-day being advocated by a Lord is the whole cause of the objection to the Bill . A noble reason , truly , e specially by that mob , who are so prone to rush after aristocratic sights . Have tho mob become democratic all at once ? Perhaps we may hear something of ^ ° Charter by-and-by , if wo progress so favourably . John Holmes , Shopkeeper .
Rhinoceroses In Somersetshire,—At Tuo An...
Rhinoceroses in Somersetshire , —At tUo annual mooting of tho Somerset Archaeological Association , which extended over throe days , it was stated that the remains of a rhinoceros and other extinct animals had lately been discovered in tho neighbourhood of Taunton . Those- remains wore found embedded amongst northern trees , indicating that tho climate in which thoy Hvod must have been much tho same as it is now in England . Tirn Government a Bad Paymaster .. — Another poor woman , tho wife of a man in tho Land Transport Corps , has applied to a magistrate , to complain that sho haa boon unablo to got tho money which her husband has authorised her to receive out of his pay . It was stopped after tho first two months ; and app lications ut tho War Office and at tho office of tho Land TrttiiHnort Corps have failed to bring any redress . Those cases havo becoino very frequent of lato .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091855/page/14/
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