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GENERAL HAUG'S AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION. Ou...
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I A JUDGE'S IDEA OF A JUDGE. We were mis...
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THR BARBARIAN TURK AND THE " ORTHODOX" C...
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Lord Clarendon Believes In Spain Again! ...
our Government to guarantee to his court , even a ^ mi nst ' the disaffection of the colonists . When quest ioned on the subject lately in Parliament , Lord Clarendon , confessed , that Sj ?^ in had broken her ti-eaty pledges , and that Cuban Governors had profited by her bad faith ; but , he said , the Ministry o . f General Lersundi had promised better behaviour in future , and he claimed credit for the reformed intentions of Spain . Since that claim we have had two examples of Spain and her conduct towards England : a piece of ground has been given , after forty years' entreaty , in which England may bury away her dead like dogs ; and the slave trade is kept up in Cuba with as much activity as ever .
Lord Clarendon appears to be a Minister doomed to express his trust in foreign potentates , qnljpt $ prove the extent of his credulity at the expfeiajJe of his sagacity . Very early in the Turkish afiair he declared that the wdrcLof the Emperor Nicholas , in disclaiming his intenl ^ jaf aggression on Turkey ^ was sufficient . % 6 m $ ^ ifetidon has had six inonthsV experience , anii | N ^ is accused of again making experimenfe in glance on the Russian Emperor . He has declared his faith in Spanish good intent , with what practical result we have seen . Under these circumstances it is that we learn the existence of a curious report in Madrid . We are told by a correspondent of the Morning Ohronicle that "M . Calderon de la Barca
had come to- some understanding with Lord Clarendon on various matters in which English interests are concerned . " This is alarming . We do not like this " understanding" between our mysterious Minister and the Minister of a Power which alternates between begging and repudiation . If " English interests" are concerned , why not state out before Englishmen the nature of the arrangements that are made ? England should understand the " understandings" by which / she is to be pledged . But the report is chiefly interesting to us as suggesting how diplomatists , English and Spanish , are disposing of national interests at the expense of all countries , as if they were personal matters .
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General Haug's Australian Expedition. Ou...
GENERAL HAUG'S AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION . Our readers will be glad to hear that General Ilaug , whose proposed expedition to examine the northern part of Australia we explained in our number of 11 th June last , hassucceeded in obtaining the most important assistance towards the accomplishment of that project . The Treasury has consented to make a grant of j 6 ' 2500 for his expenses . Nothing , we think , can be more creditable to everybody concerned than the result of this affair . Having proved his zeal and ability in the service of his Sovereign , having subsequently
proved a deeper political conviction and a frank sincerity in the service of European freedom , Ernest Ilaug has now , in the present doubtful state of public affairs , transferred his keen intellect , his good heart , and vigorous constitution , to the service of pmctical science . He has received material help from the Geographical Society , and especially from Sir Roderick Murchison , the president , who has not only lent that easily given thing , his countenance , but has taken much personal trouble to bring about an enterprise manifestly so beneficial to science , and especially to science as applied to the welfare of important communities . The Duke of Newcastle has
understood his true mission as a minister , and instead of limiting himself to that signal exercise of his power , the conferring upon our most important colonies tho crowning measure of their free constitutions , has now , moreover , placed his seal upon a proposition to extend tho scientific knowledge of our colonial dependencies . In this lie emulates the intellect of JoH ' er . son , who combined the ablest administration , tho most statcsman-liko faculty for organizing constitutions , with iia enlightened patronage- of scientific discovery . It is expected that General Ilaug will fiot out upon his expedition hi tho beginning of November , for Singapore , wlionco ho will proceed to tho northern coast of Australia . Tho most active
hU » j » h nvo taken to complete the arrangement of tho expedition within tho fow short weeks allotted to tho tank . But the same energy which has been Khown in bringing tho proposition to its present HucceBsful Htagc , ensures , / tho completion of tho preliminaries as well oh the vigorous prosecution <> f tho real work on tho untrodden lands of Australia .
I A Judge's Idea Of A Judge. We Were Mis...
A JUDGE'S IDEA OF A JUDGE . We were mistaken in supposing that Mr . Norton would not perceive the impolicy of adding to his voluminous works on the subject of liis own matrimonial vicissitudes : he has written another letter , professing to be an answer to Sir John Bailey . Into this letter we shall not enter ; we have one sole remark to make upon it . He explains that he appointed Sir John arbitrator between himself and his wife ; Sir John being , to use his own expression , " my sole legal adviser . " After that appointment Sir John " continued for
a short period to have my implicit trust and confidence , and I at that time wrote him several letters of the most private nature . ' * These letters have subsequently been printed , and they constituted evidence on . the other side ; but into that point again we do not enter , except to observe that Mr ; Norton avows having written letters to the arbitrator in whom he reposed his own implicit trust and confidence , in the expectation that they would be kept private ^ and apparently under the supposition that they were to be treated as friendly communications . Mr . Norton then saw that the arbitrator had become " completely infatuated b beautiful and talented
y a woman ; " influence , certainly , which it is not competent to us to deny on abstract grounds , for we remember the rule which is said to have prevailed in the Areopagus . "My intercourse , " says Mr . Norton , " with Sir John Bailey then terminated . " Down to-this point Mr . Norton had believed . " my sole legal adviser" to be also " friend ; " a phrase used in a manner which implies vexation that-Sir John ho . longer acted as might have been expected from " my sole legal adviser" and " friend . " We must remember that this implied complaint is levelled at a person whom Mr . Norton had at all events permitted to assume the office of judge between himself and wife .
The extraordinary light thus thrown by Mr . Norton upon Mr . Norton ' s view of tiie judicial position is rendered the more surprising when we remember that lie is himself a judge , and has to decide in questions between husband and wife . The method in which Mr . Nqrton acquired his position may perhaps account for the apparent discrepancy between his occupying it and his entertaining such views . He had been in possession of an office which it was proposed to abolish , and he resigned it when he became assured that lie should obtain another by favour of Lord Melbourne .
From Mr . Norton ' s own account of the affair , it is evident that in this delay to surrender the condemned office , unless ho should have a substitute , and in accepting as a provision to himself a position entailing judicial responsibilities , he regai'ded himself as not stepping beyond the bounds of correct regard to his own interests . The public will perhaps see reason to regret that offices involving judicial responsibilities should ever be conferred with reference to the necessities of a private
individual , instead of being reserved for those men alone who are especially suited for the service . Some men , during the many years of occupying such a position , under whatever circumstances they might have entered it , would have rendered themselves competent to tho duties : Mr . Norton ' s letter , complaining that the judge , in tho case of himself and his wife , jk > longer acted as might have been expected from " friend , " is dated on the 23 rd of September , 185 « 'J .
Thr Barbarian Turk And The " Orthodox" C...
THR BARBARIAN TURK AND THE " ORTHODOX " CHRISTIAN . Our vigilonfc Fronch contemporary , La Preasc , liaH tho following jiwfc mid woll-timod tribute to tho conduct of Turkey uh iv contriiHfc to that of llunniii tho " orthodox , " and ovun of Jior woMtom nllion , fcho 4 < c . ivilizod" I ' oworn . Dully powerful journals in tho itiiHrtiim intonsKb uro KLitfinatizintf Turkey an " bitrhuriiin , " " mivufjo , " "inftclol , " and thoHu odlciouH hiHtnunontH of RiiHniii who uro agitating for ft Oltrintinn Oreok-Kinpiro—Umj pot idou of tho Czur—uro HRiircoly Iohh unmoiiHurod In thoir vitupurutioiiH ng-ninul , tho patriotic MuhmuIiiiuh , in tho fovor of fchoir ndimi .-iUon for tliofio Idoul Atlioni .-niM who ho dofl-ly unlfco the prao . tico of highwfiyinon with fclio theory' of coiuititutional jjovominnnt .
" Vfio nol ) lo conduct" ( nnyt \ Iho /' jy ' . w ,: ) " of tho Ottoman population hmi not porhiipH Iwoii millloionU y hold up to oui udmlrafcion . Turlcoy iH ut thin moinont LravofHln ^ tho mont critical trial tlmfc » Htrito cun oxpoi'Umoo , and yot mIuco hint Muroh—for ( ho lutit nix month * ( hero lirui not , boon u nyinpfcom of dinordor , not a Blntflo outbroak , not an inmilfc ritf / iinnfc tho freedom of Chrlfitian wonihlp . A population urdont . intonHo , l ) iKot < id , lot it bo naid , in 1 ( , faith , attacked uh it IhIij it . H rolitfion and in i ( n ptitrlotiHin , bun confonned with an wliniriiblo unanimity , If wo may boliovo tho confYwHion of ovon ( Kiini-ofllclul Auutriun journu 1 n , to tho rooouunoiulutionii ol ' r / onoroiiH tolorution which Jmvo uintiuritcd from thoHullun .
_; This result is at once an neijSfa ^ the nation and goi vernment . . What more or Svha § . better could have been I ' done by any strong governmentj any . just government , placed at th , e head of a Catholio , Protestant , or Greek * Christian population ? " .
: Grand " Coo" D'Etat. The Solution So O...
: GRAND " COO" D'ETAT . The solution so often expected by our traders may come now that a Conference for Peace is to meet—not at St . Petersburg !! , not at Vienna , not at Constantinople , ; but at Edinburgh . And the heroes of the demonstration are to be Mr . Cobden , Mr . Miall , and Mr . Bright—anyone of them a match for Prince Gortzschakoff . The modern Athens may bring forth some new notion of protecting the Greek Church , and befriending its orthodox Czar—but it was not an old Scotch habit . to preach peace to an outraged nation , Turkey , too , has its border land , and its " land debateable , " and a Peace Conference at Edinburgh will have as little heed on the Danube as a Brahmin ' s sigh for peace would have had from Robert the Bruce .
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I N THIS DEPARTMENT , AS ALL OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTREME , . ARE ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR NONE . ]
! There Is Mo Learned Man "But -Will Con...
! There is mo learned man "but -will confess he hat"h j much pi-oSted "by reading controversies his senses awakened , and bis judgment- sharpened . If . then , it be profitable f ' er him to read , why oaould it noc , at "least , be tolerabla for his adversary to wribe . - ' - MlLTON .
Three Or Fonv Sunday*; Ago I Was Induced...
Three or fonv Sunday *; ago I was induced , by a friend to go and hear a discourse announced to be delivered in the open air , l > y a gentleman connected with the sect called the Plymouth Brethren . He was to hold forth at his usual place on tho Lower Esplanade . By some means , however , accidental or otherwise I have not learnt , when I reached the spot it was found that the Mormonites had stolen a inarch upon our Christian brother , and had succeeded in stealing away from him . not only his pulpit pedestal , but the greater part of his pious orthodox hearers . The Mormonite for sometime passed muster exceedingly
i ¦ : ! MORMONITES IN SOMERSETSHIRE . { To ( he Editor of the Leader . ) Sin , —The extraordinary success of Mormonism in Wales has within the past few weeks tempted the intrepid followers of Joe Smith to hazard a visit to the hig hly " evangelical" town of Westoii-super-Mare . The treatment which they have received here may be taken , I believe , as a very fair sample of what has been meted out to them elsewhere iu England . As some interest may pertain to these meetings , in illustration of tho extent of human credulity and ignorance , as of the vindictiveness and tyranny of the tinchristianized heart in matters of difference in religious belief , I shall , with your permission , trouble your readers with a brief outline of one or two Mormonito gatherings .
well , and with Bible m hand , found shelter and a quiet hearing through the mistake of his audience . Passages substantiating tho : latter-day order of tho priesthood , were descanted upon Avith fluency , and saving a shower of grammatical blunders with considerable power for one who had never darkened the portals of priestly Oxford or Cambridge . Tho apostle having at length sufficiently , as he imagined , strengthened tho gullibility of bis auditory , proceeded to tell them that ho had been visited by an angel from God , who had directed him to go forth and preach the Gospel , and also tmiong the . faithful to euro diseases . Here an indescribable' torrent of ridicule and
abuse followed this announcement ; ladies poked the npoHtlc with their parasols ; indignant ( j re I lire n foamed at the mouth with righteous indignation ; and a Kcore of voices in vain sought to bo heard amid the noise and tumult of tho evangelicals . Attempt after attempt was made by tho poor JNlornionito to proceed with his discourse , till at last Captain llewitMon , chivalrous in tho j > ulj > it as in . the field , succeeded in giviiig a death-Mow to tho dny ' a proceedings at Weston , by wending these tfugeiitz of the devil" helter-skelter to tho bottomlo . W , part of the bottomloss ' pit . . .. '
During tho week following this exhibition rumours wore rife that a accond visit of tho Mormonitos would take place on the ensuing . Sabbath , The , town was declared * -iu a atato of , sjleget , Traufe , those powerful auxiliaries in fighting the battle of tho ne <; t » , were t ' vtiely distributed . Donkies and donlcey-drivoiH were alike- put in requisition to awn t the conflict . And Avhon Sunday arrived nothing could exceed tho enthusiasm which the . J'li / ntoulh JirvlhrcH especiall y luunifeuted .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1853, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01101853/page/15/
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