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Miscellaneous. Wreck Of The Noaw Eua.—Th...
Comments were also made on former recklessness and misconduct . Admiral Buckey addressing Captain Jolinstone , said that his conduct was likely to destroy ( unnecessarily ) public confidence in steam-ships . His certificate was cancelled . Signs of a Bad Winter . —At Manchester the incendiaries continue active , and tvarehouse property steadily vanishes . The police are vigilant , but not always successful . Sunday , it seems , is the favourite day . A Prnr . —There is no truth whatever in the allegation that the Right Hon . W . G . Hayter , M . P ., is about to retire from his office of Secretary to the Treasury .
Emigration . —Liverpool statistics tell us that emigration has decreased considerably the last few months . But still , during the present month , as many as 3230 emigrants have lef t Liverpool for Australia , whilst nearly double that number have been attracted to the' United States . Eton . and the Army . —It is a frequent subject of remark among Etonians how large a proportion of the officers -who have fallen in the Crimea were educated at Eton . Lord Carrington acknowledged this fact by a -very graceful compliment to the school , -which will not soon be forgotten . In the course of their march he led 3 us regiment ( the Royal Bucks Militia , now quartered in "Windsor ) into the Eton playing-fields . The boys
soon collected there in great numbers , much struck by the fine appearance of the regiment , th the mean time Lord Camngton went to the head-master ' s house to ask , in the name of the regiment , for a holiday *>* the school . On his return , being surrounded by the bo y s , he told them so , and added a few words something to the folio-wing effect : — " Boys , I cannot see Vhat a large proportion of the officers who have fallen in the ¦ war are Etonians without feeling how much the country owes to this school . At all times Eton "has been foremost in giving her sons to the service of their country , both in the army and navy , but nevermore than in the present wax ; and I am sure that you who are before me now are of the same stamp as those who
are so nobly maintaining the honour of their country , or have fallen cheering their men on . to victory ; and Eton-will , I am persuaded , continue to send forth those ¦ who will be the honour and boast of their country . To testify how much I think is owed to Eton , I will order my mea to present arms to you . " Upon this he advanced to the front of his regiment , which was drawn up in line , and , giving the preparatory word $ of command , he added , " Royal . Bucks Militia , present arms to the Eton hoys . " So novel and unexpected a compliment , mingling as it did with the recollection of those—fathers , brothers , or former companions—to whose gallantry Lord Carrington had alluded , affected verv deeply all that
were present . As if by one impulse , every hat was taken off , and , after a moment ' s deep silence , a cheer burst forth , deep , prolonged , and ringing , such as Eton boys give when they feel deeply . When the cheer had at length subsided , Mr . Buckle , captain of the school , called on his companions to give another cheer for Lord Carrington ; after which they accompanied the regiment as it marched through and out of the playing-fields . The parents and friends of the officers here alluded to will not read without emotion of this exceedingly well-timed and graceful act of homage paid by Lord Carrington and his regiment to the heroic conduct of those still engaged , as -well as to the memory of those for whose loss they are now mourning . —Times .
Hibernian Irreveeence . —At the Candonagh Petty Sessions , the Rev . N . C . Martin appeared to prefer a charge against S . Rankin , Esq ., of Ticmaleaguo , a justice of the peace . The allegation was , that Mr . Rankin had turned his back on Mt . Martin while the latter was preaching , stared rudely at him , and made a great noise by Blamming the door of his pew violently . Tho magistrates refused to receive the information , and Mr , Rankin declared he had never intended to act irreverently in the church . —Dublin Evening Mail Tim Votaqk to Australia in a Mackerel Boat . —A fishing bont has actually Bailed for Australia . She is named the Mystery , and is only 22 tons . Her crew , on leaving Mount ' s Buy , in Corn-wall , wore in the best health and spirits , and appeared sanguine of a Bafe and speedy voyage .
Mr . Maciucady at Manciiestkk . —At thq Manchester Mechanics Institution , Mr . Macready has been reading selcctiona from tho Poets . Ho was received with enthusiasm , nnd Jt is said that ho has lost nono of his power . The reading was for tho benefit of tho Institution . Cabs on Sunday . —As wo anticipated , tho rigid rule laid down by tho cab owners and drivers , that there should bo no public vohicnlar conveyance in our city on tlie Sabbath , hoa only held good for one day , simply becauso tho public would not tolerate tho inconvenience to which it led . Cabmen arc now to bo allowed every nlternato Sunday as a day of rest .- —North British JDuiljj Mail .
Hisn Majkbty ' s Tkisatiuc . —Some proceedings ( a writ of ejectment agalnHt Mr . Lumloy ) » o tortuous us to Tba incomprehonnibU ) to tho multitude , have occurred in tho Exchequer Chamber , which seem to givo prospect of tho- reopening of tho Opora-hoiiHO next , Hosaion . Wo would not recommend anybody to roly upon it .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when , all the world is by the verylaw of its creation , in eternal progress . —De . Arnold .
Public Opinion. That The -War Against Ru...
PUBLIC OPINION . That the -war against Russia has been grievously misconducted by the cabinets and generals and admirals of England and France , is now , emphatically , the opinion of Europe . This is an opinion which has been created , not by the hasty critics , misled by impatient liberalism , in the press , hut by the deliberate declaration , in public and in private , of military and naval men engaged in the war or watching it at a distance—of acknowledged statesmen of
all shades of politics- —and of those reliable men of practical capacity who are so well represented by Mr . James Nasmyth . Even the Governments themselves acknowledge to immense disappointments ; and those infelicitous journalists who are pledged to the ignominious rote of discovering the perfection of human capacity in all that may be done , or that may not have been done , by an emperor who a year ago was a laughing-stock , and by a set of nobles whose careers consist in confessions of
blunders , are suspiciously eager in defending their masters at the expense of Providenceand the accidents of war . But the common sense of the two nations perceives the blunders which have been committed ; and the condemnation of our own Government is all the more solemn that it is sorrowful rather than indignant . It is sorrowful because we cannot look for a safer future to the constitutional machinery of a change of ministers , a process which would exchange for stupid noblemen still more stupid noblemen—because we must trust merely to a hazardous control by the House of Comm <^ , which already the plushed publicists arc entreating to be patriotic —that is to continue to have faith in the lordly incapacity and high-bred imbecility which have succeeded in throwing away , one year , 20 , 000 gallant fellows , and about 20 , 000 , 000 / . of money , with results so clearly favourable to Russia that she finds herself in a . position sufficiently dignified to admit of her making proposals of peace , and securing- the alliance of the German Powers . But , as Liberals , wo can see consolations . 1 The more Lord Aberdeen attempted to pre-1 serve peace , tho more did he ensure an
iny tions of the war have educated the public of Europe into an idea of the greatness and grandeur of the war ; and , at this moment , so gloriously has opinion grown , so superbly has the national heart beat in holy horror of the illustrious agents of that ' law and order" so recklessly sacrificed , the war has completely changed its character . For yre are no longer , in the British estimation , at war for the defence of Turkey : we are at war for the destruction .
ha-ve attended the petty and clerkconcept tensity in the inevitable war—disgusting mankind with diplomacy , both on moral and intellectual grounds , accustoming our ovr & passive public to the idea of war as not destructive to commerce , and affording opportunities to journalists , to orators , and to conspiring political parties , to appeal to human sympathies in favour of the oppressed , and to > arouse human passions against the oppressors . And , so to the end . The catastrophes which ha"ve attended the nettv and elerk-v nrmoen *
or Russia . Great principles are again in agitation : great thoughts are lifting a great nation into a magnificent realisation of its own strength , of its supreme position , and of its human duties to humanity- England seems about to stand in her grandest attitude : not waiting the technical enfranchisement in which her pedant politicians of the Russell cast would seek to enslave her , she faces Europe as a nation of freemen going forth for Freedom The day of " -Liberalism is coining at last .
The eloquent oration of M . Kossuth , will deepen the tone of the present political feeling .. The sarcasms which have been levelled at him are not worthy of our press : the writers who think him harmless because he is so passionately illogical forget that logic does not govern the world— -that in en worship genius and follow it . M . Kossuth takes his point of view in preference to that of English statesmen , and he is 3 in consequence , a dangerous leader for England . Foreigners contrast the English
system with the Austrian or Russian system —they exaggerate our felicities ; and because our public opinion is supreme in commerce , finance , and internal administration , they assume that the English people direct in haute politique . The English people will , we fully believe , take their way in this wonderful , convulsive , revolutionary war now commencing ; and if the English aristocracy do not lead , the English aristocracy will be put on one side . But , meanwhile , M . Kossuth forgets
that we are governed by a cabinet only indirectly x * esponsible to a Parliament which is impotent when the nation is apathetic ; and that , because of that circumstance , it is simply absurd to advise England to join an American or a French republic in converting Europe into a federalism of independent nationalities . Hence his error in thinking thivt England was wrong , either in regard to principle or to strategy , in going to the Crimea instead of subsidising himself , Mazzini , and Lord Dudley Stuart , in
order ' to foment internal wars in the great despotisms . We began the war in order to rescue Turkey from Russia ; wo drove Russia across the Pruth ; and w next attempted to drive her out of the Crimea—thus ridding tho Black Sea of her fieofc , her prestige , and her menace of Turkey . We have found that our fleets , so invaluablo in preserving England , are of little use in assailing other powers . What
would have become of us if wo had not sought , in the first instance , the alliance of France , and , next , the neutrality of Germany ? Though all Europe wore against us , as happened in Nolson ' s and Napoleon ' s time , wo could maintain our own island and our commerce in safety ; but as our business was to drive Russia out of Turkish territory , it was properly our first « aro to securo tho armies "which wo ourselves wevo without . Nevertheless , M . Kossuth ' s appeal to English
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 2, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02121854/page/10/
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