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1168 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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age , in behalf of the British people . In the Church what honourable , beyond Mr . Noel , ever gained even a respectable place ? At the bar Mr . Norton ( through Mrs . Norton ) got a metropolitan court , and Mr . Wortley , by cultivating a knowledge of fish dinners , became City Recorder . With regard to commerce , as the Irish officer " died of love , ( through drink , ) last year , " the Duke of Bridgewater made a fortune , by an inevitable canal ; and Lord Alfred Paget , having once wandered to Shoreditch , was pounced upon , and made a railway director , to his astonishment—as his
countenance evinces , ever since . True , a Plantagenet is Chairman of the London and North-Western , but that may be put down as a railway accident . Then , in literature ? Byron , it has been often said , was an accidental Lord , who owed his brains to a vulgar Scotch woman ; and , since Byron , not a presentable poet from the titular grandees , except Mr . Julian Fane , who , perhaps , may get some laurels for his order . As to the crowd of younger sons , sprung from the land consumerefruges , they , with all their start and advantages , are beaten into back places , even in the easiest
work , by vigorous new men , thinking less of the glory of having had a grandfather , than of the honour of leaving a fortune for a grandson . The fact is , that the detrimentals wont work : born into shifty affluence , it is easier to struggle on in a false position than to struggle out of it ; and , in our generation , " fast" is so much the vogue , that a man of thirty thinks he has gone through enough , and is entitled to lounge away an existence not enjoyed because not exhausted . The detrimental is , in short , " a swell" till his waist becomes bulgy and his hair thin , and his pulse . twittery ; and
then , to use the fine expression of Macaulay , having lost ' his youth , he throws his manhood after it in despair : toddling on , accordingly , to malignant fogydom . The utter inutility of younger-son-ism , as a class , fills a philosophical spectator with melancholy ; and as idle men of unrigid careers are mischievous , such a spectator , deploring the expense of such a class to the people , must also speculate upon the effect on " society . " The honourable Mr . de Trop , who has been in all the
capitals of Europe , and has become a man of the world , will tell you , frankly , that society is in an awful state , Bir , —cuss him , if Princesses are not as available as grisettes—that is , creme de la creme for the strawberry leaves ; and as to the West End of London , why , hang him , if it isn ' t a doosed deal worse than " Venice ever was . "Why ? Because younger-son-ism counteracts the holy influences of our reformed religion .
The Parliamentary younger son is essentially of the class , with the class characteristics ; and Lord Henry Lennox may l > c taken fairly as a specimen of Iris order . Nobody ever heard of Lord Henry Lennox : and that is the very reason why he should bo . selected as a sample of the social and political detrimental . Lord Henry Lennox in a hou of the Duke of Kiclnnond , and has no appearance of being ashamed of his ancestry . Mr . Wiekhain , the celebrated Kadieal , having been intrigued out of Chichoster by bin CJraco the Duke , his Grace Hucceeded in returning Lord Henry for that
highly independent borough ; ami as member for Chichestor , Lord Henry Lennox Hits , or rather strolls , jib component part of tins British Legislature . An an M . P . he in not eminent , and Iu ' h principal Parliamentary actwas in running out , for , : indrunninginwibli , a ' . inublcr of cherry-brandy for tlio refreshment of Mr . Disraeli , ¦ when that remarkable financier was reaching the fifth hour of his immortal Budget . For that act Lord Henry Lennox got . 1200 / . ; that in , he wa . s a year hi office , and he wan n . Lord of the Treasury . I »\> r lie is a Derbyito , or wan ; ho may return to the allegiance
of Lord Aberdeen , who made him once ; i preeiswriter . Lord Henry Lennox parts bin hair in the middle , and is doubtleHH in favour of a juste m-Uirn policy . Generally speaking , Lord Henry Lennox , lilt * ' a large majority of the inhabitants of elul > H , in in favour of 1200 / . a year . He is also against the endowment <> f lioinan Catholics , their teaching , in his opinion , being immoral ; and you may nno him , any
evening ( hiring the season , in the omnibuH-box of the Opera , or in the stalls of the Hayniarkot , with hin back to the stage and bin hands in his pockets , looking vaguely Honulorial in the eyea of the IVee people in the galleries . Ho considered , for Home yearn , that 'ho unrestricted importation of foreign corn would lie ruinous to this happy nation ; but he would now prefer a " revision of taxation" to a , reversion of the coin lawn . Thai in to nay , lie jmln
that opinion in Dod ; he was never known to mention anything in the House ; and at Chichester he is not confidential—certainly not voluble . When he needs relaxation from studying the complicated action of British politics , he goes on the turf ; and he is said to be better able to make a book than a speech . His career , political , consists in cheering Mr . Disraeli and advising Lord Stanley to go ahead . He has a great horror of Sir J ames Graham , and thinks , or thought , the Coalition " mean . " He hates Mr . Bright , because he is so personal , and laughs at Mr . Hume ,
because he is so scrupulous ; and , on the whole , he doesn't believe the Radicals are in earnest in deprecating bribery , while he is sure the Whigs are sham Liberals , —and he hates shams ,- —as he told the people of Chichester when , just after his election— they pelted him . He thinks Lord John Manners a fine poet , and agrees in the importance of saving our old nobilitie ; and he is proud of the British constitution , but still thinks it twaddle to abuse Louis Napoleon , and considers Kossuth and those fellows humbugs . What is to become of this
country he is not quite sure about ; but he knows this , that the Radicals would render Great Britain ungentlemanly . He does not mind the people having a small , subdued , voice in the House ; he supposes he cannot help that ; but he thinks our statesmen should be more contemptuous of the pressure from without . He is also disgusted that the big constituencies send up men who are able to talk . There is his brother , March , and his brother , Alexander , and himself— - three Members , sir , and representing a whole Dukewhy the three never occupied an . 'hour in talking to the
House—not altogether between them ; and he would like to know if the large towns ought not to be as moderate . Their votes are equal to all the Manchester and half the Liverpool representation ; and yet they never intrude , except when a change of Ministry occurs , and then surely three votes are entitled to 1200 ? . a year between them ? He is not altogether opposed to the coming Reform Bill . He will not deny that it was a good thing to sweep away the rotten boroughs ; and he is sure the county franchise ought to be extended to counteract the radical fellows . At the same
time he is not so sure that the Radicals are the popular men after all . He shouldn't wonder if Disraeli were to propose universal suffrage ; and , by Jove , he believes the rabble would prefer lords to millownera after all . Meanwhile , even when without the 1200 Z . a-year , he is for keeping faith with the public creditor , and all that sort of thing ; and he ' s d—d if ho wont always vote for keeping up the Church , and all that sort of thing . And that sort of thing is just as popular and safe as any other sort of thing . Whence doubts as to British privilege to dictato to Tuscany and appoint Colonial Bishops . NoN-ErjEcaxm .
1168 The Leader. [Saturday,
1168 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The "Times" On The National Cause In Ita...
THE " TIMES" ON THE NATIONAL CAUSE IN ITALY . Wk notice with true satisfaction an improvement in tlio Times , which we may he permitted to ascribe not only to n . senso of whal ; is duo to public opinion , hut to a feeling of justice in the conductors of that journal . Not , long fiinco , a garbled und distorted report of certain inddents in . Italy encouraged our grout contemporary to mufco a general attack upon the llenublican party , and M ' azzini in particular , whom it accused , with copious vituperation , of promulgating a plan for the tyrannical coercion of opinion , exactly like that actually enforced by Austria and the Italian ( Jovernmentti . Muzzini went a . denial ( which
was not inserted ) , with evidence ol hin maintaining tho totally opposite doctrine ; und ho might have pointed to liis Government in Rome for proof of tolerance carried almost to a point of impolitic indulgence . On Thursday , the Timer , took a chnrncteri . stie advantage of tho indiscretion of ill-reported speakers at the Polioh meeting in the Hanover-square . ' ItooniN , to hurl another Mow at the national lenders . It quoted houio phrases uttered by a foreign fronlloina . il , a friend of Mazzini ' n , who , according to this report , avowed Socialistic ; conviction *) , and declared that tho periimiiont success of revolution involved tho mid . nocoMsil . y of | , | , ( . guillotine . Now , thin recital of the lunfjuii . . 'o uttered by Oolonol J'ianciani wan u total
uiinconceprion , o \ vni | r , We suppoMc , to his having spoken in I ' roiich . . II ,, ,, M ( . (| | , he word guillotine to expreHHcapil . nl punishment { rcrionUly , just oh w « , vrawil in Old Utiilcy trutlitioiiH , should use the word gallows , and his argument win addressed to Hume who deprecate war as a calamity a . calamity , ho admitted , which we muni , resort to only upon extremit y , as wo may resort to tho gnllowtt to avoid ( il . dl worse calamities . ' Colonel i'iirnciani was distiuguiMJied for a conspicuous nl ,, Ju the heroic defence of Venice , and is not the man to suffer , much less to advocate , a dastardly terrorism , , , ( i 1 ( lI ) victor Hugo , as implacable a denouncer of t yranny , and an deeply wronged an any patriot , who yet in | , j () n < -w lyrical outburst of indignation and tiorrow , * ardently protests in behalf * O / ia / imcultt .
of the people , against the thought of a sanguinary retaliation , and emphatically insists that the resurrection of the new Republic shall be as pure and stainless as the people's cause . The Times , however , admits a statement from . Colonel Pianciani , and in - the same number devotes two columns , to , a long letter , singularly exact and temperate in st yle , correcting , by fhe actual oxperience of an eye-witness , Austrian views ' of Italian affairs . Such of bur readers as have perused the communication '
of a " Traveller Jn Italy , " will seem to ¦ have been reading explanations that have been furnished from time to time in our own columns , but it is something to secure for those explanations the countenance of the Times . Such a letter we may well believe , would scarcely have been admitted by a journal which so lately refused to Mazzini himself the calumniated exile , space enough for his own vindication had not the name oi the writer been as unexceptionable as his evidence .
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Tiiere is no learned man "but -will confess lie hath . much profited by reading controversies , hid senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . I \\ then , it "be profitable for him to read , why shouldit net , ' at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write—Hilton-
Scotch Oethodoxy. (To The Editor Of The ...
SCOTCH OETHODOXY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) SlE , —It is a curious study to trace the connexion between the circumstances of an individual and the development of his character , but still more curious the connexion that seems to subsist between the country the man inhabits and the man himself . The analogy between the two is certainly surprising . Let the children of another age account for it as they will , the facts remain . Cold , bleak , and cheerless , dull , foggy , and dropsical , the resemblance between the countr y and the aboriginal intellect is complete . Such is Scotland . Stubborn as her mighty hills , barren as her rocky soil , uncultivated as her mountain tops , her soul is still . Stern , rugged , and uncompromising , she maintains the character of her fathers , except where the friction of some nobler soul has thawed her mental
icicles , and kindled latent sparks mto a flame . Then does her austerities become her beauties , —then , indeed , may she claim kindred with surrounding nature , and see in her mountain cataracts and streams—in her Benlomond ' s heights and silent glens , her mirrored self . Scotland has no character for versatility ; her opinions are hoary-headed things , that follow the law of entail ; her beliefs rest upon Faith , pure and simple ; her creed , like the laws of the Medes and Persians ,
altereth not ; and her devoted sons are ready to defend with their hearts' best blood '' the faith once delivered to the fathers ; " but bigoted , dull , and stupid as she is , she stands not still amidst the general progress— -she is exhibiting a more tolerant disposition—a more lenient aspect ; her ideas are growing larger , her faith nioro universal , her charity more extended ; sects and sectarian feelings arc melting away , the human brotherhood is being more fully acknowledged , and a comingling of feelings and sympathies exists , such as wo have not seen for many a day .
There are established churches here , where more regard is paid to truth than to tho " Confession ol Faith ; " where aomo of the most Calvinistic doctrines are termed " metaphysical difficulties with which we have nothing to do . " There arc pulp its—old church pulpits , too—where interpolations in our plenary ^ inspired Bible arc denounced without fear , and the Sabbath regarded in its proper light . Nay , I believe there are Established Churches held by men who are only deterred from expressing their convictions by the fear of bringing their families to poverty , and who settle the matter with their own consciences by preaching negatively . There arc men in communion with tho Cltunji , who hold all grades of opinions , from the n :
irrowest to the most liberal . There are boolw published by min inters circulating in our Sabbath Schools in advance of the teach ings of the present day . There are di . soiiHsionB going on ( that , onco-a-day , would nothavo been tolerated ) upon religious questions of every kind , from Predestination up to the << od question , and both sides listened to with Home degree of candour . Surd' / thin is proi / rcxx . Tho students at our colleges and institutions are taught , if they want to arrive at truth , to doubt , ciHrytlnw /; treating lime-honourc < l notions i \ H of mushroom growth . ? Surely this will produce sonic heavingH in the moral world , if not an irruption . Scotland may bo nlow to receive truth , hut she holds it tenaciously . She has been staunch to the prineip icH of the last Reformation , may she not bo fust in tlio
"coming struggle !!" It is true nho may not bo skilled in disputation " about Spirit as an entity , or in the fanciful difleiontiationH of a "Dick Fiiterd , " l » 't »} M ' « «¦ ' « " < l ^ ' ' ° of that npirit of indhTeroneo on religious nubjects wliiou is tho chief characteristic of her sister land . J « »'" partakes of the bold , decisive nature of lior own K » ' « scenery , she miiHk lie like the extreme toinporaturo <> i her island homo . — 1 ; un , Sir , yours , & e . A SUOTWIAIAN .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1853, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03121853/page/16/
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