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W* 4 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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CHINA MADE USEFUL. Wffiids America and E...
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W* 4 The Leader. [Saturday,
W * THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
China Made Useful. Wffiids America And E...
CHINA MADE USEFUL . Wffiids America and England are both suffering from contraction of trade , the wretchedest barbarians are permitted to impose new restrictions upon commerce . " A . storm in a teapot" is a proverbial expression for a trifling disturbance ; yet the teapot has become so decidedly - British institution , and is so essential to the best and most intelligible parts of our constitution , tliat an actual . storm within that domestic lake is really a ( formidable visitation . While tea continues at a high rate , notwithstanding our own reiduction of duty , our exports to China from the Manchester districts alone have fallen off
to the extent of more than a million sterling ; and all because one miserable set of criminal triflers are playing- in puerile cup-and-saucer fashion at rebellion against "the G-reat Panjandrum himself , " who plays at Celestial Emperor in Pekin . Commodore Perry has , after a fashion , opened Japan to the trade of th & world ; but China remains closed to it . The Central Tlowery people refuse to treat us as friends ; and why should ive persist in punctiliously putting them on " the footing
of a friendly nation .. ? " " What do we know oYthem , when they decline to Ibe introduced tp us ' ?• ' Why not take them at their word ? Tke imperialists tell us that the rebels are outlaws , scum of society , pitiful vagabonds , Let us believe the Imperialists . The rebels i ; ell us that the Imperialists are the creatures of an alien Court , an expiring faction , and ¦ anti ^ natibnal , anti-social horde . Let us believe fEe patriots . Heie all China tells us * tnat the Chinese have no accredited or
-effective Government . Let us believe all China ' s account of itself . Nevertheless we kno'tf " , on better than Chinese authority ^ that there a , re hundreds of millions of people , inhabiting a vast empire in part fertile , and able to supply our wants as we supply theirs . Their officials will not treat with us , bufc mock us with pitiful evasions of treaties . If we approach to trade , the my rinicloiis of one faction or other approach to attack . Arming for the most peaceful of purposes , we have a right to repel
aggression by force . Probably if we were to do so , we might settle the civil war by introducing a middle term ; and if Imperialists and Patriots cannot recognise any dominant right or power in each other , they might at least recognise power in the Anglo-Saxon . Por we desire no exclusive English conquest . America has been before us on that ground , and we only invite her to concur in the present view . Nothing is so much wanted in China as good government , whore there is now no government at all : who can supply good government so well as the Anglo-Saxon ?
Here then is a valuable import for Chinagood government , in American and English ships . It is a commodity that would be appropriately imported in war-ships . AVhsit scruple is there to bar us in entering the Yang-tse-Kiarig ? The Anglo-Saxon , rule , at the worst , would be cm improvement upou the rule of Tartar King or Chi neso Mandarin . Peace and commerce might at least be secured better than they are- now . Outlets would be found for the commerce of Now
Orleans and New York , Liverpool and Manchester , and the Chinese would bo put in the way to hotter themselves . Indeed no community would benefit so much aa that of China , if England and America were to conquer her , colonize her , and annex her to the civilised world forthwith . A plan of colonies , or the principle of combining military and commercial settlement could easily be arranged . Hero , then , ia an entserpriao bettor than any paltry squabble about Grey townnamely , the conquest , partition , and nnnoxation of China , between the two greatest commercial nations of tho world .
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BA . BEL . ( From a various Correspondence . * ) — On- each recurring 5 th of November the Protestants of the Anglican Church meet together in the house of our common Father , to stigmatise their Catholic brethren as " cruel and bloodthirsty enemies . " They presume to speak of " the -hellish malice of Popish conspirators , " and pray to be delivered from tlieir " enemies that delight in blood , " in . the same breath that solicits the blessings of " brotherly kindness and charity , concord and unity . " This bequest of undying hatred and contempt has been religiously handed down , for two centuries and a half , by the wisdom and piety of our ancestors , in commemoration of the mad plot of half a dozen crack-brained bigots , whom we are pleased to consider as the accredited representatives of the entire Church of Rome . But even if it were true— -and the very hypothesis is an insult and a calumnythat the Catholics of tliat age generally approved of the enterprise of CatesTiy , Fawkes , and their miserable associates , there is neither reason nor justice in imputing the same atrocious feelings to the Catholics of the present day . But it Is most certain that the conspirators were not countenanced in their nefarious design by their fellow-religionists , nor did their just punishment excite any commiseration . And yet we persist in teaching bur children to keep up the remembrance of ancient . '' animosities , ¦¦ ¦
* l' ¦ . « V » -1 . 1 ..- ' . . i . ' - ¦ .-m * . - ' — _' .. . ' and afford them a strange illustration of the injunction to love our enemies , and to pray for those who despitefull y use and ilL-treat us . It is urged , indeed , that children , do not ¦ view the matter in a serious light , and that they look upon the whole affair as an excuse for a holiday , and an occasion set apart for fun and frolic . Surely , it is rather a questionable proof of good taste and feeling , for the sake of a silly and barbarous amusement , thus to insult so many thousands of our friends , relatives , and countrymen . By all means let the labouring classes have days of recreation , but let them be applied as bonds of good f ellowship and harmony , and not as means of'maintaining ignorance and bigotry . Besides , it is
not altogether prudent to accustom the mob to the idea that a fire is a moral purifier ; for some day , perchance , they may prefer a reality to an effigy—as pious and learned men , Protestants as well as Catholics , were wont to do in the good old times of Smithfield . If it be deemed inexpedient altogether to deprive children and '" the million" their vested rights in fireworks , at least let the constituted authorities of eaclt pluce take the matter into their own hands , and give a public pyrotechnical exhibition by subscription among tlie inhabitants and neighbours . This might possibly mvaken some ideas of the beautiful in the minds of the spectators , and would certainly be preferable to the vulgar nuisance of squibs and crackers .
— What oai earth will the Sabbatarians aay about tho Queen lis-toning to tho Guides playing profane but pleasing opera strains in her palace-gardens on Sunday last ? How earnestly and with what nasul moanings witl reverends of the " Davies" stamp deplore such wic k edness in high places , sind prophesy disasters to the kingdom , after such a display of contemptuous carelessness for Exeter Hall spoutings . Most assureiHly the moral courage of the Queen is worthy o high praise , and it ia to he . hoped that after this—— , & c .
— Tho Railway King is , so say the " City articles , " at lust in tho Bankruptcy Court—Iub express train hna landed him in Basinghall-strect , which , bythe-by , ia cIofo to Cupel-court . We ought to moraliao on tho event ; but then , there has been so much moralising on Georgo Hudson , that profundity on the subject is u bore . Will he , as M . P ., imitate his namesalco Larpent ( tho only precedent I can recal ) , and rajuigu hia sont ? So mucli for tho Railway King . But what do
you say to a , railway chivalry ? Mr . Poto bus been honoured by tho King of Denmark , by being received into tho highest order ( of coursu an unpronounceable Saint ) of Danish chivalry . Thatia an event : a railway contractor alinring tho honours of nobleaao . Our Queen might follow suit- —think of Dargan or Brnsaoy being Knights of the Garter . Wore knights selected from the moat knightly , would not Peto bo preferred to Louis Napoleon by tho Windsor Chuptor ? Poto ft a Knight of Chivalry : ho makes millions , as an amusement ; but hia employment ia to spend these millions in wliat ia called charity—in succour to tho
widow and the orphan—in endowing schools—in short , in attempting to realise our civilisation . As a railway contractor , as in Denmark , he " annexes " whole nations—after all , the greatest of conquerors . — Napier ' s Baltic campaign has not been so prosperous . He will be home in a week or two ; how shalL we receive him ? Shall the unaccustomed bell of St . Paul ' s toll ? When he set out he said he was going to St . Petersburg or . Shall we now suggest to him to go to ?
— Who gave the timid counsels at Varna ? The Emperor politely and politicly explains the sneer away . But what do non-imperial people say ? . That " the two Princes " were meant . One of the two is Cambridge , who was the most obstinate of the two , for be not only would not go to the Crimea , but when he was forced to go to the Crimea , he did his lest to prevent the Highlanders going up the heights of Alma . Why not a court-martial ? Because he is a Prince of the Blood—which means a Prince opposed to blood .
— f Poor Walter Savage Landor ! He has taken wrathfully the Leader ' s good-natured rebuke of his assassinatory projects ; and , in reply , he insinuates of the Leader what the Indian Nabob said , when asked , on his return to his native country , whether he wouHd like to go and see the House of Commons — " What ! is that going on still ?"—" What ! " says Landor , " is the Leader ( the kind reader is requested to " take" the poetical license ) not gone to the knacker ' s yet ? " He has a wonderful equestrian performance , worthy of the Bounding Brother of the Apennines , on that horse—his Leader . Observe how he writes : —
" The Leader , from inanition , has fallen down in his harness , and , when I would have cut the traces , has given me a kick on the instep and rolled over toward you .. Withoiit this accident I should have thought he had been long ago at the knacker ' s . Let us lope he may recover yet , and be able to masticate bis Riga oats . " These are wonderful antics for one horse ; to such a horse there is only one can be compared—Orlando ' s dead steed , or Mr . Landor ' s live Pegasus . By-theby , what is the reason that animal is allowed to trot and kick so often , in that decorous manege—the Daily News ? What a trinity of heroes for a commercial journal : as a statesman , the Lord Summerhill ; as & poet , the Savage liandor ; and , as chief contributor , the Miss Martineau ! Which is the old lady ?
— " Society" is talking of the Sickles v . Peabody correspondence . Mr . Peabody was ¦ wrong in being moTe English than the Englishmen in vmLa . propus loyalty at an American celebration ; and Mr . Sickles had no choice "but to protest against the indignity to his country , by refusing to rise when " the Queen " wa ^ proposed before the toast of " th e President . " The best judge of Mr . Sicklcs ' s conduct would be the Queen herself , and she -would probably acquit him of any intentional disrespect . The idea is absurd : the offence was to Mr . Peabody .
— The " Guides" are to be at the Crystal Palace again on Saturday ( to-day ) . Mad are those "who go ; the business was u thoroughly stupid and unpleasant one last Saturday . In the first place , you could not hear the Guides ; and in the next place , which is worse , you could get nothing to eat , except Home , ¦ who is old . As to the Crystal Palace itself , going to it is about as wise—which only indicates an Eastern genius- —aa going into a big bottle—on sucli Saturdays , an empty one .
— What will Louis Napoleon think of the enlightened British audienco who , on Saturday , at tho Crystal Palace , roared for the " Marseillaise ? " IIow delicate an intimation of the cordiality and sympathy of the alliance ! Why not have at once demanded " the Pig ! " Pax ton was in tho humour to refuse nothing . He says that Louis Napoleon ' s Guides have " gone down" better than poor Sum Phillips ' a . But , admitting the grandeur of these ' * Guides" days , what
becomes of tho educational pretensions of the Crystal . Palace—which , at best , is now but rivalling Jullien ? — Why don't the Missionaries stay at home ? See , in tho current arbitration caso , what comes of sending out a hcnltliy Christian pastor to a Berbiue fold : ¦¦ —despairing of tho old generation of savages lies naturally arranges to commence with u now generation , made to his purpose . After all , if propagation o the faith is the business in hand , why quarrel with the most ofleetual method ?
— Observe what has become of the l ? orty Shilling : Freehold Movemont Mr . Cobden pledged his statesmanship that in a few years tlieso Forty Shilling Freehold Societies would revolutionise the county elections . Not a county h » ia yet been won by those people ' s votes from the landocracy—not even in War- * w 3 ckahiro , which is a Forty Shilling Fircoholdor wsirrou—pierced with tho small nuisances ; and tlie nowa of tho week ia that , in Warwickshire , the revising barristor hus struck 2000 of those rotors off tho register 1 — WyUl has published an excellent map of tho si « go of Sebastopol—giving a sort of alcatel * report of how mutters stood at tho latest dates . ¦ \ Sco Daily New » of Tuesday .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04111854/page/12/
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