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Lord Macaulay. Ijoed Palmekstoit May Lay...
famous among the rulers of Ms fellow-• ountrym ^ n , tlie fame of his writings has made the man . famous , and has imparted a BDecies of famousness to him in . whatever position he has been . Without anything to Bhovt for it , he has acquired a considerable name in connexion -with ! India ; much more on account of what he has said than what he Las done . He will be considered ^ on account of that repute , to bring some additional wisdom to the House of Lords in reference to the
debates on India . As a constitutional historian he will confer dignity on the discussions of the Reform Bill . As he is a thorough gentleman , in bearing , in principle , and in feeling , as he is deeply respeeted and esieemed by the immense circle with which he has personal acquaintance , the Minister who has advised his selection for the honours of the Crown gains unbounded , and not unjust , credit for thia graceful coup d ' etat .
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London Out Of Town. The Great World Is D...
LONDON OUT OF TOWN . The great world is decidedly out of town . You meet no one . Your half-pay friend , the cousin of an Irish earl , has retired into Norton-street , where he means to live in strict seclusion until pheasant-shooting is over , when he will reappear , not so hearty in Appearance as a man ought to be after so many weeks of glorious open-air exercise . Somerset House is enjoying its thirty days at the sea-side . The Foreign Office _ is on the Hhine . The City houses send their deputations of clerfcs to Eamsgate and
Brighton . . Every one who caa and will enjoys himself amazingly , except Lord Pa : lme : rsicwr , who , the Observer assures us , is doing duty like a white slave . Some ten thousand persons , however— -including Mr . Disra . ei . 1 —are quite ready to relieve him when he is tired , and do the * Premiership instead , couutiDg themselves cheap at the money . In fact , every one is away , and nobody is in IJon & on . •— « very one' meaning about ten-thousand people , and ' no one' considerably more than two millions . In a satire , which is well known ( being constantly imitated ) , we find a definition of the great world ,
A Which , being interpreted , Meanetb the west end of a mighty city , And about twice two thousand people , bred By no means to be -very -wise or witty , But to sit up when others are in bed , And look down on the universe in pity . And what is the great world doing out of town ? Killing birds , for the most partthat is to say the gentlemen . The ladies wear round hats , canter on marine parades , and . improvise little sea-side seasons , where
they use up the blushes caught from the morning breeze . They dip in the foam , their footsteps are sweet on the bills , their favourite Herrs and harpists follow them to the Town Sail . The PolygrapTiic Hall goes to Brighton ; the Gallery of Illustration is set down at Hastings ; little fragmentB of London fly off in every direction , not even , the Opera excepted . So that , the town being out of town , takes the town with it , and the metropolis is left like tlie Last , Man , without sun or stars—Victobia . at Balmoral , the Guards
among the red deer of the Inverness-shire glens , Parliament on the moors , the Albany among the pheasant preserves , and Belgravia at the watering-places . And what to do without the Upper Ten Thousand ? The publishers give you nothing—they , too , have gone , and will not return until they hear the musical fall of the leaf . The House of IJorcls is shut up , so that the miserable wanderer can no longer enjoy the last reaourco of low-spirited incapacity hy turning in to hear the Jjobd Chancellor giving judgment . The courts are up ; nothing is going forward in law except that which not
even toMiserrimus himself is interesting—the administration of the police-courts . Nor can we all follow our social birds of Paradise who ever fly with their faces to the sun , and go where pleasure waits them . London is a vacuity , and you pant in the exhausted receiver . And so it will remain untiL November ; and again , according to the officially illuminated Sunday journal , only the members of the Cabinet the five
( excepting hundred thousand working men of the metropolis ) will know what it is to toil in the midst of grouse-shooting , and fulfil arduous functions wheu everyone else ( with the above , and a good many other exceptions ) is clad , to borrow a phrase from Gibbon , in ' lighb and aciive attire , ' and disporting himself like a poet , or a philosopher , or a fool , as the case may be .
British India And Algieria. The Most Dis...
BRITISH INDIA AND ALGIERIA . The most distinguished journalists in ^ France have commented upon "the Indian mutiny in a fair and even generous spirit . Those of an inferior grade , however—abject Bonapartists , exasperated Papists , and the John Mitchells of spurious democracy—have enjoyed a rare opportunity for sarcasm . France has lived to see the boasted British system wrecked in India . A word of retort with these geitflemen . They know , perhaps , where Algeria is . During fifteen years from its occupation , France is calculated , to have lost 547 , 000 men- —the rate of mortality in the Algerian army , from sickness or in battle , having been reduced to an average for that period of one hundred a day . This army costs five million francs a year over and above the amount which would be required for its ordinary maintenance at home , the navy two millions , the civil service two millions , the secret fund a million , —or a total of one hundred and fifty millions within fifteen years . Take into the account tlie 54 < 7 , O 0 O men lost , the expenses of preparing stations , marching allowances , transport , clothing , hospitals , and —as a Ifrencli statistician reminds us—* shirts
to bury them in , ' and we have at least a sum of two hundred francs a man—which raises the total to three hundred and fifty millions . What are the returns ? The Custom-house duties , after fifteen years of occupation , amounted to four hundred thousand franca a year ; there was no tax on fixed property or persons , and the cattle tax is almost unproductive . In fact , ' Africa' —as the ! French call that little corner of the continent—is a
penal settlement , aa outlet for troublesome and dangerous men , a parade-ground for an idle army , and nothing more . It has scarcely any export trade , and as for its cities and towns , Algiers alone has an appearance of prosperity . The traces of the Arabs and Moors are wearing away in every quarter . Even Oran is of the slowest possible growth . So , let our JTrench friends taunt us when we have lost half a million of Englishmen in fifteen years , and occupied a great country at aa unmitigated expense to ourselves , without improving ita actual condition or doing more tbau encamp among the native tribes .
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Representation op Hiddlkskx . —A very crowded and influential meeting of the electors of Middlesex was held at the Now Globe Tavern , Mile-ond-road last Saturday evening , for the purposo of hearing from the Hon . G . Byng ( late M . F . for Tavistock ) his -views on tlio leading questions of the day , and to adopt such measures asmay be thought neccsBury for securing his return to Parliament in tho place of Lotd Robert Grosvcnor .
Mr . Byng epoko in favour of Parliamentary roform , of vote by ballot , and of tho creation of an Indian Minister responsible to the House of Commons for tho condition of our Eastern Empire . Ho attributed tho prosont revolt to bad management and to the want of a sufficient number of English soldiers among tho natives . A resolution , expressive of confidence in Mr . Byng , was unanimously passed . —Tho election took place on Thursday when Mr . Byng was returned without opposition .
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FEEEMASONS AND FORESTERS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) SiB , ~ In your last week ' s article [ 'A Word to Foresters' ] , I think your remarks good , and no doubt an inquiry will be made as to the propriety of such a parade , but I must ask you to -withdraw the assertion that the Freemasons go and do likewise ' This is not the c ^ se ; except in Lodge , masons are not allowed to appear clothed in . masonic costume and in justice to the body we should be excepted from your strictures . I am one of your subscribers and much admire the policy of pointing out abusebut , as a Mason , I like things to be fairly lepre ^ sented . Yours obediently , ' ¦ ¦ , An Old I . M . Blaciheath , 2 nd September , 1857 . fV . D . B . —Our passing allusion to the Masonic Body was simply to the something too much of conviviality , which -we have often heard complained of in Lodge itself , and which has become a byword to the profane . There is a time to turn from labour to refreshment , but whatever detracts from the dignity of the Order , or tends to obscure its noble purpose , is to us a subject of fraternal regret . —Ed Lkadek . ]
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THE FORESTERS . ( 2 b the Editor of the Leader . } Sib , —Having observed an article in your last week ' s paper condemnatory of the Foresters , their dresses , manners , customs , & c , I trust you will insert this , in order to clear away a false impression ¦ which many of your readers may fall into -with regard to those dresses , & c . I am a Forester and have been so many years , and I beg to state that I have as little regard for a mau dressing himself in an antiquated style as you have ; bat I wish you particularly to understand that those dresses are the private property of , and bought and paid for by the wearers from their own pocket , and not from the funds ( as many casual readers would infer from your remarks ) . Those funds are strictly applied to their proper use , viz ., to assist the sick and bury the deceased members , and to provide for the widows and orphans of such deceased members . Therefore , if any member chooses to go to a tailor and purchase a suit of clothes , no matter what colour , cut , or pattern , that is a matter wliich rests entirely with himself , and does not justify any public newspaper comparing an assembly of 34 , 000 working men to * an aggregate meeting of Ethiopian Serenaders who had forgotten their lamp-black . ' Yours , & c , T . P . Cooke , S . C . R . of Court 1092 . 17 , Serle ' a-place , Lincoln ' s Inn .
New Route To The Continent.—A Special Ex...
New Route to the Continent . —A special experimental trip has been made from Dover to Dieppe by the Royal and Imperial mail-packet Prince Frederick William , witli the view of testing the advantages of the t route , and the celerity with which the passage can b y performed by swift steamers from Dover to that vastl improved and improving Fronch watering-place . Th day was remarkably fine , the sea smooth ; tlie steame got fairly off from the Admiralty Pier at ft quarter pa 9 eight , a . m ., and , without stopping or easing , ran th . straight course of seventy-four nautical miles , past Bou logno , Rochelle , and Treport , down tho Normandy coastt to the pier head of Dieppe in four hours nnd forty-eig ht minutes , thus averaging nearly eighteen statute miles an hour . She remained in Dieppe harbour until a quarter to four o ' clock , started from abreast the lighthouse at four , and eased h « r engines' on nearing the Admiralty Pier , Dover , within five hours from the moment of doparture , having made the two passages there and back in nine hours and . forty-eight minutes , ftt the average rate of seventeen-and-a-half statuto miles an hour . Timet . , A Private Telko : uaph . —Messrs . Waterloo ana Sons lmvo connected their establishments in liircnmlano and London-wall by means of an electric telegrapn , tho wires being carried over tlio roofs of tbe intervening houses . This is unique in England , but aeems to bo a plan , worthy of extension . Mr . "Watcrlo-w , some time back , suggested to tho proper authorities the catft !? ! r " ment of thia mcana of communication between all tn police-offices and fire-brigade stations in London ; »" ho showed by flg-ures , and has now proved by experiment , that tho exponao ia bat trifling . Tho same p »* was proposed somo years ago by Professor Wneatsion " and Mr . Chadwictc ; but the Circumlocution Office secnw to have stopped tlio way .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/16/
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