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March 6, 1852,] THE LEADER. 231
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ME. GLADSTONE'S REJOINDER TO NAPLES. An ...
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Nicaragua. Nicaragua: Its People, Scener...
four inches wide , which the wanton wind often made much broader . It was very lear that false hips and other civilized contrivances had not reached here , and it was equally clear that they were not needed to give fullness to the female figures which we saw around us . All the women had their hair braided in two long locks which hung down behind , and which gave them a school-girly look quite out of keeping with the cool , deliberate manner in which they puffed their cigars , occaonaliy forcing the smoke in jets from their nostrils .. Their feet were innocent of stockino's ; but the more fashionable lsvdies wore silk or satin slippers ,, which' ( it is hoped our ' scrutiny was " not indelicately close ) were quite as likely to be soiled on the inside as the out . A number had gaudy-coloured rebosos thrown over their heads , and altogether , the entire group , with an advance-guard of wolfish , sullenlooking curs , was strikingly novel , and not a little picturesque . " Or like this : — " We then sauntered through the town , looking into the door-ways , catching
occasional glimpses of the domestic economy of the inhabitants , and admiring not a little the perfect equality and general good understanding which existed between the pigs , babies , dogs , cats , and chickens . The pigs gravely took pieces of tortillas from the mouths of the babies , and the babies as gravely took other pieces away from the pigs . B observed that this was as near an approach to those millennial days when the lion and the lamb should lie down together as we should probably live to see , and suggested that a particular ' note' should be made of it for the comfort of Father Miller and the Second-Advent Saints in general /' Obliged , by necessities of space , to restrain ourselves in the matter of extract , we pass by several longer passages for this , which " comes home to the business and—breakfasts of men : —"
CHOCOLATE . "' He who has drunk one cup , ' says Cortez , in one of his letters , ' can travel a whole day without any other food , especially in very hot climates ; for chocolate is , by its nature , cold and refreshing . ' And the quaint old traveller in Central America , Gage , devotes a whole chapter to its praise > the manner of its use , and its effects on the human system . He asserts that chocolate * is an Indian name , compounded from atl , which in the Mexican language signifies water ; and cJiocochoco-choco , the sound which water makes when stirred in a cup . ' He claims for
it a most healthful influence , and bears his testimony as follows : ' For myself , I must say , I used it for twelve years constantly , drinking one cup in the morning another yet before dinner , between nine and ten of the clock ; another within an hour or two after dinner , and another between four and five in the afternoon ; and when I purposed to sit up late to study , I would take another cup about seven or eight at night , which would keep me waking till about midnight . And if by chance I did neglect any of these accustomed hours , I presently found my stomach fainty . . And with this custom I lived for twelve years in these parts , healthy , without any obstructions , or oppilatioiis ; not knowing what either fever or ague was . '"
March 6, 1852,] The Leader. 231
March 6 , 1852 , ] THE LEADER . 231
Me. Gladstone's Rejoinder To Naples. An ...
ME . GLADSTONE'S REJOINDER TO NAPLES . An Examination of the Official Reply of the Neapolitan Government . By the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , M . P . for the University of Oxford . Murray . Mb . Gladstone's exposure of the official defence of the Neapolitan Government is as crushing as his original attack , which provoked that defence . His opinion of the defence , as a whole , is thus expressed in the beginning of the present pamphlet : — " I have termed the production before me a reply which is no confutation , nor even an attempt at one ; and I must freely confess that my first quarrel is with its title . It is called « A Review of the Errors and Misrepresentations published , ' and so forth ; but , if the object of a title be to give a correct description , it ought to have been denominated * A Tacit Admission of the Accuracy of Nine-tenth Parts
of the Statements contained in Two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen . ' For those who do not enter into the case , it sounds very well when they are told that the errors and misrepresentations , or , as they have in some quarters been called , "falsehoods and calumnies , of my Letters have been answered ; but I now assert , without fear even of challenge , that nine-tenths of my most startling assertions are passed by in total silence in the Apology of the Neapolitan Government , And I suppose it is no extravagant assumption if I treat that silence , in an answer that made its appearance throe or four months after the parties were made acquainted with the charge , as simply equivalent to an admission of the facts . " After some preliminary remarks in the same strain , Mr . Gladstone criticises the defence point by point . He divides his reply into four parts . In the first part , he notices and retracts certain small statements
m his former pamphlet , in which ho now believes that he was mistaken ; in the second , he notices those cases in which his former assertions have been contradicted by the Neapolitan Government , but in which he still sees ground to adhere literally to what he said ; in the third , he points out cases in which the Neapolitan government , without at all really contradicting what ho said , has tried to produce an impression of such contradiction being offered ; and , in the fourth , ho alludes to certain contradictions offered by Mr . Macfarlano , and other volunteers in the defence of the Government of Naples , but totally omitted in the official reply . After waiving aside thp misorablo potty quibbles of the Neapolitan vol untoors—Mr . Charles Macfarlano and Mr . Gondon , Mr . Gladstone launchos out into general political considerations , apropos of the relation of such enormities as thoso of tho Neapolitan Govornmont , to the prospects of the cause of good government in general , and especially ot
Conservatism . Wo like this part of the pamphlet tho loast . Even more than Mr . Gladstone ' s first pamphlet , it shows his indisposition to riBo to tlio hoight of tho question—his morbid affection for all that calls itself calm . Mr . Gladstone may bo assured , that let him draw such enormities as those of Naples over so clearly into tho light of judicial investigation , tlioir euro is irrevocably bound up with those larger questions of P ° pular government , and Italian unity , from which ho so . punctiliously abstains . With this exception , however , ( and if Mr . Gladstone lives j 8 > ho will perforce find himself pushed forward into thoso general political speculations from which h ' o now shrinks , ) tho pamphlet is an honour to its author and a credit to England . Mr . Gladstone , however , is not a inombor of our now Tory govornmont : and it is to bo surmised that tho Koyal executioner of Naples may find a more indulgont critic in tho mtimato porsonal friend of M . Louis Bonaparte , than in the Conservative ) colleague of Sir llobort Peel .
Books On Our Table. The Christian Congre...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The Christian Congregation . A Discourse delivered in the Remonstrant Presbyterian Meeting House , York-street . By David Maginnis , Minister . The one religious Idea which the Leader has from its commencement enforced and illustrated—that , namely , of a truly Catholic Church embracing every variety of opinion within its unity of sentiment-y-is every month assuming a more practical shape ; every month we receive fresh tidings , of successful propagaride . The Discmwse now before us was addressed to a Congregation such as we have described . See how plainly Mr ; Maginnis , the minister , speaks- —( he has been describing the lip-homage of conformity ) : — " I hardly know which to condemn the more severely—the mean , cowardly , fashionled creatures , that thus make shipwreck of faith and a good conscience ; or the churches ^ which , by requiring profession of certain opinions as the condition of membership , encourage ^ not cause , siich a deadly infidelity . " Again : unity of opinion is . an impossible basis . Perfect , agreement , on a variety of speculative subjects , is not attainable by any considerable number of persons . And when it is professed , I hesitate not to say that it is the unity either of mental death or of hypocrisy . If there be unity , it is the unity of unthinking minds who receive their opinions on trust , who allow themselves to be spoon-fed by their religious teachers , who unquestioninglv receive their church ' s creed , and being hers ; would swear to it , if necessary . But , if they are men who think and judge or themselves , and yet profess to think all alike , to hold exactly the same opinions , I tell you , it is the profession of hypocrites . —The uniformity-of-opinion theory has been tried for centuries , and it will not work . Every sect in Christendom has attempted it and failed . Instead of producing real unit y * it has caused new differences , and therewith new sects . And this is to be expected . As thinkers multiply , sects multiply ; and , if the course be persevered in , the result must be actual individualism in its worst form;—each person isolated from every other , —his points of difference projecting like the quills of the porcupine , and preventing all intimate connexion or friendly co-operation with his neighbour . Not such an issue did Christianity contemplate , still less desire ; nor such a state of things does humanity require for the full culture of man ' s whole nature—for the faithful performance of life ' s sacred duties . This to accomplish demands the union of men all in a common affection , in a common interest , in united labours of usefulness and love;— -to secure ¦ which the uniting bond must be—not unity of opinion , but—unity of heart and of aim ; a common desire the truth to know , a common desire to aid and be aided in forming character—the soul ' s aspirations , the mind's thoughts , the whole life , in conformity with the will divine . " Polonius : a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances . W . Pickering . PoLONitrs , whose grey wisdom tells us that "la verdades siempre verde- —truth is for ever green / ' has here collected " instances" from Bacon to Carlyle , which will arrest the idlest reader ; and dull as books of aphorisms are said to be , no one , we think , will pronounce this dull . We cannot but regret , however , that all the aphorisms here collected were not strung together on some thread of bright and pleasant commentary , such as the preface . It is a charming volume . The Home Circle , iot ^ SLoxck . . W . S . Johnson . Fraser ' a Magazine . John W . Parker and Son . Tait' 8 Magazine . _ Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . Bleak House . By Charles Diekens . Parti . Bradbury and Evans . Writings of Douglas Jerrold—The Story ofa Feather . Bradbury and Evans . Mr . Sponge ' s Sporting Tour-. By the Author of " Handley Cross , " & c . Illustrated by Leech . J . ¦ ' Bradbury and Evans . The Gardeners' Record , and Amateur Florists' Companion . Edited by Mr . J . T . Neville . Groombridgft and Sons . The Household Narrative . Conducted by Charles Dickens . 10 , Wellington-street , Worth-Penny Maps . Part XX . Chapman and Hall . Life and Adventures ofMervyn Clitheroe . By " W . H . Ainsworth . Part IV . Chapman and Hall . The British Journal , for March . Aylott and Jones . Protection and Communism . From the French of M . Bastiat . John VV . Parker audbon . The Portrait Gallery . Part III . Orr and Co . Chambers ' * Pocket Miscellany . Vol . III . Orr and Co . The Slingsby Papers ; a Selection from the Writings of Jonathan FreJce SUngsly . Orr and Co . Knight ' s Companion Library—Half Hours tcith the Best Authors . By C . Knight . Part II . Charlea Knight .
The Companion Shaksperc . Part II . Charles Knight The Country House , the Ox , arid the Dairy . By W . C . L . Martin . Part IV . Charlea Knight Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences . By G . Dodd . Part IV . Charles Knight Knight ' s Pictorial Shakspere—Ct / mbeline . Part XXII . Charles Knig ! - * Knight's Companion Library—T ~ he Best Story-Tellers . Part II . Charles Knight The Book-case—Across the MocJcy Mountains from New York to California . By W . Kelly . Simms and M'Intyre The Burnina ofthe Amazon . A Ballad Poem . By the Rev . C . H . Townshend . , „„ Chapman and Hall The Four Primary Sensations of the Mind . By John Bell . Chapman and Hall Observations on Life Assurance Societies and Savivgbanks . By Arthur Scratehley . J John W . Parker and Son Old JSiqMeen-frfty-one : a Tale for any Day in 1852 . Houlaton and Stononian Segal ' Jiome , an Introduction to Roman History . By F . W . Newman . J ' Taylor , W alton , and Maberly , Tfie Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art , for March . John Cassell ,
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We should do our utmost to encouvnge the Beautiful , fov the Useful encourages itsaU . —Qoktum .
Magnetic Evenings At Home. Letter V.—To ...
MAGNETIC EVENINGS AT HOME . Letter V . —To G . II . Lewes . You will not be surprised to hear that the result of our first experiment In clairvoyance had the effect of making my friend and myself ardently desirous of witnessing a second . Nothing we had hitherto seen on any previous evening had ( to use a common but expressive phrase ) so " completely staggered us" as this last phenomenon of the magnetic secondsight . To attempt to reason about it seemed perfectly hopeless : there was something too weird and supernatural about the whole process of clairvoyance for the sort of discussion which men give to practical
everyday-wonders . The mysterious shaping of the vision seen by V ; its gradual growth on the mirror , from a round spot to separate arms and lega , and thence to a perfect human figure—that figure tlie exact similitude of a person whom the clairvoyant had never seen ; the working 6 f the occult spiritual sympathies which taught her ( unaided by the faintest hint , the slightest betrayal of emotion Jfrom any one present ) , first , vaguely to connect the vision she saw with me , then instinctively to assist herself by contact with my hand and connexion with my thoughts , in discovering the relationship which had been rigidly and entirely kept a secret from her—tliesc were marvels that defied logical analysis as completely as they outraged logical probabilities . All that wo hud seen and heard literally passed belief ;
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Leader (1850-1860), March 6, 1852, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06031852/page/19/
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