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52 The Saturday Analyst and Leader. , [O...
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Serial.S. The People's Dluthnary Of The ...
His peculiarities , of style must be softened to us by familiarity , before we can detect the groat humanity under the surface cynicism , and fully recognise the artistic grace of his life-like creations . His delineations are quiet and natural ; he startles -with no stage effects , no burlesque , no caricature ; we smile or sigh as the living panorama passes , but seldom laugh or passionately weep . Weave lookers on , not actors in the drama , and earnestly but calmly watch the pi-ogress of the plot , and the developments of character—our judgment unwarped by intensely excited feelings , our mirth rational , and our sadness salutary . His stories are eminently suggestive , and he rarely analyzes his characters . This is a great charm of his books . Ib undoubtedly requires much less skill to describe a character , than to force that
character to unfold itself , and to change and modulate it in harmony with the incidents of the story . And . it is . in this gradual development that Thackeray excels . It has : been Thackeray ' s mission ^ to portray life as it is . He brings more than great creative genius to the task ; he has read with clear vision the mysterious scroll of the human heart , and gives us the pages as he finds them—now bright with the record of noble deeds , now blurred by weakness and folly , and now deeply stained by guilt and crime . His books are full of moral lessonslessons that will make us wiser and better if we heed them . - . We find there no glow of false sentiment , which perverts while it dazzles ; vice is never clothed in attractive garb , and though deceit and hypocrisy are unmasked , honour is paid to every womanly grace , and every manly
virtue . " The present number also contains article fourth on Mr . Tom Taylor's Recollections of the late C . E . Leslie , B . A ., which will be ? read with interest . We also find a notice of one of the most remarkable productions of the past year , namely , " The Thought hi aid-of Faith , by Sara S . Hennell , " published by Mr . Manwaring , the successor of Mr . John Chapman ; The work in question is thus summarised : — "As a help to other inquirers ^ the results of the most radical and uncompromising thinkers who have written since , and . been made accessible to the English reader . Thus , Fcuerbach represents for her the ' Essence of Christianity , and Mackay ' s Progress of the Intellect , ' its dsvelopiuent ; in discussing the ' ChristianSystem , ' : she traces the course of thou ght from ; tXnitarianism through Mr . Martuieait to Francis
Newman , with whose pure Theism she is not satisfied to rest ; her ' Principles of Psycholgy' are those of Herbert Spencer ^ adopted without qualification , or reserve ; her new of the ' History of Philosophy ' is wholly in the light of I / ewes ^ and Comte ; and for the ' Science of Morality ; she starts with tlie expediency doctrine , as defended by Henry Thomas Ruckle . Six chapters , thus cover the wide field of modem speculation . They are preceded by an Introduction , setting , forth the ijersonal motive and experience fro in which the inquiry has started , and followed by a conclusion , in whi . di the bearings of tlie whole on personal faith and hope are courageously
and cahuly stated . The argument of the book is not , as might possibly be guessed , to protest against anything in the most radical nnd seemingly irreligious of the results she registers ; but , explicitly reducing psychology to physiology , religion to anthropology , and morals to philanthropy , renouncing all personal hope of another li Co , and holding the conception of a personal God to bo only the image of himself which man projects iipon the vast Unknown—nay , denying the very distinction of matter and spirit , her purpose is still to vindicate the intellectual harmony , the moral progress , mid thq spiritual calmness and trust , which belong fitly to the domain of faith . "
52 The Saturday Analyst And Leader. , [O...
52 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . , [ Oct . 6 , 1860
Record Of The Week. Home And Colonial. I...
RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL . It was expected as the past week 'dreyv to a close , that the growing complications abroad , and the inclement -weather at home , would tejl unfavourably on the financial barometer , but we aw happy to reoord an agreeable disappointment , for they stood firm at 9 ' df , to 3-8 , notwithstanding the clouded sky and the gloom which obscured tho political horizon , and only suffered ' a , subsequent depreciation of about 1-8 . Tho past week was very unfavourable } throughout fox * such port ion of tho harvest as had not been gurnored , for when not actually raining , whioh was soldoin the case , thu air was so damp and chill , and sunshine so rare , that tho intevvals during whioh tho web was suspended wove of very littlo , avail in many localities ; in somo , however , filiere was a loss unfortunate state of affairs to chronicle . Tho bullion in tho Bank was
£ 123 , 807 less than tho preceding weak , tho total being ifilG , 255 , {) 51 . Tho line mild weather of I ho present week has brightened our prospects in inovo sensos tlum one . Thohavvost jnny now bo looked upon , as wo anticipated in these colimrmp , <» 8 amply fulfilling the f spool ations of those who looked for « . v fair avctvafio . yield . Tho flnaneiul us well ns ths atmospheric barometor rose towards mid-week , Consols rauihing 1 ) 3 3-8 to | , at ; which they evinced a tendency to considerable firmness . n Riohnrd Williams , tho " psouclp-clorgyinan , " who had obtained a curaey by false representations , and perpetrated a long liasuo of frauds , having boon arrested in London , uuel Bonfc in custody from tho metropolis to Oundle , oommittecl suicide at Northampton by throwing himself uncW a train , which instantly killed him , Lho body boing lnulilatod » nd clisUgured .
Another party' of Guribaldian oscjurtionists , numbering nearly 5 <> 0 , embarked on board a vessel oallod the Jfimporor , ut lluvwioh , us luot woo . lc cloned . Tho rovenuo returns for tho post quartor , whioh will l > o found ut loitgfch in another oolumji , show a fulling oil ' , from obvioun oausus , in , ouatonjs , and an inovoaso of notu' # 5 , 000 , 000 , arising eliiotty from iiioomo-ttts , oxoien , and ' poBt-oflloq , Tho pvoeporoua state of tho qountry , in its moroantilo and industrial rolutiona boing prominonfcly shown by tho figures in question . AlcTormim Cubitfc wao ohgsen on Saturday as the Lord Mayor elect . Tho Court of Aldonnon , we may slnto in connexion with oivio uinUoru , have rosolved to altor- llioir raooMng day from Saturday to Friday . The North Atianliio TelograpU ia propi-eesing eat . islaotovily , as \ vo learn through a communication from Mr . Oronlcoy > a considerably portion of the loolnncl coast liua iilrcucly boon Biivvoyod fox- tho purpoaoa of tho ontcrpviBC .
The criminal recoi-d of the week does . not flag . A murder of peculiar atrocity has been perpetrated at a cottage , adjoining TJrpeth Corn-mill , seven miles from Newea & tle . ¦ One Milner Lockey having stabbed his wife , a lodger , named Harrison , interfered to protect her , - when lie immediately became the object of the man's fury . Lockey inflicted a mortal wound , which speedily terminated in the death of his new victim . In the matter of the fcJtepney murder the man Mullins was . committed for trial on Tuesday . The inquiry into the late tragedy at . Road is pending as we write , but without much prospect of any decisive issue . At Aldershott , a soldier , named James Johnson , has murdered two men with one shot—Sergeant Chip and Corporal Cole : the ball passing through-the first and then entering the body of the
second . . In the matter of the Boad murder , Elizabeth Grough , tho nurse , was taken into custody at the close of last week , on the charge of having perpetrated this crime . This week ( Monday ) commenced the winter session at the hospitals , when the xisual opening addresses were delivered to the students . The Yictoria Terminus , at Pimlic p , forming the nucleus where the connecting threads of the lines north and south of the Thames are to be . agglomerated into a sort of locomotive love-knot , was opened on Monday . / ' . ' „ ¦ , .,,,.. „ . ' .
The ladies of Brighton , by the hands of Mrs , William Comnghain and Mrs . J . White , the wives of the liberal members for the borough , have presented silver "bugles to the Artillery and Bifle corps of local Volunteers . The preseuti-esses delivered , with graceful eniiticiation , appropriate . addresses . MrV AVilliam Coninghavn , M . P ., for Brighton , and his son were present in their respective uniforms of the . 1 st Sussex , and the . Eton corps , to which they belongr ¦ An accident happened to Prince Albert , on Monday , As ho was returning from shooting , the horses ran away with the carriage , / and the Prince , Who jumped-out ,: had his face slightly scrratclicd . A telegram , dated Tuesday , frona Lord John Buss ell , we are . happy ( o state , informs us . that the injury was nothing to speak of , and Unit the Princo was convalescent . . . .. .
Mr , Disraeli , Mr ; E ) igby Seymour , and Mr .: Bristo . we have appeared at public meetings daring the week , the first to address his constituency , the last two at Southampton and Kidderminster . . Mr . Scyniour vindicated the measures of Mr . G-ladstdnc in finance ^ and Lord John Bussell as regards Parliamentary Beform . Mr . Pigott , the member for Beading having become Governor of the Isle of Man , Ins l-rother , Mr . Serjeant Piffott has come forward to solicit the suflVages of the constituency . Ilis " -platform / ' comprehends retrenchment , extension of the elective franchise , church-rate abolition , and income-tax The funeral of tho Into Mr . If . Ingram , M . P ., was fixed to t ; vko " phice yesterday ( Friday ) . ' ' _ . . ' ; , ;____ :. __ 4 . . ' " „ . f * with tho orpins of
With regard to the coninjcrrinl treaty France , Hint p : u- | y tho views of which arc supposed to be , as far as it goes ombodioil in this important- -mensimv and one of whose recognised chiefs has had the " carriage" of it confided to him both in princ-ip l * and detail , and whioh arc therefore likely to be well informed , state , i-h recent Is os ., tho present positions of the matter . The Manchester Examiner and Times states , that in consequenco of ono of those mishaps incident to diplomacy , tin ? entire tnvili ' of metals will be delayed lor another week . Tho Mbrnuu / and Xoeninff Star publishes that portion of itcins which , bv article 1 G of tho treaty , are to be admitted by 1 ranee at the new duties ' from the 1 st October . « The various rates , says tho Star , "in tho new tariff are adapted to a classification which is baser in general on tho greater or smaller amount of human labour bestowed tho same weight of materialor . in other words , on the cost of
upon , X . ' _ «_ ... ,-mt __ . * . J i . l » _ ^ 1 _ 1 .. I . ir m \ AUTO 1 U \ production , as far as that ia possible , in a now tariff which knows no ad valorem , but only spccifit . , duties . The first thing which strikes ono in the classification ns well as in the rates , is the extreme siimlm-ily to tho provisions of Hi © Zollveroin treaty . " Aflor comparing tlio hvo tariff * , the article continues , " in the onse of iron in bars tho duty is fixed at tlio unif . nn rate of 7 f . per 100 kilos ., while the / ollvcrom treaty chiiv ^ oB it nt two diflcront rntos , and both higher , which iacf . cxeroises n very injurious effect on building and railway industry , nn . l yet this docs not ' shut out English competition . 1 ranee will get u ( jceidod start by being enabled ( o import the English artiolo largely 101 her consumption , whioh sho hns liithevto boon precluded from ¦ clomp , by the high duties imposed . Tlioortno of steel merits special nionioij , tho fovxnji' exorbitant duly Jiavi . ig been roducod to 15 t . per 100 Julo * . This is ti fnir lojrical carrying out . of the froo-trndo ]) nnoiplc . Inko oh ic do i
thoso prohibitive duties and iron will bo produeocl wlioro o « m »» duood olienp . est , best , nnd most plentirully , namely , in England , uik bo ilistribiil-. ecl whoro most Wanlod , namely , inJbnmoo ; things viii mi'i thHrovvn level , and human nccda 1 ) 0 besl-. satisfied . I'oila Ilio ]> iuiosophv of tho question in-a nulsholl . And so with any other aiMolo , ns winos . Here tlio enso in vovrrsod s Franco onn viroduoo tliPin boMc-r , ohonpiM ' , and move plentifully than wo , ami why wo should bo mvvouIchI by i-roliibilivo dulipn ( und off , duH « 8 ¦« ro nioro or Joss proinwitive in tlicii- ( cncliMKiy ) from cJrinkiiig them , it would soivly i > uwlo ma eiH-iniori of fVre-trud !) to oxphiin . roiMfliax . Wu roBiiino th » lliiM-nd of our Uulian "Itouord . " As hint wojjl * drew to a cIomo avo ri'miivdd tidinifH of tho advant-o of General luuiUn oorpu
upon Jtoiiicj lho ( lnw |» iili ! lnwi wliidh loft ; tho bciomo of action , dofloribintf the lioad oC liin furco lo l » n nt , Itnuwinno , williin 17 milca " ;» " » « " «' capital . ' . I'lii * olijenl , nftlin Hiirdiiiiaim was to surround tho oily Haoli ho » a ( ouvoM u oolllrtioii lii-l \ % i-in l , lin Kreuoh mid Garibaldi . Oi \ \ ho oUior IhiikI , tlxi Kivnrli irnopM ii | ii » uar « ' ( l to huvo ootnipiocl i nieoaU ana Albano In mldiWmi l <» < ! ivilu Vrn-filiimid Rome . Tho forta at -Uuuo and J . Vliitfo IiihI MWn hifuru t , | tu |» rowimH of ( ho boboigora oi Anoonn , and ( Ikj ciiiiIiiim << C U ' unlnii . t v , / i » nounwluroU only a quoetion of noui-s when Hit ) uilvi'tt-ri IHl , wl . iln llm wIk . I .. Milmi'b of l ' o . rttt l'ia vra » hi tiio haudrt o ( ( ho HiuuiiiiiniiH , ninl mi IfVidny J ) ollo Ora « io , unothor Jort , rowni'ilml' lho UIIWH . H of 11 . " " lil- « Tul . ; rii . " l . amorioioro in person ^ 'bb oooduoiing thu-dui'uiKMi wl Uh > « iiiy . Tim Viuwn spouks of thw oommanuei a » . "thol ' owo ' i * faotiuAii wlio ha « boon " soundly thrashed . JNotwith > j ( ia » Kliii £ r tho Btwto of Wookmlo in roforouoo tp Uio boloaguvoa chj »
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101860/page/12/
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