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1064 THE LEADER. [Saturday, ¦ ¦ ' ' : —
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THE CRISIS IN TURKEY. All fears respecti...
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A CHECK FOR RAILWAY DESTRUCTION. Aoain t...
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A OLKIMCA.L WJTNKSS TO CUUllCU ANAK(!HY\...
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'¦Nik Profanity Of Present " Sabbath Obs...
Here , then , we have it at last ! The eighty London clergy , after all their arguing and all their speech-making , really object to opening the Sydenham Palace on Sunday , because it is an intellectual recreation , and because they believe that the process of refining the popular mind has nothing whatever ' to do with the Christian religion ! Here , in the nineteenth century , under the spiritual rule of the Reformed Church of England , we have the monstrous old Popish blasphemy , that the education of the mind and the well-doing of Christianity are downright incompatibilities , publicly revived and restated by eighty
London clergymen , with an archdeacon , and , we may add , arch-pluralist , at their head ! Look well to that third paragraph of the address , my Lord Derby , when it is presented to you . If you want proof of the real profanity of the principle on which the Sabbath Observance men proceed , you have it there ; and if you want a good reason , an unanswerable reason , for holding to your first resolution , and sanctioning the opening of the new Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoons , why , by every law of Christian logic , you may find it there also !
1064 The Leader. [Saturday, ¦ ¦ ' ' : —
1064 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , ¦ ¦ ' ' : —
The Crisis In Turkey. All Fears Respecti...
THE CRISIS IN TURKEY . All fears respecting Turkey are to be dispelled upon the assurance of the journal which professes to be the ministerial organ . The Morning Herald avers , that "the gloomy predictions of the Opposition journals with respect to the late events in Turkey have been fortunately refuted by the manl y and honourable conduct of the Sultan . " We fail , indeed , to discover in this assurance the substance of anything that is really reassuring . The
principle of the statement in the Morning Herald seems to be , to abuse everybody who is in favour of the loan , and to praise everybody who opposed the loan . . " His Majesty has refused to ratify the loan , " says the Herald , " which his faithless or incompetent Minister , Prince Callirnachi , contracted under conditions utterly at variance with his instructions . " Now , we doubt many items of this assertion . It can hardly be true that the error lav with Prince Callimachi ; for if it had ,
what could have been easier than , recalling that " faithless and incompetent minister , " to liavo caused the loan to proceed in accordance with original instructions ? It is , we believe , an utterly false suggestion , tliat the question really lay iu Paris ; on the contrary , we incline still to think , that the authority to negotiate the loan was given in Constantinople , to persons in Constantinoplc ; also , that the opposition to the project arose with other persons in Constantinople ¦—to wit , the old Turkish party , which resented money dealings wilh the infidels , and with the Russian party , jealous of . French accommodation
for the insolvent Porte . To treat the ( subject oi the loan only a . s a diplomatic error in Paris , is to deal with the tip end of the subject . If anybody in Paris was to blame , it must have been Messrs . JDevaux , the ; igontH ; and they would naturally refer back to their principals , the partners of the Bank i ) i Constantinople . Uiit that Hank , we have no doubt , had the full authority of the Sublime Porte ; and the revocation oi" the authority is a distinct change of policy in the Cabinet of the Sultan — a change of policy a . s distinct , as the change of the Ministers themselves . The lale Vizier . Ali i ' asha , was favourable to the
alliance wilh Western Kurope , ; m < l favourable , most assuredly , to raising I he wind for the pressing exigencies of ( be imperial treasury ; but , the Turkish Tories , who stood by Koran and State , t hreafened ; K ussia instigated and supported those Tories ; flm Sull . a . n was obliged to yield , and Ali Pasha , was displaced by Mohammed Ali Pashn , a man of the reactionary parly . The denial , therefore , which refers only to Paris , goen Himply for nothing .
The Herald vjliimIh itself that , "the Sultan has been counselled not , to ratify an iniquitous engagement , whieli would have fettered himself and his dynasty for , at least ., twenty-three years . " Awful fact ! A national debt , of 2 , <)()() , ()<)()/ . Hterling , to last , for fwenfy-1 hreo years ! Surely thin is enough to alarm any English , writer ! Colonel Mono . Iijin , wo learn , contributed , to rescue the Sultan from that ruinous position . Colonel Rose , who enjoyN the confidence of Lord JVIalnieHbury , the ' Herald is careful to inform us , received liis a ivaneenn'iit from Lord INdmersfon ; ( or the Tory writer lech lie cannot , stand unlesH he drag . in au old voucher of Lord Palmeratou ' a for a
proported by his Government ? And supported , at least in very high pretensions , is proved by the fact , that he entered the Dardanelles in the Charlemagne war ship , supported by his Government in this flagrant violation of treaties ; and that he has upheld that doniineeripg policy in the East which is illustrated by Louis Napoleon ' s claim to be called the " Protector of the Holy Places . " Theassurances of the Herald , therefore , amouit to nothing more nor less than confirmations of all that has been said upon the subject ; namely , that France is making demands
that he is sent act , which that nobleman could not have contempl ated . The remainder of the article is made up of an attack on M . de Lavalette , the French ambassador . We are told that he has not asked for his passports , but that " he lias compromised his Government and alarmed his . colleagues by his language . " Who his colleagues are , we do not know ; but the context would imply that they are the diplomatic representatives of other countries . M . de Lavalette may have been too impetuous , but the question is , Whether he is
supupon the Turkish Government ; is supported by a local party , and has on her side the interests of the money "dealers in London and Paris ; that she has been suffered to assume that position through the negligence , faithlessness , or incompetency of diplomatists on the spot ; and that she is resisted by a Tory-Turkish reactionary and Russian party , with whom England finds herself in a false alliance . This , we say , is outrageous bungling ; it places England in a position from which she could only act mischievously . Our attention is the more drawn to the subject ,
since we see signs of other movements menacing to Turkey . The Emperor of Austria has just given his sanction- to a new line of railway , to extend from Steinbruck to the Croatian frontier . Austria and Russia , we must remember , are competing for the master influence in Sclavonian Turkey ; that is , in four-fifths of Turkey . Russia already possesses the mouths of the Danube ; has a large force stationed on the other side of that river ;
could cross the Pruth at any point ; has proved that she can cross the Balkan ; and could , in short , occupy Constantinople at the shortest notice . In an opposite direction , the Turkish authority is in contest . The Druses and the Bedouins have attacked the Turks in Syria . Communication has been interrupted , and the Turkish commander seems to have some trouble in
maintaining his ground . It is n ' t such times as this that France appears in the Golden Horn , defiant of treaties , with a line-of-battle ship , bullying the insolvent Sultan , and almost forcing him to accept , at an exorbitant rate of interest , accommodation . And it is at such times as this , that England is seen diplomatically playing , through the hand of a subaltern agent of all work , the game of that overwhelming power which can seize or " protect " Turkey at a moment ' s notice .
A Check For Railway Destruction. Aoain T...
A CHECK FOR RAILWAY DESTRUCTION . Aoain the rail is stained with blood ! The collision on the Brighton line has added to the numbers of those who are convinced that " something must , be done . " Indeed , the number ol those in whom that conviction has been implanted , by shocking experience of ( heir own , begins to ' grow formidable ; and various sugtreslioiiH are afloat , for the coercion of Railway Companies into something like rational and decent attention to the comfort and safety of
the passengers . There have boon exhortations . lia . il way Managers have been assured that if they were to attend to the wants of passengers , they would be repaid for it in the increaHo of trailie . Tlio total neglect of this incentive by Railway Managers proven , for the thousandth time , that ( ho law of " Hiipply and demand" is not effectual in procuring the greatest amount of convenience for the public . Competition has been expected to do wonders ; but we nee the fallacy of that
incentive , in the last instance ol competition . The Oxford iuhI Banbury line establishes competing railways from London to Birmingham ; but the very opening of the Banbury line was Hignali / . ed by a collision . Supply and demand and competition failing , Homo other motive ^ desirable . A correspondent of flic H'ivtc . -i , for whom that journal vouchcH jih really " One conveittaut with * Railway alfaira , "
suggested a system of fines . The Banbury accident was the result of the grossest unpunctuality ; and although the Great Western , is far from being conspicuous amongst Railway Companies for dilatoriness , there is a general complaint that the arrival of trains is long after the appointed hour . More than , one recent ; accident by which a quick train cut a goods train in naif are also instances of unpunctuality . The primary cause of the Bri ghton .
accident is the same , aggravated by inattention to orders . [ Railway managers put carriages on the lines to run fast or slow , with very little reference to the relations of time . TJn punctuality , therefore , is a fruitful cause of accidents ; and " One who is conversant with Bailway affairs , " proposed to meet that offence by enabling railway passengers to claim the forfeiture of their fare when the train shall arrive more than fifteen minutes after the specified
time . At the first blush this looks like a very promising suggestion ; but the Times made an alarming objection , that in their anxieties to save the fines , the Company would scramble overground even more perilously than at present . Certainly there is no occasion for that . It is not the slowness in locomotion , but the long and unexpected dejays which contribute to unpunctuality . The objection , however , is powerful , and would very likely prevail . Leave other things as they are , and Railway Companies would be inclined to indulge delay as much as ever , while they would endeavour to make up for it by reckless speed .
Protected only by a political ceconomy , which takes little account of life , or by Lord Lyttelton ' s Act , which allows an uncertain compensation for certain accidents , the railway passenger feels but little confidence in his own destiny when once he is handed over to the custody of the railway official . If the fine protected him in respect of punctuality , it would expose him the more to being dashed to pieces by another species of neglect . We still , therefore , want something else .
Government assumption of Railways is not probable under the existing circumstances , and the not unnatural prejudices against Government management . Railway Directors appear to g rant llieillStjlv e » » u . in ^ opo-xiailoiKty wkollj- at variance with the duty to society , or to the passenger placing himself in their charge . It is difficult , however , to find out a method of coercing a kind of animal , like the Railway Director or the fox , that can always turn on his own path . Mr . Glyn , for example , says that Railway Companies are forced into it by competition . Mr . Laing , of the Brighton Board , has made light of accidents , treating them as things to be expected . Practically , all Railway Companies
show that they are not appalled by the chance of disaster . The grand fault then seems to lie in the impossibility of bringing Railway managers to a sense of their duty . Competition cannot do it ; argument cannot do it ; and while the Railway managers hold the highways of the kingdom in their own hands , the passenger who must travel by their railroads ; who has no appeal to their enlightened self-interest , or their philanfor lan of in
thropy , is made to cast about ; every p - ducement . One indeed would promise to be very effectual if if ; were possible . 11 is the boast of those who oilicially cultivate Christianity , that it is tlio true doctrine of doing to your neighbour aa you would be done by , and that it , comprises an practical wisdom and philanthropy . It occurs to U 8 , therefore , that this would be a good mode oi bringing Railway managers to a sense of . tuoir reason and to their duty—to convert them to Christianity .
A Olkimca.L Wjtnkss To Cuullcu Anak(!Hy\...
A OLKIMCA . L WJTNKSS TO CUUllCU ANAK (! HY \ " Thkhu are dnys which need plain language to set , forth important truth . " Such in i ] H \ ° \ )^ sentence of a lelferii , the Times , signed by l \ notorious parson , " Sidney Codolphm (> * ><> . u , who takes a . " common nohh « view oi i . ; * ¦ matters . Hit . Hubject in the B . shopni and ( Jcig , whose relations to each other ho farcical v ' . scribes , an they conic out into strong , very " ;"'< ^ relief at the " visitation" and the « onf "'» lions . " Tako a specimen of the former : ^ ' O , u : « in threo ymrs wo have u vimtution : * ^ HUimnon . Hl to n nu ' HrlilKmring <¦<* " io !'''' . tiie Kisliop ; wo follow liiin to a morning wirvi * dmrcli . mid hear one of our brethren proucu u
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111852/page/12/
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