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THE CIIUHCH IN EEAL DANGER. TifE worst e...
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Notices To Correspondents. W« Nntice Enn...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . w « nntice enn to taken of anonymous correspondence . N w ^» te vor is intendedforinsertiou must be authenticated Ko name and address of the writer ; not ^ necessarily fflSon , but as a guarantee of his good faith . i / fshnDOSsible to acknowledge the mass of letters we re-M npive Their i nsertion is often delayed , owing to a press nfmatter - and when omitted , it is frequently from rea-£ quite : independent of the merits of the coonnunica-We mnu » t undertake to return rejected communications .
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¦ There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Du . Ausold .
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tlie sagacity of its politicians , or the courage or us public . On the other hand , there is something ludicrous in the attempt of the ¦ ¦ ¦ French papers , And of some amongst our own journals , to make light of Cherbourg , its festal demonstration , and its gigantic works . Make lightof Chatham andPlymouth combined . Cherbourg is at least ; a great fact , and it is not to be talked out of sight . Does it follow that we are to stand in fear ot * a fact , or thatbeis neuceiorwara to
. . .. . : ? ; CHEUBOUUG AND ITS FETES . The fetes of Cherbourg belong to the week , the works of Cherbourg belong scarcely more to the present generation than to the past , and more tc the past than to the future . The inauguration oi the great naval poit and arsenal has created a vasi alarm founded on a minimum of fact ; but the true bearing of the works which are now completed christened , and proclaimed to the world , has beer overlooked , not much to the credit of this country
-cause the Government ot France be in the known position of a , great engine , the engine must therefore be used against us ? The power that has been created at Cherbourg is great and self-supporting . The town , which lies at the bottom of the bay that bears the name , has before it extensive and commodious roads , which Lave been enclosed by a great sea-wall or breakwater , almost in a straight line , about two miles and a half in length , from one end to tlie . 11 / - \__ ii . _ .. „> .. ^ , f tiiJo lwo € il >\ x .- !» tr > i * i < 5 n lorh . ui iu « iv »» i >»> v ¦ -
omer . vjii tuts annc ^ , . — — » at each end a fort , with a fort also on the mainland opposite each end , and in tlie western entrance , which is somewhat broader , a fort . In the midchaimel there is a fort at . each side of the inner roads . The whole of the immense arsenal which lies to the left of the town is fortified , one of the I forts which commands the lesser roads being a part of the arsenal fortification . Above the town , to the west , is a semicircular chain of live forts ; behind ? li « tnwn t . l \ R nitndcl eominandine tlie whole space .
Every foot of luichoragc , therefore , is covered by the fire of artillery , and no shi p can seek satetv from the storm of nature without braving the storm ol art . The docks have an immense constructive power . A nav y could bo built arid anchored at Cherbourg ; which gives to France n Plymouth , and I realises the idea of the first Napoleon in supplying France with tlie means of striking a blow at any enemy seaward . Unquestionably the policy ot the structure is one of aggression , although we must .. 1 . Jl .,. 4 nnnnnlioinil lU f I'On II ftlli . l V llO 11101 * 0 . kj .. w ^
ICIUUIIIUWL LJUHJ c * yjjlt-s >^ iw » i . j — than the best form of sclf-dcfcnco . The ulterior effect of this great naval construction is to render Franco more independent than she has been of naval alliances . She will not be compelled so much to depend upon a combination of Russia , for example , to counterbalance Jiinglo , wl « .. ., ;„„ ,,, s , ~* , l Slinuld she bo in nllumcc with
tlie United States , she might almost brave ihc European Powers , England nicludod , even nt sen . Should any Napoleon of the future thunder forth Berlin decrees , he would not Hnd England alone riding the wave and able to duly him . But fur sliort of any such a contlict , the simple fact that France possesses iv navy as well as am army , will strengthen the-Emperor for holding the balance ot power by sea as well as land , and fit him the better
for the duties of an umpire . A policy may be based upon the construction , therefore , which is not necessarily aggressive , though it undoubtedly tends to the aggrandizement of 1 ranee . With regard to tlie demonstration of which so much has been made and which , will have such imposing effect , the policy is perhaps not less domestic than foreign . It is generally understood that the greater number of officers in the army are not politically Bonapartists ; they are anxious for the aggrandizement of the army . Now , nothing could be a better counterbalancing of a purely laud force than a more powerful sea force t han France has yet possessed . On the other hand , hitherto the fleet has not been very ardent in its Bouapartism , in a great degree probably because the fleet has not been so much cultivated as the army . It must now see in Napoleon its greatest friend , its new creator—a sovereign who rivals Louis the Fourteenth in his ideas , with additional capacity for realising those ideas . The fetes will liave their effect beyond the French frontier ; they exhibit France as a naval power in close alliance with Great Britain , a compact which almost amounts to dictation in the seas of Europe . And the frankness with ^ y lricl Cherbourg is thrown open to the Eng lish visitors , the sailors of our fleet , the volunteer sailors of the Royal Yacht squadron , is strong evidence that the French Emperor not only entertains no hostile s ideas towards this country , but waives no small .-part ! of the jealousy which ha 3 animated France , and seeks i to make no mystery with the islanders . It is a land f of frankness whicli implies the fear of no nuscon V struetion ; and the man who fears not misconstrue i tion seldom deserves it . . There is , however , a totally independent ponit o i view from which both the demonstration ? and tin . works at Cherbourg may be regarded . The grea _ . ¦ _ j . *;„„„ n . i . ini . it'n ' no' l \ pi > n r > r » mT >! fii . r ^ d hav e no imhk ^^ j — --- —
consiruu ' iuus * » nu > u . •*«« . •»• ...... - - been executed in a year , nor iutenyears . But their befinninn- goes back to times now distant . .-lucreis nothing really new , therefore , in the breakwater or the arsenal of Cherbourg : but the idea of Louis the Fourteenth — of the first Napoleon —has been finished and announced . Cherbourg is a crowning acquirement for the naval power of France ; it places that empire somewhat m _ . 1 « A rt 4 ? sx 4 ltA *> nAwflrc lhat . liavfi SOUOrllL TO
| become naval . Russia , for example , whose navy was half rotten , lias been building vigorously . France is able to keep pace with her . Austria is increasing her fleet , but can run no race against Cherbourg , The United States is building , though not very actively ; but it possesses considerable buildhi" power ; our own docks have not been idle , and if "" the Queen is unaccompanied by a great squadron to Cherbourg , it is probable that a muster of the Channel fleet , at no distant date , will
reassure any mistrustful people in tins country . Cherbourg , in fact , may . be taken as the new point of departure from which those states which aim at being naval powers in Europe or Anic Irica must take their standard for future strength . Hence this is a consideration important as much in France as in Austria , in Europe as in America . Cherbourg marks a ditc from which the naval estimates of all those states must stand at a hitrh figure , without any possibility of reduction . cousuiuu iumu ^
i From this week we muse sec a « . v .- . lopmcnt , cost what it may . We cannot , of course , define the consequences . 1 No man in our day will attempt to predicate the ] I impossible and tell us what may or may not lap pen us a sequel to the labours and festivals of Cherbourg . Unquestionably the existence of great power is in itself an incentive to use the power . The present Emperor must sec his strongest- , interest in peace ; but how different have been . -the three Napoleons ! And tho fourth maybe a still oi i hum
more marked variety , to say notinng wo . that we know not who his Ministers arc to be . w e arc sneaking , however , less of political possibilities than of naval possibilities , and t , hcy may he as much Ion the side ol this country ua of any foreign state . We ahull sec what practical science can or cannot do this very week , the English and Americans , in ciccinu itsigiii
| co-operation , have laid aown me c- »» , tuul have brought together the two countries within ( he distance of a few minutes . Sleam has not yet developed all that it can do , by sea or and , i either in locomotion , or as au engine of construction . Within this week we have seen an observer ol photography explaining how a cannon-ball passing from Die gun so rapidly thai , we cannot sec it , may I actually stamp its poriruit on the photograph . 1
the most powerfxil existing arsenal has been constructed at Cherbourg , it is more tlian probable that latent powers only await the discovery of the most active and energetic pursuers of p ractical science . Lord Dundonald assures us that lie has a secret that at a moment ' s notice could paralyse a Plymouth , a Sveaborg , or a Cherbourg . No arsenal ever yet built can forge the living sailors , and perhaps at the present moment no navy could excel our own in practice , whether in the handling of arms or of artillery . Our American cousins can always run a level race with , us , but at present , from greater recent practice , we are heading them ; and it may be said , as the result of practical observation lately , that no sea captains ca . ii put in their ships , place them , and work tlietn like the English , or concentrate their artillery with such deadly weight upon a certain point . The Duke of Malakoff , who is to be the guest of Lord Lyons in the naval part of the festival , could hims elf bear testimony to some ¦' rather ¦ - 'interesting reviews in whicli the comparative power with England lias been displayed . ' The gun-boat tribe has not yet been brought to its perfection ; in sliort , the naval tactics of the past have now to a certain extent been made comnion property , and any state which intends to maintain the standard in the race for naval supremacy must strike out new inventions , new arts , new labours , and we have yet to see , probably , the very principle of naval construction and naval tactics for the immediate future , i The friendly review of Cherbourg which the English I will share with their French hosts may itself so - stimulate the imagination and invention as to sug-- gest the first ideas for making a new standard from , this new point of departure . But the generous f frankness which is now shown iu the Cherbourg a fetes will of course disarm " any jealousy that might t be felt at the emulous energy of the British . : t ¦ ¦ ¦ " <" ¦ . - ¦ ' : " ¦ ' ¦ : ____; . ;¦ ¦ ' ¦ . . ¦ - : - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ . - ..:. ¦
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THE CIIUHCH IN EEAL DANGER . TifE worst enemy of the Established Church is the Established Church itself . No more formidable weapons of offence are forged against her than the weapons which she herself furnishes . It is all very well for Churchmen to raise , the cry of Dissent , Romanism and Atheism being in combination to undermine the Church of England edifice , to sever
the connexion between Church and . btate , ana xo deprive the established elergy of the respect and affection of the people . There is no need for Dissenter , Roman Catholic , or "No-religionists to put themselves in the least out of the way to efiect the very worst purpose the very worst enemy can I meditate towards the Established Church . The ' abuses and scandals that are so prevalent and coming so rapidly into the light of day are doing the work of destruction qnickly and surely . Take a i _ . l »««» JA 1 Ktts-inj-wl-tt' \ - \ af /\ T «» 4 lt *> TTAllRft fit
Lords by Lord St . Leonards a few days before the closing of Parliament . His learned Lordship had previously presented a petition from the inhabitants of Camberwell , which complained that the parish had been left to the care of a couple of ill-paid curates for nine years , because the living was under sequestration for the debts of the vicar . The following appears to be an outline of this disreputable , but by no means uncommon , case : — AKonf . tn . n vmvs a" -Q the living was bounht by
Lhe Rev . ] Vir . Williams for 15 , OOOA , subject to Lhc large tu / jpaid debts of the former vicar . The purchase-money , 15 , 0 O 0 A , by sonic oversight to which we have not the clue , was not , forthcoming , consequently there remained a charge on the living , hick is worth about 2300 J ., of a no less sum than 30 , 000 / . Very soon after tlio new vicar was inducted into the living the revenues were sequestrated , as it is phrased , for the accumulated debts ; the vicar became nou csf , and for about nine years ji . « / - ' ! ...: „< :.,,, ;^ l ,. » kW . nd e i \\ ' f \ nt > . of ihc wealthiest
parishes in London havo been obliged to sufler the mmiliution of belonging to a parish where such doings are possible and where tlie religious services cannot be performed by their proper clergyman . We do not think it any hardship that the parish is . relieved of such a vicar , but wo do think it monotvm . c 4 imf + l « o nni-ishioiier 3 have no suinmnry
means at command to put an end to such a crying scatulal . As long » s the nceunnilnJwl liabilities nro undiacharged the iulmbitunts ol Camberwell cannot expect to sec their clergyman , but must bo content to put up with the ghostl y consolation which a cou » lc of curates ul «/ . weekly apiece can aftord to give them for the money . It is calculated that m about twenty years the income ol the living will havo
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081858/page/13/
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