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48 The Leader andSaturday Analyst. [Jan....
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HOW TO GET A PLACE.* Peace and quietness...
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* ZVi<j Master Key to Public OMooa, and ...
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THE EAEL OF DUNDONALD.* A BOOK of advent...
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.* The' Autobiography of a Seaman. By Th...
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Peovetlbs.* F Ithere Is No Better Collec...
IAfe and Death . In dying , all dfeath ceases ; ' :. -Life lost , our life increases . . Affinity . ( Italian . ) . . The deformed ever the conformed meet ; The dwarf finds a wife in the neighbouring streets . ' . . .. Punishment * . When stairs are washed , the top comes first , And thei lowest step is cleansed the last : The highest rogues should be foremost cursed , But now small rogues into prison are cast ; While the title , the dross , ihe riband , the star , Are heaped on chief scoundrels in peace . and . in war . The Vine . Four bunches of grapes doth the good vine bear : The first is for thirst , take a hearty pull ; The second for health , to warm the blood , And in northern dimes it is ever too cool ; The third is for friendship , love , and joy , To bring back to the man the ; dreams of the boy ; The fourth is only , O drunkard ! for thee . Though every good fellow may taste i t thrice , To teach him a little more humble to be , And not pester his neighbours with silly advice . Love Immortal . ¦ . ' . ' ¦ A mother ' s love is never cold ; A mother ' s love is never old .: A mother ' s love is ever true , A mother ' s love is nine times neir . Drinking . To him who is fond of drinking God always gives enough , For if there is not beer or wine , there is ever the water-trough . JBlood and Slavery . ' Patrician blood , without a soul divine , Is like a lightless lantern in a mine . Impunity . Whoso deals with apes and priests , Finds that he never can punish the beasts . Solitude . ¦ ¦ " - : The more thoudeemest thyself alone , The further thou art from solitude ; - Thy devil will come if tty angel has flown , Thy ^ angel if thou thy fiend hast subdued . .. . Reverence .. . . . . Honour the old man ' s haix of snow ^ ¦ . ; If thpu wouidst thyself the old man grow . ; ' ¦ Official JReligion . , ' For every egg they give to the Lord , . The king's servants rob the peasant of two ; And . sometimes they rob the peasant of ten , And give the Lord the shells , to chew . Laborious Trifling . How wise , are they who spend coal and candle , . To change a house-beam to a besom-handle ! : Human Infirmity . . Wh y murmur at the folly of the sagest among men ? You often find in nettles the egg of the wisest hen . These renderings make no pretensions whatever to literalness . We have attempted to give the substance , the spirit . Rough as our translations may be , there will , probably be seen a better proverbial philosophy gleaming 1 ihrough them than is contained in Martin Farquhar Tupper's huge heap of imbecilities . Did the great Martin ever read any proverbs except his own ? If he had he would , no doubt , have discovered that a proverb should be pungent with pith and meaning , instead of containing no pith or meaning at all .
48 The Leader Andsaturday Analyst. [Jan....
48 The Leader andSaturday Analyst . [ Jan . 14 , I 860 .
How To Get A Place.* Peace And Quietness...
HOW TO GET A PLACE . * Peace and quietness are banished for ever from official life : up to the present time , nothing , but the . mysteries which surrounded public departments , and the intricacies of the path to the fountainhead of patronage , of which official reserve has kept so studiously the secret , has saved our great public dispensers from the deluge of jmpprtunity . These barriers arq now thrown rudely down by Mr . Boulffer ; and not only is-every possible information concerning 1 .
The publication of a handbook of the'importunate , or applicant ' s guide , will , perhaps , have the effect of destroying that system to which it was called into being to minister , and into whose holiest places it has penetrated . The unhappy possessor of patronage , if he would preserve the balance of his mind , must either 8 o rearrange-his ¦ system , that the path pointed out by Mr . Boulger shall lead to certain exclusion , or he must abandon his loaves and fishes to the competition of the ruthless public . Nothing but their ignorance has hitherto saved him . Now that the labyrinth can be threaded for three-aud-sixperice , and the poisoned ctip of mendicancy for ever presented to his lips , he has no choice but either to baffle his pursuers by fresh intricacies , or renounce the objects of his strong affection . _ ¦ : ¦ .-. . . .
On what principle the patrons of the law offices have been spared , unless it be from a fellow-feeling for his kind on the part of the author , we are at a loss to understand . The establishments of the Courts of Common Law , Chancery , and Probate are , we should suppose , as much public offices as any others ; but we can only congratulate the superiors of those departments on their escape , and assure them that their secret shall never be divulged by us . Mr . Boulger ' s book is very carefully compiled , very accurate , and very useful in-many respects . It will command a large sale ; statisticians , economical politicians , and administrative reformers will buy it , in addition to the thousands who have so long been waiting for a guide to the penetralia of the public service .
the number , nature , and value of Government appointments given for three-and-aixpencq ; not only are the official almoners ruthlessly pointed out by tho linger of publicity to the gaze of the hungry multitude , but rules for the boat means of worrying * a minister are laid down with gravity and pitiless exactitude . The " stereotyped answer " is to be disregarded ; the candidate must ask specifically for some place , and not bo put off . ' " " He must got Wb friond to apply again and ngnin , not mindtitg being oonsidorod imjportnnato , and should have ins application backed by a second or third influential friend ; in ohort , he should not cease , when once ho has determined to try his fortune in this way , to press his request till he obtains the desired nominantjon , " Imagine the effect of such words as those , circulated as they will bo by tens of thousands , upon tho mind of a still- > vexed politician 1 ( mo who , pestered as ho is ; and with terrible examples on his mind of ono or two determined ushers , has still rubbed his hands at tho thought , " What would this come to if they only knew ? ' \ Ho will my , " Are the sweets of office worth 1 all * this ? No ; Perish patronage' ! Perish jobs ! Lot who will have iny place , only let ino Hoe uway and bo at rest . " ' .
* Zvi<J Master Key To Public Omooa, And ...
* ZVi < j Master Key to Public OMooa , and Qan & idatot' Complete Inatntotion , By John Bouiaer , Beq ., Bftrmber-at . Ltiw , IMltor of tho Qivil 8 orvioo Cfasotto , $ o , HoitfBfcon and Wright .
The Eael Of Dundonald.* A Book Of Advent...
THE EAEL OF DUNDONALD . * A BOOK of adventui-es of the once dashing Lord Coehrane , now eighty-five years of age , and that book an autobiography , is necessarily replete with heroic interest . We regret to add that it is little to the credit of the British Admiralty . Next to the treatment of Nelson , nothing" was ever in ore disgraceful to that body . England is little indebted to her politicians for her triumphs , whether on land or sea . Her brave men unwillingly employed , and inadequately assisted , but daringly determined to serve their country at all odds , despite the treachery of factions at home , have done the deeds to which she owes her safety or supremacy . The Earl of Dundonald will be numbered among the most valiant and the most wronged of our naval heroes . How long will the incompetency of our official authorities , and their , jealousy of the truly great in those who serve , them , continue to reflect shame on our national annals ? V .
In this volume , we find the affair in the Basque Roads with Lord . Gam bier placed in its true light , and our autobiographer vindicated : on unimpeachable r evidence . It was one of the most striking schemes ever proposed , for the destruction , of the French estacade that then threatened to baffle all attempts to disturb their position . But Lord Cochrane had been appointed to the stern duty from ministerial necessity , not choice ; , and when he arrived at the fleet found himself received with jealousy by many of the officers , who were not willing to be superseded by one Who was the junior of every one of them . Lord Gambler ' s conduct was disgraceful , such that Lord Cochrane was determined to oppose the vote of thanks to him in Parliament . In consequence , he was compelled to demand a court-martial , which was so conducted as to be a blot on the face of our history . However , here we have the true tale at last 5 and learn that sooner or later the Muse of History is inevitably just . _ .. . _
The deeds of the Earl of Dundonald are in accordance , with , those of his ancestry . Tradition , he begins with telling us , has assigned to the Cocfcranes a derivation from one of the Scandinavian sea-rovers , who , in a remote age , settled on the lauds of Renfrew and Ayr . Robert Cochran , Earl of Mar , mason and courtier of King James III ., who was . murdered by the nobility , was also his ancestor , a man much maligned , but evidently of commanding talent and patriotism . Ho makes a point of importance , in his introductory chapter , of showing the connection of the family with the Stuarts , arid their adherents . The autobiographer himself was born December 14 > , 1775 , at Annsfield , in Lanarkshire ; his father was Archibald , ninth Earl of Dundonald , and his mother ,
Anna Gilehrist , daughter of Captain Gilehrist , a distinguished officer of the royal navy . Of the ancestral domains , the present Earl never inherited a foot ; the whole having been expended in tho defence . of the Stuarts , and swallowed up by mortgages ,. His outset in life was that of heir to a peerage , without other expectations than those arising from his own exertions . His father was of a ( scientific turn , and , to retrieve the family estate , ventured into manufacturing projects , which proved ruinous to him . In 1782 , Lord Thomas visited with his father James Watt , then residing at Handavvorth , near Birmingham . They discoursed on the . illuminating property of coal gas , a fact which tho Earl had discoveredAn a tar kiln afc Culross Abbey ; but neither then thought of turning it to practical account .
Owing to the family ruin , tho education of the present Earl of Dundonald was irregular and deficient $ — -it was altogether impeded by his removal to London . Q « r seaman waa now started in life , and indeed'hadalflQ procured for him at the same time a military commission ; but ho preferred the naval service . ; Au offer of his uuolo to receive him oa . board his frigate was accepted ; tho Earl of Hopotoun considerately
.* The' Autobiography Of A Seaman. By Th...
. * The' Autobiography of a Seaman . By Thomua , Tenth Karl of Pundonalj , G . O . B ., Mmirul of the »« d , lWr-Admir « vl of the Moot , & Q . Vol . 1 . ltiohiird Bontloy .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 14, 1860, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14011860/page/20/
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