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1092 THE LEADER. [No. 34/7, Saturday ,
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Flogging At Eton. All Eton, And Other Pu...
ness of the ' weed'to grown persons , but about its effects upon the constitution of growing boys there can be no manner of doubt . Boys are apt to learn to smoke as they would learn to shave , . because it is ' manly ; ' and we have heard of a smoking club at a certain Eton Dame ' s some years ago , the members of which were wont to assemble nightly in the back-yard for the express purpose of acquiring that virile accomplishment . But to permit the habit , or even to connive at it , would clearly be the grossest dereliction of duty on the part of the masters , and fatal to the t > oys and to the school .
Mi . Morgan . Thomas and sons may be pronounced entirely in the wrong ; and Dr . Goodford has clearly acted as he was bound to act . But , for the future , we would venture to suggest , with all deference to the Eton authorities , would it not be possible to abolish flogging for all boys above fifteen years of age ? We were going to say above the ' Remove , ' but an occasional genius of sixteen will be found among the ' Lower Boys . ' Flogging boys of
sixteen and upwards is certainly not an agreeable practice , and we have no doubt the head-master would be glad to be exempted from the office of executioner . "When a boy of such an age is ' complained of , ' under present regulations lie must be flogged : but why not cut up his ' after twelves * and his * after fours' for a fortnight or a month , and give him a swinging translation , not a mere writing out of lines , to bring to the head-master every day at one , and . at five on half and whole holidays ? \
Many other punishments equally severe to a young man of eighteen ¦ will readily suggest themselves , but we repeat our opinion , that a young man of eighteen is doing no good at school .
1092 The Leader. [No. 34/7, Saturday ,
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Th . ere ia ino learned man . but will confess he hath xnuch profited t > y reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it tie profitable for him . rto read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his advers ary to write 1 — MiiTON .
The Working Classes And The Hospitals. '...
THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE HOSPITALS . ' ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") H * J ! Z— Would not the efficiency of those excellent institutions the London hospitals "be greatly extended , and at the same time a great benefit conferred on the working classes , by the establishment of a benefit society in connexion with each hospital , the members of which , in return for their weekly or monthly subscriptions , should be entitled ( in case of sickness ) to admission to the hospital , and to the advantages of that superior skill and attention which at present the working man can only obtain by becoming a recipient of charity ? If this suggestion were carried out , I believe that the great majority of the working classes would , by these means , pay for their own hospital accommodation , and the bequests and subscriptions of the benevolent might be reserved for their legitimate objects—the very poorest . I am , sir , your obedient servant , Bloomsbury . W . G .
The Moon's Rotation. (To The Editor Of T...
THE MOON'S ROTATION . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sna , —In your last impression , Mr . William Kenward , of Edinburgh , in his answer to Mr . Thomas Best , on the Moon ' s rotation , haa recommended an experiment ¦ which he considers conclusive . I have tested it , and consider that , so far as the water and the straw are concerned , it is very unsatisfactory . If Mr . Kenward will calmly and lucidly reconsider that part of the experiment , I think he will perceive his error . The empty bason , I opine , ia sufficient for the purpose of elucidation . The experimenter represents the Earth , the bason represents the Moon . Mr . William Ken-Tvardsaya : " The bason not only moves round the experimenter , it also turns on its own centre , and has a rotatory motion . " This is literally correct ; but what does it prove ? Not axial motion of the Moon , but simply a relative or subordinate motion , depending on the primary motion of the Earth . Though to an observer of the experiment the bason in being carried once round makes one evolution , will Mr . Kenward usserfc that the bason in being carried round did not continuedly present tne same siao to him , the experimenter ? The ship in circumnavigating the Earth , to an observer on ££ ? - v } mfit * favoured , be it noticed , with a side Zlf ^ l ^ l- " j ^^ tive revolution . But , does she S ? J ^» V \ i prescnt her * *» n to the centre of «^ . mIp 4 ^ 3 " 8 Urge or small on the Earth , considered in the roind aeparately , with a polar Zr & z ^ s ^^^ sr but theac Portsmouth . Iam ) Sir 'S ffioR .
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. " W . There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so ¦ unna . tural and convulsive , as the strain to keep tbings fixed when , all the world is by thevery law of its creation in eternal progress , —Db . Ab ^ old .
Of Prance. The Story Is Simple. Russia B...
of Prance . The story is simple . Russia bestows an amount of money and pahis in recruiting , training , instructing , and directing a host of diplomatic agents , some in recognized oifices , others without any ostensible commission ; but not the less effectually employed for that . By means of this agency she has succeeded in rendering Persia her obedient vassal for a long series of years .
FRENCH MACHINATIONS AGAINST ENGLAND DETECTED . A stew series of operations in which France is acting with IRussia to undermine the influence , even the territorial dominion of England , has been exposed . This useful work has been performed , — -not by the Morning 2 £ erald , which is continually detecting Lord Palmers ton and Ms colleagues abroad ; not by the MorningAdvertiser , the champion of the nationalities in England ; not by the Daily News , the radical critic of Palmeb-STOir—but by the Morning Post , -which has so often fulfilled the behests of the Minister , and has been so faithful to the Government
Persia threatened England when Russia had no European wars upon her hand . She feebly granted the request of England to be neutral , when , any quarrel with Persia might have drawn an Anglo-Indian army into Central Asia , and have threatened the Georgian frontier of Russia during tbe war . She consented to renew her intrigues against England , when Oma-u Pacha ' s advance towards
Georgia rendered further forbearance useless . And by petty insults , she drove the English Ambassador from her Court , when the object was to make a display of Russian influence , and to commence a series of practical aggressions upon an outpost of British Tndia . We have already stated the interest which this country has in maintaining Herat under the suzerainty of Dost Mauommed . Persia left Herat alone when Russia was too
busy to support her ; now that Russia is disengaged in Europe , Persia endeavours to recover Herat , by blending local intrigue with a military expedition . She invested the city ; the siege was conducted by a distioguished officer of engineers' — a Frenchman , whose name is reported to us by the Morning JPost—M . 35 uhleb . Who has advised the Government of Persia throughout a course so subservient to Russia ? It is M . Bottr & e , the ^ French Ambassador—the TitOTrvnuEii 01
thoBe parts ; who is aa completely carrying out the policy of the Franco-Russian alliance as M . Tuouvenel in Constantinople , "Wa-IjEwski in Paris , the MarquiB de Moustier in Berlin , or the Count de Morny at St . Petersburg , There are , of course , many purposes in such proceedings ; they enable Russia fco preserve in the East that appearance of paramount influence which she has lost in Europe . But this is a strange detection to como immediately after wo are assured of the
continued fidelity of Imperial France to tho . British , alliance . The same assurances are given , although the Count de Mount remains to conclude in Russia the same kind of commercial alliance which M . BpuBEE has succeeded in concluding in Persia , after the Constitutionnel has flung insult and accusal in the face of England ; after the Emperor Napoieon lias withheld active co-operation against Royal Naples and has in fact assumed a totally separate position in Italy .
We do not forget the explanation which has been put foith ; we do not overlook the excuse presented this week by the Times that the Emperor Najpoloeh has "been imposed upon by imperfect statements , —that lie has been unwell , absent from the post of duty , and deceived by his servants . Some probability is thrown upon this account by the visit of the Count de Pehsiony to Coinpiegne , and the immediate effect which that visit had in altering the tone of the French Press . "We have already stated our
adherence to the principle " QuI facit per alium facit per se" —that the Emperor cannot disclaim , the acts of his accredited agents . But let us suppose the excuse to "be truelet us Tpelieve that the representatives of France , in all parts of Europe , with the one exception of De Persigny , are misrepresenting their master . "What is the avowal implied in . that fact ? The Emperor , it is said , has been indisposed . We know it well ; and we know the warning given by the able medical adviser who was summoned over from this
country . It is said that his agents are acting upon their own . interests and their own views , without reference to the policy of his State or the safety of himself as the ruler of France . Granted ; the powers of the man have been underrated ; his inventive faculties at all events were too narrowly estimated ; he conceived or compiled with others a plan of snatching power from the republican
representatives of . France , and concentrating it in himself . After the monarchy , after the republic , he substituted a purely personal government of a great country . He drew upon himself all the responsibilities of the State ; he undertook to guide it by his own opinion ; he acquired that power by deceiving the national Government , by surprising the capital , and coercing the entire nation .. He could not command
the resources of the country , save through the help of an . agency which he purchased by the favours that he could dispense . He depended as much upon his agency as his agency ¦ upon himself . The pledges of their fidelity are tho advantages he can dispose of . If they can obtain other advantages by a shorter cut , by a means independent of liis
continuance on tho tlirone , the value of their investment in the Napoleok dynasty is superseded . If , for example , they can store up money , wealth , and the prospect of social promotion in other places , why should they lend a sentimental preference to the upholding of Napoleon ? A large operation in shares would be a shorter cut to their personal objects than the slow growth of an empire . him
"With agents turning their bade upon , the autocrat is alone ; he has all tho responsibilities of tho poNyer which ho has pro " claimed himself to wield—the power itself is embezzled by his servants , and carried oil to St . Petersburg . And thus ib ia that in Tehran , in Constantinople , in Naples , Paris , Brussels , Berlin , St . Petersburg , the policy carried out is not the policy of Napoleon , but tho policy of the clique who were . ms accomplices in the Imperial burglary . Sick , abandoned , frustrated , lie knows better , but does worso " per alium ; " he endures execration that lie doea not deserve , foresees a aw
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111856/page/12/
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