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Who Is Master Of The House ? Is The Brit...
^ g ^^& njjid not the . The ^^ rt ^ e ^ aever intended his to go ti ^^ e Sess : the banquet , he no doubt con-L- ; * J £ dB ! r ' eaPwas private , where the affectations J ^ jfdit ^ reserva t ions of public speaking would nave "been out of place ; and he never calculated that the Emperor could have among Mhe guests a personage so silly as to chat out the incidents to the first alert British reporter who might put a question . The Ministers here understood the matter at the first glance
they gave at the morning papers containing the fatal communication , and they did quite right to act as the Prince ' s friends , a-ud to arrest the evil consequences so likely to follow from the conscientiously inquisitive exertions of the unstatesmanlike " own correspondents /' But it will be observed that the repudiation of the report appeared when the Prince was in Boulogne , and when the Duke of Newcastle , who could have spoken as to its accuracy , was also on the other side of the Channel .
This is the interesting fact , then > that Prime © JUherfchas invited the Eifiperor Xo"uis Napoleon to visit Xondon . In attending the Boulogne conferencethe Prince Gonsorfc of England tooi his plaee as a European potentate ; and m giving the above courteous iny itafcion to bur illustrious ally , his Boyai Highness assumed , obviously , the position , of chief governor of Grreat Britain . He spoke
aa master of the House , ioiiis JNapoleon invited him to Boulogne ; he invites Louis Napoleon to [ London ; both spoke without a thought of consulting Parliament or Cabinet Councils . As to the people of Boulogne or the pubUc of Iiondon- —of France or England ^ r-why- —? Prince Albert knew very well that x > iir illustrioTis ally , is very : pooular here , and tiixafe we would cheer him- —particularly if , like Nicholas , he gave a cup to Ascot . JNicliolas , he gave a cup to Ascot .
"We arb not surprised at thiB bold proceeding of hisBoyal Highness ; we have long faced the fact thafc he is a political personage of great potency in our country ; and regarding him as holding the same relation to Victoria which William held to Mary , we are not shocked that the Sovereign occasionally interferes with the peerage in governing us . But how account , on this occasion , for the silence of those , democratic journals , which are notorious for their jealousy , on behalf of the peerage , of court influence ? Precisely at
thia period hist year the nation was agitated from end to end—the result being solemn and more surprising than intelligible explanations in Parliament—because those journals had promulgated a vague suspicion , that Prince Albert had several times spoken to his consort about politics , and had actually once written a private letter to King Leopold , or Lprd Redcliffe—certainly to somebody . Is there nothing to irritate thoBe journals , now , that Pxince Albert stands announced aa Master of the House ?
The , repudiation of the newspaper report appeared because our Ministers feared another winter of anti-Albert Agitation . Our . Ministers do not comprehend our democratic editors .
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THE RUSSIAN AND THE ENGLISH METHODS OF CAKRYING ON WAR . TttK Russian method of carrying on war is to be reckless of life and property . The English method ( modern ) of carrying on wavr , is to bo elaborately careful of life , and scrupulously complimentary to property . Which is right ? * Each appears to sin in opposite extremes . The Russians are too reckless , and the English ore too careful . The English would not fWre at the town of Odessa and the Russians decree , in the event of their having to give up the town , that the town should bo utterly
destroyed by the owners of the property of it . The Russians order that Silistria must be taken ( which , isn't ) at any cost : and the English , provide a palatial prison , with splendid fare , for a score or two of Russian prisoners sent here from Bomarsund . Our extreme may loot , and is , the most amiable ; but the Russian may , in the end , prove to "be more merciful than the Englishman . They
disproportion the sacrifice to the object to "be gained- —it could not be necessary to their object , of baulking the enemy , to raze Odessa ; but on the other hand the English system , is too much to fight with the gloves—needlessly prolonging a contest which should be abrupt , —and so , in the long run , sacrificing thousands of lives to save a dozen here and
there . It is illogical to he improving rockets and perfecting other engines of destruction , and then politely begging the enemy to get out or the way . Our official kindness to the " poor Russian prisoners , " on the ground that they are poor blind , victims of a despot , suggests that our ships at Sebastopol have orders to fire only at the fortifications , and not at all at the Russian garrisons , our own soldiers and sailors being , of course , fine enlighten . ed , free fellows , who thoroughly understand the Eastern question , and are politicians as well as combatants .
We have got rid of a great many supererogatory , " horrors of -war J ibut i doTwhat we will , we must leave war a horrible fact— -not to be modified into pleasant parading . We are bound to do all We can to defeat the enemy ; and the more violent , vehement , vindictive is the war on our part , the sooner will it be over . "We are top civilised about it . That fine , free , corps of the Bashi~—Bozoulss was discouraged—as if Cossackism
could be encountered in a more sympathetic way . The blockade in the Baltic we ma . de as tender as possible—so that Russian traders should not suffer more than the in ere rotting or confiscation of their ships- —their goods were left to be imported and exported as usual , or rather with a higher rate of profit than usual . The prisoners we take are treated better than ever they were treated by their mothers or wives ; and the most amiable mildness is inculcated on our
commanders—so that Admiral Dundas waltzed his ships round a Russian-forfc at Odessa for the amusement of the town , Which -was never touched , and which the Russians themselves threaten to burn , down , This ia not real warfare ; it is sentimental war . Mr . John Mitchel says , that vitriol thrown into the eyes of an army by vitriol engines worked by steam , would be a merciful invention , and would greatly abbreviate war . The Russians think that the burning of Moscow
was a hit—it saved a campaign . This sort of logic is good for nothing if not pushed to its limits : on the same principle it would be right to slay every prisoner taken after prostration by vitriol , and it wotild he expedient to Send Russian gaol birds to Liverpool and Manchester , and bum fe down . The same principle would require assassination of Ctenerals- — -perfidy , treachery , and brutality of all sorts . It is , therefore , the logic of barbarians joud noadmeh 5—it maybe reduced to
absurdities- ^ -it would not answer in the end , it wbuld not produce peace , it would not produce the happiness of mankind . On the other hand do not let us carry on ¦ war as if our Cabinet wore the Peace Society . "Wo are dehiodtho useof the political resources at our disposal , such as the re-establishment of a Polish Nationality ; but let our Generals and Admirals bo urged to the utmost application of all the material means wo aro possessed of to kill , take , and destroy—so that thia Despot and his deluded people may alike realise the omnipotent vengeance of aroxisod [ England .
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CLEANLINESS v . GODLINESS . The leading journal ridicules , with the elaborate form that sometimes fatigues , the Encyclical of the Pope ( which is ridiculous- — but on other grounds ) , because , says the leading journal , the Pope should notice that cholera , which he prays against , comes from dirt , and dirt is the characteristic of the Pope ' s own countries . The leading journal takes other exceptions to the Encyclical , and is comically argumentative in pointing out what a dead failure is the Roman Catholic Church
as a temporal agent ; and tlie Protestant readers of the leading journal are cheered and comforted by such an article , not perceiving that the fun tells against all churches , there being several which are dead failures , in the temporal way , even here . The leading journal ' s first point is perhaps not better than its other points . The sanitary movement has induced a general notion , which may not be a very philosophical one , that cleanliness and purity are just the same thing . It should be observed that a sanitary movement- arises out of a condition of national filth- The "
nastiness" of " nice" men is a proverbial thing ; and mental purity is not ensured by weublanched under clothing , male or female Swift made an improper remark about the fashionable bergers and bergeres who were out of character in so frequently " changing ;" but we cannot forget it when leading journals get jocose and illogical . Cleanliness is next to godliness ; but may we not have godliness with dirtiness ? Shall we be a more religious , or Christian nation , when bur sewerage is perfected , and . a patent trap has been affixed to every one of our drain pipes ? The sanitary movement is good , like
a railway improvement , for its own sake ; but are -we to despair of the countries in which there is no sanitary movement *? Is existing Belgravia morally purer than contemporary " Wbitechapel : will well-drained , and smokeconsumed "Wnitechapel be purer than a muddy , piggy , Irish , or Spanish , village ? . The Pharisees were notoriously particular about their laundresses : The lEast , generally ,
is , aSf * Sidonia said , the land of the bath : and the Turks , whose independence we are fighting for , are not conspicuous for mental or moral purity . We do not , therefore , see the connexion between soap and the Scriptures . IJet us be a cleaner nation by all means j but let us understand that though cleanliness may be next to godliness , there may still be an awful interval !
Building Associations. Why Is It That Me...
BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS . Why is it that men . neglect a . very obvious mode of acquiring possession of a house of their own , which they may bo easily do through building societies ? We suspect the reason to be tyyo-fold—in tlie first place that hitherto building societies have not put forward their proposals with a sufficient variety to secure general acceptation 5 and , secondly , that the objects of such associations have been , in many instances political , rather thnn individual . The possession of a small freehold is of little use to a person who has no capital ; and the want of elasticity in suiting the plan of building to the necessities of the different consumers is evident , In some- cases the buildings are too alight , in others the rooms aro too confined ; and in most the rooms are of too uniform a aiao , whereas it ofton happens in families that ono good sized witting-room is required . In short , building societies have on the one hand too much sorvod as pretexts only to the Parliamentary agent , who was thinking of votes , and too little of residents ; or on the other hand they have conformed themselves too much to the stated fashions of builders , "who sometimes build more for sale than for use .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 16, 1854, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16091854/page/12/
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