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1^78 THE LEADER. [1N0. 456, December 18,...
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taini But as he got on step by step the gradation took off the force of contrast ; each successive step appeared natural enough , no doubt ; and now , when he is fairly at the top of the tree , if that most amiable and able Judge should ever wish to realise his elevation , I suppose he can do so only by recurring in thought to the links of St . Andrews , and to the days when ho drilled his pupils in Latin , and Greek . Student of Divinity , newspaper reporter , utter barrister , King ' Council , Solicitor-General , Member for Edinburgh , Attorney-General , Baron Campbell of St . Andrews , Chief Justice of England—each successive point was natural enough when ¦ won , though the end made a great change from the Manse of Cupar . —r-Frcuer ' s Magazine .
SiHiRGKON . —On Monday about 1000 of Mr . Spurgeon ' a followers held a tea-meeting a Park-street Chapel to aid the funds for the new tabernacle . The meeting vrt » A addressed by Messrs . Spurgeon , Hugh Allen , Davis , and others . Upwards of 800 / . was collected and promised ; hundreds of devotees were unable to gain admittance . v Dr . DclCahara , M . P . —One human institution remains perennially unchanged—the institution of imposture . One man among us can boast of a field of action which never contracts or changes y that man is no other than pur beloved old quack ; our eloquent , our far-famed , our magnificent impostor , Doctor Dulcamara , JI . P . Freed by the arrival of the autumn from his
engagements on the politico-operatic stage , this eminent and melodious public man has , of late months , been going his rounds gaily in provincial England . He has assumed a great variety of characters , taking especial caTe ( for the Doctor knows his public intimately ) to seek his originals in the world of rank and title , and never to impersonate any individual who stands lower than a member of the House of Commons . Now as a noble lord , now as a noble and learned lord , and now simply as M . P ., he has been calling meetings all over England . Among other announcements , he has proclaimed hia discovery of a new soothing syrup , to be taken largely in a great many table-spoonfuls , called " Social Science . " ( Wisely saying nothing whatever of
the many years during which it was endeavoured , by hard labourers , to force that nostrum on his attention ; or of his taking no heed of it until it by slow degrees became popular ) . He has referred , with his usual brazen self-complacency , to his long-established pills and powders , devoted to the cure of exhaustion and weariness in mechanics institutions , and artfully adapted never to attain the end which they profess to accomp / ish . He . has revived with greater success than ever , that admirably-impudent performance of his which he calls *• Giving an account of his stewardship to his constituents . " And in each and all of these cases , he has once more achieved that amazing feat of oratorica jugglery on which the main foundation of his celebrity has from time immemorial reposed . In other words , he has talked for hours together without the slightest intermission ,
and , at the end of the time , has said—nothing . The one striking difference which we discern between the practice of this consummate conjuror on the metropolitan stage and his practice on the country platform , is , that , in the former case , he does actually produce his specifics as well as talk about them ; while , in the latter case , he merely promises to produce them when he goes circuit again next year . That next year will come ; the platform will be swept again for use ; the wnterbottle and tumbler will be set up on the little table ; our Dulcamara ' s nearest friend and admirer will solemnly preside in an arm-chair ; and the Doctor's audience will do just as unaccountably large , just as amazingly patient , just as nnreasoningly ready to believe , as ever . Wonderful institution of Quackery I Unrivalled , unblushing , unchangeable Dr . Dulcamara I—Household Words . !
Cujrious Discovery . —Pr . Beck , of Dantzic , has found an antidote , or rather a counter-poison , for ardent Spirits . It is a mineral paste which he encloses in an olive , and -which onco absorbed destroys not only the rising effect , but likewise the disastrous consequences of drunkenness . ¦ He tried several experiments on a Polo , an irreclaimable drunkard . The individual , named RndcvU , swallowed threo bottles of brandy in succession , and after each bottle eat an olive prepared by the doctor . He experienced neither the- effect of drunkenness nor tlie slightest sickness .
Tractarianism . —On Thursday a public meeting of members of tho Church of England was held at Exeterhall for the purpose of taking into consideration certain practices , bordering on the ceremonies of the Church of Homo , which are reported to be in use in tho church of St . George-in-tlie-East , in that of St . Barnabas , Plmlico , and several other places of Protestant worship in tho metropolis . Condemnatory resolutions were agreed to aftor considerable uproar . The Aumy Contkaot Inquikv . — -In tho course of "Wednesday , Sir Thomas Hastings , formerly storekeeper of the Board of Ordnance , was examined at great length , and tho ohairman nfterwarda stated that the proceedings must bo adjonrned sine die . Some conversation took place respecting tho publicity tlmt hud been given to the proceedings of tho commission . It Appears that this publicity has boon of great advantage . _ Covwc ov Common Couwcju-, — A special Court w « a
held on Thursday , at which a voluminous report of the Coal , Corn , and Finance Committee , on the finances of the corporation , was discussed at great length , and unanimously adopted . An animated discussion took place on a report brought up from the City Police Committee recommending that 200 / . per annum should be allowed to the Commissioner instead of a residence . The discussion assumed a somewhat personal character , and ultimately , instead of the report being adopted , it was ordered to be laid on the table . A Case in Point . — " Talk of introducing the ' Pointed Style' into the Public Offices , " said Bernal Osborne to Sir Benjamin the other day ; " look what a mess Bulwer Lytton has made of it !"—Punch .
Society of Arts .- —On Wednesday , Mr . E . J . Reed read a valuable paper on the modifications which ships of the Koyal navy have undergone during the present century . Mr . Reed rather objected to our devoting too much attention to enlisting every possible scientific appliance in our service , lest the very greatness of our power should cause the nations to combine against us . New Safety Lamp . —Messrs . Wilkins and Co ., the eminent constructors of lighthouse apparatus , upon whose perfect conscientiousness in their calling hang from hour to hour such mighty interests , furnish as the detail of a new safety lamp as follows : —In it the flame is surrounded completely with glass or talc . The gauze * which in the Daw lamp is continued from
the level of the wick upwards , obscuring the light , commences here some three inches higher . The draught or circulation is maintained by the external air passing through the body of the oilcan by means of four large tubes around the wick , communicating with a lower chamber in connexion with the external air through the meshes of a fine metal gauze . Thus the circulation of air is kept up even better than in the Davy , in which the air is admitted on a level , and directly opposite the wick . Lamps have been designed to obviate the objection to the Davy on the score of the gauze surrounding the light , but the admission of air freely through the body of the oil-can has not been attempted until now . ¦ Two varieties of the ne-w lamp are now being
manufacturedone for use iu situations where the existence . of explosive gases may be remedied as eoon as discovered , as in sewers , gas-works , & c ; and the other where men work continually in an atmosphere charged with explosive gas . In the first , the light is surrounded with a dioptric lens , which concentrates and emits the rays all round ; in the second , the light is surrounded with tulc or other indestructible light-transmitter , which will allow , as is sometimes required , tlie gas to inflame and fill the whole interior of the lamp , until it becomes red hot , when it will have to be substituted for a cold lamp , the operation being repeated as soon as the second lamp becomes too hot to be safe . The lamp has been in use by the Metropolitan Board of Works in the sewers on the south of the Thames for four
day , after ¦ * short illness . The lamented gentleman T ceived patients and was out in his carriageTon q * a after -, Inch he complained of indis PoSit ? on anS ^ to his chamber , which he was destined neVerioi ?** again alive . The deceased was born in Bristol ? , ? tember , 1789 , so that he . was in his seventieth yC # ~ second wife was a sister of Sir William Follett Kvci . ii > Outdo . nk .-M . Ballogh , a Hungarian ' accPrf that he has managed to square the circle , Shl 71 just sent copies of his work on the subject , which J ^ tains numerous diagrams , to the Academy of Scio J » Vienna and Paris , and to the heads of the UnivS ? K « of Cambridge and Oxford . e unrversiues
Status of a Uenti-eman of the Pkfss The C long Weekly News of the 3 rd of September has an ac ~ count of an indignation meeting of navvies , which » M reported by a gentleman who " was accommo dated with a giddy seat at the top of one of the wheels of aete " The vehicle seems to have been driven about to various points during tho proceedings of the meeting ! Flattering . —In the window of the library , No . 212 Rue de liivoli , there has lately been exhibited an en ' graved portrait of Mr . Charles Dickens , with a beard a Mmperiale , sitting at a desk in a thoughtful position and writing . The police entered the shop tlie other day and told the proprietor in very angry terms to take the engraving out of the window . They mistook Mr . Dickens ' s portrait for a carieature of the Emperor . ' The ok
Family AuuoTSFORn . — The announcement of the death in London , on the 11 th inst ., of the only son of Mr . Hope Scott , Q . C ., cannot but interest the public . This child , the only living male descendant of Sir Walter Scott , -whose name he bore , was only a vear and a half old , and has survived his mother , tlie poet ' s granddaughter , little more than six weeks . An infant sister died here u fortnight ago , on the 3 rd ; and thus since the 26 th October , the date of Mrs . Hope Scott ' s death , the aftlhti-d father has had also to lament the ] ass of two children . Only one little girl remains . — / Scotsman . Dhuleep Si . N'o . iiv—The Maharajah is at Vienna , under the travelling name of Captain Melville . His Highness has chartered a steamer belonging to the Austrian Steam Navigation Companv , and is going down
the Danube on a shooting expedition . Life in VictokiX . —It must be a life singularly re " pulsive in its aspects to our Upper Ten Thousand-Those diggers—that horrid ballot—that odious republicanism—are the natural disgust and dread of the Downgers and tlie " Dowlw . " But somehow one fancies that the vigorous sons uf freedom avid adventure may find a certain attraction in a land which has no national debt , no oppressive taxes , and no restricted citizenship . —Daily JS ' eics .
lNTOLKitANt-K in SwicDns .-A Mr . Rechmtzer , a respectable tradesman , lias recently been committed for trial before the Swedish courts of justice , on the charge of having brought over a member of the Lutheran Church to Baptist tenets , and <» f having -administered to him the rite of baptism . This ia nn oflence wlncu . it proved , will entail banishment , and the confiscation of his property . The trial is fixed to take place on the < tli of February next . AVo uudorstund that tho Swedish ( Jovernmeut is not disinclined to repeal the laws waicn now exist against conversions from Lutherniusin , but that these laws arc upheld by tho Legislature .- ^* . Mercury . _ „ ,, tte
months with success . * SHAKspnAnE in Russia . —A letter in the NorJ , from St . Petersburg , eulogises in strong terms the performances of Mr . Aldridge , and states that in the celebrated scene with Iago the effect he produced on the St . Petersburg audience can be compared to nothing hitherto seen there , except that attending the performance of Rachel in the fourth , act of Lea Horaces . By way of a climuac , the writer mentions that tho young lady who had to play iHsdemona was at the first rehearsal ao terrified at the expression of the Moor ' s ' physiognomy that she rushed screaming from the stage , and only after some trouble could she be persuaded to resume hor part .
LuxKMnoiTRo ANI > Komi :. —The Clirtmbur of Duchy of Luxembourg four day * n « o held a *>"'»*>< >" which the . Government elated that tlu- 1 apol Court before concluding a concordat . wanted to be assured that it would not bo rejected by the Chamber , ™*™ £ verinnent therefore wished to have an opinion e * P »« J 2 on it . Tho Chamber revived to di ^ uss the mattc JW in its bureaux . It is stated that amongst other luinj , the concordat mnki * Luxembourg an cpi » M |« l wlj , »« that tliia will occasion nn expense of 20 , 00 uir . a ji « . Ioriuhtno . —The steamer Edinburgh , which sullea Rhort time ago from Loith , was frown in a Cron « It wns feared that she would remain m that i * jturn . some months , and it wn * proposed , rather lmJ W « b crow homo , to place them on half-pay . \'' V , l 0 en has however , has just arrived by telegraph thai Ul ? J ^ j ,,. boqn broken up by a midden thaw , and tnai u burgh laat Sunday morning w » w once moro on
Souvkkirs Die l'Emi'icuicuh . —In addition to the reconstruction of tho house at Longwood , in St . Helena , occupied by Napoloon I ., and of his toinb , the French Government has resolved on having reconstructed in that island the house in which Genernl Bertram ! resided , and also on having a statue of Napoleon placed on nn eminence in view of the sen . An engineer officer has jnst been sent out to execute these works on plans opproved of by the Emperor . Education in tiijc Eastkun Countiks . —The middloclnss examination instituted by the University of Cambridge—or rather the examination of students not members of this University , for tho authorities deprecate tho use of the term " middle class "—at Norwich , commenced on . Tuesday , and has since been continued de die in diem .
Tub "Wicstminsteb Play . —Tho selection for tho present your is tho comedy of Phunnio . Tho prologue , spoken by Mr . Goodeve , tho captain of tho school , lumenta , a « usual , tho decease of " old "Westminstera , with especial alhiHlona to tho Indian rebellion . The epilogue , whUih is amurt and witty above the ordinary level , not only tuma Phormlo into a dnneing-nmstur learned in quadrillon and polkas , but makes Naualstrata put on a huge crinoline petticoat , and , what is moro extraordinary , tnko it oil' again , in consequence of the derision which it occasions . ' Among the viaitora who crowded tho thoatro on Thursday , wore—Tho Lord Chancellor , Viscount Harrington , Sir G . Rose , Sir 1 ) . Hall , Sir W . Cope , Mr . Justice Willoa , Arc'lulottoon Freer , Professor Thomnaon , Professor Cockerell , Mr . Slado , Q . C ., & c . Dxt . Biuuux . —TUIb omiuont physician ( llud on
Turn'sto the port of Loith . . 0 * Avbtoaman Mail Sr . RVioK . -The Covcrnjen ^ New South Wales have ctoputo . l an aKent U >\» ' ^ land to confer with the C «» hiiiial- « m « ef in toi"j . ^ with some roproHontntives of the colony , airt " % flteam country , on tho boat means for establishing » » " • service oiii Panama . ym Souixv v . Ikquam . —In this c « bo etcpa ' »^ trlftl taken on the part of the dotoiulimt to u 1 ' 1 * " 1 * , " torm , —a motion for which will bo mmlo in the oihuIi IT in January next . No public roforoiicu wi i l " w ,,, cji boninde to the cinjumstancos conno .-to < MMuii . will ho fully dotalluil In thu courao ot futuio " o ceoilings . ' | j ^ ys Ciiyhtai . PALAOifc-KoturnoC ailui ^ " ^ JJ » tt . ending Friday , l > ece . nber 17 th , w 6 r t rf UMU mlttuJ , including Buasoh-tlokot hola « w , vono .
1^78 The Leader. [1n0. 456, December 18,...
1 ^ 78 THE LEADER . [ 1 N 0 . 456 , December 18 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18121858/page/10/
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