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April 21, I860.] The Leader and'Saturday...
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POPULATION AND IHETETHIS. IT is not long...
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Our Future Constituents. Many Of Our Ren...
tioiv in languages ; this was . an attempt , at least , at being useful . Lectures on subjects such as . those which we have indicated above would be as ¦ ¦ superior to lectures on geology , on some pet niodern author , on the-volcanoes of Auvergfue , or the genius of Popjj :, as were the lectures of Antoninus to the public , displays of ¦ fiddling . by INejio , or the g-ladiatoriaV exhibitions of CoiliioDus in the Uornan circus . ' Let our benevolent lecturers study to make the ^ solid interesting rather than to . amuse by the frivolous . You may strengthen and inform the ¦ ¦ uudefslandm . g of the poorly educated in a year , where it would take half a dozen to create a taste .-which would ¦ ' deserve the name of cultivated . What we say is quite as much in the real interest of the higher classes as of the lower ; the blind Sajison will feel his way to mischief ,, and all the more ¦ obstinately and surely , if , . ' amongst other wrongs , he haB his blindness to avenge . "
The noble words of Bacon * are well worth g-iving-, Jiowever often the same truth . ir . ay have been repeated in less hsippy language . " It is without all controversy , that learning doth make the minds of men gentle , generous ; niauiable , and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance m-ako-s them churlish , thwarting , and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion , " ( " Advancement of Learning . " ) Legislative lessons are now quickly learnt ; there is all the difference in the world between a chiinge of the eonstituent-y how , anil what it would have been at the time of ¦ Chatham ; and even of his son—we inean . even with the present knowledge of the people . There are , too , some political lessons which .. very long ago were admitted , inadvertently , perhaps , by two of the staunchest tories , to be of very easy learning . " ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . . ., ; ' ¦ ¦ what leasebut it
. " Politicians , " says Dean Swift , . " may say they p , is no hard thing at all for the meanest person who hath common understanding to know whether he he well or ill governed . " ( Sermon on the Martyvdom of Charles I . ) And , says IJukke ( we quote from memory , ) the " poorestan d most insignificant creature is a judge of . practical oppression . " Nor are these points , perhaps , the only ones oh which our proposed lecturers might possibly find their humbler hearers pre-informed . . '< .. ¦ ¦' Everything indicates ah increased arid increasing- fitness for the enjoyment , of . an extended , franchise , if we can only teaeh the operative to respect his own order , and not to , throw himself iiito the hands of the reckless trading agitator v who ; i'ii reality neither represents interest nor principle ; " Wo long for the time which shall see—' "Those great false jewels shine no more . "
April 21, I860.] The Leader And'saturday...
April 21 , I 860 . ] The Leader and ' Saturday Analyst . 375
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Till : T 11 U . E GOOSE STEP . T HE Swiss , it s-eeme , -have presented fir Kobekt Peel with a cup arsd a rifle . There' is something rather significant in this double Votive-offering ,. and sarcastic , though on the part of the hoiiost Switzers most unconsciously so . We have no reason ourselves to connect Sir Kobkux ' Pee . t / s name with Cliquot or Car-Bonnkl , and the cup presented was probably vn empty oncj in some natures ; ' however , the effects . 'of continual inebriation are evident without the operation of what is ordinarily the cause of it . There are some men , not exactly Alexandeks , rather " uhderpurted "
for that , who , without draining the goblet of Ijtais , are quite ready to take a , torch in their hands , and make ti jolly .. blaze of a Palace of Persepolis , or anything else that men in their sane and sober senses want to see standing . A few weeks back we had occasion to remark upon the singular incoherence of niind which could induce Sir ¦ IIobekt to throw cold water on a lhime -which wanted the bellows of nil the strong liings in the kingdom—even of his , and to use his breath tp blow up n blaze which the more rational part of his countrymen wished to see smoulder out , at the cost <> f a
small ' sacrifice , to save sin infinitely larger one . \\ hen the patriotism of this country gave itself . a body in the form of the Volunteer Corps , thereby making an effort to tumble it to act in mutters of war and peace with an independent policy , and no longer to . shud der at French preparations , Sir Kobhjit Peel could find nothing better to do than to depreeinto this attempt of his fellow , countrymen , whilst at the same time ho was doing all in his power to provoke hostilities with France . If the Honourable Baronets roiuson inn- as far as it can be called reasoning-, goes for anything with
himself ,-wo wonder what ho can have to do with a nflo , or what sympathy l > o win have with n nation most of whom have nevjr learnt the goose stop , with an nnny whoso main conntitt | ents will probably have hud little more formal education in tactics than our own PEKi > dospiscd Volunteers . ,.,,,,, ,. Warmly as tho Times bus advocated tho hitter movcinont , cautious / is it haw boon in tho Swiss and Savoy bunnes * , wo lire quito at u loss to understand its indulg-out treatment of Sir Kobiskt Peei / s antics , its half praise of his speeches , and the very mild rebuke administered to him in its pages this ( Tuesday ) morning , though tins may only bo a taste of one twig of the rue ) , which it in
Promptitude would bo a good deal better , or , uVdefault of onatigation , ft liltlu nerioua and timely talking to . Tho Mines him experience enough to know that , under certain circumstances , an individual of tho most narrow powers cum do irropnrublo mischief , Tho . spark out of a tipsy man ' s louacoo . pipo oan blow up a villuge , tuulu euuloj from u uipfiy ' a cuinp-Hro couniuno n fair field of harvest , ami a monkey using rt omVh pnw to pick rousted clioanuta IVoni the burn may burn down u house ;—of course thin in-a ouho of catHpnw > lit nny rote , probably , there are not wanting people to toll bu- Jtoiucirr I tiiu what a fino fellow ho is , though tho gmndouv of the ongiuul
conception may have been entirely his own . What England may choose to do in case of any outrageous net of usurpation or oppression on the part of . Louis ISTAroxKON in Switzerland , is . for her duly to consider ; but Sir Hobert Vbyl is . not to Forge on the back of his note the endorsement of . the people of Kngland . We call be very hard upon Mi \ Cobben for having taken , possibly , rather too much upon him in some of the minor arrangements of a treaty of peace and of commerce , though , probably , very few of us know what amount of consullation preceded it , and with whom ; this , the Times can rate roundly , though all the harm done may admit , of correction ; but a most unauthorized promise of support , niade by an individual not hitherto remarkable for discretion , and at the utmost the mouthpiece of a broken and a beaten party , only merits a gentle hint .
England dislikes the principle of private men acting- as public ones , and going out , as the phrase is , on their own hook " , as if they were the authorized representatives of public opinion . If Sir Kobert Peix , contrary to his inefiiriency-of-vohniteer theory , chooses to make himself one in the van of a . Swiss battalion , no one would offer the ¦ slightest objection , at least , probably , out of his ownfamily . "We presume that few of the : hottest Foxites—pet as Fox was—were much pleased with his unpatriotic muddling , and . meddling at the Court , and in the intrigues of CathebijvE of Russ ia . Sir IIobekt Peel ' s peddling , if it compromises us ,: will not meet with ccju .-il patience , because h « - has not . that we are aware of , any very great public , services to fall back on ; Compromise the country seriously he probably could not ,-because the French Emperor knows pretty well the calibre of " all our public
ir . cn ; but he n-iay do what is eveu worse , and more desperately mischievous : he ' tempt a brave people to-overstep themselves in hope of a speedy and . substantial aid which might not be rendered , and so injure '" grievously the .-cause and the people which he is pro-fussing- to- make his own : and England may be blamed for not fulfilling Peel ' s . promises . With a simple people like the -Swiss , , a name is . everything , and Sir . Uqbert P-Eia , . i . s indebted for his real consequence , to that of his father ,, which has crept- into every Swiss hamlet . The present' lately ji-iveh him shows that they are taking him in earnest , and it is the duty of the Khglish jiwls to givethis caution to a people--whom- Jjiii . trland has . ever respected ii . nd ; ndhiiivcL The Wines by praising Sir Kobert has probably got his ear , aiiul so a little timely caution to him would have most etfe-ct ¦ fr om their columns .: . ' : : : -.. ' .-
Population And Ihetethis. It Is Not Long...
POPULATION AND IHETETHIS . IT is not long siiu-ea d' -ivti-nguisjied' party of French philosophers enjoyed a repast entirely composed of , equine , materials .- / The soup , the -bouill-i , the rpti , the cut lets , the fricassee , and a host of . other dishes , were all hor . se—it w ; i » , in i ' act , a' regular horse feed ,-and ultlfou ^ h the world in general wiss i ) : cli ! ieii , to treat it with u horse laugii > the men of science were animated by ii lit of " gastronomic benevolence , and sought to break through a prejudice whurh a | . pt ? ui- (; d to them . undesirable with a crowded ' population iiml a high j > i-ifc uf food . M . l'AhIi « 5 Li-: jS o 1 u has . laken- ' up . the sirbjoct of popiilnr alimentation , and boldly bids Europe learn the lessons and consult the experience of the Chinese The worthy abbe considers that our dietetic . prejudices are simply the result of the fertility of our soil iind the compai-ntive sparsity of our population ; nnd . if no great catastrophe lilce the bai-lmric ; invasions and the overthrow of the Koinan empire should -sixain reduce ( iur numbers , he an tici put on the time when necessity will conquer daintiness , and we must bo
content to waste nothing , but eat everything that is . digestible , excepting , wo suppose , our " civilized selves . French officers have brought from China and Cochin China specimens of all kinds- of comestibles unknown to or unused in Europe , and they stand in the bottles and cases of tho Conservatoire Miggeating gu . « ta ; tive cxpi'i-imonts to all fiimilies and cooks . M . Ln Noiu remarks that while tho /!< . \ sh of the dog i . s thought , in Europe , to bu one of the worst kinds of food , inChimiit enjoys nn excellent reputation , and ia regularly exhibited for sale in the bu ' teher . s' . shops . JSJuy more , Chinese furmers brood a variety of do" with a special vk- \ v to its culinary distinction . It is an animal easy to fntten , like a'JJurk ' shire pig , »»> » hhi ' ,
" nro accused of nerving up cat for rabbit , but the ChnioHo have jkj » jo
licit only Hhow hia Cocljncy irionds piffKory , Inn < g ^ e y , hit ) cutlery , nnd oven bin rattory . In tho corners of wtill . s hit pim-os bottloa in ' wliicli the ruth nuikii their nuMtB . und in duo souson ho { r , w . n to Iuh puttorv for ai supp ly of young rutH , just in tho sumo maiiiii-r , Biiys the ubb ' d , mh wo &> to our ( lovcfotos to get pigeomi for n inul Not only do the ChincHO tiilte tlio frog into their puiitrieH , but they ent nil of him , not con lining tlioinH « lvun to tho hind I « i ? h ; nnd evi-n Hint trioio ropnlHivo batrnchian thy toml ih notuliowcil to oHHiipe llm omnivoroHH muff ; " not a tonvU rrttjtmt'l \ u lout in China , i . x < - iiiihh tho nbbO , in economic ontliuiuiiNin . Tliu oookcry by wliicli thoso vuvioiiB mombeirt of tho imiimtl hinytloiu ( ire ronUorort in ior tuUo , ia
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041860/page/11/
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