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376 The Leader cmd Saturday Analyst. [Ap...
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THE PROTESTANT COLLEGE AT MALTA, rpHE ex...
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Population And Ihetethis. It Is Not Long...
highly praised . The <; Chinese are the best roasters in the world ; they adopt the old English plan before bottle jacksi were evented , and make a twisted thread of worsted turn their delicacy until it is nicelv done . Then ^ whatever the mat erial , it is chopped into small pieces , flavoured with a national sauce called sanid , and served up \ vitii rice , no one being able to make out . what the dish is conir In Europe we waste a good many sorts of shell fish—not so the Chinese : they eat all , even the large fresh water mussels ( cmodanta ) which are to be found in the mud of English ponds . A ¦ monster snail ( volteto tnelo ) is a favourite article , and the abbe . is glad to tell us that Paris is making progress , and that , already snails can be bought
of any marchand de comestibles . The insect tribes are not forgotten by the celestial foragers ; exquisite dishes are composed of spiders , and superfluous silkworms ; are conducted to the pot . Grubs and caterpillars are popular delicacies , and when the silk is wound off the cocoons , the chrysalis is taken out and formed into a nourishingfood . Zoophytes contribute their quota to the national commissariat , and a large sea cucumber ( JiolotJucria ) appears in a variety of ways : Sea-weeds are also laid under contribution '; the so-called Chinese grass is said to be the gelideum corneura , and to be capable of yielding the substance recently known in London as Japanese
isinglass . . . ,,- ¦ ,, , i r j M . Payex has examined the celebrated birds nests , and linos that the Salungane swallow produces a mucous secretion which ' gives them their peculiar quality , and which he names cuoilose . In China a plate of birds' nest soup costs 12 francs , and in Paris a similar quantity lias been . sold for 120 francs ! So -valuable is this article that a rich Chinaman who had been ruined repaired , Ins shattered fortunes by the discovery of a Salangane cavern , out of , which he made 100 , 000 francs 1 . " ¦;• ' ¦ _ .. ¦¦
To recur to the primary question—what shnil we eat ? We Cannot fancy that horses , dogs , or cats could be fattened for less money than sheep , and we fear that after any . experiments of this nature we should ; to use a French phrase , " return to our muttons " , as more valued friends . The , income-tax > together with our army and navy administration ; may , however , drive us to rats , and the PiiincB Consort may , before ; long , Win a prize for choice specimens fattened at the Flemish Farm . Our reptile world is , we fear , not numerous enough to do us much service , but perhaps the Statistical Society will take a census of the frogs , and tell us for how many minutes they would feed the population- of the- metropolis . The youngladies who g-o anemone hunting might lunch upon . theni afterwards ; and Mr . Gosse's . " Devonshire Coast" gives instructions how to
proceed . The insect world does not promise much ; the courtiers of Mo > te ? uma might devour creatures that we should not Hive to name , but we cannot fancy we should get ¦ much , work out of a populatioiL _ so lightly fed , and it would be difficult to persuade our " navvies" to accept a roast bluebottle , as a substitute for a rump steak . . ' . '•• ¦ , ¦ . ' /• ¦ ! Our chemists might aid us by discovering a substitute for the albumen which is largely used in manufactures , and which had better be employed in feeding our ptjople , and improved arrangements might bo made for the capture of sea fish and its distribution in rural localities , but we doubt whether , " either in England or France , any-very large quantity of alimentary matter is wasted that it ^ would be profitable to preserve and prepare . All the gelatinous articles of of little valueand it will be found
diet may bo dismissed as or no , that the . work of civilization can only be carried on upon concentrated smd highly ' nourishing 1 food . We should hope for better results by imitating the Chinese care to utilise every particle of substance capable of acting as manure , than from copying their omnivorous habits . Wo do not despair concerning the " alimentation" of the future , but at the siuno tiino fully admit that providing a greater abundance of cheap food is absolutely necessary if tho general condition of tlio people is to be improved . Even tho highest rates' of wages uro low in comparison with tho simple cost of . maintaining a family , and without , now mid extensive sources of supply wo cannot anticipate that provisions will full much below tlieii" present high rates . As the wages feud increases , tho number of persons able to compete for 'tliq purchase of food increases also , and throughout Eurono there is still a strong tendency towards a general rise in tho
rate of living . Notwithstanding that Russia has a much larger population than England , M . ICokobefi / tells us ton times as many beasts are slaughtered in the latter than in the former . The difibreneo is caused by tlio greater industrial development of our country ; but Russia has , alroady commenced tho march of progress , and the emancipation of tho serfs will soon lead to a much greater consumption of superior food . Tho average dietary of tho French pensunt is undoubtedly higher thun it was before tlio Revolution , and all over Germany tho acquisition of political liberty ; ami tho consequent impulse to industrial life , will have a similar olFect . Tho food question is one which , must assume a political aspect . People will not be contentod merely to exist—they will demand to live , and , in tlio course of tinio , any Government will be overthrown that levies an amount of taxation which compels the mass of the people to forego a nhura of the comforts and luxuries which the richer classes enjoy .
376 The Leader Cmd Saturday Analyst. [Ap...
376 The Leader cmd Saturday Analyst . [ Aprii , 21 , 1860 .
The Protestant College At Malta, Rphe Ex...
THE PROTESTANT COLLEGE AT MALTA , rpHE extension of sound Protestant prlndplos , bosidos , being of - * - roligiona importance , is of the greatest , civil value ; and wo cannot but look at the Protestant Collogo at Malta as on institution of groat intercut at the present momont . An inlluential meeting of the friends and supportors of this great experiment was hold on Wednesday last , in tho Egyptian Hull in the Mmision Houeo , and
as the following speech of the Lord Mayor condenses very ably the whole purport of the movement , we give it , intending to refer to the subject on a future occasion . ; " The Protestant College at Malta is a great experiment , but in using this term we do riot mean that its usefulness is problematical ; /' Placed in the midst of a vast Mohammedan population , we have ourselves possessions which .. are of the greatest value to the British empire , and we are undoubtedly bound to furnish to every member of that empire the power of at least investigating the truth of our great and holy religion . We are not entitled to coerce them into a profession of Christianity , but neither are we permitted to leave them in ignorance of its nature ; and we may carry but the principle a little further , and admit it as a fundamental axiom , that wherever we have opportunity to scatter the good seed , we are peremptorily enjoined to do so . that has been made to esta
" It is with this feeling an attempt - blish a college for the raising up of competent instructors . It may be said , why not have such an institution in England ? Here it might be the object of especial care and watchfulness ; here the most distinguished of our scholars and divines could assist in the care ot the students ; and here , too , a greater interest might be excited in all classes on behalf of the in flint college . " But then , on the other hand , we require native teachers , and it would bu unfair to expect , and very expensive , to bring those who are best qualified , frr such a trsk to so great a distance as our own shores . No European can be so well acquainted with the Eastern languages and literature as the natives of the lands themselves , where those languages are spoken and that literature studied / - Neither could a foreigner obtain the same access to the . hearts and minds of . the natives as those who are born on the siin . ie soil and brought up in the same prejudices .
. " Native teachers then being necessary ,- it may be at once seen that some establishment is -equally so to prepare them for their arduous work ; and where can they be so well prepared as in sui . island belonging to this country , under English and Protestant Governmentriii a climate at once suitable and healthy , and . among those who / while .. subjects of the ' British crown , - are yet hall' Oriental in their lnibits pf life and niodes of thought ? " But I cannot speak of climate without , in the strong-cpt manner ., expressing- my hope that ; before long the-: tusk of civilising and evangelising tropical countries' should- be left to native , agency . How ° many evangelical bishops have been victims to the deadly climate of ' -Sierra Leone ! How many more are likely to be added to the list ! ¦ " ' :... '
, "I look on this college as a means of preparing tlic sons of Africa and of the East to be the pioneers of truth in their own lands : It has been well said that a black bishop would be the triumph of tropical . Christianity . A Protestant College at . Malta is a . stop in the right direction ; and I am sure that the results . of this day ' s explanation ,-will not disappoint the friends of truth . "
Ailchitectube On-G0.1ms.* T Tnsciektific...
AIlCHiTECTUBE ON-G 0 . 1 MS . * T TNSCIEKTIFIC readers are often struck with astonishment wlieu * J they are told tlutt a Lycll or an Owen can , from a . single footprint , decide not only to what cluss an extinct animal belonged , but can tell us sill about its habits and nature , and actually buihl up a facsimile of the creature itself . Many obstinately refuse to believe this . . It , is as reasonable , say they , as to decide from the inspection of . sin old boot whether its wearer bad been a general , an artist , or a tailur . Nevertheless the world is tolerably well convinced by this time that the Paleontologists ' are right , and that observation—accurate , scientific ob . servation , can do even more than this . Almost equally clitHeult is it to satisfy ' a large class of mankind that unscientific observation
is not merely insufficient , but in ninny cases worse than uselessabsolutely mischievous and misleading ; they' contend that a bad description is better than none , and that we ought to bo very much obliged to those who lako the trouble to giyo it to us , and not be over particular in noticing a fow errors in such unimportant matters us colour , form , weight , and dimensions . These remarks apply with , great for . co to a peculiarly interesting branch of archaeology , on which Professor Donaldson lias lately given us a very splendid ns well as a very eruditu volume . Tlio architecture of tlie ancients has always excited us much interest as
admiration . Greece was its birthplace , and Athens witnessed its perfection . In the opinion of most architects little has been Jelt for modern masters , savo to , copy those wondrous monuments which still , ovon in their ruin , fill our minds with uwo at their grandeur , or with delight at thoir exquisite beauty . We may adopt tlioir stylo as far as possible to our climato and the roquiroiuents of our life , but if wo vary from their proportions , if we attempt , tho admixture of any otiier style , wo produce incongruous and grotesque results . Wo havo , indeed , a style of our own , —borrowing little or nothing from tho Greek ; but we pass over this , at present , because our business jh with-tho architecture of Greece and Jtomo .
Wo may obtain a tolerable notion of what that architecture was from modern imitations of it , and those who havo travelled extensively may be able to toll what that which remain * still , what imiflt havo boon the splendour of tho past ; but wo should like , and would give almost anything to possess photographs of the great
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041860/page/12/
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