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Vd, 461, JANUARY 22,1859] THE REAPER. 11...
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Vd, 461, January 22,1859] The Reaper. 11...
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^^ NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . wv Tiavo received ah explanatory letter from Mr . Fox * rej i * Hve to our article on the 24 , th ultimo , onthe' Statistica ££ ietv and his paper on the Society of Friends . ^ nd will d ^ e itTiifflon iS o ur next week ' number , together with fome : further editorial remarks on the subject-„ . ; intice can be taken pf anonymous correspondence . N Whftever is iivtended for insertion must be authenticated KheSe anl address of the writer ; not necessarily rL nubli ^ ation , but as a jpfuarantee of his good faith . n ? TKsBibto to acknowledge the mass o ? letters we re-Vrive ^ heir insertion is often delayed , owing to * press of matted ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reason qu « e independent of the merits of the commumca-W ^ cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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There is nothing '*© Evolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive ,, as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abnold . . . ' ¦ — ? ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ '
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pretensions to interpose in Servia was regarded as favourable to peace , and the panic-stricken Rentes ventured to look bigger accordingly . Subsequent reflection seems to have . dispelled this illusion . The Cabinet of Vienna felt , no doubt , that with any chance of hostilities in Lombardy , it would be macU ness to isolate troops unuecessarily beyond the Save ; and , what would be still worse , to furnish Russia with a pretext , if she desired it , for threatening the frontiers of Gallicia . The strength of the reinforcements sent into Italy no longer admit of
HOPES AND FEARS OF WAR . During the last week great efforts have been made at home and abroad to discredit the idea of war , and to resuscitate the . belief that peace between France and Austria will , after all , be maintained . The dexterous avoidance b y the latter of any actual pretext for quarrel , regarding Servia , came just in time to check the rising tone of diplomatic menace on the part of tlie former . Regard for appearances will compel the French Government , . therefore * take the trouble of finding some new topic ,, which may be forced . prematurely to ripen into a casiis belli . For a day or two the waiver of Austria ' s
any question , and the open concentration of Austrian forces along the line between Bergamo and Brescia is precisely what an able strategist like General Von Hesse would resolve upon , in contemplation of war with Piedmont . That Austria is alive to her danger no one can pretend to disbelieve ^ and that the moneyed interests of Europe , generally , are in mortal fright is evident , not only from the actual state of depression of public securities everywhere , but from the rapid oscillations caused from day to day by every apparent shifting of the wind .
On the other hand , it must be owned that all the incidents that have occurred since the announcement of Prince" Napoleon Jerome ' s journey to Turin , wear a pacific rather than , a warlike aspect . Instead of being hailed as a deliverer , the cousin of the Emperor has , upon the whole , been somewhat coolly received in Piedmont . The high Royalists have heard witlx a silent shrug that the youthful daughter of Savoy is about to be offered as a propitiatory saoriflce , to the family ambition of the House of Bonaparte . The Republicans make no secret of their disgust at seeing a new link riveted oeiween
for greater liberality than the other advisers of his Imperial kinsman can obliterate from men ' s memories the ultraism of the sentiments he professed but a ; few years since when aspiring to lead the Red Party in the National Assembly , or the length to which he went in the opposite difection after the coup d ' etat . There is a lurking suspicion everywhere , that if war presented the opportunity Prince Napoleon would be rapidly converted into King Jerome of—nobody cares to inquire precisely which province of the peninsula , in spite of the pains taken by the Sardinian Government to make an ovation for him at Turin , he must be
conscious of the reserve with which he is nationally regarded ; and he will return to Paris next week with somewhat abated confidence , perhaps , in the intimacy and durability of the present entente . The reported death of the King o Naples at the present critical juncture , would , 1 true , have had a pacific tendency . Had Ferdinant the Tormentor gone to his account , many of his recently liberated victims were destined soon to follow him , and by the dread tribunal of the Unseen and the Unerring , the life feud between him and them could only then have terminated . But and laints is
one heavy score of grievances comp thus summarily wiped out of the international memory of Europe . His eldest son , who now succeeds him on the throne , is an inexperienced youth of three-and-twenty , nearl y related through his mother to the King of Sardinia ; and , however badly brought up as yet , free fronv the hatred and resentment of any portion of his subjects * A reasonable plea is afforded by his accession for the resumption of diplomatic relations by Great Britain and France with the Court of the Two Sicilies . Austria will not fail to urge the immediate adoption of this course upon our Government , and Napoleon III . willin all probability , seize the
, opportunity to do an aet which will have a show of moderation , and , for the moment , to quiet the misgivings of England and of Russia with regard to his ultimate designs on Naples . How little those designs are likely to be in reality abandoned , and in . how many Ways * on the contrary , they may be insidiously promoted by the residence of a French minister at Naples , it is needless to say . By far the most significant circumstance , however , that has yet occurred is the irrepressible manifestation throughout France of feelings averse to war . Considering the weiffht of the lid that
imprisons as in a tomb the sentiments and thouguts of the French people , it is only wonderful how so many evidences 01 the disposition alluded to have found vent . The army would , of course , like war for the sake of its spoils and promotions , and the bulk of the adventurer class , who have still their fortunes to make , look with delight on the prospect of new fields of stock-jobbing and political gambling . But the Walewskis , JDe Mornys , and Foulds , who have risen b y the establishment of the Empire , arid who are thriving apace in its peaceful glare , have no stomach for desperate enterprises . Victories won by French armies in Lombardy can do them no assimilable good , while reverses , however casual
or reparable , would inevitably drive them trom power . It is now understood pretty well that the acquiescence , if not encouragement , afforded by them to the projects of M . Oavour rested on the assumption that Russia was ready to enter the field in concert with France against Austria . On the discovery , somewhat late , that the Court of St . Petersburg was not prepared to enter into immediate , engagements on the subject , Napoleon III . endeavoured to resuscitate the alliance , offensive and defensive , with England . The policy of Oompiegne was sought to bo substituted for the policy of Plombieres ; but that has likewise failed . England will not be dragged by Lord Palmerston into complicity with any more Bonapartist schemes . The
feeling of the country has been unmistakably pronounced , and its firm but unanimous verdict has been given against war .
JB ' ronoh and Italian monarchy . The Constitutionalists ponder anxiously the influence that ao intimate a union with foreign Absolutism may exert over the future oounscls of their country : and among the generous and high-minded of all w ? , . opinions ,, there is a mingled scnee of political disappointmont at the eagerness of Franoo to torco on a , marriage gratifying to her pride , and o » personal sympathy for tho young ana innocent B » w > who has oeen , without any will of her own , bargained for and disposed of as the bnao of a blase' and selfish advoniuror . Not all ma recent efforts to maintain a sort of oharaotor
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is an abomination in his sight . Well , after all , there is good in everything ; and the same inscrutable Providence which created wasps gave birth to Roebuck . We have often wondered by what law of chemical affinity or moral fitness Sheffield and its member came into contact . If you ever went inside a Sheffield factory , you would soon become aware that the whole atmosphere was impregnated with steel Mings , The particles of steel floating in the air ' you breathe , stick in your throat , impede vour respiration , and irritate your nerves . Now ,
if you can picture to yourself a man begotten like a magnetic homunculus , by the friction betweea a rasp and a file , cradled in a bed of steel filings , fed out of a steel bottle , lulled to rest by the grating of a file , amused with cast-steel dolls , and sleeping at night on a bed stuffed with steel dustin fact , an animated bundle of steel filings—if you can fancy such a man , we say , you will have before your eyes a twin brother of Mr . Roebuck . Truly , the late Administrative Reform Association is jus tified in the person of her last friend and president As long as Sheffield and Roebuck are inseparably connected in perfect communism , files with files , steel dust with steel dust , so long-, there at least , if nowhere eke , the right man is in the right place .
If you want an old grievance kept alive , an unpleasant remark made , and an old sore forced open , we recommend you to Mr . Roebuck . HappuV for him there is no immediate prospect of the advent of the Millennium . A fish but of water would be a happy being compared _ to the great Sheffield statesman in a state of universal peace . We are disposed to consider the very fact of Mr . Roebuck ' s existence as a sufficient argument against the speedy accomplishment of Mfllenarian views . If the lion and the lamb were to lie down and be at peace together , if the serpent were to forget his
cunning , Mr . Roebuck Would tread upon the serpent ' s tail , pinch the lamb till it bleated , and rub up the lion ' s mane the wrong way . Whatever else his sins may be , amongst their number there is not found that of speaking peace where there is no peace . Just at present Mr . Roebuck must be in as near an Approach to perfect felicity as -is'allotted to mankind in this terrestrial sphere . He has fulfilled the whole duty of a Roebuck . He can reflect ; that in his Sheffield oration of last week he gave more offence , stirred up more illrbloodi and made more people uncomfortable than any other man could have effected in twice the time . Besides the
satisfaction which always arises in a well-regulated mind from the consciousness of a meritorious action , he has before him the delightful prospect of a fresh opportunity for the exercise of his peculiar talents . It is whispered in Ministerial circles , talked of in political reunions , and proclaimed aloud in Sheffield workrooms , that Roebuck is once again about to assume the part of the stern and relentless Brutus , Ministers have committed the unpardonable sin of declining a promising dispute . The hour of retribution is at . hand , and before their guilty vision there appears already the image of lato-Roebuck demanding vengeance for peace and Portugal ,
Into the merits of the Portuguese question we have no wish , because we have no power , to enter . Neither we nor Mr . Roebuck have at this moment the means of forming a correct judgment upon t \\& subject . Meanwhile , we are so tame-spirited that we plead guilty to a feeling of satisfaction that war has been avoided . It is always time enough to take up arms ; and for our own part we prefer to know clearly what we are going to war about before the declaration of hostilities . As our feelings are not embittered by steel-filing or knife grinding , we > admit that the fact of having avoided a war with France is rather a recommendation in our eyes than otherwise . We are ashamed of ourselves . We have not , alas ! a stock of virtuous indignation and self-asserting patriotism ready at a moment s notice ; yet , though we cannot imitate our great exemplar , we can admire and venerate him from a humble distance . . „ , , The Roobuokian style of eloquence and argument has been oxhibiteU to greater advantage than at tho late Reform demonstration at Sheffield . Baalach had sent for Balaam . Tho altar was dressed , tho sacrifice was offered , and tho expectant worshippers were panting for the prophetic utterance , nut , like Ins great prototype , < Roebuck refused to be coerced . The very foot that lie was summoned to bless tho cause of Reform was suffi- " oient ground for predicting its inevitable failure . With characteristic eccentricity he commenced by
DIOGENES AT SHEFFIELD . John Ahxuur Roebuck is himself again . The salamander luxuriates in tho flames ; tho stormy petrel rejoices in the tempest ; tho chumeleon grows rat on airj and tho member for Sheffield thrives upon discord , and revels in disturbance . Wlmt'is one man ' s poison is another ' s food . Tho Sir Xjuoius O'Triggor of politics , Mr . Roebuck , is in his element in a quarrel ; no termination of a dispnto is so uncongenial to him as a reconciliation between tho disputants ; tho very name of a peace-maker
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22011859/page/17/
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