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October 22, 1853] THE LEADE R. 1017
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In Caffraria the "medical profession" is...
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1853.
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There is nothing so revolutionary, "beca...
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DESTINY OF CHRISTIAN TURKEY. To support ...
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October 22, 1853] The Leade R. 1017
October 22 , 1853 ] THE LEADE R . 1017
In Caffraria The "Medical Profession" Is...
In Caffraria the " medical profession" is hardly treated . Kreli ' favourite son died lately , and the chief immediately put Ms principal witch doctor to death . # » A IVench medical newspaper has got a donation of lOjOOQf . , a-year from a physician , on condition that the donor ' s name shall be kept inviolably secret ; that 3000 f . of the ^ sum shall be employed in encouraging the authors of useful and practical papers published in the journal , and that the remaining 7000 f . shall be employed in distributing copies of the paper to physicians or students who are too poor to pay the whole or any part of the subscription , the simple declaration to that effect of the applicants being all that is to be required . On Sunday last , an accident occurred on the Lancashire
and lortsnire Kailway . A luggage-tram running from JKTormanton to Liverpool , consisting of twenty-three wagons and a guard-van , reached a point at Darcy Lever , about a mile and a half from Bolton , at seven minutes past ten in the morning , when the axletree broke of the eighth wagon from the engine . The guard having become aware of the circumstance , applied his break , and leaped off the train , which continued its course down an inclined plane of a somewhat considerable gradient . Presently , the train passed over a shunt , and the whole of the wagons behind the injured ' one were thrown off the rails , and brought into violent contact with a number of loaded coaltrucks on a siding . This had the effect of materially retarding 1 the train ' s progress , but it dragged on to the Darcy
Lever "Viaduct , placing in imminent danger the inhabitants of fifteen or twenty houses lying underneath . The viaduct is a structure of iron lattice work , two hundred yards long , resting on massive piers of stone , and- extending across a valley at an extreme altitude of eighty-six feet . The engine was brought to a stand when it had passed about half-way over , havin g run six hundred or seven hundred yards after the breaking of the wagon ' s axle . Fortunately no portion of the train was thrown into the valley , and no personal injury was sustained . ¦ A scene of destruction , however , presented itself , in the shape of broken wagons and their freight ( principally grain ) scattered upon the line . Many of the wood sleepers had also been split , and one of the planks , forming the roadway of the viaduct , was broken through . ¦
The Clonmel Chronicle says , " It has been currently reported that the Roman-Catholic prelates decided , at the late Thurles conclave , to admit of no more mixed marriages . They will not perform the marriage ceremony between any member of their faith and that of the Protestant church . . We give this as it has reached us from one who was trying the experiment . " M . C . Szulczewski , the resident secretary of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland , has published a statement , quite unnecessarily , we think , contradicting an absurd letter that appeared in the New G-azette of JPrussia , which sets forth as facts : —That the Polish Literary Society
has GOOO muskets on board two vessels at Southampton , ready to be conveyed to the Magyar-Polish Legion in Turkey—that 900 Poles , completely armed , and commanded by Colonel Oporski , were on the ovo of leaving Southampton ; that the street in which the Literary Society holds its inontinga ( Duke-slrcet , St . James ' s ) was blocked up by Polish refugees ; and otherridieulousi ' abloa . Colonel Wierciiiski has also published a contradiction to the statement in the above voracious print , that ho directs and superintends the depot of the workmen in the name of I he National Committee , and that he causes a certain number of young Polish refugees to practice military exercises , & c , daily .
A correspondent of the Times points out that the widow of the Ettrick Shepherd still lives , and has three " bonnie lasses "—all unprovided for , while the widow of Southcy , ami the widow of Joseph Tram ( author of the History of the Isle of Man ) get pensions . The widow of tlio Ettrick Shepherd should not bo left without somo testimony of national love for the poetry her husband wrote ? . The mail steam-shin Despatch , which carries fcho mails between Jersey and Southampton , was nearly lost off Jersey , shortly alter leaving that port on Monday lust . It appears that she left early on the morning of that day , and wh (» within about half a mile from the Corbiero , carried away her intermediate wliafts , and also both her eccentric rods . A very heavy sea was running at the time , and every exertion , was made to keep the vonhoI clear of the rocks
, wluch render tho navigation at that part very dangerous ; but ,, unfortunately , her helm would not answer , wins wore at , once fired as signals of distress , and hov ¦ M aicHty ' a nliip Dasher , which ' happily won lying m the aockH at tho time with steam up , immediately proceeded to her aHHintance , nnd after Home difficulty towed the diHtroHwrt vohho ! back to Jevntvy . Tho Basher in her exwfcioriH iKieiune newly filled with water , and hIho carried away a boat . Tho Despatch had on board 10 ( 5 puraongorH , all of whom were , of course , in a position of tho groatest danger . Him not a favourable wind sprung up , which proteeted yio vcnmoI from foundering on tho rooks previously to the Masher ' s arrival , little doubt oxIhIh thai ; nil on board muni , liuvo poriHhed .
Homo Honediotino monlcH , vowed to poverty niulcolilmc . y «|» mi «< l , at Moi-poth , to bo put on Mio votora " IihI , in wwpoirl ; ° i propert y in a Iiouho ami garden . After an examination «» t . o tho vuhw of ( , lui convent , and a < liw : ovevy Unit , any p <> - « uliw pro . j ) pr ty eaeli had wont , after \ m death , to tho ' eonv <»« ,, the cl / iim wan diNullowed .
Iho Monnorih Are Annoyed By The Iiulimih...
iho MonnoriH are annoyed by the IiulimiH . Governor '"p liiim Youn / r luw ihhuw ! a prndmnalian calling nil the military forctw of i , ho territory into wrvlctn . Ho had iiJho ordered a wall to bo built around tho oity 20 feet , high and O'tfhf , thi < -k , with a ditch on tho outni < le . A now " empire" in to bo won by one of tho butchoricn c' » lled coups d'Atat . Santa Anna , " at , tho hoiul of 80 , 000 " . '"' > in tho (• oiiHpirator who , it in Hiiid , mtidilnloH tho < nine . ( Mexico Ihki , flomo yoarH ago , an JCmporor Itur" •< le , celebrated for h ' m Hhort , reign and publio death . ) Tho nwppiONNion of journulH and fcho baninhment of politicians * prepare tho wny for tho now roiim .
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Saturday, October 22, 1853.
SATURDAY , OCTOBER 22 , 1853 .
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There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, "Beca...
There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed-when all the world is by the very la ~ w oi its creation in eternal progress — Db . Arnold .
Destiny Of Christian Turkey. To Support ...
DESTINY OF CHRISTIAN TURKEY . To support Turkey , says Mr . Cobden , is to uphold Mahomedanism in Europe ; and the Times , which amuses itself one day with exposing the fallacy of Mr . Cobden ' s sophistries , is repeatedly insinuating or asserting , that to defend Turkey against the inroad of Hussia is to perpetuate rude barbarism in Europe , and to check the advance of civilization and the progress of Christianity . This view of the subject is one tha naturally appeals to the sympathies of Christian States ; but it is so unfounded in truth , that it can only be sustained by assertions which are the reverse of fact .
In proof , it is stated that Christians in Turkey have no civil rights ; now this is untrue . The States of Christian Turkey are so different in their constitution and their progress towards civilization , that they cannot be lumped together in one gen eral statement . . But'the chief of these States ave made a progress which is not to be denied . In Bulgaria , the people have so decidedly advanced in industry and in social influence , that they have submitted with a sort of bourgeoisie contentment to the dominion of the Turks :
they only wanted to be left in quiet , and to have more of that which they have cultivated with great assiduity—education . We speak with a personal knowledge of opinioii amongst indigenous Bulgarians of high rank . Bosnia has been Under different circumstances . The local seigneurs , who have been for generations renegades from tho Christian faith , in order to strengthen their feudal power , arc opposed to all reforms ; and it was only under the vigorous administration of tho Vizier Tahir that many oppressive usagesthe remains of a corvdc , imposts fixed by the Turkish oilicers , and other prescriptive oppressions—were abolished . The Servians , who have
cultivated a military organization with groat ability and assiduity , exercise , under the suzerainty of the Porte , a species of independence which makes them feel that they can , to a certain extent , dispose of tho balance of power in Christian Turkey ; and whatever the tentatives of Itussia , the disappointments of men like Petronivitehwhose services during 1848 Austria scantily repaid—and tho intelligent policy of Alexander ( xeorgevitch incline tho Servians , in common with the Christians of Turkey Proper , to tho maintenance of tho Porte as the true protector of their practical independence , which would be submerged under oithor an Austrian or a Kussian
suzerainty . Tho movements of 1848 called together the leaders of these several tribes with those from tho other provinces , only to show how the jintiroforming tendencies of tho Bosniae seigneurs , the different objects of . Bulgarians and Servians , forbade any united action on one side or the other . The several tribes could assert their own power , but they could not unite , either to revolt , or to put down revolt . Onior Pacha suppressed the revolution , and then oilered conditions' to the defeated which went to complete the practical emancipation of tho Christian Rayahs . There
woremany reasons lor this policy , besides the intelligence of tho renegade Turkish , chieftain . There was the fact , that Sorvia , the Christian province , had made its support appreciated by the Porto . There is in the Turkish army a , large proportion of refugees from Poland and Hungary , who sympathize with popular reform if wo may use such a phrase—and who are not to be despised . The Christian populations , especially in Bulgaria , have so improved in intelligence , that their views muni ; be perforce ropeetod and conciliated , except at tho expense of a i ' rosh crusade , which the Porto cannot wage against its own Christian subjects wlwn
it needs the support of those subjects against external enemies . The Christian schools in Bulgaria are permitted ; the right of testimony in courts , of law , which the Times has recently defied , was granted to Bulgaria , has been practically exercised elsewhere , and had been completed by a recent edict for all Christian subjects of Turkey before the Times asserted the contrary . But a still more important right was granted during the movements which began in 1848 , and terminated in 1850—that of bearing arms . A new act of tyranny on the part of Turkey—a tyranny which the Turkish
Government commits in common with Austria , with Russia , with France , and even with our own in . times not long past , is likely to give a new impulse to the Christian population of Turkey—it is the forced conscription , which is rapidly recruiting Turkish army with Christian soldiers , and , at the same time , obliging the Turkish Government , in deference to the increasing numbers and intelligence of the Christians , to extend to Christians a military promotion hitherto denied . It is said that the Turks are barbarians : and
they are so , though not to the extent to which the term might formerly be applied . But did the Times and its party support the Italians and the Hungarians for the sake of their intellectual and moral superiority , when they were assailed by the Austrians ? Was any resistance made to the Government of the Czar , who thinks that the will of one man is to dictate to Europe ; who threatens to swamp international law with a deluge of bean-eating conscript ruffians ; whose
family cultivate the old Russian customs , and terrify their European wives by riding on horseback into their bedrooms ? Is such a race to disclaim the title of barbarian while it is extended to the Turk ? But , indeed , this point is beside the real question , which is , whether the maintenance of the Turks is for the present politically desirable ? We maintain that it is so , and that it is conducive , not only to the growing freedom of Christians , but to the development of Christianity itself .
The policy of Mahmoud and Abd-ul-Mcdjid , essential to maintain the position of Turkey amongst other Governments in Europe , is fatal to Mussulman supremacy of the old kind , and favourable to the Christians . It was indeed derived from a sense of the growing importance of Christian Powers , of the superior systems of those Powers , and being in its spirit derived from Christian States , while it has necessarily favoured the Christians , it has compelled the Porte to rely more and more on members of that faith . The Christians feel this , and while they
feel that they are not yet prepared to act together , that they cannot xmite and organize " a State" of their own , they prefer to retain the comparatively indulgent and mild suzerainty of Turkey rather than to introduce a great Power , barbaric though called Christian , which would force upon them a regime more strange and hateful than that of Turkey , and reduce them , politically as well as theologically , to the Procrustes rule of its own " orthodoxy . " Several
mercenary , or ambitious intriguers , like old JVTilosch Obrenovich , have desired to carve out now pr ' mcipalities on tho Danubo under the auspices of Nicholas ; but they have always been frustrated by the invincible repugnance of the subjects of tins Porte , both Christian and Mussulman , to tho . Russian regime . Since . 1848 Jiutwia and Turkey have changed places in the view of the Christian populations , so far as these populations can be said to have a view . The
Panselnvawm of " Russia , —thai ; dream of . a , n Empirehas been dissipated by experience of ^ Russian tyranny , brought nearer every day , and now introduced amongst the Moldo-Wallaehians , who are learning already what . Russian exile in ; and also by a knowledge of the ba . se agents who have recently represented . Russia , to the Turkish Christians . ' Russia is now the oppressor ,, tho { Sultan Mio protector of the . Rayahs . 'I ( ' tho ChrintiaiiH are nocensary to the Porto , so also is the Porto to the Christians . If the Turks
woro driven out , of 10 urope , as tho Saracens won . ) from Spain , European Turkey would have oven more immediate cause to deplore the privation than Spain had ; and for other reasons . The Turkish ( Tovonmiont may bo described as a , foiieo which keeps out alien tyrants , while the Christian populations n re developing their crude vitality . As yol , the Christians could neither stand alone , nor ' unito ; but under Mio temporary and impor-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101853/page/9/
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