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IDOLS OE THE HOB.SE GUARDS. When the Com...
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The Russian Railway.—Messrs. Baring, Bro...
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" The Word >> In The Streets. Edwatid Su...
police interference , and it came out very clearly . Two or more hotels stand close to the station , and it is the hotel interest which objects , to " the preaching of the "Word . " Mr . WAiiTEii Si / ATTEB , of . the Bai . lway Hotel , Lime-street , plainly stated his objection to the mission . "It is a great annoyance to our establishment , " he said ; " have great complaints from gentlemen at our hotel . Before the prohibition in ISfoYem ' ber , there was preaching there , morning , noon ,
and night . " The missionaries continually did cry , and the hotel-keeper cannot tolerate the visitation . " Many persons , " he added , " have told us they-would not come to lodge with us again , if that annoyance remained . " This is conclusive . Christianity is all very Tpell ; put " custom" is at stake . " The preaching of the Word" is " an annoyance , " and "whatever respect may " be entertained for the Holy Scriptures , there is also a i * espect in this country for " property . " It can be easily
understood that this carrying of the Word to publicans and sinners may "be " an annoyance" to the publican and sinner interest ; but the remarkable circumstance is , that the publicanjmd the sinner interest , in this case as well as in some others that we have noticed , appears to prevail . We are not making out a case , Ave are simply repeating the facts as they are reported in the newspaper , and reported with great impartiality . There were the two missionaries who had been " ordered" by the breaking of the fine weather to renew their
" preaching of the " Word . " In our simplicity , indeed , we should have sivpposecl that the mission was one to be pursxied in all weathers , rain or shine ; but the missionaries , who had their special orders , of course , knew best . They went forth , and the police were ordered to take them up . The hotel-keepers contested the " right of way" -r-to heaven . On one side in the litigation there was the Railway Hotel and the St . Greorge ' s Hotel ; on the other the mission ; each side had its
Tight of way to put forward . Inspector Chew naturally felt in a dilemma , and he brought the litigants before the Liverpool Solomon . The bench of magistrates comprised on that day , Mr . Mansfield , Mr . E . Chopper , and Mr . James Stitt ; and the triumvirate Solomon had to decide between the two claimants ; and to which side did the blessing of judgment come ? To the hotel interest . The hotel must be protected , the Word may 20 to the wall . J b
J \ ot that Mansfield is positively hostile to the Christians . After a declaration of the law , a suggestion was vouchsafed by Manstom ) , with the concurrence of Cropped , that a part of the enclosure of St . George's Hall should be allowed to the missionaries for their mission ; and Mr . Mansfield went so far as to say that " there is no objection to the preaching of the Gospel in the open street by daylight , " which is a very great concession indeed . It seems , then , that the
actual state of the case in Liverpool is , that the rights of the hotel interest are absolute , bub that the preaching of the Gospel is tolerated . In this respect Liverpool is decidedly in advance of Constantinople . We must not overlook how it was that these missions began . The presumption in this country is , that not only should divine service be open to every soul in tho
community above mere infancy , but that the Gospel ought to be imparted to every one who will simply listen . Now it is well known that the place s devoted to clivino worship will only hold a very small fraction of tho population ; if they were inclined to go to church , they cannot get in ; but a large number , although uninstructcd in this subject , aro not at all inclined to go to a placo of
worship . It is generally considered that zealous Christians should pursue these unconverted , these heathen ; there are texts , which we will not now desecrate by familiar quotation , but whichjpositively instruct Christian ministers " to preach the Word" in highways and byways , wherever the heathen can be caught . Mr . Sumneb and Mr . Dewtson did nothing- more than literally obey this injunction of the highest Christian authority . Perhaps , having no dramatic entertainment
to offer , they might not " draw" the heathen , even into the enclosure of Sfc , George's Hall ; so they go to them at the cross-road by the lamp-post , and collect three or four hundred persons to listen . It is objected that the persons thns assembled are sometimes drunkards ., ribalds , and people of bad character" publicans and sinners ; " the very victims whom it is the object to catch and to redeem . The highest Christian authority specially points to that kind of mission ; the very highest Christian example , which we need not name , led the way in that particular kind
of mission . Bub , it seems , the law of Christianity is not the law of Liverpool or of England . It is not the part of our journal to begin an agitation for the purpose of placing the law of England in accordance with the Holy Scriptures ;¦¦ we might leave that to our contemporaries , who profess to have a special " religious" call . We confine ourselves to pointing out the fact , that the law of Christianity and the law of England are quite in antagonism to each other ; and that the magistrates appointed by the State give absolute preponderance to the temporal law-
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IDOLS OE THE HOB . SE GUARDS . When the Commander-in-Chief issued his general order , it was supposed that a real commencement was made in establishing , ' if not a system of education , at least > standard of education for officers in the Army ; but there is some reason to fear that the zeal of the Duke of Cambridge has been suffered to vent itself in . the issue of this general order , with a resolve that it shall not be permitted to go any further . In other words , the royal Prince is allowed to play with general orders , but the Army is under some other management . This idea is not unsupported by collateral evidence . Dr . Vaughan has just published a " Letter to an Officer on Military Education , " tho purport of the letter by the excellent schoolmaster being , that officers should be educated as English gentlemen , and that English gentlemen should not be taken too soon from school in order to commencfi n
purely professional education . Dr . Vaughan desires that the examination for admission into tho Army should test the attainments of a youtli in classics , mathematics , modern languages , and history , possibly with the addition of drawing and fortification . There is no great harm in this letter . Classics are a decided advantage to an officer , though as decidedly they are not essential .
It is the use which has been made of this letter that indicates tho spirit prevailing in tho Horse Guards . It has been at once seized as a statement of " excellent good sense . " An officer , it ia said , must be " an English gentleman , " not a " professional man , " liko a common Ercnch oilicer , whom tho Duke of Wellington noticed talking to private soldiers , and in other ways behaving in a military , but not a gentlemanly manner ! The Uorso Guards authorities , tho pipeclay clerks of the establishment , are dead against tlio Duko of Camujudcie , and ho will bo " taken cam of . " One lest applied to tho recent general order would enable us to measures its hona
fides . If it is really to be carried out , the examination will be competitive ; Dr .. Yatj & han himself points out the mode in which this principle might be applied to JVrmy examination . Let the nominations for examination be in the proportion of about three candidates to every two of the vacancies , and let marks for merit confer the appointment ; this would be the way to constitute the Duke's general order a step in that " right direction" which was pointed out by the report of the late Military Commission .
The Russian Railway.—Messrs. Baring, Bro...
The Russian Railway . —Messrs . Baring , Brothers , and Co . have issued their Russian Hallway prospectus , and their name is the only English one comprised ia the board of direction . The sum they ask from London capitalists out of the 12 , 000 , 000 ? . first to be raised is 2 , 000 , 000 ? ., instead of between 3 , 000 , 000 i and 4 , 000 , 000 ? ., as originally contemplated . The sum in Paris having likewise been reduced , it is to be presumed an estimate more accurate than that originally entertained has been formed of its probable reception . The statements now put forth fail to modify any of the features already commented upon . The guarantee , after allowing for sinking fund , is to be only 4 11-12 ths per cent ., the working expenses , in the face of universal
experience , are put as low as 45 per cent ., and the difficulty as to crossing the marshes with which the country abounds is simply disposed of by the statement that they " will be avoided by a proper selection of the route . " The number of miles to be constructed are 2585 , at a cost of 16 , 511 ? . per mile , or about 43 , 000 , 000 ? ., and the whole must be made within ten years . It is not stated in what quarter the extra proportion first intended for London and Paris is now to be allotted . The Prussian public , who are best qualified to form an opinion of the prospects of the enterprise , both commercial and political , are understood to be disposed to limit themselves to the modest Amount of 200 , 000 ? ., or less , although the proposed extension of the Warsawline to their own frontier and the intimate business connexions of their bankers and others with St . Petersburg might be supposed to operate in its favour . — Times City Article ( Monday ) . The Ragged School ShoebIc 4 . cs Bbigade .- ^ -Mx . D . W . Harvey , the City Commissioner of Police , Mr . J . Macgregor , and Mr . M . Ware , two members of the Committee of the Ragged School Shoeblack Society , attended on Monday at . the Justice-room of the Mansion House , to explain the impracticability of allowing any boy to set up a shoeblacking station who wishes to do so . The " brigade" is under the control of the police and of the Ragged School Society , and they receive
proper moral and religious training , and organised wi th a view to good conduct and to future emigration . If any number of boys—boys under no species of controlwere allowed to start on their own account , the nuisance to the public , argued Mr . Harvey and the other gentlemen , would he intolerable , and bad characters would soon be found among them . The Lord Mayor concurred in these views , and suggested the formation of a crossing-sweepers' brigade , under the auspices of the society . jUr . Ware said that , by the end of the week , such a plan w 6 uld be tried in Southwark , with about twenty boys .
Reaping Machines . —Baron "Ward has given notice to the Imperial Agricultural Society of Vienna that he challenges all reai ^ ing machines , constructed in Europe or America , to compete with his ( an improvement on Hussey ' s ) patented in Vienna on the 10 th of December , 185 G , for the sum of 1000 florins , to cut five Austrian jochs ( nearly seven English acros ) iicxt harvost , on . any ground in the Austrian dominions which the acceptor may please to choose . London Society for the Protection op "Young Wobien . —This society has been established nearly twenty years , and its objects are to suppress improper houses , and to save girls under fifteen years of age from threatened ruin . The friends of the society held their
anniversary dinner on Monday , at tho Londoa Tavern , Bishopsgutc-stroet . It was presided over by Mr . Sheriff Mechi , and was attended by a largo number of tho supporters of tho institution . Mr . Talbot , the honorary secretary , read the report of the proceedings of tho society , by which it appeared that fifty-ttine girls under fifteen years of ago wero at tho present time fed , clothed , and educated , and fitted for respectable servitude , in the Asylum , at Tottenham ; but ho lamented to say that numerous applications wero continually being made , which , for want of funds , tho society were obliged to reject . At a subsequent period of the evening , tho secretary announced tho subscriptions to amount to upwards of 1100 ? .
This La . tk Elections . —Mr . Frederick Pool , the rejected candidate at Bury , will , it is thought ( saya tho Bristol Advertiser ) , find a seat in the Lanndowno borough of Calno , wliero Sir William Williams of Kara will make way for him . —We ( Cambridge JndepetuJaU ) undorstuiul that it has been decided to proceed to a scrutiny of tho votes given at tho late election for Huntingdonshire , before a committee of tho House of Commons .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25041857/page/15/
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