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402 TELE LEADER. __ fflo- 470, March 26,...
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The Proposed Congress. At The Instance O...
But there ai * e other considerations . The Congress proposed i $ said to be intended solely / with reference to tlie affairs of Italy . Are the Italian Princes to bo represented therein , or are they not ? If represented they will , we may "be sure * plead hard for new . securities of some kind for the maintenance of the deerepid power against their subjects ; if not , with what face , or upon what plea of international legality can tlie great Powers of Europe pretend to dispose of their fate ? In . either case we own our unalterable l-epugrianee to the whole proceeding . However sliaped or guarded , it will inevitably , and we , must in which
say , justly be deemed by Europe as one England may have been compromised . Our plenipotentiary will never venture to set his hand and seal to any document formally guaranteeing the possession of Italy to its present mis-rulers ; but practically that will be the effect of it . In concert -with the great military tyrannies of the Continent , England will be looked on as planning and plotting liow -Austria may be made more permanent and safe in her domination over an oppressed people ; and how excuses may be taken away from those who wish to furtlier their emancipation . We have been from the first against all armed interposition t > ythis or any other -. foreign State in Italian affairs ; and we are so ¦ still . But we are all the more
hound to protest against diplomatic interposition ¦ on behalf of absolutism . Unless , therefore , Lord Malniesbury can obtain stipulations from Austria , that under no circumstances whatever shall Austrian troops be sent into Tuscany , tile Duchies , or the Legations , and that a violation of such condition shall be deemed by the other great Powere 3 . casus belli , he had much better never hadmeddled with the propose ! : ! Congress , for the . Parliament and the people of this country will be certain to repudiate it .
402 Tele Leader. __ Fflo- 470, March 26,...
402 TELE LEADER . __ fflo- 470 , March 26 , 1859 .
Crimes At Sea. "The Times Reminds The Pu...
CRIMES AT SEA . "The Times reminds the public that a captain of ~ a merchant ship was executed , a short time ago , ibr a / nurder committed on the high seas , and . the public is generally-aware that at present a charge of x-oasting a man to death on board a steamer is xmdergoingiiivestigatioii at Liverpool . Between June 1 st , 1857 , and June 1 st , 1 . 858 , the same journal informs us that 1 JO patients were admitted into one hospital at Liverpool ,, who had limbs broken and were otherwise liiaimed or . ' mutilated bv violence
The eagerness , however , to institute courts to punish offences is at variance with this creed , and discourages it . Acts such as those which fill the hospital at Liverpool with maimed bodies , and our men-of-war with scarred backs and degraded minds * are all felt to be forbidden by the Tower which calls life into existence , and it would not be , therefore , irrational , and might not be difficult , to implant this creed in seafaring men , and keep them , by apprehensions of they scarcely know what , from committing petty acts of violence , as siieh apprehensions keep men from committing greater crimes .
On shore a man may hope to escape in a crowd from the anger or vengeance of a person he injures ; but shut up in a ship , the aggressor and the victim are continually in the presence of one another , and the disdain , the contempt , the hatred , they nmtu , ally feel is for ever renewed . They continually exasperate one another , and thus the very necessities of their peculiar lives might teach them mutual forbearance and mutual deference . Perhaps the law—though , from bringing them more under its jurisdiction , much benefit is expected—may not be blameless tor their violence- There can no longer be any question that collisions , or the _ possibility of collisions , between individuals in civil life is the chief source of the sentiment , of justice . If men
had nothing whatever to fear or to liope from one another , it would have no existence , ahd accordingly it is strong , as men are free to act and express their thoughts . The authority which society , from a notion possibly erroneous , confers on captains of ships * in order to . maintain discipline , removes them from that collision with other men , certainly with all their inferiors , which teaches all moderation and- -justice .: By classing mutiny with piracy and murder , and treating it as deserving death , arroo-ance is nurtured in commanders , and servility in all beneath them . An unfavourable opinion is
never expressed of - ' their conduct . They ai-e removed , not by natural circumstances , but by the law , from those collisions , and fear of collisions , which keep other men moderate and just . To cease , then , from classifying mutiny—rwhich , under some circumstances , -when the ' captaiii is a drunkard or half mad , is laudable—with the most ' revolting friine ' s-r-piracv and murder—and to withhold from captains the " unlimited authority the JState now confers on them , might be a better method of lessening crimes at sea , than extending the jurisdiction of Courts of Admiralty .
Something is undoubtedly required . Day by day the evidence is accumulating that many cruelties and many crimes are committed by seafaring men . The commissioners to inquire into harbours of refuge , assure us that tlie character of seamen under the present system is deteriorating ; that they embark in a state of intoxication , that they desert in great numbers , and cause great losses to the owners of ships . From her Majesty ' s navy , too , desertion is very great . About onctwelfth of the sailors employed rim away every year . In other employments men are glad to remain as a means of " getting a living , but . seamen , who can neither , resist their officers nor obtain redress for
wrongs , desert . Our laws and regulations pervert their moral sense , and converting resistance to oppression into an enormous crime , make desertion beneficial and appear like a virtue . Tlie rules laid down for the roynl navy are adopted in the merchant service , and tho conduct of the State towards tho seamen , whom it long treated most cruelly and unjustly , was made tho guide of private shipowners and ship captains . This jtf a sorious subject for the public j for both our foreign trado and the defence' of fho nation depend on tho character of ita seamen . Tho several examples referred to show tluit tho time is come when a
reform of the spirit of our maritime rogula tions must take plnoo , and they must be more imbued with the justice which ino ' n learn in civil life .
¦ committed on them on board slnp 3 . Such brutal violence is described by our contemi ^ orary as common to seafaring men in all ages . On board her Majesty ' s ships , apparently , this assumed natural disposition finds a , legal vent in inflicting flogging , ¦ hol ystonUig , grog stopping , shot caiTying , & c , & c . ; and , the 1 , 165 men and boys who are flogged annually in the navy arc the victims of the same jkind of yiolent disposition as sends , yearly , 150 men to the hospital at Liverpool . Onboard merchant ships a handspike or a marlinspike serves the purpose of a cat-o ' -nine-tails , or tying up at the gangway , and A formal 'summons of the whole crew to see the
delight satiated which . ; seafaring men are supposed ¦ to have in human sufferings . The impatient skipper or mate seizes the first thing that conies to his liand , and knocks down an offender , or hurls at Jiiim some instrument of wrath , and he gets deservedly blamed , while his rival-who serves the State is justified , or perhaps applauded , for tho ¦ discipline he enforces by legal and more measured violence . Our contemporary imagines thnt to subject the merchant ships of different nations lo soine common jurisdiction , might check the violence of skippers » nd mates , but if their violence spring from a natural disposition in those who , for considerable periods , arc c . \ eluded from the humanising effects
of civil society , as the Hogging in , our navy seems tp show , little could bo hopoa from extending'to ship captains the jurisdiction of com'fcs of Admiralty , Our criminal courts and our extensive police lmve had top little success in preventing orimps ashore to encourage iis to expect much frqm bringing all ships under a criminal jurisdiction . Seamen have the reputation of being superstitious ;; what then might bo the effect of reviving amongst them , could it be revived , , the old notion , that over . v ollenoo is sure—whether subjected or not to a criminal investigation , whether committed at sea or on shtircto bo visited on the offender P Sifoh a orcod . might bo an effectual restraint on haste and violence whoro no civil magistrate oan iutorfero .
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arose from the fact that she was known to be one Of the chief proprietors of the public gambling tables . She lived by the folly of others , and yet she Was caught herself by the very snare she baited with . She knew that in the long run she must lose ; she knew too that people thought her a fool for playing— -and yet she played . Nature is indeed inscrutable . . " We believe that , some apothecaries drink their own medicines ; we arc told that some clergymen read their own sermons in -hours of meditation . [ Never , however , were the feelings , with which , in former days , we have looked upon the lady gambler ,. so vividly recalled , as when we learnt that Mr . Ueresford llopc was about to stand for the University of Cambridge .
Mr . Alexander James Beresford Bcresford Hope is the Satwduy Review , or the Saturday lleview is Mr . Hope . TY ' e know . not which is the proper way to word it . " Whether the body is greater than the soul , the purse than the paper ,. we ' . must leave to metaphysicians to decide . But considering that body and soul are inseparably connectedthat just as the soul could never have existed without the bod y * so the paper could never have subsisted without the purse- —we are justified in assuming , , for all practical purposes , that Mr . Hope ( for the sake of brevity we drop tlie prefixes ) and the Saturday Reirieiv are one . Throughout the brief term of its existence , Mr .-Hope's 6 ri * an has lived and flourished by decrying everything . Every generous aspiration , every liberal project ,
every earnest effort has been the . ' object of their constant depreciation . It is easy enough to sneer at everything when you propose nothing . When you present Ho point of attack , you can hit right and left-without danger . The post ol ' tlio universal critic , whp cannot be . criticised , is a pleasant and a lucrative one . Wliat can induce the representative of the Saturday llenieiv to h > avt > the position of judge for that of culprit ? Why should-tlie bull who is in his glory in the china shop desert itsprecincts , of his own accord , for tho perils of the arena ? Mr . IIope would have done more wisely if he had followed the example oiXoah Chvypole , and kept to knocking down small children , withoiit exposing his own . person . At all events , it is a comfort to have fresh proof , of the existence
of a retributive justice-. A considerable number of Cambridge graduates ( and , we suppose , contributor . * to the Saturday Review ) have , we learn , presented a requisition to Mr . Hope to stand for the University at the next election . " Considerable " is a relative term . We quite agree in thinking that seven is a larger number of supporters than , we . should think , Mr . Hope could have reasonably reckoned on . Seven is a cortaml
mystic number . Seven -men can y be termed a public . Mr , Hope has twice as many supporters as the the tailors of Tooloy-strcct , and an odd man into the bargain . If Mahomet had waited to announce his creed till he had collected n body of believers , Mahome-tanism -would never have existed . Tlie faithful seven' ni-u Mr . Hopes Futimah , and it is to them , in consequence , that the virgin olmrnis nf tha Hone creed arc first exposed .
THE FORLORN" HOPE . Ahh froquonfcers of tho Baths of llombourg must bo acquainted wit )* the name and features of a certain aged bai'onoss , who was always to bo found at tho roulette tables of that world-known Kursaal . The oircumstanoo of a foojiisli old woman losing her monov at , " rouge ofc noir , " is a thing too common m these localities to oxcito attention . The solo intorost attaching to tho lady in question ,
The address of Mr . Hope to hi * considorable body of supporters has boon published ooluly , ns yct / iln the columns of tho Saturday Jlevieu > , urn has not , in consequence , attracted much' ot puWic attention . Fearing however , a . s we do , that tuo movement of this 'fyand of Hope " may shortly die , and give no sign , wo make haste to call attention to this manifesto of our modern " Young Jwgln . ii < l "—tjils last speech and confojsion ot tin . Saturday- lleview . ' -, .. „ Mr . Hope is attached to tho lMtwh ooiistitution in all' " ito iwpoots . Its monardiionl , its purw nristocmtio , " and its highly - rolino . 1 democratical fbatures , are all equally objects # ot uw tender solicitude . Tho cliiiufollur's ; wig aw \ the beadle ' s stall' are alike dear ( u hi «» - \^'
. oasions , howovoi-, will arise when ono section of tho body politic mtiot be profWvod to another . The Noav Zealand oannibul lovoil tho missionary ' s teaching dearly , and , nliw ! he ' ' ovoU "; dearly the taste of that . liwoious / lush . UmY \^ would ask Mr . Hope , could both taatoa bo gnvli o « i ut once ? Tho answer to this hitherto "" uluWo broblom is qontuinod in tho prophotic "" . wnnot , tlnrtt the member for Mnidstono U tho " irmml oi innollorotion and the antagonist ot t'lm n B ; . ' , What a pity that » o beautiful a B ° nt »» \ VrJr ! bo wasted on seven supportow . Mr . ^•« " " Old Patriarch , " in his doopaat moodrf , »« vor / I "J ; cluoea a sentiment so iswootly sonorous , so utw"j
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Leader (1850-1860), March 26, 1859, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26031859/page/18/
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