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•Sept.'29, 1860] : The Saturday Analyst ...
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Louis Napoleon And Cobsi0a. T He Corresp...
The sovereign of the neighbouring island would do well to take some similar measure . At present all the rogues and miscreants of Corsica make their way , if and when they can , into Sardinia , where fire-arms are allowed and used ; where friends may shoot pheasants , or fiends , peasants , to make use of a careless misprint in a newspaper which once made , unintentionally , a murderer of Sir Kobe . bt PiiEL ( the late ) ; either would do , we believe , for the shooting in Sardinia . England may take a hint from the Emperor ' s decision when rampant Irish , patriots demand the unlimited use of the rifle for th < B-fine Irish pisantry . We . will ii . pt answer for King -Maiiox , but Louis Nafoi / eox would eye such a petition rather strangely , and anight possibly even smile at the request .
There are other improvements in Corsica of a late date ; not the least , that of fair roads , and good : diligence travelling- ; but still the French are ninpopular , as conquerors aiul nncoinpi'Oinising reformers and disciplinarians are likely to be among ilio majority with whose old and bad habits they have intcrfeiTd ; besides the universal detestation of the Italian races for police ,-gendarmerie ,, aiid meddling , whether of jFreheh . or Austrian importation . It is . said that in some of the towns the hotel-keepers can scarcely be induced to furnish tlie officers of the French detachments with a decent dinner . Much may still be done for Corsica , which is not done as vet ,
though , perhaps , the island has jnore . chances now of enlightened improvement than lnis ever fallen to its lot since the JRoman ' -Seneca proclaimed it odious . The inhabitants are represented , by modern travellers as still an idle , chesnut-devouring people , with -si ' country naturally fertile , getting from the inhabitants of the neighbouring 1 coaat the labour which they cannot be induced to give , or only give sparingly . Labourers conic from Italy in April , and return in November / to the , number of two or three thousand , carryin g ^ ' back about one hundred francs , savings each . The forests mad magnificent marble quarries of Corsica arc not utilised as they mig-ht and ought to be . At the very highest estimate not three-tenths of the island in
arc under cultivation of any sort . -Much , then , is left to bo done , the way of development and encouragement of native -industry . Enormous duties were very recently , u-nd probably are still paid to Franco on all imported manufactured articles- ; , and any manufacturing ; spirit which iniiy appear to be-talcing life in Corsica is rather Chcck 6 d than fostered . This is all biul . The island gives a fine opportunity for detached e . vperhnenIs , which the French E . vrpmtou . might not ' like to try , iii the first instance , on natural . French territory ! lio apparently means well to tlic country ; ho now lias its population well in liiuul , and may do whtit ho likes with it . As it is , Corsica seem « to be more . to him than Sardinia is , or Piedmont was , to Vktok Em want kt ..
Few people , compara y speaking , even now change . Europe did not call for it . Whether native Corsicans were eternally murdering their cousins from generation to generation , or no , was riot a matter of any general consequence , and the French Empekok might have left the den of blood to itself without the slightest injury to his credit . Perhaps , indeed , the Parisian population and the London fashionables might have been even glad of some further variation of the Freres Corses , maiiy of whom probably would never have -known of such a thing as the Corsican vendetta but for DraiAs' novel and the play . What JJoris Napoleon has done has been in the cause of order and humanity , and from an interest in the native island of his family .
tivel 1 know of this resistance might be cited . The council of Corsica found that between 1821 and 1850 , there had been 4 , 300 assassinations , and in 1850 , 1851 , 1852 assassinations , or attempts at assassination , had averaged nine ty-eight annually , and this in a very small population . The inhabitants shielded " assassins , and juries acquitted-them on principle . There was only one way of dealing : with the pest . The French EjipekQR instituted a more active gendarmerie , and forbade absolutely the gun and the knife . Now this beneficial exercise of his authority was completely volunteered ^ and he ought to have tho full credit without that carping and cavilling which his acts , whether wood-or'bad , generally meet with at the hands of the English press .
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J IE ARTS OF OAK . N OW tlmt English oak w . no lonfW tho material upon which wo rely for tho strength of our ships , ami when other nations aro ciiuulling us both in the extent ol' their navies , and tl » o con-Htruotlon and quality ol' their vessels , England must depend for her naval { supremacy Upon her hearts of oak . Our great rival acrosn the channel—for Frnnue , though our ally is still our rival in all that relates to material progress-is 1 'aat acquiring si largo anil oflio'iont lleot , provided with all the most recent improvements m build , rig , machinery , smil f ^ un * . Every improvement introduced in thin country is iniinodiutely caught up and adopted by our enterpining 1 noig-Jibouis . If wo abandon Heventy-iours and talco to building' small frigates , the observant Frenchman immediately
follows uuv example , if wo abolish the clumsy paddle , fur the wcruw , ho puts on tliQ screw too , When wo discover an Ansi » 'rnosa or Wjiitwoutu cannon , he lun a similar weapon roady on the shortest notice . Our last novoltv in the way of iron-plated gunboats and floating batteries , thoiijrti adopted latev l > y our neighbour , is in a more advanced wtuto in the French dockyards jjhan in oiu * own ,, In fact , in dl ¦ tlmt rolaten toiuiw'l iirohitooturo the Frenchman is fairly kooning abreast of uh . Uut let us not , on that account , have any lours for our naval mvi ] ii * oiiuu ' . v . In naval material Franco has never boon i \\ v behind us at uuy period oC history . Thevo wua not mnoh to ohooso between the French and Entfliuli ships which rowt in conflict ut Trafalgar . JIiulHivii . in fs and tho French Adniiraloxclmngovl fleets bofpro they begun the light , tljo ryimlt would cortuinly have boon the snmo , i ' or ovon at that period Kntflnnd placed her reliance
upon her men and not upon her ships . " England , "' said . JSIe-lsox " expects every man to do his duty . " And because every man did his dirty the day was won . This mast always bo the -condition , of things while Englishmen remain . what " they are— a brave and hardy race , born with a natural genius for maritime pursuits and maritime enterprise . The Gallic cock does not take naturally to the water . It is not his element . He doesn't like it , and he is never comfortable in it . Everything he does in that situation is done under it disadvantage . On the Other hand the Englishman is a sort of human duck , who , if he be hatched on the banks of a river , or by the seashore , takes to water at once as his natural clement . As Tom Campbell sings of the mariner of England ,
" IIis path , is o er the mountain wave , His home is on the deep . " The first wild dreams of the English youth are about the sea : When Dibdijnt was writing his glorious sea songs , and Nklsos's victories were electrifying the land , the greatest care of English parents was to keep their sons froin running away from home ' and going to sea . Even now a sailor's life has a greater charm for boys of spirit and active disposition than any other pursuit . Every father who has a large family of sons is anxious that one of them may be a sailor . With the Nobility it is almost a , rule that one member of the family should be ¦ -. provided-with a midshipman ' s commission . The Sovereign herself devotes her second son to the sea , and takes care that he shall be a sailor in real earnest . The naval profession is the only one in which we refuse to tolerate ornamental service . There , are plenty of sham captains in the army , and we trust our best blood and our dearest honour to their
incompetence ; but we do not give ships to nominal sailors . Tho Pkince of -Wales begins his military career as a full-fledged Colonel ; but Prince Alfked , in the navy , must enter as a middy , and work his way up through the regular stages : of the profession . The French watch over their army AVith the same jealous care , for they feel that the army is their chief power ; and in organization and . military skill the French army is a fair match for the English " navy . There is no . -such army in the world as the French army , and there is no such navy in the world as the English navy ; And this must always be the relative position of the two countries so long- as the two people retain their present habits , tastes , and characteristics . ' No-, amount of training will give an Englishman the faculty for military organization which distinguishes the . Frenchman , and n <>
amount of training * will convert Frenchmen into good sailors . The soldier and the sailor , like the . poet , are bora not made . The natural genius for these occupations is not a thing to be acquired in the highest degree by any amount of either habit or experience . .. If any of the home " -keeping denizens of London arc alarmed by the extraordinary naval preparations which Tjofis -Napoleon" is said to be making , we would advise them to go down and take a look at tho Imperial yacht-which is now lying at Deptford . As a vessel , she is in every respect a match for our own royal yacht ,, the ' Victoria and Albert . " Uut look n't her sailors . They have been strolling about our streets for some days past , exciting wonder wherever they have gone . What pretty little fellows they are ! What dandy shirts
they wear . ; what natty enamelled hats ! How they remind us ol ballet girls , dressed out for a hornpipe in a nautical pantomime . Pretty , truly ; but their slender knees are not made to cling to ji . giddy maintop in a gale . Their delicate fingers aro not designed 1 to . grasp -a rough , tarred rope , and hold on , like grim death , when the fate of the ship and its crow rests , upon the strength , the daring , and the rugged skill of one man . Thoro they trip along ' , a 'batch of French " able seamen , " looking , at the best , liko the apprentices of an English' war ship . The big , ' burly , hard-fisted British tar , who comes lumbering 1 down the street , looks as if ho could eat one of them with case . They are like a litter of Italian greyhounds by the . side of that hug-o English'ma-still .
Our rivals , then , whoever they may be , . may build us many lroncascd ships as they please . They cannot I ' mild sailors like our * . In that respect Nature and our insular position will ulway . s tfiyo us the advantage , if we only exqreiso the most ordinary vigilance in keeping the material of our fleet up to the requirements and exigencies of the time . DU . WAKUKOP OX TIJK HEART . * B ISCOVEREKS nro entitled to special distinction * , and l ) r . Wardrop ' s claims aro no strong that a now and rcrl . scrf edition of his work cannot bo permitted to pasti without special notice . Three- important function owe to him their eritnblUdunont in science . TJioso functions aro connected with the circulation of the blood y It seems thnttlio muscle * , besides being the organs of active locomotion ,
powerfully iiiiluonco the circulation in tha arteries as wull as in the veins , th ' us performing tho important office- ' of increasing thu quantity of urterial , as . well as venous blood , within tho cavities of the heart . Moreovor , tho lungs ,, as a reservoir , regulate the supply of blood to tho he-art , and thus prevent congestion within the heart s cavities 5 while tho Nub-outunoous veins perform the office of 11 reservoir , and prevent congestion within tho pulmonary vomkoIc . The first of these functions tho author lias . denominated the riiuHculo-cariliao . ; the second , the puhno-enrdino ; and t . lio third , tho veno-pulmonnry function , Dy those discoveries the powers oi ' medicaltretvtment aro onlavR-ed , and tho dwoascB of the heart disarmed of tho fatal eharactor gonorally mi ^ osed .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1860, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29091860/page/7/
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