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June 30, 1860.J The Leader and Saturday ...
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June 30, 1860.J The Leader And Saturday ...
June 30 , 1860 . J The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 617
About London* "O7e Heartily Welcome A Ne...
ABOUT LONDON * " O 7 E heartily welcome a new work from the pen of the popular VV author of the "Night Side of London . " Mr . Ritchie . ' understands - well the elements requisite to compose a good book . In the first place , he has chosen a good subject , and one Which will not be soon or easily exhausted even by the most ' , skilful of writers . Xiike all men of genius and of talent , some one theme or particular event has possessed unusual and , it may be , overpowering 1 attractions for him . There has been something in or about it to more than commonly interest him . Mr . Ritchie lias seen London in all its aspects . It has for him all that he requires for the production of intellectual and moral essays ; frequently beholding and deeply pondering upon the subjects of the present volume , he has produced a work that shall really be interesting and profitable to the reader . The metropolis abounds with points enough to furnish any author with matter for any number of thoroughly readable volumes . The poet iind-the-painter , the humorist and the moralist find ample scope in the deep and diversified scenes of London for the utmost exercise of their peculiar powers . In each of the four or five volumes which the author of " Night Side of London " has produced , full justice is done to the particular subjects discussed and described therein ; and yet an equal , number may be produced by the same pen with the very same result . Mr . Ritchie is versatile as well as original . He does not repeat himself , though all his works are apparently about the same . / subject . This , however , may ho because the subject itself- is- so comprehensive ; but we think it is also owing to the ability of the writer , who places before us so agreeably and instructively these different scenes and phase ' , of London . The present volume contains twenty extremelv wellwritten chapters on a series of highly popular" topics . There is a chanter about " Newspaper People , " about "Coal , " about " Highgate , " about " London Bridge , " " West minster Abbey . " & . ? ... ; and much curious information that history has supplied , and much more thai ; " observation" has copied , will be found in these chapters . We have no doubt that this work will meet with that degree of favour from the public which , besides its'other merits , as a work of an unquestionably improving and elevating-tendency ,-it deserves .
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¦ :- r CTIBIEA ^ SivETClIE ^ . f ... ~ ; — "DLAYING at soldiers is very fine , but real war-work is not X- always pleasant . The author of "Camp Life , " a work now before us , left an agreeableoccupation _ and . comfortable , income for the pleasure of a smart artillery uniiorin . and departed from Eng- . land for service in the Crimea . He ¦ ¦ provided : -himself with an expensive outfit , which iiv actual work Turned out to be" useless-.. Landing in Kerteh harbour , he was soon stationed at Fort Paul , where he bad only brackish water "tw drink , rnade by a condensing ' apparatus down by the seaside . His lodgings were most uncomfortable , and rheumatism inevitable . He had nothing to eat but salt pork . His Christinas dinner , however , was a festival onboard ship , With one . M'Alpine , At its conclusion , a staff-sergeant arrived with a messvige iroin the general . The messenger announced that "The llussians were advancing in force , tlie guns must be mounted that night on , tlie hoi ^ jits , and , if you please , Sir , the General's . compliments , and tTie last oineer on shore . will be broke . " We leave the 'scamper and the bnstlo . that , ensued to the reader ' s imacination . ¦ We areHow fairly 'launched in tho narrative , which goes on at a dashing rate . Many a -proof had the writer that the privilege of wearing gold lace is bought at a . . price . The' dinner-hour is not respectet ] . With a mouth full of bread and rum , he had to conduct j at . command nu escort to take over military stores ; and , on arriving j at the place of destination , had to travel to and fro to procure- ' the password , and found the whole process a troublesome job , to bo j done in a night pitch dark , and under every sort of inconvenience . The Turks enjoyed his troubles . Of One Turk , his iHinba ^ hi , Ib ' rahitn AH , ho gives us a complete portrait . An Albanian , with black , 'flashing eyes , Grecian features , and a lustrous moustache , effeminate in appearance , but a ruffian ' ' in disposition , with no religion but his faith in a mission to exterminate all Kuvopoans . .. Ho was , however , a joj ' ly coinrudo , and gave Our authov much infonnation about Turkey . He made free , meanwhile , with tho " unconsidered trifles " that lay about the room . "In nine cases out often , " pays'Mr . Wraxall . " 1 did not' protest ; hut if , for instance , I tnight go in seartrh of a missing revolver , he would say , ' Truo , it is thine ! ' and hand it buck without a murmur . " He had early joined a band of robbers , worked his way through a prison to Government . employment , and had shot a pasha . His own end was probably tho bow . slnng . Our author found it very repulsive to Jive in daily intercourse with men whom ho know to be steupod up to the eyes in crime , though sonirtiincs not without good qualities . being like wild ammiuia that learn to love their keener . ' ! through fuar of tho lash . " Ottroi '' charnctGi - ; pliotop : rnphs arn giyrrn ; bnt onv voiulorfsmustbo content with a type , nw a Hjicriinen of the gallery . f riiuy . are literal likenesnes , not rcniatkablo for moral bounty . J 5 ut the gallery contains also some excellent groups . The sccnos in tho marketplace of Kertcb urd capitaL Jim drunken Uussiim landlord , aluo ' ,
comes in as a variety , in company with a Russian doctor with an enormous beard , a liixge book , and a huge pair of spectacles . As to the terras on which English and French stood to each other before Sebastopol , our author states that nothing- more than a system of politeness was maintained—there was no cordiality . ¦ He says , indeed , " The Pr . ench were insufferably haughty . " His account , in fact , is not favourable to our allies ; but there is doubtless a considerable amount of prejudice in his report . He confesses , however , to their cleanliness . Tuey were the most shirt-washing troops he knew , and every Chasseur was carefully shaved every morning . In disposition they are rather melancholy . He speaks with great respect of the Chasseurs d'Afrique . He pictures them in one sentence— " Coquettisbly dressed in light blue and silver tunics , carrying a long pea rifle on their backs , and mounted o n fiery Arab barbs , they offer the beau-ideal of a trooper . " A French John Bull , also , named Jean Taureau , is introduced as a curious eccentric , and his adventures are exceedingly amusing . The great charm of a military life is . it seems , not glory , but idleness . For this men sacrifice their future at one-and-a-penny per diem . While preparing for evacuating Kerteh , Mr . Wraxall had opportunity for leisure , and employed it in watching from the quay the embarkation' of the troops . At length , with his wife , our author took refuge on board the Goshawk , and was enabled ( to use | his own words ) "to draw up a mental balance-sheet . " He had ! played out his play ; lie bad some eighty pounds to receive , and | his connection with the Government would be settled . In his politics on ? author is somewhat heretical , and his love for civilisation makes him rather intolerant of strange customs . His patriotism is not very strongly pronounced ; but he may be excused , as he was ultimately some hundreds of pounds out of pocket by his soldiering . Some of this loss he has been able to repair'by writing a narrative of his travels , which , after--appearing in ' the I columns of a newspaper , has now , in an improved state , taken the j shape of a small volume , characterised by considerable vivacity . I He complains that , after all his service , he was defrauded of the ¦ I Crimean medal ; but he v bears his disappointment with good I humour , and it is impossible not to respect a mau who laughs at his own mischances .
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* About . Lo )> , t <» i . Hy J . EwiNd Krrciiii :, Author of . " Ni ^ lit Side of London , " «/ 'j' ] H , London I ' ubiit , " " Hcvi ; tuul Thoro in London , " & c . London : "Williimi Tiimloy , ! U 1 , Stmnd . t Cuuij ) . 7-7 / 1 ' , ¦ or , Piisanies ' from tlio Story of a Contiiigoiit ,. ] Jy Lasoellks WiiaxaiJ' . London : Charlca J . ^ koct .
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To the JStMtor of The Leader am > Saturday Analtst . LORI ) CHELMSFOKD'S BILB-. : IN a petition to the House of Commons , relative , to the above ~ - measure , now beforeParliament , signed by the iniuister , chapel-warden , and vestry-clerk of the United Church of England and Ireland chapel . St . Vincent-street , Edinburgh , is the following . clause : — " That the experience of your pelitioners in Scotland , has , '" led them to observe , that the insisting upon the Mosaic law of the seventh-day . Sabbath being still in force , and applicable to the first day of ' the week , does not tend to - ' establish , aoiongst us' either "truth and justice , ' or ' religion and piety . '" Thissonnds somewhat unlike the —fo ] lawing ~ i ^ oiu . tioii ,-whlch . ^ ay ^^ — 1 passed in ' 'the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland , on , tlie 27 th of May , IS 4 K : — ' ! ¦ . " The Assembly , fueling it to be the duty of this Church-, to i cherish a holy and enlightened zeal for the honourOf tlie Lord of the-Sabbath , and an' affectionate regard to the best interests of the flock over which the Holy 'Ghost . ' hath mad" her overseer , as well as to those of tin ' s nation in which God lias largely blessed her , resolves through grace to ^ pare no olfort . s for promoting a devout and increased rospect for this loved and blessed -institution ; reminding the people of her communion , that they who sin ; guilty of its violation ant liable to t ) io discipline oftho Church , in the same ' manner , a ' nd to the snino extent , as those who are guilty of transgressing any other commandment of the moral liiw . " :
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FORK KIN ¦ COMUSS PON PENCE . Hano-vkh , June 20 th , 1 SGO . PUBLTC attention during the past wed ; has boon dirwted almost exclusively to this late meeting of-princes at UadtMi Haden , and , a .-i may be conceived , iill are on ( lie lookout for any positive in . ' onna ,-tion thnt may ho permitted < n ooze out as to llie results . It . would be useless 1 o repeat 11 to niiiubcrle . ss reports and Hiirmisos thut lmv <; been in circulation . Tho German journals aiv , for the ino .- > t part , violently inimical to . ( ho French Empkuou—libcnils and fouuidisiH sire unanimous in their mistrust of Friince . Jui ' yinir by tho ridicule honped upon tho English proas by all p : ir '; u ^ in this country , I must conclude -thnt tho JbYuucli -multJioir lv \ : vuiuxll find tnvour vuii , l « you , The ruinous dulhk'NSof trade hen .,.., ! the contMuntly itHin-ai-ing taxation aro attributed entirely to French policy ; and out ) ambitious . sovereign would have little difficulty in gaining' all ( Jiinniiuy over to his side by n declaration ol' war itgaiiiHt Franc *? , with or without * , grounds ';—tho fact of d Nai'omion being on the French throne i » ground enough for any German . The nicutinur < jf tho IVirnvK at linden is ' regarded as 11 failure , in no tar as it was intend e d to' hit a display of tho unanimity , of the I ' otenlaU's of < jurmmiy . This in evident from tho npeo ' eh of the Uimk . nt , in which ho wiys that his ideas as to the policy to bu nur . surd by Prussia uud Gur-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 30, 1860, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30061860/page/17/
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