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Cinranrrriol Malts.
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Sunday becomes a misnomer i and that cheerfulness that its name would seem to indicate as its bright and sunny characteristic , is totally wanting , and we feel its apter designation would be Dull-day or Gloomday . Be it understood that for a fervent piety , or honest religious conviction , I entertain the most profound respeet , and never , in the slightest degree , have I interfered with its devotees when intent upon their devotions . But it is because such parties do interfere with people like unto myself that I now protest against their aggressive conduct , that I now claim those recreations on the day in question that their zeal has kept from us .
The religionist is quite at liberty to seek the foetid atmosphere of the house of worship and therein to pray or sing from morn till night , but he is not at liberty to make me imbibe the air of his evangelical hothouse , nor is he at liberty to stay our steamboats , atop our railways , close our museums , our picturegalleries , or our public gardens , &c . In his present position he is an arrogant tyrant . Not satisfied with taking the opium of his godly medicine himself , he compels us who need it not to swallow it likewise . Faugh ! it makes one sick—away with it ! It ^ has frequently occurred to me that " pious Scotland , " as
Dr . Cumming is wont to call it , furnishes us with an illustration of the ill effects of making our Sunday a day of gloom . There we find " faith and drunkenness" in luxurious profusion ; and , sir , methinks that an inquiry , in proper quarters , would discover that the absence of cheerfulness in that country on the day of rest has not a little to do with the great absorption of those liquids that " steal away the senses . " Certain it is ( and ponder well over the fact " ye rigidly righteous" ) . that our Continental neighbours , who provide amusement for the people on the Sunday , are not guilty of such filthy excesses .
For too long a period have we been the slaves , the victims of a handful of vinegar-visaged saints , and it is high time we cast off their heavy yoke . We have on our side both right and might , and it is childish to be duped any longer by the tribe - of selfdubbed " miserable sinners . " Let the subject be well canvassed , call and attend public meetings , sign petitions , write pamphlets on the question , give prize essays , in short , follow the advice of your correspondent , who signs himself " A Fly on the Wheel , " and agitate , agitate , agitate . I am your obedient servant , E . H .
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ON MARRIAGE WITH A SISTER-IN-LAW . Leed * . July 5 , 1851 . Sir , —The new issues which Mr . Friend ' s letter opens up , I have neither time nor taste for pursuing . I simply designed to explain the harmony of the direct and express laws of Scripture with the enactment proposed far this country , and can by no means undertake to vindicate the consistency of the entire body o £ Jewish laws , either with themselves or with reason . I would do justice to them in this matter — nothing more . A few observations , therefore , must conclude what I am disposed further to say on the subject .
In the interpretation of the Jewish Law no principle of interpretation can be more utterly inapplicable than analogical , deductive , or the inferential . That law is notably one of historic compromise , detail , and explicitness , addressed to the childhood of a nation . Levit . xviii . is itself a proof of this . Not only have we , in verse 6 , the general prohibition concerning near kinsliip , but , subsequently , cases which it included , as well as marriages objectionable on other grounds . ( With the reason of these last I have now nothing to do . In part they related to cases of close affinity ; in part , perhaps , they arose out of peculiar conditions of society . )
Now , Moses has distinctly and in detail enumerated what he understood to bo chiefly included ; it was not left to be discovered by the exercise of the comparing and deductive powers of the rude people he was endeavouring to train and civilize . Nevertheless , he not only does not proiiibit this natural marriage ( much more likely to be formed than others which are prohibited ; and therefore more strongly calling for explicit prohibition , if wrong ) ; hut he refers to the matter in a manner which no one could do who had a decided objection to such a union—limiting his law to the prohibition of a marriage wifch a sisterin-law during the wifa ' a lifetime , and assigning as the reason for that partial prohibition onl y that you hould not take the sister beside the wife to vox her .
Ihus the exftress words of the Jewish laws permit rather than forbid marri&go with a deceased wife ' s sister ; and h » w can w * put & refined deductive interpretation in opposition to the clear intention of the lawgiver fr Certain it is , the Jews themselves never did draw such an inference .
rhc prohibition in verse 17 seems rational to me ; 1 have not advocated the doctrine that connection of blood is the only ground of objection to union ¦ m ° ng 8 t relatives ; there are others , » nd in this ca » e tne objection « eem » plain enough . Two oeuum may do oqttai ( or « . xjuivalwit" ) byway of objection ;
but that doea not make them " equivalent logically , i . e ., of the tame kind . Whether there be a sound reason ( as I think there is ) why a man should not marry his wife ' s daughter ( during her life-time there was evidently the same reason as against marrying the sister in the lifetime of the wife ) : or against marrying his uncle ' s , his son ' s , or hie brother ' s widow , I shall not discuss . I am only concerned , to maintain that there is no Mosaic Law opposed to the enactment solicited . I think Mr . Friend is quite right in his inference from the permission of Christ , that after divorce for adultery a man may-marry his wife ' s sister , she being legally and truly , as to the relationship of marriage , dead to him .
It is but justice to observe that Moses might have very different reasons for his prohibitions in the different cases cited . Until Mr . Friend produces the reason in the case of the brother ' s widow , he can have no warrant for affirming that it is the same as in the case of the wife ' s sister , &c . ; and the difference of penalty shows that the cases were different in his view . * There may be no " physiological" reason , but who says that the reason was , or is , of that kind in either case ? Does not Mr . Friend first assume certain principles and facts of interpretation , and then press these somewhat hardly against Moses ? Let us not prejudge the Bible by assigning " reasons" for its law& where it is silent , and then charge it with being inconsistent or unreasonable upon the evidence of our
own assumptions ! Our excellent " Friend" believes that he does not assume , so much as search for , a principle of interpretation . But he obviously searches with the assumption that there is , or ought to be , but one principle running through the . Mosaic marriage-laws . Now , this itself is a principle of interpretation , and , as I think , an erroneous one . Yours truly , F . R . Lee 3 . |
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The Ludicrous . —There is so great a charm in the sportive play of fancy and wit that there is no danger of their being neglected and undervalued , or that the native talent for them will remain undeveloped ; our chief solicitude must be to keep them , even in their wildest flights , still in subjection to duty and benevolence . We must not allow ourselves to be betrayed into an approving smile , at any effusions of wit and humour which are tinctured in the slightest degree by ill-nature . A child will watch the expression of our countenance , to see how far he may venture , and if he find that he has the power to amuse us in spite of ourselves , we have no longer any hold over him T e r r j : ' f [
from respect , and he will go riottng on in his sallies until he is tired , and seek at every future opportunity to renew his triumph . Wit , undirected by benevolence , generally falls into personal satire : —the keenest , instrument of unkind-ness ; it is so easy to laugh at the expense of our friends and neighbours—they furnish . such ready materials for our wit , that all the moral forces require to be arranged against the propensity , and its earliest indications checked . We may satirize error , but we must compassionate the erring , and this we must always teach by example to
children , not only in what we say of others before them , but in our treatment of themselves . We should never use ridicule towards them , except when it is so evidently good-natured that its spirit cannot be mistaken ; the agony which a sensitive child feels on being held up before others as an o b ject of ridicule , even for a trifling error , a mistake , or a peculiarity , is not soon forgotten , nor easily forgiven . When we wish , therefore , to excite contrition for a serious fault , ridicule should never be employed , as the feelings it raises are directly opposed to oclf-rcproach . —Eduaw lion of the Feelings , by Charles Bray , Diifioultiks op Bbmbf .- —Can the faith of the nineteenth century accommodate itself to the knowledge of the sixteenth ? The negative reply seem . s to be daily growing stronger and more distinct , from the rapidly advancing community of Great Britain . In this rising cry of conviction we have no choice but conscienrioud concurrence ; deeply convinced that the time is at hand when modern society can be no longer mentally cramped within the dogmatic frame-work imposed three centuries nince upon a generation just emerged from a thousand
year * thraldom of spirit and und < rtttun < ling under the despotism of an uuurping priesthood . It in no mutter of option with men of this epoch , whether or no they will think And believe concerning trie Creator and Ufa Creation , In conformity with the thought and belief of / Luther andCalvin , Cranmer and Knox . The qu < mion in , whether they can so think and believe ? Thought ia not a frivolous fauhion of caprice or imitation , but a real and re-Ji « iou « work of observation , eoinpartaon , and reflection . — * *<*» the Ktvrend t , IVtbo * ' * Catholicity Spiritual and Intellectual . * r
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HEALTH OF LONEkpN DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' * Report . ) The public health now presents a more favourable aspect . In the week ending last Saturday the number of deaths registered from all causes declined to 881 . In the ten corresponding week * of 1841-50 the average - **« # 877 ; but as population has been growing throughout that period and up to the present date , an average mortality corrected for the rate of increase may be estimated at 965 , compared with which the deaths of last week exhibit a decrease of 84 . The progress of the summer months in reducing the mortality is preceptible in all those classes of disease which make the principal contributions to the aggregate amount , with the exception of the class of epidemics in which there now appears some disposition to increase . Smallpox is recorded as having been fatal to 27 persons , all of them children except one . The registrars mention particular families which have suffered extensively , and lament in such cases that vaccination , which might have prevented the spread of the disease or its fatal results , had been neglected .
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July 19 , 1851 . ] gjl Hlfljir * 689
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* Sometimes the reason concerned domestic peace and individual proprieties ; sometimes property and social relations ; sometimes religious opinions ; and sometimes physiological laws . The difference between the enumeration in chapters xviii . and xix . of Leviticus , indicates that the cases were not regarded as a common class , i . e ., as of one kind ; and , therefore , it is unfair to MoBes to treat them as such . Moreover , in a certain case a man was enjoined to marry his brother ' s widow , which proves that no bar in blood existed . s
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Saturday . There have been some variations in the English funds this week Consols closed on Mondav 96 $ to 97 for money , and for the account 97 | . On Wednesday « hey declined to 96 J to £ for money , and 97 for the 12 th of August . At this they remained on Thursday . The openin ? prices yesterday were—Consols , 96 § J . The fluctuations have been : —Consols , for money , from 96 S to 97 $ ; Bank Stock , 214 to 2154 ; Exchequer Bills . 493 . to 52 s . premium . | The news that Bravo Murillo ' s plm for thp settlement of the debt had been ag > eed to by 154 to 52 , caused some slight advance in Spanish funds . The official report of Friday ' s dealings is as follows : Brazilian Old Five per Cent . Small Bonds , 904 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent ., 591 , i ; ditto Four pr Cent . Certificates , 924 , J . i ; Mexican Bonds , 30 * ; ditto , for account , 31 J , 31 , 304 , § exdiv . ; Peruvian Five per Cents ., 1849 , 89 ; Portuguese Five per Cents ( Brazil guarantee ) , 87 ; Russian Five per Cents ., Il 4 ; dit'o , Four-and-a-Half per Cents ., 101 , 100 $ , i ; Sardinian Scrip , £ dis . ; Spanish Active Five per Cents ., 21 ; ditto , for account , 21 J , J , ' 21 ; ditto , Passive , 6 ; French Three per Cent . Rentes , 57 f . 25 c . ; exchange , 25 f .
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BANK OF ENGLAND . An Account , pursuant to the Act 7 th ami 8 th Victoria , cap . 32 , - for the week ending- on Saturday , the 5 lh of July , 1851 , ISSUE DEPARTMENT . £ £ Notes issued .... 27 , 450 , 155 Government Debt , ll , 0 l > lfl 0 Other Securities .. 2 , 934 , 900 Gold Coin and Bullion 13 , 410 , 780 Silver Bullion 33 , 375 £ 27 . 450 . 455 JEi 7 . 450 . 155 BANKING DETAIITMBNT . £ £ Proprietors'Capital , 14 , 553 , 000 Government Seen-Uest 3 . , 104 ritie * ( including-Public Depos < it »( in- Dead-weight Ailduping Exche- nuity ) 13 . . quer , Savings' Other Securities ,. 12 . , 7 * 25 Banks , Commit-- Notes 7 ,: > 59 , 180 sioneru of National Gold and Silver Debt , and Divi- Coin 567 , 500 dend Accounts ) .. 4 , 319 , 348 Other Deposit ! .... 10 , 440 , 830 even-day and other Bills 1 , 175 , 051 £ 33 . , 426 £ 33 , ( 180 , 426 Dated July 17 , 1851 . M Mausiiall , Chief Cashier .
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR TUB PAST WEEK , ( doting Prices . ) ~~ Satur . Mond . Tuns . ! Veiin 7 ~ Thuni . Frid . Bank Stock 214 215 215 2 ! 5 3 per Ct . Lied .. 97 J 97 fc 07 J < J 7 A 97 § 96 J 3 p . C . Con . Ana . 97 9 ti 3 'JtU yi » i 3 p . C . An . 1726 . . . 3 ii . Ct . Con ., Ac . 97 962 96 jJ 9 fiJ 96 J 3 ( p . Cent . An . 99 y . ij 99 < J 8 J 9 'J < JHi New S per Ot » . lt > 3 KongAns . . I 860 . 7 f 7 jJ 7 3-lfi Tg 1 % Ind . St . l (> 4 p . ot . 26 U 263 Ditto Honda .. G 2 p 59 p fij > p ft ' . t p 63 p * 59 p Ex . Hills , 1000 / . 4 'J | i 51 p 5 * 2 »> 49 |> 53 p 53 |» Ditto , 5 m , .. 4 U p . &tf |> 53 , » ft-j j > Ditto , Swul | 4 U p 51 p 5 J p {\ 3 p , > 3 p
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SHARKS . Lust Official Quotation for Wwk ending Friday Evening-. 1 UH . WAY 9 . Banks . Aberdeen .. .. 10 J Australian .. .. 34 ] Ilrixtol itiid Exeter .. — Hiitiali North Aui .-rio . au Cuh-doniun .. .. 1 » J Colonial .. .. .. — Karttcin Counties .. — CoumicrcUl of London .. -G | Edinburgh and iil *» ga \ r — Ix > n < lon and Wealininutcr — Great Northern .. .. 171 L .-ndon Joint Stock ., — Un-atS . 8 c W . ( Ireland ) 88 J National of Ireland .. — ( ireat Wcttern .. 8 : » i National Provincial .. — I ^ tucashire and Yorkshir « 47 | Provincial of Inland .. 41 i l . nncantir and Carllslr — Union of Auatrnlia .. . ' !« Loixl ., Hrijrhton , & 8 . Coast 944 Union of London London and Black wall .. 7 MiKHa . London and N .-Western 1 U » $ MoUnos — Midland S 9 ItriiKiliuii Imperial Noilli liriti » li .. — Ditto . St . . olin del Key 1 KJ Hoiilli-KiiHtorii aud Dovei — Cobru (' oppt'i- .. .. < 40 . ^ . South-VVcx- eru .. — M imoki . i . aNKOds . York . N « iwciiij ., & Iturwtck . 183 AiMtr / ilt . m Agricultural . it — York and North Midland 18 | Canada .. . ; .. — DitvKH . Uttupral 8 t » ani .. .. — . E *» t and West India .. — Penius . * Oriental SUain 60 ] London — Rayml Mail titevm . * . - _ St . Katharine .. .. — 0 outb Australian \
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1851, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1892/page/21/
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