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mother , let « e itay Uiafc ! from tke moment Sir Dbttrtea Napiar receseod Mb appointment , he Ins H » t only oaiir > b * srt ^ withes , fbufc oinriinstinted trust . fife flashing 4 xut aealoit * characteristics ^ aa a aea-33 B& ; ao one Juub ; eyer doiibted , and in such a pa ^ w ^ ff ^ - < Q ) a ; nation makes * the man . J 3 ut , ait ^ eroiits ^ our constant principle is this ^— and it m&Wiud&ram ather affairs aa well as the present : t
^ befiaxe ^ e Appointment , to criticise the aeleclacmrv and after ike appointment , to judge by tkie actsv C 3 to ; iiootker oottditions can . a nation be ^ nellt aerroiL . It is scarcely possible that Sir £ thazles : N * piear can lail to mate full use of kis luaqparaUeled opportnnity . In passing from the la&pitalttie&of tra Reform Club to the hospitalities of jtihe Qzax , > me hare no doubt that he will do a& ^ mpilB justice to * the one as to the other .
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,.. ,- WEJTESXDWS MOBTMAIff . iy ^ j ^ BXrssEDS has announced his intention of fringing forward a bill seciiring to persons under d ^ osalfof ^ th ^ ir property . This isihe second appeal ^ ta the credulous Pioteetantism of thi * countxy Ifltick hag Ibeen allowed to obstruct the business of ^ the ; session . We suppose tha ^ &e e * ril j » ealljf exists , but if so , how is it that it hae remained must be had
4 in $ i ! now Tipjpedt ? e » 8 edf . TTkc ^ -case in--cfeed isinee it is necessary $ & dijicuas it , * t a time wkenthfi « xistenc ©^ f ^ mikey 1 thepeafceol Europe , and the rescue of public law irom thA outrage of Russia , are , tjb jebuaine £ a in hand . ,, . :: St ^ asfonaskizi ^ kowclong a name will survive Ifeejid ^ ea wk ^ ebi it was orjgfwaTWtaken ; to Eepraeepfo The name o ^ Protestant was Arat eH ^ layed to designate a claa ^ of re ^ giQniat » diflting * ahed by theb an&Mthy to 4 he doctrines of ^ Catholicisni . But its hold
ke kas—for we have yet to prove ike alienationgreat abuses may exist , and special instances of wrong stay occur ; but we think that , even on suck a presumption , Mr . Whiteside's bill proceeds on an erroneous principle . He proposes to restrain people mnder religious vows in the free exercise of their lights , in the free disposition of their property . That might be done if Parliament chose to revive restrictive and coercive measures against Romanism . That principle kas been carried to
great lengths , in Mr . Whitesides own country , without any healthy result . The chief aUegaiionm support of any such measure is , that the will becomes diseased under an unhealthy influence . Be it so : but you cannot make the will , any more than the body , kealthy by statute-at-law . The grand object is to introduce healthier influences ; and for that purpose there is nothing like the utmost freedom of thought , opinion , and discussion . That is the bracing atmosphere 4 that is the constitutional treatment for the chronic weakness which Mr . Whites ide proposes to prop up by a Bill , as though you could enact the cure of molities ossium !
€ * a £ &ojici 8 & has loagc « tt ^ ed . ^ J ? etani ngpn ^ &bul& ^^ : l ^ j » op 4 ^ atiQai ln tihis country . For several years , indeed , to '' protest ' meant to sniib and persecute the Romair Catholic afler the most approved ? fashion , to kee < p him from the enjoyment olickal rj ^ lriai ^ tctrefUsetQibelieve ; kis word on oath , and * e > regard kun as ; ^ natural , enemy . Happily those dajjsr are passed fjway * and Protestantism , ^ vin 4 |? no ; real ^ to the inirentioif <^ absurdities on wkic ) i to- expend its SurjfhiU * ofxeljigiQus * ze > L It is impossible to deny to ^^ oman <^ a 1 ^ oUCiJ ( entIeman we p rivilege s of 4 tke
luft . rank ^ % is wealth , , and kis position ; but it is etiUi ttk ^ qgikfe ^ possifble x > rouse British , public iy tellmg- ^ ena that a convent » another name for ^ a , kovto&v ^ U ^ rep ^ ite ,, -that Eoaaan Catholic iathere :, ^ Ljw . thefe . daughters to be immured ^ tgpnst theac w& , jand to $ > e subjected to atrocious aU « usage . giving no longer a Guy Fawkes fox a bugaboo , a lister of Charity is taken up instead . Sensible Englishmen may laugh , but it is well knowfethat thousands of men and women in this country believe , in the most scandalous stories
* Mkose truth has never been established . Let our readers visit tke social circles of any provincial town in the kingdom , from tke largest city to the humblest village , and we venture to say that they will not remain there for a month without coming across some astonishing instances of credulity . They will find sentimental young ladies , and Tories of the school of Eldon , who believe that every family contains a Jesuit spy , who look with a kind of horrible suspicion on every new face that comes incto tke house , dread tke Irish cook as a tool of
Same ,, and live in constant dread of the exercise of magic as to bring about their conversion to fcoyola . Upon Buch groundless fears Mr . Whitegide hopes to work * He will appeal to parents , guardians , and expectant heirs , and boldly tell them thai ; , unless the Legislature interferes , their sons and daughters who have taken the vows have lost their free agency . Now Englishmen are not such ' fools , even when they pass the * sublimeof Puseyisms into " the next step . There is one thing wanted to Mr . Whiteside ' s movements , and that is the case to render it necessary . There is not the slightest proof that
persons under religious vows are under any kind of deforcement in the exercise of the rights of property . If they are under any coercion , it is of a different sort , which cannot be reached by law . " Volenti nan Jit injuriaj' and it does not appear that any wrong is endured by the objects of Mr . Whiteside ' s compassion . They take the vow , and do not shrink from the obligations which it involves . Relations and friends naturally prefer that the money should come to them , rather than to a Church which they dislike—but what of that , so long as the real owner of the property has voluntarily surrendered his right of disposal ? Ii
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THE . MASTER OF BAUJOL . Not even extreme divergence of opinion has prevented this journal giving honour where honour was due . Not ^ ven essential agreement ia doctrine and purpose has prevailed over our settee of tke prudent , the generous , and tke just . It belongs only to tke . malignant and ike base to make pa&fy ike sole test ; of merit , and political adhesion tke only title to respect . When we honoured the grave of Wellington we expected and w& welcomed tke revilings of that class of democrats
whose democracy , according to M . Eroudhon r is the synonym of envyr that is , the envy of all superiority . It may be , when we offer our humble testimony to the virtues of a Dean , and to tke labour * of an Oxford 'Head , ' we shall excite the shallow surprise of liberals who . when a hexo died raked Up the stale garbage of ' radical' abuse * and we shall risk ike cheap reproach of inconsistency from those whose political wisdom ia a consistency of spite . The Master of Balliol was an English worthy of the old school , of a type becoming rapidly effaced , and therefore all the more worthy of
affectionate remembrance . He was , probably , as near an approach to the pure Tory as can be found between sanity and Sibthorp . At least , he was something more old-fashioned than a' Liberal Conservative . ' No doubt ke was a firm upholder of the Church in . all its ' integrity , ' and we are not quite sure that he would have accepted with equanimity too logical a refutation of the right divine of kings . He was wont to shake his head with benignant wonder at ^ the new-fangled notions of these latter days , the mediaeval Puseyisms , the self-tormenting neo-Flatonignas , with all their incoherent absurdities and rebellious insincerities .
He Used to s&t , 'I like to h&we scJuiata , butj [ will have gentlemen . ' And . all who knew kua can testify to the largfeand liberal « ense in which he interpreted that much abused distinction . H 3 meant' gentlemen' in spirit and in feeling . Wq believe this honest vow waa answered . Fron » Balliol portals have come out ministers and legislators destined to fierce ooiabats in the € ommca % priests and heretics devoted to deadly dtruggtas
of faith and controversy , journalists at either pole of opinion ; but all % we trust , ' gentlemen . ' la training up a generation to suck a standard aurejy the good Master did tke State some aervice . Gazing once more through the haze of memory alasl go . that venerable 4 nd placid barow * joael lowed and never saddened by tbe decliaing iigki of a tranquil and beloved old age ; listening once more to the familiar tones of that voice with
all its suavity of endearing remonstrance \ and grave encouragement , we crave forgiveness if fox a moment we have abandoned to respetctfuL emotions the space that was dua to -sterner thoughts and harsher words *
Amidst younger spirits , for ever halting between faith -without conviction , and scepticism without philosophy , between idolatry of the past , impatience of the present , and fear of the future , he held a calm and steady sway of discipline and duty . If ke had prejudices , they were the prejudices of early habit , and of a sincere attachment to established institutions , which from his youth up he had been taught to revere . He stood upon the ancient ways , but , as incapable of intolerance as of ostentation , he ever made them ways of pleasantness to the ardent seeker of untrodden paths . And thus he was a working Reformer before Reform was
even menaced by Royal Commissions , or cheated by Tutors' Associations . Years ag ^ o lie had made Balliol a model college for intellectual emulation , for a high tone of feeling , and a conscientious discipline . Ever since class lists and honours hare been instituted , Balliol has borne the palm both in the number and the quality of candidates . Even that desultory class of students , who seem suspended half-way between the class men and the ' fast moo , ' more cultivated than the former , and almost as unmanageable as the latter , who come up from Eton or from Harrow to Oxford better scholars
than they leave it , —even they breathed keenly the air , while they disdained the course , of study . At any other college these frondeurs , instead of silently and stealthily forging arms for future conflicts against the abuses of their Alma iNoverca , might iiavo sunk into a nerveless indifference , and learned nothing but thut ignorance , of life for which Universities axe distinguished . liu there was one characteristic of the lam en . tad Master which deserves to be a tradition of Balliol .
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THE AMERICAN CONSIXL IN LONDON Ik the view of approaching events , it is desirable that those wko Save at heart the good cause of human ^ progress in civilisation , which can only taka place where free play is given to human faculties , should remain united . And it is parti * esktaely so , at a time when great exertions will be necessary to meet tke desperate attempts of tke Ab « olutJsta at retailing their position . There are , too . hold * two . great object *' which the friends
of papular freedomshould keep in view—the one to lose no opportunity of paasifele action ; and the otiher * , which is tke necessary preparative for . useful action * to keep a strong hoU . over tke party , in order that there maybe hq premature exposure . For this purpose it is . necessary , not only to keep all the iiaembera of tke ; party in good understanding with each other , but also at once to moderate and to sustain rational hope . For such services n&en who ure sincere aad earnest in
their feelings ; can iH be spared . « w It is under tke circuDastaaceft of tlie time that me have kad occasion to note , tke qualities of Mr . Gf . W . Sanders , tke CoBsul-General of the United States in thi » metropolis . Mr , Sanders is well known in Ids own country as . a member of tke party called Young America , wkose influence extends even beyond its recognised members . Ha was for a tinae the editor of the Democratici i £ evtew—a publication of great ability , in which his own capacity had opportunity to develope itself ^ and on more than one opportunity he has showit the endowments which fit him for the double field
of commerce and politics . His wishes , kis studies , and -his labours , have been bestowed tOfurther , by favour of commerce , the cordial relationship of kis countrymen with England . It is impossible tkat a man of suck a stamp can well be spared from any post where he may be placed to further the popular cause . We should , therefore , ukore willingly have seen Mr ~ Sanders confirmed ia kis post of Consul-Greneral by the Senate of the United States . The refusal of the Senate to grant that confirmation i » an injury to more than the one man .
It is not for us , indeed , to criticise the selections of the Government at Washington * whether w& regard the acts of the President * or the acts of tbe Senate . We have not before us the data upon which the senators founded their judgment , and we should feel great deference in making even ail observation upon the question as one of internal selection by the Government , amongst its owtt
citizens . We abstain , therefore , from noticing the particular reasons which have been assigned for his rejection ; but we can only say that i » London the decision of the Senate has been received with regret , and that the representatives- of the popular party in many countries ., with whont the American citizens might be supposed closely to sympathise , keenly paa * take that regret .
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THE LANCASHIRE STRIKES AND LOCK-OUT . V . THE MASTEK . t ( Define your terms ' has been the sensible monition of both an English philosopher and a French diplomatist 5 they knew how far a perfect comprehension of words is necessary to truth . The use of the word Master , in the place of
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230 THE LEADER . Sat ^ s ^ u * ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 11, 1854, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2029/page/14/
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