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in different parts of tins country , in order thereby to strengthen and encourage each other . " We arc a little flock , and belong to a small nation , but ¦ we rejoice that from this nation have risen great men and benefactors to humanity . We are a little flock , but we rely on His word who has said : ' Fear not , little flock , it is your Father ' s good will to g ive you the kingdom . ' ' It wall be ours , if we believe in Him , follow Him , and obey His injunction , ' If thou lovest me , feed my lambs . ' " There are times and circumstances which call upon us to follow the divine prescription , ' Let your light so shine before men that they may se . e your good works , and glorify yow * Fatlier who is in Heaven . ' We obey ! his to-day . The not less divine , ' Take heed that yon do not your alms before men , to l ) e seen of them , ' we would take for our rule during our daily exertions for 1 he good of the whole .
" Sisters , who acknowledge the same Lord , let us unite in His name ; let us call forth' every good gift and healing power He has given us ; call them forth prayerfully , diligently to do His work more fervently than ever before . As far as the sun sends his rays and the free winds blow over earth may our peaceful messages fly like doves from Jan d to land , from city to city ^ undisturbed by the bitterness of strife , so ; that the world may know that the God . of Peace and Love is more powerful than the spirit of war , and that He calls tis to be His servants . " Each separately we are weak , and can do very little ; but if , in the name pf Christ , we unite our hands all . around the earth and take it . in pitr arms as a child , we may pray and hope that He will allow-us at the en-J of time to come before our Heavenly . Father , saying-r- ' Here we are with the children Tho \ ihast given us , '
" We close here with the desire and entreaty that the female societies of foreign lands who wish to reach us the hand of fellowship woiild , before , the end of this year , let us khpw Ttj by sending letters ( post-free ) to the Ladies ' Association at Stockholm for the'Care of Children , addressed to the Lady Superintendent , " Fbedkika Bremer . " Stockholm , Midsummer-day , 1854 . "
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AUSTRIAN PERSECUTION Great fears are entertained lest the influence of Austria should lead rthe Turks to persecute the Hungarian , Polish , and German exiles in Bulgaria and Wallachia with injustice . According to the correspondentL , qf the -Daily News , it lias already done so . "Writing- from Giurgevo , he mentions two cases : — " A few weeks ago two unfortunate Hungarians of Transylvania , who had quarrelled with the authorities , who had been long held suspect , and been groaning under tile surveillance of tire police , or had newly and gravely compromised themselves , I know not which , taking advantage of the retreat of the Russians from Little WaUachia , escaped . across the frontier , and passed into Turkey . They presented themselves to the Pacha of Widdin , and asked for service in
the Turkish army . He told them he had no power to do so , but would send them on to Omer Pacha , who perhaps would do something for thorn > . He accordingly despatched them at his own expense , by Government horses , and under care of a Zaptie . The poor fellows were delighted by these attentions , and arrived at Shumlain high spirits , where they were immediately arrested and thrown into prison ; and a few days afterwards were sent to head-quarters to Rustchuk , tied in a cart , and in custody of a guard of soldiers . On their arrival they were handed over to the Austrian consul as runaway traitors . For the truth of all this I do not vouch ; 1 give you the story as it is current here , " There has been a gentleman named Haug for some time pn 3 t a . t head-quarters , as correspondent of a London morning journal . He is an Austrian by birth , and took a
loading part in the political events at Vienna , in 18-1 S , since which time he has been an exile . He has made himself in the interval an American citizen , and carries un American passport . H « is a man of considerable scientific attainments , and was recently appointed the head of the exploring expedition which is about to bo sent into the interior of Australia . He has been pursuing his occupations now for some months in this country , peaceably and without molestation , as he c » me to Omer Pacha backed up by letters of introduction from the _ best possible quarters . Yesterday Obor Pacha sent for him , and in the politest irianner possible requested him to absent himself from hend-quartom , or in other words to go away from the sqeno of opera ! ions altogether , inasmuch as the Austrian authorities had protested against his presence here , and requested hia removal . "
The gentleman hero mentioned is evidently General Ernest Haug ; and , it will be for the «? morning journal" mentioned in the extract to look after and support its correspondent . At tlie same time it must no observed that these are hearsay reports ; but too likely , unfortunately , to bo true .
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A NIGHT OF MISTAKES . The Siecte tells the following truly Parisian , if not true , story , which we will not spoil by translation : — " Uneaventivro fort burlesque , due h . une simple me ' prise , est arrivde l ava . nt-dernicre nuit dans un hotel garni de la , rue de Grenolle-Saint-Honord . M . L , nouvollement marie " , avait amenC sa jeuno femme b . Paris pour voir les curiosite ' s do la grandc villc . L , es deux « Spoux rentrercnt vers minuit dans four cbambre , situ < 5 e au troisieme e * tngo . Le mnri forma In porte en dedans , ot quolqucs instans aprcs le plus grand silenco tdgnnit dans rappartement . Lo lendeiniiiu , de bonne houre , M . \ , —— , encore dans un etiit do somnolence , so disposnit a rcvciller sa feinmo ; mais qugl no i ' nt pas son efl ' roi de trouvor couched a Semite ' s , nv \ lion d ' uno
personno frnlche ct jolio , \\ w vieillo ridtfo efc d < Sardpito qui lo rogJirdnit avco dan yeux dont lu fixitd dceeiait lu ( stupefaction . A cutto vmq , il suutti hora du lit , se croynnt en proio a quclqup hallucination . " Pendant qu'il etait lrioccupo i \ so domandor co quosip ; - ntfxnife _ cetto ot range mdtumornhose , il fut tire" do tsa sturi < 5 fJigtion par ( uniques coups fHippo ' s doucement b . In porte . 11 silla ouvrir ; nouvollo surprise . La personne qui ontni ctait un vieillnrd votu d'habits quo M . ' JL ,.. rt'cormutpour Ctro los siens prapres . Quant au nouvonu vonu , locitfairo do l ' lippartcnn'nt-, en voynnt cv jeuno liommo dans lo plus tiunple appnreil ct fruppd surtout do son nir U'dbuliissomoiit , il no put n \ 'inpGcher da souriro . Mais l'uvonturo touchnit a son terme . Lovicillard raconta qu ' o " tant sorli pondunt la nuit on mOmo temps quo lui ut pour les iiiOuioh bosiiins
, il iivnit , par distraction , montd on sortunt d « a Houx un tftngo do trop . * ' Do son cot £ , lo jomio hommo sc rnppclu qn'il cvsiit . cn I'lli't tnmvt 1 la portu ferinuo ; main quo , croynnt eoimnettfo uiui 1 'i-rmir ot nu pouvtuitH'oriontor diiim 1 ' obaouritd il avait pi'is lu pftvli de ( U'ocoudru l ' wboallcr niin du ponvolr , en lo remontant , cuinptor k-s etiigcs ; main nw lo palu-r ou il «! tiilt doHCOiidii , ayiuit trouvo i'iUr ' ouv « rt « una porto corruspondnnto k cello ( lo sii chmndrc , il avail ; niiturullomont pciis > d rontror oliex lui . Lo viuillnrd u ' oxensa la mUmx qu'il mil , d ' uno imfpritto qu ' il ddplorait ainfenununt , Nurtout pour lu j « iine fvimnu qu'il uvnil . laisatJo dans In plus grnndo « ffllction . 11 ho cl < 5 pouilla , sdjinco ttinantc , < lc » vflteinoua dont il jt '< Stiiit nfl ' ubld ct on lit In rcHtitution au Wgitimo propiidtairc . l . o jouno hoiiiinu o'linbillu a la liftto , ct retounm un |) rea dc an fotruno , qui ao Ininontnit conuno uno IMiidoloino . "
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CORNET BROWN AT A BALL . A good deal has lately been said about behaving as " an officer and a gentleman , " and home service , under the promotion by purchase system , does not seem conducive to that sort of behaviour which at least befits a gentleman . Now , here is another instance , not of barrack life ; but of ball-room life , in which the officer and gentleman does not shine . The officer was Comet Brown , of the 4 th Dragoons , an infantine gentleman of two-and-twenty . There was a ball at Brighton lately , and Mr . Charles Brown bethought him that he should do well to be there . But he could not find in his heart to go like a gentleman , so he went like one of those persons who are denounced by Father Mathew and Mr . John Gough —he went drunk . His first act was to insist on entering through the ladies' cloak-room , where he bullied the waiting woman—a highly gentlemanly proceeding . What he next did we are not informed , but when Mr . George White , chief officer of polipe , opportunely entered on the scene , he found Mr . Charles Brown " kickingup a row , " as Bombastes would say . Mr . White requested Mr . Brown riot to use improper language ; the unruly member of Mr . Brown resisted ; Mr . White gently tiled to lead him offi " Immediately , " says Mr . White , sententiously , " he struck me a -violent blow-, which . I returned by knocking him down . " ' -Brownj still violent , had to be knocked down . ^ again , and probably \ vpuld have been knocked down iio end of times had not two
other " officers and gentlemen" sallied frontthe ballropni and protected their friend . White , however , called in assistance * arid carried ofT the young man The next morriing he came before the magistrates ; White 'wbuld not be vindictive ^ which was very proper ^ especially as he had the best , of the engagement , an : d . the cornet was let off with a fine of 5 / . — a lesson mileh more . effective plus the knocking down , than it would have been without , the knocking downi In future Mr . Brown , who seems a gallant youth s will no doubt behave "like an officer and a gentieman . "
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Another officer and gentleman has distinguished himself in an analogous military style ^ and has been fined 51 . by the Rochester magistrates . The ' .. offender , in this . instance , is Ensign Sironer , of the Royal En-, gineers ; and l \ is offence is that he amused himself one evening in beating a . / woman who was walking on a road near Chatham . The , woman was of a light character ; she and the ensign had some con ^ versation , and ' -quarrelledy she threw stones , he beat her with his fist . Why only 57 . ?
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CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS BY EAILWAY . The Constitutionnel contains the following on the conveyance of troops by railway : — " Tlie movements of troops which have taken-place within the last few months for the despatch of an army to th-c East and to the Bahic , us well as for the formation of the camps in the north and south of Franco , have thrown a new light on a very important question , viz ., the use of railroads for military purposes . More tlnia 40 , 000 men arriving from different stations liAve been conveyed by tho Northern Bailway alone in less than five weeks , exceeding by more than 2000 daily their usual number of passengers , without interfering in any way with the hours of service , even on Sundays , when the number of trains is greatly increased . Ifc is interesting to watch tlie movements of the troops entering a railway . Everything tukes place according to orders from tho
War Department . 1 ho detachment is formed into column and divided by the Adjutant , without distinction of companies , into fractions corresponding with tho size of the carriages . Each fraction thus formed is led by an officer , who subdivided it according to the number of carriages . Tho first two men , on entering , place their knapsacks under their scats tho second takes tho knapstick of tho man coming immediately after and stows it uway ; the rest follow in the same order , so that no man enters the carriage until his lcn « psacl < is in its proper plucc . All this is done with tho greatest order and celerity . If tlio first battalion took 40 minutes tc be seated , another executed tho pamo manoeuvre in 20 , and 12 were sufficient for a third , which was more familiar wifcl tho regulations . "We have , therefore , a proof tliatnn ontin battalion , by adopting the necessary precautions , can take its place in the train in loss t linn u quarter of an hour , li order to understand the matdriel employed , wo can stnt ( that an infantry soldier , with his atms and knnpsaclc , weight from 80 to !) 0 kllograinmcH ; Mio carriages on tlio Northon lino contain 1 ) 8 plncesand those on tho Lyons lfallway f > 0 ¦ ¦ i ¦ ¦* r i vr ¦
, , .. p . w « v ^ r . ^ vv ^ HBm ~ 'J ^ C ¦< qi w . . w V — ^ ^** ¦ . * q ^ . ^ ¦ . w . ^^ v ^ ^ v . ** ^ ¥ — ' V '" I . ^***>* *~** ^ J * v < buttlicy only allow 85 men for the former and < li > for tl » i hitter , in order to loavo room fur tho knapsacks , wliloh ooulJ not ; bo placed under tho scuts . Each train carries 7 ^ 50 to 800 men , besides two waggons for tho convoy / moo of tho Holil-cfficer ' s horso and tho bupKiigo . Tlio removal of cjivulry presents greater diflieuliio » Tho inon nro jilaood an Iho pasReiigcr and ( he hoi-Hoa in tho goods trulns , six or ui ^ ht in ouch WHRgon . SiiimdrouH ( if lioiivy cavalry havo tiikon , mouio nn hour and a nimrtor , others M , la , and even-iO iniuutr .-i boforo starting . Half an hour U goncndlv iillowo . l lor oach snviudron . Tho nver / igo nituibor coiivoycl by ctwh tniiii is 125 men , with tho muuo nmiiboi- of Ihuwm . 1 ' nvka of urUlh-ry httvo rIho boon carried by rail , tlio liorm-a bciutf pUcud In Urn cnltlu train , and tlio ciinnc . n mi . hI cutrnms on iil . il onus . 1 wo traiiiMCan Jonviy » park of iirlilli-ry of nix « unH . tlio ««««<»/« , and forgo , with 'iiO m «« n « nd their lioraoH . It ro ( lulri'H botwoon two and tliroo hourw toloiid them , yvInch m pcrfonncil by tli < i arlillorymou ( liouiflidvu « with thoir usual nlcill and proiri | il . ltudi ' . "
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THE SANATORY MOVEMENT AT VAENA . The " special" correspondent of the Times , to whose happy descriptive faculty we are so often indebted for glimpses at the realities of the war , writes thus from Varna : — " At present the cholera has assumed a phase which baffles our best efforts , and throws all our past data to the winds . ' It sometimes is quite painless , there is often little or ro purging , but the sufferer is seized with violent spasms in the stomach , which increase in intensity till collapse is established , and death then rapidly follows , attended with but little exhibition of agony . The conduct of many of the men , French and English , seems characterised by a recklessness which verges ou insanity . You find them lying drunk in the kennels , or in the ditches by the road-sides , under the
blazing rays of tiie sun , covered with swarms of flies . You see them in stupid sobriety gravely paring the rind off cucumbers of portentous dimensions , and eat ing the deadly cylinders one after another , to the numher of six or eight , till there is no room for more—all the while sitting in groups in the fields or on the flags by the shops in the open street , and looking as if they thought they were adopting highly sanitary measures for their health ' s sake ; or frequently three or four of them will make a happy bargain with a Greek for a lare ; e basketful of apricots , ' killjonns , ' scarlet pumpkins , water melons , wooden pears , and green ' gages ' and plums , and then they retire beneath th « . . ' shade of a tree , where they divide anqi eat the luscious food till nought remains but a heap of peel , rind , and stones . They dilute the mass of fruit with raki , or peach brandy , and then straggle home to slee
or go p as best they can * Qjve day I saw a Zouave and a' huge Grenadier staggering up the-street arm in arm , each being literally laden with enormotis , pumpkins and CucurhberSj and in : the intervals of song— -for oiie was shouting out , 'Cheer boys , cheeri in irregular spasms , and ' . the . other was chanting some Ipye ditty of a very lachryriiose character- ^ -they were , feedirig each other yith a cucumber . One took a bite and handed it to his friend , who did the same , and thus they were continuing their ainphibian banquet till the Englishman slipped on a stone and went down iritp the mud , bringing his friend after him ^ piirnpkins , cucumbers , and all . The - Frenchman disengaged himself briskly , but the Grenadier at once composed , himself to sleep , notwithstanding the entreaties of . his companion . After dragging at him , head * legs , arms , and shoulders , the Z ' 'uave found he could make no impression on the inert mass his friend
of , and regarding him in the iiiost tragic mariner possible , he clasped his hands , and exclaimed , ' Tu es la , done , moh ami , mon cher Jeeon ! Eh bien , je me coucherai ayec tot ; ' and calmly fixing a couples of cueurnbersj for a pillow , he lay down , and was soon snoring : in the gutter in unison with his ally . The Turkish soldiers are equally careless of their diet and livings I am looking at about twenty of them , belonging to a battery , under the window of the room in which ! & \ n writing , busily engaged in the consumption of small bulletty-lopking melons . They are at it all day , except when they are sncioking , or ( listen to this !) saying their prayers , for tlui poor fellows are for the most part very regular in their IJevotions , and when they liave finished them they glare and scowl . at-Christian ' s'in a fashion fearful to behold for ten minutes afterwards . There can be no reason for tlie illness of bur men so far as tho commissariat supplies ' % e concerned ; at least , they have at present a very full and ample ration ; in fact , there never yet was an army in the field which ever received anything like it . "
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A COMPREHENSIVE JUBILEE . Tun Ami de la liclhjhn gives a . lottor from Homo announcing that t ) io JPopo is about to proolnim " a univorsiil jubileo" for thofio purposes : —1 st . Toacc among Christian princes ( horo tlio Sultan ia of no account . ) 2 nd , Tho nppoaaoment of tho spirit ; ut sedition and revolt . 3 rd . The cessation of tlio dioloraand « 'famino" ( hig !» prices are mi'iint , no doubt . ) 4 th . Los lumiftroB du Siuut-Eaprit our lu pnno oopfion " ' ^ Bonatiquo do l'Iin . nacul < fo Con-Ti ™ Z » Z \? v ?} y Flltller is to convoke the whole ST '" J ^ 110110 » ' » erarchy to spread through Kuropo at a Bolema conference to discuss , as a " Counci , " tno last point . '
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September 2 , 1854 . ] THE LEAD E R . g
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 2, 1854, page 821, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2054/page/5/
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