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¦^•' ' : ¦*' ¦ "''> E THE LAST CARD-^ Wj& } ; find fftat Mr . Disraeli has addressed the fbttowin ^ letter to some insane provincial eoiifederafti ^ which , appears to be called the Blackburp Trotestant Association . It con-&ms the % ints we have recently given of Tory policy for next session . - v " " Hughenden Manor , Sept . 11 . " Sir , —1 hare the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 7 thinst ., communicating to me the thanks of the Blackburn Protestant
Association , for certain observations made by me at the close of the late session of Parliament , "with respect to the present anomalous condition of the constitution of these realms , and the great dangers which may consequently ensue to the rights of all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects , "both Protestant and Boman Catholic . "I beg you to offer the Association my thanks for tids mark of their approbation , which I value . Public men , in this country , depend upon public confidence . Without that they are nothing .
" Far from wishing to make the settlement of this all-important question a means of obtaining power , I would observe that I mentioned at the sume time , in my place , the various and eminent qualifications ¦ which I thought Lord John Russell possessed for the office , and my hope that he would feel it Ms duty to undertake it . " In that case I should extend to him the same support which I did at the time of the Papal aggression , when he attempted to grapple with a great evil 5 though he was defeated in bis purpose by the intrigues of the Jesuit party , whose policy was on that occasion upheld in Parliament with eminent ability and unhappy success by Lord Aberdeen , Sir James Graham , and Mr . Gladstone .
" I still retain the hope that Lord John Russell will seize the opportunity , which he unfortunately lost in 185 ] , and deal with the relations in all their bearings of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects to our Protestant constitution . But , however this may be , there can be no doubt that , sooner or later ,. the work must be done , with gravity , I trust , and with as little heat as possible in so great a controversy , but with earnestness and without equivocation ; for the con . "tinuance , of the present state of affairs must lead inevitably to civil discord , and perhaps , to national disaster .
" Believe me , Sir , your very faithful servant , " B . Diseaeli . " The Rev . Christopher Robinson , " Mr , Disraeli means one of several things * J 5 y placing Lord John Russell in the Durham-letter dilemma , and in invidious contrast with the ¦ " Jesuit party , " Mr . Disraeli may merely mean temporary inconvenience to the Coalition . Every other trick having failed , this . may answer .
He may mean to propose a permanent policy for the Tory party , which was created by its sympathies with a Catholic dynasty , and to oppose the liberalism of the age on the only ground on which he would be sure of the enthusiasm of the bigoted , the ignorant , and the wicked . Or he may mean genuine statesmanshipto advocate civil and religious liberty , and , as the champion of an insulted minority , to crush Spoonerism for ever by defining that the Roman Catholic is a citizen on perfect equality with Protestants under free institutions .
In either of the two first cases Mr . Disraeli would ixiean a political infamy ; and , in the latter case , a political blunder . In the one case he . would he appealing to sectarian passions at a moment when we are in alliance with Catholics to defend Mahommedans ; and in the other case , he would bo inappropriately and prematurely a Labored . This is , in any case , the last card of Tory policy—a Protestant cry in a European convulsion . It is somewhat degrading to Mr .
Diaraoli , as indicating tho decay of his intellect and tho deadening of Ins conscience , that na ho completes hia half century ho should bo filching his statesmanship from a school which was founded by Titus Oatoa and ia adorned by Dr . Cumming ; and it must bo a mortification to the Torf party that ita Christianity ia put in political charge of a Bebrovr-Anglian who ib grateful to Judaa for the caress which scoured tho comfort of salvation to a race of flat-nosed Franks .
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There is no learned man . but will confess hte bath mucij profited by reading controversies , hia senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it toe profitable for him to read , -why should it not , at least , be tolerable for bis adversary to write . —Miirow
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BABEL . ( From a various Correspondence . } — Here is the paragraph . of the "week : it is an advertisement : " The Weekly Dispatch , of Sunday next , October the 8 th , will contain full and authentic particulars of the glorious victory by the Allies over the Russians at Alma ; the retreat of the enemy , triumphant capture of Sebastopol , and surrender of the Russians , garrison and fleet ; with the official despatches and latest details at the moment of Publication- Orders maybe given for the Dispatch to all Newspaper Agents in Toim and Country ; and at the Office , 139 , Fleet-street , London , " What a comfort that the Dispatch will tell us all about the capture of Sebastopol—though it does not seem to have been captured . Ought not the deluded Dispatch to bring an action against the leading journal and the following gobe-mouches ?
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— Czardom is destroyed : Donald Kicoll appeals to the electors of Fronie : the events are coincident ; and both must be noticed . As Democrats , we are bound to give nine times nine ( if the number is not offensive ) that a tailor ventures to intrude into the Venetian constitution . D . N . is a liberal : professionally is for measures , not men . It will be a curious question in a count out , Mr . Uicoll being a member in the 40 , whether he should count as 1 or l-9 th . What can be his object in going into Parliament ? Has he any design against Mr . Dunconibe ? Observe that he is in favour of an extension of the franchise . Of course he is for an improvement of the 403 . freehold : —six for 40 s . is the price .
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— The Guardian demands that there be a new Cabinet Minister , -who shall be Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs . Would Sir Robert Inglis do ? Or Mr . Lucas ? W . J . Fox ? H . Drummond ? A healthy Atheist would be the only" impartial man in a Christian country of more creeds than counties .
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— Mr . C . Dickens has made an appeal to " -working men . " He suggests a domiciliary revolution—and anybody , says Mr . Dickens , who does not see that everything is a hobby except house-reform . — ¦ which Mr . Dickens does not regard as a hobby at all—is guilty of wholesale murder . The world of Europe ia ringing with " war : " next session is looked forward to as the period when tho British Parliament will prove what craving it has for human freedom : and Mr . Dickens , as cholera diminishes , seizes the occasion to tell working men that Parliament is a
lunacy—that the British constitution is a farce—and that next session must bo coerced into devoting itself to house-reform . Mr . Dickens is philosophically vague ; ho does not in the least tell tlio working men how to set about the domiciliary revolution : so that tho amiable moral is that tho working classes ought to raze the big towns . Octavius Augustus left bricked Komo of marble ; Mr . Dickens would have it said that he found London of sties , and ho loft at—of nothing . How is it ho fails to roixmrk that tho " People ' s House" does not look after the people because it contains no people ' s representation ?
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— Surely it will be possible before long to introduce some improvement into the method of collecting , conveying , and developing intelligence from the East , or any other place where a part of our own life and death is going forward . As we have had it noWj it is as if the journals—the principal journal conspicuous above others—were engaged in deliberately making a fool of the British public . We have the end of the intelligence first , the commencement comes lagging long after the end , and the two are unintelligible until we get the middle . These deficiencies are inherent in the fact that we have several modes of transit , some rapid and some slow . The journals , however , do not assist us in our difficulty ; but to make the most of a moment ' s excitement , they amplify the fragmentary news of startling events
affect to give them a positive value which they do not possess , and make us believe that which ia false , imperfect , or misconceived . We have scarcely sounded the guns for a victory before we are told to doubt it . Yet with all this haste and puffing , the journals are positively slow . Government has been blamed for not honestly serving the public , but we ask what lias < private enterprise" done ? Which editor was it which first gave us the authentic news of the Alma ? It was the editor of the War Department — the Duke of Newcastle . A large amount of this studious mystification is permitted by the desire to seem to know where there is no knowledge- Attack somebody , and you will be thought wise . If there is nobody else to kick , why Government , or Admiral Dundas , or Admiral Napier , can be the cockshy of the moment .
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— There is a dealer in town with a Titian . He bought it at Christie and Manson ' s for fifteen pounds ( nobody suspected it to be more than a queer copy of the Naples Venus ) , and he says he will now not take less than 20 , 000 / . You know the Holbein the National Gallery got : entreat the Government not to grant 20 , 000 / . for this Titian .
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— The people must be educated , says everybody ; a man now-a-days cannot get on without education . Getting on in England means making money—of course all ignorant men ought to be poor . A fact against a theory any day . The best public dining-room in London is brilliantly lighted—the tables groan with gold and silver plate , flowers , the richest food , and the rarest wines ; there is a fine military band , a corps of crack singers ; the apartment is filled by three hundred moat substantial-looking gentlemen , cf all ranks , from privy councillors to common councilmen . It ia a festival : trumpets sound , the band plays a triumphal air ; men with staves usher in two dignitaries , gorgeous in cut velvet , satin , lace and gold chains ; who are followed by a tribe of lacqueys , whoso resplendent liveries must cost more than tho
new uniforms of our hussars . The pcrsonnges assume two chairs of state ; at the elbow of cncli stands a clergyman of tho Church in Ids canonical dress , backed by the lacqueys . They say grace , nnd are then permitted to take seats at a distance from tho great men ; and when the dinner is over they rush back to their posts behind the chairs of state to return thanks . JTor whom is all this ceremonial ? Who are these personages ? Tho Sheriffs of London and Middlesex 1 Aright honourable judicial functionary saya they are pillui's of tho State , bulwarks of two institutions of commercial England , the Corn Exchange , and the Stock Exchange . Good I Thoy have achieved greatness ! I respect them . They huvo to make speeches , and before they utter ten words , I remember that education ia tho question of the day I but I find thnt looking ait tho scene before me , I am inclined not to educate my children .
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— J union ia to open her Majesty ' s Theatre for promenado concerts this winter . Wo may imagine tho the " Sebaatopol Quadrille , " nnd the " March of tho Allies . " with all tho effects . Wo ¦ welcome M . Jullien with nil sincority . May his big drum ' s Buudow never bo less 1
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the old system , which confessedly loses 65 out of 100 . " It is true that the medical council found more than three-fourths of the cases killed not saved ; but what is the authority of the council to that of the Times on a medical subject ? The " old system confessedly loses 65 out of 100 , " it is said ; but we have a difficulty in realising an idea of the confession , for this reason—we do not know what is the " old system . " There is no antiquated treatment of the chol era , and no " system" at all . However , the 2 Ymes fcnowa all about it , and has perhaps received exclusive
intelligence from the authorities that dispense cholera . At all events this fact is clear : if any man is taken with cholera , he should send for the editor of the Times . If that exalted individual should refer him to Mr Dobie , as the Times appears to do when troubled with embarrassing applications , the patient must plead the usage of the profession to which the editor belongs , and inBist that the medical man must come ¦ whe n he is summoned . Castor oil no doubt is kept at the office of the journal ready packed in doses ; it must be good and cheap at that shop .
•— If any man feels choleraic symptoms , let him put hia trust in tho castor-oil treatment . Tliat ia tho only safe , sound , nnd rational proscription , There are , indeed , opinions the other way . CortiUn medical journals have thought it their businosa to indulge in " remarks" as to tho course pursued by the Times in reference to tho treatment of cholera by caistor oil ; but tho Times anawers these professional writers with the full force of its " surprise . " It is " surprised" at ita critics . Tho medical council under the Board of Health mado a systematic inquiry , and found that out of 89 cases there were 68 deaths under tlio cuetoroll treatment . But what of that ? Tho Times etill pronounces it " rational and simple , " and tho journal has statistics of its own . " For , " declares tho Times , " a modo of treatment which savea three-fourths of tho pdtionta to whom it ia applied , and is fur preferable to
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page 948, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2059/page/12/
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