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dean pipes an agriculturist ? "Why should not the milkmaid learn the solfeggio before singing to Piscator ? Is there any reason why the ploughboy should not whistle scientifically ? For my part , I can tolerate any scale in agricultural matters but the sliding scale , and am not sorry to see the British farmer affecting those liberal arts , which soften Mb manuers and permit him not to become brutal .
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— One great feature in the war is the way in which it is treated as a dramatic spectacle . On one side , we hare the newspaper correspondents , representing the sight-seers at home -who cannot glut their taste for the horrible with the actual inspection of the slaughter ; on the other , the ladies of Sebastopol setting themselves upon a Grand Stand , as if they were at Ascot or Epsom . By-tlie-by , it was very fortunate for those curious beauties that the Zouaves didn't catch them .
— vy hy should not Government take advantage of this spirit of curiosity , and raise a little money for . the benefit of the widows and orphans . Advertise a battle six weeks beforehand , lay on a line of steamers , erect a Grranl Stand in the rear , and the success of the speculation would be immense- The club men would flock in shoals , and at any rate it would be mucli more exciting than going to Boulogne or the Baltic . Also , why not a " gallery" for the newspaper correspondents .
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We sadly want a theatre of coThmereial morals , where regulaT professors could lecture . Ordinary men cannot get at the principle ' s which regulate the commercial world . There is a popular idea that gentlemen who do not make both ends meet , and who fall into difficulties , are ipso facto scamps , criminals , outcasts , whom nobody ought to trust or consort -with . Strange to say , fact partially agrees with theory . If a young man at the West-end is caught tripping , he suffers severely ; writs and precepts are thrust upon him without mercy ; and if he is poor ,
or unable to find help , he is kicked to ruin without the slightest pity . There is only one hope for him : it is , to launch into his expenses with an air of enterprise , until they swell to a grand scale . There is so much respect for thousands in this country , that people even look up to rnen whose thousands are the wrong way . You may keep your carriage on " two or tliree thousand a year" minus ; and a Judge shall compliment you in an Insolvent court on the open - handedness of your ivays . You may say that that is an anomalous case ; t > ufc go a little further east , and there you will find gentlemen in
difficultiesonly much grander , difficulties , and respected accordingly . Liverpool is at present the magnificent capital of the aristocracy of debt . Listen on Cornlull , and you will hear them talking familiarly of a gentleman who has been drawing upon another house without authority ; and there must bo something of the kind , unless his drafts are repudiated on false pretences . Another grandee in tho samo world , -whose liabilities amounted to 300 , 000 / ., turns out to have laid out 400 , 000 / . wore in bills for the purchase of ships ! Hero is a hint for the fast man at tho West-end ! Yet many dons of the commercial world are labouring to prop up that very fast gentleman at Liverpool ! What is tho recogniBed principlo that rules in these cases ?
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— Kinglake , tho author of Eothen , rode on tho staff of Lord Itaglan at Almn , and shared sill tho perils and honours of that glorious field . Shall wo liuvo a history of tho campaign in tho Crimea from that pen , so chary of its success ? Eothen was a literary evont at home : the history of tho war by such u hand would be monumental . It would bo the Iliad of two continents .
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— ' 'V 1011 tlie bombardment of Scbnstopol begins , there will bo an opportunity of testing how Engliehniiw p cannon can doal with English-planned lbrti-« c « tion 8 . Colouol Upton , tho chief onirineor of tho xorti-ess , haa a history which 3 s mnv rumoimbcred in ^ Northamptonshire , tho county-town of which ho left Hastily during tho assizes , ioiivlng an indictment flffalnet him for forgory unaatistfed , with a count or
two for fraud and embezzlement of the moneys of the trustees of certain roads . What is more natural than that talents of that kind should find advancement in Russia , where peculation thrives to such an extent that Alexander declared his officials would steal his teeth from his mouth if they could do it without his waking ? Accordingly , Mr . Upton became the Czar's chief engineer in the Crimea , and principally made Sebastopol what it is ! It is to be hoped , in order to shorten the siege , that he has served the Emperor something in the same way as he treated the trustees of tie Daventry roads ; because there would then be every chance of there being more " rubble" in Fort Constantine than there was in Bomarsund .
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— Serjeant Adams , of the Middlesex Sessions , 3 iath an active brain , and a more active tongue . He has a good heart and a garrulous stentority , and he is as liberal of his tediousness as a king . His jury periodically listens to his proposal of abolishing it , his bar delig-hts in baiting : him ; and he would abolish that , too , we fancy , and do the pleadings himself . Perhaps there is nothing that he would not abolish , save himself and convict-transportation —which has been abolished . But he won't allow it to be given up . The ticket-of-leave system he is bent on abolishing ,- —not in favour of perpetual imprisonment , but of renewed transportation . Now we have a proposal to make , which must delight
everybody in the Middlesex Sessions-house : As not one of our colonies will have the convictSj and as Serjeant Adams will not let thenn be kept at home , let him be sent on a quest to discover the TFndiseoyerable Land , the Norfolk Island of the Future , in which the . unutterable * abominations of transportation can be renewed . The reward of his service shall be the compliance with , the dream , of his life ^—convictism restored . What strange sound is that approaching the furthest wilds of the aboriginal world—hark !* —ceaseless as the hollow- sea-bubbling on the shingle ? Yes , we know it!— 'tis the voice of Adams—the adopted father of Cains , seeking a home for his children . <
But why seek ? It is a great question what to do with the Crimea ; yet surely none can be so fit to people the Crimea as the children of crime ? Let them be transported thither . Or they might be formed into a corps under General Adams , and sent on a roving commission into Russia , with licence to approriate the Czar , the Cesarovich , all the Czaro-¦ viches , and everything that is theirs . Only , we fear , ¦ Russia itself would imitate Canada , the Cape , and Australia , in rebelling against the authority of England , if it were pushed to that extreme .
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SHEFFIELD AND ME . ROEBUCK . ( To the . Editor of the Leader /) Sheffield , October 11 , 1854 . Sir , —I noticed in tho deader of last Saturday a paragraph from the Spectator , stating that a letter from Mr . Roebuck was sent to be read at a " recent " public meeting held in Sheffield , but that it was kept back for an improper purpose . The paragraph gOea on to state what are tho su-pposed contents of the letter , and calls for its publication . -As the statement is not strictly accurate , and may lead to misapprehension , unless explained , I venture to trouble you with this note .
It is not necessary to inform your venders of the origin and progress of a singular local Whig movement hero . Suffice it to sny that the Whigs and mongrel whams of all descriptions in the town had an object to gain , and they banded themselves together to accomplish it . Various strutagenas were next attempted , and amongst tho rest they assumed tho virtue of making a movement in favour of tho Independence of Poland . By not unskilful nianngcment on tho part of tho Radicals , tho Whiga wore compelled to declare their unqualified adhesion to tho Polish democratic centralisation , of whom tho most notable member is the worthy patriot , Stanislaus Worall , Esq . They then took steps to have a Town's meeting , to petition Parliament in favour of tho Independence of Poland . That mooting took place on Whit Monday , tho 4 th of June last .
Kosauth was . present , and broke his two yourB' silence by speeches which acted like an electric shock upon the country . Before tho meeting was announced , Kossuth hud been properly warned of tlio state of parties , and tho charnctcr of tho parties who wore inviting him . I recollect tho Leadar remarking on tho nbsonco of several wcll-lcnown public chursictoTS from thia meeting . They wore not absent , but were not called upon to talco any part in it . Some time after tho meeting hud tnkqn place , it bogau to bo secretly rumoured that Mr . Roebuck , and our other excellent Radical member , Mr . Iludflold , hud boon invited to attend tholvoHauth meeting , and that both had sent letters declining to attend . Having Whigs to doal with , wo hud no moans of potting at tho truth of these rumours . At our •« recent" public mooting , hold on tho 25 th ult ., to declare norwconttJenco in
the Ministry , mainly on account of the shameful occupation of the Principalities by Austria , in the interest of Russia , according to tie words of Osten-Sacken when he was evacuating them , one of the speakers who opposed the movement , and who took part in the Kossuth meeting on the 4 th of June , said that Mr . Roebuck was not pleased at a letter of his having been suppressed . This was the first public intimation that had been given of the fact , and it was given hy one who acted with the party which suppressed the letter . You will , therefore , see that it rests with the Whigs to publish Mr . Roebuck ' s letter , as well as Mr . Hadfield's , and to explain why they suppressed them . Yours , faithfully , Isaac Ironside .
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CHOLERA , A DISEASE OF FEAR . ( To the Editor of the Xeader . ) Maryport , Sept . 24 , 1854 . Sir , —In an article in your last INumber , Ventilation versus Cholera , " another attempt is made to account for the presence of this man-slayer amongst us . The old tale of an " epidemic atmosphere" is taken for granted , and insufficiency of ventilation the exciting cause . Facts in many instances are strangely at variance with this assumption . Sympathy and fear are admitted as accessories only whereas , I think , you will find they are the sole cause . Cholera has not been confined to the poor and ill-lodged , for , in proportion to relative numbers
the Lord Joeelyns and Mr . Bradshaws furnish their share of victims , although the relaxing and attenuating effects arising from poverty ofliving—4 ow diet and bad lodging—or the extreme of dissipation , will render the mind much more susceptible . of distressing influences surrounding it , and so favour the Pear doctrine . Cholera visits barracks , workhouses , and prisons ( where the inmates are made acquainted with its ravages outside ) , irrespective of ventilation or anything else ; but who ever heard of lunatic asylums being visited by cholera ? I can conceive of inmates being so slightly deranged as to be susceptible of fear , and thus they fairly come under the category of subjects .
When , in 1832 , Dumfries was almost half depopulated with this disease , the inmates of the lunatic asylum there felt nothing of it . Xast jear , when Newcastle and adjacent villages suffered so much , a large lunatic asylum was totally exempt , although in the proximity of a village which was prostrated "by the disease ! Colonel M'Lean , in alluding to this fact at a late meeting at Carlisle , expressed his conviction that this singular exemption could only "be accounted for by the circumstance of the villagers drinking of the Tyno water , and the inmates of the asylum using water from a pure spring . On the
following week the governor of * he asylum writes toa Newcastle paper to this eflect : —" Had Colonel M'Xean informed himself better of the facts , he would have found that both the villagers and inmates of our establishment drink at tho same fountain . " Yet , strange to say , neither the governor nor the colonel saw the important point so obviously brought homo to them , —that the inmates of the asylum , though subjected to precisely the same conditions in all other respects , were in such a state of mental derangement as to be incapable of being impressed or excited by the fear . '
In your correspondent ' s list of generalivcs and propagatives—swamps , rivers , bad sewerage , impure water , electricity , stratification , &c , —he omits tho important item of fear , but settles down into tho vngue conclusion that it requires a " concurrence of circumstances to produce choLera . "—For brevity ' s sake I would concede all that is said about concurrent circumstances , and still contend that all he haa enumerated are as innocuous as is a magazine of gunpowder away from the fatal match . Now fear is tho spark , and without it thero can be no cholera explosion , R , Avaxr .
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THE «• FAMILY BIBLE" PROPOSITION . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sept . 25 , 1854 . Sm , —I find in the Clerical Journal of the 22 nd insfc ., that " Pator Filiarum" is answered by a writer signing himself " Sonox , " who recommends " . Dr . Boothroyd ' a translation of the Holy Scriptures nu being well suited for family use . " 1 am afraid , however , that the sensitive father of daughters will bens little pleased with Dr . B . ' b rendering of tho JI . Kings , xviii . 27 , aa lie is with tho ordinary vcroion vl' that uni > leanunt passage Tlio difllculty , thoii , lion horo : if the objectionable parts of tlio Bible iirci faithfully rendered— -ae , of course , they ought to bo if rendered at all—they will certainly l > u oUensive to dolioato minds ; if they nro luft in their original hinyuugo much inconruuk'neo will onsuci ; and if they are obliterated altogether , ahull wo not bo charged with mutilating tliu Book of JLife ? Of those three courses which is tlio beat ? Or ahull wo rest contented with tho authorised version" wo now possess , "with all ita mlmitted detects , taking it for b-ottor for worHo ? Zjsta .
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— Tho tradesmen of Kew havo addressed to her Royn . 1 Highness tho Duchess of Cambridge respectful congratulations on her son the Duke , having < U > no his duty at Alma . Surely a superfluous clumsiness on tho part of theso prone purveyors ? Uid thoy expect tho Duke to run away ?
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October 14 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 975 —¦—— —— ^ —— — ^^^^»^»^» 11 >^»^^ ^^_^^ 1 ¦ . .. . m t ^ M ^ M ^ , MM
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 14, 1854, page 975, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2060/page/15/
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