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year his casino was open , his spirit trade decreased at the rate of 600 Z ., and bis lemonade and ginger-beer , and harmless "beverage trade generally , increased in proportion . This is very remarkable evidence in confirmation of -what all continental experience has shown to be true for years and years past—that danctng diminishes the thirst for strong liquor , and creates the desire for harmless drinks . But the incumbent of th « parish and the five moral magistrates , don't like dancing—so the population of Islington , "wanting amusement and not allowed to dance quadrilles , has nothing else left for it hut to restore the epirit-trade at Highbury Barn to its original figure , and absorb refined diversion again in the shape of—Gin .
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— Some men and officers of the 46 th Eegiment inarched through London the other day on their way to tie -wars . A moral British public [ at the •' Elephant and Castle "—elsewhere there "was no such severity ] vindicated its morality by ' saluting the soldiers with all sorts of insulting references to the late courts-martial . What more cowardly and . disgraceful act could any mob have committed ? People who could twit the regiment with the reproof inflicted on it by the press and by public opinion , on the very day -when officers and mea were on their road to fight the battles of their
country , and . to die , if need be , in the cause of their countrymen , are , in plain ¦ words , a disgrace to the nation . One man among the mob seems to have had sufficient sense of justice and of decency to tell the rest that the privates of the regiment , at least , could not beheld responsible for anything that had happened attte la $ e courts-martial . But he seems to have remained in " a glorious minority of one . " The shame ^ less mob bawled on , and officers and men , greatly to their credit , only treated their assailants with the quiet contempt which they deserved . Nothing was •» va » ting to complete the moral apotheosis of Lieutenant Perry but such a scene as this .
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— How amusing to the philosopher , how annoying to those who buy newspapers , are the contradictions about war matters which daily flood the public journals . We shall all soon become a nation of Bceptics , for what can one believe ? You read the Chronicle , and you are sure Austria is all that could b « wished- —sincere , frank , and well disposed—but soon the Daily News dispels the " fond delusive dream , " and you are disgusted at her shuffling , doubledealing , and egotism . Then , again , as to theresources of the Czar , in one place you read that he is nearly ruined , all trade isstopped ,-tlie "holy" empire is in a state of bankruptcy and incipient revolt , when the Press " malignantly" quotes the veracious Journal de St . Petersbov . rg to prove that more Russian prodtice than ever has been exported this year , with the addendum that England has paid twice the usual
price for it , while the latest issue of paper roubles are absolutely quoted at a premium . Anon , as the Elizabethan dramatists say , you are aroused to a fit of patriotic fury by reading that , on the battle-field , in the steamers sailing from the Crimea to Constantinople , and even in the hospitals at Scutari , our brave soldiers are dying of absolute neglect . You denounce the whole of the " Governmental departments" with more than your wonted natural energy , you determine to subscribe liberally , and turn the house topsy-turvy for old rags , and have justworried yourself to death , when you hear that all your trouble is useless , and that the " soldier" is absolutely better cared for , in a medical point of view , than rich civilians «< living at home at ease . " "The truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth" is becoming a moral Dodo .
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— What has become of the picture-gallery of the Crystal Palace ? "We were to have had by this time the north wing of the great building full of pictures by every modern painter in Europe . The great defect in the ' 51 Exhibition—the want of pictorial art examples—wiib to have been supplied by the superior taste and zeal , by the educational yearnings of the ITine Ait directors at Sydonham . We were told , with some considerable pomposity , that the gentleman who had ao successfully collected the pictures of the Dublin Exhibition , had been secured ; that a commiseionor was engaged to hunt up all the artists of the Continent ; and that a ship wns chartered to bring hither all the gems of the ateliers . Curious people
probable revolution at Munich ; but nothing availed against the panic-struck director , lie would have every blessed picture down again and consigned to the dispersing care of Pickford and Co . ( and they ' gone ) . The last hurried words he uttered were , " Send ' em all back again , and tell everybody to send in their bills . " What a fine moral for the press . Here ' s a great public company awed by the ghost of a critic .
have been for weeks peeping through tho cracks , nnd catching glimpses of a , grand picture of tho " Death of Nelson , " in the Gorman stylo , and othors , nil which served to keep expectation on tip-too , when just as all the rod cloth wns hung up and tho Fine Art director eager to cry , " Walk up , ladiea and gentlemen , " that mal apropos Art Journal spoilt it all . Tho Fine Art director literally bolted in dismay at tho promised terrors of " the presW' and , like- a true Rush , ordered everything to bo destroyed ruther than they should fall into tho hands of the critics . Tho Dublin man pleaded for tho art of his " nutiff ccoty , " tho continental comm » 8 aioner ( " Belgian ironmonger , " tho Journal had tho audacity to cull him ) suggoatodi a
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Cape Race is an unusually k propos name for the locality where the Arctic and the City of Philadelphia , two of the finest steamers which ever left the port of Liverpool , have been lost within a month . The fact is , racing is the cause of both of these catastrophes , for the captain of each of the great Yankee steamers will strive to the utmost to beat a rival by a few minutes , for now-a-days a run of thousands of miles is regulated to time with more nicety than the arrivals and departures of our railway trains . It is
to be hoped that next session the British Parliament and the American Congress will investigate the loss of the great passenger-steamers , and Inflict fines where a high rate of speed was attained in dangerous localities and foggy weather . We know a gentleman who last year , about this time , went within a mile of the coast of Newfoundland in . a " buttermilk" fog , at the rate of ten knots an hour , in a sailing ship , on which the captain kept every sail set , in spite of the remonstrances of the terrified passengers .
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— The Right Hon . Williana Beresfoid says that he has a friend upon whose judgment lie relies in questions relating to good manners . "lisa pity he does not consult him oftener ; or , if possible , engage him as private secretary . This hint throws open a field for young men of good birth and breeding .- — " Waited , as private secretary , a young man of good education , who can set his employer right upon all questions relating to good manners . Apply to W . B ., Carlton Club . "
I can't . say that I should entertain any great respect for the advice of W * B . ' s friend . Out of a string of choice epithets and abusive accusations" sinister look , brazen , meretricious leer , bold assumption of front which conceals the dastard heart , bully , and coward "—he ( the friend ) only objects to the last as transgressing the Jitir bounds of courtesy . Looking at the whole character of the squabble , some people will think that this is the very last word which ought to be retracted . Sir James should have insisted on a " comprehensive apology . "
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— The Gazette professes to give an accurate list of killed and wounded , and was deferred to ensure accuracy . I doubt whether the object has been attained . If any one will take the trouble to compare the list with private letters , he will find that many men entered in the list as wounded are by letter reported dead . Side by side with the copy of the Gazette , published in the Times , is a letter from Richard McNeil , 55 th Regiment , in which is written " McGarrity , that was formerly a drummer , had his left hip blown away , and he has died of his wound . " Turn to the preceding column and you will find this very man entered among the wounded . So in a number of instances . The Gaiette , moreover , only reports eighteen men as having died of their wounds since the battle . What , then , becomes of the multitudes who arc said to have died from want of surgical assistance ? Thero is gross inaccuracy somewhere .
Not long since tho Tinuts was ot > j ecting that Government did not do its duty in bringing reports homo from tho East for the newspapers : now the Times is sending out a special commissioner to administer funds for wounded soldiers in the East . What next ? Under Mr . Arthur Symonds ' s extremely literary improvements , the management of tho Civil Service would have been transformed into something very like editing ; her Majesty would have required four Prinoipal Editors of State : tho Times points out tho want of official reporters . It seems that for Executive duties wo are to go to Printing-house-square , —as well as for advice gratia on tho subject of cholera I
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"A FAMILY BIBLE . " ( To the Editor cfthe Leader . ') Sir , —I read with interest the letter of your correspondent Zeta , in your paper of September 23 , pleading for a readable family Bible ; i . e ., such a translation of " The Book" as the father of a family could put into the hands of his children , without regret that it contained , here and there , a sentence which might possibly excite an impure emotion , or lead the trulychaste mind to question whether 5 t really emanated from the purest source .
I have no doubt that God has spoken to man ; that he did so to Adam , to Moses , to Isaiah , to Paul ) and to others . But that the English translation ' " appointed to be read in churches , " and intended to be read in families , and by individuals , is what it ought to be , I have never believed . Some parts are erroneously translated , and have led to grievous disputations , and others are expressed in language lamentably indelicate . And notwithstanding all that has been said , and so often said in praise of the common version , many of the most learned , and ( at the same time ) firm believers in the inspiration of the
original , have pleaded for a new translation almost from the period of the issue of the present one , in 1611 . But a Leader has been wanting to bring and band such together , and to cany them on in the enterprise . Most Bible readers , and—I fear—most of our religious teachers , will object to a new translation , just- as there are many farmers who object to adopt a different system of agriculture , or even to use a new implement—not that this is to be lamented in agriculturists only . Of this class , however , it is always found that there are somewho will fall into the rear , and those who will not must remain where they are .
My father , who died about thirty years ago , was a warna advocate for an improved translation for at least the half of his threescore years and ten . I have a portion of his library—among others , "An Essay for a new Translation of the Bible , wherein its necessity is shown from reason , and from the authority of the best critics , " by H . R ., a Minister of the Church of England ; London , 1702 . The work consists of two parts . Part i ., chap . 2 , says : " That the threatenings of Moses and John make nothing for a literal version . " . . . Chap . 5 : " That a translation should keep to the sense rather than to the letter . " . . . Part ii ., chap . 9 : " That translators ought ; to use expressions , which are plain and decent in our language , " &c . A century and a half has elapsed since this important work was published . The object has not
yet been accomplished , al though many other pens have been employed ; yet the seed sown has not been entirely fruitless . " The Book" is , and will continue to be , a family book . Individuals , families , and nations , have been incalculably benefited , even by an imperfect translation- It is important that every translation should be corrected and improved , if possible ; especially that of a people lilce ours , who so generally read it , and who are now taking or sending it to so many other countries . Several English translations have been made-, with some improvements ; but these are expensive and little known . What can be done ? Should not an effort be made to bring the question before such a body as the Bible Society ? Theta .
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— They report that the Arrow gunboat proves very efficient , her shells being sent three miles—and she has twenty-five of tliem . One baker ' a dozen , and one ordinary dozen 1 Somebody has said that overy shell sent into S-obastopol costs 30 / . — no wonder if overy two dozen requires a special voyago for tho convoy anco out . It almost equals the Chinese plan , of sending : out a ship with ono ball , after discharging which it is expected to return to relit . Where was < pur nautical contemporary ' First Lord of the Admitalty when aomo reporter was allowed to etato that 15 , 000 sailom have been landed to opomto with tho forces in tho Crimea . Another says 2 i > , 000 . Are they to net as- Horeo Marines ? Fancy , not ono , but fifteen thousand Jacks ii la Cosaque / Or arc thoy to form a now division of Infantry ? Picture fifteen thousand eailora in tho act of attempting to " dress up . "
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A Morel . Cijsuk . —Young man : — "I called to see about tho clerkship you advertised ns vacant . " Old gent : " Horn ! Havo you a gold watch and chain , a fust liorso , a diamond ring , six suits of clothes , a bull-dog , a thousand cigars , a cnslc of brandy , and an assortment of canea ?" - Young man : " Yes , six , got ' cm all . " Old gent : " Then you ^ l suit . My other clerk furnished himself with all these out of the till ; so , ixn yovCxo supplied , I'll save tho expense . "—New Orleans Picayune . Washington ' s SkjVls . —A correspondent of tho Petersburg Kecpress , at Cllmrlestown , United States , communicates to that pupor tho following aoi'ies of incidents , which , if true , aro cortainly very singular : —" Washington waa accustomed to wear on his watch two aoals , ono gold and tho other silver ; upon ono of them tho letters ' Q . WV woro engraved , or rather cut . The soala lio woro aa early as 1754 , and thoy were about his lUftt
porson on tho terrible day of Bracldock's defeat ; on day ho lost tho silver eoal ; tho gold ono remained with tho general until tho day of his ( loath , nnd was then given by Him to his nophow , a gentleman of Virginia , ¦ who carofully preserved it until about 17 yoarn « K <> i when , riding over hta farm , ho dropped it . Tho other day tho gold seal , lo-st 17 years ago , irns ' ploughed up , recognised from the letters ' G . W . ' on it , nnu ' re » t « j to tho son of tho gontluinnn to whom Washington »" J presented it . At almost tho samo tixno tho silver h « ' » lost in 1754—just 100 yours ago—was ploughed up on tho site in which Druddock was d ' ofuntcd , and in '" , manner recognised from the letters ' 0 . W . ' So that , in a very short time thu companions will bo again im '" ' * I havo tills wholo Btutomont from tho moat relliiblo aouroo possible—namely , from tho gentleman lilmricli , who haa thus restored to him thoso precious niomontos of hia groat nncostox \"
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1000 ' THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 21, 1854, page 1000, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2061/page/16/
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