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1 CHINA MADE USEFUL . JW Hli / B , Ajiieriea and England are both suf-& ? frcfifi contraction of trade , the wretchjdeat , Jba ^ arians are permitted to impose agw ahesBrtgfcions upon commerce . " A storm itt ^ t eap ^ ij' is a proverbial expression for a trifling disturbance ; yet the tea-pot has become so decidedly a British institution , and is so essential to the best and most intelligible parts of our constitution , that an actual storm within that domestic lake is really a formidable visitation . While tea continues at a high rate , notwithstanding our own reduction of duty , our exports to China from the Manchester districts alone have fallen off
to the extent of more than a million sterling ; and all because one miserable set of criminal triflers are playing in puerile cup-and-saucer fashion at rebellion against " the Great Panjandrum himself , " who plays at Celestial Emperor in Pekin . Commodore Perry has , after a fashion , opened Japan to the trade of the world ; but China remains closed to it . The Central Plowery people refuse to treat us as friends ; and why should we persist in punctiliously putting them , on " the footing
of a friendly nation ? " What do we know of , them , when they decline to be introduced to us ? "Why not take them at their word ? The Imperialists tell us that the rebels are outlaws , scum of society , pitiful vagabonds . Xiet us believe the Imperialists . The rebels tell us that the Imperialists are the creatures of an alien Court , an expiring faction , and anti-national , auti-social horde . Let us believe the patriots . Here all China tells us ithat the Chinese have no accredited or
effective Grovernment . Let us believe all 'China ' s account of itself . Nevertheless we know , on better than " Chinese authority , that there are hundreds of millions of people , inhabiting a vast empire an part fertile , and able to supply our wants as -we supply theirs . Tlieir officials will not treat with us , but mock us with pitiful evasions of treaties . If we approach to trade , the myrmidons of one faction or other approach to attack . Arming for tie most peaceful of purposes , we have a right to repel
aggression by force . Probably if we were to do so , we might settle the civil war by introducing a middle term ; and if Imperialists and Patriots cannot recognise any dominant right or power in . eacli other , they might at least recognise power in the Anglo-Saxon . For we desire no exclusive English conquest . America has been before us on that ground , and we only invite her to concur in the present view . Nothing is so much wanted in China as good government , where there is now no government at all : who can supply
good government so well as the Anglo-Saxon ? Here then is a valuable import for Chinagood government , in American and English ships . It ia a commodity that would be appropriately imported ia wur-suips . What scruple ia there to bar us in entering the Yang-tse-Kiang ? The Anglo-Saxon rule , at the worst , would bo aa improvement upon tho rule of Tartar King or Chinese Mandarin . Peace and commerce might at least be secured better than they are now . Outlets would bo found for tho commerce of New
Orleans and New York , Livorpool and Manchester , and the Chinese would bo put in tho way to butter themselves . Indeed no community would benefit bo much aa that of China , if England and America wore to conquer hor , colonize her , and annex her to tho civilised world forthwith . A plun of colonioa , or tho principle of combining military and commercial settlement could easily bo arranged . Here , then , is an outerpriao better than any paltry aquabblo about Groytownnamely , the conquest , partition , and nnnoxution of China , between tho two groatoat commercial nations of tho world-
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There is no learned man but -will confess he hath , much , profited by leading controversies , his senses awakened , and bis judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him . to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hi 3 adversary to write . —MiiTON
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BABEL . ( From a various Correspondence . * ) — On each recurring 5 th of November the Protestants of the Anglican Church meet together in the house of our common Father , to stigmatise their Catholic brethren as " cruel and bloodthirsty enemies . " They presume to speak of " the hellish malice of Popish conspirators , " and pray to be delivered from tlieir " enemies that delight in blood , " in the same breath , that solicits the blessings of " brotherly kindness and charity , concord and unity . " This bequest of undying hatred and contempt has been religiously handed down , for two centuries and a half , by the wisdom and 3 > iety of our ancestors , in commemoration of the mad plot of half a dozen
crack-brained bigots , whom we are pleased to consider as the accredited representatives of the entire Church of Rome . But even if it were true—and the very hypothesis is an insult and a calumnythat the Catholics of that age generally approved of the enterprise of Catesby , J ? awkes , and their miserable associates , there is neither reason nor justice in imputing the same atrocious feelings to the Catholics of the present day . But it is most certain that the conspirators were not countenanced in their nefarious design by their fellow-religionists , nor did their just punishment excite any commiseration . And yet we persist in teaching our children to keep up the remembrance of ancient animosities ,
and afford them a strange illustration . of the injunction to love our enemies , and to pray for those who despitefully use and ill-treat us . It is urged , indeed , that children do not view the matter in a serious light , and that they look upon the whole affair as an excuse for a holidaj-, and an occasion set apart for fun and frolic . Surely , it is rather a questionable proof of good taste and feeling , for the sake of a silly and barbarous amusement , thus to insult so many thousands of our friends , relatives , and countrymen . By all means let the labouring classes have days of recreation , but let them be applied as bonds of good fellowship and harmony , and not as means of maintaining ignorance and bigotry . Besides , it is
not altogether prudent to accustom the mob to the idea that a fire is a morsil purifier ; for some day , perchance , they may preftr a reality to an effigy—as pious and learned men , Protestants as well as Catholics , were wont to do in the good old times of Smithfield . If it be deemed inexpedient altogether to deprive children and '" the million" of tlieir vested rights in fireworks , at least let the constituted authorities of each place take the matter into their own hands , and give a public pyrotechnical exhibition by subscription among the inhabitants and neighbours . This might possibly awaken some ideas of the beautiful in the minds of the spectators , and would certainly be preferable to tho vulgar nuisance of squibs
and crackers . — What on earth wilL the Sabbatarians say about the Queen listening to tlio Guides playing profane but pleasing opern . strains in her palaoe . gardens on Sunday last ? How earnestly and with what nasal moaninga will reverends of tho " Davies" stamp deplore such wickedness in high places , and prophesy disasters to tho kingdom , af ter such a display of contemptuous carelessness for Kxetcr Hall spoutings . Most assuredly tho moral courage of the Queen is worthy of high praise , and it is to bo hoped that after this , &c .
— Tho Railway Kin ;? is , so say tho " City articles , " at last in tho Bankruptcy Court—his express train has landed him in Bnsinghnll-street , which , bythe-by , is dope to Cupel-court . We ought to moralise on tho event ; but then , there has been so much moralising on George Hudson , that profundity on tho subject is n . bore . Will he , as M . l \ , imitate his namesake Larpont ( tho only precedent I can recal ) , and resign his sent ? — So much for the Hail way King . But what do
you say to a railway chivalry ? Mr . Poto has been honoured by tho King of Denmark , by boing received into the highest ordur ( of course nn unpronounceable Saint ) of Danish chivalry . ThutiHanovent : a railway contractor sharing tho honours of noblosao . Our Queen might follow suit—think of Durgan or JJrussoy being Knights of the Garter . Wore knights selected from tho moat Itnlghtly , would not Peto bo preferred to Louis Napoleon by tho Windsor Chapter ? Poto is a Knight of Chivalry : ho nwlcoa millions , aa nn amusement > but hia oronloymont is to anond thoao millions in what la ciutatl charity—in succour to tho
widow ^ and the orphan—in endowing schools—in short , in attempting to realise our civilisation . As a railway contractor , as in Denmark , he " annexes " whole nations—after all , the greatest of conquerors . — Napier ' s Baltic campaign has not been so prosperous . He will be home in a week or two ; how shall we receive him ? Shall the unaccustomed bell of St . Paul ' s toll ? When he set out he said he was going to St . Petersburg or . Shall we now suggest to him to go to ?
— "Who gave the timid counsels at "Varna ? The Emperor politely and politicly explains the sneer away . But what do non-imperial people say ? That " the two Princes " were "meant . One of the two is Cambridge , who was the most obstinate of the two , for he not only would not go to the Crimea , but when he was forced to go to the Crimea , he did his best to prevent the Highlanders going up the heights of Alma . Why not a court-martial ? Because he is a Prince of the Blood—which means a Prince opposed to blood .
— t Poor Walter Savage Landor ! He has taken wrathfully the Leader ' s good-natured rebuke of his assassinatory projects ; and , in reply , he insinuates of the Leader what the Indian Nabob said , when asked , on his return to his native country , whether he would like to go and see the House of Commons — " What ! is that , going on still ?"—" What ! " says Landor , "is theZeacfer ( the kind reader is requested to " take" the poetical license ) not gone to the knacker ' s yet ? " He has a wonderful equestrian performance , worthy of the Bounding Brother of the Apennines , on that horse—his Leader . Observe how he wrLtes : —
" The Leader ,, from inanition , has fallen do-vra in his harness , and , when I would have cut the trac « s , has given me a kick on the instep and rolled over toward you . Without this accident I should have thought he had been long ago at the knacker ' s . Let us hope he may recover yet , and be able to masticate his Eiga oats . " These are wonderful antics for one horse ; to such a horse there is only one can be compared—Orlando ' s dead steed , or Mr . Landor ' s live Pegasus . By-theby , what is the reason that animal is allowed to trot and kick so > often , in that decorous manege—the Daily News ? What a trinity of heroes for a commercial journal : as a statesman , the Lord Summerhill ; as a poet , the Savage Landor ; and , as chief contributor , the Miss Martineau ! Which is the old lady ?
—¦ " Society" is talking of the Sickles v . Peabody correspondence . Mr . Peabody was wrong in being more English than the Englishmen in mal-a-propos loyalty at an American celebration ; and Mr . Sickles had no choice but to protest against the indignity to his country , by refusing to rise when " the Queen " was proposed before the toast of " the President . " The best judge of Mr . Sickles ' s conduct would be the Queen herself , and she would probably acquit him of any intentional disrespect . The idea is absurd : the offence Avas to Mr . Peabody .
— The " Guides" are to be at the Crystal Palace again on Saturday ( to-day ) . Mad are those who go ; the business was a thoroughly stupid and unpleasant one last Saturday . In the first place , you could not hear the Guides ; and in the next place , which is worse , you could get nothing to cat , except Home , who is old . As to the Crystal Palace itself , going to it is about as wise—which only indicates an Eastern , genius—as going into a big bottle—on such Saturdays , an empty one . ¦— What will Louis Napoleon think of the enlightened British audience who , on Saturday , at the Crystal Palace , roared for the " Marseillaise ? " I lowdelicate an intimation of the cordiality and sympathy
of the alliance ! Why not have at once demanded " the Pig ! " Paxton was in the humour to refuse nothing-.. He says that Louis Napoleon ' s Guides have " gone down" better than poor Sam Phillips ' s . But , admitting tho grandeur of these " Guides " days , what becomes of the educational pretensions of the Crystal Palace—which , at best , is now but rivalling Jalhon ? — Why don't the Missionaries stay at home ? See , in tho current arbitration caso , what comes of sending out a healthy Christian pastor to a . Berbici ) fold : —despairing of tho old gunonUion of savages ha naturally Arranges to commence with a now generation , made to his purpose . Aftor all , if propagation of the faith is tho business in hand , why quarrel with tho most dlL-etual inuthod ?
— Observe what has become of tho Forty Shilling Freehold Movonicnt . Mr . Cobdcn pledged hiB statesmanship that in n few years thusu Iforty Shilling . Freehold Societies would revolutionise tUo county elections . Not a county has yet buon won by tlicse people ' s votes from the landocracy—not even in Warwickshire , which is n Forty Shilling Freeholder warren—jricrced with tho small nuisances ; and the novvs of tho week ia that , in Warwickshire , tho revising barrister hus struck 2000 of tlioso "votera olF thu roglstor !
— . WyW has published nn excellent map of tlio siogo oC Scbustopol— -giving a sort of skotcli report of how mattora stood nt tho latest dates .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 1044, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2063/page/12/
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