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tial spirits would flock to the branch that promised the best chance of active employment . If hostilities broke out in the East , the most enterprising men at home would hasten to the scene of action ; and , in like manner , the officers of the Colonial Army would exert their interest to join their brethren in Europe in such a struggle as that in which we are now engaged . By this means , too , India would really become an excellent school for military knowledge , and the country would have a far greater number
of experienced men from whom to choose her generals and commanders . But while we advocate the instruction of officers by Indian -campaigns , we protest against the idea that foreign service in such a climate is beneficial to a royal regiment as a body . Military men are almost unanimous in repudiating the system of reliefs , for it induces a lamentable laxity of discipline , and for a long time impairs the efficiency of either corps , the relieving and the relieved . The Indian Army
must be a permanent establishment , distinct ¦ from the home army with reference to the men , but homogeneous with respect to the officers . The highest appointments and commands should be conferred upon those alone who had served a certain number of years in the country , and become acquainted with the habits , manners , and usages of the people .
When necessary , a portion of this Colonial Army might be conveyed to Europe , Africa , or Australia ; for the prejudices entertained by the sepoys against crossing the " dark waters ** of the ocean have been grossly exaggerated . If the officers exhibit tact and firmness , their men will follow them as faithfully and bravely as in the rough times of < 3 mve and Bated .
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MAYNOOTH AND ROME . In the midst of our disasters and dangers Parliament has still time and appetite for a Maynooth orgie . We have long become accustomed , and almost callous , to the existence ¦ of human beings who can convince themselves , and attempt to convince others , that to tax Catholics for the maintenance of a Protestant Church is an act of Christian charity , but that to tax Protestants to about
a fiftieth part of the amount for the maintenance of a Catholic Church is a damnable abomination . We have learnt to endure the logic and morality of Spoonerites and the rhetorical sycophancy of Protestant lawyers getting up to curry favour with Providence and the Conservative benches by speaking from their briefs in favour of injustice . All this is common and familiar . The
drunkenness and the thieving of the crew are old ; but the burning ship is new . When every heart that can feel anything is full of the perils of England—when we ought to bury every difference of creed in the common efforts of a united people—when Catholic soldiers are mingling their blood with that of Protestants in the Crimea—a Spooner . is allowed to have his usual papist bait , with a full house , and an applauding Time * . Xiet the fanatics and hypocrites who think they can indulge in a little safe persecution
of Koman Catholicism in Ireland , while they use the blood and sinews of Roman Catholic soldiers without scruple , consider what their conduct and that of this Protestant nation generally is with regard to Home itself . The Pope of Home , we presume , is still the centre and life of Catholicism—the Antichrist , the Beast , the Man of Sin . And what keeps Antichrist on his throne for an hour ? What forces Borne and Ital y to bow to that Papal tyranny which they abhor , which they are buming and struggling to cast off , and even to tolerate which in their own country our
Protestants consider a pollution ? We suppose all the anti-Maynooth fanatics have in their minds the answer to this question . But political convenience intervenes , and the hatred of liberty and justice is stronger than the hatred of Popery . The Koman Protestant who seeks to strike the blow that would have set the soul of his country free , is
overwhelmed with yells of execration from all the Protestant journals : and one of the number , in a spirit that verifies the pictures of Tacitus , implores the protector of Popery to wear armour under his clothes for the preservation of a life so precious to humanity . Such is the religion of Exeter Hall ! Such , alas ! is the religion of England ! what
And yet the state of Home , from we hear of it , must be such as might move a generous nation to sympathy from better motives than hatred of the Pope . Men describe their friends as disappearing from around them , they know not for what offence , and hurried they know not whither ; prisons gorged with victims ; a saturnalia of that same cowardly , vindictive tyranny of priests and denounced at
Jesuits which Mr . Gladstone Naples . Told by Mr Goladsone ' s eloquent pen , that tale moved English hearts for an hour , and then was thought of no more . Now , we presume , it would be treated as a " chimera of oppressed nationalities . " All other interests of humanity , saving the persecution of Irish Catholics , are swallowed up in the desire of reducing the naval power of Russia in the Black Sea . We must mend this if we are to remain a great nation : we must mend it if we are to remain a nation .
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A CONTRAST . The Duke of Wklung- LouisNapoleon Bonaton fairly vanquished pabtb piratical ! / in-Napoleon Bonaparte vaded the Roman Rein a war in which Na- public to promote his poleon was the aggres- own electioneering insor ; and he strictly re- terests , extinguished its spected the property liberties in the blood of and honour of the its citizens , and handed French nation . Can- it over again to one of tiixon attempted to the most loathsome ty _ assassinate him . Na- rannies on earth . Pipoiubon left Cantiu ^ on anobi , thinking he had a legacy aa a reward as much right to assas for the attempt , adding , sinate that pirate as that 44 he had as much right to pirate had to assassinate assassinate that oligarch his country , attempts to as the British Govern- kill Louis Napoleon . ment had to send me to He is tried for his life St . Helena . " Louis Na- by Louis Napoleon , foxjeon Bonapabte has and overwhelmed with paid the legacy to the the execrations of the assassin , and bas there- world , upon been made a Knight of the Garter .
What constitutes the difference between the virtuous act of Cantillon and the appalling crime of Pianoiu ? It seems to be that Pianobi assailed one of those " existences " which are peculiarly patronised by Providence , if , indeed , the converse expression would not be more true . Piracy is permitted to those existences because they have a " mission" which is not to bo thwarted by " miscreants ( to use the happy phrase of the Herald ) who fancy that they nave a destiny . " The end of that mission used to bo to avenge Waterloo .
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" TUB STRANGKR" IN PAIUJAMKNT . [ The rosponaibility of the Editor in n-tfur . l to theso contributions Ls limited to tho act of K ivi » K ll > * - - «> JJ « ' »; licitr . Tho opinions cxprcrtHcd arc tlumo of tin ; «" "' { both tho Leader and " Tho StraiiKer" hum-tit by tni freedom which in left to hid pun nn < l discretion . J Ix is not eaey to decido whether , lust nig" * . Mr > Disraeli was more deferential , or Lord ralmerston was more insulting , in the conversation about tliosc papers , promised to bo laid on tho table , which every one is clamouring for , and which , noverthcloB * , win tell iittlo or nothing of what wo want to know , waa with humility that Mr . Ulnriicli pressed tor a Iittlo information : and it was in a half-ashamod way ,
at its own boldness , that tho House of Common * hear-hoared his nppeal for a little fact . It was wltn hauteur that J ^ ord Pahnorstpn repudiated tho xdea
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SERGEANT BRODIE . Tub disgraceful occurrence in tho regiment of Inniskillings at Canterbury is a complicated affair , which it required tho Combination of many offenders to bring about . Certain officers pf tho regiment maltreated
Cornet Batjmgabten , inflicted upon him offensive personal jests , damaged his property , and , in short , behaved like " Mohawks and Hawkubites , " and the sneaks that spoil horses in a jockey stable . Mr . Baumgaeten challenged one of the offenders to fight a duel , and the challenge was accepted . Sergeant Bbodie interfered to prevent the duel , strove to find soldiers wlio could place Mr . Baumgaeten under arrest , and appealed for aid to certain civilians who were in the
neighbourhood . Adjutant Webster caine down with a guard , arrested Sergeant Beodie , and desired the soldiers to knock him down with the butt-end of their carbines if he resisted . Here , then , were the original offenders breaking the peace , appropriating property which was not their own , and accepting a duel : they were guilty therefore of riot , trespass , and conspiracy to murder .
Batjmgarten challenged them , and conspired to murder . Brodie resisted his superior officer , and appealed to civilians—a double breach of military discipline . Webster connived at the breach of the Horse Guards ' regulations against duelling , and placed Bbodie under arrest for endeavouring to enforce those regulations . How will these entangled offences be treated ?
There will of course be a court-martial , the disgraceful tricks will have to be investigated , and according to precedent , we may presume that Mr . Evans and Mr . Baumgabten-, the original assailant and the man most aggrieved , will be turned out of the service . There is one chance for Baumgabtkx . He did not , like Peiiry , submit , but like the Amazonian maid-servant in the ballad , who is praised for " taking of her own part and tiring off a gun , " he showed that he could
stand up for himself and fire a pistol against the duelling regulations . What will be done with Wkbsteb " we cannot guess . Probably he will be considered as only enforcing the plain duty of military discipline which lay straight before him : but why did he not arrest the duellists ? The question how Bbodie will be treated has already come to a conclusion , lie was arrested for " behaving disrespectfully , " says Mr . Peel , "to one of the officers of his regiment ; " but " as he was trying to prevent a duel , that is considered a palliation of his offence ; " so lie is " released notice of his disres
without any further pectful conduct . " Alexander Someeville otfended his superior officers by riding badly , being short-necked , and " answering ; " lor officers dislike answering n * much as lady housekeepers dislike servants who " return their words . " Somkkvillk waa goaded into mutiny , flogged , and turned out oi the service . Bbodik is arrested lor bis " disrespectful conduct , " which stvms to have consisted in his being too much of a citizen and a Christian , and too conscientiously bent upou fulfilling the orders of the highest authorities . But what is the sentence pronounced upon tho prisoner ? Ho is discharged without reprimand !
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1855, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2089/page/16/
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