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Junes-23 , 1855 . 1 THE LEADER 60 S
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they would fain flatter themselves , but to give themselves up to essentially worldly influences , to a political party and an ecclesiastical faction , and to forget their great spiritual office of seeking and keeping the truth for the whole people . To seek and keep the truth—such will henceforth be their work . If they will , they may do that work well . They are rich in gold , and they are rich in what is better than
gold to a student ' s heart , beauty , history , and the associations of a thousand years . They are rich in earnest , enthusiastic , unworldly minds , which will soon be weaned from sectarian propagandism to nobler aims . ~ Let them know the world , lovo it , guide and enlighten it , but keep themselves from its factions , its strifes , its servility , its love of lucre ; and the world which lias hitherto looked on them with suspicion aud mistrust , as alien censors which misunderstood and hated it , will honour and love them as its own better part for ever .
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THE BALTIC . Tbte Baltic fleet is in splendid condition , but what is it about to do ? It is incomparably superior to the fleet of last year , which was a noble display of ships and of guns , but not of equipment nor of matured discipline such as now exists . This year the health of the men is excellent , the sick-list is under five per
cent ., and there is not one per cent , of the men unfit for duty , if needed . The commissariat is managed excellently : fresh provisions are sent from Elsinore , and are served out three daj ' s in the week , and provisions are brought from England once a week . With all respect for the name of Napier , there is a decided change for the better in the command of the fleet . AV ^ e
receive no complaints that the men are harassed by exercises and inspections ; the discipline of each ship ,-we presume , being left to the captain ; and as , upon the average , British captains and lieutenants ai-c quite competent to maintain the discipline of their own decks , the change from the restless Napikk to the somewhat reserved but dignified Dltndas , is a decided advantage to the fleet .
But what is the fleet to do ? The Baltic season is short ; June , July , and August , are its extent . AVc arc not aware that any sensible increase to the information respecting the state of affairs at St . Petersburg has been attained ; but one thing appears to be tolerably certain—that the defences of Cronstadt have boon vastly increased . Meanwhile , where is the boasted machinery for reducing
them ? where , above all , aro the floating batteries and the reserve magazines ? Have they gone out ? AVe aro not sure , indeed , that the floating batteries , luwevcr bombproof , would bo workable . It is almost a question even with their own oflieors and crews , whether they will float with all that they must stow on board . But if they are to bo tlio instruments for unlocking that
gate , when are they to arrive r June is now wearing away , and there will noon bo only two short months before , the imllpoml . of the Baltic will bo torn by tho storms that announce tho coining equinox . No relianeo can , bo pi need upon the weather after tho 1 st of September ; last year tho returning fleet was detained fivo days at Boimirsumi . Tho floating batteries will scarcely bo ablo to keep to sea when tho screw line-of ' -bnttle whips and tho ( lying wquadron of Hteam frigates are compelled to doHist . From tho Admiral to tho A . B . all aro cngor for distinction , and it is cruel to tie tho ha ' nda of brave men . > Cortuiuly tho -fleet ought not to come back Without some positive roaulta . llusaia munfc
be made to feel the pressure which she has not as yet felt in the Baltic . Is it impossible ? There is the Island of Hogland , a long stride nearer to the capital than Aland , right in the middle of the Grulf of Finland ; and there a British force might be established , and a new lesson might be taught to the enemy . A force of 20 , 000 would hold the island , which is healthy and well placed . Our picked naen would not be required for the service ; militia from Aldershott might be sent to occupy the post . The station would form an admirable school for foraging expeditions ; the amphitheatre of the gulf would be the school play-ground ; and from that central point miles of the coast could be kept in a state of uncertainty and incessant distraction . Thus a force of 20 , 000 men on the Island of Hogland would compel the Russian Government to keep , say , 150 , 000 on the opposite coasts ; and a great diversion could be created at very moderate expense to the Allies . The results would probably be even more important , since the fact of our maintaining an outpost right in the face of Cronstadt would teach the Hussian people how their Government can be bearded ; and it would certainly increase that moral pressure which has evidently been felt in St . Petersburg already , but which can only be sustained by a constant tightening of the screw . Russia may inveigle a score of unarmed men into an ambush , may violate the flag of truce , and murder a few of our countrymen defenceless and unprepared . Base and cowardly as such cruelty may be , blows of this kind may have some influence in restoring the energy of the people and their confidence iii resistance ; and it would be a false economy to let the Czar pluck all the barbarous profit that he can out of this infamy . We can counteract him , and we ought to do so . AVe can prove to the Russians , that however insolent they may be in their slavish brutality , we are masters of the Baltic if we choose to remain so . If we cannot enter into the den of the robber , we can establish a sentinel at his inner gate , and forbid his coining forth . AVe are not surprised to hear that our gallant fellows burn with indignant impatience to avenge the crime of Hango , and it would be a treason to humanity as well as a disgrace to our flag if the present season were to pass away as fruitlessly as the last .
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THE HONESTY" OF THE CLERGY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ') Sir , —I have read with great interest the " Revelations of Archdeacon Sinclair , " in the last Leader . I fear the cause of the uselessness of the clergy lies deeper than either he or the Leader imagines . In the same number of the Leader I see a clergyman confessing that he considers the " whole tenor of geology as in entire contradiction to the cosmogony delivered from Sinai . " I know it to be a fact that large numbers of the clergy perceive that the creeds and articles , which they so hastily subscribed in their younger days , are in entire contradiction to the teaching of Scripture .
Now , I ask , when a clergyman of the Church of England is conscious of being secretly an Arian or a Deist , yet continues to make profession of " orthodoxy , " what is to be expected ? Must he not become a lifeless functionary , at best ? The clergy of the Church of England are entangled in the trammels of soi-disant " orthodoxy" at an early age—they are called on to subscribe too rashly those creeds and articles which present them from teaching what in after life they find out and feel to be
truethey cannot teach " orthodoxy" with the same animation , warmth , and love of their subject as they could preach what they know and feel to be true—to be their own principles , their own hope . The consciousness of teaching falsehood , or doubtful truth , must take away all heart from themselves , all spirit from their teaching , and all good from their ministry . Would you not be paralysed yourself if compelled to employ the Leader in the defence of a system which in secret you wholly repudiated , or but half approved ?
Among the fruitful causes of the evils of " our Civilisation , " I know of none which is more widely spread , more corrupting in its nature , or the eradication of which would do more good ; yet it is precisely because of its fundamental character , because of its tendency to emancipate both clekgy and laity , that Church reform in every shape is so much opposed by our oligarchy . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , Laicus .
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There is no learned man but will confess he bath much prolUed by rending controversies , his senses awakened , ami his judgment , sharpened . If , then , it bo profitable for h \ in to read , why should it not , at least , be tole . ra . Dicfor his adversary to write . —Milton .
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A N E W PARLIAMENT . ( 7 ' o the Editor of the Leader . ) Juno 12 , 1855 . Sin , — Our loud Administrative Reformers lose sight of our great need—a ncio Parliament .. Since tho war began Englishmen have learnt much . They have had crowded into a few months the experience of n century of common political life , They huvo seen that tho Constitution is not so almighty us they thought ; that tho hands to which , while they peacefully money-grubbed , they entrusted their enormous means and their important interests , aro all too shaky for tho charge ; that three-fourths of tho men in influenco and power aro Burloigha or Bumbles ; that tho man who , a little while since , was their First Minister , is moro lit for the post of index-maker and general historical drudge to Mr . Ma . cnulay or Mr . Groto than for tho smallest post in the Government of thi « kingdom . Now that tho English people have soon all tliifl , can they bo supposed so » n " chaneed , so uninfluenced by the sudden discovery , that their feelings ami wishes are adequately represented by a previous ! y-eluotcd and uncliautfiid 1 ' arlinmont ? And , if they do not represent the people ,
what is the use of that assembly of elderly gentlemen of capital , solemnly sitting in their ludicrouslysymbolic abode of petrified gingerbread ? The fact is , nothing can be done with the present House of Commons . The first thing to be done is to change yOur Parliament . Done at once , we should stand a chance ( now that the country is not quite so lethargic as usual ) of a House of Commons which might , perhaps , be useful at home and respectable in Europe . At all hazards , let us get rid of our greatest national nuisance—the House of Palmerston , Pakington , and Twaddle . A most Constant Reader .
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Dinner at the Mansion-house . —The Lord Mayor on Thursday evening entertained at the Egyptian-hall the bishops and the heads of the two universities , with a largo party of distinguished guests whom , according to the usual custom , he had invited to meet them . Mit . George Cukzon , cousin of Earl Howe , and heir presumptive of the Barony of Scarsdale , has just met with a fatal accident . Mr . Curzon was on Saturday evening riding in llyde Park , when his horse , in passing two carriages " , became restive and threw him on his head against the kerb-stone of the footway . He wafi removed to St . George ' s Hospital , where two medical men were in attendance ; but the case was hopeless , and he expired about seven o ' clock on Sunday morning . Ha in the twenty-ninth of his . -
was year age Vaia , of Stonewohic in the City .- ^ -A serious ac .. ljln . * I- ^ * - * . ^» sl . rwl i . t i + K lnaa nf llfo * - r * r * lr nl » i r" *> ljlSt" . S / ltUl * Fall of Stonewohic in the City .- ^ -A serious accident , attended with loss of life , took place last Saturday morning in tho City . The entire ornamental stone cornice of a Manchester warehouse in " VVood-street , Cheupsidc , now in course of comp letion , suddenly fell down , and not only destroyed the scaffolding , and the fronts of tho opposite warehouses , but also broke tho sewer in tho road , ami killed a man who was standing before tho house at tho time , unloading a cart . 1-ortunately , no one wan pu . Hshitf when the accident occurred , nor wore tho workmen on tlio promises . — An inquest on the man who was killed has resulted in a verdict of
Accidental Death , to which tho jury added their opinion that the work was not properly secured , and that such law projections are dimerous in narrow thoroughfares . AIl'KMKK OK AN KNOMHH Ol'FIOICK IN . AfIUOA . —• Lieutenant Richard Burton ( an oHioer of great scientific knowledge and cxperionco an a traveller ) , Lieutenant Stroyan of tho Indian navy , Lieutenant Speko , of tho Iionaal army , and LiotiCc-iia . it . Home , of tho 1 st Bombay Fusiliers , in tho course of a geographical expedition to-Somali n district , in . North-western Africa , opposite Aden were attacked by nhout , a hundred of tho Somalia . 1 ioutonnnt Stroyan wim murdered , Lieutenants Burton and S peko were dreadfully wounded , and Lieutenant
Homo escaped unhurt . . Si Imiiammicd has succeeded to tho Bcyslup of . I urns * on the death of his cousin Si Khmcd , who hud reigned r or tho last eighteen yearn .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2096/page/15/
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