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the non-commissioned officers and privates of the Anclesea troop of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry ( of which body he is captain ) , and of course made a speech on the war , in the course of winch he stated his op inion that peace is not probable , and , if negotiated by Austria , not desirable- Pie denounced the conduct of Austria as treacherous , and as cloaking a real hostility under an appearance of friendship ; and he concluded by saying that we must not be satisfied with " the Four Points , " but must retain possession of the Crimea . Messrs . Langton , Floyer , Newdegate , and Spooner have also made speeches in favour of the war—the two former to their constituents ,, the last two at a meeting of the Rugby and Dunchurch Conservative and Agricultural Association . Mr . Spooner also advocated , as the best means of maintaining the " sinews of war , " a repeal of the Bank Charter Act of 1844 . THE GLASGOW ATHENAEUM SOIBEE . The tliird grand soiree of the Glasgow Athenaeum took place on the evening of Thursday week in the City Hall . The chair was occupied by the Earl of Eglintoun , who delivered a long and able address , in which he described the immense advantages , in the way of intellectual and moral improvement , which are sure to result from such institutions . The meeting was also addressed by the Lord Advocate , Mr . M . S . Stewart , Professor Swinton , Mr . Alexander Hastie , M . P ., Mr . Walter Buchanan , Sir Archibald Alison , and Professor Blackie , the last of whom , in moving a resolution declaring " That in addition to the more direct advantages resulting from literaiy institutions , they necessarily tend to elevate the taste of their members , and lead them to an appreciation of the high and ennobling influences of literature , the fine arfcs , and science , " remarked that it was literature , and not science , that cultivates men ' s humanity . Too much time and attention , he thought , is given to . politics and money-making , and too little to the study of literature . Men who could keep their souls in their shops for six days , and go once aweek to church , were very shabby Christians . He therefore urged young men to study literature , to get out of their shops , and to expand tbeir human souls . CARDINAL WISEMAN ON THE PEUOEPTION OF NATURAL BEAUTIES . Cardinal Wiseman , on Monday night , delivered , in the Hanover-squaro Rooms , a lecture " On the Perception of Natural Beauties , by the Ancients and Moderns . " The main tendency of hi » discourse was to show that the classics , with all their genius , had not the same intimate knowledge of Nature that the modern poets and artists possess . Yet he admitted that the ancients were by no means deficient in this quality : — " Who could , doubt the perception of naturalbeauty among the ancients when he contemplated the glory of their temples , and who could road their poeta without feeling in every page that their eyes seized on the beautiful in Nature , whether exhibited iu the grandest scenery or in the minute ' graces of the flower ? Their pastoral poetry was full of descriptions the most vivid of all that is delightful in rural life ; and yet there was one ingredient wanting to make their dosoripfcions of natural beau by perfect : ho did not think they entertained more than an admiration of Nature—it hardly rose to the point of love . Their gardens combined , the idea of a vineyard , an orchard , or au olive-ground , being ever connected with the profitable cultivation of the earth . No sylvan grandeur , no richness of flowers , no natural streamlets , but the still wateroourae for purposes of irrigation , enliveuod their pictures . That they had landscape painters and flower-painters , wo could not doubt ; but the walla of Pompeii attested the all-absorbing taato for figures . Ho believed that Nature ' s beauties had found more real lovo among the moderns than among the ancients . An intense lovo of the beauties of Nature was observable in Chauoor , the father of our poetry . Narrow na was the limit of his know-, ledge or the range of his observation , ho had an inatiuotivo perception of Nature ' s gifts in all that he . saw and know . Sponsor , too , was full of this love of Nature . " ' Tlie superiority of tho moderns to the ancients in this respect , tho Cardinal attributed to the deep religious feeling inspired by the Bible , the beautiful and , sublime descriptions of natural scenery in wliich he pointed out to his auditory . His Eminence exhorted all his hearers to study and revere the works of Nature and of God , and especially commended them to tho wonders revealed to our perceptions by tho microscope .
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THE LEADER . [ No . 299 , Saturday ,
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WAR WITH THE DEAD . The following letter has been addressod to tlio Editor of the Daily News : — " Sir , —Last Wednesday week an afflicted family was preparing to perform the last sepulchral duties to a mother , justly beloved and esteemed by all who know her . Widow of a soldier who had served in Egypt , and whose whole life had been one long struggle for the republican cause ; mother of one son who diod for that faith , and of another who has been several years an exile for his unassailable attachment to democratic principles ; Madame Caussidioro was debtined to experience the honours of persecution even after doath . It was feared that the funeral procession , arranged to take its departure at nine a . m ., might attract a number of pious souls to reudor a last homage to an honourable and worthy woman . Measures woro accordingly taken by the police . At the early hour of seven a . m ., tho eniployi' 8 of the undertaker came to talco av . uy tho body . The family of Madame CiuiMuidoro opposed this irregular proceeding , and only ruvo way when tho overseer produced an ordor fur tho departure or the procession at half-past seven a . m ., and intimated that ho would employ force to enrry tho ordor into execution . " Tho procession accordingly sot out , and w «» conduotod to tho cemetery by fctido streets and tho long round of the outer boulevards . A remark being miulo upon this singular solootion of a routo , tho ovorsucr replied that he had a right to take tho road that was most convenient for him . In addition - to thoso uaanoouvros , agents , stationed in tho streets adjacent to tho domicile of tlio deceased , took onro to toll ml who arrived to join the procession that tho interment was to take place in the cemetery of Pdro-la-Uhivao , although tho prooeasion proceeded to tho ccmetory 01 Montmartro—in a direotion diametrically opposito to
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OUR STATE RELIGION . We mentioned List week thatDr . Lushington had given judgment in the main in favour of Mr , Westerton and his friends , in the great cross , altar and altar-cloth question . We now reproduce , from the Morninp Post , an analysis of the verj long and elaborate address of the ecclesiastical judge , as an edifying specimen of our national conceptions of religion , " as by law established " A more humiliating spectacle of the sacrifice oi the spirit to the letter —of essentials to nouessentials—than tlse whole" case presents , viewed from either side , it would be difficult to discover . The point to be decided was the lawfulness or unlawfulness of certain ornaments in the two churches of St . Paul and St . Barnaba 3 respectively . These are described a 3 consisting of—1 . "An altar , " "high altar , " or " piece of church furniture whereon to celebrate the Holy Communion , with the cross elevated thereon , and attached thereto ; " 2 . Gilded candlesticks and candles therein ; " 3 . " The credentia , preparatory altar , or credence table ; " and 4 . " Several divera-coloured altar coverings . " Thus much relates to St . Paul's . What refers to St . Barnabas differs in detail , though involving the same points of law . The objection lies against , 1 . A certain communion cloth ., trimmed with lace ; 2 . The chancel screen and cross thereon , and bronze gates attached thereto ; 3 . The absence of the Commandments at the east end of the church . On the stone altar question Dr . Lushington follows the judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust , in the celebrated case of Faulkner v . Litchfield . He has no choice in doing so , being bound by the decision of the Court of Arches as the Superior Court . What Mr . Westerton calls a high altar , turns out to be only a massive wooden table . The law decides that the material shall not be of stone ; but it does not determine the exact pattern and shape . The communion table at St . Paul ' s is , therefoz-e , not open to legal objection because it is of wood ; but that of St . Barnabas , being of stone , 13 , by the decision above referred to , illegal ; as are also the credence tables in both churches , and they are accordingly ordered to be removed . Thus far Dr . Lushington ' s task was easy—the Court above having decided for him . But in the matter of the crosses , the altar coverings , and candlesticks and candles , the matter was not so simple ; and a wide field of inquiry , of an intricate and difficult kind , lay before him . In pursuing this he lias taken for his guidance : —1 . Parliamentary sanction ; 2 . The canons in force ; 3 . The ecclesiastical common law ; 4 . Judicial decisions ; 5 . Usage and custom . Dividing the appointment of a church into —1 . Articles of necessity and utility ; and 2 . Articles of ornament , —he placed the cross in the latter category , and proceeded to apply to it tho law respecting ornaments . At the first glance , it would appear that nothing could be simpler than to follow the notice in the Prayer-book , that " such ornaments shall be lawful as were in use by the authority of Parliament iu the second year of King Edward VI . " But the difficulty consists in the fact that there is no legal evidence of what was so in use at that period . As Dr . Lushington said— " I am ordered by Act of Parliament to conform myself to what has been prescribed by authority of Parliament , and nothing has been prescribed by that authority . " The voice of Parliament being mute , tho evidence of contemporaneous exposition of law and usage is all that re wains ; and , in interpreting this the distinctive principles of the Reformation , and the known opinions and practices of the Reformers , as being nearest the period referred to in ( he Prayer-book , must be taken into account . After citing various instances in support of the historical presumption that crosses were not in tise by authority of Parliament in tho second year of Edward VI ., and that they were disallowed by tho principle that tho Reformers abolished whatever was abused to superstitious uses , Dr . I / ushington decrees tho lvmoval of tho crosses from both churches . Passing on to the question of the divera-coloured altar-coverings , he decides that they are not in accordance with tho notice in tho Prayer-book , the Rubric boforo tho Communion offico , and the 82 nd Cnnon , and he orders their removul accordingly . The candlesticks and candles romain to bo disposed of . Tlio ; -o being , to a great extent , articles of utility , and having the sanction of usage in oathodrala , royal chapels , and colleges , aro allowed to remain . The Morning Post concludes by hoping that , as the ecclesiastical law has spoken , the Puseyites ( whom it rather pats on the back ) will behave like good boys , and obey their betters ; adding thnt the Supreme Being will not be offended at the loss of the altars , table-covers , &c , but , submitting to the decree of tho Court of Arches , will tnke the will of Mr . Liddcll and his followers for the deed ! Lest it be thought wo aro scoffing or exaggerating , we refer the reader to the leading columns of the Morning Post of Monday .
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A CHARNEL-PIT IN HOLBORN . I At a meeting of the City Commissioners of Sewers , on Tuesday , Mr . Daw laid before the couvt a report by Dr . Letheby , with respect to the hideous condition of the graveyard of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn . The \ Doctor says : — , " I visited it on Saturday last , and found it to be in so , unwholesome a state that I lose no time in directing your attention to it . The churchyard consists of three parts or divisions . One of these is on the north : side of the church , next to Holborn hill , and is but little used . The other divisions az-e on the south . side of the church , and they are literally crammed with dead bodies . One division—namely , that on the immediate south of the church—abuts on Shoe-lane ; i and , although the soil of the churchyard is from ten to fifteen feet above the level of the road , yet it is rising higher by the daily addition of fresh bodiesin fact , very lately the grave-diggers have found it necessary to support the earth against the railings , by means of planks , in order that the soil and bones may not fall upon the passengers as they travel the public road . When I was in Shoe-lane on Saturday last the policeman on duty directed my attention to the human bones which were actually protruding from the earth , which stood high above the level of the coping to which railings were fixed . " On going into the churchyard , I witnessed the active preparations which were being made for the next Sunday ' s burials . Several graves were already dus ? , and at the bottom of one of them I noticed a coffin , barely covered with earth . In the side of another , a coffin was exposed , - which the gravedigger said had been buried only a few days . Everywhere on the surface of the ground , bones and decaying wood were abundantly scattered about , and the soil itself was saturated with decomposing organic matter ; indeed , it exhibited in a very marked degree that peculiar oily or unctuous quality which is characteristic of the overcharged soil of the London graveyards . I took away a portion of the earth for experiment , and I place before you the disgusting foetid liquor which . I obtained by a distillation of only two ounces of the soil . This will convince yoti that churchyard earth is not so innocent or innocuous a thing a 3 many have supposed . " In all directions the ground was considerably above its natural level , and at my request the gravedigger and his assistant explored it in several directions , in order that I might ascertain at what depth , the coffins were buried . In several places they were not more than three feet from the surface , and in one case the coffin was covered with less than two feet of earth . " On the 9 th of May , 1853 , the Home Secretary ordered the closing of this very yard ; but , with only one day ' s exception , it has remained open ever since , in defiance of the law . Since the commencement of the present year , 1 , 026 bodies have been interred within the ground , giving an average of about twentyone burials a week ; and the entire area is considerably less than an acre . A motion , to the effect that a copy of the report be sent to the Home Secretary , was unanimously carried . One observation irresistibly intrudes itaelf : —This is the very place for Archdeacon Hale .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 1192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2119/page/4/
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