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influence of the excitement created by Pbeston Bbooks and his ferocious attack , to pay an extraordinary deferenc e io foreign opinion , and , if present appearances can be trusted , they will rather sacrifice the Union than not pursue the crusade of Abolition *** If' they &&m e > ff this deference to foreign dfc <* fion , they will « tet aside for the time these disturbances of fa&wSfe , ¦ Bfill seek ' the m& . " that can bdSteepresent Am&fea as the most exper<ced * a § West disth > glifen \ ea American on the cdrds , an the most lik ' ely to carry the Administration through , in harmony -with American , opinion and feeling . Some Americans
but if ©» e set of dmsfgfcwere enumerated in an Index " ex ^ rgfttoYius US poisons , only to be sold under safef restrictroiis , tne poison-seeking public would so < S £ find out in the rharmacopcei a other drugs q . « Sie as deadly -which can be extracted from the cortMWonest articles ift daily use , or 4 $ 6 n fotfml anWW ^ thcf domestic- « W «^ crftee .
see no alternative except to satisfy the Eaglfeh Court with Mim . a'rd' FiME / MoftE , or Exeter H » 1 I ¦ with FHEMOirf . At home , descending from the stage of a higher Solitical action , vre have had a few ifffeWStrfrg emonstrations , or displays . Mr . Gladstone has appeared as the spokesman in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , and'of Church extension at home ,
speaking at Liverpool and at Mold in Flintshire . The great propositions of his speeches were , that in . the colonies it is only human nature if the settlers do not make a first adequate provision for tlte maintenance of their Church , and that Societies at home must therefore begin by assisting them . But , he said , the colonization of the Anglo-Saxon race amounts to the propagation of Protestantism and G-ospel throughout the world . So that he trusted t © colonization even more than to direct ecclesiastical action . This was all eloquently said , but it is not hopeful for establish- ' ments ^ fer incorporated creeds . ' AnotKer colonization scheme promises to be a failure . The German Legion is invited to go to the Cape of Good Hope , on the easy condrfcions of a paid passage , an allowance . of land , and a few days' military service in the year . The Legion has been disbanded as a preparative for its emigration . But , will , it go ? Of this there is the greatest doubt . Some may probably take the Voyage , a- few may ultimately become' settlers ; but many will linger about in tlie outskirts of Europe , iri the hope of the next war . Really there seems to be some prospect that their hopes may be realized .
Lord Stanlet has been involved in another species of movement , or rather wool-gathering ; though here he has succeeded in casting the wool back upon the responsible gatherers . The United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the iliquor Traffic invited him to lie one of its preachers on behalf of temperance , and to agitate for the enactment of something like a Maine ILkfiior Law in this coimtry . Lord Stanley objects , in the first place , that enactments which go against the public grain are only a premium to evasion . It is less a moral obligation to
abstain from -wine than to attend divine -worship , yet the Jaw compelling- attendance on divine ¦ worship is a dead letter ; and it is but a small minority that would compulsorily enforce abstinence . Lord Stan let , therefore , declines to be the handle in the attempt to get a statute for regulating the dessert-table of the British family . xf we were to have a law on such subjects at all , it would appear that we should look for a statute to restrain the excessive drinking of laudanum and other poisons . A case before the police-court , this week , illustrates both the propensity to that form of drink and the facilities . A Mr . Iior-KiNSON has a large connexion as a drug dealer in Derbyshire , and a shop in Broad-street .
KatcUffe-highyyay , He has wedded a wife who is now only twenty years of age ; he is also , to use his own expression , " addicted to drinking : " the magistrate described him as * ' verging on delirium tremens . " He travels about much . His wife is unhappy in his absence ; unhappy , it would appear , in his presence . She has lately—so it was said at the police-court—accommodated her own nabita to his . While lie is wandering about iJetbyBhvre or elsewhere , the shop is left in net charge , and the drugs were dispensed py a woman unlearned in chemistry , yield-™ / i ;? * , Jactations of intoxication , and SmSf ^ '* i mind that at last she ™ ries her tn « I ^ l J ^ ° ofo P 8 « ffieicnt to kill JS ' ^ . ^ Uc instantly renews its cry for a low to rostraui the eale of poison . Now it vrocld be posaible to Require that a ? drugs should U sold with diBtinct BUtementa as to their nature ;
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A&E&IGA . Th « £ resicfeHtia , l content is n < 9 * nearly absorwfcg the 1 attrition # t < H * e citizeWS of t&ff United Stm& far John ^ fldB ? < ne Kno ^ 4 WffiiiT ^ "free Soil c&H&Iate , has ' declined nomination , and given his adhesion to Mr . Fremont , according to one account , and to Mr . Dayton , according to another . It is thought that the " Whigs of Baltimore will declare in favour of Mr . tilhti&re . An attempt ia Ma-jyleftd ( a slave-bolding sta-fee ) to organize a Fremont parky , in the interests of the anti-slavery section , has ended in . a riot . Mass meetings are being held is tfctf interests 6 f the Various political bodies ,- and no efforts are spared by the-candidates . . PtacMo de Castro , who h-as been en trial before the United States district court , charged with fitting out the slave brig Braman , has been acquitted .
California has returned to its normal state . The Vigilance Committee has disbanded , Laving discharged Judge Terry with a recommendation to resign . The termination of the existence of the committee was not marked by further disasters or violence . Their forces paraded in full strength , numbering from six to ten thousand men . Many were mounted , fully equipped for cavalry service , and bearing their colours and badges . Judge Lecompte , of Kansas , has written a long letter in vindication of his course of action in sustaining the proceedings of the Missouri border lufnaus . Ihe civil war continues / and the Free State men have built a fort
at Laurence , said to be capable of holding one thousand men . The state prisoners have been released on bail ; an event which has been celebrated' at Laurence by a great jubilee . Governor Geary has issued a proclamation , commanding all armed bands to disperse . Acting Governor " Woodson , of Kansas , has been addressed by the Kansas State Central ( Free Soil ) Committee , who demanded the dismissal of the man-hunting parties in the terr itory . To this address he returned a reply , imputing 1 all the calamities of the inhabitants to the conduct of General Lane and his partizans , and concluding by demanding implicit obedience to the proslavery laws of the territory .
Matters are still in suspense in INicaragua . All the native inhabitants have resolved to terminate their political dissensions for a time , in order to unite for the expulsion of Walker , and Don Fernando Guzman has been unanimously appointed Provisional President . Eivas and Estradaj the Leads of tlie conflicting native factions , have waived their claims so as not to obstruct the common cause . There have been no further attempts in Mexico against the Government ; but Vidaurri is endeavouring to find paitizans in JZacatecas . The Government has commissioned a scientific expedition to explore the mines in the peninsula of Lower California .
The convention between England and Honduras , relative to the Bay Islands , has been published . The contracting powers " agree to constitute and declare the islands of Ruatan , Bonacca , Helena ( XTtila , and Barbaretta , situated in tlie Bay of Honduras , a free territory under the sovereignty of theR-opublic of Honduras . " All foreign domination is to cease , and the inhabitants are to haye the right of self-government , freedom from taxation , excepting such , as may be imposed by their own muni ^ aiity , exemption from military service , except for the defence of the free territory and -within its bounds , trial by jury in their own courts , and . religious
freedom . "The Republic of HomluTas engages not to exercise its rights of sovereignty over the islands which are to constitute such free territory in any manner in violation of the rights and immunities specified . The Republic also engages not to ore
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IWR * GLADSTONE AT LIVEUPOOL AND MOLD . iSL ' SSf ????? . deliverel **<> . speeches in connexion WTraCh ^ fch ! Missionary efforts on Monday . The second mJSSIfS , *^ ' ^ 1 " iD the evenin & a * the annual « T * 222 f t * J T % ° ? he Pr ? P ag ati ^ of the Gospel £ S ^ J ?*^ ' - " * the Collegiate Institution . The £ ? S 2 L £ £ £ the Chair ' and some remarkB were * u ** by the Dean of Cape Town , who said that vwJf' S k > ^^ last ™ r in A ™ V * STSSm V % ^ w ^ r " ' at anexrense of 40 , 000 ? ., JfticaHed k Fort Waterloo . After the war was over he had seen . th * Kaffirs dance upon the foundations of the fort . JJat on St . Luke's-aay , two years since , the foundations of a school were laid , and to this the natives brought down the stones from Fort " Waterloo . " In the
course of his speech , Mr . Gladstone - ( after revievinir the financial position of the Society , and approving of their plan of granting monetary assistance to the cl « r < rv of colonies in the first difficulties of early settlement " and of Trithholding it after those difficulties are ovcO made an historical retrospect , glancing back to the neriod when the Society was started . He said : —" It was founded at a time whicli ^ in reference to the best pur poses of our nature , I am afraid we must call an . evil time , for , undoubtedly , although the . Revolution of 1 G 88 was , in the hands of God , the means of preservin «• to us the inestimable blessings of our civil and religious freedom , yet we cannot but see , not in any just relation to that revolution or its causes , yetj as a matter of fact daring the last century , and from Us very commencementthere in
, came a rapid decline in the religion and morality of the British people . As the consequence of tliat , a great relaxation of the discipline of the Church a material lowering of the standard of its piety , and , as tlie last result again , or at least the necessary result of these lamentable circumstances , a great multiplication of the religious differences of the country . In full time , darkness had begun to gather in , and , while it was beginning to increase , this Society was founded by some of those who were the elect of their generation . The men vlio endeavoured to stem the tide of ungodliness at home were likewise the men who endeavoured to make provision for the interests of their fellow-subjects and fellow-Christians abroad . During all those . generationsduring those dreary years of the last century—this Society ceasedfrom its work
never , . " Referring to the great question of colonization , Mr . Gladstone observed that Spain , Germany , Italy , and France are not colonizing nations , and that England pre-eminently i 3 . Hint , asked the speaker , " is it enough that you multiply tbe inhabitants of this earth ? Is it enough that you provide them ¦ with the meat which perishes ? Is it enough that you add wider and wider spaces to our dominions ? Is it enough that you exult in thinking how ' many races of men there are that speak your language , that obey your laws , that own allegiance to your Sovereign , irr that , in the essential particulars of social and human life , recal perpetually the origin from which they sprang ? Is this enough or is it not ? It was "beautifully said , by a writer of great imagination , that , if you reared up men with cultivated tastes , with the knowledge and the habits of civilization , with the means of indulging these tastes , and of surrounding themselves with the
comforts of life , and i f at the same time they remained ignorant of that guidance which leads them heavenward , you were only preparing a more costly banquet to satiate tho appetite of death . And that is true . Colonial empires , it is reasonable to believe , will exist—their cities will be reared , and will be in the closest relations with you , foi the network of j'our commerce reaches over the whole earth . You know yourselves how incessantly both its extent and its relations arc increasing ; but shall these people be people rejoicing above all things in tho knowledge of tho living God ? That is a question which , humanly speaking , wo have ¦ to answer . It is the function of this Society—it is her especial privilege—that she manages to be peculiarly wanted at that season of weakness and of infancy to which I have already endeavoured to call yonr attention . It is her business to prevent a fatal interval during whitli tho sound of tho narno of God should bo forgotten . And well does it know how difficult it is to restore tho
dominion of society when once it has been extinguished . She calls on you to did her in this grout work . Sho shows you tho nature of the rules by winch sho ia governed ( hear , hear )) her voice comes to you , and , while sounding from her agents in this country , is likewise a voice that comes across ov « ry Bca that compasses the four quarters of tho globe ; it is tlie voice oi' tho settlers who live in the colonies , your children , your brothers , your greatest and your dearest friends ( V'" < - mendous checriny ); it is tho -voico of that devoted ministry which is now discharging all the ^ iiiritunl duties in thes British colonies , an such a manner a ? , without the smallest desire to create an invidious comparison , I -would say draws down upon them tbe respect and tho admiration of all among whom they live . " He concluded by exhorting tho assembly to inquire into the doings of tho Society , and to support thorn .
The meeting at Mold , in Flintshire , in tho morning , waa prosided over by the Bishop of St . A « aph . The speech made by Mr . Gladatono anticipate *! in ft g »' cllt degreo Iho address delivered at Liverpool in tlio evening . Of the withdrawal of the Quccn ' a letter ho said : — "I
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 938, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2161/page/2/
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