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RIFLE POLITICS.
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BUSfBODrES.
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ducing the presence of ladies at court parties , is said to have urged that an assembly without the feminine institution was like the night without stars ,, Doubtless , due provision will be made for the society of the sexes in the canine ^ asylum—a provision which , political economy , not to say a politic economy , has excluded from parochial almonries . So great is the canine love of society , that numbers of that intelligent race are said to have been bereft of reason for want shall have
of it . Then what a numerous progeny-of dogs we How the canine race -will increase and multiply , for it is not to be supposed that litters xipon litters are to be brought into existence , to be summarily put out again by an aqueous grave . To be serious : the best way of caring for decayed and destitute dogs , is at once to put them out of their misery by painless extinction , and thus preclude the imminent danger of the horrors of hydrophobia , with which we are constantly threatened through the swarms of ill-conditioned eurs that prowl about our streets .
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IT might be disrespect ! ill . . present a , 'o . p-gun Recess , but the chief news after Garibaldi ' s victories and sanguinary murders , which , the daily pampers contain , relate to contests for prizes ahiong the Rifle Volunteers . As far as th . is goes , it has our hearty approval , and We bope that in . due time every parish will have its practising ground , and that we shall be remarkable as a nation of good shots . We cannot , however , eorniiiend the stoppage of all other public business , nor be satisfied if our only diversion from aiming at a target is to be the construction of iron war ships ,
at half a million apiece . If the nature of the property destroyed will add to the pleasures of war , ' a combat between this cquntry and France would be a martial luxury of the most perfect kind . Using thousand , pound bank-notes to make wadding for partridge shooting would be nothing to the cost of an international pounding match ; every discharge would scatter a fortune to shivers ; and when a ship went downy Davy Jones ' s locker would be turned into a Ceicesus ' treasure-house , with an inaccessible key . If this submergence of wealth bought the mermaids new combs , or 1
even furnished tlie herringwith a great coat for the winter , benevolence might find some consolation ; but under the best of circumstances all we could expect would be to prevent one mischief at the cost of another nearly as big . Everybody knows we shall not fight to achieve any positive good . We shall have up Magenta and iEJolferino , liberate an . Italy , nor Will our saltpetre give freedom to ; Hungary , or recal Poland to life . Under these circumstances , if we snoxild have a war , it will satisfy nobody , and its admirers would only be able to commend it upon the ground that we might have dom ?
worse . Such beipg tlie case , we ought to watch / ' narrowly the foreign policy of the Court and Cabinet with a -view to prevent an entanglement in the quarrels of the Qerman . Princes , whose influence appears very powerfulat the present moment , and who seem drifting toyvards dangers they have not the integrity to avoid . . We ought also to perceive that by allowing foreign affair . s to occupy exclusive attention , we are reducing our moral influence in Europe , and by standing still ourselves , we assist reactionary Governments abroad , Jn our home politics we make np advance whatever : and when all
the nations around us are engaged in . a struggle between old notions and new , we do not , in our collective capacity , help the party of progress in any land . If efforts were made to purify our Parliamentary Institutions , and make the Ilouse of Commons a representation of English , intelligence , we should aid every good movement , from the effort in America to elect an anti-Slavery President to that in Russia or the emancipation of the serfs . We should , moreover , materially diminish the chances of our being compelled to go to war 3 for the moment it was known that the power of oux oligarchy was broken , and that if England fought at all , it would be for liberal ideas , wo should render it tolerably certain that no one would quarrel with us .
It is a disgrace to us that , at a moment when to prove the value of Parliamentary Institutions * would be to render a gvoafi service to Europe , we simply oiler the spectacle of a oorrupt , incompetent body , returned by corruption , and ludiorouisij unfit fox every function it ought to perform . While the Session lasted it was a wearisome nuisance ; and now it is over , our scattered M . P . ' a are of no xiso in stimulating opinion , or instructing the people , foreign diplomatists aro puzzled to know what course England would 'take , in given eme ) , 'genoie » > becatise they have no means of ascertaining to
what extent the Court and the Cabinet could successfull y oppose the ; wishes of the people . Every one sees the foll y . of Lord John" Russell ' s constant advice , to everybod y to be quiet , and no one can tell at what point our active intervenTtidn would take place , or on what principles it would be directed . : . Dr . Culien may think it enough to predict the downfall of Napolioon III . for not supporting the temporal power of the Pope ; Mr . Waltee , representing the Times' wisdom ,. may find the fight between Sayers and . Heexast the best of all possible tilings to . establish British influence abroad ; but
their exhibition of mental imbecility , even aided by Dr . Ctjmming ' s rhodomontade on prophecy , ami the ¦ amusing coirespondence on Spirit Rapping in the Moniuuj Star ,- arc insufficient to fill the vacuum caused by the absence of the usual agitation and discussions . to ' which we have beon accustomed . It is gratifying to find from its announcements that the Ballot Society is still determined to keep its great question alive , and if the Constitutional Defence Committee fulfils its promises we shall have some efforts towards a
winter political campaign . / In the ISorth , the Liberals who were snubbed by the Lords , cannot merely intend to pocket the insult involved in the rejection of the Paper Duties Kepeal Bill ; and the Coventry manufacturers , -who mid the Excise an hindrance to their business ,. have learnt-fro ' rii Mr . Gladstone what they ought to have known before , that they , must seek their own benefit in this matter , not by asking for special exemptions in their favoin-, but by cooperating with others for the general good .
We have heard of rewards for the invention ofa ' ricw pleasure— -one might be now ofiered for the discovery of a national grievance the pepple -woulcl pay attention to . There are plenty of grievances important enouglr to do the ' work be of a stimulant , but public vitality is depressed , and the means of raising it lruist be found .
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TXTH 0 does not-know the effect upon a mind endowed with the W slightest pfirticle of sentiment of an old letter envelope m some Swiss solitude ; a soda-water-bottle cork in a Highland g en ; or a fragment of a play-bill among the ferns of a Devonshire dell , or any such shred and emblem of Cockneydom coming upon us when we least expect them ? -. We have known a man disheartened andahiiost spoilt for the day by an odd , oyster-shell , or a bit of crockery , willow pattern . We nmy be quite aware that others have ; probably , been before usMn the out-of-the-way nook or the sublime solitude , but we do not want , to haye the / act obtruded upon our senses by the most vulgar and offensive evidence . , , . . ,, thtis it is with the physical , and it is pretty much , the same . in the cti £ » of the morally beautiful and magnificent . Hut how often arc we doomed to find the well-known text reversed into ; Wl y a-o the . eagle is there are the carcases gathered together . Incrc is scarcely a glorious forest conflagration , occurring by calamity or lor clearance , round which the apes and monkeys do not peer and gibber , even those who , residing in forests at a considerable distance , are not supposed to have any doep personal interest m tho event . John . Quoin ' s " May I be there to sco " is themotto of ohimLa . Thanks to railroads , and other facilities , there is nobody now who may riot , if he . hpa a , few pqunds in his pocket , not only soo butmix himself up , whether wanted or not wanted to ; nearly any <» lent with the morally sublime , not so .-much , probably , irom "Wf " . ) . as curiosity , and , if lio uses moderate caution , without ^ I ^ ™ " his personal safety . Bu . h SvKlss may specula *) on tho ^» -ueinl » lui > of jiixro . FAGi / may at onco lmyo shared in tho ontlu ^ iasn of tho entoumejo of the Piunck oik WaIks and Duko of NtwoABivv , picked a ppokot or two , listonocUo tho roar of an Amorican enliiact , and retired to write letters to the Yankco nowspapei'a In met , I fcio is np end of tho amusement to bo got , ami tho cupitul to l » o nmao out of tho groat moral movemonts and patriotic struggles that mo and have X » een going on , in various parts of tho ourth » » "J' « 'JFormerly , the eohoefl of » u 6 h doings boomod with clignijy ivo f , i , \ e dim distance , and * nado a solemn impression ; no ^ v reluy "itor rcUiv w the mciiu » itive come buck from tho scene ot action , full of linn JJ ohattev abcart . pavtioulars , and the quostion is whowhall nrst ^ ft his wallet of gossip . Should wq have a groat naval ^ W ^ S Hpmo non-pvo * bfl » ional lookor-on will bo found to Uuvo got hunjj » perched , ' by some inconcoivaWo meanH , in tho crow « nest of tno llag ^ liip 5 and unauthorised inspootovs—wo do not horo » I > 0 JK"J men of tho liross '—are rowdy to poor at the movomonts pi ; our nmjt » with mpre qugor attention tlian that with which tho civilian do yuoj of tho Pronoh Con volition ombarrauwd its goiierals , or tlio « igoni * o \ ir oww hong Pnrihununt worried their-own rowndhoad ollwois . t Tho regular ' nawHpniiop reportor ' ii occupation w » Jm 0 Bt , S , ' boomiso imndrodH m-o rwuly to voluntoer into his » mco , paw , ihowffh ' Qllon-oxiwcjtiiJg payjnont in tho way of iiotonoty , ^ J so ™ J sort 6 fseJfta ( lvorUB 0 mont . ftoUn ovent . of importance oooiirs ,, clopei a upon it , of wh ? oh ilmro has boon tlur ' loast prior * ntmV *™*\ u : which tho bndluw buvrirttor , tho hohdtvy-waking . 1 ™™ ° "; . ' JJ novelist in Hcwph qI ' u hint , w > a tho parkaijiontpry ww " \ , K , f ' J a l t $ Bubjeptm-onotdulyrepre ^ mon who aro doing , the red business , and w , ho , wouW be glad onougn
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87 $ The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Oct . 20 , i 860
Rifle Politics.
RIELE POLITICS .
Busfbodres.
BUSf BODIES .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1860, page 878, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2370/page/6/
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