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October % 1852.] THE LEADER. 947
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EXTENSION OF THE THAMES TO ASIA, AFRICA,...
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WOMAN AGAINST THE " TIMES." The Woman's ...
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October % 1852.] The Leader. 947
October % 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 947
Extension Of The Thames To Asia, Africa,...
EXTENSION OF THE THAMES TO ASIA , AFRICA , AND AMERICA . q < r £ AM is conquering new domains . The sudden ccess to the power of transit between distant a artg by the institution of the Transatlantic Jteamers , scarcely formed so great an advance as the new plans that are now in process of application . To bring England and America within a week ' s sail was a grand conquest , but to bring the western coast of Africa within the range of regular intercourse , to have begun the process of superseding the sail by the engine even for goods and emigration , and to essay the use of vast ships calculated to defy the inequalities of weather , are enterprises that would have been thought wild dreams no longer than a year back . The men of active imagination , like Bridges Adams or Macoregor Laird , find the facts overtaking their reveries , and turning the laugh against the slower intellects .
The very extension of this steam intercourse , with the crossing of many paths , in itself greatly improves the character of the benefit . America has already several lines , and new ones projected . Beside Cunard ' s line , we have the New York line and the West Indian line . The Australian Pacific Mail Steam Company proposes to establish monthly mails connecting Sydney with
Panama , and so with the West Indian line . The Cape already has its steamers . India sends us regular mails by steam ; and the Peninsular and Oriental Company has extended its operations to Australia . The Formosa sailed in July last , to serve in the new extension of bi-monthly mails , including not only China and Singapore , but Australia .
Golden Australia has several lines to herself . Messrs . Kenna , Jones , and Chappie , of Liverpool , have established a line of screw steamers , including the Geelong of 1200 tons , and some smaller ships . The Great JBritain , now belonging to " the Eagle line , " sailed from Liverpool for Australia last month ; she had accommodation for a thousand passengers . The South Sea , of 2000 tons , and the Sarah Sands , the ^ Australian , the Chusan , and the Sydney , 1400 tons , also belong to " the Eagle line . "
Ihe Australian lloyal Mail Steam Navigation Company sends out the Melbourne , of 1800 tons , to sail from Plymouth on the 3 rd instant . The Cleopatra , a private ship , of 1500 tons , has sailed 'from Liverpool . The General Screw Steam Navigation Company has , partly sent out , a magnificent floet , comprising the Queen of the South ,
1800 tons ; the Lady Jocelyn , 1800 tons ; the Jndiaman , 1850 ; the ' Mauritius , 1200 ; Calcutta , 1900 ; and Jlydaspes , 1900 tons . We are awaro that even now we have not exhausted the list ; hut wo have stated enough to show how much has been done in rendering the intercourse with the most remote quarters not only speedy and wil ' iN but habitual .
¦ "ho comfort of these ships ia also greatly in : ulvaneo of the old mode-Is . In those under Mrs . UiiHholm ' s auspices—such as the Caroline Chinholm , a steamer of 2 H 00 tons burden , constructed to carry out 550 young women—perfect comfort aiul decorum are made consistent with great jmmomy . The Queen of the South in a magnificent liotel . And if complaints have been made of K ( > nie other steamers , for want of full uccoiuino-< l : i ( l ( > n—proper enough to bo corrected—it would 'Wloiush the first voyagers to the Croat South J >< l , to sec how fastidious circumnavigators luive grown . 14 in
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' " . yuan , Badagry , Lagos , Old Calabnr , the Wil ' l ' 7 l > F ( ' niil " ( l () •'<> > Ma < leini , an < l Tenerifle . LiuYl . ' l ) iri ( ' Ol" » reformer , Mac ^ i-egor < oiul i lnl ' ro < ul ' » board a species of good-Jo ( . •! ' 1 Uono . divisible among officers and men , , <' > "raKe diHci ,, liIU , and zeal ; a grand cheek UM > "mligniuifc influencoH of the climate . The
slave trade will not withstand this invasion of steady commerce . The exile of the white man will be cheered by the regular intercourse with home . While the paddle and the screw are thus making regular roads across the ocean , strange rumours come from Australia , of a new kind of screw , devised by Thomas Mitchell , on " principle of the boomerang . " A screw propeller on the inscrutable principle of the native weapon is an idea as strange " as a jockey race on the saltatory biped , with honorary front legs—the kangaroo ; but who , in . these days , shall
undertake to pronounce what is possible or impossible P The Funnel is superseding the Sail in the vast landscape of the ocean ; and why should not the boomerang , invented by the human ornithorhynchus jparadoxus , supersede the paddle and the screw , and perhaps teach Queen Victoria's Portsmouth how to bang Louis Napoleon's Cherbourg in the great game of sea fights ? " A game , by the bye , which , when it begins , may be very troublesome to all our ocean steamers , if we do not have a good escort or outfit for those floating inns ; especially if a great statesman , like Malmesbury , should contrive to embroil us with our only sea rival , America .
Woman Against The " Times." The Woman's ...
WOMAN AGAINST THE " TIMES . " The Woman ' s Eights Convention at Syracuse , in the United States , was not an achievement but a symptom . That a great number of women should be collected together for an organized agitation in favour of" woman ' s rights , "—which appear to be more especially political suffrage , equal control over property , and removal of other civil disabilities —is a fact not to be abolished
by ridicule or by overlooking . At the same time , the assemblage " of a great number of ladies of all ages , with the machinery of a convention—its president , its morning and evening session , and its resolutions—before the agitators have acquired the slightest practice , or even insight into the conduct of public business , shows that they are not only incompetent to exercise the functions which they claim , but that they are incompetent to the preliminary task of marching towards those rights by the paths of agitation ; nay , that they have not even got so far as to know their own deficiencies .
That the position of women is far inferior to what it ought to be , is proved by many enormities in our social system . It has been remarked , that if the female infanticide were tried by women , the verdict would often be less narrow-minded and less severe than it is ; since women would enter more into the spirit of the influence that coerces the prisoner against nature . But the same principle may be carried much further : if woman possessed equal control over property , or
to avoid uncertainties , if she possessed a secondary control , or control over a specified proportion , it is most likely that the misery which haunts many an improvident home , would be checked . It is probable , that if women had a share in the franchise , laws relating to the responsibilities o ^ parentage would be seriously modified , and that the canker of society which endows the seducer with impunity , and consigns his victim to no resource but a profession of infamy , would at least begin to be effectually arrested .
That ideas of this kind are making way , is proved by the adhesion which several philosophical and practical politicians are known to have given to the rights of women . One mo . st eminent aiconomisfc and logician , whose works on those abstruse subjects are deservedly as popular as novels , has publicly net forth his anticipation of a time when women of a superior cast shall prefer intellectual labours to the functions of maternity ; leaving such inferior duties to tlioao who
might still be prejudiced in favour of ( ho passion of Ivomco ami Juliel . The convention at Syracuse is a still more tangible . sign . That it nhould be able to produce its elergywoinen , such an the Reverend Antoinette Hrown , its doctresses in medicine , like . Dr . . Harriet . K . Hunt , its editresses and speakers of real merit , proves that the feeling in favour of asserting woman ' s presence ) in public life is making some approach , however distant , to practical fruition .
This kind of advance is not to home ) , by feeble commonplaces like ( hone of ( horospccLahlequakcr , JVlr . ilrighum , who argued ( hat " man was "the objective , wonii ' . n the subjective element , " and thai , each should remain in the allotted " upbore ;" nor by the conventicle ribaldry of the Keverend
C . L . Hatch , congregational minister ; nor yet by the elaborate ridicule of the Times . The leading journal devotes an inordinately long article to a resumS of the speaking in the Convention , somewhat dry , although interlarded with jocose sarcasms . The Times calls the Convention the sample of a " petticoat parliament , " laughs at the " anti-male and female movement , " ridicules
some of the pedantries and crudenesses in the conduct of business ,, and , with a ¦ '" proh pudor , " almost applauds the licentious language of Mr . Hatch as " a coarse test , " which was " sufficient to prove that his hearers were women , in spite of themselves . " It did no such thing ; it only proved that the Ueverend C . L . Hatch was incompetent to understand the practical principles of fitness or unfitness to the occasion , which are
the basis for rules of decency . The arguments against the Convention are not to be found in the intruders who violated its presence , nor in the tripping commonplaces of the Times , but in the acts of the Convention itself . When Doctor Harriet Hunt declares that " untold sorrows have driven women into convents , " like those of the Shakers , and when she asks what is the social status of a single woman without professional independence , she points to facts and urgent questions ; but when it is assumed that the position of woman is to be attained directly through a political enfranchisement , or snatched by suddenly enduing male titles and male costume , the agitators prove that they do
not understand the method of advancing any totally new principle in society . To put a woman into coat and trowsers , and call her " Doctor , " is to contradict every sympathy in favour of her sex , and practically to make her the scarecrow of the opinion she advocates , protecting it against all approach or adhesion . Before even the first steps of progress can be made , it is necessary to clear away false facts with which advocates obstruct their own advance , such as the assumption that women have a capacity not unequal to that of man , for the arts and sciences . Independently of educational training , there is no more evidence of any such coequal capacity than there is of coequal muscular power .
There are , in fact , only two concurrent methods of working out practically any new law alien to the recognised opinions of any community . One method consists in expounding the principle , which ia much more easily received into the body of theory or abstract reasoning , to stand there on record for practical enactment in due course , than it is to be pieced together in the form of a systematic plan , amongst institutions framed on different principles . The principle of Pree-trade was accepted in every standard authority , even by Peel , while still the practical advocate of Protection , long before the enactment of
Corn-law . Repeal was possible . Hie other method is , to carry out the principle in individual conduct so far as that is practicable within the range- of existing compulsory laws . If all 2 > ersons who thought that women ought to have equal civil rights with man , were never to flinch from the avowal of such an opinion , and always conceded the right in their own conduct , the working of the principle Avould be reconciled by degrees to the gen oral usage ; and the party entertaining the opinion , by thus mustering its numbers , would attain to a knowledge of its real strength . It is the curse of all reforms just now that those who advocate them leave the work of
¦ promoting them to somebody else , and wait to enjoy the advantage when it shall have been earned by the labour of other hands . Thus many an emancipated woman of the present day walks in the livery of bondage , disguises . the numbers asking for enfranchisement , and scolds Parliament for not ; decreeing liberty on speculation . In all great emancipations of mankind , individuals work out their freedom first , Ihe herd follows , and enacted law comes lagging last .
Napoleon Hijklrsqijki) 15v Honaj'alttk. ...
NAPOLEON HIJKLRSQIJKI ) 15 V HONAJ'AltTK . AntowNinon at that strange human phenomenon , who in France is styled Honaparto , at his pro-Ki'Qss , his acts , the symbols he employs , and the wonderful success he meets with , we have seriously endeavoured to discover the meaning of it all , and lay it bare to the world . By every post from . France we have learned how that section of society , which deals in high and transcendental mysteries , calling itself the Priesthood , looks with unmistakcable roveronco on him who watt once a Prisoner at Ham , and is now President oi
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 2, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02101852/page/15/
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