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LATEST ASPECTS OF NAPOLEONISM. Louis Nap...
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MODERN HERALDRY. (7b ihe Editor of the L...
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A QUESTION ABOUT THE STOCKPORT RIOTS. Sr...
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" C. IUuki'.u," Halifax, in inforinod (h...
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The Police Of Religion. Eqtjalitt For Al...
hat , it implies a moral pusillanimity in which we cannot sympathize . Neither can we sympathize in the Achilli triump h . If Giacinto Achilli had been a singer or an artist— -had been free in his mode of lifehad indulged the passions which it would have been the business of his profession to illustrate , we mig ht have said that nothing but a most sickly form of hypocrisy could have called him to account for licences which are freely indulged in
by every man of the world : but , when he appears as the solemnly sworn custodian of a code which condemns these licences , —when he appears especially as the denouncer of a corrupt church , aud when , in turn , he is accused by witnesses from every country and town that has ever tracked his footsteps , of a life more stained by carnal indulgences , —nay , more abandoned to the grossest animal propensities than is tolerable even in secular persons , we watch the proceedings with unaccustomed interest ; we see that the
confusedly precipitate acquittal of the jury , acclaimed by the clap-trap jubilations of the Judge , is followed by a burst of indignant censure or satire from the journals of almost every opinion ; and seeing those facts , which we state simply as facts , we cannot sympathize in the exultation of the ultra-protestants over the rehabilitated virtue of their brazen apostate . We do not understand how principle can be maintained safely and permanently by the policeman , by the prohibition of hats , or by the preaching of Achilli .
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LATEST ASPECTS OF NAPOLEONISM . Louis Napoleon , hemmed in and harassed on all sides , turns and turns , like a squirrel in a cage . Agitation without progress is the fatal deadlock to which seven months of upstart domination have brought the quasi-imperial impostor . He presents measures to his own creatures for ratification : public opinion , once more alive , and confronting the insolence of success , compels him to desist . Public opinion is again supreme : if it have not a press , it speaks through the mouth of countless citizens . Assailed by all
parties , like a tree by all the winds , Bonapartism rears a lofty crest , while it is sapped to its roots by secret decay . Created by force , it is maintained by force : but if that force waver through defection , or conspiracy , or contempt ? And a power that has bfeen once bought may be bought again b y a new bidder . It begins to be felt at the Elysee , that narrow is the strip of ground on which the foot of usurpation rests , and that all around is quicksand . Hence the violence which is weakness does not ; , even yet , make way for the clemency which is strength . Every week
confirms our anticipations , expressed last December ou the very scene of the disaster . Despotism has proved a purgation . The lettered bourgeoisie are once more the heirs of the Revolution , and the firstborn of freedom . The very creature of tho tyrant , fashioned , as the clay by the potter ' s band , to register its own and tho nation ' s servitude , smites its maker on the cheek ; and a devoted knot of sixty men , headed by whomP—by the CorypIucuB of iho defunct Party of Order , by ihe apologist of the Inquisition , M . do Montalembert ! has aroused a spirit of resistance that
makes oven iron-handed despotism cower and recede . Conspiracy , too , driven from its secret strong-holds , steaks abroad like a pestilence , and permeates fhe very atmosphere . The army is exposed to incessant seductions from those who can promise all ( he hero of December has . 'fo rgotten lo perform . And what do wo hear ot this great benefactor of France contemplating ( or the revival of his decaying inlluenoeP A J etc iu flie Chumps _Klysees , at " whioh the dregs of the populace are to be regaled with the _ilre _^ . s of Ihe imperial cellars . Sueh is tho solution of the
social problem , fo which Napoleonisin , at its wit ' s _' ¦ "d , is fo invito the intelligence of Prance , and the admiration of lOurope . Feasts und . shows 'ire to reeal fhe splendours of fhe Lower Empire : ; , _n il the frantic debaucheries of fhe ruling _gainblei's , in the midst of au impoverished population , as if fb < - havoc of tho natiomil exchequer , J | s il ( , ho universal suspicion that haunts the ureaiim of fhe spoilers , were not enough fo make ' be hideous anachronism complete !
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O . _UKHTIONH _I'Olt _OONSURVATIVKH . " _Lo , \« live Lord _Doi-hy , " says Lord M ' liidiilone ; " I ' oi "Iter bi m-tlio deluge . " ' Will ' . Lord Maidstone fell iih —
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Is Lord Derby the Noah of modern days , or the Methuselah ? The Zoological Society cannot but feel some anxiety touching its collection : would Ministers say whether any steps have been taken to prepare an ark ? It is said that Lord Malmesbury only holds office until the arrival of Lord Stratford : wben will Lord Malmesbury be able to let his Mather know he ' s out ? The Conservative Ministers have eaten white-bait , officially , on a Tuesday , thus betraying the prescriptive Saturday ; having previously given up Protection : what is to be the third treachery ? Is it to be the Protestant succession ?
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[ IN" THIS DEPAETMENT , AS ALL OPINION'S , HOWEVER EXTREME AEE ALLOWED AH _EXPBESSKW , THE EBITOE NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELE RESPONSIBLE _IOE WOKE . ]
There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess lie hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened _, and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . —Milton .
Modern Heraldry. (7b Ihe Editor Of The L...
MODERN HERALDRY . ( 7 b ihe Editor of the Leader ?) Sir , —In your paper of the 12 th , you allude to a practice of the day which deserves a good many allusions , —deserves as much a little healthy satire as any modern absurdity I know . You arc speaking of nobody caring now for " the families ; " and you say " even tbe heralds are giving tbeir ' achievements' to any Snooks or Briggs that wants tbe traditionary symbols of illustrious exploits ' found' for him . " On this point , I wish to say a few words .
There is a great deal of misunderstanding afloat in England about armorial bearings . Very few people seem to know that nothing can justify tbeir adoption but one of two things , —cither a modern " grant , " which is expensive , and , for any purpose of " gentility , " quite worthless ; or personal descent from ancestors entilled to them . In old times , Avhen tbey meant something , when tbey were insignia , and marks of gentility , they were either " granted" as a mark of tbe
individual ' s ascent into tbe gentry , or—which is the noblest origin—bad been borne by the family from time immemorial . The heralds' visitations were ordered to reform the abuse of their indiscriminate assumption , and laws have been made both in Scotland ami England to punish that . At all events , the wearing them , even a hundred years ago , was a thing considered as much a privilege as wearing a coronet is the privilege and murk of a . peer .
You will remember bow Mr . Osborne , in l anUy /'' air , assumes ( af the suggestion of the Long-acre coach-maker , ) the arms of thi ! Duke of Leeds . His mistake is tbe mistake—though impudence would often be the proper word --of thoso who astonish I _' uddington and Bayswafer with gaudy barbarisms . Arms are the mark of families , not , ol names ; many branches of the same family bave quite dill'erenf anus ; and flint similarity of name , in tbe absence of all other evidence , justifies the belief of consanguinity , is a most ridiculous fallacy . We know that the majority of Seymours conic not from the Norman St . Mauk , but rather from tbe
. Norman scymer , or tailor ; that the mass ol Scoffs arc so called as Scots or Scotsmen , and are not relatives ol Sir Walter , or bis chief , Huccleiigh . . Hut tbe arms arc fhe family properly of these illustrious people , and ought to bo as sacred as their family vaults , ( or any other old melancholy properties , ) from the invasions of the () i < esuses of tripe-selling , and tho Diveses of tallow . The * ' finding" business is , indeed , a ridiculous one . If goes upon a , simple principle , Croesus of the tripe , or Dives of the fallow , sets up n carriage , and must have " arms" upon if , —emblems which arc as meaningless lo ' him as the _I'hninieiiui words in tho Vumulus of
Modern Heraldry. (7b Ihe Editor Of The L...
Plautus , or , perhaps , the Latin words of the play itself He goes to a " heraldic office , " to have them " found . " And where are they " found ? " The heraldic sage turns up the recondite pages of "Burke ' s Armory , " which contains every coat of arms ever borne in the three kingdoms , from the beginning . Of course the " search , " which consists of opening that octavo , — laborious process !—is rewarded , in many , cases , by . the " finding" the name . Somebody of the name is pretty sure to have had arms , or somebody of a name very like
it ; or , it is easy to " combine your information , " perhaps , and concoct a coat by blending a couple I The other day I saw an amusing instance of this kind of thing . Brown is not a fine-sounding name , but there was a very old Scotch family of that name , from which the metaphysician , Dr . Thomas Brown , was descended Recognising the chevron between three fleur-de-lis , I inquired if the bearer was Scotch ? He did not even claim Scotch descent ; but had , it seems , laid profane hands on the shield , —truly to him a Scriblerus shield , a mere pot-lid , with sham cerugo on it !
Now , all this is harmless enough , somebody may say ; why grudge a poor devil his harmless mendacity ? why waken him from his mentis gratissimus error ? let Christopher Sly continue to believe himself a duke ? Just so ; but , Sir , is not this most miserable apery of aristocracy one of the curses of the middle class ? I say that this kind of thing is only an ugly outward sign of a real flunkeyism , of an indifference to moral independence ,- —to the happiness of the working classes , —to anything like good true moral feeling ! What
" capitalist" will ever learn what he ought to be , and what he ought to do , if he is trying , with all his might , not to be a man , but to be an aristocrat ? The Herald ' s College , to do them justice , make a man pay for adorning his ears—through his nose I But the assumer of " arms found , " —the fellow who ties another man ' s kettle to bis tail ! what shall we say of him ? Let him have donkeys for " supporters , " and go the entire animal ! Your obedient servant , Pleb .
A Question About The Stockport Riots. Sr...
A QUESTION ABOUT THE STOCKPORT RIOTS . _Srn , —I have just been reading the account given in the Times of to-day respecting the at once disgraceful and melancholy riots which bave lately taken place at Stockport ; and on glancing over the names of the detected riotors , I find , with very few exceptions , indeed , that these now imperilled parties are all Irish ; not eight , perhaps , out of the 108 , said to be so taken up , but who may supposed to be either of Hibernian birth or lineage . Now , there seems to me something very strange in such a circumstance ; and tbe more especially when I consider ( taking the above-mentioned account
as my guide ) that in the early part of the disturbance but few captures were made ; for that it was only after tbe military were brought to assist the civil power , that any efficient resistance could be offered to either of the classes so fearfully engaged in this wild and dismal outburst of ignorant religious animosity ; and , at this period it was , that tbe no-popcry maniacs were having it all their own way , ransacking house after bouse , breaking into the chapels , and striking down , or hunting forth every object of their enmity , even to tho husband and son of a poor woman , who was then lying upon her bed of child-birth , flow then is it , I cannot
help asking myself and as through your kindness I . would also ask the reader—that so few ( if any ) of the _Knglish portion of these misguided combatants wo observed in the list of the captured—among those " 108 ruffianly-looking fellows , of whom sixty were sulVering from wounds received in tbe riot , or in their encounters with flic police when taken into custody . " Roches and Itilcys , Sullivans and _Shaughnessys there are , but as to Russells and Hidleys , Simpsons and Sampsons , thesis appear to have all escaped ; the poor papist processionists , or non-processionists , being mainly led off to prison , although suffering from fractured beads , broken arms , and unroofed homes .
Truly all this seems remarkably strange ; bow it has come about , that the . police , or the soldiers , or the magistracy , havo only captured the Irish pin-lion ol these ! senseless rioters- —these " IOR ruffians ; " while , as I should call them , the equally ruffianly lOnglisb , are still at largo and unsought for ? l'Veling , then , us I do , that the Leader , in the exuberance of its impartiality , and honest conviction of the terrible folly of these religious . strifes , will allow tbe question put in Ibis communication to appear in its pages , 1 so leave the matter , and ain , with all respect , July 1 1 H 52- A I _' OOK llUHIIM / VN .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 3, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03071852/page/15/
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