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948 THE LEA D ER. [Saturday,
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THE LAST CARD. "Was find that Mr. Disrae...
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There is uo leamedmm but -will confess h...
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BABEL. (From a various Correspondence." ...
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— Czardom is destroyed: Donald Nico3l ap...
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—• The Guardian demands that there be a ...
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•— Mr. C. Dickens has made an appeal to ...
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¦— If any man feels choleraic symptoms, ...
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— Sorely it will be possible before long...
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*— There is a dealer in townwitli a Titi...
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—- The people must be educated, eays eve...
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— Jullien ia to open her Mnjesty'a Theat...
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948 The Lea D Er. [Saturday,
948 THE LEA D ER . [ Saturday ,
The Last Card. "Was Find That Mr. Disrae...
THE LAST CARD . "Was find that Mr . Disraeli has addressed the following letter to some insane provincial confederac y which appears to be called the BlackDurn Protestant Association . It confirms the hints we have recently given of Tory policy for next session . " Hughenden Manor , Sept . If . •* ' Sir , —I have the honour of acknowledging tlie
receipt of your letter of the 7 th inst ., communicating to me the thanks of the Blackburn Protestant Association , for certain observations made by me at the close of the late session of Parliament , with xespect to the present anomalous condition of the constitution of these realms , and the great dangers which may consequently ensue to the rights of all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects , both Protestant and Eoman Catholic .
* 'I beg you to offer the Association my thanks for this mark of their approbation ,-which I value . Public men , in this country , depend upon public confidence . Without thai they are nothing . " Far from -wishing to make the settlement of this all-important question a means of obtaining power , I would observe that I mentioned at the sume time , in my place , the various and eminent qualifications wfaich I thought Lord John Eussell possessed for the office , and ray hope tliat he would feel it his duty to undertake it .
"In that case I should extend to him the same support which I did at the time of the Papal aggression , when lie attempted to grapple with a great evil ; though he was defeated in his purpose by the intrigues of the Jesuit party , whose policy -was on that occasion upheld in Parliament -with eminent ability and unhappy success by Lord Aberdeen , Sir J-ames Graham , and Mr . Gladstone . ¦ " I still retain the hope that lord John Russell will seize the opportunity , which he unfortunately lost in
• 1851 , and deal with the relations in all their bearings of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects to oux Protestant constitution . But , however this may be , there can be no doubt that , sooner or later , the work must be done , with gravity , I trust , and with as little heat as possible in so great a controversy , but ¦ with earnestness and , without equivocation ; for the continuance of the present state of affairs must lead i nevitably "to civil discord , and perhaps , to national disaster .
" Believe me , Sir , your very faithful servant , " B . Disbaem . "The R « v . Christopher Robinson . " Mr . Disraeli means one of several things . By placing lord John Russell in the Durham-letter dilemma , and in invidious contrast with the " Jesuit party , " Mr . Disraeli may merel y mean temporary inconvenience to the Coalition . Every other trick having failed , this may
answer-He may mean to propose a permanent policy fox the Tory party , which was created hy its sympathies with a Catholic dyaasty , and to oppose the liberalism of the age on the only ground on which he would he sure of the enthusiasm of the bigoted , the ignorant , and the wicked . Or he may mean genuine statesmanshipto advocate civil and religious liberty , and , as the champion of an insulted minority , to crush Spoonerism for ever by defining that the Roman Catholic is iv citizen on perfect equality with Protestauta under free institutions .
In either of the two first cases Mr . Disraeli would mean a political infamy ; and , in the latter case , a political blunder . In the one case ^ he would bo appealing to sectarian passions at a moment when wo arc in alliance with Catholics to defend Mahommedans ; and in the other case , he would bo inappropriately and prematurely a "Liberal . This is , in any case , the last card of Tory pQlicy—a Protestant cry in a European
convulsion ,. It ia somewhat degrading to Mr . Disraeli , as indicating the decay of his intellect and the deadening of bis conscience , that as ho completes his half century ho should bo filching his statesmanship from a school -which was founded by Titus Oates and is adorned by Dr . Gumming ; and it must be a mortification to tho Tory party tliat its Christianity is put in political charge of a Hebrew-Anglian who is grateful to Judas for tho caress which aooured the comfort of salvation to a race of flat-nosed Prank a .
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There is uo leamedmm but -will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , anxL his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , "betolerablefor his adversary to write . —Milxoh .
Babel. (From A Various Correspondence." ...
BABEL . ( From a various Correspondence . " ) — Here is the paragraph . of the week t it ia an advertisement : " The Weekly Dispatch , of Sunday next , October the 8 th , -will contain full aad authentic particulars of the glorious victory by the Allies over the Russians at Alma ; the retreat of the enemy , triumphant . capture of Sebastopol , and surrender of the Russians , gairison and fleet ; -with the official despatches and latest details at the moment of Publication . Orders may be given for the Dispatch to all Newspaper Agents in Town and Country ; and at the Office , 139 , Fleet-street , Xpndon . " What a comfort that the JDispatck -will tell us all about the capture of Sevastopol—though it does not seem to have been captured . Ought not the deluded Dispatch to bring an action against the leading journal and the following gobe-mmickes ?
— Czardom Is Destroyed: Donald Nico3l Ap...
— Czardom is destroyed : Donald Nico 3 l appeals to the electors of Frome ; the events are coincident : and both must be noticed . As Democrats , we are bound to give nine times nine : ( if" the nurmber is not offensive ) that a tailor ventures to intrude into the Venetian constitution . D . N . is a Xiberal : professionally is for measures , not men . It will be a curious question in a count out , Mr . Nicoll being a member in the 40 , whether he should count as 1 or l-9 fch . What can be his object in going into Parliament ? Has he any design against Mr . Dmnconibe ? Observe that he is in favour of an extension of the franchise . Of course he is for an improvement o > f the 403 . freehold : —six for 40 s . is the price .
—• The Guardian Demands That There Be A ...
—• The Guardian demands that there be a new Cabinet Minister , who shall be Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs . Would Sir Eobert Inglis do ? Or Mr . Lucas ? W . J . JFox ? H . Drummond ? A healthy Atheist would be the only impartial man in a Christian country of more creeds than counties .
•— Mr. C. Dickens Has Made An Appeal To ...
•— Mr . C . Dickens has made an appeal to " working men . " He suggests a domiciliary revolution—and anybody , says Mr . Dickens , who does not see that everything is a hobby except house-reform—which Mr . Dickens does not regard as a hobby at all—is guilty of wholesale nvurder . The world of Europe is Tinging with " war : " next session is looked forward to as the period when the British Parliament ¦ w ill prove what craving it has for human freedom : and Mr . Dickens , as cholera diminishes , seizes tlio occasion to tell working men that Parliament is a
lunacy—that the British constitution , is a farce—and that next session must be coerced into devoting itself to house-reform . Mr . Dickens is jhilosophscally vague 5 ho does not in the least toll the working m « n how to set about the domiciliary revolution : so that the amiable moral is that the working classes ought to xaze the big towns . Octavius Augustus left bricked Rome of marble ; Mr . Dickons would have it said that ho found London of sties , and lie loft it—of nothing . How is it he fails to remark that the " People ' s House" does not look after the pcoplo because it contains no people ' s representation ?
¦— If Any Man Feels Choleraic Symptoms, ...
¦— If any man feels choleraic symptoms , let him put his trust in tho castor-oil treatment . That ia the only safe , sound , and rational prescription . Th-ero are , indeed , opinions tho other way . Certain medical journals have thought it their business to indulge in «* remarks" as to tho course pursued by tho Times in reference to the . treatment of cholera by castor oil 5 but the Times answers these profossiona-l writers with tho full force of its " surprise . " It is " surprised"' at its critics . The mcditml council under the Board of Health made a systematic inquiry , amd found that out of 85 ) caaoB there woro 08 deaths undlor the cus-toroll treatment . But what of that ? TUo Times still pronounces it " rational and simple , " and the jouirnnl 3 ma statiatica of its own . " For , " declairea the Tfme 9 , ' a mode of treatment which saves three-fourths of the patients to whom It i » applied , and is fur preferable to
• the old system , which confessedly loses 65 out of 100 . " It is true that the medical council found more than three-fourths of the cases killed , not saved ; but what is the authority of the council to that of the Times on a medical subject ? The " old system confessedly loses 65 out of 1 O 0 , " it is said ; but we have a difficulty in realising an idea of the confession , for this reason—vre do not know what is the " old system . " There is no antiquated treatment of the cholera , and at all
no " system" . However , the Times knows all about it , and has perhaps received exclusive intelligence from the authorities that dispense cholera . At all events this fact is clear : if any man as taken with cholera , he should send for the editor of the Times . If that exalted individual should refer him to Mr Dobie , as the Times appears to do when troubled with embarrassing applications , the patient rnusfc plead the usage of the profession to which the editor belongs , and insist that the medical man must come
when he is summoned . Castor oil no doubt is kept at the office of the journal ready packed , in doses ; it must be good and cheap at that shop .
— Sorely It Will Be Possible Before Long...
— Sorely it will be possible before long to introduce some improvement into the method of collecting , conveying , and developing intelligence from theTCast , or any other place where a j > ait of our own life and death is going forward . As we have had it now , it is as if the journals— -the principal journal conspicuous above others—were engaged in deliberately making a fool of the British public . We have the end of the intelligence first , the commencement cornea lagging long after the end , and the two are unintelligible until we get the middle . These deficiencies
are inherent in the fact that we have ^ several modes of transit , some rapid and some slow . The journals , however , do not assist us an our difficulty ; but to make the most of a moment ' s excitement , they amplify the fragmentary news of : startling events ; affect to give them a positive value which they do not possess , and make us believe that which is false , imperfect , or misconceived . We have scarcely sounded the guns for a victory before we are told to doubt it . Yet with all this haste amd puffing , the journals are positively slow . Government has been
blamed for not honestly serving the public , put we ask what has " private enterprise" done ? Which editor -was it which first gave ; us the authentic news of the Alma ? It was the editor of the War Department —the Duke of Newcastle . A , large amount of this studious rnystificatioa is permitted by the desire to seem to know wh « re there is no knowledge . Attack somebody , and you -will be thought wise . If there is nobody else to kick , "why Government , or Admiral Duhdas , or Admiral Napier , can be the cockshy of the moment .
*— There Is A Dealer In Townwitli A Titi...
*— There is a dealer in townwitli a Titian , He bough * it at Christie and Manson ' s for fifteen pounds ( nobody suspected it to be more than a queer copy of the Naples Venus ) , and" he says he will now not take less than 20 , 000 / . You know the Holbein the National Gallery got : entreat the Government not to grant 20 , 000 / . for this Titian .
—- The People Must Be Educated, Eays Eve...
— - The people must be educated , eays everybody ; a man now-a-days cannot get on without education . Getting on in England means mating money—of course all ignorant men ought to te poor . A fact against a theory any day . The best public dining-room in London is brilliantly lighted—the tables groan with gold and silver plate , flowers , the richest food , and the rarest wines ; there is a fine military band , a . corps of crack singers ; the apartment is filled by three hundred most substantial-looking gentlemen , of all ranks , from privy councillors to common councilmen . It is a festival : trumpets sound , the band plays a triumphal air ; men with staves usher in two dignitaries , gorgeous in cut velvet , satin , laco and gold chains ; who aro followed by a tribe of lacqueys , whoso resplendent liveries must cost more than tho
now uniforms of our liussars . The personages assume two chairs of state ; at the elbow of each stands a clergyman of the Church in his canonical dress , backed by the lacqueys . Th « y say grace , and are then permitted to talce seats at a distance from tho great men ; and when tho dinner is over they rush back to their posts behind the chairs of state to return thanks . For whom is alL this ceremonial ? Who aro these personages ? Tho Sheriffs of London and Middlesex I A right honourable judicial functionary eaya they arc pillars of tho State , bulwarks of two institutions of commercial England , tho Com Exchnngo , and tho Stock Exchange- Good ! They have achieved greatneosl I respect them . They have to make spcechos , and before they utter ten words , I remember that education is tho question of the day I but I find that loo-king at the scene before me , I am inclined not to educate my children .
— Jullien Ia To Open Her Mnjesty'a Theat...
— Jullien ia to open her Mnjesty ' a Theatre for promenade concerts this winter . Wo may imagino tho the " Sebfvstopol Quadrille , " and ! tho " March of tho Allies , " with all the oflbcta . We welcome M . Jullien with all sincerity . May his biff drum ' a ehadtow never bo lesa 1
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07101854/page/12/
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