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OUR TROUBLES IN JAPAX. TTiHILANTHBOPISTS...
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The Pope In Jerusalem. L Ate Accounts Fr...
Mameluke , and the t / eudawerie , oti account of their late lieroisiii She Corso , will have a garland of laurel worked round their 6 oTcourse some snarling-, bitter-tonguecl Protestantsi will say that the Pope ' s ! enthronement in Jerusalem is a lulhhnent ot D \ xijel ' s prophecy about the " abomination of desolations ; and our Holy well-street Jews will declare that the return of their discounting ' nation is put off for another score of centuries : but true religion must expect to be railed at . ¦ Nor will the Church in its new seat be divested of its imposingand profitable ceremonies . In the blazing Eastern sun jewelled cope and golden crozier and starry mitre will shine brighter than they ever did in the-cold deadly air of the Tramontana and the steaming balefulness of the Pontiue malaria . Home has been too much lived in ; all the oxygen has gone from its airmail the livin- essences from its sepulchral earth—its soil is a solid paste , made up of dead Popes and their victims , martyrs and their murderers , relics , « unpleasant bodies "—ltomau emperors and middle-age bravbes . -.. The last long fallow after , its early crops is again lit for the plough , and future harvests _ he hid under the bears feet on the little hill of Hermoii , on ttmai , and on Gilboa The very ' saints' bodies that will be discovered by tlie ecclesiastical antiquarians will alone turn Palestine into a 33 endigo dio » -in <> s There is IVIoses to look for , and he can be lound " ever so many times , " with considerable pecuniary advantage to ¦ : ¦ the Papal treasury . . \ , . ¦ - ... ¦ ' As for the Girandole , tkere is no reason that fire-works should not " -O off as well from tlie Mosque of Omar as from the Castle of St Ano-elo ( that great stone cheese—that mill-stone- round the neck of-Rome ) , and then wliat an admirable sight might be made by the Pope once a year drawing a net of purple silk _ or gold wire tltrougli the Sea of Galilee / in remembrance of St . Peter and his early avocation ! ¦ r Then again , the scape-goat—there's an opportunity ; make it a bull , or even a mule , in allusion to Protestantism ; and whata pretty peiuiv might be turned by fixing the true sites ot miraculous events . These are low grounds , but we ^ select ^ them because , as one of the Fathers says , there" be people so iiiggard . and narrowwitted that , had they been Lot when his wile turned into a pillar of salt , they had liathelesse gone back and filled the family salt-box : from the saline columna . " ^ ^ For hermits there would be a noble field of enterprise in- the desert ; indeed , even martyrs and . confessors , . some are of opinion , would find occupation in that unexplored section ot the new Papal dominions . It will be the special-object of the Holy Father to obtain Pete it ' s pence from these marauders , to be paid in dates and ostrich-feathers ; and , as soon as possible , that extensive Bcdouitf country is to be turned into a see for a new bishop not yet . named , though very strongly hinted at . -Need we ¦ say rumour points to CordiSaW . * . * * *? . With a palace on tlie shores of the Lake of Tiberias , and a winter palace near the Via i > olorosa , we see no reason the I ope should not be soon quite at home in his new dominion—with the Dead Sea so convenient for bathing , and Jeriqho , with its plain so admirable for horse-exercise . The missionary enterprises among the hitherto rather neglected Arabs will agreeably occupy , without straining , the mind of his Holiness , whi e ho devotes his moments of solitude to his Awounte project ior annexing Africa , and settling n Itegent Avehbishop at . Innbtictoo or Soudan . If nil goes well , we see a . new ' career . ot ¦ usefulness open to this ilMised but excellent man . We hardly know whether wo can credit a report that tho Holy Father is thinking of'bringing out a popular series of 1 ' apnl Bulls in penny numbers , for general circulation . This , indeed , shows a detcmimation to meet the wants of tho ngo ' j proves what so many people _ have denied , that Popery is the friend of civilisation and exuighten-Tlie Turks once out of Jerusalem—tho indecent conflicts hetween tho Greeks and Latins at Easter put a stop to--the wholo of Palestine mapped out into n now ecclesiastical hierarchicnl system , wo may expect some good indeed to the world . At will bo a glorious sight to seo the Pope , in Ins simple stato , riding -safely along- the plains of ArnuigeddonAbr being hauled iu a basket up to tho walls of tho rock convenes ot Nwr babn . Enslnnd must benefit by tho inoruused trnde iu scratched oyster' shells lVoui Bethlehem j and not a converted Arab will dare appear to kiss the Holy Toe , unless ho be clad in an LnghsK shit . A couutry with cardinals and cotton must be happy . Sineo William o ' rTyro , the Holy City has not smiled till now , and now il is in a broud grin at this good news . Happy Poto I Happy country to have such a Pope ! Home , miserable , ungrateful Homo I ropont in sivokclotli and ashes , ior thv papa soes to n distant land , and takes with linn nil tho Kelica that bring visitors , His brigands and gendarmes are $ oin" ovov tho Jowltwi , and return—return to Loshaber no wore ,
The blood-red Papal sun sets in the west and dawns in tlie o-olden east . The dead Popes remain ill . Home , because their removal would be expensive . The living incarnation of Papal wisdom talks of settling at Jerusalem . Let us breathe a hope that if he does really go to the other side of Jordan he may not . foro-et to go to Jericho—for it is Napoleon ' s earnrrst wish .
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Our Troubles In Japax. Ttihilanthbopists...
OUR TROUBLES IN JAPAX . TTiHILANTHBOPISTS sigh in vain for the advent of the time JT when civilized and Christian nations can manage to ^ come mto contact with untutored tribes , or the possessors of , cUflerent and older forms of political and social existence , without either i mmediately qnarrellin- or laying the foundation-for sanguinary . and aggressive wars . Whenever the news arrives that an untried country is opened to British enterprise , enthusiastic religionists talk ot the mission of England to spread the gospel of the Prmce ot Peace , while at the very inoinent , lnercantile cupidity and the piHjyerbial rapacity of officials are preparing- to propel our principles with gunpowder and insinuate oijr faith through the ^ agency ot sharpened steel In old lloman days ambitious genersds , or emperors , with nothing else to do carried their victorious legions from laud to land , rhey professed the business of conquest , and , making allowance tar the barbarity of their generation , they managed it Svel-K ? W method had at least the merit of being consistent and intelligible . They came with no liypoeritical pretences or besvildeniig announcements . They demanded sovereignty , and tribute , nnd they stole them if their claims were denied . Our way . is different ^ ajid scarcely more comnieiidable . We profess ; the utmost friendship tor the objects of onr solicitude , and employ somebody who does not clearly laiow whathe is about to negotiate ft ^ treaty which the principal parses do not understand . We tell them that our religion and our calico are much better than theirs ^ animated by the : first , we recognise them as brothers , and love them as ourselves ¦; ¦ accompanied by the . second , : we oiiei ? clothing to all the naked who are able and willing to -ive something inore valuable in return . If our new acquaintances . ¦ could at once give up thuir habite , custoits and traditions , ; an . 1 instantly desire to combine missionaries and bishops with consuls , and factories , : after the Britrsli modelv all might < -o well but ifcis not in human nature to make such abrupt transitions , and the aristocracy or . ruling- powers with whom we have to deal are apt to doubt our motives and despise our ways . Our » irce-born B ^ ms treat their arrangements with disrespect , and neither a chafieriog dealer nor an inebriated tar impresses them with a conviction oi the superiority of our race . After a little while , some provisions ot the treaty are infringed , or somebody gets hustled or polted . in . street . Then our plenipotentiary goes to work . He has acquned no intimacy or friendship with the ftmctionavies with whom he . has to deal / . and can only speak to them through the medium , of an interpreter , who is very likely ignorant of the precise meaning ot the words eithe r party employs , and after a sufficient quantity of palaver ,, despatch writing , and delay , the quarrel grows us r , pe as a pear ^ nnd we light , professing a horror of territorial aggrandizement , and * desire not to overthrow the . government or institutions of the land . The <• Correspondence with Heii Majesty ' s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister" Plenipotentiary in Japan , " recently laid before . Parliament , enables us to see the incipient . process ^ of this oftrepeated game . The first idea of any rational being desiring to open a friendly intercourse with an almost unknown poople , would . be to learn to tiilk to them in their own tongue ; and it would not be expectin- anything unreasonable if Hek Majjsst y s ^ Government , , beioie accrediting an " Envoy . Extraoi ^ fhniy . and « Minister PUninotentiary , " phoiUd be required to provide a gentleman who could hold a conversation with the persons ho was to convince , 'Ahi . would be the way to do it , ; but British Btatesmen uvo top well trained > n U » o opposite art , and it mig ht damage the » constitution o a country which boasts of hereditary legislators , and has to provide for then relations and clients , if tho principle of securing apP ~ P ™ te aptitude before making appointments , were earned into effect , m X Japan casp , our " E " , voy Extraordinary nnd M ^ tator Plempot jutiary" is Mr . liuTHEiu ^ OKP A * cook , a gontlomnu who , \\ a dn » o m possesses many excellent qLimliticjs , and who has abowu lm good . sonse in declaring that it inuHt bo labonous aud np ^ U work o make progress with a peoplo whom youaro not able to talk *\ % \\ . ? So long aa this exists Uioro can be nothing vory sat . sfactory cither in our intercourse or in our relations . It is bud enoujrii >» . discussing a wide range of subjoots involving all tho technioahtie » ot trade nnd tho provisions of treaties , that , whatever is said by oncli oi tho principals must go through tho process in another tongue , . mn hero the J ^ st recipient of any ideas sought tp be conveyed by iis to A Japanese authority oflbra not the slightest gunrantoo ior Ulolit } n rendering even as nuioh as ho understands of such now ninttovs , that , I feliove , is ofton . vory little . " Mr . Aujocjc is not to bla » m for this absurd beginning ; it was ^ o Ho . no Govornmont , which provided a talking apparatus that could not talk , and our * -nvoy La a shrewd guoss that ,. if he learnq that nrt aftoi- the us i ot , Japan , lie shall be sent somewhere else whore it w » l 1 ) 0 oI no «» w . He say $ , " I am bo ponetratod with tins convictjon , that no jjJJ to be done bore until wo can oursolves exhale , to the jiuthoutios , and in their own tongue , thut I shall not hesitate to devuto jvoig spare hour to tho acquisition of tho . r Uvnp ; m » go . It js qiuto posbibio l \ nay not remain long enough to turn » b much to ^ oount , h t at least it will bo a sfttisfuotion to myself , Mid , I trust , may aoi o a » an encouragement to others who nro younger , . and . hiivo moio I 09 U forward to iu tho sowvico of thoiir country . "
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Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1860, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14041860/page/8/
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