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A QUESTION FOR MISSIONARIES. It would gr...
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Persia And Our Nobtii-West Frontier. Wjo...
Belooch Irregulars , we might so leaven their mass as to render them a most formidable host of light cavalry , or Eastern Cossacks , and capable of destroying in detail , by force or famine , among their own mountain passes , any army that could be advanced from the Westward . " * The occupation of the passes and the opening a line of communication between the heads of these passes , would render our north-west frontier permanently unassailable .
Our moral influence would also be gradually extended throughout Affghanistan , where a friendly feeling towards the British has existed from the time we held sway at Caubul and Candahar ; and where , as an unwilling witness—M . Feuhiek—has admitted , very many still deplore the withdrawal of our army . Thus securely entrenched , we might patiently await the h © ur when the Muscovite hordes shall idly dash themselves against the unshaken bulwarks of our Indian Empire .
It is worthy of note , however , what a singularly felicitous illustration , of our system of self-goTernment is afforded by the circumstances preceding this new war . The convention , of which so much is said in the G-overnor-Greneral ' s Proclamation , has not yet been submitted to Parliament , though three years have elapsed since it was entered into . It might be worth while to inquire how many
of these promises to make war ' at sight' are still in circulation . The cost of the present ' liability' will be no trifling suiti , and in a great measure will hare to be defrayed from the revenues of India , although the GrOTernnaent of that country was not so much as consulted as to the terms of an agreement which continually exposed it to the chance of hostilities .
Persia And Our Nobtii-West Frontier. Wjo...
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Americzvs Gift To England's Queen. Queen...
AMERICzVS GIFT TO ENGLAND'S QUEEN . Queen ViCTOBiA . is a woman , alady , and the Chief of the State , and it would be impossible for her to take part in the unwonted ceremony of Tuesday last without many a strange thought . She received a present rai'ely matched in its grace and spontaneous kindliness ; and from whom ? UTrom the " rebels '' with whom her grandfather , Geouge III ., found it so difficult to be reconciled . On
the deck of her own ship the Hesoluie , she was the guest ; her host was a plain sailor . "Unquestionably no small' degree of republican sobriety marked the mode of Captain Habtstein ' s address . He said : — " Allo-w me to welcome your Majesty on board the Uesolute , and in obedience to the will of my countrymen and of the President of the United States , to restore her to you , not only as an evidence of a friendly feeling 1 to your sovereignty , but as a token of love , admiration , and respect to your Majesty personally . "
The Queen of the British Empire might have been struck with the democratic stubbornness which placed " my countrymen " even before " the President of the United States . " The " welcome" given to Heu Majesty was stripped of some of the servility ¦ which she might have perhaps encountered in the officers of almost any navy in Europe ; in spirit , perhaps , we may except two—the Sardinian and the British . And yet from this very plainness , from this absence of
imperial Btate , there must have been to Queen Victoria a peculiar delight and satisfaction in the whole ceremony . Before her stood a fair representative of the republic ; lor Captain Hartstein represents its energies , xta directness , and its independence ; yet he ib a perfect gentleman , and the great Queen might naturall y ask herself at that moment , What man can be higher than a gentleman ? Captain 31 artstein eamo to do a graceful duty , and ho did it
unquestionably with a simplicity that is the very perfection of courtesy . He had come to present to her " a token of love , admiration , and respect , " and in order to do it he had just passed through those fearful gales which have beeii sweeping the Atlantic with a force unfelt for years , in . a sea not unfamiliar with those fearful storms which we know so well . He stood before her , therefore , the representative of a powerful republic , the
representative of the most manly profession in the world , and the representative of manly success . He delivered his gift , not only as from one State to another , not only to the Queen as sovereign , but to herself " . personally ; " and in that little expression it may be said that the personal relations of Queen Victoria , the representative woman of the British Empire , are restored to the other Anglo-Saxon family across the Atlantic .
Other great states may present gifts to the British sovereign , but they are unable to achieve what the American republic has just accomplished . The sovereigns of those states possess a command of meaus which xto one man in America can eujoy . The mere caprice of an Emperor could have bought lip the Resolute , could have ordered her to be fitted at the expense of his subjects , could have sent her back by one of his obedient servants ; and probably , on such an occasion , the ceremony on the deck would have been somewhat more studied in . its courtliness .
JS ay , we will not deny that such an Emperor , if he pleased , might have chosen a manly , chivalrous officer to do his duty with grace and zest . Yet how could Queen Victoria have felt , in such a case , that " G-ermany" "France " had presented to her a gift ? How could she discriminate with perfect certainty between the court ceremony of her welcome , and the heartfelt desire to welcome and
to j > lease her . It is literally the people of America , " ray countrymen , " who have made her this gift , the whole republic of the West . It is absolutely impossible that any adulteration of craft or sycophancy can have miugled with the friendliness ; and the " personal" feeling which is avowed is thoroughly genuine . How can the gift be returned ? It -is returned already ; every gift handsomely and spontaneously presented is returned when it is cordially and frankly accepted .
A Question For Missionaries. It Would Gr...
A QUESTION FOR MISSIONARIES . It would gratify us highly if Lord Siiaftt . s BUTiy , or Sir Culling Eardley , or the Rev . Dr . Binney , or some other distinguished person , who ought to know , would send us a little information . "We should be glad to hear from any one of these gentlemen Concerning a report of a most distressing character , which affects the honour of the London Missionary Society . Is it true that the natives of the Northern districts of Jamaica
are returning to Fetischism ? After all that has been said in Exeter Hall , and written in the Earthen Vessel , we should as soon liavo imagined that Lord Siiatttesbttry had become a Druid , or Dr . Binney a 3 ? ire-worshipper , as that the established churches of England and Scotland , the Wesleyans , Baptists , Scottish United Presbyterians , and
Moravians have been unablo to restrain the Jamaica natives from resuming the devilry of ancient times . Perhaps they will say that we are confounding the practice of Obeah , or magic , with the fotiach ritual . Not at all . It is notorious that scarcely an assize takes placo in Jamaica at which several caaes of Oboah aro not brought forward , Wo have become accustomed to the idea that it is worthwhile to expend immense sunns of money upon bodies of men who so far operate upon
the intellect of the heathen that , after years ^ f progress , he Jecomes a Dove as well as a Harjiisok . It is impossible to found an objection upon such a trifle . What we have to ask the missionaries is : How do thevao count for the revival of fetisch ? What In * been the value of their stewardship ? Whnf has been the veracity of their reports ? G-nXi English public , which fill long list ' s with subscriptions for a most admirable and sacred purpose , be prudent enough not to relv unon mission
ary magazines alone , hut put a ques tion now and then to independent residents and _ travellers . You may find that your brother of Congo , whose white hat you Lave paid lor , attends chapel by day , and ' bvnHit pours out a blood y oblation to Mvunbo-Jumbo ; that yo-ur Singhalese convert has a secret allegiance to a dcmoUj and that your Jamaican flock is gathered by the light of the moon to practise . the most degraded form of worship ' known in heathendom
"A Buitish Lik . " — -Under this Leading , Mr . Meagher in . his American journal called the Irish Xews , froths forth the following exquisite piece of Hibernian fury : — "A late number of Tha London Times charges the editor of this paper with having expressed a desire to become a slaveholder . The anonymous billly lies . ' The only slaves Mr . Meagher would wish to have are the kind his ancestors several hundred years ago possessed—li ghthaired , blue-eyed Saxon slaves . " What paper can he allude to ? ¦ " We / were .. not aware that there -was any paper called " The London : Times " Thon , how supremely Irish is the assertion that Mr . . Meagher" docs not desire to 'become a slaveholder , because "theo «/ V / slaves" he - wishes'to' have are light-haired and blueeyed ! Oh , grand reconciler of paradoxes , mother Irish wit ! ' ' ¦ - . ¦ ¦ '¦ .. ' ¦¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' ' ¦ ¦ " .- ¦ ' ¦
Salary of the Recorder of the City of London . •—A discussion toolc place on Monday at a Court of Common Council , on the salary of the . Kecorder . " The Officers and Clerks Committee , to whom the subject had been referred , recommended that the salary should continue at 3000 / . a year ; hut Mr . Cox moved that 2 , 500 / . would be quite sufficient . In the course of the discussion it appeared that the remuneration was originally only 120 / . a year ; -that in 1790 , after much oscillation , it was fixed at 1000 / . ; and that since then it had gradually crept up to 3000 / . It was the gencrnl opinion that the highest faculty could not be obtained under that sum ; and the salary was accordingly , fixed at the amount specified , with the addition of this proviso : —
" And if from any circumstance the duties of the Kecorder shall be altered and diminished , and the salary reduced accordingly , we are of opinion that theKocordcr should have no claim for compensation in respect of such reduction . "—On Tuesday , in the Court of Aldermen , Mr . Uiissell Gurney was elected unanimously to the office of Recorder in place of Mr . Stuart Worthy , appointed' to the Solicitor-Generalship , and a vote of thanks to the latter gentleman , expressing the high esteem of the Corporation was passed by acclamation . KkfohmintheCitv . . Alderman "Wire on Monday , brought two hills , into the Court of Common Council , connected with tUo great question of corporation reform . The first was a bill for the final abolition of street tolls :
nnd the second was a bill for the further -repeal of the provisions of an act of Common . Council made the 5 th of April , 1 GOO , for the prevention of trading by-nonfreeinen , and of another act of Common Council made on the 4 th of July , 1732 , concerning foreigners , and prohibiting their selling -within' the City . T ' ach of tlie bills was rend a first and second time , and appointed to be read a third time . Tlio Court was unanimous upon the subject . The Manciiestku KxmnmoNr . —We have authority for stating that the executive committee have reason to hope that tho Queen may honour the Groat Exhibition of next year at Manchester with a visit . We are informed that tho committee aro empowered to slate that Princo Albert has expressed his intention of honouring the opening ceremonial of exhibition in May next with Ilia presence . — Times
, Clark-Maukjit Racxied Schools . — A meeting ot tho inhabitants of tho parinh of St . Clement Dimes anU its vicinity was held on Wednesday night at the vestryxooniB , Pickott-strect , in aid of tho ragged schools established in Portugal-street . Tho Earl of tflmfteahnry presided . The proceedings having been opened by prayer , a report was read , -which showed most oncouniging results from the operation of tho school during the past year , no less than four hundred being tho daily avernpjo of scholiirs in nttendnnco . illC report conclude *! by asking increased public aid , tho expondituro being greater than tho income
. ., Gubat Flood in Yoiikshiuk . —Owing to the rnpw thaw in tho north , acting upon tho large accumulations of snow- and ico , tho Oiise , in Yorkshire , has overflowed its channel , and caused very scrioua floods .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121856/page/14/
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