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June 23, 1855. J THE !L "E ADEB. 608
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THE BALTIC. The Baltic fleet is in splen...
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A NEW PARLIAMENT. (7'<> the Editor of th...
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THE HONESTY OF THE CLERGY. (To the Edito...
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Dinner at the Mansion-house.—The Lord Ma...
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they would fain flatter themselves , but to give themselves up to essentially worldly influences , to a political party and an ecclesiastical faction , and to forget their great sp iritual office of seeking and keeping the truth for the whole people . To seek and keep ,,, the truth—such will henceforth be their work . If they will , they may do that work well . They are rich in gold , and they are rich in what is better than gold to a student ' s heart , beauty , history , and
the associations of a thousand years . They are rich in earnest , enthusiastic , unworldly minds , which will soon be weaned from sectarian propaganda sm to nobler aims . Iiet them know the world , love it , guide and enlighten it , but keep themselves from its factions , its strifes , its servility , its love of lucre ; and the world which has hitherto looked on them with suspicion and mistrust , as alien censors which misunderstood and hated it , will honour and love them as its own better part for ever .
June 23, 1855. J The !L "E Adeb. 608
June 23 , 1855 . J THE ! L "E ADEB . 608
The Baltic. The Baltic Fleet Is In Splen...
THE BALTIC . The Baltic fleet is in splendid condition , but what is it about to do ? It is incomparably superior to the fleet of last year , which was a noble display of ships and of guns , but not of equipment nor of matured discipline such as now exists . This year the health of the men is excellent , the sick-list is under five per
cent ., and there is not one per cent , of the men unfit for duty , if needed . The commissariat is managed excellently : fresh provisions are sent from Elsinore , and are served out three days in the week , and provisions are brought from England once a week . " With all respect for the name of Napier , there is a decided change for the better in the command of the fleet . We
receive no complaints that the men are harassed by exercises and inspections ; the discipline of each ship , we presume , "being left to the captain ; and as , upon the average , British captains and lieutenants are quite competent to maintain the discipline of their own decks , the change from the restless Napier to the somewhat reserved but dignified Dundas , is a decided advantage to the fleet . But what is the fleet to do ? The Baltic
season is short ; June , July , and August , are its extent . "We arc not aware that any sensible increase to the information respecting the state of a flairs at St . Petersburg has been attained ; but one thing appears to bo tolerably certain—that the defences of Cronstadt have been vastly increased . Meanwhile , where is the boasted machinery for reducing them ? where , above all , aro the floating batteries and the reserve maorazincs ? Have
they gone out ? Wo are not sure , indeed , that the floating batteries , however bombproof , would bo -workable It is almost a question even with their own officers and crews , whether they will float with all that they must stow on board . But if they are to bo the instruments for unlocking that gate , when aro they to arrive ? June is now wearing away , and there will soon bo only two short months before tho nvillpond of thu
Baltic will bo torn by tho storms that announce tho coming equinox . No reliance can bo placed upon tho weather after tho 1 st of Soptombor ; last year tho returning fleet was detained fivo days at Bomnrsund . Tho floating batteries will ( scarcely bo able to keep to sea when tho ycrow linc-of-biiUlo ahipa and , the flying squadron of ateam frigates are compelled to desist . From the Admiral to tho A . B . all are cnger for distinction , and it ia cruel to tic tho hands of bravo men . Certainly tho fleet ought not to conio back without some- positive result * . Itusaiu must
be made to feel the pressure which she has not as yet felt in the Baltic . Is it impossible ? There is the Island of Hogland , a long stride nearer to the capital than Aland , right in the middle of the Gulf of Pinland ; and there a British force might be established , and a new lesson might be taught to the enemy . A force of 20 , 000 would hold the island , -which is healthy and well placed . Our picked , men would not be required for the service : militia from Aldershott might
be sent to occupy the post . The station would form an admirable school for foraging expeditions ; the amphitheatre of the gulf would be the school play-ground ; and from that central point miles of the coast could be kept in a state of uncertainty and incessant distraction . Thus a force of 20 , 000 men on the Island of Hogland would compel the Russian Government to keep , say , 150 , 000 on the opposite coasts ; and a great diversion
could be created at very moderate expense to the Allies . The results would probably be even more important , since the fact of our maintaining an outpost right in the face of Cronstadt would teach the Russian people how their Government can be bearded ; and it would certainly increase that moral pressure which has evidently been felt in St . Petersburg already , but which can only be sustained by a constant tightening of the
screw . Russia may inveigle a score of unarmed men into an ambush , may violate the flag of truce , and murder a few of our countrymen defenceless and imprepared . Base and cowardly as such cruelty may be , blows of this kind may have some influence in restoring the energy of the people and their confidence in resistance ; and it would be a false economy to let the Czar pluck all the barbarous profit that he can out of this infamy . We can counteract him , and we ought to do so .
We can jjrove to the Russians , that however insolent they may be in their slavish brutality , we are masters of the Baltic if we choose to remain so . If we cannot enter into the den of the robber , we can establish a sentinel at his inner gate , and forbid his coming forth . We are not surprised to hear that our gallant fellows bum with indignant impatience to avenge the crime of Han go , and it would be a treason to humanity as well as a disgrace to our flag if the present season were to pass away as fruitlessly as the last .
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IX THIS DEPARTMENT , AS AM- OPINIONS , HOWEVKR EXTREME , AMt Al . l . OWKU AM ICXIMIESSION , THE KD 1 TOK NISCK 83 AKIJLY HOLDS HIMkui . f nisarON'Miii . i ; Jb'oit nosk , ]
There Is No Learned Man But Will Confes3...
There is no learned man but will confes 3 he bath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be prontnbie for Kim to read , why should it not , at least , be toltraolofor his adversary to write . — MlLTON .
A New Parliament. (7'<> The Editor Of Th...
A NEW PARLIAMENT . ( 7 ' <> the Editor of the Lender . ") June 12 , 1855 . . . grn , — - Our lotul Administrative Keforinera lose sight of our great need—a . new Parliament . Since the war began Knglishmcn havo learnt much . They have had crowded into a few months the experience of a century of common political life . They havo seen that tho Constitution is not so almighty ns they thought ; that the hands to which , while they peacefully " money-grubbed , they entrusted their enormous means nnd ' tliuir important interests , aro all too shaky
for tho charge ; that three-fourths of tho men m influence and power are Burloigha or Bumbles ; that tho man wlio , a little Avhile since , w « 8 their First Minister , is more fit for the post of index-makor and general historical drudgo to Mr . Maeaulay or Mr . ( iroto tlimi for tho smallest post in tho Government of this kingdom . Now that tho English people have seen all thin , can they bo supposed so unchanged , bo uninfluenced by the sudden discovery , that their ibolings and wishes are adequately represented by a previously-elected and unchanged L ' arliumont ? And , if they do not represent tho people ,
what is the use of that assembly of elderly gentlemen of capital , solemnly sitting in their ludicrouslysymbolic abode of petrified gingerbread ? The fact ia , nothing can be done with the present House of Commons . The first thing to be done is to change your Parliament . Done at once , we should stand a chance ( now that the country is not quite so lethargic as usual ) of a House of Commons which might , perhaps , be useful at home and respectable in Europe . At all hazards , let us get rid of our greatest national nuisance—the House of Palmerston , Pakington , and Twaddle . _~ A most Constant Reader .
The Honesty Of The Clergy. (To The Edito...
THE HONESTY OF THE CLERGY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sik , —I have read with great interest the " Revelations of Archdeacon Sinclair , " in the last Leader . I fear the cause of the uselessness of the clergy lies deeper than either he or the Lieader imagines . In the same number of the Leader I see a clergyman confessing that he considers the " whole tenor of geology as in entire contradiction to the cosmogony delivered from Sinai . " I know it to be a fact that large numbers of the clergy perceive that the creeds and articles , which they so hastily subscribed in their younger days , are in entire contradiction to the teaching of Scripture .
Now , I ask , when a clergyman of the Church of England is conscious of being secretly an Arian or a Deist , yet continues to make profession of " orthodoxy , " what is to be expected ? Must he not become a lifeless functionary , at best ? The clergy of the Church of England are entangled in the trammels of soi-disant " orthodoxy" at an early age—they are called on to subscribe too rashly those creeds and articles which prevent them from teaching what in after life they find out send feel to be
truethey cannot teach " orthodoxy" with the same animation , warmth , and love of their subject as they could preach what they know and feel to be true—to be their own principles , their own hope . The consciousness of teaching falsehood , or doubtful truth , 7 nust take away all heart from themselves , all spirit from their teaching , and all good from their ministry . Would you not be paralysed yourself if compelled to employ the Leader in the defence of a system which in secret you wholly repudiated , or but half approved ? _
Among the fruitful causes of the evils of " our Civilisation , " I know of none which is more widely spread , more corrupting in its nature , or the eradication of which would do more good j yet it is precisely because of its fundamental character , because of its tendency to emancipate both clerg y and laity , that Church reform in every shape is so much opposed by our oligarchy . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , L . AICU 8 .
Dinner At The Mansion-House.—The Lord Ma...
Dinner at the Mansion-house . —The Lord Mayor on Thursday evening entertained at the Egyptian-hall the bishops and the heads of the two universities , with a large party of distinguished guests whom , according to the usual custom , he had invited to meet them .
Mb . George Cuuzon , cousin of Earl Howe , and heir presumptive of the Barony of Scarsdale , has just met with a fatal accident . Mr . Curzon was on Saturday evening riding in Hyde Park , when hia horse , ia passing two carriages , became restive and threw him on his head against the kerb-stone of the footway . He was removed to St . George ' s Hospital , where two medical men were in attendance ; but the case was hopeless , and he expired about seven o ' clock on Sunday morning . Ho was in the twenty-ninth year of his age . Fall , of Stonewouic in the Citv . —A serious accident , attended with loss of life , took place last Saturday morning in tho City . Tho entire ornamental stono cornice of a Manchester warehouse in Wood-street ,
Cheapside , now in courso of completion , suddenly fell down , and not only destroyed tho scaffolding , and the fronts of tho opposite warehouses , hut also broke tho sewer in tho road , and killed a man who was standing before the house at tho time , unloading a cart , fortunately , no one was passing when the accident occurred , nor were tho workmen on tho premises . —An inquest on the man who was killed bus resulted in a verdict of Accidental Death , to which tho jury added their opinion that the work was not properly secured , and that such lurcc projections arc dnngflroua in narrow thoroughfares . MiritDKR ok an English Okkiokk in Afbioa . —• of scientific
Lieutenant Itichard Burton ( an officer great knowledge and experience ) as a traveller ) , Lieutenant Strovim , of the Indian navy , Lieutenant bpcko , of tho Wvnial army , and Lieutenant Homo , of tho 1 st Bombay Fusiliers , in tho courso of a geographical expedition to Somali , a district in North-wostorn Africa , opposite AiWn , were attacked . by about a hundred of tho Somalia . Lieutenant S troy an was murdered , Lieutenants Burton and Speko wore dreadfully wounded , and Lieutenant Ilorno escaped unhurt . . til 1 miiammui > has succeeded to tho Beyslup of Tinna ,. on tho death of his cousin Si Ehmed , who hud roignod for tho last eighteen years .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23061855/page/15/
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