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710 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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M. MANEST. We inquired, the other day, o...
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AN ETHNOLOGICAL SUGGESTION. (To the Edit...
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Manufactures—Employment Of Paupeks. Mr. ...
the establishment © f JScoles d"Apprentissage in . the towns ; in the first place , with , a view to employing those who cannot now find employment ; and , in the second place , or the purpose of making that suggestive experimental progress in machinery and manufactures which Mr . Whitworth ' s report has shown is not sufficiently sought even in England . For the purpose , Parliament is only asked for a permissive act enabling towns to establish such things for thenv selves , —the expense to be met by local rates . It is , in fact , an educational measure which is asked for . to provide the education most requisite in Ireland : and ifc would be illogical , at least , in the friends of the secular system to be supported by local rates , if they did not aid aad abet Mr . Lucas in this innovation .
That thiff sort of permissive act has to be secured before large communities can proceed in such an experiment , suggests that our institutions of local self-government are by no means perfect . la Belgium parishes and communes have done such things or themselves .
710 The Leader. [Saturday,
710 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
M. Manest. We Inquired, The Other Day, O...
M . MANEST . We inquired , the other day , of a correspondent ( Mr JohnYarnold ) , where was M . Manin , and what was he doing ? Mr . ITamold has sent us the following letter from hia friend : — - ' , ** Au Reoacteur du Leader , qui yous demande ou je suis xnaintenant , et ce que je iais , vous pourez repondre ceci : " Depuis mon depart de Venise , vers la finds 1 S 49 , je demenre a Paris $ u Je donne des lecons d'ltalien ;
" J'attends le moment favorable pour recommencer la lutte , et je m ' y prepare ; dans le cercle de mes rapports avec les homines les plus distingues des diflferentes nuances du parti liberal , je tache de conserver et d ' accroitre lies sympathies pour ma patrie , de combattre et de rectifier les prejuges et les erreurs qui subsistent sur la question Italienne , de convaincre que la solution de cette question dans le sens de nos aspirations de mationalite est du plus haut interSt pour I'Angleterre , pour la France , et en g & o & al pour la cause de la civilisation , , du progres , de la paix durable , et du veritable equiilibre European ; "Je ne prends aucune part aux tentatiTes qui n ' ont aucune chance serieuse de succes , et je les desapprouve .
"Je blame l'appel aux instincts cruels et sauvages , aux moyens farouches ou laches reprouves par la morale , et je preche hautement qu'on ne regenerer pas une nation en la' corrompant . " Je tache de rallier tous les patriotes Italierts sous un drapeau comuaun , et je crois avoir fait un grand pas dans ce sens par la lettre que vous venez de faire reimprimer , dont le programme a e ' te' accepte par tout les hommes les plus important et les plus estime ' s du parti national Italien .
"Ce programme est tres-simple , et se rdaame en ces peu . de mots :-Nous voulons tout unaniractuent l'independance complete ot l ' union de l'ltalie en un seul corps politique ; sur tout le reste , nous sommes prfits a faire toutes les concessions et lea transactions que lea circonstances pourraicnt exiger . "Si M . le Redacteur du Leader ddsiro d'autres xenseignemens ou d ' autres explications , je m ' empresserai de les lui donner . " Our readers -will , we think , agree with us that M . Manin at least observes dignity in his exile .
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There La No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There la no learned man but will confess ho hath much profited by reading controversiea , hia senses awakened , and Tua judgment shaTpaned . If , then , xb t oe profitable for him to read , why should it nob nt least , be tolerable for his adversary to wribg , —Milton .
Officers And Gentlemen. (To The Editor O...
OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN . ( To the Editor oftha Leader . ) Sir , —The very pertinent remarks you have mndo in your papor of the ssarl inst . on tUc owbjoot of " officers and gentlemen , " induce mo to direct your Attention to anothor weak point in our military system . It is not sufficient that an officer , liko St . Patrick , bo come of " dacont people , " that ho bo posseBBod of Fortunatua ' s purse , or that he bow more gracefully than a French dancing-master of tho old r < J imc . If he would keep his place in tho onward movement off civilisation and general enlightenment ho must learn to bo aa efficient with tho pen as with tho sword : ho naust wield tho gooso-quill as skilfully as tlio sabre . At m truo that eomothing haw already been done hi xnw direction , and a candidate ) for tho scarlet honours ox mo army muBt now undergo tho ordoal of ft
preliminary examination . But , let me ask you , sir , if you really imagine that it is essential to the making of a good officer that he should once have been able to stammer through the first five books of Livy , the first three books o the " JEnead , " or the first two books of " Caesar ' s Commentaries ? " Is it even necessary that he should have at the tip of his tongue the names of the Athenian commanders who made such stupid blunders * at Syracuse ? And yet these are the principal subjects of his examination . He must be able to talk glibly about Grecian and Roman fable , but may be ignorant of the existence of a
Conde or a Turenne . One would suppose that he might learn something more his profession fr om a care ul study of the campaigns of Marlborough , Wellington , and Napoleon , than from reading about . ZEneas or Romulus , or the divisions of ancient Gaul . It is at least certain that a persistence in our present system will fail to produce officers more remarkable for their professional knowledge than thej r already are for their gentlemanly conduct . And if we cannot convert the barracks into a drawing-room , that is no reason why . our officers should not be required to know something of the art of war . J . H .
" Pro-Slavery" Influences Of The Leader....
" PRO-SLAVERY" INFLUENCES OF THE LEADER . { To the Editor of the Leader . ) London ,.-July 22 nd , 1854 . Sir , —Ton challenge me to point to the slightest evidence of the truth of my charge against the Leader . I should like to know what part of my charge , or rather charges , you deny . 1 . My first charge is that you published a paragraph highly laudatory of Henry Clay , the American pro-slavery statesman , and especially of the part he took in favour of the . great compromise measures , of which the infamous fugitive slave-law was one . Do you deny this ? If so , I will point out to you the paragraph , you will allow me access to a file of your paper .
2 , My second charge is , that you refused to publish , a letter of mine on this paragraph , in which I pointed out the true character of the compromise measures , and endeavoured to show that Clay deserved censure instead of praise for favouring their enactment . Do yon deny this ? If so , I will produce the letter , and point you to the Paper in . which you state your refusal to publish it . 3 . My third charge is , that while you refused to publish my letter , you did , after some delay , criticise it , and misrepresent its character and contents . If you deny this , I will give you the letter and your remarks on it , and , when published , leave your readers to judge ¦ whether it be true .
4 . My fourth statement was that you offe red to publish any letters I might write to you on ot / ier subjects ; thus showing , that it was not my manner of writing that led you to exclude my letter , but the subject of it ; or , rather , the side I took on that subject . For proof of this , I will point you , if you require it , to your ovrn words . 5 . I have added , that my impression is , from all I have seen in the Leader on the subject of American slavery , that the Leader is under pro-slavery influence , and is systematically unjust to the advocates of African or Negro freedom . You will , of course , allow me to know what my impression is . If you can show my impression to be erroneous , I shall bo glad .
You say it is no offence in journalism to be shy of particular correspondents ; and you say this , apparently , for the purpose of making the impression that I was one of those " particular correspondents" of which you were shy . But I was not , as your own words ehow . You acknowledged , at the time , that it was not of tho correspondent that you were shy , but of the side of the great question -which ho undertook to defend . You spoke of tho correspondent himself in favourable terms . You have spoken of him in favourable , in very favourable , terms sincq then , as I can show from a letter of yours m my possession , if necessary . It was not wise , therefore , any more than it was just , to insinuate that I was one of tho particular correspondents of whom yon were shy . But this is a little matter . Bo just to the American Blave and his friends , and I wilt bear in silence injustice to myself .
But now , you say , you oflbr mo all the opportunity I may desire . Do you mean that you will allow me to write in your columns in favour of negro freedom and of American abolitionism ? If so , it is enough . Do that , and I will talco it as a proof that you arc , at pruuunt , whatever you might bo two years' ngo , disposed to do the slavos of America justice . Nay , more ; do that , and I will try to believe that you hnvo never intended to be unjust ; to tho American alnvo and his friends . But it ' , while bucIi men aa George N . Sanders aro allowed to diffuse their prosluvory poison through the lurid by moans of your paper , the friends of freedom—the enemies of slavery —lire refused tho opportunity of administering an antidote through the same medium , tho Impression that tho Loader is under pro-nlavory influence will bo made , not on ray mind only , but on tho minds oi your readers generally .
In conclusion , I am no enemy to the Leader ; but a friend . I only wish it to be consistent . Give the slave and his friends the same free use of your columns that you give to the shareholder and his friends , and I will again , as I did some years ago , promote its circulation to the utmost of my ability . My letter is already too long , or I would add some remarks on what appears to be one of the most erroneous , if not one of the moat deceitful and censurable productions I have had the unhappiness to see . I
mean the letter of George N . Sanders to . Louis Kossuth and others . But I will write to you again , if encouraged to do so , and expose the trap which Gr . N . Sanders has laid for the republicans of Europe . Woe to the Democrats of Europe , if they pledge themselves ' to the slaveholding despots of America , to keep silence on the basest , the most inhuman , and the most inexcusable outrage on human rights in the shape of American slavery . Yours respectfully ,
Joseph Babk . er . [ Mr . Barker is all wrong ; but the controversy would weary our readers . We" have therefore only to say—there is unlimited " open council" for Mr . Barker ; and if he thinks the negro race will benefit by Ms exertions in the Leader it will be a great comfort to him , and no inconvenience to us . For our own part we think Americans had better be loft to settle their own institutions : we have so much to do at home . "]
An Ethnological Suggestion. (To The Edit...
AN ETHNOLOGICAL SUGGESTION . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —It is not often , nor ever , I believe , knowingly , that the Leader departs from the good custom of calling things by their right names ; but it cannot help sinning in that respect now and then . The journalist ' s life of heroic self-denial is spent inhearing and reading an infinite deal of twaddle ; no wonder then if some of it will stick to him in spite of himself That is the case with a writer in your last mnriber , who talks o the " Anglo-Saxon race . " Now if there is such a race in existence it is probably to be found in or about Holstein and Schleswig ; but it is not identical with the English race either in this old stockhive or elsewhere . An English thoroughbred horse is not an Arabian , however much of his blood is derived from the desert , and an Englishman is not an
Anglo , or a Jute , or a Saxon , or a Teuton of any denomination , but something else , and , in my humble opinion , something better , viz ., an Englishman . To which of the various elements in his very composite blood does he owe his superiority over the descendants of his forefathers ? I am almost afraid to tell you , though Jacob Bryant , thank God ! is in Hades . Between you and me—you will not let it go farther —assuming for convenience' sake that half of the Englishman ' s blood is Saxon ( and this is more than the truth ) , the other half , saving your favour , is—Cei / tic . Yes , tho children of the Saxon conquerors must , with very few exceptions , have had for their mothers women of the old Celtic stock of the Eritons ; for assuredly when the warriors crossed the sea to fl ght for possession , of this island , they did mot fill half their small vessels with wives from homo . The
invnders may have slaughtered or reduced to bondago all the male Britons who did not escape from them to the fastnesses of the west , but if they did pot reserve a good number of the women ; for a different destiny , they were not like any other conquerors whom the world has ever seen . Our language bears evidence of the habitual presence of Celtic women in Saxon households . Not to mention provincial words , and others of comparatively recent introduction , we retain in common use upward of thirty words from the old Celtic vocabulary of Britain , and the great majority of these apply to articles of feminine use or to domestic feminine occupations . They aro as follows : —basket , barrow , button , bran , clout , erode , crook , cock ( in cock-boat ) , duinty , darn , gown , gusset , griddel ( gridiron ) , gruel , gyve , ( learn , flaAv , funnel , kiln , mesh , mattock , mop , rail ,
rasher , rug , solder , size ( glue ) , tackle , welt , wicket . To this authenticated list perhaps wo naay add cradlo , and that particularly fuminino verb to cuddle . If wo could dourly establish the Celtic origin of this last interesting item , that alone would bo enough to settle the question triumphantly . At all events it is tolerably apparent that whilst tho Saxon lord imposed hia own language on his dependents , sonic of thorn continued to apply their own familiar terms to things about which ho did not deign toconcoru himself ; and that among those who did eo woro especially tho women of his household . In fine , sir , it is my bolief , and yours too , I lvopo , by this timo , that tlie phraso " Anglo-Saxon rnco" is humbug ' . Applied to themselves gonerically by men of lCnglish descent , it ia aa ethnological denial o the mothers that boro thom .
I am , & c , Wawisr K . Kully . (" Tho point may interest ntudontB , and we liavo no objection to using " Knglisli" for " Anglo-Saxon . " I 3 ut tho ono lias u . geographical , the other an ethnographical reference ; and wo cannot bo quite accurate of a mixed race . Should wo say Toutw-Colto-Frankiah racopj
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Leader (1850-1860), July 29, 1854, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29071854/page/14/
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