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TROOPS AT CSAXLtPOLI . In the House of Lords , tbe Earl of Eixrnbokouoh read a description , given in one of the daily journals > f the defective arrangements made for the reception > f the troops landed at Gullipoli from the Golden Fleece steamer , in which , among other complaints , it wras alleged that , through the neglect of the Cornmisiati (| t , " 3 ieither necessaries nor comforts had been prpj ^ iaeTi for the naen . The noble earl having conaixtented on the article in question , asked the Govexnmeat whether the statements which it made were true , and j who was . responsible for what had occurred ?
ca The puke of Newcastiob , in reply , admitted tbe responsibility of the Government and their suboxdin ^ tea , and then stated a aumber of circumstances , ti ^^ ^ tMn . his own knowledge and partly from KMts And letters from Turkey , which enabled him t ^;^ t ^ that ' the statements in question were life-^ rly aad entirely iucprrecfc . JBe added , that every provision ^ hich . experience and foresight could sujggfesth&dbeen made for tha reception of the troops , that at ^ indant supplies had been previously sent out Cor tiieix use , and that contracts had been made with rjeapjediable Turkish parties for every other requisite . 1 * ift'A'iiKMWM « tW 4 £ Kn'a » r > af 1 zk Aw * 1 ia nnrnfnv * . stf "flux "Rimt » 5 0 V 1 I *
i& . J ^ W irPTj-grtTT f » Tf I , T fl ¦ ^ TIT "" ' * V * . W ** Vf ^ VU * tV& W ^ TM . IUAV ^^« * VA . H& » army ia Turkey , he declared , would bear the test of tBe ^ &fe ^ TC ^ i % ^ quiry . i ;| T ^ 35 axi of . Eiii- ^ NBoaouoH ex pressed his satisftetiap-afc the deiujus given by the noble , duke to fen © ^| e | itentB ^ n 4 a <^ tion . ' . .. - ¦"'" . V ' . ... . . a * Tfte sEarl ; of Hardwickb . called : attention to the aMjiraaceB ; given , before the recess , by the noble earl . tbe < Foreign Secretary , that the Russian-fleet had not' ^^ Sebistopol , nor conveyed troops from one ps ^ Io ^ the Russian territory to another ; It appeared now ^ liowever , that part of'the Eiissian fleet had c < rtne 6 ttt , and f actually conveyed troops from the f o |^^| a , ^ 64 Krcassian coast to pdessa . . ' ^ The VEarl " of , bGi « abenjdon . said , tbe statement he
b ^^ nuAde ^ before the recess was strictly correct ; and he irbflldgf $ e ttheir lordships all the Informatibi * he S ^ iSB ^ cdireceiredias tomha . t had taken place . An £ J ^ l ^ it : 8 ^ an ) er : ' and a French . steamer had 1 > een i » m ^ :-j » urvey " the Cftrcaesiancoast , j Whilst so ^ engS ^;; tbey sow- five small Russian steamew , Tostofflplj ^ kew ^ removing -fclie troops stationed in difiGamt- 'fewfaresses .. along the shore , which fortresses w ^^^ esta ^ yed , And he . must observe that the fact ^ xf , the , Buasians having , upou' their ; own accpr ^^ fpre the declaration of war , evacuated and d ^ tTOV ^ these fortresses , was soqa # , proof that of
they ; idid not ^ consider themselves masters the Black iSea . ' > , Immediately : the allied steamers saw these- packets they made towards them . One was toa&eged ^ to repair to the ? sfcearest Kwsian port . This , which was in pura ^ ri ^ o ^ iristriaion ^^ i ^^ of M ^ Bi ^ hu ^ fi ^^ . Vas ; ' » 6 t dec | aredtn this dojMatrjr j ^ ilhc ^ 9 w , > : 8 o . that it was impossible : any other proceeding could nave been tfyeh adejpted . V ^ ajif&G ., Eari of Ei ^ BNBoaouoH ^ mentioned tha . t the Bnsaians had : only destroyed six forts , whilst they possessed twenty-two . : ;
"¦ frfShe Marquis of Glaxeicarde hoped ihe . latest deVp&tches would be produced on this subject , as $ I 1 & ftutoiah Government . had published an official acboiirit J of the transaction , which materially- diffej ^ 6 d-from the statement just made by the noble earl . In the Jnvolide Jtusse , the vessels employed we ' re described , not as Post-office packets , bat as part of the royal navy of Russia , which ifcwas said had been sent out for the purpose of removing troops from territory which it was no longer thought proper to occupy , in order to strengthen the important
garrison of Sebaatopol . A more important operation could not be undertaken by the Russian fl « et at arucli a moment ; and it was alleged to have been accomplished in open defiance of the allied squadrons . If there was , at that time , no actual declaration of war between the two countries , there QfUlainly had . been a declaration of hostilities between the two fleets , inasmuch as notice had been sent to ithe governor of Sebastopol that if any of
his . ships ventured out they would be attacked . So far , therefore , as concerned this transaction , our flag had more or less been tarnished . We had played the game of brag , and had been beaten at it . It was said , however , that the fact of the Russians having destroyed some of their fortresses on the coast of Oircassia was a proof that we were "" ytnljJrters of the Black Sea . He had not the least ~ dp ! ufot that we were so really ; but the effect pro-., A dgp& ) k ujfjon the inhabitants of the coast by the , s «^ J 5 aiioni »> of the Russians would be of an opposite ^^ aa \ racte ? jr If the forts in question had been defrayed by the allied forces , the inhabitants would * Ahea consider that w « were mas tors of the Black 8 « M but the fact that they had been voluntarily | jde « tiroyci © by the Russians , and that they had eml ^ r itea tjheir troops foi Sebastopol , would lead them ' jOT Sg ' totaily contrary conclusion . 5 stt Earl of liad ection to ii . a © i kntoon nau oDj ection
L $ WKo Clakkntpon no obj lay ^ . ^ ujffruu u « jla . « no to lay on tno table the despatches to which allusion had been made . Amidst cheers , he added that their lordships would thenliave an opportunity of judging between the accuracy of the statement he had made and that of the KuBBian ofticial account .
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388 ^ THE L E A DER . [ Saturday ,
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THE NATIONAL FAST : ITS SAYINGS AND DOINGS . A nationAi / fast-day is easily described so far as its obvious characteristics are concerned . When we say that the shops are shut , the banks closed , the Government offices empty , tbe streets without the busy noisy throng of vehicles which roll through them on week days ; while the churches are open and at regular intervals filled and emptied , we have said all . Wednesday was no exception . The war which lias given such an impetus to the curiosity of the public , swelled the . ranks of the church-goers with large crowds of recruits , and at some places of worship , notably St . Paul ' s , there was a rush to get in wheai the doors were opened , which reminded the
reporters of the opera in the days of " the land , fever . " All sections of religionists held the daysacred-r-except owr drab friends the Quakers , vrho > of course , could not lift up their voices for the victory of the national arms . At nearly all the churches there was a collection for the wives and children of the soldiers sent to the East , and probably tome four thousands ¦ of ¦ pounds were patriotically deposited in the plates held at the clmrch doors . What JLondbn appeared to le on that day , on so grand a scale , that , all the great and little towns arid villages in England were on a less . Everywhere the day was observed , if hot with the fervour of befief , yet with that propriety which usurps its place in these latter days . "' ¦¦ •" . : '
another . This , however , was no new development of infidelity and impiety . Precisely the same more than 2000 years ago was the language of tbe rebellions house of Israel - and it was the voice of Jeuovah himself which testified , not only to Jeremiah in the text , but to the prophet Ezekiel al so " The iniquity of the house of Israel and Jndahi is exceeding great , and the land is fall of blood , and the city fall of perverseness ; for they say , the Lord hath forsaken the earth , and the Lord seethnot . " Such , however , among themselves were , he trusted , tie exception , not the rule . The national mind , whether in ages long past or in days close verging on our own , had found other exponents . TJnforgotten whil « time should last would be that great deliverance which our fathers
experienced under another Queen , when the new-born Protestantism of England seemed about to be defaced by a rampant power , and when the invading Armada , with its instruments of torture , was scattered over the wide ocean like chaff before the wind . " God blew with his winds , and they were scattered" was then the appropriate acknowledgment cf deliverance . It was folly to deny to him who made ' the winds all administrative connexion wit h them ; it was folly to limit the exercise of power , which was confessed to lie almighty , and thus to circumscribe the scope of wisdom , which was acknowledged to be infinite . There was no rational medium between the rejection of divine revelation altogether and the unqualified acceptance of that part -of it which declared Jehovah the God ot- all the families of tlie
earth , as well as of the one common progenitor from whom th « y sprang . " Prove to me , " the believer miglt say , " that God did not create Adant out of tie dust of tie earth , then , and only then , ' shall I believe that any portion of Adam ' s innumerable posterity < can cease to be objects of interest to Him who made them alL" WJy should not the words apply with equal force to « northern despot of the present Jay with which they were predicated of old of an eastern conqueror— " O' Assyrian , the rod * f mine sneer and the staff in their hand is mine indignation . " \^ hy should it not be as true of the despot of the north as heretofore it was of the Assyrian tyrant— " Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war ; for with thee will I break into pieces the nations , and . wjth thee will I destroy kingdoms . " Let them . then , contemplate with reverence
the power of the God of nations ; and instead of indulging \ p . mere political speculation , dependent only on man and resolving everything Into subordinate causes , let thWm . come and behold the wonders of the Lord . Let them pray that God would make . wars to cease in all the world , and cause ev « n the " stout-hearted who were far from righteousness * to " be still and know that He is God . " But on spch an occasion they must go far beyond this . While with ' one heart and with one yoicti they cast themselves in this commencement of a fearful , and it might be world-wide straggle , of which no one could foresee the issue , upon the mercy of Him who alone could give victory in battle , it became them to acknowledge both individually and nationally that there were evils in Hie country , evils in the city , evils in the home ,
evils in the heart , which might well incense God to say , concerning them , as he did concerning his chosen people , " Shall I not visit for these things , saith the Lord , and-shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? " To what class or order of men , regarded in the aggregate , could they Wok to save them from the wrath of God ? Were tfcere not too many in the highest places of the land who were a curse and scandal to society when they eugjht to be an example ? — corrnptcrs of . innocence , deceiving and dissembling for the purposes of expediepcy ox policy—utterly heedless of the responsibilities which attached to wealth and honour .. 8 o that , they could but revel in the luxuries of this life ? ]> id not a' large portion of the middle class , more especially the youn £ 5 regard God as a kind of apathetic intelligence , who took no interest in the day which he had macro , and allowed men to live with no other restraint -than
custom or law ? Were there not many among our merchant princes whose only wish on the Lord ' s day was that * ' tomorrow might be as that day , and yet more abundant ?" While , to go at last where Jeremiah went at first , of the mechanic and operative classes how fearful a majority did they find who seemed in that portion of tune which was left at their own disposal to have scarcely any other aim than brutal gratification , ? How many drunkards disgraced our thoroughfares 1 how many harlots infested our streets I hovv many venders of cheap literature corrupted the nation ' s morals [ how many children grew up in the midat o > f us , from infancy to youth , and from youth to rnanbood , without any knowledge of those principles which might preserve the one sex from fraud and violence , and tlie other from infamy and shame ! Three years ago it was ascertained that there was a majority of practical heathens in this country .
Dr . Croly , of St . Stephen's , Walbrook , took a critical and •< reviewer" outlook upoa the war . There are two groat principles evidently capable of development in European history ; the one is , that no nation contending for the cause of the weak and injured wiLI ultimately Buffer for the generosity of its help ; and the other is , that no nation actuated by mere ambition , and breaking treaties for the simple object of its own aggrandisement , will l > e ultimately suff&red to go without palpable and tremendous punishment . The history of England ^ from the 16 th century to the present period , affords the chief illustration of the former principle The continental nations supply tlie chief illustration of the latter . England , in the
war against Spain for the protection of the Protestant states of Holland , triumphed agninst an immeasurable superiority of foice , secured h « r object , and reduced Spain to a thirdrate power at a blow . England , in the seventeenth century , took the field against Louis XIV . for the cause of Europe , und broke the power of tho French monarch for a hundred years . Englund , in tho war of tho Revolution ( of 1789 ) , a ^ ain adopted tho cause of European liberty , and achieved a complete victory , closed by a peace of nearly seventy years . Tho illustration of tho second principle—namely , that the breach of treaties brings an especial punishment on nations —is movod by the punishment bt' Prussia , Austria , and UuHt > ia , for tho atrocious iniquity of tho jpartition ot Toland in 1772—by tho punishment ot" France , fw tho troaoliory of her war with England in 1778 ( which ruiiud the moaiucliy )
In order that our readers may have some idea , although perhaps hut a faint one , of what was said on this day , what word the priests of England had to speak to the people , we append some extracts from the best reports-we have beeii able to select of the discourses of the best preachers . / We may premise that Vith one exception ^ Mr . Burnett , all the ministers approve of the w ' ar . At the afternoon service at Sfc Paul ' s there was an unseemly crush in consequence of the bad arrangements , due mainly to the permitted cupidity of the officers , who take money for seats ; and in the squabble the Lady Mayoress was much squeezed and -troubled . ' The preacher was the Bishop of Xiondon . ' . ' ' ; ¦ .
The three sore judgments wifch which the Supreme Baler afflicted the world were famine , pestilence , and the sword . Within the last ' fevp years they had twice met in that cathedral to pray God to remove from our lancl two of those jndg mertts , namely , pestilence and famine—the pestilence which stalkei about in -the midst of us , and the famine which destroyed old families and villages , in this and the sister country ., And now , for the thir < Ttime , they lad met within thoge sacred walls to acknowledge the third of those jud gments from which God had 8 o > long protected , them . He feared that the people of this country would find it difficult adequately to recognise the miseries of war , as they recognised , the miseries of' the pestilence , which came to every man ' s door , and which was uatraceable in its origin , mysterious in its natare , baffling all science and human skill
sweeping off whols families , d « cimating wlole neighbourhoods , and forcing the thoughtless and the presumptuous to recognise the hand of God . ' Tkey could hoi ) have forgotten the nnnsnal solemnity with which , the days of humiliation he had referred to were observed . People' left their business and their pleasure to repair to the house of God with abundant almsgiving—everything indicating a sense of God ' s judgment and of the nation's dependence upon Him . In the present « ase we could trace more distinctly the operations of the judgment with which the nation was at present afflicted ; and it might be feared that people would stop at the consideration of second causes , instead of tracing up the visitation
to tlie first great cause—to Him who held in his hand the chain of events , and by whom every link waa fashioned . The right rev . prelate proceeded to point out that war was the Tvorst of toe three judgments he had named , and explained its manifold disadvantages . He urged upon his auditory the duty of individual exertion iu behalf of those whom our sailors and soldiers had left behind them , And contended that individual reformation was the best test of national reformation . He recommended all , while praying for the success of the British arms , to add to their intercessions that God , in His mercy , cvronld withhold the scourge of pestilanoe which threatened to visit this laud , and that He would speedily restore the blessings of peace .
The Reverend Thomas Dale , St . Pancras , attempted to show why we are punisfced by war for our sins . " The wisdom of this world , " said the apostle Paul , " is foolishness with God ; " and among many practical evidences of the truth of this saying , not the least striking and conclusive was tho fact that Bnallow philosophers ana sceptical politicians , assuming to bo the organs of popular feeling and the exponents of the national mind , ha < l deprecated and denounced the observance of duys of publio humiliaition under the pressure of God ' a judgments , and days of public thanksgiving wlien they had been abated or withdrawn .. If thoBu who thus wrote and spoke wore at once to avow
themselves atheists , —if they were openly to identify themselves with the " fool" of holy scripture , tho man who anith "in his heurfc there is no God , those who held oppoaito -views could not arraign their consistency , however they might doploro their iniiclelity ; but to act thus when they recognised in terms tho Creator , and therefore admitted his providential dispensations , wan no less contrary to all rouson than obviousl y subversive of all religion ; it was ¦ virtually to declare thut the God of individuals was not tho ( Jod of nations , und tliat tho Providence , without whoso pormisbion a sparrow fell not to tho ground , did not interfere at all in tho guidance and government of empires , in their alternate exaltation or dwproaaion , in tlio casting down of ono or setting up of
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Leader (1850-1860), April 29, 1854, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2036/page/4/
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