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men ^^ BiwcE ^ ff ^ arG ^^ ^ up M * a example of bad < % astianrfy > selfr £ nteousness is indeed reduced to i&e _* bsurd . The -case pwrveB tbe lawsvitable tendency of Beet tb separate itself more and Tnoefrfram trfeafce * er is ' ¦ - oonu&Oift . ' " to faith , Bttd s » more ftdflf "wtiat is common to aUiC 5 hristianity , and to rely in what is distinStive © nly . The type of humanity , says
the # e # , is only the high Caucasian aos ©; nay , B ^ * T * e rfegrb , it . is a flat notes-me standard , « ays the Esquimaux beauty , *» fc nose Which will not touch a stick laid from cheek to chetek . The Gh * ssfcian is aot > h © who oibeys the two new towmandments , Jntk he who disbelier ^ wliat other Ohristianfs assert that they % elietie , an # wko believes m ariyufew and difficult proposition which the other ueetfl find it impossible to aeceptl The sectBthuaindeed justify the 'blankest negation of all belief i for , take the votes of tfee
majority ag ^ tHi eadttm turn ; and ydti triraft not believe in the reality , nor disbelieve in the reality ; nor believe that % he grace-comes before , nor that it comes after ; nor believe one ^ ay or the other ; while -thenew cxwamandmebfa' which distinguish Christianity froin-the Judaism " of the pr ^ venient tein are passed dyer in slighting mlefctee as tmi * npOrtaiit . " ! Fd loVe your neighbotec as yourself and to lb ^ e GtaD with all your heart , and with allytrtrrsoul ^ and wMi all ypttr strength — -as 3 Pti < y&E 7 TGE Ni « HTi * f <* AiiE does— -these
are things conrpatifeleTwith UfiitaManism , Somanis / m , Judaism , Puseyism , or " iirfifdtelity " itself . . A : diyine tells us no less ! So that , tm the shbWing '" -tit- ail fleets against each -one , . pureChristiaanity ^ tha * is , the iessential ele-Trietots ' ' ^ taractedfrdto the distinctive dogmas of sec'fc—is nothing more than ^ infidelity . There was once a Teacher that came from Nazareth , who rebuked the doctors for relying on their vain cdnceits , and ( far be from us the irreverence ) on this showing of
sectaries , He was the first infidel ! ! Heresy , perhaps , depends upon the application of the doctrine . If a peculiar religious body-professes- to -hold -property-, and - enjoy privileges on the strength of entertaining distinctive beliefs , then it becomes important to know whether the possessors of that property really believe as they say . If they keep up the art and mystery as a trade , without honestly believing it themselves , they are , as we have often said , a Corporation of
Soothsayers . Then we must ask them to define then ? belief , in order to see whether they are , that exclusive sect , representing King Henby the Eighth , and entitled , on such showing , to tho fee simple of the corporation with all its revenues . If , on the other han 4 , they claim not as a sect , but as the representatives of a nation , then how foolish to seek exact definitions of doctrine in a nation which has a thousand doctrines though it lias but one table sauce . Tf the Church is to oe that ™ of England , " practically as well as by title , it will seek to rest its tenure on those
doctrines of Christianity which are superior to sect and independent of it , and will not collapse to a sect by pinning its faith , or rather its property , to one secondary doctrine more than another . It is by relying on broad Christianity more than on Komanism that the Church of Sardinia is become the Church of the people . It is by casting aside the casuistic notions equally of Innocestt HI . and Pius E ! L , as of George Ajsttfoist Denisow and _ 3 $ M&v JLxw , that any Church , whether of England <» of Bonne , is able to expand , as Jmowk » dg « -M » dttH 5 appreciation of religious , truth ^ expand , aod to continue to be the Church of * nation . The Christian Church I
of England forfeits its Christianity as well as ite nSonality , while it is divided against itself by SudiKctaTian quarts to settle casuHH S questions which have their solution , tf . at all , beyond thebbunds . of human ken . ± n ChriBtianity there is no heresy .
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SIR SQBERT JPEEL . The Leader has never failed an Bympathy : and encouragement-towards menof rank and Po sition who have had the courage to recognise the obligation of hereditary name . Gtoe of the most esteemed and beloved ° f Erench writers , equally esteemed andjseloved for his brilli ^ lseWloeB AS a soldier of the press , and ; hia virtues « a . a citizen , a man of true hea ^ t and ^ niuSjEiraEiFE Peseta * , has finely said , " TvSenever a man of intellect is born in the higher uanks , he cannot help coming to the cause , of the people . Welcome to . all who have the . longest way to come : the people
owes you a double debt of gratitude , tor a liberal aristocrat has a double merit an Jus liberalism . We of the people belong to ttie cause of liberty ; ran aristocrat leawes ^ be-Jtind a part of hia existence when he joms bur Tanks ^ V ¥ e have only been ^ le to paraphrase : feebly enough the vivid and generous language of the ^ Freneh writer , but the thought has alw ays been at our _ heart when we have offered a respectful greeting to
men nursed in all the luxury of wealth , in all the isolation of vast possessions , amidst the dissolving influences of ease and pleasure . Most ¦ assuredly this feeling has had nothing to do with that propensity to " love a lord , " so distinctive of our social classifications . The subject of our present notice bears a name of which he may well feel the glorious burden , the more so that it is a name which , however high placed to-day ,
was yesterday the ichild of industry , whose blazon is the blazon of democracy . JRoeebt Peel , , the . statesman whose too early death was lamented i > y thousands of rude hearts , as a jpersonal no less than a national calamity , whose couch of agony was almost invaded by the lamentations of a people , lived long enough to pay back to the democracy the . de'bt of ^ his . birth , and : he ^ had . tha no ; ble pride to hand down to his descendants a name undisguised by the idle artifices of the
Herald ' s CoHege . It is well , we Bay , that his son should feel the glorious burden of that simple name . It is well , too , that he should refuse to . lend that name to unworthy associations . We have observed with frequent satisfaction of late the appearance of Sir Eobebt Peel as heir to his father ' s larger sympathies , if not to his political prinoipiesi The present Baronet would call himself , we suppose , a social Liberal , a political Conservative . "Well , we . can see no objection to the one , nor to the other ; if to be , a social lateral is to seek to reconcile rather tban to
divide classes of society , if to be apolitical Conservative , is to seek by gradual emanci pation of ihe less favoured of our ifellowcreatures from the double pauperism of body And soul , from want and ignorance , to give to as many as possible something to conserve . Why I the Leader , let us confess , is as much Coneervativ-e as Libenal , for do we not cherish order . as the guardian of liberty , and liberty as the pledge of peaceful order P Sir
Bobebt Peel after a youth not more stormy than that of greater men , returns home to cultivate a career of politioal eccentricity and « ooial benevolence . Every now and then he startles a provincial platform by a singular combination of the philosopher and the mowquetavre , ,. But the example survives the ecoentricity * and it is the exwajplo we desire sincerely to encourage and npplawd . We have received , tiWs week , a letter from
a correspondent at Tamworth , giving an account of-the soiree mentioned in another part of our paper , . = . .. . « The 4 adies of the town and neighbourhood ? rovidea tea ^ and ' invited their poorer founds to join S « n- tabled ? hus -aU dlasses Vtofeled together and Sent « ie happiest sooM meeting * vflr _ fenownheje . Ks * pEf Sir Pobert Peers to bring about a SoJe ldndVinterS > urse of the 4 iflferent grades of XRJ ^ SE Sends much time and money m pro--v > , rPaTviiitri-iT + li tnvrne ? an
acmoting the inteUectual good of the to ^ . ^ ™* given for seven years to come a ^ sejf ftLI £ L * § ip liihrflrv and Beading-rooin . Jiadeed , I know no-S ^ S ^ roug hTaeVoteA to ** J «» f «** Door- he his a good heart , a large head , and a great Snie ; hi your encouragement hefeels a great support , and might grow * great benefactor to his race . This enthuBiastic eulogy is at once pardonable and nte ^ sant ; no doubt itiS sincere and
deserved . Tt is to be regretted that a man of impulses so generous , should talk , it we may so 5 peak , systematically at random m the Hbuse of Commons . Sir Bobest Peel is peTpetuall y interjecting the wildest liberal declamation , with all . the air ; of msincenty , in the midst of Tory professions , the most bigoted and the most retrogade , with ail the air of conviction . "Which is the real man . and which is the hero of a masquerade ?
"Sox instance , on the first night of the December Session , this benevolent Baronet woun ^ up some wild talk about Poland and what not , with an appeal to British Ministers to expel political exiles from the shores of England , and to driveYiCToaHtrGO across the Atlantic , to a country where the poet bf the Chatiments would cease to disturb the dreams of the Ruler of Prance . Now we sere not disposed to deny that there may be justifiable disapprobation of any foreigaer , however injured , and however worthy of all honour and resDect , who affects to dictate a policy to the
land olbis refuge , or to identify that country with his " own just resentments . But that any Englishman , we do not say any liberal Englishman , should even remotely hint at the possibility of denying the refuge of our freedom to the victims of political vicissitudes , who are Republicans to-day , and may be Boyalists or Bonapartists to-morrow , is inconceivable on any other supposition than that the man who utters the proposition is no more in earnest against refugees than he ,. _ . ___ . £ „ . Q - ppye -g-ge- ^ -jiationBi- ^ -TErnhap-- pfly , it is not permitted to a politician who bears the name bf Sir Robert Peel to bo a saltimbangue .
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- MEMOIR ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR . In -the Memoir on the Conduct of the War , inserted in out last number , some slight typographical errore hare , w » regret to say , completely changed the sense of certain passages . In a strategical argument these errata are doubly serious : a syllable out of place may destroy the basis of an argument which has all the precision of a mathematical problem . Has not a single word in a despatch changed the fortunes of a campaign ? Page 40 , 1 st column , Hue 9 : fox destroy tfojbrces , read divert tlte forces . In the same page , 2 nd column , lino £ 4-: for would not be of long duration ., read could notjiuj , to be of long duration . Page 41 , 1 st column , line 37 : fbr he justly thought the sea not a bad base , read lie justl y thought the « ea a bad base .
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'The Sick and Wounded of toe Cambria . —Tho bravo fellows -who arrived at Liverpool on Monday In the Cambria from the Crimea , disembarked about four o'clock , au order from London to that eflfdot Having boon received . Tho moat urgent cases were conveyed to the infirmary , whero tho most prompt assistance was rendered . Refreshments -wore provided for thorn immediately upon their arrivnl , and for theso , and tho excellent arrangements made for their comfort , each oxpressed his warm thanks . Tho Mayor , tho ox-Mayor , Captain TSovis , R . N . ( the Admiralty ago ' nt ) , the suporintouUcnt of Police , and other officials wore unremitting In tTic'lr efttentikms to contribute to the-comfort of th « men , and bave boon present at the Tarious . meals .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2074/page/14/
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