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population . Death only walks the streets . Our in-sanitary arrangements , our tyranny of industry , our vice engendered by iguorance , and fostered by being muffled up in order to avoid scandal , destroy' the half of the very beings that live and move , too literally and substantially the half . The stunted , beardless boy of thirty , that creeps about a factory town , is half of a man surviving the half that has died . Thus , upon the living community has been inflicted an aggregate of death exceeding that annually presented . by the Eegistrab-Gexeral . These semi-corpses we cannot conceal ; but we say that they are engendered hy " the system , " shrug our shoulders , and let it pass . Really it is quite a relief to reflect how much our soidiers have escaped in getting to the Crimea . " Little do we think upon the danger of the folks ashore , " says the sailor , reflecting on the tiles that fly about in a high wind , and the traps that are laid for poor Jack . Great is the release of the working men carried off to double pay , full rations , ample exercise , change of scene , honour , praise , and plenty of incident , in the Crimea . They call it the theatre of war ; and in comparison with more deadly occupations , more deadly life amongst the drains that poison us , and the occupations that stifle us , war really has become a theatrical amusement . One almost pities General Simpson , dragged back from his responsibilities in the Crimea , to so dangerous a scene at home . Can nothing be done for him ? Really he ought to be made to participate in some powerful exercise , some amusing vocations , to counteract the depressing effects of the climate we artificially make to kill him as well as ourselves . Can nothing be found congenial with his past career ? He has already superintended grand pyrotechnic displays in the Crimea ; why not give him something of the same kind to do here ? In display and scenic effect , the next best thing to the Crimea , is Cremorne . We have a Simpson there , and a Simpson in the East ; but surely one Simpson would welcome another ; and nothing would take like a new * ' Campaign of the Cremorne , " with a " real General Simpson" to preside over it , in his favourite costume . It would be better than GoMERSAtiL in the real clothes of Napoleon —it will be Napoleon in Napoleon ' s own integuments—Simpson in the hood of Simpson . Imagine the effect in the bills of a line announcing" General Simpson as he appeared in the trenches on the 8 th of September !"
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LOUIS NAPOLEON . ( From a Correspondent . ') " II est hardi , il eat roflechi , il est fourbe . " The following extracts nre selected from memoranda of a conversation which took place in Paris in May , 1853 . Monsieur C n at first could talk about nothing but the Eastern Question , and of his fenrs that Louis Napoleon might seduce England into an offensive alliance . All his passions and all his interests , said C n , impel him to war—especially to a war with you by hia side . To bo engaged with you in a common cause , would introduce him into the great family of sovereigns ; it would oxtricato him from the isolation in which he is now loft—excluded by general hatred and contempt , not only from tho serious discussions of diplomacy , but from tho courtesies by which they are softened . Then he has personal insults to avenge . When the news that our llecjt wns ordered to the bay of Salainis reached Nicholas , he poured out on Louis Napoleon all tho expressions of contumely which French , not very barren of them , and afterwards , which Russian could supply , and ended by exclaiming u ct ce cuialre la veui' . que je Vappelle mon frere ! " War would give him a policy . Even the aristocracy of tho Faubourg St . Germain must support him when ho carries the flag of thoir country . But " what have you English to get by war 1 What have
you to lose ? " Have yon ever considered the course which that war will take ? you think probably that it will be a mere maritime contest ; that you will blockade the Sound and the Bosphorus , and starve Russia out . I am convinced that it will be a land war . Austria must join Russia . She cannot keep Hungary and Gallicia in spite of the native population , and of the Russian armies . The campaign of 1796 may be renewed , but this time Piedmont -will be our ally instead of our enemy . We shall give upper Italy to Piedmont , and reward ourselves with Savoy . This , perhaps you would not much complain of , but tve shall not stop there . The struggle will be revolutionary in Italy ; this will make it so in the north . We shall not be able to compress the revolutionary elements which are boiling up in Germany . Baden , Wurtemberg , Bavaria , and Hesse—all socialist at bottom—will rise on their depotisms and their bureaucracies . We shall have another thirty years' , a war not of interest , but of principle . What you will get by it will be , to take Paumerston for your minister instead of Aberdeen , to double your debt , and to see France seize Belgium after Savoy . What we shall get lay it will be the extension of our frontier , and the consolidation of the most hateful of tyrannies—a democratic despotism ; the union of the army and the rabble , to crash knowledge and refinement . "It cannot be denied that our master has the three qualities which most conduce to political succes ? , " il est hardi , il est reflechi , il est fourbe . " " If you ally yourselves to him , you take an associate whom you know to be utterly false , utterly unscrupulous , and bent on objects which you are resolved that he shall not obtain . And what is your motive for submitting to such an embrace ? Not the fear that Nicholas may march on Constantinople . He does not think of going there . You are afraid that if Turkey enter into an engagement with him respecting the Christians of his Empire , his moral influence over her will be augmented . But she has entered into such engagements with him already , and they do not seem totiave increased his influence . Moral influence does not depend on treaties , but on hope or fearon the hope of benefit or the fear of evil . What he is doing now must diminish his influence , so far as it rests ' on . hope , for he has shown that he is the bitter , fanatical enemy of Turkey . So far as it rests on lear , it rests on hia physical force , and that will not be increased by the treaty . " I foresee that France will throw Louis Napoleon off , continued C n , if we remain at peace . His only chance of keeping us in subjection is to intoxicate and brutalise us by a successful war , and a war in which England is his ally will be successful . This is the terror that haunts me day and night . I know that what is passing in my mind must "be passing through his . I know that what I have been saying ^ to you he must have been saying to himself . I am as sure of it as if he had told me so ; indeed more so , for if ho had told me so I might have doubted . " In order to seduce you into war , he will employ every artifice which his power of simulation and of dissimulation ( and they are very great ) place at his disposal . Ho will renounce all ambitious views , all separate action ; he will communicate to you every dispatch that goes to Lacour , and every order that he sends to Lnssusse ; ho will modify thorn at your pleasure ; he will put his fleet under your admiral and hia diplomacy under your Foreign Office . He will be your slave until you are committed , to bo your master for ever after . O . W .
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Thk Soutuwaiuc Eucotiox . — Sir diaries Napier , on Monday evening , addressed a meeting of electors at Rotherhithe , nnd , after giving a sketch of his life in n a spirit of bin /! ' egotism , denied tho charge of wishing to gut into rnrliiimont in order to arfango a " private " quarrel with Sir James Graham . He had no privato quarrel with Sir James , but ho had a public qunrrol . However , he had " Hinim ' ied" him already . The Admiral , who wua outhuuiasticnlly received , declared bimwolf nn imlcpcndniit supporter of Lord Palmerston . Ho would support Parliamentary Keform to tho extent of giving every rate-payer a voto . Reform of Parliament should precede Administrative Reform , and pjrsonal reform should go beforo both , consequently , he thought tlio Adminiittrativo Reformers liavo ' got tho wrong sow by tho cai . " Sir Charles Napior | hn 3 also addressed one or two other meetings of oloctora ; and Mr . Scovell Iibh mndo public fltatemonta of his principles , which are very similar to those of hia opponent .
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; A Good Sermon to a Small Audience . —A story is told of Dr . Beecher , of Cincinnati , that is worth recording ' , as illustrating the truth that we can never tell what may result from an apparently insignificant action . The doctor once engaged to preach for a country minister , on exchange , and the Sabbath proved to be excessively stormy , cold and uncomfortable . It was in mid winter , and the snow was piled in heaps all along the road , so as to make tho passage very difficult . Still the minister urged his horse through the drifts till he reached the church , put the animal into a shed , and went in . As yet there was no person in the house , and after looking about , the old gentleman , then young , took Ins seat in the pulpit . Soon the door opened , and a single individual walked up the aisle , looked about and took a seat . The hour en me for conamencing service , but no more hearers . " Whether to preach to such an audience or not was now the question ; and it was one that Lyman Ueecher was not long in deciding . Ho felt that he had a duty to perform , and he had no right to refuse to do it , because only one man could reap the benefit of it j and accordingly he went through all the services , praying , singing , preaching , nnd the benediction , with only one bearer . And when all was over , ho hustened down from the desk to speak to his " congregation , " but he had departed . A circumstance so rare was referred to occasionally , but 20 years after it was brought to the doctor ' s mind quite strangely . Travelling somewhere in Ohio , the doctor alighted from the stage one day , in a pleasant village , when a gentleman stepped up and spoke to him , familiarly calling him by nunic . " I do not remember you , " BaM the doctor . "I suppose not , '' said the stranger ; " but we spent two hours together in a house alone once , in a storm . " 1 do not recall it , " added the old man ; " pray , nray , when was it ? " "Do you remember preaching twenty years ago , in such a place to a single person ? Yes » yes , " said the doctor , grasping his hand , " I do , indeed : and if you are tho man , 1 have been wishing to see you ever Bince . " " I am tho man , sir ; and that sermon suvtd my soul , made a minister of me , nnd yonder is my church . The converts of that sermon , sir , are nil over Ohio . "
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. THOMPSON'S CONICAL VENTS FOR . . : CANNON . - a . .. . . ¦ An invention so named has been submitted i < y , and rejected by the Ordnance Select Committee , afc . jVjFbolwich , on the ground that it is too good . This ; Js literally a fact , the communication received by Mr . F . B . Thompson , the inventor , concluding in this remarkable manner : — " It is conceived that a vent upon your plan would afford a greater advantage to the enemy than ourselves , as it would prevent guns being spiked when occasion required it . " Now , the express object of this invention is to prevent the spiking 6 f guns . It was taken into consideration by the Ordnance Select Committee on that account , and proving successful in its design , is " respectfully declined , " Rather strange logic this ! Why not urge the same plea against the Minie rifle ? According to the dogma of the Ordnance authorities , perfection is to be considered the bane of military implements . Why use sharp swords ? May not the enemy take thena away from us , and try their edge upon our backs , whilst we gallop off in full retreat ? Mr . Thompson ' s invention , as we said before , is to prevent the enemy from spiking our guns . _ This is effected simply by the substitution of a conical vent ' ( thus j \ ) for a cylindrical one ( II ) . It is apparent that whatever is inserted in a vent of the former configuration can only become fastened at the top , whereas , at present , the common spike requires drilling out all the way down—a labour that requires a considerable outlay of time and patience . The spring spikes recently adopted are really of no use at all—they may be pulled out as easily as they are driven in . Mr . Thompson has written several letters to the Morning Advertiser , in which he clearly demonstrates what is not denied by the Ordnance authorities , —the practibility of his invention ; and in which h& shows what is not concealed by their communication , that much reform is yet needed in that department , that notoriously so egregiously mismanages the supply of of munitions to our brave army—that is now sending cut splendid hearses to the Crimea , while they persist in withholding a supply of efficient pickaxes to dig graves with . It is quite time that we had some alteration in this system . We could possibly forgive the red-tapists for having made us the laughing-stock of the world' « but it is not to be endured that they should make us targets for our enemies .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 1057, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2113/page/13/
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