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the existence of men upon the earth long before the thick crust which formed above those relics , alarm is created lest the belief in the Scriptures should be imperilled . The theologians do not yet perceive the sublime * kc £ , * hat the more ^ reriidvance into a knowledge ofthe aoeeation , fhe n * e * e ¦ we study the autograph of thegOreator , the ti&m&c we come to the great and untaMfal truth . ^ , . ' - ^ & On the contrary ^ gtRis not iMgl iat and timtagpKal truth that is npheldin this coimtry with arty firm confidence , but the Thirty-nine Articles . Dr . " LtvsstSGTOSi has positively laid down the law at Bath , sitting there as judge for the Archbishop of
CantbrbubT ) that the Thkty-nine Articles are the standard of « reed for the teacher , and therefore for the flock , of the English Church . He not only forbids you to consult the great autograph , but also the Bible ; the Thirty-nine Articles being a superior authority to either 1 Having preached doctrine on the subject of the " real presence" in the consecrated wafer , reprrgnant to Articles 28 and 29 , the Venerable Gbokgb Anthony D : enison , Archdeacon of Taunton , is pronounced to be so far heretical ; a « d he is warned by a suspended sentence that , unless he recants before the 1 st of October next , he shall be deprived .
"TJhe Archdeacon ' s heretical opinions are to us strange ; but they are not so repulsive as the declaration of another Archdeacon — Archdeacon THOBP- ^ -that he cannot close the church at Hartlepool , which has been the scene of a chronic * ' row . " Our readers know this case- The incumbent and i ; he patron difier on points of doctrine ; and to estop the incumbent , the patron sends into the body of the church , -at periods of divine service , crowds who make such a scene in the edifice as they would in a booth at a fair . That is the kind of divine service which is carried on . Certain of
the parishioners apply to the Archdeacon to exercise his authority in closing the edifice ; and he replies with a platitude—that he does not think it consistent with his duty to close any church for divine service so long as it can be kept open ! The Archdeacon ' s sentiment is either most gigantically sublime , or most contemptibly ludicrous . But we cannot wonder at the aberrations of the clergy when , we find " the best possible instructors , " the press , so far at sea . The Leading Journal , helped by divers others , sustains the new proposition that the stage must not hold the mirror up to vice , but only to virtue . For the
great Traviata controversy has continued , and has received new elucidation from the pen of Lumiby . He hopes to disarm the controversialists by sacrificing the Traviata as a lost creature who is destroyed before the eyes of a virtuous audience , in order to prove the total perdition of vice . AccOifflitog'to Xitrananr , VioleUa is a Magdalen , only not pardoned . . The other persons of the drama are appointed ibr the very purpose of stoning her to death ; the audience—of course without sinassorting . The Attdience , however , has given the best answer 'to % lie cotatroversiaHsts , by going to tfete additional performances in increased numbers . 'HkeHPimes <} ani < do much , trtit it cannot stem the
vgrytai&dtreum t © f public << opuHon . JSAei Royal'A ^ riotritiurAl ^ Society of Ireland has held 4 ts gathering in Athlone , Lord Caklisxb oharrrman -and-Spokesman . The constabulary and the farmers , combining in the Annual returns , enabled , him to give a glowing account of Ireland ' s prosperity — ft oonftmual increase in land-culture , in produce , arid in Ilhe value of wageB . * En 4 | Mt ( centre of Oonnaxrgbt , where the old Irish defied '* 3 he English monarch ortd tfbPbrtde the advwotoe x > f his vtipvesentatives , the viceroy -6 f the * BngUahi « nou ^ B * h . is now the welcome 'advocate of Infih interests .
A pubKcmeeting . hea been held in Edinburgh to disavow theAtate wortict in > the Scotsman enso , wndto pay the fine - 5 the "Edinburgh public thus ttftiog upon itaelf to diaohum both the law as it is
laiddowniifc c ^ flNwnMte application , and to remit the fine . 'Sfhe public of the modern Athens makes thsfe ^ question one between itself and the Court ^ dHBession ; and the Scotsman , with , its p * oprigtW ^ an& > writer 3 y tMlti ^ exmeraMl<mn any liabfi ^ y inftkematterv VfcShavfcilie reporfesfcf another reformnl ^ fy in full »« fcrk . life is not »» w , though newly JWilfe ht unde * L * te »« f 6 tice fegftfe JMtiic . It is ^ K ^ BeUldere Crescent Reformatory , established by Mr . William Driver , a volunteer , who some time back
conceived the idea of redeeming the boys in the streets by a plan , of tuition and industry combined , which should be ^ elf-supporting . He found a big house in a poor neighbourhood , which he rented for himself ; he took a few boys « ut of the streets , and taught them while they were making boxes for their mutual support . The trade succeeded , and the teacher succeeded ; he obtained other assistants , and the reformatory was enlarged . This week , on sending out nine boys as emigrants to Canada , he invited their companions in the school—ay , and their
companions in the streets—to a parting visit , while he uttered a few words explaining the principles of the reformatory . They are simple enough . He makes duty the prime object of solicitude to the boys ; but also he makes the boys themselves feel that they are practically , at each moment of their service -with him , —at the very moment of taking leave of him for Canada—in the most literal sense of the word , volunteers . "Volunteers , they persevere ; and Driver has proved that the reformatory principle may be made self-supporting , as we are convinced that all reformatory and penal discipline may be made .
Let us cpntrast this real discipline of our race with the miserable exhibition of Dove strangled before the public , after a maudlin confession paraded as evidence of his penitence . Let us compare it with the butchery , before the public , of Mabtha Brown , who had slain her husband in a fury worked up by his cruelty ; cruelty being the beginning , the middle , and end of the whole lesson .
The fact is , that death is not the penalty that deters the ignorant and the reckless , otherwise we should not have , while the inquest on the Cymmer Colliery is sitting , another colliery explosion . Otherwise , indeed , we should never have had the Cymmer explosion ; for the whole course of the evidence proves that , from the manager to the workman , it was impossible to make those who risked their lives feel the risk they ran , although they frequently saw the gas playing in flames round their naked candles I
As little can death restrain that kind of ignorance as ruin and disgrace can restrain the madness of gambling in commerce . Another bank , at Newcastle , has just turned out to be one more among the instruments of Jojmj Sadjubib , actually placing itself at his service for operations in London and Tipperary . And Lord Maidstonk is figuring at Guildford Assizes as defendant in a case where he issued upon accommodation bills . The noble viscount , hadrgiven five bills collectively for 6100 / ., to the Hon . JPbaj < ci 8 Viixibks ; and he had had some part of the . proceedings himself . His name
has thus become inuxed up , unconsciously to himself , with the forgeries of the Hon . iPftANCTs ; Lord MaidstonB ' s name alone being forged to some . 'sixteen ¦ or seventeen . accommodation bills . And in this trial three noble names are freely bandied about aa engaged in the spurious trade - carried on by moans of a person who did business " on oommisflion ;'' Two-ttf the three noble young > gentlomen have left the-pountry . The third , less 'implicated , defends himself successfully , though he has smarted bitterly for his commercial relations twith a Vii / liers . This trial marks assuredly the
flnosttdweaaod place in the community , where high ibloed , trade , usury , and «* sport , " combine to be the" hartfctiaidens of swindling . -
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SCI : JHRCS 1 BALD ALISON ON THINGS IN GENERAL . The members of the Seaham Mechanics' Institute WGtmm&Ml&ffdny addressed in a discursive speech jjgjH'Sir Archibald Alison , who is at present staying at thet residence of the'Marcbioness of Londonderry . "He said he wished to educe three truths from passing events , and he then proceeded : — . The first of these is the absolute need of all the country—and , above all , of the middle classes—being im _ pressed with the imperative necessity of maintaining our national armaments on an . adequate * cale , if we would avoid , not a repetition of cat late Crimean disasters , but the advent of disasters infinitely greater , and , perhaps ,
the ultimate and not distant ruin of the empire , (// ear , hear . ) Another subject upon which I wish to address you is the great and important change which has taken place , not in this country alone , but in the whole world , arising from the discovery of the vast gold mines of California and Australia , the effects of which it is impossible to over-estimate . I propose to conclude with a few remarks upon the effects which these changes will have on the relationships of society around us . { Hear . ) Now , gentlemen , if there is any one point which the lessons of experience show us in the most clear and lucid colours , it is the immense danger we have run during the last forty years , consequent on the reduction of our national armaments . So great have been these dangers ,
and so enormous the perils -we have incurred—so inconceivable the infatuation with which the nation was driven forward in the course which imperilled its very existence—that , really , when a person comes to look back on the history of the last forty years , he feels as if he were following the steps of some sonnambula , treading , with her eyes blinded , on the edge of a precipice . I will give you one or two examples of the danger you incurred in consequence of this desire to lessen our national armaments . At the conclusion of the last war , there was no person who ventured to show himself upon the hustings to solicit the suffrage of a constituency who did not begin directly by saying that his principles embraced unflinching economy and unsparing reduction in the universal
every department of the State . That was cry . No one ventured to gainsay it . The advocates of retrenchment were entirely successful , and they reduced the armaments of the country to the very lowest point . I will tell you what were the dangers we incurred in consequence . In 1835-6 , in consequence of the prevalent cry for economy and for reduction , our army in India was reduced by 100 , 000 men . The army , consisting of 260 , 000 men , was reduced to 150 , 000 . Attend to the consequences of this . The Russians knowing this , and that we had dismissed our old soldiers , who were the nucleus and the strength of our army , immediately began to encroach upon Northern Asia . They conquered Persia , and moved forward to Affghanistan . They besieged Herat , the key of Hindostan and our possessions in India , and we were obliged , therefore , to extend ourselves into Affghanistan , in order to repel the power of Russia ,
which then threatened us in the East , as it has recently threatened us in the West . Now , attend to this . Tho Afghanistan chief , Dost Mahommed , had command of tho passage that led from Northern Asia into India , and that chief offered for 50 , 000 / . a year to enter into a close alliance , offensive and defensive , with Great Britain , nnd exert his whole strength to repel the Northern invader . They would not give him'the monoy ; and what was the consequence ? Tho Russians succeeded in establishing their influence among them , and we were obliged to send an expedition to Afghanistan to endeavour , at the point of the bayonet , to regain that influence , which we had lost from false economy ( Jiear , hear ); and that expedition , and the war which followed , cost our Indian Empire 10 , 000 , 000 / . sterling , and occasioned a loss to our army of 6000 fighting men , and 19 , 000 camp followers , ol whom only one escaped tho terrible disaster . Twentyfive thousand lives wore thus sacrificed .
Various other instances to tho same ofloct were mentioned by Sir Archibald ; among them , the fact , as ho alleged , of our having dismissed 10 , 000 mon from our army in India , tho consequence oi which was that they all took service with tlio Sikhs and Kunjeet Singh . To the gold discoveries , the speaker attributed our unexampled national pro - sperity einco 1850 , prices having been i ; ihs «« . gold becoming cheaper—a result beneficial to all orders . He warned the working classes against a recurrence to the iiital impolicy of strikes ; « i » i » again glancing at the Russian wur , lie cxlul > iteti that , had we at once taken Sebaatopol , liussiti would have retired unscathed to her interior , ami the war would have been protracted p erhaps tor twenty years , instead of being brought to n speedy close by tho immense loss of liuusian trooyH during tho campaign in tho Crimea .
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THE LEADER . [ No . 334 , Saturday , 770 . ^ ' y ^ -ff- ^— '
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1856, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2154/page/2/
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