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laving those in my arms ^ rf 10 once lo-ved me , and if they are as true as those who they once sent me word that I lad no respect for them , bat I oaly hope that they respect me as much as I respect diem , and then I am sure they love me . I have not had the pleasure © f kissing those sweet lips of yours lately but I hope I shall once more have that honour . —My dear Add , I remain yoms extreme and affectionate lover , J . DjurcE . P . £ L I have not shown much affection to you . as yet , Ibut I hope you . -will please to forgive me , that I may see you soon , and J shall see those who I love .
There is something exquisitely ludicrous if you read it in the tone that would usually be given to such words , when th < e young gentleman remarks that he has " not had the pleasure of kissing those sweei lips of jours lately , but I hope I shall one © more harve that honour . " But it is not probable that John Dajstob would have uttered those words in the tone which -we usually give to them . When he used the -word ' honour , ' it Is clear that he intended to express a deep feeling of
respect for the girl whom his relationship , his long acquaintance , his instincts , Ids esteem for her character made him love the more . Clearly Dance perceived the qualities of the girl to whom he had thus given his heart . The more frightful , it would seem , that those lips , which in imagination he had appropriated to himself should be appropriated to others ; that the return for which he would have paid his existence should be denied to him and granted elsewhere .
There was , of course , a reason for the rejection of the lover , and one is palpable on the face of his own composition . He proved that he preferred love to life ; he "was a man thereforeof strong passions and of vehement , perhaps imperious will ¦ ¦ ' but he laboured under an incapacity of making his strong emotions , his true devotion , intelligible . We
can spell out his feeling and intent from his acts and from this crude composition ; but without the lurid light thrown upon the letter by the tragedy , we could only have laughed at the foolish style . How much of the incompetency and misery of life lies in the incapacity for working out the ideas or the feelings which are within us . There is no man more accursed than he who
carries a giant , whatever .-the , spirit of that giant may be , within the frame of a dwarfa great passion within the restraints of a petty and a feeble utterance . It often happens that such natures are rendered more unhappy by the incredulity which they encounter . John" Dance knew his own passion ; in hia words it became a ludicrous burlesque , and the more he tried to persuade , the less he could be believed . The one thing that might have helped him would
have been education ; it might have taught him better to word his own autography ; it might liave enlarged his own ideas , and have gifted his suppressed passion with a somewhat enlarged utterance . And even A : nne Babb , enlightened by a broader spread of knowledge , might have learned to see through the moral im pediments of speech , and if still rejecting her maladroit suitor , to reject him with that greater recognition of a strong passion that soothes under repulsion .
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There is no learned man but -will confess lie hath much profited "by reading -controversies , his senses awakened and his judgment sharpened- If , then , it be profitable for him to read ., -why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write ?—Miuos
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THE ARCHBISHOP OB CANTERBURY'S NEIGHBOURS . ( To the Editor offke Leader . ) Sir , —Having read your article on the Society for ImpToving the Dwelling Houses of the Poor , I teg to call your attention , and tlarough ; you the attention of that benevolent Society , to the Archbishop of Canterbury ' neighbourhood . I am sure the people of Vanxhall , South LamoetJi , and the WandswortJi-road will be very grateful if you can spur that benevolent Society to work any improvement , this being their only road to town . I haye been a resident in Lambeth ten yearSj and , on . leading your article on Clark's-buildings , I / went to see if they were as bad as our " lack slums . " Why , those buildings areEdeus compared with the haunts round Lambeth Palace .
High-street , Broad-street , Princess-street , and Pore-street , or the ' hacls slu-itis , ' are all in a line -witl ) the river from the Palace-walk to tlie Vauxliall Station . On leaving Palace-walk , and crossing in front of the church , you . come to a little narrow street , full of filthy hovels , nearly windowless , and in some cases doorless , intermixed at the further end with a few factories for crushing old drainpipes , making soap , baking'bricks , &c . This street leads into Broad-street , and into the "water if the tide is high ; if lo" \ v , you see the offal that has been left
there by the last high water . The effect upon j r our nose I need not describe . Tou cross this street , but , before doing so , looking straight before you is Forestreet , the haunt of soap-boilers , bone-crushers , rosin and pitch factors , the various odours from which are of the most horrible description . Look a little to tho left—there stands a batch of abominable sliods , for they are not houses . Peep into the passage of either , and the atrocious fumes will tell you how dirty and miserable are tho inhabitants within , some of whom may be seen in the morning at tho ujstairs windows almost naked . A little further to
the left you come to Princess-street . Here are mote factories , and worse than in any of the others . The stench on entering this street is truly awful . Iutlie summer months disgusting odours breed such quantities of vermin that it is impossible to move without crushing them ; and when , tho wind blows tho smolce over the Btreet , great drops of steam from the bonefactories fall in your fac « - Here aro potteries , in which immense furnaces are kept for baking briclcs , factories for molting grease , making candles , boiling the grease out of bones , &c . &c . There aro also flour-mills , starch-mills , two or three distilleries , and near the end are tlie large gas-worlcs , opposite which are a few model lodging-house , which naturally aro all but tenantless .
On either side of this street , and in tho little courts between tho factories , aro the dwelling-houses of the poor , all of the same description , but worse , u possible , than those at tho end of Brotid-street . Such is the neighbourhood of tho Archbishop of Canterbury , who enjoys tho pleasure of an o-pen space before hia residence . The people thflt hve liero ore all lioncst , hardworking people , whose comfort should be seen to . I ara , Sir , your obedient servant , One of tiie Ancrrniaiior of Cantebbouv ' s NlSIQHHOtJUS . Durham-street , Konnin / fton . Oval , S < pt . 2 , 1850 .
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tie old or tire new h ypothesis . All that concerns us is the spirit in which Mr . Symotsts ' s proposition has been received . He put it originally in the form of an inquiry , and there is certainly little encouragement to speculative investigation in the manner in which his question was answered . A number of persons at once came forward to insult the heretic . Some-were savage , others only meant to te witty . Almost all intruded scoffs and mockeries into the discussion . Coeumbtts was not more bitterly jibed at by the councillors of Salamanca . Mr . W . Horkots , of whom we wish to speak with all respect , talked of his ' scientific horror' - ^ -and
ridiculed Mr . Smogs ' s vanity . Dr . IiABDirjER , setting an excellent example , admitted that the astronomer's side of the argument stood in need of clearer exposition than it had received , from him or any one else . ' A Cambridge "Wrangler , writing in anonymous supremacy , betrayed a little ignorance , or something worae , by referring Mr . JeiiIinge ^ to ' air . Simons , ' and recommended that gentleman to understand . ' subjects taught in sehool-books . But the blow from Cambridge was not half so overwhelming as the Wast from Lincoln ' s Inn , where some melancholy dust-eater had sat , five days , plotting a joke , as follows : — " American naturalists tell of a
Schools more easily confuted when ' Mooncalf' hurls at him a silly joke , or -when ' A Canxbrid ge-Wrangler ' displays that sort of dogmatism which , our ( Sc / lbbon says is " puppyism come to maturity ? " One other consideration may be suggested : "What if Mr . Stmons should be in the right , and the astronomers in the wrong ?
nomers does not exist is proved by the fact that Mr . SxMONshas his partizans amon * ' scientific men .. ' ° It is the old story . The old spirit of per secution works as it worked in other days We _ are—many of us—as bitter against doubters as when orthodoxy was enforced by the whip of the beadle . ^ But is See advanced in this way ? Is the Inspector of
certain owl who had so obstinate a habit of staring , that the sportsman need only engage his attention for , a few minutes , and then walk steadily round him , and the deluded victim will quickly wring his own neck and fall a prey to perseverance in his own view of the subject . " This conscious jester , signing himself ' Mooncalf , ' proceeded to interpret his parable by proposing to Mr . Symoets the performance of * some unintelligible experiment which would " infallibly sprain his wrist , and doom him to dictate to an amanuensis his next answer to the ' science'
' sarcasms of the public . " Professor T . M . Goodeve also , we are sorry to say , lost his temper so far as to taunt Mr , Symoits with 'imperfect education , ' and advised him to " retire into a distant part of the country and betake himself vigorously to the study of applied mechanics . " A second ' " Wrangler' thought it decent to pity the ' ordinary and tininteresting infirmit y' of the Inspector of Schools , whom lie "wittily and witheringly styled the ' patient' of the Times newspaper . Even ' , ' -who exhibited a little seriousness ,
could not apply himself to the disrassion without a preliminary insinuation of disrespect . ' S ., ' without being flippant or sarcastic , was nervously orthodox , ' Cantabrigiensis' compassionately pert , but ' E . B . D . ' composed a number of melancholy commonplaces about demonstrations that would be clear to ' the stupidest boy' in a school , but which were puzzlers to Mr . Symons . These letters did not complete the quarrel—for quarrel it
became , though the Inspector of Schools , we are bound to Bay , argued in general with good-humour and moderation . At the recent meeting of the British . Association , he was interrupted while reading a paper , some of his oxnnions raised an uproar , and one reverend gentleman afterwards boasted o f having assisted in creating the disturbance because he could not endure to hear his favourite science ' murdered' by Mr .
SyTHJ 3 OIITHODOX MOON . In these days , probably , we should not burn John Hubs , or refuse Christian burial to CUiatEo . Both G-auleo and John Hubs , however , might bo exposed to a good deal of impertinent ipeiaecution if the one were not a professed ecclesiastio , or the other a professed astronomer . Hero is Mr . Jexmnohu Hymons , tho Inspecto r of Schools , who has published aa . opinion . that the moon does not rotate on her axis . " With , respect to the W ? J * ° ^ . " ^ g'to Bay . % e are xvot " ' ¦ J 2 ? r ? i ¦ ? 1 t \ ^ * ovolveB-. » xially , or orbitally , ana have no conviction in favour of
MONS . "Now , we conceive this is not the right way to meet an objection on a scientific point , seriously advanced by a man of charactor , education , and position . Ropoating that upon tho question at issue we have no opinion to offer , we cannot refrain from an expression of regret that the temper of our times admits of such unseemly treatment bestowed upon a controverted point in astronomy . That tho certainty claimed by tho largo body of astro-
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 854, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2157/page/14/
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