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    given the Spaniards a swaggering confidence in their own strength . . .... ¦ „ . . Small successes-in war are as dangerous as small winnings are to a young gambler . They often lead on to great disasters and final , * ruin ? " Spain has done reasonably well in this foray on African ground—lias won some yards of sea-sand , and obtained some bags of piastres in return for the men she has 'buried , in the Moorish ° land . " Her garrisons at Melilln and her convicts at Ceuta niay now , for the present , . stroll beyond the walls without bein < r shot down by Moorish matchlocks . For a few months she

    will enjoy the privilege of dealing for Moorish slippers and shell necklaces at . her own prices . She . may stand on the shores of . the Atlantic , and clap her wings and ciw till they hear it in the Canary Islands ; but woe to her if these small successes tempt her to ' further aggressions ; her march to Fez may prove more dangerous than that safe alongshore on to Tetunn . The next time tire Moors may gather hi . numbers thick as the locust , clouds , and nunuTous as the ilics round a dead camel . Hunger and thirst , those two great generals , may lead them on , " and cohorts of fevers wait in ambush for the invader . The Spanish transport

    may be lost by ' tempest , their provisions plundered , their horses slain , their guns taken . ; while inner Africa , rousing like the wild beasts in a jungle on fire , may gat Intdarker and darker around their march : a common danger nuikes a nation feel that iu unity is common safety ,, The Moors may then exact from their captives the three hundred years' rent of the Alhambra that is owing them . ¦ Seriously , in conclusion , we say , that if . Spain' is wise sluvwill be content " with her small triumph , and hang up again quietly her blooded arms--iii her ¦ crank arsenals . The Moors are the only people she is fit to cope with ; and had they been united ; fivm tKo Moors would have been too much for her . With great

    loss of men she has-won from them a bucket or two full , of piastres , and some strips of sea shore ; . -. L ^ t her be thankful and huinblc ; ' the victory is no great thing , un ' ttshe lias . bled freely to ¦ win , even so . much ' sancl . Her xliffieulty now begius in holding it , and in being the generous ! and not the . . vulgarly / , bragging conqueror . . ¦ Wits it worth eight or ten thousan < Wives to obtain the privilege ' of . forcing a meddling ( . 'atholie priest upon the chafed inhabitants of Fez ?

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    Apritj 7 , -1860 . J The Leader and Saturday . Analyst , 323

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    between man and man : and 'here , as far as regards the res tilts of a gentleman ' s education in England , we should be very much inclined to stop . Does any of o . ur readers seriously . believe , that put of the first ten of his acquaintances whd wiay bGCnr to hirti as at present holding the franchise * there are in ore than two at the utmost who could give an intelligent and intelligible account of the political motives , causes , effects , and consequences of any half-century of English history ; of course not including time within his own memory , though in most cases even that might be included without iyiucIi danger to our argument p Take wide classes ; take tlie ordinary countvj' gentleman , or the gentleman farmer : as a rule he knows no more of the intrigues of Walpole , Granvillk , and the Pjslhajms tliau his -horso does of the motto on his master ' s carnage , lie reads the paper , or part of it , perhaps , and his advantage in political knowledge over liis trroom is that his paper is rather dearer , and probublv honester . We . are hinting here at that really useful degree of political and . historical knowledge which might probably enable a man to judge in ' some measure of the future from the modern past . Take , again , ( lie professional man , jaded with cares and with cases , who has been educated at a decent school , and readjust enough , to pass at the University ; will he , in most instances , pass the little examination we have just proposed ? Will the ' clergyman , who ,, like a nun of Venice taking the vows , has thrown even his classical , nosegay behind him for the sterner work of fabricating the Gospel net and visiting the cottage—will be bear catechising on the principal events in the reiyn of Queen Asxe , decide between abdication and expulsion , or tell us how long the experiment of the' triennial parliament Listed ? Dr . Arjtoljjhinted . that the clergy , as a body , studied little any such topics , and thereby roused a bitterness perhaps proportioned to the truth of the accusation ' . ¦ . Few can , in the Gladstone sense of the passage at least , follow the kind ! advice of &he > tstoxe , — "From majestic MAlto ' s awful strain , ; Or towering Homer let his eye desci-ncl . ' ; To trace with patient industry the iitige . ' ... Of income and expense ; . "— ' . -. -. . . . thougli attention to the latter clause in a domestic sense may pro-, bably compel him to give up the Termer . 'altogether . .- . If few of lire individuals in the classes above mentioned , possess to any large-oxtent Berkx isy's . voiy reasonable . desiderata ., " some fund of knowledge , historical , moral , and political . " still less . 'should wd find them in loungers of fashion , the best , of whom * . " Pick iip their Tittle kriowiedyefroni reviews , . . . And lay out all their stock of . fuith in news . '' Perhaps , on the whole , subjects commercial and oeeletiiustieal are the best understood of any within what may be called the range of political knowledge , because they are the most bruited in common talk , and made the most frequent topics ' of ¦ social discussion ; yet even here we ' should be cautious , of claiming any very extended or enlightened views exclusively for those whb have been hitherto in the possession of the franchise . . . There is here no desire to make an onslaught on all thoso classes which form the mass of Jijngli-uh geutloincm , and in any of whom are more respectable and more respected in attending lotbeirduti . es and their ftiuiilic « ,-4 han in ins . ikhig-u ' study of JUtujjut , ^ hmkhviue , ' Adam SniTir , and jMir-L ; but when an immense superiority of knowledge , ' worthily called political , is assumed over the mi-chan-ic , we very much doi-ilit the justiio of the ' assumption—though the mass of general information sown broadcast , a bit . here and a scrap them , amongst , tho uppor and middle clas . si's , is just now doubtless considerably inore than in ; that next below them . This elnss however is probably now belter informed Ihtui that , ibr which CiiatjtaajC and his son nnco claimed tho fmuchisc ; and what is more , ( hoy are . yearly and d » ily gaining ground , their fading , of the wsuiL of the finish of elegant ' ncu . uiroiuoii-l .-j nal uvnlly ] cud ing thoin nil the more to seek fur the solid . * tVu do not \ vi . > h ti > depreciate the vn « t fund of miriCollstimoUs luunvhidgo held iu solution by \ vli . nl , is iu JKnglund ten nod good sueiwty ,, but wo think f / cita'ni education 1 juh been niihui * rated , above il , s worth w , \ n ganLs its bearing upon most of the political question * ihnt ariho ; mid wo binccroly beliuvo Unit with reading , writing , nrit . hinutie , and tho "( Josiro of Icuuwludgu , a moGliuiiic of ' -ev o ^ tho humblercjIiihm mighl / -with an hour ' s running u day for two years , nmko l ) iiu » ulf at ; loant as well if not hotter . aO ' quaintod with ' those hiiigen on which political <[ ue . ationn and subjects turn , tlinn th ' u ordinary run of tbosu who now . onjiiy Ibu I ' rnnehi . so ; provided only . that tho iiH . ' Hiimic ' M eiu'iosity and ruvdiu ^ ivooivt'd n who and honest direction , n Hiihjuct U > which wo whali probably refer in a . sub-scquont pnpor . Formerly , what snuvll degree of political iiiformulion tbw'u was went with wealth ; now Ihoro it » growing daily n coiifsidurablo diHoonnawtion—wealth u »< l uoiupnriitivo iiitcll goiice , povgrly nud bniLal ignonuice , uro no longer linK'ocf in uGaotmnvy Jratwrnily ; l ) ji « is uno of Ihu grcut chnugUH of tho nye . No doubt tho coinpavative iiil ' Drmalion and inlollig- 'iujo question butwoon cljiHS jnid clnsM I ' orniH ono of Iho coinwlicntjonH in tho knot wliioh the Times is anxious to cut or to mitio ; but , wo muy bo wrong ' : thia point , which insod to ho Iho foremost tnpio iu nil disouflflions on oluinm for tho frnmjliiso , may , and wg stinpoyt ha « boon , rlriyor ) by innny ignomiujoUHly into tho roar , whilst powers nud interests confuHwo ( ll , v ¦ oooupy I ho vanguard , und thu wliolu wooms soirnitlinort u iihm'o ooiu'ho pull for polf and power , Wo hud ' nearly forgot ton ono point , tljut ; oC tho ooiupunitivo rnorn ^ lity ofthoHO wlio iwhsohh unil thoao who . oluim tho IViiiioIiIho ; now , in ' mornlity us oonuooto'd with polition it i « por / 'uctly naliirul to give a- prominent plnoo to whftt may fairly bo on Mod political niorality .

    npHE . RE is something very mournlul m seeing strong X to feebleness , kings discrowned , ' mighty warriors in tears , Delphos mourning over it ' s own igncrance , tho ' millionaire reduced to 6 . ue iiijbrmd p . aitj > eris ,. A \\ & . the Times wringing its hands and confessing its utter inability ' to . penetrate . the mists of the future—the oracle thiit . knows every tiling , tells , every . thing , teaches every ¦ thino-, calling on heaven and earth for a little information as to th < i probable results of the New \ Reform Bill . Its thousand tributorios bring it nothing , and . yet there -arc a thousand minor orncle ' s waiting to be fed . Yet , alter all , there may be a little sifleetation in this . The maiden who hns boon a ( bnire < i long enough for lu ; r buxomness , often tries to get up a little fresh interest as nn invalid : and tho muscular mendicant may ' whine fur tho mere fun of the thing " , . whilst all the while you see a roguish twinkle in his eve , and a good thiek enduel in his grasp . We Jmyp V ) ot the slightest doubt that the Timc . i could write cuvvento cc . hnno , a good strong slashing ariic-lo on tho iiew Reform Bill and . its results , jusfc as easily us tlio JirincrorcH it has boon lately giving us . ^ ¦ Formerly , tho main ground of objection to tho extension of tlio franchise \ vas the ignorance of tho clasHes below what goos in ordidinary accepftttion lor the middle class of Kiighmd . Tim alteriiiitivo had for centuries boon thus put : — - " AVhoro ono part docs disdain with catiHO , tlio other Insult without all reason ; whoro gentry , titlo , vrisdom , Ciuniob coMulutfv bub by , tho yeiv nnd no Of gonoriil ignoranoo , * Or we may turn from Sijakksi » jeatji 3 to pno of tho queries of Bialiop Berki . ky at a lutor date" Wliothor to comprehend tlio l'oal inttjrost of a people , and the moans to procure it , doth not imply some fund of knowledge , historical , moral , « , nu political , with n faoulty of rouson improved by leurniny ?" A portion of tho inference- meant to bo drawn from this wo nro very much inclined to rested , both retrospectively ., and I ' m' more aw it might bo applied in the present day . As to that high history-onltivnted window , which would-really givo a man woightand authority as a portion of tho constiluont body , wo bdievo itH cxiHtonoo to bo now , as formorly , an accidont , and an exception' rather than a . rule . Wo speak not hero of prqjudioon dooorntod with elnsHioul tuHto , or ignovanco elegantly worded , booauflo tho edtication of our eduqutod cliVB » da tonda more ' especially to the ornamental , and to the wisdom of past rather than prosonb timoH ; and blumo two wisdoms aro fiir h'orn being alwuya necessarily th « name . Wu will however couoodo to tho tipper nnd tho middio olasHOB the advantage of iiuintal oxorcine , of a considerable amount of reasoning power gninod , if in no other way , by tlte more cultivation of the lunyuu ^ ofl , and thrtb general education , of tho tagto whioh scrvoa as a « oit of freemasonry

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1860, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2341/page/7/