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THE PROPOSED COTTON COMPANY (LIMITED).
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MISCELLANEOUS WOKKS.
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view , to the Cabinet of the Tuilleries with the particular request that-the French Government would bring the contents of the document to the knowledge of the Prussian Cabinet , through the medium of . the French Ambassador at Berlin . Mr . Belcastel , the representative , of France , has , already executed this request . What ' reception it will meet , or lias met with , on the part of Prussia , is as yet unknoAvn . By this proceeding it is tolerably clear that France and Denmark are still hand and g love , notwithstanding all the rumours propagated from time to time by the German papers , to the effect that since the Baden Conference France has been brought over to the German view of the Schleswig with the connivance of
and Hplstein question . Trance is hereby , Denmark , more than ever mixed up with the Schleswig and Holstein quarrel , which the Germans wish to make merely a federal affair , while the Danes are determined to keep it an open question for all the world . France has still a hand in it , and-can at a convenient opportunity , easily work it up into a war of ideas between Denmark and Prussia , when Louis Napoleon will , of course , feel free to perform , for Denmark the good offices that Prussia has promised to perform for Austria , in case of an attack upon Veiietia . So long , Napoleon will say , as the war shall be confined to Prussia and Denmark , France will not interfere ; but should the Germanic Confederation , - which , by its otto acts , is' bound to assist the King of Denmark , as Duke of Holstein against his revolted subjects , go -with Prussia against Denmark , France will regard the war as one of ideas , as an
attempt on the part of certain princes to break up the Danish monarchy into petty principalities , to be gradually absorbed into the Germanic Confederation , and will , therefore , intervene in favour of her ally , Denmark . Some time prior to the conference at Baden , there were rumours of a convention having been agreed upon by Denmark and France . The conduct of Denmark at this moment , in seeking the mediation of France in a purely federal matter , shows that those rumours had some foundation . The Cologne Gazette lately published a Prussian note , dated June ( 3 , which very gently recommends the federal governments to refrain from reactionary , i . e ..-, despotic measures , in dealing with the political questions at present occupying the public mind . This is a mild way of deprecating any . attempt to put down the _ National Verein which has been working entirely , in the Prussian dynastic interest , though with the best and most patriotic intentions towards the whole of Germany .
The Prussian Government some months ago made an offer to the other Federal States to supply them with guns of equal calibre , with a view of effecting uniformity in the artillery of the federal armies , at cost price . At present each state lias its own peculiar calibre of guns , munition , and form of weapons , so that in the event of a federal war the greatest confusion and loss might ensue . No answer has yet been sent in by the different governments , and the general opinion is that they will decline this very advantageous offer , simply because it conies from Prussia , as any act tending to establish an appearance of Prussian supremacy is viewed with the deepest aversion . The papers report that a gentleman , connected with the English Court , and who lmd been dispatched to make preparations for the Queen ' s journey to this country , was talcen into custody by the £ > olice attached to the railway at Bonn , and detained tliree or four days without a hearing . The reasons for
this arrest have not been satisfactorily explained at present , liufc we shall hear more of the matter shortly , as Captain Macdonald , the gentleman in question , has addressed a complaint to the English ambassador , at Berlin , who has made a request to the proper quarter for a strict inquiry into the affair . I see by the '' papers that a letter has been written by a professor of Heidelberg , complaining of the ridiculous facility with which the title of u Doctor " is obtained at the University of Giessen , which he describes as a barn , whore several clerks are constantly employed in writing out diplomas , which are sold at the rate of 30 / . each , and purchased chiefly by Englislunen . If Englishmen really are tho cluef purchasers , they surely must procure them solely as curiosities ; but I am inclined to think the assertion to originate in malice with reference to the English , Jfor the title of " Doctor " would be of little use to Englishmen in this country , and in their own they would have to keep it a close sociot as to where they obtained their diplomas . Tho Germans themselves are unquestionably the chief purchasei's , as t lie number of poisons using the prefix sufficiently proves .
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Tira followingoii'oularha * boon extensively distributed throughout tho Cotton Trade : — " 56 , Pall Mall , Manchester , Sept . 21 , 1800 . —Sir , I « m desired to request tho favour of your uttontiou to tho report , sent hero * with , of tho proceedings of tho inaugural mooting hold on Friday lust , at tho Town-hall , in this oily , to promote- tho formation of a ( Jutton Company . It is intended to afford tho trade tho first opportunity oi supporting this important undertaking . If you dosiro to promoto tlio objoot of tho now company I beg to roquost tho favour of your lllling up
the an ' noxod form , and returning it to mo , if poasiblo , on or bcfiro Tuesday nust , tho 25 th instant . Tho committee have received many voluntary expressions of approval from largo firms , and tho following gcntlomon , amongst others , lmvo thus early expressed their di ? siro to bo placed on tlio list of shareholders for the sums appended to their mimes , I ami eir your obedient sonant , David Chadwiok , secretary pro toin , " Hero follow tho names of tlio gentlemen allududlos— Thomas Buzloy , ISsq ., M , P ., 1 , 000 / . ; John Chootham , Esq ., 1 , 000 / . Hugh Mason , Jfieq ., 1 , 000 / . j John Pendor , Esq ., 1 , 000 / . 5 Thomas Emmott , Esq ., 1 , 000 ? . ; John J ? l « tt , Esq .. 1 . O 00 / .
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Hand-book of the History of tin : English Laifjuci ' je for lln > uir , < /' HrM-ult ( l ,,, l Collvjes . ' By A .. II . Kcaiie . * London : Longman mid . Co . Dublin : 'Fowler . This is a useful manual , containing a . -largo mass of inforuiafioii on the English language and literature .. Tlie causes of tho mudi . complained'of incongruities of the English ; tonguo are summarised £ 11 thy following passages : — . " Three causes seem , to have co-operated in rendering our present orthographic system . the naost inconsistent and irregular in the world : ( a ) , change of alphabet , ( b ) change of pronunciation , and ( c ) radicall y defective alp 7 iabet . ( a ) The A . S . alphabet , laid aside during the Early English Period , consisted of 2 i , ours of 26 letters ; but we gained little by . the substitution , having rejected two Saxon letters , which are now badly wanted , and one , ae , not quite superfluous . Of the lire
additional characters , / , 7 c , q , v , z . only three , j , v , z , are really useful , k == 7 / a « £ c , and q = 7 cu ; being reduadaut . But tho transfer itself was productive of the greatest possible amount of confusion , as explained in see . TV . ( b ) This was not a little increased by ( he change of pronunciation which has been going on from tho earliest times , generally without a ' corresponding change of spelling . The sound changes " -nd the form remains . Reference , to the A . S ., and especially to the Tii-int / cognate tongues , prove 3 ¦ that b in tomb , dumb , climb ; I in calf , Jialf , walk , ° 7 c in knee , knock ; g 7 t in right , high , through , dou . gJi , f our // ,, cough , hiccpug 7 i , were not originally mute or irregular as now . The dramatist , Ly ' ly ( born 1551 ) , seems to have effected a sort of temporary revolution in the language genei-ally , and especially in the pronunciation , by the publication in 1578 , of his prose romance of l-Jujiluies or the Anatomy of Wit . The influence of his- ' school , as . it ia called of Euphuism-, was for some time vei y ereat , especially at -court . and ' -vith the ladies . Blount , writing in 1632 , saya that c our nation are in Lyly ' s debt for a iiew English , which he taught them . JLiipf'tics and his * l ? nr / hmd began first that language : all our ladies were then las scholar ' s ; and that beauty in coui-t which could not parley Euphuism . . . that pure and ¦ reformed I £ < iglis 7 i-J -whivh he introduced , was as little regarded as those who are now . ignorant , of French . I 3 i . it-Euphuism soon died out , though . it may have tended very . much to saften the language at the time , and certainly efl'ected a lasting change in the pronunciation of a vast number of . words . Ilolofe _ rnc 5 , the schoolmaster in Luces JO / tbonr . Lost , complains bitterly to Sir Nathaniel of a sytern , seemingly new in his time , but now firmly established :. 'I abhor such fanatical * fantasms , such . iiisociuble and point-devise companions , such rackers of orUtography as to speak doift fine , when he should , say doubt ;¦ del , when-he should pronounce debt , d , e , f > , t ; not d , e , t : lie-clepeth a calf , ccufe ; half , hauf ; fieighboiifj vocatur ' -arbour ; neigh abbreviated ne : this is abhominablo . ( which lie would cull abo , disable ) , ifc insinuateth me of insanic' ( act V . ]) ; as to attempt to restore the worthy pedant ' s utterance of these words , would any man at the present day ? (<•) Xot a less fruitful source of irregularity is the radically defective nature of tho present alphabet , mure sensibly folk now than formerly , because modern English possesses several vowel and consonantal sounds unknown to the A . S ., and probably occasioned by tho introduction of the French element . Thus tho sound of s in pleasure , fcisn re ^ Vi'onch J . The consequence it , Unit the English alphabet is by iar the most imporfect and incomplete of all others . It supplies only twenty-three distinct letters ior -nt least forty-four distinct sound : ); for c---. ? iLhei' whole k or x , ¦ -. v" ' , avid . r-- ' ks , nuiit bo subtracted from the number twenty-3 ix , as supprlliiou- * , leaving twenty-ono sounds of the spoken hmgungc , without any wriltcn represe itativei . Tiic vowel sounds are ullocjether twenty , with only five equivalents ., omployeil in a most arbitrary manlier . The ilistim-i consonantal sounds are twenty ^' our , oxprosscJ by eighteen distim-t cluiractot' 3 and six- combinations ; and even two of tlive aiv ivdundant . " .-I Coiripi'rhriuic , ' J / istoril nf // it / id , Ciril , . Uililni'ii , Hint . S ' . 'd ' i /' . Nciii . !! 1 . ' •¦ ' -, : ' ' -J , unit 134 . J . oudon , Kiitiiljuri , 'li , iiii'l « . ilu . < g- « MV : Jilacklc . isul S . > n . Theso numbers of tlio above are now before us . Critical analysis 11 ( tho prosont stage of tho woplt would bo out of place , ft is to comprehend a poriod extending from tho first landing of tlio English to tlio suppression of tho Sepoy revolt ; and tho number of sreel and wood engravings with which it will bo illustrated will bo 50 U in iiiunbcr . Those thut hnvo appeared , tho subjects of which consist of some ol tlio most intorosting and important historical pirsonnges and event ;! , aro oxocvited in a stylo of suponior exodlenee . Ir n !*' - "> cjutaim uiip : op > -i . iiv > and useful majis . diir I ! hi , \\> luuttt-r « H'fl ,. 1 / V . A'fi ' .-tl /; . U \ : ' f < . -. !< , Uy < : >!•„'' . ¦ II . I ' , l . cvri-hi . K- » i . J . uijilull : UMiiirliuiu \ VII » ud , l >> ii 0 . The author of this painplilot , after onuinonUini ? some of t ! io U ' . r . liiii , ' ogorits whoso labours liavo concurred in pnuiioting the cMablislniieiil of tho Vo'huiteer ride corps , proceeds thus to siunin . iri .-u ( lie , i-oulliciin ,, claims of those who lmvo been indicated as eM .-lly funcorm - 'd in initm ! - ing tho movement : — "Thoro ivinain to bo not iced two piMitL'inon vlio liavo rondci'ocl tho state great m'rviee in awald'ninjj \\ w nation lo a . " •• 'ii ' . of its insecurity , and by coiilributinir , ouch in hi ^ wny , t >> the o .-tnMlament of the volunteer force . "Wo refer to Chptniti Hmih . 15 u > k and . » lr . Alfred B . Kiohurds . Captain Huns Husk ' s works lmvo rnjn . wd u w .-jIdosorved and world-wido cvlobrity and luwe doubt loss exorci ^ 'd a ( j i ' i-jii iniluoioo on tho movement . Captain J 3 usks'd cluiins on public wcotc itirion ai-e so gracefully alluded to in tlic comnutnu-atioii fro 111 -Mr-Biolmrdswhich the reader will find a few p «/ es htMieo , thut it i ^ diviuod unnecessary to refer to thorn horo in dotnil . ^^ " l > now approach tlio mump of Alfred 13 . Kiehnrde , and we do so with all respect niul fiC »*» ' ' tuUoj hailing him unheeilntingly as tlio . originalor < of tlio ^' ulwnt . vi movoment , the founder of tho Voluntoord ot' ( . hvat Ui-itaiu . L 0 otliora wo willingly accord their meed « f prni-n ? for \ v \ u \ l they li « * dono i but wo foarlVprtl-y assert tlint if to 0110 man moiv thun ain > ilui ' tho credit id duo of being tho originator ol' tho Volunteer in ^"" ' " ' ' that man Is Mil , Ali'KKU 13 , Ku'imiDd . True to the mutlo in tlie titlopagoof tIlia pumphlol , J \< li ) iam qiti mctuiit Jeral , tho conip ili'i- ot thoao pages has no other motive than to plauo tho ninttt > r brfniv tl" - ' publio in its truo light , to lay buforo tho publio a few fuels which slm ' opeaU foi'tlieinsolvee , and tlnou it will bo tlio turn of tho publio to j \ ulp ?
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834 The Saturday ' Analyst andLeader . [ Sept . . 29 , 1-860
The Proposed Cotton Company (Limited).
THE PROPOSED COTTON COMPANY ( LIMITED ) .
Miscellaneous Wokks.
MISCELLANEOUS WOKKS .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1860, page 834, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2367/page/10/
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