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      Simpson At Home. War Ought No Longer To ...

      population . Death oDly walks the streets . Our in-sanitary arrarigepisnts , onr tyranny of mdustryi our vice engendered by ignorance , 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 tlie half that has died . Thus , upon the living community has been inflicted an aggregate of death exceeding that annually presented . by the BEGiSTBAR-GENERAii . These semi-corpses we cannot conceal ; but we say that they are engendered by " the system , " shrug our shoulders , and let it pass .

      Keally it is quite a relief to reflect how much our soldiers 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 scenefxiorilOtir > praise , and pl enty of incident , in the Crimea . They call it the theatre of war : and in comparison with more

      deadly occupations , more deadly hie amongst the drains that poison us , and the occupations that stifle us , war really has become a theatrical amusement . One almost pities General SimpsOk , dragged back from his responsibilities in the Crimea , to so dangerous a scene at home . Can nothing be done for him ? Reall y he ought to be made to participate in some powerful exercise , some amusing vocations , to counteract the depressing effects of the climate we artififcially make to kill him as well as ourselves .

      Can nothing be found congenial with his past career 1 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 SiJirsoN 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

      Gomersall 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.' ...

      LOUIS NAPOLEON . ( From a Correspondent . ' ) " II esb hardi , il osfc rofleohi , il est fourbo . " The following extracts are selected from memoranda of a conversation which took place in Paris in May , 18 C 3 . Monsieur C n at first could talk about nothing but the Eastern Question , and of his fears that Louis Napoleon might seduce England into an offensive alliance . All liis passions and all his interests , said C n , impel him to war—especially to a war with you by his side . To be engaged with you in a commou cause , would introduce him into the great family of sovereigns ; it would extricate him from the isolation in which he is

      now left—excluded by general hatred and contempt , not only from the ecrious discussions of diplomacy , but from the courtesies by which they are softened . Then he has personal insults to avenge . Wlien the news that our fleet was ordered to the bay of Salamia reached Nicholas , he poured out on Louis Napoleon all the expressions of contumely which French , not very barren iof them , and afterwards , which Russian could snpply , and ended by exclaiming " et ce cuistre Id veut quefe I ' appelle mon frere / " War would give him a policy . Evcu the aristocracy of tho Faubourg St . Germain must support him when he carries the flag of their count ry . But " what have you English to get by war ] What have

      you to lose ? " Have yon ever considered the course wbich . thttt war will take ? you think probably that it will be a mere maritime contest ; that you will , blockade the Sound and the Bosphoros , and starve Russia out . I am convinced that it vfillbe 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 we 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 , ami Hesse—all socialist at bottom- —will rise ou their depotisms and their bureaucracies . AVe shall have another thirty years' , a war not of interest , but of principle . What you will get by it will be , to take Patjmerston for your minister instead of Aberdeen , to double your debt , and to see France seize Belgium after Savoy . What we shall get by 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 crush knowledge and refinement .

      " It cannot be denied that our master has the three qualities wbich most conduce to political success , " il est liardi , il est reflechi , il est fourbe . " "If you ally yourselves to him , you take an associate wlioun 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 Const' ntinople . He does not think of going there . y ju are afraid that if Turkey enter into an

      en-/ agement with him respecting the Christians of nis Empire , his moral influence over her will be augmented . But she has entered into such engagements with him already , and they do not seem to have increased his influence . Moral influence does not depend pn treaties , but on hope or fearon the hope of benefit or the fear of evil . What he is doingnowmust 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 his 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 . Thi 3 is tho 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 be must have been saying to himself . I am as sure of it as if he had told me so ; indeed more so , for if he had told me sol 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 . He will renounce all ambitious views , all separate action ; he will communicate to you every dispatch that goes to Lracour , and every order that he sends to Lassusse ; ho will modify them at your pleasure ; he will put his fleet under your admiral and his diplomacy under your Foreign Office . He will be your slave until you arc committed , to be your master ior ever after . C . W .

      Tun Sovtiiwauk Ki-Icction.—Sir Charles N...

      Tun Sovtiiwauk Ki-icction . —Sir Charles Napier , on Monday evening , addressed a meeting of electors at Itotherhitlie , and , after giving a sketch of l ) is life in a a spirit of bluff egotism , deniod the charge of wishing to get into Parliament in order to arrange a " private " quarrel with Sir James Graham . Ho had no private quarrel with Sir James , but ho had ft public quarrel . However , ho had " Htnimhcd" him nlready . Tho Admiral , vW » o was enthusiastically received , declared himself nn iudependunt supporter of Lord Palmeraton . He would support Parliamentary Reform to tho extent of giving every rato-payor a vote . Ituform . of Parliament should precede Administrative Reform , and pirsonul reform should go beforo both , consequently , he thought the Adminiiitrativo Reformers have " got the wrong sow l > y tho eai . " Sir Charles Napior | has also addressed one or two other meetings of electors ; and Mr . Scovell has made public statements of his principles , which uro very similar to those of hia opponent .

      Tun Sovtiiwauk Ki-Icction.—Sir Charles N...

      THOMPSON'S CONICAL VENTS FOR CANNON . An invention so named has been submitted to , and rejected by the Ordnance Select Committee , at .- "Vjfaolwich , on the ground that it is too good . This is 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 . " Hovr , the express

      object of this invention is to prevent the spiking of 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 them away from us , and try their edge upon our backs , whilst we gallop off in full retreat ? before

      Mr . Thompson ' s invention , as we said , is to prevent the enemy from spiking our guns . ^ This ia effected simply by the substitution of a conical vent ( thus jx _) for a cylindrical one (||) . 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 . T he 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 ha 3 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 ha 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 diggraves 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 .

      A Good Sermon To A Small Audience.—A Sto...

      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 his 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 commencing service , but no more hearers . Whether to preach to such an audience or not was now the question ; and it was one that Lyman Beecher was not long in deciding . He felt that he had a duty to perform , and he had no right to refuse to do it , because only one man could reap tho benefit of it ; and accordingly he went through all the services , praying , singing , preaching , and the benediction , with only one hearer . And when all was over , he hastened 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 doctor hted from the stage

      somewhere in Ohio , the alig one day , in a pleasant village , when a gentleman stepped up and spoke to him , fumiliurly calling him byname . " I do not remember you , " said the doctor . " I suppose not , '' s » id the stranger ; " but we spent two hours together in a house alone once , in a storm . ' * " i do not recall it , " added the old man $ " pray , pray , when was it ? " " Do you remember preaching twenty years ago , in such a place to a single person ? Yes , y « s , " said the doctor , grasping his hand , "I do , indeed : and if you are the man , I have been wishing to see you ever since . " "lam the man , sir } and that sermon saved my soul , made a minister of me , and yonder is my church . The converts of that sermon , sir , are all over Ohio . "

      Juvekims Riotkiis—Two Youths—-One Of Who...

      Juvekims Riotkiis—Two youths— -one of whom waa known to tho police as a thief— wero broug ht « P ™ "T k = £ tttzzztssisz s 2 £ a in , t amctaV . ma H-x" » f , S ' nS »" m ° » 8 « r SSr & r ^ sent to prison for a month . »

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111855/page/13/