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    THE SUEZ CANAL DEBATE. Mb. Roebuck could...

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    Sih William Peel. The Saddest Itetn Of T...

    W lie massed Ins examination in 1844 , and re- ' psfess ifi ^ Fr ier , lie was promoted to the rank of Comraandei , and appointed to the farin g ° ^^ ° jitak ^ can and West Indian station . At the ^ tbje ak ot ifcp Russian war he was m command ot the UiamoU 28 > . the Black Sea fleet . The services of 5 e Naval Brigade in the Crimea , and before ^ Sebas-Uie ^ avai _^ : V ?! , _ . „ ;„ nrP 1 , wftv so

    extraordi-¦ ¦ £ §? SET tS * -e not likely >> We . teen for-Sotten Captain Peel was the life and soul of the Sarty and the doings of the « Diamond battery " SS among the most Interesting , as ^ they were among t fie most picturesque , details of the memorable sSro Wounded and obliged to return to England before the f « H of the great fortress , he was . decorated with the Victoria Cross , and admitted into jl . .... ! - ^ r cc Vvmr p d- ^ f -Mm brave . " Ul ujwiwwi'

    „ lilt ; LLUWV . " — . . i J When the Chinese difficulties , in 1 S 5 G , reached the point at which it was determined to make war -upon the Brother to the Sun , Captain Peel was appoint ed to 1 lie Shannon screw-frigate , 51 , and deslatched to the China station ; bat he had scarcely reached his destination ere he was ordered by Lord Elgin to carrr spare troops to Calcutta , to assist m suppressing- the Indian mutiny . No sooner had he landed his charge in the Hooghly , than he proceeded to Mand his ship ' s guns , and rncn , . witli astonishing speed , pushed orp the country to Allawiiu oil

    habad , and : ultimately into l ^ ucknow , - v ^" Campbell . The charge of the sailors among the skirmishers , when . attacking the enemy s position at Cawnporo , filled the Commander-m-Cluqf with adroiration and surprise . As at Sebastopol Carto Peel and his wonderful men seemed to rind positive enjoyment in the land-service they were / performing . But the snort was a deadly ga to play at , and at the siege at Lucknow the dauntless commander was wounded by a musket-bal ! in the thigh . We have alluded- to the grief winch , that mischance caused to his men . Captain Peel Tiever went out for service again ; mid when he died Ins country couia ilu

    lost a sea-captain , -whom she -pouir , xo ^ pride as the type and . beau ideal of her naval comlnaudcrs . . -, Captain Peel was made a Xnight Companion of the Bath for his Crimean services , and a Ivniglit . Commander of the same order for Ins services m India . He was , also , an oftieer of tho Legion ot Honour , and of the Turkish imperial order of the - « - i .. v o ~ ,, 1-, ' 4 li ! vfir fn . nr vptivs m nSTC HIS iwi j ^— _ -

    JMCdllClK * . OraifWN iimij- .. , rapid career has been marked step by stepvvih brilliant . actions ; liad he , fortunately , livedL to . the . zc , Q of his heroic model , the 3 iamc ot Sir A \ lUiam P ^ ccl niiqht have been written in the list ot lingland ' s greatest naval captains ; as it is , it wilL he found amongst her bravest . He showed that the age of chivalry had not departed ; " for although he could take his place in modern society with the most cultivated , —was , indeed , distinguished by personal grace even in the ungraceful costume of tins prosaic fift-e , —not a tale of chivalry tells of more dauntless bravery . Whether it was . joining , m a charge of dragoons , carrying : a ladder , or picking up sheir to throw it beyond the reach of doing barn he thought no service too dangerous , too hard , or too Wilb l fcuui iw

    —JlUmUlO , SO VIHU iU u uu * , . ~ v . - country , or to spare his comrades . But it is iiol ¦ bravor ' v alone lli . it can make the commander like Peel : " he must have the power of speaking to tic hearts of his followers , of looking into their sou s , and making them love him enough , to rise to the standard of his devotion ; for he is the true commander who , like Campbell , Havelock , or lcel , makes the common soldier feel the said within him , and converts the men who arc known by the numbers ia their ranks , into anonymous heroes , lighting iimu

    for tioit and the right more cicvoiciuy .. na they caved for pay or plunder . Andlio is gone ! Wo mourn him , and think over his vh'Luos and lovable qualities as if they made his dentb worses . We almost wish he were not . so precious ; forgetting the profound rebuke of Socrates when his wife regretted that he should "die innocent . " Peel ' s exertion , mid wounds no doubt aided discuses to carry him oil '; but would ho have l \/ % s \ vt fit . i vi / il icii * il i > t-vi >! trnil r \ f i lw » mint 1 li . lO « -l t . MP . 111-#

    ( JlJlill I'llVi I LV . 1 U / 1 UVUUT \ J \ A . V /» W »« V » ^ *» . « .. * u * uu ) « . - * -. stincts , the impulses which made him brave death ? Assuredly not ,. Vcw of the inult ; itu < les who live the allott e < l life ; ol ' mivn have , ovcmi in tlmln ; xpandeill ; eriu , so wrick of life as Peel converted into his hall" the threescore ' years and ten . And who b ; slii ! vos t !» at the existence : of such a "being closes in his Indian tent ?

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    The Suez Canal Debate. Mb. Roebuck Could...

    THE SUEZ CANAL DEBATE . Mb . Roebuck could scarcely have expected to carry his motion on Tuesday evening . It was ¦ a Virtual censure against the late Ministry , on the ground that it had not lent its sanction to a huee steam-dredging - and ; stock-jobbujg scheme , the political objects of which axe purely p encil . It is True that Lord John Russell and Mr G ^ stone supported the intrepid member for SIleffield who accused Lord Palmerston of « ambty , " but the .. vo ;^; fxr . no-ninsh t . lmmAvas enormous , and the result

    of the debate cannot but be damaging in every respect to the hopes of M . de Lesseps . In the first place , it brought up Mr . Stephenson who has . the jest ri ^ ht to be heard on such matters , and he noinfe'd out so many difficulties , and so far reduced the . probabilities of advantage . ansuig from the construction' of the caaal , that many persons formerly favourable to . ^ : ? ^^ - Uli ^ o if-, must he criven . up altogether . _ M . ci

    Lesseps will not adfthe opinion of Mr bteplienson to his synopsis of testimonials . But Lord Tahnerstori ' s statement was quite as impressive , although chiefly a repetition of the argument as he had before advanced it . He showed that the scheme Avas one for isolating - Egypt , ^ . far ^ we are from believing that the mtegnty of the _ lmkish . Empire is or should be the main object of European diplomacy , we do admit that it is not , and never can be tfe policy of this country to throw . OBgypt S the hancls of France . The fortifications on the T , 1 . "O __ „ , nn-nn nmV-Vo r > 1 l ^ rPllf" . !! Orifflll . rai / ^^^^ w

    coast ana xne xjairagc -. ~ - - ^~ , ,-p ' promoted to serve French , purposes . The Suez , Canal is , a French project , with a ^ rench idea at the bottom of it . Diplomatically and politically , therefore British statesmen are not . to be blamed tor opposing it . It may be allowed , however that pubKC opinion is not bound to appreciate all . the ponderings and prophecies of high statesmanship If it were satisfactorily shown that the Suez Canal I scheme was a feasible project , and , when developed , would be beneficial to commerce and civilization , we confess that some otlier security might be found for Eo-vpt and the water-line to British Iadia . A at t

    little Ijioraitai x-nm wuum -w . y » - - , . - at the eastern end of the Bed Sea , audit might be necessary to occupy a new position in the , Alcditer-. l ranean . But , supposing the acttial possibility of picroins the isthmus by canalization , would the le-¦ suits be in any proportion to the cost , the labour , and the burden upon humanity ? ^ On these points we recommend persons who have been impressed by M . deLesscps ' s pamphlets to study Mr . Stephenson s commentary .

    Bllbaches Of Privilege. If The House Of ...

    BllBACHES OF PRIVILEGE . If the House of Commons has privileges , it is right to protect them . The Sovereign is prayeel upon ] the assembling of a new Parliament , to putthc most " favourable construction upon the acts and language of every member , and it is quite as reasonable that , the representatives of constituencies should not be accused of corruption by those who arc unwilling or unable to substantiate their charges . Of late years , the House of Commons has exhibited no great sensitiveness in matters of this kind , but Mr . Clivc , wo are bound to say , had a case , and Ins friends ,., ™ . rt « m-r * v .-Mir iimiifind iii takintr formal steps on his

    ' partial , " and " base , " by turns . Mr Gladstone says he seldom , passes a . day without reading something like a libel upon himself . Why then single out small offenders and knock them on the head with tue Speaker ' s mace ? Possibly it is for the sake ot perpetuating old Parliamentary customs , similar to tnat of searching the vaults , now very sensibly abandoned . If ,. lioweVer , gentlemen who are . by prescription honourable , mean in good , earnest to defend their " honour , " it will be time to consider what journalists are to do when tliese members ot Parliament bescatter them , with ckagrges of ribaldry , ' did

    licentiousness , and venality . Mr . Disraeli , it He not break his privilege at Slough , bent it nearly double ; and Mr . Drammond is in the Jiabit of saying much which it might—recent circumstances being remembered-prove dangerous to retort in has ownlanguage . But , tllen , the article published * j the unlucky Mr . Wilkswas . not ofa . poUticaldha .. racter , and had no public importance . It was , in Lt . an imoutation upou the business honesty of an menioer oi ariu

    individual who happened to be a r - meut and Mr . A did the best thing he could do , both in refusing to betray the writer , ^ andm retracting , on . his own part , all the offensive expressions He should have been aware , of course , that great interest , with nUich dissension , ^ generally Lcited in local circles by , such ; local matters as ^ the railway squabble in question , and must have known that he was disseminating ¦ . insinuations highly derogatory to the character of a gentleman and , a member of Parliament , We liope that the Car-., '"„ _ ,: n ,.,. ^ fif Kv flip , ti Reinlme undera-one

    § itJiublisher , St ^ t British freedom willW iyive the onslaught upon the sacred ^ rights and liberties of the press . The House of Commons , as a state prison , is scarcely so penal in- aspect , or so viSSSis hi its regulations , as the Tower , or even he Queen's Bench ; but still there are irnmortal - principles to maintain , and ^ e , do hope tliat ^ the parochial organs of the metropolis and other la ge towns will—at the ; low . price' of one halfpenny each—unite as one man-or as . one . «« - ¦ and hurl . back tho aggression . The . ^ "Ji ¦

    coachman of a peer , if our constitutional law . be rifflit , would be a breach of privilege , bufc collectifeiv we tliink , the whole body of Parliament may bl as ' sailed with impunity , llms , it was wrong to attack Mr . Olive ; W ft would not be . wrong to say that our present system of railway legislation is I corrupt and infamous in all its parts .

    behalf Oa the other liand , it is not shown that Mr . Washington Wilks was animated by any personal mali"riitv He appears t o have adopted the railway affair as " an attractive subject , for discussion in a local iournnl , and his < ont . ributov spiced the required I " lender" somewhat highly . Probably , thercwas less of opinion than of a certain sort ot rhetoric in the argument which sent Mr . Wilks to the apartments one tiuic tenanted —so much has English history been degraded—by a patriot of the-° hit .. ™ ., ~ ,-, c , rvp . Mnimiv Tsuitlic scandal

    , Impended , and we do not sec that any one is particularly to be pitied . No one believes Mr . Uive to have been porrunt because the Carlisle Examiner said so , and it would be absurd to affect compassion I ' for Mr . Wilks , who , the Tec question being set aside , has cnjoywl two or three days of sclausiainiiu ? excitement in the gcnml custody of the Sorioant-iit-Anns , under the same roof witli the iri . rht . ITonourabUi Ilio Speaker , besides the [

    opportunity of s iting in' ° P vin 1 ' ! Uia having his lateral liiioiK-etraced for thu bcncOt of a curious world . Still , ° it must be said , Hint theTIouso of Commons is not alittlo ciipricious . Mr . Clivc was undoubtedly I insulted ; but whut public man is not insulted , cspcfjiallv by the ; inferior journala ? .,, „ ... Why , tlicy urcnil c » f them " corrupt , " « factious , :

    Sanitary Condition Op The Abmy. Iv. The ...

    SANITARY CONDITION OP THE ABMY . IV . The next group of causes injurious to the health of , the soldicv- " intemperate and debauched habits —like the " want of suitable employment , just considered , may fairly be classed under t he moral element The soldier , at home at least , is an idle nanfconsequently , like most of us under such circumstances , he soon gets into mischief Unfortunately , as we think , to " go for a soldier" is synonymous y with many desperate acts that young men do A man is generally put to Ins shifts before he HstSs to tfie globing accounts of the gallant ser-^ cai He has been disgusted with hie m some igLiiui ' . a ^ . , . , " i-Ur ..,, ^/! linv / l and fared ji ± U

    iorm or other , prouiujij « o u ^~ . *~~ . , st 1 harder , or been oppressed and tyranaized over , oi faneiL he has , wllich is all the same- or been c -osscd in lovc-tiiat suicidal state of mind which nine times out of ten drives Johnny lUw into he meshes of the recruiting-sergeant . So that the , youth , or the grown man , comes to us more or less I reckless of everything , full of his later e * noncn «» in the haunts of low life and desperate habits . 1 < have a uian Batisfied , contented respectable as tu . sayinK is , deliberately offering-Ins We fortwentytliat lie whukh i "

    | onc years to a service yj " , . »» linUioh he has dreamt of the possibility ot rising . and ( list inguishim ? himself even as a general , is ii v S ? y Mceptionul ease . And so it must continue to be , until t he authorities , becoming wiser for tht , country ' s interests , take some pains to consuk Ik humanities of the soldier , and make some diets to raise the military status m every co ^ " ^^? have generally to make soldiers ? ut of two km ^ oL H . j \ . «^ ,. f . « m iho mjiiiulacturing aibiricvb , 3 the mills

    i ;^ e ^ andjact ^ with their associates , who have no po ^ . * J the labourers , of whiedi a tair proportion , not , o « evor Vo many as is frequently stated , are agriculturaHahoin-ersf and the rest . hodmen ot ^ me kmd ex other , The return showing the occupation

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05061858/page/15/