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      A Mistranslation. Rphe, Emperor Napoleon...

      exertions of the State , as implied in the Times , they and others are to be made prosperous / In the people , as distinct from the State , which never interferes with industry but to injure it , lies the productive power which enriches all ., . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ; : ¦ LoTJls XIV . said , "L ' etafc Vest moi . ; " lie could never have said , « Le pays c ' est moi . " The first BuoXAPAitTE repeated the phrase , and for ever distinguished between the State or his o-overnmeiit and the people , especially the traders of 1 ranee . Both Louis XIV . and Buonaparte were engaged in very sanguinary mid protracted wars ; both were , for a considerable period very successful ; under both the Slate was aggranbothth people ot

      dized—it was prosperous ; but under , e France and of several other countries were exposed by . the State to . qreat privations , hardships , and miseries . Far from other States prospering by the prosperity of the tetate of France , they were ruined or destroyed . The prosperity of the State there Vas completely hostile to the prosperity of the States of Holland , Germany , Italy , Russia , & c . Because the State of Louis XIV " ... inflicted great injuries on other States , they united against it , curbed it , and confined it . The State of J ' uonapakte , in proportion as it flourished , was found so ruinous to other States ,, that they united against it , and at length were able , by great exertions and great good fortune , to put it down as a nuisance . That they mififht prosper , they made a complete end ,-as tliev thought , of * the State of Buonaparte . Clearly >

      therefore , the mistranslation by the Times , leading it to assert that the greater the prosperity of one State—i . e ., France under Louis XIV . or under Buoxapaiite—the more she contributes to the prosperity of other States , i . e .,. England and Holland under William ' III ., or Prussia under Fiiedehick William , confounds a source of injury with the great source of social welfare . That journal treats as identical the brutal ravages of war and the glorious inventions of p eace . It confounds the destruction with the creation of humaii welfare . The mistranslation of one word carries with it all the vast consequences of confounding good and evil . It may have no sinister effects on well-informed minds , but it cannot fail to lead many -uninformed and incliscrimiimting minds astray . If unnoticed - and imcorrected it may keep alive error and promote misejy . : '¦ Under another aspect , the mistranslation of this single word is important . The slightest acquaintance with the social sciences , or with the writings of political economists , would have prevented both the correspondent and the leader writer from falling into this glaring error . They would then have known that the industry of " individuals produces' wealth , while the action of the . State as continually impedes production . Consequently it is the action of individuals as such in one country , which enriches the individuals of another country , and not the action of the Statewhich is merelv , and wholly , and at all times

      , obstructive . Nobody says it is good in itself ; it is only tolerated as preventive of evil . As both these writers fell into this glaring error , we must conclude that they were absolutely deficient in a knowledge which is essential to ' statesmen and public writers . For the public , this is of great importance . It- shows by one single but fruitful example , that it is not safe to surrender its judgment to any public writer . At the snme time , it should inculcate on public-writers sonic modesty in urging a line of policy which may be as erroneous , as representing the ; State as identical with the industrious people . .

      Another aspect also illustrates its importance . The ; kmpcror of the Fitirxcir , or the State , luis resolved , it appears , to' nnnex Savoy , nnd tlio State of England can do nothing , w <> are told , to prevent it , however much it roiiy (< scold " nt the deed . All the States of Europe are described . as in . a similar condition . They wo represented as " laying down the law , " ami tho Commons of . England as uttering its philippics with Ihn "impotence , of fishfags . " If thn Stuto , therefore , nnd not the industrious poaplo , be the mams of making other States ]) rospcrous , then ; can be no

      hope even of preserving for niiy lcngtli of time the peaoci of the world , much loss of securing its prosperity . ¦ VYo see , however , in'fuel , that this " State" of Fnmcc , or the Emperor'Napoleon III ., is roully susceptible to the influences of the peoplo , who arc not the State . In obedience to tlio voice of Europe , he tries to extend , the freedom of inc'lustiy ; nnd wo look , ns' other persons will look who do not confound tlio Suite with the people , to the hitter , ns sure to promote by % \ w \ y exertions tho prosperity of nil , nntl ' in tho main to extend the trade nnd secure tho peace of tho world .

      March 10,1860.J The Leader And Saturday ...

      March 10 , 1860 . J The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 229

      Apostolic Blows And Knocks. Rpi-Ie Reolo...

      APOSTOLIC BLOWS AND KNOCKS . rpi-IE reolor . of . St .-Qeorga ' s < ii > tliQ-12 uBb and bis dearly'beloved X brethren pursuo thoir holy win with uudiminiahod /< onl , whilst tho | a \ v Bttmds soronoly by , encouraging tho oonibatants to fight it out . The contest , however , has ontorod upon a now phase . Mr .

      JBfiYAJSir King and his friends , who had hitherto stood on . the defensive , have now assumed , a very offensive attitude , and in a desperate foray made last Sunday afternoon , when the enemy was rather . too confident , committed sad havoc in his ranks . The story , as we have it at present ,, is quite dramatic , and although we shall of course . be g ^ lad to . knoyv that Mr . Ki > 6 does not do battle as one of tlie church militant a la Toil Say Ens , we shall yet feel somewhat annoyed if the interest of the episode should be spoiled by any prosaic disproof , given , when the matter , is .-heard before the Arbour Square Areopagus . Some zealous adherents of the Protestant faith had , it seems , determined to deprive the rector of the advantage lie has taken for soin e Sundays past -pf . filling a certain number of seats in the vicinity of the pivlpifc with his own adherents ,

      thereby not only ensuring himself against ' personal 'violence in Case of a row , but keeping the coughing and sneezing as far distant as possible . So-these good people , who have obtained what in Stepney will be deemed the crown of martyrdom without seeking it , resolved to wait after the af ternoon or ' lecturer ' s service , until the evening or rector ' s service , and thus preoccupy the coveted position . They waited , and took their places , no doubt congratulating themselves on their triumph ; but the rector was not to bo done . He ordered them off ; they refused to go , alleging now that the church doors were locked , although why that should have prevented them from giving up the seats ¦ we cannot " understand ; . and thereupon were " wolloped " T—their own word- —by their spiritual director and his friends . Some had the honour of receiving * whacks from

      the rector , others from the curate , Mr . Dove , and some were handed over to the kicks and cuffs of the common soldiers of . the churcli' miijt . ant . Mr . Dove , however , is the hero of the day . He ¦ engaged- in single combat with the leader o £ the malcontents , and for the moment enjoyed a signal triumph . Mr . HekBeh . t , who unites to his profession of scale-maker the high and mighty offices of vestryman and parish constable , is , we are told , the Cicero or Demosthenes—we don't know what is his style of oratory—of the anti-Puseyite party . Well , this great man had been to the afternoon lecture , and there been grievously . inr suited by an '' impudent little chorister boy . " However - lie got over that outrage , and went home to tea . He did not enjoy his Bohea in peace . A . messenger summoned him to the church . - Oil his way people urged him to hasten , or murder would be done . He but in vain

      went to the side door and demanded admittance , . A chorister shoved him away , and another person , who is described as a fighting man , doubtless the rector ' s tutor in the noble art , shook him . ' Away lie went to the vestry , but ; found the door leading thence to the church locked : so his turned him back and hied out of the vestry door ,-but Curate Dove was there , slammed the door upon the constable , jammed his leg in , and kept it there one minute and a hitlf . ' The constable describes himself as screaming , and Dove as gloating over his agonies during that dread interval of time . We think it very likely the constable would have been more than mortal if he had not yelled under such circumstances ; and if Mr . Dove , when lie had his great enemy thus laid fast , did not feel particularly comfortable , he is very mueh above the weaknesses of the common run of humanity .

      Such is the story as the sufferers narrate it . Of coufse every item is exaggerated , and , probably enough , it wilt be proved by the rector that the conduct of the complainants was highly provocative , and in one sense fully justified the . punishment given them .- lint if we adopt the interpretation most favourable to Mr . King , there can be little doubt that he , a niinistor of religion ,, charged with the eternal interests of many thousands , actually engaged in an unseemly brawl , with some of that very Hock on tho Lord ' s- day and in the Lord ' s-house . And this is but an nieitlent—a sad ojie—as ib makes the clergymen themselves participators in a continuous history of disgraceful disturbances . Every / Sunday tho churcli of St . Georgo ' s-iu-tlio-EiiHt is crowded , and every Sunday the performance of * Divine Service is a blasphemous mockery . Nine-tenths of Mio

      congregation coujrh , sneeze , and whistle , road out the responses loudly , knock with their Luuids and foot , until the officiating minister seems to be engaged in a dumb show , and arc only restrained by the presence of ' some fifty policemen from making a desperate row , and perhaps inflicting ; pojraonul outrage upon the clergy present ; the other tenth is engaged in nn attempt to drown the noiso made by tho malcontents iu avoluirio of choral sound , or else is endeavouring to identify the persons most activo in-tho disturbance , in order" to give evidence ugaiiist them upon a summons before tho police magistrates . That is tho way in which thing * go on in this parish every Sundny ; and tho law , or rather those who should ndminister it , seom disposed to allow tho riot to run its course . That such should bo tho case is a . disgrace to tho law , and an oneoumgomenfc

      to similar excesses elsewhere . ' ' We regret to l > o obliged to express tho opinion that tho inaigistrutos lit ' tho Thames Police Court , aro not a littlo to blunio for this wrofcrnetion of a scandal which mig-ht havo boon Qii » ily got rid oi at first . They shrank from dirtchuryiiig tlioir plain duty , and have proforrod to miiko . long epeochoa , w doubt very well iiitontlod , -but utterly uncalled lor . Tho question bofuro tlioui was not whether Mr . King was right or wrouyj thoy had nothing to do vith Puseyism , or any autagonistic / Vw ; their Kiinplo duty was to punish u viot ii » n roUtftauB mooting , and not to import a henp of utterly extraneous ' consideration * . Tlio qimation as botwoon Mr . Kinu and ¦ tho inhabitants , l-opvosouted sivy by tlio vowtry , objoctmy ; to Iiih novel forms , ia altogutlior a diflui-ont muttor . Upon that , although wo should bo obliged to ooudouin tho absurd lantpmwo aHi |> l-oyo « l by many of thoso ovor- / . oaluus ProtoHtnuta , yot wo kIjoiiM f « mi wicu thorn as against Mr . Kino ; and wo < suu scarcely Hud words bU-uus

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 10, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10031860/page/9/