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    SIR EGBERT PEEL. The Leader has never fa...

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    MEMOIR ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. In the...

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    The Sick and Wounded of the Cambiua.—The...

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    What Is Heresy ? What Is Heresy? It Cons...

    mssssssem When Elobeitce WiGHTiiraiiE ^ is heia uJtt %£ *& of bad ChriBtmn ^ . setfrighteousness is indeed reduced tot ^ . absurd . Tie « ase pwves tiie inevitable tendency of sect to separate itself more ^ and more from whatever is common "to faith , and still more from what is common to an Christianity , and to Tely in what is distinctive only . The type of humanity , says Caucasia

    the Jew , is only the high n nose 5 nay , « ays the negro , it . is a flat nose ; the standard , « ays the Esquimaux beauty , is a nose which will not touch a stick laid from cheek ~ to cheek . The Christian is not he who obeys the two new commandments , but he who disbelieves what other Christians assert that they Relieve , and who believes in any new and difficult proposition which the other sects find it impossible to accept . The sects thus indeed -justify the blankest

    negation of all belief : for , take the votes of the majority against each in turn , and you . must not believe in the reality , nor disbelieve in the reality ; nor believe that the grace comes before , nor that it comes after ; nor believe one way or the other ; while the new commandments which , distinguish Christianity from the Judaism of # he prevenient ten are passed over in slighting silence as unimportant . "To love your neighbour as yourself , with all heartand

    and to love Gk > i > your , with all your soul , and with all your strength — -as GFiOBEKroB NiGSTiNGAiiE does—these are things compatible with TJnitarianismy Eomanism , Judaism , Piiseyism , or " infidelity '' itself . A divine tells us no less ! So that , on the showing of all sects ' -against each one , pure Christianity— -that is , the essential elements extracted from the distinctive dogmas of se < it—isjBLothing more than . * ' infidelity . " There ~ was once a Teacher that came from

    Nazareth , who tebuked the doctors for relying on their vain conceits , and ( far be from us the irreverence ) on this showing of sectaries , He was the first infidel ! . Heresy , perhaps , depends upon the application of the doctrine . If a peculiar religious body professes to hold property and enjoy privileges " orTtheftfength of enTertaimng ^ aistinctive beliefs , then it becomes important to know whether the possessors of that property really believe as they say . If they keep up the art and mystery as a trade , without

    Tionestly believing it themselves , they are , as we' have of ten said , a Corporation of Soothsayers . Then we must ask them to define their belief , in order to see whether they are that exclusive sect , representing King Hbnbt the Eighth , and entitled , on such showing , to the fee simple of the corporation with all its revenues . If , on the other hand , they claim not its a sect , but as the representatives of a nation , then how foolish to Beek exact definitions of doctrine in a nation which has a thousand doctrines though it has but one table sauce . If the Church is to "be

    that " of England , " practically as well as by "title , it will seek to rest its tenure on those doctrines of Christianity which are superior Jfco sect iand independent of it , and will not collapse " to a sect by pinning its faith > or rather its property , to one secondary doctrine more than another . It is by relying on broad Christianity more than on xtomanism that the

    Church of Sardinia is become the Church of the people . It is by casting aside the casuistic notions equally of Innocent III . and Pittb £ Xy as of Geobgb Anthony Denison & n & .. Mxx 9 , Y . Law , that any Church , whether of Edrgland <> r of Rome , is able to expand , as knowledge Bad the appreciation of religious truth eapan ^ , ana to continue to be the Church oi 41 najbum , The Christian Church

    of England forfeits Its Christianity as well as its nationality , while it is divided against itself % childish eectarian quarrels to settle casuistie questions which have their solution , it at all , beyond the bounds of human ken . In Christianity there is no heresy .

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    Sir Egbert Peel. The Leader Has Never Fa...

    SIR EGBERT PEEL . The Leader has never failed in sympathy and encouragement towards men of rank and position who have had the courage to recognise the obligation of hereditary name . One ot the most -esteemed and beloved of . French writers , equally esteemed and beloved tor nis brilliant services as a soldier of the press , and his virtues as a citizen , a man of true heart and genius , Eugene Peijdetan , has finely said , " "Whenever a man of intellect is born in the to the

    higher ranks , he cannot help coming cause of the people . ' Welcome to all who have the longest way to come : the people owes you a double debt of gratitude , for a liberal aristocrat has a double merit m his liberalism . We of the people belong to the cause of liberty ; an aristocrat leaves behind a part of his existence when he joins our ranks . " We have only been able to paraphrase feebly enough the vivid and generous language of the Erench writer , but the thought has always been at our heart

    when we have offered a respectful greeting to men nursed in all the luxury of wealth , in all the isolation of vast possessions , amidst the dissolving influences of ease and pleasure . Most assuredly this" feeling has had noihing-to do with that propensity to " love a lord , " so -distinctive of our social classifications . The subject of our present notice bears a name of which he may well feel the glorious burden , the more so that it is a name which , however high placed to-day , was vesterday the child of industry , whoBe

    blazon is the blazon of democracy , Bobebt pEEii , the statesman whose too early death was lamented by thousands of rude hearts , as a personal no less than a national calamity , whose couch of agony was . almost invaded by the lamentations of a people , lived long enough to pay back to the democracy the debt of his birth , and he had the noble priiie iiQ > " hand "down ~ to ~ his descendants -a name undisguised by the idle artifices of the Herald ' s College . It is well , we say , that

    his son should feel the glorious burden of that simple name . It is well , too , that lie . should refuse to lend that name to unworthy associations . "We have observed with frequent satisfaction of late the appearance ot Sir Robebt Pjsel as heir to his father ' s larger sympathies , if not to his political principles . The present Baronet would call himself , we suppose , a social Liberal , a political Conservative . "Well , we can see no objection to the oue , nor to the other . ; if to be a social Liberal is to seek to reconcile rather than to

    divide classes of society , if to be n political Conservative , is to seek by gradual emancipation of the less favoured of our fellowcreatures from the double pauperism of body and soul , from want and ignorance , to give to as many as possible something to conserve Why ! the Leader , let tib confess , is as much Conservative as Liberal , fordo we not cherish order as the guardian of liberty , and liikerty as the pledge of peaceful order ? Sir

    Robebt Peel after a youth not more stormy thontbat of greater onen , returns homo to cultivate a career of political eccentricity and social benevolence . Every now and then he startles a provincial platform by a singular combination of the philosopher and the mousquetawe . But the example survives the eccentricity , amd it is the example we desire sincerely to encourage nnd upplaud . Wo have received , this week , . a letter from

    a correspondent at Tamworth , giving an account of the soiree mentioned in another part of our paper . " The ladies of the town and neighbourhood provided tea , and invited their poorer friends ^ to jom their tables : thus all classes mingled together and spent the happiest social meeting ever known here , if-was a plan of Sir Pobert Peel ' s to tnng about a more kindly intercourse of the different grades of society . He spends much time and money in promoting the intellectual good of the town , and has rivpn for seven vears to come a house for the use of ^ ==== == ===== ,

    the library and Reading-room . Indeed , / ^ f . ™ man more thoroughly devoted to the welfare of the poor- he has a good heart , a large head , and a great name ; in your encouragement he feels a great support , and might grow a great benefactor to his race . This enthusiastic eulogy is at once pardonable and pleasant ; no doubt it is sincere and deserved . It is to be regretted that a man of impulses so generous , should talk , it we may so speak , systematically at random m the House of Commons . Sir Bobebt Peel is perpetually interjecting the wildest Liberal air of insincerit

    declamation , with all the y , in the midst of Tory professions , the most bigoted and the most retrogade , with all the air of conviction . Which is the real man , and which is the hero of a masquerade ? For instance , on the first night of the December Session , this benevolent Baronet wound up some wild talk about Poland and what not , with an appeal to British Ministers to expel political exiles from the shores of England , and to driveVictob Hugo across the Atlantic , to a country where the poet of the Ghdtiments would cease to disturb the dreams of

    the Ruler of France . Now we are not disposed to deny that there may be justifiable disapprobation of tiny foreigner , however injured , and however-worthy of all honour and respect , who affects to dictate a policy to the land of Ids refuge , or to identify that country with his own just resentments . JBut-that any Englishman , we do not say any liberal Englishman , should even remotely hint at the

    Sossibility of denying the refuge of our freeom to the victims of political vicissitudes , who are "Republicans to-day , and may be Royalists or Bonapartists to-morrow , is inconceivable on any other supposition than that the man who utters the proposition is no more in earnest against refugees than he is in . earnest ,. for _ oppressed . nations . "Unhappily , it is not permitted to a politician who bears the name of Sir . Robert Peel to be a saltimbanque *

    Memoir On The Conduct Of The War. In The...

    MEMOIR ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR . In the Memoir on * he Conduct of the War , inserted in our last number , some slight typographical errors iiave , wb regret to say , completely changed the sense of certain passages . In a strategical argument these errata are doubly serious : a syllable out of place may destroy the basis of an argument which has all the precision of a mathematical problem . Has not a . single word in a despatch changed the fortunes of a

    campaign ? Page 40 , 1 st column , line 9 : for destroy the force * , read divert the forces . In the same page , -2 nd column , lino 64 ,: for would not be of long duration , read could not fail to be of long duration . Page 41 , i at column , line 37 : for he justly thought the sea not a bad base , read he justly thought the sea a bad base .

    The Sick And Wounded Of The Cambiua.—The...

    The Sick and Wounded of the Cambiua . —The brave follows who arrived at Liverpool on Monday in the Cambria from the Crimea , disembarked About four o'clock , on . order from London to that .. effect having been received . The most urgent coses wore conveyed to tho infirmary , whore tho most prompt assistance was rendered . Refreshments -wore provided for them immediately upon their arrival , and for these , and the excellent arrangements made for their comfort , each expressed bis warm thanks . Tho Mayor , the ex-Mayor , ( Captain Bevia , R . N . ( the Admiralty agent ) , tho superintendent of Police , And other officials wore unremitting in their attentions to contribute to the comfort of the men , and have been present * t the various meals .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20011855/page/14/