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      The Cambridge Bill. The Franiers Of The ...

      the separate colleges in turn is defended on the ground that if the election were left free , Trinity and St . John ' s would monopolise all the places . Is Cambridge so puerile as this ? Cannot she "be trusted to choose her most eminent men without reference to colleges ? If all the best men are at Trinity or St . John ' s , then Trinity and St . John ' s men ought to be elected till worthier spring up elsewhere . If there are already worthier

      elsewhere , the University ought to be trusted , and taught , to find them . Besides , Trinity and St . John ' s are rivals , and would counterbalance each other , as they do in ordinary elections . We hope Cambridge men will endeavour to vindicate their fitness to manage their own affairs according to"the common principles of English freedom . The Government , no doubt , means well , and it ought not to be ashamed to listen to advice from those whose interests are involved .

      Apbee. 21 > 1855 J The Leader. 377

      Apbee . 21 > 1855 j THE LEADER . 377

      The Sanitary And Medical Conduct Of The ...

      THE SANITARY AND MEDICAL CONDUCT OF THE WAR . Oor private letters from the camp in the Crimea contain very satisfactory intelligence of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission . Our readers will remember that we directed attention to the appointment of this Commission as one of the most hopeful measures in the new administration of the war . It has lost no time in setting things in order at the hospitals at Scutari , Kulali , and Therapia .

      Sewers have been cleansed , trapped , and flushed ; privies have been ventilated , deodorised , and cleansed ; corridors and sick-wards have been cleansed , ventilated , and limewashed ; water-supplies have been improved ; cisterns cleansed and roofed over ; hospitalyards and the streets and land adjoining- have been cleansed and reformed ; surface-channels have been made , and scores of dead animals removed . The burials of the dead have been

      regulated , and the grave-surfaces covered and deodorised . The consequence of all this energy on the part of Mr . Rawlinson and his colleagues is , that the hospitals are much healthier , and that a feeling of confidence has succeeded to recklessness and despair . So much for what has been already effected . But-it-is evident that . this ... labour will be ^ re - quired so long- as there is an army in the field , or a man in hospital , and that a sanitary staff must be permanently attached to the army in

      peace or war . What became of all the port wine and of all the quinine is a question that appears to defy solution . The same mystery surrounds the supply of " drugs '' in general . " Government , " says one of our letters , " cannot be accused of not sending drugs . There is an amount enough to poison all the armies in Europe . < If the Russians , ' said a judicious doctor , ' would only take the pills furnished to the army , the shot and shell might be spared . ' "

      We take the liberty to suggest to some "independent" member the propriety of moving for a return of the quantity and cost of the drugs sent to the hospitals and armyy as also the quantity administered or expended . " Some apothecary , " says a letter now before us , " must surely have a friend at the War Office . "

      Ujij, V. » —A Problem. Ethnology Fails T...

      ujij , V . » —A PROBLEM . Ethnology fails to do its duty by us . It professes to teach us the diversities of men , and cannot tell us why the inferior is greater than the superior . Could the exhibition of different races on ' Monday and Thursday givo us any illustration of the obscure problem ? Could the illuminations of Thursday night

      throw any light upon the subject ? To look at them , you would not say that those for whom the triumphal entry into the Royal Castle of the British Empire had been prepared were destined to be the masters of the world . Take the whole c 6 rtege , and there were but two objects that could command admiration—the Empress and the Dragoons . Cast them aside , and what was there in coach , or around it , that , ethnologieally considered , was stupendous or admirable . The pag-eant , like all those that are bedizened with gold ,

      had a tawdry look . The Roj'al outridersa cross between the huntsman and the general postman—riding backwards and forwards like men that were . making a business for themselves , having no real duties to perform , conferred upon the procession something of the grotesque and helpless , which was almost made odious by the society of a mounted Prdfet de Police . Pietri the fox-eyed , was there , in company . In the first coach safc the fair Empress , with the Elected of December by her side , and the wedded of Queen Victoria before her . The Chief

      Commissioner for the Hyde Park Exposition of 185 was dressed in a Field-Marshal ' s uniform , and was radiant with satisfaction at the success of the marching and counter-marching to and from the railway-station . Is he a Field-Marshal ? Has he ever marshalled a field ? Did he look as if he could wield one army against another ? A very comely man is Prince

      Albert , suited to grace a carriage or a Royal Commission ; but what supremacy sits upon his brow that should distinguish him from many a well-grown man in the multitude ? As to taking- his place amongst the Guards that rode round his carriage , he is not quite tall enough , and he lacks that martial air which is required for the dragoon ; though it is not needed for the " Field Marshal . "

      The Elected of December is a problem : his ethnology is obscure . A husband without progeny , * he is an heir without a certified genealogy . After him came the Counts and Barons that form his suite and instruments . To judge by these coachfuls , France , you would say , is divided into two races—one formed of thick stout men , who would be stalwart if they were not fat ; who would be handsomeif-they * were not so . . snub-nosed ; with round faces , curly hair , short necks , full chests , and a certain heavy lightness , a serious vanity ,

      which combines pinguity with promptitude . This is a new race in France , —the parvenus who have advanced from the Bourse to the Palace , and who invest the vulgar with the dignified . The other race belongs to a past day , but had its specimens in the coaches . It is a tall race , with long- face , longer nose , sunken cheeks , and a solemnity of countenance amounting to the austere and desponding . One burly specimen of the novus homo swells his chest , and gazes radiantly around , feeling that ho is master of the situation ; another

      visitor , a majestic specimen of the vetus homo , gazes with long-nosed solemnity and moveless eye upon the cheering crowd , as if the vieille noblesse were pondering the inexplicable problem of a modern mob unconstrained ! Yet the vieille noblesse , suspected , disinherited , tried a la lantcrnc , still survives and assorts itself in tho now regime . France is a strange country . Its other races , more numerous ,

      were unrepresented in that procession . The not gigantic Gael , the irritable Breton , the semi-Spaniard of tho South , tho races who people tho groat kingdom , nro not admitted to Court , and do not share its visits . France is a country peopled by one race of ancient origin , and adulterated by others from South and East ; officered by a Frank minority from tho North ; and ruled by the Foreigner . Repeatedly has

      it occurred that " the Fifth Element , " the Italian , has been the Governor of the French . The occupation of Rome does not retaliate the oppression which Macchiaveixi has put upon the Grande Nation . A Corsican subdued it , and a- Dutch shadow of a Corsican can bold it in subjection . It would have been a fatal test for the English nation , had the French Emperor and his Spanish wife compared the multitude which they saw on entering London with a Paris concourse . The indolent cii'des of the

      labouring class were celebrating St . Monday ; ifc was a concourse of idle apprentices , recruited by the classes dangcreuses , with a large sprinkling of the mixed population of ease and business . On Thursday , when the Imperial pair went to the Guildhall , the comparison from the Paris point of view might more fairly be made ; for London had turned out . The contrast was complete . That composite nation , which is ruled by foreigners , officered by Franks an , d manned by Gauls , —which not long since

      speculated upon the same march with a different kind of triumph , —could see the race whom it once proposed to conquer , and perhaps still speculates upon subduing . After and before came those Saxon descendants of the Norman invaders , who with the thin trace of Norman blood , seem to be losing the Norman capacity of rule ; relinquishing the hold of aristocracy and power to the Saxon , who is incapable of producing either an aristocracy or a governing class . For your true Englishman lacks

      that love of mastering others which makes conquerors , statesmen , and " the great . " He " cares for nobody , no not he , " if nobody will interfere with him . He covets an allodial possession of the land , and he detests feudality . With that hereditary elect of peasants and Praetorians rode the aristocracy that has broken down at Sebastopol , marched the soldiers that cannot fight for want of officers ; marched also the old Saxon warrior , "the constable" in new uniform ; and on either side stood the people ,

      that are reducing their own Government to a minimum , and look so jolly over the decline of their empire , because the Funds are above 90 , and factory business is increasing faster than customers . Which of those composite races has the better of it ? Which is ultimately to rule ? Is it the Englishman , who cares for nobody ; no nothe ; or the Frenchman , who believes that France is destined to rule the world ? Waterloo failed to solve the problem : was it settled in crossing Waterloo-place ?

      Religious Aiuiests In Sahdinia. On The 1...

      RELIGIOUS AIUIESTS IN SAHDINIA . On the 18 th of March , the police of Nice paid several domiciliary visits , and in particular searched tho dwellings of M . Luon Filatte , and M . A . Gay , ministers of the Waldenses church in that town . They had been instructed to seize all Bibles and New Testaments found in the possession of tho Protestant heretics , as well as any other works of a religious character . The only remarkable circumstances connected with this display of Komish intolerance , is that it took place in Sardinia . Wo had thought that tho government of King Emmanuel was liberal enough to dispense with religious persecution , and strong enough to forbid it .

      Tjik Foucy-I-Tauk Mi;«I»K«.— It Hah Hcm ...

      Tjik FoucY-i-tAuK Mi ;« i » k « . — It haH hcm ascertained that at the time of the murder of Mr . JohujiIi Latham by HuronelH at l . ' oloy-pla «« , the former wu « pomoawd of 8 G 0 ™ i » Jt < mk of Knglaml notea . It is mummed that at the time he was murdered the above parcel was under hlfl - Trfllcm- « nd that they were abstracted from there by some person during the conftioion coiiaequent oh tho horrib e event . The number * are known . A 100 / . and , 10 / note have been paid into the Jlauk of England in < e the murder . A reward has been offend for tho missing notes , or for information as to the pereon who paid the two notcn into the Hank .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1855, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041855/page/17/