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      Strange Bedfellows. Politics , Like '.Po...

      with a-discharged non-commissioned officer a mean and paltry plot for bribing electors , and g-etting up a sham demonstration of public opinion against Ins Parliamentary opponents . Sergeant Bkodik must have thought Mr . Nicoll credulous indeed , to believe such a monstrous story . The fact is , it might have happened to any other ¦¦ Member of ¦ parliament who took an interest * in Sergeant Buodie , to-be represented " as acting the same part . It might have been Lord Palmekstox , Lord PAX . AruiJE , or Mr . SiD ^ iSYHEKMCJtT , for Bkodik had made his case known to all three personages ,, and a ^ * -themwere more or less inclined to sympathise with him , and obtain him redress , or , at least , employment . Sir . Di . ska . eli , like others , felt for his misfortunes , and was anxious to serve him if ho could . Mr .

      Karle ' s version of the lobby conspiracy reveals what no one can doubt to be the true state of the case . Brodie , having been denied access to Mr . Disraeli at his private residence , lay in wait for the minister at the entrance to . the House , and importuned him for a recommendation that would obtain him employment . Mr . Disraeli told him to go to Mi \ Rose , the Parliamentary agent , and mention his name , and possibly that gentleman might employ him in connexion with the general election . Brodie , with . characteristic pertinacity , asked to have this recommendation in writing , and Mr . Disraeli " in an unguarded moment , was induced to go into the library and write a note to Mr . Rose . And it was the envelope of this note which -Bkodie flashed in Mr . Nicolt / s face . as-the evidence of Mr . Dtsimeli ' s guilt . The npte itself , which Mr . Disraeli says might have been read out at Charing-eross , was never shown to any one —of course not . But we want to know how this man ever came

      to be tolerated at all in the lobby of the House of Commons . . Why did Lord PAXMruE interest himself so much in the BnopiE fortunes ? Why did Lord Palmekstox introduce him to Alt , Sidney Herbert ? Why did Mr . Diskaeli allow him the "liberty of saying , when he offered him a verbal introduction . " Oh , that won ' t do . you must give me something written" ? Were' they really so deeply interested in the Sergeant , or Ls their solicitude . to be attributed to the predilection of their class for a ' party with a grievance" ? Thatany one of thenl is capable of making a proposition like that ascribed by Brooie to Mr . Disuaelt , we entirely disbelieve ; nevertlieless , we cannot help seeing in the favour shown to Brodie . and the liberties he was allowed to take , the leaven of the political party tactics of a bygone age . If ministers and public men will condescend to patronise such paltry agents , they must put lip with all the annoyance that naturally results from such a connexion . Agents like Serc ? eant Bkodie can only serve a

      minister or a Member of Parliament , as a messenger ov « can serve Bim ; and ho Member of Parliament would permit a me _ ssengei" or a courier to ¦ ¦ . waylay him , and take him by the button-hole in the lobby of the House of Commons , Whether justly or not , such coimexkms suggest suspicions , which it cannot be the interest , ol anv public man to incur .

      Aug, 25, I860.] The Saturday Analyst Dnd...

      Aug , 25 , I 860 . ] The Saturday Analyst dnd Leader . 749

      The Crusade. Rphe Night Is Darkest A Lit...

      THE CRUSADE . rpHE night is darkest a little before dawn , the fruit . sweetest a JL little before ripeness .

      ? c Ercn at the instant of repair and health , The fit is strongest ; evils that take ? leavo , At their departure most of all show evil . " We quote one of SiTAKKsrEAiu ;' * deepest , and least , liaekniod moral aphorisms , and we would fain hope that- ' these- fearful Mahometan outrages are the first violent kicking ** and luiigings which precede coming dissolution , though religions die hard , and their death-pangs sire alt ' airs not of days , or years ; but of centuries . For the persistence of religions effete , and practically disproved , there are various causes ; sometimes sheer antagonism , and the spirit of resistance kee ^ s them onthcir legs ; nometime . s tluvtulvaneing religion which is ginning' on their territory is infected by them , mid loses its vigour by the corruption of their neighbourhood ; somefretfuland

      times the holders of the worthier creed are teasing , , provocative ; a <* nin there is the stimulus of the real sense of danger . We boast of thorough toleration in England , and ¦ unquestionably there are few genera of religion , rational or irrational , whioli might not be indulged - . with a reasonable allowance for -their . ritual , if not too demonstrative , in this , island . But lot tins eni . < roaeh incut be reullv serioui ' . let the alien creed . ' threaten predominance , and claim anything 1 more than the . mere liberty of existing undisturbed , and the children -of the original faith , with power in their hands , would not be vow nice as to their measures of suppression . All these causes have been at work in Syria mid Turkey , and we need seiim'ly wonder at iliis sudden and gliastly oiitbla / . o of fanaticism . ^ Christianity , we ' are told , has been making rapid progress in tho Sti . tan ' s dominions : he himself is a liible ' reader , having thi \ Christian

      volume in his hands . il is said , oftener than tins Korim : and the true Turk trembles withrage and fear , like the Hindoo Iv'jd . Jind wild tales are told , which to him seem not impiobnlile . or a violent universal MUpiiri'ssiiiu of lidamisiu . Again , the old Cliri ^ h-. n tribes , for we do not upe . 'il : heiv of the iww converts , arc , wo are toll , x'on ^ ptrnR'RrPpMvcrnnd 7-irr- 'i \ wi r h ; ivt » -l-eti » nt-iH » t-a ILnv-lojfUunsJram the religion oi" which Ihi-y nro . 'tliu bitter enemies . Ii > di . y < l . not hiujr \ m been wanting eithor to lay the miiu » , or sprin ; . ' it , A firm hniul andkeeii eye only could have stayed the mischief , and uniortuuatdy tho pvesen ' t vuler of Turki-y has neither thu one nor tlie other . Weakness in nil vurv well in a monarch where roads arc * U'vel or waters Hinooth , but where inferior uwncics are malign and multiform , it is ulmoal as hud as the quick ness 'and violence which it is incompetent to control . The Sim . tan is powculens umony his pnehas and soldiers : -the latter are unruly beggars , because the

      former are impudent extortioners ; and on one of the finest empires mthe world , and the richest in natural productions , the sun shines in vain . With the ' moral , and if needs bo , the physical force of the first nations in Europe to back ' . , the Sultax has not had the courage to keep his promise , and to make what we believe to be his will on the subject of toleration felt and known . Turkey wants a will such as that which put down jannissaries and mamelukes , such a will I as lias , been exerted by some of the Czars of Russia , oftener perhaps than by any other potentates in Europe , and at greater personal risk ; " such a will as that which burnt , one alter another * the title deeds of an unruly nobility ; and again , in a later instance , curbed the patriarchate and disbanded the Strelitzes . The Scxtax acts like a man in bodily fear of the bow-string , and such men are never to be huisted : they are the puppets of the merest and ^ most pressing fear , and where this is paramount all the minor virtues are in vain ; they may exist , but riot stand in the face of an enemy , ¦ unless fortitude is their captain . There is one fear which the Scltax need not add to his other panics , that of the charge of being- a renegade , if he is not , indeed , ' ¦ al most a Christian" already . Intolerance to Christians , "J usque a hi mart , " was no part of the original profession of Islam , as he ought to know well . Let him reduce the practice of his creed to its original principles , and teach his bigoted subjects what is the theory of their belief , often as it has been violated in practice . The ' Tlmt-a . if we mistake not , a " week or two back , offered some remarks on the uniformity of Mahometanism ; we confess we have read history somewhat differently . ] STo religion has been so varied and inconsistent iii its conduct and morals ; they have been as shifting- as have been the fortunes and dynasties of its representative in anarchs : tolerant in one country , tyrannical in another ; truculent Alls and Ottomans arc mingled with courteous and ehivalric Salacldins and Saphadins . If it was exterminating in Arabia and Hindostan , it was courteous and civilized in Bagdad , i Cordova , and -Grenada ; All that we ask of the Sultan is to insist on the adoption of one of the ' milder phases of Mahometanism , with-lull liberty-to punish Christians legally , when they interfere with the person or property of the Mahometan , or even grossly insult his creed ; arid , at the sarne time , to adopt what is . - becoming' gradually the creed of Europe , that every man has the right , by " reasoii and argument , to attempt to diffuse -his own religious' convictions as-. widely as he can ; for from this degree of light no European ' . monarch lias any right to exclude himself or his subjects ; --not merely torthink but to act on this principle j the : Sultax liiust be made * We look with anxiety to see what will be done with the--criminal Pachas , and the ringleaders of the Turkish troopat—if he has not the courage-to . hang , theni-somebody else must . -: The _ Cliristian nations have already ; ' . shown- much patience , and been counting political " reasons on their fingers conr siderably too long . If Chri . ^ titms had been thus ruthlessly massacred in old Oliver '' s time he would have known why before"this _ We fully believe Lons ] S A . roLEOX to be sincere in ' - ' his indignation , with no " inore ayrivrc peiixce than every potentate of Europe must have in tlic present complications . The French are often first and foremost where a grand and noble act . has to-be done , especially wh ^ v it is likely to he attended with ' historical eclat ami the clapping oi ' the himdri of future generations , tliougli - . ' Fi-cnch patience doe * not hwt -so long as fiurs , and French Pifi-iiTrs-leave English Kicir . ' . Kns to fight out the crusade , having ' ' p o ^ l ; ofe ( rtTie ^ t 5 ry ^ thT y "( U '> ivtr . ii'iiKpi n' ^ — be ODjuinencin ^ r Ins c-ritsade witli as ¦ much '' honesty a- the ninth of that nainc . and come out of it with rnore honour aud greater benefit- to the Cliristian cause . Just to look back farther again for ' a . moment , may we have no selllsh ¦ petty quan-jls about jjfufi- // rc Own of Liisignaii , or' Cos ' u \ vs of Moutserrat ; " ; nicl may . wJia't we sincerely believe bus begun in a good cause ,-and in ' ail-honour and friendship , not end in ¦ ¦ distrust , rivalry , ana nlienation ; and i : v iinisliin { . »; the crusade a ;; England finished ( as usual ) 'that of the . LwiXrJl'KAUT , .. by the payment , in some shape or other , of : i good round r : ui . ; oin . ' Even thu little petty Syrian kin <> 'd ::: ; is ol' the ( . 'Jooi- 'iMiVs anil the UoKMOxiis . ' . ' m I ho establish in out of whU'li the fir . si and iiiost ' . ylorious crusade ti-ruiinutKl , never tunicl Out , well ; and we sliould bo sarry tDse . ' putted and palrcniised viceroys ' appointed-over what arc now Turkish provhuvs . nominally proto ' .-lmj ; th-j iuteivsl .- ' . <» f ( rivt'k , . Komi- ;]! , or JVoU'Ur . -. it inU'i'est . i , iiiul lv . tily ui ; i ! an :. > ' Mis .-Iiiri ' .

      Till: Indian Jncbhlllon.* Rp ' Iilo Horr...

      Till : INDIAN jnCBHLLloN . * rp ' IilO horror . ; of tlu > Si > j «* y n . ui iny : till fi ' mtiuuK U : li \" .: in looks , : ,. 1 . and thi's . ' . siill'hoar inarhs of iUu « . 'Ni'ii < i ; i'u . 'iit tlr . it alniost mudileiu'd tb . e British : iiiw ( i in JSo 7 ; p . ul 11- '• "» : * . - \ Ji ' . Lowt ' , : i medical oiiiccr , at Aiiiilras ; to t ! u « corps of Sapiiers : ru < l . Mim-rH , yrt sullbrs unilor tlie impressions he then rofi-ivod . Hint si-us in thu natives , on whom vt ' ugwim'f win ; tsiki .-n . only Hsu inurdorcrs of his eountryiiu'iii not . human lu-in ' . vs bavin ; . ! ,- rights and a land of birth , lit ) sees only tho rebel . i'imuin # , hyi ) ocritical , lying , treacherous , ittihy , insohiiit , l ) i »'») tv ! d ; not " tiu ' ini ' ld Hindu" < lis ;> utin < v with \ w conriuuror . JS or can we wonder at it : for the atrocities on tue part of the hitter were excessive . Vet he ito'ls it necessary If ) exi'UHO tho greatnusH of - Hritinh vtMiwesirH ^—^ lt-w « K-m ) uo ^ ur-V-. ^ KiiUlii »^ khU ^ could _]\ aye nuHWercd the ends ; arid'though a drum-head (• ourt-murtitil is _ a short tillaiv , and soldiurs long accustome . l tr > wmw » oi' blood sit in jiulgment , yet justice is done . The people were drunk with tho liloocl of oiii eountrsimm , mad with excesses , blind to everything

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1860, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25081860/page/5/