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      • Roklcigx-Oohukspondence. Si'r.Fial. Xl...

      view , to the Cabinet of the Tuilleries with the particular request that the French Government would bring the contents o % m & document to the knowledge of the Prussian Cabinet , througn tne medium of the French Ambassador at Berlin . Mr . Belcastei ,, . the representative of France ^ has _ already executed this request What reception it will meet , or has met with , on the part ot Prussia , is as yet unknown . By this proceeding it is tolerably clear that France arid Denmark are still hand and glove , notwithstanding all the rumours propagated from time to timely the German papers , ta the effect that since the Baden Conference France has been "brought over to the German view of the Scnleswig and Holstein question . France is hereby , with the connivance of Denmark , more than ever mixed up with the Schleswig and ± iolwish to make erel federal

      stein quarrel , which the Germans m y a affair , while the Danes are determined to keep it an open question for all the world . France has still a hand in it , and can at a convenient opportunity ^ easOy work it up into a war of _ ideas between Denmark and Prussia , Ay hen Louis NArOLEON will , ot course , feel free to perform for Denmark the good offices that Prussia has promised to perform for Austria , in case of an attack upon Yenetia . So long , Napoleon mil say , as the war shall be confined to Prussia and Denmark , France will not interfere ; but should the Germanic Confederation , which , by its ownacts , is bound to assist the King of Denmark , as Duke of Holstein against his revolted-subjects , go with Prussia against Denmark , France will regard the war as one of ideas , as an atteinpt on the part of certain princes to break up the Danish absorbed into

      monarchy into petty principalities , to be gradually the Germanic Confederation , and will , therefore , intervene ia favour of her ally , Denmark . Some time prior to the conference at Baden , there were rumours of a convention having been agreed upon hy Denmark and France . The conduct of Denmark at this moment , in seeking the mediation o £ France in a purely federal matter , shows that those rumours had some foundation . The Cologne Gazette lately published a Prussian note , dated June 6 , ¦ . . ¦ whicli very gently recommends the federal governments to refrain froni reactionary-, i . e ., despotic measures , in dealing -with the poli- ; tical questions at present occupying the public mind . This ^ is a mild way pf deprecating any attempt to put down the National Verein wliicjx has been working entirely in the Pr ussian dynastic interest , though with the best and ; most patriotic intentions towards the whole of Germany . " ' .

      The Prussian . Government some monthsi ago made ah offer to the other Federal States to supply them with guns of equal calibre , with a , vietv of effecting uniformity in the ' artilleryof the federal armies , at cost price . At present each jstate has its own peculiar calibre of guns ,, munition , and form of weapons , so that in the event of a federal war the greatest confusion and loss might ensue . No answer has yet been sent in by the different governments ^ the general opinion is that they will decline this very advantageous offer , simply because it comes from Prussia , as any act tending to establish an appearance of Prussian supremacy is viewed with the deepest aversion . The papers report that a gentleman , connected with the English Court , and who had been dispatched to make preparations for the Queen ' s jom * ney to this country , was takon

      irito custody by the police attached to the railway at Bonn , and detained three or four days without a hearing . The reasons for this arrest have riot been satisfactorily explained at present , but we shall hear more pf the matter shortly , as Captain Macdonald , the gentleman in question , has addressed a complaint to the English ambassador , at Berlin , who has made a request to the proper quarter for a strict inquiry into the affair . I see by the papers that a letter has been written by a professor of Heidelberg , cojriplaining of the ridiculous facility with which the title of *? Doctor" is obtained at the

      University of Giessen , which he describes as a barn , where several clerks axe constantly employed in writing put diplomas ,. which are sold at the rate of' 30 / . each , and purchased chiefly by Englishmen . If Englishmen really are the chief purchasers , they surely must procure them solely asi ouriosities ; but I am inclined tp think the assertion to originate ixi malice with reference to ' , the English , for the title of " Doctor " would be of little use to Englishmen in this country , and in their own they would have to keep it a close secret as to where they obtained their diplomas . The Germans themselves are unquestionably tlxe chief purchasers , as the number of persons using the prefix sufficiently proves .

      334 The Saturday Analyst And Leader. [Se...

      334 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Sept . , i 860

      Thjb Proposed Cotton Company (Limited). ...

      THJB PROPOSED COTTON COMPANY ( LIMITED ) . The followingoiroularhtM boon extensively distributed throughout tlio Cotton Trade : — " 56 ,, Pall Mall , Manchester , Sept . 21 , 18 G 0 . —Sir , I nm desired to request tho favour of your attention to tho report , sent herowith , of the proceedings of the inaugural mooting held on ] Mday last , at the Town-hall , in this city , to promote tho formation of a Cotton Company . It is intended to afford tho trade the first opportunity of supporting this important undertaking . If you donivo to pvomoto tlio objeot of the new cojfnptfny I boa tp request tho favour of your filling up

      the annexed lQrm , ana returning jit to me , if possible , on or before Tuesday next , the 25 th , instant The poxnmittoe have received , many voluntary expressions of approval from largo flrms , and tho following gentlemen , amongst others , havo thus onrly oxprcssod thoir deejiro to bo placed on' tho list of ahareholdors for tho sums appended to their names , I am , ei »\ your obedient servant , David Chadwiok , soorotary pro tern . " Hero follow the nnmoa of tho gentleman alluded to i— Thomna Baaley , Esq ., M . V ., l . OOOiT . ; John . OheethiuD , Ksq ., 1 , 000 ^ . ; Hugh Mason , JSto ' q ., 1 , 000 ^ . $ John . JPendor , Msti ., 1 , 000 / . } Thomas Kminott , Ksci ,, 1 , 000 ? . j John Platt , Esq ., X , OOOA

      Miscellaneous Works. Llaiul-Bookof The H...

      MISCELLANEOUS WORKS . llaiul-bookof the History of the Eiiylish Lamjuaye for the me <> f tir / i > ote and Colleges . By A .. II . Kcane . ¦ LondOJi : Longmaniiud Co . Dublin : ¦ l ' owlcr . This is a useful manual , ¦ ' containing a large mass of information on the English language and literature . The causes of the much eomplained ° of incongruities of the English tongue are summarised in the following passages :- — " Three causes spein fco have co-operated in rendering our present orthographic system the most inconsistent and irregular in the-world : ( a ) change of alphabet , ( b ) cliange ofpronunciation , and ( c )\ radically defective alphabet , ( a ) The A-S . alphabet , laid aside during the Early English Period , consisted , of 21 , ours of 26 letters ; but we gained little by the substitution , having rejected iwo Saxon , letters , whicli are now badly wanted , and one , a ? , . not quite superfluous . Of the live

      additional characters ., / , k , q , v , z . only . IJtree , j , r , z , are really useful , ' - \ i—hardc , and q == kiot being redundant . But the transfer itself was productive of the greatest possible amount of confusion , as explained in sec . IV . ( b ) This was not a little increased by the change of pronunciation which has been going on froin the earliest times , generally without a corresponding change of spelling . The sound changes and the form remains . ' Reference to the AS ., and especially to the ¦ lir . inr / coo-nate tonguss , proves that b in tomb , ' dtimh , climb ; - I in calf , 7 ialf , wall-, 7 7 c in Jcnee , knock ; gh in righty liigh , through-, dov . gh , totujh , cough , ' hiccough ,. , were not briginally mute or irregular as now . The dramatist / Ly ly ( borri 1551 ) , seems to have effected a sort of temporary revolution in the language generally , and especially in the pronunciation , by the publication in 1578 , of his prose romance of Euphucs or . the Anatomy of Wit . The influence of liis school , as it is called of at court and

      JE *«» 7 « i /« vw » , ' was for some time very ereat ,. especially 'vith the ladies . ] 31 ount , writing in 1 G 32 , says that ' our nation are i n Xylv ' s debt for a new English , which he taught tiiem . Eiiphites and Ids " -England began first that language : all our ladies wero then his scholars ; and that beauty in . court which could not parley Euphuism •'' .. . ' ¦ ¦ -.. . that pure and reformed' English ? which lie . introduced , was as little regarded as those who are now ignorant of , [ French ; 13 ut Euphuism ^ bon died out , though it may ltave tended very much to soften . the ' language at the time , and certainly effected a lasting change in the' pronunciation . of a vast number of . words , irolofern ' es , tlio ¦¦ schoolmaster : in Love ' s L'thoxir Lust , complains bitterly-to Sir K " at : h : iniel of a sytem , seemingly new in his time , but now firmly . established : 'I abhor such . fanatic ' al ? f » ntasms , such in-sociable and point-devise compa nions , such -rockers , of orthography as to speak doiif fine , when he should say doubt ; del , when ' he sliould pronounce debt , d ,

      nebour ; HC'i ff 7 iiibhreYmted . ue : this is ab . hominable ( call abominable ) , it i ' nsluuateth me of insanie' ( act V . 1 ) ; as to atr tempt to restore the worthy pedant ' s utterance of these -.-words , would any man at the present day ? ' (

      characters and six combination ' s j and oven two of these arc redundant . " . * Comprehetiif /' ci' f / hforirof / ittlUt , Cirit , . Wlitarii . and Social . Son . . " 1 . : ! - ' , -W , ami ' 31 . Lomlon ' , BUlnluirgli , anil ( Jlitsifow : -lUacliio iiikI Son . > Thoso numbers of the above are now before us . Critical analysis al the present stage of tho-work would ba out of phioo . It is to coinpi'uhend a period extending from the first landing of tho linglish to tho suppression of the Sepoy revolt ; and tho number of steel and . wood engravings witlx which it will bo illustrated will bo 50 f ) in number . Those tha-b havo appeared , tho subjects of -which consist of soino oi tho most interesting and important historical personages and events , two oxeoutpcl in a stylo pf superior exoellonao . It nlso cantuius approjjrmlo

      and useful map . Our Tt ( fL > rolii . uti'ii i * <(> t'l Mi ' , . llfrcil J ) . ItIclm , • r * M !¦« , * . " . l . ovci' . v . m , K « i ( i . Loiidou : ICllliijflinm NVllfon , lB ( i () . The author of this jiamphlot , aftor onuniornting soma of I ho loading agents whoso labours have obuourrod in promoting tho ostalilis iineiit of tho Volunteer riflo corps , proocods thus to puiniuurisj Iho f . 'ouUnjtiiig claims of those who have been indicated a 9 olii . ll . y ( . vmcoim'd in nniiiviing tho movonneut : — " Thoro roniuin to bo noticed two giMitli'incn who have von derail tho atuto groat service in awakonin ^ tho nation to a s-.-mo of its insoonvity , and by oontributing , ouch iu his wny , to thu oslabMimont of tho voVmtoor foroo . Wo rolor to OnptniM iland Busk nud . Mi . Alfred B . Bioliivrda , ' Captain Hans Busk ' s works huvo unjoyod a welldoaei'vod and world-wido oelobvily « nd havo doubtIcaa oxoivisi'd u groni inilnonoo on tlio movement . Cupluiri Buska ' a isluims on publto vvvoif nition are so gracefully alluded to in tho conumuiicalioii iroiu Jlr .

      Itiolmrda which tho reader will find a fow pn « o . i \ umce , tluit it n fUvuu'd unnecoesary to rofoi to thorn here in detail . 'Wo now uppronHi t 10 name of A lfrod B . llit-hards , ntid wo do so with nil respect and giwi ; tudo s " hailing liim unhoeitatingly aa tho' ' ori tf imitor ol tho V , " minovoment , tlio founder of tlio Voluntooi-a ol' Oiwnt Jlntuin . ^ othoi-s \ vo willingly aoisprd thoir mood of uraiuo lor wliut they lunii donas but wo f \ mrl «?» sly assort tliut if to ouo « mn moro limn nnoiiic tho credit ie clue of being tho originator of the Volur . lwr njovi-mcm that xnan is . Mic . Am'HH . u B . RiowAWi )« i . Truo to thu motto > ii i » P titio page pf tUla piuuphlot , JPaltuam q « i mvrtiif . feral , I ho t « oni |» il » . 'i' oi thoso pngoa hits no other lnotivo than to y hioo tho miillov boioro m « mibliw inita true llgl ^ t , to Iny bofyrp tho publla ai ' pw f ' aotn whioli ^ linij snoftlc for thomoolvoH , and thon it will bo I ho turn pf tho publu > to (| ucig «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1860, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29091860/page/10/