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    a chantr , but whose names oblige them to be judged Th 3 m * ihe $ omt of view of Rimnymede ; scime 3 fMtjttises , ^ rho are tracked in the solace for { heir tnisanthropy to abodes , where a kidnapped «*]? * s ; prostituted to their servile jnroffigacyv -If the order had fallen in the eatimtsoh- ^ their very House of Parliament has lost ; Us importance- ~ if their local influence is threatened by newer influences-rising around them , the fault lies , not with Chartists , with the comtte&ttiuA . 1 competitors , or the purchasers under an encumbered estates court , but with the order

    itself . It does not fie only in their bankruptcy , for Lbrds are not traders ; the pith of it is , that they hav « often become such . A satirical tale is told of the heir to a noble title , ^ who , ' -bemg disowned by bis father , took a hbuser opposite to the lordly mansion , opened a shoeiae&er ' s shop , and put his name over the door with the addition , " heir , to Lord over th wA ^ " ^ a sturdiness of appeal to public opinion

    wnic % secured his return to the paternal Favour . Soia ^ Prench writer relates a different case—that <> f *¦ liarmtis , * who caive up his swx > rd and his title , in owkrthat he might go feirly into a ^» mmon trade , atod by honest industry repair the t **) ken fortunes of his house ; on twrcomp&hmg which he rteeeiy'e ^ -back ; hii sWord , ana ¦ ' * esu * aett I -Ms title . Hie example might t » Q of some us © in Manii , > ui , morally , it might be still more useful hearer-to I ^^ e ^ pojis . © ottr Peets ^ fli * 6 tft ^ oWer / oAv * % &&& who deplore » waning in * fluenee , would descend from their born ; altitude

    * 6 4 xy something Tiseful , they might really inake themselves esteem $ d > - To speak' prophetically , theyaaightstare off or Supersede their commercial bappptbj ; | m&hfc save fesd&dYes fi * dm ; l > ehjg compelled , l ^ e poor I < bra' , &drt i wpf&tfbt *>* - b « y « aieel J . ^ Chereuise iijithy things useful which ev ^ i ^ pa ^ ia S ^ ' * £ '&mes oFtemJlia ^ tfw *^ / / oeaiora renaervnimseir

    ixrweauinj- xujte or nray a blewinff . tdthe cottagers whom he ^ Ips ^ o live ; ^ nAabliut + bnittay teach the science and art of b ^ afini ^ Ejte ; ¦ $ & Ebringtbn may . be an official "mjrfcgt-lilit" ) $£ ^ ttblie Interest , ? aiid may prove ¦ aftfcerit ^ %£ kw lard / y « tt * k , - and by resigning v 6 fl |^ e ^ WHen . tliie public interest suffers from what 1 j ^ caiMibt sanction .. Anct the - cotiiitry just ncrw is calling it ? sons to the field ,-where many an idle lording may find an opportunity of rendering hiBQ&elf Tiseful at vrell as ornamental .

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    ^ yjtA F tJHJTAIJRT . Axx nrtfstSjhave observed that , notwithstanding the value of " practice * ' in developing skill , there is a considerable advantage in repose . Bad habits j have ah opportunity of subsiding ; the zest of the intellectual impulse , which is an essential part of ! practice , acquires new life , and with all the accu- ' mulated experience of the past , the student begins afresh fiou a new starting point . It is to be bpped that the long peacg will have furnished that species of repose $ o the airt of , war , and that those who

    have to take up arms , will do it with fresh spirit , increased ; inteHigcnoS , and also , let us add , with higher motives . We do not believe that peace could have been indefinitely protracted . Peace , like all other blessings , must be earned ; but if peace doctrines , as people boast for them , have obtained a firm hold of the public mind , if a higher sense of natural and social rights has been attained , if Christianity has been brought more out of the theological study or the clerical shop into practical life » then we may expect to see war jmrsued in a spirit more consonant with the wise .

    Kcence of war as bearing-upon peaceable , unoffending , and unconcerned states or individuals . ^ But we must have more . Considerable improvements have been made , of late years , in the treatment of the soldier : the use of the lash has been reduced almost to nothing ; the brutal method of lodging haj been greatly reformed ; the diet has been rendered more consistent with

    health , vigour , and comfort : the soldier has been permitted , and taught , to read ; and lately we learn of fcfiicers who are lecturing to their men on the nature of the Russian position in the East , and on the fallacious show of strength in that power . In other words , soldiers are treated as men , with moral rights , including the right of thinking . But soldiers who are thus treated will be

    expected to view their fellow-creatures , even on the field of battle , in a . higher spirit than they have once been taught tp do . Officers who can recognise reverence for manhood in the British soldier , catmot , without a practical impiety , refuse to Tecognise it even in the enemy . How milch more should the rights < of humanity be recognised in those helpless classes ; , who , whether they are in /* fra enemy ' s country w not , cannot tw& * egirded as -me objects of hostile alarm or rancour . We expect of states that they will no longer indulge those licences . in war which aere involved -in granting letters off

    and bloody' * campaign of the soldier with the " chronic , slow , wasting war , " which tyranny may wage upon a subject people , as in Naples ; and , let us add , which , commercial tyranny may wage upon the poorer classes , and caU it " the blessing of peace . " It las been danger and the challenge to arms that h&re called forth the most generous feelings of Englishmen ; it was resistance to tyranny that m&de Englishmen know what they could do in taking their Magna Charts , in sustaining Hampden , a&d in securing that Bill of Rights which , under this apathy and sophistication of peace , we have been suffering to slip from our

    grasp . But what is the first effect even of the prospect of war ? Is it not that Englishmen and women are hastening forward to extend sympathy and help _ to soldiers * wives left behind ; is it not that the JEnglish and French Governments are instructing their representatives abroad to treat English and French as the same race ; is it not that a sense of right is rousing itself over Europe as superior to a sense of profit with connivance in wrong ? War ihaa moved the blood ia the Englist heart , and . it is free from the nightmare of trading deadness ?

    marque , in makmg free wiffi the property of neutrals , in playing- the botfly over peaceable traders ; but in that better conduct on the part of leading statesmen ire expect also to see an example that will not "be lost on soldiers , and ; while fully sustaining the honourable fame of their country and their xs <» 'by bravery m the field , and by resolution thr 6 Qgh 6 ut a campaign , wie hope they wdll prove ; that a wiser intelligence , a more civilized Chaistian . ity ,-a truer r&ligjibn , are their guides in th , e treatment of those whom nature has prevented from being enemies . The General commandioe will -stall TS ) e required to make any

    requisite use of surprises , to cut off armies , of stoxmings , to taktff towns ; but tha truly generous officer , the ^ truly manly soldier , imbued with the right spirit , w 31 seek to war o * n soldiers , and , as far as possible , en soldiers alone . ] SFay , the soldier himself has Tights «© long as , by his bravery and his trust in an adversary's generosity , he shows tliat he merits generosity , or so soon as by his captivity or his wounds he is transformeQ from being an enemy into being n ward .

    If the statesman must forego letters of marque , appropriation of prizes formerly permitted , and coercion of States uot morally in-volved , the soldier ton . massacre , the pillage , and the indulgence -in hideous debauches , which have disgraced some of the most " gallant" actions in the annalsof British victories . Let the resisting fort be battered down , destroy whom the splinters may , —let the soldier on the field with weapon in hand be slain where he stands , —let the spy be hanged where he

    is discovered ; but let the soldier ' s hand be stayed at the sight of womanhood or of infancy ; let virtue , or even timidity and womanly reluctance , be respected ; let unprotected property cease to be a temptation for converting the British soldier into a thief ; in Bhort , let a true chivalry govern the actions of officers , and be by them encouraged in the men , and war will then become a manly contest for power , divested of its worst evils , a mortal struggle not attended with disgusting crimes ; and then chivalry will be not irreconoileable with the most catholic religion , not irreconcileable even with

    the continuance o » f those peaceful pursuits which it should protect , bnt never outrage . This is an enterprise in which Englishmen may honourably challenge the competition of their French companions . People talk of the effect of a war in promoting discord and savage passions ; but ia it not apparent that it also calls forth more generous feelings than those deadened by peace T We are Hot alone in this sentiment . An eloquent writer in the Sheffield Free Press sees the effect of trade in throwing a nightmare coldness and ittdividualized selfishness over society , and hopes better of witr : —

    " Principles of chivulry and honour ¦ will replace tlie grovelling gr « id for gain tbiat now pervades the trading clasjjps . They \/ ho desire to see Labour prostrated at tlie feet of Capital , are the anrno who would saorifico Turkish independence an £ English honour to the Itussiun Autocrat . War will generate a nioro generous spirit—a manlier fooling —a nobler sympnthy with Right . " A speaker at Bedford , Mr . White , the editor of a local paper , contrasted lt the active , sharp ,

    the UJuriftian , and the benevolent character of our diBV' / f i Already there are some signs that those wlio are respontuble will strive to give to war even greater elevation . We do not , indeed , expect the improvement from broad-brims or from sentimentalists , who deprecate fighting altogether . The real improvement must come from soldiers and statesmen who know what war is , as a moral and political necessity ; who do not altogether dread and abominate it , but who do desire to mitigate its

    evils , and to render it consonant with true nobility of thought and action . Indeed steps h&ve already been made in advance . The United States bave done much to put down the practice of granting letters of Baarque— species of piracy . Turkey has done much to enlarge the privileges of commerce during war , having granted indulgence even to the . ships of her enemy . Inquiries are made us to the rights of neutrals , which indicate a disposition in our Farliament to put a very tight Hunt upon the

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    A " STKANGEK" DT P ARMAMENT . Soixspeabb , who was observant , puts great truths into the mouths only of madmen and fools . Certainly the House of Commons only hears awkward facts from men who are above or below ttte contests of " cammon-xenser' * parties , made-up of " men of th& ? odd . " Thus , 3 ast night ; it w « s Colonel Sibthorp who blurted out the rough allusion ' ¦ to the

    introduction of the BeformBIll as a swindle , and it was Sir John Shelley who suggested , with odd ferocity , mat the postponement of that enlightened measure was a sham . You will read a long debate and much courteous affectation , if ypii wish to know what the greatest Senate ia the world was about last night 9 b&t , be sure , th « private opinion of that public body found its dearest expression in the speeches of tfa& distinguished senators I have named .

    The House of Commons , which is composed , la ft large degree , of men who take to it as to the best club in town , likes to be interested ; asKl a considerable proportion of its members , who are not of the slightest importance , are partial to scenes in which they are actors , as chorus , and in which they may conceive that they have become of some consequence . Btebce exclamations * in every corner of the Westend , of "By Jove , " when , on Thursday night , tie clubs learned , by electric "telegraph , of Iiord John's

    advertisement , somewhat in . the Ady style , that the ETouae would on Friday hear of something to its advantage . And hence the rush of Broughams and Hansoms down'Parliament-street towards half-past four yesterday afternoon—a " great House" vraa being collected -to be instructed by Lord John Russell whether it was the intention of the Government to persevere iu the attempt to obtain an extension of tlie franchise in this free , self-governed , and enlightened country . In the month of March our representatives

    have no distinct occupation from dusk till dinnertime : and it is not to be wondered at , that , something exciting "being guaranteed , so large a number of those conscript fathers of whom we are so proud should have talcen their places so early as half-past foar ; privately having made up their minds that they wouldn't stand it more than aa hour or two . In our excellent House of Commons , which is the model for the representative institutions of Europe ,

    there are at least 100 young lords , or honourables , of a youthful turn of hair , pronounced ties , and vague expression of countenance : they never appear ordinarily to participate in the business of governing us , before eleven at night : last evening they were all in by five—much paler tha . n they usually are at eleven . Can a better evidence be suggested of the extent of interest excited by Lord John ' s advertisement ? Everyone was there : assuredly alL the hon . gentlemen who aie in Schedules A and B . All the Ministers were there , thronging the Treasury-beach , a . ud endeavouring , with tlie vigour of a strong Government , to 1 oolc unconcerned . All the Opposition was there : Mr . l ) isracli very quiet and watchful ; Sir John Takington arrayed with elatonoss , and looking triumphant , for he Lad got Lord Derby ' s pcriniaidiou to toll fclio House a bit of his mind . AH the

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 4, 1854, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2028/page/14/