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    oeitixboum , is not ' very likely to take much trouble to leriel « , godly , righteous , and so"ber life . And commujaitaes < are governed by precisely the same principles end natural laws as individuals . Turkey , we are told , is guaranteed by foreign bayonets against all apprehension of external danger , wliile the conduct of her internal administration is confided to a statesman imbued with the European notions'of polity , & »< 1 jrarticulariy well affected towards this country . iKr ^» , iihere is every reason to anticipate the inauguration of a haprpder era * 'and the progress of a C 3 il 4 stiainized civilifcation *

    1 am afraid , sir , that a directly opposite Tesult may fee more truly predicted ; and msupporfc of this tioafriction , L appeal / to the ¦ experience euSbided by 4 fae so-called independent States of India , under exactly similar circumstances . It will be more convenient to allude to one instance only in this place , though there is no lack of tempting examples ; but , at this moment , the case of the kingdom of Oude is the most familiar to the English public . Here there Kits a ^ ertile and populous country , peopled fry a fine , Wiatfly race , and possessed -of great natural resources , grm'tfanteed ' against , foreign aggression , and—at least io . tbe « fr » e of liord William Beatinck— -ruled by an honest and able Misiateiu cordially supported by the

    Resident . : Some little improvement did certainly take f > lace , but the change vas quite ^ phemeraL Within a very few years the Minister was ignomijriously dismissed , through the intrigues of those whose corrupt practices he had exposed and repressed . As it happened to him , so will it be with Kedschid ! Pacha . It Is scarcely possible that the Shrttan , the Minister , and the Ambassador shall infcilntain for any lengthened period an uninterrupted feo-tfjteration . Points o'f difference are certain to afise , when the Minister will hardly fail to offend oae , or both of his patrons : in either case his downfai ; will inevitably follow , and , falling , he will drag d < w-H the edifice he was so laboriously constructing .

    ¦ Sub it ie > n . ot merely ¦ within the limits of our Indian Empire thai ; tre need search for parallel instances- — they also'ooevir in the old times of Roman supremacy . iSoW often did those cdnquerors content themselves With a nominal conquest . They left the king on his throne ^ secuTed him from all danger from without , laittd aMowed him to govern his people after his own fashion . And what was the result ? Free from all safidety as to the safety of his throne , and at the watae time sensible of the degradation implied in his irery security , he resigned himself to sensual indulgences , and abandoned his subjects to the rapacity < and arrogance of his subordinates , until the Banian's were compelled to interfere and lay the

    phantdm , fts'they had previously destroyed the substance , of independent power . It is true , Turkey has * not been nominally subdued by any other state , but It is equally true she is held in pupilage by many fctfates , each striving to be her chief guardian and ditredtor . And in the selfish intrigues of the different European Ambassadors , the various candidates for the Wuzeerut will seek their own advancement—« a'tfh regarding that alliance as the most desirable ¦ which forwards his own individual views , while the interests of the country and the welfare of the people will be utterly ignored , or used only as a stalking-Ittfrse .

    Sesides all this , the elements of decay- nave been Steadily developing from the time when the tide of conquest was stayed , and the fervour of fanaticism legan to wane . The practice of polygamy is , in itself , fatal to the generation o a free , manly people —the- more so when women are treated as mere female animals . There is little hope of a man whose first lesson in life is to despise his mother , and his second to purchase a brood-woman . So long as the Turks were in a position to obtain mothers for their childt-en arms in hand , the evil was not so sensiblyfelt . Their wives captured in war from the Christian nations were generally superior to themselves in

    Grand dom-mage eat que cecy soit sornettes ; Filles connoys qua -tte sont pas jeunettes , A qui cette eau de Jouvance viendroit . Apologizing for the extreme length of this communication , I remain , sir , your obedient servant , J . H . - - i - - 1 ¦ - ; ¦ -: - - i ¦ - - ¦ — — —

    mental capacity as well as in physical organization . Aha from the mixed parentage a race wus produced little , if at all , degenerate from their warlike ancestors , who overran so largo a portion of three continents . But when the capture of female prisoners became of rare occurrence , the Ottoman stock rapidly declined ; and so sensible were they themselves of this fact , tliat they lost all confidence in their own prowess , and trusted to Janissaries or Mamelukes for the maintenance of their power . These props also have now failed thorn ; and it is vain to shore up tlio tottering edifice With protocols , or to bind it together With red Tho

    tape . sapless trunk puts forth no green boughs , even in an " Indian summer " - —triste lignum , certain to fall with a . crash in the first hurricane that sweeps over the plains , and threatening destruction to all within its roach . The wise landlord would cut it down , dig ; up tho l-oots , and plant in its stead a healthy sapling . To expect to impart vigour to tins bedridden Turkey is about as reasonable as to aslc tno Wizard of the North for tho Mcdcan prescription to convert nge into youth . Alas ! tlurfountain of Jouvaneo * ' has long sinco dried up even in minstrels' imagination , or its waters might bo found Serviceable elsewhere than in Turkey .

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    The American Mission . —Mr . Benjamin Moran has been appointed by President Pierce Assistant-Secretary of the American Legation at London . The office of -Assistant-Secretary is newly created , and is , we believe , intended to be permanent , partly in order to serve as a connecting link for the proceedings of the Legation on the change of the -Minister and the Secretary . Considerable care , therefore , was -exercised in selecting tfhe first occupant for the office . Mr . Moran was private secretary -to Mr . Buchanan when that gentleman was American Minister to this Court . For tlie last four months of Mr . Buchanan ' s stay Mr . Moran tras Secretary of Legation pro tenipore , and for the last eight months he has been Vice-Consul of the United States at London . — mole .

    A JoflxiFiCATios , asTd What it lei > to . —The case of " Smith v . Lakeman" was gone into before the Lords Justices odf Appeal ia the Court of Chancery on Monday . The dispute relates to an account of 10 , 000 shares in the Liberty Mining Company , wnich Captain Smith , of Virginia , in the United States , placed in . the hands of Mr . Lakenian to dispose of , and upon ¦ which , transaction Captain Smith claims to be entitled to 90 O 0 £ , ov more , while , on the part of . Mr . Lakeman . it is insisted that the Captain is a debtor to him in a larger amount . Captain . Smith alleges that on the 19 ta of February , 1853 , he went to the Adelphi Theatre with Mr . Lakeman , and that afterwards the y both adjourned to No . 3 , Parkplace , Regent ' s Park ( near Hanover-gate ) , where , after

    drinking-wine and partaking of supper , the Captain , being overcome by the festivity , was helped to bed by a man servant in livery , who called him early next morning , and , apon repairing to the dining-room , Mr . Lakeman obtained from Mm his signature to a statement of account -which he , Captain Smith , now declares -was grossly incorrect in many respects . Two " ladies" were in the house on the night of the 19 th of February ; and they appear to have conducted themselves with not a little freedom . Captain Smith , in his cross-examination , said that he left the house as soon as he could after breakfast on the following morning . He had been there

    once since , and that was to leave a 20 ? . note for one of the " ladies , " who passed as the wife of Mr . Lakeman , who at that time , or in that house , was called Captain Maikham . He did not remember ever again to have seen the other " lady . " " Mr . Lakeman contended that Captain Smith had dishonestly influenced the market with reference to the shares of the Liberty Mining Company . This was denied by the other . Their Lordships finally determined that they could not settle the dispute without the assistance of a court of-law , and expressed their regret th , at Captain Smith , after a delay of three years , should bo put to the additional -inconvenience of awaiting another trial .

    The Bankruptcy of Leopold Redpath . —Redpath was brought up on Monday to paBS his examination . The court was crowded to see him ; and he is described by the reporters as a brawny , athletic man , nearly six feet high , and looking more like a stage-coach driver , or frequenter of prize lights , than a gentleman accustomed to move in elegant circles . He had intimated his intention not to answer any questions that might be put to him touching his estate and effects . ! NTo accounts had been filed , and it -was therefore determined to adjourn sine die , a private meeting being held in the meanwhile An Extempore Clergyman . —A singular fact came out on Monday in the Insolvent Debtors' Court . The

    Rev . Joseph Charles Edwards , a clergyman of the Church of England , applied to be discharged from prison , where he had been confined sinco the 15 th of last February . His total debts amounted to 4-20 G / ., for d 20 l . Of which he had received no consideration . He hnd officiated in various places , and had eked out his income by -writing in magazines and newspapers , and by composing pamphlets , for ono of which , on the right of Jews to sit in Parliament , lie liad received one hundred and fifty guineas from Mr . Alderman Salomons . In the course of tho proceedings , the insolvent desired to ask a few questions of Mr . Mnson , an attorney who had conducted some previous proceedings in the matter at York , and who was himself a creditor of Mr . Edwards . Tho first

    interrogation was as follows ;—" Did you ever officiate in the pulpit of a Church of England because a client of ; yours had been arrostcd and tnkon to York Castlo ?" Mr . Mason : " 1 decline to answer . " — " Did you not put on the bands and gown of a minister , and in them ascond tlio pulpit , and then reud to tho congregation a written sermon ? " Mr . Mason : "I decline to nnswor . "— " Did you not go to tho Archbiahop of York , and confess what you had done ? " Mr . Mason : I have already said , I decline to answer . " Insolvent : " Then , your Honour , I think , if a mnn could bo guilty of such conduct in tho house of God , I may look with complacency upon any opposition ho may attempt to innko . " The Chief Commissioner : " is not . the . first of tho profusaion who has Uono such , a thing . * This is roally startling news for church-goers . Wlicn you fancy you aio listening to tho Apostolic eloquence

    2 , f ^ v ; ^ er , you may in fact be simply befooled by ttie Old Bailey advocacy of some gentleman of the long robe . —The case -was adjourned , the schedule requiring amendment . The insolvent , it appeared , had recklessly incurred debts at atime when lie knew he was unable to pay . _ M : Kossurtt delivered , on Monday , in thfe 'Lowlr Hall , Ashton , under the presidency of the Mayor , an address on « The Political State of Continental Europe . " . Sr . Giles ' s , Cripplegate . — -The dust and ashes ot -Jdlra Milton have been saift to He within a vet-y < b ! 4 building , which goes by th « naime of iSt . Giles's Churolu Cripplegate . The vestry of the parish in which this church stands have memorialised the Dean and Chapter 6 f St . Paul ' s , who are Ufe pMtrtttfs o $ the living , oh tlfe subject of a successor to-Archdeacon Hale in tHe vicarage . They express a hope that , looking at the present

    alarming spiritual destitution of the parish , the Dean and Chapter will select a gentleman who will consider the income of-the- ' living ( £ 500 ? . a year ) a sufficient remuneration for iris services "without retaining any other preferment whatever , and who will , by residing among his parishioners , and by his encouragement of schools and societies calculated to promote i / he 'social and ¦ r eligious welfare o £ * be ipeople , % how a desire to ameliorate existing "fevils , and improve the moral and spiritual condition of the large and populous parish . We all know what Milton said against the ' hirelings of the Chnt-oh . ; ' and what the vestry evidently tcant ia , tbat their pt etor shomld not be a pluralist and a , hireling There ds , unfortnmately , a necessity for them to say so . Milton has been dead for some one hundred and . seventy years , and we are glad steps ate taken whereby his ashes may at least repose in pea « e .- ^ -Morning St an

    The Bi / A £ TBsr <* Operations in HoticajEAD HABBOt ( & . - —The stupendous operations by -which enormous masses of the hardest kind of quattz rock are removed by gunpowder , to facilitate the works " now going on tit Holyhead Harbottr , are proceeded with evety now arid then , with complete success . An explosion on avast scale took place on Friday week . One hundred thousand tons of stone were oh thai : occasion . Violently torn frotn the quarries in the adjacent mountain . The object of this immense supply of rubble is to form the basis of the breakwater which is now in course of construction .

    The Repkesentatiosi of 'SotrrHAMPTON . .- >— The Board of Inland Kevenue has restored Mr . Falvey , the distributor of stAmps , to his position , and great satisfaction is felt throughout the town at the fact . Mr . Falvey was suddenly suspended about three weeks since , some one having lodged a complaint with the Board-of his having spoken at one or two election meetings in support of Mr . Andrews ; and none of the events of the present protracted election contest have given birth to more irritation and bitterness 'of feeling . The election will take place immediately upon the assembling -of Parliament .

    Freehold Movement xn ScotIiAnd . —A movement was lately commenced in Edinburgh , and has since extended to other Scotch towns , having for its objects the extension of the Parliamentary franchise to the proprietors in counties of freeholds . yielding a clear rental of 40 s ., as in England ; the conferring on 40 s . freeholders within burghs the right to vote in their respective counties ; and the extension of the English system of registration to the Scottish counties , for which a hill was introduced last session , applicable both to burghs and counties , but which , being opposed by the Scotch county members , was then restricted to the burghs .

    The late Captain Gbaves , K . N . —The Council of Government at Malta has voted a gratuity of 200 £ to Mrs . Graves , the widow of the late Captain Graves , JB . N " ., who , 'it will be recollected , was assassinated by a Maltese while in the execution of his duty as Superintendent of the Ports . Tho Governor stated that Mrs . Graves had been granted a pension of 160 ? . per annum from the Admiralty . Thiibk Casualties to Littlk < riRL 3 . —A little girl , the daughter of a grocex at Townend , Dewsbury , has been killed by sucking the ends of lucifer matches . —A

    girl , about five j-ears old , was found , lying exhausted on the green at Townend , in Scotland . Every effort was made to recover her , but Bho sank . She hod gone out with her grandmother , wlio is vpwoids of eighty years of age , and whoso faculties are almost entirely gone . The tivo lost their way , and , lying down on the ground , slopt there dining tho night . Tlio next day , the old woman was found wandering about the atreots , drenched to tho akin . — -A third girl , seven , years of age , has been accidentally shot by her brother , who , after playing with a loaded pistol , suddenly lot it fall , on which it exploded , causing the , girl's death in tt very short time .

    The Emperor oi > ' Austria at Milan . —Tho reception of the Emperor at Milan is described as extremely cold on tho pait of tho populace . They looked on in silence . Likutknani-CoIjONec Simmonds . — The annua noirdc of tho Bristol Athenicum was held on Wcdnesdaj evening . Tlio attendance was scarcely leas than 200 C persons ; and ainongut those present was Lieutenant-Colonel SinunoiiH , her Majesty ' s military coimnissionei nt tlio head * iuartera of Omer Pacha . Ilia reoeptioi was extremely cordial . Lotto Naim ick hue boon gazottod as our minister t < the United States .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2177/page/15/