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Leader (1850-1860), 25th April 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 399, Untitled Article

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      worsliip . Ifc is generally considered that zealous Christians shduld pursue these unconverted , these heathen ; there are texts , which we will not now desecrate by . familiar quotation , hut which positively instruct Christian ministers " to preach the Word" in highways and fey ways , wherever the heathen can be caught . Mr . Stjhneb . and Mr . Dehtsdn did nothing more tban literally obey this injunction of the highest Christian . authority . Perhaps , Having no dramatic entertainment

      prfKce iniefcferenGe , : ond it came out rery dearly . Two or more hotels stand close to the station , and it is the hotel interest which objects to " the preaching of the " Word . " Mj . Waxier Slattee , of the [ Railway Hotel , Idine-street , plainly stated his objection to the mission . "It is a great annoyance to our establishment , " he said ; " we have great complaints from gen tie men at ouoc hotel . Before the prohibition in November , there was preaching there , morning , noon ,

      and nig ' lit / ' Tlie missionaries continually did cry , and the hotel-keeper cannot tolerate the visitation . " Many persons , " he added , " have told us they w . oitldnot come to lodge with us again , if that . annoyance remained . " This is conclusive . Christianity is all very well ; but " custom" is at stake . '' The preaching of the Word" is " an annoyance , " and whatever respect may be entertained for the Holy

      Scriptures , there is also a respect in this country for " property . " It can be easily understood that this carrying of the Word to publicans and sinners may be " an annoyance" to the publican and sinner interest ; but the remarkable circumstance is , that the piiblicakjUnd the sinner interest , in this case as well as in some others that we have noticed , appears'to prevail . '

      We are not making out a case , we are simply repeating the facts as they are reported in the newspaper , and reported with great impartiality . There were the two missionaries who had been " ordered" by the breaking of the fine weather to renew their " preaching of the Word . '' In our simplicity , indeed , we should have supposed that the mission was one to be pursued in all weathera , rain or shine ; but the missionaries , "who had their special orders , of course , knew

      best . They went forth , and the police were ordered to take them up . The hotel-keepers contested the ; . " right of way "—to heaven . On one side in the litigation there was the iHailway Hotel and the St . G-eorge ' s Hotel ; on the other the mission ; each side had its light of way to put forward . Inspector Chew naturally felt in a dilemma , and he brought the liti

      gants before the Liverpool Solomon " . The bench of magistrates comprised on that day , Mr . Mjutsitielid , Mr . E . Chopper , and Mr . Ja . mes Stitt ; and the triumvirate Solomon had to decide between the two claimants ; and to which side did the blessing of judgment come ? To the hotel interest . The hotel must be protected , the Word may go to the wall .

      Not that Mansfield ia positively Jiostile to'the Christians . After a declaration of the law , a suggestion was vouchsafed by Mansfield , with the concurrence of Cropper , 'that a -part of the enclosure of St . George's Hall Should be allowed to the inissionaries for their mission ; and Mr . Mansfield . went bo far as to say that " there is no objection 'to the preaching of the O-ospcl in the open Btreet by daylight , " which is a very great Concession inaeed . It seems , then , that the

      actual state of the case in Liverpool is , that the rights of the hotel interest aro absolute , but that the preaching of the Gospel is tolerated . In this respect Liverpool is decidedly in advance of Constantinople . We must not overlook how it was that 'these missions began . The presumption in this country is , that not only should divino 'Service be open to every soul in the

      community above mero infancy , but that the G-oapel ought to be imparted to overy 0110 who will simply listen . Now it ia well known that fcho places devoted to divino worship will only hold a very small fraction of the population ; if thoy wero inclined to go to church , they cannot got in ; but a largo number , although uninstructed in this subject , aro not at nil inclined to go to a place of

      to offer , they might not " draw" the heathen , even into the enclosure of St . George ' s Hall ; so they go to them at the cross-road by the lamp-post , and collect three or four hundred persons to listen . It is objected that the persons thus assembled are sometimes drunkards , ribalds , and people of bad character— - " publicans and sinners ; " the very victims whom it is the object to catch and to redeem . The highest Christian authority specially points to that kind of mission ; the very highest Christian example , winch we need not name , led the way in that particular kind

      of mission . But , it seems , the law of Christianity is raot the law of Liverpool or of England . It is not the part of otir journal to begin an agitation for the purpose of placing the law of England in accordance with the Holy Scriptures ; we might leave that to our contemporaries , who profess to have a special " religious '' call . We . confine ourselves to pointing out the fact , that the law of Christianity and the law of England are quite in antagonism to each other ; and that the magistrates appointed by the State give absolute preponderance to the temporal law .

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      fides . ^ If it ia really to be carried out , the examination will be competitive ; Dr . Vaughan himself points out the mode in which this principle might be applied to Army examination . Let the nominations for examination be in the proportion of about three candidates to every two of the vacancies , and let marks fibr merit confer the appointment ; this would be fhe ^ wa-y ? tro constitbte the Duke ' s general order a step in that " right direction . " which was pointed © tut by the report of the late Military Commission .

      IDOLS OF THE HOUSE GUARDS . When the Cominander-in-Chief issued his general order , it was supposed that a real commencement was made in establishing , if not a system of education , at leastTa standard of education for officers in the Airmy ; but there is some reason to fear that -the zeal of the Duke of Cambkidge has been suffered to vent itself in the issue of this general order , with a resolve that it shall not be permitted to go any further . In other words , the royal Prince is allowed to play with general orders , but the Army is under some other

      management . This idea is not unsupported by collateral evidence-. Dr . Yattghan has just published a " Letter to an Officer on Military Education , " the purport of the letter by the excellent schoolmaster being , that officers should be educated as English gentlemen , and that English gentlemen should not be taken , too soon from school in order to commence a purely professional education . Dr . Tattghan desires that the examination for admission

      into the Army should test the attainments of a youth in classics , mathematics , modern languages , and history , possibly with the addition of drawing and fortification . There is no great harm in this letter . Classics are a decided advantage to an officer , though as decidedly they aro not essential . It is the use which has been made of this letter that indicates tho spirit prevailing in the Horse Guards . It has been at once

      seized as a statement of excellont good sense . " An officer , it is said , must be " an English gentleman , " not a " professional man , " like a common Pronch oilicer , whom the Duke of Wellington noticed talking to private soldiers , and in other ways "behaving in a military , but not a gentlemanly manner ! The Horso Guards authorities , tho pipeclay clerks of the establishment , are dead against the Duke of Cambridge , and ho will bo " taken caro of . " Ono test applied to tho recent general order would enublo us to measure ita bona

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      The Russian RaiiavaV . —^ Mewn . Baring , Brothers , and Co . have issued their Russian Railway prospectus , and their name is the only English , one comprised in the board of direction . The sum they ask 'from London capitalists out of tlie 12 , 000 , 000 / 1 fittit to he raised is 2 , 000 , 000 / ., instead of between 3 , 000 , 000 / . and 4 , 000 , 000 / ., as originally contemplated . The sum in Paris having likewise been reduced , it is to he presumed an estimate more accurate than - 'that originally entertained has been formed of its probable reception . The statements now put forth fail to modify any of the features already commented upon . The guarantee , after allowing fox sinking fund , Is to be only 4 ll-12 ths per eent ., the working expenses , in the face of universal

      experience , are put as low as 45 per cent ., and the difficulty as to crossing the marshes -with which the country abounds is simply disposed Of by the statement that they " will be avoided by a proper selection of the routs . " Tiie number of miles to be constructed are 2585 , at a cost of 16 , 5117 . per mile , or about 43 , 000 , 000 ? ., and the whole must le made within ten years . It is not stated m what quarter the extra pio ~ portion first intended for London and Paris is now to be allotted . The Prussian public , who are best qualified to form an opinion of the prospects of the enterprise , both , commercial and political , are ¦ understood to be disposed to limit themselves to the modest amount of 200 , 000 ? ., or less , although tlie proposed extension of the Warsaw line to their own frontier and the intimate business

      connexions of their bankers and others with St . Peteraburg might be supposed to operate in its favour-- —TZmes City Article ( Monday ) . The Ragged School Shoeblack Bbigade . —Mr . D . W . Harvey , the City Commissioner of Police , Mr . J . Macgregor , and Mr . JI . Ware , two members of the Committee of the Bagged School Shoeblack Society , attended on Monday at the Justice-room of the Mansion House , to explain the impracticability of allowing any boy to set up a shoeblacking station who wishes to do so . The ' brigade" is under the control 6 f the police and of the Ragged School Society , and they receive

      proper moral and xeligioua training , and organised with a view to good conduct and to future emigration . If any number of boys—boys under no species of controlwere allowed to start on their own account , the nuisance to the public , argued Mr . Harvey and the other gentlemen , would be intolerable , and bad characters would soon be found among them . The Lord Mayor concurred in these views , and suggested the formation of a crossing-sweepers' brigade , under the auspices of the society . Jtt r . Ware said that , by the end of the week , such a plan would bo tried in Soxithwark , with about twenty boys .

      Reaping Machines . —' Baron " Ward has given notice to the Imperial Agricultural Society of "Vienna that he challenges all reaping machines , constructed in Europe or America , to compete with his ( an improvement on Hussey ' s ) patented in Vienna on the 10 th of December , 185 G , fox the sum of 1000 florins , to cut five Austrian jochs ( nearly seven English acres ) next harvest , on any ground in tho Austrian dominions which the acceptor may please to choose . Londojt Society for the Protection- > of Totnra

      Women . —This society baa been established nearly twenty years , and its objects are to suppress improper houses , and to save girls under fifteen ye » rs of ago from threatened ruin . Tho friends of the society held their anniversary dinner on Monday , at the London Tavern , Biakopsgate-street . It -was presided over by Mr . ShcrilF Mechi , and was attended by a large number of tbo supporters of tho institution . Mr . Talbot , the honorary secretary , read tho report of the proceedings of

      tho society , by which it appeared that fifty-nino girls under fifteen years of age wero at the . present timo fed , clothed , and educated , and fitted for respectable servitude , in the Asylum at Tottenham ; but ho lamented tc say that numerous applications were continually being made , which , for want of funds , the society wero obligee to reject . At a subsequent period of tlie evening , the secretary announced the subscriptions to amount t < upwards of 1100 / .

      Tim La . tk . Elicctiowb . —Mr . Frederick Peel , the re jected candidate at Bury , will , it is thought ( says tin JBrixtol Advertiser ) , find a seat in . tho Larmdovmo borougl of Calne , whore Sir William Williams of Kara will mak ¦ w ay for him . —Wo (^ Cambridge Independent ' ) undoratan < that it has been decided to proceed to a scrutiny of tli < votes given at tho lato election for Huntingdonshire , be foro a committee of the House of Commons .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/15/