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      that Sir Hewby Buxwbb would possess the necessary influence ; nor can the authoritative presence of IiOfd jxb BupoiiiTrB be . permanently ; spared as yet from Eastern Europe . The Principalities themselves are generally in favour 6 f the union , and opposed to Russian aggression . But every hour of opposition on the * -part of England is a gift of influence to Russia . A public opinion exists in Moldavia and Wallachia ; if in defiance of

      it we determine to force a diplomatic separation upon the people , we shall drive them into the Russian camp . France has no local interests on the Danube ; her objects are European ; while we play a high part we are independent , but no sooner do we entangle ourselves in obsolete diplomatic combinations , than Louis Napoleon , by a dexterous shuffle may take the lead , and force us into an attitude of concession .

      We hare blundered by allowing ourselves to be identified with the machinations of the Togobii > : es family , a lineage of intriguers—a father and a son engaged in the lowest species of political barter , the elder instructing the younger to dissimulate and bribe ^ until he had iuggled a favourable result out of the elections . In April last be writes : " The English Ambassador begins to have a good opinion of you . " " The most dangerous of the Commissioners is M . Basiii , but I suppose you will find means of managing him effectively

      and cautiously . " " You are no doubt burdened with extraordinary expenses to defray the system of the Unionists . " Etlenste Vooobides gives his son Nicolas very clever directions as to the mode of ' worming money' out of the Porte . The Austrian Grdvernment was aware of this correspondence , and officially denied it . We should be glad to have the letters of that stealthy diplomatist , M . Mttssubtts . The whole correspondence would be edifying as a commentary on diplomatic morality . M . Mttssubus talks of ' traitors unworthy the name of Moldavians . ' What of Greeks ?

      There is a third Vogobides , Secretary to the Turkish Embassy in London . It was this gentleman ' s business to keep his kinsmen informed of Lord Pai-mbbston ' s private and confidential communications with M . Mxjssubtis . We now know by what profligate artifices the Union has been opposed ; that alone is an argument in its favour ; but the strongest is that Lord Pat / m : ebsto : s seems unable to resist the one represented by Louis Napoleon .

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      LADIES TO THE BEAR ! Deab . girls , when you pass down the aisle of a church , walk behind the gentlemen of your party . If you walk in front of them , you infringe a principle of the Latin grammar . We cannot slay how ; but so it is , and 3 MCr . Gbeslby is our authority . Mx . G-bbsjwbt ' has seen with pain ladies marching into church , or to the communion table , before their husbands . ' Err no longer , beauties of England — Leicestershire especially - *— but , with meek brows , pensive eyes , penitential steps , allow precedence to the broadcloth , and

      do not march , for—again quoting GbesiiET—• 1 the masculine gender is more worthy than the feminine . ' Place a % ux dames ia apagan motto . Of course , as men , we hold Mr . CTbbsi < et to be right , and think ourselves much more worthy than any women whatever ( in fact , than any other men , if we might say so ) , but there is one fashion we would not willingly let die . It is an exquisite delight to Bee your own EtrpHBOsiTNB ( or any one else ' s ) a few Bteps in front—light-footed , moving like a svran , carrying herhead like Noubmahai ., disclosing between , the bonnet and the soarf a little

      milky way of neck , and , albeit clouded by crinoline , still a form of grace and majesty . There are good moral reasons why she should walk before you . If she walked behind , you , or ] Mr . GteESLEY , like another Obpheus , might look back to the sweet Eubtdioe , and then good manners might be infringed , although the Latin Grammar would be obeyed . Whereas , with Eubtdice in front , Obpheus may look seriously forward , and have no temptation to turn a restless bead upon a willing neck , to carry a wandering eye in search of her , 'just to see if she he coming ; ' besides , should the GbesIiEY rule be admitted , the elegance of life would

      all be gone . Women , with their flowerdecked heads , and figures lost amid tinted tissue , cast a rosy cloud between the eye and the unpieturesque abominations of manly costume ; not to mention the patent fact , that very few men have legs or bodies fit to be seen . Is it not so , Mr . Q-besley ? But Mr . GrBESlEY has a decided opinion that ladies are too forward in their manners , and that they should be disciplined ( perhaps by Oriental methods ) into an Oriental habit of yielding precedence to their lords . In 1320 , when the abbot of Croxden baptized the child of Johanna de Fubnival , did any nurse , or aunt , or even Johanna herself , presume to lift the infant out of the font ? No .

      That was the modern practice , and he CMr . Q-besxby ) 'thought the modern practice quite wrong . ' The honoured task was left to the abbot of Rocester , and the matrons and maidens stood at a demure distance * while the nobility of creation occupied its right and proper ' conspicuosity . ' Mr . Gbesley ' s oration against the impertinence of womenreported in last week ' s Atheneewm—will do good—if women will adopt the Rajpoot idea , and walk with the little-footed humility of damsels in China . But if they will not , why the world will wag on as before , and Amazons will continue to ' march . '

      Joy on those warlike women , -which so long Cap from all men their dignities withhold ! And shame on you , O men , which boast your strong And valiant hearts , in thoughts less hard and bold ! We perfectly agree with Mr . Q-besley , the Latin Grammar , and the Chinese writer , Pan-houi-pan , that a ' breathing rose' ought to be wrapped in a coarse cloth , set to play with a tile , compelled to walk like a JTingo behind her husband , and taught that her only duty in life is to abstain from veying her friends . A man ought to live on pearls ( if he likes them ) , receive the salutes of womanly humility , and be careful to * march' front of his wife up to the communion table .

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      POPULAR SERVICES . The Church of England has just discovered that its services are unpopular . As a novelty , ^ popular services' are to be introduced . What is to be the innovation ? We hope there will be no rush of low or light comedians into the pulpit ; yet ; that seems the danger , Tragedy , of a very dull sort , seems to have weaned the congregations , ao that any whirling dervish on the Surrey side may entice them away . Something must be done . We are losing our customers . Fashions

      change , and a throng of Duchesses , Countesses , and Baronesses are transporting all their pride of feathers , flounces , rich-edged petticoats , and red and green gems from the tropics far from the influence of rubrics , chasuhles , capsolee , and stolen homilies , into p lebeian music-rhnile , where even the prophecies of perdition derive an unwonted charm from the tropical fervour of the popular elocutionist . This movement , dangerous to the church of the minority , awakens a desire to imitate the wiles that attract the majority ; but what can Dr , Milman and

      his noble army do to popularize the pulpit of the metropolitan church ? They cannot dramatize the Gospel after the fashion of the Surrey Gardens . And yet they might rende r preaching popular . They have only to follow the teachings . of Him by whom Christianity was founded—the Church has never yet preached in that spirit— -and Christians will gather round the Christian pulpit .

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      rfQvt X HE liE A P E B > [ JN " o . 386 , AuausT 15 , 1857 . ^

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      DBSTitucnvE Storm . —A fearful storm took place at Scarborough on Thursday and Friday week , which did a great deal of damage in various parts of the town and ita neighbourhood . Heavy rain fell almost without ceasing on the Thursday , with , a north-east wind and

      considerable surf on the sea ; but from about ten o ' clock at night the clouds continued to discharge a deluge of rain for full three hours . The weather was very unsettled and wet on the following day . Cellars were flooded , drains were burst , property was swept away , and some human beings narrowly escaped with their lives . In Cross-street and Dumple-street , fearful havoc was made not only among household furniture , but among the buildings , the water in some cases being six feet deep ; in Merchant's-row , a breach , was made through the Britannia Inn by the waters , which , taking their course down by the Leeds Hotel , tore up the pavement and foundations of the houses ; in Aberdeen-terrace , the gardens and walks resembled a river ; the kitchens of

      the houses were filled to the depth of seven feet , and great damage was also occasioned to garden property , and to the walls surrounding the gardens belonging to Lord Londesborough and others . Large masses of earth of several tons' weight were forced from the Castle Cliff and other places . Mr . Gambles , butcher , had a mare drowned in its stable , but a foal with it was preserved by getting on its mother ' s back . A great number of pigs were drowned in various localities . Several houses and two bridges were entirely swept away , and there were several narrow escapes from death . The houses in Merchant ' s-f ow are so Undermined by the force of the water that it is feared they must be taken down . The Eight Hon . John Wilson Cbokeis died on

      Monday night at Sir William Wightman ' s villa at St . Alban ' s Bank , Hampton . The Daily News , in briefly sketching his life , says he " * ' was son of Mr . John Croker , Surveyor-General of Ireland , and was born in December , 1780 , in the county of Galway , Ireland . He was educated at Trinity College , Dublin , where he . greatly distinguished himself , and in 1802 was called to the Irish bar . Mr . Croker entered the House of Commons in 1807 for Downpatrick . He sat in eight successive parliaments , having represented the University of Dublin , Yarmouth , Athlone , and Bodmin . Mr . Croker retired after the election of 1832 , -when he sat with the Marquis of Dpuro ( now Duke of Wellington ) for the disenfranchised borough of Aldborough , Suffolk .

      It will be remembered that Mr . Croker was , from ] iis introduction into public life , a great friend of the Duke of York . In 1809 , he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty , which appointment he held until 1830 , having in June , 1828 , been made a Privy Councillor . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society ( 1810 ) , D . C . L ., LL . D ., a Fellow of the Asiatic Society , and of other learned institutions . By his death , a pension of 15001 . on the consolidated fund ceases , which the right hon . gentleman had enjoyed ever since his retirement from the Admiralty in 1830 . " Mr . Croker was an able , though a very unscrupulous author . He was for a long time connected with the Quarterly Review , where he wrote many of those savage attacks on the Liberal writers of the day whioh were the disgrace of the period .

      Indian Loyai / ty . —We feel bound to draw attention to the spirited and loyal behaviour of Salar Jung , the Prime Minister of H . H . tho Nizam . Hyderabad in the Dakhan is well known to be a hotbed of fanaticism , and the gravest apprehension has been entertained in some quarters that there would be a rising of the populace . At the time when there was considerable excitement , several thousand Mahomedans were listening to a Maulavi preaching the Friday sermons . A . voice from the crowd interrupted his discourse with the cry , " " hat use of preaching to us about other things ? The extermination of the Firingis is tho only thing wo want to of tue

      hear about . They are the Masuriks ( the heretics ) Kuran , and the Kurrfn tella us they ought to be put to death . " The Maulavi , with great prosenco of mind , replied , " Tho Firingis are not tho Mashriks of the Kuran . They have a book and a prophet ; they aro not Mashriks . " However , another man stood up and burst out into a violent , inflammatory address , during wmon tho Maulavi despatched a messenger to Salar Jung , who , In tho midst of the harangue , made hio appearanco , ana inarched off the orator to prison . We trust theao gooa proofa of fidelity on tho part of Salar Jung will bo duly remembered by our Government . -- Smith , Elder , ana Co a . Homeward Mail .

      T «» Jew Question in Lxvm « Pooi .. - ^ Mr . Mozloy » banker , of Liverpool , and a Jew , waa on Tuesday olectoa without opposition to a seat in tho town-counoJl as member for what has hitherto boon considered a »» gu Tory ward , that of Rodney-atreot , tho othor roproaontativo for which ia Mr . Jamoa Aapinal Tobln , who three years ago occupied tho civic chair .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2205/page/16/