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    THE HUE GOOSE STEP.

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    POriJLATl.OX.ANJD JUETETJO*.

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    tion in languages ; this was an attempt , at least , at being useful . Lectures on subjects : sueh as those \\ hich we Lave indicated above would be as superior to lectures on geology , on some pet modern author , on the volcanoes of AuvergMe , or the genius of Pope , as were the lectures of Antoninus to the public display !? of fiddling by Nero , or the gladiatorial exhibitions of Commodus in the IJoinan circus . Let our benevolent lecturers study to make the solid interesting rather . than to amuse by the frivolous . You may strengthen and inform the iinderstanding of the poorly educated in a year , where it would take half a dozen to create a taste which would deserve the name of cultivated . " What we say is quite as much in the real interest of the higher classes as of the lower ; the blind SaSisox will feel his way 16 mischief , and nil the more obstinately and surely , if , -amongst other wrongs , he has hid blindness to avenge .

    ¦ The noble words of I 3 aco > - are well worth giving , however often the same truth may have-been repeated in less happy language . " It is without all controversy , that learning doth make the--minds of men gentle , generous , maniable , and pliant to government whereas ignorance ' i . na-kes them , churlish , thwarting ; , aiid mutinous : and the evidence of time cloth clear this assertion . " ( t ; Advancement of Learning . " ) ' Legislative lessons are now quickly Jeanil ; there is all the difference in the world between ; a . change of the constituency now , and what it would have been at . the lime of Chatham , and even of his son—we mean even with the . pfesent knowledge of the people . There are , too , spine political lessons which very long ago were admitted , inadvertently , perhaps , by two of the stauncbest tories , to be of very easy learning . .

    " " Politicians , " says Dean Swift , " may say what they please , but it is no hard thing at all for the meanest person who hath common understanding to know whether he be , well or ill governed . " ( Sermon on the . - . Martyrdom of Charles 1 . ) And , says Bukke ( we quote fro m memory , ) the " poorest and most insignificant creature is a ' judge . of practical oppression . " Nor are these points , perhaps , the only , ones-on winch our proposed lecturers might possibly . find their humbler hearers pre-infornied . Everything indicates an increased and increasing fitness for the enjoyment of ' . an extended franchise ,, if we can only teach the operative to respect his own order , and not to throw himself into the hands of the reckless trading agitator , who in reality neither represents interest nor principle . We long- for the time which shall see" Those great false jewels shine no more . "

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    npiIE Swiss , it seems , have presented fcir Kobeut Pkjel with a ¦*• cup and a rifle . There is something rather significant in this double votive-ofTeriiig , and sarcastic , though on the part of the honest Switzers most unconsciously so . We have iw reason ourselves to connect Sir RoniiKT . Peel ' s name with Cliquot or Cahbp ^ nel , and the cup presented was probably ; n empty one ; in some natures , however , the effects of continual inebriation are evident without the operation of what is ordinarily the cause of it There are some men , not exactIv Alexandehs , rather " underparted "

    for that , who , without tlnrinin «? the goblet of Thais , are quite ready to take a torch in their hands , and make a jolly blaze of a Palace of Persepolis , or anything else tliat men in their sane and sober senses want ; to see standing . A few weeks back we had occasion to remark upon the singular incoherence of mind which could induco Sir Kohrist to throw cold water on a flame which wanted the bellows of 5 > H the strong lungs in the kingdom—even of his , and to use his breath to blyw Up a blaze which the more rational part of bis countrymen wished to see -smoulder out , at the cost of a small sacrifice , to ' suvo an infinitely larger one . When the patriotism of this country gave itself a body in the form of the Volunteer act in mutters of

    ception may have been entirely his own . What England may choose to do in case of any outrageous net of usurpation or oppress sion on the-part of . Loris JSavoi . kos in Switzerland , is for her duly to consider ; but Sir Kobeut Peex is hot to for » re on the back of'his note the endorsement of the people of England . We can be very 1 bard upon Mr . Comdex for having taken , possibly , rather top much [ ' upon ' him in some of the minor Hriangenien . ts of a treaty of peace 1 find of commerce , tlibugh , . probably , very few of us know what ; amount of com . uli Jit ion preceded it , and with whom ; this , the Times can rate roundly , though all the harm done may ad suit , of correction ; : but a most unauthorized promise of support ,-. ' nui . de by fin individual . not hitherto . remarkable , for discretion , and at the utmost the nioutli-; piece of a broken and a 1 teal en party , only merits si gentle hint' . ; England dislikes the principle of private men acting as public ones , and going out ,. as the phrase is , on their owii hook , sis if they were tlie ' ¦ authorized representatives of public opinion . If Sir Ro . ukkt Vf . ta ,, j contrary to his inefnViency-of ' -volimteer theory , chooses to uittke hini-! self one-iii the van of a Swiss battalion , . no one would oiFer the slightest j objection , Jit least , probably , out of his own-family . We presume that few of the hottest Foxites—pet as Fox was—were much pleased with his unpatriotic muddling v . r . d meddling at the-Court , iind in the intrigues of Catherine of Kuss-ii . Sir Kohekt 1 j : ej / s peddling , if it compromises us , w ill nut mett with citjiiiil patience , bccnuse I »« " Iiii . s : not , that we are a ware of , any very great public services to fall buck oil . Compromise the country seriously he probably could nut , because the French Emperor knows pretty well I lie calibre of all our public men : but . he may O . o what is cv . e . 'i worse , ami lin . re dcsperntely inischievous :. he may tempt a brave -people ¦ ¦ to . overstep themselves in hope of a speedy -and " substantial ' aid which m'iy'ht not be rendered , and so injure Vrrievt unly . the cause . and . the people which he is professing ' to ' make his . own : and Enghiyd may be blamed for not . fulfilling .. Pj-: rcr / s pronvi-es . Witli a i-ituple people like tlie Swiss ; i name is . everything , and Sir llonEinv Pe-kl i . s indented for his real consequence ' to that of'hi * fill her , which luis ercj-t into every Swiss ' hamlet . ' The present ; lately < rfven liiin - . shows f } i : tt they nre _ t : ikiirghim in earnest , and rt is . the duty of tli e ¦ KnglNh jircss to « . >; ivo tln ^ s caution to a-people . who-m , England has ever respected and -admired . The Times by praising Sir Ubiuurr has probably iv < 3 t his ear , and so a little thnely . caution to him would have luo ^ t effect from their columns ..

    Corps , thereby making an effort to enable it t ^ war and pence with an independent policy , and no longer to nlmdaer at French preparations , Sir lionj' . JtT Peel could find nothing better ( o do tlntii to depreciate this nltempt of his fellow-countryjnen , . whilst at tho same time he Wfts doing all in hia power to provpko iiostilities with Franco . If tho Honourable Buronot ' K reasoning , ns fur um it can bo called reasoning , koos for anything with himself , wo wonder what he can have to do with a rille , or what sympathy ho o » in have with a nation most of whom huvo novyr learnt tho goose stop , with an nrniy whoso mnin constituents will probably huvo had little more formal education in tactics than oui own Pjsi ^ rw-deapisod Volunteere . l movement

    Warmly as tlie 2 imc / t } ms ndvocated tho hitler , cautious / is it h « H been in the Swiys and Savoy buHinesfl , wo aro quite at a loss to underatuml its iudulgont treatment of Sir JlonKitv Peel's antics , its hull' pmiso of liis speecbos , and tho vory niild rebulco ndiniuialored to him in its png-os this ( Tuescbiy ) inorning , though ' this may only bo u tftHto of one twig- of tho rod , which it h Yery lilcelv pickling . Promptitude would bo ft pood deal bettor , or , in defiiult of castigfttion , a httlo boi'Souh and timely talhiny to , Tho Times has experience enough to know that , mulor certain cirouniRtancOH , nn mdivichial ol the xnost narrow poworu can do irreparable iniguhiof .. Tho Bparlc out of n tJjwy ninn ' ia tobjtcco-pipo can biow up n villn ^ , »> k 1 a cindur ft-oxn n K ipny ' t ) cmnp-iiro confiunio ji fair Held of liiirvest , and a WionUoy using a cut's paw to piuk roosted oliosnuts from tho bni'B wjny burn down u house ;— 'of fourne this in u c » ho of oatspinv [ at any rate , prolwibly , tliero are not wanting pooplo to toll Sir JJohkut 1 v . v . what a fine follow ho is , though tho ^ random * of tho ongiual con-

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    1 T is not long- since a -distinguished party of French piMlosopners X enjoyed a repast entirely composed of equine materials . The soup , the bonilli , Die r 6 : i , the cutlets , the fricassee , and a host of . other di .-lies , were all h .-irs . c— -it was , in fact , a regular horse feed ; and altiiou ^ li the world in g-ejiernl was inclined to treat it with a . horse laujjii , the men of scie-uce were airmated by a Jit ol' ^ listrDjiomic benevolence , and souifht to break tliroii » - ) i ji pnjiiiTieu whicli uppcart-d ( o them iiiidesirabie with a crowded population and a lii ^ -h price of ( bod . IVI . 1 'Abbo Lk . Kuril has taken up the subject of pnpulai- alimentiVlion , and boMly bids Europe leiun the lessiuis and eonsuU the t > xperienct } - of the Ciiinesc . The worthy abbe cotisi ler . s ¦ tlmt our [ lietetie , pivjudic . es are simjily the result of t ' li . o fertility of our soil iind the compurative gparsi ' ty of our .. population ; and if . no ^ reat catastrophe like tho barbaric invasions mid tlie overthrow of the Jvonuni empire . should a ^ 'ain reduce our numbers , he anticipates the time when neci-ssilv will eoiuiuer daintiness , and we must be .

    content to wiislo nothing , but eat (> verythiiiw that i .- > _ r ] itf <; stibl < > , excepting " , we su . ]) jiose , our civilized pelves . French oflicers have briai ^ 'ht from China and Cochin Ciihui specimens <» f all kinds of conw .-1 il ) le « unknown to or unused in Europe , and they stand in the bottles and cases of tho Conservatoire h-u ^ yesiin " trustative experiments to all fainilicH and cooks . ]\ I . Lie Noi ' k reinarlts that while the flesh of the . doy ia thonylit , in Kuropo , to bo one . of tho worst , kinds of food , in China it enjoys an excellent roput at ion , ivixl isrptf . uimiy ex hi bi f ed for salt ' iii tho biitchers sliopr * . IS ' ay more , Chinese , fiinners breed a variety of dog- with « speeinl x ' ww foitti culinan tlisiinclioii , It is au miimnl easy to fatten , like a Ji-.-rkshire ]) ijjr , and is known as the meat . ( lo »' ( c / uen do butir / tcric ) . It roHomblus a wolil-ilo ^ , but tho tongue anil interior of the month are black-. A do # of this Kind in at prmient ono of the inhabitants of Pun ' s . The cummisstirint ollicerri l ) oii ^ hl . u lot of fatted boiiH . trt in Cochin China , and amon ^ them wan this creature , of whom the sailors made a pet inch-ad of a ( Hnner , and no

    liift Hl ' o was spared . " Some of our rr-. t / aurantu , " sm . vh tho abbo , " are accused of syrving 1 up cat for rabbit , but tho Chinese 1 / nve uo nc « d for this mystei-y , and their provision nhop + mo doeonited by onormouH cmIh , ' suspended cither by tho licud or t l » u tnil ! Like-t . lu . « ir rlomowtic companions tho do ^ -s , cats belong to tho ii ^ iiiMilturnl system of tho Celestial Empire , and at every farm we him ! ( Jicsu miiniiila nttacbed to mi . all vlmiiiH , and put up to fill tun with ivIiiko rice . " Aftordoys and ca ' s tho mind luitunilly Iiiniw to rats ; a > i < l thc .-o , iDHiead of boin > , n » in Kn ^ laiid , HJriiply u nnimniflo »» a '' inn , two objyotH ol'solicitude mid aflei'tinnato euro . Tho Chinese farmer can not , onlv Hhow his Coclcnev I ' riendrt bia i . ij' ^ ery , hut alno hi « dc ^ ro y , not only show bin Cockney friends bia pinery , lint alno Jim di . ^ ro y ,

    liis cattery , mid even liin rutlery . In tho oorner . s of walln tut places bottlOH iiiVhicJi tho rut * iwi »)< o llii'ir neHts , and in duo Heiwon liu i ? oum to his rattwy for n supply of yonnj ^ rut « , jimt in tho hhiiiu niunner , bmvh thoabbii , an wo k <» to our dove ( ii ) lo . i to ui > t \)\ tfm > M f " qr a pie ! Not only do tho Chiiicwo lako tho fru £ into thuir panlrics , but thoy cat all of him , not confining tliemwelvert to tho hiinl )••«•«; nnd oven that jinoio repulnivu butracliian tho loud , is not allowed to jiwcipo din onmlvovourt maw ; " not a nin ^ lr ci '< t / nti < rl \ h |(^ t in Cliinii . " / st-lruuJH tho nbbO , in ocononiic ontliiisiiiHin . Tim co . luTy by wlm-li thuijo various members ) of thy nniinnl kintrdoin »•!•« rcnJeroU in hi" lubJf , ia

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    April 21 , I 860 . ] The Leader and Saturday ¦ ¦ Analyst . . 375

    The Hue Goose Step.

    THE TltUE GOOSE STEP .

    Porijlatl.Ox.Anjd Juetetjo*.

    POPULAT 1 . OX . ANJD i ) l KTJ > TK ^ .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2344/page/11/