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    generously , in a manner , worthy of a great nation of no mean fame , and let it be spent on statues of our great dead—statues chosen from models sent in by our best sculptors , and chosen after a severe competition . Let a committee decide ori the rotation in which the fame of our great immortals are to be perpetuated , and let us no longer erect statues to small perishable reputations , who begin to be forgotten before the monument can be got ready . The best way of preventing this is to erect no statue to any man till he has been dead ten or twenty years . Time is the ' best winnower of great reputations . W « want no Marquis of Granbys to block up our streets as they do our old inn signs . It is for posterity , we must remember , and wot lor ourselves , that we erect statues . Bttfo is a great man in the House , now , but what a small man he will be fifty years hence;—let us not then erect statues to our Bufoes . - . ¦

    We should also adopt the French plan of erecting models of our intended statues in their intended sites , and fairly submitting them to public opinion . Let the press have its -jibes ^ at them , 3 ? unch fling his crackers ; let the mob pervert their meaning in every possible way ; works of genius are not to be overthrown by a few jokes , but empty pretension crumbles away and melts at the very sound of wise men ' s laughter . "What suggestions are made let them be carried out , and if condemned , let the artist be paid for his model , and the work returned to his friendly keeping ; better one man be disappointed than that the London streets should be burdened with an eternal ugliness . Let no hole-and-corner interests tyrannise ever us with their bad

    tastes , or force upon us parochial great men miserably executed . There are still great sites crying aloud for statues . There are on our bridges fine pedestals , and at the corners of our streets . Out Quadrangles and squares have as yet many a centre uninhabited , and the time has come to fill them . Our Museum might have its Bacon and its Suakspeare , our Admiralty court-yard its Howe and Jeevis , our War-office its Marlborofgh or Havelock ( ten years hence ) . At the same time , while we suggest this adoption of a French custom , we would also try and revive an Egyptian one also . In Egypt , when a king died , it was the custom to lrave a fury sit Jbo . decide whether his reign had

    been good or bad , and whether , accordingly , he should- he buried with respect or infamy . In the same way every five years an iconoclastic jury of wise men should be held in London to decide ujoon what street statues should be removed , destroyed ( and washed ) . Five years would wonderfully open men ' s eyes , to the merit or demerit ofa statue , as well as to the worth or the reverse of a ^ reat reputation ;—the verdict would be accordingly . Then might \ ve-hope to see the Stylite York toppled . from his column , and Geoege IV . helpim ? to pave Trafalgar Square . Then would James II . be off to the " Museum gallery , and Charles I . to the quadrangle of- the fame fine building . Then might black-browed Fox of Bloomshuiy hope once again to go with clean hands , and scoty Canning to wcar a decent coat on his back .

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    Try HAT ! no more toothsome Bnr . buries ? No moie Tipper ? » » Will you leave us nothing 1 , O ye regenerators of mankind , to moke , our lives , . comfortable' withal ? You have denounced our fecund cup ? , which Horace -pays . ninke x : s pleasantly discrtos , hut which you » ver msike us brntnl . You have bid us eschew "butchers ' meat as an irritamentiun ' malorvm . You have banned our p . -ilt iis the forbidden fruit . You have quoted the only passage in . Dante you know over 1 ho doors of our theatres and ball-rooms . You have " leagued j ourselves with publicans and sinners to prevent us wishing down cur humble bun with a draught of innocent claret . And now , unkindest cut of all , you attempt to put our pipes out . Truly , Philanthropy must ) e hard-pressed for a new field in which to

    pursue the labour of good works , when it sets itself to organize un Awti-Tobncco Society . Where will the sort of thing stop ? The month of May is not long- enough for all the May meetings ns thing * stand . They are actually obliged to begin them in April nml inn them into June . When will they begin , mid when will they end when the Anti-Beef and Mutton Society is started P _ When it is found necespory to guard society against mustard , whito wnistconts , pnrsuips , toothpicks , nnd water-gruel ? Slinll not life , then , lie ( . ne ever ) listing Mny meeting-, wiih the Dean of Carlisle sis Perpetual Grand ? Fnr be it from us to sneer at any good work , or to utter a tingle word in disparagement of any movement tending to benefit or timeliornlo the moral or social condition of the community . Wo have , therefore , not a wcrd to say against the argument a of those who ndvise the lining- generation not to gmoko

    report of the Secretary , we must say , was highly satisfactory . He reported that Sunday-school teachei-s-and clergymen were adopting the Society ' s opinions , and were putting their pipes out accordingly . Dr Close had delivered a lecture which had done much good ; Dr ' Hodgktns ' s paper against tobacco had been well received- ^ rather a mild phrase—by the Social Science meeting at Bradford ; and it was hoped that the example set by her Majesty in causing Prince Alfred to be prohibited from smoking on board the Euryalus would have an excellent effect . It was also a matter for congratulation that a memorial to

    Lord Palmerston , requesting him to appoint a committee of the House of Commons to examine into the medicinal ettects of tobacco , had received numerous signatures . In the whole report there is nothing which all sensible men will not be glad to hear with the single exception of the fact , that , whereas the expenses of the Association since November , 1858 , had been £ 355 £ s . 2 d ., the income had been short of that sum by £ 14 Is . 8 d . One must necessarily regret that a movement which has been so well siipported by signatures , has been so . indifferently backed up with

    subscriptions . _ , But now hear Dean Close and Mr . Samuel Morley . Ihe Dean takes advantage of the presence of some ladies to appeal to them . He seemed to presume that they were unmarried ladiespossibly a girls' school out for a treat—and . assured them that if they married gentlemen who drunk and smoked , they would get sallow-faced and -lantern-jawed husbands . He did not , however , deem it necessary to mention if they married gentlemen who ate too much pudding ; , they would have husbands who would , suffer from surfeit or indigestion . He-mentioned , as the result of his observationthat the young boys in these days had not so much colour in

    , their faces as many old boys he knew . The absence of colour in the young boys was owing" to smoking 1 , and the presence of colour in the old boys was iwt owing to port . He mentioned , also , that in 1820 , when he left college , he did not know of a single collegian who had smoked . King- James may also have stated in his Countc-rhlast that he did not know of a single person who smoked previous to the return of Sir Walter Raleigh from America ; or possibly Lord -Chesterfield- may have remarked in his- " Letters" that no , man in his circle of acquaintance wore a heard and moustache . " Fhiallv , tile Dean brought his logic

    to a climax by declaring that-he made it a rule never to pay any attention to arguments against his own view of ' the ' -question ' put forward by " anonymous journalists , who , like Irish assassins , shot from behind a hedge . " Jso that , apart from ^ hird ' s-eye and shortcut , arguments We worth nothing if you don ' t know who uses them .. Commend us , however , to Mr . Mojrxey for a real downright tobacco stopper . He had had great Experience among * young ; men . There were 150 in the house to which he-belonged , and he never lost an opportunity of' giving them a friendly warning against smoking ; . Such was his'horror of the-practice that he would not take into his service any young- man who . ' was . a confirmed smoker ; for he was satisfied ttwitfftecn out of evevy twenty yonng men who smoked acme to grief cnulritin . We nre positively horrified when we think what might have been the fate of Dr . Samuel ' Jonxsox liatl ~ e : rFirofisirTJtrin ^^

    —tobacco question . Would thnt dictionary have ever been written ? It is evident that Sir Isaac Nihvtox vvould have been looked upon by Mr . Morl ey ns ia very bad bey , arid his contemplation of pippins regarded n . s a first indication of a ' tcndeiscy to rob orchards , and come to ° the gallows . No doubt Miv'MoiaEY " ascribes-the bad end of Sir Walter Raleigh and Lord Byron to cheroots . And this opens the gate upon a wide field for inquiry . Did Mr . Manning smoke ? Did Mrs . Manning chew snuff after the fashion lately introduced among -the fair sex in America ? Did Mr . Pvllingek first nieditiite his embezzlement of the profits of the Union Bimlc over a pipe of latakia ? Was it pickwieks that first precipitated Bill Sticks into crime ? It is nn awful thing ; when a score of Us sire sitting 1 together placidly puffing 1 our cigars after the toils of tho day , to think that fifteen of our number are doomed to perdition . If you Jire right , in your figures here , Mr . Morley , nothing * r . liort of am Act of Parliament . will meet the ooso . Go to Lord

    Paljiki . 'stojs-, ns you prono . ee , and sny that , your consider .-ihon of this question , ' blended " with tho conviction thnt tlio subject lies within the province of Ihe Legislature , lias induced you lo suggest to his Lordship thnt in order to obtiiin the object you desire , some net < uglit to lie psipscd to put out every pipe in tho nation . Wb munt wnrn you , however , thnt when your deputation waits upon tlio noMe lord , l : e will linve « t lii . s elbow tlio liight IIoiK'urnblo Wj ' i . i . tam Ewakt Olahstonk , one , who , wo nre sure , never run up a wine or cignr bill at college , or who was ever

    known to smoke even tlio humblest of cubns by nny Dean m jiu . ssc of his ncqunintiinee . Wo imiHt wnin you nlno that 1-liis nodel young- lnini will whimper to his chief , " Thi * is nil very well , my denr Lord Pat . juehston , but how is tlie Qukv . n ' 8 re . v » nuo to bo kijit up P Tlio duty is so much , you know ; mid if we » ro to proliibit Hie importation of tobacco , or rniso the . duty to n figiiro which only n few eim nflord to pny , we mnnt put on miother tonjieiu'O upon income , or something-. " , ] fow nbnut . thnt , imti-tobhccoinVtn ? Are yon prepnred with thnjt other tennenee ?

    tohncco . We pny with them , " Young' num , don't leurn to smoke ; it is a hud l )» l > it , nnd if y ou don ' t lenrn to indulge in it , you will . never , wigs the gratification the prnctice affords . It in quite nnother thing 1 , however , when we lire brought fuee to fiieo in tho light of moking- by Aft of Pnrluimtnt ! We have , then , to couturier not whether the work is g-ood or rot . blit whether IIiopo who propose doing it nre settingnlx'iit it in tho right « ny . It in a good thing' to cntlonvour to ]> revent people from blenli ^ g " , but gravely to petition Pnrliiinent to pnef < nn Act to put htenling- down , like wood pjivenit-nt , or Sumltiy trnding " , i « h < niething- to ninko vh Inugh cutiiulit . Yet this i « in eflect exuotly what tho British Anti-Tol'iu-co society msjiireB nnd hopes to do . A meeting ; of the Society took plitco the other dny at Exeter Hnll , under the presidenoy of the Donn of Carlisle . Tho

    So much for fift-nl exigency ns ngavinst mornlH . But' now n « to ju ^ ti < -e . Tw Iliis a free country , or is it not ? Are \ vu who ns <; our pipe nnd don't nliiifie it fo bo utterly deprived of our whiff bentiik ; fiomo hoys known to tho Denn of' ( . ' aiiliblk nnd Mr . Mohi . tvy ijuhilge in tlie weed to excess P Let Master Jon * : s or Tojikinn linve the freedom of tho ptore-rnom for lmlf-iui-liour , mul he will imiko himself ' r , s pnlo and ill with black currnxt jnin w ho will with

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1860, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2346/page/10/