Empire (Newspaper) - December 22, 1855, London, Middlesex No 112.-New DECEMBER 22, 1 855. | fbee by 5rf)e TO THE n | are the Sovereign of an Empire which has until within the last two blessed with and concomitant The nation before the war broke made considerable and the long-continued uninterrupted peace of was the reason of this happy prosperity England has entered upon a third year of a new European which can hardly yet be said to become fully The excess of annual needed to uphold the war has been some fifty millions and when the war has attained its ordinary international magnitude there will be at the most moderate one hundred millions of pounds more than peace expenditure of the I trust your Majesty is aware that this result puts the people of England upon the high road to place your Majesty's Crown in Your Majesty may delay too you may delay too late your legitimate and constitutional opposition to war of such It of be taken for granted that the Queen pf Great Britain ia acquainted with history and has become familiar with the decline and fall of and is well aware that there is a point of national which there is no In other your Majesty must be aware that England is wasting her resources while another nation rapidly a which your Cabinet Councillors have arrayed a hostile the precursor 6f and more than enough to compel our country to run another gauntlet with even more formidable It is considered the business of a public writer to present opinions to under brilliant anticipation and glorious i nor other the blanch of may as well be cast and duty may as well declare her opinion to be that England has more to gain by the extinction than by of a war which your Majesty's crown and - with personal esteem believe me to be a demoted A VOICE FROM THE How will man importune the heavens with unjust How long will he accuse his Maker as the author of his calamities Will he never open his eyes to the and his heart to the insinuations of truth reason This truth everywhere presents itself in radiant and he docs not see The voice of reason strikes his and he does not hoar Unjust man! if you can for a moment suspend the delusion which fascinates your if your heart be capable of comprehending the language of interrogate the mouldering ruins of the proudest Capitals the earth has seen read the lessons which they present to and sacred majestic venerable once of thirty appear in vindication of the of God's Eternal and bear testimony against an unjust Appear to confound the declamations of false to silence the blasphemies of hypocritical and tb avenge the heavens and the calumniated by sinful Away with the idea of a fatality without order sports with the lot confounds the issue of be they those of or In what maledictions of Heaven against these extinct empires is the Divine curse that perpetuates these Monuments of past have the heavens changed their or the earth its course Has the sun extinguished his fires in the region of Do the no longer send forth clouds Are the rain and the dews fix ed in the air Do the mountains retain their Are the streams dried up and do the plants no m iore bear fruit and seed race of falsehood has God troubled the primitive and invariable orders which He himself assigned to nature Has He denied to the and the earth to its inhabitants the blessings that were formerly dispensed If the c has remained the if its sources and its ii are exactly what once they wherefore should not the race within 1 heir reach that Falsely do you accuse the Injuriously do you rt fer to God the cause Tell perv and hypocritical if these are if powerful cities are to is it H e that hath occasioned the ruin Is it His hand that has thrown tempi these or is it the hand of man? it the arm of God that has introduced the sword ij city and set first fire to the murdered the burned the rooted and ravaged the pastures or is it the arm of man And when after this famine has started is it the vengeance of God that has sent or the mad fury of mortals during the the people are fed with unwholesome and pestilence is it inflicted by the anger of or brought about by human When and pestilence have away the and the land is become a is it God who has depopulated it Is it His rapacity that plunders the ravages the productive and lays waste the or the rapacity of those who govern Is it His pride that creates murderous or the pride of Kings and their Ministers Is it the venality of His decisions that overthrows the fortune of or the venality of the organs of the laws Are they His passions under a thousand torment individuals and nations or the passions of human beings And in the anguish of their misfortunes they perceive not the is it the ignorance of God that is in or their own ignorance to accuse the judgment of If God is can he be the author of your calamities If He is will He be the accomplice of your crimes No the caprice of which man complains is not the caprice of Providence the darkness that misleads his reason is not the darkness of God the source of his calamities is not in the distant but near to him upon the earth it is not concealed in the bosom of the it resides in man bears it in his 1788. Tub Queen and Miss country will experience much though no on as we believe we are correct in that her Majesty the Queen in a manner as honourable to herself as it must be gratifying to her been pleased to mark her warm appreciation of the of good Miss The Queen has transmitted to that lady a jewelled ornament which may be worn as a and has accompanied it with an autograph a letter as Queen Victoria has ere now proved she can letter not merely of graceful but full of that deep feeling which speaks from heart to and at once ennobles the Sovereign and the Sergeant Brodie's of the most painful illustrations of our present military system with which we have has been given to the world in the case of Sergeant It will be remembered that he was led to interfere with some officers of his regiment who were going out to fight a sham which the thought he had was to be a real Lord when the case came ultimately before declared and condemned to various degrees of punishment the officers witli whom he had So all was and yet the upshot that the worst of the condemned is already a captain in the Turkish and poor Brodie on a shilling a day of from her Majesty's It becomes Hardinge publicly to declare right in a noncommissioned officer in controlling his praiseworthy it must be made privately and effectually evident in the army that such interference will ensure the reward of a real crime I alone can make such things No set of upright men need such miserable work to uphold either their dignity or Leaning New York Churchman is advocating a modified system of The following smacks no little of conventual life and the celibacy of the Every bishop should have his which should be the chief city in the diocese over which he of should be the and the proper place for the meetings of &c. The bishop and the live eating at the same and living a common By this means a house would be provided for the country clergy who should visit the and a closer bond of union and intercourse established between the bishop and his It might be objected that the clergy generally being married this arrangement would not work but this need not be a very great obstacle if the clergy must their wives could act as the The Eastern Church required that the bishops should be widowers or unmarried The Scripture says that it is not good for a man to be apd bishops are no exception to the need a helpmate for and what better helpmate can they have than a band of self-denying priests and deacons The Speakership of the House of jays a that one of the first acts of the House of on the assembling of the will be the election of a new Speaker in the room of the Right Hon. Charles Shaw who is about to be raised to the Mr. Lefevre was chosen Speaker on the retirement of Mr. in 1839, and we believe we are justified in adding that few men filled that and delicate office with greater dignity and We are not in a position to say who will be the successor of Mr. Lefevre in an office which is one of the first political The name pT F: Thesiger is mentioned as likely to command a majority the suffrages of the Commons but it is understood Mr. the Chairman of will be ward by the old Whig The salary is per a peerage on and for ' ( -n The we contest for Meath has terminated in the return of the popular candidate by a majority that him nearly two to one on the the total numbers for Mr. being for Mr. Meredyth 899. The contest which has thus terminated so triumphantly for Mr. unfavourably for Mr. a remarkable Both gentlemen professed Liberal and belonged to what is commonly called the Liberal It in a contest between two a Liberal of the Lord John Russell other a Liberal attached to the Irish and Catholic The whole Conservative strength of the county of Meath was arrayed for Mr. and the popular party in that great county may therefore look upon their victory rather as one over Conservatism combined with the dissentient Liberals than as a mere triumph of one section of the Liberal party over omit to express our sense of the service the electors of Meath have performed on this Many of them we are made great sacrifices in voting for Mr. Some have sacrificed personal their personal and many have encountered the risks of personal hostilities that will last long after this election and the principal actors in it will have been The fob New York Evangelist have private advices from the Russian to the effect that the districts on the borders of the Black Sea furnish this year a scanty and insufficient The the pest which has ravaged the fields of Utah in our have done great mischief to the growing wheat in that region from which the granaries of the Russian empire are and from in past large quantities of grain have exported to Western So it is has been the deficiency of the harvests of last that Russia is likely to suffer a distressing and to regret deeply the state of things which closes her ports against supplies from countries where the earth has yielded her fruits with less The source from which we derive our information adds the that in this circumstance alone can be found any reason to expect that warring nations will agree upon a If we may rely on the information which we have the grasshoppers may possibly prove the most efficient negotiators that have yet undertaken to deal with the differences between Russia and In the old the mouse gnawed apart of the net which the lion could not rend with all his If a peace should follow the dearth of food in the grasshoppers will J have effected efforts of the wisest most experienced and Austria were unable ' ' to underrate the merits or the success of Russian Of the desperate courage of the attack on the 20th of September the frightful loss sustained is sufficient as it is also evidence of the little hope that General then had that he would be permitted to prolong his blockade without Since he has persevered with great endurance and against enormous and has gained the success due alike to his patience and our He had conferred on his master a signal and given to him something to set off against the uniform course of defeat which has attended the arms of Russia from the first conflict at to the passage of the Russia has now something to put against if the conquest be infinitely smaller and won by less glorious it is at any rate The Russian garrison withdrew unmolested across the harbour of but the whole garrison of nine above General Williams and his the life and spirit of the remain prisoners in the hands of the War at a checkered and we must not unduly repine at but there is nothing so hard to bear with patience as a loss according to spirit and foresight far less than those displayed in the defence of the place would have been sufficient to The Character of the Poet of speaking of the late Mr. says For half a century his house was the centre of literary and the chief pride of Mr. Rogers lay not so much in gathering round his table men who had already achieved eminence as in stretching forth a helping hand to friendless Wherever he discerned ability and power in a youth new to the turmoils and struggles of London it was his delight to introduce his young client to those whom lie might one day hope to The courtesy and consideration of the host soon drew forth the same qualities in his Were this the proper place to recount histories of this kind we could tell many a tale of forlorn and well-nigh relieved by his It was not necessary with as with costive that misery should have what is called a upon in order to bring him to the garret where it lay He had seen mention of it in the police or in the public had heard it spoken of at the of a New Times fall seven the public waited for the continuation of Mr. Macaulay's The have been welcomed in advance by the largest preliminary sale of recent The public have called for some 30,000 it 60,000 of a work which previously bad not a single We have to tell the is before and to stimulate his paper are exactly 1,600 for him to cut he has achieved this labour he that history for some the Proclamation of William and Mary of in 1697. It startles history has consumed almost an equal internal of own century in its In we have other wallet other and weighted The scroll unfold as Macai to it. prd same relative distance CUMent - ' ' ( He proposed m England time which j. Can or fascinating Nicholas Pursued to this retributive bullet smashed the nose and the set balls flying by thousands and of The wretch departed this life grinning all his He departed this that is for the demons to consider who initiate these horrors in the holiest with psalms in their crosses in their and tongues in their But we are not to use such language as this in talking about It is They are is wrong of us to speak evil of our you canting but it is not wrong to express loathing and detestation of the enemies of our common Think of the the shattered for which the world is indebted to your august Pursue such curses of the earth as wild beasts while hang them up for scarecrows when The Monster - Drunkenness is England's monster vice deadliest It stalks through the scattering ambitious of imitating death it visits the Sellings of the rich and the cottages of the It with our fleets and our armies to foreign does the work of pestilence and spreads confusion and woe over those islands were misery was almost and awakes the demon of war peace had long held her Educational and wise legislation are greatly by its It is patriotism country arid philanthropy to the human to alexin any measure in the if the extinction of this Daily The Cause of the is it our men get drunk in the Why do workmen get drunk on Saturday nights? Why does the crew of a ship which has just been paid off get drunk in the and of Portsmouth and Why a freshman runs into debt and extravagance in a thousand forms at either of the two We put in fifty but the answer would be the same in all It is because a person who unaccustomed to the use of money at a certain moment finds his pockets and is at the same time surrounded by temptation in manifold us not into is practical clause in the sublimest prayer which has ever been inculcated by or uttered by human 1 The Turkish a letter to the the Rev. S. G. to humility of every civilised nation a prison on Pera side at The but a very imperfect as the building into which he save * On faint glimmer of light from some small gratings in the external this just outlined how and then dark figures of human beings if they moved across it. On our left I by the light of the 1 like the human form in some of the on which we walked so to en it was not this I could for tern to the That this path this an exception to the rest of our olfactory nerves had the most By and the auditory nerves I alone to the conclusion that in this darkness I know not how of my for we heard their chained to one for the path The stench was almost there must We were with each side Bono ' No Their eyes habituated to the darkness make us out when we could scarcely perceive the outlines of any of I am inclined to on another that they were chained to particular we had only two and a stick seemed their only The majority of the prisoners in the yard to this building had committed such as One of them was brought forward for Mr. Osborne's He was the celebrated the of brigands infesting the of had was informed he was desperate criminals ever presence a great sensation in the the other convicts flocked round he was an object of great not of A he was a perfect picture of the self-possessed utter He at my about a little more a month I inight have seen three of the heads of some of his baud exposed on he replied with a ' It was after I i Sath of A Paris Exposition Paris correspondent of the Montreal Gazette rather novel and amusing exposure of a thief took place at the Numerous little articles have been missing from time to and clue to them could be obtained until when a rather with a cloak was found to make rather some A watch was kept on he was observed to pocket some Being the found on his the police when no less than from to 500 objects were the whole taken from the The individual was placed between a. couple of sergeants with a tablet fastened and with the the large letters on and in this guise was ail oyer the I question much if of Russia had been in the Exhibition hu could mprc attention than this Peace correspondent of Monday That a desire for peace is to be found JS undoubted aud it is certain that both Russia and a the The would naturally the tO hold France latter have enco for as \o Austrian in the of which has been - do
