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A Review.
not try to turn the tables upon the weaker Power now that , backed by England and France , they have themselves become the stronger . There can be little doubt , and it is very natural , that the fanatical party at Constantinople should have such views ,
but to engage our fleet as an auxiliary force for such purposes would be fighting against our own interests , policy , and feelings . From this it would result that if our forces are to be employed for any purposehowever defensiveas an auxiliary
, , to Turkey , we must insist upon keepiing not only the conduct of the negotiation , but also the power of peace and war in our own hands , and that Turkey refusing this we can no longer take part for her . It will be said that England and Europe have
a strong interest , setting all Turkish considerations aside , that Constantinople and the Turkish territory should not fall into the hands of Russia , and that they should in the last extremity even go to war to prevent such an overthrow of the balance of power . This must be admitted , and such a war may be right and wise . But this would be a war not for the
maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire , but merely for the interests of the European Powers and of civilisation . It ought to be carried on unshackled by obligations to the Porte , and will probabl y lead , in the peace which must be the object of that war , to the obtaining of arrangements more consonant with the
wellimderstood interests of Europe , of Christianity , liberty , and civilisation , than the reimposition of the ignorant , barbarian , and despotic yoke of the Mussulman over the most fertile and favoured portion of Europe . And here we stop to-day , feeling deeply
how well the writer has fulfilled bis task , and how admirably the volume put forth represents to us the lamented Prince Consort as he was and what be was to his Queen and adopted country ! We owe to himin facta debt of
, , gratitude for all he planned and did , even when misunderstood and calumniated , which can never be blotted out from the tenacious memories of the English people . We have never read a work which more interested us in every line .
Freemasonry!
FREEMASONRY !
THE " Masonic Journal" says that the following effusion is from the pen of Sii Edward Bulwer Lytton , an earnest Mason and the classical author of Pompeii and Zanoni : — The world may rail at Masonry ,
And scoff the square and line ; We'll follow with complacency The Master ' s great design . And though our sisters frown , and though We ' re by our mothers chided , Could they our works and hearts but know ,
We would not be derided ? And though the kings of earth unite , Our temple to
assail—While armed with truth and love and light , O ' er them we shall prevail . A cloud may veil the face of day , But nature smiles at one That should adventure , bold essay ! To quench the glorious sun !
A King can make a gartered knight , And breathe away another ; But he with all his skill and might , Can never make a BROTHER ! This power alone , thou Mystic Art , Freomasoniy , is thine ! The power to tame the savage heart With brother love divine .
Poets' Corner.
POETS' CORNER .
Continued from Page 250 . ABOVE these , and against the wall , is the monument of George Frederick Handel , the celebrated composer . The book of his own
great work , the " Messiah , " lies open upon this monument at the place where that fine air " I know that my Redeemer livefch , ' occurs . Music aud poetry have been called sister arts ; and it is quite fitting that he who carried the one to so great a
height of excellence should have his memorial erected amongst the monuments of those who so successfully cultivated the other . There is a monument here which we must notice because of its size and magnificence ,
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A Review.
not try to turn the tables upon the weaker Power now that , backed by England and France , they have themselves become the stronger . There can be little doubt , and it is very natural , that the fanatical party at Constantinople should have such views ,
but to engage our fleet as an auxiliary force for such purposes would be fighting against our own interests , policy , and feelings . From this it would result that if our forces are to be employed for any purposehowever defensiveas an auxiliary
, , to Turkey , we must insist upon keepiing not only the conduct of the negotiation , but also the power of peace and war in our own hands , and that Turkey refusing this we can no longer take part for her . It will be said that England and Europe have
a strong interest , setting all Turkish considerations aside , that Constantinople and the Turkish territory should not fall into the hands of Russia , and that they should in the last extremity even go to war to prevent such an overthrow of the balance of power . This must be admitted , and such a war may be right and wise . But this would be a war not for the
maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire , but merely for the interests of the European Powers and of civilisation . It ought to be carried on unshackled by obligations to the Porte , and will probabl y lead , in the peace which must be the object of that war , to the obtaining of arrangements more consonant with the
wellimderstood interests of Europe , of Christianity , liberty , and civilisation , than the reimposition of the ignorant , barbarian , and despotic yoke of the Mussulman over the most fertile and favoured portion of Europe . And here we stop to-day , feeling deeply
how well the writer has fulfilled bis task , and how admirably the volume put forth represents to us the lamented Prince Consort as he was and what be was to his Queen and adopted country ! We owe to himin facta debt of
, , gratitude for all he planned and did , even when misunderstood and calumniated , which can never be blotted out from the tenacious memories of the English people . We have never read a work which more interested us in every line .
Freemasonry!
FREEMASONRY !
THE " Masonic Journal" says that the following effusion is from the pen of Sii Edward Bulwer Lytton , an earnest Mason and the classical author of Pompeii and Zanoni : — The world may rail at Masonry ,
And scoff the square and line ; We'll follow with complacency The Master ' s great design . And though our sisters frown , and though We ' re by our mothers chided , Could they our works and hearts but know ,
We would not be derided ? And though the kings of earth unite , Our temple to
assail—While armed with truth and love and light , O ' er them we shall prevail . A cloud may veil the face of day , But nature smiles at one That should adventure , bold essay ! To quench the glorious sun !
A King can make a gartered knight , And breathe away another ; But he with all his skill and might , Can never make a BROTHER ! This power alone , thou Mystic Art , Freomasoniy , is thine ! The power to tame the savage heart With brother love divine .
Poets' Corner.
POETS' CORNER .
Continued from Page 250 . ABOVE these , and against the wall , is the monument of George Frederick Handel , the celebrated composer . The book of his own
great work , the " Messiah , " lies open upon this monument at the place where that fine air " I know that my Redeemer livefch , ' occurs . Music aud poetry have been called sister arts ; and it is quite fitting that he who carried the one to so great a
height of excellence should have his memorial erected amongst the monuments of those who so successfully cultivated the other . There is a monument here which we must notice because of its size and magnificence ,