The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-23 00:00:00

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CANON KINGSLEY ON NATURE
AND ART. _

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At the opening of the Yasingstoke Industrial Exhibition
last week, the Rev. Canoe Kingsley delivered the inangural
address, in the course of which he said:—
I feel very strongly that these exhibitions will do
much good, not merely in callmg out any latent artistic
or constructive talent there may be in the mechanicsof
his particular It cality. but also in raising the artistic
tone if the neighbnerin..ll. I attach great value to
what I call the artistic tone of a population, and its
•ense..f the beautiful, I know that there are those who
think ittle of art in compatis.ol wi,h morality and
virtue ; and tbey perketly right. You may have a
sense of the beautitul and artiA ic instinct amongst a
profligate and abandoned 'people, but Art haa nothing
to do with that ; for, on the other hand, you may have
a degraded people without any sense of Art whatever.
Yet if I wanted to h.& for brutality I would not go to
tile domain of health, gracefulness, and cleanlinesß ;
but I should go awn ngat eimalor, rags and degradation
if both body and mind. I cannot believe that the
population flour large towns can be debased by being
brought in contact with the beautiful in Art any more
than by the beautiful in Nature. A man cannot goto
the hack street lif a provincial town, or walk about the
country, without seeing around him a want of refine-
ment in the faces of young men, and in young women
too, which shown that their sense of the beautiful has
hardly been cultivated at all. That sense ought to be
called out in them by bringing them in contact with
Art. Nature they are so accmtomed to that they
don't know a beautiful sunset when they see it. Let
them see the beautiful in Art which will be reflected
hack again oral Nature; and if you teach them to
admire the beautiful things which man can make, you
may at last awaken them up to see the thousands of
beautiful things made by God.

A SCOTCH PEER ON IRISH LEASES.
On Satnr•lay evening the Earl and Countess of 1
Rossiya' entertained their tenantry at Dysart, on the
°mama of the birth of an heir to the estates The •
nohle said, in proposing 'The Dysart Tenantry," sail
that they were second to none in Scotland in point of
the antiquity of their holdings, as well as second to none
in prosperity. That was owing to a hood nnderstand-
ing between the landlord and tenants. If they had
any differences and difficulties they settled matters
amicably, without any recourse to third parties, and
pulled together well. They heard in the newspapers
of large estates well managed and yet the tenants were
not contented. They heard of the law of hypothec on
one side, and game damages on the other, and fifty
thousand things rising to distract the amicable relations
between latothrrd and tenant. AP to the law of hypothec
his lordship said, it was so simple, and entirely a matter
between man and man, that he could notunderatand any
party trying to make it a political question at all. It had
nothing to no with politics. It was a law which gave the
landlord the first claim on nis farm. There was a great
cry just now about tenant right in Ireland, and this
was simply hecause the Irish had never had leases.
They hail had holdings of lands without leases ; and if
a tenant spent any money upon his farm he might be
turned off especially by a capricious landlord, without
getting compensation. Nothing could he more unjust
or unfair. If it had been carried out in Scotland,
they would have had a rebellion long ago. As to the
game question, Lord Rossiya said he was quite otitis-
Ued that if there was an undue proportion of game on
a farm doing damage to a crop, the landlord must be a
knave or a fool who did not remedy it. He, for one,
would destroy every single head of ground game, if neces-
sary, rather than that his tenants should suffer from their
ravages. Common sense and fair play was what
should prevail in a matter of this kind between land-
. lord and tenant. For himself he proposed after this
• term to give to his tenants the right of killing their
• own rabbits.

THE PARAGUAYAN WAR.—LOPEZ IN
THE MOUNTAINS.
Advices from Paraguay are to the sth of September.
Lopez was at St. Esti/111,1sta. An expedition was
leaving for the river Jejuy. Upwards of 100,000
Parapiayans were said to be making their way to
Asuuci. di in a state of the greatest misery and starva-
tion. Villa Rica and other towns had given in their
submission to the Provisional Government, and asked
for protection.
Lopez (says the Buenos Ayres Standard of September
Bth,) is in his last retreat amongst the fastnesses of the
Sierra Aldania. His army is DOW reduced to a hand-
ful, about 2,000 in number, but these are all picked
men and firm, "The President's Lifeguard." Lopez
is as resolute as ever to hold his ground while he has a
follower left. He is still second, +tiled by Aldine.
Lynch, Dr. Skinner, and two vomit:doling officers,
11..,quin and Cabellero, as also by his udideter and t•ec-
retary, Centime'. He has only forty horses, two
of wffich are for his own saddle, and the rest are
barely sufficient to enable his men to catch toe wild
cattle in the hills for the maintenance of his
people. Lopez relies greatly on his knowledge of all
the difficult passes in the mountains, which he will
probably idepute one by one with his pursuers. He
seems to fear little for his personal safety, and hopes to
weary out the allies in a tedious and difficult guerilla
warfare. The allies seem to have come to a halt at
Caraguatay, which is about 100 miles from Asuncion.
Count d'Eu, it is said, is anxious to push forward
' operations as actively as possible. In another month
' the hot weather will set in, so that active pursuit will
, be impossible.