Glasgow Courier. — 1844-08-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STEA.M.POWBB ON CAN, seated him with a handsome silver tea-kettle and stand, as a and the priestcraft of France? (Shouts of rr Nn," and cheers.) ( Frost a Correspoadtat. ) lasting and substantial token of the feelings which they enter.. Forbid it justice! Forbid it Christianity! Forbid it British the western world be minutely analysed they will he found taiced towards him on account of all his Unit qualities. not to differ materially in principle from those sudden out- There have appeared lately several notices of the application of honour! s However this may be, we know I team -power to canal navigation, and it is surprising that none of Captain Lang acknowledged the compliment, expressed the Stuff and nonsense I Really these gentlemen of the bursts of oriental fury. . these have ever referred to the gentleman who has had the Foie gratification which he felt in being so highly ' Other London Mission are not doing any service to Queen Pomare that he carried his point, and that a region which o- credit of solving this long-tried problem. Mr. Henry Davis, appropriate toasts followed, and the evening was by these inflated and ridiculous appeals. We have no doubt and-twenty years ago could not be visited by Norbury Cottage, near Newport, Shropshire, patentees the disk spent in the roost agreeable men- the that the French officers have behaved very ill, but to say that yeller %without the risk of murder, or robbery, engine, is the inventor of this important improvement. This workmanship of Mr. W. C. "the liberty of the civilised world is threatened," because a could latterly be traversed with as much safety as gentleman not only invented the lever-propelled steam-tracker - Street, c for canals, but upwards of a year ago showed, ,- aspen. row takes place in Otaheite, and her Otaheitan Majesty parts of Europe, and with more safety that mental trips on the Liverpool and Birmingham flies to a British vessel for protection, is &Witte twaddle. His system of police was not 'ours, nor could it ' its perfect adaptation for tracking canal-boats —Above all, we do not think it is the part of per- have reaped the fruits of it in the easy transmission ifterwards, under the sanction of the sons who call themselves ministers of religion to be correspondence ',die, and the re-opening of the be above-named navigation, organised taking such a line. Preachers and missionaries have route by the head of the lied Sea rackage on their canal (in which r' tearh-trackers employed, other things to do than to be roaring about " Britannia Pacha's moo. eroceeding might be that: of a despot - the ,- - for ' and the waves," and making tumultuous and vociferating semi-barbarian, but it was also that of a man of appeals to "British honour" and the like. We feel the intelligence, who intuitively grasped his subject, and most lively interest in the preservation of " British honour," ciously held and who joined to this natural and the maritime supremacy of our country; but we more extraordinary administrative at than question the taste which confounds the department of ed with civilisation, missionary exertion with such entirely secular questions as ie genius of Mehemet; these. We do not know what particular call a missionary countrywomen are whirled society has to involve itself in such matters. A set of ad Suez—as in time the grave Dissenting ministers, thinking that they have a par- retrograde—they will ticular call to attend to the honour of the national flag, is -, heavy obligations, as ridiculous an iraage as we can well picture to our minds, rugged soldier. They luul much better leave such sithjects in the hands of this unexpected those civil, naval, and tnilitary authorities that are intrusted with the charge, and their own attention to those religious objects for which their association professes to be formed. However ill the French may have behaved at Tahiti, no good can come from such vehement attacks upon *e whole French nation as these reverend orators make. Nor is it the part of persons who profess to be ministers of peace to be appealing to old antipathies, and trying to drag out of the recess in which they have happily lain for many years, at any rate on this side of the water, the dormant national jealousies of a past age. However delicate our position toward France may for the moment be, we cannot believe that the latter will be quite so absurd as to rush into a war, to avoid a just reparation for a clearly established injury—Times.