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Aug. 10, 1850.] ©fl * 3Lt<tt+ 459
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A MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE DEFEATED. The el...
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DEATH OF MARGARET FULLER. From the New Y...
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ROYAL BIRTHDAY AMUSEMENTS. The Court Cir...
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THE WAR BETWEEN DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG-HO...
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'. WORKING MEN'S MEMORIAL TO PEEL. A mee...
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Aug. 10, 1850.] ©Fl * 3lt&Lttt+ 459
Aug . 10 , 1850 . ] © fl * 3 Lt & lttt + 459
A Ministerial Candidate Defeated. The El...
A MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE DEFEATED . The election of a member of Parliament to supply the vacancy in the representation of Lambeth ., caused by the resignation of Mr . Charles Pearson , gave rise to no small degree of excitement in that borough , from the time that Sir Charles Napier came forward as a Ministerial candidate . The nomination took place on Monday . Mr . Williams , the Radical candidate , and his friends were first at the hustings ; they wore rosettes of light blue and white . Sir Charles Napier and his party , who came next , in an open carriage , had no colours . Mr . Hinde Palmer made his appearance last of all , in an elegant barouche , drawn by four grey horses , and escorted by a large party of friends , decorated with red rosettes . The usual preliminaries having been gone through ,
Mr . Harvey , draper , of Westminster-road proposed Mr . Williams as a fit and proper person to represent the borough , and passed a high eulogium on him as a staunch and consistent reformer . The nomination was seconded by Mr . Doulton , who said there never was a time when men like Mr . Williams were more wanted in the House . With a few more financial reformers like him they would never have given a Royal Duke £ 12 , 000 a-year . Mr . Palmer was proposed by Mr . W . Knott , and seconded by Mr . Wills . The chief recommendation urged in his favour was his having been born and bred in the borough .
Mr . C . Evans proposed Sir Charles Napier , whom he represented as a decided financial reformer . The nomination was seconded by Mr . Miller . The three candidates then addressed the meeting . Mr . Williams appealed to his conduct when member for Coventry , and accused Sir Charles Napier of coming forward to divide the Liberal interest . Mr . Palmer declared himself in favour of Household Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Triennial Parliaments ,
Financial Reform , and a revision of the New Poor Law . Sir Charles Napier , who was much interrupted by the crowd , said he had come forward as a candidate in consequence of the revolutionary address issued by Mr . Williams . *• If a majority of the House of Commons supported the principles contained in that address , he would not give a week ' s purchase for the property of any man in England . " .... . and
This statement was received with cheers counter cheers from the partisans of the various candidates . He then went on to defend himself from the attacks which had been made upon him as a Government candidate : — " The honourable gentleman had asked him what he had been doing at the Treasury . Well , he , in return , -would ask the honourable gentleman what did he suppose he ( Sir C . Napier ) could be doing there ? Could he suppose for one moment , after what had been published in after the he had received
all the newspapers— reprimands from the Admiralty and from the Minister—that he could be going to the Treasury to ask for a place ? ( Cheers and groans . ) No . The fact was that Mr . Hayter was his friend , and he had no object in going to the Treasury , except to pay Mr . Hayter a visit . ( Hooting and derisive cheers . ) Why , the honourable candidate might as well ask him why he went to the Colonial-office . ( A voice—* Why did you ? ' ) Because Mr . Hawes was his friend , and he went there to ask him for some information respecting the borough of Lambeth . ( Groaning . )"
On a show of hands being taken , the returning officer declared it to be in favour of Sir Charles Napier . Mr . Williams and Mr . Palmer then demanded a poll . The polling took place on Tuesday , and from the commencement it was evident that Mr . Williams would be returned . At the close of the poll the numbers were—Mr . Williams 3834 Sir C . Napier 1182 Mr . Palmer 585 Majority for Mr . Williams .. 2652
Death Of Margaret Fuller. From The New Y...
DEATH OF MARGARET FULLER . From the New York Tribune of July 23 rd , we learn the melancholy intelligence that Margaret Fuller , whose name and writings are familiar to all who know anything of American literature , lost her life within sight of land , on the night of that dreadful tornado , of which we have given an account elsewhere . She was on her way home from Italy , after an absence of nearly five years , with her husband , the Marquis d'Oesoli , and their only child , two years old . Ihe voyage had been a disastrous one , having occupied much more than the usual time , and the vessel , as if
doomed , arrived on the American coast during the most fearful storm which has visited that quarter for the last fifty years . The wind was from the south-west , the night was unusually dark , and the vessel , in spite of all the efforts of the crew , struck during the night , and in a few hours was a mass or drifting sticks and planks , while her passengers and part of her crew were buried in the remorseless deep . Margaret Fuller was the daughter of the Honourable Timothy Fuller , a lawyer of Boston , and a member of Congress from 1817 to 1825 . Soon after his retirement from Congress , he purchased a farm at some distance from Boston , and abandoned law for
agriculture . His daughter Margaret gave promise of remarkable intellectual powers at an early age , and these were fostered to an extent which severely taxed and ultimately injured her physical powers . At eight years of age he was accustomed to require of her the composition of a number of Latin verses daily , while her studies in philosophy , history , general science , and current literature were , in after years , extensive and profound . After her father ' s death , she applied herself to teaching , first in Boston , then in Providence , and afterwards in Boston again , where her lectures were for several seasons attended by classes of women , some of them married , and including many from the best families of the " American Athens . " In . 1843 she accompanied some friends on a tour to Niagara , from thence to Chicago , and across the Prairies of Illinois . Her impressions during this excursion were embodied in a delightful volume entitled " A Summer on the Lakes . " In the following year she undertook the literary department of the New York Tribune , where her articles on Art , Music , and the current literature of the day , assisted in giving that paper the high character which it now deservedly possesses as a first-class American journal . In the summer of 1846 she accompanied the family of a friend to Europe , visiting England , Scotland , France , and passing through Italy to Rome , where they spent the ensuing winter . Her letters to the Tribune , containing an account of what she saw during her journey , would form a pleasant and instructive volume . While in Rome she was married to the Marquis d'Ossoli , and continued to reside there till last June , when she and her husband embarked for New York , which port , however , they were not destined to reach . The works by which Margaret Fuller is best known are her « ' Woman in the Nineteenth Century , " the ground work of which first appeared in the Diol , a quarterly review of remarkable originality and power , of which she was coeditor with R . W . Emerson for some time , and a selection from her essays entitled " Papers on Literature and Art , " which was published by Wiley and Putnam a few years ago . For loftiness of tone , deep earnest feeling , and an exquisite subtle criticism , she has no equal in American literature . Though less popular than many of her shallow contemporaries she has left a name which will live long after they are forgotten .
Royal Birthday Amusements. The Court Cir...
ROYAL BIRTHDAY AMUSEMENTS . The Court Circular of Thursday contains an account of the mode in which the birthday of Prince Alfred , which fell on Wednesday , was celebrated at Osborne . On this occasion , the usual annual fete was given by her Majesty and Prince Albert to the servants of the royal establishment , the workmen and labourers employed upon the estate at Osborne , together with their wives and families , and the seamen of the royal yachts . The day was particularly favourable , and the ground , which was profusely decorated with flags and banners , had a very gay appearance . At three o ' clock , the dinner , which was provided for 300 , was carried in procession , preceded by the bands of the Royal Marines and an infantry regiment , by the royal servants and the seamen , to a spacious marquee previously prepared , and , grace having been said by Mr . Toward , her Majesty ' s bailiff , who presided , the happy guests commenced their dinner . The Queen and Prince Albert , with all the royal children , accompanied by Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg , Count de Mensdorff Pouilly , and Count A . de Mensdorff Pouilly , and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the household , proceeded from the house as soon as the dinner was prepared , and visited the different tables . Immediately after dinner , Mr . Toward proposed the healths of " The Queen , " " The Prince , " and " His Royal Highness the Prince Alfred , " which were heartily responded to . Dancing then commenced , and the following sports and games in succession amused and employed the assemblage during the afternoon : — Cricket—Quoits—Jingling , or Blind Man ' s Buff—Foot races—Hurdle races—Jumping in sacks—Snapping at gingerbread and treacled rolls—Bobbing in water for oranges—Dipping in meal for coin—Climbing greasy pole for leg of mutton—Leap Frog—Wheeling barrows blindfolded—The Man Wheel race—Winding and unwinding string round pegs—Foot Bali—Whipping the Monkey . At seven o ' clock , the Queen and Prince Albert , together with the royal family and guests , who had appeared highly amused with the sports of the afternoon , retired from the ground amidst the loud cheers of the hundreds assembled .
The War Between Denmark And Schleswig-Ho...
THE WAR BETWEEN DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN . The battle of Idstedt , fought on the 25 th ultimo , has not yet been succeeded by another . A slight engagement only between the outposts took place on the 28 th ultimo , close to the small village Wohlden , on the Eider , to the east of Friedrichstadt , and another on the 3 rd instant at Breckendorf , between Rendsburg and Schleswig , without much loss on either side . Both belligerent parties seem to be
under the necessity of resting to recover from the horrors inflicted , upon them by their late bloody struggle . Meanwhile both parties are preparing for further bloodshed . Little is known of the preparations on the part of the Danes ;—as to the Schleswig-Holsteiners , their army , we understand , was already , on the 30 th ultimo , as complete and as numerous as it was before the battle of Idstedt , excepting that there was still a paucity of officers . But it would appear that the remedy for that insufiiciency is at hand , for applications are daily being made by officers from various parts of Germany , who have abandoned their former service to enlist in the Schleswig-Holstein
army . The number of the applicants h as averaged at Rendsburg ( where General Willisenhas now fixed his head-quarters ) four or five a-day . Amongst those who already have arrived and been accepted was an Austrian officer . We thus see that the want of officers will soon be remedied , especially as , after all , the wanting number is not so great as might be supposed , for General Willisen himself said : —•• Give me but a hundred good officers , and a few days for them to make the acquaintance of the men under advance
their command , and I shall not hesitate to . " Though General Willisen ' s head-quarters are now , as we mentioned , in Rendsburg , the main army still occupies a strong position some miles to the north of that town ; and its vanguard , numbering from 4000 to 5000 men , under the command of Colonel Gerhard , is at Schestedt and the neighbourhood . The Danes , too , up to the 3 rd instant have not changed their position , and , whilst they fortify the town of Schleswig , the Holsteiners on their part are most actively busying themselves with adding advanced works to the existing fortifications of Rendsburg .
From all quarters it is stated that not the slightest discouragement is perceivable in the ranks of the Schleswig-Holstein army ; and that " the confidence in their good cause" and in its final success is not only unshaken but increased by the continual arrival of officers , of which they had not a sufficient number , and of important supplies of every kind proceeding to Holstein from every part of Germany ; amongst others from Mecklenburgh and Hanover , and even from Berlin , from whence many officers have gone over to the Duchies , thus sacrificing their prospects in the Prussian service ; and the Berlin papers state that the enthusiasm for the Duchies in that capital is
so universal , that the government is powerless to stop the supplies of money and men sent thither . Besides the supplies coming from Germany , the internal enthusiasm likewise increases the military forces . From all parts of the Duchies men of all ages , even those who are exempted from military service , are hurrying to Rendsburg to enrol themselves in the ranks of the national army . Lawyers and public officers are laying down the pen , the farmer his ploughshare , and the labourer his flail , to seize the musket
and the sword . The Copenhagen papers begin to publish more correct information regarding their own killed and wounded , and the number of prisoners made . Thirtythree officers and 500 common soldiers have already been buried at Flensburg , though the official report stated that but fourteen of the former and 200 of the latter had been killed . The number of prisoners , originally stated as 2000 is reduced to about 750 . There was a report current at Hamburg , on the 4 th instant , that the Hanoverian Government has decided on sending troops to the assistance of the army of the Duchies . On the 1 st instant it was known at Copenhagen that a Russian decoration has been awarded to the Danish General Krogh .
'. Working Men's Memorial To Peel. A Mee...
' . WORKING MEN'S MEMORIAL TO PEEL . A meeting was held in the Great Room of the Whittington Club-house , Stiand , on Wednesday evening , convened by a body of gentlemen whose wish and endeavour it is to form a sort of central point in the metropolis to concentrate or unite the various scattered efforts now in progress in all parts of the country for the purpose of erecting , by small
subscriptions , some durable memorial to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel . At the appointed hour the large room was densely crowded . Mr . Hume occupied the chair , and near him , on the platform , were Mr . Cobden , Mr . Bright , Mr . W . Brown , Mr . Wyld , and a number of other well-known gentlemen . Mr . Joseph Hume said they had met to offer a tribute of their approbation to one from whom nothing could be expected : —
" For forty years of political life he had had constant communications and connections for or against the measures of the late Sir Robert Peel . He had had occasion to differ from him on various subjects , but he was bound to avow , as the result of his long observation and action in these political events , that he was satisfied that Sir Robert Peel was honest , and that his motives were truly good . ( Hear , hear . ) All , too , that had come Co his knowledge since the death of this great statesman had confirmed that opinion , and convinced him that people were not aware of his real worth . ( Hear , hear ) . It was unfortunately the case that political men and members of Parliament would follow those who could advance their interests . He was sorry for this ; but members of Parliament were as fallible as other men .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 10, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10081850/page/3/
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