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Death has removed Henry Clay just as the American Republic seems to be entering a new sera of its history . The most illustrious American of his own day , he was never President ; It may in some sort be said that he was too good for the post ; he took too high a standard for the present concurrence of his _countrj'men . But his influence has been felt , and will long be felt .
The American mail . brings reports of a _contemplated revolution in Mexico , by Arista , under sanction of the United States , We suspect that the report , specifically , is an idle rumour , originating in a fact which is known , that there exists in Mexico a very numerous party in favour of " annexation , " which will most likel y accomplish its object sooner or later .
The drama of " accidents , " as men call offences against the laws of prudence and foresight , is rather appalling this week . To relate them briefly . Mormons assemble at Newport , to partake of tea , and witness a miracle . As the Welsh are credulous , and the apostles of Joe Smith men who stick at nothing in the matter of words and promises , there was a goodly company . Suddenly ,
one-half of the ceiling falls in , and crockery , Mormons , and their saints , are covered up in the xuins . The saints , it is said , were unhurt ; and they boast of having performed a miracle by bringing down the lath and plaster without injury to the true believers . Whatever has become of the age of chivalry , the" age of credulity is not yet past .
The next accident is physically , as well as morally , tragic . An excursion train , filled with happy artisans , accompanied by their wives and children , set out from Burnley , for the sea coast , on Monday . They had seen the sea , and returned to Burnley , when the engine was detached , and went on one line , while the carriages went on another . But the pointsman neglected to set them straight for the main line , and they ran into the station , rushing up against a stone wall . The two foremost carriages were crushed , and four persons killed , and twenty or thirty dreadfully wounded .
Change the scene to the river . A shallop was proceeding from Greenwich , laden with poor folk of both sexes . Near Blackfriars-brid ge a steamer came up with , ran into , and overset them . Two women and one man were drowned . Mr . Alderman Wilson has brought before the Court of Aldermen some bye-laws to prevent the over crowding of steam-boats , by no means too soon . Other regulations are very much required .
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Tin GENERAL ELECTION . I-. ISKAJi . LI " AT TrOMK . " Newvoht I ' _AUNiit . h is a smalltown in IJucfciiigluunshiro , which will be famous in history ; is the scene of Mr . Disraeli ' s great after-dinner speeches . There is , in that little town , a tavern , called the Anchor , whereat , notwithstanding their awful distress , the worthy fanners oI" Uncles are wont to "dine sumptuously" not " every day / ' certainly , but very often . liens ut the jovial
board , laden with rich wines , and gleaming with glass , which . l < Yeu-trade has made so cheap , Mr . Disraeli and Mr . Dupre , his _colleague , _might have been found on Wednesday evening , sitting among the distressed , but distended , yet confiding Derb yites of Hiiekingliainshire . Of course , the real dessert ww to be a speech from the Minister , and u speech from his colleague . The reporters have wisely consigned Mr . Dupre . to oblivion , mid Mi : Disraeli to— . fume ?
Mr . Disraeli made a clever Jesuitical oration . Alley n few remarket on ins opponent . Dr . Leo , bedashed til once into iho topic of the _day—I'Yeo-traile . Going back to _184-ft , ho for tho _hundredth time stigmatised the great act of Pool us " unpremeditated , insecure , and inconsistent , " so disastrous , in fuel , to agriculture and Ihe great Conservative , party . Then thoy lost a position which they know it would bo difficult to regain . iio pointed out flow their opponent . !* had idwnyu been anxious that they should adopt a false policy— -asking for wluil . it was impossible lo get , -mid he took credit to himself for having years ago advised them to follow u Bounder lino of notion . I Bind , " There is great _agricultural distress in _conseipienco of a change in tho law ; your opponents taunt you when you seek to go buck to that law , and thoy are _all-mUlioiimt in their opposition , I wont you to ascertain what ia tho cause of your Buffering , mm if pwwble , to accept the now
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policy , and to conljjder _^ _hftirftcoiilpense you can find in other measures . " ( Hear . ) _Gentlemen , that was the advice I presumed to _gitft , and it is a _Question most interesting to the numeroui and most influential bod y assembled here to-day . I sa _/ - " -What is the reason the English producer , the English occupier of land , cannot compete with the foreign _producer or occupier of land ? ( Loud Cries bf " Hear , hear . " ) I have always said , and I don't knowthat I have ever heard any argument of an intelligent opponent which I really could iefer to sds in any way conelusive against it — I have always said , the _reason is" that the English producer is under a system of taxation —( loud cheers )—a system which is iu general applied to himself—which is in particular applied to the class to
which he helongs—entailing upon him burdens which do not allow him to run the race on equal terms with the others . " ( Loud cheers . ) That is what I said . And , gentlemen , I have also said that the Protectionist system was not to be justified unless you can show these circumstances exist . ( Hear , hear . ) And I still believe these circumstances do exist in this country , however much they may he modified , and that the principle of Protection is sound —that in a society which is artificial , in which there exists a financial system so complicated as our own , it was much better to adhere to compensating arrangements for the protection of the cultivators of the soil' than that you should madly leave him an _unequal competitor with the foreigner . ( Cheers . ) . And this principle , I say , is at all
times to he modified according to existing circumstances . But , gentlemen , the Protective principle was not only a sound one , but it waa a principle to the advantage of the country , and the only principle upon which our present system of finance could be vindicated . You could not vindicate a system that rested individually and mainl y upon the cultivators of the soil unless in its operation it gave some compensatory relief to those whom it placed under particular restrictions . Well , I say , gentlemen , if the country has chosen to abrogate that system , and if the majority of the people of this country are of opinion it
would be unwise to recur to it , I say we must seek by other means ( cheers ) , and in another direction ( repeated cheers ) , to place the cultivators of the soil in a fair and just position . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , gentlemen , that is all I have ever said . It is what I am perfectly ready to maintain . I said it in Opposition- as your member ; and I say now , as a Minister of the Crown , I am perfectly prepared to advise her Majesty to carry it out . ( Great cheering . ) He defended himself from the objection that his policy was limited to burdens On land . He had not told them
that an adjustment of particular burdens entailed by local taxation would afford sufficient redress . He said , l _$ o . "It is in reviewing—it is in adjusting—the whole system of national taxation ; it is in placing this system upon a just basis that the producer will find that justice which the consumer—which every fair and upright man—could wash him to secure . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , the old question was simply this : —You said it required a system of legislation which would secure to you an artificial price . You were always taught to believe that in raising prices you would find redress ; and , in my opinion , it would have been very wise not materially to have destroyed tho old system . ( Hoar . ) But there is another view of tho caseanother view or your position—another means by which
you may obtain redress—and a means more practical than recurring to tho past—which is beset with infinite difficulties . It is not to increase prices in order that you may have a fair remuneration for your toil ; but it is , gentlemen , to reduce the cost of production . ( Immense cheering . ) Now that is tho sound advice which the agricultural interest must act upon . ( Itear , hear . ) You are told that it is ono of the necessities for tho prosperous condition of England that tho bread of the people should be cheap . Well , I say , take care that the producer of that broad shall bo able to produce it as cheap us possible . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , gentlemen , you will find , if you adopt that view of the case , that you , who are occupiers of tho soil , will more gradually got tho feeling of tho country in your favour ,
and at tho samo lime more perfectly secure compensation for yourselves . It is , as I havo said , in reviewing tho system of taxation which exists , and in tho adjustment of that system , that the cultivators of tho soil will find that compensation which tliey have a right to expect from the abrogation of that law which gave thorn artificial prices ( applause ) ; and I _sny , in accordance with tho spirit of tho ago and with tho temper of tho country , lot your produce now bo raised upon the cheapest possible principle . ( Applause . ) But , then , it follows you must not allow your native produce to bo shackled by laws which hinder the producer
from competing with foreign countries , it . follows that in tho now principle . of justice tho cultivators of tho soil shall no longer remain tho only class _incupablo of receiving a fair profit for their industry . It follows you must take care that tho same justice bo douo to all her Majesty ' s subjects . ( Cheers . ) And I am well aware , gentlemen , it' the question be viewed in that light , and if taxation shall certainly be placed upon a now principle , t am oouviuced wo shall he able to bring forward measures of relief which will receive the sympathy and approbation and support of all the various classes of this country . ( Cheers . )"
. Having made these magnificent but mysterious promises , ho proceeded lo declaim against , a fixed duty ; to laud his own proposition ; to exult over tho successes of tho Derbyites in tho towns ; and to applaud tho Derby Government for carrying tho groat measures of last session . Upon tho Maynooth question , ho may speak for himself : — " Now there was ono subject which very much engrossed the people of this country before Parliament met , and that was Iho endowment of Maynooth College , and thorn existed a very strong feeling on tho subject , not limited to any one class ; antl it would havo boon tho height of folly for her Majesty ' s Ministers to have treated Unit fooling with contempt . 1 could have personally occupied a positiou with respect to that question which would , if acted upon , have done awny with all controversy 5 for I wan ono of those who opposed that endowment at _iirwt ( chows ) thinking it
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_betrajfed a totll igfBOWttice of the wants of the ao * j that it _wpidd ultimately be opposed by those who V * _obligatwt _ftfi well as those who had given it as a _concessit but I had to view the question , not in the light of mVB ' sonal _feeling and I thought it necessary to support _« f * motion for inquiry of Mr . Spooner ; for this was an aee " which Boinan Catholics themselves should not oppose h !* _quifry . ( Hear . ) But the Government were pressed t institute a Kryal commission of inquiry * Gentlemen ° royal commission has not the power of * cbmpelling th * _attendance of witnesses , and its proceedings would beliabl to all _kinizts of misrepresentation ; but , however indecorou may be the proceedings of a House of Commons th country , at least , has confidence in such a tribunal , bein composed of men of all parties . But , _ge ntlemen there if
, another point connected with the religious feeling of _thp country , upon which I must crave your attention a little We thought it our duty to advise Her Majesty to issue a royal proclamation , with the intention of preserving the peace of society . But in doing this every species of misrepresentation has been circulated ; and I confess that in this free country I do not object to unrestricted criticism but , gentlemen , we have been told that this proclamation was issued to influence the elections . I have seen that statement made byratber high authority upon the hustings . All I could wish were , they should make such statements in the House of Commons , so that it mi ght be brought to the test before that great tribunal whether such sordid
means ever influenced the Government . Gentlemen , in the course we took we were only influenced by a great imperial necessity . The matter was laid before the Privy Council , and in a manner which could not be mistaken and with evidence supported by most high authority-- ' evidence which we took care to examine before we pro - ceeded to act—evidence that , in certain districts of England , in consequence of numerous processions which the Roman Catholic priesthood had instituted , consequences would result , in more than thirty places at least , which would endanger the life of many of her Majesty ' s subjects . What was our duty under these circumstances ? Why , gentlemen , the moment had come for us to interfere . We could
not hesitate . We recommended that Her Majesty Bhould issue that proclamation which has received the approbation of the kingdom . I am told that the riots at Stockport were caused by tbat proclamation . Why , if theproclamation had not been issued , the same disorder would have taken place in fifty parts of the kingdom . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , instead of this measure tending to excite the Roman Catholic population it was the providential cause of maintaining peace and of saving the country from bloodshed . And our precautions , gentlemen , were so great , that we previously interfered with the Orange processions which were understood to come off in Ireland . Tbis was the course we took , gentlemen , instead of being guided by those sordid and selfish motives which are the tactics of
party . H _^ e was quite certain that Lord Derby would have an absolute majority in the next Parliament . Then he made the following peroration , expressing sentiments which , coupled with the insolence of Mr . Beresford at Braintree , show the people what they may expect from Lord Derby . " No one can be blind to the fact that the Opposition will create its organization upon revolutionary principles . ( Hear , hear . ) Happy was the prescience of Lord Derby when he told the Whig Opposition that the pear was not ripo last year . ( Laughter . ) The Whigs were in ofiice . They bave shown us their character , and their policy has boon received with universal scouting by the country ; and they cannot , gentlemen , attain to popularity again ,
except by calling to their councils tho Jacobin Clubs of Lancashire . ( Loud laughter . ) But I feel , gentlemen , that the present Government is necessary for the _preservation of tho English constitution ; but tho future institution of tho Opposition already peeps from its shell and _developes its horns , and from that shell tho Opposition cannot emerge except enveloped in the shrino of sedition . ( Continued laughter . ) A change in tho institutions of tho country will bo tho condition of its success ; and you must indeed bo false to all your professions—false to that high spirit which Englishmen havo ever shown—false to tho traditionary association of your country , ii you suffer tin Opposition , founded upon such principles , to govern this nation . ( Cheers . ) Well , then , gentlemen , when wo meet in the County Hall on Eriday , 1 want to know if you will
support tho principles and practices which I havo so feebly detailed P ( Loud cries of " Yea , yes . " ) Will you bo prepared to say " We shall havo justice done to tiio soil ( " Yes , yes" ); wo shall havo our legislation conceived in tho sp irit of the age ( " Yes , yes" ) , which is the spirit of justice . " ( Cheers . ) Will you be prepared to say , "We will havo the Protestant constitution of this country preserved , not with the sectarianism of bigots , but with thoso who believe that , Protestantism is tho only safeguard of English liberty . " ( Loud cheers . ) These , gentlemen , are tho issues before you . Be prepared to tight against those dillicultiea & _nd compunctions which an unwise and eccentric opposition may create , and in tho ancient spirit of tho men of Buckinghamshire , which has conquered in times that uro post , and which now , 1 believe , will carry us on to that hi g her triumph which yet awaits us . ( LoudaiKlrepoated _cheeruig . )
KNGLAND AND WALES . HicitKHUllu .. —Mr . Palmer , Lord Bnrrington , " » d Mr . _Vunsitturt , Derbyites , unopposed . Mr . Walter , of Hearwood , was nominated without his consent , but his nunie was withdrawn . _Illtrcuw . —Mr . Morgan , Derbyite , is returned by 1 G 9 to 122 , over Mr . Watkins . _BiticoONEliiiliK . — -Hir Joseph Bailey , unopposed . _BitiOTOi .. —A quiet election , tho two Liberals winnhig with 11 vast majority . The oflleiiil declaration of the poll took place on Saturday iu tho Exchange , when thi numbers declared wore—
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071852/page/2/
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