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THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. TlIIH im...
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DEATH OF HENRY ©LAY. Henry Clay ig dead....
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LETTERS FROM PARIS. [From our own Couukh...
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the Liberator ; " and of " Moral Combination as opposed to Physical Force . " A " Firm Supporter of Free-trade ; " of tenant right as proposed by Sharman Crawford ; of extension of the franchise . He considers the " political future" of Ireland " neither dark nor _unproniising . " He rejoices to find the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , against which he voted , "fast becoming null and void . " " With regard to the internal commerce of Ireland , " he " looks forward to a new order
of things ; and , in the meantime , announces himself as a patron of sugar-beet , and a prospective manufacturer of sugar therefrom . He is , we are glad to find , more disposed to look to Lord Palmerston as the successor of Lord Derby than to Lord John Russell , if we rightly interpret his words : — " The having yet to give my support to a Ministry formed by one who is connected with Ireland by property and by birth . " The election takes place on Monday next .
Limerick City . —Wednesday , Nine o ' clock p . m . — After a most desperate struggle , and frightful rioting throughout the week , Sergeant O'Brien has been beaten by a small majority . At the final close the numbers were— Potter 537 Russell 461 O'Brien 448 M'Donncll 70
All the candidates here were Liberals . The houses of several Roman Catholics who voted for Russell were gutted , and their contents thrown into the river . After the poll was known , the disturbances were renewed , the troops were called out , the Riot Act read , and the police , headed by the mayor , suppressed the disturbances . All is now apparently quiet . One of the most curious features in this election was the appearance of the paupers , who had rushed out of the workhouse to enjoy the scene . Mallow . —Wednesday . —The Liberal candidate has been returned . At the close of the poll the numbers
were—Sir Denham Jephson Norreys , Bart . , 59 Captain Stannard Eustace .... 44 New Ross . —Wednesday . —The polling for this borough took place this day , amidst considerable excitement . Sir Thomas Redington having withdrawn , the contest lay between the Liberal and Derbyite candidates . At the final close of the poll the numbers were : — Duffy ( Liberal ) 81 Lambert ( Derbyite ) 36 It is stated that notice of a petition has been served on Mr . Dully . Portarlington . —Colonel Dunne , Derbyite , was re-elected , on Monday , without opposition . Sligo Borough . —Wednesday . —At the close of the poll the numbers were : —
Mr . Charles Townley ( Liberal ) . 153 Mr . John Patrick Soniers ( Liberal ) 110 Tralee . —Wednesday . —Mi-. Maurice O'Connell has been returned , Mr . Kinderly , his opponent , having retired from the contest . ; the . polling , however , proceeded , and 103 votes were recorded for Mr . O'Connell . Watereoro City . —At the final close , at five o ' clock , the numbers were : —
Meagher ( Liberal ) 463 Keatinge ( Liberal ) 444 Barron ( Derbyite ) 308 Christmas ( Derbyite ) .... 355 _YoUGUAL . — Wednesday , Half-past Three . Butt ( Derbyite ) . ' 110 Hon . J . VV . * Forteseue ( Liberal ) . 106 Great excitement prevailed , and both parties seemed confident of success .
gknkeat . result . As fur as can be guessed , the returns give the fol lowing results : — Deriiyitkh . Liberals . . < _CONHKltVATlVKH . 187 238 57 Gross majority against Lord Derby . . . 108 Liberal majority 51 .
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The Royal Agricultural Society. Tliih Im...
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . _TlIIH important ' association has this year held its annual exhibition af Lewes . The Times thus estimates the two great departments , the implement and stockyard . Tliey were opened to the public on Wednesday , about mid-day . Looking at the implement-yard as a whole , one cannot help being impressed with the enormous aids held out therein to practical agriculture .
Thirteen years of experience have exercised a most salutary influence , on fhe description of machines brought forward ; aud , whereas formerly there was much useless rubbish , now tho practical requirements of the farm are taken as the true guides of invention . Perhaps no more remarkable evidence can he afforded of this ( ban the case of reaping machines , of which no less than Hcvontceii specimens are exhibited , the best makers being competitors . From among them , Messrs . Gurrctt
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and Son have deservedly borne away the palm , not only by their selection of Hussey ' s machine , demonstrating its superiority over that of M'Cormack , which gained the council medal at the Great Exhibition , last year , but introducing a very simple improvement in the construction of the scissor-like knives , which is thus described in the catalogue :- _± - " In the machines brought over from America , the cutters were bevilled on both sides , similar to a common _, axe , which was found—in ' cutting soft crops , such as
barley and oats—to have the effect of bending the straw between the guards in which the cutters work , and pulling it off instead of cutting it . By the improved form of cutter , registered by R . Garrett and Son , bevilled on one side only , and cutting against a keen square edge guard , made of steel , similar to a pair of shears or scissors , this defect has been completely remedied , and crops of any kind may be perfectly cut with equal precision and facility . It is adapted for lands ploughed flat , as well as for stetches or ridges , and may be worked either lengthways or across the furrows , as required . "
This wonderful machine promises to effect a complete revolution in our harvesting operations , for it cuts every description of standing crop with an evenness and regularity unknown to hand labour , and it Avorks at the rate of an acre and a-half per hour ; so that , in addition to the mere economy of money , there is the equally important one of time , a farmer being rendered far less dependent on those two very precarious things , harvest weather and harvest hands , than he used to he . The attention which this machine has attracted is one
of the most favourable and encouraging signs that have yet been displayed of the increasing intelligence and enterprise among the agricultural body . It is calculated that , within the year , 1 , 500 of them have been made to order in this country , — a sale of a new implement quite unprecedented . Another impression which must be produced on the mind of every attentive visitor to the show-yard of the Royal Agricultural Society is the extraordinary attraction which the manufacturers of machinery for the use of the farm feel and own towards these annual exhibitions . At
great expense , they continue year after year to compete with each other , and so strong is the spirit of rivalry which pervades them , that a blacksmith ( not long ago in a very small way in this neighbourhood ) exhibits goods to the value of 2 , 000 ? . Many of these men , who now employ hundreds of hands , commenced business like this blacksmith , and they have risen by degrees till their business ' at length embraces a variety of mechanical details , and calls forth an ingenuity which makes it not only ' an impovtaut branch of our uatioual industry , but a prominent feature in that great system of labour economized by machinery , which is the chief source of our wealth as a people .
Ihe cattle-yard opened shortly after one o ' clock , and , on the whole , satisfactorily maintains the reputation of that department in former years . The show of mares and fillies is excellent , _Snhblks taking the lead , and distancing idl competition . The display of Sussex cattle was also admired ; not , perhaps , so much for their symmetry of form as for the natural , unpampered , and unforced appearsinoe of most of the animals . In South Down sheep it was to be expected that hero ,
at the very foot of the hills which give their name to flic breed , and surrounded by the most celebrated flockmasterK , the pens exhibited should possess remarkable excellence , and such is the case ; but , unfortunately for Sussex , Jonas Webb again carries away the chief prizes , sind it , seems pretty generally admitted that , the quality of his sheep quite entitled him to do so . They certainly arc splendid specimens , and the lucky owner of them is overwhelmed with the most
tempting oilers to part with them , even for a season ; the same pre-eminence which Jonas Webb seems to have established for himself in South Downs , Mr . W . Sunday , of Holme Pierrepoint , near Nottingham , appears to have secured in Leiccsters . He has walked away with all the prizes . There was a small lot oi very line Cotswolds shown , which it is alleged the council do not patronize as much as they should , having too strong a leaning in favour of " Leiccsters . " Tbe Koniney-nijirsh , or Kentish sheep , hardly came up to fhe expectations formed of them ; and fhe pigs nnd cattle , while of average merit iu otber respects , were certainly over-fattened . This was particularly
remarkable iu the Hereford bulls , which were perfect mountains of obesity , out of place and out of nature , even at the Smitbfield Club Show iu Christmas time , and therefore intolerable and disgusting in the dog-days . One word remains to be said on the show of poultry . It , is a small display , as was fo be expected , being the first attempt of the kind , and could not for a moment be compared with the magnificent exhibitions of the sort which annually take place in Birmingham . Its useful character , however , is strictly preserved , fancy varieties being excluded from competition . A few years hence and there can be , no doubt that this department will grow into one of the most attractive features of the » how-yard .
Death Of Henry ©Lay. Henry Clay Ig Dead....
DEATH OF HENRY © LAY . Henry Clay _ig dead . He died at Washington , on the 29 th of June , in the presence of his son Thomas . As soon as Congress heard the news both houses adjourned . And as it flew fast and far over the Union , court-houses closed , public- bodies suspended their sittings , minute-guns were fired , vesseLs in the river and sea-board harbours hoisted their flags half-mast high ; and in the evening there were guns tiring and bells tolling over one-half the Union .
Henry Clay , says the Morning Chronicle , was the son of a clergyman of Hanover county , Virginia , where he was born on the 12 th of April , 1777 . Hisfather died during the revolutionary war , leaving but scanty , means for the support of his family , and Henry Clay was early trained to a life of labour—a school which no doubt served to give the first development to the energies and talents . afterwards so conspicuous . In 1793 he was brought to the notice of Chancellor Wythe , at Richmond , and commenced the study of the law . He was license I as an attorney in 1797 , and removed to Lexington , Kentucky , where he commenced the practice of his profession . He soon took a high position at the bar of Kentucky , and was at once recognised as one of the most promising men of the West , and indeed of the American nation .
Mr . Clay was elected to fill an unexpired term in the United States Senate in December 1806 . In 180 S he was elected to the Kentucky legislature , and in 1810 he was again chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate . In 1811 he was sent to the House of Representatives in Washington , and was chosen speaker . He was a warm advocate of the war with Great Britain , and throughout that crisis sustained Mr . Maddison ' s war measures with great zeal ..
In 1814 , he was sent to Ghent as one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of - peace with Great Britain . Returning home , he was again sent to Congress in 1815 , and was elected speaker during two consecutive Congresses . He remained in the House of Representatives till 1821 . During the year 1818 , he achieved great distinction by his advocacy of the claims of the South American Republics to the recognition of their independence by the United States . He offered the motion for a mission to South America
from the government , and advocated it in a speech which , for statesman-like views and true eloquence , ranks among his ' best efforts . The measure failed , but was subsequently sanctioned by the course of events which led to the establishment of independence in South America . In 1823 , Mr . Clay was again elected to Congress _,, and again chosen speaker by a large majority . He distinguished himself in this Congress as the advocate of protection to American industry , as well as several other measures . During the exciting contest for the presidency , in 1824 , Mr . Clay was a candidate ; thevote in the electoral college being—for Adams , 84 ;
Jackson , 99 ; Crawford , 49 ; Clay , 37 . Mr . Adams being chosen president by the House of Representatives , he tendered Mr . Clay the office of secretary of state , which he accepted , entering on the duties of the office March 4 , 1825 , and retaining it to the close of Mr . Adams's administration . In 1831 , he was again sent to the United States Senate ; and in 1832 was a candidate for the presidency , but defeated by General Jackson . During the session of 1833 , when tho tariff question was agitating the whole nation to an alarming extent , he brought forward his celebrated Compromise Bill , which passed both houses , and restored quiet to the country .
Mr . Clay remained in the United States Senate until 1842 , when , on tho 31 st of March , he resigned his seat . In 1844 , he was the Whig nominee for the presidency , being defeated by Mr . Polk . In December 1849 , he again took his seal , in the Senate , where he remained until last winter , when the encroachments of disease obliged him to tender his resignation . His last service in the Senate was probably the most glorious ; for in 1850 he originated the series of measures known as the Compromise , which rescued the Union from one of its greatest dangers . A national career of forty-six years identified him with that much of fhe history of the American nation , and though ho has never been a president , few presidents * could hope for greater dignify , or a more enduring fame than his .
Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Couukh...
LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own _Couukhi'onomnt . _] Lettkr XXIX . Paris , Tuesday Kviuiiii _^ , July 'Kith , Wti ' S _. _LotJlH _Honai'Artio ' h government has received hoiim * sharp shocks of late . The ollieial world of _i > oliti « 'S , indeed , is making holiday , tho legislative session is closed , the knot of deputies who showed symptoms of _opposition are away to the country : tho President ro-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071852/page/6/
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