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      " Still to agitate for high prices , and to give , if anything , two or three shillings a quarter , to speak for Protection and mean Free Trade , is a movement in -which I cannot join , hut must leave these misty regions and lofty flights to orators , while I endeavour to serve you by plodding calmly on the solid ground of steady improvement . It was one thing to oppose the Reform Billit would have been another , when that bill had passed , to seek the revival of close boroughs . While Protection lasted I defended Protection , but cannot bring my mind to take much interest in its mock restoration to life . "

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      PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The most stirring topic of the week has been the correspondence which has arisen out of the Tamworth riot , between Sir Hobert Peel and Mr . George Frederick Young . In the Times of Saturday appeared a letter from Sir Eobert Peel , thanking the Tamworth people for greeting the " musty pilgrims of protection "with a " spontaneous burst of indignation ;" wondering at the " leniency" shown to strangers , calling the festival an " insane exhibition , " and Mr . G . F . Young a " miserable impostor . " To this rather outre epistle , Mr , Young replied in Monday's Times ¦ with , great spirit ; looking down upon Sir Robert , disdaining to " bandy scurrility " with him , asserting that he , Mr . Young , had never " put forward any pretensions , " and , therefore , could not be an " impostor ; " and then appending the following racy paragraph : — «* And now , sir , having shown what is not , allow me briefly to describe what , in my judgment , is an impostor . If a man should be discovered who , representing a pure and virtuous Sovereign in a foreign embassy , should be discreditably distinguished as a profligate and a gambler ; if as a member of a British House of Commons he should aspire to the dignity of an orator , write his speeches , and break down in delivering them ; if after breathing for years the atmosphere of the very land of freedom , he should return to his native soil , professing to be the champion of liberal principles , and be found practising on his vassal tenantry the most contemptible freaks of impotent tyranny—should such a man be discovered , well indeed might he be branded as an impostor , and if he should have ventured to fling the foul epithet at men more upright and consistent than himself , deservedly might he be set down as a calumniator also . Let Sir Robert Peel beware— ' They who live in glass houses should never throw stones . '" " A very pretty quarrel as it stands . " Although we do live in the nineteenth century , were both the antagonists young men , a duel must ensue .

      In a rejoinder , written in a much better spirit , he declines to bandy personalities , and produces a letter to his agent , which , shows that he had exercised no coercion over his tenants , though he had exercised influence over them . The Queen ' s birthday was kept on Saturday in a style of unusual gaiety and brilliance . In the morning a review at Woolwich , and a parade at the Horse-guards , sufficiently attractive to thin the numbers at the Exposition . At noon a drawing-room , and in the evening full-dress Ministerial banquets . The illuminations at the clubs , theatres , institutions , and shops were more numerous and splendid than usual . The weather was very fine , and the streets thronged all the day and evening .

      Her Majesty ' s birthday was celebrated with various popular rejoicings on the Queen ' s Island , at Belfast . At Cork there was a field day of the tioops in that garriaon , in the newly-formed public park . Her MajeBty , Prince Albert , and the ltoyal Eamily , with ; their illustrious visitors , left the Palace in seven carriages , escorted b y a detachment of Lancers , and Eroceeded to the Paddington utution of the Great Weatorn -ailway , whence a special train conveyed them to Windsor . The Queen intends to visit the Corporation of the city of London on the 2 nd of July , and to be present at a grand banquet which is to take place in the Guildhall , in commemoration of the Exhibition of All Nations .

      A correspondent supplies us with an interesting court Incident . —On Tuesday , as the Queen and Prince Albert were leaving the Park , by the Marble Arch , there happened to stand close to the gate the carriage or perambulating advertisement-van of the far-famed Tiffin . The Prince caught sight of it , and drew the attention of her Majesty to the inscription . It was surmounted with the royal arrns , emblazoned in a striking manner , and ran thus : — " Tiflln and Son , i ) ug-Krariicfktorn to tli « Koyal l- ' uinily , 30 , Grout Maryloliont' .-ntroeL . KHtiibliHlu'd IBU 5 . "

      Our correspondent says that " the Queen seemed to read It , and laughed heartily . Tilttri must have destroyed some millions of his friends—1 was going to say of hi . enemies . The Duke ' s performances fall much short of this ! " Truly ; a century and a-half " eradicating " aforesaid about the throne ! The Duke of Atholl , Grand Master Mason of Scotland , accompanied by various ollicern of the Grand Lodge , paid a masonic visit to tlve province of Ayr . Thin in the first occusion of a Grand Master visiting Ayrshire since that office beca me elective in 17 . 'W . The Essex Herald stut . es that it is now fully decided that I mice Albert will visit Ipswich on the . { rd of July , during the sitting of the British Association , and shop at nhrubland-park .

      A couversuzione wns hold at the Mansion-house' on Wednemtuy evening . It was very numerously attended , and may he reckoned one of the international gatherings of the year . Tho 14 ton regatta came off ou Wednesday . The

      weather was splendid , the sport good , and the company numerous and brilliant .

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      The King of Prussia returned to Berlin in the evening of the 29 th ult ., a . nd was received at the railway station by the Prince of Prussia and the President of the Council of Ministers . The Prince and Princess Frederick of the Netherlands arrived at Berlin on the 29 th ult . The Grand Dukes Nioholas and Michael of Russia were expected on the following day . The Ministerial crisis in Belgium still continues , nevertheless the Independence states that the King will go to London from the 15 th to the 20 th of June , for the purpose of visiting the Great Exhibition . M . Thiers returned to Paris on Monday from London , where he visited the Duchess of Orleans .

      A note , signed by General Leflo and M . de Larochejaquelein on the part of General de Grammont , and by Colonel Charras and M . Labrousse on the part of M . Baune , announces that the dispute between General de Grammont and M . Baune has been amicably settled , M . Baune having withdrawn the offensive expression which he had used towards the general . Letters from St . Petersburg state that the life of the Duke de Leuchtenberg , the Emperor ' s son-in-law , was despaired of . The Viennes newspapers record the complete success , at the Imperial operas , of an English vocalist , Miss Rafter , who has made a decided impression in "La Figlia del Reggimento . " Count Sandor , the son-in-law of Prince Metternich , died on the 26 th of May , at Prague , where he was confined in a lunatic asylum .

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      We understand that a grand fete and fancy sale will be held in the grounds of Mr . Henry Smith , in the Bedford Private-road , Clapham-road , on the 12 th and 13 th of June , in aid of the funds of the Stockwell National School . The Board of Ordnance have kindly lent tents , and full military bands are engaged . With regard to an assertion at the Lambeth Police Court , that Messrs . Henry and Thomas Dimsdale , who were described as having been parties to a series of offensive assaults on persons returning from Epsom races , are the sons of Mr . Dimsdale the banker , we are authorised to state that such is not the case . —Times .

      The Marquis of Westminster has issued a circular stating that he is compelled to limit the orders for admission to the gnllery at Grosvenor-house ; at the same time " it will give him pleasure " to admit his " personal acquaintances , " and those who can obtain introductions to Lord Westminster ! M , Leon Foucault ' s experiment of the rotatory motion of the earth by moans of the pendulum is now in course of trial in the Radcliffe Library , under the direction of eminent scientific men . It is understood that Mr . Frederick Hill , who has filled the office of inspector of prisons for sixteen years , has been induced to resign that appointment for the more arduous one of Assistant-Secretary to the Postmaster-General . The salary is about the same in both cases .

      Sir James Campbell , of Stracathro , has a peacock upwards of twenty years of age . It is in splendid plumage , and measures seven feet from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail . John Trueman , the Devonshire champion , undertook and accomplished , on Tuesday last , the extraordinary pedestrian feat of walking 100 miles in 21 hours . He finished his work an hour within the time , and , although evidently tired , was neither faint nor in pain . —Devonshire Paper . Dr . Callaird Erck , one of the ecclesiastical commissioners for Ireland , died , on Monday , after a short illness . M . Daniel O'Connor , the last surviving son of General Arthur O'Connor , and grandson of the celebrated Condorcet , died on the 26 th ult . at hia estate in the Loiret . He leaves two sons . It will not have been forgotten that Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Arthur O'Connor were tho two leaders in the Irish rebellion of ' 08 .

      The letter which went the round of the press under the title of "Diplomatic Revelations" ban given rise to an action for libel , brought by Mr . M . Burke ugainst the Earl of Clarendon . Ttie declaration in the case was filed on Tuesday . It embodies five distinct counts : one charges the defendant with having written the celebrated letter to the Earl of ( Shrewsbury ; another holds Lord Clarendon responsible for its publication in the 'Tablet newspaper ; and a third with the dissemination of the libel generally . The declaration is attested with the signatures of Mr . IJutt , Q . C , and Nir Column O'Loghlen . The defendant mudt plead to the declaration within eight days . A letter from Ilobart Town states that Mr . Meaghcr was about to In : married to Miss Dennett , daughter of « x farmer near New Norfolk . — I ' ost . [ The Nation has formally contradicted this report . ]

      Sir Henry liulwvr is becoming a groat favourite ; in the United States . The other day he addressed a meeting of the Maryland Historical Association in Baltimore , and in the course of his speech tickled his audience immensely by a description of the state of his ( Yt'lingH on landing from the ship on the banks of the Potomac ; - "I adjured the spirit of the great American Republican ( General Washington , . it Mount Vernon ) , whom oik ? of his biogi apheiH has

      dencribed ivh preeminently the Knglish gentleman—( chtters )—to blew * the humble endeavour of one of Kng land'a sons , who citme to that spot with the earnest , desire to reconcile the children of those who fought , at Trenton or Yorktown . to that old country in which arc mill to be found the tombs and t . mphien of their early fathers . " ( Cheers . ) Again he says : — " 11 . did neeni to me that thu United St . itten of America did not present n theatre for diplomacy of red tapv .- ( cheers and Uuu / IUer ) —for tho diplomacy of that uchool which never " writes

      but in cipher—( laughter )—which , as M . de Talleyrand has said , always speaks in the language best adapted to the thoughts . ( Cheers . ) I thought that you Americans were a people who would understand and appreciate the man who stepped out from the dark covert of official reserve , and stood side by side with you on the plain broad platform of social intercourse . " ( Cheers . ) Upon this a local editor remarks that the " diplomacy of the British Minister is certainly in a new school , but it is a school aB certainly that suits the character of our people better than any other in which European diplomatists have studied . "

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      THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILWAY . The account which we last week published of the proposed railway from Halifax to Quebec will have prepared our readers for Mr . Whitney ' s plan of an Atlantic and Pacific Railway . The subject has aroused great attention in each hemisphere , and the prospect thus opened , has disclosed , as it expanded , not only new and boundless fields , as an inheritance for the surplus population of Europe , but a new and magnificent highway for the commerce of the world between Europe and Asia .

      The project of Mr . Asa Whitney is nothing less than to construct a railway 2030 miles in length , through the wilderness from Lake Michigan to jPuget Sound in Oregon . The whole scheme sounds extravagant when first propounded . The fact is that its success depends upon conditions which would be fatal to an ordinary scheme for a railway . That it will pass through land where there are neither towns nor population—fliat it requires no stock—that it will

      return no dividends , —these things alone make it practicable at all . The origin of this scheme was , as we said last week , similar to the origin of the idea of a railway through British North . America . Populations follow road-making ; permanent settlement follows population ; and permanent settlement involves the cultivation of the soil , the rise of cities , the consolidation of states , the growth of empires .

      A road imparts value to land which otherwise would be valueless ; and a railway at least doubles that value . The observation of this simple fact has apparently given rise to the mighty plan for a railway across two-thirds of an immense continent . This , which we may call the law of colonization , furnishes at once the necessity and the reason for the scheme . The route of the proposed railway lies through 800 miles of rich prairie , available for agricultural purposes , and affording a ready return for the labour bestowed in its cultivation . The remainder of the

      route , for above a thousand miles , is less valuable , and then for about 100 miles , as you approach the Pacific Ocean , the fertile soil recurs . This route leads directly , as we shall presently see , to the East —to Australia , Polynesia , Japan , China , Borneo , and the Indies . In fact , it is the route which commercial men have so long sighed for , and which the genius of Mr . Whitney has at length discovered . The plan by moans of which he proposes to traverse the American continent is equally novel ; it is based upon the land . lie asks the American Congress to grant him a belt of sixty miles , thirty on either . side of the line , at 10 cents , per acre , and the

      improved value which the railway would confer upon this land , he reasonably estimates , would defray all expense of construction . He proposes to complete the line by sections of ten miles , and as each section is completed , to sell a portion of the lands to emigrants in fixed lots ; reserving a portion of the 800 miles of the best to meet the outlay in constructing the line through the less valuable territory . Timber , at the point on the shores of Lake Michigan , where the line would be begun , and which would form the framework of the line , is very abundant . The rusk of emigration at this point would supply labourers , and the more provident of theso labourers would in

      time become tho purchasers of the lands on either side , their places being supplied by fresh emigrants . The whole capital employed in constructing the ; line would be thus invested in the land , and secured upon it . When the whole line shall be completed ,

      Hut is it feasible ? The previous paragraph answers ( lie question . On this point , however , we have the distinct opinion of the Committee of Roads of the Congress of the United Slates appointed to investigate and report upon the bill then before Congress . They say : ¦ --" From what is known of the effect of railroads and canals on the value oflands mul property hordeiiug upon them , the committee think i /' safe to conclude that Hitch a road will add great , value to the land which it . piiHsen ; and whether it , will be Miflicieiit for the purpose is tins risk of the party undertaking it .. It in bin interest and business to muko it mi ; and an he Iuih already devoted miiri ) than eight yearn oxeluaivoly , and at bin own rxpcn . 'ir , to the investigation of this subject , in this

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      June 7 , 1851 . ] UCftS Uttfbtt . 533

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1851, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1886/page/9/