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the Libeeator ; " and of " Moral Combination as opposed to Physical Force . " A " Finn 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 unpromising . " He rejoices to find the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill , against which lie voted , " fast becoming null and void . " " With regard to the internal commerce of Ireland , " lie " looks forward to a new order
of things ; " , in the meantime , announces himself as a patron of sugar-beet , and a prospective manufacturer of sugar therefrom . He is , we arc 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'Donnell ? 0 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 .
Malxovv . —Wednesday . —The Liberal candidate has been returned . At the close of the poll the numbers
were— Sir Denham Jephson Xorrcys , Bart . ? 59 Captain Stannard Eustace . ... 44 New Iloss . —Wednesday . —The polling for this borough tool ; 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 Sir Thomas Redington having withdrawn , the contest lay between the Liberal and Derbyite candidates .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 ) 3 G It is stated that notice of a petition has been served on Mr . Dully . PouTARLiNOiTOX . —Colonel Dunne , Derbyite , was re-eloctetl , on Monday , without opposition . Slioo Bohough . " —Wednesday . —At the close of
the poll the numbers were : — Mr . Charles Townlcy ( Liberal ) . 153 Mr . John PatrickSome . rs ( Liberal ) 110 Tuai . uk .- —Wednesday . —Mr . Maurice O'Connell has been returned , Mr . Ivinderly , his opponent , having retired from the contest ; the pulling , however , proceeded , and 103 vote's were recorded for Mr . O'Connell . Wa TK it mm ) City . —At the final close , at live o'clock , the numbers were : —¦
Mcagher ( Liberal ) 403 Keatinge ( Liberal ) 41-1 . Uiirron ( Derbyite ) 308 Christmas ( Derbyife ) .... 355 Your . 'HAi ,. ¦ - Wednesday , Jlalf-past Three . Butt ( Derbyite ) HO Hon . , ) . w ! Kortcseue ( Liberal ) . 10 (> < Sreat , excitement prevailed , and both parties seemed confident , of success . ( iKNI ' . KAi . HKSlir . T . As far as can be guessed , the returns give the following results : In uf . Ka i . DkKHYITKS . LlIIKUAI . S . ( ,
ih 7 i ' . 3 h r » 7 dross majority against Lord Derby . . . lOtt Liberal majority ^ Till ) IfOVAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . TlllH important association has this year held its annual exhibition at Lewes . The Tinn-s thus estimates the , two great departments , the . implement and storkyard . They were opened to the public on Wednesday , about mid-day . Looking at the implement-yard as a whole , one cannot help being impressed wil . li the
enormous aids held out therein to practical a-neulture . Thirteen years of experience have exercised a . most Kiihitary influence on the description ofniaehincs brought , forward ; and , whereas formerly there was much useless rubbish , now the practical requirements of t he farm are taken as the true guides of invention . 1 ' erhnpn no more remarkable evidence can be afforded of this than the caso of reaping machines , of which no less than Bcvcntcen Hpechnons arc exhibited , the best , milkers being competitor !* . From uinony llioui , Messrs . IJurrctt
Icy and oats—to have the effect of bonding' the straw between the guards in which the cutters work , and pullmg it off instead of cutting it . By the improved form ot cutter , registered by H . 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 . " axe ,
and Son have deservedly bome 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 which was found—in cutting soft crops , such as
bar-Tins wonderful machine promises to effect a comp lete revolution in our harvesting operations , for it cuts every description of standing crop with an evenness and regularity unknown to hand labour , and it works 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 t wo very precarious things , harvest weather and harvest hands , than he used to be .
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 Z . 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 important branch of our national 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 .
The cattle-yard opened shortly after one r o ' clock , and , on the whole , satisfactorily maintains the reputation of that department in former years . The show of mares and fillies is excellent , Suffolks taking the lead , and distancing all competition . The display of Sussex cattle was also admired ; not , perhaps , so much for their symmetry of form as for the natural , unpampeml , and unforced appearance of most of the animals . In South Down sheep it was to be expected that here , at the very foot of the hills which giro their name to the breed , and surrounded by the most celebrated Hock masters , the pens exhibited should possess
remarkable excellence , and such is the case ; but , unfortunately for Sussex , Jonas Webb again carries away the chief prices , and it seems pretty generally admitted that the quality of his sheep quite- entitled him to do so . They certainly are splendid specimens , and the lucky owner of them is overwhelmed with the most tempting oilers to part with them , even for si season ; the name pre-eminence which Jonas Webb seems to have established for himself in South Downs , Mr . W . Sunday , of Holme I'icrrepoint , near Nottingham ,
appears to have secured in Leicesters . He bus walked away with all the prizes . There was n small lot ot very fine Cotswolds shown , which it in alleged the council do not , patronize as much as they nhould , having too strong a leaning in favour of " Leicesters . " The Komney-marsh , or Kentish sheep , hardly came up to ( he expectations formed of them ; and the pigH and cattle , while of average merit , in other respects , wen ; certainly over-fattened . This was particularly remarkable in I lie Hereford bulls , -which were perfect
mountains of obesity , out , of place and out of nature , even at . the Sniifblieltl Club Show in Christmas lime , Intel therefore intolerable and disgusting in the dog-days . One word remains to be Haiti on the hIiow of poultry . It is a small display , as wais to 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 fake place in Hirmiiighaiu . IIh useful character , however , > h strictly preserved , fancy varieties being excluded from competition . A few yearn hence and there can be no doubt that , thin department , will grow info one of the most attractive features of the ahow-yuril .
DEATH OF HENRY CLAY . Henet CliAT is dead . He died at Washington , on the 29 th of June , in the presence of his son Thomas . As so on as Congress heard the news both ho uses 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 lriffh ; 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 . His father died during the revolutionary war , leaving but scanty means for the support of his family , aud 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 lie was brought to the notice of Chancellor Wythe , at Richmond , and commenced the study of the law . He was licensed 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 1808 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 , lie 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 , lie 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 ; the vote in the electoral college being—for Adams , 84 ; Jackson , 99 ; Crawford , 49 ; Clay , 37 . Mr . Adams bcino- 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 Senates ; and in 1832 was n candidate for the presidency , but defeated by General Jackson . During the session of 3833 , when the tarilf question was agitating the whole nation to an alarming extent , he brought forward his celebrated Compromise Hill which passed both houses , and restored quiet to
the country . Mr . Clay remained in tlu ; United States Senateuntil 1842 , when , on the 31 st of March , he resigned , his seat ,. In 1814 , he was the Whig nominee for Urn presidency , being defeated by Mr . I ' olk . In Decembeir 1 H 49 , he again took his seal , in the Senate , where he remained until last winter , when the encroachments oV disease obliged him to tender bin resignation . ILVt last service in the Senate was probably the Miowi glorious ; for in 18 f ><) he originated the seriw «> f measures known as the Compromise , which rcsrued the Union from one of its greatest dangers . A national career of forty-six years identified him with that , much of ( he history of the American nation , and though he has never been a . president , few presidents could hope for greater dignity , or a more ; enduring fame than his .
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LMTTIOKS I'ROM PARIS . [ KltOM OUR OWN OollltKHI'ONDICNT . ] Lkttkk XXIX . PnriH , Tiii « i < lny lOvoiihitf , July Illlli , lH 5 'i . LoiilH IJoNAl'AUTH'H government , has received . some sharp shocks of late . The official world of politic * , indeed , is making holiday , the legislative session ih closed , the knot of deputicH who whowed symptoms of oppoaition uro awuy to tho country : the President ru-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1943/page/6/
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