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( cheers ) I Bhould not now be returning thanks to you as Bitting member for Middlesex . ( 'Brentford did well . ' ) Brentford did its duty , t od Hounslow too , hut still you trill see the great majority was in Mile-end—that in other districts every poll-book tallied with that of my opponent ; but that jiile-end put me in the position I occupy . ( Cheers . )" Lord Blandford also addressed the meeting amid much clamour , and after the vote of thanks to the Sheriffs the meeting dispersed . The following polls have come to hand : — NOBTHUMBEELAND ( NORTH ) . GBOSS POLL . Lovaine 1414 Ossulston 1335 Grey 1300 Declaration of poll on Monday . NOKTHAMPTONSHIEE ( NORTH ) . Stafford 562 Maunsell 560 Fitzwilliam 34 The poll was kept open a few . hours at Weliingborough , on Wednesday , it having been closed on Tuesday in consequence of a riot , but no votes were recorded . BTTBLIN ( COUNTY ) . Hamilton 1948 Taylor 1939 Craven 1385 Lentaigne 1370 down ( county ) , first dat . Lord Hill 4076 Kerr 3546 Crawford 2758 CLARE COUNTY . FIBST BAT . Vandeleur . , 889 Fitzgerald 883 C . O'Brien 839 Riot Act read , and five men killed and seven wounded at Sixmilebridge . MEATH COUNTY . CLOSE OP THE POI 1 . Lucas 1715 CorbaUy 1688 Grattan 419
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choice and less exclusive in the selection of their members . It may be all very well to secure the secresy of selection in the Club , but in a matter of such questionable importance as the choice of representatives for the Commons House of Parliament , the precaution of a Ballot-box is unworthy of that noble animal , the English elector . Mark , however , this confession , extorted by the Derbyite screw from the lips of a past and possible Cabinet Minister : —
THE " SCREW" IN" THE COUNTIES . Sir George Grey , sorely pinched by the Derbyite screw , testifies with a quasi-official reluctance to the necessity of protection to the independent voter . The ex-Whig Home Secretary , standing at bay on the hustings of Alnwick , is no admirer of the Ballot . No doubt , he still clings to the belief , that it is un-English to extend the practice of Pall-mall to societies less
" I will only say this—that , thinking as I do that the advantages and dangers of that system are both greatly exaggerated ; and , doubting as I do its efficiency , and not being forward to adopt it , I must say , that those persons among us who exercise an undue influence and coercion over the honest voters — ( Mr . Collingwood , of Glanton here cried out , ' Name , name , and no insinuation , ' and Sir George continued)—I am asked to name those who have exercised i ^ due influence over voters , and who have created on their part a demand for the ballot . I had almost said their ntime was legion . ( Cheers and hisses . ) I only wish to say , that men who have acted in this way ( To more than any arguments can do in favour of those who advocate the ballot . "
So much for Northumberland , according to the testimony of Sir George Grey . But the fact is , that the remarks we made last week , on the coercion practised by a barbarous landlordism , fell far short of the scandalous reality . We write in the midst of a heap of damning proofs of these fatal excesses of a bastard feudalism . Last week we singled out one county for
disgraceful distinction . We return this week to the same spot , not because we believe the doings in East Somerset to be exceptional , but because circumstances have placed in our hands the reports of eyewitnesses , and of suffering electors in that county—reports which wo defy all ( ho audacity of " unjust stewards " to refute .
Of course , the result of the election has been the return of the two " Farmers' Friends , " and the rejection of the Liberal-Conservative . True , the latter had been in the field only three weeks ; but even had ho appealed to the good sense and public spirit of that constituency six months ago , lie would have been eminently inadequate to represent no much brutality , ho much corruption an have contributed to the success of his opponents . We tell Mr . Elton , it is an honour to him that no future compensation ctm . surpass , and no present defeat obliterate , to have failed in a field when ; such base ; arts have won . Mr .
Miles , indeed , possesses strong personal clamiH upon Hie fidelity of bin congenial constituents ; for , putting his opinions usido , he has Iteen a diligent , painstaking , useful representative of local interests ; ho has been consistently , and , we believe , most honestly jealous of the clainiH of agricultural stolidity ; ho Iuih sliotm with a , halo of dull glory in the ranks of the Heavies ,
otherwise known as Protectionists ; ho ban run his undamaged head against walls of statistics , which no Cobden has eared to demolish , and no Upborne Ijrh expended bin rockets to explode ; and for tho reHt , ho may do to go on the stage , Home years hence , an the typo of that extinct HpecioH , the county member , for whom "Church tuid ( Stafco" wo civil and religiuud liberty , und
Taxes the British . Constitution . If it became us to allude to his more personal characteristics , we might speak with pleasant approval of his cheerful and hearty m bonhomie , of his business-like habits , and of that Napoleonic gift , of never forgetting faces and names , and taking intense in . terest in everybody ' s domestic welfare , which more than any other qualification , secures the hearts of British farmers and their wives . His colleague , Mr . Knatchbull , is a new man to the world beyond his village , and has a reputa . tion to achieve as a speaker and a legislator , which
his performances on the hustings , have , we believe , not contributed to render very threatening—' except to the English language . These are the gentlemen selected to represent , par excellence , the dirty acres" of East Somerset in Parliament What wonder that a candidate like Mr . Elton shouldbe rejected ! We " theorists , "ihdeed , might dream that a man of ancient family and gentle birth , of refined and cultivated habits , a scholar and the son of a scholar , a student and a thinker , a moderate but conscientious Churchman , living among his friends and tenantry , as a beloved and
respected neighbour , exercising the healthy influences of a country gentleman , whose life has been an open book , —we might suppose that such , a man would be the ideal of a county member in these times of ours ; but in East Somerset such a man is a Pariah : —a Jacobin , an ultra-democrat , and—a Puseyite : a singular compound . He is a Jacobin because he asserts that the many should not be sacrificed to the few ; he is a Puseyite because he endeavours to believe that his Church is something better than an establishment , and that it is not a mere shop , to be open only on Sundays , as other shops are on week days . He
is an ultra-democrat because be thinks the suffrage may be moderately extended within the limits of the constitution ; because he desires an " enlightened ministry ; " and because he says , " Let landlords do their duty by the land . " " Let no such man be trusted , " say the landlords , the magistrates , the bankers , the attorneys , the military stewards , who have for the last fortnight been holding a reign of terror in Estet Somerset , carting tenants up to the poll like sheep , menacing electors , insulting non-electors , defacing every wall with odious slanders , and with such amenities as w e will not suffer to disgrace these
columns . Four great landlords reign between Bath and Wells : they and their dependents have voted as one man , or rather as one yoke of cattle . One of these landlords , we have heard , was a conspicuous Reformer in ' 31 and ' 32 . He has supported the Liberal cause steadily for twenty years ; but now recants the opinions of a life ; and when Toryism is rotten , votes for a Tory , as when Protection is dead he plumps for a Protectionist . Talk of the agricultural mind after this !
Ho docs not coerce indeed : he tells his tenants to vote as they like , and one of them bravely stands up by his side , and plumps the other way ; but he leaves this dirty work to a steward , " with a craving after dominion , and an insolence equal to the craving . " The inditer of the pleasant circular we cited last week , is , it seems , a sort of local Louis Napoleon—a cock-tailed Ooriolanus , going in for alL that is feudal and all that is fossil in Toryism . Surely he ia a . candidate for future suffrages , for on the hustings bo has nothing better to do than to shake a stick at the electors , and at tho polling booths he prances about brandishing a whip in the midst of the tolerant and contemptuous
crowd . ILo adorns the walls of his neighbourhood with such elegancies hs " lying . scoundrel , in allusion to bis political opponents . And tho father , exulting in the genius of such a son , and iu the prudence of such a steward , commits tho well - worn reputation of a Reformer to a glass hoiiHO ruled by n brittle gentleman wh <> throws stones ! This is one episode wo have received from Kant Somerset : another is that of a very estimable professional gentleman , who dobleed
Herts his pills mid lii . s lunoet .-ca . so to poor tradesmen of their votes ; straining every nerve of intimidation in behalf of tho Tory candidates , as a mushroom might , in tho vegetable world ' grow wild in enthusiasm for the cauliflower interest : a third episode is that of an ultra ' ° w-d } W . clergyman , of tho species immortalized in W nkio Collins's ChriHtrnus Tale , who takes occasion «> preach against tho danger of elections making wen forgot their spiritual interests , and at the wanio tiniy wcasons his diHcouiwo AvitU not a i «"
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The Times of this morning , in an article on the position of parties , winds up with the following sensible paragraph : — "If an effective opposition is really to bo organizedand never was it more needed than now—the irksome labour of reconstruction must be submitted to . It will not do for the leader , whoever he may be , to act on his own views , and assume that he will be able to carry with him a party which he has not consulted . If fate shall send us again a Chatham , a Peel , or a Grey , he may exercise that undisputed supremacy which commanding- genius never claims in vain ; but those who are but a little higher than their fellows must not deem themselves of heroic stature . If the Liberal party is to bo held together and become a * eally efficient instrument of Parliamentary warfare , its leaders must be content to submit their opinions and projects in private to those whom they expect to follow them in public . " Caucus , " as tho Americans have it , is tho ono thing needful for the reconstruction of the Liberal party . It has become disorganized by the neglect of its loaders to consult its feelings and opinions ; it can only be reconstructed by allowing those who compose it the right of privato remonstrance , of suggestion , and of discussion . " The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert , escorted by the steam-fleet , left Barnpool at six o ' clock on Thursday , and proceeded to Portland , where ; Prince Albert , accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred , landed and inspected tho works at tho new breakwater . Tho steam squadron were ordered to proceed direct from Plymouth to Cowch . The Royal yacht , with the Fairy tender and Black Eagle Admiralty yacht , proceeded to Osborne , where the squadron arrived at hsilfpast Hovon o'clock . Tho Queen , Prince Albert , and tho Royal children landed at a quarter before eight o'clock on Thursday night , and immediately proceeded to O . sborne .
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Tho Prince President arrived in Paris on Friday evening . He drove , in an open carriage , between two rows of troops , along the Boulevards , the . Rue Roysile , and tho ClmnipH Elyse ' o to the Baniero do L'lOtoilo . An inunenHO crowd thronged lii « passage , and saluted him with nccluumtioiiH . It wn « ft most triumphant entry . So Hiiyn tho telegraphic despatch .
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A Btatuo wan yesterday erected to tho memory of Kir Ilobort Peel in tho market-place atJTamworMi .
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Tho Queen ' s TOO guinea cup to the It . V . Y . Club , has boon won by Mm Arrow cutter , ilw JUnittfuito l > e »» g " ' - oond , and tlio celebrated America only third . I lie wind was paltry and baffling , and the cutters were perhaps moid Hkilfully handled Mian tho schooner . With a steadier breeze , the America would probably have inuinlained her laurels . Tim Arrow has been built twenty-five years , but for all sailing purposes nho is a new voHHel , having been lengthened only last winter . The match excited great initt-vwt , and tho roiult cojjuuUerftbk fyurjpriwi
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SATURDAY , JULY 24 , 1852 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/14/
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