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impossible not to see that each of these two grand Parties , Sanitary and Agricultural , feels it has some lesson to learn , and some aid to seejf ffrojft flje other $ that the two great movements of matepfjjj amelioraT tion , in town and country , which have jiftherto run separate , though collateral , courses , Jftust henceforth merge into one ; that the puri # p £ ] tion of our cities , and the fertilization of our ^ p lds , are but different aspects of the same problem , different parts of the same process , different results of the
same organization ; and that ( we are still quoting Mr . Ward ' s impressive language ) as Sanitary reform is but the cultivation of healthier crops of men , so Agricultural progress is but the improved hygiene of growing crops and cattle ; while both reforms require for their achievement the construction of a vast tubular net-work , arterial and venous , beneath every town and over the whole surface of the country . This mighty work presents to the national energy and enterprise a new
field , still vaster in conception , and more incalculably fruitful of advantages to mankind , than even the great railway movement , of which it is the logical complement . For while the railway system has quadrupled the facilities for transporting the products of the soil from place to place , this new Tubular Organization will , at no distant period , quadruple the productsthemselvestobetransported . The burst of real native eloquence from the Honourable J . L . White , which closed the
evening with a striking and hopeful effect , is a new and forcible tribute to that idea which is gaining ground on both sides of the Atlantic—the Anglo-American alliance . So many eminent American citizens have now promised the practical championship of America , should England have to sustain the fight of freedom against the
encroachments of despotism , that the feeling must be too deeply rooted and too widely spread to depend upon the caprices of official intercourse . And these multiplied approaches between the citizens of the two countries , are a truer bond of federation in freedom , than the most plausible and
wellbalanced of diplomatic treaties . The investigation into the causes of the Stockport riots continues , and the inquest on the body of Moran has been concluded . So far as the evidence goes , it only discloses what strong feelings of rancour against the Roman Catholics are nourished , like noxious weeds , by the Protestants .
The Queen has been cruising with a noble squadron of war- steamers from the Isle of Wight , skirting the coast , to Plymouth , taking the gentle population of Torquay by a sweet surprise , as she sat sketching the beauty of her island cliffs ; while the royal " youngsters" were skylarking on deck . And Prince Albeit , with his ever alert public
spir it , has mingled the useful with the pleasant , by a flying visit to the reproductive agricultural operations on Dartmoor ; and by a minute inspection of the batteries that command one of the noblest harbours in the world . The visit of the President of France to Strasbourg , the fetes ami official ovations in that picturesque city ; the . inauguration of the great line <>( 'l-iiilwnv from Paris to the Rhine ; and the pacific
invasion of ( iennany by the man who once expressed one part of his mission to be the recovery of the 1 V ( ntier of the Rhine ;—such is the absorbing and exclusive intelligence from France . Significant was that bridge of boats thrown across the rushing rive by the French engineers , mnidst tin ; compliments of Prussian and Federal officers ; significant that tiviinplwl progress through Alsace of the man for wlu . in Alsace once re fused to rise when the coup dc w / ui was but the reheiusul of the future coup d ' etat .
As for the processions , and the banners , and the shouts , Jind the illuminations , they had welcomed many u prince now exiled or forgotten ; even the staite carriage hud served for more than one dynasty , and for tin ; Republic in its brief noon of honour . As for the supple telegraph , this reudy tongue of an unscrupulous funetionurism , « uriMiases itself iu delirious mtaozymoozy , and
becomes almost sj ^ lime shameless adulation , faxing the Fre ^ pf * language to ( exhaustion by it § jyftcal exepftftf . JSo . doubt , ftpflrpver , Louis # applpon has fceen rpppived with considerable fejrvor b y the " la $ s anji lasses" of Alsace ; and the f ^ ajism tk $ allures him to tj ^ ist hi § life to the pppyrd , wins pven $ e disaffected to a feeling almost of sympathy to Jus person , so little , attractive of itself , so unsusceptible of hero worship .
Above the din of the elections , come still small voices from afar , showing that civilization and commerce are making conquests over barbarism . Cotton grown in Australia has found its way to Manchester , and report speaks in the highest terms of its fitness for our manufactures . News arrives that the new commercial fairs will be held in December , at Sukkur and Kurrachee ; and
merchants see visions of large commerce with Central Asia , and with Persia , via Trebizond . From Chagres come letters telling of the progress of the railway across the Isthmus of Panama , which , when completed , will be a noble monument of human enterprize . Last , not least , is the story of whale-fishing with electric batteries , a process which is quite successful .
Our list of crimes is rather heavy . We have a case of heartless and rascally breaking of trothplight ; four attempts at suicide by women ; a singular story of a portrait-swindler , who worked the fertile mine of human vanity with great success ; and scandalous revelations respecting a sham emigration company , set on foot on the pretext of assisting poor emigrants in their passage out to Australia . Enough for one week .
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THE DERBY BRIBERY . Moeoan , the man arrested in the dark room , and on whom 135 sovereigns were found , was examined on Thursday . That he was a briber ' s agent was clearly proved . The following letter was found in his pocket , addressed to " Mr . John Frail , Clerk of the Course , Shrewsbury / ' and was as follows : — " A good and safe man , with judgment and quickness , is wanted immediately at Derby . I suppose that you cannot leave your own place ; if not , send some one whom you can trust in your place . Let him go to Derby on receiving tliis , and find the County Tavern , in the centre of the town , and send hia card to Cox , Brothers , and Company , lead worka , as coming from Chester ; that will be enough . **• " " Monday . "
Mr . J . Keogh , formerly secretary of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company , of which Major William Beresford , now one of the members for Essex , was chairman , deposed that the handwriting of the letter and the envelope was the handwriting of Major William Beresford , Secretary-at-War , and Tory whipper-in . Morgan was admitted to bail—himself at 3001 ., and two sureties at 150 Z . each . Two innkeepers appeared as sureties .
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FUNERAL OF HENRY CLAY . The corpse of Henry Clay has been borne in solemn state , inoro like a triumphal than a funeral procession , from Washington to Kentucky . On the 1 st of July the body was taken to the Senate House on a ear drawn by nix white horses , escorted by a large number of official and parliamentary personages , and an attendant multitude . There a funeral sermon was preached over tho body by the chaplain of the Senate ; and after the senators , representatives , military and naval officers , and others had taken a last look at tho face of Henry ( Hay , tho body was removed to this Rotunda , and tho great body of tins people were admitted to file past tho t'AtiYin .
1 ' Yoin Washington tho remains were transported to Itnltiinorc . When tho telegraph announced that tho ( ruin had set out , minute guns began firing , bells tolling , the people flocked into the streets , and tho stores wore closed . Tho coffin was deposited in the Exchange , and the crowd were admitted to neo tho body . From Itultimoro it was taken to Wilimcyfon ; thonoo to Philadelphia , arriving Into in tho evening . Hero the procession moved through the . streets , lighted by
thousands of torches , anil accompanied by an enormous procession to the Hall , where tho Declaration of Independence was read in 177 « . As it passed along , guns boomed , ( ire-bells rang , and church-bells tolled . Three barrels of tin- wciv net u bliizo in front of the Hall , and the crowd marched past uncovered ; and all night a guard oi honour , formed of the Washington ( keys , watched over the sarcophagus . Afc every place between Philadelphia and New York , Himilnr Higns of popular feeling were manifested . At Now York tho whole city
seemed in fftpunupg . The procession passed along the Broadway to thi } jbity Hall , through a vast but respectful crowd ] , and ia » e body was placed in the Goyernor sf room / fj ^ re the people were admitted to see the coffin , and tjje ladies soon almost covered it with nosegays of splendid flowers . One gentleman placed fin it a dollar p \ pp $ which had belonged to Washington , From Ne . jar ^ pric the procession started on the 3 rd of July for Kentucky , and at the towns on the route similar ceremonies were performed . General Scott attended the " funeral , " as it is called , at Washington ; and General Franklin Pierce delivered a funeral oration at Concord , in New Hampshire , on the 2 nd of July .
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EMIGRANTS BEWARE ! Captain Lean , of the Royal Navy , the Government Emigration Agent , accompanied by several working , men , appeared before Sir Robert W . Carden , at the Mansion House , on Wednesday , to make a complaint against an alleged " company , " called the " Australian Gold Company and Emigration Company , " professing to hold offices at G , Austin-friars . Several persons had partly paid for their passage to Australia , through the means of this pretended company , but on their applying for a passage by the Camilla , by which they were to go out , they found that the owners of this vessel
disclaimed all knowledge of the company . The clerk who chiefly conducted this undertaking , and had signed most of the receipts for the money deposited , was found to be in Whitecross-street prison . Captain Lean had applied at the offices of the company , but all attempts to obtain restitution had been vain . The prospectus of the company mentioned the names of a nobleman and several gentlemen of undoubted respectability as directors , but every one of these when applied to had denied all knowledge of the concern . Captain Smith , R . N ., whose name was published as secretary , disavowed all connexion with the affair , and came forward readily to assist in the exposure of the fraud .
Sir Robert Carden said he believed that the prospec * tus had been before the public for some time , and that it had been advertised in the newspapers . If such were the case , he thought that all who were named , as directors would be liable for the moneys received , from the fact that no public contradiction had been made of such statement . He thought that in such , cases the contrivers of a scheme would often borrow this sort of authority by their representations , and when the real facts began to appear the directors were sure to declare that their names had been unwarrantably used . He thought that in this case delusion had been used to obtain money , and he declared that he would sift it to the bottom .
Captain Smith here assured the alderman that lie had nothing to do with the office . He had distinctly declared that he would not act as secretary . In reply to a question from Sir Robert Carden , he said that he knew the man who had been mentioned as being in Whitecross-street prison , but be had been deceived in regard to his character . Ho had never been at the offices but once , and he had then been told that the nobleman and one of the gentlemen who were said to be directors were present . Ho said that the prospectus had been out about three weeks , but it had not been ,
to his knowledge , advertised in tho public papers . H < had cautioned the parties who had managed tho business against committing themselves by taking deposits . Sir Robert Carden thought that , as Captain Smith , upon finding himself represented a « secretary , had not disavowed the imputation , he was undeniably responsible us to all tho pecuniary matters in which the company was involved . Captain Smith said he had done all he could to serve the poor men , and to obtain restitution for them , and this statement was confirmed by Captain Lean . Captain Smith said fie had written to tho directors to request their attendance on this
occa-. Sir Robert Carden inquired if any of the directors were present , but none appeared . Captain Smith siutl he had no ideii at all of the amount of the receipts . Sir Robert Carden said there could be no doubt thut tho money had been fraudulently received . Ho said ho should grant summonses against nil tho directors «< Friday next , when he expected ai great many visitors on questions of this kind . He hoped ho should bo »» ) 1 ( 3 to fix the responsibility . Captain Loan warned the public against tho udvurtisements of a person named Klynn , who had Bent rou" * bills oifering to enublo men to got out to Australia by a sort of Derby sweep , at the rate of fivo shilling * n-head
. . it iu inii -a Sir Robert Carden bud underKtood that Flynn I »«" given out that Messrs . Masterman , Peters , and C (> j would receive dopositu for him . Hir Robert further sai that ho aliould bo happy to inako the acquaintance o Mr . Flyim .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/2/
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