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982 THE LIADE R. " [Saturday ,
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TJIM MKKTINd OF PARLIAMENT. The general ...
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LORD DERBY ELECTED CHANCELLOR OP OXFORD....
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revenue tables of 437 , 3971 . on the year , the Protectionists take no advantage of that circumstance to deny the prosperity of the country , Qf the successes of reduced taxation ; a fact Which showd how thoroughly they must be disheartened . Lord Derby has been formally elected Chancellor by the Oxford Convocation , and the University
seal has been duly stamped upon the instrument . In the absence of the real University , this strange alliance between the more political and more timid of the High Church party and the regular old Lion and Unicorn Parsondom , aided by the other causes to which we alluded last week , has attained its purpose . How long such an inauspicious victory of timeservers and obstructives will avert the
coming storm , a very few years will abundantly prove . But even this election has not passed off so snugly as its authors and abettors had designed . The Senior Proctor , understood to be a man of distinguished attainments , a sound churchman , a liberal Conservative , and a hearty Reformer , large in his views and earnest in his convictions , disturbed the dreary farce of the ceremony by a bold and striking protest , of which not even the dead language could dull the force . Indeed , the language of Tacitus , wielded with the masterly
elegance of the scholar , terse , incisive , and exact , fell upon the ear of that lettered audience with an almost Roman eifect ; and more than one passage aroused the helpless dissentients , and disturbed the consciences of the acquiescent . Mr . Lake has secured a page of honour in the history of the University for his year of office and his own name . With manly energy he has vindicated the fresher mind of the new generation from the torpid tyranny of the old . One capital result springs from this election : it reanimates the discussion of
the University's shortcomings . For our part we shall not forget the hint . Perhaps even Lord Derby may turn round on his constituents , and , for the sake of popularity , end where he began , by proposing to throw open the University to the Dissenters ? One satisfactory trait of the present time , and we must give credit to all parties for it , is the absence of any unfair allusion to Queen Victoria , or her predilections . The Queen has been visiting
Preston and Bangor , and has been excellently received by the Democrats of the North . The theoretical anti-monarchical , or anti-aristocrsitic asperities of the English working-classes always melt before the conciliatory presence of nobility or royalty . What overwhelming influence a few noblemen or gentlemen might attain , if they would only cultivate a mutual intercourse between their own class and the working people—if they woidd but take the pains frankly and freely to bet / in that intercourse .
982 The Liade R. " [Saturday ,
982 THE LIADE R . " [ Saturday ,
Tjim Mkktind Of Parliament. The General ...
TJIM MKKTINd OF PARLIAMENT . The general impression in official quarters is flint Parliament will moot about the F > th or ( Jlh of November , but that the Queen ' s Speech will not be delivered until about the ] lth of that month . It is generally understood , however , that to-morrow ( Friday ) the < l ; iy of ' assembling will be positively fixed . —Moruina Herald .
The Ql I Hen's Llktuitn. Heu Ma.Ikhtv Le...
THE Ql I HEN'S llKTUItN . Heu Ma . ikhtv left Hahnnral on Tuesday morning and drove to Stonehaven . Here she ; entered u carriage prepared-for her on the railway , and steamed to Kdinburgh , which she reached the same evening . She was received by a guard of honour ; and along the road to Holyrood torch-bearers were intermixed with the soldiers , producing mi original and striking effect . At flic palace the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen . The next morning Her Majesty set out at half-past eight , and the train duHhed along at a greaf ; speed , stopping only
u very short , tinio at Carlisle , and flying along to Prenton , where greaf . preparations were made to receive l , l ) r—dcscrilxid elnewhere . heaving Preston , the train earned ifs regal load , viti VVarrington to Chester , where sho was received by the Marquis of Westminster , the JMshop of Chester , and other personn . The next place of note was Unngor , where the Queen arrived about eight , Jind Hliipt for the night . Tho Itangor people provided a fStti for her ; among other thingrf , bonfires wero lighted on the hilla , and the town was partially illuminated . Aflor receiving addresses from tho
Corporation and the ittiihop , Her Majesty left for "Windsor , proceeding through Shrewsbury , - Birmingham and Oxford , and rfetti'mng home early on Thursday evening by the Gre & t Western Railway .
The Queen A* The Piteston Station. [A Sp...
THE QUEEN A * THE PItESTON STATION . [ A SPECIAL BEPOkT . ] ttiTDER a calico' bdoth , with an impromptu carpet to match , the Queen of Great Britain has just alighted with her royal family . ' The Prince appears more gentlemanly and less military in his imperial bearing than he did a few years ago . Her Majesty I have not seen since she called at Farnham , just after her return from Blair Athol , in the days of Louis Philippe , whom she was accompanying to his embarkation . She is now more matronly , but has lost none of that intense womanliness , which , would arrest attention and excite interest , were she not a Queen . She looks as fresh as a wood nymph . The Prince of Wales seems a delicate boy with a thoughtful interesting face , so far as he can be observed . The other children are not well distinguishable amid flurried civic dignitaries , who seem not unlikely to tread- jupon them . Preston did not outwardly and visibly appear to be very ambitious of the honour of Her Majesty ' s calh Had it not been for the exertions of Dr . Monk , the mayor , ( the Queen is a favourite with all the mayors ) who , with Mr . Townley Parker , M . P ., and Mr . German , had the chivalry to go to Balmoral on Saturday , to learn Her Majesty ' s pleasure , it is likely that the dead bones of Preston courtiership would not have been stirred at all .
The station where Her Majesty has alighted is in a kind of swamp . A stranger imagines that the station has got bebogged there , and can never get into the town . As you descend the hill to it you are made sensible , when within the buildings of the station , of two kinds of air—confined air , and air that ought never to be at liberty . The authorities have made the station pretty , but it is ' out of their power to make it sweet . Glazed ginghams , paper flags and artificial roses , adorn the railway station . The race of cavaliers who spread costly ermine under queenly feet is extinct in Preston . Had the ladies of Preston subscribed a silk
shawl each , the tribute would have been more courtly . If the town is chary of expenses—if the common people cannot be asked for help , where & re the gentlemen whose purses should have been at the disposal of their royal mistress ? The feudal lords had homage of old to give—the cotton lords give glazed calico . I make no reproaches , draw no inferences , only state facts , and they mean—what they mean . When the working class withhold loyal manifestations there is , at least , a kind of consistency in it—but those who scorn them for it , and who take credit for the profession of royal appreciation , should have more of the real spirit . We are passing , here , through tho observance of a dead custom—not a living reverence . If the true reverence were here , we should see it in the alleys of Friargate as well as aspiring to the court of St . James's .
If tho chivalry of Preston could not get beyond paper flags—if the station could not . be transmuted into an imperial stall , why not send to Manchester , buy up the plate looking-glass and line the narrow railway pass with it—so that the Queen might have seen her own fascinating smile , and the reflected delight of her royal children—there might have been delicacy in tho compliment . Certain railway officials wrote to Balmoral , expressing an opinion that they could not insure Her Majesty a cordial reception , and therefore she ; had better pass on . Did they go the right way about it ? The
aristocracy of the Town Council wished to keep the people away— -wished the station-pur ty to be " select . " Their modesty supposed that the Queen would be best pleased lo see them . This is one of tin ; peculiar ways in which aristocracy seeks to make royalty popular . The working-class of Preston are not fervent . Royalist * , bul ; they are genuine men , and would nhow no rudeness . If u vote were taken hen ; on the question of hereditary or elective monarchy , a majority would be registered in favour of the , elective , crownship . Hut tho same people would be too noble to ofl ' er any personal indccorousncsH to the Queen . They would stand iip for
principle and for courtesy , too , it properly treated , lint , here there in little chance- of political integrity coining out except wif . h ill-feeling , bemuse good feeling is not appealed to in a frank , out-spoken way . A vapid proclamation , such as now appears on the walls , soliciting co-operation on this " happy occasion of Her Majesty ' s conilf . scen . tiov , " is just , the language which will not accomplish the end in view nor improve the tone of the neglected people . Dissent , from n political office and perfect personal respect , and even esteem for tho representative of it , so long as it in continued and genially filled , is quite possible to the Preston
mindif gentlemeh were here who knew the art of trustina U As it is , the reception is flat . Some working indeed , "lose tlittte" in order to be hereto ?' sacrifice than the !* employers make , or their ennE would -give" the time . The Queen passes tTrou ? h scattered tmpiig , tut scarcely a cheer greets th * ™ * , fear She reached * , station . It is ^ cU " tv T enthusiasm * that has called the assembl y there toeeth A single and feeble shout welcomes the alightal ' w Majesty walks up the platform in a right queenly wa ^ Her bright eyes can be seen with marked effect by Tr on-lookers . The Countess of Sefton offers courtly aid distant welcomes . The Earl of Derby gathers unread addresses from the Bishop of Manchester and the c poration ' s representative . Her Majesty is very heart "" in her manner , the Prince courteous , but apparently not hearty . A short luncheon , followed by the departure and the faintest public exclamation ends the "
visit . They should have brought up the 4000 Oldham "boys" with the gutta percha throats , I heard on Monday week—or tried a genuine cheer by the Preston workmen . Her Majesty would have remembered the echo to the last day of her life . All the cheers of all the superfine West Saxony , Her Majesty has heard during the last six years' excursions , would be drowned fcy that one fustian-jacketed national shout—if Her Majesty ' s advisers would do the proper thing to the people , and interest the nation ' s heart .
The clergy from first to last , old and young , remained uncovered . They entered the station so , and they stood so to the end . No other order of men there had the same genuine courtliness of manner . The mayor , Mr . Copland , and the superintendents of the station , particularly Mr . Bromley , offered attentions to the accommodation of reporters . The other officials were too excited , or too thoughtless . When the Queen had departed , the multitude were allowed to pass through the room in which Her Majesty had eaten . A piece of gross curiosity , that made some blush whom the crowd
forced through . A superintendent of police shouts out these revolting words : " Cast your eye on the table , and make haste through . " The road lay through the JcitcJien . The pictures borrowed to ornament the luncheon-room were ticketed with the names of the artists and lenders . The names of the artists , when they happened to belong to the towns conveyed , perhaps , a graceful compliment to the Prince ' s refined patronage of art—but the names of the lenders—what could excuse that snobbism ? Ion .
Lord Derby Elected Chancellor Op Oxford....
LORD DERBY ELECTED CHANCELLOR OP OXFORD . Tuesday was the day fixed on for the election of the Earl of Derby to the office of Lord High Chancellor of the University of Oxford . Although it was well known that no opposition would be offered to tho nomination of the Earl of Derby to this high office , some curiosity was manifested to witness the forms under which so unusual a proceeding would be conducted . Accordingly , before the arrival of the Vice-Chancellor , the Convocation House was tolerably well filled , the assemblage comprising a rather large proportion of Indies and children . Twelve o ' clock was the hour fixed for
the commencement of business ; but it was nearly halfpast before the silver inaces of the bedells were seen at the bead of the procession in which the Vice-Chancellor moves to discharge his public functions . This want oi punctuality occasioned some murmurs , as it was generally supposed that what was about to take place would be entirely of a formal character , and that nothing would occur to rnflle the smiling surface of an apparent unanimity . In this respect , however , houic pcoi »« reckoned without their host , and the election wiw not quite so tame an affair us hnd been anticipated , as wi he seen presently . Tho debate which arose watt conducted , as usual , in the Latin tongue . The Vice-Chancellor , Dr . riuniptre , as soon ns he 1 »« taken his Heat , announced that Convocation had how convened for the purpose ) of electing a successor to late Chancellor , the Dulce of Wellington . j Dr . Hliss , the registrar of the University , M ™ ' tiie Hribery Ad ; , and tint statutes of the lliiivorrtil-y - " specting elections ; and when this part of the cen' " ^ had been despatched , the senior proctor ( the Kev . C . Lake , of liiilliol College ) stood up . and very » " ^ to the surprise of the majority of the lusnembly , «*• permission of the Vice-Chancellor to address Con ^ tion . Tho Vice-Chancellor observed Unit at |» ^ there was no business before ) the house ; noveii . he gave tho permission desired . Lai" ' , Then followed a profit from the Rev . W . < - ' ^ who filln the important office of Honior proctoi , who besiden in tutor of Itolliol College . ^ . llu olmorvod , that , iih it ftppniirod that . ih « j ( ^ b ()( , Lord Derby would bo unopposed , ho should » " . l ( , irlud to bo Hpored tho aoeiwity fc of yayiutf W 111
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101852/page/2/
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