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riTHE . day after Parliament was prorogued , the - * . Thames , or a sewer— ¦ wh ich may be defined as a branch of the Thames—burst into one of the offices , of the House of Lords , slimino- and destroying innumerable documents , and impregnating the vacated Parliamentary atmosphere with even a more fearful stench than -ivas supposed
to have been detected during the terrible session of the election inquiries into corruption . Great neglect is indicated in such a fact ; but the neglect is constitutional . When Parliament is quite ended , and before the Recess is quite begun , public works and ' operations of every description rre nearly everywhere suspended . Therefore the invasion by the sewer liasits moral .
The cholera , however , occupies this period of suspense . In tho metropolis it is raging as a plague—killing off in all the bad neighbourhoods , and they are everywhere , the diseased and the feeble ; the dissipated , the exhausted , and the diseased ; the very old and the very young . And actually nothing is being done : that is if we measure action by the danger . With the habit , which may now bo described as a purely English habit , so thoroughly have we lost our old national characteristics , the community is looking to the Government : —tho Government is represented by
the Board of Health ; and the new Board of Health limits its young and fresh energies to issuing a circular . In un-routine language , since the commencement of the cholera era , % vo have ventured to express an opinion that a national insurrection is required against " tho groat internal enemy , " and it would seem , though , perhaps , tho discovery may be made somewhat too lato , that tho boldness of some such course may arise in tho end out of tho panic . Our ncuto and accurate contemporary tho Jiuilder has suggested an association for tho preservation of life-to kill the cholera as a matter of commerce .
Tho batch of new elections intervenes also to provide some occupation for tho relaxed public mind j very alight occupation , howovor : for those elections have proceeded upon the sumo principles of political anarchy on which l ' urlinmont triumphantly closed . In nono of tho corrupt boroughs have we observed any signs of organisation on any » ido . That poraonnl-in ^ hich we may include perhaps poounittry-und not political , reasons , hove suggested contoats and produced
choice , may be inferred from the circumstance that in almost every case there are four , five , or six candidates . At Barnstaple , where the registered electors do not exceed 700 , a great brewer is contending with a great architect , the one calling himself a Tory , the other denominating himself a Liberal—merely as a matter of form—and the electors denouncing both because , accustomed from time immemorial to receive Ql . a piece for their votes , both candidates , giving themselves , the benefit of doubts
about the new Bribery Bill , ' decline compliance with any of the ancient formalities . At Cambridge , where an electoral body of about 2000 is equally divided between Liberals and Tories , the two men -who were rejected at the last election , Messrs . Adair and Mowatt , have now come in triumphant over very attractive Tories—Lord Muidstone and Mr . Slade , Q . C . In such a borough we might be entitled to regard this fact as some indication of general political feeling ; but with the statistics which meet us at Malilon
( an Essex borough with a traditional tendency to give the liberals their chance on the condition of liberality with money ) , where two Conservatives , who are not at all attractive , have triumphed over a Liberal and a Tory , —and another candidate , who unreservedly declared for the ballot , universal suffrage , and anything else that was particularly requested , only polling about 200 rotes . The peculiarity in this instance is that the palpably pure candidate was the ono who has been most
decklodly defeated—Mr . Quiutin DieU , who in three successive ' Parliaments represented the borough , and who now does not represent it only because ho most absolutely rcfusod to do out of principle what the unreserved Radical gentleman did out of " circumstances over which ho had no conti'ol "—in fact not having any money . At Canterbury tho confusion is still more perceptible . Mr . G . Sni ) 'the — the only mum of talent
produced by tho English aristocracy for thirty years , who has rendered his commanding abilities movvt brilliant by his philosophical acceptance of popular principles , and who "was tho pride and glory of Canterbury for ten yours— had so slight a chance of success that he appears to have crept out of tho town without a canvass — being repudiatod this tinio not on account of his duel with Colonel llomilly . Tho candidates who obtained tho show of hands are the camlidiitua who declare in favour of tho Coalition Government—ono of those being an old and exploded Whig hack ; but
it is taken for granted that these gentlemen have little real chance , and that Radical Canterbury —• the more Radical from , its familiarity with the blessings of a cathedral establishment—will return two Tories , whose chief principles—like those of Lord Maidstone and Mr . Slade—are confined to being in favour of Lord Derby . Hull , the last and principal of the corrupt boroughs , appears to be preferring a Roman Catholic barrister , and cheers a Mr . W . D . Seymour , who , of all the candidates at any of the elections , alone speaks with statesmanlike clearness of the political principles applicable to the period . But these cheers may not correspond with the result .
Xhere are two other new elections to be separated from this batch of the corrupt * Marylebone has re-elected ; Sir Benjamin Hall nem . dts . with the exception of an unpotential Mr . Dickey . But even here we can draw no political inference . In his singulai'ly self- complacent speeches in the borough , Sir Benjamin Hall failed to favour his countrymen with a single idea beyond his first principle—that he prefers local self-government to that centralisation of which the very office he has accepted is the necessary exponent . Mr . Dickey , among much that was incoherent , seemed to divulge one distinct truth at the nomination—which "was
attended merely by butchers' boys and costermongers , and the right lion , baronet ' s family — that the great borough of Marylebono know nothing whatever of tho election , and was paying not the slightest attention to it : — Marylebone in so far accurately representing a national sensation . The election for King ' s-Lynn , rendered necessary by the lamented death of the gallant Lord Jocolyn , will not take place till next week ; and it also will be uiundieative , for necessarily a nominee member will be returned , cither by the influence of the Duke of Portland or tliat of tho Hiarl of Orford .
Lord Stanley , the second and remaining member , appears to bo establishing an influence of his own in the borough . His gift of JOOlV . has enabled the town to establish an Athenwuin , which is to bo connected with tho education of the working classes ; and King ' s-Lynn is very grateful to the sploiulid young noble , whoso munificence is roliu \ u » l from tho character of n vulgar bid for popularity by the Jiiol that hi , sympathy with tho pi-oplo is hoiK'fll ami liunrty and active . It is niuithor question whether hucU n gift might not technii-ally ho tortured within tho category of " undue inlhiunco . " Tho greatest puzzle of all , in connexion "with
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19081854/page/1/
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