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October 22, 1853.] TUB L 1011
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OBSEQUIES OF PROTECTION IN ESSEX. Castle...
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Oim HANITAltY CONDITION". TiUC Queon's P...
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Public Opinion On The Eastern Question. ...
your humble advocate in Parliament , have ever endeavoured to enforce . ( Loud cheering . )" The first resolution was moved by Mr . Shaen . He urged the Government to assist the Turks in enforcing the evacuation of the Principalities . The people , he said , should bring " thought and deep conviction to this subject . " He was sorry to see that Mr . Cobden had attempted to make this a religious question , by asking us to sympathise with the Czar , as the protector of Christians . Dr . Epps seconded the resolution , and denied that Turkey was in a state of decay .
Mr . TIrquhart then spoke . He condemned the system under which the diplomacy of the country had been so long conducted , and declared that the men to whose management it had hitherto been entrusted were not competent to perform their duties , and were dangerous to the country . ( Cheers . ) He contended that Turkey was a strong and rising power . Within the last twenty-five years Turkey had exhibited a spectacle unknown to any nation in ancient or modern times . She had quadrupled her commerce , and doubled her revenue . Mr . TJrquhart then stated , on his own authority , that the Sultan had refused the protection of England . .
The rest of the proceedings was remarkable for a " row , " caused by the intrusion of Mr . Bronterre O'Brien , and the unwillingness of many in the meeting to listen to his speech . Finally he was heard , and when he ended quiet was restored . An address to Lord Clarendon was voted , and the proceedings ended .
db . Newman ' s views . Dr . Newman has delivered a timely lecture at Liverpool on the Tartar races . He commenced by laying it down as a principle that there Lad been from time immemorial a great conflict between the north and south . The north had been aggressive , and the south had always to be on the defensive . This was brought before them in the Holy Scriptures . When the favoured people fell into sin , and were threatened with judgment , it was said to come from the north , because in the history of the world the north was the place which was the home of those restless nations which poured down upon the south . Why they did so was very plain also . The one had every thing to tempt , and the other had numbers to be tempted . The lecturer then described
the formation , and other characteristics of the extensive plateau possessed by the Tartar tribes , and observed that the only office their fatherland could , do' them , was to thrust them forth from its inhospitable bosom on lands more fertile and tempting . He then described the course the tribes took in their migrations , which were always in the first instance westward . Having got to the edge of the plateau , they left Mongolia and entered Tai-tary . They then reached Pama , crossed the Oxis , and then descended into the vast plains of Turkistan . If they did not take that course , they turned towards Siberia , and the top of the Caspian , arid then crossed the Oxis , by the Caucasus . And when they-took neither of these courses , they crossed the Don , and so got into Russia , and then , crossing the Danube , they would find themselves in Europe .
The lecturer then described how these migrations were nothing more than raids or invasion *) , and how , travelling at their usual rate on such occasions , of one hundred miles a day , they could within a few weeks overrun all Asia , devastating and laying waste the country which they passed , more fearfully than a cloud of locusts . They rushed along with all the excitement of a fox hunt , but with the eagerness and silence of a beast of prey . Having named the countries which suffered most from these raids by the northern hordes , he remarked that while the north was so powerful , the south was equally powerless against nuch a calamity . For , in the first place , the north had no repr isals to offer
, and therefore there could be no retaliation . In addition , the north was in itself impregnable ; for what ambition could be so mad as to attempt to conquer in tkeao regions ? With ambition , in itself a fever , you could not lay down any rules , and there had been conquerors who had attempted it ; but from the very first to the very laHt , from the great CymH down to Napoleon , they might observe as a rule , that no conqueror , no sol dier , had ever attempted to lead hi « troops to the north i ** . ' na ( * failed , accomplishing only the destruction oi ins army , and the prestige of his name . In ancient , Iiihtory they had one or two instances of attempts of the south to > attack the north , and they illustrated merely that which wan ilhiHtrated in the later history of Napoleon , in going against KusHia . The lecturor then narrated the
ori-J ? iu and result of tho expeditions of OyniH and Darius Against tho Scythians , and how thoir innumerable troopa were destroyed , an thowo of Napoleon wore , by tl » o povert y of tho country and the rigour of tho cli ' - roato . It wan a very curious fact , aud a very propiiotio remark of tho greatest of nnoiont historians , liuioydidoH , that if tho Scythians were united , they would bo tho groatost and most powerful of nil peoples . In ancient times they never woro united ; but it so ha ppened sinoe tho Christian era , they had been united "ndor ono power five different times . There had been »» ve ( liiforont Tartar or Scythian Empires . The first was that of Attilla and tho Huiih ; tho socond wuh Zangis ««< 1 Iuh TartarH ; tho third waH Timour , or Tamerlane , ¦ w xl hfe Mongols ; tho fourth was tho 'JCurka : and tho
fifth was the Russians . "What was more remarkable in those five empires was , that as time had been going on , they had been more powerful , and more civilized , ( though none of them were -really civilized ) than the one before it ; and another remarkable thing was , they had all been enemies of the Church . The two first were simple Pagans , Attilla and Zangis . Timour was a Mahomedan ; the Turks were Mahomedans ; and the Russians belonged to the Greek Church . Each of those empires was more lasting than that which went before it . Attilla ' s power died with himself : Zangi ' s
extended to his grandchildren . Timour founded an empire which existed to the middle of the last century , when the English superseded it ; Delhi was his capital . The Turks were a most remarkable race , augmenting and springing up in a most wonderful way , when they appeared to be almost destroyed . Russia was composed of numerous Tartar races , and it was remarkable in this respect ; they had the force , ferocity , and energy of barbarians in the subject , with refinement and civilization in the rulers . Those five empires had been all enemies ' of . the Church , and one after the other had been more powerful than the one before .
October 22, 1853.] Tub L 1011
October 22 , 1853 . ] TUB L 1011
Obsequies Of Protection In Essex. Castle...
OBSEQUIES OF PROTECTION IN ESSEX . Castle Hedingham : is the moral centre of the Hinckford Hundred , and in its ruined castle—an old ivycoated and broken-down building- —Disraeli once roused the Protectionists of the county . But the decay of the party , and the winter and rough weather of the present day , prevented any such oratory in any such place at the annual meeting last Friday . In an inn room " about fifty" gentlemen met , and the notabilia of the evening were the absences of the county members . Letters were read from both . Sir John Tyrrell wrote as follows . ( The passages we italicise deserve attention for their style and sentiment ) : — "My dear Round—I am sorryfrankly to admit that I have neither heart , spirit , nor courage to attend your meeting at Hedingham on the 14 th .
" I feel that many friends will think that I am neg-lectmg them , others that I am indifferent to what is passing 1 in the county . ¦ ¦ - " Your meeting is Conservative and agricultural . I have a few words to say upon this subject . " Tho Conservative party is so completely demolished in the House of Commons as a-party that it must be reformed before it can be a combined party . " If I am asked what has brought about this state of things , ' my answer is , tho treachery and insincerity of conduct ami action , of many of that party who talked loudly upon the hustings of conlidenee in Lord Derby , and who were afterwards in tho lobby of the enemy , defeating by their countenance the proceedings of tho most strenuous and alile of our leaders .
" Under these circumstances , our moral influence as a party has vanished . Undoubtedly I noted like the cabmen , and struck work , and perhaps you may say abandoned my duty . I admit that I am too old to enter the lists , and I have seen too much of party conflicts to attack those in our own ranks who , though their motives may be sincere , have , in my o pinion , acted a part , inconsistent with their declarations , which excited cheers from the hustings , and caused extraordinary exertions to be made to secure their return to Parliament .
" It is not impossible that wo may , ere long , from tho present sedative state of the party , be awakened by some attack upon our Protestant liberties , or by the din of war , mainly brought about by ( lie antiquated imbecility of the head of the Cabinet , whose known sympathy with tho Orleans party has encouraged Itussia to rely upon a division between England ana France , which would at . once leave Turkey at the disposal of Jtussia . This state of things never would have occuvrod had Lord Derby remained in office . And this is the penalty that England has to pay in supporting a Government bound by a combination of trading politicians—that is , of men whose great object was to be in offico upon any principles or at any price—and which
is daily becoming explained to tho public by tho onto of the Irish party . Thcso gentlemen , it seems , have been tampered with by tho underlings of the Peel Whig party , putting into tho shade I > y their imperfection tho little imperfections of which Xord . Derby's officials were accused . " Tho only consolation of an alleviating character that in lift for uh amidst the convulsion in the money market is the prospect of bread and meat being a shilling a mouthful . It cannot be naid that ( his has been done by the noblemen and gentlemen nl" tho counties for their own benefit .. This is the only pull , in a Hellish point of view , that we have .
" It in a deplorable Htato of things that we ifave a Cabinet composed of statesmen without , a party , who arc staking the very existence of tlio honour awl credit of tho country and the nation upon the derisions and numbers of public meetings ; and Mininf . orM of the Crown get upon wagons and plntformH in ordei * to give thoir 'opinions weight at the next Culiinot Council . " I sincerely wish well to Ihe objects of your mooting . I cannot hco my way in thiN crush of'tho ( Utnscraativa parti / and I know fliat tho gnnMnrnori of the Jlodinghnm district local but merit orimiH
understand the object , of their meeting better than I do ; but at tho same time I acknowledge that I have neither heart nor courage to attend and npo ' ak my real opinions of tho cannon Unit , have brought about thin internal confusion and brca . lt down of our party in the House of Commons . 1 admit , it would bring a hornet ' s nest about my cam attended with no beneficial result . " . I shod refrain from attending meetings , and content myself with floating upon tho ' political surfaco till m » no event takes place that may rondor it lo . su disagreeable than U would , ho now , by coning in conflict , with many of thooo
with whom we have fought many a battle . I am , my dear George Eound , always sincerely yours , J . T . Tyreei-x . " Hampton Court , where Sovereigns have held counsel , is . now partly occupied by the notorious W . B ., and from this royal abode lie wrote a letter in view of his coming trial as a corrupter of the Parliament . He said :- —• " Till within a few weeks it was my decided resolution to Lave taken advantage of tlieir annual meeting ( the Hinckford farmers ) to lay before the m , and the constituency of ! th full and detailed state
NorEssex , a ment of the transactions connected with the Derby election , and the consequent inquiry , and to have vindicated myself from the unjust and malignant imputations which I have borne hitherto in silence , awaiting this opportunity to expose and refute them . Afresh persecution has been lately commenced against me ; the whole matter has been opened afresh , and is to be brought to the issue of a trial . Such , proceedings necessarily preclude me from entering into these explanations , which might be impolitic as far as I am individually concerned , but which : must be unfair towards others whose cause has been mixed up with mine on this occasion
" I trust that those to whom you will read this letter will patiently await the conclusion of these legal proceedings , before they condemn unheard , or on the exparte version of malignant enemies , one wliose unremitting exertions for six years in the cause of the agr icultural and Conservative interests , if overlooked by tlio party in whose service lie has toiled , have not been forgotten , by their opponents , and his unrelenting persecutors . " Speechmaking followed the reading of these letters . The Reverend J . Cox essayed a discourse on politics . He referred with anger to the " indignities" offered to Major Beresford and Sir John Tyrrell at the last election ; yet , " after these indignities , " some Peelite would
meet him and say , " How do you do , Cox ? Party is at end , and we are the Conservative Administration . " Mr . Cox then explained that he differed from the present Ministry , and had-no confidence in them ; and he showed how Free Trade had not prevented' a great number of ills . It had not prevented fluctuations in the market nor a scarcity of provisions . JBut , never despairing , ' Mr . Cox indicated a hope . Having been beaten upon the principle of Protection , the next question which naturally presented itself was this— "Is the Conservative party , ' then , to be broken up and annihilated because they have been beaten upon a fiscal
duty on the price of corn ? " Then they might look and see what were the great principles which had been acted up to by the Conservative party . They had carried out Tvliat Mr . Disraeli called the embodiment of a great principle , whilst on the other hand Peelites , and liadicals , and Whigs , with the Pope ' s brass bund , none having 1 a principle , Avere engaged to destroy the Conservative party . There might be some in the G-overnment who acted upon principle , but he had looked and could not find one man upon whom ho could pin his faith . With this melancholy conclusion Mr . Cojc Rubsided .
The next speaker was Mr . Ashurst Majeiulie . Ho praised Sir John Tyrrell for " clear / tctufcu'iiesx and Jlrmncus of character , " generally lauded Major ]? ctckfonl , and brought in Mr . Piaraeli as " a man of infinite talent . " He then attacked "two dangerous parties , " " the cockney statesman and the eocknoy farmer "—the one who wish / id the Manchester men to supply tho world with manufactured articles in exchange for corn , and the other reminded him of the Irish gc-ntlcman who supposed that , on Homu fine . summer morning , he would bo able to go to the hunt astride of hi . n teakettle .
With such deadly-lively criticisms on current topics the company beguiled the hours , and sadly cloned an assembly conducted with all the gloom and despondency proper to tho occasion . At si Herefordshire agricultural meeting , on Wednesday , Lord Bateinan gave good advice to the farjnorn . Good fanning in Herefordshire , ho said , is tlio exception not the rule , and with the present prospect of scarcity , an effort should be made to remedy this Htato
of things . And as regards their labourers , tho fanners should avoid strikes , by showing a liberal spirit—not screwing their mon down , but allowing them to Hhare in the general prosperity . Mr . Booker was a succeeding speaker , and instead of a lamentation over low prices , he made an apology for high prices , and Raid that tho cost of cultivation anu the unfavourable weather would justify 8 « . or lO . s . : t bushel . " Politics " were expressly eschewed by . all tho speakers .
Oim Hanitalty Condition". Tiuc Queon's P...
Oim HANITAltY CONDITION " . TiUC Queon's Prinon ( metropolis ) is reported in an unwholesome stale , arising from the emanations from tho bone-boiling and other olfonsivo trades carried on in tho neighbourhood . The graveyards of JSt . Ciuorgo , Bloomidniry , and Kfc . ( -leorgo , tho Martyr , arc kept open to tho great injury of tho health of tho neighbours In tho Notting-hill portion of Kensington parish there still exists that slough of abominations known as Tho I . \» M . o . ru ; H . " Things are oven worse now than in 1 MH-4 H , when loud complaints woro inado by all tho roHpoetublo inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Q \ u horrible condition of the locality , and when thoiiuidical odionr of l . ho district proved that tho ratio of mortality among tho residents exceeded tliitt , of almost any part of Knghiud . No one who has vim ' ted the wpot where tjwinutyiitUuimiMt buiii ^ H aro hfuilbiod tq rormviu immonwd
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101853/page/3/
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