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EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. An important me...
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LETTERS FROM PARIS. [FflOM OUR OWN CORRE...
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Kpsom Races. In Spite Of The Unfavourabl...
added , for two-yr .-olds , were won by Mr . Oldacre's Orestes , ridden by Templeman . On Wednesday the soaking rain which fell all day dimmed the splendour of the Derby day , and diminished the concourse of visitors to the race-course , yet the Downs displayed a goodly multitude . The Carew Stakes , which opened the day , attracted little notice . Then followed the great event of the day ,
THE DERBY . For this race there were 181 subscribers of 501 . each . There were 27 starters . Just before they got off , Little Harry was the favourite , the odds against him being 7 to 2 . The horses proceeded to the post about half-past three . IJord Exeter declared to win ¦ with . Stockwell . A good start was effected after a couple of failures , Little Harry , immediately after leaving the post , taking a slight lead , closely waited on by Stockwell , Hobbie Noble , King ; Pepin , and Harbinger , King of Trumps and Orelio next , and the whole lot , with the exception of Treasurer and Maidstone , lying up in very close order . With 6 ne or two changes of no moment they ran to the bend , where Stockwell and King Pepin gave way , Harbinger took the second place , and
Hobbio Noble the third—next to liim in a body coming Womersley , Chief Baron Nicholson , King of Trumps ; Barbar ian , Daniel O ' Eourke , Alcoran , Augur , and Stockwell . Harbinger was beaten in making the turn , and at the road Little Harry showed symptoms of distress—a few strides further he gave way , and Barbarian took a decided lead , Hobbie Noble and ChiefBaron Nicholson lying second and third on the lower side , and Daniel O'Eourke fourth on their right . The race from the half distance was left to this lot , Daniel O'Eourke , who came with a rush a few strides from the chair , winning by half a length , Barbarian beating Chief Baron Nicholson a length for the second place , and the latter beating JSobbio Noble by a head ; Alcoran was fifth , and King of Trumps sixth . The race was run in 3 inin . 2 sec-Three other races concluded the day ' s sport .
Thursday was what is called an " off day / and it was so in every sense of the word . There was nothing attractive in the racing bill of fare ; the fields were small , the company thin , and the weather dull and misty .
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506 THE LEADER . CSA-ruRi > A ^
Emigration To Australia. An Important Me...
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA . An important meeting was held on Thursday , in the Vestry Eooms of the parish of St . Martin ' s in-the-Fields , to promote the emigration of the poor who from ; want of employment were obliged to demand relief . The Rev . H . Mackenzie , vicar of the parish , presided , and conducted the proceedings in a manner which we should like to see imitated among his clerical brethren . He spoke kindly of the poor , and defended them from the reproach of idleness , which from 15 years' experience he declared they did not leserve . His argument was , that England had a surplus of labour , —Australia a deficiency ; there were poor persons willing to emigrate , and funds alone were wanted . This , for their own sakes , the rate-payers would do well to supply . The resolution submitted to the meeting was" That the churchwardens and overseers be empowered to raise a sum of 1 , OOOZ ., to defray the expenses of sending out to Australia poor persons having settlements in the parish and willing to emigrate , under such rules and regulations as tho Poor Law Board are willing to sanction / Duly seconded and supported , the resolution was met by an amendment to defer its consideration to that day six months . Some of tho opponents were unwilling to send out paupers to speculate in tho gold fields ; others were afraid that , by reducing the supply of labour at home , wages would bo raised . One rate-payer , by name Laburm ,
represented himself as being in a most unfortunate state . He said ho looked upon tho proposal with "jealousy , fear , and dismay . " Ho accused tho board of guardians of being " too confiding , too good , too unsuspicious ; " and then ho gave an evidence that , in addition to his feelings of jealousy , four , and dismay which actuated him , ho was extremely " credulous" also , for ho believed thoro was " a scheme on foot among tho lowest classes , to live upon those immediately above thorn . " Ultimately , tho amendment was rejected , and tho original motion carried by a largo majority . A poll Avas demanded , but properly roiuscd by tho vicar .
Letters From Paris. [Fflom Our Own Corre...
LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ FflOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT . ] Letter XXII . TariH , Tuesday Evening , 2 Gtli May , 1952 . We have had news of M . Ileeckeron , Bonaparte ' s Envoy Extraordinary to Vienna , but tho intelligence is far from being satisfactory to tho Government . Austria treated M . Heeckeron ' ri proposition for tho rc-uuipping of Europe with "disdain . Ho won referred to the Emperor of Russia , and accordingly loft for Berlin on the
21 « t ., You will remember tlmt in my laut letter I said M . ifeeokoron wnb sent on a secret mission . But on the very evening of his departure , tho particulars oi tho famous meeting of tho Council of State , and tho object of the mission wore known everywhere . Louis Bonaparte , furious nt finding hia state secrets no secret at all , gavo orders for tho immediate denial of M . Heookoren ' s mission . So it eaino to pass that , whilo tho Austrian papers wore announcing his arrival in Vienna , M . Hceckoron , according to the Struwburg
papers , had merely gone into Alsace on family affairs , and , on the same authority , the report of his going to Germany was said to be false . This clumsily managed affair has been well laughed at . When M . Heeckeren reached Vienna , he found the Holy Alliance re-organized . The three Northern Powers have bound themselves to act together in future . There is to be no more singlehanded diplomacy , as was the wont of Prince Schwarzr enberg last January . The diplomatic notes of the three courts are henceforth to hold one and the same
language . The treaties of 1815 are to be vigorously upheld and carried out , as the only basis of power in Europe . By virtue of the same treaties the principle of " Divine Right" is recognised as the only possible principle of government ; and the Powers have pledged themselves to adopt every means within their reach to re-establish the Bourbons , iri the * person of the Comte de Chambord , on the throne of France , It was after these declarations and engagements had been made ,
that M . Heeckeren , the secret envoy of Louis Bonaparte , came forward with his propositions . He was the laughing-stock of the diplomatic circle at Vienna , and the butt of their ironical politeness . M . Nesselrode assured poor M . Heeckeren that the Emperor Nicholas , his master , was really Louis -Bonaparte ' s best friend , and , "in that capacity , " added M . Nesselrode , in an under tone , turning to his friend , "to save M . Bonaparte from the guillotine or the gallows , he desires to restore him to the sweets of private life . "
Matters are no better at home than abroad . By a kind of tacit understanding among all parties , the Government is compressed within the barest limits of its functions . Hedged in on all sides , poor Bonaparte reminds one of a squirrel in its cage . The hostility of the HoyaliBts is terrible . They turn largely to account their money , and influence , and the provincial administrations , of which they hold the monopoly . They are working the masses , and sowing gold and silver broad-cast . At Saumur , the non-com * missioned officers of the military school of cavalry ,
seduced by the Royalists , at a public banquet , sang a song , the chorus of which was " Vive le Roi ! " and after-the banquet paraded the town to the same . tune . Only think of the consternation of the local government officials ! The Legitimists are above all striving for unity of action . For this purpose , M . Berryer has gone to Frohsdorf to confer with the Due de Levis , the principal adviser of the Comte de Chambord . To counterbalance the power of the Legitimists , Louis Bonaparte is seeking by every means in his power to gain the clergy . His grand motive power being money , he has increased tho salary of the upper and second-class
clergy . The pay of the Archbishop of Paris is to be raised from 40 , 000 to 50 , 000 francs . The other fourteen archbishops are to have 20 , 000 francs , instead of 15 , 000 , as heretofore . The sixty-five bishops are each to be raised from 10 , 000 to 12 , 000 francs , and so on downwards , in proportion to the rank of the several parties benefited ; besides one million which is to be added to four millions already destined for the repairs and maintenance of cathedrals , bishoprics , and seminaries . Well , the church will take tho money , and still bo hostile to Bonaparte . Whatever power or influence ho allows tho clorgy to assume , it will be turned
against himself . Their arrogance is already intolerable . Availing themselves of Bonaparte ' s hypocritical religious tendencies , they are establishing in the provincial towns tho procession of tho holy sacrament , which had been suppressed since 1830 , in all the localities where there were any Protestant inhabitants . Tho local authorities aro much perplexed at this fresh encroachment . At Orleans tho procession was allowed by the Prefect ; at Lillo and Bordeaux the procession was forbidden , whereupon tho clorgy appealed for redress to tho piety of Louis Bonaparte , who doubtless will decide against tho profects .
Tho Orlcunists , on their side , aro not idlo ; thoy still point their hidden batteries against Bonaparte . Tho Diujhoss of Orleans , following the example of tho Comto do Chambord , has addressed two letters to her friends , the Marfohale Lobau and tho Marquise do l'Aiglo , urging them to induce her partisans to rcfuuo tho onth to Louis Bonaparte . In these letters tho Duchoss of Orleans makes an important declaration : she Btatos that hitherto she has boon the only obstacle in tho way of tho " fusibn , " but sho will now abdicate tho pretensions of her son , and' will join her mother-in-law , tho ox-Queen Amo'lio , and tho Princes , of Orleans , in recognising the Comto do Chambord as tllo legitimate King of Franco .
Those letters , of which lithograph copies aro being circulated , Imvo boon a sad blow to poor Bonaparte . If these things continue for throe months longer , ho will bo compelled to make friends with tho Republicans , and cry * ' Viva la Jtepubliqiie I " The coalition of every shade of royalism , and tho absonco of all confidence in the durability of tho present
order of things , paralyzes business transactions entirely The stagnation is . complete . A certain number of r actionist manufacturers and provincial merchants , who " hailing Bonaparte as their saviour , happy to be delivered from , the terrible perspective of 1852 , hud believed that an unheard-of ( commercial prosperit y was about to dawn , and who , somewhat hastily , had made large purchases of merchandise for manufacture . or sale , finding themselves without purchasers for their goods , are now the first to curse the government O f Louis Bonaparte . He , still aping the political eeonomv of Uncle ht that series of balls
" My , " thoug a given bv the official world , would be sufficient to bring about an activity in business . The official world dances , but still trade does not flourish . Bonaparte , however , has at length found the remedy : the Minister of Justice alone , in order not to compromise the dignity of the law , had abstained hitherto , under every form of government , from giving balls . Bonaparte has now signified to him , and all the judges , that they must give evening parties ; and he is persuaded that commercial dulness must yield to the combined influence of so mauy contredanses and polkas .
Meanwhile , the refusals to take the oath are daily multiplying . In the departments of the Gard , IHe efc Vilaine , Loire Inferieure , Haute Garonne , Calvados L'Aisne , Meurthe , Bouches-du-Rh 6 ne , Nord , Pas de-Calais , FOise , Maine et Loire , TAUier , and the Tarn , avery great number of the members of the general Councils General have resigned . M . Baze , the famous questor of the National Assembly , and the personal enemy ; of th & President , has sent in his resignation as member of the =
general council of Lot et Garonne . He addressed a lettar oix fbo-ewtgecfc to Clie prefect of Agen , the terms of which , both for pungency and bitterness , are said togo even beyond the celebrated letter of General Changarnier . Generals Bedeau and Leflo have also sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior , refusing to take the oath . As for the matter of retrospective history raised in General Changarnier ' s letter , the fact is now established , that Bonaparte sought to bribe Changarnier with money ; In vain did Granier de Cassagnac , the condoitiero of the Ely see , try to divert public attention by accusing the General of having formed a plot against
the President , for M . Mole , called in as witness " arid denouncer , replied by a solemn denial . Granier de Cassagnac having replied , that what M . Mole denied M . La Rochejaquelin , the Legitimist representative ,, could affirm , the latter published a letter in all the newspapers , in which he declared that " the statement made by M . Granier de Cassagnac was false from beginning to end . " The ministerial papers having then been driven to allege , in their own justification , that it was in the committee of permanence General Changarnier had proposed the overthrow of Louis Bonaparte ' s government , and that he was there opposed by M .
Mole ; it was proved the ministerial papers were guilty of a gross falsehood ; that it was subsequent to the review at Satory , and after the attempts af ; bribery which Bonaparte had made upon General Changamier had been revealed to the committee of permanence , that General Changarnier having asked for carte hlanche to act as circumstances might require , the committee , by the advice of M . Mole " , had rejected the request by a majority of one vote only . That it was not a question of plotting against the government , but , on the contrary , the adoption of means to defeat Bonaparte ' s conspiracy against the National Assembly .
Cassagnac ' s barefaced assertions had , however , from tho first , been treated with the contempt they deserved . In several cafe ' s the Constitutionnel was torn up . At Tortoni's , and in other cafe ' s , Granier do Cassagnac » article was burnt , and several young men publicly announced their intention of provoking the vil jblhcu laire , as Granier was some time since designated by M . Crcton , to fight . Several officers , friends of tho exiled generals , imitated tho example of the young men . More than thirty challenges have been addressed to
him . Tho editors of tho Corsaire wrote a collective nrticlo in their paper to tho samo effect . Gramcr do Cassagnac replied to M . Saint Pair , one of them , tluit ho could not accept tho challenge of any clown who chose to call him out . M . Saint Pair has promised tno gentleman a good caning tho first time thoy meet . M . Granier do Cwsagunc , to put a stop to this . tfiowor oi cartels , has declared that ho will not fight with any other than either of tho oflbnded generals . Xlio
prosumption of the varlot ! In tho meantime , a subscription , which » lroa ? J amounts to 825 , 000 francs , has been started for ( lonon Changarnicr . . On Monday , Louis Bonaparte , following the example of tho First Consul , and decked with tho uniform mi councillor , presided over a mooting of the Counc Stato . Ho was surrounded by tho Ministers oi I uui Instruction , of the Interior , and of Vmanc ?' JL question under consideration was tho proposed law
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051852/page/6/
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