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      The Dublin Freeman of yesterday reports an important tenant-right meeting held on Thursday at Navan , which the Repeal organ recognises as an early step towards the reconciliation of the north and south . The numbers present are set down at 10 , 000 tenant farmers , Protestant as well as Roman Catholic . In the province of Connaught the Roman Catholic Clergy are at length moving , and had a meeting at Westport , County Mayo , early in the week , where the speakers were nearly all priests . Preparations are in progress for holding a monster demonstration in Belfast on the 12 th of June . The " general conference" will take place in Dublin about the same time .

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      In the Arches Court , yesterday , Dr . Addams , for the Bishop of Exeter , applied for further time before making a return to the monition of the court in the G or ham matter , as the Bishop was desisous of obtaining counsel's opinion " whether , after the decision of the Courts of Queen Bench and Common Pleas , an application for prohibition should be made to the Court of Exchequer . " The case was allowed to stand over to next court day , the Bishop ' s proctor undertaking to make a return to the monition , if no proceedings could be taken in the Exchequer Court . An aggregate meeting of Wesleyan reformers was held at Exeter-hall on Thursday night , when Messrs .

      Dunn , Chipchase , Coulton , Harrison , and others of the dismissed preachers , having addressed the meeting in denunciation of the tyranny and oppression of the Conference , resolutions were carried that the acts of expulsion were acts of unmitigated despotism , against which the people should protest , and treat them as altogether null and void ; denying the power of the Conference to interfere in the local affairs of any circuit ; tendering sympathy to the late victims , and pledging their adhesion to them in the noble stand which they have made against ecclesiastical despotism . It was also resolved that the meeting , convinced of the necessity of reform in the Wesleyan connexion , assist in raising a fund of £ 2000 for carrying on the reform movement .

      The Reverend Wm . Dodsworth , perpetual curate of Christchurch , St . Pancras , has resigned his incumbency , with the intention of joiningthe Catholic Church . — Catholic Mag . —It is positively stated by friends of the parties that Mr . H . W . Wilberforce , brother of the Bishop of Oxford , and Mr . Allies , late chaplain to the Bishop of London , have come to a similar determination . — Standard .

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      In the French National Assembly , on Thursday , the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 th , and 8 th clauses of the Electoral Reform Bill were passed . The Frankfort Congress has adjourned for a short time . The Warsaw papers of the 28 th ultimo announce the arrival in the Polish capital of the Czar . The Darmstadt Chamber of Representatives have unanimously rejected the bill to impose a stamp duty on newspapers . _ __ _ _ m the 24 th

      In the Assembly of Hesse-Cassel , on ultimo , a series of resolutions was moved to the effect that it was opposed to the honour of the country that a person accused of forgery should continue to act as a minister , more particularly as the minister of justice , and that Herr Hassenpflug ( thePrime Minister ) ought no longer to remain in a position which disgraced the whole country . The proposals were discussed in a long and violent debate , and were ultimately referred to a committee .

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      The fine weather brought a large concourse of people to Epsom yesterday ; the numbers clustered down the sides of the running ground , and the vehicles on the hill exceeding by thirty per cent , the best Oaks day on record . There was also a tolerable sprinkling of rank and fashion , but the betting was slow , and the field wretched . The racing , as on the Derby day , commenced with a handicap plate , but for which the sport , apart from the Oaks , would have been anything but up to the mark . This over , the jockeys , fifteen in number , weighed tor the Oaks . The Oak Stakes , of 50 sovs . each , h . ft . ; for 3-yr-old fillies , 8 st . 71 b . each ; the second to receive 100 sovs . out of the stakes , and the winner to pay 100 sovs . towards the expenses , and 30 sovs . to the judge . One mile and a half . 128 subs .

      Betting . —3 to 1 against Eliza Middleton , 11 to 2 against Probity , 6 to 1 against Rhedycina , 6 to I against Tiff , 8 to 1 against Exotic filly , 12 to 1 against Kathleen , 12 to 1 against Clelia , 20 to 1 against Estaiette , and 20 to 1 against Countess . Probity took the lead at starting , followed by liff , Cora , Estafette , the Exotic filly , and Gillyflower , and Eliza Middleton lying up with them , with Sister to Pillage , Rhedycina , and Countess in their wake . There was no change in the front division until they got to the T . Y . C . post ; here Probity was deprived of the lead by

      Tin ' , who went on with it to the road , where the latter wa . s j uined by Countess , Kathleen , and Estafette , Countess immediately after taking up the running . Rhedycina , who had gradually improved her position after making the turn , joined her horses inside the distance , went up and defeated Countess opposite the Htaud , and won with the greatest ease by a length , Kathleen catching Countess close upon the post , and beating her for the second money by a head , Estafette , fourth , and Gillyflower , fifth . Run in 2 min . 56 sec .

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      The Queen has un ' orcd to Mr . Robert Hunt , aged sevuhty-Miven , brother of Leigh Hunt ; , a nomination as one of the Poor Brethren of the Charter-house , which that gentleman has accepted .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary ; , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in . its eternal progress . —Da . Abnold .

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      PROTECTION TO BRITISH INDUSTRY . Two factory delegates who have been waiting in London , in order to watch over the progress of the Ten Hours Act , finding themselves short of funds , applied to Mr . George Frederick Young , Chairman of the National Association for the Protection of Industry and Capital , for pecuniary aid . That gentleman sends the delegates £ 50 , and the Morning Herald is at considerable pains to show that , in granting the . delegates their contribur tion and support , the National Association offer

      no bribe to the operatives to support the agricultural claims . It miitht as well have spared its pains , and Mr . Young his liberal subscription . No qpe who is acquainted with the factoryoperatives of the North will ever suspect them qf being so foolish as to join Mr . George Frederick Young , the Duke of Richmond , and Mr . Chowler , in their equestrian movements for the reenactment of the Corn Laws . The spinners of Lancashire do

      not possess horses j but , even if they did , there are not many of them who would like to join Mr . Chowler ' s Lumber Troop . They know too well what has been the wretched fate of the agricultural labourers under the protective system , and they cannot but see that a large amount of the pauperism , misery , and crime which , disgrace our large towns , is owing to the very men who are now coming forward as the special Protectors of Industry .

      The game which the Protectionists have lately been playing , under the guise of Financial Reform ers , was very well exposed by Mr . Cobden , on Monday evening . He showed plainly that , whatever their pretensions may be , their real object is a war upon wages , in the hope , if successful , to make free-trade odious in the estimation of working men . Under the mask of economy , they seek to obtain a reduction of all official salaries , on the ground that money is more valuable now than it was some years ago . The price of food and of most other necessary articles has fallen twenty to thirty per cent .

      during the last twenty years ; and , therefore , they contend that wages ought to be reduced also . But , if this be an argument for reducing wages , it is surely a much stronger reason for reducing rents . If farm produce has fallen in price thirty or forty per cent , below the average of the last ten years , and if , as we firmly believe , it is likely to continue cheap , why should the landlord demand the same rent as formerly ? Granting that the taxes paid by the farmer could , by any sweeping measure , be reduced to one-fourth of their present amount , this would afford very little relief compared with what he would derive from a reduction of one-fourth of

      his rent . But farmers are not bold enough to come forward and demand a fair and equitable adjustment of rents . Such a movement would be rank rebellion . They prefer to make up their losses by attacking the wages of the labourers , and , unfortunately , that most important section of the " agricultural interest" is seldom able to make any effectual resistance . If population would only remain stationary there might be some chance of their obtaining " a fair day ' s wages for a fair day ' s work ;" or if industry could hare free access to the land , it

      would be an easy task , comparatively , for any man , able and willing to work , to find remunerative emp loyment . But so long as the present system is upheld , the position of the labourer must be utterly hopeless . The annual increase of population is said to be 350 , 000 . Where is all this vast multitude to find employment ? In the rural districts there is no room for another labourer , if we may judge from the fact that the total number of persons employed in agriculture was less , at the time of the last census , than in 1831 . During ten years of protection to agrioulture , the population of Great Britain had increased from 16 , 539 , 318 to 18 , 720 , 394 , but none

      fifty years ago , although the population whole country has doubled during that time . In such districts the landlords have had their rentals doubled , in many instances tripled , and have , at the same time , kept down the poor-rates to a moderate amount , by pulling down cottages , and by huntingf the poor off their estates . Notwithstanding the rapid increase of trade and manufactures during the last fifty years , which has found employment for a large portion of the increasing population ,

      of the of all that prodigious host of persons had been able to find employment on the land . The result of this state of things is that , in purely agricultural counties , the labour market is always overstocked , the price of unskilled labour is always at a minimum . In many districts the number of persons employed on the land is even less now than it was

      the harsh treatment of the poor in the rural districts , aggravated by the tyrannical operation ot the Poor Law , has crowded the towns with a wretched population , driven from the land by the i ( Protectors of British Industry . " With such facts before their eyes we may rest assured that the operatives of Lancashire and Yorkshire , though ever so much dissatisfied with our present social system , will be the last to join any movement for a return to protection , in spite of all the blandishments and friendly gifts of Mr . Frederick Young and his colleagues .

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      DIVORCE BILLS . Never does a case like that of the Lincoln divpjrce happen without suggesting to us how little of sueh histories ever comes before the public who pass an opinion , or before the judges who pass judgment , or before thie Legislature who make laws . Possibly it might be better to keep all suc > events as private as the histories of less unhappy alliance * are left ; but then the law should be put in such state that all persons aggrieved could obtain justice without bruiting their Borrows . As it is , our lawr makers summon those who need Redress or relief

      to come before the public ; the instructive repugnance to do so causes the constant endeavour to " hush up" such cases , or to suppress as much as possible of collateral evidence , and then the very grounds for urging a change of the law are withheld : hence we are thrown back upon general considerations . If your attention has been drawn in censure to any erring mortals , you may be sure of one thingthat if you knew them more thoroughly , you would find them to be better than they seem . Not only will

      there be " excuses " fortheir conduct where it errs , but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred their natures and dispositions will be better . It may be that in a superficial enquiry , or enquiry just dipping below the surface , you may alight upon what seems the cause of the wrong . —possibly one disparaging to some of the persons in the drama ; but you know well enough that proximate causes ought not to satisfy the truly scientific physician . Say that the husband was unsyinpathizing , —the wife extravagant , — the galant " wild" in his courses ; are there not conditions in the

      abiding Gauses for such , abnormal state of society ? We in England are wont to boast our peculiarly moral condition , and the strictness with which our rigid matrimonial law is enforced ; but that is to look at a part excluding the larger share of one great entirety : with us , accurately considered , marriage is not a complete institution , but only a part of an institution whereof the complements are , —estrangements , sometimes disclosed to the world ; celibacy , or the frustration of life to an innocent multitude ; prostitution of women , her

      person and sacred affections ; and worse . Marriage , it appears , is but a fifth part of the institution , whereof these others are the remaining four fifthR . But our social philosophers hush up this subject , or turn it over to " medical" writers—that its ultimate p hysical consequences may be technically handled . Surely , the minister of religion , the maker of laws , the reformer of society , the true patriot , must all step in betore the physician : he only stands last before the undertaker . Yet , from those who may really grapple with the evil in its origin and its operation , we perpetually strive to conceal the facts : we make it a custom to hide

      away these " personalities ; " as if life were not made up of personalities ; as if personalities were not the very data for law , especially for laws regulating personal matters . To send law into ti'o family with dictatorial powers , and not to keep it under surveillance , is to establish a domestic tyrant ; and we hiivo done so . Society suffers , in every

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 1, 1850, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1841/page/9/