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horse he means to win the race . ( Laughter . ) Now , observe , lord Derby and Lord Lonsdale , the President of the Council , are great jockeys . ( Laughter . ) They are leading members of the Jockey Club ,-and this rule of previously showing with what horse it is intended to win the race is a standing rule at Newmarket itself , for the purpose Of preventing frauds . ( Laughter . ) Now , we will call the corn-law a race-horse ; we will call that horse the " Screw . daughter ) and compensation to the agricultural interest through the medium of direct taxation I will call the 'Artful Dodger . ' ( Loud laughter . ) At Carlisle we like a race , and are anxious to know the names of the owners and colours of the riders . The name of the owner of both the ' Screw * and the ' Artful Dodger' is the Earl of Lonsdale . ( Loud laughter . ) The colour of the rider—I think— ( turningto Mr . Mniinsftv—I think thevcall it vellow . { Shouts of laughter . )
Who is the jockey' ? ( Laughter } I think I need not say . ( Cheers ana laughter . ) We are about to have two plates —the county stake and the city plate . ( Loud laughter . ) I tell you 1 think the " Screw" will be started for the county stake , and the " Artful Dodger" for the city plate . Mr . flodgson is an extremely good jockey , and a very good man ; but we are too far north ( Loud laughter ) to have any such crossing . and jostling ; but we must come to a distinct understanding , and it must be p lain what are the real intentions of that gentleman . I think we have a horse in our stable that will beat them for the city plate ( loud laughter ) , and if I w ere not afraid of losing the election , I think I dare bet two to one I name the winner . What is the name of that horse ? It is a well-known name , and we call it ' Bonny Blue . ' ( Uproarious applause . )" Sir James considers himself pledged to stand for Carlisle , and nowhere else .
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The United States steam ship , Franklin , arrived off Cowes , yesterday . She left New York on the 13 th , but she brings no news of any importance . A disgraceful scene , in the House of Representatives ; at Washington , between two members for Mississippi , is reported in the New York Journals . Mr . Brown attacked his colleague , Mr , Wilcox , who sharply retorted . The bone of contention was the Southern right movement . "My colleague , " says Mr . Wilcox , " ^ says there was no party in Mississippi in favour of secession . I had thought that the gentleman had too high a regard for truth to make a declaration so baseless of truth . ( Sensation . ) Mr , Brown asked if his colleague charged him with falsehood ? ^ Mr . Wilcox : I have spoken boldly . My language cannot be misunderstood on that point .
Mr . Brown : Do you mean to say that what I have stated is false ? ( Looking sternly at his colleague . ) , Mr . Wilcox : If you mean to say there is nobody in Mississippi in favour of secession , it is false . The last word was scarcely uttered before Brown drew off , and planted a blow in Wilcox ' s face . Wilcox returned it , and both clinched . The scene of confusion that followed was most terrific . Brown was dragged off to a distance , and Wilcox jumped on his desk , shouting that he could whip him . Calls , in vain , were made for the Sergeant-at-Arms ; the Speaker rushed into the house , took the chair , and rapped to restore order , which was partially obtained , after a long effort . The Chairman of the Committee reported progress . Both members then made very humble apologies to the House , asking forgiveness , and entreating the country's pardon for their most disgraceful conduct .
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Two cases of cruelty came before the Courts yesterday . Dennis M'Nally , a labourer , was charged with cruelly illtreating and neglecting his son , Edward M'Nally , a child ten years old . The poor boy , who looked weak and halfstarved , made the following statement : — " I wont into the workhouse on last Tuesday fortnight , I have a stepmother ; nay own m other has been dead my five years . I lived at homo with my father , and had two meals a day , and sometimes only one , consisting of a piece of bread ; but it was not enough . My bed was some old oyster sacks . I was once shut up in a dark room by myself for a fortnight . There was a bed in the room ,, but I could not get on it because I was chained to the bedpost so tight that the chain was not long enough . Tho last time I was kept like that was from tho night of Saturday , March 13 , until tho morning of Tuesday , March 16 , when I was taken by
my father to the workhouse , and during that timo I had a small basin of sop once a day . I havo frequently asked for more , but could not got it . ' I was chained by tho leg , and tho chain was passed several times round tho bedpost , so us to nhprton it and prevent my moving . I have . been treated many times liko this , and have boon chained up for a fortnight and three woeks at a timo . My father lias often taken all my clothes off , and tied my hands nnd foot to tho bedpost , and beaten mo with a penny cano . Ho did not give me a whacking the last timo I ' was locked up . Ho used to beat mo because I was naughty by running away from him . I was obliged to witn
run away , because ho locked mo up in a dark room nothing to oat , I ran away a great many times , but never stayed away moro than a week , and then I always slept in tho streets at night , as I was afraid to go home . " This was backed up by credible witnesses , and tho flitting Aldorman determined to eonrl tho case to a jury . Tho other caso was vory curious . Jane lJrennon has a daughter , Alico , and boing . herself somewhat educated , has boon instructing tho little' tiling " in the languages . " Moaning French , Gorman , Italian , and Irish . jJut poor ' little Anoo has not ahvayd boon ablo to remember names and
words , and whenever tho memory of tho mnall student fuilod , Mrs . Uronnan boat her so crunlly , that at length tho neighbours interfered . Tho mother was then brought boloro Mr . Yardloy , at Olnrkonwcll , and ovidonco taken pufllcient to provo groat cruelty on her part , and considcrublo prolicioney in French on tho part of tiny Mies Alice . Mr . Yardloy , tloHiroiiH of wooing Mr . Bronnan , a painter , nnd hearing what ; ho has to say , adjourned tho cano until Uuj husband could , bo brought up .
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would compete very successfully with , the dilettante charity of Belgravia . There can be no doubt that Colonel Sibthorp or Lord John Buss ell could sell pincushions or mosaic ornaments , " as good as gold , " at a great rate ; Mr . Disraeli might dispose of any number of bazaar budgets ; and Mr . Hawes might vend specimens of colonial constitutions , or missing despatches , as curiosities worth preserving . Thus Parliament might make itself practically useful before its last days . The next best thing that it can do is , to pass
THE GENERAL ELECTION . Both the " two great parties in the State , " the two Parliamentary dinner parties , have given in : the Opposition will wait , the Ministry will not keep it long waiting ; and until the ^ nd ^ of the session there is to be a truce . Meanwhile , fiat is the epithet for all things in the Parliamentary universe . The House of Commons is unburied , but already dead . It had better , say the genuine Conservatives of our institutions , " shut up shop . " More sanguine folks desire to put it , like the Crystal Palace , to some useful purpose ; and there is no doubt that if it were to hold a bazaar for some charitable object , it
Lord Brougham's bill shortening the interval between the old Parliament and the new ; adding thereto the recommendation of the Morning Chronicle , that the period should be further shortened to the length of twenty days . Fourteen days have sufficed for the reelection of the lately appointed Ministers , and , a fortiori , twenty would suffice for the election of mere private Members . The shorter the paroxysm is the better . We all know what it means . Members and Ministers , in the slang peculiar to their craft , call it " an
appeal to the country ; " about as correctly as if they were to call it an appeal to the judge and jury at a fast supper house . There are , indeed , certain formalities which give to the general election the semblance of a public and national act : the Speaker issues writs—his cards inviting to the jollification ; the troops go away , lest the men be corrupted by the bad manners and bad company of the hour ; the sheriff reads the Bribery Act—the best joke of the whole carnival ; and then the electors " go it . " An important fraction
of the public , which is authorized to vote for the Members of Bellamy ' s , and is called "the country , " undergoes a j ovial paroxysm of maccaronic politics , beer-drinking , soveroign-fingering , speechswallowing , egg-throwing , cant-delivering , nonsense-shouting , bull y ing , bawling , brawling , ranting , tearing , chairing , colour-bearing , swearing , flaring , flaunting , vaunting , thanking , hooting ; with , a ludicrous ceremony called the show of hands , and a more ludicrous one called polling ; and then six hundred and fifty convives , emerging from those pious orgies , come up to London , call
themselves " representatives of the people , " "honourable gentlemen , " and proceed to make laws The next election will not be a bit behind its fellows in rhodamontade and humbug ; once , contrary to the general usage , Ministers are not to submit to " the country" any critical proposition , but are to appeal On the score of character , thus turning the electors loose for nothing particular . Can the public , in common politeness ,
return any other but tho after-dinner declaration , that " the jtytinisfcry is a jolly good fellow P" Some constituent members of that jolly good fellow may politically expire in tho bout ; now Members , more robust , will bo returned ; but , upon tho whole , tho House will bo reflected as it was . Liko causes produce like effects : if we want to create bottcr Members , wo must create a bettor constituency ; and if wo want to havo a better constituency , wo must return bottor Members . Or porhaps the same sort might do , if wo could only convinco them that wo are in earnest ;
which , considering that they are elected in a great practical joke , is not easy . The non electors , who are most in earnest , should tak " the matter into their own hands . Tbulnrin Smith has shown that , by the ancient law of the land , the great body of inhabitants has the right to vote at elections t why do not they act upon that rightP In some places , where they are most capable of active exertion , they might nominate their own candidate , poll their own numbers for and against , carefully and honestly , elect their own man , and send him up to London , like aa O'Connell from Clare , to demand his seat : A , few such elections , and the true members for the People would riot very long be excluded from Parliament .
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THE REAL KEY TO PUBLIC ( ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY . If " practical" men would only look at the question without the prejudice that they so much deprecate in others , the ^ r would perceive that the absence of a higher sentiment than " an enlightened selfishness , " or the " pounds , shillings , and pence" principle , is the cause of much that disturbs them iii the way of inefficiency , waste , and obstruction to material ^ improvement . The fault of our aristocracy is , not that it is tyrannical—it has lost the power to be that , except over its own dependents—but that it is not aristocratic enough . It has descended to trading standards ana middle class anxieties about personal advantage , instead of sticking to the high standards of its own escocheon , its proud traditions , and hereditary generosities . While still retaining a huge snare of the government of this country , it has so conducted its part in ilie
administration , that it has brought down the army of the nation to be a trading profession , in which the younger sons are to finaa provision £ the church is _ " in danger , " because so large a portion of its well-connected clergy have made it a mere inn for their own ease ; the very " government of this Empire , which the most distinguished of our aristocracy reserve to signalize themselveB in , truckles to mean motives and mercenary
interests . Thus , by the keen sight of commercial sagacity , this country at last discovers that it has been ex- > pending upon its Army nearly six millions sterling a-year , and yet it has not a force fit for a great nation . Not because the staple of the race has deteriorated—that has not yet been proved—but because the Ministers of the country have left the administration of the Army to clerks and contractors , and are satisfied if they get off without a formal vote of censure . We have , says Mr . Williams , spent nearly 22 , 00 O , 000 Z . since the war , in building , equipping , and maintaining 620 ships—a quarter of the National Debt—and yet we have only 142 ships in commissionand they are notoriously
under-, manned . What are tho steps taken to amend the last deficiency PA" reserve" of 5000 sailors is planned by the late Ministry , and adopted by the present—a body of men to bo paid a small honorarium , or retainer , every year , ^ for the liability to serve when called upon . The same kind of reserve might be a very Bound measure in regard to the land-force for service at home , and Frederick Hill has demonstrated its practicability ; but its utility as respects the . Navy must bo moro questionable , since the motives and facilities for evasion of duty at the last must be greater . It is admitted by a former Secretary of tho Admiralty , Mr . Cony , that of the 5000 not more than 30 OO would bo available on instant
need : and it is a clumsy mode of compensating that system of " paying off" which Captain Scobell denounces for the thousandth time . Why not , he asks ' , lot the men enlist for five , seven , or fourteen years P Why not , indeed , unless it bo that they would notP Mr . Trelawny contends that wo ought to pay , at tho outside , 2 , 000 , 000 / - for 40 , 000 men , since able seamen can be found for tho merchant service at 11 . a-weck , " to lincl themselves . " . ,
Wo doubt tho strict accuracy of this calculation ; but it is notoriously tho fact , that tho seamen in tho Navy may have moro wages ana comfort in a royal ship than in a merchant ship ; then why are they not to bo obtained V \ vny do they prefer tho merchant service P why prefer the service of tho United States P Is it because they distrust the treatment on board from our well-bred officers P Said an English sailor to us , who had eerved in . America , " A man is treated
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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 eternal progress . —Dr . Abnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1928/page/12/
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