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      A deputation from Chelsea , Kensington , Hammeremitli , and Fulkam , headed by Mr . Simpson , of Hammersmith and introduced by Xord Robert Grosvenor , waited on Lord Perby on , ( Thursday , to urge their claims on the vacant seats at the disposal of ParEamerit .

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      The following letter is extracted from the Times of today . It has been forwarded to that journal by Mx William Amos , of Whitstable , wha states that it was written by James Silk , one of the crew of the brig Renovation . He gives it verbatim et literatim , and we follow his example : — «« Jane the 18 th , 1851 . " Dear father and mother , these brothers and sisters , this comes with my kind love to you , in hoping to find you in good helth , as , thank G-od , ifc leaves me at presuant ; thank God for it , my dear friends . I am going to give you a littl Account o my last voige to the North of America , in which will make you think that you not would like to bean there , my dear friends . We sailed on the 6 th of April last

      in 1851 from the port of limerick and was fayord with a fair wind from the eastward j the 7 th of Aprill the whind still remained , wee where running with our lower and topmast studdings sail , and on the 9 th of Aprill the same wind continued , and the lOth and the 11 , 12 , and 13 , and then wee had it very cold , and on the 14 th day in the morning wee saw a very large hice Burgh to whindward of pus , and 12 o ' clock , 14 th , wee saw as many as 6 hice Burg , and one of them we -went very close to ous in which it apeared to be the High of 250 feeat , in wich there is but one third of third of them in the worter , in which makes the-hice burgh 750 f eat , that so , my dear friends , you might have read of the hice Burgh in the frosen reagenths , so , my dear friends . I am not Asay what I have read of , for this is what

      I have sean witnissed myself , and likewise , my dear mends , Apon One of the very large burghs in which wee see there was 2 large ships oh them , 1 were laying Apon hor broad broad side , and the other where A laying as comfortable as if she was in the dock fast to her moreings . The wether was very fine and the wather very smouth , but the captain being laid up at th e same time it was not reported to him mitil 8 o ' clock , And we out of sight of them , so , my dear friends , I canot tell you whether there was any living sould there are not . So , iny dear friends , I canot tell you any more About them now . I?*——— and 16 th and 17 th . weand contenoued , but on the 17 th wee run amonst the ice again , but that was the feald ice which came down from , the river St . larance and gulf , but the ice was so thick and heavy that wee thought it would Jamed our ship together , but there was hut a litle whind but ahevev sea Arunnine . But thank God there soon sprung

      up a fine brease , in which wee gaver all canvass we could get on her , but the sails were all frose so hard that wee was truble to Bend them , and the rope of our rigan , whieh in thair proper state was about the size of ourfingers , where about 3 inches thick with the ice . wee were 15 days sailing about the the ice , but at last wee got clear of it , and in a few day we reached quback , which were the 10 th , and on the 13 th I-wheat to the hospital , as I told you before , dear friends , we sailed again on the 30 th of the month , and then proceeded on our p assage home , but in all passges that ever i had , this exceeded them all , for we scarce had a fine day all the way home , for it was thick , fogy , and rainy all who Head quick passage home , we was 26 days , in which , that was a very good passage home , we arrived at Limrick last friday morning , " &c .

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      We have received the following letter from a friend who was lately passing through Prague , on his road to the East : — Prague , Tuesday , May 4 . This evening , as I was leaving my hotel , the Blauen . Stern ( Blue Star ) , to take a walk with my friend , we saw a great bustle and crowd of people , with several police officers , on the stairs which lead from the Porto Cochcro to the upper stories , up whieh two ladies were proceeding . A carriage and two horses stood at the door . Police officers , abounding in Austrian cities , wo did not take particular notice of their presence , but aaked one of thorn who stood near , what was the matter . " Nothing , nothing , " said ho j " only tho hausfran ( landlord ' s wife ) has returned from a all to

      long absence , and tho people arc glad eeo nor . vv o thought no more of it , but about nine o ' clock at night , in a caf 6 , an intimate friend of my companion ' s , a retired captain of Austrian cavalry , whispered to him—" Donb you live at tho Blauen SternP" " Yes , " tho reply . " Was thore not a great crowd and disturbance there , today P" " I didn't ecp any disturbance ; there was a good deal of excitomont , apparentl y at tho return of tho landlord ' s wife . " "My good follow , that was not tho landlord's wife , it was " Kossuth ' e sister , and sorao other of his relations : they arc on their way to America ; but not a hundred people in tho town know it , bosi dos tho police , and they don't want it to bo known . " " And how did you know

      know it , you woro not thoro P" " Oh , I everything . From tliia , and from other signs , I boliovo that sympathy exists in many boHoms besides the Hungarians , in . ™ vour of those who havo made a stand against that frightful tyranny which inakcB politics , oreign or domestic , a lorbidden subject of conversation in Austria ; and , thoroloro , conceals beneath a veil of prudential roservo tho real sontiinonts of tho majority . . 1 saw tho report spread through a email circlo at the cafo , and I watched tho manner m which it was received . And this among Gormans . and Bohemians—not Hungarians—many of thorn oHWials . Thore are several rog imonts of H ungarians hero , Grenadiers and Huseow , fine-looking follows .

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      Tho Monitew announces that M . Villomain , professor of French Eloquence at tho Faulty o ( Letters oi Pans , and MAOousin , professor of Anoi 6 nt Philosophy , havo boon allowed ; at thoir own request , to make good their claims to a retiring pension .

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      « COTTONING" TO DESPOTISM . History indicates with unerring certainty the sequel to the present condition of England . Ate the repose of a peace which , so far as her own lands are concerned , is unprecedented in duration , she is absorbed in the business of enjoyment , thoroughly broken in to peaceful pursuits , and disinclined to arouse herself to action . True , the enjoyment is of a highly artificial kind—not the most delightful , and much limited to particular classes : it consists chiefly , not in the natural enjoyments * but in the material refinements of superior cookery , excellent furniture , and housefittings , in greatly improved door-handles , bellpulls , steel fenders , and drawing-room chairs , in remarkably fine cloth , extra-superfine « genuine ' silks at ' tremendous sacrifice * per yard , and largely extended biensSance among domestic servants , after a fashion , in the conduct of parties . As for the enjoyment of the people—whither has it gone : ? Where is the frolic of the village green ? where the manly games ? Muchboast-TT 10- ia there , because the people have enough

      bread to eat , and because it is * white V- which is most ' ceconomical . ' As to the village sports , they are declining , North and South . In Cornwall itself , wrestling has diminished within the observation of men still young . Manly sports have been ' put down , ' and the people with them ; until at last the people is content to ask for education , ' to keep up a kind of grumbling in the towns about * the charter , ' to emigrate , and meanwhile , to go on working from morn till night . The chosen representatives of the most

      newly enfranchised classes—the classes that have obtained political recognition by possessing social influence—are now in Parliament , refusing to see the possibility of ever more needing the manly energies of the nation itself to defend its shores , advocating the disarmed condition of the people , and upholding that opprobrium of free states , that instrument of central authority which extinguishes national freedom , an exclusive paid fighting class to do the bravery of the nation for it . The arguments with which this school of

      politicians upholds its unpracticable positions arc reckless in the extreme . Mr . John Bright , for example , ventured to assort of the old militia , that ? ' so fur as their industrious avocations wero concerned , the men , on retiring from tho service , woro injured in . character , morals , and thoir prospects in life , " —a hazardous romance even of the ill contrived militia of tho beginning of tho century : but what would evon Mr . Bright say of the Volunteer Companies with which it is the boast of many a successful man in business to havo been enrolled P "What would ho say of the

      Uniform Companios of the Unitod States—are not the members sharp enough for business P or what would ho say of tho Svyiss militia men , who can not only fight , who can not only maintain thoir country free in tho very midst of despotism , but can work ? for a moro industrious peoplo than tho Swiss does not exist . John Bright in himself wo take to bo a lino fellow—a gooa specimen of your sturdy Englishman : it is therefore tho moro lamontablo to see him speaking in terms , of shy toleration respec'ting the French President ,, and blaming tho English press for outspeaking ; for indeed , so small has tho stop become betweon a Manchostor man and an

      Austria-man ! Mr . Cobdon boasts of tho eight hundred petitions which Englishmen havo boon induced to sign against tho Militia Bill on various pretexts : ho said nothing of tho number of signatures ; on tho contrary , he assumod that sectarian meetings which adopted those potitions . represented whole placos . There might , indeed , ho admitted , " in

      somBpartsViof the ) country , aridbia ¦ < 3 ountry con stituenciesi be found men who believed' ni thi possibility of a pencil invasion j " but in the circles in which he moved , among people of Veil regulated ininds , and free trade ppinipna , h © could not find any one whp really imagined that the lYenqh were coming Id mvade us / ' But they MigTit , do so ; or rather , th ^ Advehturer-iii-Clnef who has conquered France by- surprise might ; and if he did , are we prepared for him P

      Granting our supremacy m coal arid cotton , pn which Mr ; Cohdeh so . fondly relies ; the question is , whether we coiild bring that tp bear instantl y ? We doubt , indeed , whether all the steam power of Manchester could be of much service in case of a simultaneous landing along the South-eastern and Southern , coast . None , as drivers in London well know > are so incessantly and blindly running into danger as women j . none so helpless when it comes . ^ Woinen , especially old women , annear

      to ignore the existence of omnibuses and dogcarts ; and Mr . Cobden ¦¦ ¦ '" begs pardon of tie French people for having even ^ ypothetically dealt witli this questibri ; " he begs pardon of that nation , namely , that has ^ annexed" Algiersthat occupies Rome- ^ that seized Spain as a kingdom for one Jerome whomliouis Napoleon has restored to quasi-regal condition , —that was preparing under tibuis Napoleon ' s boasted uncle

      and model to invade Englarid , T—that has not many years since burned with an open waaf fever against this country * - —that exulted in the Prince de JoinviUe ' s' ^^ ote /' discussmg an invasion of England , - —that possessed Generals who prepared a plan of invasion for Louis : Philippe , the " Napoleon of Peace , " - ^ -that has accepted as one of its Governors the exulting author of the Decay of

      England , — that has , according to the bland recognition of the Manchester school , voted into the dictatorships "Louis Hapbleon , " heir to my uncle , " heir to the unaccomplished ^ Boulogne expedition , who believes himself destined to the conquest , while regretting , such is'his courteous , gratitude , that he must thus requite the country of his refuge ; but , of course , he cannot disobey

      " his star . " . ¦ . How continually the mistake is made of j udging all other men by one's selfy and none makeavthat mistake so constantly as the political parvenu Mr . Cobden has forsworn war , as an occupation that does not " pay , " and he seems to think that whole nationshave done so . He thinks as much , not only just before 1848 , but after it . He thinks so when he has before him May , Mogador , Meeanee , Moultan , Milan , Hungary , Schleswig-Holstein , Europe ! History exists not for him . But it exists for others : and it tells us _ tliat wbfin a nation becomes so sunk in peace as

      England has been , it becomes enervated ; that when it is enervated , it betakes itself to philosophies like that which Mr . Cobden boasts , and whicJi has unquestionably corrupted and unmanned me nation to a very large extent ; and that whentne corruption becomes very apparent , then some Goth accepts the invftation , and then tho wealtJi which peaceful industry , dreaming of nought but industry and wealth , has accumulated , becomes tlin bootv of the incapable invader . England w

      now in the last stage but One . j * . Thank God , however , for that England is not all of Manchester stuff . Manchester itselt is nou so-nor the West Biding . At one time Government might havo been most anxious to p ^ down" our people : the time has come to arouso tho peoplo ; and wo are glad to see that wo havo a Government not unmindful of the duty . In such cases national objects are superior to ? paxij distinctions ; and we are bound to say , taa >™ moro than one respect the present Government Imn slimvn n simerioritv to party unknown sint ^

      the days when the Whigs filched place www Peel ' s hands , Peel , be it rememberod , conteni plated a consolidation of militia laws ^ % F " caluso ; so well did " he ^ ad lustoiy . Ihc s ° called friends of « humanity , " - ^ ht %° T the hands- of the Cape colonists W *™** ^ savages , and havo sent more and mowJ ^ ffJ soldiers to bo shot down like boasts b ° ° »? X > bushed fbe-tho so-called friends of " pcaco , wn would disarm England in the face of C ^ Xonhy Croat , —may for a moment flatter tho V ^ Xl of gaping assemblages ; a Bussoll or a Groy , i " getting an hereditary patriotism , may ^ courtm tyranny of cotton ; But many tf (™ ?*™ lJdct aromore long-sighted ; there are " * Kui those in which a Cobden movej ; ^ . ^ Iff , amongst us , differing from the Manchester stui

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      There is . nothiag so revolutionary , because there as XLOtb . ins 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 . —Dn . Abnohd .

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      SATUEDAY , MAY 8 , 1852 .

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      » A word horo not logibJc .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1852, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1934/page/12/