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A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles this morning , announces the arrival of the Indian mail , with papers from Bombay of May 3 , and Calcutta , April 22 . Rangoon and Matarbah , with 130 pieces of cannon , are captured , at a loss , on our side , of 150 men killed and wounded . . The nomination for a successor to Mr . Grenfell took place at Sandwich on Thursday . . The show of hands was in favour of Lord Clinton , and the friends of Captain French demanded a poll , which opened yesterday , and closed with the following result : — Lord Clinton . . ... . 439 Captain French . . * . . 251 Majority ... . . — -188
Yesterday ^ a numerous meeting of the publishers and booksellers of London took place at Exeter Hall . The committee of the combination resigned their functions , accompanied with many expressions of extreme regret for the tiritoward termination of their labours , and expressed their convictions that the booksellers are a misrepresented and injured body . After an irregular discussion and struggle of four mortal hours , the combination itself expired by suicide . The act was forced upon it by a threat from Mr . William Longman , who deserves praise for his linn and straightforward manner throughout the proceedings . Mr . Chapman spoke in favour of the motion of dissolving the combination , and met with constant interruption .
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Epsom races concluded yesterday . For the Oaks there were fourteen starters . They got off about a quarter past three : betting ; 2 to 1 against Songstress . Bed Hind , who was very restive at the post , delayed the start at least a quarter of an hour , and when the flag was dropped , jumped round and lost at least one hundred yards . The lead at starting was taken by the Infidelity filly , followed by Lady-in-Waiting and Plumstead , Sally , Gossamer , and Bird-on-the-Wing , Songstress lying in the rear with Plot and Kate . They ran only a short distance in this order , the running then being taken up by Gossamer , attended by Ladyin-Waiting , Sally , and Trousseau ; next them Bird-onthe-Wing , with the ruck laid up . On making the bend , Bird-on-the-Wing drew up to the front , and afc the Banstead-road took the lead , Gossamer following
her , Trousseau third , with Sally , the favourite , Ladyin-Waiting , and Kate in their wake . Songstress took the third place in the bottom , headed Gossamer at the distance , caught Bird-on-the-Wing at the stand , left her a few strides from home , and won very cleverly by a length ; two lengths between Bird-on-the-Wing and Gossamer , Kate a bad fourth , Trousseau fifth , and Lady-in-Waiting sixth . The race was run exactly in three minutes . The race , like the Derby , went into John Scott ' s stable by the assistance of Songstress , who has thus added another laurel to the wreath of the
celebrated Irish Birdcatcher , whose produce , after winning the Derby , were to-day first , second , and third . Frank Butler , who rode his first Derby winner on Wednesday , has now won the Oaks six times , and four times in succession . There was a good attendance ; the weather was favourable ; fashion and rank swarmed in the Stand , and along the courso ; and altogether it is reported as the best Oaks day for many years . Letters have been received from officials nfc St . John ' s , Newfoundland , respecting the ships alleged to have been seen on tho ice by the captain and crew of the Renovation . As no whalers woro lost loot year , tho ships are considered to have been a " deceptive appearance which icebergs assume undor some peculiar action of tho atmosphore . " Tho Globe regrets to announce the death of Mr . Scropo Davis , who had been for many months in bad health , and who died suddenly , on Monday last , nt his apartments in tho lluo do Duras , Paris . Mr . Davis was educated at JSton and Cambridge , and at the timo of his decease waa Senior Follow of King ' Collogo , Cambridge . Ho was tho intimate friend of Lord Byron , who had the highest opinion of his critical taHto , and dedicated one of his pooma ( JSnqliah Hards and Scotch Reviewers ) to him . Tho Washington corresp ondent of tho New York Journal of Commerce says : — " I fear that Congress and tho country will noon , very soon , bo called upon to bostow funeral honours on ono whom thoy have long honoured in . life . Mr . Cloy asked very oarnostly whon his eon , Mr . John Clay , of Kontucky , would arrive . Ho wiuj ploasod to know that ho would noon l ) o horo On Sunday ho oakocl Pr . Jackson , of Philadelphia , whothor his death would bo u painful ono , and whothor it would not bo by < juft " ooation , which ho had foarod . I ) r . Jnckaon replied that his death would not bo by suffocation—that it would be perfectly easy—that his nervous onorgies were entirely deetrovod , and naturo would yield without a Btrugglo . Mr . Clay has boon jporlbctly cheerful throughout his protracted illness , and w atilji calm and in full pos-Beesion of hie montal facultioa . Ho talks of death with no rogrot at its approach . Ho has neither expected to rocovor , nor expressed ony anxiety for it . Ho was anxious tor pome woota to got to tho Senate Chamber once more , intending to oxprosa hia views on tho subject of intervention , but this was denied to him . Ho has loft dy ing injunctions to his countrymen against all tho dootrinos and , tho mooaurea that woiud involve tho country in foreign faojla gr m " domestic diftaeriwQiw , and . w ready to popart "
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ABSOLUTISM STILL COMING QK . The matter involved in Lord Palmerston ' s unexpected sally , on Friday last , is one essential to be understood ; but the question itself was insufficient or superfluous . * 'My object / ' he said , "is to elicit from her Majesty ' s government some declaration of sentiment , or of opinipn on these points [ the rumours of a coup d'iiat in Spain , and of reactionary intrigues in Piedmont , ] which may disabuse those persons on the Continent , who think that the arbitrary system may receive che countenance of Great Britain
under the present Adnunistration . " A declaration of sentiment was elicited : on behalf of the Administration , Mr . Disraeli shook Jiis head at " extreme opinions "; tut the facts remain ; as they were . Neither the most touching declaration of sentiment , nor the most solemn shaking of the head at Absolutism for going to extremes , will counteract the progress to which Lord Palmerston has not prematurely testified . Mr . Disraeli ' s objection , that Lord Palmerston ' s question alluded to " reports , " was a sorry
quibble of new-fledged officialism . No one will suppose that Lord Palmerston is really uninformed , or dependent on rumours only : and when he refers to " reports , " it must be because certain facts have reached him qn which the reference is based . When Lord PaJmerstpn declares that the banded powers of Absolutism are steadily making way , and that they are advancing to a consummation of reaction in Spain , and to a disturbance of better promises in Piedmont , we must understand that , while the
etiquette of a past and possible foreign minister limits his overt allusions to reports , his own knowledge confirms the inferences of uninitiated observation endeavouring to penetrate the disguises of diplomacy . The compactness and progress of the resuscitated Holy Alliance being confirmed by so accomplished an authority , we look with keener interest to the scanty accidental revelations of the spirit moving that Alliance ; and here the quasi-diplomatic correspondent of the Times comes to our
aid . Ho gives a summary of the confidential correspondence between tho Governments of the Alliance respecting the eccentric position of Louis Napoleon towards the European system . From this correspondence wo learn three facts . The first is , that the members of tho Holy Alliance adhere , without qualification , to tke principle of legitimacy . They abide , indeed , by so much as survives of the treaties of J . 814 and ' 15 , but they carry back their adhesion to tlio sacred principlo far beyond the Congresses of Vienna or Verona . Drawing a distinction
between a government de facto , and a government de jure , arguing that a ruler de f acto cannot , on tho strength of univerHal suffrage , convert himself into a ruler de jure , insistiug that " sovereignty never can proceed otherwise than from right of birth or of succession , " and taking tho usurpations of tho Emperor Napoleon in Franco , and of Cromwell , in England , to illustrate tho impracticability of tho most successful violations of tho sacred principlo , it will bo scon that they still claim for tho legitimacy a certain immortal sanctity , paralleled only by tho apostolical
suc-. Tho second fact is , that accopting Louis Napoleon as Governor of Franco , de facto , but reserving the right to cross-examine him as to tho political tendencies of tho French Government , its propagandiem , and its encouragement to Polish or Italian refugees , tho Holy Allianco , lod by Russia and Count Nesselrode , is yot conditionally willing ^ as an extremity of concession , to grant to Louis Napoleon , with , tho title of "
Emperor" for life , a position somewhat similai . + „ that of the Elective Kings of Poland . The thirid fact is , that Louis Napoleon i evidently understood to be negotiating for th Emperorship to be made hereditary in his family tinder the patronage of the 3 Holy Alliance . This is no hews j but it is something t ; o have the fact confessed oh the face of a diplomatic document emanating from the [ Russian ministry , and under the united cognizance of Austria and Prussia It is true that Louis Napoleon is assuming the place of a sturdy beggar , half petitioning hnip
threatening ; true , that he is craving from the patronage of the Emperors that position which , the first Napoleon arranged with Alexander as a boon companion , and extorted from Austria with a bride whose lineage superseded that of Louis Napoleon j but , derogatory as those comparisons may be to ( him , they \ do not materially affect the present coisi 4 ewtion— -that he is seeding to be admitted amongst the European crowns under the patronage of the Three Great Powers , and that they ate willing to accept himas a kind of supernumerary by sufferance .
"We have for some time known that ' Prussia " had not only been coerced and frightened back into the Holy Alliance , but had agreed to join his stakes witli the grand conspiracy of Crowns against nations ; and the cordiality with which he has done so- — -for like walnut-tre 0 s and wives , good old womanly Frederick William becomes all the more affectionate after a beating—is
illustrated by the banquet in the White Hall at Berlin , on Friday last . The Emperor of Eussia sat between the King and Queen . The Czar wore a Prussian uniform * the Kingand royal princes wore the uniform of Russian generals ; JEtussia appearing as the ofiicer of Prussia , and Prussia being the military vassal of Russia . Frederick "William drank this toast with his accustomed
nervous enthusiasm : —• " In my own name , in ~ the name of my army , and in theJianie of all Prussian hearts , I drink to the health or his Imperial Majesty of Russia . Grod preserve him to that portion of his world which Tie has given him for an inheritance > and to our epoch , to which ho is indispensable \" ¦ Whereupon the Emperor replying , " G-odsavo your Majesty , " drank in return to the King of jPrussia and his noble army . We did not need to be informed that the armies of Prussia and Eussia
are as interchangeable on occasion as those of Russia and Austria with their minor contingents ; but it makes assurance doubly sure when we find this spirit of cordial amity trumpeted before the world ; and we now see Louis Napoleon awkwardly negotiating to enlist his contingent of 400 , 000 men in that enormous armament . Denmark has just received a favour at tho hands ot " Russia , " who has waived his veto on tho Danish succession . Take the map of Europe , and observe oi
that nearly tho whole of it , with the exception its south-western angle , and tho north-western united kingdom of Sweden and Norway , is in possession of tho Holy Alliance . Sweden , Belgium , and Piedmont , remain as patches precariously held in tlio name of Constitutionalism ; the Alliance is already negotiating to take possession of France , with , Louis Napoleon as tlio tonant-at-will , in trust , to sot up again its own son , the apostolically-legitimate descendant oi St . Louis , Henry tho Fifth . of the
In the enumeration by Lord Palmerston constitutional governments still extant in Europe Portugal , Spain , Sardinia , Greece , Denmark , _ ana Belgium , present an imposing array ; but o those States Denmark is , at least , tho protogo o tho Allianco ; Prussia is its devoted vassal , Crown and Army ; and , as Lord Palmorston relates , Spain and Sardinia are insidiously assailed by w » eamo influence that has robbed Tuscany ana Hanover of tho last remnants of royal oatJis . Lord Derby lately praispd theso successlu Sovereigns of Europe for their adhesion to u »«' OUt WUUI / wuu »»« ..--
SpiriC OI " 4- ^ ttCO J ... anything but ' poaco , when peace *™ ° ™ V , " their purpose so wellP They are able to coerce nations and men ; to practise every cxaggof ^ and refinement of tyranny , from tho e ^ viufc . professors to the incarceration or exile oi P 0 " rnj 10 tions ; and what more would they reqmror * ambassador of the candidate for then- piow torate , Louis Napoleon , recently declared *" his Government haa tho best understanding j » that of Great Britain , and this imposing "i ^ k tiou was ratified by tho eilonco of tho JW
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing sp 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 . —Db . Askoid .
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SATTJBDAT , MAY 29 , 1852 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/12/
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