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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 . Lord 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 Qrelio next , and the whole lot , with the exception of Treasurer and Maidstone , lying up in very close order . With one or two changes of no moment they ran to the bend , where Stockwell and King Pepin gave way , Harbinger took the second place , and Hobbie Noble the third—next to him in a body coming
"Womersley , Chief Baron Nicholson , King of Trumps , Barbarian , Daniel O'liourke , 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 Chief Baron Nicholson lying second and third on the lower side , and Daniel O'ltourke fourth on tlieir right . The race from the half distance was left to this lot , Daniel O'Kourke , 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 Hobbie Noble by a head ; Alcoran was fifth , and King of Trumps sixth . The race was run in 3 min . 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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LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From oun own Couukspondent . ] Lettisr XXII . Paris , Tuoaday Evening , 25 tU May , 1852 . We have had news of M . Heeckeren , Bonaparte's Envoy Extraordinary to Vienna , but the intelligence is far from being satisfactory to the Government . Austria treated M . Heeckoron ' H proposition for the ro-umpping of Europe with disdain . Ho was referred to the Elnporor of Russia , ami accordingly loft ; for Berlin on the
21 st . You will remember tlint in my ln « t letter I said M . llecekoron won sent on a secret mission . But on the very evening of Ihh departure , the particulars of the famous meeting of tho Council of State , and the object of tho mission wore known everywhere . Louis Bonaparte , furiouu at finding his » tato secrets no secret at all , gave orders for tho immediate denial of M . Heeckeren ' s minion . So it came to pass that , while the Austrian papers were announcing his arrival in Vienna , M . Heeckeren , according to tho Strasburg
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 Schwarzenberg 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 , hi the person of the Gomte 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 . Vesselrode 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 Royalists is terrible . They turn largely to account their money , and influence > " and the provincial administrations , of which they ' } i 6 l& the monopoly . They are working the masses , and sowing gold and silver broad-cast . At Saumur , the non-commissioned 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 Frohsddrf to confer with the Dae de Levis , the principal adviser of the Comte de Ghambord . 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 the money , and still be hostile to Bonaparte . Whatever power or influence he allows the clergy 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 the procession of tho holy sacrament , which had been suppressed since 1830 , in all the localities where there were any Protestant inhabitants . Tho local authorities are much perplexed at this fresh encroachment . At Orleans the procession was allowed by tho Prefect ; at Lille and Bordeaux the procession was forbidden , whereupon the clergy appealed for redress to the piety of Louis Bonaparte , who doubtless will decide against the prefects .
Tho Orleanists , on their side , are not idle ; they still point their hidden batteries against Bonaparte . Tho Duchess of Orleans , following the example of tho Comte do Chambord , has addressed two letters to her friends , tho Mar ^ chale Lobau and tho Marquise do l'Aiglo , urging them to induce her partisans to refuse tho oath to Louis Bonaparte . In these letters tho Duchess of Orleans makes tin important declaration : she states that hitherto she has boon the only obstacle in tho way of tho " fusion , " but she will now abdicate tho pretensions of her son , and will join hor mother-in-law , tho ox-Queen AmeUe , and tho Princes of Orleans , in recognising tho Comto do Chambord as tho legitimate King f Franco . These letter * , of which lithograph copies are being circulated , have been a sod blow to poor Bonaparte . If those things continue for three months longer , lie will be compelled to make friends with tho Republicans , and cry " Vive la Bfyullique I " The coalition of every shado of rpyalisra ,. and the absence of all confidence in the durability of tho present
order of things , paralyzes business transactions entirel The stagnation is complete . A certain number of /" actionist manufacturers and provincial merchants wh hailing Bonaparte as their saviour , happy to be d ° ' livered from the terrible perspective of 1852 , had be " lieved ; thatan unheard-of commercial prosperity w about to dawn , and who , somewhat hastily , had in T large purchases of merchandise for manuf acture or sale , finding themselves without purchasers for th ' goods , are now the first to curs © the government of Louis Boflaparte . He , still aping the political economv of " My Uncle , " thought that a series of balls given W
the official world * would be sufficient to bring about ait activity in business . The official world daiices , 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 sig ] nified to him , and all the judges , that they must give evening parties ; and he is persuaded that commercial dulness most yield to the combined influence of so many contredanses and polkas .
Meanwhile , the refusals to take the oath , are daily multiplying . In the departments of the Gard , life efc Vilainej Loire Inferieure , JBTaute Garonne , Calvados L'Aisne , Meurthe , Bouches-du-Rh 6 he , Nord , Pas de Calais , l'Oise , Maine et Loire , l'Allier , and the Tarn , a very 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 the President , has sent in his resignation as member of the
general council of Lot et Garonne . He addressed a letter on the subject to the prefect of Agen , the terms of which , both for pungency and bitterness , are said to go 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 path . 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 condottiero 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 and denouncer , replied by a solemn denial . Granier de Cassagnac having repliedj that what M . Mole denied . M , La Eochejaquelin , 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 at bribery which Bonaparte had made upon General Changarnier had been revealed to the committee oipermanence , that General Changarnier having asked for carte blanche 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 tliff first , been treated with tho contempt they deserved . Im several cafe's the Gomtitutionnel was torn up > Afc Tortoni ' a , and in other cafd ' s , Granier de Cassagnac ' u article was burnt , and several young men pubEdy announced thoir intention of provoking the ml follicu laire , as Granier was some time since designated by M . Creton , to fight . Several officers , friends of
theexiled generals , imitated the example of th © young men . More than thirty challenges have been addressed to him . Tho editors of tho Corsaire wrote a collective article in their paper to tho same effect . Granicr de Cassognoc replied to M . Saint Pair , one of them , that he could not accept tho challenge of any clown who chose to call him out . M . Saint Pair has promised the ? gentleman a good caning tho first time they meet . M » Granier de Cnssagnac , to put a , stop to this shower oi cartels , has declared that ho will not fight with any other than either of tho offended generals . The
presumption of tho varlotl ' « In tho meantime a subscription , which already amounts to 325 , 000 francs , has been ' started for General Chongarnier . On Monday , Louis Bonaparte , following tho oxampW of the First Consul , and decked with tho uniform ot » councillor , presided over a meeting of tho Council State . Ho was surrounded by tho Ministers ot . Vm ^ Instruction , of : tho Interior , and of finance . I ' question under consideration was tho proposed law o
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EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA . An important meeting was held on Thursday , in the Vestry Booms 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 l , O 0 OZ ., 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 the Poor Law Board are willing to sanction , ' Duly seconded and supported , tho resolution was met by an amendment to defer its consideration to that day six months . Some of the 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 be raised . One rato-payor , by name Laburm , represented himself as being in a most unfortunate state . Ho 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 { j avo an evidence that , in addition to his feelings of jcaouey , fear , and dismay which actuated him , he was extremely " crodulous" also , for ho believed thoro was " a echoino on foot among tho lowest classes , to live upon Uiobo immediately above thorn . " Ultimately , tho amendment was rejected , and tho original motion carried by a largo majority . A poll was domanded , but properly refused by the vicar .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/6/
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