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ELECTION MATTEBS . City . —Last night a meeting was held in the ward of Bishopsgate , to protest against the late London Tavern meeting respecting the candidates for the City and a resolution come to , vaguely expressing the sense entertained by the meeting of the elective franchise , and their resolve to exercise it in a manner to secure a real representation in the great council of the nation , and exhibit the wishes and will of the city of London . An attempt was made to " get a declaration of opinion in favour of Lord John Bussell , but it signally failed .
Oxfoed tTNiVEBSiorr . —It is reported in Oxford that it has been found necessary to withdraw Mr . Colquhoun , in consequence of the general disfavour with which his name has been received , and that it is intended to put forward Dr . Bullock Marsham , warden of Merton College , in his stead . This is very honourable to the University , certainly ! Dr . Bullock Marsham is the man who , in 1843 , made the famous speech at Buckingham , in which he said " five millions of Irishmen rejoiced in potatoes . " SCJlBBOBOTJGH . — -Mr . George Frederick Young has issued a long address to the electors of this borough , in , which he declares himself still a thorough Protectionist ,
and says— " I repeat , therefore , my earnest recommendations to every Protectionist to support Lord Derby as the only possible means of regaining Protection in any form . " LnrcbiNSHiBE ( KToeth ) . —Mr . Christopher , Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , and Sir M . Cholmeley , the present members for this division of the county of Lincobashire , addressed a large gathering of the electors on Wednesday afternoon in the Mart-Yard ,
Gainsborough . ; Mr . Christopher spoke on two points chiefly —Protection and the Maynooth grant . With reference to the former , he threw the whole responsibility-of the course which the Government might pursue on the verdict of the country at the ensuing elections . As to the latter , he expressed himself strongly in favour of a searching inquiry , and said he was prepared to sanction either a reversal of the grant , or that the college should be subjected to an inspection which should render it no longer dangerous to the privileges ^ the
Sovereign . Sir M . Cholmeley addressed the meeting after Mr . Christopher , and having characterised the opposition got up against him in the person of Mr . Stanhope as " most trifling , " proceeded to say that when Lord Derby nailed his colours to the mast he did think his Lordship would have stood or fallen by protection to agriculture—that that course would have been his pride and his policy , and in that policy Lord Derby should have had his support . ( Cheers . )
" But now Lord Derby had got into office he found all things changed—all things altered ; and after numerous charges and explanations of what one hon . and right hon . gentleman had said in one House and another House—after explanations to explain away explanations , he was literally so mystified that he did not know what conclusion to como to with respect to the policy and intentions of the Government . ( Cheers and laughter . ) He viewed with dismay the declaration of the Premier , made some days since in the House of Lords . During the time that ho had repreeented them in Parliament he had voted against the lato Administration on the vital quoution affecting the interest that hshould
of agriculture . He would ask , was it likely e submit to becoming the servile supporter of a Cabiaet who did not know or would not explain their own measures ? No , he would maintain his right to vote for such measures as were good and against such measures as ho considered wrong , whatever Ministry was in power . ( Cheering . ) Ho had already told thorn that they could not get pure agricultural protection , and he would toll thorn the eame again . He had no hopes that it would over bo proposed by tho Derby Administration . He had no hopes it would bo obtained , although ho would still vote for it , but ho would support tho Earl of Dorby in any measure for tho relief of agricultural distress .
A very numerous gathering of the freeholders of the Isle of Axholmo took place at Epworth , on Thursday afternoon , on which occasion tho three candidates met by appointment for the purpose of explaining their sentiments to the electors . Although all three candidates profess to be Protectionists and opposed to tho grant to Maynooth , party feeling runs as high among their respoctivo adhoront » as if they wore divided by much wider differences of opinion . It is alleged against Sir M . Cholmoloy that ho is the nominee of a free trade poor , tho Earl of Yarborougli , nnd that ho
almost invariably supported tho late Free Trade Administration , for which reasons it is sought to displace him by n candidate in whom greater confidence can bo placed . On arriving at Epworth oil Thursday afternoon , tho ro « poctivo parties took up thoir positions on and around ' tho hustings eroctqd in tho Markot-placo , and Sir i ' Kobort Sheffield whs nbout to open tho proceedings f by a few words in fuvour of MosBrs . Christopher and t « m ' w Stanhope , when loud and repeated calls wore made I J !~ £ ? ** &k * AJk * <om the Cholmeloy side of the hustings that the I j ^ MMSgOCTKSltoseB on which two or threo hundred of tho other party I j ^ SS ^^^^^ gm mounted ( should bo token away . This not being
complied with , a rush was made upon the latter by the blue ( Cholmeley ) party , with a view to drive the horses back * This was resisted , and the horsemen charged the ranks of the blues with great vigour , laying about rig ht and Jetib with their heavy riding whips and sticks . A general fight was the a > nsequen <» , in which the horsemen , after being driven back two or three times , rallied in ahody , and drove their assailants tip Church-street , towards Sir W . Cholmeley ^ s committeeroom . After awhile , however , something like order was restored > and Sir E . Sheffield again essayed to address the assemblage . The blues , exasperated at
being ridden down , demanded more vehemently than before that the horses should be removed , and declared that not one word should be heard until they were taken away . Mr . Christopher then presented himself , but he also was unable to obtain a hearing . The band of the blues struck up "Oh dear , what can the matter be ? " and a party of men , armed with formidable bludgeons , made another attack upon the horsemen . Rotten eggs and stones were also showered at them , and a regular harid-to-hand fight commenced . The blue flags were torn down , and the poles converted into staves . The horses and their riders
received some terrible blows , and many were struck with stones . The front of the hustings was demolished , and those upon it had to beat a hasty retreat to escape the dangerous missiles which were flung in all directions . The windows of the Red Lion ( Mr . Christopher ' s committee-room ) were smashed , and for about a quarter of an hour the greatest uproar and violence prevailed , After repeated attempts to drive back the blue mob , without any marked success , the horsemen at last made a general charge , which had the
effect of completely dispersing them , and soon afterwards the pinks returned to the market-place completely masters of the field . Mr . Christopher and his friends then re-appeared on the platform amid the most vociferous cheering from their supporters . Many parties were injured in this disgraceful mSlee— -one old man , Mr . John Maw , of Epworth , was carried home senseless ; and another , Mr . Hutton , of the Levels , was removed in a similar state . In the course of the afternoon we observed many patched heads , and several of the horses were badly hurt .
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Mr . Henley , M . P ., presided over a meeting held yesterday at the Mechanic ' s Institute , Great Smith-street , Westminster , for the purpose of inaugurating an elemental drawing school in connexion with the Government Schools of Design . Sir William Page Wood , M . P ., congratulated the meeting on the appearance of the President of the Board of Trade as chairman . Mr . Henley said he had much pleasure in giving his cordial co-operation in establishing this connexion between the Westminster Institution and the Metropolitan Schools of Design . It would be felt by all that it was a matter of the greatest importance that all who had a turn or taste for drawing should receive an elementary instruction in the art , based upon sound and correct principles ; and such
an arrangement as that just made with the Government schools was the best possible means of securing this end . Ho would call upon Mr . Cole , general superintendent of the central school , to explain the principles on which that connexion had been founded . Mr . Cole then addressed the meeting at considerable length . He said tho Central School of Desig _ n , at Somerset House , had been instituted in 1837 , and its establishment was speedily followed by that of twenty-one other schools located in all other parts of the kingdom . It was at first assumed that there . existed students already qualified by sufficient elementary knowledgo to enter these in-¥
PLAVUfAUJUO , ft / UV VH \ J UAMU 11 VUVV V * * v » *•» wv ** j »* »"» w **•*¦»* » «~ that that assumption was unfounded . It had been found that tho students had to be trained , not merely to bo able to understand and practise tho principles of design , but often to learn tho very elements of drawing , so that , instead of affording instruction in tho higher departments of art , tho schools became , what they had been officially and truly reported to bo , *' moro drawing-schools . " It was this feeling that had induced tho Government now openly to recognise for the first time tho want of elementary instruction i n art for all classes , and tho present mooting might bo viewed as tho beginning of a systematic effort on tho part of tho Qovornmont to supply that acknowledged deficiency . Other gontlomon spoke , and resolutions woro agreed to approving of tho object of tho meeting .
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Dr . Cullon has rocoivod tho Pope ' s brief appointing him Roman-catholic Archbishop of Dublin . General Changornior has given an authoritative contradiction to tho statement that ho over proposed an invasion of England to tho JFronch Government . Hor Majesty gave a private concert at Buckingham Palaco on Tuesday ovoning . " Amonjy tho porformora was M . Prudont , who obtained an oncorom tho I ' amouB " Itovoil des'FooB . " Mr . James Goulston , of tho Old Kont-road , ascended in a balloon , on Wednesday , from tho Bollo Vuo Gardons , Manchester . Ho doscondod on tho Stono Break Hills , but owing to somo accident tho grapnels would not catch ; tho balloon continued its courno , and Mr . Goulston fell over into tho netting . He was dragged over throo Holds , his head striking against tho stone walls as ho passed along . Ultimately some men came to hie rescue , but ho was found dead .
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MALMESBUEY AND MATHER . " CeomwelIi would not have passed over this , " says a military correspondent on the Mather ¦ Outrage ; but the days of Cromwell are past The worst symptoms of our national atony are not to be sought in the immense pauperism which presses more upon our repute for public wisdom than upon our poor-rates ; It is not the l , 2 i 0 () , 000 adults dependent upon charily within the year , nor the million of starving heathen children ;—ft is not the depth to which gambling ¦ ¦ has . eaten into societjjr , eyen when we find we know not how many betting-house keepers suddenly evading the claims of their overwhelmmg constituency ; - —it is not the want of administrative power which makes us impotent to deal with the Australian crisis , sinking as much under the weight of gold in the colony , as we do under redundant labour at home , without tfye power of remedying the reciprocal overbalance : —it is not the * precarious
position or our empire in India withMadras Sepoys refusing to march , and Bengal Cavalry leaving their officers to charge alpne ; - —it is not even wie effeminate habits exposed by the most popular of the middle class daily journals , and exemplified by the puny carriage of our trading and professional young men ; but it is father in the dastardly sentiments avowed in the very highest places that we find the most ominous
decay of English heartiness . We do not take advantage , indeed , of the equivocations of Lord Malmesbury , under the cross-questioning of party opponents , nor do we rest even on the indignant appeals of the outraged victims . On Thursday week , the representative of England before Europe , the Earl of Malmesbury , Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , declared that the result of the negotiation
with the Tuscan government in the Mather anair had " terminated in their giving ^ to Mr . Mather a pecuniary remuneration equivalent to tho am « unt of damages which he would have received from an English jury in an English court of justice , if he had appealed to a jury for the redress of such an injury . " On the previous Monday , in a letter written to Mr . Mather by the direction of Lord Malmesbury , Mr . H . XL Addington declared that Her Majesty's government had not considered that this sum was equivalent to the injury which Mr .
Mather suffered , or to that which an Jinguo " court would have awarded him as damages tor his wrongs ; but it was less than Mr . Scarlett was instructed to demand . On the Friday , when cross-examined by Earl Pitzwilliam touching tlus letter , Lord Malmesbury declared that Mr . bcarlott had " recommended that a sum should do riven to Mr . Mather , equivalent , &o . &c . , U ™ Mr . Scarlett probably took a different view oi the value of money in Italy and in this country , a thousand francesconi , or 2401 , being a niuen i _ . « w * . v . m ii * _ •»••¦<• % 4 * wir * 1111 u ima
larger sum In Italy tnan in uuu ^ v , ~ - that Mr . Scarlett acted on his own jwdgmpnt , perhaps not logically , but , continued tho JjarJ , " I cannot say unwisely . " It is not on theso discrepancies that we are disposed to rest am argument , ugly as they are in themselves , y brush them aside m trivialities , equalhr witu Lord MalniQBbury's suggestion , that Mr . w ^ T has been dangerously ill through dip lomats anxiety . Wo must regret Mr . Scarlett 8 illness , wo can sympathize with him in tho ft 01 10 / 8 ., , * humiliation that caused it , but wo arc not t " less surprised that tho British minister shouia " blind to tho real sting of tho charge ag ^ vj *" , "' When ho sayB that Mr , Scarlett obtained in tuo money bargain tho liberation of two English gon tlemen , who had been long ™ V ™<>™« fZ S accusations , wo can as littlo admit tJio «»
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there i * notbmg so unnatural aaad convulsive , as the strairi t keep things fcced when all the world is by the vervla .- » of its creation , in eternal progress . —Db . Abnold
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Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1852, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1938/page/12/
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