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VOL . III . No . 120 . 1 SATUBDAY , JULY 10 , 1852 . [ Pkice Sixpence .
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The General Election has been going on for four or five days , and a considerable sample of the next House of Commons has by this time been duly elected . If the bulk answer to sample it will not be distinguished amongst Parliaments , either for abilities or for strong convictions . It will be essentially a Parliament representing the middle
class . Not only do extreme opinions find no favour , but shining abilities are not appreciated , and popularity , in the broadest sense of the word , is a disqualification . To be distinguished for something has proved to be a dangerous advantage , and the candidate chosen by a show of hands has mostly been rejected by the poll .
Spirited contests have been waged nearly everywhere , and in some places with very remarkable results . In the City , Mr . Masterman , Peelite , supported by all the Liberals , reaches the head of the poll ; Lord John coming in second . Here high respectability was * the recommendation . At Liverpool , bigotry defeats Cardwell and Ewart , and elects a Forbes Mackenzie , Orangeman , Derbyite , Protectionist , and Mr . Turner , a staunch Free-trader , but nevertheless a Derbyite and
Anti-Catholic . The Tories crow mightily over this election . Perhaps * the recent Acts for checking Bribery and Corruption may give the right of crowing to the other party . In Greenwich , Government put on the screw nt high pressure , and carried Peter Itolt , ousting Admiral Stewart , and placing Alderman Salomons lowest on the Poll . By the same influence Sir John Komilly was supplanted at Dcvonport , and Sir (» . Clerk at Dover . As a per contra , Scarborough rejects the notorious ( jieorge Frederick Young ; Hull returns Mr . Clay
and Lord Cjorierich ; Kidderminster , Robert Lowe ; Aylcsbury , Mr . Layurd and Mr . licthcll ; Halifax rescues its name from disgrace as a Tory borough by electing Mr . Frank Crossley as a colleague of Sir Charles Wood ; Carlisle returns Sir James OJraharu at the head of the poll ; Leicester is true to " Walmsley and Gardner ; Manchester adheres to Mr . Milncr ( jibnon and John Bright ; Heading selects Keating in the place of Stanford ; and Sheffield carries triumphantly Roebuck and HiuMeld .
These are notable events enough . But there ure Home Btill more notuble behind . Lambeth ousts the veteran Whig Radical D'Eyneourt , and replaces him , at a few days' notice , by Mr . Arthur Wilkinson , who reaches the top of the [ Town Edition /!
poll by dint of the mid-day votes of the workingmen . So far this is a gain . But mark the contrast on the other side of the river . Mr . William Coninghain , the Radical candidate for Westminster , decidedly , the popular candidate , is defeated ; even a Lord Maidstone brings more voters to the poll . The men , like those who carried Mr . Wilkinson ' s election , in Westminster , were tricked out of their votes by one of the most dastardly of electioneering rascalities . At the time when the working-men
were coming up , the committee of General Evans and Sir John Shelley put out a placard , stating that Mr . Coningham had resigned , and that he " urged his supporters to poll" for these two immaculate gentlemen . The statement was the reverse of the truth , but it answered its purpose : before it could be refuted the men had returned to their work ! But this was not the sole instance of the rejection of the man chosen by the non-electors , supposing all those who crowd to the nomination to be non-electors . William Newton , candidate
for the Tower Hamlets , was supported by thousands of hands and defeated by thousands of votes . Mr . George Thompson and Mr . Ayrton share his fate , and a gentleman noted for his bigotted antagonism to Maynooth heads the poll . In Southwark and Finsbury , it is true , the old members , Sir William Molcsworth and Mr . Duncombe are elected ; but at Bradford Colonel Thompson ,
another popular candidate , is driven out by a 1 'rcetratlc Derbyite ; Ohlham ousts Fox , and Brighton rejects Trelawny . So much for the value of the constituencies as an index to the will of the people . As far as the borough elections have gone they tell in favour of Free-trade and Wbiggery—but in favour of nothing else . The Liberals at present have absolutely gained a few scats .
Meanwhile , the investigation into the origin of the Stockport riots has been suspended ; the evidence at present produced telling rather against the Protestants , and not telling at all in favour of the Catholics . The latter , however , have not disgraced themselves by the publication of any such insulting placards as have issued from the other side .
The political atmosphere i ^ Iranee grows more unwholesome , if not more perturbed and threatening , week by week . The land seems mined with conspiracy , and to meet these secret machinations , the Government of professed experts in conspiracy , invents plots against its own safety ; and out of a few broken gas-pipes , ami a few yards of canvass , carefully stuffed by the police with bullets , forges infernal machines against society . And to
save society , once more endangered , the Empire is again announced by petitions , which the chief duty of the prefects consists in organizing . And so the gigantic falsehood waxes , and so , slowly but most surely , it wanes . As to the President , demoralized and morose , he betakes himself away to the retreat of royalty dethroned and dispossessed , and already aching with lassitude , if not with satiety , begins to find that , in the success of ambition , care outruns content . The dispersed deputies are venting abroad the disaffection they are compelled to stifle in the chamber . The anxieties in
attitude of the army inspires grave those who f eel that the instrument may become the arbiter ; that a two-edged sword cuts both ways , and that the bayonets that gave can take away . And to secure ' the devotion of that army for whom the souvenirs of a Name suffice not , the Emperor in petto contemplates a razzia in Algeria upon Arab women and cattle . But in Africa he will be arrested by the exploits of Lamoriciere , as in Europe he is paralyzed by the name of Napoleon . And it is not through such an arch of triumph that he can hope to " reach the stars . " Altogether , Louis Napoleon ' s prospects arc not
cheering . News has come from Kafirland and the United States . General Cathcart pursues the tactics of Sir Henry Smith , to some extent . Military promenades continue , with similar successes and reverses . But General Cathcart continues to refuse to treat , until every hostile Kafir is beyond the Kci . lie also vigorously threatens hanging . The gist of the whole is , that the war is not yet ended , nor does such a consummation seem likuly to happen for some time .
From the United States we learn that the Whig convention , has , as we expected , made choice : of General Winfield Scott as the Presidential candidate for the party . The Whigs have not managed so cleverly as their antagonists , the Democrats . Like the Whigs , the Democrats had several candidates , all of them men commanding a considerable degree of public favour , but each of them possessing the favour more especially of » particular section , a fact rendering it somewhat diflicult to concentrate the votes of the whole party upo » any oik > of the three .
In tljis respect , the position of the two parties was exactly alike—President Fillmore , General Scott , and Daniel Webster , each occupying a prominent place in the public esteem , but being viewed with strong favour , or with strong objection by several sections * of the party . The Democrat *
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1942/page/1/
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