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Theoretically , the majority seems to be passing over to the Derbyites ; but practically , we suspect it will be found extremely doubtful how the votes will go . " Able Editors" marshal the House under the standards flaunted on the hustings ; but Ministers may not find members so pliant and docile as constituents . A thousand things may happen between now and October to turn
the current of opinion ; and we must see a few of the division lists before we can properly classify the new men . A considerable number of < f supporters of Lord Derby" are of the class amenable to public opinion . Besides there are the Liberal-Conservatives , who muster strongly , and who will hold the balance of power next session ; and even if Lord Derby gain a nominal majority , it will be so small that his Government will in no case be
entitled to the enviable epithet of " strong . " For the present , bribery , intimidation , and cant , are his constituents . But the " No Popery" cry has not been successful everywhere . Middlesex has returned Ralph Osborne , and the " Protestant Saint , " wittily styled the " Brummagem St . George" by his triumphant opponent , will not be" called upon to accept the Chiltern Hundreds . All the
glozing bigotry , the tyranny of landlordism , the cant , the misrepresentations , the gold of the Tories , have availed them little . And in spite of these formidable foes , and in the teeth of the obvious coolness of the Grosvenor party , Mr . Osborne wins by 151 . The Herald affects to consider the defeat a success . May the Derby Government meet with many such successes ! They had another in East Surrey , which has gallantly returned Alcock and King .
But Middlesex and East Surrey are the sole stars on the county firmament . Reform and Free-trade arc eclipsed elsewhere . Herefordshire ; has rejected Mr . Cornewall Lewis , to its deep disgrace , displacing him in favour of the bucolic Booker , or the untried King , or the soldier Hanbury , profesaing Protectionists . But , possibly , as the poll books were stolen from the booth at
Ross , this election will not be held valid by the Hous e of Commons . In Hertfordshire Bulwer Lyttou has been returned , with Meux and Halsey , rejecting Trevor the Liberal Free-trader . In ¦ Eas t Somerset , Mr . Elton has been defeated by Miles and Knatchbull , after a stout struggle , in Which every kind of trick und violence was prac-[ Town Edition . I
tised by the Tories . Tenants were bullied and driven to the poll in flocks ; small shop-keepers were menaced , and the whole division placed under a " reign of terror" by the " chivalry" of " the Derby faction . East Sussex and West Surrey present similar pictures . In all the purely agricultural counties the vote is a farce ; and in some it becomes a curse to its possessors . When does a Derby Ministry expect to repair the damage to the moral character of the constituencies , which they have inflicted in one short week !
On the classic ground of the West Riding , a very different scene passes before the spectator . There Orange and Blue meet and mingle , harmonized by Free-trade . But this county election stands significantly apart from all the others , for there the contest turned entirely on the Free-trade question . Cobden spoke of nothing else . He studiously avoided every other topic on the
hustings , maintaining quite an official reserve upon the other great questions of the day . Reform , education , sanitary measures , were shelved ; and the Free-trade champion tilted mightily only against the carcase of Protection . It was quite a diplomatic affair . Indeed , Cobden professed to stand upon none other than Free-trade ground . But when he had eaten a solid luncheon , he broke out
into a dashing attack upon Disraeli , styling him a mountebank , a revolutionary incendiary , and other pretty names , for which he will have to answer anon . But he also lectured the Whigs , and spoke at the head of Sir Charles Wood , chairman on the occasion , telling the Whigs that they must revise their old notions , and step out earnestly for reform—moderate reform . By certain persons , this seemingly close adhesion between Wood and Cobden , is thought to indicate that there is probability in the rumour of a coalition between Manchester , reduced to the
tepid official temperature of Downing-strcct , and Chesham-place , reinvigorated by the bracing air of the North . Meanwhile , Mr . Disraeli formally renounced Protection at Aylesbury , last Friday week . He said the Government " never had any intention" of re-imposing the corn-laws . This was news . Already the farmers' friends pull long faces . But that was not the most remarkable of the
Caucasian revelations . Mr . Disraeli , after hammering away at the idea of readjustment of taxation , relief of special burdens , and so forth , for these three years , now coolly informs the farmer that he does not rely upon these schemes for their salvation , and mysteriously hints at some graud
plan which he has in reserve , which will command the enthusiastic support of the people . Why , dull Mr . Walpole was harping on this very theme at Midhurst , the other day ; it has been paraded about at dozens of elections . Beresford , of " rabble" notoriety , talked quite a different language . Henley , and Stanley , and Christopher , and Pakington , are likewise at odds . We begin to inquire whether Mr . Disraeli is not the cabinet , and whether the other Ministers are at all in his
confidence . And it is not an irrational question to ask , whether he has any measures , whether , in fact , the whole thing be not a great hoax . At all events , it indicates mystery , if not disunion , in the Protectionist camp . The most brilliant and marking event , however , of the week , was the annual gathering , held on Wednesday last , at Tiptree-hall , the farm of Mr . Mechi , the great agricultural propagandist : who usefully applies the art of advertisement acquired at his London warehouse , in disseminating
throughout England , and we may add , throughout Europe and America , the new principles of cultivation exemplified at his Essex farm . A host of celebrities , political and diplomatic , scientific and literary , were assembled to compare the merits of rival reaping-machines , disintegrators , and drills ; to admire the rich wheat-crops waving on soil
which , but a few years since , was half water-logged clay , half sandy barren heath ; to note the manifest superiority ( not only in fatness and physical health , but also in briskness and intelligence ) of pigs kept in clean boarded sheds , over their fellow swine , wallowing in filthy sties ; and , above all , to contemplate the steam-heart , and the iron arteries , with which , at the suggestion of the
Sanitary Reformers , Mr . Mechi has recently completed what may now be called the circulating system of his farm . No one , indeed , ( as we heard Mr . F . O . Ward remark ) could listen to the throb of the central engine , and watch the liquid manure ( the nutrient life ' s blood of the farm ) spouting from remote capillaries , and showered down on distant crops , without feeling that a new epoch is dawning , equally pregnant of good to town and to country , equally important to sanitary and to agr icultural progress . To our minds , indeed , the most remarkable feature of this very remarkable
congress , was the presence of the lending Sanitary Reformers , the Clmdwicks , ( he Wards , the Ebringtons , &e ., at a festival so purely agricultural ; as , on the other hand , tin ; attendance of Mr . Mechi and the agricultural reformers gave a special significance to the late Sanitary banquet in London . It is
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VOL . III . No . 122 . 1 SATURDAY , JULY 24 , 1852 . [ Pkice Sixpence .
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« The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the : Idea of ^ gumani ^ -the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and oae-sidedTiew 8 ;^ bv setting aside the g ^ toctions oi Kengio n Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development oi our sjmiuu * nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmot .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/1/
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