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    vOur humble advocate in Parliament , have ever endea-Voured to enforce . ( Loud cheering . )" The first resolution was moved by Mr . Shaen . He urged the Government to assist the Turks in enforcing the evacuation of the Principalities . The people , he said , should bring " thought and deep conviction to this subject . " He was sorry to see that Mr . Cobden had attempted to make this a religious question , by asking us to sympathise with the Czar , as the protector of Christians . Pr . Epps seconded the resolution , and denied that Turkey was in a state of decay .

    Mr . Urquhart then spoke . He condemned the system under which the diplomacy of the country had been bo long conducted , and declared that the men to whose management it had hitherto been entrusted were not competent to perform their duties , and were dangerous to the country . ( Cheers . ) He contended that Turkey was a strong and rising power . Within the last twenty-five years Turkey had exhibited a spectacle unknown to any nation in ancient or modern times . She had quadrupled her commerce , and doubled her revenue . Mr . Urquhart then stated , on his own authority , that the Sultan had refused the protection of England . ¦ - \ ¦

    ,,, „ The rest of the proceedings was remarkable for a " row , " caused by the intrusion of Mr . Bronterre O'Brien , and the unwillingness of many in the meeting to listen to his speech . Finally he was heard , and when he ended quiet was restored . An address to Lord Clarendon , was voted , and the proceedings ended .

    DE . NEWMANS VIEWS . Dr . Newman has delivered a timely lecture at Liverpool on the Tartar races . He commenced by laying it down as a principle that there had been from time immemorial a great conflict between the north and south . The north had been aggressive , and the south had always to be on the defensive . This was brought before them in the Holy Scriptures . When the favoured people fell into sin , and were threatened with judgment , it was said to come from the north , because in the history of the world the north was the place which was the home of those restless nations which poured down upon the south . Why they did so was very plain also . The one had every thing to tempt , and the other had numbers to be tempted . The lecturer then described

    the formation , and other characteristics of the extensive plateau possessed by the Tartar tribes , and observed that the only office their fatherland could do them , was to thrust them forth from its inhospitable Jbosom on landa more fertile and tempting . He then described the course the tribes took in their migrations , which were always in the first instance westward . Having got to the edge of the plateau , they left Mongolia and entered Tartary . They then reached Pama , crossed the Oxis , and then descended into the vast plains of Turkistan . If they did not take that course , they # urncd towards Siberia , and the top of the Caspian , and ithen crossed the Oxis , by the Caucasus . And when Ahey took neither of these courses , they crossed the Don , # nd so got into Russia , and then , crossing the Danube , they would find themselves in Europe .

    The lecturer then described how these migrations were nothing more than raids or invasions , and how , travelling at thoir usual rate on such occasions , of one hundred miles a day , they could within a few weeks overrun all Atria , devastating and laying waste the country which they passed , more fearfully than a cloud of Xoeuats . They rushed along with all the excitement of 2 i foac hunt , but with the eagerness and silenco of a ibeast of prey . Having named the countries which euftered most from these raids by the northern hordes , he remarked that while the north was so powerful , the south was equally powerless against such a calamity . Por , in the first place , the north had no reprisals to offer , and therefore there could bo no retaliation . In

    addition , the north was in itself impregnable ; for what -ambition could bo so mad as to attempt to conquer in ftlieao regions ? With ambition , in itself a fever , you * 5 o , i « Jd not lay down any rules , and thoro had been conquerors who had attempted it ; but from the very first t >« ibie very last , from the great Cyrus down to Napoleon , ihey might observe as a rule , that no conqueror , no soldier , Iia 4 aver attempted to lead his troops to the north but who had failed , accomplishing only tho destruction of hid army , and tho prestige of his name . In ancient history they had one or two instances of attempts of tho south tfo attack the north , and they illustrated merely that which was illustrated in tho later history of Napoleon , in going aigainHfc Kufmia . The lecturer then narrated the

    origin and remdfc of tho expeditions of Cyrus and Darius against tho Scythians , and how thoir innumorahlo troops wore ( destroyed , as those of Napoleon wore , by tho poverty of tho country and tho rigour of tho < : liinato . It Wan « , very curioua fact , and a very prop hetic romark of tho greatest of ancient historians , I'hucydides , that if tho Scythians wore united , they * voulrl bo tho greatest and most powerful of all pooplofi . » fn ajri <; iont timeu they nover woro united ; but it ho happened since tho Christian ora , they had boon nnitod Kinder ioimj j > owor five different timoa . Thoro had boon rfivo different Tartar or Scythian Empires . Tho first wjw that of Attilla and tho Jluna ; tho aocoud was Zantjia ' <*»< l hia Tartars ; tho third waa Timour , or Tamorlaiio wid hie Mongols ; tU « fourth wiw tlw Turks ; and tbo

    fifth was the Russians . What waa more remarkable in those five empires was , that as time had been going on , they had ' been more powerful , and more civilized , ( though none of them were really civilized ) than the one before it ; and another remarkable thing was , they had all been enemies of the Church ; The two first were simple Pagans , Attilla and Zangis . Timour was a Mahomedan ; the Turks were Mahomedans ; and the Russians belonged to the Greek Church . Each of those empires was more lasting than that which went before it . Attilla ' s power died with himself ; Zangi ' s

    extended to his grandchildren . Timour founded an empire which existed to the middle of the last century , when the English superseded it ; Delhi was his capital . The Turks were a most remarkable race , augmenting and springing up in a most wonderful way , when they appeared to be almost destroyed . Russia was composed of numerous Tartar races , and it was remarkable in this respect ; they had the force , ferocity , and energy of barbarians in the subject , with refinement and civilization in the rulers . Those five empires had been all enemies of the Church , and one after the other had been more powerful than the one before .

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    OBSEQUIES OF PROTECTION IN ESSEX . Castle Hedingham is the moral centre of the Hinckford Hundred , and in its ruined castle—an old ivycoated and broken-down building—Disraeli once roused the Protectionists of the county . But the decay of the party , and the winter and rough weather of the present day , prevented any such oratory in any such place ' . at the annual meeting last Friday . In an inn room " about fifty" gentlemen met , and the notabilia of the evening were the absences of the county members . Letters were * read from both . Sir John Tyrrell wrote as follows . ( The passages we italicise deserve attention for their style and sentiment ) : ¦ — ¦ "My dear Round—I am sorry frankly to admit that I have neither heart , spirit , nor courage to attend your meeting at Hedingham oil the 14 th .

    "I feel that many friends Avill think that I am neglecting them , others that I am indifferent to what is passing- in the county . : " Your meeting is Conservative and agricultural . I have a few words to say upon this subject . — " The Conservative party is so completely demolished in the House of Commons as a party that ; ifc must be reformed before it eau be a combined party . "If I am asked what has brought about this state of things , my answer is , the treachery and insincerity of conduct and action of many of that party who talked loudly upon the hustings of confidence in Lord Derby , and who were afterwards in the lobby of the enemy , defeating by their countenance the proceedings of the most strenuous and able of our leaders .

    " Under these circumstances , our moral influence as a partv has vanished . Undoubtedly I acted like the cabmen , and " struck Avork , and perhaps you may say abandoned my duty . I admit that I am too old to enter the lists , and I have seen too much of party conflicts to attack those in our own ranks who , though their motives mcty ^ be sincere , have , in my opinion , acted a part inconsistent with then declarations , which excited cheers from the hustings , and caused extraordinary exertions to be made to secure their return to Parliament .

    " It is not impossible that we may , ere long , from tho present sedative state of the party , bo awakened by some attack upon our Protestant liberties , or l ^ r the din of war , mainly brought about by tho antiquated imbecility of the head of tho Cabinet , whose known sympathy with the Orleans party has encouraged Kussia to rely upon a division between England and Franco , which would at once leavo Turkey at the disposal of Kussia . This . state of things never would have occurred had . Lord Derby remained in

    oflice . And this is the penally that . hngland ban to pay in supporting a Government bound by a combination of trading politicians—that ia , of men whoso great object ; was to be in oflice upon any principles or at any price— -and which is daily becoming explained to tho public by the olitoof the Irish party . Those gentlemen , it seems , have been tampered with by tho underlings of tho Peel Whig party , putting into tho shade by their iuqxufection . the little imperfections of which Lord Derby ' s oflicials wore accused .

    " The only consolation of an alleviating character that is lift for us amidst the convulsion in tho money market is the prospect of bread and . meat bain // a shilling a . mouth - fid . It cannot be said that Ibis Iiiin boon done by the noblemen and gentlemen of the counties for thoir own benefit . This w tho only pull , in a wolfish point of view , that we have . "It in a deplorable state of things that wo have a Cabinet composed of statesmen without a party , who are staking the very existence of tho honour mid credit of the country and tho nation upon the decitiiouH and numbers of public ) meetings ; and Ministers Of the . Crown gel ; upnn wagons and plnifomiM in order to give their opinions weight , at tho next Cabinet Council .

    " I sincerely wish well to the objocl . K of your mooting' I cannot see my way in thin crash of tho Honscr-vativo paSty ' , and I know that the gontlomon of tho llculinglmm district , understand tho local but meritorious object of thoir meeting better than T do ; hut at the mime Www I acknowledge ) that I hnvo neither heart nor courage to attend and rtptuik my real opinions of tho caiiaca that hove brought about tlnn internal confiiHion mid break down of our party in tho Ifoum ) of Commons . 1 admit it , would bring a hornet's nest about my earn attended , with no boun / icial result .

    " . 1 ' shall refrain from attending lueelingH , nnd content myself with floating upon tho fiolitiv . nl , surface till wmio Oivent f ; n . kos place 'hut inay render it loan ( litmgreoablo Mian it wpuld . bo now , by coming in conflict with many of thoao

    with whom we have fought many a battle . I am , my dear Greorge Bound , always sincerely yours , J . T . TTRKElii . " Hampton Court , where Sovereigns have held counsel , is now partly occupied by the notorious W . B ., and from this royal abode he wrote a letter in view of his coming trial as a corrupter of the Parliament . He said : — ' " Till within a few weeks it was my decided resolution to have taken advantage of their annual meeting ( the Hinckford farmers ) to lay before them , and the constituency of North Essex , a full and detailed statement of the

    transactions connected with the Derby election , and the consequent inquiry , and to hare vindicated myself from the unjust and malignant imputations which I have borne Mtherto in silence , awaiting this opportunity to expose and refute them . A fresh persecution has been latel y commenced against me ; the whole matter has been opened afresh , and is to be brought to the issue of a trial . Such , proceedings necessarily preclude me from entering into these explanations , which might be impolitic as far as I am individually concerned , but which must bo unfair tQwards others whose cause has been'mixed up with mine on this occasion

    " I trust that those to whom you will read this letter will patiently await the conclusion of these legal proceedings , before they condemn unheard , or on the exparte version of malignant enemies , one whose unremitting exertions for six years in the cause of the agricultural and Conservative interests , if overlooked by the party in whose service he has toiled , have not been forgotten , by their opponents , and bis unrelenting persecutors . " Speechmaking followed the reading of these letters . The Reverend J . Cox essayed a discourse on politics . He referred with anger to the "indignities" offered to Major Beresford and Sir John Tyrrell at the last election ; yet , " after these indignities , " some Peelite would

    meet him and say , '' How do you do , Cox ? Party is at end , and we are the Consei'vative Administration . " Mr . Cox ' then ' explained that he differed from the present Ministry , and had no confidence in them ; and he showed how Free Trade had not prevented a great number of ills . It had not prevented fluctuations in the market nor a scarcity of provisions . But , never despairing , Mr . Cox indicated a hope . Having been beaten upon the principle of Protection , the next question which naturally presented itself was this— "Is the Conservative party , then , to be broken up and annihilated because they have been beaten upon a fiscal

    dnty on the price of com ? " Then they might look and see what were the great principles which had been acted up to by the Conservative party . They had earned out what . Mr . Disraeli called the embodiment of a great principle , whilst on the other hand Peelites , and Radicals , and Whigs , with the Pope ' s brass band , none having" a principle , were engaged to destroy the Conservative party . There might be some in the Government who acted upon principle , but be had looked and could not find one man upon whom he could pin his faith . With this melancholy conclusion Mr . Cox subsided .

    The next speaker was Mr . Ashurst Majendie . He praised Sir John . Tyrrell for " cleat-headedneas and jinn ness of character , " generally lauded Major Beresford , and brought in Mr . Disraeli as " a man of inlinite talent .. " He then attacked "two dangerous parties , " "the cockney statesman and the cockney farmer "—the one who wished the Manchester men to supply tho world with manufactured articles in exchange for com , and the other reminded him of the Irish gentleman who supposed that , on some fine summer morning , he would be able to go to the hunt astride of his teakettle . With such deadly-lively criticisms on current topics the company beguiled the bourn , and sadly closccl an assembly conducted with all the gloom and despondency proper to tho occasion .

    At a Herefordshire agricultural meeting , on Wednesday , Lord Bateman gave good advice to the farmers . Good farming in Herefordshire , ho said , is tho exception not the rule , and with tho present prospect of scarcity , an effort should be made to remedy this state of things . And : is regards their labourers , the farmers should avoid striken , by showing a liberal spirit— -not screwing their men down , but allowing them to sh ; iro in tho general prosperity . Mr . Booker was a succeeding speaker , and instead of a lamentation over low prices , ho mado an apology for high prices , and said that tho cost of cultivation and the unfavourable ) weather would justify 8 * . or 10 * . a bushel . "Polities " were expressly enohowwl by all tho speakers .

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    OUR . S ANITA HY CONDITION . Tine Queen's Prinon ( metropolis ) is reported in an unwholesome state , arising from tho emanations from the bone-boiling and other offensive trades carried <> u in tho neighbourhood . Tho graveyards of St . George , BlooniHbury , and St . George , tho Martyr , are kept open to tho groat injury of the health of the neighbours . In tho Nottintr-hill portion of Kensington parish

    there still oxiwtH that nlough of abominations known as " Tho Potteries . " Tilings are oven worse now than in 1848-4 J ) , when loud complaints wero made by all the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood of tho horrible condition of tho locality , and when tho medio ; il officer of the district , proved that the ratio of mortality among the residents « x <« Hided that , of almost any part of England . JSJo ono who has visited the spot , whore HwinoundJmnwn beingtt wo suffered to remain imniorNod ,

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    October 22 , 1853 . } THE LEADER . 1011

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 1011, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2009/page/3/