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      comp lied with , a rush was made tipon the latter by the blue ( Cttioimeley ) party , with' a view- to drive the horges bade . This was resisted , and the horsemen charged the ranks © fcthe blues with great vigour , laying alwut right and left with their heavy riding whips and sticks * A general- % ht was the consequence , in which the horsemen ^ after being ;; driven back- two or three times , rallied in a Ibody ; and drove their assailants up Church-street ^ . toymrdaSic Wi CholmeleyV committeeroom . After awhile , howeyer > something like order was restored , and jSirB . Sheffield again essayed to

      address the asseitnblage . The blues , exasperated at being ridden down , demanded more vehemently than tefore 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 . Botten eggs and stones were also showered at them , and a regular hand-to-hand fight

      commenced . The blue nags 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 Bed 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 bluei 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 com ^ pletely 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 m § l 6 e * - ~ one old man , Mr . John Maw , of Epworth ^ was carried home senseless ; and another , Mr . Hutton , of the Eevels , "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, ]Vlp., Presided Over A Meeti...

      Mr . Henley , ] VLP ., 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 Grovernment 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 waa the best possible means of securing this end . He would call upon Mr . Cole , general superintendent of the contra ! school , to explain tho principles on which that connexion had been founded . Mr . Cole then addressed the meeting at considerable length . Ho said tho Central School of Dosi ^ n , at Somerset House , had been instituted in 1837 , and its establishment was speedily followed by that of twenty-one other sohoolB located in all other parts of the kingdom . It was at first assumed that there existed students already qualified by sufficient elementary knowledge to ontor these institutions , but the experience of fourteen years had shown tnat round

      that assumption was unfounded . It had been , that tho students had to bo trained , not merely tojbo able to understand and praotiso tho pr inciples of design , but often to learn the very eloments of drawing , so that , instoad of affording instruction in tho higher departments of art , tho schools became , what they had boon officially and trul y reported to bo , " more drawing-schools . " It was this feeling that hod induced tho Government now oponly to rec ognise for tho first time tho want of elementary instruction in art for all classes , and the present meeting might bo viewed as tho beginning of a systomatio offbrt on tho part of tho Government to supply that acknowledged defioi onoy . ' Other gentlomon spoke , and resolutions woro agreed to "Pproving of tho object of tho mooting .

      - Dr. Cullon Has Received Tho Pope's Bri...

      - Dr . Cullon has received tho Pope ' s briof appointing him ¦ Uomnn-catholio Archbishop of Dublin . General Ohangarnier has given an authoritativo contradiction to tho statement that ho over proposed an invasion of England to tho French Government . | lor Majesty gave a private concert at Buckingham JLalacoon Tuesday ovoning . Among tho performers was M . Prudent , who obtained an oncoro in tho famous " Bovoil iosFooh . " Mr . James Goulston , of tho Old Kont-roatl , ascondod in £ balloon , on Wednesday , from tho Polio Vuo Gardens , Manchester . Ho descended on tho Stone Break Hills , but owing to aomo accident tho grapnels would not catch ; ? no balloon , continued its course , and Mr . Goulston fell over into tho netting . He was dragged over throo fields , his "oad striking againat tho atone walls aa ho possod along . U ltimat ely Bomc men camo to hiaro 8 ou < ybufc ) w waa found

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      There Is Nothing So . Revolutionary, Bec...

      There is nothing so . revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed -when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Ds . Abnold .

      Malmesbury And Mather—Cass And Innes. Go...

      MALMESBURY AND MATHER—CASS AND INNES . Government has actually published the official correspondence between Mr . Mather and Lord Malmesbury ; though under what impulse we cannot conjecture . We know not whether Lord Malmesbury ' s colleagues give him up to public contempt , or whether he himself is unconscious of what he is doing in letting anyperson see at one view what he has written . We will , however , scarcely venture to characterize this remarkable set of epistles : the only safe , and indeed the onl y adequate description of it , will be the plainest recital of its chief points . The narration may begin with a minute by Mr . Mather . He had an interview with Lord Malmesbury at the Foreign Office , on the 4 th of March , and was there and then invited to state what he

      deemed redress and reparation for the outrage upOri his son at [ Florence . Mr- Mather respectfully submitted that some marked punishment should be inflicted on the offender ; and he left it to Lord Mabnesbury , who is supposed officially to represent British honour , to decide what that should be . But Lord Malmesbury looked at the matter from a different point of view : Rethought " personal reparation" should be obtained ;

      meaning thereby the imposition of a line on the Tuscan Grovernment ; and moved by the " . views and wishes , " obedient to the " official commands " of Lord Malmesbury , —who represents British honour , you will remember , —Mr . Mather , with the ' " utmost pain , " deviates from the course he had hitherto invariably pursued , of refusing to mix the personal with the national question , and names 50001 . as a reparation . So ended the interview .

      Lord Malmesbury then writes a note to be presented by Mr . Scarlett to the Tuscan Government , in which he does not scruple to say— " The father of Mr . Mather ( who is a minor ) is himself inclined to consider that the injury done to his son may be atoned for by a { pecuniary payment cm the part of the Tuscan Government j" and that he [ Mr . Mather ] " would be satisfied if a sum of 5000 / . was paid to his son . " But this representation of Mr . Mather ' s views is followed up by an obHffinc : suggestion : " Her Majesty ' s

      Government , however , consider that sum greater than they ought to demand of tho Tuscan Government to pay . " * In a subsequent despatch , urging " reparation" from tho Tuscan Government , Lord Malmesbury takes pleasure in repeating his opinion that Mr . Mather ' s claim is " exorbitant . " Tho course of correspondence now digresses to Yienna , and wo aro introduced to Prince Schwarzenberg and Lord Malmesbury , reciprocating compliments , and assuring each other that thoy do not believe the outrage arose out of any foolings of " national animosity , " or of " hatred

      towards England . " Tho Prince expresses a haughty regret , and imputes the assault to a " fortuitous concourse" of atoms , Tho 32 arl accepts tho regret , and tho moat friendly feeling emerges from the momentary official cloud . Moanwhilo Mr . Scarlett had fallon ill ; and on tho 9 th of May , Mr . Barron , in his name , informed tho Earl of Malmosbury that Mr . Sqarlott had terminated tho disputo by accepting 1000 francosconi ( about 222 J . 4 * . ) aa an indemnity for Mr . Mather ; coupling with it tho rolease of tho two Stratfords , who had boon imprisoned for political accusations . And those magnificent * It will bo observed from tho correspondence , that on noithor aide i » thoro any disputo as to tho outrage—oven itadotaki himself admitting it , by placing tho primary offender , not tho brutal aBBttsflin , under , ( wrout ,-

      concessions were all that " cduld possjbly be obtained by negotiation . '' . # Information of these flagrant proceedings reached Lord Malmesbury on the 17 th of May and four days after he wrote a despatch to Sir Henry Bulwer finding fault with Mr . Sciarlett for mixing up the Mather and Stratford ^ aaes ; which , as he very properly says , had no connexion . But although he disapproved , he would not " of

      course" refuse to recognise the proceedings . On the day after he had penned this despatch came letters from Florence , and Lord . MalrneSbury then learned that Mr . Scarlett had abandoned the question of principle entirely , and had accepted the money compensation on account of " the importance of cultivating ( he might say restoring ) friendly relations with this ( the Tuscan ) Government , and in order to avoid the appearance of driving a hard bargain . "

      " The appearance of a hard bargain ! " Why , how had Mr . Scarlett put the demand for reparation ? He had expressly waived the discussion of principle , and had submitted the claim to the " gracious consideration" of Duke Leopold ; hoping that through the " known liberality" of the Grjjbnd Duke , the claim might meet at once with a favourable issue ! The bargain is negotiated in private notes between , the " Dear Duke " and " Dear Scarlett ; " and then publicly listening , in the condescending spirit evoked by the British Minister , the dear Duke announces that the

      Grand Duke " influenced by a sentiment of generosity which is not to be appealed to as a precedent in similar cases , " accords—what ? that very boon of 1000 francesconi as " an act of generosity" which he insultingly hopes will draw more closely the bonds uniting England and—Tuscany ! Meanwhile , the negotiation gets wind ; Mr . Mather , the father , is indignant , and , on the 29 th of May , Lord Malmesbury writes two despatches , as if to re-establish a better position for himself . One is addressed to Sir Henry Bulwer , explaining , in a strange and minute way , the ins and outs of his own private correspondence with Mr . Mather , in order to show that his letter to Mr .

      Mather was not written on the 24 th , though so dated , but on the 22 nd ; and that when he wrote , though the requisite despatches from Florence arrived on the 22 nd , he was not aware " of the objectionable concession of principle made by Mr . Scarlett , and for the first time reported in those despatches . " In the other despatch of May 29 , also addressed to Sir Henry , Lord Malmesbury announces , " with great regret , " that he has . ' " found it necessary to disavow 3 fr . Scarlett's proceedings . " So the question is all thrown open again ; but remember , British public , the affair is still in the hands of Lord Malmesbury .

      While Mr . Mather is vainly appealing for redress to national honour , which has been so lamentably left in the hands of such an agent as Mr . Scarlett , and such a minister as Lord Malmesbury , —while foreign countries are learning that English subjects are but a more expensive kind of game , about which , however , the gamekeepors for the time being are too polite to

      enforce the fines , save in rare instances , —Americans are feeling that there is still that true protection under the star-spangled banner which was once found under the British flag . While English subjects are left to feel their unprotected state in Florence , Home , Hungary , and Spain , —aro left to feel that the official class of London have far more community of sentiment with officials in Vienna than with free-born uncontaminated

      Englishmen , —the American is beginning to taste tho sweets of conscious national power and independence , onco tho luxury of the Englishman , as it was in old time of tho Roman . But England , like Homo , has been ; and we have not even an Emilius to put his sword into the scale . England is drifting into tho imperfect tense ; tho present is for America . In tho American instance , too , a plain recital will best fetch out tho contrast in tho romarkable parallel which wo trace ; parallel save in tho real provocation g iven by tho aggrieved man , in tho comparative slightnoBS of tho grievance , and in tho result . .

      In Rome , Mr . Innes , an American artist , refused , —orronoously , wo think , —to lifb his hat to tho Popo , and ho was assaulted by a French officer , and imprisoned . Tho American Minister , Mr . Cass , demanded his release , and was referred to tho French authorities . Mr . Case said that he knew nothing of tho Fronoh , but held the Roman authorities responsible Mr . 'limes was trana-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1852, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061852/page/13/