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      to have supported Mr . Gladstone , and . a . large fraction of the remaining third to have been neutral . It may be added , also , that Mr . Gladstone ' s supporters appear to have been as numerous among tbe clerical as among the lay members of Convocation : — 1

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      Total Number Of Votes Polled, 1,899 : Be...

      Total number of votes polled , 1 , 899 : being an increase of over those polled in 1847 . Known pairs 173 = 346 X 1899 = 2145 . The constituency numbers at present about 3400 . Majority for Inglis over Gladstone , omitting the pairs , 261 . Majority for Gladstone over Marsbam , 350 .

      Count D'Orsay. (From The Globe.) That Co...

      COUNT D'ORSAY . ( From the Globe . ) That Count _D'Orsay was born at Paris precisely at the opening of the present century , would appear from the fact of Lord Byron ' s expressing his astonishment at the precocity exhibited in a certain MS . diary , from the Count's pen , perused by his lordship at Genoa ( April 5 , 1823 ) : " The most singular thing is , how he should have penetrated , not the fact , but the mystery of English ennui at 22 . I was about the same age when I made the same discovery , in almost precisely the same circles . " In his 20 th year he had already relinquished the gaieties of London and entered the French service ; for it was while quartered at Valence , on the Rhone , _November 15 , 1822 , that an occurrence took place which changed his whole destiny . The reader of Lady Blessington ' s " Idler in Italy , " will look in vain for any notice of her first casual

      rencontre with Lieutenant D'Orsay at Valence , though she does remark that singular coincidence , " _^ Napoleon , when lieutenant , was quartered in this town . " The regimental mess happened to be established in the hotel where Lord Blcssingtoh alighted on his way to Italy , down tho Rhone , and a chance acquaintanceship having ripened into intimacy , at his lordship's invitation tho count joined them in their trip southwards . Tho regiment was just then under orders to march with the Due d'Angouleme across the Pyrenees , and the young French officer had to expect tho sarcasms of tho uninitiated as to his motives for quitting tho _scrvico at that particular juncture . Tho arrival of this strangely constituted travelling party at Genoa is thus chronicled by Byron : —Milord ' _Blossington and epouse , travelling with a very handsome companion in the shape of a French Count , who has all the air of a Cupidon dechaine , and ono of tho few idoal specimens I havo seen of a Frenchman before tho revolution . "

      Concerning tho Earl of Blossington , his individuality may bo well conjectured , but wo aro not loft to our own surmises as to tho sort of man ho must havo been . Byron adds : — " Mountjoy ( for tho ' Gardiner * aro the Hneiil raco of the famous Irish vicoroy of that ilk ) seems vory good-natured , but is much tamod since I recollect him in ad tho glory of gems and snuff-boxes , and uniforms and theatricals , sitting to Strolling , tho painter , to bo depicted as ono of tho heroes of Agincourt . It was finally arranged that D'Orsay was to ho a fixture in tho family , by becoming tho husband of tho Hon . . Harriet Gardiner , his lordship ' s daughter by bib first wife _, fhit . young and beautiful person was summoned accordingly from sehool , anel forthwith married to tho Count at Genoa , in obedience to lior father's mandate . Tho talo of _Iphigoiiia is sometimes combined in modern life with other not hiss painful _narrativos of classic destiny . Lord _BloBnington died

      at Paris in 1827 , and the title became extinct . His _CountesH became a star in tho literary firmament of England , anil Count D'Orsay resumed in London the career of sportsman , exquisite , artist , and general arbiter olegantiarum , as nil tho world knows . . Ihi _spirit _fiia lust yours in orecting , on a groon ominonco in tho village of _( .. hambouroy , beyond Ht . _Germain-en-layo , Where the rustic churchyard Joins the estate of the < Wmlaemt family , a marble pyramid . In the sepulchral chamber there is a stone _sarcophagus on cither _sides , each _surinoiinted h y a white marble tablet ; that te > tho left incloses the remains of Lady UlesHlngton ; that to tho ri ght was untenanted" at the timo when Isabella Homer described 'ho mausoleum in Ueutley ' s Miscellany , May 1 , 1 H 0 O . Wineo then the fair hand that wrote the account of that tomb ih itself cold in tho _graven , and the " tenant" i » now _forthcoming for hia Holf-appointed homo . " _Jimplora pace . "

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary;, Beca...

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

      The Impossible War With America. A Wae W...

      THE IMPOSSIBLE WAR WITH AMERICA . A wae with the United States , or a craven retractation—such appear to be the alternative courses before the Ministers of this Imperial state . If the aspect of affairs , and the public documents , are to be trusted , that position , at once rash and humiliating , has been deliberately assumed by Lord Malmesbury ; whether at the instigation of Sir John Pakingtqn we know not ; but of course with the sanction of Lord Derby . It is desirable that the position should be well understood . " *

      Last week we showed how impossible it would be for the Government of the United _Stated to make the concession demanded by Downingstreet . Recently we saw a pressure on our own Government to maintain the British right of encroachment on the Lobos Islands , for the sake of a few vessels bringing away manure j a claim not instantly scouted , but gravely discussed in Downing-street , in Parliament , and in the City . Whole communities have not grown up during a thirty-four years' freedom , to ransack the Lobos

      Islands ; the value of the property is not _estimated—obviously and ludicrously below the real value—at 3 , 000 , 000 _? . ; bringing home guano is not one of the staple trades of Lancashire and Cheshire ; there are not thirty thousand seamen employed in the trade , nor are great Liverpool and City capitalists involved with their property such are not the circumstances of the encroachment on the Lobos Islands , but they are the

      circumstances of the American encroachment on the British fishing grounds . The Government at Washington cannot recall that creation of thirty years , and tell it to withdraw from the field of its operations at the bidding of a particular gentleman in Downing-street , whose incom-Setency to meddle with public affairs has been istinctly confessed . Under what circumstances does "England , " as Downing-street is pleased to call itself , approach this war P

      Will Downing-street go to war with America , when we are struggling , not very satisfactorily , against a deadly climate , and a treacherous people at Rangoon ; the people of India looking on , and awaitinga stumble on our part to keep us down P Will Downing-street undertake this war , for tho sake of tho British American colonies , when the first thing thoso colonies will reap from it will be some concessions humiliating to England , including , vory likely , tho concession of tho colonies themselves P

      When Australia , already offended in hor sorest interests , has threatened independence , has talked of Republican federation , has shown her own " star-spangled banner , " and has made advances towards an Australian-American alliance P When Downing-street cannot master tho Black savages at the Capo P When tho West Indies , in complete despair , aro cold in their loyalty P When Ireland only awaits a now Repeal agitation , perhaps under American patronage P—if we suffer Downing-street to drive America into being

      our enemy . When Franco is waiting to avenge Waterloo , and greedily reading Lieutenant _Maurico _' s account of our unprotected coasts P Surely this ia not tho time for war with America , especially as wo aro not very well prepared at home . Our militia is not yet enrolled , much less " mobilized" ; and if it wero both , it could hardly contend with tho Yankees in thoir own broad lands—ho rich for its own wanderers , so baffling to the forei _gn invader , to Hay nothing of that strong army of militia , of which comparatively small contingents have already _eonquerod

      The Impossible War With America. A Wae W...

      Mexico . Cornwallis would find his tour in Carolina far less easy than it was—but even then it ended in capitulation . Our navy _too—; that is still unconquered ; but should we first try it , after a peace of nearly forty years' duration , against the only enemy that we can reasonably dread at sea . Not that we would dissuade from a war in dread of any foe whatsoever , if we could imagine that we had on our side God and the right ; but what Downing-street is now doing is mischievous and unjust , and cannot be blessed even with the solaces of defeat .

      The pretext is , that we are defending Imperial rights and British colonial interests . The imperial rights have been waived in practice ; and the Foreign Secretary of England's best Minister offered to waive the right in form ; so that Imperial dignity cannot be pledged to ruin the fishers of Massachusetts and Maine . And if New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are British

      colonies , so are the United States , now • to this day , more than to the British colonies , our own kin flock to the United States . Nay , in this very fishery—which we are to assail at the bidding of the feeblest party in the country—in this very fishery , English capital , English sailors , English ship-builders , English labourers , are embarked , and will be compelled to meet us in fratricidal contest . Is that having God and the right on our side P

      But that is not all . A very large proportion of England's own capital is locked up in American bonds , stocks , Government and State securities ; so that not only have our relatives in America their capital embarked in American enterprise , but the men of London , and " the public , " amongst ourselves , who deal in investments , have an amount of property at stake which a war

      would jeopardize . The " aristocracy" of this country hardly feels the force of such considerations ; since the family connexions with the Baltimores and Percys , and other old colonizers , are remote or extinct ,- but the middle and working classes are connected with the very heart of society in America , by many ties which are deep rooted in both countries ; and there are few families that have not some immediate connexion

      with the republic by blood , or alliance , or property . Where such considerations fail , there is another that ought to be powerful : a war with America would be attended by all the evils of " protection , " in cutting us off from the trade with the great consumer of the articles which we manufacture and carry . Manchester , Leeds , Glasgow , Paisley , Liverpool , would call to a strict account the Ministry that should plunge us into a war with the country which has created so large a part of their substance . Think of cutting off , by a notice in tho Gazette , all the accounts kept in all those places with American houses !

      Such a war , indeed , ought to be regarded as an impossibility , wero it not for certain ugly considerations , partly matter of suspicion , partly matter of obvious fact . It is a fact , most notorious and melancholy , that the people of this country has , to use its own homel y vulgarism , become so used , in public affairs , during the long peace , to bo "taken in and done for , " that it has contracted the habit of letting officials emulate tho beggar on horseback . Wo can , therefore ,

      imagine any amount of mischief committed by tho sufferance of tho English people , until somo great calamity should havo recalled us , by the sharp spur of suffering , to our duty . It is difficult to imagine that tho present Cabinet in Downing-street should retract from its false position ; since that would imply a levity , an alternation of bullying and flinching , of which oven a Malmesbury or a Derby might bo ashamed . Tho Government at Washington cannot retract .

      It is , indeed , within the scopo of imaginable possibility that our Government should not _donirt . to avoid a rupture with America . It parades tho good understanding with Austria . ; it is said to bo sending Lord _Wostmorelund to Italy to undo Lord Minto _' B mission . It is reported io bo engaged with oilier powers in supporting Spanish traditions in Mexico against tho infernal

      party , which may bo called tho federal allies of the United States . We have no moans of testing the truth of those rumours ; but thoy aro of secondary importance in comparison with tho notorious fact that the Tory Government of England , the ostentatiously professed enemy of Democracy , has the strongest sympathies with tho despotic authorities of Europe . A war with

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14081852/page/11/