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      We regret to learn that his grace the Duke of Newcastle is in such a precarious state of health as to leave but little hope of his recovery . The knowledge of this circumstance has caused a general feeling of regret thoughout the district , among parties entertaining different political opinions . The demise of his son , Lord "William Clinton , has augmented the grief of his grace ' s numerous relatives and tenantry . Lord Lincoln , with Lords Charles and Robert and the Ladies Clinton , are in attendance on their noble parent . Prayers were offered for his grace on Sunday last in Worksop and other churches in the neighbourhood . — Morning Post .

      The writ for the election of a new member for Cambridge University in the room of the Right Honourable Charles E . Law , was issued from the Crown-office on Thursday afternoon , and transmitted by that night ' s mail to the Vice-Chancellor of the University , by whom the day of election is to be appointed . The Glasgow Daily Mail contains a report of an interesting public meeting which took place on Thursday evening in that city ou the slave-trade question . It was called by the Lord Provost , in compliance with a numerous and influentially-signed requisition , and was held in the City-hall , for the purpose of considering the propriety of adopting resolutions , and appointing a committee to prepare petitions to the Legislature in favour of enforcing the treaties ratified between Great Britain , Spain , and Brazil , for the suppression of the slave trade .

      It is now certain that the loss of life consequent on the loss of the Superb , is far greater than has yet been stated . Upon a comparison of the passenger list of the vessel , with the names of those saved , it has been ascertained that at least seventeen persons have been lost , and from enquiries which have been made , it is feared that , in addition to those , there were four other sufferers . Mr . "Willis and niece , Mr . Pinson , Mrs . Baker and child , and a native of Jersey , name unknown , were amongst those drowned . A coroner ' s inquest is sitting , and the circumstances attending the calamity will no doubt receive a searching investigation . The Superb , which was left high and dry on the rocks by the receding tide , after the accident , has now disappeared , having sunk in deep water . It appears pretty certain that this catastrophe is mainly attributable to the culpable acquiescence of Captain to

      Priaulx in the desire of some of the passengers pass close to the wreck of the Polka . It is also asserted that if the captain had remained on board , and used his authority for the maintenance of order , no one need have had even a wet foot , but , that instead of endeavouring to control the panic , which almost invariably follows such an occurrence , he was one of the first to originate it . Some of the attendant circumstances of this catastrophe are painfully interesting . The two children of Mr . Jackson , who had been rescued from the Polka the week before , wjere on the deck , and , on first seeing the rocks , enquired what their name was . The reply was , " The Minquiers ; " but the poor father added , * ' I think they ought to be called the Polka Rocks !" Scarcely had the words been uttered when the vessel struck , and the enquirers were precipitated by the shock into the waterand were seen no more .

      , We are glad to learn that the result of the West Riding is such as to leave no doubt of the triumphant return of Mr . Cobden at the next election , unless the Reformers are divided . The advantage to the Liberals in all the large towns is very considerable , their net gain beinc in Leeds , 1 G 1 ; in Bradford , 152 ; in Halifax , 78 ; in liarnsley , 37 ; in Sheffield , 42 : total in five districts , 470 . A very alarming and destructive fire broke out on the harbour

      Thursday night , at the Grove , near floating , Bristol , and , notwithstanding the efforts used to subdue it , it continued to rage with unabated fury for many hours , placing the shipping in the floating harbour , among which were many first class vessels ready for sea , in jeopardy . The total damage cannot be estimated at less than £ 6000 . Among the property , either destroyed or greatly injured , were a number of fine paintings by the old masters , belonging to Mr . Gomersall , jun ., the comedian .

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      From the reports in various German papers , it appears that a general movement of foreign , troops toward the Hessian frontier is taking place . The C ' assel Gazette , published at F rankfort , contains a proclamation from the Elector , denying the right jf the Chamber to refuse the Government the necessary taxes , and gives the following resolutions of the Diet , the ancient enemy of all constitutional rights : — « ' 1 . The Electoral Government is called upon to apply all the means possessed by a Government of this confederation to establish the rightful authority of the 2 lne said

      Sovereign , now menaced in the electorate . . Government is at the same time desired to report , without delay , to this Assembly any proceedings taken by it in pursuance of the foregoing direction , together with their result . 3 . The Diet reserves the right of ordaining further proceedings necessary for securing or restoring the legal state of relations between the Government and nation of Hesse-Casscl . " At Cassel the Permanent Committee and the offito

      cers of the various civil departments ore waiting learn the nature of the measures threatened by Hassenpflug . Meanwhile they are not idle . On the 23 rd the Permanent Committee , upon the receipt of memorials from Fulda , preferred two indictments for violation of the constitution , through the attempted execution of the ordinances of September 7 th , against Major-General Schirmer and the Kurgermexster Muckcnrodt . The court is now occupied with the preliminary investigation of these two cases . The large spinning manufactory near Thann , Haut Rhin , was destroyed by lire on the 15 th . More than 200 workmen are thrown out of employ .

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      SCHLESWIGr-HOLSTEIN AND HESSE CASSEL . The policy of the Absolutist Cabinet in Schleswig-Holstein is closely connected with that in Hesse Cassel ; its aim is the oppression of all constitutional liberty in Germany . By the fearful lesson given to mis-government in 1848 , Count Nesselrode and

      Prince Schwarzenberg , the statesmen of Russia and Austria , have not learnt how to govern in a cheap and liberal way , so as to prevent popular outbreaks . They were , however , convinced by facts that the material forces of the absolute or semi-constitutional Governments were insufficient against the overpowering rise of the people . The princes were everywhere compelled to grant concessions and

      , only oy a lasting siege and bloody battles were they able to regain , step by step , all the absolute power they had lost in one day . The aim of the combined policy of Russia and Austria is now to strengthen the continental Governments , not by financial and social reforms , but by increasing the material forces of the princes . They soon became aware that the voice of the people becomes irresistible in the small states of Germany , and that the military establishment commensurate with the financial resources of such petty states is not only unable to resist the people , but that the soldiers are even inclined to side with their brethren out of regimentals , whenever these claim constitutional freedom . As soon as the reaction felt itself strong enough for greater political changes , the Absolutist policy developed more freely its aim to check everywhere the constitutional progress , to rescind the concessions granted in 1848 , and to unite the smaller states of Germany into larger bodies , not for sake of German unity , but to form stronger centres of resistance , better able to crush every attempt for rational reforms . This is the reason why the great champion of Legitimacy , the Czar Nicolas , disregards the legitimate claims of the Princes of Augustenberg in Schleswig , because the

      duchies alone never could be ruled in an absolute way . But Denmark itself proved likewise insufficient to resist , at Copenhagen , the constitutional movement ; the King was forced in 1848 to grant a liberal constitution and a popular administration . Now , his power must be increased that the democratical constitution may be altered and obliterated in the same manner as those of Saxony , Wurtemberg , and Austria . The somewhat rotten throne of Denmark is to be the share of the Prince of Oldenberg , the kinsman of the Czar , that the German Grand Duchy of Oldenhurg may strengthen the prerogative of the Danish King , who will easily overcome all the difficulties of the democratical constitution in Denmark with a garrison of Oldenburghers and Schleswig-Holsteiners at Copenhagen , as well as , with his Danish guards , all the German feelings in the duchies . But the heir-apparent of the Crown of Denmark is not the Prince of Oldenburg ; it is the Prince of Hessia , and we heard a year ago that he is ready to give up his claims to the Danish crown . The fact is undoubted ; but the papers have not yet mentioned the price for which the Hessian Prince is to sell his rights , though no one doubts that , in spite of the philosophical genius of the Germans , no

      German Prince ever resigned a crown simply for philosophy . The price is , of course , another crown , as , by the grace of the Czar and of his Satrap , the Emperor of Austria , the Electorate of Hesse Cassel and the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt are to be united and erected into a separate kingdom for Prince Frederic of Hessia . This is the result of the Austro-Russian conferences on the German question . It is further well known that the house of Brunswick is on the eve of its extinction . The reigning Duke , as well as his elder brother , dedeprived of his throne in 1830 , not being married ,

      the King of Hanover is to succeed in Brunswick , and it seems that the last journey of the reigning Duke William to Austria is in connection with son * arrangement in order to hasten and to ensure th < union of Brunswick and Hanover . Secret as these proceedings were carried , the ) nevertheless transpired ; and the smaller princes were frightened , as the tendency of the greater powers to swallow up the smaller ones became obvious . Thia is the reason why the second-rate German Sovereigns cling with such tenacity to the Prussian Union , notwithstanding that Prussia itself would

      be willing enough to drop it altogether . The Prince of Nassau , for example , who formerly began to waver and to approach the Austrian schemes of confederation , now decidedly declared anew for the Union ; he fears to be absorbed by the new kingdom of Hessia . The Prince of Cobourg , the brother of Prince Albert , is the most strenuous adherent to the Union ; for , if the Austro-Russian policy should triumph , the Duchies of Thuringia would soon become the prey either of Saxony or of Bavaria .

      Such are the intrigues with which continental statesmen think to pacify Germany and to reestablish order ; and the " liberal" Lord Palmerston thinks it consistent with the dignity of England to meddle in the transactions of the German Princes , who are blind enough not to perceive that all their artificial constructions , the Interim and the Plenum * the Innere Rath and the Federal Council , the Union and the College of Princes , will fall asunder , as a house of cards , at the first popular movement . Diplomacy never will ensure the thrones ; it is only a Government based on Justice and the sound principles of economy which can lastingly maintain them .

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      LORD LONDONDERRY ON TENANTRIGHT . The Town Commissioners of Newtonards , the Marquis of Londonderry ' s own peculiar borough , have received a severe reprimand from their Lord for having ventured to introduce the subject of tenant-right into their late address to Lord Clarendon . The Marquis is quite at a loss to understand why they , above all men in the world , should have meddled with this question , seeing that they are living on an estate where tenant-right has been the invariable practice from father to son . He complains in the most affecting terms of the sad change which has lately come over his tenantry , who used to proclaim him as the best landlord in Ireland : —

      " I cannot refrain from deploring the change that seems so suddenly to have sprung up in a town and tenantry that have been pleased , for more than twenty years , to proclaim me as the best landlord in Ireland , constantly and universally admitting that my lands were far lower let than all the estates around me ; while our local institutions , our agricultural societies , our subscriptions for the advantage of our towns have ever been proverbially preeminent . That such a sudden metamorphosis has arisen from natural causes is impossible . But wherever the poison is instilled , or in what quarter soever the serpent of agitation is ensconced , be assured , gentle- ;

      men , that it will muke no impression upon a landlord who is conscious of having done his duty , to the best of his ability , to those who have lived under him ; and that the clamour of unjust pretensions , the counsels or proceedings of Presbyterian ministers ( who should know better , and direct their energies to other objects than fomenting discord and disorder ) , and , above all , the slanderous ribaldry of anonymous placards , only to be surpassed by the villany of the composers of them , will all pass by me like the idle wind , which I regard not . "

      The Marquis cannot believe that the change is owing to anything that he has done : " That such a sudden metamorphosis has arisen from natural causes is impossible . " We know not what the Marquis means by " natural causes : " but if he will only take the trouble of cross-questioning any of his refractory tenants , he will probably find that the potato-rot and the repeal of the Corn-laws ,

      with rents no lower than they were when wheat was 70 s . a quarter , have conspired to produce that ** sudden metamorphosis " which seems so very unintelligible to him . If he wish to maintain his character as the best landlord in Ireland , he must grant long leases to his tenants at very moderate rents . All the fine phrases in the world will have little effect in conciliating popular regard , unless accompanied by substantial acts of justice .

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      " PERVERSIONS , " INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE . The surprising thing in regard to the churches that arc now contending for possession of the English public is that they busy themselves so ardently with secondary matters , while the main

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      SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 28 , 1850 .

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      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 its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 28, 1850, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1854/page/11/