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    Death has removed Henry Clay just as the American Republic seems to he entering a new icra of its history . The most illustrious American of his own day , he was never President . It may in some sort be said that he w £ ts too good for the post ; he took too high a standard fpr the present concurrence of his countrymen . Bttt his influence has been felt , and will long be felt .

    The American mail brings reports of a contemplated revolution in Mexico , by Arista , under sanction of the United States . We suspect that the report , specifically , is an idle rumour , originating in a fact which is known , that there exists in Mexico a very numerous party in favour of " annexation , " which will most likely accomplish its object sooner or later . The drama of " accidents / ' as men call offences against the laws of prudence and foresight , is rather appalling this week . To relate them

    briefly . Mormons assemble at Newport , to partake of tea , and witness a miracle . As the Welsh are credulous , and the apostles of Joe Smith men who stick at nothing in the matter of words and promises , there was a goodly company . Suddenly , one-half of the ceiling falls in , and crockery , Mormons , and their saints , are covered up in the ruins . The saints , it is said , were unhurt ; and they boast of having performed a miracle by bringing down the lath and plaster without injury to the true believers . Whatever has become of the

    age of chivalry , the age of credulity is not yet past . The next accident is physically , as well as morally , tragic . An excursion train , filled with happy artisans , accompanied by their wives and children , set out from Burnley , for the sea coast , on Monday . They had seen the sea , and returned

    to Burnley , when the engine was detached , and went on one line , while the carriages went on another . But the pointsman neglected to set them straight for the main line , and they ran into the station , rushing up against a stone wall . The two foremost carriages were crushed , and four persons killed , and twenty or thirty dreadfully wounded .

    Change the scene to the river . A shallop was proceeding from Greenwich , laden with poor folk of both sexes . Near Blaekfriars-bridge a steamer came up with , ran into , and overset them . Two women and one vnun were drowned . Mr . Alderman Wilson has brought before the Court of Aldermen some bye-laws to prevent the over crowding of stcmn-boats , by no means too soon . Other regulations are very much required .

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    Til 10 G ENEltAL ELECTION . DISRAELI " AT HOMH . " Nkwtort 'l * AttNnr , Ti is a smalltown in Buckinghamshire , which will be famous in history as the scene of Mr . Disraeli ' s great , after-dinner speeches . There is , in that little town , a tavern , called this Anchor , whereat ; , notwithstanding Uicir awful distress , the worthy farmers of Bucks arc wont , to "dine sumptuously" not " every day , " certainly , but very often . \ h ) i <\ at tho jovial board , laden with rich wines , and gleaming with glass , which Kree-tradc has made so cheap , Mr . Disraeli and Mr . Dupre , his colleague , might , have been found on Wednesday evening , sitting among the distressed , but distended , yet confiding Derbyitu-S of Buckinghamshire . Of course , the real dessert , was to be a speech from the Minister , und a speech from his colleague . The reporters have wisely consigned Mr . Dupre to oblivion , and Mr . Disraeli to -fame ?

    Mr . Disraeli made a clever Jesuitical oration . After a . few remarks on his opponent , Dr . Lee , ho ( lushed nt once into tho t . opie of Mie day - — Free-trade . Going hack to 1 HMS , lie for ( . he hundredth Mine stignml . iscd the great net . of I ' cel as " unpremeditated , insecure , and inconsistent , " so disastrous , in fact , to agriculture and the great . Conservative , part ¦ . >' . Then they lost a position which they knew it would !><> diflicult l . o regain . Me pointed out , how their opponents had always been anxious ( hat , they should adopt , it false policy - asking for what it was impossible ! , o tfel , and he look ' credit to himself for havin g years ago advised them to follow a sounder line of action . I Haul , " Thriro in great agricultural distress in cniisixpiniic-o of a change in the law ; your opponents taunt , you whou you seek to jro buck | , o ( , hal law , and they are allnutlicioiit in their opposition . I want you to ascertain what , is the « aubo of your oulloiiuir uiiJ , if possible , t" accept tho pew

    policy , and to confer whfcfc recompense you can find in other measures . " ( Hear . ) Gentlemen , that was the advice I presumed to give , and it is a question most interesting to the numerottS and most influential bod y assembled . here to-day . I flfty— "what is the reason the English V ™™ *** , the English occupier of land , cannot compete with the foreign producer or occupier of land ? ( Loud cries ot " Hear , hear . " ) . I have always said , and I don t Knowthat I have ever heard any argument of an intelligent opponent which I really could refer to as in any way conclusive against it — I have always said , the reason is" that the English producer is under a system of taxation —( loud cheers)—a system which is in general applied to himself—which is in particular applied to the class to burdens which do

    which he belongs—entailing upon him not allow him to run the race on equal terms with the others . " ( Loud cheers . ) That is what I said . And , gentlemen , I have also said that the Protectionist system was not to be justified unless you can show these circumstances exist . ( Hear , hear . ) And I still believe these circumstances do exist in this country , however much they may be modified , and that the principle of Protection is sound that in a society which is artificial , in which there exists a financial system so complicated as our own , it was much better to adhere to compensating arrangements for the protection of the cultivators of the soil than that you should madly leave him an unequal competitor with the foreigner . ( Cheers . ) And this principle , I say , is afc all times to be modified according to existing circumstances . But . e-entlemen . the Protective principle was not only a

    sound one , but it was a principle to the advantage of the country , and the only principle upon which our present system of finance could be vindicated . You could not Vindicate a system that rested individually and mainl y upon the cultivators of the soil unless in its operation it gave some compensatory relief to those whom ifc placed under particular restrictions . Well , I say , gentlemen , if the country has chosen to abrogate that system , and if the majority of the people of this country are of opinion ifc would be unwise to recur to it , I say we must seek by other means ( cheers ) , and in another direction ( repeated cheers ) , to place the cultivators of the soil in a fair and just position . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , gentlemen , that is all I have ever said . It is what I am perfectly ready to maintain . I said it in Opposition , as your member ; and I say now , as a Minister of the Crown , I am perfectly prepared to advise her Majesty to carry it out . ( Great

    cheering . ) He defended himself from the objection that his policy was limited to burdens on land . He had not told them that an adjustment of particular burdens entailed by local taxation would afford sufficient redress . He said , No . " It is in reviewing—it is in adjusting—the whole system of national taxation ; it is in placing this system upon a just basis that the producer will find that justice which the consumer—which every fair and upright man—could wish him to secure . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , the old question was simply this : —You said it required a system of legislation which would secure to you an artificial price . You were always taught to believe that in raising prices you would find redress ; and , in my opinion , it would have materiallto have the old

    been very wise not y destroyed system . '( Hear . ) But there is another view of the caseanother view of your position—another means by which you may obtain redress—and a means more practical than recurring to the past—which is beset with infinite difficulties . It is not to increase prices in order that you may have a fair remuneration for your toil ; but it is , gentlemen , to reduce the cost of production . ( Immense cheering . ) Now that is the sound advice which the agricultural interest must act upon . ( Hear , hear . ) You are told that it is one of tho necessities for the prosperous condition of England that the bread of the people should be cheap . Well , I say , take care that the producer of that bread shall be able to produce it as cheap as possible . ( Loud cheers . ) Now ,

    gentlemen , you will find , if you adopt that yiow ol the ( rase , that you , who are occupiers of tho soil , will moro gradually got itho feeling of tho country in your favour , and at tho sumo time more perfectly secure compensation for yourselves . It is , as I have said , in reviewing the system of taxation which exists , and in the adjustment of that system , that the cultivators of tho soil will find that compensation which they liavo a right to expect from tho abrogation of that , law which gave them artificial prices ( appliiufio ) ; and 1 say , in accordance witli the spirit , of the age and with tho temper of the country , l « t your produce now be raised upon the cheapest possible principle . ( Applause . )

    But ,, then , it , follows you must not allow your native produce to ho shackled by laws which hinder the producer from competing with foreign countries . It follows that in the new principle of justice the cultivators of the soil shall no longer remain the only class incapable of receiving a fiiir prolit for their industry . It follows you must take care that t \ ui same justice be done to all her Majesty ' s subjects . ( Cheers . ) And I am well aware , gentlemen , if the question be viewed in that- light , and if taxation shall certainly be placed upon a new principle , 1 am convinced we . shall ' be able to bring forward measures of relief which will receive the sympathy and approbation and support , of all ( he various classes of this country . ( Cheers . )"

    Having made these magnificent but , mysterious promises , he proceeded to declaim against , a lixed duty ; to laud his own proposition ; to exult over the successes of the Dcrhyil . cs in the towns ; and to applaud tho Derby Government ' for carrying the great measures of last , session . Upon ( lie Maynootli question , he may speak for himself :-- " - Now there was one subject which very much engrossed the people of this country before Parliament , met , and ( hat was the endowment of Maynootli College , and there existed a very strong feeling on ' the subject , not limited to any one class ; audit would havo been the height , of folly for Inn-Majesty ' s Minmtors to have treated that feeling with contempt . I could havo personally occupied ft position with respect to thai , question which would , if acted upon , have done away with all controversy ; for I was one of those who oppowod tb . ut endowment at Hint ( cheers ) thinking it ,

    betrayed a totitf ignorance of the wants of the age , and that it woiild ultimately be opposed b y those who were obligated as well as those who had given ifc as a concession ; but I had to view the question , not in the light of my personal feeling , ajid I thought ifc necessary to support the motion for inquiry of Mr . Spooner ; for this was an age i n which Roinah Catholics themselves should not oppose in . quiry . ( Hear . ) But the Government were pressed to institute a royal commission of inquiry . Gentlemen , a royal commiBsion has not the power of compelling the attendance of witnesses , and its proceedings would beHable to all kinds of misrepresentation ; but , however indecorous may be the proceedings of a House of Commons , ¦ the countryat least , has confidence in such a tribunal , being

    , composed of men of all parties . But , gentlemen , there is another point connected with the religious feeling of the country , upon which I must crave your attention a little . We thought it our duty to ad y ise Her Majesty to issue a royal proclamation , with the intention of preserving the peace of society . But in doing this every species of misrepresentation has been circulated ; and I confess that in this free country I do not object to unrestricted criticism ; but , gentlemen , we have been told that this proclamation was' issued to influence the elections . I have seen that statement made byrather high authority upon the hustings . All I could wish were , they should make such statements in the House of Commons , so that it might be brought to the test before that great tribunal whether such sordid

    means ever influenced the Government . Gentlemen , in the course we took we were only influenced by a great imperial necessity . The matter was laid before the Privy Council , and in a manner which cotdd not he mistaken , and with evidence supported by most high authorityevidence which we took care to examine before we proceeded to act—evidence that , in certain districts of England , in consequence of numerous processions which the Roman Catholic priesthood had instituted , consequences would result , in more than thirty p laces at least , which would endanger the life of many of her Majesty ' s subjects . What was our duty under these circumstances ? Why , gentlecould

    men , the moment had come for us to interfere . W e not hesitate . We recommended that Her Majesty should issue that proclamation which has received the approbation of the kingdom . I am told that the riots at Stockport were caused by that proclamation . Why , if the proclamation had not been issued , the same disorder would have taken place in fifty parts of the kingdom . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , instead of this measure tending to excite the Roman Catholic population it was the providential cause of maintaining peace and of saving the country from bloodshed . And our precautions , gentlemen , were so great , that we previously interfered with the Orange processions which were understood to come off in Ireland . This was the course we took , gentlemen , instead of being guided by those sordid and selfish motives which are the tactics of

    He was quite certain that Lord Derby would have an absolute majority in the next Parliament . Then he mado the following peroration , expressing sentiments which , coupled with the insolence of Mr . Beresford at Bramtree , show the people what they may expect from Lord Derby . " No one can be blind to the fact that the Opposition will create its organization upon revolutionary principles . ( Hear , hear . ) Happy was tho prescience of Lord Derby when he told the Whig Opposition that tho pear was not ripe last year . ( Laughter . ) The Whigs were in office . They have shown us then- character , and their policy has been received with universal scouting by the country ; and thev cannot , ( rentlemen , attain to popularity again

    except by calling to then- councils tho Jacobin Clubs ot Lancashire . ( Loud laughter . ) But I feel , gentlemen , that tho present Government is necessary for tho preservation of the English constitution ; but the future institution of the Opposition already peeps from its shell and developes its horns , and from that shell the Opposition cannot emergo except enveloped in ihe shrine of sedition . ( Continuod laughter . ) A change in the institutions of the country will bo the condition of its success ; and you must indeed be fulse to all your professions—false to that high spirit which Englishmen have ever shown—false to the traditionary association of your country , if you suflor an Opposition , founded upon such principles , to govern this nation . ( Cheers . ) Well , then , gentlemen , when wo meet in the County Hull on Friday , I want to know if you will which havo feebly

    support the principles and practices I so detailed r ( Loud cries of " Yes , yes . ' ) Will you be prepared to say " We shall have justice done to tho soil ( " Xeti , yes" ) ; we shall have our legislation conceived in the spirit of the age ( " Yes , yes" ) , which is tho spirit of justice . ' ( Cheers . ) Will you be prepared to say , "Wo will have the Protestant constitution of this country preserved , not with the sectarianism of bigots , but with those who holiovo that Protest antih-m is tho only safeguard of English liberty . " ( Loud cheers . ) These , gentlemen , are tho issuoB before you . Be prepared to tight against thorns diniculties and compunctions which an unwise and eccentric opposition may create , and in the unciont spirit , of the men of Buckinghamshire , which has conquered in times that are past , and which now , I believe , will carry hh on to that higher triumph which yet , awaits us . ( Loud and repeated cheering . )

    ENGLAND AND WALE 9 . lUiHKHmnu . — Mr . Palmer , Lord Burlington , and Mr . Vamsittart , Derby ites , unopposed . " Mr . Walter , of Bearwood , was nominated without bin consent , but his name wuh withdrawn . Hhkoon . —Mr . Morgan , Derbyile , in returned by J 5 i ) to 1 U 1 J , over Mr . WutkiiiH . BuicooNtJiuitK—Sir Joseph Bailey , miopixmed . IJuiHTOii . —A quiot election , the two Liberate winning with a vast majority . Tho oflieinl declaration of the poll took place on { Saturday in tho Exchange , when tho numboiH declared wore—

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    670 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1943/page/2/