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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 14.

Toe Derbyites are preparing to wash Mr.BERWAL
OSEOKNE olla of Middlesex with a deluge of beer.
As when a war suddenly breaks out, the armourer's
anvil knows no moment of repose—clinking day and
night, Saturday and Sunday—so this sudden dash
of the Tory assailants on the unexpecting phalanx of
Middlesex liberals, has kept the mash-tub a-stir on
the day of rest. Even the sabbath has shown no day
of rest for the Middlesex brewer since a Tory cam-
paign in the metropolitan county was decreed ;
clouds of smoke. ascending from a brewery, shaded
Stanmore-heath last Sunday.
This circumstance led the electors in that quarter
to expert a canvassing visit from the rejected of
Westminster—the hero of the deluge and the vol-
cano. But Lord NIAIDSTONIN flash speeches were
used up; or he had caught cold by venturing into a
draught of air, after perspiring like another Falstaff
on the hustings in Covent-garden; mute was the
voluble tongue. Another candidate had to be beaten
up, and a rare choice the Derbyites have made.
"Gentlemen;'—the Marquis of BLANDFORD may
he supposed to say in his address to the electors at
Brentturd—" I appear before you as the representa-
tive of a house that has absorbed more of the public
money than any other subjects in England. Ido
not speak of Blenheim or Marlborough House:
they were earned by the military exploits of my an-
cestor, as Strathfieldsaye and Apsley House have
been won in our days. But even the founder of
our house contrived to get pretty pickings in addi-
tion to what parliament and the crown gave him—
by the perquisites' he squeezed out of the great
army contractor NIEPINA. With Jonx, the first
Duke of Mant.sortottat, expired the only one of our
family who ever did any service to his country ; but
since his time successive generations of his family
have drawn a comfortable income from an annuity
paid them out of the Post-office revenue ; and the
present illustrious head of the house has made a
considerable addition to this by the hallerowna
which curious visitors pay to see Blenheim. Gen-
tlemen, I flatter myself I am not a degenerate off-
shoot of the stock.from which I sprang; and I will
do my best to a sir out our slender income by a re-
enact mem of the corn law."

The truth of these boasts cannot be denied. First
and last, the M intimeorGit family has been very
costly to the people of England. What with pecu-
lating contracts—sinecure grants out of the Poet-office
revenue—and "money taken at the door" of Blen-
heim, it has cost as much as the whole of the de-
scendants of the illegitimate offspring of the " Merry
Monarch" pat together. But, in addition to the
personal claims of the Marquis of BLANDFORD, must
be considered the claims of the party he is put for-
ward to represent.
That party is rather a heterogeneous one, and
distinguished, even in this—the day of hollow pro-
fessions—fur the unblushing dishonesty of its pre-
tences. The gravamen of the charge advanced
against Mr. IteaxvL OSBORNE is, that he has at all
times manifested a disregard to the interest of Pro-
testantism. The charge is groundless and untrue; but
who are the zealous Protestants that make it ?
We have ere now shown how little claim the lkr-
byites have to credit for sincere Protestant zeal;
how utterly the " No-Popery" cry they have been
raising is a hustings cry. But allied with these
pseudo-Protestants in Middlesex are some of the very
men whose absurd apeing of the veriest mum-
meries of Homanism more than anything else lent a
shadow; of probability to the allegation that the
national Protestantism is in danger. There are
men among them who, on their way to record their
votes fur Mr. GLADSTONE at Oxford, or on their
return, have talked with gleeful and boisterous
exaggeration of the certain 'access of the masked
battery they have opened against Mr. OSBORNE.
How has Mr. OSBORNE incurred this inveterate
hostility from members of those two sections of the
Conservative party which are at this moment tear-
ing at each others' throats with all the inveteracy of
Kilkenny cats. That is not difficult to discover.
Beyond any other member of the House of Commons
of his standing—with few equals among any of its
members whatever—Mr. Osamete possesses an extra-
ordinary power for rattling down shams, by an
eloquence alternately sarcastic and indignant, always
ingenious, and going direct to the point. A more
reckless destroyer of solemn plausibilities does not
exist among the public speakers of the day. And
he sets about his work with such evident good will
and intense enjoyment, as doubles the pain and mor-
tification of his victims. There is none of their
parliamentary opponents whom the shaftlers of all
parties, above all, of that pre-eminent shuffle, the
beam' coterie, so much dread and detest as Mr.
OSBORNE. They would stick at nothing to get rid
of him.

On the other hand, Kr. BERNAL OSBORNE'S
services ought to be as much prized by the Liberals
as they are feared by the opposite faction. Without
aspiring to the reputation of a thoroughly crammed
statist, Mr. OSBORNE has repeatedly displayed
a great acquaintance with statistical details,
and a singular talent for lucid exposition. He has
distinguished himself on more than one occasion by
a skill in unfolding and supporting abstract princi-
ples which evinced a thorough mastery. over them.
But the great charm of his speeches in the House
of Commons—the great use of them—is their
power of mercilessly shattering all sinister moves-
tionalisms and sophistries. Often when the nay
atmosphere of the House of Commons has felt sultry
and heavy, and, as it were, surcharged with cant,
the ready flashes of Mr. °names sarcastic wit
and hearty mirth have purified it at owe. If the
electors of Middlesex wish to see dishonest pharisai-
cal pretensions awed and kept in check in the legis-
lature, they will throng to the poll booths to record
their votes for Mr. OSBORAIIL

An attempt is being made by the Derbyite organs
to sow distrust and discord among the Middlesex
Liberals, by exaggerated professions of respect for
the Whig candidate. The high honour of Lord RO-
BERT GROSVENOR is funky a sufficient warrant that
there will be no treachery of which he is cognisant. But
should any shallow aristocratic whiglings be disposed
to listen to the voice of tho tempter, let them rest as-
sured that the independent Liberals will warmly
resent and punish any foul play towards so efficient
a champion of their cause as Mr. OSBORNE.
The elections are going more and more decidedly
against ministers. At Edinburgh Mr. MACAULAY
has been returned, and at Oxford University Mr.
OtatorroNg. The metropolitan counties must now
do their duty. Surrey should again secure the tried
and valuable services of Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr.
ALcocii—West Kent put Mr. Honors at the head
of the poll —West Surrey elect Colonel CHALLONER—
and Middlesex return Mr. BERNAL. OSBORNE as the
colleague of Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR.

DANGERA OF VIE SERPENTINL—Yesterday an
inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at the Malpas Arms,
Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of Timothy
Conner, aged 31, an excellent swimmer, who wee drowned
on Sunday morning in the Serpentine. The testimony of
the witnesses went to prove that he had swam half way
acmes and suddenly called for help, when ho turned over
head Rye and went ,lown into the deep mud beneath. It
was nearly 20 minutes before he could be got up by the
Royal Humane Society's men after the time he went
down. Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the society,
stated that observing the drags were out he instantly got a
hot bath in readiness, and when the body was brought is It
was bleak with the mud over the head to the waist where
he bad been Sled. He was quite dead, but still every
wane were need to restore him, and Dr. Woolley attended.
In answer to a juror, Mr. Williams said that three boats were
on the river, but there were a great number of persons
in the water.--The Juror; Then three boats are not suffi-
cient ?—Mr. Williams. No; nor would six be. It is int-
pomible for the boatmen to see what is goieg on.—The
Coroner. The Serpentine, I have understood, is a meet
dangernus place to bathe in.—Mr. Williams replied it was
the must dangerous in the world. There were holes thirty
feet teep, and then twelve feet of mud, out of which the
best swimmer could never get. There were cold springs too
its all parte—The Coroner observed that it bad been cog-
rated in consequence, as he understood, that the bed of the
Aver should be levelkd. As this had not been done there
armed no alternative but to prevent bathing altogether
there.—Tee Jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally
Drowned."