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London, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 20.

TISK plot of the Presidential election is beginning
to open in the United States. To a foreigner who
hes watched the process once, there is some amuse-
ment in watching it a second time. Being aware
why and how candidates are selected and nominated,
and having learned how to look with sufficient 'u-
prise, amusement, and compassion, on the nominee
of the ascendant party, he is like one who has read
a play in his library, and is about to see it pre-
sented on the stage, to an audience to whom it is all
new and strange. If he should chance to discover,
however, as the plot unfolds itself, that the audience
know quite as much about it as himself, and
that, moreover, they bare all been instructed
how to receive it, if even they had not a band in
the making. his interest cools so far that he
mispec:s he is growing tired of stage play. The im-
pending Presidential election may be very interesting
to a large number of American citizens ; it is certainly
not so to all; and it is growing wearisome to many
foreign observers. If there was a moment's doubt
lest month about the likeness of this election to all
enlace the close of the first great series of Presidents,
there is none now ; none since the nes' we in Eng-
land got by the mail just arrived—that the nominee
of the democratic party delivered a eulogistic address
over the body of HENRY CLAY.
When the democratic party united in the nomina-
tion of Fa.tstu.lN PIERCE for the Presidency, those
American newspapers which are written for Euro-
pean eyes.on both sides the Atlantic. and many Euro-
peans writing home from the other side of the Atlan-
tic, declared that nothing was known of FaIN\LIN
Pawl: in political life ; that this was a great advan-
tage, as it would facilitate an union of sec-
tions in his appointment ; and that the
candidate would enjoy a singular privilege
in beginning political life (the conspicuous
part do at least). fresh and free--able to show what
he could do while untrammelled by any prior doings
of his own before the eyes of the world. There is
something terribly false about all this. If the men
who have said it know no better, they are unfit to
report of Amirican politics; and if they do know
bettee. the worst spirit of American politics has en-
tered into them. It is clear to the most superficial
observation that no man could be agreed upon by the
leaden of all sections of the democratic party, whose
political opinions were not very well known to them
(however little to the world generally), and over
whose political action they would not be very sure
of being able to exercise a sufficient control. A.gain,
it is clear that the whole democratic party in the
southern states would have opposed a New Hamp-
shire candidate with all their power, if they had not
been sure that he was no northern man in die under-
stood sense of the term. The fact of his having gaited
his title of General in the Mexican war is enough.
It is nonsense to talk of the fresh and free position
of a President who left the halls of Congress to go
and invade Mexico. Yet, not only was this talked
of, but more than one reporter of American affairs
has said that if the Whig nomination had fallen on
any of the candidates but General Scorn, the subject
of slavery would hare been buried in silence forever.
Gene ral SCOTT being nominated, the free soil party
may, it is said, once more make itself heard. As if
the same cause which made it speak before would
not impel it to speak again. As if the negro, having
found advocates while his case was one of humanity
alone, would nut find champions by tens of thousands
now that his slavery has extended to half the insti-
tutions of the United States, eating away the liberty
of speech and of the Feet, and placing the white",
high and low, in a condition of disability such as it is
wonderful that men of the Anglo-Saxon race will
endure. It was in the first step that the difficulty
lay of introducing the subject of slavery into discus-
eion. By the irresistible force of circumstances this
was done : the force has gone on augmenting ever
since; it is now the one spring of political and social
action in the United States; and if there arc men
who really believe that such a force can be silently
extinguished, they are not exactly qualified to draw
the horoscope of the next Presidentship.
Meantime, the plot is becoming. unfolded. Expe-
rienced observers have been saying for some time
that General PIERCE, the Great Unknown, would be
soon taking some opportunity of making himself
known as a pro-slavery man, in some gentle sense or
another. He has everything to gain by doing so,
and nothing to lose. 'Nothing to lost, because the
anti.slavcu. men of the United States know that he
was one of the invaders of Mexico, and hare there-
fore no mmildence in him to lay aside. More-
over, the Nand core of the anti-slavery body con-
eiete lift who will have nothing to do with
the election of a President, or with any political
action whatever, while the pro-slavery clauses of the
constitutioo—He three brief obnoxious provisions—
remain unrepealed. General Plazas has nothing to
lose by letting tat the secret that everybody knows
—that be is a preolavery man ; while he may gain
something by resaserlag the southern citizens, who
dread the assmsios of a northern man. So, as was
expected, bo Wow an amelon. lie delivers an
eloquent address over the bsdy of HENRY CLAY,
especially bulbs the sompromise.." A stranger
might ask smog all the samisen's= of 1111NRY
CLAY. 'which is Or mpremies. Bot the
shows what Gil men aro thiskirig et ThlS"Kraitive
Slave Bill, and Ii abendont enactmeney an the
work praised__ by General Pince. Ho toast no
]eager be rafted the minima Fagriarr Prszcz.
Be has avowed the au thing which it concerns the
world to know ; and all the rest is of very little con-
sequence beyond the bounds of his own party.
It concerns the world to know thus much, because
the relations of America with Europe are, and must
ever be while slavery endures, determined by the state
of that institution within her boundaries. It concerns
the world to know thus much, because while the
supreme ruler of the Republic favours slavery, there
will be annexations like those of Texas, aggressive
wars like that against Mexico, piratical expeditions
against the dominions of allies, like the Cuban foray.
It concerns the world to knew thus math, because,
while slavery is uphold as a national institution, the
Americans cannot form that alliance with us of
which their newspapers and oars are begin-
ning to speak largely. Paining over now the
question of the fitness of a soldiery raised and trained
for pro-slavery purposes to encounter the armies
of the despots of Europe, it is enough to say that the
Americans have work enough and danger enough at
home to occupy their minds and bespeak their arms,
till the controversy about the tradition of fugitives is
settled. The boding signs of their first revolution
were not more clew and solemn than those of the
change which is now to 00111•—• change which must
be accomplished before American arms can be carried
anywhere in vindication of anything but slavery.
The surrounding of the court' in Boston with chains
is as solemn an event as the attempted seizure of the
powder at Marble Head. The rescue of the fugitives at
Syracuse is as significant an incident as the throwing
the tea into Boston harbour. The weeping crowd who
prayed on the wharf when a slave was carried off
before daybreak are as likely to remember the day
as the assembled citizens who followed the coffin of
the boy killed among his imowbells—the first victim
of the American revolution. The treachery of
WEBSTER is as revolting to the best men of his
nation as the treason of ARNOLD, and will stand by
its side in history. The refusal of the abolitionists
to swear to the Union matches well with the refusal
of their fathers to swear fealty to GEORGE 111. The
cause is as sacred, and more unquestionable; the
men areas brave and constant, in the modern case as
in that of the last century. They are called by the
same abusive names that their patriot fathers bore,
and by advocates of despotism who use the same
language of false security now as then. The present
conflict is, thus far, chittp a moral one: and
so was the other. The fighting made a much
smaller part of it than is supposed by those
who have not read the narrative. The bane was
List morally decided, and then came fighting •
end so it may law now. That we -cani-oi
know. What we do know is, that the slavery ques-

tion has made disnsionista of soma of the very
choicest morally, politically, intelleettudly, and
socially—of American citizens; it determines the
divisions of territories and the constftutions of sove-
reign states; it keeps up a capstan jealousy and
irritation among .the older Kites; It WORM the
press, and puts a padlock on the lips of republican
citizens; it is shaking all the churches to their very
foundations; it is making a Cuban banditti of a large
portion of the young men. It is affecting the move-
ment of every political and social question in the
great republic which has invoked the observation of
the world; and therefore it is of consequence to the
world to know from himself what to expect from
FRANKLIN Pince.
But what could the world expect from him, it
may be asked, seen supposing that an anti-slavery
man could be President ? There is no saying what
a man of a high order could or could not do in
a position so difficult and we need not discuss it
now, as no such man is in question. What General
Ptisace has let us know is, that there is to be from him
no check to the ravage of this mighty controversy ;
that it is to run its course. just as if he did not ex-
ist—just as if the Presidential chair was to be
filled—not by a man, with liberties embodied in his
person, and signified by his title, and claimed by
words on his tongue, but by a bundle of imple-
ments—whip, chains, and branding-iron, bound up
into a trophy. It is much for Europe and the world
at large to know that, in all probability, the United
States are to go on for another term of four years
from next March as they are going on now, tending
more and more rapidly towards something very like
a revolution which tlicy must settle at home before
they can offer to help to settle any abroad.

MODE TT has been understood to be a prominent
feature of the Christian character. It has been ex-
pected of sincere Christians that, deeply impressed
with the conviction of human weakness and falli-
bility, they should on all occasions abstain from
boasting ofthcir gifts and graces. Pharisees might
boast that they " were not as other men, neither as
this publican ; and fifth-monarchy men might arro-
gantly assume the designation of saints; but in real
Christians a modest estimate of their own merits was
looked for. The Marquis of BLANDFORD is superior
to such weak scruples. He told the Middlesex elec-
tors fr•.>m the hustings at Brentford that he was
" quite prepared to accept the denomination of a
saint." He told them more—that he was " prepared
to act up to it." On good terms with himself is the
Marquis of LILA:VI/I'ORD, that is clear; whether he
be a Pharisee or a fifth-monarchy man tune will
show.

And a very austere saint is the Marquis of BLAND.
FORD—austere to the taste u a sloe. The poet
Coweita has generally been regarded as rather pre-
cise and severe in his notions. Yet COWPER could
not only run riot in a joke on indifferent matters—as
witness his " John Oilpiu"—he took such delight in
VINCENT BOURNE'S pleasantry about the church
haunting daw, that ho translated VINCENT'S Latin
verses on the bird who is--

A groat frequenter of the church,
Where bishop-like be finds a perch,
And dormitory too.

But the serious Marquis of BIANDFORD shrinks
with horror from the levities in which COWPER in-
dulged. lie protests that he has a horror of
jokes in general: he has often " heard with pain
the jests of " Mr. OSBORNE in the (louse of Commons.
But above everything was the Marquis scandalised
with Mr. Ossonst's venturing to turn jackdaws
into jest, as VINCENT BOrRNE and COWPER had
done before him. " What else," asked the Marquis,
" is the allusion to dews cawing on the steeple, hut
a reflection on our religion, as also on myself in con-
nexion with it ?' This is a question that the Mar-
quis himself can best answer. It must indeed be
confessed that there is something very daw-like in
his religions professions: he cries out "No Popery
when in reality he means " Protection," jut as the
jackdaw keeps cawing like a preacher on his perch,
while his eye is all the while thievishly bent on a
bit of bread or cheese. But it is the Marquis him-
self who has fitted the cap on his own head, and
there is an old proverb to the effect that they who
do so ought to be allowed to wear it.
But the jackdaws are not the only species of the
brute creation in whom the Marquis takes a family
interest.: When taunted with being a strict
game preserver, he " owned the soft impeachment."
"As for the game-laws," said the Marquis, "I think
that game is a species of property as much as any-
thing else—as much as chickens are." The Marquis
can see no difference between the partridge, which is
fed on his tenant's corn, and the chicken which is
fed at his own expense. He claims an equal right
in both. He loves his partridges, and would fain
gather them, as a hen does its chickens, under his I
wing. The Marquis takes a livelier interest in daws,
chickens, and partridges, than in men. And upon
this his peculiar idiesyneracy, perhaps, he founds his
claim to represent Middlesex. Middlesex is
the sanctuary or asylum of the brute creation.
In Middlesex, dogs arc exempted by act of parlia-
ment from drawing carts, an exemption they do not
enjoy when they have passed its limits. Standing
on the bridge at UxU., you may see • tramp
come from the Middlesex aide, trundling his wheel-
barrow, with his dog lounging easily behind him.
No sooner does the tramp reach the keystone of the
bridge however than the dog is harnessed to the wheel-
barrow,and with a few extra lashes, to make up for lost
time, scourged into Bucks. The Marquis who has
such a fellow-feeling for jackdaws, would scorn to
sit for any county in which the brute-creation is lees
cared for than in Middlesex.

The Marquis's political creed u expounded from
the huebli waa brief, but—unlike most of the
Derbyite aM conics of faith—perfectly intelligible.
He will *WM the Game laws in all their strin-
g; he win not lidos to any proposal for ex-
t the wasp t hs will not concede to the
poorer dams Ihs gssissliew of the ballot. The
Marigssi=lrlma ill=nrisd to,
rePreleut
the osibtock, but when
he seeks Is mown es a reprointsdeir of the metropo-
litan sonsly, he is a daw island—a daw trying to
adorn bhunif with peacock's feather& It is for the
' electors of Middlesex to strip this presumptuous bird
of its borrowed plumes. To-day the contest begins,
and liberals should be early at the polL

Commasicoss.—On Sunday, eleven converts from
Rome resumeed the siren of popery at St. Paul's, Ber-
mondsey.
SOUTH NORTIMIDZILAND.— A correspondent
writes: "ME Liddell's six weeks' unopposed canvass and
Mr. Beanment's earlier indecision have been too much for
us. Mr. Barmsent at Met joined heartily with the friends
of a second Meat, east the Milislef had bees done. Mr.
Liddell bell itet seas remind previondy. Everything
Me one es Wthrowing
seeded day by every
=IP •11111 ki• Mr. Ridley% yell, but we were not
able le reduce the majority meterially. The Allen-
dale wears (Mr. Beaumont's tweets) were either kept
or hug beak till the second day to see Mr. Beaumont sate ;
and Mr. Miden's majority the fleet day, ea usual, sent all
the wow= le his side. However, next time there is not
meek to We, es it is clear an earlier start would have
carried us through all disadvantages • and now there will
be a contest every election on a better register. In North
Northumberland every species of coercion is resorted to. In
tact, what is there is a disgrace to a Christian
c ou ntry."
THE INDIA MAIL BERVICE.—At the present time
there ale two ateamen employed to perform the Indian
mail service between Southampton and Alexandria. It is
intended by the Oriental Company that one steamer more
on the line shall de the service next year (when it will be
double what it is at t) owing to the increase of speed
that hu been asd will be attained on that line. The
Alexandrian steamers now go out and return in a month,
including all stoppages. At the present time the Indian
Mad is only sent awe a month from Southampton, next
year it will be tent every fortnight. Upwards of sixty
persons have already taken berths in the Peninsular Com-
pany's screw steamer Formosa, which leaves for Australia
next month.

Tat IIt'LL MITILDER.--FtRTHEM DISCLOSURES.—
The grand jury at York, on Friday, ignored the bill upon
the isdislaset against %ape and Smith, accused of the
Damn. insistoe at Hull. Mr. Janke Wightman then
final Waimmiay (to-morrow) for the trial of the prisoners
apes Os commitment. In the mean time, and
while the Igfifid jury at York were deliberating upon the
triunes lbw began them, the police in Hull were ac-
quids( IN4 esimilleig a chain of evidence which may go
muck fmtbse towards the conviction of the guilty parties.
A U. note, which it is stated the murdered man had in his
pocket, was about a fortnight ago returned in the usual
course of 'minces to one of the Hall banks, and, after an
indefatigable inquiry, this was traced Wit ;,.; a tradaaauT
its Hunter-street. Yesterday the man who changed tete
note, through the
.porter of the ffinikspeare Hotel, was ap-
prehended, snit privately examined at the polies court, end
he will prohal.ly appear on Wednesday so a material witness
in the case. Two women have also been apprehended,
one a paramour of Snaps s, and the other the keeper of
the lodging-house where he was apprehended.