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LITERATURE. Takes Maury of the Colonization of America. Edited by WILLIMI HAZLITT, Esq. Newby. That which has so eminently distinguished the primitive free states of North America above all tho past and present civic communities of the world is the purely moral basis on which they were founded. Thirst after fame, pa'sion for conquest, ambition, avarice, have heretofore founded emores, but none 41 these motives swayed the founders of New England, and even the noble love of independence was over topped by a higher principle in the handful of heroic men who changed their civilised fatherland for a savage wilderness, where' they might worship God according to what they believed to be Hi s w ill. B y their fruits we may know them. Such were the principles which tliese men took out with them, that on their first application to social and political life the rights of man took the place of the rights of the state, immunity was exchanged for freedom, and lordship for equality. From that wil derness, a hundred stud fifty years later, the west wind wafted seeds whose vigorous shoots have ever since pierced the ground, up al at all points the consolidated system of ancient wrong. 'f he history of these beginnings must lase an interest for every European people, and for Englishmen above their all. According to M. 'Uri the idea of emigration to a Dew world was first seriously entertained by a small band of Puritans, whom the persecutions of James had driven to Leyden, in Holland. When it had been determined to encounter the risks of the adventure, the society sent over two of their ablest men to treat with the company of Virginia. " We." wrote one of their pastors, to Sir Edwin Sandys, one of the noblest and most liberal mem bers of the company are estranged from the sweet milk of the mother country, and hardened against suffering abroad. The majority of our people are industrious and moderate, we believe we can safely say as much MO LW any people in the world. We are woven into one body by means of a strong holy bond. whirl we dread to break, and by means of which we hold ourselves firmly pledged to cure for one another, and each for the good of the whole." The Virginia Company was glad to receive them, and nothing more was necessary than to procure from the king an assurance of toleration at so great a dis tance from the strife of home. But this was too large a bison for the most influential intercessors to obtain. All that the king would promise was to take no further notice of the in while they lista peace ful life. Sir It. Nanton, one of the king's secretaries, undertook to represent to his Majesty how that his loyal subjects, although well liked m Holland, still wished to return under his rule, and augment his state in America, and there to spread the Scriptures among the heathen. Now," said the King, "that is a Ruud , honest purpose; but how will they live there?" "By fisliing," was the an s w er . "God be gracious to my soul," said the king, with one of his favourite oaths, "that is a right honest business; that was the calling of the apostles themselves." But when their protector again essayed to speak of it, he was referred to the bishops. After u year's delay the intending emigrants re solved to carry out their plan upon the king's pri vate promise, thinking this at least as good a seeu curity as a formal ORMUrUIRV, which could be broken at any time. Nine agents were seat to London to agree with the Virginia Society about the conditions, and in September, 11124), they rec e iv e d a p a t en t, signed with the seal of that corporation. But this afforded them nothing beyond the right of tilling the land mid the liberty of forming u state body; they themselves mast look after the means. Sot one of the community was rich, few were well off, most were poor. Accordingly deputies must again be sent to London in order to close a contract for transport with sonic merchants, numbers of the com pany. 'f he conditions under which it was drawn up were hard beyond belief. and only the yearning to arriee at the goal, roused into impatience by long delay, ism explain their aceeptance of them. They will le found at the coinrueneeineut of the following account of the IDEPARTI: OE or TOE PILGRIMS, The adventurers (capitalists) and sett!, rs were for seven years to fon., a trading so'aty in common, during which time all gain and profit from tiatle and work should be placed it, one estumon fowl, wail the gains of every man, woman, and child, alms, sista u ) earsoi,l. included, should b e reelomed at test pound. ; children between ten and six teal we re to lie reckoned at two for one person. Ile who pre/visits' him.elf with t; n pounds., whether in goods or money, at double (that is, he was rated at twenty pounds.) During these even year., all eehmists were to be supported and clothed at the general entente. At the end of that tiro, all the profits were to be divided be tween the undertakers of the tnuoport and the settler., every ten 'moods contlituting a share, and those aho joined the colony at a later slate, to receive in proportion. Children under ten year. at the time of cad grati to could only claim fifty acres or land, and the claims of those alm died in the imitating. were to be transferred to their lairs, and reclemsed by their time and service. Here we see that Ow nierehaut wait contrilnited 10111. t 4) the fitting out of the ships, received at the division ten times as Muria a. hr who had sacrificed his best powers during *vivo year.. Well might the poor Upham. be startled at first by such herd emal,tioas. They endeavoured to insert • claim. ailowing them at least two slays in the week to work for themselves, and that the partition at the mil orl seven years of -:avert' should not Meiotic tics 'moose; thee hail ' built ton lbe &lat. they had tilled; but the mere-Trams who saw were in la eeseity and inliautient, after NJ long IA delay, to ronclu.la th-ir bargain, ulnitin itchy stipu- Lava for their foaditian.. au l split:deed taeir aim, although the head agrat of the L.yelenees did not the just reproach.. ci those who sent him. The auslertakera proluissul speedy polvaration, and re eaanue oiled all who were :4 iiiing to go to make tin mseleas ready lAA souu as posiahl,. A soiviusi prayer meeting w a s i held n L.yeleit. Strengths:owl by an appropriate sermon from Rubinson, they took their 11141 rer.losi..n. The greater pas: could not get heady so sown, sod it was arranged that they should rentaia under their pastor's eon-, while Dr. wet• r tsmk oi et all .ugh a, could prepare at such short notice to VirAinia, :anal there (molded with them an indepeudent community. ',the stress st and freshest then made ready to pass the way for the others. Robinson and the rest penalised to follow ws sacs as possible. Now the work went on quickly. Ile who had ground. or other pr..' erty, hastened to sell and deposit the net pro ceeds in a fund for purchasing pmvisions. A ship of 6.1, or, according to ...Inc, 70 tars., Saeciliells was bought in Ilulle.nd, and a larger one of 1511 tons, the Mayflower, hired in England. The former was to re main at the colouy. Ilut here neio• time was spent th an the %audio:is. ha il •!'al, who justly wished to carry out as quickly as puesible Ur: resolution they had taken • and characteristically strove t.. prep'lly the:J.o%ll e as well by rule,. of ariarlagn a. by repeated slays ed fasting and prayer. At length, J ely 21, 15i.10. the emigrants, aosompanied by the greater part of their frivnds, went from Leyden to Delft, where the Speedwell waits d for them, in order to take them I Ant of all to Southampton. lien- they were to be joined' by those who bad preceded them to England, and the Whole party was to he divided between the two ships. Many of (akar Oa friends had come with sad hearts from Amsterdam, in mil g to see them depart. Until now ex alted hope had lived Ist the mind* of these severely pious situ and women, vim had long been wecustomed to regard thecaselyei as pilgrim* moo the earth, wansligiva on their way to the realms above where the Lord bath built fur the pious that city which i s th e i r only home. haul now that the moment had come, human fecangs gained the mastery. A sleepless night was passed in a cordial hat tearful intercourse with their be loved frietuis ; and when, curly nest morning. the tide wh:sh am to take the ship sainunnail them to the Last parting, ,•,.•1. • beano Ming sobbing and crying broke I forth, that many of the Dutchmen. who had assembled on sh e quay merely am spertatuna, could nut keep front tears. Their spiritual father and leader sunk on hia knees, on tam beavh, and, wilt -framing cheeks ant breaking voice, reconetwodes' its a burning prayer the departed ones to the hiss ag et God. This was the had view. A faecurable wind ecai brought them to Southampton, 'there their friends bad waited seven days for them. The Maydower was al. ready. Ne vertheless, ten or twelve days pweed away is fate they had takeu possession of their respective places iu t'se ship-, and supplied themselves with the nevessary pro% isie nis, and with the assent of the masters of the balm, chosen a got cram. ash assistant for each tee tion to superiatend those arrangements. A rich merchant, stallesl Weston, one of the primipal undertakers, and who ventured a very considerable capital. came from London, in order to bee theta set . sil. lii the illar4laliane CUM letten from liobinson, which s. ere read aloud, and which, besides admoun.hing to a godly tile, continieit many wise injune. thaw, and imperatively pressed them to render obedience and resp!et to this authorities whom Ch.) chose. At length, August oth, they set sail, I.'o in ntunher. But all was not now smooth sailing. Scarcely .had they left the harbour, when the master fond out that the ships wanted some slight repairs. Both vessels run iuto Dartmouth. and there loot eight days' of precious time. At length they hoped to find themselves on an unimpeded load to their gosh—but it was ordered otherwise. The master of the Speed well now reported that the ship was again leaky, and that the choice lac between putting back and sinking. No wonder that when the emigrants for the third time found themselves in Plymouth harbour some of them were quite dispirited. On overhauling the ship, nothing was found to justify the conduct of the master, who, it was believed, was not acting honestly by his passengers. Nineteen eirsnts re turned to London ; the rest were taken on board the large ship with what provisions they could carry away, and thus for the third time left their father land. The intention of the pilgrims was to proceed to I the mouth of the Hudson, having failed in obtaining from the Plymouth company the patent which was to assure them the exclusive possession of New England and the commerce of its coasts. Never- theless, as we shall see, they were led by a chain of circumstances, and against their wishes, to the re gion from which they had turned away their thoughts : Notwithstanding their course lay to the south, the master stood towards the north. Unfavourable winds preveu.ed them for days together from leaving the place--atorins drove them in an adverse direction, and shattered the vessels. Where there were so mass women and children there could be no Lek of infirmity and sickness. For among the emigrants there wore only 71 mcn; 18 of them brought with them th.ir wives, some grown-up daughters, and female servants. The children were very numerous. The wife of Stephen Hopkins was delivered at sea of a boy, called Oceanus. A young servant of Dr. Ful ler, their physician, died. They were two months and three dap at sea, without seeing land. At length, in the mouth of November, at daybreak, they descried Caw Cod, discovered by Captain Gosnold in 1602, and so called on ac count of the number of stockfish, and which had since been repeatedly touched at by fishing ships, and was known to them by John Smith's chart. They now saw their error, and steered towards the south ; but iu the course of the day they came among so many shallows and breakers that they found themselves in tlie greatest danger; and, after layin.r to for the night, tired with the continued difficulties, they ran before the wind into the harbour of Cape Cod. The shores of this bay, now almost naked, were then thickly set with oaks, j unipers, firs, and wild vines. But even the wintry aspect of this coast was grate ful to the weary a anderers. The 11th of November arrived before they could find a place to oust anchor. Their first act when the ship was brought to was to offer up fervent thanks to Heaven ; the second to give form and order to their community. The oldest and must esteemed were requested by the rest, their equals in rank, to frame a compact which might servo as a social and civil bond. The following writing was then drawn up, and signed by the 74 men: THIS FIRST AMERICAN To the name of God, amen. We, the undersigned, true 'Open. of our dread ruler King James, who have undertaken this journey fur the gory of God, and the furtherance of the true faith, as well as fur the honour of our king and country, to plant the first colony on the northern part of Virginia, unite and bind ourselves by the present at, mutually and most solemnly, in the presence of God and one another, to a civic %bite holy, to our better ordering, and to the uphold ing and furthering of the above aims, and by virtue of this from time to time to arrange, lay down, and introduce such right and reasonable ordinances, resoutions, constitu titian, and Cliaer, as shall be found fitted fur the general good of the settlement, to which wu prom so all due sub mission and obedience. Thus was framed the first democratic constitu tional diploma of the future free states, a work which is yet prized by their descendants as the ground ' work of their fre..do:n an I inlepmdenee. As Ban croft remarks, the middle ages witnessed many char ters and constitutions, but they were mere treaties . _ for immunities, partial freedom, patents of nobility, and grants of privileges, or the restrictions of the sovereign power for the benefit of feudal institutions. In the cabin of the Mayflower humanity again re ceived her rights and founded a government based on like rights and laws fur the common weal. The first municipal act performed under this con stitution was the election of John Carver to hs governor for one year. This large-hearted man,who' had won the confidence of the society by his honesty, wisdom, and firmness, had made immense sacrifices in the common cause. Possessed of property in Eng land, he had spent all fur the two emigrations. On the self-same day, fifteen well-armed HUM were sent on shore to bring wood, and search the Ixtuks. They found all waste and still ; not a trace of a human being was to be perceived. The question now anise. whether this was a proper place for a settlement ? The harbour was good, and the countless number of whales that played about promised a rich yearly harvest. Moreover, all wanted to terminate their wanderings in this melancholy season. It was re solved to make an exploration of the country before coming to a final conclusion. TIIE EXPLORING PARTY. Miles Standish, accompanied by sixteen awn, among them limillOrd and Hopkins, roved about the country for sonic days, but could discover nothinit that gave them lunwa. some Indians who saw them, fled fur fear. They found here nu houses, but several baskets, full of Indian corn or maize. These they took with them, purposing to make them good again. They abo fund the remains of a fort, which seemed to have been built by Europeans. Ex cept these, nothing but graves; and when at last the sloop was ready, a three days' cxcurs•oh had had just WY little re sult. The weather was Rightful, and it snowed and froze iucessantly. Notwithstanding, tw..vity-four of thu emi grants and the muter took the wry even in this state of ex cit•nuent; the pretest didiculties seemed pr•ferablo to a total failure. But this Wormy was dangerous to many, to some fatal in its remits. They visited nearly the same ground on which the miters had b.sen ; nanuly,theshores of the river Varna, in Truro, on the extremity of Cape Cud; the mouth they called, with a painful feeling of the principal iopressions made of them, Cold harbour. I In the woe•I they iii.covered two forsakeu wigwams, but which had apparently been quitted only a short timepre sioudy ; and also several baskets of vane and beans, and a flask of oil buried in the sand. The first they took with them to sow at the approach of spring, hut also With the intention of restoring it, which six months after they punctually fuhilled. Ilesid.is this, they came into a field full of grates, nod diving in the snow and sand, they found all sorts of tools and orn '- meats, which seemed to have been buried with the dead. Many tokens indicated that this land hail once been trodden by the foot of the Euroiwan ; and they afterwaids learnt that u Ftench ship had some years pretiously been wrecked her•. Thr:e or four days they roved about in the w .J•Kllands of the drearr promoatory, always homing to di ssiver something eheenag. At I art, weary with climbing the snow-clad hills and housing in :he told wet winter evenings in the open air, sheltered only by the half frozen firs, th. 7 returned (Dee. I), dr.ply depressed, to their ship. II( re a newly-arrived stranger awaited them; Mrs.titisannalt White had in the mean ' time b..eu delivered of a boy, who was called Peregrine, and who, from being the first child born in the new father land, obtained a suit of fain, among his descendants; and even forty-seven years after, received for this particular event a pres.it irons the logic' lucre of 201 acres; and what is said Inure in this land of movement, his descen dants are still living in the AMUe district, and boast of their origin, which, as it were. kme their tuteestors first the tight on the honoured land of liberty. Hut for this one on whom the light of a new world smiled, there were many for whom it was Ibr ever extinguished. Nearly all the emigrants were ill; and deaths were, throughout I km tuber, of daily occur rence.. '1 he necessity of finding a harbour of repose became imminent. On the pith a new party of eighteen started to explore the bay fur the boat. In the evening they arrived at the south-east shore, now called Eastham, and with great difficulty found a landing-place among the shallows. Two days were spent in this search, the cold being so intense as to freeze their garments to the rigidity of iron. On the third morning they had scarcely finished their morning repast, before they were surprised by a loud strangecried yell. "Indians," one of the party, and already the arrows flew around them. They 'imme diately seized their guns : a few shots set the savages in Hight, not one Englishman being wounded. The pilot who accompanied them had told them of a good harbour in this bay, at which they were anxious to arrive. They had travelled fifteen miles along the shore without seeing anything to give them hopes. Then it began to nun and snow vio lently, a strong wind rose and broke the rudder, tho sea ran high, and in the evening the sea rose to su c h a degree that the mast was split and the sails were earned overboard, exposing them to all the fury of the waves. Just then the pilot lost all self-posses sion, and cried out " God be merciful to us—l have never seen this place before!" They would have been lost among the shallows had not one of the ! steersmen called to the rowers to put the ship about! as quickly as possible, and brought it again into the • open buy. In the dark, and amid a furious rain, they arrived at a place where the landing seemed practi cable, and on this unknown and savage spot they , passed the fearful night. Early in the morning of the 11th December they examined the harbour, which they found navigable, and the shores, in which they discovered with Joy fertile plains and water of pleasant taste. They searched no further, but re- turned to the ship, where the news awakened great ' joy. On the lath of December the ship entered the longed-for haven. and a few days after they had chosen their place of settlement, on an elevated piece of ground. They now went to work, and wood was % i " : i , / d. . . - .< f THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1851. felled and hewn in order to build, first of all, a leontending . for the precedence usually granted to the early general meeting and store house, wherein one par ty tir2l, ,sell b maintaining t thut ht,e, sheep .been spec t i ,: s2 housed for the night, while the other returned to the ''''': ~ .! ! of a tea re taer y noc as it ng toget n h i eT. nni ßomulus accordingll coin ship. Alarmed, but not checked, by the wild cry of me aced drawing his plans in the Etrutean fashion, by eau"- the Indians, whose dwellings they recognised ing a boundary line to be marked out with a plough, to by the distant smoke, they securely finished . ww w hi h r l h h i. wire rcha y r ok , etl thre a heifer and a bull, a ceremony from their store-house, landed their goods from the t y.iflish term b o ule m •alks , , to an t ! e tl t ic er F tv r a ei t y . h . ship, and divided the ground into nineteen I The line th v u 4 rds s traced was eall'eT a t y he r Pora y terium, and where parts, separating themselves at the same time into as au entrance was to be made, it win customary to carry the many households, and adding the single persons to I plough ac ross t h e space — a li tt l e eng i neer i ng difficulty that the families . Everyone was to build his house on a gave the name of Porta to a gate, from the verbportare, to spot decided on_ by drawing lots. In memory of the 1 elFry- ha rm u us tv ln i o so ked on . st .t th u e , l7t t Ldints . ir rare naively over it. last spot they had quitted in England, they named zingabo' the g round, Zen ge n amused himself by laeshpaliingaliutle the town New Plymouth. " Thus," said he, " will the enemy leap Thus were the pilgrim fathers settled in New 1 over those barriers." " And thus," rejoined the superia- England, and thus was founded a state which has I teudent or clerk of the works—one Celar, who acted in this instance w l i e t a h tocioeurg2dess cbarrelerity l—v;:ettuus,seshwallt, di rds ielewhvo; already attained a first place among the nations of 1 the world. Its subsequent history, how it battled ever y P mus a mortal blow y , and the legend goes on tip state, g that ' with disease, famine, and the Indians, and overcame Romulus was immediately seised with remorse, and subse. all ; how that very religious feeling which had given quent visits from his brother's ghost rendered Romulus him fortitude to the first settlers degenerated into perse- *el little better than the ghost of what he used to be.' Remus.. ro w . ed .:rt m oo u k ch th,fo spi rit aft rm oefr thehis cuting zeal in their successors ; how at length, purl- - deadly ;ti l l:I l e. fled by trials, the old spirit of independence threw brotihl brother. springing up ' at the bed-side, to poison the existen ig ee of his off its strait and embarrassing garments, until it oosild defy the feudal despotism of the old world—all morons illustrations, sketehes. by Mr. Leech, are clever, hu this has been often told, but never bett e r than in the two volumes which Mr. Hazlitt has now introduced . . to the English public. The style is fre;h;ndvigo rous, and the narrative full and clear. The work does credit to all parties concerned in its publication., u FARE IS FOUL," OR THE CABMAYS LAMENT. The Coming COO Net : a Letter to Me Bishop of Eeeter, °mutated by Aix recrnt Pastoral Letter. 8y a LAY MAN of the Cueacn of ENULAND. London. John Gray Bell. The eJnflict anticipated in this title-page is that revival of the old struggle between priestly preten sion and human rights, which Lord John Russell foresaw when ho exclaimed at Guildhall, " The signs of a storm are black in the horizon." The writer, as was natural, in addressing a man set for the maintenance of sound doctrine, has chosen to treat this conflict as the strife of truth with error. In thus doing he proves a no less efficient addier in the cause of human liberty. The great positive declarations of tho Christian re velation—the spirituality of religion and the direct and sole responsibility of man to Gad in matters of faith—have a thousand times nerved the arm against ghostly tyranny, and will to the last continue terri ble witnesses against those who would prey and trade upon the fears of men, and make of the kindest messages of heaven an engine of remorseless des potism. The kind and respectful letter of this lay man contrasts sweetly with those strings of railing accusations which the prelate addressed delights to fling around and above him. Courtesy, however, has not lessened the vigour and cogency of the argu ments, which are brief, obvious. and overwhelming All who read these passages will confess that, what ever other sanction Bishop Philpotts may plead for the teaching contained in his pastoral, he can derive none from the New Testament. Mom PrisrA.l Air—" Lucy Neal." I TOOL up in Piccadilly, And put the party down, At We Park Crystial Pallia Gate, Expectin' arf-a-crown. The sum of von-and-fopcnce hall I could bobtain, Accordin' to the scale of fares Laid down by Richard Mayne. Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, sh a bby Richard Mayne, If 1 could drive you where I chose, you'd never ride again! 'Tis only two-and-eightpence All trues that blessed Bank; Vy 'taint enough to pay a cove For leavin' hot his rank ! And one-and-eight's the Cabman's 'ire, For witch we're bound to go From the Bazaar in Baker Street, Pangtheon, or So-oh. Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, &c. The fare from the Mu-scum Was a good six shillin' job: But here they've bin and cut it down, And now it is two bob ! From the Thames Tunnel 'twas a ride Of full nine bob, or more, Witch blayn-f's New Tariff have redooced As low as four-and-four. Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, &c. For the Great Western Railway Two shilling is the touch, Vast five-and-six, I will maintain, Is not a brown too much. From Bow-street, Covin-gardin, too, Vich neighbourwood I 'ate, The fare, as sus a crown afore, Is lower'd to one-and-height. Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, &c. Then, there's a certain building Whereof I 'are heer'd tell, The House of whatsinaine—the Jug— Out there by Clerkenwell. I can't quite say I knows the spot, But surly 'tis a shame That only two-and-eight should be The ticket fur the Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, &c. It is two shillius only From Crc-morn,, and Woxhall; It used to be twice that, at least, — And not too dear at all. 'Tis two-awl-four from Dury-lane; Three from the Surrey Zoo' ; This is what that there Mr. Mayne Hex beet. and lorought us to! Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, ice. Suppose a party 'ails you, Vilst you are no your stand, You must obey his beck and call, And come at his command; The penalty is thrty bob In rase you should refuse, Fish yea must pay, or go to quotl, Accurdite as you chaise. Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, &c. Your fare, when you arc offered, Anti axes what it's fur? You may be let in for three pound, Or else two months by lawr. This here's languidge ; So take care what you say; And if you are a little fresh, You've not the same to pay. Oh., cruel Richard Mayne, &c. The Crusher at your standing Your umpire is to be, With any party, as to terms, If you should disagree. 'Twill be nu use to try it on ; Fur my . part, I despair Of screwing out one tanner more Than ioi our legal fare. Oh, cruel ltichard Mayne, dm This blessed Exposition Ilan caused all this to-do; I wish. he Prince was I knows sere, And Mr, Paxton too. Likcwi.e that wicket! paper, The Times, witch did explain Our and did on us bring Down truvl Richard Mayne, Oh, cruel Richard Mayne, &c. The Conti,' History of now.% By the Author of the " Comic liidtory of Bagland." Inuit? Med by Jol.ri Leach. Those who admired Mr. A'Reckett's "Comic His tory of England" and his " Comic Blackstone," will mail his " Comic History of Rome" with pleasure. For the reader who is not encumbered with classical reverence there is a laugh in every page ; whilst Mr. Leech's pictures will prove a rich treat. It is no mean praise tudeJare that Mr. A . Beckett l is perhaps the only man in England who could make a comic history of Ramo tolerable. Here and there even the sternest classic must, forgetting him ' self for the moment, laugh at the whims and with tics, the dexterous phrases, the easy puns, and ec centric expressions which sparkle about the pages. You recognise the hand of a master, whatever you ' may think of his art : you allow that he has dune his work excellently, even though it is a matter of re gret to you that he undertook it. As a fair specimen of the manner in which a classical story is divested of its mystery and its beauty, and presented in a purely comic aspect, we may extract the NTOIIY or ROldn/So AND ItEMUS. We will now return to Ithc4 Silvia, who appears to have enfrrol the service of Cie tiodde., as a maid-of-all-work ; for she was in the habit of going to draw water from a well; and it was upon one of these aquatic excursions she ran with a military ratan, peeing himself off as Mars, who paid his addressee to her, aad pmecti Rhea Silvi gave birth to t•.s ins; upon whielbhcr cruel ' uncle ordered her to be put to d':4th, :Lad desired that her infant iitfloring should be treated as a couple of unwel come puppies, and got rid of by drowning in the ordinary manner. ... The children were placed in a cradle, or, as t.onie say, a bowl, and turned adrift no the river; so that Anitilitt,, if he had any mi•givim as t , , tha st curdy of his crown ' re. (erred to drown it in the bowl with his unhappy little re lativeA. ft happened that there had been such a run ou the banks of the 7 iber, that its coffers or c ofar-da.n. had poured out their contents all over the a.Lacent plaint, and cauosl very extensive distribution of its currency. Among other valuable deposit., it chanced to lodge for security, in a bratieh connected with the balk, the children of Rhea Silvia, who, by the way, must have been very fortunate under the circumstance+, in bring able to keep u hal ince. The infanta were not in a very enviable condition; for there was nobody to hoard and lodge them, though the Tiber was still at hand to wash and do for them. The high title prosedu tide of good Mamie to the children, who were fi .attsl so far inland, that who the river receded they were left high nud dry at the foot of a fig tree, with no one, ap parently, to elm ati wh tt hccame of them. d7rtier these circumstance., n sate-wolf, who had gone down to the Tiber to drink, heard the wltimi,ering of the bald, among the tree., an.l, her attention being drawn off from the water in the riser to the whine in the wood, she came forw trd in the most handsome manner in the capacity of a wet-nurse to give them suck and stir-nor. flow this wolf became pos sessed of so touch of the milk of human kindness, does nut appear, and it is not perhaps worth while to inquire. The children, it is said, were awakened by receiving a gentle licking from the tongue of the animal, standing in parratis over them. Fhlililj the SitWith)ll damp, the wolf removed the infants to her den, where they were visited by u philanthropic w.solpecker ; who, wilco they were hungry, would bring thesis some tempting grub, or worm, liv which the woodpeeker soon wormed itself into the children'. omlidence. Other members of the (slithered tribe mad, themselves useful in this novel nursery, by keeping off the insects; mid many a awn found itself-or rather lust itself —onexpeetcilly in the tine it of some re morselesa aw tilow. ilowever well meaning the :initnal may h tve been, the ..hildrett could not have profited greatly, if there had been no one ready to take them from the month ; and happily Fau.tulita, the Moab. shepherd, who had watched them a. Coy were (sing carried to the wolf's cave or loophole, provided th e m with another loophole to get out ..f it. Taking advantage of the welt's temporary absence from home, the Rome shepherd," resolving to rescue the children, by hook or by cn»k, removed the babes to his own hut, and handed them over to his wife Lauremia, as a sort of supplement to their previously rather extensive family. Some historians, rehising to believe the story of the Wolf and the Woodpeeker, have tudetboured to revoncile pro bability with tradition, by suggesting that the wife of Fans tutus had got the name of the %Volt from the contrast she presented to her I.:nth-like hush tad, and that the supposed wo.olpecktr was simply a henpeeker, in the person of Lau rentia. Print* Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a , meeting of the Royal Commission fur the Exhibition of the Wo k. of luiludry of all Nations, at the Exhibition in Hyde l'ark. His Royal Highness arrived at o'clock, attended by Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour. The Com missioners present were, the Duke of Bucci c u c h, th e E ar l of Ito,e, Earl Granville, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Cn:irles Lvell, Sir Charles L. East lake, Mr. Cubit!, Mr. John (iutt, Mr. John Shepherd, and Mr. Alder:llln Thompson, M.P. Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. EiLiar Ituwring , secretaries to the Royal COl.ll - attended. c•olunel Reid, chairman of the exe cutive commit...., Lieut.-Col Lloyd, special commissioner, and Dr. Lyon Playtnir, special cuiumissiouer, were also in attendance. The meeting broke up soon after 6 o'clock, when Prince Al attended by his Equerry in Waiting, returned to Buckingbane Palate. THE COUNCIL of CHAIRMEN of tho Juries of the Royal Commissi•oi for the Exhibition of 18.51 had a meeting on Monday in the Exhibition, There were present—Sir Henry De La 11. The. Jacob Bell, M.P. (for M. Dumas):Mr. ' Edwatd Nude, Protessor Owen, Hey. Mr. Muscly, Earl Jersey, ()emend Pone,let, Mr. I. K. Brunel, Baron Charles Dupin, Mr. Philip Posey, M.P., Sir David Brewster, Sir Henry Bishop, Mr. Phillip Elliseu (for Sir James Ander son), Dr. Von Herrmann, and Mr. H. Forbes, Mr. G. F. Kemp, Count VIM llarrach, M. J. R. Lavanchy (for llerr Von Ilorgaerdzr) ; ILoi. Colonel Anon, M. Van de Weyer, Mr. 11. Tucker, r. Bulky, Lord Wharneliffe,Hon. Horace Oresley, Due de Luynes, Lord do Manley, Professor Rot,ner, M. B. l'istrueei, Don Joatiniin Alfonso, Viscount Canning, Herr Von Viettalm Dr. Flayfair, Lieut. Ward, and Mr. Edgar Bowring (acting secretary to the Royal Commission), attendi.d. Clf.treElt AND TOE EUTIRMON.--Citaneer, it would seem, posses:44l a prophetic faculty in his prefigura tion of this palac- of glass. The passages we quote occur in the House of Fame, in the introduction to which, the poet describes it as a vision, and speculates upon the causes of ' dreams, affirming his inability to decide whether " Spirit., have the might To make folks dream o'night, Or if the soul of proper kind Be so perfect as men find mit a ,rote what is to come." "As I slept," he goes on to say, " I dreamt I was Within a temple made qf glass, In which there were more images, Of, old standing in sundry stages, In more rich tabernacles, And with jewels more pinnacles, And lane. curious portraitures, And quaint manner of figures Or gold work than I saw ever." • • • • • • " Then tw I stand on either side Straight down to the doors wide .P:om the dais many a pillar Of 'Reba that shoo.• not full clear." •• • • • • • "Then gan I look about and see Th it there cave cnt'riug in the hall, A right great company withal, And that of sundry regions Of all kimb of conditima, That dwell in earth beneath the moon, Poor and rich." Romulus and Remus were the names of the two iafants, who, as they grew up, began to Like after their foster mother the wolf, turning out exceeding wild lads, with a lupine propensity for worrying the flocks, and goin g on altogether in a veer brutal • manner. Remus was taken up on a charge of sheep stealing. or something very like it, and brought bs fore Numitor, his own grandfather, when a re cognition took place in a manner not much in accordance with the ordinary rules of evidence. Romulus had also been apprised of his relationship by Faustulus, who mutt have made a pretty hold goes. at a fact he could not have known; and the two lads, being adopted by N waiter, were sent for their education to Gahii, where everything was taught that men of rank in those days were expected to learn, and whence the word gaby is cloarly derivable. Anxious to do something tor the old geutleinan, their grandfather, Romulus and Remus got up a demonstration in his favour, and they succeeded in restoring him to the throne of Alba Longs. a lon4 row of white houses, which was less of a ter ritory than a terrace, and it is a strange coincidence that Terracino. or little terrace, formed one end of it. Aniulius was killed, and leaving Numitor sole master of White's-row, Romulus and Remus resolved on a building speculation a great deal higher up—that is to say, on the pot where they had passel the days of their infancy. Before the new city was commenced, a ilhpute UM!. first, about what it should he called,and secondly, es to who should govern it. Romulus and Remus, being twins, could not bring the law of prim'gcniture to bee. upon their little differences, and it was therefore agreed to refer the matter to augury, which should decide who au to be inaugurated as the ruler of the new colony. Romulus mounted the Palatine Mount, and Remus took his station on the Aventine, when both began to keep a sharp look out for something ominous. Remus was the first to ionark something odd in the shape of six vultures fiyiug from north to south, but Itornulus no sooner heard the news than he declared he had seen twelve, and the question arose, whether, figuratively speaking, the one bird in hand seen by Remus should outweigh the two in the bush that sub frequently appeared to Romulus. The augur, when ap pealed e o, pave, as usual, a very ambiguous answer. It amounted, in effect, to the observation that there were six of one and a dozen of the other ; so that the soothsayer, in stead of hiving *ey e d anythingto soothe, was far more likely to irritate. Both parties claimed the victory; Remus Siieh a great congregation Of folks as I saw roam about, Some within and some without, Was never seen nor shalt be wore !" So redpable a coincidence is, to say the least of it, very carious. AptrrnEcAltiEs' HALL—Names of gentlemen who =I their examinatio n i n th e sc i ence an d pract i ce o f me , and received certiticates to prartise, on Thursday, May 29:—George Edmund Smolt, Plymouth; Frances Ayrton, Liverpool ; Edward Somerset Cleveland, Madras; Thorn's Lowrey klidley, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Charles Bothwell, Bolton-le-!loon ; George Henry Edwards, Royal Navy. ENGINE. IL AND W. HAWTHORN'S LOCOMOTIVE Messrs. Hawthorn have just published a descrip ' lion of their first-class passenger locomotive engine, a t p re . sent in the Great Exhibition. As it embodies three new ' patent improvements in railway locomotion which appear to us of most practical valu e —f ur we b e li eve t h ey ta k e a ; ' right course towards actual perfection —we arc induced to publish these improvements in detail. , I The cylinders are 16 inches diameter ; stroke of piston, 22 ; inches ; driving wheels, 64 feet diameter : leading and trailing wheels, 3 feet 9 in ch es d iameter ; heating surface of 1 fire-box above the grate bars, exclusive of tube ends and ' fire-door, 98.6 square feet: total area of fire doe, including tube ends, fire door, and surface below the upper side of grate bars, 110 .quire feet (the fire-box has a bridge, with water space across the centre) : 158 brass tubes, 2 inches ' exterior diameter, having a heating surface of 866.4 square feet. The maximum speed with an average express train being equal to 80 miles an hour on a good line of railway. ' The patent improvements introduced in this engine are : Firstly, Mows. Hawthorn's Patent Double Compensating Beams. The compensating beams and springs (two beams I and two springs on each side) are introduced, instead of the six ordinary springs, one to each axle bearing, by which ar ' rangemeut all the axle bearing. arc so connected that what ' everaetion takes place will be directly sod simultaneously die tributed over the six wheels and axles, by which means a • I uniform weight is constantly maintained upon all the wheels no matter the imperfections or irregularities in the line of railway ; securing thereby a constant amount of weight upon the driving wheels fir adhesion, which is of great importance for a first-class engine, wherein the power is communicated to one pair of wheels, and which in practice is often found delicientand attended with great inconvenience, in engines with the ordinary six springs. The mode of connexion between the axles above mentioned gives great stability and easy motion to the en gine, which was fully proved in the transit of the engine by rail from Newcastle to Loudon, and particularly when running at high sp cede. In addition to the advantages hereby given to t h e engine itself, considerable caving is effected in maintaining the permanent line of railway. In " The Hawthorn," the axle-, have all outside bearings, with driving wheels in the centre, and the carmine wheels at each end (the trailing axle immediately behind the fire-box), which arrangement of wheels and axle* have, with very few exceptions, been adopted by the first engineer" and locomotive engine inanufacturers us being the best in principle for firs:-,'lass preeenger or express engines. Although the ne cessity of having at times to put an undue weight upon the springs of the driving wheels, in an engine with the ordinary six springs, to secure the required adhesion, ope rates on such occasions considerably against the arrange ment, by giving to the engine an undulating or pitching motion, which at times renders it unsafe, and particularly so at high velocities—the permanent way also suffers less or more injury . in such instances; the whole of whi c h a re entirely obviated by the double compensatithe beams, pre viously mentioned. Oerasionally, engines have been made with the driving wheels placed behind, nod the motion communicated thereto by outside connecting rods through the mediumof a distinct crank axle; but the driving wheels being se placed, curtails the foot plate very much, and renders it very inconvenient to the engine -driver and stoker; and the outside connecting roils have Amid inva riably been considered objectionable, and attended with lass or more danger to passenger engines, particularly when running at high velocities. Secondly—Their patent slide valves which may be made either of braes or cast iron, are placed vertically between the cylinders in one stunt chest iu the usual meaner. One slide valve has a plate cost or !milted upon the back, which is planed correctly panillel with the face of the valve. The other slide valve has a box cast upon the back, into which is fitted a projection or piston. The face of this piston is Aso planed parallel with the face of the valve, and packed hi the most simple mum. r and made steam tight, the slide valves are then put lute the steam chest as in ordinary valves, the plete and piston work against each other steam tight, and the very trilling movement , of the Moon will insure the packing very perfectly tight 1 for a great length of time, and when required to be renewed it is only necessary to remove one of the steam chest Mm nets and draw out the valves. A (massage is formed between the exhaust ports through the slide valves, thus giving al free discharge to the strain ; by this arrangement of patent ! slide valves, they Sc• relieved front one half the preeeure of *team, ituit consequently one - half the fricton and power to. work them, and also a like proportion of the wear and tear of the faces gad gearing. Thirdly—Their p itent link motion is also introduced into' this engine. The link (termed the expansion link), instead of being connected to the ends of the eccentric rods, and having to be constantly moved up and down with them (which with the great weight of the link requires very strung gearing.) is directly connected by an eye pent to the slide rod and de in eutpendee, hens its weight is removed: front the reversing g .ar, by the link having thus a fixed , centre less poser is required to reverse and regulate the slide valves, the action of the valves are more correct, and par- 1 ticularly when cutting off the steam and working expan sively; the link is aloe much more durable by admitting of what is termed the sliding block, being mire than three , times the length of the ordinary block, hence a great easing! in the wear and tear of the link and gearing ; another int- portant advantage is that the link permits of th e boiler being! brought down n arer to the axles. Fourthly.—Their patent deem pipe is likewise lire introduced, which does away with all domes or eunthrous projections on the top of the holler. The pipe is used into the tube plate of the sm-ike box by a ferule, like an ordinary tube, and extend, nearly the full length of th.• boiler near to the top ; it is perforeted with a series of small apertures or slits along the entire length, so proportioned as to admit the steam into the pipe directly above where it is gene rated, insteed of having to rush front all parts of the boiler to on? or two millets., so that the steam is carried to the cylinders mom pure, and priming, as technically termed, is prevented tog great extent. Both the inside and outside framing extend the full length of the engine, and are firmly tied together by strung iron double knee bracket., and the cyliwkre, guide bars, pant" axles, etc., in short the whole machinery of the inane, is p.gfeetly fitted and fixed entirely iudepen- ' dent of the boiler, and when so completed and the wheels ' and axles put into their respective places, the boiler is then, I but not till thee, put in its place and firmly secured by bolts to the double knee brackets above mentioned and the , outside learning. It apeears that R. and W. Hawthorn were the first who • appli..4 the four fast eccentrics to the locomotive engine. TM: FLORAL DISPLATs—By an early dueission of the royal commissioners no living thing woo to he allowed a place in the buildinr, but for decorative etf,,t a large part of the north transilit io ommpied with shrubs and dowering pl into, and thus a moot attnictiv.., feature is addsl to that part of the Palace of industry. The coup d'mit, heiking southward from the entrance in Rotten-row, is exceedingly , tine and mach heightened by the floral show. The plants are supplied by the following nurserymen, who have the privilege of soiling b niquets and cut flowers t, • isitors : Mr. Bragg, Star Nursery, Slough, Pansies and .Miscella neous Plants; Mr. U. Clarke, Streatham-place Nursery, Brixton, Miscellaneous 1 . 12,41t4 ; Mr. Dennis, King's-road Chelsea, Miscellaneous Plants; Mr. Pergusua, Buckingham ; and Ayleshury, Miscellaneous Plants; Mews. Knight and Perry, King s-road, Chelsea, choice exotics and selected shrubs; Messrs. 11. Lane and Son, Great lierkliamstcad, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses; Messrs. C. Lodiligas and Sons, litekney, a Collection of palms;Mr. G. Paul, Clie.hunt, a eillection of coniferous plants, roses, &c.; Mc-as. W. E. Randle and Co., Plymouth, miscellaneous' plants; Messrs. Standish and Noble, llagshot, hardy rhodo dendrons, azaleas, &c. ; Messrs. Weeks and Co., King's road, Chelsea, miscellaneous plants; Ward, Esq., of Clapham, contributes his interesting eases fur transporting plants from distant countries. They are plac on either side of the ltotten-row entrance. Tut: AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS.—An American paper, the Was/iiity/mi Daily Nation.el littelligeiwer, soya : " We give below an extract of a letter front un gentleman in London to his friend in this city respecting the portion of the Grand Exhibition which hen been contri buted by our countrymen, and the comparison which it bears with the contributio .4 of other countries. The view which he presents is not pleasant—indeed, it es rather mor tifying to our national pride—but it is from an honest and intelligent source, and. though unpalatable, the bitter may prove wholesome :—' The importance of this Exhibition has been greatly underrated 1)7 us. The European display will be costly and magnificent beyond description. Sonic single individuals have gone to an expense of 10,0001. in the ar rangement and display of their goods. If our government had granted as many dollars to the object, we might have made a creditable appearance. As it is, the American portion will bear an appearance of stinttng and mean ness not very Bettering to our national vanity. The articles, now that they are in the building, are found to be insufficient to fill the allotted space, and a considerable portion of it has been resigned to other countries. I fear we shall be very badly beaten ; and I advise any one who intends coming here in the expectation that this Exhibition i. going to raise our country in the eyes of the world to stay at home. I was one of those who expected it, but now that I sec the splendid results of the art and taste of the European nations, I feel that what we have to show is only creditable considering our youth. Some of our carriages and machinery are, how ever, quite comparable with the best here. In daguerreo- types, also, we shall excel, and in India rubber fabrics. But in all works of art and taste—in sculpture, glass, silica, woollens, and even in agricultural implements —we shall either be entirely surpassed or quite equalled. In designs we are thrown entirely into the shade. There will be an advantage growing out of all this. We have been paring ourselves among ourselves' until we have become convinced that we are ahead of all mankind. This direct comparison will open our eyes, and must, I think, result in great good, by giving a powerful impulse to the arts in uur country; if so, the temporary mortification will be more than compensated, and may be recurred to without regret." Ethan hies slim Reuse incminisv Juvabn." SAILORS' 110 ma.—We are informed that the direc tors of the Sailors' Home, Well-stmet, London Docks, with a view of &Harding facilities to seamen at the out ports to n'it Pie Great Haltiliition, have determined to ap peopriate as many bed cAbiu. at the lowest pcasible charge as can be spared lor that purpose; sad the means of con veyaseo to Hyde Park being near the institution it is hoped that many sailors, both of the navy and time mercantile ma 'vise, will IJO induced to visit the Crystal Palace, a comfort able home b. inn provided for them during their short stay in the metropolis. WYLD'S MODEL GLOBE. On Thursday a private view took place of the great Model Globe, preparatory to its opening to the public next week. The structure in which it 13 placed has been erected on the lately desolate inclosure of Leicester-sipiare„ and now really forms an ornament for that district. The main entrance is on the north side of the square, and tiro vestibule comes out to the footway, and leads to a circular building, crowned with a hemispherical metal ilicue, of about 70 feet in diameter, much in the style of the Co losseum. There is no pretension in the architecture, . bat its form gives it effect. Around the inclosurc a now wuhng has been placed; the garden has been laid out afr h, and the bread walkdof the>quaredeaving the surrounding space open. Tho vestibule is large. Oa passing this the visitor enters a circular corridor, of 250 feet in circumference, run ning around the bottom of the globe, among the supporting timbers, and which is now being decorated in the 31 , virisk style, wo the h u a i:d v i. e .r ry i direction utio.ly a o r f a tl e r a ( iim A se . lf Je o riii t yi t n e , architect, so as to produce a picturesque effect. The only part as yet completed is the Moorish gate, forming the approach to the globe. The remaining portions are only as yet picked out with blue in :wale:ague; hut the globe lamps are hung, which, at night, gives the corridor a picturesque effect The design of a great model globe is nothing new. Ono under the name of the Geeraina WAS long ou view at Paris, until closed by the late revolution. This is a globe with a plain painted surface, seen from the interior, and about forty feet in diameter. A like design has often been projected here; but it was left for Mr. Wyld, M.P., to realise the cheriehed desire of men of science to have use a large scale a delineation of the physical features of the earth. In the first instance, Mr. Wyld proposed a large globe to be exhibited at the Crystal l'alace, and to bo viewed from the exterior ; but it was not enough to vend there such a globe, for it would have been neoeviary to erect very large galleries occupying a cousiderable space in the building to allow! access to the model. It iv owe .if the inconveuiencies attendant on the natural or external repre sentation of the earth that a large space must be traversed in order to view each portion. Thus for the portion now constructed a dome a, vast as St. Peter's would have been required for its exhibition, tv1;:le no satisfactory examination of the surface can be made. To remedy this, to allied a better view, and econumise the time and exertion of the spectator, Mr. Wyld considered it Avis:Ml*l to adopt au artificial or internal representation of the earth, in w hich the spectator views the whole awl each portion from the inside, and by an ascent of 40 feet only is able to get within 10 feet of the surface, a condition c.w.o. fiat where tile worts is so minute sod elaborate. As fur the celestial globe it is found must convenient to abandon the natural method, and adopt a representation of the hcaveas from the exterior, so is it with the Great Model Globe to adopt a contrary pro 'cis, and the spectator in 3 work on so large a scale b: sumo; readily familiarised with the view presented to him. The globe within which we enter ;in placed vertically north aad south, the unknown regions (Wiles South pose inaking way for a staircase and galleries, and those of the arctic for the illumination and ventilation of the interior. The diameter is called 60 feet, and the) circumference about 19d feet, affording a surface of above ten thousand square feet. Within the structure are tour galleries, atfortfilitt near views of several zones of the earth's surface ; but it is most desirable in the first hist:tare to ascend to the upper gallery or platform, when a remarkable siaht presents itself. Modelled on a c o l os sal seale ;ire Europ e, North America and North Asia in their familiar feattirta, with the expanse of the oceans. The rivers arc seen minutely depicted, the mountain chains, represented in their various peaks and branches, their snowy heights, and hollow volcanoes. Above us the ice-bound realms of the north ;gleam under a blueish light. While we arc struck with the greatness of the picture in Contemplating those hunts b"is known to us, when we turn away front the great continent i of North America, with the proud feeling that *wets vast districts belong to us, we arc struck with surprise to find our own island no bigger than the sheet of . paper now strewed before our reader,. Yet there it is with every . well-known stream and hill, its cliffs, its bays, and tts creeks, so weli laid down that as we look at it through a plans, we may fancy ourselves 1 viewing the wide scene front the peak of tinow+iii, Ben INevis, or other towering mountain. In the design and eii ecution of th.s great underrating, Mr. Wyld has displayed great ability and resources, and he has been well seconded Iby tease who have 4m-operated with him. Mr. Wyld has scrupulously guarded himself against anything, but natural l and permanent type... There is no writing on the earime, mi artificial lines ; nor are there even indication, of the phenomena of isothermisin, electroinagnetieln, atmo spheric, and oceanic currents. The seas are in.:rhea' of blue, the land in green tints, except in the frigid sone, where it has it glittering icy e,verine t the mountains are winged according to their height, the vol canoes Memo with hollow peaks, the line of perpetual snow indicated by the absence of colour, the rivers marked with Hu", the large towns by spots, the sandy deserts of the Sahara by a glare of red. Except the town'', the only sea tige of human occupation is the line of the great w.,11 of China, dimly dotted dean. By the arrangement of this opaspie colours, as well as by media stopping off the light, great variety of surface is produced. Altogether t h is is one of the mast remarkable works of the year. 'flee Crystal Palace is remarkable for its variety, but as a single work this model globe stands unsurpassed, nor is it likely to be wanting in interest to the public, for, while the idlest epectitir inis.t be attracted, by curiosity, there are few who have n it sumo distant relative whose station they wish to mark oi i, ne whew line of voyege they seek to know, and berm. the great motel globe all other globes and modes of geogra;•l4- , cal repftsentations fade into comparative insigniticanr, TILE FUTURE PROSPECTS OP TII If CAYfiTAL PALACE. IFrom the moment when the Crystal Palace rim from the ground in its grace and beauty, for ourwlvia we never doubted, as our readers well know, about its fate; but even on that auspicioul May-thy we heard re t orts, am:on% as ourselves for the succeet of tae Exhibition, de clare that in less than two years the grass would be again growing grecidy over the .raa now inclined within the crystal walla. Day by day, however, these misgivings barn been abating, and at the end of three weeks We m: ,y rIIAN rt 1 that the financial su.c.ass, too, of the great undertaking is assured. To pay the eutire espil-am of the Exhilute;a, and to buy the building as a perpetual palace for th- people, will regime about :1...1,01101. Towards this sum 6.5,01:0/. have ; been raised by sul , wription—W,lntif. have bean rev tied fur the solo of season tickets ; and up to Thursday night the atuouut received ut the doors for admissiiie we; 37,7021. ; making altogether, ut the cud of only threr, weeks, a total of 161,12i31. As the :nowt have yet Ito come in at the reduced rates, the receipts at the door; viU probablynot fall much below the avera ge o f 1,503 l'.a ay lOT the next hundred days:—awl if so, we may add to this present total a proalact of 1.50,91.10/. This, it will he se.a, leaves a margin of surplus—though not a large one. Enine of our sanguine contemporaries, astonished at a sue..csa so tits beyond their pre-calculatious, indulge in magnifieeat projects for the invesuoent of a Mud which seem, thins boundless. Th!..ru have lien divers hint. not only the Cry=tal Palace, but all that it can tins. Nothing seems impossible in face of the huge tarts before them—and even figurts would seem to have acquired a new power as applicable to the , Gnat Exhibition. We are sorry to interfere with this calenturc of the imagination : but Cocker must have his rights even in the Pal ice of Ghos. The value of its contents halo been variously estimated; but we have heard no one uppruise them at less than twelve millions, and some calcui atiims got up as high as thirty. Let us as sume the lowest figure to 11J correct, ter the sake of a sane to be worked after the fashion of the venerable shade whom wo have invoked. blow soon could the Royal Commission raise twelve million, of money, even were they certain to receive from the public at the doors 2,0001. daily over and above all the expenses of management ? In just 6,000 ti..ya, after deducting ' 4 unilays and other religious days, when the palace must of mum be closed, in exactly twenty years! Look at the question in another point of view. A , it. per cent. per annum the interest on twelve millions is 0140041. a year; or, leaving out Sundays and a few other as W..% productive days, just 2.0001. a day ! If the contents of the Exhibition be really worth twenty millions, a daily 114:1 , a40 of 3,3001. would not diacleirge the mere interest on the ea pits! 1, ing dead in the Crystal Palace. The suggesti as, therefore, of purchasing this Exhibition, in order to *sea its content, together, is one which merely shows to what wild poetic heights the imagination may climb up to the won derful shafts of the Palace of Olass.—.4theructon. A " TIMES" PROPHECY ON THE 01,MIS PALACE. To TR% EDITOIt OP THE EXPRI;49. Stn,—Allow me to offer you another extract from the rifles newspaper, containing a prophecy et the editor of that journal. pronounced in a leading r. ti de on the 15th of July last, page 4, column 6. The editor says: " Now, let the promoters of the Exhibition strug;!. ns they will, it does not appear that the ,übscriptions—al:Hi timis being made for expenses of collection—will 60,0001. It is calculated that half a million of peopl.: 'ill visit the exhibition ; the receipts from this source, : Is. per head, will amount to 2.5,0001. The total amount of receipts is, then, 8:1,0001. Now for the per contra. l'ke least sum which can be named for the expense of prises, &e., is 20,0001. Mr. Paxton's estimate would, at a ma't't of course, advance from 00,0001. to 100,0001., even I. along matters of arrangement w.thin the building out of Uw question. Thu', then, wo have on the one side 120,00, d. for expenditure; for receipts, 8.1,000 '. tor the consideration of the !louse of Commons, 34,0001. Oar calculations may Ge depended on." A CONSTANT RtADER. THE Cyrsr.u. PALAce.—To the FAitor of the Express.— Sir, As the money success of the Great ell hibition seems now all but certain, it may not, peihaps, be amiss to consider what should be the future course respect ing the building, he. Assuming that the whole ~,st will be defrayed, I propose that it should be retained as .t ',lnter garden, to be supported by subseription-t,(Sir) Joseph Pia ton to be appointed curator, with a saitahle salary. In fire, seven, or ten years hence, by moving the plants, for Jude, hdy, and August, into sheds or tents, another exlnbition might be had at a moderate cost. To the winter garden the general public to be admitted.—Your obedient servant, J. I..—May 24. .r at cu re. ha ho lur of !o- at 3 co ar tq ;t, tq et ao tt q. 14, tt nt ht co ul to ILL iti 111 Id it Co IO IL or eta Ito to WO