The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1851. , " IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ..- inn in farmer limns ' e . "VW" an(' IL WILD 4 ELTEUTVIManar 404 s. tq SOW of Were there not the reet a ldneee o e II bare "illiAmerbace are cam Providerillatt . =Avititts Me Albans to prove that ht ht l . • • • t u t d airb weleteme to battle 1111 justifies' himself in Ike flu • ..y ' i sad es 'Sired a raw imin.= !, for it did not appww t rte was m • 1;, NM Ewes tabor shall AM be semeldied with do COT motion fur thalobsubeg itoyildnini • —.. Julia. ....„ _ _ L . hat IMO 111111/111 , metier, mei lo finis the eam.. ~ on on Tuesday lest, unless it vould • - - ineweary hind, ilir Edward Rolwer Lytton—caw it t Avalon of privilege, which he believed it of to to ko o l on ...b... t i tt , n sad pasaaste d , to ht . k i i sw.is „ srsas , _ _ r+ s awe, a Sew Comedy is five Acts. It will be produced under hot . . . . ... .. a. Hatton and Sarum Hear, hear.") W. Aykesbury and St. Alban. Mr. BANK ES justified at the present time, fo- • chance that the m could be brought on . brought on as a question would not. Mr. PACKE said he remembered an instance with re gard to Nottingham, where the opposing candidates conti nued to outbid each other in the price of a vote, so that the petty we, not able to vote at all. Altar a kw words from Mr. REPTON and Mr. W. Witte the ingenuity of nations. Even now the Malcontents who are dissatisfied with the =avoid- Ode exclusiveness of the opening ceremony may console themseWev with the reflection that those who are the entree to-day will see the exhibition before . has attainettits matured beauty. Like these who pay a guinea for the first peach of the season, the holders of season tickets hare paid high for an article which, in a short time, the whole world may have, for less price, of more perfect flavour and beauty. ini • The Queen and Prii Prince and Prince's of William, and the Prince Ealtihition Building in Htr Majt"ty and his Ho; lion. Flora Lieut...Col?nelyratteis 11 tee nerneetriend ef Mr. aides Musa la a thealriennstrCiadier - the ; alathilphreer'llitdead by Id. RAM DMI, Mr. WIWI. Mr. Llotley Ombel* Mr. Peter Oemainglun, Mr. Charles Drilems, Mr. Est, A.K.A., ME Jahn Fainter, Mr. R. ME IMylr Jerrold, Mr. Orrine Knlght, Mr. Mark Imams, Mr. J. Weed and Marston, Mr. Freak Mew, Mr. John Tee n/al. Mr V. W . 14Itare, and others. Partials of the ornery have bees mantra by Mr. Abodes, Mr.ThomeaCtrieve, Mr. Lewis Mighty and Mr. Trlble. The Int reprerelitatlas of the Comedy, arida le entitled, " NOT 10 BAD A$ WE SEEM; or, MANY 1,1018 TO A LIitRACTER,” all the place at DEVONSHIRE MINE, on FRIDAY, Me 11. Were her Majea'y the QUIScla, and bier Royal alchneasthe PRINCE ALBRRT. The Duke of Cumbridi Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Kent Boheillohe LangenbourA of l'russia yesterday at It The Duchess of Orlet yesterday morning. Prince Henry of the IS Princess of l'russia yeah: The Duke of We[lima Of Prussia yesterday at lit The Prince and Prim Prince Frederick Wilßac 'visits yesterday afternoon rence-house, St. Junes's, at Gloucester-house:. Ladaan Oentlesen vrnating tickets for the perlainnanto atDe vondure Houas—price t ire Pounds rob : this inta bring regarded as a contribution in ice , port d the design—yin, on a mitten application to bin Grace the Dolma Devonitire, a: Devonshire Howie, receive a voucitor for dui mate, eacbangeab eat air. illtabell's Library, 33, all Bonelnlriv t._ . _ . Proepecieaea;4 the cabers, can be in on application at the Ofßee or the Maid, Wellington Chamber., to. Lancaeter-ptant, Watel kn. brldse ; of Mr. Mit bell, 33, Old Bond-street; Meows. Pam, 27, (Ad flostratrect ; Mr. Houlihan), 13, Old Bond-street; sod Mr. Sam, I, rit.Ja eehattiret. WILLIAM HENRY WILLS, Honorary Secretary. NOOSE OF COMMONS.—WZDNESDAT, APRIL 30. The Semetzis took the chair o'clock. The following bile were read •• 12 third time and passed : Derby . end Ashborne Road Dill, Duffield and Sheffield Turnpike Road Bill, Regent** Canal Company Bill. ADJOULINXILYT OF TIIE HOUSE FOlt THE EXHIBITION. Lewd J. RUSSELL mired that the house, at its rising, abould adjourn till 6 o'clock on the following day. The made lord said he thought it would be convenient fur mem bers who might wish to attend the Exhibition on the fol lowing day, tithe house did not meet till 6, and no practi. eel ineouvenienee would result from that arrangement. Sir R. INGLIS said the reason advanced by the noble lord would apply to an adjournment fur a longer period. He Wok it for granted that his noble friend proposed that they should not meet till six, in order that he, all the other members of her Majesty's Privy Council, all the great lords of state, and all persons who had taken mama tickets, might be enabled to attend the approaching ceremonial ; but that was an equally good reason for a longer adjourn ment. He begged, therefore, to more that the house should adjourn till k ridgy!. Mr. F. IIAULE said the general committee on elections had appointed the following day for swearing in the mem bers of the Harwich committee, and he feared that if they were not sworn between via and seven on that day, the inquiry would, according to the act of parliament, fall to the ground. Mr. BANICES believed the next meeting of the house would enable the hotre to satisfy the provisions of the act. He should certainly support the amendment. Lord J. RUSSELL said he could, himself, very well attend the house at four o'clock. it was rather on account of other members of the house, who might not be able to get away so soon, that he proposed that they should meet two hours later. The Exhibition would not be open after seven o'clock, and, therefore, there could he no reason why the house should not meet. The objection to the house not sitting was, that Thursday was one of the days which the house had agreed should he an order day, andd if that day were lost, the business of the session would, of course, be delayed. There might be orders of the day on the paper which were not agreeable to his bon. friend the member for the University of Oxford—(laughter)— but, if the house did not meet, they would time on at some future time. (Hear, hear.) Mr. TRELAWNY could not consent to the adjournment el Friday, because on 'thursday he proposed to nominate the church-rate committee. Aftera few words from Sir It. IsoLte, The howl° divided— For the motion AgainA it Majority for Lord J. RowWe motion HIGHWAYS. In reply to a questioninlm S;II..TYLER, Mr. C. LEWIS Raid a bill relating to highways, which would include South Willi., as well as the rest of the king dom, had been prepared by the government ; but, as he Raw little prospect of sumers in the present state of public business, and considering how little encouragement such bills had hitherto met with, it was not his intention to introduce• it in the present session. It would be for the house to decide whether the case of South Wales should be trcatud as exceptional. ST. ALBANS' ELECTION. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that an humble address ho presented to her Majesty, praying that she would he graciously pleased immediately to tone her royal proclama tion, otforing such a reward as her Majesty should think proper 14 discovering, appreto nilimt, and dettining George ICorgett, John Ileywartl, James Skeggs, and Thomas Bircham.. Mr. HANK MS ft-gondol the motion. He hoped the chairman of the:committee would explain why the committee had not availed itself of the 1101,014 of an net, introduced by the no b le lord, entitled "An art for the better di.coverieff and prevention of bribery and treating at the election of members of parliament." That art, he was informed, had never yet been put in bare, but its provixions were pre cisely applicable to the ease before them. The second Ber ton was at follows And lie A enacted that if any com mittee, nomin ited to try an election petition. shall recom mend that further inquiry :old investigation should be mule reitarding brihery at curb diction, in that ease the tipeaker dull nominate an agent to prosecute the investi gation into th" matter of the said bribery, and the said emninitb within fourteen days from the time of their bovine in tile their report on the election petition, re assemble, and shall inquire unit ascertain whether bribery was or was not prartiwil at the said election, and to what ex tent, and shall specially report to the liou.e all such matters re lating to the said bribery, and the parties implicated or con e, rnml therein, as to such committee ,hall seem expedient." The act I 114.• well framed for it. oly et, and he regretted that the committee h.ul not direelr lattention to it in making their report. He (Mr. Hanker) thought the hest medium of investigation would be a einunsiwion composed of mem bers of that home. Mr. K. ELLICE, jun., said the motion before the house had refereniv to a proclamation tor the apron pension of certain persons who hail invaded the ruku of the house, and to that motion t b hon. and learned member's remarks did not ap pear to lieu to apply. As the chairman of the committee it would la. los duty to ask tin: house to sanction a resolution, and in donut .0 he would state the ground. on which they Led rot,kd as they had done. (Hear, hear.) The Stll.lelToll-(IEN Mitt. said that he could under stand the Oh. :rvation. of the hon. member for Dorsetshire, if rt hail been alleged that th.• defaulting witnesses had been kept out of the way by the sitting member, hut nothing of the kiwi eras stated, and under these circumstances, he did • not think that the eommittee could have pursued any other course than that which they had taken. With reganl to the other point that this was a case for a spreial report, and for brinaing into effect the art of the sth and 6th of Viet., e. 102, * hie h lead been intnehared by his noble friend, that sourly nii_ilit Live brea followed, if the committee hall re ported that any portion ,of the totem had been corrupt. But they stated that there was general bribery ; and, under 61,e etwunevances, the issuing of a commiwion as proposed by the committee, would be more elliewious, than a pmpo- St ion fora further inquiry, for any recommendation proceed ing from the to •roivr woulei lee far more likely to obtain the con sent of lei:le ionises of parliament than if it conk from a euen• mitt.•.. of that house aloe,•. Iketiale., there was a doubt as to whether the committee was a sitting committee at the time, and it would neeessary to determine that fart if th • course piloted out by the hon. gentleman was followed, whereas there was no eloolet at all if the other course, of Truing e • nwmission, was followed. Mr. J. SMART did not think the hon. and learned flobettor.lieueral had been very sucressful iu defending the einduct of the committee. Ile did not think the corn mitt, could hare ("Howie! a course which wan more likely to screen who hail been guilty of bribery than that which they bail taken. The hon. and learned gentleman said that it lid not appear that the sitting member was charged with keeping back the witnews. But it appeared on the minutes of the committee that the counsel for the petitioner had charged the agent of the sitting member with bring the cause of the alssawe of the witnesses. lle had further statist that he was prepared to prose the question of agency; but the committee bad not thought it right to inquire into that. If that were on, the recommendations of a committee that had acted with on much neglect, and caused notice to he haled, were, in his opinion, entitled to little consideration us to the issuing of a commission, or any other tussle of I.TlPMegling whirl. they might suggest. Mr. ELLIS said that hr would not lie induced by what the him. and learned gentleman had Said, to detain the house by goin; over the wholo of these prneeedings again. Mr. II UME said that they were not now trying the con duct of the isimmittee, but he did not think it seemly on the part of the members of that house to be condemning their own tribunal*. (Hear, hear.) . , Lord J. III:SSELL said he thought it would have been better if the hun. gentleman (Mr. Ilankes) hail deferred his remarks till the hon. gentleman, the chairman of the com mittee, hail muted for the commission. It might be a sub ject for inquiry why the committee had nut made use of the powers of the act which he had the honour of intro ductal; ; but he thought the better course would be to issue a eontinission. Ile had intneluced a bill (or the lim ing of commidonse subeequeutly to the passing of the act referred to, but owing to the lateness of the session it did not pass the other house of parliament. He hoped, how ever, that some more general power than existed at present would lie given for the issuing of commissions; for an in quiry by commission would carry greater weight and would be looked upon as more important than an inquiry con ducted by some measliers of ono of the houses of parliament. With regard to this particular ewe, it was enough that great doubt had been thrown on the regularity of the proceedings of the committee, in eon...quince of their frequent adjournments. It was no "newer to that to say that the committee had made a report, and that they considered themselves a committee, beiause the question of their competence had not been raised by counsel on either aide. Ile thought that the existence of that doubt was sufficient to justify the recommendation of the committee to proceed by commission. With regard to the observation of the hon. member for Montrose, who complained that the time of the house was taken up with narrow questions of this kind, whilst he had hirasellf raised the gen, ral question of parliamentary reform—(laughter) —he had only one observation to make. The hon. gentle man seemed to think that the whole of these complaints of bribery arose from the limited number of electors, and that if each constituency was mined to 1,000 or—what he said would be still better—to 2,000 electors, it would offer a complete guarantee against anything like bribery. Ile (Lord J. Huseell) owned that his experience did not lead him to the same coneluelon. (.. Hear," and laughter.) He thought he heard a good deal with respect to towns with large constituencies, such as Norwich and Nottingham, which showed that it wasnot enough to have a constituency amounting to 1,000 or even 2,000 electors to guard a bribery. (Hear, hear.) He th oug ht b e h eard somethfralnga: the same kind with respect to other towns with still Lager etlastitueneies (" Hear, hear," and cries of" Dnblin.") The increasing of the number of the constituents tol,ooo, there- fore, would not neuniarily prevent bribery. (Hear, hear.) On the other hand, there were examples of boroughs with small eonstitatestie• with veep* to which he lad heard no complaint of balmy. (Hear, bear.) We. weld wish le hum the arms of those m e i = wish men hem) whisk the =Me la. (Herz, hem) llfbee be eseleaded fur wee, leser ebb liz em eseedeeermlee Hue wee leer efle dee le where Ike euseetseeey ; ertireall=tee4 .4.a bis lave leer euereiteteeies and the k weld he Se wet ego tuAl way ef_perol4 ea sad to E wa. . W. ,11$ wad it was asterlaue that the voters is n=eed erehl be beeshe and esY as readily as dam is ma Set web Seams wee se seem* LIAMS, The motion wee weed to, and the house resumed. ADMISSION OF EXHIBITORS TO THE EXHIBITION. Mr. HIJIE wished to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, by the rule established by the commis sioners, all British and foreign exhibitors were to be ad mitted at the epening, free of charge, to attend; or, if not, what line had been drawn amongst the exhibitors ? A pe tition had been presented to her Majc-sty on this subject, but it seemed that some doubt had arisen as to whether that petition had ever reached her Majesty. Ile hopedthe right hon. gentleman would give a satisfactory answer on these points. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the petition to her Majesty was transmitted to the right hon. the Secretary of State (Sir G. Grey), and it was by command of her Majesty referred to the royal commissioners for conducting the Ex. hibition. The question to which his hon. friend adverted related to the gratuitous admission, without any limita tion, of all the exhibitors to the Exhibition at all times and on all occasions. That question was most maturely consi dered by the royal commissioners; and,with every desire on their part to deal in the most liberal manner towards those who had contributed by the exhibition of their goods to the splendour and success of the Exhibition, they came to the unanimous opinion that it was impossible consistently with the objects which thelithibition was intended to promote to allow such gratuitous and unlimited admission. (Hear, hear.) When he stated that the number of exhibitors amounted to 15,000, he thought tho house would at once perceive that it was quite Impossible—(hear, hear)—consistently with the object of the Exhibition, to give them at all times, and on all occasions, admission to it. (Hear, hear.) He believed that between 000 and 700 exhibitors had taken season tickets, who would, of course, be admitted at all times; and arrangements had been made to enable those exhibitors who had contributed articles of great number, or value, to be prevent to look after their good. But beyond this it was found impossible to go. (Hear, hear.) He be lieved that 20,000 season tickets had been issued; and, ca paCiOUß as was the building, it had its limits. He begged leave, also, to call attention to the fart, that, though they were mainly indebted to the exhibitors, there were others who contributed their money and devoted their time in local committees and otherwise to promote the objects of the Exhibition; and it was felt by the com missioners that the only way they could deal with the sub ject was that no persons should be admitted who did not pay. (Hear, hear.) None of the royal commissioners themselves would be admitted without purchasing a ticket, and they felt that they could not act otherwise than they had done. He had reason to know that it was the inten tion of her Majesty on one of these Saturday mornings on which the general public would be necessarily excluded, in order to the cleansing and arranging the building, to visit the Exhibition for the purpose of more minutely inspecting the articles in the Exhibitiou, than she could do oa the occasion of a mute visit, and on that occasion the exhibitors would be admitted, and would have the gratification of showing to her Majesty any object which she might desire more particularly to view. lle hoped this would be satis factory to them, and he trusted that the house and public generally would feel that the royal commissioners acted with the single object of doing justice to all parties, and promoting the objects of the Exhibition. (Hear, hear.) PROVISIONS FOR THE NAVY. Colonel CHATTEItTON wished to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, when be proposed to lay on the table the statement of the unaccounted for balance of 495,0411., voted for the supply of provisions for the navy in 1850-61, and which he pmmised should h, done three weeks ago. Sir F. T. BAILING said it was a mistake to suppose that there was any balance unaccounted fur, but the account to which the hon. and gallant gentleman referred was under consideration, and it would take some time before it could be ready. HIGHWAYS (SOUTH WALES) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Dr. NICHOLL moved an instruction to the committee to give power to extend the provisions of the bill to England ; which, after some debate, he withdrew. Sir 0. TYLER then moved that the bill be committed that day six months. The hill was supported by Lord Emlyn, who had intro duced it, also by Mr. C. Lewis, who was favourable to its principle, which was discussed by Mr. Morris, Mr. J. Vivian, and Mr. Ilieleints, and, the amendment !wino ne gatived, the 1101.11 C went into committee upon the bill, the clauses of which were agreed to with amendments. LODGING-HOUSES BILL. This ball was read a second time without observation. FARM-BUILDINGS BILL. Mr. A. B. COCHRANE, in moving the second reading of this bill, explained that its object was to enable land owners to raise money to carry nut the works authorised by the Drainage Act. At present their only mode of raising money tor the purpose was by Life assurance, a mode which was both expensive and uncertain. If the bill went to the committee, he would insert a clause disabling persons who hail taken advantage of the recent act from receiving any advantage from the present. Mr. TRELAWNY considered that they would be run ning a great risk in passing a bill like the present. A man might have made an indiscreet mid ruinous contract for im provements, and this was a bill which would enable him in such a ease to confiscate his whole property. If they wanted to relieve these entailed estates their best course would be to apply to the Court of Chancery. Mr. MILLINGS also opmeved the bill. Mr. HU NIE looked upon the bill as one of those measures which would enable a thriftless and improvident man to leave all the hurthen colevequont on extravagant improve ments on his succesair. Ile wished to know whether its effmt would be to enable berrowen to evade the stamp du ties. If en, he thought the boon should also be extended to manufacturers. Mr. W. MILES pointed out many defecbi in the details of the hill, and expressed his intention of opposing it. After a few word, from Mr. COLUILANE, The house divided— For the second reading Against it SUNDAY TRADING BILL. On the mice for the committee on this bill being read, Mr. ANSTEY moved that the bill he committed that day six months. Ile considered that the measure was an offspring of fanaticism, and would enable the wealthy tradesmen to crush their poorer rivals. There were in it many invidious exceptions in favour of certain trade and articles, and a despotic power was assigned to the police, who might summarily seize the property of itinerant vendors of perishable cotamodities, which before a magistrate could order their restoration would become valueless. In many districts of London the measure was unnecessary ; and iu inhere, inhabited by large numbers of Jews, it would be most tyrannical. Mr. B. WALL also opposed the bill, objecting seriously to its details, and wishing to make it, under an improved form, a general instead of a local and metropolitan measure. Some further discussion resulted in the debate being ad journed for a fortnight. CORONERS' BILL. The second reading oh this bill was postponed fora week. M.tNORIAL RIGHTS. Mr. Mt LLINGS obtained leave to bring in a bill to extend the acts for the commutation of manorial rights, for the extinguishment of heriuts and reliefs, and of rights of lords of manors to timber and trees on lands parcel of any manor, and fur the gradual enfranchisement of lands of copyloAd or customary tenure ; and also for extinguishing free rents, reliefs, duties, and services payable or to he per formed iu respect of freehold lands parcel of any manor. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-Nat five o'clock. INTF.RE•qiNG Ai and Wednesday a collection of autograph letters was' brought to the hammer by Messrs. Puttick and Simplon, of Piccadilly. The collection seemed to have been formed without much attention to completeness in any depart ment; but, nevertheless, included some estimable yeo men*. as the following brief notice will show :-Lot 68. A letter of Robert Burns to Mrs. blaclehoee, signed " Syl ',ander," sold fur 3/. 10s. Lot 59. A letter of Lord Byron, written three days after the death of his natural daughter, " Allegro," and with reference to that event, sold for 31. ' Some short letters of Charles I. and 11., but good Sp:6IIICW of their autographs, averaged about 21.55. each. Lot 80. The publication of peace, commonly called the " Treaty of Breda," signed by the representatives of the British nation and the States-General, sold fur 51. 10s. Lot 111. An autograph of Archbishop Creamer sold for 31. 10s. Lot 112. A signature of Oliver Cromwell sold for 21. 71. 6d. Lot 119. A wardrobe warrant, signed by Edward VI., but not a very desirable specimen, sold for 6/. 10s. Lot 125. A letter of Queen Elisabeth, from 14 Web it would appear that she had invited Henry_lV. of France to pay her a visit, was not dear at 6/. 12s. Sid. Lot 138. A letter of the famous warrior Alexander Fames', sold for 3/. ls. Lot 202. A letter of Henry Carey, Lord Huns don, cousin•german to Queen Elisabeth, sold for 21. 65., and a short letter of James 11., Lot 210, for the same sum. Lot 238. Physiognomical rules, with pen sketches by the celebrated Lasater, sold for 9/. 10s. Lot 283. Signature of " bloody " Mary, although damaged, produced 41. Bs, Lot 281. A letter of 3lary Queen of Scots, sold for 41. 14s. Lot 329. A fragment of a letter of Nelson, but containing some characteristic passages, sold for 2/. 12s. Lot 310. An official letter signed by Queen Catherine Parr, an autograph of great rarity, sold for 101. .10s. Lot 373. A diplomatic letter of Rubens, the painter, sold for 61. Lot MO. A capital letter of Percy Bysshe Shelley sold for 21. Bs. Lot 400. A letter of the great Tumuli sold f r I/. 19s. Lot 423. A letter of the Duke of Welling ton, in which he says, "The fact is, that no individual ma do all that is required of the Duke of Wellington," pro timed 7s. Several autographs of William 111. ranged from lis. to 14s. each. Lot 446. A bill of household ex ; poet! signed by Cardinal Wolsey, sad also bearing other rare signatures, sold for 81. 12s. At the conclusion of the !pals the auctiooper made an announcement that will be re peamid with interest by uuftraph collectors, namely that in akw weeks will be W.wed for sale the important collec tion of Mons. Donnadien. This collection is well known both here and on the continent. In addition to auto- Laof the highest rarity in every clam, it contains the t. Upeott s collection of English royal autographs. the entregifs. TO COIL ILESPON DENTS. ♦ Sealed Edition .f •• the Esprees,' watelolog he Name excialng's Gazette," is published every Two., en Friday sight, In Woe for pat. Aclrerttermeateistended for "The Express," loadoe &Wag piper, moat be •: the drtice, 10, Bouverte•etreet, by Two o'clock en the dry of pub:hallos. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tots D•r—horning, OIL Is Afternoon, 2k. 24u. Timioaaow—Moriong, 21.41. n. Afternoon, 11.59 a. LONDON, TIIURSDA 7', MAY 1. OLD fashions arc coming in again. To-day all London goes a-Maying, and the Queen of ENGLAND herself is to be the Queer. of May. Metropolitan antiquaries dwell with delight on the memory of times when the fresh milkmaids of London used to bring in the May ; the fairest being chosen Queen, and the goldsmiths of Cheap lending their richest plate, to give lustre to her procession. To-day our true-born QUEEN, seated on her dais, amid all that is rich and rare, in the Crystal Palace, will blend the prestige of regal state and modern intellectual power with these simple holiday reminiscences of our olden time. And never did mere mortal QUEEN, whether of a month or a kingdom, sit in a more truly regal palace. It realises the most venturous combinations of a poet's dream. The delicate tracery of the crystalline structure—trees within and trees without, and the blue sky over all—is the very fairy fret-work that Oberon and his elves might be supposed to rear; and the treasures that till it are such as the gnomes might be supposed to have elaborated from their earthy recesses, and the salamanders to have fused into forms of life and beauty in their glowing clement.; We are not insensible to the alloy that mingles with all this fair appearance. In the great drama of life, as in that of SUAKSPEARE, the grotesque is in dissolubly associated with earnest power and beauty. The cynical and sarcastical may, we admit, find in the history of the Exhibition an under-current wherein to indulge their morose disposition. To us it appears wiser to laugh at it—to recognise it as a foil enhancing what is good and pleasant by force of contrast. It need not be denied chat in the progress of the Exhibition towards completeness there has been ample play of vanity, humnug, pre tension, and that quarrelsome disposition which enables some men to convert even holidays into a source of bitterness. What with wrauglings for prominence, and recriminations among inventors accusing each other of piracy, the managers have had uo sinecure of it, and have doubtless often sighed " the post of comfort is a private station." And doubtless many articles have obtruded them selve into the Exhibition, which by no latitude of language can be called either useful or ornamental; which, if they are to be recognised as products of industry, must be so as the products of an industry akin to that of the industrious lieu. But after all has been said that the most morose and satirical can say—in biting jest or bitter earnest— what materials for strengthening and elevating thought does that Exhibition present! The crowded aisles devoted to the podacts of Bri tish industry are chiefly remarkable as bearing testi mony to the extensive power over raw material, the perfection of mechanical resources, and the exquisite neatness of tueelianical finish, to which the manufacturers of this country have at- Wined. In these qualities the industrials of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany can scarcely be said to be second to our own. In the Exhibition no dis tinction can be noted between them, though in the markets of the world the colossal development of England might make the others appear of lesser sta ture. But we frankly confess that, in respect of high artistic feeling, the department of thu building as signed to our continental neighbours is more im pressive, more pleasing than that in which our in digenous products arc displayed. The American dejrartment, bearing in mind the extremely thin skins of our transatlantic cousins, is a delicate topic. The wide-spread wings of the eagle of the United States dominate over a space so thinly winkled with articles as to remind the spectator of the republic's struggling population, half hid among primeval forests, or half lust upon seemingly bound less prairies. The objects most worthy of note in this portion of the building will be found to be the various specimens of carriages, life-boats, sub-soil sad other ploughs, axes and other implements, which all who contemplate emigration to our colonies will do well to study. These are the products of a land yet in the process of being reclaimed front the waste —they have been adapted by a people of rare acute ness and inventiveness to the actual need of a state of society such as our intending emigrants arc about to plunge into. The —. contributions from Egypt, Turkey, Tunis, and China carry the imagination back to the " Arabian Nights." fhe arrangement of the compartments in which they are exhibited, and the proximity of the fountains and palm-trees, enhance the illusion. The spectator fancies himself wandering, for the moment, in the bazaar of some eastern city in the days of ILAROUN AL RASCIIID. Still, the building itself remains the crowning and unapprmiched wonder of the whole imposing spec tacle. Exquisitely proportioned, it is only when attention is directed to the contrast between its expanse ana the proportions of tho crowd that throngs it that its immense extent is realised to the sense. Transparent—its solid mate rials' seemingly, of extreme tenuity—the mass of ma terials and the throng of living beings that crowd it, vouch for its solid strength. Wonder and admira tion reach their height, when we reflect that it is but yesterday when tho spot on which it has been reared was an expanse of green turf. Fabricated in the foundries and glass houses of the north, its ma terials have been framed into a whole with an almost noiseless celerity that reminds one of the gorgeous Pandemonium of a more gloomy re gion, exhaling into form amid the music of Mammon's brigades. It is not easy to decide whether the country has most reason to be pond of the fine taste and inventive genius of Mr. PAXTON, who conceived the structure, or of the powers of practical combination, of wielding immense resources, of Metiers. Fox and HENDERSON, who have realised his conception. At the moment of inaugurating such a monument, our sovereign cannot but teal that she is "every inch a Queen." What is the despotic power of the lord of myriads of uncivilised and semi-civilised tribes, com pared with the consciousness of being the beloved the legitimate centre of action and organ of the wills of a nation which can attract the concur ring, efforts of so many peoples, to rear this trophy in a playful rather than an earnest mood? For, after all, the erection and filling of the Crystal Palace has been more a matter of holiday sport than serious twines.. Earnest and elevated aspirations have mingled with the task, but at bottom it remains a work of "If-complacent display. Our best thanks are due to those who originally conceived, and who have carried into effect, so pleas ing a spectacle. They. will reflect upon their work with more unalloyed satisfaction hereafter than at present, when they are jaded with their exertions and chafed with petty asperities. And grumbler; about minor defects will also forget their present annoyances, real or imaginary, when they look back hereafter upon this proud display As the disappointed delegates rolled homewards on Tuesday last from Drury-lane, they gave vent to the intensity of their feelings in a strange variety of phrase, but with a marvellous unanimity of senti ment. They felt in truth as men generally feel who suspect that they have been done. It is a very un pleasant sensation—makes one exceedingly out of humour with himself, and sadly out of patience with the wickedness of the world. The farmers were in this distressing frame of mind as they journeyed back to their respective dwelling-places from the grand conjuring exhibition. They had been led to believe that they would then and there see the sword of free-trade swallowed whole by one or other of the grand conjurors. But, though the formidable weapon seemed to be suspended over the heads of those present, no attempt at the achieve- I ment was made, flir neither of the principal jugglers appeared. The trick they came to witness was not performed, and the only trick performed instead was that whereof they themselves were made the subject. rd STANLF.Y and his versatile lieutenant begin to take airs of office on them, and must not be cum mitted. Nothing . decided or plain in speech is suit able to their interesting condition. They are in a certain way, and they would have it understood that their time is near. They must not be rudely or familiarly questioned. It might lead to a miscarriage, and the long travail of their political souls end in disappointment. Therefore they keep at home, or only appear in select assemblies at Westminster and elsewhere. The often-cheated agriculturists have a horrible mis giving that the whole affair is but a repetition of the hoax of 1841. Ten years ago, just about this season, they remember how they were similarly led to an ticipate with exultation the advent of the same land lord party to power, that now gives three cheers for itself, and asks the unhappy farmers to re echo the hollow cry. What came of that me morable change, we know. The cabinet of 1841, of which Lord STANLEY was a conspicuous mem ber, were hardly seated, when they began to draw the bolts, and take off the hinges of that boasted protection which it is now pretended the purchase of a few corrupt boroughs at the next general election would enable a recalled tory admi nistration to restore. Yet, at the very moment when. if ever, it is most necessary to create some feeling of confidence in their followers, the leaders, conscience- stricken, avoid interrogation or face-to-face meeting with the deluded crowd, and hope to battle all inquiry as to their real views and intentions, by sending his Grace of HieitmoNn, Lord WiNclimsr..t, and some half-dozen squires of small degree who wish to get into parliament on illiberal principles, to make flash speeches in their stead. This is not what the specimens of distressed farming came to town per rail to hear and see : very much disappointed the said simple-minded specimens have a right to be, and sorely chagrined they are. Have they not been told times without number that opinion was changing so rapidly under the llts- I RAF.LITE treatment that protection was growing downright popular in the towns? Yet heard they not the ducal chairman of Tuesday's meeting lament that the labouring classes had unhappily got a pre judice into their heads in favour of a Ng loaf; but that they must be taught to know the difference? Were they not assured again and again that Catholic Ireland was coming to be of one mind on the matter of deur food with Protestant England ; yet heard they not the wise Earl of WINCIIILSEt proclaim that the root of all their miseries and mis fortunes was the granting in 1829 of catholic eman cipation, and that the true hope of the country lay in undoing all that the great apostate PEEL had ever done ? What arc the occupiers of highly-rented land to think, when, instead of a good rattling price for wheat in future, which they have been assured par liament could ensure them if it pleased, they find themselves put off with vague promises of gradual adaptations and moderate ameliorations, which may hereafter be interpreted to signify anything or nothing ? In point of fact, there is a double dodge in all this shuffling and evasion. The alarm of the industrious classes is to be lulled, it is hoped, by the absence of the chiefs of the re-actionists, while the exit/cant temper of the tenant-tools is kept meek and lowly. ply this species of manreurring the would-be tore ministers hope to keep themselves unfettered, until some lucky chance flings the reins into their grasp. They are, and they are not, that is to say they may be, or they may not be, out-and-out monopolists of food. A good deal, they would fain have it be lieved, must depend on their gains at the hustings. Without a large majority at their back, what c o uld they be expected to do, except try to govern like their predecessors? With a considerable majority, what would they not do to exalt the rent-eating class at the expense of trade and industry ? In this light, the evasive tactics of protectionism may be, after all, regarded as affording all men who are interested in their discomfiture the fairest notice that it lies with the electoral bodies throughout the empire to settle, once and for ever, the audacious question which the landlords would raise. Of the real opinion of the community at large even these men themselves do not pretend to doubt. If they could persuade them selves that the millions wished their success, why complain, as their orators did on Tuesday last, that the freetraders threatened to outnumber them by what was called " swamping the constituencies ?" Yes; this is the complexion to which the struggle must come at lust. Once in legal possession of a household suffrage, the masses of the community need no more trouble themselves watching against I-rat-plods and corn-monopolies. It is the narrowness of the franchise that feeds the anti-popular hopes of selfish cliques and castes. Enlarge the circle of' active citizenship, and the dream of dear bread for the benefit of the landed oligarchy would be at an end. MOVEMENT FOR A SATURDAY HOLIDAY.—On Sa turday evening a number of workmen in the employ of Mr. John Frearmn, hook-and-eye manufacturer and general machinist, of Gas-street, Birmingham, assembled at the house of Mr. H. B. Morris, Bricklayers' Arms, Ann-street, for the purpose of celebrating the initiative in this town of ' a course which has been pursued at Manchester with suc cess, namely, a half-day holiday on the Saturday, and thus enabling the workman and his family to go to market at a convenient hour, without trusting to the not uncommon case of waiting till Sabbath's dawn ere the hour of payment. It was stated that in Manchester the system had been tried and with good effect—a result which it is to be hoped will not be less gratifying in Birmingham. Mr. Edward Jones, the foreman of the works, was called to the chair, the vice- chair being ably filled by Mr. Roberts. The intelligence displayed in the remarks of the workmen present showed that the boon they had obtained would not be made bail use of ; and that they duly appreciated it was shown by the hearty welcome they gave to their employer, who, in kindly I feeling, visited them in the course of the evening. The holiday, so called, inflicts an injury neitheron the employer nor the employed, as, though they leave work on the turday at an early hour, the workmen make up their week a work by extra tune on other days.—Birminghans Mercury.-- CALENDERERS' STRIKE IN GLASGOW.—Some in convenience has been experienced by merchants and mann faeturen this week, by the strike which has taken place amongst the operative calenderers and Lippert, who, to the number of aboout SOO, have been out since Thursday. Their demand from their employers is, that 58 hours a week, with no over-hours, as in factories, shall be the term of labour, viz., 10 hours a day, or from six in the morning tiff six at night, with two hours for meals, and till three o'clock on Saturday. In the associated body there are nearly 1,000 men and boys, of whom about 800 have taken part in the movement ; and although the funds of the union are but small, some support has been offered by other trades, and also by the association of tappers in Manchester, who ham had a delegate is attendance at the several meeting* daring the week. A few of the manufacturing houses employing such hands have acceded to the demand made, but gene rally the feeling of tho masters is suite hostile to the move ment, both in its spirit and intention ; while the arrogant manner in which the thing has been put forward by its pro moters has been ouch as to repel all sympathy with the ob ject they have in view. It might have been expected at this late day that a body which includes so many respect able and intelligent m en wou ld h ave appr eciated, without setual,mperience, the fully of combinations and strikes for purposes so trivial as in this instance. Very few Medal, indeed, exist in this community in which equal rensunera 'Sonnies be obtained for the simple week rosining in this.— Citizen.—We learn that some of the Masters contemplate the training of females to the employments of calendering and cloth-lapping.—Constindiona . 7 : FRANCE. • PAltISb WEDNRSDAT EVENING. Yde , will tee, :by a fresh document which I send to-day; which is also entitled 10th bulletin, and signed by &es Central Committee of Resistance, that the in cendiary manifesto which I mentioned yesterday is a spurious imitation of the former, disseminated as if with the purpose of throwing confusion among the red republicans, and producing a partial and immediate rincute. The source is still covered with mystery, although the inference from internal evidence, which attributes the proclamation to ayens prororateura is, to say the least, plausible. The new bulletin of the Central Committee, on the other hand, bears on its face sufficient evidence of genuineness, in the fact of its postponing all outbreak for another year, although the language is equally coarse and sanguinary. file appearance of all these manifestos on the eve of the 4th May has rather flustered the crowds of visitors who arc assembled in the French capital for the sake of pleasure and diversion ; but there is little danger of any present outbreak. In fact, the great danger lies in that close and intelligent organisation of the socialists which enables them immediately to distinguish a false alarm from a true one; and the double dissemination of the genuine 10th bulletin, and of the manifesto of M. Michel de Bourges and his compeers in the Assembly, will no doubt be a sufficient antidote to the savage war-cry calling on the people to rise without delay. The affair of Jerome Bonaparte's arrears i s be coming very serious, and may occasion the fall of, the cabinet. Dr. Vcron announces this morning that the ministers told M. l'aasy yesterday that they should stick to their demand for the 210,00(1 francs. This will form the subject of deliberation of a cabinet council held this morning ; after which Gene ral Itindon, the Minister of War, and M. Achille Fould, the Minister of Finance, will be heard before the committees of supplementary credits. An address to the people, signed by Madier de Monjau and the other extreme members of the Mountain, is published by the Errnement to counter ' act the effects of seditious proclamations. More than 2,000 copies of the manifesto of which I spoke yesterday have been seized in the faubourgs ; and seventeen persons connected with its propaga tion have been arrested. The same measures have been taken at Lyons, where the manifesto has been widely distributed. The sitting of the Assembly to-day was entirely devoid of interest. A fourth ballot for the Council lor of State proved as ineffectual as the three pre ceding, and the next ballot has been adjourned until Monday. The debate on the Sugar Bill was again adjourned. The second reading of the National Guard Bill was also adjourned. The bill on the police of roidage passed the second reading. M. Vatimesnil has been appoiuted reporter on the Municipal Bill. The Assembly arrived yesterday at only one vote on the sugar question. It was decided that the re fineries, which have been hitherto exempt from the control of the excise, should be subject thereto, as well as the manufactories of beet-root sugar. M. Moulin has given notice of tho following motion : The propositions relative to the revision of the constitu tion, which may be presented to the As‘embly during the last year of the legislature, conformably to art. lit of the constitution, shall not be referred to the monthly commit tees of parliamentary initiative. They shall be submitted to a special committs.e of fifteen members elected in a gene rd assembly, and by an absolute majority of votes eight days after the presentation uf the first proposition. M. Morin (dc la Driime) has presented the follow ing motion on the same subject : Propositions tending to obtain the revision of the consti tution are excepted from the preseriptioni eqablished by the 78th Art. of the mg:rotations of the Assembly, and may be again presented atter the delay of • month, whether they have been rejected or no at the first vote. The provision referred to in the regulations prohibits a rejected motion from being renewed before Ow ex piration of six months. The committee on the Avignon Railway heard yesterday M. Ferrere, who, acting in the name of English capitalists, and representing the company Read and Read, demands to be charged with the construction of the line from Clulons to Avignon, and M. ltoussclet, who proposes to work the line. Vim) was condemned to death to-day, without atte nuating circumstances, for the murder of M. Desfon taines. The Fives fell 90 centimes ; the Threes, GS. The Unirers publishes a letter from Marshal Bu geaud to M. Louis Vcuillot, dated ith March, 1848, which discusses with sound common sense the ques tion as to the duty and means of a government in aiding labour. This was about the time when the provisional government had plunged into the fatal scheme of the ateliers-nationaus. I informed you yesterday of the arrival of M. do Fallow( at Angers. You will see that Angers does not lie in the way to Paris from Orleans, through which city the legitimist ex-minister came to Nice; and hence gather that M. de Falloux is neither the bearer of anv urgent message from Venice, nor looking forwai:d to a place in the cabinet of Louis Napoleon. I have, from the first appearance of the announcement in the i'ittric to this effect, continued to assure yon that there existed no foundation what ever for such a belief; and so far my intelligence has been confirmed by the increasing ulienation of the legitimist organs front the cause of Louis Na poleon. The moderate legitimists affirm that no positive instructions have emanated from Venice, either in favour of or against the renewal of the President's powers. However this may be, it is certain that the whole party look forward sanguinely to the results of the active efforts at present making throughout the departments to produce before 1552 what they may decide on hailing as a national call for the re storation of the legitimate monarchy. Those efforts are making side by side with the attempts of the lionapartimts to procure a prolongation of the l'resi dent's powers ; but a fusion of these two parties could only be produced by one of those violent social convulsions which, as earthquakes, throw into one channel parted rivers, enforce, under the imminence of incalculable anarchy, union between parties divided I merely by an outward badge, and by no vital dis agreement as to the buses of government. In the meanwhile, it may be seen hy the manifesto of the 2u' members of the peak of the Mountain, no less than by the proclamation from the central committee in', London that the socialists will wait to be attacked in their trenches, or at least until the moment comes for re-electing the Assembly. M. de Falloux is going from Angers to Bourg d'lze, where he spends some time to recruit himself from the fatigues of his voyage before venturing to Paris. He is expected then to re-appear in the Assembly, and to take a part in the debates on the subject of revision. It is rare enough to find a picturesque expression in the languid and misty columns of M. Guizot's organ, the AssembFe Nationale : nor indeed on this' account do I quote the following sentence, but to show the light in which the men of fusion regard the prolongation of the President's powers : "The republic, supposing it to last, will either fall again into the hands of the republicans, who will precipi tate France into socialism; or it will remain, as to-day, in trust, like an abbey in lay hands, in a bastard condition, a system of expedients, without rule, without truth, a provisional state scarcely toler able, whence the virile conditions which constitute a free country cannot possibly issue." The report of the committee charged to examine the different bills and propositions relative to mort ! gage reform, and the establishment of cthlit fancier, was yesterday presented to the Assembly. ! The following is the Bonapartist model petition: Representatives—The month of May, 1852, is still distant from us, and already the redoubtable proof to which the constitution of 1848 has condemned France at that epoch, inspires legitimate and universal alarm. The vices of this constitution have been so demonstrated by the experience the country has hod of it for two years, and by the difficul ties it prepares for the future that it would be superfluous to point them out to you. If the first duty of citizens is to obey the constitution so long as it exists, their right, which it has moreover itself consecrated, is to demand its revision. 'Justly alarmed, by the prospect of the simultaneous election of 1852 of the legislative and the executive power; by the weakness that these two powers will sustain during the last two months of their existence.; by the con fidence that the enemies of order loudly yorocloan in the success of their hopes bailing the year [lBl4l as the great moment of the st rugg l e an d tr i ump h ; amused to a still higher degree by tho manifest and pro , grarive falling off of benness, which threatens to deprive a great body of workmen oftbs sources of work ; by the de preciation of realised property, and the pnlffound distress of the agriculturiata ; by that uneertainty of the future which weighs upon and paralyses all, except the bad feelings is creates and encourages • alarmed, finally, by the recollec tion of the cateetrepbess;moral and material, brought on by revolution; by the brutal passions reproduced by emblems, by savage songs, borrowed from the worst days of our his tory, u the programme of the' revolution they usher in, the undersigned demand of you, with the ardent energy inspired by the gravity of the circumstances, to proclaim as soon as possible the desire that the c , nstitution shall ho legally revised. The dangers of the situation are patent, immense, undeniable; all delay, all hesitation to grapple with and resolve this question of revision aggravate and compromise the condition of the labouring classes. Putting a stop to trade is misery for the people, and it is in the ranks of the miserable among the people that anarchy hopes to recruit its ranks. Representatives, you would not wait until the danger is nearer ' that the evil, without tieing accomplished, should perhaps become inevitable. We ore convinced that, animated by sentiments of patriotism, of which you have given so many proofs, you will attend to the desire we respectfully express; it is that of the immense majority of the people. The real 19th bulletin is as follows: To the People—to the Army—(loth Bulletin) —Work men, who are the life-blood of tho country—soldier,, who are its defenders—all you, in fine, who only support the burden of society without reaping any of the advantages it promises you, your sufferings soon shall end! One year more of patience, and you shall be revenged for so much injustice, and the balm of equality shall heal your wounds. Every day that passes brings nearer that of reparation. Your oppressors tremble! They who govern feel the power escaping from their guilty hand+, and feat has taken pos session of all those who take advantage of others. As wild beasts from whom their prey is taken, they exhibit their fury by their cries. They wish to break us all on their bloody ricks, so sweet is it for these spirits, enticed with the sores of ambition, petrified by selfishness, to keep us under their yoke, to drink of our tears, and fatten on the sweat of our brows, that the monsters appear to prefer death to the renunciation of these enjoyments. They will not abandon the ground, he assured, without leaving behind them traces of blood. It is thus that they have always done; they would nut draw back. If the- - .hey are divided Cow it is because each ono of them seeks an exclusive dominion ; the common danger will re unite them against us. We must then expect to have to contend with all the monarchical vermin of the Elysee, of Venice, and of Claremont. They fear too much the national movement of 1842 to go with us to that time; they will pro voke it before. Let us beware. L.•t us hold ourselvesmor• than ever on the qui rive, and wait their coming. They ahmrilly announce an e , xecvde for the 4th May. Don't lot them trouble themselves. The people on that day again will confound them by their calm and republican attitude. Ementes ! our discipline renders them heneefurward im possible. Let us beware of the pretended democratic press. All ttw daily journals now remaining at Paris prepare in advance their treason. Look with what art they endeavour to accustom their readers to the idea of accepting the law of the 31st May, insinuating that in spite of this lilicrticide law we shall be strong enough to triumph! Wait yet • little while, and they will raise the mask, and the condi dateship that your judgment repels with horror will be publicly proclaimed with insolence in their columns. People! You can only rely on yourselves Expect nothing but front your own energy. Soldiers! Prepare to support your brothers. The ardour you exhibit in the league of the oppressed against tyranny is a good presage; your glory will be greater as you have more perils to encounter. The ambitious consider you as th. it instru ments; they would make use of you fur sinister projects; but you are not rile prettorians nor cowardly executioners. Your hearts are the peoples', and your bullets your enemies. —lice la r. , pablique suckle! TILE CENTU.tL COMMITTEE. OP RE4I.TINCE. GERMANY. M. Bismark Schonhausen is to accompany M. Itochow, appointed ambassador to the Diet, to Fmnktiwt, and M. Ikrnstorif is to take M. Ito. chow's place for the few months during which M. Itochow will be absent from the eourt of St. tersburg. Messrs. llenkel and Hornstein have been cequittod by the General auditors• Court at Camel. Their so. quittal, though grounded on motives strictly legal, and very condemnatory of the political principles of the acquitted, has given very great offence to tho Elector and to all the Hassenpaug party. VIENNA, ANITL V. The Minister of Finance has summoned Messrs. Rothschild and Sina to a consultation with respect to the financial situation of the country. The know ledge of this tact has had a very good effect in com mercial circles. lIINII3URG. It is reported that the Austrian anti Prussian governments are about to issue some kind of prohi bition of or remonstrance against the introduction of the new constitution of this ancient free city. LATEST FOREIGN EXCIIANOES. PAIUS. Arm. 30. Pne Motesy. i Bening For Ao i Ilistuxt t. 3 per Cent, 5 per Vent "per Cr , Sew Iwo I i or Cent.. II per Cents EAClaltire on Lood,m 25 5; 1.0 amp. 21 1.74. Be!gion, 5. 1610 IL.. 5, 18.2 Ironton Loan, 11.311 '3 24 Pir2lm , ,ot nto. 79 t 0 Br L , hror, 2,1/0 ".4 .03 3 5i t 1 . 11,3 : 1 5 3 5: PAMIR, Artin. 30.—St. Germuin, 395; Vermillea (right hank., 18175; dam 5(. b.,218), IM 13; 1 . 4n8 884 Ork III• 5 822 Ai Park 012 5 ; Rouen aml 11,trre. 210; M iNelnee and 42142982, 20.; Str,l9Bire vul 8 Ve, 136 ;0, tre, 420: Norther% too; . 5; Curio and 81294090 r, ail 25; (flan and Mame% 272 50; 192.p;e vel F,c any, 19 80; 11.12.2892 n 1 190118.9,2, 39e71. 111:01.[N, Arun. 29.—Voluottry Loan, 10:1. New Loan Four-29a-a-half per Cent., 10'21. Nutiong 8.51; Commerriul Manua Society+ Premium, 12)1. Kruk Slums, 05. VIENNA, Aram 28.—Fire per Cent. Meta!linnet, 9(11 1 ; Your -and-a- Ball per Cent. ditto, till. Bank Shares, 1267. Exchange on London, 13. TRACTARIANISS.—THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS AND Lay INTEILFERENCE.—A correspondence has just closed between the bishop and the Bath Lay Church of England Protestant Defence Association. An address was agreed upon and sent to the bishop, in which they say:— " We, the undersigned lay members of the united church of England and Ireland resident at Bath (constituting a committe for the defence of the protestant faith), sym pathising with many of our brethren in the apprehension excited by the prevalence of certain Romanising principles aid practices which are adverse to the protestantion of the established church, and looking to our bishop for the aid of his counsel, the benefit of his example, and the intluence of his authority, venture to request your lordship to meet the exigency of the case, by i*oing, upon the subject of truth- Autism, as it is termed, such a declaration of your send meets as may serve to allay the anxiety whim, more or kr% is agitating all parts of the diocese. We do not ignore the fart that, upon this matter, an address to your lordship has already been presented, nor do we overlook the circumstance of its entire failure of success; hut, as we are unwilling to suppose that, upon the occasion in question, the rejection not eon& mnation of the address were either of them meant to cast a doubt upon the propriety, or to imply a denial of the right of lay appeal, we do not hesitate respectfully to oiler our petition fur a public ex pression of your lordship's sentiments upon it question at this crisis, of so much importance and of such absorbing interest." To this address, which was signed by between 60 and 70 of the most influential members of the church of England residing in Bath, his lordship returned a bare ac knowledgment of the letter which accompanied the address. W. T. Blair, Esq., the chairman of the association, subse quently addressed another letter to his lordship, iu which, after acknowledging the receipt of the bishop's note, ho says I am requested by our Protestant Delenco Mao ri ttion respectfully to inquire (as your lordship does not refer to our address) if we are to consider your lordship's note as final, or whether we may hope to be favoured with any communication on the subject of the address which I had the honour to transmit to your lordship ?" The bishop, who writes from Brighton, replied:—" Sir —I beg to ac knowledge your letter, which I am compelled to answer by deputy, being entirely disabled from making use of my right hand. It is not my intention to make any publte statement of my views with regard to the subject of the address recently put forth by the Bath Protestant Associa tion ; therefore, I have only to repeat my acknowledgment of your two letters, which I have received from you, es chairman of that committee.—l ani, Sir, your faithful ser vant (Signed) it. BATH AND WELLS." Tilaati:ivuirrt.us' Acs-. —A government bill is at present before parliament to renew and amend the act of 1814, regarding the coalwhippers of the city of London, which will expire at the end of the present session. Under its clauses the Board of Trade and the corporation arc respectively to appoint four persons, who, with the chair man of the shipowners society, are to constitute the commis sion. They are to nominate a registrar at a salary not exceeding 4001. per annum, who is to issue certificates of registration to coalwhippers at a charge not exceeding four peuev—new certificates,i however, not being requisite for persons possessing them under the provisions of former acts. The penalty for misrepresentation on the part of applicants is to be 20s. Persons acting as coalwhippers, without a certificate, are to be liable to a penalty of 21., and a shipmaster employing them, to a penalty of 10/., except they are part of his crew or are dock labourers, or unless the regular coalwhippers shall have demanded a price beyond his tender, and ho can find others to accept wages not exceed ing the sum so demanded. The charge for tackle and implements is fixed at ss. per camo for vessels under 260 tons, and is. 6d. for those of larger burden. All wages and charges are to be paid to sonic person authorised by the commissioners, the men being paid at the otfiet, subject Vs a deduction not exceeding one farthing in each shilling, while any undiv/sible fractions in connexion with such pay ments are to be appropriated, together with all penalties recovered under the act, to fund - for their benefit. The moneys otherwise received arc to discharge the expenses of the establishment (including 2501. a-year to be divided among the commissioners fur their attendance), any excess being ultimately applied to lessen the rate of deduction from the wages of the men. The shipowners of the northern porta, who seem to appreciate free trade when it goe s w ith their own interests, have during the early part of this week been signing petitions to the Rouse of C 019.11110011 against Itto re-enactment of this act. The Princcaws Mice e carriage yesterday mornii Alfred, the Princess Roy the Royal Family, took t The Queen had a Ilion Palace. The company in Prince and Princess of l' of l'russia, Priem llenr3 ward of &MU Weimar, I genbourg, the Duchess Chevalier Bunsen, his R: ninck, Viscount Less Macke, Countess Uri ward llowaxd, Guitv, Colonel Fischer, vankappard, andCheva The Queen and Prince Windsor Castle, a model Her Majehty and his toy.% ULU= of the accuracy of The Duch,. of Kent c yesterday at CP.0.1,,,tvr 1. Lunt Jam Stuart ha, Russal yesterday at hi, street. Mr. John Wood, chain venue, had un htterviem the Exchequer. TIIE EXUEI: The following corn dressed by the iii,bop of diocese "Dear Mr. Are h'.,•.e, clergy my purl.... 1.1 synod of the diocew -rt visitation ' I uow inform the pre.byter..., their several deaneriea, t the 11.ith of June nett, foi continued on the to,, toll. " We shall as,emble lit coed thence to the eat it, di prayer, and, utter Ravine rist, will return to the chapter have p‘rinitt •,I n. " The one great . 1 ,...1i0 the synod on the sir.; a declaration of uur Ora; the creed--.•I aekitowl..l4, sins,' no well a.: to th...br4 of that ',ter:uncut, a , " On the two other ,lay• practical intereq u.. ,hall blewatt..z, to promote the at ing all question% of COMP; '•lt i, that be brought or.tother e‘e. invite the clergy Of rvk ry number, togeqier with ti; and the grant chaps. r, arrbebnio,n, •• titio 11 etl.lll. hoe within 4 Kll. , rt 11$14t• Maranwhilv, tiro 1114 . ..11.. will be bull. lor th rural to rail tog Our. transmit to m.• for the cort.ill.•ratt..ti :II oi " It isl d. ii.tbir week,. bt-lbre 01. such an shall Coat of the rl that ilu?•. " Ilun will gir fur electing their r .*::y of tb r As it is important th have ti,, full tomii.loilto of I would wilt that mi.' I not on actual majority of presvot, ..tna the absent. TM , . would he rately. ' chin of every de: the t2ilferott ,int,tion.: to son tai v wit,, will, howc jildgiutakt UR ii 144441, 41114 NI 401 We may humbly hop Meeting+ may 11, 3 1114.411144 4 to thy clergy at for Ike I various tuatterA 444141 Cant PUR54 4 41111.110 tir 44111' to till . Vt11114 4 :1( 4 011 :41' nn .1 um, Ili ar Mr. .trt•li frirml awl I r; F. RA 1, I s 4 r4T-4 11. F I forward all 1.11,r..hial 11, 4 will ht• fitrwanl...l Inns etyma park..l. I..artiag month 14 tla• ran. , al I 1.. a a .m.ty pris by nn) ot It Natal will be liable to t halt uuner, eitirh rout I . Fill (K lrom . nuttrd fr. , of INltAltl CM) OC.a: Ilt moat bill to rep sd thy• don according to the number grwtt iu lieu thereof u; her cording to their annual rid duty is to CIIIIIIII , M, 11•unt t duor the w iodine duty is to are to be deemed oss-soll I. capluent of the Colllll6, ket gardenS awl nar..•ry the raitatirm of hon.t.a. to he still eltarzedile und , .l the nt•hedule tittuesisl to to dwelling-howies wort h the rutr, the duty for I - V. ry 2.1- sixpence, suit hir schedule a duty of Oitritop.Etne olootiou of two a —ktant—on room of the shove iniportau The ballot elo.ed at t Jim' in Etrour of B. I:. Br.4lllur. hunt, 329 ; kr..i.d;ull,, 21 us vi tualler, icer haring, i n Lu m i e n tre g :h : i r t Mile-end-road ; John 11.02..1 R Johnstone, the Widn. Martin Wood, Bed Cr o ss, the Ball and Illadelsme, I. 3001., u quantity of llllrit his cellar. EARLY CLOSING IN for the promotion of the eat took place in the Town-hull ins last. The meeting, w spectably attended, was pre town, and was Udlin,t4 b Carfax), 11ev. Jacob Ley Rogers (curate of St. I'aul pendent minister), Mr. E. Moore ; alko by Mr. Pasm , (secretary of the parent sec tatiun from the metropolis. favour of the movement in resolutions in accordance pissed, when the proceeiliin STEAMER ON Captain Ewring, from the silk, tobacco, fruit, yellow h Cork on Sunday morning broken out in the second:tilt of smoke were discovered Saturday morning, when eel . fire out by continuing to thi moist.. 'These efforts havii Ewring immediately steered about six a.m., and, with the Majesty's ships Hogue and The cause of the Me is su accident to the casing of the stantinople on the Bth, Smy and Gibraltar on the 21st ins bility arrived in Liverpool e not occurred.—Cork THE BRITISH LION S There arc on the two side pi on the supporters of the roy tistic talent of the country, t calling attention to the matt may be devised to remove th unicorn which have been pin not only is the good taste of the slightest opinion as to ha executed, done violence to, i the animals themselves, but aad laugh at their inaccenq moved to pity from their tor loose his grasp of the shield alternative but an ignoraink