The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-28 00:00:00

1 ____ • - thegalabed for their ornemeatal iron work, which they are Instead of shatters, end fix is cornices and braesimere over their "bore. The fouedries in PST* Liile, and St. i cier, Sad other plane , ficd therefore moth occupatn in this kind of work, and a re now preparing to send aver to us some of duir best work, not only of sack Matteis ii we have enumerated, but likewise la chande liers, limps, posts, fountains, crosses, dlr. of which many very admirable designs were submitted to se. A firm celebrated for the manufacture of church eras- Wad it metal, have executed some jewelled ornaments emd cu p, so wai as a variety if detoratiens is braes; nod sootier hones has got ready a variety of candelabra sae rAeadeliers of the some material. "The cutlers of Parisi seem unwilling to sour the lists with the workmen of Bheffield, bat two or three of tie principal eensmiths, tad several sword cutlers, intend to exhibit; they showed us some fine specimens yet in an onfloi.hed state. " The carvers in wood and marble ars exce•diegly busy, mad we shall unquestionably see some very beautiful ex amples of their handicraft. T. Parisians admire orna mental furniture, consequently there is always a great demand for their services; wan of them are moat sliver artists, educated for • far higher departmeat of art, but impelled by cirtumetaatiee to exercise their talents on more bumble work,. In most eases where carved furniture is exhibited, it will be in the same of the dealer, not is that of the weal executor, who supplies the former with whatever be may require ; and to Winos the whole merit of the ankle belongs. We visited several rectories and workshops in which were a variety of domestic and purely ornamental object', executed in • very elegant style ; and a number of strind chimney-pieces ars entitled to high commendation We expect that in this department we shall fin ourselves flollerlor to the FfeSelt arasaas, who have far greater exercises for they powers than Gar own, in the elaborate external earrings of the Parisian edifices. " Toe papier-mkshil manufacturers, ea the other hood, - are very far behind us ; there is nothing worthy of the slightest comparison with the produce of Biresialkam ; bat the workers to bahl have attained a high degree of perlettion. " The ertiets is terra-cotta seem to have dose little or nothing since our visit to Paris in 1849. There are but few of them, and these principally men of considerable talent, *pleb, generally, to comparatively humble eitelafeeteliele. Bence they rarely preduce now work' till the old stash Is well si,h sold off ; and, se regards our exposition, we found them anwilliag to incur (as they thought they must do) the expsase and the risk 44 forwarding their trail goods to Zealand. Than are one or two, however, who have applied foe apace. We now come to the article of carpets, alarm which **Parisians are laminates to indulge extensively. There are three or lour very large hours is Paris who are making great aeons to rival Brands and Amiens?. We visited One istsblebments, and saw numerous rich and costly ilengss ; there is no doubt of our having a considerable dir play from this. quarters. The national works at Glbelis an in full activity, both in tapestries and cupeting, the result of which we septet to see in the " Palace of Olam" in May neat; although the secrecy maintained is the history prevision our speaking positively on the subject. We WI there some exquisitely wrought productions, which, if e mit, will not of gowns, be admitted in competition. " This also may be mid of the porcelain of Sevres; there Is much doing here, but we could not aecertain for what espe cial purpoa•, from the same silence being observed among the fabric:ants es at the Uobelin works. Two or three of the leading private manufacturers will inhibit, the seperiority of whom works over car own, so tar es we could j edge from what was submitted to us imagism in the delicacy and li.iish of the paiotinge. We shall sot, however, be greatly sur• prised to hod Mears Copeland and Melee. Minton provieg formidrible competitors. "The mereen' 'hope of Paris are filled witkthebeastiful Wheel Lye*, sad the ribbons of St. Etienne and Si. Chi'. mond. Spitalfields, Manchester, and Coventry mut be visit last and careful, to avoid defeat is the impendieg contest. " Thus tar our observation of what is doing in France at tend. d, and the result leaves us no ground for apprehending ill auntie to the manuteeturing indestry of Ureat Britain. Then its • spirit of pen aaaaa nce, energy, and diligence, among our countrymen, which urges them meanie is the race for superioeity,—the more strenuously as the die cultic* seem *framable. These qualities, if ozonised with discreti.te and judgment, will enable them to surmount almost every obstacle ; it they Latin 1851 the blame will be their own, and the loss will be theirs also; for there is no ocrocealing the fast that the laraigaar is exacta's to reap • large reward him kis present tuna, and he should have it if fossill deserving,—" Altman gni itierwit, feral." The time Mist short now for our remarU to be of much ernes is the way of incentive; let us hope a few months will prove thou to have been unnecessary. Under any eireulastaDeee, we would fain believe that our visite to the Con , isn't will not have been witlt.ut their use to all who may be mon or less *tweeted is the Unfit International Szpotitloa." THE 1114PARATTONS IN HOLLAND. " It must be regarded (says the ownspondent of the A rt Jourioif) u a proof of the almost univenal interest felt in the approaching Bahibitton, that • people so proverbially unexcitable as the Dutch should be stirred into something like energetic action by the summons that England has sent forth. Bat Holland as a tawny of traders, not ma, insfacturen; its wealth and its grandeur miss from com mercial parasite; it has neither minerals, nor weal., nor was, out of which and by mean/ of which the weal and the ornamental are formed ; and though these an procured, through its commerce, from other countries!, the supply le so limited as scarcely to be sufficient for home consumption. Baportation of such article, as thew materials would command is out of the question ; except, perhaps, caned (aniline', of which, we believe, a large quantity is manse factored in Holland, and sold is Ragland as " antiques." The rich pastures and the breeds of cattle which they sus tain, ere the main DOWNS of the producing wealth of the country, if we except the flax from which the Dutch linens, so celebrated for their See texture and durability, are made. The paper of Holland is also of first riae quality, and used at one time to command high prices on the Continent; bat the former buyers now MICUISCIUSII for themselves. •• In the absence, therefore,of al', such mean and appliances as other nations peewee for making a display of their indus trial site, we cannot rearonably expect great things from Holland. Still we shall nut be without some specimens of what her producing cleans Can sceomphah, as the following report from our correspondent there will show. We premise the notice by stating that he has pat himself io commaniee tits both with the government °mansion of the country, and with the principal contributors, for the purpose of laying before them our plena for engraving the works of the latter; mad all parties express their perfect mediates' to co operate with or in our undertaking I have taken • hasty tour through the country, starting from Horranhait, celebrated fur its ship-building, which will contribute • few models of naval architecture, and on I. SCIAIRDAO, whose principal mansfeeture is so well know., that se opeelmen le seeded; there will bowers be contrib.. times of white lead, and in Wine, from Una latter plane. "'Next semen Darr, long haws for Its blue earthen ware, known by the title of DeUt.ware yen will keys ope nness of Weer, cad of carpeting, for t anderetwd Dutch earpeting is beginning to be enteantely used in England. " The ISA and populous village of the 11•0131 is preps ring urged rosewood furniture, ether embroidery, and Wessel allow gam Some of these objects are very olodeat " Lornan, still, and fora loog time prat, renowned for its troollen inuabistarts, is at pemont ripmente4 by air loom, who ere genius ready specimens of their beautiful soft blankets with marlat borders, that make owe warm to look opus. " kidernlDlLlK win show a very railed list of her pro duct/oms; machines far prowls, sugar m • now principle, rick out velvets bettor known so iltreelit velvet, was candler very chimp, minted gam for windows, sandals of improve mom on railways, and now mode of stoppiog carriages cm the range, with ether objetas too numerose to specify. " ZEIGT, a little village as, Utreekt, where the largo; establishment of Moravian brothers exists, will forward ma* my greenest esstributleos; molikortual ornaments is tetra-eons, tables, chairs, and name, vases la east-froo and also, in isuitatiOS of bronze, prododag a good effect at 4 moderate coot. " GONDA ONNIII • epastity of pipes, to salt all Sri Of sachets tram do. years upwards. " The premises of Noarit BRABANT. GiO meet masa hesitates part of the reentry, is roperiag mane woollen beim sad earpsts, which are mash cheeps thaa the Bealish ; also specimens of the well-karma Dutch lam asefseme home made calicos, ite. " Item Illaarnucux, la the provisos of Limburg, will he mat Ors of various kinds, sad gime plpse hr ass et "I believe I have sow snurasrated the skid ex Moles sat mg be expected from this comm.,, which, you well knew, al primly egaseseltl end not meaufacturlas ; the pee*, aeverthelem, em doing their best to rem they are let Weeselble to the advantages of bias , however same,. Way sompatissa,lmptateatal yam aros e tbutai ail Mims. 4 1 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1850. I in mkt, &Mee, elaborates the Indictees from all events. bat snowed at the Wanes of the oiliness of Lowden.. who threw up the , fort is Hydeepark, the jest at whieh royalists mold lassie under Chula 11. was no joke to the cavali.m of Charles I. The very w_omen shored th e enthusiasm, and , as th e breveted heed allsdad to dap 111anata nit Mt n th boa sail imalia, r tome& ddom la ; idea ramali Oats as, at hands, AM pat the maw *aka& has hullo Ova amarair letim imam Leann lit attosieaatal, Para albs* *Woo and Yolk Lad WO the mm to lla Ike moles. One elreurastrase that toads to impress us with the Idea of I , the solitary chuseter of Byierpark mad its environs , when " compared with 80. James's-park, dories the reigns of the last Stuarts sod the Bret sovietism of the present dynasty, is its being frequently selected , in common with the then lonely fi elds behind Moutsge•house, now the British Museum, es the scene of the more inveterate class of duels. The pistol duel in which Wilkes was serenely wounded . warred in firds.park. Has, too, the fatal duel in which the Doke of Hundion an d Lord Mahon (November, 171) fell, and their teaches were wounded, took place. Swift i enables.* to flu with precision the locality of this last et nt : . he says, in his " Joamal to Stalls," " The duke was helped I t towards the Cake bouts by the Ring in Hy de -park, where , they fought, and died on the grass before he could reach the t hoot." t a x: direalises to waiter be Oita* leg veau Mo l ? , wi: theinction, 41 thriendre t g pr is . i l l •fraper for th the • at whist they an boded; In the wag ,ll,ts es sub of CSTIBIS I I.Ii . :11=11:141r4. s ' 4. the e - " " of wl t ril t'll ' e goods me themisall: ten, t it *Ocularly &drab% that upon hags& and helms being phased le the yea fee reason!, each peaking should have the name of the satiam written kith", therm, so that apes he animal at the Great Exhibition it may at once 1 restive a Maths number sad be conveyed to its berth. " Upon the exensiaation of the packages, each wish Ueda to duty, and thus also upon which then may be 'taught, is to have a ticket attached to it, with the rota. tins number of the pack's', and the rotation number of the article ; thus, Ne. . r , N 0.7, Na I .;, and so on, the upper figures denoting the Dumber of the peck er, and the lower the number of the article cut of the parings ; but should then be tickets already attached to the artists, u it is expected there will be, the numbers an to IEI E 4 thereon, either on the face or bask, without &- the exhiblves mark. The ticketing and aunbering fres of daty to be dispensed with. "That all warehousing sights, upon which packages have been landed and forwarded to the Great Exhibition, be pre bend, and *pedal bond intend into within sans days of Ifs final exhibition of inch eonsignment, for the ditty to which the goods is each consigement are liable, • ...ding to the number, weight, or declared vales as the saes may be —the declared value being *pinned of by th e landing sue. ' veyor for that purpose, and It Is to be understood that, I should the declared value for duty, at the close of the Ils• 1 halation, appear to th e Man to be insufficient, the matter Its to be submitted for the consideration of the board. "That the consignee or agent puling the perfuted eight do give over with the warrant a duplimte, tolls paint as I Ito the bond officer for the preparation of the bead, he the I mount of duty to which the article' are Hebb, museals. 1 to their number, weight, or value, as sit forth is die per- Meted bill of sight, wig& is to be noted by the proper ' officers of the lootroots, showing that the bond has been nented. " That, at the elms of the Exhibition, all goods not cleared by payment of duty or LA exportation within a month from the day of cloMag, use to be removed to • bonded warehouse, and there fall under the usual regulations, the disposal of such being recorded in the ledgers of the controller qf wart hoagies amounts at the Exhibition; and, under no pretext whatever, will goods be allowed to be removed from the building beton the clods( of the Exhibition!' thin e s :sample of this is riowltthit.„:" oe thi: r a b t u tb t a ti back nf west molt of Li, 14 THE EEHIBITION AND THE FARMERS. I• . n r din ; : h : I summern n s of t r l u m e t 9 i fah situations sudden wale, or behind I changes of tempe r ~ theits. [gum the agrandoreal Casette of this day.] eonneeted with the Great Exhibition of 1851 have been able ewymirgrr. New 7 , elene 1.; Now that the various local committees and officials well known to be tender to sum up the applications for space, it appeers that the total toted es eer i,. the north of a ruined wail In P th oo demands far exceed any amount of supply which her Ma- I rase remarked th a t the upper pert e q - it jetty's Comminioners can give; for although they have lately from the sun j bet about three, fourths it w it — .l l ,l " 40 4 agreed to grant as additional gallery of 46,000 annuli nal was perfectly screened. On the apps Grit Mood feet, making a total of 220,000 superfiee I fee nine a try —a- —t of fl oor and found that the part exposed to the sus '44 counter space, yet the amount demanded by exhibitors, who of the wall, while the parts below the was killed to the 1, , number, we may observe, about 8,200, is 420,000 superficial even in colour. The pl t eve. were tiethsn,..% an grew vigorously • t i feet of floor end counter, so that we have a definency of mains where it was originally planted , n rt. 200,000 sups/file Net. This defalcation, however, may be will undergo the same fate a. before . ' When end h" counterbalanced to a certain extent, fir the space demanded the of f uc h s i a . , „ rad ii., tree 4 " , , • add the, of wall for Imaging articles on is only 200,000 eupeificial feet, coming so generally well koown , it seem . end we believe considerably more than this amount can be that, the vitality of plants and ane:l.',",,, 7' t o doubt given, se that mac things for which counter - room been Name methods of treatment which are know' ; eam rr 9a „ l . to aemanded may be exhibited to little lees advantage probably in the one case are equally effectual in the on, ' i t r ° on the wall. that this great truth will not be forgetter Let us k The above deficiency of space certainly Indicates more readers during the winter and cold 4 " el before than favourably for the great enterprise, and the manner .prior that :a--4 in which it is to be supported by the spirited emula tion of all nations. This was to be anticipated, although not perhaps to the extent now described. Intending exhibitors themselves were sensible that disappointments to • certain extent would be realised when they made their application; still, although this is true, yet is this case, as in all others, the evil hour is invariably post poned to the last for consideration ; and, new that results are known, and the work of selection and rejection about to commence, many grave questions insinuate themselves upon the mind by no means quietly to be disposed of. Inventore are generally fond of their own offspring, mennfacturers of their handiwork, and merchants of their purchases, but by all sacrifices obviously must now be made. The work of 'election therefore is • very important and responsible one — doubly so in the cue of unwonted inventions ; so that com plaints may be expected, groundhog, no doubt, in many in stances, but too well founded probably in some. Our object in introducing this subject at present before our readers is not to discuss the individual interests of exile bitors, but to confine our remarks es much as possible to the general interests of agriculture. The question which we wish answered is this: such being the °elicitor y of space in the immense building now being erected in Hyde-park, how is the interest of the farmer likely to be affected by it? Of all classes of the Community, at present, he stands the most in need of awash:is' and mechanical inventions to assist him, for his difficulties ere of more than ordinary character. Indeed, the vast majority are now agreed that it is worse than useless' and chimerical for him to look anywhere else than to energetic. personal efforts for assistance ; and Le may therefore look with some interest on what the whole repro tented industry of the humen family, as collected in Hyde. park, 1851, 'hall be able to do for him. Now, if the wants of the farmer are greater than thou of the other classes, it is but reasonable to suppose that his demands for space in this exhibition have also been greater—a conclusion which we apprehend will be found a true one, although we have been unable as yet to ascertain it as • fact. We have no reason, however, to suppose anything to the contrary, for agricultural chemistry and mechanics, of late years, have been making lose strides in the march of improvement, and will re quire ample opportunity to develop their full propor tions. As regards the heavy machinery for threshing and other agricultural operations, though these may exhibit much sameness in contrivance, yet it cannot be denied that very inferior articles sometimes °cations important din conceits by mechanical minds, and that the best judges, ax. erciaiug the work of selection and rejection, are liable to eeroi, especially when the articles to be compared are miles asunder from each other, so that loins may be sustained, end justice done unintentionally to intending exhibitor and the farmer. Under such circumstance., therefore, is it possible to sug gest any scheme which will secure individually and collec tively the interests of all parties connected with agriculture ? We think a practical scheme readily offers itself, I,:r there Is as abundance of space in the park, immediately adjoining the upper end of the building, sufficient to accommodate every article connected with either home nr foreign agricul ' tare, which mar be rejected, and if an additional 81. or Is. were demanded for admission into this department, it would I defray the expense of erecting a temporary building, such as that used at the Royal Aericultural Society's summer exLi. hitions. All, therefore, that is nee( Ferry toward, the orga nisation of such • scheme, is for the Agricultural Society to enter into the proper arrangements with her Ma jesty's Commissioners, when we have no doubt the ground could be got and all the privileges en joyed by exhibitors in this department which are enjoyed in the building itself; er, if the park is objected to, a thousand other places offer themselves for the pence at the gate on such an occasion. There is Islington cattle market, shoat empty and perfectly suitable. The whole could easily he placed under the control of the Revd Comtois.ion during the period of the exhibition. There are no doubt objections to tenth a proposition, but et the same time we think that these are not worthy of comparison with the many benefits to be gained. And we hope that some such I scheme will be acted upon with energy—a the interests of the farmer are not kept fully and strongly in mind, by those who have the work of wholesale rejection to perform, before the immense crowd of articles appljiog for space can be brought down to the number and dimension for which the building is calculated.—B. GOSSIP. (From the .diftietr•nesna nt tth day.) The Australian papers are beginning to t o, question—where is Dr.Leichharlt ? fele time hts e • v. re, elapsed, according to his own estimate, when he eh , old h. Ti been heard of at the end of a successful journey. T,;,; years have passed since he undertook his wet rem' tai • exploring an unknown part of the great AusttxA+^ c. nent—two yeses sine,. he was heard of lest ee , t A , * PROVINCIAL NEWS. BELPAST.—At the bat meeting of the sub-committee for manufactures, a letter tees read from the secretary of the Royal Commission, statism that the following ellohnent of spate had been made foe Belfast district ; —Floor and counter space—For raw materials, 68.1 superficial bet; for machinery, 1,200 fest; for manufacture., 2,100 feet; and for fine arts, 14 feet ; wall space, for all the sections, 7.000 feet—total space, 11,000 superficial feet. This was 1,969 Let lass floor and counter space. and 468 feet leas wall space ' than was required by the exhibitors. As the allotment of the former could not be increased, it was arranged that each eel ibitor's demand should be ent down, so as to make the mitigate not exceed that allotted by the Royal Commission; sad that 1,000 foot more wall space should be requested, as iatiamstion had been given that it might be had. By the esue Secular it appeared that the beal committee would eILU be permitted tai remits a few entries, if sent in imme diately, for articles of which there was not already a sufficient representation; or others whose noTelty or merit might entitle them to consideration. As the entries of sewed muslin manufactures which were sent in were few in corn union with the importance of that branch of industry in the n.rth of Ireland, it was rewired by the committee that the list should be kept open for a few dam to admit addi tional entries. The general committee met on the 20th instant, and the uareury reported that the Royal Com. MiiiioDOff had granted the 1,000 feet additional wall spew asked for. 1109, p. 94.) He had : th he e n ce re . t i n i a tu ed tb, 3:t h lll,i , :.:t i i ib . ,l : h :7 l r .:; station on the frontier for the pupae of char t'. beauty and fertility of his companions had passed: saying, in j h :, proceeding, that he fmared he might nee, r ' hie great journey, and wee anx;oul th, tl ledge which he had already piked al.ou: lost. He deputed again, in high spiri:s, into the nett: y wilderness, and has never Mace been bard of My one competent to report the intelligeece. I he &sof New South Wales should at once set the succour at tiinnwbotehrhkea. To lf orhfkettimPeenelhaienalchadnaolanlydofslehlytn?::Kiii•ii:.:::„l,, Thera are , m :whi en te y tnegai. wa s y ht s edo i u n ir wh db i e c r h ez i: m eissa rt i d g;: t , o . ;:. , obligations: men should be sent en hie f a d n should e a o tiob igent, with provisions and euccoura, , "r. tioned at the now broken-up establishment at tort L: ton, in case the traveller should bear up for that is suggested by the Sydney Morning Herald he .y A correspondent asks us to inform him and tne who has been the means of removing the - n. **,; Harrow Churchyard. which marked the ripe. shirt h$ was accustomed to look out on the ebamiou l stretching far away from that point of view'. 15 nothing ourselves of the tact of the removal.— mr d ~t, , ; * therefore, nothing ef the party aneererahle or moving him. But probably this mention ot thr r• stance stance may bring us some particular. from p . .** informed, which may enable u to satisfy tither u.-,., , the curiosity of our comspondent. We read in one of the French papers that the: of Heidelberg is about to confer the decree of ~• Theology on Mr. J. W. Pennington, a Wax '.l. priest at New York. Mr. Pennington ' it is s 1-• negro who has ever received sch,las,c European university. He is reported to be toe several works on theology. The French papers lunation the arrival :.t the_ • Alexadre Vattemare, the indefatigable pr mower of .:.• atonal exchanges of works of art, science, and Ilt., . M. Vattemare has spent tar year- is the • and expresses himself highly delighted with hie I, Ce,.*: at the enthusimsm with which Ms plans have . • adopted. The Idea ot a literary alliance the establishment of a universal republic of let., in accordance with the spirit of the age. Our Ai, brethren have coma forward Land-oraely to ..id N. 1 ;.; mare in his endeavours. In retire for several .1 collections of French publican on and documiwo, complete series of French medals, from the lin. to the present date, M. Yammers Moue home u m • a hundred came of books, plane, coin., over, told that the proprietors of tee Frauklin Ii sisted on offered him a free postage ;—and that satisfy the numerous competitors for the gretuitous t. of carrying his voluminous baggage across the A•lei• has been obliged to distribute it among several mt vessels. It is said that Al. Vattemare's colleen a at., hibited in a building which OA city ot Paris has his disposal. Amour the new publications advertised in Paris, es, a book entitled " Love Letters" (Letters author, M. Julien Leiner. has bad the curioas lebting in one volume the most celebrated m the eltelid'aurre of tender correspondence —a position in which France has always bee. ; Hdloise, Ninon do PEncloe, Mdlle. de PEspineom, I; and Mirabesu, of course, hold thole place.; Ins, ate,. motorising is, that we are told that contemprary Beranger, P. L Courier, Jules Sainleau, and .kr , saye will contribate to the work. The admin. ambiguously worded as to induce the lie.iet 1', ,; of these gentlemen were written in Ow capacities. We of course do not supp.oe !no • —but the fact that many persons have belie, .t. curiously French. The Journal dee Daets reports that Nommt - most distinguished of her philoloitists in Christian Limits Sverdrup—who has died ninth year. M. Sverdrup has occupied the logy at the University of Christiania More the • that establishment by Frederick the Sloth, mark, in 1808, He has left many works—time mu, *. ant of them in the Latin tongue. The " National Public School Association," Mete eke. its local character and completed its preliminary rocoe tion, has now made its more formal appeal to the c,mx - y for that support which is essential to its tu.cess. Toe `a..i of the association is reducible to a simple phri4.-1: is legal voluntaryism. The field of action is mcular —its means are local rates, locally imposed. hurt a national programme so timed their lie—se we ham maid la former occasions—many and weighty objections m tailored with a national system of education. V. e hold it be if high importance in any system of public teaching •11.3 to instruction afforded be somewhat equal in point or -nevi' and quality for all districts. If the order and pr.graccas of the school he left to the Smiths and Jon , tea of t w cal village notoriety, there is at least ground to fear 'bit the quality of education given might not always coal up to a reasonable standard. We can hardly \Plat CA the average of intelligence among the local minxes of provincial towns is higher than that of the Los t. n tritest—yet within the last few months we have no more than one metropolitan vestry violently oppose the esmhash. meat of bathe and washhouses—other contend for the r,'tl to re open the city grave-ads—while the as at poatrul corporation in the c spina remains deaf to the pealing of humanity, and naffs at the wanting of sence to of the Smithfield abomination. If these men were issie judges of what it is necessary to teach the people es, fear ter system of instruction would be extrecumly meagre. Ile who has no objection to filth will have no pest borer of ignorance—and they who can gain a puny by Ice grove-yards of Drurymlanis will not 'creole to my , one leaving the poor to their present state ot the istillectiol dearth. As our readers know, these misgiving, do not mat •—• LIMBRICL—MODEL LIFI•BOAT.—It is proposed te con struct a life-boat for the Exhibition of 1851, wilt a glass deck to show the machinery, end framed, of oak, with covering of patty perdu, protected by a coat of moot sail cloth. The propelling power will consist of an Archimides' screw, enclosed in so iron cylinder, one.fourth of its own diameter in length, and open at the end, being worked by ea agency similar in principle to Uncommon spring-jack. but I perfected with superior ingenuity. As the intrirnic value of the whole oontrivance depends entirely on the efficiency of the main springs, the utm-st judgment and skill will be engaged in the manufacture of these essential riqui,it. s. Vast im provements have lately been introduced in executing this important branch of industry, both with regard to the form end application of springs generally, combined with the discovery of increasing the strength and elastic qualities is the article of steel, and little doubt remains relative to the attainment of the object in view. It is expec ted that the adoption of this simple device will seldom fail is achieving the desired end, even durlog the prevalence of storms how ever violent, or weather the most unpropitious. Tho com pact barque will unite the advantages of buoyancy, speed, and safety. It is not liable to the casualties of inquest occurrence that arise from upsetting or sinking, which It will owe to the distribution of the bailee, the composition of the materials, and the nature of the moving force. By means of an internal action, and partially free from external juin. eine, it esn Rost on the billow with impunity, and dive through the surge without risk, being thus stabled to arrive at its destination with almost unerring certainty. The pro cam of winding up can be performed at rill times with faci lity, by means of a key and lever, when occasion demands the operation. _ • . . - - SrALDING.-Mr. Rower, the lecturer sent by the Com miuioners, was received with anything but good-will. As yet not one penny Ina been contributed towards the funds of the Oreat:Exhibition. No local committee has been formed. Save and except myself (tbe secretary) scarcely any one has dared to show hiras-if ati an advocate fur the claims of the Great Exhibition; but a few havesenti midis icr exhibition, of which the following are the names and purposes: Mr. Cheering, Spalding, a filtering pump, for pumping clear from impure water; Beesley and Son, Put , fleet, near Spalding, specimens of woad, for dying, end chicory, the best grown in any part of the world ; 13, aeley and Son, Spalding, improved chicory cutter; Mi. Cheerios, Spading, apteimin of paste fur mopes, lower parte of buildings, &0., preventing dampneas, and after t•eing put on dries u hard as rock. We have formed a Mechanics' Provident Society, which numbers nearly 100; it ought, considering the sue of town and extent of district to number at least 500. THE EFFECT OF COLD UPON PLANTS. (From the Gardener's Chronicle of this day.) The manner in which cold acts upon plants is one of the problems which bare yet been solved, and pro bably inseminating their causes have proved Eminently unsuccess tul. That a low temperature, or frost, acts differently upon different plants very nearly allied to each other is notorious ; TeivELLtno excue —Since the arrangements of the great railway companies with regard to the conveyance of tee members of unlearn club to London nest year have ! kern merle ;Wolk, these associations have increased Immensely In popularity and number. We give an account Of those which nave been recentlT formed. In Belfast, Aberdeen, Cheater, Devizes Dow Bridport, Beverley, mid Rigsby, travelling clubs have b een founded, and in every instance with marked sumer+. At Norwich thee. is both a male and female club. At Bridport, at the inaugural meeting, upwards of fifty members were enrolled. Last week the following proceedings in reference to the convenience of working men took plate at Aberd. en: The Lord Provost took the chair. Mr. hi'Leod, tinsmith, stated that the com mittee had had several interviews with the manager of the Steam Navigation Company, and had received abetter from the manager of the railway company, stating the tarots on which the escrkieg classes can be conveyed. The letter was to the effect that, to encourage the early formation of subscription clubs, the railway companies had agreed to convey persons aubeeribieg to such clubs to London, by special train, and giving return tickets, for 30s. 9d., it bete g ! understood bat, to insure such special train, at least 260! passengers fog the whole journey shall be secured. Ire train not to start till the charge for admissive to the Bibibi-1 tioa shall have been reduced to one shilling, and six days to be allowed in London between arrival and departure. Should it be found impossible to get 260 passengers. the railway eampaay to endeavour to make arrangements for forwarding! members of the subscription clubs by the trains from other districts, Mr. M'Leod then moved—. 1. That the the of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1861 is ex peesely calenlated to benefit the labouring classes of the eseememity, sot only in promoting the linseed manufactures ei the many, but also by its tendency to elevate the Intel- MOW character of the people." Mr. James Hooter, anion, seconded the motion, Bat little was necessary to smears the entire senses of the Ezhibition, and that little kw with the working classes. The Exhibition could not fail to give an important begotten) industry, and thus materially Wee& the working elegem From the desire that bad bees manifested on the part of the upper claws to mingle with the working clams on this occasion, there was good reason to hope that their intellectual and even political emanelpet ion might be promoted. The resolution was carried Ism. cat. In east er to John Biala, Mr. !Mood said that the com mittee had ernmponded with the manager of the steam cempsny, to ascertain for what a deck passage to Loader' might be had during the Bzhibition. The manager refused to state terms, on the ground that the dme was as yet too debut. The terme stated at bet meeting were considered too high by the soestaittee. The chairman thought the railway onspany's terms extremely mod . Besides the abrades Ili the Nothioiticur, many might thus be enabled to see London who kid never had sick an oppottunity before, end might never have it sight. The following resolutiges were the treanirecerily agreed te:—" 2. That it is especially the duty and the interne of those engaged in the manufae =and methinks! arts to embrace the opportunities of ingening and examining the pendent of the and skill of all nations, to be exhibited in 1851. 3. That ohs belittles afforded by the various carrying com pleakea both by sea and land, to sabseription dabs, tor viaideg the Zahlkhion e might to be taken advantage of, and easone timmillemell by working meta for that purpose." At figabliag a club has been recently formed, and now sumbine about 100 member*. BILIDLINGTON.-0a Wednesday evening weak a public meeting was bald In the Town Ball, Bridlington, to form a society, or club, to enable its member, by the payment of an Imo then sixpence per week, to visit the international exhibition of 1861. Mr. William Small's, draper, being sliced to the their, and having opened the bulineen of the meeting, it was unanimously reedved that the society should minakit of a president, vice-president, two trustees, a secretary, committee, and an unlimited number of both sexes, to be called " The Bridlington International tic. Rectiety." Warrev.—A meeting was convened at the Angel Inn, on Monday evening for the purpose of brain a working men's emerektios, to enable the mechanism and labeszieg L esa i t s visit the great exhibition of all nations, et, be held ant year. H. Belcher, Esq., one of the sear Wks fig this aliens% explained the objeets for which the amedullem was intended to on formed, after which a Isom • her et pemems enrollee their names as members, cog ro pq N. week towards defraying the expense Licit the ABRITAL or CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CANADA.— The ship Pearl, which has strived in the docks from Meat: seal and Gusher, has brought from the former plan, as a portion of a large groat alio of Canadian predestine, 107 paskages of miry geish a masigned to order, sail ell daily deemed to be intended fat the Great Exhibitket of Industry of ell Nations la Hyde-park. The whole of them pesitages, being the lest wmaignment of this nature treat the DOW North Aesopian province, will, in pursuance of Alleseggeweed regulations of the gonunkeionere of mutates, be gime& in the haul gegmiess until the bathing in Bs.-' park in mad: ter theft sompllss at their intended gmtfir - lbw • 0 and this ;Ten where they are mere varieties of each other. The China thee, for instance, resists any amount of English cold ; the variety celled the tea-soented perishes, or suffers severely, in every ordinary winter. The gay-flowered meanies of the Canaries, known in gardens under the name of cinerariss, shriek from the mere approach of frost, and perish upon its first arrival ; yet the ragworts and rim/wove, and groundsels, all equally aenecios, can bear a liuuian winter. In like manner oaks, chesnuts, conifers, exhibit similar differences in their power of resisting free% How to account for this is the question. It has been suggested that the fluids contained in different species of plants may themselves act differently in the pre sewn of cold; just as oil of turpentine requires a tempera ture of 14 deg. to freeze, while oil of bergamot levees at 23 deg., and olive oil at 36 deg. Bat although this may be true ti a limited extent, yet it by no mesas explains the phenomenon in question. The plant z, for bathos', perishes from frost, while another, identical with it in nature, lives with impunity within two yards of it, both having been exposed to the same temperature. In this case the fluids of the two will be chaotically the same, and yet the results are oppoeite. Again, the long-leaved pine (1". lowgiJolia) is quite tender, while the Gerard pine, exceed. ingly Ides it, is hardy ; in this case there is as ground for supposing that the fluids contained in these speciee are dif ferent. In fast, except that all plants suffer from cold in *rogation to the quantity of water the contain, we have no kind of evidence to chow that the quality of their fluids has any material influence upon their power of retest ing cold; for it is by no means true, as some too hastily assert, that resinous Wee., like conifers, are rendered hardy by the teeth they contain ; the Norfolk Island pine and the Malay dimmer are tender, although both resinous and ocsifferous. . . . thn to us now for the first time. They rise up s't the of the inquiry. We have referred to them more then. r. and we bring them forward again, not only because the occasion courts it, but because we really kliea teat Nome means might be adopted to get rid of the uncertainty about the ;practical working of this scheme. and of the weakness which this feeling of uncertainty env!' with it. So for the plan has received little or no ad Amon is London : and we believe the reason bow suggested obe tee chief (muse of this apathy. The programme proviir!uu of guarantee. When the association may bare whored 0 purpose,is mos n th ee e ded sit , u i a t ti vri on : n b o u t d it i ecese eka a r e g il e y c E —follow. It requires a certain amount of rebore to understand the value of culture. In the most pont Ma i ignorant localities no suitable provisions would maia for school. and schoolmasters, and In many of the molt thurishing an unwise spirit of economy might ?edge tts standard of instruction below the point of real Awfulness. We regret that those difficulties lie in oar way' bin ee cannot pretend to ignore them. Wisdom must apply me te find • remedy for evils which exist in the nature ot nor Wr v e e te n e p d v ueat,: .. ? . ; tLseL Would it not be possible to strengthen the stecisum 1' grafting on it one or two principles more t The socisty b 111 . 4 nualise the iacruction given, to some extent at le.s„ 7 adopting a minimum ; by making it a part of their r.• ;set of law that certain things must be taught, NoP MO4 the more essential elements, and giving a discretioesrte e° " in regard to others. Why not alto admit of state topic tors ? Prisons are inspected by the state, though t o g maintained by local rates and governed by local sing , :,, This system works well and for the public rod. N‘r! out these hints briefly—but we think they are meta& to success. We observe that the assoc iation, having tb!is r _s Dr. Johnson still before their eyes, omit the descripuseer "secular" from their title. Bat why, in the name uf Datil Murray, insert "public" after " national"? Do that by any chance" national schools" can be thought gww*. " National Secular," or " National Free School A"; lion" might be seed ; bat " National Publie" B fh"" and absurd. In this, as is no many other horticulture' questions, the difficulty of the subject vankbte when we desist from a vain search alter undisooverables. It is by ►ttempting to explain every phenomenon of lite by the known laws of chemistry, electricity, and similar agencies, that we plunge into a labrynth of perplexity— initial no end. in wandering mom lent: Bat the moment we admit the presence everywhere among plants of a vital principle, or of vitality, and thus recognise • direct analogy between plants and animals, the principle of life in the two kingdoms being identical but differently mini Nsted, then we tread on the firm ground consolidated by the march of ogee, and find, in the experience of animal physiology, the elucidation of what is Omar* in that of vegetables. It is true that we then abandon the pursuit of first causes, and confer the vanity of that euriosity which nothing can satisfy; bat we exchange rationalism for materialism, and we learn hew to apply experience to daily uses. It is en axiom la animal physiology, that " the general Sint of cold on living bodies, is • diminution of vital Aviv' iy, which terminates, it the cold be intense, and its application isentinued, in death." (Pereira.) Hence it is to be interred that rill living things whatsoever must dually perish beneath die influence of cold, provided it is severe enough and pedeaged enough. Bat living things have each their ✓ents constitutional vitality, the power of which be resisting cold differs between species and 'petite, ee variety and variety, and even between individual M individual. It is a peculiarity derived from the great imam of all things; • reality : inexplicable but indisputable; Ike Myra, and hest, end electricity. We see it manifested mom plants between the yellow and the spider °obeys, GM lie tea roes end the Chine flow; as among Libra Wham the ass and the sabre, the diqgria cud the Birged. the terrier end the Italian greyhound. The moment waiesit this principle, the mode of dealing with cold in tWiletwomes analogous to that which experience tell u ' 1 e ds:nel in the *shard world. When • man is frown, if be belbidenly thawed, he dies, or his limbs drop off ; and OD at bonen lank;p nothing bring' them such certain due as • sodden elevation of temperature. When the PM& retreated from Moscow, !ream noses end ONIMIOII, but immediate rubbing them yam amend tire tendency to congelation, and hones bee ms a posies for the unhappy men to look nerniwly elks sob Misty noes; for nth scald see his neighbour's, =ebe mid neither feel nor en his own. As long ego ye of Hippomatee, it was known that a man who bed had Die feet from, lost them a il l e sa uaged in warm valor. It is exactly the sun cert ain that it is that hoses pleat, though ender, not perish if It ls gradually thawed, by Waif watered plentifully with *old water. Thai early pess, kidney beans, and the like, are often sand by merely giVng them a good watering the first thing in the morning before the nut is on them. It is asserted, and we doubt net frith privet troth, that wall trees, whose blossoms ban bees berters. Mee bed their Irby mei by eopiaseil oriole. beim euerbe o In all these - ewes ft 1y boweved, ladisproreblo that the artificial thawing be probed before the oiler rays can fell apex the otdeet *Nal; the sadden elerellea at temperature MksM produeed toy meabig embalm eruilles ell aid And Imes It le that die meted NS I:3l 6 be mil wiag Is alleviator removed by pleating mile FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION 1/4 AMEBICA.--A respondent of the Art Journal, under date l'hilsclaPo°, Nov. 29, says: " Yon promised your reader to keep th: au dourest of our American project, which has asts a od_.. inereaseil importance from th e patronage of the government. It has appropriated Governor's Wiwi. harbour of New York, for the purpose, with 8 0 " 1 " I i; gnard. The Wand is within two minutes mod a hall , city by steam, has a fort upon it, and shout 30 mos of 1:7 ground at our disposal. Every futility of making it warehouse has been granted, and the President E bo , name to go Mike world at the head of a list of As in which the governon of our separate staus As I told you in London, it Ins been thought best to tust!.f . mercantile transaction, in the nature of • consignment, 0“, in preference to placing it in the hands of an idistituoj.f, that the goods may be taken care of and sold to thO'; advantage. Mr. William B. Draper,. of New York, We oonei jaw , and ac hi s otiorelsees in Loud= sad co r i ' t continent will be of the highest characte r, his nod cir c l i s from London cannot fail to our, the convictios with :s o rest will be sainted out in integrity . ood tdd 71171 th. My °mistimes, dill political parties , To plant with Amer. CUSTOM-ROUSE REGULATIONS IN airsanicz TO THE The Board of Custom have r its EA lowieg vegetations for oondevtialL tams? boat with teepee% to the articles brouglthreala inteade for the Omit Ethibttios tie Wret riastel of all Nations: " Regulations to be observed by the dines el the leafing depart:seat et the legal Fax sad at the several dabs ulna the lemonades o f Weeded for the Great Yi of the Works of admen" of all Nations. " All packages imported fOr the Genet Behibition an be emend seperately from any ether package* by • went.' hewing bill of debt, with the words G oo ds for the Great Zzlibiltisa oily,' plainly writsea thereon ; and as such a packaes re expected to cantata specimens only, the name t See of *penally reporting silks, gloves, Umbri a, ite., to be dispensed with. When trews to land packages so ranted we applied for, the bill of ladies. with the estrilican from Ohs central authority of the country from whined they tM ihrwarded that they an iatended for the Great R iMlllen (estAis des game of the latter, the bill of ladle& ISOSINAPON a, party authorised by the executive irogrtriblaii) Y is lit Aria sad produced to the region! ins!w libegengss inn se order for landisg, and a esprit* lentarbsek, with diren don to Ike landengwaiter at the nation for allowing the packages to be forwarded to Hyde-park. As the consignee or agent will, it is presumed, baseborn Warned of the nation of which the goods are the enenallent tare, it is particularly desirable that upon landing, sad bin being pissed in the van for removal, each package Shed& have the OURS of the nation written legibly thereto le int upon its arrival at th e Great Exhibition it ma y at One re. rive a retatioa amber, sod be taaveyed toils berth. "That ell packages intended for the Great Exhibition spies being leaded be smeared or weighed, and the pull. anew teaseled is the landing-book, and that they be gen brwsmied to Hyde-park in locked-up vans, or, with the .Mies girths landing-surveyor for the station at whin din ore landed, in the waggon or carts of licensed earns is dame of an callow. " That duplicate cart notes, properly filled up, and basin also the weight in dimensions of each package thereon, ho forwarded by each van, one of which on then due ar rival will he reeeipted and returned under cover to the registrar. " That upon the receipt for the packages delivered at the Greet Exhibition being in the hands of the registrar, be is esapare the marks and numben thereon with the marks and ambers on the warehousing bill of sight, and if found soonest the latter document is to be forwarded under cover le the eintroller of warehousing accounts, Hyde-park, and receipt attached to the larding-Stook in discharge thereof; sad it is directed that the documents be transmitted daily. et, " Regulations to be observed at the several out rte it which geode for the Great Exhibition of the Works of In dustry of all Nations are expected to arrive. "All manse imported for the Great Exhibition are to be entered separately Irma any other packages by a washousing bill ringlet, with the words ' Goods for the Great Exhibi tion wily' plainly written thereon ; and se nth packaps . are expected to contain specimens only, the sae .verity of specially reporting silks, glove*, cambries, tic to be dispensed with. " Upon production of the bill Of lading or certificate setting forth that the packages therein described are intended for the Great Exhibition, an order is to be fined for landing, *sentry being copied in the usual manner into the landing. boot, end bond heeled been given according to the value stated In the certificate, or, Is the absence of such inter nation, then at the rate of ten pounds each package, they are to be forwarded under wale of office, addressed to the Principal Miters of Custom., Great 'Exhibition, Hyde-park, London, without any other name or address thereon. A letter of advice from the collector and controller, enclosing the bill of sight (to be perfected in London), by virtue of which the packages were landed, with the name of the consignee or one of the selected agents in London, the weight or dimensions of each package, and all other particulars, to be forwarded by pat, addrened the same as the packages, and upon their due arrival • receipt will be returned, which, if found to accord with the landing account, is to be attached to the books in discharge of the account. As the agents or parties at the outparts to whoa the paring*, are consigned will, it is presumed, have been Informed of the nation of which the goods are the manatee tun, it is particularly desirable that upon landing each piney, should have the name of the nation written thereon in legible characters, so that upon its arrival at the Great Exhibition it may at once receive • rotation number, and be eineviryed to its berth. That it be distinctly understood that all packages for warded to the Gnat Rettioitiou mast be delivered free of all shares', as the ofiletre of the customs will not be authorised lodinates any money whatever. "Should any packages arrive at either of the following porn tar., Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Newcastle, Dover, re/kostents, or Southampton, for the Great Exhibition before January next, the emanation is to be dispensed with ; but they are to he placed in a bonded warehouse, separate from all other packages or goods, until the budding is ready to Twin them, of which, when complete, notice will be I Sinn. Rego!orlon' to be obairvedbi the officers of her Majority's Customs on duty at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of .11 Nations. "All packages imported for the Great Exhibition will be entered separately from say other packages by 'warehousing bill of sicht, with the wor ds' Goods for the Great Exhibition oaly ' plainly written thereon ; sad as each packages are im paled to contain specimens only, the necessity of specially reporting silks, gloves, cambric', Ac., to be diaper'. ed with, `• All packages arriving at the Great Exhibition will, if landed at the post of London, be in TWIN under lock, or in the waggons er carts of licensed carmen, in charge of an officer, and accompanied by duplicate cart notes, properly tilled up, and having the weight or dimensions of each package thertoa; or, if from the outporte, will be under seals of alloy, sad ars to be received at one door, where a rotation number is to be placed on each in legible Clara; but should it be resod indispensable that foreign packages be received at two doors, the rotation numbers st one door alf, to be odd, thus: —l, 3,6, end so on; and at the other door even, es 2,4, 6, and so es. . . " That, as each packet's is expected to hays upon it the nano of its nation, it U., immediately on receiving a rotation number, to be conveyed into one of the compartments allotted to that nation. But should any package arrive without that information, it is to be placed in a compact. sent hit miscellaneom f, reign packer's. "That the mark and number of each package received at the Great Exhibition be inserted in a book Frovi led for that purpose, with the rotation number, the same of the nation, Immense vessel. and consignee er agent, with any other For tissimo which may be deemed necessary. "That books of a particular description be provided for the use of the landing waiters, each book to receive a rota tion number, beginning with No. 1 and signed by the land. lag surveyor, and afterwards passed to the controller of the warshossiag amounts for entry in to. ledger. " That epos the 'embassies of each package the original mark and number otiose perhaps be Inserted by the land ing waiter in his official book, together with the rotation sumber, the name of the nation, importing vessel, sad the or spat, thus—' A. 8., BD, l oast; Rotation No., 0 ; Natioo, Bream; importing tercel, Harlequin. J. flirdth, 00011411111 of agent; to which, upon the arrival of • bill of sight, is to be added the date and number of that dosament, and upon the weer of each book is to be kept an lade: of the peekages therein accounted for. " That the account taken by the landing-waiters do show the total number of ankles taken out of each case before sirmsesing the examination in detail. ' That each article liable to duty, aul upon which a doubt nista, is to ham a ticket attached to if, with the ro tation samba ot the package and the rotation number of tics ford& thus, No. i t s , No. No. 7, and so on, the upper figure denoting the number of the pasha(' sad the lower Ms member of the article out of the pa-kage ; bat should Baste be already attached to the amides, is it is •speatd they will be, the numbers are to be placed thereon, the taco or back, without defacing the exhibitor's mart. The ticketing and numbering articles fres of duty is to be dispensed with. "That all warehousing sights, upon which packages have bees Isnied mad forwarded to the Great Exhibitios, be per feseed, and special bond entered into within coven days of the dual examinatios of each consignment for the daty to whisk the goods in such consignment are liable, an fonds; to the number, weight, or declared value, as the ease may be (the dookutil value being approved by the lead , las tranerte Ise ass purpose); and it is to be understood that alinald the deelared mine it duty at the clot of the Zahlbitisei appear to the slimes to be inedielest the matter is to be submitted foe the essideration and &modem of the Beard of Canons. 7 'lbn ipoo ---- thelaradierwaitore receiving the warehousing bills of sight perflobod, which will be noted by the proper Winn of the Lesig-inte, showing that the special hod has bees notatod , yvi to nark oa the rase of the dna sent the number sod the bile of the book in which the az- ealTiotTeaOTibepeekTgeoii 1, 2.3: No. 1, folio fl,' with the Initials of the mosiaiss cam, by which mar • seedy Menace how the &mimeos to tie books, sad hen the book. to the pock, sad vice we. will be always et head. "That at the dm of the Imbibition all goods sot &mod paysoat of . or fir szparstiss, wfdds • sow& bus the day of & duty Mg, me to M vomovod M y a bowed mad dun 1121 mar lir mug rogolos; dhg lm =oosb to to soomodol is tie oldie oislooller of woothoodsg ossoosto w tbo SWUM= la alooplatloo tbotoof; and soder so stotovar aro goods to tr Omit to is.,. tho kslk#Yg Won the *alai of the 'l=l:tine to be observed by the saleeted nests sad en the imported= of goods it lesded fee tke Gnat Bakibitios of the Works of Industry of RI Madams .' • "All poinges is for the Great Ifilaibities ere Is be eatseed hes say other passes by • wore- Moft b idle the weeds ' Goods far the Great oily • pi* verities thanes; aad, se web ea alpeelel Is entails swim= say, the same- P ee ys( .o repsetiog silks, &vas, 'made, as., will be diApmeed with. " When seise@ are reqßred to lead packages so attired, the bill aloha& with the meth% to frees the cameral au thority of die aemehy kola wbith they are lervarded, that they ere Weeded Ist Me Great Exhibition, or,tu the abases@ of the latter, the bill of Whew orstateestried authorised by the ensigilye ecisaletiee, b is be I to sae nibble, be ern amps We is esisiVirip •. • • • . ••••• • • .• A FEW FACTS ABOUT HYDE-PARK. Mr. Charles Knight's " Cyclopedia of London" affords touts facto, not told for the Sett time, it is true, but yet int ensues and Worthy of a tomer is 'paper devoted to the illustration of everything connochell wi h the Crystal Uwe. Mr Haight aim - llyde.park, the Green and St. Jameeeparks, may be regarded u forming part of an uninterrupted epee of open pleasure ground. Each of these parks has its own peculiar character. St. James's, lyirg among palaces, mad hedged round on all sides 1 1 ••• • comparatively early period by the fashionable Weldences of the " West End," is the courtier. Hydra ' park, not yet quite surrounded by the town, and decidedly Wending into a rural neighbourhood, is the " fine old Wintry gentleman," essentially stately and noble, sad a leennier too on occasions, yet with a dash cf rusticity. Wanted in though this perk now is on &Weider by long 7•11 , of building*, one feels there, one breezy upland with a wide space of empty atmosphere cn sorry side, +kat must have been the charm of this place when the eye, look ing from it, fell in every direction on rural scenes, for Hyde-park until very recently was entirely in the country. And this remark naturally conducts as to those adventures and incidents associated with Hyde-perk which contribute even more than its rural position to under it less r sclusively et the court, courtly, then St. James's. Hyde-park was • favourite place of resort for those who Intereght in the Ist of May with the reverence once paid to' B. Pepys breathes a sish is his " Diary "en the evening • the 30 . k April, 1861 (he was then on a pleasure jaunt), to this 'Beat :—I am sorry I am not in London to be at Hyde park to-morrow morning, among the great gallants wad lairs, which will be very fine." It war very fine, for livalya has entered in hie 'Diary,' under the date of the {dottiest let of May referred to by Pepys :—" I went to Hyde-park to take the sir, where his Majesty and an illan marablo appearance of gallants and rich ruches' being now at lime of rani. , reel festivity and joy." But even during the away of the Pentane, the Londoners assembled here " to do estrenvenc. to May," as we learn from " &turd proo se dipm. of Bute Affain, 27th April to 4th May, 1684."—" Monday, let May. This day wee more observed by people going a Maylne than for divers pars past, and Indeed much sin com mitted by wicked meetings with fiddlers, drunkenness, ribaldry, and the like; greet resort came to Hyde-perk, many hundreds of coaches and gallants in attire, but most shame ful powdered hair men, and pointed and spotted women. Boma men played with a silver ball, end some took other recreation. But his Hipbone the Lord Protector went not thither nor any of the Lords of the Commonwealth, but were busy about the great affairs of the Commonwealth." We would give • trifle to know whether one John Milton, a Secretary of the Lord Protector, was equally self denying In 1654 the morning view from the Ring in Hyde-park must have been not unlike this description of what had met a poet's eye in his early mobilo— Oleg time maim eat mom v....heileamir dimmer helm green, amid Ma mama pte eie pats= Mir his date, Med la Imes sad amber Rehr The *oft le thememe Soria tight, While the elennheaen near at hand Whlathe eerie garroted lend; And the mama simeth blithe, And the sower dilb his scythe, And every amber* tees his tale Under the \imams hi the We. Be this as it say, the sports elected by the habitual fre quenters of Hyde-park at all times of the year had a manly Character about them, harmonising with its country situa tion. For example, although the Lord Protestor felt it inconsistent with his dignity to sanction by his presence the profane mummery of the Ist of May, he made himself amends for his stlf.denial • few days afterwards, as we learn from the Moderate Intellsgenete:—. In Hyde-park, this day, there was a hurling of a great ball by fifty Cornish gentle men of one side, and fifty on the other; one party played in red cape, arid the other in white. There was present his Highness the Lord Protector, many of his privy council, and divers entineat gentlemen, to whose view was presented great agility of body, and meet neat and exquisite wrestling, at every meeting of one with the other, which was ordered with such dexterity, that it was to show more the strength, vigour, and nimbleness of their bodies than to endanger their persona The ball they played witkel was silver, sad &dead for that party which did win the goal." Evelyn,l in May, 1658, " went to see a coach rue in Hide park; " 1 and Prpts =satirise in August, 1680, " To Hide-puke by coach, sad sow aline foot race three times round the park." Evelyn's coach race malls an accident which happened is Cromwell in Hyde-park, in 1064. Ludlow's version of Ibis story is:—The Duke of Holstein mode him (Cromwell) a rent of a set of grey Friesland poach-hones; with whisk Inking the air in the park, attended °sly with his secretary Thurloe and a guard MI Jaaiseries, he would needs take the place of the ossahmen, not clouting but the three pair of heroes he was about to dein would prove as tunas the three nations which were ridden by him • and therefore, not eon. teat with their ordinary pea, he le aked them veey fariousty. Bat they, unaccustomed to each a rosprh driver, ran away is • rep, sad stopped rut till they had thrown him out MI Ile hem with which fall his put xl fired in he pocket. without aey hurt to himself ; by which he waled have el he e eltettuoted how dangerous it wee to meddle wiStiMee things wherein be had no experience." Cromwell seems 10 1 have been partial to Hyde-park and its eavisime. The Weekly Post, enumerating the 006111i003 a ildie combo and Ceeill had lain In wait to assuelmetatat Hyde-park ("tie Mops of Hyde.perk-goto with Mud el Is order to tour eseape"), thumerstes same of lib silky all in this neleklmarbend :—" when he rode Is Hasigen sad theme the heck way to London ;" " wises he west to Hide park in his mach;' "whoa he went to Turnhath greets and so by Acton home ;" and " when he reds in Hide. park." Otte wild fancy him infitteneml by some attrestiva sympathy freeman his affections and the 'pot of earth in whisk he was destined to repose from hie stirring and career. The tuumnly indignities offered to kis dead karma not him, and they who degraded them. selmebybnl the deed were bit a sort of es toss more ha end wed brutal then are ordinarily to be mat with. Criswell elope ea sound at Tyburn, in the vieinity of his fammarite karate, as the rat of our Beek& oseerobe sleep at Westanissitert ea Windsor. The betiosable pert if Hyde-pot was keg coneasti within very narrow Ilmiw ; the Bin bathe, from all time te the Restoration till far in the nips of the the emetheim Imam of the beau most. Subse quently', Hemingtes-gardene, at the opposite extremit of the perk, wea appropriated by the rase th at lithe for enjoy , mess; bat eves attar that eyelet • sonsiderable epees within the perk remained allotted to the rougher berthas of lib. Boring the time of the Commenvrimith it theme private =Evelyn (11th April, 1663) complains feelingly of ego :—" I mat to Wu the airs in Hyde Park, where owe meth wee made to pay • dabs. a hone el:peace, by Me emit Idles (batboy Heim, of it Harder la-tkie nide. Nes.) who bed gimbaled it of the Mee, as they are failed." Mr. Hamilton, the MOOT ambled at eke Beath contioned for tun good pate m let the perk is Arms ; It est baying been easkeed with a well end restocked with deer tth IMO. Hyde-peek hes Ma ea early period dawn Is or ems dem been a Mew* Weft kr reviews. • splendid the took gle se the Borafru Pero " moist Is se 11114, wiles Min U. we did .tend" at e root, "eke bane sad bet mob by BM discharge their pm, to show a Preashe Meaerthes (Is Moo this smear wee eansed) the pedalos of our Irmo." Walpole I at a review of the egilitla is 17611. The B glea ode el the embus of the volunteers in the daye el Gorge 111. we bogged the omen of mar many rem. The esommease lba Mope la Brine* in 1799, - after Lord Otago lkiklelllol the mara thon in 1799, mum he pima twee la Moon ; as Hee the warlike doings of the Best In th e Bempthlthrolo 1814. Bat llyth.pork, unlike St. Sams% W Mhareed the ms taring of reel as well es rimy warm.. It woo the =tt modervoth of tbe Ommasireektk troops the Mil war. 800 eel ILasinell Thalr hew her., and Croswell reviewed Ida beep Bathes Rus 4 w 1 "% as . 7 I