The Sun. — London, England, 1852-04-17 00:00:00

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Were the bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pertleeton, for example, arranged along the front of the ;eel lery, they would be vie wed by the spectators on the floor, and be seen for the first time in this count: V, at that angle and under that flood of light for ss'aiclt their immortal producer especially designed them. Beauties and effects would be manifested which never he appreciated while those marbles remain as they now are, stuck against the wall of a confciaed room in the building in Great Russell-street. In addition to the original series of the Assyrian, Egyptian, Lycian, elginetan ' and Athenian 8(14- tures, with th e T own l ey Collection, other requisite links in the progressive or descensive scale of tne art might, with the ample space afforded by the Cr estal Palace, be supplied by means of casts. Sculp ;ore has this great advantage over the sister art, that her masterpieces can be more precisely, and at less costs repeated and reproduced. It is thus that at the Louvre the finest examples of our Elgin Marbles are riage seated. The Selinuntin© series is in like manner illustrated by casts in the British Museum. Casa of all the finest examples of every school and period of the art might be assembled and placed in their natural and most instructive relative position in a bulling spacious enough to admit of that only rational mode of displaying a national collection of sculpture. In such a building, the evidence of the art as it existed--rising, stationary, or declining —among the ancients, would be followed by the different schools of modern sculpture. Already some attempts have been made to assemble together the illustrations of such schools in this country. The Taylor Institu tion at Oxford contains a series of casts of the chief productions of the chisel of Chantrey ; and in h juxtaposed sta shouldposed necessitate typical excellences University C o ll ege, London, there has lately been assembled a s i m il ar series of the works of Flaxraan- No one can d ou b t that the proper locality for ; uch illustrations of m o d ern art should be in the nat i ona l Glyptothele, wh ere t h e i r characteristic beauties or de fects might be tested a n d un d erstood by a ready earn' art. And, sinc e pl aster casts can be multiplied, it by no means follows th a t t h e completion of the public e t or national v4t series halls already adorned b y suc h copies of the final one marbles. e h l e l e s n p c o e i s i a t o i o f the With a locality offering ample space for such seldi tions to our contemplated collection, encouragement would be given to add to the schools of Flaxman and of Chantrey casts of the best productions of Bailey and Gibson, and similar illustrations, readily obtained from abroad, of the excellences of Canova and Thor waldsen. Casts of the best productions of Roubillac, such as the Newton in Trinity College, Cambridge, his Shakspere, &c., might be obtained, and the satiate, style of that period, so seen, might operate by way of warning, and instruct by contrast with the purer and severer styles. The Crystal Palace affords adequate space for the realization of this idea ; it alone offers the essential con ditions for making a right use of the treasures we al ready possess, and for the relief of an overburdened and heterogeneous museum, where the sculptures are now scattered in separate apartments, and isolated from the other fine-art collections belonging to the nation. If a commission, with a foregone conclusion, were desirous to impress the public with the impracticabi lity of such a plan of utilizing at once our meth nal collection of sculptures and the Crystal Palace, tesey would call before them no eminent artist in t bat branch, but the respectable antiquary to whose are those sculptures have hitherto been assigned, and whose not uncomfortable domestic arrangements (to which, with those of other keepers and librarians, the architectural effect of the British Museum has been sacrificed) might possibly be disturbed by any con templated removal of a large proportion of his present charge from their present unfit and inadequate loca lity. The commission would select the gravest of his objections and incorporate them in their daninatory report ; and what the value of Mr. Hawkins's argu ments may be, the public can judge by the sample so selected. Statues, according to him, cannot be dissevered from vases, coins, and mummies et and, therefore, were the sculptures arranged in the Crys tal Palace, it would be necessary to have the same protective forcer as during the Great Exhibition, in order to prevent the abstraction of portable and pocketable objects of antiquarian reverence ! The idea is simply absurd ; but it has become rooted in the worthy keeper's mind, by long contemplation of the heterogeneous assemblages of objects . which are crowded in the rooms and cellars of his departm( nt. His objection is chiefly of value as a sample of those that the commission has put forward as being strongest and most conclusive against the obvious application of the Crystal Palace to accommodate in a natural, or derly, and instructive sequence of arrangement, the unrivalled collections of sculptures which Great Bri tain already possesses. Most of the chef d'auvres of ancient sculpt are were designed to stand exposed to the free light of Heaven. Our climate does not admit of such exposure ; but that buildi ng comes nearest to t h e eri eine' conditions under which the masterpieces of Phidias were intended to be seen which affords them the requisite shelter with the most expanded environ ment of light and space. That a building of glass and iron is adequate to the due protection and display of sculpture, we have, besides the evidence of lest year's success in the Crystal Palace itself, the much longer experience of the conservatory at Sion-house, to prove. Many must have witnessed, through the large-minded facilities freely afforded by its present noble and kind-hearted possessor, the fine examples of Gibson's art, which ere so b e autifully placed in that miniature Crystal Palace ; and all _ who so availed themselves of the Duke of North umberland's liberality must have admired the background against effect of the evergreen against which the pure marbles stood relieved. By such a background might our systematicall y arranged and properly displayed national sculptures be sur rounded in the Crystal Palace, were its gifted origi nator's happy idea of a winter garden c arr i e d out It would be difficult to imagine a more delightful promenade, a more soul elevating spectacle, than the Crystal with its Palace, combination of sculpture and foliage—the ever graceful and endless varieties of the forms of a beautiful class of God's works, asso ciated with the highest and noblest productions of human art. 1 have often had occasion to study toe effects which the spectacle of our sublime collections of nature nod art produces on the crowds of careworn artisans sod their :families which throng the Museum on he customary holidays that are interposed few and re far between, to eeliethe routine of dail y recurring toil. It is while contemplating the works of sculpture that the too common aspect of lowering discontent and malaise most generally changes to an expression indicative of a re cognition of an art and a class of mind superior to their own. The idealized beauty of the human fords, and an instinctive appreciation of the skill which pro duced it, seem to engender a transient revival of that sentiment of reverence which the low weekly neo s papers, that mainly supply the intellectual sustenance of the weekly-wage class, systematically endeavour to extinguish. The means of innocent recreation, especially com bined with any elevating influences, at the command of the multitudes who live by wage-paid labour in this overgrown and over-populous city, are fearfully few. Can it be any part of the duty of a wise or good Government to wantonly destroy what might, with singular economy and dispatch, be added to those much-needed sources of healthy and improving en joyment ? LONDON SATURDAY 'l'4 • , • N o 18 587 ] 5 , • tt . thetti - 7 APRIL 17, 1859 [PRICE SD. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. • FROM 'VIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. • TIMES.L—Lord Derby , had better have " gone to the country" at once. .Discussion ,is as damaging to Pro tection ifieduition to Popery. His Lordship thought no frt ; :h ty .A 4j d f inainDi°star-Whig the pC'°ercust)liTrt4. few e6 4 nil a itions of finance, but his Supporters are determined to drag him into broad da)light. Mr. G. F.• Young and Sir Fitzroy Kelly have undone all that the Chancellor of the Exchfquor wits ben; upon doing. Protectionism plainly tures out to be nothing nut Protectionism ! , and LOrd Derby and his colleagues are the Men to restore it. So says their own Solicitor- General, anclso says their own chosen champion. And, by wayed clearing the road for Protectionism, .Sir Fitz roy Kelly and Mr. G.' F. Youtig have bearn at work for 'he last fortnight in demolisniog free trade. Our readers have been made aware of the remarkable line of argument now adopted. It consists in a plain, simple, eild concise assertion that free trade has not done so eareh as it has undone, foie that our home produce has diminished in a greater degree than our imported produce hag increased, so that the aggregate of ge neral consumption must inevitably have been less. " Not one additional ounce of bread," says Sir Fitzroy " has found its way to English mouthe." With some what more statistical elaboration Mr. G. F. Young has been • recently " demonstrating!' .that " our vaunted prosperity" is, in every single item, a delusion; that pauperism and beggary have been increased, the com forts of life'diminished, and 'commerce virtually ruined t ) y she Operation of tree trade, woile our own assertions eat free trade has been eminently satisfactory to all but -tie losers of former monopolies have been subjected to *milt sieand disproof." It is usually accounted me etvil to leave a letter without an answer, and as Mr. G. F. Young has just concluded his eighth communication, ii probably expects a." reply." Ihe extent of our in dulgence, however, in this respect must be the reduction his,whole - nue to half-eedozen - paragraphs. Truth cue, generally, be put very , shortly, and. the real test of the entire question is at everybody's right" hand. Mr. G. R Youag .declares, in contradic tion to ourselves, that Protectionism has gained by the trial of free' trade, that converts from the latter to the former policy have been made, and that 'he acquiescence of the country in Sir Robert Peel's great measure is a palpable fallacy. This is the sum and substance of his arguments.' Now, Mr. Young, will you have the kindness, for the sake of public in• formation, to answer us one simple question? You have been striving to prove that not only are the producers of corn dissatisfied with free trade and anxious for protec non, but the consumers of bread as well; in fact, it is the purport of your case to establish circuitously what Sir Fitzroy K •Ily positively affirmed, that bread -eaters have had less bread, as well as smaller means, under tree trade than tinder protection. If this is the truth, pray tell us whet are the apprehensions which prevent Lend Derby and his Cabinet from honestly declaring themselves Protectionists? Two month ago the Go vernment of the country tumbled into their hands, and as it was the second time of tumbling, they were fain to pick it up. They are now, as the .phrase goes, "in eower;" and yet you have soy n that there is not a single Meister who has ventured to untold the standard of protection. Not all the taunts or tactics of a formidable Opposition have been sufficient to force Lord Derby into an active profession of his political creed. On the contrary, the members of the! Administration, exactly in proportion to their responsibility, have fought. with the necessities of their position by every trick of fence, and have shunned the very word " Protection," as if it carried with it the stigma of duplicity or folly. How, then, on your assumption that the country is as sick or free trade as you are, de you explain such timidity as this? It is perfectly notorious to every man in the three kingdoms who Cali read or listen, that the Press •nt Ministry is appreh ens i ve o f such a resistance to a protective policy as May defeat their attempts. It is :Also clear that this opposition - is anticipated from the ereat mass of the community, including especially those. eiihout direct representation in the Legislature, for, as to mere Parliamentary strength, the Protectionists.have always turned "territorial influence" to sufficiently good aciasauf. Yet Mr. Disraeli himself at Aylesbury did openly acknowledge that whatever, in his eyes, might be t h e merits of the system, the, acquiescence of the country iti ever so small a protective duty on corn was a thing to be almost despaired of; and even Sir Fitzroy Kelly, no longer ago than last Wednesday at Woodbridge market, after expatittiog on the universal ruin result ing from tree trade, was driven to suggest that " the restoration of the corn-laws, and the re-investment of agriculturists with the protection they had so long en joyed," was likely to prove so "impracticable" as to compel the adeption of an equivalent. Wedonot quote Mr. Cobden or Sir James Graham on this point; we take the words of the Protectionist leaders themselves, and we only state a noio6•us fact in asserting that they appre hend a certain insurmountable resistance to the revive more of those pompous . st a t ements wh i c h have b een s o triumphantly put forward of the increased comforts of the people. Let the sense of the country bo no longer nothing— long estimates of imports that 141 to no result. Let of figuresithat prove fallen off as much as the foreign import has increased? imposed P c 6 o 6 a: to uponthe by y e question.arrays If it has not, we admit that the brad-consunaing people Hasfthe home production of these countries do purchase more than they did under a system of protection. If it has, the only effect of free trade bus been to enrich foreigners at the expense of our own agricultural population. We do not agree with the Times that. there are no data from which the calculation can bo made. Mr. George Frederick Young's letters nave afferded them. Th e very article in the Times that denies .it indicates the Materials by which the truth can, within reasonable limits, be ascertained. The Times ad mite, that it we are to take the returns of the inspectors in the towns of the quantities of corn sold in this country, the proposition of Sir Fitzroy Kelly is very nearly made out. Ihere has b een , b etween 18 46 an d 1850, a diminution in th e quantity of corn, of home growth, sold tu our towns, very nearly equal to counter balance the increase in importation trom abroad. But in addition to this we are t o p l ace the a l most total cessation of our importations from Ireland upon the debit side of the account. In that ill-fated country half a million of acres went out of wheat cultivation in two years. In estimating the quantity now consumed by oar people we must, place the wheat raised upon these acres on the negative side, together with the diminished quantity sold in our: market towns, and together they exceed the increase in the importations. If there be doubt or difficulty in the matter let it up.becleartehdatit isnot W country is so deficient in the means of s t at i st i ca l infor mationUS to as ce rt a i n whether we eat more bread now than we did in 1845. Will a ny surely tr Free-trader in either Heuseof_tarliarnent venture to move for a Committee to inquire - lOW the fact? If there be no one hardy enough to attempt it, w e ma y p e rhaps e possible will o not be told that the conclude that it is because the inquiry would exhibit as great a falling.off in the food consumed by the working classes as that which undoubtedly has taken place in the incomes of the better classes. The subject is one which obviously cannot be let drop. Its correct ascertainment will obviously influence the verdict which the country will pronounce upon the question of free trade. We challenge the advocates of that system to prove that a single additional ounce of bread has found its way to the lips of an Englishman. It is impossible to overrate the service which has been done to the national cause by the Solicitor General and Mr. George Frederick l Young, when they challenged the investigation of this subject. The more thoroughly it is sifted, the greater will be , our triumph; and we are still of the opinion which the _limes held on Wednesday, that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman's speech at Harwich placed the question of Protection upon grounds which, it established, as we know they will be, will go far to terminate the war of I F-assea, and secure for the Protectionist cause the opinion of all that is enlightened and intelligent in the nation. Let it not be forgotten that all our opponents now venture to as sert is that the truth cannot be ascertained, and that there are "no data from which a correct calculation can be made!" No wonder they assail the speech (they have not attempted to assail the letters) that has extorted this retractation. It were ungenerous, perhaps, t o tri umph over the contrast with the vauntings of last we e k. A few plain and manly words have verily done good service to the cause of home industry and truth. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (From the Times.) There are in th is metropol i s rat h er more t h an two • millions' of peopl e , an d i t may b e sa id o f the m, with hardly an excepti on , that they reside in it only as long as they have, no other alternative. They reside for their business, for their public duties, for the fashionable season, end hie away to the green fields, to the moors, to the coast, or the continent, the instant they have ac complished the last 'turn of the traadwheel. Those who eau, do this every day; those who cannot do more, do it every year; and all indulge in the vision of a quiet old age, spent among evergreens and flower beds, and ell the soothing sounds of nature,—anywhere, indeed, ex cept in this dingy, dirty, stenchy, smoky, noisy metro polis. All this is so familiar that it seems quite natu ral. But how can it be natural when it is not so in any other metropolis, at least to nearly a like extent? It is net so at Paris. People go there to live and die. How is this? Among other reasons—for there are many-- not the least is the want of proper buildings, instittie tions, gardens, and promenades for public recreation, health, and improvement. Not having a municipal government, asd being dependent on precarious fits of Parliamentary or Ministerial generosity, we have to look chiefly to private speculation for our amusement and instruction. The result is, that there is little done for the great mass of the people; and there is little done for any class in a grand and satisfactory manner. They who reside in town the whole year, and must reside there, know how difficult it is to find the means, not merely of diverting their own minds for a few hours from painful thoughts or laborious occupations, but for giving their children a useful holi day. This is our usual want. When young people, and we may add old people, have been they know not how many times to the British Museum, the Zoological Gardens, the Polytechnic, the Moving Dioramas, Hampton Court, an d a few other more or less accessible sights, they often ask what is there to see which they have not exhausted, and which they cannot exhaust in an hour. Where will they find plenty of cheerful company, happy children, well-dressed women, moving about among an abundance of objects to interest and please and improve them? If we p u t thi s ques ti on ourselves, it is not to Timon in a cave , or Di ogenes i n a tub. We are appealing to those who have the hearts of l e f lv a e t s onpartce, dependent forof ev theireorn. . societybod happiness. would o a u n l d d have said, " We had such a place last year — we h ave not such a place this year." T m h e external ne ,questiona n d objects w h o a n o s wf W ar e t h s h e i e rt greateres Yet there is no reason at all, nothing but the most paltry considerations, to prevent our retaining, within the Crystal Palace, a large and sufficient quantity of chose attractions which were found so admirably t o suit the wants of this metropolis last year. There was nothing temporary in the nature of that Exhibition, ex cept in its cost, and to some extent its incompleteness, for, had it been for a permanency, it would have been done better. There was nothing temporary in collec tions to illustrate the productions of nature and the pro gress and variety of art. There was nothing temporary in magnificent specimens of that sort, which are often the heirlooms of noble or royal families. There was nothing temporary in the collection of caste and bronzes, fountains, models, masterpieces of manufacture, and trophies of material or of art. There was nothing tem porary in the company, except that it was more inconveniently numerous then it would be in a permanent exhibition. There was nothing temporary in the purpose ; nothing in the voluntary and self-supporting character of the Exhibition; nothing in the management. There is is no weighty reason, then, why, in a certain moderate degree, we should not have the Exhibition of 1852 natu ralized in Hyde-park. Nay, as we have intimated, there are many great improvements that might be made, in the event of its permanent maintenance —gardens of va rious temperatures for the different seasons, galleries for the display of pictures, antiquities, and curiosities of too bulky a character for museums. All this might be done, and last year's experience proves that it might be done. If the feasibility of a permanent Exhibition is cavilled at now, the feasibility of the Great Exhibition was cavilled at little more than a twelvemonth ago. The present opposition is precisely as groundless, as selfish, as frivolous as that was; it is only a little more wily and quiet. Grown wise by experience, the malignants now work under ground. But the opposition is substantially , the same, and the object of that opposition is substan tially the same as it was in the autumn of 1850. In both cases there is a noble and a simple plan for public improvement and recreation, and an array of petty pre judices and local interests against it. ctsh.mxigohtthing2. Still more would the place serve for a standing Polytechnic in works of art. Every description of valve, crank, spindle, joint, bevelled wheel, screw, axle, lever, &c., ought there to stand in order. One hour's inspec tion is worth a month of hard work at books. Detail k t i o tc o h b e v n ia v te ess d e i lh c a u v lt e ie a s is invaluable to the inventor. Hours of ill-spent labour might thus be spared to the half -'aught ingenious mechanic. Hundreds of machines were not represented in the Exh . ibition. A standing institution would obviate this. n " 0 : . 1 ' , ri t too, g o h , t i g should l,to n r not every place s e u v p e r ew y r ihonerer Lucifer ei h itfs i e u r g mm e e , ar lock, ti or even be come known? Our comfort is dependent on these vulgar trifles. Thousands of pounds are gained by the produc• tio • really deserves contempt. I need hardly mention the imm ense i m p or t ance o f a standicg collection of phil osop hi cal instruments. Not a new book, p r i nt , not a picture or statue, but might there address itself to t h e eyes and tastes of the public. Does not the world reco l lect how the Crayons in Westminster-hall taught th e R oyal Academy men that there was other charcoal in existence? A poor artist has no chance of becoming known. Again, everybody pities the p oor f armer. Suppose, instead of expensive agricultural meetings, he could go at any moment and see all which could be seen in the implement department. He would find it convenient whenever he came to London, especially if he could personally inspect the best collection of seeds in the world, say nothing of all sorts of oileake, broken rice, Indian corn, and feeding stuff. Much, too, might be done in the way of farmyard models, suggestive of the neatest process of making muck and money; the former would soon be protected much more than it is. Not a pattern, not a model ought to escape the prying purveyors for the World's Museum. The eye can only by degrees be trained for design. Our humbler artists have but an indifferent chance. Our northern clime does . not bestow the suggestive flora of the East; nor have our common people the geometrical training which pro duced the pattern of the Alhambra. Idolatry does not task our energies to produce the ideal of the marvellous. Even the antiquary, with his spectacles on his nose, might have a sacred corner. The British Museum does not contain everything in the world; no, not by a very great deal. It is all very well to say that last year did its work. I beg leave to insinuate that it was all hurry, flurry, and smell. Nobody could get at things in a quiet way. More over, people never learn much when they gape with astonishment. They had not time to settle down and think. I wonder what the railway people and the steam na vigation companies are doing. Make England a central spot, and you will not depriciate railway shares any how. One never goes to Sheffield or Manchester without see ing lots of foreigners staring about and trying to see what they can. Men there have told me that no visitors are more welcome. They see and buy, and comp to buy again, especially now that we do a little in return. Thera is not an inventor, not a man of genius who would not reap benefit. Lastly-, for educational purposes it would be invalu rwohveedn; the ba s i c d h e o s eo nobody i s invalu able. One co u ld wr i te a book on this one point of the argument. If it be said that th e b u ildi ng is not perfect. Granted. It is rather like a long square spout, to look down the might be tent imP knocksnave. B d u o t wn th a i n s indifferent be tween that or none. We might remedy that defect. If the holders of property near are so seriously in jured, I must remind them that the barracks and two or three non-savoury localities are just as near, and we apparently cherished objects in that locality. I have not attempted to fill up the argument. lam no enthusiast. I wish every one would ponder over the far-sighted instantice of Bacon and endeavour to grasp the idea of the possible utility of the thing. lam argu ing, not from a feeling of satisfaction at that which was done last year, but for a deep sense of the thousands of defects, gaps, and short-comings of the far-famed ephe mera of 1851. SHIP NEWS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 16.—Wind E.S.E.—The schooner Adelina, of Dartmouth, in proceeding to sea, •Feb. 10, came in contact with a barque, which struck the Adelina. on the quarter, carried away the whole of the stern, and obed her to ret urn i n t o d oc k. MADEIRA, APRIL B.—The French ship Bakel, from Senegal fur Havre, sank on March 23, in lat. 48, long. 15 %V. of Paris ' after being in contact with the N ew Margaret, from Liverpool for Calcutta, which arrived off this port on April 6, landed the crew of the Bakel, and then proceeded on her course. NEW YORK, MARCH 31.—The Citizen, hence, arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, reports having seen about 30 boxes afLat on March 19, one of which was picked up, and proved to be a sugar box, containing a few pounds of sugar, and marked " B" in a diamond, " No. 55, La Palma, 141." I have the honour to be, Sir, yours most obediently, Highgate. A. B. --- CUXHAVEN, APRIL 13.—A brig is on shore in the VVestertalL BREMERSHAVEN, APRIL 11.—A kroff is reported to have sank iu the Gunway, near the Beacon, on April 9. BRAKE, APRIL 11.—The Verwachting, from Sunder land for Vegesack, sank between the second light-vessel and the Bremen Beacon on April 10; one man saved. RIO JANEIRO, MARCH 15.—0 n the afternoon of the 3d of March this city and bay were visited with a tremend ous hurricane and thunderstorm, the wind suddenly shift ing considerable injury has been done among the shipping in port, particularly to the following: The British bark Zuleika, the British schooner fiche, the banish schooner Fertune, the Nova Scotia Brig Frederichsteen, the Swedish brig Jenny, the Sweedish schooner Othello, the American balk Indus. The Chamois, which sailed hence on the 15th of February, for Bahia, put back on the same day, with master dead, and some of the crew laid up with yellow fever. ALICANTE, APRIL 6.—The Prussian ship Flora, being leaky in her upper seams, has discharged part of her cargo, and proceeded to Carthagena to repair. BONNE, APRIL 7.—The Maria Louisa, of and from Memel, for Ireland, was stranded on the east side of this island on the sth of April; crew saved. BALTIMORE, APRIL I . —The Christina Murray, hence for Liverpool, is in the river, the crew having taken the boat and run away last night. THISTED. APRIL 9.—The Onderneming, of and from Harlingen for Deniz z, sprung a leak at sea, April 4, and was put en shore near Orum on the 7th, to prevent her sinking; crew saved, vessel a wreck. LOWESTOFT, APRIL 14 —The Fame, from London for Whitby, reports having been in contact, on the 11th of April, in Sea Reach, off Oldhaven, with the steamer Sir Edward Banks; the former stove in larboard bow. The:Waterlily sailed from St. John's, Newfoundland, December 17, for Zente, and has not since been heard of. GRAVESEND, APRIL IG.—Wind, E., blowing strong, clear sky. Arrived—Europa, Albatross, Eucharist, and Argo, from Norway; Mary Lyons, and Mead, from Cadiz; Simon Magnus, from Demerara; Gottshaab, from Nor way; John Bull, from Hanaburgh; Courier, from Moga dore; Gitana, from China; Marealla, from Leghorn; Concord and Advance, from Alexandria; Le Coq, from Cherbourg; Blackfriars, from Sydney; Fanny, from Marseilles; Josephine, from the Cape of Good Hope; Faleori,- from Sines; John Bull, from Boulogne; Seringa fpreotmana be fr r o b m ico; Calcutta; Aikr ton, Daphne, andJ o e s e eepmh China. Seiled.—Furet, for Graveline s • Isabella, for Jersey ; C s p h o e r p t p o a ; rd Dublin, , frmo Isabella, for Jersey; Falstaff, ior Honduras ; City of Paris, for Boulogne. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH, Kate Howe, from New Orleans for Liverpool, March 19, in fat 40, long 53. Erasmus, from Cardiff for Penang, Feb. 8 in lat. 31 S. long. 2 W. , , long. 20 W. Dun, from f H i ll )m nti C er ala M e C ar o c a ll si ' C i f2 l : . l.o3rNeondon, March 23, iu Ist. 20, bound 2o'long.9 IV Teinpfor Calcutta, Jan. 24 10 leagues S. of the Ile des Date. Th of e E the ogli same isla sh ud ue Nepaul, J an. 24, 20 leagues E.S.E. . Calphurnia, from London for Port Philip, Feb. 9, in lat. 29 S., long. 30 W. English ship Sir Colin Campbell, steering S.E , Feb. 9. City of Poona, bound foe London, Feb. 18, in lat. 35 S., long. 22 E. Araminta from Mobile for Liverpool, March 23, in lat. 31 N., 10ng,.74 W. As for the host of small objections, it is scarcely ne cessary to waste a word upon them—in the first place, because they are really infinitesimal, and then because the question notoriously does not depend on them. No man in his senses can doubt for a moment, from his own knowledge, besides the evidence given before the late Commission, and set at nought by it, that it would cost a mere trifle to make the building capable cf standing many years, to keep it in repair, to divide it into proper divisions for various purposes, to warm it in cold weather, to provide guardians, and everything else ne cessary. To make a winter garden, to get casts of all the best sculpture in the world, to procure models of great cities and mountains, and, pace pacatorum, models of land and naval battles, to transfer hither some of the shiploads of antiquities now packed into the corners and cellars of the Museum, to place hero the won derful plants a hundred and fifty feet long always arriving from the Antipodes—all this is only a question of horses and men; and if, as one of the wit nesses observed to the late Commission, a locomotive weighing more than forty tons can be drawn through London, placed in the Exhibition, and then taken away again without the public k now i ng anyt hi ng a b ou t it, there is no difficulty whatever in filling the building just as is thought best. But, in fact, all the minor objections are set at rest for ever by the offer now made by private persons to take the building off the hands of Govern ment, and give us a permanent Exhibition at their own risk; of course under proper regulations. All the non sense about the thin glass, the rain, and the hail—the sashes of green wood, the cost of coal and coke, the ex pense of police, and all the rest of it, is thus dis missed in a moment. If Parliament—and to Parliament the question must ultimately be left—will only let others undertake it, we shall have an Exhibition not quite so showy, so glittering, so mercantile, or crowded as it was last year, but all the better adapted for constant use. We do not want all the Palate Royal, or all Manchester, all Sheffiield, all Leeds, or all Cornwall in the Exhibition." We can do with less of these things. But there is much to take their place. If it answers, and if the Exhibition becomes constantly popular, we presume that will be considered a success. But there is the rub. The malignants are afraid, not that the Exhibition in its new form will be a failure, bat that it will draw too constantly and too well. "We shall never have Hyde-park to ourselves. We shall always have Piccadilly choked with busses and cabs, and always have that ugly building before our drawing-room windows." As for the said drawing-rooms, as the offer now before us comprehends pecuniary compensation to the owners of property said tia be injured, that is a ques tion of X. s. d. As to the vulgarizing of the Park, the dust at Knightsbridge, and the stoppage of Piccadilly, we really do not calculate on an average attendance of more than ten thousand persons a-day, and that will be hardly a sensible addition to the traffic of that tho roughfare. Bat, as this is only the real objection, and the only one at all likely to be fatal, we will just take the liberty to ask whether the present First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings is exactly the man to defend Hyde-park from the foot of the labouring man, and British aristocracy from plebeian contact? What was the meaning of all those little books full of quaint bal lads and sentimental poems, describing the lords of the soil as the natural leaders and associates of the g p i e o oble inw Was s e i ir t m bn e s r i e ne s s e s n , ti t m h e e na Wasirsports, a i n t d th t e hei their r reli gion? It - momen tary weakness betrayed by Nero when he wept for the execution of a criminal? Was it mere twaddle? Should Lord John Manners be the man to drive London out of Hyde-park, and to deprive all classes of the most successful reunion they hare had for many a year, the last and least favourable explanation of Lord John Manners's early poems will be adopted. It is to Parlia ment, however, that the appeal must now be made. protection and the reversal of free trade. Now, pray, Mr. Young, if the whole country is indeed butt-in% tegecner, how is this rt sistunce to he c , instituted, and on what convic:ions does it depend ? Will you be kind enough to tell us this ? and will Sir Fitzroy Kelly ex plait.' in his next address why upon earth it should be (1,-etned " imeracticable" to reverse a system which has grievously offended one class of the population, without giving .‘ one single additional ounce , of bread" to the otners ? Is it not manifest to every man who can put two i , ieas together that the Protectionists are wishing to get something at the expense of the nation, and that they are atraid the nation will not per mit them to turn their accidental power to such ac e:Aa? And, if such is the national feeling, as it plainly is, for otherwise the Peotectionists would rather lose tnan gain by • their present dissimulation, on what can it rest except a national satisfaction with free-trade policy ? Why, in the name of common sense, if the operation of tree trade has made the revival of- protec tion universally desirable, should , the universal repug nance to protection be so strong that even Mr. Disraeli despairs of reviving it except is disguise? If, as Sir Fezroy Kelly and Mr. G. F. Young have computed and affirmed, there is no class or interest—not even that of t!read-eaters--which has not been a positive and visible loser by the effects of free trade, where are we to took for that strength of the F,ee-traders before which the Frotectiouists shrink with an irrepressible presentiment of failure? We assert once again that let complaints have ever been brought against tree trade exit, pt ay those who originally opposed its introduction. the impugners of free trade at the present moment are composed exclusively of the adversaries of free trade in 1846. They have not experienced the accession of any ailitteal converts, whereas, on the other hand, it is im pssible to take up a newspaper without reading the ad dress of some quondam Protectionist, who, atter. de- Jouncing the way in which free trade .was carried," and owning perhaps to a private hankering alter the old fleshpots, concludes, nevertheless, With an acknowledg rnont that, as the policy " cannot now be reversed," he is willing to make the best of it. If Mr. G. F. Young has any doubts about the meaning of such admissions as these we can set them at rest for him. They mean that, as the people have now had a taste of cheap bread, it is felt " impracticable" to take it out of their mouths again. iIIER,ALD.—Has the free importation of foreign corn increased the quantity of bread consumed by the people of England? Phis is the question upon which Sir Fitzroy Kdly has boldly taken issue with the Free traders. We cannot permit, our friend of the Times to escape the issue upon wnich, on Wednesday, be staked his adhereoco to the cause of free trade. Yesterday he endeavours to escape the consequence of his imprudent admission —that the question of tree trade was disposed of, it it wer, , untrue that it had given the people more to eat. Whether our contemporary abides by that ad mission is certainly not a matter of indifference, because we du not undervalue the importance of such an adhe siou as that of the Tunes would be to the Protectionist cause. But the nation, let thd Times act as it may, will thoroughly understand and appreciate the importance of the question with wit ich wo have headed these re marks. The late Sir Robert Peel was the first who SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent front th e %num poet-officeby the night—and Mby the morning —dispatch,] , 1 :,.. .. , , irthrtritvAiritle or. TIIE CAPITAL PALACE. -' e N OTICE.-In consequence of the Chief Commissioner of Weeks ... (- 1 - e. ..;'. ti „eeee. .' eavl • e i ~ -og issued peremptory instructions to close the Building in Hyde- ~ • ( '' Park, the Committee for the Preservation of the Crystal Palace have -- ~.,'",_l 4 day removed to the King's Arms Hotel, New Palace-yard, West ' ',taster, where all communication are requested to be addressed. JorPq ROBERT WARREN, Hon. . . JOHN MORGAN DEERE, 5 Secs. '' - 1114 0, 1852. er - - -- - _________eeseee.ee, ..., , .......„,.., THE Bishop of LONDON versus the Rev. J. E. • . • - GLADSTONE. N°. 18,587.] LONDON (' . 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I o tig ah em _ N ether east, west, north, or . south -for any profession. line of such bra-ch railway; 2nd, a Bill for making .P the eleern ey ' r ss• agriculturalists, mechanics, oe gold-digger a -for a 1 10;,,iver ai °r a shorter one, every accommodation is afforded by a r stlWay from Highhridge to Glastonbury, in the e •' 1 'ter - , --3 an s ,f s • Y o teprove OUTFITS furnished at a cheap rate by E. county of Somerset, to be called the Somerset Central (- - of e, Way co a. These Outfits are not only cheap, but they are R ai l way. VI ~.. 'tee ',edve e n4 Plete. and portable, and are the most surprising proofs Toe CHAIRMAN said that he could not explain the oh• " the o oNi fecti,,ees secured to every Emigrant applying to E. MOSES h ; . , 6 ,''s ?, tf l ‘ ttinu, i 3 Outfit. fhe unprecedented -patronage bestowed on ,Jeers of the, meeting more clearly . than they were ex- •) 1 ' ,"bris, - die a , e Partment of E. MOSES and SOS'S gigantic bust - plained by the adsertisement-it was merely to approve r e ,,, , , 0 s ii ,,,, Oat satisfactory evidence of their unrivalled qualities- e ih , Bilis, whic i had al ready ben submitted to the shire- We rk . 4l 4 , • Y t he most suitable Outfits for all classes of Emigrants. ~ • i • 41 g '' he •• . ~ , ,- ors h.,1,1“re in order that the solicitors might give evidence ,sst,in„ or from L. 1,10,5 E,, and SON t., a gentleman • , vi I vete ''')" or e e 4 eY consoler himself frilly equlppe,l and ready for any before the House of Lords of that tti.t. btotti s upi ll , 3 7 cop I d , -ntrY. All articles comprehended ie the peerless The solicitt-re hn - iiiig read the drac:s of the Bills, ,-' Qr at - "len A' "Y E. MOSES and SON are of warranted superiority, Mr. BOUCHER objected to the power being given to ex- P 11 1 ' 5 4 /. 1 1 1 5 d est e t - na fo u r the Emigrant's daily use either during his journey tee sure.•rip-ign to the Cantral Somerset Company d is,' 0,, 3. , , i , T on. E. MOSES and SON furnish these OUTFITS tend o gi,td - ' ap pit . • s •, ilk its., and upwards. A detailed list can be from 10,0001 to 13,000/, . 1 , ore. eatMn, or forwarded, post free, to any part of the The CHAIRMAN explained that it was only power S ir Sti le given, but which could not be uss . d wi!tiout the c )nsent " I, $ 4 ND GLIARDIIN - FIOULD IMMEDIATELY INSPECT THE 0 ' ' '' 4 ert t. „, - TrLes t .... , " s ~8 - of the shareholders; hut there was nu intention at present P Ile, et , e oCVENILE ~,LOTHING. THEY COMPRISE GREATER a to extend the sub-cription. • ttia, ~.,- 4ATERIAL AND DESIGN THAN EVER BEFORE DISPLAYED Toe SECRETARY also explained that it might be " 0 , ••tro TSIENT ' I. LO . - important tor them to have two directors at the Central a 14 • Ilde n E. MOSES AND SON. Somerset board, but Lord Rodesdale would not allow e' I. IS C al' Eat it , ; ,...ktlll 8 , , .. ablianment, 154, 155, 156, and 557. Minoriese et. them to have two directors at the board unless the sub- P it Itti c prion , a , 41 cigate, opposite the Church, all comnannica . scription was inside 13,0001 Lord Redesdale thought I ' 0 • 4 ,4 "eat- Branch, 506 507 508 Now Oxford-street t. 1, p_ r t , , , , two directors too large a proportion fur a subscription ' - n tor t , - Street s , all communicating. o R il 1 eto ,( Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street. (if 10,000/. P' il It " L trin oi I, 444 ,er,h ant eh, 36, Fargate. Io reply to a question, 0, Li Mr. MICHAEL CASTLE said thecost of the railway was 3 1 s. ~.... tk1105.3 Clothiers, Hatters, T.:Testers, Farriers. 80. Th e "eke ' ,stimated at 70,00U1., hut he thought it would cost some- " ki e 5E5... `takers, General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen , t 11 ,4 , abas),„ d, le ra, wh :',"_e • ents are closed from sunset Prides to erieee, on what more. :, fitil ' l ' s tr nt "", easiness is resumed till Twelve o'clock. tlt "rsal c, resolutions approving the Bills were carried unani- E tratli, of f ,,.,• G u i de, a newspaper containine daily everts, &c., el kit '' oti `doges, and directions for self-measurement, can he had, tie, aPplicee• 1 4 •-•, on, er forwarded, post-free, to any part of the [wilily, and the wee , ine, hr..k e up. 10 • t 4 41 :11 CIMQ Al GREAT WESTERN -A In eting is to be held at De -0 can e Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis, :.141;080-prpnica.briten1Farancals. vise, tu consider the expediency of an extension of the I C S w , Great western t ,, that iown. I Qui si merle Italiano. GREAT NORTHERN -This company's towns line is PI 5 n Deutsch. I Aqua se habla Espanol. R , ow „ nearly completed, and preparations are being made l '' e: 1 17 ' - "V ERWELL'S NEW WORKS. for its opening. r , k t ile, ett ° be h a d of Sherwood, NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. - This company's extension ee . :o„ -stre e t. ~,,, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, le . 41(1 g h ,„,_, -.arm ee • ee, Cernhlll ;or direct from the author ; line to Asietionrile le now completed, and ready fur 1£ • . - sing each; by post, Is. 6d. opening. , . ‘,„ ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. P' I (.45 -stealth, tecreat* 1;t4'16.44,,Th,.6'-'Early t i n ° :' 6'14 Rational Use of Time." ______ P' • e;'rtatz ut the Environs Rl6 - e - SPring and Summer Mornings - Ex- RAIL WA Y RET URNS di -- and • Ea e a l de , I 1 i g h••;o ad i, .oafnLcionclon-The Parks, Lanes, Hills, 4e. no 1 ".•• ,„t Melee-The Se other pleasant places-Country TRAFFIC RETU s'NS FOR THE PAST WEEK. al air,,:c Th e 12 ._ *I Sea-London at Night-Evenings at Home . , - flu e st, Eas e, f j ec a _aOn Eating. Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, ePetion, &c., eee. Miles rn , AG e..... II opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. ia i • .- • . -e-e-Ilts 1 .- n '° l 4 THE MOIT3TTAINS. Two vols. 1011. ---- sets. 1 16.52. hi • , PUP', -...... TO ••• -- aairuni. ---1_- 111. E LA v . „ VOL I. £1,270 £1,403 89 --- "-z SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, fee, 72 ' Aberdeen .. ••• • . . ...... .. ••.•• • • • • 68 ) 71 o ti.., 37 % Belfast and Ballymena ••.••.•• • • •• •• r • . • tIfE TA xE , • Vol. 11. 0 OF it rtz - . . t RNEY ; REMINISCENCES or 3 7: , , , ) .6 7 7 7 4,1 7 4 4 2 17 Belfast and County D0wn............ qr a, 1,7.6 : 0 ? 2 i 4 33 • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire DUBLIN, &c. 2 6 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • ; WHAT TO EAT, D I R I I I ere . r • r an ur course may run." ,k. '' That three score ' AND AVOID, i g s tl i C B a ri le st d o o l n a ia n n d . .. Exeter „.. ................::: .... .... .... 2,2, , , in 5,,, kp u i a yi w f Y e ars arid te n e 4 of , e q be , .r re e 0 almost every te, ,t!• , A uebllituted health and eiteubrt constitution, ( cause and that cure) harasses of ne r -94 it I Chester and Holyhead. ••..•••• • • •• •• _ 9 2.5 1 87 1 6% Blackr oek, and Passage •• • • •• i 65 Dublin and Belfast Junction •• .. •• .• 592 722 F m tep;hir, besets the man of pleasure, BS4 834 :Rt .? tr S 4 1114; 01 d age with tables and !' business, or study, and em- 53 Dublin and Drogheda• •••-••• • • • • • • bee I. ' 4 eVeryy life. • rules for the di et and 6 - Dublin and Kingstown .. •••.••• • .• • • . p hysical regu- 358 424 " 16% ! Dundee and Arbroath .• • ... ..... • • e i , , 7 6 3 b 77 hi . • lir. .'• ers et THE PASSIONS, 31 ! Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 19 ! Dundalk and Enniskillen •••••• • • • • • • 041 64 'ad l ne Tbe ad- 68 ' East Anglian ••••••••• • • • • • - • • 3,6.8 4 . 0e , ,a p " What passions hurt the body-what ir ee ,.„ 79 East Lancashire • - .. 5•.,' 66 • 1 2e. T . Truths as relined as Athens ever hea r de7e v e. •• - - •••• 13 441 15,019 01 •322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .... 11, 4 '''' Of the ' - -Life's pilgrimage, from . infancy to Old en. e eibe 2.139 to 95 1 Eastern Union •••••••• •• • • • • • ..... • • 3,8 8 a., 3 in it,ll DaSSlons. Chastity and its nfringements. re eee,,:atiousness and dissipation, with illustrations gri,,, easn al - 89 ee . Edinburgh and Glasgow .-•••• • • • • • 2,093 2,325 - 4 remediative. Advocacy of early marria ge .. eeee, .oar- 78 Edinburgh, Pei th, and Dundee ••• • • • ..._ 94 w , V . 6 Exeter and Creditor......._:. ••• - • • le r unac. Itcilway - .. 363 471 MI THE MARRIAGE STATE. 4,7 i 3 4,437 ca 171% Glasgow, and South-Western •••• • • • • ~, ,_ , • ~• ,„ • - : et, o • e A "TO be or not to be, that is the question. 223 Great Northern and E. L..• •••• • - • • ", , , 6 " 6 - ' 8 1 3 1 ; 0 7 3 th 2 18 7 8 7 G lr r t e sh at 1 %n'i q t a,,, m , x . -L.l . and obligations of natare, society, and roll- Great Southern and Western (Ireland) ' 16 U 45 17,498 th s w ou es th te E rn aste •• " 1 11c5 ., n o ",„`g..marrt w a;e,to beobserved by either sex. Time a n d 25 , eye e., eotn sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and Lend- Lancaster and Carlisle • ..... .. • ..• • • ee' e ; e • '," ad tq ls ta 4 " c ure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. 26u 5 elec.conversion. 39 Lancashire and Yorkshire... ..... .... •"•`" 17 ' 4 " 1; -, ke -Illness and its removal. Sterility and its Southß t ae k r Eastern v v i e ...,..., e . . . .. r. i . .. i ... . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . , ,i, , :08 1 123 - 1 : 3 07,, 1 A, 1 i : 63 1 1. 2 7:1 23 3 645 an 2:t -1 1,007 Pr (ti l l rt i ,_ . Leeds and Thirsk • • •••• • • '• '''• -.• 1214 Liv er • 1 307 361 tri t k , .' •- u L VERIVELL, M.D. (ISO). m . R.c . .S. (1827),. L.S.A. 539 0 , Crosby, and Southport• •• • 43,s u 6 42,321 St t tele Tvrent v ~ ma and a i ms . Seven till - 31 4 London, le nd- Reteree in these North Western .• ••• •• ~ th SX, London a ti e, ''' R ce - ' - uve years Medical and Forensic 17 la 4 _ Ption hours daily till Five. Eve 24 aU, London'enrdn• and South Coast.. 9 ' 40 . 11 ' 63 uu , v ll -elstres Regent-01w' . 24% Londonder I I ' , l Mancheete7;lind Enniskillen % IN THE SILENT FRIEND. 167% Manchester, 81 Voll, • and Matlock, &c. . i I_B Itei ~,,1 4._ atz LANGUAGE-FORTIETH EDITION. 9 manchester Bi , d u r l el , andLincoinshire 6,3 t i 7,139 tic7l9 • - '"TtliCi 28 Maryport and Carlisle , nth .1 u nctio n-.. „ 11,,7 (),e ass „ TAM REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. eeele, Midland .... • .• ••-.... •• .. • .16 - to ' ' 1 litty'a by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Ei.gravinge. 126 Midland Great West ern ' - '"• •• ••• • • • 20,674 22,09 . 4 0 t . . P rIiC AZ 37 monuand „ ~...........( Iris h ) A„, ke- D ISQUA.LIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE NCl'' &TY, • • -- • .. 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.... . •'• • • 837 928 ' "lee 1,,,_ AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. 149 • North British ...... •• „ .. . .... 2,219 2,2ub ii' s '"'Dten North Staffordshire .• • • _. '••• • •• - ;5,369 3,305 tit . enlarged to 196 pages, price 2s. 6d. by post, frollo 222 i . Ptrit, SILENT the Establiehment, 3s. 6d. In stamps. 47 North -B estern ••• • • • .............. .-••• • • • • • 4,863 4,946 h,_ at 6 680 1 4 ,441 111'4, 1 FRIEND, a Medical Work on 45 Sottish Central •• • • •..., ....... Scottish Midland ••• • • • •........... ••• -• 1 ,643 1,e85 fo -5 1.0 6 nati o 32 c hre blry and Birmingham 540 I,4 t t ip „ 3,, " Ilk __ ca n and physical decay of the system, produced by 2 9 X1 S ••• -" ' and Chester •• •• •, 1 , 570 739 fr, DN. b- what; , the consequences of infection, or the abuse of 47 Shrewsbury v . ..............:: bar 1,665 e e v e ,,e ee.e2eiarictions for the use of the preventive lotion, f ol- -hropshire Liston • • 634 w; 29 t'-' , 541.;'n, i.,15 . * t ons en Marriage, ana the disqualifications which 58 South Devon. •.•.• • • • 10 9,1•2 l''" to ,` ‘ reci: 'r e seir e u,e s trated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. 1.,‘ Sout t Eastern .• ••••••"•• • • • • •• • • •••• .', o , ' 13.678 f n V. %;'',o4l,;;;:',_Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford- 228 - les ••••••• • • • • • . 93% South Wa -g,,,,,,i;„,14-,_r_ublished by Sherwood and Co. 23, Paternoster- Doncaster, e.nd Goole .. t _ 1,505 rit 77 South Y0rk.,........... .1,9.4 2,512 h, 1 1 7 4.. ,;', I,,,,,,P_Fllarm.ay, 63, and Sanger, 150. o , xford-steeet ; Gor -40 raft Vale • • • • • • • • • • • • .. .... 934 9 , ,qtr , Zreb:r e _ u _teall -street; 95, Farringdon-street ;W. Sutton, 10, 4J nu 36 Ulster. ••••••• • • • • ' •. ... .... , 312 ...... ,lik k 4.ru We Edwards. 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; 14.1 hey 4 ' Bl de ; R. Johnson, 68, Cornhill, 25 Waterford and Limerick •••• • • • • ! eef , 39 0 Po .....•••••••• i' ''. kill °4t a or the 164 West Cornwall ••• • - .... _ .. the ; 176 pl. 4,..4,_ to anatomy and physiology of the re-prodnOtive 12 Whitehaven J unction .••• • • . *.' .. , 13,1e7 14,41 I arc „ I elg; It, narrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. 304 1 ,e York and Newcastle, and Berwick • i 7.167 1 7,6,2 fie iltej'''• fe e r'la of the consequences resulting from excessive In- 279 York and North Midlaud. •••• " '• " 0 . Jtea b _ heir lamentable effects on the system, • , wt. E' 1). udily producing , wt k k „. . tu n .,_ weakness, nervous excitement, and generative FOREIGN. 3,017 1 4,181 . tc:01 1 `,111. te "*"rated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. Or f.ry ` ea ts of th 152 Central of France .. • • .... •• ••.•• . • • - 83 971 lal I N I. 1 5 ,,_ sr a ecoe , 0 diseases resulting from infection, either in 571 A Dutch Rhenish .. ••••••••• • • • • - • • • • lee 2i 7 T , , e llt. „, ,,, Lary form, and containt explicit directions for 21% Ai aria Antonia •••••••••• • • • • • • " • • 1 , 000 ) 951 1 , 51 c q - 414,11 t. . 0 13 section Is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav- 63 Montereau and Troyes 30 20 374 1,0 , 442% Northern of France •••••••• • • • • •• • • 31)6 5,002 a s aeeh tont:e. R li 1.4 cett ou ._ 6 emedy for the Prevention of Disease by a 134 1 A Orleans and Bordeaux.. ............ 5 e7O 11,8.39 Pe e t ' 4 l , ,V,i, e *O7 Which the danger of infection is obviated. 240 Paris and Lyons ...... ••-•• . . - - • . 8 620 9,418 Li 'ls '4O devoted to 82 Paris and O r leans , t, tee, taus" ee the con of marriage, and its du- e 604 , 7 769 di t• Itt Jett, - u nProduetive union are also considered, and the 84 Paris and Rouen. •• •• • ..... •••• •• .. , - , 'ANN litlc aalY and ' 194 Paris and Strasburgh ••• • • ...... , 5,2 3 1 9,631 ~ ~ ;:, aeerae, - Plulosiophically inquired Into. • be Nil , 141 . 1 ( OP 69 Rouen and Havre ................„ ; 2,199 2,790 • ,let.,tte„ ous end Sraismuse is exclusively employed in 121 Tours and Nantes ................ _ ; - 1 - be 4 , 0,1). . X I, sexual debility, impotence, liec., I Is. and 335. elpteLter in ,' Co ncentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic •-____- ie. Gt,"ll, -., er upt , the blood be cases of infection, secondary The to I ls Li 'erry , °us, and th amount of coin taken for shipment to Aus-e abuse of mere 111 and 83s. per tll 11'4, , a ~..,_"'urirying $p cis p tuY ' • and lls tralia during the past fortnight has been very large, cense _ li' a' • s al - .e re rao c ell's, 23. 9d. ts. 6d., . , -, . hey v. , %alm a ,. dY for gonorrimaa, gl'eet, d quent upon the intelligence that the price of gold-dust had in n ale ..",„. uon of the bladd Vitiee' detail t , th -er. Coustntattou teo, if by letter, fallen to 578. per ounce at Melbourne, and to 603. per mince 1 • n 'lr '4 o e wits r • Ili, Iteet3 051 y 61 . Packets, eeintred: age, habits, and pool- at Sydney. This circumstance , coupled with the payment tli ott r, ar ' 1, 7 Which the f0 . 14271 ‘ , 00 , to be had at the Etna- of the dividends, has led to a considerable decrease in the pi N "L4Ond o e In attendance, did -' '"' Is saved. Messrs, Perry, Bank bullion, which shows itself this k wee to the extent of 01 4 at 19 ` , 43 , 4 „. 1 " .0 41 ne va tui i • , Berners-street, Ororde IMIiI tq 4he 1701 and Five:Weight ; On BUB' * 351,202/ , and willprobablyaffect which als o return. 1,, The amount of coin taken for shipment to Aus• tralia during the past fortnight has been very large, conse quent upon the intelligence that the price of gold-dust had fallen to 575. per ounce at Melbourne, and to 60s. per ounce at Sydney. This circumstance, coupled with the payment of the dividtands, has led to a considerable - decrease in the Bank bullion, 'which shows itself this week to the extent of 351,2021., and Which will else probably affect the next return• adduced the argument of the increased imp:ill of provisions as a proof of the success of the policy of tr(e trade. Is it necessary to repeat that the fact of this increase in itself proves nothing? The argument against the repeal of the duty on corn was that our supplies of food would be brought trout abroad. How on earth does experience contradict that argument when it proves that they have been so? The asser tlon of the Protectionists was, that the effect of this foreign supply would be to substitute the produce of other countries for that of our own. The contro versy was not as to the increased importation from abroad, but as to the diminution of the produc tion at home. Our readers will bear in mind the boasts of the increase of the quantity of food consumed, founded on the increase of the quantity imported. Will it be believed that yesterday the great organ of free trade confesses that 'these' boasts were made without any data to warrant them? No man can dare to assert tint; our. people have been' better fed under freetrado who is: not prepared to tell us w h a t is th e quantity both 9f corn Imported and of corn grown at' hoe. The aggregate of:.these quantities constitutes the nu tonal supply. • No Protectionist ever denied th a t th e portion of the aggreg at e which consists Of foreign eup plies would be increased by free trade. The controversy, Ve e e r i a t t id , , wa ci a only as to that derived - from our own would not be who assured field s . assertion that the foreign• supply proceeded- from the free-truders, import of foreignthat our expectations Of en excessive Times, however, grain would never be realised. 'The impouible, by any Yesterday explicitly tells us that it is ascertain whether theauthentic means of information, to people has inc t eased or ._,P ( lrtaption of bread by our i s ' 3 , oth re s nred ly has pied ;:t hi i ro shed under free trade. Sir Fitzroy Kelly diminibhcd. " We do not bei Lelf , to prove that it has gs that he can, and we do not believn' i l writes the Times, because the data of such a ccoulati h t lts he can, simply i s t en ne." This is the confession of a journal not 'in ex triumphantly &seared- its ro n a a d l that tip to yesterday. the consumption of provision beyond all question!l that increased—a journal that referred had to the statistics ° f importation as incontestably . establishin g the . fact of the increase; and , yet now, when - challenged' to the proof, that journal endeavours to escape -the conviction of its fallacies, under the pretext'that there' are no d itt , from which the calculation can be made!! Let us, if I this be so, is the name of common honesty, him 40 I patched. ..JLlVerpool When made up liiT PLACES From w h at General Post-office r p ort dia. - , wh en London. due. --- 1--.....---___ ---. April 20 America (by U.S. pkt.) N April 20 .. •• ,Liverpool .• April 25 America (by Brit. pkt.)N April America (by U.S. pkt.) M April 26 .. • • 51 outha mp t , Africa (West coast).. N 1 4 th of the mo n th IPlyreot,tti May a Alexandria* ••..•• •• S 19th 84 30th of me. Dover ~. A pr i l 18 B e l g i um , ._ •, .. N, Daily • • • . • • Dover . Daily Brazil ... .. M of the month Southattopt. May IR Buenos Ayres .. .. Id ;9th of the month ISonthaniPt. May 16 California(viaCharres)M 2d & 17th of month -°u• u S •,-, , aMpt. April 20 Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. m ay 3 Constantinople* .... N 7th 17th 2 7th of mo :Dover .. '-'' April 20 Central America .. Ml2d & 17th of m en. ISouthampt. April 20 Channel Isles .. .. N 'Mom, Wed., &Fri.iSoutkarapt. Tu. Th. 1341 Chili .. .. .. . 111117th of the month ,South _ arapt. April 20 Franco .. .. M& NI Twice daily .• ••1 1 Jover .. Twicedaily Greece * •• .. .. Nl7th 17th27thofmo Dover .., April 20 liamburgh .. ... NjTuesday & Friday London .. Tti „„ . sat. Holland .. .. ..' M Wednes. & Satan London ~, " Mon.Tbor Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the mouth Southampt. April 20 Ireland .. •. M& N Twice daily .• • • 1101 Yhe , td • • Twicedally [ndia(via Sonthamp.) 111,20 th of the month Southampt. April 21 India (via Marseilles) NI Bth&24th efmonth Dover .. M ay 1 Mediterranean (via i Southarrntou) •• M 20th of the month Southampt. April 21 Mediten anean (via - 1 lith'Dover Marseilles) .. .. N i Bth& 24th of taD •• May 1 Slexicc• .. .. ..31 25 of the month• . So ut hampt.'May 5 Madeira .. .. .. M 9th of the month 'Southampt. May 16 Malta* .. .. 1 7th, l 7th. l9 th, l7th 1 Dover April IS 1 & 30th of math , Naples* .. • • .. N sth 15th 25th ofmaiDover ~ ;April 22 • , 'D ver 1 Papal States* .. .. N sth 15th25the MO, 0 .. ,April 22 Peninsular.. .. .. M 7th 17th 27th of molSouthampt. April 26 Peru .. .. •• .• M 17th of the month Southampt. ;April 20 Tuscany* .. .. N 15th u 5 th (Ono Dover • • 'Ap r i l 2 , West Indies .. .. MA7th of the moth Southampt. April 20 West Imiies (except I I Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the merit) —,Southampt.,May 3 * The mails to those c onntries thus parked (*) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles. THE COMMANDER OP TEE BIRKENHEAD.--The, in telligence of the loss of the Birkenhead frigate has thrown a gloom over the inhabitants o f I nvet ieitbing, her brav e com mander and his family h av i ng res id e s in that place for many years. Mr. Salmond was many yea rs in- the navy, long ac stievrevliyooeomfphliosyeood,osiontr_ and is the third a thi m rd ids br h o lp h m er ao w t fell in actio n withho has diedin the an American frigat e , d ur i ng t h e l ast va r ; and the seco n d di ed some years ago, w h en i n command d a frigate, after a few hours' illness, fronkrnalaria. Mr. &bawd has left a wife and 4 young family.w.Zdin4urgit Witneai' ' TO THE EDITOR OF TUE TIMES. Sir,—l have anxiously looked over your columns for pleadings in favour of the Crystal Palace. I have not found all I wished. Permit me to add my mite. In youth I loved to dream over Bacon's picture of his New Atlantis; it was to me a fairy tale. In maturerdays the .Novum Organum and the De Augmentis were not less fondly loved. It was impossible to resist the natu ral impulse which leads one to gaze into the future and trace the law of progress. 1. The park may have a little Atlantis—not a place where emulous nations carry their rival productions, but a place for the advancement of man. I would have there every natural product classified and arrang ld of from the the clays of China and of Devon to the. Australia and of the Ural Mountains; not a o bi g ggledy piggledy squabble of different national products, but a broad union of gifts bestowed by our Maker on man. There is iron as good as that of Sweden or of Northamptonshire, if it wore brought into Olio', for tho purpose of making steel. Other stones than those of Germany and France might serve for lithography, if specimens of them could be brought together. A coin. mittee would hardly be necessary to select stones for another House of Parliament; nor would the fronts of our colle , Yes at Oxford he any more face wh stone which is inevitably doomed to rot wit h frost and and crumble away with the rain. the No one can calculate the value o f a duee appreciation of natural products. America' is o pulent y cultiva tion of one or two plants • Sta ff or dshire was enri c h ed by the discovery of a possible use for a few burnt flints; hundreds of sorts of wood exist uncared for in Africa and the East, while our drawing-rooms seldom go be a little rose satin, or tulip wo ods. Stren gth, lightness, and durability —say nothing of beauty —are not all com bined in mere mahogany. On of cur little best o erman ptical instru sand de pends the excellence of many ments; most probably quite as good might be found in England, but no one looks for it. Not a plant, root, earth, mineral ought to escape. There is other fibre than than of flax; there is other downy product than that of cotton. - - A PLEA FOR THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Destroy the Crystal Palace and no metropolis will be so destitute of spacious public buildings for the exhibition of national objects and works of science and art as that of Great Britain. Preserve the Crys tal Palace and no capital can boast of a building better adapted by its capacity and illumination for all the purposes that a well arranged exhibition requires. If the building itself be not faultless, according to the conventional ideas of architectural proportions, it has a beauty and grandeur peculiarly its own, and claims to be preserved as an exemplar of an edifice at once the result and exponent of British science, invention, and skill, as applied to the manu facture and combination of two of the least perishable and most rapidly adaptable of building materials, — glass and iron. If for no other purpose;such an illustra tion of the capabilities of these two characteristic Bri tish productions ought to be maintained as a favouring condition of the multiplication of similar cheap and effective modes of enclosing space, as the orgival of a new style or order of architecture peculiarly suited to our needs and our climate, and which must always possess that beauty which flows from fitness and adaptation to its objects. But to what adequate purpose, it is asked, can the Crystal Palace be applied ? This riddle is peremp torily proposed as proof against all appeals, and if the answer is not satisfactory the official Sphynx, De struction, is to ensue. But, were the needs for exhibition space of this particular year not such as to cry out loudly for their relief by the easy and obvious application thereto of a building which, in its purposely unfinished state,* has shown its power of resisting a winter's storms, as well as its capacity for accommodating the 60,000 daily visitors of a world's show, should we be justified in summarily destroying such unrivalled means of meeting future " imperative demands for exhibition space ?" The plain truth, however, is, that at no previous period had the requirements of an edifice like the Crystal Palace, for the systematic arrangement and due display of public collections,—needing only such accommodation to fulfil their legitimate purposes of instruction and incentive,—been more pressing than at the present time. Take the case of sculpture, for example. No country in the world possesses such rich original il lustrations of the successive steps by which that noble art has reached its climax as England, thanks to the energies of some of her worthy sons ; and cer tainly no mother. country could have exhibited less sympathy for their devotion, or a colder recognition of their labours, if we may judge by the accommoda tion she has hitherto allotted to the inestimable trea sures contributed by an Elgin, a Townley, a Fellows, a Salt, and a Layard. Each new car go o f th e marvellously preserved monuments of Assyrian art that is deposited beneath beneath the Grecian portico at Bloomsburyflicuittse d e spair by f groan ings, or is received with aspects of m the unhappy and tantalized officialshe conditions of of the already over-crammed British Museum. place, aspect, and light, essentialtothe adequate ex_ bibition of the sculptures, are there physically im possible, save for a small proportion. Classified ar rangement, illustrative sequence of the specimens, and i:t o space for contemplation of mouof utotbel.rn prducti ons of the e ly ct o s u r t e o q f u t i h r e in g g ue to b n e . viewed from every side, are Even for our a nnua l crop no better ac commodation chisel we afford at present than a cellar. And yet we wonder t h at British produce such abortions as the man gateway, or the sculpture can and horse on the Palace cocked-hatted mast headed, mutilated, Nelson, with his appendage of coiled cable, which de forms, if finest site • if not defiles, the Europe." As if any other result sh ould reason ably be expect e d i n a nat i on which neutralises the efforts of the collectors of the best models in sculpture by ignoring th em i n t h e i r re l at i on to art, by housing them as mere elements of a series of relics of bygone habits and customs, and by putting them under the curatorship of an antiquary i n a crammed department of musty mummies and other antiquities ! What the result might be in relation to that art, in which a great nation is most deeply interested as being the one to which she owes, or ought to ow e , th e fittest or most durable monu ments of her worthiest sons and grandest achieve ments, J a due display and collocation of the ancient sculptures such nation may possess, might be worth the while of a wise statesman to consider. Were the specimens at hand, such an illustrative series of the art might commence with the first rude carvings by the races emerging from barbarism. The deities and symbolic objects of reverence of the Polynesians, Hindoos, and Chinese Bud dhists, might be followed by the sculptures and monuments of Assyria and Egypt. The earlier productions of the colonists of Greece and Asia Minor would follow; and the Lycian -Eginetan, and Selinuntine marbles would illustrate the succes sive steps by which the Greeks attained the per fection of the noble art in the times of Phidias and of Praxitiles and Lysippus. Its gradual decline would be next elucidated by the continuation of the pro posed series, in which the st u d en t m i g ht t race th e effects of the deviation from the sublime in the attempt to realize sensuous beauty, and of the sub stitution of individuality and detail for simplicity and grandeur of style ; such examples being furnished by the relics of Roman cities in the works of sculpture executed after the fall of Greece at the behests of her luxurious conquerors. In the original materials for so extensive a s eries illustrativ e o f th e r i se , progress, and decline o esc sculp ture, ture, no country is so rich as England. For the to so display an d consecu ti ve arrangement ess ential t natural and profitable a method o f ex hibiting them no - Is there any fine art in which a great nation ought to take more interest than in sculpture ? Is there auy kingdom which already possesses such rare and varied illustrations of that noble art as England? Is there any capital in Europe which can boast of an edifice so amply and beautifully adapted, not only for the reception and due display of our present treasures, but for future accessions, as London At present possesses in the convenient locality which the Crystal Palace adorns ? It seems incredible that any but those whose foolish vaticinations this buye last year have been so signally unfulfilled, sho i uld harbour the idea of wantonly destroying the hulloing . which is at hand, and which, if it be not, by the pt fessed architect, deemed worthy to compete with St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey, would be visited so long as it was suffered to rema i n,. a r s e o l' e ne u t. :l the wonders of London. The rumour of (f u)fs oi our r,Ce destructionoknet Continental tpa l t already nheeioa e o x nu c . ridst all-decried c d r I Whatetdh_ the 1. sqcsuohreanslitfltr:siblaPenr saiddi 01 mea strosity,e and pull down the Crystal Palace nly i s; ui gn in, theeuttht puttied o t a i t l in e libraryone * side. too!" Evidence ----7— wdaens e t e e o co r p tcA o r r otl e rnile r ana l in l o ) uts : t Answer No. 528.—" Building in Hyde park. and Answer wirs(:3s3t4ht Then, a ga i n the we want some value, would require to hition were again be well things of intriu , •ic [the Exhibition] building, unj ' 96 protreted," &c.; up in w hi c h th© Commission r e p ort head of the department of Mr. Hawkins, q o u r it v i a e l s ue a t theuld Brignot f t) b e stmh, p il fea a u r jssr t :,, , s ru t • gtshii s ooi t t ine r ndk o ds n os i g r -nityatiesu Objectionable fortified,s,a and other where coins. and. me to divide the collecti resumed to durin the time of the Exi adopted !"—Report and Evidence of the Commission, £s-..c P. vi. The Earl f 3 :74,urham has arrived in town from LAmbton Castle, en route to Brighton.