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Consultation fee, if by letter, and 41e : - tute detail of the case is required: age, habits, ., posi t'4 ib.. -- "tY 51. Packets, to be had at the L.:tit -4•--,rit • with advice, r r re _ ry , tit 1 1%,,.. 041 3 r, by Which the fee, 11" Is saved• 2"1". f ' dl d .,okt i 7..„ . _ are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Ox or . ' I R gtra m ..2 1 1, from Elam tilt Two, and rivo:totVight ; On 8 " -.. aArlta to Ou ' N°.18,587.] LONDON, SATURDAY ~,411.4 SPIRIT of the.PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM PIE MOANING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY. TIMES.—Lord Derby had better have " gone to the country" at once. - Discussion is as damaging to Pro tection as education to Popery. His Lordship thought perhaps that the notseltY of..a nos-Whig Cabinet and the prospects fof a fresh Admi n i strat i on might cover a few peculiar conditions of finance, but his supporters are determined to: drag .him into broad daylight. Mr. G. F. Young and Sir Fitzroy K e ll y have undone all that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was bent upon doing. Protectionism plainly t urns out to b e noth i ng but Protectionism, and Lord Derby and his colleagues are the men to restore it. So says their own Solicitor- General, and says their own chosen champion. And, by way of clearing the road for Protectionism, Sir Fitz roy Kelly and Mr. G. F. Young have .been at work for the last fortnight in demolishing free trade. Our readers have been made aware of the remarkable line of argument now adopted. - It consists in a plain, simple, and ecucise assertien that free trade has not douo so much as it hes undone, for that our home producre has diminished in a greater degree than our imported produce has increasal, so that the aggregate of ge neral consumption - meat inevitably have been less. " Not one additional ounce of bread," says Sir Fitzroy " has found its way to English mouths." . With some what more statistical elaboration Mr. G. F. Young has been recently " dernonatratiug" that " oar vaunted prosperity" as, in every single item, a delusion; that .papperisue and beggary have been increased, the com forts of life dimiuishod, and commerce virtually ruined by the operetitiu of free trade, while our own assertions that feee trade has been eminently satisfactory to all but the losers of former monopolies have been subjected to " analysis and disproof." It is usualiy accounted un civil to leave a letter without au answer, and as Mr. G. F. Young has just concluded his eighth communication, be probably expects a " reply." The extent of our in dulgence, however, in this respect must be the reduction of his whole ease to half-a-dozen paragraphs. Truth eisan — generally, be put very ehortly, and the real test of the entire question is at everybody's right hand. Mr.• G. F. Young declares, in contradic tion to ourselves, that Protectionism has gained by the trial of fiee trade, that converts from the latter to the former policy have been made, and that the acquiescence of the country in Sir Robert Peel's great measure is a palpable fallacy. This is tie 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 lion, but the consumers of bread as well; in fact, it is the purport of your case to establish circuitously what Sir Fitzroy :Kelly poeitively affirmed, that bread -eaters have had less bread, as well as smaller means, under free trade than under protection. If this is the truth, pray tell us what aro the apprehensions which prevent Lord Derby- and. his Cabinet Iroise honestly d ec l aring theiiiselees 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 powers' and yet you have seen that there is not a single Minister who has ventured to unfold 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 yo ur assum ptio n th a t th e country is us sick of free . trade as' you are, do you explain such timidity as this? It is perfectly notorious to every man in the three kingdoms who can read or listen, that the present Ministry is apprehensive of such a resistance to a protective policy as may defeat their attempts. It is also clear that this opposition .is anticipated from the great mass of the community,.including especially those without direct representation in the Legislature, for, as to mere Parliamentary strength, the Protectionists have always turned " territorial influence" to sufficiently good aceouut. Yet Mr. Disraeli himself at Aylesbury did openly acknowledge that whatever, in his eyes, might be the merits of the system, the acquiescence of the country in 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 atWoodbridge market, after expatiating on the universal ruin result ing, from free trade, was driven to suggest that " the restoration of the corn-laws, and the re-investment of agricultueists with the protection they had so long en joyed,"_ was likely to prove so " impractieable" as to compel the adoption elan equivalent. We donut quote Mr. Cobden or Sir James Graham on this point; we take the words of the Protectionist leaders themselves, and we only state a notorious fact in asserting that they appre hend a certain insurmountable resistance to the revival of protection and the reversal of free trade. Now, pray, Mr. Young, if the whole country is indeed suffering together, how is this resistance to be constituted, and ou what convictions does it depend ? Wiil you be kind enough to tell us this ? and will Sir Fitzroy Kelly ex plain in his; next address why upon earth it should be deemed " impracticable" to reverse a system which has grievously offended one class of the population, without giving " one single additional ounce of bread" to the others ? Is it not manifest to every man who can put two ideas together that the Protectionists are wishing to get something at the expense of the nation, and that they are afraid the nation will not per mit them to turn their accidental power to such ac count? And, if such .is the national feeling, as it plainly is, for otherwise the Peotectiouists would rather lose than 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 free 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 disguise? If, as Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. G. F. Young have computed and affirmed, there is no class or interest—not even that of bread-eaters—which has not been a positive and visible loser by the effects of free trade, where are we to look fur that strength of the Free-traders before which the Protectionists shrink with an irrepressible presentiment of failure? We 'assert once again that no complaints have ever been brought against tree trade except by those who originallyiepposed 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 political converts, whereas, on -the other hand, it is im possible to take up a newspaper- without reading the ad dress of some quondam Protectionist, who, atter de nouncing the " way in. which free trade was carried," and owning perhaps to a private hankering after the old fleshpots, concludes, nevertheless, with an acknowledg ment 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 broad, it is felt " impracticable" to take it out of their mouths again. THEJust published, price Is., with a Plan, CRYSTAL PALACE and CRYSTAL PALACES. 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Mlles opened 1852. £1,270 230 1,255 26% 85% [B9?Ai 9414 _6% 11,403 1)10 3,957 7067 2,259 257 1,782 592 884 666 358 673 760 4,342 7,774 2,587 1711 e; 223 141 722 835 987 424 677 b4l 3,643 13,441 2,055 3,8 , ft 2,093, 365 4,713 8,fi(15" 4,564 16,04 s 153 3,677 15,610 307 43.0156 627 4,509 15,079 2,139 3,i 22 2,325 88) 8,870 V,465 471 4,237 11,269 3,969 17,498 118 6,317 flu 20,674 1,444 837 2,219 3,369 4,868 bC6 1,643 540 1,570 228 4 9:”4 547 1,868 10,932 123 4,176 17,406 1,007 -HERALD.—Has the free importation of foreign corn increased the quantity of bread consumed by the people of England? This is the question upon which Sir Fitzroy Kelly has boldly taken issue with the Free traders. We cannot permit our friend of the Times to escape the issue upon which, on Wednesday, he staked his adherence to the cause of free trade. Yesterday he endeavours to escap e th e consequence o f his imprudent admission—that the question of free trade was disposed of, if it were 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 do not undervalue the importance of such an adhe sion as that of the Times would be to the Protectionist cause. But the nation, let the TiMas act as it may, will thoroughly understand and appreciate the importance of the question with which we have headed these re marks. The late Sir Robert Peel was the first who adduced the argument of the increased import of provisions as a proof of the success of the policy of free track. 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 from abroad. How on earth does experience contradict that argument when it preies that they have been so? The asser tion 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. Toe 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 that our people have been better fed under free trade who is not prepared to 'tell us what is the quantity both of corn imported and of corn grown at home. The aggreglite of these quantities constitutes the national supply. No Protectionist ever denied that the portion of the aggregate which consists of foreign sup plies would be increased by free trade. The controversy, we repeat, was only es to that derived from our own fields. Indeed, the only assertion that . the foreign supply impossible would not be increased proceeded from the free-traders, who assured us that our expectations of au excessive import of foreign grain would never .be realised. The people has increaod Times, however, of yesterday explicitly tells us that it is ascertain whether ,by any authentic means of information to the consumption of bread by our .or diminished under free trade. Sir Fitzroy Kelly has . diminished. „ We p .d edged himself to prove that it has o do not b-lieve," writes the Times, W Buo not believe that ho can, simply „ . h calculation are not in ex istence. This is toe confer • y journal that referred to the statistics of assured its readers that sion of a journal that up ‘ b ' e t c h a a u t so h e t n a e n ,an data d of to oe yeeoslitseurdmapytiotnriuofmphantl provision beyond all question had iinmeprocialsaetdie—naas incontestably establishiras tho fact of challeng e d t o th e jo n u n r d n y endeavourset now, twheno escape eh t p h r e o o i c r t c h s a s t e the conviction qf its fallacies, under the pretext that th ere are no data from which the calculation can be made!! Let us, if this be so, in' the name of common honesty, have no 361 42,321 1,132 10,614 11,631 107 7,139 719 304% 279 985 1 .239 1 ,974 954 342 lti 13,197 7,187 176 14,41 1 7,682 - h i r'-• ," /_, _ ,1, . t ~,. 01 . , /7/ t ../, t. 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"' : '••••••.- •RT .., • • ......- . , ... , .- . • _ • - ~'~~-r~Q _ more of those pompous statements which have been so triumphantly put forward of the increased comforts of the people. Lot the sense of the country be no longer imposed upon by arrays of figures that prove nothing" long estimates of imports that lead to no result. Let us come to the real question: Has the home production fallen off as much as the foreign import has increaseo If it has not, we admit that Etc bread consuming people of these countries do purchase more then theydid under a system of protection. If it has, the only effect of free trade has 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 caa be made. Mr. George Frederick Young's letters have afforded them. The very article in the Times that denies it indicates the materials by which the truth can, within reasonable limits, be ascertained. The Times ad mits, that if we are to take the returns of the inspectors in the towns of the quantities of corn sold in this ncoeuarnityryna'stdhee opropositionhas of b,e Sir Fitzroy between itzro 18 yliellyi4s6rind very. n 1850, a diminution in the quantity of corn, of home growth, sold in our towns, very nearly equal to cennters balance the increase in importation from abroad. But in addition to this we are to place the almost total cessation of our inaportutions from Ireland upon the debit aide 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 our people we roust place the wheat raised upon t: diminished quantity s o ld i n our market towns, and rohge:hearertehseyoeuxeetehde neg at i ve s id e, toget h er w i t h the the increase in the importations. If there be doubt or dtffieulty in the matter let it be cleared up. We surely will not be told that the country is so deficient iu the means of statistical infor mation that it is not possible for us to ascertain whether we eat more bread now than we did in 1845. Will any Free-trader in either House of Parliament venture to move for aCommittee to inquire s ,into the fact? If there be no eqa hardy-anon* fa„self; i r vin t we may perhaps 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 o t v h e e rra l t i e ps tohr an Englishman. It e service which has i f i oun im d p i o ts ssi w b a le y t t o o been done to the national cause by the Solicitor General and Mr. George FrederickiYoung, 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 classes, 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 Jotters) that has extorted this retractation. 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Just published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 25.'6d., or post-free from the Author for Forty-two Stamps, ELF - PRESERVATION; a L , Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, usually cc luired at an early period of life, which destroy the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and ex aanst the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on tA. certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debi :lip, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and derangements resulting from Indiscretion, as adopted oy Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent members of the faculty of France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating tho Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining , heir structures, uses, aced functions, and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. By SAMUEL LA'AIERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hail, London, Member of the Hunterian Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c. This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative conditions in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted with advan tage by all those whose constitutions may have become debilitated through secret practices acquired in youth, or by the excesses of liter years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of unceas ing misery and regret. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater aoster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street; Mann, 23, Cornhill ; or tree by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter, troy TOD till Tv,. aqui from wiz tit Eivht RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BRISTOL AND EXETER. A special general meeting of the above company was held yesterday (Friday) at the White Lion Hotel, Bris tol, J. W. Buller, Esq., chairmen of the company, in the chair, for the purpose of having submitted to it drafts of the following Bill :-Ist, a Bill to extend the powers of the Act relating to the Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and to authorise a deviation in the line of such branch railway; 2nd, a Bill for making a railway from Highblidge to Glastonbury, in the county of Somerset, to be called the Somerset Central Railway. The Caerhatax said that he could not explain the ob jects of the meeting more clearly than they were ex plained by the advertisement—it was merely to approve the Bills, which had already been submitted to the share holders, in order that the .solicitors might give evidence before the House of Lords of that fact. The solicitors havini , read the drafts of the Bills, Mr. BoucnErt objected' to the power being given to ex tend the subscription to the Central Somerset Company from 10,0001. to 13,0001. The CHAIRMAN explained that it was only power given, but which could not be used without the consult of the shareholderJ; but there was no intention at present to extend the subscription. The SECRETARY also explained that it might be important fur them to have two directors at the Central Somerset board, but Lord Redesdale would not allow them to have two directors at the board unless the sub scription was made 13,0001 Lord Redesdale thought two directors too large a proportion for a subscription of 10,0001. In reply to a question, Mr. MICHAEL CASTLE said the cost of the railway was estimated at 70,000/., but he thought it would cost some what more. Resolutions approving the Bills were carried unani mously, and the meeting broke up. GREAT WESTERN.—A meeting 13 to be held at De vizes to consider the expediency of an extension of the Great Western to that town. GREAT NORTHERN.—This company's towns line is now nearly completed, and preparations are being made for its opening. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—This company's extension line to Ahbourne is now completed, and ready for opening. RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. ltibi. 1852. BRITISH. Aberdeen .................... ..... Belfast and Ballymena •• •• •• •• • • •• •• Belfast and County Down•• •• • • •• •• •. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • . .. Bristol and Exeter •• .... • • .... •• • • .. Caledonian Chester and Holyhead. • • .. • • • . • . • • .. Cork, Blaekr ock, and Passage . • • • • • Dublin and Beltast Junction ••..• • .• Dublin and Dr0gheda............... Dublin and Kingstown • Dundee and Arbroath • • .. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen • • • • • • East Anglian.... • • .. • • • . • . • • • • . • • • • • East Lancashire • • • • ........ • . • • • • • • Eastern Counties and Norfolk .. • • .... Eastern Union.- ... ....... ...... Edinburgh and Glasgovr .•• • •••• • • •• Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...." Exeter and Crediton.. • • .. •••• •• •• •• Farness Railway •.• - _ Glasgow, and South-Western• • • . • • • • Great Northern and E. L.• • •• •• • • Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western ••• • • ..... ••• • • ..... Irish South Eastern •• •• •• •• •• • • •• Lancaster and Car1i51e............ Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • •• •• •• Leeds and Thirsk •• .. •• •• •••••• •• Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... London and North Western, ..... • • . rt e London and Blackwall.• • • • • • • • • • • • • London, Brighton,,and South Coast.. Buxton, London and South Western. Londonderryr, a Enniskillen njun c .. Manchester, " South Manchester, Sheffield, andLincolnshi re Manchestere MlS port and Carlisle •• • • • • • . •••• Midland morauanct., eat Western (Irish) • • • • • • North British .C.,arilli'••••••••••—•• North Stallordshir: • : .. •. • • " • • North-Western .... Scottish Central " • • • •..... Scottish Midland ••• " .• • • •... Shrewsbury and Bir min . giian;" " •• Shrewsbury and Chester ... •• • • • • • Shropshire Union . South Devon. •••• • •• • •"• •• . •' •• S o uth Eastern • • • • • • • • • • ...... • South Wales •• • • .. .......... S ou th York., Doncaster,• and • Goole • Wa t er f o rd and Limerick • • • • • • • • •• • • W es t Cornwall ••• • • • •••"•••• •• • • Wh i tc h ave n Junction . • • • • • • • • • • • • • York and Newcastle, and Berwick .• • York and North Midland. • • • • • • • • FOREIGN. 574 211 i 63 4424, 1344 240 Central of France ........ •• • . •• • • Dutch Rhenish • • • ....... • • • 31aria Antonia •• • • ••••••• • • • • • • • ➢lontereau and Troyes • • .. Northern of France ••• • • • .......... Orleans and Bordeaux.. • • Paris and Lyons .• •••••• • • • . • Paris and Orleans • • • • • .......... Paris and Rouen • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • •• •• Paris and Strasburgh •..•••• • • .. • • Rouen and Ifavre •• •••••• •• • • . • • Tours and Nantes •• • • • • 4,181 971 951 20,374 5.002 11,839 9,418 7,769 9,651 2,790 The amount of coin taken for shipment to Aus tralia during the past fortnigl.t 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 Os. per ounce at Sydn ey. This circumstance, coupled with the payment of the dividends, has led to a considerable decrease in the Bank bullion, which shows itself this week to the extent of 351,2021., and which will_ aim probably affect the next return. 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 obliged her to return into dock. MADEIRA, APRIL B.—The French sbip Bakel, from Senegal for Havre, sank on March 23, in lat. 48, long. 15 W. of Paris, after being in contact with the New 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 YORE, MARCH 31.—The Citizen, hence, arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, reports having seen about 30 boxes afloat 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, M." , CUXHAVEN, APRIL 13.—A brig is OR shore in the Westerbill. BREMERSHAVEN, APRIL 11.—A kroff is reported to have sank in 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; ono man saved. Rio JANEIRO, MARCH 15.—0 n the afternoon of the 3d of March this city and baylwere visited with a tremend ous hurricane and thunderstorm, the wind suddenly shift ing N.N.E., N.W., and W., continuing tor nearly an hour; considerable injury has been done among the shipping in port, particularly to the following: The British bark Zuleika, the British schooner Liebe, the Danish schooner Fortuna, the Nova Scotia Brig Fredr-richstoeu, the Swedish brig Jenny, the Sweedish schooner Othello, the American bark 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 Dantz,z, sprung a leak at sea, April 4, and was put ea shore near Orum on the 7th, to prevent her sinking; crew saved, vessel a wreck. LOWESTOFT, APRIL 1 4.—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 The:w ß a a t n e k ri s i ytbs sailed forme r ledfrom omSt. J stave in larboard bow. Newfoundland, December 17, for Zante, and has not since been heard of. GRAVESEND, APRIL 16 .—Wind, E., blowing strong, clear sky. Arrived—Europa, Albatross, Eucharist, and Argo, from Norway; John Bull, from Harab ayulslarY Lyons,u rg a h n ; d Courier, Mead, f Simon Magnus, from D emerara; Gott4iaab, from Nor way;frroomm Cadiz; Moga dore; Gitana, from China; Marsalla, from Leghorn; Concord and Advance, from Alexandria; Le Coq, from Cherbourg; Blackfriars, from Sydney; Fanny, from Marseilles; Josephine, from the Cape of Good Hope; Falcon, from Sines; John Bull, from Boulogne; Seringa patam, from Calcutta; Daphne, from Oporto; Dublin, , and Jo se ph Sh e pp ar d, f rom i F ee u ; re A t, i f lu° ortl3Gravelinea ; I sa b e ll a , f or J ersey ; Isabella, for Jersey; Falst a ff, f or Honduras; City of China. from s eßde.Paris, for Boulogne. H VES SELS SPOKEN W IT . Kate Howe, from New Orl eans for Liverpool, March 19, in hit 40, long 53. Erasmus, from Cardiff for Pen ang, F e b . 8, i n l at. 31 S., long. 2 W. Glen Huntley, March 7, in lat. 3 N., long. 20 W. Don, from Cape Coast Castle for London, March 23, in Ist. 20, long. 29 W. Templeman, bound for Calcutt a, J an. 24, 10 leagues S. of the Ile des Date. The English barque Nepaul, J an . 24, 20 leagues E.S.E. of the same island. Calphurnia, from London for Port Philip, Feb. 9, in lat. 29 S., long. 30 W. fCoraLmolteolln,,sEteeebr.injgB,Si.nEia, lat. 35 9. Araminta from Mobile for Liverpool, March 23, in lat. 31 N., long. 74 W. Cityl Englisho o long. 22 P2s2ohoiEni ship r Colin bound SEABORNE AILS . [N signifies that tho mails aro sent front the General Post-office by the Light—and Mby the morning,us p _ etch.] When l From port dis. Lo madenaowhat 7 7 i n ---- PLACES, General Post-oftice i , When due. I Patched. -----. .---____ Liverpool • • April 20 America (by U.S. pkt.) N April 20 .„ .. •Liverpool .. April 2S America (by TJ.S.pkt.)A l April 28 ~ Southanapt. Africa (West coast)•• N 14th of the month ..,, • • • • ,Daily America (by Brit. pkt.)N April 23 ... -1. , 1 ' , .Ymouth May 3 Alexandria* •••• •• • • N 1911 8' 30th th mio.;Dover .. April 18 Ai 9th of the month Southampt. May 15 Buenos Ayres •• • • B Br e a l li iu l m m l 9th of the month , Southampt. May 16 Callfornia(viaChagre!) mrld & 17th of month ;Southampt. April 20 N,l4th of month 110,_ Cape of Good Hope .- -.4 wouth• • May 3 Constantinople* .. •• Nl7th 17th 27th of rno Dover .. April 20 Central America .. m 12d & 17th of men. ' Southampt. April 20 Charm(' Isles •• .. 1,1M0n., Wed., & Fri. 1 Southampt. Tn. Th. Sat .. .... •••• N i Daily .. Chili .. .. .. . M , l7th of the month Bouthampt. April 20 Holyhead.. Twieedaily France .. .. hi & N l Twice daily .- • • Dover . • Twicedaily Greece* . • .. .. N l 7th 17th 27th of mo s D o o ti v th er amp . t .. A Ap p r r i i l l 2 2 0 0 ITambargh .. .. N, Tuesday & Friday London .. Toes. Sat. Holland .. • . .. M Wednes. & Saar. London .. Mea.Thur ilr H n o edi n lr d i ug r • i as a . 5.0 .. nth ... a.mmp. . " bi li s. T2l7owitahLcaooffdattliiiileey ram.. Booth pt. April 21 Southarapt. April 21 O u nt th. h . pen India (via Marseilles) Ntith& 24th e f month Dover .. May 1 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) .. .. N gth&24th ofmonth Dover ~ May 1 Mexico .. .. .. M2d of the month.. gouthampt. May 5 Madeira •• •• .. M 9th of the month Southampt. May 16 sf B c o d u i t t h e a n n: n nt e o an n) (vi . a . 21, 1 20 th of thou month Malta* .. .. 1' & 30th of month 5 .. , " 6 1 . April 18 Naples* .. .. .. Nsth 15th 25th of mo ,Dover . , Ap r il 22 Papal States* .. .. N ;511115th 25th of mo ; Dover . April 22 reninzula•r•• • • .. M 7thl7th 27 thef mo,Southampt. April 26 Peru .. .. .. .. Mll7th of tho month South f I 7 th , 1 7 t h , 1 9 t h , 2 7 t h 1 ,-,__ araPt. April 20 Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th25th of mo Dover .. April 22 West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month So uthampt. ,April 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) hi,2d of the month .. S outhampt.lMay 5 ' The mails to those a ountrieS ( s ) are con vo y e d b y French packot via Marseilles. thus marked THE COMMANDER OF THE BIRRENHEAD.--TI3B in telligence of the loss of th e Birkenhead frigate ha s th rown a gloom over the inhabitants of Inverkeithing, her b rave com mander and his family havi n g resided in that plac e f or many years. Mr. Salmond was ma ny years in the navy, l ong ac tively employed, and is th e third brother who has di e d i n t h e service of his 'country —one, a m idshipman, fell in act i on with an American frigate, during the last war ; and the se con d di e d some yearn ago, when in command of a frigate, after a few hours' illness, from malaria. Mr. Salmond has left a Wife and a young family.--Zdinburgh Witness. APRIL 17, 1852. 7 THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (From the Times.) There are in this metropolis rather more than two millions of people, and it may be said of them, with hardly an exception, that they reside in it only as lung as they hare no other alternative. They reside for their business, for their public duties, for the fashionable season, and 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 treadwheel. Those who can, do this every day; those who cannot do more, do it every year; and all indulge in the vision of a quiet old ago, spent among evergreens and flower beds, and all the soote ing sounds of nature,—any where, indeed, ex "Pt in this dingy, dirty, stencliv, smoky, noisy metro polis. All this it 80 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 not so at Paris. People go there to live and die. flow ie this? Among other reasons —for there are many— not the least is the want of proper buildings, institu tiens, 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 hoe. 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, and 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 put this question ourselves, it is not to Timon in a cave, or Diogenes in a tub. We are appealing to those who bare the hearts of men, and who own themselves dependent on society and external objects for the greater part of their happiness. The question answers itself at once, for everybody would have said, "We had such a place last year—we have not such a place this year." 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 those attractions which were found so admirably to 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 extant 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 casts 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 than 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 us 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. As for the host of small objections, it is scarcely ne cessary to waste a word upon them—in the first place, because they aro 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 coat a mere trifle to make the building capable of 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, end 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 here 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 knowing anything about 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 Palais Royal, or all Manchester, all Sheffield, all Leeds, or all Cornwall in the Exhibition. W e c an d o 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, but 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 to 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. But, 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 people in their business, their sports, and their reli gion? Was it were sentiment? Was it the iuvuivii tary weakness betrayed by Nero when he wept for the execution of a crimival? 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 have 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. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIDIES. 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 maturer days the Novum Organum and tho 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 Pla ce where emulous nations carry their rival productions, but a place for the advancement ot man. I would have there every natural product classified and arranged — from the clays of China and of Devon to the gold of Australia and of the Ural Mountains ; not II higgledy piggledy squabb!o 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 were brought into notic.:s, for the purpose of making steel. Oth er stones than those of Germany and France might serve for lithography, if tiler A re . specimens of them could be brought t°g e select . stone mitten would hardly be necessary to Stones for another House of Parliament; nor wou ld the fronts of faced with sto ne our colleges at Oxford be any mor e which is inevitably doomed to rot with frost and crumble away with the rain. No one can calculate the value of a due appreciation of natural products. America is o pulent by the cultiva tion of one or two plants • Staffordshire was enriched by the d'scovery of a possible us© for a few b urnt flints; hundreds of aorta ot wood exist uncared for in Africa and the East, while our drawing rooms seldom go beyond a little rose satin, or tulip w oods. S trength, lightness, of beauty and durability —say nothing are not all com bined in 'nevi mahogany. On a little G erman sand de pends the excellence ot many of our best optical instru ments;quite as good most probably might be found in England, bu.. Lo one looks for it. Nut a plane, root, earth, mineral ought to escape. There is other fibre than than of flax; there is other downy product than that of cotton. [PRICE SD. 2. 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, &0., ought there t o s t a nd in or d er . One hour's inspec tion is worth a month of hard work at books. Detail to obviate difficulties 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 Exhibition. A standing institution would obviate this. Why, too, should not every new hinge, lock, or even kitchen vessel, have a place where its merits might be come known? Our cerefort is dependent on these vulgar trifles, Thousands of pounds are gained by the produc • tion of a night-light or a superior lucifer match. Nothing really deeerves contempt. stalnzegd hardlycollection u ) tio me ir mention the immense impo r t ance o f a philosophical instruments. Not a now book, print, not a picture or statue, but might there address itself to the eyes and tastes of the public. Does not the world recollect how the Crayons in Westminster -hall taught the Royal Acidevey men that there was other charcoal in existence? A poor artist has no chance of becoming known. Again, everybody piti es the poor farmer. S u pp ose , instead of expensive agricultural meetings, ho 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 ho could personally inspect the beat collection of seeds in the world, say nothing of all sorts of oilcake, broken rice, Indise 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. Oar northern clime does not bestow the seggeefive flora cf the East; nor have our common people the geometiTeal training which pro duced the pattern of the Alhambra. Idolatry does not task our energies tp 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. Lien there have told me that no visitors are more welcome. They see and buy, and come to buy again, especially now that we do a little in return. There is not an inventor, not a man of genius who would not reap benefit. Lastly, for educational purposes it would be invalu able. One could write a book on this one point of the argument. If it be said that the building is not perfect. Granted. It is rather like a long square spout, to look down the nave. Bat this might be improved; basides, nobody knocks down an indifferent tent when the choice is 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 are apparently cherished objects in that locality. I have not attempted to fill up the argument. lam no enthusiast. I wish every ono 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 whi c h was done last year, b u t f or a d ee p sense of the thousands of defects, gaps, and short• comings of the far-famed ephe mera of 1851. I have the honour to be, Sir, yours most obediently, Highgate. A. B. 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 orginal 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 ne 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, I a Salt, and a Layard. Each new cargo of the marvellously monuments of Assyrian art that is bene a th deposited the Grecian portico at Bloomsbury elicits fres h ds d e s p air by groan ings, or is received with aspects of mutethee already the unhappy and tantalized officialsheof preserved conditions of over-crammed British Museum. place, aspect, and light, essential t to be ex hibition of the sculptures, are there e the physically adequate im possible,u Clas s ified on s seque :t c er e. Iy : out of the question. save for a small prop clorftitol% sp ecimens, ar rangement, illustrative forfro from every we and . wonder_ that British v sp ie a w ce ed modern rd t - n. peliadtei,oanreoffn o bjects requiring of the better aanoinuasuation chisel Even for our annual ji m u p than a cellar. And Y e ' sculpture can produce such abortions as the man and horse on the Palace gateway, or the mast headed, mutilated, cocked -hatted Nelson, with his doge of coiled cable, coprolitic appen dage which deforms, if not defiles, the finest site in Europe." As if any other result s hould reasonably be expected in a nation which neutralises the efforts of the collectors of the best models in sculpture by ignoring them in their relation to art, by housing them as mere elements of a series of relics of bygone habits and customs, and by putting them und the curatorship of an antiquary i n a crammed department of musty mummies an d 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 owe, the fittest or most durable monu ments of her worthiest sons and grandest achieve ments, by 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 jEginetan, and. Selinuntine marbles would illustrate the succes sire 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 student might trace the 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 series illustrative of the rise, progress, and decline of sculp ture, ture, no country is so rich as England. For ' to so display and c o nsecutive ar rangemen t essentia l them no natural and profitable a method of exbibiti g as' ,a , 1 builai ng more marvellously offers the requfred space and light than the Crystal Palace. We all witnessed the advantages under which the sculp., tures were seen which were there exhibited last year; the lights and shades being beautifully varied jas the sun travelled from east to west, and, in the ma ority of instances, sufficiently contrasted to bring out adequ ate l y the charactetistics of each subject. But there are arrangements in the Crystal Palace pe culiarly favourable for the finest display of some of the noblest examples of the Phidian epoch of the art. Were the bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Parthenon, for example, arranged along the front of the gal lery, they would be vie wed by the spectators on the floor, and be seen for the first time in this country, at that angle and under that flood of light for which their immortal producer esp ae s a n y designed them. Beauties and effects would b e manifested which will never be appreciated while those marbles remain as they now are, stuck against the wall of a confined room in the building in Great Russell -street: - In addition to the original series of the Assyrian, Egyptian, Lycian, 2E4inetan, and Athenian sculp tures, with the Townley Collection, other requisite links in the progressive or deseensive scale of the art might, alai the ample space afforded by the Crystal Palace, be supplied by means of casts. Sculpture has this great advantage over the sister art, that her masterpieces can be more precisely, and at less cost, repeated and reproduced. It is thus that at the Louvre the finest examples of our Elgin Marbles are repre sentsd. The Selinuntine series is in like manner illustrated by casts in the Briish Muscurn. Casts of all ,the finest examples or every scheel and period of the art might be assembled and plac-d in their natural and most instructive relative position in a building 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 University College, London, there has lately been assembled a similar series of the works of Flaxman. Nu one can doubt that the proper locality for such illUstrations of modern art should be in the national Glyptothek, where their characteristic beauties or de fects might be tested and understood by a ready com parison, with juxtaposed typical excellences of the art. And, since 1i: ester casts can be multiplied, it by no means follows that the completion of the public or national series s h ou l d necessitate the spoliation of halls already adorned by such copies of the original marbles. With a locality offering ample space for such addi 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 Roubill ac , such as the Newton in Trinity College, Camb r id ge, his Shakspere, Seo, might be obtained, and the ornate 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 national collection of sculptures and the Crystal Palace, they would call before them no eminent artist in that branch, but the respectable antiquary to whose care 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 damnatory 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 ;t 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 department. 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 sculpture were designed to stand exposed to the free light of Heaven. Our climate does not admit of such exposure ; but that building comes nearest to the ori ginal conditions under which the masterpieces of Plaidias 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 last 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 1 noble and kind-hearted possessor, the fine examples of Gibson's art, which ere so beautifully placed in that miniature Crystal Palace ; and all . __ who Duke of North umberland's admired the u s O m b availed el nd, s themselves liberality be sure marbles stood By against which the pure y arranged pleasing effect of the mouf must tvergreen relieved. b ackground te a m en a l t p ic t a u l r l ea and d h p a r b np ac e k o g y ro d u is n p d la m ye ig d ht our systematically . . to its combina a tion more of delightful eculpture idea of imagine a winter garden carried out r e e u it i s h t oul elevating spectacle, than the r n o a u tn n r cl ,s ed b i a n pr th y e Crystal Palace, were its gifted origi nations beautiful class of God's works, asso ciated promenade,t Crystal would Palace,b b e a difficult sof sh a e highest and noblest productions of and foliage—the ever graceful and endless varieties of human i h ua e mt efadonr with m a r t . I have often had occasion to study the effects which produces familieso n whichthe throng spectacle of our sublime collections of nature and theirgrt crowds of c t a b re e w m orn use a u rt m isa n n n s and customary holidays that are interposed, few and far between, to relieve the routine of daily 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 form, 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 news papers, that mainly supply the intellectual sustenance of the weekly-wage class, systematically endeavour to extinguish. The means of innocent reerAn4inn. psporially earn- Emma 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 ? ~~~ r` , ~- ,-"' - Is there any fine art in which a great nation ought to take more interest than in sculpture ? Is there any 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 conve n i en t locality which the Crystal Palace adorns ? It seems incredible that any but those whose foolish vaticinations this time last year have been so signally unfulfilled, should harbour the idea of wantonly destroying the building which is at hand, and which, if it be not, by the pro fessed architect, deemed wor thy t o com pete with St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey, would be equa lly visited so long as it was suffered to remain, as oneec of t e the wonders of London. The rumour its s l rproidiculej d destruction has already excited the scornful o u f s our w C e o k n e t i e n p e n u t p a I t n u e e i g b u o n tlr d s e . c r i l e V d strosity, and pull down the Crystal Palace hat f ci s u h e a i b a e n saimdono.f together, and the * The glass was temporarily put in, puttied only on one side. library t An t s o w o e ! the E h. • a Exhibition Building in Hyde-park. 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