The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

THE REFORM BILL.

The Crystal Palace programme for the coming season
is issued to-day by the directors. The season will open
°e L" Friday, the 4th of May, with a great festival, to
Friday,
at three o'clock, for the inauguration of the
colossal bronze statue of Mendelssohn, lately designed
and executed by Mr. Charles Bacon. The
feature of the festival will consist of a
grandperformance
any the oratorio of "Elijah a scale ah
," on far exceeding
Costaan on which it has ever before been attempted. Mr.
will conduct on the occasion, and the musical
arrangements have been undertaken by the Sacred Har-
monic Society.
The Flower Shows will be as follow :--Saturday,
{ay 26, a grand general show of flowers and fruit,:
alairday, June 30, the third grand national rose show ;
Monday, August 6, and following days, the national
hollyhock show ; Thursday, November 15, and two fol-
lowing days, the annual chrysanthemum show.
Grand Opera Concerts will be given on a series of
Fridays, The first three of these concerts will take
place on Friday, May 11; Friday, June 1 ; and Friday,
June 15. The fourth, fifth, and sixth concerts will take
race on Friday, June 22 ; Friday, July 6 ; Friday,
July 13. Engagements for further concerts of a similar
character are in contemplation, and will be duly made
N)lic. The dates of these will be fixed, like those
'theed above, so as to interfere as little as possible with
other important engagements of the London season.
Besides these concerts many other musical entertain-
blents will take place during the season. A morning
'enceert, the programme selected from the compositions,
4,,,,_17°41 and instrumental, of Mr. Vincent Wallace, will
eke Place on Saturday, May 19, and performances by
the children and members of the Tonic Sol-fa Associa-
tion, numbering 5,000, on Wednesday, 16th May. The
Feat performances by the Orpheonists of France have
already been largely advertised. They are to take place
oa the 25th, 26th, and 28th of June, in the centre
wns
el)t. Musical performances of a somewhat extra-
tf—,4narY nature are to take place on the 10th and 11th
;;ose :14137. They are to be contests by brass bands, like
-11,— Which sometimes take place in the north of
The modification adopted last year in the guinea
—teen tickets, by which the holders were admitted on
Payment of half a crown whenever the price of admission
Celtfor the day was five shillings and upward, appears
ho;re given general satisfaction. The directors
via,' therefore, determined on repeating it, but
1617 the additional advantage that these tickets
a.- not be excluded on any day in the coming
c,--ainlts as they were on the occasion of the Handel
I raemoration in 1859. As, however, a large and
--ualltial class will no doubt still desire to avoid the
inconvenience of recurring payments, the issue of two
guinea tickets, admissable on all occasions during the
ths"."eon/ will be continued. With the view of promo-
als far as possible the visits of families of season
kec
v.„- ',4l:lers, it has been determined that season tickets
te°r, nluzett under twelve years of age, admissable on all
b../.-e-a'd°nn, shall be issued at the uniform reduced rate of
—`42'n'tninea each.

tb.IIII,4VE A.:k7D FooL.—One cannot read the reports of
bei 'requent cases of sharping and swindling without
tag struck by the gins folly of the dupes. "The
use '' which knaves dor'weoik with called a fool," is really
zueanit-e of great mischief to society. As so many inches
r„,4e an ell, so, so many fools make a knave. Their
ertri-d).itY encourages and supports him. His art is
.14,471 slede, to and depends upon their doltish simplicity.
ae,„-15Y operating upon the simpletons, the knave
to ltes a degree of proficiency which becomes dangerous
Weople of common. sense. The fools thus serve for the
w_ioreitedt°. ne to sharpen the rogue against the rest of the
In the land of Cocaigne the ducks and geese go
,the cackling " come eat me; ' and in this great town
ener! are boobies who go about with the solicitation
ab -,c7e fieece me." Here is a gentleman who walks
in with £430 in his pocket, makes an acquaintance
a 'Woolwich steamboat, plays at.cards with him, and
losesfi £2O or 430 at a sitting. He likes this specimen
tiin.ls new acquaintance's quality so well that at divers
billiards a4cl places he plays with him again at cards,
• ei. t, and tossing up, and this after his suspicion
eaeating had been excited, and he ends with
losingi 41,050. His solicitor confesses that his client
zrenstrates the saying. "The fool and his money
a foui:" Parted;" but a man has no right to be such
for he
isand to give such an encouragement to knaves,
roguery 41t. the only sufferer, society suffering by tbe
ever we -Beeichk is generated by folly like his. Iclen-
remeattha th-lia.ve
~,f hes toledreusiaand fool confronted in this way, we
fool innot punishment for both. The wisest
the fool
.to. a .refor-
a mortar. 'Butever, how useless it is to bray a
•
might it not be advisable to send
, . keeping nil he allo,.Tatarn where he might be in safe
nis eyes open into tud be taught not to walk with
a wail. He i, as a Well, /tor to •
self at large with run his head against
ihcompetent .
trio . to take care of him-
and lunatics are suseeoey in his pocket as a lunatic,
would be the exampirible of instruction. Excelien six 'months' imprisumn:f the sharper sentenced t his dupe to detention ' nt with hard labour,o
In a refer and
be found fit to be trusted with
his liberty
till he should
And seriously, there is a spice
of
oitbnerty and proieertY.
gross gullability. Cupidity will be foe° in the cesea of
of them the blinding passion. The
tound in almost all
he can outwit the sharper and win lihn.tryinan thinks
ham believes any story in a tran his
money ; the
_ !aim the opportunity of a large pregit, ssaction offering
/1/04 to say which is the greater trieksterePletimes it is
11.w:idler or the dupe, the main difference .in design, the
being that the
2 one is a clumsy, the other an adroit 6 "411ilaish the number of fools with trickster. To
as Cole • a circumbendibus eiren_,_ndge defines knaves, the number with '
for they are the pabulum of crime considerably,

MEETING IN THE CITY YESTERDAY.

Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held at the Guild-
hall Coffee-house in consequence of a circular issued by
Mr. E. S. Pryce, the secretary of the "Parliamentary
Reform Committee," which was to the follo*ing
effect :—" It has becomeithpehtive, in order to secure
the passing of a Rd3istu bill this session of Parliament,
that sante Steps should be taken to strengthen the
hands of those in the House of Commons who are
really in earnest on the matter. The Reform Commit-
tee accordingly urgently invites you to be present at a
meeting to consider the position in which the question
is now placed, more especially by the proposition to
submit the bill of Lord John Russell to a stied com-
mittee, and to take such steps as nir..Y appear desirable
to defeat the attempt ii7hiCh is being made to postpone
the guest Yeti—perhaps to an indefinite period."
Mr. Hargreaves presided, and there were present Mr.
Coningham, M.P., Mr. E. Leatham, M.P., Mr. W. Law-
' son, M.P., Colonel Sykes, M.P., Mr. Noble, M.P., Mr.
Stansfield, M.P., Mr. Biggs, M.P., Mr. '''`byte, formerly
M.P. for Plymouth, M. S'atatel Marling (Stroud), Mr.
Fenwich (LerLaster), Dr. Challice (Southwark), Mr.
Connell (Common Councilinan), Mr. Cossham (Bristol),
Mr. P. A. Taylor (London), Mr. Rose (Dorking), Mr.
Washington, Mr. Griffith (Derby), Mr. Hughes
(Wrexham), Mr. Morga,i). (Bitininghath), Mr. Alder-
man Towle (oxford), M. h. Charles, jun. (Tower
Hamlets), Mr. A. H. Dymond (London), Mr. S,
Morley, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Whitehurst, and other

gentlemen.
The Chairman, in introducing the proceedings, gave a
hat of the important towns from which deputa4oni had
been sent to the meeting. The nice* ‘‘-as called not
for the purpose of aise;;ltsstlig the Reform Bill, for the
Parlien±.enta'y Reform Committee had more than once
agreed that the bill of Lord John Russell should be
accepted, at all events, as an instalment. In the
letter calling the meeting, mention was made of
a notice of motion of, which was, in fact, to refer
the British Constitution to a committee up-stairs. Mr.
Massey was a sort of official, but perhaps not what he
wanted to he, and be appeared to he one of these who
showed their teeth at Ministers wher the iVg!'e out or
office, and at Ministers 4-her - (Laughter.) That
motion had hOtVe'.-e'r been withdrawn. (Hear, hear.)
Other questionable speeches had been made by popular
representatives, which had led to a supposition that
there was weakness in the House of Commons on
this question of reform. Amongst these question-
able speeches was one made last night by Mr.
Edwin James, the member for Marylebone, on the
authority of one of whose speeches in the 116i1Se 6! C.or'-
mons Lord Grey, the degelkercte son of that Lord Grey
who did sothethii for the people, had obtained a corn-
rniqta to inquire into the morals of the people.,.. He
hoped some one would move for a committee to inquire
into the morals of the peers. (Laughter.) The peers
might depend upon it that a Reform Bill must be passed,
and he (the chairman) was one of those who did not
wish to fight the battle of reform in the streets. At the
same time he must say, with the late Lord Grey, that
there must be reform or revnlutiori.
Colonel Townshend Wilson, of London, moved the
first resolution :—" That this meeting rejoices in the
defeat of the treacherous proposal Of ?It. Massey to
refer the Reform Bill of Loiri iohn Russell, after its
Second reading, to a taut committee; and calls upon
all Liberal members of Parliament unmistakeably t. 6
opt,..t a proceeding which could hive no Oilier effect
than to postpone to an indefinite Period any legislation
in favour of Parliainentaq reform." He had no hesi-
tation in saying tat this was an age of shams, cant,
and bugbears ; and the character of the Reform Bill
ass before the country bore out that assertion. &hie
time since there was a very earnest feeling in favour of
reform, but up rose Mr. Diel'aeli in his might, and
broeght forward a measure which should out-liberalise
the Liberals; but the hollowness of the scheme was
seen through, and it was kicked to the limbo of
'Organised hypocrisies. (Laughter). The recess was
passed in getting up an invasion panic of the most
disgraceful kind, and squires, and landlords, and
ecclesiastics talked a vaster deal of rubbish than
was ever uttered before, and siich as he hoped
would never get into print again. Well then the
session of 1860 opened, and Lord J. Russell introduced
a measure which was not a large and cornpielientive
measure, but it was one which nioved in the right
direction and was worthy of acceptance. Some who
professed to be zealous reformers had taken more trouble
about Savoy and Nice than about reform. (Cties of
Question.) The speaker proceeded to refer to America,
and was again called to order. He believed that if the
Parliament of this country dealt honestly and fairly
with the people, the people would cleat fairly and
honourably towards them. (Chars.)
Mr. J. R. Jeffery, cf Liverpool, seconded the resolu-
tion. He said that while be was coming up in the
railway train, a fellow-passenger from Manchester told
him that Mr. Massey's constituents at Salford were
getting up a memorial calling upon that gentleman to
retire from the representation of that borough. (Cheers.)
With regard to the bill itself, he considered that It *at
the veriest modicum of reform that could be o#ered ;
but he believed that Lord .tohn Russell was sincerely
honest in the cause of progress and reform, and that this
was the best bill he had been able to obtain from his
colleagues. (Hear, hear.) It had been shown by an
able letter in the Times that this bill would only
increase the constituencies of the country by 150,000 and
this was a bill to be opposed. He regretted that the bill
did not provide for electors giving their votes by ballot,
but he thought they were bound to accept It, and then
they would have a second edition providing for the ballot.
(Loud cheers.) The speaker caused some amusement by
exhibiting certain ballot papers used at Whitehaven for
local officers, one of which, issued by Lord Lonsdale's
party, was so ornamented that it could not be folded in
any way so as to conceal its decorations. He contended
that if the ballot were adopted a universal ballot paper
should be adopted. (Hear, hear.) Ike twisted that the
meeting would do its duty and denounce Mr. Massey.
Mr. P. A. Taylor supported the resolution, and ex-
pressed a hope that they would not mix up foreign
questions with the subject immediately under consi.
deration.

Mr. Delany, of Chelsea, ivho described himself as a
working man about to be enfranchised, denied that the
Conservatives were the drags upon the Government
Reform Bill. The real drags were the Jameses and the
Masseys, who had seats in the House.
Mr. Willis, of Luton, demurred to the observation
that this was "a poor little bill," and said he believed,
if he went into details, he should show that it was of a
most valuable character. He thought that if they
treated it with the contempt exhibited towards it in the
House of Commons, they would retard the progress of
reform for years, and encourage such reformers as Mr.
James and Mr. Massey, who were playing into the hands
of the Tories.
The resolution was put to the meeting, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. Coleman (of Norwich) moved the second resolu-
tion :—" That after the pledges given by three successive
administrations, and the occurrence of a. general election
on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, this meeting
protests against any further compromise or delay, and
calls upon her Majesty's Ministers on no account to yield
to the obvious reluctance of the House of Commons to
reform itself, but, if necessary, again, by an appeal to
the constituencies, to commit this question to the
decision of the country."
Mr. Handel Cossham (of Bristol) seconded the reso-
lution, which was adopted.
The third resolution was also adopted. It was to
the following effect :--"That, in the event of any further
delay or postponement of Lord John Russell's bill, Mr.
Bright be requested to bring forward his measure the
House of Commons."
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

ENGLISH LOCAL NOI4IHNCLATtRt.—The large tract
of mountains on the east side of Cumberland received
the name of Cross-fells from having had crosses erected
on them, a devotional practice frequently observed in
such situations. " Before they were called Fiend's Fell,
or Devil's Fell, and Dilston, a small town under them,"
is contracted from " Divers toton" (Camden). Our Saint-
Cross, and Croston. (Cross-stone), remind us of corres-
ponding local names in other lands, such as Jitozyrood,
Santa Croce, Vera Cruz. Kirk, and Church, and Minster
frequently form part or the whole of the names of places,
and show such names to have arisen in Christian times.
As instances may be 'named Kirk-burton, Kirk-oswald,
Kirkby Lonsdale,./prkby-underwood, Kirkby-moorside;
Church, Churcham, Churchill, Churchstow, Christchqrch,
; Minster in Thanet and in Sheppy, Westminster,
Axminster, Warminster, IVimborne Mznster. In the
British region of Wales and Cornwall, we have Ilan in
the place of Kirk. or Church. The local nomenclature
of every people contains many references to their religion,
independently of those relating to ecclesiastical edifices,
or to the ecclesiastical hierarchy. We have seen that
the Pagan Saxons were not unmindful of Woden or
Freia ; their Christian descendants sometimes remem-
bered in like manner the name of a Christian saint.
But the proportion of names of towns or villages in
England derived from Christian saints is very small,
because most of the saints who bestowed our Saxon and
Danish names were Pagans. The like proportion in
France is many times as great. In some cases the name
of the saint has now in part disappeared, although it is
still lurking in a modern name, as in Boston (St. Botolph' 8-
town) and Mar/borough (St. Maklulf sburgh). So in
Germany, the saint has frequently disappeared,
,as in
Marienbad, Marienwerder. The names of saints have
also in some instances ceased to be connected-with the
wells over which they once presided. Holywell alone
now serves to designate St. Winifred's well, in Flintshire,
and: many other places in England. Sometimes the well
itself has disappeared, along with its tutelary saint, and
all holy influences. Of this an example is found in
11-o.'ltvell-street, near the Strand, in London. In other
countries springs of living water still retain the names of
St. Paul, or St. Dionysius; St. Donatus, or St. Francis ;
and St. Anne's well at Buxton is still as salutary as it
was in the days of a livelier faith in its holy character.
St. Bride's Well of the metropolis, has had harder fate
than that of other b,as a
such sources. For its name having
first transferred
descended
ee
h
from church to State, and served to designate
a n palace,
in due course of time became a work-
house, and ultimately a prison. This word Bridewell is
now applied throughout the kingdom to denote a prison ;
and neither blessed saint n 9r.h o y spring has necessarily
anything to do with e edifice.—Bdinburgh Review.

BIRTHDAY:

THE FESTIVAL DINNER

tHE ANNIVERSARY OF SHAKESPEARE'S

.
The "Royal Shakespuarcan Club" celebrated the
natal day of our greatest bard, at Str4tford-tipoio:von;
for the thirtieth time There *cie Shake-
spearian readings in the morning, when the Shakespeare
Club and Birthplace Committee also met for the consi-
deration of important business. It appears that a recent
suit in Chancery Las deprived the committee of a large
source of income, until lately derived from the
" Shakespeare bequest," left by John Shakespeare, of
Langley Priory, gentleman, deceased, whose trustees
disputed the legality of the bequest. The committee
will have, ere long, to appeal to the tatiot for assistance,
in order to preseece one of the most interesting relics on
the face of the earth.

was held immediately after the above proceedings, the
chair being occupied by the Itev. C. J. Young, who, in
pr posing the first tost el the E"eriug, said—rhefi I
reflct on the almost universal veneration professed for
the wisdom as well as the genius of him whose birth
we have met together to celebrate, when I call to mind
that there is hardly a house of an ethicated man in the
kingdom in Which Smile niche has nqt been consecrated
to the works Of the Popiildr idOl, I fiLii at a lees to
Conceikt what can have become of the Gladstones
and Disraelis, the Bulwere, the Diekeuses, and Thacke-
rays of the day; and why it is that a town so
endeared to every patriotic Englishman by its associa-
tions, should have had to seek for an advocate in the
highways and hedges of an ignoble eillake,,and dragged
from his obscurity an tknii.noti,n alid ail intimt
'ebb bait prefer no better apology for consenting to accept
an honour so fraught with responsibility than that sug-
gested by an old woman in the neighbourhood, who, on
having heard of his reading the play of Hamlet," with
due emphasis and discretion, declared that it was not to
be wondered at, since " she understood he came of one
of the Hamlet family." (Laughter and applause.)
And why, let me ask, is it that, although we have
assembled in such very large numbers to offer the
tribute of our admiration to Orlt of, the greatest
Men that eiti 114,=ed; *e '6,4±IAA boast df the presence
of any of the foremost men of the age "to do him
reverence?" Is it that in this material, money-making
and commercial age, the spirit of poetry is dead ? Is it
that the taste for the drama, no less than for the noblest
truths in natural and moral philosophy, has degenerated?
Is it that familiarity with the writings of the Bard of Aron
has bred contempt in them? Impossible: Alas! I fear
that the true reason for this manifest, reluttatite to take
part hi thesi ailAiversztries traceable LI a much less
subtle cause—the frequency of their recurrence. There
is no one here old enough to have been present at them
all; but yet imagine the accumulated amount of mental
-ane,nish under which that veteran Stratfordian must
have writhed who has been present at about half that
number. Fancy the many poverty-stricken encomiums
which he must have heard from the lips of men forward
to avow their incompetency to do justice to their theme
—their endless repetition of the same stock quotations—
their consciousness that if they Were to attempt to
glorify their hero's *trite, it dronld be "gilding refined
gold 161 r conviction that, "take him for ail iii all, they
ne'er Should look upon his like again,"' their persuasion
that he possessed a mind "so perfect and so peerless "
that he "seemed created of dint), creature best," and
and then judge Whether we have not reason to admire the
TiationCe, the fortitude, and the magnanimity of men like
our friend Mr. Hunt (clerk of the peace for the county
of Warwick) who, having undergone so wearisome an
ordeal for so many years, is yet,f6iind at !lig post to-day:
There is no class, no eidece no degree of men to whom
ShakeePeare may not be held up as a fit subject for
admiration. The man of ease, the man of letters, has
cause to love him, for the fund of sound philosophy and
the exhaustless mine of amusement and instruction he
has afforded him. (Applause.) The man of science
must bow down before that precocious and penetrating
genius which defined the law of gravitation before its
supposed discovery by Sir Isaac, Newton. The man
of piety cannot fail to discern in almost, every ore, of
his plays incontestible evidence of his, instructive
familiarity with Holy Writ. and his steadfast attach-
Ment to our refOrined relied.. The common people
shoUld read him gladly, and take example from him, as
One who sprang from their own condition, having none
of the advantages which result from rank or riches, owing
nothing that we know of to the precepts of his parents,
and enjoying none of the benefits of a university educa-
tion—though the twin sisters were then in palmy state.
(Applause.) 'What a " confirmation strong " it is of
Holy Writ, which has declared that r.rapleL biLs no
honour in his c*n tOil-ary, to think that, while from
the north and the south, the east and the far west, each
succeeding year swells more and more the annual tide
of pilgrims to this, our national Mecca, not a man has
been found to rise up in the British Senate to propose
the foundation of some fitting monument of England's
most distinguished citizen!! (Cheers.)

WEDNESDAY , 2;;, IsB6.