The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-27 00:00:00

THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION,

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Fan. 26.
trios TIM SPICIAL CORDZSPONDRIIT OF TIC DAILY Tha >lemon's Journal asserts that Mr. Brewster.
hews,)
PARIS. Fee, 16. Irish Attorney-General, has resigned °Mee, but I
The commercial spirit of the French Crys.tal Palace h'Fre as yet seen no other authority for the statement.
The only mem'oer of the
Company appears to develop itself apace, in spite of ...tue,.Frw".
rr4nan adds"—"
who appears not to appreciate the
the Nimes opposition of Parisian art-manaltacturr,s, r!!IIcu
tics is the SolicitorAteneed.”
This week it has been publicly announced that the Tut
It is state that Mr. Caulfield, Isf.P. for the county
directors have appointed their photographon y
rune. that this appointment is in the sprit of that of A h, is about to resign lit, seat, owing to ttoe
which had reference to eagraving. No carAlere. save _or " „ituragli and— it is
that belonging to the contracting firm ',rill bae•amosbertoe lane It;
071 U Mt. Be a
be allowed to point towards the Palate, de r Industrie I
The public might naturally ex,,,est that, if the The Hos. Cavendish Butler has issued his address
directors found themselves driven 'oy. to the electors of Cavan, the retirement of Sir John
of cirearnstancee—or, otiver 'worm, by the Young from the representation of that county having
rapacity of a business-like pr IPrictsq.,_`''''`—_,_„t° sell beau officially announced. Mr. Butler declares his-
such a privilege connected Tiimi this
na``"4, self to be a thorough-going Tory, and the chum=
they would at least choose the most celebrated in his favour are very slight, if any effort be made on
venter in the capital. f.'egtiape, however, such the liberal side. Captain Annesley and Mr. Anthony
photographers as Baldus reeved to lend themselves
O'Reilly
to an affair so peculiar! y commercial. AU this isare also in the field, uis also Mr. Hercules
Ellis, who will merely divide the liberal interest.
not likely to attract the artistic world of Paris to the
Palais de l'lndustrie; it bids fair to become the
Moses Emporium of A st—not a temple. Still, seeing
that this year the Universal Art Exhibition will be
under the protection of the government, the artists of
Paris are working with feverish excitement. Mee
'who are behindhand are jocularly reminded
that the time for sending in is extended tes
'sidelight on the 15th proximo. The mast
extravagant rumours are afloat as to the terrible
dispeeportion between the number of pictures
inscribed and the number that can be exhibited. The
wild estimates to which these rumours have gives
birth, in the absence of the information which the
authorities should have freely afforded, have
probably discouraged many young men of promise,
and seat them from the easel in despair. Already
the vanity of leading men has made itself felt; and
in the ateliers very tree gossip is indulged in about
the masters who will exhibit only on the condition
that they have separate rooms to themselves. It
appears certain, however, that in one or two oases
these demands have been complied with, whe-
ther to the advantage or disadvantage of other claims
remains to be seen. It would have been more
distinctly to the advantage of art, if, instead of
grasping at rooms for the majestic repose of their
sovereign dignity, these appointed rulers of modern
art had stepped 'aide, and afforded plate to aspiring
men. I. is not the re-exhibition of that which is
well known that the public desire—but, on the con-
trary, the exhibition of that which is unknown, yet
worthy to be known. " They had better remove the
Luxembourg Gallery to the Champs Ripest," said a
young artist to me with a sneer, as he listened to the
stories his companions had to tell of extravagant
claims, and other painful ebullitions of diseased
vanity. Poor fellow . he felt that with the power
to allot in the hands of the friends of
great painters, insignificant workers like himself
had but the poorest chance of finding room. It was
debated whether the chances of unknown men
might be strengthened by introductions to any of
the commissioners, but the question was decided in
the negative. I suggested that it would be well to
form a second exhibition of the pictures rejected
from the first. This idea appeared to be well
received.
Gossip of the above description illustrates, perhaps
more than any other method of reporting, the feeling
of a clam interested in a coming movement. It
further illustrates the old, old story of jealousies in
high places working to the disadvantage of the
young. How welcome is the least sign of encourage-
ment to the beardless rotaries who press with
trembling footsteps the threshold of the tem-
ple of art, when that sign is given be men
who are ministering from its high altars ; and yet
how seldom is such a sign given. The student's
fiercest battle is generally against those who should
lead him to victory. If, at the present moment,
young
.art-students tremble in this city for the fate
of their works, it is because they know that the
vanity of their muters must be gratified before they,
can approach the universal art temple. Yet surely if
eminence in art or letters ham one delight to a good
man beyond all others, it is that of having earned the
privilege to raise the young by kindly approbation
and tender counsel. The man appears revealed when
he advances to a public position, however; and it is
often most melancholy to see him. The phi-
lanthropist turns out to be :a designing schemer ;
the liberal writer, whose written sympathies have
charmed the world, is seen to drop his Christian
mask as he in.rs his home; the artist whose canvas
has immortal light and truth upon it crushes the
stripling who is creeping to hie aide. Thus youth
and middle-age always wage a deadly war, and the
men in place hit hard to beat back their growing
rivals. Thus, arrived at middle age, every man talks
bitterly of the struggles of his youth, and of the
coldness that chilled his spirit. Thal at the present
moment the young artists who are painting against
hops in the quiet corners of Paris regard all men in
place as their natural enemies—in the same way
that young authors turn from acknowledged authors,
because they know how cold is the eye of power
always, and how cruel the verdicts of juries upon
the merits of men aspiring to be their rivals.

CHAPTER OF GULLIVER'S

TRAVELS.

The same ingenious-mailman who disoovered the
MS. of " Macedon." has by good fortune laid his
hands upon an original MS. of the " Travels of Cap-
tain Lemuel Gulliver," which contains several pas-
sages omitted in the printed copy. We (Daily Enos)
have been favoured with his permission to publish the
following specimen of these discoveries:
I swellms that when his Majesty the King of Brobdignag
toes plarist to tell me, after I had concluded my account of
my dear native country, that "the balk of our natives
seemed to be the moat pernicious rase of little odious tennis
that nature ever lama to crawl upon the surface of the
math," I was heartily miry that Iliad undertaken to ezplain
Is monaesk diMp whieb-41mwoh a prime of most
admieshis eepsellise•As seemed see capable of understand-
ing. Mereendbilme. I Ilimeht it my duty to my noble and
Mimi omit/ to emisewar to comet the mistakes Into
which his It had Mtn, partly perhaps from my lack
of wit. I seat» omedsa, thezetese► to have another
audience of his Msjserig, ibis I mlgbe discourse to him
again on the perfection doer gememosms.
His Majesty was pleased to listen most graciously
white I pointed eat to him the manifold excellencies of our
system of government by Ministries. I showed him that
there mast needs be geed store of able ministers in two
houses, one of which contained more than four hundred
born legislate», and the other more than six hundred
elected legislators. His Majesty upon this was pleased to
remark that this was very true, and that it would
be odd indeed if out of more than a thou-
sand men, each as I had described, some dozen
could not be found capable of acting with common eon».
" For," said be, acutely, "if one dozen of these are incom-
petent, your Queen or your people, or whosoever among you
roaaikis' a chooses for the ministry, can select another dozen,
and so on, until you have polled the whole number."
Upon which I rejoined, with some confusion, that practi-
cally this was not the ease, as, if the people were ever so ill-
governed, there were only about live or six of the legislate»
who could be applied to to form a new ministry. Upon
this his Majesty, although usually of a most sweet temper,
bard oat with an oath, that sounded like a peal
of thunder, adding, " Why, your freedom of choice
is as groat a lie as the rest of your wretched
institutions." I then quaked with fear, and would fain
have shut my month for ever upon the subject of my dear
country, which I had, with the best intentions, unwittingly
disgraced. His Majesty, however, motioned me to proceed.
I can assure my readers that nothing but an extreme love
of truth could have hindered me hota onsmaling the latter
part shay story. I was forced to confess to his Majesty that
the Upper Home consisted of about five or six lords of
sawsileg lofty statun—that is, speaking after the randard
of Iselams adopted In my nation. I said that so vast
wee the size of these giants that they carried the
whole of the remaining members of the house
in their pockets when they came to the meet-
logs of the house. I was obliged to add that on
'maths from the pockets of the several giaate, the little
lords tanght each other at the dictation of their owners.
Hies* of your House of Lords," says his Majesty with a
contempt ; "now for your Home of Oommeas."
I cogetisd to him with some fear that the Lew: House
was la Nam measure a continuation of the Upper. The
people at large, indeed, chose their own representatives ;
but their choice was, in a very great measure, restricted to
persons selected by the giants, and wearing their
badges. Oa the moss», of any contest in the
Lower House the giants sent to their badges= and
gave instructions as to the stratriptical disposition of the
forces. The victory turned to the tide of that combination
_ _ _

of the giants whichcoatsiaed the greatest number of badge-
men. The leaders of the parties in the Lower House' the
giants associated with themselves in the labours of govern.
ment. " fio," said his Majesty, " your giants and their
deputies are the only materials out of which a ministry can
be formed. Bat supposing your Queen and people are dis-
satisfied with the whole twelve, or twenty, who, under
these circumstances, constitute the only possible ministry—
what then ? " Upon this, I plucked up courage, and
ventured to exprem a doubt whether his Majesty had
attained any great proficiency in mathematical studies.
I showed him that it was possible to place twelve objects in
nearly fifty million different positions; sad I asked, with
some little triumph, whether, having such an inexhaustible
number of arrangements, we might not hope to find the
right one at last. As an example, I pointed out to him
several instances within my own knowledge, when members
of the ministry had been made to change places with each
other, in order to see whether the public would not be
pleased with the new arrangement. His Majesty made no
immediate reply, but asked, I thought rather abruptly,
whether the giants were the most learned, the
most valiant, the most scientific persons in the
country ? To all which question. ,I was obliged
to reply in the negative. "You boast like a little
beeirgart as you are," said his Majesty, "of the immense
ism which your nation expended in a late war. Did the
Omits furnish these some ?" I replied that we were enabled
to bear this expenditure by means of the riches that had
Sewed into the country from our great commerce. " Did
the giants construct your machinery ?" asked his Majesty.
I replied that various person of no amount amongst us,
cotton spinners and the lik., had invented the machines
which enriched us. " Miserable manikins that you are,"
said his Majesty, in a tons of great indignation ; " twenty
millions of you toil and invent, and raise your
country to a degree of excellence both in intelligence
and wealth and power that might make it almost respectable
in the eyes of a Brobdignsgian. You have surpaseed in
every possible way every nation with which yen have come
in contact ; and yet when you haya done all this, you are
content to look quietly on until some possible combination
of a dozen or more stupidities shall make a wisdom—until
mute arrangement of failures shall turn out to be a success."
Alarmed at the indignation of his Majesty, I besought
him
[Here the manuscript become! undee:pherahlc.]

CANCER HOSPITAL, WEST
To Suonase.—We beg to draw the attendee of our readers
to the 'ignoble labours of the above besseclent institution,
and subjoin seem which arose from shear earglesaness and
neglect of the unfortunate merse who paid the penalty of his
thoughtlessame by bitter eassfsyi Mitmeture death.
The cue is as Ilients:—" Mow sped 49, a cab
driver, proesslod himself far abailisa le IM hospital, hav-
ing • very aztossies slosestios of the lowa lip, which he
AMA to have oesmorossi after tearing away a small pot-
ties of the sign by soddesly taking • day pipe from his
most whoa soiled ',the steed am day. At first it was
dimply alma pimple, very bard, and est causing him any
Wm, bat upth findieg It increased in size he went
Clititistak doctor to whom he was recommended, who
saslseised it, after which the ulceration rapidly increased.
111111 admitted into the hospital, and remained there
is mesas in the hops of obtaining relief. His
porn asawinp were alleviated by • mode of
lenetrainit the medical °Moen have arrived at, but
dim • time the eempthint became perfectly unisasageshie,
perbirated the artery : the poor fellow has been
relossod by death." The life of this sea was sa•
is sessequenes of his not puttmg himself under
peps' treatment immediately be found afflicted
With the dimem.—The Managing Committee bath drawings
taken of roast of the cuss, and entries marts of ths treatment
bestowed on etch patient ; thus they will accumulate a masa
of statistics which, in the course of years, we fervently hops
may be productive of the happiest results, in providing •
remedy for this hitherto incurable disease.
BARNSTAPLE ELECTlON.—Yesterday, on the com-
mittee re-arsembling, Mr. J. M. Butt in the chair, the pro-
eeedings were almost exclusively directed as to evidence of
the amount of aspen's incurred in conducting the election
of the sitting members, Messrs. Laurie and Oldsmar, and
from the evidence of Mr. Jerwood, ths election auditor, it
appeared that the total sxmons so lnonsred amounted to
4201., sidasivis of 711. paid to Mr. Maynard, the election
agent. Mr. Maynard was examined, and said he had been
is crogungoisation with a Mr. Grant relative to the pay-
ment of them expenses, bet he was not aware that Mr.
°rant, whose address was Moorgatii-street, was • clerk to
Mr. Carasew. Witness breakfasted with the sitting mem-
bers at lb. Golden Lion. Mr. Oedema Yisilake, an the
part of the petitioner*, then youpsosd to essmis• Mr.l
Laurie. Mr. Macaulay raised a keg syMNa orpsmoot.
Ultimately, the room haying been dewed for dont a
quarter of an hour, the committee resolved unanimeuely
that upon the distinct allegation new UMW 1111111iderati011, SS
to whether Mr. Laurie procured lie suedes mad Morn by
means of a corrupt bargain or agressiest, as allowed in the
petition, he is incompatible to give evidence. Adjourned
to this day at 11 o'clock.
CAMBRIDGE ELECTlON.—Yeeterday the General
Committee of Elections, the Hon. Mr. Walpole in the chair,
appointed the following hos. members to try the merits of
the Cambridge election petition:—Mr. Robert Ingham
(chairmen), Mr. J. H. Philippe, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Mr. J. M. Goshen, and Mr. M. Wyvill.

ADULTERATION or FLOUR AT BRADFORD. —At
the Bradford Borough Court, on Thursday, two informa-
tions were laid against Mr. Joseph Fighills, an extensive
miller and corn dealer, at Apperley Bridge, for adulterating
with alum the wheat ground by him into flour. The case
exalted great interest. The flour seised in process of grind-
ing on the defendant's premises was found to contai, 1 lb. of
alum to 240 lbe. of wheat. Mr. Gordon, surgeon, deposed
that if a healthy person continued for twelve months to take
alum in bread made from such flour u that produced, the
digestive functions would become deranged, and diseased
action of the organisation would necessarily take place. For
the deface* it was urged that in consequence of the want of
hest at the early pert of lost swami r, and too much heat at
the latter part of the summer, the grain generally was too
weak, and it was deemed necessary to apply a small portion
of alum, in order to give strength to it, and so give it the
power to " rise" in baking. The magistrates inflicted the
highest penslty the law allowed (200, stating that they
v.usideted the punishment quite inadequate to the offence.
The court further ordered that the 'Sender's name, place of
abode, and the nature of the offence, should he published in
some newspaper, in or near the place where the court sat,
and that the 'incase thereof be defrayed out of the penalty.
—Leeds Mercury.
BOUTS-EASTERN RAlLWAT.—Traffic for week end-
ing Feb. 24, 1866, 1105281. 121. 21. ; corresponding week,
1864,12,6901. 13s. Od, Degrees' in 1866, 10624 Os-106.

ALTERATION OF THE CITY POLICE: DuTY.—Yea-
terday morales ea alteration took place with regard to the
ditty of the London Polk*. In future the wee will be
=l ea day deity for four holm, be relieved for four
eM them 000•10111110 their second four hours ; thes
nflhoillag than in relief than by the old eyes's, that of
booing sooty ether day a loop duty of ciao boors. The
eight gems will be played on ditty for sight, and not nine
bow, as heretofore.

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LONDON AND NORTH WWLERN RAILWAY.—
Mr. Herm writes to to to say that, on one point, the
remarks he addremed to the meeting 0; thill company,
en Friday, were ineorrectly apprehended I.; our reporter.
What he stated was, that the increase in traffic was,
with any increase of dividend ; bit that,
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ten company, with which hi wits
similar femme of tradic, eztendtha 1
resrkil a m
seas posisd of time, molted in an inerearei:l
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