The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

THE TUESDAY EVENIN
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have just seen does the working ch.res of North London PORT:I27‘ITELLIGE2CE.
the greatest possible credit. tffettr.ltPar.) Tim* are works
JIM cad ingenuity is oinks and cabinet making, and
in various style* and branches of professional skill, which
ti would take me long indeed to enumerate, which many
of you will here an opportunity of seeing from day to day,
sod which can scarcely fail to give you the highest satis-
faction. I must °oohing that it gave me pride and
pleasure to be the fellow countryman of men who have
so employed their time, who have exhibited the
greatest ingenuity in the works they have performed,
and who in the excellent performance of that work have
does credit to the country to which they belong. (Loud
cheers.) Those who first conceived the thought of this ex-
hibition of industry did but junkie to the intelligence and
skill of their fellow nmintrymen, and I coegratalate them
upon the greet sue-less which has already attended their
efforts. (Rear, bear.) It is in this manner that this shows,
and has given another proof that the working classes of
London are, u I believe, the highest working classes in the
world, the mast distinguished in the works which they per-
form, the most reedy to accomplish anything which may
be set before them, thus making this great oommunity that
whisk it ought to be—the hoed of the civilised world in all
those works which betoken civilisation and proms'.
(Cheers.) We must all be thankful that it is permitted to
us to enjoy under the laws of this country the safeguards by
which those works may be made available, and through which
every one can be certais that it he devotes his time to works
that do him credit he will receive his just reward.
(Cheers.) It is therefore that we ought all to be thaokf al
to en Almighty Power from whom we enjoy so many bless-
ings, that we are permitted to joie together in works of
industry which tend so roach to the further progress of our
national civilisation. (Cheers.) I was happy to accede to
the proposal that was made to me to open this exhibition,
and I now say that I had no conception when I easepted the
Levitation that the works of industry to be exhibited would
display es much ingenuity and skill. I most heartily non.
gratulate you upon the sum», which has attended this
enterprise, and I now formally declare this Exhibition of the
North London Working Cleseeeopeoed. (Load cheers.)

An ode, written by Mr. Bellamy and composed I
by Mr. Wesley expressly for the occasion, was then
sung by the Misses Pyne and Mr. Geier, and
prayer Laving been offered up by the Rev. Robert
Maguire, incumbent of St. James's, Clerkenwell,
the National Anthem was sung. After which, Mr.
Digby Seymour, proposed a vote of thanks
to Earl Russell, eloquently reminding the meeting
of the great services which his lordship had ren-
dered to the working-classes, and expressing his fer-
vent Lope that his lordship might be spared to com-
plete the work which he had so nobly and so suc-
cessfully begun. Mr. G. Cruikshank having
seconded the motion, it was put and carried by
acclamation, the company renewing with increased
fervour the cheers with which they had greeted
his lordship on entering the building. When the
applause bad somewhat subsided,
Hari RUMELL said—Ladies and geetlemen, I beg to re•
turn my very heartfelt thanks for the honour which has
just been does me, in giving me a vote of thanks for the
very easy and delightful work which I have performed to-
day. I, however, may claim myself the position of •
working-man—(loud cheers)-fer although I do not wish to
enter here into political doquisitioes, I may be permitted to
say that the greatest portion of my life has been passed in
political labour. (Hear, hear.) I may, perhaps, so far
allude to politic an to tell you what happened to me when
I wee member for the City of London. A measure was
brought into parliament—a very excellent meuure, as I
thought—by Sir /Übe» Peel for permitting freedom of
trade with regard to many articles of which the foreign
product would enter into eoespetitioa with the work of our
own citizens. Many tradesmen who were affected by it
came to me to complain that they were about to be exposed
to competition with all the world. I remember one espe-
cially, &shoemaker, who said to me," I have great difficulty to
obtain one bit of beef in the week for my family, and
yet you ►re propos:ng to pour in the productions of all the
world to compete with us ; you maintain a tax °a the bread
we eat," and he wished me to oppose the measure. I said,
"Permit me to tell you that no such injustice as you
describe can long continue after year trade has been thrown
open to competition with other nations. You will find that
in a short time the cora laws will be repealed." And 6o
accordingly it 'sapwood that in four years after that ► bill
was introduced to repeal the core laws, and that freedom of
trade was extended to the business of the farmer as
well as that of the msonfecturer. That is an example
to show you that, whilst you persevere in a steady
course of industry whilst you show so much intellect and
skill, no law that oppresses you is your rights and privi-
leges will long be permitted to remain. You will fled that,
after • reasonable period of diecuseion—for it has been said
that no great question can be settled in this country without
a considerable amount of talking—(a laugh)—you will find
that that which is jest will be granted to you, and that par.
hairnet will accede to every demand which you are rea-
sonably entitled to make. (Loud cheers.) But whilst I
lay that. you will also allow me to My that it happens to
those who work at polities not always to succeed so
well as those who are engaged in other trades. For instance
I maw in this ball • balance so nicely adjusted as to b;
capable of weighing the ten thousandth part of a grain, and
I saw watches which would mark divisions of • second, but
we who are engaged in politics are not able to adjust our
balances and watches to that degree of nicety. (Cheers and
laughter.) We cannot adjust the balance of the constitu-
tion so finely, nor make government keep time to minutes
and seconds, and thereto» it will become you, as it has
hitherto become you, to show confidence in the laws of the
country. I remember that in that dreadful year of 184 d,
wheel the streeta of Paris and Vienna were deluged with
blood when on one side men were fighting for their rights,
sod others were resisting for the preservation of
order, the people of London also rose in insurrec-
tion, but it was an insurrection on behalf of the law
of order and of peace, and to uphold the constitution of
the country. (Loud cheers.) I trust that such in future
will be your conduct, and you may depend on it that this
is a country in which, by means of discussion, by means of
the press and of parliament, by means of public opinion
expreseed in the usual way, the good and the right will at
length prevail, and under God every individual man in the
nation will be blessed. (Loud cheers.)
Tire noble earl retired after the conclusion of hie
speech amid the loudest cheering from the vast
assembly, and the inaugural ceremony having Dow
terminated, the company scattered itself over the
building, and proceeded to examine the various
articles exhibited.

DEMOLITION or TITS GREAT EXHIBITION BUlLD-
rco.—Yesterasy, a 000siderable number of persons visited
the neighbourhood of the Great Exhibition Middies, it hay.
ing been announced that it WM intended to blow down the
two towers that supported the great doom adjacent to the
Bortieultural-gardens, in the Etbibitios•rosd, but this
operation was postponed fora day or two to enable Sir John
Burgoyne and other officers of the Royal Eastport, from
Chatham to be protest at the operatioe. The public, how-
ever, bad the opportunity of witnessing the corps of sappers
sod misers, ender Captain Knocker, at work upon the
basement of the towers, where they were engaged during
the day in boring at intervals in the brickwork the
requisite chambers for the disploaion, large orifices
being formed for the reception of the explosive
charges, some twenty or thirty in number, repre-
senting a total undermining powder force of 10011 n. weight
to each tower. These charges are proportioued to the weight
sod thickonis of the walls, and to thedistance of the borings
apart from one another, and after the charges are put in
the holes are" tamped ^and then fired by electric batteries
at a range of about 200 feet, all the charges and wires being
automatically connected one with another, the result of the
process being that the huge bulk of the tower, after belly-
ing, so to 'peek, inwards and outwards, falls with a heavy
rumbling mood without scattering the materials, or coca-
monies danger, with a dead weight level to the
ground. The height of the towers is 70 feet, by
40 feet in circomfereeirs ; the thickness of the walls
being six feet at the base, and an average of upwards of
five feet angle, the total weight of each tower being 150
toes. In displacing sums of the side walls last week the
charge, were so nicely proportioned to the material to be
removed that only a few bricks were flung about 30 feet
from the spot, the masa of the debris felling with a dull,
dead pound. it is exrected that it will be a mouth before
the towers in Priem Albert's-road and the grand entrance
in the Cromwell-►oed are removed.

TEE Sorra/ay BEELEa IN Lyralt/own—The
Southern Bazaar, which opals today in Liverpool, has
milisted a large amount of sympathy, both local and foreign.
::übscriptioos to the amount of 7,500 f. are already au-
notuioed, and contributions from all parts of the United
Kingdom, New York, Paris, Roma. Canada, and the Caste-
&rats States, have already established this somas of the
haler.

TATTERSALL'&—MoNDAT.

As the "laptimate" main sego. draw, to • elate, the
gatherings at Hyde-park-corner see always more numerously
managed thee at any other period of the year after Good-
wood. This may be accounted for from the fact that the
Cesarewitch, the greatest of the autumn handicaps, arias
a heavy settling, added to which, the Cambridgeshire, which
comes off within a fortnight after, necessitates • large
amount of speculation. The former line of business always
takes precedence, and it generally happens that the dense
crowds and the difficulty of looomotioo prolong the settling
mush beyond the time necessary were there no such difficulties
in the way. All it is, however, the fatigues of an important
settling Sr. of themedves quite sufficient for a day, and
many who came with the intention of combining book-
making or backing with the squaring of accounts, are obliged
to leave with even the latter but partially completed. Such
mu the use today, and although the subjoined list of quo-
tation may be suppo.ed to represent the available mousy in
the market, it falls short of what might have been done
had time allowed. The "differences" on the Ceeareiritch,
so far as they went, appeared to be settled very amicably,
and no complaints—at least of a radical nature—were heard;
the only whisper in the dope of discontent that fell upon
our ear being that those who bad to " part " would come
" a little quicker." The favourite for the Cambridgeshire
showed no signs of being diaplaoed, although not backed
(or a great deal of money, while Brick and Stockier/sr
were is great force at their reepective prima. And.
dent and Prince Plausible were decidedly the firmest
of the next division; but Sseeharometer sorely puzzled
those who took shortiah prices about him at the
Victoria Club in the forenoon. Among the outriders, the
Highflyer's dam colt had most triage, one staunch adherent
of the snug little stable having takes 1,000 to 20 (our times.
The owner of the favourite, too, determined to have two
strings to has bow, took one big bet of 10,000 to 100 about
Battaglia—a transaction which was a sort of poser to the
few who were within ear-shot, all of whom dispersed, evi-
dently wondering what to make of it. The Derby wee
slightly touched upoo, but nothing wee doe, worth chro-
nicling, except that 1,000 to 30 was laid four times against
Oppressor, and the same price twice against Zambezi, while
40 **fifties" were also booked about Longdown, although
the latter rallied slightly towards the finish, 33 to 1 being
the highest offer. Closing prices :

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Ornrrar. num. ONZ 13Nru.rNo DAT. —•
MONDAY. OCT. 17.—Adonnionn on mutest, 2,308; ebb
by won tickets, 779; total, 3,087.
Hoarrix•N's Tr.s. is choice and strong, moderate
In price, end wholesome to use. These advantages hays secured
tot this teas pascal prefereuee. It Is soil In packets by 1 ts.o
sonns.—adessiteensent. I