The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

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THE ALBERT MEMORIAL&

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. - -
At a meeting of the Manchester Memorial Com-
A visit which we paid to the Exhibition building znittee, held yesterday, a letter was read from Mr. Goadsby,
yesterday perfectly satisfied us that all the conditions the Mayor. It had been stated before that the Mayor, to
of the contract will be fulfilled, even before the eti- Ong the subscription with lOfi/:, offered make. its
pre
time. Looked at from the Exhibition-road rt Ptirtaird a statuethat a alls decidede a
aten
alifi•tha Prince
the building now presents a most imposing front, Consort er s
eight feet in height of Carrara :able, at his owe
the magnitude of which is enhanced by the moiled charge, provided the committee were disposed tq,ertiet out
elevation of the Kensington Museum, immediately I el the funds that might be placed at their disposal a stub
opposite. The great eastern dome may be seen is 1 •ble
rbalailiag for its reception and preservation. After the
all its gigantic proportions, looking uncommonly '4'
The Bishop ofrnionneremt proposed : •' That the
like Mr. Green's monster balloon during the process gm" offer made by his worship the Mayor be grt7fulls
of inflation, mid certainly appearing to be of enor- I accepted ; and that the beat thanks of this committee, on
mono size as compared with the structure from , behalf of themselves, end of the nernencety they represent,
which it springs. The artiste must decide whether I benbaaltaeral. tomithisorthhillapyorin forro thengpeorWthig
notice,
said
it harmonises with the great Gothic entrance over I the offer was see
which it rises, or with the semi-Italian facade I who elected him towthealenchir;fifectldmunihcio;al offiuceP°ssn wttleies"supon
of which it forms the centre ; but its crew the individual. (Applrine7)
tion certainly establishes one fact, and that is, Mr. Wimmutlfamnainet seconded the motion, which was
that with the aid of iron and glass we have it lard.„_with Ira! &Wawa.
to oer power to raise at • comparatively small ex- I Kr. nzkir• t3';;Hont Egerton, M P.,
. seen. W. Fairbury', T. Ashton,
pease, and in a very short time, two domes, either g. J. Stara, Howl, and Ernest Hansa were appointed
of which will compare with St. Peter's at Rome, • subcommittee, to receive euggestions and to report on the
or the great mosque at Constantinople, and both of bet way of carrying out the objects of tbs committee.
Which have been run ep in a few weeks, without the
elaborate preliminaries of internal mine and massive
buttress. The uses oriompetition were never more
gonspicuously developed than in the progress of these
two wonderful domes. Whilst the eastern dome
was without a competitor its progress was ex-
ceedingly slow, and the weekly visitor could
hardly detect the progress which bad been
made in the interval ; but the moment the
11604411 dome was commenced, everything
,sensed changed as if by magic, and progress
bosun a question not of weeks, but of days, and
even et hours. It was of course natural to expect
that the second should advance faster than the first,
seeing that its constructors had all the advantage
of their rival's failures and experiments, but stall
it is but fair to say that against all three advan-
tages the eastern dome preserves a position of pre-
cedency fully as advanced as could have been ex-
pected from its period of starting. Its ribs are all
placed and crowned, its ultimate turret is in its,
place—it was in placing this that a poor boy fall
through and was dashed to pieces—and its " tee-
mituil," or pinnacle, lies, finished and gilded, ready
to be hoisted to the apex of the structure. When
this is in its place it will appear but a bright and
glittering point, but, stretched as it now is on the
leer below, and surrounded by workmen, it seems
to be an sceemory of considerable magnitude. The
" terminal " of the western dome is also in the
hands of the artisans. It consists of a framework
of wood, upon which the men are now busy ham-
mering and rivetting the zinc coating, and when
that is completed the gilder will step in and com-
plete the work.
So much for the external work. During the
present week glaziers will be seen, hanging frau
a giddy height, putting in the tiny squares a
glass, and in another week the removal of the inter-
nal scaffolding, the erection of which cost so much
care and 'kill, will begin. The process, it is
expected, will take a month, as the taking down of
this complicated structure is, it appears, winch
more dangerous than its erection. In the interior
the principal feature is the sample of Mr. Crane's
decorations. Several pillars down the nave have
already received their intended colours, and the
great travelling scaffold has been moved up to
the eastern end to accommodate the decorative
workmen. It is difficult to pronounce an opinion
on a work whieh is as yet only in its in-
fancy, but our own judgment is that the colours
which have been selected are too weak to produce
the required effect in so vast an interior, and that
the modicum of gilding contemplated will be lost in
the imperfect light of the nave. To colour such an
immense area, intended for such a purpose, should
have been the work of an artist like Mr. Owen
Jones, to whom the use of colon in architecture
has been the stud of a life. These points are now
fairly open foe that the utility
of the bolding has been eslitMed by universal.
Consent. If we are not absolutely incapable of orna-
ment, we owe it to the connisseurs, whom we have
invited from all corners of the world, to show that the
mechanical pursuits of the English people have not
entirely destroyed their taste for the beautiful,
either in form or colour. Two or three data may
be taken as established. The light in the nave and
transepts is deficient, and will not be helped much
by the illuminating power of the domes • the
colours which have been laid on do not produce
sufficient impremion in so vast an interior ; and the
amount of gilding intended for decoration will be
(scarcely perceptible when., the work is completed.
Now is the time to look to these things, as in May
next we shall have over here Frenchman, Italians,
sad Germans, all with their cultivated sense of
the beautiful, and it will not do for us to
exhibit a structure which, in addition to its
irreconcilability with all known schools of archi-
tecture, shall also violate those laws of light and
colour which Nature herself has laid down equally
in the wild gorse of the mountain and the culti-
vated parterre of the ornamental garden.

NB. ANGSBASTNIN, NA, AND AIS
CONSTITUENTS.-

Last *Veiling nuritottely gtkeittlici public
meeting of the electors of Greenwich was held at the Lite-
=institution in that town for the purposeof hearing an
from Mr. W. Angentein, explanatory of his
views on various important questions of the day. The
obi was occupied by Mr. Coox, of Blackheath, who
briefly alluded to the parliamentary conduct of Mr. Auger-
stein as having been highly satisfactory since his return for
the borough of Greenwich.
Mr. AIIGIBBIIIIII, N.P.,who was well received, observed, he
appeared before them in accordance with a Very wholesome
custom, for the purpose of giving an account of his steward-
ship es their reprewatetive during the last session of parlist
monk He had thought it best to hold that meeting at •
ila=d, inasmuch as it afforded him an opportunity of
•0 many important question, up to a recent
dare. After alluding to the great loan which bar Melesty
and the win had sustained by the decease of his Hopi
Highness the Prince Consort, Mr. Angentatin observed
that the death of Lead Hain was also a deep lees to the
m , and much to be deplored. The mon resat, but
frightful,i calamity at the Hartley coal pit had called forth
the universal sympathy of the country, and would, he
believed. lead to legislative action. After reviewing all the
connected with the accident, his own belief
treivai l=tum ought not to have happened, acid he was there-
fore milighl to find that the government had determined to
institute a strict inquiry ; and he had reason to believe that
a government bill would be introduced during the next
esseist with a view to protect the large and important body
of Wel employed in cod mines, and prevent, for the future,
• reptith of this wholesale sacrifice of humanlife. (Hear.)
Hivilig aided to these dire events, he could only express
his fey that another greet aliainity bad been happily
and that was a war with the Amdtimies, who
laid to be our own flesh and blood, and bound to
es by nunierous ties. Although he rejoioed at this result
at the unferiseate dispute between the two donntries, he
would not bat express the utmost admiistien at the con-
duct of her Majesty's government in making the most cont.
Pets and tiint arrangements for any contingency, and
for *toile manner in which the government, sod espe-
cially Earl lines/A had maintained the national honour.
With respect to the present unhappy conflict between two
pest divisions of the American people, he thought the
North was wrens in designating as rebi those who were
in arms to gain the independwee of the Southern States.
Hs was no Southerner, and should indeed be sorry to ex-
press sympathy with the views of those who for many
yeses had upheld slave ,ry and trafficked in human blood ;
but they had to deal with the fact that several
sovereign Bastes who had once mitered into a
compact of union with other States Dow declared their in-
tention to win their own independence, and to shake off
their former allegiance. He could not forget, also, that the
Southerners were disposed to carry out to the utmost the
principles of free trade,whilst the North maintained • sys-
tem of protection and obstruction to commerce which was
scarcely equalled by any other country. But notwithstand-
ing these facts, and whatever might be the noire of the
dispute between the two parties in America, he considered
it would ill become this country to interfere with tae quar-
rel. They must ell deeply regret that the conflict wen still,
going oa with every prospect of increasing in intensity, for
with nearly • million of men in arms a terrible effusion of
hams bleed mud be existed ' • bat still he did not
we hew this reentry, or the reek of Bumps, could
teddy Wedeln. An important quediee was likely to
ddttYi~ibelita parliament during the next sestion relative to
Ms Weill& of the Bowlines ports, bad the right of raising
that blockade by the nations of Europe would no doubt be
distanced. He fully believed that with regard to the
blockade Wand and the other nations of Lurope bad no
right to interfere, and that the question ought to remain
with the Americans. He concurred with the sentiments
uttered by Mr. Horemen before his constituents at Stroud,
that whAier the Amenities choose to have two, or even
three, separate governments, mattered not to vie, but that
it was • question which must be settled by them. The ar-
the short (supply of cotton tight be used,
=el ea to
if Leeeteldre enffered—ked as that evil might be
—it mono reason why this Gooney shoold t a wrong,
He trusted that the insiatifteturing would not
suffer, as had beta antielmid, from a short supply of
cotton • but this threatened evil had te sons =tit bee.
produdive of good, as it bad led to serious inquiry relative
to obtaining cotton from other than American escrow.
The getirearsit had paid peat attention to this tub**,
as well as the Manchester Chamber of Commerce end the
Cotton Supply Assocdatioc, and hebelleved the result would
be that in a very short time we should not by any weans
be dependant upon Amities for cotton, but it would be pre.
cured in large quantities from India, the West Indies,
Africa, and Gibe. couetriss.
The hon. member replied to numerous questions in
• satisfactory meaner.
On the motion of Mr. R. 311•11111 M • resolution of con-
tinued coidesse to Mr. Appestats was unanimously
adopted, and the meeting aspeated.

A Bonnier= Dianonnisn FOR moon OF Pito-
natioNou &Nelms—lt is aarwaseed that Mr. Claydea,
a barrister, who ban for some time put practiced Le the
County Court and Petty Seesions Oourta in the town of
Wolverhamptea and the diarist, has been debarred to the
pulley days by the Mothers el Liman's-inn. Mr. Clay.
don has not unfrequently taken cases without the cu
lestrestkwr from &Mersey', and complaints have bessr=
dthis practice to the judge of the County Court. During
the buries of ea insolvency petition in the Wolverhaiapten
County cilitnS hat July, Mr. Cludoe publicly annowseed
that he should °matinee the practice, unless it could be
shown that be wan acting wrongly. The judge (Mr. A. M.
Skinner, Q.C.) raid that, as a lumber of tincoln's-bin, he
amid not but take eiguianes of the challenge, and at mem
drew no • statement of the cum which, if we misike sett
he submitted to Mr. Claydon. This statement hawing bean
forwarded to the benchere, they bum after hearing evi.
deeds, decided in • manner that, it is anaonapect, will pre-
vent Mr. Claydon from continuing to pnweis• • the profeesem
of • banister. We understand that Mr, Clarion has exii
=.11i5 rawly* to seal Pal the daiiiia at the
Lniiir
FALL OF • HOUSE Di DI:MUM —Between one end
two o'clock on Sunday morning the neighbourhood bf
Gregg's-lane, Dublin, was thrown baton state of the greatest
alum, when the fact became Mews that the bowing oil •
room, in which thirty or forty men sod women were rum
bled ate wake in the home No. 2, Sizoies-oourt, had given
way, and, as it was then stated, buried all the peaces who
were in the room beneath the ruins. Nothing could exceed
the confusion and disorder which prevailed at the seem of
the aorident, am the place was pitchy dark, and from oat of
pills of broken timber that lay in the foundation, the
screams of women and the cries of men for help were loud
and incessant. A body of the police of the 0 divi-
sion, nuder the direction of Inspector Armstrong, way
promptly on the spot, and succeeded in obtaining lights
and restoring order. Men, wore's, sod ohildrea roaring
and screaming lay bundled together in • hap in which was
the corpse. of the man, named John Connivuy, which bad
been waking. The deceased died suddenly on Saturday
evening from disease of the heart, with which be had been far
• long time afflicted. The police lad no Lime in removing
the persons who were monocled to have been dreadfully in.
Jura], but, to the surprise, or rather amazement, of all
present, not one of the persons who went down with the
Scoring sustained the slightest injury. The fortunate
result proceeded from the fact that the wake bad been
held in the parlour of the hones, the flooring of which was
only 7 feet above the old cellar into which it fell. An the
house is • very old one, thank no doubt If the =side= had
occurred in one of the upper stories there would have bees
a great marinas of human- life.—Proestea'a Journal.

MB. ROUPELL, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

Yesterday evening Mr. Roupell, M.P., met his
oonstituents, according to his annual custom, at the Horne
Tavern, Kauaington, to explain his political opinions, and
eve aa account of his parliamentary stewarp. Mr.
HAMM TAYLOR occupied the chair, and the meeting was
numerously attended.
Mr. ROUPIAA, who was received with loadm ohs, having
reviewed at some length the proceedings of parliament
daring its last session, and expressed him regret at the posi-
tion of the church-rate question. said it was witubetacy
to know that there wee likely to be an embankment of both
/Ides of the River llama. After alluding to some local
matters, the boa member, in reference to the Treat affair,
said the way In which the government had
by putting on a bold and who front, eatirerreLd to the
nsipeet of the country. (Chain.) He barred that, ie al?
probability, we had been waved from war by beisg
prepared for its occurrence. Whatever fault he might hind
with Lord Palmerston for his indifference to parliamentary
reform, he must give his lordship credit for the statesman.
like way is which he bad dealt with the Trent difficulty.
With respect to the American struggle, be thought the
English people had simply to suppress their disgust at it,
and to wish for its speedy termuiatim. He expressed •
hope that the people of England would patiently suppress
their disgust at the war, and tura away from the tempter
who would desire them to interfere on either side. After
min a warm tribute to the memory of the late Prince
Consort Mr. Roupell urged on his audience the necessity of
bestirring themselves in behalf of parliamentary reform, re-
sparking that, unless the present apathy was succeeded by
seal on the part of the country, the forthcoming session
would be even less favourable to reform than the last.

Mr. &LINTON moved a resolution approvin of Mr. Ron-
pell's conduct, which was seconded by Mr. Wurrmorrou.
A Geirrtaucit in the middle of the mom made some re-
marks in reference to Slidell and Mason, and asked if Yr.
Reopen would re cognise them as envoys from the Southern
States._

Rourum, in reply, aid—Oar interest about the
Trent affair did not arise from any sympathy we felt for
the Southern States of America, or for Slidell and Mason.
The question the gentleman uks me, if I understand it, is
whether we should moguls the envoys from the Southern
States as we do the ambassadors of the Confederated States.
They coma se envoys, and I think we are bound to reoei►e the
despatches they being and to bear what they have to urge.
Bat I should be sorry if, in consequence of listening to
them, we should be induced hurriedly to rsccgu• the
Southern States as ea independent power. Msniy reoeiv-
big the despatches and hearing what the envoys have to
esy does not constitute a reciagnition of the Southern States.
While we receive an ambear from Turkey, I think we may
metre en ambassador from the Southern States of A-nerica.
(No, no.) But I serum you I have no sympathy with the
Southern States of America.
The motion was then carried unanimously, and Mr.
Respell returned thanks.
The venal compliment to the chairman brought the pro-
oeedinp to a class.

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