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to indicate, especially when followed by cannon,
that the writer associates the Emperor's future
with the idea of war. Rossini, we all know, does
not trouble his head with politics ; but it is hard
to suppose the gunpowder words he has
set to music can have been sung on such
an occasion without the deliberate stamp.
It is curious, however, that although this afternoon
copies of the song were selling at the doors of the
Palais de l'lndustrie at two sous apiece, not one is
to be got in Paris this evening ; and the evening
papers do not reproduce it. Has it struck some-
body that it was out of place, and is its publication
therefore interdicted t That would be awkward.

When the last sound of the hymn, which was
not long, died away, M. Rouher, in full Minister's
uniform and with all his orders, read at the foot of
the throne a very long speech, giving the Emperor
an account of the history, state, and prospects
of the Universal Exhibition. The Minister of
State spoke in a sonorous voice ; many of his words
were audible in the remotest corners of the gal-
leries, and no doubt the whole speech was heard
by many in the nave, but it cannot be reported
till the Momiteur gives it to-morrow. The Emperor
then rose, and read a speech, which you will see in
the evening papers. It seems to me utterly in-
significant in a political point of view, unless,
indeed, we are to understand from the conclusion
that the " satisfaction of legitimate aspirations,
which alone can consolidate thrones, elevate peo-
ples, and ennoble humanity," means that France
must have Belgium and the Rhine.
After this speech the groups set themselves in
motion, and with a banner borne before each ap-
proached the foot of the throne. These groups I
were very numerous ; I estimate the ten of them at
from 00 to 100 each. The first was the Fine Arts
group, with Count Nieuwerkerke at its head.
What followed was rather tedious to the majority
of the beholders, although no doubt intensely in-
teresting to the parties immediately concerned and
their friends. Every man entitled to a gold medal
issued in turn from his group, mounted the steps
of the throne, and received his honorary reward
from the Emperor's own hand. It was curious to!
witness the uniformity with which the laureates
went through the ceremony. There were several
steps to be mounted, and then a wide carpeted
spew to be traversed between the landing and
the foot of the Emperor's chair. A useful
hint given by persons in authority that
time was short made almost every medallist,
including many grey and bald-headed elderly men
run up the stairs ; then nearly everybody was
nervously afraid to approach too closaly to the
Emperor's chair, so that he had inconveniently to
stretch forth his arm to its full length to give the
medal. Both the Emperor and Empress occa-
sionally said a few gracious words to very eminent
exhibitors or persons that they knew. But far the
greater number hastily clutched the medal, and in
most cases with a quick bow, which some however
forgot, turned round, and ran down the stairs as fast
as possible. During this ceremony a sudden
storm of applause in the neighbourhood of
the throne showed that something unusual
had happened. The incident was that the
Emperor had been declared by the jury entitled to
a prize for his model of a working man's house,
and as he could not well give a prize to himself, the
Prince Imperial, delegated by the Imperial Com-
mission, ruse from his seat to present it to him.
The distribution was then got through much
quicker than, from the number of medalliets, was
to be apprehended. By four o'clock all was over.
The Emperor, the Sultan, and the Empress, and
all the great people on the throne, then descended
and very slowly walked round the nave. They
were loudly applauded, especially by the persons
nearest to them, namely, the groups who
had just received prizes. The Sultan, who
walked not in the order in which he had
sat on the Emperor'sright hand, but in the middle,
between him and the Empress, is not, as some
thought yesterday, when they saw him in a car-
riage, shorter than the Emperor, but fully half a
head taller. He very graciously and frequently
returned the salutes of the public. It was an ex-
tremely pretty sight, besides being a very memo-
rable one, to see the royal ladies in the Empress's
suite, with their splendid dresses of various
colours, and long trains, walking arm in arm with
the Prince of Wales, the Prince Royal of Prussia,
Prince Humbert, the Duke of Cambridge, &c.
The procession home was the same as in going,
except that, as hinted above, there were more car-
riages. The weather was as fine as in the morning,
and there were even more people to see.
The Viceroy of Egypt, who did not choose to go
officially, came for a short time with several atten-
dants into the Eastern gallery. He did not sit
down, but stood in a gangway wiping the per-
spiration off his forehead, while a pair of new
kid gloves peeped out of the pockets of his straight
cut white waistcoat.

CIWOPENCE

MESSRS. PATO, BETTS, AND CRAMPTON IN
BANKRUPTCY.

The following communication has been addressed
to the inspectors of the estate of Messrs. Peto, Betts, and
Crampton, by Messrs. Maynard, the solicitors to that firm,
announcing the necessity for placing the liquidation under
the jurisdiction of the Court of Bankriptcy—a measure
rendered unavoidable by the claim just set up by the di-
rectors of the London, Chatham, and Darer Company :
" 57, Coleman-street, June 24.
" Gentlemen—You are aware that the deed of inspection
under which the affairs of Mean. Peto, Betts, and Cramp-
ton have for some time past been under your =pin:intend.
mos will, if not extended, expire on the 30th inst., and it
has become a matter for very serious consideration whether
the inspection provided by that deed should be confirmed,
or whether the affairs of Messrs. Peto, Bette, and Cramp-
ton should be administered in the only other mode which
appears to us in any way feasible, namely, that of bank-
ruptcy. During the past year considerable progress has
been made in realising some of the most important assets,
as well as in settling amounts of a very difficult and com-
plicated uature,and we believe with great advantage to the
estate ; but the questions connected with the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Railway Company, and the various parties
interested in the numerous dependencies of that company,
are of such extent and complication, that we see no hope a
their being brought to a satisfactory termination by any
other means than those afforded by the jurisdiction of the
Court of Bankruptcy. You are aware that Messrs. Peto,
Betts, and Crampton, in the statement of their affairs,
claimed a balance to be due to them from the London,
Chatham, and Dover Company of upwards of 3ft0.000/.,
besides which they were liable to claims on the part of
creditors to the amount of upwards of 2,000,0001., who
held as security only some of the various stocks of the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. It wait
understood that the London, Chatham, and Dover Com-
pany disputed the amount claimed to be due from them ;
but within the last few days only an account has been
received from that company, by which they claim to be
due to them from livers. Pete, Bette, aud Crampton
no leas a sum than 6,061,9111., ex:luaive of interest.
The questions which arise upon this account are of •
description which we think it quite imposidhle to deal with
by means of the powers afforded by • deed of ins; ection,
and we have therefore no difficulty in advising, as the
course beet calculated to secure and promote the interests
of the creditors at large, that the deed of inspection should
not be extended ; but that the necessary steps should be
taken for liquidating the estate in bankruptcy. We are,
"XATNAKI), Bolt, AND CO.
"The Inspectors of Messrs. NW, Betts, and Crampton."

fi RAND PERFORMANCE AT EXETER HA LL.
This evening a grand performance of J. R. Schacbner's
oratorio. Inners Ileum Jima Babylon' is to be given at
Exeter Hall, in aid of the funds of the House of Relief for
Children with Diseases of the Joints. Her Grace the
Duchess of Newcastle, together with Mrs. Ellicott, whose
seal and energy has originated and organised the under-
taking, have promised, with unprecedented kindness, to
sustain the solo parts of the work assisted by Mr. Tom
Hohler, Mr. Lye', and Signor Foli.
EISA INOHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. —A meeting of
the general committee was held on Saturday ; Earl
° Besochamp in the chair. It was aenonnoed that, with
I respect to principal singers, the orchestral committee have
closed the following engagements :—Madame Titiens,
Madame Lemnsens.Sherrington Madame Sainton-Dolby,
Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. W. H. Sherrington,
Mr. Bentley,
and Mr. W. H. Weiss. The programme, se finally fined,
is as follows:—Tuesday morning-210 A, Mendelssohn.
Evening—" Ode to Alexander's Feast," Handel ; and •
miscellaneous concert. Wednesday morning —A new ,
Biblical cantata, "The Woman of Samaria," Professor W.
SterniLde Bennett ; and Judas Macrabens, Handel. '
Evening—A classical concert, comprising " The Legend of
St. Cecelia," Benedict. Thursday morning—.Vanish,
Handel. livening—A miscellaneous concert, to include a
new mutate, "The Ancient Mariner," by John Francis
Barnett. Friday morning —brae: in Egypt, Handel.
Evening--St. Po HI, Mendelsohn.
SALE OF SIR WALTER Scorr'n MANUSCRIPTS.
—The touters of the late Mr. Robert Cadell, of Edin-
burgh, intend selling by auction in London, on Saturday
next, the original manuscripts of Sir Walter Scotts
poems, and several of his novels and prose works, corn-
prieing " The Lady of the Lake," " Mannion," " Holieby,"
" The Lord of the Isles," " Don Roderick." " The Field of
Waterloo," and other poems k " Heiden Hill," " Doom of
Davorgoll," Ica, with an introductory essay on ballad
poetry I " Auchindrane' " " Anne of Geleestein," " Count
Robert of Paris," " Castle Dangerous," and two volumes
containing portions of " Waverley," " Ivanhoe." " The
Bridal of Triermain," and " Tales of • Grandfather."
This portion of " Ivanhoe " is said to be the only portion
of that romance which Sir Walter Scott wrote with his
own hand, as the late Mr. John Ballantyne acted as his
amanuensis for a considerable part of it, owing to the
author having only just recovered from a assure illness.
The manuscript of the " Lay of the Last Minstrel " was
not preserved. The manuscripts which are to be sold are
in a perfect state of preservation, and uniformly bound in
rumba, with uncut edges.
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. —The Bishop of London
has appointed the following gentlemen to preach in St.
Paul's Cathedral on Sunday moorings during the present
month s—Sunday, July 7, the Rev. Michael Gibbs, M.A.,
of Oonville and Caius College, Cambridge, rector of Christ
Church, Newgate-street ; Sunday, July 14, the Rev. John
Vidgen Povah, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
rector of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate-street ;
Sunday, July 21, the Rev. Thomas Griffith, DIA., of St. I
John's College, Cambridge, minister of Rain's Episcopal
Chapel, Hoinerton ; Sunday. July 244, the Rev. Charles
Marshall, 51. A., of Trinity Collage, Cambridge, vicar of
St. Bride's, Fleet-street.
THE HEAVY CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 2.—The Peninsular and Oriental
Company. steamship China, Captain RoskelL with the j
Above Vearrived thin afternoon. She brings 65 pawn- I
gees ; , 7,1341. 18s. ; Turkish bonds value XlOl. ;
and 1, packager of general cargo. Gibraltar.—Ex-
changes are quoted:— London, 90 days date, 50t ; Paris,
sf. 26c. to 28c. ; Marseilles, sf. 26e. to 280. ; Madrid, eight
days sight, per ; Cadiz, par ; Seville, par ; Malaga, l to
dia. ; Barcelona, jto pm. • Valencia, par ; Premium on
firs bans pieces, of dollar per ant.

New RRSTOT.NUR FOR THa QU KEN AT BA LMORA L.
—Her Majesty, who has since her annual Amite to Druids
been making improvements year by year around B.dnioral,
is having a somewhat extensive house for her occasional
accommodation built on the south-west end of Loch
Muicdt. The want of such a retreat must have been long
felt, as her Majesty frequently drives to the vicinity of the
loch, and, when sketching or visiting the more distant
places on that side of Lochnagar, has had sometimes to stay
over night at "the Hut," where the accommodation .
limited. To obviate this want is the purpose of the
building now in course of construction. The site is
in a very wild but picturesque locality. On each of
three sides of it, and within a few hundred yard., of the
house, rise the bold rocky mountains that guard Loch
Muick, while on the fourth side an unbroken view of the
loch will be obtained. A bridle path leads to the Dhu
Loch on the south-west, where numerous falls indent and
variegate the increasing wildness of the scenery in that
direction. The house will be large enough to accommodate
her Majesty and a limited suite for a night, and sill take
two seasons to build. Its isolated position may be ima-
gined when it is known that it is about seven miles from
the nearest farmhouse, and nearly four miles fron. the
nearest habitable dwelling, the latter being the house of
MO of her Majesty's gamekeepers.—Sretsetan.
Foamoit-orrica, JULY I.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Andrew W. Duggan as Consul
at Port BAYOU, Canada, for the United States of America.
—Gazette.
The Karl of Airlio has invited one hundred
members of the British Aseociatiou to lunch, oa at Airlis
Coatis, on Thursday, Se !ember 12, expressing a wish that
the members from a dfstaoos should have priority of
asoigisaes.

SHEI'FIELD TRADE OUTRAGES'.
Lust night a crowded aggregate meeting of the
London trades unionista,which had been arranged by the Lon-
don Trades Council, was held in Exeter-hall for the purpose
of expressing their rise, indignation, and horror at
the mimes committed by Broadhead and his accomplices at
Sheffield." Mr. W. Allan, the secretary of the Amalga-
mated Engineers, was in the chair. Professor Bewley,
Mr. Edmond Beaks and Colonel Dickson occupied seats
on the platform. The Chairman said the trade societies
had nothing to fear, notwithstanding the dark deeds which
had been perpetrated at Sheffield. It was true the out-
rages were to some extent calculated to do them damage,
or at least to cause the public to look upon them with some
degree of distrust, but for his part he was only too glad
that those deeds had come to light, because means would
be taken to put • stop to them in future. lie for one
would say that if trade societies were to depend upon
murder and to live by murder, the sooner they ceased to
exist the better. (Cheers.) Mr. Guile (ironfounder)
proposed the first resolution, which was to the effect,
that the meeting not only expressed its utter abhorrence
of the crimes perpetrated by Broadhead and bis accom-
plices, but felt bound to say that it could not understand
how the delegates, who composed the council of organised
trades of Sheffield, did not discover for so great a length
of time, such an unparalleled system of notorious mimes
as has existed in connection with scene of their societies.
The speaker indignantly repudiated the attempt which, he
said, was being made to connect trade societies with the
Sheffield atrocities, and asserted that if the government
afforded the societies sufficient protection in the
merit of their funds no such occurrences could nplunir;
twol4"liaTiblige. Qt.!'
two, coot c sta meet thatata istesilft
no steps to discover the perpetrators of the out-
rages. Mr. Banter, the late president of the Engineers,
and himself, were sent by the trades council to inquire
into the cireumstances connected with the blowing up of
Fearnehough's house, and he prepared a report which was
' published in a portion of the press. It was true that they
made no important discoveries, but it could not be ex-
pected that persons in their position could elicit facts
which could be only obtained by a commission in whom
great legal power was vested. However, the impression
which they formed at the time resecting the ' ratten-
ing" system was that the " fattener,'' were a lot of tap-
room loungers who, when in a state of intoxication, com-
mitted outrages on their ovrndirty account." The resolution
was supported by Mr. Howell (bricklayer), Mr. Harder
(engineer), Mr. Harry (carpenter), and Mr. Dunning (book-
binder), and carried unanimously. Mr. Applegar (car-
penter) proposed the next resolution which-
as w— 'That
we, the members of the metropolitan trades' societies
here assembled beg to express our moat cordial approba-
tion of the services rendered to the country generally, and
to trades unions especially, by Mr. overend and the whole
of the gentlenwa forming the Sheffield Commission, in
having brought to public light, and thereby to just. execra-
tion, • system of organised crime in connexion with cer-
tain trades unions in Sheffield, which has been a source of
terror to the people of that town, and a means of bringing
distrust upon all trades combinations." In the course of
some remarks, which were in harmony with the spirit of
the resolution, he expressed the hope that the enquiry
would be extended to the masters, to whom he said,
a great deal of bribery and culpability could be traced.
Mr. Dodd (sine worker) having seconded the resolution,
Professor Beesley, who was loudly applauded, supported
it. He was of opinion that a murder committed by trades
unionists was no better or no worse than any other murder,
and he t that when the meeting was over enough
would have said of the Sheffield atrocities. The
frequent assumption of an apologetic attitude was de-
structive to self-respect, and he said so regardless of the
probability that the WO of the expression on that occasion
would induce certain persons to stigmatize him as an
apologist for murder. No one abhorred murder
more than he did. It was well known that he
subscribed money for the purpose of having •
murderer punished —(cheers)--• murderer who com-
mitted his crimes in the interest of his employers just
as Broadhead did it in the interest of workmen. The ia-
dividual to whom he referred, instead of being answerable
for a few murder,, was responsible for 400 murders, and
he was now at large, not on • certificate of indemnity, but
because a bench of magistrates of his own class refused to
send the case before a jury. (Cheers.) He saw no reason
why the trades unionists should take blame or shame
to themselves for what had been done at Sheffield;
he saw co reason why they should hold their
heads an inch less high, or abate their demands
upon the legislature. The middle class would go on
talking about the outrages for a long time, but he hoped
they would thwart the object thus sought, namely,
to divert their minds from their claims upon government.
The law, ,as it stood, made • police magistrate commit
more crimes in • week than Broadhead committed in •
year. If a tailor told another tailor that he would not
work with him, he was brought before the magistrate and
committed for trial before a jury of employers and a bench
of middle-classmegistrates, and sent to thetreadmill. The
law 'also, while punishing rationing by trades unionists,
encouraged rattening against them and afforded them no
protection whatever, and the result was that • sense of
wrong front defects of ,tbe legislature made men outstep
the bounds of legality. He hoped that when a new election
came the candidates for the votes of the large constituencies
would be asked to explain their views on this question.
Mr. Beaks also supported the resolution, and it was una-
nimously adopted. The proceedings terminated with a
vote of thanks to the chairman.