The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-19 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

On Saturday at noon a numerous and highly re-
spectable meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster
was held at Willie's Rooms, over which the High
Bailiff, Mr. Francis Smedley, presided. The meeting
was convened in accordance with a requisition, for
the purpose of testing theopinion of the inhabitants
with reference to the question of retaining the Crystal
Palace.
Tne HIGH BAILIFF, in opening the proceedings,
said that he had great pleasure in complying with the
terms of the requisition, and would briefly state the
reasons why. The city of Westminster had actively
and liberally supported the movement in favour of
the Exhibition two years ago. The subscriptions
then promised. were 7,785/. ; the sum realized, all
expenses of collection, &c., paid, was 7,6781., and only
361. remained uncollected.—(Hear, hear.) He there-
fore thought that they had a right to exercise a voice
respecting the future destination of the building.—
(Hear, hear.) He had heard various statements
made why the building should be taken down, and
among others that it had answered its purpose, but
that was a reason which could very easily be an.
swered. When be drank a bottle of wine did he de
stroy the decanter which contained it ? No ; he sent it
down to the cellar to be filled again.---(Cheers.) It
was also objected that a promise had been made that
the building should be removed within a given time,
and it was argued that the illustrious person who
made that promise could not break it ; but they bad a
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right to know under what circumstances that promise
had been made.—(Hear.) It was not made, he be-
lieved, under false representations, but under a false
impression that it would injure the property in the
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injured
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Hethe
property in the neighbourhood, and he knew an in-
stance of a gentleman selling property for build-
i neighbourhood.—(Cries u
reasonrh oo d
t o—
ing purposes in the vicinity of the Crystal Palace
who got a far larger amount than he hid dreamt of
before the erection of the palace.—(Hear, hear.)
Again, it was said that allowing the building to stand
would lead to the demoralization of the people; but
he would ask any one present whether such a conclu-
sion could be justified by experience ? Was there
ever a summer and year spent with more harmony
and good feeling among the people of this country
than last ?—(Cheers) The third and last objection
was that the building, if preserved, would be-
come a nuisance to the ladies and gentlemen
living opposite.—(Laughter.) His answer to that
was, that no man ought to have a nuisance
put under his nose without receiving compensa-
tion, and the compensation in the present instance
would be, among other things, a beautiful winter
garden at their doors, without the expense of gar-
deners. How much mire convenient for them to be
able to step, in a minute or two, into a splendid gar-
den, than to be obliged to go to Kew, or to the Chats-
worth conservatories, or to the gardens at Alton
Towers, or Sion- house, or those of Mrs. Lawrence,
or Mrs. Mowatt ? Private rights must give way to
the public benefit, and the distinguished judge who
opposed the preservation of the building constantly
enunciated that doctrine.—(Cheers.) Let those who
considered themselves aggrieved, therefore, have the
compensation pointed out by him—let them have free
admission to the Winter Garden for themselves and
their families, as long as they remained tenants of the
hodses opposite.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MIGREGOR, M.P., said the moving of the first
resolution bad been intrusted to him because he had
resided opposite to the site of the Crystal Palace be
fore it had been constructed. He had gone to the
expense of building a commodious and handsome resie
deuce, and if opposite to it there were erected three
Crystal Palaces instead of one that would rather be an
inducement to remain than to quit. The question
before them was far above mere private motives. It
was connected with the civilization and moral ad-
vancement of the people, and he had no hesitation
in saying of those who promoted the demolition of
the Crystal Palace that they were enemies to the
march of civilization, and that they showed them-
selves animated'with the feelings of Goths and Van-
dals, and not with that spirit and noble energy that
had constructed it.—(Hear.) He contended that the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests had no right to
meddle with the building, except with the consent of
the people. They had committed a trespass by, in
the first instance, promoting the erection of the build-
ing in the park, which was the people's, but the people
had consented, which was a most satisfactory plea for
them. Now, if they pulled it down, it would be a
trespass, and neither they nor the Government bad
any right to interfere without the consent of Parlia-
ment. A strong and general feeling for the preser-
vation of the Crystal Palace must be manifested, and
that immediately. Petititions must be poured into
the House of Commons, and, to have any chance of
success there, the friends of retaining the Palace must
receive the most powerful support from out of doors.
—(Hear.) He hoped all who heard him would give
it, that they would induce all they knew to follow
their example, to sign petitions, to recollect they had
but a short time to ace, to call meetings every day
betwixt the present time and the end of the month,
and so make Ministers think it a matter fraught with
danger to attempt to demolish the Palace of the
people.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded
by moving the following resolution :
" That it is the decidA opinion or this meeting that
the Crystal Palace ought to be preserved in its present
site."

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' Mr. GEESIN seconded the resolution, and said that
ethivee.remltarwkessaalreci3
Mini-
sters were so averse to this palace because its attrac-
tions might endanger other palaces studded all over
udeYs t i omna de
with
the kingdom--he meant those commonly called " gin
palaces."—(A laugh.) He would advise the Hon.
Gentleman who had just sat down to move for a re-
turn of the naratts and residences of those who opposed
the preservation of the Crystal Palace, and then they
would know those who were the enemies of the march
of improvement. Their chairman had alluded to the
promise of an illustrious personage, but he was quite
sure if the Prince was now solicited, he would not
give a vote in favour of pulling down that building,
in the erection of which he took so deep an interest.
—(Hear.) As for the promises of Ministers, he would
not give a fig for them, for they broke them to suit
their own convenience,—(Hear.) If a building
which was thought worthy of imitation in America
and other countries were allowed to be pulled down,
so much the greater would be the disgrace to the
people who permitted it. He heartily agreed with
the resolution.

Mr. T. ATKINSON spoke very effectively in favour
of the motion, and bore testimony to the strong. in-
terest which the' inhabitants of the great manufac-
turing' and mining districts of the north felt in the
preservation of the Crystal-Palace.
Mr. JACKSON said, that residing in one of the great
arteries of the metropolis, and that being one in which
all the others concentrated towards the great " Cris
tial Pallis"—(A Voice—" Crystal")—he was in-
duced to express his opinions to the meeting as a
tradesman.—(Hear, hear.) During the whole of the
Exhibition last year he suffered in a pecuniary point
of view from, the ceaseless hum—(Cries of " !"
and laughter) —and the countless crowds of cabs, and
omnibuses, and vehicles pouring through the streets.
—(Laughter.) They were now told that this
popular agitation was to be kept up, and the trades-
men of Westminster and of St. George's and St.
James's were to be ruined.—(Laughter, and cries of.
" Nonsense, Jackson !") Io a personal point of via!'
he was '
reluctant that the building should stand,
for, if it did, Piccadilly would become a ntlissdreet.
—(0h,.0h.) Last Saturday, when it was opene
Is., the crowd of vehicles was so great that no °pub.
could 'drive up to his doors.—(Laughter.)
The
lic point of view' also he disapproved of
jt.
etropolis
tradesmen and the housekeepers of the
were looking forward for some relief frona_tinidiminu-
che u
of taxation; but if the Chancellor of the x
_q_er
were to be called on for 200,000/.......(rut5_p.t. 'el No,
no; the place will be self-supporting.")..2,h was
wrong he would fall back on the grotml jai
In his opinion it would provea total
would al
tver
and the only parties to be benefitedli be cn,c,,
ect that when tt
c)acracters. They might alphao ! _ in
Colosseum was erected in Reken s Park, she
first projector spent 100,000/• and was ruined. It
was to have been on a similar plan to the Crystal
Palace, nod 12 acres of land were, to have hsen :added,
Poor iirahlm, who was now singifig at
_ Hill,
spent 20000/ on it, and ruined himself.—(Criea of
" Questioe.") As a frequenter of 11
---Yde Park he
considered thlt it would buffer very much from the
retention of the building.—(" oh,' and laughter.)
Dr.. LANCANTEK felt much pleasure supporting
the first resolution. Before
Til- so he would say a
he
few words with regard to Mr. acksen's objections
regarding the Crystal Palace. H l-
—e must say that, a
though he bad known him for
many years, he had
never before known him supporting so had a cause.
Mr. Jackson had prophecied that if it was allowed to
remairilt would be an utter and entire failure ; but,
if 'it was a failure, Piccadilly would not be blocked
.up,and.thp carriages of his customers could roll up
to his house. Still, looking 14 it in boines3 point

of view, he thought the more people there were in
I the streets, the more there were likely to turn into
the shops.—(Loud cries of " hear, hear.") He al-
ways thought that the people of there streets paid
more because there was always a larger number of
pardons passing through them ; and that was why
theirnature.
the rents in Regent-street, Piccadilly, and Cheapaide
were so high. He did not hear the people of Cheap-
side say that they must not have their streets blocked
up. They were anxious to keep up the Crystal Pa-
lace, because
It wasa was
the addressedsam e feeling
theli
ng bestthat
induced
feelings
of
the establishment of archmological societies, and
suggested the preservation of Roman remains;
and in the same way they needed a memorial
of the Great Exhibition, that had brought the world
to their shores, and had achieved a renown greater
than their battles and triumphs in war.—(Cheers.)
Nothing, in his opinion, could be more appropriate.
It was a place of wondrous beauty, and, although he
bad a deep feeling for architectural beauty as it was
exhibited in their old cathedrals, there was a beauty
in the Exhibition building of its own, and as a work
of art it ought to be preserved ; if they would not lay
themselves open to the charge of pulling down every-
thing that was beautiful, they should come forward
and say that they_ would not have the palace desecrated.
If there had been no Exhibition at all they should
endeavour to preserve it. It had often been said they
had nothing to show to the world of the architecture
of the 19th century, but in that building they bad an
architecture of their own. It was the commencement

Af.a.new era, and would they now come and-lay their
Vandal hands upon it, and say it should not stand ?
(Great cheering.) The Crystal Palace might be
made a great teaching, and serve to collect ob-

jects of art and industry, and materials, and manu-
factures. The higher classes wanted instruction i❑
many things as well as the lower classes. The Exhi-
bition had taught them the cause.of their citizens and
workmen not being able to compete with those of

France, Austria, aal Belgium, viz., that the mass of
the people were not educated. When they saw their
manufactures beaten out of many of the markets of
the world, it was time for them to take some steps in
the improvement of the education of the people.—
(Cheers.) This was a matter that ought not to be left
to the Government; for if anything distinguished an
Englishman it was his doing things for himself.—
(Loud cheers.) What Government dare interfere
do its w
with them, and say they should not have a Crystal
(mMAuuch sucAL heetri calledng)
upon
the meeting in
Palace in their own grounds ?—(Cheers.) He hoped
the voice of the meeting would reach those in power,
and, if they were the servants of the people, they must
the *J.
W.
name of common sense and in the name of the
humble classes to retain the building, if it were only
to commemorate the great and
glorious spc e taele
they had witnessed within it.—(Cheers.)ln this
country they had liberty without license, loyalty in
the subject without tyranny or despotism on
the part
of their rulers, and he had no doubt the voice ofthe
people would he heard. If there were any candidates
for seats in Parliament, then, as an enlightened and
independent elector of the borough of Westminster,
he cared not whether the candidate was Whig, Tory,
or Radical, he should support him if he would only
vote for the retention of the building.—(Much
cheering and laughter.)
Mr. GEACEI,. M.P., said he appeared before them as
an inhabitant of Westminster, most desirous of giving
the best aid he could in carrying out the objects for
which they were met. If the meeting had been held
in autumn last the fate of the Crystal Palace would
have been assured. Those who desired to take it
away said that the people were lukewarm, and did
not care for the Crystal Palace ; but he believed, if
the people of the metropolis were now polled, 99 oat
of every 100 would be desirous of retaining it.—
(Rear, hear.) The building was in great danger, not
from prejudice, but from the want of proper icforma-
tion on the part of those who had the power of avert-
ing its destruction. He would not enter upon the
subject of the uses to which it might be
put, but would confine himself simply to the
saving of the building. They found Noblemen and
Gentlemen with their parks and greenhouses; and,•if
the people now had a building adapted for a winter
garden on their own ground, why should they not
secure it ? He would call their attention to the
warnings that were in every man's mouth, and even
in the mouths of scientific men, when it was erected,
that the first storm of wind would blow it down.
Others slid that the galleries were so suspended that
they would all give way and fall down. Every one
of those statements had been proved fallacious, and
they were now told, although it had served as a tem-
porary, it was not fit for a permanent structure.—
(Cheers.) He should be happy. by any means in his
power, to force on Members of the House of Com-
mons the conviction that the people were desirous of
retaining the Crystal Palace and he believed they
would have a majority in their favour.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BEALE observed, that nothing would be more
delightful to the industrious classes than the opportu-
nity of spending the evening in agreeable relaxation,
unbending their minds from the cares of life, and
communing with the works of those who had contri-
buted to the national greatness. He trusted that not
only London, but every part of the country, would
speak out on this subject in a manner not to be mis-
taken by Parliament.
Mr. MILEY proposed an amendment, and in doing
so expressed a wish that some one more able than
himself had brought it forward. (A. Voice—" Col.
Sibrhorp," and much laughter.) His resolution was
as follows :

That t!)e Crystal Palace having answered admirably
the temporary purpo4e fur which it was *rioted, it is a
breach of faith with the public—(Hisses)—highly inju-
rious to the beauty and salubrity of Hyde-park—
(Laughter, and ' Oh, oh!)—and detrimental to the
health and enjoyment of the neighbourhood—(Laughter)
—and to the city of Westminster generally, that it
should remain as a permanent or continue
be-
yond the time fixed by the Commissioners of Woods and
!Forests for its removal."

—(Cries of " Oh, oh 1') He entirely concurred in
the sentiments expressed, that the Crystal Palace, as
regarded the purpose for which it was erected, re-
flected immortal honour on the designer and
tore, and that their fame belonged not to Eh
negsaect
but the world.—(Hear.) Now, however, wit_er knewp
to the breach of promise.--(Laughter.) li
four-fifths
.conitrneed,
Hyde-park well, and that, prohablj,ble
hen you ought
the meeting were born. (A Voice—"
D. , , „ce—
to know better." What was a mt a
wast.tia v''
Minister
" What is a donkey?")
.kleVehpa faith ? If a pro-
misei. A Voice—" Un-
lessor a pwuebel imc
abdoedyi t whooua
•)E) He maintained that
you are released from
ought
dt
on::: k
'the health, salubrity,
to
the building was injuriousand enjoyment of the park. Let any one go there,
first
place, twenty acres
the
and he would find, in
pg. (A Only
.
covered with the buildi Voice •
,I t
there were ig. 'teen more
eighteen.) Well, then, t
t produce a particle of
her-
bage.—(Aled down so as 13°- to produce
, is Tina s
,otters row.") p
Voice:
Serpentine was limpid water—let an years ago the Cries of "Q • „ y
iestion. ) It was
one look at it now.--(Cries
of
now the common Sewer Bayswater; and the
noxious effluvia arising from from it were retained in the
hollow between. the hillh.onthe north side and the
Palace.-r-(51"11 i aug ter. H ) e begged to submit his
amendment, believing that the continuance of the
building.. would be a breach
would be forty acres of the lungs of the metropolis
taken away from it .—(Great laughter, and cries
~ oh
of •v)
The amendment was at first seconded by Mr. G
Alt-
13,Letarrl, of Oxford-street, but he
subsequently with:
drew his support, on the ground that in his opinion
the salubrity of the park, would not be affected
by
the
retention of the palace. The d amen ment, therefore,
fell to the ground.'
M. G.
SMITH said that Mr. Jackson bad objected
to the palace on the ground that it created, a great
hum in the streets.—(Laughter.) Now, he could.
tell Air. Jackson that the objection was the greatest
" hum" of all.—(Great laughter.) Another gentle-
man gravely told them that the building had been
the admiration of all the nations of the world, but
then went and lost himself in the Serpentine.—
(Much laughter.) He wanted it to go forth to the
world that they were unanimous in. their 'desire to
preserve the Crystal Palace—a desire which, properly
expressed, he did not think the Government would
dare to oppose.—(Cheers.)
Dlr. GRO,JEAN, as a working man, was of opinion
that the building ought to be allowed to stand—
(Cheas)—md he was convinced that that was the
opinion of 99 out of every "100 persons present.—
(Cheers.) No one could vi-it Paris or the other
capitals on the continent of Europe without feeling
how far England was behind the rest of the world in
monuments of intelligence and civilisation.—(Cheers.)
It lmd been objected that the Crystal Palace injured
trade, but, if any trader of last year did not benefit
by the Great Exhibition, he must have been asleep—.
(Cheers) —and dead to the proper method ofman sging.
his business,—(Cheers.)
wits seven
The motion was then put and carried,
waving of
dissentients, amid loud cheering and the
hats and handkerchiefs.
Admiral Sir .G SARTOEITIS moved the second reso.
lut!on, which was :-- , •thia meeting that the
That tt is _the opinion:Tyia ;0; pideal and with
CfPtut ralace, a/ ranged 133

•D. Nicola, seconded the resolution. He be-
that he had as many interests dependent on the
neighbourhood of the West-end as any gentleman
who had addressed tham—(Cheers)—and be was one
of that large class of doub:ers who could not believe
that the Crystal Palace could be recklessly: swept
sway as though it mere something to be ashamed of.
—(Cheers.) If the Crystal Palace were jeopardized,
it was only because the people had hitherto been apa-
thetic, and had not declared their opini?n with regard
to its retention. He felt assured that if the people
thought there was a real intention to destroy the'
palace, there would be an expression of but one opi-
nion from the Land's-end to John O'Groat'a that it
ought to be preserved, and that any Government
°Painndhm ia.—(Cheers.)
ntinimously
carried,
w de feel
oboundn toh adv
ientegr t
beeno t h
putat

Dr. DANIEL moved, and Mr. J. BELL, nil., se-
conded a motion for the adoption of petitions to both
Muses of Parliament.

The resolution having been warmly supported by Sir
C. Aldis, Mr. Bonny, and Mr. E. Smith, was passed
unanimously, and
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks
to the High Bailiff for his conduct in the chair.

SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.
At the Dover Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, a charge
of swindling of somewhat singular character, was
brought before C. B. Wilkins and J. Coleman, Esqs.
The persons charged were William O'Brien Fitzgerald
and Lady Emily Augusea Fitzgerald, his wife, and the
charge was for obtaining 401. from Mr. W, H., Payn.
solicitor, ofPover, under false pretences, they having
stated that Mr. Henry Foster, a barrister, of Furnival's
Inn, their agent, had 3,0001., and other property belong-
ing to them, in his possession, at the same time there
being no such person in existence. The parties resided
for two years—about 1849.50—at Eythorne, near Dover,
and whilst there became acquained with Mr. Payn. On
leaving Eythorne, where they paid all their debts, they
aleundgsthtutwhiegre
proceeded to; Pau, in Ito Basses Pyresees, where they
occupied a splpvernaocintid.e;ssicnohnnadatteaafasr.i:Ttxahanecyeintgionat jute debt, and
evnaemt.incTarficeeyrav,teedr.efifaorurebnataouintihnsg
without
tntnrdiaeltess;
and
dneedat
thatsentenced their o
lives one
.w rear'soud
the prison Fitzgerald addressed a long letter to Mr. Payn,
ipmropcleoerdinegd his t
imprisonment.e
examining
extricate
hd e
utlt:nrrleuoemtms.
truth
the Court of Appeal reversed the sentence. Mr. Payn
of their statements (for which they were fully prepared,
producing their marriage certificate, letters from the
Queen of the French, their passports, &c.), and his
s) mpatby being excited for their forlorn
and
miserable
condition, he was induced to pay their debts, amounting
to 450/.; afterwards pleaded their cause before the
Court of Appeal, tied obtained their provisional release
and brought them back to England. He then advanced
them 401. to enable them to proceed to the North, to
their friends; and having waited patiently seven months
for proof of their statements, in reference to Mr. Foster,
the barrister, and their honourable relations, and-finding
no reference satisfac`ory, and having in the meantime
inquired into every ramification of their extraordinary
story, finally resolved to have them again placed in cus-
tody, fur which purpose he proceeded to Barnard
Castle, near which place, in a retired village called
Worlton, with the assistance of two active police
officers he succeeded in capturing them, and seizing
their papers. They were taken before Archdeacon
Headlam, who sent them under escort to Dover; and
the magistrates remanded them for three weeks•to give
time for further inquiries. Lady Emily's parents were
stated to be Lady Ann Isabella Howard and General
William H. O'Brien F, zgerald, of the Guards. It was
also stated that Lady Emily was previously the widow of
Chevalier Dienbacher, who wes a'terwards Count Eltz,
commandant at Florence, is 1830.—Doter Chronicle.

LION HUNTING 11‘ KATTIAWAR.
(From the Overland Telegraph )
In the burning mouth of June three of us
left camp at Itajkote, and pitched our, tents
at Leab, where we found hog very numerous;
and, notwithstanding the thick jungle, we managed
to make a few porkers bite the dust. The rains
falling dispersed the party, two returning to camp,
when I wended my way northward, and established
myself at Drangdra. On the 19th, while munching
my solitary dinner in the evening, my Pnggee came
in, bringing with him a Bburwan, who informed me
that, while driving his herd homewards, a large lion
sprung on and killed one of his cows.
20th. Rose at daylight, and much against the per-
sucoion of the Mahoot, Peer Khan, mounted the
elephant, and proceeding about one mile to the north-
west of the city, the dead cow was pointed out from
a small eminence, and on its remains were feasting a
,hdaieeccvh.eenrtwy allakregde shooting
ioioffnyeosdnsr distancem y
at-
tempting o f
lioness,ShiObi Wni which
1r s sent after me by the lisja
umhinnimltfin(sinceiha2nasoaacne2relenhbym,
er,dgerl
;c.ial
claws.aa;enkidpardnn andelnpe.adodal
arui atducgt oonnlh)adenaeddt
aligtsEyollhajoi
dneoutt applications
i)iheha7iawtost,
had missed 111 e in the jungle, the Janwurs were soon
invisible. After several hours pugging, I again
sighted them about 150 yards off making way at a
quick walk; and after a fruitless search we returned
to the tents, having learnt (as the Mahoot had fore-
told) that the cool of the morning is not the most
favourable time for lion-shooting.
21st. The Puggee came in at 11 P.m., and reported
a lion marked down, near the same place we had
found one yesterday. At starting, the day was
threatening, and ere we reached the ground the rain
came down accompanied with a storm of thunder and
lightning. The ;ion was 1. ing under a large clump
of the Euphorbie Antiquerium, - with his head be-
tween his paws; when the elephant was pushed up
within 10 feet of him, be arose, and at the same mo-
received a ball into his che4. The enraged animal
with a loud roar showed tail, and rocket-like fairly
dived through the enormous mass of Euphorbia
elephant.edheaev ew
fanciedhlichhe l hi
oenw honuaodi
wd been lying,
n 1 ypgirnoagvn
e,
dao npaudpsnotwsdoiepht
under
opposition
oneto bushes,awouldn u
thunder with his roaring, tail and mane erect, charged
first at one horseman, then at another, until he had
increased the circumference of their circle pretty
tohc
uoearn
nestai
hdbmese
came
aaei bill
ball
aypi
h gallantarwni
gthheatnp
through
euice;gthoohivaoronnsnkhgoetdiv
vmmuwswi
unhurt,
tnltae:hsl
yigt
ane
oornisdnonol,u;wnayudfnai
tepnerrddrt
suoa:oc bendohue wasathsrnoe,.
ter 's back sorwahtcehnedneabryl
the horse
returned to tent thoroughly
out,
shed
was
k knockedaa-nk do
ht Wea )9ythuenadneir.
t ofbtbthhhoae enen about
ewkld:
haelephant'sintsnhkde
whiskers
an
charged
snoo rusA
andt yards,
,rfifbuire(wirnliritlikallaii.wtenmeftrahthharsiseaidte,l isrkeseafirneltnthlli.egle,otaohcidan.
eacwernersphauhoearfcid.brroccealitr;ehl
charged
ediasahirl
elephant, uleea soi
,ni:neiodtienornhen
afegs
ooelbsm;aerkosnieuimwttnnnwnhibu.dnteeiecahcstddnyh,oee:
or another, used for medicinal
n little a ofsm thea bfaitll,
act of charging
when the lion was brought
; at the same'an
akvin'eeedp a
il followed,.w .
young lion
natives.
i long ,
time rolled under the elephant's
a large black-maned lion
was being
by a single
ball in the cheet
lioness nearlysowasfuwl le
re grown
too bcaoultteidou;santod
trunk
in sight (from yesterday's accident).
and he moved off when the elephant got within:lso
yards of him. On returning we found a fine.cub
sucking the nearly dead lioness, and secured it;
wended' home in heavy rain. At night shot a male
hyena.
23d. The black lion was reported as seen entering
a lla
reached, as we found, over the howdah, on putting
the llah
elephant
ofinti;dlanrededwse auterdeaybreak. These reeds
glad, after capturing
another fine cub in the briar, to get out again, the
elephant sank so deep in the mud. Sant fur and pro-
cured about 200 buffaloes (of the Raja's) and turned
them in, and when after hard work they came on the
lion, he wounded one of them on the back, but only
showed himself two far off and entered again, when
heavy rains obliged us to retire.

A MOTHER AND SON CONDEMNED TO DEATH
FOR Polsonutta.—At Inverness, on Thursday, before Lord
Cockburn, Sarah Anderson or Frazer,. aged 40, and her son,
James Frazer, aged 17, were arraigned for the murder of Wil-
liam Frazer (the husband of one of the prisoners, and father
of the other), by administering poison to him. The deceased
was an innkeeper at Inverness, and was upwards of sixty
years of age. In the course of last September he was sud-
denly taken ill with violent vomiting and purging, and in a
few days died. At the time his death did not excite surprise,
The body was buried as usual, but in a few days certain re-
ports got in circulation as to the deceased's fate. I.'he
body, was then disinterred, and the contents of 11
stomach being analyzed, it was fouad that be had;
died from. arsenic. Inquiries ascertained that the '
eric:el
had obtained a quantity of that poison about
thethpat it
of the death of the deceased, on the pleaer dwell-
was to kill a swarm of rats, which infested_, •
ing.- About this same time she remarked'
b left to herself,
She added, that she
that she had the whole burden of every
Roandsslihhaitr
eifhasphpeiewr etrheaan ws•hideowwoutlaideerrteebhewatelfilfd Bbe
de
due, and that h h
er US -
was distressed about debts that w
bonds did not know cf them;
and
eady ° befriend her. '
people would be more
scl ter°ass with-his fathe- 5.%)11 has
-ii ,and in big
spoked of .as being
on bddressed to his mother -
box were found letters a
to hear ,bluing the
el. a:n sorry that he la b
following passag but I pray to Heaven that as e
haved o ill to you;
t,-, release you from I will soon
have it in my power. .. , ~, m the tyrant, and to
for all his Rinanee,. "I wish
repay bin' ols'er; of such a the world were
rid of such a m
wished my ... persecutor of women."
a many others have
avi,
and if you have any sprit, You will not be long •
condition, seeing you ha in your
preset/ ve every advantage." After
h dt ' l very leant hens rut , they were f
'nslanded to mercy. His Lord •
, wind guilty, but remit-
holdiug out no hope. Lordship passed the usual sentence,
PORTLAND BREAxwA... " •
"LLB, APRIL, 1852.—The
works are proceeding in
tend 1,900 feet from the a most satisfactory manner, and *-
pose of depositing the shore; the stage erected for the pat-
stone has a frontage of 240 feet, the
piles composin it are 82 feet in length, and the iron shoes
affixed to the amidg for screwing them Into their places, weigh
upwards of halt a ton each. The piles are required of this
length, the d
fathoms, The. stone is deposited at the rate of 1,200 tope
per day, such 'is the stupendous nature of -the avorkS in pr4a-
, SVGA, gct lam gitinly Ow 1 44 is tli94
p ay @Mitl9l4 ..
nrol la neighbour
gr
person
ibn: oui wl lr

TifEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
B, Webster, Bole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
rci IS E VE..ti LNG.,

Will be performed MONEY.
After which a new Burlesque on a frightfully popular subject, to
be called 0, GEMINI ; or, the Brothers of Co(u)rse. Characters by
Messrs. Buekstone, Bland, Woollier; Mesdames Buckingham, Col-
lins, Caulteld, Honey. &c.
To conclude with BOX AND COX, by Messrs. Keeley and Buck-
;Stone.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPII.I.
Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
TEiffi F.STI..NII4u,
Will be performed a new Drama of powerful interest, called THE
QUEEN OE THE MARKET. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, 0.
smith, Paul Bedford, Emery, Honey, Worrell ;
'larding, and Keeley. Mesdames Chaplin,
After watch, a devilish new Extravaganza, called MEPIIISTO-
pIIE LES. Characters by Mr. Honey, Miss Fitzwilliam, and Miss
woolgar.
With WHO STOLE THE POCKET-BOOK? or, a Dinner for Six.

v., 0 IAL le C &SS' `i StiEaTitlr ox rot,
:Meer the Management of fir. C. Reba.;•-,-
Will be performed the CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal
characters by .3lessrs. C. A. Wigan, byder, Meadows, J.
j. Chester, F. Cooke, Everett, and Wheatleigh ; Aliases
rawps, array, Robertson, Vivash, Daly, and C. Leclercq.
,After which a Fairy Tale, in rwo Acts, endued
WITTIKIND AND HIS BROTHERS;
or, The
Seven SW= rrittces And the Fair afeltta;..ne.
Cooke, Flexmore ,
Meadows,
Characters by Mes.;:s. Har ey,
Mrs. Winstanley, Marshall, Robertson, Murray, Veelereq,
Daly, Vivash, Newcombe, K. merry, and Madlle.

0 f 25.11, ist BEATS C.
Under the vfanagement of' Yadame Vest
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
Will be proluced a dramatic story, in eight acts, entitled A
"AI ' OF EVENTS. Characters by Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Frank Matthews, Robert /Cosby, Belton, Baker, Sitter, Horncastle
litosi,re, Butler, and llonner ; Madame Vestris, Miss Laura Keene,
airs. F. Matthews,
ill
and Miss Julia St. Geor4e, Miss Wright, miss
Oliver,
uss Grove, and Horn, '.o Mrs. aenamara, Lliss Martindale, Miss Ellis,
Miss Foote.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.,
Lausee end Nutnai;e4. ALE-
TRIS rg.).TING9
WEI be performed HONESTYEi
THBE AT POLICY.
To conclude with Tdie. CA3IBERWELL BROTHERS ,• or, The
Mystic Milkman.
To conclude with THE HOLE IN THE TVALL7

4D THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
EVENING.
Will be presented A VILLAGE TALE. Characters by 3fessrs. E.
Rogers, Attwood, Moreland; Mesdames Copeland, Selby, and Mas-
To be followed by MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTUSES. ; Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Attwood; Mrs. Selby, Miss and Maskell.
After which ANTHONY A's.lD CLE4PATRA, by Mr. Walter
Lacy and Miss L. Howard.
To be followed by the grand Ballet of VIVANDIERE, by M.
Madlle. Therese, and a full orPs de Ballet.
Boxes, gg. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is.
Private Boxes One (Rune., ana a ltaU each.
Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling.

ziOTAL
•
Under the Patronage of her AfaJestY and hia Roalmem=
Prince Albert. ,

. -----
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. natty.
The most successful and popular Theatre to
London.
THIS EVENING,
; or, thew
Will ba Dresanted a new grand Military Spectacle, which is no
IN EGYI. 2
sliTrtt:i:
t:,, t,allb,Puakrilsr: en title). BONAPARTE
To ~,,Z,V7e,l by Ratty's Inimitable Seenea of the Arena..
Ticheu :e wtth a Laughable farce.
44 had at tne Box-office trom Eleven till Four daily.
..,--_„_,...2tage Manager. :Ai. Lcciereq.
-......._

THE ilstf;t-.t.--lltf:L.
ago we expressed a
after all, be Some ;:n
7—r
t ;lye days
abandatviction that the Militia Bill would,
minds at least, ce„.,ll:a. Plat conviction is now, to our
noxious measure will be w.into a moral certainty. The oh-
tion and incalculable beneltit odavirri, to the infinite gratifies-
ters attempt to go on with it, the c.ountry. Should Minis-,
vo:saLlberals will move its re-
prehensions ersis
jection, on the ground that, as
on the eve of a general
election, and. no.ap
!ostitational course will
immediate invasion, the proper and ,on th.e Public mind of an
be, to defer any further procedure
country has, through. the huati9g3 ann. ti:11 rnatter until the
it. It is
bad an opportunity of expressing it 3 opinion Pollng-booths,
wAct
.to feel dis-
thought that Lord Derby, though he ma
a on
odici t ill, will,
appointed at not being allowed to proceed
in reality, be but too happy to get rid of the
Wi 30 very uppopulaz a MOMlgee—Adtvrtiser. '3l a pals-

(Stinlll snit
LONDON, MONDAY. APRIL 19, 1852

During the leisure hours of the Easter vacation
the national representatives are enabled to canvass
the opinions of their constituencies, while the national
administrators are usually recreating themselves by
partaking of a series of 'civic hospitalities. Already
within the last few days we have taken occasion to
refer in complimentary language to the good taste
displayed throughout the festive proceedings at the
Mansion-house, when her MAJESTY'S Ministers
were entertained by the head of the metropolitan
corporation. Another banquet of a similar
kind was given on Saturday last by the
Goldsmith? Company to the principal mem-
bers of the DERBY.DISRABLI Administration.
It would have gratified us to have mentioned in terms
as commendatory as those applied to the dinner pre-
sided over by the LORD MAYOR of London, the one
which on Saturday evening was presided over by the
Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths. Unfortunately,
however, matters of a somewhat delicate
.nature
were introduced to the notice of the guests by
the chairman—matters but ill befitting the
leader of a convivial entertainment. Among
the subjects thus ungracefully particularised
was even numbered—of all subjects in the
wide world for mention at a public dinner-table I—
the forthcoming budget awaited at the hands of the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The Right Hon.
Gentleman whose name was thus blunderingly in-.
troduced to the notice of the assembled guests by the
Prime Warden, was sufficently adroit, in conse-
quence of his complete and imperturbable self-pos-
session, to divert the attention of his auditors at once
from the consideration of a theme so peculiarly
fraught with personal and even Ministerial ember.
rassment. Treating the allusion made to his proposed
fiaencial arrangements as altogether nothing more than
a juke, a rather floundering mot, by the way, supposing
it to have been so intended—Mr. DISRAELI observed,
"I am sure you will agree with me that in my po-
sition discretion is the better part of ;valour, and that
you will not insist to night upon any revelations with
regard to this important subject," humorously ob•
serving, moreover, that he felt the great advantage of
a Finance Minister dining with the Goldsmiths'
Company before an impending budget. Scarcely
less delicate were topics to which the
First Lord of the Treasury found it necessary
to refer, in consequence of the same incautious mode
of introducing his name as the principal member cf
her MAJESTY'S Government. Insomuch was this
the eve that the Earl of DERBY was induced to give
utterance, in the course of his remerke, to one of those
after-dinner compliments, in which praise becomes
distorted into flattery, and truth becomes lost in ab-
surdity—a species of oratory in which, sooth to say,
we should not have expected the " Rupert of De-
bate" to have shown himself a proficient. The
observation here meant was that in which Lord
DERBY ventured very extravagantly to assert—" I
am particularly gratified that my worthy friend has
done me the honour of proposing to you my health,
not only in the capacity of First Lord of the Treasury,
but also in a capacity which 1 hardly value and pride
myself upon less, that of a brother Goldsmith."
Somewhat more ingenious than this was that passage
in the PREMIER'S speech, on Saturday, in which he
expatiated on the wonderful discoveries simulta-
neously in different quarters of the globe—in coun-
tries as distant from each other as California add
Australia—of what has hitherto been considered as a
precious metal, " the staple," said he, "of the in-
dustry of our craft."

" Gold, gold, gold, gold,"

as it was celebrated by noon in his moving
history of Misa Kdenansegg. After commenting
upon the surprising and almost wholly unpre-
cedented nature of those discoveries, the PRIME
MINISTER thus happily illustrated the no less
sudden, and, he insinuated, no less gratifying dis-
covery of a duff-rent kind of " precious metal"
elsewhere. " Bat," slid be, "it is not only in regard
to the discovery of gold that new mines appear to be
opened to us. Within a very short time, as with re.
Bard to gold, so there was (as it turns out) a popular
delusion that the field of statesmen and of the political
metal was almost as limited ; it was supposed that the
crop of statesmen we.; one of very limited amount,
for which, if ycu were disposed to search, you must
dig in certain favoured localities, and confine yourself
to searching for them there. I am happy to think,
gentlemen, that, to some degree, I have been instru-
mental in dispelling that illusion. An unfortunate
adventurer, as I was to consider myself, honoured
with the commission from her MAJESTY to do the best
that he could for her service, I have ventured
boldly to open a new mice, and I am happy to say
that in the opinion of competent judges, so far as it
has yet been worked, the ore that has been raised
contains among it as large a proportion of
sterling metal, with as little admixture of
dross, as any that was ever drawn from
the old and exclusive mines to which we were
formerly confined." The illustration, it must be con-
fessed, was sufficiently ingenious, and none the less
welcome to the hearers of the Noble Earl from their
vivid and consequently rather painful remembrance
of the " used up" condition of the Whigs, the worn out
and intolerable barrenness of the late unfortunate Ad-
ministration. The metaphor conjures up, in fact, im-
mediately to remembrance the large "family
party" which, polypus-like, had stretched forth
its grasp to the threatened strangulation of the na-
tional energies—the family of the ELLIOT 9 and the
RUSSELLS, blended, of course, with the celebrated
" GREY iniquity." Speaking seriously, however, said
the Earl of DERBY, in continuance of these really
admirable remarks, We come forward not as the
advocates or supporters of any particular interest, but
feeling deeply our responsibility to maintain and
uphold all the great interests, of
which
said that, if any one suffers in this country,
i
try,t cannotmitustb
e
suffer without affecting more or lessthe
e rrest.s liretill' s
feel that it is our duty not to be the promot ofor that class, but to be the promoters and defenders
and upholders of the whole—and by maintaining
and
the industry of the country—by
encouraging
ol
and supporting those laws which are the
upholding
ednincoguragement to that industry, because they
secure to industry of every denomination the safe
return for its suocenfill czerti"." This