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EVENING, JUNE 121 1852.

of words to provide that they should be abolished en-
tirely, except for the p( rformsnoo of the mere duty of
winding up the business before them, which was con-
tained in the latter part of the Bill—and not for the pur-
pose of doing any matters which the Lord Chancellor
might hereafter direct.

Mr. ADLA 4 moved the omission of the clause.
Mr. WALPOLE defended its retention, for the whole
Bill was based upon the fact that the Masters' Ofaee was
to be abolished.

The clause, as amended, Was then egad to.
On the next clause being proposed,
The MASTER of the ROLLS moved an amendment
reducing the number of Masters in Chancery to two in-
stead of four.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought it was much
better to leave the eitiVie as it stood.
Mr. AGLIONBY said it would be no benefit to the
public reducing the number of these officers, if their
salaries were not also to be reduced.
Mr. HENLEY said the Hon. Member appeared to
think that this Bill was a mere
matter of pounds, shil-
lings, and pence, instead of looking at it as a matter cal-
culated to confer a great benefit on the public.
Mr. ELLICE thanked the Commissioners for the at-
tention they had given to the subject.
Mr. CARTER thought that if these gentlemen were
to be paid their salaries, they ought to have the advgn-
tage of their services, inasmuch as the business hitherto
done by them should now be done by others.
Mr. WALPOLE s aid it would be most unjust to ask
these Masters to undertake the duties of the inferior
officers.

THE CORK EXFIIBITION.
CORK, WEDNESDAY.—In the month of January last
Mr. Daniel Corbett, a highly respectable citizen of
Cork, accompanied by Mr. John Shea, his son-in-law
and ex-Ylayor of Cork, waited upon Sir Thomas Deane,
and suggested to him the propriety of taking steps
to have an Exhibition of the industrial products of the
province of Munster. Sir Thomas 1)44:zoo at first
considered that the proposition was not oue which
would be received by the public with complete satisfac-
tion and general reliance upon the success of the under-
taking; he feared that the unrivalled splendour of the
Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace would cast an
Irish Exhibition into the shade, but upon reflection,
he came to the conclasion that even if it should be
impossible to collect the .material products t 3 such an
extent as to render the Exhibition creditable to
the country, the fine art department would be so ex-
cellent, embracing, as it would, the works of some of
our most eifmiontehnetrwaristiest(s3,efteheattiviet. would
rrieecrletehmcsethe circuEmx-
hibition, -
stances, Sir Thomas Deane expressed his approval of
the plan, and promised to co-operate heart and hand
with those by whom it had been projected. A public
mootine. was hold in Cork, at whin Mr. C2rhett

pleinedhis views. Lord Bernerd, Sir Robert Kane, and
Sir Thomas Deane also addressed the meeting, and a
committee was formed to carry out the object of the
meeting.
After the committee had been formed, Sir Thomas
Deane and Sir Robert Kane waited upon the Earl of
Clarendon, who highly approved of the proiect, and
eubseribed 501. in order to aid in carrying out a pro-
ject so important. The Noble Earl suggested that
if persons from other parts of Ireland wished to
send in articles to be exhibited, it would be advisable
to permit them to do so, and the olj: ct which the
Committee had in view would be carried out more
effectually by extending their operations so that it might
become a national undertaking. After this interview
with the Earl Clarendon, the deputation returned to Cork,
having previously had a consultation with some of the
eminent manufacturers of Dublin. Upon the return of the
deputation to Cork, a meeting of the committee was held,
and it was finally determine to snake the Exhibition a
national one in the largest sense of the word. It was then
arranged that a deputation, consisting of Mr. Corbett
and Mr. Shea, should proceed to Dublin, with direc-
tions to co-operate with Mr. John C. Deane, the son
of Sir Thomas Deane. The deputation, having come
to Dublin, called on that gentlemen, and he at once
promised to do everything in his power to forward
their views. The deputation waited upon the Right
Honourable the Lord Mayor, and his Lordship sum-
moned a meeting at the Mansion-house, which was
attended by the leading manufacturers and citizens of
Dublin, Resolutions were adopted at that meeting ap-
proving of the measure, and the metropolitan stamp was
given to it. Mr. John C. Deane was appointed secre-
tary to the metropolitan committee, which numbered
among its members some of the most distinguished and
influential of the citizens of Dublin and its neighbour- '
hood.
The Hon. Secretaries next proceeded to Belfast,
where they had interviews with the mayor and the lead-
ing manufacturers of the city and its vicinity, by whom
they were received in a flattering and highly favour-
able manner. They then visited Drogheda, Lime-
rick, Clonmel, and Waterford, and were received with
the inmost enthusiasm. The applications for space
in the building became so numerous, and the
encouragement from England was so warm, and
afforded such a prospect of cordial and generous
co-operation, that the committee in Cork determined to
construct a building worthy of the great efforts that were
being made to develop the arts, manufactures, and ma-
terials of the country. We may here do justice to the
services rendered to the object in view by Mr. C. P.
Roney, through whom largo sums of money were pro-
cured. He was appointed an honourable member of the
Executive Committee of Cork, in testimony of the zeal,
ability, and earnestness which ho had displayed.
Through his exertions also the Electric Telegraph
Company seat over one of their officers for the purpose
of showing the process complete in the building dedi-
cated to the Exhibition. The telegraph could not cer-
tainly come under the head of Irish manufacture, but it
bore so much upon the true interests of the country that
the committee did not hesitate to allow it to be included
in the Exhibition, and we doubt that ere long this won-
der of the world will be in full operation between Dub-
lin and Cork. .
As soon as it was discovered that the Exhibition was
to extend to all Ireland, the utmost exertion, as we have
already said, was made; a suite of rooms rarely to be met
with were erected in the incredibly snort space of about
six weeks, the great object of national importance
and a people smitten by Providence endeavouring
urging, gg
makein an effort to rise against despondence, made every
one of a practical committee alive to this patriotic move-
ment. The architectural department was committed to
the hands of Sir Thomas Deane and Ur. J. Benson,
architects, who gave their services gratis, working night
and day to accomplish the great work. Sir Thomas
Deane wont to London personally to wait on his country-
men, the Irish artists of celebrity there, who to a man
responded to his wishes. In his absence Mr. Benson
designed the Fine Arts Hall, which does him so much
honour; and on the return of Sir Thomas Deane to
Cork, both these patriotic architects worked in perfect
harmony together in completing the several buildings.
Having given these details relative to the origin
and progress of this approaching manifestation of the
industrial power of Ireland, we will now describe
the building ,in which the Exhibition will take
place. It is situated at the Corn-market, which
was erected about twenty years since, the Corn Ex-
change being one of tee principal halls. The various
additions for the purposes of the Exhibition—namely,
the banquet-room, ball and reception rooms, kitchen,
&c., have been erected on the spacious area of the
market, which contains about five acres, surrounded by
i streets, and on one side adjoining the south branch of
the river Lee, which rues in the channel through the
city of Cork.
The entrance or northern hall (the Corn-Exchange),
entered from the quays, is 76 feet square and 50 teat
high, divided into nave and aisles, the nave rising into
a species of clerestory, with elevated side lights. This
fine apartment contains in various glass cases all
the fine texture articles—damask, linens, cabinets,
crochet, embroidery, &c. From this hall is a noble
arched entrance, 20 feet wide, descending by six steps
into one of the finest rooms in Europe—the Fine
Arts Hall, 182 feet by 53 feet in the centre, 45 feet
high; it has an arched roof in one span, with laminated
timber girders, and a continuous top light in the centre,
8 feet 6 inches at each side. The extreme end is circu-
lar, where is placed a noble organ, and an orchestra te,
contain 200 performers: the latter temporary, to be
removed after the first day's performence of the ode.
The view from the northern hall of this beautiful room,
now filled with sculpture and painting, is magnificent, and
to those who watched the rapid progress of is erection
appears magical. The united length of these rooms, Sc, en at
one time, is 258 feet, running north and south. Running
east and west, adjoining the north hall, and creating the
Fine Acts Hai!, is a transept 320 ft. long by 30 fr.. wide,
adjoining which to the south at each end are hers, each
about 130 by 80 feet—in all six great halls for toe va-
rious purposes of the Exhibition, with committee and
refreshment rooms and various; offices ate ..c'ael, spa:i ;us
courts, &e. The Exhibition building, filled with the va-
rious objects of art end industry, and crowded by aliclauses
and grades will present a brilliant coup d'ocil. The spen-
did arch of the dome, with its moulded cornice, adorned
with shields and banners, supported on retiring
columns backed with crimson drapery, oversha-
dows a lengthened perspective of beautiful sta-
tuary, gems of art, gushing fountains, and gorgeous
fabrics, whose converging lines, from floor, wall, and
ceiling, meet and conceumate on a magnificent organ.
The fountain, which will be supplied from the Pipe
Water Company's works, is of a pyramidal form, the
base consisting of a circular reservoir, 13 feet in dia-
meter, anti two feet deep, with reek-work supporting
three dolphins reversed, each spouting water. The en-
twined tails of the dolphins uphold a tazza,
formed of a large shell four and a half feet
diameter, with water flawing over; in it three mer-
maids support a smaller tazza three and a half feet
diameter, of a similar form, from which rises a
Triton blowing a conch shell, whence a copious jet flows,
rising to the height of 16 feqt, and forming the apex of
the whole. The fountain is Itepounted by emblemati-
cal figures and vases of flowers. ep At distances through
the room large ornamental vases led with exotics and
native flowers are placed.
At the rear of the Exhibition buildings, and adjoining
the southern street, are the banquelhall, the reception-
room, &c. The banquet-hall, which is -capable of enter-
tainingis 90 feet by 70 feet, and 40 feet high,
decorated,Pbeerslas' lighted with gas. The:decoration and
fitting up
and having nine, splendid glass
of the hall was under 'tho 'direction of Mr.
Mr. Richard Dillon Boylan, of Dublin, who displayed
much taste and ingenuity in the manner in which he car-
ried out the views of the committee. The vestibule,
iustbeautifullyre3, sto o 0
whichlion adorned with rich ha ngings, mirrors neend far-
P"ite
is of et circular form, looks like a splendid eastern
pavilion,
e' 71 suite. This, wi.1,1 the great eption-
n itl
roomi and ante-room, form a suite of apartments. The
vestibule leads into a well. proportioned and spacious
ung-r • oom of conical for m, which is decorated with
lively brilliant colours, afte r the Parisian mode, and
drav '
the trowel,purpose of an ante-room for the guests at the banquet,
and a supper and promenade-room . g durin the ball. The
o contrives a double debt to pay," as it serves the double
SOCIETY'S A ornamented 'with shields, and vases of
laced in the niches. It leads by an easy ap-
tion-stone of the asylum, which them flowers founes are p
BEER TRAIM SOULE SYLum.,__Th ,_. cornices are
members
preach and decorated archway into the banquet-hall and
on Wednesday by the Right lion. Lord iyi, 2"11' was as. ball-room. The latter apron nent is fitted up with deco-
peckleit this metro-i
The committee received his Lordship on politan association are about to erect at
hidteagle, F.B. d
escorted him in procession to the grouted, .w'il arrival, and e repel" of white and yellow bands,
n walls are hung with d
usual preliminaries observed on these occasion ere, after J. rations in the French style, of the richest description. The
G. Stone, M.A., incumbent of St. Mary tias'd porting pillars bear narrow- longitudinal stripes of purple
ham, commenced the ceremony by cfferih n alen,
t 'the R
resvhe.cok.: with a showy cornice of t' ae same material. The sup-
prayer. The coins, plate,a _awnod scroll of "
with rich hangings of Irish damask, 1
-t
and white, and midway from the ground a graceful
recogrd,uiveare then trophy of arms, shields, o aid banners, forms a striking
itedNth
presented by Messrs. 5t.,1,1 i, rosser, and Bishop, to, ornament. The seat int( aided for the Lord-Lieutenant
the erection of the
Lord Monteagle, who delit3i'vsin 91 in
for their receptioil ;and..
er Robinson, receivedtoweby a canopy of equally gorgeous ma- I
ship, assisted by • ll2 place appoitee
proceeded"' terial. At each side of ti me room are recesses for wine
building has been entrusted,
t° lay the readfoundation-
ancoolers and the other s vquisites for the table The
stone. Mr. Biseop thene address, lelit 'stated that co- e • iofolden • *the
of for aeed and e ca t kitchen department renare. s ono the time;
the asylum was intend.
t and al- -e'ervlng members • alone is tw ' feet long, ''h eive with hot hearth,
of the Beer Trade Some y, h alto pointed othe in. roasting grate
which it wilt e conducted • out ple andhas beensurni ofiuttnetledup
charcoal stoves, platform for kettles, &c.
ciples upon , particularly with
of the inmate
reference to the selection 8. The ceremony was Cork is like a tee-hive—full of life, expectation ,
end ,blessi
a prayer -- ng
concluded by by the Reverend In.' energy, hustle, business; a great impetus has been given' 1
hip Lord;
cumbent• to trade; human iudus try is atvene end active. It
e Hollows '
rADVERTISVAIENT. j y s Ointment and was glorious: to witness how tho workmen laboured;
Bad Leg,—Extract '
Pills have cured another
NBo 1, Ca.t—ha
E.xtract of a letter from here were the anxious architects running to and fro to
Mr. James Townley, of
_e_._o.—.,
Trine-street, Poplar New see that their designs tirei plans were accurately
ob-
Town, dated July 22nd, 18.5
well Professor Hollow* served, there were seen the members of the
Sir,—A sense of gratitude, as a wish to benefit the committee
as
actively occupied in giving their directions. There.
afflicted, induces me to publiclytvaecknowledge the excellent
not a tradesman in the city. of c is
with your Pills and Ointmen
_‘ . I h effected of my bad leg, . ork unemployed.
with two wounds in it, with which had suffered upwards of ' CORK, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Irish National
three years, and which it was found impossible to heal,- until I Exhibition WAS duly inaugu rated this day by his E
fortunately tried your medicine,
which soon gave me relief, , cellency the Earl of Egliaton, under circumstances -4-,xl-1
and now I have as sound a leg as any man can desire.-801d , calculated to make a lasting impression upon tint
by ail Druggists, a;. at Professor Holloway's Establishment, lightened classes in this cott,lat The oldest -- en"
244, Strand, London. ry. inhabitant

Mr. OSWALD objected to the Bill that whilst the Ist
clause abolished the ()film of
it in the Dower of the Lord Chancellor to retain the
whole staff of Masters. Master the 31 clause left

Mr. WALPOLE said that the office of master was
abolished by the Ist clause. .
—BY the 3d clause only so
many Masters were retained as were necessary to carry
on the lowliness now in the office. As soon as that busi-
ness was dispatched those Masters would retire.
The clause was then agreed to, as was clause 4.
Clauses 5 and 6 were postponed.
Clauses from 7 to 11 inclusive were agreed to, with
verbal amendments.

On clause 12, which provides for the hiring of cham-
bers for the accommodation of the judges acting
under
the, sill,
The MASTER of the ROLLS urged the propriety of
retaining the building known
as "Southampton-build-
ings," as a more suitable place for the transaction of bu-
siness, and as being more consistent with the dignity of
the proposed office, than dispersed chambers inLincoln's-
by moving as an amendment of the clause, in conformity
with his views, to insert the words "In the meantime
convenient chambers in the building now occupied by
the Masters and other officers of the said court, in
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, shall bs appro-
printed for the purpose, provided that the chamber busi-
ness of the Master of the Rolls, or any part thereof, DM',
inn. The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman concluded
if, and so long, as be shall think fit, be carried on at the
Rolls House, Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane."
Mr. WALPOLE said it was considered essential to
the efficient working of the measure that the business
should be carried on as much as possible under the per-
sonal supervision of the judges, without any interruption
from change of place and distance.
Sir J. GRAHAM said there were three seta of cliali-
hers vacant at Southampton• buildings for the three Vic-
e and it did not seem requisite to provide other
chambers for the purpose in Lincoln's Inn. The matter
had been discussed in the Commission, and the conclu-
sion arrived at was, that it would be better to retain
Southacapton:buildyp„_____

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL suggested th© omission
of the words in the clause raterring to the question until
the report.
Theclausesl3, l
on
15, andthisun 16 werederstanding was agreed to.
also
agreed to.
On clause 17, relative to the chief clerks,
The MASTER cf the ROLLS proposed a verbal
amendment.—Agreed to. .

Clauses 17 to 51 inclusive were then agrees to, ex
elusive of clause 44, which,
as a
money clause, was
postponed.
On clause 5 being brought up,
Mr. CARTER proposed to make such
a reduction in
the retiring salary of the Masters as would leave them
two-thirds of the amount.

Mr. WALPOLE said when the appointments were
made they were made for life, and it was, therefore, but
equitable that the parties should ba secured the full
amount of their sahry when their
offices were taken
away. He hoped the House would not agree to the
amendment.
Mt. CARTER, thought the Masters would be amply
paid for past services on for any services they could pos-
sibly render to the country by two-thirds of the large
salaries they had been accustomed to receive.
Mr. R. PALMER thought it would be contrary to
the principle that House had always acted upon towards
vested interests—namely, to secure the whole amount
of salaries which otherwise would ho secured to them
for life if they adopted the amendment. He thought,
however, that if full salaries were paid,
Parties receiv-
ing salaries ought to perform services for them either
in their own office or in some other ooffice.—(Hear.)Mr. ANSTEY thought it would be unwise to part
with those four judges, and to lose all control over them,
as proposed by the clause, The effect of the clause was
to give a boon to the gentlemen who were to retire—it
was, in fact, to increase their retiring allowance. He
thought those gentlemen ought to be at the command
of the Lord Chaneellor, to be employed in any way
which might assist in working out those reforms which
were in progress.

_
Mr. WALPOLE defended the clause as it stood.
After some further discuesioa the Committee divided,
when there appeared :--
For the amendment ~ ... 10
Against it ... •
... 90
Majority .
.., —BO
The clause was ordered
Clause ;6 was also agreed t toos
tend part of the Bill.
Clause 43 was next adopted.
:—" To omit after the words '
Clause 44 having been preposed, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the following' amend-
mentlawful'
all the words to the end of the clause, and to substitute
the following :—For every first
toy
Person who on the d
of Hilary Term, 1852, bold the office of chief clerk
of
any -of the Masters in ordinary of the said Court.,er,
Chancery, and who is not hereb vappointed a chief_ciana.
to the Master of the Rolls, or to one of the
it shall b 3
te
arieec3h
cellors, under the authority of to whom he shall be such chief clerk being releas ft s
the duties as such Master, und the authority of hi
Act, to continuo to be entitled teor
this Act,
receive during his life,
by way of retiring eosin to
the full amount of his. and
sa-
lary as such chief clerk, such salary to be paid d
payable out of such fundsand
in such manner as herein-
after in that behalf directed:,
After a short conversation,
Mr. WALPOLE expressed the
upon the Master_rom
If readiness to adept
IS r
principle of the amendment.
Mr. T. DUNCOHBE said
he was satisfied to leave
the
The matter in the hands of theßigt Hon. Gentleman.
amendment waa then and the clause
Withdrawn,
was agreed to.
The MASTER of - sere '
the ROLLS reeved the in
tion of the following
ei, s
...... it shall be
lawful for the Lore' CharLa.eiVr
with the eon
Beet of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury, by an order made on a ,
A Petition presented to hire
for that purpose, to Greer (it
he shall think fit) to
paid to any person exng the office of chief clerk
the
junior clerk to the Mastere it:', f the Rolls, or, any of t
'Vice-Chancellors, who ratan h d wion some Pon
of disabling
manent infirmity , e aftl.cte -
"iin from the due execution
of his office, and shall be desirous of resigning the "ale
an annuity, not exceeding t,...
"no-third parts of the year y
salary which such person sh,„
It be entitled to at the time
the SWC time, and out f 'und be paid and payable at
of presenting such petition, arid paid and payable a
the Same time, and out of th..
same
et funds,
as compee,„
,atiensced t under this Act are di "
rec to be paid."
Agro.
The remaining clauses We
u r_
then agreed to, and the
Bill was reported.
Mr. WALpOLE said ho evi_
"nod rotae that oppor-
tunity to express, on behalf ofesty's Govern-
he
ment, their deep sense of the
and
"" assiduity, learning' ability exhibited by the members of the Chancery Com-
mission iu drawing up their report, and which report
her Majesty's Ministers d
lia
eladeavenTed, as far as
possible, to Gentlemen Mer, hear)
Great credit was
due to those g for thus reforming and improving
the law; nod, in particular, the LOSd Chancellor,g whose
exertions had been most iinremittin andpraiseworthy.
sir'j. GRAHAM regretted tha
an
dabs
ever have been thrown on the intention's of the Lotd
Chancellor. In every communication they had had with
the Lord Chancellor, he evinced his deep anxiety in be-
half of this measure.—(H
had accepted
hear). Indeed since that
Noble and Learned Lord. . accepted and great ecal he
had acted with that strict integrtty _ g
hi h honour
which ever characterised him,
and
which at esent so
rank
well became his great(
pro -,ssional abilityand exalted
Hear, hear.)
and position.—
The House then resumed.
The Metropolitan Sewers Bill was read
a second time.
The Turnpike Acts Continuance 13111 wo,a read a third
time.
The Hereditary
Casual Revenues in the Ell
Colonies .
Bill went through C .
and the Pharmacy
otnnaittee.
The House tresumed, and •
hen
One o'clock.