The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-07 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

A gratifying spectacle it was, the erection of the first
pillar of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham; and an ex-
cellent address the chairman of the company delivered
at the defamer which ensued, containing many sound
truths, pithily expressed, and pleasingly illustrated.
Hypercritics might object that there was something of
an anti-climax in his announcement of the Palace as the
best and biggest advertising van ever known, towards
the close of his oration. But we are in no hypercritical
mood, and are ready to admit that the company and its
chairman, in keeping an eye on the main chance, while
professing to be mainly animated by a desire to instruct
and elevate the people, only follow the example of grave
and oven sacred professions.
Besides, there was much truth in what Mr. Laing said
about advertisements. They are a necessity of com-
mercial life. In our crowded population, for a man to
put his light under a bushel is to consent to its being
extinguished, and perhaps himself along with it.
Choose what pursuit in life you will, you find dczens
of competitors around you, and the public, who know no
more of the one than the other. naturally employ the
first that attracts their notice. It will never do now-a-
days to stand aloof in silent dignity till custom comes
to your door; you must pat yourselt in the way of cus-
tom—push, and bawl, and snatch at it; and as only
Members of Parliament and quack doctors are tolerated
to puff themselves off from platforms and hustings, why,
advertisements are your only resource.
The art of advertising has made great strides of late.
In the days of our youth there were newspaper and
pamphlet advertisements, posting' bills and hand-hills.
In addition to these we have now peripatetics carrying
posting-bills surmounting long poles like
fbaanhneerrasido,sr
_sv vacs;
a of
encased between two, after the. fashion
abrirlilasgesst.ucakt
up in omnibusses and second-class rail. y
tabard, single or in files; advertising
curious and secluded
railway stations, and in still more
places of universal resort.
have many rivals now as
All is quite fair. We
channels for advertisements, and they are daily on the
increase. The new Crystal Palace as to be in some.
of advertisements, whom
sort a temple to the goddess
odde s F e
we take to be no other than the g s ame, eo
g
magnificently described by Virbil. We have even d©-tected, ere now, an advertisement
packed up in a
slyly
speech in Parliament. Of
this
we complain not, but let
the
us all start fair. Why are we and our brethren of
broad-sheet compelled to pay is.6d. duty
upon every
advertisement we publish, while all other publishers of
advertisements escape. scot-free. Take,
for
ex-
ample, the second•class carriages on the North-
Western Railway. Each compartment has an average
of thirty advertising bills stack upon it. The averaae
of these compartments in each train cannot be less
than twenty. Here we have 600 advertisements, tee
average enough to make any newspaper proprietor's
mouth water. The privilege of sticking up these bills
is, we believe, farmed by one enterprisieg gentleman ;
the company and he divide the profits of the advertise-
ments. But is it consistent wick fair play, or free trade,
that while they are allowed to pocket all their earnings
in this line without deduction, Government shall con-
tinue to appropriate one shilling and sixpence out of the
remuneration we receive for every advertisement we,
publish? The amount of the extortion is not to be
estimated by this sum of ls. 6d. clone; the curtailui
of our advertising business on account of the inc rezeeel' t
d
charges we are obliged to make, the higher price at
which we are obliged to sell our paper in order to make
ends meet must also be taken into account.
From every quarter we are accustomed to hear pro-
fessions of respect and esteem for th(l
called "the best public instructor;" i3t i newspaper. It is
s toasted at every
political and many other dinners;
speakers, you would imagine their r!; to hear our public
dear to them as any thin.' they newspaper was as
these are not altogether empty words.
own upon earth. And
table of most people in coenetpt?,
bwi ords. The breakfastid
be a dull affair without its m°rta ' e circumstances would
would feel a sad want if deprivedorni paper. The artisan
wouldof his weekly jo
~,
ou the last or first day of the week. The newspaper r
sought after as an intelligentand i eoroPa"wn 'n
railway carriage, steamboat, or stage coach-- such a
thing now exist. But we could dispenseag with lauchfoort
the empty praise that is lavished uon us in return
on.
a little more -solid • '
pudding. We could sac°s© be n.
adoration
i delivery of many flattering speeches, on
ca°lit'cea Re-
that we received a little more substantial jres ~,o
adver.
lieve us from a tax to which no other deale ,
tisements are subjected. h that is true—upon
We could say much—and mac
public from doing us
the gain that would accrue to
tp-ride in our vocation,
this justice. We have an bon.eave
no reluctance to ex-
and, in fitting time and place, But we are contented to
patiate upon its iaiportanctTe e-
biopic ground of justice
put our case at presenton
of industrial enterprise. When
to an honest branchs._hie
d to place all competitors in
every nerve is belong Ire
a footing of equality, by relieving
other pursuits upnoio_..
them who
may
be subjected to
any individual! Ashy others A others from such unequal burdens,
not
al- i
imposts n newspapers alone of all dealers in
why should to be taxed while their competitors are
advertise-
ments eontinu©
exempted does not
The questionseem a very abstruse one, and
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parliameet after Parliament has been muddling at
' 1831 apparently '
it ever since , without being ono whit
nearer a practical solution of it than at first. Until
justice is done us in this matter we must continue to re-
gad all fair sp( eches about
g newspapers—whether ema-
nating from Whig, Tory, or Radical—as no better than
the worship that some rude tribes pay to the devil —an
.1
—an
expression of concealed tear, not of cordial love.
Mr. Disraeli has secluded himself from public ge.ze
ever since the nomination for Backe, and is undersoolt
to be busy concocting his first crigital bud,get. But
from Mr. Disraeli we look for no relief. He i. him ('f
a literary wan; and when literary men in Er ..;undv:.
at-
tain to office their first effort is to seek to oblite‘ato from
the minds of their colleagues all remembrance of their
former vocation. Mr. Disraeli knows that he could do
good service to many worthy literary men by abolishing
or reducing the tax upon advertisements, but he knows
ho would immediately be twitted with '
having onee les-
longed to the " press-gang" himself, and he has not
moral courage to endure the silly taunt.—Daily News

HER, MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—OnIy two farewell
nights will be given—viz., on Thursday and Saturday nest.
The general public will have the opportunity of visiting this
magnificent theatre, the scale of admission being reducel to
what is texiAo plikyttyttse prices.

IRELAND.
ZIARVEST PROSPECTS.
.FRIDAY.—The following agricultural
report is condenicci from the Belfast Mercury of
y osterday

" Since our last monthly notice the weather has been
peculiarly favourable fur thl growth and ripening of
every species of crop. On all sides and in all localities
we find glorious signs of an abundant harvest. Indeed,
;he most melancholy of those seers who delight in turn-
ing up the dark side of human affairs must now admit
that, in point of rich luxuriance, the present appear-
ance of the country has never been exceeded. Lands
which several years ego were bare and barren now ex-
hibit a moderate degree of fertility; and thin soils, on
which in former days crops came forward in all the
sickliness of poverty, show evidences of scientific skill and
enterprise, remarkable even in this age of improvement.
Our Ulster farmers find out that they must exercise
:he head as wall at the hands, and that in the field of
agriculture itano is ample space for the action of
that grasp of thought which tolls so favourably
on the world of commerce. Flax certainly ex-
hibits a wonderful change in husbandry; the straw
is long, and, where due care is taken in preparing
and cleaning the soil, the yield is likely to prove very
remunerative. We would hope, now that home-saved
seed has been found to answer all the purposes of im-
cgrsoewin u
ported qualities, that every grower of flax will take some
pains to preserve that valuable portion of the crop, in-
f
past three years at only 41. an acre,
former erlamrdee oa
adls:.:riutgh
eit Takingt oth be
efl
valueurg of taway,lie seeda swoaf flax
was
the a
the proceed• if all had bean carefully saved, would have
stood ihus—

Acres of flax. Value of seed.
1849 ... 60,014 ... £240,056
1850 85.935 ... 353,740
1151 ••• 138,895 ... 555,580
No official statement of the number of acres under flax
in Ulster this season has yet appeared, but it must be
large, and there is every reason to expect that the qua-
lity, as well as the bulk, of this crop will fully carry out
the progressive improvement shown in flax culture for
some years past. Taken as a whole, the cereal crops
are by many degrees the finest seen in the north of Ire-
land since the days of famine. Great complaints are
heard about the potato, and, indeed, we have witnessed
the disease in several localities; still there seems more
excitement abroad on this subject than the present
state of the crop would justify. Soils which have
been long in culture, and to which a great deal of
manure has been applied, are not favourable to the
growth of potatoes; and in that description of land there
is one-fourth of the crop infected. Other fields exhibit
a smaller proportion, say one-third; but as a sort of set-
off against this loss, we may state that the produce is
unusally abundant. In some of the lands which were
broken up this season the potatoes are, as yet, quite
healthy, and not the least sign of blight appears. But,
even where symptoms of that old malady present them-
selves, exertion should be made,if possible, to prevent
the disease extending itself. We saw, the other even-
ing, a gentleman directing his men to pull up all the
withered stalks in his potato field; and as that was
done, the soil on the top of the drills was pressed down
with their feet, so as to exclude any action of the at-
mosphere affecting the tubers. This plan, in other sea-
sons, has certainly checked the spread of the disease.
difficult o
inf the
tbe present whole
On making an examination of the state of the crop in
several parts of this field, it was found that about one-
eighthlwasea partially
aon fd twb
sghonanovewe.
pt
taken
periodical
iocaual
Idg o
obd
stage,accurate
e
e that anticipated dis-
ease to say what might be the ultimate amount of loss;
but from all we can
thing s
yo
deal of pains to collect
brought
even
to
e n t
wouldiei
peinformation,tedremb yat
rhekee,mt
toeht
eaa
that
our contemporaries. Onel
will not reach one-half of
the quality of the new potatoes
table
the mos
t
palmy at
s
pre-
sent is equal to the finest evr seen
palmy days of Ireland's favourite "
The Roman Catholic Primacy, escudlient.
contempt with which the Holy ee treatedsmayed by the
for-
mer selection of the priests of the diocese their
of Armagh,
have again gone through the form of nominating
one of their body to fill the office of Primate and
Archbishop, vacated by the translation of Dr. Cullen
to the metropolitan chair, with the brevet rank of
Apostolic Delegate in Ireland to tne Court of Rome.
There were three candidates for the appointment, two
of whom (Drs. Dixon and Kieran) had been chosen
on the former occasion as dignissimus and dignier, the
third being Dr. M'Nally, " Bishop" of Clogher, a
prelate who until lately had belonged to the now for-
gotten class of " moderates," almost the last of whom
was personified by the lamented Archbishop Murray.
Dr. Cullen presided in his capacity of administrator
at the meeting of the clergy, and having celebrated
the solemn High Mass of the Holy Ghost, " his Grace"
delivered a sermon, after which the election of his
successor to the Primacy of all Ireland was proceeded
with in the cathedral. The ceremonial having been
concluded, a scrutiny of the votes was entered into,
which gave the following results :
Dignissimus—The Very Rev. Dr. Dixon 21
Dignior—The Very Rev. Dr. Kieran l9
Eignus—The Very Rev. Dr. M'Nally,
Bishop of Clogher
Dr. Dixon holds one of the Professorships in the
Royal College of Maynooth.

SALE OF LANDED PROPERTY.

The adjourned sale of the estate of Mr. Powell
Foxall, situate in the county of Armagh, took place
yesterday at the court in Henrietta-street. The
rental of the property was estimated at something
over 6001. per annum, to be sold subject to a con-
tingent jointure of 2001. a year for the life of Mrs.
Foxall, now aged 45, in the event of her surviving
her husband, the inheritor, now about 54 years of
age. The purchase-money amounted to 9,3501.
When this estate was first set up for sale the county
of Armagh was governed by the Riband code, and
the sum then offered (8,0001.) being considerably
under the value, the Commissioners consented to an
adjournment. Order being now restored, the credi-
ditors and other parties interested have been gainers to
the extent of 1,350/.

COLONIAL WOOL SALES.
The series of colonial wool sales, which commenced on
;he 9th July, terminated yesterday. They comprised—
Bales.
Australian
... 16,572
Port Philip and Portland Bay ... 24,069
South Australian ... 5,612_
Van Diereen's Land ... ... 6,042
Swan River...
••• ... 949
Cape ••• ..• 2,096

Total colonial ... •••
East Indian... •••
German ...
Sundry low foreign

... 55,340
... 1,826
... 859
... 1,714

The following
tb::Asellaasopaprehhaevnis9,739
having subsided account of their progress is from the
circular of Messrs. Southey and Son:—
woolcolonial.
prevailing
that the judicious measures taken to encourage emigra-
tion a sh, eeret d supply e
e opinion of
will avert that evil for seasons to come, our buyerste
were regulated in their operations at these sales by
k which
h
hich
pr!,:v-Ilt state and prospects of their own ins!
of
did not allow them to support the speculative prices
laA s'llch.
f these sales is satisfao-
tory" Nevertheless the result
o cazed very close upon
to importers; priceslbromborica,
1 a slight re iiic-
last sales, the finer 1
,1 qualities
attendance aceuyers feLl eff,
Lion; after some .aYs. -11 became appnt; but when
and a further depressioerth,
many fresh buyers cam* up,
tais was known in the n_
firmer tone, which continuoid to
and prices assumed a
the end. foreign account allowed many sail 39 to
" Paretassero on co
,but towards the conclusion bought
without °Pero 1 ~
passmiddle au
l'a better qualities of combing vs 001,
freely of the m
eh in supporting prices. We estimate they
and assisted mono
bales.__
took about 6,0
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—lt appears from the report of
1301'
the Analytical Sanitary Commission, published in the
13FutihTast the public cannot be too caution* in
tiasc wee_, .
Lana hoe of their bottled eruits,:preserves, &c., inasmuch
the Ifne turers in order to please one taste only, thM tof
as olfac in the habit ot using a reparation of cop
eigh;tn' order to improve (?) the colour of the articles they
per.-
,ell, and thus sacrifice flavour, quality, and even safety. It
appears that bottled fruits, &c., purchased at the house of
some of our first west-end tradesmen, contained a co: esi-
derable quantity of copper, which could be readily detec:ted
by placing a smooth, well-polished rod of iron in a vessel
containing about three ounces of the fluid in which the
fruit or vegetable is preserved; the acidity in which should
be previously increased by the addition of about three drops
of strong nitric acid. On removing the iron rod from the
test tube, it will be found coated from top to bottom with a
continuous and bright coating of copper ; if the amount of
copper in the suspected article was less, the rod would be
found only partially covered. Other and finer tests are used
where the quantity is inconsiderable. The report then pub-
lishes the names of the vendors of the adulterated articles,
and the name of only one firm whose fruits and vegetables
were ascertained to be free from copper, with the exception
of greengages, which contained a trace only of the poiscla•
The report concludes by an expression of regret that the
commissioners were unable to have their paper ready before,
_.
__
as it might probably have deterred persons from
rusuegu_
freely such a poisonous ingredient as copper in the pese
tion of fruits, &c.
.—po
HER MAJESTY'S MARINE EXCURSIOr i wrs-
.,..
MOUTH, Ave,. 6.—The Vivid steam
mender Smithett, arrived this morning he Majesty on her
the armed steam escort to accompany
leave
Osborne House at
Dallsovert.er, tou7n
cruize. Her Majesty is expected to leaa
and Albert, proceed-
noon to-morrow, on board the Victon
and Jersey, and from
-packinet,
ing in the first instance to Guernsey
thence direct to Sheerness, where
ostenad to visit the King of the
short stay will be made,
after which she will go on to oup steam at Spithead
Belgians. The steam e readiness to attend upon her
windy weather that has pre-
ii ve her Majesty to postpone her
ti‘hiiasj
easfttye.r noTohn ,e ivnero3rd,
reorts‘bae
cami ri
vailed all day may Porm-0. The above are, however, the
departure for a day 0
ROBBeEY.—As Lora Ward was
1 Lei imPunt''' - - of the Woicestershire Archery &-
a meeting
arrangements up to this
returning from .in a car, a barefaced and daring robbery
afternoon.
cloy the other
day in
him. Ile had in the car, and project:
was committed P.
window' a waterpr ecase of bows and
h the . "'Do in the
irg through
as the car was going along, some person.
1 ft• The
arrows' snatchedand' as
the case from the car and ran off with h
reetimmediately his Lordsh
• ,le was stopped, and
entered an
Lordship pursued
"hie for some distance, when the latter
the thief
orchard and escaped.
—We regret
RESIGNATION OF EARL BROWNLOIg.
1 d lieutenant.
to announce the resignation of our excellent or -
His Lordship's health, we are glad to state
it has been for some months past, but, in is
consequencenot of the
consequence
than
eerolment of the militia, the additionallabour
thought it more
lordship has become so onerous, that he. has u
in halal
imposed on his
consistent with his duty to place his resgnatio the
Qt the QAMll,7iSiamford iliercivit•

AQUATICS.
GREAT REGATTA AT STAINES.
The great regatta at Staines—second this season only
to the loviathan meeting at Henley—took place on Thurs-
day. The prizTs were exceedingly good, and the ex-
treme fineness of realised` and anticipation of good
sport, which was to the letter, had the effect of
drawing a vast assemblage of spectators, amongst whom
we observed Lord F. Somerset, Lord Kilmorey, and
other distinguished patrons of the sport.
There were no less than 15 races upon the card—
bumper sport for one day—the greater part of which
possessed features of considerable interest. The racing
commenced at half-past
.twelve and continued briskly
until nearly dusk.
JUNIOR AMATEUR SCULLERS' DUTCH FORA SILVER

WHERRY.
First Heat.

L. C. Foster
A. W illiam
Parkins (Light blue and white).
A god race, wcn by a trifle only.
Second Heat.

Leeds Payne (Green) 1
Chillingworth (Light blue) 2
A. Charles Ashley (Orange).
G. P. Wellings (Dark blue).
It was a beautiful race, the men being scull and scull
for some distance; then the first two went in advance;
and after a hundred yards the winner began to lead, but
was pressel closely to the end.
EARL Heat.

Leeds Payne
L. C. Foster
Chillingworth.
The two first were scull and scull for half a mile,
then the winner went away. Won easily.
:AXATEUR RAIR-OARED MATCH FOR SILVER GOBLETS.
Snowden and Herbert .............. (Green) 1
Pullen and Hawley ........•... (Blue) 2
Messrs. Chillingworth (Dark blue).
The last-named pair took the lead, and held it more
than half the distance. when Snowden and Herbert passed
them, and Pullen and Hawley then came up and passed
then. A most desperate struggle ensued to the finish.
Won by two lengths.
FOUR-OARED WA.TERMEN'S AND LANDSMEN'S RACE.
The Feathers Crew, Wandsworth—J. Salter,
H. Salter, T. James, G. Salter, stroke; T
Driver, steerer
Confidence Crew—T. Mackinney, Richmond ;
B. Newell, Horselydown; J. Mackinney,
Richmond; A. Chitty, stroke, ditto 2
Eton Crew—E. Wendsor, T. Cannon, G. Hill.
0. Hill, H. Parkins, steerer.
This wss a most extraordinary race and result. The
winners were landsmen; the second the " crack" Rich-
mond party of watermen; the third a mixed crew. 20,
30, 40 to 1, or any other enormous prizs imaginabartle was
offered upon the watermen of the Richmond py, of
whom Robert Newell has thrice contended unsuccess-
fully with R. Coombs, for the chaionshi
odds of the
Than3ea, and T. Mac-kinney once. mpThe went
begging.
The race was splendid although all one way. The
Salters had the Surrey side, decidedly the best station;
disputed
at a moatfoot
Eton were in the centre, and the watermen on
the Mid-
dlesex side. A start was taken fairly by a
enormous pace, but the Eloniaps soon began
to drop
astern. The Salters drew a slight lead,
by foot all the way, but their rowing was
SO fine that
. Iv
the watermen could not overhaul them. TT on by a
length and a half.
JUNIOR, AMATEUR PAIR.OARED RACE FOR SILVER CUP.
DOrehett and Levene ........... ................ 1
Nottage and Snowlett
Won without any very extraordinary effort.
otAiTEUR FOUR•OARED RACE FOR FOUR SILVER GOBLETS

AND GOLD RUDDER.
The Argonauts Club—E. P. Snowden, Leeds
Payne, J. P. Marshall, H. P. Herbert,
Burchett. steerer. 1
The Wandle Club—Elie, Begg, Beddle,
West, Edkene, sneerer
The Triton Club Felix, Foster, Potter,
.Pyle, T. S. Walford, sneerer.
A fair start was succeeded by the Argonauts taking
the lead, and gradually drawing in front, one of the
Triton's crew " caught a crab," and some little delay
and closeness, not to say slight touch, occurred between
them and the Argonauts. Won easily;
DISTRICT AMATEUR SCULLERS MATCH.
S. Sexton . (White) 1
G. George (Crimson).
A very good race throughout.
AMATEUR SCULLERS' MATCH FOP. A
GOLD WHERRY.
Rippengell (Light blue) 1
Watford (Pink).
Alershall (White).
Won without a struggle, owing to the misfortunes of
the heat.
Some minor races passed off very agreeably.