The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-12 00:00:00

Qaeen Victoria, and on behalf of the Executive Com-
mittee, I now declare this Exhibition open—(Cheers).
—and I sincerely trust and hope that it may meet with all
the success which an . object so laudable and useful
merits, and may the result be such as the best friend of
Ir.)land could desire.—(Protracted cheering.)
The next event was the performance of an " Ode," the
poetry of which had been composed by a gentleman
who, under the name of " Slingiby," enjoys a well-
merited reputation for grateful verse and sprightly prose.
hitherto chiefly published in the Dublin University
Magazine, but whose real, and far more poetical, patro-
nyme is Waller. The music was composed by Dr. Ro-
bert Stewart, who, in the imposing canonicals of a Mtn.
Doc., conducted the performance. The following is the

INAUGURATION ODE.

STROPHE a.
Man aria! and speed thy mission—
Labour of the brain and brow.
God assigns a high ambition;
Glorify thy Maker new.

ANTISTROPHE a.
Genius ! from thy heaven-taught heart
Bring the jewels of thy thought—
Pensive Science, keen eyed Art,
Toil give all thy hand hath wrought.

EPODE a.
Earth, which Deity at first
For the sin of man had cursed.
Conquered by his tameless will,
Yield thy treasures to his skill:
All thy bosom, all thy heart,
Yield to Labour, yield to Art.
Air lend all tby favouring wings.
Ocean give thy hidden things.
Elemental Fire enfiftme,
Till the stubborn ore thou tame,
Plastic to man's stern command
As the wax to infant's hand.

STROPHE p.
Sze with soul the canvass glow!
_See to life the marble start!
hkear from string and syphon flow
Sounds that soothe and shake the heart!

Raise th® son ANTIsTuornE P.
praise and bless--
Raise the song with glad accord.
Good to man and happiness—
Holiness unto the Lord.

Thine the fulness EPODE 3.
of the land,
Lord we lay it at thy throne.
In the hollow of thine hand
Thou dost hold the earth thine own.
Lauding thee with hearts o'erflowing
Who dost make the morn's outgoing
Evermore to give Thee praise,
Lord, to Thee our souls we raise.
Let Peace and Wealth upon ns smile,
Bless our Monarch! bless our Isle!

STROPHE y.
Shadows of the deep, long night,
Draping all the moonless sky,
Darkest ere the coming light
Of the morning dawns on high.
ANTISTROPHE y.
Lo! they melt before the glancing
Of the radiant light advancing,
Till the glorious day arise
Lustrous o'er the reddening skies.

EPODE '.
See the sun above the bias
All the earth with splendour fills.
Hues of Beauty—Shapes of Glory,
Such as bard ne'er feigned in story,
Burst upon the wondering sight—
Forms of Wisdom—Forms of Might
Throng the world, from slunab::T waking,
While the morning pse-Ai breaking,
In the vast and mellowed voice
Of a Nation's heart, upspringetb,
Till with praises heaven ringeth
And the Isles rejoice!

STROPHE o.
Honour to the awinking arm,
Glowing brow and earnest heart!

ANTISTROPHE
Honour to the potent charm
Wizard Science gives to Art!
EPODE a.
Spirit adorable! whose will doth move
All life to be thy ministrant—
Spirit of Wisdom, Potency and Lave!
To Thee we raise our loftiest chant.
Great primal Mind! great primal Hand!
Artificer of all that Thou halt planned.
The fast foundations of the beauteous world
Into the deep, dark chaos Thcu hest hurled,
What time pealed out the grand sidereal song:
Thyself invisible—serene—alone—
Amid the clouds and thunders round thy throne,
Thou diti'st control each orb that moved along.
And thou did'at breathe into man's lifeless frame
The sacred breath of thine Almighty flame,
Making thy last, best work—a living soul;
Then all the sons of God, in loud acclaim,
Shouted for joy Jehovah's holy name,
And to the farthest bounds
Of space, in thunder sounds,
Creation's jubilant hymn to God did roll!
The ode was admirably rendered, and at its conclesion
several gentlemen were presented to his Excellency, who
retired amidst applause.
Previously to leaving the Exhibition building, their
Excellencies and suite, with several of the most distin-
guished visitors, proceeded to the committee-room, where
they were entertained with a sumptuous detainer, pre-
pared under the superintendence of Mrs. Fitzgerald.
At its close the lady of the honourable secretary, Mr.
John Shea, was presented to her Excellency. The
Lord-Lieutenant subsequently proceeded to visit the
Queen's College, where in address was to be presented
to him.
Conti, HALF•PAST NINE, THURSDAY NizuT.--The
grand banquet to his
,Excellency is going on. The spaci-
ous pavilion,erected for the purpose, is decorated in an
exceedingly beautiful and tasteful manner. There cannot
bo less than six hundred persons present, comprising a
large array of nobility, gentry, members of professions,
merchants, &c., from all parts of Ireland. Sir William
Hacket, Mayor of Cork, presides.

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STEAM-BOAT COLLISION. lutelligence was received
at Lloyd's on Wednesday of a
occurrod between the Clyde most serious collision having
the Carron Company, and screw
steam-ship, belonging to
the steamer's recent trip a coaster named the Beehive, on
which resulted in the from the Thames to Grangemouth,
the loss of three lives. foundering
of
the smaller vessel and
fur-
nished at the London According to the information fur-
that the Clyde,
the company, it would appear
off Carron Wharf, L Captain Alexander Watt, left her moorings
and proceeded over East Smithfield, on even-
ing,Saturdayat Gravesend, down the river. The pilot was landed
At nightfall the usual
the steamer continued on her course.
usualand white lights were
hoisted, and the red, green,
•ons taken of avoiding ac-
cident. About ordinar precanti •(Sunday)
d )
half-pastone on the following nay
morning, when the Cl e was ;dicey between the Mouse
and Maplin Sands, vesseld eeas:fighteoftwo-and-a-half points
on her starboard ab
w The master, Mr. Watt, was on
the bridge at the bow.
e, and the &id and second mates
were on the forecastle on the look-out. From some unex-
plained circumstance the Beehive is said to have kept the
course she was making when first perceived. She put her
helm a e under the Clyde's bow. A collision
Port and cam
Watt ordered the engines to be
appearing inevitable, Mn
reversed and backed, and in nt.
would seem, to avert the accident.
vessels came in contact,respects did everything it
All f-1 h 'ai ed, oweyer, the
and such was the violence of the
went down •
in ten fathoms
1 shock that the Beehivebos rapidly
at were promptly lowered in the
' water. The steamer's
. , the poor fellows who formed the B • ' eehive s
hope of preservfnehowever, was picked up, the master and
crew. Only
roling. Immediately atter the collision the
two men P is
- ed her anchor and remained nearly two hours by
Clyde dropPe accident, with a view of seeing
whether
the scene of the
fferers were floating about on pieees of wreck.
either of the su
howevwier, was seen of them. The unfortunate yes:
Nothing,
laden th iron, and was bound from Glasgow to
eel was The Clyde continued her trip to Grangemouth,
London. was
thedisaster reported.
where
WEST CUMBERLAND.—We understand that George
Esq., of Bow Church-yard, London, has been in.--
Moore,
fly solicited to come forward to contest aliens estern divi-
gen.
of oar county, but his large and increommercial
sion.
opera,
tions we fear, will preclude him from so doing. We
are
inclined to think, however, from his well-known sym-
pathy with the Liberal cause, that if he were assured of a
reasonable chance of success he would fight the battle of in-
dependence with a zeal and energy for which he is eo
noted, and would, in all probability, take one seat out of
Lord Lonsdale's keeping. We know from a private purce
that the register has been well attended to since Mr. oore
suggested, in his speech at the dinner given to our Liberal
Members at the last general election, that the Registration
Court was the arena to secure one seat for the Liberals in
the West, and it is not too late to make a movement to
effect the independence of the division.—Carlisle Journal.
IRON PAPER —At the Prussian Industrial Exhi-
bition, Count Renard, a large proprietor of ironworks, ex-
hibited sheets-iron of such a degree of tenuity that the I
can be used for paper. Of the finest scat, the machinery eaves
rolls 7,040 square feet, of which mad be called
leaf-iron,
from a cwt. of metal. A bookbinder o Breslau has made an
album of nothing else, the pages of which turn as flexibly
as the finest fabric of linen rags. As yet no extensive ap-
plication for this form of the metal has been found, but the
manager says the material must precede th
Per-
haps books may hereafter be printed fee
use for it. n
these
metallic leaves, ,and dety the destructive thee tropics
owero o
of
ants,
of
any colour or strength of force , NsTe have power
only to invent
a white ink, and the thing is done.i
LONDON AND SOD W
TII- ESTERS RAILWAY..--The
directors of this company have announced that there are two
vacant seats at the board to be filled up at the half-yearly
meeting of proprietors in August next. It is requisite that
candidates for the office of director in this company should
give at least 30 des' notice in writing to the secretary of
the company before the day of meeting. So far as the
notice is concerned the shareholders will not be taken by
surprise, as they were on a former occasion; and it will be
their own fault If they do not select suitable persons tO flu gm
vacancies at the board.