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THE SUN, LONDON, MOND N. EVENING MAY 12, 1861

bat I think that brutality of the kind would not be
left unpunished either in Paris or New York."
The conclusion drawn by M. Assolant from what
he has seen is, that—
" The:Englishman is brutal, and that this is his
chief defect. The English workman is far inferior
in appearance—and also perhaps in heart--to the
French workman. Those one sees in the streets
look soured and brutalised by ceaseless and hopeless

misery. In France the workman is a man who
esteems himself, and feels himself respected. Ho is
poor, but always proud. He neither lowers himself,
nor asks for alms. His grandfather was a soldier
in the First Republic. He has entered as a master
the capitals of Europe, and has seen more than once
the backs of Kings. His father was at Austerlitz,
He himself has burnt a cartridge in Africa. He
knows that he is the equal of any one. He has
seen the Revolution of 1830, and that of 1848. Be
is a man and a citizen, and if he still wants several
things he knows that he shall have them sooner
or later."

I give the following extract from the correspon-
dence in the Opinion .IVationale, with all the more
pleasure as the Opinion Nationale is not habitually
friendly to the English. After some preliminary
observations, in which the writer regrets that the
cotton manufacturers of Alsace and Normandy have
abstained from competing with other nations, the
correspondent continues :
" The course of events is never stopped by refus-

ing to join in them. But although appearacce,
grandeur, power, and energy in every article are
_ _ _

incontestably the character of the English, our ex-
hibitors have given proofs of invention and origi-
nality much greater. Everything which our neigh-
bours possess shows the accumulation of capital—
the employment of force—the will to arrive at the
object by the ordinary road at any cost. With us
difficulties are turned by the most ingenious plans;
we expend more ingenuity and less money. For
that reason our Exhibition, even in machinery, pre-
sents more novelties—more problems resolved.
Nevertheless, we say it without hesitation, we see
there the works of a great nation, which deserves

respect and approbation. It has been said, and
repeated in every tone, that the palace of the Exhi-
bition of 1862 seen from without is clumsy and
inferior to the Crystal Palace of 1851. Ido not say
the contrary, but when one has penetrated under
the domes which cross each other—under all the
galleries annexed—when one has walked for hours
without passing before more than a quarter of the
stalls, one is forced to admit that neither in London
in 1851 nor in Paris in 1855 did anybody see any-
thing like this. Taken altogether, it is magnificent
—splendid ! One's eyes are dazzled and one's senses
filled with admiration. The palace of the Exhibi-
tion looks upon the gardens of the Royal Horticul-
tural Society, which are not yet quite finished. But
although workmen are still employed in planting
green turf, in laying out flower beds, in levelling
the walks, in placing monumental fountains from
the fonnderies of MM. Barbazet and Durenne, the
effect is grand and fairy-like. Nothing like it was
ever seen in France nor even in Oriental or Chinese
palaces. It cannot be asserted that everything is
yet arranged with that perfect familiarity with the
requirements of human life which the English so very
well understand. The installation is scarcely com-
menced, and yet the refreshment department is esta-
blished on a colossal scale. The world is convoked
to the repast of Gargantua. Sideboards, which pre-
sent a surface of more than half a mile, are loaded
with provisions of every kind and suited to every
purse, as well as to every palate, and for all classes
of society. They are served by about 200 young
women, whose places, it is said, were set up to a
sort of competition. More than 5,000 candidates
presented themselves. Young women with black
eyes and black hair were chosen in the proportion
of 90 to the 100. The Commissioners were deter-
mined to give a contradiction to the opinion that
all Englishwomen are fair. But black is so re-
markable here that a fair daughter of Albion ex-
claimed, " Oh, they are painted."

T. 71.13 GREAT INTERNA7IONAL CATTLE

SEti PARK.

The Royal Agricultural Society of England are
making extensive preparations for the International
Cattle Show to be held in Battersea-park during the
ensuing month. The ground on which the show is
to take place is already staked out to the extent of
some 25 or 26 acres, and workmen are engaged in
making the necessary drainage and other require-
ments for so extensive an exhibition. Nor is it in-
tended that the exhibition of this year shall be
merely confined to the cattle show and stationary
engines to be exhibited at Battersea-park. The
council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng-
land have secured 200 acres of land in the vicinity
of the Farningham station of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, where there will be a public ex-
hibition of every description of steam cultivators in
action. In order to render it more attractive, ar-
rangements have been made by the council with
the London, Chatham, and Dover Company to run
frequent trains, at merely nominal charges, between
Victoria station and Farningham. The programme
of the arrangements for the forthcoming exhibition
are as follows :—Monday, the 23d June, is fixed for
the opening of the show. The Ist of May was the
last day of entry, and the number of entries is very
large. The Right Hon. Lord Portman is the pre-
sident of the year. Stewards of live steak :—The
Hon. W. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Pain, and Mr. Mil
ward. Foreigr stock : Mr. Fisher Hobbs. Imple-
merits : Lord Legh, the Bon. A, Vernon, Mr. Torr,
and steward elect, Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., M.P.
Other portions of the management devolve on the
lion. Cob A. Nelson Hoed, Mr. Barnett, the Hon.
A. Vernon, Mr. W. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. C. Wren
Hoslayns, Mr. Miiward, Mr. Torr, Mr. H. Wilson,
Mr. Bramston, M.P„ Mr. Cantrill, Mr. Drnce, Mr.
Pore, Mr. Barnett, end Mr. Wells; whilst the
general arrangements of the show ore entrusted to
Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the well known and efficient
honorary secretary of the Smithfield Cattle Club,
and Mr. H. Hall Dare, the secretary of the Royal
Agricultural Society. The principle upon which
the exhibition will be opened to the various classes
of the public will be on the graduated scale, varying
from the sum of one sovereign down to ls. Gover-
nors and members of the society are to be admitted
to the show yards without payment, by tickets
issued by the society, but which are not transfer-
able; and members of the Highland and Agricul-
tural Societies of Scotland are to be admitted upon
the same terms as members of the society. The
show of implements will commence on Monday, the
23d, and continue open Tuesday, the 24th, end
Wednesday, the 25th of June exclusively, from 8 in
the morning till 8 in the evening. Wednesday
the 25th, is also appointed as the day for the preli-
minary inspection of the cattle and live stock, and
for the judges' examination and awards. The cattle,
for which prizes are awarded by the Royal Agri-
cultral Society of England, amounting to the sum
of £1,152, are divided into 11 sections, comprising
63 classes, viz., short-horned, Hereford, Devon,
Sussex, long-horned, Norfolk, and Suffolk polled,
Nth V
and Guernsey. The horses are
divided into seven sections and 20 classes as follows
—bunter, carriage, North South Wales, Irish (Kerry), Channel
roadster, Suffolk, agricultural,
Al
isipas_ldcrney
dray, aid ponies. The prizes awarded for horses
amount to £865, and for the best stud thorough
horse, which, in the opinion of the judges, is most
calculated to improve and perpetuate the breed of
the sound thorough-bred horse for general stud
purposes, a prize of £lOO and gold medal is appro-
priated, and a prize of £25 for the second. The
sheep are to be divided into 12 sections and 36
classes, namely, Leicester, Lincoln, Cotswold,
Kentish, or Romney Marsh, long-woolled, Irish—
pure native long-woolled breads, South Do wn, S hrop-
shire, Hampshire, and West Country Down,Oxford-
, shire Down, Dorset, and Mountain. The aggregate
amount of money prizes awarded in the sheep classes
reaches £1,095. The pigs are divided into 15 classes,
and money prizes are offered in these classes of £225.
the prizes offered for foreign specimens amount to
£750. Thus, in addition to eight gold medals and
various valuable prizes for improvements in agrictil=
tural implements alone, the prizes to be awarded by
the Royal Agricultural Society of England for the
various descriptions of stock exhibitea.under their
auspices are—For cattle, £1,152; horses, £865;
sheep, £1,095; pigs, £225; and for foreign compe-

tition, £750; making a total of £4,087 in money.
The cattle to be exhibited under the auspices of the

Highland and Agricultural Societies of Scotland I
consist of 24 classes divided into four sections, viz.,
polled (Aberdeen and Angus), polled (Galloway),
Highland, and Ayrshire ; money prizes, 468.
Horses—Clydesdale, divided into five classes; prizes
in money £144, and five silver medals. Sheep 1
(eight classes in two sections) Blackfaced and
Cheviot; money prizes £lOB and eight silver medals.
The gross amount of prizes given by the Highland
and Agricultural Societies of Scotland being 38
silver medals and £720 in money, this makes a
gross amount of money prizes in cattle and live
stock alone of £4,807, or with gold and silver
medals a sum little short of £5,000

! IV INLELLIGENGE.—May 10.

EQUITY COURTS.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood.)
WINDHAM V. GIUBILEI.

This was a petition presented by Mr. Windham,
of Felbrigg Hall, praying that the receiver might
be ordered to give him possession, and that it might
be declared that he was absolutely entitled to cer-
tain furniture, &c., at Felbrigg Hall, which were
bequeathed by the testator as heirlooms. It was
contended on the part of Gen. Windham that this
furniture was to, go with the estate, and that the
petitioner was consequently not entitled to it as his
own absolute property.
Mr. Rolt and Mr. Bedwell were for Gen. Wind-
ham ; Mr. Gifford, Mr. Field, and Mr. Jervis were
on the other side.
The Vice• Chancellor said that the intention of
the testator had no doubt been to settle this pro-
perty so as to go with the real estate. In fact,
however, he had so expressed himself that by a rule
of law they became the property, absolutely, of the
first taker. The petitioner was therefore abso-
lutely entitled.

BAIL COURT.

Sittings in Banco—(Before Mr. JusticelVightman

EX PAUTE REED-ARTICLES OF CLERKSHIP.

Mr. Dowdeswell applied on behalf of Mr. T. B.
Reed, that a preliminary examination now neces-
sary before a person could enter into articles of
clerkship as an attorney, might be postponed with
regard to one portion of it. By. the late statute the
Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief
Baron, and the Master of the Rolls, were authorised
to make regulations for the examination of persons
previously to their entering into articles of clerk-
ship in the curriculum laid down.
Mr. Justice Wightman—l don't understand that
as signifying a legal term.
Mr. Dowdeswell—No, my lord; but your lord
ship will see that it has reference to an elementary
knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, German,
Spanish, or Italian. It laid down that an elemen-
tary knowledge in one of the above languages was
requisite, and that an examination should be gone
through previous to persons entering into articles
of clerkship. The applicant was for some years
clerk to Mr. Bevan, solicitor, Cowbridge, who was
so much pleased with him that he recommended
him to another solicitor. He had discharged his
duties so satisfactorily that the latter offered him
his articles of clerkship, which were accepted and
executed without Mr. Reed having gone through
the required preliminary examination. Mr. Reed
was not an educated man, but he was capable of
passing a satisfactory examinatian in all except the
Latin language, and he asked that that part might
be postponed to enable him to acquire it. Had a
knowledge of Welsh been required Mr. Reed could
have passed it.
Mr. Justice Wightman—lt is important that he
should know the English language.
Mr. Dowdeswell—He is perfect in that.
Mr. Justice Wightman said it was necessary that
a person should pass the examination previous to
his entering into articles of clerkship, but in this
case Mr. Reed had executed the articles first, and
had then come to this court for a dispensation. He
would defer his judgment till Monday (this day).
Judgment deferred.

handkerchiefs, quilted petticoats, dresses--no end
of them—handsome black Cashmere shaOls, ele-
gantly trimmed with lace, pearl-white silk stockings,
embroidered chemises, richly trimmed night-
dresses and garters. The learned counsel said he
should be able to prove the delivery of ail the articles,
and that they were supplied at moderate and rea-
sonable charges, considering the expensive charac-
ter of the materials supplied.
Mrs. Ablett was called—She prayed having sold
to the defendant most of the articles in question,
amongst others a steel petticoat for 255. ; gilt
buckles, at 6s. 6d. each; cambric handkerchiefs
trimmed with Valenciennes lace, 38s. ; an extra
rich ditto, 755. ; a rich silk quilted petticoat, 41
guineas; opera glass, £3 13s. 6d.; a black Cash-
mere shawl, 3 guineas ; muslin steel petticoat 255. ;
a black Cashmere shawl, richly embroidered and
trimmed with lace, £25. Witness saw the defend-
ant about three weeks or a month since, when she
said that if time were give❑ her she would settle the
account.
Mr, Baron Martin suggested, as a verdict must
go against the defendant, whether it was not best
to settle the matter by giving her time.
The learned counsel having consulted together, it
was arranged to take a verdict for the amount
claimed and costs, to be paid by four equal instal-
ments of three months each, execution to issue in
the event of default.
Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly.