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London, England, 1853-05-09 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1853.

NEW WORK YTH B
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AMEMOIR of CHARLES MORDAUNT,
EARL of PETERBOROUGH and MONMOUTH : with
Selections from his Correspondence. By the Author of " Hochelaga,"
and " The Conquest of Canada."
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during
the week, "The Thistle," " tAharnrock," "Rose," "Amine" ‘• Gran-
ville " " Loch Vogel," and " Windsor Castle" Waltzes; he " Napo-
leon" Galop; "Le Cirque" Quadrille; "The Gold Hawk' and
" Juno" Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight;
Dancing to commence at Nino o'clock, and terminate at Half-past
Eleven.

THE
GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1853,
DUBLIN.
WILL BE INAUGUR tTEO AT TWELVE O'CLOCK

THURSDAY, the 12th of MAY inst.,
By His Excellency the LORI) LIEUTENANT,
who, accompanied by the COUNTESS OF ST GERMAIN% will proceed in
Full State
from Dublin Castle, to the Building.
The KNIGHTS of ST. PATRICE will take part in the Ceremonial.
The CABINET MINISTERS, FOREIGN AMBASSADORS,
and
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES of the Principal Towns in the United
Kingdom,
hare been invited to be present at the Opening,
A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
will take place,
The Orchestra consisting of One Thousand Performers.
Mr. JOSEPH ROBINSON, Conductor.

Mr. ROBERT STEWART, Organist.
PEERS and PEERESSES who propose attending the inauguration are
requested to intimate their intention to the Committee, in order that
Reserved Seats may be provided.
None but the ho'ders of Season Tickets will be admitted.
On the Inauguration Day the Doors will be Open at llalf•past Ten
o'clock.
From the 13th May to the 21st inclusive, the Doors will open at
Twelve o'clock and close at Six o'cl. ck each day during that period,
when the Admission Fee charged at the door will be Five Shillings
for each person.
N.B.—Season Tickets may now be had at the Office eack day be-
tween the hours of 10 A.m. and 6 p.m.; and on the day previous to the
opening, from 10 o'clock A.M. to 9 o'clock P.m.

THE WELLINGTON DINING-ROOMS,
Entrance, 160, PICCADILLY.

This splendid Establishment (formerly Crockford's Club) will
open to the Public on TUESDAY, 10th MAY next, on a scale of
magnificence unprecedented in London, combining extreme modera-
tion in charges with the most unexceptionable Cooking and Bill
of Fare an I uniting the Independence of a public dining-room with
the comforts and accommodation cf a first-rate club
Scales of Charges.—Dinner from the joint, with vegetables, bread,
cheese, &c., 2s. • ditto, with soup or fish, 2s. 6d. ; ditto, with soap.
and fish, 35.; Made dishes, with the joint, as per bill of fare ; made
dishes, without the joint, but with vegetables, bread, cheese, &c., Is
extra. Waiter, each p• rson, 3d.
The Wines and Beers mill be sold by Imperial measure, and the
decanters all marked, so that the quantity paid for will be actually
supplied to the consumer. The Public will, therefore, appreciate this
novel arrangement, more particularly when they understand that
the Imperial pint contains four-fifths of what is usually sold as a
bottle.
The Dining-Room will be open from Half-past Two, p.m., until
Nine, p.m.
'the magnificent Suite of Saloons, on the first floor, fitted up for
Smoking, Reading, and Chess, will be well supylied with the London,
Provincial, a' d Foreign Papers, Magazines, Books of Reference, &c.;
and Tea, Coffee, Ices, Seltzer Water, &c., will be supplied from
eleven a.m., by Mr. Ward, of Bond-street.
Lessee, HENRY THOMAS MUNDT, 160, Piccadilly.
6th May, 1853.

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per cent. is a very ordinary rent to be netted from a
large estate of an ornamental rather than a profitable
character, the very lowest duty payable, viz., that on
the succession in direct descent, will be half a year's
rent. How are we to meet such a mass of objections ?
We meet it with the demand for uniformity. That is the
best rule in the long run, and will be found, to answer
the convenience of all parties much better than going
round and endeavouring to trim our taxation to every-
body's peculiar circumstances. Lay the same taxes on
all property, of whatever kind, and then, if they are
found intolerably inconvenient in sonic cases, we shall
have the tax entirely remitted. The more probable
result in the present instance is, that, with the Legis-
lature itself adding to the burdens of real estate,
we shall soon have greater facilities created for its
sale, in order to the discharge of. its burdens. The
best thing that can be done for land, and what-
ever stands upon land, or lies under it, is to render
it as thoroughly negotiable, divisible, and inter-
changeable as the Consols. We must come to that
at last, and every distinction we remove between
personal and real property tends to that consummation.
There is no reason in the nature of things why land
should not be bought and sold by titles as manageable
as Mr. Gladstone's new Treasury Bonds. Of course,
any description of property may be encumbered with
mortgages and settlements, if people are so minded. A
watch or a 51. note may be pledged, charged with pay-
ment, rendered liable for bills, and subject to as many
burdens as the estates of a dukedom. Yet in them-
selves the two are sufficiently negotiable. It is the
duty of the Legislature to make landed property equally
so. The best title, it is said, is no title at all, or the
title you have when an accidental fire has destroyed
every parchment connected with your property. If
Parliament could only do the work of that fire, it would
add not a little to the value of land. But that is the
result we must come to at Last, an&iffliprticipation of it
is be4t to lose no time in equalising the taxation on all
kinds of property.

MRS. H. B. STOWB AT STAFFORD HOUSE.

On Saturday last a number of ladies and gentlemen
assembled at Stafford House, for the purpose of enabling
those who promoted the "Women's Address on Slavery,"
and others interested in the subject, to welcome Mrs. H.
B. Stowe to this country, and to give expression per-
sonally to the respect and admiration which are felt for
that lady. Among those present we observed the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of
Argyll, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, Lord
John Russell, Lord and Lady Palmerston, the Earl of
Carlisle, Right Hon. W. Gladstone, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Archbishop of Dublin, Mrs. and Miss
Whately, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, Frances Coun-
tess of Waldegrave, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cowper,
Lady Ashburton, the Bishop of Oxford, Mr. W. Stirling,
M.P., Mr. Hayward, Mr. Hallam, Lord and Lady Eb-
rington, Lord Blantyre, Mr. Russell Gurney, Lord and
Lady Claud Hamilton, Lord Glenelg, the Dean of
St. Paul's, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Cumming, the Bishop
of Oxford, Hon. Arthur and Mrs. Kinnaird, Dowager
Countess of Carlisle, Mr. Tom Taylor, Rev. Edmund
Hollond, Mr. and the Misses J. W. Alexander, Mr.
and Mrs. R. Forster, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. and
Mrs. T. Horman Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Alsop, the
Misses Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Hanbury, Mr.
H. Harwood, Mr. and Mrs. Spicer, Mrs. Elmsley, Miss
Pringle, Miss Seeley, Miss Webster, Mrs. and Miss
Gurney, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tritton, the Chevalier
Bunsen, Mrs. Mary Howitt, Lady Dover, Rev. P.
Latrobe, Mr. Ernest Bunsen, Mr. Haywood, Mrs. and
Miss Benson, Rev. Mr. Beecher, Mr. H. E. Gurney,
Mrs. Price, Sir R. H. Inglis, Right Hon. H. Labou-
ohere, Mr. Higgins, Colonel Maclean, Right Hon. T.
B. Macaulay, Mr. George, Lady Louisa, and Miss
Finch, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Hon. W. Ashley, Sir
David Dundas, Hon. C. Howard, Captain J. Trotter,.
-Dr. and Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Grainger, the Misses
Rudall, the Rev. R. Burgess, Rev. T. Binney, Sir E.
N. Buxton, Mr. T. Fowell Buxton, Rev. Dr. Steane,
Mr. Grant, Mr, J. Conder, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cook
Evans, Rev. J. Sherman, Mr. Fowler, Mr. G. Oli-
phant, Mr. John Macgregor, &c.
The Duke of Sutherland having introduced Mrs.
Stowe to the assembly, the following short address was
read and presented to her by the Earl of Shaftesbury :
" Madam—l am deputed by the Duchess of Sutherland
and the ladies of the two committees appointed to conduct
the Address from the Woman of England to the Women
of America on the subject of Slavery,' to express the high
gratification they feel in your presence amongst them this
day.
" The address, which has received considerably more
than half a million of the signatures of the women of Great
Britain and Ireland, they have already transmitted to the
United States, consigning it to the care of those whom
you have nominated as fit and zealous persons to undertake
the charge in your absence.
" The earnest desire of these committees, and indeed, we
may say, of the whole kingdom, is to cultivate the most
friendly and affectionate relations between the two coun-
tries • and we cannot but believe that we are fostering such
a feeling when we avow our deep admiration of an Ameri-
can lady who, blessed by the possession of vast genius and
intellectual power, enjoys the still higher blessing, that she
devotes them to the glory of God and the temporal and
eternal interests of the human race." _

The Rev. Mr. BEECHER (Mrs. Stowe's brother), after
a few prefatory remarks of acknowledgment and thanks,
read the following letter which had been written to his
sister :

" My dear Mrs. H. B. Stowe,
" Whilst I am fully sensible of the small results of my
efforts in the cause of emancipation, I will not deny that
your appreciation gives me great pleasure, and, I trust, not
ignoble pride. Alas ! without such kind and cheering
words which I have received from many sources, how
could I have so long stood up against such odds, however
much Providence had gifted me with an iron purpose ?
The loss of caste in the social circle in which we have been
used to move is hard—the obscurity from which the most
fervent ambition cannot rescue us is hard—the peril of
good name, of life and limb, is hard—but harder than all
is the reflection that we are for ever unappreciated by
those for whom we sacrifice our all. For if we fail our
memory perishes. The most melancholy idea of Siberian
exile is the extinction of the name when the burial-stone
not even marks the ashes of the past. The history of man-
kind, therefore, presents few instances of sacrifice for the
inferior castes. The Gracchi fell in defence of the rights
of the poor, and the winners in the contest branded their
names with infamy from which the late justice of
history can hardly rescue them. It remained only to the
Divine messenger of our faith thus to suffer and to conquer.
" Our plans of procedure in this cause are simple ; we
follow in the lead of our hearts rather than our intelli-
gence ; for I am not insensible of the almost indestructible
power of the slaveholders. I venture to say that never be-
fore was an aristocracy based upon such firm basis. Slavery
embraces almost all the talent, the learning, and the bodily
energy of the people. If the slaveholders had only the two
first, and the mass of the people the last, we could be to
them leaders, and they to us power. But, alas ! whenever
in the course of events men of action spring up, the first
want of accumulated wealth is menial service, which, here
can only be slave labour—thus the ownership of slaves
places them at once on the side of the men in power.
" Can we persuade men to lay down power ? Can the
luxurious be induced to cease from luxury ? Can the lame
walk, or the blind see ?

" On the other hand, can we infuse spirit and manliness
into hereditary dependents ? Can we make mon firm when
their bread wastes away ? Alas, are not the dependent
whites the slaves of the slaves !

" Still we `never give up the ship,' because to give it up
is to give up our idea of God I We can't give it up, be-
cause it would be to despair of all eventual elevation of
the human race. We can't give it up, because our soul
lives upon ideas of justice, of mercy, of truth—we perish
with hunger -we must eat, and eat of them only * *
" We trust in Providence, but we trust with our shoulder
to the wheel. By agitation we prepare the minds of the
ruling powers for change that at last, think they, cannot
be so insufferable which so many men of all climes so ear-
nestly crave ! Thus, you of the north aid us—thus Eng-
land aids us—thus France aids us—thus all outcry of all
mankind aids us. This then is, perhaps, in my time, the
mission of the Free-soil party— in the slave states to take
care to keep untrammelled the freedom of speech and the
press, and be the trumpet-tongued messengers of truth and
the conscience of mankind.

" This, the way of Providence—the undying aspira-
tions for the right in the hearts of all true men and wo-
men ! This is the Divine. All humble and obscure as I
am, lam yet too proud to flatter any one, but honour to
you that you have not buried your talent, no repining
against Him as a hard master ! ' Uncle Tom's Cabin' is
tho fruit of the embryo inspiration which God has planted
in every humane soul ! Be of good cheer—you have not
lived in vain. Through long centuries—yes, I feel, when
slavery shall be no more— you have erected a shrine around
which the humble, the fainting, the famishing will gather
and be comforted and strengthened, and be at peace with
men and trustful of God.

" Mrs. Clay gladly accepts the office of committeeman on
the reception of the address of the ladies of England, pro
vided it be not too late. It has been the solace of long
years of painful effort, that she appreciates my principles
and my purposes. Though all the world is lost, home is
secure !

" The vote cast for me advocating unconditional eman-
cipation on the soil was near 4000. The colonisation party
did not sustain me. When they shall give up that com-
promise' with slaveholders, if ever, our strength will be
greatlyincreased. Uncle Tom' is much read iu Kentucky
and all the South, where it is making daily converts to our
cause. We are organised, have a feeble paper advocating
our views, which we hope this summer to strengthen with
an abler editor. We are few, but determined, and may
God defend the right.—Your obedient servant,
"C. M. CLAY."
After partaking of refreshments the ladies, who
were present congregated in one of the splendid salons
apart, and Mrs. Stowe seated between the Duchesses of
Sutherland and Argyll, entered freely into conversation
with her numerous visitors.
In the course of her observations, she stated that the
ladies of England were not at all aware of the real state
of feeling of the ladies of America on the subject of
slavery. It must not be judged of by the answers sent
to the address, nor by the statements in the American
newspapers. The ladies of England seem not to be at
all aware of the deep feeling of sympathy which "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" was received in America long before it
was known in England. The press in America hadin-
variably spoken highly of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The
first word that ever appeared in print against "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" was the article in the Times—this was re-
printed and re-echoed in our papers, and widely circu-
lated in the form of a tract. The bitterness and anger
manifested against the ladies' address showed how much
its force had enraged the advocates of slavery. You in
England are happily ignorant of slavery, yet that ad-
dress has shown your sympathy, and sympathy is very
sweet. There is no bitter feeling really between the
ladies of the two countries ; but the ladies of America
cannot, because of their husbands' personal and political
feelings, stand forth and say what they feel on the sub-
ject. " Some had said that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was
now forgotten ; but it should be mentioned that 60,000
copies of the "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" were sold in
three days. The practical question was, what can be
done to forward this great work ? She looked first to
God, but man can also do something. Sympathy must
continue to be expressed. British subjects in Canada
must be educated ; the use of free-grown cotton must be
encouraged ; such are the ways in which this great work
may be aided by the people of England,. remembering
that, after all, the issue is the hands of Him who order-
eth all things.
The company began to disperse soon after five o'clock,
every one appearing to be thoroughly gratified with the
interesting proceedings of the day.

DEATH OF COMMANDER SIR GODFREY WEBSTER,
BART.-It is with regret that we record the death of Sir
Godfrey Webster, which took place at Battle Abbey
on Wednesday night. Sir Godfrey had been very un-
well for some time, and was in a state of extreme weak-
ness, but his decease came very unexpectedly. The
baronet's valet was with him, when, at about a quarter
before twelve on Wednesday night, Sir Godfrey was
seized with a slight sickness, which excited no alarm ;
but the valet presently observed a sudden change in the
baronet's face, and then immediately sent for Mr. James
Watt, before whose arrival, however, the worthy baronet
expired without a struggle, and in a very few minutes
indeed. Death is supposed to have been caused by the
rupture of some important vessel in the region of the
heart or brain consequent on extreme weakness. The
deceased baronet was styled Sir Godfrey Vassall Web-
ster, Bart., and is the sixth baronet who has borne the
title, which was created in 1703. The age of Sir God-
frey at the time of his death was 38. His brother, Au-
gustus Frederick, born 1819, succeeds to the title. The
family seat is Battle Abbey.—Brighton Herald.

[PRICE SD.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

In the afternoon of Saturiay last a special Court of
Common Council was held at the Guildhall,—the right
hon. the Lord Mayor presided.
His Lordship caused the special meeting of the mem-
bers of the corporation to be held in consequence of his
having received a conimunication from the committee of
the Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin, requesting the
presence of his Lordship, the Sheriffs, and a deputation
from each of the courts of the corporation, at the open-
ing of the Exhibition on the 12th of May instant.
Having informed the Court of these fact; the LORD
MAYOR handed to the town-clerk the letter of invitation
received by him. It was dated May the 4th, and signed
" C. P. Roney."
In answer to a question put by Mr. DE JERSEY,
The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received a per-
sonal invitation from Dublin to be present, but, finding
that he could not go to the opening of the Exhibition
without neglecting his official duties, he had held some
conversation with some of the parties interested in the
promotion of the !project, when it was suggested that
it would tend to do good to the cause and the Irish
people if a deputation from that corporation was sent to
Dublin upon the occasion of the opening of the Exhibi-
tion. In his (the Lord Mayor's) opinion he believed such
a visit would be valuable, but, as he felt the matter with
regard to himself to be no longer personal, as he could
not go unless officially, he should leave the matter in the
hands of the corporation, to whom he considered it to
belong. (Cheers.)

Mr. Deputy BENNOCIT would suggest, therefore, as a
preliminary step, that the Court agree to enter the com-
munication from the Dublin Industrial Committee upon
the minutes. (Cries of " Move !") He would move that
this be done.