The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-18 00:00:00

WINDING UP OF JOINT-STOCK

COMPANIES.
On Tuesday last petitions were presented to the
Lord Chancellor and the Masters in Chancery, pray-
ing for orders absolute that the Kilbricken Silver
Lead Mining Company, and the Tontine Life As-
surance Company, may be wound up under the pro-
visions of the Joint-Stock Companies Ace. The first
is on the petition of Henry Crockford, of Queens-
ferry, in the county of Flint, holding 650 shares in
the Kilbricken Mining Company, and who states that
in 1846 several persons resident in England formed
themselves into an association for working these
mines, which are situated near Ennis, in the county
of Clare. The proposed capital was 13,0001., in
1,300 shares of 101. each, to be paid by two deposits
of 5/. The company, which was managed by a com-
mittee of three, was established in King-street, St.
James's; and it was proposed, without any deed of
partnership being executed, to work the undertaking
on what is called " the cost-book" system, as it exists
in Cornwall. The two deposits of 51. per share were
duly paid by all the shareholders; but soon afterwards
it was discovered that no company, unless formed for
working mines in the county of Cornwall, can be
carried on under what is 'termed the " cost-book"
system, and, consequently, the Kilbricken Mining
Company never was and never could be so carried on,
the mines being situated in Ireland, where the Court of
Stannaries has no jurisdiction. Subsequently two fur-
ther calls, one of 10s., and the other of 1/. per share,were
made, but not being paid, aff2,irs became embarrassed.
New shares were issued with the intention of trying
some other sytem of working, but the conclusion was
come to, that it was useless to proceed further, as the
liabilities exceeded 2,2001., including judgments
against the company for 7001. The lease, assets, and
materials of the mine were to be sold in April last,
but they failed to realise sufficient to pay off the lia •
bilities, and the debts still outstanding amount to
5001. The petition for winding up the Tontine Life
Assurance is from S. Dee, of the Tower. It was
provisionally registered in 1846, with a proposed
capital of 400,000/. in 20,'000 shares of 201. each,
with power to increase the capital to 2,000,000/.
Offices were taken in fall-mall, and the first deposits
were paid, but many of time shareholders did not pay
the first subscription of 11 per share. After com-
ing on the business of gri.nting policies, the directors
on the 17th of August last, came to a resolution,
without calling the shareholders together, to dissolve
the company, intimating tht.t they had transferred all
the business to the Engine( ‘rs and Masonic Life As-
surance Company, in the Strand, and that the out-
standing 1/. per share " naust" be paid to avoid legal
expenses. The outstanding liabilities are esti-
mated at 1,5001., and t.h directors state that the
sums due to the company- on the 1/. deposit and
loans amount to 2,0001., wlaich would " leave a sur-
plus of 1,4001., which might be returnable to the
shareholders in the event of a prompt payment." The
petitioner states his belief that two of the Tontine po-
licies, one for 400/. sad another for 1001., have lately
become due, but that no pr ovision has been made for
their payment.

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SUDDEN DEATII OF LYE UT. BARTTELOT OF THE
21ST IiEGIMENT.—We reg ri t to record the demise of
this young officer, which took place yesterday morning,
under circumstances of a yes: ; afflicting character. Oa
Friday, while calling at Ba nks's Hotel, Union-street,
Lieutenant Barttelot was sr lenly seized with an attack
of cholera, and notwithstanding skilful medical assist-
ance, continued to get grad .wally worse till death termi-
nated his sufferings at an e urily hour yesterday morning.
His funeral took place in the afternoon, and was at-
tended by a large body o. F. the staff and the officers
and men of the 21st RE gic lent, which is at present
stationed in the Castle. I [is remains were interred in
the Dean Cemetery with tl te usual military ceremonies.
Lieutenant Barttelot had only recently obtained his
commission, and was a you ox officer of great promise.—
Edinburgh avertiser.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—The present week sees the commence-
ment of the academical session in our two ancient
universities, and will send some eight or nine hun-
dred freshmen to encounter the various chances of
, college life, and the proverbial perils of college debt.
These perils are not wholly imaginary, but so much
misconception exists on the subject, notwithstanding
its recent notoriety, that we may be doing some
public service by supplying the materials for the
formation of more correct opinions. There are four
parties whose positions are to be considered in a
sensible review of the question—the college authori-
ties, the university tradesmen, the parents of the
undergraduates, and the undergraduates themselves.
It is in the habits of this last class alone that the
main source of the evil lies, and it is here alone that
a remedy can be effectually applied. At the outset
we should observe, that we do not admit the existence
of evil to any such extent as has been sometimes
described. It is not true that any considerable
proportion of students seriously injure either
themselves or their families by extravagant ex-
penditure during their academical career—such
tales are mere idle exaggerations ; but it is true, we
think, that in ninety cases out of a hundred expenses
are incurred in some degree incommensurate
with the means of the student's family, and wholly
uncalled for by the .actual circumstances of his posi-
tion. We do not mean that all young men are at this
particular period of their lives extravagant, or that
they are eveh induced to be so by example ; but there
is undoubtedly perpetuated, at each of the universi-
ties, a kind of traditional spirit, which is taken to
warrant a certain extraordinary expenditure. There
is really nothing whatever, as we shall presently
observe, in the contingencies of a college education,
to justify this presumption, but it is nevertheless
almost universally conceived, that when a man gets to
Oxford or Cambridge the supplies which have hitherto
sufficed for his needs will suffice no longer. It seems
almost imagined that he is pushed up one step in
society, and that for the three next years of his
life he must comport himself as if his position were
something superior to what it really is. This
feeling is not altogether without its value, but it
conduces in almost every case to some needless ex-
pense, and, in its excess, involves the serious em-
barrassments complained of. There Is no earthly
reason why a man should spend more in Oxford and
Cambridge than in Worcester or Huntingdon ; on
the contrary, there are many reasons why he should
spend less; but, either because in the equality and
fraternity of academic life a few individuals of rank
and wealth more readily give the tone to the whole,
or because the traditional institutions of the place
generate and encourage the idea, it is certain that
even the most economically•minded do incur ex-
penses here which they would not incur elsewhere.
These are not often, in particular details, either large
or culpable, but the aggregate is beyond what it
should or might be. Nor are the parents and fami-
lies of the young men always unimplicated in these
results. There is oftentimes a kind of pride enter-
tained in the figure which the son or brother is
making at the university, and if the cost of the
display is but confined to reasonable limits, we are
inclined to think that it is seldom taken with a very
bad grace. The worst part of all this is that particular
feature of the system which naturalizes the idea and
practice of debt. It is held to be an ordinary and
almost legitimate incident of a collegiate education,
that at its close there should remain certain obliga-
tions which are either to be discharged by an imme-
diate sacrifice, or are to be borne through a burdened
and embarrassed life. Credit is thought as available
a currency as money, and necessaries are often pro-
cured by means of the former, while the latter is
reserved for the enjoyments of the day. To show
the strange acceptance which this system has now
secured, we need only quote a few words from the
address of a certain Oxford tradesman recently pub-
lished in defence of himself and his brotherhood. He
puts two or three of what he thinks the most ordinary
cases. " A gentleman on leaving the university has
possibly his bills for the last year or more, or less,
unsettled. Preparations for continental travel take
up all his present means, and he leaves his Oxford
creditors unpaid; or he gets his commission, and his
outfit uses up all his ready money ; or a young
clergyman on taking to his living finds that the
wants of his parish require all the resources at his
command, &c." Now, these are ---notst-in reality by
any means ordinary cases either at Oxford or Cam-
bridge, but the assumption pervading the whole ar-
gument is that a man has debts and creditors, to a
greater or less extent, as naturally as he would have
brothers or sisters, and this we suspect, though
less at Cambridge than Oxford, is too often the
case. As to the tradesmen who practise under such
a system, it is wholly preposterous to expect that
they should busy themselves about the means of
bringing it to an end. It is not in human nature
that reforms should be originated in this quarter, and
the outcry occasionally raised against them is alto-
gether unreasonable. They get their bread, like
others, under the conditions in which they find them-
selves. At the same time, it is wholly false to assert
that they are a sworn band of harpies livi▪
ng upon
plunder. They are nothing of the kind. With cer-
tain exceptions, not peculiar to the two universities,
except in the prominence which they have lately ac-
quired, they are, in their own vocations, as respec-
table, and in many cases as respected, as any speci-
mensyi of their class throughout the kingdom. 'They
are, of course, habituated to customers of a peculiar
character—men presumed to possess certain means,
seldom careful of small expenses, not often inqui-
sitive about prices, and more or less i▪
nconside-
rate in their orders. Their dealings inevitably
assume a corresponding character ; but to assert
that they are dishonest, or that they make their
fortunes by impure gains, would be an unwar-
rantable libel. They sell good articles at a high
price, are accustomed to -gips credit, and to witness
unnecessary expenditure, but the supply must always,
by eternal laws, answer the demand, and we do not
believe that any class of individuals better calculated
to deal with undergraduates could anywhere be
interested
in Neither are they unconditionally
in the maintenance of the present system, for they,
as well as their debtors, frequentls? suffer. In fact,
we suspect that if the statistics of Oxford and Cam-
bridge trading were compiled, it would not be found
that those who ministered to luxury or extravagance
had been the most fortunate in business. The men
who retire with money are not so much the horse-
dealers, the wine-merchants, the tobacconists, or the
confectioners, as the booksellers, upholsterers, and
grocers, or such tradesmen as have commanded a
large sale of real necessaries at good prices. Alto-
gether, we. believe that the university tradesmen
would be just as willing as any other parties to
receive smaller gains and more regular pay.
It is obvious that a system so grounded and main-
tained as we have described this to be can be no
more changed by any decree of the university au-
thorities, than the social character of the people can
be changed by a Royal proclamation. All that can
be done by the governing bodies of colleges is to
exercise such indirect influence as lies in their power,
and to limit and curtail the necessary expenses of a
student. How far this has been done it is in the
power of any person to, ascertain for himself. What
we are going to say may excite no little surprise ; but
we speak neither without experience nor information
when we assert that in no single college in Oxford or
Cambridge need the yearly expenses of a student ex-
ceed 1001., and they are often actually brought con-
siderably within this sum by men maintaining in all
respects the character and position of gentlemen.
There are no lodgings in England so cheap as college
rooms, no dinners in a London club-house so cheap
as college dinners, and few lectures at a popular insti-
tute so cheap as college tuition. For 151. a year a
man may have as good rooms as he can possibly need ;
the most expensive set in the college would probably
not exceed 301. hose of our readers who
have ever taken respectable lodgings in a country
town will know how to estimate these figures. The
charge for tuition, including lectures on every sub-
ject required for the academical degree, is 2/. 58 per
quarter at Cambridge, and 41. 4s. at Oxford, and
every single necessary charge for board, lodging, and
education may be, and often is, brought under 251.
a-term. The addition of another 1001. a year for
personal expenses, is amply sufficient for the wants
of any right-minded student during his academical
career. All above this has reference only !to those
demands to which we alluded at the commencement
of t
of our remarks, and which are solely
with the hazards of a college life. The relations,
as they exist at the present day, between tutor,
and pupil, preclude any such personal superii- ten-
denee of the former as could check or guide the per-
sonal expenditure of the latter. The chenge can
only be radically effected by that revolution in the
general feelings of the mass by which social reforms
ere ordinarily, brought about. Tu promote and en-
courage this feeling is the special
duty of parents
themselves; and a parental appeal to the honour of
theiri children on entering the threshold of univer-
sity life would probably save many a thoughtless
youth from destruction. Timely warning may do
something for individuals, common sense may do
more; but the true remedy is only to be looked
for in the correction of that traditional tone of
academical society which now, unfortunately, acts in
the opposite direction.

The following gentlemen composed the deputation
of the Society of Arts :—Vice-Presidents—Baron
Goldsmid, W. Tooke, Esq., B. Rotch, Esq., T.
Uwins, Esq., R.A., T. Webster, Esq., M.A. Mem-
bers of Council—H. Cole, E. W. Dilke, J. H. Bowen,
J. Bell, and S. Winkworth, Esqs.; Professor Wood-
croft, J. Scott Russell, W. Tite, A. Pellatt, P. L.
N. Foster (treasurer), G. Barclay, Little,
Brett, T. R. Crampton, C. Cole, A. Symonds, G. H.
Drew, G. Drew, C. Barlow, C. W. Wass, Captain
Boscawen Ibbetson, and Digby Wyatt, Esq.
Letters of apology were received from many gen-
tlemen who were unable to attend, but all of whom
expressed their hearty concurrence in the objects of
the meeting. The following is from Mr. Moffat,
:

"My Lord,—l greatly regret that an unavoidable
absence from London will preclude my attendance at
the Mansion-house, on Wednesday, to aid in the demon-
stration in support of the proposed grand exhibition in

1851.
" I believe it would be difficult to overstate the mate-
rial benefits likely to accrue from such an exhibition, not
to this country alone, but to the whole world.
" It is scarcely possible to conceive a more interesting and
useful combination than that in view. England is at this
moment to a large extent practically ignorant of the arts
and manufactures of other countries—other countries
squally uninformed as to those of England; and the whole
wurld must gain by the diffusion of practical information
consequent upon such a gathering as that now contem•
plated, which I trust will have the hearty and entire
support of the city of London.—l have the honour to be,
your faithful servant,
(Signed)
" Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
At half-past twelve o'clock the Lord Mayor, the
deputation, and the gentlemen who took a more im-
mediate part in the business of the day, entered the
hall, and were loudly cheered. On taking the chair,
The LORD MAYOR said it would not be necessary
for him to occupy much of their time with any ob-
servations of his own with regard to the occasion of
bringing them to the Mansion-house that day. He
would observe that he was merely the organ of the
gentlemen who were present as a deputatien from the
Society of Arts ; for, although the cards had been
issued in his name, he had placed them at their
disposal, as he was anxious at all times to make such
use of the Mansion-house as would be most beneficial
to his fellow-citizens and to the public.—(Hear,
hear.) On the l 2th September last he had received a
letter, which be held in his band, from Colonel Phipps,
private secretary to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
The letter was as follows :

.4‘ GEORGE hiONTAT.

" My dear Lord,—You will probably have heard that
his Royal Highness Prince Albert is at present engaged
in causing inquiries to be made with regard to the pro-
bable success of a great exhibition of the works of in-
dustry of all nations, proposed to take place in London
in the year 1851.
" The result of these inquiries, so far as they have
proceeded, has hitherto been most favourable, and I have
now received the command of his Royal Highness to
introduce to your Lordship Messrs. Henry Cole, Fuller,
and J. Scott Russell, three members of the Council of the
Society of Arts, wt,o have been actively engaged in pro-
secuting these inquiries and in endeavouring to promote
the success of the proposed exhibition. These gentlemen
will be prepared tally to explain to your Lordship the
objects and nature of the undertaking and the progress
that has as yet been made; and the Prince has com-
manded me to assure you of his Ruyal Highness's con-
viction that your Lordship will be disposed to afford
these gentlemen such assistance as may be in your
Lordship's power towards the formation of a City com-
mittee for the purpose of inquiring into and promoting
this great plan.—l have the honour to be, my dear Lord,
very faithfully yours, " C. B. PIIIPPS.
" Osborne Cottage, Sept. 12, 180."

The present meeting had been convened with that ob-
ject, as he thought it desirable to ascertain, so far as he
coul.l, what were the feelings of the citizens of London
with regard to the views taken by his Royal High-
ness for having a large exhibition of the industry of '
all nations, to be held in London in the year 10,51. He
had been at the same time favoured with a book
showing him what had been the opinions expressed
in various large towns in the kingdom, and he had
found that all the public authorities and others had
most cheerfully given their signatures in the book as
expressive of their approval and support of the views
of his Royal Highness.—(Hear, hear.) Although
the city of London had come last, he was sure that it
was not intended to be less respectful to it than to
any other part of the kingdom, but that the object
was, having had before them the evidence of the
general feeling of the country, that that would be
confirmed by the approval of the city of London. It
was not necessary to detain them by any lengthened
observations as to the advantages likely to be derived
to nation at large from the views and suggestions of
his Royal Highness. They were all sufficiently aware
of the blessings they enjoyed from the maintenance of
a long peace, and there could be, in his opinion, no
course more likely to consolidate the blessings they
enjoyed from it than the inviting all nations to bring
the products of their industry in arts and manufac-
tures to that great metropolis for exhibition.— '
(Hear, hear.) No doubt the metropolis itself would
be greatly benefited by the circumstance of so many
strangers coming there from all parts of the world
upon so interesting an occasion. But although he
would rejoice at the metropolis deriving all possible
benefit from such a meeting, he could not forget that
there were still higher objects to be gained, and still
greater advantages to the country, by a large exhibi-
tion, which would enable them to show how much
the country had improved in arts and manufactures,
and how well able it was to stand in competition with
the rest of the world.—(Cheers.) lle would merely
add that, having the honour to see there several gen-
tlemen connected with the Society of Arts, he could
assure the meeting that they would much better ex-
plain the objects in view than he could, and supply
any omissions he had made. He was satisfied that
that respectable meeting, comprising, as he saw it did,
so many gentlemen of station in the city of London,
would be the best evidence of the interest they took in
the object his Royal Highness had in view, and of
their anxiety to promote the welfare and honour of
the country.—(Cheers.) With these observations he
would call on Mr. Cole, a member of the Council of
the Society of Arts.
Mr. Elnisnr COLE said—Before he submitted the
outlines of the proposal which his Royal Highness
had charged them to communicate to the city of Lon-
don, he wished them to bear in mind that these pro-
ceedings were strictly preliminary. His Royal
Highness wished them not to take anything as abso-
lutely settled, beyond the mere fact that it was in-
tended to have a great exhibition; and his Royal
Highness wished that he should lay before them some
details of the scheme, which he would do with all the
brevity he could, in order that, at the proper time,
they might be prepared to bring their counsels and
advice in aid of his Royal Highness, if they so
thought fit to carry the proposal into effect. The
matter had been under the consideration of the Society
of Arts, of which his Royal Highness was president,
for at least five years. But during the last two years,
his Royal Highness had been watching the symptoms
of public feeling on this question, and the members
of the Council well knew that on all occasions he had
taken an active interest, as president of the so-
ciety, in further educating the public to appreciate
meetings of this kind. This year, at the institu-
tion, they had had the finest exhibition of
precious metal work that had ever been seen
in modern times. The chief specimen was sent by
her Majesty herself; And upon the whole it was con-

sidered that so great a point was made at that exhi•
bition, as to warrant the Prince in considering that
the time was arrived for maturing the preliminaries
towards this great exhibition. Accordingly his Royal
Highness commanded the attendance of some mem-
hers of Council and the secretary at Buckingham
Palace, when his Royal Highness went over with
them the details which he considered ought to consti-
tute the chief features of the proposed exhibition. On
that occasion his Royal Highness directed minutes to
be kept; and the minutes both of that and of subse-
quent meetings were seen, revised, and approved of
by his Royal Highness. He thought it right to
mention these matters, to show that his Royal High-
ness took a direct personal interest in the question,
and that he was not acting merely in an official man-
ner as President of the Society of Arts.—(Hear, hear.)
In the course of the observations which he had to
address to them, they would see that his Royal
Highness had himself worked out many details as
far as they had yet proceeded. It would, perhaps,
conduce still more to the understanding of the subject,
if he were to read some extracts taken from these mi-
nutes. At Buckingham Palace, 30th June, 1849, his
Royal Highness communicated to the members of
Council his views as to a greatcollection and exhibition
of works of art and industry, to be held in London,
in 1851. On this question, the first point for con-
sideration was whether the exhibition should be
limited exclusively to the productions of this country.
Perhaps he might be allowed to say that the para-
graph he was about to read was one which the Prince
himself had inscribed on the minutes. " It was a
question whether the exhibition should be exclusively
limited to articles of British industry; whilst it would
be an error to limit an exhibition of articles of ma-
chinery, science, and taste, which are of no country,
but belong to the whole civilized world, considerable
advantages would result to British industry from its
being exhibited in open competition with the products
of all other countries."—(Hear, hear.) That seemed
to be the fundamental principle on which the Prince
acted; and with this feeling all the meetings he had
addressed were in absolute unison. There was only
one gentleman out of 600 or 700, whom he had con-
sulted, who thought that in the first instance the ex-
hibition should consist of British industry ; but when
that gentleman came to see his own opinion put into
print for the Prince's perusal, it seemed to be so sin-
gular, that he requested it might be cancelled, and
stated that in the mine of six weeks he had totally
changed his opinion. Mr. Cole having read
the opinions of various parties in Scotland
and England on the subject of the exhibi-
tion, stated that he thought the citizens
of London would as well as the parties he
had quoted agree with Prince Albert, that
the exhibition should be open to all nations.
The next point was the subjects which should
be comprehended in the exhibition. His Royal
Highness considered that it should consist of the
following divisions :—raw materials, machinery and
mechanical inventions, manufactures, sculpture and
the plastic arts generally. Now, they would bear in
mind that this would not be an assemblage of ordi-
nary productions, but the best works in all the classes
which the world could furnish. One great feature
in this exhibition would be that they should see there
the best of what every land could do. There would
be raw materials—animal, vegetable, and mineral—
whether produced in the earth, or on the earth. In
animal productions, for instance, they would have
enormous elephants' tusks from Africa, with their
conversion into Sheffield handles. They would have
leather from Russia and Morocco; beaver from
Baffin's Bay; wood from Australia, Thibet, and
Sussex ; silks from Asia and from Europe; and furs
from the Esquitnaux. They would, perhaps, have
some valuable and hitherto unknown manufactures
from the East Indies ; for he was happy to tell
them that the Court of Directors intended to exhibit
the beet of everything that India could furnish.
They had reason to think also that the Australian
and other public companies would not be backward i
in aiding them on this occasion. With respect to 1
vegetable productions, they would have the cotton of
Asia to compare with the cotton of America ; they
would have corn from Poland, Russia, and all
the English counties, as well as from what he might
call the virgin soil of Connemara. They would then
have cora from the Baltic and from England—they
would have spices from the East—Kent and Sussex
would send their hops—Malabar its raisins, and the
Pyrenees their olives. The exhibition, therefore,
would be of universal interest to all who cultivated
the soil. IVith respect to minerals-----there would be
gold from California and from the East Indies, silver
from Mexico and from Russia, iron from Wales, from
Wolverhampton, and perhaps from Tonbridge Wells;
for perhaps the meeting did not know that the iron
rails round St. Paul's Church were manufactured at
Tonbridge "Wells from ore found in the neighbour-
hood. They would have clays from Bideford, from
Truro, and perhaps from Putney; for the meeting
might recollect that close by Vauxhall-bridge there
was an enormous manufacture of certain d scrip-
tins of pottery ware carried on. They would
have steam-engines in endless variety, and
in all their applications, with machines of
all descriptions, including the most ingenious
invention of Messrs. Whitworth, of Manches•
ter, which would enable those who desired it to
measure the 50,000 th part of an inch. They would
have looms from Dacca to contrast with the last new
power-loom, and the old spindle, that was still in use
among the Egyptians, to be placed side by side with
the modern flax-wheel from Belfast. They would
have paper machines of every description; and one
eminent manufacturer had said to him, that if it was
practicable, and he thought it might be, he would
bring up a machine where a bundle of rags was put
in at one end, and twenty feet farther on a large sheet
of elephant drawing-paper would be produced. In
printing presses, they might expect Mr. Applegarth
to produce his machine by which 10,000 perfect
copies of the Times newspaper were completed in
one hour. With regard to manufactures, he need
hardly detain them with the details of what was ex-
pected in that class. From India they would have
manufactures of which they knew nothing. The
nankeens of India were hardly ever seen now; for
the Indian consumers found it more profitable to send
the raw material to this country to be spun and woven
here, than to do as they had been accustomed to do,
make the fabrics themselves and send them to this
country to be consumed. But still there remained in
India, as in other parts of the world, various in-
digenous manufactures, which might furnish hints
to the manufacturers of this country. In the de-
partment of plastic art and sculpture there would be
an exhibition of all articles relating to the building
art and architecture, to ornamental metals, and to
bronzes. He now came to the question of a site for
this exhibition, for which, at least in the first instance,
the buildings must be temporary. Government had
offered the area of Somerset House fOr the site of the
exhibition ; or, if that should not be considered de-
sirable, on any other ground of which they might have
the disposal. His Royal Highness had suggested a
piece of vacant ground on the south side of Hyde-
park, running parallel with what was called Rotten-
row. The particular advantage of this site, in the
eye of the Prince, was—that for rich and poor it had
an equally good access—that whether a visitor rode
in an omnibus or drove up in his private carriage, he
w ould be equally w ell off in the approach to the
ground.--([dear.) The next point to be settled was
as to the expediency of giving large prizes. Foreign
Governments ,were accustomed to do so, and it was
deemed necessary to give large prizes in order to in-
duce the manufacturers of the world to enter
into the competition. He should say that
20,000/. would be offered in prizes on this
occasion ; but how it was to be apportioned
would be matter for subsequent consideration. It
was proposed to crganiz,::, an executive to arrange
matters, with the co-operation of the Government, and
all details would be settled by the executive. The
next question was, how the funds were to be pro-
cured ? A good deal of trouble had been taken to
investigate that question, and the result had been, that
it was thought better for every one to pay what he
pleased, than that the expense should be taken com-
pulsorily out of the general taxation of the country.
In other countries, no doubt, Governments were ac-
customed to do these things ; but other countries
were accustomed to do a number of things which he,
for one, believed Englishmen were in the habit of
doing much better for themselves.—(Loud cheers.)
Ile believed that no Government works were ever
completed so peitectly as cur countrymen were in the
habit of doing them fbr themselves. Throughout Eng-
land he had found there was a unanimous feeling that
the Government should not be called upon to pay any
part of the expense, but that everybody should
pay his half-crown, or what he pleased, towards
the exhibition. There was a little mixed
feeling on the subject in Scotland.—(Laughter.)
One gentleman, an eminent manufacturer in Paisley,
whose name he would not mention, said he consi-
dered that this was a great national work, to be car-
ried on for the national benefit, and therefore he
thought that Government should bear a moiety of the
expense ; and he carried a number of gentlemen with
him in a resolution that it was expedient to ask the
Government to pay one-half the expense. lie (Mr.
Cole) did not think such a proposition had yet been
made to the Government, and therefore he could not
say how it would be received; but the feeling of the

Society of Arts and the Prince was, that it would be
nobler for his countrymen to do the thing for them-
selves, rather than to ask the Government for any
assistance.—(Hear, hear.) The meeting appeared
to receive with some merriment the face that some
. Scotchmen would like the Government to pay; but
he must add that in Glasgow the feeling was, as ex-
pressed by an eminent manufacturer, " That the less
the Government did for them the better, and that
the more the manufacturers subscribed the better :"
and he might add, that in the course of his travelling he
met with an old lady who told himthat she would not be
able to attend the exhibition, but that she would give
a crown towards it, provided the Government gave
nothing. The Lord Provost of Glasgow said the
exhibition would be far more popular if no public
money were required ; and at Canterbury, Mr. S.
Lushington said he was glad the expenses of the
exhibition were to be voluntary, for he was satisfied
that if they sought the aid of the Government the
people would consider themselves relieved from giv-
ing, and far less would be realised. The meeting
would see that if any proposition of the kind was
made in the House of Commons, there would be
almost inevitably a division, while according to the
plan proposed, the parties concerned would decide for
themselves, and there could be no division. He hoped
that the meeting would agree with the views of his
Royal Highness that the whole object should be car-
ried out by subscription. In Dublin they were very
sanguine about the matter, for there they said that to
get together 150,0001. or 200,0001. would be the easiest
part of the business. Yesterday he had an interview
with a gentleman who had one of the longest heads
in the city of London, and who was one of the
richest men in it, and he said that there would be no
difficulty as regarded money, but that there would be
a difficulty in preventing the exhibition being en-
gulfed by its very magnitude ; for everybody had a
direct and obvious interest in it. It was therefore
proposed that, the funds being forthcoming, the Go-
vernment be requested to appoint a Royal Commission
to expend that portion of them which was to be ap-
propriated to prizes, so as to secure the utmost im-
partiality. The Society of Arts felt that it would
not do for them to undertake the very delicate task
of distributing 20,000/. in prizes, and it was there-
fore conceived that the best course was to ask the
Government to nominate such a commission, in order
that a tribunal should be appointed which should be
above all possible suspicion. This commission would
determine the amount of the prizes, and the selection
of subjects for w hich the prizes should be offered.
The prizes proposed to be submitted for the consi-
deration of the Commission, to be medals with money
prizes. It was proposed that the first prize should be
5,0001., and that one at least of 1,0001. should be
given in each of the four sections. Medals conferred
by the Queen would very much enhance the value of
the prizes."—(Hear, hear.) We are not privileged to
say more than that, but that perhaps will be sufficient
to show the interest which we may hope that our
Sovereign will take in the subject.—(hear, hear.) I
end with this statement, gentlemen, without attempt-
ing to advocate the merits of the proposition before
you ; standing here, as we do, to represent the views
of the Prince, we have thought it would be most be-
coming to appear as little as possible partisans. We have
laid before you what is the proposal of the Prince,
and we leave you to deal with it as you think fit.—
(Hear, hear.) I will only say, that if there is a place
in the world interested in the matter it is London.
I think we may expect some hundred thousand people
to come flowing into London from all parts of the
world by railways and steamboats to see this great
exhibition. I think we may calculate on foreign
merchants who may want to buy, pleasure seekers,
men of science anxious to see what has been done.

In short, London will act the part of host to all the
world at an intellectual festival of peaceful industry,
suggested and provided by the Consort of our beloved
Queen, seconded by ourselves—a festival such as the
world never before has seen. Mr. Cole was very
loudly and generally applauded on resuming his seat.
Mr. PRESCOTT, the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, proposed a resolution tendering the thanks of the
meeting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert for his
proposition of establishing an exhibition like the ono
suggested, and offering their cooperation in carrying it
out. He thought the exhibition would not only be pro-
ductive of the greatest good to this country, but to every
nation which might send specimens for exhibition. The
exhibition wculd engender a feeling of industrious
rivalry among all nations.
Mr. R. C. DILLON seconded the motion, which was
carried.

Mr. LlustE, M.P., proposed the next resolution, which
was in effect that the meeting was of opinion that the
funds necessary for the exhibition should be raised by
subscription, end should not be taken out of the taxes
of the couetry. Ho strongly deprecated any Govern-
ment aid.

Mr. Alderman SALOMONS seconded the motion, which
wati agreed to. _

A rote of thanks to the Chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

SUPPOSED CASE OF CATALEPSY.
BRISTOL, OCT. 15.—A most extraordinary instance,
as connected with the present visitation of cholera,
has just occurred here, and which, however the in-
vestigation to be instituted may ultimately end, can-
not fail of proving of the greatest interest to scientific
men and the public generally. On Friday morning,
at half-past nine o'clock, Mr. Byroa Blythe, residing
at Orchard-street, in this city, son of a gentleman of
independent property residing at London, and ne-
phew of Mr. Blythe, of the firm of Blythe and Green,
the celebrated shipowners, of London,was apparently
taken with cholera, and the disease, in spite of medi-
cal aid, soon assumed a most alarming appearance,
and notwithstanding the unremitting attentions of
Dr. Green, Dr. Wallis, and Mr. Kelson, he gradually
sank, and about half-past two o'clock on Saturday
morning it was supposed that he had expired. When
Dr. Green left him late on Friday night he considered
that there were exhibited evident symptoms of his
rallying, and at the early hour of six o'clock on Satur-
day morning he got up for the purpose of visiting him.
On his way he wus met by a person who told him that
Mr. Blythe was dead, but that if he wished he could
see the body. Dr. Green was rather surprised at the
suddenness of the occurrence, and on examining the
body he found that it was still warm. He, however,
at the time did not think much of this, and gave a
certificate that the supposed deceased had died from
the effect of malignant cholera. He added that he
would call on the following morning. lie did so, and
found that in the interim the body had been screwed
down, but as the carpenter was present he insisted
upon having him unscrewed. The bcdy was covered
with sawdust, ou the removal of which there were no
traces of decomposition, and it was still warm. Dr.
Green accordingly ordered that the body should not
be, interred till he had again seen it, and he proceeded
to Dr. Wallis and Mr. Kelson, and informed them of
the circumstances of the case. All the medical gen-
tlemen again saw the body at nine o'clock on Sunday
morning, and appointed another meeting for twelve
o'clock, in the meantime directing that the funeral
should nottake place. At that time they were accom-
panied by Dr. Gillow, of Clifton, and Mr. James
Ford, merchant, of this city, with whom the
deceased had been placed for instruction. Mr.
Go] e, the celebrated galvanist, was like wise
present. The body was still warm, and they
accordingly resolved to make some experiments
upon it. They first injected the veins with warm salt
and water, but without producing any effect. They
then subjected the body to powerful galvanic shocks,
which bad the effect of changing the colour and ren-
dering the hands more supple. It likewise produced
a frothing at the mouth, but there were no other per-
ceptible signs of life. The body was then ordered to
be laid out in the usual manner out of a coffin, and
without any sawdust or anything about it. After
lying the whole of the night up to the hour at which
I write (five p.m.), this day (Monday), the extraor-
dinary appearance of warmth still remains, and, cone
trary to the ordinary appearance of a body deceased
of cholera, there are not as yet any signs of decompo-
sition. The body will be removed this evening to the
Cholera Hospital, at St. Peter's, when some further
experiments will be instituted. It is a somewhat sin-
gular fact that about a fortnight since the deceased, if
deceased he be, in conversation with the landlord of
his house, said, " that if he died of cholera he should
like to be stabbed in the heart, so that he might be
certain not to be buried alive." This case exhibits
perhaps some of the most singular phenomena on re-
cord, and the results are looked forward to here with
the highest interest. A srecial messenger was dis-
patched to London to acquaint the relatives of Mr.
Blythe with his supposed death, and they have since
arrived at Bristol.
BRISTOL, OCT. 17.—A1l doubts as to the fate of
the unfortunate young man, Mr. Byron Blythe, are
now set at rest, decomposition having set in. To the
surviving relatives it must be in the highest degree
satisfactory to know, not only that the utmost medi
cal skill of Bristol Las been employed, if it were pos-
sible, to preserve the vital spark. By direction of
the coroner, at the request of the friends of the de-
ceased, an inquiry into the circumstances of the case
was commenced this day at the Albion Tavern,
Princes-street. No evidence was taken, but after the
jury had viewed the body, the inquest was adjourned
for some days. For the convenience of inspection,
the body had been removed to Less is's stables,
Middle-avenue, Queen- square, leading to Princes-
street, and on viewing the body, which was laid in a
coffin dressed in the cereclothes, the head and face
were found to exhibit signs of decomposition ; the
arms also were quite blue, and the body presented
traces of decomposition. The undertaker, who was
present, by the direction of the coroner, ripped up the
cereclothes, so that the arms might be distinctly vi-
sible. The body will be interred to-day in the ce-
metery. As some valuable medical testimony will be
adduced at the approaching inquest, it would be pre-
mature to enter into any; explanation of the causes
of the somewhat singular phenomena which have
been exhibited in this case. It is stated that a
post mortem examination will be made by four me-
dical gentlemen prior to the interment.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Idanager,,Old Brompton.
. • THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE TAMING OE THE SHREW. Petruclo,
Mr. Webster ; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone; Katherina, Mrs. Nisbett ;
Blanca, Miss Jane Mordaunt.
After which the successful and laughable Farce, called an
ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone; Sinful
Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
To conclude with the Farce of SEPARATE MAINTENANCE.
Mr. Pennipother, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs:Perualpother, Mrs. Keeley ; Jane
B rig r, Miss P. Morton.
Due notice will be given of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN.
The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The
Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste.
To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S
SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks,
Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F.
Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks.
After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr.
Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs.
Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews.
To conclude with THE TURNPIKE-GATE.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame \rade*.
tole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new comic drama, called A LADY IN DIF-
FICULTIES.
To be followed by THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT.
To con' lude with USED UP
8,0 in whi
43. ;ch Mrs
Pit, . Hamby will appear.
Dress boxes, hs. ; Upper xes, 23. ; is. NO
Ilial=uri,e to any part of the house.
All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 15,
New Bond-street.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed the celebrated Opera of DON GIOVANNI.
After which, a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST
NIGHT.
To concludesvith a new farce called THE MAJOR'S DAUGHTER

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
U ider the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highiese
Prince Albert, &c.
Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet,
which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and pron.unced
by the public press to be the most gorgeous hippo-dramatic piece
ever produced at the Amphitheatre.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian gpectacle, entitled
THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear.
To be kollowed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
C ItCLE. by the Brat Equestrian talent of the day.
To conclude with the favourite Farce of THE WEAVER OF
LYONS

Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tn. Day —Morning, 541 min. after 2 1 Evening. 15 min. after 3
o-Nfoasow—Ntornlng, 31 min. after 2 I Evening, 48 min. after 3

THE WEATHER.—Star OFFICE, OCT. 18.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 60; Noon, 6

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with every appearance of fine weather.
WIND S.W.—very mild sunshiny weather.

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