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or the truthfulness of the anatomical details, the
nervous energy with which the bound of the wild
beast is indicated, or the mingled expression of pain,
horror, and almost paralyzed astonishment thrown
into the features of the horse. Even to the muscles
in thel toes of the Amazon, tense with the vigour of
determination, to the veins which have started on the
hind legs of the animal she is riding, and to the
bristling tail and the distorted backbone of the
tiger— the whole production is one of extraordinary
power and of matchless animation. Hard by the Amazon
may also be observed the gigantic lion in bronze stealing
on as if with a tread of satin, and yet of the most
preternatural dimensions, and the sublime conquest of
the Devil by Saint MICHAEL, the Archangel, with
an appearance imparted to the visage of the fiend,
truly satanic in its diabolical agony. Scattered
around such emanations of artistic genius as these
will be seen squandered upon the counters of the
compartments, silks, and velvets, and mosaics, and
jew ellery, and toys, and sweetmeats, and ploughs,
and steam-engines, and watches, and vestments for
the priesthood, and implements for the agriculturist,
looms for the manufacturer; and organs for the
musicians, objects of utility and objects of luxury,
clothing and provisions, materials for the use of the
wealthy and the indigent, articles employed by the
savage habitant of the wilderness and by the pam-
pered child of civilization. Such are the marvels of
human industry collected together in the Crystal
Palace for the purposes of a really international
Exhibition ; such are the wonders which have
been contributed from all parts of the earth
to swell the pomp of this unprecedented display ;
such is the various and surprising accumula-
tion of the industrial achievements of mankind
which the Queen of ENGLAND will solemnly inau-
gurate to-morrow with civil, military, and religious
ceremonials. In anticipating from this Exposition of
Art and Industry the conferrence of a new glory to
the peaceful reig❑ of VICTORIA we are, therefore, as-
suredly indulging in no idle or ridiculous day-dream ;
we are merely looking forward to the inevitable con-
sequences of the moment when the completion of the
ceremony of inauguration shall be announced by the
firing of cannon and the flourish of trumpets—the
exciting of a new and ennobling emulation among the
peeples of the earth, and the welding of another and
more golden link of amity than has ever yet been
fabricated between the most powerful and civilized
races of Christendom.

The Protectionist banquet at Edinburgh has been
followed by another grand demonstration in the me-
tropolis, intended, we suppose, as THE GRAND DE-
MONSTRATION of the season. The worthy agricultu-
rists mustered strong on the occasion. The Theatre
Royal, Drury-lane, had been secured, but it proved
not sufficiently capacious. After a time a diversion
was rendered necessary, and many of the auditory
were drawn off to St. Martin's Hall by the attrac-
tions of the Earl STANHOPE, Mr. G. F.
YOUNG, Mr. BALL, and some other well-
known advocates of a bread tax, who
got up a supplemental meeting, at which the
torrents of superfluous eloquence found vent, and the
ball was kept up, with the assistance of Mr. Baosi-
TERRE O'BRIEN and a party of Chartists, who de-
clared themselves specially invited, until five o'clock
in the evening. A dinner at the Freemasons' Hall
subsequently followed, under the presidency of the
übiquitous Mr. G. F. YOUNG, who certainly had no
sinecure on the occasion, having spoken both at
Drury-lane and St. Martin's Hall, and filled the
chief part in the postprandial entertainments.
Many causes combined to give a crowded audience
within the walls of Old Drury. Parliament being
assembled, the Members of both Houses were on the
spot to take part in the proceedings. The farmers
were easily induced to attend in order to see and hear
the great guns of monopoly, and monster excursion
trains were started from various parts of the country,
in order to afford the indulgence on cheap and
economical terms. The approaching opening of the
Great Exhibition, the anxiety to obtain a view of the
Crystal Palace, and the possibility of achieving a
double object, or in the homely phraseology, of
" killing two birds with ene stone," exercised an ad-
ditional influence. If we add that many foreigners
were drawn by curiosity to witness a public meeting
in England, and that Chartists and others having no
connexion with agriculture were present, we ca❑
easily account for the numerous attendance, without
discovering any very extraordinary devotion to the
cause, in honour whereof they had assembled together.
It might, too, be considered as something in the
nature of a dying effort. Lord STANLEY had com-
pletely failed in his attempt to form a Ministry when
the unlocked for opportunity offered. He had not
rollovers, with whom he could consent to act, suffi-
cient to form a Cabinet; and in the explanations which
he afforded to the House of Peers as to the causes of
his failure he distinctly intimated that if a
majority of Protectionists were not returned at the
next general election, he would consider the matter
as un fait accompli, and the question set at rest for
ever. If something decisive were not accomplished
speedily they might relinquish their exertions, and be
compelled to resort to improved modes of cultivation,
a large reduction in the quantity of game that now
so deeply injures the farmers, and possibly a consider-
able reduction of rents, in order that they might be
enabled to meet competition by increased produce.
Under such circumstances, it is by no means singular
that some 17 or 18 Peers, and three times that num-
ber of Members of the House of Commons, should be
collected together, and that what the Hon. Member
for Buckinghamshire has termed, the " territorial
Aristocracy," the burley yeomen and discontented
Chartists, should have sufficed to fill up the theatre.
Indeed, it is only surprising that there were not a
more numerous body of legislators in attendance to
proclaim their allegiance to the banner under which
they hope (vain anticipation) to win their way to
place and power, and once more to taste the sweets of
office and the dispensation of patronage, through the
aid of that amiable personage the Treasury whipper-in.
The absence of the recognized leaders in the Lords
and Commons, of Lord STANLEY and Mr. DISRAELI,
and, with few exceptions, of all those likely to be in-
vited to take part in the formation ofa new Adminis-
tration, if the obstinacy and incapacity of Sir
CHARLES WOOD should again drive his colleagues
into opposition, had rather an ominous appearance.
Not all those who were present could compensate for
the names that were wanting. The play was per-
formed, but the principal characters were omitted. It
seemed to afford an indication that even if
STANLEY replaced RUSSELL, and DISRAELI were
leader in the Commons, no effort would
be made to revive the extinct corn-laws—
a Quixotic attempt that must inevitably be followed
by such unequivocal expressions of public feeling as
would hurl any Ministry from office that pursued so
insane a policy.

The speeches were, with one exception, of the
ordinary prosaic character—statements of the ruin
occasioned by the defection of former friends, and the
determination of the sturdy bucolics to enforce re-
dress. Lord WINCHILSEA vigorously assailed Sir
JAMES GRAHAM and the Peelites, and accused the
Right Hon. Baronet of making the most revolutionary
speech he had ever heard. He also lamented the
weakness (!) of Sir R. PEEL, in 1829 and 1849, to
which he ascribed the concessions made in the pass-
ing of Roman Catholic Emancipation, and the abo-
lition of the sliding scale. Mr. G. W. DAwsoN
spoke until he was stopped by the palpable impa-
tience of the assembly, who, after having heard the
really eloquent address of Mr. BUTT, were not dis •
posed to afford too much time to his successors. Mr.
LONG, Mr. GEORGE GAME DAT, Mr. BELL, Mr.
WORSLEY, Colonel KINLOCH, Lord BERNERS, Sir J.
MACKENZIE,' and a Mr. READ, who described
blismAAseclf as a London baker, spoke in turn,
but their orations proceeded in the humdrum
track, and do not demand any particular notice. Mr.
The Honourablee '9 was the Magnus Apollo of the
meeting, the only one that did any thing to redeem it
from the imputation of the most leaden dulness.
And
Learnedhs iappearaGneenetloenmtahne
plat
manifestly a great catch. His speech was
anxiously anticipated, and
form was greeted with enthusiastic applause, or, as
the Protectionist organ describes it, "with several
boisterous and prolonged rounds of cheering." We
do not feel so much surprised at the cordial reception
afforded to one of the rising hopes of the party—a
party that suffers so severely from a want
of officers,
_as that a man of his unquestionable talents,

and strong reasoning powers, should be so grievously
mistaken in the conclusions he has arrived at. Mr.
BUTT very naturally looked to the condition of Ire-
land, the country i❑ which he has resided, and with
which he is best acquainted, as furnishing the strongest
arguments against the new commercial policy. Ac-
cording to the Learned Gentleman, all the evils
under which the sister kingdom has groaned during
the last five years are ascribable to free trade, and
free trade alone. The repeated failures of the potato
crop, and the consequent famine and pestilence
occasioned in that unhappy land, had nothing to say
thereto the unnatural contraction of the currency, that
reduced the circulating medium of eight millions of
people to under 4,000,0001. sterling, produced no
effect. The new poor-law, that for the first
time made the poverty of the country a charge
upon its property, had no operation—all was to be
attributed to free-trade ; that was the bugbear with
which the isle was to be frighted from
its propriety. We would, however, venture to
refer to a very able article which appeared in
the Dublin University Magazine, in 1847,
we believe the April number, from the pen of the
Learned Gentleman, in which he ascribes those very
evils which he has so graphically depicted to a
variety of other causes, which will more fully
account for them than the abolition of the
corn.tax. 'We do not desire to be understood
as charging Mr. BUTT with inconsistency, on the
contrary, we believe that he has always been a staunch
Protectionist, but it certainly appears rather too bad
to place every mischief that has arisen from a defective
system of currency—from the entails on land, and the
extravagance of former proprietors, and, above all ,from
the destruction for several successive years of the chief
food of nine-tenths of the population—on poor free
trade. The temptation, however, was irresistible.
The Learned Gentleman was too practised an advo-
cate not to press every possible argument into the
service on the question under discussion at the
moment.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Great preparations are making for the celebration
of the 4th May, the anniversary of the Republic, and
the reactionaries are resorting to their old tactics of
spreading reports of intended insurrections, &c,, but
the Republicans " bide their time," and

will not rise,
In spite of their prayers or their prophecies."
The strength of the Republicans lies in the strict
observance of the Constitution, and they leave
it to
their adversaries to take the initiative of violating it
if they dare.
On the subject of these attempts of the police
to get up a sham &mute on the 4th May, in order to
afford the authorities an excuse for perpetrating a
coup d itat, the National observes—
" The reactionists affect to be uneasy for the 4th of
May. Circulars have been sent to the departments, re-
commending vigour and energy to all friends. of order,
and to hold themselves prepared for the projects of the
republicans. The chiefs of the reactionists know as well
as we what they ought to think of these pretended pro-
jects; they know that the republicans have no desire to
afford a pretext for new compressions, and for the main-
tenance of the law of May 31. But in despair of being
able to profit by acts of imprudence, which are impos-
sible, the reactionists want to boast afterwards of having
saved society by their foresight, zeal, and firmness. There
is not a single man of the republican party who thinks
of disturbing by inopportune manifestations the success
of the day of May 13, 1852. We have no need either
of exhortations or of councils, to remind our friends
of the necessity of circumspection and prudence. Re-
commendations have been sent to us, praying us to ad-
vise calm; but we shall take good care not to make our-
selves ridiculous by doing anything of the kind, or of
giving the reactionists this argument for the day after
the fire ' The Democratic journals were uneasy; they
recommended tranquillity; therefore, there was some-
thing brewing; and consequently we have saved society.'
Next Sunday, the people will have no need of your pre-
cautions and counsels to fife with calm the anniversary of
May 4, 1848—the anniversary of that day, when on the
threshold of the Legislative Assembly, then, when the
press and the tribune were free, not one of these ex-
Constituents, whom we see at present conspiring for the
different pretenders, dared to confess their faith;
the anniversary of that day on which all so-
lemnly acclaimed the Republic, which they
betrayed the day after. The people cele-
brated in a worthy manner the 24th of February, the
date which calls to mind the Republic, founded by their
power; it will celebrate just as worthily, on the 4th cf
May, the Republic hypocritically acclaimed by your
weakness. But noise or disturbance! Why should
there be either? To retard without doubt the victorious
date of May 13, 1852? You shall not have either noise
or disturbance. M. Culler may, on that day, give leave
of absence to his sergeants and spies; their muskets may
remain quiet on their racks, for the 130,000 electors who
sent citizens Sue, de Flotte, Carnet, and Vidal, to the
Assembly, will be officers of peace, who have their eye
onsseinly
conspiratorsb and favourers of civil war. Teat is a
police which neither tolerates nor protects blows or vio
leuce to the people, nor unconstitutional cries; it will be
on the watch on Sunday next, as it will be on every day
up to the moment when the electoral urn will invite all
citizens to fulfil the duties which the Constitution im-
poses on them.
The !eioniteur contains a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the R. public, founded on a report from the Mi-
various modifications in the
nister of War, making
existing laws relative to grants of land in Algeria.
The Committee charged to examine the proposition
of M. DESMOUSSEAUX DE GIVRE, relative to taking
up petitions to the Assembly, assembled on Monday
to name its reporter, but this nomination has been
postponed to another sitting, all the Members of the
Committee not having agreed as to the terms in which
the proposition ought to be drawn up, the wording
of M. DESMOUSSEAUZ. DE GIVRE appearing to many
of them to
is be too vague and indefinite. As it now
stands it as follows :—" No petition brought to the
Assembly by a body of people shall be received or
laid on the bureau of the Chamber."
It is said that General LAIIITTE will be appointed
the new Governor of Algeria.
We read in the Illessager of yesterday evening:-
4, A Council of Ministers was held this morning at
the Elysrhe ee, at which M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Tpre-
sided.
principal subject discussed was the move-
ment for petitions in the departments in favour of a
revision of the Constitution. 'The Council, on the pro-
position of the Minister of the Interior, engaged that it
will not assume any initiative on this subject, but leave
all action to the Assembly and the country."
The Committee of the Assembly to which the Mi-
nisterial proposition for an additional grant to Mar-
shal JEROME BONAPARTE was referred has unani-
mously. determined to recommend the rejection of the
proposition.

_
There was a considerable amount of business
transacted at the Bourse, and the fluctuations in the
the price of the Government Stock were remarkable.
The Five per Cents. opened at 90f. 90c., fell to 90f.
30c., rose subsequently to 91f. 10c., and closed at 90f.
95c. The Three per Cents. closed at 56f. 20c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 8201.; Great Northern, 471 f.
25c. ; Avignon, 202 f. 50c.•' Vierzon, 4201.; Basle, 1361.
25c. ; Bourdeaux, 400 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 363 t.
75c.; Tours and Nantes 2731. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9A—Namur and Liege, 7'74
Northern of France, WA—Orleans and Bordeaux, 33/4—
Paris and &nen, 244 Paris and Strasbourg, 10A—
Rouen and Havre, 10—Sambre and Meuse, 3%.

man Porte in favour of this aon-in• law of the SuL
TAN. Letters from Bucharest renew the assurance
that the Russian troops will take their departure on
the 13th inst."

A letter from Smyrna, of the 12th, says :—" The
town of Rhodes was but little affected by the shocks
of earthquake which have lately taken place. They
still continue at Macri, and a volcano has been formed
near Port Leviral. Admiral OMER PACHA is to pro-
ceed to Macri to examine the damage done. A part
of the front of the palace, which goes back to the
times of the chevaliers of Rhodes, bag fallen down."

Advices from Bihacs are of the 17th inst.

The SULTAN'S troops have bombarded that fortress
and burned its suburbs. They have, after an engage-
ment with the insurgents, succeeded in occupying the
right bank of the Hung river.

The insurgent garrison of Bihacs has been rein-
forced by detachments from the Krania.

ITALY.

The Opinione of Turin states, from Venice, that
French Legitimists continue to flock to that city, to
pay homage to the Duke of BORDEAUX.
A letter from Rome, in the Venice Gazette, an-
nounces that the French General Visco is shortly
expected there to re-organize the Pontifical army.
His plan consists in forming the chief nucleus of Bel-
gians instead of Irish. Signor CORRADO POLITI, a
member of the late Constituent Assembly of Rome,
was condemned to death at Ancona on the 15th; but
it is believed the sentence will be commuted.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
MONK') V. TAYLOR.
The arguments in this part-heard appeal from Vice-
Chancellor Wigram, which was opened yesterday, were
resumed this morning, and occupied his Lordship the
whole of the day.

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