The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER tiok the Choir shortly before Twelve
o'clock.

HARWICH ELECTION COMMITTEE.
The Committee to consider the petition against the
return for Harwich was appointed.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed.—

Derby and Ashborne *Road.
DLffield and Sbcffivld Turnpike Road

Regent's Canal Company.
The Report on the Ministers' Widows and Orphans'
Fund of the Free Church of Scotland Bill was con-
sidertd and agreed to.
PETITIONS.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition against Lord
Melgunc's School Bill.
Several petitions were presented against the Papal
aggre
Mr. HENRY presented several petitions freln Man-
chester, Bury, and other paces in Lancashire in favour
of secuiar education.
Mr. HEADLAM presented a petition from Lord
Southampton mid another person against the Copyheld
Tenure Bill.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Bermondsey
against the Sundsy Trading
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House, at its
rising. should adjourn tit :ix o'clock to-morrow evening.,
to enable M,:rcbers to have an opportunity of being pre-
sent at the opening of the Great Exhibition.
Sir H. H. INGLIS thought it would be more gracious
on such an occasion, to make tomorrow a whole holiday,
and to adjourn till Friday. The Hon. Baronet moved
as an amendment, that the House should adjourn till
four o'clock on Friday evening.
Mr. FOX MAULE considered that it would be in-
convenient to public business to adjourn over to morrow,
as the general Elections Committee had been appointed to
be sworn tomorrow, and according to the Act of
Parliament, they could not be sworn after seven o'clock
in the evening.
Mr. BANKES supported the amendment. The next
meeting of the House, he thought, would satisfy the pro-
visions of the Act, with regard to the swearing of the
Committee.

Lord J. RUSSELL said, as the Exhibition would not
be open after six o'clock, Members would be able to
be there at the hour when the House assembled; he
could not, therefore, seo that the sitting of the House
would prevent their being at the opening ceremony.
Mr. TRELAWNEY supported the motion.

The House then divided, when there appeared—

For the motion .
For the amendment .
Majority
ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION.
The House having gone into Committee upon this
election,
Lord J. RUSSELL moved, in accordance with what
he stated yesterday, that an humble address should be
presented to her Majesty praying that a Royal proclama-
tion should be immediately issued, with such reward as
her Majesty might think proper, for the discovery, ap-
prehension, and detention of John Seeley Waggett, J.
Hayward, and other persons.
Mr. BANKES supported the motion, and in doing so
complained of the course which had been pursued by the
Committee.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL defended the pro-
ceedings of the Committee, which he contended was the
best tribunal to determine the question which was re-
ferred to them.

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Mr. STUART considered that the strongest objec-
tion which could be found to the proceedings of the
Committee was that they had confirmed the return of
the sitting Member without a satisfactory explanation
of the abstraction of witnesses by the agents of the sitting
Member.

Mr. E. ELLICE defended the proceedings of the
Committee.

Mr. HUME thought that the present occasion ought
to furnish a lesson to the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government to hasten on with his measure of Parlia-
mentary reform, and to put an end to the system of
bribery which prevailed in almost all small boroughs, by
increasing the constituency.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought the Hon. Member
had certainly wandered further from the question than
say one else, when he raised the general question of
Parliamentary reform. He certainly did not agree
with him that a large constituency prevented bribery,
but as far as his own experience went—(Hear, hear)—
he thought that a large constituency was no purer than
a small one.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
Yesterday the excitement within and around the
Crystal Palace was immense. There was en overwhelm-
ing rush of exhibi ors into the interior until two o'clock,
when means were taken to check the number of admis-
sienti. Matters were in a still worse state at the office
for the sale of season tieketi, which remained for seve-
ral hoofs in a state of permanent blockade. The gather-
ing excitement is an unmistakeable warning to the Ex-
ecutive Committee and to the police authorities to adopt
every precaution for the public safety in their arrange-
ments with reference to the great event of Thursday.
The former body evince a proper anxiety on this sub•
ject by issuing the following circular, which we ear-
nestly recommend to the attention of all whom it may
concern:—

" OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION.

"1. Visitors are informed that there are numerous
entrances into the building on all sides, and they are
requested not to assemble in crowds at any one of than].
2. The issue of tickets having been limited, there is
ample room for every person to obtain a good view of
the procs,ion along the nave, and seats have been pro-
vidi-d fix ladi s in the nave and galleries.
" 3. The pat:o hale orders to enforce the following
rules:—‘ To reserve the seats for htdie,a until haifipast
eleven; to prevent any person from crossing any boun-
dary line; w prevent ell walking about during the ce-
remony; to prevent any person from standing on any
counter; to trivent all crow.dug in any part of the
building; to keep the nave of the building quite clear at
all times till the ceremony is over; to see that every per-
son takes his seat in that part of the building for which
he has a card.'
" By order of the Executive Committee,
" M. DIGBY WYATT."

To-day no exhibitors will be admitted unless they
present themselves before eight o'clock in the morning,
and the building will be entirely cleared early in the af-
ternoon, in order that the preparations connected with
her Msje,ty's reception may be completed.
Yesterday in the department of machinery in motion,
after several preliminary trial, the steam was turned
into the building, and the whole of the engines now in
position were put in motion; the result was extremely
satisfactory; the more so as considerable anxiety
has been telt as to the practicability of conveying
the steam through so great a length of pipe
without destroying its power by condensation. The
entire range of steam-pipe, including the ramifications to
the various engines, is nearly 3,000 feet, which is, pro-
bably, a greater length than hss ever yet been succ,ess-
fully applied. The steam is supplied from five boilers,
placed in an isolated building at the west end of the Ex-
hibition. Four of these boilers are multitubular, upon a
somewhat novel construction, by Messrs. W. G. Arm-
strong and Co., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the fifth is
a double-furnace boiler, by Messrs. Galloway, of Man-
chester. These boilers collectively are equal to 150-
horse power, and the steam is carried from them into
the building by a pipe of nine inches diameter, thickly
coated with felt. This pipe, which may be compared to
the main artery of a human body, gradually diminishes
in size as it extends through the building, and along its
entire range receivers of a peculiar construction are placed,
which arrest the water produced by condensation, and
suffer the pure steam to flow onwards. After passing
through the engines the exhausted steam enters another
system of pipes, by which it isconveyed into a tunnel out-
side of the building, and both systems of pipes are placed
beneath the floor, where they are entirely out of sight.
The whole arrangements of the steam pipes, with their
connected apparatus, have been carried out by Messrs.
W. G. Armstrong and Co., under the direction of Mr.
W. Cubist, one of the Royal Commissioners, who more
immediately presides over the mechanical department,
and of Mr. Hensmann, the superintendent of that class.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the Exhibition
yesterday at an early hour, and remained for a long
time examining with interest the collections in the dif-
ferent compartments.
There was a violent hailstorm during the day, the
sound of which, as it descended upon the glass ro9f,
produced a very singular effect, but not a pane was in-
jured by it.
We are glad to announce the return to the building
of Mr. Henderson, of the firm of Fox and Henderson,
who for some time past has been so seriously indis-
posed. His recovery will enable him, we trust, to take
part in the procession on Thursday.

(From the Times.)
As Mr. Alison tells a story better than he makes a
speech, most readers will remember his description of
Paris in 1814, when the termination of a twenty years'
contest had concentrated the warriors and the gazers of
the world in the streets of the French capital. There
were Calmucks and Bashkirs from the borders of Asia,
still carrying bows and arrows, and clustering in groups
aloof from the soldiers of the west. There were Cos-
sacks from the banks of the Don, fondling steeds nearly
as human as themselves, and storing under their capa-
cious saddles the plunder gathered between the Niemen
and the Rhine. There were old Russians of Kutusoff's
army, boyish conscripts from exhausted Austria, rugged
Landwebr from Prussia, Swedes under French leaders,
Belgians and Bavarians under the colours of the allies,
and a sprinkling of English uniforms to enliven the mass.
The whole world appeared collected before the eyes of
the young historian. As he walked along the Champs
Elysees he listened to Asiatic carols issuing from sheep-
skin tents, while giotrmquo uoatumca and barbarous
clamours arrested his notice at every turning of the

Faubourgs.
He may now, if he can shake off the bewildering
fumes of Protectionist banquets, see a sight not very dif-
ferent in the capital of his own country. We verily
believe that no city in the world ever attracted such a
motley assemblage as London at this present season.
Substituting the guise of peace for the n,stumes of war,
we encounter battalions of all races at every step. What
our neighbours team a " fusion" seems absolutely com-
plete, and on an European scale. From Piccadilly to
St. Paul's there pours one continuous stream of bearded
visages, pleasantly diversified by peculiarities of cheek-
bones and headgear. Even the accompaniment of strange
music is not a anting, and the attentive listener may
catch the national airs of most civilized communities as
he walks along the Strand. The place seems suddenly
transformed into the capital of the universe, our own
share in the muster being none of the largest. We ap-
pear, in fact, to have become the least part of ourselves
already. To detect a real English face, one has to turn
to a cabstand, and feelings of sympathy and compatriot-
ism are positively excited by the individual on the box.
Within this week twice as many Frenchmen will be
landed in England as Napoleon ever intended to bring
here. The Grand Army was never likely to have ex-
ceeded 150,000 on the shores of Kent, whereas 270,000
passports are said to have been issued to the depart-
ments alone, Paris being a separate contributor. It is
said too, and from the concurrence of testimony we are
inclined to credit the statement, that the attraction of
the World's Fair increases instead of diminishing with
the distance. Germany is described as being more ex-
cited than France. and Russia than Germany. Turkey
has already contributed the most numerous of the offi-
cial missions, and as soon as the ice breaks in the
White Sea (which, we fear, will not be very quickly with
such winds as these), we are to receive such a seaborne
caravan from Eastern Siberia., that an adventurous
American might cross from California by way of Beh-
ring's Straits. As to our own people, the northern and
western shores are to be emptied of their popula-
tion ; and, if there lives anywhere a being indifferent to
the Great Exhibition, he is to be found, we are sure, in
Pimlico or Knightsbridge.
" A rush of people to the capital," said Swift, is like
a conflux of animal spirits to the heart—a sign that the
constitution is in danger." In 1710, perhaps, it might
have been so, but we have now outlived our national
climacteric, and can indulge our fancies with impunity.
After all, this enormous gathering is rather a revival of
old fashions than a new design. Our insular isolation is
the characteristic of comparatively modern history.
When Christendom had but one creed, and Europe but
one empire, such congregations were far from uncom-
mon. Gibbon, in his sententious way, talks of " piracy
and pilgrimage" as fusing all the nations of the earth, and
the remark is substantially true. More Englishmen had
seen Rome in the 15th century than in the 18th, the con-
quest of Britain by Normans alternated with the conquest
of Normandy by Britons,and all ideas were prosecuted in
a far more cosmopolitan spirit than distinguished later
generations. The ancient cathedrals of the land which
our visitors will look at were built mostly by German or
Italian Freemasons, with French stone, and were as
often filled with graduates from Paris and Bologna as
from Oxford and Cambridge. Our population itself is a
compound of half-a-de zen races, and yet by a strange
contradiction K e no sooner became an adult nation than
we ri pudiated our kinspeople, and shut ourselves up
from the world. Our Queen was the first English Sove-
reign since Henry VIII. who ever shook hands with her
next-door Monarch; and she is now the first to collect
such a company as might have been invited by Richard
Cceur de Lion or Edward 111.
There is no denying, however, that we shall feel our-
selves " pretty full," and indeed we look upon the festival
as a curious trial of the capacities of modern ingenuity.
Nothing in the Crystal Palace will be so signal a monu-
ment of popular industry as the entertainment itself.
London is the most populous city in the world, even
taken alone. Suburbs included, we muster 2,500:000
souls. It is not perhaps too much to expect that, first and
last, as many more will come up from the country. This
makes 5,000,000, an equivalent to the entire population
of England but a few generations ago. Then come our
visitors—a legion whereof the 300,000 Frenchmen
already reported may be taken as the unit. Altogether,
the least we can expect is, that London, one day with
another, will always contain two persons for every one
of those usually present in the height of the season.
Now the height of the season, as many of our
readers know, seldom leaves much margin in the
way of elbow-room; in fact, it is hard enough to
get along whenever a fine day or a gala show brings the
multitude abroad. What are we to do when in every
street, in .every house, in every railway, in every
steamer, and in every " bus" two will stand for one?
how are ail the wants of all the company to be satisfied
together.
The vision is rether alarming perhaps at first, but,
like ether prospects, it dwindles in dimensions on a
closer view. If we do our best we shall not find much
difficulty in getting on. We have had good notice, and
are Quite prepared to be pleased. Our Visitors are ha-
bituated to such doings, though on a somewhat smaller
scale. They can peck themselves, as some of our
boarding-houses know, in small compass; they are Sc.
cie,tomed to public assemblies and to an every-day life
Of promenades, with a modest allowance of comforts at
home. They have a larger stock of civility than our-
selves, and carry it about them in a more negotiable
t,
form; they are more pliable, and less morose. If there
is a disagreeable passenger in an omnibus or in a steamer,
wea
even
e the r sorry to say, likely to be a foreigner. It
will neither be the Frenchman, nor the German, nor the
Dane, nor
urk,,who refuaes to give and take,
or to to contribute his share to the hilarity and goad
I:oeliDr, of the company. Xlioaabotantial part of the en"

tertainment we shall doubtless manage well enough. In
so far as concerns tough beef, heady b.er, and blazing
port, we shall he forthcoming with our dues, and the
good sense end steadiness of English efficial3 may he
securely relied on for preserving order without obtrusive-
ness o!' interference cr dictation. A good deal of the
rest depends upon ourselves and the weather. East
winds, it must be confessed, do not improve the national
temper, and showers that set a Frenchman dancing under
cover send an Englishman horns blaspheming in a cab.
But we must try this season whether we cannot be a
little better conditioned. The whole world is in our
streets, and it rests with us to show by our behaviour
that general good-fellowship and civility are not incom-
patible with free institutions, insular independence, and
just national pride.

MAY DAY ODE.
(From the Times.)
But yesterday a naked sod,
The dandies sneerz.d from Rotten-row,
And cantered o'er it to and fro;
And see, 'tig done!
As though 'twere by a wiz Ard's rod
A blazing- arc'•. ofinoid glass
Leaps like a fountain from the grass
To meet the sun!

A quiet green but fow days since
With cattle bruwsing in the shade,
And lo! lung lines of bright arcade
In order raised;
A palace as for fairy Prince,
A rare pavilion, such as man
Saw never, since mankind began
And built and glazed!

A peaceful place it was but now,
And lo! within its shining streets
A multitude of nations meets;
A countless throng,
I see beneath the crystal bow,
And Gaul and German, RUS3 and Turk,
Each with his native handiwork
And busy tongue.
I felt a thrill of love and awe
To mark the different garb of each,
The changing tongue, the various speech
Together bleat.
A thrill, methinks, like 'Otis who saw
" All people dwelling upon earth
" Praising our God with solemn mirth
" And one consent."
High Sovereign in your Royal state!
Captains and Chiefs and Councillors,
Before the lofty palace doors
Are open set,
Hush] ere you pass the shining gate;
Hush! ero the heaving curtain draws,
And let the Royal pageant pause
A moment yet.
People and Prince a silence keep!
Bow coronet and kingly crown,
Helmet and plume bow lowly down;
The while the priest
Before the splendid portal step,
While still the wondrous banquet stays,
From Heaven supreme a blessing prays
Upon the feast!
Then onwards let the triumph march;
Then let the loud artillery roll,
And trumpets ring and joy bells toll,
And pass the gate;
Pass underneath the shining arch
'Neath which the leafy elms are green—
Ascend unto your throne, 0 Queen,
And take your State!
Behold her in her Royal place:
A gentle lady—and the hand
That sways the sceptre of this land
How frail and weak!
Soft is the voice, and fair the face;
She breathes amen to prayer and hymn,
No wonder that her eyes are dim,
And pale her cheek.
This moment round her empire's shores
The winds of Austral winter sweep,
And thousands lie in midnight sleep
At rest to-day.
0! awful is that crown of yours,
Queen of innumerable realms,
Sitting beneath the budding elms
Of English May !
A wondrous sceptre 'tie to bear,
Strange mystery of God which set
Upon her brow yon coronet,—
The foremost crown
Of all the world on one so fair!
That chose her to it from her birth,
And bade the sons of all the earth
To her bow down.

The representatives of man •
Here from the far Antipodes
And from the subject Indian seas
In Congress meet;
From Afric and from Hindostan,
From Western continent and isle,
The envoys of her empire pile
Gifts at her feet.
Our brethren cross the Atlantic tides,
Loading the gallant decks which once
Reared a defiance to our guns
With peaceful store;
Symbol of peace, their vessel rides!
O'er English waves float Star and Stripe,
And firm their friendly anchors gripe
The father shore!
From Rhine and DAnube, Rhone and Seine,
As rivers from their sources gush
The swelling floods of nations rush,
And seaward pour:
From coast to coast in friendly chain,
With countless ships we bridge the straits
And angry Ocean separates
Europe no more.
From Mississippi and from Nile—
From Baltic, Ganges, Bosphorus,
In England's Ark assembled thus
Are friend and guest.
Look down the mighty sunlit aisle,
And see the sumptuous banquet set,
Tho brotherhood of nations met
Around the feast!

Along the dazzling colonnade,
Far as the straining eye can gaze,
Gleam cross and fountain, bell, and vase,
In vistas bright.
And statues fair of nymph and maid,
And steeds, and pards,.
and Amazons,
Writhing and grappling in the
bronze,'
In endless fight.
To deck the glorious roof and dome,
To make the Queen a canopy,
The peaceful hosts of industry
Their standards bear
You are the works of Brahmin loom *
On such a web of Persian thread
The desert Arab bows his head,
And cries his prayer.
Look yonder where the engines toil;
These England's arms of conquest are,
The trophies of her bloodless war:
Brave weapons these.
Victorious over wavo. and soil,
With these she sail:, she weaves, she tills
Pierces the everlasting hills, ,
And spans the seas.

The engine roars upon its race,
The shuttle whirrs along the woof,
The people bum from floor to rqof,
With Babel tongue.
The fountain in the basin plays,
The chanting organ echoes clear,
An awful chorus 'tis to hear,
A wondrous song!
Swell organ, swell your trumpet blast,
March, Queen and Royal pageant, march
By splernied aisle and springing arch
Of this fair Hall:
Aud see! above the fabric vast,
Gcd's boundless Heaven is bending blue,
God's peaceful Sun is beaming through
And shi over all.
W. M. THACKERAY.

April 29.

* The St. Lawrence.

MILITARY PREPARATIONS FOR THE GRAND Exni.
BITION.—For some time past the Duke of Wellington and
Sir George Grey have been making the necessary military
and police arrangements for the ensuing Grand Exhibition.
At the Cavalry Barracks, Knightsbridge, they have allotted
a certain portion of the building for the reception of the 2d
battalion of the Grenadier Guards. A portion of the tst bat-
talion of the Rifle Brigade (now quartered at Dover) will
march to Woolwich, and the other to the Tower of London,
where the necessary preparations have been made for them.
The Ist Royal Dragoons from Nottingham, and the Bth Hus-
sars from Brighton will be stationed in half billets at Hamp-
stead and Highgate. The 4th Light Dragoons, from Dublin,
will be quartered in the barracks at Uxbridge. The follow-
ing will be the stations of the cavalry :—lat Life Guards,
Regent's-park, and a portion of the Royal Horse Guards
(Blue, from Windsor); 2d Life Guards, Knightsbridge
Barracks, Hyde-park; 16th Lancers, Hounslow, and a
portion at Kensington Barracks; the 17th Lancers,
from Newbridge to Woolwich. Infantry-Ist battalion
Grenadier Guards, Windsor; 2d ditto, Knightsbridge;
3d ditto, St. George's Barracks, Trafalgar-square. Cold-
stream Guards-Ist battalion, Tower ;2d ditto, Wel-
lington Barracks, St. James's-park. Scots Fusilier Guards--
Ist battalion, Portman-street Barracks, Oxford-street; and
2d battalion, St. John's-wood Barracks. A strong rein-
forcem.-nt of artillery has already arrived at the Tower from
Woolwich. Several other regiments will in all probability be
quartered in the vicinity of the metropolis. The Chelsea
Out-Pensioners will be inspected to-morrow, and those who
volunteered their services on the,last pension day will receive
their equipments, muskets, bayonets, swords, &c., and will
be quartered at Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, and
other districts during the Exhibition. The number will ex-
ceed 3,000 men. With respect to the police regulations,
they could not have been better carried out than for the oc-
casion. The metropolitan police has been increased by 900
men, making an effective force of 5,700 constables, besides
superintendents, inspectors, and sergeants ; and of these, a
certain number of the most experienced officers have been
selected from the different divisions and formed into a regular
corps of reserve., who will do_ the special duty during the Ex-
hibition, as they are well acquainted with all characters.
The city police has also been increased by 150 men, making
a, force of 650 officers, besides inspectors, sergeants, &c.There will also be a selected number as a reserve and detec-
tive force.

Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which
sustains and finally conquers misfortune, and the ordeal re-
fines while it chastens.—E/iza Cool's Journal. •

A locomotive engine is said to be building in New
York for the Erie Railway, in which nothing but alcohol is
to be Rod fez beating gig beaern.