The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STATION OF THE LONDON AND
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Owing to the increase of
traflis at the new goods station of the London and North-
Western Railway, opposite the Victoria and Trafalgar Docks,
the sheds have been extended over the whole area of the
station towards Waterloo-road, and by this extension nearly
double the amount of covered room, where goods may be
deposited and secured from the weather, is made available.
As a goods station, the Victoria station is now the most ex-
tensive and best arranged in the kingdom.—Liverpool Albion
REUNION
DES ARTS.—The above society save its
third soiree last night, at the private rooms, 27, Queen Anne-
street, under the most distinguished patronage, to a select
and elegant company. The exquisite performance of the
most excellent vocal and instrumental music, by Miss La-
vinia, Miss Magner, Mr. Kiulemaik, Mr. Day, Mr. Witt,
GMerffe,
. riGoodban, Herr Schmidt, Herr Gollmick, and Herr
drew great applause from the crowded audience. In
the lower apartments, appropriated to pictures, promenade,
and refreshment, we noticed two medallions, half-size por-
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st_ yt . .
traits of Mr. and Mdme. Goffrie, cleverly executed in
plaister by Mr. Henry Saunders (native of Poland), which
were greatly admired. The good combination of music with
fine arts cannot but bid well to the succors
The admirable evening, which was prolonged to a late hour,
passed off to the great delight of the whole company.
THE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN LoVE-LANE.--
31r. Woodthorpe, the City surveyor, and several other
rtonight tuhtist,h society.
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commenced. The
out in 1k hat part of the building the disaster
gen-
tlemen, proceeded to the ruins last evening, in order to find
and rapidly communicated
commenced in the ground floor,
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result of their examination left no doubt that the flames
ever enveloped in obscurity
outbreak, however, is as much as
with the upper portion of the building. The cause of the
(lues-
the ward beadle it '
inquiries made by
I day), but from the .
The inquest on the four suff-rieirsbewilabl
doubtful whether any one 1,71
fearful
lbeetobetlhd
information as to the origin of the.catastrophe, Upon
• ' at Guy's Hospital it was ascertained that
making inquiries
frightfully cut, and injured the poor girl who was so
jumping out of a window, was going, on far more favourably
than was at one time expected. , he, however, sniffers most
acutely,
I - but nothing fatal is apprehended by the house
surgeon.
The New York intelligence this week is calculated
to operate very favourably as regards the prospects of trade
and the augmentation of our supply of bullion. It was be-
lieved that the to'al shipments during the week, including
the sum to be taken by the Pacific on the 10th of May, would
reach t 5 ~0001., of which the principal portion would be for
the sam and.rece iv This, h
during the same period from California,
and money, consequently. continued abundant, without any
anxiety as to the supply for the future.

On the 12th inst. DIED
, at Sudbury, Suffolk, aged 69, the Ray.
Peter and St.
1-I,ry Wilkinon, 'M.A., 4 t years perpetual curate of:St.
Gregory
Feli, Suxtowdbuiv,Suffolk vicar of the united
parishes of Walton and .

ondon s Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
No. 132, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tin counta, of
Middlesex., Tuesday, day 20, isola

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was the next witness called. She said, my tausband
worked at the building from the first, and he is o,tte that
is killed. I always took his dinner every day. 2be did
not say anything to me about the insecurity .of the
building. [Tais witness was asked several ,times
whether she had not remarked to her husband tbll
the place where he sat was not a 814
place to have his dinner, and he replied " No, alert w ,
be a grand smash here before long."] She hesitate!
answering for some time, but at length admitted that
her husband had said be knew there would be an actl;
dent before long, but she denied saying he saw or sold
2 I in the walls. _

3 A female friend of the last witness then stated that
Mrs. Harrigan had told her that her husband I Lad re'
marked to her that he raw cracks in the wall,: :and to
knew there would be a grand L%mash before long.
1 Michael O'CG:noor was the next witness—He said be
2 was on a ladder near the iron girder when it gave waY'
3 He saw it snap in half, and fall down with great violence'
(The inquest was proceeding when our report lest)

RAMBLES in the CRYSTAL PAL,ACB'
(THIS DAY.)
The receipts of yt:sterday, though not so great oa
the whole as on former days. :how but slight decrease
in the visitors. The fate of season tickets flais, °
,lightly, as may be anticlated henceforward each
452
Yesterday it amounted to 488/,, which, witbt a
8831.
taken at the doors, made up the total receipts DO' 2,8831.
The uncertain state of the weather keeps many aleafjer,
and no doubt induces many country visitors 1.0 is
starting for town until it becomes more settleii. It
calculated that 30,000 persons wore in the boi,"4l3„gd
yesterday, and we believe that to-day they will Refound
to have bet-fa equally numerous. The new forangin
meats for the prevention of crowding are being Put
force difftrtnt pasts of the building. The crowd
of visitors is kept in a regular and constant curreilt"
ittg in one direction, and no deviations against its c(ltrin"
are allowed by the attendant policemen. The system
has not come sufficiently into operation for us to Judge
of its fitness, but we hope that there will be no cco3sl°'
to carry it out so far as to bear the aspect of arbilrarls
interference. The idea of turning the Exhibition co for educational purposes developcs itself more favouYably.
The University of Oxford has taken it up, and issued
the following announcment:—
" Arrangernents having bean made for a visit en the
part of many members of the University to the Great t
Exhibition on Saturday next, the 24th inst •
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• y ba7ing been thought desirable that opportunities
be afforded to those who may wish to connect with
sTacii
a visit some general information on a few of the oTh'e
subjects suggested by the contents of the Exhibition: the
following lectures will be given at the hours and Pisc-,-
s
specified:—

" On Tuesday, the 20th instant, at three o'clock' i:
the theatre under the AJunolean Museum, a lectur
r, ill be given by Mr. Maskelyne, Deputy Beader in
Mineralogy, On the various ores of the Pree/os
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metals, with the modes of extracting them prac,,`;!„o.
by different nations, and the various methods of feta.°
ing them into works of use or art.'
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" On Thursday, at the same hour, in the lecture*.root
contiguous to the Botanic Garden, Dr. Daubeny, Pre.
fesor of Chemistry, will give a lecture On the Pr
ciples of the manufacture of glass and pottery.' ,
On Friday, at two o'clock, at the Geological ;bf
1-der scum in the Clarendon, Mr. Strickland, Deputy Re, in Geology, will deliver a lecture On the coal De
and iron manufactures of different countrief.'
"These lectures will he open to all members
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the
University and to friends accompanying them." We hope to see it acted upon more extensively. Urea
progress has been made, within the last few days,
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wards opening those portions of the ground-floor 8"
generics which as yet have been little visited, on acc°ll ,00
of their incomplete state. The southern galleries of
foreign department advance rapidly. A great portl°
of those arc filled by France; the Lyons manufacture,
d, (,ccupy the front rank, and, as far as yet displsie, excite great admiration. The stands are arranged in
A most tasteful and elegant manner; the many.colourr eatubrics, and the beautiful ribands and laces, beint./,' termingled with the most successful effect. Lower cluff,i
are the Austrian velvets and embroideries, which presro a most superb appearance, and furnish a most admirlwe contrast to the lighter productions hard by. The I,e; of the ground fLor is also getting pretty clear, and We
magnificent treasures in silver and gold work which
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each day unfolding thecaselVes in the French depart
meet have excited great admiration, and contributed le
allay the slight discontent which was at first felt at ,rl3, unfinished appearance of this region at the first opeu'rt of the building. The French fountain, which has beer
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erecting for some time, is nearly completed, and will all appearances form one of the wonders of the vital:,
end. Russia is almost entirely empty yet, her goods,
we uncerstand, not haring yet arrived. Persia isro
grossing rapidly, and our East Indian contributions a'"
almost in a state of completion.

ERYBODy. A Weekly Budget. No. I.
A comical little rival to our London Charivari, ap'
pears in a guise the most " motley" ever assumed by
te3 ter, that of—Everybody. Li the initial number beforef
us are several capital auguries of drollery, such as,
only partially realized, will secure to the conductors
no inconsiderable weed of popularity. As a rather
amusing specimen of the humour with which the
writers contrive to dilate upon even the most back'
neyed themes, take the following excerpt from
Everybody's Guide through London :
"Temple-bar is the western boundary of the City,
and was built from Wren's design, in 1670, and as the
heads of traitors used to be exhibited here, it may be
F aid that the execution was quite equal to the design.
The interior is leased from the City by Messrs. Child
the Bankers, who as they are the oldest in London, must
be considered tolerably old boys: the eldest partner 15
quite the Child of circumstances. Here are de-
posited ell their ledgers and , cash-books, so •that
they could give some very excellent accounts of
themselves. To show the power of the Lord Mayor the
ponderous gates of this civic barrier are always shut
upon the occasion of royal visits to the City, and
it is
only when the herald sounds a trumpet that the proces-
sion is allowed to pass, when it goes, like the trumpet,
two-to-two too. The Temple is so called from the Knights
Templars, but they have long since been superseded bythe
la wy ers,who baying here taken up their abode, supply from
their chambers some expensive information for the
people. Entering the Strand we have before us the
church of St. Clement Danes, rebuilt in 1682, by
William Pierce, who received the design from Wren, 3°
that Mr. Pierce himself may be thought to have been
little robbin' I On the right by the
pillars is the entrance
to Clement's Inn. Beneath these pillars those who
eater for the appetites of al fresco diner's-
out generally take up their stand, so that from
these cater-pillars many obtain what they call, curious',"
enough, their " grub." Essex-street, on the opposite
side, owes its name to the Earl of Essex, and to perpe-
tuate
this circumstance there has been a pier at the end
of the street ever since. Holy well-street is thickly in-
habited by newsvenders and old clothesmen, and both may
be consequently regarded as " gentlemen connected with
the Press." Passing the Strand Theatre, now celled
" Punch's Playhouse," from the dramatic jest devrits
enacted therein, we may draw the attention of the
stranger, to Strand-lane, where there is a celebrated
Roman Bath. It was to this bath that the Romans
were told to go by the rebellious Britons when they were
tired of seeing them any longer, and the origin of a
popular saying is thus made manifest."
Calder Campbell the Major had better look to his
reputation, for in a "Madrigal for May," by a sort
bf Calder Campbell the Minor, we have promise of
some rare examples of pastoral poetry. " The Green-
horn in London," being a burlesque for the breakfast
table, takes the most delightfully preposterous liber-
ties with the dignity of Comus. While the " Comic
Encyclopedia" is commenced in a style such as if
properly carried out may rival some of the ear'iest
effusions of that very sedate magistrate who, as the
vestye
comic
of " annalist of Rome,
is just now writing a tn.
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