The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

MAY 12, 13851,

TO 'lll-1E 'SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD COURT CIRCULAR.
REFORM ASSOCIATION. Her Majesty and his Rep.'. Highness Prince Albert,
(EvERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) with the Princess Royal, accompanied by their Royal
Si.'n•-(3t ..n tiVeduesday the 7th, a long debate on the Highnesses the Prince and Princess, of Prussia, Prince
Audie of Railways Accounts Bill, resulting in little Frederick William and the Princess Louisa of Prussia,
more Shea lan impression that nothing very effectual was visited the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations on
likely to be done on any ride. As cue proof of this, Saturday morning. The Royal suite consisted
_of the
the Is st division presented anothsr " tic," being of 57 Countess Orion, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lieut.-
again i 57. The observers of such natural phenomena, Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, and Count Goltz. Her
tema :' it as probably a, unique instance of ties on two Majesty and Prince Albert, with their illustrious
folios ring days. visitors, spent two hours in inspecting the various ob-
On Thursday Petitions against Papal Aggression, jects of interest in the Exhibition, and then returned to
with upward, s of 100,e00 signatures in the whole, were Buckingham Palace.
prose ace d from Edinburgh and Glasgow. And the His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
Voaes of that day are headed with the following curious by Mr. Birch, paid a visit to the Exhibition on Satur-
anno unci talent. day forenoon.
"1. .1 ?üblic Petitions Committee,-Special Report His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided on Satur-
brough I sup, and read as follows:- day afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission
"Re toleed, That the Petition of Pierce Connelly, for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Na-
clerk, t :empiaining of the fotcible detention of his vvifo tions. His Royal Highness, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
in a cc invent, and praying the House to take into con- F. H. Seymour, arrived at three o'clock at the Exhibi-
siderati kea. the whole subject of Convents and .Nunnerier, tion Building in Hyde park.
in Engl ac d, which was presented upon the 29th day i.of The Royal Commissioners present were-the Duke of
April la at ,is a Petition which ought to be printed for Buccleuch, the Earl of Rosso, Earl Granville, Lord
the use of Members only; and that a Special Report be Stanley, Lord Overstone, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
made to th is effsct. M.P., Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir
"Rep( at ; to lie on the Table. Richard Westmacott, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Bazley,
" 2. I nuneeetn este -Petition of the Rev. Pierce Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Cobdee, M.P., Mr. T. In Gibson, Mr.
Connell:, ,„ for inquiry [presented 29th April], to be John Gott, Mr. Pusey, M.P., Mr. Stephenson, M.P,
printed, fo r the use of niembers only." Mr. Shepherd, and Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Sir
The P ?,i itioner and his wife appear to have been two Stafford Northcote, Mr. Scott Russell, and Mr. Edgar
weak pee is le, who could not be content without tamper- Bowring, Secretaries of the Royal Commission, at-
ing with Ifome to the extent of the one becoming " a tended.
Roman c k;rie" and the other being shut up in a convent, Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee,
and they f did not know whether they repented or not; Dr. Lyon Mayfair, and Colonel Lloyd, Special COM-
having s pioarently a remedy before them as easy as that missioners, were present.
of the min who to keep out the flies was advised to saw The meeting broke up at five o'clock. Prince Albert
his mew fa, which was to return to their old creed when afterwards went to a Committee meeting in the Exhibi-
they wet 6 tired of their new. Con Building.
On the ,:came day less the debate on the Malt Tax, Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Helena and
The sure tellers of its repeal stood upon its being an Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four on
invasion ,of the principles of Free Trade, present- Ssturday.
lug apc ri illel to the Corn Laws. The plea is an in- Her Majesty,
accompmiod by their Royal Highnesses
stance an d a proof of the imperfect way in which the the Prince and Princess of Prussia and Prince Frederick
nature an ei principle of Free Trade is even at this hour William of Prussia, took a drive on Saturday afternoon
understo' td. The CorntLares were a tax on foreign corn in a carriage and four. Colonel the lion. Charles Grey
alone, wi, its the avowed object of putting a stop to such and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps attended
trade as it i now carried on from Bradford in that article, on horseback.
and them ie making an artificial trade and an artificial The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
price for the English growers at your expense. The Prince and Princess of Prussia and Prince Frederick
Malt Tax: as a tax upon all malt, or if you please upon all William, honoured Her Majesty's Theatre with their
barley. E t just as much restrains the profitable trade presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suits con-
which mil ;1 it be conducted through the intervention of your sisted of the Countess A. de Hacke, the Countess Oriolla,
goods in, of eley,-obliges the foregoing of more profitable the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Beatrice Byng,
exchange s, and accepting of others which are less,-as it Lord Waterpark, Count Piikler,_ Colonel the Hon.
restrains ele agriculturist from growing barley on the r
F
Charles Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, Co-
lauds ho et ould prefer, and obliges him to grow some- lonel Fischer, and Major Von Boyen. Her Royal High-
thing he le kes less. There is in fact precisely the dif- ness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by her Royal
femme Gil !re would have been, between the Corn Laws Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge, also ho-
as they Fora; ;-e, and a law which should have imposed the noured Her Majesty's Theatre with her presence en
same tax ol a hems-grown corn as on foreign; a difference Saturday evening. In attendance were Lady Fanny
%Mai aft, r all the agitation on the Corn-laws no- Howard, Lady Caroline Murray, and Lord James
body uncle rstood, but which was not the less real Murray.
on that act ount. Whatever the consequences of such Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
an arranges nent might have been, it is clear it would not with the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, her
have beer. a struggle for what all the world meant by Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal High-
Free Trail, a, which was a struggle on the part of home ness the Princess of Prussia, the Ladies and Gentlemen
producer;; to suppress manufacturing for foreign coin- of the Court, and the domestic household, attended di-
merce. 't:7: no outcry against the Malt Tax on this ground vine service yesterday morning in the private chapel in
therefore floes for nothing. It may be a good tax or a Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wel-
bad tax, Es at it clearly is not this; and there is email lesley officiated.
chance of: i arriving at sound conclusions, by discussing a The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission
thing as iw hat it is not. The repeal was finally negatived for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all
by 258 age inst 122. It is astonishing how much there Nations met at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon at
is to do te afore the nature and principle of Free Trade the Exhibition Building in Hyde-park. Present-Earl
will bo of re le tolerably understood in the House of Corn- Granville, Lord Overstone, Sir Alexander Spearman,
mons. ln iere is not a debate admitting of the introduc- Bart.; Mr. Baring, M.P.; Mr. Cobden, M.P.; Mr.
Lion, whe r. a Protection for British Industry, and Compe- Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Peto, M.P. Colonel
tition wi tl r the Untaxed Foreigner, are not unsparingly Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee, was
put tore- ird, though the certainty is there would be a present.
storm of cries of " Question" if your representative pro- Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Edgar Bowring,
ceeded to, answer them. And yet it is as clear as the Secretaries to the Royal Commission, were in attendance.
sun, that what is called Competition with the Untaxed A deputation of the trustees iof the Middlesex and
Foreigner, is in reality competition with you at Bradford, Essex turnpike-roads, headed by Mr. Bramston, M.P.,
whose tre id aitis to make goods for exchange for foreign and Sir E. N. Buxton, M.P., had an interview on Satur-
corn, and • who are assuredly neither untaxed, nor with- day with Sir George Grey at the Home-office. The
out claim to be British Industry. The untaxed foreigner, deputation consisted of Sir John Henry Pelly, Barb;
I apprchc 13 d, has no more to do with the subject, than if Mr. William Cotton, Mr. William Ephraim Snow, Mr.
it were pi's posed to put down the Greenland trade in Octavius Mashiter, Mr.t Edward Charrington, Mr.
favour of h erne-made oils, on the ground that the blubber George Offer, and Mr. George Dacre (clerk and solicitor
was got I non untaxed whales. It is the merchants, and to the trustees).
not the wis ales, who are the competitors with the men of The Council of Chairmen of the Juries of tho Royal
home-ma tic oils; and unless the industry of these mer- Commission for the Works of Industry of all Nations
chants as ad their associates can be proved no portion of met on Saturday at the Exhibition Building in Hyde.
the come 30 a stock, it would be pure folly to run up and park. There were present-
down the. -country exclaiming that the fishes were not Class 2. Jacob Bell, Esq., for Monsieur A. Dumas.
Britons. it is with the industry that can bring here, and Class 3. Monsieur E. Lade.
not with what it brings from, that the competition is. Gass 4. Professor Owen, F.R.S.
When you at Bradford thoroughly understand this, and Class 6. General Poncelet.
can make, .others do the same, you will be safe and not Class 7. 1. K. Brunel, Esq.
before. Class 8. Baron Charles Dupin.
On Fri 31iy, on the order for going into Committee on Class 9. Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P.
the Eccles: nstical Titles Assumption Bill, Amendment Class 10. Sir David Brewster, F.R.S.
was props is ed to add the words, " That the recent act Sub Jury A, Sir H. Bishop.
of the Pe p 3 in dividing England into dioceses, and ap- Sub Jury B, J. H. Green, Esq.
pointing .13 ishops thereto, was encouraged by the con- Sub Jury for Horology, E. B. Denison, Esq.
duct and declarations of her Majesty's Government.' Class 11. Sir James Anderson.
The facts iedvanced appeared to amount to establishing, Class 12. Dr. Schaffilault, for Professor Hermann.
that the G overnment had been civil to the Pope and the Class 13. G. T. Kemp, Esq.
Catholics iso long as it could, and that the Pope and Class 14. Count Von Harrach.
his couns el !ors had taken advantage of this to make Class 16. Hon. Colonel Anson.
their aggai esion. The absurd part of the averment, Class 17. M. Van de Weyer.
was that t tie one was the natural and invited cense- Class Is. Henry Tucker, Esq.
quence of 7the other. As if any possible coquettings of Class 19. Professor Bailey.
Lord Mints with the Pope and Cardinals, it such there Class 20. William Felkin, Esq.
were, coul cl by reasonable men have been construed into Class 21. Lord Wharncliffe.
an iuvitati on to partition England like the ox and sheep Class 22. Hon. Horace Greeley.
in the inst rt tenons for young carvers, with a flourish of Class '23. Dec de Luyne.
trumpets iii the practicable quarters, declaring that the Class 24. Lord de Manley.
time was mime for putting down Protestantism every- Class 26. Professor Rcesner, for Chevalier de Burg.
where by force. The Minister took high ground by Class 29. Viscount Canning.
declaring, •th at it bad since become known that the ad- Class 30. llerr Von Viebahn.
the Board of Inland
vice given tc. the Pops proceeded from avowed enemies Mr. John Wood, Chairman of
Chancellor of the
of England', acting with the object of embarrassing Revenue, had an interview with the
residence in
England with a view to neutralize her influence in the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
promotion 4if constitutional government in Europe, and ing-street.
that as such, it had been boasted of by the authors at the The Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Rutland
time of the transaction. The assertion of the previous attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal,
communicat iioll with Lord Minto, sinks into a twaddling St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr.
story of the Pope's having tapped upon a box and said Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. T.
" Here is it tesething for England;" which might have Randolph. ....5e...nen.
been a pow ia of snuff for the nostrils of the existing --- e--
staff of the . Church in that country.
Tho amou dment was finally negatived by 280
against 201.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
The fineness of the day on Saturday, and the antici-
pation of the presence of her .Majesty, caused the Crys-
tal Palace to till better than on any day since the open-
ing. Her Majesty's visit, however, was a private one,
the public not being admitted until after her departure.
The Royal party arrived at about half-past ten o'clock,
and her Majesty, after a hasty glance at some of the
foreign novekies, proceeded to the British department,
and examined the varied products with much care and
attention. Nothing could be more pertinent than her in-
quiries, and, indeed, her general knowledge in the vari-
ous departments of British manufacture was a mattEr of
gratified surprise to the exhibitors. Another gene-
ral topic of conversation among them was her Majesty's
acquaintance v.ith the continental languages. In her
progress through the foreign department she might be
neard at one moment speaking French, then Italian, and
afterwards in German, with the idiomatic corsrVnthe
seldom found except amongst educated natives
greeted
several countries. A considerable crowd 0
her Majesty on her departure, and similara
Buckingham Palace.
awaited her return at the gates u
assemblage
of the visitors.
isitor, and was an
The Duke of Wellington waa
number at 40,000; and judging
object of considerable curiosity Istoocfarala. many
The police computed;thenn9aro
formed wonderful anti-
by the rule of proportion,
tsiil7oLueodoi_
when the shilling admission
that it is intended to Hash the
cipations of the
edoamilym&c2eiss.siorlits

I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.

London, MI by 12, 1851.

CASES TIIIEATED IN THE MES,
HOSPITAL.
A dreadful tease of despondency, with pains and noises
in the head, gi tidiness, and dimness of sight, in a man 56
years of age , is yielding in a remarkable manner.
Various medic al gentlemen did their best, but in vein;
and month st.er month life became a greater burden to
him. Ile wee admitted here in April, and now muhes
the following ei atement :—" All my accumulated afflictions
have teen gradually rubsidieg; indeed, some of them,
the giddiness lend noises in the head, together with the
great nervous, oppression and dismal gloomy forebodings,
have already left me, never, I hopefully trust, to return.
My hearing veld my eyesight are progressing faveur•
a:lle', the hitt+ n• most especially, as I can now read better
without glass a than I could see to road with them pre-
viously to being mesmerised." This patient is still an-
der treatment,, and may bo seen.
We must no t pass over the case of Catherine Brown,
ad
7, King's He-yard, Tooley-etreet, 57 years of age,
When seven pears old she fell down in a fit, and was un.
conscious for twenty-four hours. She had a similar at.
tack monthly till she became a patient here, last Feb-
ruary; and foot seven or eight days after the lit was in-
variably so -weak as to b© unable to attend to her
avocations, wed indeed was at no time able to attend to
them properly. She suffered agonizing pains. She was
treated by nu merous medical gentlemen in London and
in Ireland, without the least benefit. Her agonies:fre-
quently made her contemplate self-murder. She was
three times in. Guy's Hospital end twice in St. Thomas's,
the last time iEer four months. She applied to a dispen-
sary also, and. the surgeon told her she bad tie dolou;
reux; and, in attempting to extract several of be
teeth, broke geomo of them. From the first attaac.nk,
above forty-four years ago, she was never tree fromerpmie_
and took large quantities of laudanum when pd
dical treatment. She saw Mr. Capern early in February,
u
and ho mesmerised her head with contacc
for a quarter
entirely ceased;
of an hour. The pain instantly sad
and from that moment she has eexperienced the
fi• On leaving the
slightest pain, nor has she bad
infirmary that day she called P usher niece at Islington,
sat down in la
chair
and, feeling a great desiretou-sleep,
that her relatives were
and fell into a sleep so profoundat
.ainunl.some doctor had given her
alarmed, and supposed She woke spontaneously
tool arge a dose of
in four hours, greatly refreshed, and has remained well to
this very time.
RETURN relative to RAIL WAY ACCIDENTS.
d
By the Returns made to t epartment, it appears that
the total number of persons of evely description killed and
passenger railways open for public traffic
and 18S injured,
injured on all the
Great Britain and Ireland during the half-year ending
in
nst December, 1850, amounted to 12'3 killed,
3aele that they may be classed as follows
passengers killed, and 138 injured from causes beyond
their own control.
13 passengers killed, and 9 injured, Owing to their own
misconduct or want of caution.
40 servants of companies or of contractors killed, and 25
injured from causes beyond their own control.
34 servants of companies or of contractors killed, and 11
injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution.
26 trespassers and other persons, neither passengers nor
servants of the company, killed, and 5 injured, by crossing
or walking on the railway.
1 suicide.

BEATIxamITION AND INSURAVCE
THE G OFFICES.
Beard of Directors of the Atlas Assurance
have Co-
m
determined to give to each of the clerks in
paDY •
establishment,, in rotation, four days leave of ab-
L„e,i,r ;o
r the purpose of enabling them to view the
Great Exhibition, the company Paying for the ad-
missions. A like favour has been granted to the gentle-
men of the Sun Office, and the Provident Clerks' Life
Association. It will afford us great satisfaction to be
enabled to record in our next number that this liberal
example has been followed by all the offioes and banks
in London. Whatever tends to expand the mind or elevate
the thoughts of individuals, cannot fail to be of value to
those by whom they are employed; and the strongest
inducement for earnest exertion by the clerks in an
office is a knowledge of the desire of the higher authori-
ties in the establishment to promote the comforts and
contribute to the occasional enjoyments of those who
are engaged in its less inviting and more laborious.
duties. We are glad to see the Assurance-offices ts klig
the lead in this matter, as whatever serves bringto
these
inquiry
institutions before the public cannot fail to excite
01 SOlllO
kind or cther respecting them, in the mindsdreda of
f
those persona of whom there are tens and
w of their hundreds
thousands who have a very imperfect WI°ledge
objects. spirit of the Scot-
hers of them will
tAhi'ssmuraitntec;..°l:fiTchee
tistiC Boards rkdnsowweafneyelthainstroedf thheLeohninidgioehninn
respect of the long journey
question of' extra expens
lea,
notto enjoy allow
a t monopolyhe
o managersf of
liberalityti hnet
element of consideration, see- •
to be taken is scarcely at, for travelling would be, by rß-
ing how light the chai:gt e
h e
believe the price for
Company's splendid
oytea
withpermission to remain a week or
is only thirty shilliegs.—Past
_ _ the double
adgd:azuyinbsci9oivnoYD:ogneufl";

LODGING 1-101ISES.
--------„,,,. --
—On Saturday a Bill
in tChOeli O
hrousie of Commons was printed for the well-ordering
of common lodging-houses. It is to be read a second time
on Weduesday. The object of the Bill is to place under the
police common lodging-houses, with regard to the cleanliness,
ventilation, &C., as also to remedy contagious diseases. The
Bill was brought forward by Lord Ashley.
ANNIVERSARY or THE PERRY SOCIETY.—Thia
society held its aniverary meeting on Friday, May 9, at 4,
St. Martin's-place, Lord Braybrooke, its president, in the
chair, when the following gentlemen were elected on the new
council :—Robert Bell, W. H. Black, W. Chappell, W. Du-
rant Cooper, T. Crofton Croker (treasurer). J. H. Dixon, F.
W. Fairholt, W. D. Haggard, J. U. Halliwell (secretary),
the Rev. Dr. Hume, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, James Prior, W.
Sandys, C. Roach Smith, and Thomas Wright. It was an-
nounced that Mr. Wright's new edition of " Chaucer's Can-
terbury Tales" had been completed during the past year by
the publication of the third volume, and that one of the pub-
lications of the next year will be that of a third and hitherto
unknown book of " Browne's Britannia s pastorals," the
manuscript of which has been recently discovered in one of
our cathedral libraries.
'
ON Drr.—Lieut.-Colonel Crablx, late of the 74th
Highlanders, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the
accomplished widow of the late, Henry Spooner, Esq.,
formerly an officer in her Majesty s cavalry. The lady is
well known and appreciated at Southampton by her exten-
sive and multifariousibeaevolent charities.. Dritish Arms/
Dispatch.

Total ... 123 killed ... 188 injured.
The number of passengers conveyed during the half-year
amounted to 41,087,9191,4.
The length of railway open on the 30th of
June, 1850, was ... ... 6,308 miles.
The length of railway open on the 31st De-
cember, 1850, was 6,621 miles.
Increase during the half-year
813 miles.
DUNCAN MACGREGOR, Registrar.
Office of Commissioners of Railways,
Whitehall, 6 May, 1851.

Tha Coventry Parliamentary and Financial Reform
Association held its annual meeting of members in the large
room of the Temperance Hotel, Bishop-street, Coventry, on
Tuesday evening. The room was inconveniently crowded
with the attendance of members on the occasion. The ob.
ject of the meeting was to bear the accounts for the past
year; to consider the best method of electing the com-
mittee for 1851; and generally to secure a better organiza-
tion of the reformers of this city, upon the principles laid
down in the bill of rights issued by the National Association,
or free i
trade in all its ntegrity ;
financial reform ; econo-
mical and equitable, Parliamentary reform) immediate and
complete.