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removing every religious disability from allter Majesty's
subjects.
The Eirl of SnArrEsnußv believed that persons holding
such opinions as the Jews ought not to legisla'e for a
Christian country. He might meet the accusation of
persecution which had been brought against the oppo-
nents of this measure, by a counter-accusation of infide-
lity, but he would not do so.
The Earl of CARLISLE considered the ultimate suc-
cess of the measure certain, and besought th. it Lordships
not to place themselves in dangerous antagonism to the
other House and to pub ic opinion.
The Earls of WINCHELSEA and GALLOWAY and Lord
AaxNoER opposed the Bill, which was supported by the
Earl of Wics.Low, the Duke of ARQYLL, and the Bishop
of NoaNvicit.
The LORD CHANCELLOR replied.
After which their Lordships divided, and the numbers
were—

For the second reading
Against it ... -.-
Majority •••
The Bill was consequently lost,
Their L,)rdships then adjourned.
In the House of Commune,
Mr. M. GI"IsoN withdrew his County Rates Expen-
diture Bill.
Mr. BANICES moved that it be an instruction to the
General Committee of Elections, to select a chairman
and six other Members to bo a Select Committee, sp-
p-tinted to inquire: into the allegations of a
Petition re-
lutive to the last el ction for the borough of Harwich ;
and that the Members so selected do constitute the said
Committee, with power to send for person• ►,apers, and
records, and that five be a quorum. The petition charged
that there bad been, on the part of the Government
officer an undue influence and interference in the raid
elsetioe.
The motion was opposed by Mr. COBDEN, Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE, and Mr. B;
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to be at once disfranchised.
It was supported by Mr. J. STUART and Mr. DISRAELI.
The House divided, and the numbers were—
Fur trie motion of Mr. BANRES ... 82
.Aisains tit ••• ••• 80
Majority in favour ... —2
The annouac.ment of the numbers was received with
loud cheerit,g.
On the motion for the House resolving itself into Com-
mittee of Supply.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY called the attention of the-First
Lord of tho Admiralty to the want of accommodation
for the repair of steam-vessels at Hawlboline, and moved
that a Committee be appointed to inquire into the subject.
Sir F. BARING opposed the motion.
After a short discussion, in which several Irish Mem-
bers took part,
The House divided, and the nurAars were—
For the motion... ... ..• ..• 26
Against it 104
Alajority
The attention of the House was then directed by Mr.
P. .:',ALEtit to the case of the Bishop of GLOUCESTER, arid
the lease of the Horfield manor.
An animated discussion ensued, in the course of which
Mr. ITORSMAN vindicated the course he had pursued, anti
Mr. GLADSTONE and Sir JAMES GRAHAM defended the
Bishop.
Eventually the subject dropped, and the House went
into Committee of Supply.
The remainder of the evening was occupied in dis-
cussing the estimates.

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Everything has hitherto prospered in reference to
the Great Industrial Exhibition. Not England
alone, but each of the principal nations of Christen-
dum respectively has materially aided i❑ its develop-
ment. Insomuch has this universe' enterprise been
responded to, that every incidental expense has been
long since liquidated by the proceeds of this gigantic
undertaking. Proposals have consequently been
made fur the ultimate purchase of the Crystal Palace,
so that the event which has thus conspicuously
marked the present year of grace 1851 may be
perpetuated in the national remembrance. "Da-
NAaIUS " has demonstrated not merely the facility
of such an arrangement, but the beneficial
end to which the edifice when thus ren.

dered public property might be turned. The
popular mind has in this manner become fami-
liarized with the idea of a permanent structure
i❑ Hyde-park, where the inhabitants of the metro-
polis might promenade in all weather , under a trans-
parent roof, in the midst of green trees and aromatic
shrubs, among flowers and fountains, with creeping
plants trailed up the pillars, and vines festooned
across the naves and transept, philosophers lecturing
to their classes upon mysteries of science no longer
recondite, sculptors displaying their statuary, and
artists their paintings in a profusion hitherto imprac
ticable from the restricted limits of our galleries, and
under circumstances more than ever advantageous.
Suggestions have likewise been thrown out for the
revival of this wholesome comi_etition among all
labourers in art or in industry, by supplementary ex-
positions such as would infallibly be calculated to
maintain the stimulus now first imparted to civili-
zation.

Meanwhile the citizens of Paris are making cons
darable preparations for the reception of the Roya
Commissioners, on the occasion of a grand banque
to be given in the Hotel de Ville, a banquet which,
it is hoped, may be attended not only by the LORD
MAYOR of London, but also by several of her MAJEST I's
Ministers, and, above all, by the august originator of
the whole enterprise, the illustrious Patrice, the
Consort of our Sov2aaiGN. Whethor these anticipa-
tions of our neighbours meet with realization or dis-
appointment, it is certain that the festivities given in
the capital of the French Eepublic will be worthy of
the great nation which has principally participated
with ourselves in the carr3ing out of the Exhibition.
Gratifying as these things are, there is, neverthe-
less, one point in the arrangements which has excited
the chagrin of the exhibitors themselves, and one,
moreover, which is likely to it.flict ni
small amount of injury upon many indi-
viduals. We allude to the regulations ac
cording to which it has been resolved to delay dui
distribution of the prizes until such time as the ex-
position shall have been actually consummated. A
little reflection, we are satisfied, will be sufficient to
convince any unprejudiced mind that by such an ar-
rangement as this no advantage whatever is obtained,
while, on the contrary, a very. grievous injury
is, on various persons, necessarily and inevi-
tably inflicted. Supposing, fur example, that in
any particular department one exhibitor has,
by the unequalled excellence of his contribu-
tions, immeasurably distanced all competitors,
bearing away the palm even to the unanimous opinion
of the multitude, by denying him the benefits certain
to accrue from a first-class prize until such time as
the display in the Crystal Palace has been actually
closed,you withhold from him the principal portion of
the good otherwise arising from his incontestable
superiority. Besides which, his rivals in that particu-
lar branch of art or industry, availing themselves of his
masterpiece as a prototype, way (and we
know, for a fact, really do) in the meantime
copy his ideas, and by so doing benefit fraudulently
through their respective customers. The evil here com-
plained of is really of a nature so grievous and
manifest that it is earnestly to be hoped that a speedy,
or at any rate an earlier distribution of the prize:,
may be resolved upon by the Commissioners.
such a modification of their arrangements a grievance
of some magnitude would be very readily obviated, a
grievance which, it should be remembered, is every
day becoming more and more lamentably experienced.
Apart altogether from the conduct of the Industrial
Exhibition itself, there are projects connected with the
Crystal Palace eminently deserving consideration.
Among these, by no means the least interesting in its
character, is one embodied in a design recently con-
tributed to the Fine Arts Department of the Exposi-
tion. According to the scheme indicated by the
author, or architect of this design, Mr. E. BENNETT,
C.E., of Westminster, it is proposed that a national
monument to his Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT
shall commemorate the Great industrial Ex-
hibition of 1851 and the chief events con-
nected therewith, effecting this by bronze
relief, and .by emblematic sculpture illustrative
of the noble object his Royal Highness had in
view as the creator of the entire enterprise. A glance
at this design, as it is represented in the Fine Arts
Department of the Crystal Palace, will amply repay
the curiosity of the visitor, revealing, as the sketch
does, a considerable amount of skill and ingenuity.
Besides indicating the fact that the PRINCE CONSORT
was the author of the whole undertaking, the com-
memorative monument would intimate in a very sig-
nificant manner to foreigners the reverential affection
with which the people of these islands cling toeach of the
respective portions of the Constitution. It may be re-
marked, as it were, en passant, that the design in ques-
tion is square, the four sides being intended to contain
bronze castings in relief to represent, first, the ex-
tphreizei
terior of the building, secondly, the interior, thirdly,
prizes ou g theu teirhi and fourthly, the distribution of
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