The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-21 00:00:00

In the Commons,
A new writ was ordered for Harwich.
Major BERESPORD moved that the House at its rising
do adjourn to Thursday, in order to give Hon. Members
an opportunity of attending the Derby.—Agreed to.
Sir W. MoLEswoirru moved an address praying for
the discontinuance of transportation to Van Diemen's
Land.
Mr. HIT ME seconded the motion, which was opposed
by Sir G. GREY.

press hostile." Now, my Lord ASHBURTON, this is too
sweeping an accusation. Had you been an attentive
observer of the anticipations promulgated by the
organs of public opinion, you never would have in-
dulged in the grossinaccuracy of charging the
journalism of the country with what has been, in truth,
but an exceptional proceeding. However, let that pass
as a venial error. "He found the Government
paralysed by the thought that, if it failed, they would
have thousands to pay ; if it succeeded, they would
have millions to keep in order. He found the public
bewildered ; it knew not what to do, what to wish,
what to expect. Who, then, was for it ? No one
save the Prince and the small knot of enterprizing
men whom he had associated with himself and par-
tially inspired with his enthusiasm. The fact was)
we were not prepared for it. We talked, indeed, of
progress; we admired the physical results of pro-
gress, but the effect of our discoveries on the social
and political relations of mankind we were all blind
to. We were like full-fledged birds sitting on the
brink of the nest, conscious of fresh powers, but
ignorant of the mighty range which their develop-
ment had brought within our scope. But it was not
so with Prince ALBERT ; he felt that GOD had not
given us the genius of discovery, had not entrusted
us with dominion over the powers of nature, that
it should all end in cheapness. He felt that nations
might be brought together with their works, and that
through this Industrial Congress some advance might
be made towards that unity of mankind, that univer-
sal peace which has been the dream of philanthropic
men from SULLY to ELIHU BURRITT ; but those good
men mistook their means of action, and brought ridi-
cule upon their sacred mission. They thought peace
might be enforced by Amphytrionic councils, that
they could quell the hot blood of controversy and
fright it into propriety; they thought that the lust for
war might be controlled by the fear of war—that a
majority would always be on the side of peace. But
a sounder philosophy has taught us that prevention
is better than punishment; and as we seek to keep
I peace among citizens by softening their hearts, by
training and civilization, so also we might soften the
hearts of nations, one towards the other, by such
meetings as this. In this faith—in this steadfast
faith—he got this ark reared—the ark of a new cove-
nant among nations. In this faith he sent forth his
missives into all lands—in this same faith the nations
of the earth have responded to his appeal; they have
understood his meaning, and have sent you, gentle-
men, to represent them in this first great gathering."
Fervently would we pray that the Industrial Con-
gress may be found to tend towards the consumma-
tion of universal brotherhood ; at all events it may
easily be more effectual towards that desirable con-
summation than the amiable wetness of the Peace
Congress. Of the merits of the PRINCE CONSORT
there is but one opinion throughout the empire, an
opinion, we may observe, en passant, which has never
been more nervously or generally expressed than in a
nobly written article which appeared in the last
number of the great weekly organ of democracy, and
which:we have already transferred to our columns, with
a cordial concurrence in its entire spirit. In a perfectly
happy strain did the chairman propose the health of
the foreign guests of the feast. In confessing the
excellence, the superiority in many works displayed
by foreign countries, he gave utterance to the follow-
ing sentiments, creditable to his own judgment, and,we
doubt not, gratifying to the representatives of those
nations with whom we are at the present hour con-
nected by the close ties of hospitality :—" We appre-
hend from your success no national impoverishment,
for we know, that to purchase from you we must
have money, and to have money we must sell some-
thing; of our own ; and as both those operations are
the spontaneous acts of individuals, for their private
gain, the results of both must be a gain to the na-
tions engaged in the exchange, for the gains of a na-
tion are made up of the gains of its people. Nor in
your success do we see cause for shame, cause for
jealousy, cause for repining—far from it; we
see in it the hand of GoD, working for
the good of all. It has pleased Him to give
to all nations the same genius of discovery,
the same divine spirit, but at the same time to
vary the conditions under which it is exercised. Di-
versity of soils, of climate ; diversity of language to
vary the channels of thought, of usages to vary men's
wants—all these concur to give to each nation its pe-
culiar excellences in the market of the world, and
those varieties of excellence promote not only inter-
change of commodities, but of ideas, of experience, of
inventions, of good services, without which the se-
veral states of Europe, with all their boasted knowledge,
all their civilization, would sink in a few short years
into the condition of China or Japan. It is in this
persuasion that we have laboured to promote this
Exhibition, that we have hailed your arrival within
our shores ; but, now that we have met face to face,
now that we have shaken hands, it is not political
economy, but it is a kindly spirit—a spirit of affec-
tionate regard—that bids us raise our glasses to our
lips and wish you all a hearty welcome."
M. VAN DE WEYER, who knows the English
people well, declared that when "be saw the whole
civilized world responding to the appeal which had
been made by Prince ALBERT, and sending to this
country the richest products of their industry and
arts, he felt how deep must be the general confidence
in British institutions, and how nobly that confi-
dence had been fulfilled by the people in whom it
was placed." M. C. DUPIN, who has an European
reputation in connexion with industry and the arts,
proposed the health of the Royal Commissioners in an
eloquent discourse highly laudatory both of the
motives and practical exertion of that body ;
and the speeches of M. Von VIEBARN and the
Chevalier DE BURG were in perfect unison with the
truthfulness and cordiality which pervaded those of
their co-orators. Mr. PAXTON, designated by the
proposer of his health as " one of the great captains
of the world's industry," with that modesty which is
the appropriate concomitant of superior merit, avoided
a single syllable of self-laudation. He expressed
himself " highly gratified in having been instrumental
in bringing the produce of the world's industry, and,
what was better, the world's children, together.
He had, he confessed, put the country to
some unnecessary expense in inventing sweeping ma-
chinery of a hundred housemaid-power, for he now
found that the Crystal Palace was swept thoroughly
clean every day by the silks and satins of the fair
visitors. He had a main interest in the un-
dertaking, and therefore he rejoiced in its pre-
sent success." That undertaking would never
have been developed to the gaze of the world in its
present unrivalled sublimity but for the inventive
genius of JOSEPH PAXTON, to whom, perhaps, not
the least gratifying instance of the amicable relations
ripening beneath the genial influence of his vast In-
dustrial Conservatory was yesterday afforded by
the festive gathering at Richmond.

Mr. ANSTEY then rose to address the House, but
was counted out, there being only 31 Members present

Englishmen have, time gut of mind, evinced such
enthusiasm in maintaining the manly sports of the
field, that we may count upon their rendering this
Derby-day worthy in all respects of one attended by
foreign visitors from all quarters of Christendom.
Notwithstanding the sinister predictions of some in-
dividuals to the contrary, we remain convinced that
upon no other occasion will the greatest race-course
in the world have been covered with a more numerous,
a more motley, or a more remarkable multitude
of spectators. Sufficient assurance of our correct.
ness in these anticipations has been afforded, we ima•
gine, in the spectacle visible this morning in most of
the principal thoroughfares of the metropolis. Vota-
ries of pleasure, resolved to witness themselves that
tremendous rush roundj Tattenham Corner upon the
results of which to many thousands are dependent,
disported themselves in all kinds of conveyances
wending their way in a westerly direction towards
the Downs of Epsom. Peers in their emblazoned
chariots, costermongers in their wooden trays drawn
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in omnibuses and stage coaches, in
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cab, and brougham, and landau, and railway car-
riage, in—

" Whisky, buggy, gig, or go-cart,
Curricle or tandum,
battled with each other in the more frequented
thoroughfares for precedence in that great procession,
Which at one period of the day might be said literally
to reach almost in an unbroken line from the Grand
Stand to Hyde Park Corner. Another and essentially
national amusement will therefore have been this
afternoon displayed for the gratification of the
foreigners now amongst us as visitors to the Great
Exhibition, and this, too, under circumstances pecu-
liarly and unusually advantageous. Everything,
indeed, has tended of late to impart a more than
ordinary interest to an event which at all times is
certain to excite an astonishing degree of ardour
among almost all ranks of society. Insomuch
that additional animation has recently been betrayed
in all the preparations for the most memorable
sporting event of the season, heavier stakes than
usual having bed? variously laid by the chief men of
the turf on Hernandez and Prime Minister, Marlbo-
rough Buck and Teddington, Heartbreaker and
Bonnie Dundee, not forgetting Lamartine and Con-
stellation, a new fervour having betrayed itself from
DAVIES down even to the least noticeable man
in the Ring. While this enthusiasm has been
betrayed by the promoters of perhaps the
most noble and invigorating sport indulged in
by Englishmen, it is satisfactory to think,
that unlike last year, no sinister attempts
are being; made in secresy to drag the nation back
into the slough of superstition, from which it has
scarcely yet been extricated. Our allusion will here
be understood, of course, to have reference to the cir
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cumstance of Parliament being surprised into adopt-
ing the bigoted notions of the Sabbatarians, by the
Noble Lord the Representative of the city of Bath
introducing his motion in reference to Post office re-
gulation between the days of the Derby and the Oaks.
Haring failed so egregiously in this trick, twelve
mouths ago, we may feel agreeably convinced that
the people may henceforth indulge in a recreation, to
the vast majority by no means demoralizing, without
any fear of being hocus-pocussed into a trap laid for
them by the Sabbatarians.

Benefits to the survivors arise fortunately out of
he most lamentable occurrences—the benefits, for
example, of suggesting precautions of such a cha-
racter as may screen the rest of society from their re-
currence. It is thus most clearly that we may
always cull the flower safety from the nettle danger.
It is in this manner we may verify the old adage,
" That that is indeed an ill wind which blows no-
body any good." Regarded in this light, accidents,
even of the most frightful description may
be turned, sorrowfully but surely, to the
world's advantage. Hence we have come
to look upon the coroner's inquest holden upon
casualties with feelings something different from those
of mere idle curiosity, and would refer to them upon
all occasions in something more than expressions of
merely useless lamentation. An allusion of this
character, therefore, may be made just now, not in-
opportunely, to the fatal catastrophe which took
place in Gracechurch-street on the morning of Satur-
day. From the evidence given before Mr. PAYNE,
the Coroner for the City of London, it would be diffi-
cult to draw any other deduction than one most
entirely exculpatory to all parties concerned
in the erection of the building, which unexpectedly
fell in, notwithstanding the adoption of more
than ordinary precautions. Among other things, it
was demonstrated that the brick walls of the edifice,
the outer walls supporting the iron roof, had been
constructed by the thickness of half a brick more
strongly than the Act required. Nevertheless, the
endeavour thus made by the contractors to prevent
the possibility of any accident fatal to the inmates
proved unavailing, four men having perished in
consequence of the terrible calamity on Saturday,
and many more having been grievously wounded
and maimed by the same occurrence. From
this it must, we conceive, be obvious
that while blame cannot be attached indi•
vidually to any of those concerned in the con-
struction of the building, blame is attached necessa-
rily to the framers of an Act which has proved inade-
quate in the way of enforcing the desired precautions.
From the testimony of the architect, to whom the edifice
in question partially belonged, it will be seen that the
district surveyor had never made any complaint or
representation of insecurity whatever. That circum-
stance, it must be acknowledged, furnishes the witness
above mentioned with the most complete and satis-
torily exoneration. The responsibility passes from his
shoulders to those of the surveyor. It remains,
consequently, still to be shown whether the proper
course was pursued in every instance relating to the
unfortunate house now in ruins, or whether its down-
fal was solely attributable to a casualty altogether
unavoidable. In his chemical disquisitions Sir DAVID
BREWSTER mentions, to our vivid remembrance, the
facts that diamonds and other precious stones have
been known at times to explode in consequence of air
holes previously unobserved in them expanding with
any unusual heat in the atmosphere. As impossible
as it would be to guard against occurrences of this
kind, we conceive it would be to prevent entirely the
rupture of cast-iron roofs from causes as unconjec-
tured or as inaccessible to remedy. From all these
considerations we rest satisfied with the verdict pro-
nounced by the coroner's jury yesterday, a verdict
which pronounced the breaking of one of the iron
girders of the roof in Gracechurch-street as purely
and wholly accidental.
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and irnond was yesterday the scene of a splendid
Looct ciocrnorarnemn.da.ble hospitality. The metropolitan
which was Commissioners of the Great Industrial Exhibi-
tion entertained the Foreign Commissioners at a ban-
quet,attended by the Turkish, Sardinian,
Portuguese
American, Belgian,zilnit Prussian, French, Saxon, and
of scientific, artistic,
and a numerous assemblage
y andii literary notabilities. The
chair was efficiently
whom, as chairman Lord ASHBURTON, to
an
addr:y, a deputation from
of thdebyd
, on the part of the
the
ertesy duly acknow-
ledged by the. Noble Lord on part of the illus-
trious guests. The sentimentsinexpressed by those
who took occasion to speak
the principal toasts, as well as by responseteN to
President of the feast, were characterised
ne
of exoellent taste and feeling. In proposing the
health of Prince ALBERT, the patron and author of
the Exhibition, Lord ASIIBURTON alluded to the
difficulties which his Royal Highness had to
encounter in bringing it to its present trium-
phant issue. " The Prince," said he, " found
the Houses of Parliament indifferent—nay, ready to
listen to objections, however frivolous. He found the
leaders_ of parties—leaders of public opinion.—shrink
fro
'IA° responsibility of defending it. He found the ,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE SHARE MARKETS

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National has the following on the Legitimatist
declaration in favour of a revision of the Constitu-
tion :
" It is evident at present that representatives named to
defend republican institutions conspire openly to over-
turn such institutions; that the President of the Re•
public has for two years called to his councils men who
proclaim aloud that the sole object of their efforts is the
destruction of the Republic; that at present the great
portion of the highest functions of the State are in the
hands of the declared enemies of the Republican Govern-
ment; that, after the declaration made in the tribune by
M. Berryer in January last, after the decision come to
two days back by the meeting of the Rue do Rivoli, the
creatures of MM. Berryer and de Fallout are main-
tained by M. Bonaparte in all the positions in which
they can serve the intrigues of the restorers of divine
right. The Republicans are warned : there aro in
the Assembly, in the high regions of power,
men who conspire to overthrow the Republic, and bring
back royalty without adjournment in September, 1851.
The Republicans, confident in the right, wait patiently
for the constitutional date of May, 1852; the Royalists,
impatient of such tranquillity, give the signal of civil
war by provoking a monarchical revolution. Well, we
are ready. Calm and patient, we shall wait for 1852, if
the detestable projects which are thus announced do not
go beyond the columns of the Royalist journals; but
strong in our right end in our moderation, we will greet
every attack against the Republic and the Constitution,
as we greeted in 1830 the attacks of M. do Poliguac
and his consorts. The Royalists declare to us that they
are going to agitate the country to overturn the Re-
public. Let them give the signal of agitation, and we
promise them that the Republicans will follow them in
that course. The Republicans desire peace—that peace
which the monarchy was never able to give; if the
Royalists desired emotion, they shall have it. Let
them raise the white flag, we, on our sides, will
' agitate our flag of the revolution, and there will not
be in Prince a commune, a village, or a hamlet,
which will not rise to the cry of Vive la Repub-
lique!' On them be the responsibility of events!"
The Constztutionnel states that the Central Com-
mittee of the Electoral TJnion has determined to peti-
tion in favour of a revision of the Constitution.
The Debats is in favour of a revision of the Con-
stitution, provided it be done legally, but not
otherwise. M. THIERS and General CHANGARNIER
are opposed to the revision, the former says that he
considers the great want of the country to be a Re-
publican President.
The Prefect of Marseilles has suspended two of the
companies of the National Guard of that city for
shouting "Vive la Republique !" " Vive la Consti-
tution!"

ItRITIEME RALILWAYS.

Itelways.

Pail.

Aberdeen— . •• ..
Arnbergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Belfast and County Down
Birniing., Wolverhamp.,
and Stour Valley ..
Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh
June., late 331. 6s. 84..
Do. Chest. & Blrkenhd.,
501. & 251. Consolidated
Do., do., 201.
Bristol and Exeter..
Caledonian • • • .
Chester and Holyhead ..
Direct Lond. and Portsm.
Dublin and Belfast Junct.
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee, Perth, and Aber-
deen Junction ..
Do., New ..
East Anglian (251. L. &
E. and L. & D.) ..
Do. (181. E. & H.) ..
Eastern Counties ..
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares
Do. do. do. ..
Do. do., B & C shares
East Lancashire • •
Do. New quarters ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow►
Edin., Perth, and Dundee
Exeter and Exmouth ..
Glasgew and South-West,
Do. do. G. I). & C. stack
Great Northern ..
Do. halves, A, deferred
Do. halves, B, 6 per ct.
Great Southern and
Western, Ireland • •
Groat Western .. ..
Do. New, 171. .. ••
Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Do. thirds • • • • • • 1
Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Do. quarter shares ..
Do. fifths .. .
Do. West Riding Union
Leeds and Thirsk ••
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport ..
London and Blackwall

M. SAUTATRA, a member of the Extreme Left, has
presented the following proposition, which has been
referred for examination to the 20th Committee of
Parliamentary Initiative :
"Art. 1. All telegraphic dispatches intended to be
published or posted up, either wholly or in part, shall
be inserted textually in the Moniteur on the day follow-
ing that on which they shall have been sent off.—Art.
2. It is interdicted to any public functionary to make
any addition, under any form, to the dispatches which
he may receive, either in support or corroboration of,
or to complete the news or the advice which they may
contain."
The Moniteur publishes an official return the
receipts of the Customs' Duties for the months of
April, 1849, 1850, and 1851, which amounted to
10,481,644 f., 8,990,320 f , and 9,667,120 f. respec-
tively. The receipts for last month, therefore, show
an increase of 676,800 f. over the corresponding month
of 1850, and a decrease of 814,524 f., as compared with
the month of April, 1849. The total receipts of the
first four months of 1851 amount to 36,426,245 f. ; in
1850, they were 36,845,319 f., and in 1849,
39,093,907 f.

Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip
London, Brighton, and
South Coast ..
London and N.-Weetarn
Do. do. new quarters .
Do. fifths
Do. 101. sh., M. & B (c)
London and S.-Westera
Do. new 501.
Do. new 401. ..
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock
Manchester, Sheffield, &
Lincolnshire i• • ..
Do. Manchester and,
Lincoln Union •.1

Midland .. ..
Do. 50/. shares ..

Mr. MORE OTERRALL, Governor of Malta, ac-
companied by his lady, arrived on the 16th at Mar-
seilles by the Merlin steamer.
The improvement in the price of Government securi-
ties which was manifest at the Bourse yesterday made
further progress. The Five per Cents., which opened
at 90f. 50c., rose to 90f. 85c., at which price they closed;
the Three per Cents. closed at 56f. 40c. Rouen Railroad
Shares, 615 E ; Havre, 247 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 4751.;
Avignon, 223 f. 75c.; Vierzon, 4351.; Bale, 146 t. 25c.;
Bordeaux, 4001.; Paris and Strasburg, 365 f.; Tours and
Nantes, 272 f. 50c.

Do. Birming & Derby
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Newcastle and Carlisle..
De. quarter shares ..
Newmarket • .
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford ..
Newry and Enniskillen..
Newry, Warrenpoint, &
itostrevor ..
Norfolk . .•
Do. New NI. shared .•
Northern Counties Union
North British..
North Staffordshire • .
North-Western ..
North & Sth.-West. Jane.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. ..
Scottish Central ..
Scottish Midland ..
Do. new ..
Shrews. & Blrm., Class A
Do. Class 8.. • • • •
Shrews. & Hereford., Old
Do., do., New
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. MM.) • • ..
Do. Halves ..
Do. Oswestry
Do. New.... • •

Shropshire Union ..
Do., A, B, C, & D, Hilly
paid up at per cent
South Deven
South-Eastern
South Wales..
south Yerksh. and River
Shell., Roth., and Goole,
South Division
Stockton and Hartlepool
Swansea & Loaghor, &c.
raw Vale Extension
Thames Haven Deck and
Railway • .
Vale of Reath ..
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick,
Waterford, Wex., Wick.
and Dublin ..
West Cornwall
West London
Whitenaven and Furness
York, .Newcastle, & Ber-
wick ..
Ditto and Newcastle
Extension ..
Ditto G.N.E. purchase
York and North Midland

BUSINESS DUNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, 96—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 1634—Luxembourg, I%—Ditto, 2% —Namur
and Liege, 7 lA—Northern of France, 1474 —Paris and Rouen,
246—Paris and Strasbourg, 10'41—Rouen and Havre, 914
Sambre and Meuse, 3:%4—Tours and Nantes, 534—West
Flanders, 2%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 15th have been received.
In the election at Barcelona, the President of the
Council, BEAvo MURILLo, has been defeated by a
Progresista, and SARTORIUS, the ex-Minister of the
Interior, has been defeated at Cuenca.
A letter from Madrid of the 15th says—
" There are numerous reports in circulation on the
subject of a modification in the Ministry. It is said that
MM. Arteta and Gonzales Romero will be replaced.
Many people, however, who profess to bo well-informed
on the subject say, that no change will take place until
after the opening of the session of the Cortes. MM.
Seijas, Mayans, Benavider, and Gonzalo Moron are
spoken of as the persOns who would come into the Ca-
binet in the event of any change being made. M.
Seijas would represent the moderate opposition; M.
Mayans the independent fraction of the Chamber, and
M. Moron or M. Bena►ides the old Conservative oppo-
sition."
The Epoca quotes a letter from Seville, announcing
that a frightful catastrophe had occurred in the garden
of the Duke of MONTPENSIER, at Alcala del Rio.
The PRINCE had caused a steam-engine to be placed
in it for its irrigation, and the 10th instant was fixed I
for its trial. His Royal Highness fortunately could
not assist at the operation as he intended, having
been obliged to repair on that day to Villamaurique.
As the boiler to be used for the experiment was not
new, it was agreed that it should be slowly
heated, but either from neglect or imprudence on the
part of the engineer, the boiler exploded, and over-
threw the building, burying under its ruins sixty-
six or seventy persons assisting at the experiment as
operatives or mere spectators. M. LATOUR, secre-
tary of the commands of the Duke, on hearing of
the accident, immediately repaired to the spot, ac-
companied by the physician in attendance at the
Palace. On their arrival eight dead bodies and
sixteen wounded had been removed from under the
rubbish.
It being the festivity of SAN ISIDRO, the Bourse
remained closed.

LINES LEAS:

lironiaal Prices.

PIZZD REINTALLS.

DNESDAY EVENINTG, MAY 2l, 1851.