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

THE 'WEATHER.—srm OTFICE, MAY I
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
,58—thia day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.77.
Woo N.N.E.—dull, cloudy weather in the morning;
Afternoon, sunshiny occasionally.
MONDAY, MAY 12.
THICRMOMRTER, lAN THE SHAM
62—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day, at noon.
BAROMETNE4 2916.
WIND E.N.E.—light breeze and cloudy. H eavy shower o
rain about noon.

DAILY WEATELER, TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLYMOUTH—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Poona Wind S.E., gentle breeze—scud, rain.
POWISMOUTH—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Barcarrorr—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
aksmcis.....wiLd S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Sotrritamrros—Wind W., strong breeze—cloudy.
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FOLKESTONE—Wind E., gentle- breeze—partially cloudy.
TurturtrocE—Wind N.E., strong breeze—cloudless.
BAsucesToKE—Wind S E., strong breeze—partially loudy.
GREEI'TWICII—Wind E.S.E., gentle breeze—partially
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cloudy.
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sgemntol,esbreeze— breeze—partiallyParti ali
CAMBRIDGE—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially*
YARMOUTH—Wind S. W., strong breeze--cloudless. cloudy.
The returns from the following places '
Indicate
the
state of
the wind and weather
o'clock : on Friday morning at nine

MIILLINGAR—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Pootx --Wind S., gentle breeze—scud, rain.
Poßrsmouni—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
BASMGSTOKE—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain.

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1851

Conspicuous among other advantages conferred
upon society by the Great Exhibition, is one which
we believe has hitherto been too generally overlooked.
It must, we feel assured, tend almost inevitably to the
advancement of the cause of national education.
However eclectic may be the knowledge acquired
beforehand by the visitor to the Crystal Palace, that
knowledge must necessarily be enhanced by the ex-
traordinary spectacle there submitted to his examina-
tion. Whatever, on the contrary, may be the igno-
rance of others, that ignorance upon a great variety
of subjects cannot fail to be in like manner
dissipated. Better than all the elementary works
ever printed upon any one of the arts or of the
sciences, are the stores of information accumulated
together from all parts of the world, and symmetrically
arranged in their appropriate compartments. From
the survey of these marvels may very readily be ob-
tained a mass of most valuable and interesting mate-
rials, capable of being digested by any mind gifted
with superior intelligence.
Nevertheless, it must not be imagined that we
regard these beneficial results as at all within reach of
attainment, simply by two or even by half-a-dczen
visits to the Industrial Exhibition. Supposing any
one to have ever cherished this notion as practicable,
we would recommend him at once to proceed to
the southern entrance of the Great Transept, and
after passing in to the centre of the edifice,
to lock to the east and to the west along those
mighty naves o► crystal, along those galleries illu-
minated by the rainbow-tints of stained glass and
tapestry, along that ground-perspective crowded as
far as the eye can see with organs, and fountains,
and colossal statues of bronze and of marble. A
glance will be sufficient, we conjecture, to remove
the idea that this Crystal Palace of the art and the
industry of all nations can be scrutinized so very
readily. Upon his first entrance into the structure the
visitor finds all his anticipations dwarfed by the
reality. Panegyrics that may have seemed previously
to savour overmuch of hyperbole and fantastic exag-
geration, appear to him there in their true light as
inadequate expressions of admiration. He perceives
that the external view of the Crystal Palace conveys
no corresponding conception as to the appearance of
the interior, whether in regard to the variety of its
contents or its own intrinsic magnitude. His emotions
directly afterwards are those of mingled delight and
astonishment—delight at the_ exquisite harmony of the
colouring and of the proportions—astonishment at the
fairy-like novelty, splendour, vastness, and diversity of
the whole spectacle. Outside he had recognized the
banners of all races of mankind floating from the
flag-staves on the pinnacles of the edifice., Inside he
beholds, grouped together in their respective posi-
tions, the treasures of those numerous inhabitants of
both hemispheres, as strangely contrasted in their cha-
racter as specimens of ingenuity, as the peoples of the
earth themselves are in their physiognomies and
their temperaments. Before descending, however, to
a detailed examination of these curiosities the visi-
tor finds himself sufficiently occupied in sur-
veying the effect produced upon his mind
by the entire spectacle, directing his observation, in
the first instance, to the beautiful palace itself, and
afterwards to its more conspicuously revealed eon-
tributions—contributions made by the artist, the
musician, the lapidary, and the hydrostatist. He
gazes with sensations altogether new of their kind, and
exhilarating in their tendency, at that arched transept
of magical transparency, under which are those noble
elms already thickly covered, as with their summer
foliage, at the exotic plants scattered in profusion
among the jets of waters sparkling up into the sun-
shine, at the Asiatic palms and Oriental aloes clustered
greenly near the crystal fountain, at the statues
of statesmen like HAMPDEN, of warriors like
WELLncToN, of monarchs beloved like our own
SOVEREIGN, and not the least interesting among those
effigies of the illustrious, at the equestrian figure of
the young Prince, who has distinguished himself by
originating the whole enterprise of the Exhibition.
Turning the attention immediately either to the right
or left, the visitor allows his gaze to wander down
those long and luminous vistas of blue and yellow, so
lovely in the ordering of their perspective, so

" More honoured in the breach than in the observance."
And so it is that many persons deem it no great
harm to deceive the income-tax collector.

We have seen the advantages to be gained by per-
tinacity. Colonel SIBTHORP would force on his
amendment. The Honourable and Gallant Gentle-
man refused to listen to the Ministerial blandish-
ments ; he would not be cajoled or diverted from his
purpose, and he has achieved his object. The farmers
are relieved, although their grievance was nothing in
comparison to that of many of those charged under
Schedule D. It is, however, one of the weaknesses
of our excellent Minister of Finance, that he will
truckle to opponents and concede matters which he
would obstinately refuse to his steadiest friends.

ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN FOR THE WARD OF
LANGBOURN.—On Saturday a numerous meeting of the con-
stituency of the Ward of Langbourn took place at the school-
room in Lime-street, over which the Lord Mayor presided.
Mr. J. Masterman, M.P., amid great applause, proposed Mr.
W. Cubitt, M.P., as a lit person to represent the ward in the
Court of Aldermen. He did not hesitate to declare that the
more the electors should see of his Hon. Friend the more they
would admire his energy, decision, and integrity.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Kilby seconded the nomination. Mr. Singer and Mr.
Finley then addressed the meeting. The latter gentleman,
in alluding to Smithfield-market, said it was a mere matter
of quarrel between the Government and the corporation.—
(Cries of " Yes, yea!" and " No, no!") The Government
had never made a greater mess than in the market question.
Mr. Brook said Mr. Cubitt had been chosen as a candidate
because he was the best man they could find. He was so
well known in the City that he needed no eulogy. No other
candidate having been proposed, Mr. Cubitt was unani-
mously elected alderman of the ward, and in a short speech
returned thanks for the honour conferred upon him. Mr.
Beach, the treasurer of the ward schools, moved a vote of
thanks to Sir Jon Key upon his retirement to the Ward of
Bridge Without. The motion having been seconded by Mr.
White, was carried amid loud cheering. A vote of
thanks was moved and carried for the Lord Mayor as
chairman of the meeting, after which the wardmote was
dissolved.

animated by the moving forms of their fre.

quenters, and so lit up by the rich hangings
of crimson by which the different compartments are

covered, as well as by the motley hues of the corn•
modities set out upon those miles upon miles 01

counter. His pleasurabre feelings are produced, he
very soon discovers, by the arrangements being sym-
metrical without degenerating to formality, while tho
colouring of the entire scene is gorgeous without
proving exaggerated into an effect of tawdry ostenta-
tion. Here and there he is attracted to some of the
mostcircu uirlitearneesetinogf
their
rtiodns of. the exhibition by the
usual
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prov.es to be a
crystallized pillar that
K after her metamorphosis, and
with
block of alum. He hurries
the intention of
examining the contents of the Palace of
w stand.
something like sequence as to the particulars, and finds'
himself, in spite of every such determination, executing
a sort of intricate zigzag upon the floor—no
ing before an illuminated clock, with every second
throbbing into light, now before a spinning jenny in
full operation with the factory girls dressed accord-
log to their wont, and tending the reels of fibre with
the most obervant looks, and the adroitest fingers.
D 99 rem-xkable piece of mechanism proves on in-
quiry to be a steam-engine of 700 horse-power ; and
_on another, scarcely less
ge., thata matter of wonder and admira-
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with unerring
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A MAN KILLED EY THREE IRISHMEN AT STAm-
ronn.—(From a Correspondent.)—This generally quiet town
was on Saturday evening, about half-past six o'clock, thrown
into great consternation by a report that a man named
George Large had been murdered at the Horse-shoe Inn, Red
Lion-square. From what can at present be learned, it ap-
pears that seven or eight men and the deceased had been
drinking together for some time, and in the course of the
afternoon a few words took place between Large and an
Irishman named Patrick M'Glen. They afterwards agreed
and staid together for some time, when Large was standing
by a table, and on remarking that he would leave the Irish
company, he was struck by M`Glen on the left temple. De-
ceased immediately fell on the floor, and then M'Glen, to-
gether with two tiler Irishmen, named Michael Barnet and
John Farrell, set to kicking him about the body, the other
parties ( with the exception of a man named Wilson, who
was half-drnnk) having left the house. The poor fellow
evidently died from the first blow, although the savage at-
tacks were continued for some time. Policeman Mitchell
succeeded in apprehending M‘Glen and Barnet at a lodging-
house as they were about leaving the town. Farrell, a
lodging-house keeper, was shortly after taken into custody.
rivals-111LN.
A post mortein examination has been made, and an inquest will
be held this day (Monday.) Deceased was unmarried and
thirty-two years of age.
PA Al3zaLrEs MBouvtEleatr,ELNlTesnAteTriaeniit.EcLoTiotateltaaan(d.—MArrs-.
Waters, Captain 'Newell and family, Captain and Mrs.
Saville, Rev- R. Phayre, Zion. Mrs. Phavre, Rev. J. F. and
Captain and Mrs, 1'
Mrs. Sadleir, Rev.r Dr. Bosworth, General and Mrs. De
Mrs. Carter, Sir.i.'.l"as'er,
Mrs.
Captain and Mrs. Vail
Motte, Lieutenant-General eneral and Mrs. Alason, Captain O'Brien,
Mrs. Butler, Major-Gene' Dr. and Mrs. Lynch, Rev. Mr. and
Graham,
Rev. Phillips, Rev. E. F. Arney, Captain and
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, Major James,
Rev. L. Way. Departures—Hon.
shaw and family,
Lieutenant
and Mrs. Thorn, Colonel Hawk-
..ootenant Douglas, R. N., Rev, H.
Bowiby.— Cheltenhalll
We undurstand that the Earl of B.ective, son-in-
, will present
as a can
id ker-aa.
election,tihiseolui,elllt.l'. rotectionist, Mr. Alder-
law of that staunch Protestant and
himself to the electors of
represen-
tation. His Lordship is wel suited to become
for the
of Mr. Grogan; and his principles beingco,me. the colleague
similar to those of
that most efficient Member, no doubt is entertained of his
success.—Herakl.

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Palace, sothat the visitor requires no small amount
Tate DAT —Morn!ng 29 min. after 11 I Evening 0 Hain. after 0
TO ter Gzsow —Morning 58 min. after 11 I Evening 23 min. after 12 I of self-possession to preserve his attention from lapsing
into a state of bewilderment. We presume that no
doubt can, therefore, any longer remain either as to
whether the Exhibition can be thoroughly examined
in more than a glance, or when examined prove
capable of advancing the cause of education.

Although the Income and Property-tax Bill stands
for a third reading this evening, after which no im-
provement can be effected for twelve months, we
should not altogether despair of some modifications
being agreed to even at the eleventh hour, if those
who are impressed with the injustice and inequality
of the existing system would force their views on the
Legislature, and determine to try the effect of a divi-
sion for the purpose of obtaining some instalment of
justice. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
is entitled to no degree of credit for the
promised inquiry. He resisted it to the
very last, declaring that his mind was made up, and
that.no good would arise from the investigation. It was
not until he had sustained a signal discomfiture, being
defeated by a majority of 14, that he yielded a re-
luctant assent to the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee. The nomination of that Committee has not
even yet taken place. It may be fairly constituted of
impartial and unprejudiced men, and from
what fell from the PREMIER last week in
reference thereto, we would fain hope that
such will be the case. But we also know
the peculiar opinions of Sir CHARLES 'WOOD on this
subject. The Right Honourable Baronet, on a
former occasion, when the public mind was no less
excited respecting our restrictive monetary code and
the disastrous consequences arising from impolitic and
inequitable legislation on that all-important topic,
than it has more recently been on the unequal opera-
tion of the equal assessment of all descriptions of in-
come without reference to the sources
from whence they were derived, declared
that a " Minister must be mad who would
consent to the appointment of a Committee
on any matter unless well aware of what would be
the nature of their report." He manifestly considered
that the reference of any question to a Committee was
only an ingenious device for the purpose of putting
it on the shelf until the temporary excitement should
have terminated. It might also have the effect of
removing some degree of responsibility from the
Government and transferring it to the Committee.
His powers of " packing" a Committee, so as to
attain his object, have not been tested on a solitary
occasion, or even when the Committee was appointed
at his own suggestion. The nomination of the Com-
mittee to inquire into the cause of the commercial
distress of 1847, when a report was carried in direct
opposition to the evidence by the casting votes of
himself and of the author of the inculpated law, was
an illustration of the former, and of that on the Irish
savings banks of the latter. In that case the Hon. Gentl-
eman the Member for Dublin had carried his motion
for a stringent inquiry, despite the determined oppo.
sition and resistance of Sir CHARLES WOOD, who,
however, then took the matter out of his hands, and
so arranged the Committee that the object of the
mover was in a great degree defeated.
It is, therefore, possible, that notwithstanding the
protestations of the PREMIER, such a trick may again
be attempted. The third reading should, therefore,
be postponed until after the names of those who were
to conduct the inquiry were duly published. And
even if assured that it would be fairly and im-
partially conducted, so that we might naturally
anticipate an equitable and politic decision,
why, we ask, should palpable injustice be
submitted to patiently for another year, or why
should not those chargeable under Schedule D en

deavour to obtain some concession, although it might
not be adequate to the exigencies of the case, or such
as they have eventually a right to expect ? We have
already suggested that a reduction of the charges
under Schedule D to one-half of its present amount
would greatly mitigate existing discontent, and
make those who were chargeable pay their
quota more willingly. While such gross and
palpable injustice as now prevails is recognised
by law, every subterfuge will be resorted to, in order
to save the parties from being plundered. Exorbitant
duties occasion an organized and extensive system of
smuggling and deception. Men think it a rneritori-
.

ous act to evade such inequitable enactments, which
seem to be

This evil, and anything that tends to demoralise a
portion of the community by making them disre-
gard the truth, and carry on systematically a course
of fraud and deception, despising, disregarding, and,
if practicable, evading the law of the 1 and, is an evil
of no ordinary magnitude—can only be averted
by removing, so far as practicable, the deep sense of
wrong and injury that must now prevail. The tax
would be more freely paid than at present, and the
loss might not be so great as may possibly be
imagined. Two added to two will not always
amount to four in financial arithmetic ; nor will
two taken from four leave a balance of two only.
We trust, then, that another effort may be made to
obtain some immediate relief for the sufferers before
the measure be permitted to pass through its last
stage.