The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-30 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES, 47.

Armstrong, R. B. Fox, S. L. O'Brien, Sir Lucius
Bankes, G. French, F. Parker, John
Bouverie, E. P. Goulbuni, Henry Reid, Colonel
Boyle, Colonel Greene, John Richards. Richard
Bramston, T. W. Hanmer, Sir J. Seymour, Lord
Clements, CharleS Hayter, W. G. Sibthorp, Colonel
Cocks, T. S. Hodges, T. L. Spooner, Richard
Coles, H. B. Inglis, Sir R. H. Stuart, Lord J.
Cubitt, William Jocelyn, Viscount Stuart, John
Dawson, T. V. Knox, Colonel Wigram, Loftus
Denison, J. E. Lennard, T.B. Wood, Sir W. P.
Dick, Quintin Lewis, G. C. Wynn, H. W.
Douro, Marquis of Lushington, C. Young, G. F.
Dundas, Sir David Martin, J. ~ ,
Edwards, H. Masterman, J. TELLERS.
Elliot, J. E. Melgund, Viscount Baring, Henry E.
Estcourt, J. B. Mailings, J. R. Grey, R. W.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Monday the 28th, the chances of your im-
proving your postal communications were cut down by
the defeat of the Carriage of Mails by Railways Bill,
by a majority of 56 to 53.
The Government attempted no unfair invasion of
railway property for the benefit of the community; but
the point the railway representatives stood upon was
simply this, "If it were a private individual we would
use our power to make him pay, and we will make you."
Government, in the name of the community, proffered
payment according to existing rates for everything that
was carried for the public; but the stag fraternity re-
plied "No; you will want a man to put things down and
take things up at the stations stopped at, and this we
will not allow either to you or to an individual." These
are the same classes that some time since set up a claim,
to open any man's parcel to see if there were more par-
cell than one inside. And such is the traditional reve-
rence paid to every kind of job in England, that there
is reason to apprehend they to some extent carried their
point. Such are the consequences of the legislature and
the community making a something like Frankenstein's
man, which ends by setting its makers at defiance.
On Tuesday a motion to declare the impolicy of the
tax on Hops. The visible object of the mass of the
supporters,
was to maintain the virtual prohibition of
foreign hops, and cease to pay the tax on home.
Wheu there is a chance of inducing the Government to
take off both the tax and the prohibition, will be time
enough to join the outcry against the tax. The motion
was negatived by 59 to 30.
On the same evening was the motion by the Member
for North Lancashire for an Address to defer the
destruction of the Crystal Palace till May, for the
sake of determining in the interval its final destina-
tion. The grand object and real utility of the building
in Hyde-Park, has no where been distinctly stated; but
you at Bradford will probably comprehend, that it is in
truth a universal market or place of resort, where all
nations may compare and determine what are the ob-
jects of utility or comfort which they can obtain on
better terms by giving some of the products of their
own country in exchange, than by trying to make them
at home. You at Bradford may represent the party in-
terested in this commerce is your own country; and
there is a similar party in every country, which it is the
object of the dunces who call themselves Protectors of
Native Industry to put down. Your party demands
nothing, but not to be put down to serve other people; and
their ground for this claim is, that if they are put down,
the consequence is a loss to the consumers equal to
the difference of price, without an atom of gain of any
kind to the industrious in the aggregate. The fraud is
simply in holding out, that you at Bradford are not in-
dustry. The plot is for treading out your industry to
divide it among rival shops, and trying to make the com-
munity consent to the loss which follows, by the quibble
of calling it protection to native industry. The thieves
and house-breakers might as well call themselves native
industry, and expect people to forget that those they rob
are natives too.
If this is admitted to be the object of the Exhibition in
the Crystal Palace, there would clearly be nothing un-
reasonable in wishing to repeat it triennially or as the case
might be; and in order to this, the Palace must be pre-
served for the present. The Government declared they
would not vote; but made speeches against the motion.
Notwithstanding which, the motion was finally carried
by 75 against 47. Upun which hint, it is to be hoped
the country will move in the way of petitioning, and not
leave any peg on which to hang a doubt of its desires.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, July 30, 1851.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,--Permit me, through the medium of your journal,
to direct the attention of the public to the Sunday per-
formances of the Executive Committee of the Exhibition,
covered though they be by the impeccability of a Royal
Commission.

Signor Monti, a well-known Italian sculptor, resi-
dent in London, was one of those who contributed some
groups of statuary to the great bazaar in Hyde-park,
among which may be remarked two girls fishing—the
daughters of an English gentleman—and the statue of
a veiled nymph. The other day, on entering Mr. Hen-
neman's establishment, in Regent-street, Signor Monti
discovered a photograph of one of these statues, which
had been taken entirely without his knowledge ,or per-
mission; and he was still more surprised on learning that
the counterproof had been carried off to Paris, where, by
this time, his statue may be already pirated in clay or
porcelain by some of those persons who are to be
distinguished from artists as " art manufacturers." Last
Friday week Mr. Tudor purchased the veiled nymph,
then apparently perfect and intact. On the Monday fol-
lowing, however, three of the fingers of the nymph were
found broken off; and Signor Monti, on inquiring among
the police, learned that friends of the Executive Com-
mittee, who are, it appears, admitted gratis on Sunday
in considerable numbers, had removed the statue from
its place on that day for the purpose of taking a photo-
graph of it, without Signor Monti's knowledge or per-
mission; and it was during this operation that the fingers
were broken off or separated from the statue, which has
thus led to an exposure.
Mr. Tudor has now refused to take the statue; and,
although the Royal Commissioners may give compensa-
tion for the loss of the 2001., I consider it my duty as an
Englishman to make known these facts, and to bring
public opinion to bear upon such unjustifiable pro-
ceedings.
It is asserted that the fingers had been already broken
off and repaired; but that does not in the least affect the
question at issue, which is, " whether the Executive
Committce is to be allowed the special privilege of
pirating the works of exhibitors without their express
permission ?"—I am, Sir, &c.,
WILLIAM CONINGHASI.
London, July 28.

OPENING OF VICTORIA-STREET, WESTMINSTER...-.
It is now definitively arranged that the ceremony of opening
Victoria-street, Westminster, shall take place on Friday, the
Ist of August, being the anniversary of the accession of the
house of Hanover. The new street, which extends from
Westminster Abbey to Shaftesbury-terrace, Pimliw, is
about three-quarters of a mile in length, and fifty-four feet in
width ; the carriage-way is macadamised, and is thirty-
three feet wide ; the trottoirs, or foot pavement, on either
side, 1014 feet wide ; the houses are all to be of a first-
class character, with architectural frontage. It will be one
of the finest greetgi ul the metropolis,