The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

A usual monthly and also quarterly meeting of the
Council was held on Wednesday. Thomas Littledale,
Esq., the mayor, presided.

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Mr. HUGH HOICNBY, seconded by Mr. JOHN Hottus,
moved the adoption of the proceedings of the finance
committee, with the exception of the recommendation to
appoint Mr. George Craven to the situation of inward-
book-keeper, in lieu of Mr. Ashley, at the salary of £lOO
per annum, which was left over according to the standing
orders.—Mr. BECKWITH complained that an item ap-
peared on the proceedings of £213 for the revision of the
model of the docks, after the same had been agreed upon
to be purchased for £7oo.—Mr. HORNBY explained.—
Mr. BECKWITH moved an amendment, but ultimately
withdrew it by entering his protest against the sum being
voted.—The town-clerk was ordered not to take further
steps in defending an action against Mr. Mansfield, sti-
pendiary magistrate ; it being the opinion of counsel that
the costs of such action could not legally be defrayed out
of the funds of the council, or out of the fees received by
the magistrates' clerks.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

The sub-committee on weights and measures reported
they could not recommend any alteration in the present
system of inspecting weights and measures, which they
believed had placed the weights of the town in a most
satisfactory position.—Mr. BRADLEY called for the pro-
duction of the evidence taken before the sub-committee
on weights and measures. He contended that the report
of the committee was at variance with the evidence pro-
duced before them, and he called upon the council to
place itself between the finance committee and the trades-
men of the town.—Mr. HORNBY replied, and urged upon
the council not to alter the regulation empowering Mr.
Fell to adjust weights, inasmuch as his doing so conferred
a great benefit upon the town generally. He warmly
rebutted the statement of Mr. Bradley as to his having
any prejudice in the matter. The proceedings of the
committee were then confirmed.

SALARY OF THE CLERK OF THE PEACE

A communication was read from the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, suggesting that the salary of
Mr. Wright, Clerk of the Peace, should be £BOO, in-
stead of £7OO, as recommended by the Council. After a
short discussion, the salary was settled at £BOO per annum.

NEW MAGISTRATES.

A letter was read from the Secretary of State, request-
ing the Council to submit for consideration the names of
six gentlemen whom they thought qualified to be placed
in the commission of the peace for the borough. Mr.
J. B. LLOYD named the following gentlemen : Mr.
Robert Rankin, Mr. F. Shand, Mr. S. Holme, Mr.
R. W. Houghton, Mr. R. Horafall, and Mr. J. A.
Tobin.—Mr. HORNBY suggested that the name of Sir
John Bent should be added to the list.—Mr. CHALIAER
wished to have the name of Mr. E. Molyneux added.--
Mr. WOODRUFF moved, as an amendment, that it should
referred to a committee to consider the appointment of
new magistrates.—Mr. GODFREY seconded the amend-
ment, which was carried by a majority of 24 to 17. The
following gentlemen were named on the committee—Mr.
Preston, Mr. Parker. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Woodruff, Mr.
Fernihough, Mr. Avison, Mr. Gregson, Mr. J. B. Lloyd,
and Mr. Toulmin.

DOCK COMMITTEE

Mr. C. TURNER, iI:P., in moving the confirmation of
the proceedings, expressed his great regret at the loss of
the services of Mr. Withers, the late treasurer, whose
courteous manner and faithful discharge of his duties were
well known to the merchants of Liverpool. The Dock
Committee would not be doing its duty if they did not
mete to him the same amount of compensation they meted
to their other servants. With respect to the increase of
the sum paid to Mr. Wainwright, he hoped it would be
confirmed unanimously.---Mr. Alderman COOPER opposed
the grant of a retiring allowance of £2OO a-year to Mr.
Withers. a man who bad been for many years in receipt
of £l,OOO a-year. He begged to move that this part of
the proceedings be vetoed.—Mr. WOODRUFF seconded the
amendment, and strongly opposed the grant of a retiring
allowance.—Mr. JONES supported the grant, because Mr.
Withers retired with the expectation of getting it.—Mr.
J. B. LLOYD thought this was a matter of internal arrange-
ment for the Dock Committee. and that the Council
ought not to interfere.—Mr. 110 ANDY contended that the
interference of the Council was necessary in cases like the
present ; and, although he had great difficulty about the
matter, he should oppose the grant of a retiring allowance.
—A protracted discussion followed, which was terminated
by a division, resulting in the retiring allowance to Mr.
Withers being carried by a majority of 23 to 16.—The pro-
ceedings were then confirmed.
The proceedings of the Courts of Law and Education
Committees were confirmed without discussion.

BOROUGH GAOL.
The Maxon. announced that the magistrates, on the
previous day, had elected Mr. Robert Jameson to the
offiee of Governor of the Borough Gaol, at a salary of £450,
with house rent and the usual allowances, Mr. Jameson
to enter into his own recognizance for £2,000, and find
two sureties of £l,OOO, or four sureties of £5OO each.—
After a conversation the appointment was confirmed.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.
The proceedings of this committee recommended an
increase in the salaries of the following persons in the
engineer's office:—Mr. James Ashcroft, from £9O to £120;
Mr. Tnomas Skeaping, £BO to £95 ; Mr. James Parker,
£BO to £9O ; Mr. Jonathan Gill, £54 12s. to £75 : Mr.
William Walker, £54 12s. to £7o.—The proceedings of
the committee were confirmed, except that portion relating
to an alteration of the flags in the vicinity of the Adelphi
Hotel, which was referred back to the committee.
The proceedings of the various other committees having
been confirmed, and a communication of Mr. Leoni Levi
on tile subject of the assimiliation of the commercial law
of England, Scotland, and Ireland having been ordered
to lie on the table, the Council adjourned.

TREATMENT OF SCALDS.—IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Fon THE MILLION.—On Saturday last an inquest was
held at the Lamb Inn, Westbourne, before Mr. Ellis,
coroner for the western division of the county of Sussex, on
view of the body of Alfred Housego, aged three years,
who fell into a pot of broth, prepared for the supper of a
large family, and whose death had been occasioned by the
shock to the nervous system from exposure of so large a
surface of skin from its peeling off, after a few hours'
suffering. Mr. William Baxter, the medical gentleman
called in, described the nature of the injuries which led
to the death of the deceased, and added that, in all such
cases, he advised instant immersion in cold water—a mode
of treatment not only useless but injurious after the lapse
of a few minutes ; and narrated a case which Sir Philip
Crampton, the surgeon-general for Ireland, related to
him some years ago. That eminent man and distinguished
surgeon, observing from his garden wall a child fall into
a tub of scalding water, hastened to the spot, caught the
little sufferer up, and plunged him into a water butt. This
sudden immersion in cold water prevented blistering of
the surface, and the rapid recovery of the child was the
consequence. The coroner and the jury expressed them-
selves most grateful to the doctor for the information he
imprted, which he hoped would be made publicly known,
and a verdict of " accidental death" was returned.—
Morning Herald.
IMPORTANT FAMILY MEDICINE.—FrainDtOn'S Pill of
Health effectually relieves the stomach and bowels by
gentle relaxation, without gripin Atr--prostrationzziness of
strength. They remove heads , sickness, di
pains in the chest, &c., are • ily grateful to the stomach,
promote digestion, crea appetite, relieve languor and
depression of spirits bile to those of a full habit and
free livers, who a continually suffering from drowsiness,
heaviness, a singing in the head and ears, they offer
advantage at will not fail to be appreciated. Sold by
all ven rs of medicines. Price ls. 11d. per box. See
the name of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on
the government stamp.

- -
THE MOST SERIOUS CASES OF DROPSY CURED BY
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—The causes of drop_sy are various,
but it generally arises from obstructions-to the free circu-
lation of the blood through the stem ;to remedy this
there is nothing so effective a olloway's Pills, as they
purify the blood and sire hen the constitution, and
thereby gradually dimin. the collected fluid, and if per-
severed in till the cu is complete, further accumulations
are prevented. ny persons that have suffered from
dropsy can to ' yto the efficacy of this medicine, espe-
cially ferns at the turn of life, who at that period are
more particularly predisposed to this insidious disease.

MARKETS.

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

Surat .
Madras

Bengal

MA NCH ESTER.—The extensive operations of the week before
last, which placed sellers and buyers under considerable
engagements with one another, and raised the quotations for
most descriptions of yarns, whilst they gave a hardening ten-
dency to goods, were naturally followed, last week, by a much
quieter state of things—an effect somewhat increased by ad-
vices showing the raw material to be duller in America, and by
a loss of spirit in the Liverpool market, accompanied with a
slight disadvantage on the side of the seller. As compared
with Tuesday, the effect referred to appeared to be somewhat
modified on Wednesday and Thursday; a returning confidence
seemed to be taking the place of some apprehensions betrayed
on the former day as to the maintenance of prices ; and,
although the market continued inanimate, there was rather
more business going on. On Friday there was again a little
more of the hesitation observable on Tuesday amongst buyers.
But the week, although one of inconsiderable business, as
compared with the previous week, closed without any relaxa-
tion in the rates then current. Relatively, there is more doing
in goods than in yarns; and the reason is that the former are
cheaper and therefore safer than the latter. Cops are in
general better than other yarns of the mediuni and lower
counts. Fine yarns are high. There is a general impression,
arising very much from the abundance of the crops both at
home and abroad, that we shall now have a gradual improve-
ment in cloth, particularly in those kinds which have hitherto
been most depressed ; and, indeed, domestics are sensibly yet
slowly coming into increased request.

ROCHDALE.—The flannel market has undergone no change,
except that there has been a rather thinner attendance of
buyers, and not quite so much business transacted. Good
prices continue to be asked for wool, and the manufacturers
complain of not being able to obtain a remunerating price for
their pieces.

Lawns.—The markets were well attended last week, and a
large amount of cloth changed hands at late prices. Purchases
for the autumn trade have been made to a fair average extent,
and the general aspect of the woollen trade is good.

—There is a further slight improvement in
some departments of the fancy bobbin net trade, which has to
some extnet alleviated the distress of the workmen. The
black silk lace trade is very dull, but the white silk trade, both
bobbin and warp, is in a better condition. The curtain trade
is somewhat depressed. The English have neglected the warp,
tickler, and point net machines for the bobbin net : but of late
considerable attention has been paid to the two former methods,
which promise great results in making Pyle fabrics. There is
very little alteration in the hosiery trade ; but we notice a
slight improvement in the silk trade. Upon the whole the
roundabouts are increasing. It appears that the West of Eng-

NOTTINGHAM

Singapore at 355. to 455. per cwt.—The sales in Rice are too
trifling to report.—More business has been done in Rum, at

prices rather in favour of the buyer; the purchases are 300

puns. Demerara and 4,

quiet, and transactions are only on a moderate scale, at pre-
vious prices.—The Tallow market is steady ; 395. 6d. to 40s.
has been paid for Petersburgh Y.C. ; 500 pipes South American
brought 355, 6d. to 375. 6d. for fair to good, and 38s. 9d. for a
little very fine; 50 hhds. North American are also reported at
375. per cwt.-100 tons of Lard sold at 58s. per cwt.-145 bales
first-class damaged Manilla Hemp are reported at £42 per
ton ; Baltic is quiet at former rates.—The market for Jute is
steady, and 2000 bales, including 400 all fau
at from £lO 10s. to £l3 28. 6d. per to

LIVERPOOL COTTON

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

In the.early part of the week there NI

:s, have been taken

MARKET,

declined id. per lb.; but for the last few days more firmness
has been exhibited, and the alteration from the quotations of
Friday last is very slight. Brazil is steady at present rates,
and, although there has been a good demand for Egyptian,

particularly on speculation, the market is so well supplied
that prices, though irregular, do not materially vary. Surat
has been in request at full rates. Speculators have taken 7220
American, 380 Pernam, 2050 Egyptian, and 190 Surat, and
there are reported for export 7280 American, 1450 Pernam, 110
Egyptian, 300 West India, and 180 Surat.

DESCRIPTION

Sea Island
Stained ..

Boweds
Mobile
New Orleans.
Pernams, &c.
Aracati, &c
Bahia, &c.
Maranham
Sawginned
Demerara, &c
Egyptian
Barbadoes
Peruvian

Laguayra....
Com.W.l.&c
Carthagena..
Smyrna....

Week

SALES
PRICES. Week I Previ-

IMPORTS

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LIVERPOOL CORN

MARKET,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

This morning's market was pretty well attended, but the
transactions of Wheat to the trade were only of moderate
extent; several further parcels were, however, taken for bold-
ing aver, and very full prices paid, though, except in a few
instances, not quotably higher. Flour met a fair sale, and
fresh quality 3d. to 6d. per barrel dearer. In Barley, Malt,
and Pease no variation. Egyptian Beans in slow request, and
offering rather lower. Oats were in moderate demand, and
the late reduced rates were steadily supported. In Oatmeal

very few transactions took place, but we do not alter the cur-
rency. Several parcels of Yellow Corn are now offering, ex
ship, and we quote this description Is. 6d. per qr. lower than
the late nominal quotations: White Corn maintains its late

value. Some further cargoes on passage have found buyers,
but the inquiry is less urgent to-day. We annex Tuesday's

quotations :

FOREIGN

;. d. 8. d.llVbeat,,jp, 701 P,

s. d. S. d.
5 6to 5 11
6 2

Corn there is a very limited

quiry, and prices are

rather easier.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. AUGUST 7.—Fresh-thrashed
English Wheat scarce, and in good request ; for the best quali-

dvance was obtained; there was likewise a

siness doing in Foreign, and for fi

lass Wheats a

Tiber (s.s.), Birch, hence at Genoa Ist August.
Duke of Wellington, Gibson, from Akyab for this port, at
Falmouth sth August.
Marmion, Steele, sailed from Melbourne for Mauritius Sth

April.
Courier, Gavins, and Eleanora, Todhunter, both from Akyab
at St. Helena.
STANLEY, May 31.—The Kaffirland, Stevens, from Liverpool
for Valparaiso, put in here 27th May, with her cargo (coals)
heated, which are being discharged into lighters.
WATERFORD' August s.—The Baticola, Crerar, of Pictou,
from Liverpool for Halifax, with salt, put in here last evening
and is discharging; bore up from lat. 51.

BEAUMARIS, August 6.—The Recovery came off on the floor
this afternoon, and anchored in the Cross Roads.

SUNDAY, AUGUST

—Wind V

linerva, St. Domi
irber, and Guy Al

—Clydesdale, Jamaica
Freeman, New
Charleston
—William

Agry,
na, Quebec

Dorado, Jac!,:sO
son, and Susan G. Owens,

Melbourne—Fran

ichaels, Charleston—Jacob,
er, Iceland—Louise,. Plate,
Edward Island—David and
Tippet, Danzic—Catbarine
n, Lisbon—Albatross (s.s.)

sina, Walsh
*ell, Gijon—

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

Monday Morning.
WE are here in a state of collapse—mentally and physi-
cally, politically and socially. Atter having indulged in
an inordinate bout of excitement, and over-exerted all our
faculties, we are paying the penalty of our excesses by
undergoing that prostration of spirits and langour of body
which are sure to follow an unwonted exercise of our
powers. We are pretty much in the condition of those
who, having quaffed intoxicating draughts of rosy port
wine at night, wake in the morning exhausted, and de-
pressed, and gloomy, and head-achy, and dissatisfied
with the past, the present, and the future. It was very
pleasant, and jolly, and exhilarating, no doubt, while the
" spree" lasted, but it requires a little time and some suf-
fering to recover our ordinary state of equanimity and
tranquil course of every-day existence. we indulge at
right in

-" Champagne and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after"

are the inevitable consequences. Great stakes have just
been played for, the running has been close and sharp,
and calculated to awaken the liveliest interest; the betting
has been heavy, and the losses and the gains have been
considerable on both sides. While we wera in the full
flush of the contest, and the blood was dancing in the
veins, it was perfectly delightful ; but now that we
have to square our accounts quietly, and arrange our
books, and pay our debts, sangfroid, we are wonderfully
sobered, and become, taking us as a whole community,
decidedly grave, and inclined to regard things on the
gloomy side. It is curious to observe what a complete
change has come over the tone of society within the last
few days. A week ago all were buoyant and roisterous,
and hopeful and energetic, and full of glorious animal
spirits. Then men everywhere talked of a magnificent
harvest, of national peace and prosperity, of a flourishing
exchequer, and without reference-to the question who
would or should be minister, of a splendid prospect of
wealth and greatness, and progress of all desirable sorts ?
Now, we have suddenly, and without rhyme or reason,
become a set of croakers, and wear faces as long and
dismal as that of Sir FRANCIS BARING when he was
Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Whigs, and sat " by
the bottomless pit of deficiency fishing for a budget."
Now we hear draary forebodings about falling funds,
about non-paying railways, about fast-coming cholera,
about thick-brewing fishery wars with America, about
secret continental treaties and impending European con-
vulsions, about the " great potato rot," and, in short,
about everything disastrous and doleful. An unaccountable
panic has seized us all. A poet would say—

" It is the very error of the moon :
She comes more near the earth than she was wont,

And makes men mad."

My plain prosaic notion is, that the present is the tem-
porary depression that naturally succeeds a period of
extraordinary excitement, and that we shall return to
common sense and our usual healthy spirits by and
bye. I know some fellows who have reason to look
glum—the BERNAL OSBORNES and the like, who have
no end of electioneering bills to pay. But there
never was a moment when the people at large had greater
cause for being merry, or when the nation was in a better
train, and under better guidance. In such a distempered
state of the public mind, the number of rumours, or, as
the Parisians call them, canards, that are set flying about
is incalculable ; but none is so ridiculous that it will not
find some gobemouche to swallow it. Only fancy the
crafty old Times giving wing to such an absurd story as
that the PRIME MINISTER turned off a trio of tenants at
Bury because they would not vote for his enemy,
FREDDY PEEL—a member of the late RUSSELL
government ! To make this canard more monstrous,
the tenants referred to turn out, upon inquiry, to
be no voters at all—at least two out of the three named
do not possess the franchise. It is quite manifest that the

Times, like DAN HomER, is sometimes caught napping,
and that in the case of the Bury tenants of Lord DERBY,
the Thunderer has been regularly " sold." What a
laughable series of illustrations these nonsensical tales
about the mysterious " W. B." at Derby, and about the
incomprehensible " three tailors of Bury" make of the
credulity of a portion of our countrymen. Nothing so
funny has ever appeared even in the comic pages of our
facetious contemporary Punch.
Vanity Fair is in mourning, that is, it has put on its
customary suit of solemn sables in memory of a great
potentate in its realms, during his day—of one who held

the sceptre of fashion with an absolute grasp, but who has
been forced to yield to a yet more absolute despot—one
before whom all earthly sovereigns, be they the rulers of
men, or the governors of tailors, must bow to the dust.
Count D'ORSAY has gone the way of all dandies, and has
followed PETERSHAM, and BRUMNIEL, and NASH, and the

long line of antecedentbeaux and ex quisites who have lorded
it over the men-milliners and petits-maitres of the West-
end. Curiousl,y enough, while Count D'ORSAY was talked
of in London as thearbiter elegantiarum, and written about
as the incarnate beau ideal to be seen and admired, no
one—that is, no English gentleman—ever thought of
adopting him as a model in habits tailoric or moral. In
fact, the Count was in every respect a thorough French-
man, and the exaggerated style of dress and the bright
colours he figured in would, if imitated by an English-
man, render him an object of ridicule ; whereas the Count
carried off the brilliant and outre garments be wore with
the jaunty air of a thorough-bred Parisian " lion," or a
very magnificent Bond-street " snip." The Count was a
universal genius, vulgarly a Jack-of-all-trades, and it
would really be difficult to decide whether he was greatest
as a soldier, a painter, a poet, a sculptor, a designer of
pantaloons, fancy vests, and outrageously queer cut coats,
or an epicurean philosopher of the modern school. As a
sketcher of personal likenesses he was really clever, and
the outlines he has left of some of the fashionable men of
his time are perhaps the works left by him best worth
preserving as artistic relics. Erratic as an artist, and
whimsical as a grand costumier, the count was constant
only to a course of life which was an outrage upon all
established laws of social decency, which was revolting to
every pure and religious sense, and offensive to everything

not as gross as itself. He lived undisguisedly and even
ostentatiously with the late Countess of BLESSINGTON—
the mother-in-law of his wife, a beautiful, accomplished,
and virtuous lady,—and this unholy liason was continued
to the last, till death did them part—in open disregard of
the opinion and censure of the world. The consequence
was, that he was alienated from that society which be
would otherwise have been free to enter ; and as Lady
BLESSINGTON was never received in respectable female
circles from the time when she left the paths of virtue,
they were forced to live in a society peculiar and not par-
ticular as to the private conduct and practices of its mem-
bers. In Gore-house they set up a sort of court, where a
coterie of broken-down dandies, of ostracised demireps, of
tuft-hunting authors, of patron-seeking artists, of literary
gents, snobs, toadies, and a few persons of real genius but
of loose habits, resorted to enjoy the luscious banquet,
and licentious conversazione of the tailoric SARDANAPA-
LUS and his fat, fair, and fifty ladye-love. By

this coterie, laudably grateful for favours received,

and inspired by the sense of favours yet to
come, "My lady" was bepuffed acd bepraised into a
heathen goddess of love and beauty, and into a great
authoress to boot, and " The Count" was written up as a
universal genius—as an " admirable Crichton," and
something more. In sober truth, neither was entitled to
these extravagant laudations. Lady BLESSINGTON was a
very so-so writer of common-places, in prosy verse and
mamby-
pamby prose; and the Count was an indifferent
scribbler, and a clever amateur of the fine arts generally
—nothing beyond. The pair present a melancholy
instance of natural gifts misapplied, and of rank without
respect. Carrying the contempt of christian precepts and
of social observances to the utmost, D'ORSAY and his
paramour have arranged to take the eternal sleep, side by
side, under a theatrically-contrived pyramid. The white
marble tablet—ironical emblem of the purity of their
lives—commemorating their mortal career. Sic transit
gloria.

Vanity Fair mourns her defunct dandy with all the out-
ward show of simulated grief she can submit to ; but
there is a real sorrow felt by many who were the partici.
pators of the Count's generosity and bounty :
Ambubaiarum collegia, pharnaacopol,
Mendici, mirnx, balatrones ; hoc genus homne,
Aixstrum ac solicitum est cantons ramie D'Orsaii,
Quippe benignus etat."
A couple of desperate attempts have been made during
the week to infuse a little animation and frolic into
our torpid existence, with but indifferent success. The
sons of Caledonia have given us a two days' exhibition of
their peculiar national sports, games, and exercises. They
have danced the Highland reel, pitched the bar, and ran
races in sacks, and wrestled, and whacked each other with
broadswords, and performed a variety of other similar
feats for our " divarshun," all of which was vastly funny ;
but, somehow or other, the Scottish fete this year has
been voted a bore by sight-seers in general ; and, unless
it ho materially Changed diTcroificd Agt year,

I fear the Scotchu3en will find themselves in Holland
Park all alone in their glory. The Crystal Palace, too, has
been put on its legs—(or rather leg, for as yet it has but
one)—again, in another locality, and a day of extraordi-
nary rejoicing was appointed for the solemn ceremony of
planting the first pillar. Of course, Sir JOSEPH PAXTON,
the "illustrious architect," and Messrs. Fox and HEN-
DERSON, the disinterested contractors, were the high
priests on the occasion, but there was a remarkable lack
of people of the least cansequence present, although invi-
tations were sent to every body whose name is to be found
in that valusble little book with the queer title, " Who's
Who, in 1852." Sir HENRY WEBB, that good-natured
accommodating Baronet, who never refuses a civil invi-
tation to a respectable entertainment, was the sole repre-
sentative of the Aristocracy—(saving Sir Joseph)—who
could be prevailed on to attend. But the promoters and
directors of the brittle company consoled themselves as
they best could for the absence of patronising princes,
peers, and prelates, and laid the foundation of the new
glass edifice in a perfect sea of champagne. Directors of
public companies understand pretty generally the art of
giving grand spreads, but this Cryatal Palace dejeuner
took the shine out of all antecedent gormandising and
guzzling matches. I don't know who the chef de cuisine
was, but he ought undoubtedly to be knighted forthwith ;
as for the butler, he ought to have been created a Prince
of the Holy Roman Empire on the spot. If the future
half-yearly meetings of the Crystal Palace Company be
only half as jovial as the inauguration festival, it will be
truly the most brilliant commercial enterprise the world
ever saw.