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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

in the t

and the

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not the whole of the sinires in the company have been
taken up. It is confidently expected that, under favour-
able circumstances, the voyage between Livernool and

R,amsey will be performed in less than five hour;; and it
was remarked on her trial trip, that she sailed very steadily;
and was almost entirely free from vibration.

LECTURES ON THE POETRY OF
DANTE AND :ALFIERI

ON Thursday even

in the Collegiate Institutior
by a select audience of ladies

w=ith marke
by the lecti

1 gentle

of his audit

I attention to the exixisit
rer. He began by 1

t, in g

gave ,t
Dante

to state that, by the Italians, Dante is looked on as
father of their literature ; and he went on to show t
the writings of that

uthor had exert

and beneficial influence on the general literature of Europe.
Dante, he said, had appeared on the arena of letters at a
time when the discussion of political and religious sub-
jects created much agitation in the pub,
tation in which, with the fervour of a

the Ile(

Dante freely

ield the nations of Europe, and in particular the
people of Italy, rendered it requisite that those who spoke
of any subject connected with political or religious fr
dom should adopt a language haring a meanin
less conventional ; a langtmge, in fact, by wh
poke of one thing they symbolized anothe
Lecessity many of the difficult and peculiarly idio-
matic passages which occur in the writings of Dante, and
other Italian writers of or about his period, are to be
attributed. Of the great fame which the talents of Dante
had secured for him, as in the ease of other great men, it
was asserted that anticipatory intimations had been given.
Prominent among those was one, narrated by Boccaccio.
. •

in wine

more c
nth, whi]

and te

_ verdant and odorifi
igh which meandered a stream
s purity, and unceasi
GITIOII, and under t
dreamed that she w
►nsly of

great laurel, which grelx'in

deeply of the tryst

throve

Df wate
,undane

lelivered of a son, who
the laurel, and drank
e fountain, on which he

ind

is could n

Dante v

Itle lecturer alluded
f a family which, by his moths

act that
emit]

s pedigree direct to a Patrician family of the a
cient Roman Empire _in the west. He next traced t

poet's career as a magistrate of his native city
in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghi
pointed out that Dante had come to 1

One time a visitor
The lecturer, in tl

s a smile

seat of le

DI by Ital

ig, Oxford
,1,...1 .1.- IL.

OI LILS Cil

nu commercial position occu-
period of Dante's existence, a

somewhat similar, though, of course, greatly in,
that now achieved by England. After alluding
;culiar tenderness and sublimity of Dante's poetry,
ts they are evinced in the " Divina Comedia,"
ices of which he illustrated by characteristic
I with much delicacy and hemi-‘,

quotations, which he
he concluded by thanking

ted that, with a view to obviate any clashing of
1 a concert to be given on Monday (last nigl
and lecture would not be delivered till m.

PROGRESS

AT TUE CRYSTAL
PALACE.

GREAT progress is being made in the interior fittings of
the various courts and hi the formation of the grounds
without. The Pompeian Court is the most advanced, the
coloured a considerable extent com-
pleted. Court has also taken shape ; so
also h
being
to t
this, as it strikes us, will be
te GreekThdecoe erEgatiipundEgyptian
; nb n
less unlike what the people have already seen than the
former and some other portions. The collection of casts
from antique statues will nevertheless render this a very
attractive point in the exhibition. The shell for the corri-
dors and doorways forming the rirval-14-4...- Ir. 1.

11, Gothic, and -Renais.
ructed ; and in the zt.

itaba-flied;
ance Courts is being raPidb- cc
fiery above is a marvellous coil(

irtments thus being prepared
Amongst the casts the colossal head of "Ba-
a," from Munich, and the legs of the sitting Memnon,
now in progress, strike the visitor on entering ; while past
the Pompeian Court the equestrian figure of King Charles
has already given the name of " Charing-cross" to that part
of the building in which it stands. It is impossible to
just conception of the extraordinary whole which
present, when the numerous ideas
now all working towards fulfilment are realised and opened
to the inspection of the world.
tfhorem Crystala Palace will

floor and v

s of the

In the grounds an immense amount of work has been
.tone;levelled and formed; here the earth cut
down,
terraces
thre again brought up to a height of 18 or 2C
in thin lavers, made solid by continuous ramming.
'cps from 40 to 50 feet wide ; thousands
''-‘O4 on strong brick substracl4-

hts of granite st

red of stone balusl
keep
_back the g

phin-fonnt,ains,—

by t

T, rag'

stone arcades to cont
irly completed. Upon
the architecture

stradea

Australia

a her hang

eries of copies from the antiques Bernini, includi
distorted Farnese Hercules, lEsculapius, and Mercu
e first two clover statues are cast in cement merely.

the granite blocks i

is worth noticing the large sizes of ,
steps—many of them 12 feet in length.
The preparations for the water-works are on a cold
scale. Four pipes, two feet nine inches in diameter, a
being laid down for two cascades, which will run along ,
large extent of ground, and at the end fall over and pass
the face of an arcade 200 feet long, where visitors will
walk. The extent of water from end to end will be '..,,
feet. The great basins are 360 feet across, with a high
sculptors, some foreign
in each. In the whole there will be ten great fountai
For these it was thought deirable. to obtain fresh idei
and a competition was accordingly invited on a very sati,
paid to each. Amongst them are John Bell
ThJonee.sd,esKigiissis,
, eTreen
selectedarchitects
t o andgive
designs,
and the sum
(of Berlin),. J
osracofnierctnfwoogaslitsihn,g.n.
about 100 in num
tier, have just now been sent in.
Thomas,Heor HD! zavyua,
tt°, Zce.n

The last project in connection with this immense under-
taking is al series of hotels designed by Joseph Paxton, to
be erected in iron and glass, similar in character to the
main building on the London side, and connected with the
Passing over the public road.
These, it itPisakpereopbOisedgia,sws yshiwcah are to be of first, second, and
third class, each containing about 100 rooms, and supply-
ing refreshments at costs suited to the means of the various
orders of visitors, are to be carried out by a separate corn-
PanY.

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ROBENA, BARTLETT
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KENNEBEC, SMITH lBOO tons..
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ro
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