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      Opening Ov Tub Boyal Academy. Tina Royal...

      dell , are stronger than ever . Dyce only appears in ¦ the ' South room , among the drawings . Herbert does not show , arid great was the disappointment at missing his promised " Judgment of Daniel , " Cope will delight his admirers . Maclise will scarcely do even that : his single picture , of Alfred in Guthrum ' s tent , is harder and more confusedly distinct than any of his " earliest works . Webster puts less force and character than might be expected into a " School Playground . " The composition is excelled by Smith's " First Day of Oysters . " E . M . Ward ' s " Charlotte Corday going to Execution , " is one of the attractive pictures , dividing a " run" with Frith ' s scene of Pope making love to

      Lady Mary Wortley Montague , which strikes us as being forced . Lady Mary ' s laughter seems neither provoked nor uncontrollable . Roberts and Stanfield are effective in their treatment of well-worn subjects . Knell has an ambitious and partly successful work—a sea-fight . Prae-Raphaelitism runs , this year , into landscape , and is represented in that department , as well by two or three foremost members of the school as by Anthony and Inchbold . The miniatures are fewer and less attractive than last year ' s collection . After Thorburn , may certainly be named Wells , a young and rising artist . Understanding that the Octagon room was closed , we missed the contents of that apartment .

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      The Queen And Prince Albert, Attended By...

      The Queen and Prince Albert , attended by a large suite in six carriages , visited the Exhibition of the Royal Academy yesterday .

      The Central Cooperative Agency Is Progre...

      The Central Cooperative Agency is progressing rapidly and safely towards the accomplishment of the work for the performance of which it was established . The stores in the provinces become every day more convinced not only of the propriety , but the great advantage also of doing their business through , the agency . The partners and trustees have decided on the propriety of taking much larger and more central premises , so that they may be enabled to manufacture largely such articles as they are now , in many cases , compelled to purchase from the manufacturers—such as cocoa , pickles , & c , & c . Such premises were expected to have been secured last week , but a disappointment has taken place for the present ; before long , however , premises of the description desired will no doubt be obtained .

      The agency have now prepared for those who may need them , a set of rules for the formation and management of Cooperative Stores , as well as a model plan for a set of account books , so as to secure , as far as possible , uniformity and accuracy in the cooperative buiness .

      Among The Sums To Bo Voted By The House ...

      Among the sums to bo voted by the House of Commons under the head of- civil services is 40 . 200 Z . in the present year on account of tho census of tUe population . Last year 130 , 000 ? . was voted . Sir James Brooke was entertained at a public dinner at tho London Tavern yesterday . 240 ge ntlemen of position and character were present . r We feel bound to stato that the proprietor of tho Queen s Hotel , Liverpool , has contradicted the statement , tLat Mr . Feai-gus O'Connor played any pranks in his lartlor before embarking for America . , Up to a late hour yesterday evening no affidavits had been filed for tho purpose of answering the statements of Mr . Lumley when ho obtained tho injunction in Miss Wafer ' s case . Tho motion to dissolve cannot thorofore h « iSn / in tn-flav . for the nlaintiff is to have twonty-four

      hours' noticooi" tho matter contained in any new affidavits . Mr . Walton , an elderly gentleman , complained to Mr . Ingham yesterday , at tbo Thames Police Office , that n drover had cruolly treated a diseased cow , boatmff it until it fell and died on tho Now Itoad , St . Georgo s in tho East . Tho drover denied tho cruelty ; ho had dono Ins best to drivo homo as ordered . Mr . Ingham . —Was tho diseased cow to bo conycrtod into sauHacos ? ( A laugh . ) Mr . Walton . — -I don ' t know , Sir . I should bo very sorry indeed to eat any tmumigos made of tho carcaso oi tho iiniinal . ., , . Tho policeman who lmd chargo of the case said that iliHeuHod cowh woro either converted into sausages , polomoa ,

      tuivelovH , and Huehliko delicacies , or elso sold in joints on Bomo of tho ohnmblos in Aldgato High-Htroot , bottor known aa Cagmag-row . " There was Homo queor moat there occasionally . . „ ,. . . Mr . Ingham . —So I have hoard . Tho information just given mo is very important to pausago eaters . ^ Mr . Walton . —Tho cow was a regular " wet un , only fit for sausages and saveloys , or for " Cagmag-row m Aldtjato . It was in a shocking state . - Mrs . Moan , ft married woman , testified that tho drover had not boon at all cruel to tho cow ; Mr . Ingham decided , on her evidence , that the " gentleman" 1 ^ oxaggeratod tho case , which waa still a bad one , and iinod tho drover fivo shillings . ,. '

      Tho Kintr Of Prussia Has Suppressed Tho ...

      Tho kintr of Prussia has suppressed tho constitution relating to tKo Upper Chamber , which , in luturo , following the example , / Aonis Napoleon , ho intends to uonunato hl Tho U . P « M *"<> , which on TuohcIuv advocated a now appeal to the people , made a giant stride m advance tho next day , and U < 1 out tho probability of tho dolmitivo establishment of tho Umpire in twelve daytt from that time , by tho shouting of tho soldiery in tho Champ do Mara !

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      Satuedat, May 8, 1852.

      SATUEDAT , MAY 8 , 1852 .

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed whenall the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abnolp .

      " Cottoning" To Despotism. History Indic...

      " COTTONING" TO DESPOTISM . History indicates with unerring certainty the sequel to the present condition of England . After the repose of a peace which , so . far as her own lands are concerned , is unprecedented in duration , she is absorbed in the business of enjoyment , thoroughly broken in to peaceful pursuits , and disinclined to arouse herself to action . True , the enjoyment is of a highly artificial kind—not the most delightful , and much limited to particular classes : it consists chiefly , not in the natural enjoyments , but in the material refinements of

      superior cookery , excellent furniture , and housefittings , in greatly impxtoved door-handles , bellpulls ; steel fenders , and drawing-room chairs , in remarkably fine cloth , extra-superfine ' genuine ' silks at ' tremendous sacrifice' per yard , and largely extended biensdance among domestic servants , after a fashion , in the conduct of parties . As for the enjoyment of the people—whither has it gone ? Where is the frolic of the village green ? where the manly games P Much boasting is there , because the people have enough white ! which is

      bread to eat , and because it is ' ' most * ceconomical . ' As to the village sports , they are declining , North and South . In Cornwall itself , wrestling has diminished within the observation of men still young . Manly sports have been ' put down , ' and the people with them ; until at last the people is content to ask for education , ' to keep up a kind of grumbling in the towns about ' the charter , ' to emigrate , and meanwhile , to go on working from morn till night . The chosen representatives of the most

      nevrly enfranchised classes—the classes that have obtained political recognition by possessing social influence—are now in Parliament , refusing to see the possibility of ever more needing the manly energies of the nation itself to defend its shores , advocating the disarmed condition of the people , and upholding that opprobrium of free states , that instrument of central authority which extinguishes national freedom , an exclusive paid fightthe of the nation for it

      ing class to do bravery . The arguments with which this school of politicians upholds its unpracticablo positions are reckless in the extreme . Mr . John Bright , for example , ventured to assert of tho old militia , that " so far as their industrious avocations wore concerned , the men , on retiring from tho service , woro injured in character , morals , and their prospects in life , " —a hazardous romance oven of tho ill contrived militia of tho beginning of tho

      century : but what would even Mr , . Bright say of the Volunteer Companies with which it is tho b <* i 3 fc of many a successful man in business to have been enrolled P What would ho say of the Uniform Companies of tho United States—are not tho members sharp enough for business P or what would ho say of tho Swiss militia men , who can not only fight , who can not only maintain their country free in tho very midst of despotism , but can . work ? for a more industrious peoplo

      than the Swiss does not exist John Bright in himself wo take to bo a fine fellow—a good specimen of your sturdy Englishman : it is therefore the more lamentable to see him speaking in terms of shy toleration respecting tho French President , and blaming tho English press'for outspeaking ; for indeed , so small has tho step become between a Manchester man and an Austria-man ! Mr . Cobden boasts of tho eight hundred petitions which Englishmen have boon induced to pigii against tho Militia Bill on various profccxtH : ho said nothing of the number of signatures ; on the- contrary , ho assumed that sectarian meetings which adopted those potitionn represented whole places . There might , indeed , he admitted , " in

      some parts of the country , and in country con . stituencies , be found men who : believed ui the possibility of a French invasion ; but in . the circles in which he moved , among people of well regulated minds , and free trade opinions , he could not find any one who really imagined that the French were coming to Invade-us . ' But they might do so ; or rather , the Adventurer-in-Chief who has conquered Frarice by surprise " might ; and if he did , are . we prepared for him p ( granting our supremacy in coal and cotton on

      which Mr . CObden so iondly relies , the question is , whether we could bring that to bearinstantly P We doubt , indeed , whether all the steam power of Manchester could t > e of much service in case of a simultaneous landing along the South-eastern and Southern coast . \ None , as drivers in London well know , are so incessantly and blindly running into danger as women ; none so helpless when , it comes . Women ,. especially old women , appear to ignore the existence of omnibuses and dogcarts ; and Mr . Cobden" begs pardon of the

      French people for having even hypotcetically dealt with this question ; " he begs pardon of that nation , namely , that has " annexed" Algiersthat occupies Rome—that seized Spain as a kingdom for one Jerome whom Louis Napoleon has restored to quasi-regal eondition ,-r-tkat was preparing under Xouis Napoleon ' s boasted uncle ana model to invade England , — -that has not many years since burned with an open war fever against this country , —that exulted in the IMuce de Joinville ' s " ] N " ote , " discussing an invasion of England ,

      —that possessed Generals who prepared a plan of invasion for Louis Philippe , the f < Napoleon of Peace , "—that has accepted as one of its Governors the exulting author of the Decay of England , —that has , according to the bland recognition of the Manchester school , voted into the dictatorship , Louis Napoleon , " heir to my uncle , " heir to the unaccomplished Boulogne expedition , who "beliefs himself destined to the conquest , while regretting , such is his courteous gratitude , that he must thus requite the country of his refuge ; but , of course , he cannot disobey

      " his star . " . How continually the mistake is made of judging all other man by one's self , and none makes that mistake so constantly as the political parvenu Mr . Cobden has forsworn war , as an occupation that does not " pay , " and he seems to think that whole nations have done so . He thinks as much , not only just before 1848 , hut after it . He thinks so when he has before him Islay , Mogador , Meeanee , Moultan , Milan , Hungary , Schleswig-Holstein , Europe ! History exists not for him .

      But it exists for others : and it tells us that when a nation becomes so sunk in peace as England has been , it becomes enervated ; that when it is enervated , it betakes itself to philosophies like that which Mr . Cobden boasts , and whicn has unquestionably corrupted and unmanned the nation to a very large extent ; and that when the corruption becomes very apparent , then some Goth accepts the invitation , and then tho wealth which peaceful industry , dreaming of nought but industry and wealth , has accumulated , becom es the booty of tho incapable invader . England is now in the last stage but one . Tlmnlf fiWl . liowovnr . for that England is not

      all of'Manchester stutf . Manchester itself is not so—nor tho West Biding . At one time Government might have been most anxious to puu clown" our people : the time has come to arouse the people ; and wo wo glad to seo that we Have a Government not unmindful of the duty , in such cases national objects arc superior tc » parcy distinctions ; and wo are bound to say , thai m more than one roapect the present Government has shown a superiority to party unknown s inu > out

      the days when tho Whigs filched place u * 1 > ocTh hands . Peel , bo it remembered , conUsm plated a consolidation of militia laws % P " cai use ; so well did he read history , i-lie so called friends of " humanity , "—who ^ ° J T tho hands of the Cape colonists against the savages , and have sent more and more &»«? soldiers to bo shot down like beasts before an am bushed foe-the so-called friends of ( ; pea « e , wno would disarm England in the face of Coa »* ftJJ Croat ,-may for

      tyranny of cotton ; but many ^ rv arc more long-sighted ; there nro " circles tjwoj , those in whU a Oobdon moves ; there * # fe amongst us , cUflRirinff from tho Mauchcstei sn » >

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08051852/page/12/