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      The National Parliamentary Reform Associ...

      anA whether the food of : ; the whole people shall be -taxed for the advantage of a class . Uo goveriiment can he' entitled to confidence which refuses the constitutional rights of the people ; nor can any government deserve support which would tax the £ rst - necessaries of ' life , . .. ; . ; " There is no uncertainty as to the relative merits of Jree-trade and-Protection . The one ineans abundance nnd contentment ; the other scarcity and sedition . " Neither is there any uncertainty as to the relative rights of electors and norf-electors . The one is the might of the numerical few ; the other the right of the taxrpay ingmany . . \ _ ¦ . . V . onlhe secured when

      Free-trade can y permanently sustained by a broad extension of the franchise j and the franchise is a constitutional right . Such , then , are the interests at stake . Let no pretences mislead you . Other questions there are , great and heart-stirring ; but each should be decided by the flat of the whole people , and to that fiat we desire to appeal . Test your candidates for the House -of . Commons ; not as Whigs , or as Tories ; not alone as Free-traders or Protectionists , but also by their unequivocal pledges to support a broad extension of the franchise , a . re-distribution of electoral power , and the protection of the ballot . Remember , those who repose no confidence * in the people , are entitled to no confidence from the

      people . "•' . - Electors , —Yours is a delegated trust . You are placed in an advanced position , and ifc . devolves upon you to decide between the political freedom and the perpetuated thraldom of your unenfranchised fellow citizens , ' Non-Electors , —Prove that you are not " unthinking masses . " Organize in each locality . Unite with and sustain the efforts of liberal electors by every legal means . You have numbers—you have energy ; have firmness and determination .

      Electors and Non-Electors , —Your union , honestly sustained , will result in the overthrow of class legislation , . ¦¦ will , advance commercial freedom , elevate the industrious to their right position . in the state , and secure the peace , the prosperity , and the contentment of the whole people . Signed on behalf of the Council , r -Joshua Wai < M 8 I 3 ET , President .

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      Preservation Of The Crystal Palace. As T...

      PRESERVATION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE . As the time for removal draws nigh , the efforts to preserve the Crystal Palace multiply and strengthen . Meetings to petition continue to be held from day to day ; and they are attended by men who are fair specimens of the different classes of society . '/ At the Westminster meeting , in Willis s Rooms , on Saturday , for instance , the speakers were Mr . Geesin , Mr . T . Atkinson , Dr . Lancaster , Mr . J ... W . Marshall , Mr . Geach , M . P ., Mr . Beale , Mr . G . Smith , Mr . Grosjean , Admiral Sir George Sartorius , Mr . D . Nicoll , Dr . Daniel , Mr . Jacob Bell , M . P ., Sir C . Aldis , Mr . Bonny ,

      and Mr . E . Smith ; with Mr . Jackson and Mr . Miley against . Mr . Nicoll noticed the evident feeling of the public . He felt assured that if the people thought there was a real intention to destroy the palace , there would bo an expression of but one opinion from' the Land ' s-end to John o'Groat ' s that it ought to be preserved , and that any government would feel bound to defer to that opinion . The opposition at this , as at other meetings , only sufficed to test the real feeling of tho public . Indeed , some of the beat arguments for retaining the building are supplied by its few opponents . Hear Jackson : ¦—

      . During tho whole of tho Exhibition last year ho suffered ln £ pecuniary point of view from tho ceaseless hum ( cries of " Oh I" and laughter ) , and tho countless crowds of cabs , o mnibuses , and vehicles pouring through tho streets . ( l-nuightor . ) They woro now told that this popular agitation wan to bo kept up , and the tradesmen of Westminster , and of St . George's ,- and St . James ' s , wore to bo ruined . ( daughter , and crios of " Nonsense , Jackson ! " ) In a persona point of viow ho was roluotant that tho building "would stand , for , if it did , Piccadilly j-puld become a nuisance . ( " Oh , oh !) Last Saturday , when it was opened "'¦ 1 * -, tho crowd of vohiolcs waB flo great that ho one could « nvo up to liia doors . ( Laughter . ) In a public point of view also ho disapproved of it . < Tho tradesmen

      andhouso-,. P ? 'H ot tho motropoUs woro looking forward for somo i ' £ om a diminution of taxation ; , but if tho Chancellor ^^ wtooquor woro \ o bo called onfor 200 . 000 ? .-v- ( Orios " No , no ; -tho place will be aolf * supporMng . " ) If ho w « w wrong ho would fall back on tho other ground : iir ! J ? *) In llia ° PW » ion it . would prove a total failure , « n < i the pniy parti 08 to . bo bonefitod would bo tho oon-« * aciorij . Th py might all recollect that when tho Colosseum TonS in tUo fcogont ' fl Park ; tho first projoctorspont « l * , atwl WftS r « wod .- It was to have booh on a similar jnon to tlio Crystal Palace , and twelve acres of land wore to ijavo boon added . Poor Braham , who was now Hinging ; en , ot * r Hall , spent 20 , 000 * . on , it , and ruined himeolfc , Jon t ° r QHe 8 fcion- " ) As a frequenter of Hyde Park he . fSr £ thAt" * S ^ ould Buffer very much from tlio rowution of fcho building , . (« Oh , oh I * aud laughter . )

      Miley is riot' less useful in showing the straits to which opponents are reduced :-r- ' Ho maintained that the building was injurious to the health , salubrity , and enjoyment of the- park .. ' let any one go there , and he would find , in the first place , twenty acres covered with , the building . ( A voice . —" Only eighteen . " ) Well , then , there , were eighteen more trampled down ; so as not to produce a particle of herbage . ( A voice . — - " That ' s Eotteh-row . ") Forty ' - years agothe

      Serpentine was limpid water—let any one look at it now . ( Cries of " Question . " ) It was now the common sewer of Bayswater ; and the noxious effluvia arising from it were retained in . the hollow between the hill on the north sido and the Palace . ( Much laughter . ) He begged to submit his amendment , believing that the continuance of the building would be a breach of good faithy and would be forty acres of the lungs of the metropolis taken away from it . ( Great laughter , and cries of "Oh ! " )

      The amendment was at first seconded by Mr . Garbanatti , of Oxford-street , but he subsequently withdrew his support , on the ground that in his opinion the salubrity of the park would not be affected by the retention of the palace . The amendment , therefore , fell to the ground . Manchester pronounces in public meeting on the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the retention of the Crystal Palace . Sir John Potter opened the business of the day , and referred to the petitions sent

      from Warringtori , Salford , and other towns . He said it had ; been suggested the fund contributed by Manchester could be made of great benefit in supporting the Manchester Free Library and the School of Design . Mr . Bazley having been called upon as a Royal Commissioner , said he was not authorized to say anything ; but he reminded the meeting that the money was given unconditionally , and with the understanding that it should be applied to some kindred object in London . It must be recollected that the Continent and other

      parts of the w ^ rld contributed magnificently to the Exhibition , andT he could have wished some institution could be raised by the surplus from which they could derive some advantages ^ as well as this country . The suggestion which had been , most favourably received at present was a great industrial inBtitutibri in London at which people going xip to Irtrndoa -could -Btady wad receive diplomas- —marking the progress they bad made . The Bishop of Manchester objected to iihe fund being broken up into small sums to the contributing towns , and as to a great institution . like that Mr . Bazley spoke of , why should young men go'to London to receive diplomas ? "Why could not commissioners be appointed to go round the country to make examinations and grant diplomas on the spot ?

      The) Fate Of Franklin. The Ships Seen On...

      THE ) FATE OF FRANKLIN . THE SHIPS SEEN ON THE ICE-FIELD . A fttbtheb report has been made to the Admiralty by Captain Erasmus Ommanney , R . N ., respecting the two ships on the ice seen from the deck of the brig Renovation , on the 20 th of April , 1851 . The documents are , a letter by Captain Ommanney ; a written statement , and also a report of replies made by Mr . Robert Simpson , then mate , and subsequently master of the Renovation , under examination by Captain Ommanney , in' the presence of Commander J . J . Palmer , Commander W . Ellis , R . N ., and Captain W . Caldwcll , Inspector of Police , at Limerick ; and Remarks on the passage to Quebec , by Mr . Daniel Gorman , master of the Jessy of Limerick . From these documents we compile tho following very brief resume "; selecting those points which are now , or tend to explain obscurities . A private letter by Mr . Simpson to his uncle , Mr . E . Landells , of 29 * , Strand , also assists us . Mr . Simpson is at present at Limerick , in the British Queen . The persons of the story are Mr . Coward , muster of tho Renovation , a man of good character , with whom Mr . Simpson had been four years before the

      voyage to Quebec ; Mr . Simpson himself , evidently n young man of superior nature and faculties , with high testimonials to his character ; Mr John Supple Lynch , a passenger on board tho Renovation , and Davis , tho seaman at tho wheel . Davis '« share in tho evidence is Blight : he only looked with his naked eyo ; but what ho could sco thus confirms tho other reports . " Mr . Lynch , " says Captain Ommimney , "is a person of intelligence and good education . ¦ In his youth ho passed three years at son , and since has bpert ongagod in business and agricultural pursuits . . While employed under tho

      Board of Public Works as n piiyrdork , ho received n reward for his gallant conduct in defending himself against a party who attacked him for tho purpose of robbing him of about 1200 J . of Government money under his charge , which ho watt instrumental in saving . " Tho Renovation does not nppoar to have been well found in the appliances for noting occurrences at son , or making communications . Sho had no chronometer , Tho onl y * spyglass oh board woo old , and very indifferent .. There was one gun , n" two or throo-poundor ;

      but probably no powder ; and the gun was not fired Mr . Coward appears to have been very ill ; and when Mr / Simpson reported the two ships in sight , lie " groaned out" " Never mind , " or something to thafc effect ; but gave no authority to alter the course ; against which he had previously given Mr . Simpsdii strict injunctions . When the vessels were in sight , Mr . Lynch urged the mate to approach them ; but wo have already stated the reason why he did not . Nobody on board knew of the reward offered for the discovery of Franklin ' s ships . After Mr . Lynch got to Quebec—he is still in Canada—he urged Mr . Sinvj > son to go back and look for the ships ; he having & strong impression that they were Franklin ' s .

      The Renovation left Limerick on the 6 th of April , 1851 ; it being the first American voyage both of Mr . Coward and of Mr . Simpson ; though the latter had been frozen-up in the Black Sea . On the 20 th , the brig was probably SO miles northward of her reckoning which would make her nearly in the 47 th parallel . She was running some seven knots an hour . The ships were sighted about 6 a . m . on the 20 th . They lay on a field of ice , five or six miles off , about five miles

      long ; the most elevated part was not more than 30 or 40 feet high—the ice being probably a heavy floe , with a hummock upon it ; not a " berg , " as it was first called . In that part , along the eastern edge of the Great Bank , is always found a steady current setting to the SS . E ., at the rate of two miles and a half an hour ; icebergs are usually seen there , and there were many in sight at the time . The current had probably brought jfchem from a high latitude in Davis ' s Straits . .. _ ¦ . ¦

      The large ship lay on her beam ends , her decks flush , her lower masts and bowsprit standing , her hulk deeply imbedded in the ice ; she looked like a wreck . The other was higher on the ice , upright , in good condition ; her topmasts on end , her yards across , her running rigging unrove . The bottom of that ship appeared to be not coppered ; the bottom of the otlier was not to be seen . The ships appeared to be painted all black , with white masts . There appeared to be no cutwateK Any person in either ship must have seen the brig . . Captain Ommanney thinks it desirable to send out to Canada , for information from Mr . Lynch . It is known that three whalers were wrecked in

      Baffin ' s Bay in 1849—namely , the Lady Jane , of Newcastle , the JPrince of Wales , of Hull , and the Superior , of Peterhead . Inquiry is being made as to the particulars of these wrecks .

      There Has Been Published In The Times, A...

      There has been published in the Times , an extract of a letter from Captain Penny , giving his-opinion on tho subject of the ships said to have been seen on the ico in the spring of last year ; given , however , before tho last report : — " You ask mo what I think of tho two ships soon , upon the icoberg . I think they were ' country ships , ' as wo whalers call them—formations upon an icoberg which deceive oven practised eyes . " To placo ships in auch a position by tho process of freezing into an iceberg would require 30 to 40 years , and floe ico would havo boon broken up with tho western ocean swell boforo it had oven reached Capo Farewell . Not a piece

      of sufficient sizo would bo found to contain oven ono ship , much less two . No iceberg of ono-fourth of a milo would reach such a position : it must havo been two pieces of ieoborgs , and tho vessel being five miles distant could not observe tho water over tho detached ico . " Wo havo tho oxporionco of tho olovon whalors wintored on tho ico ; they all broke from their icoborgs long boforo they reached Capo Farewell . " The subject was also alluded to on board tho Assistance ' and Sir Edward Belcher expressed his

      bolief that two ships had been seen , not on , but beyond tho iceberg , and that they were not tho Erebus and Terror . No reliance , ho said , could bo placed on tho position or correctness of the objects seen over a field of ico . Ho instanced a cuso which occurred to Captain Sir Edward Parry , who , with a shooting party in tho Arctic regions , pursued what every ono of tho party would havo taken his oath was a hord of mooso deer , until they came up to them , nftor nourly a wholo day ' s exertion , and found thoy wcro a flock of ptarmigan . Tlio opinion is however strengthening that thoso ships woro Franklin ' s .

      The Arctic Expedition. Titk Vossels Inte...

      THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION . Titk vossels intended for the Arctic Expedition havo been at Greonhithe to luvvo their compiiHHOH adjusted by Captain Johnson , Tho papers supply Hovoral ucrapu of intelligence and gossip . Tho Assistance , Captain Sir Edward Bolohor , O . B ., has on . board a number of boxos , oaoh box containing four oylindorB j and each oylindor 20 lbn . of powdor , for blowing up tho ico whon required to forco a pneaago , through Wellington Channel , to tho opon water soon in Victoria Channol , by parties omployod in tho rocont expedition , after the threo graves iiaU boon discovered on Boochy

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041852/page/7/