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    • THE CRYSTAL PALACE
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      rr . „ , „ ,,- all the grocers living in the street to sign a pend hl ^ ^ o J « r 8 dec&Hog «»•» , *> *«* •« they were con" ^ ssr tssss sssjasrs- i-iB -i . » «^ SSsKb » 2 a-susst ^ gss twenty-six P * I *™\ v theTexa ^ iiniug magistrate . He a »/ M > sajd Uen taken ther . ^ p » e exaipim u ^ ^ ^ ^ S ^ fe ^^^ JWW ^ W ^ Jft sensed Wmsdfby ' sS that he was greatly agitated , and had tak * n several glasses of brandy . of

      « receive the astonishment some respectable grocer in a back street in * be City on reading wme wowuig m } £ n-Wiaoert that his prelate * n » 4 been rnsde the nest i a ChaS Sw ^ W 7 » an * that U had been resoled in ?« Sk shop Pn » night flawed tp assassinate Lord Goueh and the Speaker of th » Souse of Commons . That - ? £ . case of poor Pichon . It may be as well U > state *? ? p that the Court after a short deliberation found ilSsVX of the * oft > nce with which , he had been charged . He was sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment , 300 f . fine , and the costs . " The ridiculous manner in which M . Yon has allowed himself to be hoaxed in the affair has led to much discussion . Some believe that he is as much to blame as Allais . All consider him as having acted mncf foolishly in the transaction . The question of

      his dismissal has been discussed m the National Assembly , and has ended in the defeat of Ministers , they having insisted upon his removal from office .

      The Crystal Palace

      THE CRYSTAL PALACE

      The members of the Society of Arts were afforded an opportunity of viewing this building , on Tuesday , by the courtesy of Messrs . Fox and Henderson . It is now rapidly approaching completion , though we should say from appearances that two or three weeks more will be required before the contractors can hand it over to the Royal Commissioners . The delay has not been caused by the fault of the contractors , but in consequence of alterations which have been made to obtain additional space for exhibitors , and the delay which occurred in the first instance in giving

      them possession of the ground and permission to proceed with the works . The whole building covers somewhere about eighteen acres of ground , and was originally intended to have had a uniform appearance throughout ; but in order to give it additional strength , and at the same time prevent the necessity of cutting down the magnificent elme opposite Prince's-gate , on the spot designed for the erection , Messrs . Fox and Henderson suggested the addition of the transept , which now forms one of the main and " most attractive features of the building .

      Immediately on entering the building from the park Uje scene is extremely impressive . The long lines of glittering galleries stretch into the distance , till they appear to meet at a point . The entire absence of scaffolding has been a remarkable feature of the operations . The system on which the contractors have performed their labours—all the materials having been prepared away from , the siteaccounts for this peculiarity . But the precision and extent of the operations are , perhaps , more forcibly shown in the distribution of upwards of two thousand workmen about the works . The vast number , far from crowding one another , is so scattered

      that the works appear to be but thinly populated , nnd a casual observer could not suppose that onetenth of the number were employed , unless he euw them , as we did , leaving the works at diuner hour . But from the first gallery the best view of the works may be had . Looking from this point into the great central avenue below , the effect i « very fine . The men , and horses , and wagons appear no bigger than to ys ; the whirr of the en gines is hard } y audible ; and the details of the operations are lost , so that the long unbroken lines of gulleriea stretch away on both Bides . Mounting still higher—to the leads which run on either aide of the great transeptthe view of the roof of the building tan be seen . A

      vast sea of glans gtretchev » o for on all flides that the view of the purk i « almost shut out . The great beauty of tho design consists in this—that each section of tho building is u multiple of the other . This urruiigcincnt has this effwet—that galleries radinto irom uny point at which the spectator places himself . IhuH the thousands of columns which support tho building , UJ 1 , i which else would appear liko a conf'JBed fort'Ht , fall , viewed from any point , into regular avenues , each covering the otlicr . Notwithstanding its extreme lightness of appearance , the building itf htated to bo in « yery part capable of bearing at least «<> ur times tho weight that can by any possibility be placed upon it .

      Professor Cowper , of King ' s College , delivered a lecture to the m , ember / s of the Society of Arts , on the building , pointing out jts different parts , » n ( J explaining the machinery employed in its construction . On coming to tho transept ho said : — " No doubt when tho visitors from foreign countries caine to the Exhibition they woul < J be struck by the preposterous idea of trees being retained within the building ; but he thought they might Jeurn * . lesson « ycn from

      that fact . Some pf their foreign neighbours had been very fond of p lanting trees of liberty , but they quickly died , rotted , and decayed , and had to be uprooted . Now , the British people were not very fond of emblems , but he looked at the tr « es left standing within that building as real trees of liberty- They showed that the people of ( his country did not live under a despotic Government- — ( be people wished the trees to remain , ai » d it vas accordinjsrjy decided that they should do so . A few years since 1000 trees were felled in Kensington'gardens , and not a word was said on the subject ; but John Bull had set his mind upon retaining the trees on the site of the Exhibition , whether they spoilt the building or not , and there they now stood within its walls , twenty feet below the transept , giving them sufficient room to grow , as a proof of the attention which the British Government paid to the wishes of the people . "

      Notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather , the members of the' society mustered very strong , and appeared to be much delighted at the proceedings of the day .

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      CALUMNT AND INTRIGUE . Under the above head the following story of real life has been furnished to the Daily News of Wednes day by a correspondent : — " In the south of England there resides a family of very high rank . The lady is a baroness in her own right , and a marchioness by marriage . She was left a widow when young , and she married secondly an amiable and accomplished gentleman , a nephew of an Irish duke , and who ou bis marriage adopted the name of his wife ' s ancestors . The noble lady and her husband took up their residence where the former ( who had been left an orphan when an infant ) had resided in her youth . Here they have lived in a style suitable to their rank , and have

      been highly distinguished for their charity and hospitality . Passionately fond of music , they gave a series of musical soirees to the neighbouring nobility and gentry , at which musical amateurs , even of ducal rank , were performers . Although the family are liberal , almost ultra liberal , in polities , this was not , of course , thought of while dispensing hospitality , and the whole of the Tory families of suitable rank in the neighbourhood participated in that hospitality . From the influence which the family naturally acquired in the neighbouring town , by means of their kindness and wealth , the husband was solicited by the inhabitants a few months ago to become their representative in Parliament . This he declined , but he recommended an intimate friend professing similar

      politics as himself , who was , after a desperate contest , elected . In this contest both the noble lady and her husband took an active and conspicuous part . Now , the representation of this town had always been in the hands of the Tory families i n the neighbourhood , and they were enraged beyond description to find it taken from them . They studied what insults and slights they could safely offer to the family that had supplanted them , so as to annoy and drive them from the neighbourhood . It appears that an attache of one of the most distinguished foreign embassies in London , and who is intimately related to a princely family , had been introduced to the lady by her husband's uncle as an eminent musical amateur , and one who was

      competent and would be willing to assist her ladyship in getting up her musical parties . He was of course treated with the utmost kindness by the family , and became a constant guest . About two months since he , presuming on the noble lady ' s frank and unsuspecting disposition , offered her a gross and unmistakeable insult . Astonished at the outrage , she summoned her husband who was in a distant part of the house , to her protection , arid he lm mediately knocked the scoundrel down and kicked him ignominlously from the mansion . The lady ' s political enemies have fabricated shameful insinuations from this circumstance , but with such cunning as proves that their

      cowardice , equals their malignity , and they have just now had the audacity to exclude the lady ' s name from amongst the list of patronesses to a . public ball . The great spite ball , as it is termed , was to crime off last night . In the meantime the inhabitants of the neighbouring town have tpkpn the matter up , nnd , one evening laat week , when the noble lady ( noble by birth and by many gifts and virtuea ) entered the Polytechnic Iuslitutum in the town , an institution of which she is a munificent patroness , the audience rose enmasse , greeted her wit-h the most enthusiastic cheering , and spoke ununstakebly what they thought of her enemies . "

      Another correspondent of tho Daily News says that" After the husband of the noble lady had literally and physically kicked the fellow who had insulted the latter from hia h < ou » e , he posted to London and there through a friend ( one of tl * o most distinguished memlx rs of the House of Commons ) he called him out . The challenged , although smarting from the effect of the ignominious puriislirnent he had received , refused to fixht . Home considerable time elapsed when he had the insolence to challenge the husband , but tho second of the latter said in eii « ct : —No ; the offender refused to

      give sati » ftt £ tum when ctuhed upon to do so , he has , therefore , b « cn pronounced a cowuid , and degrnded from the rank pf u guittlrinau . lie cannot regain that rank merely because he h » 8 been enabled now , by some mvufis or other , to ecrcw his courwgc u » the sticking place . The political enemies of the noble and injured family have actually made this the ground ' of reproach , because tho husband , competent and willing to defend his wife ' s good name i * nd his own honour , aariuot , while in tho hands of his friend , degrade himself by inflicting further punishment on the recreant alien . Previous to the groat * spit © ball ' coming off in the uouth of Idngland , the political cUqu « *«« t to » T « ry l * 4 v of jJtJp , * n <* reqM * l ** l her i ) iw «* » l » dy p » twne / si » j ») ju » poniwnWU i J / ut the

      terms were then stated to be , that she should not give a ticket to the Liberal marchioness . The lady of title objected , and she was struck off the list of patronesses . "

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      CONDITION OF IRELAND . The Tipperary Guardian contains a list of outrages perpetrated in the north riding of that county during the preceding few days . Three houses were entered by armed parties , who beat the inhabitants , and threatened them with death at their next visit if they did nofgive up the land , dismiss labourers , and cease to pay rent . Here is one of the list by way of a sample : —

      On the night of the 20 th instant two men , one armed with a pistol , entered the dwelling of a farmer named Cawley , residing at Beechwood , and ordered him on his knees . Cawley courageously faced the fellow having the pistol , and by a blow on the right side of the head knocked him down . His wife also struck him with a chair . Ultimately Cawley was prostrated , in a state of insensibility on the ground , and the ruffians then ran away , firing a shot , and cautioning him to give up the land he had taken .

      The herd of Mr . Aid well , of Gleeson ' s-grove—who was shot in the arm by a Ribbon party a short time since ^ has suffered amputati on of the limb—an operation deemed necessary in consequence of mortification having set in . On examining the amputated limb , the medical gentlemen found the slug lodged in the forearm . It weighed about the eighth of an ounce , and was composed of some metallic substance . The rent-warner at the same time received several slugs in the body and one in the side of the head , from which apprehension was indulged , and which have been also removed .

      On St . Stephen ' s night Head-constable Saunderson , of the Cappamore station , having searched several haystacks in a farmyard at Ballyvoreen , succeeded in arresting James Carey , who had been some time on the " , " charged with the murder of Patrick Eyan at Newport . The head-constable started the offender from his hiding place by calling aloud "to be off , as the police were coming . " Two murders were lately perpetrated at Clogher , near

      Ballinamore , in the county Lei trim , and the atrocious deeds arose from the taking of ground which the landlord , Mr . Latouche , got up from a defaulting tenant , who was not only in arrear , but enabled by his benefactor to bring his family to America . The land was reset , and the unfortunate new tenant , Thomas Gilheeny , became the victim of assassination . The other murder was that of Patrick Walshe , a neighbour of Gilheeny . Inquests were held on the bodies of the two men , and verdicts returned of" Wilful murder" against persons unknown .

      On the night of Thursday week , the out-offices belonging to Mr . Hugh Kelly , of Woodmount , county of Galway , were maliciously destroyed by fire , and with them were consumed a milch cow in calf and a heifer , that were housed on the premises .

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      SELF-SUPPORTING WORKHOUSES . The Times of Wednesday contains an interesting letter from "A Ratepayer" who has recently visited Galway , and been struck with the excellent manner in which the able-bodied poor of that union are made to work for their living . They have not only manufactured wearing apparel enough for their own use , but have a large stock in their store-rooms , with which they could supplyany other union in the kingdom , if the absurd regulations of the Poor Law Commissioners did not stand in the wuy . They also raise

      large quantities of vegetables , with which they make most palatable and nutritious soup . Indeed , such is the spirit of industry exhibited by the inmates , the writer feels confident Unit , had the guardians " 1000 , or even 600 , acres of good land , to b , e worked by the paupers , the workhouse would be ^ sell-supporting ; and by encrcasing the quantity of land , ty taking at a cheap rate such land as would require much improvement , and reclaiming it , would provide useful employment for any surplus labour , and create property for the union . "

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . At a full attendance of the Executive Committee on Wednesday night , a resolution was agreed to in reprobation of the course pursued by the Manchester Council in culling a national delegation , and calling upon all good Democrats to abstain from participation in it , it being contrary to the principles of" Democracy that a portion of a body should usurp the functions of the executive . Mr . lament Jones was appointed a delegate to Halifax : Mr . Davis having resigned from

      personal inability to attend , a new election was ordered for a member in his place . A minute was agreed to expressive of the indignation and disgust entertained by tlm undersigued members regarding the uttnek of the Manchester Council on Mr . Ernest Jones , tuul vindicating that flentlemun against the charges affecting his character . We have not the minute before u « , but this is the substance . This was signed by Messrs . Hurley , Milne , ( iratfsby , and Aniott . Tlie ininuto bcurs thfc following ailix ;—¦

      ' * Not being able to subscribe to the terms in which the foregoing minute i « expressed , we still wish to signify our accordance with its intention , und to obuervc that the fact that the executive appointed Mr . Joned their deleguu * to the Halifax meeting * after reading the attu-ek alx » vo referred to , indicates their confidence in his integrity . " ( Signed ) G . J . Hoi > yoakh , Fmaimjijh O'Connor Q . W , M . llUXXOl'Vti .

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      Jan . 4 , 1851 . ] W * , **** % . » _

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 4, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1864/page/5/