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    LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH ROYALTY.*

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    ARTISAN ART.

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    June 2 , I 860 . ] The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 521

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    day from a similar obscurity . " Who shot- the dog ? ' That is the question which the vulgar boys now demand of every person who appears in the streets dressed in the Uniform of a Rifle Volunteer . The volunteers , we have reason to know , are very sore about this impertinence , and some of our contemporaries have even gone so far as to reprove the vulgar boys in leading articles . We entirely sympathize with these martyrs . We can readily believe that it is highly wounding to the feelings of a smart young man , conscious of the admiring gaze of the fair sex at the first floor windows , to be shouted after by a parcel of low , street boys ; and especially when these impertinent ragamuffins would attempt to connect him with so undignified a proceeding as the slaying a lady ' s lap-dog . His position under the infliction is in every respect peculiarly embarrassing . The humanity which becomes a soldier forbids him to chastise the offender with the weapons which he has consecrated to

    be guilty , of the snobbishness of refusing to stand shoulder to shoulder with the decent Working man . We hear of certain corps which are so exclusive , that they will not admit shopmen into their body . A well-known linen draper , who employs a large number of Respectable young men , recently fitted out sixty of his staff at his own expense , in the hope that they would be admitted into the district corps . But no , they were shopmen , and the aristocracy of St . Pancras would not consent to associate with them . So the linen draper in question has formed his own corps , and maintains it at his own charge . If the volunteers would lay the perturbed spirit of this avenging dog , which is constantly yelping at their heels , let them cease to provoke the annoyance , by pursuing a policy which is in the highest degree insulting to the respectable working classes .

    the defence of his Queen and country . He is not in a position to explain to the public in general , and those admiring females in particular , that he is not the " party" who shot the dog ; and he feels that to run after the dirty boy and punch his head would be to bring his dignity to utter wreck . He has no resource left but to appeal to the public journalist to speak to these naughty boys . Those naughty boys have been spoken to , but , we regret to say , without effect . Whether it is that they don't take in the papers , or that they are hardened in contempt beyond the power of appeal , we are unable to say , but certain it is that they still persist in repeating that impertinent and offensive inquiry , and that grown men , of their own class , are found joining in their ribald jeers . volunteers from the bottom

    Now , while we pity the case of the of bur hearts , we are nevertheless inclined to think that they have brought all this annoyance upon themselves . The conduct of the boys and their grown abettors is not to be defended for a moment . But we venture to think it may admit of some excuse . It is not to be denied that the first blood which fell to the rifle of the volunteers was that of a lady ' s poodle . The story is only too well known . A ladv and gentleman were walking on Wandsworth Common , accompanied by a little dog . Two riflemen appear in sight , the crack of a rifle is heard , and the poor little beast , which a moment before had been gambolling round its mistress , is stretched bleeding on the ground . The scene closes with the rapid retreat of the valiant riflemen . Now this was a-very

    unfortunate incident to open the volunteer campaign with—an incident that would have provoked satirical remark under any circumstances , but particularly calculated to do so at a . moment when the -working classes were beginning to feel that they were altogether being excluded from taking any part in the rifle movement . Let not ^ the significance of this street chaff be misunderstood . "It lias a meaning and a purpose beyond the mere love of mischief and impudence The lower classes are becoming bitterly jealous of the exclusiveness of the volunter corps . Bodies of respectable workmen nave applied to be enrolled in the metropolitan corps , and have been refused admission . Obstacles have even been thrown in the way of the formation of corps exclusively composed of the working classes . to

    No reasonis assigned for refusing to allow working men participate in the movement ; but the motive ? of the authorities , and of the superior classes , who compose most of the existing corps , are well uriderstoott : —TlTTffrrmeriire-afVaT ^^ with weapons , and the latter desire to be select and to associate only with their own class . The conduct of the authorities in this matter is a strange commentary upon the professions of a Government which claims to be in earnest in seeking to effect a large extension of the franchise . A six pound householder is declared to be a fit and proper person to have a voice in the government of the nation , but he is not to be trusted with a rifle to defend his country against foreign invasion . Wei would ask , which is the more galling insult of the two—this denial of patriotism and common

    trustworthiness to the working classes , or the taunts which assail the riflemen m the streets ? We are bound to admit that there is more excuse for those genteel young men , who only discourage the enrolment of the working classes , in so far as they endeavour to avoid standing shoulder to shoulder with them in the same corps . Working men cannot be expected to come out so smart as the young gentlemen who order their uniforms of their fathers' tailors , and leave their fathers to pay for them . Their burly figures , too , would scarcely harmonize with the slim proportions of the tenderly-nurtured youth , who have never engaged in any work tending to round shoulders and horny hands . „ . Such incongruities , to say nothing of the awkwardness of private association in the barrack room nfter drill / would not bo favourable to the general smartness of the corps , or perhaps to . the social comfort of its members . We must , however , remind our volunteers

    that the object of forming these corps is not simply to give young gentlemen an opportunity of showing themselves in a smart uniform and forming a pleasant military club . If the whole thing be not a mockery and an idle pretence , there is such a thing contemplated as the defence of our shores in the enso of foreign attack . In ?«

    brave and strong . This tendency to oxclusiveness is fraught with a double danger . It threatens to bring the rifle movement into contempt , and worse than nil , to sot class against class . If the burber ' s rule w to be followed , and a lino muafc be drawn somewhere , let it bo at the coal heavers;—don't let us have coalheavers or dustmen in our ciuck corns j but let us not

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    WE have before alluded to a movement going on in the City , which , as significant of the better feeling of the time , is worthy of notice . The Painters ' , otherwise Painters Stainers ' Company , one of the oldest of the London corporations , has shown signs of life . The governors , usually termed the master wardens and court of assistants , have determined to make their guild of some practical use , and perfectly aware that their old privileges , tending to a restrictive monopoly , are not compatible with the proceedings of the age , have very wiseiy sought out a new course of utility , and opened their Hall to the exhibition of ornamental and decorative works , by the artisans of the craft over which they preside in virtue of their ancient charters . .

    On Thursday a private view took place of the specimens sent m , and five prizes were awarded , with , as we have every reason to believe , the strictest regard to impartiality , every precaution having been taken to conceal , until after the award , the names of the artisans . Nearly one hundred and seventy specimens , by thirtyfive , artisans , were exhibited , consisting of arabesque work , ornamental , inlaid , graining * enamelling on wood , heraldry , illuminated writing , matbling on paper , slate , and wood ; writing ^ pla te glass , ornamental church decorations , writing , and other illustrative pieces of work- . ¦ ¦"¦ -, . ¦ .. ; . „ ., , :. ... ' _ :. _^_ beautifulfrom their close

    ~ Some of these specimens were really , imitation , as in the case of the marbling , and of theiirartistie fancy , as in the ease of the writing on plate glass and arabesque work . The arts of decoration have certainly made great progress in England , and we are very glad to find that they have at last found an asylum , where their merits can be valued and made known . Noplace could be more fit for this purpose than the ancientriniU ot the ancient Company of the Painters Stainers . We have understood that the measure originated with the Master of the Company , Mr . John Seweli ., of Charterhouse Square ; and he has been ably seconded by his coadjutors , the Court of Assistants , who have shown the utmost liberality in giving to the artisan the honour and credit due to him as an artist . This important recognition of the actual individual who does the work , will do much to stimulate the

    decorative arts . . . , T The prizes , the Freedom of the Company , were awarded to J . SiM : . Tv ,. Tih .. i . npnnration in Arabesque ; No . 6 . Pilastew , Inlaid Marbling , J . McDowali . ;^ No 7 l 3 . Writing on Plate Glass , J . Edmett ; No . 19 . Marbling and Ornamental Inlaid Graining , T . Kekshaw . The exhibition is open to view by cards to the 21 st instant . Universal praise was given to the clerk ottne Company for the zeal he had displayed in getting up the exhibition , and for the arrangement of the whole exhibition .

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    A NEW plan of book-making has of late years mot witu considerable success . The writer , or compiler , takes some episode of history , and treats it as principal , surrounding it , as the subject is developed , with its natural associations , and thus deals with the entire argument under the name of a part . In this manner the history of our own country has been looked nt from many points of view—now , as it may be supposed to have affected pur queens , now as it is related to our Princes of Wales , and so on , in as many relations as may be conceivable . The same ground in all tW works is trod attain and aerain , but by means of arclicoological

    references , with frequently a certain freshness and novelty very creditable to the writer ' s research . For such research , indeed , such works are usually the vehicle , and then- value greatly depends on the original information they contain . We have to wade through much that is known to arrive at something ately discovered , which may modify our appreciation of an historical character , verity or falsify a doubtful event , or illustrate a passage in our onnals previously obscure . Much of this merit belongs to Mr . Folkestone VirMi ; - _ . i . _ i— ~ :., ^ ., . » n mmitfiod fnnnoTnnliicul work on oneno Willi wh given us » muumcu i ^^ " - " t —

    ams , o nas ug .. : : ,. ; and Richmond , and taken occasion to connect its immediate subjectmatter with whatovor in our national history can be brought , or supposed to be brought , within their local influences , from the SKonof Julius C&nr to the residence of our present P « n * « J Wales at the White Lodge , Richmond Park . A vignetJo of tins place , and a portrait of his Royal Highness , adot B ^ * 4 Volume , the other two being similarly embellished j Mijjjtnttto g Edward the Sixth and Henry Prince of Wales , son of James 1 ., ana

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    F . K . G . S . Three vole . HurBtuml Bluckett .

    Local Associations With Royalty.*

    T . OfUT , ASSOCIATIONS WITH ROYALTY . *

    Artisan Art.

    ARTISAN ART .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 2, 1860, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2350/page/13/