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      Orthodox Riots. Physical Force And Chart...

      ^ thepsxttteFreeTrader Bas against p tecfionists ; and the latter are ' emphatically » « nei to ^ P l ^ et , or tne Tamworth riot ^ Mionly he a small taate of what they have to JLctif t ^ J r ? ^ ^ W ** g * k $ Qn , r fi ow we must say that we have not th e i Vchtest taate for broken heads and bloody i ses , a " ^ would rather , at any time , see * hole windows thaH shattered ones '; but if * and license are to be granted to one i axis * ° commit -whatever violence they please , their assertion of their own opinions , or in Justification of their party prejudices , let us Z—* " ~ " . 1 . rtnf fhn 17 r <> ATr < u ! araaaaCT « nat

      sllll start fair . We have certainly as good a ilri <* t to smash the windows of St . Stephens , ^ furtherance of the principle that " repreti N atation and taxation should be co-eqrial , " las the Free Traders have to bombard and 1 shatter the windows of Tamworth Town-hall , s in support of the less dignified proposition , [\ $ 1 ^ we have a right to " sell in the dearest land to bay in the cheapest market . " If c brickbats andhltidgeons are to he the weapons f of party and political warfare , in future let all < be equally provided . We must emphatically > protest against any body setting up a mono-[ poly in these articles nnder pretence of defending Tree Trade . The style of Chartist oratory has

      occasionally been more emphatic than elegant , and its vocabulary more remarkable for its strength , than its refinement . But if , in future , they should be accused of not " sacrificing" sufficiently "to the graces , " they have only to Justify themselves by the example set by such notable people as Sir E . Peel and Mr . G . F . ToTOfG . The baronet , in not very intelligible Eng lish , thanked his constituents at Tam-¦ srorth for "the spontaneous burst of

      indign ation -with which they greeted the musty piltrrims of Protection , " who wended their £ av to that town for the purpose of giving utterance to slander and vituperation within a few yards ofthe graveof a Minister who made Free Trade thelaw ofthe land . Butnotcontcnt with this open encouragement of rioters and disorderly conduct , the baronet proceeds nest to denounce Mr . Yousg , the principal Protectionist orator , as a " miserable impostor , " and to call for his being hound over to keep the peace , in order that his reckless folly may not again excite the peaceable inhabitants of Tamworth to acts of violence and outrage ! -

      , MrrYoxnTG , on his part nothing loath , takes up the cudgels , and belabourB his hon . opponent rig ht lustily . After very distinctly and dearly proving that the term " impostor" is not app licable to him , and declaring that he -Kill not bandy scurrillity with such a proficient as the hon . baronet , because he is unacquainted with it , Mr . Youxg proceeds to show his ignorance of the art of abuse by the following exquisite passage : — & d ! hot , sir , hating shown what is not , allow me briefly to describe what , in wy judgment , is an impostor . K a man should he discorered who . representing a pure and TOtu » Tis Sovereign in a f jreign embassy , should he

      discreditably distinguished as a profligate and a gambler ; if as a member of a British House of Commons he should asrare to the dignity of an orator , write Ms speeches , and law * down in delivering them ; if , after breathing for ¦ ware the atmosphere of the very land of freedom , he jliuaM return to bis native soil , professing to be the chamjion of liberal principles , and be foimd practising on his tassal tenantry the most contemptible freaks of impotent tvranny—should such a man be discorered , weU indeed nisht he be branded as an impostor , and if he should have « ntured to ffinir the foul epithet at men more upright and consistent than himself , deservedly might he be set down as a calumniator also . Let Sir Robert Peel beware' Ihev who lire in glass houses should never throw stones . '

      This is not personal or abusive , by any means . It is all quite in accordance with conventional etiquette . Of course , if the cap does not fit , Sir ft . Peel need not put it on ; but whether he does or not , the wicked , scandal-loving public , knows right well at whom the allusions are pointed . The shaft hits the lull's eye , and the wound will rankle all the more bitterl y because the wounded cannot , without additional exposure , openly resentthe injury . -

      Such are the new aspects of the war between flic manufacturing and the agricultural interests . They are indicative of stormy" times approaching . A General Election is likely to let loose upon the country the pent-up angry passions of both parties to a lamentable extent . But , before that time arrives , we shall endeavour to do our duty , as we do now , by warning the industrious classes against becoming the tools of either party . " A plague

      on both their houses ' . " Neither of them hare shown an honest desire to do justice to the toiling and industrious millions . The attempts that have been made for their political enfranchisement , for their mental elevation , snd social improvement , have met with resistance from both parties ; and in the contest which approaches , if their aid is sought by either , it whl most assuredly be for selfish , not national objects .

      AYe trust that the people willlet the factions fight their own battles , and unite , npon the broad basis of citizenship , to demand for all , fall participation in the rights of citizensthe first step to which is a searching and radical Heform of our [ Representative System . That is their battle . TJpon it all their energies ought to he concentrated .

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      PARLIAMENTARY . The niter incapacity of the present Parliament to "turnout work" of any kind becomes more obvious daily . ^ Nig ht after night do the Members of ihe House of Commons maunder and jabber abont the silly and unintelligible Bill aimed at the recently-created Papal Hierarchy , without making any progress . On other topics , either they refrain from making a House , or only meet to throw overboard whatever measures , of a practical and useful character , may be submitted to lheui .

      On Tuesday they were frightened by the prospect of a debate on the condition of onr West Indian Colonies , followed perhaps by the franchise question , on Mr . Hume ' s motion , and , therefore , there were only twenty-eight Members present . On Wednesday they mustered in sufficient sbaigth . to defeat Lord Melgtjsb's Mil for providing additional educational facilities for Scotland . The Ctovernment , to their credit , supported the measure , bnt the lovers of

      igno'ance and the " good -old times" were too Srong for them . As far as the House of Commons is concerned , the 300 , 000 children , hr whose instruction no provision whatever is Sade in Scotland , are still to grow up in utter 5 | norance " and barbarism , nnder pretence of l 5 al for reli g ions troth ! The religion that deduces such fruits as these , must surely W its ori gin and show its results at the antilodes of Paradise .

      The Government job for perpetrating Va * jH of the London Water Companies occu-M the principal portion of . Thursday night . « was . carried . by a majority of sixteen , - ^ morning meeting was held for the-purpose ° f proceeding with , the bill respecting the oor-^ pt elections at St . Albans . No progress * as made . A renewed attempt - to prevent ^ fraudulent adulteration of . coffee was "earl y successful . Notwithstanding the re-^^ tance of the Ghaxcelmr of the Exghe-^ R , and the " out-and-out" Free Traders , *« adulterators had only a majority of five . . We have reached Whitsuntide without hav-% done anything whatever except to vote « e major portion of the taxes . Beyond that ** elseis naught :- , :- - .

      DOMESTIC . ^ The apathy and lassitude which prevails in . " arbament extenas < rat of doors . " Nothing ^ ^» ring : but stagnation , " and the Great ^ abibition . All Jo hn- Butt ' s faculties are Jacentrated in fus ' eyes for thisseason . Till « fc Great Glass Honso is closed , fie has no r " for anythmg ,--at least such is the ^ Pnlar explanation . ; There -t may be- some

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      troth in it j bnt we suspect there is more in the suggestion that this breathing time is but the calm which precedes a period of active political agitation . The dead lock in which all parties now find themselves p laced , will necessitate a Movement whether they will or not . When once it ia begun , who will say where it shall stop ? The most noticeable point in the week's news is the defeat of the Tractarian and High Church patty lathe Establishment , with reference to the long pending dispute as to the supervision of Church Schools by the Com-| mittee of Privy Council . The priestly party who arrogate to the Church supreme power frnfh in it lint toa m . n .. i . ft . — , i- ;_

      in all matters of doctrine and discipline , have , for a considerable period , waged war against secular interference with these schools . They were quite wiling to take the grants for their support , but they denied that the State had any right to see how these grants were applied . Connected as the question was with other extravagant pretensions of the Anglican clergy to priestly supremacy , the agitation has created great attention among certain circles ; and the defeat of the extreme party may be taken as a sign that a more liberal spirit is beginning to pervade the Ministers of the Established Church on this question .

      The death of Richard Lalor Sheil removes one ofthe remaining celebrities of a past generation . Politically speaking , it is no loss . For many years his principal distinction was , what Mr . Reynolds pithily termed " a lucrative taciturnity . " Perhaps no man ever more completely realised the lines of Moore : — "As bees on flowers alighting , cease their bum , So Whigs on Treas'ry benches soon grow dumb . " The great rhetorician and orator of the Catholic movement seldom spoke except in defence of some petty job—or when he was spurred on to give a momentary impetus to some lagging debate .

      FOREIGN . The event of tbe week in France is a speech by the President at Dijon on the occassion of opening a new railway . The object was , evidently , to cut , by a bold stroke , through the meshes woven b y the party politicians at Paris , and threw himself at once on the support of the nation in the struggle for place and power which is approaching . He directly accused the Assembly of having been always ready to assist him in measures of [ repression ; hut whenever he came forward with measures of an ameliorative character ! they opposed him . This declaration has produced general consternation among the jobbing adventurers , and by disturbing all their previous calculations will set them to work on new

      schemes to secure their respective dynastic objects . In the meantime Louis Napoleon has distinctly declared himself as opposed both to the restoration of Legitimacy and the establishment of the Democratic Republic . Like the smith in Scott ' s novel of " The Fair Maid of Perth , " "he fechts for his ain hand , '' and means , if he can , in spite of the constitution and all opposing parties , to keep his p lace at the head of the Executive Government , no matter by what name he may be dubbed .

      Conferences between the King of Prussia , the Emperoe of Russia , and other continental sovereigns , look ominous for the liberties of Germany . As yet , however , no definite policy has been divulged . The tigers are waiting in order to make their spring more sure and deadly . to their victims . In Rome matters progress from bad to worse . Under the mild and orderly sway of the Pope and the French army , a reign of terrorism has commenced , which quite rivals the often-quoted terrorism of the early French

      Republicans . The ostensible cause of the continued series of cruelties , and unjust persecutions , which are mercilessly indulged in by the Papal authorities—backed by French bayonets—is the determination of the people not to smoke tobacco . One young man , for having persuaded a companion with whom he was supping , not to smoke after his meal , was condemned to twenty years in the gallies . Do the besotted fools that passed the sentence , imagine their government will last as many months ?

      A counter revolution is threatened in Portugal . Saldanha will find his seat an uneasy one , as the Court—humbled by the manner in which he obtained it—will put in motion all the machinery of intrigue at its command , in order to revenge itself . The only political news of importance from the United States is , continued rumours of a Cuban invasion . Large numbers of persons have been arrested , on suspicion of being concerned in expeditions fitted out for that purpose . M . Caret , the French Communist , and founder ofthe Icarian Colony , the former settlement of the Mormons , is one of the late arrivals in this country from the States .

      Monies Receive!] , Fob Thk Week Ending T...

      MONIES RECEIVE !] , Fob thk Week Ending Thursday , JuseSih , 1851 . NATIONAL CHARTER FUND . Received bj"W . Bn > EE . —Honley , near HuddeMfielfl , per B . Dyson 4 e . FOR THE HUNGARIAN ANO POLISH REFUGEES . Received by TV . Kideb . —G . Payne , Abingdon ls-C Eiriley , Djgham Is .

      Interior. Of The ^ Crystal Phage Agents ...

      INTERIOR . OF THE ^ CRYSTAL PHAGE Agents and subscribers requiring Plates of the Crystal Palace , must write to Mr . Basiel Cottee , at this Office , accompanying their order with a remittance for the amount , and stating how their parcels are to be forwarded . I have many letters from agents desiring me to supply them , and to add the amount to their " Star " account : this would eanse a complication of accounts we must avoid . The Plate , both plain and coloured , is now ready . "W . Buxeb .

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      Huu ,. —At the weekly meeting of this branch on Monday evening , a committee was formed for the purpose of purchasing the shares of the dissatisfied members in the neighbourhood by an unlimited number of one shilling shares . More than one hundred shares were promised , and the-meeting adjourned to Monday next and every succeeding Monday until this object is attained .

      Arrival 0? Some Of Tbe Hungarian Patriot...

      ARRIVAL 0 ? SOME OF TBE HUNGARIAN PATRIOTS . . ' The . Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s ' steamer Sultan , Captain Joy , arrived on Thursday at Southampton . Among her passengers were the distinguished Hungarian lieutenant-GcneralLoizar Messaros , forty-nine other Hungarian officers , and fort ; Hungarian soldiers . M . Fraiicoes Izsollpsy , Kossuth ' s secretary , was a passenger on board the Sultan from Constantinople to Malta , but he was left at the latter place in consequence of his being in ill health . Mes-aros took leave of Kossuth , at Kutayab , on the 6 th of May last . The great Magyar was then in bodily health , ; but much broken in spirit owing to his long captivity . He ' has again , been promised Ms liberty , in September next , . by the Turkish

      gbvernment ; but faith has so repeatedly been broken with him through the machinations of Austria , and Russia , that there is no certainty when ; fee will be suffered to go at large . Kossuth ' s wife Hi child were with him , and about twenty-five Htagarians , who are still prisoners in Kutayah . There are now remaining prisoners in tbe Turkish dominions , about forty . Hungarians . Messaros , on landing , waited upon the Mayor of Southampton to ask if any assistance could be rendered to bis compatriots . The Mayor , offered to place him and the principal Hungarian officers at one of the chief hotels at his own expense . Messaros , however , respectfully declined the offer , and said he would prefer remaining with the Hungarians . After his interview with the Mavor he hurried down ; to the docks to acquaint theHungarians that he had been successful .

      Tim King Of Greece Has Returned To His C...

      Tim King of Greece has returned to his capital on board the Anstrian steamer Tnlcan . - ' The subscriptions for the free public library at Manchester amount to £ 8 , 875 . ; . - . v ***•

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      GLANCE AT THE EXHIBITION AND ITS CONTENTS . - In our . last visit we overlooked soma of the principal of the Britsh dependencies , and too curtly dismissed others . The neglected compartments lie on tho right hand of the western aisle , turning from the transept . Ceylon is the first of these , and has just now an extra political interest . One of the most prominent objects in the collection indicates the tropical richness of its vegetable kingdom—a large round table composed of fifty different woods . Tho growth and preparation of coffee native and plantation , are exemplified by samples of the seed and of the plant , and models of the rude machinery used to separate the hush from the berry , tbe houses in / IT » Wf ! C l < n mini mrrr . » . . . ..- - ~~

      which it is dried , stored , & c . Cocoanut oil is observable among these natural products , and of minerals the show is such as to indicate all the elements of wealth—iron , tin , manganese , and plumbago , with the rarer stones of the jeweller . In the next division are a number of rich and ingenious contributions from Malta , in addition to those of the opposite side . Malta stone is well known to sculptors ; and tho carvers of Valetta display a skill worthy of their material . In mosaic work tbey appear to excel , from the exquisite manner in which coral , lapialazuli , red Gozo marble , and other materials are brought up . A table composed nf one thousand seven hundred and thirteen pieces , excites regret as well as admiration for such an

      outlay of patient and delicate industry . 01 metal filagree and artificial flower and lace-work , there are several cases which justly attract very great atttention . The native cotton , silk , and nankeen , with samples of wheat , cinnamon , < fcc ., arc suggestive to one who remembers that they are the growth of what was probably the " little island of Melita , " and was certainly a barren rock until garrisoned by the enterprising Knights of St . John . From the neighbouring Ionian Isles we have nothing more valuable than a set of wax figures , and a number of prettily embroidered dresses , remarkable as the ; work of peasant girls . Our little Sisters , Jersey and Guernsey , make a good figure . The latter send specimens of

      raw silk , sea-weed , and arrow-root , and some pieces of tapestry , work , for ladies' dresses—indicating altogether a peculiar industrial condition . Jersey is more ambitious—her artificers have modelled in paper the scene presented at the landing of the Queen and Prince Albert on their visit in the autumn of 1847 ; carved a noble sideboard of oak , surmounted by a representation in bold , individualised figures , of the signing of Magna Charta ; and constructed a clock warranted to go five hundred days without winding up . Now we may recross the nave , and gratify highpitched curiosity with an inspection of " Mediaeval Court . " Opposite to it are several objects that may appropriately be included in the survey . Here , for

      instance , is the restoration , in alabaster , of a portion of the monument erected by Edward the Third , in Westminster Abbey , to his Queen , Phili ppa of Ilainault;—of the more interest because the entire monument , which has long since disappeared , must have been of extraordinary splendour , and employed the best artificers of the age . A tablet in brass to the memory of a lady is . one of the sweetest conceptions of art or affection . The face and form impress one as those of a saintly woman . The altar fronts of St . Mary ' s , Greenwich , and Hereford Cathedral—the unnatural figures and exaggerated adornments , especially the flaring brass lecterns—rather repel one in contrast with the quiet beauty of this tablet . Over the western entrance

      to the court bangs a stained glass lantern ; the figures on which it is almost impossible to get a distinct view of , but the colours blaze gloriously from the adjacent mirrors . The same is true of the whole fronting of the court— " a storied window richly dight ; " but with what it is not easy to make out . We seem to have stepped at once from the nineteenth into the fifteenth century . We are not surprised that all is Gothic . That element was almost exclusive when dominant . There is a good deal of the sanctuary , but as much of the drawing-room and the shop . On one side are altars ,, carved from Caen stone—one with a sculptured basement , and surmounted by a gorgeous canopy . In the corners are oaken pulpit-stairs , eagle lecterns , and gigantic

      candlesticks . On the north side of the room is a tomb and effigy—the most satisfactory object of the whole—a mitred priest reposing in his robes , with hands clasped in prayer ; and an . adjacent sepulchral brass personifies a crusader . On the third and fourth sides are cabinets , buffetts , chairs , stools , pianos—all carved and gilded in that flat , angular style popularly characteristic of mediaeval art . In tho centre of the room arc fonts—cases of clerical vestments , of rich material and work—huge fire-places , surrounded by castings ot heraldic monsters—and suspended over all arc chandeliers and lanterns . Among this crowd of articles , one is a screen , of tapestry , worked by sixty ' -young ladies of Islington , with national legends , the escutcheons of the Royal frmily , Sir Robert Peel , & c . Significant of a strong modern

      religious tendency , is a sort of _ bureau-altar , the open doors of which disclose pictures of saints and the injunction , " Vigilate et orate . " % ually suggestive of another contemporary fact is tbe announcement on a Jable , that nearly all the carving work here exhibited was executed by machinery . Thus it is that social elements balance each other . A religious or sentimental eccentricity may lead men back four or five centuries—but science will not stay its progress , industry will not consent to retrograde ; yet both will lend their aid to the former . If any would restore the form of tbe middle ages , tbe mechanism and ingenuity of to-day will enable him to do so—bat the spirit will be awanting . The retrogresistas will bear hut the same relation to the age and the people , as does this single compartment to the vast edifice of which it is a niche .

      Facts And Incidents Op The Great Exhibit...

      FACTS AND INCIDENTS OP THE GREAT EXHIBITION . Icb Produced bv Steam Power . —That , ice can be produced by mechanical means many may hare heard ; but tbat steam may be used as ah auxiliary for the purpose will seem hardly credible . It is , however , now being daily demonstrated at the Great Exhibition by Mr . Thomas Masters , of the Royal Polytechnic Institution , Regent . Street , the inventor of various ingenious machines for freezing . The apparatus used by him at the Exhibition is cap able of freezing upwards of . ., 100 quarts of dessert ices ( six different sorts are produced in the one machine ) every fifteen dr . sixteen minutes , of a perfectly smooth quality . A more perfect and simple contrivance for producing a perennial supply of these delicacies in a crowded place like tbe Exhibition could not be conceived , and the invention is undoubtedly one of the most ingenious novelties in

      the section devoted to the machinery m motion . The machines , however , are not limited to making dessert ices ; they . are ' made to produce cylinders of solid ice , sufficiently larjje to hold decanters of water and many bottles of wine . These cylinders are made in the form of castellated towers , and have a very novel appearance . The converting steam or vapour into snow may also be -effected by this machine , and in this way a whole room may bo easily cooled down in the hottest weather . The patentee ' s smaller machines , of which there are severer exhibited in class 22 , are calculated for use in a small family or bachelor ' s chambers . The cost of turning pure water into ice for sberry cooler , cooling Tfine , and other purposes in less than lvbat if can be purchased for at the . ice stores . They may be seen in . the Western refreshment-room inthe Exhibition ,, and . ire well worthy ofthe curious and scientific .

      We understand that at a meeting of the Goldsmiths' Company , held a few days ago , a resolution was unanimously passed that the sum of £ 5 , 000 should be expended in the purchase of some of the magnificent prate exhibited at the Crystal Palace , for the use of the splendid hall . - At the next Court of Common Council , Alderman . Copland is to bring forward a motion that a sum not exceeding £ 5 , 000 be voted from . the City cash to purchase some of the works of art in the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations , adapted for the decoration ofthe City of London .

      The Queen has accepted the invitation , of the Lord Mayor to a grand banquet in . the Guildhall on the 2 nd of July . The preparations are . to . be , on a scale of unprecedented magnificence . Alderman Sidney has proposed that £ 5 , 000 ; be spent in the purchase of exhibited ; works of art .. ; In several parts of the Exhibition , convenient rooms , fitted up with wash-stands , towels , & o ., are to be found ; ' for the use of which a trifling charge is made . This is in , part ¦ an : experiment ; and answers so well , that tbe committee appointed by the council of the Society of Arts recommend the immediate establishment of similar lavatories in the Strand , Hoiborn , Ciieapside , and other public

      parts . ; . ....:-... . ! * .- _ ' . . . Her Majesty has purchased at the . Exposition a tiara of sapphires of great ; lustre and size , and a brooch , consisting of two enormous . rubies , set round with diamonds , by Lemonniere , of Paris . The Great Western Railway Company have granted all their officers four days' leave of ah * sence , for the purpose of visiting the Great Exhibition . ^ The corporation ofthe CityofLdhdoh intend to give all the clerks at the Mansion House and the Guildhalland alseall the officers in ' their service ,

      , an opportunity of viewing the ! interior of the Crystal Palace , and the gorgeous display of foreign and Kngiisa manufactures . ' FoYtuia- ' purpose / we believe , they , have resolved tome them all a holiday , and present each of the clerks with . a guinea in lieu of "a ticket of admission . ¦ ' ; But as the public business would be interfered with by g iving them all leave of absence on'the same day , it has been arranged that each one shall take his turn , so that not more than three or four may be absent at one time . ' '

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      noticed : thffc ^^ h * attracted the £ 2 I SSS"t dramat M 3 ; and last week a fiSiui ^ T , th five acts , written by MM . ¦ Srta St finf MP Wproduced at the 'fSSfh ? S more Plot- than is generally the case with mm aud the vicissitudes of a French KelYsTa s £ >? ° 8 ee Se fehiSn r tftheS ^ L i ° oxclte some degree of interest . Orthe tableaux one representing I gallery in the '7 mV £ natlon 8 are menti < med in tems ii in i n ftSr ^^ 0 iti 2 en Steam-boat FwSfc , rr a n nged to give all their servants , iSL ° nH n , l 5 () 0 ) ahoI'day to visit the Great Exhibition , and hare given £ 40 to enable them to d 0 T , ° / f !? ° i expense t 0 themselves . P , wf < wf rait : -Mr . Richard Burnet , in the Piazza , Covent-garden , has presented the Charitv m .. m _ . ... - ^

      SS Z * Ju , o' Covent-garden , with Is . 6 d K £ m fife ?! - ^ - each te * cher , to enable them to visit the Crystal Palace . J w . So ! L rn Ex ? IBlTI ? . - -- he South Eastern and EasternCounties Companies have granted le SL ? 8 r M \^ officersf » r t he purpose of visiting the Exhibition . We learn that the Great £ get ? he £ r ffi S . ' en < 110 give tha 8 ame Pdvi " Excursion Trains and ihe Government Don . —a meeting of the general managers of railways was held m the Euston station a few days since , at which Mr . Harding , tM 0 secretary of the South-Western Railway , drew attention to the nosition

      of those companies who are aggrieved by the interpretation put upon Clause 9 of 7 and S Vic , cap . 85 ( providing an exemption from tax on fares at and under Id . per mile ) , by the Railway commission 1 r \ ™ tn comraissionersof inland revenue , on which Mr . Swift has reported that a remedy by legislative enactment cannot at present be anticipated . It was thereupon resolved that the attention of the committee of the clearing house be respectfully called to the unsatisfactory , position of this question , the railway comnanies bein < r now refused

      all exemption from tax on excursion fares , though under Id . per mile except on the lowest fare—that is to say , if , in an excursion train running 100 miles , the fares are 7 s ., os ., and 3 s ., itis only on the 3 s . fate that tho commissioners will grant exemption from tax . A penalty is thus practically imposed on giving any but the worst class of carriage accommodation . This will be much more severely felt in a pecuniary shape as the excursion train traffic to the Exhibition increases , and should , therefore , it is submitted , be looked to before such

      commence , It is worth while to observe the very distinct contrast drawn by nearly all the journals between the demeanour of the several classes of visitors . " On Saturday , " says the Times , " a considerable sensation was created in the building by tho appearance of a Spanish family , dressed in their picturesque national costume .. Tbey were accompanied round the interior by Jjord Ranelagh , and were stared at and crowded round with a perseverance and impudence , which , considering the charge for admission , and the presumed presence , in consequence , of a rather select assemblage , said very little for its good breeding . Greeks , Persians Egyptians , Indians , Turks , and Armenians , have all been allowed to exhibit their finery since the Exhibition opened without let or hindrance , but the appearance of a Spanish sehora in the dress of her country oflered too great an attraction to be resisted in deference to tho ordinary rules of politeness . "

      Of Monday s assembly , we are told , it approached nearer the ideal upon which th e scale of shilling admissions was . fixcd than anything that we have yet witnessed . The mass was well leavened with the unraistakeaWe traces of a labouring population ; it was at once interesting and gratifying to observe how ,. after a short time spent in simple wonder and astonishment , each seemed , by a natural instinct , to betako himself to those departments upon which he could bring his own practical knowledge most distinctly and intelli gibly to bear . Every portion of the interior was well examined , and though crowds still collect round the niore curious and attractive objects , there is evidently a singular instinct at work among the body of the community to which our upper classes were not subject . While

      they retained possession ofthe building the eastern , or foreign half , was more favoured or frequented . Jfow the western . division comes in for the largest amount of admiration . Altogether , the conduct of the ' visitors to the Exhibition , now that the price of admission is lowered to Is . ' , is beyond praise , and amply vindicates the confidence reposed in their good behaviour . . Chaucer and the Exhibition . —Chaucer , it would seem , possessed a prophetic faculty in his prefiguration of this palace of . glass . The passages wequote occur in the House of Fame , in the intror ductiou to -which the- poet aoseribes it as a vision , and speculates upon the causes of dreams , affirm * Ing his inability to decide whether

      " Spirits have the might To make folks dream o ' night , Or if the soul of proper kind Be so perfect as men find ¦ That it wote ' whdt is to come . ' 'As I slept , " ho goes on to say , "I dreamt I was Within a temple made of glass , In which there were more images , Of gold standing in sundry stages , In more rich tabernacles . And with jewels more pinnacles , And more curious portraitures ; And quaint manner of figures Of gold work than I saw ever . "

      " Then saw I stand on either Bide Straight down to the doors wide From the dais many a pillar Of metal that shone out full clear . " * * : ¦ # # " Then gan I look about and see That there came ent ' ring in the hall > A right great company withal , And that of sundry . regions Of all kinds of conditions , That dwell in earth beneath the moon , Poor and rich . " * * .. * . ¦ # Such a great congregation Of folks as I saw roam about , Some within and some without , . . Was never seen nor shall be more !" So palpable a coincidence is , to say the least of it , very curious , Toiai , Receipts at thb Boons . —The following is a correct statement of the sums taken at the

      doors of the Great Exhibition since its opening , May 1 st to May 31 st : — Date . Rate , Amount . Thursday .. « .,. May 1 ... Season tickets only admitted . Friday ......... „ 2 £ 1 £ 560 0 0 Saturday „ 3 £ 1 482 0 0 Monday „ 5 5 a . ...... 1 , 3 « S 2 19 0 Tuesday „ 6 5 s . 1 , 458 10 . 0 Wednesday .. .. 7 5 s 1 . 790 15 0 Wednesday . 7 5 s . 1 , 790 15 0

      , „ Thursday ... „ 8 .. . .... 6 b . ...... 3 , 018 0 0 Friday ......... „ 9 & . 1 , 824 10 0 Saturday ... „ . I 0 o "« . ...... IfiiS 15 0 Monday ...... „ 12 5 s . ...... 1 , 50710 . 0 Tuesday . ; .... „ 13 ...... 5 s . 2 , 229 10 0 Wednesday .. „ 14 ...... 5 s . 2 , 00415 0 Thursday ... „ 15 5 s 2 . 426 . 0 0 Friday 16 5 s . 2 , 550 10 0

      ,, Saturday ... ,, . 17 ...... . 5 s . ...... 2 , 473 5 0 Monday ...... „ ' 19 ...... 5 s . ...... 2 . 345 0 0 Tuesday „ 20 ...... 5 s 3 , 300 15 0 Wednesday .. „ 21 5 s 3 , 512 5 0 Thursday 22 ...... 5 s 3 . 797 11 0 Friday „ 23 5 s 4 , 095 10 0 Saturday ... „ 24 fig . ...... 5 , 078 0 0 Monday ...... „ 26 .... ; . Is 920 2 0

      Tuesday ...... „ 27 ...... Is . ...... 1 , 34717 0 Wednesday .. „ 23 Is . 1 , 859 4 . 0 Thursday ... „ 29 ...... Is 2 , 375 18 0 Friday , 30 2 s . 6 d ....... 2 , 839 8 0 Saturday ' ... „ 31 ...... 5 s . ...... 1 , 771 12 0 £ 57 , 990 I 6 Amount received for Season Tickets ... 65 , 87115 0 Total ........................... ^ 123 , 861 16 , C The receipts at the doors of . the Crystal Palace on Tuesday , amounted to £ 2 , 415 2 s . ; the number of visitors , ' according to the police returns , was 53 , 371 . . , Tlie receipts on Wednesday amouated to £ 2 , 500 16 s ., and £ 18 18 s , was taken by the sate of season tickets , which still continues . By the police returns 55 , 255 people visited the building the day , a considerable portion . of whom were evidently from the country .: .. ; ' ' On Thursday the receipts are reported to have been £ 2 , 566 17 s . From the sale of season tickets , £ 18188 . was received , and the police returns ^ statc that 55 , 059 persons entered the building . * The only new feature of the Exhibition was the display in the-Belgiah departtaaut of ai very rate aud precious collection of jewels , ' by Mr . Hope , including an immense pearl shaped like a man ' s hand , and said tobe the largest in the world . On Friday ; £ 2 , 558 lis . was taken . at " the : doors , the charge for admission being half-a-crown , 26 , 134 persons entered the building .

      •Tub Pohtable Ynwais' .—Mr.. T. Davis, T...

      • Tub Pohtable ynwAis ' . —Mr .. T . Davis , the patentee ' of the portable urinal was summoned to appear at Guildhall and the Mansion-house for bavin" unlawfully placed in the public street a machine which waaa common nuisance to the residents ; It is intended for the convenience of gentlemen only , who are admitted by an attendant . inside on . payment of Id ! each' person . —Mr ; Payne said that both vehicles should bo instantly removed , " and upon 'that understanding the case was . dis-« birg > d . •¦ ' -

      •Tub Pohtable Ynwais' .—Mr.. T. Davis, T...

      NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ! )?"" " UNITED TRADES . T . S . Dwcombb , Esq ., M . P ., President . Established 1845 . " FIAt JUSTITIA . " "If it were possible for the working classes , by combining among themselves , to raise , or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be a thing not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rejoiced at" SroABT Mill

      "We were last week enabled , by favour of the editor of tbe "Northern Star , " to obtain insertion of the important address of the Silk Dressers of Leeds to their fellow workmen of tbe United Kingdom . To that address we desire to call the serious attention of our members , and indeed every working man who seeks to better his own condition , and that of his fellow labourers , through the medium of trades' combinations . We know not that we ever met with a document the production of working men , so much entitled to profound consideration .

      Its language , sober and argumentative , appeals directl y to the reason and common seuse of its readers upon a question of vital import to every grade and class of British labourers : a question , the consideration of which cannot with safety be any longer evaded—a question upon which must ultimately turn , and at a date possibl y nearer than by many may be anticipated , the condition , well-being , nay , tbe peace and very existence of society as at present constituted with all its time-honoured and boasted institutions . Itis a question , moreover , in which tho working class is not alone interested—it concerns , perhaps ,. in a high degree , the distributors of the nation ' s productions , whose emoluments are derived exclusively from the wages of labour .

      The growth of a system , the tendency of which is to diminish and depreciate the purchasing power of the community , must be . disastrous to all those whose income is contingent upon the consuming power of the people . The degradation of one class implies the inevitable destruction of the other . To maintain a healthy state of society , the powers of consumption must be coextensive with tho powers of production , and any arrangements by which this latter is petted and unnaturally stimulated , to the neglect and injury of the former , can only lead to anarchy and confusion . That to this condition we are rapidly approaching every day ' s experience bears ample testimony . The scientific discoveries and mechanical inventions now

      exhibiting m . the Crystal Palace , when brought into active operation , will supersede the manual labour of millions of human beings . Production will thus bo multiplied and cheapened , until those ' who possess tho purchasing power will bo gorged and satiated with the excess of physical enjoyments at their command . But as these must of necessity be a small minority of the nation , what is to become of the vast majority , who . have no means of consuming except through the beneficial application of their labour ? Will a fraction , the monopolisers of the money , the raw material , and the scientific and mechanical riches

      of the nation be content to feed , clothe , and house the whole of the community in " a state of degraded idleness ? Or will these latter ever consent to be thus maintained ? The assumption would be preposterous . What then is to be done ? To arrest the march of improvement is impossible , if . it were desirable . Bat , assuredly ,. somo means must bo discovered whereby the people may be provided with employment . ' " The right to labour'' is a social axiom not recognised by modern governments . Tho people must themselves ;

      and , by a proper application of the means within their reach , assert : and maintain the reality and inviolability of tbat essential right . If they are to be driven from their workshops and factories as useless incumbrances , they must claim and make good their right and title to the soil of their birth , as the sourceindicated by God himself— for tlie sustenance of man . If the Government will not protect the rights of tho labourer , tbe people , by union and co-operation , must themselves perform tbat duty .

      The Silk Dressers , ia their admirable appeal , make particular allusion to some of the more prominent evils which have produced , and are now producing , such lamentable results in their own , and other trades . The unlimited introduction of apprentices into trades already overrun with numbers unable to find employment , is a species of suicide on the part of those who encourage , or connive at it . The system of over time and long , hours is another very fruitful source of injury , wherever it is adopted , A surplus labour is by these means created and perpetuated , and the market value

      of labour necessaril y depreciated . The 3 ? ree Trade maxim , that "to make a thing dear it is only necessary to make it scarce , " appears to be either not understood , or wilfull y disregarded by working men . The remedy for these things is in our own keeping . The supply of labour should always be regulated by the demand , but in an isolated and individualized state we are incapable of any operation which requires , for its success , a unity of action . What successful result could be anticipated from the most numerous and best appointed army , though every individual

      of that army was a personification of the highest courage , if each unit pursued his own individual view of duty , without design or unity of purpose in conjunction with his fellows ; or if each regiment fought its own battle , regardless of the fate of others ? Certainly the alleged glories of an Agincourt , a Oressy , Trafalgar , or Waterloo , had been unenacted and unsung . It appears , therefore , to us , that the address of the Silk Dressers is a-highly important document . It shows that they are thoroughly acquainted with their position . They correctly—as we think—point to " surplus labour " as the monster evil , against which the whole of our energies should be directed . They invite all . trades to reflect upon

      and consider this momentous question ; they point—and as we again think , correctly—to the sole remedial agent- ^ aii effective national organisation of . the now scattered elements of labour . It would be impossible to conceive a more judicious or beneficial investment of working mens' money , than to a fund to be constantly appropriated to the permanent removal ofthe surplus labour of tho country , by opening up new . fields of employment , where that valuable element , - which is now made to assume the character of a pernicious drug , might be converted into an instrument for strengthening and enriching ' our common country . This great design ' has always been the . ultima ratio oi- this Association .

      Those who look to it merely as a strike machine upon , an enlarged and improved principle , take but a contracted . view indeed of our great design .. We have always contended that with any thing approaching even to a national organisation , such a thing as a strike would be an impossibility . The necessity which is now so generall y felt for legislative protection would be felt no longer — Short Time Bills , Laws for the ^ Regulation of Apprentices , Anti-Truck Acts , and' all other

      measures deemed necessary for labour ' s protection would bo enacted , in strict accordance to thelaw of the land , by the peop le themselves , instead of wasting their time inftuitless appeals to their sham representatives in St . Stephen ' s . We are proud , therefore , to find that those important principles , > hich were first enunciated in connexion with a trades ' movement , by the founders of this Association are evidently ' beconiing better understood , and extensively recognised ; . . ,

      We feel confident . that the working classes will soon perceive the wisdom of leaving Protectionists and Free Traders to fi ght their own battles without their aid ; while they ' ¦ will steadily apply themselves to protect tteir in-

      •Tub Pohtable Ynwais' .—Mr.. T. Davis, T...

      terests from the plundering propensities of either faction . The application of the first year ' s sixpenny weekly contribution from half a million of men , would lift off an immense incubus from the shoulders of labour . Its beneficial effects would be immediate and prodigious , it would bo the commencement of a noiseless , peaceful , and perfectly constitutional social revolution , totally unconnected with any of those theories with which it is the tashion to fri ghten the old women of either sex .

      It would bo but the application in a wider field of principles now in every day operation ; but its effects would bo felt with almost the force of an electric shock through the moral , social , and political worlds . Labour would assume from that hour a more dignified attitude . Our position would bo somewhat akin to the man whom Dr . Franklin speaks ofwhen ho had got two coats , his neighbour greeted him with " good morrow . " The opprobrious epithets , mobs , swinish multitude , lower classes , canaille , & c , would no moro insult our hearing—a thousand virtues would be discovered in us by Parliamentarians , Peers , and Potentates , which we never dreamed of

      possessing , and those high minded individuals who now deem and call themselves our superiors , would , with surprising quickness , discover that humility was ono of tho greatest virtues , and practice it , to the great benefit of themselves , here and hereafter . The adhesion of the Silk Dressers of Leeds have been received . W . Peel , Secretary . 259 , Tottenham-court-road .

      Seamen's National Coherence. Minutes And...

      SEAMEN'S NATIONAL COHERENCE . Minutes and resolutions of a Conference held at the Grapes Inn , Trippet-lane , and the White Bear Inn , High-street , Sheffield , on Tuesday , Juno 3 rd , and following days , 1851 . Delegates were present from the ports of London , Liverpool , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Hull , Sunderland , South Shields , Yarmouth , Hartlepool , Middlcsbro , North Shields , Stockton , Aberdeen , Dundee , Montrose , & c . The Miners' National Association was also represented by Mr . William Daniells , for the counties of Derby . " Nottingham , and Leicester , and by Mr . David Swallow , for Lancashireand Cheshire , Northumberland and Durham by letter . Tuesday ' s sitting .

      Tho Conference met at nine o ' clock , when Mr . J . H . Oliver , of If nil , was called to the chair ; and Mr . William Daniells , of Chesterfield , appointed secretary . Credentials of the delegates wore received , and letters of importance read ; it was then passed that the Conference should meet at nine o ' clock in the morning , adjourn at one for dinner , meet at two , and sit till four .

      . AFTERNOON SITTING . The delegates assembled at two o ' clock , and proceeded to business . Proposed by Mr . J . Fraser , seconded by Mr . T . G . 'Wlnte—" That there be a public meeting in the Hall of Science , and that 150 crown bills be printed calling the same . " Proposed by Mr . Mountain , seconded by Mr . J . Chalk— " That tho Minutes of the Conference be printed , ' and that the delegates take what number they think proper at the cost-price of printing . " A long conversation now took place relative to tho publication of the Mariners' Journal , and after a friendly discussion , the following resolution waa

      passed . — Proposed by Mr . R . Uoimaw , seconded by Mr . J . f baser : — " That the Editor of the above paper be authorised to print 5 , 000 of No . Ill , and that the following ports pay for tho same , in equal proportions , viz . -. — . London , Hull , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , North Shields , Blyth , Sunderland , Seaham , Stockton , Middlcsbro ' , Yarmouth , Aberdeen , Dundee , and Montrose . " Proposed by Mr . T . G . White , and seconded by Mr . J . Smith : — ' « That as the Grapes Inn is not in a central part of the town , resolved , ' That this Conference do now adjourn , and meet to-morrow morning , at the White Bear Inn , High-street . ' "Adjourned accordingly .

      WEDNESDAY ' S 61 TT 1 XC . The Conference met this morning at nine o ' clock , and after the names of the delegates were called over , letters were read from London , Newcastleupon-Tyne , and from the editor of the Hnariners * Journal , relative to the future publishing and carrying on of that important publication . Along and animated discussion now followed , relative to the union of the Miners' and Seamen ' s Associations , in which Messrs . Chalk , Prasor , Daniells , Holman , White , Mountain , Swallow , Oliver , and Smith took part . Ultimately , the following resolution was unanimously passed : —

      Moved by Mr . Smith , seconded by Mr . Mountain : — " That after hearing the opinions of tho respective delegates from the mining districts and porta of Great Britain , this Conference is decidedly of opinion that a bond of union , founded on the principles of brotherly lbvo , mutual support , and defence , should be and is hereby formed between the miners and seamen of the United Kingdom ; and that tbe following form the basis of such union : "Moved by Mr . Daniells , seconded by Mr . Mountain : — " That the Miners and Seamen unite

      together to mutually assist each other , financially and otherwise ; also , to agitate and petition for an Eight Hours Bill , for the working and regulating the mines and collieries of Great Britain ; to obtain , an ' act' by which all coals and ironstone shall be paid for ' getting' or working by weight of twenty cwt . to the ton , and of 1121 bs . to the cwt . Likewise , to obtain the repeal of the ' Mercantile Marino Act , ' ' Seamen's Register Ticke t Act , ' the ' Merchant Seamen ' s Fund Act , ' and for tho amendment of the present' Navigation Laws . ' That a committee of three be appointed to draw up rules for the purpose of carrying out the above objects . "

      AMEBNOON SITTING . Moved by Mr . Chalk , seconded by Mr . Hoiman — ' * That tne following persons form tbe committW refered to in the two last resolutions ;—Messrs . Daniells , Fraser , and Mountain . " Moved by Mr . Daniells , seconded by Mr . Fbaseb — " That it is the opinion of this Conference that an extra levy of 2 d . be laid on each member of the United Seamen and Miners' Societies , to form a Missionary Fund , in order effectually to organise the seamen and miners of Great Britain for the purpose o icarrying out the above objects . All new members to pay 2 d . likewise to tho aforesaid fund . " — -N . B . This resolution to be first laid before each lodge or society . Moved by Mr . dahiells , seconded by Mr . Fbaskb : — " That the central board sit at

      Ncircastle-nuon-Tyne , and that all monies be sent there . That Messrs . Smith and Chalk be the Executive for the seamen , and Mr . Martin Jude for the miners . The Executive Council to sit once every fortnight , and to meet at the Ship Inn , Drury-lane , Cloth-market , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Mr . Jude to be general treasurer ; Mr . Chalk , general corresponding secretary ; and Mr . Smith , financial secretary . AU letters on general business , from either seamen or minors , to be addressed to Mr . John Chalk , Foresters' Arms Inn , Spring Garden-lane , Sunderland . " Jloved by Mr . Mountain , seconded by Mr , SwAfc ^ low : — " That all the necessary and incidental expenses of the Executive Council , at their fortnightly meetings , be paid out of the missionary fund ; The extra levy of 3 d . to be sent in to thetreasurer within a month . "

      CORRESPOHMSO 8 XCRBTAKIES . Newcastle-upon-Tyne . —Mr . Alexander Hugh Hamilton , White House , Pilgrim-street . North ShieWs .-Mr . T . G . White , Mr . Geldart's , Spirit-store , Clive-street . ... South Shields . —Mr . John Birch , Durham Arms , Market-place . Seaham Harbour . —Mr . R . Armour , South Railway-street . Hartlepool . —Mr . R . Holman , Dock Hotel . Mindiesbro ' -on-Tees . —Mr , E . M'Kinsey . Hull . —Mr . J . H . Oliver , Watson-terrace , Springftfl * gnf ' London . —Mi . John Burgess , Britannia Tavern , 105 , St . George-street , Ratcliffchighway . Aberdeen . —Mr . James Fraser , 13 , Carmelitestreet . Dundee . —Mr . a , White , 8 , William-street , Kingstreet . . _ . _ _ ¦ . __ - ¦

      • Yarmouth ( Notfolk ) -Mr . E . P . Thomas , at Mr . Wincup '? . Gallon-can Inn , South Quay . Counties of Derby and Nottingham . —Mr . ' Daniells , Crown Inn , Clay Cross , near

      Chesterfield . . Lancashire and Cheshire . f-Mr . David Swallow 25 , Sidney-street , Bolton . \ _ " » w * uuw Adjourned to nine o ' clock on Thursday .

      The Ddke Of J Pmuhoiok Has Abated The Re...

      The Ddke of J Pmuhoiok has abated the rents of his Strathfieldsaye . estates . His Grace , inquired ofthe steward if he had made any abatement of the rentals . The steward replied that he had not , for the tenants had all paid cheerfully , without askine for any reduction . Tlie Duke replied that was the very reason why the abatement should be made , and be directed , that it should be made on the last , aswell as on the rentals of the current year . AwcTURB painted by Sir David Wilkie , hasaErived at . Liverpool by a vessel from New Orleans . This picture , which is called the '' Grace before Meat , " was painted by this great artistic the order of a gentleman in America , in whose posse ssion . » ' has until now remained .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07061851/page/5/