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Thursday swallowed up the rest of the week , and oji that day Hyde Park devoured all London ; ^ hich ran , with the rest of the world , to the Exposition . Little else was talked of , except such things ap could claim some collateral relationship with it —like Soyer ' s "Symposium , " the Archbishop of Canterbury as High Priest of the Exposition , th * Duke of Wellington as Captain of the Guard , or Queen Victoria , as First Lady in the performance . Politics , Parliament , Protection , Fashion , everything ejse , however " important , " forgot itself—grew dull as early as Monday , became very abstracted on
Wednesday , went clean mad , out of its wits , and tiff the stones , on Thursday , and has been in a very irild state ever since . The building itself , long familiarized to the passing public , acquired a new entity on the day of its formal birth , May Day , birthday of Arthur Duke of Wellington , &c . The crystal vaulting shone , without , in new brilliancy to the sun of May . Within , the gay expanse blushed with sudden splendour to the uncovered wealth of the world , the gaily-dressed visitors , and the stately court . From early morning the building was tied to every part of London by strings of carriages , and a sort of broken sheet
of people . It was strange to see how that huge host wondered at itself and its own hugeness—how every countenance , in every state of cultivation or rudeness , of refinement or dinginess even to coal dust , was subdued to one expression of pleased marvelling , every face wider than its wont by some inches . If all the drawing-rooms , and opera nights , and evening parties of the West Knd , and Mansion-house , —if all the Lord Mayors' days , and coronations , and reviews , had been collected and rolled into one , the concourse could not have been vaster . The opening ceremony went ofr " augustly .
None the less impressively because the programme was revised as we thought possible . The ceremony evidently contemplated by Prince Albert , reluctantly given up by the 'rimes because some clerical authority had pronounced it unattainable , declared possible and most desirable by the Leader—an expression of the religious feeling , suggested by the oe . ision , was rendered by flu ; Primate of All England—not , perhaps , in tenn . wholly unexceptionable and worthy of the occa-$ ion ; but we are glad to take the will for the deed . Thus Industry , Art , Power , and Religion , nn 8 i » t * Ml in the ceremony , and tho Exposition is open to the visitH of the world .
The event has , at leant for the time , changed the character of tho metropolis in the most striking degree . A sort of determination of population to the Weat End in one obvioun symptom ; beards are multiplied incalculably , many of recent and indigenous growth ; sigbt-aeeing of every kind g rows to a mania , and every hopeless exhibitor , [ Town Edition ]
whose wonderful talent has been neglected by an ungrateful country , has a sudden accession , not only of hopes but of shillings . London has grown like a watering place , like Paris ! Thursday was made a very general holiday ; many shops were closed ; those that grudgingly remained open looked deserted . London was—it is a . strong expression , and we use it with a sense ' that / $ ff jmtet not expect to be believed—but realty kbitdon was ^ -v ( V v" ¦ ~ : -: '^ p ' : ^^ : - } 7 ^<; :- ^> -t Parliainent Jias been ^ nite the rtveree . Even the Ministerial joke about continuing the" Income Tax fell flat on Monday ; and the second reading of the bill was pointless—although the opposition to it was led by Mr . Spooner .
I he majority of 25 , by which the Oath of Abjuration ( Jews ) Bill passed its second reading in the Commons , is not a wide margin in a House of 379 ; but the success of the measure depends upon Ministers , and the degree of the resoluteness or sincerity which may happen to move them at the critical stages . Sir George Grey has brought forward the plan of Ministers for settling the water question . It does not look like a project intended for working , but only for show . The main provisions amount to this : the nine existing companies are to be consolidated into one , with a manoeuvre for
apportioning the stock so as to hit the present value of each company ; the profits arc guaranteed at five per cent , for the present , and six per cent , ultimately ; the supply of water is to be not intermittent but continuous , with other provisions to secure copious supplies for purposes of fireextinction , sanitary sluicing , &e . ; and the water is to be brought from new sources not yet determined by Government . It is understood that the rates
arc not to be raised ; but if that is so , unquestionably the nine water companies rolled into one will protest that they cannot perform all the additional duties thrust upon them . Sir George- Grey describes his plan an one that consolidates administration ; but , in fact , it is a consolidation , not of atlmininiKtrative , but of tradiny bodies ; which will still be governed mainly by trading motives . How the willingness of the nine-in-one company , to bring its supply from any place that may be appointed , is to be presumed , we do not . see : of course it may be possible to compel a company , by the powers of Executive and
Parliament ; but how will it be possible to avoid the delays and evasions , of remonstrances , explanations , inquiries , restatements , " evidence , " &e . ? However , the present object of Ministers is to semi to bo doing something , without throwing aside the Hoard of Health , or driving the water coinpanieH to extremity ; hence Sir George- reserves the most essential part of his measure , and asks Parliament to give " powers" to settle it all—in aomo back room of the Home Oflicel A blank cheque for him to fill up , with amounts unstated , for purposes unspecified I But he has been encouraged to these
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¦ ¦ strange irregularities by the laxities of the Faithful Commons ; whose new duty is , not to hold , but to relax the purse strings ; not to watch over the People ' s , but the Premier ' s , interests ; and the Opposition itself abdicates , conniving at any trick to " keep out the Tories , " to wit , itself ! Meanwhile , London must regain content : to drink for water the ^^^^ l ^ l ^^^ l ^ iv ?^ : ^*' ^ are : ° ^ &ti ^ niiKIinAfiAMnL ' i'V ' v "' . '¦>>' W - ¦ ¦ .- ¦ . - •*'" ¦'"
six days of the week : but it is also rendered unworkable , by making one part inconsistent with another ; insomuch that now it is equally repudiated by its opponent , Mr . Baring Wall , and by Mr . Williams , its putative parent ! In short , the Commons have succeeded in trimming its provisions in the mode that a ship ' s sails are trimmed when she is " lying to" ; and then they adjourn the debate for a fortnight . A few more fortnights , and the
session passes , without rejectvnq n Sunday Bill , but also without enacting one . Cunning dogs , ihose Commons ! They also went into committee < if the whole , to sanction a reward for the apprehension of the runaway witnesses in the St . Alban's case . It would not be correct to avow it , but evidently the considerate Ministers are putting the Commons through all their paces and postures for the amusement of the foreign visitors .
1 he Protectionists have had a great demonstration this week in Drury Lane Theatre , with an overflowing into St . Martin ' s Hall , and a dinner afterwards —Richmond and Winchilsea , Mr . John Hell and Mr . Hooker , Mr . G . K . Young and Colonel Sibthorp , and so forth ; but no Stanley or Disraeli . The public knows what that means . The aggregate meeting passed resolutions , uud caused a great excitement—within the comparatively limited circle
represented by tho Protectionist newspapers . Tin Karl of Wincliilsea talked at the Chartists : Mr . Dawson , of Cambridge , talked in direct terms about the ( 'barter ; and divers revolutionary intimations were thrown out by the farmers . However , Protectionist meetings are not the ; way to meet the Labour question or the Lund (/ iiofltioii ; and when the farmers have found out that truth , experimentally , they will n / km'c to llw landlords in a new language .
A letter , purporting to be from Lord Clarendon , to Lord Shrcw « 'x « y » upon the relation of Koine to Ireland , ban made a stir this week . The Tablet first publish ^ t his document . The illohe . has semi-o / fioiHlly Hcknowle /* "ed its authenticity , all tho daily papors have ropririi , ed it , and there is internal eviuenco that it proceeds from Dublin Castle .
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VOL . IL—No . 58 . SATURDAY , MAY 3 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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Nbwsi OF thb Wbbk— Page The Poet Freiligrath 411 Why do you do it ? 415 The Dramatic "Week 421 Thb Industrial Congress 406 Personal News and Gossip 411 Literaturk— Gottfried Kinkel ' s Lectures on the ihackeray ' s Mayday Ode 408 Smash in a Railway Tunnel 412 Arctic Voyages 416 History of the Modern Drama .... 422 Parliament of the " Week 408 Crimes and Accidents .. 412 Poems by a Working Man 417 Puogress " of the People Election Affaire 400 Mircellaneous 412 History of Homceopathy 418 Letters to Chartists 422 Lord Clarendon and the Pope 409 Public Affaibs— Books on our Table 419 Open Council—The Protectionist Field-Day 409 Mayday t . .. 414 Portfolio— To the Social Reformers of Britain .. 423 Where shall we Bury our Dead ? 410 Progress of Poor Law Reform 414 The Forester ' s Grave 420 Prize Essays 423 The Board of Customs and the Lon- Army Reform 415 Broad Stone of Honour 421 The Priesthood 423 don Dock Company 410 The War at Notting-hill 415 The Ahts— The Money Question 423 Emisjration Miseries 410 Board Law Illegal 415 Water Colour Society 421 Commercial Affairs—Doings in the United States 410 Chartism in the Mouth of Whiggism 415 New Water Colour Society 421 Markets , Gazettes , &c 424-25
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— ¦— — .-. ¦¦ . . . - — . — . -,, , , - ¦¦ ¦ " Thb one Idea which Hiatorjr exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea or Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between , men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Reks ^ ion , Country , and Cokrur , to treat the whole Human race ; ffa one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1881/page/1/
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