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iJaxracks , Hyde-park ; Sixteenth Lancers , Hounslow , and a portion at Kensington Barracks ; the Seventeenth Lancers from Newbridge , to Woolwich . Infantry . —1 st battalion Grenadier Guards , Windsor ; 3 nd ditto , Knightsbridge ; 3 rd ditto , St . George s Barracks , Trafalgar-square . Coldstream Guards . — 1 st battalion , Tower ; 2 nd ditto , Wellington Barracks , St . James ' s-park . Scots Fusilier Guards . — 1 st battalion , Portman-streetBarracki , Oxford-street ? and 2 nd battalion , St . John ' s-wood Barracks . A strong reinforcement of Artillery has already arrived at the Tower from Woolwich . Several other regiments will in all probability be quartered in the vicinity of the metropolis . The Chelsea Out-Pensioners ¦ were inspected on Thursday , and those who
volunteered their services on last pension day will receive their equipments , muskets , bayonets , swords , &c , and will be quartered at Paddington , Kensington , Hammersmith , and other districts during the Exhibition . The number will exceed 3000 men . The metropolitan police has been increased by 900 men , making an effective force of 5700 constables , besides superintendents , inspectors , and sergeants ; and of these , a certain number of the most experienced officers have been selected from the different divisions and formed into a regular corp g of reserve , who will do the special duty during the Exhibition , as they are well acquainted with all characters . The city police has also been increased by 150 men , making a force of 650 officers , besides inspectors , sergeants , &c . There will also be a selected number as a reserve and
detective force . The Times correspondent , writing from Berlin of April 26 , says it is settled that a number of the Berlin police are to be sent to London to assist their London brethren in dealing with the questionable characters that are likely to be visitors of the World ' s Fair , among the thousands who will arrive from , legitimate motives . The English public is hereby warned in this , as in some other branches of industry , not to underrate foreign talent ; the native " workmen" are about to enter a period of competition with some of the most finished practitioners of Paris and
Berlin , whose skill in certain cases is little short of miraculous . It is stated that the officials sent have no political purpose or object , and they will , besides , find enough to do among the million of strangers , without becoming a corps of observation on political fugitives ; that it is the criminal police which is put in motion , not the higher and more secret one , which has also enough to do at home ; and also , but with less probability , that the English Government will defray the expense of this foreign auxiliary police force—a point tha , t perhaps Mr . Hume may feel disposed to investigate . the ssian Government is
The Daily News says , Pru said to have agreed to the request of Lord Palmerston from motives of expediency , and that an entire commission of police will be appointed , whose headquarters will be the Prussian embassy in London , but does not place any reliance either on the statement that these police were sent for by Lord Palmerston , or that our Government will pay them . Will some member ask the question , of our Foreign Minister ? MAYDAY ODE . By W . M . T hack i : h a y . [ From the Times . ' ] But yesterday a naked sod ,
The dandies sneered from Rotten-row , And cantered o ' er it to and fro ; And see , ' tis done ! Ab though ' twere by a wizard ' s rod , A blazing arch of lucid glas . s Leaps like a fountain from the grass To meet the turn ! A quiet green but few days since , With cattle biowsing in the shade , And lo ! long lines of bright urcude In order raised ; A palace as for fairy prince , A rare pavilion , such as man { Saw never , since mankind began And built and glazed !
A peaceful place it was but now , And lo ! within its shining streets , A multitude of nations meets : A countless throng , I sec beneath the crystal bow , And Gaul and German , Runs and Turk , l'Jach with his native handiwork , And busy tongue . I felt a thrill of love and awe To mark the different garb of each , The changing tongue , the various speech Together blent . A thrill , naethinks , liko His who saw " All people dwelling upon earth " I ' raising our God with solemn mirth " And one consent . "
High Sovereign in your Royal Htntfi ! Cuptuina and Chiefa und Councillors , Before the lofty palace doors Are open set . Hush ! ere you pass the whining gate ; Hush ! ore the heuving curtain draws , And let the lloyul pageant paune A moment yet .
People and Prince , a silence keep ! Bow coronet and kingly crown , Helmet and plume bow lowly down ; The while the priest Before the splendid portal step , While still the wondrous banquet stays , From Heaven su > i » me a blessing prays Upon the feast ! Then onwards let the triumph march ; Then let the loud artillery roll , And trumpets ring and joy-bells toll , And pass the gate : Pass underneath the shining arch , 'Neath which the leafy elms are green-Ascend unto your throne , O Queen , And take your State !
Behold her in her Royal place : A gentle lady—and the hand That sways the sceptre of this land How frail and weak ! Soft is the voice , and fair the face ; She breathes amen to prayer and hymn , No wonder that her eyes are dim , And pale her cheek . This moment round her empire ' s shores The winds of Austral winter sweep , And thousands lie in midnight sleep At rest to-day . O ! awful is that crown of yours , Queen of innumerable realms , Sitting beneath the budding elms Of English May ! A wondrous sceptre ' tis to bear ,
Strange mystery of God which set Upon her brow yon coronet , — The foremost crown Of all the world on one so fair ! That chose her to it from her birth , And bade the sons of all the earth To her bow down . The representatives of man , Here from the far Antipodes , And from the subject Indian seas , In Congress meet ; From Afric and from Hindostan , From Western continent and isle , The envoys of her empire pile Gifts at her feet .
Our brethren cross the Atlantic tides , Loading the gallant decks , which once Roared a deriance to our guns , With peaceful store ; Symbol of peace , their vessel rides !* O ' er English waves float Star and Stripe , And firm their friendly anchors gripe The father shore ! From Rhine and Danube , Rhone and Seine , As rivers from their sources gush , The swelling floods of nations rush , And seaward pour : From coast to coast in friendly chain , With countless ships we bridge the straits ; And angry Ocean separates Europe no more . From Mississippi and from
Nile—From Baltic , Ganges , Bosphorus , In England ' s Ark assembled thus Are friend and guest . Look down the mighty sunlit aisle , And see the sumptuous banquet set , The brotherhood of nations met Around the feast ! Along the dazzling colonnade , Far as the straining eye can gaze , Gleam cross and fountain , bell , and vase , In vistas bright . And statues fair of nymph and maid , And steeds and pards and Amazons , Writhing and grappling in the bronze , In endless fight .
To deck the glorious roof and dome , To make the Queen a canopy , The peaceful hosts of industry Their standards hear . Yon are the works of Brahmin loom ; On such a web of Persian thread The desert Arab bows his head , And cries his prayer . Look yonder where the engines toil ; These England ' s arms of conquest are , The trophies of her bloodless war : Brave weapons these . Victorious over wave and soil , With these she sails , she weaves , she tills , Pierces the everlasting hills , And spans the seas . The engine roars upon its race , The shuttle whirrs along the woof , The people hum from floor to roof , With Babel tongue . Tho fountain in the basin plays , The chnnting organ echoes clear , An awful chorus 'tis to hear , A wondrous song ! Swell organ , swell your trumpet blast , March , Queen , and Itoyal pageant , inarch By splendid uiale und springing arch Of tliiB fuir Ilttll : And see ! above the fabric vust , God ' s bound less Heaven is bending blue , God's peaceful Sun is beaming through And shining over all . April 29 .
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The Commons met on Monday at the usual hour , for the first time since the holidays ; but they did not show much inclination for work . Lord John Russell stated that Government , after giving Mr . Walpole ' s amendments on the Papal Aggression Bill their most serious consideration , had come to the conclusion that they cpuld not agree to them . The second reading of the Property Tax Bill having been moved bv Sir Charxes Wood , Mr . Spooner made a
long dull speech on the subject , which he wound up by moving that the bill be read that day six months . Mr . Muntz seconded the amendment . He thought it would be saddling the country with this tax for ever if they resolved to renew it on such slight grounds as those proposed . In reference to some remark of Mr . Spooner touching the duty on bricks , he contended that the brick duty ought not to have been repealed , " because it was a very partial tax , there being many parts of the country in which no bricks were used . " Mr . Freshfield , the new member for Boston , declared his intention to support the second reading of the Bill , because he was not prepared to give up so large an amount of revenue , without seeing what was to be substituted for it .
But he would only support the reimposition of the tax for so long a time as would enable the Government to consider what other tax might be substituted for it . Sir Charles Wood defended his proposal for renewing the Property Tax on the ground that it would be impossible to carry out those measures of relief which he contemplatedthe reduction of the coffee and timber duties , and the repeal of the window tax , without it . Mr . Disjeaeli , although he objected to many of the propositions of the Government , was not prepared to vote against the second reading . The amendment was negatived without a division , and the bill was read a second time , with the understanding that it should go into committee on Friday .
The only business disposed of in the House ot Commons on Tuesday , was the water question . Sir Geouge Grey in moving for leave to bring in a bill for the better supply of water to the metropolis , stated at some length the difficulties with which they had to contend in following up the " recommendation of the Board of Health . The practical recommendation which the board made was that the principle of the Public Health Act should be adopted to this extentthat there should be one combined management for
one locality , applicable to the supply of water to the inhabitants within that area . When they came to the other principle—that the administrative body should be a representative body acting for thelocality , or created for this specific purpose in any given district—they were then compelled by the circumstances of the case to depart from that recommendation ; and , substantially , their recommendation amounted to this—not the adoption of the principles of the Public Health Act , as carried out in other cities and towns , but the creation of a Government board of salaried officers , to
whom the administration of the supply of water should be entrusted , and who should have all the necessary powers vested in them by act of Parliament for procuring the supply of water , providing for itfe service and distribution throughout the different houses of the district , raising the necessary funds by rates , or borrowing on the security of the rates ; and generally of providing for all the purposes indispensable to the adoption of their scheme . To the adoption of this scheme there were , however , many serious objections . Had they been dealing with this as a new question , irrespective of private interests and the habits of the people , he should certainly
preler the plan suggested by the Board of Health ; but as an extensive system was already in existence , and as no representative machinery was to be found , tho principle of the measure he proposed was the consolidation of the existing companies into one , by the purchase of their respective stocks either by valuation or by arbitration , with a consolidated capital , the consolidated bod y being charged with tho whole supply of water to the metropolis , subject to the control of Government nnd Parliament . Having explained the functions , powers , and obligations with which the bill proposed to endow this bod y , and observed that tho plan would accomplish the ends of saving expenditure , increased efficiency in manugeincnt , Government control under renponsibility to Parliament , and reduction of rates to consumers ,
rculi / . ing , ut the same time , the principle recommended by the Board of Health of a contract between the Government and the company , he anticipated an obvious objection , that the companies could not be compelled to consent to this urrangement ; but they were entitled to the first offer , and they had met tho communications of the Government in a reasonable spirit , reserving their decision until they saw the details of tho bill , which ho proposed to refer to u select committee , so that tho companies would have ample opportunity to advance their claims . Sir J . Johnstonk , as one of the directors of tho New Hivor Company , thanked tho Government for tho disposition they had shown to respect vested rights . Mr . Bailuk Cocjhkanh was not at all satisfied witii the propoucd measure , indeed , the very fact of its
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Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1851, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1881/page/4/
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