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COLUMBUS . per Stsrfce ist am machtigstea allein . —ScnoiEa . rt tood upon the deck by night alone , ? nd heard th * uproarious waste of ocean moan Benea th the gusty darkness round him thrown . The soug hing winds amid his hair took way , And damp his heard and brows with briny spray , Jet steadfastly ho watch . "d the west alway : Until at length he said : It is a li ? ht ; It must he , and on shore : so low , so bright , So steady' God bepraia'd!—ho ! land in sight ! And soon throughout the crew from man to man In startling shonts the rapt ' rous tidings ran ; And wild for joy were they that li ght to scan .
3 T 6 words can paint their triumph : yet I ween , Had nig ht not veiL'd his visage , they Lad seen A bitter smile disturb his eveu mien . The 3 elf-same tongues , that but few hours ago Had counsell'd strai ght return , and sought to show The folly of his scheme , their certain woe ; Tain upstarts , who had ] eer * d , aye menacM him , And iaint hearts with deBponding looks and dim-All mix'd their rash breath vritk his soul ' s deep hymn Exulting boastfnlly , that , they had shar'd Succes 3 , which ne ' er had been Lad he not dar'd Baspise them , and hope on when they despair'd . Within themselves the Great must eier seek Both impulse and reward : all else 13 weak To what their own calm soul and conscience speak
And thou—wonld ' st thou Columbus like aspire To walk new worlds of thought , and high and ' higher 1 Exalt thy fallen soul on wings of fire-On God and self do thou rely aright ! And through the day His cloud ! shall cheer thy sight , --=. - ¦ - And ills fire pillar guide thy steps by . night . [ From Toons pf Earlier Years . By a Wrangler of Trinity College , Cambridge . ]
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" The Forty-Eve .- " by Lord Mahon . JBevng ' { lie Narrative of the Insurrection of 1745 , extracted from Lord Mahon ' s History of England . To which are now added , Letters ' of Prince Charles Stuart , from the Stuart ' Papers , eopied by Lord Makon from the original MSS . at Windsor . Murray . " The Forty-Five / ' although indeed " a name of fear" to our great-grandfathers , awakens but slight emotions—save for the romantic circumstances cennected with it—in the minds
of their descendants in the present day . Brought np amid the desolating wars and revolutions consequent on the great revolution of Franco , hearing dail y of popular risings and invasions and political changes from one end of Europe to the other , the wild and gallant attempt of the Young Pretender seems to the men of this generation as little more than a stirring episode breaking in not unpleasantly on the dull and monotonous history of a period characterised by little else than solemn declamations of statesmen about " the Queen of Hungary" and " balance of power , " and the most shameless bartering of places and scrambles for pensions . Still , as the record of the last invasion that England ever sustained , the story of "The forty-Five " claims a certain degree of political interest .
Among the most striking points of this portion of our history is the singular enterprise and self-dependence of the young adventurer , who , with , a military chest not containing 4 , 000 Louis d ' or , unknown to his father , in opposition to the French Court , and actually dissuaded from it by all his adherents save the Duke of Perth , set sail in his little barque and landed with only seven followers on the coast of Scotland , to attempt the conquest of England !—The following portion of tiie letter which first informed his rather of lus intention merits transcription . — ' Navarre . June 12 , 1743 .
Sir , —I believe your Majesty little expected a courier at this time , and much less from me ; to tell you a thing that will be a great surprise to yon . 1 have been , above sixmonths ago , invited by oar friends to go to Scotland , and to carry what money and arms I could conveniently get ; this being , they are fally persuaded , the only way of restoring you to the Crown , and them to their liberties . . . . After such scandalous usage as I have received from the French Court , had I not given my word to do so , or got so many encouragements from time to time as I hare had , I should have been obliged , in honour and for my own reputation , to have flung myself into the arms of my
mends and die with them , rather than lire longer in sneb a miserable wayiere , or be obliged to retarn to Home , which would be just giving up all hopes . I cannot bnt mention a parable here , which is , a horse that is to be sold , if spurred does not akin , or show some sign of life , nobody would ¦ care to have him even for . nothing ; just so my friends ¦ would care very little to have me , if , after such usage , which all the world is sensible of , I Bhould not show that I hare life in me . Tonr Majesty cannot disapprove a son ' s following the example of his father . You yourself did the like in the year ' 15 ; but the . circumstances now are indeed very different , by bi'iag much- more encouraging , there
being a certainty of succeeding with the least help ; the particulars of which would be too long to explain , and even impossible to convince you of by writing , / which has been the reasoa that I have presumed to take upon , me the managing of all this , without evenleiting you suspect there was any such thing a brewing ; for fear of my not being able to explain , and show you demonstratively how matters stood—which is not possible to be done by writing , or evec without being upon the place and seeing things with your own eyes : and had I failed to convince you , I was then afraid yon might have thought what I had a mind to do to be rash : and so have absolutely forbid my proceedings . • I
have tried all possible means and stratagems to get access to the King of France , or his Minister , "without the least effect , nor could I even get Littleton ( Sir Thomas Sheridan ) an audience , who I ¦ W& 3 spre wonld say neither more nOr less than what I desired , and wonld faithfally report their answer . A 3 for Wright ( the Cardinal ; he is not much trusted or well looked upon by Adam ( the King of France ) , who u timorous , and baa not resolution enough to displace him . Xow I have been obliged to steal off , without letting the King of France so much a 3 suspectit , for which I make a proper excuse in my letter to him , by saying it waa a great mortification to me never to have been able to speak and open
my . heart to him ; that this thing waa of such a nature that it could not be communicated by any of the ministers or by writing , but to himself aloneui whom , after God Almightv , my resting lies ; and that the least help would make my affair infallible . If I had let the French Court know this beforehand , it might have had all these bad effects : —1 st , It is possible that they might have stopped me , having & mind to keep measures with the Elector , and . then , to cover it over , they would have made a Bent of it to you , by saying they had hindered me
from doing a wild and desperate thing : 2 ndly , My neing invited b y my friends wonld not be believed or , at least , would havemade littleor no impression On the French Court . * Whatever happens ^ fortunate to me-cannot but be the strongest . engagemen ts to the French Court to pursue your cause , Sow , if I weresore they were capable of » y sensation of this kind , if I did not succeed . I would , perish , as Cortina did , to- save my country aao make it happy ; it being an indispensable duty on ine , as far as lies in iny power . " . ¦
This letter is curious from the strange -vulgarisms which it contains giving evident proof « ow greatly the edacation of the young prince fad beea neglected . Indeed , bad as the style * 8 , the original spelling : is yet worse ; for in ™ a letters . of ihe Prince sword ; 13 spelt Bord , " humour ia spelt " nmer , ' * and his fether ' 6 own name appears tinder the alias ' Oems "! Theabove letteris , hoWeyer , ^ » er valuable , as clearly showing , Hotwithatan ding the disclaimers of his followers , that * ae Prince was perfectly willing to be placed OQ . the English throne 1 bv the aid of French
bayonet s . The flourish about " Curtius , " TOO certainl y did not ask any assistance , may of allowed to pass as a mere sehool-boyfigure . J £ o other letters dated on the same day , Jane *** , follow—one referring to the offer of the « Uier to abdicate in favour of his son , which ?\ earnestl y rerases- ^ and " the other entering " Mcr the details of his " ways and means . ^ Aort note to a Mr . Edgar , and a rather ^ nger oae to Ms father , !» % dated JnW - no , follow ; ana then tre have this cnarac wnsficletter •_ - ; .:.::., ; . ' . \ " Sir" f ¦ ¦ ¦ ^^^^ ^ i -i ' &iiT « .- , « £ & ? iS \^ ¥ * . God , . amyed . here in . perfect ^ health , but aot wUn littletrouble wd ' dwger ,
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as you will hear by the bearer , who has been along with me all along , that it n . ' akes it useless ht m % ? , £ ? fn ^ A- 00 ^ 8 \ Par tlcu ^ s on that head ' , lam joined here by brave people , as I expected . ? h ™ L K f i ? Stand « d . I ^ nnot tell tZt ' ^ . wlll heiuafewdays , as soon fnVtul 11 are d lstr T lbute ° ; at which we are work-H h a 11 s P - I have not as yet got the return of the message sent to the LowlaudB . tmt expect it ™*> so °° If *« ey all join , or at least all those to wnoml have sent commissions , at request , every-£ ? & 1 s ? . - * ° - « 5 ir Hector ' s ( Sir Hec tor Maclean ) being taken up is of no other consequoncb but of perhaps frighteninc some few : for ^ j ft ^^ ftBStf g
iney can make nothing of him , nor of some papers that were found in his room , which he denies having any knowled ge of . The commissions ,, along with the declaration , are arrived , safe , and in a proper hand . The worst that can happen to me , if France doc 3 not succour " . me , is to die at the head of such brave people as I find here , if I should riot bo able to make my way ; and that I have promised to them , as you know to have been my resolution before parting . The French Court must now necessarily tike off the mask , or have an eternal shame on them ; fyr at present there is no medium , and we , whatever happens , shall gain an immortal . honour by doing what we can to deliver our-country , in restoring our master , or perish with sword in hand .
But while-we may well . be struck -at the romantic enterprise of Charles Edward—we can be scarcely less astonished at the apathy of the government , and the obstinate incredulity of the English nation . Strange , indeed ; was it that , at the very period of the Pretender ' s landing , even weeks after , Fontenoy and Marshal Saie , the Queen of Hungary and her wrongs—that pet subject of the Whig papers , —and grumblings against the ministers . or about Hanover , supplied papers with what in
the present day we should term the leading articles ; and , when -the fact of the Prince ' s being in Scotland could no longer be concealed , the whole' newspaper press agreed with perverse unanimity to denounce the statement as apocryphal . The occasional news from Scotland during this time appeared intended to mislead . The contemptuous terms in which the Highlanders were spoken of , the ridicule cast on the bare supposition that the Pretender would attempt a landing , and the mystification as to the whereabouts of the
clansand especially of the Pretender ' s chief agents , —proved . them to be the work of the Jacobite party and well did they effect their purpose . Meanwhile , the Standard was displayed , and the clans flocked around it ; while " great George our King , " irritated at the summons for him to quit " his beloved Hanover earlier than he intended , . almost turned his back on the Pelhams , and could scarcely be persuaded to consent to the recal of four regiments from Flanders . . Three days after , the old Pretender -was proclaimed at the cross at Perth , and his son was
pressing on direct upon Edinburgh ; and at length the King was convinced that in this instance the cry of " wolf" was not without foundation . Still , the stubborn incredulity of the daily papers is very curious . So long accustomed to use the language of scorn with regard to "Pope , DeVU , and Pretender , " the writers seem actually to have been incapable of comprehending the possibility of the third personage making an actual descent on our shores . Nor was it until he had triumphantl y entered Edinburgh , that we find them changing their tone : —and then The Daily Advertiser , The General Evening Post , and The Westminster Journal forthwith became brimful of loyal
epistles indited by Scsevolas , Juniuses , ' Hampdens , and even "the shade ' of Oliver Cromwell , " all setting forth the pleasure of dying for " our glor ious constitution , " intermixed with stirring appeals to " beef-eating Britons " and "Protestant boys , '' while the London Penny Post , by way of atern manifesto , places in bold type at the foot of the first page , "No wooden shoes , " "No arbitrary power . " The exaltation of the young Pretender is well expressed in the following letter , written to his father just after the battle of Preston Pans , —which the Jacobites persisted in calling the victory of Gladamuir , in consequence of an old prophecy : — .
. Edinburgh , Oct . 7 , 0 . 8 . 1745 . ^ It is impossible for me to give you a distinct journal of my proceedings , because of my being so much hurried with business , which allows me no time ; but notwithstanding , I cannot let slip this occasion of giving a short account of the battle of Gladamuir , fought on the 21 st of September , which was one of the most surprising actions that ever was . We gained a complete victory over Gen . Cope , who commanded 3 , 000 foot , and two regiments of the best dragoons in the island , he being advantageously posted , with also batteries of
cannons and mortars , we having neither horse nor artillery with us ,. and being to attack them in their post , and obliged to pass before their noses in . a defile and bog . Only our first line had occasion to engage ; for actually in five minutes the field was cleared of the enemies ; all the foot killed , wounded , or taken prisoners ; and of the horse only 200 escaped , like rabbits ,. One by one . On our side we only lost a hundred , men , between killed and wounded '; and the army afterwards had a fine plunder . ...
It was on this occasion that the , Highlander so gladly gave up the watch which he believed to be some outlandish live thing , and his companion exchanged the horse for ahorse * piatol . Although there seems little doubt that , if at this crisis the young pretender had crossed the border without delay , he might have advanced far into England without opposition—we can scarcely believe that even thus early he COuW have marched unopposed . to London . It is true , there ¦ were many-Jacobites there ; but then , they were of a class which though they might serve to swell the ranks of a party , would bring little energetic service to it .
Disappointed placemen , second-class literati , nonjuring clergymen—Bncb -were the majority of adherents to "him over the water , " in London . Indeed , what could the leading men there expect from a Stuart ?; Throughoutthe great parliamentary contest London had stood firm against the King—and , in consequence , had seen her charters seized , her companies insalted , and her trade almost ruined- by the last two Stuarts . The monarchs of the Hanoverian succession , on the contrary , had been almost-placed on the throne by the exertions of the citizens ; and , therefore , over their interests they unquestionably watched . The other towns and cities—save where from local
circumstances , as m Manchester , a different feeling prevailed—had no reminiscences so pleasing of the Stuart dynasty that they should rise against a government under which they were at least quiet and prosperous . The number of Jacobite country gentlemen , with their retainers , in the north , and northwestern ceuntiea was certainly large ; and most- writers on this subject seem to think that had ; they been as energetic as the Scots , the Young Pretender might have maintained a lengthened contest , even if not finally victorious . These writere have failed to perceive
the reason of the different conduct of the Scotch » nd of the English Jacobites . Thefirst effort of Charles Edward on his landing in Scotland was , to . win the aflectidns of the Scots , and especially of the Highlanders . Hence his adoption of the tartan , of the bonnet , —even of the Hi ghland brogueB . Hence his adherence to every Scottish form when he took up his abode at Holyrdod : —and hence the Scotch termed him their " ain prince , "— - and reminded their countrymen that he ' was " kith and kin , " and that hewould restore the old independence of Scotland . Now what
sympathy could the English Jacobite have with all this ? It is true , the Townlevs , and Wilbrahams , andRateliffs fought for his greatgrandfather , —but then Charles the First appeared in the garb of an Englishman , and he was followed by Eng lishmen . Cavalier pike inet Puritan pike in many a well-fought contest , —the royal proclamation ' and the parliament proclamation alike appealed to the history of their common land ; while in the rejligipus phase of the conflict ; Charles claimed to be , as indeed hehas'beeii fondlytermfed , '" the I martyr of England'a ' Ghurchi" AUfthw ad' miniBt ^^ bythe ^ Prinoe to Hig hland-taste
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2 inv u ? f ^ V calcuUt " ^ stimulate SffiS ? li e Engli 8 h Jacoblte > with more nprJ k iHe 5 gain- Still » onuses may , , perhaps , bo found for the Young Pretender 32 S ^ V ?"! liD 8 ered ™ the halls of Holyrood ; but when we find that on entering the superior kingdom , he did not think it worth while to adopt her usages , but marched m the Highland garb , and with his target slung across his shoulder , " and preceded ,, not by «• the stirring drum , " but by the bagpipecan we wonder that the north-country Jacobites gave but a reluctant adhesionwhile the gflK ^^ tf ^ ^ ^ uUte
, Sir John Hinde Cottons requested time to count the cost of a revolution which would , ' after all , only place them in the background of the Lochiela and the Camerons ? ' Certainly there was great want of tact , to say the least , in all the Pretender ' s doings while in England . He still kept at the head of the Highland cians—still ostentatiousl y wore their national dress ; even the Manchester regiment , while they received blue coats and the white cockade ,
were compelled to wear " a tartan sash . " What liad Englishmen to do with tartan ? . It would have been interesting to have traced the Young Pretender ' s progress from his own letters , but we have none from the beginning of October , l ^ o , to the same time in the following year , when a short note to his brother acquaints the latter with- his safe arrival at Morlaix .
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London Exhibitedin 1851 ; elucidating its Natural and -Physical . 'Characteristics , its Antiquity and Architecture ; its Arts , Manufactures , ' : * Trade , and Organisation ; its Social , Literary , and Scientific ' Institutions ; ™* J c > n ? J ? erous Series . of Fine Art . With 205 Illustrations . Edited and published by John Weale . This is a very complete guide to the metropolis , and a description of actually existing London . Mr . Weale is a man of science , and appears to have had scientific assistance of an excellent kind , when the subject called for it . In architectural details , and generally in matters connected with the arts , the volume is particularl y rich ;
The prefatory , essays on the geography ? natural history , situation , and structure of London , its political organisation and constitution , its domestic habits and the statistics of its various trades and of subjects connected witu education and intellectual development are ably done . Such topics , too , as its rapid railway intercommunication , its inland navigation , the various contents of its museums and public ; depositories of art ,, the character and -purposes-of its various public so cieties its examples , of the fine and useful arts in their application to purposes of utility and grandeur , andt f course such darker additions to the picture , as its " police and . its prisons , are handled with very evident Care
, As a ( specimen pf the sort of details about trades and manufactures to be found in Mr . Weale's book we take an extract : — The trades and occupations entered under our sixth section are carried . on to a much greater extent m London than in the provinces , or indeed in any other part of the world . A visit to one of our great printing omces , or to one of tho large bookbinders , will show the amazing extent to Which the arrangements and machinery for the mechanical production of books ia now carried . At several printing offices arrangements are made for founding the type , for stereotyping , and for printing by steam-driven machinery . At various bookbinding establishments it ia not unusual for the whole inf pression of 1 , 000 copies of an octavo work to be
folded , sewed , and handsomely bound in cloth covers in the course of tea or twelve hours . The cloth covers with the gilt . lettering , the blind and gilt toolmg , are , howe ? er , prepared a few day 9 beiore the sheets have left the printer ' s hands . The paper used by the printer is not mads fo London , but a few miles away , where abundance of pure water is to be procured . The same remark applies to writing paper . Account book makers and vellum binders are distinct from bookbinders properly so called .: It will bo seen from our list that there are a large number of trades and occupations subsidiary to printing and bookbinding , and it may be stated that the consumption of calico or linen for the cloth cases of books is now very large .- Tliis is supplied by Manchester . .
Scientific apparatus is also made ia large quanta ties in London , and it is curiously subdivided . Cheap barometers and thermometers are made by Italians , who reside in Leather-lane and tho vicinity of Hatton Garden ; and in passing through this ' . districi one is struck with the poetical names of the makers —such as Albino , Sorafino , Calderara , Corti , Negretti , Pastorelli / Tagliabue and Zambra , Somaly i . o , Gugevi , GrimoWi , MaTtinelli , and ' so on .. The instruments mado , by these . poetical gentry are of very little scientific value . ' Compasses and metallic mathematical instruments are made . by a . distinct set ' of men ; Ivory and box-wood scales and rules occupy another set . Lenses are made in large quantities by machinery at . Birmingham and
elsewhere . " The brass parts of instruments also form a distinct trade .: Nautical instrument makers occupy the regions of Wapping ; but sellers of instruments and apparatus ( who grandly Btyle themselves optiw ' ans ) are scattered over the metropolis . Musical instrument makers are important personages iu London . It is doubtful whether , a pianoforte maker would succeed , out of the . metropolis , but an instument with the name of a celebrated London maker stamped , upon it passes ' current everywhere . In this case , " warranted London made" is as much a recommendation as ' . ' Shemeld made" ought to be to a piece of cutlery . In our eighth list we have grouped together a number of Irades and occupations which do riot fall
conveniently into any of the preceding divisions . Agricultural instrument makers are . only sellers ! tho instruments themselves being made at Norwich Golcbrook-uale , and elsewhere . Bone . dealers blood driers , ' and manure manufacturers carry on an important trade , the refuse of this vast metropolis affording abundant raw material for the purpose . Guns and fire-arms are chiefl y manufactured at Birmingham ; gunpowder is made at mills come distance from London .,. Fireworks are made in London , and it is surprising , after the repeated disasters which have occurred , that the trade is permitted to exist in crowded districts . One firework maker , Joseph Winterbntm by name , resides in Providence-buildings : Mrs . Penaa tjarries on this
dangerous trade in Clerkenwell ; and three other females work at it in Lambeth . Cigars are made in large quantities in the neighbourhood of Wiriteohapel , and it is strongly suspected that the makers do not deal exclusively in the leaf of the tobacco plant . Marine store dealers are those . who deal in everything which is supposed to exist on board a ship , including bones , raga , and old bottles . They are , in short , dealers . in ' those artioles which are of no value because they are not in the right hands . Soap ia an important article of London raanufaoture . Some of the soap makers at Lambeth boil the bones collected by ; the marine-store " dealers , skim off the fat which they use in making soap , and then crush the bones for manure . . ' - ..
There are 1 , 696 merchants resident in the city of London , together with 248 warehousemen . Many of them are wholesale dealers in the articles manufactured ia tUe provinces , and included in former lists . ' Our limits' will not : allow us to proceed with our comments ; we , therefere , conclude with the remark , that a large number of femalesare engaged in pursuits whioh seem but little adapted to the babits of the fair sex , while men , for the inost part , engross trades which would seem w . ell fitted , for women . Thus , of the fifteen bonnet-shape makers only one is a woman . Of tho twelve book and card edge gilders two are females ; viz . Mrs . Mary Bull * winckleandMrs . M . H . Page .- . Of the fifteen
chiropodists four , are Jadies , and doubtless attend upon ladies who will insist upon wearing tight shoes . Of the five fan makers only one ia a lady . ' Of the 116 farriers . wx ' are females . jWe . find alsothat'Miss Mary Pottle ; makes military , feathers , and , hair plumes for ' those dashing fellows who wear them so jauntily . London claims ' sixteen file cutters , and one of them is Miss Mary Hughes . Among the 172 lightermen who ply on ' the Thames , there are several females .- One calls , herself ; Widow ,. Wlliams , which sufficiently explains that she . carries . on her husband ' s trade , . which ; is probably the case with many other female traders . ' This , however , cannot bo the case with MiBR Martha Smart , who is ' a mathematical instrument maker , ( and why not ? V An
unmarried lady ia also amaker of razor strop paste . The . art and mystery , ; of carmine and rouge are appropriately conducted by ladies , a 3 also to a certain extent the' art of making artificial flowers ; and that they think ' highly of their art is evident from the fact that a lady acquaintance of the writer ' s , on purchasing tome of- these flowers , remarked , that they , did not regemble natural' fiowerBi-.- '' Oh , no ! madam , " , was the , reply ,. «• theso ne very i ^ - peripr to > ny that grow !" ' We find that one female entered as a veterinary surgeon : ! ' Mjs'i LocHey and Mrfli Massey-are-watob' esoapement makers '; - There are Mveral femriej wheelwrights , ; and one female wmtj ^ g manufact ur er . . There are also female wigmakers , as there should be . ^ Ve once kiew a female
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; . : v PUBLICATION S RECEIVED . tJttlMr of ? f «« wayimi . By Mm Howiit BriSr 1850 .- Evans , and Cobb ' ett
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openin g «* $ pg ™ mmB qi Her Majesty having signified her royal pleasure that arrangements should ' be made to enable her Majesty to ^ gratlfy a wish very generally expressed on tho part of the public to be present at a ceremony by which her Majesty Bhould ripen the Exbi : bit . on of theWorks of Industry of all Nations on the . lst of May , her Majesty ' s commissioners hereby give notice that the programme of this ceremony , and the regulations under which the holders of sea ' son tickets will ba admitted , are as follows ^ Exhibitors' attendants , " who have been sanctioned by the Executive Committee , will be admitted
between the hours of eight and nino o ' olook , at doors specified on their cards , and will immediatel y tako their places by the counters or objects exhibited by employers . Holders of season tickets will be admitted at all doors on the oast , south , - and west of the building , between tho hours of nine and halfpast eleven . 0 clock , and will be allowed to take their plaoes , subject to police regulations , in the lower part of the building , and in the galleries , except the parts railed off in the nave and transept ! A platform will be raised to the north of the centre of the transept , on which a chair of state will be placed .. ; Her Majest y ' s cojmniBsioners will assemble at half-past eleven o ' clock , in the transept , opposite the platform , together with their Executive
uommiuee ana tneir foreign Acting Commissioners , 111 full dress , or in plain evening dress . His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury ; her Majesty ' s ministers , the great officers of state , and tbefprei < m ambassadors and ministers . will take their places on the platform ,, to the right and left of the chair of state , m full dress also , at half-past eleven o ' clock Her Majesty , proceeding in state , . with tho royal family , foreign guests , &p ., and her audtUewsviit 6 B from Buckingham Palace , up Constitution-hill , and down Botten-row , will enter the Exhibition . building by the north entrance preoisely at twelve o ' clock . She will ascend the platform and take her seat , in the chair ; of state . —pa her ' Majesty ' s arrival , a choir , will sing "Godiave . the Queen . "—
on the Queen takmp her . seat , his Royal , Highness Pnnco Albert will join the . royal commissioners , andjwhen the music has ceased , proceed af their head to the platform , and read to her Maies ' ty a short report of the proceedings of the commission up to that time , which he will then deliver to her Majesty , together , with the catalogue of the articles exhibited . Her Majesty will return a gracious answer , handed to her by the . Secretar-j of State , after which . his . Royal Highness Prince Albert will take his place . again by the side of her Majesty . —The dozen oJ the corps diplomatique will read an address to her Mnjesty on behalf of tho forei gn nations who have contMbuted to the Exhibition , to which he * Majesty will likewise return a iraciona anqwii . " _ i
His Grace the Arohbi , h ; bp «| f Cantorbury will then " say a prayer , invoking God ' s blessing upon the undertaking , followed by a-short anthem sung by the choir . A royal procession will be then formed , preceded by the commissioners , which will turn to the right move to the west ohd ofthe naye . by its / north side ' , return to the east end of the nave . by its south side , including the south end ofthe transept , and come back to the centre along tho north side of the nave thus enabling all those present , who will be expected to keep the places which have been assigned to them , to see her . Majesty and . the procession . During the procession , the organs appointed will play marcheB , taking the-IIlliHio up at tho Queen's
approach . . On her Majesty ' s . return to tho platform , the Queen will deebire " ¦ The ' Exhibition ' Opened ! " which will be announced to ' the public by a flourish of trumpets , and the firing , of a royal salute on the north of the Serpentine ; , whereupon the barriers , which had kept the nave clear , wjll be thrown open , . and the public will be allowed to circulate . Her Majesty will then return to Buckingham Palace bv the route . by . which , she . came ... All the doors , which will have been closed at half-past eleven o ' clook , will , - upon her Majesty ' s- departure , be opened again . ; V ; '•• ¦¦ : By order of her Majesty ' s commissioners , EpoAB A . , Bowrino , Acting Secretary . Exhibition Building , nyda Park , 22 nd April : 1851 .
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MINERS' MEETING IN DERBYSHIRE . On Good Friday a public meeting of the ' miners of Alfretoii , and tho neighbouring district , was held in the Market Place , when upwards of 2 , 000 assembled . They were escorted to the place of meeting by three bands of music . William-Walker , of-Clay Cross , . was appointed chairman , and gave much satisfaction for tho manner in which he" conducted the proceedings . 'The first ' resolution : — " That this meeting resolve to join and support the Miners ' National Association , being convinced that union alone can save us , " was moved by Henry Knowles , seconded by Job . Miller , and ably supported by Thomas Clark . The secph ' d resolution :- « 'That as Lord A 8 bley , has . promised to brjgg in and sup . port an Eight Hours Bill , for . all . young men and
boys under eighteen years of age working in mines , we resolve to take proper steps to forward that important measure , " was mpre . a by Thomas Hunt , ' seconded by JosiahCutts , and , supported by William Kelsoy ,-. from the Staffordabire . ' rotteries , in a very eloquent manner , which elicited the plaudits of the meeting . " The third resolution : — " That as a Miners Conference ; will ; 'be held at Boltbn , we agree to send a delegate , and that Mr . William Daniels is hereb y ele ' ctedjtO ; represent the , miners of the counties of Derb y and Nottingham , ' . ' , was moved by James Riggoll , and seconded by George Durham . The above ' resolutions were carried unanimously ; after ^ hioh-Mr . ' William Daniels , the secretary to the Association for'the above counties , ' .. addressed the meeting at some length ' ' on
, various , gubieots ; of importance , iii connexwn with to union ,.. This was the ; Jarges ' t : mee ; ting . ithat has been . held . in . the neighbourhood on the subject ; and passed off very . harmoniouBly . ¦; >• :. . l , noth r ™* ting . of miners on the same-topic was held on the Old Furnace Hill , near Chesterfield , on ^^ v . ^^ . yr- . jrhen - ' . Wmiltf-. ' MJplutjpiw ^ wero adopted ; which " were moved , seconded , and supported by ^ George Mogley , ThomaB D&wes , Thomas Gop dalLGeorge Bennett , . William Daniels , William Kelsey , Pharoah Gascoigne , John Wood , Thomaa Clark ,. &c . Joseph : . Hawkins '' chairman . " The meeting mustered upwards of i . Opq strong : After each of the above meetings , delegate meetings were held , for the enrolment ot members , and other purposes . " ; '¦ :- . ?¦ . ... v .. .. :
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Mr . Saho , who , for manner seasons , was the pnmo Unorc at Covent-garden , - some few . years sines retired from the Btage , having the misfortune to lose ma voice . ' and-with it ; - * of course , his means of subsistence . ' Hence this great tenor is now living in ; a-state of-oomplete : destitution , -in a garret , . Q tteeu-stmL Edgware-rpad . -. Sun .. „ . ..-, . ' . fffi ^ W ^ ( Of . ' . pasflpbrts . delivered throughout France forpwBonS ' gbiig . t'b the ' tbridon Exhibitfoh ^ P ^ . alreadytomoMf . ' , ; Thegreaierpartare smaU . . proptieMs . ' ^ hbsft ' fSrtunedoesl riot exceed ^ lWayeaV . - ' -Hri » i »^ peotea ' 'tofurnish-WO , OpO excurswnMWi . '•'¦ -- .
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CoKtJOTMS .-Why is a four quart pitcher like a Bide saddle . ?—Because ^ carries a gall on . . " Why , may a slap on the side of the head be considered equivalent in worth to gold ?—Because it makes the ear-ring . ' " Hard times , and we must make the most of what we have , " as tho grocer said when he watered his vinegar . .. The Royai Agricultural Society haB definitively resolved to hold its anuual . exhibition of stock in Windsor Home Park . ' ' Law andThysic .-A petition to parliament to compel dootors to write their prescriptions in English , and . not in Latin , is now in course of signature . Loan SociETiBa , -There are 200 loan societies in England and Wales , of which number thirty-five are in operation in the county of Middlesex , and several in Surrey . , , " '
nI 5 * v Y ' ~~ 1 } ' ! reP , orted that the Roman Catholics have engaged the Hanover-square rooms for Sunday services during the period ' . of the Exhibition . ' ,. , ;¦ . : o CuARiiY ; -. Proportion your charity to others ' necessities ; and your own . ability ; and where the fceS '" tlierrelieV 0 a d >* one than let a tt 2 £ ' ^ . " ^ Thereis a man in Indiana so thin , that when . theBheriir is after him he crawls Slail ^ . ? . ^^^* ' ^^ . Mr .-BiRNBM AMD THE CflTSTAL PalACB . ~ The New Workers have been amused with n farce founded on the Exhibition , which ends " ithihe ar - " entsandali . nWt 0 » uy u » tlie ^ 7 ^ 1 Falace ,
conuiUpX'T ? ER '"~ A Yankee has W invented a SXiSLtiS * ° C 0 ntract 8 " on yo « r approach to water , that the moment , you . come ' to a puddle it llf « d drops you pnthe opposite ' side . '' EEtwious ExHinmpN . - The large room in Exeter HaU has been taken by Di 8 sente ™ ior Divine worship , on Saturdays , during the Exhibition ; The services of several leading Dissenting ministers have already been engaged . ' " ' ¦•• - . " A Bad BAROAiN .--The Melbourne lier < tU ^ ( Port Philip ) says its publishing office was never robbed but once , and that was , when the publisher was mad enough to , pay a night-watchman balf-a-crowri to protect . it . : . ' ¦' . ' Remarkable Incidbnx . —It is a remarkable incident that for two centuries a lord .. Clonbrock has never lived to see the majority of his heir . His lordship ' s eldest son will be of age in a few months , and the clrciumstancehas so preyed upon Lord Clonbrock as to throw him into his present dangerous Btate . —Limerick Chronicle . ¦ ' ' ¦ . • • -
Printers at California . —The printers of Sacramento ( California ) have established the price of composition ( the setting of types ) at a dollar and fifty cents per thousand . At San Francisco theprice is two dollars . The " gentlemen of the press" need not hanker after the " diggings" while they have such pretty " pickings . " A Mokster Balloon .- —The Boston Transcript states that Mr . Wise , ihe American aeronaut , is engaged in constructing another monster balloon , to
be about three times as large as the ' 'Hercules , " used last summer , with which he intends " to prove the certainty of his ability to cross the Atlantic and circumnavigate the " globe . " A NuN . ~ Granilmainma . — " Why , what ' s the matter with my pet I-Child : ' "Why , Grandma ' , after giving the subject every . consideration , I have come to the conclusion that—the world ia hollow—ana . my doll is stuffed with sawdust , so-1 —should—like—if you please—to be a ' Nun?—Punch . . . , .
LBOAL , Wn .-Mr . Baron Platt , at the Westmoreland Assizes ; in a colloquy with an Irish thief , asked , " Why did you not stay in your own ciiuntry , and rob there ?—Mr . Sergeant Murphy , with ready wit , answered for his countrymen , "Because , my Lord , there is nothing to steal there . " -. ¦ Freezino vv Ihdostry . —Nothing more is requisite for freezing up industry than the operation of a permanent domestic cause ; such as a tyrannical government , a bad legislation , an intolerant religion which repels men from each other , or a minute superstition which terrifies them Bbntham . "Go the whole Hog , " ia the American popular phrase for radical reforra . or demooratical principle , and is said to be derived from the phrase used by butchers in Virginia , who ask their , customer whether he will go tho whole hog , or deal only for joints or portions of it . ¦ -
Singular Custom . —One of the solemnities of a Jewish wedding at Aleppo ( 6 aya Mt . Rusaell ) ia fastening the eyelids together with gum . The bridegroom is the person who opens at the proper time the eyes of the bride . He does not add whether they continue open during the remainder of her matrimonial career . " ., ' . . ' < Getting Aloxg . "—The servant ' of a Prussian officer one day mat a crony , who inquired of him how he got along with his fiery master ?— " Oh , ex : cellently , " answered the servant ; " we live on very friendly terms ; every morning we beat each other ' s coats ; the ' only difference is , he takes his off to be beaten , and I keep mine on . " MHuman Nature . ' ? — "This animal , " said an ¦ , \ ! . ' e
itinerant showman , "is the royal African hyena , measuring fourteen feet from the tip of his hose to the end of the tail , and the same distance , back again , making in-all twenty-eight feet . He cries in the woods in the night season like a human being in distress , and then devours all that comes to his ( assistance—a sad-instance of the depravity of human maturjs . " ' . . ' , ' ' . " , > l ^ xBRipThehousewife-whopiirchases a-pound ¦ o | | papftw-a pound of BluwfgetB in exchange three-, qlpfter 5 , qif v a jound of water in the first , and almost i ^ Mhajf a- pound ia the * secoftd . If she taf / g * a score - ¦^ e ^ H t ' of potatoes , she is literally obtaining fifteen pounds of vvater ont pf . twenty , pounds . Ifjthe butcher sends her five pounds of beef , four pounds thereof are water . V . • of ; n « s a j ¦ " ¦ e n s
^ Origin St . Andrew ' s Cross uj Connexion with Scotland . —Johu Lesley , Bishop of Ross , reports , that in the night before the battle between Ath ' elstan , King of England , and . Hungusj lung of the Picts , a bright ' cross , like that , whereon St . Andrew suffered , appeared to Hungus , who , having obtained the victory , ever after bore that figure . This happened in 819 . —From iVores and Queries . Mr . N " . P ; Willis , in his Home Journal , announces that a Broadway hatter will introduce at the World ' s Fairj a 'fashion of hats with no right angles . The crown is to be " rounded off" like the end of a pumpkin , and Hogarth ' s line of beauty pre 86 rYed s . N n t . ig i . . g »_ le id
throusbout . , ^ Wslyk ; Mr , Willis thinks , is destiuedto do ' away : with the prevailing order of hats , which he calls , the " segment of a stovepipe " atyle . ¦ " ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ . \ ¦ - - : ; PeRSEVERiSCE is a prime- quality in every pursuit . ' Menfailoftener from ; want , of perseverance than from want of talent and of good disposition ; as the race was not to the hare , ! but to . tbo tortoise , so the meed of success in study ib not to him who is in haste , but to him whoiproceeds with a steady and even step . ' It js not to a want of t » ste ,, or of desire , or of a disposition to leajn , that we have to ascribe the rareness of good scholars , bo much as to the want of patient perseverance . jg o f . » r- Ce ag . " in id e , i ) e le
Honkstt . Re warded . ;—A ' country womarireturning from a draper ' s shop in a country town , in Hampshire ; picked up a Binall , bag , and on inquiring was informed that its supposed owner was at the Postoffice , a little further on , \ thither the woman went , and . found a lady , seated in a _ pony chaise . . In great consternation at her loss ,: she informed the woman that the bag contained no lass than' £ 40 — and ; . presented her with threepence for her trouble !!! . . , ; A Great DiscovEBY . ^ Professdr Salomon , of Harrodsburgb , Kentucky , bag successfully applied ng &
the power of carbonic acid gas as a substitute ; for steam , in propelling machinery for every purpose . The power of this gas has long been known to chemists , but their inability to regulateand ' goyerh' it has prevented its use as a propelling agent , '¦ ProftsgOr Salomon , claims lo be able , to cdritrol . it with perfect safety , and asserts that it . will afford a power equal to sieam in one-fiftieth of the space , and at one-hundreth part . pt , the expense , with both furnace , and boilers . Experiments have recently been ' iaade-in Cincinnati , which are said to be entirely satisfactory . —Nathville banner . ..-.. ,. ,., , ,. f
T . . LpRn ' s P ^ AyiB . —I remeinberon one ' , occk : sion travelling in this country with a companion who , possessed some knowledge of medicine ; we Arrived at a door , near , which we were about to . pitch our tent , when a crowd of Arabs surrounded tis , ' cursing and swearing-at ^ therebellere against God . My friend , who spoke a little Arabic to an elderl y person , whose garb beapdke him a priest , " said , ? ' Who taught you that ' we are disbelievers . ? Hear tny'daily prayer , ' ah'djndge for yourselves . !* ' : He then repeated the tord ' 8 Prayer . AllBtood amazed and silent ; ' till the priest exclaimed , '" May God curse me if ever I again curse , those who hold such' a belief ; nay more ; the prayer shall be my prayer till , my hour ' . be . corne . , I pray thee , O . Nazarine , repeat that prayer , that it may be remembered amongBt ua in letters of gold . "—Hay ' s Western Barhaty . ' . ¦ . .-.. , ¦¦¦¦ - . ¦ •
. • AniSTOCRACY . — Hunt ' s Merchants Magazine , ( U . S . ) , has a useful article on tnc American ' - ' Aristocracy , " the . butterflies following .. the indujttious w ' orins .. 'fThe father grubs ; and . grows . nch ; his children strut , and use the money : their childrerunherit ' the pride . ' arid go > hiftless . ppverty . , ; their . children jrerittvigorated by fresh plebiaa blood , , and by the smell of the clod , oome up again . Ihua society , ' likea tree , draw ' s its sap froin the earth , ; changes it into leaves and b } O 38 onBS , spreads them abroad , in great ' glory , sheds thgrd off tj > 'f all bac ) t to the jBarth , againirto mlngIe witFrth 6 ' soil , . and ., ^ t length -to" reapplear in new tre ' w arid fresh Ralrmture . 'f , '' ' . '"" > . - Tw ' blve .. thousand ' ,. sparrQws , 7 a French ' paper gravely Mated , , the oiher day , ' had' been caught in Mr . lPaxtdn ' s GlaH . Cage ; , and the . VftCejf , jadded the wrorthreaitor , wasoqzing throiigh : the roof & 6 ueh » ri ; axt ^ t thbt the workmen w « tf' 6 blig « jd 4 ft'ri g their labour ia small boata , * ! j ?
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 26, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1623/page/3/
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