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Ko. 509. Dec. 24, 1859.] THE LEADEE. 139...
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Crystal Palace Company. The Report Adopt...
number of visitors in the period embraced in the accounts , the report states , has been 1 , 384 , 163 , being an increase of 20 , 000 on tire average of the four preceding' years , and a marked proof of the . favourable estimation in which the Palace is held by the public , as shown by the gatherings of Foresters and Odd Fellows surpassing those of the previous year . The exhibitors' department is reported to be making steady progress , and in a sounder condition than heretofore . The alterations , improvements , and repairs in the building are most specially referred to in the report , which also alludes to the appropriation of ground for practice by the London Rifle Brigade ; arrangements being also in progress with other metropolitan , corps for the same purpose . The directors go on to state that the construction of the Victoria station ,
the result is no less to be deplored ; and this coming to the knowledge of the press , it seems to us duty of the press ( ever invited to familiarise itself with the -working-of this institution ) , to pass timely word of warning to the general body , that the lot of retirement has fallen , or will fall , upon the men who have been mainly instrumental in reversing the pro gress of the Company on a downward gradient , and in procuring that respectable dividend that once would have been too large to dreani of , but is now small enough to be sneered at . By their common place and common- sense deeds they have sinned we believe , against the demon of red-tape directdrism that never learns nor forgets ; and by whom their re-election is , we hear , to be opposed ; and if they are cast out , their places will , in due course , be filled up as the Act directs , with men of the old leaven But , if those whom it concerns will neither hear nor move , why should we be chorus ?
* nd of the line for connecting the West EndRailway thereto , is proceeding rapidly , and there is every prospect of their being opened early in the coming summer . This direct communication with the centre of the West-end of town cannot fail to cause an important addition to the traffic to the Palace . It will also prove indirectly beneficial , by encouraging building operations in the surrounding districts . The houses which the company are erecting on their property at Dulwich Wood are approaching completion . The report submitted to the last general meeting having been printed before the conclusion of the Handel Festival , only a short general reference to it was then possible ; the favourable financial anticipations therein expressed are fully borne out . The directors record their sense of the
valuable assistance and the cordial co-operation which they received in carrying out the undertaking from the committee of the Sacred Harmonic Society . The great services rendered by Mr . Costa to the festival are also specially referred to . As the Crystal Palace is now fitted up -with' the most complete and extensive orchestra in the world , at a cost of nearly jE 7-, 000 ( the whole of wliich has been paid out of revenue ) , and as the great transept is an unrivalled locality , the board , in conjunction with the committee of the societv , have under their consideration the establisment of periodical musical festivals , equal FestivalIt is
at least in extent to the Handel . proposed that the first of these shall take place in 1862 . The directors are unable to report an adjustment of the difference between this and the Brighton Railway Company . The Crystal Palace Art Union is stated to have been very successful during its first season , and there is a prospect of a considerable increase in its operations for the coming year . More prominence will , in future , be given to pictures among the prizes ; and such arrangements have been made for this as will be to the mutual benefit both of the company ' s picture gallery and the art
It is not without regret that the unbiassed spectators of the CrystalPalace progress observe the prominence that certain shareholders insist upon giving to their ill-considered wisli for more dividends , at the expense of the efficiency of the staff , and of diminished attractions . We are fain to think , ' when wo hear , not the reported orations , but the ipsissima vcrba— all maim and halt , as they often are—of such shareholders as these , that they must bo , not those who have borne the burden and the heat of the
claywho have seen and paidthqt way of tho undertaking through good and evil report , and under faulty management , over the turbid waters of jobbery mto tho rest of comparative prosperity—but tho new holders of last week or last month , who may have cannily speculated in stock ht frightful discounts , with a view , first , to realising speedy and exorbitant interost for thoir money , and then , ton re-sale of their holding at prosperity prices . Though little faith Cfth be reposod in those members of the present board , who are of tho more fee-seeking and ornamental orders , and though tho independent observer cannot view without approliension tho proposal to confound tho democracy by converting shares mo stock , it is irappssiblo not tp support tho bourU in their engaoioua resistance to those " killers of the 'Kooso for tho ffoldpn egg , " and in their recognition in
Of tho principle of popularisation , or , omur words , of providing tho greatest number of happinesses for tho greatest numbor of visitors , liio directors of tho Crystal Palace , to whom the enunciation of that prinoiplo may bo ascribed , may bo many and various . It has probably been , and it probably will bo , a portion of tho platform ot every candidate , past , present , and to come . But , platitude though It seems , its working out has been practically left to Messrs . England and Horslnv . two Junior members of tho present board ,
whom it is tho fato of tho shareholders to lose 11 by rotation , " as tho phrase goes , nt midsummer next . By what contrivance tho roulette wheel ot fortune lms been made to indicate for retirement tiio tvro candidates who were carried into offloe on tiio shoulders , as It were , of ft long board-ridden ftnd tardily-roused proprietary , we are not advised , ant
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Terrible Fire and Loss op Life . —Between two and three o ' clock this ( Friday ) morning a fire broke out at a house occupied principally as offices in Little George-street , Westminster . There were in the house at the time four women and three children . The flames gained complete mastery in a wonderfully short space of time , and before help could arrive the lives of two women and two infants were sacrificed ; the others are saved but are much hurt . The Ta-smaxiast Submarine Cable . —The first submarine electric cable of any considerable length in this part of the world has now been successfully laid and open for public use . The 120 miles of Bass ' s Straits is thus annihilated , so far as-the communication of intelligence is concerned , and the island of Tasmania is for many important purposes as closely united to the mainland of Australia as though no sea rolled between them . This , it will be admitted , is a work of some magnitude for these colonies , and is creditable to the enterprise of Victoria and Tasmania , who have themselves found the whole of the funds for the undertaking . In this case the object to be gained is wortli even some annual expenditure in excess of returns , if the line cannot be maintained without it ; for there can be no question that tp Tasmania the advantage of instant communication with these colonies must be very great . The annual
trade transactions between that island and the mainland are stated by the Launceston papers to bo now represented by a sum amounting to more than . £ 1 , 000 , 000 sterling ; and , as the markets of the one colony are entirely regulated by those of the others , it cannot be otherwise than a matter of deep importance that a close intercommunication should exist between them . One chief source of risk and expense said to be connected with this line is , that it has been laid in four separate sections—first , from the north side of King ' s Island to Cape Otway , on the Australian coast , then in tlie opposite direction from King ' s Island to Hummock ' s Island ,-thence to Circular head on the north coast of Tasmania , and from
that point along the coast to , the entrance of the Taumr , where it joins the land line to Launceston and Hobarc Town . From this arrangement the shore-ends of the cable arc numerous , and all of them are said to bo considerably exposed to injury from tho nature of the places at which the landings have been made . Under tlioso circumstances it is being urged upon the Governments of Victoria and Tasmania that they should at once incur tho additional pxpense of procuring from England sufficient surplus cable to make good any injury which either of tho four sections may sustain ; and tins , wq think , is a very reasonable suggestion , seeing how many chances of accident tho line is exposed to .
' Moouisir and Si'ANiau Troops . —A letter from Gibraltar says : — " Persons who have been lately and frequently in Morocco express their conviction tho Moors will fight desperately , under tho influence of fanaticism , aiul of that utter contempt of death which is one of their well-known characteristics . With regard to the armament and equipment of the bulk of their army , it is difficult to obtain positive information . The chief arm , both of infantry and cavalry , seems to be tho espinyarda , or long uiuskut , of which somo handsome specimens have already been taken , and aro now in the Spanish camp . An English officer , latoly in Morocco , latching away British subjects with
tolls me he saw somo of thoir cavalry bayonets flxod to tho end ' of their guns , which thus aro convorted Into lances pf considerable length . i-ho same authority , which I considor a good one , oxprossod confldonco iu tho bravery of tho Moors , but said that ( food Europoan . infantry ought to march through thorn in the plains , both horse and foot , Tho question Is whothor tho Spanish infantry will prove good enough to do this ; whether those young soldiers have nerve and resolution suflioient to witnstand without flinching or confusion tho fiorco onset of those wild ( losneradoofl of the dosort , and to receive thorn with a closo flro and a firm , unbroken lino of bayonots .
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- , . -TRANCE . 3 The French Cabinet has this day ( Friday ) , by telegraph , informed the Powers concerned that the [ opening of the Congress will not take place before * the 19 th January next . r [ The Constitutionnel publishes an article signed . by its principal editor , M . Grandguillot , approving in general the contents of the pamphlet " Le Pope et le Congress , " declaring , however , a resolve to combat some of the propositions made by the , author .
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2 RUSSIA AND PIEDMONT . * The policy of Russia is inferable from L'Invalids j Russe , wliich to-day attacks the Ost Deutsche Post , > refuting the allegation of that Austrian mouthpiece , 1 which went to deny Piedmont a deliberative voice ! in Congress , attributing to the kingdom of North i Italy only a consultative presence , anJ placing Sar-¦ diniain that respect on alevel with Naples , Portugal , 1 Spain , and Rome . The Russian oracle scouts sucii , a notion , and positively says : — " Piedmont alone can have any pretension to represent Italy in Congress , for the simple reason that , if the people were polled from the Alps to the Straits of Messina or Cape Lilibaeum , the universal suffrages of the peninsula would be in exact accordance with tho already established vote of the inhabitants of Tuscany , Romagna , Parma , and Modeua . "
India. Bombay Journals Of The 26th Ult. ...
INDIA . Bombay journals of the 26 th ult . have been received this morning . The Governor-General and Comrufinder-in-Chiei ' left Cawripm-e on the morning of the 5 th , and arrived at Futtehghur on tho 12 th . They encamped at the Luckpeere Bagh , and immediately held a station levee . The durbar was held next day , and was attended , by a large number of native chiefs . Lord Canning ' s camp is expected to be at Delhi about Christmas . Of the state of the rebel army in Nepaul , tiio rumours are perfectly contradictory—it is now said that the Nana intends to maintain his positionthen that he intends to retreat . One report is tliar he ia dead , another that there was a consultation in his camp , and that the several ' leaders agreed to unite their forces and place them under his orders . "One thing is certain , " says tho Bombay Gazette , that our troops have taken the field against tho rebels . " It is now stated again that Jung Bahruloor is to givo us his assistance in driving them out of Nepaul . Iu Central India , it is feared that it will be necessary to carry on the war in the jungle . Tlie hill tribes in tho Docoan arc giving some ( rouble , and a . party of Rohillas have been creating disturbances nonr Hingoloo . " The Bombay Times has boon told that a very important change is about to tako place in the constitution of tho oxecutivc council of tho Viceroy , which is to bo modellod somowhat after tho fashion of hor Mojosty ' s cabinet . The members of council will bocomo secretaries of state , nnd , ns sucli ,. responsible for the conduct-of all matters In thoir several departments . Wo aro told that tho now Indian cabinet will stand as follows : — President ami Secretary for Politioal Affairs—T . > rd Canning . Homo Seorotary—Sir Bartlo Frore . Socrotary nt War—Sir James Outram . Minister of Finance—Right lion ! James Wilson . The powor of opinion will give India a good government yet . We are also assured that the admission of non-offlolat members to tho legislative Council has boon doeldod upon .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121859/page/11/
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