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The Queea held a Drawing-room oa Thursday at St . James s Palace ; and visited the Exposition yesterday morning . r J J A body of exhibitors met on Thursday at Crosby-hall , f « £ i . u . the following among other resolutions : — 1 hat this meeting of the exhibitore in the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations views with regret the stringent course of policy which the royal commissioners vJ * P r 8 Ued » and are pursuing , towards the exhibitors . I hat this meeting feels that the free admission of all exhibitors would be just to the exhibitors , and highly conducive to the general success of the undertaking . " They appointed a committee , and instructed them to wait on the commissioners with a copy of the resolutions .
The receipts from visitors rose higher than ever on Thursday . The 5 s . contributions amounted to £ 2430 ; and the sale oF season tickets , which still goes on prosperously , swelled the total sum taken to £ 3300 . Professor Cowper gave his first lecture to the students of King ' s College on that day within the building . Yesterday the money taken amounted to £ 3230 , of which £ 2654 : was for daily visitors , and £ 676 for season tickets . Sir Edward Bulwer Lvtton ' a comedy , Not so Bad as tc » Seem , or Many Sides to a Character , written for the benefit of the Guild of Literature and Art , was performed last night by the amateurs—literary men and painters—at Devonshire-house , in the presence of the Queen and Prince Albert . The room was filled with a
brilliant company . " The piece , " says the Times , "is one more of character than plot . " The Daily News tells us that it " is admirably constructed , " and adds that" the curtain fell amid loud and prolonged applause , in which the royal party heartily joined . The Morning Chronicle writes that the * plot , embracing little action or onward progress , is not very clear in itself , and was made perplexingly hazy by the dim indistinctness with which , in the greater number of cases , the points were brought out . " The scene is laid in the days of the booksellers Tonson and Curll , the characters range through all ranks , and a Jacobite plot is woven up with the action . Of course the principal character is a Grub-street hack . The performance will realize nearly a thousand pounds .
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The following letter has been sent to the editor of the Morning Chronicle : — " Sir , —The Times newspaper has just been brought me , and I see in it a report of Mr . Spooner ' s speech on the Religious Houses Bill . A passage in it runs as follows : — " It was not usual for a coroner to hold an inquest , unless when a rumour had got abroad that there was a necessity for one , and how was a rumour to come from the underground cells of the convents ? Yes , he repeated , underground cells ; and he would tell honourable Members something about such places . At this moment , in the parish of Edgbaston , within the borough of iiirmingliam , there was a large convent of some kind or other being erected , and the whole of the underground was fitted up with cells ; and 10 hat tcere those cells for ? ( Hear , hear ) . '
" The house alluded to in this extract is one which I am building for the Congregation of the Oratory of St . Philip Neri , of which I am superior . I myself am under no other superior elsewhere . ' The underground cells to which Mr . Spooner refers have been devised in order to economize space for offices commonly attached to a large house . I think they are five in number , but cannot be certain . They run under the kitchen a . nd its neighbourhood . One ia to ^ bea larder , another is to " be a coalhole ; beer , perhaps wine , may occupy a third . As to the rest , Mr . Spooner ought to know that we have had ideas of baking and brewing ; but I cannot pledge myself to him that such will be iheir ultimate destination .
" Larger subterraneans commonly run under gentlemen ' s houses in London ; but I have never , in thought or word , connected them with practices of cruelty and with inquests , and never asked their owners what use they ma . de of them . " Where is this inquisition into the private matters of Catholics to end ? Your obedient servant , " Joiiw Hknky Newman . " Oratory , Birmingham , May 1 C > . "
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General Durrieu , Government candidate , \ v \ n been elected representative of the department of tliu Landes . Ho obtained 17 , 000 voteH , and hi * competitor , M . Duclero , moderate Republican , 10 , 000 . The Dcmocrata ubHlairiod from voting . A draught petition from tho University of Oxford is in circulation , praying that the Royal Commission may be revoked and cancelled . The Times published a long declaration , signed by a large proportion of tho Human Catholic laity , apropos oi the Ecclesiastical Titles Kill . Mr . lielhell and Mr . TiiuLtl have been requested to withdraw from the Connoi vative ( Jlub . Mr . John Walur prut cuts in a letter to the Timua . ill iuiih
William I ' umulin , the unfortunate " -looking , " supposed to be concerned in the gold-dust robbery , wan yesterday brought before the Lord-Mayor ; nothing new elicited , except , that a wrapper with peculiar folds wan found in Painplin ' s ponnesnion j but the Lord Mayor would not admit him to bail . A tihocking cliurgc of cruelty and utarvation of a young girl , Hixtecn yearH of ag « , named Clnintianu Carpenter , wuh preferred ngainnt her father untl stepmother , Robert and Louisa Carpentur , yesterday , at the Bristol Police Court , lier appearaucu exulted tho utmost commiueiation among the audit oth , und cauticd a thrill of horror to run through all who euiv her . Jlor frMtm : wuh wunti d to the ulmottl degree ; her face , haggard und careworn , with nothing more than akin to cover the bonoa , was truly ghuatly ; and her lega , whioh wlto not one third the natural aize , were covered with sorefl , tho evident marks of neglect . Tho accused were remanded .
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The existence of the great conspiracy is no secret . The Revolution of 1848 was simply the convulsive effort of Progress against the vain attempt at the stationary which Arnold denounces , in the admirable passage adopted as the motto to this department of our paper . Revolution has for its antagonism Reaction ; and as Liberty has its two halves , " civil and religious / ' so has Reaction , Royal Absolutism and Spiritual Despotism . Lord John Russell is the champion , faithful though timid , and therefore vacillating , of civil and religious liberty ; but his Government has done much to suppress Revolution , and is now doing its best to keep the ground free for Reaction in 1851 .
RUSSELL THE ACCUSER . "A great plan" exists , " aimed against civil and religious liberty in every country in Europe , * so says Lord John Russell . He holds that the Papal " aggression" is part of it ; but with that part , for the present , we have nothing to do ; our business being with "the great plan / ' which unquestionably does exist , and with the fact that the conduct of our Government is such as to expose England , by destroying the outposts of civil and religious liberty , and by yet worse defections , to the ultimate influences of the great plan . Let us first declare our firm and sincere belief , that Lord John Russell has no such treachery in his mind . He is among the deluded—Leader of the Misled— " Primus inter pares . "
Look at the facts of the week . Questioned in Parliament , Lord Palmerston " cannot say" when France will evacuate Rome , still occupied by lier troops ; and he admits that those troops have not secured good Government : he has made " communications" on the subject , but it is at the discretion of France to choose her own time for terminating the occupation . He believes that the Austrian troops have evacuated the Danubian
provinces by this time [ though , of course , he cannot know it yet ] ; and he denies that France and England have positively arranged lor the longer detention of the Hungarian refugees in Turkey ; but the Russian Government proposes to keep a force upon the Danubian frontier , and as to the Hungarian refugees , " he was sorry to say that as yet the endeavours of the Governments of England and France to obtain their liberation had not been
successful . Now observe , Lord Palmerston interferes in Roman affairs—sends thither a deaf nobleman , Lord Minto , who " docs not hear" what the Pope declares that he said ; that noblemen draws on the people of Italy , especially of Rome and Sicily , — emitting speeches to the Romans and sending fleets to the Sicilians ; withdraws Ins countenance and ileets just as affairs become most critical , —the Papacy is reestablished in statu quo , and Naples walks over Sicily . Lord I ' ulmcrston makes " comrnunicnt . ions" to the French Government of a kind
to save his own credit with Liberals pro forma at home , but to let France understand that Kngland holds herself precluded from interfering : " I object to your doing no , " ho seems to have said , " it is very indecorous , but of courso 1 cannot interfere ; " the French Government , therefore , feels quite free to act . without fear of Kngland . Turkey , anxious to release the Hungarian refugees , negotiates with Russia for leave to do so ; Lord l'ahnerston intervenes to back Turkey ; and the . ; result , is , that the will of Russia prevails . The time comes for Russia to evacuate the Danubian provinces ; Lord Pahncrstoii negociaten , and so shapes his representations as to recognise the feasibility of ltussiu'H retaining trooiw on the frontier—that Russian frontier which ih ever on the move , advancing to the bouth and west . Last week w « saw another strange case in an opposite quarter ; no sooner doot * Brazil become sincere and active in suppretming tho Blave trade , than
and allied it to a vulgar sham-liberalism m Portugal ; thus that he incited the people of Sicily , Rome , and Lombardy , deserted them , and left the way which he had filled with his boastful histrionics open to returning Absolutism ; thus that he " protested " on behalf of Hungary , and left her to be overrun hy Russian and Austrian troops ; thus that he interfered For Schleswig-Horstein , now restored to Denmark . Of Lord Paltnerston ' s motives we have
Lord Palmerston , so anxious in exhorting her to aid in that cause , seizes her to chastise and paralyze her . It is always so : he professes the most ardent desire for Liberal opinions and free institations ; be interferes on that side and the . Liberal cause is crippled . It was thus that he has nullified British influence in Turkey , destroyed it in Greece and Spain ,
no knowledge ; we know nothing of him , but that he is one of the cleverest and most agreeable men of the English official order , cut out for triumphs both in drawing-room and council ; we have only been enumerating some of his public acts , and it is remarkablethat they present , systematically , the same series of turns—a chance of Progress , profession of solicitude in that behalf by Lord Palmerston , bis intervention , Reaction . Russia must know who , under Nesselrode , has been her best servant ; Austria who , under Metternich or Schwarzenberg ; Naples who , under Del Caretto .
It has been stated that police have been sent over from France to watch over French Republicans ; from Austria to watch over Hungarians , Italians , and Poles ; from Berlin to watch over Germans . Lord Palmerston is Foreign Minister . Now review these facts broadly , as a whole . Progress made a start in 1848 ; Lord Palmerston was very zealous in the cause ; diplomacy , in which Freemasonry the Viscount is so distinguished a member , recovers its supremacy ; he is on such good terms with his late antagonists on the stage of the great diplomatic theatre that he exchanges police with them : and now , so says Lord John , there is " a great plan against civil and religious liberty in every country in Europe . "
Lord John , it appears , regards his Papal Aggression Bill as one mode of counteracting that " great plan . " Lord Palmerston is a member of Lord John ' s Cabinet . When we say that we do not accuse Lord Palmerston of being a traitor , we do not utter that negative because we desire to evade the law of libel , but because we really are destitute of the slightest proof to establish such , a charge , or even to establish such a conviction in our own mind . Diplomacy , by the sufferance of Legislatures and Peoples , is a sealed chamber ; and we suspect that it is a freemasonry in which the members merge
many natural feelings in a cosmopolite esprit tie corps . As soon as Lord Palmerston enters into that council , —its secrecies , its reserves , its suppression of papers , its " extracts , " its " representations , " ita " understandings , " its " secret articles , " its licences in dealing with what the vulgar call truth—he is lost to our sight . We do say , however , t ^ iat his position is one of the most curious of historical puzzles—so clever , so prosperous in aspect , so anxious for Liberalism , so uniformly visited by the success of Despotism . We have not the means of solving that puzzle ; but we also say that it is high time for Englishmen , if there are any in Parliament , to take steps towanla a
solution . Meanwhile we point a # ain to the broadest facts —to the interest which Kngland has in defending her own opinions and institutions , if possible , on more distant lands than her own ; to the knowledge that the vast bulk of the populations of Europe agree with fin- g land ; to the result , that Diplomacy , whatever it may do in those secret ways , ddfcutH Liberalism and reestablishes Despotism ; and that the English Premier now confesses the existence \> f a " great plan . " The sort of action , therefore , to which his Government" has
trusted in , to say the least , not successful . Now there is another course , the success of which is all but certain : it would be , to abandon these ' neciel . irianutt-. uvrings of diplomacy , to l < ave these vain rictfocmtions with foivitf" Governmetils' bent , as we see by thfiir itetrt , in restoring Despotism , and to appeal , openly , to the Peoples of Europe . 'That indeed would ho straightforward , "Enfflinh **; it would rciiN . suie Liberalism throughout Europe ; it would raise English influence to its highest pinnuclc ; it would bo successful ; it would drtraraw the prospect of discord and bloodshed whioh oow langs over 1852 .
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There i 3 nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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SATURDAY , MAY 17 , 1851 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1851, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1883/page/11/
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