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rris . but whether he could act with Lord nffe ' know not . There would be serious , ?^« itipa- so serious , that we do not under-^ thow ' the Baronet of Hetherby can make s tana -m _ _ _ Protectionists a Protectionist is ^^ Ati hejs ^ orte ^ f ^ d l ) erb ^ * T am an opponent of ± 7 ord Derby , cries Sir t . eg and hence it is aissumed that he is a supfLr ' of Lord John Russell— -a non-sequitur P we are not authorized to deny . It is true " Iw Sir James has always been a powerful
ad-• tive rather than a noun substantive—a great i |? tenant—an aDie administrator , rather than an originator . But the difficulty is this : —he has been the second in the most successful cabit of recent times : ; and how he can consent to descend to the Eussell level we do not understand . Tamberlik might as soon come out in a Bunn opera at Prurylane . Sir James has indeed in himself sufficient vigour to g ive force to anv administration that he might join ; but that hp should consent to be keeper , nurse , Or garde
malade to the invalids who nave so lately retired from public derision , is an impossible anticipation . To men of ordinary feebleness , he might give an imparted energy , as an energetic lieutenant can make a common crew look alive , even under the feeblest of captains ; but knowingly to embark in an Anson expedition of combat and discovery , with a sick and superannuated crew , who will all specially want tending , is what we cannot understand of so shrewd a man . Only imagine how his time would be taken up , if he had to get Sir Charles Wood to understand finance ; to keep Lord Grey from teazing the colonies into
rebellion , by sending gold instead of labour to Australia , or offering a constitution to Sandilli ; to write the foreign despatches for the ex-commissioner of the ^ Exposition ; and all the whil e to keepLord John from sinking where he stands . To drive a pig , a goose , and a donkey all at once , and to support a friend , several seas over , who is bent on making his bed in the dirt , —that would be the feat undertaken by Sir James Graham in joining the Kussell corps . To expect any particular measures out of a man thus occupied Would be delusion : as well expect a new edition of practical trigonometry from a Ramo Samee while he is balancing a German tree on his chin , and playing at balls with both hands .
From Mr . Cobden , of course , we should have a host of admirable measures , without delay . As he is a member of the Parliamentary Reform Association , we should , of course , have the quasiuniversal suffrage of that body . That the seats would be so distributed , however , as to fulfil his prophecy , as to the towns ruling henceforward over the counties , we may be assured . As he is a member of the Anti Knowledge-Tax Association , the taxes on knowledge would be forthwith abolished ; the deficiency of the revenue being
immediately made up by a large reduction of our military expenditure . The accession to office of so distinguished an ornament of the Peace persuasion would result in casting aside all Militia Bills , national defence measures , and " nonsense " of that land ; and wo may be the more sure of it , smco Lord John himself has advanced half-way in his resistance to the militia as soon as it has been proposed by another Minister . That so distinguishe d and active a member of the Public School Association would introduce a complete
measure of secular education all will expect , and oi course will not expect in vain . For Mr . Cobden is not one of your vaguo declaimers ; he is » ot a more Liberal in feeling ; he is a practical man , who always means exactly what ho says , neither more nor less , —certainly not less ; and many a man . of more extreme opinions might enter office with less certainty of practical results iromt his
acceptance of power , than friends or foes can feel with regard to Mr . Oobden . Wo need scarcel y say that wo do not agree in all tho meaw ' ( t £ ? t wo anticipate from the Member for tho Ir . ^ ing ; but wo aro bound to await them wan doforonco , and with a resolve to givo thorn in i T ^ oral ; ion when they do come , roeom-,, nded fts they must bo by . his unadorned , olo-( u « ne « and ubio exposition «¦
. rill ., _•« . *> VA | JUEIUIIUIIi can ( lllllt ) ultyi 8 to understand how Mr . Oobdon , ox P « ct ; to ponotrato tho caso-lnirdoned incrt'obs ot his diiof that is to bo ; or how ho can Hlin « fi l m llia 8 Uar P scissors only in a Whig to II ir ero Cttnbo hut two alternative rosuHB limn ° ( llan ( ' ° - Among tho lower animals which thai f \ y " ff ° « ation , " it sometimes happens tuo' creature puts forth , a now portion of
itself , quite unlike the original being ; the old person then shrivels up and dies , and the new remains—a transformed substitute for the old creature . Thus , if the Eussell zoophyte put forth a Gobden branch , the Russell part may wither , die , and be shaken off ; possibly leaving to the new part the new power of locomotion . In the other alternative , Uobden , like a Graham or a Peel , must consent to be for the time reduced to a Russett degree Of inaction , — -like a knife stuck in a bung ; and that , perhaps , is the more probable way in which a Cobden would serve his
official apprenticeship to state-craft . For it is difficult to see how a " new man" could rally round him the old families , so as to stand alonea new man not professing any reverence for' the ornamental or venerable part of our institutions , and yet not backed by the working class " million , " with whom he reciprocates so slightly in sentiment . They say it is impossible to prove a negative ; but to perform that impossibility as regards the practicability of making poor Lord John go once more on a pair of Graham and Gobden crutches , appears to be the only business open to such a Eussell restoration .
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THE SABBATH OF THE CRYSTAL PHCENIX . Aet is in the agonies of preparing for a grand " flitting , " as the Scotch call it . The Jtoyal Academy hopes to get rid of its fellow tenant , the National Gallery , which is going to Kensington ; part of the great Exposition has taken up a temporary abode in Marlborough House , as the
Museum of Ornamental Art ; and the Crystal Palace is going bodily out of town , where a strong public company is to provide a park for its reception and more glorious revival . Although driven away by the nobility and gentry at Kensington Gore , who detest anything so vulgar because so popular , —although abandoned by the official class . r—its real creators , Sir Joseph
Paxton and Messrs . Fox and Henderson , mean to preserve it by inviting the public help and the commercial interests of the many . A company , with a capital of 50 O , 0 OOZ ., is to be raised in 51 . shares , with a directory and staff that ought to guarantee the honest fulfilment of the undertaking . So , although the Crystal Palace will fall , it will rise again . The Palace will be made a truly magnificent display of invention and taste for its human elements , of beauty and variety for its natural
elements—an exhibition unknown to the world . Not only sculpture will be there—ancient as well as new—represented by casts ; but architectural remains will occupy every salient part of the building ; models of machinery will invite practical inquiry in less picturesque positions ; working models will exhibit the great staples in the process of manufacture ; geology , mineralogy , and botanywill reunite practical science to
, natural beauty ; trees , shrubs , and smaller plants will illustrate the vegetation of the globe ; flowers of every clime and season will keep up a perpetual flush and shade of spring throughout the year ; and airy fountains , vying with tho " Great Waters" of Versailles , will play their arching rain . The picture is already before us , of mingled sculpture , foliage , architecture , and fountains , with the wise recesses of science behind .
The approach ought to be most easy . At present Sydenham is named as tho site , and we are told that a special railway , with stations at Vauxhall , Waterloo , London-bridge , and tho Bricklayer ' s Arms , will convey the visitor to a station within tho building . We see no mention as to tho charge for railway , nor as to tho cost of admission , — details properly postponed ; but wo suppose that the directors will know how to raise a largo revenue by a broad , and therefore low , level of charges ; and wo presumo that tho work-* - * - * w ¦ n « i Ml _ _ . _ . 1 _ „ , iX ___ .- N . 4-4- ^ r » His wiu not luigvuwu
ing-man and lamuy uu .. Somo question , indeed , may ariso as to tho direction in which the Crystal Palaoo is to move ; and wo cannot regard that question as finally settled , for two reasons . Thoro will bo tho railway charge ; but that can scarcely bo . P ° _ 80 < J ultogothor on . workiutf-eliiHS visitors ; while West IiJikF natives can scarcely ovor bo induaoa to go Eastward , oxoopfc to whifcobait . On tho other hand , wo know that a princely offer has boon made by a man whom rank and nature have conswirod to ennoble , which would lodge fclio Crystal
oclifico in what may be called its nativo garden , right on tho banks of tho Thames , in tho very high road of tho London stoam-boafc p leasuring , and closo to the branch railway of tho South-wostorn .
The transfer of the Crystal Palace from an official commission to . ' a private company should h , ave this advantage , — -that it would be possible to open the place on Sundays . A . delightful retreat would thus be opened to tne toiling public , cooped up all the week , on the Day of rest , —a retreat for calm enjoyment , for decent and thoughtful recreation . A " better observance of the Sabbath" has never been so well secured . To us the project would want but one adjunct , —a neighbouring Temple , trul y " catholic , " where the truths illustrated by that pictured scene of living objects might be elucidated , where the spirit awakened by
the contemplation of those objects , might find an enlightened echo speaking back to the soul , informing its instincts , bidding them to come forth and not be ashamed , but , in the presence of nature and of art—of man ' s wisdom , which is but the lowly pupil of the divine , —to learn from the works of God and the inventions of man , the immutable harmonies of the universe ; and so to guide humanity in its ever onward and ascending path , even as a divinely inspired instinct guides the wild bee to its nest , the flower to the light , the babe to its mother , and man to the temple where he may feel the spirit which rules over all .
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OK THE CULTIVATION OP FLAX . in . 1 st alluding , last week , to the ordinary methods of steeping flax , we must not be understood as including in our condemnation any particular improved manner of effecting this process , for it is very certain that advances have been made , in Ireland and elsewhere , on the primitive plan of poking a bundle of flax straw into a black Irish hoghole , and allowing it to rot at leisure . Even by this characteristic slovenliness , however , we have seen that the produce of flax sometimes reaches one-eighth of the weight of flax straw , although we fear that , as a general rule , one-tenth would be nearer the mark .
The fact that flax is more efficiently and rapidly steeped in warm weather than in cold , led a certain Mr . Schenck to surmise that , if an even temperature of from 80 to 90 deg . could be maintained in the steepwater , the gum would be dissolved in a few hours , and the flax straw be ready for scutching . This discovery made , a patent was obtained , and the Royal Irish Flax Society , adopting the recommendation of their committee of management , composed of some of the principal spinners and manufacturers of Belfast , introduced
into their " Directions" to flax growers , some honourable mention of the patented plan . The modus operandi is simple enough , and might be made available for fanners with long purses , or for enterprising individuals who would follow the example of Irish speculators—i . e ., induce poor tenants to grow flax , buy it at their own price in the straw , seed and all , and then work it up according to law in a patent steeping apparatus , and pocket an enormous profit on sale of the flax to the spinners , no portion of which is shared
with the grower . However open to objection the practical working of this plan may be , as applicable to the wants of the English farmer , the improvement upon the old plan seems to bo so decided , that wo give a short account of tho process , leaving them to apply to Messrs . Bernard and Koch , of Belfast , for terms of license , unless their own ingenuity can devise somo method of arriving at similar results , without risk of an infringement of this extraordinary patent . Lnrgo vats are constructed of wood , and , with tho assistance of a small steam boiler , and a few coils of iron pipo , tho water contained in tho vats is maintained at an uniform temperature of from 75 to 90 deg . Fahrenheit . Into these receptacles tho flax , freed from the seed ( hi / the purchaser , generally ) , is carefully laid ; and when ' tho fibre separates roiulily from tho wood , which usually occurs in from sixty to eighty hours , ifc is lifted and spread upon tho grass for a space of about thirteen days , after which it in broken and scutched in tho ordinary manner . Wo annex tho ro-Hult of four experiments made last year in tho North of Ireland : — S . W « l « ht ^ «!' rrml'W I ¦ g Tlniolu or straw ... i ,, . •' . Ti . no oa S Htooj ... before . Y " . ' «» K ™ - I . too ,. i .. . Ui ( ; tfjr- plftX > Tow . H _ . | d < vr . hoard , owt . qrs . lb . ' owt . tirH . U ) . H ' - H >« . HO Ti _ 0 0 \\ 0 0 Mi M 1 ; » < lliyu ho fia 4 o o : t o o < u i » J » »? ho 71 4 , o o : » o ] -Jt <«» a * }' » ho 7 i a a o i a m w h _ k > , > iT "" T > o in o o " | ^ : » 7 i | 7 u
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May p > 1852 ] T ^^ 491
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1852, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1936/page/15/
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