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April 2 Q , 1851 . THE NORTHERN STAR , I M ^ O
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oo 6 > stood upon the deck by night alone , teau heard th * uproarious waste of ocean moan ith ? neath the gusty darkness round biin thrown , ouhe southing winds amid his bair took way , lathd dam " ? W 3 beard and brows witn briny s n ?> tKfet steadfastly be vrafcli'd the westalway : [ at tttil at length [ he said : It is a light ; , ist must he , and on shore : so low , so bright , eaa steady 1 God beprab'd!—ho ! land in sight ! soind soon throughout the crew from man to man ari startling shouts the raptfroua tidings ran ; wind wild for joy were they that light to Sean .
roto words can paint their triumph : yet I ween , nlad nig ht not veil'd bis visage , they had seen tU . bitter smile disturb bis even mien . selic self-same tongues , that but few hours ago cfod connselTd straight return , and sought to ShOW ftfhe folly of his scheme , their certain woe ; i fain upstarts , who had jeer'd , aye menac'd him , iajid faint hearts with desponding looks and dimnUl mix'd their rash breath with his soul ' s deep b hymn ltSjulting boastfully , that they had shar'd jsaceess , which ne ' er had been had he not dar'd pDespke them , and hope on when they despair'd . bjfithin themselves the Great must ever seek hgoth impulse aud reward : all eke » weak tib what their own calm soul and conscience speak
idind thou—would ' st thou Columbus like asj . ire ? Io walk new worlds of thought , and high and higher caExalt thy fallen soul on wings of fire—1 On God and self do thoa rely aright ! ld & nd through the day His cloud shall cheer thy sight , id & nd Ilis fire pillar guide thy steps by night . [ 1 [ FromPooiMo / £ ar ? ierre *« . By a Wrangler of aTrinity College , Cambridge . ]
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*« The Forty-Five .- " by Lord Mahos . Being the Narralira of the Insurrection of 1745 , extracted from Lord MahotCs History of England . To which are now added , Letters Cf Prince Charles Stuart , from the Stuart Papers , copied by Lord Mahon front the orU g inal MSS . at IVtndsor . Murray . " The Forty-Five , " although indeed " a name of fear" to our great-grandfathers , awakens but slight emotions—save for the romantic circumstances connected with it—in the minds of their descendants in the present day . Brought up amid the desolating wars and
revolutions consequent on the great revolution of France , hearing daily of popular risings andinvasions and political changes from one end of Europe to the other , the wild and gallant attempt of the Young Pretender seems io the men of this generation as little more than a stirring episode breaking in not unpleaeantly on the dull and monotonous history of a period characterised by littleelse 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 enter p rise 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 onl y seven followers on the coast of Scotland , to attempt the conquest of England I— -The following portion ofthe letter whichfirstinformed his father of his intention merits transcription . —
Savarre , Jane 13 , 1745 . Sir , —I lrelieve 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 you . I have been , abovesixmonths ago , invited by our friends to go to Scotland , and to carry what money and arms 1 could conveniently get ; this beinir , they are fully persuaded , the only way of restoring you to the Crown , and them to their liberties . " . - After snch scandalous usage as I have received from the French Court , had I not given my word to do so , or got so many encouragemeats ftom time to time as I haw had , I should have been obliged , in honour and for my own
reputation , to have flung myself into the arms of my friends and die with them , rather than live longer in such a miserable way here , or be obliged to return to Home , which would be just giving up all hopes . I cannot but mention , a parable here , which is , a horse that is to be sold , if spurred does not skip , or show some sign of life , nobody would care to hare 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 should not ' show that I bare life in me . Tour 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 being 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 reason that I have pre . Snmed to take npon me the managing of all this , without eveuletting yon suspect there was any such thing a brewing , for fear of my not being able to explain , and show yon demonstratively Sow matters stood—which is not possible to be done by writing , or even without being upon tbe place and i seeing things with your own eyes : and bad I failed I to convince you , I was then afraid you might hare i thought wliat I had a mind to do to be rash ; and
bo have absolutely forbid my proceedings . * » I hare tried all possible means and stratagems to get access to the Kin ? of France , or his itinister , without the least effect , nor could I even get Littleton ( Sir Thomas Sheridan ) an audience , who I was sure would say neither more nor less than what I desired , and would faithfully report their answer . As f or Wright { the Cardinal ) be is not much trusted or well loosed upon by Adam ( the King of Ranee ) , who is timorous , and has not resolution-enough to displace him . 2 fow I have been obliged to steal off , without letting the King of ? rance so much as suspect it , for which I make a proper excuse in my letter to him , by saying it was a great mortification
to uie never to have been able to speak and open tny heart to him ; that this thing was of snch a nature that it could not be communicated by any of the ministers or by writing , hut to himself alonein whom , after Go ' d Almighty , my resting lies ; and vat the least help would make my affair infallible . « 1 bad let the French Court know this beforehand , it might have had all these bad effects : —1 st , Jt ' is possible that they might have stopped me , hiring 3 mind-to keep measures with the Elector , * na then , to cover it over , they would have made a
went of it to you , by saying they had hindered me ittom doing a wild and desperate thing : 2 ndly , My j being invited by my friends would not be believed ; jor , at feast , wouldhavemade littleor no impression pi the French Court . * * Whatever happens pafortutate to me cannot but be the strongest en-Jfrgeaients to tha Trench Court to pursue your pause . Xow , if i were sure they were capable of py sensation of this kind , if I did not succeed I p'ould perish , as Curtius did , to save my country , pa make it happy ; it being an indispensable duty pa me , as far as hes in my power .
This letter is curious from the strange tuIjariaina which it contains giving evident proof 10 w greatly the education of tbe yonngprince w been neglected . Indeed , bad as the style j » the ori ginal snelliog ia yet worse ; for in J » letters of the Prince sword is spelt , am ^ n humour is spelt " nmer , " and his ^ er 's own nam © appears tamer tho alias i * em 8 » t The above letter is , however , furuer valuable , as clearly showing , Hotwith-™ wg the disclaimers of his followera , thai ae Prince was perfectly -willing to be placed
a the English throne by tbe aid of French jjronets . ^ The flourish about "Cttrtios " fro certainl y did not ask any assistance , may a allowed to pass as a mere school-boy figure . o other letters datedon the same day , June zth , follow—one referring to the offer of the « her to abdicate in favour of his son , which 9 earnestl y refuses—and the ofter entering ito the details of his " ways and means . " 1 8 aort note to a Mr . Edgar , and a rather , n | € r one to big fetter , both dated July nd , follow : and then we have this charac ffuhc letter : — -
_ . Longbaylorti Aug ; 4 ; 0 . S ., 1745 . *¦ ' TfC am thxak . God , arrived here in perfect w health , batnot With HtUe trouble and danger ,
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as you will hear by tbe hearer , who has been along with me all along , that it makes it useless for me to give any accounts aud particulars on that bead , lam joined here by brave people , as I expected . As 1 hare not yet set up the Standard , I cannot tell the number , but that will he iu a few days , as soon as the arms are distributed ; at which we are working with all speed . I have not as yet got the return of the message sent to the Lowlands , but expect it very soon . If they all join , or at least all those to whom I have sent commissions , at request , everything will go on to a wish . Sir Hector ' s ( Sir Hector Maclean ) being taken up is of no other consequence but of perhaps frightening some few ; for InO T */ VW * 0 * ll hOI * t «* 4 l \& ViAnwni . —t t . __ * ^_ t
they can make nothing of him , nor of some papers that were found in his room , which he denies having any knowledge of . The coaunissiws , along with the declaration , arc arrived safe , and in a proper hand . The worst that can happen to me , if France does not succour me , is to die at the head of such hrave people as I find here , if I should not be 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 Uke off tbe mass , or have an eternal shame on them ; for at present there is no medium , and we , whatever happens , shall gain an immortal honour by doing whut we can to deliver our country , in restoring our master , or perish with sword in hand .
lint 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 , aud 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 Saxe , the Queen of Hungary and her wrongs—that pet subject o £ 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 oar 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 npon Edinburgh ; and at length the Sing 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 , Devil , 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 triumphantly entered Edinburgh , that we find them
changing their tone : —and then The Daily Advertiser , The General Evening Post , and Tfie Westminster Journal forthwith became brimful of loyal epistles indited hy Saevolas , Juniuses , Hampdeus , and even " the shade of Oliver Cromwell , " all setting forth the pleasure of dying for " our glorious constitution , " intermixed with stirring appeals to " beef-eating Britons " and "Protestant hoys , " while the London Penny Post , by way of stern manifesto , places in bold type at the foot ofthe first page , " No wooden shoes , " "No arbitrary power . "
I The exultation 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 Gladsmuir , in consequence of an old prophecy : — Edinburgh , Oct . 7 , O . S . 1745 . It is impossible for me to give you a disunct journal of my proceedings , because of my fceing 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 Gladsmuir , 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 ofthe 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 Me 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 a horsep istol . 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 could 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 , 1 would bring little energetic service to it . Disappointed placemen , second-class literati , nonjuring clergymen—such were the majority of adherents to "him over the water , " in London . Indeed , -what could the leading men there expect from a Stuart ? Throughout the great parliamentary contest London had stood firm against the King—and , in consequence , had seen her charters seized , her companies insulted , and her trade almost rained by the last two Stuarts . The monarchs of the Hanoverian succession , on the contrary , had been
almost p laced 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 in 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 counties 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 writers have failed to perceive the reason of the different conduct of the Scotch and of the English Jacobites . The first effort of Charles Edward on his . landing in Scotland was , to win the affections of the Scots , and especially of the Highlanders . Hence , his adoption of the tartan , of the bonnet , —even of the Highland brogues . Hence his adherence to every Scottish form when he took up his abode at Holyrood : —and hence the Scotch termed him their " ain prince /'and reminded their countrymen that he was
« Mth and kin , " and that bewonla . restore the old independence of Scotland . Now , what sympathy could the English Jacobite have with all this ? It ia true , the Townleys , and Wilbrabams , andRatctiffs fought for his greatgrandfather , —but then Charles the First appeared in the garb of an Englishman , and he was followed by Englishmen . Cavalier pike metParitan 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 re-Hgkras phase ofthe conflict , Charles claimed to be , as indeed he has been fondly termed , " the martyr of England ' s Church . " All this administering by the Prince to Highland taste
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atmVprejudices , was ill calculated to stimulate the loyalty of the English Jacobite , with more to lose and little to gain . Still , excuses may , perhaps , be found for the Young Pretender iu this respect , while he lingered in 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 "in the Hi ghland 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 Jaco-* t «»
bites gave but a reluctant adhesion , while the 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 Lochiels and the Caroerons ? 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 clans—still ostentatiousl y wore their national dress ; even the Manchester regiment , while they received blue coats aud the white cockade , were compelled to wear " a tartan sash . ' ' What had 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 , 1 ? A 5 , 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 ExMbitedin 1851 ; elucidating its Natural and Physical Characteristics , its Antiquity and Architecture j its Arts , Manufactures , Tr ade , and Organisation' , its Social , Literary , and Scientific Institutions ; and its numerous galleries 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 particularly rich .
The prefatory essays on the geography , natural history , situation , and structure of London , its political organisation and constitution , ^ domestic habits and the statistics of its various trades and of subjects connected with education and intellectual development , are ably done . Such topics , too , as its rapid railway intercommunication , its inland navigationj—the various contents of its museums and public depositories of art , the character and purposes of its various public societies , its examples of the fine and useful arts in their application to purposes of utility and grandeur , and of course such darker additions to the picture as its police and its prisons , are handled with very evident care . As a specimen of 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 in London than in the provinces , or indeed in any other part of the world . A visit to one of our great printing offices , or to one of the large bookbinders , will show the amazing extent to which the arrangements and machinery for the mechanical production of books is 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 is not unusual for the whole impression of 1 , 000 copies of an octavo wovk to bo folded , sewed , and handsomely bound in cloth covers in the course often or twelve hours . The cloth
covers with the gilt lettering , the blind and gilt tooling , are , however , prepared a few days before the sheets hare left the printer ' s hands . The paper used by the printer is not made in 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 be 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 . This 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 the vicinity of Hatton Garden ; and in passing through this district one is struck with the poetical names of the makers —such as Albino , Serafino , Calderara , Corti , Negretti , Pastorelli , Tagliabue and Zambra , Sotnalvko , Gugeri , Grimoldi , Hartinelli , and so on . The instruments made 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 style themselves opticians ) 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 tbe name of a celebrated London maker stamped upon it passes current everywhere . In this case , " warranted London made" is as much a recommendation as "Sheffield 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 not fall conveniently into any of tbe preceding divisions . Agricultural instrument makers are only sellers ,
the instruments themselves being made at Norwich , Colebrook-dale , and elsewhere . Bone dealers , blood driers ; and manure manufacturers carry on an important trade , the refuse of this vast metropolis affording abunflant raw material for the purpose . Guns and fire-arms are chiefly manufactured at Birmingham ; gunpowder is made at mills some 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 Yfinterbnrn by name , resides in Providence-buildings : Mrs . Fensa carries oh this dangerous trade in Clerkehwell ; and three other
females work at it in Lambeth . Cigars are made in large quantities in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel , 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 , rags , and old bottles . They are , in short , dealers in those articles which are of no value because they are not in the right hands . Soap is an important article of London manufacture . Some , ol 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 hones for manure .
There are 1 , 696 merchants resident m the city of London , together with 248 warehousemen . Many of them are wholesale dealers in the articles manufactured in the provinces , and included in former lists . Our limits will not allow us to proceed with our comments ; we , therefore , conclude with the remark , that a large number of femalesare engaged in pursuits which seem but little adapted to tbe habits of the fair . sex , while men , for the most part , engross irades which would seem well fitted for women . Thus , of the fifteen bonnet-shape makers only one is a woman . Of the twelve book and card edge gilders two are females , Yvz . Mrs . Mary Bull * winckle and Mrs . M . H . Page . Of the fifteen
chiropodists four , are ladies , 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 sis are females . We find also that 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 ia Miss Mary Hughes . Among the 172 lightermen who ply on the Thames , there are several females . One , calls hewelf Widow Williams , which sufficiently explains that she carries on her husband's trade , which is probably the case with many other female traders , Thisj however , cannot be the case with Miss Martha Smart , who is a
mathematical instrument maker , ( and why not ?) An unmarried lady is also a maker of razor strop paste . Tbe art and mystery of carmine and rouge are appropriately conducted by ladies , as 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 some of these flowers , remarked , that they did not resemble natural flowers . " Oh , no ! madam , " was the repl y ^ M these are very superior to any tbat grow ! " We find that one female entered ' as a veterinary surgeon ! Misa LockOy and Mrs , Maasey are watch-escapement makers , There are-several female' wheelwrights ) and ' one female whiting manufacturer . There are also female wigmakers , as there should be . We once knew a female
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Mutters and Workmen . A Tale by Lord BLoX I' P ° ° CtaV 0 - 1-CNewby , SL ° - rkUke this snoilld ^ written by a 2 c Ti m an e nc « Jg » A * tke pre-E , " " taking away-and that Chartists have not suffered and taught in vain . Nay-even the wholesale condemnation of physical force" is nowhere to he foundbut , on the contrary , even insurrection finds its excuse ;•—f JvL ^ vvv v p elves civilised , as long as sufttEJ r ' ? " L h drive men t 0 se <* their remedy &« ?« \ K * not been nalf ska " i « S J lar « i ? un Just profits into the pockets of another class , they would never have taken up arms . - - .-..- ., ¦¦ *•
- . Nothing could give stronger evidence of an altered mind , than such words from the pen of a man of privilege and property I . The work is almost Chartist and Socialist , and full of stern denunciation of priest , lawyer , and profitmonger . —while the rights of the poor are advocated through the medium of a tale at once the most natural and stirring that has issued from the press during the present season . -The contrast ol the frivolities ofthe rich , aud the sufferings of the poor , the heartlessnesB of the former , and the noble self-denials of the latter , is strikingly developed .
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED . The Heir of Wast Wayland . By Mary Fowiii Parlour Library , Vol . 57 . Simms and M'Intvre , me Bristol Tailors . in 1850 . Evans and Cobbett , Bristol .
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OPENING OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OK THE FIRST OP MAY . Ber Majesty having signified her royal pleasure that arrangements should be made to enable her Majesty to gratify a wish very generally expressed on the part of the public to be present at a ceremony by which Uer Majesty Should open the Exhibition of the Works of industry of all Nations on the Ist of May , her Majesty ' s commissioners hereby give notice , that the programme of this ceremony , and the regulations under which the holders of season tickets will be admitted , are as follows : —Exhibitors' attendants , who have been sanctioned by the Executive Committee , will be admitted between the hours of eight and nine o ' clock , at doors
specified on their cards , and Will immediately take their places by the counters or objects exhibited by employers . Holders of season tickets will bo admitted at all doors on the east , south , and west of the building , between the hours of nine and halfpast eleven o ' clock , and will be allowed to take their places , subject to police regulations , in the lower part of the building , and in the galleries , except the parts railed offin 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 Majesty ' s commissioners will assemble at half-past eleven o ' clock , in the transept , opposite the platform , together with their Executive Committee and their Foreign Acting
Commissioners , in full dress , or to plain evening dress . His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , her Majesty ' s ministers , the great officers of state , and the foreign ambassadors and ministers , will take their places on the platform , to the right and left of the chair of state , in Ml dress also , at half-past eleven o ' clock . Her Majesty ? proceeding in statej with the royal family , foreign guests , Ac , and her and their suites from Buckingham Palace , up Constitution-hill , and down Rotten-row , will enter the Exhibition building by the north entrance precisely ap twelve o ' clock . She will ascend the platform and take her seat in the chair of state . —On her Majesty's arrival , a choir will sing " God save tbe Queen . "On the Queen taking her seat , his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will join the royal commissioners , and when the music has ceased , proceed at their bead to the platform , and read to her Majesty a short report of the proceedings of tho commission up to that time , which he wilt 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 Secretary of State , after which bis Royal Highness Princo Albert will take his place again by the side of her Majesty . —The dozen of the corps diplomatique will read an address to her Majesty on behalf of the foreign nations who have contributed to the Exhibition , to which her Majesty will likewise return a gracious answer . — His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury will then
say aprayer , invoking God's blessingupon theundertafting , followed by a short an them sung bythe choir . A royal procession will be then formed , preceded by the commissioners , which will turn to . the ri g ht , move to the west end of the nave 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 tbe north aide ofthe 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 marches , taking the music up at the Queen ' s approach .- On her Majesty ' s return to the
platform , the ' Queen , will declare "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 ofthe Serpentine ; whereupon the barriers , which had kept the nave clear , will 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 ' clock , will , upon her Majesty ' s departure , be opened again . By order of her Majesty ' s commissioners , Eugar A . Bowriko , Acting . Secretary . Exhibition Building , Hyde Parfe , 22 nd April , 1851 . - -
Miners' Meeting In Derbyshire, On Good F...
MINERS' MEETING IN DERBYSHIRE , On Good Friday a public meeting ' of the miners of Alfreton , and the 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 Wa'ker , of Clay Cross , was appointed chairman , and gave much sa . tisfaction 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 tbat union alone can save us , " was moved by Henry Knowles , seconded by Job Miller , and ably supported by Thomas . Clark . The second resolution :- ' That as Lord Ashley has promised to bring - in and support 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 moved by Thomas Hunt , seconded by Josiah Outts , and supported- by William Eelsey , from the Staffordshire Potteries , in a very eloquent manner , which elicited the plaudits ofthe meeting . The third resolution : — " That as a Miners' Conference will "be held at Bolton , we agree to send a delegate , and that . Mr . . "William Daniels is hereby elected to represent the miners of the counties of Derby and Nottingham , " was moved by James Riggoll , and seconded by George Durham . The above resolutions wero carried unanimously ; after which Mr . William Daniels , the secretary to the Association for the above counties , addressed the meeting at some length , on various subjects of importance in connexion with the union . This was the largest meeting that has been held in the nei ghbourhood On the subject , and passed off very harmoniously .
• Another meeting of miners on the same topic was held on the Old Furnace Hill , near Chesterfield , on Easter Monday , , when : similar resolutions were adopted ; which were moved , seconded , and supported by George Mosley , Thomas Dawes , Thomas Goodall , George Bennett , William Daniels , William Kelwy , Pnaroah . Gasco j gne , John Wood , Thomas Clark , & c . Joseph Hawkins , chairman . The meeting mustered upwards of 1 , 000 strong . After each ofthe abovo meetings , delegate meetings were held , for the enrolment ol members , and other purposes .
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MR . SiPIO , who , for manner seasons , was the prima tenore at Coveut-gatden ^ ' some few years since retired from the stage , having tbe misfortune to lose his voice , and with it , of course , his means of subsistence . Henoe ' this great tenor is now living in a state of complete destitution , in a garret , Qu een-street , Edgware-road ;—& m . Tub number of passports delivered' throughout France for peraoas going to the London Exhibition amounts already to 240 , 000 . The greater part-are small propjietON , whoso fortune does not exceed £ 150 a year . Paris is expected to furnish 100 , 000 exstttajftaiata * .
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CoJHWDiWMs . —Why is a four quart pitcher like a side saddle ?—Because it carries a gall on . Whv may a slap on the side of the head be considered equivalent in worth to gold ?—Because it makes the ear-ring . " Habd mtEs , and we must make the most nf what we have , " as the grocer said when he watered his vinegar . The Rovah Agricultural Society has definitively resolved to hold its annual exhibition of stock in Windsor Home Park .
L . vw and Physic- A petition to parliament to compel doctors to write their prescriptions in English , and not in Latin , is now in course of signature . Loan Societies . —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 . The ExiimmoN .-It is reported that the Roman Catholics have engaged the Hanover-square rooms for Sunday services during the period of the Exhibition . Charity . —Proportion your charity to others ' necessities and your own ability ; and where the object is doubtful , rather relieve a drone than let a bee perish . •' Very Tew . " -There is a man in Indiana so thin , that when the sheriff is after him he crawls into his rifle , and watches his adversary through the touch-hole . "
Mr . Baunum asd the Crystal Paucb . - The New Xorkers have been amused with a farce founded on the Exhibition , which ends with the arrival of Barnum to buy up the Crystal Palace , contents and all . "A S 08 PkNdbr . " -A Yankee has just invented a suspender that so contracts on your approach to water , that the moment you come to a puddle it lifts you over , and drops you on the opposite side . Religious Exhibition . — The largo room in Exeter Hall has been taken by Dissenters for Divine worship , on Saturdays , during the Exhibition .
The services of several leading Dissenting ministers have already been engaged . A Bad Bargain . —The Melbourne Herald ( 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 half-a-crown to protect it . ^ Remarkable Incident . —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 tbe circumstance has so preyed upon Lord Clonbrock as to throw him into his present dangerous state . —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 the price is two dollars . The " gentlemen of the press" need not hanker after the " diggings" while they have such pretty " pickings . " A Monster Balloon . —The Boston Transcript states that Mr . Wise , the 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 . —Grandmamma . — " Why , what ' s the matter with my pet?—Child : "Why , Grandma ' , after giving tbe subject every consideration , I have come to the conclusion that— -the world is hollow—and my doll is stuffed with sawdust , so—1 —should—like—if you please—to be a "Nun 1—Punch :
Lboal Wit . —Mr . Baron Piatt , at the Westmoreland Assizesi in a colloquy with an Irish thief , asked ; " Why did you not stay in your own country , aud rob there ?—Mr . Sergeant Murphy , with ready wit , answered for his countrymen , "Because , my Lord , there is nothing to steal there . " Freezing up Industry . —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 thb whole Hog , " is the American popular phrase for radical reform , or democratical principle , and is said to be derived from the phrase used by butchers in Virginia , who ask their customer whether he will go the whole hog , or deal only for joints or portions of it .
Singular Custom . —One of the solemnities of a Jewish wedding at Aleppo ( says Mr . Bussell ) is 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 . " Geitihg A . umo . " —The servant of a Prussian officer one day met a crony , who inquired of him how he got along with his fiery master?—* . ' Oh , excellently , " answered the servant ; " we live on very friendly terms ; every morning we beat each other ' s coats ; the only difference is , lie takes his off to be beaten , and 1 keep mine on . "
"Human Nature . "—" This animal , " said an itinerant showman , "is the royal African hyena , measuring fourteen feet from the tip of his nose 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 ( he depravity of human nature . '' Water . —The housewife who purchases a pound of soap , or a pound of alum , gets in exchange threequarters of a pound of water in the first , and almost one-half a pound in the second . If she buys a score weight of potatoes , she is literally obtaining fifteen pounds of water out of twenty pounds . If the butcher sends her five pounds of beef , four pounds thereof are water .
OnioiN of St . Andrew ' s Cross in Connexion with Scotland . —John Lesley , Bishop of Ross , reports , that in the night before the battle between Avhevavan , King of England , and Hungus , King of the Piers , a bright cross , like that whereon St , Andrew suffered , appeared to Hungus , who , having obtained . the victory , ever after bore tbat figure . This happened in 819 . —From Notes ' and Queries . Mr . N . P . Willis , in his Home Journal , announces that a Broadway hatter will introduce at the World ' s Fair , a fashion of hats with no right angles . The crown ia to be " rounded off" like the end of a pumpkin , and Hogarth ' s line of beauty preserved throughout . This style , Mr . Willis thinks , is destined to do away with the prevailing order of hats , which he calls the " segment of a stovepipe " style .
Perseverance is a prime quality , in every pursuit . Men fail oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent and of good disposition ; as the race was not to the hare , but to the tortoise , so the meed of success in study is not to him who is in baste , but to him who proceeds with a steady and even step . It is not to a want of taste , or of desire , or of a disposition to learn , that we have to ascribe the rareness of good scholars , so much as to the want of patient perseverance . Honesty Rewarded . —A countrywoman returning from a draper ' s shop in a country town in Hampshire picked up a small 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 less than £ 40 —and presented her with threepence for her troubleIII •'
A Great Discovery . —Professor Salomon , pf Harrodsburgh , Kentucky , has successfully applied 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 , hut their Inability to regulate and govern it bas p revented its use 33 a propelling agent . Professor Salomon claims to be able to control it with perfect safety ; and asserts that it will afford a power equal to steam in one-fiftieth of tbe space , and at one-hundreth part of the expense , with both furnace and boilers . Experiments have recently been made in Cincinnati , which are said to be entirely satisfactory . ¦ —Nashville banner .-
The Lord ' s Phaysb . —I remember on one occasion 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 us , cursing and swearing at the rehellers against God , My friend , who spoke a little Arabic to an elderly person , whose jj , wh bespoke him a prieut , said , " Who taught you that we are disbelievers ? Hear my daily prayer , and judge for yourselves . " . He then repeated the Lord ' s Prayer . All stood amazed and silent , till the priest exclaimed , " May God curse me if ever I again curse those who hold such a belief ; cay more , the prayer shall be my prayer till my hour be coroe . I pray tbee , O Nazarine , repeat that prayer , that itmay be remembered amongst 08 in letter ! of gold , —my a Western Barlary . . Abistocbact— Hunt ' s Merchant t Magazine ,
, 03 . S . ) , has a useful article on the American "Anatocracy , " the butterflies following the industrious worms . ' " The father grubs , and growsgi ji children strut , and use the money : their children in * herit the pride , and go shiftless poverty ; their children , re-invigorated by fresh plebian Wood , and by the smell of the clod , come up again , flaw aociety , like atree , draws its sap from the earth , changes it into leaves and blossoms , spreads them abroad in ereat glory , sheds them off to fall back to the earth , azam to mingle with the soil , and at length to reappear in new trees and fresh ; Rarmture . " , ' , ; Twswa' thousand' sparrows ,, a . French paper gravely stated , " the ' other day / had been caught in Mri Paxton ' a Glass Gage' , auu the water , added the worthy editor , was oozing through the roof to such an extent that the workmen were obliged to pursue their labour ia small boats .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 26, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26041851/page/3/
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