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Show t 'GRBAT;:BRITAiii(l ' 7"stf or MonnoKs.4-The' agents of tho steamshlft.Great EasttriV nre in treaty for tfie coureyunco of n bod of 1,300 Oe.rman.emigriirit, who nre nbont.topro-cccd nbont.topro-cccd to New 'ork en roufe for tho ,Mi)r-mon ,Mi)r-mon territory, The "Big Ship" had been safely floated off the gridiron on wliich she has so long rested.nnd proceeded tolicr anchorage an-chorage at Milfprd. Everything worked welt. She is to be exhibited at Cork, on her rctoi'ii rrora.tho'Unllfd States; '" The BctuiEns' Strike, It is feared thot the briilding'strike will nssnmo for mldablc dimensions. If the.mettcoutinue to refuse the liberal offers made to them; all the great coutraclor. wil! close their yards ogain, as iu. 1857, and some 45,000 men will at onco.ber:out of employment. At present, only -the men of Messrs: Lncasr Kelk, Sir Morton Teto;' and Messrs.. Smitb ore out." 1 is computed tlmt Ihe increased wages uow offered Involve. In-volve. sacrifice 'on the part of Messrs. Lucas of 14,000 on the contract they have taken, They were nevcr ln a worse condition for going on a strike. Preparations Prepar-ations are being made for importing worhmcn from Belgium where wages are twcnty-ftvft'per cent lower. The masters are compelled to adopt extreme measure, as, duringalie gnat strike, it is computed thatj im contracts and in other Ways they lost nearly X30O.O0O. It is stated that the masters bind themselves to keep open the work for the ten hours if only one-hair of their men choose to work that time, and they pledge themselves not to' allow overtime work unless it majority of the men wish for it. Herelliox or Co.vvicrs. The convict prison at Chatham had nearly been the weno of a great tragedy, a conspiracy haviug been formed to seize the' wardcus and murder iliem if necessary, then to set lira to the buildings, and, in the confnslpn, the conspirators were, to have made their escape, Sunday, the 4th, wa fixed for tho attempt. One of the convicts revealed re-vealed the secret, and the authorities made ample, preparation for the nntlci. paled attempt Three hundred troops! were dispatched, to the prison. Jlilles, instead or being loaded with ball, were! charged with buckshot, to render the effect more murderous. There wa-to be no warning or temporizing,. as lrt ordinary ordi-nary riot. The convict nrq, nearly 1,000 Incumber, At the dinner hour it strong mutinous spirit was evinced but it I supjwiied they soon perceived the hopelessness, hope-lessness, of an outbreak, for nothing of moment took place. Shake: Hjtsnxn Par. Till advice U given to the. North and South by the liondon ifrrwur, ? follows: "Mr. Lin-cola Lin-cola is nnhonest man, but he. is not equal to the emergency. And in saying this wo do not seek to disparage either his genius or his courage. The circumstances ore toa great and too awful for tho no ir. I era or any citizengreat or small, known or unknown. To do or not to do is equally mischievous. To consent to the independence or the South, Or to coerce it into nbmision, wonld be alike unwise on the part of a republican magistrate sach as Mr. Lincoln. Rut whatever complies tioosmay arise, It grow more evident rrom day to day that a reunion of the stotes Is no longer possible, and that it would not be deslrablo ir it were. Mr. Seward, th new Secretary of State on. der Mr; Lincoln, and who has done more than any other American statesman to bring about the present crisis, declared a year ago that the conflict between the slave and the free states wa 'irrepressible.1' 'irrepressi-ble.1' His prophecy ha been fulfilled in ft manner that he could scarcely hare n- tifelpated. The conflict width, he ,mcnt ytu a, ttoral, one, to; I foojcht ,oot In books, newspapers, odd rpetehe. But the conflict which has arisen Is one of the 1 bayonet and Jbe bullet, and may at any moment, and from the patrtet prqvote-tion, prqvote-tion, become ft war, more fltgrani and Vcnomeus than any recorded in modem history. Tb btit tldng that North and South can do Is to shake bands rind part. They never have agreed.! They-never wilt ogreo. They never can agree. Their differences are Irreconcilable. Tbelr' Interest In-terest are conflicting.,. Their,, very tem. perament and character, are antagonistic;' and iro roado so hq less by the inslitnlion of slavery in the one case, end its absence in the other) than by the sW but certain effects of ft hot climate, upon the brain and nervous system, of men. of north European' origin' settled for generations in n tegion of the enrth for vhich thiy were, not originally adapted. The people of South Carolina, Louisiana,' Alabama, and Texas are M little like the people, of Ohio,- Mussachofett-, and Michigan "u Greeks are like Dutchmen, And eviry generation but widen this divergency of character as.;vrell as of iote'rest. , ' It, Is better; for them .to part, now that ' the struggle has began.- :Were they 'iV1 reunite, re-unite, it would only bo tb ijuarrel ' again, with even greater bitterness TTiO'Vorld is wlde'cnoughj for them' both;,, and the North, 'so. far from regretting' the epari-tion, epari-tion, ought, If U were wis. to regnrd .it as a lappy cohsummation,'-especially if it can bo brought alfOtit without, the shed, ding of blood, Iu the' meantime Mr: Lincoln's wisest coarse is to do potliug, and to await the action of a national cotiyentioh. " Any other course, svti:ch;;1ie could adopt would be fraught with present and future calamity , ; ' '; '' ; " r ,.' ' ' ptK DE ATH 0 THE OCCHEMf KESr.-, , . Tho Duchesa of Kent, whoso death has just plunged the Royal ..family- ih 'inqurnr ing, nnd.louehcd those sympathetlc.clibrds which nnito every heftrt fn thesflmlmfjin affection to the Quccri, was,1 daughter ;of Frniiz- FriedricH Anton', Duke of ;Sax'e Coburg-Saalfeld. . She,'prung from a remnrkabfe house,' which has been rising inEuibjKs. these", fifty ''ycargjand adding crbwii to crown, ihfe5othtr.RoyaIties,Ho appearance farjno'ro powerful; have been slowly or swiftly fading out. Therphysi. cal nod mental qualitfes.bf the Cobnrgs; w, io;have peculiarly;, fitted theuv-to succeed In au" era of,.Uecadcut Royalty, Tlielr blood . wa heV and wholesome; they were snbstontially" able, and they had'n'o. febrile taint of ainbitiou to "preclude "pre-clude their accommodating. themselves to the circumstance in which they happened to-be placed., 1 hey have given kings,' quccns,f royal prmewses, prince consorts, and arch-duche$8o1r to Qreat Britain, to Belgium, to Portugal, to Prussia, to Auj) trio. Tho Duchess of Kent was youngest young-est 'daaghtefor DukeFranx Frkdncb,: The I'riuce Consort was son of her clde-H j brother. Her younger brother, Leopold l King "Of th Belgian, and was husband of the lamen ted Princess Charlotte, Ta c; Duke of Kent was second- husband of Victoria Marin Louisa, the departed ! Duchcs, The sole Issue; of their marriage wa the' Princes' Victoria, now on the ; British throne. The Duke of Kent died eight months after her birtli,.nnd the widowed Iucbct marto ll tho" task of her I life to educate her daughter for n constitutional consti-tutional qnecri, It was.a'tftsk' particularly1 salted 'to a Coburg: Having risen to distinction dt a time'when peoplfS play nt'least as'lmpor-tant as'lmpor-tant a part as the dynastic,- tho Coburg have had discernment "to perceive anil sense .to nccepf 'the. faetJ1 It has been Tor them no disgrace, as all hereditary Royalties Royal-ties seem to consider' it, to rule by and with the will bf thklr subjects:- What,- in' other Royalties is prctenco, ntid con-straint, con-straint, isin them sympathy ' and spontaneity, spon-taneity, In two case their talent for Constitutional Government lias resulted in superb success, ib'tlidt or Belgium, and in that of Qreat Britain, To the Baches Bach-es of Kent, acting on the' firib- natural Capacity and noble heart of Her Mnjesty, the ucces Iu Qreat Britain must in large measure be tseribed. It is indeed a new specie of Royalty which we behold in these days, nd most illustriously of all in tho branches of the Coburg kiudrei I t is Royalty deprived, to a great extent Of power, but encircled with hew attributes, and dowered With new happiners. It combines elevation of rank, und the sincere homage or nations, with those enjoyments or a private station, which were deemed incompatible with kingship, h i,ring$ the soaud Siaxlm or private lifethat marriage onght to be tounded on affection, that happiness is of the hearth and the heart, that, virneis sacred, and effeminate luxury contemptible contemp-tible to warm and freshen the.traditious of courts. It is a sovereignly wliich does riot retire in barbaric pride and pomp and isolation, but comes, forward end unite to itself by sympathy, and make its own by enjoyment, all that Is highest and roost refined re-fined iu theculture- or civilization. -It" is a sovereignty, whieh deem it nobler to be thii.firit.ofa freapaopU. luaa-tbe-irroe-pansibte ruler of slaves. It is a-oycrclgn. ty, beneath the purple of which are sound feelings and robust tMpocitie which coaid eusuro happiness if the purple .were laid' aside. Such a sovereignty i that ofthe Royal Duoghter or the late Dncbess of Kent. Our sympathy with her may indeed in-deed be deep, lor her sorrow will be pro-found.. pro-found.. But the same warmth, and Jiatu-ral Jiatu-ral freshness of fcelirig. which make the parting from a parent bitter, have ccored tho happiness trf bcr life, mid wo feel for ( her as for a true and noble woman whose Joys and sorrows are thoso cf her people. TItS I.NTKR.VAT1QX11 XXIIIMTIQM BC1LMNC or 1802. The design for the great; exhibition building in 18G2 are now completed. The building will coyer ft little over twenty twen-ty six acres. There wilt be some 500.000 feet of flooring more in 1863 than In 1851. The greatest height o( the proposed build-ing build-ing will be 2C0 reet, nnd the navo will be 1,200-feet Jong, by 35 wide, and lOOieet high. The dimensions am to bo 1.200 long by 100 broad, exclusive of tho pao set apart for the display pT agricultural Implements, which Is, la rongu numbers, 1.000 reet long by 220 broad. Messrs. Kelk nnd Lucas contract to furnish the edifice for 200,000, tboagti la reality it will cost .300,000, hut tho paytaent of the eitrft 100,000 is fonditFona(.bn iho; grow profit exceedlnir JSnOd.OOO, a they did fi'5t; The.bnttdiiips.witl be, erected nt'Kendngton, fo front' of the. new ground of the Horttcottbral Society, which they will Inclose. One side of the ediuco.atmt on the, Cromwell rosd, the mala; entrance on the Exhibition road, and ihe third side or Frince . Albert rodf tho fourth, or rear; side, face immediately, upon, the Mound of 'the .Horticultural Society. Kxternslly the bnildiua;, will, "be; as we hate said, 1,200 feet by 70tfr though 'the ground plan shows that In some parts the width, is diminished .to 600 feet. Tho average height Witt ire 100 feet, nearly m of which wtllbe tolld.brickwork. Taking Tak-ing one of the main sides of the building. ! on the Exhibition road, ns an example, it will present a lofty reccsscd. facade frort the centre,, of which trill rise superb dome of glasi nnd Iron to' the ' Immense heightof 250 feet, with the -base of the dome of no lev than 160 fret diameter. Theses, for there are tft.bo two, one at each end ofthe, bnl'tllni'vwill be the largest larg-est .dome ever built. -That W Sti Paul' I only 103 feet in diameter, at the base, and even St , peter'' l only 130 These domesore. to bo rcared oyer the Intcrsec-rtlon Intcrsec-rtlon of the nave and" .transepts at right Angles, and, as; tho door beneath both will, be elevated above 'the leyel of the 'floor, of the test . ,of thV building;' on uncqnaled tvr.iil,bc' jpot;- from 'hero through, almost tvery part of the vast, Inferior.; , One magnificent navo' will be continued ifrom. this, entrance, In' the Exhibition" road 'to the extrcmo; end of ; the bnifding .tn the ground of the Horticultural society, and at the termination termina-tion of this ,the. second donier.will rise. The nard is, therefore, to be 1,200 feet long.by 85. wide, arid 100 'high. The? transepts, in which it terminate at either end, will be, fact-1 100. ' feet "long" by '85 broadband 100 high. All- tno,.robr,will bc'.bf woodr.toafcd.witli. fclt'aiid -meet-, injr in the "center at an angle, like tho roof br Westminster-JIoll ihd.most.of onr old cathedrals. jf.Tboj effect;' however, rfrora the interior' will .Rot be thntof an "angular "angu-lar robr,, sthb!rtrdcw,-will' bo . arched and colored, awLonrtheseVthe. eyewill natnrally rcst,. -The; whole design and alt the planj'cbnncctVd. with, the buildingnre the'. work4; ofCaptftinowke.-RrE iThe time Cxcd for - thti; exhibition', is. the. tame aa that in-1851 viz.. from, ihe ;Jst -inf Jay iq tlie l 6th of October. , . The guif rantee fund amounts tct nearlyi;300,OOQ 1 London TiaKir "" ! "t--'; v.- '-. . -i .;- , A URITISIl VIEW;, Of .'TtlE mtSIDtST's ' -.'.-"BflECH.v " .-Bj "7'-- ,; Jpuathao W a, ingnir creature. Earnestness' Earn-estness' is i?ot hi fortv.nor. sublimity.ex. ccpt where the step jswry slight betweeri thesablimc aiid 'the yidicutous'jsorihuV roour except in rare fnstancesriqr common' sense except Jii rnrer still;, but "he1 lists traces of all these qualities mixed up , mid jumbled together. t9 the rcsulV of a curl-bus curl-bus and antic, medley, We must say that, lookingacross from our sober island, at tho ccicmony of President litscotsf's In. auguration, with thfrjiiuugural peeth nud all the "surroundings" ofthe occasion, the effect prmluced upon pnr minds is qf this queer anil questionable sort. The ittaug-ufotiouof ittaug-ufotiouof rresjdent Ijncblii Is the moit solemn and cfcitiug occurrence nhlch bag taken pUce.ia Jiorthj America fluce' tliu declaration of Independence IlUjpecch wa of conrpe to bo a dlscossloii bf the' questions by which the llmbii. has" been reu.t asunder, aiid, the .first reliable dts-! closure of b!s intended 'policy fn .dealing .with slavery and secession. Jt was'dcliv-ercd was'dcliv-ercd to llic Representative Assembly of the'Sfatcsi On uchaji occasion iii this country, Jhe itndfcnceu 'would have been yflciit, thonghtrnl, Ji.robably sad, and.the "most frivolous of joiirnnlisls, would iiiot have dared to. Tefer to it in liglit orjo'e ular toncBi The speech was1 delivered in Woshingtqa 'amid, "uproarious manifestations" manifesta-tions" and cheering to the echo, and the Yantcc describera touch'off the solemnity in the same style nf., small ml and thiiij facetionsrtess with which they would chronicle a mob meeting or picture a ball.; In point of f.ict, the "inaugural bull," held. One m'gtit think, in celebration of the dc-miso dc-miso of the Uiitou, comes out as n not much less important nnd imposing event thaii the inauguration itself. It was, the New Sprit papers declare", a "decided success," The toilettes of the ladies were ''nolicea. ble with but few exception, for lilegunee and good tnste," Mr. Drake Mills showed her supreme elegance und taste by tho convincing fact that she wore "2,000 doIW worth of lace and 20,000 dollars.' worth of diamonds." Such is tho frame of mind in which the Northern State of America, Inaugurate their first Republi. can President. The speech is on the whole disappointing. disappoint-ing. We, may indeed ' be without the Particular mean of deciding possessed by resident Liocoln, but judging from the troid cbaractcrist c of human nature, and the large, features of the situation, we cannot believe that the policy he announces, an-nounces, will reconstitute the Union. Tlmt twljcy appears to ui quite clear, and 4-take ev President. Buchanan's. alluion to the bidden raeauiug of the speech to indicato rather his surprise at that meaning; mean-ing; titan hi real ignorauce concerning" It. The policy of 'Mr Lincoln is substantially that of Mr. Buchanan, and more expressly express-ly that in which Mr. Seward has nnbound-cd nnbound-cd confidence. It Is a policy ,of rcsoluto inulia, btucd, oa the conviction, that the seceding States will not be able to endure existence apart from their Northern sifters, sif-ters, It is to embrace force to the extent ex-tent of levying Federal taxes and holding Federal forts, but its potency is to lie in fraternal sentiment. Looked at iu a logical logi-cal point ol view, all this fa plausible, beautiful, unexceptionable. President Liucolu prove to admiration that it is unreasonable, unjust, ungenerous, unparalleled unpa-ralleled in the Southern States to secede. But wo knew that month ago. He declares de-clares that ho will remove none of the safeguards which the Coustitutiou grant to slavery. But wo knew that too. "Will these arguments recall the South? Never. Not though President Lincoln were a modem Amphlbn, and could rehearse them In strains of preternatural melody, is the physical force by which bo proposes to back his arguments sufficient to give them effect! Apparently, all but certainly, certain-ly, not. We know not how to avoid the conclusion that President Lincoln's policy is to be tho most hopeless and undignified of all policies, that which trims feebly bt- ; tween peace and, -wBfrIt ..tipcjusjorty . for a we taia see, no popcct whatever; nf a: recdbstltutlon of tithe - TToloni jjf' DtaU ' ;v ..- ; . .11 l , ) i' ii . i ..I ' ' ... .1 n , ' I. in |