Ireland. In the latter country everything has to be discovered, out of which the elements of national greatness are derived. Shame, then, on those of her renegade and degenerate sons, who, neglecting the good before them, refuse to aid in shewing of what she is capable. Nor would, we spare those of our own island who, from a paltry jealousy unworthy of Britons, would seek to make all things subservient to their own supremacy. No! the time is fast approaching when Nations shall see, as enlightened men have ever seen, that the truest interest of each individual man is the true interest of all, that inasmuch as the time has passed away when family warred against family, clan against clan, or one little state against another, so the time shall come when the aggregation of families, clans, and petty states, now constituting great nations, shall also learn that war is as inimical to the interests of great bodies of people as it is to individuals, and that a gospel of peace has not been preached in vain to the children of men. Then:

"Giant Ambition shall no more

O'erstep the ancient landmarks of dominion;
Plant his red footsteps on the piled Alp,
To stamp the virgin snows with stains of blood:
Or from the ridgy height of Caucasus,

With glance of eagle-eyed cupidity,

Gloat o'er the vision of an hundred realms,
To cry, "They shall be mine!" The soldier now
Spurning his idle sword, shall ply the loom,
Or help to fill the golden horn of Ceres.
Those armaments redoubtable, that once
Frighted Old Neptune with their iron roar,
Shall bear our bounty to less favoured lands,
And love of country merge in love of man.
Each warlike engine shall innocuous lie,
As is the fulmen in the marble hand
Of some colossal Jove, and ours shall be
The might of Science, and Humanity."*

* We are indebted for these noble lines to an unpublished Historical Play, written by Mr. Thomas Brigstocke, the able artist.

LOCAL COMMITTEES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM,
with the Names of their Secretaries.

"The functions of the Local Committees chiefly consist in the recommendation of Local Commissioners to represent the interests of their localities-in encouraging the production of suitable objects for Exhibition-in affording information in the locality relative to the Exhibition-in the organization and collection of Subscriptions--and in facilitating the means of visiting the Exhibition."

SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH LOCAL COMMITTEES.

Professor LYON PLAYFAIR, F.R.S.
Lieut.-Col. J. A. LLOYD, F.R.S.
METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS.

Chiswick ..
Finsbury ..

Wylde, W. H.

Hopwood, C. H.

Nicholls, John W.

Glaishier, James

Roberts, Alfred, Jun.

Clements, James

Evans, Evan

Aberdeen

Reid, W. L.

Aberystwith

Davies. J. M.

Batley (Yorks.)
Bedford

Abingdon ..

Bartlett, A. D.

Belfast

Alexandria (N. B.) Bell, D.

Belper

Alloa..

Wingorte, John

Berwick, North

Paton, A.

Crust, Thomas

Bideford ..

Carter, Charles

186 ORIGIN, ETC., OF THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

Marsh, John Fitchett Zetland & Shetland Greig, Archibald,

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