THE - .SYMPOSIARCH.
Au, great-men are magnanimous- Conscious power suffices to it-- self, .and-needs no violent vindieations. When Socrates was spat upon, he contented himself with a repartee ; when.:Alexis Sayer is maligned, he zontents.hianself -with. saying that the-announcement is-" premature." 'twee stated that Alexis had taken Gore House, to, make it "a Cremorne.". The Sayer descending to a iOremorne ! —sooner say that Tennyson. had . taken. Rosherville • Gardens; -or Mtuready the Older-cellar. ButAlexis is not in-the least put out; he simply obliterates the falsehood- bv.stating.the-truth
" It will be my study to devote this establishment entirely-for the display of the gastronomic art; , where I am now-making preparationsAduccommo, data thousands of persons daily at my Symposium .of all. Nations." "The-' Symposium of all Nations-1-we have . no. doubt it will be -worthy of the world ; a rival of the Great Exposition itself. Beyer. is in fact supplying an omission which Prince Albert and his colleagues could not have supplied.- The political insti- tutions of France are transient -; . the. Monarchy, the Republic, and the Empire—the Monarchy, the Republic, and perchance again the Empire, succeed each other like the fashions of a season ; thb polished manners for-which France was, celebrated are, said:to have disappeared with the- anoient regime ; :even in fashion the supremacy of the nation totters, and Europe- is invaded by Eng-. lisla greatcoats . Hecker hats, Californian boats, .and. other Anti- Gallican monsters: there remains nothing but the genius of the people and its cuisine—Fiance andSoyer. Proudly France. refuses- t be merged in the Expositnn of all Nations : all nations will be- represented in. the Crystal' Palace ; France, by its art, in Gore House. In the Culinary. Palace of course . France will be para- mount,. "all nations " -but the garnish. The Soyer Exposition. therefore is a grander idea than Pimee.Albert'S mere utilitarian dis- play. Themuseum will be curious as well as grand,—curious in the collection of attempts- in the art from barbarian.countries.. Ger- many 'will be therein its saurkraut ; China will betray its dog and rat; India will expose its bare rice ; Abyssinia will offer its_beet- steak au nature'; Tartary, its milk and? mare ; Berlin, -its cab- hbtse ; Lapland, its train-oil; Esquimaux-hind,ifs blabber. Pro- bably- Soyer will dO,right -in excluding the man of New Zealand ; but, sitting in the sternness of 'high art- as arbiter-over _all, he will make England-confess her melted butten.
The situation of prisoners-far-contempt of Chancerrpersons put in gaol for not-filing awerem to bill s in,Ohaticery; --or for-refusing obedience ta theprocess-of the-Court—has been made- a public-grievance.. Sym- - pathy.-has been much excite:din hehale.of the class -by7advertisements of the Chancery Amendment Society asking for subscriptions to alleviate - their, oppressed. condition, and by Mr.; Dickens's highly-coloured,, state- ments ite frousalisid..Weeds. A letter to the Time& by.SirEchvard Bugden, hasinformed the public of • "the true state of, the.case with reference to prisoners for contempt of the Court of Cliancery,"' and:hits proved ,that the-gricivande is altogotherillasory, Sir Edward himself, in 183,0, took up- the subject,' and obtained an act of Parliament for the express purpose, of enabling poor prisoners-for -contenrota. be discharged without payment of -the -costs of 'their; contempt.' Prisoners for contempt of • Chancery are- scdely confined in- the climen's Prieou • • every' hree months a Master in Chancery inspects- this-prison,: and-reports-on-each' case. individually -to the Court; the Court is authorized to order payment out-:of :the -suitors' fund-of thelees of proceedings for purging ,the contempt; anthit may- even discharge the prisoner emany Aernei it -.thinks' fit, Under this. act, many. prisoners imprisoned-simply for contempt have-been set free ; but a great manylof these prisoners..are . also debtors -who w411, not pay-their- debts; and -in. some, cases-prisoners who have, got comfortable_in, their, quarters fraudulently- procured their own detainer by, imaginary creditors,- after their mere contempt was purged. Sir Edward Siigden, haspersonally interestediffieself in-working the law he-framed : he in.; speeted-the-Queen'S 'Prison- in- October; and then- found,' on direct in-. quiry of -each prisoner/. that- there- is mot? oneperson imprisoned for voile tempt who cannot-getout instently under the. act,' or who-is ignerant- of- bispower do do .so: Therein LID suck person as a " martyr of Cinmeery;" unless her be a. solf.elietadsnartyrr- "No nsaruneod-remain in- prison-for ckuntenipt Pbsimkryl ;midden:ream ought to -remain 1116re, .undex .pret$ tence of beings contempt prisoner, whilst hisKaal!objeet-iate evade-14y-
_ . . - merit of his debts."
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