"Vie Opectator," gobember 30tb. 1850
The Peace Congress made a most successful demonstration on Thursday in the town of Birmingham. The great Music- hall, which is said to hold 8,000 persons, was full : and though at least one-third were women, the vast mass of the male majority were- cannon-founders, gun-borers, sword-forgers, and other artisans connected with the manufacture of arms for which Birmingham is celebrated over the world. Mr. Lucy, the Mayor, presided. There was no variety or freshness in the handling of the Peace topic. . . . Mr. Angell James employed his imaginative eloquence in picturing to the delighted makers of weapons, the Czar, the Pope, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, the King of Denmark, and the outlaw of his rebel Duchies, grouped as a'happy family in the Crystal Palace of Hyde Park—of course invited, and introduced, by the successful League. Professor Worms, of Frankfort, announced in admirable English his near completion of a work on Arbitra- tion among Nations. . . . Mr. Bright was positive that a man must be blind to the signs of the times who does not see how public opinion on this question is gaining more and more authority with the Government of the country. The Crystal Palace would indeed Inaugurate the universal republic of the world.
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