A COSMOPOLITE MOTTO FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 564, 10 September 1851, Page 4

A COSMOPOLITE MOTTO FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.

Mr. P.ixton, in his speech at Derliy, which had sound, strong sense Junning like gold thread tin ough every woid of it, let fall a sentence, that, in letters of coloured glass, should appear over the doors of the gieat Ciystal Palace. Up said—" lie believed it was a good thing to have the conceit taken out of us. lie had oiten had it taken out ol him, but, the next morning, he started with new vigour, and a greater determination to

rcnch success." A capital truth, with hope still bnghten'cg it. Moie; Punch suggests Mi. Paxlon's own words as a motto forhi.s own slnictuie. Here they me; in good, plain, uumistakoable English ; foy the eyes and hem to i John Bull. • IT IS A GOOD TIIIVG TO HAVE THE CON'CCIT TAKFN out or us " Now, when John beholds nny manufacture soever, in which he John, Ins heretofoie considered himself ris eminent over all, and in which, to his astonishment, he coafest.es himself outdone ; let Inn confess to the wholesome medicine recommended in the Paxton preset ipiion; and on the monow morning, let liitn follow out (he P.ixton legimeu, "stilting with new vigour, and a greater detei initiation to reach success." Punrh thought the axiom of Mr. Paxton so admirable, so fitting to the occasion, tint he immediately forwarded a copy of the woids to each of the Foreign Ambassadors at our Court, requesting of their seveial Excellencies, a good translation of the English; that the Ambassador's countrymen might, in their own language, enjoy and lay to heart the wisdom of the apothegms^ In almost every instance, Punch met with the mostftank and cordial ueatment at the hands and pens of their Excellencies. The Frenchman, wuulering along the Crystal Palnc* — or tieading its six mile gallery — may, haply, acknowledge the beauty of this when ha finds tlmr he does not as vet make quite as good knives and forks as John at Sheffield. And the Dutchman reads and ponders this, and allow, that butter-chums may be made m England, that would not be despicable at Amsteuhm. The Italian has been forwarded to Punch by Caidinal Wiseman and has at the piesent time a touching significance Pope Pio Nouo's woikmen visiting'the Exhibition will, we trust, lny it revet ehtly to their hearts ; and so, lot a little ot their conceit be taken out of them . And we have little doubt that every Portuguese, with the humility that is his great national cluiactcristic, will touch his beaver, and own the touching truthfulness of the adage. The Germin, with his eye upon n butt of Barclay and Perkins — a sample quadruple XXXX — will think of his own white beer, and confess that the product ot the British vat may take the conceit even out of a hero fiom Vienna. And the Spaniard, with the words in his memory, returns to his hotel, and, calling for a glass of his native sheny, may haply declare, with a sigh, that the English wme merchant lias taken all the conceit out of h. And Effendi, the Turk, strokes his beard, and, looking at English beauty, thinks of the flowers of Stamboul, and ciying " Allah Eismallah " confesses that the lovtly infidels do, somehow, take all the conceit out of them. Can there be any doubt, that the Paxton axiom, translated into fifty languages, and emblazoned throughout the glass edifice, will do a wo- Id of service, proving to all nations of the world, that " it is a good THING TO HAVE TUE CONCEIT TAKEN OUT or VS."