The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

HARROGATE RACES-JULY 9.

Acceptances for the Ilarropte Stakes. One mile and
a half.
Age st lb

Age st lb
The Cannie Man 4 7 2
Phoenix
Nell Gwynne
The Huntsman
The Rajah 3 5 10
Cigarette

SL Andrew (in-
chiding 81b ex.) 5 8 8
Tom Perkins 4 7 12
Cardsharper 4 7 10
Corin 4 7 4
Catherine Parr 5 7 2
Sauchie

BURGHLEY STAKES, STAMFORD. —Louvat and Midsum-
mer are struck out.
Mn. THOMAS ARBER.—We regret to announce the
death of Mr. T. Arber, of the London Club, who expired
on Monday morning, after a short but very painful ill-
ness.

AQUATICS'.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

The entries for the third and last match of the season,
appointed for the 9th inst., closed last night, at the Bed-
ford Hotel. Subjoined is the list :
Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Julia
Wave
Oberon 8
Midge
Fawn
Sea Nymph
Chamois

THE LESSON OF THE DAY IN. HYDE-

PARK.

The policy of Lord Robert Grosvenor's Bill for the
better observance of the Sabbath has been most aptly
illustrated by a Sunday riot in Hyde-park. The mob
took the hint from the lawmakers, and turned hypocrites
for the nonce, shouting, " Go to church" to every per-
son who appeared in a carriage. Twenty years wzo the
Bishop of L'indon occupied himself on a Sunday in
counting the boats that passed under Putney-bridge, and
he shot out.his fongue zigainA them, and cried, go to
church, just as the- mob did to the carriage folks last
Sunday. Verily the :mob are !earning to be as false and
pharisaical as their betters. They did not go to c'itireb,
but wcra for puttUng tF a law "n others which they did
not conform to themselves. "Go to church" in their
mouths meant no more than this, " Da not enjoy yOur-
selves ; do as you would make others do, mortify, and
practice " self-denial.
_ _

The mob have indeed had the wicked wit to. take a
leaf from the bill in Parliament,
.and under the false
pretence of enjoining piety they have called for ohserY-
andes*from which they hold themselves exempt. So the
Puritan devoutly denies the poor-man his refreshment
at the wayside house of entertainment, while.he regales
at home upon the dainty works of his cook's hands, and
the wines which his butler serves him with: in uninter-
rupted punnit of his daily calling. Go to Church is the
Word here again. What the practice? Go to Church,
says the finger-post, which moves not a hair's-breadth
that way.
.Sweets to. the sweet, cant to cant; and mark
the working of puritanism in this result, that it has not
only succeeded in bringing about rioting on Sunday for
the better honour of the Lord's Day. but it has passed
into*current slang words that should have been kept in
reverence and honour. Go to Church will now be the
slang of every potboy, costermonger, and ragamuffin
who turns Sunday to the, account of insulting every one
above his condition whom he happens to encounter. Go
to Church will come to signify about as much as Go to
Jericho. And whose doing is this ? We have to thank
the Pharisees for. it. They have brought about the re-
action, the coming of which we have long predicted.
To make people good by act of Parliament is an impos-
sibility, but it is quite possible to make them had by act
of Parliament in the vain attempt to make them good,
jurt as in former days infants used to be deformed by the
process of swathing and swaddling intended to make
them grow straight. _ _ _

The act of last session restricting refreshments at pub-
;ic-houses was the fir-t turn of the screw upon the com-
forts and, enjoyments of the poor, and this experience
has determined them not to submit to a second applica-
tion of the tortere ; and who can say they are wrong,?
The worth is turning. The poor have set about defend-
ing themselves according to the maxim of Bentham, that
it is only by making the ruling few uneasy that the many
can deliver themselves from oppression. They laid down
the law plainly enough in Hyde-park, that if there is to
behm recreation, no refreshment for them on their only
day of respite from toil, and not even the necessary
meal if they should have happened to be unable to pur-
chase it in the time prescribed, there shall also be no
amusement, no pleasure for the rich. And the thing
will not stop with carriage drives and airings. If the
bill should pass (which we believe to be now impossible)
there will be mobs at the doors of the poulterers, fish-
mongere, and confectioners, to prevent their sending out
their commodities for the tables of the rich ; and that
will not be all, the signs of entertainments will be
watched, and doors will be, beset where carriages are
setting down for dinner parties., and it may be well if
the worst he the forcible escortment of the occupants to
the nearest church or chapeL
The Pharisees, n,s we have shown, have succeded in pro-
faning words and ideas that should be held in reverence,
and they have further commenced teaching the most
terrible lesson a people can learn, namely, hatred of the
rich. This was the lesson which the French had by
heart when the revolution broke out, which was, indeed,
its consequence. And the ABG of this devilish primer
was the task of last Sunday. "These are the people
who would rob us of our poor enjoyments, nay, of our
necessaries," was the feeling of the mob towards the
occupants of carriages, and that their jibes, jeers and
scoff., hisses and bowls, were no playful ebullitions,
appeared in this ugly fact, that when horses took
fright, kicked, plunged, and ran away, threatening
serious mischief, the mob, unmoved by the terror and
jeopardy of the parties, redoubled their cries to in-
crease the alarm of the animals, and add to the chances
of serious or fatal accident. And this feeling has
been brought about by the righteous overmuch, who
rule that, because they are virtuous There shall be
no cakes and ale. These men, if they sad their way,
would, brutalise the country. They would make two
camps of it, the hypocrites on the one hand, and the
profligate and savage on the other. As English mob
has been proverbial for its good nature, aid the first time
that vice has been seen in it has been upon the provoca-
tion of the Phierisees. Let timely warning be taken from
the symptom, for,it.is one of grave import. There are
two great classes in this country, the classes of pleasure
and the Ciasees of pain—the classes witl4 whom pleasure
is the rare exception, the classes whoa) pains are palling
pleasures ; and to take from the classes of pain their poor
pittance of pleasure is at once the most consummate in-
humanity and imprudence, for it is leaving them only
the one sweet of vengeance upon the community which
deals so hardly with them. In the beactiful scheme of
nature, pleasure has its fair place not less than pain ;
and if we would make a hed upon earth it would be by
dooming a multitude of beings to. unrelieved toil, six days
of labour in every dreary week, and a seventh of austere
denial and mortification. Endurance is an exhaustible
quality, and beware of drawing on it too lorgely. We
study many wants of the poor, and why jot study to
give them what is at least one of their main wants,
pleasure ? It is a necessary of life. " Lin) is a
said Doctor Johnson, "which none of sit can bear to
swallow without gilding ; yet for the poor we delight in
stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to show even
visible displeasure if the bitter taste is ever taken from
their mouths." It is a small thing, indeed the pleasure
of the poor. little to give, much to receife ; but to di-
minish or take it away, what insensate Cruelty I Mr.
Henry Berkeley, in his excellent speech on the Beer
Act, feelingly and finely observes upon the little but pas-
sing sweet enjoyment of the poor, " Why, the daisy or
cowslip, or the meanest wild flower pluc.ked under the
hedge by the child of a poor man, has mote value in that
child's eyes than the richest exotic has pe the wealthy
possessor of a greenhouse." The poor man's day is one
in the week, and there should be every contrivance
' to make the most of it, instead of much contrivance
to make the least of it, and to cut out its very
heart of animation. A part should be given to religion,
a pert to innocent recreation, and a change from what
has been the business or habit of the bveek. The se-
dentary should unbend in exercise, the aver-actively em-
ployed should repose ; the work people pent up in close
places should have the opportunity of tasting wholesome
air and gladdening their eyes with new and bright scenes.
In a word, the Sabbath should be as the sun to what
has been the dull shade of the week. But who gives a
helping hand to these objects, and how is it that amongst
our many benevolent institutions there never has been
established a Society for Protecting and Promoting the
Pleasures of the Poor ? Lord Ashburton Las the merit
of having proposed instruction in common things, but,
alas, enjoyment is not of the'class. —Examiner.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTIH•WEST
PASSAGE.

The select committee appointed by the House of Com-
mons to inquire into the circumstances of the expedition
to the Arctic Sea, commanded by Captain McClure, with
the view to ascent :in whether any and what reward
might be due for the services rendered en that occasion,
met for the first time yesterday, in room 15 ; Mr.
Mackinno❑ in the chair. The other members of the
committee present were—Lord Stanley, Sir Thomas
Herbert, Admiral Walcott, Captain Scobell, and Mr.

Gordon.
Sir George Back was the first witness examined.
Ile said be was tolerably well aequainted with the
Arctic regions, having passed 13 years there. He
gave great credit to Captain M'Clure for the per-
severance be evinced in pushing his vessel, amidst im-
mense difficulties, through a sea encumbered with
ice, where a ship had never been before. His pas-
sage through the Prince of Wales' Strait with his
vessel showed immense firmness and great judgment
upon his, part. Still more glorious, in his opinion, was
Capt. M'Cliire's successful attempt to go all along the
west side of Baring's Island, where the ship was neces-
sarily exposed to all the masses of ice which drifted crown
from the north, and came with such force against the
shore. His own experience among the ice, in the Terror,
in the same part of the Arctic regions, and his knowledge
of the jeopardy in which a ship was constantly placed in
there by the pressure and upheaving of the ice, led him
to believe that he could scarcely sufficiently admire the
courage and intrepidity of Capt. McClure and his officers
in exposing themselves to such dangers—dangers which
they knew must be encountered before success could be
achieved. The credit of discovering a North-west Pas-
sage was also solely and entirely due to Capt. M'Clure.
Capt. M'Clure attempted the passage by the south-east
corner of Baring Island first, but did not succeed ; be
then returned to the south extreme of the island, went
westwards, then northwards, and then sailed to the east.
The Chairman—Was it possible for him to have gone
on with his vessel ?—That would depend entirely upon
the state of the ice. Had he been accompanied by a
steam-vessel it is perhaps not saying too much to assert
that he would have got the ship through, but not having
any steam power he could not possibly accomplish that
feat.
By Capt. Scobell—Captain M'Clure has at length
cleared up the doubt which has so long prevailed as to
the existence of a North-west Passage. Captain Collin-
son is unquestionably second atter Captain M'Clure as
regards this discovery. His ship, when in the Prince
of Wales' Strait, was a little to the north of Captain
M'Clure, but ho failed in trying to get round to the
westward.
By the Chairman—There is not the least doubt in
the world that Captain M'Clure discovered the North-
west Passage.
Captain Kellett said he had wintered twice in the
Arctic Seas, and had made three summer voyages to
Bebring's Straits. His first acquaintance with the
Arctic regions commenced in 1848. There could be
no question that Captain M'Clure had a priority
of claim to the discovery. Captain Collinson followed
'Captain M'Clure within a period of twenty days,
but neither party was aware of that fact at the time ;
it was ascertained afterwards by a reference to Captain
M'Clure's own records. Geographically speaking, he
considered that Capt. M'Clure had solved the problem
of the North-west Passage.
A The committee then adjourned until this day.

NEWIVIARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)
HANDICAP SWE EPSTAKES.

Contention .

JULY STAKES.

Spindle
Colt by Wood Pigeon
Furioso
Nine ran. Won by two lengLlip.

CARLISLE RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

CORBY CASTLE STAKES.

Heir of Lynte
Wellington
Eight ran.
PRINCE OF- WALES' PLATE.

Assayer
Blarney
Eight ran.
• CUMBERLAND PLATE.

Rataplan
Courtenay

Nine ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at four o'clock.

SECOND READINGS.

On the motion o,f Lord RED ESDALE, the Dagen-
ham Docks and Hancock's Estate Bills were read a
second time.

THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were severally read a third time
and passed :—Hartlepool Pier and Port ; Bray's Estate;
Fife and Kinross Railway ; Halifax Gaslight and Coke
Company ; Gateshead Quay4Aboyne, Ballatec, Braemar,
and Cairnwell Road.

The Earl of HARDWICKE gave notice, that on
Thursday next he should call the attention of their
lordship to the state of education on board her Ma-
jesty's navy. _ _ _