The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

LAT INTELLIGBNC_L-1

•(.THIS DAY.) i . ..THE CAPTURE OF THE MAMMON.

' under the fire o fstlueerremy braecietuchtneret of gann
commended by Paptain 3lelchior. As regards the arms.
ROLLS G0U7.3.T. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the following re- meot of the awrages Blanes and the Mamelon Vert, it re.
FEUER V. BOUQUET—JUDGMENT. 1 T 't"rt, addressed by General Pelissier, under date of the nlained in tour power, making a total of 73 guns taken
Ith of Jane, to the Minister of War : from the eaeeny.
His Honour the Master of the Rolls gave judgment
"Mousier le Marechal,—My two telegraphic despatches " While We were taking the White Works, and the
to-day in this case, which came before
him upon a quea ' sat the 7th and Bth of June, and my letter of the 9th of the Mamolon Vert , the Englise, with rare intrepidity, stormed
tion as to the construction of-the will of the testator in sanse month, have informed you in a succinct manner of our ; Quarries, and established themselves firmly there,
hi-it/tient affair of the 7th, takino thus a gtorioulpart in the day's success.
services. Different boettelions, led on by Sefer Pasha, chief
T°-day I received General Bosquet's reports, as well as "The Terkisb. division of ()groan Pasha rendered great
diffe :rent information I awaited, and I am now able to give
f * On the 6th, at 3
g 3 a full and detailed account of this combat, which is a of the staff of the uzdeish army, contributed, under fire end at the advarosed Pests, to the consolidation of our con-
fu
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Victory, as much from the glory it throws upon leer
cieit.isf plleya kp r
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ssnred anythingb
ern is as
, from the important results obtained.
:trming you, the artilplenil;oafsoulrbrajleathaatitiatchkeo "What shall I s eye, Monsieur le Mar6chal, of the troops
could write you ; they were admirable.
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againstof, i n -
no town ; the En • - •
General Boric:lot. I respond to the intention
"Their
ooment
. and they were immediately su orted by our bat-
glish batteries openpepdfire.atwtahsevei
ones of the left attack• This fire of 4gmore-
s the chief
ußly kept up during artillery6th and of the 2d corps, as well as to my own, by
7t and
at 3
o,cioceofm whole night between the
the names of Generals C andmentioning here
IC the evening it was completed by anion atayran who l
tb fire of all b • 0
.ed the
attack, and of Generals Brunet"
our atterms of t'left attack •so that,auDulac, who so bl
cla Ling from that moment the a
with a (seconded them: 'R
a y
gig rile of fire, which, place was enveloped
Generals Bennet of the
starting at the e ourbatteries
oast, from
at Careening Bay, extendeXt Artillery Frossased, of the Eneinee-s d 1 C.
tip to Bay, o the west as far as Quo.ran-
of the2d 0 ~an < e. issey, chief
staff of the corps, who supported Generalßesquet
" It was then that the plans for the attack—concerted with as much zeal as devotion.
be tween Lord Raglan, Omar Pasha, and, id,as "It would be an omission on my part if I did not men
f tar as we are concerned, carefully studied btayyelf' Bos- (ion with praise the two battalions of the Imperial Guard,
(ft' ot--began to be put into execution, - General who fought like picked troops.
" The plan was 'to carry on the right, on the of "We have suffered sensible losses ; among othersthat of
Careening Bay, the works called by us 'Ouvrages Manes,' the brave General ete Lavarande, by a cannon ball at
Or a works of the 22d and 27th of February,' to carry-
n 1 o'clock in the morieieee in the work of the 27th, which he
1",40 centre the Mamelon Vert in front of the _Malakaa' had captured ; and Colonel Hardy, of the 86th, mortally
Tower; while, on their side, on our left, the English were wounded at the• head' .his regiment. We have to regret
to storm the so-called quarries, in front of the great Re. many dashing officers and brave rpen, but these losses are
don. Etch of these attacks was separated from the other not-so very great when we consider the number of troops
by a steep and rocky ravine • that of the White Works engaged, the length of the combat, and the important re-
was separated from the Malakhoff attack by the ravine of sults'obtained•
Careening-bay, and the Malakhoff attack was separated " I must not conclude this report without expressing my
from the English attack by the ravine of the Carabelnaia. satisfaction at the mariner in which the ambulance duty
These ravines inconveniently isolated the attacks, but was performed. Oar medical officers were, as usual be covered spots enabled- us to place numerous and yond all praise. It could not be otherwise under the direc-
,
powerful reserves sheltered from the enemy's fire. tion of Intendant Blaneielot, ably seconded by the function-
" The 2d, 3d, 4th, and sth Dvisions of the 2d corps had cries under his orders.—l am, Sec., , "PELISSIER." been selected for the attack. At 4.30 p.m. those four
divisions took up their respective poeftions, the divisions
Mayran (3d) and Dula° (4th) on the side of Careening-bay,
and the divisions Gamma (2d) and Brunet (sth) in the
centre attack.
" General Mayran was to direct the simultaneous attack
against the White Works of the 22d and 27th of February.
The Ist brigade of his division, commanded by General De
Lavarande, and consisting of a portion of the 19th bat-
talion of the Chasseurs-eepied (Commandant Caubert), of
the 2d Zouaves (Colonel Saurin), and of the 4th Regiment
of Marines (Lieutenant-Colonel Cendrecourt), occupied our
trenches of Careening-bay. This column was charged to
attack tho works of the 27th of February.
"On the left of De Lavarande's brigade was the 2d
brigade of Mayran's division, under the orders of General
De Failly, consisting of the remainder of the 19th bat-
talion of Chasseurs-e-pied, of the 95th of the line (Colonel
Danner), and 'of the let battalion of the 97th. This
column was to storm the work of the 22d of February.
" The Dulac division formed the reserve of these two
attacks. The first brigade of this division, under the orders
of General de Saint Pol, was to take up a position in the
parallels of Careening-bay after the attack of the first two
columns; and the 2d brigade of the same division, com-
manded by General Bisson, formed the second reserve.
"Moreover, the -2d battalion of the 97th of the line,
a battalion of the 61st, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Larrouy d'Orion, of elle 97th, had been con-
centrated in the ravine of Careening-bay to tura the ene-
my, and to•cut off his retreat after storming the Ouvrages
Blanes.
"In the centre the operations were entrusted to General
Camou. The first brigade of his division, under the orders
of General de Wimpffen, occupied the parallels of the Ma-
lakhoff sour ; to the right the Algerian Rifles (Colonel
Rose) ; in the centre the 50th of the Line (Colonel do
Brancion) ; to the left the 3fl Zouaves (Colonel Polhes).
" The 2d brigade of the Camon division, commanded by
General Verge, was in r serve in the ravine of Carabel-
naia, ready to take the place of the Ist brigade in the pa-
rallels.
" The Division Brunet, under the orders of its chief, was
also stationed in the Carabelnaia ravine, to act as a second
reserve.
"Two battalions of the Imperial Guard, one of Grena-
diers the other of Gendarmes, were placed at the dispotal
of General Camou for the attack.§
" This ensemble was completed by the Turkish division
of Osman Pasha, which the Generalissimo Omar Priebe had
detached from his army on the Tchernaya, and which took
up a position on the Inkerman heights.
"At half-past six o'clock Lord Raglan was at the Eng-
lish observatory. I myself proceeded to the trench in fro, t
of the Victoria redoubt, whence, as agreed upon with his
lordship, I sent up rockets as the signal for the attack.
General Bosquet, who was at the battery next to the Lan-
caster Battery, had just received his last reports. Every-
thing was ready ; the troops were burning with ardour,
and perfectly confident of success.
"As the first rocket went up, the Lavarande Brigade,
headed by its general, rushed forth from the second paral-
lel of Careening-bay, and at a running charge, carried the
works'of the 27th of February. Despite the fire of grape
and musketry it had to face during the 209 yards it had ,
to cross, and which caused considerable loss, the column
penetrated into the battery by the embrasures and breaches.
A hand-to-band struggle ensued on every point ; a num- '
ber of the defenders were killed on the spot, and we were
soon masters of the intrenchment.
" At the same signal and with the same imnetnosity,De
Failly's brigade rushed upon the work of the 22d of Feb.
The distance is double, the ground to cross more difficult,
with a murderous flank fire from the other work ; nothing
stops this gallant brigade. It arrives in a dense body at
the battery, scales the parapet under a rolling fire, and,
jumping into the work, overcomesthe desperate resistance
of the enemy.
" Driven back on these two points, and hotly pressed by
our men, the Russians fly in disorder, some towards a
little battery constructed since the 2d of May to defend
the entrance to the Careening-bay ravine, some towards
the bridge crossing the bay by which the ravine debouches
into the groat port of Sebastopol.
"Some of our men, carried away by the pursuit of the
enemy, seize upon the battery of the 2d of May and spike
the guns. As this battery, however, is 500 metres beyond
the work of the 22d of February, the most distant from
our lines, and placed under the double protection of the
works of the enceinte and of the forts to the north of the
roadstead, it is impossible to think of occupying it as yet. '
"General Mayran, perceiving a Russian column advanc-
ing to retake the batt n-y of the 2d of May, ordered his men
to charge with fixed bayonets, drove b ack the column into
the town, and took 60 prisoners, including three officers.
He rallied his advanced troops and led them back to the
works of the 22c1 and of the 27th of February, which re-
main definitively in our hands.
" Meantime the two battalions conceetrated in the ravine
of Careening-bay, under the orders of Lieut.-Col. Larrouy
d'Orion, were anything but idle. Descending the ravine
at the moment the attack was taking place on the ridge,
they pushed on as far as the aqueduct bridge, climbed up '
the right bank, and cut off the retreat of the enemy
driven from the first two works. This movement, exe-
crated with as much vigour as skill, and which procured us
400 prisoners, including 12 officers, does the !highest credit
to Lieutenant-Colonel Larrouy d'Orion, and deserves
that I should particularly recommend that officer to your
Excellency.
" While this was taking piece on the side of Careening-
bay the battle was waging with still more exciting inci-
dents around the Mamelon Vert.
"At the same signal of rockets from the Victoria re-
Joubt General de Wimpffen, with his brigade, left the
trenches which, on our side, encompass the base of the
Mamelon Vort—that is to say, of the place d'armes on the
left, and of the 3d Victoria parallel.
" Three columns rush forward at once on the enemy's
works, and carry by storm two advanced cuttings and in-
termediary ambuscades. A fire of grape from the redoubt,
the combined fire of the great Redan and of the batteries
to the left of the Malakhoff Tower, does not imre le their
advance.
"To the right, Colonel Rose, at the head of the Algerian
Rifles, carries a battery of four guns annexed to the re-
doubt.
" Colonel de Brancion, in the centre with the 50th, and
Colonel de Polhes on the left, with the 3d Zonives, reso-
lutely attack the redoubt itself, throw themselves into the
trench, scale the parapet, and cut down the Russian artil-
lerymen at their guns.
" Colonel de Brancion, who had the honour of being the
first to plant his eagle 'on the redoubt, fell in this attack
under the grape of the enemy, gloriously enwrapped in his
triumph.
"Strict orders had been issued not to go beyond the
gorge of the works, and to form at once a lodgment against i
the fire and attacks from the town.
"But, carried away by their ardour, our soldiers pursued
the Russians into the ditch of the Malakhoff battery, 400
metres beyond the redoubt, and tried to enter the enceinte
with them. The natural consequence was that they were
obliged to fall back under tile violent point-blank fire of
the enemy's reserves that manned the ramparts. The two
wings of the French line threw themselves back, while the
besiegers sent out a powerful column of fresh troops to
attack our centre.
" The redoubt of the Mamolon Vert could not, as yet,
offer any shelter, The fire had either blows up a mine laid
by the enemy, or a powder magazine, which had seriously
scorched Commandant Tixier, of the 3d Chasseurs-a-pied,
and a number of men. Planks, beams, and burning ropes
gave rise to fears of another explosion. The interior of the
work was not tenable. Instead of supporting itself on the
redoubt, our lines crossed the summit and forms a semicir-
cle round the Mamelon.
"There was not a moment to be lost. General Camou
ordered General Verge to leave the trenches ; General
Bosquet ordered the sth division to advance, which was
immediately obeyed by General Brandt.
" The movement of this division was imposing ; the Ist
brigade, commanded by Colonel Duprat de la Roquette, of
the 100th of the line, occupied the parallels behind the
Mamelon, and the 2d brigade, under the orders of General
Lafent de Villiers, advanced the left in the rear under
cover of some rising ground.
"The Verge Brigade formed in columns at the same mo-
ment under the enemy's fire, and, with the drums beating
the charge, ascended the hill, and reinforced General Wimp-
ffen's brigade. The position was carried and the enemy
driven back a second time into the town; we were defini-
tively masters of the Mamelon Vert, which our troops
triumphantly occupied, amid shouts, enthusiastically re-
peated, of " Vive l'Empereur."
"It was half-past 7 o'clock, and dusk was coming on; as
I had foreseen, we had established ourselves in the con-
quered positions at the moment that darkness would allow
our engineers to commence operations to consolidate our-
selves there.
" These works were directed by General Frossard, with
Chef de Bataillon Cbareton, of the Engineers, as com-
mander of the attack on the Careening-bay side, and De
Preserville on• the Mamelon Vert. These works, executed
during the night with great intrepidity, intelligence, and
remarkable coolness, were solidly constructed by daylight,
and enabled us from that moment to resist every attack of
the enemy.
" All assaulting columns were accompanied by brigades
of Sappers, commanded by Engineer officers. These de-
tachments all fought valiantly. Captain de la Boissiere, of
the Engineers, was seriously wounded, as, one of the first,
he scaled the parapet of the work of the 27th of February,
The artillery, which plays so important a part in this
siege, contributed in a great measure to the day's success.
As soon as the assaulting columns had started the aim of
all the batteries of the Careening-bay side and of the Vic-
toria parallel was changed and turned against the body of
the place. During the night a great number of the batte-
ries were restored.
" Moreover, six detachments, consistingeach
ners, commanded by captains of artillery, marched with
the first battalions of the columns to turn the guns of the
works taken against the enemy, and to ascertain what work
was necessary. All these operations were carried out
under the immediate direction of Lieut.-Colonel do La
Boussiniere, whose devotion and activity are beyond prai2eA.
" The gnus 0 the battery o the 2d, May we" "P'Ae"

the cause, upon a point v,hioh cannot arise again in con-
sequenca of Lord St. Leon:krd's Act, namely, whether,
under the provisions of the will of the testator, his exe-\
tutors took the residue that was undisposed of. Under
the old law it was clear the executors took it unless it was
shown from the will that it was disposed. of, Out the new law
had made a considerable alteration upon the subject. In
the present case the testator had given a legacy of 201.
each to the wives of the two executors, and it was :argued
stpon the part of the plaintiff that these legacies must be
looked upon as legacies to the executors themielves, and
that therefore they were entitled to nothing else, and
that the plaintiff, as the personal representative of the
testator, ought to hare the benefit of the residue undis-
posed of. The testator died in 1813, andthe suit claiming
the undisposed of residue was not instituted till 1854.
The executors had, therefore, been in the uninterrupted
possession of the residue that was undisposed of for
nearly 30 years, and it was rather too much to say that
that possession should now be disturbed. His Honour
must, therefore, treat the legacies given to the wives of.
the executors as legacies really given to those ladies, avid
not to their husbands, and, such being his opinio.A, he
must decline making any decree, and order the b' .I 1 to be
dismissed, but withmit costs.

Wily' ARE ROCKETS NOT USED AGAINST
THE RUSSIANS?.!

(From the Liverpool A Ibion.)

TE' S ABBATARIANS.

•
The comparative non-employment in the present
struggle of an instrument of aggression as potent as the
rocket has excited considerable surprise among those
acquainted with its powers, and with the results of the
use made of them in former wars. The prejudice which
the late Duke of Wellington entertained against rockets,
founded, it is believed, on. no better objection than the
unsatisfactory result of the first experiments in the
Peninsula, is the only reason we have been able to dis-
cover for the neglect they have experienced in more re-
' cent times. The Duke's prejudice did not prevent their
doing good service even in the last war, in those instances
in which they were .employed. They were used in the
attack on Boulogne, when the town was observed to be
on fire half an hour after the first rocket had been dis-
charged, and the extent of the devastation committed by
their agency was very considerable. In the following
year they were used with great effect in the attack on
Copenhagen, and subsequently at the battle of Leipsic,
where they made frightful havoc in the ranks of the
enemy. Rockets, indeed, possess advantages, as wea-
pons of offence, which, no other projectiles can ay claim
to. Not the least of these is the absence of any recoil—
s peculiarity which i.s a consequebce of the principle on
which they are made, and which enables them to be fired
from a small boat ; while shells, if used in naval attacks,
can be fired only from large and strong ships, owing
to the force of the recoil. Rockets require neither
cannon nor enortars to project them, since they
carry their propulsive power within ; and, consequently,
can not only be made of much larger dimensions than
any available shot or shell, but can be fired from places
altogether inaccessible to artillery. To these great ad-
vantages may be added, visibility of flight, and the
power of scattering the devastating effsets of fire where-
ever they terminate their hissing course. Tee most re-
cent occasions, we believe, on which these terrible agents
of destruction were fully brought into requ'sition_ was
when the squadron of Sir Charles liothain, in e -injunc-
tion with a French naval f 'roe under Captain (now
Admiral) Trehouart, in 1846, destroyed the supposed
impregnable batteries of Rosas at Punta Obligado, or
rather San Lorenzo, dominating the river Parana from
an immense elevation. Sir Charles, than whom there is
no more gallant or skilful officer in the service, on the
outbreak of hostilities with Russia, was understood to
be a candidate for a command in the Black Sea; but the
appointment sought being given to Sir E. Lyons, the
gallant admiral who had recently returned from his
eminently successful mission to Paraguay, received that
of Governor of Victoria. Had he obtained a naval
command, he would probably have repeated the effect
at Sebastopol, and more especially perhaps at Odessa,
of the projectiles he found of such incalculable service in
the actions referred to; of which a very spirited account
will be found in the interesting work on Brazil, the
River Plate, and Falkland Islands (Longman), by Mr.
Hadfield, who is now at Constantinople, as agent for
the Liverpool Underwriters and Manager of the Com-
mercial Transport Corps in the East. Mr. Hadfield's au-
thorities for the daring exploits he records, including the
picking off of Roses' menfrom their guns as theyswarmed.
out on the ramparts, without their being able to return
one effective shot, are Sir W. Gore Ouseley, our able Am-
bassador in the Plate at the time, at whose instance the
expedition was undertaken, and Captain Makinnon,
who directed the whole operations of the rocket brigade.
As there is a rather remarkable analogy between the
fortresses of the redoubtable tyrant on the Parana and
of the Crimean stronghold of the Czar, as regards their
positions, and the manner of defence, and also as to the
attack upon them being made by the two great Western
Allies now assailing Sebastopol, the account referred to
will be read with considerable interest at the present
moment, when every suggestion tending to the discom-
fiture of Russia is of the first importance. The banks of
the Parana at San Lorenzo are excessively lofty, so much
so that it was impossible to bring the guns of the British
and French steamers to bear on the powerful battery
which Rosas had constructed there, whilst the vessels
were fully exposed to its fire in passing down the river,
on their return, after having forced the three strong
chains placed across the current, and destroyed the ten
fire-ships at Obligardo. The great height of the almost
perpendicular banks made the position apparently as
difficult of attack by a naval force as even the north
forts of Sebastopol would be, where the altitude of the
citadel, according to Sir Howard Douglas, and according,
also, to the more recent Corroboration of Mr. Denby Sey-
mour, M.P., renders it unassailable by heavy metal from
the sea. But the fire of round shot, grape, and musketry
which Roses opened on the steamers as they came off the
point crowned by his battery was speedily silenced by a
small rocket-brigade, most unexpectedly operating from a
little island in the river. The combined squadrons escaped
with a very trifling damage, and the rocket-brigade did
not lose a single man; whilst the loss to the Argentine army
was very great. Mr. Hadfield ascended the Parana as
high as Corrientes, and was thus enabled to estimate
the difficulties which were so successfully overcome.
Judging of the effect of rockets, as tested by such a
comparatively small battery as was brought into opera-
tion at San Lorenzo, what might not be achieved by
their agency elsewhere now ? Only six tubes were used,
the fire from which was equal in rapidity to acontinuous
discharge from the guns of two 80-gun ships, throwing
at one period of the attack forty rockets per minute.
So rapidly, indeed, and with such terrific effect, were
the hissing missiles projected among the soldiers of
Rosas that, as already stated, they were unable to stand
to their guns, and were much cut up, flying into the
open country in the rear, though a cordon of Guachos,
the Cossacks of South America, were employed to pre-
vent the retreat of the infantry ; but the horses became
perfectly unmanageable under the rocket fire—a power-
ful consideration considering the Russian strength in
cavalry. since then rockets have been much improved,
their aim rendered more certain, and the " back fire "
diminished. They are now, in fact, as destructive and as
easily controlled as the Paixans guns, with which the
Russians wrought such murderous results at Sinope.
But the employment of these some of our French and
English artillery authorities (Sir Howard Douglas
among the number) condemn as being too devastating
for use among Christian or civilised nations. We be-
lieve that the affair at Petropaulovski has been the occa-
sion of some remarks being addressed to the Home
Government by Sir C. Hotham, from Melbourne, calling
attention to the desirability of having recourse to
rockets in the southern seas, and citing his own experi-
ence in the Parana as to their extreme efficiency against
an enemy who are confessedly strong in artillery, as was
Roses in 1845-6.

Hyde Park ocPSZdathy7
between profession and
tributive
wrasintthese°lsctehe
niodfaay.Zreat act of re.
justice. The rough good sense of the community
Practice. Some way or another, it
bseonsnesthso
was perceived that it could not be right that a Bishop should
roll about on a Sunday in his chariot and pair;
tlemen and finer ladies should make a mall in Hyde-park for
that fine gen-
othf
Parisianesake art
displaying
anduld drremessaiens, tohpeemn,arvanelad
th at c ltt b fine
-horses
Mivart's and Thomas's not closed, while poor men were de-
nounced as sacrilegious wretches if they permitted themselves
upon that day to indalge in the luxury of a penny shave, to
purchase a pennyworth of milk, or a stale half-quarters loaf,
or a pound of mutton trimmings, or a pint of questionable
beer. If these poor chairmen were in the wrong, certain]
the lordly Pharisees could scarcely be in the right. It ways
difficult indeed for a poor customer who might be excluded
from his own peculiar markets to feel that there was not some
confusion of ideas existing .in the minds of his superiors, as
he watched the stream of rosy boys, with flannel aprons,
issuing upon the Sabbath m orning from the half-closed
doors of the fashionable fishmongors, with trays upon their
heads, or under their arms, as the case might be, well filled
with placid turbots, beautiful even in death, contrasting
vividly with the bright hues of the ruddy lobsters, which were destined to adorn the graceful close of their
uneventful careers ; with whiting which, after life's fitful
fever, awaited the sacrificial bread-crumb with their tails in
their innocent mouths, with soles in pairs, and red-mullet in
their costly simplicity. Nor was the fishmonger's boy the
only Sabbath-breaker in the cause of Lucullu'. Behind him
followed the greengrocer's familiar imp, laden with the spoils
of early spring, or rather of spring imposed by the art of the
horticulturist upon our wintry Juno. Surely it must strike
as somewhat strange upon a mind unimbued with the niceties
of Parliamentary theology that sins incurred for the satisfac-
tion of the epicure were venial, while the culinary transgres-
sions of the poor man, who, in his most Apician flight, never
soarel anon the wings of fancy beyond a Sunday shoulder of
mutton, resting upon an iron triangle, immersed in savoury
potatoes, were to be visited with the severest indignation of
every " well-regulated mind." If you set about it in the
right manner you may ride human nature pretty hard. As
long as the stomach is filled, and the back not too ragged, it
is possible to persuade one's fellow-creatures to acquiesce to
a certain extent in your own superfluities, but a limit
must be drawn somewhere. The contrast must not be too
vivid nor too startling.
The fact is, this Sunday Trading Bill of Lord Robert Gros-
venor in its present form won't do. It means either too much
or too little. We fully grant that it is most highly desirable
that any kind of traffic during the hours consecrated to Di-
vine service upon each returning Sunday should be absolutely
prohibited to the rich as well as the poor—to the poor as well
as to the rich. The public opinion of the country will sup-
port a prohibition of this kind. In point of fact, as far as
our own sphere of observation has extended—and we know
something of London—we should be inclined to say that dur-
ing the hours consecrated to so righteous an end little or no
traffic actually takes place. There may, for aught we know,
be a Thieves' Bazaar in one remote quarter of the town—say
in Houncladitch ; and an unseemly damaged-vegetable Rialto
in the purlieus of the Commercial-road ; but, substantially,
throughout London there is no traffic during the hours of
Divine service. If such exists it is easy enough to put it
down, but when we go one step further than this we at once
stumble upon the difficulties of class legislation. With all duo
respect for Lords Ebrington and Robert Grosvenor, and for
other magnates of the Sabbatarian movement, we doubt their
power of compelling observance of the Sabbath by the more
opulent classes. Sumptuary laws were found to be a failure
250 years ago, and there is not much probability that they
can be revived in our own time. If, then, it be im-
possible, as we believe it to be, to put an end to Sun-
day entertainments among the rich, to shut up the
clubs, to stop all save strictly necessary traffic along the
streets on the Sunday, of what avail is it to commence a
crusade against the sparse enjoyments and. little comforts of
the poor? If the law can have universal application, and If
public opinion sanction it, it is well. Nothing could be more
sublime than the spectacle of a community such as is com-
prised in the England of the 19th'eentury which should
really, with one heart and one mind,"give up one day in seven,
in good portion, to holy thoughts and earnest prayer, and
the rest to innocent enjoyment and relaxation. All men of
serious minds, who look a little beyond the present hour, are
agreed upon the end, but differ sadly as to the means. Some
oven are bold enough to say the end in view .can never be
reached by a legislative thunderclap. If the object is to be
attained at all, we must look to the usual agencies of enlight-
enment and education. The England of 1855 presents a most
favourable contrast to the England of 1755. If this country
continues to progress durinr the next fifty years as during the
first halfof the present century, there is every reason to hope
that among the middle and lower classes the Sunday will be
observed in a manner which would satisfy any one, save a
hypocrite or a fanatic. Whether the upper classes will have
ceased to give Sunday dinner parties, to take their carriages
to church, and their pastime in the Park, is really more than
we would venture to say.

Last night Mr. Otway, relying, no doubt, upon the support of
Hyde-park, asked Lord Palmerston if he did not intend to take
some steps to induce the great author of the Sunday Trading
Bill to withdraw his measure from the further consideration
of the house. The bill has, we believe, passed through com-
mittee, and stands now for its third reading. Mr. Otway's
question was received with general cheering, and of this cir-
cumstance Lord Palmerston, with his usual tact, took advan-
tage. "If my noble friend," says he, " hears that cheer, he
will: attend to it." We sincerely trust the First Minister
may have interpreted aright the feelings and views of his
" noble friend," for such a measure of organised hypocrisy as
his can only be attended with evil consequences. The grand
result of the Sunday Trading Bill will simply be, that half-a-
million of hungry, unshaved, discontented people will, with
the most perfect propriety, occupy their leisure hours every
Sunday in groaning and hooting at the more opulent trans-
gressors of the law which they are compelled to observe. If
Lord Ebrington objects to shaving himself, he should have
forbearance for the opposite opinion. If Lord Robert Grosve-
nor desires to see the Sabbath duly observed, let him not pro-
voke the people to riot by making one Sabbath for the rich
and another for the poor.

(Prom the Morning Advertiser of this day.)
Our countrymen are attached to their ancient institutions.
Their nobility is one of them, and it has not the full share of
the popular admiration and affection which it possessed during
the French Revolutions at the latter end of the past century.
The change has been effected partly by the monopoly of Go-
vernment, and places of honour and emolument, by a portion
of that illustrious body, and partly from transferring to the
whole the faults of individuals. Too little sympathy has
been shown to the middle and lower classes, to either of
whom the higher are but as a grain of sand on the sea-shore.
If the nobility lose the prestige of public opinion, it is impos-
sible for it to survive in an institutional character, belonging
to i.nd upheld by the nation. The demonstration on Sunday
in Hyde-park can be compared to nothing but the meetings
of the exasperated Parisians, on hearing of the proceedings
at the ill-timed banquet of the Garde du Corps at Versailles,
on the memorable first of October, 1759, which proceedings,
more than all provocations put together, incensed the French
against the nobility, and led to the suppression of the privi-
leged orders without exception. Napoleon I. created a nobi-
lity, and some of the old body returned under the Bourbons,
but neither were regarded by the nation with any degree of
favour. The atrocious murder committed by the Due de
Praslin, of whom we wish to believe that he was insane, re-
vived the old contempt and animosity, which were not allayed
by his suicidal evasion from justice, with the supposed com-
plicity of Louis Philippe. Tho prestige was gone, and pro..
bably for ever, and every revolutionary movement of the
people has aimed at the establishment of a republic.

CRYSTAL PALM:M.—The directors of the company
have been engaged for some time in arranging faci-
lities for the visits of schools and benevolent societies,
and they have finally agreed upon a reduced scale of
charges. For any number of excursionists over 250, and
under 500, the charge for conveyance by railway and ad-
mission to the Palace is to be 15d. ; over 500, and under
750, it will be 14d. ; over 750, and under 1,000, to be
13d. ; and over 1,000, one shilling per head. The re-
gulatiops apply only to the ordinary shilling days and
third-class carriages ; children are to 'be admitted at half
the above rates. ,

A mistake seems to gain ground in England. The sins of
a more handful of titled families, who can command from
half-a-dozen to nine, ten, or a dozen electoral constituencies,
which enable them to engross all place and power in. the
State, are transferred to all, and the whole aristocracy is in
danger of suffering for a few worthless and incompetent per-
sons. Nor are the people alone to be blamed for this egre.
gious
last Government
seei the pains that were,taken, not only by
the, but the present, composed of the very
same men whom the nation expelled with the deepmt dis-
grace, to drag in the aristocracy, as a foil against the indig-
nant complaints which were evoked by the cold-blooded
sacrifice of a largo army, to doltish formalities, and an as-
tounding amount of stolid ignorance of very simple matters of business. Lord Palmerston particularly distin ' hed him-
self-in this illiberal way of shielding himself and colleagues
from public !censure, for he was the very first to draw the
eyes of the people upon the aristocracy as a body, when he
lavished his fulsome praises upon it, as an answer to Mr.
Layard's charges of neglect, ignorance, and other phases of
incompetence, against the Ministers who were the authors of
our dreadful calamities in the Crimea. -
Legislature, have no sympathy
An impression has been widely prevalent, for some time,
that the higher classes, and particularly those who are in the
, brethren. The consequence of the injudicious display made
by the Garde with their less fortunate
du Corps, in the theatre of Versailles proves
that there is danger in promoting this feeling ; and the mani-
festation of Sunday cannot fail to have penetrated into thou-
sands of hearts which have hitherto been slightly affected.
Before wealthy useful classes of
and y?nusnganndoblemen begin to
les in the metropolis.
mrileast to make some in.
and their position. There are thou.
quirks into its nature an
homes than coffee-houses and public
rtehgeul a
humblert e the livelihoodorderutuheoyy 'lf
outuhege:n industrious
sands who have no other
• work 6 days, from an early
hour in
the morning
alone who
receive their wages until very late
on night, and who do not
the Saturday night, simplybecause their employers, how-
ever
dangerous position,
that the legislative classes are
heovese;ws illinTghetorepa.ar:
hundreds
provide the means earlier.
We say, again, placing
attempting to legislate, where, in good truth, they have
, no legitimate legitimate right. Acts of Parliament have no more power
hthemselves in a false, and it may be,
to crake Churchgoers than faggots to make them mass wor-
shippers. A little plain common sense will be a gciod prepara-
tory medicine for a crisis of political disorder, which seems
to be approaching, but which may be everted by ceasing to
irritate the puNie rola.

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