The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1855.

Mit. ALBERT SMITH'S Mu.NT BLANC
is Now Open Every Evening, at 8 o'clock, except Saturday.
The Morning Representations take place every Tuesday, Thursday,
and E.ai.urday, at 3 o'clock.—Stalls can be taken at the Box-office
every day from Eleven till Four.--Egyptian

ARGYLL ROOMS.-,—lmmense success of the
new dance, LA. VARSOVIANA : Mnsic by IL LAURENT.
—Danced every evr_nlng.

ivIARTIN'S SUBLIME PICTURES
(valued at 8,000 guineas), now on view at the Hanover-
square-rooms, for a few days or'y.
THE LAST JUDGMENT;
THE PLAINS OF HEAVEN ; and •
THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH.

Upwards of 70,000 persons inspected them in the City, producing
universal admiration. Admission by private invitation card, or 6d.
each.

• ,
SIEGE of SEBASTOPOL.—ROYAL SURREY
K. 7 ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—GREAT ATTRACTION for the

HOLIDAYS.—Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday. First appearance of the celebrated Spanish Minstrels.—
Engagement of signor Russell' and Family.—" La Perche."—Dan-
son's Gigantic; Model Picture of Sebastopol.—Dioramic Views of
Cronstadt, Revel, Helsirgfors, Odessa, Eupatoria, Balaklava, and
Cathcart's-hill, painted by P. Phillips.—The unrivalled Band of the
Coldstream Guards.— Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert.—
Solos on the Clarionet and Ophocliede by Messrs. Wuille and Hughes.
—Feeding the animals at half-past Five.—Drawing-room Entertain-
ment of signor Russell' and family.—Repulse of the Russian sortie
at half-past Six.—Concert, Seven, &c., &c.—Bombardment of Sebas-
topol and splendid Pyrotechnic Display, quarter to Ten—No extra
charge. Admission to the whole, Is. N.B.—Corporal Bridges and
Private Mackay, both severely wounded at Inkermann, attend daily
to point out the various objects of interest in the modelled picture,

35 Shares of 1001. each. Ice for the Crimea. Sce advertisement

below—immediate.

ICE for the CRlMEA.—Messrs. H. J. SMITH,
CRANE, and CO., of 30, Great St. Helen's, London, and Bala-
kiava, have arranged with the Weuham Lake Ice Company for an
immediate shipment of a cargo of Ice, Refrigerators, &e., to Bala-
klava. In order to carry out this object, Messrs. Smith, Crane, and
Co. propose that thirty-five subscribers of 1001. each shall combine
for that purpose. The probable profit upon the transaction is esti-
mated at about 60 per cent., and retains in about 4 months. A large
portion of the shares are already subscribed for, and applications for
the remainder must be made immediately to Messrs. Moscrop and
Co., Office of the Wenham Lake Ice Company, 164 a, Strand, accom-
panied by a Cheque for the amount, crossed Coutts and Co. Sub-
scribers will take precedence in rotation or order of their application.

STEAM DIRECT to the CRIMEA, calling at
Gibraltar and Constantinople to land passengers only.
A well-known spendid fast sailing Screw Steamer, having une-
qualled cabin accommodation, will be despatched positively on the
21st July, for the puTpose of conveying passengers to the above-
named places, and goods to the Seat of War. Arrangements can
also be made tor an excursion for the voyage out and home, calling
at other Mediterranean ports. In consequence of the numerous
applications for passage and freight, to secure either berths or ton-
nagelit is necessary to engage fur the same without loss of time.

Apply to
H. J. S3II.TH CRANE, and CO.,
30, Great St. Helen's, London.

HARWICH. - DESIRABLE FREEHOLD
PROPERTY (with Possession).

To be Sold by Auction, by Mr. HALES, at the Cups Hotel, Har-
wich, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of JIILY, 1855, at two o'clock
in the afternoon for three precisely, in one let, all that neat brick-
fronted MESSUAGE or DWELLING-HOUSE (the late family resi-
dence) of Captain Thomas Hammond, formerly of H. M. Post-
Office Packet service, deceased, Church-street, Harwich, extending
in the rear to West-street, having spacious walled-in yard, detached
stabling, coach-house, and Lott over, in West-street. It contains on the
basement extensive coal, wine, and beer ce"ars ; on the ground floor,
entrance passage, 2 spacious parlours, k'tchens, store-room; on the
first floor, landing, drawing-room, 6 bed-rooms ; on the second floor,
2 attics and large loft.

This property is located in the central part of the improving town
of Harwich, suited to a family of the first respectabi'ity. May be
viewed on application to the Auctioneer ; and particulars and con-
ditions of sale had on reference to Messrs. Turner and Deane, soli-
citors, Colchester; at the place, of sale; and the Auctioneer,
Liar wich.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEENC.

Her Majesty's new yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt.
the Hon. Joseph Denman, returned to Portsmouth har-
bour yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The result of the
cruise has been eminently satisfactory. She went out
with 350 tons of coals, and has brought back upwards
of 100. She made 221 revolutions, and realised a speed
of upwards of 15 knots (which is upwards of 174 statute
miles) per hour, and this laden deeply. She was re-
markably stiff and steady, steered with perfect ease and
facility, and her engines worked beautifully. The yacht
went to moorings to complete her outfit.
The Powerful, 84 guns, sailing ship, Captain Thomas
L. Massie, left Sheerness yesterday, at 2.30 p.m., for
the Black Sea, and is to call at Portsmouth and Ply-
mouth for supernumeraries on her way out.
The Castor, 36, commissioned by Lieutenant Wood,
and fitting out at Chatham, is intended for the pendant
of Commodore Trotter, Commander-in-Chief on the Cape
of Good Hope Station, in lieu of the old store and coal
ship Seringz patain.
The Calypso, 18 guns, Captain A. Forbes, was towed
from Sheerness on the day of her arrival (Wednesday)
to Chatham to be paid off. She left Bermuda on the
25th of May last. The Eurydyce sailed two or three
clays before for Havannah ; left the Boscawen and Ves-
tal's crews ail very healthy. The Boscawen was to sail
for Halifax on the 7th of June. The Vestal was to sail
for Barbadoes on the same day. The Kite steam-vessel
was towed by the Calypso the greater part of the way
from Bermuda. The Calypso has had a very fine but
tedious passage, wester;y winds in general prevailing.
She has been four years in commission, and her officers
and crew have been remarkably healthy. She was in
spected by the commander-in-chief, Vice-Admiral the
Hon. W. Gordon, in whose presence her crew were put
through their various evolutions of great gun, sword,
musket exercise, &c., and the gallant admiral expressed
his satisfaction to her captain at the efficient state of her
crew. The Calypso brought home as passengers Captain
Richard Chute, 26th Regiment, on leave ; Captain H.
M. Talbot, Royal Artillery, -on promotion ; and the
Bermuda's officers and crew, with one corporal and two
bombardiers, R.A.

The state of the invalids' berths in this ship, the cleanli-i
ness and quality of their bedding, and the order and
comfort of the invalids, should be seen to be appreciated.
Nothing has yet arrived at Portsmouth from
,the
Crimea equal to it., • Dr. Mackay deserves the credit
of this. On the 15th ult. the .Calphurnia boarded,
at 5 p.m., in lat. 36 N.; long. 11.10 W., a water-
logged vessel without masts ; bowsprit standing; found
the name obliterated ; timber laden (deals and staves) ;
had apparently been boarded before, as every moveable
article was gone ; the poop with the remains of a house
on it ; top-gallant forecastle, with two bower anchors,
and 15 fathoms of cable on the port one ; the starboard
chain banging over the side ;.female full figurehead,
square stern, deck lights cut out, and one pump, Ameri-
can built, and from 900 to ,1,000 tons. The' name of
"J. Bhobet" was cut out on the main rail.

The Harkaway sailing transport, No. 39, Captain
Stephens, arrived at Spitliead, yesterday morning from
the East. She was towed through the Straits of Gibral-
tar by the Cambria, some thlni since arrived at Ports-
mouth. She brought no invairids. •
The Charlotte Jane hired freight ship, Capt. Russell,
arrived at Spitherd from the eastward yesterday morn-
ing to embark draughts of the 4th, 20th, and 50th Regi-
ments for, Malta.

The Southampton, Indianian, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday afternoon, from theThamee, to embark passengers
for Calcutta.

MILITARY.

On Tuesday morning the Ellen Rawstone freight ship
arrived at Woolwich from the Cape of Good Hope, hav-
in, on board Major C. D. Robertson's company (No. 15)
of the Royal Sappers and. Miners, and 70 invalids be-
longing to the regiments serving at the Cape.
An interesting experiment was 'tried at the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, on Wednesday, in presence of
Lieutenant-Colonel F. Eardley Wilmot, Royal Artil-
lery, and several scientific gentlemen, to test the
effect of a new kind of vent; 'An iron 6-pounder gun
was brought down and fitie' Civith it. the invention
consists of two pieces of brass made to fit a groove
bored in the vent-field, the vent being through these
pieces ; on the pieces being inserted they were screwed
down, and on the top of them, in a line with the sur-
face f the gun, a nut was placed to hold them tight. If
an enemy spiked the gun in an ordinary manner, by re-
moving the nut on the top by means of a wrench, the
vent was unscrewed, and the spike taken out. After
each round was fires the vent pieces were taken out and
examined, and then replaced ; and after each round the
vent sunk deeper into the gun. Ten rounds were fired,
and after the tenth a spiko was driven in, which burst
the nut, and the pieces of the vent remained in the gun,
Every time the vent was taken out previously it was
found to be twisted.

The last detachment of the 98th Regiment arrived in
Chatham at 5 p.m. on Wednesday from Gravesend, con-
sisting of 11 sergeants and 149 rank and file, with five
officers—namely, Captain H. W. Goodwyn, Lieutenant
Martin Dillon, Lieutenant D. M. Farrington, Ensign
Geo. F. Webster, and Assistant-Surgeon N. H. Stewart,
M.D. Eight women and 13 children also arrived. The
troops came home in the Maidstone from Calcutta,
which they left on the sth of February.
Everything went on well until the 19th of April,
when a dense fog came on, and about 12 o'clock
at night the vessel ran on the sands of Murray Bay,
close on Rebhan Island—a barren island about 10 miles
from the Cape of Good Hope, and, as the tide left, the
ship lay nearly on her beam-ends. Great alarm pre-
vailed on board, but, as the tide flowed up again, she
was got off with the assistance of the crew and troops on
board and about 100 boats, which came to their assist.
ante from Cape Town, with the harbourmaster and a
number of kedges. At daylight the next morning the
Governor of the island came on board, and the troops
were landed. The ship did not float until 5 p.m. the
next day, when she was taken round to Table-bay, and
inspected by the divers. It was found that some of
her copper was stripped off. She was repaired as soon
as possible. The cargo on board was valued at 12,6001„
consisting of rice, wool, copper ore, and wines. Cap-
tain Eastcourt did all he could to get the ship off with-
out assistance. The ship sailed for England on the
26th of April, and arrived in the Thames on the 3d
inst. ; the pumps were kept going during the voyage
day and night. On the passage three men of the 98th
died, viz., John Morris, Michael Ranie, and Thomas
Davies, and also 4 children. The troops will be removed
to Weedon to join their head-quarters ; they are in ex-
cellent health, and a very fine body of men. It is ex-
pected that they will soon be sent to the Crimea.
A large range of wooden huts, capable of accommo-
dating a force of 1,000 men, is immediately to be erected
on Hobb's Point, in the vicinity of Pembroke Dockyard.
The contract has been taken by the Board of Ordnance,
and 6 weeks are allowed for their erection. When com-
pleted, a large body of militia will be located iu them ;
the new regiments of Glainorganshire Artillery and the
Pembrokeshire Artillery, among others, have been
named, the waters of the haven affording excellent prac-
tice ground.

day. I would do away with all distinctions between
classes ; but if persons choose to go for short distances
out of town on Sundays, they could arrange the period
of their departure and return to meet the requirements
of the act.
The Chairman—Do you think the working classes
should be compelled on the day of recreation and rest to
carry knapsacks on their backs, like soldiers, or a heavy
basket with two or three bottles, besides the child I
Mr. Hall—lt would be better, I think, that they
should suffer some inconvenience than that the evil
which arises from keeping public-houses open all day
should exist. In his (Mr.s Hall's) opinion it would
be mischievous to open the houses again from 10 to 12
on Sundays to the number of excursionists who came
into London by railway after 10 on that day, such as
shop boys and young women, who were tempted into in-
toxication. He did not know that the people, as the
result of the Sunday bill, resorted to drink in brothels,
but he was aware that liquors were sold at coffee-shops,
and at what were called " the three-halfpenny beer-

shops."
By Sir J. Pakington—He would say that the man
who took the boat, or 'bus, or train, to see the chesnuts
in bloom at Hampton Court was not, but that the man
who went to the same place on a mission of death, was a
bona fide traveller ; but it would be extremely difficult
for either the public or the police to distinguish between
the two. A number of the persons brought to Bow-
street, for drunkenness on Sunday, were excursionists.
He did not think that a man going out of town on plea-
sure, and returning the same day, was a bona fide tra-
veller within the meaning of the act, and he did not see
how a traveller was to be defined either by time or dis-
tance. He was at a loss to know whether the onus of
proof would rest upon the publican or the police.
By Sir W. Jolliffe—lt would be better to leave out
the words "bona fide traveller" from the act altogether
in consequence of the contrariety of opinion that had
arisen on the question. He would expunge the words
and rely on the limitation of the hours. As a metropo-
litan magistrate of very conSitierable experience, he.saw
no necessity, but, on the contrary, thought it would be
very injurious, to extend the hours of opening on Sunday
beyond what they were at present. He did not think
that if a man went to Richmond within the prohibited
hours on Sundays, and put up his family at a hotel, he
would be entitled to refreshments at any time of the day.
The poorer classes felt it as a grievance that public-
houses were closed against them while hotels were open
to the wealthier classes. The closing public-houses at ten
o'clock had diminished drunkenness, and he did not
think there had been any complaints in London as to
closing at that hour. He should front his experience be
glad to see public-houses closed every night at twelve
o'clock. He did not think any phrase could be devised
that could accurately define a bona fide traveller. He
would give to magistrates a large discretion, and he
thought the justices of the peace might be safely
trusted. • At Hampstead there was a well-known inn,
called Jack Straw's Castle, and on one Sunday afternoon
three persons arrived within the prohibited hours : one
by a brougham, another in an omnibus, and a third
walked—and the magistrate held that they were all tra-
vellers. Another magistrate had held that a man walk-
ing from Mile-end to Hyde-park was a traveller, while
another magistrate held it was necessary for a man to go
out of town to constitute him a traveller. If he (Mr.
Hall) were asked by the Home-office to 'draw out a
clause defining what a bona fide traveller was, he should
find great difficulty in doing it. It was a matter of con-
jecture now how magistrates would decide, but by strik-
ing out the words bona fide traveller, and relying on the
specified time, the act was intelligible to all the world.
Drunkenness, in his opinion, increased on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, because unable to get drink on Sundays
men drank heavily on Mondays, and he thought that
the weekly average of drunkenness was as great as before
the passing of the act.
By Hon. C. P. Villiers—Was of opinion that drunk-
enness had materially diminished since the closing of
the public-houses at ten o'clock on Sundays. He did
not think the word " wayfarer," or sojourner," was
more explicit than that of bona fide traveller. The use
of the word traveller was no novelty in acts of Parlia-
ment regulating public-houses, but travellers had always
been a " puzzling" word, though it had always been the
term used in defining a person in search of refreshment.
The best way to meet the difficulty was to close public-
houses altogether within certain hours against all corners.
Since he bad been a magistrate, in 1839, public-houses
bad been closed from three to five, and he had never
heard of any inconvenience occasioned by it.
By Mr. Cobbett:---The alteration with reference, to the
word traveller took place in consequence of an inn-
keeper refusing to take in a person who called him-
self a traveller, and he had learned that Mr. Justice
Coleridge decided that an innkeeper had no right
either to ask a man his name or where he came
from when he knocked at his door during the pro-
hibited hours. He thought the burthen of proof as
to being a traveller should be thrown upon the party
cited, the licensed victualler. He was of opinion that
persons going out of town to a christening or a burial
might be looked on in the light of travellers. If a person
falsely represented himself to be a traveller, and gave a
wrong name and address., if he found the publican was
honestly impressed with the notion that the person was
a traveller, he should not fine him. He did not think
that the fact of these informations being in the hands of
the police rendered them obnoxious to the public or the
publicans, as they had at the present timo to report on
public-houses generally. He was not at all hostile to any
relaxation of the law, but thought it highly desirable
that a proper construction should be given to it. Ho,
had no desire whatever to restrict the comforts of the
people. It was an obnoxious thing for a policeman to
lay an information against a publican for entertaining a
brother and sister but it was no more hardship than
for a police constable to have the power of entering a
publican's house ; though if there were no such restric-
tion as existed a publican might have a great many
brothers and sisters.

Mr. Corrie, magistrate of Clerkenwell, deposed that
ho and his colleague differed from the views taken by
Mr. Hall, and did not, like that hon. gentleman, limit
the application of the term bona fide traveller. He should
be making himself more a legislator than a magistrate if
he did so, and was inclined to consider the person who
went any distance on pleasure as much a bona fide tra-
veller as the one who went OR business. He thought
that excursionists ought to have the opportunity of get-
ting refreshments after 10, on their return to London.
There had been an improvement in the decrease of
drunkenness. He differed in opinion also from Mr.
Hail with regard to the duty of a publican to prove
that his customer was a traveller, and held that
the party who complained should be compelled to prove
the whole case. He found but a very little di-
minution of drunkenness in his district ; and it
might be that the early closing of public houses had
driven drunkenness into other quarters. He differed
from Mr. Hall with regard to the definition of the word
traveller. He looked upon persons going by excursion
trains in the light of travellers. A• man going down to
Brighton on Sundays would, in his estimation, be a tra-
veller ; and he thought that persons so returning to town
after 10 o'clock ought to have the means of getting re-
freshment. He thought there had been a slight decrease
in drunkenness since the passing of the act, but he did
not know that the effect of the act had been to cause
great annoyance. He differed from Mr. Hall with re-
gard to the legal construction to be put on the words
bona fide traveller, and also with reference to onus pro-
bandi resting with the publican or police. The act he
thought was first a general limitation of the rights of the
public, and then the imposition of a penalty. He did not
see the necessity of proof coining from the informer
altogether, but that much would depend on the state-
ment of the traveller. Any increase in charges for drunk-
enness might arise from increase in population. In his
opinion 19-20ths of crime in this country arose from
drunkenness. While conflicting opinions lasted on this
subject the public would no doubt suffer. He (Mr.
Corrie) would put a liberal interpretation on the words
of the act, and thought that any person quitting home in
any way was to be entitled to be considered a traveller,
and be entitled to be entertained at a public-house wher-
ever he went, whether 100 yards from his own house, or
to Brighton, Kensington, or Mile-end.
The Chairman—Here we have the opinion of two emi-
nent magistrates—one holding that nobody is a traveller,
and the other that everybody is a traveller; and do you
not think that the Legislature ought to interfere to de-
cide, for the sake of the public, who really is a bona
fide traveller and who is not ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Corrie—Well, if they can. (Laughter.)
The Chairman—And, in the meantime, the unfortu-
nate public are to be pulled both ways, and a man over-
taken in a thunderstorm is to be refused shelter and re-
freshment.

Mr. Corrie thought the conflicting decisions that had.
taken place had been productive of inconvenience to the
public. He thought there should be an appeal clause
inserted in the act, so as to enable them to get the deci-
sion of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench. A
man proceeding any distance, he thought, was entitled .
to be considered and served as a traveller—he would not
say whether one mile or five ; and a man going from
Mile-end to Kensington and back again would be a tra-
veller, and ought to be served. He did not concur with
Mr. Hall that, to get rid of the difficulty, public-houses
should be closed against all comers-within certain hours.
It would be a very easy way of settling the matter, but
the public would not like it. Closing them, he should
say, between 5 and 6 oclock on Sundays was a great in-
convenience, as that was just the time when persons
going out of town required refreshment. The popula-
tion of Clerkenwell had greatly increased of late years,
but crime and drunkenness had not in proportion. It
would be a great convenience to the public if public-
houses were only closed between 3 and 5 o'clock on
Sundays, and if it were decided that excursionists and
those going from one end of London to the other were
travellers. The magistrates in cases of drunkenness
could only " discharge," and he did not think that the
police were justified in dragging people through the
streets, and in bringing ordinary cases of drunkenness
before them. A night in the lock-up was enough. No
doubt drunkenness was increased by the temptation of
houses being opened. Everything at present rested on
the interpretation to be given to the term "bona fide
traveller."
Mr. Arnold, magistrate of Westminster Police Court,
was next examined, and said it was altogether difficu!!
. to due what was and what WM TM a bona AI ;rit_Tg_'l_