The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-10 00:00:00

importance so eminently deserves. It is
one on which not merely the fate of a Mi-
nistry, but the welfare, honour, aye, and
the stability of the British Empire greatly
depend. It will then be decided whether
the British Constitution is to be sacrificed to a
spurious spirit of Germanism, and whether the
popular representatives are worthy of the confi-
dence reposed in them by their respective con-
stituents--whether, in fact, they insist on legi-
timate Parliamentary control, or the irresponsible
government of an irresponsible Administration,
framed according to the " Coburg" pattern, whose
decisions on all points must be received even
without remonstrance. It is truly a weighty
issue, but we abide the event without fear or
misgiving, hoping and believing that the ancient
British spirit will be revived, and lead to results
befitting the gravity of the crisis.

The window-breaking on Sunday seems to have
given rise to quite an excited state of feeling
among the denizens of Belgrave-square and its
vicinity, and to have an importance attached to it
which it by no means deserves, and which may
be designed, but must not be permitted, to serve
as a pretext for measures of undue severity or
restriction.

The fact is, a few hundred idle and mischievous
boys, finding the Park too quiet for their tastes,
by some sudden impulse—possibly stimulated by
a few designing persons—took their departure and
marched in a direction where plate glass was
plentiful, the police weak, their visit unex-
pected, and stones handy. What wonder
if the flesh was weak and the young
rascals indulged in their riotous humour as they
did ? Had a street engine played on them, or
a few horsewhips been vigorously and resolutely
applied by the idle flunkies and grooms in-doors
—in short, had a dozen men like Admiral SEY-
MOUR been forthcoming, the laughing gamins
would have fled to some other locality where the
police were in force and ready to disperse them.
The greatest wonder of all was the want of man-
liness we have alluded to in the tenants of the
houses assailed ; had they been cool and re-
solute, the police would have arrived before any
mischief had been done.
The attempt to fasten blame on Sir GEORGE
GREY for the apparent absence of the police is,
under all the circumstances, as foolish as it is selfish
and unjust. The Home Secretary had learned
what some people never will by experience what
to do and what to avoid ; and it is not too much
to say that had he shown equal discretion on the
preceding Sunday no disturbance, and probably
no second meeting, would have taken place. This
much is quite certain, that in the exasperated
state of the popular mind the presence of a large
police force on Sunday was in the last degree un-
advisable, and could only have resulted in blood-
shed, and a disturbance and fractures, to which
•
plate-glass breaking were child's play.
Property must unquestionably be protected,
and such outrages as that on Sunday prevented.
There can be no question as to that. But let us
have no mischievous exaggeration, nor over-parade
of a grievance that for Belgravia's sake cannot be
said too little about. Its apparent helplessness
looks ugly. Let Belgravia instead take a home les-
son on the subject. How excited it gets, how
injured it' feels, how revengefully-disposed it is
when its property is injured. Good gentlemen
and sweet ladies, we say, think how a poor man,
whose chief property is himself, his liberty, and
his enjoyment, must feel when silly young aristo-
crats presumptuously interfere with both, and do
their best, howevrzr unintentionally, to make him
miserable. Think of it, and teach it your chil-
dren. Tellch them what you were not taught—
a wholf,some sympathy with their kind—so that
good men shall not have to shudder at a gulf so
awful as your G. DUNDASES of the present, reveal
between you and the people. Do that, and
say as little about glass windows as you can.
The law will protect yeu for the future.

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Alhambra has
taken out 59,558/., principally for Lisbon and Cadiz.
The sreecie from New York to-day amounts to
1.60,0r30. The stock-market was steady but inanimate,
arv!, the prospects of the harvest were still Very favour-
able.

MONSTER SHELLS.—At the Lowmoor Ironworks,
Bradford, there are shells being manufactured for the
Government which measure a yard in diameter and
weigh upwards of a ton.
It is said that the Bank of England have in contem-
plation the opening of a branch at the West-end, and
the Italian Opera House has been named as the probable
locale of the new bank.
REPRESENTATION or THE CITY.—It is rumoured in
the City that Baron Rothschild has assigned over all
future interest in his contract with Government ; so
that, should he he unseated by the Committee, he will
still be qualified as a candidate for re-election.
CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.—The select committee
appointed to inquire into Baron Rothschild's qualification
met again yesterday, and continued the examination of
Mr. Wilson, the Secretary of the Treasury. The pro-
ceedings are still conducted with closed doors. Mr.
Bramwell, Q.C., was in attendance to address the com-
mittee on behalf of the Baron, but the committee, with-
out absolutely -rejecting the learned counsel's application,
decided th,:..t they would not hear him then.
THE !A AILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.—The Royal
Mail Company's steam-ship, Great Western, left this
day with the outward Brazil and River Plate mails, 81
passengers, and a full cargo. Also specie to the amount
of 3,060/., and jewellery, 23,2651.
MR. JUSTICE MAULE.—It has been stated in some of
the literary papers that Sir W. H. Maule, who has just
retired from a judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas,
is the oldest Senior Wrangler of Cambridge now living.
This is a mistake. There are now living three who are
in this respect the seniors of Sir NV. H. Maule, namely,
the Bishop of Ely (Dr. Turton), Lord Chief Baron Pol-
lock, and Mr. Baron Alderson. Dr. Turton was Senior
Wrangler in 1805, Sir F. Pollock in 1806, Sir E. H.
Alderson in 1809, and Sir W. H. Maule in 1810.
THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—The diorama illus-
trating the events of the war was yesterday honoured
with a visit from the Prince of Walesand Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal and Princess Helena, and the Prin-
cess Charlotte of Belgium, attended by the Countess de
Bavay, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, and the Rev. Mr.
Gibbs. Their royal highnesses, on leaving the Gallery,
expressed themselves to Mr. Stocqueler and the pro-
prietors much pleased with the exhibition.
THE CROPS.—The provincial papers report on the
corn and other crops in a most satisfactory strain. The
apprehensions which were at first entertained owing to
the extreme cold weather, protracted as it was to the
end of May, appear to have been dissipated by the warm
and genial weather which set in with the month of June.
Crops of all kinds, it is now stated, will in general be
good, and not much later than usual.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—At a session of the
council, on Saturday last, a donation for the hospital,
out of the residuary estate of the late Charles Konig,
Esq., was received from Dr, Brown, Mr. Konig's acting
executor, and a legacy to the hospital of 5001., by the
late Mrs. Caroline Cuming, was announced. The council
determined to unite the professorships, hitherto distinct,
of Chemistry and Practical Chemistry, and appointed
Dr. Alexander W. Williamson, professor of chemistry,
as successor to Thomas Graham, Esq., now Master of
the Mint. Bunell Lewis, Esq., A.M., Fellow of the
College, professor of Latin in Queen's College, Cork,
and Edward J. Routh, Esq., A. 8., of St. Peter's Col-
lege Cambridge, Senior Wrangler, 1854, were named
to be examiners with the professors of Latin, Greek,
Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy, for the Andrew's
Scholarships, to be awarded in October next.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
at
iwn.aligu7soMne,sCsrsha.rjleomn
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college
Simpson, Army
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 6th
Jamaica • James;
Fer ; Theodore Davis, Clevedon, Bristol ; Frederick
George dlark, Royal TT;ahnthnt.atneerCroaareteoec: eLru,anid;aus,npcaensitsohn,
TCoowrnri-
D hi' • Harry Ernest
suttiodneergHonaell,
thDeernbyecsehsisraery-
ozvtb, Eyemouth, Berwickshire ;
ncashire ,d• William Massey,
Slaith-
waite,Swark-
Huddersfield. The following
examination,lVllliatn
John Lord, u L Y.; Edward Rampage, Army ;
gentlemen, having
were. Dean
members on the 9th inet • admitted
Worsley Renchley • --Messrs. Thomas Cavils
, Army ; George Parsons Wall, Er-
'rislanan county Galway ; Charles Carne Cal d
terrace, Islington ; William George Ridings,'
Meerceamtil
Marine; Samuel Westwood, Birmingham ; Chnarlees
Alfred Hemingway, D
- ewsbury, Yorkshire ; William
Ashwead Pruen, Bristol; Henry Brook, Army ; Fre-
derick William Wilson, Clarendon Villas, Notting-hill ;
William Surrey ;
Parson, Godalming,
Thomas Perkins,
Snaith, Yorkshire ; and James Kune, Clarendon Villas,
Brook .green,