The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-01 00:00:00

£378 2 4
23 4 6

Passengers ••• •••
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...

£4Ol 6 10
CORK AND BANDON P►AILwAT.-(20 miles open)—Return
of Traffic for the week ending June 26, 1852:
Passengers, parcels, &c. £11.3 4 11
Merchandise, cattle, &c. ... 40 13 1

Total

Total ...

£1.53 18 0

Corresponding week in 187 l (10 miles open) :
Paisengers, parcels, &c. 34 8 5
Merchandise, cattle, &c. 0 2 4

Total

34 10 9 •

SI'IR.IT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
TIMES.-This day the Parliament which had been
convened under the auspices of a Free-trade Govern-
ment is dissolved, end the representatives are sent back
to ho constituencies to give an account of their steward-
ship. This great constitutional event has been already
considered in the columns of the Times under many as.
poets. One remains unnoticed. The appeal is to the
country. What is the country to which that appeal is
made ? That is not the least important point for the
consideration of Lord Derby and his colleagues. What
is the real nature and value of the machinery which is
about to be called into play ? Assuming that Lord
Derby and his party could manipulate the present con-
stituencies to their purpose, still, would they have
gained anything by the manoeuvre but the absolute ex-
tinction of all their party hopes ? We say again, what is
that England to which the appeal is made? Set-
ting aside all shadows of self-deceptions, what is the
construction of the Parliamentary map of England
at the present time ? The Census Commissioners of
1851 have, by a return which was published last month
on an address of the House of Commons, enabled
us to form something like an opinion upon the question.
We recommend the paper to the careful consideration of
as many of Lord Derby's friends as do not attempt to
deal with a great political crisis in the spirit of Parlia-
mentary awnts or whippers-in. It is well that the}
should calculate beforehand the strength of their oppe.
nents. The Parliamentary paper before us gives us,
then, a return of the population and number ot,hou,e,
according to the census of 1851, " in every county and
division of a county, and in all cities and boroughs re-
turning Members to Parliament, in Great Britain re-
spectively, with the number of Members returned; also
in towns containing upwards of 2,000 inhabitants, not
returning Members to Parliament! In other words, here
we have a brief abstract of the relations between the
country and the representation, such as enables us
to form a judgment upon the probable action of un-
represented England, if once Its energies are called
into play. Be it understood that we are not
speaking as advocates on One side or the other;
we are simply pointing to facts.
Now hereare few
of those facts irom the return of the a
Commis-
sioners:-Arundel, with
member to Parliament; inhabitants, returns a
2,748 Censusßirkenhead,with 24,175 in-
habitants, is unrepresented; Lyme Regts, with. 3,516. in-
habitants, re:urns, and Barole -
ey, with 20,828 inhabitants,
does not return, a Member; Ashburton with 3,432 in-
habitants, is, and Staleybridee with 20,760 inhabitants,
is not, respresented Parliament. We cannot afford
space to go on with individual instances. Let it be suffi-
cient to say, that in
the return before us we find that,
in addition to
those we have named, there are among
unrepresented towns five containing upwards of 13,000
inhabitants,
less than five with upwards of 11,000 and
i 2 000 •• 12 with le,. then l Leon
and snore than 10,000 ; five with more than
9,000 and less than 10,000 ; six with more
than 8.000 and less than 9,000 ; 13 with less
than 8,000 and more than 7,000; 17 with less than
7,000 and more than 6,000; 26 with more than 5,000
and less than 6,000 inhabitant& It requires three
pages of a large-sized and closely-printed Parliamentary
paper merely to give the names of the boroughs whit
run from 2,000 upwards to 5,000 inhabitants, ant, whdiof
are totally unrepresented in Parliament. At the end
this list will be found a brief abstract of the four great
with
unrepresented metropolitan parishes,-Chelsea, with
56,538; Kensington, with 44,053; Hamner; la t wou be
17,760; Fulham, with 11,886 inhabitants.
few figures we have
simple enough to contrast even the
should show the
had space to extract with others which
condition of represented Enghind. For example,
ghts in
following constituencies act exactly as makeweights
the legislative scale:---
Inhabi- Mein.;
wit,. bell. !ye
Ludlow ..... . ... 5,376 •••• Riding)rk (West
2 Lancaster
Think ......... 519 794779 ... 2
Lymington
Leominster .•6 9 (South) 514,352 ... 2
Calve ......... 1.112,, 12 Lancaster
Marlboro:tab.-. ••• (North) ,316,805 ... 2
Northallertone 4,995 ... 1 Middlesex 283,256 ... 2
Richmond Kent (West) 227,637 ... 2
(Yorkshire) 4,969 2 Devon(South) 217,884 ... 2
Reigate ..... . 4,927 1 Stafford
Weils(City)...
k) 2 (South) 202,597 ... 2
Evesham ...... 4,605 ... 2 Tower Ham-
Dartmouth4,soB .. 1 lets
Harwich 4,451 ...
2 Liverpool 376,065 ... 2
Totnes
Thetford 4,075 4,419 ... 2 Marylebene
4,075 ... 2 Finsbury 323,772 ... 2
Lyme Regis -- 3,516 ... 1 Manchester 316,213 . 2
Ashburton ... 3,43, 1 Lambeth 251345 2
Honiton
Arundel 2,748 ... 1 Birmingham. 232,841 ... 2
The number of representatives stands at 30 on either
side of this Parliamentary balance-sheet. We leave it
to more daring arithmeticians to contrast the numbs rs
of the constituents. Now, at the last moment when he
is about to put his great experiment to the test, we would
remind Lord Derby that he is still to reckon with a
power which that test cannot appreciate. What would
it avail him to secure a momentary success which must
be purchased at no less a cost than that of rousing all
the latent political animosity of the country against him-
self and his party? He is toying with a power which
would defy the control of the most. powerful statesman
, England eyer *tiTf, if owe ealed lute play, Mau why

Inhabi- Mem.
tants. bars.

R-1) B 0 TANIC GARDENS.
The last and the moat numerously-attended show of
t'e Season heldunder the bre, zy, sunny afternoon
t.W yesterday. The rose :111_•lv of Saturday, it will be
v /odd, nos attain their
[ romembered, was postponed. With the best will in the
thelo`wers could beauty or their
luiniianee uisder an inoeffstirlt deluge; and, acertrclingly ,
the tereelvoto.sllo,,ati three, aduitianal•daya of grace,
' earl-were vest'-rday extabited as part and rare, I of the
general exhibi!.iaa. of, 4 , .of flawers, fruits,
seedlings, and. shras„which Winds 'tip the seas gin. The
assemblage ot' company wels,i-m,rrmnr• -Aildthe west
snrtand a little of. the eat
.itati_otlAandon seemed to
have emptied itself upon the award of the Bocanic Gar-
denia and crammed itself in compact. masses under the
shadow of the five stately pavilions. All the ap-
prosches presented those long crawling lines of equi-
pages, following each -ethar inzldettn-file under the
guardianship of those out door ngstitra of the cereme_
vies, the police, whichperhap moreahan any other Lon-
don sight, proves the irtameasity of tnetrorlitan wealth
and luxury; and the highway:, and 'hywaas cot being
able to contain a tithe of the waiting carriages, they
were, V 9 usual on grand occasions, drawn up in aqua-
drPtis and battalions -ort..the.green byre-n.l of tit©, Park.
Iniae ihegitfes-the grounds Were ono elittering crush
of company. As we have hinted, the assemblage was to
some slight degree more mixed than usual. ' Possibly
the multiplicity of floral and fruity features had spread
its attractions far and wide, and other classes than theta, a
who generally haunt the winding ways, the coppita as
and the groves, the conservatories and the tents, a eel
lounge listlessly on the rout seals under the trees • And
round the bands, on the Botanic show days, had n
tered from- far and near, determined to enjoy the ur most
gratification which it was permitted to reap hay n one
clay in the oasis of the Regent's-park. This was a fea-
ture which struck one on a close examination of the
crowds who thronged walks, tents, hot-hotas es, and
green sward. But the general effect was very lorilliant.
With a fine and generous confidence in the skiey
influ-
ences--which fortunately these influences respected—tho
ladies had come in the lightest and most glittering of
summer costume:, and the glitter and the flash, of gaily
tintei silks, laces, scarfs, and gossamery shay vls, were as
varied and as bright as the hues and the contrasts of the
flowers themselves.

The fruit, as usual, formed the main " cynosure of
neighbouring eyes." We never saw a fire r display, nor
one more creditable to our gardeners, or to.our soil.
Under the canvas of the tent the lair was rich and
heavy, as with the very essence of the cloying luxuriant
fruit, and the croed was packed so compactly along the
tempting counter that it rtquired some exertion ere
your visual sense was gratified as well as your olfac-
tory organs. Then, indeed, you had a rich treat. The
grapes were superb, many
trays of them to the full as
large as plums. The purple-hued were in the ascendant,
and their clusters were evidently striking with awe met
amazement the not unfrequent parties of French peOpIN
who had never dreamed or crossing the channel to see
grapes, one berry of which was bigger than any thn re of
any chasselas they had ever experience on Seine, or I ,eire,
or Rhone. The pineapples, too, were brogdign•
and as well-coloured as they were big. The
downy rascals—had contrived to get into nice flee„,y.._
beds
of wadding, from which they tempted all and sundry in
an inhuman manner, and seduced an unknown, quantity
of water from the teeth of all beholders, while the straw_
berries were so mighty in dimensions mitt so richly
pulpy in texture that it would have been almost sacri-
lege to have smothered them, even with the richest of
cream. Next to the fruit were ranged the roses in pots
and bouquets, but only a medium show, The symmetry
of the expanding flower had been checked, and the deli-
cate leaves looked wan, rugged, and rumpled. The hot-
house plants abounded—fine luxurious fellows, who never;
have the fear of east winds or cold rains before thei
eyes, and who put forth a vast,display of bright flowe es
and long names. The heaths too abounded, and '.he
blooin of some of the Cape plants was very eiea
end taking. In the tent mainly appropriated to av ra-
alums, luchsiss, and so forth, the exhibitors bad drop ped
'be botanic and subs;ituted personal appellations fog the
Products of their nurseries. Thus a democratic finehsia
:appeared 8,4 Kossuth, and a saltatory plant of the same
opnies as Esmeralda. There wer, aristocratic lies by
he score growing oat of p )is, and amerg the ',air bevy
was a happy Dr. Smith. The doctor's sitnaticra -was, in-
leed, to be envied. In this tent ferns, those most grace.
fat of woodland plants, abounded. here Wes—.
" Where the lady fern grow strongest?'
and where, if not the `" morning dew," at least many an
admirer of the charming jungle "lingered lon.geia."
Not far removed wse a vast display of pinks and hearts-
eases, the flowers cruelly snipped from their seems cud
laid upon little routed paper saucers, like so matey floral
decapttated heads presented upon charges. Passing to
die next canvas etructuie, the eyes of the raixuatmr of
fancy piargoeiums were gladdened by the rich display;
and making our way to .tne opposite side, a vast range
of troi ice! Wants with eccentric • leaves, expanding
chem,elves all sorts of qtezzical shapes, gradually
settled down into a host of anotic orchids, with their
still; stringy-looking stems and hanging white and yellow
flowers.

A.ll these tents were crammed, and the spectatotial
procession moved but slowly Meng the floral attractions,
being brought to a stand every moment by the adn:iira-
Lion of knowing connoisseurs, who had found out some
particular shade of unwonted colour in a ranunculus,
and were as much delighted thereby as Columbus could
have been when he discovered Arn,q.ica. The hot-
houses and glass houses had each their moving
crowd, and outside hardly a sent was attainable.
The wind, though rough, was not unpleasant. It surged
along the canvas of the tents, and tossed the trees, and
caught up the music of the bands, and carried off trem-
bone parts and big-drum parts gaily into the air; but,
tor all 'hat, the barn& of the Ist Life Guards, under Mr.
Waddell—of the 2:1 Life Guards, conducted by the able
and musician-like baton of Mr. Gratton Cooke—and of
the Horse Guards Blue, under the charge of Mr. J. R.
Tutton, the beat of dance-music writers, produced a bril-
liant, and, at length, a united concert. •
The following is a list of prizes:—
EXTRA GOLD, 201.
To Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Colyer, Esq , Dartford,
for 30 stove and green-house plant.
LARGE GOLD, 151.
To Mr. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing
Park, for 25 orchids.
10/.
To Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing
MEDIUM GOLD,
Park, for 30 stove and green-house p s.
Mr. Green, gardener to Sir L.Antrobus, Bart., for 20
stove and green-house plants.
C. B. Warner, Esq.,
Hod-
deslor.n,WHileiriatsm, sfOrg24rsdoerncebTiryman,
Tooting, for 20
Messrs. Rollisaun, nurseryman, -s t
orchids.
, Mr. Blake, gardener to J. H. Schroder, Esq., strat.
GOLD MEDAL, 71.
ford-green, for 15 orchids.

fur 20 stove and green-house
plants.
nurseryman,
r. Speed,n:rdsraercia:ann', Battersea, for 12 p?largo-
ots.
ener to J. Simpson, EsMr, Robins, forl2q., Thames
MUMS, 111
p.elargwouniutimas., in 8-inch pots.
Mr. Gaines,
ynnaa
Bank, Pimlico,
T, Zr,
To AR. Taylor, gardeLer toJ Coster, Esq., Streat-
rcy, tur 10 stove and grew: house plants.
to H. B. Ksr, Esq., for 15
orchids.
gr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., for 6
orchid?.
Mr. Iveson, gardener tothe Duke of Northumberland,
for 6 orchids.

Mr. Davis, market gardener, Oak-hill, Barnet, for mis-
cellaneous collection of fruit.
Mr. Fleming, gardener, Trentham-hall, for collection
of G pine-apples.
Mr. Iveson, gardener, Sion House, for tropical fruits.