The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.

On Sunday last the attractions of the palace at Syden-
ham were opened to "the shareholders and their friends,"
and never on any occasion has a more numerous or de-
lighted company assembled within the fairy domain of the
Crystal Palace Company. Through the instrumentality
of the National Sunday League, Crystal Palace Share
Clubs have been formed, and thus the industrious working
man is enabled to become the proprietor of one or more
shares, entitling him to admission on all occasions
not excepting Sundays. If anything were wanting to
show that the working thousands of the metropolis can and
do conduct themselves in the most orderly manner when
collected together in immense numbers, the assembly of
Sunday last settled the point moat satisfactorily, and it is
only to be regretted that the privilege of visiting the Palace
on that particular day is not given to them without the
restrictions that now exist. The day has happily gone by
when the public-house was the only attraction for the pent-
up artisan of the metropolis, But why he should be pre-
vented visiting the Crystal Palace on Sunday, unless he be
a "shareholder," we have never been able to understand•
We are amongst those who have for some time labours d for
the opening of the British Museum and the National Gal-
lery, every day throughout the year, and we feel certain the
time is not remote when such an arrangement will
came into operation, because the great objection.
that has been raised to such a step, viz., the
injury that might arise to the valuable collection from an
unguarded crowd, has been entirely disposed of. Great as
that boon would be to the working classes, we candidly
confess we think the facility of visiting the Crystal Palate
on Sunday would certainly by a very great number be much
perferred ; and why it should at present be withheld we
cannot understand, especially as the privilege of visiting such.
places as Cremorne Gardens and Weston's Retreat is al-
lowed by the purchase of a refreshment ticket. The law, in
our opinion, that permits one and prevents the other is not
only ridiculous, it is positively unfair and unjust.

THE NETTERVILLE, WENTWORTH, AND KIL-
WINNING PEERAGES.—No decision has yet been
given in the claims put forward to these peerages. They
all stand adjourned sine die,

AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF THE
.LORDS DURTNG
THE PARLIAMENTARY OESSION,—When the ordinary
business of the Session is under consideration, says a
weekly contemporary, eight or nine peers generally sacriffee
their afternoon ride to the demands of the country. Af
Lord Derby or Lord Ellenborough is expected to make an
eloquent speech on some great question of foreign policy
the audience numbers perhaps thirty or forty. When it is,
hoped that a colonial job may occasion a damaging divi-
sion, fifty peers sit with exemplary patience until it is time
to dress for Ginner.

METROPOLITAN POLICE (GUILDHALL ENTER-
TAINMENT).—A parliamentary return has been
made, upon the motion of Sir De Lacy Evans, of the num-
ber of the Metropolitan police employed within the City to
assist the police of London in maintaining order on the
recent occasion of the entertainment at the Guildhall to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Superintendents,
10 ; inspectors, 20 ; sergeants, 74 ; constables, 786 ; in plain
clothes, 34; mounted, 56—total, 980.
TIIE REVENUE OF IRELAND.—A parliamentary
return or the revenue of Ireland for the year end-
ind the 31st December, 1862, exhibits an ordinary income
to the revenue of £6,292,972 4s. 4d., which, with the addi-
tion of a few other items, and £1,181,510 6s. sd. remaining
on hand at the beginning of the year, gives a total of
£7,856,668 45. 4d. As against this the expenditure shows
a tatat of £6,361,403 Os. Ild. The largest excise district
collections, as may readily be imagined, come from Dublin,
amounting to £688,841 Ss. 41d., the port of Dublin also
coming in for the liun's share of £1,015,440, In the exports
the predilection of the English for Irish spirits is shown
from the fact that, while Ireland retains 3,977,024 gallons
for her own consumption, she exports to Great Britain
alone 1,037,734 gallons, or nearly a third of that quantity.

MUSICAL LEGERDEMAIN.—in HeAcr Belioz'S
requium there i a stauzi—the " Tuba mirum spargens
sonum”—with an accompaniment of eighteen drums, tuned
to alroost every note in the chromatic scale,

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