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 if, the most orderly manner w ben
collected together in immense numbers, the assembly of
Sunda) last settled the point moat satisfactorily, and it i
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 labourt 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
come 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 Palace
on Sunday would certainly by a very great number be much
perferred ; and wby it should at present Le withheld we
cannot understand, especially as the privilege 0,4 visiting suck
places as Cremorne Gardens and Weston's Iletreat is al..
lowed ty 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 unjuitt.

THE NETTERVILLE, WENTWORTH, AN. D KM-
WINNING PEERAGES.—No decision has y. et been
given in the claims put forward to these peerages . They
all stand adjourned sine die.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF THE LORDS D.URING
THE PARLIAMENTARY oESSION,—When the ord'inary
business of the Session is under consideration, mys a
weekly contemporary, eight or nine peers generally sa critic('
their afternoon ride to the demands of the country.. If
Lord Derby or Lord Ellenborough is expected to makt) 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 is is t Una
to dress for dinner.

METROPOLITAN POLICE (GUILDHALL ENTER-
TAINMENT).—A parliamentary return has been
made, upon the motion of Sir De Lacy Evaas, of the nu tu-
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.
THE REVENUE OF IRELAND.—A parliamentary
return of the revenue of Ireland for the year end-
ind the 31st December, 1862, exhibits an ordinary income
to the revenue of £6,'492,972 4s. 4d., which, with the addi-
tion of a few other items, and £1,181,510 6s. Od. remaining
on hand at the beginning of the year, gives a total of
£7,856,668 4s. 4d. As against this the expenditure shows
a tatal of £6,361,406 9s. lld. The largest excise district
collections, as may readily be imagined, come from Dublin,
amounting to £688,84155. 4d., the port of Dublin also
coating in for the lion'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 3,97744 gallons
for her own consumption, she exports to Great Britain
alone 1,037,734 gallons, or nearly &third of that quantity.
MUSICAL LEGERDCMAIN.—In Hector BelioZ
requium there a stanza—the " Tuba mirum spargenS
sorium"—with an accompaniment of eighteen drums, tuned
to altileet every note in the chromatic scale,