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 t°
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 °f
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 11
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 laboured for
the opening of the British Museum and the National t}, al"
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 frosty 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 snuck
perferred ; and why it should at present be withheld /I:
cannot understand, especially as the privilege of visiting snc
places as Cremorne Gardens and Weston's Retreat is sl°
lowed ty the purchase of a refreshment ticket. The law,
our opinion, that permits one and prevents the other is
only ridiculous, it is positively unfair and unjust.

THE NETTERVILLE, WENTWORTH, AND
WINNING PEERAGES.—NO decision has yet been
given in the claims put forward to these peerages. Thep
all stand adjourned sine die.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF THE LORDS DURO!
THE PARLIAMENTARY :_,EssioN.—When the ordinWo
business of the Session is under consideration, agY's.no
weekly contemporary, eight or nine peers generally sacrl,ll
their afternoon ride to the demands of the country-
Lord Derby or Lord Ellenborough is expected to make an
eloquent speech on some great question of foreign polio 'is
the audience numbers perhaps thirty or forty. What 1,
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hoped that a colonial job may occasion a damaging d.j..%
sion, fifty peers sit with exemplary patience until it is tin"
to dress for dinner.

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Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Superintende-i8;
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THE REVENUE OF IRELAND. —A parliameni/a'
return of the revenue of Ireland for the year e11,,03
ind the 31st December, 1862, exhibits an ordinary ill°74di.
to the revenue of £6,292,972 4s. 4d., which, with the a`log
tion of a few other items, and L 1,181,510 6s. sd. remain l of
on hand at the beginning of the year, gives a b°oo
£7,856,668 4s. 4d. As against this the expenditure
a tatal of £6,361,406 9s, 11d. The largest excise disoirj,
collections, as may readily be imagined, come from pa too
amounting to £688,841 Ss. 4id., the port of Dublin orta
coming in for the lion's ehare of £1,015,440. In the elYoso
the predilection of the English for Irish spirits is logo
from the fact that, while Ireland retains 3,977,024 Critaia
for her own consumption, she exports to Gre4t
alone 1037,734 gallons, or nearly a third of that qualliiop
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requium there is a stanza—the " Tuba mirum aParttl'ned
sonum"—with an accompaniment of eighteen clatuo,
to almost every note in the chromatic scale.

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