The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

1852,

k.-‘'PirtiT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
I TlMES:—Yesterds,y commenced the sscond era in
the ever-=!lnt history of the Great Exhibition of All
idettshae- Beneath 3 cletadess sky, amid the enthusias-
tic applause of a Large and distinguished audience, was
raise:;the first eceeme ot a structure which, if it at all
correspond in fidelity,'
of execution to the conception of
its founder, may challenge cerrearissn with anything in
the world fee the majesty and beauty of its site, and
!no grace, lightness, variety, and utility o! its fabric. It
is related in the touching narretive of the Jewish capti-
vity that those among
the people who remembered the
glory of the first
, wept when they sew the inferio-
ritytem of the second, but in this instance there is no reacon
to sear that the most devoted admirer of the Crystal Pe-
lace of 1851 will have cnuse to. 'Sigh over the dighrence
between it Bed the Cry stal Palace of 1853. Loftier in
design, more varied in outline, with infinitely more of
trehttectunal beauty and pretension, it will form a land-
mark to which every e will instinctively turn in one
of the fairest distiicts in England, and, no longer
fenced in by the streets and- squares f
a mighty city,
it will occupy 03 prominent and conspicuous a
pm idols
in therprospect as it is destined to do in the history
of London,
Lei 'nil( stand forth prom the horizon of the
:
' mighty city an object 'for ever recalling-, amid the hem
and bustle of every day life, the existence of talthu
higher than those of the multiplication or the interest;
table, and of tastes and 'enjoyments which do not require
' welly for their gratification. Unlike its predecessor,
the creation of a few months, and the wonder of a few
more, the mission of the new Crystal Palace purports to
be not of an age, but for all time. It is not a toy to be
used for a tingle summer and then thrown aside, but a
permanent addition to the means of amusement and in-
struction possessed by England and the world. A fair
constantly open, a bersar of new and ever varying at-
tractions, tin exhibition of all that is curious in art
and beautiful in nature, the natural receptacle of every
COW
invention, the natural laboratory for the construc-
tive intellect of the country—such a building under-
take's to dittcharge functions, of which the brief and glo-
rious vision of the former exhibition may enable as to
conception
some guess, but surely not a complete or adequate
nundcetpntitehnk ni
Itth that there,Pieas for to
hvuinedwr e ands ofo years old
ca t h
same worship has been offered dthe roof; but
,e d rt
the
l,
e
• un er same
the destinies of '
this
edifice are, in one respect, even
more striking, for it is destined to e obhld an to con-
tain the results of the gradual • improvement of science,
and to be the first witness of every victory which man
wins from the hidden and reluctant
laws of nature.
How puny and infantine are the triumphs we have
pared with those that lie before us,
and on what spot of earth can, d
than to be the appointed treasur
which e-house of the spoils
the human intellect shall bear
its victories in the field of knowledge? off as trophies of
does the new Crystal Palace differ But not only
the old one, the principle of its permanence from
rectly opposite, and, as we think, ofordation is of a di-
character. The old Crystal Palace was an offering by
the rich and the enlightened, attaining
of a most brilliant nature, but foundedfinancial result's
views than those of profit.' with other
experiment on the taste and feeling of the was a great
na-
tion, the credit of which belonged
subscribers and projectors. The second Crystal Palace
is a purely commercial speculation, and, in our opinion
on that account, so much the better. It is with some ire.:
patience that we hear feeble and abortive attempts to
divest it of this its real and undoubted character, and to
persuade the public that it is to be carried on With a
view to higher and more disinterested motives than
usually actuate the directors and shareholders of a joint.
stock company. We rejoice, on the other hand, that
there is sufficient evidence of a refined and elegant taste
among the working-classes, of a love of beauty and e
search for knowledge to justify a commercial association
in exhausting every device which art and skill can sug-
gest to gratify these tastes and propensities. Other cities
of Europe are rich in palaces, raised by hard earnings
extorted from the hands of a starving people. In London
alone shall the people build a palace for themselves, not
by compulsory tribute, but by free offerings, cot to gra-
tify the caprice of a tyrant, but to obtain an honour-
able profit for money expended in promoting the im-
provement of mankind. It is a mistake to supeese that
commorciai associations can only be employed in grati-
fying low and material wants. This will undeubtedly
be the case so long as the people have no higher or
nobler craving to gratify, but in proportion as they be-
eome elevated .by education and enlightenment, the one
jects of such associations will rise also, and we shall find
a joint-stock company just as powerful an instrument in
the cultivation of tastes, and the promotion of science,
when once the masses ha.vo.come to desire these things,
as in whirling us over the surface of the earth, or tear-
ing our path through the waves of the sea. The
commercial principle supersedes the necessity
of en Augustan age ; literature needs no patron
but the public; and philanthropy has nothing to ask from
the great so long as she can show an unexceptionable
balance-sheet. Probably the least felicitous part of the
proceedings of yesterday was the pompous enumeration
of the great men who honoured the undertaking by
their patronage. We confess that if its success de-
pended! on the smiles of the great instead of the favour
of the little, we should look forward to it with leas
confidence. The real charm of the undertaking is,
that it is founded on a principle which dispenses with
such things, and they but little know of what spirit
they are of who seek to invest so noble a scheme
with additional attractions, by the recital of
an empty catalogue of distinguished names.
We are happy in the belief that the danger
which menaced this excellent undertaking from
the misdirected z eel of men who will not
remember that the Sabbath was made for man and
not man for the Sabbath, has passed away. To shut
up the building and park on Sunday afternoon would be
to the working classes of London an entire exclusion
from the benefit intended; and must almost, of necessity,
be fatal to the scheme itself. The experiment is ydt to
be tried whether, by offering the working man innocent
and wholesome enjoyment, be may not be induced to
spend in the work of self-improvement some of those
few hours in which cessation from toil leaves him to feel
the full weight of unoccupied existence. Will those
who would shut the doors of the Crystal Palace on
Sunday provide the poor with any entertainment equally
innocent and equally attractive? If the poor man is to
be called upon, in the name of religion, to sacrifice the
afternoon of his weekly holiday, let es ba quite sure
that it is not in the interest Of the tea-garden or the
n
public-house that concession is demanded. Idr
but think that the contemplation of a gloriouslandscape
and of nil the Wonders ot creation which industry and
research can collect under a single roof, would be irdu.
ences More elevating and chastening than
afternoon of
which are likely to preside over the. Sunday any others
the weary artisan.

NAVAL. 1N TELLIGENCE. I
His Grace the Dako of Northumberland leaves White-
hell' to-day for Osborne-, to accompany her Majesty in
First Lord embarks in the Admiralty ht te Black
the royal ends° to-morrow. The Nobleyac arid
hGallant
Engle.
THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.—The Channel squadron,
under the command of Rear-Admiral Corry, consisting
of Prince Regent, 90 guns, 820 men, Captain Hutton;
Rodney, 92 guns, 820 men, Captain Graham, C. 8.;
Avithusc, '5O guns, 500 into, Cap twin Symonds; Lean-
der, 50 guns, 500 men, Captain King; arrived in Tor-
bay, from Q.leenseown, on Wednesday, and having re-
ceived dispatchs, put to sea again for an exercising
cruise for ten days, when the squadron will most likely
return to Torbay.
The Comecarlder-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir G. F.
Seymour, C. 8., G.C.H., in his flag-ship Cumberland, 70,
Captuin Seymour, left Hulifax for Newfoundland on the
16Ln of July.
The Admiralty have granted the boon to those la-
bourers of the dockyards who have been reduced from
sawyers of two shillings and sixpence per day im future,
instead of two shillings as at present.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAL—Tiger, 16, steam-frigate
Captain H. W. Giffard, is at Spithead, and will
berdy,
for sea on Saturday, when his crew return from leave c
pc,hanCgaeptainKingc Kingdoms,
absence. The Tiger is a goodse..x.
the engineers by the 21st,
for the Dragon,
which ship is very defective.
Simoom iron screw troop- 1,;
a week after that date.
will be out of the hands of
and will be ready for tea within
Twenty first-class boys are added to her books as tu-
p
Furious are the only steamers belonging to
e im
Sidonum e r
andn' e s .
the service at this port of the first class.
yacht, Acting
The Elfin royal dispatch
Master-Com-
mander Balliston, embark a
Hohenlohe at °Aherne
-e his Serene Highness Prince
tee the dockyard, B,,c' andß
arrival of brought him to this port to
and brought his Serene Highness
Prescott, on the theaerE-A,lficlhm,iprealt
off Superintendenti
n his
barge'
King's•stairs. ashore, landing !!L
_u_'.l
After conducting him over the doeup
the Admiral re•embarked his Highness in his barge, and
conveyed him on board the Port-Admiral's ship VII)2r10:
and aiierwards to his own flag-ship the NePrd,, 1 the
After inspecting these ships the Prince reit° siege for
dockyard, and
proceeded in the Admiral ,
and
the Portsmouth
South-Coast Railway, en route to to
wiander Woolrige,
The Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Comm
dy.
has been paid wages to six monthander Le Febose, ar-
The Dasher steam-vessel, Comm
Nautilus, 6, apprenticeo
lands to be paid wages.
rivDedEvtoo-NdpayoßfTrom, the Channre.lis
WEEaysontoiling, is ordered to proceed
tender, Lieut.-Corn
to Dartmouth, to receive
h; Captain Macdougall, is
here
Hogue, 60, SCTOW-8...P,
D'largiergoys for the navy.
i Captain Baer is • '
es, watt.
Sanspariel, 81,
to complete. She
still,
' for machinery, wants 150 blue
• Houston, will go out
jinacgkewtsafting_ord2esrs.srceowpt.atihnp\v,
Trincornsbe, .
'I) 2 ! '
ocfunh::::::::47.ltUßSDAY•—hi
EuEEß'"'s' 0. Jeunl:,:93:nl,l3:tir'r broil taken oturtmor dhoitil,
the 14th inst.,
and will be ready for tea ab,,,ut the
24:1i last.
core Bittern, 12, will be ready to co of d
ou
e out c.d.; on
the 13 :I it.si.
nocztio, 22, steam guard-ship' is completin the '
dog et her giro port;, ai,d . g fit.
the aiterc..con of her steer-
itirlcchti.l.

'Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton, iii, leave to-1
morrow fo; Yorecnouth,. to complac her et-er... She l!as twenty vseunieg. Captain llaniilton, wa are giAd
to hest, is in inuoh better health.
CIIATHAMI, THURSDAY. C2plttill-StipCrilatELClalt
Mahar; G. 13., has been on leave !absence.
Lle:thder, 44, Commodore Talbot, will ho may for
Bea by the 4th of September. She hz.s many vacancies
for petty officers and seamen, but thc-3, lac daily corning
in to join.
W ooLvacs, TlillßSDAY.—Rosittance troop-ship, Mas-
tow loadirl Deptford, tteor'eCorvernanyedocrarpnarnaide3shoTPoyttl Artil:ery to Gibraltar
and Malta,

Tyne store-ship, Master-Commander WelEngtOn, is
loading with ctc)res at Deptford, for Ascension and Ho.
She will be ready for sea by the 15th.
Direr, 6, ateam•sloop, will he taken out of cock thi
day, when the Onyx Dover mail etcaaa-pseket will b
taken in eat zt completed by Saturday.
Trident steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commencer Harvey,
will be completed by the 28th inst. She wants a dozen
blue -jackets to complete her crew.
APPOINTMENT.
Master Richard Browne (1831), recenCy serving in the
Sup.%-b, 80,. to the Saturn at Pembroke for service in the
111c2igrefve.
o Greenock, 10, iron screw stram-frigate, fitted
with -engines of 556-horse power, by Messrs. Rennie,
bal.kr steam, up en Monday last in the inner basin
herstO try her crgineys and screw-propeller, aLd tat y
worked very satisfactorily.

ROYAL MARINES.
_
Culonel Robert Mercer, Commandant of the Woolwich
division, has fourteen days' leave of absence.
LieUtenent-Colonet M‘Adam,_Captain Congden, Ca
Min Penrose, Lieutenant and Quartermaster Dyer,
Lientcnant Dangle', and Lieutenant Barrington have
each of Vane two months' leave of absence, which will
ex
Octtohbiesr,cloBrpss is much required, as
2.
there are so many men serving afloat that the duty is
hcavy for those at head-quarter stations. When the re-
Ap:rneti oznl theen
ta 3l
ti °of
a
lief at Deptford took place last week, a detachment of
the Royal Artillery had to do duty at Woolwich Dock-
yard,

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The health of London in the week ending Saturday,
31st July, has been disturbed by the prevalence of
summer cholera and diarrheas, yet the deaths have
been 1;040, or 118 below the weekly average, which
in the previous ten years was, when corrected for in-
crease of population, 1,158. 532 males and 508 fe-
males died in the . week; the mortality bore most
heavily on early life ; for of 1,040 who died, 586
were children under 15 years of age, 289 were in the
middle stage of life extending from 15 to 60, and 165
were of the age of 60 and upwards. A woman at-
tained the advanced age of 96. One death in seven
occurred in a public institution : namely, 92 in work-
houses, 39 in hospitals, 6 in lunatic asylums, 1. in
prison, Bin Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals. The
districts of Chelsea and Greenwich, as well as Ken-
sington and Wandsworth, experienced more than the
usual mortality.
Duriug the week 18 deaths are assigned to small-pox;
2 cases are recorded as having occurred after vaccina-
tion. Fifteen children were left unprotected by their
parents, and died the victims of this negligence; 54
children died of scarlatina, which is prevalent; 34 per-
sons of typhus; 145 of consumption; 45 children of
convulsions; 31 persons (all, except two, adults) of di-
sease of the _heart; 17, of bronchitis; 32 of pneumonia;
13 of enteritis;, 14 of disease of the liver; and 25 of
violence.
Diarrhoea was the reigning disease; it wits fatal to 110
children, 7 adults, and 8 persons of advanced age. It
often approached ire the severity of its symptoms to
suTmhmeefrolclhoowlienrga,aoret
twheh_ricehtulrOnscohlldren, 4 adults, and:
persons ever the age of 60 died. Here, as in epidemic
cholera, early and prompt medical
a throughout
over
ver the
a or. .unglish" cholerat,trhewea
registered in the week. conformity with a suggestion
ll
no means tit;
s 6 ei is
ocf
oftenc filled
h oullesorerad.
in the cholera ie ort
ich
although the disease prevails
Ifv-ori,d,,Eand:ties`s:bummer" has been substituted
in the medical Camille
confined to Eng-
land:—
At 23, lianetoder-street,Y Paddington, on
land:— a
7 months, "summer cholera (7 days).
cleaner,
At 18, Sussex-t:quare, St. John, Paddington;
28th July, tiao son of a locomotive engine
on 27th
aged
July, the widow of a-servant. agd 46 years, " summer
chains, suppressed nrticaria."
At 15, l'embroke-cottages, West Islington 27
, -• t-
h on ,
July, the widow of a currier, aged 77 years,• summer
cholera (5 days)."
At High-bill Ferry, Upper Clepton, on 2b th July, the
Isola bf a braid maseo.,,coteee, aged 20 months "diarri cis
(8 days), cholera (6 dap')."
At 28, St. Bartholomew-place, liertford-road, Hack_
noy, on 29th July, the on of a warehouseman, aged 9
years; "cholera iniantum (10 days)." On the follow-
ing day, the 30tb, a brother of the above, aged 2 years,
"cholera infantum (10 days)." The informant states
that his house is not well drained, and that the smell
arising from the cesspool has lately increased.
At 15, Reform-place, Whitecross-street, St. Luke, on
24th July, a labourer, aged 47 years, "summer cholera
(7 days)."
At 11, Upper Clifton-street, Shoreditch, on 25th July,
a carpenter, aged 53 years, "cholera (3 days)."
At 58, Nicholas-street, Heaton Old Town, Shore-
ditch, on 25th July, the daughter of a painter, aged 3
months, " cholera infantum (2 days)."
At 22, Marman-street, St. George-in-the-East, on 27th
July, a fruit vender, eged 60 years, " summer cholera
(36 hours); general decay."
At 22, Brook-street, Ratcliff, on 23d July, a labourer
aged 33 years, " cholera spasmodica (3 days)."
At 59, Farmer-street, Shedwell, on 24th July, the
daughter of a mariner, aged 10 months, "cholera in-
funtum (48 hours)."
At 210, Blackfriars-road, on 28th July, the daughter
of a carpenter, aged 6 months, "summer cholera (24
hours."
At 5, Fair-street, St. Olave, Southwark, on 30th July,
the son of.a leather-dresser, aged 11 years, "malignant
cholera (15 hours)." Mr. Benst(A, the registrar of St.
John, tub-district, observes—" This is the first case of
malignant cholera in my district during this season, but
it has occurred in a street in which the cholera most
fearfully
.raged in 1849; the first and last cases of
cholera (in my district) of that year took place in this
street. The beadle informs me that the inhabitants
complain bitterly of the landlord's neglect in not attend- •
jug to the cesspools of the house, 5, Fair-street, and I
can certify to the tenants making the same complaint in
1849 in this and in other !acmes in the same street,
where oases of cholera occurred."
At 2, Pitt-street, Kent-road, Southwark, on 29th July,
the son of a lightermau, aged 10 months, "summer
cholera (48 hours)."
At 13, East-street, Charlton, Lewisham, on 27th July,
the son of a labourer, aged 4 months, " summer cholera
(5 days)." The registrar, Mr. Burnett, states that
crowned district
irndmi sthathrreki c. t
Thames-
marshes,
msmaanly
w
ever
ywkai!nedr rises"o f li
hoaxes
se r cecawosoleyss
dbouecriclautt.rlryeTdbheiFo ti
h ci
localitygrto w.
mthqienshtohuesrees,
whileth marsh
in
nuitd eabceomairnsatainodn
ofre
is collected in pools at the ends of till small gardens.
' Hitherto, however, comparatively few deaths
have hap-
pened here. If this continuo, it Rill be a fact strangely
at variance with the generally received
unhealthiness of such districts."
In the church and sub-district f
Winn. prevails. Mr. Brine, the o 'lllllll7greell scar-
!eggstrar, adds ;I am
ref:plena d by the inhabitants tosae that there are no
sewers in Bethnal-green-road
from Ceurch-row to the
end, no drains from the houses, right and lett, leading to
the sign of the Salmon any
filth left in the yard Bali. At stripe-boiler's the e
creates a great ' which
a most offensiveve
stench
arises. nuisance, from
At 11, Catherine-wheel IleY he daugh-
ter of a labourer, egad i Bishopsgate,
t 25th of
" fever (22 days),cel year?, died on
Mr.Ju y
l-spencer,
the registrar of the i'rrtub-district
'(7of clays)."
St. Botolph, has 1119
the above following note onoveeis
~The house is cio,e
and over-crowd, d ; in the room where this child died
were the father and mother and four other ebildraennci
with two other families, consisting of the parentshe house
two children each and occasionally lodger
and this day
has been condemned for some time Paste
er ens, werey
the occupants, altogether amounting to 74 persons,
in the
expelled by the police. There are eight
house."

---------,..„,,, „if„ zro 'nix PAST WEEK.
SuNDAY.—The s
'll the even 5
STATE OF THE WkyEAWT:
1 't lh 15m. rain to the depth
clear and cloudy ti .„a a •
rain
n fell' "i* hour, and at about6h.
fall in a nr,--„h f ii in a
WEAVER -stnirldl
olvOehr.cAa.ssit .a,t anlitgehrntateAlyt
cina .
of 0.5 in.
.--- e t damage was done in many
to the depth of oner rin.
Great
Electricity--Positive, and
1 Ih. A.. 31.
thund(? .11,_ the rain.
sparks and galvanic
f Greenwich
..,
with strong tension;
rter of an hour, the latter
at times negative, shown- for the most part covered with
currents were The fkY was l t tus and cirrostratus
moNDAT,'"" t the day; cumu () ra , . . p
..
throughou
: fell during the evening. Electricity— osi.. cloud
of ra.n --
Showers
ion weak during the afternoon.
five, and tens
AT be sky was covered with cloud during the
T, and
and clear at niglv,; ; cirrocumulus and
morning Electricity—Positive, and tension weak during
parts 0 oarter of an
cirrostatus.
the afternoon.
VVEDNE's DAY.—The sky was mostly clear during the
n 'rig, and covered with cloud during the remainder of the
morning,
cirrocumulus and cirrostratus. Electricity—Positive,
and tension moderate during the afternoon and evening.
TWIRSDAY.—Three- fourths of the sky were covered with
cloud during the morning, and the amount of cloud was
variable during the remainder of the day. Electricity—
Positive, and tension strong during the afternoon.
FRIDAY.—The greater portion of the sky was covered
with cloud till lh. P.M., and generally clear afterwards;
cumulostratus and cirrostratus. Electricity positive, and
tension strong throughout the day.
SATURDAY._The sky was clear during the morning, and
generally covered with cloud during the remainder of the
clay; cirrocumulus and cirrostratus. Electricity—Positive,
and tension variable throughout the day.,
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. AM. was 66.7° ; and the mean
reading at 9h. P.M. was 63.8° • the mean readings at th!
Royal Observatory for the same times were 67.3 e and 61.7' respectively.
9'74 in'
The reading of the barometer decreased from 2.
„ on the
i at the beginning of the week to 29.53 in. by 91,-„--inm. endh.
26th;
increased, with slight exceptions, to 29•919
AM. on the 31st; and decreased to 29.53 in• by
the of
1 the week.

Sur RE 7 ----
--...,......_ .7
Y .400LCGICAL GARDESS.
—Yesterday and
on Wednesdayf these gardens were absolutely crowded by
thousands o persons connected with the Temperance
num-
ber cf 3 oung person',
Leagues There were, in addition to the many amusements
apparently the pupils of schools sap.
or the place, a bazaar and fancy feir, which, in the evening,
were illuminated with a brilliant display of lamps. A
ported by the Lea,,,rue, arrived at an ei,,rly hour on both days,
,a ft-,
:and made a long holiday in the grounos.
ENLARGEMENT cr THE Corti LIARKET.—This
building is rapidly advturcing tow:;r(ls completion, and will, ..c.;.•
w week". 'The floor '".-4
is arphalte. The dome will_be of plate-gla,s,
be open for businebs in the
supported by
i twelve massive stone column,, and present a neat and elegant
oppearanee, and the improvements
business of the market. The improvements will cost W-
'will
' ON/ and 6,000/.
twcen 5,
I • greatly facilitate the
' TIM SCIWOLDIASTER NOT TLT AT ilOME.—The
~ public beilman" of an ancient burgh (not one hundred
miles from Selkirk) lately electrified the worthy lieges with
the following "fire and faggot"
1 '3l dignity -...—,, rr • •
due °Jai— • .his is to give notice, that any per-
son wanting kindling, may ha'e it . bundle, by
i at sixpence a
intimation, proclaimed with
applying to me, Or at 00r house!"