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

AUGUST 6, 1852.

EVEN IN(,-,

Alfred ComteC° Mel'orr..Em
t.lati.t,, ands perhapsDlOßSA Y.
eouftshideseethweh
( l SCOTTISH NATIONAL FETE.
y died at Paris on Tuesday
eight thousandpoefascn.Pany'
the assemblage
Thi3 grand national fête was held yesteria• in Lord
•ad attached friends to mourn his loss. The solution
who had no' than of ruined fortunes and IL jlaed's park, and the weather was' on the presentj :C-
-t uogrilea hopes ever left so large a number of admiring ce.a n most propitious. The stands were well filled, and
sir gularly kind,,
of this social , phenomenon is that his disposition was taken ac ets to view. the entertainment
altheugh some
of
sYmpatbi ' and
theselfishness of the man of the
world clung to him as
the inevitableresult of his
barrier, must'' . illi Lave includingana ounttehde vast
tse number.,en -o
The company were rather lets in coming, but the
mustered welt l
course of life, he never at last and appeared greatly' pleased with
contracted the hardness and the insensibilit ,entertainments which commenced about half past
his of that character. His time, his influ- one
o,et
once,judgment, and his purse (so long as Then came)c with a highland reel, very spiritedly deuced.
there was firm
of those" anything in it) were always at the service a Ilighland:rputtinge,d" with a 191 b. iron ball, in which
D. Kennedy, achieved an easy
who wanted them ; and the foolish and wrong triumph, hurling the
actions fe It stems It
greamtasaforty-three feet through the
or spiritedom which he saved hundreds by timely aid air.that the custom of using a
remonstrance, will form ample set-off stone in putting should be pity
to those
much deputed from. The lock of
fear with only too much reason, in better; and
we may also observe that
hove been im t the North the game "
He imp, ed to himself. down hill, as wits is always played against and not
was born Me ease .yesterday. To the putting
,towards the commencement of 1795.
His lather succeeded eded tome really admirable Cumberland
wrestling,
' h d . •
guts e soldier of tha
was General Co , d'O y a distin-
m‘a
rsa
,by two men named Williamson and •
empire,Corns
from whom, however, other round the be,'they Hinds. Grasping each
we believe h y hugged I -e inherited ' aged and strained with
little beyond his gallant spirit; finely balanced power••' '
his handsome'
person,his . and skill and in • , their struggles
and name. His only sister, for the mastery it was
the Duchess de ` mofost curious to observe how
young, into
one oreasily one dexterous mov Strength availed, and how
we need' ha the historic French families, and
. ?merit won the victory Wil-
rdly add, is 1 and Harmsen was a slightly built man Compared with .hi o accomplished women •
in France. Ha would, conse- fairly eevertheless, throwings h op-
accomplished
have wanted over his . back in altrue Cumberland &tyln, and • •ira,
birth or co • .
:meal() hardly any advantage which
n could him his falls with a neatness and •
bestow, bad his life been One may easily ilea ha ease truly surprising.
ruing
spent in his native co seen in the centre of g e how effective this sport w
military profession bestow,
and had he followed the
To fine
graisy slope, with nothing"'
tined. •
Unhappily
for him, and fo wassomorni
gthners ywhose English Morris Dance
fate, in th • ender ladies wed gentle-
despite, own des i placed
p-tes was inextricably blended men, who were
with his, he ceased to reside in xFrance before his more. The admirable manner the. direction of Mr. Flex-
career ,had performed elicited universal applause.ia which this dance was
well commenced, and he left the army
under circumstancesfollowed by singlestick crier, The mortis dance
has
which,
as been made for the , after every allowance
and Newton, the guardsmen,practice, in which Jackson
lion to which
he _fielded, peculiar nature of the tempts-
th ,elves• and then came especially distinguished
the "Sword Dance," a
cast a temporaryl must beadmitted to ba • eill' ' •
cloud upon his name. bane Highland terpsichorean effort, wherein a very elastic,
It is through no less a- n
that Count D'Orsay's namperson than Lord Byron pies of pedipulation. A sack raco followed prodi
with the notabilities of
his
0. became first associated known, rather vutnlguane, but most amusing per To ram awileclel ,
IfBl9 or 1820, the Count hadgea,
'd It seems that, in in whhiecahnsmedoruegooddel odf?vaern Iciampetitors joined, and
laughter. Scarcely
hissombseemonth's duration, andl badi akvisit to Londono_
had
dic
this
attraction terminated
Baron
and_ pt a journal f
April, athletes in full flesh coloured circus cos two French
° impressions there. In.appeared
1823, ,ron became acquainted,
at Genoa, with Lord They certainly
and Lady Blessington, with looked rather thinly clad for the .*
whom D'Orsay was,e ymnal. d- , suntitlon, but they
then travelling, and it wo tormeu many g sic pro igies with a finished ease
log letter that the journ , pp ear from the follow-
well entitling
them to the applause which the receiv d
. , at Was then submitted to the
To them succeeded a revival of some of the ancient e .
noble poet s persual ;---
" I return the Count * 4,, vairic games connected with the tournament•butchi.
extraordinary production and Journal, which is a very Don Quixote in the latter days of knight errantry wenast
otrratkhiaion all that regards high lifenifn aE most melancholy forth on his travels sorrily' mounted on Roxinante, and
England. I know, comically Equipped in a helinq made from a barber's
clerics
personally, most of the
which he describes a d personages and so- basin—so the knights of Holland. park wore fencing
marks, have the sensation f
.after reading his re- h
veldts tor beau pieces and bestrode steeds that -
fresh on Sundays inspiring minglewe
them yesterday. I upon me as if I had seen have certainly seen
would, however, plead in behalfof and insecurity in the hearts 'd
some few exceptions, feelings of pride
.. .
ring of their
which I will me •
The most •ntion by-and-by. ambitious riders. Tilting at the is not a very
singular thing is how he
anted not the should have pene-
, interesdng performsnce, and the first effect of seeing
- fact, but the
at two.anthrweel , mysteq of English swerving under the weight of
3• I was about the - eana', so many screws b
Pea'
made the same same age when I derous guardsmen could notl a overcome, but " the
discovery in
Be-
circle; (for almost pre .• •
usely the same jousts," or lance against ance, was better, the "
did not there is ecarcsly a personmentioned whom hordicum," or sword opposed to lance, a further itn-
or
less
.see nightly or daily, and was acquainted more sword against sword better still, and the
could "niately with most of them)—nut erovement,
have described it so well. ~ en3)—out I never tidal combat of lances and swords mounted against
to this effect." it fact it
re Francais, tbe bayonet on foot was extremely geod and
A few da g These
different encounters took place at
ys afterwards, Lord B r d amusing.
T
d'Orsay h. y on a dressed two distinct intervals in the afternoon, but for the
`My himself as follows :
dear Count . . . : (if you willsake of convenience wee club them together. The ap-
dres permitbe me to ad- parent superioritY 0 the
contrasted weapons no. doubt
s you so familiarly), you should upon dexterity with which they were
content with turned mainly
writingceed. in your own language, like Gramtnont, and sue- handled, and in this respect there was every ground for
_a leg in London as nobody has succeeded since the satisfaction; but it seems. pretty clear that a determined
days of Charles the Second and the records
uHamilton, without deviating into our of Antonio foot soldier, armed with a bayonet, and expert in its nse
. eage—which 3on understand and write, h barbarous lan- f
is on a par with any trooper, whether, armed with lance
b tter than it deserves. however, much or sword. The retreating fights on horseback yester-
a My .
day formed also a curious feature of the day's proceed-
a. approbation,' as you are pleased to; •
vlery sincere, but perhaps not very impartial; termf .t, was jogs,
or, though To the combats of the grand tournament suc-
ceeded a dance round a maypole, 40 feet high, gaily Or-
, love my country, I do not love my countrym
en—at namented with garlands and streamers. Mr. Flexmore
Nest, such as they now are. And, besides the seduction had arranged this dance so as to represent the weaving
of talent and wit in your work, I fear that
was the attraction of vengeance. I
have
to me there of a tartan with the variegated streamers, and the effect
much of what you have described soa well, and felt
of the performance altogether, shared in by 32 people
I. have in ceppropritate costume, and seen under such advents-
known the persons, and the reunions
(many of them, that is to say), and the
like that I cannot but admire the • portraits are so • in yesterday' proceedings was the exhibition of
point yes
painter no less than •
performance. his the French canne and boron—a mild form of the old
".But lam sorry for you; for if you English quarterstaff practice. The quietness and ease,
quarated with life at your age, what are so well Se- combined with great rapidity, with which the staves were
you when the illusion is still' more dissipated will beome of wieldd indicated perfect training, and yet formed a
? at
and thatl3- curious contrast to that rough and boisterous sport, of
never mind—ere aslant I—live while you
you may have the lull enjoyment of the can;
which, in Ivanhoe, Sir Welter Scott has left us so
[ages of youth, talent, and figure, which man advert-
you graphic a description. The come . and biton
the wish of an—Euglishman—l possess, is was followed by a new and extraordinary
suppose, but it is no feat of strength exhibited by the brothers
treason; for my mo,her was Scotch,
my family are both Norman; and as and
nly
name and s' '
iegrist and
called Le perche. This display beats the
no country." for myself, lam of caber tossing hollow, as will be at once understood when
D'Orsay's
which irre ist'
s tbly swayed the whole- les
---'tnn, lances on a socket attached to his waist in front a pole 40
life, is said to have commenced about current of his feet high, up which, while in an almost perpendicular po-
out 1822, at V. sition the other nimbly climbs. Having reached the top he
hence, where his regiment was then artered. She executes summersaults upon it,l twists himself about in
was then exceedingly handsome, and•cfr
a willing captive by seductions from whose
ebwas led away every po.7ilerleswnTaadnids,pfia7l,Tivotispdgowthneithhaensadtore;
mneivnerdaeppears to have made so much ose thrall he T,t
was 171 b. weight, came off with less eclattatehran
imposed eifort to break free. The first asgreat one deter- which
thus], though the victor, D. Kennedy, sent it spinning
sacrifice
upon him—and to a man of his through the air to a distance of 107 feet. The exhibi-
coura undoubted e
ge and sense of bition of hawking, by Mr. Barr, the Scet!i,h falconer,
military honour
been a terrible it must have did not prove so attrictivo as was expected, and the
one—was the abandonment of his when his is chief interest it possesses is that stated in the pro-
profession regiment was ordered •
service, on the
Spain, underthecccasit)n of the French invasion of
Due d'An 182.5.
Even ivitttenmr tempted taut near Lstoantdeon
of
fte the time of
a call of this gouleme, in
the side of treremptory kind could not tear him from voureyd the sport, but the view from twheeatherrk f.'-
well as fromenchs and, from gratitude as not sufficiently open and extensive. Mr. BarrPa p ols-
To
aelection, he
remained content to her duced two fine hawks, but the first flew away- r
death. ompeento him . • the direction of Battersea, where the supply in
of pigeons
in some sort, a marriage .
was made up, under L is good, though he run some risk of being shot
between himand Lad Blessington's auspices, .
in hunting them. The other, more obedient to call, after
the denye her Lord' I guter of t
was an unhappy and most •and encircling. the park for some distance, descried with groat
no partial or indul unfortunate union ; radidity a pigeon which Mr. Barr had let off, and
gent feelings towards the dead swooping down struck
should induce usto be :lthe poor bird a blow which at
linJust towards the living. once enabled himt
Lady Harrietwas
aso
nsetatt e down with his prey, and dis-
sixteen,
and in the first blush of youth, hardly
pose of it so far
andappe.tite enabled him. He was
she was pre-eminently youth,
with let go tesecond time
beauty, time, again returned at:the falconer's
grace, talent, and anew)] l' - e It is im- shred call, but the
possible, to imagine p ishment.hawk returned no more, and this
a more truly part of the programme
feminine, gentle,htl3 was altogether not nearly so in-
ana winning creature, orwesting as mi
preciate her husband. one better qualified to op-
and percussiong a"
been expected. Fowling-pieces
the misfortune was that he appreciate him, and
She
did . falconry, and li lockshave made people independent of
neverappreciated herd t• - - a attempts to revive it have proved coin-
indeed, h •
, e never ]toed enough '
.wrestling,
value of what he was thro • with her to know -there was, later in the day, a "
apt eimen of the Cornish
mg away. Her fortune style. It is heavier, more was very large, and wapparently tricky, and yet
his disposal. It is the
greater part of it was left at more really dependent on inerttle strength than that of
supposed that he received—or that the north of England.
his creditors
.wrestlers do no grasp
another more or assignees received one shape or each other round the body,but by the hands
than 100,0001. from herin Irish estates. or collar, and the first efforts
This is the Another,
victory turns upon a single t° trip, after which
part of his story which
be glad ,
togloss we should. effort.. The two come
an . over ; but it is too notoriousd in petitors were rough, cross-made, immensely muscu-
to be ignore tar looking men, wno seemed to be -
y biographical notice •
making the smallest preten- miners, and they
sion to authenticity. shook bands in true " fancy" style before setting too.
His social and intellectual qualities those 'on among
Mr. Harrisou's Indian
club exercise must not be omitted
which his friends and adm. the '
are , list of performances. The
dwell. It was not irers will be most eager w wields are larger and heavier than those of last
merely that he possessed varied year, yet he whirls the
and extended rid his herd with perfect
information, profound knowledge of the ease. A three-legged race, round
springs of human masianoageed.byiMr. Flexmore,
action, tact,
satility, and excited much amusement, as
all the numerous fancy, msa
oteb, ail
o qualities, or shadescy, verof
qUalities, but the jingler being blindfolded. Builingeirnhga
which g__ to make up that'
composite and indefinable laughable of the entertainments of thispclasspwasinamraacst
thingknew calledd wit. at
`'e was the beut..bred
man we ever , with one halt of rho competitors on stilts, the rest with
°
to be ;angood breeding of the highest order is not theTirhat,rms and legs tied, and all blindfolded.
consists acquired by study, like an art, Its perfection land reeTasera"rs terminated at six o'clock with High-
or never giving pain, either from ignorance evening Lord dancing
Holland
dd Cumb,rland wrestling. In the
entertained Very hospitably a
site designedly.lt therefore requires the most exqui- large pasty_ of the • ' visitors to his grounds during the finenessaf-
of perception to discover. leasing ternoou. Theattractions of the fife aro by no means
or displeasing to otiiers andthe what is
imperturbablepleasing
exhausted, and to-clay, if rho weather proves at all pro-
good nature to turn the ,dis most t so pitious, there •
discovery to good scout) , ere will, no doubt, be a large attendance.
as to diffuse agreeablepromote
____
friendly feelings. emotions and
ai_ , It was dro ,5 unceasing REFORM DINNER AT TOTNES.
rsay
LLI, particularly at Gore make every
one at howand House, to
e at their ease ; and be w" always sure to address his conversation, natu-
rally y
and
funaffectedly, to any shy and embarrassed
member the company, till he saw that all Passing
awkwardness° or embarrassment was at an end. 05-16
influencebau,e_ over his own circle of intimates was un-
ancinad, and it was fairly earned by the soundness
diffi-
eulty disinterestedness of his counsels when any
appealed
to or misunderstanding caused him to be
theusasnahe.diator or adviser. We incline to think that
is practice of giving advice, and of directing
t;Th ..Conduct of persons of undoubted weight and posi-
aLutnedthbat brought about the coolness which long,sub-
than anyetween him and Louis Napoleon, who, more
public man living, is in the habit: 01
,t
oe k I nag
counsel
was,a exclusively with his own mind. -I-)
in ter
sPell....thorough Bonapartist, and a firm believer
over
Frpnalhikmapower of the bare name of Napoleono
with the Prince-President
His most earnest wishes were
rd duthe coup
Tee-President ; but he regarded
h perte, to use
his
own
exaving been
beeeffectd en
toPtidre- thee last that
expression
and contendee_
Louie Na: d to a higher,
Napoleon might have attained
nobler, morep enviable position,
withoutthbreachuseful, and more truly
a,
and without
of a single obligati° i
an approximationeid moralist
most r g .
to what the
would denouncevtrh as a crime.
who had been the
when the old E
wit of Charles arl of Norwich,
Court, re-appeared at
Whitehall f the First's
as voted a dead
bore. a ter the Restoration,
hewas
have voted
Noi extent of prejudice could
d'Orsay and pleasing
legs than
. a most cultivated
Tember final return to Franc
society ; but on his
three yearso Frenchmen could be
before his death, few st Englishmenbe
brought_
to acknowledge what
mo' deemed
always his incontestable social superiority...Wa He was
artistic regretting
England, and t
1 and then 1 the
failing f"literary life of Parris,d her
attachmentnever-
of his sister an hfamily, that
at all reconciledpersisted *he m in calling
his " expatriation"
him to what
may xatriation" from our shores. T Ictonclude, it
moralist
to be in-
dulgent inducet many a stern Britishfthmis erring
led, but °wards the memory 0
accomplished and mist
to k_
asskind, generous, and
impressions
gentleman,
prejadices in
E,,"Zia assured that, if his first record
our of
' nci her -
testimony to or cur
tiresome to oveifi( •
twing with
cherishedhislast recollections of our good sense, our honesty,
and our. truth --Chronicle.

On Wednesday a public dinner tech place iu the As-
sembly Rooms at Totnes, to commemorate the victory
recently obtained by the Reformers in this borough get-
ting the representation of both seats. There were about
150 gentlemen present. Mr. W. F. Windeatt presided,
and Mr. J. R. Fogwill acted as vice; president. Mr. T.
Mills, M.P., was present, but Lord Seymour, who was
at Maiden Bradley, Warminster, had received the invi-
tation at so late a period as not to permit of his being
present. Mr. G. Moffatt, M.P., and Mr. Lindsay, the
recent candidate for Dartmouth, were also invited, but
were unable to be present. The usual loyal toasts were
drunk, after which the Chairman proposed the toast of
the evening, the health of its Members. Mr. Mills, in
replying, adverted with pleasure to the result of the
contest. He said that after the Tories had had one
seat for thirteen years, he had wrested it from them,
and had obtained it by a larger majority, than
all the majorities put together' in all the contests
that the Tories had lied during that time. Mr. Mills
promised that he would pay the electors tin annual visit,
to render them an account of his stewardship, and that
if any of his votes were not satisfactory to a majority of
his constituents he would resign. Mr. J. Neale, barrister,
of the Oxford Circuit, replied to the toast of the electors
of Dartmouth, by detailing some very gross cases of
coercion that are now being put in force in that borough
against persons who voted for the Liberal candidate,
and loudly demanded the ballot, et which the whole
company rose and gave three times three cheers. Mr.
Neale also stated that it was his intention to immedi-
ately organise_ a reform association for South Devon, in
order to wrest the representation of South Devon from
the Tories. Mr. Latimer, of the Western Times, re-
sponded for the electors of Exeter, and followed up the
remarks of Mr. Neale on coercion, by showing that the
representation of South Devon, which was formerly in
the hands of the yeomen, had been wrested from them
by the organization of the landlords and their intimi-
dating their tenantry. Some of the latter, who had
dared to vote as they liked, had been turned out of their
farms, and told to go and tell the reason why in the
market places.
Mr. Tucker, of Ashburton, Mr. Chalker, -of Dart-
mouth, and other gentlemen spoke, tied the evening was
passed in the most pleasant and egreeable manner.

SOLICITATION OF CHRISTMAS BOXES HT PosT-
stEN.—Tbe following notice, addressed to all postmasters,
sub-postmasters, clerks, letter-receivers, letter-carriers, pest
messengers, and others, employed in the service of the Post-
effice, bas been issued by the Postmaster-General:—' The
attention of the Postmaster-General having been drawn to a
practice, prevailing amongst some officers of the department,
of solicting Christmas gifts from the patine, his Lordship
desires it to be known that he considers such a practice as
objectionable in the highest degree, and that he is resolved
to remove from the service any fficer who, after this notice,
shall be proved to have solicited from the public any Christ-
Mas gift or other gratuity whatever. The Postmaster will
require every person attached to his office to read and sign
this instruction.
• TESTIMONIAL TO 11,18. GEORGE THomrsoisr.._.o
oome
of the electors in the Tower Hamlets have resolved upon
a
public subscription, is order to purchase a freehold house in
that borough to present to Dlr. Thompson as a testimony --
of
respoot for his late Farliamentary services.

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m5,,,11 1 —ADNANCE SURVEY' OF SCOTLAND.--An
17' of the
st. day or t neighbourhood making the pre-
Ordnance Engineering Corps has, within the
-wo, been in this
limmary'observatio s previous to commencing the Govern-
ment survey of thandistric
-THE 8 t.--relso Mail.
AN —Ati was
(i uICIDE IN MSIDEIPL--- F: inquest--
hel N.
- esterday_on view of the WY' of. MG IL Snowden, the-
proprietor ,of the din-ink-646, Maiden-lane, who committed
dipt...eseY Precipitating himself into a water cistern. Ver-
- Otoporary inanity,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIME-S.—Yesterday commenced the second era in
the eventful history of the Great Exhibition of All
Nations. Beneath a cloudless sky, amid the enthusias-
tic applause of a large and distinguished audience, was
raised the first column of a structure which, if it at ell
correspond is fidelity of execution to the canceptioa of
its founder, may challenge comparison with anything in
the world for the majesty and beauty of its site, and
the grace, lightness, variety, and utility of its fabric. It
is related in the touching narrative of the Jewish capti-
vity that those among the people who remembered the
glory of the first temple wept when they saw the inferio-
rity of the second, but in this instance there is no reason
to tear that the most devoted admirer of the Crystal Pa-
lice of 1851 will have cause to sigh over the differenco
between it and the Crystal Palace of 1853. Loftier in
design, more varied in outline, with infinitely more et
architectural beauty and pretension, it will form a land-
mark to which every eye will instinctively turn in one
of the fairest districts in England, and, no longer
fenced in by the streets and squares of a mighty city,
it will occupy as prominent and conspicuous a position
in the prospect, as it is destined to do in the history
of London, cud will stand forth from the norizen of the
mighty city an object for ever recalline, amid the hum
aed bustle of every day life, the existence of truths
higher than those of the multiplication or the interest
table, and of tastes and enjoyments which do not require
wealth 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 ell time. It is not a toy to be
used for a single 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 bas tar of new and ever varying at-
tractions, an exhibition of all that is curious in art
and beautiful in nature, the natural receptacle of every
new invention, the natural laboratory for the construc-
tive intellect of the country—such a building under-
takes to discharge functions, of which the brief and glo-
rious vision of the former exhibition may enable as to
form some guess, but surely not a complete or ad' quato
conception, It is pleasing to view an old cathedral,
and to think that there, for hundreds of years, the
same worship has been offered under the same roof; but
the destinies of this edifice are, in one respect, even
more striking, for it is destined to behold and to con-
tain the results of the gradual improvement of nine°,
and to bo the first witness of
every victory which man
wins from the hidden and reluctant laws of nature.
Ilow puny and infantine are the triumphs we have
already obtained compared with those that lie before us,
and on what spot of earth can descend a nobler destiny
than to be the appointed treasure-house of the spoils
which the human intellect shall bear off as trophies of
its victories in the field of knowledge? But not only
does the new Crystal Palace differ
in permanence from
the old one, the principle of its foundation is of a di-
rectly opposite, and,
Cal we think, of a very superior
Palace was an offeting by
character. The old
the rich and the enlightened, attaining financial results
of a most brilliant nanturnra,Prbfiut founded with other
views than those
experiment on the taste Pend' feeling"' aosf tah e great a-
tier), the credit of which belonged to the
subscribers and projectors. The
,and second Crystal Palace
is a purely commercial speculation. is in our opinion,
on that account, so much the better. It
patience that we hoar feeble and abortivwiete uhtemsompets to
im-
patience
divest it of this its real and undoubted character,t and
to
persuade the public that it is to be carried onwith 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 band, tbat
there is sufficient evidence of a refined and elegant taste
among the working-classes, of a love of beauty and a
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, not 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 suppose that
commercial associations can only be employed in grati-
fying low and material wants. This will undoubtedly
bo the case so long es the people have no higher or
nobler craving to gratify, bat in proportion as they be-
come elevated by education and enlightenment, the obe
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 have 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 an 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 we the pompous enumeration
of the great mon 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 less
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 zed of men who will not
remember that the Sabbath was made for men and
not man for the Sabbath, hss passed away. To shut
up the building and park on Sunday afternoon would be
to the working classes of London an entire exclusion
frosts the benefit intended; and must almost, of necessity,
be fatal to the scheme itself. The experiment is yet to
be tried whether, by offering the working man innocent
be may not be induced to
and wholesome enjoyment,
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 us be quite sure
that it is not in the interest of the tea-gardend or the
public. house that.concession is deman e e cannot
but tuink that the contemplation of a gionrhmiunsdlandysettspde
and of all the wonders of creation which
research can collect under a
any otheurs.
ences more elevating and chastening
single roof,thwaonuldnbeetriefin
which are likely to preside over the Sunday afternoon of
the weary artisan.

NAVAL -- —TN TELLI GEN CE.
l White-
His Grace the Duke of Northumeerland
hall to-day for o..borne, to au
_compan her Meaves ajesty in
The Noby le and Gallant
the royal cruise to-morrow.
E4gle.
THE CHANNEL SQUADRO-,,,—The Channel squadron, •
First Lord embarks in the Admiralty yacht the Black
under the command of men, c..._ptaiu liuttoe,
820
of Prince Regent, 90 Kung,
Captain Graham, C.B. ;
Rodney, 92 guns, 820
Rear-Admiral Curs, y,
.co_nsisting.
iniiiiq ; arriv,d in 'fur-
flaw Symocds; Lean-
adnesday , at 12,..ving re-
ceived sg'i'd guns, 500 guns,
s ,mser, InCapp' men,3
boy, from Qaeenstown, on We
a6cfron will most likely
dispatches, put to
cruise fur ten days, when the tqu
sea again for an exerming
return to Torbay.
ship Cumberland, 70,
Vice-Admiral Sir G. F.
The Commander-in-Chief,
Seymour, C. 8., G.ii.11.. in his
C.pLin Seymour,
16th of July.
granted the boon to those la.
left Halifax forgN' Newfoundland on the
The Admiralty have gra ,
_. .
bourers of the dockyards who have been Keductd from
sawyers of two shillings and sixpence per day in future,
instead of two shillings as at present.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Tiger, 16, stem-frigate,
Captain H. W. Gifford, is at Spithead, and Will be ready
for sea on Saturday, when his crow return from leave of
which ship
absence. The
verywill
SimbriorfolithecerehwandtrsoootP-the engineers by the 21st,
m out
and will be ready for sea within a week after that date.
Twenty first-class boys are added to her hooks es su-
pernumeraries.
Sidon and Furious are the only steamers belonging to
the service at this port of the first class.
The Elfin royal dispatch yacht, Acting Master-Com-
mander Balliaton, embarked his Serene Highness Prince
Huboulohe at (Molie, and brought him to this port to
see the dockyard, &c. Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, on the arrival of the Elfin, put off in his bargee
and brought his Serene'Highness ashore, landing at
dockyardtb
King's-stairs. After conducting him over the
the Admiral re-embarked his Hig and
conveyed him on board the Port-Admiral
_1! I'
'filsfehip tan e, 120.
and afterwards to his own fllg-
shithe
°landed at the
hness in his boriceptory,
After inspecting these ships the Princear,s
garlsge for
and
clickyard, and proceeded in the Adrannhr. l",
the Portsmouth terminus of the London, Plg
South-Coast Railway, en route to town.
The Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop,
has been paid wages to six monthsneander Le Febose, ar.
The Dasher steam-vessel,
lelshinda to be paid wages.
rived to-day from the Channel Islands
6, apprentices'
etoo:faayn.der Piroolriv,
is ordered to proceed
DEVONPORT,
tender, Lieut.-Commander Dolling,
boys for the navy.
to Dartmouth, to receive
.h Captain Macdougall, is here
60, screw-ship, Rogue,
waiting orders.
WxrdtEespr,
hi Captain Dares, is wait-
Sanspariel, 81, so -0
reW -1),
m lete• She
still,
' to °° P • wants 150 blue
machinery,
ing for.
jackets.
25, Captain W. 1-louston, will go out
Trinoomelfe,
inst.
,G the 12th inst.
of harbour
Nitse THURSDAY.—Megmra screw troop-ship,
SHEER ,
Commander J. O. Johnson, w ill be taken out of deck
on the 14th inst., and will be ready for sea about the
24!h inst.
Bittern, 12, will be ready to come out of dock on
the 13'h inst.
Horatio, 22, steam guard-ship, is censpletieg the flt-
tirg of her guu ports and the alteration of her steer-
i,•o•-whetl.
E-Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton, will leave to-
morrow for Portsmouth, to complete her crew. She
has twenty vacsneie. Captain Hamilton, we are glad
to hear. is in much better health.
eIiATUAU, THURSDAY. Captain.Sup2rintendent
Rich4ra, (1.13., has been on leave of abserce. •
Meander, 44, Commodore Talbot, will ba ready for
sea by the 4th of September. She has many vanancies
for petty officers and seamen, btit they are daily coming
in to, join. - -• .-
'- • -
1-Woor.wics, THURSDAY..--TOehlatee troop-ship, Mas-
ter-Commander Bradshaw, now loading at Depttoid, is
, to convey companies of Royal Artillery to Gibraltar
f. and Malta,