The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Yesterday a great combined fete took place, which
drew to this charming place a very large number
of our friends from across the Channel. Excur-
sions from various parts of France were arranged,
the destination of the excursionists being the Cry-
stal Palace. Large numbers availed themselves of
the opportunity of visiting our shores, and seemed
heartily to enjoy themselves. The numbers at the
Palace were considerably swelled by the Foresters.
As some thousands of that body, owing to the in-
clemency of the weather, did not use their tickets
on the occasion of the Foresters'
_fete last week, the
directors of the company, with great liberality,
announced that these tickets would give admission
yesterday, when the London Gymnastic Society's
fete also took place.
It is satisfactory to find that the various gytutias,
tic societies in London are progressing, and the
competition yesterday showed that the numbers of
this and other similar societies have attained a very
considerable degree of proficiency. The chief prizes
competed for were a challenge cup and several
silver medals, the cup having to be won two years
in succession to enable the holder to
retain it. The
conditions on which the prizes were competed for
the greatest number of
were that the winner of the first
prize should make
points in running a quarter
of a mile, high jumping, long jumping, and climb*
ing ropes, the medals being awarded to
ing the next best scores. Certificates and other
highest jumper, the longest jumper, and the
those mak-
prizes were also given to the fastest runner, the
climber. There 'were also rewards for the best
performer on the horizontal bar. The prizes were
presented to the successful competitors in the even+
ing, highest

At four o'clock Mr. Coswell made
an
his balloon. The Coldstream Guardspaesr7onrmt el
during the gymnastic competition,
band of the Sapears Pompiers do la Ville de Sr.
and a concert
took place in front of the Handel orchestra by the
Pierre. Their selection was a good one, and the
music admirably executed. The orchestral band of
the company performed twice in the day, and the
whole of the fountains played.
Our French neighbours, as well as the Foresters
and others, visited largely the picture galleries,
Shakepere's house and museum, the pneumatic
railway, Mr. Pulleyn'e hippodrome • and, indeed,
We may say they spent a very busy day in availing
themselves of the numerous amusements provided
for their gratification, and went away pleased, if
tired.

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tormers. Band of the Coldstream Guards, Lice.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One
Shilling ; Dress Circle, 23. ed. ; Private Boxes, L 1 ls. and
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The Box Office is open from 10 till 5.

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Atter which, THE sTREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
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P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart; Mrs. Stirling,
Mrs. Billington. and Miss H. Simms.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1864.

It is a very difficult thing to compel people to
perform their domestic duties by act of Parlia-
ment ; and so little are we in this country accus-
tomed to official interference with individual rights
that any scheme professing so Quixotic and at the
same time so meddlesome a purpose, is little likely
to obtain favour on the first hearing. There are,
however, exceptions to the general rule of non-
intervention, which are very wisely practised at
home as well as abroad in these days, There are

cases in which the tyranny of the employer over
the employed must be restrained, in which the
anxiety of some to gain additional wages must not
be allowed to influence the whole trade by making
long hours the custom. It is necessary, too, to
guard against the avarice or ignorance of parents
who may subject children of tender years to labour
so exhaustingly and unremittingly as to leave in-
delible traces on the little unformed frame.
Masters are glad to employ women and children,
because their labour is cheap and plentiful. The
men are naturally glad to have their own scanty
earnings increased, and the women think it well
to provide something additional for their families.
At first sight there seems no reason to object pro.
Tided the work is of a suitable character, but a closer
investigation of the results of such practice leads to a
very different conclusion. The medical officers of
the Privy Council have just issued two reports,
which treat of questions of great importance with
regard to the physical as well as moral welfare of
the people. The registration system, which is use-
ful in so many ways, does great practical ser-
vice, in showing the influence which different trades
b eve over the health of those who work at them.
The extremely high death-rate among factory chil-
dren led some years since to that benevolent inter-
vention on their behalf which has produced such
good results, and there is now another aspect of the
same question to which Mr. SMITH'S Report calls
attention, which remains to be brought before the
public. The rate of mortality among children
whose mothers are employed in mills or in the fields
is fearfully high. Neglect and want of their natural
food does the work of destruction slowly but surely.
Pee infant frets and wails, and then the mother or
`the deputy gives it GODFREY'S cordial or some other
drag to quiet it. Before long it pines away, and
enbles no one with its crying, and so many poor
Little ones are year by yes r thus hurried into their
graves that little is thought of it. The ordinary
course of the decline irs so common that it assumes
the appearance of an established infantile disease.
Very ctien the taot'aers are quite ignorant of the
mischief they ace
doing. It is for their
children they are working, and they do not con-
sider or reflect that they are sacrificing the life of
one in order to obtain more food or clothes for the
rest. In some instances, no doubt, the mothers are
designedly careless and culpably indifferent, but as
a general, role they would indignantly disclaim any
such intrAation. It is a very striking fact that, not-
svithst
ti the distress and extreme poverty
lately felt inLancashire, the rate of mortality among
infants has been considerably lower than it was in
prosperous times, owing to the mothers being
obliged to stay at home from the stoppage of the
mills. This is a startling fact and we should
ape it will teach its own moral to the