The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-01 00:00:00

THE LEVANT.

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We have received accounts from Athens
17th. The English squadron, under the to the
Admiral Dundas, has quitted the roadstead
for Corfu and Malta. The Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian blends had the honour of dining asthe
Royal table on the 15th, in company with Count
Bacciochi, who had arrived in the Pius a few days
previously by the Magellan. Count Bacciochi was
on his way to Constantinople on a special mission,
but he had been ordered to call at Athens to compli-
ment the Queen in the name of the Prince President,
and he had had an interview with her Majesty imme-
diately after he had been rAeased from quarantine.
The letters from Tunis, by the Levant mail, state
that serious uneasiness was felt there respecting the
health of Bey. His recovery was considered impos-
t Bible.

RAILWAY CALLS.—The railwAy calls falling due in
the month of November, amount in the Whole to
614,
6321, which is larger than the total calls for the cor-
respondingmonth of 1851 and 1850. Of this 614,632/.
no less than 466,6151. is called by foreign companies,
but the amount of stock hold by English proprietors is
not known.

SUNDAY IN LONDON AND THE CRYSTAL

PALACE.

TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES,
Sir,—ln the leading articles of your paper of to-ally
you oak—" Where are the masses on a Sunday after-
noon? " I cannot fatty answer the question as to the
Sunday afternoon, but I can tell yon where great num-
bers may be found on the Sunday night nod the Monday
morning. Sunday night, brings a vast increase of popu-
lation to the cells of the various police-stations in the
exhibits a frightful
bar of a police-court,
addition
o 1 itso,
those
Mwohnodaltyanind ra)rtnttg
under the various classifications of " drunk and riotous,"
" drunk and using abusive language," "drunk and
assaulting his wife," " drunk and assaulting policeman
X in the execution of his duty," and " drunk and inca-
pable.'
As to where the masses may be on the Sunday after-
noon, I think I can account for some of them by refer-
ring you to the outsides of the various public-houses in
and near London, at the doors of which you will see
generally a string of the wearers of " fustian and coarse
linen," waiting for the hour at which the law sanctions
the opening of the numerous gin palaces on Sunday.
Though some insist that the Crystal Palace ought not
to enjoy the same privilige, I wish the Legislature
would try the effect of abutting up the gin palaces and
opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays for a single
year, and I am satisfied no good reason would be found
for altering such an arrangement.
By the way, your readers need be under no appre-
hension that if the 50,000 visitors to the Crystal Palace
should got drank at Sydenham on Sunday, they would
cause any inconvenience by their ahouta and quarrels in
London; for it is against the law that a drunken man be
admitted into a railway carriage. If the railway com-
panies should only partially carry out this wholesome
regulation, so large a proportion of the drunken 50,000
would be left behind, at a distance of some miles from
their homes, that the evil of intoxication would probably
cure itself in a brief period. However, if the sale on
Sunday of intoxicating drinks, except under certain ex-
ceptional cases, were to be prohibited, there would be
no chance of the fears alluded to being realized.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A POLICE MAGISTRATE.
Oct. 30.