The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 1.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
visited the Exhibition yesterday morning, and in the
afternoon were present at a review of the troops of the
garrison under the command of Sir Edward Blakeney.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert also visited the
Model Lodging Houses, attended by Sir Edward
Borough, and inspected the Public Baths and Wash-
houses recently erected.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday :—The Lord-Lieutenant and Countess of
St. Germans, Earl Granville, the Duchess of Welling-
ton, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Bath,
the Earl and Countess of Mayo, the Earl and Countess
Clonmel, the Earl of Listowel, Viscount and Vis-
countess Monck, Viscountess Forbes, Lord and Lady
Clarina, Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, the Hon.
Miss Bulteel, the Chief-Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas and Mrs. Monahan, and the Attorney-General.

Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office yester.
day to the Governor-General of Canada and the Go.
vernors of the other North American provinces.

THE ROYAL CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND.

The Royal party, embracing the Princess Royal, the
Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, with Colonel Bid-
dulph, Miss Hillyard, and Madame Roland, with at-
tendants, arrived at the Stonehaven station of the
Aberdeen Railway at a quarter past one on Thursday.
They were accompanied by several of the directors of
the railway, who had proceeded to Forfar in the morn-
ing to receive them. The station was very beautifully
decorated and converted into neat reception and dining
rooms for the occasion. The party, after partaking of
an elegant luncheon prepared by Mr. Douglass, of the
Douglass Hotel, Aberdeen, proceeded in carriages by the
Slug, or mountain, road, to Banchory, on their way to
Balmoral, which they would reach not later than half-
past seven the same evening. The stay at Stonehaven
occupied about half an hour.

CRYSTAL PALACE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Let the opponents of the measure for opening
the Crystal Palace on the Sunday read the following ex-
, tract from one of Theodore Hook's works (Peregrine
Bunce, vol. ii., p. 83, 84, 85) :
,
" It may offend some readers to know that Mr. Nob-
batop's dinners—that is to say, meetings of friends at
dinner—were regularly fixed for Sundays ; the true and
just reason for that innovation, as some people call it,
upon Christian, or rather Protestant propriety, being
that upon no ay, excepting the day of rest set apart for
abstinence from labour, could the indefatigable Nobbatop
find time or opportunity to exhibit his hospitality or
welcome his acquaintance. Whether this notion was
really and truly less pious or less virtuous than in the
times when the squire uniformly entertained the parson
of his parish at dinner on the Sunday ; or whether all
the Roman Catholics in the world are to be coandemned
for ever fur keeping Sunday as a holiday, after the holy
part of the day is past, who shall say ? But this we will
say--that attempting to deprive the working classes of
their air, their exercise, their amusements, and their one
day's hot dinner in the week, by a rigid enforcement of
Puritanical regulations which would have disgraced the
Commonwealth, are at once indicative of hypocrisy,
tyranny, and cruelty, and exhibits a spirit excited by a
desire to drive those who are inclined to religion into a
reckless disregard of all its just laws and ordinances. A ,
poor man must not be shaved on a Sunday morning to go
to church ; his wife must not send their dinner to be
baked, because it is wrong for bakers to work, while if
she stays at home to cook it, she must abstain from
divine service herself. In the afternoon they must not
indulge themselves with a cake and a glass of ale after a
healthful walk with their poor children. All public
houses are to be closed, all merriment is to be stopped,
and the day set apart by the Divinity, as a day of re-
creation, is to be made a day of gloom and confinement
for those who, as we have just said, have but that one
day in the week in which they can enjoy air, exercise,
the society of their families, and the harmless amuse•
ments to which in far better days than these the much
better English people were universally accustomed."—
I am, &c., ANTI-HUMBUG.
Norwich, Sept. 1853.

EXPORTATION OF BULLION.—It is expected that the
shipments of silver to China and India, and of gold to
Alexandria for wheat, by the Indus, on the 4th instant,
will amount to a total of about 350,0001.
MRS. BEECHER STOWE.—Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
the authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin, returned from the
continent last week much benefitted in health by her
quiet residence in Switzerland. During the past week
she has been on a visit to the family of the Messrs. Low,
her London publishers, whom she has just left for Liver-
pool, where she will remain prior to her departure for
the United States, per the Arctic, on Wednesday next.
THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE CORPORA-
TION OF LONDON.—The commissioners appointed to
conduct this inquiry—Sir John Pattison, Henry La-
bouchere, Esq., and G. Cornwall Lewis, Esq.—have
met and appointed their secretary, and have arranged to
commence their labours early in the ensuing month. The
precise day is not yet fixed, but it will be either Monday,
the 3d, or Monday, Oct. 10 ; and in the course of a few
days the requisite notices will be issued to the corporation.
The inquiry will be conducted at Guildhall, probably in the
court appropriated to the sitting of the Conunon Coun-
cil. It will be an open court ; and it is understood that
the commissioners have determined on hearing all the
evidence that may be tendered to them, either for or
against the corporation. Among the first witnesses ex-
amined will be Mr. Merewether, the Town Clark, the Re-
corder, tke City Solicitor, the Chamberlain, a nd such of
the Aldermen and Common Councillors as may choose
to tender their evidence.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT WIMBORNE —Two PRI-
SONERS SUFFOCATED.—A very melancholy occurrence
has just taken place at Winaborne, by which. 'the lives of
two unfortunate men were lost in an attempt to escape
from the lock-up houses. They had been apprehended
by the officers of justice upon charges of vagrancy, hav-
ing been found begging, one of them upon the pretence
of selling lucifer matches. Their names ware Wilson
and Curtis. The constables locked them up in the usual
place of custody, and nothing particular occtxrred till six
o'clock in the morning, when smoke was obser' red issuing
from the lock-up, which was found to be on fire. The
doors were forced with all speed ; but the den sity of the
smoke foria time defeated all efforts to get out the pri-
soners. At length they were got out, and Wilson was
found to be dead, and his person very nine h burnt.
Curtis was alive, but very ill, and he expired shortly
afterwards. Previous to bis death he made a. statement,
from which it appeared that Wilson had fired the place
in the hope of burning down the door, and thus enabling
them to escape. He stated that Wilson piled straw
against the door, and ignited it with some matches \ which
he found in his pocket, and which had escaped notice
upon his being searched. The fire in a short time burnt
most rapidly, and they then threw water upon it, in the
hope of extinguishing it ; but unhappily they so much
increased the smoke in their efforts that it overcame
them, and poor Wilson was very soon suffoca ',ed. Curtis
expressed his belief that the burns on the body occurred
after death. An inquest was held on Wilson's body,
before Mr. Castleman, coroner, and a verdict i n accord-
aneer with the facts returned. The jury app. ended to
thei
verdict a presentment respecting the state: of the-
prison.
LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The attendance
has been excellent during the last month at this delight-
ful and
popularplace of recreation. A capital comic
proved a mostfe feature of amusement. The
pantomime, in
extraordinary talent of the
Leclercq family is which the
ll unequalattractiveleddisplayed
ecution exhibitedcombination of rapidity, firmness, and light-
in the dancing of Miss Louise
Leclercq would render her
a.firs to the t
rate metropolitan fa-
vourite, and a moestprvianlcu.pabl. valuable
L acquisitional Q 134011, theatres.
manage-
ment of any of the