The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves
wanting• Vocal and Instrumental music of the first order, and a
display of reworks which exceeds all ima;ination, are a fitting
close to a day at the Crystal Palace."
DAMSON'S COLOSSAL PANORAIIA of CHUSAN.

splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri•
galled Military Band.

VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT,

in which Miss Poole, Miss Itansford, and Mr. Manvers sing
several National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties
of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan-
terns," and a most magnificent display of Fireworks by Southby.
Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been
erected. Fall Quadrille Band, Btc.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANIPHITHEA
Lessee and Manager, Mr4William Cooke.

In preparation, with entirely new scenery, and every necessary
requisite, a Grand EQUESTRIAN BURLESQUE, from the pen of a
popular author. Every pains has been taken, and the most profuse
expense has been lavished, to render this magnificent Spectacle worthy
of the approbation of the public!
THIS EVENING,
For a few nights more, the War Spectacle, THE COSSACKS; or,
Viva la France.
After which, the inimitable SCENES in the ARENA, invented
arranged, and directed by Mr. William Cooke.
HERR CHRISTOFF, whose miraculous Feats on the Tight Rope
have absolutely electrified the audience, will appear.
The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Ballet d'Action, by
Mrs S. G. Healey, THE KNIGHT AND THE WA-MR LILY; or,
Love among the Mermaids.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W .
West. •

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tar. DAY —Morning 25 min.after 12 I Evening 50 min.aft. 12
To-Moitaow—Morning 12 min.after 1 Evening 34 min.aft. 1

THE WEATHER.—Sun °MCI, AUG. 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'93.
WIND, S.W.—Light, with dull weather.

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LONDON, MONDAY. AUGUST 21, 1854.

What can be done for the peace and happiness
of Spain by ESPARTERO ? Honesty may some-
times accomplish miracles. Perhaps the honesty
of the Duke of VICTORY may—even under pre-
sent circumstances. It is impossible to conjec-
ture otherwise, however, than that ESPARTERO
will find as many bewildering difficulties before
him as the situation of Greece is presenting at the
same moment to MAVROCORDATO. In each in-
stance there is beyond the existing evil of an un-
popular Sovereign the more embarrassing one of
a dubious succession. OTHO is bad enough. IsA-
BELLA is bad enough. Granted. But what is
there for Greece beyond OTHO What for Spain
beyond ISABELLA ? That is, in each case, the grand
source of present and future bewilderment. Sup-
posing OTHO to be still, by a miracle, retained on
the throne of the Hellenic Kingdom, who is there,
when OTHO has passed away, to grasp at Athens,

as his successor, the reins of constitutional govern- All the klehes of this war, whether due to Ger-
ment ? Supposing, again, that ISABELLA can inanism, Aberdeenism, sympathy with the Bus-
still be held firm, by no less a miracle, upon the sianised sufferance-despots of Germany, or the
throne of the Iberian Kingdom, who is there, in absolutist leanings of half our aristocracy, would
like manner, when she has disappeared from the have been clearly avoided, could the wishes of the
public scene, who can contrive to grasp at Madrid, people have told more promptly upon our House
as her successor, the reins of constitutional go- of Commons, and through it upon the Court and
vernment ? The position of affairs just now in Cabinet. Long before Parliament met the people
the two capitals, is to a certain extent so scented the Vienna and kindred influence which
similar that when speaking of them together we guided or modified the working of our Cabinet ;
are almost driven to tautology. The similarity and though the herring was skilfully trailed, it has
we have already pointed out in these columns in not altogether lost the scent. We cannot doubt
detail. It is unnecessary here, therefore, to reca- that if the people could have performed the func-
pitulate all that might be said, all that has been tions of the Administration, the CZAR would never
said by us, as to the more striking points of re- have dared to cross the Pruth ; and that, if he had,
semblance. Enough that there—at Madrid and ere this time our navy would have been riding in
at Athens—are the two unpopular Monarchs, the waters of Sebastopol, and the Russian ninety-
male and female, whose evil policy has called for fours have been perhaps transformed to Turkish
the reorganisation of their respective councils here guard-ships in' the Bosphorus. The heartiness
(in Spain) by an honest Statesman like ESPARTERO,
here (in Greece) by an honest Statesman like of the people was shown by the best of all tests.
Never probably since 1815 has a tax been pro-
MAVROCORDA.TO. Can either of those Statesmen posed, or an augmentation of a tax, against which
extract order out of the disorder, harmony out of petitions were not presented, or which was not re-
the discord, tranquillity out of the profound and sisted by the popular members in the Lower
prevailing disturbance which has thus abruptly House. In the present case, millions were voted,
summoned them (one from the seclusion of private and the most odious and unpopular of taxes
life at Logrono, the other from the calm conduct doubled, without even a division, JOSEPH HUME
of the Greek embassage at Paris) to the supreme himself consenting—
guidance of the affairs of State, and to the re- say, on the part of those whose watchful and con-
modelling of the fabric of Administration ? Can sistent auditor he so long has been !
all this be successfully accomplished with the pro- Alas ! the people had no power to make their
blem of a dubious succession still unsolved, even, loudly-proclaimed opinions tell promptly. The
let us say, to go no farther, with the State in each management of our diplomacy and of war was in
instance still nominally presided over by an ineffi- the hands of the Ruasianised aristocracy of the
cient and notoriously unpopular SOVEREIGN ?It kingdom—of men who had in their hands, what
is a dread responsibility—that which devolves at the public had not, the SEYMOUR correspondence,
this juncture, in the midst of a general war among and who yet for long took MENSCIIIKOFF lies for
the mightier states of Europe, upon ESPARTERO truth, and for longer still treated the convicted liar
and upon MAVROCORDATO ! as a gentleman! Could JOHN BULL but have
While, however, the Greek Premier has known all, and, knowing all, have brought his
to work out the difficult problem confided honesty and common sense to bear at once on the
to him for solution under the protective Government, he would have taught it to call im-
shadow of an Anglo-French occupation the perial villains by their right names, and to serve
Spanish Premier has to extricate his country a crowned cheat and burglar as he is accustomed
from the " Slough of Despond" into which it has to treat gentry of the same sort when they inter-
fallen, aided only by the sustaining ardour of his fere with his property at home. We are free to
compatriots, and by the sympathies of the observ- confess that if anything would convert us into
ant races of Christendom. Will this indirect sup- earnest advccates of Annual Parliaments as well
port of internal ardour and external sympathies,the Ballot, it would be their probable effect
be, adequate to enable the Duke of
VICTORY to as
of
on the liberties' of Europe. No member of a
reconstruct out of existing materials, and to con-
House of Commons, responsible frequently to its
solidate permanently on the old foundation, the
constituents, could afford to let a Government
the ruined and
polluted fans of Constitutional oiv oernment ?
shattered and tarnished, not to say
sacrifice the independence and freedom of other
With ISABELLA on the throne—mind countries to the bias of a native aristocracy or the
triumphant leaders of the insurrection
—with the matrimonial connexions of Courts. Neither could
enough, requiring particular 'naturall
hands of the new Government;with N y they afford to permit an Administration to make
consideration
at
the a costly two years' work of what might by one
NARY g
piciously all the while lurking in the backgrouZ accomplished. in one.
to appear upon the stage atthe first favou good outlay of money and of strength have been
ready
to
opportunity ; with the faineant Ring Consort be- After all that has passed we shall be carefully
bind the scenes ; with the ghost of the Camarillo on the watch against one possible result. We
comuter it quite conceivable that our managers of
still to be laid ; with the Mama brood yet unex- the
tirpated ; with CHRISTINA Still to be driven be- sa war may latterly have had it in view both to
A the frontiers or otherwise punished for her mayve their own credit, and Russia too, as much as
yona
' bringing infamy on her daughters be. That they would like well, for instance,
Misdeeds in to do enough th.
t ESPARTERO will, indeed, be a won- Black is autumn in the Baltic and the
Governmen • Sea to
if out of all the appalling difficulties enable them to meet the "faithful
derful man Commons" again Feb
t situation he can contrive to deliver in F e ruary with a decent story ;
of his present and enough als
calamities of a fresh and more to negotiate, oto make it reasonable for Russia
Spain from the and for them to
consent to do so,
h t
overwhelming revolution. without demandin t
tion to talk of a Regency, the countries she a complete restoration of
It is out of the ques hasg absorbed, which two effective
Dictator or through a Trium- victories would
either through aput them in a position to ask. If
E
think of an ORLEANS allngland and Fr
virate. It is absurd to once saw that the demand for
through the agency of the a restored kingdom of
Duesterous to dream land, and the like could
de MONTPENSIER. it is preposterous d
not be refused by the CZAR
states of the Penin- this would be inconvenient to those who do
not,
of au amalgamation of the two ,
the Boy-king ;indeed, exactly want the Cala for sula under one crown, to be worn by
Lord PA RA-
_e, „lie,- ; MOUNT of Germany, but who are well pleased that
of Portugal. The latter project, soinetirn .
to both the subjects of all the big and little Germanic
pared aboy, would he alike repugnant
populations. Lisbon could not be red rice—d Potentates should live in fear of somebody more
from the dignity of a metropolis, to the : dreldel and powerful than their own hated and
position of a • ' despisel rulers. Ungenerous, we shall be told,
second-rate city, without In" !
furiating the Portindulge such suspicions. Well, we are sorry
uguese. The Portuguese could to
never hope to give ill if it be so. We cannot, however, refuse to be-
inflaming the rage, by
that there are those who, in our Administra-
, Wounding the pride, of the lieve
svhole Spanish multitude. N not want the will to act as we have just
o, the situation re- 1 tion, do
solves itself to an alternative—for- and some assuredly who wantneithertbe
Spain is in no ' suggested,
the
way fitted for a Republican Government. Either ' skill nor the foresight to arrange plan. Clevei
,-;
a patched-up compromise for the time bein , with was that device of dismi4 soAs,, ;the national represen-
isAßELLA still the nominal guardian (I) gof the tatives, to the tune ofloo,ooomen havingsailed,or

being about to sail, for Sebastopol. Ably the trum-
peter did his part confessedly. We hear nothing
more authentic, however, concerning it. We
must wait, of course, patiently—it all squares,
however, but too accurately with the supposition
we have just reluctantly made.

The New Beer Law has now been in operation
two Sundays. Its vexatious restrictions have
been practically experienced, and the public in-
dignation is strongly excited at the intolerable
interference with the comforts and enjoyments of
the working classes created by enactments hurried
through both Houses of Parliament with indecent
speed at the fag end of the Session. Nothing
could, indeed, be more unfair towards the great
body of the people than the contemptuous in-
difference displayed by both Houses of Parliament
to their interests. Men who had well-stocked
cellars and magnificent club-houses, available at all
hours for their own use, thought nothing of
reducing the time during which their less wealthy
brethren could obtain refreshment for themselves
and families on the only day when they could sit
down to enjoy it. Having six days at their own dis-
posal those persons might well be contented to
submit to any privation on the seventh. But,
practically, it would be nothing to them if the
public-houses were closed the whole day, as they
are at the other side of the Tweed. When do

Noble Lords or Honourable Gentlemen stop al

the bar or enter the parlour of a public-house for
the purpose of getting a pint of beer, or having a
chat on the events of the week ? The clubs are
their public-houses, where they can get their
bottle of pale ale, pint of sherry, glass of brandy
and soda water, or any liquid, exciseable or other-
wise, with which they may deem it expedient to
assuage the pangs of thirst, and they find no
objection to administer as many " modest
quenchers" as they think proper to de-
mand, for each of which they will have
to pay in current coin of the realm. They can
lounge in their magnificently decorated saloons
during the entire day, perusing the journals and
periodicals without any impertinent interference
on the part of the police. But the public-house
is the " club" of the labouring man. A club, too,
more indispensable to his comfort than that of
Pall-mall or St. James-street is to its more aristo-
cratic frequenter, inasmuch as he has no private
store from which to draw the means of supplying
his wants. That, however, is now to be closed
at the very time it is most required, and the
annoying restrictions are imposed almost without
discussion, or opposition, by the Noble and Hon.
" Clubbists."

It is not the least objectionable part of the mea-
sure, that it was passed in deference to the wishes
of a combined body of Sabbatarians and Teetotallers.
Men, some of whom, if they could obtain their wishes,
would shut up their fellows on the whole Sunday,
not allowing them to breathe the pure air of
heaven, or indulge in the most innocent amuse-
ment—who profess what an exemplary and truly
pious minister of the Gospel designated as " the
senseless, unfeeling religion of the Pharisee,
which, with sepulchral voice, forbade even Mercy
to lift a finger on the Sabbath, as she walked the
earth amid harrowing woes ; and in its iron-souled
moroseness would have men starve on that day
rather than pluck an ear of corn 1" The re-
mainder of the party are even worse. They
would not be satisfied even with a Scotch, but
require a " Maine" liquor law. They would not
allow any person—not wealthy enough to become
a wholesale purchaser—to obtain even a pint of
small beer to cool his parched lips at any time.
Thev would strive to enforce by law a compulsory
abstinence on all not strong enough to break
through the petty restrictions they would
establish.

These are the persons to whom the Imperial
Parliament has truckled, whom it has encouraged
to persevere, by the temporary success that has
attended their efforts. Let it not be supposed
that they will be contented therewith, that they
will accept it as a final settlement of the question,
or abstain from further efforts to carry out their
views. The Sabbatarian still regards any dealing
on Sundays with horror. The opening for even a
single half-hour is a violation of principle which
he will strive to obviate with all his strength.
The sale of,, a pint of beer at any time
is hateful to the Teetotaller. They have ac-
cepted the provisions of the recent Act,
merely as letting in the sharp end of the
wedge, by which they may labour with increased
power for the attainment of their ultimate objects.
They should have been resisted ab initio. Every
point should hays been contested from that very
commencement. Already too much has been con-
ceded, and a decided attempt should be made to
win back something more than has been taken by
the late statute. If the public-houses must be
closed during the hours of church service, why may
they not be opened for a few hours in the morn-
ing to enable those about to start on excursions
to make provision for their journey, or to satisfy
their wants in their own houses ? From 7or
even 8 to 10 would not interfere with
public worship, nor would the attractions
of the beer-shop seduce our really religious
person from attending at the place
where he had been accustomed to offer
prayer and thanksgiving to his Heavenly FATHER.
The abstraction of the half-hour at mid-day—the
compulsory closing at half-past two, in place of
three p.m.—is perhaps not of very much conse-
quence. It perhaps occasions a little hurry about
dinner-time, and may lead to occasional disappoint-
ment. The refusal to open before six is, how-
ever, a more serious matter. Many thousands of
persons are in the habit of dining at five, and tak-
ing a quiet walk with their families in the evening.
These will all be interfered with very vexatiously.
They will be compelled to lay in a larger quantity
to provide for any additional consumption, any
probable or possible demand. More will there-
fore be consumed, although it may not be pur-
chased from the licensed victualler. We already
find in Scotland that men are. beginning to pro-
vide themselves with " pocket pistols," or port-
able dram-bottles. This will encourage the taste
for ardent spirits, for it is manifest that
beer cannot be as easily carried about. Is
this what the Teetotallers desire to accom-
plish ? We believe not. But still they
cannot feel surprised if the weapon unskilfully
I wielded be turned against themselves. The
closing at ten o'clock practically prohibits those
who are out on excursions from getting any re-
freshment on their arrival. They, however, will
not often be taken in, but will take care to have
supplies with them, unless the just and proper
interpretation of the word " traveller" should en-
able them to obtain what they require on the
arrival of the different trains. We greatly regret
the short-sighted policy that has created these
difficulties, ; and we earnestly exhort all persons
desirous of checking further encroachments on the
liberty of the subject to exert themselves zealously
and energetically to obtain the repeal of the ob-
noxious enactments.

VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO THE PORT.
LAND BREAKWATER.

On Saturday last, his Royal Highness Prince Albert
visited the works of the breakwater now in course of con.
struction at the island of Portland.
His Royal Highness was met at the landing-stairs by
Mr. Coode, the resident engineer, who had the honour of
conducting the Prince over the breakwater ; the different
operations on which were minutely examined, and espe-
cially the works and apparatus connected with the
masonry being set under water, The Prince afterwards
walked to the " Verne" Hill, and inspected the barracks
recently erected for the convict guard. Mr. Buller, the
deputy-governor, attended there, in the absence of Capt.
Clay, the resident-governor of the convict establishment.
His Royal Highness was accompanied by Captain Du
Plat, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, R.N., and Captain
Crispin, R.N., of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
The Prince landed at noon, and embarked at 3 p.m.,
when the royal
yacht steamed away for Osborne.

Miss ARA.BELLA. GODDARD.—This eminent pianists
has left Londoli for Baden-Baden, where she is ei-
pfged to,plar at.some concerts. From thence she will
proceed to Wislbaden, Hamburgh, and Several other
German-bathing. places ; and also to Munich, Frankfort,
and Leipsig.