The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-25 00:00:00

MUSEUMS.

Antiquarian—Somerset Houso. Admission by application
to the secretary.
Botanic—Royal Botanic Society of London. Vegent's-
park. Admission daily by orders from follows. Royal
Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free.
British—Great Bussell-s reet. Open free on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and l'rida s, 10 to 4 ; summer months 10
till 7. Closed let till 7th January, let till 7th May, and
Ist till 7th September; al o on all thanksgiving days.
City—Guildhall. A collet on of antiquities, &c. Daily

fo till 5. '
Geological- Jermyn street. Open daily (except Fridays)
free.
India—lndia Office, Charles-street. Asiatic natural his-
tory, antiquities, &c. Open free on Mondays, Wednes-
days, and Fridays, and on Thursdays by orders.
King's College— Strand. Anatomy and curiosities. Daily
10 till 4.
Patents—South Kensington. Models and inventions.
Open free daily.
Royal Institution--21, Albemarle-street. Various objects.
Daily, 10 till 5.
Royal Military Repository—Woolwich. Models of forti-
fications, cannon, and warlike appliances. Daily, 10
till 4.
Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Regent-street. Scion
tific, with lectures. Open daily, till 10 p.m. ls.
Soane's-13, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Antiquities, curiosities,
and pictures. Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fri-
days in April, May, and June ; and Wednesdays, from
February to August. Admission on application to the
Curator,
Society of Arts—John-street. Adelphi. inventions, pic-
tures, curiosities &e. Daily : admission by member's
order.
South Kensington—Cromwell-road. Open on Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Saturdays, 10 till 10, free ; on other days
10 till 4,5, or 6. 6d.
Tower of London—Ancient armour, &c. Open daily, it
till 4. Is.

PICTURE GALLERIES.
Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to view
may be obtained from Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
British Artists—Suffolk-street. April to July. ls.
Masters, June, July, and August. is.
Buckingham Palace Pictures.—May be viewed by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain.
Cartoons of Raphael—South Kensington Museum Mon
day, Tuesday, Saturday, free ; other days, 6d.
Crystal Palace—Sydenham. Modern Pictures and Sculp-
ture. Is.
Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and Dutch
Pictures. Open free daily. eiwept Friday.
Flaxman Gallery—University of London, Gower-street.
Foundling hospital—Guildford-street. Open Mondays,

10 till 4:
Gallery of Ancient Masters-49, Pall. is.
Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays and Fri
days Free : other days, 4d.
Guildhall—City. May be seen on application to the hat!
keeper.
Hampton Court Palace.—The galleries are open free daily
except on Friday.
Monument—Fish -street Hill. Every day. 6d.
National Gallery—Trafalgar-square. Open free, Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
National Portrait Gallery-29, Grez. ‘-ieorg3-street.
free, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Trinity House—Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Models of
lighthouses, Sc. Daily, 10 till 4.
Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till
10 p.m.

SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT.
Cremorno Gardens—Chelsea. ls.
Crystal Palace Park—Sydenham. Open daily, ls. ; Satur-
days, 2s. Gd.
Greenwich Park--Greer.wich. Onen free
Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily.
Highbury Barn and Gardens —llighbury. Gd. and is by
refreshment tickets.
Kew Gardens--Kew. Open froe, daily at 0/.0 o'clock.
Richtuoud Park—Richmond. Open free, daily.
Roshervillo Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. 6d.
Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by
members' order.
Windsor Great Park—Windsor. Open free. Windsm
Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and,Fri-
days, by tickets obtaingl9 A MI
Office, ill tilt Qmtiv,

been transferred there. The very inspiration im-
planted in the American mind of a dominion ex-
tending over the Continent, was, perhaps, checked
instead of forwarded by the Declaration of In-
dependence, and if Mr. Louis lived to see his
vision realised it would probably but be what would
actually have been in existence had there not been
an American Revolution. It is evident that there
is not a Mr. Louis now directing the Spectator, or
its remarks on the British Columbia memorial and
theßed River insurrection would not have been writ-
ten. It speaks of the desirability of two great na-
tions being maintained, with different political sys-
tems, to balance each other on the Continent.
Supposing it to be desirable for power to keep
power in check, to act on each other as a drag and
to prevent all from being involved in the sort of
smash which follows the fall of a basket wherein every
egg is collected, then we say the continent should
be separated with some reference to its geographi-
cal features, not by the arbitrary and ridiculous
boundary line now marking off the British Posses-
sions. Mr. GREVILLE JOHN CHESTER, in his Trans-
atlantic Sketches, differs from the' opinion so elo-
quently expressed by Mr. BRIGHT, in answer to the
prophecies of disruption so freely hazarded during
the Civil War. " I see another and a far hap-
pier vision," &c. After quoting these well-known
words, Mr. CIIESTER remarks, " The signs of the
times, however, do, in my humble opinion, point
in another direction, to the division, viz., of the

Union into at least three great countries—to a

Pacific State, with San Francisco for its capital
to an Eastern State—and greatest of all to a West-
ern and Southern State, of which St. Louis pro-
bably will be the capital." Ilis division is that into
which we divided the Sates to make its physical
geography intelligible to the English emigrant ;
that is—the Eastern slope of the Aileghauies
sweeping up from Georgia, crossing the S. Law-
rence, and taking in all Upper and Lower Canada
and the maritime provinces—the valley of the Mis-
sissippi, which Mr. CHESTER calls the Western and
Southern States—and the Pacific slope from the
summit of the Rocky Mountains, from Behring's
Straits to the Gulf of California. Such boundaries
have sense in them, wholly wanting to the Dominion,
which the spectator considers ought to be nursed
into a rival empire to .the United States. If the