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London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

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the playground of the scholars of Westminster, at
certain distances froni each other, all over London,
for athletic sports—say a mile.asunder—or the ex-
periment might be tried more sparingly at first,
and public playgrounds be located at larger dis-
tances.
The bulk of the space might be reserved for foot
ball, hurling, and cricket ; part for skittles,quoits,
and putting the stone ; a place sot apart, for run-
ning races ; a sort of gymnasium erected in one
corner, something like, only ion a larger scale, that
at :the foot of Primrose-hill; opposite the bridge
leading into Regent's Park; football Might be on
one evening, cricket and rounders on the next, but
so arranged that two games incompatible with each
other should be prohibited on the same night, be-
cause if all sorts of ganreq were allowed together a
space much larger than Vincent-square would be
required. However, it ini,-;ht be so arranged that
when the next nearest public playground had
cricket, the other one miz,L't have football, and
vice versa.
The great subdivision of labour which ever attends
the progress of manufacturing industry, and which
has a conitant tendency to red i
Nee man to a mere
machine, might thus be, to som
extent, success-
fully counteracted—the physical c. I,pabilities of the
town populations would he effect, 'ta y developed
—legitimate scope would be given t the quadru-
ll
minous activity and restless energy o C the juvenile
portion of the populations that mighd draw them
from the haunts of vice. Sets of bath,
quoits, wickets, ctc. might be kept at all the public
playgrounds, hireable for some trifling su. m, as one
halfpenny an hour.

Indeed we cannot see any good ream. 'n why
. gymnasiums, like that at Pria.rose-hill, slit% tld not
ire at once put up in all the parks. In Hydt '-park
it might be placed behind the barracks or i n the
sand pit, and so in all the other parks suitable? sites
might readily be- found. Of course cricket, ft lot-
ball, and hurting would be inadwissable iu axiy of
—the parks ; hut. We (to think some provision: f. 'r
-gymnastic exercises would be quite in unison 'writ.
the real objects of the parks, and could not fail to,`
afford great amusement, not only to the perform ers,
but also to the spectators.
Saturday ought. throughout the country to be a
halt-holiday. All work should be suspended at
noon, or at all events IT two o'clock in the after-
noon of every Saturday, the wages of the weeik
having been paid not later than seven o'clock oat
the evening of every Friday. This would afford the
labourer some time for relaxation, and he would re-
turn with redoubled vigour.to his work on Monday.
The shopkeeping portion of the community would
not suffer the slightest diminution of business
from closing early on Saturday, as there would be
precisely the same .amount of money in the bands
of purchasers, only they would have less time to
make them in, but there would be precisely the
same amount of cask expended, and in precisely
the same articles, as at present. Merchants would
Le unaffected by it, nor, in short, would any per-
son suffer the slightest diminution in the amount
of their sales or profits, save and except, perhaps,
those who employ labour in the direct production
of comniodities. It is a well-known fact that many
mechanics habitually neglect to work on Monday.
Now, it is a great evil, and one that tends mate-
rially to diminish the productiveness of labour,
that some should be absent from work when others
are engaged. A half-holiday on Saturday would
induce nearly all this class cheerfully to come back
on Monday, and this, combined with the increased
energy and renewed vigour of the working classes,
resulting from a Saturday half holiday, would pre-
bably compensate and counterbalance any loss
arising from the respite from work. Indeed, it
may be deubted if the grosS production of the
country wauld be at all affected by it ; we are cer-
tainly inclined to think it would not, as the phy-
sical-strength of the population would be decidedly
improved, their meuLal capacity enlarged, said
their moral energy incredibly stimulated.

GREAT ROBBERY.- EXTL:AORDINALY

C.AS P.

At Folkestone Petty Sessions, yesterday, an f,xtranr•
dinar charge of robbery was preferred against Mr.
Augustus fia.tkr, n;auag(-r of the Pavilion Hotel, for
stealing 1,5001., `the moneys of a gentleman named
Ail-red de is Motto, who descrined himself of Pariv. The
case bad been privately gone into by the magistrates,
who.rema. di=d the accused till yeAerdayipreparatory to
is con.mi•tal.
Mr. of Ely-place, I.ord.)n, attended on behalf
of the pri,,,ver.

Th. 3 evidencd_of the.nrosecutor; as interpreted, was to
the lollowinv effect :—Oo SuArty week last he arrived
atFkdkestone by the Boulog e steamer, and put up at
the Pavili-n Hots-l. He bad a leather bag with him,
c tin,ing s onewli re ahout 430,000 fr. ; he could not
eta e exactly the sum. He gave it to the proprietor,
Mr. Breach, to take chr.rg,t of. The next day, however,
Mr. Br. ach t:'ld him, as he was going from home, he
would leave the money.to the care of his manager, Mr.
Hastier (the pri.oner), whom he introduced at the time.
On the following Thure,day the prosecutor, who bad
gone to D 'ver on business, returned to the hotel, and
asked fir his money. He was toll he cent! not have it
ut.til Mr. Hayti: r had returned front London, where he
had gone. Feeling uneasy' about the mousy, be re•
queer, d portfoli, and leather bag to be ,earthed for.
When discovered, it was found that the whole of the
notes (Erg ish and French) bad been abstracted.
From ce.le r witnews it appeared that the prisoner,
solo af`er Mr. Breach ha I imposed on him the custody.
of the money, suddenly left the hotel for London, but
he telegraphed back, saying he would be back in the
course of the following night. Not making his appear%
anus, suspicions were excited, and on the discovery
being math of the notes being abstracted, information-
wa, given to Mr. Steers, the superintendent of the
Folkestone police, who immediately telegraphed the'
particulars of the robbery to all parts of the kingdom..
On Friday night Mr. Rchards (a Custom-house agent)
discovered the prisons-r at Dover, muffled up, making
for a steamer fir Belgium. He challenged him, ands
gave him into the custody of an officer who happened to,
be near, and on searching him the whole of the stolen
notes were found in his possession, some soceregns,
handsome bag, containing every requisite for the toilet,
and a passport for. Belgium.
Other evidence having been adduced,
Mr. Steers, the superintendevt, made an application
for a further remand of the prisoner, which was granted,
and the prisoner was remanded ; the prosecutor being
bound in the sum of 1,0001. to appear and prosecute.
Since the apprehension of the accused, several London
detectives have, by the instruction of Sir Richard Mayne,
been engaged at Folkestone and Dover, making inquiries
into the case; the result has been to place an attachment
on the money recovered and placed in the hands of the
French Embassy. A local paper states that M. de la •
Motte had had the money entrusted to him in France
to invest in French securities ; but that he had brought
it to England, along with another man's wife, and that
the metropolitan police bad been telegraphed with to .
stop the notes. The affair has created much sensation
at Folkestone and Dover.

THE LATE GALE IN THE CHANNEL.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

Accounts from all parts of the coast continue to pour
into the Underwriters' Room, which show that the re-
cent
hurricane has left many traces of its course.

The George A. Hopley, Capt. Maloney, which sailed
hence for Charleston on the sth July, is ashore near
Portrush, and will become a total wreck ; crew saved.
The Isaac Webb, Bryer, hence to New York, is lying
aoinst the rocks at the entrance to Amlwch harbour.
Her passengers, 200 in number, all landed. In the vio•
lent gale yesterday morning she lo.t Rally, and was put
on shore for safety. She has a good deal of water in her
lower hold, and some floor timbers are supposed to be
broken, but it is expected both ship and, cargo will be
saved,

The Isle of Man steamer, King Orry, left Liverpool
for Douglas, [sle of Man, at 2 p.m., oa Monday, and
when about ten miles from the island, at 2.30 a.m. yes-
terday, her intermediate shaft and a crank pin broke.
.She was fallen in with about 15 miles from the islatad by •
the company's steamer Tynwald, at 11 a.m., while OR
her passage from Douglae, and towed back safely .to
Liverpool.
THE STORM OF MONDAY NIGEIT.—The gale of Monday
night appears to have been very destructive. Its ef•
fects in the neighbourhood of the Mersey bare already
been stated. On the Pembrokeshire coast formidable
weather was experienced. Two coasting vessels were
driven on shore near Abermaur, and it is feared the
crew of one of them perished. A schooner called the
Poppleweil, baind to Che-ter from Swansea, was. cast
ashore near Fishguard, but the crew escaped.' During •
the height of the storm two vessels were driven on ate
rocks in St. Bride's Bay, and became wrecks. A short
distance to the north,ard of Holyhead the schooner
Adelaide, belonging to Workington, was lost, with Mr.
Potts, the master. On the Anglesey coast there was
almost 3 hurricane. Early in the morning a large Ame-
rican ship, Isaac Webb, Captain Bryer, which nad left
Liverpool on the previous day for New York, with 320
ernigrant3, went ashore near the entrance of the harbour .
of Amlwch. The, whole of the passengers, an., and
their baggage. were saved. Several fishing cobles left
Redcar, on 'the north-east coast, about the middle of the
day, for their ordinary avocation.. ,The weather was
Vita fine, but in two or three hours the wind °imaged to
the N.E.„ blowing furiously, with a Very heavy sea.
The cables immediatety made for land, but three or four •
are missing, with their crews. One of thwecobl es was
washed empty ashore near the Redcar Cliff. See- •
ral large coasters are reported to have been wrecked on
this district of coast. Some few miles to the northward
of Stairthes, near Redcar, four vessels were carried asboi`e
by the gale. Two echonners, named the Eaglet. awl
Lively, of Whitby, bound to Huh, shared a.sivalar fate
between Redcar and the Staithes.

CRYSTAL PALACE. --ONE SHILLING DAY, V /edne.sdaY,
July 9.—Admissions on payment, 6,243; cit tto, by !ma-
son. tickets, 654; total visitors, 6,897.

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