The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

THE TIIIRD EDITION OF THE SUN.

In . a review in the Expositor of this week of Mr.
Weale's work, entitled " Lonr!on Exhibited in 1851," we
find the following paragraph;—
•' In the statistical part, spa king of the London tress,
our author says, The evening papers, since the estab-
lishment of the morning mails enabled the morning
papers to reach the country district=, are of diminished
importance.' Now substitute early railway trains' for
morning mail,' and the statement will bepardy correct.
The London morning papers sent by early trains arrive
at many large towns before the morning mails start from
LonJpu. but; still we cannot say we consider the con-
tents of such an ev.ning paper as we find The Sun
diminished in importance. The third edition of this
paper' often con►ains 'the whole of a debate; which,
being dispatched by the evening mail, reaches important
towns in many parts, cspecillty the north, by post, ten
and twelve hours earlier than the morning papers sent
off by the first trains, so that few reading and news
rooms, public institutions, or first-rate:hotels, are with-
out that journal. Our author states as a matter of curio-
sity that one firm of newsagents take as many as 5,000
copiea .of one weekly paper.- We may be allowed to
state, if it is a matter the public care to know anything
about, that Messrs. Joseph Clayton and Son, news-
agents, 265. Strand, supply nearly ,double that number
of our journal alone to their numerous staff of country
agents."

Mr. Henry Berkeley, the Member for Bristol, has
received a requisition from his constifbents, to deliver a lec-
ture in Bristol on the subject of the Ballot. The Hon.
Member was to deliver his lecture last evening, and has made
it a condition tlirt it shouli be for the benefit of the new
hospital about to be erected in that city.

SPIRIT of . the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TptlES.—lt has been rumoured for some time that
there existed an intention of cutting a. public ride in
Kensington-gardens. We bare refrained from noticing
the scheme because we did not wish to call down need-
less Unpopularity on the heads of its originators. It
seems, however, that the thing is to be. unless some
stern and urgent protest be made against the desecration
of the only spot in London which gives promise of quiet
and seclusion. What occasion is there for such an act
of wanton aggrassiosi? The gardens, as they stacd, are
for the convenience of persons who cannot mount on
horseback, and seek green fields and quiet at a distance
from the bustle of the town. The proposed change is for
the iisnefit of Equestrians alone—of persons who within
15 or 20 minutes from mounting might shake cif the
town; and find quiet cantering-ground on any side of
LondOn they please. The monopoly of Hyde-park fur
one your at list4t should be a sufficient concession to the
msnagers of the Great Exhibition.• But, it is answered,
there is a third interest concerned. Whit is to become
of tha equestrians who, during the course of the
Lotman season. were in the habit of taking their exer-
die and meeting their friends in Rotten-row? Now,we
are tuiiy prepared to admit that, even if their accustomed
rile had not elreany been rzia:ked out for the exclusive
use d,carriages, &e., it is impossible to make use cf
Hort ii-row as a public rids white the Exhibition lasts.
We acknowledge also, to its fulaist extent, the propriety
of pru.vidlog a suitable riding-ground for the use of those
persona who had been in , the habit of taking their pile-
pransise c,nter in Rotten-row. There is no reason that
michkr--aged gentlemen with a tendency to run to fat
should be exposed to a leegibeeed series of dyspeptic
phenisusene because of the Great Exhibition. Even
settling their piteous case aside, we are of those
.ewho think that' London has few sights which can
Di. _,gY.tnP4r,d in beisul with the public ride in
ll"sPatk towards the close of a summer's day
wash the, season is at its height. . There is no conts-
n.en!al capital which can pie, at .a spectacle half so gra-
tifying to the .ye or the pride of an Englishmen. The
Champs Elystzs or the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, the
Cascine of Fl Trance, yield hut pale imitations of the
puolio ride in Hyde-park when the throng of riders
ie es its fullest- ' ' Were not the feelings of a
~,,ci ion of the public who have a right to
cie eseleration concerned in this matter, we should
vir;se ,to see the mere show preserved as the
Isis; expression of the wealth and beauty of the Bri-
tish empire. .Having said thus much it will be clear that
we do not approach the aubj,cr, in any spirit of vulgar
fanaticism We would with to see the rights and
pleasar preserved intact. Let the
es of all P'rjes
Great Exhibition be provided . with a Acting car-
riage ':approach, and Let the riders in the Park
be also' accommodated with a suitable can-
tering -ground. Bat both these results may he ob-
tained without desecrating the single spot in London
rotted which the charm of seclusion still lingers, and
without inflicting great and unnecessary annoyance on a
7?PigvLbourhood wisicti hes alrOttly. suffered .so severely
r_r_wnthe proiimity of the Exhibition. The question
remains this form :—Where are the riders to go who
wher§is temporarily dispossessed of Rotten-row?
, a public ride to be laid out for their use? The
answermuperieedy clear. Let such a ride be made within, '
not without, the -
inei
ts-of Made-park itself. Whatever
oltjectionatteet
apply
,with at apply cutting-up the turf in Hyde-park,
it gtea;-gardenit:Zt- , gird force to any section of Kens-
But there is a pro which [eight he chosen far the purpose.
ty lii the one instance which there
is not in
.the other.
.0
carriages IV
" psrk is already given up to
ia dui
th of
equestriam. The privacy of
liensiLgton-gordens ha"
by a horit:.sebes, that we recollsct, been
profaned
thcootohfe thtiemeactout
caused
much gave once, and that 0
much ''clissatistactiee that
in
taiaheae thitul t
renewed, IC is lit
relly the' ,attempt was never
the precincts of is east BaCy spot within
mortar where seclusion and quiet can be of brick and
cases
.nti.nahiabt.aitied. 'I he
adjacent houses arc in Many
neiKhboteuurhbot families
gardensd for no
who settled tbsenselves,
were
other reason than because the
it were their hard
there, with their chestnuts and
their firs, o chest them
into the idea of country life, oven if
fate to' be bound to town for the greater portion of the
year. The place has been sacred to the use of the ladies
of the neighbourhood--to the poor invalids in their Bath
chairs—to the rosy checked children, 171 LO are allowed
to roll and tumble about on the turf to their hearts'
ew'ie, without the fear that at any moment they may
be train led tinder the boofa of a passing horse. Be.
sidastiame, it is the object of a walk.wita the Lendoners
who wt' for halt-an-flout' to shako off for a while the
parpettaallehrof ' '
If they a the towu and the cares of business.
916,ed
fur
theere have enumerated are dispos-
k I the horsemen, we
know rut where h"l e °
seclu-
sion aid t,cmi .„ t of Richmond-park.
the can obtein similar
on this mid!
Now this is hard?'
if
the fthiei Would it gratify
gerdetes bsl • l'-' ham Palace were
converted int,' - nail Bacaing
the Prince Consort
a public tide? can escape when
he will •to Windsor, with its deep he glades, or to
0 J-nrue, with its 16 pa ,
ka ts
deep fore"
c :tiee vi', no' pleading havemig sea. The persons
If
Ken
Siligtod:gar&ns be violated, they
alternative.
s imeier. Thu presence ~,,.
t.tehey are ',Aced up for the
v ,rt4A
timi.
c,,e. N;,t to k„huwExhibition much aggra-
a al refer the blame in the
matter exclusively to Prince
n iu the general course,
we wool', just.put the matter in Albart,the same way
to the +preset f s beg of the equestrians who
been
in she haul' tit retoncs itotten-row as t To cut ,
a new ri't' in' KerArwton-gardens for their .sele-s will
own
be to a ennsiiersible number of their fellow subjects
w ',as it wou d 07 I. 1 them if the privacy of
p ,rlcs and n'rnises was invaded in a similar maa. ,
n-r. We t.eitl flint what was necvssary might be se-4
consplisSed • witLosts , taking any, step' so violent as !.
teis. Let the ' s,uth swea of • the 'Serpentine ba
abandoned retirely sii the LXhibitioe. ball eiyee_
pa, k on, the earth til: the Serpentine, that is to soy tour-
, .
fit'rh of BS OtsParas remains ititact. As at present the
pubic drive ie. iainiediately on the north of the water,
we viz why should not a :Ploportry ride be cut imme-
diately to tne ndrth of that eg.ftin?.
The
pose should run iv
e, with the dx,,
andribdeehwined pro-
pose
Royal Humane Society's receiving-h.qll,se' If this be
objected to—although we cannot coticea-"' any rational
ground of objection--there is also a large open area of
green award which skirts the northern drive oal the park,