The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-18 00:00:00

THE SON, .LONDON, TUESDAY EVENITSI, MAT3CII 18, 1856.

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scrupulosi i33r
iu relation to the Sabbath which
went such a long way to disgust the English
people with
religion in the time of the Common-
wealth, and
to bring about that period of abo-
minable lice ace known as the reign of CHARLES
the SBCOND. How many
of them would have re-
frained from a n expression of incredulity had
they been inforn led at the time, that the whim-
sical fancy of tile satirist of that age typified
what would take place in this, and that the anti-
type would 'be found in the metropolis ? And yet,
however incredulous, they would have been de-
ceived, as a perusal of the speech of Mr. BUCK-
STONE, 2,t the anniversary banquet of the Royal
General' ;Theatrical Fund, celebrated last evening
in the La radon Taveri, will show. That kindly,
open-heart ed, and facetious personage, in alluding
to the soul • intolerance of the Sabbatarianisna of
the day, wh; ich " stands in the way of making our
Sundaws a Vttle more cheerful and more to be
welcomed by the working classes than they are at
present," told, it will be seen, a remarkable story
in point, in coLuiection with Exeter Hall, which
we will give in hi. z own words :—" At that saintly
temple, when rents d by some friends of mine for
the purpose of gi% Ting concerts, the directors
actually objected to th e singing of that thoroughly
English ballad, Sally 'in our Alley,' unless the
verse was omitted which runs thus—
' Of all the days that 's in the week
I dearly love but ove day,
And that's the day wh. ich comes between
A Saturday and Mon day.'

We put it to our readers -whether any of them
would retain their confidence in an Insurance-
oflice that granted a policy on the Tortoiseshell
Torn or Queen belonging to any of these saintly
directors ?

Sabbatarianism is, without question, the great
religious mania of the day, and it is carried to
such an extent as, in our humble opinion, to
threaten much-enduring injury to the cause of
religion, while it 13 indicative of internal rotten-
ness. No man, we fancy, will undertake to say
that this is a period of religious earnestness, or
that the churches are making many converts
among the population. The ardent zeal and un-
wearying labour which characterised many of their
founders is not to be found among them. The
architecture of their places of worship is more
showy, the congregations more fashionably attired,
and rich members more looked up to ; but the
burning periods, the melting exhortations, the ex-
hibition of Christian virtues, and other adorn-
ments of the Christian life, where are they to be
found ? The poor perish in their ignorance, un-
cared for, godless, and unknown around them,
hardly a movement is made after any representa-

tion, however touching, for their relief. But let
an attempt be made to relive the oppressed,
labourer of that weariness of spirit succeeding six
days unremitting toil, and divines whose ortho-
doxy, like their Apostolic zeal, is more than
doubted, and congregations that never gave any

one reason to suspect that they mortified -Lt., e
lusts of the flesh, rise in arms against the audacious
'nnovators, and read their " kAtomless pit homilies"

in terrorem, with a fierceness worthy of the
Furies. That were bad enough, as not being Chris-
tian nor graceful ; but these awakened firebrands
have recourse to misrepresentation and falsehood,
which we take to be the opposite of Christian as
of honest. The newly-discovered objects of their
zealous watchfulness and care have the grossest
misinterpretations of Scripture palmed off upon
them, being besieged with tracts, in which
the duty of keeping a day holy, which none
but the Jesus respect at all, is laid
down, and that recreation is pronounced
a desecration which the LORD of the Sabbath
would not, when on earth, for a moment have
disallowed. Not content with this, the appre-
hensions of the workmen are unscrupulously
appealed to, and it is lyinzly asserted that the ob-
ject of his only real friends is not to give him an
opportunity to cast off the slough of ignorance
that has impeded his moral and intellectual growth,
but to rob him of his Sunday, and braid him
until death to the wheel_ of toil. To say that
these misrepresentations have not had an influence
were false, but the effect they have produced
by no means describ)s all they aro likely to pro-
du e. We would it did. When their hypo-
crisy and unscrupulosity of these teachers
are detected, as soon they must be, there
is much reason to fear that the cause of
religion and morality will suffer in that in-
stinctive revolt which will inevitably follow.
What workman, for instance, misled as to the
Sabbath question by these untoward bigots, but
must feel disgusted when he is told by some sin-
gularly impudent divine, as at Banbury, that the
majority of Sunday excursionists consists of "the
dirtiest, the silliest, the laziest, and poorest of
the toiling population," knowing, as he does, that
the very reverse is the fact ? Or that discovers
that the observance of Sunday is, after all, but a
human institution, but must be led to doubt is
other matters that authority on which he accepted
it as a Divine one ? It is offensive enough to
any friend of the poor to see them wronged by
Sabbatarian bigotry in being deprived of oppor-
tunity for innocent recreation ; but that is a
matter of secondary importance when compared
with the false light in which religion is thus pre-
sented to them by its unworthy ministers. The
Sabbatarian yoke won't long be endured, but how
long the well-merited detestation of it will be
associated with religion, who shall tell ? A religious
reformation is sadly wanted, and most of all
among those who describe themselves as par• excel-
lence the orthodox.

The petition of the holders of Westminster Improve-
enentßonds for a Parliamentary irquiry will, it is stated,
be presented after the recess by Sir J. V. Shelley, one
of the 'numbers for Westminster, and be eupported by
his colleague, General Evans.
The departures from the port of London for the Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week have comprised
six vessels—two to Sydney, one to Port Philip, one to
Hobart Town, one to Launceston, and one to the Swan
River, with an aggregate capacity of 3,350 tons. The
rates of freight have in some cases shown a slight ten-
dency to improvement.
ROMAN CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER IN LIVERPOOL.—Tfit)
first number of a new weekly newspaper, called th
Liverpool Catholic Guardian, was published on Saturday,
making the third organ which that body have started in
that town within little more than two months.
THE EMBEZZLEMENT AT THE LICHFIELD 13ANIC.—VITM.
Lawton, who for 40 years was clerk at Messrs. Palmer
and Greene'e bank, Lichfield, was charged at the Quarter
Sessions, on the 12th inst., with feloniously stealing
7,3501. belonging to his employer, Mr. Richard Greene,
the bankrupt. The jury returned a verdict of guilty..
The defendant, who is 73 years of age, was sentenced t 9
four years' penal servitude. —agefordshire Advertiser.
FAIR IN THE THAMES TUNNEL.—A. fancy fair on a
somewhat extensive scale took place in the Thames
Tunnel yesterday morning. The whole length was illu-
minated with variegated lamps, flags, and banners in
the shafts. There were also coscnoramic views of the
Indian battles, a view of Sebastopol, a pavilion of arts,
and many other attractions.
FORGING A DIPLOMA.--At the Oxford assizes yester-
day Henry F. Hodgson was charged with having forged
a diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons, at Cracily-
heath, on the 23th of September, 1855. A fter some
discussion, a verdict of "Guilty " was entered, and the
defendant was discharged, on putting in bail to appear
and receive judgment in case the point of law was not
decided in his favour.
The Moniteur of Monday publishes an Imperial de-
cree withdrawing from circulatibn the old copper coin
—namely, the pieces of one Bard and two liards, and
those of one centime, bearing the effigy of Liberty, on
t hi Ist of July next • and pieces of one sou and two
sells, and those of five and ten centimes, bearing the
effigy of Liberty, on the let of October following. 17n-
tit then this coin will be received in payment of duties
and public taxes, or exchanged for other coin in the Go-
vernment offices.
NEW CHURCH IN LAMBETH.—A new church, which
has been for some time past in course of erection on the
south side of Upper Stamford-street, is rapidly approach.
ing completion, and will be ready for consecration in
the course of a few weeks. The Rev. Alfred Stephen
Canney; formerly curate of All Saints, Gordon-square,
islthe incumbent of the new church, which is dedicated
to St. Andrew.
SPANISH RAILWAYS.—On the Bth inst., the construc-
tion of the Madrid and Saragossa Railway was ad-
jndged at Madrid, by Senor Lujan, Minister of Public
Works, to the Great Central Railway Company of
France, of which Count Morny is president, with a sub-
vention by the Spanish Government of 209,999 reels per
kilometre. The Great Central have purchased of Sala-
manca the Madrid and Almanza line, with its continua.
tion to Alicante, for 125,000 f. per kilometre of the works
executed.
THE ROYAL PLATE ROBBERY. Notwithstanding
prompt and vigorous inquiries, no clue has been obtained
to the stolen plate, or to the means by which it was
a';en from the waggon. All the five men engaged in
moving the plate bear excellent characters. The robbery
was effected in the short space of five minutes, whit the
men were standing in front of the public-house .bar
drinking a pot of beer, which Bailey, the guard, paid
for. It is supposed that the thieves well knew that the
royal plate was removed on such occasions, and that
they may have been in the habit of following the wag-
gon with a cart, looking out for any opportunity of
plunder which might present itself on the road.
HOTEL AND TAVERN KEEPERS' PROVIDENT INSTI-
TUTION.—The annual general meeting of this institution
took place ydsterday, in the Craven Hotel, Craven-
etreet. Since the commencement of the institution re-
lief to the extent of 2,1121. ls. in eight years and a half
had been distributed amongst 51 members and widows
of members. Mr. Banks moved, and Mr. Mady se-
conded, the adoption of the report, which was agreed to
after some discussion. The officers for the year ensuing
were re-elected, and after a vote of thanks to the chair-
man the meeting separated.
MUNIFICENT LEGACY TO THE MANCHESTER ROYAL
Lemuel:Le-On Wednesday last J. C. Harter, Eiq.,
treasurer of this institution, received the first intimation
that the late Daniel Grant, Esq., had left to it a hand-
some legacy; and on Thursday the executors paid over
the amount. It was bequeathed by will, and amounts
o the exact sum of 5001., free of all legacy duty.—Man-
ch ,:ster Guardian.
CHARGE AGAINST A MAGISTRATE FOR ATTEMPT-
ING 2'o SHOOT A MAN.—At the Nottingham assizes on
Friday;. ,Dr. Pigott, a magistrate of Nottingham, was
arraigned on a charge of attempting to shoot a bailiff,
who was sent to take possession of his furniture. The
counsel for the prosecution stated that he did not con.
eider the evidence sufficient to support the charge, and
the doctor wcs accordingly discharged. George Great-
ing, the bailiff who was indicted for an assault upon the
doctor, was also discharged, no evidence being offered
against him.—Manchester Guardian.
A process with regard to remittances of specie, similar
to that which is now observable between England and
France, seems likely to take place between this country
and Constantinople. While the Bank of France are
buyinw gold in London, remittances in gold coin are
arriving from Paris. At the same time, although we are
sending about 100,000/. a-week to Turkey on account
of the loan, the rate of exchange is lulls as to cause
small parcels of gold to be sent from Turkey to
London.
• MONUMENT TO THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDON%
DERRY.—A committee, consisting of the Duke of Cleve.
laid, the Earl of Derbam, Mr. J. R. Mowbray, 1V1.P.,
Mr. Ferrer, M.P., the Mayors of Durham, Sunderland,
Shields, Stockton, Darlington, Gateshead, and Hartle.
pool, with other influential gentlemen residing in the
neighbourhood, has been appointed for the purpose of
adopting the necessary measures for the erection of a
monument to the memory of the late Marquis of Lon-
donderry, in testimony of his generous and benevolent
character as a resident nobleman, his indomitable cou-
rage and brilliant exploits as a soldier, and his bold and
successful efforts to develop and extend the commercial,
mining, and maritime resources of the county of
Durham.
Two MORE CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED.—La.t
night information was received at Portland-road police-
station that two more children had been found sour
dered. One was a fins full-grown boy, discovered in
the River Ouse, Gate Fulford, wrapped in a piece of
dress Heine., and covered with brown paper, tied round
with string. There was attached to it a 71b. weight
with a strong cor 3, for the purpose of sinking the body.
The other was that of a newly born male child found in a
brook near Mill-lase, Crewe Town, fully grown, and
appeared to have been in the water five or six days, and
murdered. The body was quite naked, but a light
coloured muslin skirt was found near the body, in which
it is supposed it was wrapped.
THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATETCR.—Yestar-
day was St. Patrick's-day, which all loyal Irishmen are
wont to celebrate by some festive demonstration. It eac
also the 73d anniversary of the foundation of the "Bene-
volent Society of St. Patrick," and this was commemo-
rated, as usual, by a grand banquet at Freemasons'-ball
honoured by the attencance of several distinguished per-
sonages and graced by the presence of a bevy of fair
ladies, whose radiant countenances went far to justify
the most flowery panegyrics ever pronounced by poets
like Moore or by patriots like the late Mr. O'Connell on
tho transcendent loveliness of the daughters of Ireland.
Lord Dufferin filled the chair, supported by the Earl
of Eglinton, Lord Lifford, Sir le slph Howard, M.P.,
Sir J. E. Tennant, Sir P. Cusack Roney, Rev.
T. D. Gregg, Mr. Commissioner Murphy, Dr.
Todd, Colonel Latouche, &c., &c. In proposing
the toast of the evening, the noble chairman re-
marked that the very virtues of the Irish character had a
tendency to degenerate into vices. The tender affections
often become uncontrollable passions—generosity was
exaggerated into profusion—diffiderrce lapsed into want
of self-reliance and self-respect—and their intense de-
votion too often overflowed in religious rancour. The
education of the lower orders of the Irish in this great
mettopolis was the best means to reform this ovii, and it
was gratifying to find that the school of the society (of
St. Patrick) educated 500 children annually. His lord-
ship went on to urge how desirable it was to extend the
benefits of the charity so as to give the children, too
oieen half famished for want of nutritious food, a whole-
some And substantial meal each day during the winter
months. The collection in the hall amounted to very
nearly 7001., including the handsome donation of 100
guineas from he:. Majestythe Queen.
FUDGE.—When 0:21* wounded, lying on the field in
capable of resistance, we're ruthlessly stabbed by the
Russians, too often in such as manner as not to pnt
them out of their pain, but to give them the utmost
possible misery before death, we wore told 'that the
cruelty would never be forgotten. When respect was
claimed for certain buildings at Sebastopol on the score
of their being hospitals, while in fact they were maga-
zines, we were told that the dishonour would for ever
attach to the Russian name. When the Hango mas-
sacre was committed, it was agreed that the in-
filmy was indelible. Bah ! It was all fudge. Hear Lord
Palmerston upon Sir R. Ferguson's motion respecting
the British graves is the Crimea :—"I really cannot
anticipate that there will be the slightest difficulte, in
obtaining from the Russian Government an assurance—
if, indeed, such an assurance can be necessary—that the
monuments which record the fall of our brave country-
men who have sacrificed their lives in the Crimea shall
receive that respect which among all civilised nations
such memorials invariably command. (Sear, hear.)
Whatever we may think of our Russian adversaries, we
must do them the justice to admit that they have carried
on war with all the courtesy which becomes a great
country. (Cheers.) Their treatment of the gallant
force which surrendered to them at Kars has been most
humane and generous. (Renewed cheers.) That noble
garrison received every consideration which the magna-
nimity of the victors could prompt; and therefore, there
is no reason to suppose that those who have known so
well how to treat the living will be wanting in due re-
spect towards the dead." (Cheers.) General Mouravieff
fully deserves what is said of him, but he is a noble ex-
ception to the general conduct of the semi-barbarians,
and he cannot redeem the infamy of Hango, or of the
murder of the unresisting wounded at Inkerman. There
are British graves at Hango with an inscription over
them relating the circumstances of the massacre. Will
those who, in Lord Palmerston's words, "have known
so well how to treat the living be wanting in due re-
spect towards the dead ?" Whenever peace is made,
what a glorious sacrifice of truth will be offered up on
the altar of Fudge ! How Russia will be beslavered
and heslobbered, and honest memory snubbed.—
Exam! -

LATEST NEWS.

HEALTH OF THE EMPREZS EUGENIE

We have been favoured by his ExcellenCy the

French Ambassador with the followiug copy of
the bulletin received this morning from Paris :

PALACE OF THE TUILERIES, TUESDAY,
Half-past Eleven o'clock.
Her Majesty the Empress and the Imperial
Piince are going on favourably.
• (Signed) DR. H. CONNEAU, BARON PAUL

to the Ler,islative b-,dy :—" Gen-
tleman,- .—This morning, at 4 o'clock, the Emperor
sent one of his aides-de-oAmp to apprise the Legis-
lative body of the safe delivery of the Empresg.
Her Majesty gave birth at a quarter past 3 o'clock
this morning to an Imperial Prince." (M. de
Moray was here interrupted by cries of " Vive
l'Empercur I") "I perceive, gentlemen," con-
tinued the President, " that you share the joy of
all France." (Unanimous acc7amations.) "Vive
l'Empereur! Vive l'lmperatrice I Vine le Prince
Imperial !"

These cries were enthusiastically repeated by
the Assembly, and when silence was restored the
President informed the deputies that they would
be received on Monday, at the Tuileries, by the
Emperor.
The Chamber then adjourned.

The birth of a son—the heir to his name, and
the inheritor of his crown—seems to complete the
measure of the marvellous prosperity which has
lately marked the eventful life of the Emperor.
It wants but four days to the anniversary of an-
other birth that was encircled with a yet more
brilliant halo of glory. On the 20th of March,
1811, 45 years ago, the guns of the luvalides
proclaimed to this same city of Paris that the first
Imperial Throne had an heir. We are toll by eye-
witnesses not much advanced in years of the joy
displayed on that occasion ; how the first discharge
on the morning of the 20th roused, as if with
an electric shock, the population of the capital ;
how each sounding report was counted with breath-
less anxiety till the twenty-first peal was heard ;
how, when 21 guns had been fired, which were to
indicate the birth of a Princess, the anxiety of all
grew to an in tolerablepitch ; how, when the gunners
paused some minutes before the next piece was
fired, hundreds of thousands held their breath ;
and how, when. the 22d, 23i, and 24th—for then
there could be no misreckoning—pealed, double
charged, the people sprang up and gave vent to
their joy in shouts of enthusiasm ! It would,
perhaps, be too much to report such an outburst
of exultation now. People have become so blase
in revolution, so accustomed to overthrows of
dynasties and to changes of government, that
whatever fund of enthusiasm they might have once
possessed has been pretty well exhausted. They
feel, it is true, they are governed by a firm band,
and that, so long as life and energy are spared to
the present occupant of the throne, if there is not
much hope of the liberty which has been so much
and so often misused, there is still less chance of
anarchy. The birth of the heir to the second
empire, it will be admitted, occurs under circum-
stances not less favourable than the first. It is
true that the first Napoleon was then in the zenith
of his power—from the 20th of March, 1811, to
the first disasters which awaited him beyond the
Niemen. The empire, with the States pos-
sessed by the Imperial family, then counted not
less than 57,000,000 souls. But it is no less
true that the moment was fast approaching when
his power, unexampled in modern times, began to
decline, until it fell to ruin. The clouds were
already beginning- to darken the horizon. The
seeds of the conflict with Russia, which was to
*rid in the stupendous catastrophe of Moscow,
had already been sown. The father of the pre-
sent ruler of France, wearied with the exigencies
of his imperious brother, had abdicated in despair
the throne of Holland, which lie could no longer
hope to fill as an independent Sovereign. The in-
corporation witlitthe French empire of the Valois,
the annexation of the Hansa Towns and the Grand
Duchy of Oldenburg, the ruler of which was the
brother-in-law of Alexander, and which brought
the French empire to Lubeck, within sight of the
Russian frontier, awakened the jealousy of Russia,
and justified the suspicion that the restoration ofl
Poland was at hand. The refusal of Napoleon to
ratify the Convention of Champagny, the ukase
of the Cz 1r relaxing his decrees against English
commerce, the resumption of the kingdom of
Hanover from Jerome, were among the precursors
of the storm that was to follow. Yet all these
symptoms of approaching decline were, in the
mind of Napoleon, more than compensated by the
birth of the King of Rome on the 20th of March,
1811.

The state of Europe at this moment is so familiar
to all that it is hardly necessary to allude to the
difference of circumstances under which the event
announced this morning takes place. The most
formidable and most consistent enemy the first
Emperor had has become the friend and ally of
the second. Russia, then menacing the Power
against which so many arms were soon to bo up-
lifted, now admits her defeat by England and
France united. The second Emperor, who but
three short years back excited mistrust abroad
and at home, has proved himself trustworthy, and
in the terrible contest which France and England
have sustained together in the noblest of causes
no just motive for complaint or suspicion has
arisen. Of the future it is useless to speak. So
many other fair prospects have been blighted that
it would be presumptuous to indulge in anything
like prediction.

The announcement that an honourable peace
is concluded is now only wanting to complete the
general satisfaction. If what is affirmed confi-
dently in respectable quarters can be relied on,
that want will soon be supplied.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The inquiries at the Tuileries were very nu
merous to-day. The answers were, that the
prince and his imperial mother are doing well.
The Empress had enjoyed some refreshing sleep.
On Tuesday at half-past one the Emperor will
receive the felicitations of the Senate, Legislative
Corps, Council of State, Magistracy, the Insti-
tute, clergy of different persuasions, the Munici-
pal corps and deputations from the National Guard
and from the army and navy. The magistrates
will appear in full costume, and the civil and
military functionaries in full uniform.
The following bulletin was issued to-day al
the Tuileries
" 17th Noon.—The health of the Empress is
exceedingly satisfactory.
" The state of the Prince-Imperial is excellent.
"DR. H. CONNEAU, BARON PAUL
DUBOIS, RAYER, JOBERT DE
LAMBALLE, P. DARRALDE."
The following bulletin concerning Prince Jerome
was published this morning :--
"The Prince has had some sleep, and his state
is satisfactory."
One of the chamberlains of the Emperor will
remain every clay, from 9 o'clock in the morning
to 6 in the evening, in the apartment on the
ground floor in the Pavillon do Fiore, in order to
receive such persons as may present themselves
to have news of the Empress, and to communicate
to them the bulletins which the physicians of the
household of the Emperor will issue twice a day.
Long before the hour appointed for the open-
ing of the theatres for the public gratuitous per-
formances at two o'clock to-day an immense num-
ber of people had assembled outside the different
houses. - The cost of these entertainments was at
the expense of the Civil List, and at all the thea-
tres the first artistes performed. The theatres, in
addition to their ordinary performances, gave
something appropriate to the occasion. Every
theatre was crowded, generally with persons in
the lower classes of society, and better conducted
audiences it was impossible to find anywhere.
Oa the occasion of the happy delivery of the
Empress, a Te Deum, was sung and prayers of
thanksgiving offered up yesterday in all the
churches of the Reformed Church in Paris and
the banlieue. The same will take place on Sun-
day next in the other parts of the Censistorial
circumscription.