The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-12 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MON DAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1856

tenements in confined areas, from streets and
dwellings rarely visited by pure air and never
free from unwholesome taint, from cellars, " sky
parlours," and three and four pair backs, came a
vast army of labour, with their wives and chil-
lren, clean washed and decently attired, and
made their way to one or other of these scenes of
promised recreation. Of probably the majority
of the males it might be safely predicated they
had previously been accustomed to waste their
day of rest listlessly or sottishly at home, in the
streets, or in the demoralising pothouse, never
entering a place of worship—there being no room
for them if they had the inclination to enter—
and unvisited by those influences which tend to
raise oppressed humanity from its degraded con-
dition. Remarkable, however, to relate, and con-
vincing proof of the wisdom and mercy of Sir
BENJAMIN HALL'S measures, instead of trespasses
on decorum being numerous, never was there
witnessed more orderly behaviour than was ex-
hibited by these hitherto uncared-for slaves of
toil. A pic-nic party of Sunday-school teachers
or a band of Sunday scholars could not have be-
haved better, and it is very likely would not have
behaved so well. Scattered about in groups, or
collected in numbers, their demeanour was all that
could be desired. No fighting, no quarrelling,
no outrageous mirth was to be observed. Better-
dressed citizens, of course, may readily be found ;
but none more orderly. Their sallow faces were
lit up with pleasure as, standing or seated on the
grassy sod amid the verdant foliage, they at once
drank in the delightful strains of the band and
the invigorating air in almost its natural purity,
while the very defects of their apparel seemed to
show what preparations they had made to fit
themselves for association with their betters, and
to illustrate the soundness of the policy which
brings even human weakness to bear towards hu-
man elevation. It were a great thing to bring the
reluctant population of an over-crowded metro-
polis out of their holes and corners into the sight
of nature, to drink in her lessons, and fortify
body and soul against the depressing influences
of unwholesome toil. How much greater to offer
the opportunity to do so to a population who
have evidently been longing for it, and whose
need for it is otherwise extreme. The spectacles
presented yesterday in the above Parks could not,
however, be witnessed without a feeling of bitter
regret by way of alloy to the general satisfaction.
It was really painful to think that so deserving
a population should so long have been victimised
by a cruel and relentless bigotry. That " the com-
mandments" of ignorant and presumptuous "men "
should so long and so effectually have been incul-
cated as "the doctrine" of the CREATOR. That every
agency human ingenuity can set afoot is about to
be brought to bear on the Government, to put
down Sir BENJAMIN HALL, and effect the with-
drawal of the boon. A newly-consecrated bishop,
fresh from expressing his reluctance to become
a bishop while in the course of being made one—
a prelate from whose lips had just issued the nolo
episcopari, necessary to the making of a bishop,
has declared that Exeter-hall, i. e., the Sabbata-
rians, will put down this Sunday recreation, and
the organs of Sabbatism are everywhere calling
the members of that idolatrous creed to arms.
Perverting the Gospel, perverting history, per-
verting facts, slandering the population, and
blaspheming the mercy of HEAVEN, these organs
pronounce the Government guilty of a crime
against. GOD and the Constitution, for sanctioning
these entertainments, and the population not
guiltless who attesad them—and declare that they
can only conduce to the worst licence, and ought to
be abolished in the interests alike of religion and
morality. Abominable as this is, there are many
thousands who, believing or not believing
these men will sign the petitions they are
now recommending to be got up, and the
floor of the House of Commons will doubtless pre-
sent a similar spectacle to that witnessed a few
weeks ago. We call on the 258,513 individuals
gathered together yesterday in the Parks to bestir
themselves if they would preserve the boon which
they evidently so much prize. If they chose to
do so—if they use the influence they possess with
their neighbours—more signatures will be found
in favour of the continuance of the music in peti-
tions from the metropolis alone than the Sabba-
tarian party can obtain from the entire kingdom
against it. Government will have to contend
against the most powerful influences, most un-
scrupulously employed, and nothing can ba more
un wise and ungenerous than to leave them to do
so unaided. The Sunday League will no doubt
lend every aid, and petitions other than Sabbata-
rian will no doubt be forthcoming from the coun-
try. Let the working population but display re-
solution and energy, and they will break the
yoke of S ibbatisin at once and for ever. Thou-
sands who stand personally in need of no Sunday
recreation will help them if they only help them-
selves. Cannot they arrange meetings through-
out the metropolis, where the idolatry of Sabba-
tism may be exposed, forms of petition agreed on,
and individuals appointed to obtain signatures in
their respective localities ?

THE HEART THAT LOVES.

[FOR MUSIC.]

The heart that loves with warmth and truth
Outlives the bloom of Spring,
And fondly keeps the glow of youth
'Mid all that Age can bring.
Oh! say not that Old Time can dim
Life's deep and mystic cup,
While Feeling sparkles on the brim,
And Nature fills it up.
The heart that springs on eat nest wings
Will soar with eagle-flight ;
And, mounting through the clouds of gloom,
Will still find realms of light.

The heart that worships holy things
Can always meet a shrine ;
And, like a smiling cherub, sings
A song that's half divine.
It yearns with faith to kindred forms,
It throbs when night winds sigh,
'Tis held below where daisies grow,
And linked to stars on high.
The heart that loves with warmth and truth
Will always find some bliss,
And gain a light from worlds more bright
To cheer its path in this.

MARCO.

CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday at the Foreign•ofce, Downing•street. The
Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Glanville, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Earl of liarrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon,
Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right
lion. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duko of Argyll. The
Council sat three hours.
DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY AND COURT FOR OS-
BORNE.—On Saturday afternoon her _Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice,
Prince Alfred, the Princesses Helena and Louisa, Prince
Arthur, and Prince Leopold, left Buckingham Palace
and proceeded in six of the Queen's carriages to the new
station at Wandsworth, escorted by a eletachment of the
3,1 Light Dragoon Guards ; and, on ar riving, proceeded
by special train to Gosport.

TAE
BANDS IN THE PARKS.—The /lumber of visitors
yesterday was as bllows :
Kensington Gardens
Regent's Park...
Victoria Park ...

80,830
92,492
85,191

Total 258,513

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
TRIESTE, SUNDAY, MAY 11.

The steamer Australia arrived hero this morn-
ing at 9 30 a.m., in 106 hours from Alexandria,
which port she left on the 6th inst.
The Indian mail was to leave Alexandria on
that day, with advices from Bombay to the 16th
of April, and Calcutta to the Bth of April.
The prospects of the indigo crop are favourable.
The money market has improved at Bombay,
but not at Calcutta.

The banks of Bombay have reduced their rate

of discount 2 per cent.
The import trade is good.
Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. 2id. ; at Bombay,

2s. 21

MARSEILLES, SUNDAY, MAY 11.

The Tamise has arrived with advices from Con-
stantinople of the Ist of May, and from the
Crimea on the 22th of April. She brings 450

men.

Despatches leave at 10 p.m.
The Fleurus man-of-war, the frigates Darien,
Magellan, and Panama, and the steamers Assy-
rien and Mentor, have arrived with 4,500 troops
from the Crimea.

COPENHAGEN, MAY 10.

In a protocol signed yesterday Russia and
Sweden formally adhered to the mode of capital-
ising the Sound Dues proposed by the Danish

Government.

TURIN, MAY 10.

Count de Cavour has presented to the Cham-
bers a second note on the affairs of Italy, and
has communicated it to the Governments of

England and France.

It states tbat the Austrians, by occupying the
Legations, usurp the power of the Pope, and im-

pose a continual state of siege.

And it adds a proposal for secularising the
Legations for internal affairs, by which means the
foreign occupation of the Roman States would be

that you have done my never-to-be-forgotten father and
myself The extensive duties of Minister of W9,r have
been considerably increased in the course of the war,
and, as I have been daily a witness of your labcurs, I
cannot do other.ise than render full justice to your in-
defatiga'Ae activity and incessant care to bring every-
thinz into the desired state of order. In the firm con-
vicion that I shall find in you a zealous executor of my
views and wishes, I have in the recent general orders
nominated you to be General of Cavalry, as a mark of
my special favour. "ALEXANDER."
The YiTarMinisterhas decided on deputing officers
of various arms to visit foreign armies for the pur-
pose of learning their tactics and foreign languages.
It has also drawn up a plan for the systematic or-
ganization of their studies. The commanding
officer of each corps proposes three officers from
every arm, and the Minister of War has to procure
the Emperor's confirmation of his own nomination
of them. There are already three Russian officers
arrived here in Berlin, who have entered the Ist
Regiment of Foot Guards at Potsdam, for the pur-
pose of learning officers' duty according to the
Prussian school. It is also understood here that a
further number of officers will soon reach here,
~ither for the purpose of entering this service (and
that chiefly in the administrative department), or
of passing through to other countries. It is said
that among them are some naval officers, who are
to obtain admission to serve on board our fleet.

The disbanding of the irregular troops that have
lately been serving under Prince Gortschakoff in
the Crimea is now being arranged in Moscow.

A UiS T R I A.
A letter from Vienna in the Cologne Gazette
says :—" The honour which the municipal
council of Vienna has paid to Count de
Buol, of conferring on him the diploma of ho-
norary citizen, has since 1848 been conferred
only on six persons—viz., Marshal Radetzky,
Baron Haynau, Baron Jellachich, Baron do Hess,
and the Princes de Schwartzenberg and de Die-
trichstein."

A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the Ger-
man Journal of Frankfort, says : " The
Archbishop of Olmutz, Landgrave of Fursten-
berg, left yesterday for Chemnitz. The Prince
Archbishop of Schwartzenberg will proceed to
Prague on the Bth. Count Colloredo, the new
ambassador to Rome, will leave next week for
his post. Count Lenzoni, the Tuscan ambassa-
dor at Vienna, has returned after a long absence.
M. A. Berenyi, the dramatic author, was killed
yesterday in attempting to spring out of a carriage,
the horses of which had become unmanageable."
The Austrian Gazette states that the Emperor
has appointed Count Clam-Martinitz president of
the Government of Cracow, in place of Count Mer-
candin, who returns to the council of the empire.