The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-06 00:00:00

COURSE OF EEG

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MUSIC IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.

Yesterlay was issued a return to an address of th
House of Commons, for a "copy of correspondence be-
tween the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Furst Lord
of the Treasury, on the suppression of music in Kensing-
ton-gardens on Sundays."
The correspondence is as follows :
"The Archbishop of Canterbury to Lord Palmerston.
" Lambeth, 10th May, 185 G.
"My Lord,—Your lordship mast permit me to address
you on a subject on\ which I ought perhaps to have com-
municated with you Sooner, but on which I can no longer
he silent, either on my own account or on that of many
of my episcopal brethren, who are appealed to very ear-
nestly respecting the Sunday music in the park.
" It is with much rebictance that I interfere in a matter
which has the sanction of her Majesty's Government,
and in which a large class of persons is interested whom
we should be most unwilling to deprive of any harmless
gratification. Bus the letters and petitions which reach
tile daily, and call for an expression of my opinion either
in Parliament or elsewhere, make it impossible for me to
conceal from your lordship the feeling with which these
performances are regarded, and the offence which they
occasion to a large and influential portion of her 11Ma-
j4sty's subjects. These consider the question as to their
continuance or diecontinnauce a vital question as con-
cerns the national religion.
" Concurring as I do in these sentiments, I feel it a
duty which I owe to my station to represent them to
your lordship.—Fhave, &c
(Signed)

" J. D. CANTIJAR."

"Lord Palmerston to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
" Broadlands, May 10, 1856.

"My dear Lord,—l received your letter of to-day, just
as I was leaving London for this place. I concurred in
the arrangements fa- performances by military bands in
Kensington-gardens and in the parks for a couple of
hours on Sunday afternoon, after Divineservice, because
I thought that those arrangements would afford the
inhabitants of the metropolis innocent intellectual re-
creation, combined with fresh air and healthy exercise,
and such recreation did not seem to me to be at variance
with the soundest and purest sentiments of religion.
Such was my opinion, and such is my opinion still ; for
I have heard nothing on the part of those who object to
these arrangements which has altered my view of the
matter.

"But I find from your lordship's letter, and from re-
presentations which have reached me fram other quar-
ters, that a great number of persons wliose opinions are
entitled to respect, look upon the matter from a different
point of view, and entertain in regard to it strong opi-
nions widely different from my own.
" In this htata of things I am naturally led to ask my-
self, whether the advantage to be gained by a continu-
ance of these musical performances is sufficiently great
to compensate for the evil of running counter to the
religious feelings of a large body of the community ; and
to that question there can be but one answer, namely,
that it is nut. I shall therefore, in deference to the
sentiments expressed by your grace, on your own part,
and on that of others, take steps for discontinuing the
band playing in Kensington-gardens and in the parks on
Sundays.—My dear lord, yours, &c.,
(Signed) " PALMERSTON."

OLD HAT.—The .Ectitern Argus tells about one of its
its subscribers calling at the office wearing a hat which
he had worn for the last forty years ? Of course, he did
not wear it every day, but kept it for Sunday use, and
wore it occasionally on holidays. It was still a good
hat, and looked as though it would last forty years
more. The owner said the changes of style made it a
fashionable hat every five or six years.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH INA CHURCH.—On Tuesday
Mr. Bedford, the coroner, received information of a snd
den death which took place on Sunday morning last, at
the Scotch Churph, Crown-court, of which the 11ev. Dr.
Cumming is the minister. Mr. Pring, who resides in
Brook-street, Holborn, a little before eleven o'clock,
entered his mach, wien be suddenly fell back in his seat.
Mr. Ransom, his son-in-law, supported him, and some of
the deacons sent messengers for a surgeon, but not one
was at home. He was immediately conveyed on a
stretcher to King's College Hospital, where life was pro-
nounced extinct. He was 68 years of age.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Thursday,
June s.—Admissions on payment, 6,135; ditto, by
season tickets, 587 ; total visitors, 6,722.
ANOTHER BANK DISCLOSURE.--Another of these dis
closures took place yesterday in the ice-Chancellor's
Court on a petition for winding up the Cheltenham and
Gloucestershire Joint Stock Bank. According to the
petition the concern was established in May, 1836. A
Mr. Ridlor was the manager, and in January last the
directors discovered a considerable deficiency in the se-
curities ; and while the amount of the loss, which was
shortly found to have swept away the whole capital of
the bank, was still uncertain, they prepared or sanc-
tioned the presentation of a report to the proprietors re-
commending a dividend of 5 per cent., and stating that
after its payment the profits of the half-year would leave
a surplus. In extenuation of their conduct the directors
seem to put forth the common plea, that they were no
parties to the delinquency by which the bank bad been
ruined, and that the report in question wts concocted in
order to prevent a sudden run, which would have in-
creased the embarrassments of liquidation. Their coun-
sel contended that their conduct had been "most wise
and judicious ;" and, although the court could not ex-
press actual concurrence in this view, there appears to
have been the disposition usual in all such cases "to
avoid casting the least censure,' in any quatter.