The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-28 00:00:00

SOUTH-EASTERN.

The number of passengers on this line to
and from the London-bridge terminus on Thursday,
June 26, was 15,540—namely, 7,579 to London, and
7,961 from London.

EASTERN COUNTIES.
The number of passengers conveyed on this railway
to and from the London terminus on Monday, the 23d
of Jane, was 16,125—namely, 12,372 to London, and
3,753 from London; and on Tuesday, the 24th of June,
the number conveyed was ' 11,166—namely 7,300 to
London, and 3,868 from London.

LLTNVI VALLEY RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, in Mr.
Bernal's Committee, the Bill of this company for juncrion
with, and power to sell or lease to the South Wales Rail-
way, was declared proved.
MANOIDSTER, BUXTON, AND MIDLAND RAIL..
WAY.—In Mr. Bernal's committee this company's bill for
completion and purchase of Cromford Canal was declared
proved.
RAILWAY FACILITIES EMI CONVZYANCR cr
Yesterday, in the Committee of the House of Lords on the
Bill of the Great Northern Railway Company for communi-
cation with Grimsby Harbour, an extensive dealer in the
London Fish market stated, that by means of the railway
communication between London and Grimsby, he had re-
ceived 8,000 lobsters that morning, and sold them for the s
ply of the metropolis, the cargo leaving Grimsby at eight r.M.
and arriving in London at four A.m.

THE Finn AT LONDON-BRIDGE.—Mr. Payne, the
coroner for Southwark, considering that the opinion ex-
pressed in Common Council on Thursday "authorises him to
do so, has issued a warrant for holding an inquest to inquire
into the cause of the fire at London-bridge, on Monday next,
the 30th inst., at eleven o'clock.

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1851.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
(From the Times.)
Mr. Paxton, wi.h all the ((clings of a parent, has
come to the rescue of the Crystal Palace in thia crises
of its fate. Startieg from a somewhat different direction,
and redolent of Chatsworth, he proposes an application
of the building substantiantially the same as that advo-
cated by " D narius." Pe,hups the latter dwells a little
more nu the fine arts, on fetes, and other miscellaneous
uses of a recondite or popular character, while Mr. Pax-
ton has chi. fly in his eye those purposes to which the
gardens and coniervateries of our aristocracy or
of the nation have hitherto been app ied. Put
together Chatsworth and Kew, the Botanic and
Z tologic al Gardens in Regent's-park, the Jardie
des Plantes, the subterranean orangery at Versailles, and
the cloisters of the convent, and the aggregate will al-
most make up what Mr. Paxton would give ns in Hyde-
park. Another suggestion is made in both pamphlets,
but more expressly in the oce than in the other. " De-
naritla " would let into the building the gay chivalry
of the park, only making them pay a heavy toll.
Mr. Paxton is also prepared for their admission. We
have our doubts on this point. Such a feature, to the
extent that would be exp-c:ed in the Crystal Palace,
would not be so convenient to the equestriaa as it
would he inconvenient to the pedestriaricrowd. It et ould
he a pity t r sacrifice the nave to so extraneous a pur-
pose; the larger aisles are broktin by staircases, Slid the
smaller would not t,a'i,fy the mounted interest. There
are comparatively few days during the London season
in which Rotten-row is not available. A riding-school
ought to have a circuit, so as to ;admit of a gallop. On
the whole, the butane° is against the plan, at least es fir
as we can ?lOW 890 our way, and Mr. Paxton has wisely •
said little about it.

Eighteco acres of
ensure oround under cover is a
thing to be appreciated by country people quite as much
as by Londouers, and by
folk.
by CityWe shall beet express
Belgravians quite as much as
our estimetion of
the idea when we say, that should it be realized, we
shall seriously recumtnend our country friends to come
up in the winter for the benefit of the air. Iu the
greater part of this beautiful island it is scarcely. possible
for delicate ladies and children to get exercise fur the
greater part of the year. Ono day it snows, another deY it
blows; it rains, or it burns; it is dirty, or it is dusty, or
otherwise intolerable. For the stronger sex, indeed, and
for such ladies as can and will claim its privilege s, we
hold with Charles 11. that there is not a day in the
year in which one cannot take a walk out of doors.
But our ladies aro not made for rough weather. Their
dress is not compact or weather-preof; it is soon
drenched by the rain, draggled by the mud, faded by the
hest, or loaded with the dust. The female complexion
is soon freckled by the sun, parched by the frost, or
roughened by that violent degree of exercise which is
necessary to keep the blood flowing in our usual winter
weather. The ground underfoot is generally so rough
or de wet that uisleot a lady could put on her husband's
boot a, and unless she can afford new shoes for her little
girls once a fortnight, that alone is a serious obstacle to
walking. The commonalty of this metropolis, who,
it they have not always the purest air in the world,
have hundreds of miles of pavement to walk on, and
hundreds of miles of houses to protect them from the
blast, with doorways and omnibuses in the event of
rain, little know how difficult it is to manage a " con-
stitutional" walk daily in the country. The father of
the family, healt,hy hinsseli, and full of sanitary
thoughts, asks day after day, at dinner, whether Mary
and Bessey have bad their walk, and is almost
as often met with some allegation of skyey
influence or elemental attire. We assure Lou-
(loners, then, that if they.can get what is proposed ta
04 in the cast-off shell of. the Great Exhibition, they
will be better off, so tar. than most country people—that
re, nountry people so genteel auto care fur complexions
and dirt. The omnibus, returned by that time to
threepence, will take the children from any part of this
metropolis to the Crystal Palace, where they will
be abie to walk, or to play, or to sit, for a couple of
hours, among as beautiful shrubberies, and floweta, and
fountains, and lakes, and rockeries, and streams, and
statues, and other ornaments and curiosities of nature
sad art, as money and taste can bring together. The
daughters of the squire or the rector on the fat soil of
the tens will have reason to envy the privilege.
It is not a little remarkable that the idea which these
ingenious and hitherto most successful projectors have
chiefly to fight against is that which seems inseparable
from their plans. That Use Crystal Palace is a colossal
greeithouse, or blue-house" as somebody has called it,
is as much a condemnation as it is a fact. But the
English idea of a greenhouse is derived from the
familiar domestic example, which is a square lean-to,
built! against a garden wall, or the side
of a house ; with rows of flower-pots rising
above one another, with a stone pavement always
damp, with sliding sashes that always stick, with small
panes always leaking at the sides and foul at the joints,
with a warming apparatus always out of order; the
plantB always infested with vermin, the atmosphere
always an invisible steam, and the whole fabric operating
as a Still, of which the adjoining apartment is the damp
and unwholesome condenser. That is the greenhouse,
and when a set of horticultural enthusiasts propose to
send the population of London to take the air in a
greenhouse, popular prejudice will be apt to think that
any open suburb, be it tnly Kennington. common, will
do better for the purpose. 31r. Paxton, as well as
Deriarius," meets this prejudice boldly and successfully.
lie talks of the old tropical conservatoties, and even of
the palm-house at Kew, as a piece that an Englishman
runs through without stopping. lie is confident of a sys-
tem of warming and ventilation which will secure what
climate we please; southern Italy for gentle prumesaiers
in winter, end the east wind; a specimen of the tropics,
if necessary, and tine bracing sir for those who can walk
'quick, but do not like muddy boots or wet clothes.
For the present boarding round the lower tier of tee
building he proposes to substitute glass, which he says
will immediately and marvellously improve the appear-
ance of the building, and do morn justice to its architec-
tural design. This glass he would remove in summer,
leaving nothing but a vast root hangieg over green-
swatd end shrubbery. fine pillars he would clothe with
creepers. Our Parisian neiga bouts have usurped—we
had almost said spoilt—the tire of Champs Elysies;
nor is the English taste quite so ambitious; but the ex-
ample of our own puthe gardens, and of.those at Paris,
shows to how many instructive and recreative purposes
a garden may be applied. No place so suitable fur bo-
tauicat, mineralogical, and ornithological collections. As
for ornament, with perhaps the exception of the organs
and the silks, there is not an object in the whole of the
present nave which might not remain with safety, it there
were the funds for its purchase. 'We will volunteer a
hint of our own, not because we have any wish to see
it adopted, but merely to show the capabilities of such
a winter gamete At least it quarter of the British.
Museum is occupied with stuffed birds and beasts, and
other physiological collmiens. Would they not be
much better placed, besides setting at liberty a great
deal of va•usble space, in the Crystal Palace?
In these days no pre ject is complete without a finan-
cial 'statement. Mr. Paxton, like " Denarius," gives
us an estimate of expenditure, but leaves others to ce-
cafe whether it shall be met by a national grant, or by
making the building self-supporting. lie has apps.-
parently set his heart on presenting the Crystal Palace
tree to all nations, leaving pence for the door at St.
Paul's: We are afraid that the " self-supporting"
system is that which suits us the best. It is the
self-tupporting system that has made the Zoolo-
gical Gardens and the Great Exhibition what
they are. If the Winter Garden is to answer, let it be
sell-supportiog. The moderate tariff proposed by o De-
nariu," which will give every one the run of the build-
ing four days in the week, winter and summer, for a
penny arch admission, will raise enough for all neces-
sary purposes. If. the expenses of continual repair
are likely to be considerable, they admit of bid, g
readily calculated. It is easy to estimate an annual avt-
rtsge of panes to be replaced or new puttied, a saJa
bars to be renewed, of gutters to be new painted or
lined, of new calico, and all the other expenses. There is
here no incalculable element—no. massive walls gradu-
ally settling into the quicksands below, no subaqueous
piers, tie sculptured walls mouldering under the wear
and tear of the elements. Everythieg here is comprised
in the books of prices, and when " Denarius" and ler.
Paxton estimate the substantial maintenance of the build-
ing, the former at 5,5001. a year, the latter at 4,0001,, we
have no doubt that they aro speaking within compass,
the slitsht difference in their estimates arising only from
variety as to the items included.

TUE SHAKESPERE SOCIETY.—A very :curious and
valuable discovery has recently been made among the papers
and evidence of the Mostyn family. It is an original play
of the time of Shakespere, even the title of which has not
bitheAo been recorded ; and it has been with the utmost
liberality placed by the owner in the hands of Mr. Payne
Collier, the director of the Shakespere Society, for imme-
diate publication by that body. The story is a very remark-
able one, of a highly popular character, and it relates very
much to the achievements of two magicians of the middle
ages, to promote or lo defeat the marriage of the daughter
of one of the Earls of Chester with a Prince of Wales. The
drama is enti• ely in the handwriting of the author, Anthony
Munday, who subscribes the manuscript, and who was o,e
of the most notorious dramatists contemporary with bhak-
spere, Ben Jonson, Massinger, &c.

. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OP SEWERs.—An
adjourned Court of Sewers was held yesterday at their
offices, 1 Greek-street, Soho; Lord Ebriugton in the chair.
The following were the Commissioners present- captain
Dawson, Messrs. Bendel!, Lawes, P. Hardwick, and Thomas
Hawes. Among the works ordered were the following
Works at Swain's-lane, Highgate, 442/ for laying down
1,015 feet of 18-inch, 30 feet of 12-inch, and. 60 feet of 9-inch
pipes in George-row, Bermondsey district, 2701.3 3foir s,
con-
structing 750 feet of sewer, 3 feet 9 inches by
2 feet
in King's-road, St. Pancras district, 3371.
inches,
in ; constructing
785 feet of sewer, 3 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 3 inches, in the
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Seven Sister's-road, Holloway district, 3701•; mounting-
Ordnance maps,
Lv
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ltl4/., &c. Rates were made on the reen-
wich, Richmond, and A.,,,,ensbourne
trds; and certain
parties summoned to appear having bedeiisihe,rd, the Court
separated.
—On the arrival of the m Ail
HOLY READ, JuNa AO.
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), Davis, from Kings own,
packet St. Colombo ( Thetis, Fell, of
about 12t:, A.m., she rasntei
• she lia,l come to anchor a
Runcorn ,
anmtoerttie schooner
and for Yarmouth, from
fthepier head, right in the steamer's
little to north-west of t p She almi,st immediately fi led
tr leir, and I tad no lii, i U.
and went down, only
s- her top.. rt n,
qts and yards are to be seenabove water; Paved
crew
was delayed a little, is consequence of come damage to her
paddles.
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,
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works, was pronot 'need to be so far gone in consumption that
the medical men had given him up as incurable. On seeing
Holloivay's Pills advertised, he thought he would give them a
trial, anti after taking a few boxes his cough abate,l, his flesh
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and at Professor 1-1.0110 way's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Ciptaiii G orge Ro •ney Mundy has been appointed
flag captain to Vice-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, C. 8.,
at Sheerceis. It is understood that Mr. Smith, the se-
cretal to the ex-Commander-in•Chief, will remain as
secretary. The London, 92. will sup •rsedo the Oce•in
on the Ist of July as the flag-ship; the. Ocean will be
paid cii on the 30th inst.

CAp sin Chad, C. 13., pays off the Excellent at Porta-
! mouth, on the 30th inst.. and on the Ist of July corn-
naisiocs her with the same eqmplement. C ,rnmander
Sir W. S. ‘Viscitnan, Bart., CominiinclvrJerningham, and
all the heutenants and other officers will be re-appointed.
The anniversary of her Majesty's coronation will be
kept by the dockyard to day; the public offiters will
have their usual holiday, but the Portsmouth people will
keep holiday on Monday next, Saturday being the mar-
ket-day. The ships and troops will fire the customary
salute at noon.

_ . .
Clerk—John J. Stevens has been appoint(' d to the
Prince fl gent, 92, at Lisbon.
master's Assis ten t—lienry C. Sednion to the Tharre-g..
ushle, ti7g-ship, Devour),,, t.
Carpenter—William Greensell, of the Arrogant, to be
acting:.
Adder steam tender, with seamen paid off from the
W64leeley, at Ch3th:an, arrived :At lXvouport on Wed.
nesd.q, took in coole, and sailed gin on Thursday, on
her return.

Avon steam-tender, which sailed wish seamen and
marines paid r ff :rem the calcdonit. on Tuesday evening,
returned to Devonport on '‘r.ursclay morning.
Sidon stemn-tricatc. Commander. Gardner was taken
into dock on Thursday, and her copper where the.. beg"
could not toucli•was very much covered with weeds.
Slte•V`fas scrubbed and taken cut the following tide.
She and the REAribuVon go out of harbour at ten
o'el, ck, and will probably proceed on to .Cork. with-
out anchoring at Spithead. Our .correspondent says—
.. Sir Ch,irea Yipif,r has (i understand) the Bee
steamer, Second Master-Commander Alfred Astessum.
placed at his disposal; for he will probably go outride the
Nab in the Sidon, and return bwk in the Bee, lie has
been inspecting his pet ship, and is no doubt glad to ace
her in commtssion. She will teat the Retribution in
every and by herself would .ke the passage out
inl y ;
four or five nr
days less than the latter ungainly vessel,
as she is of great horse power and less tonnage; but
they wid be obliged to keep company, so as to be able to
assist each other in case of breaking down."

Vengeance, 84, Csptain Lord Edward Russell, exer-
cised tiring live sheds and shot at a target on Wednes-
"Y 14. t, and yesterday was exercising her large guns
With blank cartridge. She has practised firing salvos of
eight guns at a time at fixed intervals, &c.
The Portsmouth Dockyard Boat Brigade, under com-
mand of Major Davis, master attendant of the Clarence-
yard, have het n exercised in gunnery practice several
evenings during the week, firing blank cartridges.
THE

NE vlThir—WE ttlf STEAM-
SHIP, THE BARON 03Y.
Yesterday this splendid iron Ntoam-ship, recently
launched, went down the River on her trial trip, for the
purpose of testing her speed and capabilities. The vessel,
gaily decorated with the flags of Belgium and England,
started from her moorings, off Blackvvall, precisely at
half-past twelve o'clock with a large and distinguished
party of visitors on hoard, among whom were Lord Ber-
riedale, Sir James Hamilton, Mr. and Miss Pratt, Mr.
Lawrell, M. Fleury, Belgian Minister of the Extereur,
and daughter; Mrs. Dalvey anti Miss Gilbert, Captain
and Mrs. Lichfi, Id, Mr. Scott Russell, Mr. Robinson,
the Baron Paradteini, Mr and Mrs. Lightly, Captain
and Mrs. Cochlan, M. Clem, nts, the Chevalier Schultz,
Dr. end Mrs. Payne, the Consul of Monte Video and
lady. Mrs. Townsend and niece, Dr. and Mrs. Row-
cliffs, &c.

The Baron Osy is about 600 tons burden, and has
engines of 220 horse-power. She belongs to the Ant-
werp Steam-packet Company, and is intended to ply
between London and Antwerp, and from her superior
speed and peculiar build, it is iully anticipated that she
would make the trip between the two ports in 14 or 15
hours—leaving London in the afternoon, and arriving is
Antwerp early the next morning—so as to enable tra-
vellers to reach Cologne, on the Rhine, the same night.
The saloons and sleeping berths are fitted up with great
elegance and taste, the prevailing colours being those
employed in the decoration of the Exhibition batwing in
Hyde-park, by Mr. Owen Jones—namely, white, blue.
and yellow. The main saloon will dine with ease 150
passengers, and the number of berths is proportionally
large. When going at full speed her time, as taken by
a person on board employed for the purpose, was said
to be 15 2-3 knots an hour. Her motion is extremely
easy, and we have no doubt she will fully maintain the
reputation of the enterprising company to which she
belongs.

A very elegant dejeuner was provided on board fot
the guests, who amounted to upwards of 200, and " roe
health of the gallant Captain Jackson, and success to the
new steam-ship the Baron Osy," was drunk in flowing
bumpers of champagne. There was a quadrille band on
board, which contributed much to the pleasure and en-
joyment of the trip, and tempted many of the visitors to
take part in the quadrilles, polkas, &c., which beguiled
the short interval baween the termination of the enter-
tainment and the arrival of the vessel at Blackwall.
Captain Jackson, the commander, was unremitting in
his attention to the comforts of his numerous guests
during the day, which Wa's one of unmixed *atom and
gratification to all who were present.

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SEABORNE MAILS.
[N stimines that the mails are sent from the General Post-ofilei
by the nlaht —and 41 by the morning--4lspatch.)

When made up in From what
PLACES. General Pout-office port die-
London. patched. due.
America (by Brit. pla.)N July 4 !Liverpool .. July. 5
America (by U.S. pkt.) N July 1 !Liverpool July 2
America (by US. pkt.) M July 2 .. ISouthampt. Arrived
Atriea (Wvit coast).. N 114th of the month Plymouth July 3
Alexandria* • • ...... N 19th & 30th of .. June 2$
Belgium . • .. .. Ni Daily I t +over .. Daily.
Brazil . &i 9th of the month Southampt. July 12
Buenos Ayres .. M 19th of the month Southampt. July 12
Califoruia(viaCharres) M I hi & 17th of monti Southampt. July 5
Cape of Good Hope 11!14th of month Plymouth.. Ju y 8
Constantinople* .. • • Nl7th 17th 77th of mo Dover .. une 30
Central America .. bii2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. July 5
Channel Isles • • .. N I Sion., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. TtaS a
AI 17th of the month Southampt. July 70
France & N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily
Greece* • • .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover • • June 30
Ilamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Uolland M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mek.Thur
Honduras .. N,l7th of the mouth Southampt. July 20
Ireland .. & NiTwice daily.. Holyhead.. Iwicedidly
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. July 43
India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th efmonth'Dover .. July 1
Mediterranean (via
Southampton)
f•Aa. .. M.2oth of the month Sonthampt. July 21

Chili . Ai 17th of the month Southampt.
France 51 & N Twice daily .. .. Dover
Greece* . • .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover
Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London ..
Holland .. 31 Wednes. & Satur. London ..
Honduras .. N,17 th of the month Southampt.
Ireland .. Id & NiTwice daily Holyhead ..
India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the month Southampt.
India (vi Al arsenics) N 7th& 24th efmonth' Dover
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) • • M.2oth of the month Sonthampt.
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) N 7that 24th of month Dover • •
Mexico .. M2d of the month.. Southampt.
Madeira • • • • .. M 9th of the month Southauipt.
2z, C 7th,17th,19th,27th 2Dover
& 30th of month
Napless •• • • N sth 15th 25th of rno Dover • •
Papal States' N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover ..
Peninsular.. M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt.
Peru • • • • .. .. At 17th of the month southamnt.
Tuscany* N sth 1 r,th 25th ofmoDover
West Indies M 17th of the month ISouthampt.l.
West Indies (except I
Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month .. ISonthasapt. (July $
* The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed bit
French pack.-t Marseilles
Cimmertia.— Mails to and from California, via the United States
are now despatched and due by every American packet.

(July 1
(July 5
July 12
June 25

Malta*

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July 2
July 05
July 20
July 2
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