The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, IPS

actually did occur before Sebastopol. And which
we here commemorate as one, alas ! in every way
painfully significant and frightfully characteristic.

The agitation in the Sabbatarian camp in-
creases, and numerous as have been the petitions
in favour of the existing monopoly, the cry in the
House of Commons still is " They come." So
be it. " Truth is great, and must prevail ! "
Despite oceans of froth, some appeals of a higher
order, barrowsful of petitions, gallons of black
ink, and thousands of signatures authoritatively
invoked or ingeniously manipulated, the move-
mentparty hav e the satisfaction of knowing that the
victory must be theirs before long. The goodnessof
their cause becomes only the more manifest as
the hubbub increases. Their arguments are still
intact, and even more cogent than before, and for
misrepresentation and calumny they can expose the
one, and have virtue enough to despise the other.
The great cry of the Sabbatarians is that the
opening of the British Museum and similar insti-
tutions on a Sunday involves the secularisation of
the Sabbath, and will inevitably lead to the
emptying of churches, chapels, &c., on that day.
A humiliating admission truly, and provocative
enough of sarcastic comm eat. What are
the facts ? The movement party, who
neither make nor wish to make any profit
of the Day of Rest have made inquiry into the
condition of the working classes who most need
it, and to their sorrow have discovered that in
the metropolis at least they are debarred from
moral and intellectual recreation during the week,
and only celebrate the Sunday as a day of recrea-
tion from animal toil. Wholly dissatisfied with
such a state of things, they have sought for some

means to raise them from their degraded condition,
and have found in the institutions in question at
once a lure and a lever for the purpose—a lure
in that the novelty of the sights there to be wit-
nessed is sure to attract them, and a lever in that
it is impossible to witness such sights without being
drawn out from their heathen materiality and led to
reverence the DIVINE power and goodness in crea-

tion, and in the labour of the chiefest work of His

hands. This lure and lever, far from setting
in rivalry with the lure and lever of Revelation,
they are only desirous shall be put in action in

:he interval between morning and evening service
—a period at present not so satisfactorily em-
ployed as they, whatever may be the case with
the Sabbatarians, can approve. In this lure and
lever they cannot discover, and the Sabbatarians
are unable to point out, anything sinful, unless it
be a sin to see a collection when there is no sin in
seeing a part—a sin to inspect curiosities of
nature and of art, gathered from every quarter of
the globe, and no sin in witnessing the wonders of
nature and art scattered broadcast over and about
the metropolis of their own country. Yet this
lure and lever the Sabbatarians will not have
employed. To open the doors of the British
Museum, dn., for the moral and intellectual ele-
vation of the masses is, forsooth, to "secularise the
Sabbath." To raise the noblest handiwork of the
CREATOR from the slough into which he has fallen,
and from which they are confessedly impotent
to so large an extent, to lift him by their chapels
and churches, to hold out an innocent lure that
will succeed where theirs, as they employ it, no-
toriously fails, this is to " secularise the Sabbath"
—to do a work which is to shake honesty, virtue,
and religion to their foundations, and bring down
on us the wrath of HEAVEN ! Might one not ask
whether, receiving fat incomes and showing little
or no Christian harvest for them, is not better
worthy of being designated " secularisation of the
Sabbath r " Oh, but," say the Sabbatarians,
" if you open these places you must open others,
and where are you to stop ? The end will
be that the workman will have to give
seven clap' labour for six days' pay."
To this we reply, no more places need be opened
than those to which the grounds:a appeal of the
movement party will apply, and no place should
be shut to whichtithey do ; and, so far from there
being valid reason to apprehend the catastrophe
indicated, the only danger, if any, to be appre-
hended in this direction is from the unchristian
virulence of the Sabbatarians themselves. Before
man and GOD, the British labourer is worked hard
enough and paid badly enough already, and it will
be something more than an illogical conclusion which
will get more labour out of him when all the logic in
the world would not suffice. Those who point to
the Parisians, by way of warning on this head,
show, in our humble opinion, a profound igno-
rance of the subject—the Parisian workmen not
being nearly so hard-worked, and having more
opportunity for recreation during the week ;
while the Parisian shopkeeper, it is notorious,
takes care at all times to make business pleasan

DEATH OF ME DUKE OF NORFOLK, La

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We deeply regret to announce the death of the Duke
of Norfolk, which took place yesterday morning, at
Arundel Castle, the ancient baronial seat of the illustri-
ous family in Sussex. His Grace during the last two
years has been in an unsatisfactory state of health, which
has occasioned uneasiness to the members of his family,
but not alarm. It appears his Grace was seized wit
serious symptoms yesterday morning, which caused the
utmost alarm to the Duchess, and at a few minutes be-
fore 10 o'clock tie noble Duke expired.
The deceased, Henry Charles, Duke of Norfolk, Earl
of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, and Baron Fitzalan,
Clun, Oawaldestre, and Maltravers in the peerage of
England, the Premier Duke and Hereditary Earl Mar-
shal, was the only child of Bernard Edward, 15th Duke
of Norfolk, by Lady Elizabeth Bellasyse, third daughter
of Henry, second and last Earl of Fauconberg, which
marriage was dissolved in May; 1794. The deceased
Duke was born 12th of August, 1791, and married 27th
of December, 1814, Lady Charlotte Leveson Gower,
eldest daughter of Granville first duke of Sutherland,
and sister of tbe present Duke. By that marriage the
late Duke had issue three sons and twe daughters—
namely, the Eirl of Arundel and Surrey (now Duke of
Norfolk), Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard, M.P., mar-
ried to Miss Talbot, niece of the late Earl of Shrews-
bury, Lord Bernard Howard, who died in Egypt a few
years ago ; Lady Mary, married to Lord Foley, and
Lady Adeliza. married last autumn to Lord George
Manners, M.P.

His late Grace, when Earl of Surrey, was the first
Roman Catholic who took the oaths and his seat in the
House of Commons after the passing of the Roman Ca-
tholic Emancipation Act in 1829. The bill received the
Royal assent on the 13th of April, and Mr. R. H.
Hurst, M.P. for Horsham, resigned his seat, and the
Earl of Surrey was returned fur that family borough,
and took his seat is the House of Commons on the 6th
of May following. He was again re-elected for Hors-
ham at the general elections of 1830 and 1831. At the
next general election, in 1832, he was returned, in con-
junction with Lord George Lennox, for the Western
Division of Sussex, and continued its representative up
to 1341, when his Grace was summoned by writ to the
House of Lords, during the lifetime of his father, by the
title of Baron Maltravers, one of the ancient titles of the
family •, and on the 16th of March, 1842, he succeeded
to the dukedom on the death of his father.
His Grace bad filled several offices in her Majesty's
household. In July, 1839, he was appointed Treasurer
of the Queen's Household, and made a Privy Councillor,
having succeeded Sir W. H. Fremantle, who had dis-
charged the duties of that office mere than 20 years. On
Sir Robert Peel's retirement from office in July, 1816,
he succeeded the Earl of Jersey as Master of the Horse.
which office he held until the formation of the Earl of
Derby's Ministry. On the Earl of Aberdeen taking
office fie was made Lord Steward of the Household, but
soon afterwards relinquished that place to Earl Spencer,
in December, 1853. In politics it is almost unnecessary
to say his Grace was a staunch Whig. He was highly
incensed at the Papal aggression, and the same year his
Grace renounced the Roman Catholic faith, and passed
over to the Anglican Church.
The deceased duke is succeeded in the dukedom and
ancient family honours by his son Henry Granville, Esrl
of Arundel and Surrey, born Nov. 7, 1315, and married
on the 19th of June, 1839, to Augusta Mary, daughter
of Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, G.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, by whom he has a youth-
ful family. The present Duke was formerly in the Royal
Horse Guards, and on his retirement from the army, in
1837, entered the House of Commons as representative
for Arundel, which he eat for in several Parliaments. He
also sat for the city of Limerick for a few months. The
duke is a rigid Roman Catholic, and highly esteemed by
the RomisCclergy.
The late Duke was a Knight of the Garter, a Fellow
of the Royal Society, and several other societies.
The hereditary office of Earl Marshal, so long con-
tinued in the Norfolk family, is descended by the female
side from Thomas De Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham,
the first Earl Marshal of England.

MR. AND MADAME GOLDSC.HMIDTS
MORNING CONCERT.

This concert was precisely similar in arrangement and
character to previous evening concerts given by Mr. and
Madame Goldschmidt at the Hanover-square Rooms,
and attended by an equally crowded audience. Madame
Goldschrnidt's performances, as usual, were calculated
to display her powers in all their variety. She sang the
grand scena from Don Giovanni, containing the air,
"Non mi dir," uniting the most brilliant execution to
thelmost passionate expression, in a manner of which
she alone, of all the singers of the present time, is ca-
pable ; then, with Signor F. Lablache, Rossini's duet
"Per piacer ails Signora," from the Turco in Italia,
which she made the very perfection of gay and gractful
comedy ; next, Meyerbeer's lovely air, " Quando lasciai
la Normandia "—the air in which she first delighted the
ears of the English public when she made her debut on
the boards of her Majesty's Theatre ; Benedict's song,
"The 2Eolian Harp ;" a Dalecarlian melody, fall of the
wild beauty of the Swedish national music ; and a very
original and charming French duet by Meyerbeer, called
"La Mere Grand," which she sang with Miss Dolby.
We never heard her sing more splendidly, nor did we
ever hear her more rapturously applauded. Miss Dolby
(besides the above duet, in which she sustained her part
with her usual judgment and fine taste) sang Stradella's
air, "Oh, del mio dolce ardore," one of the moat beau-
tiful specimens of the pure Italian melody of the seven-
teenth century. Mr. Swift sang Oherubini's "Ave
Maria" and Verdi's romanza, "Deserts suila terra,"
with mach finish and expression. The only solo instru-
mentalist was Mr. Goldschmidt, who performed Men-
delssohn's concerto in D minor in a manner worthy of
his high reputation as a pianist.

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, FEB. 18.

Count Orloff arrived here early this morning,
and is expected to leave again this evening for
Frankfort.

HAMBURG, FEB. M

The carrying into effect of the Constitution of
1840, in place of that of 1849, has occasioned a
Ministerial crisis at Hanover. Several members
of the Cabinet have tendered their resignation to
the King.

MADRID, FEB. 16.

The Cortes have adopted the bill for calling out
16,000 men to fill up the ranks of the army.
The affair cf the Puerta del Sol had not yet been

effeeted with the Russians' own powder captured
in Sebastopol.
The explosion I have described is the only inci-
dent of importance that has broken the monotony of
camp life since I last wrote. A shocking murder
was committed last week in one of the Light Divi-
sion hospitals by a soldier of the 77th Regiment, a
youth all, named Day. He was hospital orderly,
and was in attendance upon an artilleryman who
had been badly hurt when the French siege train
blew up. The artilleryman, grateful for his oare,
took a purse, containing about 121., from under his
pillow, and gave him ss. The sight of the gold
was too strong a temptation for Day, who, it is
said, was a London thief before enlistment. He
took a crowbar and dealt a violent blew on the
artilleryman's head. The poor fellow shrieked
"Murder !" when a second blow fractured his arm.
His cries brought in the other orderlies, and, after
a most violent resistance, Day was overpowered
and secured. The artilleryman is since dead.
The money-order offices at Balaklava and Head-
quarters have now been a week open, and the use
that has hitherto been made of them more than
justifies the most sanguine anticipations of those
who predicted that they would be accepted by the
army as a boon and great convenience. On Mon-
day, at Head-quarters' post-office, orders were given
to the amount of 1701. ; on Friday to that of 3001.
On Wednesday, at Balaklava, 3001. of orders were
issued, and on Saturday, 5001. This gives a total of
1,2701. sent home in one week by the army in the
Crimea, in sums varying from 11. to 51. There
were few cases where the same man sent home more
than 5/. (by taking two or more orders), and a few
others where sums of less than 11. were sent. If
we take 2/. 10s. as the average amount of the or-
ders, we find that upwardsof 500 men have availed
themselves of this cheap and ready means of remit-
ting money to their families. There can hardly be
a doubt that a very large portion of the money
thus sent is rescued from the canteen men and
other sharks, who prey upon the soldier, and into
whose hands it would oth.iiwise fall. The army is
much indebted to the Post-office authorities in
Constantinople and in London—by whom, as I
hear, the plan was simultaneously suggested—for
extending to it ,the benefits of an institution the
introduction of which of course gives a good deal of
additional trouble to post-office employes in the
East, but which will tend to diminish drunkenness
and to improve the character of the soldier—to say
nothing of the comfort it will be to many a poor
family in England having father, husband, or bro-
ther serving in the Crimea. The senders of the

money are from all branches of the service, in-
cluding the men in the Army Works Corps, among
whom, as we have had abundant opportunities of
seeing upon the roads and in the neighbourhood of
their camp, there has hitherto been a good deal of
drunkenness, owing in part, no doubt, to the very
high wages they receive. It would perhaps save
trouble, prevent crowding at the post-office, and
prove an accommodation to soldiers, whom duty
may prevent from getting to Head-quarters or
Balaklava during the hours of issue, if a sergeant
of each regiment were to take the money from the
men, the list of names and necessary particulars,
and procure the orders. But doubtless the com-
manding officers of corps will make such arrange-
ments of this kind as are most fitting and conve-
nient, and best calculated to induce soldiers to
remit money to England instead of squandering its
in the Crimea.

FEB. J.

Nothing new to-day. Weather fine ;
; 22 deg. Fahrenheit this morning at 8 o'clock.
3001. post-office orders given yesterday at the
Head-quarters post-office.