The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-12 00:00:00

TEE OUN, 1 dONDON, SATUnDAY _EVENING, JULY 12, 1850.

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not on the ,:trndays alone (supposing,.
.5 the 'heathen-
ish " taboo' to be removed in 'LIIPIVEN's good
time), but on the whole of the Kix previous work-
ing-days in ev'erY successive w' aek !In contra
diction of this— -le& anybody, , if he can, produce
substantial statiotical, evil fence to the contrary.
It is notorious, we bailor .3, that on the Monday
the Metropolitan Magistvi -ates find brought before
them in their respectiv e police courts on an
average the immense, pi :oportion of " drunken-
and-disorderly" cases, II 31- fine and deliverance !
While we fancy Mr. ~ GROVE the excellent and
ingenious Secretary to the Crystal Palace Com-
pany at Sydenham, Iva, uld be rather puzzled to
find for the malcontents in search of such
exceedingly pleasant information, 4.. he num-
ber of f people daily, weekly, I:tenthly, an-
nually, intoxicated within the precinct of
our beautiful Penge Fairyland. Whys the con-
trast presented is nothing short of a monstrous
absurdity—the contrast of our open public-
houses and our closed galleries of Art : both in
the sacred but outraged name of Religion. In
that holy and desecrated name, in the awful name
of Religion, in the name of our common Chris-
tianity, let us, for once and for all, have an end
of this I

It is only rich folks, we are told, can afford to
be ostentatiously shabby ; and perhaps this ac-
counts for the scurvy manner in which the
helpless population of London are treated.
The spirited members of a corporation
,or Board of Health, in no matter how
small a provincial town, would be ashamed
of being so backward in drainage, and would
kick up a bobbery, would make the Council Cham•
ber decidedly unpleasant, if any one dared strenu-
ously to oppose the removal of tolls from the
local bridges, that is, if we can conceive any
provincial town being so belated as to have bridges
so burdened. The local papers to a man (ought
we to use that expression ?) would fulminate fiery
bolts unceasingly in their support, and there
would be no peace for any public func-
tionary, or newspaper reader, till the
obnoxious impost was removed. Yet here
in London, in this great metropolis of ours—this
more than Italian duchy—this kingdom of itself—
this capital of the mercantile world—only two or
three of our bridges are to be crossed without the
payment of a halfpenny toll I Do you know this,
gentle reader ? Have the newspapers bored you
about it ? Has ever an alderman of your acquaint-
ance lost an ounce of flesh with talking about it,
or gone wineless and turtleless•to bed through
thinking of it ? Has ever a member of th© Me-
tropolitan Board got warm about it to your know-
ledge, or diminished his refrigerating powers one
iota in relation to it ? The apathy in all influen-
tial quarters on the subject is really astonishing,
and the population bear the infliction to a mira-
cle. Bad to have new, but you have but to keep
the old one in and we Londoners may be de-
pended on to keep our course and show our paces.
As much ostentatious charity, gentlemen, as
you please ; but, in HEAVBN'S name, a little more
quiet, serviceable justice to the labouring poor !
Men who have a hard day's work before them, or
who carry the penalty of a hard day's work on
their weary legs and drooping shoulders, really
do not feel it a luxury to walk two-and-a-
half miles instead of one-and-a-half miles.
So far from it they would rathe'r pay a penny a
day (if they could afford it) than do so. And
what's a penny a day ? Nothing to one who has
his hundreds or thousands a-year, but so much to
a poor labouring man who has half-a-dozen mouths
to fill and backs to sloths at home that he don't
cross your bridges, but wearily trudges round, los-
ing much of the little time alloted him for the cul-
tivation of the domestic charities and somewhat
of the gratification the hugging of his little ones
affords him. ' If his bones were broken he could
gat them mended for nothing ; but as they only
ache from toil there can be no harm in letting
them ache a little more and a little longer. Even
vigorous young fellows come to feel the infliction,
and as for poor weak- sempstfesses, &c., nobody
seems to mind them. Better perhaps keep off
the bridges, lest they should it take into their
heads to leap over into the foul and mirky tor-
rent below.

There is no class, however, having to cross the
river in the locality of these bridges, but suffers
feelingly in some way from them. We may be
fanciful, but the payment of a bridge toll is a
grievance to which an hour's chucking of half-
pence into the Thames at our own cost would be
a positive gratification. It is, at the best, of the
nature of an infringement on the liberty of
the subject, and to some men the enforced
passage of the wicket is thorns and briars, pins
and needles, irritating to the flesh and grievous
to the spirit. The mere delay and bother of dip-
ping into your pockets for "only a halfpenny" on
a winter's day, with a keen north-easter blowing
round your neckcloth, are far from doing
you spiritual good. But beyond the ques-
tion of personal convenience, or, rather, ba-
yond the personal inconvenience, these
tolls occasion, they are found decidedly inju-
rious to trade. In proof of this we would
-.appeal to house agents, and ask whether property
on the respective streets loading to, these bridges
would not be almost doubled in value if the tolls
were removed ?—and their reply, we are quite
sure, must be iu the affirmative.
Much more may be said of the evils occasioned
by these toll-traps, but really their wounding the
heel of industry, and causing it to limp, as they
do, ought to suffice for their being thrown open.
It is not, as we have said before, as if we bad free
bridges enough without the toll bridges—we have
not a sufficient number putting free and toll toge-
ther. One at Charing-cross, for instance, is greatly
needed. The world moves—how long will our
local governors stand still ?

v-OWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July 11.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
At a general meeting of the members of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, at the Squadron-house, this day—
Present : The Earl of Wilton (the Commodore, in the
chair), the Marquis Conyneham, G. H. Ackers, E q.,
Rear-Admiral C. Flamlyn Williams, Spencer do IlorseT.,
E-q. E. N. Harvey, Esq ,L. Shedden, Esq., Earl Vane,
J. dee, Esq. Lord Colville, 11, B. Baring, Esq., W. P.
Ponsonby, isq., and about 20 other members—the
lowing noblemen and gentlemen were elected morribtr4.
:—Sir Henry Beecher, Bart., cutter
45 tons ;
the Marquis of Drogheda, Bel2:3oner Fancy, 120 tons
the Earl of GifFori-, n.. 1)., schooner Fair Rowan )nd, I2U
tone ; the Ran. Hercules Rowley) snootier Claymore,
130 tons ; Charles Liddtil, Esq., cutter Maritana, 57
tons ; Captain Phil limore, schooner Anaconda, 101 tons ;
George Tomline, Esq., cutter Lark, t 35 tons; the Earl
of Yarborough, schooner Zoe) 181 tons. An honour-
able exception to the general rule was made with the
Earl of Yarborough, out of respect to the name of the
"Good old Commodore." His lordship was not elected
by ballot, as all other members are, but by acclamation.
The following yachts are in the roadstead :—Alarm,
J. Weld, E,q 248 tons ' • Amason, Sit 3. B. Walsh,
Bart., 75 tons ; Aurora, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq.,
60 tons ; Brilliant, G. C. Ackers, Esq , 480 tons; Ca-
price, Cul. Charles Baring, 58 tons ; eaymore ; Colum-
bine, Capt. R. H. Smith-
Barry, 74 tons ; Genevera, Sir
E-Iward Colebrook, Bart., 142 tons ; Gloriana, J. Gee,
Esq., 134 tons ; lone, Sir H. Oglander, Bart., 75 tons ;
Lotus, Earl Vane, 188 tons ; Miranda, J. Gray, Esq., 94
tons; Nautilus, Geo. Bateson, Esq., 45 tons ; Stella, R.
Frankland, Esq., 65 tons; Viking, Col, A. C. Stirling,
110 tons ; and the Urania. In the harbour fitting :
Lavrock, Admiral C. Hamlyn Williams, 72 tons ; Sul-
tana, Lord Colville, 130 tons ; Cecile, Marquis Conyng-
ham, 190 ; Constance, R. C. Naylor, Esq., 249 tons ;
Zara, Earl of Wilton, 150 tons.

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, JULY 11.

M. de Richthosan, the Prussian Representative
in the Commission for reorganising the Principali-
ties, has set out. He will pass some time at one
of the Bohemian baths, and will then repair to
his post.

It is cnsidered probable that Sardinia will be
admitted to the same Commission.

PRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY.
The Einperor, by decree dated Plombibres yes-
terday, has decided that, in consideration of the
late M. Fortoul's eitinent services a 3 Minister of
Public Instruction, his funeral shall take place at
the public expense. The mortal remains of the
deceased arrived in Paris yesterday, and were de-
posited in a chapelle ardente at the Hotel of the
Ministry of Public Instruction. To-morrow (Sa-
turday) a cannon is to be fired every hour at the
Invalides from seven o'clock in the morning until
the starting of the funeral procession to the church
of St. Thomas d'Aquin, at noon ; at that moment
a salvo of 15 guns is to be fired from the Invalides,
and another salvo of 15 guns is to announce the
conclusion of the ceremony.
Count de Morny will not stay more than a fort-
night at Wildbad. Thence he will proceed to
Berlin, where the principal persons attached to his
embassy will be waiting for him. His carriages,
servants, &c., are to leave in a day or two for St.
Petersburg.
The evacuation of the Crimea by the French
troops having been completely terminated on the
sth, and the landing of the allied army having
taken place on Sept. 14, 1854, it follows that the
French occupation lasted 21 months and 20 days.
As however the adhesion, given on Feb. 1, 1856,
by Russia to the preliminaries of peace, was fol-
lowed by a suspension of arms, transformed on the
25th of the same month into an armistice, lasting
to the conclusion of peace on March 30, the real
duration of hostilities in the Crimea was about 17
tuonths.

BOURSE, July 11.—Two o'clock.—No business
doing, .bat prices are maintained. Threes are 71f.
55c. to 71f. 65a. A slight improvement in most of
the railroad shares.