The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-09 00:00:00

temperance: Surely such an assertion made by a
working man is worth the attention or our legis-

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The following telegrams have been received at

lators.
It is idle to preach temperance and moderation to
men wearied with a hard day's work, returning,
perhaps, to a crowded and comfortless room, with-
out the ability to amuse themselves, while the
public-house or gin palace stands invitingly open,
and the jest and laugh within-are tempting them to
enter. We may censure the loiterer, indeed, but
would it not be wiser, more politic, more charitable
to show counterbalancing attractions, instead of
only reproof and reproach. Let us be sure that we are
not demanding from him more than uncultivated
minds and exhausted bodies can easily give. Let
us enter a little into the difficulties of his position,
and, while we blame his vices, let us see that, as
legislators and Christian gentlemen, we are doing
our best to take the stumbliugblocks out of his
way. Since we possess so many noble institutions,
and since our working men show themselves
sensible of their advantages, let us by all
means facilitate their enjoyment of such
refining and cultivating rc a reat ion. When
the hours of work of so many th )usands
in this metropolis extend from an early hour in the
morning till seven or eight in the evening, how
can we suppose the working man can visit these
places, especially when we refuse to allow his entry
on the only holiday he possesses ? It has been
often decided by competent authority that it
is more profitable for the artisan's body and soul
to spend the Sunday evening in a tap-room or a
tea-garden, under the elevating influences of tobacco
and spirits, than to take his family to study the
wonders of creation in the Museum, or to visit the
fair gardens of the Crystal Palace. Even these
reasoners, we should think, can see no objection
to throwing open the public institutions in the
evening hours. They are nominally designed for
the benefit of the public. Why, then, should they
be closed at the hours when most available for
general benefit. We confidently hope that the
Committee will arrive at a satisfactory conclusion,
and devise some means by which the advantages
afforded by our national institutions may be
made available for the great body of the nation.

Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, MARCH 9.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows the following results as compared with the

previous return :

INCREASE.

Cash in hand
Current account

44 million
19 do.

DECREASE.
Bills discounted not yet due
Advances
Bank notes
Treasury balance
The Patrie of last evening says :
" We believe wa are in a position to state that
on the question of Savoy Sardinia shows such con-
ciliatory intentions as could be expected from a
country whicl owes its aggrandisement to France."

.. 28;1 million
.. I do.
.. 291 do.
18 do.

VIENNA, MARCH 9.

The official Wiener Zeitung announces that Gen.
Eynatten, in spite of all precautions, committed
suicide on Wednesday night, after having confessed
his guilt, and expressed his repentence for it.

TURIN, MARCH 8.

The Opinione affirms that in the note of the 2d
inst., relative to Savoy, Count Cavour expresses
the attachment of the Government of the King to
his provinces ; but, at the same time, true to the
principle which he supports in Central Italy, he
declares his intention to interrogate the population
in a manner to be established by Parliament, re-
serving besides the questions of the frontiers and
guarantees to be given to Savoy.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, THURSDAY.
In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet the pro-
posals of the Holstein Committee have been accepted.
In the discussion which preceded the adoption of
the proposals the Danish Ambassador protested
against any limitation of the sovereignty of the
King, against the right of the Holstein Diet to pass
definitive resolutions, and against the right of the
Federal Diet to send executive troops. He further
declared the readiness of the Killg to give up the
projected Assembly of Delegates, and stated that
the Danish Government prefers to treat direct with
the Diet. The publication of the protocol of this
sitting of the Federal Diet was resolved upon."

COWES, ISLE OF WIG-11T—March 8.

TFIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 15260.

less the right of refusing to vote the budget, or,
reducing, or altering the amount of taxes, or re-
gulating the way in which they are to be levied;
all these points belong e:lclusively to the preroga-

tive of the crown. The diet and the eouncil are
only deliberative assemblies ; they have to discuss
the projects of law communicated to them, but
their resolutions do not bind the ultimate decision