The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-03 00:00:00

—that tranquillity and internal harmony which
constitute the mind's proper happiness.*
Our English statesmen would do well to notice
Plato's above remarks ; they Would then cease to
legislate for themselves, and do so for their country
essentially and only.
Neither, riches, land, honour, nor education.,
without virtue, purchase for the statesman bapr
ness ; happiness must extend to. the legislated—t°
the people for whom we legislate, before it call
reach the legislator ; one and the other must stand
in right relation to each other, just as a man an'
not be happy when,his household are in jeopardis-
ing misery (that ill, if ha be a man)—if his manly'
spirit he have not forsaken ; if he have, he no longer
possesses happiness consonant with man, but only
that consonant with demoniacal passions.
In order that the State be a perfect State, the
statesman must be a perfect statesman. Just now)
for the good of one's eyes, point him out. Polities
must over be branches of dialectics and ethics, it
must never be separated from rational deductions
and the moral rectitude of the best men in till
State.

The State based upon first principles must become
vigorous, healthy, and beautifill, because as its
rouudation becomes good and solid, its emanations
follow in orderly relation.
England now requires the trim Conservative
(not the savage—the Tory) such an one as shall con•
serve virtue, as the only true basis upon which a
Constitutional Government can be founded.

* Republic, IX., 577.

J. a.

THE CRYSTAL. PALACE SUNDAY

OPENINCI.

The following letter in reference to the recent depot*,
Lion to the Home Secretary was received by the Lord*
►ay Society on Monday morning :

" Whitehall, J. 30, 1853.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Siran George Gref,
to inform you that he has given his attentive considers!
tion to the memorial presented to him by a deputation
of the Society for Promoting the due Observance of the
Lord's-day, in which it is stated that a resolution
bad been sul mitted to a meeting of the Crystal
Palace Company on the 11th of December last, Ind,
carried by a large majority, authorising the boon
of directors to agree with any proprietor for
conversion of his shares in the company into tickets
of admission into the buildings and grounds of the
company, pursuant to the 11th section of the Crystal
Palace Act, 1856, and reque.ting the board of directors
to pass a resolution authorising admission by thee.
tickets to the Palace and grounds on Sunday afternoon,
as a gratuitous privilege, and without any money pal'
went to be made, directly or indirectly, to the company
for such privilege, which resolution, if carried into effect,
Sir George Grey understands the Committee of thig
Society to conteed would be either a violation of the aas
of 21st Geo. 111., c. 49, or an infringement of the con'
dition of the charter of the company, that no person
shall be admitted to the building or grounds on the
Lord's-day in consideration of any money paymel
made, either directly or indirectly, unless W t
the express sanction of Parliament. It appears
to Sir George Grey thot the application of the
society for the interference of the Government in this
matter is at least premature, as, unless the resolution te
carried into eff.Tt, which is not stated in the memorinio
no proceeding could be taken against the company °II
the ground of the alleged violation of the condition of
their charter. If the resolution should be acted upSO.
Sir G. Grey will be prepared to consider whether the
interference of the Government is required.
" With respect to the prayer of the memorial, that DO
alteration be made in the charter to permit the admission
of the shareholders or others to the grounds of the
cos pang on the Lord's-day, I have to inform you that
no application for any such alteration has been made.—"'
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
"a WADDINGTON."