The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-15 00:00:00

SUMMER AND TVATERIIG PLACES.

Zealots in the pursuit of busines always begin to
complain on the approach of our burning solstice
about the dulness of trade and tb consequent in-
jury which they can so ill afford t their pecuniary
prospects. When a season has ben uncommonly
bad such complaints
,may not be very unreason-
able, but in general it is well to remember that they
are substantially childish and illgical. Only so
much business can be done in ayes, and if the bulk
of this is transacted in the tempeate months, it is
expectable that during the extreme of heat and cold
there should be comparative inactiity. The remark-
ab'e tumult and rush of Americat business life so
usual in spring and autumn is natually succeeded by
periods of r.,action, just as excitecent of any other
phi sical kind is similarly followed bb necessary repose.
The peculiarities of our climate inks such pheno-
mena not only inevitable, but higily salutary. It
is impossible for nervous energies 0 be healthfully
kept at their normal pitch during, or example, such
weather as we experienced in the fi-st week of June.
Nature at such periods imperativily demands rest,
and although there are various Stinulative methods
for deferring the satisfaction of ier claims she is
sure to exact a penalty for the postponement. If
our cities during the glowing ninety days of a New
York summer were indeed " gracous with tempe-
rate air, life might be ordered differently; but the
powers of the most vigorous and elastic droop and
grow flaccid under a burning sun, aid health is more
important even than dollars, so that.t happens fortu-
nately for all that business flags in Zuly and August,
however it may seem hard for many to bear the depres-
sion at the immediate time. It shoed be a consola-
tion to the discontented to reflect fiat their business
year is to be measured comprehensinly as a whole,
and that the duller things are for three months to
come the more active and prosperots they are likely
to be in the autumn which ensues. " Study to be
quiet," said St. Paul to the Thessalonians, and no
better advice can'be offered at this season to our
own impatient countrymen. The strongest and
fiercest animals creep at noon-day into cooling
shades to gather strength for battle and
foraging to come. We are coming now to
the high noon of our year, and can wisely pro-
fit by their sagacious example. By the sea-
side, on breezy hill-tops, in unbrageous valleys, there
are nooks and corners without number where shel-
thr can be bad and sweetly wholesome air be
breathed not to be found in crowded towns, where
bustling contact frets the spirit and the year's im-
purities poison the feculant atmosphere. The value
of rest at this season to a community like ours can
scarcely be over-estimated. It is true that many
urge they cannot afford the time, but we believe
there are few who cannot really do more in nine
months than in twelve. Those who from circum-
stances cannot be absent from duty so long must
of course, regulate their action accordingly, re-
collecting that perfect rest for one month may be
better than imperfect rest for three. The situation of
numbers will not, unhappily, admit of their enjoying
the luxury of a country vacation at all ; but the faci-
lities for reaching our picturesque and healthy
suburbs are now so plentiful that even the poorest
may pass many of their hours away from the city
and such should regard it as a bounden duty to do
so. Pure air and innocent recreation may now be
enjoyed by the poor and their children at dozens of
places within an hour of New York, and at prices so
moderate as to leave little excuse for foregoing
them. Central Park, Staten Island, the beautiful
heights of the Jersey shore, and other charming
resorts, are accessible to all who can spare a few
pence and the interval of non-working hours, and
the gain to health and spirits derivable from regu-
larly making such excursions is great and posi-
tive. In considering the growth of population
and the stringency of the times, we are led
greatly to regret that clean and comfortable
accommodations, including a very wide range
in grade and price, and conducted on the
lodging-house principle, are not yet to be found
among us. There are multitudes of people of fixed
and slender income who are utterly unable to allow
themselves a trip to Newport, Saratoga, Cape 111 iy
Nahant, or even to less fashionable watering places,
who, if such facilities were open as present them-
selves by the thousand at English resorts like
Hastings, Ramsgate, Brighton, or Deal, would
eagerly and profitably embrace them. In these
places apartments can be had of almost every con-
ceivable price, size, and location, aad the humblest
are often as cleanly and comfortable as the most
pretentious. The rooms are paid for at a regular
stipulated rate, and the table is provided on their
own scale and at their own expense by the occu-
pants. Their menage thus being entirely within
their own control, and its details only known to
themselves, families can live as they please, at their
own hours and in their own way, expensively or
economically, without being tempted to ostentation,
or being obliged to conform to the habits, or be sub-
ject to the inspection of others. The advantages of
this system are very great. Many of the classes
which with us, through dread of the expenses of
fashionable resorts and a natural reluctance to
appear niggardly or straitened, remain in the
stifling city throughout the season, in England
regularly enjoy their yearly holiday at the sea-side
with as much pleasure and benefit as if their means
were unlimited. Especially for professional people
of refinement—the families of clergymen, lawyers,
artists, literary men,
people who like privacy and
quiet, but who are unable to pay the cost at
which alone such desiderata can here be procured—
is the English lodging-house system a great
blessing. We have heretofore recommended its
adoption in our towns, and in the country during
the summer season it would be no less desirable.
The enforced uniformity, the distasteful publicity,
the obligatory associations of our American board-
ing-house and hotel system, apart from pecuniary
considerations, deters every year a greater number
of persons in this community from
enjoying those
changes of air and scene which in this climate are
at least as essential as in any other. It is probable
at present that the great majority of American
families whose homes are in towns and whose in-
comes fall short of $5,000 a year, never visit the
seashore or interior country at all, for the reasons
we have named. In England the reverse is un-
doubtedly the case, because of opposite conditions.
But, unless the plan we proposi3 encounters dislike
for no better cause than that it is English, we do
not see why it should not be carried into effect with
similar advantages. What is needed is a large num-
ber of compact, well-built houses or cottages,
of various sizes and accommodation, built
with reference to the particular object in view,
at favourable localities. Such buildings are now
erected in hundreds every season at the Eng-
lish watering places. The writer, in a late
visit to three of those above-named, saw whole
streets covering what he remembered as open fields
seven years before, and was assured that the enter-
prises were very profitable. The English season is,
moreover, much shorter than our own, so that in an
important respect builders would here have an ad-
vantage. We are persuaded that this subject is well
worthy the attention of capitalists, and the extrava-
gant tprices now charged hotels -would do much to
give popularity and success bcessyto speculations based upon
it. It may be thought that Americans would be slow,
as has been hinted, to favour such a foreign innova-
tion, but the world moves, and, now that we have
so heavy a debt to carry, comfortable economy
should and doubtless would overcome even national
increasingprejudice proportion But
.`were
Europeans iit otherw otherwise, the rapidly
domiciled among
us would form an clement of support for the plan
proposed which could be depended upon with con -
siderable confidence. Nothing can be more likely
than that, in the neighbourhood 'of the metro-
p
asand in these days of uncleanness, poor quality,
and extortionate prices, any scheme offering to the
public a mode of living wherein cheapness and com-
fort could be made obviously consistent with any
desired degree of refinement would attract eager
attention and, if only for the sake of novelty, be
awarded a fair trial.—Round Table.

PosEN, July 12. —The Polish fraction of the
Prussian Parliament has just unanimously decided,
n a meeting held here, that their compatriots
should take part in the approaching elections for the
Reichstag.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY.
Some animated speculation took place to-day in addition
to the usual Monday's interchange. The Nottingham
Handicap, and also the Burieigh at Stamford, were men-
tioned, and several transactions, as below, came under
notice. For Goodwood there was a decided disposition to
"bring" Blinkhoolie again for the Stakes, and, after
several hundreds to eight had been booked, a point less
was only obtainable. Both the favourites, however, ap-
peared healthy at their quoted figure, while layers were
tired of booking 20 to 1 agst Owain Glyndwr, the Findon
horses' price closing at 100 to 6 (off). Tho cup quotation
will be seen below, in addition to which, however, £5O
oven was laid on Lecturer and Regalia agst the field
while Beeswing, of the others was in most request.
NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Beadle (taken)
5 to 1 agst Rama (taken)
BUIILEIGIE HANDICAP.-STAMFORD.
3 to 1 Beeswing (taken and offered)
4to 1 Bradamanto (taken)
sto 1 agst Knight of the Crescent (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
9 to 1 agst Aggravator (taken)
9to 1 agst Dulcimer (taken)
100 to 6 agst Owain Glyndwr (offered after 20 to 1
• had been taken)
100 to 6 agst Primrose (taken)
100 to 7 agst Pakrita (taken)
100 to 9 agst Blinkhoolie (taken)
20 to 1 agstWild Briar (taken)
25 to 1 agst Douro (taken)
25 to 1 agst Lord of the Dales (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP. •
5 to 2 agst Lecturer (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst Regalia (offered)
7 to 1 agst Beeswing (taken)
Bto 1 agst Rama (offered)
LEGER.
500 to 40 agst Achievement (taken)
50 to 20 agst Achievement—l, 2, 3.

MR. GEo. WEED executes commissions, by letter only-
at his residence, 125, Queen's-crescent, HaTerstock-hill,
and has lists posted daily at the City Arches ; also through
his Agent, Mri F. Butler,, near lieux's 'Biewery. No
connexion with any other person using the same name.