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

'AY S.

—that tranquillity and internal harmony which
constitute the mind's proper happiness.*
Our English statemen 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 happi-
ness ; happiness must extend to the legislated—to
the people for whom we legislate, before it cart
reach the legislator ; one and the other must stand
in right relation to each other, just as a man can-
not be happy when his housellAd are in jeopardis-
ing misery (that, is, if he be a man)—if his manly
spirit he have not forsaken ; if he have, lie 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. Politics
must ever be branches of dialectics and ethics, it
must never be separated from rational deductions
and the moral rectitude of the best men in the
Stlta.

The State based upon first principles must become
vigorous, healthy, and beautiful, because as its
foundation 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.

e Republic, IX., 577.

J. G.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE SUNDAY
OPENING.

The following letter in reference to the recent deputa'
tion to the Home Secretary was received by the Lord's.
day Society on Monday morning :
" Whitehall, Jan. 30, 1853.
" am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey
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 submitted tc a meeting of the Crystal
Palace Company on the 11th of December last, end
carried by a large majority, authorising the board
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 these
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 the
Society to conte,,d would, be either a violation of the gull
of 21st Geo. 111., o. 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 en the
Lord's-day in consideration of any money payment
made, either directly or indirectly, unless witli
the express sanction of Parliament. It appeo°
to Sir George Grey thst the application of the
society for the interference of the Government in this
matter is at least premature, as, unless the resolution is
carried into effect, which is not stated in the memorial,
no proceeding could be taken against the company et
the ground of the alleged violation of the condition of
their charter. If the resolution should be acted twee.
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 ne
teration be made in the charter to permit the admission
of the shareholders or others to the grounds of the
company 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,

H. WADDINGTON."

THE CAMEL IN AMERICA.

•
In the exploration by Lieut. Beale of a waggon road
from Albuquerque, New Mexico, due west, or nearly so'
thoset o the
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importedt
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innwthnhilueem,extbhpeeeryd,
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aedromedaries, were lapdog'
originally at Indianola, Texas, whence, after recruitiaq
wells in till:
for sinking artesian : Antonio,adneds
etrhtas that
intersected
fbi
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Capt.a
omo pair; yo
the Rio Pecos. Lieut. Beale left San Antonio on the
25th June, having selected for his expedition 23 cae3"
and 3 dromedaries. The camels were laden with aWO
portion of the grain necessary for the teams of mule"*
Those of them which in their native country had Well
trained to this business were found capable of carrying
1,00010. The expedition took the route from San, All;
tenio to El Paso, and thence up the Rio Gran" to
Albuquerque, at some distance west of which the new
explorations wore to begin. From San Antonio to Albtt
querque, by this route, the distance is over 1,000 miles
„
a large part of it through districts very scantily 0.1111
plied with either grass or water. It was accomplisr:
in 45 (lees, the train moving at an average rata Of;
miles an hour, and the camels bearing the journey per
fectly well. From Albuquerque the expedition marctioo.
to Zuni, an outlying settlement of New 11101.ig
Lieutenant Beale left Zuni on the 28th August, he/10,
obtained an escort of troops from Fort DA°
situated some 90 miles to the north in the country bit
t's
the Navajos. His route lay nearly due west, along
35th parallel of north latitude, and through a reglfl
hitherto almost unknown. As fart
as the Little Color*—o-
,
the road, though with volcanic ranges of mountain" el;
gently in sight, some of them capped with slimy,
comparatively level. There were abundant stipplie. °r,
grA,,s, with timber sufficient for fuel, and plenty of scat° t
After crosing Little Colorado, which was followed I.°o
some days and which has a wide and fertile bottom, v:ijoe
a fringe of cotton weed along the. banks, the exped"ito
encountered the San Francisco mouatain, having on
eastern eastern slope great forests of pine, and on its Wilshlio
slope forests of cedar. From the Western foot of the
mountain the country grows more barren, till, nenr tee
banks of the Colorado, it becomes a desert, excePkette
bottom lands a few miles in extent. The river
at
was found to be from 200 to 300 yards wide, fieviinegfeet
the rate of three or four miles an hour, and with 17, we
of water in the mid channel. It was unobstructed
rocks, and was apparently navigable for large stestn'tes
The inhabitants of an Indian village found here rep
'rented the river as maintaining the same character Otto
Fort Yuma, near its junction with the Gila. Iler°
00-
camels were put to a very important test. L
ey,
tively stated by Father Hue, in his travels in Tary-oel
and by other writers, that the camel cannot swice,,,otio
this alleged defect of theirs had caused Lieutenant $°
a good deal of anxiety. Having leached the o°!(:)rtilfs
he was determined to settle the question for hini to
The first camel brought to the bank refaced to
enter the river ;' but another being brought dowen'tee
the great delight of the whole company, it toott4
water freely and swana.boldly across. The others, 'OO
ore behind the other in strings of five, were o_o,
across in the same way. They not only swam With °l;tdo
but in this particular, as in others, they seemed to on
'the horses and mules. This seemed to be the , tee
remaining test needed to establish the character o.`bose
camel as a beast of burden specially suited for
t 3 in
regions. What particularly adapts the camel for nidole
those regions is not merely their capacity to en sod
fatigue and to go without water, but the very ceerseet se
scanty food with which they are content. They
they go along whatever they find in their path, neneveri
their long necks, and throwing or their heads into •
'
narrow crevice of the rocks where grows a cactus o
"
clump of grass, or cropping the leaves from the bray
of trees without in the least retarding their Pr brtisit
In this respect, as in many others, they have a ad oe
advantage over mules or horses, which require tee
regularly as man himself.—Neon York Tribune.

e°
THE DUTY ON SPIRITS.—There has been a cart be
report in quarters likely to be well informed tbs. t),11
Government intend to equalise the duty on epirithiliog
over the three kingdoms. They have long been waAn-00
an opportunity of doing so, and it is only too 'alaiy fel
present period may be considered a favourable er
making the attempt.—Dublin Freeman's Journa" evil
AUSTRALIAN POSTAL COMMUNIOATION.-01 11,45,1•004
°mations we have pointed out the necessity af 'De "A- our
postal communication 'between this country 42-0, i°
Australian dependencies,
and have done as 0111014th
us lies to secure two, instead of one mail per 110 to
000
and fro. The rapidly augmenting business interniAool
imperatively demands it; and as this desirable ntit'ere
can be attained with little additional expeas,eci vor°
lw seems no reason why it should be longer with ',Oat/
especially as a system of weekly mails has been.intrio
gelled betwe ,n the East Indies and the mother e°- 00
g far
and the Australian bags could be conveyed 11,4- for.%
Ceylon by the same means of transit as those use 0005
East Indian letters. It is, indeed, more than P-woo'
that increased postal accommodation for Auetraliabo is
prove a source of profit to the Post Office ; but Ms.
as it may, it is el ar that the mercantile relationenritaie!
colonies are of that value and moment to Greatf": i4tro;
that every possible facility should be afforded• lysity f°,
that at this present moment there is urgent asnloloo°'
frequent intercourse with our East Indian po's 0061;
but under ordinary circumstances, and in 0 resej
mercial, or even postal sense, there is 11 • 004
why the one should enjoy these advantarpostoPt
the other he debarred. We say in verninew
since, for by -a return furnished by the g° oo
s jette die'
authorities, it appears that the number of „ h•
veyed between the United Kingdom and the-cla 000tvto
and China was 1,542,257 during the tivelve,itted,of
ending Dec. 31, 1856, w Nile the number trans': niotP,.,
and fro between the Australian colonies and Or 000).;
country during the State period was 1,467,33:100re/
64,923 less than those which were received ..Vies o'B
forwarded to our extensive East Indian territlese
our commercial settlements in China. Surely pieta piitO ,
statistics which warrant the Australian 0 °'°e
ettel
the
pressing the consideration of the question on Joon
Lion of the Home Government.—MolinY

I Jan. 39.