The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-06 00:00:00

in Great Britain, perhaps nothing in Europe, can surpass
in beauty the whole of the road that leads into the town of
Inniskillen, along the banks of the Lower Lough Erne."
A steam yacht company have lately placed a boat on the
lake, and the visitors to the hotel will find ample and
varied excursions provided for their enjoyment.
Whether they prefer steam or sail, or choose to row over
the waters, the means are there, and the places for excur-
sions abound. There aro islands containing the mysterious
round towers, whose age has outlived even tradition.
There are monasteries; and ruins of abbeys and castles ;
there aro bleak mountains with their wild heather ; a enter
scared and seamed from its ancient volcanic eruption, and
the green slopes of the park and purling streams murmur-
ing through their wooded declivities. Without any dis-
paragement, says our authority, to our lovely sister at
Killarney, Lough Erne will prove that she contains within
herself many Killarneys. It May appear strange that in
such a spot an hotel should only now be opened, but those
who know Ireland are more inclined to congratulate the
inhabitants when any sign of progress is displayed than to
wonder at the stagnation. Many landlords, too, object to
tourists, and it is only by the hearty co=operation of the
landlords that a district can be opened. The Rossclaro
Hotel mainly owes its existence to the owner of the estate,
and to limited liability, and it has been erected and is con-
ducted on a scale that will give satisfaction to its visitors.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIHES.—The conversation in the House of Lords
on Friday night between Lord Russell and Lord
Derby gives us reason to hope that the abuses in
the management of the parks, which have lately
been rendered so conspicuous, will at length be
remedied. It will, in the first place, be remarked
with satisfaction that Lord Russell has done justice,
however tardily, to the conduct of the police in the
late disturbances, and has attributed the outrages
which were committed to their real authors—the
criminal classes of the metropolis. He expressly
repudiates the statements impugning the conduct of
the force, and believes " the accounts of those per-
sons who state that the police acted with great
moderation, and suffered great injuries without
making any return." If any doubt could be enter-
tained as to the justice of this opinion it must be
removed by the statement we originally published,
and which was quoted by Lord Derby, of the in-
juries sustained by the force. The fact is that while
the injuries inflicted by them upon their assailants
are few and insignificant in number, one-sixth of
the whole police force engaged in the maintenance
of order were injured, and some were permanently
disabled by the mob. No fewer than 265 of the
police, including the greater number of the officers
and superintendents, are still suffering from
the injuries they received on the 23rd of July,
and forty or fifty will suffer all their lives."
There can be no question of the patience displayed
by the police under such provocation, nor, we may
add, need there ever have been the slightest doubt
as to the character of the persons by whom these
and subsequent outrages were committed. It would
be a grievous calumny to regard the working
classes as entertaining the slightest sympathy for a
set of downright thieves, "roughs," and swell-mobs-
men. However, Lord Russell wisely acquiesced in
an oblivion of the past, and we may hope, with
Lord Derby, that if we ever have reason to remem-
ber the, events of, the last fortnight, it will only be
as having furnished the occasion for an important
reform in the general management of the parks. It
is agreed by both speakers that the late disturbances
have but served to bring into prominence a long-
standing abuse. if our columns have recently fur-
nished evidence that, in Lord Russell's words,
" there is no security for persons, or for any pros
perty they may have about them, after dusk in
Hyde-park just now," it is equally true, as he ad-
mitted, that " a good deal of disorder prevailed
before these occurrences." Indeed, Lord Derby used
no exaggeration when he appealed to Lord Russell
" whether he could remember the time when it was
entirely safe for persons to traverse any of the parks
after dark, either in summer or winter." The worst
characters have always been attracted to the parks
at nightfall by the certainty of enjoying an undis-
turbed retreat until the morning ; the police have
never had charge of them, and there has never been
any efficient substitute for their presence ; they have
always been abandoned to the darkness which is con-
genial to vice and violence, and respectable persons
have always been indiscriminately locked in at a fixed
hour, without any means of escape except by scaling
the railings. It is, indeed, as Lord Derby said,
"surprising," and, we must add, disgraceful, that
such a state of things should have been so long tole-
rated. We have a rght to expect as much protec-
tion to our persons and property in the parks as in
the streets, and, in fact, more care ought to have
been taken to furnish protection, as the danger, in
such large open spaces, is confessedly greater. Nor,
again, is it creditable, or even decent, that open
places in the heart of London should have been
allowed to furnish such unmolested retreats for all
kinds of vice. At length, however, it is on all sides
agreed that this shameful laxity and mismanage-
ment should be brought to an end, and the question
principally discussed on Friday night was as to the
measures which it would be best to adopt. The
statement of Lord Derby was, on the whole, satis-
factory. He traces the evil to its proper source
—the divided authority to which the parks are at
present intrusted. They are under the control of
the Crown, who, through the Ranger, appoints the
gatekeepers. The Board of Works exercises also a
certain control, and appoints the park-keepers. The
number of these officials, for service in all the
Parks, is about 100, and they " are :not expressly
selected for their ability to provide against disorder
and riot ;" that is, they are not selected with a view
to the only purpose for which they are required.
The police have no power of interference, unless
expressly summoned to support the ordinary park
authorities. It is obvious-that the first measure neces-
sary is to abolish this incompetent and divided
management, and to intrust the parks to the single
and efficient control of the police. Lord Derby
recognises the necessity, and has been in consulta-
tion on this point with the First Commissioner of
VVorks and the Home Secretary. The matter is
not yet settled, but Lord John Manners has agreed
to " waive his right" to nominate incompetent
park-keepers ; and it is proposed that the police to
be employed in their stead should be paid out of the
revenue of the Woods and Forests.
THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES."--The direc-
tors of the Bank of England have treated the
almost universal appeal of the country for some
mercy in exacting the most usurious rates for
the loan of money with the contempt it deserves.
The country having placed in the hands of such a
clique the power to strangle its commercial inte-
rests, and having made it the positive and direct
interest of these people so to act, meets its merited
reward. A more disgraceful exhibition of rapacity
has rarely been seen. We must confess that it is
natural for a set of greedy old gentlemen to make
the most they can out of the position in which they
find themselves placed. We know what these old
gentlemen are. Indeed, the late panic has given us
fine samples of what the conduct of an influential
director may be. The Bank of England is the
greatest of these companies, and its directors may
be the greatest among directors, but they are all
governed by precisely the same laws—to trade first
for their own especial benefit, and, secondly, if the
two can be made compatible, for the benefit of their
shareholders. The direct interest of this joint-stock
company, called the Bank of England, is that
other banks should break—that the public might
be frightened from depositing their money any-
where but in the Bank of England, and that
the Bank might be able to lend this money
at the most exorbitant rates. To look for
a national policy or regard to the require-
ments of the country from such a crew of traders
is absurd. They will keep the rate at its present
figure as long as they' can, and they may well laugh
in their Bank-parlour when they are told in the
City articles of newspapers that the danger signal
this high rate indicates is the very reason why people
hoard notes so persistently and keep the Bank re-
serve so low—at the simplicity of supposing this to
be a reason why they should reduce it. If the re-
serve increased they would be compelled to lower
the rate, and it is a most happy chance for them
that they can make this enormous profit and con-
tinue the rate by the very action of making it. To
have all their money out at 10 per cent, pays the
Bank. To reduce this paying rate of usury merely
to get some of their notes back, however it might
strengthen the reserve, would certainly not increase
their gains. And to expect this party of sharp
traders to damp their own interests by interfering
with the happy chance by which the very act of
charging the highest price makes the excuse and
apparent necessity for continuing the price is to ex-
pect the most sordid class to become the most dis-
interested and patriotic. Money seeking investment
in France at 2 per cent., and men in England seek-
ing money at 10 per cent. at the same moment, is a
spectacle for France and America to ponder on and
regulate their monetary affairs accordingly. The
disciples of the English school of finance have
hazarded many 'prophecies of the disastrous down-
fall of the American system, and laughed scornfully
at French remarks on the working of our Bank Act.
Time, the rectifier of errors, is showing who is right.

The TVashington Star, in stating that published
incomes Ns ere not always reliable, speaks of a smart young
man who, on the strength of a big income return made by
lan, married an heiress, with the blessings of the fond
parents, which blessings soured somewhat suddenly into
" cusses," when it was discovered that the income return
was bogus, and not at all " conclusive," though of course
appearing as the official return of the collectors, and pub-
lished as such in the newspapers amongst the big in-
comes.