The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

(From the Times )

This season Cremorne combines a variety of
amusement that completely throws into the shade
11 the manager's previous efforts, successful as they
ever were. From about 5 o'clock in the ?Afternoon
to 12 at night something or other is going on in
one of the vast edifices that are dotted about the
premises, to say nothing of miscellaneous curiosi-
ties, such as "sea lions" and monkeys, cosmoramas
games of all descriptions, and the amu,ement af-
forded by the garden itself, which, deco: ated with
statues and fountains, presents some new object
at the end of every dozen yards. It is the pecu-
liar advantage of Cremorne to be equally fitted for
the quiet recreations proper to daylight, and. that
more pronounced hilarity that scarcely is in season
before nightfall. A stroll about the grounds and
over the bridge with the chance of an occasional
balloon on a gala-day, will satisfy the lover of early
hours, who will wind up his innocent enjoyments by
a sober " tea" in one of those Arcadian r e reats called
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these are occtsionaly adapted to the convenience of
early patrons.
The most important addition to the garden is Vie
Marionette Theatre, which is a theatre to all in-
ti-nts and purposes, with pit, boxes, and a spacious
stage, presenting a facade of the gayest and lightest
appearance to the outside spectator. Great perfec-
tion has been attained in the working of the mario-
nettes, which even open their mouths to convey the
notioa of actual discourse, and go triumphantly
through the action of a somewhat intricate piece.
The dresses of these puppets are brilliant in the ex-
treme, and when the drama is of the spec- aele kind
the scenery is most gorgeous, and complicated
effects of machinery are introduced. Moreover, the
present proscenium can be removed, so as to adapt
the stage, if required, to the performances of living
full-grown actors.
The ballet at Cremorne has always been remark-
able for the taste with which it is produced and
the talent of the artists, but it has a peculiarity
that distinguishes it from all works of a similar
class, and connects it with the entertainments of
former days. Indeed it is not so much a ballet in
, the modern sense of the word as what used to be
called " a pantomime of action," with a comic
story at its foundation, allowing room for the dis-
play of much grotesque humour. Every season
brings with it a new ballet, but the piinciple is
never varied.

Among the extra items of attraction ere a wise
dog, that exhibits the erudition formerly deemed
peculiar to " learned pigs," and a little girl, termed
the " Magnetic Wonder," who professes to have
the power not only of Mesmer, but of the load-
stone. A young brother who is sent to sleep and
rolled about the floor at her good will and pleasure
is the victim of her proficiency, and she has a sin-
gular facility in moving the heavy flat-iron called
by tailors a " goose" without the muscular action
deemed necessary for the process. The theory, of
course, is that " magnetic fluid" is the operative
agent. We merely state effects without diving into
causes.
The most heedless spectator who reflects that so
many amusements, spread over so large an extent
both of space and time, result from the enterprise
of one individual can scarcely refuse his tribute of
admiration. Cremorne is a great work of art, or
rather of many arts.

MOBOCRACY IN NEW YORK.

There is certainly a moral of some sort to be de-
duced from all great disturbances, riots, and
emeutes. Hardly one occurs in any part of the
world which does not convey a lesson to somebody.
Very few people are suppled with as many lessons
of the sort as we are. We have riots and disturb-
ances of all sorts, grievous and disgraceful enough
in their way. The only consolation we have in re-
cording or commenting upon them lies in the fact
that probably in no part of the world are riots so
little significative of the state or feelings of the com-
munity at large—so entirely local both in their
causes and in their results. An English riot im-
plies, as a general rule, great and wide-spread suf-
fering or discontent so acute, that the restrain's
of a strong Government and well-knit aristocracy
are insufficient to prevent itsboiling over. A French
emaute is either the herald of revolution, or the at-
tempt of hordes of fanatics to break up t e frame-
work of society, and imposes upon the nation, per
fas aut nefas, the wildest " crazes" which the
wildest imaginations can conceive. When barri-
cades are erected in the rue St. Antoine the world
knows that the Government pro tem. is resting on
an unsteady basis, and that a large portion of the
French people is desirous of change. It is hardly
necessary to speak of the full force of disturbances
in any other European country. In all despotisms
popular outbreak implies not simply the existence of
deep-seated discontent, but that the malcontents were
growing too strong for their tyrants. It is at once the.
price and privilege of freedom to indorse turbulence
and disorder with impunity. No Frenchman ever
crosses the Channel and witnesses the tumult by
which an English election is marked without feel-
ing convinced that the empire is tottering to its
fall. No foreigner, we are fully persuaded, ever
reads the accounts of riots and bloodshed by which
Le columns of our own journals are frequently dis-
graced, without arriving at the conclusion that all
security both for life and property is at an end
within the limits of this Republic. One must
be on the spot and have some insight, how-
ever small, into the genius of our institutions, and
some familiarity, however slight, with the instincts
of the people, to know how litle the whole body
politic is affected by what are, after all, but
scratches on the surface, which a thorn might in-
flict or a day might heal. We desire to guard our-
selves expressly in making these remarks against
the imputation of being the apologists of such
scandals as those by which our city was disgraced.
on Saturday and Sunday nights last. There is no
way in which armed conflicts between bands of
ruffians in our streets in broad noonday can be
made to wear any aspect but a discreditable one.
But we do wish to have ti .e world know that in all
this, so far from buying our freedom too dearly,
we could bear twice the amount of rowdyism by
which we are at present afflicted, without wishing
to sacrifice one jot or tittle of this rude license, in
I return for the chains, the bayonets, the clean streets,
and trained police of a "strong Government."—
New York Times.