The World's Fair was opened on Sunday for the first time this week. The question of Sunday opening has engaged the atten-of the National Commission and the Exposition officers for several weeks. It appears to your correspondent that a strict regard to the Act of Congress would require that the gates should be closed on Sundays, but Thave no idea that they will be closed in obedience thereto, for the highest legal talent has been engaged in proving the Act to be without force. But the battle is not yet won. It has served to show, however, that many of the good people of the world still think that all the other people should submit to be governed by their consciences and religious notions. Three Fepresenting eir church denomination in prominent Baptist clergymen of this city,
the World' Fair Auxiliary, formally withdrew last week because they believed the Fair would be opened on Sunday. The Auxiliary Congresses are designed to aid in the diffusion of knowledge, by bringing together persons of eminence from all countries, for an interchange of views and discussions. They have only the most remote connection with the Exposition, and the meetings are held six miles from the Fair grounds. Such action by prominent clergymen is too silly to be seriously: discussed, but it smacks of the spirit which calls to mind the Blue Laws of a past generation. It is strange to think of all this controversy over Sunday-observance and then to consider that in ten or at least a score of years from now, the world will have outgrown its Puritanical ideas of a holy Sabbath day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.