The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

TEE ARMY.

A general full-dress parade of the companies composing
the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry of the Chat-
ham division took place yesterday at head• quarters to wit-
ness the ceremony of decorating seven non-commissioned
officers and men with the medals which, with gratuities in
money, have been awarded them by the Lords of the Admi-
ralty for long service and exemplary conduct. The battalion
having been formed in contiguous columns on the parade
ground, the following non-commissioned officers and men
were called to the front and presented with the rewards
ordered by the Admiralty :—Sergeant Edwin Collins and
Colour-Sergeant J. Wright, medal and £l5 each; Private
Thomas Pratt and Private John Burling, medal and £5
each. The following non-commissioned officers were each
presented with a silver medal, without gratuity, for good
conduct and long service :—Colour-Sergeant J. Reynolds,
who also wears the medal for service in China; Sergeant
W. Lucas, who is also in possession of a China medal ; and
Corporal W. C. Crow, attached to the Royal Marine Band,
The medals were distributed by Col.-Commandant T.
Lemon, C.B. Each of the non-commissioned officers and
men decorated has been upwards of 21 years in the Royal
Marines.

The sentence on William James Wightman, a private in
the Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was convicted at
Woolwich by a garrison court-martial on the 14th for
being absent and making away with his necessaries, was
yesterday promulgated. The prisoner is sentenced to be
confined in the gaol at Fort Clarence with hard labour, to
have his pay stopped, and to be branded with the letter
" D." Notwithstanding the constant employment of the
lash in punishment of these crimes, they, as already stated
in the Sun, are proved to be considerably on the increase.
The War Department authorities,without absolutely banish-
ing corporal punishment from the decision of courts-martial,
have, it is stated, intimated that various terms of imprison-
ment and hard labour may be substituted until further
orders. The decision of the War Department has been re-
ceived at Woolwich with much satisfaction, more especially
as petitions have been presented by the inhabitants and
corporate meetings have been held to urge the necessity of
the abolition of the " cat" from the army. _ _

The new cavalry barracks at Colchester have been com-
pleted by the contractors Messrs. Lucas, and might be now
occupied by troops. The gas and water service is nearly
established and a system of roads has been formed. Messrs.
Lucas have commenced the execution of another contract ;
and the canteen, reservoir, riding-school, granary, &c,, are
now in course of construction,

The Alleged Harshness to the Poor in

Bethnal-green.

Last night the weekly meeting of the Bethnal-green Board
of Guardians was held at the workhouse, Victoria-park, Mr.
Collins in the chair. _ _ .

Mr. Howard, clerk to the board, read a communication
from the Poor-law Board, transmitting a letter from the
Rev. Mr. Chaffer, complaining of the conduct of Mr. Run-
cieman, relieving officer, towards a family named Cox. The
rev. gentleman stated that the man Cox, residing at No. 7,
Friar's-mount, Be: hnal-green, having become ill, applied for
medical relief, but that Mr. Runciemen refused to give it,
and insisted upon the whole family coming into the house.
The wife being in a condition to support herself declined to
do so, and it was urged that if Mr. Runcieman's object was
to prevent the sick man Cox coming to the infirmary, his
conduct was cruel, and that if he really desired the whole
family to enter the house, he was inflicting a hardship on the
wife and child and throwing a needless burden on the rates.
Mrs. Cox was called in, and she said she had a complaint
to make. On Saturday week she applied for a medical order
for the doctor to attend her husband, who was very ill. She
did not ask for relief. Mr. Sadlier, one of the relieving offi-
cers, began to write out an order, when Mr. Runcieman en-
tered and stopped him. Mr. Runcieman said she should
have nothing but the house, and that the whole family
should come in. He gave her an order for the admission of
the whole family. Neither her husband nor herself would
consent to that, and until Monday there was no doctor. She
went on the latter day and got an order for the doctor, who
attended. Mr. Runcieman called and said to her husband,
"Do you know I could fetch a policeman and have you
taken up." He shouldnot have said that to a sick and dying
man. Her husband said he would rather die of hunger than
consent that his wife should enter the house and become a
pauper while she could maintain herself. Mr. Runcieman
said, " You are a pauper now. What else are you ?" He
also said, " Make no mistake about me. You shall have
nothii g from me butthe house." On Saturday her husband
got worse, and Dr. Marsingham sent a certificate that he
should be taken into the house.
Mr. Fox asked whether, when application was made
merely for a medical order, an order for the whole family to
enter the house was given instead.
Mr. Runcieman said relief was asked for as well as the
order.
This the woman Cox denied, and it was stated that if the
application was for relief, Mr. Sadlier would not have begun
to write out the order.
Mr. Runcieman said that the order was to admit the whole
family or one of them.
Mr. Fox said that could not have been. The order must
have been not for the sick man, but for the whole family.
Mr. Runcieman said he gave the order for the whole
family to be admitted, but endorsed it, "Or one to be ad-
mitted if desired." It was very easy to make these charges.
A pauper had nothing to lose, but he had his character.
He passed this family to St. Luke's last year, and it he had
done his duty and handed them over to the police he would
not now have all this trouble.
Mr. Fox said if Mr. Runcieman had done on the Saturday
what he did on the Monday—given a medical order when
it was asked for—all the trouble would have been avoided.
Instead of doing so, he most irregularly gave an order for
the admission of the whole family to the workhouse.
Mr. Runcieman said that the whole family were drunken
and dissolute, and Mrs. Cox had given birth formerly to an
illegitimate child in the house.
In answer to a question from Mr. Collins,
Mr. Runcieman stated that the Rev. Mr. Chaffer, i
whom
he wished to treat with every respect, had been ledinto
telling a great untruth when he said the board gave
.no
out-door relief. He (Mr. Runcieman) gave out-door relief
next to St. Philip's Church.
Mr. Collins so said the Rev. Mr. Chaffer was very
wrong on that point, and he denounced the rev. gentleman's
conduct in writing to the papers. The board ought to con-
tradict his statements, and show him no mercy, as he had
shown none to the board.
The consideration of the subject of Mr. Runcieman's
order was adjourned, to see whether he had, as he alleged,
written on the back of it that the sick man alone might
,ter the house.

" COURT AND SOCIETY," FROM ELIZABETH TO
ANNE. Edited, from the Papers at Kimbolton, by the
Duke of Manchester. 2 vols., with portraits.—" The
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to their noble editor. In them witl be found something
new about many men and women in whom the reader can
never cease to feel an interest—mingled with a good deal
of gossip about the loves of great poets, the frailties of great
beauties, the rivalries of great wits, the quarrels of great
peers."

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I thought it my duty to convey to you at once by the
last mail my approval of the course which you had then re-
solved to take; and I now proceed to address you more
fully upon the subject, with reference especially to your
despatch of the 24th April, and the communications be-
tween yourself and your Ministers which it enclosed.
The facts upon which you mainly ground the important
decision at which you have arrived, and which, strange to
say, have only now been discovered by your personal in-
quiries, and by Teira's admissions to the native Minister
(Mr. Dillon Bell) appear to be these :-1. That W. King's
residence on the disputed land upon the south bank of the
Waitara was not merely, as had been always represented by
the sellers, by permission of Teira's father, but in virtue of
an arrangement made by all that section of the Ngatiawa
tribe, for the safe defence against the Waikatos. 2. That
a large number of natives, between 200 and 300, were living
upon the block at the time when it was offered for sate,
whose dwellings and cultivations were destroyed when pos-
session was taken by the military. 3. That Teira, as he new
asserts, never intended to sell the pahs, one of which was in
his own occupation, and did intend to except from sale a re-
serve of 200 acres, although no such reserve was named in
the deed of sale, as ought to have been done.
I proceed to explain to you the effect which these statee
meats have produced upon my mind, both with respect to
the transactions of 1859-60 and the measure which yon have
now adopted,
If it be true that a number of families were residing upon
and cultivating portions of the land offered for sale (variously
estimated at from 10 to 120 acres out of the 980 acres which
formed the "Block"), I have no doubt but that Governor
Gore Browne and his Ministers, upon discovering the fact,
weal.] have carefully reserved and respec,ed 'ach poitkats,
in accordance with the invariable practice of the New Zea-
land Government, or even have refused to have any further
dealings with parties who, like Teira and the ether sellers,
had been guilty of concealing from the Governor so impor-
tant a circumstance. If again they had been aware that W.
King had established his residence on the south bank of the
Waitara in virtue of a general tribal arrangement for pur-
poses of defence, this fact might have formed an important
element in their decision as to whether the purchase could
properly and safely be proceeded with. On the whole, I
agree with you that your predecessor, it he had been in pos-
session of these facts, would not have committed himself to
the purchase, and I am clearly of opinion that he would not
have been justified in doing so, The information, indeed,
which you now supply converts into a certainty the doubts
which I expressed in my despatch of Nov. 27, 1860, and
upon other occasions, as to the prudence of the policy pur-
sued by Governor Browne and his Ministers, with an evi-
dent want ut sufficient knowledge of the case, as well as of
foresight of the consequences, though with fair and upright
intentions, while it lessens the serious difficulty A* aban-
doning a publicly declared determination in the face of
armed opposition.

have said so much as to the propriety and pridence of

the Waitara purchase. But I must add, on the other hand,
that my view of the justice of exerting military Duca against
W. King and his allies remains unchanged. Tact chief's
conduct, from first to last, still seems to me to have been
inconsistent with any degree of submission to the Queen's
sovereignty over New Zealand. In February, 1859, betore
the Waitara question arose, he had given notice to the Go-
vernor that he would allow no land to be sold within a dis-
trict extending 40 ruffles north of the European boundary
at Taranaki, an interdict of a rebellious character, to which
the reasons now or formerly alleged against the Waitara
sale can of course have no application. In the same way, at
the public meeting where Teira offered the land, and during
the many months which elapsed before the survey, he gave
no reasons for his opposition, he afforded no explanations of
it, either such as were provided for him by others at the
time, or such as might have been drawn from the statements
which you have now conveyed to me. In short, he never
assumed any attitude towards the Governor but one of de-
fiance, and, to use the language of Chief Justice Arney in
the Legislative Council, never made "any intelligible claim
of right to the land, or any other declaration than a decla-
ration of war."

No one can deny that, had he entered into any peaceable
and loyal explanations, they would have been attended to,
or that if the Government survey had been allowed to pro •
ceed, the pahs and cultivations would not have been inter-
fered with, or anything done by Government officers incon-
sistent with the notice given by Governor Brown some
months before, " that if any man can prove his claim to any
piece of land within the boundary described, such claim
would be respected." I dissent, therefore, from the view of
the matter conveyed by the language which in your despateb.
of April 24th you place in the mouth of the natives, viz.,
" that the people 'F \Voltam. a:.;t1....‘f 1,.,,,;=er Lcou triiiir
of any crime, were driven at the point of the sword from
villages, houses, and homes which they had occupied for
years." The truth being that W. King and his followers
brought these consequences upon themselves by their own
conduct, and that the hitter, far from being evicted (as it
were) for the purpose of taking posses; ion of the purchased
land, themselves, in the consciousness of hostility,abandoned
their pahs, which wero only destroyed after hostile acts had
been committed by W. King's party, and military operations
had actually commenced. Again, with respect to the asser-
tion which had attributed to the natives, that they fought in
the late war simply " for their hearths and homes," and not
at all for the maintenance of "Tribal Right" or the
" Mbna " of the Maori King, or to prohibit the sale of land
to the Crown even by owners desirous to sell, I can only say
that the great body of evidence before me, including that of

the ardent and able defenders of. W. King, to whom the

allegations now made seem to have been unknown, makes it
impossible for me to accept them us worthy of credit. I hold,
therefore, that no injustice—and it is with the question of
justice only that I am now dealing—was either intended or
done to W. King and his followers by the employment of
military force to carry into effect the survey of the Waiters.
land for the purpose of ascertaining how much or how little
of it was owned by Teira and the others who joined with
him in the sale to the Crown. I else believe that in the then
state of mind of a portion of the New Zealand natives espe-
cially those of Taranaki, collision between them and the
Government was not to be avoided without great difficulty,
rare forbearance, and even tolerance of conduct which, under
ordinary circumstances, would be incompatible with the
dignity of the Crown.
These convictions, however,do not prevent me from deeply
regretting the evils of the late war, and especially so if any
of the natives are under the impression that it arose out
of an act of injustice committed against them by the Go-
vernment. I heartily share your anxiety to remove, so far
as lies in our power, any such belief for the future, and it
was with that hope that I at once signified to you my tip •
prove' of the course you have taken in relinquishing the
completion of the Waitara purchase, without further inves-
tigation, even though that course goes beyond what I be-
lieve strict justice to require, and is exposed to the dangers
pointed out by your responsible advisers. Those dangers
are of course increased by the unfortunate chance by which
the massacre of Lieut. Tragett and his men took place, be-
fore the announcement of the decision which you already
formed. I am far, however, from blaming you for the delay
caused by the discussions between your Ministers and your-
self upon so difficult a question—although it would have
been better if the re-occupation of the Tataraimaka Block
and the abandonment of the Waitara had been effected at
one and the same time—and I entirely concur in your
opinion that the subsequent outrage committed by the
natives to the south, unconnected apparently with W. King
and the Ngatiawae, is not a sufficient reason for not doing
what you decided ought to be done at the Waitara,
In conclusion, I have only to express my earnest hope
that the decisive success gained by General Cameron and
the troops, together with a firm attitude on your part, sup-
ported by your Ministers, will make it impossible for the
natives to resist the nature of a policy dictated by the de-
sire to root out a belief in wrong done, and a suspicion of
wrong intended against them, which might form an obstacle
in the way of their reconcilement with their European fel-
lew-subjecta and with their Sovereign.—l have &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.

THE LATE ADMIRAL HAMELIN.—Admiral Ha-
melin, whose death was announced in the Moniteur
yesterday, will be well remembered in England as the
coadjutor of Admiral Deans Dundas in the Black Sea during
the Crimean war. This distinguished naval officer was born
Sept. 2, 1796. He was the nephew of Admiral Baron Ha-
melin, a sailor who saw much service under the First Empire.
At the age of 11 his uncle placed him as a midshipman on
board the Venus, and while yet a boy he.saw a great deal of
fighting. In 1812, having obtained a commission, he took part
in the expedition to the Scheldt. His promotion was rapid,
notwithstanding the peace which followed the battle of
Waterloo. In 1828 he became a captain, and in 1812 a rear-
admiral. The Crimean war found him maritime prefect of
Toulon, and he was then selected for the command of the
Black Sea fleet. The memorable leading of the French
troops previous to the battle of the Alma was effected under
his direction. During the attack on Sebastopol forts of the
17th of October, a shell struck the quarter-deck of the Ville
de Faris, and killed Lieut. Sommelier by Admiral Hame •
Tin's aids. He himself was knocked down by the shock.
He rose and continued to command his vessel amidst a
storm of Russian projectiles. His conduct on that daY.wraa.g
rewarded by his promotion to the rank t.f a full. adtatetr
01!
On the death of M. Ducos he was appointed Minis I
Marine, which office he held from 1855 to 18
00,
retired to the star. and honourable post of Chancels
mired
who is captain
for of the Legion ofb Honour. Ho leaves
few
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s
ißrirtehtaegnnaev.y,Hauisd second
daatutghhistemrow.masentm
been fixed for Jan. 5,
before his death. The wedding had
time in order that he might be presentbud
ed in the In slides.
but the admiral feeling his end sroaacthtihngenaudpvtainaclse.dTthhee
rrdaionsn°clnimam
Emperor has ordered that he ehtllday
The funeral will take place or/ Thug.

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commerce tak es its tit' le either from the inventor or
manufacturer, and t he mor a perfect the production the
grater is the credit 'hick at tunes to the originator.
BONNET'S SILIC,`,4 are' said to be incapable of identifica-
tion in England ; but the f' silacy of such an assertion is ex-
poscd by the very trade ms rk of the firm, as exhibited by
Messrs. JAI of Regent-street.
The following inte two% en mark may be seen at the end
of each piece :—" Mans ttacf ure de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., Lyon
Injurieux." Wes r g- uaranteed.

THE MODERN kUGUSTUS, or The Lie of a
Lifetime, in. Fl JN This Week.—One Penny.

ROYAL E.NGLISti OPERA,
COI F. ENT-GARDEN.
Under the 31ana,2 e.ment of Miss Louisa Pyne and
3 tr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, t o commence with (14th time) an en-
tirely new Operetta, en t t'ed FANCHETTE. Miss Louisa
Pyne and Mr. W. llarr if on.
After which, a Grand .;hristmas Pantomime, on a s;,ale of
unprecedented manifice rice, ntitled
HARLEQUIN ST. Gr. RORGE AND TEIE DRAGON.
Doors open at half-1 ,ast Six— 'eminence at Seven.

T FIEATRE RO YAL DRUR Y-L AN E.
Managers, Meat rs. Edmond Falconer and
F. I. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with
the New Serio-Comic aria, by Edmund Falconer, entitled
Mr. Phelps,
IGHT AND 31011 N. Principal characters by
supported by Messrs. It: f der, Raynor, Fi,zjames,g.
and Misses
Leclercq, Atalneon,; u id Heath.
Po conclude with the new Grand Christmas
Seven Comic Panto-
mime of SINBAD TH E SAILOR ; or, T Wonders
World. Clowin ;, Messrs. IL Bolen
and C. Lauri ;
Darkquins, Messrs. J. :;ormack and S. Saville Pantaloons,
Messrs. W. A. Barnes a Rd J. Morris ; Columbines, Madame
Boleno and Misses Gun Digs.
Prices as usual. Box °ince open from 10 till 5 daily.

ROYAL Iai:CEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole management of Mr. Fechter.
BEL DIDIONIO (a 7 niumohant Success) will be repeated
;:very Evening during the Week.
t'ia4 performance will commence with a
New and Original
THIS EVENING* Far ce, entitled THE LOST CHILD :
4essrs. 11. Widdiconthe., Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett,
Moreland; Misses Perc:y, Pauline Le,dercl, Wood, Mrs. Lee,
and Miss E. Lavenu-
A ter which, at Veit o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love
rotor j, in Twelve Ta.bl eaux, taken from Stendhal's " Italian
Chr( nicle -," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac-
erty Mr. Fechter, Er upported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
vsugh:im, Emery, It aymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Miss IC. ate Terry, E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and
simt4 ;
Elsworthy.
The Public are entre: ited to take notice that No Charge is
made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either
for play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and
nat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to
;,)ceive any gratuities 1 vhatever.
Box-office open ds from 11 to 5. Commence at 7.

/11FIEATRE ] IOYAL HAY MARKET.-
Sole Lessee ai id Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, OUR •AMERICAN COUSIN Messrs.
Sothern, Buckstone, C hippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers,
Clark, Cull( ntord, &c. ;; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry,
Lindley, Hi 11, &c
After which, KING A RTHIIR ; or The Days and Knights
of the Rouxid Table. Id essrs. ChipoendalQ, Compton, Braid,
Clark, Rog7ers, Tilbury, Ac. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough,
Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c.
Commence at 7.

0y AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
;Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS E`7 ENING, DONNA DIANA.
After which, 'HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER;
or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman
who Lived iii a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't
know what N ) do

T HEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL-
Sole I 'roprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVV.NING, THE MOTHER AND CHILD
ARE DOING WELL : Mr. J. L. Toole,
at / to El; ;lot, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate-
tan, supporter t by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil-
hogton, Stuart Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and
Mrs. Billingtom .
To conclude a tith LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio
and his Seven 3 Tagio Men. Messr. J. Clarke, R. Phillips,
Stephenson; I liss NVoolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti
JOse ;hs, Miss L,. Laitilaw, Miss Seaman.
Commence at 7.

LEAn.—EVERY NIGHT.
MISS BATEMAN.

uLE A H.—THISETENING,
311 the A '
e 9 4Bth appearance of' great Tragic
consequence Actress, Mies
ofs
BA'I7EMAN, in the character L
the unbounded silkiness with which Miss Bateman's imperso-
nation of the prit,cipal character in the new Five Act Drama
of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce
that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further
°tine.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
GREAT ATTRACTION.—First Week of Mr. and Mrs.
CHARLES MATHEWS.—Mr. J. L. Toole as Mrs. Brown,
Mr. Phelps. Mr. Fechter, and Lady Audley every evening.
1863; or, the Sensations of the Past Season, until further
notice. Among the artistes who will appear here are Mr.
Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Tale, Mr. Paul Bedford, and.
Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling,
_Mrs. Frank Mat-
thews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, Miss Fanny Josephs,
and Mrs. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING. and during the Week, at 7, THE
ADVENTUitES OF A LOVE LETTEIt ; COOL AS A
CUCUMBER; and 1863; or. THE SENSATIONS OF
THE PAST SE ASON.
In rehearsal, a new Comedy, by Leicester Buckingham,
Esq.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
wrana,!,r, Mr. W. H. Swanborou9-,h.
THIS EVENING, ORANGE BLOSSOMS : Miss K.
Caro o
After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORrtIEU6
AND EURYOICE, Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton,
Mesdames Swanbo rough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c.
Fenton,
by 31,4.1tGATE SANDS.
To concludo with TURN 11731 OUT.
Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.--:Morning, 10h. 31m.—Afternoon, 11h. 10m.
I o-itosnow. -..llorning, 11h. 48m.—Afternoon, h. m.

The NV( Wther—Bun Office, Jan. 19, 1864,

THERMOMETER,
This dAN at Two o'clock

Barometer-30.13.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 19, 1864.

"Save We from my friends" may certainly he the

outcry of the Italians. Italian independence has
no great( ,r foes than its own misguided partisans.
Apart fr( an the fanatics and assassins who degrade
the name of Liberty, even its most gallant and heroic
champion, the dauntless GARIBALDI, has more than

once pro'red wanting in that discretion which is the
better part of valour. The advantages achieved by
his impetuous courage have been counterbalanced

by his incautious eagerness. 'lo-day we learn that
a proclamation just issued by GARIBALDI has been
rablishetl, in the _Meat° of Turin, in which the zea
13: a bat imprudent General announces the formation
of a Committee to promote Italian union. He
invites the Italians to rally round this
centre and to recognise its authority. We
are not surprised to learn that the Tiritto
been aeized, and that the case is to be brought
before the courts of law. Thus the unwary hero
has evidently taken a false step, and brought him-
self and his friends into unnecessary collision with
the authorities. In many of his recent acts, even his
warmest admirers have had abundant cause to regret
the rashness cif their favourite hero. Passion rather
than prudence seems tobe the guiding principle of his
actions. It would, perhaps, be too much to expect
in one, the very brilliancy of whose victorious
career has been mainly due to his impetuous gal-
lantry—an heroic impetuosity like that of the Pala-
(Ens and heroes of old, which has ever proved, for
the time at least, irresistible—it would be too much
to expect from such a spirit deliberate prudence or
tranquil consideration. If so, and that it is so every
recent incident only confirms, GARIBALDI is, by
nature and circumstance, a Hero, but not a General.

The Austrian and Prussian Ultimatum may not
surprise anyone after what has occurred during the
discussion of the " vexed question" of Schleswig-
Holstein, but at the same time it must be matter of
great indignation to all who peruse it. It is really
intolerable that these Powers shmild go on in this
ignore the just
of claimst.
reckless way, and wilfullyof
other States, end the inherent rights • nationali-
ties. g
-
ties. It is timo that those who are able wand:i
to interfere should now awake to the importance of
the affttir, and recoi;nise the imminent nature of the
position. "The retractation of the Constitution of
the 18th November" is imperatively demanded. The
Dagbladet emphatically styles this an unjustifiable
and brutal demand. It is certainly one totally de-
v3id of any consideration, and entirely actuated by
s‘,lfish motives and one-sided motives. It is doubt-