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violation of the laws of truth and honour. In the
sight of God and man the Prussians are showing
their contempt for the dictates of justice, and are
putting aside the claims of equity, It is a wilful
perversion of right that might may triumph, that
has arranged, planned, and carried to a consumma.
tion this Danish business from the first. A day of
retribution must and will come, however, even if it
tarries in its advent until the chief actors in the
disgraceful scenes have passed away to their last
account. All history's living page bears witness
to the decay that is planted with the germs of such
actionf.2. It may seem all straight and fair showing
now, but when a page or two of the volume of the
future is turned, this generation or its successor
will see a heavy doom awaiting Prussia. She has
thrown away opportunities and neglected chances
that might have given a tone to the Constitution,
and shed a new and brighter lustre over her his-
tory than any which past renown in arms could
have afforded. Instead of this she has aped the
tyrany of the despot, and tried to retrograde in the
sight of Europe, carrying us back to those dark
ages of thraldom and oppression, from which it was
the boast of this century that we had been severed
for ever. " All is lost but honour" is reckoned a
noble and worthy remark email the chances and
changes of life, but the Prussians seem to think a
good name is only of secondary importance, and a
possession that they can well afford to part with.

The approach of winter heralds the time of death and
distress for the poor, and already the increasing severity of

the temperature must tell upon those who have no regular
place of refuge for the night, It is therefore very
satisfactory to find that the Poor-law Board has
issued full and complete directions to the guar-
dians of the various unions and parishes through-

out the metropolis as to the carrying out of the
provisions of the act with respect to the houseless poor,

which was passed at the close of last session. The pub-
lic mind had been so strongly excited by the details of
the shocking cases of death from absolute want of the

common necessaries of life which were so pain'ully fre•

quent during the intense cold of last winter, that it was
felt by the Legislature that something must be done be-
fore another winter's keen winds and sharp frost claimed

their victims from the houseless, hungry, thinly-clad
ranks of the destitute, There are doubtless many who

have " seen better days," who would shrink from avail-
ing themselves of its benefits ; but it is impossible for

the law to provide relief for such petsons, and the care
of them must be left to private charity and kindness.

It is enough if the statute provides that no person need
wander houseless and foodless about the streets of this

wealthy city during the bitter nights of the winter
months before us. If they will, all can have sufficient
food to keep the flame of life still burning, and sufficient
shelter to prevent the sharp winds from penetrating their
thinly-clad frames. The directions just issued to the
guardians contain very full and precise directions as to
the manner in which the provisions of the act should be

carried out, stipulating that there should be proper ac-
commodation in different wards, for males, and females,
and children, with a bath at hand, and with some means

of heating the sheds during severe weather. Where the

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The end crowns the work is a well..known say.
ing, and certainly the peace negotiatiors are a
fitting conclusion to the war which has preceded
them. They are almost unprecedented for their
rapacious demands and selfish exactions. Many
persons who were really eshamed of the conduct of
our Government with respect to the Dano-German
war tried to believe that at least the influence of
England would be felt in the councils where treaties
were considered, if not in the fields where armies
contended. It is melancholy to think that all these
expectations have been entirely disappointed, and
that the well known and often expressed opinions
of the people of this country have not been suffered
to prevail in any way for the benefit of the Danes.
On the contrary it appears that the cruel and
unjust arbitrators who have trodden down the un-
happy kingdom beneath the iron heel of conquest
have augmented their requirements, and at the
eleventh hour have interposed as necessary parts of
the transaction some most exorbitant demands
which cruelly increase the burden and add to the
difficulties which the vanquished nation has to
endure. Such conduct is a disgrace to a civilised
State and a reproach to a Christian one ; it puts
the finishing stroke to the reputation for tyranny
and oppression which the Prussian nation has ever
earned for itself. Whether they found it impossi.
ble to resist the temptation, whether they took
advantage of the impunity with which they had
perpetrated their foregoing encroachments, it is
difficult to say ; but the fact remains the same for
the unhappy victims. The monstrous demands
made and the enormous exactions required by
Prussia in the terms of the treaty are in some way
more degrading than her conduct in the
war. Some allowances may be made for
the excitement of a contest ; and in gene.
ral when resort is had to arms much more
is done than is at first anticipated ; but
no possible excuse can be offered for the base
designs that are concocted in the composure and
calm of meetings and councils, where there is ample
opportunity afforded for reflection, and where there
is every facility for drawing back from any move-
ment that appears on consideration to be harsh or ill-
timed. Did a spark of good feeling or a fraction of
fair play animate or distinguish the sentiments and
actions of the great German Powers, the world
would have seen very different peace negotiations
to those now so wantonly paraded and unblush-
ingly set forth. Having got all they required at
the outset, and more,ra hundredfold, than they first
bargained for, it would have been a graceful and
benign task for them to have mitigated the severity
of their war regulations, and to have atoned in some
measure for the hard terms which military arrange-
ments had exacted. Such a concession would
have been a courteous offering of amity and good-
will to the nations of Europe ; but instead of all
this possible En Aeration being displayed, what do
we witness in reality ? T3O particulars of some of
the stipulations of the treaty are such that many
might well have refused to credit them if they had
been suggested to them beforehand as likely to be
contemplated. Perhaps one of the worst things in
the whole iniquitous affair is the demand made that
the Danes are to pay for the prizes captured (luring
the war. Can anything surpass this for extortion
and, greed ? Between two nations of equal propor-
tions such a treaty cauld not have held good a day ;
but when the weak are crushed the day of reaction
is indeed terrilale. If nothing can or will be
done to stop this infamous transfer of rights, and
this mei oppression of a gallant but small nation,
it is some satisfaction to protest against what is, in
reality, a crime of the deepest dye, and an open

commended that there should bo a superintendent in
each ward, and the exaction of a task of work
in return for the night's food and lodging is strongly
insisted upon. This is doubtless very necessary as a check
upon mere vagrancy, and it is stated by the board that they

have found it as the result of their experience that in those
unions where the task of work has been strictly insisted
upon vagrancy has sensibly diminished, and they strenu-
ously recommend the universal adoption of this test instead
of the plan which has been adopted in some unions of al-
lowing the casual paupers to forego the task on condition
of dispensing with the morning meal. There may, however,
be instances in which the casual paupers may be really
unequal to the task set before them, and it would have been
as well if the board had reminded the guardians of the

possible existence of such cases. The public would gladly
see a little more libaral measure meted out to this class, so

that they may be spared the pain and disgrace of the
weekly record of deaths from starvation in the midst cf the
plenty of the metropolis. The difference of a shilling or
half-a-crown a week spent in the relief of the casual poor
would be little felt even by the poorest parishes, while it
would make a vast difference in the general management
of the board. If the task of work be insisted upon the
parish will get the money value of the relief given, and if
the masters, porters, and relieving officers can be got to
give the paupers the benefit of the doubt there will
be many lives saved during the winter. The difficulty
lies in reaching those sufferers of the more respectable
class, such as poor widows, needlewomen, and others who
shrink from the workhouse even in the last extremity. A
melancholy case was recorded a few days ago, in which a
poor woman, who earned a miserable living by making the
bodies of shirts, succumbed to actual want. She got four-
pence for each body, and could with difficulty make one a
day, the result being naturally her death from want and

hunger. Another similar case occurred in Bethnal-green,
in which a poor bootbinder, who it was stated in the evi-

dente never earned sixpence a day, died from want of the
common necessaries of life. It is this class who cling to
their miserable rooms as long as possible, though the land-
lady in one case at least seems to have shown little enough
feeling, that are not easily reached by any form of public
relief. Still a great point has been gained by the passing of
the recent act, and we may reasonably hope that it will di-
minish not only the number of deaths in the highway from
want and destitution, but the sufferings of the large class
which they represent, whose misfortunes never reach the
public ear.

THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVhNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1864.

military education is the propriety and even the
necessity of forming his character by adapting it to
the circumstances of our country and of our times.
It is, therefore, advisable that his Royal Highness
should, from his tenderest age, be accustomed to
devote his attention to the army, and to study its
organisation i❑ detail. He will thus necessarily
acquire the qualities of a great captain, if, as we
hope, the character of his mind should second the
primary elements. The preference for the military
direction does not exclude on the contrary, it takes
for granted; that the prince will at the same time
receive the religious, moral, scientific, and literary
education which his faculties will permit."