The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

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a lowed them to plunge, it must se em outrageous
to all thinking minds to know that,, -so far from
being ashamed of such extravagant and extreme
measures, there is rejoicing made., and boastings
heard of doings that bear no I;.ght of day upon
them. One would think that even Prussian as-
h surance might forbear this last insult to the com-
mon sense, this outrage on the good taste, and this
violation of the right feelings of the other great
Powers of Europe. When we hear of trophies of
such a war, of monuments to be erected in honour
of such a dishonourable affair, we may well under-
stand how the mighty are fallen, and how much
utilitarian influences have prevailed, to the extinc-
tion of better feelings and good faith. The present
King of PRUSSIA has made nothing but blunders
since he first came to the throne. He has disap-
t pointed the expectations of all who had prophecied
I that he would do better things than his predeces-
sors. The self-sufficiency which prompted him to
take the crown from the altar and place it upon
his head with his own hands was symbolical of the
proud perversity and arrogant assumption with
which he intended to rule, or rather to
mis-rule, the people whom Providence had
committed to his care. Since that memorable
day how dark has been his doings. He has come
promised the liberties of the country at home, and
for ever tarnished its honour abroad. He has been
in league with the great enemy of European liber-
ties to put down freedom at any cost, and done all
directly and indirectly to crush out the smouldering
fire of liberty in unhappy Poland. He has listened
to the counsels, and kept as a constant adviser a
statesman whose policy has called forth the indig-
nation of all Europe. His course in respect to Den-
mark has signally disgraced him as a King, and
been unworthy of his position in every respect;
in short, no Monarch of conscientious principles,
and no ruler inspired with a spirit of magnanimity,
would think of allowing such a war to be made.
Still more would he have disdained the mode of its
procedure, and have refused to listen to the terms of
the propositions for peace. What can be said in
defence of a ruler who makes an attempt to cele-
brate the course of this war by the erection of
monuments it is difficult to imagine. Doubtless
some apologists may be found, but never will their
arguments prevail in communities that share the
honest conviction, and are actuated by the honour-
able feelings, of freemen. What is there to be
proud of in the affair ? It is a disgrace to the army
of Prussia to imagine that there was any difficulty
to advance in their engagements with the Danes.
For Denmark to be proud of her troops is another
affair altogether. Well might that gallant and
little nation have honoured their soldier sons who
so nobly exposed themselves to fearful odds, and
that without hope of success to crown their efforts,
and reward their endeavours. Of them it may truly
be said in the poet's glowing words—
They are true to the last of their blood and their breath,
And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.

The column about to be erected at the Hotel
des Invalides at Berlin in memory of the
late war, will be the monument of a
lasting disgrace to that city. Those who
set it up little know the harm that they are
doing, nor the reproach that will be visited on their
work. The more considerate among themselves
blush to hear of such a purpose, and bitterly regret
the nation that suggested its erection. Rightly
considered, it is one of the most barefaced attempts
to ignore the criticism lavishly heaped upon the
unfair contest that has ever been witnessed. If
King WILLIAm's latest order be attended to, he
will have ample cause to regret its fulfilment. If
he spared long enough to outlive the temporary
clamour of all this make-believe glory he will hear
plenty of reactionary statements. War cannot last
for ever, and when the people of Prussia find that
they have been hoodwinked into giving up their
civil rights for a war that has brought them no
honour, they may one day point with bitter scorn
to a trophy that celebrates the triumph of Might
against Right. It is a bitter thought for English-
men to dwell upon that this monument is to dis-
figure a capital where the eldest daughter of
England is one day expected to reign as a Queen.
It is quite inconsistent with the views and senti-
ments of this nation that the success of the strong
over the weak in a cruel war waged from no ex-
cusable motive should be thus signalised and set
forth in triumph. No real honour rests with the
affair, and Rhea in the course of time the more &I,
grant instances of Prussian exaction shall have
almost faded out of recollection, a glance at this
miserable memento will serve to bring back the
past in all its horrors to the memory. It will be a
landmark of tyranny and oppression, and a trophy
of the triumph of wrong. If such are to be set up
in the high places of a city, it is pretty evident that
the national spirit is not alive to the true instincts
of honour, and the popular recognition of greatness
is indeed obscured, if not altogether lost.

The arrival of the Calcutta mail fails to bring us
any striking intelligence, and we may congratulate
ourselves that such is the case. The wayfarer who
journeys along the broad and beaten highway has
little to tell when be gets to his journey's end ; it is
the traveller through rough and dangerous wilds
who has to encounter risks, dangers, and discom-
forts, who can give us an animated and exciting
narrative. La like manner the country which is on
1 the high road of peace and prosperity, cannot hope
to compete in interesting intelligence with lards
that are desolated by a foreign invader or agitated
by internecine strife. Of the Bhootan affair we
hear very little. The Viceroy is, it is said, opposed
to war if it can possibly be avoided; and again, it
is stated in other quarters that he will not suffer
the maltreatment of a British Envoy to pass un-
punished. The Bhooteas, it is said, did not extort
the renunciation of the whole of Assam in the
unlucky treaty, but only of such parts as they
wanted. At all events the Government is silent,
and the authorities endeavour, as far as possible, to
check discussion on the matter, thinking, perhaps,
that it is better the Bhooteas should not sup-
pose we attach much importance to a tran-
saction which, whatever its results, at present
savours of the ridiculous. Preparations are
being made in the arsenal, however, and a re-
connoitring officer has been sent to the north-east
frontier to collect information, with a view to the
possibility of the jest becoming earnest. Forewarned
is forearmed, and whatever line of conduct the
Bhooteas may determine upon following, it ii
scarcely likely that our authorities will be unpre-
pared to deal with them. The Mussulmans are
still restless and mischief making. The headquar-
ters of their disaffection are at present at Petrie,
where their proceedings are closely watched. While
the Government is on its guard there is not much
fear that the grand Mussulman's prophecy of over.
throwing the British rule this year will advance
very far towards its fulfilment. The religious
fanaticism of India had just received its most con•
spicuous illustration when the mail left. The great
Juggernaut saturnalia, which combines the t wo great
Lasts of Ilindoo worship, had come off with un-
wonted eclat, three voluntary victims being crushed
to death beneath the wheels of the triumphant car.
From the description of the throngs which pressed
around this dismal chariot, it is not difficult to
imagine that accidents were likely to occur, and the 1

police version of the matter upholds this theory.
But it appears from the testimony of European
eye-witnesses, that the unfortunate wretches
flung themselves under the wheels, and the
shouting crowds around them testified to the
same effect. The chief part of the festival
is the progress of the immense cars, of which
most persons in this country have seen some kind

of representation. They are about 60 feet high,
built in four storeys, and are moved on six wheels.
They are drawn by means of ropes which the fanatics
eagerly dispute the honour of dragging, and being
crowded with the Brahmins of various degrees who
escort the idols are of no light weight. It certainly
would not seem to a European to be a very attrac-

tive mode of committing suicide, to be crushed

beneath the wheels of this slowly advancing mon-
ster. There have been not a few distraught mortals
among ourselves who have flung. away life and care
before an express train, but the swiftness and cers
tainty of the death might not be without its fasz,i-
nation. The suicide remains to be found who
would prostrate himself before an omnibus. The
worst part of the affair is, that it affords us another
proof of how strong a hold the fanaticism of their
creed still has over the Hindoo mind, and it shows
us how much yet remains to be done of our most
important task. It is well to introduce English
capital and enterprise, to encourage commerce and
stimulate the dormant energies of the people by
opening fresh channels for industry and developing
the resources of the country, hut England's work in
India remains incomplete while such spectacles are
possible. Oar puiplic works, when fully carried
out, are likely to prove substantial blessings to
many an Indian generation. The parched and
famine-stricken lands will gather fresh verdure and
fertility from the waterworks projected by English
science; the trader and agriculturist will send his
goods down the canal on the highway which Eng-

lish enterprise has opened to him ; while the
marvels of steam and electricity will bring their
blessings to the people; but so long as suttee, in-
fanticide, and human sacrifices form part
,of the
Hindoo code, our task will not be done. There is
nothing more difficult than to uproot an ancient
faith, and to substitute a new one in its place ; but,
as the old Latin adage tells us, " truth is great and
must prevail." It is the ignorance of the Hindoos
that is the stronghold of their superstition, and as
the advancing tide of civilisation removes the bul-
wark, the fanaticism itself must surely give way.
Our duty as a Government is, undoubtedly, to leave
the work to time and tolerance, not to interfere
harshly or violently with native prejudice. But
we have manifestly a right, in the maintenance of
public order, to repress with the strong hand of the
law such atrocities as those of the Juggernaut pro-
cession, the suttee, and others which offend our
national code of Christian morality. It is to be
hoped that for the future the authorities will watch
the proceedings of Juggernaut and his votaries a

little mote closely, and make some person, or per
sons, responsible for the proper and orderly conduct
of the great procession of the cars.

The Last Year of the Old Fire Insurance
Duty,

As the year 1863 was the last in which the mil-
form duty of 3s per cent. was levied for the whole
period, the Parliamentary return on this subject,
just issued, has a special interest. From it we find
that the Sun is the largest insurance company hay.
ing its principal office in London, and the Royal is
the largest whose chief establishment is in the pro-
vinces. The next companies in order of magnitude
to the Sun and the Royal are the Phceniz and the
London and Liverpool. The amount paid by all the
London companies was £999,071, and by all the
country ones £715,152 ; the total being £35,207 in
excess of the previous year. This increase is, how-
ever, very unequally distributed among the different
offices, some having contributed a material advance
of business, and others showing a decrease. The
largest increase is again exhibited, as in several
previous years, by the Royal Insurance Company,
which, indeed, figures for nearly one-fourth of the
whole. Of course, the year 1861 will show a great
diminution in the duty collected by all the insurance
companies, as the reduced rate on stock commenced
in April of this year.

Annexed is a table of the respective increases and
decreases in the duty payments of all the offices for
1863 as compared with 1862:

INCREASES.
Royal £12,934 8 10
L'pool & London.lo,7lo 5 2
North British and
Mercantile .... 7,981 1 5
Lcndon4 I..ancas. s,Ol 17 7
Queen 4857 1 4
Commercial Union 1.,363 15 5
Northern
Imperial
Alliance 2,505 11 5
County
Phcemx
Law ... 1,715 12 8
Scottish Union„ 1,292 1 0
Lon don 1,219 15 6
General 1,020 11 8
Provincial ...• •
Law Union
Royal Exchange 702 1 0
Hand in Hand
Caledonian 663 16 7
Scottish Provincial 550 15 g
Yorkshire ..... 601 16 7
B rming ham
Lancashire
Leeds & Yorksh re 315 2 8
Midland Counties 140 18 9
Globe
Kent
District
Royal Farmers 185 18 0

Church of England £177 11 5
Guardian J l6O 16 7
Scottish National 159 H 3
Sheffield
Essex and Suffolk 12) 2 8
Norwich Union
Manchester lc9 16 2
Town and County
(Dundee)
Shropsiire... and

Aortn Wilts 98 13 8
Volunteer Service 88 7 7
Notts add Derby, 79 It 5
tialop
Emperor
West of England 35 511
NorwichEquttable 14 2 2

DECREASES.

Stewarton,Dunlop,
&c.
Netherlands I 15 0
Equitable
Hants, Su sex, &
_

.I)oret
6 7 1
Preserver
Ultrajectum 27 19 1
National of Ireland 125 11 8
Uni0n.......
Atlas 3OO 13 7
Pa riotic
Westminster
Sun 4,116 13 co

The New Bower Operetta House.

This little theatre, which had become notoriously one o f
the most objectionable places of amusement in London, has
been recently taken by Mr Walter Kimber, with the view
not only to "revive its fortunes," but at the same time to
introduce a higher class of more pleasing entertainments
for the play-going public "down about this 'ere quarter."
The spirited manager commenced by thoroughly sweeping
out the old Augean stable, which is now transformed into
a neat, comfortable, and pleasing little operetta house. Mr
Kimber merits every success for his bold effort to raise the
fortunes of a truly fallen house.
The company which has been got together, as a whole, is
a fair and passable one. Four pieces were put on the stage
last evening, and on the whole creditably performed, viz.,
"The Kiss and the Rose," by Howard Payne, and " Her
only Failing," a new and original comedietta by Smyth
Lee, Esq. In this piece Miss Emma Mansell manifested
her talents as an actress, and her very beautiful song,
"The pleading of the heart," was loudly and deservedly
encored. The new burlesque of " Cymon and Iphigenia "
is smartly written, and seemed well adapted to the place
and the audience, and was carried out with great spirit on
the part of all the actors. " Iced Champagne" closed the
evening's programme,
There is just one word in passing that we would whisper
Into the ear of the manager, and that is, to avoid injadici-
°ll°ll' using too large capital letters in announcing bis
"swans," for somehow if the public are disappointed when
the bird has been seen and heard, they are very likely to
say, " well, it is but a goose' after all,"

STRUGGLE ON THE PARAPET OF LONDON-
BRIDGE.—Last evening Mr,Payne, the city coroner,
held an inquest at the Vestry-hall, Fair-street, Southwark,
respecting the death by suicide of Mary Ann Mann, aged
43. John Nare, No. 3, Blue Anchor-road, Bemondsey,
said that lost Sunday morning, about 8 o'clock, he was
crossing London-bridge. A boy called out to him—
"Master, there is a woman going to drown herself !" He
then saw the deceased with one leg over the parapet of the
bridge, She was standing in the middle recess of the centre
at- h. Ho rushed forward and caught hold of her by the
arm. She struggled fearfully. He tried to pull her back,
but could not do so. He then let her go, and she fell into
the water. Her head was first dashed against the stone-
work of the bridge. The witness just saved his own life.
Geo. Mann, No. 10, Great Arthur-street, St. Luke's, a
cigar-maker, said that the deceased was his wife. For the
last eight weeks she had been very ill. She frequently said
she would go and drown herself, because she had dreadful
pains in her back. Mrs E. Speller said that the deceased
had fallen downstairs last Thursday. After that she said
to witness " I feel so low-spirited that I shall go and kill
myself." The coroner having summed up the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."
THE ALABAMA AND SUMTER.—Already Captain
Semmes' narrative of his cruises on board the Alabama and
Sumter has reached a second edition, and Messrs Saunders,
Utley, and Co., announce that the work has been carefully
revised.