The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1861.

Utopia of Bribery and Treating. The act at present
existing to secure the purity of elections is a mere
dead letter. It compes the candidate to appoint
recognised agents, and any act of bribery, intimida-
tion, or corruption proved against them or against
himself made the election void. But he must be a
very simple mortal who does not see without the
telling, that while one or two immaculate agents
keep strictly within the letter and spirit of. the
law, u dozen unrecognised and unofficial emissaries
may be promising, treating, and feasting to
their heart's content. No one can prevent the
candidate's friends from working on his behalf,
no one but the friends themselves can prove when
the little sum given in recognition of their services
is handed over to them, and if we are to wait until
they are sufficiently frank and disinterested to come
forward with that informaticn, we fear that purity
of elections is yet a long way off. The strongest
opponents of the Ballot do not pretend to say that
our elections are what they should be. Lord PAL-
MERSTON himself discreetly left that point out of
his very inconclusive arguments. Mr. BERKELEY
said that that all he asked for the Ballot was a fair
trial, and he might have retorted the favourite
accusation of his adversaries, and have added that
it was " un-English" to refuse it. But is fact, as
the hon. gentleman observed, " assertion is no argu-
ment." It is very easy to declare that the Ballot
would entirely fail to do what it has done in every
country where it has been fairly tried ; to declare
that it would have no effect in stopping
bribery and protecting against intimida-
tion, but if so why not settle the
matter by giving practical proof. Why not let the
supporters of the Ballot be convinced by practice ?
No very great harm could ensue if the experiment
proved a signal failure; it could scarcely Make mate
ters worse than they are now. How many of the
members of this very high-minded and honourable
house would like to lock too closely into the full
details of their electioneering agents, paid and un-
paid, official and unrecognised? But the very fact
of the Ballot being so much needed is the greatest
obstacle to its introductior. Members and chiefs
of parties are afraid to trust to unieflaenced voting,
and Lord PALMERSTON, its open and recognised
enemy, does not attempt to deny that our elections
need reform, but contents himself with assertions
that it would be useless. First, the noble lord says
that it would be necessary to make it penal for a
man to say how he was going to vote; next, he
declares it would be no good to have ballot boxes,
because " it is nut to impossible that a majority of
electors should vote by ballot without their votes
being known. He further argued that it would be
tlo protection against bribery and intimidation, be-
cause the landlord or customer might go to a man
before or after the election and ask about his vote,
when, if he refused to answer, the landlord or cuss
tomer would know the worst, and that "you might
go to an elector and say, ' Here is Lo or £lO. I
trust to your honour—you shall have the money if
you promise to vote for so and so, but not others
wise." Lord PALMERSTON is of opinion that the
electors would keep their promise, and thus the
merit of the Ballot is at an end. It is somewhat
surprising that instead of " Hoar, hear" following
this declaration we do not read "Laughter." Does
the noble Premier, after his long experience of the
world and its ways, really believe business, espe-
cially dishonest business, to be carried on in this
Quixotic fashion ? Certainly thero is an old adage
about " honour among thieves" which comes to
mind, but still it must bo a somewhat credulous
candidate who would trust so magnanimously to
the good faith of a bribed elector when he could
not even reproach the man for his dishonesty. If
candidates and agents like to waste their money
let them do so, and these very "English" electors
who keep their word so strictly in law breaking
may profit by another old adage about some people
and their money being soon par ed, but the Ballot
has a right to a trial for all that. 'The man who
takes bribes will neither stop for falsehoods nor
for broken pledges, and so the world at large very
well knows, But since Lord PALMERSTON stands
forwardas the logical annihilator of the Ballot, let
him answer us one question—Why is it mkt-
sively adopted in the clubs ?

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

IBEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

ALGERIA.

PARIS, JUNE 23.

Official despatches from Algeria represent the
news as daily becoming more decisive. General
Deligny has penetrated to the centre of the rebellion
in the South of the province of Oran, and similar
successes have been achieved in the Tell. It is
thought that military operations will terminate in
the beginniug of July.

SPAIN.
MADRID, JUNE 22.

In to-day's sitting of the Congress', Senor Pacheco,
in reply to a question from Senor Melia°, said---
"The squadron in the Pacific will be reinforced.
The Chincha Islands will be occupied until the
assassins of Tulambo are punished, and it is proved
that the Peruvian Government was foreign to the
attempt on the life of Senor Mazzaredo, recently
Spanish Minister in Peru."

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 22.
The Delta and Syria, with the above mai!s, will
leave here at 10 a.m. to morrow.

The former may be ezpEeted at Marseilles on the
29th instant, and the latter at Southamptoa on the
6th July.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 22.—The market continues dull,
but little change in prices, Threes, for the Account,
being at 66fr. sc. Mobilier has receded to 1,045 f.
Railways quiet, and some of the lines rather lower,
The market closed as follows
41 per Cents _ .. 93 10

t)o. end month....

Italian Loan 69 90
Do. end month 69 75
Ditto Threes .. 42 75
Yaw Mexican 5U
Russian
Austrian
Spanibh
Elms Debt
Deferred
(Are.
Cash. Account.

3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 85
Credit Mobilier 1047 50
no. end month 1043 75
Bank Shares 3390
Credit } oncier 1240
Roman
RAW

Orleant! 3 . ••
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean

burned, thereby causing great suffering, among
the population.

Advices from the blockading fleet announce the
capture of the U.S. steamer Water Witch by a
force of Confederates from Fort M'Allister, Georgia,
who boarded the vessel with launches during the
night. The Water Witch was a regulsr navy
built vessel carrying five guns, and very fast. An
expedition was fitting out at Port Royal to endea4
your to recapture or destroy her.
The following resolution was adopted on the 3d
inst. in the Confederate Senate :—" Resolved, that
the President be requested to make an exposition,
through our commissioners abroad, to the various
European Powers, to which they may be accredited
of the violations of the roles of civilised warfare
and outrages committed by the armies and Govern-
ment of the United States in the prosecution of
hostilities against the Confederate States."
In the Federal Senate Mr. Powell moved to take
up the bill prohibiting military interference with
elections. The bill was defeated.

Mr. Larn, of Kansas, offered a resolution recog-
nising the legitimacy of the loyal State and Govern-
ment of Arkansas.
The Baltimore Convention on June Bth nomi-
nated Mr. Lincoln and Andrew Johnston, of Ten-
nessee, for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency.
The Platform adopted a series of resolutions de-
claring that the rebellion shall be suppressed, and
no terms from the South listened to other than un-
conditional surrender, and a return to their alle•
glance to the constitution of laws of the United
States. Other resolutions embraced an enforce-
ment of the Monroe Doctrine, and the abolition of
slavery by constitutional amendment. Another
resolution endorsed the course of the present
administration.

At a meeting of a M'Clellan Democratic club of
New Jersey, Mr. W. Cornell Jewett, well known
for his exertions to secure European intervention,
offered a series of resolutions, which were adopted,
nominating for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency
General George B. M'Clellan and Milliard Fillmore,
and declaring that the war, if it must. be continued,
shall only be prosecuted with a view to preserve
the constitution and union, independent of slavery ;
that the liberty of speech and the press shall be
maintained; that all slave confiscations and othEr
proclamations, and Congressional acts connected
therewith shall be rendered null and void ; that the
people of the United States shall vote upon the re.
cognition of Maximilian's Government in Mexico;
that coloured troops shall be withdrawn from the
field, and that a cessation of hostilities should be
proclaimed, during which commissioners from the
different States, North and South, can meet to de-
termine upon a just mode of settling the existing
difficulties by arbitration or otherwise; the final
result to be submitted to the voice of the people
by ballot.

TILE AUSTRALIAN MAILS,

BOUTHAMPTON, June 23.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, with the heavy portion
of the Calcutta, China, and Atutralian mails, has
arrived.

The Ceylon brings 196 passengers, among whom
are Sir R. and Lady Walpole and family ; Lieut.
Mourson, A.D.C. to the General; Col. Wingfield,
Capt. and Mrs. Douglas, Capt. Mackenzie, Mr. H.
Arnould, Capt. Duncan, Capt. Ferguson, Major-
General M'Duff, Ensign Morley, and Dr, Aiken.
Her cargo comprises 13 cases of valuables, 2
packages of specie, value net stated, 625 packages
of sundries, and 1,035 bales of raw silk, value
£90,000 sterling.

The Ceylon spoke the following ships during her
passage:—

June 10th—Exchanged colours with the British
barque Thorwalden. June 12th Exchanged
colours with the Peninsular and Oriental steamship
Delta. June 16th—Exchanged colours with the
brig Cisgar, the bark Escort and the barque Acacia,
and exchanged night signals with the Peninsular
and Oriental steamship Delhi off Tarafa ; on the
20th passed the steamship Corinthian and the steam-
ship Arabian ; on the 21st exchanged signals with
the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Poonch,
bound for Gibraltar ; and on the 22d exchanged
colours with the barque August of Hamburg.
Her Majesty's ships Orlando, Trident, Liffey,
Megicienne,Mo3 inee, Dromedary, Cossack, Orontes,
Marlborough, and Foxhound were at Malta on the
10th inst.

Tho Ottoman line of battle ship Peyki Musret,
and frigates Etowul and Rephen Munet, under the
command of Vice Admiral Ehrem Pasha, were at
Gibraltar on the 16th on their way to England
to be fitted with screw machinery.

Her Majesty'a screw frigate 'Galatea iat Gib-
raltar for England on the 12th.

Her Majesty's ships Redpole and Procria were
at Gibraltar when the Ceylon left.

GIBRALTAR, June 16.
Commercial loiters received from Mangan and
Casablanca by the Amazon, state that the prices of
wool continued the same, and the supply was short
at both places. The crop of main and garbanzos
are very abundant this year, but the bean crop is
lost in consequence of the late rains. An efficer of
the Sultan arrived at Tetuan on the 6th, and it is
inferred that he was the bearer of peremptory
orders for the departure of the Governor Hash
Hash, who is disgraced for want of proper activity
in the pursuit of the assassins of the French sub-
ject at Tetuan. Hash-Hash set out for the Slit-
tati's Court the day after the arrival of this last
messenger. The advicra from Tangier confirm the
report that the Sultan had givan full satisfaction
to the demands of the French Government, and
state that all differences had been finally arranged
The following British vessels have arrived out at
Gibraltar. Steamer Cadiz, 7 days from London;
schooner Shamrock, 11 days from Cardiff; brigan-
tine William and Jane, 27 days from Swansea;
schooner Perseverance, 14 days from Cardiff; brig
Elizabeth Young, 11 days from Swansea; brig
Marmion, 12 days from Liverpool ; steamer Fortuna,
6 days from London ; brigantine Amytas, 20 days
from Liverpool ; schooner William Keith, 12 days
from Newport ; schooner Margaret and Jane, 14
days from Newport; and steamer Geneva, 9 days
from Glasgow.

Exchange on London, 90 days' date, 501 ; on
Paris, 90 days, 5f 32c; on Marseilles, 90 days, 5f
333; on Genoa, 90 days. 5f 34c to 35c ; Madrid, 8
days' sight, par; Cadiz, 8 days' sight, 2 dis. ; Seville,
8 days' sight, 2 dis. ; Malaga, do., a prem. ; Barce-
lona, do., prem.; Algeria, do., par; Valencia, do.,
par ; Alicante, do., par. Premium on 5 franc pieces,
a to a per cent, premium,

CHINA.

REPULSE OF CORDON FROM CHANG,

CHOW-FOO.
SHANGHAE, MAY 7.
(Ey telegraph from Suez.)
nijor Gordon and the Fatae have thrice as.
saulted Chang-Chow-Foo, and have been each
time repined with great less.
The city still holds out.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—This vessel has just
taken 3,000 tons of coal on board, and will shortly leave
Liverpool for 3heernesa or Deptford, where she will be
fitted with water tanks, in which the Atlantic cable now
being made by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co. will be stowed
away as it is made.
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LITERATURE.

Recollections and Wanderings of Pane Bedford.
One Vol,, pp. 160. Routledge, Warne, and

Routledge.
A capital book of its cdd kind is this anecdotal
chit-chat about himself and his belongings given to
us (as just a taste or flavour of his autobiography)
by the biggest and josialist among our popular Low
Comedians. As about the best word we could say
for it—we immediately on getting it read through
the whole of the thin giltseeged volume in which
Paul relates his "Recollections and Wanderings,"
we read through the whole of it from
cover to cover, if not literally at a single sit-
ting (seeing that we began the reading of it
in the street), at any rate, right off, at one innings,
on end, or however we may like to put the fact
idiomatically, a fact that Sim Slick would
express in Y Inkee lingo by the term—at a single
streak. Ceuekling not i frigusntly es he turns the
leaves, anyone else who has a keen relish for, we
won't say exactly wit, but we will nes
hesitatingly say for a capital bit of fun, may do
the like, with great profit to his digestion.
From cover to cover, that is, the reader of Paul
Bedford's souvenirs may skim lightly and pleasantly
through his amusing recollections from the lifelike
frouthpiece representing Paul Bedford in propria
persona (of course with an open overcoat, of course
with his hat on, the said hat having just the
faintest perceptible cock over the left ear)
from the frontispiece, we say, down to the last
words of the book ending so very characteristically !
We may fancy we hear the words trolled out
in a deep bass voice, rather guttural in its intona-
tions, "And now, my fostering friends and patrons
[meaning the kyind public'] allow me to subscribe
myself—your devoted boy—PAUL." It is just for
al: the world the very kind of a book that wo should
have looked for at the hands cf our devoted boy
Paul, in the happy event (now realized) of his
jotting do ?en his professional souvenirs. The
' only fault is—there is not by any means
enough of it. Like Friar Bacon's brazen head in
the old pantomime, now that we have tasted so
much, we are clamorous for " more !" And, no
matter at what uncertain intervals, just as Gri-
maldi used to feed the Brazen Head with " more"
—we shall really hope to taste a few supplementary
tidbits of the same relishing kind, vouchsafed to us
(to devour just precisely in the same way, off hand,
and with an almost audible smack of the lips),
vouchsafed to us benignantly by a sort of
an after-thought, by our exhilarating friend
Paul--Paul with the stalwart form, and the
purple face, and the deep voice, and the irresistibly
winking eyelids ! At any rate, for es much of his
recollections es he hero obliges us with spontane-
ously, he merits at once our thanks and our congra-
tulations. Who, indeed, shall venture to say that
he is not entitled to our congratulations, seeing that
the book reveals himself (the writer of it) as the per-
sonal associate (among a crowd of other celebrities)
of men of mark as illustrious and as varied in their
genius as Edmund Kean, as the Emperor Napoleon
111. when Prince Louis Napoleon, as Lord Byron, as
Madame Malibran, as Sir Walter Scott, and Madame
Catalain, and Daniel O'Connell ! Yes—be it now
known and henceforth borne honourably in remem-
brance, not only that Paul Bedford esso-
ciated with these and a great number of other
famous and gifted people, but that some among them
he knew intimately, with some amongst them
he enjoyed the Ingh and enviable privilege of an
earnest and cordial friendship. For one thing, by
the way, we can't fancy any man being—seriously
—an enemy of Paul Bedford's. We don't know him
in the least personally. But, at any rate, we can
say that. The word Enmity and the name of Paul
Bedford somehow or another seem incompatible,
incapable of any association whatever ! Tee
caupiing of the two gives one upon the
instant a notion of the ludicrous ! However
here, in honest black and white, are proofs positive
of his friendships. About the earliest recorded
among these being his intimicy with one of the
greatest aet,ra that ever breathed (of whom Paul
Bedford tells many a peasant anecdote), meaning
that world famous G2iliUS of Tragedy, E imund
Kean, Paul's first setting eyes. upon Edmund Kean,
as the former relates, occurred on the stage of the
Bath Theatre in "Richard III."--Paul Bedford as the
Duke of Norfolk, Kean as Richard—the scene
Bos worth's I3attlefield! There it is that the King
sks—

" Hes any careful friend
Discovered yet the numbsr of the rebels ?"
Norfolk—My lord, as I from spivs em well informed,
Six or seven thousand is (heir utmost power.

Rickard —Wlay our battalia trebles that account;
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse faction want.
No2-folk.—Their wants are greater yet, my lord, those e'en
Of motion, life, and spirit—Did you but know
How wretchedly their man disgrace the field ;

Oh, such a tattered host of mounted scare-crows
So poor, so famished ; their Pxecutors,

The greedy jack dates, fly hovering o'er their heals,

Impatient for their lean inheritance.

Now, fir my misfortune. Whin I uttered the words,
"Jack Daws," the audience were convulsed with laughter,
in which mirth the wondrous "Richard" joined. I could
not imagine what caused this merriment, Lw was very soon
illuminated on the point, for on quitting the stage my patron
manager came to me iu terror, saying, " My dear, you com-
mitted a great error." Why so, sir ?" said I. " Why,
my dear, you mistook the name of the bird. It should
have been the greedy crows.' " " Oh, pray, sir, forgive
me," said I, for my alarm was so great at the moment, I
knew not what I said. " But, my dear," said my manager,
"what will the great' Mr Kean say to it ?" I said, " I
am sure I don't know. I suppose I shall have my
marching ticket signed." When the tragedy ended
amidst a hurricane of applause, rushed to my
dressing-room, and commenced changing my gar-
ments, hoping to escape from the theatre unnoticed; but
before I had completed my toilet, a knock was heard at the
door. " Who is there ?" said my attendant. A voice from
without replied, by saying "Mr. Kean requested Mr Bed-
ford would come to his dressing-room betore he leaves the
thcat: e." At that summons I became nervously excited.
I approached the dreaded chamber, under the impression
of instant dismissal. But not so ; for on entering the room
and imploring forgiveness for the mistake I had committed,
the kind and wondrous tragedian said, " Make no apology,
my young friend, for you made me laugh more heartily
tLan I have done for years " He concluded by in-
viting me to dine with him she following day, which event
commenced a friendship that ceased not during the lifetime
of that inspired dramatic genius.
There:forth Bedford, obtaining among his other
well known sotriquets, that of "Jack Daw Paul."
Conspicuous among the revelations here made by
this " unbuzzuming" of Paul's, as he might call
it himself pre-eminent among them all in its
importance—should stand the remarkable dis-
closure made by our comic hero of the fact that
the phrase of phrases that he has most signally
immortalised by his mere manner of uttering it,
wes interpolated by Mr, Buckstone ir. the original
manuscript of Green Bushes, at the suggestion of
the late Mr. T. P. Cooke ! That paragon among
theatrical sailors, inimitable not only in his vast-
heaving and his hornpipe, but in the very hitch
of his trousers, in the very turn of the quid in his
cheek ! And—the phrase hinted at ? Why
every one will surely recognise the allusion
as pointing.to no other Bedfordian or Paulo post,
past, present, and, we had almost said ,future
phrase than—" I believe you, WY b°7 he
origin of it being this. accordingt? sah
Paul's
poawuni
account of it, in the manner following
BedfJrcl

The world• wide and domestic phrase of "1 believe
you,
my boy," was indicated to the talented author by that Tar
of all nations, the late T. P. Cooke, who said, that when
he was a lad, at the naval engagement of the taking of
Cape St. Vincent, they had on board a funny and facetious
who, amid the battle's rear, would make them
linau;smat
h;we'hen a shot had just cleared his figurehead, his
gun mate would say, "Iloilo, Joe, that was too near to be
pleasant." "1 believe you, my boy," sung out Joe.

Not another plum or bit of candied peel in the way
of anecdote vvIII vfs venture unfairly to pick thus,
Sack Horner.wi,se, out of this very rich slice
of autobiographical cake. To the slice itself
in its integrity, cs hcre served up for
twos© who list, we commend the attention
of all lovers of such good things as theatri-
cal small-talk end green-room facetiousness.
Again we say it—the book is just precisely what,
from its title, we should have expected ii to be :
which is certainly saying a good daal, as books go
It is, in other words, exactly what it aseumcs to be—
namely, a thoroughly good-humoured, merry, wink,
ing, dig-in-the-ribs sort of button-holding Gossip of

Paul Bedford's, giving us (with parenthetical roars
of laughter, from us, every now and then, as NVS
stand listening to him, so to speak, at the street
corner) giving us all kinds of amusing recollections
of his, in the shape of memoranda illustrative of
his professioual wanderings.

THE YELVEItTON CORRESPONDENCE, oppor-
ttmely collected and edited by the respondent in
the great case now before the House of Lords, has
been published in form of a pink volumette of 208
pages, by Thomas Laurie, of Edinburgh. The
publication is wonderfully complete in itself, end
throws a flood of light over this extraordinary
romance founded on reality. The little book Is
embellished " with portraits from drawings by
Major and Mrs. Yelverton," so says at least
the title-page—thereby, rather ambiguously
giving us to understand, as we take it, that
the portraits arc drawn each one of, or by the
other! Altogether the bcok containing this
wonderfully clever and interesting correspondence
is as enthralling, in its way, as many a novel writ-
ten (after the manner of famous works like " BIM";
phrey Clinker," "Evelina," "The Dodd Family,
and "Guy Mannering") in the form of letters. It
is singularly readable and—though about love, and
often intensely about it—readable throughout.

A POPULAR GUIDE TO THE GREAT NORTHL-RN
RAILWAY, in 87 pages, has recently been issued
from the press by Messrs. Smith and Son, of 185,
Strand—the compilation (as with one or two similar
guide books, each of them very well known) of
George Rose Emerson. As evidence of the cora-
pilei's quality as a cicerone along the north line,
take th© follou ing :
Once more the eye ranges over the fields and undulat-
ing hills, and rests on the round tower of Knebworth, above
the trees of the wooded park—Knebworth, the residence of
Sir E. Eulwer Lytton, the accomplished and popular poet,
novelist, dramatist, and orator, of whom it may be truly
said, " He has touched nothing which he has not adorned."
The mansion at Knebworth is worthy of a man of letters
and taste. There are pictures, antiquities, treasures of art,
and objects of historic interest, and charming grounds,
where the author of the "Disowned" may enjoy the attrac-
tions of delightful sylvan scenery, and glades sombre enough
for even the teller of the " Strange Story." The church,
dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is in the centre of the park.
and contains several monuments of the Lytton family.

Tae work i- just the very one to wile away the
tedium of a solitary journey from King's-cross to
Nottingham.

Little Johnny's Catechism,

(From The Owl.)

Britannia—Can you tell me, child, what you are
Little Johnny-1 am a very small member of a
very weak Cabinet, in a very great country.
Britannia—How do you account for having
become this member?

Little Tohnny—By reason of the name which I
inherited from my fathers and my grandfathers at
my birth.
Britannia--Did they give you anything else at
your birth which should fit you for your present
post ? _ . _

Little Johnny—Yes ; the talent of sacrificing
everything to keep it, and of providing for all EV
relations and friends.

Britannia—Have you any other higher dntics

Little Johnny—No.

Britannia—On, poor Johnny ! how sadly you
have been neglected. Tell me, child, how did you
expect to keep in office ?
Litde JJhnny—By preserving Denmark and
keeping the pezce.
Britannia—And what have you done ?
Little Johnny—Dismembered Denmark, and in-
volved this country in war.

Britannia—And will this keep you in (Bee P
Little Johnny—No ; bou-hou—it will turn me ont.
Britannia—Who bates you more than the Ger•
mans P

Little Johnny—The Danes.
Britannia—Who laughs at you more than Bis•

mark ?

Little Johnny—The Emperor of the French.
Britannia.—lf you go to war without him, what
will happen ?
Little Johnny—We shall blockade all the German
ports, and keep out our own commerce, and every-
thing will go into Germany through France, and
American cruisers under the German flag will
destroy our commerce, and the French will carry
the trade of the world and get the Rhine provinces,
an we shall probably go to war with the United
States, and we shall not be able to send enough
troops to turn the Germans out of Denmark—so
that the war cannot be a success, and if it is, success
will be worse than failure.

Britannia—Naughty boy ; did you sea all this at

the beginning P
Little Johnoy—No ; I never could see very far

Britannia—Well, you have got matters into a
great mess; but pay attention. You want to
revenge yourself on Prussia ?
Little Johnny—Oh, yes.
Britannia—And y ou think you can do it by goiDg
to war against Germany ?
Little Johnny—Yes:

Britannia—Silly child. Do you know that the
Emperor will not go with you unless you separate
Ftderal Germany from despotic Prussia; that Bism
marck wants to see Hamburg blockaded bi
English ships; that to fight against the principle
of nationality in Holstein makes the co-operaticil
of the Emperor impossible ? But you can support
independent Holstein and Germany against the
tyranny of Prussia, and get the Emperor to assist
you against Prussia, and get a better line for the
Dines, besides humiliating Prussia. My dear bof,
1 know German politics are rather difficult to under-
stand, but, before going to war, you really must
have a clear idea of who is your enemy, and how
you ca❑ best damage him. If you go to war with
Germany, you fight against your best ally. If you
go to war for Germany, you will destroy Pruesia,
and get far better terms in the end for Derimirl§..
If you had cnly asked somebody who knew about
it at the beginning, you might have saved yourself
this lesson, which will make everybody laugh tit
you.

LORD ABINGER AND HIS BUTLER,—At the
Hammersmith police-court yesterday, Samuel Han-
son, a tall young man, butler to the Dowager Lady Abinger,
of 33, Queen's Gate-terrace. Kensington,
was placed in the
dock before Mr Ingham, charged with being drunk and
assau:ting Lord Abinger. William Harris said be was a
servant to Lord Abinger. On Tuesday night his lordship
went out to a party, and prisoner had to wait up for his
return. The prisoner asked witness to take his place for a
short time as he wanted to go our, and he complied with
his request. Hedozed for
He ran upstairs and a few naiautes,
nd found his
and he was
awoke, by hearing
n
g a
lordship and the prisoner fighting together in the entrance
hall. Witness tried to part them, and after some time he
succeeded, and the prisoner went down stairs. His lord-
ship requested witness to fetch a policeman. The prisoner
then ran upstairs into his lordship's dressing-room.
Witness followed after him and saw him striko his lord-
ship, and they fought again. They both struck one
another. The prisoner struck the first blow, but witness
did not know which struck first in the hall. Witness held
the prisoner while his lordship ran out and fetched two
constables. Thay came and took the prisoner in charge.
Police•constable 226 T said, at half-past eleven o'cleck on
Tuesday night he was on duty in Queen's Gate-terrace,
when ho was called by his lordship to take the prisoner into
custody. The prisoner had been drinking. He was under
the influence of liquor. Mr Ingham—Partly drunk. \Vas
Lord Abinger sober ? Constable—Yes, your worship ; the
prisoner said his lordship struck him first. Mr Ingham—Did
you see any marks of violence upcn his lordship? Constable-
Yes, cir ; his nose was cut and there was blood upon his shirt.
Mr Ingham (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to say se).-
thing ? The Prisoner—l am very sorry it happened. I was
not the instigator of it. A 9 to being under the influence of
liquor, I was as sober as I am now. His lordship
came home from a dinner party, but I do not know
whether he was sober or not. Me Ingham (to
Harris)—What do you say ; were they reber or not ?
Witness—My opinion is that they were both sober. The
prisoner sv;;s very excited. Mr Ingham (to the constable)
—How do you know that the prisoner had been drinking ?
Constable—He appeared so. He smelt of liquor. Nr
Ingham—l find that Lord Abinger is obliged to go to the
House of Lords to-day. I shall remand the prisoner for
his attendance. The prisoner v.as soon afterwards bailed

to appear.
THE ALABAMA.—At the news of the deetructieu
of the Alabama (says the Courrier cicc Iravre), the North
American vessels in this port dressed themselves out with
flags as a tokqA of rejcicino.