The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

The Duke of Augustenburg,

A letter from Berlin says :—" Since the chances
of the Duke of Augustenburg have increased in a
manner so surprising, Prussian diplomacy on the
one side, and that of Austria and the secondary
States of Germany on the other, have displayed e
singular activity in seeming in advance the sym-
pathies of the Duke of Schleswig-tiolstein-Lauen,
burg. Upon this point there is neither truce nor
pardon, and, though less apparent in the eyes of
Europe than the war against Denmark, this
internal and diplomatic war is not less pas.
sionate."

The following remarks of the Botschafter of
Vienna seem to confirm, as far as Austria is con-
cerned at least, the assertions of the foregoing
letter. The Botschafier says :—" We understand
that the Duke of Augustenburg is expected at
Vienna, The duke knows that Austria has taken
the initiative in his favour, and the tact which he
has displayed in circumstances of difficulty shows
that he will pay as much regard for the conquerors
of Oberselk and of Oversee, and for the comba-
tants of Heligoland, as for the vanquishers of
Dappel. The duke's visit gives us much pleasure
for another reason. It is a certain proof that the
duke has not engaged in any military convention,
or anything of the kind, with Prussia; for he
knows that that would secure him a very cold re-
ception. As it is, the duke may be certain of the
most distinguished welcome, and we congratulate
ourselves that things have taken such a turn that
official sympathies are now directed towards Vienna
—the living symbol of the German cause."

THE CHARMS OF STREET MUSIC.—If you are
going to put down everything, and do away with
everything in this way, I want to know what a gentleman
of independent property like myself is to (to ? How am Ito
he amused during the long hours of the day, when there
is nothing doing in the Haymarket ? As I said before, you
have left me nothing to beat ; you won't let me aid and
abet a fight ; you forbid me to match my dog or my game
cocks ; and now you are going to deprive me of my barrel-
organ—that sweet box of tuxes, which comes, as I lie on
the sofa smoking my cigar, to soothe me with Il Balen, and
The Young Man from the Country, and the Dark Girl
dressed in Blue. Oh, how I love that dark
girl dressed in blue I I have never seen her, but
music has painted all her charms, and I know that she
is a smart young girl, a tall young girl, a nice young girl,
and a dark young girl. All this in a flowing blue skirt.
What a picture I It ravishes my soul I I send out a shil-
ling to poor Giovanni, and bid him play over again and
again. There are two lady patronesses of Giovanni's a few
deors down on the other side of the way. Charming girls
they are, with pink cheeks and frizzybeir, and nearly always
siting out in the balcony in low dresses. I fancy they ate
orphans, poor things, for I never see any one at the window
who looks like a parent. They are passionately fond of
music, and keep the organ-men playing to them for hours,
and always pay them well; for I am happy to say that,
though orphans, they appear to be well off, and go out in a
brougham. There is another ardent lover of music at num-
ber one, an old gentleman who had a fortune left him on
condition that he drove out every day in a coach and four.
He has a organ to play to him at all his meals, and when
the painter fellow, at number two, runs out with a maul
stick in his hand to drive the musician away, the old gen-
tleman has him into the garden, and makes him play there.
There is another cantankerous man near me, who is always
rushing out at the poor fellows and setting the police upon
them. I don't know who he is; but he sits at a window
all day long writing, and appears to work for his living.
A pretty thing I if independent persons like myself, and the
old gentleman, and the two pretty ladies, are to be deprived
of our pleasure to suit the whims and fancies of mere work-
people. The conceit of the fellows who'," study," as they
call ii., is perfectly ridiculous,—.Dickens's "All the Year
Rouncl,"

LITERATURE,

Douniol.

and so well, the mouthpiece of the Conscience o

Christendom ! It is like a light suddenly beheld
in the darkness—a voice abruptly audible in
the silence—a light whose radiance, a voice whose

eloquence is known full well to us all ! Glancing
through the rest of the contents of this West

number of Le Correspondant and its immediate
predecessor, we observe that Louis Joubert
has just now brought to a close his nouvelle of "Li
Jeunesse du Doyen"—that Victor Fournel has a
graphic little disquisition upon " Les Monumens
du Nouveau Paris"—that the ex-Deputy Keller
analyses rather searchingly the three last Budgets
of the Imperial Government--that Leon Lagrange
has a tribute to the memory of Hippolyte Flandrin
(of whom, by the way, the Count de Montalembert
speaks incidentally and very touchingly towards the

close of his, the Count's, paper about Poland as " the

most Christian and the most deeply to be deplored
among all contemporary artists")—and, finally, be it
were remarked in regard to the contents of the April
number of this able periodical, that P. Douhaire

contributes to the last publisked instalmzut but one

of Le Correspondant u criticism very interesting,
indeed, as coming from the 'hand of a Frenchman
upon the writing and genius of the late Mr. Tiaacke

ray. Perhaps the moat attractive paper in the new
livraison of Le Corropondant, after the inaugu-
rative paper of the number from the hand of the
Count de Montalembert, is H. Biaz3 de Bury's
memorial chapter upon the great composer of the
"Huguenots" and "Le ProphOte," recently de-
ceased.

People's Edition of Macaulay's Ilistory of England.
Part VIII. Longman and Company.
The third volume of this wonderfully cheap and
admirably got-up popular edition of Macaulay's
calossal fragment of our National History, regarded
from a purely Whig point of view, is here, in this
eighth shilling instalment, duly commenced. As
a piece of magnificent writing it is beyond the
reach of any exaggeration in the way of praise.
As an example of herculean labour, in the way of
research, it becomes more and more remarkable at
every fresh examination of it. But es for its free-
dom from bias, from prejudice, from predilection—
well, the less said about all that the better. It
was little else than the statement of a fact, when
somebody dubbed it, years ago, on its first
cation, A Great Whig Pamphlet. The genius of
Lord Macaulay, as Sir Archibald Alison well said
of it, was more forensic than judicial.

Solicitors' Benevolent Association,

The fourth anniversary festival of this institution
'ormed for the relief of poor and necessitous attor-
neys, solicitors, and proctors in England and
Wales, and their wives, widows, and families, was
celebrated yesterday evening at the Freemasons'
Tavern. In consequence of the unavoidable ab-
sence of the Lord Chief. Justice of England from
illness, the chair was filled by Mr. T. Harrison, the
deputy chairman of the associaticn. Before pro-
posing the first toast, the chairman read a letter
from Sir Alexander Cockburn, to the effect that he
had bee❑ compelled to absent himself from his court
in consequence of severe indisposition, expressing
his regret on that account, declaring that he would
hold himself at the service of the society on any
future occasion, and containing a cheque for ten
guineas. After the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Bristow,
late M.P. for Kidderminster, proposed, " The
Army, the Navy, and Volunteers," which was
received; with the customary enthusiasm, Captai❑
Rose returning thanks on behalf of the Volunteers.
The next toasts were, " The Lord Chancellor and
her Mejesty's Judges," coupled with the name of
Mr. Secondary Potter and tha Bar, which was
responded to by Mr. Wordsworth, Q.C. The
chairman, in proposing "The Solicitors' Benevolent
Association,'' after expressing his regret at the
absence of the founder of the association, Mr.
James Anderton, said that, while in almost all
other professions and calling there had long been a
provision for cases of necessity, whether on the
part of members themselves or of widows and
orphans, there had, until recently, been no such
provision in the case of that profession; yet there
was, perhaps, no vocation which was more exposed
to calamity. After an expensive education many a
man left a widow and several orphans destitute, his
own patrimony having been unavoidably expended
whilst he was commencing an apparently success-
ful professional career; and there were various
other causes which tended to produce distress
among solicitors, such as the failure of clients and
the loss of sums advanced on their account. In
conclusion the chairman remarked that that asso-
ciation had no antagonism towards the Law Asso-
ciation, bat was labouring in the same cause as that
excellent institution. Among the other toasts was
that of "The Chairman,'' which was cordially
responded to. The amount of subscriptions and
donations announced in the course of the evening
was upwards of £6OO. The musical arrangements
were under the direction of Mr. W. J. Fielding,
who was assisted by Miss Rose Hersee, Mies Baden,
Mr. W. Cummings, and Mr, W. Winn. Mr. Har-
ker was the toastmaster.

Le Correspondant d'Avril et de Mai. Charles

Several articles of unusual interest are comprised
in these two numbers of Le Correspondant. Upon
the article leading off the later of the two, the one
but just now published, we have already commented
in our leading columns. The argument therein put
forth, it may be remembered, had relation to the
affairs of Poland, and emanated from the hand cf
no less illustrious a writer, publicist, statesman
than the Count de Montalembert. We spoke of it
at the time as one of the most impressive and re-
markable appeals to the nobler sympathiesof Europe
that has ever been addressed to his contem-
poraries even by M. do Montalembert. Turning
back to it again, hearkening once more to these
eloquent and impassioned utterances, we are more
than ever of that opinion. It is a cry of love, of
pity, of homage, of sympathy for that most cruelly
oppressed among all the European nationalities—a
cry so piercing and persuasive that, but for the
miserable record of these last seventy years of Rus-
sian cruelty and European apathy, we might
almost hope for its penetrating to the conscience of
the Czar and to the conscience also, we might
say, of the rest of Christendom ! For, while
the Czar himself is of course the chief
offender in the perpetration of this hideous
crime of oppression, the other Powers are guilty
also with the blood-guiltiness of complicity or con.
nivance. The accents of the Count de Montalembert
as now heard through this noble effusion of his
genius, at once as an orator, as a writer, as a states-
man, and as a great Christian philanthropist, must
he grateful, we may be certain, to all such earnest
sympathisers with the Polish population, no w living,
as the hoh. member for King's County—might be
grateful, one is almost tempted to say in pagan
phrase, to the manes of such departed champions of
the cause of Poland as the late gentle hearted,
noble minded Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart. At the
least if inoperative of good, by ressen of the obdu-
racy of those whom the Count de Mon talemieert is
addressing, namely, all the right thinking men of
Christendom of all tongues and of all countries—the
Count may once more, at least, exclaim (and with
how much reason !) as he has so often done before
now upon no less momentous occasions, " Liberavi
annum meant!" He has unburthened his soul
by giving utterance to the thoughts, emotions, hopes,
aspirations, imparting so fervid an eloquence to his
argument throughout this remarkable paper,entitled,
"Le Pape et la Pologne"—and, while unburthen
ing his own soul in so writing, he has articulated
the thoughts, emotions, hopes, aspirations, lying
until now dumb and unuttered in the breasts, we
believe, of many millions of his contemporaries, It
is with a sense of personal obligation, therefore,
that we read an argument such as this of
the Count Ide Montalembert's. Ho says
for us what we cannot express—what at least
we could not thus have expressed—for ourselves.
He is again, as he has been before now so ofte❑

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HER MAJESTY,

BALIVICEAL, JUNE

The Qaeon and royal family, with the ladies
gentlemen in waiting, Lttended Divine servic
the, Castle.

Mr. NPLeod, her lkLij?sty's chaplain officiate
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess 11,2
and Princess Leiningen went to the parish ch.
of Crathie, where Dr. M‘Leod performed the d
The Duke of Argyll and Dr. .11PLeod bad
honour of dining with the Queen and rue! fan

Return of the Queen and Royal Paull:
to Windsor.

Her Majosty and the younger members of
royal family arrived at Windsor about I
o'clock this morning from Balmoral.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin
of Wales, and Prince and Princess Louis of H
and suites left the Queen's private station at I'
Elms, shortly after twelve yesterday, by 813 e
train on the South Western Railway, and arri
at Ascot station at 1.15 p.m. The royal party
the race returned in state by road to Frogg
House and Windsor, their return in the even
being witnessed by crowds of spectators. TI
Royal Highnesses were accompanied by Pri
Alfred, who arrived at Windsur about ele
o'clock in the morning, by the great Western It
way, from Siough, and who, accompanied by 11°
Cowell and Mr. Haig, immediately drove over
the course.

At four o'clock the infant son of the Prince I
Princess of Wales, and the youthful Princess
tonic, daughter of the Prince and Princess Louis
Hesse, Lccompanied by ti cir attendants, arrived
Windsor by the Great Western Railway.
A splendid suite of apartments has been preps'
in the Lancaster Tower, which faces the L°

Walk, for the use of their Royal Highnesses I
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, who duri
their stay at the Castle will remain the guests
her Majesty. The Princess Victoria and attend°
will occupy a nursery in Edward llL's Tower.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and PAO
of Wales, with their infant son, will reside at Fro
more House during the races. They are expect
to visit Ascot again cn Thursday.