The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

the city of the aged has a corresponding death rate.
the inevitable hour: must strike sooner or late.r, and
And here let us suggest that a column of average
age would throw light on the death rates, and
serve to distinguish from unhealthy places, Pslelacee,
01.
sought for health and prolonging life. The I
Wight has the lowest death rate in compensation
for all its other rates of the very highest. If soy
live too fast there it is in the way of Dryden 's good
parson, but the abstinence is not indeed almost a sin,
• but very much of a necessity, and to this, perhaps,
t the standard of health is referribie. No 00° sits
is too long at table, and the tough meats and string
fowls make a case of repletion an utter
impossi‘
o
bility. We can imagine nothing more advisable,
for the high liver than a course of the Isle i
Wright. It will fine him down better than any
training, and lighten in person not less than 111
pocket, which is saying much indeed.
THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE CLOSE Or TO
DANISH WAR.—We have now before us the
official text of the preliminaries of peace on;
eluded between Austria and Prussia on the eto
c)t
hand and Denmark on the other. This adds
the information we had previously received throtle,n•
the medium of the telegraph. But undoubtedly the,
details do not in any degree soften the harshness:
ms
the substantial ter which have been exacted tro t
the weaker and defeated Power. The arrangeteetid,
n..t
by which Denmark surrenders portions of
jutla
of in exchange for a so-called equivalent served 01"10
Schleswig, is more disadvantageous to to
Northern Power than we bad hoped
might Pr° a
to be the case. Nor can there be any save °°,,,
opinion as to the determination which
Prussia have shown to exact the full pound of
fset f
from their victim, by stipulating that whaevu:l
troops they may choose to retain in Jutland, until
the signature et the final treaty of peace, 6113„,0,
fed and lodged at the expense of that unhaPPY
vince. It would only have been a Halo decent if,
after taking se much territory, they had 611°W1(list
slight amount of generosity in the matter of poen to
shillings, and pence. But magnanimity seejlave
Austria set
be a virtue unknown at Berlin and Vienna,. German
ingp robbed their enemy of his estate, the, ut,edr his
Powers are not satisfied until they havaPic'e this
pocket also. But it is no use to dwell upon
ed.
im, matter. All is over so far as Denmark is Con de is
The interesting question remains as to the 131'
It lear
which the spoils are to be appropriated. helde $
dayso the miserably abortive meeting try,
.ew since at Kiel, that Prussia is alreadY
o,ce.
ing to set on foot in Schleswig-Holstein a °ova
went for the annexation of the Duchies to ber
dominions. But it is not surprising to find thaUed
people of these provinces are by no means penetrewif,
by an ardent desire for such an arranger/grit. oar
however, M. von Bismarck cannot obtain PAP, one
support he is just the man to do without it., `-"trisa
point it is understood that both he and the t'',ll: Diet
statesmen have made up their minds—that t"" tioe
shall have no voice in determining the destinsoro,
of conquests which were made in its name. Into the
na--y lite we should give a very hard nano pro'
and then coolly
perry of an agent who obtained possession o p°oor
perry on behalf of his principal
appropriated it to his own use. Bat it:'°n-ld be
rassia
absurd to cast in the teeth of Austria and ' von
reproaches founded on a breach
honesty which they discarded of that CO
yell earlY .8; far
at a
of the recent transactions. We mayte tali their
granted that they will do what seems best inr tiana
own interests, without regard to any considersaald.
which are not supported by an army in Vie
the othero,
That Bavaria, Hanover, Saxony, a'nd
small States, which are now fretting, fun'"? pro'
testing, and threatening all kinds of motions 'l3.ht
Diet, will appeal to force in defence of their riagri,
to a voice in disposing of the plunder of Defilainngri
we do not for an instant believe. in BPite win les
talk and elaborate despatches, their trooPs frota
fore long be civilly or uncivilly ejected eve.
at
Holstein, and then we may possibly be told n
it
wmayAustria and Prussia have decided upon. °r nge-
suit those Powers to conceal their private arralittio
barrie
ments for a time; and in that case We y° d its
doubt that Europe, which has already ca
forbearance so far, will carry it a little farther,
on
abstain from making any unpleasant inquiriesor•
the subject. Nothing seems left for us but the e
Oar easy
cise of a rather iguominious patienee.
consolation must be that England has already d
this unhappy business lost as much in character an
influence as she well can do.