The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.

It appears that the directors of this company intend to
recommend a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum
on the ordinary stock of the company, for the half•year
ending the 30th June last, and to oarry forward a balance
of £3,600.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA PARK.---Au in■
quiry was held on Monday evening by Mr Richards,
deputy-coroner, respecting the death of Mr Henry Horn,
aged 30, who lost his life by drowning on Saturday, in
Victoria Park. The evidence went to prove that the de-
ceased was bathing in the ornamental water of Victoria
Park at five o'clock, when there were about five hundred
persons present. The deceased was in about six feet of
water, and was seen to be floating on his back. One of his
companions was close to him, when Mr Horne suddenly
begets struggling and calling for help, but before assistance
could be rendered he disappeared. There was a boat, which
was private property, close by, but the sculls had been taken
away. James Regan, the assistant swimming master, and
another person, dived after the deceased several times, when
they brought him to the surface of the water, but he had
been immersed about ten minutes. Dr. Brereton, of Old
Ford-road, was called, tut all efforts to restore animation
were useless. A ritness said that deceased was suffering
from swollen throat, and complained of the water getting
into his throat ; and Dr Brereton stated that the results of
submersion would be more rapid on a person in eue,h a con-
dition. The deputy-coroner remaaked on the case, when Moo
jury returned the following special verdict=--"That the de-
ceased died from drowning while bathing in Victoria Park,
and they (the jury) earnestly request the deputy-coroner to
write to her Majesty's Commissioners, calling their atten-
tion the urgent necessity of keeping a bust with proper
apparatus in readiness."
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—Probably there is not one Dane in ten
who does not hold that his country has been scan-

dalously deserted by England, and that its present

misfortunes are chiefly due to the vacillations of

English statesmen. The trials to which Denmark
is now subjected excuse any irritation, and the dis-

position of the Germans to treat recent events as a
victory over us encourages their adversaries to look
upon this country as an ally who has given them evil
counsel; and then left them to ruin. But when after
a time the whole negotiation shall be calmly cousi•
dered it will appear, we feel assured, with a very
different aspect. At present we are in the midst of
accusations and recriminations ; the voice of our own

native Opposition is scarcely hushed; the wits of
France are still busy with their caricatures; and it
is of little use to argue with Danes or others on
matters with respect to which they have reached a
foregone conclusion. But, in justice not only to
ourselves, but to those other neutral Powers which,
though shrinking from war, still endeavoured to
shield Danmark from the worst consequences of the
quarrel, it must be pointed out how much more un-
fortunate has been the position of the Copenhagen

Government since it has chosen to stand alone, and
to face its adversaries without the advice or the sup-

port of friendly Powers. It is only a few weeks since
the Conference of London was sitting, and the
British Ministry was labouring to content the
German Powers with a part of Schleswig. Much
had been given up, it is true, but even at this
late period much might have- been saved. The

Danes, indeed, ought not to have had any expec-
tation of a warlike interference. They knew well

that France and Russia would not draw the sword

for them, and they might reasonably have come to

the same conclusion us M, von Bismark or Count

Rechberg, that England was not likely to stir
in the matter. They were told as much, in fact,
by the chief organs of English opinion, and
cannot fairly complain that at any time while the
Conference was sitting they had reason to believe
that they would be supported by British arms
should it prove unsuccessful. This, than, was their
position. They had seen the Duchies overran by Ger-
man troops almost without resister ce ; Holstein had
been occupied by the troops of the Federation,Schles-
wig had been conquered by the Austro-Prussians ;
the position of Duppel had been captured with great
loss to the Danish army of men and military repu-
tation ' • Alsen was, as was afterwards shown, de-
fended only by a few thousand troops incapable of
standing for a day against the German armies ;
Jutland had been invaded, the chief towns taken
and subjected to cruel and increasing military requi-
sitions, and even the great Danish islands were not
secure. Austria was bringing a powerful fleet into
the Danish waters, and no one could doubt that the
little Danish navy would be as much overmatched
as the army had been. In short, Denmark stood
before the world thoroughly beaten ; not dishonour-
ably, it is true, or by other means than the over-
whelming strength and superior military organisa-
tion of the enemy, but still beaten, No one looking
at the situation of the belligerents could doubt
that, if left unassisted, the Danes must undergo all
that the German Powers choose to inflict, and there
was not the smallest hope of assistance. The
neutral Powers of the Continent had let it be well

understood that they would not interfere, and
there had been unmistakeable signs that England
would not depart from her usual policy. Yet this
weak and almost powerless State, with the two
Duchies in possession of the enemy, with Jutland
invaded, and with Alien and even Funen threat-
ened, was, even in the latest days of the Con-
ference, by no means driven to extremities by the
enemy. Through the influence of England a com-
promise had been accepted by Austria and Prussia.
They did not ask for the whole of Schleswig; they
were disposed to leave Alien to the Danes. They
proposed a boundary line which, though much
further north thou was acceptable to Denmark, or
than seemed just to England, was yet many miles
south of the Jutland frontier. At the same time,
Baron Beast proposed his plan of dividing the
country into zones for the purpose of testing its
opinions and nationality. Ail this indicated that
even in the hour of complete military success the
Germans shrank from tearing away from Denmark
all the territory in dispute without regard to treaties
or prescription, or the moderation enjoined by
European usages. This willingness to compromise
was undoubtedly caused by the presence of the
neutral Plenipotentiaries at the Conference. Ger•
many could not even to the most peaceful of her
great neighbours assume the overbearing manner
which she has since shown towards Denmark. But
at the Conference this spectacle seems to have been
entirely lost upon the Copenhagen Government. In-
stead of recognising that any inodera'..ion shown by
the allies was due to the influence of the neutrals,
King Christian's Cabinet appears to have been full
of the belief that it had only to break free from the
trammels of negotiation, and that then in some way
the issue would be successful. The Danes had,
probably, all heard and read that fortune favours
the bold, that war is sometimes safer than peace,
that help comes from quarters whence is is little
expeeted, and se on through all the proverbial
incentives to rashness. They counted, we fancy,
very much on her Msjesty's Opposition, and be•
lieved that if they defied their enemy, and stood
manfully in the breach, an outburst of popular feel-
ing here might compel the Government to side with
them or resign. At all events, their anxiety to be
rid of the Conference was one of the chief causes of
its failure. It was they who at the last refused to
negotiate further, and the ending of the discussions
was looked upon by them as a relief from some-
thing which kept them spell-bound and prevented
them from saving their country by their own exer-
tions, or the help of their friends. How grievously
have they been mistaken ! In the war which they
have renewed thay have been unable to strike a
single blow. Alien was taken by surprise on the
very day after the renewal of hostilities, and the
strip of country at the extreme north of Jutland,
the last piece of continental territory remaining to
them, was overrun with equal ease. In fact, their
army had been ruined long before the Conference
came to an end. It did not survive the defeat of
D %Appel, and has been quite incapable of opposing
the Germans at any point. Now at last have come
the conditions of peace. This peace, be it said, has
now been sued for, instead of being received un-
bidden through the intervention of neutral Powers,
as it would have been at the Conference. The very
armistice granted by the German Powers has been
at the application of Denmark, which a few weeks
ago thought fit to resist the entreaties of all Europe
on the same point. But the peace now it has come is
far less favourable than what England could have
procured even as late as June. The King of Den-
mark cedes his rights to Schleswig, Holstein, and
Lauenburg. Even should Jutland be restored at
the conclusion of peace, the position of the monarchy
will be most unfortunate. A Danish population
subject to Germany will be at the very doors of the
Jutlanders. There will be no portion of Schleswig
left to the kingdom to be a barrier between the
Germans and the purely Danish territory, but Jut-
land will be exposed, unprotected, to all the influ-
ences which a frontier German province can bring
upon it. When to this it is added that by accept-
ing what was offered at the Conference the Danes
might have escaped the defeat of both army and
navy at Alien, might have prevented the destruc-
tion of the railway in Jutland and the exhausting
contributions to which that province has been sub•
ject, there are reasons enough to make them regret
the incaution with which they plunged for a second
time into war.
POST.—The interest presently attaching to a
single election is comparatively small. It has been
discovered that the re;ative strength of parties is by
no means so nearly equal as was supposed; and the
House of Commons has at the most only one more
session to run. Still, the contest which commences
at Exeter this morning cannot be regarded with in-
difference. The constituency is an important one
in point of intelligence and respectability, and its
representation has always been an object of ambi-
tion to distinguished lawyers on the Western Cir-
cuit. Ia Sir William Follett the Conservatives
secured a member who commanded the respect of
his political opponents ; and the Liberals would
have returned the present Lord Chief Justice if he
had not been previously engaged at Southampton.
The candidates to be nominated to-day are also,
both of them, men whom the citizens might, apart
from politics, desire to elect. Their names are well
known in the county, and while one is heir to broad
lands and an hereditary title, the other stands in
the front rank of a noble profession. If Lord Cour.
tenay's chief recommendation be that he is the son
of the Earl of Devon, the Conservative burgesses
need not be ashamed to own it. The Liberals, how•
ever, have been even more fortunate in the choice
of a candidate. Mr Coleridge possesses in an emi-
nent degree all the qualifications for the office he
solicits. As an orator he is not only fluent, and
what is commonly called eloquent, but pure and
classical ; and his opinions, which have evidently
been carefully formed, are seriously entertained.
There Is no time•serviug, no truckling to expe•
diem', no banding to the current of popularity in
his speeches. What he thinks he says, and his
thoughts spring from earnest conviction. Mr Cole-
ridge has been reproached with having deserted the
faith in which he was brought up, but it can hardly
be necessary to answer an accusation which High
Tories and Low Churchmen have equally made
against the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the
Attorney-General. His political adversaries are con-
strained to admit his private worth and high per.
sonal character, and it is acknowledged that there
are many Conseryative Churchmen in the clef cathe,

dral city who, in their hearts prefel the con
scientious advocate of the Esfablishte Cliiireu:
They feel, no doubt, as Protestant Church. men meg,'6
feel, that a party which would add Lord Co'
name to the compact which has been subscribed
Irish Roman Catholics is not entitled to receiveThein
terests of the Church of England are scarcely al
quately represented in the House of Commo (2,.En
Men of the mental calibre of Mr. Gladstone, k'ff
Rouudell Palmer, and Mr. Walpole are, it is trus 1.1
a host in themselves; but their debating power Da
neutralised by their numerical weakness. Few me'
too, who desire to enter Parliament have sufficient
moral intrepidity to profess their attachment to thi
Church on principle. They ride away from tb
point, which is every day becoming of more imPer
tance, on vague platitudes which convey no dll(
:0
meaning, and their object is to reconcile views th 6
are wholly irreconcileable. The Conservatives ef
pecially take the name of the Church in vain foi
party purposes; but they invariably round their'
periods with some sonorous expressions which,
they do not deceive Dissenters, serve to account to
Churchmen for factions alliances and latitudinarian
votes. All the while, however, the outworks
established religion are being insidiously underse
and the " Conservative Wednesdays," which weed
really political field days, have rather diminish%
than increased the strength of the Church ja
House of Commons. In the session just ended the
Attorney-General had to withdraw a measure de-
signed to sustain the Church in deference to objet'
tins which, while withdrawing, he conclusivel
Dined'?
answered. The church rate question, too, relnil.n.t
unsettled because of the difficulty of dealing wi,".1,10
in a manner consistent with the constitution or the
Establishment, and that difficulty plainly arises "jl3f
the most part from the political subservience .00
those who arrogate to themselves the exelaall
right to defend the Church. They urge Clatac.
men to vote unhesitatingly for Conservative ea
~11;
didates ; they do all that in them lies to throsv tutv
Liberals into.the arms of Dissent, for they right
enough see that the feelings and the convictions .°
l 0
the country are on the side of the Church; Bed til;
not on principle, not because they believe they ea
avoid an equitable adjustment of differences, eet.s,,
being resolved to hold fast to any point they rea,/":.
tarn, but only for the purpose of ultimately carrrae
out the policy they prevent their opponents 119°3
proposing. It is a political move, a party stratagetni
end, as the best friends of the Church apptelln;
its tendency is to impair and imperil the institrb:do
it affects to uphold. This is a subject which deroa".ho
more attention than it is likely to meet with to"ot
strife and clamour of a contested election. ,Pto
there can be few constituencies better qualifiea to,
appreciate its importance than the one which is tea
day to be appealed to, and it is exceptionally ro" to
by the candidature of Mr. Coleridge. We are tr'o.
aware that for the purpose of supporting that ghat
tleman both parties must give up something 01,;',;cel
they have been taught to repeat as their co"",0:
belief. But the question is, whether that does
in itself constitute a claim which independent 13.011
lishmen should recognise. We are inclined to tiatuie
that the Liberals at Exeter have set a good e%61
to the country in selecting for their candide7ba
man whose main qualification in their eyes due
the
that he is capable of representing the city 1" and
highest sense of the word. They know before him
that he will be no delegate ; they cannot exPectseel
to always agree with them, or go es far as bt,
would go ; and if they elect him be will alidTidosl
edly owe his election to the weight of indivii.tiss
character, We take Mr. Coleridge to be in PeLlooll
very much what Lord Stanley once declared hied
to be a Liberal because he is a Conservative, a"gosh
Conservative because he is a Liberal. NeW's's so
men sit and vote with their party, and they e'st
is
far party men. But they are more than a ?bate,
a division, and more even than a voice in a top
They exercise a healthful influence, they en their
a feeling of independence, and, by the sore° 0' ',ger
talents and the breadth and substance of their fl'ole
ments, they make the representation of the P....5e tee
that which it is most desirable it should be As
representation of enlightened public opiaien„'Bo of
was said by Canning, the power of the Kl°: Jiga
Commons has been growing till it has elate", Go,
the rod of Aaron, absorbed all the functions of is
vernment ; and, without considering weethert'e,
is, or is not, as it ought to be, it is, at seY
valid reason for regarding with peculiar jea'4oo
the composition of a body which actually Pre'
over the destinies of the country.