The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-16 00:00:00

FRANKFORT.

FRANKFORT, Dee. 15.—Five millions out of
the seventeen millions, voted yesterday by
the Diet, must be paid within a fortnight. Austria
and Prussia have to furnish two-thirds of the
sum.

Royal English Opera, Covent Garden,

The grotesque opening to the Covent Garden pantomime
is entitled " St. George and the Dragon ; or, the Seven
Champions and the Beautiful Princess." Whilst Mr.
Byron has adhered in all the more important points to the
original story, he has added to the dramatic interest
by the introduction of many new incidents ; and by making
the Dragon an agreeable scoundrel, rather than the stock
pantomime monster, has given a novelty to the opening
which is highly refeshing. The pantomime opens with
the release of the Seven Champions from the -spells of
Kalyba, the enchantress, and we then follow St. George
(Mr. W. H. Payne) and his servant Kickeraboo (Mr. F.
Payne) to Egypt, where the King Ritollollemy (Mr.
Thomas) is endeavouring to make up a match between
the Prince of Ethiopia and the Princess Sabra (Miss
Collinson). However, the Dragon (Mr. Rouse) carries
her off, and St. George is the only one, who has the
courage to follow to her rescue. The scene in the Dragon's
Nursery, in which St. George and Kiekeraboo hide, pro-
mises to be immonsely droll, and the last scene of the pan-
tomime deals forth retributive justice;
the Dragon being
killed, the Princess rescued, the Ethiopian lover sent to
the right about, and St. George rewarded by the hand of
beauty. The transformation scene of the "Hall Of
Chivalry" is one of the most magnificent/ tasteful, and
elaborate that Mr. Grieve has ever executed (in which will
be assembled knights in real armour, esquires, and
pages armed cap-a-pied, in all the glorious panoply of
feudal war), and bids fair to become the talli of the
metropolis.

Extensive Robbery of the Duke of Bruns,
wick's Jewels.

nh descent,
A robbery of diamonds to the value of from 8,000,000 f.
to .9,000,000 f. (between .000.000 and £400,000)
mitted on Tuesday night last, at the hotel of the Was "ta-
Duke of
Brunswick, in Paris. On the Ist of Jury l
hired a young wan, named Shaw, of Eglisast the Duke
who speaks several language's, as second v
humble valet de chambre.
Hs appeared to be above his hum Condition, and, in a
o
short time, be gained the confidence
close attention to his duties. The Duke possesses a col-
f his master by his
lection of diamonds said to be the riche:ot in Europe. la,
portion of them are deposited in
an iron chest, placed in
ith two doors, one of
his bedchamber, and
supplied
ingeniously concealed in the
W
which is opened by a Spring
wainscoating, and the
other
persons only, among whom by a key. Three or foar
was Shaw, were acquainted
with this fact, but the key was never entrusted to any of
them. On 'f nesday the Duke, on leaving home for t4e
afternoon, informed Shaw
leave his bed
come the followin
the chest open and mends in the iron
the spring, that he expected a jeweller to
g Morning to mount sorae of the dia-
er
er
d. enter his bedroom w
the morning, he had left the second door of
n chest, and that, in order not to have to
lit
eanfd he could open the other btlett.teuchweiting
further desired Shaw I
then went oiut, and
when
not return until between one. and two in the morning,
en he was surprised not to find Shaw at
vein post. The
Duke supposing that his valet was asleep tup to his
bedroom and found that he was not there, but he observed
en the bed a number of bags in which he kept his diamonds.
They had evidently been ,abstracted from the iron chest.
On a further examination he discovered a number of dia-
monds scattered about as if they had been abandoned in.
a moment of flight. These diamonds were worth at least
1,000,000 f. The Duke descended to his bedroom on the
first floor and summoned his servants. They all appeared
but Shaw. The Duke asked them what had become of
the latter, telling them at the same time that his diamonds
had been stolen. They replied that Shaw had left the ho tel
at 10 at night and had not returned. The Duke next orza..
mined his iron chest, and ascertained that diamonds to
wit the
of 9,00,000 f. had been h
value
ow. in gold pieces of 100 f. There was a pocket-book in
20,
the iron chest containing d
bank notes to the amount .of
100,000 f. and various valuable securities which the thief ha
left. Information of the robbery was immediately
given
to
the Prefect of Police, and a telegram was receive
within a
d
few hours from Boulogne-sat-tier, announcing the captato
of Shaw and all the stolen property. Ninety-six parcel ,F; of
diamonds and other precious stones were
Several
found il. his
pockets and a leather belt round his person, together with
a number of gold pieces of 100 f. In reply
ques-
tions addressed to him by the law oiliest,to the
8,000,0001
all the diamonds he had abstracted we Shaw said that
certain he had neither lost nutre there, and he was
given any away.
The
jeweller valued the diamonds at about
of them are of extraordinary beauty anti great value, one
.
button being worth 450,000 (L 18,000). The gold was like-
wise all found, with the exception
prisoner admitted ho had s of 1,100 f., which the
pent in Paris, Shaw was then
lodged in the town prison,
food until the chief of the where he refused to accertt any
secret police arrived from Paris
the following day. He was '
rh then persuaded to do so, being
in a very weak state. 1 e prisoner, with all the valuables,
arrived in Paris on Thstiassertsay. Shaw asserts that he never
before committed an u. y crime, either in his own country or
elsewhere. lie maintains that during the four months he
passed in the Fel-N-4,‘e of the Duke of Brunswick ho never
thought of committing
a robbery until thnrweoideaedwtaa hat
he
I,llly suggested to him when the Duke if
had left the door of the iron chest open.

TIIE ExpENSES OF COLONEL CRAWLEY at
•iaershot have been reckoned at £5O a day.

THE (JIM WAR IN AMERICA,

(From the 05pecial Correspondent of the Times.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.

The ;triumph of General Grant at Chattanooga
was not: as complete as he announced, nor is Bragg
altogef ner a, inihilated. There has been no fighting
in Geo rgia for the last three days. The Confederates
are rullying their forces at Dalton, where theit
enem'.es, owing, perhaps, to hunger, exhaustion, or
lack of means of transport, show little ia:Aination
to c ome to the scratch. As I before said, it is evi-
dent—first, that Bragg was attacked in the midst
of the disorder of a cont.dmplated retreat ; secondly,
that only a part of ttis forces could be brought to
bear again et Gran e, the remainder being already too
far on their way to be recalled in time ; thirdly,
that, with the exception of a hard fight on some
point of Missionary Ridge, there was really no
seT.ious battle, but merely a hastened retreat, with
hech contingencies as will necessarily attend a
movement of that perilous nature. The loss of the
Confederates is 5,000 or 6,000 prisoners and 50 to 60
cannon, and 7,000 stand of arms seems to be con-
firmed. The Federals had from 3,000 to 4,000 dead
and wounded; but that portion of Bragg's army
Which was not in action is now showing a good
countenance in and about Dalton, and the stragglers
from the scene of blood at Chattanooga are recover-
ing their breath and rallying round their unbroken
comrades. Bragg stands still on the defensive, and
Grant allows bulletins from his camp to announce
that " the campaign in this quarter and for this year
is at an end."

From Knoxville there is nothing positive. Long-
street, it seems, had orders to rejoin Bragg as soon as
the latter found himself in conflict with Grant, but
we are not quite assured as yet that the orders were
immediately complied with. Railway communica-
tion has been cat off between the two Confederate
leaders, and Longstreet could only effect his junc-
tion with his superior officer by a circuitous route.
Possibly, he may wish before he takes any fur-
ther reeolation to acquit himself of the errand
on which he came, which was to meet Burn-
side. This worthy, indeed, assures us that he is
quite safe, and all right, with almost imbecile itera-
tion. Meanwhile, half the town of Knoxville has
`been burnt about his ears. How this came to pass
we are not told,
and this is all that
we are told.
For five days, in fact, we have no news from the
south-west.

Still the greatest mystification of all hangs upon
the doings of Gen. Meade and the army of the Po-
tomac in Virginia. The Rapidan was crossed as early
as between the Thursday and Friday of last week,
as we all know. Lee gave up the strong intrench-
ments which he Was said to have reared on the south
ba:lk of that river, and took up his position in the
neighbourhood of Orange Courthouse. Since then
-we have hardly heard anything positive as to the
operations of either army. A " heavy cannonade" is
heard now and then, perhaps, by men of very lively
imagination; bat of real actions we have no symp-
toms, bating the false rumours got up by speculat-
ing rogues at the exchange. The combatants have,
however, had a few fine days at frequent intervals,
and the roads have been tolerably dry and practicable
heretofore. But yesterday we had the first sight of
snow here in New York, and the night brought on
a rather sharp frost. Virginian mud will hardly
allow Meade henceforth any opportunity of making
up for lost time. About Charleston nut one word
for a week.

Happen what may, in short, no efforts could
enable the Federals to come to en end of their en-
terprise before the winter is over. Actual prostra-
tion of the South in the field is not to be thought of,
though the prolongation of the war may eventually
lead to its exhaustion, There are oat a few men in
the Seceded States, I have no doubt, who would be
willing to die in the last ditch. The behaviour of
those Southerns in the field has been throughout
above all praise. The leaders have exhibited genius
and horoism ; the mass have given evidence of a
power of endurance unequalled perhaps 'in the
world's history. Still, behind the ranks of the com-
bs tants, there is a people whose fortitude may pos
sibly be unequal to the rude contest to which it is
e3:posed. The South is not generally suffering from
went of provisions, whatever the Federals may say
to the contrary. But the condition of their money
market is such as to give great uneasiness to those
who wish for an indefinite prolongation of the
struggle. I have no very high opinion of the num-
bers and energies of the so-called Union party in
the Confederacy. If they really were strong and
many, more shame to their cowardice for allowing
a feeble majority to ride rough shod over them for
the best part of three years. No, the danger to the
South, does not arise from the Union opposition,
but there are in every community a vast mass of
men without a mind or will of their own—men
always ready to bow to the powers that b 3, to
accept any change that chance may bring about,
to accommodate themselves to any public combina-
tion,
only striving that it should not too harshly
clash with their private interests. It is this last
class of persons, " who never were alive," as Dante
has it, the neutral, passive, unimpressionable class,
that begins to tire of the strife in the South. In
the Border States, and in those invaded
.by the Northern troops, this class suffers
Itself to be mustered up into a republican, and
even an anti-slavery party. Theycarrytheelections
in favour of the United States' Government ; they
hold meetings and councils for the reorganization
,of their state administration, and for the election
of their representatives to Congress. Altogether,
they show -
no little readiness to let bygones be
bygones, and to _
compromise. open the way for reconciliation and
The disturbances in those Border
States become daily
less significant and. less fre-
quent. Even s .
ri is comparatively quieter
than it has been for the last two years. comparatively
seems to have taken himself off to Arkansas ;
several other guerilla chi,
fa have been taken pri-
and
Bone rs, the firm .
Yet conciliating rule of
General Schofield, since
carried the victory
over the rabid Republicans, his
adversaries, has
had a soothing effect upon the troubled waters
parties.
of conflicting In News Orleans we hear
of constant efforts for the
reconstitution of the
State of Louisiana, and the
.substitution
of a
civil
administration to military rule. In belavare,mary.
land, Tennessee, and Kentucky
t"
jj'i°ll party
have, at least apparently, the upper him .
In all
political conflicts. Those contests may not 1), fair,
is true, but that Y
and honourably fought, it
~ , tore
than one-half of the people ate willing to vote for
the Union is no matter of doubt. The. infusion of
Northern elements, especially in the cities of Belli.
J
more, St. Louis, Loui ville, New Orleans, B:c., has
given the Union pert, en ascendancy which it never
had before; and it has easily dragged after it that
inert and sluggish mass who, as I said, are always
too happy to follow any lead, to submit to any
pressure.
That the prolongation of the struggle may
within
five or six months wear out the South I, candidly
speaking, believe by no means impossible. Heroes
of the Lee and Davis stamp may choose to break
rather than to bend, and for them death or exile
will be the more bearable lot ; but if resistance in
the field is overcome, I do really incline to believe that
men will be found in the South willing to put for-
ward or to accept proposals either of submission or
compromise ; and if the two fractions of these dis.
united States can ever come to terms, and the ims
Placable leaders of the secession movement are pro-
videntially removed, the pacification and concilia-
tion of f the rebel districts may turn out less difficult
a task than People are now fain to imagine. The
States of G .
eorwia,
North Carolina,
South Carolina, and
especially
Carolina, may eventually come
under the manag
eniteit of the Washington Govern-
ment with no greater trouble than Maryland or
Missouri, if it so be that the Government finds a
plausible
not
solution to the el
every question—a matter
-e mind, is "t
10441' e " N"--:3, difficult. The loves
of a multi!ufif': a,t27,-'.4,1', old Italian statesman, are
lota fleeting, and so are their hatreds and
part,stent aavreafcoeuandathye
short-lived
s
rancours also.
For
my
oin:c o. ns i. I b
Americana fielilt and .
)] IV, principles are
can be, so far Aspf concerned.
which they stick, moat of the The only point to
_ .
Union,
the glorification of
Southerners, Northerners anti also many of the South
the preservation of tat!
their nig country an() nal country,
if IL
Mas r, af.- xiier ciegarrly

one of his late addresses, which is to walk among
the Pigmy States of the old world "as an elephant
treads among mice."
. .

As a symptom of the disposition on the part of
thee e r Southai
n
Fl 3 in deeds of guerilla warfar . Except im-
mediately on the skirts of the large -mies, where
.sands of desperadoes prowl about, less impelled by
motives of political partisanship than by love of
plunder, and consisting, indeed, in many instances of
the worst kind of deserters, the riff-raff from
the troops on either side, the soldiers of for-
tune who infested the Border States and the
banks of the Mississippi have either joined the
larger corps still holding their own in West
Louisiana and Texas, or have betaken themselves
to peaceful avocations and to a great extent dis-
appeared from the scenes of their wonted exploits.
Frequent instances of firing upon and burning of
steamers on the Mississippi are still reported, some
of them attended with loss of life, and signalised
by tragic, heartrending incidents. But it is not by
such feats that a cause can be hallowed even in the
hearts of its stanchest supporters ; indeed, means of
such description are only calculated to bring any
t:
episodicallNosb
, a
cause into discredit., and to wean the humane and
the generous from it. The only guerilla chief who
still plays a very important part in t
portion of the great drama of the war
gentlemanly officer, whose conduct wins some re-
spect even from the adversaries at whose expense
his skill, activity,:and gallantry are exercised. No
little excitement was of late created in this country
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venous, after the warning given of his intentions
by the plots detected two or three weeks ago, that
it is impossible to suppose it could be effected with-
out connivance on the part of some of the gaolers.
Morgan and his fellow-prisoners, by the last ac-
counts, have reached Toronto in safety. Whether
they will tarry in the land of exile or revisit the
theatre of their former bold raids may in a great
measure depend. on the general vicissitudes of the
war.

On the whole, I conclude that the South seems
to exhibit signs of weariness and despondency, and
peace, if it were offered on plausible terms, might
be hailed as a providential deliverance. Such being,
as I conceive, the state of men's minds in the South,
it may be worth while to inquire what effects, on
the other hand, the prospects of approaching peace
would have upon the Northerners.
The first impression made among these North-
erners by the glad tidings of Grant's "stunning
and decisive victory," towards the end of last week,
was followed by a second sensation by no means of
a pleasurable nature. The Americans were panic-
struck at their too easy victory. " What!" they
said, " can the war come so suddenly and so speedily
to an end ?" Was the valour of the Union troops
and the skill or luck of their Generals so soon to
bring about the catastrophe of a drama the first acts
of which drew out to such dreary lengths ? Can a
nation have too much wind astern, or are we to be-
lieve :that "it is indeed a good wind that blows
nobody ill ?"
In the first place, as I have often told you before,
the Black Republicans and Abolitionists, whose
ranks, as you are also aware, have been wonderfully
swelling of late, always wished for an indefinite
prolongation of hostilities. They had the great
mission to accomplish; their work of emancipation,
implying the utter desolation, disorganisation, and
disfranchisement of the South, and requiring, there-
fore, a long, desperate, envenomed contest. The
rank and fire of these worthies did no worse than
openly and loudly deprecate peace, but their leaders
especially these who had a finger in the Adminis-
tration pie, more activey put it off by thwarting
the efforts of the Federal Generals, ham pering their
movements if they were meek and submissive, and
plotting their recal if they showed themselves stub-
born and self-willed. For them speedy peace meant
compromise with the Southerners, a respite granted
to slavery, however within reduced limits and for
but a short lease of existence ; it meant reintegra-
tion of the Southern States to their former rights,
and the strengthening of their Democratic oppo-
nents by the almost unanimous vote of rehabilitated
rebeldom.
Yet the greatest horror of a too ready subjugation
or of a spontaneous surrender of the South, at this
present crisis, was not merely the result of party
considerations, nor was it manifesting itself merely
among the out-and-out abolitionists. The peace
panic spread among all ranks and circles; it had its
ground on mere monetary considerations. Suppose
the sword to be laid aside at Christmas, or even at
Midsummer next, people asked, what would become
of the financial condition of the country ? Would not
the expected crash, the much redoubted deluge, im-
mediately ensue ? Hitherto, short-sighted people
grounded their fears of a financial shock upon the
apprehension of the probable effects of a protracted
struggle and of the reckless expenditure with which
it was carried on. The war, by its long duration,
they thought, was sure to ruin the country ; it was
the last regiment, the last monitor, the last feathers
weight that would break the camel's back. But of
late shrewd observers were more inclined to con-
clude that the war would feed itself, that the people
would go on from delusion to delusion, that the bub-
ble would float on larger and larger, brighter and
brighter, and would only burst at the peace. The
social machine had received from the war a mo-
mentum which would only stop with the war itself.
And now people fancied the war had come, or
threatened to come, to a standstill, in so unforeseen
a manner as to baffle the anticipations of the most
sanguine Copperhead. The game which had hitherto
recklessly been played with mere counters must now
be settled in hard cash in good earnest. The calami-
ties that war had matured peace would reveal.
The seeds that had been sown in strife must be
reaped in reconciliation.
The moment the South succumbs or is brought
on its last legs, people reasoned, does away with
the necessity of three-fourths of the present arma-
ment. Half a million of men will be forced back on
the labour market, precisely as the demand for
labour must suddenly and inevitably diminish.
Wages fall, competition overleaps itself,consumption
ceases to keep pace with production. Agriculture,
manufactures, everything had been made subser-
vient to the furtherance of a work of destruction.
How long would it take before the springs of social
wellbeing could flow back into their wonted chan-
nels; how long before the State machine slid back
into its ancient groves? Resumption of specie pay-
ment would be the first and immediate consequence
of the close of hostilities. Government stock would
rifle:i but railway, mining, and all other stock would
a
ut• Of all the work of the war nothing but the
National
Debt would remain, and the necessity for
a crushing • •
poverty grinding taxation. The rich would fall
siloont, resigleTie poor would have to choose between
riot kind strifel starvation, and aimless unavailing
All this was the
sub,
afterject of everybody's talk and
people recovered from the first
speculation soon
caused by the glowing de-
itninqtuelelsitgioibnl.e
results,
sbcrreiaptthi
ol ens:
oefaGeirtaennit:suit,
Ilort
ataelanstous victories," To-day,
we are warned
The im 0 t the dangers of over-
Grant's success is
again,oifi de nc e. P rtanes
_.
ullsilead's advance has
somewhat
hitherto
and Burnside
must not halloo before he is out one theTh
wood.
backbone of the rebellion is not
ledcatlolendo
yet actually broken.
e
Even were the Southerners to be drive_ y
.4 from the
field utterly, peace and order would not soon reign
°ion. There would •
in the reconquered ree, brill be a
to keep the Southern •
necessity for a vast army cities
be put to
in awe ; Government would still formida-
ble'me would not come all of
expenses. The good time
a sudden, nor, therefore, too quick a change in the
financial position of the country. The transition
from the present inflated currency to the normal
state of the money market would be gradual and
safe ; labour would have leisure to go back
from public employment to private enterprise.
Demand and supply would re-establish their
wonted level. The untilled, unlimited lends of
the West would have power to repair Eastern
broken fortunes. Happy young America, always
sure to fall on her feet, would recover from this as
she did recover from so many other crises.
With arguments like these people were fain to
console themselves or to rcat-sore their neighbours.