The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-10 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

This day at Two o'clock 59

Barometer-29.68.

Wind—South-Easterly, moderate; fine, but cloudy.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 10, 1863.

The broad arrow has at last sped to its destina-
tion at Liverpool. It was afEzed yesterday after-
noon to the steam-rams recently completed by
LAIRD Brothers, and still in their ship-building
yard in the great Lancashire seaport. With the
flight of that arrow to the destination so often of
late anticipated for it, the Foreign Secretary may
say at length, in regard to his policy, as I)ne of the
most confused and bungling of living diplomatists,
aleajacta est. How often the noble lord has blun-
dered already as a diplomatist, who shall say ? But,
often as he has done so, he has never done so yet
more flagrantly than in this instance. His notorious
despatch, addressed but a few months back to Den-

mark, in respect to that most vexatious—as it
would almost seem interminable—European grie-
vance, the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, was a blun
der, iu its way, unparalleled (at that time) even by
Lord RUSSELL himself. His muddle of our foreign
poliey a few years back when be unhappily went,
himself, over to Vienna upon a sort of extra-Extra.
ordinary Mission of Diplomacy, is an incident still
painfully within the popular recollection. It was
more of a failure in its way than even Mr.
GLADSTONE'S well designed but ill executed
expedition to Corfu ! An outline of an
enterprise, sketched though it was by the
hand of an eminent statesman, so indifferently
filled in, shaded and coloured by the tyro fingers of
a mere amateur plenipotentiary, (as Mr. GaaDsToNE,
unhappily proved himself to be) that the brilliant
first effect was soon enough destroyed, and the ori-
ginal design all but obliterated. Far more to be
regretted, however, than that loniatapieode in the
career of the Homeric critic, now her MAJESTY'S
Chtincellii of the ExCheqUer, was the Vienna mis-
sion undertaken—and " botched"—by the sometime
Prime Minister of the realms, then Lord JOHN
since Earl RUSSELL. The recent substitution of
an ELLIOT for the HUDSON at Turin, though
intrinsically a small matter of importance so far
as it can be looked upon as indication of
a_
rd change in the Italian policy of the noble
I Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary—that in-
cident, though of itself one of a very subordinate
character indeed, affecting, as it does, rather the
mechanism of administration than the force of the
motive power animating It—has still its signifi-
cance, nevertheless, because, though a mere detail,
one perfectly en regle, entirely characteristic,
mi-
nutely con *listen t with Earl 1111SSELL' whole career,
as a dip'.omatic blunderer. A meddlesome, often a
mettlesome, disregarder as Foreign Secretary, of
Lis former Colleague, Lord MELBOURNE'S favourite
rit
warning query, " Can't you let it alone ?" For the
life of him, Earl RUSSELL cannot! Come what, come
may, he must be perpetually interfering, obtruding
.his assistance, his advice, his positive, and actual
interposition, that is, in act. Addressing an out of
the wav gathering of tenantry down in the far
orth there at Blairgowrie, only the other day, he
must needs blurt out the wholly uncalled-for and
wholly untenable, declaration that the English in
their sympathies are Federalists. That was, in itself,
a bl,ander on the part of Earl RUSSELL so gross and
80 gratuitous of its kind, that it is only to be desig-
nated accurately by saying that it was—putting his
foot in it! And now—Perfecting his policy of blun-
ders—now, while Lord RUSSELL is probably exult-
lain4 muttering to himself plea facta est (when
thinking a of the " broad arrow" just affixed to the
steam rams down at Liverpool), has be no prescient
sense, We Wonder, of that arrow being hurled back
at himself shortly after the meeting of the Houses of
say, next February—
Parliament, let n, of its
being hurled
eagle-eyed
marksman
at him with fatal effect by an
on the front bench of the
Opposition in tie House of Peers ? Has he no an-
ticipatory thought flitt-
ing across his conjectures at
this moment as to tae Probable incidents of this
next session, that his
own Political rtquiem ma)
perchance then be chantecltoit,h,)redmiieasure of the
familiar and melodious veree
of
" Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
He nursed the pinion that impelled the
steel,"
For it certainly does appear now upon the cards that
that broad arrow affixed by Lord RUSSELL to the
steam rams may, before another half.vear has
elapsed, prove the death of his foreign policy, the
missile likely to prove fatal to the Government.

the bounder
ofundary
ALE'. MALET clearly
inter erence,
Earl RUSSELL'S
and distinctly defines
the strong point of his
marighumt abne tdwiene
this
u s
liesti -
fiable and unjustifiable
et:it. It is true that
the Federal Assembly
upon the duchy of holstein a
8 8
ua ny ei
n g.putthtehierirelvaeitmo
the right of
independence, and yet have vindicated
ite
a nY
to such authority, and even excused
measures issued thereupon. arbitrary
To carry
It'
strange
question, however, when we look tq u
jogs relative to the Danish Posseesioo:he another
proceed-.
their interference into those territories; to dictate
terms to the Danish monarchy, is indeed a
proceeding. Our Foreign Secretary has the con_
currence of all independent men when he denounces
this extraordinary line of action, and holds it
up to
the
and contempt of the nations of Europe.
rl'h sceaorrgauments put forward in this despatch are
well-known facts, it is true; but then there are „ea_
sions when it becomes imperative to remind persons
of circumstances that they may know full well in
theory, but ignore altogether in practice. Besides,
the reference to certain contingencies sometimes
assumes a significant form, and foretells momen-
tous consequences. The
. _
coo sr,
Federal A3sembly must
The opening of the Social Science Congress is ignorant, or else very infatuated, not to re-
ni .7
se the im passage which tells
every year a matter of general interest. The num- ortance of the
them that P
they are assailing the integrity
and in-
arid variety of the subjects touched upon, their
dependence ckf Denmark, which " her MAJESTY ie
intimate conuction with our social well-being, and bound by the " The
the high repute of the men who preside over the meaning of this •
Treaty of 1852 to reepect.
la much
patent to all lookers en,
several sections, combine to render the annual more is it aPpre .
elated by those who are playing

the game of Statesmanship, and who are versed in
every
" Pass and ward,
To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard," •

We know and recognise the magnitude of
the affair, how necessary it is for a check
to he put upon the arrogant and absurd pre-
tensions of the German Federation, and hence it
is with admiring approbation that we peruse the
following emphatic notice—." Her MAJESTY would
not look with indifference on a military occupation
of Holstein, and her MAJESTY'S Government would
not recognise this military occupation as a legiti-
mate exercise of the power of the German Fede-
ration, nor admit that it could be imposed in the
name of a proper Federal execution." If this lan-
guage does not convince those to whom it is ad-
dressed it must be utterly useless to make any at
tempt to put an end to the altercation by verbal
or written communications. "He who runs may
read" the interpretation of this address; while the
statesmen to whom it is sent may find enough in its
eArnest phrases to afford them sabjects for the con-
templation of their leisure, and topics for discussion
in their official transactions for some time to come.
It is often idle to predict, but it may not be a super-
fluous effort at prophecy to declare that the tone
and temper of this despatch will surprise and
startle the equanimity of the pompous Federation
to whom it is addressed. They cannot shut their
eyes to the fact, they cannot close their ears to the
sound of the unwelcome prospect and the unplea-
sant tidings that they may mar their fortunes in
this rash and precipitate venture that was to make
them so much the stronger and the better. Many
nations take advantage of our dislike to war, and
the inconvenience to which it may subject us is a
potent auxiliary on the side of the offender in seve-
ral cases; it was so in the late interposition of the
three Powers with Russia. Many States presume
on the divided opinions that exist in regard to
the disputed question among ourselves, and the
partial views taken upon it by influential parties.
[his feeling is now working the cause of the North
in the American contest at present. But as regards
the future of this vexed Schleswig-Holstein affair
there is neither the one excuse nor the other for the
interested parties to take, because our Minister for
Foreign Affairs has spoken out as strongly as he
could do, and shown no sign nor symptom of
wavering in his attempts to do justice to a right
cause, and his assertions to vindicate an injured
nation. In this bold and straightforward address
Earl RUSSELL has done his best to retrieve his past
blunder, and to rectify the evil effects that may have
ensued from his former mistakes. So far as it goes
this communication must be considered conclusive
as to the ideas and intentions of her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment, and it could hardly go further without
greatly extending the present confines of the die.
cussion, and exchanging the area of the dispute,
until it passes the limit that divides theory from
practice, and separates peace from war. There le
yet time for a wise and happier course to be taken
by the German Federation. They may still recog-
nise the validity of a maxim that as the
world
grows old in knowledge still retains the force of
its first freshness—" Prudence is the better part of
valour." If they take the advice that is tendered
to them in the close of Earl RUSSELL'S admirable
Note, and "pause" before they commit themselves
irretrievably to a fatal policy, they will do well and
wisely; but if they persist in running out the reck-
less course they hate projected,
all the consequences
of their mistaken and mischievous policy will be
upon their own heads, and they will incur the
stigma of having provoked by their
extravagant
pretensions a catastrophe that their combined -wis-
dom and bravery may be unable to avert,
raising a storm that they have no power to stem
nor to survive. and of

STRAND THEATRE.

" MIRIAM'S CRIME."

Last night a new serio-comic drama, entitled

" Miriam's Crime," was produced at this theatre
with unbounded success. The author of the piece
is Mr. H. T. Craven, and much as " The Postboy"
heightened his reputation as a dramatist, his latest,
and, certainly to our thinking his best,
add considerably to his celebrity. Manyeffort will
of the
si t ikaticas ate hovel and striking ; the serious
- - comic scenes are very judiciously bleildedl,-,and
.the audience'cannot fail to be interested ill. tbf3
ain de,Et
-
VelOpttlent of the' and
Crime"' turn iu:Pon an act of self-sacrifice which Cue.
Miriam story. The plot of. "Xirt
West, a' poor dependent, eaMilllts'io' do
what she considers justice to another,
herself from unjust suspicions. Being
and upon a
" crime" which she afterwards commits to free
left the sole
heiress of an aged lady of property with whom she
has lived as a companion, she destroys the will, that
one Bernard Reynolds, whom she loves (nephew of
the old lady), may not be deprived of his inheri-
tance. A will made prior to this, however, having
been lost by the lawyer who drew it up, this is tie
document that Miriam is supposed to have destroyed,
and she has no evidence to clear herself from the
accusation. To make matters worse, the property
is claimed by a returned convict,
who appears to
be the heir-at-law, and who is assisted by an
eccentric and not over-scrupulous lawyer's clerk
in taking possession. Fortunately this clerk
was concerned for his master in making the second
has the original, which he saved from
will, which gave Miriam the property, and he
a fire at his
master's office. This original, however, is in his
boxes, which are detained for rent at a lodging-
house,
and takes the
she is turned out of her home, searches these boxes,
and Miriam, who goes to these rooms after
will, with which she is able to estab
lish her innocence and defeat the plans of the
returned convict and his accomplice. The part of
Miriam was alloted to Miss Kate Saville, a niece
of Miss Helen Fancies, to whom she has
imparted all that womanly grace and pathos
which has rendered her one of the most
charming actresses of her day. In the second and
third acts she more particularly distinguished her-
self by the intense fervour of her acting, and won

the most enthusiastic applause. The two scamps of
the piece, comic ones by the bye, were capitally hit
off by Mr. Belford and Mr. George Honey, whilst
Mr. Parselle, by his quiet and gentlemanly acting,
made the part of Miriam's lover, Bernard Rey-
nolds, stand forward very prominently.
We have great pleasure in recording the success
of this drama, because it is an attempt at rather
larger things than is generally produced at this
elegant little theatre, which has now by the
liberality, taste, and good management, become one
of the most fashionable resorts of the metropolis.

in
announced that the proceeds of
the concert will be applied
Bedford-square. EVENING
the
CONCERTConcer
ti is
Hall,to Storetake street,
rl
ea
ecte,
to on AMoGndRaAyN, OD t oble tr
is
also
the funds fur the erection of
the new Italian church, recently built in Ilatton-wall.
The services of several profess onals of celebrity and a
occasion,
number of amateurs have been secured for the
and a rich musical treat is
promised. The programme will
be issued next week.
DEATH OP GENERAL J. D. JOIINSTONE.—We
have to repsirt the death, at a comparatively early
age, of General J. Douglas Johnstone, late colonel of the
33d Regiment (the Duke of Wellington's). He went out to
the Crimea with his regiment, from whence he was sent
home to England, so seriously invalided that he was consi-
dered to be in a dying state. On his partial recovery he
again joined his regiment at the seat of war, and, with his
son, Captain Johnstone, was the first in the assault on the
Itedan, where he lost an arm. He never fully recovered
this shock to a highly nervous and sensitive system. Gen.
Johnstone remained in the Crimea till the end of the war,
and six months afterwards he went out to India in broken
health, having in this brief interval formed a regiment,
only 60 of the trained soldiers of the 33d who went out to
his return
ititoClr Crimea
hheavi n
retiredg r eftruormn etdh eh soerar vei aceg,abin. never recovered
hie health. He died in Dublin, whither he had gone for
medical advice, aged 55,