The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

ties of the authorities in their endeavours to carry
out the conditions of the treaty. The case is bad
indeed, for our official representatives are " quite
powerless" to restrain these irregularities. The
next point touched upon is that, as a Christian na-
tion, our persistent attempt to force an acquaintance
upon the people is not likely to redound to our
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notion of establishing a permanent footing in the
place, and to retire with the best grace, leaving the
Japanese to enjoy their pristine state of "internal
order, peace, and prosperty." This would suit the
views of the Peace Party, they would raise their
voices in jubilation to utter thanksgivings, and fore-
tell all sorts of greatness, glory, and renown for the
country that sacrificed ambition for so good a cause.
There is another side to the question, however,
and that is, How would such base conduct and
craven policy accord with the genius of an enter-
prising people, and be adapted to the honour of a
mighty nation. It was not by listening to the sug.
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the sun. Could anything more preposterous be
imagined than that such a missive should be sent
to the Foreign Secretary of the foremost
nation of the world. We are told that
commerce cannot flourish with so reluctant
and angry a people, and hence the work of
itself will be rendered comparatively abortive ;
but so vast are the advantages that will accrue from
the wise policy suggested, that to gain them we are
to make sacrifices of our " commercial advantage."
If intercourse is not concluded in a friendly spirit
it had better cease at once, is the stern behest of the
judge who presides over this affair, and views all
through the medium of the society's rules. Ac-
cording to these traditions the great ones who
have tracked their country's way in steps of blood
and fire through me,ny a land, and procured for her
flag the empire of the deep, are all from henceforth
to be nobodies. There is to be no conquest, no im

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN,

MADRID, AUG. 25.
The Progressist Committee have written to
Senores Madox and Olozaga, asking their opinion
on the advisability of the Progressist party abstain-
ing from voting at the elections.
Doubts are entertained whether they are favour.
able to this course.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The following telegram was received at Mr.
Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :
MARSEILLES, AUG. 26.
The Mllassilia, with the above mails, arrived here
at 6.30 a.m., this day.
The mails leave for London by the 11.30 a.m.

train.

THE CONGRESS AT MALINES.
The proceedings of the Congress at Malines
were duly brought to a conciusion on August
the 22d instant. As our correspondent's
supplementary letter relates merely to in-
cidents of a subordinate character in con-
nection with those final proceedings—inci-
dents of no interest whatever to the gene-
ral public—we content ourselves with simply
announcing the fact that this important Congress
was duly brought to a conclusion, after a
Grand Banquet, several farewell addresses, and an
impressive sermon delivered from the pulpit of the
Cathedral at Mechlin, in the midst of an imposing
religious ceremony.

A letter in the Independancc Beige says—" The
programme traced out to the Catholics by the Count
Montalembert is the antithesis of the theories
familiar to so many of the journals of France,
Italy, Germany, and Belgium. The Count said
that the Catholics must frankly accept liberty,
entire liberty."

THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS.
A letter from Frankfort, dated Aug. 24, says:--
The German Sovereigns who yesterday morning
met in the apartments of the King of Hanover held
a short sitting, and then went to the races, but at
8 in the evening they again assembled, and did not
separate until 11 at night. Three or four Ministers
were present at the sitting, at which business of
importance must have been transacted, as three
secretaries were occupied for more than two hours
in making copies of the resolutiins taken. After
the sitting held in the morning of yesterday it was
said that the King of Hanover and his fellow-
Potentates had agreed to accept the Austrian pro-
ject of reform; but I now learn that important
modifications are deemed both advisable and
necessary. At 11 o'clock this morning the Congress
of Princes again assembled, and I am informed that
the Sovereigns
who yesterday conferred together in
the rooms occupied King of Hanover accepted
b y th e
some of the Austrian propositions, and proposed to
make alterations in others. If the counter-proposi-
tions of the German Princes are reasonable, they
will hardly be objected to by the Emperor of Austria,
as his Majesty has repeatedly expressed his willing-
ness to take into consideration any collective project
of reform that
his Federal allies may think fit to
bring forward. A person who must be supposed to
have some little insight into what is passing behind
the scenes says that almost all the Princes have raised
objections to the one or the other part of the Austrian
project of reform, but that the Austrian Monarch
has invariably
expressed his resolve to attend to
none but collective reprezentations and proposi-
tions. The Emperor is reposted to have told his
illustrious confederates that if they could manage to
come to an understanding among themselves they
would find that he was ready and willing to listen to
their proposals. The Austrian Monarch has raised
hopes which it would be very dangerous to leave
unfulfilled. During my sojourn here I have seen
and conversed with politicians of various ranks and
classes, and they all agree in thinking that if the
Princes do not reform the Band in a way which
shall be consonant to the wishes of the nation there
will at no distant period be serious disturbances in
Germany.
Many more or less well founded objections are
raised to the Austrian project of reform. The most
important of them are-1. That too much import-
ance is attached to the strengthening of the
Executive Power. 2. That the proposed Directory
will be an oligarchy of the most objectionable and
dangerous description if it is not placed under some
as well
akeintdheofpupbolpieu,laertrconongtry object to that part of Articleol. 3. The Princes,
8 in which it is said that "a simple majority in the
Federal Council shall decide whether or not War
shall be declared against a Foreign Power that has
made an attack on a Federal State which has terri-
tories that do not belong to the Bund." 4. It is
feared that the new Directory
than thectorywil " fingerer''
(Smaller) even more
absolute and tyrannical
(Smaller) Council of the Bund, 'which, for almost
half a century, has wrung the Withers of the
German nation. 5. The proposed composition of
the German Chamber of Deputies finds no favour
with the nation at large, as the Germans have a
very low opinion of the liberality in politics of the
members of the Upper Houses of the various Diets.
As you must recollect, the Austrian proposal is, that
one third of the delegates to the Bund shall be
elected by the Upper and two thirds by the Lower
Chambers of the Diets. 6. It is deemed necessary
that the attributes of ihe future German Parliament
defined. 7. The German
is representatives ought to
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of once in three years. 8.
As the Federal Court will be under the influence of
there will be no guaran
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and speedy administration o

provement, no infusion of intellect. The world w:

jog on in ita lame and unaltered course, unmarked by
any notable change, and uninfluenced by the spread
of comraerce and the want of mind. If these peace
societies could exercise the spell of a magician and
wor,•k their will for a few months, to what a new
world should we awaken. The sight would be the
best reproof to their shortsightedness, and the
surest way of publishing their folly, It seems al-

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most incredible that wise persons should persist in
pushing forward such extravagant notions, and
forcing others to agree nolens volens to their doc-

trines. There is great vanity in this presumption
and the folly of the course that is advocated almost

equals the arrogance. Nothing more surely and
effectually occasions disorder and discord than to

dread the consequence of decisive action, and to
fear to make an 'attack, holding the notion that
failure is inevitable, and that success, if achieved,

would be disascrous. Doubtless there is srAuch to

occasion mirth in the extraordinary ideas promul
gated in this despatch, but really there is more rea.

son to lament than to be amused. It is deleterious

:o the growth of sound 'principles for such notions

to gain ground among us, and some are so infatuated

with this peace-mania that they are ready to be-
lieve anything if only it comes in the form of a flag
of truce. The interests of civilisation, and the pro-
gress of humanity, are best served when the inter-
course between the more elevated and enlightened
nations of the world with the less favoured ones is
carried on to the fUllest extent, and developed to
the utm'st possible limits. It is false reasoning
that urges the adoption of the laisez aller principle.
What we did with yesterday we'll e'en do with to-
day, may suit those who are never heard of half a
mile from home; but those who would write their
names in their cuuntry's history to be read on the
morrows that shall succeed to the last syllable of
recorded time, must act differently. The axioms
of the Peace Society can never make heroes, it is
certain, but neither do they create sages or produce
patriots,

MR• ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS,

" FAUST" AND LOTTO.
A theatre crowded in every part soon after the
opening of the doors was the reply last evening to
the two great attractions of Mr. Mellon's bill—his
selection from the opera of " Faust," and the Polish
violinist, Mons. Lotto.
No better proof could be afforded of the deep im-
pression which has been made by Mons. Gounod's
late success than the public anxiety to hear its
music repeated in a purely instrumental form, after
the great justice that has been done to it by voice
as well as orchestra; and this anxiety could scarcely
have been more entirely gratified than by the
manner in which Mr. Mellon has discharged the
pleasant task of its arrangement.

Selecting all its most characteristic as well as
melodious features, he has shown his taste and skill
in their allotment to the instruments best adapted
to convey them, affording successivesolos to Messrs.
Levy, Pratten, Lazarus, Hughes, Nicholson, and
Hausser, and by the way in which he has completed
the effect of the soldiers' march and chorus, the most
original feature of the work; in the engagement of
the band of the Coldstream Guards, whose union
with his own gives to this climax of the selection
a volume and force of sound that is as vigorous and
enkindling as anything of the kind that we re-
member. Its effect upon the audience was per-
fectly electrical. The immense crowd of beings,
loudly applauding as it proceeded, buret into a
cheering at its close that fairly shook the theatre,
and was only to be appeased by a repetition of the
forte movement.
The success of Mon. Lotto was equally decided.
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'who has been absent from
proposed
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tFhroTapnhkeeof Duke
le should be allowed
the Bund "in the non-Austrian part of Germany,"
but the motion found no favour with the Congress.
His Serene Highness, who appears to be very
popular here, went on Friday last to Biberich,
where he was kickeod on the mouth by a horse
which he was examining. Fortunately, the Duke's
teeth were not injured, and the swelling of the
lips was so speedily reduced, by the constant appli-
cation of ice, that his Highness was yesterday able
to go to Coburg. In some of the German papers
it is said that the Schleswig-Holstein question has
been discussed by the German Princes since they have
been assembled here, but the assurance has been
given me that it has hardly been alluded to. The
Abgeordnentag (Congress of Deputies) was clo'sed
yesterday; after the Assembly had given expression
to its sympathy for the Germans in Holstein and
Schleswig. The last passage in a speech made by
M. von Bennigsen, the President of the Assembly,
was :—" 'The National Party does not wish for a
revolution, but if its efforts to bring about a reform
should be frustrated by the Governments, it may be
succeeded by a party which will not only be less
moderate in its pretensions, but will indulge in
dangerous aspirations." I fully share in the opinion
expressed by the Hinoverian patriot, who might
with truth have added that the Imperial project of
reform is likely to produce in Germany the effect
that a spark of fire does on highly inflammable
materials. The German Sovereigns will hardly
separate without having come to an understanding,
but if they should do so, the unpleasant conse-
quences of their want of unity and liberality will
soon be seen. There is no truth in the report
that Prince Henry of the Netherlands, who repre-
sents Luxemburg and Limberg in the Congress, has
left Frankfort.
Outside, and immediately opposite the Neue
Thor of Frankfort, is a Jorge house belonging to
Baron von Bethmann, and in it the Baroness, on
Siturday last, received the German Sovereigns,
their Ministers, the members of the Diplomatic
Corps, many eivii and military travellers of note

Earl Russell on
Pau the 9th Septetn-.
EARL RUSSELL AND TIIE 13AxTER palm,
DUN-
DEE.—Mr, Wm. Small visited
Saturday, at Meikleour Rouse, and officially invited his
her, at the opening
Earl Russell at
and stated that it would givE, him
lordship to take partotinththeo
Baxter Park,
once consented,
great de-
light to do so, and requested that a place be reserved for
him. —DunWee Ourier.

TM] FLORIDA AGAIN.—CORK, Monday.
`yes_terday, between two and three p.m., a long, rakish
black-hulled steamer was seen some miles off the harbour:
She was steaming very fast down Channel towards the Old
Head of Kinsale, evidently on the track of Yankee vessels.
From her general appearance and swiftness the mysterious
craft is supposed to have beau the famous Florida of the
Confederate navy.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.--The active proceedings
in connection with the Newcastle meeting of the
Association commenced on Monday, when the reception-
tion-room in the new savings bank, Westgate-street, was
opened. During the course of the day the number of tickets
issued to new members was 81; to old members, 13; new
life members, 9 ; old life members, 8 ; associates, 492 ;
523. The various operations carried on in othtr
directions in connection with the meeting are also being
tligorously prosecuted, and under the able direction of
e committee will be fully completed within the requisite
time,

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 186,

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25.
Prince Conza has addressed a note to the Powers
who protested against his sequestration of the pro-
perty of the Greek convents, declaring that his
sequestration is definitive, but that he is disposed
to grant an indemnity to the Greek priests for the
sequestrated property.
Holland has demanded of Prince Couza a modi-
fication in the Roumain flag on account of its re-
semblance to her own.

BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The market remains in the
same quiescent state, but with prices well main-
tained in the little business transacted. Threes, for
the Account, are now unvaried at 67f. 60c. The
Railway Share Market has been also quiet, with
prices up to the present time firm at yesterday's
quotations. The market closed as follows :-
4t per Cents .. 96 85 Italian Loan 72 85
Do. end month.... Do. end month 72 65
3 per Cents
70
credit Mobilier 1092 50 Russian
Do. end m0nth....1091 25 Austrian
Bank Shares 3396 Spanidt Threes.... —--
Credit 1 oneier 1255 -- Rome Debt

and the aristocracy of the city. The rooms near
the entrance hall, which are inhabited by the
family, are spacious, but not lofty; the proportions
of the recently-built ballroom and grand saloon, the
ceilings of which are arched, are perfect. Shortly
after 8 o'clock, which was the hour appointed, the
German Sovereigns, who are models of punctuality,
began to arrive, and by 9 there must have been
between 200 and 300 persons assembled in the above-
mentioned saloon and adjoining apartments. The
master and mistress of the house received their
Royal visitors in a room which adjoins the hall of
entrance, and the former conducted them through
the rooms leading to the grand saloon, at the upper
end of which, in a large recess, is Dannecker's
far-famed statue of Ariadne. As the different
Sovereigns entered—there were 27 or 23 present—
several loud blows were struck on the floor with
the point of a stick. At the signal the inferior
guests fell back, and formed a lane, through which
the Rulers over 45,000,000 of souls advanced. The
Kings of Bavaria, Saxony, and Hanover appeared
first; the Emperor of Austria last, or nearly so.
The Sovereigns sat together in the grand saloon for
about half-an-hour, and then they adjourned to the
ball-room, where a so-called " circle " was formed.
For an hour or more they conversed freely with the
various ladies who were presented to them, and it ap-
peared to me that all of tham'endeavouredto make
theinselves agreeable to the persons with whom they
were brought in contact. The King of Hanover spoke
so loudly that the bystanders could hear every word
he said, but the other Sovereigns pitched their voices
so low that only the persons to whom they ad-
dressed themselves could catch the sense of what
they said. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess
Mary, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgla-Strelitz, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, came over from Rumpenheim to do honour
to the von Bethmann family, and it is probable that
they stopped to supper, which many of the princely
guests did not do. Shortly after 7 o'clock I quitted
the festive scene, and the carriages of the Emperor
of Austria and of three or four other Sovereigns
passed the vehicle in which I was seated. It ap-
peared to me that there was a great lack of cordiality
between the German Potentates, and persons of my
acquaintance fancied that they seemed to try to keep
out of each other's company. Two Prussian officers
of rank were at the rout, but they seemed to be it

at ease, and kept aloof from the other guests. Baron
Charles von Rothschild is the Austrian Consul-
General in Frankfort, and it has excited some little
surprise that he should have allowed M. von Beth-
mann, the Consul-General for Prussia, to get the
pas of him.

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 26.
The Paris papers of to-day publish the following