The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

POST.—The desire of the Greeks for their King is
as ardent as ever was Juliet's for her Montague,
and they bid the modern " fiery-footed steeds," the
telegraphs, gallop apace with such earnestness that
the news of the day has been a good deal in advance
of facts. The Cobourg disappointment was a lesson
which should not be forgotten, and it is well to bear
it in mind, and put a little check on our haste to
arrive at a consummation. Thrones and crowns are
not disposed of in a few minutes; on the contrary,
their acceptance or rejection is generally the result
of considerable and important negotiation. Even,
as with young ladies, the " Yes" does not seal the
lover's fate, nor even the repeated " Yes" from the
parents. How often is all broken off on the settle-
ments P So it was with the Duke of Saxe Cobourg,
so we trust it will not be with Prince William.
His royal highness and his father, before they
quitted this country, assented generally to thepro-
pcsition which was made to them only a few hours
before they left, and it is probable that at Brussels
the counsels of King Leopold were given in aid
and approval of that assent. From Brussels the
princes proceeded, not to Copenhagen, but to visit
a sister of Prince Christian's—the Duchess of An-
halt-Bernburg—end at Some one's Hof in a far dis-
tant German "Thal," Prince Christian proceeded
to consider in all its bearings the offer which had
been made to his son. In the meantime the King
and Cabinet of Denmark expressed their approba-
tion of whatever view Prince Christian might take
of the subject, thus leaving the matter entirely
in his royal highness's hands. On their part the
Greeks made haste to come to a formal vote
offering the crown to George I. While thus
rapidity characterised their ready determination, the
object of their choice, little dreaming that matters
could thus be, as it were, instantly brought to a head,
was deep in a German forest quietly thinking over
present and future arrangements. The result of
Prince Christian's reflections has, we understand,
taken the form of certain conditions which he wishes
to stipulate for before allowing his son to accept the
proffered crown. Now, it unfortunately happens
that, owing, no doubt, to their not having been con-
certed with all those who might be in a position to
give good advice, several of these conditions are
quite inadmissible. We should, indeed, be sorry to
see in them another such stumbling block as we
found in the Cobourg requirements. But
Prince Christian is a man of great sense
and discrimination ; and when the impos-
sibility of some of his wishes being complied
with is pointed out to him, we feel persuaded that
he will accede to the representations by which they
will be met. He acts no doubt for the best in his
son's interest, but that interest must bebalance with
others equally at stake. We understand that the
Prince and his son have been summoned from Ger-
many to Copenhagen by telegraph, and that on their
arrival there it is hoped that arrangements may be
made which will bring the negotiations to a suc-
cessful issue. Of course there are a multitude of
questions to settle, but many of them do not pre-
sent any great importance. The question of the
Regency will be solved in ail probability, in the
event of Prince William's final acceptance, by one
of his uncles undertaking the task. Of these
Prince Hans is believed to be the most fitted for
that very trying postiion. But this with other
matters still remain for ultimate decision. We
are sorry to observe that the Danish press is hostile
to the candidature of Prince William, and attempts
to put forward conditions which are simply absurd
as they stated in the Dagbladet. These conditions,
we believe we may confidently state, have no offi-
cial existence. The decision is really in Prince
Christian's hands, and it is he who is disposed to
make stipulations of a very different character from
these indicated ; for the conditions which his Royal
Highness thinks desirable are chiefly of a personal
character, affecting the future position of his son,
and not that of the Danish monarchy. Such
as they are, however, they cannot possibly be
Prince
may and we earnestly hope that the
may be induced to waive them. The force of cir-
cumstances and of the telegraph has now com-
mitted every one—nominators, nominee, and
electors; and it would be vexatious in the highest
degree if another fiasco were to be the only result
of so much trouble and anxiety. Every one is pre-
pared to ir eke sacrifices, and it will indeed be hard
if the Prince were now to attempt to exact terms
such as those which we have reason to believe have
been proposed, and which are out of all question un-
acceptable. The notion of the Danish press that we
owe gratitude to the Danes for extricating us from
embarrassment, and that therefore they have a fair
opportunity for dictating their wishes, is extremely
unfair. We are in no embarrassment. We have
done our best for the Greeks ; and if we fail in our
last attempt, no reproach can attach to us in the
matter. The offer of another crown to a cadet of
a fortunate family should really be accepted in the
spirit in which it is tendered. We still hope that
we shall not be disappointed in 'seeing George I.
ascend the Greek throne, and commence a happy
reign of constitutional and prosperous Government.
We have done our utmost to attain this result. If
it does not come about it will be the fault of mis-
taken notions and unreasonable requirements. Let
us trust that after the universal acquiescence which
has been bestowed on the proposed union the set-
tlements may yet be satisfactorily arranged.
HERALD.—Nothing has caused more surprise of
late to intelligent people in England than the
eruption every now and then of bodies of men,
seeming to act together with a wonderful harmony
and a sort of malice prepense, which fly in the face
of the prevalent feeling of the country in express.
in g their strong sympathy with the Federal Ame-
ricans, now attempting to subjugate the South. We
have felt somewhat bewildered after reading the
reports of meetings in which such strange sentiments
have been promulgated; we have rubbed our eyes
andinterrogated our memories as to who and what
sort of men are the Rev. Jabez This and the Rev.
Simeon That, who are these so called trades' unionists,
and what in the world they have to do with a politi-
cal question of such moment. In making up our
minds on matters of such importance we are not in
the habit of allowing ourselves to be guided by the
opinion of obscure and unknown individuals. We
think it would be more becoming in them to
keep their ideas to themselves. On the
principle of onme ignotum pro magnifico, they
may impose upon a number of persons of their
own class, with whom loudness of voice may pass
current in the place of social position, and positive
asseverations be accepted for argument. Admit-
ting this, we have been still in doubt as to the
agency which got up these meetings ; we have
searched vainly for the source of this apparently
disinterested sympathy with a failing mein, which
has nothing in it prima facie to recommend it to
Englishmen. If we may credit the revelations of
a correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury we have
at last hit upon the clue to this otherwise inexpli-
cable mystery. It seems that a secret agency of
the Federal Government has been established in
England, with the purpose, not only of afford-
ing substantial aid to the Northern power, but
of .
getting up demonstrations in its favour.
which is supposed will have an influence
on public feeling in Europe. A series of
letters, purporting to be written by agents of
Mr. Lincoln's Government, have been com-
municated to this journal. Their contents are
curious and edifying. A confidential missive, dated
Jan. 16, gives the following information to the cor-
respondent at New York :—" Since I last wrote to
you the scheme for causing a movement in favour
of the Nortti has been put in force, and with suc-
cesss. A full account will be given to you in the
general official report of to-day." The movements
of the Southern party in England are spoken of at
length, and the writer anticipates that " the South
will be comp'etely foiled politically." " Several
papers," he says, " are thinking relative to the
slave question ; so we shall have further annoyance
for them (the Southerners) in a few days." He
speaks of anti-slavery meetings to be held at
Liverpool and elsewhere. The popular feeling,
replies the correspondent at Washington, should
be aroused in France and Russia, and suitable
agents would be mentioned for stirring up sympa-
thy for the North in Paris and Lyons. It this cor-
respondence is authentic—si non evero e ben trovato
—it seems that we have in this country an active
Northern propaganda, whose business is not to stir
up a fictitious enthusiasm among persons who can
be gulled or bribed in favour of a cause which
should be odious to men who have any regard for
the rights of nations or the liberty of individuals.
We have obtained the clue to the " anti-slavery
meetings'' which seem to us to be so ill-timed ; we
are introduced to the instigators of the gatherings
of trades unions. Nothing, we should say, could
surpass the impudence of the " private agent" who
is mentioned in a letter from Liverpool, bearing date
Dec. 30, as having just arrived in tbat town. He
brought drafts and bills to the value of £150,000.
He attended a meeting at the American Consulate.
Resolutions were then taken to the following effect :
—" To take store-rooms in Liverpool for the store-
age of 40,000 rifles (Enfields); 1,200 cavalry sabres,
to be bought for cash, and at once shipped, as they
will he required in the middle of January." In-
structions were to be given to agents to outbuy any
agent of the South, and to circumvent Lieutenant
Maury, who was then in London. It was deter-
mined also, at the suggeqion of this active gentle-
man—" To at once excite the people of Lancashire
in favour of the North by letters and pamphlets,
also by sermons; and to well reward and pay for
editorial articles, paragraphs, &c." A great part
of the correspondence concerns the efforts that were
to be made in England to fit out a vessel called the
Venture, which was to capture the Alabama. Any
amount of money was to be forthcoming, On Jan.

16 it was boasted that the Alabama would certainly
be captured within a month. The command of the
Venture was offered to two "fighting" half-pay
lieutenants on the British "Navy List." The British
Government, it is said, put a veto on their employ-
ment in foreign service. Great care was to be
taken not to allow this business to transpire, as it
was " quite a pointed act on the part of our
(the American) Government." We have other
revelations, still more monstrous in their tenor. It
was boasted that B---- and Co. of Liverpool, had
been " particularly bribed, both in money and in-
troductions." They had agents for the North in all
the professions, divinity, law, and physic. Agencies
were completed in many English and continental
cities, the names of which aro given. Sailors were
to be got from Dublin. Among other things it was
suggested from Washington that it would be a good
thing to "let the rabble loose" upon Mr. Mason, the
Southern commissioner. This business cannot end
with the publication of letters in the Liverpool Mer-
cury. We desire to know whether these letters are
genuine. They are so precise and circumstantial
that it is difficult to believe they are forgeries. Must
we, then, assume it to be true that the Federal Go-
vernment has organised a secret agency in our
midst; has been attempting to stir up our people,
and excite by venal means a show of sympathy for
a cause which is detestable to the intelligent classes
of England P Has the Northern Government, while
attempting to found a quarrel against Englishmen
as the builders of the Alabama and Florida, been
secretly fitting out ships in our ports, and obtain-
ing arms in defiance of the Queen's proclamation of
neutrality ? If it be so—and we must surely believe
it until it is explicitly denied—it is a deep disgrace
to our Government, and it covers with added infamy
the reckless Administration of Mr. President Lin-
coln. It is implied in this correspondence that the
British Cabinet was cognisant of the attempt to fit
out a Federal cruiser in England, and that the pre-
paration of the Northern agents continued notwith-
standing. The officers of the Customs at Liverpool
have just seized upon a vessel that was supposed to
be fitting oat for the Confederate navy. What has
become of the Venture, and why was she not seized ?
Why are arms for the North taken out with impu-
nity in almost every mail pocket that leaves Liver-
pool . P The neutrality of our Government is one-
sided, and Lord Russell exerts himself chiefly in
doing the bidding of Mr. Adams in foiling every
Southern enterprise, and allowing the machinations
of the North to pass unquestioned. The North is
supplied with arms by British manufacturers. Its
Government may boast of the success of its agents
in England, but beyond this breach of the laws of
neutrality this success is contemptible.
TIMES.—The assertion of the Poles, that the in-
surrection had not ended with the failure of the late
Dictatorship, has certainly been borne out by facts.
Indeed, they seem to support one of the pleas urged
in defence of the sudden flight of Langiewicz, that
he only abandoned one point with the intention of
perplexing the Russian commanders by appearing,
with increased strength, on another. It is asserted
that his purpose was to raise the standard of revolt
in the government of Lublin. It may very well have
been so, for that district is now in full insurrection
without him, and under other chiefs. The Russian
troops there have been surprised and defeated by a
corps of peasants, and the whole face of the country
is traversed by bands of insurgents. In fact, it is
only since the 18th of March, when the revolt
seemed for the moment crushed, that it has grown
to formidable proportions. It now extends through
the whole breadth of Poland, north and south. It
encircles Warsaw, the seat and centre of the Rus-
sian Government, and extends along the frontier of
Prussian Poland northward into Courland and the
Polish portion of Livonia, thus reaching the coast
of the Baltic and the shore of the Gulf of Riga. It
was anticipated by the heads of the insurgents
that the movement would extend in this direction,
since an attempt was made to land men and arms
on a point of the Courland coast. Of the whole
Kingdom of Poland it may be said that the soil is
on fire. The flame, trodden out by four Russian
corps that enveloped Langiewicz and his band,
almost under the walls of Cracow, has burst forth
on so many other points that the Russian troops
have now to repeat the process, against a host of
new leaders, on a line of country 600 miles in length.
Thus rapidly has the revolt expanded into a " gue-
rilla," that seems to combine peasants, nobles, end
the inhabitants of the towns that represent our mid-
dle class. As yet, the movement has not penetrated
into Austrian or Prussian Poland. But these por-
tions of the common nationality furnish recruits to
the insurgent bands, and from the Duchy of Posen
they carry all the military aptitude that can be
imparted by the Prussian drill sergeants. Many
men who have served their term in the Prussian
army and now belong to the Land wehr are fighting
with good will against the Russians. How far the
insurrection extends eastward is not so well known.
Risings are reported in Lithuania, but, as that
province alone is larger than some kingdoms,
this is but a vague piece of information. In the
present excited temper of the recently emancipated
serfs of Russia, should a peasant insurrection extend
to the eastern border of Poland, the revolt might
find fresh fuel, and spread like a prairie fire. On
the side of Austria and Prussia there is not so much
combustible material, but both these Powers now
seem to have taken alarm. Berlin placed itself
very early, and very fully, at the disposal of St.
Petersburg. But Vienna, at the beginning of the
movement, appeared inclined to let things take their
course. It did not enforce a very rigid scrutiny of
merchandise that a douanier might, in virtue of his
office, suspect to be of a less harmless character than
the invoice implied. Cases said to contain candles
for the use of the churches arrived at Cracow in
surprising numbers, and it was remarked that the
"candles" were of exactly the same length as Minie
rifles. Yet an application to Vienna for special in-
' structions as to these equivocal articles produced no
order for their detention, nor any increased strin-
gency of inspection. Those cases would never have
been suffered to pass through a Prussian Custom-
house. With equal forbearance the Austrians have
acted towards the fugitives escaping into their ter-
ritory from the Russian troops. But it may be ob-
served that the easy transport of arms through
Austrian territory is no longer possible. It was
stopped as soon as the insurrection began to make
head. The increased vigilance perhaps indicates
that the Austrian Government no longer thinks
lightly of the movement. The new phase of the re-
volt has even impressed the Russian officers them-
selves sufficiently to induce them to change the
tactics by which it is to be met. The troops are to
be broken up into small bodies, that can move and
be supplied with more facility than the corps the
insurgents so often baffled and escaped. The Go•
vernment, in fact, is compelled itself to adopt the
guerilla system. On the first outbreak the Em-
peror ordered the insurrection to be suppressed in
" ten days." It was the belief of the Russian armies
of the last century, and even later, that what the
Czar ordered was, or would be, accomplished. Fix
ing a limit of time for an operation is still a Rus-
sian military tradition, and it has been adopted by
the Federal Republic, which has just allowed its
revolt 14 days more for its duration. Bat one and
the same difficulty meets the armies of Emperor and
President—popular hostility extending over an
enormous territory, said deeply rooted in the hearts
of those who inhabit it.

LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAnen 26.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Richard Reade, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Bengazi,
to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Bengazi.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Horace Phillips White, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at
Cyprus, to be her Majesty's Vice •Consul at Cyprus.
APRIL 4.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert
Lowe as Consul at Perth for his Majesty the King of
Hanover.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, APRIL 7.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Charles Mor-
ley Balders, from sth Dragoon Guards, to be Captain,
vice William Edward Marsland, who exchanges.
4th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Henry Edward Bridges
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Arthur Master ton
Robertson, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant Thomas
Bradney Shaw-Hellier to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Bridges.
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4th Regiment of Foot—Ens gn Lachlan M'Laine to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Charles Frederick
Brockman, deceased;
Ensign Herbert John Mainwaring
Williams to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lachlan
M'Laine, whose promotion, by purchase, on 3d March,
1863, has been cancelled; Gentleman Cadet Melmoth
Caulfield Gahan, fr. in the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Williams.
15th Foot—Ensign Henry Kyle Gillespie Savage to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gerald Butler Beere, who
retires; Aubrey Delves Broughton, Gent., to be _Ensign,
by purchase, vice Savage.
16th Foot--Bernard Ouseley Brownrigg,Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice De la Pere Robinson, transferred
to the 20th Foot,
18th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Charles Sarle Irving,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Butler, promoted; Lieutenant Charles Gor-
ing to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieuten-
ant Noblett, promoted.
Ensign Henry Lawrence to be Lieutenant, by
vice Charles Enys, who retires ; Ensign De
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Robinson, from the 16th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Lawrence.

34th Foot—Lieutenant Richard John Philip Leeson, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Arthur George Shawe, who
retires ; Ensign John Macredie Mure to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice R. J. P. Leeson; Gentleman Cadet
Henry Walter Phillips, from the Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mure.
55th Foot—George Henry Tragett, Gent., to be Ensign, by

purchase, vice Ogden, promoted ; Walter Lewis Pitt,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice George
Henry Tragett, transferred to the 72d Foot.
72d Foot—Ensign Douglas James Broadley Hebden to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice James Robert Kil-
dahl, deceased; Ensign James Elresley Macaulay to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hebden, whose promotion,
by purchase, on tho 20th February, 1863, has been can-
celled; Ensign George Henry Tragett, from 55th Fo,)t,
to be Ensign,vice Macaulay, promoted.
83d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Edward Brackenbury
Townsend,from 96th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Davies,
who exchanges.
96th Foot—Lieutenant Herbert Grant Davies, from 83d
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Townsend, who exchanges.
100th Foot—Captain Henry Cook to be Major, by purchase,
vice Henry Stratton Bush, who retires; Lieutenant
Henry Edward Davidson to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Cook; Ensign William Palmer Clarke to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Brown Wallis, who hrs
been superseded for being absent without leave ; Ensign
Cecil Edward Leny Lyon to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Davidson; Ensign Jeremiah Bingham Kersteman
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wm. P. Clarke,
whose promotion, by purchase, on the 13th February,
1863, has been cancelled ; Gentleman Cadet G Pepper
Lowry, from the Itiyal Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Lyon ; Richard Barclay, Gent., to be
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Kersteman.

COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Ensign Arthur Biking-
ton, 91st Foot, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissary-
General, having completed the prescribed period of pro-
bation, to be confirmed in the rank of Deputy Assistant
Commissary General.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—TO be staff Assistant-Surgeons
from the Ist October, 1862—this antedate not to carry
pay prior to the date on which they ceased to draw pay
from the Army Me Ticino School at Chatham, as Stu-
dents :—David Mackie, M,D., Vim. George Ross, M.D.,
Richard Wm. Hare, M. 8., Charles Sterne Close, Gent.,
Wilmot H. T. Power, Gent., George N. Irvine, M.D.,
William H. Bent Clapp, M.D., John Mangin Waters,
Gent., Jas. Dewar, M.D., Campbell M. Douglas, M.D,
Baynes Reed, Gent., Fred. H. Dunbar, M.D. John E.
Fannin, Gent., Stephen Flood, M. 8., Charles Albert
Maunsell, M.D., Nicol Garter, Gent., Joseph L. Curtis'
Gent., Wm. Folliott, Gent„ Wm. Nealor Thursfield,
M.D., Kenneth Wm. Cumming, M.D., Richard Hall,
M, D., Joseph Rutherfurd, M. 8., Frederick Beaufort
Scott, M.D.,lgnatius M'Donogh O'Farrell, Gent., John
Langdon, ent., Geo. Ashton, M. 8., and John limner
Oliver, Gent.
MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT—Chas. F. Marriott, Gent.,
to be Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Stores.
BREVET.
Lient.-Col. David Anderson, 22d Foot, having completed
five years' qualifying service in the rank of Lieut.-Col. un-
der the Royal Warrant of Oct. 14, 1858, to be Colonel in the
Army.
Capt. Walter Fane Madras Staff Corps, and Capt. John
Watson, Bombay Staff Corps, to be Majors in the Army.
Paymaster John Akin Dyer, sth Lancers, and Paymaster
Frank Win. Dundee, 19th Foot, to have the honorary rank
of Captain.
The following promotions to take place consequent on the
promotion of Col. Walpole, Royal Engineers, to be Major-
General, in succession to Major-General Alex. Gordon,
Royal Engineers, who died March 16, 1863 :
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Russell
Harris, half-pay, 60th Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to
be Colonel.

Major Gustavus Hume, half-pay Unattached, serving
with the local and honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
while employed as an Assistant Inspector of Volunteers in
Great Britain, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Robert Bruce Chichester, 81st Foot, to be Major.

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 6.
The following promotions, dated the Ist April, conse•
quent on the death, on the 31st ultimo, of Vice•Adwiral of
the White George William Courtena), have this day taken
place :

Vice-Admiral of the Blue Thomas Bennett to be Vice-
Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Henry Francis Greville, C. 8.,
to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir James Hope, K.C.8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue James John Stopford to b. Rear-
Admiral of the White.
Captain Frederick Hutton to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue.

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 2.
Royal Marino Light Infantry—First Lieutenant Frederick
Ley to be Captain, vice Boyd, placed on half pay;
Second Lieutenant Edmund Hicks Beach Lysons to be
First Lieutenant, vice Ley, promoted.