The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-28 00:00:00

BARON VON DULLBRAIN Z.

(From Bentley's Miscellany of September.)
in
Irla,_i_s,illustri.ousforeigner having arrived unexpectedly
tio "clan, and almost without introduction, his recep-
-1 4 amongst us must, unconditionally, be ascribed to the
'
~P°l ktaneous and generous feelings with which John
"I I extends his welcome, his hospitality, and his high
e,°llaideration to strangers, from whatever country they
sierl'c, who do him the honour of a visit. Yet it was
(Itillnate for Von Dullbrainz that, in his passage from
:t Btend by the General Steam Navigation's splendid
7‘nrier, the Conglomeration, he scraped an acquaint-
e with Sir Tinsnaliv and Lady Showbody, whose
f,111.4111a for exhibiting lions is so well known to the so-
ltY of the metropolis. His brilliant career it is out
1.1 :Lour bumble power to follow ; but an account of a few
he
i.° .flis glorious displays may be serviceable not only as
e:r°f of his supereminent qualifications, but of the
tittrenie readiness with which the people of. Great Bri-
-4t Confess the superiority of foreigners, whilst native
4' its are left to be their own: reward. In China, and
traitet semi-barbarous lands, it may be the fashion to
b semi-barbarous
with contumely and repulsion ; but, in a
eautilly civilized community like ours, nothing can
Idltc'ellaina the magnanimity of the nation so loudly as the
pen'ifided preference given to Italians, French, Germans,
ke,,es' Swiss, Hungarians, Netherlanders, Greeks, Yan-
-'3, and other extraneous personages.
t, Al the first ensuing assembly of the Royal Society,
P'le most Noble the, Marquis of Easthampton in the
ei'.sdena ; and appeared to pay very particular atten-
!lon to the rattling of the ballot-box, which agreeably
Interrupted the reading of a paper in a way which could
not be heard, by Dr. Toget. The essay, which was
upon the use of gums in trees, having been properly
TMumbled, and the results of the elections declared, Mr.
ebot Foxhound offered some observations upon the
improvements in photogenic drawing, and Von Dull-
online was respectfully requested by the Noble Presi-
deint to favour the Society with his opinions upon this
naevel subject ?
pan Dullbrainz dissertates upon Photogenism or Da-
- guerrotyperry.
!8 " I am sorry," observed he, rising gracefully, and
.naking in that placid tone of contradiction which is so
zcciiatletnanly and pleasiog,—" I am sorry," observed he,
t et de president of de grandest societe of Grand Bre-
telal should be so ignoramus as to call dis a novel sub-
et• It is older dan de vorld, and as old as de sun him-
(et:tf ; vich you I'M all see if you viii read Genesisl—
li.rrnurs of applause.) Den you shall trace de sdream
ur history of de earliest nation dat live in de old vorld,
441 de vorld new not new because him not so old as de
'oiler' but new because we not knew him so sooner.—
j, IllPhiuse ) In de first,—mais d propos, can any mem-
o here read de 'argue Persian ?—(Cries of " No.")
%. en
I can, and I vial tell you all. In de langue Per.
P. if viii read him vid me, you shall onderstand dat
iatt'e vas a peoples call Gwybbers, who shall practise de
plit °I sun-painting from de beginning of de earth.—(Ap-
avtatiBe.) And so, by de fine continent, called by mis-
p4;'‘e new, dere vas de peoples, call Mechigans, who also
•nt de sun-painting from de begin of de earth. But
(la
-3' not alone paint de lanskip, de inorganic matter, de
tiny
material, day paint de living ortrsis,—and y ou khan read and onderstand de languesp Persian and Me-
jhigan vid me, dot dey call dese portrais de sons of de
m ; and all de royal families so paint his children.—
(` Hear, hear,' from Mr. Children. Great applause.)
At dis time of de night I shall not say no more about de
sunshine ; but sill conclude by say dat I am convince of
at I hear ven I say I am corn to de Royal Societe, and
Lsk 'mine Ost vere I lodge, vat mean de lettres,F.R.S.?
."Ae tell me dey mean Fellow Remarkable Stupide ; and,
1 tink, Sir President, as you not knew about de Persian
and de Alechigan, you are most fit to be at dere head I"
----nr (Bowing -blowing very low to the Noble Marquis, amid shouts
'slighter and bursts of applause.)
r The Chairman, having returned his grateful thanks
ite.r the compliment, took Von Dullbrainz home with
a" in his carriage to an evening conversazione, where
'' was introduced to a number of the great and popular
characters who are met with in, and adorn the upper
circles
e
with, their Corinthian capitals. Out of these
1 , claaintarceships Von Dullbrainz widely increased the
r,-lialber of. friends who solicited the honour of his corn-
InY upon all lionizing occasions ; the next exhibition
corn-
y have to notice was at a dinner given by the Duke of
4 nrahleup, President R. I. The party was small, but
select ; and every syllable uttered by Von Dullbrainz
was swallowed with an avidity and gusto almost equal
to that with which he swallowed the good things set
before him. On the removal of the cloth the conversation
naturally turned on balls, the only forced meat that had
Dhaen seen belonging to that nomenclature, and Von
ullbrainz, as usual, took the lead, and occupied the
*hole field of discussion in his own proper person.
Von Dullbrainz dissertates upon Balls.
" Balls, it shall please your Grace, are beyond more
1111Pertance in England dan in no oder country Euro-
Peito• Bot, de English philosophie hab neber yet dis-
cenur it.
dey,Dey are, vat I shall modest say as foreigner(?)
y 7 are atupide ignorants, and mitout no nous. But,
u
_i,11.1 corn to England, I discober all. I see de ball
nee= y -
g for de religious, de politics, de wars, de trades,
,or,ittntiugs, de sports, and de pastimes. You speak de
y0:11 of de common adage mitout tinking vat it mean.
',. Say, ' keep up de ball f and not perceive vat re-
vill u!te senscfulness is under dat advice. It mean, I
Keep you for first time—go on, prosper,
succeed.
P up de ball!
ii Balls, it shall please your Grace (do, pray, attend
1,174 1)--balls are spheres or spherical bodies of differ
..., i erial. Day are symbolls---symbollik in language.
lieY stand for every ting, any ting.
and hitt sport you shall have hands-ball and foots-ball,
h "utICY, and fives, and tens*, and billiards, and mil-
ards, for
Se i
ot,and •vat I can' tell.ff Yt'm shall hab a game of
have vich you call go , or, go-off ball. You shall
vich quadrille, valse, cotillon, contre dance, gallop, all
so ~.)°ll shall call ball ; and de little vones de ballet.
, lot. a,-
a ua pastimes, den for your religion. You hab
:fe.,,Stoze hinge on Salisberry plane, which is •for vorship
'4l. You hab ball a-top of Saint Paul—l tink his
right name Saint Ball. You hab Ball's Pond—vich is
secret mystery. You hab by traditions de season and
4e sacrifice, called Baltime. You hab no oder religion
but ball. Den for de wars, I need not point de balls for
preserve balance of power, how good de are! Den for
to? Politic ; you shall see all depend on de ball which
e
vuall he pa in de ballot-box. Den you shall hab Uni-
rsal Sufferings, and no Parliaments but ver short, and
many oder excellent ting ; you shall hab no corn for de
(r, , and no law for de corn ; you shall hab de People's
ynatter, no work, no noting at all but go play at ball.
i co shall hab, as de oder proverb say, de ball at your
effla ; and no sceptre tyrannique, wid de ball, over
your heads. Den your tangs, vich are all made by de
LA. shall be tomble down. Dere is de Marquis made
eantwo balls, he shall tomble. De Earl made by five
b-iis' he shall tomble. De Vis-compte made by seven
h4s, he shall tomble. De Baron made by four balls,
a° shall tomble and all de balls shall be put into de
uallet-box for peoplese; to
I, ,play mid, and sheet von anoder.
b 1 bah splain, also, how de ball symbols your trade.
b e Pawnbroker, who is between de marquis and
ittar,°.o, and is made by tree balls : dat is, trade_
Brill-tick
high
fo ull3 countree. Den you send your ship to the BA-
0: c°lllmerce and credit ; because your original peoples
!I'-m0 from dat quarter. You see, it shall please your
4ce, I make out de proposition dat balls form ande rule
Yourtra religions, your wars, your rangs, your politic, your
11 i'le, and your sport and pastimes. Nobody English.,,
,(',°,2r discober dis before.ruu me. I no *mist ; but I vl/4
.
`e" bow your grace'g hab no balls. I vial ten—
th: His grace has fallen fast asleep, as is his custom in
, y afternoon,' observed Mr. Seeraore ;
ourself to some ofthese strawberries,and leave off till
1 he is
"will you help
\Tell
a t Dullbrainz was indignant. It was a pity he did
doreawait: till the Duke revived ; for, though
tion 111, mg the whole period of Von Dullbrainz's disserta-
ne declared when I
he woke up,that lie had been
he was the

In general, however, when political affairs are in
their normal state, the Board of Censorship con-
tents itself with partially glancing over the proof
sheets sent in for approval, and passes them with-
out minute examination. It is only when a violent
or ill-timed article has created sensation that the
editor receives a rebuke, and is desired either to
avoid the subject in future, or to treat it in a
more lenient fashion. The editor of the Augsburg
Gazette was summoned to Munich about three years
ago for having published a letter from Athens, which
stated that the king of Greece meditated a new
journey to Bavaria for the benefit of his health ; and

the Gazette was prohibited from inserting a single
line from or respecting Greece for six weeks after-
wards. This rigour; occasioned apparently by so
trivial a cause, but emanating really from grave rea-
sons, which did not meet the public eye, was how-
ever an exception to the general conduct of the Ba-
varian Government towards that journal, which, on
account of its exceptional privileges and merits,
enjoys the highest rank and consideration among its
contemporaries throughout Germany ; and I under-
stand that Baron Cotta, the proprietor, informed the
Minister on that occasion, that should the Gazette
be again • subjected to vexatious interference, the
establishment should be removed into Wurtemhurg
—a threat which the Bavarian Government would
regret much to see carried into execution for divers
reasons, fiscal and political.
The Augsburg Gazette may be said to be the
representative of all Germany. It does not confine
riself to the advocacy of any one set of opinions,
but opens its columns as an arena for. thein'all.
These are embodied in the form of correspondence,
which is inserted without comment by the Editor,
and in the same number of the journal opinions
diametrically opposed to each other are therefore
constantly to be met with in juxtaposition. This
journal has the advantage of being in semi-official
connexion with most of the Governments of Europe,
which adds great weight to the influence of certain
communications which appear from time to time in
its columns, headed by peculiar hieroglyphic sym-
bols, to indicate their sources to the initiated in
the mysteries of the editorial department. This
system, and its concomitant advantages, give
the Augsburg Gazette a character distinct from
every other journal in Europe. The Wochenblatt of
Berlin is a stanch defender of Prussian interests
and policy. It appears but once in the week, as
its name denotes, and may be considered as the
antipodes of the Augsburg Gazette, inasmuch as
it pretends to give no fresh news, but a review
raisonnee of the events of the times. It is said
that the late Minister Ancillon was not uncon-

netted with the " redaction" of this paper. The
Leipsic General Gazette ( Leipsiger Allgerneine
Zeitztng), and the German Courier (Deutscher
Courrier), published at Stuttgard, are the leading
advocates of Protestantism and Constitutionalism,
in opposition to the Political Gazette of Munich

111Uncheur Politische Zeitung), edited by Dr.
Haler ; and the Wurtz&urg Gazette, which sig-
nalized themselves during the late Cologne contro-
versy as the zealous champions of the ultramontane
party in Germany.
These papers, in representing their national or
party opinions, are little or not at all influenced by
their respective Governments, who seldom exercise
any interference with them until called upon to en-
force moderation by the. Government that may be
the object of attack; and these reclamations do not
always produce the protective interference required.
The Cologne question above referred to gives an
instance of the extreme to which polemical warfare
is allowed to proceed in Germany, when the passions
or interests of the Courts are enlisted in the quarrel.
The Wurtzburo Gazette was allowed for several
months by the Bavarian Government to heap every
species of contumely on Psussia, and did not spare
even the person of the King in the acrimony with
which it discussed the act of his Ministry in
arresting the Archbishop. The repeated demands of
the Prussian Government to have this paper silenced
were treated with utter disregard by Bavaria, and the
quarrel went so high, that the Prussian Govern-
ment took at length steps towards bringing its com-
plaint before the Diet. The intervention of Aus-
tria, who dreaded an " esclandre" in the Confede-
ration in such a trumpery quarrel, and possibly the
fear that her own share in the Papal " allocution"
might thereby be exposed to indiscreet examination,

together with the reluctance of the Bavarian Go-
vernment to have its domestic concerns interfered
with by the Diet, induced it at this extremity to
command the editors of the Wurtzburg Gazette to
use more delicacy in their mode of qualifying the con-
duct of the Prussian Government ; but they were
neither punished, rebuked, nor silenced. This was
all the satisfaction that Prussia obtained, and
there the affair dropped. I cannot refrain from giv-
ing here the following illustrative anecdote of the
King of Bavaria in connection *ith this affair.
The Crown Prince of Prussia was expected a few
months after the event at Tegernsee on a visit to
his mother-in-law, the Queen Dowager of Bavaria.
Considerable doubt had been entertained whether
the visit would take place. El blood still existed
between the two Courts which might embarrass the
meeting of the august personages, when fortunately
his Bavarian Majesty found on the table of a coun-
try inn, where he had stopped to change horses in
one of his excursions, a copy of the Wurtzburg
Gazelle, containing one of the anti-Prussian arti-
cles, which had occasioned so much diplomatic
disturbance. The King, who read it for the first
time, was not a little astonished at its violence, and
sent immediate orders to Munich to have the Wartz-
burg censor dismissed, the amende honorable in
vain demanded by the Prussian Government.

whose late editor, M. Durand, now conducting at
Paris the Capitole, a newly-established Govern-
ment journal, divided its columns for the joint be-
nefit of the Emperor of Russia and the King of the
French. This paper being written in French, and
the well-known bribery which supports it, render it
too insignificant to be considered an organ of any
opinions whatever existing in Germany.
The best German newspaper, after the Augsburg
Gazette, is the Leipsic General Gazette, which
may be said to excel the former in the number and
excellence of its correspondents in every part .of the
world. Both these papers very seldom contain
any editorial writing ; but leave their readers to
judge for themselves from the various opinions and
intelligence placed before them. They are both
furnished with an appendix (beilage) to contain
articles of higher pretensions and more durable
character than those consecrated to matter of
ephemeral interest. The first writers in Ger-
many are the general contributors to this
branch of their journals, and Goethe, Schil-
ling, Schubert, Thiersch, and other illustrious
names, have dignified these columns by their occa-
sional exercitations on politics, history, science,
literature, statistics, Bcc. The principals and per-
haps the only difference between the system of these
two journals is, that the Leipsic Gazette is, as before
stated, the organ of the Protestant and Constitutional
party, whereas the Augsburg paper, though its edi-
tors are of the Lutheran confession, maintains a
strict neutrality on all religious as well as political
questions, excluding controversial leat, especially
from the former—a line of conduct dictated by the
policy of preserving the very great sale of the paper
in the Austrian dominions, a sale amounting to one
half of the edition.

In this notice I have mentioned the Journals
whose opinions have weight in Germany, and which
may be considered as the organs of certain parties.
The Nuremberg Correspondent, and the Swabian
Mercury (Schwabische Merkur), the first a Ba-
varian, the other a Wurtemburg Paper, with a host
of provincial prints, are but a reproduction of the
leading ones that we have mentioned, and what-
ever original matter they may contain is confined
to local affairs. The Carlsruhe Gazette deserves
exception from this category, from the authentic
sources of its occasional correspondence, especially
from the East. The Austrian Observer (GEstrei-
chische Beobachter), and the Vienna and Prussian
Gazettes, correspond to the Parisian Moniteur,
being receptacles for Government decrees and ad-
vertisements, and have no political character be-
yond the official one given to them by their Go-
vernments.

In each of the principal cities of Germany there
is published a multitude of small daily and hebdo-
madal journals, devoted to the discussion of belles
lettres, science, and art. Some of these (the Dida-
scalien, for instance) are edited with considerable
talent, and contain papers worthy of publications of
a less fugitive character. The Ausland, a reper-
tory of foreign literature, and the Pfennig Maga-
zin, modelled on our Penny Magazine, the price of
which is something less than a farthing, may be
placed at the head of a host of wholesome publica-

' lions within the means and reach of the humbler
classes, who form in Germany a reading public
whose taste and education would revolt from the
staple scandal and vitiating trash hawked about by
some of our weekly prints.
I will close this slight sketch of the state of the
German periodical and political press, with deplor-
ing that the purchased silence of Saphir and the
apostacy of Goerres should have extinguished two
of its brightest stars. Those who have read the
Bazar and the Dumheiten of the former will not
hesitate to place this humorous writer at the head
of the satirists of Germany, and while they regret
that the solid sweets of an• Austrian pension should
stifle the incomparable vein of sarcastic drollery of
the quondam Munich editor, they cannot be
surprised at the prudent liberality of the
Vienna Cabinet, in buying up the slip-
pery and otherwise unattainable humorist, Goer-
res—as a young man, the propandist of French
Jacobinism in Germany ; in maturer years, the
editor of the Courrier du Rhin, and in that qua-
lity united with Stein to rouse the spirit of Ger-
many against the oppression of France, and was
honoured by the appellation of a puissance Eu-
ropeenne by Napoleon—has become in his old age
the furious advocate of the Vatican. His last
work, Athanasius, written with the untameable
energy of the zealot against mixed marriage, hav-
inc, well nigh kindled civil war in Germany, has
been recompensed by the rank of high dignitary of
the University of Munich.—(Correspondent of the
Times.)

There has not existed in Germany a thorough •
going Liberal paper since the two or three years
succeeding the revolution of July. The indiscreet
language and democratical yearnings of several
small journals, which sprung into a mushroom ex-
istence after that event, which shook Germany
to the centre, soon draw upon them the ven-
geance of the tribunals, and estranged from their
cause the friends of Liberalism, which in Germany,
with the exception of the aspirations of a few hot-
headed political adventurers, and of a handful of
inexperienced young men attending the Univer-
sities, is allied to very moderate and reasonable de-
sires. Most of the conductors of the periodical
press in Germany are, however, personally or theo-
retically disposed to Liberalism, and it is not an
unfrequent thing to see long articles with that ten-
dency, when relating to foreign affairs, in the same
columns where German politics are never mentioned
unattended by the spirit of Conservatism.
,The
solution of this contradiction is easy to those ac-
quainted with the character and habits of this peo-
ple : in no country in the world does there exist
such perfect freedom in abstract matters of opinion
as is to be found in Germany. The political state
of foreign countries is to the journalist what the
mystical part of religion is to the theological pro-
fessor—a sphere for free discussion, and where they
may think what they please, and say what they
think, so long as they attempt no practical illustra-
tion calculated to injure the foundations of the in-
stitutions of the land.

1610 NE I MARKET and CITY NEWS.

TIMES.—The guarantees for the United States
Bank of the advances made by the Bank of England
are the houses of Baring, Morrison, Denison, and Huth,
all very largely connected with America. , They are
said, however, only to have engaged their guarantee at
present for the sum of 100,000/., that being affirmed
to be the whole Mr. Jaudon can require previous to
the arrival of the Great Western, which is, nary daily
expected. The arrangement with the Bank, under
which the loan is to take place by means of 3 per Cent.
Consols, instead of bank-notes, is obviously adopted in
order to prevent any addition to the circulation in con-
sequence of the accomodation given to Mr. Jaudon ;
but it will be attended with this further benefit to the
Bank, that they will dispose of a portion of their stock
procured by the conversion of Exchequer bills without
coming into the market as a seller—a step which, in
the present state of money, would be regarded with
absolute dismay. They have reserved to themselves,
too, in all probability, the option of repayinent either
in Consols or money, which may be a further power
gained, as events turn• out, in the regulation of the
currency.

Even the sale of the amount of stock now placed at
the disposal of Mr. Jaudon is viewed with some alarm
at the Stock Exchnge, but that is likely to be obviated
by pledging it to cover advances in money, instead of
resorting to a sale immediately, and allowing the sale
to take place gradually, as, the state of the market may
permit. All this shifting and contrivance, however,
tends to elucidate more fully the difficulty into which
the agency of the United States Bank has been brought.
The escape from it is unreservedly declared to depend
upon what the Great Western, and perhaps the
Liverpool, which was the next steam ship to fol-
low, may bring from Philadelphia ; and never,
certainly, was the fate of so great an institution
so nicely balanced as this is on the present occa-
sion. If the aid comes, it will be matter of foresight
only, and not the result of information, as provision
would appear to have been made in Europe for all claims
upon the hank, and none of the late checks and disap-
pointments could have been anticipated. In describing
this perilous exigency (as it undoubtedly is), it is but
right to add, that great confidence is felt among the
mercantile classes connected with America that the next
arrivals will set all right. Mr. Jaudon, it may be fur-
ther observed, in this period of difficulty, as severe as
ever any man, standing almost alone in a foreign country,
was exposed to, has conducted himself with great judg-
ment and energy, and acquired the respect of all who
have been brought by those difficulties into contact with
him. The hope, therefore, of a favourable result to all
predominates.

On the other hand, articles appear from time to
time in the German Papers, especially in the Ber-
liner Wochenblatt, and Other Prussian periodicals,
teeming with the strongest anti-liberal feeling, and
couched in terms of defiance of the Governments
of England and France, which they stigmatize
as the fosterers of revolution. The tone of these
writers takes its source, however, not so much
from the absolutist principle they seem to defend,
which is far from being prevalent or popular in
Prussia, as from a national antipathy to France,
the contre-coup of which falls on England, her ally
in the political combinations, which are supposed to
be detrimental to Prussian policy and interests. The
discussion relative to the occupation of Cracow, a
few years back, gave vent to the most violent dia-
tribes against us, on account of our diplomatic op-
position to that illegal act. But all that was said
was not meant, for we had the means of ascertain-
ing that the articles on this subject, which created
the greatest sensation by their severity on us, pub-
fished in a leading paper in the south of Germany,
were from the pen of the late Professor Ganz, one
of the Coryphei of the Liberal party in Berlin. The
object of this and other political writers was to ex-
cite the attention of the English and French press
to the affair, and to create by their anonymous
taunts an universal cry of indignation in these two
countries, which might lead. to a protective declara-
tion on the part of their Governments.

THE SUN, LONDON. SATUR; SEPTEMBER 28 1839.

assistance may be afforded by Messrs. Rothschild having
taken as security American stocks for their acceptances
of the bills drawn on Messrs. Hottinguer and Co. It
is the opinion of well-informed men of business that the
German connection of this firm may influence the intro-
duction of a large portion of them into Germany,
assisted as such operations will be by the renewed ac-
tivity in the corn trade.