The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-03 00:00:00

German society was well known to the officers under
Napoleon, who kept in perfect subordination, br a
single file of musketeers, an extent of district which in
Spain would have required the superintendence of several
battalions. It is rernarkab!e also that none of the great
German authors*, Goethe in particular, ventured to
breathe one syllable of discontentagainst Napoleon, so long
as it was an act of courage to do so. Multitudes, indeed,
at one time slept out of their hiding-places, and blustered
both in prose and verse; but it was when the battle of
Leipsic had banished the enemy beyond the Rhine. The
fact, also, that in so vast a country as Germany no parti-
zan warfare, no guerillas arose, except in the single instance
of Schill, in 1809, is of itself a sufficient illustration of

the emasculated character of Ger Many, both Upper and
Lower. ..... . . In one point, however, un-
doubtedly, the tumults of Germany will wear a character
even more a inguinary than those in Pars. There the
soldiery, tt ith the exception of the Swiss, were net always
in wriest. Generally they faltered, and acted with inde-
cision ; sometime* repelling the people actively when they
were. pressed upon with ferocious eaergy ; but again re-
suming a defensive posture, or a posture but partially
offensive, as their assailants recoiled. In Germany, if
conflicts on the rime principles should arise, there will be
no forbe.rance of that nature ; so completely is the pa-
triotic sympathy obliterated in the lower class, by the many
local subdivisions and distinct Governments into which
that country is splintered, and so absolute is the mechanical
subjection of the soldier."
Again, speaking of the character of the Germans,
the writer observes :
" We are told that Frenchmen are altered, and are no
longer the frivolous Frenchmen of Louis XIV. and XV.
Heartily we grant it—heartily we avow our conviction,
and our thankfulness, that the noble qualities which belong
to the French character have been unfolded, and advanta-
geously raised by the great events of the List half century ;
and it will be seen further on, that we are utt,Tly at war
with the great stream of Germ.tn writers in their arrogant
estimate of the French as a people essentially below them.
selves. On the contrary, we hold the Germans to be the
meanest and most timid people in Europe, and the French
we view as the only nation which, in its civil relations,
approaches the standard of British characttr."
It is a standing rule with all prudent writers to
follow the praiseworthy practice of the dramatists
in their clap-traps. Who painted the pictures? says
the Lion in the fable. co an English writer, of
course, in everything the English standard is not to
be elsewhere approached. It may safely be allowed
that the German, with all his honesty and candour,
is at the ladle time the tamest of persons; and that
even when he possesses superior intellect, he allows
himself to be overawed. It was observed in the
retreat from Moscow, that in the straggling parties,
when the majority happened to be Germans, the
person who took the lead was always a French-
man. The carriage of the German is abject and
bumble, and seems to invite to aggression. But
is it certain that the -writer does not do rather-
tnore than justice to ourselves? The constant pre-
sence of petty Princes, and the absence of great
towns, have tamed down the Germans to this ab-
jectness; while the residence of the great nobility
in Paris before the Revolution, removed from the
French peasantry the weight which pressed down
the Germans, and the destruction of the Aristocracy
by the Revolution has added to their independence.
In Englund there ate many great towru, and
wherever there are great towns the population be-
comes spirited and independent. Our towns being,
however, for the most part but of yesterday, they
have not yet produced all their eff,cts on the popula-
tion. But is there really a mighty difference be-
tween the labouring classes of our agricultural
districts and the low Germans ? Is it possible
to conceive any human beings in a more ab-
ject condition than the poor justice-ridden
labourers of England, harrassed with abuses of
Poor Laws and Game Laws, without property,
trembling at the parish overseer, at the parson,
and every man in authority around him, who are
only kept a little in check by the fear of arson and
injury to cattle ? The arrogance of the great is
always accompanied by the abjectness of the low.—
Whenever we hear in any countryof ti proud and rich
aristocracy, we may be sure that there is an abject
peasantry. A rich nobleman who resides in the
country demoralizes all around him. It is to the
great and growing town population of England
that we trust for its regeneration. The towns will
ultimately obtain the superiority over the country
despots, who are the cause of so much degradation
around them. Till then the process of raising the
peasantry must necessarily be slow. It is'absurd
to compare our peasantry in anything but weight
with the independent cultivators of France and Bel-
gium. But we trust the day is not far distant when
this stain will be removed, and a proud and domi-
neering aristocracy shall be obliged to confine their
pretensions is ithin the limits of justice and the good
of the community.—Morning Chronicle.

* Arndt, the author of the Geist der Zeiten, never
came forward to own hie own book, so far as we could
learn ; and at any rate he left leis publisher, Palm, to be
shot as his representative.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Two men, named Austin and Law, were brought
before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having at-
tempted to pass a gilt sixpence as a half-sovereign.
Mr. Ledger, the landlord of the King's Head, in
Puddineune, stated that the two prisoners walked

into his house, and that Austin callid for a quartern
of gin, and threw down the gilt sixpence. Witness
at once perceived that the sixpence was not what it
pretended to be, and an officer passing by at the
time was immediately called in. Austin perceiving
that all was up, said with great tact, " Come along,
Master, give as the change of the sixpence."—
(Laughter.)—The witness, however, who happened
to be awake to such characters, would not believe

that Austin meant anything but to defraud him of
Os. 6d. and accordingly had both apprehended and
conducted to the Justice-room.

The LORD MAYOR--Well, Mr. Austin, what more
have von to say on the subject ? Austin—More,
your Lordship 1 Lord, what more can I say ? I vent
to treat my friend. Says Ito him, Jerk, says I, I
have got a tanner, and I'm Wowed if we don't lush
it, so I calls for the gin, and the landlord met say
as how that I axed him for more change than I
aught to get.
Aye, (said the 'Loan MAYou) but you expected
that the landlord would make a mistake in your
favour.

..."Mistake! your Vorihip," said Austin, a that's
impossible. The two coins is quite different."
The Lout) IVlAvonYes ; but you have made
them pretty much elike. Have you many sixpences
of this colour? Austin—l've seen that ere one,
and I knows nothing about the colour. If it's a
good sixpence, I don't care nothing about the colour,
—(Lond laughter.)
The Lou!) MAYOR-. 4 believe you to be a very
great rogue.
Austin—What, my Lord! a rogue? Am I a
rogue, Jack ? Didn't I tell you it was it tanner ?
A laugh.)
Lew—You did, Jem, self) me God ; and you
throwed it down quite careless--not like what you
would provising it was half a severeign.—(Loud
laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Do you colour, the sixpences
yourself, or did this change colour in your pocket ?
Austin---I'm blest if I know how I got it, but I've
seen people pass them for sixpences; and the bit
of 'gilt don't make them a bit worse. They gilds
silver watches, and why shouldn't they gild silver
sixpences, please your Lorthhip ?......(Laughteo
The Latin MAYOR—You are likely to do well;
ebt:ti.is' ttholoeittjegyllloi trillogi:o ativitliteltitayilOUy'cor areubring forward some per-
Yhigh opinion of you, 1
shunto not an utterer of base
eoin.—The prisoners were remanded,

nowsnEET.
Yesterday two girls, named Jane Bartholomew
and Isabella Josepha--the one under fourteen, arid
th© other under fifteen years of age—were brought
before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE tinder the following
circumstances :

Mr. Thomas stated, that he had received borne
short time Since an anonymous cominunicaticn,
which stated that there were a number of helpless