The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

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TIMES.--The honours of Lord Clyde's life belong
to the past. They were hardly won, and only for
a short time enjoyed. The work was long and the
reward transient. .The vision which he had had
before him through life vanished almost as soon as
he approached it; or, rather, the vision remains,
and he has vanished after realising it for a short
hour. The name of Lord Clyde remains, the
full justice done at last to him remains, all his
honours stand upon the register of, time for ever;
but he no longer enjoys them,—they witness to the
certainty with which England, sooner or later,
gives her faithful servants their duP, and they are
valuable to us, but they are nothing any longer to
him. But though the honours of Lord Clyde's
life belong to the past, the honours of death still
remain to be paid. Lord Clyde ought to repose in
Westminster Abbey. That is the place to receive
aim. He belongs to the very first rank among the
great workers of the day, and we prize now and pay
the highest tribute in our power to true work done.
We have buried four great workers lately in West-
minster Abbey—one a mighty man in letters,another
in mechanics, another in statesmanship, another in
war. Lord Macaulay, Mr. Stephenson, Lord Can-
ning, and Sir James Outram lie there. We acknow-
ledge a certain kind of hard work as the criterion and
concomitantof genius and inspiration. Your dull
plodder cannot possibly, let hiea try ever so much,
work half so hard as a gifted man,—one who brings
to his work high faculties and an ardent spirit. The
true genius beats the dry sapper even in work—in
laboriousness; for high gifts quicken the pulse
and sustain the stretch of labour; they keep the
man going when, if he was a mere plodder, he
would droop and rest himself; they furnish con-
tinual fuel for the flame, constant material for the
head to work upon; they du not suffer him to
repose and be easy. A lower order of industrious
man is only at work when he is at his desk ; his
mind is empty as soon as he leaves it. A higher
order of industrious men is always at work, unless
he is exhausted or asleep; he carries his desk, his
portfolio, his boobs, his correspondence, in his head;
he has his task within him, he takes his work with
him wherever he goes; he cannot help himself
doing so, because the ardour of his mind keeps it
in motion and is always following up old matter
or suggesting fresh, and calling up hints, and half
ideas, and flying fragments of conceptions, and
sections of plans from the dark void. A Words-
worth, a Stephenson, a Macaulay must be always
working. They know the importance of every piece
of detail for the effect of the whole, and they know
that details must in their very nature be the work
of time, and therefore they know the extreme
value of time, and the use of perpetual wakefulness
to catch every casual precious atom that floats in the
dim atmosphere of thought around us, and must be
caught when it comes, or the slippery visitant is off
in a moment, and beyond the extreme verge of the
horizon again. Wordsworth describes himself, in
one of his sonnets, as pursued everywhere, even at
table and in the midst of company, by the shadow
of an unfound word that was wanted to fill a par-
ticular place in a line. The forge of the true poet who
will bend language to his own exact purpose must be
always at work with its obstinate unyielding mate-
rial, beating it and twisting it; and the great me-
chanist's and statesman's forge, in the same way, must
be always working. Lord Clyde's work spans half a
century; it stretches from Vimiera to Lucknow, and
takes in all the great military fields of this century
—the Peninsular War, the American War, the first
Chinese War, the Sikh War, the Crimean War, and
the Indian Mutiny. The disheartening glories of
Corunna were a noble but a melancholy part of his
introduction to a military life, and Walcheren gave
him nothing but a fever, which imbedded itself in
his constitution and clung, like Dejanira's shirt, to
him for 30 years afterwards. But a brighter day
followed, and the laurels of Barossa, Tarifa, Vittoria,
San Sebastian, and Bidassoa blossomed into a
brilliant reputation, and sent him back to England
a known and distinguished officer. A time of
peace followed, but he found work to do in the ser-
vice. In the course of time came the first Chinese
war ; then came the Sikh war, with the honours of
Ramnuggur, Chillianwaliab, and Goojerat.
brief interval over, and we see him leading his
Highlanders at the Alma and Balaklava ; and an-
other short interval over, and he is Commander-
in. Chief in India, demolishing the Indian Mutiny.
His life thus includes all the great military exploits
of this century, and the unceasing work which all
these spheres of action gave him was not mere pro-
fessional work—there was a soul and an inspiration
in it, and that inspiration was the true fire and
heart of the soldier, which lay at the very founda-
tion of his character. Everything was a work of
love with him in war, because he had the genius of
war within him, the spark which lights up at the
thought of a campaign and a field of haute. He
was a zealot and an enthusiast, not an officer merely;
all the high qualities and splendid faculties which
are associated with war—the ardour and rush of
the mLlitery mind, its bold impetus, its generous
self-sacrifice, es well as the more sober characteris-
tics of stern vigilance and severe caution, this whole
body of greed soldierly qualities bad an infinite at-
traction for him. It was the standard of the sublime
in his mind to which he aspired, and the image of
such a character was constantly before him beckon-
ing him on in his career. It was this and no
mere professional spirit which made his work
what it was, and enabled him to go through such
an enormous amount of it. It lightened the day's
interminable drill, and it gave freshness to the
most dry, repulsive, and tedious duties of the.
barrack and the camp. All people like the details
that are connected with the main object in their
hearts; the end glorifies the means, the goal con-
secrates the sandiest path that leads to it. You
cannot have too much detail for any man in that
which is his real and genuine line. He loves it and
devours it with a voracious appetite which, give it
ever so much, only craves more. The extreme love
of detail is thus the test of the inspiration of the
man, and it was this inspiration which kept Lord
Clyde up and sent him onward in his trying
career ; which gave him his indomitable perse
verance. his unwearied imdustry, his power of get-
ting through professional work and never flagging
nnder any length and amount of it; and, lastly,
sustained him under the bitterest disappointments.
It was the soul of the enthusiast and not the plod
der which made him the hard worker that he was.
Let Colin Campbell, then, lie in his natural resting
place beside the great workers, and the inspired
workers of England, with those men who have made
this country what it is, either in science, literature,
politics or war. Let him repose by the side of the
great departed who, in their different way and ac-
cording to their different gifts, have made life a
serious journey and left grand results of it. Let him
have that resting glace to which 50 years devotion to
his country entitle him. It is no matter to him, but
it is of great consequence to us that great services
should have their due tribute paid them; and

IWestminster will be all the richer in national asso-
ciations, memories, and glories for containing the
last remains of Lord Clyde.
DAILY NEWS.—Never had monarch a fairer op-
portunity for supplanting a rival than the Austrian
Emperor had in his recent antagonism to Prussia
and its King. Francis Joseph had but to outbid
the hesitating and ambiguous liberation of Berlin
by proposing at Frankfort a project of reform or
of union which should be acceptable at least to
the moderate liberals of Germany. Instead of this,
what has Austria offered ? WLat scheme have the
Princes of Germany and its people been sum-
moned to listen to ? A scheme illusive, unfair,
impracticable, and of a nature to be received by
the assembled Princes themselves as a political
conundrum, by the people as a delusion and a snare.
The first portion of the scheme brought forward
by Austria is that of the new Federal Executive.
The German Government is proposed to consist of
eleven members, three to be chosen by Austria, three
by r ruesia, three by Bavaria, and only two by the
rest of Germany, with its varied interests and large
population. The majority of this Executive Council
is at once in the hands of Austria an l Bavaria, two
Courts closely united by policy and intermarriage,
both Catholic and both retrograde in many respects.
Such a proposal is nothing less than an insult to
North Germany, and, instead of depriving Prussia
of its adherente, calculated to make all Germany
rally to its side. We had been already warned that
the ideas of Rechberg, and even of Sehmerling, were
not sufficiently advanced to satisfy the aspirations
of Germany; and certainly the propositions of
the Emperor at Frankfort will not dini.nish that
mistrust of Austria which prevails in the minds
of the most farsighted German patriots. In addition
to a Federal Executive so unfairly put together,
there is to be an Upper Chamber in which these
Courts and their aristocracies may entrench them-
selves ; and this Upper Chamber is moreover to have
the power to elect one-third of the members of the

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Lower or Representative Chamber. We admit that
Austrian statesmen have some excuse for being con-
servative at home. The difficulty of reconciling so
many nationalities and bringing them to harmonise
in ono assembly is so great that the Attempt to solve
the problem by giving an immEnse preponderance
to the aristocracy can be understood. Moreover,
the remote populations of the Austrian empire are
centuries in arrear, and want that middle class which
tempers extravagant tendencies above and below it.
But Germany contains quite a different kind of
population, and quite a different field for the legis-
lator. It is far too advanced to be governed by
a Senate of Notables. It is far too banguine and
too agitated to allow a civic minority to be kept
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down and neutralfsed by a large aristecratic ma-
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,:howu tLcip.st4Vcs as much batiusi German ideas as

the Austrian empire is behind Germany in political
requirements, in social, intellectual, and political de-
velopment. The step which Austria has taken
should profit immensely to Prussia, if King William
and his Government were of a nature and in a con-
dition to take advantage of it:; for the bare hint of
such proposals must break up what is called
the Great German party, and swell that of the
National Union. What an opportunity for the
King of Prussia himself to retrace his steps, and
throw himself once more upon his people, if indeed
the Prince of Prussia had been called to Gastein by
his royal father for such a purpose ! There is, we
know, a convietion growing up in Germany that
union and regeneration can only be achieved by
shaking off, rather than accepting with alacrity
either Austrian or Prussian supremacy, and this
conviction will gather strength from the experiences
of Frankfort. But however merited by these
Powers, and however j ast such a conclusion, it still
renders the hopes of re eneration more visionary,
and commits their realisation rather to revolution-
ary hazards and unforeseen events, than to that re-
gular course of liberal action in which peaceable
and sensible men may work together for the com-
mon good. Let us hope that German patriotism
may yet have a larger future. The liberation and
union of Italy was the work of a King. Why
should not Germany follow the example of that
Peninsula, so long unhappily associated with its
history and its fortunes? But whatever might be
hoped from one Prince could certainly not be ex-
pected from a Council of Princes, or Fursten Con-
gress, such as that which has met at Frankfort.
The four lesser Kings of Germany are all retro-
grade • the Hesses are little batter. It would be
idle to propose to a meeting of Princes any real re-
form of the Confederation, or establishment of unity,
unless some Sovereign would come forward and
speak less in his own name than as the representa-
tive of the national heart' and will. It was long
hoped that the King of Prussia would have under-
taken that part. A few indulged in hopes that the
Emperor of Austria, awakened to a full sense of
the crisis, would have assumed the part at Frank-
fort. He has not even approached it. " Put not
your trust in princes," will be more than ever the
watchword of Germany. The Sovereign Congress
of Frankfort will not, however, be without result.
The Grand Dukes of Baden and of Saxe-Coburg
will, it is hoped, have protested against the practi-
cability of the Austrian proposals ; and the meeting
of the Princes will be followed by one of popular
delegates, who, had they been allowed to meet of
themselves, might have made little impression, com-
pared with the weight they will now bear after the
fiasco of the Princes. They will be in a manner
called for. They will have a right to speak. And
the public will anxiously wait to know whether
the German people and their intellectual leaders
have no better prescription for political stony than
a gathering of privileged and hereditary State
Doctors. The Delegation will, we trust, set aside.
theories, abstract principles, and learned disquisi-
tions. To state the wants and wishes of the Ger-
man people, and define their political require-
ments and rights in a few plain, brief words that
may be impressed on the mind and fixed in the
memory of every German—this will suffice. What
Germany wants is a Bill of Rights proclaimed by
representatives of the people.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NEWARK,--WEDNESDAY.

The harvest is progressing very satisfactorily, and wheat
will be much above an average y Barley will be a very
fair crop, Beans and oats are being secured in excellent
condition.

White wheat new, 45s to 49s ' Barley:grinding.. 29s to 31s
Red do. 43s to 47s Oats, old, .. 26s to 293
Old white ........45s to 50s New do 22s to 26s
Red do ....... 44s to 49s j Beans. 42s to 44s
Barley, malting....--s to —a / Beans, new --s to