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

Lie,. Fibs, Misrepre- MYstifi-
son ts. cations.
In 1,000 parsons per
diem 3,065 4,128 704 98
[On Sundays rader
more.]
In 1,000 Lawyers
In 1,000 Physicians 1,102 6,410 77 9,984
In 1,000 M.P.'s 84,118 9,087 10,210 15,000
[lBi. per cent, to he
added during Elec-
tion time.]
In 1,000 Beggars I 22,006 12,183 71,000 17,177
" Dis shall be specimens of de statisque reduce to de

" Dis shall be specimens of de statisque reduce to de
finer data, in vich de economie of lying is expound.
Den you shall know pretty yell vat you shall belief in
perjury, and oder good affirmations. Ven I shall come
to my oder tables to exhibe de vcalth of England, I
shall make him a peer dat de turnspike rods, if continue
in von line, vould go round de vorld, and turn back
again ; dat de canals vould go so long vay to Van
Diamond's Land, vere de new Company is selling sa-
vage bargains ; and dat, not to mention tea-spoons,
table-spoons, silver forks, plates, sugar-tongs, pots, salt
and muster spoons, ladels, toothpegs, sugar-basins, and
many oder leetel artics in de precious metals—and all
dese are de constitutes of national vcalth—dere is fifty-
seven mile six furlong and a yard of gold and silver
vatches in Great Bretan, all vich is velth. Dus dere
are 15,500,000 peoples. Of dese, 600,000, class I,
hab gold vatch. Class 11, von peoples in tree hab gold
vatch=4so,ooo more. Class 111, von peoples in den
hab gold vatch=2lB,ooo. In class IV, von peoples in
fifty=.B2,6oo. In lower classes, von peoples in 250=
25,500 gold vatches. I calculate same manner in silver
vetch, and I find dat all de gold and silver vatch in
Great Bretan, if layed side by side, to touch von
anoder, vould reash joost fifty-seven mile six forlong
and von yard. Vat you vant with new rurale police,
ven you hab got such valuable old vatch ?"—(Great
applause.)

- But lempus fugit. Von Dullbrainz began to think it
was as well to cut his stick, whilst everything was so
pleasant. He gracefully declined invitations to spend
the autumn at about fifteen palaces, fifty castles, and five
hundred halls. The honours overwhelmed him with
gratitude ; but a man with his prodigious responsibilities
must yield to the force of circumstances, and return to
his duties. He could not, however, resist the solicita-
tions of the British Association to meet that erratic body
at Birmingham, and thither went the observed of all
observers, the resplendent Von Dullbrainz. There we
saw him in his glory last Friday, at the grand dinner
given by the Mayor and Town Council, in conjunction
with Mr. Vernon Hercourt and the Association, to show
the world at large how the English nation had learnt to
estimate the splendours of foreign genius. The Mayor
having proposed the health of their most insufferably
illustrious visiter, with nine times three, the thunders
of applause outlasted the common period of a thunder-
storm. Von Dullbrainz rose to return thanks, and the
thunders were reverberated.

" I am oblige to go, to leaf you, magnifique and
charming English peoples," he said, " I am oblige to
go, before you shall hear of me no more. A prophet is
never prize in his own countree. I vas call quack and
imposture in my land, and by my envying contempo-
rains. It vas reserve for de Engli h peoples, saga-
citous and penetrative, to discober de genus I vas all
quite along sensible I possess. You know notting of
de sciences, de literature, or de arts ; but you are
amable peoples, and yea cleber foreigner of genus come
to you, you savoy to appreciate him. I hab live vid
your Princes, Presidents, Professors, and oder great
fools, and von and all hab treat me as dey ought de
greatest man of de vorld. In mine own countree ebery
body laugh at me, and say, bah ! silly fellow ! Bot
England, and, above all, de Mare and Munzepal of
Brummagem, Mr. C. Harkout, and de British Ass—"
Here an alarm of Chartists stopped the orator. The
windows were broken, the brick-bats flew like leather-
winged mice, and the Riot Act was read to broken heads
and deaf ears. Von Dullbrainz had no taste for liberty.
He hurried from Birmingham, he h ft London, he quitted
England, and lie fled to Skicamerdam, where he says he
is writing his travels.

THE PERIODICAL PRESS OF

GERAANY.

It is generally supposed in England that the po-
litical press of Germany is, from its subjection to
the dietatoriol authority of the Censorship, nothing
more than a reflection of the opinions and views of
the various Courts which form the Confederation.
" The censured press of the arbitrary Govern-
ments," is a term of depreciation of frequent use
in our journals, whenever an article repulsive of
the liberal propagandism; or castigatory of the
meddling despotism of some of your Contempora-
ries, appears in the Berlin Politische Wochenblatt,
or in the Augsburg Gazette (Allgemeine Zeitung),
and it is generally applied without an adequate
knowledge of the degree of restraint under which
the press labours in Germany, and the degree of
authoritative influence which the Governments
infuse into the opinions and politics advocated by
the above-mentioned and other leading periodicals.
It. is very far from my purpose to lavish com-
mendation upon any system that tends to shackle
the perfect freedom of the press, and a British
journal would not be the fit medium for such an in-
tention if I had it. Every Englishman has an in-
stinctive horror of any interference (supposing it
possible) of his Government with the use or abuse
he.may make of his right to publish his opinions.
In Germany there does not exist the same restive-
ness on this point, and public feling is not ad-
verse to the existence of some constraint on the in-
temperance of discussion, which custom has ren-
dered innoxious in this country, but which has the
worst effects in France and in other lands where
angry words have more weight than with us. It is
fortunate for the peace of the Confederation that
this feeling exists. The domestic jealousies and
prejudices of the 88 States afford ample matter for
polemical writing, and their Governments, did they
not possess some power of repressing the ebullitions.'
of party, including the too zealous advocacy' of their
own interests, would be thrown into interminable
broils with their confederates : the Diet would have
no other business than that of settling these points
of dispute, and would ultimately become inadequate
to its office of guardian of the peace between the
members of the Germanic body.
The degree of control exercised by the Censor-
ship in Germany is very indefinite. In times of
excitement, as, for instance in 1832, when the
Rhenish provinces of Prussia and Bavaria were the
scenes of demagogue exhibitions and partial insur-
rection, and the Universities of even the central
districts of Germany were in a state of dangerous
ferment, the Governments have found it necessary
to maintain a rigorous restraint on all political jour-
nals. I recollect to have seen at that time a Ba-
varian paper, whose sheet presented almost every
day a blank column or two, which had contained
the offensive matter extirpated by the scissors of
the Censor.