The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

ICH ARD MON CKTAZILNES, ALP.—
silo': .1d be " preliminary Ministerial conferences
,and the Congress postponed till October. It
'yea. One r
II
is stated by the Correspondenz that this
Penny.Jo en—Tb.oughts in a Crowd—In. FUN this
poor
lette r was sent previously to the CROWN
PRE NCE being summoned. It was doubtless
deemed prudent by the Minister to determine on
the line of policy to be pursued before the PRINCE
arrived, as he knew that there would be no concur-
rence on his part to so unwise a proceeding. It is
not likely under these circumstances that the
CROWN PRINCE will be enabled to effect much good
by 'his visit to Gastein. He can protest against the
ruinous course of action that is now being followed,
Teat it is not likely to avail much, as King WILLIAM
appears to give ear only to one counsellor, and that
Herr VON BISMARK. This statesman must be
deeply mortified at the proposed Congress, since it
is in direct opposition to all his views and inten-
tions, and subverts the plans he has been forming
for some time past. It has been his object ever
since he has ruled Prussia according to Divine
right to increase the ascendancy it had acquiredting up
in
the Build. He was to gain this end by taking
a high position, and then bring
g
Sove-
reigns under the influence and
o f a
Power.party h
All this
hhtise mortificationhascomplete of witnessing lyfailed,andheand
his their
sway of supre-
macy,hated rival assume
ast it wereheground from under their
and cutting
shassi u
astenfetreaigcnircceualarrte, the
representatives representatives of
it;ru
feet. M. Bisme
says therein that the doings of Austria will not
conduce to the unity of the German Powers. This
is, of course, the language of a disappointed man,
who sees everything en noir just now that relates
to this conference. A sensible remark was made
by a Prussian on the subject of Austria taking the
lead in so decided a manner. He said that this
would never have occurred "had not M. VON BIS-
MARK violated the Prussian Constitution, and by so
doing deprived his Sovereign of the sympathy of
his subjects, and made him appear despicable in the
eyes of the surrounding nations." This assertion is
perfectly correct ; and, it may be inquired,
with
what bitterness of spirit it was uttered. Nothing
could have been more irritating to the more ad-
vanced and enlightened among the Prussians than
to see their country set aside, as it were, in an im-
portant crisis like the present. The nations that
she was once in advance of are now preceding
her on the march of progress, and retrogression
appears to be the order of the day, where
only very recently it was hoped and believed
that we should witness striking improve-
ments and advances made in the cause of con-
stitutional privileges and popular rights. The
CROWN PRINCE is very much to be pitied in
his painful position, but at the same time it must
be some consolation to the people over whom he is
one day to reign that he is not of the clique that,
under M. BISMARK, has attained such unenviable
notoriety, and done so much damage to the nation
both at home and abroad. The approaching visit
of the CROWN PRINCE and PRINCESS to her
Majesty Queen VICTORIA, will doubtless be pro-
ductive of great service so far as regards the policy
pursued by the PRINCE. Of course the views
entertained by our SOVEREIGN on the questions of
government will be totally at variance with those
of M. BISMARK, and although the QUEEN is sure
to counsel caution and moderation, still the influence
of her opinion must have great weight. It is to be
hoped that this great undertaking being carried
out without the sanction, and indeed almost against
the expressed wishes, of the King of PRUSSIA, and
his Minister, will eventually produce some perma-
nent impression on their minds. If they do not
attend to the signs and tokens all around them they
may hereafter be unpleasaWly recalled to a true
sense of their actions, as they affect the prosperity
and bear on the interests of the country they are
ruling with divine right, and Heaven-imparted
authority. The people of Prussia are already quite
tired of all this assumption of peculiar privileges,
which result in their liberties being suppressed
and their rights shorn of all due exercise. It will
not increase their respect far the policy of the
Minister, or improve their allegiance to the KING,
to witness that their last move was to draw back
at an important crisis, and so deprive their country
of its just place in the councils of the surrounding
States. In all future arrangements that take
place relating to this.congress there will be no par-
ticipation with Prussia, and this isolated position
must be keenly felt by all well-wishers to her in-
terests, while her most intelligent citizens will rue
the day when so adverse a policy obtained the
mastery in the Cabinet of their KING. M. BIS-
MIRK may felicitate himself on having persuaded
the KING not to accept the invitation to Frank-
fort ; but he may yet have great cause to question
the wisdom of the decision, and to regret that he
had ever counselled his rerusal.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1863.

A gallant soldier has bean lost to England by the
death of Lord CLYDE. Yet can that death be
scarcely mourned over as a calamity under the eir-
here, as a relief
cumstances. Death came at last,
after two months' of severe suffering. It came after
the allotted age of man had been reached. It came
when the distinguished invalid had long been
covered with honours, by a cou.ntry:disposed—as it
appeared to us during his lifetime, as it does still
most certainly appear to us now that he is actually
dead and gone a country disposed rather
.
to exaggerate his merits than in any way
to underrate them. A public Funeral in
Westminster Abbey a National Monument
erec"2d somewhere in the metropolis—will be mere
ealatter-of-course evidences of consideration already
Jav ished with an unstinting hand upon Comic
CAMPBELL. He died a Field Marshal. He died
a Peer of the Realm. When a far greater soldier
than he—CHARLES NAPIER, conqueror of Scinde,
victor of Meannee and Hyderabad—died Neither a
Field Marshal, nor a Peer!—merely a General and
a G.C.B. Thinking of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S
career, of his heroic life, and of his death coming
to him in his old age, when he was yet
almost wholly unrewarded by his ungrateful
country —we confess to it that the con-
trast presented to view by that career,
by that life, by that death, when considered side
by side with the career, the life and death of Field-
Marshal Lord CLYDE, we do confess to it frankly
that the contrast strikes us, there, as rather a pain-
ful subject for contemplation.
The remains of the greatest soldier of
England, after the Duke of WELLINGTON, lie
mouldering in their honoured but lowly resting-
place in the soldier's graveyard near Portsmouth.
Upon the unostentatious tomb above them are in-
scribed the names and titles of the buried Conqueror
—General Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C.8.,
and so forth. That heroic soldier, dead, and gone,
and buried away there in that obscure graveyard,
having added to the vast possessions of E agland one
of the noblest provinces of her Empire—having not
only conquered that great province of Scinde with
his sword, but having brought its people into subjec-
tion after its conquest by the combined vigour and
clemency of his rule over them as a Proconsul. Had
Sir CHARLES NAPIER had his desserts, he, too, would
have died a Peer of the Realm and a Field Marshal
of England. The baton that no doughtier hand
could have grasped, would have laid upon his coffin-
lid, side by side with, at least, a baron's coronet.
A Funeral procession befitting the friend and
brother-in-arms:of WELLINGTON , would have fol-
lowed that coffin to its last resting place under the
gothic roof of the old Abbey at Westminster. A
Public Monument to CHARLES NAPIER (such as it
is) London has, it is true, to show in one of its
most conspicuous sites (such as that is also) but it is
a monument erected to his memory, not by his coun •
try (still even thus pertinaciously ungrateful to the
last), but by that one particular class among his
countrymen the most capable of appreciating
his great and heroic qualities, that of the Pri-
vate Soldiers of the British army. It is not
that we grudge one of his many honours
(nobly won as they were upon so many
battlefields), to Field Marshal Lord CLYDE.
It is simply that the remembrance of him as
Field Marshal and Baron of England—is embittered
by the instant reflection that a far greater soldier
than CoLIN CAMPBELL died neither a Field Marshal
nor a Baron ! That England never had the thought
even when he was snatched away from the chance
of being at last the tardy recipient of the evi-
dences of her gratitude, that England never
had the thought even then, even out of
her
sense of a remorseful homage, to bury among
her ina
strums dead, in Westminster Abbey, the
rem •
jlll' ,4 of one who was as great a soldier as any
wafts
Imoduet reposes under that venerable pile.
eon/. to
CLYDE! .Lttthe memory of Field-Marshal Lord
inanimate
fall and unstinting, still
Let
his
animate corpse to its grave ! For
he was a
noble and chivalrous soldier, and one
worthy of
land is ur
burying amiration. But, while Eng
token of regret anal, him' away, with every
homage down at Westminister
Abbey, let her have some
remorseful sense the
while of her consistent ingratitude durin
lifetime to one who Wasg a long
a far) far greate
than he, one who died Not a Leer afr soldier
Not a Field Marshal of England,
and the Realm,
who after
death was Not Buried at Westeeinste:7

The regulation of national finances is generally
considered to be a somewhat invidious task. The
most elastic exchequer will not stretch to meet the
requirements of taxpayers; the most ingenious and
amiable financier cannot help imposing taxes.
There is no department of Government more closely
and anxiously watched. Deputations represent the
feeling of various classes of the community before
the oracle has spoken ; when it has, ready critics
hasten to point out what taxes might have been
remitted with ease and profit, while generally the
complaints and lamentations exceed the measure of
applause granted to the propounder of a budget.
It is a matter which affects everyone's personal
interest, which comes to each with a reality and an
earnestness not often felt for reform bills and
foreigns questions. It is a novel and curious cir-
cumstance, therefore, when we find a Government
wilfully making the worst of things in the matter
a most profitable source of
of finance by neglecting
revenue, and withholding from the public the
startling changes which a few years have produced
in particular districts; imposing an arbitrary and
most unpopular tax on a necessary of life, while a
little trouble would enable them to dispense with
it altogether. Yet it is confidently stated by those
well qualified to judge that were the water regula-
tion in India fully carried out the Government
might with ease dispense both with salt tax and
income tax. It appears from the statistics fur-
nished by Sir ARTHUR COTTON* that in the only
districts in which the works have been carried out
to any great extent the increase of the revenue is
startling. The total average revenue of ItE.ja-
humundry, asui I
yielded apatani, and Guntoor, from 1841
Iv
to 1815,
e.s 47 lass ; the same tract now divided
into Godavery
and Kisuta has iu the year 1862.3
revenue of 821 lacs. An increase of
more than thirty-five lacs per annum is surely
oning in
worth notice, yet
condescends to notine°9i't,lember of the Government
is not worth menti "Is it the only thing that
andi
thirty
COTTON,
; districts of
e the actual
revenue is thirty-seven millions ? "
s' is
" it, he
asks, that no statesman inquires into the cause of
this wonderful result with a view to applyin—
g the

The Conference at Frankfort is the e,,,r0
topic in foreign journals, which is only flat a 2slng
sidering its novelty and also its importance. The
King of DENMARK* has declined to be present at the
Conference of the Sovereign members of the Ger-
man Confederacy. This is not to be wondered at,
considering the unpleasant disputes and discussions
that have taken place regarding Schleswig-Holstein.
The King of PRUSSIA, the CROWN PRINCE, and Herr
VON BISMARK have had very " animated confer-
ences" at Gasteiu. It is, of course, very annoying
for the Prince to find his father so determined to
pursue the policy laid down by the Minister who
has already done so much damage to his own rep•
tation, and injured the popularity of his monarch,
while occasioning so much disquietude to the coun-
try. The semi-official journal, Correspondenz,
states that when the EMPEROR was at Gastein, the
KING promised to attend the Conference, but that
subsequently Herr BISMARK persuaded him to give
up the idea. He therefore wrote to the EMPEROR
declining to attend, and suggesting that there

D.lajor• Gem Sir A. Cotton " On Irrig,ii ion and Navi-
gation. in Connection with the Finances of )hciia." Ling,
Yarlianaezt-btreet,