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THE SUN, LONDO TUE3DAY EVENUIG, MAY 12, 1863

attached to all who have dealings with them here,
so that hereafter they may not think that sufficient
chance was not given them to repent of their evil
ways, and to fall down before the footstool of that
infinite mercy which holds out hope for the chief
of sinners, nor denies the promise of grace at the
eleventh hour, if only it is sought by the prayer
of faith.

A Shilling Guide Book, of a rather unusual kind,
came under our notice the other day, and appeared
to us, though nothing more than a Guide Book, one
of the most affecting and eloquent publications we
bad for a long while met with. It was all this,
simply for inasmuch as it was a Guide Book to the
Charities of London. All the Eleemosynary In-
stitutions of the metropolis were therein catalogued.
The volume was literally no more than a mere list
of names and addresses, but every individual entry in
it was the representative of an organised system of
benevolence, Among those establishments we do not,
for a single instant, hesitate to assert that one of
the most beneficent of all—one of those institutions
the most entitled to our sympathy—is that Royal
Free Hospital in Gray's-inn-road, whose 37th
Anniversary Festival was celebrated, not quite a
week ago, in Freemasons' Hall, and to whose Ear-
uest Appeal we would now, more cordially and
more fervently than we have ever done yet, direct
the general attention of the public. The very title of
the noble institution we have named is the justifica-
tion of any panegyric that might be pronounced upon
it. As the gifted Chairman at Wednesday's Dinner
took occasion to remark in the course of his admir-
able speech in giving the toast of the evening—
" The distinguishing character of the Royal Free
Hospital is amply expressed by its simple name.
It is A Free Hospital!" exclaimed Mr. CHARLES
DICKENS, the Chairman of the night. "No recom-
mendation,"he reminded his audience with impressive
simplicity, " no recommendation is needed by the
suffering creature who there seeks admission. No
letter from a governor, or a subscriber, or what not,
has with difficulty to be hunted out. ' Look at me!
Look at me ! lam sick, poor, helpless, forlorn !'
These are the patients' credentials"—when seeking
admission to the Royal Free Hospital. Never could
the Great Novelist's own" Maggy" in Little Dori it
exclaim (poor half witted Waif and Stray of Society)
with more earnest reason, than in speaking of this
very institution, "0, ain't it Hospitally!" The
appeal annually made to the public at large on
behalf of the Royal Free Hospital, an appeal at all
times persuasive, never yet, we believe, came one
half so persuasively as it does this year, to the know-
ledge of our London philanthropists. The fact
that it is so has already been demonstrated beyond
the reach of denial by the success attendant upon
that appeal already.
A round sum of £6,100 sterling, it was announced
but very recently, was desired in order to buy up
the entire property of the Hospital in the Gray's-
inn-road, land, building, and all complete. Hitherto

a yearly rental of £2OO or £250 has been paid for
the occupancy of the building. Henceforth, that is
to say at /east, from the collecting together of the
full amount of the purchase money, the amount of

which has just been mentioned, there will be no

rental at all to pay—the entire property being in
perpetuity the institution's own. £6,100, recollect !
Teat was the sum total of the purchase money
required. The announcement that it was required
was made but very recently. The benevolent
patrons of the institution have but lately
bestirred themselves in collecting it. Yet already,
of that £6,loo—not leas than £5,200 have
even now been gathered together ! And as
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS has capped the climax

of his sympathetic co-operation in the far.
therance of this beneficent enterprise by ensur•
lag the guarantee of the odd hundred out
of the aggregate of £6,loo—no more than eight
hundred pounds sterling additional are now needed
to make the total amount of the purchase-money
complete. It cppears that of the £5,200 already
collected within a very brief interval, in the shape
of subscriptions, fully £4,000 had been secured by
the personal agency of the generous hearted Chair-
man of the Board, Mr. GEORGE MOORE, one of the
Merchant Princes of the City of London. When
which same supporter of the Royal Free Hospi-
tal came to be alluded to on Wednesday,
during the course of the speech delivered by the
Chairman, no wonder that Mr. MOORE had the
gratification of hearing himself spoken of by Mr.
CHARLES DICKENS as " a gentleman present whom
he (the Chairman) was proud to call his friend." Re-
membering, then, that £5,200 out of the £6,100 have
already been actually collected; that £lOO more
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS has formally guaranteed ;
that consequently no more than the comparatively
small sum of £BOO additional is now
needed in order to complete the total
amount of the purchase money—we cannot believe
that there will be any difficulty in so collecting
it. A Hospital that is distinguishable among all
our noble London Hospitals as being The Free
Hospital—a Hospital that, although possess-
ing not yet quite 100 bads can, never-
theless, do so vast an amount of good to
the suffering poor as this one does annually within
its own doors, while at the same time relieving in a
single year (as it did in 1862) no less than 60,000
out-patients—is (surely a Great Public Charity that
cannot long ask in vain for a little balance of
£BOO.

Many will regret the tone adopted by Count
PERSIGNY. The EMPEROR won golden opinions
from all sides when, in his opening speech, he
counselled the people of France to copy as much
as possible the example of the English people.
Now, however, the Minister of the Interior seems
to repudiate this theory, although it was promul-
gated by one for whom he ought to entertain re-
spect. In the circular addressed to the Prefects of
Departments, he says that the " play" of parties is
very suitable in England, but not in France. He
goes on to say that in a country like theirs this
play of parties cdn be repeated," but by prolonging
revolution and endangering liberty." After stating
that parties in France are often only factions, he
thus informs the Prefect of his duty :—" The suf-
frage is free; bat, in order that the good faith of
the populations may not be deluded by cleverness
of language or equivocal professions of faith, desig-
nate loudly, as in the preceding elections, the can-
didates who inspire the Government with moat con-
fidence. Let the populations know who are the
friends ope
rirth, e adversaries, more or less disguised, of
the
and let them decide in full liberty, but
with complete knowledge of the state of the case.''
This is a curious version of liberty, and it would tax
the ingenuity of many persons to arrive at the solu-
tion of such a mystery. It is the more to be regretted
because the arrangements that were entered into at
the commencement of the session were apparently
of a permanent class, and gave great satisfaction to
all who fully comprehended the question, and re-
cognised the importance of rendering the French
institutions as similar as possible to the English.
Such assertions as those referred to can do no good,
and are apt to irritate those to whom they are ad-
dressed, without convincing any one. It is not the
way to conciliate the members of any class of poli-
ticians to tell them plainly, or even to hint, that
they are not fit to be trusted with the responsibili-
ties, and exercise the privileges which they see their

neighbours exercising, and thereupon reaping many
and great benefits. It_ls rather exaggerated lan
guage to employ to call opponents " a coalition of
hostilities, rancour, and spite," and it is the more
unwise, as just now there is outward tranquillity at
least from those stormy discussions and fitful phases
that were wont in olden times to deform and dis-
figure the social spheres in France. If some were
disappointed at the EMPEROR'S peculiar tenets upon
eel-min points, the generality of his subjects are well
content with the present aspect of affairs. They
fancy that a strong Government is a good preven-
tive to riots and disturbances, and are looking for-
ward to the time when an increase of confidence
will be eagerly responded to by the multitudes who
will reap therefrom inestimable advantages. Now,
however, if the Minister of the Interior is truly re-
presenting the new regime of policy, great disap
pointment will be experienced at this retrograde
movement, and it is to be hoped that there may yet
be some modification of the extreme notions that
seem prevalent in the communication referred to.

The position of the Danish KING and Cabinet is
not just now a very enviable one. After years of
harassing dissensions, foreign encroachments, and
internal discord, the SOVEREIGN and his Ministers
have recently resolved on trying by a bold step to
extricate themselves from their perplexities. The
Proclamation of March 30th, Ns hile generally re-
garded in this country as fair, open, and moderate,
has not succeeded in satisfying either Danes or Ger-
mans. It was, of course, merely an outline, leaving
much to be filled up by experience and reflection ;
but it established the important fact of the partial
independence of Hclsteir, while it declared Schles-
wig to be incontestably part and parcel of Den-
mark. As was anticipated by all who had watched
the turbulent and aggressive conduct of the German
Powers, more especially of Prussia, during the
course of the dispute, there was an immediate out-
cry raised by the members of the Confederation at
the prospect of losing their claim on Schleswig.
Angry threats and indignant expostulations arose
from every representative assembly, while Herr
VON BISMARR, for once quite in his element, de-
clared that if necessary he would support the honour
of Prussia by a war, on which he should not trouble
himself to consult the Deputies. Meanwhile,
though the Germans think that the Procla-
mation accords too little, some of the Danes
complain that it grants too much. The recent
debate in the Rigsraad on the address to the KING
in reply to the Speech from the Throne, shows the
different opinions of Danish politicians in an inte
resting manner. Professor CLAUSEN, in moving
the address, remarked that the Royal proclamation
had been and was the subject of the most diverging
conceptions, not only at home, but with the German
Governments. He added that in Holstein it had
provoked expressions of feeling which in any other
country would have been regarded as meditated
treason. The anger of Germany could, be said, be
easily comprehended, for she saw the hope for the
fulfilment of which she had so strenuously worked
since 1851, vanishing. That hope had been to entangle
the Danish Government, so that it could neither
move hand nor foot. It was high time, said the
speaker, for Denmark to act, and he expressed his
satisfaction at finding in the Speech from the
Throne a declaration that the KING was resolved
to uphold the liberty and independence of the pro-
vinces which, happily, do not belong to the mischief-
makieg Confederation. The address proposed by this
gentleman did not, however, correspond to our usual
Parliamentary form at the opening of a session, for
we find the Premier rising after Professor CLAUSEN
and asking the object and intention of the proposed
address. M. DE KALL and several other members
of the Cabinet all agreed in demanding that the
representatives should give a decided expression to
their sentiments by a vote of confidence or the re-
verse. In the one case they would be strengthened
to act, in the other they would immediately resign
their responsibilities into the hands of better ex-
ponents of the popular will. To this the framers
and supporters of the address would not accede.
They declared that the occasion did not demand

such an uncompromising expression of opinions
One of the proposers, M. HOTTI ER HAGE, went so
far as to say that he considered it would be a great
misfortune for the country if the present Ministry
should resign, but that if it were to receive the sup-
port of the people it must regard their wishes in
some degree. The Vice-President complained that,
by dividing the army, the Government had created
a hostile army within its own frontiers. He con-
sidered that all that was gained by the Proclama-
tion was, that if they had to go to war with Ger-
many it would be for a part of their rights instead
of the whole. To this the Minister of Instruction
very justly replied, that had not the separation of
the army been accomplished, Holstein would have
refused to vote its own share of the expenses. On
the second day of the debate, Captain JACOBSEN, a
fresh speaker, observed that it was important
that they should do nothing to render the
subsequent adhesion of Holstein impassible,
and that the great object should be to
keep the monarchy together. After further
discussion, according to a custom of the Danish
Rigsraad, which would seem strange if followed by
our be-wigged Speaker, the President, M. MADVIG,
left the chair, and addressed the Assembly from the
body of the hall. His speech was clear, able, and
temperate, and although not decidedly in favour of
the Government, for he supported the adoption of
the Address with amendments, the tone of his dis-
course was advantageous to them. He did not
acknowledge the legality of the step taken by the
publication of the document et' March 30, but he
admitted that it would have greatly complicated
matters if the KING, by referring to the Rigsraad,
had left them the responsibility of excluding Hol-
stein. He thought it better to accept the fact as it
stood, and to remember that though there were diffi-
culties connected with the present arrangement,
yet they had had only the choice between difficul-
ties and impossibilities. M. MADVIG also said ♦ery
justly that the Rigsraad should not ask for a revi-
sion of the constitution during the present session.
The Ministers have offered to attempt it if it was
the wish of the Assembly, but it is manifest that
this is the very worst time that could be selected
for such an experiment. Their minds are unsettled,
and counter influences are at work which are any-
thing but favourable to a work which demands
internal peace and outward tranquillity. While
affairs with Germany, too, are in their present pre-
carious condition, it would be rash to begin experi.
ments in legislation. Let the old armour serve
once more if needed, but do not send it to the
armourer to be polished and remodelled just as the
enemy may be at the gate. The President consi-
dered that the Rigsraad should be careful to allow
the Schles wigers sufficient liberty. Certainly the
Duchy is placed in perilous contiguity to turbulent
and refractory Holstein, and elements of disaffection
are probably at work in it. It will need a firm,
yet liberal, hand to retain it in the monarchy. The

Premier, in again addressing the Assembly, boldly
declared that the Germanic Confederation had by
far exceeded right in its claims, and that the Go-
vernment had always opposed them. Whether it
had shown sufficient strength in resifting them
they might doubt, but they could not deny the fact
of the resistance. He thought it probable that

when, Holstein saw that a separation was possible
it might begin to see the advantages of
coalition. This opinion is certainly consistent
with the perversity hitherto shown by the Duchy
under the influence of German agents. The evil has
at length grown too great to be endured. It is
hindering the internal development of the country
and paralysing its progress in every way. Denmark
has already suffered enough by losing Sweden, in
1814, to trust too much to the great European
Powers. She most assert her own rights and dig-
nity, and maintain by every means in her power
the integrity of her dominions. As yet we have
given her but little help ; our dynastic entangle-
ments with her arch-enemy, Prussia, have hindered
us from corning boldly forward on the side of right
against might. Lord RUSSELL'S friendly advice,
however, produced such general indignation in this
country that the experiment will hardly be re-
peated, and the English Parliament may even in-
sist en our Government according at least a moral
support to Denmark in the coming struggle. We
trust, in any case, that King, Cabinet, and Rigs-
raad will stand together, and add the force of unity
of purpose and action to the strength already theirs
by ancient and prescriptive right.

THE ROYAL JOURNEY NORTHWARD.—It is now
arranged that her Majesty will leave Windsor on
Friday next, at 6.50 p.m., travelling by way of Oxford and
Leamington to Bushbury station, and thence by the Lon-
den and North-Western line to Carlisle, which will be
reached at 4.7 a,m. on Saturday. At Perth there will be a
pause on the journey, for rest and refreshment, of an hour
and fifteen minutes, namely, from 8.40 to 9.55 (on Saturday
morning). Aberdeen (Ferry-hill Junction) will be reached
at 12.36, and Aboyne at 1.50 pm. A two hours' journey,
by posting, will bring the Royal party to Balmoral. The
strictest privacy will be observed at all the stations
North British Mail.
THE WHITSUNTIDE RECESS.—It is understood
that Parliament will adjourn for the Whitson holidays on
this day week, Tuesday, the 19th The usual period for
adjournment is the Friday before Whitsunday ; but as the
" Derby," which falls on the "oth, would also break up the
week, the occasion will be availed of for the early adjourn •
ment above stated. The recess genera ly extends to the
Thursday after Whitsunday.
THE BRIGADE OF GUARDS AND THE PRINCE AND
PRINCESS OF WALES.—We understand that the
Brigade of Guards are making arrangements to give a ball
in honour of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, who have been graciously pleased to
signify their intention of gracing it with their presence. It
is expected to take place towards the end of June, and will
doubtless prove the most brilliant fete of the season.
THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—MackereI have thus
early been caught on the Devonshire and Cornish
coasts. Last week the men employed at the Mount's Bay
Fishery landed from 200 to 900 per boat, which sold at from
21s. to 30s. per hundred. At Mevagissey the mackerel
seines are out. Some of them shot last week, the largest
take being 1,300. The fish were small.
PLYMOUTH, Monday.—The American ship
Amazon, Captain Hovey, from New York, on the
25th of April, with a full general cargo, for London, landed
nine passengers here this evening. A fatal accident oc-
curred this afternoon in Devonport dockyard, when re-
moving from a pile of timber, 201 t. high, a balk weighing
two tons. It was connected by a guy rope to another balk,
weighing one ton, to assist iu lowering it. The heavy
piece rolled unexpectedly, and both came down together.
John Chubb, leading man of labourers, was killed on the
spot—John Jessop, labourer, was severely contused—An-
drew Couch received some contusions on the head—and
Matthew Sowdon was injured in the arm and legs.
ROYAL DOCKYARD ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS.—

This brigade carried on gun practice on Saturday
last, for the first time this season, at the Ten••gun Battery,
Plumstead Marshes, with 32- pounders on garrison and
siege carriages at a range of 1,200 yards, under the superin-
tendence of the adjutant of the corps ; and although the
non-commissioned officers and gunners present had not
fired shot or shell before, the shooting was exceedingly
good, the shots either passing through or falling within a
radius of a few feet of the target.
THE FIRE NEAR DRTRY-LANE.—Yesterday Mr.
W. J. Payne held an inquest at the St. George's
Hotel, in the Strand, respecting the deaths of Anne Ref-
tell, aged 18 years, and Mark Patterson, aged 23, shopman,
and shop attendant to Mr. E. Head, linendraper and silk
mercer, who perished in the fire that occurred on the nigh;
of Thursday last on their employer's premises, Blackmoor
street, Drury-lone. A number of witnesses having been
examined, the jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased
were accidentally burned to death, but there was not suffi-
cient evidence to prove how the fire was caused—and they
recommended the exertions of Conductor Tapsell to the
notice of the society for his indefatigable exertions at the
fire, and also the police."
WRECK OF THE ORPHEIJS.—In 1846, in her
Majesty s sloop Osprey, Captain Patten a as wrecked off the
same fatal bar. An interesting account of the encampment
of her crew, and their march across the island to New
Zealand, was written by the steward (Mr H. Moon), and
has been introduced by the Lords of the Admiralty into the
seamen's libraries. The signal then was, " Take the bar,
there is no danger."
THE GREAT EASTERN.—The repairs rendered
necessary in consequence of the recent mishap to the
"big ship" are now completed, and she will take her
departure from Liverpool for New York on Saturday next.
Advantage has been taken of the delay in repairing the
vessel to effect many improvements in the arrangements o
the state rooms which experience had demonstrated to be
desirable, so as to ensure the comfort of passengers.
GLASGOW, May 9.—Cotton.—During the week
the cotton market has been very brisk, and prices
have advanced about id. to ld. per lb. Goods and Yarns.—
There has been an active demand for goods and yarns dur-
ing the week, and yarns have advanced a full id. Iron.—The
pig iron market, which was firm during the early part of

this week at 51s. cash for warrants, has since become fiat,
and to-day 50s. 6d. prompt was accepted for several thou-
sand tons, closing sellers, with buyers each in 14 days. For
shipment the quotations are :—G.M 8., No. 1,50 s. 6d. ;
No. 3, 495. 6d. ; Gartsherrie, No. 1, 545. 9d. ; No. 3,50 s.
9d. ; No. 1 Coltness, 55f, ; Calder, 50s. 9d.; Glengarnock,
51s. tid. ; Eglintnn, 50s, 6d ; Forth, 50s. 6d.; Kinneil, 50s.
TRADE OF CARDIFF.—Great activity has been
witnessed in the shipments of both coal and iron
during the month of Arril, and the returns show a sub-
stantial increase. The exports over sea for the month
were :-198,541 tons of coal, 21.519 tons of iron, 387 tons of
coke, and 1,901 tons of patent fuel, being an increase of
6,024 tons of coal and 8,331 tons of iron as compared with

the previous month. The total shipments over sea for the
four months of the present year have been 469,684 tons of
coal and 56,404 tons of iron, against„424,394 tons of coal,
54,394 tons of iron in 1562, and 344,784 tons of coal end
47,771 tons of iron in 1861. These returns show a gratify-
ing increase in the trade of the port.
VACANCY.—The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald writes :—"There is a curious
story in circulation here, related on authority that is gene-
rally considered reliable. It appears that there is at present
residing in Belgium a distinguished French officer, named
Bulow, Beuhler, or Beulet (I am not exactiy certain which),
who has a reputation for military knowledge and adminis-
trative ability. President Lincoln having heard of this
gentleman, sent him, through the War Department, an in-
vitation to come to this country, offering to make him a
Major-general of Volunteers, not with the view, however,
of his taking the field, but of assuming the position of As-

sistant-Secretary of War, in which his capacity for organisa-
tion would find full exercise. When tha matter was broached
to him he at once took steps to inform himself as to what
kind of man the Secretary of War was. He was told that
he was an educated lawyer, that he had been Attorney-
General towards the close of Mr. Buchanan's Presidential
term, and that suddenly, and without being much known
to the country, he was made Secretary of War in place of
Mr. Cameron. He also learned that he was a very impulsive
man, and very domineering. The General, on hearing these
facts, returned the following
reply to the proposition:—
t, There are three objections to my going to your country in
the capacity proposed to me. In the first place an impulsive
man is of all others the most unfitted for the head of a War
Department. In the next a domineering man is not a man
I desire to serve under; and lastly, no military man of any
regard for his reputation will ever consent to serve under a
lawyer.' So that it is decided that the General is not to
visit the United States, at least under the existing regime
at the War Department,"
The Empress Eugenie has purchased at the dog-
show a little liftvannah lap•dog, which rejoices in
the name of Coquette. This anima? is a beautiful speci-
men of her race. "Her hair is fully eight inches long, and
of snowy whiteness and silky fineness. The body is very
small, as is also the head, but the tail appears as- enormous
fleece, and the ears of proportionate size. Coquette lives
in a glass house, on the floor of which is a Persian carpet.
She lies upon a cushion covered with crimson silk, and

seems a very dainty being, - Her food and the water she
drinks are placed in a corner of the aforesaid glasi•bouse on
a porcelain plate and in a silver cup Which she won for her

[ate proprietor."

EDWARD TUE BLACK PRINCE.—A life-size model
of this chivalrous Prince now adorns the splendid

room of the Hall of Kings, in Baker-street, and is, without
exception, the most beautifully-executed effigy in Messrs.
Tussaud's exhibition. The panoply in which the figure is
encased is of exquisite workmanship, andreflects the highest
possible credit on the talent displayed by that eminent ar-
mourer, Mons, Grangor, of Paris. Fipres of Edward 111.
and Phillips his Queen are likewise to be seen.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,)

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, MAY 12

At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-
day, the President read a letter, signed by the
Ministers, stating that so long as the House sup-
ports the assumption made yesterday by the Presi-
dent of a right to limit the Minister's freedom of
speech, the members of the Cabinet should no longer
be present at the sittings of the Chamber.
The Ministers require a declaration from the
Deputies that the House has no disciplinary autho-
rity over the members of their body.
The letter of the Ministers has been referred to a
special committee, and the question of principle
will be discussed in full sitting of the Chamber.

The Judicial Committee of the Chamber has
authorised the prosecution of the Polish members
Dzialynski and Guttrys.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,
STETTIN, MAY 12.

The Ostdeutsche Zeitung of to-day says :—" Upon
the Bth inst. eighteen companies of itussian infan
try, with eight guns and five squadrons of cavalry,
attacked Taczanowski in Ignacewo, near Konin.
After a stubborn resistance, the assailants succeeded
in storming the place, which had been strongly
barricaded, and the Poles retreated towards Silesia.

WARSAW, MAY 6.

Some days ago an order was issued by the Re-
volutionary Committee that the inhabitants of the
Praga suburb—numbering some 12,000 souls—were
to remove to another portion of the town. Sus-
picion being hereby aroused, search was made, lead-
ing to the discovery, in the evening, of workmen oc-
cupied in forming a mine beneath the fort upon the
right bank of the Vistula, opposite the citadel.
Tne miners were arrested. They stated, upon in-
terrogation, that, upon the 13th of the month, it
was intended to blow up the fort, containing a gar-
rison of 800 men and a large store of powder. The
bridge carrying the railway across the river is to
be built up to this fort, and will be commenced in
the course of the year. Many reports are in circu-
lation as to what is intended to happen upon the
13th, the day when the amnesty expires; but no
one knows for certain whence the dreaded blow
will be delivered.
The National Government has drawn the attention
of the English company for the water supply and
draining of the town to the illegality of the con-
tract it has concluded with Count Sigismund Wielo-
poiski, pointing out that Wielopolski was not au-
thorised to conclude any agreement without the
consent of the Town Council.

The insurgent chiefs Lewandowski and Leoa
Frankowski are still alive and under medical treat-

ment in prison.
The Department of Justice has declined to co-
operate with the Government in carrying out the
confiscation decree in Poland, as no law authorising
such a measure is in existence.