The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1863.

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 16, 1863.

The sudden announcement
Majesty FREDERICK VII., King of Denrnariif
of the death of hiscomes
quite as a surprise to Europe. And the intelligence
• a
is all the more startling of its kind, Seen'," that
it spreads over Christendom at the very moment
when the Congress proposed by the French EnaPe-
ror is under the consideration of all the chief Euro-
pean. Sovereigns. While it is so, one of the
number is abruptly snatched from life. The know-
ledge of even his Majesty's indisposition was scarcely
known beyond his own country, certainly was un-
known beyond the Scandinavian regions. His death
was consequently quite unlocked for. And, seeing
that it occurs in the fifty-fifth year of his
ago, it must be said to have happened preihaturely.
Erysipelas, resulting in fever and delirium, appears
to have been the cause of the monarch's rapid de-
mise. The span of the life thus completed dates from
the birth of his Majesty, FREDERICK CHARLES
CHRISTIAN, on the 6th of October, 1808, to his
very recent death, at about half-past two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, the 15th November, 1863. The
late King of DENMARK, therefore, was about half a
year younger than the Emperor NAPOLEON In.
They were both born in 1808, the Xing in Oatober,
April. In the full vigour
the Emperor in
of his life, therefore, his Majesty, King
FREDERICK VII, h As closed his career after

a reign of from fifteen to sixteen years. Born in
tb ie ;same year as NAPOLEON 111., as we have just
re marked, it should here be added that FREDE-
RI .CK VII. assumed the reins of Government in Den-
m ark. in the very year in which the then Prince
Loin S NAPOLEON was called to power in France.
Only that, whereas the Danish Monarch is younger
than the ruler of France by half a year, the former
has t ,een at the head of the Government of Den-
marl: very nearly a whole year longer than
NAF'OLEON 111. has been at the head of the Govern-
ment of France. King FREDERICK VII. succeeded
his :lather, King CHRISTIAN VIII., on the 20th of
Jan o.ary, 1848. The Prince Louis NAPOLEON being
elec.;ed President of therrench Republic in that same
year on the memorable 10th of December. With
these differences, merely, of FREDERICK VII. of
Den:mark being younger by half a year as a man,
and older by almost a year as a ruler, than NAPO-
LEON lll.—the career of the Danish King and the
caroer of the French EMPEROR have been running,
up to this time, nearly parallel, that is to say, at
least, nearly contemporaneously. Three times
within the last thirty-five years of his life, a life
numbering altogether, as we have seen, less than
five and fifty, three several times has the late King
of DENMARK married. The first of these marriages
took place on the Ist of November, 1828, when
he espoused the Princess WILHELMINA MARIA,
one of the daughters of King FREDERICK VI.
of Denmark, the immediate predecessor of the
father of the KING just now deceased. An
unhappy marriage it turned out to be, as the
world knew five years afterwards, when the royal
pair were divorced. A second marriage was con-
tracted by his late MAJESTY in 1811, upon the
10th of June, when he took to wife, " for bettor,
for worse," the Princess CAROLINE CHARLOTTE
MARIANNE, the daughter of GEORGE, the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Again
the result showed that he had done so " for worse"
instead of " for better"—the royal couple being
divorced in a little more than five years later on,
namely, on the 30th of September, 1846. As if
tired then of the ill-luck twice brought to
him by means of a right-handed marriage,
the late KING on the 7th of August,
1850, essayed what is known as a left-
handed or morganatic marriage—his third wife,
(not, however, his Queen Consort), being LOUISA
CHRISTINA, Countess DE DANNER, Coming to the
throne at the beginning of the year of the last great
revolutionary outbreak, it is no marvel, to bear in
mind that FREDERICK VII. of Danmark had but
a troubled time with his subjects in the earlier part
of his reign. German Unity, a cause then agitat-
ing more or less the whole of the various States
of the Confederation, then pressing more than once
heavily, at moments all but overwhelmingly upon
Denmark. Germany claimed then as she has done
ever since, not merely the Duchy of Holstein : but
with it the contiguous Duchy of Schleswig, the
latter province nevertheless appertaining distinctly
to the Danish Crown, and having no sort or kind
of connection with the Germanic Confederation.
Germany, in point of fact—that being the core of the
whole evil—having cast a covetous eye on the noble
sea port of Kiel upon the Baltic. Inasmuch was
Germany resolved upon the acquisition of those
Siamese Duchies of Schleswig-and-Holstein, to-
gether with, of course, that eagerly wished-for port
of Kiel, that war was declared by Germany against
Denmark, the Danish soil was invaded by a German
army, and the Danes had to rise in arms, as they
did, for the vindication of their rights at the point
of the sword, led forward against the foe, with a
knightly as well as with a kingly chivalry, by their
newly-crowned sovereign, King FREDERICK VII,
The result, as one of the most notable episodes
of the great revolutionary outbreak, then extending
more or less over all Europe, is still borne, of course,
vividly in recollection. The German invaders were
defeated and were compelled to retire before the
patriotic determination of the Danish People and
the Danish SOVEREIGN. Warlike movements then
gave place to what has been winding on wearily
ever since—a succession of tedious and apparently
interminable diplomatic negotiations. A tempo-
rary estrangement between the KING and the
people arose out of the Court scandals connected with
the circumstances of FREDERICK VlL's last mar-
riage—his third marriage—one, as already remarked,
of a left-handed or morganatic character—when
the infatuated Monarch took to wife the public
dancer, there and then created by him Countess DE
DANNER, Happily, all things considered, no
issue resulted from any one of the mar-
riages of King FREDERICK VII. A col-
lateral branch of the Royal house was called to
the succession. The new Sovereign of DENMARK,
his present Majesty King CHRISTIAN IX.—yester-
day Prince of DENMARK, of the house of
Schleswig Holstein Sonderburgh Glucksburgh--is,
as we all know full well in this country, the father
of H.R.H. ALEXANDRA, Princess of Wales, and
future Queen-Consort of England, and of his
Majesty GEORGE 1., the youthful King of the
Hellenes.

It has been wisely and fittingly determined that
the good and great soldier whom England has
lately lost shall not be left without a worthy memo-
rial. The length and importance of the public ser-
vices rendered by Lord CLYDE, the remarkable cha-
racter of the campaigns in which he was engaged,
and the high sense of honour and daring ambition
which accompanied his straightforward simplicity
and unfeigned modesty, all entitle him to rank high
among the notabilities of an age by no means defi-
cient in its military talent. Not less meritorious as
an example, or rare as a qualification, was the un-
swerving fidelity with which Lord CLYDE devoted
himself to the duties of his profession through the
long years of inaction and obscurity. The reward
of his assiduous attention came at last, and, from
the high state of efficiency to which he had brought
his regiment, it was always ready for any emer-
ene3r, and the soldiers were no less ready for im-
mediate •
%then than the general. By the exercise
v
of that ..,_e_.ar
gifttaln by which a naturally qualified
commander enlists the sympathy and confidence of
his men, 140,4
Over his regiment
had obtained such an ascen-
dancygaireent as to be able to ensure their
acting up to his
zur etations in the moment of
danger. We
sit
re
occasion in the crirne:ller how on a memorable
ee asked leave to meet the
enemy's advance in line,
withstood the charge. It
4 how that " thin red
irit Lord CLYDE infawatin only a sample
of the
e sp
into his men,
and of their devotion to the-
no, leader. The various
iv heroic and
eminent quali-
utinessweorfvi
guished
111`th
were severally
at a meeting
dwelt upon last week, convened for
this distin
the purpose of taking measures to erect tt testi-
monial to his memory• assembly many
men eminent in different walks of life came
sense for-
_ of the worth and ability
ward to express their
of the lamented soldier. Foremost amongst these
was the Commander-in-Chief, who, in remarking
upon the universality of the desire to pay respect
II 4 JE STY to Lord CLYDE, mentioned that her i .
her-
self was the very first to express her wish that
honour should be done to the illustrious soldier who
The noble
had shown such devotion to her service.
duke then entered upon a summary of COLIN
CAMPBELL'S career, tracing the fortunes of the
i Young recruit, "born a soldier," ft man tile time

when he entered the army, without any friends or
supporters save his own good right arm, his honest
heart, and his noble bearing, up to the day when
full of honours he was laid to rest in the great
Westminster Cathedral. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
as befitted his official position in this record, at-
tached as much importance to General CAMPBELL'S
care of his regiment as to his deeds of chivalrous
courage. The young soldier who petitioned for
permission to lead the forlorn hope as a reward for
conduct which had attracted the notice of his su-
periors, was the same who as general of a division
and commander-in•chief of an army was careful of
the life of every soldier, and never expended an
unnecessary force when men might be saved by
careful strategy and planning. The Duke of
CAMBRIDGE remarked that it was supposed by many
that an officer's only duties were in time of war,
and that other matters were of no considerable im-
portance. Such, however, was a great mistake, for
that it was the power of dealing efficiently with details
while mastering the great principles of the profession,
that constituted the good soldier. "It is well
known," said the noble drake, " that when a man
has got his regiment into such a state of efficiency
as that in which the 98th was under Lord CLYDE,
he will be sure to distinguish himself whenever an
opportunity may arise." This has been the case with
many eminent leaders, not the least of whom was
HAVELOCK, whose stedfast well-doing through so
many long years of weary neglect and insignifi-
cance prepared him and his men so well for the
arduous duties they were afterwards so success-
fully to accomplish. Earl DE GREY, in addressing
the meeting, dwelt principally upon the services
rendered by Lord CLYDE in India, not only in
suppressing the mutiny, but in restoring order when
the insurrection was at an end. EarlDE GREY men-
tioned that when Sir W. MANSFIELD, Lord CLYDE'S
chief of the staff, was leaving Warsaw, where he
held a diplomatic appointment at the time of the
outbreak, Prince GORTSCHAKOFF said to him that
he had no doubt the revolt would be put down by
force, but that he thought the task of dealing with
the population of the conquered provinces would
be very difficult. It did not prove, however, too
difficult for Lord CLYDE, on whom devolved a great
part of the responsibility, and the honour and regard
in which his name is held in India, no less than in his
own country, is a sufficient proof that he knew how
to sheathe the iron hand in the velvet glove. The
Duke of ARGYLL, as chief of the CAMPBELL clan,
and Sir CHARLES WooD, as Indian Secretary,
were suitable speakers on this interesting
occasion, and the stirring eloquence of the Earl
of ELLENBOROUGH reminded the meeting
that what Lord CLIVE was at PlassY7
Lord CLYDE was at Lucknow, and that
honours paid to the heroic dead serve to animate
the living. Military honours, said the noble earl'
unlike the distinctions won in other professions, are
from the first undisputed realities. The great states-
man sees his claim to public gratitude fiercely con-
tested by opposing politicians, and Lord ELL EN-
BOROUGH might have carried the comparison a
little further, to the philosophers, the authors, the
artists, the discoverers, whose works enrich their
age, but bring them, during life, but chequered
reputation and limited reward. But with the
soldier all is changed. " There can be no doubt
as to the merit of the man who defended Bala-
klava during the winter of 1854, and protected
the communications of the British army. There
can be no doubt as to the services of the man
who, in the face of such difficulties and dangers
as those with which he had to contend, rescued
the captives in the residency of Lucknow. Still
less can there be any doubt as to the military
combinations of the man who took possession of
Lucknow." Death, as Lord ELLENBOROUGII ob-
served, has latterly been busy among our great
men, and their plat-s are hard to supply, but it
will be especially difficult to replace the experi-
ence of the veteran soldier who, in the Peninsula,
in America, in India, and the Crimea had learned
the art of war. There are few left to bear him
company, and of those old companions in arms their
country may justly be proud. Lord STANLEY,
in passing his encomium on the merits of Lord
CLYDE, said he should wish the statue, which it was
proposed to raise to his memory, should be erected
beside those of NAPIER and HAVELOCK—whose
names are both associated with his own, and that
the fourth place should be reserved for the honoured
effigy of LAWRENCE. Such a suggestion deserves
consideration, and the vacant posts of honour in our
great central square would thus be worthily filled.
Meantime we need not fear that the contributions
will pour in fast and freely, and the honour due to
the illustrious dead will be fully and promptly ren-
dered by his countrymen.

Thdse who have been trying to persuade them-
selves that the King of PRUSSIA intended to modify
his arrangements, and to allow many deviations
from the strictness of his rules and the arbitrary
character of his propositions, will be grievously
disappointed when they see the new " Press Law."
It would seem as if the framers of it had gone out
of their way as much as possible to render the pro-
visions of it as harsh and obnoxious as they could.
In fact, its whole style and tenour is such that its
introduction to the new Parliament is most
unsatisfactory and disheartening. It is throw-
ing down a defiance to those who are advo-
cates for freedom of discussion, while to those
more immediately concerned it is both unwise and
unjust. In the first place, a clause is introduced
which is equivalent to sealing the doom of any
paper. Any journal condemned twice in five year
will be considered non-existing. Of course, by
this simple process any paper which does not exactly
suit the notions of the Government may be speedily
sequestrated. It is all very fine to pat in five
years to look as if a long period of probation was
permitted; but everyone knows that two days
would really suffice for the death-warrant to be
drawn up in. This alone stamps the whole affair
with insecurity, and prevents any intelligent ob-
server from concurring with it. After this pro-
posal, there comes another still more harsh
and equally significant. If a new journal is started
that is at all supposed to have any connection with,
or be a continuation of, the old one, it may be for-
bidden, without any law proceedings being taken.
This is extreme, and of course the prohibition is
ntroduced by those who do not want to give any
opportunity to the accused to vindicate themselves.
If the suspected ones were really in leegue or col-
lusion with the guilty party nothing could be
easier than to prove it in a court of equity. But the
present mode of working out the difficulty exhibits
the strength and the weakness of the cause entirely.
There is always danger of something wrong when
any mystery prevails, and this arrangement is very
occult. Indeed, there can be no doubt that, with
tahl
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owed
to
of
bthis t provision,arted—
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all n o
events,
newve nt
sj,o unronnael s t
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are b a
of a progressive tendency. Ono paragraph is so
worded that it
are to be
w as ouldlisaebelemttohtahteapllevinahlotieas inreifinicatnedy
way connected with the carrying on of the paper
included
pfoirlertshaetlinfringe
ers Olf these enactments are really to
be congratulated in t
of the statutes. The corn-
one way for their success in
manufacturing such extreme regulations. It
would appear that every passible provision has

been considered in order that interruptions should
interpose at every turn, and annoyances be inflicted
on the unfortunate individuals who attempt to carry
on the process of journalism. Thus, the " editor"
is to be subjected to participation in every punish-
ment, whether he is taking an active part or not
in the proceedings at the time the offence is com-
mitted, " even if prevented by absence or by other
reasons from exercising his functions." This is a
new reading of justice, and allowing, for the
sake of argument, that there devices are
put in to practice, King WILLIAM and his
Ministers will certainly have made Prussia
famous by this striking and startling exposition
of legal invention and legislative enactments.
Aa if the previous regulations were not strong enough
there is another paragraph which provides that
journals are to be considered as offending if they
even give a truthful report of the proceedings of
the Chambers. Certainly there are not likely to be
many discussions which will redound to the credit
of the KING and his Cabinet. The new Chamber
must be a poltroon set if they endorse such propo-
sals, and totally unworthy of their country
and their position if they stultify them-
selves by agreeing to such proposals becoming the
law of the land. Taking into consideration the
various signs and tokens that have occurred, it
seems a mockery to have had another election at
all. Why insult the people by ignoring what their
representatives desire, and insisting on proposals
being carried out that are entirely opposite to the
views and wishes of the general community. If this
is part of a deep-laid scheme to appear as if all rea-
sonable attempts had been made to establish a con-
stitutional form of government, it will be a decided
failure and a complete defeat. The adverse Cham-
ber will be dissolved, the indignant population
silenced by the strong hand of the law against the
exponents of popular wrongs and the vindicators of
public. rights, but even then there will arise obstacles
that will seem insurmountable. Deep in the heart
of the nation the feeling will be implanted, and woe
will betide those who wilfully ignore or wantonly
disregard the sentiment. It would be difficult to find
a more irritating subject for contemplation than
Prussia presents at this moment, for with a
good chance of success and a grand prospect
of improvement before them, her rulers
have cast prudence to the winds, and
entirely discarded patriotism in their suggestions
and regulations. In times of difficulty and danger
it is of no use to analyse events, or recapitulate
troubles; the only way is to take each thing as it
comes, and to meet every emergency with care,
courage, and constancy. The deputies have a solemn
task before them; let them be true to their cause,
and the day must eventually be their own. The
new bill on the public press must be summarily re-
jected, or farewell to all integrity and independence
of thought and action. Likewise these representa-
tives have the responsibility of redeeming their
pledges to their constituents, and they must take a
bold step in the matter, and with united voice pro-
claim that such tyranny cannot bo tolerated, and
that such innovations are not to be dreamt of.
Theirs is a trying position, but if they remain true
to their Own earnest convictions they will be sure
to be right, and if principalities and powers are
arrayed against them, the might of justice and the
majesty of truth are stronger and greater than
even they, An anxious and expectant people will
wait on their efforts and watch their deliberations,
and the issues of this senatorial conflict are of un-
usual magnitude and import, for they are connected
with events that may be the herald of regeneration
or the forerunner of decadence to a kingdom that is
ranked among the foremost in Christendom, and the
question now in abeyance is whether the danger
may be averted that threatens to obliterate its
greatness, or if history must add another to the long
list of failures and disappointments that darken the
retrospect, and sully the brightness of her annals.

The Court-martial on Colonel Crawley,

The court-martial on Colonel Crawley commences to-
morrow. The military authorities were quite prepared to
enter on the inquiry on the day first named, but on Monday
an application was made by the legal advisers of Colonel
Crawley for further delay to enable them to complete the
evidence for the defence. The matter was referred to the
Judge-Advocate-General, who at once acceded to the re-
quest. The announcement was telegraphed in the course
of the evening to the authorities at Aldershot; but so far as
they are concerned, their chief duty being to provide the
necessary accommodation for the court, and take charge of
the witnesses, the inquiry could commence at any moment.
In regard to the constitution of the court itself, we may
stat 3 that Colonel Palmer, of the 60th, who was named one
of its members, has been seized with illness, and that his
place has been supplied by Colonel Lodder of the 59th.
The following is a complete list of the officers who are to
compose the general court-martial:—President—Lieu-
tenant-General Sir George Augustus Wetherell, K.C.B.
Members--Major-General John Lawrenson, Major - General
David Russell, C. 8., Major-General Randal Rumley, Major-
General Edward Cooper Hodge, C. 8., Colonel Robert Ward-
law, Ist Dragoons, Colonel Gloucester Gambier, C. 8., Royal
Artillery, Colonel Hon. George Talbot Devereux, Royal
Artillery, Colonel Thomas George Alexander Oates, 12th
Lancers, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Sawyer, 6th Dragoon
Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Wynne Lodder, 59th
Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Neptune Sargent, 3d Foot,
Lieutenant-Colonel Soarne Gambier Jenyns, C. 8., 13th
Hussars, Lieutenant. Colonel Hugh Maurice Jones, 73d
Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Douglas Grey, 37th Foot.
Officiating Judge-Advocate—Colonel James Kennard
Pipon, unattached. Prosecutor—Colonel Sir Alfred Here-
ford, E.C.B. The prisoner will be assisted in his defence
by Mr. Vernon Harcourt.

It is impossible to say to what length the trial may ex;
tend but if it were not for the cumbrous procedure of the
Court, the questions and answers being all written, the
issues before it might easily and expeditiously be deter-
mined. Divested of technicalities, the charges against
Colonel Crawley resolve themselves into the following, as
already stated in our columns :—First, that he, by undue
severity to Sergeant-Major Lilley, when under close arrest,
was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle-
man; and, secondly, that in an address made by him at
the Mhow court-martial he accused Lieutenant and Ad-
jutant Fitzsimons or having of his own accord acted with
that undue severity towards Sergeant-Major Lilley, he
(Colonel Crawley) well knowing that the accusation was
false, inasmuch as he himself had given express orders on
the subject to Adjutant Fitzsimons, in the presence of many
witnesses. These are the charges into which the Court will
have to inquire, and every effort, it is said, will be made
strictly to limit it to those issues.

The Rev. Charles Kingsley is about to publish
" A History of England for Boys." Rather superfluous
after Charles Dickens's "Child's History of England."
THE NATIONAL SHAKSPERE COMMITTEE.—The
Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton and Sir C. L. Eastlake
have consented to act as Vice.-Presidents of the National
Shakspere Committee. The following names have been
added to the list of the committee during the past week ;
The Hon, J. Blackie (Lord Provost of Glasgow),
Burnand, Esq.,
,E:cqie,ociP, rirofs.l,M.D., D. Macrae, Delius, Prof. Else,
L. Lamb, Esq., m
Esq., Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Prof. Ulric!, M.
Williams, Esq., and S. Williamson, Esq. Herr Albert
Cohn has been appointed German secretary to the commit-
tee, with authority to invite distinguished persons to form
a central German committee in Berlin, and committees-in-
aid in the principal cities of Germany. —Athencuni.
ARRIVAL OF MR. AID MRS. CHARLES KEAN IN
AusTitA.LlA..—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean and patty
arrived at Melbourne on the 25th of September, all well.
THE MARCHIONESS OF WATERFORD, one of the
ablest of our amateur artists, is painting, in dis-
temper, on twelve arched compartments on the walls of the
schoolroom at Ford, Northumberland, a series of pictures
representing boys and girls mentioned is the Bible. One
subject is already done; it shows Cain and Abel, youths of
ten or twelve years of age, sacrificing. The second subject
is Isaac going to the sacrifice—the third, Esau selling his
birthright—the fourth, Joseph and his Brethren.
AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE THIS WEEK—.
There are three steamers due at Liverpool this week with
mails from the United States, viz.:—the Etna, from New
York, on the 7th, will probably reach Queenstown on Wed-
nesday next, and the Damascus, from Quebec, on the 7th,
is also duo at Londonderry on the same day. On Saturday
next the Cunard steamer, Canada, with dates from Boston
to the 11th, and 1111ifax to the 13th, is due a- t n
,ueezis-
town.

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