The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVE AMER, 26, 1863.

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Performance of duties is a very desirable plan. Mr.
WALTER'S definition that no one has a right to
judge of the question of a man being a good
servant, but his master, savours too strongly of the
old feudal times, and hardly accord with our modern
notions of independence. Many lookers•on can tell
if merit or demerit is to be attributed to a man in
the employ of another, besides those immediately
concerned. Altogether the affair at Abingdon
passed off very successfully, and the entertainment
added another to those desirable opportunities
which are now happily so prevalent, when all ranks
and classes can share in the discussion of public
affairs, or at all events listen to those who descant
upon them, which is a more impressive mode of
obtaining information than merely perusing details.

The death of King FREDERICK VII. has added
a fresh complication to the already sufficiently
entangled Schleswig-Holstein question. It is not
enough that the long-pending dispute between
Denmark and Germany should at length have
reached a crisis, that the unwarrantable pretensions
of the Diet should have been suddenly put forward
with fresh energy and determination, that the Sove-
reign who has proved himself well able to maintain
his own and his people's rights should have been
replaced by a new and untried Monarch; but a point
of genealogy and disputed succession has been added
to the most troublesome of European questions
Since the accession of King CHRISTIAN IX. affairs
have not been standing still. The pretensions of
the Prince of AUGUSTENBURG, whom few persons in
this country knew much about, have been put for-
ward to add another to the wolf's many reasons for
eating up the lamb. In cases where a strong de-
sire is supported by superior force, we all know
that monarchs and statesmen find very little trouble
in discovering a valid reason why they should have
what they want. The Prince of AUGUSTEN BURG
will do as well as any one else to put forward, and
the sudden demise of the King of DENMARK gives
the German Powers a convenient opportunity for
transferring the ground of their pretensions on
Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg from the re-
quirements of peoples to the more congenial basis
of the rights of kings. Consequently we find the
Duke of GOTHA, the King of SAXONY, and several
minor Princes, supporting warmly these newly ad-
vanced claims of the Prince of AUGUSTENBURG,
the Ambassador of the latter Power having gone so
far as to protest against the readmission of a Danish
ambassador to the Federal Diet until the adjustment
of the Scheswig Holstein question. The represen-
tative of Saxony further advised that Federal execu-
tion should immediately be carried out in Holstein
and Lauenberg until both duchies should be trans-
ferred by the Confederacy to their legitimate Prince.
In yesterday's sitting of the Upper House of the
Saxon Diet a resolution was passed expressing the
satisfaction of the members with the steps already
taken, and urging the Government to use their
efforts on behalf of Schleswig no less than Holstein,
assuring it of popular support even of the moat ex-
treme measures. It has even been rumoured that
Austria and Prussia intend supporting the preten-
sions of the Prince of Augustenburg, though it is
difficult to believe those Powers could so far con-
tradict the treaty to which they were parties. It
is, however, emphatically denied, according to the
latest news from Frankfort, that they have pro-
tested against the Prince's claim, on the ground of
his father's morganatic marriage. We shall learn
more of Austria's sentiments with very little de•
lay—Count RECHB ERG having promised to lay the
correspondence on the subject of Holstein before
the Lower House. Putting aside the new claimant,
Austria and Prussia may make their excuse for
hostilities out of the KING'S adoption of
the new constitution which identifies Schleswig
with Denmark. A protest on this account they
have already delivered to the Federal Diet. Po-
pular excitement throughout Germany is aroused
to a great extent, and the committee of the na-
tional Verein have resolved upon issuing an address
to the German people, calling on them to aid with
men, money, and arms in the great undertaking.
Meanwhile in Holstein all is mutiny and confusion.
The greater number of the officials have refused to
recognise the new King, while the projected assem-
bly at Kiel sufficiently shows the temper of the
Deputies. The Prince of AUGUSTENBURG has ap-
pealed to the Diet to protect these unruly officials
from the consequences of their declining to take the
oath of allegiance, end Germany, for once aroused
out of its accustomed placidity, puts aside for the
moment the thoughts of the Prussian constitutional
struggle, and the Austrian scheme of Reform and
Unity, in its excitement about Schleswig and Hol-
stein. Denmark, on her part, is making warlike
preparations, and certainly the new King has as
yet had good cause to cry with the English Sove-
reign of old, " Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown." His adoption of the new constitution,
which the death of King FREDERIC VII. hed pre-
vented from passing into law, was a bold
and popular measure, though by it he
excited the indignation of the two great German
Powers. The time has long gone by, however,
when the Danish KING could hope to gain any-
thing from a conciliatory course. He must rest on
the support of his people and deserve their confi-
dence, since neither law, treaty, nor justice will
serve to defend him against German aggression.
The Danish Government has, through its Envoy,
addressed energetic protests against the motions
of opposing members of the Diet, and reminds them
of the unreserved renunciation of the rights of him-
self and his descendants, of any claims upon the
Duchies by the father of the present claimant.
But while all this is going on abroad, what is our
Foreign Secretary doing ? He will have to take
measures, and active measures too, to protect Den--
mark from aggression. Is he giving the German
Powers fair warning of what line the English
people will require their Ministry to adopt, in the
event of affairs proceeding to extremities ?

Extraordinary Claim to Three Adverbs !

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DISMISSAL OF THE SCB:EIKH-AL-ISLAM.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 26.
The Scheikh•al-Islam, the great obstacle to pro-
gress and financial reform in the Council of Minis-
ters, was dismissed yesterday afternoon.

PARIS, Nov. 26.

An Imperial decree, published to-day, suppresses
the drawback at present granted on the exportation
of sal-ammoniac, and establishes a supplementary
tax of three francs per 100 kilogrammes on the im-
portation into France of the English or Belgian
article.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, Nov. 26:
MARSEILLES, Nov. 25.
The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived here
at 9 p.m. this day.
The mails leave for London by the 10.30 p.m.
train,

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 25 (Evening).

A decree has been published converting Spanish
money into specie of the same standard as foreign
coin, in order to place obstacles in the way of the
exportation of bullion.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 26.
The sitting of the Federal Diet has been ad-
journed until Saturday.
It is supposed that the Committee on the affairs
of Holstein will propose the exclusion from the Diet
of both claimants for the Holstein•Lauenburg vote
antil the definitive settlement of the succession.

"The Red Shoes," "The Storks," The Snow
Queen," and many others, ar3 gladly greeted again
by us as old friends and especial favourites. The
illustrations are throughout very felicitous. In the
picture of " The Storks," the mother stork and her
young ones are represented as safely ensconced in
their nest on the house top, while the father stork,
standing on one leg at a little distance, acts the part
of sentry. " One would have thought he had been
calved out of wood, so still did he stand. He thought
It must look very grand that my wife has a sentry
standing by her nest. They can't tell that it is her
husband!'" The artist has happily caught the
humour of the idea, and aptly portrayed the com-
bined pride and humility evidenced in the wonder-
ful self-abnegation of the Paterfamilias Stork.

Every Little Boy's Book. A complete Cyclopzelia
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This is a book which should be in the hands of
Every Little Boy of our acquaintance. It bears a
close iesemblance to " The Boy's Own Book," the
familiar friend and great authority of their elder
brithers. There are no idle tales and silly stories
'o be met with in this volume—it is all business.
Very serious business too. We have a complete
cycloptelia of in and out-door games with and
without toys, a full and particular history of the
management of all domestic pets, and by way of
appendix, a series of conjuring tricks, gallanti
shows, &c., and the whole drama of Punch and
Judy Among the various sports are no less than
twenty-seven in-door games, with toys, and thirty-
three without toys. Among the former are
Draughts, Dominoes, Solitaire, Battledore and
Shuttlecock, Tee-totum, Tournament, &c. Among
the latter, Blind-man's Buff, Consequences,
Family Coach, Frog in the Middle, &c., &c. Of
the Out-door Games, with toys, there are no less
than fifteen games at Ball, five games with Hoops,
five with Kites, sixteen with Marbles, six with
Tops, and sixteen Miscellaneous games, Aunt
Sally among the number! In addition to all
these are the out-door games without toys, those
athletic sports that steady the nerve and strengthen
the sinew of the youthful volunteer. Riding,
Swimming, Sliding, Gymnastics, Cricket, &c., are
all the subjects of very particular instruction, and
are ably illustrated by numerous engravings.

Aunt Maddy's Diamonds. A Tale for Little Girls.
By Mrs. Harriet Myrtle. Pp. 150. Rontledge.
Aunt Maddy (as " Mrs. Madeline M'Toulbridge"
was habitually entitled) had two nieces, Fanny
Hastings and Julia Rose, who greatly resembled
those two far-famed heroines of the fairy-tale—the
gentle maiden from whose loving lips at every
word dropped pearls and diamonds, and her ill
natured sister, from whose angry mouth fell a
constant succession of vipers and toads. Fanny is
proud and self-willed, and selfish, and the object
of general dislike, while Julia is gentle and love-
able, and kind to one and all, and beloved by all
who knew her. In vain does Aunt Maddy bestow
as a birthday gift upon Fanny the fairy tale alluded
to, bound in silver and pink. In vain is Aunt
Maddy troubled with a warning cough of expostu-
lation whenever a symbolic " toad" falls from the
lips of her imperious niece. It requires a severe dis-
cipline to convert Fanny's toads into diamonds,
but the magic alchemy is achieved at last, and the
interesting history and happy results of that
achievement are here narrated for the benefit of the
little Fannys and Julias of the day.

Marian and her Pupils. A Story for Girls. By
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Marian Russell, a gentle damsel of eighteen, and
her giddy little sister Gertie, the impetuous little
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latest addition to the group, the neglected Marian,
her pupils, present a variety of very interesting
characters, and are the subjects of a very delightful
tale. The volume opens with a charming " Family
picture," then follows a sad "Bereavement."
" Sweets and bitters," " Sunshine and suffering,"
alternate in these chapters, as they do in real life.
The example of Marian and her pupils will be found
well worthy of emulation by their youthful readers,
and the happy effects of loving home-teaching arc
happily displayed.

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With illustrations. Pp. 402. Routledge.

The names of the hero and the author of this
history are each sufficient guarantees for the heroic
character of the contents. It is a stirring narration
of danger and disaster, of fierce daring and chival-
rous courage, As a happy specimen of the heroic
character of the incidents and the spirited style of
the narrative, let us quote the following description
of