The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

FIRST WARNING TO THE BERLIN PRESS.
BERLIN, JUNE 6.
The publishers of the six newspapers which pro-
tested yesterday against the recent press crdinance
The reasons for this
step
pe
arreec received a first warning,
stated
t e
d to
be
ethat
th e
papers in question
have distorted facts, represented them in an odious
light, aroused hatred against the Government,
excited disobedience, and on accaunt of their atti-
tude generally.

SPEECH OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF
PRUSSIA.

Their Royal Highnesses the DANTZIC, FRIDAY.Crown Prince and
Crown Princess of Prussia have arrived here.
They paid a visit to the Rathhaus to-day, where
they were received by the municipal authorities.
The Chief Magistrate having expressed his sor-
row that circumstances would not permit the mani-
festations of public rejoicings at the visit of their
Royal Highnesses, the Crown Prince replied :
" I also regret that I have come here at a time
when disagreement has taken place between the
Government and the people, the news of which sur-
prised me greatly. Being absent I was unaware
of the ordinances which have brought about this
position of affairs, andlook no part in the delibe-
rations when they were resolved upon.
"But we are all convinced—and no one better
than I, who know the noble and patriotic senti-
ments of the King—that Prussia, under his Ma-
jesty's sceptre, is securely approaching the great-
ness which Providence has marked out for her."
speech of his Royal Highness by
The chief inagistrate, Herr Winter, replied to the
calling upon those
present to give three cheers for the King and the
Crown Prince.

ADDRESS OF THE BERLIN MUNICIPALITY
TO THE KING.
The municipalit BERLIN, Friday.
agree to the yof Berlin has resolved to-day to
proposition made yesterday by the Com-
mon Council, to send an address to the King, of
which the following is a summary :
p jThe address calls the attention of his Majesty to
the rcudicial consequences of pi omulgating the
recent ordinance on the press, and of carrying on
the Government Without a settled budget. It re-
unfavourable influence of the long pro
questing the King
tracted constitutional conflict upon the relations of
property, trade, and the public credit, and concludes
by re
tional state of affairs by a speedy convocation of the
Diet. to re-establish the constitu-
wi'l'iliracechoeinapr
The Kreuz Zeitung of to-day says :
at2hl;tthHeericr Vino; Idt:tin:ark:se
jhoounrhnaeuysz
Carlsbad."

BOURSE, JuneF
SR.—TANCE.
heavy, and the limited he market has been again
amount of business done has
been dor e at
prices below the closing rates of yes-
terday. The Railway Share Market has been as
inanimate the Rente, and the variation in quota-
tions trifling. Mobilier are The market recovered towards
at 1,310 f.
as follows:
s the close, and left off

it per Cents. ..... 97
Do. end month.... --
3 per Cents
...... 69 35
Do. end month.... 5
- -
69 6
Credit
Do, end m0nth....1305 Bank Shares ...... 3450 --
Credit k oneier

Italian Loan 73 15
_
Do. end month.. • • _
e w ditto
Do. an end raonth... •
Ru
__
..._
Austrian
_
s§panish Threes —
tionae Debt
,WAYS,

BAIL'

Cas h..
Orleans
............. lOO2 60
.. 1003 Account
75
Northern
....
1035
.. 1040
New ditto
• -....
Lyons and 'Mediterranean 1050
.. 1055
Genera
440
..
Southern ............. . 755 —.
.. 758 75
Western
525
..
Eastern .• • •
505
.. 507 25
Sardinian
Austrian
Lour bard
North of Spain
570
.. 571 25
Saragossa 723 75
.. 722
Ditto to Barcelona •• • • 385
.. 387 50
50
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:NMARK AND GERMANY.

The following despatch has been addressed by
the banish 'Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Re-
presentatives of Denmark at the Courts of Vienna
and of Berlin, in reply to the communication of
those two German Courts Ott the 7th of April last :
a
Copenhg May 2
"Sir,—lt is with much sorrow
that the Gen,overnmentB. of
the King has learnt by the notes presented to it, on the 7th
of April last, by the Envoys of Prussia and of Austria at
Copenhagen, that those two Great Powers have felt them-
selves obliged, by the patent and rescripts of the King, under
date of 30th March, to claim in the name of the German
Confederation, as also on their Own account, all rights and
privileges of a federal or international nature, founded upon
the arrangements of 1852, or upon any other basis what-
ever. The two Powers, however, reserve the appreciation of
the measures which have been taken by the said acts of the
King for the consideration of the German Confederation,
and, in fact,
leges maulting from negotiations conducted in the name
it is a matter of course that rights and privi-
and will the authority of the Confederation, can only be
claimed by the latter. Now, it is our firm conviction that
a fair consideration would only tend to show that the Royal
patent of the 30th of March, if properly understood, would
prove that its real meaning gives no pretext to any claim
whatever. In fact,
neither by that act nor by any other has
it been the intention of the Government to disown obliga-
tions which may be incumbent upon the King, in virtue of
the federal laws accepted by his Maj • sty for his federal pos-
sessions, or in consequence of the negotiations of 1851-1832
with the German Confederation.
" The royal measures in question refer exclusively to the
position of Holstein in the monarchy, and by them a larger
competency has been granted to Holstein. It is unneces-
sary to add that this new arrangement cannot tend to pre-
vent the Royal Government from conscientiously fulfilling
its federal obligations tar Holstein. On the contrary, the
Government foresees flat it will be better enabled to satisfy
the wishes and exactions of the Confederation, since the
position of Holstein in the monarchy has thus become more
independent; and, if it is true that the Royal patent grants
to the Estates of Holstein that deliberative competency in
the legislation and in the voting of the estimates which,
following the principles of the negotiations of 1851, ought
to be exercised as reg,,,ds Holstein also, by the common re-
presentation of the monarchy, the Royal Government could
not be made responsille for it.
" The two great German Powers are aware that federal
resolutions, repeated with threats of coercion, as also the
ailure of all our attempts at conciliation, have left no
choice to the Royal Government in this respect. Any
eventual conflict between Estates of Holstein and the Rigs-
raad which it may not bo possible to settle must, it is true,
lead to a partial disso!ution of the existing arrangement
in common ; but this is only a necessary consequence
of that exaction of the Confederation, that the Holstein
Estates should be inves ed with a legislative competency in
the category of afleirs,whicb, according to the arrange-
ments of 1851, ought, nevertheless, to emanate exclusively
from the representationin common; and this consequence
could not be avoided vithout consenting that the whole
existence of the monarchy should be paralyzed.
" I request you, Sir, ;o read this despatch to —, and
"HALL,"
to leave hint a copy.

CRIME.—During 1862 there were 20,000 per-
sons committed for trialin England, 6,666 in Ireland, and
3,360 in Scotland. Of these 7,816 were acquitted, and
21,101 convicted, and 3)62 of these were sentenced to vari
ous terms of penal emtude.

LITERATURE.

The Adventures of a Sporting Dog. Adapted from
the French by Edmund Routledge. Bvo, pp.
155. Routledge and Co.
Our publishers are certainly cultivating author-
ship in earnest. Time was when the most popular
novelist of his age was a bookseller. That fat, old,
apparently common place Richardson, who was one
of the most notable of Dr. Johnson's contemporaries
—the creator of Lovelace, the pathetic narrator of the
history of Clarissa Harlowe, the refined and courtly
delineator of Sir Charles Grandison. There was

'William Hone, too, a long while afterwards, who
sold books and wrote them, and who crowned his
rather remarkable career by killing Lord Chan-
cellor Eilenborough by the very poignancy of
his wit and by the ruthless and pitiless cruelty of
his logic. Thomas in our own time, had
a bookseller's establishment in Newgate•street, if
we remember rightly ; there penning some of the
most readable of the fictions he dealt in. For how
long a time past, is it, that here i❑ London, and
yonder in Edinburgh, two of our most popular
booksellers and publishers have been amongst
the most industrious men of letters of their age
—Charles Knight and Robert Chambers ? The
last-mentioned having the credit (or the discredit,
shall we call it !) of writing (anonymously) the
celebrated geological book of scientific scepticism
called " The Vestiges of Creation." The former en•
joying now in his ripe old age the quadruple glory—
of opening up an epoch of cheap literature with " Tb
Penny Magazine;" of editing with rare ability one
of the best editions of Shakspere ye r, published ; of
conducting to its completion, at a cost of £40,000,
the gigantic work, known now far and wide in both
hemispheres as "The Penny Cyclopmdia," or, better
still, in its revised form (as recently republished),
as "The National Cyclopmdia ;" and, finally, of
himself writing what will henceforth perpetuate his
name both as a scholar and as a patriot, his" Popular
History of England !" It was only very recently,
indeed, that we had occasion to comment upon the
completion of the initial volume of yet another
history of this country penned by another eminent
publisher, Mr. William Longman, one of the heads
of the great House of Longman and Company.
And this same sympathetic association—already, but
more particularly, as we have seen (and shown
indeed) of late, so often witnessed—appears to be
manifesting itself, now, in the younger genera-
tion, what we may almost (seeing that it has barely
yet begun for itself) call the next generation.
Here in this charming little version of the
wonderfully popular Ilistoriette descriptive of
Les Aventures d'un Chien de Chasse, now
for some time past the delight of the sporting, and
becoming every day, more and more evidently,
that of the non-sporting world in France—here,
we say, in this delectable ade.ption of this suddenly
famous Novelette, we have proof positive of what
we have just now been saying. Youthful though
the English adapter of the tale is, in years, he is
already, to a certain extent, experienced—he has
undoubtedly here, in this his last volume, shown
himself to be already skilled—as a man of letters, as
a wielder of the pen, though he can but so very
recently have crossed the scholastic threshold—
to begin life as the son of one of our Londo❑ pub-
lishers. Several little books of miscellaneous col-
lections (a handbook ono of them is to the manly
English game of Cricket) we have observed during
this last year issued from the press in connection
with the name, as writer, editor, or compiler, of
Edmund Routledge. Here unquestionably, how-
ever, is the very best thing the young bookman's
hand has yet attempted, and—more than that,
we will say—accomplished. The charm of the
whole story about the Sporting Dog, Jim,
as told in the original narrative by the
French author, lies in a certain nameless, strange,
indefinable, quaint, quiet subtlety of humour that
Mr. Edmund Routledge, in adapting the tale to
English readers, has caught as it appears to us
almost magically. It is as impalpable almost in its
way as an aroma, and yet he has contrived to seize and
to impart it, with the full flavour of the original, even
to the translation. The effect produced thus is
hardly less surprising in its way than would be the
retention of its sparkling foam and animation
by a bottle of ehampagne after having bee❑
decanted. Even in its translated form, therefore,
these "Adventures of the Sporting Dog," the reader
of them will find to be one of those exceptional
books that we laugh over and cry over—that even
the most phlegmatic will, at any rate, chuckle over
and read with moistened eyes. Among all the
natural, comical, cool, impertinent, delightfully
ridiculous dogs ever depicted—whether, we will
even go so far as to say, by the pen of
Shakspeare, or by the brush of Landseer—Jim
will take high rank. As henceforth a dog of fame
he will be regarded as worthy of association,
with the Crab of Launcelot, or with either
of the "Twa Dogs" of Burns—with Sir Walter
Scott's Mustards and Peppers, or with Sir Bulwer
Lytton's Sir Isaac. A wonderfully delightful dog
is Jim, with his yellow eyes like two carbuncles !
Scratching at the door of sour old Gurney (in ad-
vance of his diffident young master, Thibault), and,
when the door is opened, rushing into the room,
and beginning to ferret in all the corners, " with
almost the same amount of curiosity as a broker
levying an execution would display ! " Point-
ing at the game—his ears trembling vio-
lently his tail stuck up in the air,
poker-wise his muzzle thrust forward, sniff-
ing at the delightful effluvium—twice passing
his tongue over his face in order to relish more lady
the pleasant odour ! A most delectable canine
rascal is Jim—luring his reluctant master on into
poaching like a very Mephistopheles ! Drinking in
the air of the forest with a sort of rapture—air im-
pregnated, for him, with odours that almost drives
him delirious ! Perhaps the funniest touch of all in
this droll delineation of Jim,the Sporting dog, is that
in reference to his bearing at the moment when
Baron Übertus has passed one an evening after the
Baron's preserves have been most shamefully
despoiled by Jim. Leaning his forepaws upon one
of the large stones bordering the park, Jim takes a
survey of the property with the greatest assurance.
"In fact," says the writer, as here translated by
Edmund Routledge, " it is very prubable that if
Jim had been blessed with two hands, he would,
while staring at the Baron's retreating form, have
applied them to his nose, after the manner of the
dirty little boys of the street !" As to the plot of
the story, we wont breathe here one syllable about it.
Let those who love to read a little book brimming over,
from cover to cover, with emotions of the pathetic
and ridiculous, thread their way through the
mazes of the plot for themselves. Any one who
reads the book,upon our recommendation,will thank
us for the hint thus commending them to it—and
will offer their thanks more especially to Mr. Ed-
mund Routledge, for placing the history of Jim and
his human companions thus readily within their
reach.

MANSION-MDSE.—For more than a week past the
Lord Mayor has been suffering from an attack of illness,
which during some days confined him to bed, and was at
one time so alarming as to render necessary the presence,
night and day, of his medical attendant. On Tuesday he
was able to leave his bed, and on Wednesday had so far re-
covered as to proceed to Brighton for change of air, hoping,
however, to return to receive the Prince and Princess at
Guildhall on Monday evening.
RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA-
MENT,--Yesterday the examination of Mr, Hawkins, the
traffic manager of the Brighton Railway in opposition to the
proposed new line to Brighton, was continued, Mr,
Watkins, engineer, was examined in the case of the South
Yorkshire and River Dun Company ; and Mr. Hope Scott,
Q.C., replied on the entire case of the Osweatry, Newtown,
and other companies Amalgamation Bill. The case of the
Scottish Central is still proceeding. In the Lords, Messrs.
Robertson, M.P., Price, Bevan, and others were examined
as to traffic and finance.

A Pennsylvania girl, who has been serving as a
soldier in the Federal army of the west for ten months,
says she has discovered a great many females among the
soldiers, one of whom is now a lieutenant, She has assisted
in burying three female soldiers at different times, whose
sex was unknown to any but herself.—Ameriean paper.
Advices from Tahiti, by way of San Francisco,
report further seizures of Peruvian vessels engaged in steal-
ing South Sea islanders to sell them as slaves to work on the
Peruvian guano islands. The natives of Kuppa seized a
Peruvian vessel, confined the crew as prisoners, and by the
aid of a white man took the ship 300 miles, and delivered
her up with the crew to the French authorities at Tahiti.—
Goliforn i(#1; ,raper.