The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

ties of the authorities in their endeavours to carry
out the conditions of the treaty. The case is bad
indeed, for our official representatives are " quite
powerless" to restrain these irregularities. The
next point touched upon is that, as a Christian na-
tion, our persistent attempt to force an acquaintance
upon the people is not likely to redound to our
honour or to their advantage. Certainly, if half of
the charges here preferred are true, if a quarter of
the irregularities here commented upon take place,
there can be little gain, and less credit, to any one
at all concerned in the affair. There is a remedy
to the evil that is mercifully shown to us, and that
is to give up the undertaking, to relinquish all
notion of establishing a permanent footing in the
place, and to retire with the best grace, leaving the
Japanese to enjoy their pristine state of " internal
order, peace, and prosperty." This would suit the
views of the Peace Party, they would raise their
voices in jubilation to utter thanksgivings, and fore-
tell all sorts of greatness, glory, and renown for the
isa,nouthoewr swidoeulatosuthche qbuaesseticoonn,
dhuocwteavnerd,
country that sacrificed ambition for so good a cause.
anTdhtehreatis
craven policy accord with the genius of an enter-
prising people, and be adapted to the honour of a
mighty nation. It was no tb y listening to the sug-
gestions of cowardice, the language of flattery, or
the crotchets of infatuated men, that our country
has been represented in so many quarters, and her
sons made famous from the rising to the setting of
the sun. Could anything more preposterous be
imagined than that such a missive should be sent
to the Foreign Secretary of the foremost
nation of the world. We are told that
commerce cannot flourish with so reluctant
and angry a people, and hence the work of
itself will be rendered comparatively abortive ;
but so vast are the advantages that will accrue from
the wise policy suggested, that to gain them we are
to make sacrifices of our " commercial advantage."
If intercourse is not concluded in a friendly spirit
it had better cease at once, is the stern behest of the
judge who presides over this affair, and views all
through the medium of the society's rules. Ac-
cording to these traditions the groat ones who
have tracked their country's way in steps of blood

and fire through many a land, and procured for her

flag the empire of the deep, are all from henceforth
to be nobodies. There is to be no conquest, no im-

provement, no infusion of intellect. The world will
jog on in its lame and unaltered course, unmarked by

any notable change, and uninfluenced by the spread
of commerce and the want of mind. If these peace
societies could exercise the spell of a magician and
work their will for a few months, to what a new
world should we awaken. The sight would be the
best reproof to their shortsightedness, and the
surest way of publishing their folly, It seems al-
most incredible that wise persons should persist in
pushing forward such extravagant notions, and
forcing others to agree nolens volens to their doe-

trines. There is great vanity in this presumption
and the folly of the course that is advocated almost

equals the arrogance. Nothing more surely and
effectually occasions disorder and discord than to
dread the consequence of decisive action, and to
fear to make an :attack, holding the notion that

failure is inevitable, and that success, if achieved

would be disastrous. Doubtless there is much to

occasion mirth in the extraordinary ideas promul.
gated in this despatch, but really there is more rea.

son to lament than to be amused. It is deleterious

,o the growth of sound principles for such notions
,o gain ground among us, and some are so infatuated

with this peace-mania that they are ready to be

lieve anything if only it cornea in the form of a flag
of truce. The interests of civilisation, and the pro-
gress of humanity, are best served when the inter-

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course between the more elevated and enlightened
nations of the world with the less favoured ones is
carried on to the fullest extent, and developed to
the utnr;st possiblQ limits. It is false reasoning
that urges the adoption of the laisez aller principle.
What we did •with yesterday we'll e'en do with to-
day, may 57:tit those who are never heard of half a
mile from home; but those who would write their
names is their cuuntry's history to be read on the
morro.vvi that shall succeed to the last syllable of
rec'aded time, must act differently. The axioms
of, the Peace Society can never make heroes, it is
certain, but neither do they create sages or produce
patriots.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 26, 1863.

it per Cents .. 96 85 Italian Loan 72 85
Do. cud month.... Do. end month 72 65
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 67 50 Do. end month 72 70
Credit Mobilier.... 1092 50 Russian
Do. end month.... ladl 25 Austrian
Bank Shares 3396 Spanish Threes....
Credit I, oncier 1255 Home Debt

AYC.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1026 25 .. 1023 75
Northern
New ditto ** . • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1025
.. 1025
Geneva 492 50 493 75
Southern
Western
_Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona .... 355 • • 355

LORD CLYDE'S- FUNERAL.—A writer in the
Morning Post says no man is a hero to his valet de
chambre ; neither is he, so it would seem, to be considered
one at his club. On Saturday last, when universal respect
was paid to the funeral cortege of Lord Clyde, at the United
Service Club—the deceased field-marshal's especial haunt

—it was conspiuous by its absence. The blinds of this club
were not drawn down on the occasion, as every one expected
them to have been. But this is not, I hear, to be attri-
buted to accident or mere neglect ; it was the result
of a consultation and a decision. The latter pro-
nounced that. inasmuch as the blinds were not drawn
down on the occasion of Lord Dundonald's funeral,
they must remain up during that of Lord Clyde. Did
the committee forget altogether that the funeral pro-
cession of Lord Dundonald did not pass the United Ser-
vice Club at all ?

SHARSPERE'S STUDY—or rather a relic of it just
discovered at Stratford-on-Avon : whence Mr.
Halliwell has recently (August 19, 1863) addressed the
Athenceu2;z :—" I have the pleasure of informing you that
excavations I have lately caused to be made on the east (the
garden side of the New Place, have resulted in the dis-
covery of the foundations of a large bay window, which is
undoubtedly a fragment of the poet's residence. There are
other remains also laid bare, and it is hoped that the work.)
now in progress will reveal other relies; but the discovery
now mentioned at the end of a room out of which
Shakspere must often have looked, and which, most pro-
bably, was his study, appears to he one of so much interest,
I cannot help thinking that y,,u will be glad to draw public
attention to it, That the remains of the window belong to
Shakspere's New Place, not to the later Clopton residence,
is a fact which admits of absolute proof, their situation and
character being altogether inconsistent with tho known
disposition of the latter building."
THE GREAT METROPOLIS, with its population of
very nearly three millions, has, in point of fact, a
population larger than that of Denmark and many Sove-
reign
States, nearly as large as that of our sister kingdom
Scotland, and more than half as large as that of Ireland,—
City Press.
The half-yearly meeting of the General Steam
Navigation. Company was held yesterday, John Wilkin,
Esq., in the chair, when the report of the directors and a
statement of the accounts for the year ending 30th June
last were read to the meeting and unanimously adopted.
The usual dividend of 14s. per share, being at the rate of
10 per cent. per annum, was declared.
AMERICAN WAR STATISTICS.—The following
Confederate Governors of States are in eyre, and have
no lccal habitation for their executive :—Thomas O'Moore,
of Louisiana ; Johann Harris, of Tennessee ; John Pettus
of mi„issippi ; F. Flannigan, of Arkansas. It is estimated
than, from the commencement of the war, 69,874 Federals
have been killed, 117,020 wounded, 73,218 made prisoners,
and 250,000 died from disease and wounds. That 60 893
Confederates have been killed, 119,615 wounded, 52,169
made prisoners, and 250,000 died from disease and wounds.
This estimation dates prior to July.—Army and Navy
Gazette.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT,—On Saturday last, while
reaping with a machine at Ayton Law, Berwickshire, a
young woman had the misfortune by some means to get in
front of the reaper, and had both her feet cut off. Medical
aid was obtained, and it Was found necessary to amputate
one of the legs above the knee. On Sunday she was in a
precarious condition.

THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN TRAVERS AND
DILLON.—At the Petty Sessions for the Woking-
ham D ivision of Berks, held yesterday, before Major Court,
Captain Gower, and other justices, Robert 'Travers and
James Dillon, who recently fought in the neighbouring
village of Twyford for £4OO, were summoned for having
attended at that place for the purpose of committing a breach
of the peace; and Alexander King, Robert Webb, George
Brown, Nathaniel Langharn, Tom Tyler, Fred. Oliver, and
John. Ricks were summoned for aiding and abetting the
above. Travers, King, Webb, Brown, Oliver, and nicks
appeared and pleaded guilty. The justices called upon the
principals to enter into their recognisances in the sum of
£5O to keep the peace for six months, and the others were
bound over in the sum of £2O. These conditions were
complied with by the defendants, and we believe that at a
subsequent period of the day the others attended and en-
tered into the required sureties.
A FRISKY OLD GIRL.—The celebrated tight.
rope dancer, Sach6; not having been able to obtain a license
for performing in France, owing to her great age, 02, has
gone to Valencia, where die looks for better luck,

and the aristocracy of the city. The rooms near
the entrance hall, which are inhabited by the
family, are spacious, but not lofty ; the proportions
of the recently-built ballroom and grand saloon, the
ceilings of which are arched, are perfect. Shortly
after 8 o'clock, which was the hour appointed, the
German Sovereigns, who are models of punctuality,
began to arrive, and by 9 there must have been
between 200 and 300 persons assembled in the above-
mentioned saloon and adjoining apartments. The
master and mistress of the house received their
Royal visitors i❑ a room which adjoins the hall of
entrance, and the former conducted them through
the rooms leading to the grand saloon, at the upper
end of which, in a large recess, is Dannecker's
far-famed statue of Ariadue. As the different
Sovereigns enteted—there were 27 or 2S present—
several loud blows were struck on the floor with
the point of a stick. At the signal the inferior
guests fell hick, and formed a lane, through which
the Rulers over 45,000,000 of souls advanced. The
Kiegs of Bavaria, Saxony, and Hanover appeared
first; the Emperor of Austria last, or nearly so.
The Sovereigns sat together in the grand saloon for
about half-an-hour, and then they adjourned to the
ball-room, where a so-called " circle " was formed.
For an hour or more they conversed freely with the
various ladies who were presented to them, and it ap-
peared to me that all of theeendeavouredto make
themselves agreeable to the persons with whom they
were brought in contact. The King of Hanover spoke
so loudly that the bystanders could hear every word
he said, but the other Sovereigns pitched their voices
so low that only the persons to whom they ad-
dressed themselves could catch the sense of what
they said. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess
Mary, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenbargh-Strelitz, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, came over from Rumpenheim to do honour
to the von Bethmann family, and it is probable that
they stopped to supper, which many of the princely
guests did not do. Shortly after 7 o'clock I quitted
the festive scene, and the carriages of the Emperor
of Austria and of three or four other Sovereigns
passed the vehicle in which I was seated. It ap-
peared to me that there was a great lack of cordiality
between the German Potentates, and persons of my
acquaintance fancied that they seemed to try to keep
out of each other's company. Two Prussian officers
of rank were at the rout, but they seemed to be ill
at ease, and kept aloof from the other guests. Baron
Charles von Rothschild is the Austrian Consul-
General in Frankfort, and it has excited some little
surprise that he should have allowed M. von Beth-
mann, the Consul-General for Prussia, to get the
vas of him.

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG, 26.
The Paris papers of to-day publish the following
:elegram

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25.
Prince Couza has addressed a note to the Powers
who protested against his sequestration of the pro-
perty of the Greek convents, declaring that his
sequestration is definitive, but that he is disposed
to grant an indemnity to the Greek priests for the
sequestrated property.
Holland has demanded of Prince Couza a modi-
fication in the Roumain flag on account of its re-
semblance to her own.

BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The market remains in the
same quiescent state, but with prices well main-
tained in the little business transacted. Threes, for
the Account, are now unvaried at 67f. 60c. The
Railway Share Market has been also quiet, with
prices up to the present time firm at yesterday's
quotations. The market closed as follows :