The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, J LINE 30, 1E65.

r with respect to the franchise. This is no doubt a
very sapient remark, but it may be suggested that
it would have been better to take something rather
than have nothing. Any reform would have been a
step in the right direction, but the real truth of the
matter is, that the most zealous partizan on the
Liberal side prefers that no remedial measure be
adopted unless he can claim some credit for its in-
troduction. A more short-sighted policy than this
cannot well be imagined, and one more calculated
to defeat the course of progress and the purposes of
improvement. Mr. BAINES has done himself no
credit by thus following on the beaten track of
selfish and exclusive policy. The electors through-
out the country had better be on the alert, and not
suffer themselves to be deceived and cajoled by
these specious explanations, for the result of all the
zeal of the ministerial side has been that nothing
has been effected at all, and it does not require a
very clever judge to find out that we should have
been better off if the Conservatives had remained
in office. The welfare of the community at large
has been sacrificed to the inordinate love of place
among the Whigs, and their determination to un-
dertake what they must have known they could not
perform.

The members for the City of London also ad-
dressed their constituents last evening, and en-
deavoured to smooth the way for future contests.
It must be confessed that none of the City members
do much to distinguish themselves, but, taking all
things into consideration, those now sitting appear
as good as any that we are likely to have. Mr.
CRAWFORD spoke fairly enough on most of the chief
topics of interest which at present engross the atten-
tion of the public. His speech was well received,
as, indeed, were those of his colleagues. Baron
ROTIISCHILD was represented by his son, who said
very properly that his father would be prepared to
resign his trust into the hands of the electors, if his
health did not improve, as he hoped it might. Con-
sidering the peculiar circumstances in he which has
been placed, it must be generally acknowledged
that the Baron has conducted himself with great
discretion since his entrance into Parliament.
Mr. GOSCHEN declared that since he had been in
Parliament no question had possessed greater inte-
rest for him than that of pauperism, and he would
always seek to give his best energies to that subject.
The lion. member is quite right in choosing this for
his vocation, for too many pass it by as unworthy
of their notice, or not of sufficient consequence to
engage particular attention. The truth is, that it is
a matter which will shortly occupy a great deal of
time and trouble that would have been much better
bestowed some time previously.
Mr. LAYARD'S address to the electors of
Southwark is very much what might have
been expected, and displays the hon. mem-
ber's usual ability, while it also demonstrates
his partial view of many things. Of course he ad-
vocates Lord PALMERSTON'S policy to an extent
which materially damages the force of his observa-
tions. At this juncture the Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs has a very invidious task, but it
does not make the case better to overdo the
praise, and disclaim the censure with too much
abruptness. Mr. LAYARD will doubtless find he
has some awkward question to answer when the
day of reckoning comes and he has to face his
constituents. It is to be hoped that he will be
able to manage better than he did when in the
course of last session he had to meet the re-
peated inquiries respecting Denmark. He
generally lost his temper, and contrived to
exasperate every one by his tart answers, and abu-
sive style of rhetoric. The foreign policy that has
now attained favour in high places is that kind
which requires all the aids and adjuncts which
suavity and conciliation can impart, and had cer-
tainly better not be forced upon people nolens volens
with an arbitrary and arrogant demeanour. It is
an insult to common sense for Mr. LAYARD
to boast of the " strict neutrality " of
our dealings with America. Earl RUSSELL'S con-
duct was a direct contradiction to that assertion,
and we have yet to realise the full extent of his
mischievous management at that momentous crisis
of affairs. Mr. LAYARD will doubtless find that

he has undertaken more than he can successfully
accomplish, if he intends to laud and magnify the
course which his friends have followed of late.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, June 28.
At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yester-
day the debate upon the Alien Bill was resumed.
M. Von Ilumbeck (advanced Left) wished
equally with the Minister of Justice that Belgium
might not become the rendezvous of factious fo-
reigners, but it was requisite that peaceable
foreigners should find it an inviolable asylum.
Whatever might be said, he thought the house
ought to reject any arbitrary measure. This was
the object of his amendments, which were quite
practical. It had been said that they would facili-
tate the residence in the country of promoters of
disorders. Why not, provided they did not recom-
mence such proceedings here ? Foreigners, it was
said, niight come to advocate annexation, and in-
cite Belgian workmen to strikes. As for annexa-
tion, what did that matter so long as the spiri t
of the people remained what it was ; as to
strikes, they were permitted by the new penal code.
The Minister of justice accused the opponents of
the bill of forgetting that three interests were at
stake—international interest, that of the country,
and that of the foreigners—and of only concerning
themselves with the last. There was, however, only
one great interest at stake, including all the others,
and that was the interest of justice. The Govern-
ment was too much occupied with the duties, and
not enough with the rights of Belgium. The speaker
concluded by saying that if the Chamber only de-
sired the revision of the former law of 1835, it
ought to refer the amendments to the central com-
mittee.

M. Hymans (Left) protested against the accusa-
tiion hurled against the supporters of the bill of
being actuated by fear, of wishing to give token of
their obedience towards a great empire. When in
1856 a member of the Paris Congress demanded
that the liberty of the press in Belgium should be
restricted, the Belgian Minister replied " Never !"
Belgium had not degenerated since then. She had
erased from her codes everything betokening a feel-
ing of hostility towards the foreigner, the last ves-
tiges of escheating the property of a deceased alien
to the Crown (droit d'aubaire), prohibition to the
foreigner to enter the civil or military services, &c.
The law of 1835 was very moderate in comparison
with the acts of foreign legislatures ; with the Eng-
lish Alien Act, renewed in 1848 ; with the law of
Nov. 20, 1849, voted without discussion by the
French Legislative Assembly. Again, at Brussels,
in 1863, M. Jules Simon, at the closing sitting of
the first session of the Social Science Congress,
asked that the second session might also be held in
Belgium, as being the country where hospitality was
best practised, and, nevertheless, while he so spoke,
the sword of Damocles, in the shape of the law of
1835, was suspended above his head.
M. Couvreur (Advanced Left), as Secretary of
the Social Science Congress, corrected two state-
ments which had appeared in a number of news-
papers. It had been said that a meeting of the
members of the Congress had denied at Paris that
the Congress would not again assemble in Belgium
if the alien law were deferred, and that the Berne
Congress would ratify this resolution. M. Couvreur
said, " nothing is true in all this any more than the
asserted condemnation of the same law by the Con-
gress of Amsterdam." The speaker was no less
hostile to the law of 1835, the abuses of which in
practice he exposed at great length. " If," said he,
"the official statistics only show 75 political expulsions
since 1835, it is because they do not mention all the
expulsions effected through moral constraint."
M. Couvreur, in the name of journalism (he is
one of the editors of the Independance Belge), pro-
tested against what had been said respecting the
preponderance of the foreign element in the Belgian
press. The greater part of the Belgian journals,
he said, were edited and managed by Belgians.
Moreover, Belgium owes too much to foreigners to
disdain their aid. Ile also defended the meetings
against the attacks and sneers of which they had
been the object, and said that if those popular
assemblies condemned the Mw of 1835 it was because
it was opposed to public opinion.
M. Vleminckx (Left) demanded that the proposal
to refer the amendment to the Central Section
should be put to the vote.
M. Basa (Left) opposed this request, and the
sitting then terminated.

THE BRAZILS.
(By Telegraph from Lisbon.)
BUENOS AYRES, MAY 27.

Exchange, 491. Ounces, 29.15 ; firmer. Wet
salted ox hides, 34 ; quiet. Dry hides, American,
unaltered. Wool, dull ; unchanged. Tallow, no
sales. Lumber, 34. Flour, foreign, no stock ;
native advanced. Refined sugar, 21; nominal.
MONTE VIDEO, MAY 29.

Exchange, 50i. Wet salted ox hide, 575 ; dull.
Dry American, 420 410. Stock, small. Dry Ger-
man, 460. Wool, fine qualities declining ; inferior,
firm, there being no stock. Tallow, 1784.
Lumber, 259.

SUEZ, JUNE 20.

The Messageries Imperiges steamer Cambodge,
with the India and China mails, arrived here at 4

a.m. to-day.

Proposed Coalition against Prussia.

LEIPZIG, June 27.
The Leipziger Abendpost publishes the following
article advocating an union of Austria with the
Minor German States against Prussia :
" The Schleswig-Holstein question is the German
question. If Prussia succeeds in carrying out her
intentions upon the Eider, she will stretch out her
hands with all the more vehement greed towards
the Leine and the Fulda. The road from the
Fulda leads direct to the Maine and the Neckar,
and thence to the Lech and the Isar.

" There is no reason to presume that the policy
of annexation will once spontaneously halt in its
course—will impose upon itself moderation of its
own accord. On the contrary, hunger will groan
with every morsel swallowed, and Upper and
Lower Austria will ultimately be incorporated with
the mighty realm of the Hohenzollerns with just as
much right as Schleswig and Holstein.
___

" We think, therefore, the time has really now
come for the non-Prussian Governments to coalesce
in counteracting their threatened destruction by
common action.

" The Schleswig-Holstein question is ordinarily
treated as a mere affair of inheritance, people write
for or against the Augustenburger, for or against
the Oldenburger. But the matter is not by any
means so simple, for whether Austenburg or Olden-
burg becomes Duke of the Duchies, north of the
Elbe, their fate is certain ; either will become a
Prussian vassal, without or without convention.

" Neither the powerful speeches of Deputies nor
the resolutions of majorities at the Germanic Diet
will be of avail against this vassaldom unless the
corresponding force—the requisite number of
bayonets—stands ready to back up the resolutions
and speeches. Austria alone possesses these
bayonets either by herself, or to a still greater ex-
tent in conjunction with the other Governments
faithful to the Confederation.

" In whatever way the hereditary question is
solved, Austria must remain in the Duchies, for her
presence alone affords the inhabitants of those
northern marches protection for their rights, and
secures to them an equal position within the great
German family of States. Austria covers Hanover
and Electoral Hesse upon the Lower Elbe, and
strikes out of history for ever the idea of dividing
Germany upon the line of the Maine.

Austria must be maintained upon the Eider in
her own interest, as in that of the united fatherland,
for in this point the interests of both are identical.
When the Middle States have been absorbed in
Prussia Austria's turn will come.

The German nation strives for more thorough
union. This is offered by Prussia, but upon condi-
tion of the surrender of all individual independence.
This price is too high, and is repulsive to the na-
tional feeling of single States ; such an union could
only be brought about about by blood and the sword.
For this Bismarck possesses, if the will, assuredly
not the strength, so soon as the remainder of Ger-
many awakes from its lethargy and unites for
powerful action. But in order to impart the neces-
sary moral force to such an union—for bayonets
alone would certainly not suffice—the German
nation must be taken into alliance, the magnanimous
idea of Francis Joseph must be carried out, and a
Parliament be convoked at Frankfort, no matter
with, or without, or against Prussia.

" The name matters nought. Let such a repre-
sentation be called an Assembly of Delegates, a
Parliament, or a Diet, it still remains a means of
binding together the body of the German nation,
torn for centuries. But we would appeal right
seriously to the heart of the deciding elements to
shake themselves free from the erroneous fancy that
patriotism has its seat in the purse and political un-
derstanding in the tongue. Our present Parlia-
mentary speakers will not save Germany ; that task
is reserved for the mass of the nation—more patriotic
feeling and self-sacrificing devotion exists among
the lowest ranks of the people tha n in that class
which always calculate by thalers and groschen.
We want the Lower House upon the broadest foun-
dation, and as required by the Constitution of 1849,
an Upper House by its side as moderator.
" This is the way and the means to meet the
Prussian attack with RIIeCCSR, withont being com-
pelled to have recourse to blood and the sword.'
If Austria is allied with the middle and minor
States, and both are united with the German nation,
Bismark will think twice in face of this tri-lateral
before he drives matters to the utmost. In presence
of the German Diet- —and this be our last thought
—no coalition Ministry will be able to use that lan-
guage to which a mere Prussian Chamber of Depu-
ties was forced to listen. Even the Prussian people,
which we love, and known as forming a sturdy
branch of the great German oak, will then be as-
sisted to its rights, and this not at Berlin, but at
Frankfort ; not by the grace of a pietistic absolu-
tism, but by the mighty voice of the representatives
of German Princes and peoples, and by the decision
of a German Imperial supreme tribunal."

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market flat. Sales probably 4,000 or 5,000 bales,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde, and a Special Jury.)
JONES T. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS.

This was a suit for proving in solemn form the will and
five codicils of Francis Williams. The defendants opposed
on the ground that the testator at the time of the execu-
tion of the will and codicils was not of sound disposing
mind.

This great Worcestershire will case, which has occupied
the Court and eleven of the leading members for two days,
came to a sudden termination to-day.
At the conclusion of the case on the part of the plaintiff,
a consultation took place between the learned gentlemen
instructed in the case, the result of which was, that
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., informed his lordship that an
arrangement had been come to on certain terms, to a
portion of which the consent of the Court of Chancery was
necessary, and, pending that, he had to ask that the suit
might be adjourned until Wednesday week.
Sir H. Cairns said he consented to the arrangement. He
had no doubt the consent of the Court of Chancery would
be given, and then the trial could be resumed pro forma
and probate of the will granted.
Upon that understanding the proceedings were ad
journed.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE COL. WAIIGH.-DIENIISSAL OF THE PETITION.

In this matter, which has been before the court on three
or four occasions, under the new bankruptcy proceedings,
the bankrupt was opposed by Mr. Bagley on behalf of Lord
Garyagh, who had been a brother officer with Colonel
Waugh.

His Honour referred at some length to the accounts
filed by the bankrupt, and could not lose sight of the fact
that in them Col. Waugh had persisted in omitting the
debt claimed by Lord Garvagh. Under these circumstances,
and looking at all the facts, the Court felt bound to dismiss
the petition.

Mr. Robertson Griffiths, for the bankrupt, asked that the
amount of the deposit might be reduced, in order that an
appeal might be made to a higher tribunal.

His Honour refused.
(Before Mr. Hazlitt.)
IN RE C. SEYTON-A COMEDIAN'S TROT :BEES.
- . -

This bankrupt was the well-known comedian, and,
though his debts are of small amount, his troubles are
somewhat touching. Perhaps the file of the proceedings
in this court never contained a more moving reason for a
bankruptcy. It was " being out of an engagement, and the
death of some of my children." To-day was appointed for
the proof of debts.