The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUI, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1865.

families or to see them want ; but we cannot agree
with Lord HOUGHTON in thinking that to discourage
Women with out-door work is to encourage idle-
ness. Every mother of a family in the working
classes has quite enough to occupy all her energies
at home, and the wretched, neglected condition of
the children and the home of a woman who is en-
gaged all day away from home too surely testifies
that the choice does not lie between idleness and
industry, but between wages and want. As for
the temperance question, his lordship is probably
in the right, and the reformation of the lower
classes in this matter must be brought about, like
that of the upper and middle ranks, by slow degrees
of refinement, enlightenment, and instruction. But
the other speakers, who argued from the teetotal
side of the question, should remember that it is not
always drink that leads to poverty, but often pro-
verty that leads to drink. The hard work, the
wretched, dirty homes, bad air, bad drainage, bad
water, poor food badly cooked, are all powerful
auxiliaries to the public-house, and so long as our
working men have to contend against all these we
shall find them given to drink. Again, the lack of
diversion or recreation is another great reason for
frequenting those places where company and mer-
riment are to be found. If your social reformers
could bring cheap and wholesome amusement (not
directly instructive) to the doors of our working
men they would do more to reduce the perils of the
public-house than by countless editions of temper-
ance tracts.

Railway and other Companies.

GREAT EASTERN.

It appears that the statement recently circulated
to the effect that this company were to commence
running coal trains over the Great Northern loop
line on Oct. 1 was not correct.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE BORUSSIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 15.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Borussia, from New York on the 2d inst., has ar-
rived. She brings 240 passengers for this port,
Havre, and Hamburg, and a full cargo, but no

specie.
On the 3d inst. she spoke the City of London ;
and on the 13th the Austrian bark Humphrey, the
Dutch bark Alycone, and the Swedish bark Gideon.
Her news has been anticipated.

SPAIN.

MADRID, SEPT. 14 (Evening).

It is asserted in financial circles that the Muni-
cipal Excise duties and the Octroi will shortly
be abolished:throughout Spain.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Sept. 11.

The royal decree relative to the secondary schools
to be established in the seminaries throughout Italy
is expected to appear very shortly. Those schools
in the seminaries already closed, either by the royal
decree or the act of the bishops, will be opened by
the Minister of Public Instruction, two-thirds of
the revenue of the seminaries being sequestrated for
their support, and the remaining third being allowed
to the bishops for the maintenance of the schools
of theology. The municipalities will be invited to
share the expense in those cases where the two-
thirds of the revenue of the seminaries do not suf-
fice for the maintenance of the secondary schools.
The managers and teachers will be all appointed by
the Minister of Public Instruction. The clergy are
making every possible effort to resist this measure,
which saps their influence at its base, but up to
the present they appear to have little chance of
success. The Minister of Justice has addressed
a circular to the procurators-general of the king-
dom, directing these to permit the free circulation
of an address to the Pope, originated by the Unita
Cattolica of Turin, on the 28th June last. Two or
three hundred thousand signatures have been ob-
tained for this address up to the present, including,
however, those of women and children.
The Unita Cattolica had asserted that the signa-
tures were not numerous because those wishing to
sign underwent persecution from the authorities.
The present Ministerial circular, however, will
render it clear that, if the people do not sign, it is
because they disapprove of the object of the address,
The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has
addressed a circular to the Chambers of Commerce
and Arts in the kingdom, recommending that annual
meetings of two representatives from each chamber
should be held in some of the principal cities of Italy
for the study of commercial and industrial questions,
and the general promotion of arts and manufactures.
Although the great utility of such assemblages is in
no way doubtful, the Minister—and his opinion is
shared by competent persons desires the pre-
liminary judgment of the Chamber of Commerce
upon this matter, and requests to be furnished with
the same within the current month. The substance
of the Ministerial proposal is as follows :
The Chambers of Commerce throughout the
kingdom shall annually hold a meeting or Congress
of their representatives in the city fixed upon by
the Congress itself. The first meeting to be held
in Genoa. Each chamber will send two members
as its representatives, and also, if desired, the Secre-
tary of the Chamber. The Congress will sit for
three days, but may, if it be considered expedient,
prolong the session to five or six days. The Con-
gress will enter upon its duties on the day fixed,
whatever may be the number of representatives
then present. The President and Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce in the city, where the Con-
gress is held, will act as provisional President and
Secretary of the latter, the definitive election of
these officers being made by the Assembly. Every
Chamber of Commerce will present to the Congress
observations upon the statistical publications rela-
tive to commerce and navigation. These observa-
tions will be examined and reported upon by a com-
mittee, and the decision of the Congress upon the
same will be transmitted to the Ministry with all
the necessary documents, in order to give the com-
mercial statistics the greater possible accuracy.
The Congress will state the subjects to be dis-
cussed by its successor. In the first year these will
be drawn up by the Minister of Agriculture and
Commerce. The resolutions will always take the
form of a recommendation to the Ministry or the
Chambers of Commerce. The sittings are public.
Only the representatives of the Chambers will take
part in the voting, and their resolutions will be valid
whatever may be the number of representatives pre-
sent. Any member of a Chamber of Commerce
may, however, participate in the debates upon stat-
ing that he holds that position. The Congress may
also permit strangers to propound their views if
furnished with a special recommendation from a
Chamber of Commerce.

The regulation of the Congress is entrusted to the
President. As a rule, only the resolutions adopted
will be printed in extenso, but the Congress may
direct this to be also done in the case of debates of
such importance as to render publicity useful.
Every year a catalogue will be drawn up of all the
works upon commerce and manufactures published
in the kingdom, with an appendix enumerating the
most important works published abroad, with a
statement of their price. These catalogues will be
distributed among the representatives, and sent to
all the Chambers. The first Congress will draw up
regulations for the better direction of its successor.

THE DEATH or M. OTT.

(RE UTE R'S EXPRESS.)
BERLIN, Sept. 13.
The semi-official Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
prefaces its already telegraphed version of the cir-
cumstances which led to the death of M. Ott with
the following remarks :
" Prussia must really stand high ! When we
find the chorus of the Prusso-hating foreign press
reduced so low as to obtain the material for its
attacks out of the ' Miscellaneous Intelligence,' we
are well entitled to exclaim, ' Prussia must really
stand high ! '

" Were we to avail ourselves of the horrible
murders that have stained English soil within the
last few weeks for the purpose of attacking Lord
Palmerston's Cabinet, this course would justly be
considered ridiculous ; and if any one were to
attempt to deduce from the late theatrical riot at
Lyons conclusions hostile to the system of Govern-
ment in France, the French press would not hesi-
tate a moment to point oat the absurdity.
" And yet we see the French and English press
daily adopt this ridiculous course, daily commit
this absurdity by making a squabble at Bonn—an
unfortunate affair, truly, but far removed from all
political importance—the peg on which to hang
their attacks upon Prussia.

" Yesterday, too, comes the Independance, which
ordinarily takes a more sober view of matters, and
writes upon the same subject, as follows :
" We have hesitated to express the feelings which
the murder committed upon a French subject in
Bonn by the nephew of a Prussian Minister could
not fail to call forth within us, because we presumed
that Prussian justice would do her duty. But the
impunity which the perpetration of the deed appears
to enjoy has evoked general indignation in England,
and especially in France, and the press of both
countries emphatically demands that the Govern-
ments should interfere to obtain legal satisfaction.
We hear, indeed, from Paris that the French Go-
vernment has taken steps for this purpose, and it is
more than probable that similar representations
will be made by the English Government to the
Prussian Cabinet. Should these reclametions re-
main unnoticed, a stranger in a country inhabited
by savages would be more secure than in that land,
where, as the miller of Sans Souci said, judges are
to be found who give judgment even against the
_ king.
_ Thus the Independance:--

"We will first ask the Belgian paper what
answer even a Belgian Minister of Justice would
return if a foreign Power should permit itself to
interfere by such diplomatic steps in the administra-
tion of justice in that small but still sovereign State.
And we believe that if the Independance had only
taken the trouble to reflect, it would not have
assumed the ridiculous office of further diffusing its
correspondent's statement of such an interference
from abroad with the Prussian administration of
justice, and of discussing it with this foolish com-
mentary. And if the Independance, instead of
allowing itself to be deluded by this fable of its
Paris correspondent, had taken the further trouble
of making inquiries into the subject in Bonn, it
would have been in a position to correct the lying
narratives of French and English papers which re-
port that a Prussian officer slew an unarmed man
with his sabre.

"At Bonn, however, everybody knows that two
or three students, on going home in the evening,
had an altercation with a very considerable and
superior number of persons ; that a row followed,
in which one of the students, who is serving in the
army as a private, had his sabre torn from the
scabbard by one of his opponents; that hereupon, in
order to defend himself, the student laid about him
with the scabbard, and that in this squabble one of
the opponents of the student was injured in the head
with a blunt instrument, but whether with the scab-
bard or with a stick is not settled. In consequence
of this injury, in which not even the bone is said to
have been damaged, the wounded man was seized
with erysipelas in the head, of which he died. how
far this inflammation may have been occasioned by
the fact that the wounded man was far advanced in
intoxication when he received his hurt must be left
to medical opinion, but it is on evidence that both
the parties concerned in the row were considerably
in liquor.

" This is the case, as known to every one in Bonn,
a case such as often occurs in university towns, but
without this deplorable termination. And every
one knows also that the student who is said to have
dealt the unlucky blow, will, if he have dealt it, fall
under the punishment of the law, no matter what
name he bears, no matter whether he is the relative
of a Minister, or of any other citizen. But that the
young man should be more harshly treated than
other subjects of the State because he is the relative
of a Minister, that the ordinary procedure should be
departed from and greater strictness applied in his
case, for the sake of gratifying a few newspapers, is
something that cannot seriously be expected even
were it proved that the wound was inflicted by
Count Eulenburg. The accused himself is not
aware of this being the case, and it may be difficult
to settle with certainty in such a matter as a night
affray.

To attempt, however, to manufacture political
capital out of such an occurrence is, as we have
said, purely ridiculous, and we could have wished
that a paper like the Independance would have
guarded itself against the reproach we cannot re-
frain from making. From this proceeding of the
press, however, as observed, we can only derive the
conviction that Prussia really must stand high when
attacks against us are derived from such materials."