The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1862.

the fact of the Prince of WALES attaining his ma-
jority will be unofficial, informal so to speak, spon-
taneous, and anauthorised, or at any rate unorigin-
ated, by the officers of the Government. Even sup-
posing that this could have been otherwise, the
circumstance of the 9th of November falling in
1862 upon a Sunday, would have necessitated the
postponement of the rejoicings incidental to the
coming of age of the heir to the throne of these
I realms until the day following that 9th of Novem-
ber, that is to say, until Monday. As with H.R.H.'s
Birthday, so with LORD MAYOR'S Day in 1882
—both have to be regarded as if falling upon
the Monday. The only difference in this bein g
that the postponement of the former until Monday
(as a day of rejoicing) will be purely treated as an
optional matter by her MAJESTY'S lieges. While
it is thus arranged, there is nothing of course pre-
cluding the authorities from celebrating the occa-
sion—without any courtly show or pageantry—ac-
cording to the ordinary system by the customary
distribution of honours. A Brevet could in no
way jar with the respectful dedication of the
present year of grace to the signs and evidences
of a national as well as of a courtly mourn-
ing. H.R.H. the General Commanding-in-Chief
—then, we presume, to be allowed his full title of
Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Forces—H.R.H.
the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, it is understood, will at
length receive, what he might reasonably have held
in his grasp long since, considering his services and
his popularity—his baton as a Field Marshal. A
similar recompense for yet longer and more varied
services than those of his Royal Highness will also
be awarded, it is understood, to Lord GOUGH and
to Lord CLYDE. Possibly there may be awarded
to a select few a step or so in the Peerage—a pro-
ceeding that none will regret or resent if for once it
be but carried out judiciously. A curious dilemma
occurs in regard to the award, according to custom
upon those occasions, of a baronetcy to the
then LORD MAYOR of London. H. R. H. the
Prince of Wales having been born now just one-
and-twenty years ago—of all good days in the
year—upon the Lord Mayor's Day, upon the ninth
of November, the award of .the usual baronetcy,
would, under ordinary circumstances, have been a
matter of some little difficulty, or, at any rate, of
some little delicacy at the date of his Royal High-
ness attaining his majority ! It is especially a
matter of difficulty:or delicacy under existing cir-
cumstances. For, in the first place, the bewilder-
ment is, of course, as to which of the two Lord
Mayors ought in reason and by right to obtain
the baronetcy P Ought it to be the in-coming
Lord Mayor or the out-going Lord Mayor
-a ROSE or a CUBITT ? The latter, that is

to say the old LORD MAYOR, that ts and not (the
LORD MAYOR Elect, the one simply that is to be)
has been LORD MAYOR, as it happens, twice over,

two years in succession. He has consequently a
double prestige at the moment in regard to his
claim, a supposed claim in respect to the baronetcy
—a double prestige the reward of his merits and
popularity. But—added to all this—it so happens
that, upon the 9th of November upon which H.R.H.
the Prince of WALES comes of age, now in this
year of grace, 1862—Lord Mayor CIIBITT will still
be Lord Mayor of London ! The Lord Mayor
Elect (Mr. ALDERMAN ROSE) not being sworn in
(by reason of the 9th falling this year upon a
Sunday) :until Monday, the Tenth of November !
Out of this dilemma in regard to the award of the
baronetcy, we can recognise no escape but by the
doubling of the gift for once—the awarding, that
is to say, not of one baronetcy but of two ba-
ronetcies !

Sworn in though Lord Mayor ROSE has been
this day at Gnildhall—it will not be until Monday
that he will be officially confirmed in the occupation
of the civic chair upon the usual presentation at
Westminster.

The King of PRUSSIA iS persisting in a course
which can have but one of two results. Either he

must crush Prussia with his army, or he and his

army must humble themselves before the will of the
people. rn another speech which he has just deli-
vered to one of his got-up deputations, he has been

uttering again the most offensive despotism, couched
as that quality always is, in paternally kind lan
guage. He assumes the responsibility of his rebel
lion against the constitution he was sworn to main
tain. " The great measure"—that, we presume, o
declaring that he would spend the nation's money
without the nation's leave, and keep a larger army
than the nation wished for —this " great measure
sprang chiefly from his own initiative." He has
a small faction of reactionaries in the country, and
a large proportion in the army, who spur him on to
this arbitrary and illegal course ; but he is jealous,
apparently, of their sharing with him, except as
humble accomplices after the fact, the honour of
bearding the law of the land, and the represen-
tatives elected by the people to pronounce the
nation's opinion on the very point now in dispute.
Ha confesses that the country does not appre-
ciate his fatherly contempt for its representatives
and the law so deeply as he desires, but he is sure
they will do so in the end. He has " been afflicted
to learn that they have so badly interpreted his
language," ;lever seeming to suspect that the peo-
ple have much more reason to be afflicted by
his language. He talks to them of the " kind
intentions of himself and his ancestors," which,
as the politeness of their representatives has not per-
mitted any expressed suspicion on that point, are
surely quite irrelevant. His subjects will not dis-
pute with him respecting motives, bat they are
warranted in trusting the " wisdom of Parlia-