The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

MEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
Dean-street, Oxford-street.
THIS EVENING, THE LOTTERY TICKET.
And a new operetta, entitled CHRISTINE.
To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. Miss Rebecca
Powell, from the Winter Gardens, New York ; Messrs. C.
Wyndham and D. James.
After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI-
AGE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames
Stanley, Payne, and Mason.
To conclude with the Ballet Divertissement, HOMAGE TO
FLORA. Misses Clara and Barbara Morgan.
Commence at half-past 7.

AS TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.

- - .
In consequence of the great sensation created by the won-
drous feats of the colossal Asiatic Elephants on the stage,
and in the circle, their truly mar'ellons Performance will be
continued till further not ce.

HIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of T FIE
RAJAH OF NA GPORE, with new and splendid dresses,
scenery, and decor'tions, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele-
nts, pronounced by the Press and the Public the cleverest
animals ever exhibited.

To be followed by brilliant Scenes in the Circle by the
unrivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
Concluding with a comic Ballet of Action, introducirrr Mr.
Hairy Croueste (the favourite Clown to the Ring), the Misses
Gunnis, and the whole of the Corps de Ballet.
Commence at 7—Conclude at a quarter-past 11.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

C)ANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
VICTOR JTJLIEN, "THE FLYING MAN,"
(Last Week) at half-past Nine, in new and extraordinary
feats.

Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," "Dinorah,"
and " La Circassienne, " by Mdlle. Negri, with Band and
full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
The Comm by Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hol-
lingsworth, Messrs. Hildebrandt and Ormond, and Miss
Caroline Parkes.
On Friday, 28th, for the Benefit of Victor Julien.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls aiad Balcony, ls.

THE SUN, LONDON; SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1862.

" Dowb," or as that of " Nil Darpan" there
is this latest nut-to-crack, coming to us but
just now all the way from China under the
name, style, and title of " Tung-che." It was
only within the last fortnight, by the bye, that one
of the more skilled disciples of our modern NOSTRA-
DAMUS, as a foot-note, or rather as a tail-note to a
timely pamphlet, noticed by us in these columns
of The Sus, but yesterday, expounded for the en-
lightenment of the multitude that mystic psue-
donym, or ;nom-de plume that for about a
quarter of a century has been " familiar
in our mouths as household words "—namely, ZAD-
KIEL TOA TZE!:The:Solicitor of the Astro-Meteoro-
logical Society now acquainting the 50,000 annual
readers of the prophetic Almanack that Zadkiel
signifies the Angel, or Genius of the planet Jupiter,
and Tao-tze, Doctor of Reason. Fresh from which
momentous explanation, we have now to try anew
the shrewdness of our wits over the Chinese dissyl-
lable—Tun g-che. Looking at it—as at any unrecog-
nised handwriting upon an unopened letter just
received—sideways, upside-down, or at any angle
that may be selected—" Tung-che"is about as agree-
able and comprehensible reading, as what shall we
say ? As one of those advertisements in cypher at
the head of the second column of our chief morning
contemporary—a cypher, we will suppose (if there
really has been one of them yet), that has baffled
the skill of Professor WHEATSTONE in his attempts
to unravel it.

Yet TUNG-CAE after all admits of an explanation
quite as easy and as readily appreciable as NIL
DARPAN, or as any other outlandish designation.
Tung-che we now learn in effect, is but the title
bestowed by the Regency of Prince KUNG at Pekin
upon the present reign of boy-King of the Chinese.
TUNG CUE! It is worth remembering—for it sig-
nifies (of course, in a very condensed form under
those two wonderful little syllables) " Union in the
cause of Law and Order! That, remember, in
contradistinction to the Taepings ! "Union in the
cause of Law and Order" over 400,000,000 of our
Asiatic fellow-creatures under the influence
of the first Prince of any apparent enlightan-
aient, real enlightenment, that has for centu-
ries swayed even vicariously the destinies of
that vast and populous Empire. " Union in
the Cause of Law and Order" simultaneously with
the inauguration of a regular system of mercantile
intercourse with the European races, and of
diplomatic intercourse with the European Govern-
ments. Notwithstanding that the present Empe-
ror of the CHINESE begins his reign now during his
nonage through the medium of his Uncle as Regent
—notwithstanding that he begins his reign now in
the twelfth year of the Taeping Revolution—the
the Celestial EMPEROR must, in truth, in very many
respects be regarded as one who has ascended
the throne of that stupendous empire under the
happiest auspices. Hence, from the recognition of
this simple fact, Prince KUNG, the Regent of China,
has dubbed the new-born reign of his nephew—
TUNG-CHE, or " Union in the Cause of Law and
Order." The Imperial Government of China
having for the first time established, with apparent
sincerity, amicable relations with the two nations
at the head of modern eivilisation, that is
with France and with England. And this,
at the self-same time that the terrible bands
of the Taeping Insurgents are giving the
world, quite undesignedly on their part, distinct
indications of their having really made no head
way whatever towards the permanent conquest
of anything—even of themselves ! After twelve
years marauding pitilessly with fire and sword—
razing cities to the ground and exterminating the
inhabitants—houses are rebuilt among the ruins so
soon as the Taepings have passed onwards, a new
population gradually collects together upon the
desolated sites of the towns so recently destroyed—
the Taeping system, wherever its votaries have
gene, we behold, in fact, has taken no root what-
ever among the Chinese! China—inland, no less
than along the seaboard—reverts, so soon as the
storm of revolution has passed by, reverts by a
sort of instinct, or gravitation, or necessity, to the
old regime under its new and brighter aspect—in
a word, to lung-che, or, in plain English, to " Union
in the causes of Law and Order."

It is a curious circumstance that two martinets
on opposite sides of the Atlantic now hold in their
hands, in a crisis of high importance to each, the
affairs of two nations. The King of PRUSSIA is a
military martinet on the throne, Mr. LINCOLN a
legal martinet on the Presidential chair. Each of
these chief magistrates is at the present time pur-
suing in all probability a most unwise course, from
sheer wont of capacity to look facts in the face, and
to get a glance beyind the circle in which they
have been trained to act. Probably no finer oppor-
tunity could well be offered to a ruler than that
which Mr. LINCOLN possessed, of cancelling in
virtue of the rebellion all the obligations of the
Federal Government to respect slavery. For
slavery's sake the Southern States made war on
the Supreme authority, and assuredly the Go-
vernment was entitled to say—as we have
by no act, broken our engagements, as
you have, by the worst of all acts, broken yours
—the engagement to respect the slavery which you
causelessly make a cause of war, is at an end for
ever. Such a course, taken early in the war,
would have gained the negroes, would have put
their masters in fear of them, and would, in all pro-
bability, have brought about an early termination
of the contest. But no, Mr. LINCOLN was, by the
" Grace of GOD," or by oath, the President of a
pro-slavery constitution, and he having learned in
the school of the law, would keep within the law
on this point ; he would uphold slavery whatever
became of the Liberty of the Press and of the writs
of Habeas Corpus. He would keep to the legal and
technical of the Constitution.

The King of PRUSSIA seems to have a mind of
much the same calibre, only, instead of having been
trained tolegalsubtleties,it has been drilled to military
obedience and command. Mr. LINCOLN'S discipline
disposes him to let rebels enjoy every advantage
of every technical doubt. The King of PRUSSIA'S
habits as a soldier and an officer indispose him
to put up with the undoubted right of a consti-
tutional assembly to differ from him. His pro-
clamation has been already issued, by which he
puts his disobedient Chambers, as it were, before
a court-martial of electors. The majority of Re-
presentatives have not obeyed royal orders, and
he sends them, therefore, before those whom he
expects to enforce his commands. In a decree ad-
dressed to his newly-appointed retrograde Mini-
stry, in a perfect mist of words, he yet contrives
to make it plain that he wants—a very different
House to what was sent him before. It is a paper,
indeed, difficult for an Englishman to interpret,
even when he has a fair translation of it in
his hands. We can just discover what may be ex-
pressed in Plain langunge in two or three sentences
—that he is pledged to a Constitutional Monarchy,
but that, as he views it, the danger a-head is of too
rapid progress. He does not deny that he is bound i
to maintain the Constitution ; " but also u the
same measure," he says, " to maintain the rights of
the Crown, and to maintain it in that undiminished
strength which is necessary to Prussia for the
execution of her mission. The weakening
of the
Crown would be greatly injurious to the Father-
land. This conviction also lives in the hearts of

my subjects. It is only necessary for me to explain
clearly and openly to them my real thoughts for
their welfare."

COURT CIRCULAR.

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'WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCEL 21.

The decree is made to seem as liberal as possible, 1
yet to point out that the KING wants the country
to check its representatives in their too rapid pro-
gress. Nowhere does it mention the offence against
Royal wishes of which the members have been
guilty. Perhaps this is left to the Ministers to do
in some future documents; perhaps it is considered
to be sufficiently understood. But more probably
the difficulty was found to be too great. Stated in
plain terms it amounted to this, that the represen-
tatives, when asked by the KING to vote the money
of the electors, wished the electors to know how

The Queen held a Privy Conned this afternoon, at 4
o'clock, at which were present Earl Granville, the Duke of
Somerset, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended.
Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen.

The Prince Consort Memorial Committee held a meeting
yesterday afternoon ac the Palace of Westminster. Present:
The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, the Lod Mayor,
and Sir Charles L. Eastlake.

the money was to go. In this:country we cannot com-
prehend the objections to such a demand ; an honest
administrator could not need to fear giving in his
estimates ; he would be willing to show why he
needed what he asked. Yet this is the only point
on which the King is offended with his too liberal
Chamber, and on which he claims a verdict from
the country !

Will the country give him a verdict P We all
hope not. Sad indeed for the Prussians if they
have not courage to make a stand now for the
first and most practically important of constitu-
tional rights. The power of the purse has been that
by which in truth all our British liberties have
been gained and held. And if Prussians would
secure for themselves anything like them, they must
now show that, having been moderate, they know
also how to be firm. They will now, as a people,
either greatly sink or rise in the eyes of Europe.
It is a pity that their rise would be also the humi-
liation of their KING. That, however, is his fault.
Never had a Prussian King such a chance of becom-
ing the first of German Sovereigns—he has thrown
it away, and on him, not on his subjects, should
rest the consequences.

11.1?. CHARLES DICKENS'S READINGS.

For his new " readings," which take place in the
large room of St. James's-hall, Mr. Charles Dickens
has made a selection of the most striking portions
of his " David Copperfield" and digested them into
six chapters. Four of these are devoted to the
episode of Peggotty and " Little Em'ly ;" the other
two, which are of a lighter character, record the
dinner given to the Micawbers at Copperfield's
lodgings and the more comical peculiarities of
Dora's housekeeping. .

A deputation on the subject of the Bleaching and Dye-
ing Works Act of 1860, had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
A deputation frcm members of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company had an interview with Viscount Palmerston
yesterday.
A deputation on Sugar Duties had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

A deputation respecting Prosecution Expenses Bill had
an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey yes-
terday.

The general excellence of Mr. Dickens's " read-
ings" has been acknowledged for several years, and
his appearance on the platform as a practical com-
mentator on his own works is an event that is ex-
pected every season. We use the term "practical
commentator' because, although he does not utter
a syllable of note or comment in the ordinary sense
of the words, he gives to the incidents, and more
especially to tt e characters described in his books,
a significance which mere readers gifted with only
an average power of imagination could never dis-
cover. He does not quite act the personages of his
creation, but his approach to acting is close enough
to make their manners and peculiarities plain to the
most careless of the audience. Of his present read-
ings the simple, true-hearted fisherman Peggotty is
the hero, audit is impossible to praise too highly the
accuracy with which, unaided by scenery or cos-
tume, he brings before the mind's eye the blunt
honest nature of the man, with his south-eastern
dialect, his homely phraseology, and the stubborn
resolution to do his duty which is written in every
line of his countenance. The vague pomp of Mr.
Micawber and the insinuating blandness of his
wife are admirably comic. But the effect of these
semi•dramatic delineations is perhaps even sur-
passed by that of the descriptive eloquence with
which Mr. Dickens narrates the circumstances of
the storm of which Steerforth and Ham are the
victims. The events seem visibly to occur before
him, and to inspire him with a feeling of awe in
which his auditors are compelled to participate.
And it is to be observed that he passes through
an ordeal remarkably severe. When he first came
before the public as a " reader," he had only to
satisfy the curiosity of a multitude anxious to see an
author so celebrated, and to hear the words to
which he owed his celebrity issue from his lips.
But he has been too long before the public for that
curiosity to b 3 very active now. It is also perfectly
evident , from the hum of recognition that goes
round the room whenever a popular character is
mentioned, that the audience are almost as familiar
as the author with the contents of the selected book.
To his dramatic power, to his irresistible eloquence,
guided by the light that belongs to him in his ca-
pacity of author, does he now owe that popularity
as a " reader" which seems rather to increase than
to diminish.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Canada,

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—Yesterday,
a numerously attended deputation waited upon Lord Pal-
merston, at his lordship's residence in Piccadilly, on the
part of the old Atlantic Telegraph Company, to solicit the
assistance of the Government to have fresh soundings made
between Ireland and Newfoundland, and to submit the
propositions of the United States Government of their
readiness to cooperate in every possible way
with the British Government in the shape of granting a
subsidy or guarantee upon the amount of capital required
for a new cable. Samples of various cables were submitted
to his lordship, who requested that the proposals of the
company should be sent in for the consideration of the Go-
vernment.

THE QUEEN AND THE ITALIAN BOY.—A few
days ago her Majesty, accompanied by her Ro) al Highness
the Princess Alice, and attended by Colonel the Hon. A. N
Hood, was taking a carriage drive in the neighbourhood of
Old Windsor and Egham, and on passing over Runny-
mede her Majesty's attention was attracted by the stock-
in-trade of a poor Italian vendor of images, the carriage
was ordered to be stopped, and, with her characteristic con-
sideration and kindness of heart, her Majesty became a
Purchaser of several of the images. But here a laughable
incident occurred. When the Queen ordered the Italian to be
liberally rewarded, it was discovered that none of the party
had sufficient cash to furnish the handsome sum required.
The money, however, was soon afterwards procured, and
when the poor Italian understood who his customer was he
became quite overwhelmed with emotion.
SACRED ORATIONS BY MR. MA SON JONES.—
Mr. Mason Jones, the orator, whose lectures on Milton,
Swift, Curran, Garibaldi, and other celebrities, caused such
a sensation in London the last two seasons, is about to
deliver a series of sacred orations on " St. Paul," "Elijah,'
" Job," and " Moses," in Her Majesty's Concert Room,
Hanover-square, on Sunday afternoons, giving the public
free admission.

THE ROYAL ATLANTIC COMPANY AND THE Go-
TEUNMENT.—Yesterday a copy of a letter addressed by the
directors of the Royal Atlantic Company to the First Lord
of the Treasury, dated the 7th of last month, was printed
for the information of Parliament. The chairman informs
the Government as to the present state of the company's
steamers, the capital, &c., and expresses the entire confi-
dence of the directors in the ability of the company "to
carry out fully and faithfully all the obligations of the con-
tract in a manner creditable to themselves and satisfactorily
to her Majesty's Government." It is added that the direc-
tors will, at the earliest possible moment, submit a report of
the completion of the vessels, and ask at the hands of her
Majesty's Government a renewal of the contract and a re-
storation of the subsidy.
REPORTED Loss OF A PLYMOUTH SCHOONER
WITH ALL HANDS.—A report has reached us to the effect
that the schooner Contest, the property of Mr. King, grocer,
Quay, Plymouth, has gone down with all hands. A vessel
which was passing up the Channel sent the news ashore by
one of the pilot-boats belonging to this port. The crew of
this vessel stated that the Contest was lost at St. Michael's,
in a tremendous gale of wind, and that all hands perished.
She was 134 tons burden. The captain's name is Batiste,
and the crew were eight in number. She left Plymouth on
the 19th of January, and arrived at St. Michael's on the
2d of March. Mr. King, although he is afraid that the
report may prove correct, hopes it will be found incorrect.
It is also right to say that there was another vessel named
the bontest at St. Michael's at the same date, which pos•
sibly might have been mistaken for his vessel.— Western
Morning News.

PRUSSIA.—A letter from Berlin, dated the 18th
inst., says :—" The Ministerial crisis is over. The previ-
sions of the public are unhappily confirmed, and the new
Ministry presents a strong reactionary character. The King
paid a visit to-day to M. d'Auerswald, and was nearly an
hour with him. It is thought that the H ing wished to
induce this statesman to remain in the Cabinet, but it is
scarcely possible that he will succeed ; for, besides the poli-
tical incompatibility between the new Ministers and M.
d'Auerswald, the health of the latter is too much compro-
mised to allow him to undertake the duties of a Ministry.
To-day is the anniversary of the revolution of 1848,
and on this occasion a large number of people of the better
class assembled at the tomb containing the remains of the
victims of March. The tomb was decked with flowers and
garlands. The attitude of the people was calm and dig-
nified, and the police abstained from appearing on this
occasion. The Ministry have decided, it is said, upon send-
ing a circular to all the Government authorities, enjoining
them to observe the most strict neutrality at all the elec-
tions. The question will be to see whether it will be acted

THE EARLDOM OF DIINDONALD.—It is averred
that there is to be a contest for the succession to the earl-
dom of Dundonald, the competitors being two parties. It
had been whispered, long previously to the death of the late
earl, that his eldest ssn would have difficulty in making out
his claim to the succession. It was understood that, with
such irregularity had the noble lord's marriage been origi-
nally attended, legal proof of it would be almost impossible.
After the birth of two or more children, the earl consulted a
learned ex-Chancellor supposed to be an oracle on Scotch law,
who was so little satisfied with the proofs then to be adduced,
that, the countess being enciente, he recommended a second
marriage. His advice was taken. The eldest son, at the very
end of last session, preferred his claim to be a Scotch peer,
and to be entitled to vote for the representative Scotch peers.
His claim will come on for hearing again shortly, and, it is
said, will be opposed by his brother, the eldest son by the
second marriage. He also is said to have laid his case before
a noble ex-Chancellor (Lord St. Leonards), and who has
pronounced that it cannot be gainsayed.—Ayr Observer.
DEATH OF MR. SAMUEL MARCH PHILLIP:4.—
We announced yesterday the death of the Right Hon.
Samuel March Phillipps, formerly Under-Secretary of
State for the Home Department, which took place recently
at Great Malvern, at the advanced age of 82, The deceased
was second son of Mr. Thomas March Phillipps, and was
born at Uttoxeter in 1780. He received his education at
the Charter-house and graduated at Sidney College, Cam-
bridge, where in 1802 he obtained the honours of eighth
Wrangler and Senior Chancellor's Medallist. Four years
afterwards he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple.
Having entered Parliament, he was appointed in 1827
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, but
resigned in 1848, when he was made a Privy Councillor,
The deceased was married in 1812 to the second daughter
of the late Mr. Charles Grant, M.P. for Inveruesshire, who,
however, died in 1826. Ho was the author of several
works, among which may be mentioned one on the " Law
of Evidence," and a "Review of Select State Trials?,
CONDEMNED MURDERETZS.—TIIO Home Secretary
having had under his consideration the circumstances of the
case of Ishmael Jones, who was convicted at the recent
assizes at Welshpool, North Wales, of the wilful murder of
his wife, the verdict, it may probably be remembered, being
accompanied by a recommendation to mercy, has thought
fit to advise the extension of the mercy of the Crown, and
the capital sentence will therefore be commuted to penal
servitude for life. A natification to that effect has been
forwarded to the governor of the county gaol at Mont-
gomery. The sentence of death passed upon Hall for the
murder of a gamekeeper near Oxford, and upon the sailor
boy, Patrick Devereux, for the murder of the crimp in
Ratcliff-highway, and in which cases the Home Secretary
ressited the execution, will be commuted to penal servitude
for life. With regard to Clark, the murderer of Mr. Frater,
the tax collector of Newcastle, the special circumstances of
his alleged insanity, as ascertained by the Government me-
dical inspector, leave it at present under further considera-
tion as to what course Will be adopted In his especial case. c

up to."
MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD FELLOWS.—The
Lord Melbourne Lodge (North London district) had a
special meeting on Thursday, at the Rose and Crown,
Welwyn, P. Prov. G. M. Harris in the chair. An excel-
lent repast was provided by Mr. Brand, the treasurer, and
after the usual loyal and other toasts, the Chairman pro-
posed "Prosperity to the Lord Melbourne Lodge," and in
a speech of some length, referred to the fact that it was
the anniversary of the day last year when the then trus-
tees of the lodge (who were all now expelled from the
order), had, without any authority, sold out the society's
stock, and afterwarls withheld it. He congratulated the
lodge that it was rid of such members, that the County
Court proceedings the lodge had been compelled to take
had been the means of securing justice, and that Mr. Tidd
Pratt hal given his authority under the Friendly Societies'
Act by which the whole of the funds of the society had
been restored. He trusted that a bright future was before
them, and believed the lodge would have a long career of
usefulness as an important branch of the order. Mr. T.
Catlin, the secretary, responded, and said the lodge had
new about £1,005 surplus money, and 60 members; the
rules had been revised and newly certified ; they had
adopted a graduated table for new members; and young
men would find they could join a safe lodge on easy terms,
whilst the valuation of assets and liabilities would satisfy
every ono. He thought that now their troubles were at an
end, and they were determined to work harmoniously to.
gether, they must be successful. The health of the new
trustees, Messrs. Boulton, Blow, and Sibley, was then
honoured, and acknowledged by them. Various other
speakers followed, and capital music enlivened the enter-
ment, which was altogether of a very happy character.