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

Enn'ter 9th, Bouche /Python*oculus,no-Neuter.

TRIBAL-AMERICA'S 4' ULSTER' PLANTA-
TION-SHIFT, § IN E-SCU-RIAL WILL.TRUSTS.
233 r RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 c. 92, § 4
c-39 § 4, 1842, NAVE : : 9th Q. AN-VNTY. 132 yr, so
Jetsam rota Lb gan-let' ouT-}lot-semi fl'ea N.
IVall-Lanurem 24 March-g-29 Sept. wend • finangl 6 April
A-jeu/irte Cul de sac Twe-,,--ed fishrv-park/atesets, in conic
sections 1200 /sospiral e••. • • e by Enka Juptr comet, r.
CARIES.-It iS my EASTPORT Plagent' -pt. votd line 901.
a-year R.N. unsought duty, as of 16 Car. n. c 6-to state, in
opposition to RUPERTa lawyers of British church, That the
coastguard -map officers of San Jacinto & Santiago de Cuba,
acted on POWNALL'd King's-post-grantee-Franklin, 1762-
4, on Penn's 21st Regula parliament, Art. xx.,-No planter
can leave without a threw week's market-notice of utrecht's
3ty-plot slaves-care, under a Justice pass. Ships aiding such
Car. V's re Malta-life Chelt'm ‘Kgiftsgate' persons of Dane-
brog order of Ile St. Thoma and ft. Jean-open to right of*
*search'-1 G. ic2§ 4 on Jan.l4 May 1814-Dec. .•• : :
: .• A Qr-hd. [J. SOITTHWORTII, Cl. of synode
GROWDON, spkr, Oct. 28, 1701]-Re-form bill'd, 1832-38, for
Retro-webster'd •'42 in Cass, by Palmerston, '57-8. So-
-COMPASS GAPHPONTI SPIRIT-°-LEVEL.
JAR-HONE s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY,
ON NAVE CTNQUE PORTAL LATITUDE, REPULSION CURVE,
In ginq'nt span-long 50° by Polar* above & below declin.
soar„in 3 astrs-geograph . • • : : to (lover's 4. Arrow off-
and-on'Diepp's-Rouen to Lizard-Pt. 9'r flerisle's Quadra-
culmination Tropic-wend t 'wrds minorga's Lan gue T lock
40. N. Its state rope-lay Anchor .t flag -tow'r pres -by Tyre
round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night
zone-meter of yr 79, in 1824-35's L'Exchekivar-Shellbred
conevolute-Leet- crts.-to America's gown-south meridian
.60. w. for its Turloch base N, line September evapora-like
Xarayes Nile-°-metre'd lake (on :* 4o Plough-ken 3 Jaqo.
1.), of Vil-Belle'fack're-mento 1713 R. negro plot of l'Erazil,
-C. Horn'd from my MODON 3ty, July 6, 1827-.1 -28.
Sachims-The Illustr. London News, No. 1,119, p. 538,
gives, Clarendon's 5-Georgia n., car°lineA in Philadeph's
Pensylvan-arm"rial jword scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the
tenet, 'resolve of its Councila board' on Middletone's fens-
bre (' Fodinaa -regales, of James I.'s 72 New River' share
1-plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on
Iknoland's royalty 36 ones £500) a-tested by Wotton & Mon-
tague, so CAR. 11. ' Hyde's Swedish A colony grant 1662's in
Hild,rheim Abbess, 1672-Foxy-Penn's 81-1701, in Quakers
affirm act 1749, on '77 Indn.' s Vectigal land rents, £lOO,OOO,
on Can'ngs Rush-transfer by R. c. comite's Xl2 Feb. 1836,
-Buxton, for a Percy-bastard Smithson's Peguliarinstitution'
of Qakr-Jesu patrons & advocates), with undersigned 'to
Q- An's & Pombal U.P. Chapelr's Consul Act, 1826. 1,
So Rome's Jan. 6-yr papal commission of-1826 Educe.
Code +- 30-32-37 Aborigines-rep. N. 4461 for school 2d mars
1841, Convention, Bulo, Palmerston & Labouchere, thro' 1).
Webster & Parley's 3d Sept. '4l, election of Peter B. o'r 99
'lifeleases, not without Ackerfey's name, to 14 Geo m. 1774,
Build'ng-in Stigma Brant (act on old J. Adam's Quincy A.
and H. Clay's Ghent note, Sept. 9, 1814), as Stow-tower'd,
forfiladelph-Lancaster Duchy Crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by
Atkins Edgcumbe Khand6s Chamberlayne (Hugh Cham-
berlen & ooldfrnith Co's-r, N. Steggles plug-I.
Social's-The cause shift ofjPrida-Seminoles & Cherokee
Creek indians of Georgia's trust (by 1802 Hudson-B. &S.
Sea us. Co's 1000 m. of Mississipi, lodg'd sw. of Mt. Plea-
sant in rear of The --bred white planers or build'rs, under
Lancaster FRAME 1746-65 (Anderson, Lovel-Percival-+s
Plasentia-pt. Ind. Marian trust 1812-'4'3-61), Art. I. )(Iv., for
mixt Comiffh Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as
re-set on admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda 10 M, by
Philadel's partizans, p 66, coloniza-off, Boston-Judge Jay
-31 May, 1853 GREY'S [thus Deerfoot's f3yefellow scholar-
ship' Trinity e-Col., Cambridge, 1861, 8 Dec. Exhibition-rs,
-Aloes stay '5l col. let.rl, term negro for Indian not in 1726-
new K C.,3. G. I. Cat ib lie-grant '32, in Adair fraud.
So Galveston New shire-Crt' on Fr ilch-british Andre
3tys, Jan. & Nov. 1840, as prefac'd to Extradition Washing •
ton Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. ' Basket'-
soul of Abbot Laurence & Ashburton compact 4, on Spitheacl
( contrdler Sir Gull' ame Penn)-Ackerley's sworn in Nor-
way-1468 sponsor of Indian lady 1820 for Act 1843's Empery
(9 Sept:l.Bl4) over cwt.-Texas-Hundred 6 & 6 partners, for
England's law for outing the Jruf/m St. John's xts., of
Gothland's C+tina Q. (Swedon of:ct, 65 to Boromeo's Kirk-
tax-10ths & Trent cncil forage subsidy, 1776), on nufts
Mathew, Feb 1807-8, in 'Kensington fir' M. Peto+xt 54.
,=eviot-1847 as Trent-The felon fix of Slidell & Mason,
Danske-papal vessels of Scarlet & Anton'lli, Dec. 1853, was
right as black-republis. So Godairform'd image, outcast Red
Indian &C. A truste, made the Kirk Scapegoats 40 yrs of
Luther-calvin'Swiss fraters de sac' a double titre on L'ui-{
bronzed-IPEN's- P•statue. (19 Levit. v. 33)-148 v. 116'
Arutc'rs.-By pyre-Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32
still pending), §4.9, subjects or su'ject, have equal Astr°-
Jen'r rewards. Think on the Carib 3)5 vote-swamp, of
your danger in joining Vaccine px.-mark id white faces or
negur indian Fetish Berlin'rs, 1792 6, thus forbad noticing
the late False Proclamation as headed in Times and Post
of 16th Nov., " A britesh Convention between ENo'asrva
„Trance, & Spain," dated Oct. 31, 1861, wherein [Gib'raltar
ft. Germani-en-laye inter-Pope nations, on Ist Ratisbon tax
set'ng forth] Common law on 'l5-pact is not for Indian by
High contracting parties' on its K-Changos (Danewark °r-
Elbe-li° s,tr I-G. 1714-23) arpent-58-hogilad tobac'-so
" Command old words, that long have slept-to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake."
1. My admiralty RED-flag, is th' Enn°terr Gap-line-tiree
one of water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses by 3rd
Jacno I. is a Christian Zollverein trade flag x and not
for war by Micmac Ordnance issue; from Tower nave T
343, of Jan. 31 1842. The merchant's jack, on board Car.n's
Hotel-P.Offi. Trent, had no white border, Rome's transept-
Congregate church has no sea limit or Necuter' flag.
2. That the Latin'd words Britt'sh-[Britain, St. George's
an St. Patrick's Order, 17831-channel, for
outing the word England from Log-wood Sty 'B2 Court christian sea charts,
set witbout Gran' i'Bretosupasnyr •Annona (in Justinan lib. 4,
T. 18, § 2), under the X dvtra' Double 11 ud'd. E-gal
.S-of Ju1y,1521 17614'27
Span'sh Texas
Efts. (wrong by 11 Geo. m, c 541-Tormajaens'rderbuym Privataeum,
A.D. 131, edict of Hadrian, Gruter 578.1 by ass dCI k-
Pone-Caon of St. Denis-31, so by the wt; lime ET
rd' except France in
Ms;rch 3, 1815, U.S. 3ty" prior to Blucher and Wellington's
s'.gnature [for reset of Avignon jesuits of the 2d
ordero f
Melchisidek on Educe. Code moving earth error'] June 17,
3815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil' d Pedro 2,
Zelgifwede Leopold-Jesu '2B-30's Brune-i-Gai/lard'ng.

3, Saving my N. Z. Waitangi'd 512, by t-BunburY-like
Sir Gore Ouseley's foist on the 800 Sachims sign for Gross
ebels in my risme, seen (by his Wabash Walker'd Central
America, for 1047 Bamberg- Sigismond life-tie, to a Savoy-
Rh'dfert, on a Governess Parquet:lan's Tach Z Euphemw
Ind -Turking Mexico) from England, caused his papisi
envoy Aldharn to be shot, as sacrificing: the Indians to /3vac-
pine-priests }wolves 'mien—against the umbilical pithon'd-
l'Arpent-Nave Violation of God's : Acre, by Ackerley's
eeral-pivot on 29th Aug. 1825 to Pithegusa N, on
£9O, for all, without Scholastic Doubletitre, including (the
Ittomßop4doctrine as of nohun'd Phil. u.'s) •Tanila channel
of official letter, which elected the indiaa Peter—the law's
font by Peel & Derby's Queen-kin P6merania'd Zoll.-Kt.-
king of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842—as, of P6land's red
Russian Dutch loan 1832-act, 99 yr, on Mingan's 9fqr. NW.
America ; now in secret use by Canada's 1837 Hincks-(haver
Paul' rebels at Yanke's back, without My pay or leave.
4. The null'd•Russell 31st Oct. ratification (of § London
Gazeta x , NOV. 16, not within 15 days, is illegal by Extra-
Dition 1842-Parliament), it being on a supplement of the
nun's Mou'ry-regents of Macie'smithson Institution April,
1838,0' Gladsßux- ton's H.O. comtee. U.S. district Colum-
bia's midwife Congress '46, l'Bertie 18--19, Art. 1. § 3.
Sachims—This chain—to 1730-2's will-crt. of Assistants,
Scots Cor. of J. r. Georgia proves the Privy cabinets named
on Oct, 31, '6l, are not on RUSH & CANNING'S dictum, thus
opposed to th' En-Normanaie law of Nations of 1824 & 35,
for Ge' raising the revenue—on yearly election of paid
1,437T0en-beaks, as on Cartvret h Montague .Luctlirbiter—so
Ijl6, 1) " Scorn not arbitration—a stain (g-i lay)
§ 13] To 9th, and 10th of William's reign." [nO 10th.
z „mina.Ursa plow-wheel gist, for my Ennosigcen Monte-
'light, to give recognition of all £ dues from America
npon Ist coi,/
Afric nization of the whites [till Gov'nr. G. r. TT. Royal
our 1730-846 i St. Thomas flaptzst Dane-pact, 1850 X-theft of
love to E, glandlidßruce-chief, to my life], by a brother &sister
ces 's skyrnark (now d is...joined with t- Pope, S
4 Phanwn'g:V:ter sects on minister's money), of the site-A
.11; PETR2Be.l'ol-lt, as its Cone fall-on-ern finite law.
si a. m p AB4VET Nudware ) The flag-union Jak,
o 9-Bulo.*-z-, 3-J. 1., corn-hill-Tow'er'd Income-tax-
-00 Temple. frt'eman, Antipod'n crown-colony chief
Labouchere.
.ton 1842, —The criminal law's Extradi-
c/2 [2 March, '4l] beari_an, -mile off-shore Sea-constable,
H. M. Perley, court7vAe merica'A paddle of Admiral's
3 Sept, '4l'B dement forl. canternur's cie-auizote set-
Gap Vexilla'ry cit., its (.i.ew Zealand's deadprooffit
Capt 0; Halloran. )I—tho' Stil'lord Warden
fief: for)_,lot sin, by Xsitt;aurnrodal Oar-Goat sacri-
c.3.7
of
Carib
-3ty . • N.
g ' Ache/ley, §
errA RLES
Jethou'd EnGland 'Special elect frharr-ile f
Aug 1825, by Admiral G. Doughty it, so (29
Stuart' de nothsay Soc. Marcus Crown-
on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of se
clubs), Standard weight-bearer of 1837 Lie',lt.
.1
R.N. double- oath I_l,ay-victim—supporter „Et.,Pennt,e
of Mohawk PETER 10 vrs, by Red Indian Mary rp_
atn
March's murder-tie (1820 in 'habeas virginals
tenerum corpus Christe' in Quebec's Ormond-
llamliton-Dalhousie, on his P,lPhne's' Yide, '25-42
as Crown-rage.l3/ekillf.7-ride G(,tland/ound BRANT,.
dues with Avg. J. Foster), as Mo;:raguo Norton_
tidy nosekild loan Ivescript.Ja.• .
liav-1814. letter-
'2o's to major Cartwright's surregatery fen Tr. trove.
1322'99?,s red-turban'd Hen. 4th, or Hen. V.'3 1792 '
in Sigisond- Brydyrs aap's-colona' Martin 5.L6• Vto
Gonsa:vi 1816 re rola-159. by S. 7, on urban s' scotch
Orkney-Oath on H. B's will 1749-Krigsmarin [Advocate
STUAII.T wortley-Newcomen's-en Gonfaioniere'-motu
1824] pass'd in C. A.'s Heligoland name act 1-2 W 4, n°
54., Of Julyls2l-62 Luther. calvin's man, as England's
Peer(less), refused by Can'ing to Hateund, as his Lt. S
junior- officer did the hid 2nd 'AI /moral:icy Baron duty.
Whose A-'JAR' X-shield of seven-fold, Pfulehier]
"ma
all safe, and makes HlM—bold,'
"ma 22,1862 (paid Christ-man PETER 20 yrs), London.

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

Instead of vague complaints of the vastness of

our taxation, and its enormous augmentation of a

million a•year during the last twenty years, Mr.
BAXTER takes the practical course of his, in this
line, distinguished predecessor. He perseveres in
fixing the attention of the House on a large item
of useless expenditure till the interest of all
parties is aroused. In the matter of expenditure
Ministrias, of whatever party, run very mueh in
grooves. Perhaps we ought now to change the
old figure, and speak of their running, financially,
on rails, when twenty millions, additional, repre-
sents their advance since the days of Sir ROBERT
PEEL. One thing is certain, the break can be
only gradually screwed up by such guards as Mr.
BAXTER, who will not, when a good turn 1.4 gained,
let the screw twist back again.

Mr. MILLS, about a fortnight ago, did good ser-
. .

vice by his resolution putting the break on Colonial

expenditure, so far as related to providing for the
internal order and security of the colonies at their
own expense. Mr. BAXTER then proposed an addi-
tion to the effect that the colonies should also be
called upon to aid in their own external defence,
especially pointing out that the Imperial Govern-
ment should not be called on to provide fortifica-
tions for the colonies, except as the great naval
and military posts, such as Gibraltar and Malta.
On this latter part of his resolution Mr. BAXTER
thinks that faith has hardly been kept, or that at

least there was a misunderstanding. The mention
of the fortifications was dropped, because according
to Mr. FORTESCUE'S representation, no Govern-
ment would think now of multiplying these
fortifications. A few days afterwards, how-
ever, the Secretary of State for War affirmed,
in apparent opposition to the Under.Secre-
Pary for the Colonies, that the Government
l dissented from the part of Mr. BAXTER'S
addition
1 and actualrelating to colonial fortifications,
tly y
Z 43,000 was obtained by the
Secretary for War for the very
purpose to which
Mr. BAXTER so strongl
objected.Pltpwas certainly
therefore, the best course to ,oring
the subject defi-
nitely before the House, and to elicit
its opinion in a
way which should influence the Government. The
result of the debate, notwithsttuidiu a the demo-

atory speeches of Mr. CAVE and the Minister
chiefly concerned, was entirely on the right side.
Mr. CAVE naturally said the best he could for the
Mauritius, and a case was made out for Bermuda,
whether for Corfu we can hardly say. The two
positions of Gibraltar and Malta, if they are what
they ought to be, would render Corfu of very
little value to us. The chief difficulty would be
who should have it, though the noisy Greek
patriots, whose compatriots are fighting against
King OTHO, have had very little difficulty hitherto
in preferring the Bavarian dynasty in Greece to the
Hanoverian dynasty in England.

Sir G. C. LEWIS had really nothing to say
against the purport of the resolution, only he did
not like to have his hands tied. We do not know
that he was wise in this. True, he argued
that the House of Commons had the votes for
the Army Estimates always in their hands,
and could always refuse their votes for new fortifi-
cations—but we all know how difficult it is for any
independent member to oppose any special vote of
the kind with success. The Government has always
a prepared and plausible case ; the member has
not ready the special information to oppose it ; the
scheme for making some barren rock unavailable is
adopted on the Government assurance of its neces-
sity ; and, the work once ordered, the cost of surveys
and plans, and preparation being once incurred, on
they go, year after year. The vote for the current
year is only a continuation of what had been done
in previous years, and thus at length it is found that
tens of thousands have swelled to hundreds of
thousands, and these it may be to millions—till at
last the question arises,—whether when all is done,
we should in time of war be able to spare a little
army to garrison works which ought never to have
beet. begun. Then arises the still graver question,
had not works better be blown up again P Will
they not offer positions for the enemy to wrest from
feeble garrisons, and positions from which they can
turn our own guns against us. Our readers who
trouble themselves with the debates on these votes,
well know that this is no exaggerated account of the
frequent story of a colonial fortification.
We cannot conceive that our colonists anywhere
will misconstrue the remarks mde in this debate,
notwithstanding the touchiness of Mr. HALIBURTON.
Canada has already shown a spirit worthy of on
associated kingdom, not of a petty colony. She
will readily acknowledge that the tendency of in-
terference, for interference it is now, by the Home
Govetnment, in constructing and manning her for-
tifications, is emasculating to the colony, and tends
to give a colour of military subjection to the mother
country, rather than of civil and political
union with her. If Canada, the principal
colony referred to, for instance, has her
own fortifications, defended by her own
garrisons, it becomes evident that the whole con-
nection with us is perfectly spontaneous. If
foreign war broke out, and she needed and asked
our aid, it would be as an independent appanage of
the British Crown, 'without the shadow of con-
straint. A kingdom of the extent and population
of Canada would willingly incur the cost of this
more dignified relation, and would repudiate, if
appealed to, the system of petting and nursing at
the cost of the old country.

The attention, however, both of this country and
of the colonies will be in future awakened to the
whole subject. Our administrators will not be
allowed to pursue unnoticed their old policy. New
Zealand and the Cape will be required to pay for
the wars, more properly quarrels, which they
provoke with the natives. Our Australian colo-
nies will not be snubbed again when they offer to
purchase at a fair price some of our old frigates as
floating harbour defences, and the military spirit in
the colonies will, we hope, be called forth rather
than chilled and repressed. As we no longer tax
our colonies—as they, we might rather say, tax us,
by Customs duties, frequently high, and in the lay-
ing on of which we neither ask nor receive any
favour, it is but fair that they should meet their
own regular military expenses out of the funds to
which we thus indirectly contribute. Our navy
must for a long time t) come be indeed the chief
maritime reliance of our colonies; but for works on
their own soil, and for ordinary defences, they must
now rely on themselves.

" 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 Sun, 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 -4lnzanack. that Zadkiel
signifies the Angel, or Genius of the planet Jupiter,
and Tao-tze, Doctor of Reason. Fresh from which
momentous
eh nr te owu
shrewdness
n e
ss ofexplanation,
ou we have now to try anew
wits over the Chinese dissyl-
lable—Tung-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 TUN G- CHE after all admits of an explanation
quite as easy and as readily appreciable as NIL
DARPAN, or as any other outlandish designation.
Tung the 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 CELE! 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 enlight.m-
ment, 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 civilisation, 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 ung-ehe, 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 i❑ all probability a most unwise course, from
sheer wont of capacity to look facts in the face, and
to get a glance beyond 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-

TUNG-CRE! Does anyone recognise it ? Is it
still with the majority another abracadabra, " that
word of dread ? " A symbol of a mystery but dimly
perceived, even by the initiated, wholly inscrutable
to the uninitiated. It was but the other day that
English readers were puzzlin g,for the first time, over
that enigmatic name,NlL DARPAN,WhiCh the earliest
telegrams about it informed western Europe repre-
sented a something then driving distracted her
Britannic MAJESTY'S Hindoo lieges as by the bite
of some little Oriental Tarantula. It:turned out soon
afterwards, as the public will very well remember,
that "Nil Darpan" meant nothing more, and
nothing less, after all, than a long-winded Ben-
galese drama upon Indigo-planting, and what not
—a drama in an unlimited number of acts and
scenes, with scarcely any diversity at all among
them, constructed upon the expansive fashion origi-
nally introduced by M. ALEXANDRE DUMAS, pere—
minus, of course (mats vela va sans dire), the in-
imitable vivacity and espieglerie of the Gallic
ALEXANDER the GREAT of literature, Scarcely
have we recovered from the shock given to our
Etymological sensibilities, and, generally speaking,
to what might be whimsically called, for want of
some apter phrase, our nervous system as philolo•
gists, by the inexplicable riddle of ".Nil Darpan,"
when quite as unpreparedly as in that instant, by a
sudden sash of electricity from beyond the seas, the
isle has been again frighted from its propriety by
another Sphinx-like utterance clicked to us
audibly and visibly by the electric needles—spell-
ing out that last little wondrous Chinese puzzle, to
wit—" Tung-che." It is a sort of Asiatic reminder
of that famous Crimean riddle that provoked, once
upon a time (not a hundred years ago), such " in-
extinguishable laughter" both within and without
the walls of Parliament—that Shibboleth, ever since,
of Nepotism, " Take care of Dowb !" Poor Major
DOWBIGGIN ! Perhaps, however (unless his promo-
tion, by the way, unluckily got nipped in the bud,
under the influence of that universal outburst of
good-humoured derision), perhaps by this time
Colonel or Major-General, or we know not
what else, including C.B. and all the rest of
it—barring the Victoria Cross! Poor, harmless,
inoffensive Major DOWEIGGIN ! Under that most
ridiculous abbreviation of his (at the best) rather
eccentric patronymic—his merits—possibly in
themselves large enough, we know at any rate
nothing whatever to the contrary ! Under the laugh-
ter_moving snfluence, we say, of that nonsensical
"Take care of Down" his stunted or foreshortened
surname became for a while (in fact until very
simply explained by the ludicrous addendum of
—IGGIN !) became for a time, we say, as utterly
bewildering in its way as that amazing boast of
Mrs. SPARSIT in " Hard Times"—that—" she was a
POWLER !" Leaving everybody who listened to
her in a tantalising uncertainty as to whether a
Yowler signified a- country, perhaps, or a creed,
or a profession ! And now—for all the world, at
any rate in Western Europe—as problematic as
Powler," or as that of
that phrase of a

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 wou!d 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 language 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
to maintain the Constitution ; " but also in the
the Crown, and to maintain it in that undiminished
same measure," he says," to maintain the rights of
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

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

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

The decree is made to seem as liberal as possible,
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 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 ? 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.

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
episude of Peggotty and " Little Emly ;" 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.
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 giftea 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, and it 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 anxioas 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 be 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.

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 und 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 handslme 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, who'e 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 EARLDOM OF DUNDONALD.—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 son 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 or acle 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. Ho 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 PHILLIPS.—
We announced yesterday the death of the Right Hon.
Samuel March Philippe, 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 Uttoseter 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 Medalist. 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 Invernesshire, who,
however, died in 1826. He 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 MIIRDERERS.—The 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 intification 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
Rateliff-highway, and in which cases the Home Secretary
respited the execution, will be commuted to penal servitude
for life. With regard to Clark, the murderer of Mr. Prater,
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-
tio an to what couxoe will be adopted in his especial case,