The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-10 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, WEDNES )AY IE4 V ENIN. DECE ABER 10, 1862.

cians like Dr. SEMPLE and Dr. GUY, to
a high state of nervous excitement. It
still does appear to us rather surprising that
the excitement of the plaintiff never reached a pitch
to which more irascible men would certainly have
been. driven long ago, namely-, that of taking the
law into his own hands (or strictly speaking per-
haps we should say more correctly, feet) by summa-
rily ejecting his male persecutors at the point of the
right toe across the threshold of his domicile ! In-
stead of acting thus under his excitement and irri-
tation, Mr. HALL looked wild and st-ring ! Where-
upon Dr. SEMPLE and Dr. Guy signed the needed
certificate and the " remarkable sensibly looking"
tradesman is forcibly conveyed away to a ?liaison de
sante ! Because of this proceeding, Mr. HALL
brings his action against Dr. SEMPLE. Because of
the plain facts brought to light during the trial the
jury find, very reasonably and very justly, as it ap-
pears to us, a verdict for the plaintiff, condemning
the defendant at the same time to pay damages to
the extent of £l5O. Dr. GUY, warned by the fate of
his associate in signing this certificate, will hence-
forth think twice, we take it, before again " flatten-
ing his nose" against a shop window in Tottenham-
court-road, in order to estimate in that way by per-
sonal observation the sanity or insanity of the
unconscious tradesman within : as Dr. GUY was
actually proved to have done on the 13th of June, in
Mr. HALL'S instance as a preliminary to signing
the certificate consigning the plaintiff to a mad-
house ! Dr. SEMPLE, again, we may be tolerably
certain of this in his instance, will hardly quite so
readily as he did in the case of Mr. HALL, doom to
an asylum as a stark " staring " lunatic, any un-
fortunate man accused of insanity by a shrewish
wife, a female friend of the same, and a
charwoman ! By the result of his last day's ap-
pearance as Plaintiff in a Court of Law against Dr.
SEMPLE as Defendant—Mr. HALL may certainly be
considered to have obtained, and may here be very
heartily congratulated on having obtained, full and
satisfactory compensation for the exceedingly dis-
agreeable nights passed by him in the midst of mad-
.en at Munster House, in the suburb of Fulham.

Shall we ready have a military coup d'etat in the

country where we hope our PRINCESS ROYAL sv
one day be Queen ? We confess appearances begin
to look like it. So wildly and outspokenly abso-
lutist is the language of the KING that Dr. SEINIPLE
would have been found guilty of negligence by no
jury had he signed a certificate to place him in a
Lunatic Asylum. His language to the little depu-
tations got up by the reactionary party, to
furnish the KING with texts on which to hang his
sermons on despotic government, grows every day
worse and worse. In the last speech, just received,
he appeals to the army itself, and tells it that the
Liberals desire to destroy it. In reply to an address
from some inhabitants of Marienwerder, expressing
their loyal sentiments, the KING said—" The pre-
sent movement is not so much directed against
the new organisation of the army as against
the army itself.' He is obviously tampering
with the huge standing army of Prussia, and pre-
paring them to stand by him in his conflict with
the people. He is proposing, probably, to make
sure of the army in the same way as Louis
NAPOLEON did, just before he used it to subvert
the liberties of France. We strongly suspect that
his heart's thought is that the soldiers will back
him in a grand assault on the liberties, such as
they are, of the Prussian people.
He at the same time openly proclaims war with
what is meant by Constitutional Government.
"The aim," ho says, " which is principally pursued
by every means is the inauguration of a Constitu-
tional Government. The Constitution has not pro-
mised this, but only legislation with the
co-operation of the Parliament." The sentence
is somewhat Delphic, but unless it implies
that Constitutional Government means, not
the KING governing with and through the repre-
sentatives of the country, but the country subor-
dinating all its wishes to those of the Sovereign—
we must confess we see no meaning in the words
at all. We must understand him to the same
effect in the sentence which follows, when he says
—" I am fully determined not to part with the con-
stitutional rights of the Crown, which form its
powers. Nothing shall divert me from those views,
which I have pursued since I assumed the Re-
gency, because they serve the welfare and the
power of the country, which require a powerful
Crown and a powerful army."
Surely such language as this, which is altogether
in keeping with all he had said since he sent
the members of his parliament ',home, declaring
his intention to raise money in the genuine STUART
fashion can only be introductory to telling the
army to choose between their king and their country,
with the hint that they know their paymaster.
The officers are generally of the reactionary class,
the class which believes in armies and monarchs,
and has no faith in popular assemblies. They
would almost to a man stand by him. Whether,
however, the privates would do so, is more doubt
ful. They are, in great part, closely connected
with the people. The Prussian system is
one which passes nearly all men through the
ranks of the army, and the only hope of Prussia, if
this Royal madman should go on to what his lan-
guage seems to indicate, would be in the fidelity of
citizen soldiers to t heir fellow-citizens. Our best
hope is, that if he does make any attempt to reign
through his army, instead of through his Cham-
bers, his army anti his people would give him an
opportunity of seeing Brighton.

THE REMAINS OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—
It is expected that the remains of his late Royal Highness
the Prince Consort will be removed from the Royal vault
in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, before the 14th inst. to
their last resting• place, which has been prepared in the new
Royal mausoleum now in the course of election in Frog-
more-gardens. This beautiful building, a description of
which has already appeared in the columns of The Sun, is
gradually advancing towards completion.
The Earl Russell has recovered from his severe
cold. On Monday his Excellency Baron Brunnow and his
Excellency M. Musurus had interviews with the noble earl
at the Foreign-office.
THE NEGRO MARKET AT RICHMOND.—The negro
market has shown considerable activity the present week,
and prices have ranged well. At the sale rooms of Messrs.
Pulliam and Co., yesterday, a family of eight, consisting of
the mother:and seven children, boys and girls, one in the
mother's arms, sold for five thousand one hundred dollars,
and a second family of the same lot, consisting of a mother
and four children, boys and girls, brought two thousand
eight hundred and eighty dollars. At the auction roomsof
Hector Davis, Esq., there was a large sale of single likely
negto men and women, some of the latter with children.
The following is the range of prices :—Likely boy, 15 years
old, 1,480 dole. ; common woman and girl, 1,015 dole. ;
likely girl, 16 years old, 1,290 dole.; woman, girl, and
boy, 1,860 dole. ; negro woman, 730 dole ; woman and boy,
1,200 dole. ; likely girl, mulatto, 1,320 dole. ; likely mulatto
boy, 10 years old, 1,300 dole,; woman and two children,
likely, 1,900 dole. ; likely farm hand (man), 1,010 ; woman,
cook, washer, and ironer, 600 dols. The- attendance of
buyers was quite large.—. Richmond Examiner, Nov. 22.
lAIfOND. e largest a
ti3os
dtioanm..3intdians
North AMERICANAmerica
i s now beingexhibited
found about a year since in the northern part of North
Carolina, on the Virginia border, near the Blue Ridge,
In the rough it weighed nearly 24 carats, and the cut dia-
mond weighs nearly 12 mats. Its value is between 10,000
dols. and 13,'00 dols., and but for two almost inappreciable
spots it would be worth more. In size it approaches a large
plum-stone in length, but it is deeper and broader, almost a
square on the face, with rounded corners. Each of the
numerous facets had to be ground down separately, it being
unsafe to chip off corners for fear of cracking the stone.
The cost of the fine sand used for this purpose was above
100 d 910.) a2,d th.—ech".....ge for the ent—fro work 1,500

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

(Per Etna.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (Morning).
No movement has taken place at Fredericksburg.
The Confederates have driven in the Federal
pickets at Newbern, North Carolina. They endea-
voured to capture three companies of Federals, but
were repulsed. The Confederate force is said to
number 4,000.

The Confederates have abandoned Holly Springs,
Hudsonville, Mississippi, has been occupied by the
Federals. The Confederates are massed at Tulla-
homa, Tennessee, in order to resist the advance of
Rosencranz from Nashville.
The New 1 ork, Tribune asserts that it is reported
on high authority from Washington that the Bri-
tish Admiral Milne is in pursuit of the Confederate
steamer Alabama. A large Democratic meeting
has been held at New York. Speeches were made
urging the unfaltering prosecution of the war to
re-establish the constitution throughout the Union.
Hopes were expressed that the North and South
would again be invited in order to attack England.
M‘Clellan's removal was denounced.
Denunciations against England continue to be
poured forth from the press and the pulpit, and by
public speakers on all occasions, which seem to elicit
popular approbation.
Numerous attempts to burn Memphis have been
made by incendiaries.
Another foraging expedition by a Federal coloured
regiment has been made from Beaufort, South
Carolina.
The Nassau Guardian asserts that Admiral
Wilkeshad threatened to enter Nassau without the
permission of the governor, but that he afterwards
bore away, and lay at the distance of a marine
league from the shore. The Guardian expresses
fears that Admiral Wilkes's hasty conduct may em-
broil America and England in war.
The same journal likewise states that the captain
of the Federal steamer Octovora had infringed the
Queen's proclamation, in capturing a schooner
within the Abaco reef, near Allen's Cry.
The steamers Herald and Leopard have arrived
at Nassau from Charleston.
General Burnside's army continues on the Rappa-
hannock, opposite Fredericksburg.
General Lee is in command of the Confederates,
with a force estimated at 80,000 men.
General Burnside will in all probabilty attempt
a flank movement, and order General Sumner to
pass the river at another point.
The President visited General Burnside's head-
quarters at Acquia Creek on Wednesday to investi-
gate matters personally, and returned to Washing-
ton the same day.
Thanksgiving-day was celebrated throughout the
North on the 27th. The Government took the
opportunity to release all the political prisoners in
Forts Warren and Lafayette ; among the number
set at liberty are Mr. W. H. Winder, of Philadel-
phia, and Mr. Pierre Soule, of New Orleans. No
oath of allegiance was demanded of them, nor were
they required to make any promises whatever.
The Democrats claim the result as a direct con-
sequence of their recent triumph at the poll.
Gen. Banks is fitting out his expedition to the
South. Great secrecy is maintained as to its desti-
nation. It was at first believed to be Texas. It is
now believed to be for the James River, to co-ope-
rate with General Burnside in an attack upon
Richmond.

MADRID, DEC. 0.

In to-day's sitting of the Senate General Prim
spoke on the general policy of the Government, to
which he said he had no intention of offering any
opposition. At the proper time he would reply to
the attacks which had been made ag.4inst him by
the Spanish and foreign press. He complained
that M. Billault in his speech in the Corps Legis-
latif had attacked him in a manner which is consi-
dered unallowable, and said that he would answer
legal weapons. General Prim added that he was
not, and had never been, an enemy to France.
His mission in Mexico had been to put
forward certain claims in the interests of Spain.
In concert with the representatives of
France and England, ho had roused the political
spirit of Mexico. The first conferences passed off
satisfactorily enough, but when he saw that France
intended to inaugurate an exclusively French policy
in Mexico, he resolved upon withdrawing, as he
would never consent to become the tool of any
foreign nation.

ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 9.
The Euxine and Pera, with the above mails, left
at noon this day for Marseilles and Southampton

respectively.
The Pera may be expected at Southampton abou
the 22d inst.

The Jcddo brought the mail to Suez, arriving

there yesterday•
The Bengal and Sultan left Suez on the 6th for
Calcutta and Mauritius respectively,

BERLIN, DEC. 9.

The official Staatsanzeiger of to-day says :
" Count Itzenplitz has been relieved of his pre-
sent functions as Minister of Agriculture, and has
been appointed Minister of Commerce.
" The Chief President Salchow replaces Count
Itzenplitz in the Ministry of Agriculture.
" Herr von Jagow has, at his own request, been
relieved of the portfolio of Minister of the Interior,
and the Chief Presidency of the Province of Bran-
denburg has been transferred to him.
" Count Eulinberg, Councillor of Legation, has
been appointed Minister of the Interior in his
stead."