The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1862.

support cut from under him. Precisely this fact,
however, in the case of those who think so, is one of
the strongest reasons why Europe should hesitate.
It is hardly fair for the Old World thus to take
sides, practically, with one party in the New. Sir
G. C. LEWIS must be right, internationally, when
he says, Let one side give in, or become manifestly
unequal to the continuance of the contest, before
we, as third parties, practically award to either the
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Supposing, then, which we think likely, that
European recognition would speedily put an end to
the present bloodshed, we incline to the opinion of
the Secretary for War, that it would do so at the
expense of international justice. And if so, not
being Jesuits, we must not admit that the end
would justify the means. But we must confess
that we have a yet weightier reason now for object-
ing to recognition. We were more favourably in-
clined towards it before the PRESIDENT'S late pro-
clamation than we now are. Defective as that pro-
clamation is in point of principle, wanting as it does
all the nobler inspiration, content as it is to rest its
justification on its military expediency, it neverthe-
less inaugurates a new era in the war. We must
be fair to Mr. LINCOLN and his party. We may
think them wrong; CHARLES SUMNER, with many
other distinguished Americans, think them wrong;
still they adhere strongly to their opinion, that
they ought not to diverge from the constitution
in regard to slavery, further than they are driven
by the imperative necessities of War. With Mr.
SUMNER we think this " peculiar tenderness,
whenever slavery is in question," a great folly,
and something worse. With him we, too, should
exclaim, "I am tired and disgusted at hearing
the constitution perpetually invoked for slavery."
Property, life, personal liberty, are all dealt with
unconstitutionally, because the supreme law of
national safety overrides in the emergency the
terms of the constitution ; why spare from like
dealing, the most unjustifiable property of all ?
However, at last the PRESIDENT and his friends see
that with their policy of the Union as their Alpha
and Omega, slavery must be touched. Slavery
began secession—it has nursed secession—it has
maintained Southern families at home, while
the liberated whites were making forays into Mary-
land and Pennsylvania. Slavery has proved itself,
in fact, the sinews of Southern war; and the procla-
mation is become a necessity to hamstring those
sinews.

the dead, and often mutilated bodies of infants just
newly born. The metropolis is perpetually literred
with these miserable evidences, first of all, of profli-
gacy, and afterwards of deliberate homicide. In the
majority of instances, no doubt, of seduction, and
in every instance of cold-blooded murder. Mr.
DUNCOMBE'S paper having been moved for long ago,
duly ordered, and eventually published—is nothing,
more to be done ? Since then, as we have said, as
we am perpetually observing, as the authoritative
assurance of the principal coroner of the county most
conclusively informs us, there is a regular and alarm-
ing increase of this woeful, and pitiless, and devilish
crime of infanticide. Child murder being one of
the most inhuman of all kinds of murder, at once
from the innocence of the victim and its utter help-
lessness ! Can nothing further be done, if only in
the way of an attempt to ensure a diminution of
the number of infanticides. There are several
things obviously that might be attempted to this
end. Are none of them worth even a temporary
trial ? Our boasted system of detective police might
be challenged to give the public fresh evidence of its
utility, by the devotion of a large proportion of the
energy, of the skill, sagacity, and experience sup-
posed to belong to it, to the investigation of the
evil sources of this plague-spot in the capital, to the
tracing out of this particular kind of guilt, and the
consequent diminution of the number of instances
which but for some such alarm would be perpe-
trated. The detectives should be put in this matter
upon their mettle. They should" be called upon, if
only in vindication of their high repute (a repute
jeopardised in a great measure by the constant re-
currence of a crime so dreadful and so flagrant in
its character) they should be called upon, in vindi-
cation of their once high but diminishing reputa-
tion, to co-operate with the regular body of police,
in endeavouring to trace out some of the perpetra-
, tors of this constantly recurring crime of infanti-
cide.

LATEST NE WS.

BERLIN, OCT. 24.

The semi-official A llgenzeine Preussische (Stern)
Zeitung, of to-day, "publishes a leading article on
the last session of the Chambers, which concludes
as follows :

"All the proposals of the Government, aiming
at a conciliatory solution of the question of the
military budget, having been rejected by the Cham-
ber of Deputies, the Government has been placed
in a new position. The country may be convinced,
by its former conduct and by its present dispsi-
tion to effect a constitutional solution of the
question, that the Government will take care
to narrow the conflict within the smallest
possible grounds that is to say, to the
maintenance of the unavoidable military ex-
penditure of 1862, and which will be defrayed under
the constitutional responsibility of the Ministers.
" But very shortly the means prescribed by publie
duty and conscience will be employed in order, at
the beginning of the next session, to effect a
definitive constitutional solution of the question at
issue, to restore to the country entire peace in the
interior, and to ensure the undisturbed development
of our constitutional institutions.
" May the people fully trust in the Constitution
and in the faithful intentions and endeavours of
the Government. May they not be misled by party
agitation, but aid the Government in restoring and
cementing peace."

TURIN, OCT. 23.

The deputation appointed to convey the gift of
the Romans to the Queen of Portugtl has delivered
the following address to King Victor Emmanuel :
" Sire,—Your fellow-citizens will view, in the
honour which your Majesty confers by receiving
us, a new proof that force still keeps you afar from
Rome. But we know that your heart is with us.
Rome suffers indignantly, but confides in your
Majesty's word. In every event you will find in
her people the energetic desire that justice may be
done to Italy."
The King thanked the Roman deputation in his
daughter's name.

PARIS, OCT. 23, EVENING.

La France of this evening says:—
" It appears certain that M. de Sartiges, the new
Ambassador at the Italian Court, will request the
Italian Government to give its adhesion to the plan
of reconciliation between Italy and the Papacy
which Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne has been in-
structed to support in Rome. This plan, in con-
formity with the published letter of the Emperor,
consists of the guarantee of the Pontifical territory
by the European Powers."

TURIN, OCT. 23.

A deputation, consisting of the Duna di Sforza,
the Senator Cesarine, and the Deputy Silvestrelli,
was received to-day by the King, and presented to
his Majesty the marriage gift sent by the citizens
of Rome to the Queen of Portugal
The Official Gazette denies the statement of Depu-
ties Crispi and Deboni, that the Government had
forbidden Dr. Bertani to visit Garibaldi the first
day of his illness.
The Discussione of to-day says that it is con-
sidered likely the Ministry will come to an under-
standing with Signori Farini and Minghetti.
The same paper mentions a rumour that M.
Dronyn de Lhuys has proposed the revocation of
the vote of the Italian Parliament which declared
Rome the capital of Italy, and adds that no Minis-
try would be possible in Italy which would permit
any mutilation of the national programme.