The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

THE PEACE CONGRESS.

The Journal des Debats has the following leading
article on the subject of the Peace Congress .
" When the French make excursions to foreign
countries, even of the most pacific and amiable character,
they cannot avoid doing so in full uniform, decorated
with mustachios, armed with muskets, and fragrant with
the odours of the barricade. It is thus that they visited
England, whither they went attired as National Guards,
with their heads erect, and marching in the middle of
the streets, contrary to etiquette, The English, the
Americans—in a word, the Anglo-Saxons—are now
returning our visit. They arrive in Paris, attired in
black coats, with stand-up collars, and wearing the placid
and benevolent countenances of Quakers, in the character
of the friends of peace. In our great and turbulent city,
in which the constantly-shaking pavements are seeking
to regain their places, and do not even yet feel themselves
very firm—in the midst of the cannons which adorn
the courts of our palaces—amidst the din of drums
and trumpets, behold delegates from all parts of the
world come to open a pacific congress! To-morrow (the
22d of August) the friends of peace are to open in the
Hall of St. UK:We, generally consecrated to fetes of har-
mony, a course of universal harmony and perfect con-
cord. They have come from England, from Belgium,
and from America; they have travelled hundreds and
thousands of leagues, bearing in their hands a poor olive
branch, which they will try to plant in our ungrateful
and rebellious soil. Happy, thrice happy, those who
have the gift of faith. Perchance a day will come when
humanity will aik itself how, in a century which pre-
tends to enlightenment, in the midst of a social state
which assumes the name of civilization, the differences
between nations and men were settled by blood and by
war. But we greatly fear that we have not yet beheld
the dawn of that day. When the continent of old Eu-
rope is trembling and palpitating beneath the trampling
of armies and the wheels of artillery, how is the calm
and unpopular voice of reason to make itself heard?
Much time must yet elapse before the hands
of philanthropists will be able to pluck
from the earth the serpents which have
escaped from the box of Pandora, and
successively replace them in their fabulous cradle. And
yet, if the friends of peace be not destined to meet with
success at first, we sincerely desire that they may at
least meet with goodwill and respect. The very eccen-
tricity of the enterprise pleases us; for it must be ad-
mitted that to select Paris of all places as the centre of a
crusade in favour of universal peace is indeed—if the
friends of peace will allow us the expretsion—carrying
the war into the camp of the enemy. We only intreat
them not to allow themselves to be turned aside from
their object, and not to transform themselves, as they are
now advised to do, into a company of shareholders for
piercing the Isthmus of Sutz or that of Panama. They
can only have a purely moral and purely speculative
mission, and in this respect they can only t xpect
monies of
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may aid in the solution of all, by awakening and deve-
loping in men's hearts the sentiment of peace, concord.
and fraternity. This object may satisfy the noblest
ambition, and we are sure that the friends of peace would
esteem themselves fortunate to be brought within reach
of it."

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT WICK.— SHERIFF
FORSYTH AND HIS BOATMAN DROWNED.—A melancholy
accident has just happened on the Loch of Watten, nine
miles from this. Charters Forsyth, Esq., our sheriff-
substituto, and his boatman, Joseph Tait were on this
sheet of water fishing to-day, and in a sudden squall the
boat upset, and both were drowned. I have just seen
the Rev. Mr. Fraser, of Halkirk, and his brother of
Kirkhill, who were passing in a gig when the accident
took place, and their account of it is, that about twelve
o'clock they saw the squall on the loch, and drew up to
see bow the boat would act under it; that so soon as the
blast caught the sail the boat capsized and instantly
went down. The Rev. Gentleman immediately drove to
the free manse of Watten, and got a boat with four men
in it, who went in search of the gentleman and his com-
panion, but all they found was the boat's tiller, a tithing-
rod, and a hat and cap. The sheriff is unmarried, but
Joseph Tait has left a widow and several children, and
was a man liked by all who knew him. Sheriff Robert
Thompson is, fortunately here, and he and Mr. John
Henderson, W.S., have gone off to the scene of the dis-
aster. Mr. James Bremner, C.E., hus also just started
with some boatmen to seek for the bodies.—North
British Mail.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY SMUGGLERS AT GO9.
PORT.—On Friday evening, about half-past eight o'clock,
a number of smugglers assembled at Hard way, for the
purpose of ill-treating two coast guardmen; and on
seeing one named Stephen Mountefield, James Stallard.
John Brown, John Attwell, jun., John Matthews, and
several others, began ill-treating him in a most brutal
manner, by kicking him and striking him with sticks,
and Attwell with a shot in a sling, leaving him for dead.
He is now lying in a very precarious state; his wife also,
on interfering, was very much beaten. They then pro-
ceeded to the Three Tuns, at Elson, where they found
Benjamin Mountefield, whom they treated in the same
way, and who is in a very dangerous state. The police
being sent for, soon arrived, and, with some of the coast-
guard, went in pursuit of the party, and overtook them
at the Sun public-house at Brockhurst, but from which
they made their escape. Some time after they went to
Stallard's house, where they found the party, and tried
to take them into custody, but found it quite impossible
to do so, as they had such a strong party, there being
nearly twenty in the house and as many outside. We
are sorry to state that they remain at large, though we
learn one of the party was killed by a pistol shot.
Hants Telegraph.
[ADvEaTtsEmENT.]—Twelve folio columns of the
Bermondsey murder were given in the Observer of yes-
terday, August 26, and in the Observer of August 19
there were given five columns, together the most corn-
plate account of this tragic affair. The extensive pub-
lication of the Observer commences at four o'clock on
Sunday mornings. Monday's edition, with the markets,
best adapted for the country and abroad, at four o'clock
on Monday afternoon. Price of the Observer, 40 folio I
columns, 6d.

Each of us bears within himself a world unknown
to his fellow-beings, and each may relate of himself a
history resembling that of every one, yet like that of no
ono—Eliza Cook's Journal.
CITY Or LONDON REGISTRATION.-Mr. M4Christie
has fixed Monday, the 17th of next month, as the day
on which he will commence his registration of the lists
of voters for Members to serve in Parliament for the
city of London.