The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-28 00:00:00

( Fon Fun. )

BROUGHT TO BOOK.— Twelve youths have been sent by
the Emperor of • Morocco to be educated in France.
Though bound in Morocco they are to be lettered in
Paris.

HORRlBLE.—Appropos of the opposition to the Irish
Land Bill in the House of Lords, a radical correspondent
observes that as there is now a " Commons Preservation
Act," there ought to be a "Lords Abolition Bill."

AN ARCHITECTURAL MEM.-It is stated that the Com-
pany established for cutting the Corinth Canal has
succeeded in raising the requisite £1,700000. It would
be hard if Greece could not find the Corinthian Capital.

RIGHT AT LAST.—Come, spiritualism has at length done
something besides several people : " A female
spiritualist made 2,000 dollars in Chicago, by getting ten
families, who believed in her, to bury 200 dollars each
in their gardens, to operate as a charm for discovering
vast treasures. She then dug up the money, and ran
away with it—a trick which the Chicagoans consider about
the best joke of the season." This is the first spiritualist
miracle that will bear investigation. The burial of the
dollars by the various families did really operate as a
charm, for it enabled the medium to discover treasures—
at any rate to the extent of 2,000 dollars. 'Guess she was
a circulating medium.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wednes-
day, July 27.—Admissions by season tickets, 1,482 ;
ditto on payment, 3,511; total visitors, 4,993.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BANK MANAGER.
—On Monday night, much painful excitement was
caused in Hereford by Mr. Richard Greenhow, jun.,
the manager of the Hereford branch of the West of
England and South Wales Banking Company, giving
himself up to Superintendent Davies, of the Here-
ford city police, on a charge of having embezzled the sum
of £965, the moneys of the said bank. The prisoner was
brought up on Tuesday morning before the Hereford
magistrates sitting at the' Guildhall, when evidence was
given by Mr. Marshall, the chief cashier from Bristol, to
shew the deficiency mentioned. Tile entries in the cash-
book at the bank, however, appear' to•be in the hand-
writing of the cashier, Mr. Bellamy, who has absconded,
and is being pursued by several detectives from Bristol.
The prisoner Greenhow was remanded to Friday next.

TIIE disclosures of the last twenty-four hours must
have gone far to set at rest the doubts which some
of our contemporaries cast upon the secret treaty
draught published by the 7 imes. The authen-
ticity of the famous document seemed but
too probable from the first ; all question
concerning it is now reduced to the narrowest pro-
portions. That the document exists is positively
certain. That Count BISMARCK is the person who
gave it to the world is equally unquestionable, for,
not to speak of other evidence, it simultaneously
appeared in the Times and several continental papers
including the Berlin Correspondence, which has the
credit of being the Prussian statesman's own
organ. The French semi-official papers make
no doubt of the existence of this terrible paper;
they do not, with the discreditable injustice
of the Standard, stigmatise it as a forgery. Indeed,
the Constitutionnel, whose relations with the French
Government are of the closest, plainly states that it
really exists, but that it is the work of Count
BISMARCK. This question of origin, then, is all that
remains to be decided. It offers no great difficulty.
Of course, a positive decision must be deferred until the
two Governments have giVen those explanations
which Earl GRANVILLE has ere this demanded ;
but there is some important circumstantial evidence
40-tvork upon, ancLilis-all. points in ..tons,..tlixectiou..--
It all goes to ;hew that the treaty emanated from the
French Government; there is not an atom of proof
to support the supposition that it came from Count
BISMARCK. High admiration of the Prussian's
virtues we have none ; but we know that he could not
have produced such a. document, because he is too
selfish and too worldly-wise a man. Ho did not
forge the draught, since the French official state-
ment admits that it was the subject of pourparlers
between him and the French Ambassador. If he
proposed the scheme to France. why publish it now
The authorship must be made known sooner or later,
and then the discredit of the whole transaction would
fall upon Germany. • It would transpire that the
great Northern Confederation was so dependent upon
the good will of France, that Belgium arid Luxem-
burg were to be sacrificed to gain it. It would
appear that in order to secure the .EmoEitoll's'recog-
nition to recent changes in Germany the Prussian
Government were willing to sacrifiCe the whole of
an independent State, although the preservation of
that SW e's independence was regarded as of- vital
importance to England, and had been guaranteed by
solemn treaties. Count BISMARCK 'is not a
scrupulous man, but he has never shown
himself willing to stoop to degradation, and
greater degradation than this handing over of terri-
f-ory to France in return for a mere recognition it Is
not easy to conceive. The bargain is utterly one-
sided. It all in favour of France. The EMPEROR
gets a large increase of wealth, territory, and
influence. Prussia gets that moral support
which she has shown herself able to do
without. The supposition of such a proposition
coming from Berlin is utterly absurd. Three years
ago Prussia had well-nigh come to blows with France
because the latter desired to annex Luxemburg.
Yet we are called upon to believe that just
before this quarrel, Prussia voluntarily offered much
more than the little corner of ground for which, in
1867, she was ready to fight. The EMPEROR may
well have put forth such an offer. He has a high
opinion of the value of his moral support, and is
likely to have set a great price upon it. But that
Prussia made the offer is a supposition which there is not
a vestige of evidence to justify. As to the letter of
M. OLLIVIER, published in the Times of yesterday,
it is sufficient to note that it does not bear upon the
question at all. M. OLLIVIER only says that the
Cabinet of the 2nd of January (his own) had nothing
to do with the treaty. Nobody supposes that
it had.

Amid the interest excited by this disclosure, the
war papers just issued by the Government are likely
to be regarded with less attention. The poor
Hohenzollern has long enjoyed the safety
of an ignominious obscurity, and it is natural that
his affairs should prove of less interest in the presence
of the Belgian annexation project. It is
satisfactory, however, to know that the
British Government neither failed to exert
themselves for the preservation of peace,
nor carriel their endeavours beyond prudential
limits, The whole business was begun and culmi-
nated in war with terrible rapidity. It was on the
sth of July that our Ambassador at Paris was.
informed by the French FOREIGN MINISTER
that the Spanish Ministry had adopted Prince
LEOPOLD as a candidate for the crown, and that
France would never tolerate his election, In fact,
if it were persevered with, there would be war. Thus
promptly warned, our Government at once took mea-
sures to ward off the danger. It did not
recognise the pretensions of France, it could not
allow that the election of Prince LEOPOLD would be
attended with any danger to the equilibrium of
Europe, still less that France had a rielt to inter-
fere in the private affairs of Spain. But it
regarded the plain fact that the can-
didature had given grave dissatisfaction to
France, and that the EMPEROR had pledged himself
to fight, if it were not withdrawn ; and to avert this
danger it advised that the scheme be abandoned.
British intervention went no further. It is quite
erroneous to state, as the Due BF GRAMONT did, that
all Europe sympathised with France. No sympathy
was expressed on either side. The English Foreign
Office addressed itself simply to avert a conflict.
It was, of course, of no avail. It must be
conceded that the Prussian Government displayed
no great anxiety to prevept war, for it felt that the
candidature was merely a pretext, and that a con-
flict was inevitable. It did not interfere in the dis-
pute;
it forbade its ambassador at Paris to
interfere. When the candidature was withdrawn,
and everybody was hoping for peace, the Due de
GRAMONT demanded that Prince LEOPOID be
forbidden by the KING of PRUSSIA to resume his
aspirations. That Sovereign refused, and then the end
came.—Western Morning News.