The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-26 00:00:00

PRINCE ALEIIED

(From the Anglo Amman Times)

The "Sailor" Prince is having a finer time in India
than his brother the "Soldier" Prince in America. In
the first place, the Duke of EDINBURGH commands
a splendid frigate, whereas tte brother is a subal-
tern in the Rias 134 igade. The "S iilor" is in one
of the eldest of Empires, ccntaiuing 200,000,000
of people, eager to do himloaour, while the " Sol-
dier" is in a comparatively new and sparsely people 1
country. But more still is due to the fact that in
India, Princes are at a premium, in America at a
discount. The commander of the Galatea has so
far enjoyed a charming cruise, tatting a freer start
from the Antipodes where he 113,41 been so nearly as-
sassinated. He rubbed noses with the Maories ; his
proceedings i n Honolulu were something also well re-
moved from the common. What the dance was spoken
of by the American papers, we do not know, and do
not much care to inquire, but the circumstance was
recorded that the husbands were left out as if it
were too improper for them, and only their wives in-
vited. A new scene opened to him in Japan--that
strangest of all lands. At Peking he received the
cold shoulder" by way of another novelty, and, after
passing through Hongkong, he met with one of the
grandest receptions in India ever given to one not a
crowned head. The natives have gone out of their
way to do him honour; under the impression that he
is a man in authority. Rajahs and Nawabs swarm
along his path ; the streets and roads are lined with
Bindoos and Mussulmen, who bow down to the
.ground as he passes. Outside the shops the owners
display their most valued wares. From a ride
after a wild boar through the grass jungles near
Moorshedebad, the city captured by CLIVE after
the battle of Plassy, to a triumphal entry into Be-
nares, the sacred city of the Hiudoos, his progress
has been a fete. While riding through the long
. grass after wild boars the Prince got two falls. The
ground is Uneven, and the cover often high enough
to envelope both horse and man. It is not easy to
get the pigs out, 'but a long line is formed of .
beaters, and all sorts of game are gradually driven to
the edge, when away break the, old boars, deer, and
other animals, as hard as they can for the next
cover. The Maharajah of GWALIOR (Scrstnsau) had
been at Bewares before the art ival of his Royal High-
ness, and bad presented to the Brahmins his gift as a
pilgrim, consisting of silver equalling his own weight.
As SCINDIAII turns 14 stone, unless he did " a deal"
of fasting before he went into the scale, the Brahmins
must have made a nice haul. Knowing what the do-
nation was to be, doubtless these cunning priests took
care that the MAHARAJAH should not be stinted in
ghee. What the Duke of EDINBURGH gave has not
transpired, as the bill has yet to be presented to
Parliament, but if he acted on the same scale as
the Maharatta chief the whole sum hitherto voted
must have gone into the coffers of the Brahmins.
Among the amusements mentioned is the Nautch
dance, which has a singular fascination for the na-
tives, though the most uninteresting of all per-
formances to the European or American. '1 he Duke
of EDINBURGH halted at Agra, where he had an
opportunity of seeing the grandest tomb on earth
—the Taj —a marble structure from foundation to
pinnacle, rising from the banks of the Juana, and
surrounded by a garden in native taste. The Le..uty
of its prorortions, the fine nature of its material,
the rich, elegant, and artistic cars ing and inlay-
ing wilier mark all the' interior, have long been
the wonder and admiration of travellers as well as
the pride of its Mussulmen builders. The Prince
passed through Delhi (before the mutiny a city of
singular beauty), and went on to Lahore, the ca-
pital of the Punjaub. Ile will visit Madras and
then Ceylon, where his pig-stieking will give place
to elephant hunting. However we in our superior
wisdom may smile contemptuously at the enthu-
siasm displayed in India, people have to be governed
in their own way, not in ours, and there is a
genuine State-craft in sending the Prince as a
puppet for the natives to play with. The Em-
press of INDIA-to them represents a potent influence,
a god-like power, all the greater because they know
little of it, who speaks a word, and cities are built.
or cities are depopulated.; and in her son they see
her representative,,who comes to acquaint himself
will. their wants and, wishes, and to work great
benefits to them wh- n he re-enters the presence of
their EMPRESS. • The Governor-General has made
the most of the occasion, spending his own and the
State's money with a lavish hand, not only to do
honour to the Prince, but to the Rajahs and Na-
wabs who travelled to Calcutta to receive him. His
predecessor, able as Lord LAWRENCE is, would have
been wholly unqualified for such work, viewing it
with contempt ; yet the work is, in truth, more im-
portant than many a well-cansidered and wise mea-
sure. The Rajahs and Nawabs, the nobles and re-
tainers go home like children who have been to a pan-
tomime or some interesting show where they have
been well-entertained. They have astounding stories
to tell, which lose nothing in the telling, and from
mouth to mouth these are re- echoed allover the land.
Hundreds of thousands who have never seen an Eng-
lish face are impressed with the power and grandeur
of the people who can build such cities, as Cal-
cutta, who can make such extraordinary works as
the railroads there terminating, and who can subdue
the seas by such mighty structures as the Galatea.
These are seen, felt, and fully appreciated when
the Viceroy supplements them by a gracious man-
ner and a regal hospitality ; and the greatness of
the raj spreads and bears fruit, whereas the wise
measure would be misunderstood or incomprehen-
sible, and might produce a return only to benefit
the next generation, who knew not whence the good
was derived.

THE ARREST OP DON CARLOS.
The arrest of Don Carlos, which was in reality only
nominal, has occasioned some excitement. A serious
Carlist rising has been threatened in Spain for
some little time past and the French Government, on
learning that Don Carlos was at Lyons, naturally con-
cluded that he was en route for Spain to head the move-
ment. Accordingly a French officer waited upon the
Prince at Lyons, and reminded him that he was only
authorised to reside in the northern districts of France,
and that he must take his choice between abiding by that
condition or leaving France altogether. Don Carlos, on
hearing the alternative, decided to return to Geneva, whence
ho had come. It is therefore evident that the so-called ar-
rest was not of very long duration. It hag been suggestedin
some quarters that Don 'Carlos had a rendezvous at Lyons
with General Cabrera, but the Gazette de France maintain§
that the latter isill in London. It is also denied that
Carlos went to Lyons to meet the Duke of Moclenaoyilo was
to give him a large sum of money. This explan#lon of his
journey was current in Spain itself. Thz; Gazette de
France, which does not say what were Pin Carlos's real
intentions, deelahs it' to be untrue twat he was going to
Spain, so that the question remalh to be solved by the
curious. We may add that the olaimant to the Spanish
crown thought it desirablq to have his passport
made out in, the name of the Marquess d'Alcantara.
His partisans do not appear to have relaxed their efforts
in his cause. The Liberte publishes news from the north-
west and south-west frontiers of Spain, announcing a
double movement of the Carlists on the French and
Portuguese confines. This intelligence is confirmed by
the Epoca of Madrid, which states that the Spanish
Government has adopted precautionary measures along
the Portuguese frontier, on account of the presence of
the Miguelists in Mogador.

tiLENFIELD BTARCH. - 111 Vice-chancellor Malins
Court a motion has been hoard on behalf of William
Wotherspoon, of Cheapside, Paisley, and Glasgow, and on
behalf of Alexander Abercombie and Co., starch manu-
facturers, trading under the style of Wotherspoon
and Co., for an injunction to restrain Currie
and Co., of Paisley, from using the word " Glen-
field " on their packets of starch. Mr. Wotherspoon
claims to be the originator of " Glenfield starch," which
he has manufactured for twenty-three years, taking the
name from some fields near Paisley, where h;,; works were
formerly situated, The defendant, who has his manu-
factory there, claims the right to use the name. The court
granted the injunction.

ALLEGED FRAUD BY A MERCHANT.—Mr. Robert James
Brown, a merchant of Cornhill, has been charged at the
Mansion House with obtaining two bills of exchange,
amounting to £1,500, from a shipbuilding firm at Glasgow
by false pretences. The prisoner, it was stated, represented
himself to be the agent of a firm who wanted several
screw steamers, for one of which he gave immediate
order. Captain Plower, a man of large fortune, would
he said,-give his acceptances for half the price of the
steamer, pending its construction, and he stipulated that
he himself should receive acceptances for his commission,
which was ao,?reed to, The steamer when finished was left on
the maker's hands, Captain Flower, who turned out to be
Penniitiu, never paid his acceptances, and the firm who
ordered the vessel resolved itself into a teacher of
languages. After some evidence in support of the pr,se-
cution had been given, the prisoner was remanded, bail
being refused,

At Newcastle•on-Tyne last Tuesday Win. Oxley.
of t`_•o bark Fl-twortb, was presented with a valuable
gold watch from the President of the United States as a
reward for rescuing the crew of the whaling schooner
Susan, N, Smith, of Boston, capsized iu a hurricanoens re-
lated iu the report of Consul-General Morse. Mr. Jonas,
the Americm Consul, observed on the occasion that the
Union Jack floated over no nobler heal than Captain
Oxley's, and may ho never meet an enemy in the Stars
and Stripes.