The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

heroism. Think of Cincinnatus, Hannibal, Cato, Epa-
rainonda,, Belisarius; compare them with Marlborough,
Wellington, Blenheim, Strathfieldsaye ! It was with
lifficuity that Burns could be prevailed upon to accept
noney as the wages of inspiration ; but Scott set up
Pegasus to auction. Contempt of riches, contentment
with scanty appliances, the philosophy of the great men
Jf old, elevated them to a level beyond the reach of
worldly conditions, made wealth be held at its proper
value, raised man above money. John, crying in the wil-
derness, faring on its fruits and clothed meanly, was so
received by the people as to be formidable to Herod. The
apostles, fishermen, tent-makers—their Master, the
carpenter—wielded the "democratic" and " fulmin'd
over Greece." Even now the secret of the social power
of the Romish priesthood, or of the Free Kirk ministers,
is that they prove that they prefer their Master's work
to their worldly wages. We gabble about the influence
of capital ; we rant Red Republicanism and denounce
the " money power"—what is its power but the homage
we have the folly to pay to it ? How can we wonder at
Fraud, forgery, embezzlement, when society places men
in the scale of distinction in the ratio of their incomes ;
when any knave or fool may, by swindling or stagging,
or gambling, or cooking accounts, thrust himself above
the best citizen and the wisest man ; and when any
honest man who values money no more than its true
worth is thought eccentric, looked down upon, and made
of no account. Redpatb, in the eyes of the nobleman
who grasped his hand and called him " my dear fellow,"
was "the best soul living," solely by his good dinners
and his splendid furniture.
Let men respect themselves—dare to be poor—weigh
nobody by their purse, but only by their worth and
wisdom, and at last the world will come to do so too.
It is time that all good men set themselves resolutely to
discountenance the worship of the golden calf; to con-
team by precept and example the sumptuary spirit of
the age, and the sordid grovelling soul of modern soci-
ety. Do this, and the world will be guided by the wisest
and governed by the best ; do it not, and Robsons, and
Redpaths, and "the almighty dollar" will overwhelm
the nat.on in a chaos of masterful dishonesty, and the
growing triumph of successful fraud.

MR. BUCRANAIV'S PROBABLE POLICY,

FOBEIGN AND DOMESTIC.

(From the Nevi York Jerald.)

Our independent newspapers are beginning to specu-
late pretty freely upon the prospects of 4r. Buchanan's
Administration, his probable policy, foreign and do-
mestic, the composition of his Cabinet, and his dis-
tribution of the spoils. Our democratic organs, North
and South, deprecate these speculations as intrusive
and impertinent ; but the various factions and cliques
of the party are none the less interested or active on
that account in reference to the controlling principles
and influences of the incoming Administration. The
ultra Southern disunion clique, here and there, arethro w-
ing out their reminders of " pledges" and " obliga-
tions," and their hints of rule or ruin, while the opposi-
tion anti-slave: y ultras of the North are preaching the
border ruffianism of poor Pierce, and the filibustering of
the Ostend manifesto and the Cincinnati platform as the
inevitable charts and compass of Mr. Pierce's democratic
successor. The Northern conservative wing of demo-
cracy, on the other hand, in ♦iew of the heavy and.sug-
gestive popular Northern vote for Fremont, are inclined
to the opinion that Mr. Buchanan, in order to restore his
party to a respectable footing in the Northern States,
will studiously avoid those slavery extending schemes of
the Southern disunion nigger drivers upon which poor
Pierce has has so ignominiously foundered.
In these various conjectures and speculations there are
certain things which are pretty clear, and others which
are not so very transparent. For our part we feel assured
that it is the present intention of Mr. Buchanan to give
the country a conservative and conciliatory administra-
tion in his domestic and foreign policy, and not a career
of lawless border ruffianism at home and reckless filibus-
tering abroad, for the purpose of extending the area of
Southern States and the political power of the South in
Congress. We have no doubt of the lawful and honour-
able inclinations of Mr. Buchanan, for we fully believe
that he will endeavour from the outset to take that
course best calculated to allay our domestic sectional
excitements upon slavery, and best adapted, in our fo-
reign relations, to secure the respect and confidence of
foreign Powers, American and European.
The especial subject which trenches most prominently
upon the misgivings of all parties and factions is the
Kansas imbroglio, and the important question whether
the destiny of Kansas under Mr. Buchanan's Adminis-
tration will be her admission into the Union as a free
State or slave State. Our Southern ultras of the dis-
union and Southern Confederacy scheme of Jefferson
Davis—Mr. Pierce's Secretary of War—of Atchison,
Governor Wise, Senators Mason, Slidell, and others,
whose policy is rule or ruin, expect confidently the issue
in Kansas to result in favour of slavery, in the fulfilment
of the coercive measures against the Free-state settlers,
thus far pursued by Mr. Pierce and his ruffian officials
and mercenaries.

In this view, the first duty of Mr. Buchanan will be
the repudiation of this Southern disunion faction, which,
in rising to the control of the democratic party under
Pierce, has within three short years brought it to the
verge of destruetion. In dismissing this disunion and
demoralising faction Mr. Buchanan will but imitate the
example of General Jackson in 1829 against Mr. Cal-
houn and his mischief-scheming nullification clique of
that day. This step taken, the next will be a practical
suspension of the ruffian policy of Pierce in Kansas, in
an honest enforcement of the organic law of the terri-
tory. Under this law it is open to settlers of all sec-
.tions, all nations, and all opinions, slavery or anti-sla-
very ; and it is ordained that when these settlers shall
proceed to organise a State constitution, it shall rest with
them to determine upon the establishment of slavery h),
or its exclusion from, the commonwealth.

The policy of Mr. Buchanan, therefore, upon this
subject is so plain and simple that he can hardly fail to
adopt it. We feel perfec Ay satisfied, from the number of
free state settlers in Kansas, in spite of all Mr. Pierce's
coercive efforts to expel or exterminate them—from the
superior facilities which the unencumbered Free state
emigrant possesses over the emigrant embarrassed with
his slaves—from the geographical situation, climate, and
productions of the territory, and from the extensive orga-
nisation of the Northern Kansas aid societies—that it
will only require an honest enforcement of the Kansas
organic law again t all impertinent border ruffians and
outside interferences to secure the destiny of Kansas in
behalf of free labour, and in the decisive exclusion of the
Southern institution of slavery. The South, having ac-
cepted this issue, upon those terms, cannot object to its
legitimate solution should it go against them. Undoubt-
edly the disunion clique of Davis, Wise, Atchison, and
Co. would raise a violent howling over the result ; but
in being dismissed from their late despotic position in the
Democratic party their howling would be as impotent as
that of a snarling cur with his teeth extracted. On the
other hand, this solution of the Kansas question would
put an end to the present powerful Northern Republican
party, and do much to re-establish the Northern de-
mocracy upon their ancient footing of strength and
respectability.

In reference to Cuba, we stand entirely prepared for
such an interpretation of the Ostend manifesto of Mr.
Buchanan as will speedily quiet the fears of Spain aad her
allies and the uneasiness of our commercial conservatives.
Undoubtedly Mr. Buchanan, like every other president,
from J. Quincy Adams down, will consider the acquisi-
tion of the island of Cuba as a most desirable thing. He
regards that island, as we all regard it, as the key of the
Gulf of Mexico, and as the natural lock and key of our
Southern commerce and our Southern Gulf coast. But
Mr. Buchanan will be in no hurry to seize this desirable
possession by a filibustering foray, nor by any of those
dexterous expedients of unprincipled propagandists of
liberty or slavery that would imperil the peace or the
honour of the country. And so in reference to Mexico
and Central America. Towards the former we have every
reason to expect that Mr. Buchanan will seek rather to
restore the. confidence we have lost than to widen the
breach by licences to filibusters or insidious diplo
mats of the filibustering sort. In regard to Central
America we have the same confidence in the honourable
and pacific inclinations of the President elect. We think
he will find sonic other medium for the interpretation of
the Monroe doctrine than Gen. Walker or Pierre Soule,
Walker's ultra-Southern confidential prime Minister.
Such are our views of the probable domestic and fo-
reign policy of Mr. Buchanan upon the prominent issues
of the day.' Nor do we speak altogether at random.
Our impressions are derived from our knowledge of the
man, and from other sources of informatfon entitled to
respect. In advance, however, of any official definition
of his policy, he will be called upon to designate his
Cabinet, and this task he will delay until the electoral
c :lieges shall have officially declared his election, and
settled it beyond the possibility of a dohbt from
Southern disunion intrigues to dragoon him into sub-
mission. But with the official determination of his
e!ection, Mr. Buchanan will deliberately proceed to the
responsible duties of his great office in the appointment
of a Cabinet which, in itself, will be the interpreta-
tion of his wuole policy and the key to his success or his
humiliation and the final destruction of his party. His
Cabinet must be a unit, aad a Conservative unit, and the
instant he shall discover an intriguing border ruffian or
filibuster among them, or that cliques and coteries are
at, work with them in the kitchen, it wiil be his duty to
follow the example of Jackson, and try a new set of
' 11111- From Van Buren down to Pierce, the lessons of
wily in the submission of the President to an intriguing
to
Is,up.Fieete
Mini.stry are too fresh in the memory of Mr. Buchanan
that he will not profit by them.
nistrationare
. v"o hese impressions touching the incoming Admi-
nmedstiisauteniebrysatekearsbd these Souther':trial. Thecae •prepared to give it a fair and liberal
whichtbeir thwrieladtelniiraittiacrael
policy f rule or ruin
from Wheat land, ; but, according to the latest news
%cos disore• • • •
e,anising faction has already
received a cautio n, which is • • things to twine. auspicious of still better

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TESTIMONIAL TO THIS 13/sa
1 The students of Brighton College
OF GRAIIAM'g TOWN.—
siioerne present, as a mark of
their late Principal a very handsome intend presenting to
icentre-piece for a table,
theire'teem. It consists otaconsistr
of a tripod form, the base
pillanfor scrolls entwined
Corinthian leaves,
with roses, from which rises a
rnwaeinented at the base
supporting a bowl for flowers. It is o
m:einlaid fruit ; the
with three female figures offering ti,
theenhauced by
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th() burnished ground. One one sae of
motto of the college, in Greek, "Let the base i 3 the
on another side, the arms of the new
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and on
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the front, the inscription :—" Presentedrighhte Rev.
on
Henry Cotterill, D D., late Principal
of
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Col-
lege, in commemoration of his elevation to the scommemorationGraham's Town, and as a testimonial of respect
en-
tertained by the students for the able manner in Whichf,r several,:,- ears, he discharged his arduous duties 'as'
Principal of a pubic school. December, 1856," The
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