The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-29 00:00:00

for themselves, wives, and children—the officers

being furnished with a mess, and the soldiers with
full provisions—but will also receive a good outfit
in the shape of arms, accoutrements, uniforms, and
camp equipage. A canvass frock and trousers will
also be provided for each man during the voyage.
The poor Tipperary boys, who were stripped even
of their clothing and sent to find employment in
a state of semi-nudity, were not quite so well
treated. They are also to receive free rations for
a year after their location ; pay up to the day of
embarkation ; pay at about half the usual rate for
three years ; and when called out for service, the
ordinary pay of QUEEN'S troops ; if wounded or
disabled in defence of the colony, they will
be granted the allowance for wounds received in
action. Each man will also receive an advance
of 5/. to provide himself with cooking utensils
and tools (this, however, to be repaid during the
second and third years of service). He is also to
receive a building lot, and if placed in a village
or new settlement, an acre of garden ground, in
addition to a building lot, with privileges of de-
pasturing cattle, &c., and the details of the loca-
tion to be carried out by their own officers ; and
a liberal allowance for building a cottage, which
is to be held rent free during the seven years,
and to become their absolute property at the
end of their service, or of their wives and
children should they die in the interim. Their
wives and children, or unmarried females
engaged to marry any military settler will also
receive free passages, and provisions, and rations
for one year. The officers, who are to be formed
into a local magistracy, will receive building and
garden lots, with handsome sums for houses, and
allowances in the purchase of lands. Wives and
families to be taken free of expense, with free
passage for one unmarried female servant for each
family.
From the above it will be seen how very dear
the Germans will be to the British nation. A
simple-minded person might have thought that
those who never shed any blood in anger, save that
of British subjects, might have been well con-
tented with receiving the full extent of their con-
tract, and that these ample rewards should have
been reserved for the veterans of the Crimea, who
had borne the brunt and hardships of the war.
These men would maintain British sympathies,
,nd feel a loyal devotion to the SOVEREIGN of the
United Kingdom. They would indeed have well re-
paid byan unqualified allegiance, the boon bestowed
on them. But the Germans will have no such feel-
ings. They may, indeed, drink the PRINCE'S
iealth, but will not, necessarily associate it with
that of the SOVEREIGN ; and we cannot wonder if,
;vith such elements, a Declaration of Indepen-
hence may at any time be published. Well, we
.ilust grin and bear it, and only venture to hop©
,hat, when all the "poor relations" of the House
of Cosunxt are comfortably provided for, there may
be something left for the citizens of the United
Kingdom.

Scarcely have the self-congratulations of our
Fplomatists in regard to the Ponca of Paris been
uttered, when, Jo ! and behold ! Europe is again
seething under the influence of neff turmoils.
A.ny_ieties are again becoming rife as to the pos-
sibility of fresh disturbances among the nations of
the Continent. The "Almighty Silence," a!ludei
to the other day at SllCffi3ld, by Mr. ROEBUCK, is
Already beginning to be broken by those terrible
premonitory sounds which are the sure fere-
l»dings of War and Revolution. Preliminary
thunders—muttering in all quarters of the poli-
-ical atmosphere ! Hardly a nation is thorn but
gives some evidence, more or less distinct, of
the formidable heave of this great and terrible
under-current. Ex.a.mino tito actual condition of
each country in turn, and see if it be not so.
Mark the Signs of the Times zsuccessiveiy in regard
to each of the independent states of the Con-
tinent, and then note if there be not
visible and audible indications on all hands
of the certain approach of another of those
grand and universal movements which Sir ARCIII-
)ALD ALISON has finely called the mino.qu'ikes of

our generation.

As to RUssia—the lawless originator of the late
conflict—her persistence in an aggressive policy
has been significantly evidenced of late by the
affair of Serpents' Island.
As to Austria—the double•headed Eagle of
Ilapsburg has still, conveniently enough, an eye
fur each of the four points of the compass sitnul-
taneouslywhile its ravening talons are more
Irmly than ever fastened, here upon the " rent
plains" of L mnbaxdy, there upon the ravaged
tracks of the disputed Danubian Principalities.
As to Prussia—a new and unexpected bone of
contention has been suddenly discovered by King
011114PCJOT (with his crown ail awry, and his sceptre
topsy-turvy, and his throne hind-side foremost) in
that absurd emeute, the Royalist Rebellion in
Neufchatel.

In outbreak which has abruptly put an end,
for the time being, at least, to that prolonged
tranquillity which has been vouchsafed to &slit-
mer/and ever since the close of the civil war of tha
Sonderbund.

Then, again, as to France—is there not prey-
ing at her very vitals the desperate democratic
conspiracy of the Marianne?
As to Spain—is there not the certainty, sooner
or later, of a most sanguinary rising far and wide,
north and south, east and west, all over the
peninsula, in the very fact of the revival of the
fonstitution of 1845 by the bloody and infa-
mous coup d'etat of O'DoNNELL ?
As to Italy, moreover--are there not incontro-
vertible assurances of a great change " coming,"
either to-day or to-morrow, this year or next,
assurances observable alike at both extremities of
that classic land—yonder in the retrogression of
Naples, yonder in the advance of Sardinia?
As to Turkey—at once the Victim and the
Champion of the last great international struggle
—are there not seeds for her of fresh anxiety
already sprouting into rapid growth in Monte-
negro !

Everywhere, throughout the whole of the vast
European continent, may be discerned from the
watch-towers of England, the kindling of new
flames among the ashes of the recent conflict—
ashes only smouldering at the best—ashes never,
even for a single instant, extinguished since the
conflagration was first ignited by the late CZAR,
when he hurled the brand of war at the Sublime
Porte by means of the daring and insolent hand
of Prince IVIENscHIKoFF.

And while the heat increases, and the fire
spreads, and everything in turn gives token,
more and more plainly, of some grand impend-
ing catastrophe--we are to content ourselves
with reading about the splendid trumpery of
the Russian Coronation. Our legislators mean-
while being idly scattered over the country
popping at partridges, banging at pheasants, troll-
ing for trout, stalking after deer, and occasionally
interrupting their holiday amusements by spin-
ning, over wine and walnuts, those after-dinner
platitudes by which constituents of all colours and
e!asses have ever loved to be bamboozled. Our Prirae
Minister at the same time meditating no doubt in the
midst of the dolce far niente of September at Broad-
lands or St. Leonard's, an entirely new set of
Yely staid old jokoa to be cracked AR OA 'blight of.