The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

This is the truthful description of the tra-
ditional policy of the dynasty with which we
are about to form a close and intimate
connection, if the British Parliament do not effec-
tually interfere before the unfortunate event has
been consummated—a connection which may im
plicate this coutitry in many difficulties, but
which cannot by any possibility prove beneficial
or advantageous to England. We had frequent
and abundant reasons in the olden time to deplore
the ties by which we were bound to Hanover.
They have fortunately been severed by the acces-
sion of her MAJESTY, and we should hesitate be-
fore we again become involved in others far
more formidable to the future welfare and tran-
quillity of the British nation. What, we ask, would
ba the consequences in the event, which GOD
forbid, of the failure of the male issue of Queen
VICTORIA, and the amalgamation of the throne 3
of Prussia and Great Britain ? Sach an event
would 'be quite possible, and the prospect should

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be sufficient to prevent the marriage, unless ac-

companied by an act to prevent the issue
from }laving any claim to the English
throne. Even supposing that the case should

never arise, there would be the prospect of
England being called on to interfere in
the event of the present discontent in Prussia

leading to a change of dynasty. The least objec-
tionable result would be the accession of a body
of pauper exiles to the pension list, and the good
Clicquot being permitted to indulge his peculiar
tastes at the expense of our overburdened

taxpayers. On every ground the marriage
should be prevented, if practical,le. Parliament

should speak out boldly and intelligibly while
there is yet time, so as to be enabled to avoid all
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responsibility when the evil day had arrived, and
not to be called on to repair the mischief arising
from a contumelious disregard of the advice, which
it is constitutionally entitled to offer to the
SOVEREIGN.

It will doubtless have been observed by many
of our readers that the columns of our journal
contained last evening a very long and in -many
respects a very eccentric communication. A let-
ter penned by Mr. MORRIS MOORE, one of the
principal witnesses before the Select Committee
of 1853 upon the subject of the National Gallery
" Eccentric" have we called it ? Well, yes--
slightly eccentric—just with a faint dash, per
haps, of eccentricity, or a dim suspicion of what
you might call odd, queer, fantastic! As thus:—
Mr. MOORE is decidedly, undeniably, distinctly,
glaringly in the right ! He has home truths to tell,
the mere utterance of which is beyond the emphasis
of any figure of rhetoric, however forceful ! He has
his opponents—to begin with—at a positive dis-
advantage! He has nothing to do but to point
an index-finger at them, to have the absurdity and
untenableness of their position clearly, univer-
sally, and upon the instant instead of availing recognised ! Yet,
himself of the golden
opportunity thus within his grasp—he takes
up cudgels not in any way called for (so entirely
are his opponents lying at his mercy from the very
outset !), and belabours about him, pell-mell,
right and left, furiously, ravagingly ! Worse than.
a Blunder, we take this to be. A Mistake
Read the letter, and see whether or no we are
right in so designating it. Look at it ! The
facts in it, for the most part, nobody, we under-
take to say, can very well presume to contra•
vene. Yet these plain, bold, sturdy, incontro-
vertible facts are so overlaid with vituperation,

Powers during the very crisis, is excluded from
any participation in the discussions relating to the
domestic government of the Danubian Principali-
ties and the arrangement of the new line of fron-
tiers. Judging from her antecedents there can be
but little doubt that Prussia will cast her entire
weight into the Muscovite scale, and that, with'
the aid of Austria, the matter will be made as
pleasant to the Government of St. Petersburgh as
possible. It will be something to know how this
most untoward event has been brought about ;
and by what means, or through what influences,
the nation that professed a contemptible neu-
trality, while it was really lending the greatest
possible assistance to our adversary, and acquiring
immense profits from its proceedings, has been suf-
fered to escape with impunity from the natural
consequences of its misconduct.
On the Continent, even in Prussia itself, and
in every petty, German State, these matters are
openly talked of, and the escape of Prussia is
universally ascribed to the matrimonial alliance
between the heir presumptive to the Prussian
throne and the Princess Royal of England, which,
it is said, has been definitively settled by the par-
ties principally concerned, although not a single hint
has as yet been given to the British Parliament on
a matter of such vital consequence to the entire
nation, and which may possibly affect the succes-
sion to the Throne, and transfer the Crown from
the House of Hanover to that of Brandenburgh.
No authentic information will probably be given
until a Royal Message declares that the inauspi-
cious match has been arranged, and the
• guardians of the national finances are called
on to vote a large dowry to the youthful
bride. We trust that they will exhibit
sufficient independence to resent the insult,
and to resist the unjustifiable demand. There is
too much of the public money already finding its
way into German channels, and if the private in-
fluence, said to be paramount, desire to enforce
an alliance—in every respect so distasteful to the
British People—the funds. may be• provided for
the purpose, without a begging appeal to the peo-
ple. Prince ALBERT has already pocketed more
than six hundred thousand pounds of English
money. Uncle LEoroLD has received nearly two
million pounds sterling. And there is
reason to believe that the greater portion of
these enormous amounts have been carefully put
by and are now available. If for their own pur-
poses they desire to conclude this ill-omened mar-
riage, let them put their hands in their own
pockets and abstain from fresh demands that will
only raise unpleasant questions, and bring the im-
provident arrangements heretofore made into very
painful notoriety.
What is there in the antecedents of the present
reigning House of Prussia to render its alliance
acceptable. In every instance it has displayed
the utmost duplicity and insincerity, looking
merely to its own selfish interests, and disregard- ,
ing the most sacred obligations, whenever it
seemed convenient to do so. " Nusquam tuta
fides" should be the motto of that perfidious State.
It has been truly remarked by a contemporary
that " she has been perfidious to friend and foe
alike, and has not hesitated to accept from the
hand of the common enemy the spoil of her
own Allies. While accepting the subsidies
of England she proposed, after the vic-
tory of Austerlitz, a treaty of which
the basis was the annexing Hanover to the Prus-
sian dominions. Her perfidy to her friend, her
servility to her enemy, and her rapacity towards
all, did not even secure her the confidence of him
to gain whose favour she was ready to descend to
the lowest point of degradation. The
conduct of Prussia during the crisis of the last
three years does not qualify her to be the ally of
any Power."