The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-19 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 19, 1560.

THERMOMETER, IN TILE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.87.

WlND—South-Easterly; light, with cloudy dull weather,
and heavy rain in the morning.
THRE2 0 CLOCS.—It has been raining all day, with
slight exception.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 38m.—Afternoon, 2b. Om.
To-moßßow.-Morning, 2h. 22m.—Afternoon, 2h. 43m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1880.

The gathering of Kings and Dukes to do homage
to the EMPEROR at Baden-Baden was, for it is the
EMPEROR'S system, heralded by an Imperial pam-
phlet. This time the scribe, or Imperial AARON,
was our old acquaintance M. ABOUT, and the
" German Question" is certainly an appropriate
topic for the nominal author of the" Roman Ques-
tion." It were affectation to pretend that the
pamphlet has no political significance. The PorE
and ANTONELLI rightly judged differently in the
former case, though they did not manage their
diplomacy respecting it with the superhuman
cleverness and cunning which we naturally attri-
bute to the Vatican. The secular sovereigns who
met at Baden will be much wiser, and though
rumour says that due care was taken they should
see a copy of the pamphlet, we may be pretty
sure they will say nothing about it which
shall commit them with the EMPEROR,
or with the European public. We have
at least opinion enough of their wisdom to
have little doubt that they will, officially, know
nothing whatever about M. ABOUT and his bro-
chure:

We sannot agree with one of our most respected
contemporaries, that the EMPEROR condescended to
visit Baden. As in all other cases, he gained his
object. The Regent would rather he had been a
thousand miles off, after the awkward affair of the
intercepted correspondence; knowing, too, the sus-
picions of the petty German Princes. His Minister
tried to keep the EMPEROR from coming ; but the
EMPEROR would come. Admitting that he forced
himself, perhaps half rudely, on the Prince Regent,
Louis NAPOLEON is just the man to feel that to bo
a triumph. Carrying his point, not critically con-
forming to the formal courtesies of courts, is that
on which he plumes himself. And he did carry his
point. He placed the Regent in the dilemma of refus-
ing him, and of thereby being first in a quarrel;
or of receiving him, and thus giving him the
coveted opportunity of laying before him, not Im-
perial views and opinions (those he might find out
as he could), but Imperial representations. He
even gained another point, for he compelled a "mob
of monarchs" to gather around his presence. It
reminds us of the olden times in the East, when
Kings by the score used to gather their meat
under the table of some conquering potentate, or
to think it a high honour if they sat at meat
with
him. It is certainly a curious question what
they each thought, and perhaps whispered to each
other, as they " took tea" with the Great Monarch
of the occasion, each of them having, perhaps, a
copy of M. ABOUT'S pamphlet in their pockets.
It was, ir'h'ed, a rather unpleasant dose for all
the partici present. It begins with love to Ger-
many, to be followed by rather unkindly sayings
about German princes. Till the great uprising of
Germany which drove out the
French, the old
Teutons were fast Fn. their renchifylnlanguage and
their manners ; now the Parisians, our author tells
us are Germanizing. Heavy German
compounds
and rough gutturals can never indeed bo eadoptedn nds
into the glib, polished language of France, but in
music, and philosophy, and science, and art,
Germany is becoming the honoured idol of France.
And the friendship of France is worth something.
The Ottoman Empire felt it in the Crimea, where
France delayed her fate; the deliverance and