The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-13 00:00:00

was appointed to the Colonelcy of the Rifle Bri
Bade, and in September, 1847, he was nominated to
the Governorship of the Cape of Good Hope, together
with the command of the forces in that colony.
There he conducted with great ability all the ope-
rations of the Caffre war of 1851-2, and brought
them by force of arms to such a successful issue
that Kreili was compelled to sue for peace, pledg-
ing himself henceforth to keep within the Indwe
and Kei rivers, while Sandilli acknowledged his
cause to be hopeless, submitted to the Governor's
terms, and withdrew from Caffraria.

In 1854 Sir Harry Smith was promoted to the
rank of Lientenant-General, and in the same year
was appointed to the military command of the
northern and midland districts,
The late Baronet married, in 1814, a Spanish
lady, the Donna Juana Maria de los Dolores de ,
Leon, by whom, however, he had no issue ; and
accordingly the baronetcy becomes extinct by his
death.

THE PRUSSIAN ALLIANCE.

One of the most pointed arguments we have heard
in favour of the Prussian alliance—a favourite idea
in certain dynastic and diplomatic circles—as that
Prussia and England can never under any circum-
stances
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it should seem, being the big fish in this apologue,
and our German cousin the noble domesticated mem-
ber of the brute creation. Whether the improba-
bility of any hostile contact between the dog and
the fish be a sufficient reason for an attempt to
establish intimate relations between the two, is
a point we leave to diplomatic fishmongers to de-
termine ; the big fish can at all events suffice for
its own preservation in its native element ; the
hook and the net have still to be invented
which are to catch and land it on German
soil. Nor is England in a condition to be dragged
about like a blind impostor by any whining dog with
a plate round his neck. Great efforts, however,
' appear to be in progress among certain recognis-
able influences in this country and at Berlin to
convert a family bond into a political compact,
and a domestic connection into a political alliance.
The Foreign Minister of England, it seems, as-
sisted at a grand pigsticking solemnity in the
neighbourhood of Coburg the other day, and has
since been heard of at Coblentz in close confabula-
tion with Baron Schleinia. From these two inci-
dents, diverie in character yet tending to a common
object, it is gravely concluded that the policy of
England is becoming more and more German,
and that the Fish is biting in Rhenish waters
at an Austrian hook ingeniously suspended,
after the fashion of the most approved cadger,
from the collar of the Prussian Dog. For that
the British Fish has got into Rhenish waters—to
its cost—is only too notorious. The misadven-
tures of her Majesty's tender Fairy, between
Emmerich and Mayence abundantly bear witness
to the auspicious inauguration of the precious
German alliance which is destined to supersede
the French, and to the conveniences and advan-
tages of a new and promising connection. Three
weeks ago the public in this country were some-
what startled by the account of a savage outrage
perpetrated on an inoffensive English gentleman
and his family at Bonn, by some officials of the
Rhenish Railway Company. This outrage was
i?receded and provoked by an act of flagrant and
brutal violence on the part of a Prussian medical
man, and followed by a still more savage outrage
on the part of the police and law authorities at
Bonn. An English gentleman was actually
dragged off to gaol, refused bail, denied access to
his friends, lodged in a dark cell on a straw pallet,
and after six days of imprisonment befitting a com-
mon malefactor, or a political malcontent in Aus-
tria, browbeaten and insulted by a public prose-
cutor in a court of justice, and fined, for the
offence of having sulered the grossest indig-
nity and violence without resistance or redress.
Not only were all these outrages and indignities
heaped upon an English gentleman at a German
town in which thousands of pounds sterling are
annually spent by English residents and tourists,
but a Prussian court of justice was profaned by
deliberate insults to the English nation, uttered
by the public prosecutor, a law officer of the
Prussian Crown. This agreeable incident may be
noted as a sort of prelude to the solemn overtures
performed at Coburg and Coblentz. The grand
symphony of an Anglo-Prussian alliance com-
mences with a few simple prison bars for a mere
English traveller at Bonn.
But these most desirable Prussian allies of ours
are not content with treating English gentlemen
as their Austrian brethren treat Italian Liberals.
They must needs improve the occasion of the
Queen of England's visit to the home of hey. Con-
sort, and of the British Foreign Minister's inter-
view with Baron Schleinitz, by a ridiculous and
offensive attempt to waylay and search one of her
Majesty's yachts, and to prevent British naval
officers from landing at Cologne. The moral con-
sciousness of German officials is, we dare say, some-
what obtuse, and it is conceivable that by some
metaphysical process not understood out of
Germany, the Prussian mind is persuaded that by
imprisoning English travellers and insulting officers
of her Majesty's service it will impress the English
mind with the useful and ornamental qualities of a
Prussian alliance. Toryism in all its forms and dis-
guises is working might and main to put the British
fleet and treasury at the disposal of the Prussian
Government whenever the Court of Berlin shall in-
vite aggression from France by taking up arms for
Austria in Italy. Monarchical interests, as they are
understood in Central Europe, look hopefully to the
future junction of the Dog and the Fish. It is
the pet device of the diplomatic guild—this Anglo-
German combination. The conduct of Prussia and
of Austria during the Russian war was so bold,
straightforward, honourable, and consistent, that
the security of Austria is held to be more than ever
necessary, and the alliance of Prussia more than
ever indispensable to Great Britain. This respect-
able superstition still obtains, we believe, in Down-
ing-street. Of course it is ardently cherished at
Vienna, and Berlin, and especially among Liberals
of the Gotha persuasion. Recent occurrences at
Bonn, and Cologne, on the commonest thorough-
fare of British travel, arrive most opportunely for
the purpose of giving the English public a tnads f
the
the quality of the laws, the manners,_ The
civilisation of our intended allies.
Austrian Th Court
of England, it is true, receives
coarsely
ople is at the same time the British pe
an Crown in a
com-
pliments and Prussian cordialities at Coburg, but
libelled by a law officer of thed Prussian
esEsiritish navy is
court of justice at Bonn,uasntom.
house officers at
people may be tempted to
' insulted by Prussian C
Cologne. The British
appen
in the empire of
interests ;
ask, would such things
Italiann
Kingdom ? Inter-
nationalnewnowadays to be sought in
an alliances are
France, or in the
mutual a
principles and of
not in royal courtesiesicompacts. We
Prussian laws and manners
recognise an affinity of
andfamily
willingly i
and Bavarian
the force of Austrian affinities, but
as Englishmen we must
t frankly confess that we
Daily
desire better company.— ivetis.

TR-E A LIEBGTOTETCE
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NITE4III.DU.RDER AT

On Thursday an adjourned inquest was held at
Stoketeignhead, Devonshire, on the body of a newly
born child, found dead under circumstances already
described in our paper. The child's mother was
servant to
a farmer named Bond. Mrs, Bond gave
evidence as thetohilgirl's confessing that she had
given birth to a
William Bond;fardnier, corroborated his wife as to
the girl's confession, and added—l was satisfied with
her statement, and went to church. Being Sacra-
ment Sunday we came home earlier; things in
the back kitchen appeared to be in great dis-
order, and I fancied I smelt something very dis-
agreeable. I asked what she had in the fire; she
said nothing more than what came from the
coal-box. I lifted the cover of the fireplace, and
there I saw the head of a child. I said, " What for
God's sake have you hero ?" and taking the poker
drew it out on the hob ' • the servant declared it
was nothing more that what was in the box, and
this she persisted in saying. My father came im-
mediately after, and then she said—" For God's
sake say nothing about it for I shall be hung, and
if you say nothing no one will know anything about
it." I said, "I suppose you want me to be hung in'
stead of you." I then sent for the doctor, a police-
man, and the girl's parents. After some time the
girl was taken up stairs, and Mr. Brooks came son
afterwards.
Mr. Thomas Brooks, surgeon, said—L
When I
to see Elizabeth Hooper on Sunday.
jasthe charred
arrived I had produced for inspfctionof
cinder at-
was called
head of a child, with a large piecebrain r i on it. I then
tached, with a portion
went up stairs, and proceeded-de of the bed. She at first
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on
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had to lift her on the bed,
oftie to examine Hooper:
refused to lie down.
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gate some
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she had given birthl examined
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further medical evidence, and deposed to the • un-
portant fact that the lungs had been inflated, and
that therefore the child must have been born alive.
The Coroner having summed IT! the jury deli-
berated,and after a few minutes returned the fol-
lowing verdict :—" We believe the child to have
been born alive, but how or by what means it came
by its death we have not sufficient evidence to
show."