The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, [869.

the press in the Northern States is the publication
in New York of the _lmperialist. The reception the
organ of monarchy has met with shows the breadth of
the American view untainted by fear ; no discussion
is suppressed ; and the curious are able and willing
to read and consider any subject presented honestly,
and with propriety. Yet a more astounding re-
volution than it advocates could scarcely be con-
ceived—no less than the subversion of the Republic
bya Monarchy, which Americans freely recognize to
be a renunciation of all faith in human progress, or in
human nature. Contrast this with the state of
the South prior to the war, where the holders of any
other than the set of opinions authorized by the ma-
jority were " ridden on a rail," or treated as Salem
in olden days treated witches. If men will not dis-
cuss and modify institutions in accordance with the
necessities of the age, in the end they will be re-
duced to the necessity of fighting to preserve what
are certain to become abuses, and the experience of
the Southern States is not such as to provoke imita-

tion. There never were two sections of a nation in
more glaring contrast on this point than the North-
ern and Southern States ; not that the Southerners
were illiberal, but demoralized and blinded by one
pervading institution, which with them entered into
every relation of life, and tended to create this
peculiarity. Doubtless it has had an influence as well
on the Northernomind, for if the Southerners attacked,
though on the defensive, rifle in hand, the fact may
have produced an indomitable and unswerving re-
solution in the opposing party, and imparted to many
leaders of Northern opinion that uncompromising
tone. With thenecessityfor such flrmnesswill die out
that harsh judgment, that demand of all or nothing
—the pound of flesh—the letter of the law as inter-
preted by the plaintiff—but nothing will more con-
duce tc this most desirable result than the remark-
able liberality with which the American press ac-
cords publicity to the views of its opponents, and
which is in striking dissimilarity with the course of
such English journals as the 7'imes. One effect of
what we have noticed may be observed as charac-
teristic of American travellers—the tact with which
they themselves avoid subjects disagreeable to the
strangers into whose society they may be thrown,
and the imperturbable good humour with which they
receive the injudicious and ill-timed remarks often
directed at them in return. Their surprising tact
is, however, due to their training in their own coun-
try, where, living much in public, and dining at the
tables d'hlite, they meet men of all nationalities, of
all creeds and opinions, from the Red Republican
to the Imperialist, from the Southern Cavalier to
the Yankee Puritan, from the Irish Fenian to the
English Tory, Free-trader and Protectionist, Cop-
perhead and Radical War-horse. It is to this that
Americans owe their nice perception of men and
manners, teaching them to tell the " stripe" of their
railway companion by signs as invisible to others as
is a " trail " to all but an Indian eye.—Anglo-
American 7 Imes.

The following is the correspondence abovo alluded to :
HOMBOURG LES BAINS, June 24, 1869.
enclose you an article from the New York
Evening Post which I will thank you to publish.
the writer of this letter, so severe upon Americans,
is Miss Anna Boete, who 4irnagines herself " a
well-known authoress," but who is hardly known
in our country, and but little beyond the precincts
of Dresden, where she lives. She displays a re-
markable ignorance of our country people in this
letter which is really laughable. She imagines
American ladies who come here do so for the pur-

pose of general education ! whereas they come only
to instruct their daughters in music and German.
And then as to the economy of American families.
This is something new, only heard of by Miss Boete.
Having lived in Germany some years, I know that
wherever Americans go they always by their
liberality and profuseness make living very dear.
That our people are hospitable no one but Miss
Boete doubts. Had she travelled outside the limits
of Dresden she would have easily ascertained how
greatly she was mistaken. As to Americans acquir-
ing the. German language from German newspapers
in America, that is too rich to be answered. If she
had asked us to learn the language in dance houses,
beer gardens, &c., where nearly all Germans congre-
gate during nearly all the leisure time they have, leav-
ing their families at home, or at the Caffee Gresebel-
chapts, ;she would have been nearer the truth. As
to the very intellectual class of Germans in America
there are a few, and I wish there were many. That
they are amiable, honest, and kind, I very well
know. Miss Boete says the Germans never send
their sons to France. or England to learn the lan-
guages there. How mistaken she is on this point
so far as South Germany is concerned ! The daugh-
ters are educated by French and English gover-
nesses, but the boys are very often sent abroad to
learn the languages. After all, the pronunciation
of French by these home educated Germans is not
the very best. The hit about our American women
leaving their husbands in America is good, and
deserved. Then as to the unpopularity of Ameri-
cans in Germany, Miss Boete, if she had ever
travelled in her own country, would have known
better. It is a pity she is so vain and conceited as
to publish such a letter as the one in the Ereniny
Post.—Yours, &c. L. W.

looked down upon with a sort of contempt that has fallen
as a shadow on a great nation. Now and then a voice rises
in their defence, to state that a sort of necessity brought
them here, since their means did not allow them to give
to their fair daughters the advantage of masters in modern
languages and in music. But we could not take take this
as an excuse; for, although we value talents, still no Ger-
man mother would leave her husband and her home, and
break the most sacred of ties, for the sake of such accom-
plishments, which have nothing to do with character or
with happiness.
"EDUCATION.—As to the learning of modern languages,
it is a very erroneous idea that you can acquire them
without much painstaking in the country where they are
spoken ; for a language to be learned under any circum-
stances, you must give your mind to it ; you must study
the grammar ; you must, as it were, commit every word
to memory, and this is an affair of time and painstaking.
We are entitled to ask the question, why American chil-
dren do not learn French and German at home when they
are young, just as out. children acquire these languages ?
We never send our sons and daughters to France and
England to learn French and English. A third of the
United States, moreover, is peopled by Germans, and almost
every large town has a German newspaper, a proof of the
presence of an intellectual class. Why, then, is it so diffi-
cult to learn German in America? We cannot help
smiling when we hear that they have crossed the ocean
for such a purpose—especially when we see the means
American mothers take, after such a sacrifice, to make
their hopeful progeny acquire the German idiom. Accord-
ing to all apparance their greatest care is to dress
their children handsomely, and to provide amusements
to keep their darlings in good humour. A steady adhe-
rence to any instruction is out of the question with
them. The mothers themselves cannot bear a quiet life,
and set that example to their children. They waste
their time in calling upon their compatriots, and fixing a
day for receiving visits, as if they had crossed the Atlantic
on no other purpose than to make new acquaintances of
Americans abroad. They have balls and parties and
masquerades; they go to court and make themselves con-
spicuous, and, when spring comes, they must fly away to
some watering place, to Italy, to Switzerland, anywhere
for a change. Such a restless, unsettled disposition is not
calculated to exercise a beneficent influence on the young
generation. Culture of mind is the growth of steady ap-
plication. Music, above all, wants years and years of
painful study to obtain that finish which makes it the
charm of our domestic life. Boys and girls, with us, have
to put their tiny fingers on the piano as soon as they can
read and write and cipher. We do not know what to say
when these young strangers come with the idea that they
will take by storm, in their ' go-ahead system,' what we
have to spend half a life to accomplish. Of course they
learn little, and the more so as these juvenile pupils from
the New World are the worst disciples ever seen by Ger-
man masters, or in a German school; for it seems to us
as if you had left out in the catalogue of your principles
of education the small word duty,' and placed in its stead a
phrase, Ido not feel like it.' Let me stop here for a mo-
ment, dear Miss —, for it is really painful to me to see a
great nation on a path that must lead down hill ; since
the children of to-day are to be the men and women to
build up the great future of your wonderful country. But
can a great nation grow out of minds biased by so
cowardly a saying as Ido not feel like it ?' Whatever
the creed may be, we, all of us, value those ethics of the
Christian doctrine that preach self-control. Let a savage,
let a Hottentot say that he does not feel like it, when a
duty is to be performed ; but the children of your soil,who
hold in their hands the destiny of a great country, ought
to feel much too proud to use a language which may have
done for a Sybarite, but could never have been found on
the lips of a Roman while Rome was a Republic and Cato
taught his children to read. Why you have given up
teaching to the young obedience ? It is a great mistake,
for it is the first lesson we ought to learn as our intellect
enables us to understand the meauing of words, and our
dependency on others. Whosoever is born is destined to
die ; and in vain you may cry out, ' I do not feel like it,' for
without pity life is snatched away from you ;you must sub-
mit, you must obey. Let the young, then, revere a Power
which, in its awful grandeur, is mute to your inquiries ; let
them revere the moral law that rules the universe and the
destiny of men ; let them revere reason, which demands
obedience to superiority, which is placed before us in
visible form in our parents, who ought to be our leaders
through the darkness in which we wander, until our eye
has acquired light to find the way for ourselves. There
is no sight more ugly than a child that has a will of its
own in contradiction with that of its mother; no sight
more ugly than a son and daughter who have no other re-
ply to a reasonable demand of their instructors than, do
not feel like it.' It is a phrase of fearful import, for out of
it grows that selfishness which defies every duty requir-
ing self-control and self-sacrifice. Our teachers, the mas-
ters and mistresses of our schools, can have no influence
on children whose parents have allowed them to obey
their own inclination as civil law; they cannot inculcate
the self-restraint and obedience to duty which make a re-
sponsible being, if the parents allow them to slight laws
merely because they are irksome to them; they cannot
expect to be looked upon with respect by the offspring of
parents who do not demand respect. Who does not re-
spect a God in heaven nor his image on earth, how can he
love virtue and goodness? now difficult for the young
to go the right way, if they have not reverence for ago and
experience to guide them. What is to lead children,
if superiority of intellect has no influence upon them,
and if they dare slight every regard for others by that
stupid saying, lam an American !' Let them understand
that the name is nothing except they prove its value by
deeds. I spoke one day on this subject to an American
gentleman, whose literary acquirements and cultivation of
mind placed him above the average of men ; I wanted to
know why he exercised no control over his children ?
Why he allowed his daughters to lie in bed until ten
o'clock, to live on sweets, to run wildly about and lear❑
nothing ? Ile had no answer to give, but they did not feel
like doing otherwise. While I consider English children
the best educated iu the world, as regards their moral and
physical training, I think the young Americans the worst
brought up in these respects; yes, as it were, not educated
at all. Tim parents say they will not crush the spirits of
their children. But there is a vast difference between
crushing and training• What you make the boy to be, the
man will be. Savages leave the spirits uncrushed, it is
true, but their children remain savages. It will not crush
the spirits of your daughters if they practise self-denial ;
if they feel grateful for kindness received, and try to bo
kind in return ; if they reason with themselves about their
duties and try to do as they wish to be done by. In Eng-
land a child is a child ; it lives on wholesome food, and
keeps early hours, and leads a life suited to its age. In
America it is not so. Your boys are little men, your little
girls are women. It is a hideous sight—these little girls
with their flowing hair and trimmed dresses, walking
through the streets with a raw American boy, and flirt-
ing. Flirting ! The German language has no word for
flirting, for we have not the thing ; we leave such an oc-
cupation to the demi-monde of Paris.
" BAD MANNERS.—The Americans abroad are very un-

popular, and do nothing to be liked by the inhabitants,
but everything to the contrary. The wise saying, 'Do in
Rome as Romans do,' is not to their liking; for as they are
American, they need not show any amiable qualities, nor
try to please. The Germans are naturally kind-hearted,and
whore they come in contact with them, they show them any
civility in their power. Your people respond to this by say-
ing how glad the Germans must be to entertain Americans.
They repay our hospitality with no hospitality of their own,
for it is showing us enough favor to accept ours, and when
they go away they send their card with P. P. C. as their
last farewell favour. This immense selfishness throws
cold water on all good feeling. The English proverb says
—' best manners come from the heart,' but the Ame-
rican manners flow from an unjustifiable self-esteem. The
natives say, after some experience of this kind, we will
not associate with American ladies who, after all, come
here to get an education, and people not yet educated are
no society for us. Why should we bother ourselves with
them when they show how little they value our kindness ?
Thus American mothers do not find great opportunity for
acquiring the German idiom by social intercourse, and the
fault lies entirely with themselves. They do not like'
reciprocating kindness. They say, as Fredrick the Great
said of Voltaire, I squeeze the orange and throw away
the rind' But Voltaire never forgave having been
squeezed, notwithstanding a king had done him the
honour, and the Germans do not like to be squeezed,
though Americans do them the honour .. . A. B."

MARKE7 S-2 HIS DAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
July 7.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. The marke
steady.

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RAILWAY COLLISION ON THE NORTH.
EASTERN.

The first collision of any importance on the Scarborough
Railway since its opening twenty-five years ago, occurred
on Tuesday morning near Malton. A pick-up goods
train was on its way from York to Malton, and had called
at Castle Howard station. Part of the train was left on
the main line, while the engine fetched some trucks out
of a siding. Just at this time a Doncaster excursion train,
consisting of thirty-six well-filled carriages, came round the
sharp curve from Kirkham, and ran into the goods train,
causing the wildest confusion among the great mass of the
excursionists, many of whom were looking out, and at
once spread the news of the danger. The stoker jumped
off the engine, and some of the passengers jumped out of
the train. Many of the passengers seem to have
got upon their feet, and thus to have received
more serious cuts and bruises about the head than would
otherwise have been the case. The cause of accident re-
mains for official inquiry. The three worst cases—those of
the stoker and a gentleman and lady from Doncaster—
were sent back to York ; the remainder were
forwarded to Malton, where the station-master, Mr.
W. H. Nicholson, had Dr. Young, Dr. Deeley,
and Mr. Luker in waiting, and the waiting-rooms and
refreshment-rooms were quickly converted into hospitals.
Some twenty persons had their wounds dressed at Malton
station, of whom all but four were sent away by the noon
trains, the others not being removable. Several persons
who had received minor injuries went forward to Scar-
borough. There is no loss of life, and, singularly, no
broken bones, and only two cases of serious injury to the
extremities. All the injured passengers have been sent
home. The accident was on the incline, and no blame is
attached to the company's servants. Three breaks were
used, but could not stop the train. The passengers hurt
did not ke6n their seats.