The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-18 00:00:00

THE S,ITN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1869.

THE COMIC PAPERS.

(From Punch.)

THE QUEENS LEVY.—Taxes.
THE PAYMASTER-GENERAL.—Mr. John Bull.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINES.—Farm labourers.
" PARTY PROCESSIONS."—Going down to supper.
THE HEIGHT OF FASHlON.—Ladies' Hair as now worn.

A SWEET IDEA.—Giving sugarplums to children, if not
an act of bonhomie, may surely be regarded as an act of
bonbon-homie.

818 DABIT.-Mr. Eastwick has postponed his motion on
Central Asia. We thank him. If he would only add tc
his kindness by going thither and delivering his speech,
our happiness would be complete.
LEGAL CHARGE.—A contemporary stated that "The
trial of the great Nun case cost about two hundred and
fifty pounds a day." A Cockney friend adds, that was
about a Nun-dred every two hours.

IA SAINT REHABILITATED.-St. George, in his character of
a gallant knight on horseback, spiking a dragon, was dis-
gracefully removed from the sovereign ; and Mr. Punch has
scarcely cared to take a sovereign since. If he does, it is
only to do like other people, and because that coin does as
well as any other to shy at a waiter after dinner, and in ex-
change for the cigar-I ght. But St. George, as the jolly Cap-
padocian Baker, has never had half justice done him, and
Me. Punch inclines to consider him in this light. The notion
came into h's head at St. George's own Hall, nearly opposite
the Polytechnic, the other night, while he was listening to
the Christy Minstrels, who made musical the echoes of that
highly superior edifice. It occurred to Mr. Punch that
he would write them an opera, to bo called George, the Cap-
padocian, or the Brave British Baker. We hereby copyright
the idea. There be passages in the life of St. George which
would not only delight, but in-trust. We should not leave
out the Dragon, but should put bins in a new light. George
was brave, bnt a cheat. The Dragon was the type of the
Magistrates who seek to prevent bakers from cheating. We
should not give George the victory, though he gets it now-
a-days, thanks to the imbecile idiotcy of Vestries, but we
should repress him by means of the beautiful Princess. We
forget whether Cappadocia is a place where blacks live ; but
no matter ; we should certainly let the Christy Minstrels
wear their sable, though we never could comprehend why
really charming melody-should come more pleasantly through
redded lips than from au artist's natural mouth. Yes, we
are rather nuts upon our Cappadocian opera, and shall pro-
bably give the scenario at an early date. Meantime, go to St.
George's Hall, and hear the Minstrels ; for they are exceed-
ing good, both in serious and comic work, and they have
excluded all the vulgarity which used to make Punch long
to break the woolley heads of other days.

(From Judy.)
"A I,TRAIGHT TIP."—" Direct bribery."

THOUGHTFUL HOSPlTALlTY.—Entertaining an Idea.

A " HANGING MATTER."—The Sword of Damocles.
To BANDMASTERS.—Does the " March Wind" enter
into the composition of a "Military Air ?"
A METROPOLITAN PECULIARITY.—It's strange that
Bow should lie in the East, and Harrow in the West !
DISTANCE " LENS " ENCHANTMENT, &C. Artist
(Photographic) : " Oh yes, Mum, we can take anything—•
we can take the sun, which is millions of miles off." Old
Lady (struck with an idea) : "Oh, you can. Then, if you
would besergood aster take half-a-dozen of my son iu
Austeraylia, which it's only thousands of miles off, I
should take it as a favour."

(From Fun.)
THE END OP A " FAST " LIFE. —Starvation.

THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.— Mr. Iron-
monger, Mayor of Wolverhampton.
A HERO OF FinascE.—Mr. W. E. Edwards, Ex-Official
Assignee in the Court of Bankruptcy.
A *" TRULY" LIBERAL POLICY (recently displayed by the
Crystal Palaca Company—read this announcement, never
mind the bull).—" Guinea Season Tickets Free!"

PITCH AND Toss.—lf instrumentalists require new horns
in consequence of the alteration of the pitch, does it follow
that mad bulls will require new horns for their toss? The
question leaves us on the horns of a dilemma.

MISCELLAAEOUS NET'S.

the establishment will remain open unto every aririi:Aii
in pawn is redeemed by the owners." The result of
the debate in the Lords was, however, no sooner made
known than this and similar announcements were
withdrawn.

mankind."

from having the slightest public effect. The result
is natural ; on these topics the public become more
and more ignorant. Fifty years ago the foreign
relations of America were more equitably adjusted
than those of any other nation in the world ; to-
day they are assuredly not in a good way. It was
only the other day that a number of discontented
Irishmen planned, under the protection of our flag,
the invasion of a country with which we were at
peace. They organized, equipped, and despatched an
army across the Canadian frontier. It seemed as
if we were returning toa state of nature when a nation
pretending to be civilized could permit such prac-
tices. Many of our newspapers and orators ap-
plauded, and when President Johnson, prompted
by the simplest dictates of duty, doing what he ab-
solutely had to do, arrested the movement, and per-
formed the one act which entitles him to the respect
of the country, abuse was showered upon him from
every side, and the affair was spoken of in many
quarters as if one of the inalienable rights of man
was to take advantage of neutral territory to orga-
nize thieving, murdering attacks upon his neigh-
bours. Again, a little later some of these same in-

vaders, being captured, were held for trial. The
law was simple enough ; they were on the same
looting with pirates. But a cry was raised that
their being American citizens made a difference, and
the trial was spoken of as an insult to this country
and the invasion of American rights. The Admi-
nistration was requested to expostulate, and, al-
though nothing had been done except to treat a
crime as a crime, we seemed for a while to be really
nearing war." It considers such humiliations might
he avoided if the people could hear the reasons
which influence the most intelligent and cultivated
body in the country, and thereby escape the injury
done by the Howe of Representatives, whose de-
bates are published, wherein are prescribed the rela-
tions of nations to one another. Although the Senate
is the assemby which ratifies treaties the House
is the great forum of debate on Foreign relations,
and Mr. Banks, and Mr. Robinson, the " faithful
Fenian," are the instructors of the people on inter-
national law. The Tribune argues very forcibly the
injustice done to the United States by the conduct
of England in permitting privateers to prey upon
American commerce. Remarking on the correctness
of the New Fork 7inaes that the war would have
ended at least a year sooner than it did, had
England not taken so unjustifiable a course, it says :
—" But from this sound premise it proceeds to
deduce the curiously illogical conclusion that the
Senate should declare war or confirm the treaty.
The right to declare war is one thing, the duty of
declaring it is quite another ; and when there is a
reasonable prosyect of obtaining reparation without
war, an unnecessary declaration of war would be
at once a blunder and a crime, and especially would
this be so in the case of England and America,
which are closely allied by kindred blood, one lan-
guage, an identity of interest, and a coirunom
heritage of freedom. . . War may arise suddenly,
especially since Mr. Reverdy Johnson's too amiable
and too undiscriminating affability, and where then
would be England's commerce?" Undoubtedly
there is a strong belief on this side the water that
America has no sea-going ships that could for a
moment stand against those of Great Britain, and
that her powers are much smaller in constructing
such, although very powerful in floating batteries
and vessels for coast defences ; and expresssion was
given to this by the Right Hon. Hugh Childers in his
speech on the Navy Estimates. The London Times
also signified this in a recent article, wherein it
expressed disbelief in the power of America to sweep
England's commerce from the ocean, while it laughed
to scorn the idea that it could be done by vessels of
the class of the Alabama or Florida, alike devoid
of speed and strength. As regards the capture of
the British possessions in North America, the result
is beyond doubt ; what the Tribune states being the
only course open to the Canadians, viz., quietly
to enter the Union and avoid a desolating war,
ending in an inevitable conquest. The concluding
remarks of the Tribune are in accordance with the
opinion of no small section of the English people ;
it will take some time to grow more general ; but
we verily believe that the end will be what the Tribune
suggests, on which we have frequently written, and
which forms the subject of a chapter in Mr.
Dilke's work, Greater Britain. At present we
will content ourselves with giving the words of the
Tribune, but we will hereafter offer our reasons for
advocating such a policy :—" The London Times
of Feb. 1.9, in an article on the Alabama Treaty,
says: 'We have done our best; we have gone
to the verge of national humiliation to secure
a settlement of the question at issue. We seal'

now await propositions from the new Ad

ministration of General Granf.' Is this quite
correct? asks the 7 ribune. Is there any na-

tional humiliation involved in England's prof-
f, ring us of her own accord the amplest repara-
tion from all that we have suffered from the in-
defensible conduct of her subjects, and the grave
error committed by her Government- in mea-

suring their national duty by their municipal
law ? Does not the same rule apply in such

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cases to Governments which applies to gentle-
men—whose honour never appears more bright
and pure than when repairing a wrong, and doing,

at whatever personal inconvenience, au act of
justice ? Under these circumstances, should

England promptly and frankly tender to the
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United States in full satisfaction of the debt she

owes us, first, the amount of the Alabama claims

due to individuals, and then the relinquishment o

her sovereignty on this continent, with the con

sent, of course, of her Canadian subjects, might we
not, consistently with our national self-respect,

accept the tender as cordially as it was offered,
with the understanding thal bygones should be

by-goner, and that we would revise together the

International Code, and remodel it on that of
Washington ? That such an offer will be made to

us by England seems the more probable when we
remember the length of time through which Eng-
land and the Cana'las have been looking forward
to their separation ; that such an arrangement

now would but slightly anticipate the early and
inevitable future ; that it would more comport

with England's truest interest to make the transfer

of her own free will and with the free con

sent of the colonies, and that such an offer,
discreetly made, although it would not restore

our lost commerce, might be regarded as a

proper reparation for our wounded pride, our

violated rights and .shattered interests. Our
people have been displeased, and justly, at the
childish unwisdoni which has been ready to swell

our indebtedness, at a most inconvenient motnent,

by indiscriminate and needless purchases, from the
North Pole to the Equator, of icebergs and of
earthquakes. But the voluntary cession of the
British rule in North America, where it has ceased

to be advantageous to England or beneficial to its
matured colonies, would be a❑ imperial gift, which
England might with dignity tender, and America
gracefully accept. Such an olive branch from

England, healing the past and restoring the gooi
will that has been so rudely broken, would un-
doubtedly be scouted by' those who are seeking to

embroil the two countries in war, from personal
hate or what Governor Andrew used to call a

principle of "general cussedness;" but we think it
might be fearlessly accepted in all honour by the
muses of our countrymen, who trust, in the lan.

guage of John Bright, " that the two nations,
separated as they are by the ocean, come as they
are, notwithstanding, of one stock, may be i❑ future
time united in soul, and may work together for the

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advancement of the liberties and the happiness of

According to the Providence Journal, Mr.
William Hamlin, of that city, is the oldest living Free-
mason in the United. States, if not in the world. He is
nearly 97 years old, and has been a member of the order
65 years.
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