The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-31 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—Sux Orrxcz, AUGUST 31,:1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
6.s—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.60 ; rising.
Wnrn—S.-Westerly; rather fresh, with fine dry weather,
but cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIG DAY.—Morning, 2h. Om.—Afternoon, 2h. ISm.
To-mosmow.-Morning, 2h. 34m.—Afternoon, 2h. 48m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1860.

A Free-trader, or it may be a Tory, in disguise,
has sent us an apparently official communication in
a large envelope, bearing the following superscrip-

tion :

" NEW ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THE

COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH

FRANCE."

We opened the envelope with an avidity which
afterwards surprised us, and on our drawing out
the precious inclosure, which seemed to avoid our
grasp•—what did we find on unfolding the docu-
ment? Why, a half sheet of note paper, all in
blank ! We turned it, and turned it—still nothing
official appeared ! Oh ! thought we, this won't do—
it must be a State secret affair, too important to
be read by vulgar eyes ; it must be in cypher; the
contents must be written in some invisible ink, only
known to political confidants like ourselves, for we
never divulged a State secret, for obvious reasons
—that we would not be trusted again, and so lose
our position in the State.
Well, we tried the ordinary test of bringing out
the mystery, but all with the same result. Well
thought we, we shall now try the real extraordinary,
and so we did ; and in doing so we nearly burnt
our fingers!

"What9s to be dons—we're foiled again
The devil's in the thing—that's plain.
But, however plain it might seem to more know-
ing ones, we confess to our utter confusion and
dismay that we were not in the secret, nor even
consulted as to the contents of it.
Did our friend Mr. COBDEN send the communi-
cation of explaining what had he accomplished by
his own " rainbow thread" of Manchester negotia-
tion ? If so, he ought to have given us the begin-
ning of " the yarn"—and he might have-kept the
end of it to himself for all that the country has yet
benefited by his occult labours. Perhaps the
significance of this "bit of blank," is that England
is to fill up all that the plenipotentiaries were un-
able, in their native modesty, to accomplish, and to
speak out—that would amount to a spank new
treaty all on our side, for the other was all the
other way ! Well, now, why should we be sending
our great Corn-law detective over to Paris to be
politely done by bows and smiles, in spite of his
"unadorned eloquence" of which the treaty will
never r eap the benefit—when we could have kept
his high Plenipotentiaryship at home, and so have
saved our money and our character, and thus have
left the cunningest people in their own esteem,
to wallinv in their sour (cheap) wines, and to dis-
port the mselves in the exclusiveness of their own
Rags !

There is such a thing as paying too dear for one's
whistle• —but we have to pay for no whistle at all.
It is all pay and no play ; for people over the way
find it better and cheaper to dance to their neigh-
bours' fine fiddle-strings. The question then
arises-one of political economy, we pre-
sume—how long will people play a losing
game that the other side may put money
in thair pockets, and so laugh in their sleeve at our
expense ? Sailors say in an emergency—" look
out !—there's the devil to pay, and no pitch
hot." But we have been made to pay
with no pitch at all. Verily, the treaty
is now becoming to be understood to the peoples'
cost, for it is all reciprocity on one side, and Mr.
GLADSTONE may take credit, for he will get no
money on either side, for his inconsiderate gene-
rosity at the nation's expense.

The enthusiastic reception accorded to Koss=
on the 26th, immediately upon his wholly unlooked
for arrival uPon the banks of the Lago di Como
becoming known to the inhabitants of Bellagio, is
at once strikingly suggestive and admirably oppor-
tune. Elsewhere will be found, in our columns of
this ereni 11g, particulars of this reception—from
which it will be seen that the popular movement at
altogether spontaneous, was even from
Bellagio was altoge
first to last clearly and obviously unpremeditated.
The Hungarian Liberator arrives quite unexpectedly
upon the Lake of Como, and there at Bellagio takes
up his abode at the Hotel de
la Grande Bretagne.
Intelligence of his :arrival spreads like wildfire
throughout the neighbourhood. The advent is
that no doubt of a sir aple travelltn—but that simple
traveller has once, been supreme Dictator of
ain! Who
10,000,000 Hungari ins. And may besoag