The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A district order issued at Portsmouth on Satur-
day announces that her Majesty having been
pleased to require the services of Major-General
Sir J. Scarlett, K.C.8., as Adjutant-General of the
army, he will be replaced in the command of the
south-west district by Major-Gen. Lord William
Paulett, C. 8., to whom, on and after the Ist of
April, all orders and communications will be made
through the usual channel. The order further
states that " Major-Gen. Sir J. Scarlett cannot re-
linquish the command he has now held for the last
two years and a half without expressing to the
officers of his staff, the district, and garrison how j
much indebted he feels for the zeal and ability they
have evinced in assisting him to carry on the duties
of command." The gallant General, during the
period of his command at Portsmouth, has gained
the respect and esteem of all ranks and classes, and
will be accompanied by heartfelt wishes that he
may long be spared to fulfil the duties of the high
office to which he has been appointed. Major-Gen.
Lord W. Paulett, C. 8., will arrive at Portsmouth
and assume the command of the garrison and dis-
trict this day. His lordship afterwards proceeds
on a month's leave.
The depots of the 44th and 88th are about to oc-
cupy the arsenal of Southtown, Great Yarmouth.
The remainder of the troops who arrived at
Gravesend from Calcutta in the East India troop.
ship Marlborough, Capt. Ker, reached St. Mary's
invalid establishment, Chatham, on Friday even-
ing:, and joined the detachment that arrived on the
previous day. The total number of troops that
came from Marlborough was 295. At the time the
Marlborough left Calcutta there were several other
vessels in the river waiting to embark troops for
England. The Warrior Queen, with troops on
board, arrived at St. Helena on the same day that
the Marlborough left that island.
Capt. Inglefield's (No. 1) and Lieut.-Col. Dixon's
(No. 2) batteries of the 3d brigade, now stationed
at Plymouth Citadel, are under orders to proceed to
the Channel Islands, to relieve two batteries ordered
to Portsmouth, where they will do duty for two
batteries of the 3d brigade who are to join the head-
quarters in the Citadel.

Yesterday morning about 100 effective members,
forming one of the companies of the St. Martin's Division
of the Queen's Westminster Rifle Volunteers, accompanied
by their captains, Dowling and Parsons', attended Divine
service at the parochial church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
The sermon from Psalm 127, verse 2—" Except the Lord
keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain," was de-
livered in the most impressive manner by the vicar, the
Rev. W. G. Humphrey, B.D. We un derataud the whole of
this fine regiment, amounting to aboi it 1,400 men, intend
attending Divine service at Westminster Abbey, on Sun-
day week, April 15th.
[ADVERTISUMENT) m —The following e 'Taordinary cures,
without medicine, o indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency,
constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver co mplaints, cough,
asthma, consumption, and debility, effect& by Du Barry's
delicious health-restoring Rovalenta Arabi. rxt Food, are not
the least remarkable :—Cure No. 42,116'. =Major Edie of DELIII PRIZE MONEY.—The total amount of
enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. money collected by the prize agents of the Delhi Field
Cure No. 36,418.—Rev. Dr. Minster of emu -lei spasms, Force, and deposited by them in the Government Treasury,
and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418.—Dr.. Harvey of is 3,241.917 Company's rupees. Interest on the amount of
cliarrhcea and debility. Cure No. 30,628.--Dr. Wurtzer of all sums paid into the public treasury on account of this
consumption. Cure No. 32,880.—William H .u.nt, Esq., prize-money will give a further sum of 288,000 rupees, and
barrister, of paralysis. Cure 46,270.—Mr. Jam( se Roberts, the value of certain property yet to be realised will make
timber merchant, of Frimley, of 30 years' diseased lungs, up a total of 3,557,917 rupees. The Secretary of State for
spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafn, 9:4. Cure India is desirous of bringing under the immediate attention
No. 49,832.—" Fifty years indescribable amore
dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti ado' 'l,
v from of the Treasury the question of this property, with the
lency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and voPmitir‘S, her Majesty's authority to dis-
have tribute the booty to the troops employed in such
Wortham Ling. near Diss, Norfolk." Cure No. s'. 1,5-12.—
been removed hy Du Barry's excellent food.—Mari have
view of obtaining
a jolly, manner as her Majesty may be pleased to
direct. It is presumed that the disposal of the captur.d
oardnuStiunauritg
The Dowager Countess of_, e,all,estuart, of man yea re _nor- property will be arranged on the principle laid down in a
tvho:).l.s.:iiiigT irritability, LI iiloi tny. ,
theh il bile,
desetiponoo.—ies? uofreacitt. 751:,,,,_0_f general order of the Governor-General, and dated 27th of
November, 1857, whereby it was notified that a clear dis-
PackeJ with full instructions, in canisters, 11b8,' 2‘a. Ot 1. ;
21b., 4e. 6d. ; 121 b. 225. Su refined quality, .101 b , tinction exists, in eases of recapture, between property of
s:).'s, the State originally captured by an enemy in time of war,
Also Tht Barry's 'Revalenta Arabica Chocolate PO.Wl3er, and similar property seized by rebels or mutineers during
contains We greatest amount of easily assimilated nourish- an insurrection. In the former case the property recaptured
ment for sti•engthening delicate persons, children and in- is in general treated as property of the hostile State, and
fants of wcai:-. stomach, chest, or nerves, and at 3d. . per h'eeomes subject to the laws of prize. But in aum_sur-
meal, affords a :lelicious breakfast, lunch, or supper. It is rention, such as the present one, the troops of the State
the best dieteti:l homcepathic preparation, and may be whose property has been pillaged by its own subjects, or by
eaten either alon e or mixed with Du Barry's Bova lenta foreigners aiding such subjects in their treason, when they
Arabica Food. A dmirably adapted to rear infants 1 vith. retake such property from the plunderers, merely retake. it
have strong . .
In tins, at Is. 6d. ; 11b. 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d, ; 51b., 125.; 1 21b., on behalf of the Government, and acquire no legal right of
265. The 101 b. and I.'lb. tins carriage free, on receipt of 1 )ost- prize or of property, although theyThe.se
office order. Du Barry-and Co., 77, Regent-street, Lou ion; the liberality of the Government.
itt a principles apply
Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly - Alibis, 60, also to the property of private persons p n ered by the insui -
Gracechurch_street ; 4, Cheapside; 63, and 'l6O, Oxf4. ,rd- gents and retaken by the troops of the State. Such private
street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsn, l'e- property can in no case bbeydtcheemoedrilgailivafiltlop:mizee when clearly
street ; 85, Tottenhaiu-court-road. Also at Dula I. identified and c
Raimes and Co. ;r. roperty,
however, taken by the troops whceh is neither claimed on
'Bewley 'and nraper ; at Edinburgh, State nor claimed and
at Liverpool, Ligon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp are v 1 behalf of the
identified by pet sons
Scott ;at Yori:. Raimes, Blanchard, and iat Sti v-i
Co.
.., . ou who may esti n3h their loyalty, is to be considered to be
azapton, Randt ill and sow 4 ood prize.

s.
reeeenes ones'
. .
relations, of the state of thiege in the early part of
that most gloomy year ul her history, MG—. At
that period, as. now, Fraece was strong, wailike,
and aggrcesive, led on by a chief of surgeeing
ability; hied entirely eniseneipated from those tradi-
etione -which fettered; "'Tetley ceuld net always re-
etraill, the ancient- monarchies of Europe. Austria
dies', as new, wa stageceeng and almost stupifled
under the effects of a rnightY.blow, for Austerlitz
has found no unworthy counterpart in Solferino.
Italy eve.s;'their Overshadowedby Peen eh influeece,
and the smaller Powers of Germany, buried 'each
prefoundly ,in its own eeltielee4l;atte
ortsightedntee, v: ea c:;ll:..4:'eri•ng. a
r:+ Lrtmt
Cul of the general interest, what could i)e snatched
from the comition ruin to ince e their spleacur
or their influence. Irrtissla alone stood
exec}, cuzl-
tiding in tae army and in the reputation of her great
king--Prussia, which had stood idea during the
dreadful steuegle between Frafiee and Auetria,
which had eoegretelated;Napoleon on the IR' o#row
of Austerlitz, and. whichNhopedewhile securing the
immueities, of peace, to Obtain for herself all the
advantages Which • round be aiued by successful
.war. A. little tieneiCri:ed.lcisdiSpel these delusions.
Austria sued humbly- loispeace, and obtained it.
The smaller States of Germariee were formed into
new combinations or aggregated into kingioms
under names unheard of in history, and Prueset on'
the fields of Jena and Anerstadt fell prostrate be-
fore the impetuous valour of the legions of France.
Such= as the state of Germany seyears ago. In those
days thapeople went fur little_ or nothing, but the
Confederation fell because the Sovereigns were
utteilyr unable to trust, each other. Each was
anxious for It general scramble, in order to
gain, if possible, a little more territory, and
each only awoke to find his dream, of indi-
vidual aggrandisement .boat iu the reality of uni-
versal slavery. , - see
If any one wishes to see %that are the passions
and feelings which actuate modern Germany, Jet
him turn back to that announcement in our
columns which tells him the decision of the Buie(
on the future Constitution of the Electorate of
Hesse Cassel. Theßund resol yes, Prussia dissenting
to i eject the Conetitution of 1831, and tosellirin the
Constitution of 1852, the (adieus work or Hassen-
pflug, Hessenfluch, the Curse of Ilesse," as the
people delighted to call him. At tee present mo-
ment such a decision is peculiarly significant. The
deepest discontent. prevails throughout Germany.
The people have lost 'confidence in their individual
Sovereigns, and still more have they lost confidence
in the combination .of then by which Germany is
governed. A powerful and warlike nation is con-
centrated in arms on their frontier, and noee, if ever
it is necessary to rouse once more to the aid of Ger-
man nationality that national enthusiasm which her
Princes knew so well how to call forth and how to
deceive in 1813. The days are gone by when na-
tions can be saved by a league of Sovereigns. Kings
must take their people with them it they expect
that their deliberations will amount to anything
more than impotent inanifeetations. It is not by
riveting, fetters on one of tiff members of the Con-
federation that the German Bund proves its apti-
tude for dealing with the emergencies of the pre-
sent time. Beaten, di4hev.rtened, disjointed, politi-
cally, morally, and materially bankrupt, Austria—
the living death of what was once a flourishing
Empire—is still the life and soul of the great Ger-
manic Confederation. Her sprit animates' the
'Whole mass, her blood circulates through every
vein, her voice . rules• their comseils, her intellect
presides over their deliberations. The same inert
regard for tradition, the same helplesS inability to
adopt new ideas, which rendered the defeat in
Italyevett more disgraceful than calamitous, give
the tone to and dictate the measures of the Ger-
manic Confederation., Austria forms the nucleus
round which the petty States of Germany, love to
cluster; Austria forms the head which their wise
and magnanimous Sovereigns love to follow. Prus-
sia, indeed, as in 1806, stands still erect,' an 'excep-
tion to the rest of the Germanic Confederation.
For Prussia has still a prosperous exchequer, and
still a surplus revenue, and a Government which, if
not exactly liberal,' has liberal tendencies." But
Prussia is more than counterbalanced in the deli-
berations of the Band by Austria, and, isolated as
she is from the rest of Germany, she may 'perhaps
find that she has little choice between repeating the
campaign of 1806, with a strong probability of the
same calamitous result, or listening to the proposi-
tions which there is too much reason to suppose
that `France is ready to make her, with the view of
obtaining by. the the pen that which is otherwise
tempted to conquer by the sword. 'What if France
be disposed to offer to. Prussia, in exchange for her
Rhenish Provinces, Saxony, Hanover, Brunswick,
and Mecklenburg—territories which could offer
little or no resistance to such an amalgamation ?
Might not Pruesia think it better to surrender for
an equivalent's° fully adequate what she will hardly
retain after the most desperate and costly efforts ?
The Third Napoleon has found a better means of
executing his will than the First. He views long
campaigns and, bloody battles as the resources of
bunglers in the art of kingcraft. He has his choice
among the Sovereigns of Europe all competing
with each other for 'the honour of being his instru-
ment in the development of any policy he may
choose to adopt, or the appropriation of _any terri-
tory he may choose to seize.

If we turn to the people of Germany we find that
their Sovereigns have little or no reason to count
on their loyalty. The people have not for ten the
promises which were made and broken to their
fathers in 1813, and made and broken to themselves
in 1848, and they do but await a fitting opportunity
to rid themselves of an odious domination. The
Tyrolese and Croats are wearied of their allegiance
to a Power which can neither appreciate their ser-
vices nor reward their devotion ; while Hungary,
Bohemia, the Southern Tyrol, and Venetia
threaten Austria with all the horrors which
the rebellion of a justly-provoked people can bring
with it. Let Germany, then, look to herself; em-
pires and provinces are won in these days by other
means than by those of brute force. We have
seen what can be effected by universal suffrage, by
municipal demonstrations, or even, when these
means fail, by nameless, unappointod, and unre-
cognised deputations. Prussia may be offered a
tempting equivalent, and the Rhine, after all—it is
not a national boundary ? See what sacrifices Pied-
mont has made in surrendering Savoy, and ask
whether every considerable German Sovereign
may not. receive an equivalent as ample as that
against which she has been content to truck the
loyalty and devotion of 800 years. It never yet
was known that one success blunted the appetite of
the gamester for another, and when we see what
has been done we may partly conclude what it is
we are next to expect. Under these circumstances,
we should be glad to hear what are the intentions
of Germany. Is she determined to wait till the
' last moment ? Is she to go on confiscating the
liberties and trampling on the rights of mankind
till the very stones of her cities rise up to protest
against her cruel and callous injustice ? Now, if
ever, Germany needs that her Princes should be
united among themselves, and her people should
be confirmed in their loyalty. Unhappy is that
nation to which danger cannot teach union, and.
infatuated arc those Princes to whom a bitter ex-
perience, just about to repeat itself, cannot teach
the most ordinary precepts of equity and modera-
tion.-27»tes.

771 E MURDER AT TVALKERINGHAM,

NOTT6'.

The final examination of the prisoner, John
Fenton, who stands charged with the wilful mur-
der of Charles Spencer, took place before the East
Retford bench of magistrates on Friday. Some
additional evidence was called to prove that a brace
of pistols similar to those found by. the body of the,
murdered man had been seen in the prisoner's
house. The chiefevidence which was given during
the day, however,
was that tendered
.by Mr. llera-
path, microscopist and analytic ch mud, of Bristol,
who deposed to finding blood upon various articles
, of clothing belonging to the prironer, the globules
of which were of the diameter of human blood.
He also found two human hairs upon the prisoner's
leggings. Upon examinir g the hair from the head.
of the murdered man, he found it to contain a large
proportion of grey hair, end these hairs, which were
less changed by time, he found to be somewhat
darker in tint than those hairs found ii,pon the
clothing: The hair of the prisoner, vivo was evi-
dently a younger man than the aeo.eased, if he
might be allowed to judf,Ye him f'hr Jut the colour of
the hair, was also darker than t:b
e hair fc n.ad upon
the clothing. The specimens v' e mud and earth had
only been partially examinc.o without any definite
result being at present Dili'
.d
of witness, the sprinklq
.. character of the blood
e at. In the opinion
'
stains upon the artielV b
roduced could not have
been caused by th a
-- tof f p
'ailing into a bloody spot
o --r-;.
or a yes-it-4 fall of t'iood . Ito believed the blood had
been jerked on tle dre is b the action .of the heart
—a living heFlrt—of Vie par ty from whom it came.
At the cenclAision of TAlr. It erapath's evidence, the
prisoner, who, in ai,swer tc
the usual question,
declined to say anything, , , fully committed to
is trill w a
Nottingham to take &i
is 0-n the capital charge.

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CANTERBURYHIS HALENINL
G, CONCERTS.-
T EV
LIICREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).

Donna Lucretia ...... Miss Russell.
Memo Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Alfenzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.--Sult OFFICE, APRIL 1, Is6o.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.

BARomrrnn-29.21 ; rising.
WIND, W. to W.N.W.; strong breeze. Fine weather,
with occasional showers.

Arun 2.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
57—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.

BAROMETBR-29.12 ; fa►lling.
WIND, W. to W.S.W.; light airs. Rain from 10 to 12
Afternoon showery.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 10h. 41m.—Afternoon, llh. 21m
To-Uoltßow.-Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. Om

THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, :APRIL 2, 1880.

It is with peculiar sensations that we take into
consideration the newly published returns of this
Last quarter's Revenue. The Abstract of the Gross
Produce has just been issued. It shows a decrease
upon " Customs" of £363,677 ; but an increase of
varied origin amounting in all to £5,382,877. De-
ducting the decrease of £363,677 frbm the increase
of £5,382,677—we have a Net Increase of
£5,019,200, All which, superficially regarded—
looks, of course, highly satisfactory. But then,
upon second thoughts, upon one moment's reflec-
tion, we know very well the chief source from which
this net increase is derived ! We know only too
well that out of the Net Increase 0f.L5,000,000
there are upwards of £3,500,000 as the frightful
increase under the head of Income Tax within the
brief span of this single quarter ! To put this matter
plainly, however, before the public, to lay the whole
truth at a glance under the eye of the reader, we
here give a simple table of tie items of increase
upon the quarter ending upon, Saturday :
Excise
Stamps '
Assessed Taxes
Income Tax 3,519,000
Post-office
Crown Lands 2,400
Miscellaneous

Yielding a total of £5,382,877
Subtracting from which total of £5,382,877 the
opposing total of £363,677, under the head of de-
crease in customs, we have the net increase already
particularised of £5,019,200 upon the quarter just
terminated.

As we have said at the outset, however, of these
remarks on the last published returns on the reve-
nue, we glance down the abstract of those returns
with very peculiar feelings, with emotions, in fact,
altogether exceptional. For we are conscious while
doing so that the revenue returns themselves are
" quite exceptional." They help us out in our cal-
culations in no way whatever, either in regard
to the past or in regard to the future. They
serve as a reminder that this quarter which has
but just terminated is hat, as it were, a narrow
and isolated stepping-stone, from the summit of
which the nation may glance around it, amazed
and bewildered—looking back over the some-
what clumsily traversed fens and quagmires of
finance, along which we have been floundering
with difficulty, getting deeper and deeper into
" Deficit"—and looking onwards to the financial
deluge which is threatening us as the consequence
of the opened floodgates and sluicegates of Mr.
GLADSTONE'S complicated and wholesale 'experi-
ments. Don't we recollect, for instance, that as
the crowning boon obtained for us by the
system of Finance entered upon some years
ago by that most rash and egregiously mistaken of
all England's Chancellors of the Exchequer,we have
had this year to account for a deficit in round
numbers of £9,000,000 ? Don't we remember that
this deficit of £9,000,000 has been wantonly in-
creased to a deficit of £10,000,000 by the wilful
and uncalled for and (by France) wholly unrecip-
rocated abandonment of duties hitherto bringing
in an additional million of revenue upon luxuries
like wine and silk ? And all this for the sake of a
Commercial Treaty with France that was to render
further contention between the French and English
henceforth an impossibility. A calculation , however
which is no sooner announced by Mr. GLADSTONE
than it is immediately falsified by what NAPOLEON
himself has happily called " the inexorable logic of
facts"—the treaty of commerce having scarcely been
signed between the contracting Powers when our
Foreign Secretary declares in the House of Corn-II
mons that he can no longer place reliance upon the
good faith or the pacific intentions of our imperial
ally the French. Sovereign. Again—can we, as
rational observers, look otherwise than with,
qualms of mingled suspense and suspicion at these
exceptional returns of an exceptional quarter,
showing this net increase of over £5,000,000
in the revenue—w ben we nre constrained to bear
in mind, At the sa nae moment, that, upon the most
reasonable and reliable calculations, the deficit
upon the last year (a deficit which we know to have
been " naturall.v ''':£9,ooo,ooo,—afterwards, " arti-
ficially," increased: to one of £10,000,000), will be
expanded by next, year, :in all human probability,
to one of £13,000,1 )00 ? And the financial magician
ng all these wonders—dragging
who is aocomplishi
the nation do wn de, eper and deeper in the Slough
of Despond. —is all Cie While vaunted to the skies

as a NECKER in Finance, and a DEXOSXHENES in

oratory!

There is, however, in the midst of all this fiscal
and financial confusion and all these exaggerated
eulogiums lavished upon our experimental and blun-
dering Financier—there is, we say, ix the midst of all
this, at last, one immense satisfaction. That extra-
, ordinary twofold delusion of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
financial and oratorical reputation anyone may now
see fast breaking up, scattering, vanishing, melting
away as utterly as any
.atmospheric illusion you
may like to mention, a mirage, let us say, or
the Fata .11forgana, or the spectral and gro-
tesque phantoms of the Brocken, each
and all of which " melt into thin air," no less
surely than is now melting into " thin air" Mr.
GLADSTONE'S exaggerated reputation, whether as
an orator or as a financier. In either capacity,
as we well know, his reputation hitherto (cola va
sans dire) has been immense, has been something
quite extraordinary. But—for the bursting up of
the " wind-bladder" of his reputation as an orator
we may here content ourselves with referring
to the logical and conclusive reasoning con-

tained in the closing paper in the current number
of Blackwood's Magazine. While as to Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S repute as a financier, it is only necessary,
in order to recognise the utter scattering of that, to
consider for a moment the total and disastrous non-
fulfilment of all his financial predictions and the
ignominious failure of all his most elaborated fiscal
arrangements. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S chief disciple
is sharing the fate of ICARUS. His •wings are
wax, and he is now in the act of falling from the
empyrean.

Magnum est mendacium et provalebit. Who
will doubt it after the success of NAPOLEON and
THOUTENEL, of VICTOR EMMANUEL and CATOUR.
The two last, indeed, it is but fair to regard as but
qualified witnesses to the triumphs of lying. Pre-
sent safety was their object, and they have got it ;
bat they had no alternative between political deceit
and the political rack. They could at first but
proclaim their loyalty to their Savoyard subjects,
and promise, while they were declining to accept
the sovereignty of Italian States, except through
a vote of the entire people, that they would not
discard the sovereignty of their faithful Savoyards
except in conformity with a full, fair, and impartial
vote of the whole population. Meantime a mightier
than the Savoyards impudently tells the Govern-
ment of Turin that the people of Savoy were to be
consulted in form only, not in fact; that they were,
indeed, to be managed ; that popular votes were all
very well while it was supposed that they might
serve the desires of Imperialism, but as the people
had gone wrong in Tuscany it would not do to
trust them in Savoy ; that the cession must, there-
fore be direct from the Prince, who is Duke of Savoy
to the Potentate who wills to be Emperor of Savoy.
VICTOR EMMANUEL, therefore, is guilty only of that
more pitiful lie, which is what Englishmen &signet*
by their homely phrase " eating one's words." He
was compelled to do it.

The French Emperor's lie is altogether different.
It is at once cunning, mean, and audacious. Cun-
ning, because so timed that it was not openly told
till he had saddled us with a treaty to admit his
wines at once and almost for nothing, to send him
coals on the best terms till he had well stored his
navy yards, and also saddled the people of England
with a double income-tax, to meet his peaceful bel-
ligerent preparations against us. We should
add, only in this we hope he has failed,
to give his own paper manufacturers
a bounty against ours, while he denies us the very
rags from his dust-bins. His cheating, if not lying,
embraced equally a kingdom and old rags ! It is
mean, because it is all for one side, and chiefly con-
sists in a series of petty overreachings. It is au-
dacious, not bold—we dare not waste such a good
Saxon word upon it—because the last two or three
announcements were such shameless departures
from former ones, that nothing but consummate
indifference to reputation or character could have
left any man at liberty so to expose himself.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not the man to have
used needlessly irritating words " in his plaee
in the House of Commons"—but we - can hardly
conceive any language, short of what was in-
tended to provoke an open quarrel or even a war,
stronger, from the lips of a Foreign Secretary,
than what his lordship said last Monday night.
The French press does not know what to make of
it, though the French EMPEROR well knew what to
do with the French funds. At first it was treated
somewhat lightly, and made the best of ;
but soon the tone of expression, as well
as the prices of the funds, had to go
down a bit. It was seen that the English people,
and the English Minister were of one mind; and the
only difference was, that the people never trusted
the EMPEROR, while the Governors were required,
officially, to seem to do so. Otherwise, the real
opinions of Ministers and of people were, doubtless,
much of the same cast. But the EMPEROR has
now been told that the annexation of Savoy is an
act which compels us to throw ourselves on the
rest of Europe for alliances to render us safe
against the disturbance by France of the general
peace. And Lord T. RUSSELL even hints that the
very commercial confidence which it was the objeot
of the treaty to engender, is in danger of disturb-
ance through this wilful and faithless deed.
Parallel, however, with the ignominious treaty
signed at Turin, we find the Swiss on the alert for
the safety of their boundary. The military arrange-
ments respecting the neutrality of the two districts
which border on the Leman lake were prompted
by only an equitable regard to the long guaranteed
neutrality of Switzerland. If Faucigny and Chab-
lais became French, the city of Geneva, and the whole
lake with its contiguous territory, would in the mili-
tary sense be French also ; to be followed byleecom-
ing in due time a civil part of the glorious French
Empire. The two Monarchs have even been com-
pelled to admit a clause in the treaty surrendering
Savoy, which confesses that the King of SARDINIA
is incompetent to give away those rights of
neutrality which were not in his power, and
that France must arrange those questions
with the parties to the Treaty of Vienna,
and with the Helvetic Republic. Very
well on paper, but who shall guarantee their ob-
servance by a man whose word all Europe has
ceased to respect.
Meantime, thus far, we may truly say, " Great is
the lie, and it has prevailed." If it was baffled in
part by the firmness of the Tuscans, it now only
hesitates awhile before two coveted little districts
whose probable favour is to be that of being eaten
last. True, 11,000 or 12,000 people of these small
territories have protested against being swallowed
alive by France. They are near neighbours of the
Republic; they trade with its towns; they like its
free institutions better than the surveillance of
French police, and the decrees of an irresponsible
Autocrat; but what of all that. The great Powers,
who are they ? and we own they merit little con-
sideration for what they are; and the 12,000 me-
morialists, what of them. Five and thirty Savoy-
ards can again be found to call themselves the
people, and to belaud the EMPEROR, the IEmPREse,
and the baby itself, with fulsome adulation. Loms

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