The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

THE WEATEIEII.-SuN OFFICE, JUNE 21, NM

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64 —highest since noon yesterday.
.53 —lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day at noon.

automETEa-29.87,
`VIVID—South-Westerly; fresh, with variable weather,
and occasional showers.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 3h. sm.—Afternoon, 3h. 28m.
To-moßßow.-Morning, 3h. 50m.—Afternoon, 4h. 13m.

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THE SUN,
LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1860.

It is certainly a little amusing to cast our eyes
just now over the map of Europe for 1860, for the
publishing of which in so elegant a style in Eng-
land we are indebted to Mr. E. STANFORD, of
Charing Cross. A little of its work has been accom-
plished. Sardinia has gained the Duchies of Parma
and Modena, and the Legations, but she has also ob-
tained Tuscany, which was not a part of the scheme,
and she has obtained only Lombardy, and not Venetia
also, which is coloured for her up to the Adri-
atic. France again has not remained within her
boundaries (conserve ses limites actuelles) which was
a part of the coloured plan, as was suspected at the
time only co/ourab/y ; but Savoy and Nice have been
proclaimed as being within her limitcs natarelles,
which was not proclaimed in the map. Spain,
again, has essayed to include Morocco within her
boundaries for it was coloured as intended to
be within them in 1860. For the rest all remains
unaccomplished. England so handsomely pre-
sented. with Cyprus and a very broad district along
the Euphrates route (her shortest route to the East
Indies) ; Austria honoured with Egypt, to become
the future patron of M. LESSEPS, in exchange for
allowing Russia to absorb Gallicia and to rest on
the national boundary of the Carpathians; Sicily,
now so likely to choose her own ruler, but assigned
in the map to the Duke of PARMA, while Tuscany
was, ostensibly, left to its DuKE ; Denmark north
of Holstein,given to Sweden—all these changes yet
remain to be accomplished in 1860.

But what of Prussia and beloved Vderland ?
A question in regard to which we look at the map
with fresh interest since the Royal gathering at
Baden:Baden, to which all the sovereigns flocked
with M. ABOUT'S pamphlet in their pockets, and
the mysterious map also, doubtless honoured with a
proper travelling case. What with map and
pamphlet, we cannot wonder that the Royalties
preferred to witness the meeting of the EMPEROR
and the King of PRUSSIA. Some of them had
been coloured half or wholly out of existence on
the map ; or, chiefly at the expense of the Maho-
metans who were to be relegated to Asia Minor,
were to be provided with new kingdoms in Eastern
Europe. His Hanoverian MAJESTY who was to give
up all to Prussia, and to exchange his million and
a half of Germans for three millions and a half
of Greeks, &c., &c.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of MECKLENBURG, who was to lose half a
minion of Teutons for four and a half millions of
Moldavians, Wallachians, and Bulgarians the
Duke of SAxE WEIMAR, who was to give a little
bit of his Dukedom to Piltissia, because it is built
in, as we may term it, by the modest HOHEN-
ZOLLERNS—these and all others having relations
with the Rhine, or with Prussia, which was to
swallow up some half score Royalties to round
n
off her territory within natural boundaries," and
to cede the left bank of the Rhine to Holland
and Belgium, must have felt no ordinary interest in
this singular Congress.

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And yet to what did it all amount P
To hearing
the blandest, most pacific assurances from
man
whose assurances on his oath did not save the re-
presentatives and Liberal generals of France from
seizure, a prison, or banishment, a few hours after-
wards ; and whose assurances to Europe, and to our
own Government that France was to war for an
idea only, and that she would seek no extension of
territory, but as the map say&, 01260 W 868 limites