The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-10 00:00:00


THE KING OF HANOVER AND THE BANE OF ENGLAND.—
On Saturday, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, the case of
the King of Hanover was heard. A bill was filed by his
Majesty and the Crown Prince against the Bank of
England and the Dukes of Cambridge and Brunswick,
praying that the governor and company of the Bank of
England may be directed to transfer the sum of.2600,000
Three per Cent. Consols standing to the credit of " his Ma-
jesty's Royal Regency of Hanover" into the names of the
plaintiffs, the King and Crown Prince, and of the defend.
ants, the Dukes of Cambridge and Brunswick, to be held
by them in trust for the persons entitled thereto. In 1867
the Governor of the Bank of England received a protest
from the Prussian Ambassador with respect to the deli.
vering up of this fund, and finally a convention was made
between the King of Hanover and the King of Prussia,
whereby it was provided amongst other things that his
Majesty King George I. was to retain possession of
the sum of £600,000, and all the interest due thereon.
The counsel for the bank said that all that the bank
desired was to have the security which this court alone
could confer in transferring this large fund. He suggested
that two trustees should be appointed by the court, who
should be empowered and directed by the court to transfer
the fund to the four personages above named under the
Trustee Relief Act. The Vice-Chancellor observed that
the proper course would be for these royal personages to
name two persons to act as their formal trustees in the
matter, and the older for transferring the fund might
then be made in the way proposed by the learned counsel
for the Bank of England.

THE REV. G. M. DIVINE.—On Saturday, a clergyman,
resident in Wandsworth, was summoned at Bow-street
for having received an insane person into his house without
the necessary certificate. The alleged lunatic, a lady, had
lived with the defendant eleven years, when, early in
September last, she threw herself from an upper
window and received very severe injuries. It was
admitted that she was then insane, but denied by the
defendant that she had previously shewn symptoms of
madness. The magistrate committed Mr. Irvine for trial,
and accepted his own recognizance; to appear.
BETTING-HOUSES.—A licensed victualler of South-street,
Grosvenor-square, was on Saturday charged, with four
other persons, at Marlborough-street, with having used his
house for betting purposes. The hearing was adjourned.
A NOBLEMAN FINED. —At Brentford Police-court, Lord
George Ker was summoned to answer a charge of
assault by John Sickamore, a toll-keeper at Kew
Bridge. On the 2nd of May Lord and Lady Ker
were returning with some friends from Richmond, Lady
Ker driving the landau. The party passed through the
Kew-bridge Gate, when the complainant ran after them,
seized hold of the reins, and demanded the toll. Lord
Ker, being irritated, struck the toll-keeper. A
great deal of evidence was given, in the course of which
it appeared that the complainant was not sober. The
bench were of opinion that a deliberate blow was struck,
and they convicted his lordship of the assault, fining him
10s.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The delivery ot
mackerel for the season has commenced at Great Yar-
mouth. Prices have ranged from 52s. to 70s. per 120.
The spring herring fishery has been prosecuted with
increased success by the Lowestoft boats during the past
week.

KILLED BY KINDNESS. —An old soldier of the
First Empire has just fallen a victim to the Emperor's
generosity. Sabras Parfait, aged seventy-nine, went to
pay his taxes, when the collector asked him if he had heard
of the extra pension of £10 a year which was to be given
to the veterans of Napoleon's wars. The news had such
an effect on poor Sabres Parfait that he let fall a glass of
wine he was about to drink and expired on the spot.
CABINET COUNCIL. —At the Cabinet Council held
in Downing-street on Saturday, the Ministers present
were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley,
the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl
Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of
Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon.
J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of
Hartingtun, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue.
THE Toms OF MENKEN. —At the time of
her death it was understood that it was the wish of
Adah Isaacs Menken that her remains should rest with
a single inscription, the Hebrew legend " Thou knowest."
It seems, however, that these wishes have been disre-
garded; that a number of well-meaning friends, headed
by the editor of the New York Clipper, and an English
actress, named Rita Percy, have procured the exhumation
of the body from Pere la Chaise, where it had been lying
since August last, and its reinterment in the cemetery
Mont Parnasse, south of Paris, where a splendid obelisk
surmounted with an urn, nearly ninety feet in height, and
covered with flowers, immortelles, wreaths, &c., has been
erected, at a cost of 2,000f.
PREJUDICES OF THE SERVICES. —When the
late Captain Moorsoni, of live-shell fame, appeared
on one occasion at the Admiralty with a profu-
sion of whisker, beard, and moustache, he was ironically
told that he had made a mistake, and that his visit was
intended for the Horse Guards. He was accordingly
bowed out of the room, took the hint much to his personal
inconvenience, and returned with a clean-shaved chin. We
believe that, even at the present advanced board, there are
inividuals who think that a man with a hairy face is only
fit to be a bear-leader, and would as soon think of going
to sea without provisions as without a set of well-ground
razors. The first Lord of the Admiralty is a very Esau ;
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sense.

DESTRUCTIVE TIRE.—At an early hour on Sun-
day morning the paper mills at Ilford, the property of
Messrs. Simpson and Co., were discovered to be on fire.
A mounted policeman first observed a light in the bleaching
warehouses, and on examining the premises, he Speedily
discovered them to be in a blaze. There were no engines
iu the town apparently, and the engines of the metro-
politan brigade being cut of the radius, the entire
destruction of the mills appeared to be inevitable. A
powerful manual engine was, however, despatched as soon
as possible from the Romford Brewery, and subsequently
another arrived from West Elam. A strong body of the
London Salvage Corps was also speedily on the spot.
Owing to the want of water in the first instance the fire
spread rapidly, and a large crowd speedily collected.
Through the exertions of the Salvage Corps a great amount
of valuable property was saved, and all the men present
worked zealously throughout the day. The damage done
may thus be described : The bleaching rooms were burnt
out, the boiling rooms nearly destroyed, and the stores,
consisting of two floors of ware149sest were osoam_ t
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METROPOL.

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—Saturday.

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More and more unsatisfactory grows the news from
Ireland. The sympathy ehewn for the Mad Mayor is
really a serious matter. It is not surprising that the
lower classes in Cork (which is perhaps the most dis-
affected city in Ireland) should feel this sympathy, for
does not Mr. O'SullWan give a general permission
to everyone to get drunk by setting free all
the drunkards ? But that the Town Council should
take his part is truly lamentable. Still more
serious is the fact that Mr. Maguire should have given
notice that he will move the rejection of the bill for
removing Mr. O'Sullivan from the mayoralty. Mr.
Maguire's position with regard to the Government is
somewhat peculiar. He it was who in March of last
year, by calling the attention of the House to the
state of Ireland, compelled Lord Mayo to declare
the Irish policy of the Government, and gave Mr.
Gladstone the opportunity for making his memorable
declaration respecting the Irish Church. Indirectly,
therefore, the senior member for Cork was the cause cf
Mr. Gladstone's return to power. It was, therefore, to be
expected that he would receive a post in the present Ad-
ministration,-and there is no doubt that his appointment
would have given great satisfaction to the Irish in the
South-West, the more so as he is a Roman Catholic.
Nevertheless, no offer was made to him, and he was left
out in the cold. I do not mean to say that this is the
cause of his present motion. Nevertheless, it is impos-
sible but that he should feel rather sore at his exclusion
from a Government which in some measure owes its very
existence to him.

The debate in the House of Lords last night was inte-
resting and not untimely. Lord Granville had an awkward
case, and he made the best of it by referring to Mr.
Bright's inexperience as a Cabinet Minister. But the
matter has caused no little unpleasantness, and the gossips
say that Mr. Gladstone has resented his colleague's indis-
cretion with considerable warmth. The truth is, Mr.
Bright lost his self-control under the fierce and reckless
accusations of Lord Claude Hamilton, and in endeavour.
ing to put himself right, only put himself in the wrong.
In the Lower House there was a great shout of applause
as the Irish Church Bill passed through committee.
Mr. Disraeli has had enough of this measure for the present,
and was not in his place. At the evening sitting there
were scarcely a dozen members present. M.P.'s thought
that they had earned their holiday, and so " Long Tom,"
as Mr. Collins, the member for Boston, is called, moved
a count, and the House was counted out accordingly. The
report of the committee on the Irish Church Bill is to be
brought up on Thursday. The third reading will not take
place until after the Whitsun holidays. There are several
amendments down, occupying more than two pages.
Some of them are by the Government. One of them is
by Lord Henry Thynne, who will move that the Irish
bishops and clergy shall be entitled to sit in the House of
Commons as M.P.'s. Should that be carried, the removal
of the disability under which the English clergy labour
will not be far off.

There are several matters of interest coming on before
the holidays. The Budget will, if possible, be discussed
on Tuesday. On the same night Mr. Knatchbull-
Hugessen, on the part of the Government, brings in a bill
to establish county financial boards. Wednesday will see
a lively discussion on the Permissive Bill, whose rejection
will be moved by its old antagonist, Colonel Jervis, while
Dr. Dalrymple, the new M.P. for Bath, will move to
refer it to a select committee. The discussion on the
law courts does not take place till Tuesday week, when
Mr. Gregory will move that the courts be erected on the
Embankment, and Sir Roundell Palmer that they be
built on the Carey-street site without delay. Mr. Lowe's
proposal to build them in Howard-street meets with no
favour anywhere. When the Municipal Franchise Bill
comes on the women's rights question will be raised again
by Mr. Jacob Bright and by Mr. Dilke, the young and
able member for Chelsea.

The capacity for work shewn by some of our litterateurs
is truly wonderful. M. Victor Hugo, for instance, has at
lea3t a dozen novels completed and ready for publication.
To publish so many at once, however, would pall the
public taste, and cause the publishers to drop their price;
so the eminent novelist is holding them over, giving
them forth [at intervals, hoping to increase the
public appetite by what it feeds on. The length
of days of some of our writers is also remarkable.
Fraser's Magazine for April contains an article from
William Jerdan, who has just completed his 87th year.
Nor is he restricting himself at that age to magazine
articles. He is now engaged upon the manuscripts of
Samuel Lova., and preparing some unpublished works of
his old friend for the press.

M. Alphonse Esquiros, the author of many admirable
works on English manners and social life, has, after living
in banishment for the last seventeen years, during which
time he has taught French in English schools,' accepted
the amnesty proclaimed many years ago for political
offenders, and has accepted a requisition to stand as a
candidate for the department of the Bouches du Rhone.
He will be a loss to English literary society.
A new comic paper, the Camera, is about to appear.
Surely we have sufficient of these journals now that there
are more than enough to give us one for every day of the
week.

1111SCELL4NEOILS NEWS.

THE STATE OF IRELAND.

Air. O'Sullivan, dressed in the brief authority of
the Mayoralty of Cork, is still playing such tricks as
make all those who are anxious for the peace
and security of Ireland very sorrowful in-
deed. He has again taken it upon him
to set free the captives apprehended by the
police for drunkenness and petty crimes. Some
there be who ascribe his actions in this particular to
a wish to give liberty to all, others think they are
caused by a desire to annoy his brother magistrates,
and a few uncharitable people suggest that, being
" cut" by the higher portion of society in Cork, and
being, moreover, in disgrace with the Government
and Parliament, he is making friends with the
"mammon of unrighteousness." However this maybe,
he is undoubtedly becoming something more than a
nuisance. It is worthy of notice that he is becoming
more and more the pet of the lo wer orders in Cork. The
Town Council, which may be supposed to represent
the opinion of the whole city, has passed
resolutions protesting against the Government Bill
as unconstitutional, and offers to pay towards the
defence of their chairman at the bar of the House of
Commons. And Mr. Maguire, who represents the
constituency in the House of ommons, is to oppose
the bill. Altogether, the quicker the matter is
settled the better.

The unsettlement in Tipperary continues. Land-
lords are uneasy, and are only waiting for the
slightest unsatisfactory symptom to leave the
country. The tenantry are still restless, and feverishly
discontented. Though the latter have formed no
bond, and there is no exterminating society, yet still
there it undoubtedly a community of interest, which
makes them sympathetic with one another,
the suffering with the avenger, the man
who may be ejected to-morrow with the assassin.
It seems an impossibility to prove to a tenant that
his master has the right of ejection. He refaces to
see in the writ anything more than an instrument
whereby the landlord gains by the loss inflicted on
the occupier. That, he argues, is selfish tyranny.
In other parts of the country, too, there are bad
symptoms. At Sligo, for instance, a man taken up
for drunkenness was searched, and in a partly-hidden
pocket,. near the collar of his vest, was discovered
a Fenian oath, running, " In the presence of the
Almighty Uod, I solemnly swear the oath of allegi-
ance, to be true and loyal to the Irish Republic,
and on one moment's notice to be ready to take
up arms and to yield to the ' simplicity ' of superior
officers and kings." Following this was a catechism
setting forth the love of liberty and Ireland, the
hatred of tyranny and England. The robbery of
arms in Belfast, when taken in conjunction with
similar robberies elsewhere, is also significant.-

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1869.

the Sultan of Turkey. The Duchess of Argyll means
to vie with Lady Northcote 'by giving a similar
magnificent reception to the Nawab of Bengal
and his sons. The invitations exceed 1,000
in number, and will comprise the creme de la
creme of " Society." We suppose that the India
Government will pay the bill as before. That arrange-
ment will not be quite so outrageous as it was on the
former occasion—for the Nawab is an Indian prince,
whose reception is a matter of Indian policy pure and
simple. The reception of the Sultan was an imperial
event, and should have been paid for by the British
taxpayer.

cities. Their crime consisted in continuing so to
act under a President whose policy they ought to
have condemned. Therefore, General GRANT must
hold it to be the duty of subordinates keenly to
scrutinize the conduct of their chief, and to
refuse to obey him, or to serve under him, if
his policy does not square with their opinions.
We would like to know what limit the PRE-
SIDENT applies to this principle. Is it universal,
embracing all grades and manner of service, or con-
fined to particular classes. Must a Postmaster, a
Revenue Collector, a United States Marshal, and a
Consul throw their appointments in the face of the
PRESIDENT, whose political principles they disap-
prove ? Does this extend to a clerk in any of the
departments? If so, why not to the Army and Navy ?
Here, then, opens another aspect. A President of the
United States is the equal in power and dignity of an
Emperor. It is only the heads of departments and
great officials with whom.he comes in contact. The
clerks and other tens of thousands of office-holders
know nothing of the PRESIDENT except what the
newspapers tell them while they are acquainted
with the head of their own bureau; is the principle
to be carried to its legitimate conclusion and the
subordinates to strike work because they consider
that head " unsound on the main question ?" When
GRANT commanded at Vicksburg, or at any other
great crisis of the war, how would he have received
the intelligence that his men considered his Demo-
cratic tendencies to preclude them from serving
under him ? Any man who offered such a reason
for encouraging desertion might very properly be
tried by court-martial and shot. But if such a prin-
ciple as that laid down by GRANT obtained, how
could any court-martial in common justice decree
what might be a necessary sentence? Such a theory
of Government is radically bad, and is grounded
on a pernicious error. Government, the Republic
says, springs from the people; the people elect the
President, and he, with the consent of the Senate,
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earnestly hoped they would get a PRESIDENT above
the narrow trammels of party. He was believed to
be as lightly bound by party ties and feelings as
any one in the Union, and when be proposed to run
as a national candidate there were thousands who
rejoiced to see his platform. We fear ANDREW
JOHNSON did more mischief than the world attri-
buted to him in driving GRANT from that position,
forcing him into the ranks of a party, and generat-
ing towards himself a bitter personal enmity, which
now seems to extend to all whom he terms JOHN-
SON-men. There is not an American who does not
know scores of the truest Republicans, able and
honest men, who were public servants of the Union
under the last Administration. It is really mon-
strous to think that because they remained at their
posts and did their duty according to their con-
science while the Legislature and Executive went
through their unbecoming quarrels, that they are
to be styled JOHNSON-men and marked out for Exe-
cutive displeasure. In so far we thoroughly agree
with Senator Ross asa mere question of equity, while
as a matter of principle we consider it one as objec-
tionable as was everintroduced into the Government
of a nation. Nor that only—for it is dangerous.
ANDREW JOHNSON more than once said that, hacked
by the immense power his patronage gave, he could
have elevated himself into a Dictator. His practical
experience led him to this conclusion, and although
he may, and we hope and believe he did, greatly
exaggerate, still there is a danger it would be un-
wise to ignore. Now what is it that, must give
point to the danger and strength to the PRESIDENT ?
Why the fact general:3r felt by the employes that
they are all in the same boat to swim or sink to-
gether. Permanency to the PRESIDENT IS per-
macency to every official who supports him ; and if
they me all to be styled with his name as JOHNSON-
men or GRANT-men, to be associated with his ideas
and linked with his fortunes, they become a band of
brothers, compelled to share each other's chances.
The position of the men Gen. GRANT would thus knit
into a Presidential clique is this. They are the stokers,
and drivers, and conductors of the train ; the people
are the passengers seated iu the cars, who go back-
wards or forwards, along a branch line, or on the
trunk road, fast or slow as the driver chooses, just as
if they were a flock of sheep. They may bleat pite-
ously or profanely swear, but there they go ; and
even when they stop, if the doors are locked and
the key in the conductor's pocket, they are but little
better off. We object, then, to this principle, be-
cause it tends to make a clique of the men in pos-
session of the Government machinery, bound by the
strongest cords to the fortunes of the PRESIDENT.
At the same time we are convinced that GRANT did
not detect the weight of his words. It is the mis-
fOrtune of untrained men not to know nor to see
quickly the import of what they say innocently. It
may be, too, that he regarded Senator Ross himself
as pre-eminently a JOHNSON-man ; that be had in
his minds eye that solemn moment when the voice
of Chief Justice CHASE from the President's chair
sounded through the Senate Chamber, " flow say
you, Senator Ross, iS ANDREW JOHNSON, President
of the United States, guilty or not guilty ?" And
with heal down, and with fingers nervously tearing
the paper he held into fragments, came the low re-
sponses—Not Guilty! which settled the PRESIDENT'S
fate, for then all hung on the doubtful vote of the
Senator from Kansas, and the ANDREW JOHNSON he
then saved, is evidently General GRANT'S bitter per-
sonal enemy.