The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1858.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that on and.
after WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Ist December, ALTERA-
TIONS will be made in the RATES and FARES for MER-
CHANDISE, Cattle, and Passenger Traffic between London,
Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Huddersfield, and the
intermediate and surrounding towns and places in Lancashire
and Yorkshire. Full particulars may be obtained on applica-
tion at the Company's Offices and Stations, and also of the
Company's Agents, Messrs. Pickford and Co., Wood-street,
Cheapside, and. Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, Hambro Wharf,
Thames-street.
By order, - W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, 29th November, 1858.

GREAT EASTERN. Completion for Sea.—
REFRESHMENTS.—Mr. WILLIAM DONALD, of
the St. James's Hall, begs to inform the public that he has
arranged with the-Directors to supply all the Refreshments
on board during the free day admission. Tickets for Free
Admission to be had of Mr. W. DONALD, 69, Regent-street.

GEORGE HOBSON begs to call the attention
of Gentlemen to his New Autumnal Trousers, 21s. to
255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats.
Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street.
Established 1796.

THE WELLINGTON RESTAURANT,
ST, JAMES'S-STREET, AND 160, PICCADILLY.

Gentlemen visiting the Metropolis will find ample accom-
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moderate. Private rooms for large or small parties may be
engaged on application to the Superintendent.
By Order. JAMES GOFTON, Superintendent.
27th November, 1858.

BANK OF. DEPOSIT
Established A.D. 1844.
3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON.
Parties desirous of Investing- Money:are requested to exa-
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of interest may be obtained with ample security.
Deposits made by Special Agreement may be withdrawn
without notice
The Interest is payable in January and July.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application.

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Winter should be without one of
MACDOUGALL'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS,
Universally acknowledged to be the most comfortable,
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The Height and Size round Shoulders is. sufficient measure.
Patterns and price per post, free.
Any number of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of
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THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE.
INVERNESS.

(JOCKS'S CELEBRATED READING SAUCE
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WHO WILL PAY THE CHINESE
INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. Ai
export duty is to be levied, and then not even the East. ndia
Tea Company will be able, as they now are, to sell 61b. of
Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at is. 10d. per lb., and Coffee, in
the Berry,. at 10d.—Warehouse, 9, Great St. Helen's-church-
yard, City.

EPPS'S COCOA.—EPPS, homoeopathic chymist,
' London.—This excellent preparation originally pro-
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been adopted by the general public, can now be had of the
principal grocers.—Each packet is labelled James Epps,
homoeopathic chymist, London.

DECAYED TEETH and TOOTHACHE.—
HOWARD'S ENAMEL for stopping Decayed Teeth,
however large the cavity. It is placed in the tooth in a soft
state, without any pressure or pain, and immediately
HARDENS INTO ENAMEL ; it will remain in the tooth
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Price One Shilling.

AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 Copies of
a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—GEOßGE
THOMAS, Esq., having been effectually cured of nervous de-
bility, loss of memory, and dimness of sight, resulting from
the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given
in a Medical Work by a Physician, he considers it his duty, in
gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous suf-
ferers, to publish the means used. He will therefore send
free, to any address, in a sealed envelope, on receipt of a
directed envelope, enclosing two stamps, to prepay postage,
a copy of the medical work, containing every information re-
quired. Address, G. Thomas, Esq., Craven HoUse, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.

PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS.

BERLIN, DEC. 9.
The official returns of the late elections are gra-
dually coming in from the provinces. A comparison
of the total number of electors with the numbers
which actually polled might seem a flat refutation
of all that has been said about the general interest
aroused by the occasion. An average cannot be
struck till all the returns are before me, but the
following are some specimens- taken at random :
GOVERNMENT DISTRICT, COSLIN (PROVINCE POMR-
RANIA.)
Electors. Polled.
First Class
Second ditto• .... 10,713 • 4,261
Third ditto 69,883 ..... 18,058
DISTRICT OF MARIENBURG (WEST PRUSSIA.)
First Class • • 423 ' ' 222
Second ditto ; ...... 943 -
Third ditto . ... . . 8,851
DISTRICT or NEUSTADT. (WEST PRUSSIA).
First Class • • 388
Second ditto ' 1,170

Third ditto 6,494
CITY OF DINTSIC.
First Class ti,• 293. • • • 202
Second ditto
Third ditto
For Berlin I have sent you the figures before,
-alid they give, taking the three classes together,
43 per cent. of the constituency as having exer-
cised their suffrage in'the capital, where the parti-
cipation was most lively.
In the district of Potsdam (environs of Berlin)
the percentage of those who polled is not higher
than 21 per cent. of the whole constituency.
Were we to draw our conclusions from figures
alone, we should be disposed to think that general
indifference, rather than excitement, was the pre-
vailing disposition of a population in the enjoy-
ment of universal suffrage. Such a conclusion,
howvier, would not be warranted by the real facts.
We must measure the interest taken in the election
by the proportion of the electors who voted rather

than of those who stayed away. Political sympa-
thies cannot exist without education and intelli-
gence. An ignorant town mob may have its passions
worked upon, and may take a most demonstrative
part in public policy, without understanding any-
thing of the question at stake. But in Prussia,
where demagogueism and electioneering agitation
do not exist, the consequence is, that those masses
which do not follow the course of political dis-
cussion do not vote at the elections. The elections,
therefore, are pretty much in the hands of the edu-
cated and intelligent. The interest awakened is that
of sympathy and intellect, not that of blind pas-
sion. The stimulants of drink, bribery, and stump
oratory are totally wanting. That portion of
the electors who have exercised their suffrage
have shown sufficiently how deep is their interest
in the affairs of the country by the inconveniences,
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have been confronted, and the thousand impedi-
ments overcome, which the old system purposely
threw in their way. I may deceive myself, but the
real representation of the people appears to me to
be attained under the present Prussian system as
nearly as is practicable under the circumstances. It
is much more the real expression of the national
will than if a much larger proportion of voters was
brought to the poll by artificial inducements—by
the orders of the Prefet, or the money of the can-
didates.

We must not, indeed, assume, even of that small
percentage of the constituency which has exercised
its right of suffrage, that it has done so with any
very accurate political insight. What exactly isthe
significance of the late election—what wishes and
hopes the country intends to express by its vote—
in an object of much anxious speculation. The pro-
vinces have very unanimously spoken ; this one
hears most variously interpreted. In England we
are accustomed to regard a general election as a
vote of confidence or the reverse in the Ministry.
Many persons accordingly write and speak of the
late Prussian election as if it meant the same
thing, but, except in Berlin and some of the large
towns, where the character and position of public
men are pretty correctly estimated, this is much
more than can be assumed. Not to speak of the
Polish province, where German papers do not
penetrate, in many remote country districts it was
hardly known at the time of the election in the first
instance who the new Ministers were, or if there
were any. Even if this was known, who shall say
that the votes of the farmers and peasant pro-
prietors meant more than loyalty to the Regent, the
brother of the King, who had called certain men
into his service, and whom, as his servants, it was
the duty of all good Prussians to support ? Between
this blind loyalty of the least instructed part of the
voters and the close scanning of the personal cha-
racters of public men, which is brought to bear in
Berlin, there are infinite shades and gradations of
insight and appreciation. To combine these into
one general expression would be impossible. It
must certainly not be assumed that the country
meant to express a positive approbation of the
policy of the new Cabinet, when no one knows
what that policy is likely to b. As in politics it is
always easier to say what we do not wish than
what we do, it might be safe to say that the coun-
try meant plainly enough to decide against the
petty aristocracy (Junker party). The good Bauer
who knew nothing of the Prince of Hohenzollern
or Von Auerswald, knew what the rights of chase
and exemptions from land-tax were, and that he
had a personal interest to protect there. The Kreuz
Ritter were never weary of repeating that, however
radical might be the corrupted and disaffected po-
pulations of the towns, yet that they knew they
were backed up by the "sound" country peasantry.
Now that in all the provinces, even in loyal Pome-
rania, in Gumbinnen, under the very eyes of their
own President, Von Bycrn, the Landrithe have
been everywhere turned adrift, the Junker routed,
and a new class of men chosen, we can never again
be told that the feudal party have the goodwill of
the agricultural classes. The real nation (das wahre
yolk), who were always held in terrorem over the
towns has now spoken out for itself, and it appears
that it is quite as little disposed to standat the back
of the squirearchy as the tradesmen and artisans
themselves are. The peasants wish to be the King's
subjects, not the vassals of the great proprietors.
If the Feudal party is utterly beaten in the
House of Deputies, it is not to be concluded that
it is therefore powerless. The Second Chamber is
very far from being the decisive field of battle
here which our House of Commons is. It is im-
portant, but other things are more so. Flourishing
as the prospects of the new Ministry seemed at
first, it must not be supposed that their seat is a
secure and easy one. Any wavering in the dispo-
sition of the Regent would seriously damage the
triumph, which a little while ago seemed so com-
plete, of the Constitutional party. From whatever
cause, the spirits of the Reactionary party are re-
covering. It is believed that extraordinay urgency
is being used with the Regent to readmit into the
Cabinet some of "the right sort." If liberal mea-
sures are all that is wished, no one is more ready
and desirous to carry out liberal measures than one
or two of the chief of the Manteuffelite set. The
different fractions of the " Right" are holding
meetings here to concert their plans for the ap-
proaching session, ostensibly ; but they have much
higher hopes than fora dreary opposition campaign
in the Chamber. A fire of letters, too, is kept up
from Italy, announcing the King's entire recovery,
or his dissatisfaction with what is being done, or
his speedy return. Even if these announcements
are understood to be " pious" frauds, a certain
amount of uneasiness must be produced by them.
Whatever may be the cause, it appears that there
is a stoppage somewhere. The symptoms are, the
constant reports of modifications in the Cabinet, in

the Interior, or in the Trade Department, and the
unaccountable delay in filling up the foreign dip-
lomatic posts. The nomination of Herr Balau to
Stuttgardt is the only one which has yet been
made. Some people, on the other hand, think that
it is part of the policy of Ministers to sham weak-
ness in order to keep down the hopes of the Libe-
rals, and to prevent the Left from falling away
from them ; and to coquet with the Right, in order
to draw them into a false position. All, however,
that can be safely affirmed is, that the Ministry,
far from having it all their own way, have a very
difficult part to play.
We are in the middle of a little after-act to the
elections. The 3d Berlin District elects tomor-
row (Friday), and the 4th on Tuesday, in the
places of Grabow and Mathis. The 24 re-elections
still to be made are arranged on successive days,
that there may be no more choosing the same can-
didate in several places. The Wahlmanner have
resumed their evening deliberations. In the 3d
district the election of Stadtrath Duncker seemed
assured till a new candidate was started in the
person of Vou Kirchmann, who made a strong
impression upon the electors by a manly and prac-
tical speech, in which he stated his views. Von
Kirchmann was formerly a President of the Court
of Appeal, but retired about three years ago- into
the country, and occupied hinuielf with farming,
being a man of some property. He is one of the
Left Centre, and voted in 1849 for the " stoppage
of the supplieS" (Steurverweigerung). Though he
is thus classed with the " men of 1848," he places
himself now on the ground of the Constitution,
which he desires to see carried out in a liberal
sense. He expressly warned the electors against
untimely pressure upon the Ministry at first. " The
several Liberal fractions," he said, " were at pre-
sent united. As long as things proceeded peace.
ably they would continue so ; stormy debates might
divide them again." He thought it ti measure of
policy that some democratical members should be
returned to the Chamber, on the principle that no
party ought to be unrepresented. If Duncker had
not preoccupied the field, it is thought Von Kirch-
mann would have been elected, but it is hardly likely
now. In the 4th district Dr. von Tasmund, ex-
editor of the Woehenblatt, and now Director of the
Central Press Bureau, comes forward at the las

moment. If some one else has not secured the
ground, Dr. von Tasmund is likely to be elected.
The place of August Reichensperger, at Dussel-

dorff, is filled up by the election of Dr. Hasen-
clever, also belonging to the Catholic fraction.
On Tuesday evening a ball and evening assembly
were given at the British Embassy by Lord and
Lady Bloomfield in honour of the Prince of Wales.

There were present his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent, the Princess of Prussia, Prince Frederick
William, and all the other members of the Royal
family at present in Berlin ;. his. Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, Prince August of Wurtemberg,
the Prince of Hohenzollern, and all the Ministers

of State, members of the Foreign Embassies, &c.
It may interest your musical readers to know.
that Hans von Bulow, son-in-law and scholar of
Liszt, has been appointed Hof-pianist (pianist to
the Prince Regent).--Times.