The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

have a loan for so small an amount as £4,000,000 •
or £5,000,000. Common sense asks, however,_upon
this—lf a loan may be had at all at any time, why
not a loan for £4,000,000 or £5,000,000 quite as well,
just as reasonably, as a loan for £8,000,000 or a
loan for £10,000,000? However true it may be,
and happily and thank GOD is, that we are at this
moment at Peace with the whole world—the very
deficiency Mr. GLADSTONE is now called upon to
provide for, is a deficiency caused by warlike prepa-
rations, though those preparations are at the same
time purely of a defensive character ! Being thus a
deficiency of from £4,000,000 to £5,000,000 caused
by warlike proparations—(no matter though they
are, as we have said, preparations purely of a
defensive character)—the honest, natural, simple,
obvious way to meet that deficit would have been
to raise a loan—the payment of which would have
been spread over two or three years. It is a mere
shuffle to talk as Mr. GLADSTONE did yesterday of
a trumpery loan like that interfering with the other
loan already in prospect, namely, the Indian loan,
thereby threatening to embarrass the arrange-
ments of Sir CHARLES WOOD in his peculiar de-
partment. According to which reasoning, the
English people ought to be subjected to any
inconvenience, to any burthen, rather than Sir
CHARLES WOOD should run the risk of being
subjected to the chance of some barely possible
embarrassment! Rather than which, the income-
tax is to be increased in the flagrant and outrageous
manner already indicated—and 'his criminal act
is positively to be perpetrated while the seals of
the financial office are held, while the purse of the
nation is held, by the Right Hon. W. E. GLAD-
STONE as her Majesty's Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.

The principal interest in the Foreign news
relates to Prussia, who takes all the credit to herself

for her ambiguous conduct during the late war,

In fact Prussia asserts in her official Gazette that
her policy during the last few months has prevented
an universal war. This reminds one satirically of
the fly on the chariot wheel exclaiming " See what
a dust I make !"—Now if Prussia have not " kicked
up a dust' she coolly takes all the credit of
having abated the dust raised by more valiant
champions in the field.
The Prince Regent of PRUSSIA has backed this
negative assumption of warlike virtue by an address
to the army, in which he tells them that their
marching to the positions ordered by him, had
shown a firm resolution " to maintain our frontiers
and those of Germany inviolate, whatever might be
the destinies of war." Now, this is taking the bull
by the horns after he has turned round and honoured
them with his tail instead ! For how could Prussia
maintain her frontiers inviolate if the destinies of
war were against her, such as after the battle of
Jena ? Her frontiers would then be " nowhere."
No, not even at Berlin. But we have noticed of
late a very pitiful assumption in the repeated boasts
of the Prince of PRUSSIA, who is never tired of
telling the world, and the Fatherland in particular,
that the Prussian army is good against all corners.
Time may prove that much sooner than his Royal
Highness would like to test it. We enter-
tain a very kindly feeling towards the Prussian
people because they love, and aspire to
constitutional Government, but we frankly confess,
and we do so in sorrow, that we have not yet seen
any such sympathies displayed by the the Prince
REGENT whose conduct ever since he assumed the
Royal functions has been much more on the side of
despotic authority than for the people, by whom
and for whose benefit, he is permitted toreign. No,
the Right Divine of Kings, is uppermost in the
mind and councils of his Royal Highness, let their
conduct be what it may. In all his addresses to
the people or to the army this Right Royal
Monomania runs through the whole of them. And
yet we were told that the Prince was the most

liberal of his class ! So ultra-liberal, indeed,
as to excite the Royal displeasure of his
Brother-King. Then his alliance with Eng-
land by marriage was assumed as a solemn
pledge of his liberality. But people some-

times reckon too fast and commit grave mistakes,
in spite of their cleverness. The alliance with
England was only of a German character, and
special y brought about by German sympathies, in
which ambition played tha better part. But we
quarrel not with such natural causes—our chief
regret consists the in reflection that matters
do not look what they seem, or were given
out as above all consideration. The consideration
has hitherto proved to be of a purely dynastic cha-
racter ; and judging from the past the Right Royal
propensity bids fair to enlarge its assumptions in
the future.

Nor is the Emperor of AUSTRIA behind his rival
in attributing to his Imperial armies all the glory
which, of late they seem rather, to have missed.
'their valour is beyond all praise, and we must
confess that had they had better Generals their fate
might have been different. But they were no worse
than our own truly brave soldiers in the Crimea,
who the French maliciously, but we fear, too truly
represented as LIONS led by asses Now if
our satirical neighbours had reflected for a
moment that almost all our great Generals were
members of the Aristocracy, or, what is much the
same, were patronised by Noble Lords and
Most Noble Dukes, they would have abated
their censure, which they would have politely ex-
plained away, as we do in. Parliament, was only
meant in a " military sense !"
There is to be no Congress if we may believe the
cooks of the Peace, we suppose on the principle
that " too many cooks spoil the broth," and so we
wish that those who have their fingers in the pie, may
not fall out about who will take the largest plum.
But the strongest despot must, of course, have the
lion's share for the time being, and eventually may
have cause to curse his unmerited success. A plague
on both their houses, say we, for each has cleverly
deceived the other !

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Another
fatal accident on the river took place last evening, be-
tween the hours of six and seven o'clock. A young
man named Jonathan Elliston, of Stepney, who was
rowing in one of the new fashionable but dangerous out-
riggers, a little below Woolwich, was overturned by the
swell from one of the river boats, and unfortunately
drowned. Deceased, who was the only surviving son of a
widow, four of whose children have met with a similar
death, was but 19 years of age. The body was recovered at
Greenwich, at ten o'clock last night.
SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER AT SHADWELL.—
Yesterday morning the body of a male child, apparently
about a month old, was found tied up in a piece of brown
paper lying upon the pavement in the High-street, Shad-
well.
The body was that of a fine fully developed child,
and when Mr. Ross, jun., the surgeon, examined the de-
ceased, he was of opinion that death had been caused by
violence, as there were several external marks about the
head and body. A post mortenz examinition has been
ordered, to ascertain the precise cause of death.
THE MOORS.—We have seen and heard (says the
(linerness Courier) many reliable reports from the best
grouse districts ; and on at least the lower mountain ranges,
where there was 9... fair stock to breed from, we can say that
since the year 1840 there has not been so promising a show
of young birds. Coveys run from eight to ten birds each,
and as many as fourteen have been counted in one nest.
Every step of the season has been favourable for rearing the
young broods ; and they are now so far beyond harm, and
so strong on the wing, that those sportsmen who usually
defer taking moors until they can run a steady old dog over
them, may now do so without risk, and satisfy themselves
as to the number of birds on the ground. Since 1856 and
1857 there has been no symptom of that much dreaded
disease which sweeps the moors from time to time. The
Northern Ensign states that the Braemore shootings, ad-
joining those of his Grace the Duke of Portland at Lang-
well have been taken by his grace, and are to be used this
season by the Speaker of the House of Commons and party,
for whom preparations are being made, Langwell.
The Derby of 1861 closed on fuesday last with
244 subscribers, and the Oaks with 175 subscribers.