The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

kingdom.

As for the Berlin Government, they are going on in
their persistent course and are gradually undermining
all the old-established forms and usages in those
States which have just been annexed. The late

Hanoverian army has been the last thing meddled
with, and we doubt not that in a short time it will
be so remodelled that no one will know it. A Ca-
binet order has been issued, which calls upon the
officers of the army to forward to Government their
claims for pensions and appointments ; and, in
accordance with this order, the officers are told that
they should address themselves to the KING for a
release from their oath of allegiance. As a
bait to secure the service of others it is announced
that those who enter the Prussian service at once
will have the prospect of immediate appointment.
Those who neither apply for a dissolution of their
oath of ialogia,nee nor enter the service of Prussia

will cease to receive the pay hitherto granted to
them. How people can persuade themselves that
such a state of things as this is likely to be con-
ducive fr.) the cause of nationality we are at a loss
to imagthe, and how these States in question can
possibly gain anything by being absorbed in
the Government of Prussia it is difficult to conceive.
It is the same in everything, civil as well as mili-
tary ; Prussia is to ride rough-shod over old cus-
toms, old laws, and old institutions, and will never
rest satisfied until she has everything in her grasp.
Unfortunately, many events are taking place that
seem to divert the notice of some Powers from the
acts of the Berlin Government. Russia's attention
is taken up in a great measure by the Eastern ques-
tion just now, and by other matters more or less
relating to it. The Journal de St. Petersburg alludes
to the attitude recently assumed by the Government
of the CZAR respecting the Danubian Principalities,
and states that all the acts of the Imperial Cabinet
have been strictly in accordance with justice, and
that Russia has sacrificed neither her dignity nor
her interests as regards the establishment of Prince
CHARLES.

It appears that we are not yet quite out of danger
with respect to the cattle plague, and that unless
great care and caution are exercised there will be
reason to fear a renewal of its fearful ravages. We
recommend the attention of all concerned to the
letter of Mr. HUDSON, a Norfolk agriculturist of
eminence. He states that it will be most unwise to
permit the markets and fairs to be opened for six
mouths yet, as although the cattle plague seems to
be " stamped out," " so sure as we open the markets
and fairs we shall again suffer from the horrid
disease." The reason given for this fear is that many
unprincipled men will be sure to send foreign cattle
into this country, and thus the plague will be
spread through the land anew.
This seems likely enough, and surely after all that
we have suffered from losses and otherwise in con-
nection with this evil it will be better and wiser to
go too far in the other direction, and to err on the
side of over prudence rather than to alter the wise
restrictions until lately in force to be removed too
soon. The orders of the Privy Council are not
being attended to as they ought to be, and
we hope that the attention of the au-
thorities will be drawn to these infractions.
It would, in truth, be a deplorable calamity if the
disease again broke out among us, and the best in-
terests of society call for the same care that has
been taken during the past year to be taken for
some months to come, or the consequences may be
too disastrous to estimate. In point of fact more
danger is often incurred at the time when the more
immediate symptoms have subsided than at any
other period, and let us not fall under such a fatal
error as to relax cautions when and where they are
so imperatively called for as in respect to this epi-
demic among cattle.