The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-29 00:00:00

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THE MEB7ING AX BRESLA U.

A letter from Breslau of the 23d inst. gives the
following details of the meeting between the Empe-
ror of Russia and the Prince Regent of Prussia.
" As soon as the express train conveying the Em-
peror was signalled fit Ohlau the Prince Regent and
Princes who accompanied him went on the platform
of the station. Prince Albrecht (father) had also
joined the Royal party. The meeting between the
Emperor and the Prince Regent wa% most cordial.
They repeatedly embraced each other and then. .
walked on side by side, the guard of honour present-
ing arms and the band playing the Russian National
hymn. After withdrawing to the attiring-room
the Emperor shortly reappeared in a Prussian uni-
form, the Prince Regent and Prince Frederick
William in that of a Russian general, and partook
of a dejeuncr. An official reception took place after-
wards, the authorities of the town being presented
to the Prince Regent by Baron von Sehlenitz. At
o'clock the express train started for Breslau. Here
the station was gaily decorated, and all the generals
and officers of the garrison, in full uniform, were
assembled to greet the Emperor. After the usual
presentations the Emperor and Prince Regent then
entered an open barouche and four and drove
through the town, the Prince Regent sitting on.
the Emperor's right hand. The next carriage con-
tained the Royal Princes, and the suite followed in
others. The Emperor, still accompanied by the
Prince Regent, then inspected the guard of honour
of the 3d Regiment of Uhlans drawn up on the
Exercir-platz, and conversed a long time with
the officer in command, and spoke some friendly
words to the men. As soon as his Majesty
returned to the castle, the colours of the regi-
ment were taken there, and sentinels of the same
regiment placed on duty before the Emperor's
apartments. Later in the day. the Emperor paid a
visit to General Lindheim, the General in command.
Accompanied by the General, his Majesty then
visited the different Princes then at Breslau, and
drove through the principal streets 'of the city.
At dinner, besides his Majesty, all the Ministers,
Princes, &c., were invited. In the evening the
Royal party visited the theatre, all the officers in
full uniform. As the Emperor entered the Royal
box the orchestra struck up the Russian An-
them. At night the city was brilliamtly illumi-
nated."

A letter dried the 24th inst.. says—
"A grand review was held to-day at 11 o'clock.
The Emperor, the Prince Regent, and their respec-
tive suites were on horseback. The troops pre-
sented arms and cheered loudly as the Emperor
rode past them. As they passed the Uhlans (of
which regiment the Emperor is honorary Colonel)
his Majesty embraced the Prince Regent and
offered to take the command, which the Princo
declined with a warm pressure of the hand.
The Prince Regent wore the Blue Riband of
the Russian Order of St. Andrew, as did
also Prince Frederick William and Field-
Marshal Wran gel. The Emperor had on the colonel's
uniform of the Uhlans, with a general's epaulettes,
and the orange riband of the Pluss'an order of the

Black Eagle.
At half-past four o'clock there was a grand
banquet at the castle, for which 160 invitations
hae been sssued to the Ministers, generals, staff
officers, &c. His Majesty was to leave for War-
saw at nine o'clock. After dinner the royal party
visited the theatre, Madlle. Taglioni having been
especially engaged for a ballet. At half-past 8
the royal party left the theatre, drove to the
Castle, and thence to the railway station. Here
the Emperor took the most affectionate farewell
of the Prince Regent, Prince Frederick William,
and the other princes. On the platfOrm,which was
lit up with Bengal lights, the Emperor again
embraced and kissed the Prince Regent, entered
the railway carriage, and the train then started
for Warsaw. The Prince Regent returns to Berlin

to -morrow.
Respecting the result of this meeting a letter
from Berlin, dated the'2sth inst., says :
That a closer alliance between Prussia and

,ussia has been formed at Breslau, and which a

democratic paper styles as a fact of great geogra-
phical and political importance, is most probable.
If Prussia is by no means inclined to support a re-
storation of the Archdukes in the Italian duchies,
the same may be said also of Russia. Russia's chief
object is to have the Italian question so settled that
the peace of Europe may not be disturbed, which
would scarcely be the cas if a restoration by force
of arms was attempted."
Another letter, also dated the 25th says—
The approximation of Prussia to Russia by no
means excludes good relationship with England;
on the contrary, any little misunderstanding which
may exist between the Courts of St. James and St.
Petersburg will probably be removed through the
medium of Prussia.
" In consequence of the peace of Villafranca, the
interests of the three Powers in Italy coincide on
many points. The Morocco question imperils the
position of England in the Mediterranean, and this
alone must make England draw still closer to Prus-
sia. It is said that the idea of the meetine, at Bres-
lau originated with the Emperor Alexander, who
first proposed going to Berlin, but owing to the
King's illness Breslau was selected."
Among the transparencies in the illumination at
Breslau the following lines attracted some atten-
tion :

Preussen's Prinz Regent and Russland's Alexander,
Sie gehn denselben Weg jetzt mit einander,
0, nehmet, gewahrt uns die Bitte,
England's Victoria in Eure Mitte."

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1869.

The magnificent tribute of respect and admiration
offered on Wednesday to Lord BROUGHAM by the
inhabitants of his native place, the good city of
Edinburgh, is not likely to be very soon forgotten.
Even if viewed simply in regard to what it was,
it can scarcely be lost very soon to remembrance.
But recollecting what it led to, it can hardly be ob-
literated very easily from the memory of the more
intelligent and patriotic part of the population.
The occasion itself was sufficiently remarkable.
It was a banquet offered to the noble and learned
lord in the eighty-second year of his laborious and
illustrious life, in recognition of his great services
and his great achievements—in how many different
characters ? As an orator. As a man of letters. As a
lawyer. As a philosopher. As a philanthropist.
As a statesman. As one who had made laws, and
had helped to administer them. Asa critic and an
historian. As a scientific discoverer, whose re-
searches have been prosecuted with indomitable
energy and unflaging perseverance up to this pre-
sent period, when he is upwards of eighty-one
years of age, from the time he was a stripling of
seventeen ! Recollect some of the most noticeable
among the prolonged labours of Lord BROUGHAM
in these diversified characters. Recollect that as
an orator he has attained not simply a high
but the highest rank in the Walhalla of
Rhetoric—that he has produced not one but
several distinct and memorable masterpieces
of oratory that are worthy of comparison
with the most brilliant efforts of the greatest
masters of eloquence of modern times or of the
ages of classic antiquity. As a man of letters he
has written with singular brilliancy upon almost
all of the various departments of literature. As a
reviewer in the Edinburgh he occupied from its
outset one of the most feared and conspicuous
places—goading Lord BYRON, by richly merited
sarcasms, to the first display of his extraordinary
genius—upon one occasion when there was a dearth
of copy in the hands of the printer, writing
almost the whole of one of those quarterly volumes
swathed in blue-and-buff. As a lawyer his career
has been such that he takes rank at once as incom-
parably the greatest law reformer England has
ever had. His labours in that capacity have been
truly herculean. Insomuch that the noble and
learned lord himself good-humouredly acknow-
ledged on Wednesday that the mere enumeration
of his bills and acts " forms"—[we give the noble
and learned lord's own words, together with the
interruptions elicited by them from his hearers]
—" forms a very cumbrous volume—cumbrous
in all respects—(laughter)—difficult to buy—
difficult to read—l won't say difficult to remem- i
ber if you have read it." (Renewed laughter.)
As a philosopher his labours have been such
during upwards of sixty years that they have com-
manded the eirlogium of one of the most remarkable
among the living chiefs of science—the panegyric
of Sir DAVID BREWSTER in his life of Sir ISAAC
NEWTON. As a philanthropist, even if we
could forget his splendid exertions in behalf
of the great principle of popular education, it
would be enough if we were to bear in mind
his glorious suppression of the slave trade by
the effectual device of branding it as a felony.
As the Lord Provost admirably remarked on Wed-
nesday, when giving the toast of the evening—
" His is the proud distinction of having most
powerfully contributed to bring to successful issue
those measures which great and wise and good
men had long been labouring to accomplish for
the purpose of abolishing the accursed traffic in
human blood, and of raising Great Britain to the
high and noble position of being, along with her

dependencies, the abode of the free, and the free
alone." While as to his educational achievements,
those, certainly, do not need, as, from their nume-
rical abundance, they would certainly render diffi-
cult, any explicit and consecutive enumeration. It
is instructive in regard to those labours, by the way,
to bear in remembrance that it was appropriately
from the lips of Lord BROUGHAM years and years
ago that emanated the famous boast that the
schoolmaster was abroad! The expression, long
since become proverbial, was first uttered by the
noble and learned lord during his ever memorable
Speech on Reform—his Speech among Speeches
upon Reform, when HENRY BROUGHAM was M.P.
for the West Riding of Yorkshire. " Field-Mar-
shal the Duke of WELLINGTON," said Mr.
BRou GUAM, "may take the army, he may take the
navy, with all the powers of the Executive
he may array himself; but I fear him
not. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I will
trust to him armed with his primer rather than to
the soldier with his bayonet." And assuredly for
that very fact of the schoolmaster being abroad we
are indebted, as a nation, to the very man who
uttered those now familiar words more than to any
other man of our generation.
Apart, however, as we have already intimated
wholly and entirely apart from the memorable
character of the banquet itself, it is most memor-
able, for inasmuch as it drew forth from the heart
of the venerable judge, orator, annalist, critic,
lawgiver, statesman, philosopher, philanthropist,
those thrilling words of warning to the nation at
large upon which we have already in these columns
(namely, on the very morrow of the banquet) deli-
berately and earnestly commented. What are
those burning words of his with which he closes the
allegory of the Tempter, the Father of Lies, tempt-
ing France with the Laurel, England with the
Golden Apple (of discord), tempting them both as
speciously as the arch Fiend tempted our first
parents in Paradise ? It is just after he has
imagined the British Empire crying out as with
one voice " Avaunt Satan" to the most sordid and
glittering of these allurements that Lord BROUGHAM
adds in regard to the great Tempter, " But
he is unabashed ; he is of infinite perseverance, and
never despairs ; he is of infinite pertinacity, and of
infinite resources also. So he tries another trick—
What are you afraid of ?—and I wish he may be as
certain to have no listeners in this—What are you
afraid of ? Nobody is going to attack you ; there
is no chance of any attack ! Why should you spend
so much of your substance in making preparations
for your defence—preparations so costly and alto-
gether useless ? I think some few will listen to
that. But the great body of the people of this
country—high and low, rich and poor, of all ranks,
of all parties, of all descriptions, of all sects—must
know and must feel in their hearts' core that it is
the most dangerous of all the tempting—is the
most perilous of all the Fiend's advice, and that
there is but one safety for this country, and
that is to be prepared by sea and by land, in every
way in which an attack is possible, however un-
likely, so that every attack may be made not only
utterly impossible to succeed, but also impossible to
be attempted—and I verily believe that there never
was a more universal feeling of assent in this coun-
try to any one doctrine than to this, that we don't
distrust our neighbours—very far from it—we
trust them, but we trust ourselves a great deal
more—and that we do the best thing—the kindest
thing both for those neighbours and for ourselves,
in being completely, absolutely prepared for what-
ver may happen." GOD grant that these solemn
recommendations may be acted upon betimes. And
then England may laugh to scorn both the wiles of
the Tempter and the glamour of his temptations.

The triumphant return of Lord BROUGHAM as
Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh has just
now capped the climax of grateful admiration
proffered simultaneously by his alma mater and his
birthplace to the venerable and illustrious octo-
genarian.

GARIBALDI is now taking the part which
becomes him. What a noble man he has proved
himself to be ! Ready, on the side of Liberty, to
obey or to command—to take any post which the
occasion requires—in each of them quite above all
mean jealousies, intent only on the same patriotic
object—his fatherland's independence. There is
not a single man in the present struggle in Italy
in whom all Europe feels more personal interest
than it does in GARIBALDI. Every account of him
received through :niividuals wins the hearts and
commands the respect of all, while his public acts
equally call forth admiration of his genius for
command. Count CAVOUR and his master are
admired and respected, the Emperor of FRANCE is
thought of as an impassive impersonation of fate,
FRANCIS JOSEPH is detested as a Hapsburg and
pitied as a lad ;. but GARIBALDI is both admired
and loved.

This great and amiable patriot is now in the
very position in which he is needed—the Ro-
magna. Hard work will the Holy Father and
his Swiss mercenaries have to eject him and the
soldiers he has gathered around him from thence.
In fifteen days, he tells us, he makes a brave Italian
into a soldier ; and he seems to have the peculiar
power, too, of making Italians brave. He and they
now plainly see that the trust of Italians must be
in themselves. LOUIS NAPOLEON may or may not
be at heart well affected towards their complete
liberation from all foreign power and influence,
but the treaty of Zurich has made it plain
to them all that he must act, as if he really desirel
the return of the Duke and the Italian Confedera-
tion—Austria being the strongest member of it. It
is clear to all, therefore, and to none more so than
to GARIBALDI, that Italian arms can alone win
Italian freedom. If the emancipated States are
strong enough to hold their own against Austria,
they may be set free. If their front is such that
oceans of patriot blood must flow before they would
submit again to the old despotism, the old des-
potism will not be again forced upon them.
Three documents from GARIBALDI'S pen have ap-
peared in yesterday's and to-day's papers, and They
all show that the hero of Italy is awake to the de.
mends of her position, and that he does not shrink
from making them. He has accepted, as we saw
yesterday, the presidency of the National Society—
a society which has already done very much.
Despite Austrian spies and gold, it prepared the
population, this spring, to second the efforts of
GARIBALDI at the foot of the Alps, and has for-
warded numerous volunteers—the business on which
it is chiefly intent, and on which it is working suc-
cessfully. GARIBALDI points to Greece, fighting
for six years, and America, for fourteen, to gain
their liberties ; and reminds the Italians that, now,
after only a few months' struggle, their cause has
the sympathy of all Europe—he might have said of
all freemen throughout the world.

In the proclamation which appears to-day, he
appeals to the country .on behalf of the families
of needy volunteers. He demands for the wives
and children of those who leave their homes to
fight for their country's freedom that the country
shall regard them as its charge. Ile calls on the
municipalities to save the soldier from anxiety for
those he has left behind. GARIBALDI is awarrior

with a heart. He has heard, in his ranks,
sons deploring the necessities of aged parents,
husbands of their families; and he writes at
once to the wealthy and to the corporations
to regard them as the patriot's pledges
of his love for his country, and to cherish them as
such. Such leaders are the men to win the hearts
of :those :they command :by sympathy with their
present feelings ; and we trust he will not fail to
elicit the contributions—we will not call it charity
—which he asks. The Italians must respond to
large demands. Let them rejoice to do so when
the demand is for muskets to shoot those who
have shot them down hitherto like beasts, and
for kindness to those whose husbands and sons
have left them in difficulties, that they may fight
for the common cause.

But the proclamation to the Neapolitans will,
we trust, be the most effective of all, we mean in
the work of getting rid of despots, or at least of
despotism. ThQir young Monarch had the best of
opportunities. He followed a detested, perjured,
disloyal father, one who had disgusted even intel-
ligent men in his own dominions, and even every
Court of Europe. True, he did mend things a
little,but the Chambers have not been convoked as by
law they ought to have been, on the death of the old
KING, and the odious police are still in power. The
country is still fettered hand and foot. GARIBALDI
appeals to these downtrodden men to look at the
present position of things. We have flogged the
Austrians, he says, the Austrians, your former
terror—we have flogged them everywhere. "We
have seen them run like rabbits—seen them fly in
terror, and beg their lives of those whose brothers,
parents, and friends they had basely assassinated.
We have seen the vile miscreants fly before the
comrades of UGO BASSI, CIVEAGIII, and CICER-
tiACCIIIO, and ask their lives with a base-
ness unmistakeably Austrian ; and yet of those
who surrendered, the Italians did not kill a single

one."

But where were the Neapolitans all this time.
" The shout of victory was heard in every dialect
except yours, and yet—we knew it—your hearts
beat high in the cause of your country." All
knew their goodwill was with the combatants
for freedom, though they were absent in
body ; but, this time—says GARIBALDI—you will
be with us in both." And, appealing to names
which would stir the hearts of any Neapolitan, he
declares all the machinations of priests and Sove-
reigns vain, for " Our brethren of the south have
clasped the hands of our brothers of the centre and
north ; the sons of the PROCIDAS, and the MAs•
SANIELLOS, and the PEPES, have grasped the
victorious right hand of the soldier of Palestro
and San Martino."

What England will think of this we know. Not
only Lord JOAN RUSSELL, but Lord ABERDEEN
and Mr. GLADSTONE will rejoice to see Naples
likely to arouse itself. GARIBALDI will not, we
imagine, appeal in vain, ant France must join with
us in bidding all would be interveners stand by
and let the Neapolitans bring their KING to his
senses, and liberate their country.

A YRSIMZE ELECTION.