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

31IDDLESEX SESSIONS.-July 18.

The July adjourned Quarter Sessions commenced
yesterday morning at the Guildhall, Westminster,
hefoxe-Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Payne,
deputy, and a bench of magistrates. The calendar
was very light, there being but 39 prisoners for
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for felony, and three for misdemeanour.
The Assistant-Judge delivered the charge to the
grandjury.

BARMEN USING FALSE CHARACTERS`.-CAUTION.

John Gx een, 23, a barman, was indicted for steal-
ng 3s. 6d., the monies of William James Smith,
its master.

Mr. Cooper prosecuted. Mr. Ribtbn was counsel
for the prisoner.
The case in itself was very simple, but after

it was over statements were made, which
rendered it an important one, particularly
to licensed 'victuallers employing barmen. The
prosecutor, Mr. Smith, was the proprietor of the
King an a Queen at Paddington, and the prisoner
had br:en his barman since February last. Finding
a dintinution in his receipts, although he had had
more beer in than usual, he came to the conclusion
that he was being robbed, and accordingly took
means to detect the thief. Marked money was
used for the purpose, and the prisoner was detected
with 3s. 6d. in his waistcoat pocket The prosecu-
tor had lost, he calculated, about £4O during four
,weeks that he, had been laid up with illness. ,
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and &former
conviction was proved against him. In AuguSt,
1850, he was convicted in this court of a like offence
and sentenced to a month's hard labour.

Mr. Cooper then said he considered it his duty
:o inform the court that there was no doubt the

prisoner was in league and mixed up with a gang
of persons who went about getting situations as
barmen by means of false characters, for the sole
purpose of robbing those who employed them. In
this case the very person who gave the prisoner the
character upon the strength of which Mr. Smith
took him into his service, wrote to the prisoner,
asking him to let him have as much money as he
could, as he was about to take possession of another
house, and wanted to pay the brewers.
The prosecutor, on being called back into the
witness box by the learned judge, said in answer
to his lordship, that the person who gave him a
character for the prisoner was Mr. john Newman,
who kept the Sun Tavern, in Gray's-inn-road, and
now kept the Golden Lion, in Dean-street, Soho.
In the prisoner's drawer he found a letter from
Newman, beginning " Dear Jim," asking for 'as
much money as he could lend'him' on Sunday, as he
was going to take possession on Thursday, and had
to. pay, the brewer on Monday.
Ass;ntaut-Judgc—Had the prisoner been in
his service ?

Prosecutor—He said so, and that he had no fur-
ther need of his services, as his son, 16 years old,
was coming home from school. The prisoner lived
at the Eight Bells at Greenwich, .but was dis-
charged on suspicion of robbery, and it was New-
man who gave him his character for that situation.
That was about a week before I took him into my
service. I intend to prosecute Newman for giving
false characters.

Mr. Ribton objected to the introduction of this
matter. It was extraneous to the prisoner's case,
and had reference to a contemplated charge against
some other person.
The Assistant-Judge said he thought it had a
direct bearing on the case, as it tended to show
that the prisoner was mixed up in a system of
robbery by means of false characters ; and in this
instance there was written proof of the person who
had given the character by which the prisoner got
this situation, asking the prisoner while in that
situation to supply him -with a loan of as much
money as he could to enable him to pay his brewer.
Where could he think that money would come from,
the prisoner being but a barman ? It was clear that
there was a system, and it must be stopped, so far
as the court had the means of stopping it. The
public at large were most deeply interested in pre-
venting dishonest persons getting situations of
trust by false characters, and as the prisoner had
already had one conviction for the same sort of

offence, the sentence was that he be kept in penal
servitude for three years. Having perused the
letters which the prosecutor had produced, the
learned judge directed them to be returned, and
told him they would be important evidence against
the giver of the false character.
Mr. Cooper said this wEts a matter deeply affect-
ing the interests of the whole body of licensed
victuallers of the metropolis.
The prosecution was at the instance of the
Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society.

MYSTERIOUS, OCCURRENCE ON
NORTH LONDON .RAILWAY.

Yesterday a very painful feeling was created
throughout the northern districts of the metropolis
by a rumour that a very mysterious crime had been
en
agr
s along
that thein
bankment
committed on the previous night (Sunday) in a
train, whilst running on the North Londonßaile
Rail-
way, and that the probability was that the victim
had been pitched out of the carriage
over
to traffic
be
on the line on
Sunday, e put on, and runth
arches or innftothseomleinde.itchltrualpinpi
con-
sequenceooday
, extra of f the
immensetrains had
later than usual. The last train, which left Fen-
church-street about twenty minutes past eleven, did
not reach the North London
Farm till some few minutes terminus at Chalk
before twelve, and it
is stated that this train was by no means crowded
with passengers. The
porters, as usud, as soon as
the passengers alighted, looked into the various
carriages to see that
rt no one was sleeping there, or
that any grope
y was left behind. On open-
ing one of the compartments of a second-class car-
riage for this purpose, one of the porters disco-
vered, by the aid of his lantern, that it contained
an immense pool of blood, described _ as amounting
to at least three quarts, and in the midst of the
blood were also found two halves of railway ti • ckets
for the return •
journey on the line. On more
minute inspection of the carriage the blood was
found smeared about the seat and sides, and be-
spattered over one of the carriage doors. The
discovery was immediately made known to Mr.
King, the superintendent, who, bearing in mind
the circumstances connected with an outrage and
attempted robbery which, it will be remembered,
took place on this line some months back, when
a passenger was stabbed and seriously injured, was
at first impressed with a notion that something
similar had taken place, and that the party in-
jured had been pitched out on to the line. Under
his direction, an inspector and several porters pro-
ceeded at once along the line from Chalk Farm up
to Bow, making inquiries at every station, and
minutely examining the embankments and other
likely spots, with a view of ascertaining any tracts
of blood, or any circumstances likely to throw a
light on the discovery. There was only one i ti-
stance of a passenger having lost his ticket, and
that was a respectable-looking man who got out fat
Camden-road station,. and who paid his frit .e.
Neither of the porters or officials at any of i he
stations remembered having seen any male
female helped out at any of the stations in suet _ or
i a
state as would, have indicated that they had IoF ,t a
quantity of blood.
Yesterday morning the inquiries were rene rw ed,
and investigations and
' .
searches made along 1 the
.whole'line from Chalk
Farm to Fenchurch-st r 3Ett,
but without ascertaining
anything calculated Ito
elucidate a circumstance which, to say the lea st 4 A
it, is not only of a
most mysterious but snspic iot is
character.

FIRE IN CIiEAPSIDE.—I. BENICETT begs
to inform his friends that though the next house was
destroyed by fire last night his manufactory remains un-
touched. The whole of his stock of Watches is safe, and his
business going on as usual, free from any interruption.
65, Cheapside, July 19, 1859.

JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the LONDON,
MANCHESTER, and FOREIGN WAREHOUSE COM;
PANY (Limited). will be held at No. 34, Cannon-street West,
In the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the Third day of
August next, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely.
JOHN COSTEKER,
JOHN SHARLAND, Liquidators.
GEORGE LAISHLEY,

July 19th, 1859.

KEAN BANQUET, at ST. JAMES'S HALL,
WEDNESDAY NEXT, July 20th, 7 o'clock.—After
this day Tickets can only be obtained at Sams' Library, 1, St.
James's-street ; and of Mr. Donald, at St. James's Hall.

YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
lv Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, DYING FOR LOPE.
After which, twill be revived Shakspeare's Tragedy of
HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Chas. Kean; Queen
Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with IF THE CA
ce at FI ES.
Commen7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS ETENING the performances will commence with
THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
After which, THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
Followed by HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY.
To oonclude with HALLOWE'EN.

Commence at 7.

W THEATRE - ROYAL,- ADELPHI.
N-ESole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben. Webster.
Engagement of the Celebrated S?anish Dancers. —2nd Night
of a New Burlesque, yJ. Byron, Esq.
ll commence with
THIS EVENING, the performances wi
THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS.
Followed by (2nd time) THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss
Woolgar and Misses. K. Kelly.
Grand Ballet, by the Spanish Dancers.
After which, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L Toole, Chas Selby. Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
L.
sad Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington.
Actingmanager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh
THIS EVENING, QUIXOTE, JUNIOR. Mr. J. Clarke.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanboraugh, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7

VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three
the CAN-
acts
being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
Oonsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette
and
,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX,
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ev. 7
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic ti ibutes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—Surr OFFICE, JULY 18.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
84--highest since noon yesterday.'
71—lowest this morning and during the night.
80—this day at noon.
BAnourrEß-29•97.
WIND, South-Westerly to W.S.W. ; moderate, with
fine breeze, and cloudy sunshine. A heavy storm of
ightning thunder and rain began last evening, and con-
tinned for some time.

The financial statement made last evening has
in effect surpassed the most sinister of the popular
anticipations. Before entering, however, on any
analysis whatever of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget for
the current year, it will be advisable to cast a re-
trospective glance at the actual balance now struck
between the income calculated upon for the past
twelvemonths by the right hon. gentleman's
immediate predecessor and the actual expen-
diture for the same time —an expenditure,
it must be remembered in the first instance,
increased by more than £5,000,000 additional for
the augmentation of our military and maritime
armaments. It is due to Mr. DISRAELI at once to
assert as distinctly as possible that for that increase
in the national disbursements by more than
£5,000,000, he at any rate cannot be regarded as
is any way responsible. It is an augmentation in
the expenditure that cannot reasonably be taken
into account when examining into the question as
to the verification or the falsification of
his calculations or expectations on introducing
his last Budget as Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S
Exchequer. Those anticipations of his have, upon
the whole, in reality been actually exceeded, and
in several instances very considerably exceeded,
by the results arrived at upon his estimates. The
right hon. gentleman's estimate, for example,
upon the Customs' revenue was placed by him at
an aggregate of £23,400,000, whereas the actual
receipts have amounted to £24,117,000—or
£717,000 additional. His estimate again for
Stamps he placed moderately at £7,850,000,
whereas the receipts under the head of that item
of revenue were £8,005,000—or £155,000 addi-
tional. As the accumulated proceeds of the in-
come-tax, moreover, Mr. DISRAELI counted upon a
total of £6,100,000, the actual receipts for the year
under that heading being, on the contrary,
£6,683,000—or £583,000 beyond his most sanguine
expectations. Altogether, the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer having calculated the national estimates
at a total of £63,920,000, and the actual receipts
for the year having amounted, on the contrary, to
as much as .f.,65,477,000--there proves to be an
excess of more than one million and a half sterling,
or, to put the actual amount itself, an excess of
precisely £1,557,000. Had the year otherwise been
an ordinary year, had there been no necessity
during the lapse of it for any additional ex-
penditure in the way of military and
maritime armaments, in the way of defence
against the contingency of war, and even of inva-
sion—there woald have remained a clear surplus
of £BOO,OOO over the gross amount of the national
disbursements. In literal truth there is this sur-
plus now before us upon the balance-sheet of the
nation— there is this surplus of ,EBOO,OOO upon the
balance for the nation of its ordinary income and
its
ordinary expenditure.
Extraordinary circumstances have rendered it
imperative,however, that that ordinary expenditure
should be increased by the remarkable add ition
of over £5,000,000 for defensive preparations
by sea and land—liabilities, for the adopti on of
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is il,ot so
much accountable as—the nation itself directly and
indirectly, or rather, intermediately, the Secret! pry of
State for War, and the First Lord of the Admil•alty.
It is solely and exclusively by reason of -hese
increased military and maritime armame nts—
the glory of inaugurating which belongs by right
respectively to the right hon. JONATIL l PEEL,
Major-General, and S4r JOHN PAKINGreToN,
C.B.
—it is alone by reason of the defensive pp ations
which had been imperatively insisted upon tbtrough
the Press by the People themselves, th it the
otherwise inevitable surplus of £BOO,OOO up on the
year has been transformed into a deficiency., upon
the current year, of exactly £4,867,000 'he de-
ficiency, observe, is below £5,000,000 ; and tbe one
solitary cause for that deficiency—the incrf ‘ase of
the defensive armaments by sea and land—e xceeds
£5,004,000. For that difficulty, therefore e the
present Chancellor. of the Exchequer's immediate
predecessor cannot for one single instant be b .eld in
any way whatever responsible. It is a did 'Lenity,

however, that the hon. gentleman now holding
his place is compelled to meet ; and it was the secret
as to how it might be proposed by him that the nation
should meet that difficulty that lent a dreadful
charm, a horrid fascination to Mr. GLADSTONE'S
Financial Statement last evening in the House of
Commons. The secret is now at length out. We
know the best and the worst of it. Bad enough,
in all conscience, is the best—(and paltry enough
for that matter)—we are actually, with a view to
meet the estimated deficiency of £4,867,000, to
anticipate the acquisition of the paltry sum of
£7Bo,ooo,vvhich would otherwise come a little later
in the ordinary way into the exchequer. How—is
easily enough and ridiculously enough explained.
The credit of six months hitherto allowed to
maltsters is to be diminished in extent, by just
six weeks—a discount of 4 per cent. on payment
being allowed by way of compensation! By
this contrivance £780,000 will be obtained in
anticipation, and the estimated deficiency
upon the current year reduced to a very little over
£4,000,000. And how are we expected to meet
this inexorable deficiency of £4,000,000! Ah!
" thereby hangs a tale"—and a tale that brings us
at length in due course to—the worst of it.
The worst of it being, in point of fact, that our
very worst anticipations have actually been sur-
passed. The Income-tax, the most cruel and ini-
quitous of all the taxes—is nominally to be almost
doubled! is virtually to be more than doubled ! 2
To enable the Coalition to tide over the present
session comfortably—to afford Mr. GLADSTONE the
opportunity of looking about him and having a
good think, so as to introduce some wonderful
Financial Statement which (next year) is to remove
all our difficulties !! ! That dreadful NEXT YEAR,
which is always the vanishing-point in the picture
of the national fortunes sketched out for us by
these masters in the art of statecraft ! That deplor-
able NEXT YEAR, which is the political mirage
shown to us session after session by Whigs and
Peelites and the rest of them, while we are toiling
on footsore and thirsting for reform and retrenchment
in the desert of routine, guided only by the trail of
red tape, and overwhelmed ever and anon, blinded
and all but suffocated by the sands of circumlocu-
tion ! Well, then, in 1860—we are to have Mr.
GLADSTONE'S Real Financial Statement. (That is
—if the Coalition should last till then). But in the
meantime we are to have the Income Tax nomi-
nally almostdoubled, actually for the next half year
more than doubled. The Torturer puts the screw
on with a flourish !

Luer.

___
The income-tax at present is—we all know-
-sd. in the pound. An additional 4d. in the pound
would yield, says Mr. GLADSTONE—founding his
argument upon the irresistible evidence of Mr.
COCKER—an additional 4d. in the pound would
yield the very thing we want, namely, something
over £4,000,000. But in order to meet this defi-
-1 ciency betimes, I must have this, says the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, at once ! Wherefore he
actually has the effrontery to demand that the in-
come-tax, augmented thus in a charmingly rapid
manner, should be leviable upon the first half-yearly
payment after the resolution has been adopted by
Parliament. The consequence of which ,would
be, as he himself acknowledges, that for
1859 the money of the people should be wrung
out of their pockets by an arbitrary ex
post facto act of legislation. To put the matter
clearly and unmistakeably before our readers, we
have only to quote the hon. gentleman's ipsissima
verba—" I propose," says he, " therefore, that a
rate of 4d. in the pound should be laid upon the
general mass of those whose incomes are above
' £l5O, and that a rate of 11d. should be
imposed upon those whose incomes are under
£l5O. But I also frankly say that my
proposal is, that this whole addition of
the income tax, if the committee shall vote it for
the service of the year, shall be made applicable to
the service of the year by being charged upon one
half-year's payment. I think it is the clear sense
of the committee that on an occasion of this kind
we ought to pay our way. I will explain to the
committee exactly how the payment will stand, or
what the tax-gatherer will ask—if the committee
should adopt my resolution—the next time he shows
what I am afraid I must call his ill-omened visage
at your door. The effect of this proposition will be
that the autumn or winter payment of the income
tax will be, for all those whose incomes are above
£l5O a year, 61d. in the pound, or at the rate
13d. for the year. and 4d. in the pound for the
half-year to those whose incomes are under £l5O.
For the remaining term of 1859-60 the duty will
stand exactly as it is now—that is, at 24(1. on the
half year for both classes of taxpayers. So, then, if
I have made myself understood, the next demand
will be for 61d. in the pound, which is at the rate
of 13d. a year on all whose incomes are above £l5O
and 4d. on the half-year, or at the rate of Bd. on the
year, upon all those whose incomes are below £l5O.
The result would be that this additional tax will
yield to the Exchequer the sum of £4,000,000. Add
to this the £780,000 to be received from the limi-
tation of malt credits, and the total will amount to
£5,120,000. The deficit, as I have already stated to
the committee, is £4,867,000, which, deducted from
the ways and means I have thus proposed, there
remains a surplus of £253,000." As a Q.E.D.—
doubtless extremely satisfactory to the Coalition,
and to the Coalition's most ingenious, but most in-
consistent Chancellor of the Exchequer ? But how
will the proposition be regarded by the population
about to be taxed thus by—his ingenuity and his
inconsistency ? In plain English—Here is the
very financier who, in 1853, devised the admirably
graduated arrangement, according to which the
ever-odious Income Tax was at length, in the full-
ness of time, in 1860, to cease and determine—here
is the same identical financier, in 1859, coolly
propounding to the House of Commons a
plan by means of which a deficit of
£4,000,000 (the liability for which is incurred
by an increase in the national defences) shall be
met by an increase of that very Income Tax,
amounting literally, in point of fact, to an imposi-
tion of 13d. in the pound upon all incomes above £l5O
per annum, and to an imposition of Bd. in the pound
upon all incomes below £l5O ! To gild the pill the
national Doctor calls the rate of this imposition, as
regards the year, an additional 4d. upon ihcomes
above £l5O per annum, and of an additional lid.
upon incomes below £l5O. [Precarious and perma-
nent incomes, whether above or below £l5O a-year,
being still taxed alike according to the old infamous
unjust, and heartless arrangement in regard to this
most cruel of all imaginable species of taxation'.]
Called, however the rate of increase may he, for
the next half-year--supposing the proposition to be
adopted by the House of Commons—the income-tax
will be levied upon the superior class of iincomes
for example, at the rate, not of 9d. in the pound, but
of thirteenpence in the pound ! This is really and
truly, we take it, the price we have now to pay—for
the Coalition ! We are not at war. There is not
a pretence of that kind as an excuse for the
imposition. No—but we are to submit to the adop-
tion of this monstrous anomaly—we are to have
virtually a War-Tax with nominally a peace
expenditure. And all this because Mr. GLADSTONE
has got it into his bead that we had better not

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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 preparations—(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
shale 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
the

The principal interest in the Foreign news
relates to Prussia, who takes all the credit to herself
for 4.r 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 comers.
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 to reign. 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 thz., 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
i•phuats ahsi t
ha
ebrze
parlol
vceodn
ts iode r
be a
ot in
fo a . p u
rTheel y consideration
-
racter ; and judging from the past the Right Royal
propensity bids fair to enlarge its assumptions in
he 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 TILE 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 brit 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
overed similarat
death, was but 19 years of age. The body was rec
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 oiortem examiuttion has been
ordered, to ascertain the precise cause of death.
THE
Moons.—We
have seen and heard (says the
(Inverness 'oterier) many reliable reports from the best
grouse districts; and on at least the lower mountain ranges,
where there was a fair stock to breed from, we can say that
since the year 1855 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 sweepsta t e
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that
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'''rilio-Esenso'gf 'hi is Grace the Duke of Portland at Lang-
well, have been taken by his grace, and are to be used this
season by the Speak of the House of Commons and party,
for whom preparations are being made at Langwell.
The Derby of 1861 closed ou Tuesday last with
1211 subscribers, 0,;3(1 the Oaks with 175 subscribers.

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1859.