The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-10 00:00:00

that all the thieves brought before him for watch steal-
ing effected their purpose by breaking off the bow, but
here they would be prevented from carrying off the pro-
perty.

Mr. Gilling observed that, hal the lady had one of his
ehaine affixed to her watch, sbe would not only have
saved it, but still she would have captured the thief.
Mr. Burcham bad no doubt of that, and he must say
that the contrivance was so simple that every person
carrying a watch ought to be possessed of one. Watch
robberies lia:1 of late become so numerous that it was
really a boon to the public, and he had no doubt that
the gentlemen who represented the newspapers in this
court would take notice of this excellent invention. It
deserved to be made public. As for the prisoner, he
had pleaded guilty to the charge, and the watch bad
passed to some of his companions—perhaps to one of his
pupil,. He had remanded him, thinking that as he had
pleaded guilty, some of those thieves with whom he was
connected would have restored the watch with the view
of reducing his punishment, But they had not, and
they preferred that be should suffer a heavy sentence
rather than give up the stolen property. Taking the
whole of the circumstances into consideration, he should
inflict the full punishment allowed by act of Parliament
—that was, six months' bard labour in the House
of Correction ; and he was only sorry that he could
not double it. As for Mr. Gang's invention, he trusted
that its utility would be made known, and that the pub-
lic would see the benefit of having one attached to the
watch, especially in large meetings and public places.
The prisoner, who seemed quite unconcerned, was I
then committed to gaol.

THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.

Since the Prince et Prussia has assumed the
Government, certain sections of the Press, in vari-
ous countries, have been making the most vigorous
applications of the sponge of oblivion to his ante-
-1 cedeuts. They set themselves right heartily to
work in the not very easy task of whitewashing
him in the eyes of Europe, and bedaubing him before
men as one of the most amiable scions a Royal
House has ever blessed the world with. The
courtly journals of Germany are, of course, the
loudest in this chorus of laudation—whilst those'
entertaining any opinion to the contrary, the reader
will easily understand, are condemned to silence,
or to the faintest and most innocuous expression of
their sentiments. In France, too, astonishing
efforts have been made to deceive the public as to
the character of the Prince. Foremost among
the French organs that thus endeavour to get up
a little enthusiasm to order, stands the Journal
des Debats. Under the well-known signature of
M. de Suer, it brings forth an article of such
nauseous adulation, that we on this side the
Channel have hardly the patience to peruse
the fulsome production. But, unfortunately, we
must confess with shame and regret that even our
own Press is not wholly free from this reproach
of toadyism on the Prussian Regent. At least, in
the reactionary portion of British journalism we
find suspicious pens busy manufacturing panegy-
rics for the Prince ; and the barefaced fashion in
which they assert " the thing thaitis not," has at-
tained so colossal a degree that any one conversant
with the facts must be astounded at the effrontery
with which truth is thus set aside.
What the flatterers of Prince William chiefly re-
joice to dilate upon, is the mildness of his nature,
and the cleanness of his hands from the blood of his
fellow-men. On this point the writer in the Debats
gives edifying assurances. Fate, says he, willed
that the Prince should march, in 1849, against a
popular insurrection ; but after having succeeded
iu suppressing it, he refrained from indulging in
revenge, and pacified Baden and the Palativate
"almost without the shedding of blood." Such is
the deliberate statement of the Orleauist Gazette.
Not less formal are the assertions in our own Tory
prints. One of them, in extolling to the skies the
amenity of the Prussian Regent, congratulates his
idol on the energy he displayed in the putting clown
of democratic attempts—" an energy," the journal
continues, "the mote commendable as it was
totally free from the effusion of blood and from
those sanguinary reprisals which disgraced the vic-
tory of Austria over the rebel Hungarians !"
These statements are really too flagrant to pass
unnoticed. What would be said if a man stood up
among us, defending the Ruler of France from all
participation in the events of December, main-
taining, moreover, that a coup d'etat never had
taken place—that the whole story was a fable of the
Revolutionists—that the streets of Paris were not
red with blood on those memorable days—that not
a single Frenchman had been shot, nor thousands
transported by court-martial ; in short, that there
was nota meeker lamb upon earth than Louis Bono-
parte, the much-calumniated ! Why, any one
prating with such flagrant nonsense would be set
down, without much ado, as a madman, if not
worse. Precisely in the same predicament stand
M. De Sacy and his English fellow-scribes, who
propagate the monstrous story of the absence of
bloodshed in the career of the Prince. A short
review of the facts will at once decide the case.
It was in 1849, when the Princes of Germany
had made up their minds to break their oaths, and
to overthrow by force institutions they had sworn
" before God and man" to maintain, that Prince
William was nominated Commander-in-Chief of
the army destined to act against the popular
movement. At that time the German Parliament
was still legally in power. Its decrees being
laughed to scorn by the perjured Monarchs, the
inhabitants of the Palatinate and Baden rose in
support of right, defending the cause of Freedom
against the treasonous plot of dynasties. This
noble attitude of the people the Prince of Prussia
was employed to overcome by the brutal agency
of his troops. In spite, however, of the free use
he made of the Qatima ratio of Kings, his task
proved no easy one. The entire army e)f Baden
having joined the good cause, and the country
rallying to a man under the Democratic standard,
numerous battles had to be fought in the open field,
and before the fortress of Rastadt, ere despotism
became triumphant over liberty. Thousands and
thousands met an untimely death in this desperate
struggle. There remained scarcely a hearth in the
country not rendered desolate by the loss or suffer-
ings of some of its cherished members. At last the
Prince, at the herd of some 80,000 men, over-
whelmed his opponents, who numbered but a fourth
part of that form His victory once established, he
initiated a system of terror, before which the crimes
of the Neapolitan despot grow pale,
and the
dungeon scenes of Austria are cast into the shade.
We refrain from depicting in detail the horrorsinflicted by his hands on the vanquished population.
We content ourselves with the dry recital of facts ;
they cry out loudly enough against the sanguinary
tyrant.
Baden was no sooner at the feet of the Prince
than the Court-martial began to reap its terrible
after-harvest. The blood of the thousands who
had fallen on the field was not sufficient to appease
the princely appetite for slaughter. Still further
food must be found for grim Death, busy as he
had already been. For weeks the trenches were
made familiar with the ominous rattle of the mus-
ketry of the executioner. Within barely the com-
pass of a month, 27 of the best and bravest were
thus ruthlessly shot at the command of the Prince.
Thus fell Dortu, the valiant young officer of the
national militia ; Gen. Tiedemann, the Governor
of Rastadt ; William von Trutzschler, the eloquent
member of the German Parliament; Elsenhans,
the Secretary of the Baden Ministry of War ; Von
Biedenfield, Colonel of the 3d Reeiment of Infan-
try ; the venerable Boening, the Commander of the
Democratic Legion ; Jacobi, the courageous Major
of Artillery ; the Professors Hoofer and Neff, de-
voted friends of the people • grey-headed Streuher,
the Communal Couucillor of Mannheim ; and Pre-
sident of the Neo-Catholic community; Mniewsky,
Major of the Polish Legion ; Heilig, Schad°, Len-
zinger, and Bernigau, all officers ; besides a num-
ber of other patriots, who received the deadly bullet
with equal courage. All these were sent to the
grave by the orders of the Prince whose victory
was " totally free from the effusion of blood and
from sanguinary reprisals !"
It may be conceived that, under such a rule, the
country became a wilderness truly. "He made a
desert, and then called it peace." Out of a popula-
tion of not quite one million and a-half, upwards
of 60,000 were driven into exile by the humane
policy of the Prince, In describing that history
of blood and tears, the pen almost refus-s its office.
How shall we speak of those countless executions
that took place unrecorded in the dark casemates
of Baden—of the massacre of prisoners hurled from
a church tower, to ba picked up by the bayonets
beneath ; a feat which the Brew-Zeitung
felt pride in recording—of the confi oath- ns of
property that fell alike on the inhabitants of
Ilia co tage and the mansion—of the sentences of
years of solitary imprisonment inflicted upon ten-
der women, for ]raving performed their holiest
m's ion in ministering to the sick and wounded-1
end of similer demoniacal cruelties perpetrated at
the bidding of the Prince ?
Such ;s the man whom the sycophants of thrones
delight to honour. Such are the deeds of that
Piinca who has pacified South-Western Germany
"without the shedding of blood." Truly it re-
quires no small contempt for poor truth and her
sad st ry, to danb over the records of history with
pigments of such servile falsehoods.—. Advertiser.

Mn. FITZBOY AND Tfl OMNIBIISES._-Mr. Fitzroy,
who distiuguiehed himrelf a year or two ago in connexion
with the regulation of cab fares, has upon his anvil a
mea,ure in reference to omnibuses and their fares, which
he intends to introduce as early as he possibly can in the
next session of Parliament. The main object of the men.
sure is an equalisation and systemisation of fares, but
there are (Aber portions of the proposed bill which will
have for their object an improvement of the vehicles
themselves, with a I:aw to increased acc)mwodation for
the public,