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

THB LAWYER'S CONFIDENT.—One of the most in-

timate friends I have ever had in the world was Dick
Danby, who kept a hairdresser's shop under the
cloisters in the Inner Temple. I first made his acquaint-
ance from his assisting me, when a etudent at 1 AW' to
engage a sot of chambers; he after wards out my hair,
made my Bar wigs, and assisted me at all times with his
valuable advice. He was on the sarnogood terms with roost
of my forensic contemporaries. Tbus he became master of
all the news of the profession ; and he could tell who were
getting on and who were without a brief—who succeeded
by their talents, and who hugged the attorneys—who
were desirous of becoming pnisnejudges, and who meant
to try their fortune in Parliament—which of the chiefs
was in a failing state of health, and who was next to be
promoted to the collar of SS. Poor fellow I he died
suddenly, and his death threw a universal gloom over
Westminster-hall—unrelieved by the thought that the
survivors who mourned him might pick up some of his
business—a consolation which wonderfully softens the
grief felt for the loss of a favourite Nisi Prius letter.—
Campbell's Lives of the Chief Justices.
AMERICAN VIEW Os' INDIAN AFFAIRS.-- AS we have
constantly maintained since the outbreak of the dis-
turbances at Meerut, so we now repeat—England is
contending with a mutinous army, and with a mutinous
army oily, and if she be not utterly recreant to all the
traditions of her national history it is impossible that
she should not come out of the contest victorious over
all her enemies, whether in one, iu two, or in all the
presidencies of India. Blundering imbecility may, how-
ever, aggravate, as it has already aggravated, the diffi-
culties of the task, but it must and will be achieved.
As Damiens said of that dreadful day of doom which
was to witness his own death by tortures which are
the eternal disgrace of the French monarchy, "La
journey sera longue, triaiB elle finira," so may it
be said of the trial which awaits Great Britain
in the East the day be long, but it must
come to an end—and it is irrational to expect of that
end anything but the re-establishment of British autho-
rity upon a basis of broader justice to India and to
England alike, and under the conditions of a sounder
policy than has ever ruled the relations of these coun-
tries in the past ; for it is an immense though a very
common mistake to suppose that the Indian empire of
England has in times past been of essential importance
to the prosperity of the metropolis. It is for the pro-
spective rather than for the actual value of her Imperial
sway over the Hindoo millions that Esgland is now con-
tending. It is in the cause of the world's commerce yet
to be, as well as of the interests of Christianity and
of civilisation, that the baronets of the "gallant Tip-
perary" and the broadswords of the Highlanders are
making sharp for the battle in Bengal and Oude. If
India were to be released by England, then it is clear that
the world at large would be simply the loser by so much
more gold and silver as would be poured into India in
consequence of the diminution and decay of the gradually
growing demand for foreign goods which the rule of
English civilisation alone has created and fostered ;
and the commercial interests, as well as the religious
and moral convictions of Christendom, are there-
fore quite as deeply involved as are any imaginary
necessities of Great Britain in particular in the
triumph of her armies over the disloyal and fanatical
hordes of their enemies. Mahomedan India becomes
a second China, controlling, however, the supply of
staples much more essential to modern commerce than
the silks and teas of the Celestial Empire. British India
promises to become a regular and legitimate member of
the family of nations. Annihilate the rule of England
1 in India at this hour, and, save in Eastern elements of
national prestige, the British empire would be to no
positively appreciable extent a serious loser in power or
in wealth. Reinforce British authority firmly in India,
and the millions of Hindostan, multiplying their wants
with their numbers under the wholesome influences of
civilisation, will eventually cease to be the " sink of
specie," and enter the markets of the world as buyers on
terms of equality with the rest of mankind.—New Yorls
Times.
WHAT JEWS CAN Do BESIDES MAKE MONEY.—Who
composed •‘ II Barhiere ?" Rossini—a Jew 1 Who is
there that admires not the heart-stirring music of the
" Huguenots" and the " Prophete ?" The composer is
Meyerbeer—a Jew I Who has not been spell-bound by
the sorcery of " Die Jndin I" by Halevy—a Jew I Who
that, at Munich, has stood before the weeping Koning-
sparke, whose harp silently hung on the willows by the
waters of Babylon, but has oonfessed the hand of a master
in that all but matchless picture I The artist of Bende-
mann—a Jew ! Who has not beard of the able and
free-spoken apostle of liberty, Boerne I—a Jew ! Who
has not been enchanted with the beautiful fictions of
lyric poetry, and charmed with the graceful melodies,
so to speak, of one of Israel's sweetest singers, Heine, a
Jew ? Who has not listened with breathless ecstasy to
the melting music of the" Midsummer Night's Dream?'
Who has not weeped with " Elijah," prayed with
" Paul," and triumphed with " Stephen I" Do you
ask who created those wondrous harmonies 7. Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy ! who, also, that I must so write
b, was a Jew !—Bentley's Ali,ecllany.
i THE AMERICAN SETTLER.—A traveller in the back-
woods met with a settler, near a house, and inquired—
" Whose house ?'' " Mug's." "Of what built l "
"Los." `'Ar.y neighbours ?" "Frogs." "What is
the soil V' " Bogs. ' "The climate ?" "Fogs."
" Your diet ?" " Hogs."
CONSOLATION.—A miserly old farmer, who bad lost
one of his best hands in the midst of bay-making re-
marked to the sexton, as be was filling up the poor
fellow's grave, " It is a sad thing to lose a good mower
at a time like this ; but, after all, poor Tom was a
dreadful great eater."