The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENINUi, Ooronmß 14, 1861.

sibility of her appearing before the world as little
better than a political QUIXOTE. Simply that the
independence of any other power, great or small,
shall not be in jeopardy, henceforth (so far as the
British Government is in any way concerned) of
being wantonly tampered with. Guai a qui la
tocca ! That is still virtually, to all intents and
purposes, the motto blazoned upon our national
banner. Gare a qui la touche ! The principle of
non-intervention to the contrary notwithstanding!
It were ludicrous to regard it, indeed, as otherwise.
A Power like that of England cannot abrogate her
right of interference in anything whatever that
concerns herself or her own interests. It is simply,
then, we repeat, that she puts aside for once and
for ever the mere Quixotism that has so often
marred the Foreign Policy of so many of the diffe-
rent races of Christendom. Henceforth—(this and
no more than this is the meaning of the adoption of
the principle of non-intervention by England)—
Henceforth England will interfere nowhere by force
of arms save where Honour and Justice constrain
her to interfere, in the vindication of her own rights.

It can hardly be thought—even by the most
infatuated Coalitionist—to look very auspiciously
for the present Government that the Earl DE
GREY, as a member of it, should have spoken of its
past and future, as he did the other day at Ripon,
The occasion of his rather ominous, and certainly
very sinister remarks, was the banquet given by
the Mayor of that borough-town on Tuesday last.
And the remarks we have just alluded to as having
been there and then uttered by the Earl DE GREY
were in response for no less a toast than that of
"Her MAJESTY'S Ministers." Speaking for him-
self and his colleagues, the noble lord can hardly
be said to have expressed himself very hopefully.
"No one could prophesy,"—said Lord DE GREY
(though assuredly it needs no Earl to tell us that !)
—" the duration of a Government." Even that
somewhat trite remark looks ugly, seeing that
it is volunteered by a member of the Administra-
tion ! But, it is what was afters► ards said by Lord
DE GREY that looks far worse—seeing that every
word we are now about to give was also volun-
teered. And, before giving these remarks of the
noble lord's, we may premise that we hardly know
which looks the more gloomily, his retrospect or

his anticipations.
Remember, he had just then observed, in answer
to the toast of " Her MAJESTY'S Ministers,"—" No
one could prophesy the duration of a Govern-
ment." And he now went on to remark
candidly as follows He scarcely thought
last year, that he should have had to
return thanks for the toast he did on the present
occasion ;"—how will Mr. GLADSTONE like the ad-
mission P or Earl RUSSELL ? or Viscount PALMER-
STON ?—" but," naively continued Lord DE GREY,
" having lived so long he might hope to live
longer." His lordship would find some little diffi-
culty in getting his life " insured" in any " office"
for no better reason than that ! The Earl DE GREY,
however, went on at once to try and reconcile
himself, without further delay, to the very worst
—or, as he would fain have us believe that he re-
gards it (from his own point of view), to the very
best ! "Though," he says, "he was convinced
that it would be a misfortune to this country should
Lord PALMERSTON cease to preside at the head of
affairs, yet it would give him (the Earl DE GREY
and RIPON) the advantage of the pleasure of being
longer among his friends in that part of the coun-
try." Really, if we are to comment upon these
words simply in our character as REFORMERS, we
cannot for the life of us resist the inclination to
add—Pity that the Earl DE GRET and RIPON
should be kept so very vexatiously from remaining
longer among his friends in that part of the coun-
try ! Perhaps shortly after the meeting of Parlia-
ment he may yet have his holidays.

REMOVAL OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—It has
been definitively arranged to dispose of the site of St.
Thomas's Hospital for the requirements of the London-
bridge railway companies, and to coalesce with the St.
Bartholomew's, the joint institution to have a convalescent
hospital some few miles out of town.
Mr. Henry Knight, whose name has been so
familiar to the noblemen and gentlemen of Eton College
for the last half century, first in the household of the late
Dr. Keate, and subsequently as the host of the " Chris-
topher," died at his residence at Eton, on the 4th instant,
in the 81st year of his age.
THREE CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED.—On
Saturday information was received by the police of the dis-
covery of the bodies of three infants who had been mur-
dered ; one, a female child, at Stepney, with a piece of tape
bound so tightly round the throat as to cut deeply into the
flesh, proving death to have been caused by strangulation ;
the second, a fine male child, found in the public urinal in
Arundel-street, Strand ; and the third, another male child,
found in Hyde-park, all having marks of violence on their
bodies sufficient to account for death. Large rewards are
offered, and the police are using every effort to effect the
capture of the murderers.
DEERFOOT, THE SENECA INDIAN, AND JACKSON,
THE AMERICAN DEER.—Deerfoot, the Son of the Prairie,
will meet another pale-face this day, at the West London
Cricket Ground, Brompton, who may perchance shake a
leaf from his laurels. Jackson, the American Deer, has
contended with and beaten some of the best men of the pre-
sent generation, and has also defeated the fastest runners of
seven different tribes of Indians in America. As the distance
is only four miles, a good race is sure to be the result. Four
p.m. is the appointed time.

THE GIPSY KINGDOM.—The _Kelso Chronicle
has this week received a royal message from the gipsy
palace, communicated verbally through a trusty source, to
the effect that an inaccuracy occurred in the notice of the
late king's death, in so far as it stated that his majesty
left no issue to succeed to the throne. Our later and
more authoritative information acquaints us with the fact
that the deceased King Charles I. has left both male and
female issue, there being several of the former, and all of
them survive. We believe the eldest son, who, had he
claimed his rights, would have ascended the throne by
the style and title of King David, is resident in Berwick-
shire; but he has abdicated his crown rights in favour of
his royal sister, the Princess Helen, the youngest of the
family, and who faithfully abode by her deceased father,
and nursed him in his declining years. Her royal high-
ness still occupies the royal palace at Yetholm, where
visitors are received with as much courtesy as ever, and
where they can be shown some relics of the late king,
and an excellent portrait of his Majesty. We have not
heard whether the Princess Helen has been formally in-
stalled into her regal authority, or if any form is deemed
necessary in this instance; but we understand she is by
nature eminently fitted to rule, possessing all the suavity of
manner which it is possible to assume, and being able at
times to awe the gruffest and most unruly subject into re-
spect and obedience.

Loss OF THE NEVA STEAMER.—On Friday the
official statement of Captain George North, of the London
and St. Petersburg steamer Neva, was posted at Lloyd's.
It appears from it that the Nova was an iron-built vessel of
450 tons, classed A 1, which belonged to Norwood and
Co., of Hull, laden with a cargo of general merchandise,
she left the Humber on the morning of the 25th ult. for St
Petersburg. She had a favourable passage across the North
Sea. On Saturday the 28th. at two o'clock in the morning,
she was in the Cattegat, steering S. half E., when suddenly
a steamer's masthead and red light were observed about a
point on the starboard bow. The helm of the Neva was put
a-port, and the other steamer's red light was thereby
brought about two points and a half on the port bow of the
Neva. The helm of the Neva was next steadied till the
other steamer's green light was perceived to be completely
in sight. The Nova's helm was then put hard-a-port and
kept so, but this had scarcely been done when she was
struck by the other vessel and cut down from the gunwale
to below the water mark. Captain North having sounded
and found six feet of water set on all the steam pumps.
Finding this, however, to be of no avail he ordered the
quarter boats to be lowered. He and his crew had not left
the vessel more than five minutes when the she went down.
They pulled for the steamer which had come into collision
of the Neva no sooner
with them, and found her to be the L. N. Havidt, of Copen-
hagen, bound to Hull, she, too, being damaged. The crew
got on board than they had to assist
in throwing overboard cargo from the main hold and in
working the pumps. With Eer stern broken in two, her
bows stove in, and her fore compartment full of water' she
arrived the same evening at Copenhagen. The Neva was
valued at £14,000, and her cargo at £40,000. Both were
insured at Lloyd's, and in the Marino and Indemnity In-
surance-offices.