The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-13 00:00:00

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THE SUN•

Lt NDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1861.

Have monarchs the sentiments common to
humanity—.if so, the Emperor of FRANCE must feel
a deeper pang than he would like to acknowledge.
Nothing is more universal than the regret felt by
every generous mind for any hasty or unkind con-
duct when it learns that the injured individual lives
no more. Not only down blame ourselves, but almost
forget that there was provocation on the other side
—we would fain recal the dead and express our
regret for what we hardly thought of while he
lived. Did the Emperor of the FRENCH feel
anything of this kind, when he heard of
the death of the young King of PORTUGAL. A
youthful monarch who, if not remarkable for high
capacity, was, at least, remarkable for good faith,
such as would be worth an empire in the case of
Austria, and who has accepted, and honestly carried
out, the constitutional Government he found in his
country, not overthrown it with bloodshed and per-
jury. A monarch who, in a small kingdom, was,
at least, displaying the quiet virtues which allowed
his country gradually to improve its position, and
who, had his life been spared, would probably have
seen it taking its proper place amoig the nations.
Yet he was early schooled in painful affliction—
deprived in youth of his mother, and after a twelve-
month of his Queen, Enrope generally sympathised
with the amiable and youthful Prince. One man
alone offered him the most heart-cutting and cruel
insults a Sovereign can receive from another—that
of treating him as a wrongdoer, and compelling even
pecuniary satisfaction, by virtue of superior force
alone, when the young KING knew that he had
acted not only rightly, but nobly. The dark deed
of NAPOLEON 111. in reference to the affair of the
Charles and Georges, was of the same character,
though life was not touched, as the murder of the
Due D'ENGHTEN ; it was another illustration of the
-utter insensibility of the NAPOLEONS to moral prin-
ciples. Solely in the interest of French kidnappers,
the Frenchman who had the physical power, and
because he could employ brute force, refused to the
King of PORTUGAL the plainest justice and the
rights of sovereignty. The cause of the Emperor—
slave-catching—and the means he employed, bully-
ing a weaker Sovereign, were alike bad and dis-
graceful ; and now that Sovereign has gone whither
we all, and NAPOLEON himself, must soon follow
him. England advised, indeed, Portugal to yield
to a bullying Monarch, just as we have so often
yielded to a bullying Republic, for peace sake • but
it is one of the many acts which have created
English minds the impression that we have to in
do
across the water with a man so utterly unprin-
cipled, that our only safety lies in our ability to
destroy his navy.
The KING'S history is, indeed, a brief one, but it
is an unsullied one. That is more than can be said
of many of his royal compeers. He found his
country, financially at leant, in a bad condition ;
things have much improved since ; ho was always
on the side of improvement, and we can only

hope that his brother, the Duke of OPORTO, who
. succeeds him, will carry out yet more vigorously
the coarse on which the late King had entered.
May he escape the club and pistol 3 of Imperial
France!

It is; quite a new thing that the speech of a Queen
of Sp A. IN should either excite much attention, or
b©, Oil :reasonable grounds, of a very cheerful cast.
Civil «.are effete and worthless Monarchs, an empty
exchequer, and a half brigand army, have been
what c htefly met our eyes south of Pyrenees. We can't ea y yet, that they have changed all that,"

but much of it is changed, Spanish finance, as we I
have experienced, is in a far better state than it was,
a respectable army has been created, which whatever
it might do against regular troops of a great mili-
tary power,cuts a respectable figure in a conflict with
the race whom she drove to their own side of the
Mediterranean ; and Spain is actually now about to
join in an expedition with two of the greatest
powers in the world. She may well, therefore,
congratulate herself on her progress. Indeed, it
seemed not many years ago as if resurrection were
impossible, and that this fine country was, politi-
cally and commercially, dead and buried for ever.
Spain is, however, at least alive again.
The piety of the Spanish monarchs, even of
the most cruel or dissolute, has always
been a point of honour with them. With
the blood of heretics they atoned for the
blood of patriots, and fidelity to the POPE
was the satisfaction to Heaven and earth for femi-
nine infidelity. ISABELLA does not dishonour her
ancestry—Almost the first paragraph in her speech
says—

The Holy Father, ever an object of tender and profound
veneration amongst all Catholics, excites my constant inte-
rest ea my filial solicitude. I have succeeded in obtaining
this point, that the Governments of those countries which
are placed under his holy direction should unite to find the
means of giving him, within his own states, that peace and
security which are indispensable for the independent exer-
cise of his holy ministry. My sentiments stimulate me to
continue these exertions. Thus I satisfy the wishes of my
subjects, who nourish in their hearts the religious faith of
their ancestors.

If " peace and security" be all she has obtained
for him, we doubt his gratitude will be small; but
if she means that she has obtained this for him in
States which not only are " his own" just now, but
will remain so, she may be sure that neither RICA-
soLI, RATTAZZI, nor any other possible Italian
Minister has conceded that. In her own dominions
she shows a love to the Holy Father worthy of
PHILIP 11. himself ; it was she who cleared the
little island of Fernando Po of some Christian mis-
sionaries, who went there to convert the negroes,
because even on an uncivilised island belonging to
her; Protestants might not profess their religion.
And at this moment, we believe, the worthy men,
in whose case Sir ROBERT PEEL and his ladies took
so much interest, are still rotting in gaol for dis-
tributing—Bibles ! The Holy Father does not
like Bibles—and tie virtuous daughter burns them,
and imprisons the distributors.
The rascally affair of St. Domingo looks very
pretty in a Queen's Speech, however the fact might
have appeared to the poor Dominicans, who found
themselves betrayed, doubtless for a consideration,
by the leader of a faction. What trace of political
corruption and military violence can be found in
these maternal sentiments :
That Spanish island the first discovery of which immor-
talised the name of Columbus forms once more a part of our
monarchy. The inhabitants of St. Domingo, menaced by
foreign enemies, wearied by internal disorders, invoked in
the midst of its conflicts the august name of the nation to
which it had been indebted for civilisation and life. It
would have been unworthy of us to contemplate its suffer-
ings without emotion, to disown its appeal, inspired by
great recollections and by an inextinguishable love for Spain.
Convinced that this appeal, that these wishes were sponta-
neous and unanimous, I did not hesitate to welcome them,
more attentive to honour than to the convenience of my
people.
The inhabitants of St. Domingo have seen their wishes
realised. The elements of riches which their fertile soil
contains begin to be developed in the bosom of profound
peace, and the zeal as well as the justice of my government
and of the authorities will efface the traces of past discords.
The QUEEN has some pleasant sounding sen-
tences, 'about order and liberty. It is reasonable
matter for gratification that the disturbances in
Andalusia were repressed without resort to extra-
ordinary measures. But constitutional freedom is
to be advanced, and the suffrage is to be extended
till " every legitimate interest will be represented
in Congress"—Mr. JOHN BRIGHT could hardly ask
more; a new electoral and administrative law are
to be proposed, and

The people anti the provinces will obtain, by means of
the law in harmony with their remarkable progress, that
sonsiderable share which belongs to them in the direction
of their affairs, and in the care of their interests, but these
measures will not diminish the means which authority re-
quires to preserve public order—that prime necessity of
states.

For one thing which her Majesty proposes we
should suggest that she instruct her Ambassador
here to confer with the hon. member for Bristol—
for she tells the members that,
Those measures which experience counsels will prevent
fraud end pressure from impairing the purity of elections.
The law which represses violence and fraud guarantees the
free expression of public opinion.

The press is of course not forgotten: What the
words she employs can mean it would be hard to
guess, unless we could guess first the speaker's
thoughts. She says,
My Go vei oment desires that the liberty of the press
should be protected by a law which, in leaving the field
open for the expression of thought, may repress the excess
of passions.

Happy Press of Spain ! The pure stream of
thought is not to be made turbid by the pollutions
of passion. A "protective" law is to act as our new
sewers will do in London ; political feculence will
be carefully drained and pumped away, and the
lieges of ISABELLA will sip in safety of thought
free from passion. With heresy swept from the
soil, or into prison, with a pure unimpassioned press,
with an Exchequer which no longer needs a loan
Spain will soon become the Eden of Europe.

Perhaps the most telling sentence that was
uttered on Saturday evening at the LORD MAYOR'S
Banquet in the Guildhall of the City of London was
the one in which it was intimated by H.R.H. the
Commander-in-Chief, that there is not the slightest
intention in high quarters to reduce our military
armaments, simply by reason of thQ success achieved
by the Volunteer Movement. Economists though
we are, we cannot possibly be otherwise than
heartily rejoiced at such an intimation as this.
For economy, so begun, would be the merest folly,
the sheerest absurdity. As the Duke of CAM-
BRIDGE admirably well remarked, the Volunteer
Force is chiefly and above all things valuable as an
auxiliary to the Royal Army. We should effectually
destroy all the good secured to the nation by the mar-
shalling together of an army of riflemen numbering
alreaay from 150,000 to 200,000 Volunteers, if we
were rashly to celebrate the fact by disbanding a
considerable part of the disciplined army, to which
this Volunteer farce has assuredly from the first
been simply supplemented. And this more parti-
cularly when it is borne in mind, at the same time,
that the standing menace to England which called
the Riflemen from their homes ally together
in vindication of our national independence,t°r
cognisable yonder, upon the opposite shoresoifs there
-
English Channel, quite as vividly still as at the very
inauguration of this great movement. NAPOLEON
has still at his beck and call a vast and formidable
army of from 500,000 to 600,000 of the most ad-
mirably disciplined troops in Europe. Not a force,
observe, of 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers, but a huge
body of armed men numbering altogether—in a
peace—but very little short of a stupen-
doustime of
aggregate of 600,000 men, infantry, cavalry,
artillery, and engineers. When there shall have
been visible a diminution in that direction—then,
but certainly not sooner, we may begin to meditate

with prudence on an econon Lica revision of our own
army list.
Referring to the gigantic scope of our annual
disbursements, Mr. SALMONS, one of not the least
sagacious among our Liberal metropolitan repre-
sentatives, observed very judiciously, only a few
days since, that—" As to finance, no doubt the ex-
penditure was excessive, amounting to just upon
£70,000,000 a year ; but while such enormous
armaments were kept up by neighbouring nations,
it would be most unwise to leave our own coasts
without the defence of a powerful naval force, and
an army sufficient to form at least the nucleus of
an army strong enough to meet any emergency:"
There is sound common sense in all this. To act
otherwise than in the manner here indicated, would
be the uttermost stretch of weakness and of impru-
dence. The hon. gentleman, whose words we have
just quoted, certainly added immediately afterwards
that " He was glad to hear that the Emperor of the
FRENCH was contemplating a considerable reduc-
tion in his army, especially in the artillery ; and
if that were done, we might then economise in our
own military expenditure, and hope for some
slight relief from the present heavy weight of
taxation." Yes—precisely—upon that one proviso
"if that were done." If the French army were first
of all reduced in its numbers, " then " we might
begin to economise in our military expenditure
But certainly not earlier. Certainly not before the
display of that wholesome economy by our imperial
neighbour. And, even then, in that long hoped-
for contingency, "we must not," as Alderman
SALMONS said last week to his Greenwich consti-
tuents : " we must not (even then), however, expect
to return to the expenditure of the halcyon days
of 1836, because the difference in the cost of main-
taining a steam as compared with a sailing navy,
adding, as it did, eight or ten times to the cost of
ships, rendered that impossible." The return of
those halcyon days to us, we leave to our peace-at-
any-price day-dreamers. It is their favourite halu-
cination. And simply as an halucination we cer-
tainly cannot begrudge it to them. They will find
no Government—Whig or Tory—that will ever
attempt to act upon it. The Ministry that should
once adventure upon a policy of false economy such
as that, would not (we may rest perfectly well
assured of this) survive the indication of such an
intended exploit one single fortnight ! The coun-
try would—beyond an instant's doubt—have none
of it.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Oporto and
his brother Prince Don Juan have left Claridge's Hotel for
Southampton, en route for Lisbon.
The Earl Russell returned to town yesterday
from visiting the Master of Trinity, at Cambridge.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will accompany
Mrs. and Miss Gladstone to Chatsworth, on Thursday, on
a visit to the Duke of Devonshire.

The Right Hon. T. H. Sotheron-Esteonrt, M.P.,
and Mrs. Estcourt have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, from
Estcourt, Gloicestershire.
The Countess de Flahanit and Miss Elphinstone
de Flahault leave Coventry House in a few days for Tor-
quay, for some weeks.

The Earl Jermyn, eldest son of the Marquis of
Bristol, is about to marry Miss Geraldine Anson, youngest
daughter of the late Major-Gen. the Hon. George Anson,
and niece of Lord Forester.

The Countess Dowager Cowper is entertaing a
succession of visitors at Wrest Park, Beds.

Viscountess Jocelyn left town yesterday on a visit
to the Countess Dowager Cowper, at Wrest Park.
Colonel and the Baroness North left town a few
days since for Wroxton Abbey, Oxon.
The Hon. Spencer Cowper comes to town today
from Paris.

Mr. and the Hon; Mrs. Balfour have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from St. Asaph
Sir Thomas and Lady Arabella Hesketh have
left Claridge's Hotel for Raiford Hall, Lancashire.
The Right Hon. Sir Edmund Head and Lady
Head and the Misses Head have arrived at Farrance's
Hotel from Canada.
We learn that Mr. Brineley Norton—brother of

Mr. Fletcher Norton, whose premature death we recorded

two years since—still lies seriously ill at the house of his
mother, ;the Hon. Mrs. Norton. Should the seine fate
attend Mr. Brinsley Norton as befel his lamented brother,
the elder branch of the family will be represented by half
Italian blood, Mr. Brinsley Norton having married a Nea-
politan, by whom he has a son, now in his sixth year, who,
after his grandfather, would stand in presumptive succes-
sion to the peerage of Grantley. Of the sons of Chief Baron
Norton in whom this peerage is vested, only two survive;
the present peer, aged 66, and the Hon. George C happle
Norton, police magistrate, aged 62. Of the younger
brothers of the present peer, Charles, who died in 1835,
left a son, Charles, who is an officer in the army ; and the
yonngest brother, the Rev. James Norton, of Anningsley,
who died in 1853, left a son, Thomas, who has also entered
the Queen's service as a soldier.

THE BRITANNIA.—A writer in a contemporary
says :—The old vultures are at work, and are doing their
worst to hold possession. Fever and vice being the atten-
dants of the naval cadets on board the training ship at
Portsmouth, the Lords of the Admiralty, after long-ma-
tured reflection, have given orders for the removal of her
Majesty's ship Britannia out of Portsmouth harbour. Port-
land harbour has been selected for this ship to be moored
in, on account of its salubrity and quietude for study. Out-
fitters and others are consequently up in arms at Ports-
mouth to prevent the removal of the ship—the health and
morals of the future Nelsons of England being, of course,
subordinate to their gains. Fortunately, there is a peer of
the realm at the head of the Admiralty who is not likely to
influenced by the pressure of a " constituency ;" and right,
no doubt, will be done, more especially when a good deed
has the support of public opinion.
At the special meeting of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company yesterday some opposition was mani-
fested to the proposed additions to the capital of the com-
pany ; but the chairman carried the proposal through with
his usual high-handed manner. The company's stock has
fallen 1; per cent.

The East India Railway Company have just
issued the letters of allotment for the -C1,600,000 ordinary
capital required for the completion of the main line. The
stock is divided pro rata among the existing proprietors.

GREAT YAR3IOETH, Nov. 11.—A second gale,
almost as furious as the one of last week, raged here on
Sunday, when the wind blew almost a hurricane from the
S.S.E. and S.W. A number of ships broke from their
anchors in the Roads, and one or two narrowly escaped
getting ashore. The brig Severn, of Hartlepool, from Lon-
don, was driven into by the brig Friendship, of Shields,
which carried away her bowsprit, and did other injury. No
other damage was reported as having occurred in the Road-
stead.

THE EASTERN PORTS.—The great grain move-
ments of the last few weeks have occasioned considerable
activity at Ipswich, and it has been remarked that the general
trade of the port seems to have received some impetus of late.
The Ipswich Dock Commission has resolved that for the
future the drawback on steam coals shall be allowed on the
whole cargo imported, providing that notice of the quality
be given at the deck office on entry, and that the original
invoice be, at the same time, presented to the collector, the
cargoes also being subject to the inspection of the superin-
tendent of traffic. The exports of wheat from the port
of Boston during the past quarter reached the large total of
29,406 qrs , as compared with 3,814 qrs. in the correspond-
ing quarter of 1860. The harbour trust has just reduced
the tonnage dues from 6d. to 3d. per ton. The Colchester
Town and Channel Commissioners have been discussing a
proposal to reduce the dues levied at that port from one-
half to one-fouth the maximum rates authorised by their
Act, but have decided not to make the reduction at present.
The dues received at the port of Great Yarmouth for the
year ending Michaelmas were £8,475, as compared with
£9,006 in the corresponding 12 months of 1859-60, showing
a serious diminution in the trade of the port, which has,
however, been increased during the last month or two by
considerable exportations of gra'n.

THE CARDIFF DOCKS.—A most distressing oc-
currence took place on Saturday morning on board the
schooner Speedy, from Waterford, Captain E. James. It
appears that on Friday night five sailors went to sleep in
the forecastle of the ship, taking with them a pot of
burning coals, for the purposs of heating their berths. In
order, no doubt, b make themselves more comfortable
they shut up the hatchway, and by this means prevented
the possibility of fresh air reaching the forecastle. The
result was that on Saturday morning two of them wore
found dead in their hammocks, having been suffocated
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above facts were deposed to, and a verdict of i‘ died from
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