The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1868.

We are very glad to find that the threatened
failure of the grand Volunteer display on Easter
Monday is likely to be avoided, and, we may hope,
turned into a complete success. The selection of
Portsmouth as the scene for the annual review was
regarded on all sides as most fortunate, from the
opportunity which it afforded of executing new and
important movements, and of rehearsing in peace
some of those parts which the Volunteers might
really be called upon to play in time of war. It is
not likely that their services would be needed in
the field, but they might be of valuable assistance
in defending dockyards or fortifications, and
Portsmouth is just oue of those positions
which an invading force would be most anxious to
secure, and which it would be most essential to us
to prevent from falling into their hands. Those
who intended to go to the review as spectators
looked forward with unusual interest to the prospect
of witnessing the manceuvres arranged for Monday,
while the Volunteers themselves were so pleased at
the opportunity of trying their prowess on a new
field, and so anxious to display their readiness to
adapt themselves to circumstances, that the number
of those who determined to be present gave rise to
a serious difficulty. Great was the general
disappointment and consternation when it
was found that the programme had been
altered, owing to the presumed impossibility of
going through the whole of it in the given time,
that the grand field-day on Portsdown Hill was to
be altogether abandoned, and that the whole affair
was to resolve itself into a march past on Southsea-
common, where there is neither room nor opportunity
for display. Much correspondence has been going
on about this change, and for some time there
seemed reason to fear that the number of divided
authorities would prevent anything like a settle-
ment. The Volunteers were themselves disgusted,
and it soon became evident that if Southsea-
common was the only object of the day there
would be no reason to apprehend too full an at-
tendance. The good folks of Portsmouth were of
course greatly disappointed, since they had expressed
so much anxiety about the Review, and had exulted
over the selection of their town for the occasion.
The Mayor and other leading men have exerted
themselves strenuously to put matters on a right
and satisfactory footing. The Mayor has been up
to London to confer with the authorities, and the
Town Council have undertaken to keep the roads
clear, in order to facilitate matters. Happily all is
now arranged satisfactorily. The War Office has
decided that the field day on Portsclown Hill shall
take place, and the march past on Soutbsea Com.

mon shall also be carried out, if possible, so that
the old arrangements stand as before. This
is good news, since the whole credit of
the affair would have been spoilt, and the
Easter Monday Review, instead of giving, as here-
tofore, a valuable stimulus to the Volunteer move-
ment, would have only damaged it and brought it
into ridicule. It is very important that both the
prestige of the occasion and the public interest in
it should be kept up, if we wish to preserve the
vitality of the movement and the spirit of the force.
Hitherto, in spite of sundry faults in management
and minor drawbacks, both these results have been
attained ; but the Review of 1868, which at first
promised to add lu,tre to the event, has lately
threatened to bring the whole into disrepute. The
'Volunteers, we are sure, will not shrink from a little
additional trouble and exertion. If they do they
prove themselves but carpet knight; and certainly
unfit for the vicissitudes of a campaign. If some
have to remain in Portsmouth all night, it will be
no great grievance or hardship for men who call
themselves soldiers, and no doubt they are all wil-
ling to run the risk of some inconvenience, in order
that the affair should go off with more than custo-
mary eclat. A good deal may be done by the cen-
tral authorities if they will inquire a little more
clo.;ely into detail, so as to save the men unnecessary

fatigue and loss of time in starting. Thus, the Secre-
tary of the North Middlesex Rifles writes to-day to a
contemporary complaining that his inen have to march
from Cumberland market, their place of rendezvous,
to the railway station at Kensington, a waste of
time and strength, when Waterloo station would be
equally available. A change in a few such points,
if closely looked into, would considerably lighten
the burden of the day. Still we hope, in any case,
if the weather be propitious, that the day on Porto-
down-hill will be one of the most successful of our
Volunteer displays.

The public will learn with the most lively satis-
faction that the safety of Dr. LIVINGSTONE is now
placed beyond doubt. Human hopes so often prove
fallacious, and the dangers of African exploration
are proverbially so great, that there were compara-
tively few who dared to rely with any confidence on
Sir R. MURCHISON'S sanguine belief in his friend's
safety. Among those who doubted, or more than
doubted, if the adventurous traveller were yet
alive, was no less competent a judge than Sir
SAMUEL BAKER, than whom no ',man knows better
the dangers of the African wilds. Happily all
fears are now at rest. Sir RODERICK MURCHI-
SON has just received a letter from Dr. KIRKE at
Zanzibar, dated February 4, in which he announces
the arrival of the long-looked-for Arab messenger
with despatches and letters from Dr. LIVINGSTONE
himself. The despatches are now on their way to
England, and will before long be in the hands of
the public. However interesting the information
they may contain may be, it will be second to the fact
which they announce of the safety of our distin-
guished countryman. It appears that he pro-
ceeded northwards at a long distance to the west of
Lake Nyassa, and in course of time arrived at
Lobisa, formerly a thickly-inhabited town, now
almost deserted. In these parts the tra-
vellers suffered much from hunger, but on
coming to the vicinity of Lake Tanganyika they
found plenty of cattle and food. Here LIVING-
STONE met with the trading caravans from Zanzi-
bar, and delivered the letters to BUNDUKI, who
has had them 12 months in his possession. Re-
liable information has also been received at Zanzibar
of the arrival of Dr. LIVINGSTONE at Ujiji, half way
along the Lake Tanganyika, where, it is satisfactory
to know, provisions and stores are waiting for him.
We may therefore hope yet to see the long-absent
traveller among us, and his return will be doubly
welcome after the protracted suspense which Eng-
land has felt on his account.

The last news from Prussia is, if pessible, worse
than might have been expected, and will disappoint
those who have been thinking that affairs were taking
a more prosperous turn, and that a milder spirit was
animating the councils of the empire. The former
Hanoverian officers who were charged with high
treason were sentenced by the Supreme Court to
ten years' imprisonment each in contumacion. It is
almost incomprehensible that this style of thing
should be permitted to go on at this time when pro-
gress has been made to so great an extent, and when
freedom has advanced so much in countries hitherto
weighed down and oppressed by the spirit of exclu-
siveness. Surely in all conscience the Berlin
Government has gained enough, and more than
enough, without endeavouring to carry things to an
extremity like this, and to set the opinion of the world
at defiance. It is all very fine to talk of high
treason, and for the Supreme Court to give their
judgment accordingly ; but every one must feel
when they come to think on the matter that this is
a mere subterfuge, and that after all there is no
treason" in the case. How can these officers be
guilty of this offence to a monarch to whom they
never avowed allegiance? and how can the King of
PRUSSIA and his Ministers reconcile themselves to
the notion that they are acting in accordance with
truth, justice, or reason ? This persecution is most
cruel, and it cannot eves be accounted for, by say-
ing that it is called for in a politic sense, because
it is evident, by this time, that the sway of Prussia
in those places that have been annexed is quite
secure ; and, at any rate, for the present no one
will call it in question. Is this extreme rigour
intended, then, to terrify others, or as a warning
to those places or provinces not yet annexed to
Prussia, but which are intended hereafter to be so,
and concerning which Bism kRCIE may even now be
plotting their doom, and settling their future fate.
If so, we must protest, in the name of humanity,
against such a course of intolerance and oppression,
and declare that those who follow it out only show
the inherent weakness of their own course by per-
sisting in it. This is not the first time, however,
and we fear it will not be the last, that there has
been occasion to animadvert upon the policy of
Prussia. That policy has some very mean points
about it ; and perhaps if we were called upon to
define the great want of the Prussian character, we
should say that it was its want of magnani-
mity. Generosity towards a fallen foe was
in the old heroic days of chivalry the
leading principle of action, and there is no
reason whatever why these more prosaic times
should witness a difference in any marked degree
or striking manner. Prussia has conquered Hanover;
that is a fact which no one contradicts, but that
she was justified in so doing is quite another affair.
But since she holds supremacy now, why descend
to the meanness of these petty persecutions, and
take pleasure in acts of oppression that can bring
no strength to her rule, and, on the contrary, are
only signs of weakness ? We pity the unfortunate
men who are thus doomed to so sad a fate ; but we
pity still more those tyrants who force such a doom
upon them, and even now it is to be hoped that
some of the Powers of Europe may take up their
cause and seek to obtain a remission, or at least a
mitigation of their sentence.

TILE ROYAL BCCKIIOUNDS.—On Tuesday, the
turn-out of her Majesty's staghouuds was at Fulmer-
common, when the field was more select than numerous.
On being uncarted the deer went right away to Hedgerley,
thence along the road to Stoke, passing in full cry through
the village, and by the noted publichouso known by the
sign of the Dog and Pot, bearing to the right and over
the country between Mr. Henry Cantrell's Baylis farm and
the village of Fulham, then over Chalvey-fields, under the
railway arch, and was shortly afterwards run down in
Pocock's-lane by the Eton College playing fields by one
of the sportsmen, who jumped from his horse and pressed
it against the playing fields fence until one of the whips
rode up and assisted iu securing it. The hedges are get-
ting very blind, which renders the fencing rather danger-
ous. There will be only two more meets this season i❑
that part of the country, viz., on Tuesday, at Knapp-hill,
near Woking-station ; and on Easter Monday at th,
old favourite place, Maidenhead Thicket. Afterwards
the pack will finish the season as usual at New Forest.

A CLERGYMAN'S SON CONVICTED OF TIIEFT.—
A respectably dressed youth, about 18 years of age, the
son of the Vicar of Duncermiek, county Wexford, was
yesterday brought up at the Liverpool Police Court
charged with stealing some watches from the shop of Mr.
Goldstone, a jeweller in Whitechapel. The prisoner, who
appeared very dej,•cted and expressed his regret at the
misery Le should bring upon his father, sail he left home
in consequence of his fiery temper, intending to go to sea.
When he got to Liverpool he could not get a berth, and
as h• had no money, he determined to steal something.
He did not care how long he was imprisoned, as the dis-
grace he had brought on his family was all he could think
•f now. He was sent to prison for two months.
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