The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY KVENING, JANUARY 3, 1857

AIIE A.TRE ROYAL, HAYMARK ET.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven
with the comedy of

WILD OATS.
Rover, Mr. Murdoch ; Sim, Mr. Buckstone ; Lai ly Ama-
ranth, Miss Talbot; Amelia, Mrs. Griffiths.
After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled
THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel
Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by Mr W.
Callcott. The music composed and arrangedby Edwa .rd Fitz-
william. The pantomime produced under the dire etion of
M. Milano. Harlequin, M. Milano ; Columbine:, Fanny
Wright (her 7th appearance in that character) ; Po mtaloon,
Mr. Mackay ; and Clown, Mr. Driver (nis 7th ap .pearance
in that character at this theatre). A Morning performance of
the Pantomime will be given every Thursday throng hout the
holidays : commencing at 2, concluding at 4.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING will be performer I
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS.
Fabion and Louis dei Franchi by Mr. C. Kean.
After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called
ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP;
or, Harlequin and the Genii of the Ring. Harlequin, Mr.
Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Hnline ; Pantaloon, Mr. I' Aldo ; Co
lumbine, Miss C. Adams.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs.
G. Vining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling.
A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Xsq., called
YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers,
Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall,
St. Casse, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell; and Mrs. Atelfort.
After which, CRINOLINE.
Commence at half-past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Great Attraction for the Holidays.
THIS EVENING will be performed
PAUL PRY : By Mr. Wright.
After which will be produced a new and original union of
modern burlesque and old English pantomime (as originated
at this theatre), by Professor Worclspinnter, Member of Every-
thing, with entirely new scenery, dresses, transformations,
dtc., called
MOTHER SHIPTON ; _

or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and thek Enchanted Whistle.
Harlequin and Columbine (k la Watteau), Madame Celeste
and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Gard.en ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Moreland; Scaramouch, Kr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur-
lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Blimd, Mr. R. Romer,
Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss, Mary Keeley, Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, &c.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH,
with its Splendid Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's
Trained Horses. Macbeth, Mr. James Holloway.
After which; the skilful SCENES in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with a new grand equestrian comic pantomime,
replete with fun, frolic, risibility, and extravagance, called
P NUL PRY ON HORSEBACK ; or, Harlequin and the
Magic Horseshoe.
Doors open at half-past six ; commence at seven o'clock.
Pox•oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CANTERBII RY HALL, West minster-road.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Ma.drigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, and Miss Summers; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F.
Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Raino. T. Farrant, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben-
nett, and Coni ; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, J. Ilarroway, R.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
wisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to
'the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven
o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
tions.

is tantamount to the annihilation of their quasi
rights of sovereign fir. These Brummagem knights
ate viewing with t, 'most serious alarm the Prus-
sian preparations. _ Nothing may be done against
Switzerland, but the y foresee the occupation of
their own territories ; by armies of observation.
They are well aware • that the nuisance of a foreign
army, however speei ous the pretext by which it
is excused, is scare ely exceeded by that of an
avowed enemy. Inds 3d we believe the Wallachians
felt that the Russia' is were more tolerable than
the Austrians. Beside 3s, when once an occupation has
been sanctioned, th ei re is no knowing when it will
terminate, or whet L there those who have once
obtained a comfort able footing will think proper
to withdraw. Th e great despotic Powers fully
understand the val sue appertaining to " the intro-
duction of the shal p end of the wedge."
We trust, then, if the question should be venti-
lated at the recen fly opened Congress, that the
Representative of ;England may stand firmly in
support of Switz€ eland. It is the best service
that can be rende red to Prussia—to Germany in
general. The diffic ralty has taken another direction
from that which 3 ras anticipated, and we believe,
as a daily contemi sorary states, that " the anxiety
, at Berlin is to di 3 c lover some creditable pretext
for abating their loobadil swagger.

The very satisfactory financial returns to which
we on Thursday directed public attention prove
beyond the possibility of doubt the marvellous
elasticity of the utttional resources. Despite the
heavy burdens to 'which we are subjected every
ordinary branch of the revenue mani-
fested a decided improvement, excluding
the precarious and exceptional item, desig-
nated as Miscella-neous. The increase amounted
to no less than 4,109,673/. ; and this, be it
remembered, without any additional or increased
impost being levi sd within the year. There was
altogether raised 2,218,9881. ; and, excluding
Miscellaneous by actual bona fide taxation,
71,247,882 i. !Eile great improvements were
in the Property Tax, which produced 16, 028/,422/.,
or a little more than a million for every penny in
the pound charged in 1855—this charge pro-
duced but 14,121,/i6l/. The increase has, there-
fore, amounted to nearly two millions sterling
(1,906,8611.). Thin, however, may be regarded as
chiefly arising from the additional 2d. in the
pound imposed by Sir G. C. LEWIS in 1855, and
which was chiefly levied in 1856.
This oppressive and unequal impost must now,
however, be subjected to a complete revision.
The people will not submit to the " pettifogging
quibble" by which .it could be sustained beyond
the end of the financial year. The manly and
straightforward spe ach of Sir M. F. BERKELEY,
the First Naval Lord of the Admiralty, echoing
the voice of public opinion, has pronounced its
doom. It is the ',handwriting on the wall" that
has declared its speedy downfall. As we have
repeatedly stated, the people do not desire to get
rid of direct taxation. On the contrary, they
desire its extension, on a sound and judicious prin-
ciple. But it intuit be completely modified, or
entirely rejected. 'The palpable swindle of charg-
ing precarious and temporary profits at the same
rate as fixed and certain income arising from ac-
cumulated and realised property must be alto-
gether abolished. The principle would seem
too absurd to require a single argument
against it ; but that it is an existing
fact, adopted and enforced by enactments,
framed by the Legislature, every member whereof
was obliged to exhibit a property qualification in
order to entitle him to take his seat and vote.
Collectively and individually, therefore, they
exonerated themselves at the expense of the
industrial population. This may be regarded as
a serious accusation, but unfortunately it has but
too much foundation, and the sooner the cause in
which it originates is removed the better for ail
parties concerned. It was, as " The Spirit of
Comae justly designated, " a masterpiece of
statecraft ;" but the eyes of the people have been
completely opened, their vision has been purified,
and they will no Longer tolerate the flimsy pre-
text that taxes " the working bees of the social
hive for the relief of the drones." The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer will not, under
any circumstances, abandon so profitable a
source of revenue.. Re has had too great expe-
rience of its productiveness. The ridiculous no-
tion fraudulently started by Mr. GLADSTONE,
when Chancellor of the Exchequer, and fostered
and supported by the Times, respecting its aboli-
tion 1860, may, therefore, be at once and for ever
banished from the popular mind. We must, there-
fore, reform the entire system, so as to obtain an
equal, or nearly equal, amount of money—but by
fairer means. •

Let us for a moment contrast the position of a
man earning 3001. per annum by unceasing indus-
try, and one who receives the dividends on
10,0001. 3 per Cent. Consols. They are each
called on to contribute the same amount
to the Revenue. 20/. is required for the
tax collector, which is sternly enforced under
the threat of legal proceedings from the one, and
deducted from the dividend warrant of the other.
The former may not have 20/. in the world. His
profits have not been deposited in a bank, or
hoarded in a strong box. The money has been
expended in providing for domestic exigencies--
in house-rent, food, and clothing for his family ;
and he is fortunate indeed if he can afford suitable
education for his children, and lay by a small
provision for the dark hour of difficulty and dis-
tress, when by sickness or change of fashion he
may be prevented from earning a decent subsist-
ence, or when by his death his wife and children
may be subjected to the most bitter privations.
His balance, whatever it may be, is his sole capi-
tal, while the Fundholder still has his 10,000/.
to the good. Although he may have spent every
shilling of his dividend there is no pressing de-
mand to torment him—no inexorable tax collec-
tor, whose claims must be satisfied at any cost, or

under any circumstances.
Nor is this all. He must reside at or in the
vicinity of his place of business, must main-
tain an " appearance," as it is termed, living in a
highly taxed house, drinking taxed tea or coffee,
sweetened by highly taxed sugar—his beer or
spirits heavily charged (with wine he will have
but little concern). He must, in fact, contribute
to every indirect impost and every local rate.
Not so, however, with the fundholder : with him
everything beyond the Property Tax is purely
optional. He may retire to the cheapest neighbour-
hood, or, if he is satisfied to live on the Continent,
may avoid any other contribution to the revenue.
He can drink cheap and untaxed wine, at a price
little higher than the professional man or small
tradesman pays for beer, and need not pay a
single shilling to the poor-rate that presses so
severely on many metropolitan and country dis-
tricts. Besides, he has no expenditure to
encounter in earning his income. The general
practitioner must keep his horse and gig, and
man servant (on which he is taxed). The rising
barrister must go circuit and visit sessions,
besides keeping
clerk and chambers. The shop-
keeper has trade expenses, for which he can make
no claim to exemption. The clergy man (no matter
of what persuasion) has claims on his charity,

against which he cannot steel his heart. From all

these the fundholder is free, as well as from,the
necessity for insurance. The former part, there-
fore, practically pay nearly the one-tenth part of
their available incomes, or ten per cent. of their
entire property. The latter one hundredth and
seventy-fifth part, or a little more than one quar-
ter per cent.

We have not, in the present instance, alluded
to the position in which the parties will be placed,
should the former have contracted debts in ac-
quiring his profession, trade, or calling. He must
pay extravagant interest on the amount, but no al-
lowance is made. He is taxed on that which merely
passed through his hands on the way to his credi-
tors, which he cannot in any degree call his own.
Should the other be involved in any liability he
has only to direct his broker to sell a few hun-
dreds, and he is at once exonerated from all
trouble and annoyance. We have said enough to
show the oppressive and palpably unequal cha-
racter of the present system. The only equitable
impost is a fairly assessed Property Tax, that will,
according to the dictum of ADAM SMITH, compel
" every subject to contribute to the expenses of
the Government as nearly as possible in propor-
tion to his ability." This is what justice de-
mands, and this the people are determined to
obtain !

Where shall JOHN BRITTON be buried ? A
fitting place of rest should be found for the re-
mains of that venerable and distinguished archaeo-
logist. Has any one of his own time a worthier
right than he to the respect of a solemn sepulture
under the roof-beams of one of our old gothic
cathedrals ? A few feet of earth and a flagstone
for the bones of him whose energies during life-
time were so reverently directed to the conservation
of those Grandest Monuments of the Past, amongst
us ! It is not asking over much, we think, to
ask thus directly for a grave of glory in which to
bury the dust of this old man of six-and-eighty
winters, this aged scholar, whose long life was
passed for the most part in severe study after a
youth of very painful privations, a grave for his
dust—where ? Well, no other where, let us say
at once, than in—Westminster Abbey ! There,
even in Westminster Abbey, we would have this
honoured son of the People buried in some
sequestered nook—there, even in that mausoleum
of poets and heroes, we would have the body
of the toil-worn scholar laid, humblest son of the
People though he was. 'Upon his gravestone
legibly carved the simplest inscription :

JOHN BRITTON.
Born, July 7th, 1771.
Died, January Ist, 1857.

If we have amongst us any, sense whatever of the
fitness of things in Life or in Death, there—in
Westminster Abbey—let the remains of Jomq
Iburrox be interred and nowhere else. For "in
life" he was peculiar3y one whose feet did

never fail

To walk the studious cloysters pale ;
Who loved the high embowered roof,
And antique pillars' massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light ;"
while "in death" his name will very long be re-
membered as the learned, laborious, and revered

Author of the great work of the " Cathedra
.Antiquities."

THE NEW OMNIBUS TICKETS.-
CAUTIO IV.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR, —I was informed by a most respectable widow
lady, living at Hackney, that she took an omnibus
ticket there to frank her to the Borough. She had to
wait at the Flower Pot, in Bishopsgate-street, for some
time, because several of the omnibuses were full. At
length she entered ene, and on her doing so was asked
by the conductor for her ticket. She gars it him. On
her getting out the man insisted on her paying him
I again; and she actually paid twice rather than be
bullied in the street. Unfortunately sbe did not notice
the conductor's number ; but it is well ladies should
know that it is not safe for them to use correspondence
tickets. I inclose my card, and am, sir, yours respect.
fully, C.

THE BOMBARDMENT OP CANTON.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 3, 1857.

The following is a statement of the killed and
wounded in the recent operations at Canton, the
particulars of which have alreaily appeared in the
public newspapers.
The wounded were reported by the Admiral,
at the date of his despatch (Nov. 14), to be doing
well.

KILLED.
James To whey, boy, Ist class—H.M.S. Nankin.
William Prowse, ordinary seaman—Calcutta.
Henry West, marine—Bittern.
James Lulham, do.—Bittern.
WOUNDED.
Mr. Oliver T. Lang, midship., slightly—Nankin.
Alex. Morrison, A. 8., do. do.
George Dwyer, ordinary, do. do.
Thomas Kirby, leading seaman, do. do.
Richard Proctor, ordinary, severely, do.
William Reid, R.M., dangerously—Barracouta.
Jam Barne, R.M., severely, do.
John Dempster, qr.-mas., slightly,
stoker, do. do.
Charles Hipsy,
do.
Henry Swale, Ist lieut., R.M., very slightly—Sybille.
John Baskyfield, marine, severely—Calcutta.
Richard Hore, do. slightly do.
George Atkins, do. severely do.
William Straw, do. do. do.
Simon Jessop,l do. slightly do.
James Nicholson, do. dangerously—Winchester.
Patrick Byrnes, do. slightly do.
James Love, do. dangerously—Comus (since
dead).
Reuben Bargery, fifer, R.M., slightly do.
It)land Bradstock, marine, do. —Encounter.

Her Majesty, we (United Service Magazine) hear, wili
shortly confer the baton of Field-Marshal on his Royal
Highness the Commander-in-Chief. It is believed that
this highest military rank will be accorded at the same
time to Lord Seaton and Lord Gough.
The Marquis of Bath has been entertaining a select
circle at Longleat, Wilts.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury have
arrived at Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough, from
town.

Lady Rolle has left Bicton, on a visit to the Duke of
Cleveland, Raby Castle, Yorkshire.
Lord and Lady Dynevor, who have been staying
some weeks in Brighton, are about to proceed to the
Continent for a considerable period.
Mr. Lawrence and Lady Jane Peel are about to break
up their establishment in Kemp Town and proceed to
the Continent, with the intention of being absent for a
lengthened period.
Mr. Graham, the official assignee, while descending
the staircase at his private residence, accidentally missed
his footing and fell, attaining a compound fracture of
his arm.

The Edinburgh Courant states that the Duke of
Hamilton will in a few days leave Scotland and proceed
to the continent, to join the Duchess and youthful
family, where they have taken up their residence for the
winter.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arrived
at Bretby Park, from Newmarket, and are entertaining
a brilliant assemblage of guests, including the Earl and
Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, the Earl
and Countess of Wilton and Lady Egerton, the Countess
of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, Viscount and
Viscountess Newport, Lord Burghersh, Lord Ashley,
Lord Henry Lennox, Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel,
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., Count de Jancourt, Miss
Anson, Mr. and Lady Sophia Des Vcoux, Mr. Norman
Macdonald, Colonel Macdonald, Mr. H. M. Ingram,
Mr. Sturt, &c..

The reported retirement of Mr. Horsfall, M.P., is
premature.
Lord Monson has subscribed 51., and J. T. Tweed,
Esq., 21. 25., to the Franklin monument. The Stamford
3tercury intimates that all the subscribers to this monu-
ment will be convened to meet at Lincoln during the
March assize week, to decide upon the description of
monument and the site,
THE MAILS.—SOI3THAMPTON, Friday.—The Royal
Mail Company's steamship Magdalena, Capt. G. Abbott,
sailed to-day with the West India and Mexican mails,
101 passengers, specie value 116,0001., jewellery value
20,9001., quicksilver value 2,7001., and a full cargo of
English and foreign goods.
Trig MAILS.—PLYIIOIITH, Jan 2.-----The screw steam
mail-ship Indomitable, Captain Nicholson, is expected
here to-morrow from London, and is appointed to sail
for Melbourne on Monday, bat will probably be detained
until Tuesday morning, to convey the London corres-
pondence of Monday. The steamship Chile, John Smith,
Commander, from London, is appointed to sail to-morrow
(Saturday)for Valparaiso and Coquimbo, calling at the
Chilian settlement of Punta Arenas, in the straits of
Magellan.

LATEST NEWS.

BERNE, FREDAY.
The trial of the Royalist insurgents is ordered
by the authorities for the 19th instant.

A deputation of Royalists from Neuchatel has
left that canton for Berlin for the purpose of
praying the Prussian King to avert the calamities
of war.

A telegraphic despatch was received last night
at Paris, announcing that the mediation of Napo-
leon 111. iu the affair of Neuchatel has bee*
accepted. M. Barman, Charge d'Affaires of Svvit.
zerland, has arrived at Paris, and brings the con
ditions.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Pea
(yesterday) says :

"The Conferences, it is expected, will meet
again to-morrow (Saturday). Before that time,
or even now, the Envoys, who had to refer home,
will have received their special instructions on a
difficulty which prevented the signature of the
protocol the day after the first meeting. I be-
lieve it will be found that Russia has honourably
kept her word with reference to the understood
modification of the Bessarabian frontier. Un-
der such circumstances, M. de Kisseleff,
the Russian Envoy, may have demanded at what
period the British squadron would leave the Black
Sea, and when would the Austrians evacuate the
Principalities ?

" It is possible that the Envoys of England and
Austria were not in a positi•n to answer these inter-
rogations, and hence the delay. As her Britannic
Majesty's Government, as well as that of the Em-
peror of the French, are animated with the most
conciliatory spirit, I have no doubt that the Con-
ferences will terminate with a good understanding
on all sides ; an event which all Europe will hail
with satisfaction. lam happy to inform you that
the Swiss difficulty is nearly terminated, thanks
to the personal intervention of the Emperor
Napoleon and the good understanding bet wee).
England and France on this question. I believe
the Swiss Government has this day sent most
welcome news to the Tuileries."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in a letter dated yesterday, says
"It is certain that the basis of the arrange-
ment which Switzerland had already admitted re-
mained unchanged, and I doubt whether even now
materially modified. Nevertheless it is believed
in quarters likely to be well acquainted with the
state of affairs that a pacific arrangement is
probable. The Emperor will soon be made ac-
quainted with the result of Col. Barmann's mis-
sion, and with the utmost that the Confederation
will grant, and much is hoped from the good offices
of England and France. On the whole I should
say that the chances of hostilities are at this
moment a good deal diminished.

"No Conference was held to•day. A new diffi-
culty is said to have occurred respecting the com-
pensation to be given to Russia. The principle, it is
said, was admitted, but a difference arose in the
details, and it is found necessary to refer to the
Limitation Commission, and again to the Govern-
ments. Of course, until that difficulty is removed,
and indeed all others, the English fleet will not
quit the Black Sea, and the Austrians will not
evacuate the Principalities. There is but one
Russian Plenipotentiary in the Congress, Baron
Brunow. Count Kisseleff is only an " outsider."
It is said the Emperor, at the receptions yester-
day, expressed to M. Kisseleff the satisfaction he
felt at the "moderation" of his Government.

A letter from Bellinzona, of the 29th ult.,
states that there are 20,000 Swiss troops march-
ing to the frontiers in the direction of the Rhine:
50,000 have responded to the appeal of the
nation. The entire Federal army is ready--the
drum and trumpet resound through the cantons
—the arsenals are basy, and camps for dril-
ling the troops are being formed. The
hymn of war finds an echo in the valleys.
Zurich, imitates the example of Berne in unani-
mously voting an unlimited credit. Militiamen,
full of energy, spring 'bp in the cantons of
Schwytz, Uri, Vaud, and offer 15 battalions
above their federal contingent. There are no
longer any polemics in the journals, but every.
where this cry—" Neuchatel is Swiss, and must
remain Swiss. The Swiss nation forms but a
single man—a single heart."

duce them to the Swiss Parliament; the other Powers
are ais liberty to join in them."
An article in the New Gazette of Zurich expresses
its regret that Prussia should have broken off dip-
lomatic relations in so abrupt a manner, since the
question at issue has now been placed in the hands
of third parties, who, with the best will in the world,
have ratheradded to its complications than facilitated
a solution. "The King of Prussia," it says, " can
hope for nothing else than the release of the pri-
soners, and in order to obtain that result he has
only to renounce his character of the John Lack-
land of Neuchatel. The King of Prussia no more
than Switzerland has anything to expect from the
good offices of diplomacy. But since the arrival
of M. Barmann the following solution appears to
possess some chance of success Switzerland
will release the royalist prisoners, is virtue of her
sovereignty ; and on the other hand, the powers
offer their good offices to obtain from Prussia the
renunciation of her rights on Neuchatel. Switzer-
land will be at liberty to choose the offices of all
the powers, or of only one or two of them.' This
solution meets the views of France, England, and
the United States, and is tantamount to what
Switzerland has claimed since the commencement
of the difficulty."

PRUSSIA.
A letter from Berlin of the 30th ult., in the
German Journal of Frankfort, says :--6, S.veral
journals pretend that the arrangement proposed
by France in the affair of Neuchatel contains,
amongst other things, the condition that the pri•
soners shall, immediately after their release, be
expelled from the territory of Switzerland. This
is inexact ; it is proposed that the Royalists should
simply, with the consent of Prussia, be bound to
leave the Swiss territory until all the affair shall
be arranged, so as to avoid new complications."
A letter from Coblentz of the 29th ult., in
the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The Prince of
Prussia yesterday assembled on the parade the
whole of the officers of the troops in garrison
at Cologne, and informed them that in conse-
quence of the complications which had arisen with
Switzerland, Prussia found her.elf in a very seri-
ous position. He. congratulated in advance the
troops who were to take part in the expedition.
Among those, he said, whom he saw around him
were many whom he had already seen fighting
bravely, and he expected from them the same
military virtues in order to give fresh triumphs to
the Prussian arms."

A letter from Vienna, in the Nuremburg Corres-
pondent, states; that the mission of Prince Charles
of Schwarzenberg to Paris relates to the question
of Neuchatel, and adds that in consequence of the
unfavourable light in which the military prepara-
tions of Prussia are viewed by the Cabinets of
Vienna and London, the Prussian Government
appears somewhat disposed to postpone its military
measures.