The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1864.

I',URN 1 i URE. CARPETS, BEDDING, and
FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in
the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class
goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to
Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select
from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground.
Every article warranted.
CLitHiGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR-
S ISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and
Co ire publishing. an entirely New Edition of their un-
equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo
adm-able engravings of every description of Furniture and
i-A!asteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and
post•tree on application. This costly work also contains
complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised
Battle

A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 E 0
An Eight-roomed ditto
A Ten-roomed ditto ........ 250 16 6
A Twelve-roomed ditto

Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass
of valuable informationto all requiring househ3ld furniture,
..-...rpets, or bedding. Ref erence3 kindly permitted to Clergy-
men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton,
Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth,
Wells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder-
minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,
St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's,
Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great

COl3 BETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford•
bridge, London, S.E.

CITY S H 0 W-It 0 0 MS
FOR
GLASS AND CHINA,
147, HOUNDSDITCII.

DEFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLASS,
Cut and Engraved, of the choicest designs.
DEFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT,
and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns.
REFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES, TAZZAS,
and Flower Vases for the present season.

)EFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
lor the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver.

REFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles.
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fEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for
India.

DEFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS
in Lamps for India.
REFRIES and SONS' WALL LIGHT
Chandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered).
FIEF RIE S and SONS promptly execute CLUB,
I' Mess, and General Furnishing Orders of China, Glass,

DEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS
with Pattern Books and Special Designs.

-F DEFRIES nnd SONS have just added Five
•/ • New Show-Rooms to their extensive _Manufactory.
T ley have now on show the largest assortment in the world
0;:i the above goods of their cwn manufacture.

bIANUFACTORY AND SHOW-ROOMS,
147, Houndsditch.

MA DAME RACHEL'S CIRCASSIAN
BEAUTY NASA, ALABASTER POWDER, and
(OLDEN lIAIR WASH can only be obtained at 47A,
New Bond-street.

I-IAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine,
is. 6d., or 20 stamps.

GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma-
nently- Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss.
The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It is
most easy of use.

HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. 3s. ad.; sent the same day.as ordered by post
for 54 stamps.

SPANISH FLY ie the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54
stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay
,n Hair, id.

PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
&C. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stAmps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High
Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, le.; Bent for
14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. M.:or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 60 stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. Gd., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 218,
High Holborn, London.

AWHOLE LIFE MAY BE PASSED WITH
scarcely a day of illness if PARR'S LIFE PILLS be
used upon the first premonitory symptoms of functional de-
rangement. May be had of any Chemist.

united companies, with a fixed minimum of £85,000 par
annum.

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts ou this company's lines for the week
ending Nov. 19, amounted for local passengers to £7,439,
for' foreign passengers to £2,852, for emigrants to £23, for
mails, &c., to £642, for local freight and live stock to
£10,554, and for foreign freight and live stock to £3,113;
total, £24,623, against £24,307 for the corresponding week
of last year, showing an increase of £316. The total re•
ceipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to
£472,470, and for the same period last year to £121,403,
showing an increase of £31,067, or 12.14 per cent.

without imprudence, be paid in macs or in debentures, in
order to relieve the market from a mass of securities now
floating about and impeding the improvement of credit. In
the present prosperous condition of the trade carried on by
the Bank, with the prospect of the development of which that
industry is capable, a capital however considerable would, he
"{firms, be at once and eagerly subscribed, and be got toge-
ther with the greatest facility. Subscribers would flow in
from all parts of Europa. He, indeed, is blind who
does not see tha marked tendency of capital towards
establishments of credit. Ile, indeed, is blind, who does
not see thnt the development of railroads throughout
Europe necessitates the employment-"£ means of credit
and of circulation proportioned to the immense increase
of capital which is the consequence thereof, He, indeed,
is blind who does not see that a system of banking, ag-
grandised and strengthened, which would reduce the rate of
discount and which should have its centre in Paris, would
before ten years increase fivefold the mass of business, pro-
duce a corresponding improvement in the wealth of the
country, considerably augment the public revenue, and, by
placing credit on its true basis, give to French policy a pre.
ponderance that no other country could equal. Such an
organisation could not be promptly developed but by esta-
blishing it in Paris Paris should be the pivot of this
financial revolution. Everything is ready for it. " Let us,
then," cries M. Pereire, "march along with a firm step to-
wards that object, and let us give the signal of the real or •
ganisation of labour."

The first duty of a Bank, M. Periere repeats, is to have
from its own resources a metallic stock sufficient for the
reimbursement of its notes; but the raising of discount is
the very worst means to employ, to keep, or complete this
reserve. In truth, banks should have no other mission
than that of furnishing money to the producer on the
cheapest terms possible, for otherwise, it would be madness
for Governments to accord to private establishments the
right of issuing hundreds of thousands of notes at no other
cost than:that of the paper on which-theyarrrmacle.-----A
The criticism passed by M. Pereire on the constitution
of the Bank of England is nearly the same as that con-
tained in the article which the Journal des Debuts pub-
lished a few weeks ago, and on which you made some ob-
servations at the time. Being led to that subject by the
necesssity of proving that the raising of discount in Lon-
don deer not necessarily involve a similar measure in
Paris. Al. Pereire declares that the charter cf the Bank
of England is manifestly vicious and dangerous. It
appears that the illustrious promoter of the act of 1844
(Sir Robert Peel) was too exclusively occupied with
the thought of guarding against the return of forced
circulation, and did not perceive that he exceeded the limits
of a wise precaution, and that while he excessively restricted
the writ of issue he imposed on the Bank the obligation of
frequently raising its discount, and thereby refusing its aid
to the market of capital at the very moment when that aid
was most necessary.
1%1. Pereire concludes thus—

"In this struggle of right, of truth, and of labour
against error and extravagant pretensions, we consider that
we are the interpreters of public opinion, which is greatly
moved by the late measures of the Bank, by the prolonga-
tion of a system the utter worthlessness of which is every
day more and more manifest. Old prejudices have had their
day—let us at last come to the practice of the true princi-
ples of political economy. Let us not forget, on this occa-
sion, that the exactions of money lupins were among the
principal causes of the intestine dissensions which devoured
Roman society, and of the revolutions of which it was so
frequently a prey. In our modern society, which exists
only by labour, pretensions and indefinite augmentation of
the rate of interest like that which we now witness would
have an influence no less marked and consequences no less
afflicting, for the slightest stoppage is, as we know, produc-
tive of misery and calamity."

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.

Throughout the whole of the cities, towns, vil-
lages, and farmsteads of Federal America yesterday
was celebrated as a day of thanksgiving. Business
was every where suspended, and the people devoted
themselves to merry making if they were not very
pious, to church and chapel going if they were seri-
ously inclined, and to much eating of roast and
boiled turkey whether they were pious or the re-
verse. Thanksgiving Day answers in America to
Christmas Day in England, and is celebrated in
much the same manner, the chief difference being
that turkey and pumpkin (pronounced punkin) pie
take that place in the festive observances of the
time which in England is reserved for roast beef
and plum pudding. Although the Government, or
that branch of it administered by Mr Fessenden
had not been sufficiently mindful of the fact that the
soldiers of the Federal armies—many of whom have
not received a cent of pay for seven months—would
have enjoyed the annual celebration more completely
if they had a few of their overdue greenbacks in
their pockets, the Loyal Leaguers and the contrac-
tors, and the rich Northern people in general, were
more sympathetic and more thoughtful, and took
especial care that, so far as the traditional and in-
dispensable turkey was concerned, the armies in the
camp with Grant and Sheridan, if net those on the
march through Georgia with Sherman, should eat
their fill of the national bird, and be otherwise as
merry as circumstances would allow. About 40,000
turkeys, a few hundreds more or less, were de-
spatched to Sheridan's army in the charred and de•
solated entrances of the Shenandoah, and as many,
or more, to Gen. Butler on the banks of the James
and the Dutch Gap Canal, and to Gen. Grant on
the Appomattox, or wherever else his head quarters
were yesterday established. And if the brave
fellows who thus partook of the liberality of
their peaceful, though not peace loving, fellow-
citizens had anything better than the execrable
whisky of the camp sutlers to wash down the dainty,
they bad no reason to complain that they were un-
remembered or shabbily dealt with. The Thanks-
giving of yesterday differed from all other previous
festivals of the kind by being both national and sec-
tional. Hitherto the Governor of each State ap-
pointed such day in November, usually a Thursday,
as suited his pleasure ; and it consequently hap.
pened very frequently that this celebration was not
simultaneous. Mr Lincoln this year led the way by
a proclamation appointing Nov. 24 as a day of Na.
tional Thanksgiving in all the States of the North.
It was competent to the several Governors of the
States to have appointed another day for the local
Thanksgiving, if they had seen fit to do so, bu
being of opinion that one such festival was seffi.
cient they all agreed that the Federal and the
State celebration should be held on the same day.
Each of them consequently followed the example
of the President, and issued his proclamation to the
little commonwealth of which, according to the
theory of the Constitution, he is the chief executive,
to enjoin the due observance of the day. It is
curious, and not uninstructive, to observe what
very different and conflicting reasons are given by
these gentlemen why the " nation"—for they will
have it that the Federal association of States is a
unit—should rejoice and pray, and offer thanks to
the Divine Ruler of the Universe. Some of them
are optimists, and see everything in the most cheery
and roseate light ; others are pessimists, and think
with Hamlet that the times are out of joint; some
are utilitarian in the hardest degree, and others
poetical and imaginative to a fault. Some are
literal and confine themselves to the present ;
others aspire to the prophetic and devote all their
skill to vaticiaations of the future; some are grate.
ful to God on pbyeical considerations, some on
moral ; and by far the greatest number congratulated
their people on the purely selfish ground that the
evils of this horrible war have not been felt in their
fair and flourishing fields and valleys, or in the
smiling homes from which Death has not yet
snatched a member. The President, in hip procla-
mation, is of opinion that the gratitude of the
American people is due to Almighty God because
"He has preserved the .national existence for
another year; defended it with his guardian care
against unfriendly designs from abroad; and largely
augmented its free population by emancipation and
immigration." The Governor of New York is
thankful for the public health, for abundant har-
vests, and for what; he calls "other blessings,"
without specifying in what they consist. He takes
care, however, to prove that his heart is not in the
war by reminding the people that in the great cities
many are threatened with want of labour, and con-
sequent want of food, and that the withdrawal of
large numbers of ablebodied men to the unproduc-
tive and wasteful work of slaughter 'oyes thou"