The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-05 00:00:00

The Conservative Party.

A meeting of the Conservative Party was held
yesterday afternoon at the house of the Marquis of
Salisbury in Arlington-street.
In the absence of Lord Derby, the Earl of
MALMESBURY addressed the meeting. He lamented
the unfortunate illness whick alone prevented Lord
Derby from attending, and explained at some length
the reasons which induced him to desire that the
same Resolution which had been adopted for the
House of Commons should also be moved in the
House of Lords, but on a day which would probably
render the Enal decisions of the two Houses as
nearly as possible simultaneous. He then read the
Resolution, which differed only in a few words from
that already the subject of debate in the House of
Commons, and concluded by impressing upon the
party the necessity of perfect unity of action.
Several members of both houses addressed the
meeting, offering suggestions or stating their ac-
quiescence in the course to be pursued ; but nothing
could be more unanimous than the feeling of the
meeting, which separated with an expression of
cordial regret that in all probability it would be
impossible for Lord Darby to move the Resolution
upon which they had agreed.
It was understood that in Lord Darby's absence
the Resolution will be moved by Lord Malmesbury.
Naval and Military Intelligence,

The 2d Battalion of the Coldstream Guards will leave the
Wellington Barracks, St. James's, to-day, for a month's
duty at the Camp at Aldershot.

The examination of candidates for admission to the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich, commenced yesterday, before
Major-General Hamilton and the Council of Military Edu-
cation, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. There are about
130 candidates. The examination will not olose until
Wednesday, the 20th inst.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Sub-Lieut. H. C. Kane, Sub-Lieut. E. G.
r Bourke, and Sub-Lieut H. Rose, to the Victoria and Albert;
Chas. B. Wood, surgeon, to the Orlando; E. G. Ellis,
clerk, to the Royal Adelaide; Henry Bullmore, clerk, to
the Royal Adelaide, as supernumerary ; C. J. Franks, of
the Cumberland, promoted to engineer; W. Castle, of the
Dauntless, for tenders, confirmed as engineer; and J. T.
Robinson,supernumerary of the Cumberland, confirmed as
first-class assist.-engineer.

Breakfast to Officers of the Kearsage.

•

Yeterday at 2 o'cl,,ck, the 88th anniversary of Ameri-
can independqace, a number of Americans entertained at
breakfast, in St. James's Hall, Captain Wheeler and Engi-
neer Cushman, of the Kearsage. Although the presence
of thi-3e officers in London was not known until late in the
evening bct,re there was a considerable company present
and much enthusiasm manifested. Amongst those present
were the Hon. Bradford E. Wood, United States Minister
to Denmark—Captain Boyd, United States Marine Corps
C. E. Wilson, Secretary cf Legation, London—Henry T.
Parker, of Boston—A. B. Childs, Dr Whitney, Dr Ballard,
C. L. Derby, of New York—B. F. Brown, of Boston—::...
Hunting, New York—W. J. Valentine, of Maine—G. W,
Belding, B. Moran, Henry B. Adams, C. F. Dennet, of
Boston—A, G. Grant, of Ohio—M. D. Conway, of Boston,
and others.

When the excellent breakfast had been attended to, the
chairman, C. E. WiLsoN, EFq , proposed the health of the
President of the United States, whose name was received
with nine cheers. The Hon. Mr. WOOD responded to this.
He said, the President was emphatically, as the chairman
pronounced him, an honest man. To a great extent un-
familiar with political life when he entered upon his pre.
sent duties, and with a task of greater difficulty than is
allotted to most men, he had advanced step by step to the
heart of the great issue in America—which was the com-
pletion of the work that we now see was but partially done
in 1776—(applause)—for by an unfortunate omission
slavery was in that day still allowed to live by the very
men who declared that all men were created free and equal.
It was only because she was permitted to-import slaves a
few years longer that South Carolina agreed to enter the
Union. All could imagine the joy that " Old Abe" in his
trying labours would have when news of the great events
which had recently happened—(loud cheers)—arrived at
Washington.

The second toast was "The Queen of England," whose
name was received with loud cheers.

The third was " The Navy of the United States—(long-
contined cheers)—we greet its representatives on our na-
tional anniversary with a nation's gratitude."
Captain WHEELER, well known as the manager of the
guns in the late conflict with the Alabama, said that he
knew more about fighting than about making speeches;
but he thanked them, and congratulated them on the event
that had so gladdened the hearts of all loyal Americans.

The CHAIRMAN said—We have here that wicked man
who was accused, and justly, of having laid chains over the
sides of the Kearsage to protect his boilers and engines.
Mr Cyan/tax rose, amidst applause, and said that the
plan they had adopted was one that had been recommended
by Captain Thornton at New Orleans, and had at that city
saved all the vessels from being sunk. The Alabama only
struck that chain-cable once (in his opinion—others on
board said twice) ; but he would like to have more of the
pirates come out and try if they could do any better.

The next toast was " The armies of the United States—.
God—Grant—Victory."
Mr CONWAY was called upon to respond to this. He
said that under God was Grant, and under Grant would be
victory. Born upon the new historic battlefields on the
Rappahannock, he had studied for many years the great
wrong which was now struggling for the mastery• of the
New World. He had much reason to believe that God was
setting himself against slavery, and he could esteem nothing
a real victory that did not utterly crush and extirpate
slavery. (Loud cheers.) We had already paid a great price
—let us demand the only fair compensation—an entirely
free and just Republic.
The CHAIRMAN said he was frcm Illinois, and was
proud of the State that had been foremost in the war—that
had given to America Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant.
(Great cheers.) He read the next toast, "Liberty and Union,
now and for ever, one and inseparable."
A storm of cheers greeted H. T. PARKER, Esq., of Bos-
ton, as he arose to respond to this. He said that, a few years
ago, when the United States Government was guilty of cer-
tain base compromises with slavery, he could not have cor-
dially responded to this toast, but now he could and did
with his whole heart and soul. He was proud that Massa-
chusetts had ever been in the thick of the noble struggle
for this high cause. He believed that this was the most
infernal rebellion since that of Lucifer, and that this rebel-
lion would be hurled to as great a depth as that archangel
and his hosts.

" Our Friends in England, God bless them 1" "The.
Memory of Washington Wilks," " The Friendly Fr`BB In
England." " The British Army and Navy Club.' " The
Health of the American Minister in England, were subse-
quently drunk; and responses made by Captain Boyd,
James Beales, Esq., A. G. Grant, Esq., and Robert Hunt-
big, Esq.
B. F. Broun, Esq., of Boston, sang several patriotic
songs. A lacy (Madame Hepburn) sent to Capt. Winslow,
supposing that he would be present, a beautiful breast-pin,
the design being a hand holding a dagger, with wristlet of
pearl and turquoise, and with the inscription :—" To our
gallant Captain Winslow, from his sincere friend, a loyal
subject of the United States, and a native Georgian."
The meeting was a very interesting and enthusiastic one,
and passed off pleasantly in every respect, In the evening
a largely-attended reception at the residence of the Ameri-
can Minister closed the festivities of the day.

The Cercle des Arts et du Commerce at Saint-
Etienne (Loire), in which speeches have more than
once been delivered by Duke de Persigny, has just
been closed, home difference having arisen between
the old and new members.

TIMES.—The lecture which Mr. Disraeli
proposed to read her Majesty's Government on the
folly of idle threats and the cruelty of empty
promises has ended in a singular exemplification of
both of these errors. His supporters arid his
opponents hbd a right to expect, if not a good case
against the Government, at least a good story, con-
sistent in itself, well told, well spiced, and only
requiring proof to be damnatory. He Mr. Disraeli
wished to insinuate, without holding himself at all
answerable for the suggestion, that tbe Emperor of
the French, seeing the Danish mischief corning on,
and being exceedingly indisposed to go to war with
Germany then, bad devised his impracticable idea.
of a Congress just to pick a little quarrel with us,
and so get out of obligations, real, fanciful, political,
or moral, arising out of the Treaty of 1852, ne could
hardy have done so mere cever!y and successfully.
Just at the very nick of time, when it became
necessary to say what we would do for Denmark,
the Emperor, according to Mr. Thsreell, prvounded
a scheme far the settlement of the Danish difficulty,
and ell other European difficulties, by a few
i:s sating round a tabie at Paris.
fifth how such e proposal 17145 snswcyid, so as' there,
no intentional incivility. All wet'; of meeting
it, oae;eotaece itself, come to the same thing in the
i ens. It could not he done, t was impossible, in-
concrivab:e. We are told at home that Lord Rus-
sell ought to have accepted the offer, and left to
even a, or the. French Government, or the actual
experiment, to establish the fact, foreseeing from
the first that the thing was impossible and the con.
ception a dream. Lord Russell thought eimpler
and better, and much more fair for all parties, to
say that the thing was impossible, and to give good
reasons for this. To call this the reason why the
Emperor flew away altogether from his Treaty
engagements, whatever their value, is nothing more
nor less than suggesting that he fabricated tue exe
case and resolved to make and take convenient
offence. The Schleswig-Hols;:ein quarrel stood by
itself and admitted of being treated upon its own
merits. It required no Congress; it had nothing
to do with Poland. Denmark need not be now
destroyed because Poland was dismembered a cen-
tury ago and the Poles are now oppressed. Mr.
Disraeli's view of the matter is equivalent to au
admission that Engler(' alone was faithful, true,
courageous, and even wise; ready to act with the
other Powers, and to advise on the supposition that
they felt the sense of honour; and only failing, as
Denmark herself has failed, by the default of her
Continental neighbours.

HERALD.—The House of Commons listened yes-
terday to two remarkable speeches. The first, Mr.
Disraeli's, which carried eloquence to its highest
point, was a subtle and most masterly unravelment,
of our whole diplomacy on the ➢enmark question,
rising to its conclusion with a fervid and scathing
censure of the Government. The second, Mr.
Gladstone's, was an ingenious attempt, the in-
genuity of which, however, was considerably
marred by its frequently obvious blunders to beg
the entire question. Mr. Disraeli gave its due
weight to the national German sentiment which
prompted an intervention in the Duchies, and to
the circumstance that there alone could it find
practical expansion. But how pitifully Lord Rus.
sell took up the argument upon this basis, elabos
rating despatches from a dozen different points of
view, holding up treaty law one day, and discuss►
jug possible modifications another; appealing,
threatening, reminding, pressing, now arrogant,
now suppliant, and oscillating always between op-
posite extremes. At first, France was cordial and
voluntary is her joint action with us. Why did
that invaluable mutual understanding come to an
end ? Mr. Disraeli tells the plain truth. It was
not that we refused the Conference. It was
that we refused it, through our Foreign Minister,
insolently. It was that we would not take up•
the affairs of Poland. It was that, after brag-
&Ting about our high intentions, we sank into
an abject apathy. And yet, with that example of
difficulty and even impossibility, before our eyes,
we must needs go blustering into the Danish
quarrel, in defiance of the distinct principles enun-
ciated by Lord Palmerston in 1831, and by Lord.
Russell in 1855, both statesmen having diverted
their policy into one which begins in bullying and
ends in surrender. What followed " the stimuinting
proposals" of Lord Russell to Denmark and the

PoWers of Europe ? The Continent was agit.ated.
We were treated with haughty sarcasm at St.
Petersburg; we were met with a civil sneer at
Paris ; empty notes brought us evasive replies; over
end over again we confessed to obligations *bonus
we as oft fn retreated; and, ail the w'hile, Lord
Rassell persevered in his historical
his promises not meant to ba cnkt

his vaunts at which Europe had now learned
to laugh. The death of the Danish Kiniz, the
affairs of the constitution, the propos:Li by Franco
of a Congress, and the rejection of that conciliatory
ache= by England in a tone which Mr Disraeli

calls off:usive: and Mr Glad.itone calls hones 4
brought no prw7ence to our counctls. We still went

on, exalting our horns as tbcugh we intend :A
to charge upon the whole nation of Gl.l
And within a week of tne day on which Parliatne%t
last assemble J, when the Qleen's Speech must have
h: en considered, Lord Itusell, otter refusing e.
Congress, was proposing a war. The Emperor of
the Frinch, of course, was thrown into a painful
pwition. We had been frank with him, urges Mr.
Gladstone. Why not have been frank also with
_ _ _ _ _ _

many-

Denmark ? inquiries Mr. Disraeli. It was England
that broke he neck of the Western alliance, which,

cemented by an understanding with Russia, would
have rendered the dangerous war now raging an
impossibility. It was England which brought all
the perils of Europe into a focus, by exhibiting
" the phantom of her proud courage," which dis-
solved into cowardice when the challenge fell at her
feet. When Denmark talked of integrity we pro-
posed dismemberment; when Denmark pleaded her
independence we suggested a protectorate, and as
Mr. Disraeli put it betrayed an idea of setting up a
second Turkey on the shores of the Baltic. In
whatever way we acted, however, our action failed,
and if this has not resulted in the lowering of our

just influence in Europe, we know not what those
words imply, or how we can for the future claim
to exercisa any moral power towards the restora-
tion of that peace, or the revival of that treaty
law which have been contemptuously flung in our
teeth. Great resources tend a moderate but stead-

fast policy" would not have put us to the blush at
St. Petersburg, or driven us baffled from Paris.
" Oar objurgations have rattled over the heads of
thqGerman Diet" with no more Effect than a hail.,

storm, All our diplomacy on the subject is waste
paper, including the fierce dispatches of the greatest
Whig patriot alive. We are reduced to the con-
.

temptation of his "intense incapacity," to the
chances of his still being busy, to any number of
n3w suggestions and promptings, and to Mr. Glade
stone's latest taunt that he cannot obtain an inkling,
glimpse, or glance into Mr. Disraeli's policy. Mr.
Disaaeli had anticipated the sarcasm and disposed
of it. " Our policy," ho exclaimed, as he wound
up an oration of magnificent force, colour, and bril-
liance, "is the national honour and the peace of
Europe. The details we shall state when we are re-

sponsible for them, and know up to the latest hour
what our predecessors have done." The debate Will
give political life to the week, and be opened frGIU
another basis in the House of Lords on Friday

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