The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-29 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 29, 1864.

The address of Sir J. KAY STIUTTLEWORTiI to
the meeting at Bacup could hardly fail to be listened
to with deep attention and interest. As High
Sheriff of the county, and as one of the most pros
minent members of that band of noble workers who
have. done such good service during the cotton
famine, Sir JAMES would always be welcome to a
Lancashire audienca. The people and the history
of the district are familiar to him—he knows their
wants, their characteristics, their tone of thought
and feeling. He can, too, look back through a good

many years of active experience, and not only note
for himself but point out to others the marvellous
changes wrought in the last thirty or forty years.
The occasion of his recent address was one which,
from the present position of the country, was
especially interesting. It was the annual assembly
of the Union of Mechanics' Institutes of East Lan-
cashire—a union which comprises about a dozen
groups of the evening schools of the manufacturing
towns and large villages, many oT which aro con-
nected with the library, news-rooms, and lecture-
rooms of mechanics' institutes, and similar es-
tablishments. It is not a little remarkable that
such institutions should have been able to hold
their ground at all during a time of such severe
and protracted trial, but that they should flourish
sufficiently to go through their ordinary forms, and
keep their regular ceremonials, is a significant sign
of the times. The union, although missing the
contributions of some of the master manufacturers,
has received undiminished support from the landed
gentry of the district. The youth of the neigh•
bourhood have steadily continued their attendance.
The number of candidates for prizes who have pre..
sented themselves at the annual examinations has
not diminished, and the standard of acquirement
has not fallen. What is, however, the most notice•
able thing is that in some institutions, where the
subscriptions had fallen off, the working men
themselves have paid the charge for the hire of
rooms, for lighting, fuel, and books, as well as
guaranteeing to the Union the usual payment of
half the salary of the organising master. These
schools are by no means insignificant in number or
character, since although this union only extends
over a radius of eight miles, the evening classes have
been attended by 1,800 scholars, one in every ten of
whom present themselves for examination every
mid-summer. Such facts show plainly the degree
of intelligence and mental cultivation current in
these districts, and this has no doubt exercised an
important influence on the public tranquillity dun,
ing the cotton famine. "Education," says Lord
BROUGHAM, " makes men more easy to lead, but
difficult to drive." Forty years ago, when physical
force was the only argument thought of to reduce
the working man to order, the weavers and their
fellows resisted a temporary interference with the
trade of the district with riot and outrage. The
cotton spinners of our day have submitted to a time
of prolonged distress with a fortitude and an order
that have excited the admiration of the civilised

world. Sir S. SLEUTTLEWORTH attributed the great
change in men's minds and feelings to a variety of
causes, prominent among which he placed the great
increase in religious and moral training. " No,
period," added Sir JAMES, " has been more remark-
able in our history than the last thirty years for a
growth of sympathy in Parliament with the well.
being of the workman." Be he agricultural la-
bourer or factory hand he is no longer in a position
of such hardship and injustice as he was. The fac•
tory acts have regulated the hours of labour, have
protected the women and children, and, generally
speaking, improved the discipline of the mills. The
Saturday half holiday, the improvement in the cot-
tages, the opening of parks and gardens, the news
and lecture rooms of mechanics' institutes, have all
exercised an ameliorating influence, and have con.
vinced the working classes of the goodwill of those
above them. When we add to these agencies of the
free libraries, which have brought the influence of

our best English literature to bear on the more
thoughtful workmen, the wide circulation of the
press, which brings to every man's door the teach-
ings of the time, which trains his judgment, en-
larges his sympathies, and moderates his prejudices
by showing him how other men think and feel and
act, we shall better understand the progress of that
remarkable change which has converted the theatre

of the machine riots of 182 G into the scene of the

heroic endurance and tranquillity of 1862.4. To
the general content and political satisfaction of the
masses Sir J. SHUTTLE WORTH adds another ingre-
dient. An intelligent, prudent, and skilful work-
man finds no difficulty in rising from the ranks,
and therefore he looks to the class above him not
with envy but emulation. A large proportion of

the master manufacturers of Lancashire can trace
their origin within one or two generations to work-
men, col'iers, or labourers. The Post-office sav-
ings-banks and other institutions afford facilities
to the thrifty but less ambitious workmen to invest
his savings in shops or building societies, or
gas and water works. The great inventions of the
cotton trade, the discoveries and improvements of
HARGREAVES, of CROMPTON, of ROBERTS, and
ARKWRIGHT have all come from the ranks. These
men, who were all of humble origin, were, as Sir
J. SHUTTLEWORTH finely said, the aristocracy of
mind in the trade, and, though very few may share
their genius, all can feel that prudence and applica-

tioa will enable them to rise from the lower level.
The vast increase in knowledge and education in
the cotton districts has been shown by another sign.
Instead of sharing the despondency felt by many
persons, instead of being overwhelmed by the apps■
rent annihilation of their trade, the cotton workers
have felt throughout a firm conviction of its resusci-
tation. Masters have enlarged their mills and added
to their machinery, men have been content
patiently to abide the issue. No other fabric has
been found to supply the place of cotton, and its
necessity is more than ever evident. Under these
circumstances a stimulus has been given to cotton
culture throughout the world which is even now
producing important results. But Sir DAISIES
SIIUTTLEWORTH thinks it wise to forewarn his
hearers of the possibility of another trial. Should
we depend on other countries for our supply of cot•
ton, a maritime war would produce another crisis ;
and would Lancashire endure a war policy with
the same equanimity as she has submitted to the
consequences of a peace policy ? We see no reason
to doubt it, and, in the first place, it is improbable
they would be so severely tried, The largest fleet
in the world could hardly blockade every seaboard
at once, and if our supplies are drawn from India,
from Australia, from Africa, from the West Indies,
and from South America it will need a good many
ships to hinder their entries and exits. As for mari-
time guerillas, the English need not have much
fear. Let them be free to act, free to equip their
vessels and defend their property, and the docks
that sent out the Alabama can equally send out
vessels that will defy the privateer. France and
Austria are the only two nations that can be spoken
of as maritime antagonists, but the first wants
the national gift of seamanship, and the latter will
find quite enough to do in protecting her own
shores without garrisoning all the seas with cutton
piiates. So long as the trade of Lancashire rests
upon our maritime supremacy it has a safe founda-
tion, and so long as the peace of tne district rests
upon the intelligence and education of the masses,
we have good reason to hope that every year will
remove us further from the reign of strikes and
riots which all good men must deplore, but from
which none suffer so bitterly as the rioters them-
selves.

There are few things more deplorable in the
opinion of discerning persons than to think that
those who have done their best, and devoted their
lives to the service of their country, are not ade=
quately provided for. It is true that noble edifices
have been reared whivh are the prie of this land

sums that are annually squandered upon preposte.
rous schemes, thrown away through mere caprice,
and wasted by mismanagement, it is enough to call
forth the strongest indignation that men are
allowed to languish in misery and die from want
for aught that a country that should be mindfal of
their preservation bestows, or that administrators of
her service who should readily acknowledge their
zeal and deplore their calamities will provide.
Thousands are levied to suit the caprice of the
moment, and yet a small sum cannot be spared to
make provision for those whose lot is lamentable to
think upon. It is not the way to induce others to
give their years of strength and their prime of
existence to a service that leaves in the lurch all
who fall by the wayside, and ignores the claims of
those who by every just right should be indemnified
for their loss. Any one capable of comprehending
the flaws of the management of our naval affairs
could easily put his hand upon scores of items which
have led to expenses that must be paid, but any
one of which might have precluded these hapless
.sufferers from dragging on a life that is a burden to
their country—the reproach of their wrongs. It is

true that this matter was taken in hand, and it is
earnestly to be hoped that next session will not be
allowed to pass away without some notice being
made by independent members on the subject.
The navy of this country should be our chief care
to preserve in a due state of efficiency, and above
all the seamen should be properly treated. It was
by such gross overs7ght and culpable neglect, and
such sheer indifference as this, that the best men
are dragged away from our service and enter the
navy. It is a shame and a scandal that it should be
said that England does not know how to provide
for her sailors, or worse still does not care to do so.

It was the boast of a more spirited generation than
the present that oar fi ig " had braved a thousand
years the battle and the breeze," but the propelling
power, the inciting influence that kept that flag un-
furled was the spirit of the hearts of oak who
fought and fell beneath its colours. If we now
become indifferent to the rightful claims of their
successors we do not deserve that in an
hour of need they should exhibit that daring
and devotion, which in past times of peril have
actuated and animated those who have saved Bri-
tannia in her darkened hour. It cannot be the
wish of any one that brave men should suffer for
the lack of necessaries, while on all sides sums are
spent that would more than suffice for their wants
upon trifles and trivialities. It is idleness or in-
difference that brings about such calamitous results,
but let those who ought to rectify these abuses
take heed to their ways, and bear in mind that

" evil is wrought by want of thought as well as by
want of heart," and endeavour to amend the errors
into which they have fallen. No better proof could
be given of their desire to improve than to make
the occasion of these men being discharged inca-
pacitated an opportunity for reparation; let it not
be said that they are another living reproof or
dying reproach to their country. If anything
were wanting to point the moral of this sad story
it would be the timely recognition of the claims of
these sufferers that was made by their shipmates.
On the occasion of receiving their pay each put
aside a little for the benefit of those so much in
need, and the accumulated sums reached the amount
of £5O. Small as this is for the necessities of the
case, it is a confirmation, strong as proofs of holy
writ, that a feeling of dissatisfaction was felt at
the official arrangements and want of care and
forethought. Such lamentable omission of impor-
tant duties and such great neglect of just claims
is enough to disgust any rational man from entering
the service at all. It is not thus that convicts and
malefactors are treated ; and while all due attention
should be paid to them, it does, indeed, seem too
bad that the defenders of our homes and hearths,
who are to go forth to brave the perils of the deep
and take their chance of the enemy's shots, should
be cast aside as a worn-out garment, or an imple-
ment that has served its turn, and is henceforth
worthy of no more regard. It is not to be tolerated
that this inconsistency should continue, and the
sooner a change is made the better it will be for
the honour of the country, the security of the ser.
vice, and the reputation of those who put them-
selves forward in the management of affairs which
they are not competent to arrange, and the failures
in which result in serious loss to those who can
the least afford to sustain them.

THE CHEMISTRY OF DIGESTION.—The services
rendered by modern discovery to the Materia lifedica of the
age, and the singular aptitude with which chemistry is
adapting these new elements of cure to the wants of the
community, are facts of the most cheering and consolatary
character. Among the secrets lately revealed is one con-
nected with the food solvent, known as gastric juice. When
this agent is weak, or its tone temporarily destroyed, in-
digestion, hypochondriasis, and a thousand ills afflict the
unfortunate invalid. To aid the digestive organs by sup-
plying them with accessions of vital force, Pepsine Wine
has been called into requisition with marvellous success by
Messrs. Morson and Son, the manufacturing chemists, of
Southampton-row, Russell-square,—ldoining rose, Nov.
25, 1864.
AN UNKNOWN MAN FOUND DROWNED.—Late
on Saturday evening the body of a man was taken
out of the Irwell, at Mode Wheel. It was very much de-
corn/088d, and appeared to have been in the water a long
time. One leg, up to the knee, was missing; the other
foot had on a white sock and a blucher shoe. About the
body was a portion of an old black cloth coat, and cotton
cord trousers. It appeared to be the body of a man about
60 years of age. There was a little black hair turning
grey, on the scalps The body lies at present at the Railway
Inn, Crops-lano.

BOURSE, Nov. 28.—The market continues dull,
bat without any material variation in Rente,
Threes for the Account, being unvaried at 64f 85e.
Mobilier shows a slight decline, the present quotas
tion being 882 fr 50c. Railway Market heavy,
and some of the lines rather lower. The market
improved towards the close, and left off as fol-
lows :

41 por Cents. 93
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 05
Credit Mobilier B9O —.
Do. end month B9l 25
Bank Shares 3500
Credit Foncier 1225
Roman

Italian Loan 64 75
Do. end month 65
Ditto Threes —
Nev Mexican

Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 4O
Home Debt
Deferred

RAILWAYS.

Orleans., t ..• •3.......•
Northern
Lyons and lieditarranean

Southern
6.,••
Western
Eastern
Sardinian

Cash. Account.
840 .. 842 50
985 .. 980
870 .. 873 75

580 - .. 577 50
500 - .. - -
473 75 .. 480 -
307 50 .. 305 -

Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 4ll 25 .. 412 50
Ditto to Barcelona

AMERICA.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.

Inasmuch as the good ship Canada, sniling from
Boston on Wednesday morning last, carried the ro •
suit of the Presidential contest, and the fact that a
large majority of the voters, of and in " the States,
had re-chosen Mr Lincoln, it appears to me that
pretty nearly all that is important on the subject
to Europeans will be known " in due course"—
anyhow before this communication reaches the
British shore. American votes, whether for weal
or woe to Americans generally, have decided an
American question.
What the possible, and some may think certain,
results or Effects consequent upon the decisim will
be by their nature of great moment " to all whom
it may concern " may be called a truism, but is no

less important as such. So far as Europe is con-
cerned, perhaps the most salient practical point
that suggests itself is, how will the question of
the blockade be affected by the ttiumph of the party
. _

that has elected Mr Lincoln ? Of course, I refer
to its probable duration. lam one of those who,
whether right or wrong, has been long convinced
that the would.be monopolists and politically power-
ful "manufacturing corporations" of New Eighind,
Pennsylvania, &c., are as anxious to keep up the
blockade as they were willing if not to create, at
least to envenom and continue the war, of which the
blockade is considered a military necessity. Hold-
ing those opinions, it of course follows that I con-
sider the continuance of that party—the war party
—in office forces the fact of the, so to say, unde-
fined
upon the considere-
tion duration ofofallgreat the blockade
le and maritime nations,
especially those that have " reciprocity treaties "
with the United States.

attachedcandidate.
In a former letter I ventured two orinions—one
Was nearly certain ;
that an exaggerated
and
the
ee election
other,
to of
theM r
effect
to
importancein England as to
With the exception of the hypothesis that the
civil war, ergo the blockade, might—by some unde-
fined process—end sooner if the Democratic parts
came into power in March next than with Mr
Lincoln as President, it is difficult to see what
difference the affair makes to England.
At least, I believe, the anti-British feeling,
which has been taught in school books; inculcated
from the denominational pulpits, and shouted by
stump orators, aye, and by lecturers on.science and
the belles lettres, in short, by the " politi•
cians" of the Northern States bi 3 just as
willing to show itself in aggressive action, whether
a Lincoln or a M'Clellan occupied the White
House, at Washington.
I have not referred, and I do not now allude, to
the generally inimical feeling towards our country,
which appears to me the dominant antipathy of the
ruling classes in the United States, in any accusa-
tory or deprecatory spirit, but because it is an im-
portant practical reality, and is evidently looked at
as a "card" to be played by certain "British" dis-
appointed and dogmatical demagogues. These—so
far as I understand their plans, or, as it would be
said here, their platform—desire to upset the insti-
tutions more or less of our country ; and as some of
them are " M.P.s" and Professors of Colleges in
Great Britain, of their country. Failing, it seems,
to receive the warm support from portions of the
British people, which perhaps they at one time an-
ticipated, these persons are found interchanging
communications—some published in extenso, others
merely given as extracts, in the avowed, consistent
anti-British journals of the Northern States.

The election proceedings were very quietly con-
ducted in this city. _ __

If it be true, as
was generally stated in Demo-
()ratio circles, that the ultra members of the Repub-
lican party wished for riots in order that New
York might be placed under martial law, they were
disappointed. One can hardly expect, however,
that the most bitter Lincolnite citizen regretted
another of Mr Seward's prophecies falling through,
namely, that Southerners were vicariously to fire
the Empire City on the Bth.
Notwithstanding the bonfires and fireworks, and
one or two electric lights, there were fewer normal
fires on that night than usual. _ _ .

The following description of the mode of voting
the Ucited States may interest some of your
readers :

" WHO ARE ENTITLED TO VOTE.—For the information
of our readers, and as a guide to them at the polls to-day,
a statement of the qualifications of voters will be interesting
and useful. A voter who has resided in the State one year,
and four months in one county is entitled to vote for Presi-
dential electors and State and county officers. A residence
30 days ig A cogrosint4 and apoubly dititziot qualifies

Southern papers assert that Forrest has destroyed
or captured at Johnstonville 14 transports, 4 gun.
boats, 33 cannon, and stores worth 3,000,000 dole.
The Southern press ridicule Sherman's reported
movement on Charleston. If true, they predict
his failure.

Early still confronts Sheridan above Strasburg.
Rumours are current that tLe Administration
will shortly offer peace prop)sitions to the South.
General Butler's speech at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel is said to foreshadow the programme of the
Administration. General Butler, after visiting
Washington, returned to the James River.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has organised a
militia in the border counties to resist the Confede-
rate raid.

Rumours of changes in the Cabinet are still pre-

valent.

The crew of the Florida have been sent to the
capitol prison at Washington. The Florida is
ordered to New York for adjudication.
The _Richmond Examiner thinks that the remon•
strances of Brazil against the seizure of the Florida
will prove unavailing unless backed by the great
European Powers, which it considers improbable.
The Examiner regards the Florida as lost.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (Morning.)
The Richmond papers assert that one column of
Sherman's army has moved from Atlanta towards
Selma, Alabama.

Early has retreated towards Staunton.
Beauregard is reported to be marching from
Corinth with a large force against Memphis.
13reekenridge defeated the Feddrals at Bull's Gap,
East Tennessee, with the capture of numerous pri-

Boners and six guns:
The Tallahasse has arrived safely at Wilmington.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
World asserts that the Freuch Minister had had an
interview with Seward, when the offer of French

intervention was renewed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (Evening).
'('he report is reiterated that Early had retreated
up the valley to check Sherman's advance, and that
Sheridan was pursuing th© former.
Mobile despatches assert that the Confederates
had captured Morganzin, Louisiana, with 1,900
prisoners.

The report of Lincoln sending peace commis-
sioners to Richmond is reiterated.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (Evening.)
Money easy. Gold opened on Wednesday at
288, since declining to 211, but recovering subse-
quently to 2161. Stocks declining. New York
Centrals, 120 i-, ; Illinois, 123; Erie, 951; 5.20
United States Bonds, 1031.
The Government nas anticipated the payment of
the interest of the January Coupons, amounting to
nine millions.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (Evening).
Money easy. To-day gold has fluctuated vio-
lently between 216 and 224, closing at 221. Stocks
steady. New York Centrals, 120,1,; Illinois, 1241;
Erie, 95 5 20; United States Bonds, 1038. Cotton
dull—Middling Upland, 130. Flour and wheat
slightly firmer. Corn advancing. Provisions
heavy. Coffee dull. Sugar very dull. Molasses
dull. Petroleum—crude, 451 ; refined, 68.

CANADA.

MONTREAL, Nov. 18.

The judge of the Montreal court has granted
Lieut. Young's request for time to send to Rich.
mond for evidence of his official status.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE AT PRESTON.—At the
County Police Court, Preston, on Saturday, a re.
spectably-dressed man, named James Allanson, was
charged by John Alston, gamekeeper to Mr E. Birley, with
night poaching on certain land in Lea, near Preston, Als-
ton said that at twenty minutes past seven o'clock on the
evening of the previous Thursday he caught the defend-
ant and another man with a net in a field he was Watch-
ing ; that he had a fight with the defendant, who had
nothing in the shape of game about him ; that afterwards
he allowed him to go away; and that about midnight, on
the information he supplied to the police, the defendant
was ordered out of his bed and taken to the lock• up for
night poaching.—This was the whole of the evidence for the
prosecution.—Mr Watson, solicitor, who appeared for the
defendant, said that the case came before the Bench without
the least corroboration, so far as the prosecution was con
cerned ; that he should be able to prove that the defendant
was at his own house at, and for some period after, the time
the gamekeeper alleged that he saw him in the field poach-
ing ; that on the night in question he had occasion to meet
a person in the neighbourhood, and whilst going through
the field mentioned was pounced upon by the gamekeeper,
and most savagely maltreated by him ; that about 8 o'clock
he was seen at one of the houses in the locality with his face
covered with blood; and that he went twice to the police
court to lodge a charge against the gamekeeper, and obtain-
ing his apprehension for assaulting him, but could not get
them to stir in the matter.—Four witnesses were then called
in support of Mr Watson's statement. —Mr W. 0. Pilking-
ton, after a few momects' consultation with Mr Eccles, the
other magistrate, said to defendant—You must go to the
House of Correction for two calendar months, and find bail
to keep the peace for six months.—Mr Watson said—lt is
my intention to bring an action against the magistrates who
have given this decision, and against all concerned in the
prosecution. I therefore demand a copy of the informa-
tion and summons.—The magistrates smiled at this state-
ment, whereupon Mr Watson rejoined : I shall bring an
action against both of the magistrates present as sure as
they are living.

LAURIE'S ENTERTAINING LIBRARY, in the form
of its ninth volume, presents its juvenile sub-
scribers with a charming little pocket edition of
" The Pilgrim's Progress." The illustrations of
this excellent little series of carefully selected
masterpieces of imaginative literature hardly
appears to us equal to those embellishing the earlier
volumes of the Library, before the responsibility
of publishing it had been ceded by the Messrs.
Longman to Mr, Thomas Murby. Certainly the
four engravings in the current volume are inferior
to those we remember in several of its predecessors.
They are from drawings by H. Sanderson. In this
particular alone—namely, in the greater excellence
of the embellishments scattered through the letter-
press—we hope to recognise an improvement in
the subsequent issue of the Entertaining Library—
a library in the selection of the component parts of
which Mr. J. S. Laurie evidences the same rare
and delightful discrimination as that we have
already taken more than one occasion to commend.

LAB still additional evidence. of which, we have but
to notify the fact that the next, that is, the ninth,
volume of this serial Shilling Library will consist
of Oliver Goldsmith's immortal domestic romance
of the " Vicar of Wakefield."
THE DOUBLE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF 66 CHAM.
BERS'S JOURNAL" (published at 3d., and num.
bering 32 double-columned pages of letterpress)
is a bundle of half a dozen goodly Ghost
stories tied about, as one may say, by
the connecting thread of a narrative entitled
" Tenants at Will." There is the story of a House
and there is the story of a Grange—a sketch of a
Painted Room, and another of Farthing Lodge—to
say nothing of a Ghost in a Top Story and a
Ghost Underground. For a good, goosefieshy,
eltrich, eyrie, grimly, grisly, ghostly, goblin, set of
make-believe spectral tales, commend us to the fra-
ternal group of contributors to this most §eason-
able miscellany. They are in their capacity, as
veritable entertainers of the general public,
far and away beyond the Davenport Brothers,
The " structure " here reared—and peopled with
ghosts—is vastly more interesting than those com-
mented upon by Mr Fay as Showman. The tangling
and unravelling of the threads of these narratives, we
cannot for our own part but regard as an operation
very curiously entertaining in comparison with the
dreary waiting for the tying and untying of the
ropes of the two young spiritualistic acrobats.

CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED ALMANACK FOR 1865
although charged to the purchaser of it only Six-
pence, is a very marvel of excellence as an illus.-
trated publication. The embellishments are at
once profuae and well selected. The obituary for
the past year ('63.'64) comprises engraved por-
traits of Lord Elgin and Archbishop Whately, of
Pelissier the French Marshal, and of Thackeray the
English Novelist. There are, besides this, delinea.
tions of fearful catastrophes—four typical sketches
of the Seasons—and a dozan views of the birth.
places of celebrated men. The mere illuminated
cover itself is ornamental, as the almanack lies un-
opened upon the table or what-not.
DIETRICIISEN AND HANNAY'S W811.1030W11 Royal
Almanack, in its new issue for 1865, thoroughly
well sustains its high reputation as a repertory of
valuable and reliable information. The present is
the twenty-eighth year of its publication. It has
long since, therefore, assumed its place by right
among our popular favourites. And its claim to the
continued occupancy of that place, it here fully
sustains. Published by Mr Ed ward Cleaver, of 63,
Oxford-street, " Dietrichsen and Hannay's Royal
Almanack," although extending now in bulk to a
goodly volume of letterpress, is still issued no
more than eightpence.

THE YELLOW FEVER, which has recently been
devastating the Summer Islands, or Bermudas, we
have now reason to hope is beginning to mitigate
its ravages. Out of the seven humane and skilled
physicians who volunteered their services from
Halifax alone, three have been striken down by the
terrible malady they themselves had hastened to
Bermuda to contend with. One of these three—
Dr. John Gallagher, Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals—succumbed ! Another, Dr. Cogan,
of the 2d Queen's, has had the fever
once. The third, not yet mentioned, Dr. Mac-
Swiney, of the Royal Naval Hospitals, has had the
fever twice—but, restored to convalescence from
the second attack of the fever, he was actually,
according to our last advices from Halifax, seriously
meditating another (under the circumstances it al-
most seems to us a nearly Quixotic) expedition back
from Halifax to the aid of the fever-stricken at Bers
muda I Honour to these three true-hearted physi-
cians—men worthy of their distinguished profession.
And, while all due and honourable mention is thus
made of the Doctors, it is bu,t justice to add as a
circumstance no less worthy of mention—in regard
not to a physician but to an ecclesiastical dignitary
—that the Very Rev. Monsignore Virtue, who holds
the Government post of Catholic Chaplain to the
troops stationed at Bermuda, although upon the
eve of taking his departure for England upon a
holiday excursion when the Yellow Fever first
manifested itself in the Islands—voluntarily ab-
stained from holding by his original arrangements
and has ever since then been assiduously occupied
night and day in personal attendance upon all
ranks and classes of the effi)cted population.
GENERALS LEE AND GRANT.—Lea does not, as
you perceive, punctuate closely ; and nowhere in
his letter does he write out the word "and," but in-
variably uses the abbreviation " &." And yet he
pauses long enough to dot all his " i's" and cross all his
" t's." All his letters are irawn nearly straight up and
down the paper; in other words, they are like himself,
round, full, bold, and upright, inclining neither to the
right nor the left, and standing firmly on their base, as if
they disdained all assistance. They are so clear and precise,
so round and weighty and distinct, that each letter reminds
one of a solid cannon ball, and each word of a cluster of
grape shot. General Grant's handwriting, on the contrary,
though not so bold and distinct, nor the letters so large and
round and erect, is, nevertheless, very legible and very
striking. It is full of energy and action, and his letters all
incline to the right, and follow one atter another, with a
little space between them, as if they represented an equal
number of his brigades on a rapid march round Lee's right.
Among chirographers his hand would be called a running
hand. The words occupy much space from left to right,
and still they are clear and legible, He pays more attention
to punctuation than General Lee, abbreviates less, and is
equally careful of his " i's " and " t's." It may be the work
of imagination, yet in reading his letter I cannot but picture
the writer as a restless, nervous, energetic man, full of fire
and action, always in motion, and aIWaY4 ill 4 hurry.—
.eliner ican raper.