The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nsw YORK) Aug. 27, Morning.
Money easy—Gold, 250 g. Exchange on London
—Bankers. bills, 272. Stocks dull: New York
Centrals,l29l ; Illinois sharer, 1281 ; Erie, 1095 ;
United States Five-Twenty Bonds, 1111. Cotton
dull—Middling Upland, 186 to 187. Flour tending
downward. Wheat and corn slightly firmer. Pro,
visions very firm. Coffee quiet. Sugar dull.
Molasses steady. Petroleum—Crude, 531 c to 54c;
refined, 86c to 8713.

J ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1864.
Those are subjects which doubtless will not be
considered so interesting—in the sensation sense of
the adjective at least—to the British public as de-
scriptions of "flank moveateuts" at Petersburg

" raids" in Maryland, " strategical operations'! new/.
Atlanta, and so forth, but inasmuch as perhaps they
are really important to my countrymen I shall yen.
ture to mention one .or two of them.

The representatives—clerical and lay—of the
ruling politicians of the Northern States, who go
over to England as " quasi-envoys," persist, it
seems, in telling their hearers and readers things to
this effect :—" The very beat feeling exists in our
great Republic—rebels excepted--to your nation
(British) and people. It is true that nearly all
you read ill and, hear of newspapers, speeches,
ize., published in the North might leadyou to think
the contrary, but that would be quite a mistake ;
we, and the rest of the " thinking men" of the
United States know better, we repudiate the anti-
British doctrines and language of the New York
Ihrald," and the like, and assert our nation as a
nation is most friendly to your nation."
Seeking brevity, I of course cannot give in
extenso the many words by which American elo-
quence enunciates the above declaration of national
friendship and amity. For the same reason, any
remarks of mine upon the incidental topics, so to
say, introduced by the "quasi-envoys" must be of
the condensed order. One of their opinions or
assertions is that the Southern States are inimical
to England. All I shall now say to this is, that the
very fact of the" quasi-envoys" and their congenial
friends in England constantly harping on the theme,
would, in itself, raise grave doubts in my mind as
to the truth of the assertions. This may be con-
sidered neither a polite nor a logical reason to
assign ; however, I am not at present entering into
any dissertation whatever on strictly Southern
matters, and have not the slightest intention or
wish to—what is called in homely phraseology—
" mince matters" in reference to these quasi-envoys
and their constituents—so let the one opinion stand
pro ton against the other.
Another " incidental topic" constantly urged,—
especially by such of the " quasi envoys" as have
" Right Rev." or " Rev." prefixed to their names,
is, that they "repudiate the anti•Britiah doctrines
and similar language of the New York Ilerald."
It may be assumed that this virtuous indignation

—which, by the way, is only displayed by those
persons when they cross the Atlantic—against the
coarse pursued by a particular Northern journal, if
it means anything, seeks to convey the impression
in England that there is something peculiar in that
coarse—that it would be rare to find (in New York,
for instance) a" public print" howling forth, day
after day, abuse, misrepresentations, and slanders
on all sundry, Great Britain and the British. In
short, these quasi-envoys allege, by implication, at
least, that the journal in question has a sort of mss
nopoly of the business.

Now all this repudiation may be considered very
smart, and is a system practised not uncommonly
by other citizens besides quasi wrongs, but in this
instance it is in effect a mere falsification. I am
not going into any discussion as to the relative
proportions of the anti-British howlings of the New
York Herald with those of the New York Tribune,
Evening Post, or scores of other newspapers of
which probably the British public knows little or
nothing, and if it did know more would
care less. Bat as a fact, the North-
ern press, with few exceptions, and the New
York press with hardly any, are just as malignant
and unscrupulous in their attacks on our country
and people as the New York Herald. Indeed,
in some respects,—for instance in the case of their
"London Correspondents," or those who pass as
such,—those "City journals" I have mentioned, and
some others, though duller than the repudiated one,
—are, if possible, more doggedly given to misre-
presenting and exaggerating every event and cir-
cumstance that, they appear to think, will increase
the senseless antipathies existing amongjtheßritish.
Those feelings are fostered in this country by the
Press in general, and the politicians in
particular of the Northern Stotes. This brings
one back to the main assertion of the quasi
envoys referred to=namely, that the United
States, they profess to quasi represent, are friendly,
virtually as well as nominally, to England. It is
not my purpose to inflict on your readers or myself
any abstract disquisitions. I accept the statement
in the bona fide sense of the terms, and meet it with

a fiat negative. My conviction is, that the
ruling classes of this country are not
only unfriendly themselves to our nation, as
a nation, and to our people as a people, but that
they are using every means in their power—short
of open warfare—to try and damage the commer-
cial, political, and colonial interests of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland. I assert, moreover, that, to the
best of my belief, the system of quasi envoys forms
now part and parcel of the political organisations
of this ccuatry.
Also that the clergy—with the exception of those
of the Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and Jewish
denominations—have been and are the most rabid
and persevering inculcators of anti• British senti-
ments in this country.
I am prepared with evidence, so far as evidence
in such things can be given, of the correctness of
my assertions, and in my next shall lay this before
your readers in us succinct a shape as possible.