The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-15 00:00:00

Yellow Fever at Bermuda.

The Montreal Herald of September 24th, says—
" Not many days ago it was our duty to mention
the departure from this country of a number of
military surgeons ordered to Bermuda, to render
such poor aid as medical skill can afford to the
many sufferers in that island attacked by yellow
fever. On Saturday official information was received
here which renders it only too certain that Dr Clarke,
who was in service at Quebec, and Dr Milroy, of
the 30th Regiment, forming part of the garrison
here, have succumbed before the fatal epidemic.
Surgeon-Major Barrow has also been taken down
by disease, but we believe that in his case the
attack was complicated by dysentery, which ac•
cording to Southern traditions, tends to weaken
the influence of the more destructive malady,
and at- last accounts he was reported to be
recovering. Dr. Ferguson. also of the 30th has
been attacked, and was not out of danger when the
est advices came away. Dr. Harrison, R.A., &Is
been reported among the victims ; but we are glad
to have reason to think that this report is so far
erroneous. Still, out of 11 surgeons who left this
city on the 17:h ult., we have had within 30 days
the intelligence that five have been assailed by the
fever, and that two, if not three, have died.
As an example of the extreme suddenness and viru-
lence of the attacks, it is mentioned that when the
steamer St. George was leaving the island on her
last trip five men rowing to the vessel in one boat
were attacked before they came alongside, and
had to put back and go into hospital. We regret
to say that we have received a communication,
stating that not only were the steps which every
well-informed person understands to be usual and
efficient for preventing or mitigating such calami.
ties omitted, but also that the advice of scientific
men, professionally tendered, was disregarded. The
use of open air lodgings on high and dry ground,
in an atmosphere fresh from contamination, is
thoroughly understood by every civilian, and in
frequent instances bodies of troops attacked by
pestilence of one kind or another have ceased to lose
a man from the moment that they were marched
out of barracks to bivouac on the turf and live out
of doors, free float the death dealing miasma
of their close and infected quarters. Yet it
would appear from the information furnished by
our correspondent that this well•known method of
saving the lives of soldiers did not suggest itself
and when suggested by others was rejected by an
officer sufficiently experienced and high in rank to
have military command of the station, and that the
men were kept encamped on low ground, and the
military hospital not only not disused (as was
advised by the medical officers), but over-
crowded, though its walls were impregnated with
yellow fever poison. For the sake of an old
officer, and of the service to which he belongs,
we must express a sincere hope that there were
some circumstances not known to the gentleman
who has written to us. We learn that the fever
was conveyed to Bermuda, where it is a very un.
fr.( quent visitor, by the blockade runners. They
have also taken it to Nassau, where it is raging
almost as badly as at Bermuda. The crews of these
vessels have also themselves suffered very severely
from the disease, and some of them are left without
officers or crew, except, perhaps, a solitary negro
cook or seaman."

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Oct. 15.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLINIOUTH, Oct. 14..—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Hornet,
from London for Sydney—Golden City, from London for
Brisbane.

TnooN, Oct. 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Ricardo, from
Londonderry. Oct. 14—Sailed—Syracuse, for Demerara—
Realm, for Havannahl

DARTMOUTH, Oct. 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lydia
Hilton, from Sunderland.

PILL, Oct. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Fanny, from
Demerara—Annie, from Havannab.— Alice Wilson, from
Quebec.

SWANSEA, Oct. 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Pathfinder,
from Caldera. Sailed—Florence, for Cuba.

(lIIE MAGNETIC TELEGRAM)

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, Oct. 14—Christoff, from Nyhamen—Margaret
and Edward, from Archangel—Milea, from Ttinidat3.—
Lagnla, from Port Natal--Tegner, from Sundswall—Pro
tector, from Norkiopping—Elizabeth, froth Gijon—Merry
Monarch, Sulina—Dawn, from Cronstadt—Favorite, from
Riga—Heindale' from Soderham—Freedom, from Dania.
Arrived, Oct. 15—Sisters, from Riga—City of Hamburg
—from Tonning—Clarisa and Alfred, both from Dania—
Alert, Elizabeth Cicily, and Reaper, all from Guernsey—
Claudine, from Marans—City of Cashmere, from Calcutta
—Magician, from Porto Rico.

GENERAL HAMPTON.—General Hampton's late
foray upon Grant's beeves furnishes our army with
I,ooo,ooo—some say nearly 2,ooo,ooo—pounds of the best
beef which the Yankee markets afford, and will feed them
fall for some time, General Hampton is understood to be
General Lee's Master of Horse. He is in the prime of life,
of a strong natural understanding, considerably cultivated,
of immense physical strength and activity, of wonderful en-
durance, and inexhaustible energy. He has been all his life
passionately addicted to field sports and woodcraft, in both of
which ho is said to excel moat men of his day. One faculty;
of the last importance to an officer holding such a command
as his, he is said to possess in a very remarkable degree—
that, namely, of becoming acquainted instantly, and amost
instinctively, with all the features cf whatever loeality he
may happen to pass over. We have heard it said if he wore
blindfolded and carried over 30 miles into a forest in which her
had never been before, he would find oat where he was in five
minutes after the removal of the bandage. He never camps
a day in a neighbourhood without making himself suffi-
ciently acquainted with all the roads, bye-roads, and hog-
paths, to act as a guide. General Hampton possesses another
qualification very important in a cavalry officer, and yet Aot
always possessed by good cavalry officers. He is passicru
ately 'ond of horses, and an uncommonly fine judge of theme
takes a pleasure in studying their nature and wants, and
thus affirds the best guarantee that ho will make his men
attend to them. When we add that be is a sphnelid rider,
a practical swordsman, and an excellent shut, but above all,
that he is What Carlyle calls "an earnest man," devoted
with ad the deep enthusiasm of his nature to the cause in
a; hich he is engaged, we have said enough, we think, ,`,;:t
show that the cavalry of General Lee's army is in very
good hands.—Richnioad Desp6tch.
ALL ENGLAND FLOUGUING NATCHES.—Since
our last notice Messrs. Itansomes' men have won
f tirther laurels by taking the Champion Prize at Worcester,
r ;nd yesterday at Bourne, defeating
twelve competitors, in-
c Zuding Messrs. Howard's man, Purser. Since the meeting
art. Leighton Buzzard, two years ago, where Messrs. Ran-
t soma ploughman carried off the Cliampion Prize given icyhe society and the silver cup given by the town, defeating
It' essrs. Howard's crack ploughman, the Bedfordshire
Jciety has had no class open to All England ; and, conse-
quently, neither of Messrs. Ransomea' men could meet
, Purser on the Bth,, at the Biggleswade meeting, where, hav-
ing only local competitors, he was rewarded by a victory
:After the many defeats he has sustained this sbabom

he Chancellor of the Exchequer at.

Manchester.

MANCHESTER. Friday Evening.
THE ADDRESS IN THE TOWN HALL.
At 11 o'clock this morning the Chancellor of the
Exchequer attended at the Town-hall to receive an
address from the Corporation of Manchester, The
hall was densely crowded,
The MAYOR (Mr J. M. Bennett), in stating the
object of the meeting, referred to the fact that it
was just eleven years this week since the Chancellor
of the Exchequer received an address from the citi-
zens of Manchester. At that time some of the more
cautious among them had considerable doubts as to
the course of financial and commercial policy which
the right hon. gentleman was then pursuing. Some,
perhaps, of the more shortaighted could not then
comprehend how taxation could be reduced, in re-
gard especially to certain articles used by the indus-
trious classes, and how, at the same time, the
revenue instead of being diminished could be in-
creased. (Hear, hear.) Happily those times have
long passed away, and they were now all agreed
that the statesman who stood before them was the
man of whom among all others this great mercantile
nation has reason to be proud. (Cheers.) He had
the honour, in the name of his fellow-citizens, to
offer the most cordial welcome to their illustrious
visitor. (Cheers.)
Mr. GLADSTONE, who was received with the
greatest cordiality, said—Mr. Mayor, ladies and
gentlemen,—you have been geod enough, sir, in the
remarks with which you prefaced the reading of
this address, to remind this meeting and myself that
this is not the first occasion on which I hale had
the honour to stand in your Town-hall, and to re-
ceive an expression of your confidence, lam sure,
sir, you did not suppose that for me at least any
such reminder could be necessary, for the day upon
which a person charged with the administration of
the finances of this country, and placed in intim
mate relation with its commerce, and the day on
which a person so placed receives an expression of
approval from the citizens of Manchester, through
their highly accredited and most authentic organ,
the municipal body of the town, is a day that can-
not be forgotten as long as the pulse of life shall
beat. (Hear.) And, sir, I feel myself particularly
happy in receiving the unexpected honour of a re-
petition of that confidence and favour. I did not
expect that it would have been the desire of the
citizens of Manchester, expressed through their
chief magistrate and the municipal body, to bestow
upon me a favour, to have received which once was
quite enough to satisfy my desires, and to go far
beyond my deserts—(cheers)—but at the same time
you have chosen to make to me a tender which it
was impossible for me to hesitate one moment about
accepting ; and at any rate you have given me this
public advantage—you have called attention to the
interval which has elapsed since, formerly holding
the same office in the service of the Crown, I stood
before you in this place, and received from you an
address similar to that which I have the honour to
receive to-day. And what years, Mr. Mayor, those
years have been ! what years of progress ! what
years of suffering ! what years of painful and partly
of pleasurable, but in each case of valuable and
precious experience ! What years of retrospect !
what years of hope, how much they have taught
us as to the character of our country and of our
countrymen I How much the course of these events
is calculated to direct our minds to the future, and
to ask what part England is to play, what position
she is to assume, what is to be the condition of her
institutions, what the character of her population
when our children shall occupy the places that are
now held by us ? But chequered, sir, as those
years have been—and in no place more than in the
district of which this great city is the centre— they
have been years, upon the whole, in which the
elements of satisfaction, the causes for thankful-
ness to the Almighty, and the grounds of hope
for the future have preponderated in a degree I
might call immeasurable over every element of
a contrary character. (Cheers.) In the—compli-
ments I will hardly call them, for the word
is too light and trivial, but the expressions of
indulgence, of kindness, and of favour, which you
have been pleased to use towards me, are expres-
sions that I shall not interpret as belonging to my•
self in an individual capacity. It is true, circume
stances have placed me in a position of special re-
sponsibiiity with regard to that class of questions
in which your particular interests,and in which the
industrial interests of the nation are peculiarly con-
cerned. It is also true—and it must never be fore
gotten—that in the period in which we live indus-
trial questions, commercial and fiscal questions, are
assuming a moral character and aspect, a social and
political importance in such a degree as has never
before belonged to them. (Cheers.) And for my.
self, sir, I will not affect to deny that ever since it
became my duty to apply the best powers of my
mind, such as they may be, to the study of these
subjects, I have found bat one view of them to be
possible, and that the view which tends in every
direction and with no limit, except such as consi-
derations of prudence may impose, towards the libee
ration of industry, capital, and skill. (Cheers.) I
may claim for myself the credit of having earnestly
and sincerely laboured in the cause—(cheers)--but
I should go greatly beyond the limits not only of
modesty but of truth were Ito forget for on moment
that I have been a pupil far more than a teacher,
that I have been a follower far more than a leader.
In eminent statesmen among my own colleagues,
among members of Parliament, those who held the
distinguished position of independent legislators for
the country, among political economists, among the
practical men in English commerce and manufac-
ture, have been found those powerful, indefatigable
minds that have made the truths of economical
science at last clear as the sun in the heavens at
noonday, and caused them to be no longer subjects
of dispute or mere philosophical speculation, but
part of the practical patrimony of every English-
man as he is born into the world. (Cheers.) And,
Mr Mayor and gentlemen, let it not be said that
we are met here for the mere reciprocal exchange
of compliments—let me not attempt to express my
gratitude to you in language that might seem
to savour of adulation to yourself and your
position. I will not overstate, but I will under-
state, the case when I say that when the pen of the
historian shall hereafter delineate—and depend upon
it it will delineate with care the entire history of
the momentous change that has been brought about
in our lifetime in the commercial legislation of the
country, to no community, to no separate and single
portion of the British nation can that pen assign a
station so distinguished and so prominent, what-
ever may be the claims of others in regard to the
special and effective prosecution of this great cause,
as it will most assuredly award to the community
of Manchester. (Cheers.) Mr. Mayor, the services
such as they may be, which has been in my power
to render, have been rendered not in a single and
individual capacity, but as a member of the admie
nistration. (Cheers.) To my colleagues, not less
than to myself, to some of them in particular, but
to all of them together, is due the praise of which
you are pleased to make me the particular and per-
sonal recipient, and glad I am indeed to stand bee
fore an assembly such as that which I now have the
honour to address, for feel myself justified in their
name as well as in my own, of tendering to you an
expression of our warm, our respectful gratitude.
Now, Mr. Mayor, and gentlemen, the years that
have passed and the course of them to which you
have alluded would afford many topics for comment
and remark, but it is difficult to make a selection
from them, but as you have gone back, sir, to that
period, now almost exactly eleven years ago, when
first I had the honour of receiving the expression of
your favour, I cannot help recollecting that at that
time, in the first
place, the mind of the country
was most unanimously directed to a great question
of foreign policy, and in the second place to an im-
portantreatest interestq
buestion which was then regarded with the
gy th„
lating to.the province of coitize
as of Manchester, re.
mmercial reform—l mean
the repeal of the paper duty. Let su
eaay
a very
few words on each of these two
questions. It is
quite plain that of late years the foreign
Polk
the country has assumed an immediate and
pyf
artoi-
cular importance as a standing subject of debate in
the legislature, and of discussion by the Ares

and by the people, such as was almost unknown to
onr forefathers. In former times, from period to
period, great questions occurred where the national
interests or the national honour was supposed to be
specially connected in some particular debate with
some particular country, but at other times_ the at-
tention of the Legislature and the nation has been
confined to domestic affairs. That state of things
is now greatly changed. Such has been the exten-
sion of our commercial relations in particular into
every quarter of the globe, that on the mere ground
of special and direct interest we are compelled to
pay an attention to what takes place elsewhere such
as formerly was not by any consideration of abaci.
lute necessity demanded at our hands. But it has
not been the extension of direct interest that we
should take into view. We must also consider the
undoubted and indisputable fact that one of the cha-
racteristics of our time is the mutual feeling of con-
cern of every nation in the affairs and destinies and
prospects of every other nation, and in no country
can that sentiment of general interest and of con-
cern be so natural, so suitable, so efficient as in a
country like England, placed in universal relations
with every people of the earth, Under these cir-
cumstances it becomes a matter of the deepest im-
portance that wisdom, circumspection, courage, and
justice should direct the foreign policy of this coun-
try. (Cheers.) Well, Mr Mayor and gentlemen, in
speaking of this principle I hold that the disinte-
rested position of England is above all that which
should be borne in mind—that we have a high dig-
nity—that we have a high influence, with regard to
all questions in the least affecting the policy of
Europe, to which no other country from its position
can in the same degree aspire, although in point of
fact it is no special virtue on our part, but is the
result of that position in which Providence has
placed us with regard to the other states of Europe,
so that we can have no desire with regard to them
except that peace and harmony should prevail
amongst them, and that they should adopt for
their standing guidance of conduct the principle of
respecting the rights of one another. (Cheers.) This
is a happy position for us to maintain. It places us,
as it were, by the side of every European nation in
the character of the friend of each and all. It makes
us feel that the time is gone by when it was the
fashion and the custom of the country to speak of
one great country abroad in particular as our na-
tural enemy. We have no natural enemy. (Cheers.)
Every country of Europe is our natural friend, and
if to any country of Europe in particular we are to
look as the country by a choice relation with which
we may best promote the general interest of the
civilised world, it is that very country which once,
in the blindness of uncharitableness and in natural
yet unhappy prejudice, we regarded as our natural
enemy. (Cheers.) I trust that you think that the
conduct of the Government in the regulation °felts
foreign policy has been actuated by a sincere desire
to perform towards all countries of the world the
offices of friendship. (Hear, hear.) I trust, indeed
I am confident, that you think that that dis-
position has been indicated by the Government, and
not specially by the Government, for in this respect
they have been no more than the organs of the
feelings of the people. That disposition to respect
the rights of every country, to avoid undue influ-
ence in its concerns has been indicated in regard to
the lamentable war which still desolates the con-
tinent of America, (Hear.) England was a sad
sufferer by that war, I don't believe that history
records a case in which the internal dissensions of
a country have produced such wide-spread calami.
ties in other nations beyond its borders. But we

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have felt that it was our duty to respect American
freedom ; to respect the discretion of the Americans

Jo deal with their own affairs, whatever might be
our particular opinions as to the wisdom of any
course they were pursuing, or as to the'practicability
of any object they had in view. For my own part,
I confess that I always had great doubts as to the
practicability of reducing to subjection any large
portion of a country that manifests a determined
disposition to separate. (Loud cheers.) But what-
ever be our opinion, we have no right to place it in
a form which should make us the judge of what it is
fit for another country to do. (Continued cheers.)
Theirs is the responsibility ; oars has been in part
the suffering. But if we groan over the suffering
which has been experienced among our own popula-
tion, let us look at the frightful magnitude of the
calamities the Americans are undergoing. (Hear.)
It is for them, as they have the responsibility, to
judge of their own course. I entertain, in the first
place, this conviction, t hat, by any attempt to
enforce our own judgment instead of theirs, we
should have done nothing but embitter a contest
already too much exasperated ; in the second place
I feel that the sentiment with which we ought to
regard this most unhappy war is :—We have no
jealousy of American greatness, we have no reason
to fear them or any other nation—(hear, hear)--we
feel they are our brethren by blood and language;
we know their continent is calculated to continue
in relations of the most beneficial intercourse with
us, and we ought to pray Almighty God that it may
please Him in His mercy to bring this sanguinary
contest, if it be His will, at an early period to such
a termination as shall be best for the happiness,
peace, permanent welfare, and prosperity of all the
inhabitants of what were once the United States.
(Cheers.) With regard to other questions of foreign
policy, I need not say much; I might express the
warm and enthusiastic feeling of this country with
regard to what is believed to be the cause of free-
dom, of justice in the Italian peninsula. (Cheers.)
Lately we have been informed of an event which I
deem of the greatest importance with regard to the
future happiness of the Italian people—l mean the
Franco-Italian treaty. lam not able to pronounce
any diplomatic or official judgment on the merits of
that convention, but I may venture to say I regarded
it with the eye of satisfaction. (Hear, hear.) It may
not, it is true, promise an immediate solution of the
very serious difficulties with which the destinies
of the Italian people are still beset, but we know
that the best and wisest meu of Italy believe that
by this treaty a great step has been gained to-
wards the consolidation of freedom in that coun-
try. As to the object in view, I cannot express to
you what I think of its importance. Ido believe
that the fusion of the separate and feeble States
of Italy into a kingdom which shall be united and
p3werful, and in which on all European questions
must almost of necessity be disinterested, is an event
of incalculable importance to the happiness of man-
kind. (Hear, hear.) I ventured a few minutes ago
to say that England was singularly favoured in her
insular position, which renders her impartial in re-
gard to questions of European politics ; but the Alps
very nearly do for Italy what the sea does for Eng.
land. It is hardly possible that Italy could be a
power under under any circumstances animated by
the pernicious and destructive madness of the prin-
ciple of territorial aggrandisement. In the best sense
of the word, on European questions the kingdom of
Italy even as it is, still more when more fully con-
solidated and brought to its natural limits, must be
for every European question a power conservative of
honour and jastice—conseivative of the peace and
welfare of the world. (Cheers.) We have no merit in
regard to the treaty ; but it is a subject on which, tak.
ing a view of its provisions which it appears to war-
rant, we may exchange mutual congratulations; the
solution of the other problems will follow, under
Providence, in good time. Meanwhile something has
been accomplished, and it is well that the treaty has
a tendency to divest the great political question at
issue in Italy of its more distinctive ecclesiastical
character. It is well that Italians and a large por-
tion of our own fellow-countrymen shoild under-
stand that, in our warm sympathy for Italian unity
and freeJom, the people of England are not governed
by what may be called sectarian motives—the peo-
ple of England have their own religious connexions,
and are sufficiently decided in the maintenance and
expression of them; but they contemplate this Italian
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and justice, and that they recommendandtsue npcpoort
precisely the same principles in regard to h
solidation and unity of Italy, as they would do if
the religion of Italy were in every respect the same
as their own. (Cheers.) May I now venture to
advert to another question, which, in my opinion,
is not of small interest, but which has been
little mentioned in this country, because I think of
the unity of feeling in reference to it—l mean the
ego4i9ll of the lonian Lituatig; I look wi:h great