The Sun.
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No. 22,473.

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How to Run the Blockade.

----4 AP.

(From the Times Special Correspowlent.)
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, June 6.
It is difficult for an Englishman who desires to
pierce the American blockade to decide which of the
available routes offers the greatest facilities and at-
tractions. My own experience during the present

year would seem to prove that, as regards time, there
is little choice between land and water. Upon the
17th of last January I started ►rom Richmond, and,

making my Wayccross the Potomac and passing

rapidly through Washington and New York, stood
upon British soil upon the 6th of February—that is
to say, upon the 20th day after my departure frolp

Secessia. Upon the 15th of May I left Queenstown,
and, passing through Halifax and Bermuda, found
the vessel which carried me from Bermuda safely
moored in Cape Fear River (upon which Wilmington
stands) on the night of the 4th of June—that is
again to say, upon the 20th day after my depar-
ture from England. But, unquestionably, as regards
endurance of fatigue and facility far conveying
luggage, the sea route is infinitely preferable to the
land, and is attended with less personal jeopardy,
although there is a mauvais quart d'heure, experi-

nceekd aimoment
o f passing through the inside
which in intensity of excite-
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squadron,
can hardly be surpassed.

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trip inward which either had ever made. Both be-
long to the same company, but there is an emulation

between the two rival vessels which is not satisfac-

torily allayed by their experiences hitherto, but

which waits the solution of further trial. The
weather was lovely, the sea like a milldam, and

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which lightly scratch the surface instead of clutch•
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regards equipment, comparatively insignificant
vessels of war would have little difficulty in driving
from the ocean a flag which three years ago might
have been seen upon every wave of every sea. It
may be remarked that this is a lesson to which, of
all nations, England can least afford to be blind.
My experience on board the Lilian leads me to
anticipate for Capt. Maffit ar_d his vessel—a credit
to her builders, Messrs. Thompson, of Glasgow—a
long and prosperous career. An incident which
occurred 200 miles from Wilmington, in a portion
of the ocean which is constantly swept by Federal
cruisers, seems worthy of record. Upon our port bow
was descried a sail enveloped in a dense canopy of
smoke. Time was ineffably precious—there was
every reason to suspect Yankee guile, which is said
to be nowhere more fertilely exhibited than in their
conduct of the blockade; but it was deemed possible,
after careful scrutiny, that the vessel might be on
fire. Briefly remarking,' The ship which leaves a
companion at sea in distress must be accursed,"
Captain Maffit ordered our course to be altered,
and bore down upon the stranger. It soon be-
came evident that she was a Federal cruiser, making
a dense white smoke with her Cumberland coal, and
beating rapidly eastward in apparent pursuit of
another delinquent. The helm was rapidly changed,
and our course resumed, Dark and inscrutable came
all possibility of an observation.
obelievedn defying
t at , ere the morrow's dawn should
break,
was
we might reach Wilmington, and onward we
loprreetsahsaee: noon,
The night wore rapidly away ; 2 o'clock,
3 o'clock, half.past 3 o'clock in the morning came,
but by no eye peering through the thick gloom
could the looked-for light at Fort Fisher be
to for the day, between the outer and inner
cordon of the blockaders. It was hardly to be ex■
pected that we should escape for 16 hours unobserved,
dis-
cerned.
to y Then, as the morning dawned, we prepared
but it Was a signal instance of good luck that from
4 in the morning till half-past 1 p.m. we were unmo-
lested. Then the tall masts of a large Federal

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nuasignoagnstigosunt ; a a
cruiser, her immense paddlewheels and lofty black
approached us from the direction of Wil-
hull were visible, and for the first time, as our an-
the "airy
ce of that speed which we all felt she
fairy Lilian" prepared to give
possessed. Some alight delay there was before steam
could be fully got up, and for some 20 minutes our
pursuer seemed to gain upon us. But as the pressure
of steam ascended from 151 b. to 20, from 20 to 23,
from 23 to 26, and as the
revolutions of the paddle
mounted to 28, from 28 to 33 per minute,
t
flaw out to sea swift as an arrow from a
bow. In little more than two hours the hull of our
pursuer was invisible, and her topgallant sails a
l
Lilian
speck upon the distant horizon. But as she still lay
between us and Wilmington it became necessary to
from 26
run roundher. This also the light-heeled Lilian
had little
difficulty
in accomplishing; but as the
sun dropped into the sea, and our pursuer,
although distant, still hung upon our rear, we
found that, reckoning little the speed of our
d ha
advance, we Sighted the inside blockade
squadron before the close of day.
There was t
o l 0
aeno-
thingi t i fory setin. persevere, and fortunately before
w
to land, darkness had cum-
pSilently and with bated breath we
passed cruiser after Cruiser, distinctly visible to
aeapproached
i t
e
v the flashing out of a blue
or
e Drummondry y
light and the rush of grapeshot and
shrapnel through our riggingthat
it was not destined upon t his occasion the Lilian
every , and suggesting
should receive her baptism of fire. Just as we ap.,
Ip
tr oi
sa cah
Federal Fort F
ishera dark spot is seen on the bar.
launch, Seen by us too late for Capt.
/dons wish of his heart and
Mtopass her within 20 yards,
a rffia th t oh
e r indulge
down=
and again the expected volley of musketry is want-
ing. Another moment and we are under the.monnd
upon which stands the fort, and eagerly questioned
for news. " The news is
t hew%
good all round." "Three
times three for General Johnston ;" "six times six
for General Lee;" and in mirth and laughter and
song the night wears away. Three hours after us
comes the Florie, and is heavily fired at as she
wears inwards. But morning finds both vessels
and their cargoes safe at their wharf in Wilming-
ton, nor is it rash to predict for them both the pro-
bability of many returns. At least it may safely
be augured that it will take no ordinary amount of
speed and courage to circumvent so fearless and
experienced a sailor as Captain Maffit, end that in
his new career his skill and success will not be infe-
rior to those which be exhibited in his old.
I cannot leave the subject of the blockade with-
out pointing the moral which is being taught by it,
and which it is inconceivable why England does
not take more pains to understand. There is no
nation upon earth which has a tenth of the interest
which England has in closely observing the work-
ing of the only blockade on a large and imperial
scale which has been established since the intro-
duction of steam navigation. It clan scarcely be
pretended that information in regard to the system
of showing lights to guide incoming vessels, con-
cerning the fine intricacies of detail which
experience has taught to the blockade runners of

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duty to report fully and precisely on the defects it has per-
ceived and the difficulties it has explored. We have not
seen the evidence, and therefore we can give no opinion -
upon upon the details which the committee must discuss. But
there are some certain and admitted facts on the subject to
which we wish to call our readers' attention. First, the
present law undeniably satisfies no one, except perhaps the
bankrupt, the person upon the whole least to be considered.
The creditors, the attorney, even the officials of the Court
dislike the present law, and say it should be amended.
Secondly, what is most wanted is a simple, intelligible, and
effectual machinery by which the creditors may be able to
manage what is substantially their own affair. If they will
not do so—and in many cases they will not—no law can
give any effectual, or even any important aid. If the parties
concerned neglect their own interest, the benevolent inter-
vention of outsiders will be utterly inefficient. In money
matters, the people whose money it is must attend, and at-
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wasted, and jobbed away. It is the duty of Mr Moffatt's
committee to find the best machinery for giving effect to
the opinions and the industry of intelligent and active cre-
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alleged that such a system now exists in Scotland; if so its
details should be investigated and its efficiency imitated.
Thirdly, it is well worth careful weighing whether the pre-
sent judicial establishment in bankruptcy is suitable to the
policy of the law or to the wants of the country. The Com-
missioners in many districts have little to do, little expe-
rience, few transactions, and little means of learning their
business. The decisions in different courts differ much.
It is for the committee to consider whether a central judge,
with omnipotent power, so to speak, in bankruptcy, could
not exercise a valuable control over those subordinate
courts, and thereby reduce them to an almost Ministerial
position. The estates of deceased insolvents and of pauper
insolvents—of insolvents, we mean, where there is no
estate, and where no creditors will attend—are subordi-
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members will attend to them; but the serious matter for
them is to see that the creditors have a ready mode of
getting at what property there is, and dividing it among
themselves. When they have effected this they will have
finished all which is principally and essentially useful?—
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Wilmington, Charleston, and Mobile, concerning
the most favourable conditions of ben, sky, end tide
for running out or coming in, can be obtained
otherwise than upon Southern soil. Yet, it is not
deemed by the British Admiralty to be a matter of
importance that they should be represented at Wil-
mington and elsewhere by one of our most accom.
plished officers. It is humiliating to be told, as I
have been again and again, that no such emissary
will be sent without the consent of Mr. Adams, and
that this consent he will never give. But, great as
is the concurrence of opinion among Englishmen i❑
America upon the importance of this subject, there
is but too much reason to fear that this blockhde
will be unheeded and its lessons unlearnt by com-
petent English officials. It is idle for me to point
out that not only is there opportunity for a naval
officer to gain invaluable information, but that, in
spite of the answer given three months ago by Lord
de Grey to the effect that it was not important to
send military officers to the South by reason of the
inferiority of its resources, it is the opinion of every
English officer who has been to the Southern States
that there is infinitely more to be learnt here during
a month than in the North during a year. It is, I
think, pretty well admitted by this time that as re•
garde construction of guns or the architecture of
ironclad Monitors, England has nothing to learn
from the North. But in every other department of
the vast science of war there is more to be gained as
regards the present struggle by studying it from a
Southern than from a Northern point of view. As
an instance, it may be asked where there is upon this
continent anything to be compared in interest with
an inside view of Charleston and Fort Sumter. It
is the opinion of experienced judges that the earth-
works around Richmond are the most formidable
that modern experience has shown. The novel
system of defensive works around Mobile is de-
scribed to me upon excellent testimony as the most
instructive of studies for a military engineer. I
know not whether there be truth in the assertion
which has greeted me here that two French officers
of ability are momentarily expected in the South,
but it hes always appeared to me incompre-
hensible that the French Emperor should have
shown an apathy about this war which, mistaken
as I hold it to be in England's case, admits, so far
as England is concerned, of easy and plausible
explanation.
As an illustration of the facility and certainty
with which the blockade is now defied I will
mention in conclusion a few facts. Between the
let of May and the Ist of June no less than twenty..
four vessels made the port of Wilmington safely
without disaster befalling a single vessel. No
wonder that piles upon piles of Government goods
are stored here, awaiting, when there is less strain
upon the railroads, transportation to Richmond and
Atlanta: lam informed by the Government agent
here that in his whole experience he has never lost
a single outward-bound letter. A gentleman at
Bermuda, the agent of an eminent English firm, told
me that during two years he had sent an average
of three mails per month from Bermuda and Nassau
into Secessia, and that the whole time only two
mails had been lost.

I shall defer until my arrival in Richmond any
remarks upon the condition of military affairs in
Virginia and Georgia as I find them at this moment,
briefly remarking that it is infinitely more en-
couraging in every respect than I had been led at
Halifax to anticipate.

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Tho annual dinner cc the National Association fur the
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Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, was
held on Saturday, at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich. Lord
Btoughasu, the president of the association, occupied the
chair, and the company included Mr Cargill, MY., Mr
James Heywood, F.R,S., Mr T. Chambers, Q.C. (the CCM.
mon Sergeant), Mr M'Queen, Q,C., Mr Sergeant Wool-
rich, Mr hergeaut Bailee, Mr Joseph Parkes, Mr T. Web-
ster, F.R.S„ Mt G. Godwin, F.R.S., Mr R. R. Torrens,
Dr Wadilove, Dr Hanceek, Mr C. Clark, Mr Hastings, Mr
Westlake, Mr Wendt, Mons Chalot:
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been drunk,
Lord BROUGHAM rose to propose the toast of the evening.
He said that of all social sciences there was none so im-
portant as the arm ndreent of the law, and they ought to en-
deavour to place their Jews on the lest possible tooting. He
ought to give a summary of the labours of the Law Amend-
ment Society during the post twelve menthe, but as they
would he found detailed in the report, he would only allude
to one or two of the latest attempts at law amendment.
Their worthy colleage, Sir P. Belly, had made various at-
tempts to amend and improve our laws, of which his bill to
prevent gross bribery and corruption at elections had been
one of the most important. If that bill, or a considerable
portion of it, had been carried before the last general eke-
don, we should not have Ken those disgusting outrages of
all law, as well as of all morals, which the last general
election produced. Another bill ho had introduced was
for a court of criminal appeal. His learned friend considered,
that it was quite impossible that he could go on much
longer without a regular reformed method of revising the
judgments recorded by juries. He (Lord Brougham) wished
that bill, with the various modifications and additions of
which it was susceptible, all possible success. There had
also beensome important measures propaunded by the Lord
Chancellor in the House of Lords, and one of those was of
a very great importance—he meant the County Court
Amendment Act Bill. If that bill, or anything like it, had
passed, he would venture to say that it would have shut up
the county courts altogether. County courts without the
power of commitment were absolutely impossible. There
were, however, parts of the bill which he considered ex-
cellent. He referred especially to the extension of equit-
able jurisdiction to these courts, which would be a, very
great improvement. It had been attempted over and over
again, but had always failed ; still he hoped the Legislature
would be induced to pass a measure with that object. Then
there was the subject of the limitation of actions on simple
contract debts. He thought that the limitation of six years
was a great deal too long. The bill proposed one year,
which, on the other hand, was a great deal too short, but
the Lord Chancellor admitted that it was too short, and
said he was prepared to adopt two or three years. It was
unfortunate that these two excellent provisions were found
in bad company, because they suffered accordingly, and the
bill had to be withdrawn. The noble and learned lord, after
some further observations, gave " The Law Amendment:
Society," a toast which met with a most cordial response.
Mr T. CHAMBERS (the Common Sergeant), in proposing
"The Health of the President," alluded especially to his
great services in the cause of law reform, and observed.
that those members of the legal profession who were the
strongest opponents of the measures he was instrumental in
passing were now the first to acknowledge alefei great value
and usefulness,

Michal Scott, Capt. Vibert, Lieut. Leacock, IoS men, 6
women, and 10 children.
The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
miral y :—Lieut. Thomas Maquay, to the Princess Char-
lotte—Sub Lieut. E. G. Bourke, to the Bombay—Dr. T.
D. A. Bromlow, acting assist.-surg., to the Racer—W.
Jones, acting assist. surg, to the Fawn—Dr. Alexander
Mitchell, acting assist. surg., to the Cordelia—. George Kell
and A, G. Bain, acting assist. surgs., to the Victory, for
Ha lar Hospital--M. Hannaghan and Dr. W. Grant, act-
ing assist. surgs., to the Royal Adelaide, for Plymouth Hos-
pital—James L. Kirkness, assist. paymaster, to tne Cam-
bridge—P. M. Browne, second paymaster, additional,• to
the Implacable—Charles J. Reddie, midshipman, to the
Racer—Richard F. Fegen, midshipman, to the Duncan—
Richard Bogue, naval cadet, to the Racer—A. J. M'Ewan
and Charles K. Purvis, naval Cadets, to the Fawn ; Her
bert F. Murray and Frederick P. French, naval cadets, to
the Aurora—Joseph J. M. Calwell, Richard J. Simonds,
and Frederick L, Lawrence, naval cadets, to the Duncan—
W. D. Walker, naval cadet, to the Edgsr—Amyand Hag-
gard, naval cadet, to the Revenge—Charles A. R. Halton
and George A, Primrose, naval cadets, to the Cordelia—
Alexanker M. Cramsie and E -I ward Battersby, naval cadets,
to the Warrior—George E. H. Deacon and Lionel M. Kir-
wan, naval cadets, to the Defence—H. J. B. Turner and
Frank H. Henderson, naval cadets, to the Black Prince—.
Morris W. Hall, naval cadet, to the Hector—John R. W.
Pigott, nominated to a naval cadetship—Charles B. Wood,
surgeon, to the Orlando—and David Waugh, paymaster,
promoted to the Medea.

The toast was drunk amidst loud cheers.
Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, said he had always consi-
sidered that our jurisprudence was generally good, and he
had only endeavoured moderately iciseleetiliose parts
which were detective, or partially defective, leaving the
great body of it untouched. No doubt many of the
changes he had been the means of effecting were at first
bitterly opposed, not only by members of the profession,
but by the judges themselves. He would mention only
one of the chief instances--the great, and he thought the
most beneficial change which had happened in our juris-
prudence during the last fifty years, of allowing the parties
in a suit to give evidence, and in some cases compel..
ling them to give evidence. This was at first opposed by
the whole bench, and every attempt was made by the there.
Lord Chancellor, his excellent friend Lord Truro, to prevent
its becoming law. Lord Truro went to Lord Lyndhurst and
appealed to him whether it were possible to open such a
floodgate for perjury as that of allowing parties to give evi-
dence in their own cause. Lord Lyndhurst heard him, but
would give no favourable answer, only observing " You may
depend upon it that the measure will be carried, and yen
must make up your mind to that." As Lord Lyndhurst had
foretold the bill was passed and the effect bad been salutary..
(Cheers.) And to do the learned judges who most stre-
nuously opposed the measare justice, he must say that a
year afterwards they confessed that it was of the greatest
possible use in accomplishing that which was the great ob-
ject of all trials, namely, ascertaining the truth. The noble
and learned lord then went on to say that he could not
avoid alluding to what he considered was the present hate-
ful state of things in regard to the Dano-German war.
(Hear, hear,) There was a too prevailing feeling in
society, and in the country, particularly among the upper
and middle classes, that this country had been humbled, if
not disgraced, by its refusal to act. Now, it was very
well to say, " We feel for Denmark, as oppressed by her
powerful neighbours, as we feel for Poland, as cruelly
treated by her tyrannical foreign Governments; but still
we ought to have done more. We ought not to have
confined ourselves to protests and disapproval, to re-
probation and lamentation; but we ought to haves
aced when we were clearly in the right, and when our
adversaries were clearly in the wrong, and we are mortified
and humbled, if not disgraced, by having done nothing."!
Now, my opinion is the reverse of that. (Cheers.) My
opinion is that we should have been humbled and disgraced
if we had not expressed what all of us felt, and had a right
to feel, and that it would have been dishonest if we had not
felt, and cowardly if we had not expressed our horror of the,
conduct of those who oppressed the one nation, and stilt
more of those who oppressed, pillaged, and plundered under
the name of " conquest," the other. He meant the German
Powers, who thought they had gained glory by the strong
attacking the weak, instead of which the real glory to be
gained was, if the weak had attacked the strong, and.
had been enabled, which, unfortunately, they had not,
to beat them. (Hear, hear.) The people of this country
had resolved that there should be no war, and whatever cer-
tain classes might think, or seem to think, the people were
right in their resolution. (Hear, hear.) They had no right
and certainly they had no duty, singly and unsupported, tee
make war in favour of those ill used—gross and grievous as
the ill usage might be, and cruel, insulting, and blundering
as those might be who ill used them. He could not help feel-
ing it was rather a step in social progress that, instead of
having recourse to the sword on all occasions we should have
recourse to moral pretest—to plain, honest, and manly
remonstrance, complaint, and reason—that we should try
the effect of that moral influence upon them and the
public at large; and that we who were not parties on ono
side or the other, having taken these steps and made these
protestations, given that advice and entered into these nego-
tiations for the right and against the wrong, should stop
short of actual force, and not throw away our forces upon
an impossible expedition for the sake of revenging the in-
jury of others. He was far from saying that any menace
or threat, either direct or which might be construed into
a threat, ought ever to be used on such an occasion.. He'
hoped it had not been used. It any had been used he
thought it was an error, He agreed with Mr John Stuart
Mill, one of their members, that if they could not be chival-
rous they were bound to be honest. (Cheers.) It was
honest to protest, and the Government would have been
disgraced and dishonoured, and the country humbled if they
had not made such protestation, and if they had not give
their advice, which was pretty sure to be rejected, again at
wrong-doers and in behalf of the injured. (Lend cheers.)
In conclusion he begged to thank the company for the ke ad
manner in which they had received the mention of his nazi see
Mr M'QunEer proposed " The Legislature," which •e'er
responded to by Mr CARGILL, M.P. •
The next toast was " The National Association for I
Promotion of Social Science," given by Mr J. gErirC)OD,
and replied to by Mr HASTINGS, the general secretary.
Several other toasts were drunk before the eeraPan'Ye sepa..
rated,