The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-28 00:00:00

Mr Lincoln and Mr Seward ,on the War,

Oa the night of the 10th inst. a great crowd
assembled in front of the White House at Washing.
ton, and lustily congratulated Mr Lincoln on his
victory. The President appeared at the window
over the grand entrence, and was enthusiastically
cheered. He then addressed the people as follows:
It hag long been a grave question whether any govern-
ment not too strong for the liberties of the people can be
strong enough to maintain its own existence in great emer-
gencies. On this point the present rebellion brought our
republic to a severe test, and a Presidential election occur-

ring in regular course during the rebellion added not a little
to the strain. It the loyal people united were put to the
utmost of their strength by the rebellion, must:they not
fall when divided and partially paralysed by a political war
among themselves. But the election was a necessity. we
cannot have free government without elections, and if the
rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national
election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and
ruined us. The strife of the election is but human nature
practically applied to the facts of the case. What has oc-
curred in this case must ever recur in similar cases. Hu-
man nature will not change. In any future great national
trial, compared with the men of this, we shill have as weak
and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad end as g.od. Let
us, therefore, study the incident of this as philosophy to
learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be
avenged. (Cheers.) But the election, along with its inci-
dental and undesirable strife, has done good. It has demon-
strated that a people's government can sustain a national
election in the midst of a groat civil war. (Cheers.) Until
now it his been known to the world that this was a possi-
bility. It shows, also, how sound and how strong we still
are. It shows that, even among the candidates of the same
party, he who is moat devoted to the Union and most op-
posed to Ireasau_ean.receive most of the poople'a votes. (Ap-
plause.) It shows also, to the extent yet known, that we have
more men now than we had when the war began. Gold
is good in its place, but living, brave, and patriotic men
are better than gold. (Cheers, and other demonstrations of
applause.) But the rebellion continues; and now that
the election is over, may not all having a common in-
terest reunite in a common effort to save our common
country ? (Cheers.) For my own part, I have striven
and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way.
(Cheers.) So long as I have been here, I have not willingly
planted a thorn in any man's bosom. While lam duly sen-
sible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grate-
ful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my
countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their good,
it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may
be disappointed by the result. (Cheers.) May I ask those
who have not differed with me to join with me in this same
spirit toward those who have ? And now let me close by
asking three hearty cheers for our brave soldiers and seamen
and their gallant and skilful commanders.
At the conclusion of the speech, the crowd pro-
ceeded to the residence of Secretary Seward, who,
in response to the call of the multitude, appeared
at the upper window and said :

Our old brethren of the South, who used to meet us up
here in the Capitol, and with whom we used to have
such pleasant social times, have pretended to set up a
poor, rickety Congress and Government of their own.
(Laughter.) And you know what they did it for P They
did it because they were afraid we should abolish slavery.
They met in Richmond the first Monday of this month, and
what do you think they met for ? They met to abolish the
slavery of 200,000 negroes, to put with the army, that they
might fight to keep all the rest of the negroes in slavery.
(Laughter.) Well, we have got our old-fashioned regular
Congress, where there are seats kept open for them yet, and
it meets on the first Monday in December. I am much mis-
taken if we do not show our old friends down South a trick
worth two of that they are practising. My impression is
that, instead of abolishing the slavery of 200,000 negroee,
they will do much the better thing of eating the constitu-
tional stamp upon the President's emancipation proclama.
tion of 1862. Why, you seem to be very unanimous about
that. (Cheers.) Well, I will tell you what is more serious
than all that. Within three years from this time they
well be just as unauimcus about it in Richmond as you are
here in Washington. Well, fellow• citizens, we have all got
to be friends. We have got to be friends with the Demo-
crats, who have been voting against us, and we will baiance
the account by saying that we voted against them ; and it
now that the election is over, they conclude to be quits, wo
will agree to be all Union men hereafter, and we will ac-
knowledge that our party, as we saw things, judged them
pretty harshly. I presume that four years hence we will be
in perfect harmony, not only throughout all the free states,
but throughout the whole Union. (Cheers.) And I will tell
you why I think that will be so. I came on the stage of ac-
tion not long ago—some years after the revolutionary war—
and I used to hear my parents, and the men and women of
that ago, talk about the vast number of Tories who were op-
posed to the Government of the United States in the Re-
volution; and what surprised me above all things was, that
at the expiration of 30 years afterwards there was not a
Tory to be found in the whole United States, (Laughter.)
I was never able to understand where they had all gone to.
It was just so in the war of 1812. It is my judgment that
we will all come together again ; that when the Stars and
Stripes wave over Richmond the rebellion will go down ;
and that within ono, two, three, and four years after that
you will have to look mighty sharp to find a wan who was
ever a scessionist or an eider of rebellion. (Cheers.) I know
that for that " era of good leeling" the Democrats will have
every encouragement to favour the people in the success of
the war. Speaking of that, I had understood our opponents
to say that this war was a failure, and that it was made to
abolish slavery. Without accepting that as the object of the
war which was to preserve the Union, we will take them
on their own ground, and see how the matter stands. The
first year of the war suppressed the Atrican slave trade in
the United States; the second year of the war brought the
negroes up to the level
.of soldiers of Freudian and abolish(.o
slavery in the district ot Columbia ; the third year abolished
slavery in Maryland ; and if the Democrats think that the
war has been a failure this 3 ear, when Congress cmnes to •
getter it will adopt a constitutional amendment and abolish
slavery throughout the United States. (Cheers.) Now,
know that wnen slavery is removed, the only eleLoeut'ut
discord am?ng. the American people will have ecased it,
work its mischievous truits ; but 1 know that it will not be
the fault of the Administration if we do nut have an area of
peace and harmony, and go on resuming cur proud career ,
among the nations, and advancing the interests of out
country, of freedom, of self-govornment, and of humanity.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Da3•,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr Tyl whin said the persons could be prosecuted ii they
distributed obscene papers. He would advise Mr Watson
to consult the police again. He had no doubt they would
look into the matter.

Mr Watson thanked the magistrate and retired.
DRUNKEN CABMEN —Two cabmen, named Henry Col-
lett and Horatio Edward Denny, were charged before Mr
Tyrwhitt with being drunk and incapable of taking care of
their horses and cabs.
Collet was seen by Shillingford, 325 A, on Saturday
evening, in Little Windmill-street, so drunk that he drote
his horso and cart down a court only intended for toot
passengers, and afterwards went along the pavement and
drove his horse's head into a publichouse.

The defendant said he had taken aljttje drop. He had
been driving a Scotch gentleman who gave him some
whisky out of a bottle, and it got over him.—Fined ss.
Denny was found by Reeves, 31 C. lying in the road in
Regent. street, with a number of persons round him, and
on making enquiries found that, while in a state of intexice,-
tion, he had driven his cab against a dog cart in which
were four persons. The dogcart was overturned and all
the persons thrown out as the defendant was knocked off
his seat and unable to get up.—Fined 53.

WESTMINSTER.
DEFRAUDING RAILWAY COMPANIES.—Anne Coppen,
woman of creditable appearance, about 35 years of age, was
charged with defrauding the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company by neglecting to pay her fare.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr Church, the solid.
for to the company.
Arthur Gard, the stationmaster at Stuart's-lane, Batter.
sea. said that defendant was a third-class passenger by the
7 o'clock main line train from Dover on Saturday evening.
The train stopped at Stuart's-lane for the collection of the
tickets, and witness asked the defendant for hers. She said
she could not find it, and he then told her she mast pay her
fare, and inquired where ahe came from. She replied
" Camberwell," and he told her that that was impossible,
as that was on the cross line, while she was a traveller by
the main line. She then said she came from Gipsey-hill,
and he then told her that she had not, as they had not a
station there. She next said she came from Lower Norwood,
which was also another station that did not belong to the
London, Chatham, and Dover. He then told her she would
have to pay her fare from Dover, which he believed was 5s
6d, and she replied she we,uld, and then began fumbling
about in her left bosom for her money. He told her he
could not keep the train waiting, and she must get out and
remain for the neat train, which would enable her to search,
for her money further, She was then taken into the col..
lector's office, and after having had an ample opportunity
of undressing, she coulda,not find her purse, and supposed
she must have left it at home. She was then put in a car-
riage and brought to Victoria, and there given in charge.
Mr Selfe—All this was completed in the county of Surrey.
No part of the offerce was committed in the county of Mid.
dlesex. Everything was made per Cot in Surrey, and the
difficulty I shall have if she is unprepared with money is
with respect to the gaol to which she should be sent. I
have no wish to give you the trouble Mr Churoh,to go else-
where with the prosecution, and will see what I can do
Can you (defendant) pay your fare ?
Defendant—Yes. I found my money yesterday in the
cell.

Mr Selfo—What have you to say for yourself ?
Defendant—When I paid my money at Sydenham station
I was quite late, and in my hurry did not think of taking
my ticket.
Mr Selfe—You could not have come from Sydenham.
You have told two or three stories about where you came
from. You could not have come from Sydenham, the train
does not stop between Beckenham and Herne-hill.
Defendant—Then I suppose it was Herne-hill I got
in at.

Mr Selfe—Yes, I dare say. How much money have
you got.
Defendant—l have got 3s. I went to Camberwell to get
some things oat of pawn when I got into this trouble. Here
are my duplicates.
The duplicates were examined, but threw no light on
the matter. The pawnbroker had altogether omitted the

address.
Mr Selfe (to defendant)—l shall fine you 3.31
The fine was paid.

THAMES.

STABBING.—James Banks, an old man, who was de•
scribed as a seaman, was charged with stabbing William
Donovan, who is in the London Hospital, in, a very pre-
carious condition.

Every day last week there was a " stabbing case," as
those aff Airs aro termed, heard by the magistrates of this
court, and the offenders were all committed for trial. The
use of the knife in petty quarrels has lately become very
prevalent, and severe examples are imperatively necessary
in the way of punishment to prevent these dastardly out-
rages. Last night the prisoner and the wounded mart
were quarrelling in a public-house in White
chapel, but how it
_originated Le one eouj tell,
-The two men were soaring in the kitchen of
the public-house. Donovan was armed with a poker, and
the prisoner had a knife in his hand. As the two men
were closing the prisoner, in the language of a witness,
"made a fiarce dart at the other," and thrust the knife into
the upper part of his thigh. Donovan fell, and laid on hie
back until a litter was procured, on which he was carried
to the hospital. A man named Leary took the knife out of
his hand, and it was produced.
Mr Joseph Dandy, inspector of the H division, said the
prisoner acknowledged what he had done. The man Dono-
van was seriously wounded, and it would be a week at least
before he could attend the court.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
G RATESEND, Monday Morning.

. _
Arrived, Nov 28—John N. Cushin, from Rangoon—An-
tagonist, from Puli—Lilly, George William, Albion, and
Amelia—all from G uerneey.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Anchored—Evangeline, from Port Natal—Beaufort and
Connie, for Algoa Bay—Guiding Star, for Demerara—SLa
Wave (bark), for Clyde—all from London:
The Choice, from Colombo, reported having been got off
from St Margaret's Bay and proceeded to London, haft
been to wed into Ramsgate in a sinking staet.
Reported from Kit gatown that a collision has taken place
off the Verne ; the captain and 17 of the crew, with two
women, landed from one vessel, Further particulars will
be immediately obtained and reported.
Several rockets were observed at 10 to 11 last night in
the direction of the Gulf Stream Light Vessel. 'Weimer
lifeboat went out ; not yet returned.

GENERALS LEE AND GRANT.—Lee 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 " Anti yet he
pauses long enough to dot all his " i's" and doss all his

" AU his letters are crawn 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 claster 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.
striLing. It is full cf energy and action, and his letters al
incline to the tight, and follow one atter another, with
little space between them, as if they represented an equa
number of his brigades on a rapid march round Lee's right,
Among chit-oar/Thera his hand would be called a running
hand. The words occupy much space from left to right,
and still they aro clear and legible, He pays more attentiem
to punctuation than General Lee, abbreviates legs, and is
eqsally careful of his " i's " and " t's." It may be the work
of imagination, yet in reading his letter 1 cannot but picture
athnedwacrtiitoenr restless,saalwaysin motion, ncrvou',oiion: and
energaelwtiacyms
in a
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American Paper.

FAST SAILING.—The General Steam Navigation
Company's new screw steamship Stork arrived at Grantor
on Thursday night at nine o'clock, having made the
passage from London in 31 hours.
GREECE AND MEXICO—The Euvoy Extraordi4
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Mexico
to Turkey anti Greece, M. Martiruz del Rio, had an audi-
ence of the King of the liellenes at Athens, on the 20,1 i
inst., to present his credentials. In reply to the Minister's
speech the young King, af.er some complimentary phrases,
said :—"Myself. the heal of a new dynasty, and charged
with the destinies of a people for their regeneration, I can •
not but have great sympathy for a new sovereign and for a
nation which, like the Greek nation, have bad to pus
through paiafal crises in order to conquer the place they
shd rightfully occupy among civilised nations. It is
therefore
perfect sincerity that I express my wish for
uul
with
the happiness of his Imperial ..Nlnjo,:t y and for that of his
august family, for the prosperity of his reign, and far the
progress of his people."
The eourse of exchange at New York on London for bills t
60 days' sight is ab.ut 2E3 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 141 percent. At these rates there is a small profit
on the importalon 01 go:d from the United States,

OFFENSIVE HANDBILLS—APPLICATION TO TEE MAGI.
STEATE.-Mr E. Facon Watson, of the St. James's Gallery
of Art, Piccadilly, applied to Mr Tyrwb.itt for his advice.
Mr Watson said he had been greatly annoyed by persons
prowling in front of his gallery and distributing handbills
of a disgusting nature, Gentlemen visiting his gallery had
had papers put into their hands whioh they had taken
under the impression that they related to his gallery, but
afterward?, much to their annoyance, found to be of a most
offensive nature. Ile had several times complained to the
police, and had gono to the Vine-street station and saen the
inspector respecting the nu;sance. For a time it was abated,
but afterwards renewed.