The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

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sinus, it would, under this arrangement, be able to
elect a clear majority of the Convention; but as it
is almost certain that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, if
not New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania,
would, for social and commercial as well as political
reasons, cast their votes with the South rather than
break off negotiations and renew a hopeless as well
as sanguinary struggle, it may be anticipated, if the
Convention shall ever meet, that the South will hold
the stronger hand, and play the winning game in
conference as in war. If New England and the
sparsely peopled States of the Far West should under
such circumstances prove recalcitrant and rebelli-
ous, the Southern and Middle States would be quite
content to permit their peaceable secession, and to
recognise their independence as a separate common-
wealth. They would not mete out to the Puritans
the measure that Puritanism has meted to the South,
but would rather be rid of them than consent to be
any longer encumbered with their advice, their
assistance, their interference, or their partnership.
But though Mr Lincoln, Mr Seward, and other
influential members of the party in power look
favourable rather than otherwise on the proposal
of an armistice, and would cheerfully adopt it

if by that means they could take the wind out
of the sails of the Democracy at Chicago, and
defeat General M'Clellan, Mr Dean Richmond,
or whomsoever may be the nominee on the 29th,
the rank and file of Republicanism and Aboli.
tionism mistrust and denounce the project. They
foresee that a general convention, if it restored the
Union, could only do so by yielding to the South
on the question of slavery. For such a result
they are not prepared. They love the Union much,
but they hate slavery more, and are willing to
sacrifice the Union, rather than fail in securing the
emancipation of the whole negro race on this conti-
nent. They believe in the superior strength and
determination of the North and in the certain col-
lapse of the South, and prefer the extermination
of every slaveholder, male and female, and of every
slaveholder's family between Texas and Delaware,
to negotiation on any other basis than that so suc-
cinctly laid down in Mr Lincoln's letter to " whom
it may concern." A clergyman, dating his letter
from Philadelphia, breaks ground in this sense in
the columns of the Tribune, and though asserting
himself to bo " a minister of the Gospel of peace,"
declares against an armistice, against a convention,
against the making of any terms, except those of
emancipation and unconditional surrender, and in
favour of war to the extremity of extermination
against what he calls the " infernal rebels." Un-
happily, there are too many in America who dese-
crate the pulpit by language and sentiments like
this to allow it to be believed that this fiery fanatic
stands alone in his wrath. The bishops, archbishops,
and leading clergy of the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic churches have in large numbers signed a
petition to the President in favour of an armistice,
bat the Calvinistic, Independent, Evangelical, Uni-
tarian, Puritan, Universalist, and other Churches
and sects hold savagely aloof. Their pastors and
ministers sound the war trumpet, and raise the
war whoop was fiercely as if they were the abori-
ginal red men of the Wilderness, and had never
heard a word of that blessed Gospel of good-will
of which they profess to be both the disciples and
the preachers.

The secular wing of the ultra-Republicans and
Abolitionists is as impracticable as the clerical, and
opposes a convention, without which an armistice
would be a non sequitur, on the ground that the
" rebels" could not by the terms of the Constitu-
tion, be allowed to sit in Convention, unless they
first of all took an oath to support the said Con-
stiution, or, "in other words," says the meta-
physical Evening Post, " before a convention
could be legitimately constituted the rebels must
put themselves in a position which would vacate
entirely the need of any such bony:. DUE Luc uo&
perverts the whole case in its anxiety for continued
war. The Constitution of the United States provides
for its own amendment, and prescribes the proceed-
ings to be adopted to that end ; but does not provide
for a separation of the sovereign States, because its
farmers did not foresee—or were not called upon to
admit the possibility of such a forcible disruption of
their own voluntary compact as that which they
wrought successfully against their involuntary or
implied contract with the mother country, The
spirit of the Constitution is clearly in favour of a
convention to be held before differences of opinion
and antagonism of interest have produced violence
and bloodshed, and with the view of preventing
them by mutual and wise concession. But after the
violence has been done and the blood has been shed
the letter of the Constitution no longer applies; and
to this extent the Republican jurist is right in his
interpretation of the document.
Th© truth is that
pa the Constitution, if not waste
mo-
ment a practical nullity. The South bas repudiated
per, is at this
it for one which it considers an improvement; and
management, has
the North, under Mr. Lincoln's
set it aside and provsded no substitute. Even if the
Constitution were the living rail which it was
until Mr. Lincoln became its executive, and not the
dead letter which he and adverse circumstances have
made it, it would not be under the civil but under
the war power that a convention not foreshadowed
in that document could be summoned I'Y Mr. Jae.
ferson Davis and Mr. Lincoln in the States which
severally recognise their authority. The same
powers that can agree to an armistice can agree to
call a convention, for were it otherwise the war
could only end in the exhaustion of one or both of
the belligerents, or by the forcible intervention of
foreign Powers—injured in their interest and scans
dalised in their Christianity by its aggravated con-
tintiatteei
Puritancity cal en rdnew
g ,and the doctrinaire
England may look
with disfatotir en the armistice, a very different
feeling pervades the working glasses, The labour.
phTilhosooupghhers the
of this
ing multitude living upon wages have been the
greatest sufferers by thewar-,-anA
won!!! loathe it
for the hardships which it has inflicted upon them,
by
even it were not accompaniedthe terrors of the
conscription. As an armistice Would postpone tho
draught for six months, if it did not render defi-
nitively unnecessary, they are unanimous in its fad
your—so unanimous and so earnest that were the
project to be abandoned in consequence of a diffi-
culty or objection arising on the part either of the
South or the North, its enforcement in this city,
and perhaps elsewhere, would be far more perilous
to the public peace than if the idea had never been
promulgated. More than the want of money, which
can be supplied by the Treasury printing press at—
Washington—of course under the usual peaalities
of depreciation of the currency, and the dread of
bankruptcy and repudiation—it is the want of men
that will compel the Federal Government to take
heed lest its present haughty spirit should not go
before destruction. The fighting material of the
American people is nearly exhausted, and since the
resultless and sickening butchering of Gen. Grant,
who, in the words of the New York Daily News,
has provided either a cripple or a corpse for half
the homes of the North, the little enthusiasm
that previously existed has cooled down to a very
temperate, if not to a freezing point. Federal agents
in Germany are offering as much as 1,000 dollars
bounty to able bodied recruits, and are carrying on
under the thin disguise of engaging labourers for
railways in the West, a similar system in Ireland.
These and the veterans whose terms of service has
expired are the sole sources on which the Government
can rely for so many as 50,000 men. Even the jour-
nals which vehemently support the Administration,
and which most persistently refuse to see the dark
side of things, are compelled to admit that the hearts
of the people, if not estranged from the war, are
estranged from taking any part in it. In alluding
to an advertisement calling upon the students of
Yale College residing in this city to assemble in
public meeting to devise and adopt a method of
mutual insurance against the draught, the New
York times confesses and deplores that such is the

case. " Everywhere," it says, " there is a disposi-
tion to get clear of the duty. How to escape the
draught is the leading question of the day. All
devices are resorted to. The gutters are dragged
for substitutes. Traps are set in Europe. Negro
slaves, who owe the Republic nothing but curses,
are driven to the rescue. Nowhere is there to be
found a straightforward, personal response to pa-
triotic obligation. The Republic calls upon her
sons to defend her. Unless she has that defence
her destruction is inevitable." This is excellent
scolding and irrefutable truth ; but it will not cause
anybody else but an Irish or German mercenary, to
shoulder the musket. It is the great, but not the
only, difficulty which besets the Government, and
places it between the two fires of defeat by the
Southern armies, or a new civil war within its own
limits, in the attempt to enforce by violence a mea-
sure utterly odious to all its citizens, whether native
or naturalised; and which has no attractions except
to the moat needy and reckless of the European
immigration. The very negroes have resolved to
steer clear of hostilities and to volunteer no more.
" At first," says one of them, named Welles Brown,
in an address to his brethren at Boston, "I desired
that coloured men should go to this war, to convince
this God-forsaken nation that black men were as
brave as white men ; but our people have been so
cheated, robbed, deceived, and outraged that I can-
not urge then to go. We have an imbecile Admi-
nistration, and the most imbecile management it is
possible to concieve." If Sambo is to fail him Mr
Lincoln is badly off indeed, and ought to be grateful
to the Chicago Convention if it give him so admi-
rable a chance of respite as the armistice will afford.

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both the raw material and of goods are the same as
last week.

LEICESTER, 31—There has been a good deal of
activity irk, the hosiery trade during the past week.
All departments of business have been busy, except
the glove branch manufacturers, being well engaged
with orders on hand. In the country districts busi-
ness is healthy. The wool market is quiet, but prices
continue very high. Yarns are very firm, and extreme
rates are realised, spinners being fully employed.

MANCHESTER, 3d.—The market has been ex-
ceedingly flat throughout the week, On Tuesday
there were some hopes of a reaction consequent on
advices of diminished stocks and a considerable
rise of prices in India. The near approach,
however, of the Presidential Election in America
and the uncertainty as to how far the peace party
may influence events during the next two months
tend to paralyse the strongest nerves. Those who
wish to keep up prices, however unfavourable to the
Federals have reason to deprecate for the present
any success to their opponents which may threaten
the chances of Lincoln and stop the war, for un•
doubtedly the prospect of such eventshas a tendency
to throw commercial affairs here into a state of
chaos which nobody can foresee the end of. Most
people seem to think the end of the struggle may
be near, and many heartily wish that it may be so ;
but it is feared, nevertheless, as fraught with many
serious evils, and prudent men are inclined as much
as possible to wait and lessen, rather than increase,
their risks at the present moment. Buyers are
consequently showing unusual timidity, and it is
difficult even to get offers of any magnitude. The
Indian mails seem to have bronght few orders of
an imperative character, so that very little business
(almost nothing) is doing by shippers to Bombay
and Calcutta, while buyers for others markets are
doing exceedingly little. Prices are in favour of
buyers, but generally speaking, the market retains
more firmness than might be expected under the
circumstances.

NEWCASTLE-ON.TYNE, 3d.—The high rate of in.
terest seems to be affecting the trade of the north-
eastern counties somewhat, and business has been
quieter this week. The freight market is decidedly
weaker in all its branches, and at present there is a
tolerably ample supply of tonnage in the ports, The
business done in the iron market at Middlesborough
this week is reported as limited. Prices there have
a hardening tendency, however. The demand for
iron to be used in local consumption and for exporta-
tion is very good. It is stated that the extensive
iron works of Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan, at
Middlesborough, Easton, Shildon, and Witton Park
will become the property of a limited liability com-
pany in January. The whole of the capital required
has been subscribed, almost exclusively at Manches-
ter. Several high class iron ships have been
launched in the north•eaatern ports this week. The
Dalmatia, of over 1,390 tons, and an iron screw
steamer of 1,415 tons, were launched, the first from
the building yard of Messrs Denton, Gray, and
Co., the second from the yard of Messrs Pile,
Spencer, and Co., of Hartlepool, on Thursday ; and
this afternoon Messrs Palmer Brothers, of Jarrow,
launched a magnificent steamship, the Ontario, of
over 3,000 tons, the largest iron ship built on the
Tyne, and intended for the National Company of
Liverpool.

Refusing to Attend Church.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

The Marquis Townshend presents his compli-
ments to the Editor, and begs to enclose copy of a
cornspondecce which he has had with the Home-
office on the subject of the most oppressive and
unjust sentence passed upon Isaac -Watson by the
rcagistrates at Duffield for refusing to attend
church on Sunday.
6, Grosvenor-place, Sopt. 4, 1864.

6, Grosvenor-place, July 23 186 L
Sir,—l beg to draw your uuention to the fottowmg
statement extracted from the Times of the 19th inst. :

"Isaac Watson, servant with Mrs Harrison. Duffield
\Vold, was summoned before the Rev G. T. Clare, the
Rev 11. Foord, ;And Nlr J. Grimston, and charged by
George Lyons, Mrs Harrison's manager, with refusing to
attend church on Sunday, being requested by his mistress
to do so. The defendant was ordered to attend some place
of worship and to pay expenses,"
I shall be obliged if you will cause the correctness of this
statement to be inquired into, and if you will inform me,
should it prove correct, under what act of Parliament the
the magistrate's sentence has been pronounced.—l have
the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

TOWNSFIEND,
Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart., G.C.8., M.P., &c.
Whitehall, Aug. 27, 1864.

My Lord,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter calling attention
to the case of Isaac Watson, lately convicted by the magis-
trates at Duffield of refusing to attend a place of worship on
Sunday, and I am to acquaint to your lordship that it ap-
pears by a report from the magistrates that the defendant
was convicted under the 4th Geo, IV., cap. 34, for disobey-
ing the orders of his employer, to whom be had hired him-
self for a year, and who desired him to attend a place of
worship once every Sunday.— I have the honour to be, my
lord, your lordship's obedient humble servant,

IL WADDINGTON.

The Marquis Townshend.

A Persecuted Author.

Alexandre Dames addressed the following charac•
teristic letter to the Emperor on the subject of his
piece recently produced in Paris, and called the
" Mohicans of Paris." The Mohicans" had been
stopped by the censorship, and Dumas wrote ;
Sire,—la 1836, and even to-day, there were three men at
the head of French literature,,Victor Hugo, Lamartine, and
myself. Victor Hugo is proscribed. Lamartine is ruined.
I cannot be exiled like Victor Hugo, as neither by word,
writing, nor act, have I given the authorities any hold over
me. But I can be ruined like Lamartine, and lam being
ruined. I know not what has excited the censorship against
me. I have written and published 1,200 volumes. It is not
for me to appreciate their literary merits. Translated into
all tongues they have gone as far as steam could carry
them. Although the lesst worthy of the three, in the five
parts of the world I have become the most popular, because
one is a thinker, the other a dreamer, whilst I write for all
(Je suis,moi, tot vulgarisateur). Of these 1,200 volumes
there is not one but could be given to any workman
of the Faubourg St. Antoine, the most republican, or
to any young girl of the Faubourg St. Germain, the
most Modest of our Faubourgs, Well, sire, in the eyes of
the censure lam the most impure man alive. Within
12 years the censure has successively stopped "Isaac La-
queden,"sold 80,500 francs ; the " Tour de Nesle," after 800
representations, stopped for seven years. "Angelo" stopped
after 300 representations for six years ; " Antony" also for
six years, after 350 representations. "Lo Jeunesse do
Louis XIV.", not played though received by the French
Theatre. To-day the censure stops the "Mohicans of
Paris," which was to have been played on Saturday. It wil
probably, on some pretext or another, forbid "Olympia of
Cloves" and " Balsamo," which plays I am writing now.
I do not complain any more for the "Mohicans" than for
my other dramas. I would observe to your Majesty that
during- the three years of the Restoration of Charles X.,
during the 18 years' reign of Louis Philippe, 1 never had a
piece either suspended or arrested, and I add, for your Ma-
jesty alone, that it appears to me unjust to make a single
dramatic author lose more than half a million when so many
men, who do not deserve the name, are encouraged and
supported. I appeal then for the first, and probably for the
last time, to the prince whose hand I had the honour to
press at Areneberg, at Ham, and at the Elyse°, and who
finding me a devoted proselyte when ho was on the road to
exile and the road to prison has never found mo a solicitor
when on that of empire. A. DumAs.
" This letter," adds the 21:urope," was handed to the
Emperor by Marshal Vaillant, who, as a Minister
of State, has the theatres under his supervision.
ha been
You need not be told that it produced the effe s
ct de-
sired by the writer, For the " Mohicans"
played, but with the suppression of three tableaux
of the original manuscript."

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present. In all cases of dysentery and diarrhcea in which
Holloway's ointment has been well rubbed upon the abdo-
men two or three times a day decided relief has been at once
obtained; and a perseverance in the same safe treatment,
aided by the application of warm bran poultices, has estab-
lished a cure. A milk diet and farinaceous food should be
adhered to throughout the attack. Solid substances, fruits
and vegetables, should be studiously shunned until the
more distressing and alarming symptoms have been dissi-
pated by the diligent inunction of this redressive and cool-
ing ointment,

Embarkation of the Prince and Print. ess of
Wales for Denmark.

DUNDEE, Saturday Night..

On Saturday afternoon the Prince and Princess
of Wales met with a most enthusiastic reception
from the inhabitants of Dundee on the occasion of
tha embarkation of their royal highnesses for Den—
mark. For some days previously great excitement
prevailed in the town in anticipation of the visit of
the prince and princess, and the outburst of loyal
feeling and enthusiasm on Saturday on the part of
the people has certainly been unequalled since the
visit of her Majesty to Dundee in September 1844
—exactly 20 years ago.

The corporation of Dundee naturally wished
that the demonstration should be a public one,
and that the inhabitants should have an oppor-
tunity of seeing the prince and princess ; but in
the official intimation of the embarkation re•
ceived by the provost, the desire of the
prince, as conveyed by Sir Charles Wood, was
to the effect that there should he no public de-
monstration of any kind, but that everything
should be carried cut in the quietest and most
private manner possible. However, at a meeting
of the Harbour Trustees on Friday, held for the
purpose of making the necessary arrangements, the
Earl of Camperdown stated that his son, Lord
Duncan, had been instructed by the prince to in..
form him that his royal highness would place himself
at the disposal of the magistrates for a short time.
It was accordingly agreed, in order that the public
might have a good opportunity of seeing the prince
and princess, that a procession should be formed
from the railway station, along Dock-street, up
Castle-street, to High.street, and Nethergate,
and down Union-street, to the Mid Quay— a
distance of about a mile and a half. The magic.
trates issued a proclamation informing the inha-
bitants that ample opportunity would be afforded
to all to see their royal highnesses, and urging Liiu
citizens to show the Queen, by their orderly con-
duct, how they loved her and her children, and 1:o
show the noble Danes how their royal daughter was
valued.

The prince and princess, with the infant prince
and suite, left Abergeldie at ten o'clock on Saturday
morning and posted to Aboyne, where they found
especial train waiting for them, and started in it
shortly after twelve. Aberdeen was passed at 12.58,
and the journey thence to Dundee was calculated
to occupy two hours. The royal suite included tho
Earl and Countess Spencer, the Countess de Grey,
General Knollys, Major Teesdale, &c. The Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company provided
a saloon carriage for their royal highnesses On their
journey.

The royal party were expected to arrive in Dun"
dee about three o'clock, and long before that hour
the streets were crowded with the teeming popu-
lation of the town, and with thousands of persons
who had been brought by excursion trains from the
neighbouring towns and villages. At half-past two
o'clock a rumour was circulated through the crowd
that the Royal party would embark at Broughty
Ferry, about four miles down the Firth of Tay from
Dundee. On inquiry the report turned out to be
only too true, at least so far as regarded the inten-
tions of the Royal party themselves. Several tele•
grams were received at the platform of the Scottish
North-Eastern Railway Station, stating that it was
fully intended to embark at Broughty Ferry, and,
as if to corroborate the statement, the Royal yacht
Osborne was seen to sail down the Firth and anchor
close to the pier at Broughty Ferry. At this critical
moment the magistrates of Dundee, alarmed at the
evident misunderstanding, sent off the senior bailie
(Mr Owen) and Mr Kerr, the town clerk, to meet the
Prince of Wales at the Ferry, and to state that the
whole public of Dundee were in the streets anxiously
waiting to see the royal pair, and that the disap.
pointment to them would be of a very serious kind
should the expected visit not be paid. The muni•
cipal deputation found that it was from an idea that
the tide would be lost by the delay that the inten•
tion of coming to Dundee had been altered. The
commander of the royal yacht, who was at Broughty
to receive the royal party, was consulted about the
matter, and after making a computation respecting
the tide, he assured the Prince that the embarkation
could take place from Dundee without any risk of
the kind anticipated. The order was then given to
go on to Dundee, and the train arrived there at 20
minu'os past three o'clock. A further detention of

10 minutes then took place, for the carriages of t he
Earl of Camperdovs n had, according to the sude.en
instructions received an hour before, gone off to
Broughty, and while the train was coming up they
were rushing up the road at full speed, while the
royal yacht Osborne was again making her passage
up the Firth. At half-past three everything was
ready, and, preceded by the carriages of the town
council, the Prince and Princess, who were received
with a tremendous cheer, both as they entered and
left the station, rode through the surging mass,
whose ardour could not be abated, for, notwiths
standing barriers, special constables, and police, a
wave of people followed the Earl of Campers
down's carriage, in which the Prince and princess
were seated, and at the wheels of which his lord-
ship walked, struggling at every moment with the
impetuous crowd. An extraordinary spectacle
was presented in Dock-street.,:, Net only was the
area crowded to excess, but the windows and
housetops on the one side, and the bulwarks, rig-
ging, and masts on the other, were literally alive
with human beings. There were no barriers, unfor.
tunately, in the other streets except at the turn-

ing points; and though the people, as a general
rule, kept their places remarkably well, a few of
the more ardent were always breaking through the
line, and though the interruptions were of a good.
natured kind, yet at some points were of rather an
alarming character, and but for the most strenuous
exertions of the Earl of Camperdown and other
gentlemen to check the foremost of the crowd the
passage would speedily have been blocked up.
Nothing could exceed the heartiness of the recep-
tion of the prince and princess, who, being in an
open carriage, were in the view of everybody, and
they very graciously acknowledged the salutations
of the crowd. At the corners of the streets, as the
carriage of the royal party came in view, the cheer-
ing was most exuberant, and thousands of hats and
handkerchiefs were waved from the windows and
above the heads of the populace. The crowds in
the streets were chiefly of the working classes, and

many of them had just been set free from their
labours, with the smoke and dust of the factories
still upon their faces. The drive through the town
occupied a quarter of an hour, and the quay was
reached at a quarter to four.
At this quay, in the centre of the docks, at which
Queen Victoria landed in September, 1844, on her
second visit to Scotland, and at the head of which
stands the triumphal arch commemorative of the
Royal visit, the volunteers of the local battalion
were drawn up, and the accesses to it were strictly
guarded. The royal carriage only was admitted,
and the departure took place from a floating jetty.
A large party was admitted to witness the royal
departure, including the Earl of Camperdown,
Lord Kinnaird, Lord Lucie, Sir John Ogilvy, Sir
David Ross (Lord Provost of Perth), Sir David
Baxter, Mr. Sheriff iferiott, and the provost, ma-
gistrates, Sze. Before the arrival of the royal party
a good deal of rain had fallen, but the weather was
quite fine during their progress through the town.
At the embarkation, however, a heavy shower fell
50d continued for above an hour. Owing to the
change in the araangcmonte, the prince and princess
were detainid at the ferry for a quarter of an hour

'waiting the arrival of the royal barge. The crowds
on the quays and on the shipping had au excellent
view of the prince and princess; and, as they em•
barked in the barge, the cheers of the multitude,
mingled with the loyal strains of the volunteer hand,
give them a hearty and hopeful goodbye. The barge
then stood out in the river, and reached the Osborne
about a quarter past four, the arrival on board bea
ing intimated by an artillery salute from a battery
near the docks. About half-past four the infant
prince and his nurses embarked in another barge
amid the cheers of the multitude, the band of tho
volunteers playing the National Anthem. A large
number of steamers, with crowds on board, sailed
down the Firth after the royal squadron, and con•
voyed them to the mouth of the Tay. Darkness
closed in when the royal vessels were last seen On
their way across the North Sea.

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 5, 1864.

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The prospect of peace in America is a question
of such vital interest that any diecussion connected
with it can scarcely be tame or tedious. Both aides,
t is true, have said their say often enough since
th:s unhappy war broke ou►t ; the arguments have
been bandied to and fro until the veriest child has
grown familiar with them; but there are some
events, some subjects so remarkable that " their in.
Anite variety" does not lose its force by constant
re2etition. More especially is this the case when
the speakers aro men not only of great ability and
high position, but of the most intimate acquaint-
ance with the wants and feelings of the peoples
whose interests are under discussion, and whose
words are therefore no round of borrowed platitudes
bttt the bonest outpouring of practical convictions.
Such words are not only advocacy, but evidence.
They show us the animus of either side. They fur-
nish us with data from which to draw our own
conclusions. Under these aspects the narrative of
the conversation between JEFFERSON DAVIS and
Colonel JAQUES cannot be read with indifference ;
and indeed the circumstances of the interview are
of themselves sufficiently striking to rivet attention.
T wo Northerners, actuated by the desire to see some
suspension of the fratricidal strife now desolating
wo great countries, pushed their way, by means
of letters, &c., to the very presence of the Southern
President. They passed the hostile lines, and were
safely brought to the "State Department" in Rich-
mond, where they had a lengthened interview with
the man who,in the words of Mr GLADSTONE, " has
made the South a nation." Their conversation, of
course, was profitless so far as any immediate
prospects of peace are concerned ; but the
very fact of its taking place is in itself
encouraging. The go-a-head nation has cer-
tainly hitherto carried on its war in the most mat.
ter of fact way. No trace of chivalry or sentiment
has interfered with the material objects, but this
enterprise of Colonel JAQUES, and the courteous
reception accorded him by President DAVIS, reads
like a page from the Romance of War instead of its
mere ordinary history. The argument did credit to
both sides, being conducted with admirable temper,
while the opponents were well matched. Mr. DAVIS
mast, however, have been amused to see the quiet
manner in which Colonel JAQUES brought forward
the very points which tell against the North, his
simplicity, real or assumed, serving for logic. :Thus,
when he said to him, "You are wholly without
Motley and at the end of your resources," Mr.
DAVIS may have recollected the latest price of gold
in New York. When Colonel JAQUES went on to
say, " GRANT has shut you up in Richmond, SHER-
MAN is before Atlanta. Had you not better accept
honourable terms while you can retain your prestige
a nd save the pride of the Southern people ?" it is no
gt eat wonder that Mr. DAVIS smiled as he replied,
s, I respect your earnestness, Colonel, but you do
not, seem exactly to understand the situation. We
are not exactly shut up in P.ichmond. If your
pvers tell the truth, it is your capital that is in
,danger, not ours." He then reminded his hearer
that, after all GRANT'S brilliant flank movements,
b.e• was no nearer Richmond, while he was poorer
by 75,000 or 80,000 men than at the outset. On
the financial question he had as much to say. The
South need certainly not fear comparison with her
an tagonist on that score, for, as Mr. DAVIS said to
hie visitor, " Our paper has the solid basis of a large
cotton crop, while yours rests on nothing, and you
owe all the world." Butsuch arguments would not
of course convince either side. The sin of the war
did not, President DAVIS declared, lie at his
door, for he had foreseen it for 12 years, but had
be en powerless to prevent it. The whole blame, he
av erred, rested with the North who refused to admit
this right of the Southern people to:govern them-
selves. Colonel JAQUES suggested that the people
sh mild be allowed to decide that the propositions
should be laid before them by the relative Govern-
ments. Peace, union, emancipation, no cam,
pensetion, end universal amnesty as the other,
and both sides to be bound by the vote of
the majority. The plan, as President DAVIS justly
said, is quite impracticable. it is the plan of a
theorist, not of a practical man, but Mr DAVIS
objected to its very principle. it was the tyranny
of the majority, he daid,l,J-1 tlif ted to.

.10.•10.
The Northerners remonstrated. " The majority
must rule finally either with bullets or bal-
lots." This was not the creed of GEORGE
WASHINGTON and his compeers, bat it is
strange to see the inconsistency displayed by the
Unionists, whose very name, as Mr. BENJAMIN ob-
served, "United States" implies a partnership, not
an identification of interests. The language of Mr.
DAVIS was worthy of himself and his position, and
displayed the unalterable resolve of the South to
their independence. The North has yet to learn the
lesson, but the crime of the war now lies at their
door, and they cannot palliate it, since the Southern
leader has said, in plain words, that slavery is no
part of the matter, and that he will receive Any pro-
posals for peace on the basis of Southern indepen-
dence. How long will the North ri,fuse to ac-
knowledge the national existence of that com-
munity which all Europe has long since recognised
as an established fact ?

Last Saturday Lord PALMERSTON had a gracious
task to perform, albeit it was tinged with sadness.
Those who occupy a prominent position in life have
no more significant and solemn duties to discharge
than to pay their tribute of respect and add their
mite of approbation to their competitors and co-
adjutors in the race of life. The noble lord who
unveiled the statue to the memory of the late Sir
GEORGE CORNWALL LEWIS has often been fated
to behold such scenes and take part in such efforts
to honour the dead and encourage the survivors.
It has long been an undisputed maxim that De
mortiva nil nisa bonum, but we look for something
more than this when those who have done their best
during the span of their earthly existence to servo
their Sovereign and country and to win the esteem
of their fellow men are called away from among us.
The strife of politics and the tumultuous strife of
party zeal are hushed at the portals of the tomb;
and appropriately so, for its occupant has passed
away for ever from its vanity and its vexations. It
is fitting that whenever any particular ability and
excellence are displayed, due note should be made
of such attributes after death. "To live in hearts
we leave behind is not to die;" and no better
consolation can irradiate the dying hours of the de-
parted, or cheer and sustain his friends who sure
vie() him, than the thought that the pas-
sage through this transitory state has been
employed in a manner . at once honest and
honourable. Sir G. CORNEWALL LEWIS was a
good type of an English Statesman, firm and de-
cided in his bearing, and consistent in his character.
Such men are of value to the State they serve and
an inestimable advantage to the country. Their
lives are precious possessions to their fellow-subjects
and incentives to more weak and wavering natures
to persevere in the road of rectitude and strive to
exert them to the utmost of their capacity. As the
Rev. ARCHER ELICE declared when he requested
Lord PALMERSTON to uncover the statue, they ask
him to " sanction the exaggerated praise of a lying
epitaph, for they had placed nothing on the base
of that statue which everyone capable of judging
could not affirm to be truth. The terms that record
that Sir GEORGE CORNRWALL LEWIS was "a wise
and honest Statesman, a profound scholar, and a
kind and firm friend" are strictly true, and perhaps
in these simple words we get a picture of more solid
and enduring excellence than we could meet with in
1 more elaborate descriptions, of more showy quali-
ties, and more striking achievements. Mr. ELICE
spoke earnestly and impressively as to the high
esteem in which the departed Statesman was held
by all who knew him, and those then present in
especial, they had had ample opportunities of wit-
nessing that course of life which never made him
a single enemy ; ";and," concluded the rev. gentle-
man, "let us do all we can to hand down
to posterity the knowledge that one great and
eminent Statesman has risen up amongst us
aat amuck.; au 6-eatry of Ea6-2azza one was found,
as I believe many more will be found whenever they
are wanted, to serve his country well, and fill the
highest and meat important offices of the State."
Lord PALMERSTON appeared to enter fully into the
spirit of the scene before him, which, to him, must
have contained particular attraction and suggested
stirring thoughts. He whom he came to honour
was his friend and colleague, and in doing homage
to his memory he celebrated the last solemn cere-
mony which this world can witness regarding the
career of its distinguished men. They henceforth
belong to the past and the future—the present
' is over for ever with them, and all must be moved
when they reflect upon the important effect a few
years of public life may produce upon the reputa-
tion of the statesman himself and the interests of
the country he serves, His Lordship's address was
worthy of the occasion, and it is very fortunate
that he was able to be present, for no one else could
so well have filled his place. It was particularly
his mission to come forward and do his utmost in
rendering the meed of approbation and approval to
his departed friend. He could speak what he did
know concerning him who was that day the com-
mon subject of all thoughts, and no one had a better
right to comment upon the character and attain.
menta of the Minister who was the first to recognise
his aptitude and abilities. A moral may surely be
conveyed to the rising generation in the career of
Sir G. LEWIS, and in Lord PALMERSTON'S impres-
sive address we can see his whole career mapped
out before us, an instance of what perseverance can
accomplish, and a picture of what intellect and in-
tegrity can perform. His Lordship observed that
they were assembled to " confer posthornous honour
on a great and distinguished Statesman who, by the
inscrutable decrees of PROVIDENCE, was taken from
us prematurely." This is another proof of the ex-
tent of the acquirements and performances of the
late Statesman, because his time was short, compa-
ratively speaking, to have made for himself so
andex
ex-
tended and enduring a reputation both privately
publicly. Lord PALMERSTON touched upon the
leading points of his career, and most strongly
dwelt upon his estimable qualities which gained
him universal good will, and prevented the express.
sion of those angry feelings that often occur in
public life. Hia power of performance was remark-
ably great, for he kept up his pursuit of knowledge
while he faithfully discharged his onerous duties
in official life. Lord PALMERSTON declared that
his great objet; was to ascertain truth, and he pos-
sessed
that desire in a greater degree than any one
else whom he had met. The noble lord concluded
his eloquent speech in most impressive language, and
it cannot be denied that he made an address worthy
of the occasion and the subject. After declaring
that the erection of the statue was a becoming set
he went on to say, " Aod I hope that those whom
I am addressing, and these who may follow their
generation after generation, when they pass this
statue will say, " This is the statue of a man dear
to his country, who rendered important services to
hie country, who served his Sovereign and his fel-
=low-countrymen with honesty of purpose, and with
successful results." Farther, Lord PALMERSTON
added that such a career as that before them should
serve as,au incentive to exertion and an inducement
to excellence, very truly observing that even where
the same abilities were not present much might be
done by care and attention. The PREMIER made
a most useful deduction from the example of his
departed friend when he told the assembly there
present to do him honour, that they rr fight gain by

following, in some measure, the example of him
whose career they had admired. " The imitation
of great excellence, although it may not result in
equal distinction, is the certain course to fit every
man, whatever may be his talents, to be a useful
member to the community, and to earn the good-
will ar.d esteem of his benefactors and friends in
life." Rightly understood the ceremonials, such as
this at Hereford, are to be esteemed by all who take
a part in them. They are a substantial record of the
services rendered to their generation by the men
who are its pride and ornament, they are signs
and tokens to others that merit is appreciated, and
it must be a gratifying reflection to a great states-
man that his works will not be bnr:ed with him—
that the brief scene of his present struggles will
not be all that he shall take a part in for the bene-
fit of the world, he will be a light for the past and
a beacon for the future. It is also gratifying to
reflect upon that in this country we have so many
public men whose private life and excellence are
of as much value as their public career of distinc-
tion. It is only when these agree in repute and honor
that a course of existence can be pleasant and pro.
fitable to themselves and others. Life can never be
too long or too short if the aim and object of its
duration be pure and elevated. It can never be
too tedious to recruit and benefit their fellowmen,
and it can never be too poor to rejoice in the joy of
their KING, and to return to that MAKER who be-
stowed those priceless gifts upon them, if those gifts
have not been abused or trifled with, but made the
most of, honoured in their adaptation to human re-
quirements, and sanctified by the stamp of Divine
approval. The memory of such lives cannot pass
away with the transient splendours and vain pomg
of the world around us, they have a part in that
world which cannot see change.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

INDIA AND CHINA HAILS.
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 4.

The Messageries linperiales mail steamer Peluse
arrived here at 2 r.m. to-day with the above mails,
600 bales of silk, and 92 cases of rhubarb for
London.

THE CONGRESS AT MALINES.

(FROM OUR SPET,IAL CORRESPONDENT).
MALINEs, Sept. 3, 1864.

Yesterday was the last day of the Congress pro-
perly so called. There remains only for to-day's
programme, a general meeting at 8 o'clock in the
morning, at which the President, Baron de Ger-
lache, is to deliver the closing address; after which
we are to hear in the cathedral a parting sermon
from the celebrated Pere Felix; and so must end
this delightful gathering, of which we are promised
a renewal only in two years' time. A banquet at 7
p.m. will still be the last opportunity of meeting for
a few hundred of the members of the Congreas. But
let us speak of yesterday. The sections held their
last meeting in the morning, and my steps led
me to the first section, where were being discussed
the interesting subjects of St. Peter's pence, and the
mode of propagating it, and the pilgrimages in
general, and especially that of the Holy Land. At
half-past 2 the general meeting began by a report
on the Exhibition of Christian Art, which has
gathered in the Hotel Liedkerke at Malines the art
treasures of the greater part of the churches and
monasteries of Belgium, in addition to several
foreign contributions. The Exhibition is to re-
main open till the end of September, and is in
some respects more complete than the Loan
Museum was at South Kensington. The report,
which was read by the Senator Cannart d'Hamale,
of Malines, was intended chiefly to usher in the list
of prizes awarded for a competition in religious
sculpture, goldsmith's work, and stained glass,
which had been proposed by the Exhibition com-
mittee. This list was read by the Chanoine de
Bleser. Two prizes of 200 fr. and 100 fr. were
awarded to the sculpture competition, both being
gained by Belgian Elitists. The goldsmith's prize
was given to a German from Aix la Chapelle, while
the prize for stained glass was awarded to Mr N, J.
Westlake, of London.

MGR. DE WOELMONT, chaplain of the Pontifical
Zeuaves, then came forward to give a few particulars
about the life of those Catholic volunteers of the
Pope's army, among whom there are a great many
Belgians. He spoke of the intellectual, religious,
and charitable occupations of these young men, who
wherever they are sent in garrison establish a society
of St. Vincent de Paul, and visit and relieve the
poor. He mentioned also the fact that a Pole, who
was in the Zeuave Brigade, had come into it from a
vow he had made to serve in the Papal army, should
a child of his who was dangerously ill, recover.
God had granted life and health to his child, and
the grateful father cheerfully and exemplarily dis-
charges his obligation.
M. DE LA BATTLE, from the Isle of Bourbon, gave
a short account of the progress of the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul and of the Catholic press in that
French colony.
A Hungarian, in his national costume and whose
name I understood to be Mager, gave us in excellent
French an account of the state of the Catholicity in
Hungary, the youngest child of the Church in
Europe, as he observed, for its conversion to Chris-
tianity only dates from the ninth century. Part of
it, and that the most fertile, was for 160 years sub-
ject to the Turks, and now one-third of the popula-
tion had become Protestant. Their national policy
had in consequence been much influenced in a Pro•
testant direction, while the Protestants had nearly
the whole of the press in their hands. What, how-
ever, was the strength of Catholicity in Hungary
was her clergy, who were most edifying and learned.
They had also established for some years the Society
of St. Stephen for the diffusion of good books, and
that of St. Ladislaus, founded in 1850, to assist the
Catholics of the Eastern rites. Both societies num-
bered 24,000 members. Thligious societies of work-
men also existed, A Catholic press was much
wanted, and he regretted that the clergy in general
did not yet completely understand the great need
of it in the present age. He concluded by quoting
the words of the well-known French oratorian,
Pere Gratry, on the subject of Catholic journals.
The Rev. Pere DECHAMPS, a Belgian Redemp-
torist, then spoke briefly, to justify the Congress
from the charge of being political, as it was not
gathered for a political end, but came across politics
as they were more or less mixed up with every
social question. He spoke of our verable president
the Baron de Gerlache, as the hero of the national
struggle of 1825, and as ever in the foremost rank
as a champion passions of true liberty.
The Rev. Father HERMANN, superior of the Car-
melite Friars of Kensington, then addressed the
Congress, to give them some particulars of the state
of Catholicity in England. He spoke of the great
progress it had made :of late years as due in great
measure to his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, who
was the only Catholic in England who did not per•
ceive that his own diocese had made the most pro-
gress of any; for while im the rest of England the
Catholic clergy had increased but. threefold since
the year of the Catholic emancipation,
intho diocese
of Westminster they had increased fourfold. The
general religious habits of the Catholics had become
more healthy. Formerly they were almost afraid
to display, even in their own churches, their devo-
tion for the Blessed Sacrament, and for the Blessed
Virgin Mary. No
sermon on the Blessed Virgin
was hardly ever heard from the Catholic pulpits of
the land which once boasted the name of Mary's
Dowery. These outworks of the fortress of faith
had now been prominently restored. And this was
due especially
to the Cardinal and the Fathers of
the great Society of Jamie, who ever held their foot-
ing in England even when there was hardly any
secular priest left in it, by the persecution of two
centuries duration. Now the Month of Mary was
duly observed throughout the land, and all Catholics
therein displayed their devotion for the Rosary and
Scapular. The Scapular, that great devotion of
English origin,
given by Our Lady in England to
an English saint, seemed to him a pledge of the
future return to the Church of that noble
country. Father Faber, that great ascetic
writer of modern times, whose death has
left such a void in the
English clergy, used
to say that if more Protestants were not converted,
it was because the blessed Virgin was not sufficiently
honoured by the Catholics. Devotion to the blessed
Sacrament was now especially revived in England.
Even in Catholic countries
it might be said that
God in the Eucharist was too much of an unknown
God. Every new sanctuary set up in London, in
that vast city of three millions of inhabitants,
was another court of adorers gathered to
ossessed six reli.
tul adoration of the
compensate for the indifference of the rest of the
population. England now pa
gious houses where the perpe
devotion of the forty
housesbles s e cl Sacramentwere inL
on
an. waso kept
rh up, and two of these
The
hours' elposition of the blessed Sacrament was re-
vived in all the churches; and an association for its
adoration during the night had been formed by
several pions men. The greatest union reigned in
England between the secular and the regular
clergy. The Society of St Vincent do Paul was now
spread throughout the land, and kept up its num-
hers and works without any opposition. The atti-
tude of general society in Eoghtud towards the
Catholics was much improved. In fact, Catholicity
is better known, and it can only profit by heirs
known, as the Congress itself proves. the first
Catholic made one of the jades of the lend was
appointed lately. The rev. father then described
the kindness end attention which he had received
from tte prison authorities and the sheriff on the
occasion of his having to prepare for death four out
spoil
thisil the
moving
description ripti
scene on
by whichany
of the five pirates of the Fiowery Land, who were
f
executed on the 22d of February last. Ido not
FwaisthherinHearnmyanwn gaaytvoe
abridgment. I understand that his eloquent and
interesting address is to be translated whole
and entire into English.

3L LE NOEMANT, ion of tag late well known pro-

fessor and writer, M. Charles Le Normant, then gave
us a most interesting but rather long account of
the state of Catholicity in Greece and the lonian
Islands, and of the massacres of Syria, of which
he was a witness.

The celebrated preacher, Pero Felix, whose ap-
pearance is of the meanest, it may almost be said
from his stature and looks, then delighted the
audience for a few minutes with his clear and
easy comments on the formula of St. Augustine,
quoted by the Cardinal of 11Ialines in his open-
ing speech, liberty and charity. He called in
the end for acclamations for Jesus Christ our
Lord, whose divinity is insulted and denied; for
his vicar, our Holy Father, Pius IX, and for cur
Mother the Holy Catholic Church. These calls
were heartily responded to by the assembly, which
adjourned for half an hour only at half-past six, to
resume again its meoticg to receive the reports
from its various sections.

MALINES, September 3, 1864.

To-day the Catholic Congress was terminated by
an early meeting, at 8 e.m., at which several reports
on the state of Catholicity in different countries
were made, among which the most remarkable was
one trade by a Brazilian, Senor Marc de Costa, in
which he stated the interesting fact that although
slavery still existed in his country, yet it had be-
come very much mitigated by the religious spirit of
the population, and by the laws which allowed the
slave to purchase his own freedom from his earn-
ings, after his daily legal time of work for his
master. He also stated that charitable associations
were organised in all the towns of Brazil for the
redemption of slaves. Letters were read ad-
dressed to the Congress by the editors of the
Annali Cattolici of Genoa, by the distinguished
historian and statesman, Cesare Cantu, of Milan,
and by Signor Casoni, the eminent journalist, of
Bologna. The venerable President. Baron de Ger-
!ache, then read his farewell address, in which he
expressed the spacial gratitude of the Congress for
Mgr. Dupanloup's appearance among them, and for
hie discourse, which will leave such a marked in>
pression in Belgium. The members of the Congress
then adjourned to the cathedral church of St.
Rombaut, where, in presenee of all the prelates who
had been present at the Congress, and including the
Bishop of Orleans, the Pere Felix preached one of
his usual calm, beautiful, and clear discourses, which
are as interesting in print as in speech. He took
for his text the words, " Be trustful, I have over.
come the world." He spoke of the life of the Church
under the three respective states of persecution,
protection, and neutrality on the part of temporal
rulers. The sermon lasted more than an hour. His
Eminence the Cardinal of Malines then ascended
the pulpit to address a few farewell words to the
assembly, and concluded them by reciting along
with those present the acclamations of blessings on
God, his holy name and attributes, on his holy
Mother according to the flesh, and his holy friends
the angels and saints, which are so constantly in use
at the end of religious ceremonies in the churches
of Rome.

A banquet, in which nearly three hundred of the
members of the Congress were gathered, took place
at the Petit Seminiire, in the great hall of the
general meetings, at 2 p.m. At 5 p.m. and later,
till ten o'clock, the railway station was filled with
groups of friends parting from each other, all with
the expressed hope of meeting again in old Malines
at a like happy gathering. As already announced,
through our previous communication, this re-
assembling of the Congress at Mslines will-pro-
bably take place only two years hence.