The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

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cotton trade. Of course Mr. Gibson could not do
otherwise than follow the example set him by his
colleagues, in taking advantage of his appearance
in public, to say something about America. It
might, perhaps, have been as well had he dismissed
the topic with a few generalities. This, however,
did not chime with his views. Instead of following
in the footsteps of an eloquent fellow-minister, and
venturing on predictions which would be univer-
sally received as indications of a coming policy, he
confined himself exclusively to the consideration of
the past. The causes and not the results of the war
furnished Mr. Gibso❑ with his theme. We cannot
congratulate him on the success or accuracy with
which he discussed them. He has been astonished,
he says, " to hear that slavery had nothing to do
with the war," and forthwith proceeds to demon-
strate that it must have occasioned the war, since
the Southern States seceded because Abraham
Lincoln was exclusively elected by the population
of the Northern States, and because his opicions
and purpose " were hostile to slavery." It cer-
tainly may be conceded that if slavery did not
exist in the Southern States, the present war never
would have arisen; but it is not therefore correct
to say that it occasioned it, much less that its main-
tenance or abolition constitutes the issue between
the belligerents. The Southern States withdrew
from a Federation in which a chief magistrate
had been elected in whom they had no con-
fidence, and who, they feared, would direct the
power and influence of that Federation against
some of the States composing it. Mr. Milner Gib-
son does not deny, nor cuuld he in the face of the
American Constitution, that the seceding States
possessed the right, if they so pleased it, of with-
drawing from the Union. The right has been more
than once asserted since the establishment of the
Republic, and never disallowed, although now acted
upon for the first time. All the Southern States
desired was to part in peace ; nor did they resolve
upon the separation until the proposals made
through their commissioners to the Cabinet at
Washington had been definitively rejected. They
then asserted their independence, and then did the
North proceed to levy its armies to reduce them to
subjection. Is slavery now at issue, let us ask Mr.
Gibson ? The proclamation of the let January
emancipating the slaves of the rebellious, but leav-
ing the rights of the loyal slaveowner unaffected,
affords sufficient reply. No; the w.r is not a war
for slavery ; it is a war in which the liberty and in-
dependence of millions are at stake. To vindicate
them the Southern States drew the sword, and
when at length it is sheathed we hope to see them
not less firmly established than when both North
and South rested from their labours after the first
great war in the cause of American independence.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

, 10.-.--

MANCHESTER-JAN. 22.

This morning at our market there was a fair attend-
ance. English wheat and flour a quiet sale, at the curren-
cies of last week. Oats and oatmeal a fair sale. Beans
were unchanged.

BIRMINGHAM—JAN. 22.
English wheat was sold at 48s to 568 for white, and 40s
to 56s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 35s to
42s per qr; grinding, 24s to 28s. Oats, old, 24s to 34s
per 30 stone; Irish, 22s to 255. Beans, 40s to 44s per qr.
Peas, 40s to 48s per 36 stone.

PLYMOUTH—JAN. 20.
Ihe corn market very dull, and little business doing.
—White, 56s to 60s; red, 54s to 56s per qr; I)antzic, 57s
to 58s ; American 51s to 55s ; Spanish, —s to —s ; Rus-
sian, —s to —s. Barley at previous rates-34s to 38s per
qr for malting; grinding, 27s to 288; oats, 23s to27s; and
beans, —s to —s ; flour, 388 to 41s Od.

EDINBURGH GRAIN—JAL 21.
A good supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met a
slow sale at is under the prices of this day week.
Wheat on the top Os 3d up average Os 6d down.
Barley on the top is Od down .average 18 Od down.
Oats on tho top Os 6d up • average Os 2d up.
Beans on the top 3s Od down .. average Os 2d down.
Total Supply and Sales.
Wheat ...1054. qrs Sold 662 qrs
8ar1ey........1949 qrs.. Sold 971 qrs
Oats ........ 2570 qrs Sold 1861 qrs
8ean5........ 78 qrs Sold 56 qrs
Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 45s Od; extras, 43s 6d;
superfine, 41s 6d ; fine, 39s 6d. • • .

CORK—JAN. 21.
The following were the quotations this morning :—Red
wheat, 6s 6d to lOs 3d; white, 8s 6d to Ils Id ; barley, 49
Od to 7s 3d ; oats, 6s Od to 8s ld. ; now bere, —s Od to
—s Od.

DERBY SMITHFIELD--bar. 19.
Beet 6d to bid Veal 7(l to 7id
Mutton ... 7d to 8d Pork ...... sld to sid
Lamb —d to —d Rough fat, 4s Od per stone.
Hides, 3d to 4,1 d; cal t skins, 5d to 6d.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
A unralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Feb. 12.
...irazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Feb. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Jan. 27.
Falkland Islands
.....................Feb. 3.
Gibraltar, via Southampton
Jan. 18
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 18..
via Marseilles Jan. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 25.
via Marseilles Jan. 20.
Portugal....
Feb. 3.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 18.
Newfoundland via Marseilles Jan, 20.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 21.
7-- by U.S. packet...,
by Canadian packet. Jan. 16.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Jan. 15.
Mexico
....Jan. 28.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, and Peru, }Jan. 28.
California, British Columbia..

THE DEMIDOFF FAMILY.—We find the follow-
ing in the feuilleton of the France :---"The prodi-
gious fortune of the Dmidoff family, derived from their
iron, copper, and gold mines in the Ural Mountains, dates
from the beginning of last century. Under Nicholas
Nitikich, Count de Demidoff, so well known for his muni-
ficence, who died at Florence in 1821, the income from the
mines amounted to nearly 5,000,000 fr. a year. There are
now two Demidoffs known in Paris—Anatole, the son of
the abovenamed, and Paul, his nephew, who is much
younger. The latter now possesses the immense fortune of
the family, on condition of paying to his uncle a monthly
sum, said to be 100,000 fr. Mr. Paul Demidoff, besides his
other wealth, possesses the famous historical diamond
called the Sancy, estimated to be worth two millions of
francs, which he wore twice last year at the fancy balls of
Count Walewski and Count de Persigny. The Saucy,
on one of those occasions, fell from the helmet on which
it was worn, and was for three minutes trodden under foot
by the dancers. It is ono of the three great diamonds,
formerly famous throughout Christendom, which be-
longed to Charles the Rash, Duke of Burgundy. After
the battloOf .Granson; it was found under a waggon; in
the ball last winter, it was found under an armchair. Only
fancy that this stone represents a capital which would yield
a yearly. ititerest of 100,000 E—an immense km in the eyes
of ordinary people, but a mere trifle compared with the
fortune of the Demidoffs."