The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-07 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Front the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Henry Beauchamp
Lygon, Earl Beauchamp, of Powyke, and Madres-
field Court, Worcester, was proved in her Nlajesty's
Court of Probate by his son, the present earl, power
being reserved to his younger son, the Hon.
Frederick Lygon, M.P., the executor. The
personalty was sworn under £lBO,OOO. The de-
ceased nobleman was a general in the army,
colonel of the 10th Hussars, and deputy-lieute-
nant for Worcestershire,. He died on the Bth of
September last at the age of 78. His lordship mar-
ried, in 1824, a daughter of the second Earl of St.
Germans, G.C.B. She died in 1835, leaving two
sons and two daughters. His son, heretofore Vis-
count Elmley, of the Ist Life Guards, was M.P. for
West Worcestershire, which the deceased earl had
represented for 20 years, and previously member for
the county of Worcester 25 years. The first earl
represented Worcestershire for 30 years. The
testator executed his will in 1861, and two codi-
cils in 1862. To his son and successor he leaves
the residue of his personal estate. To his son Fre-
derick he leaves a third of the large sums under his
(testator's) marriage settlement, over which his lord-
ship had the power of apportienment, and bequeaths
to his said son Frederick the sum of £46,000, also
the plate which his lordship purchased of the exe-
cutrix of his brother, the second Earl Beauchamp.
To each of his two daughters he has left a third
of the property under settlement, leaving also to
his daughter, Lady Raglan, the further sum of
£lO,OOO, and a like sum of £lO,OOO to each of her
ladyship's two sons. To a former governess in the
family a legacy of £600; also legacies to his coach-
men, grooms, and indoor servants.
The will of the Rev. John buncombe Shafto, M.A.,
of Buckworth Rectory, Huntingdonshire, honorary
canon of Durham, was administered to in the Lou-
don Court on the 10th ult. by his son, John Edward
Duncombe Shafto,Esq.,no executor being appointed
under the will, which is entirely in the testator's
handwriting, and was without his signature thereto,
saving in the attestation clause. The will bears
date April 1, 1863. The personal property
sworn under £20,000. To his wife he bequest
hs
his furniture, carriages, horses, farming stock, and
certain investments and securities, dividing
his
mainder of his property between her and .
in his will as
child-
ren. There is an interesting request
wish to be
:.-ee It is my Iv'
to his burial, in these words the re-
ried to the grave
as you enter the rectory ; to be carcta
buried in my own churchyard, on the left-hand side
ble of my dear
each and their
parishioners,b y six o f the oldestw h n
e raen
tde r moste c e reapy; 1
dinner."
ley-heath, Kent, and
The will of Same,
Oct. 21, by James Tyrie,
Ralston,C edrdt lens 'e
xE:w(la"sopf rovedße
then
u solon d e er, x clu6too,ro,otoh. the
hew hoi
e of hishs
pro_
iEnsgth.,eoLf oßnedxoincyT
Bexley-heath,
per-
sonal property being sworn
executedgthe
l
the day previous, beg
f of every description, to his sister Alice, the
testator died Oct• 2 ianset,athhaivnign
pen ,y,
wife of Dr. Nathaniel Rogers.
Tan will of George Peters Price, Ecq., of Oak-hill,
Surbiton, Surrey, and of the Stock Exchange, was
proved under £50,000 personalty.

A. HINT AS TO HASHED MUTTON—a relic of
1-lore.—"lf meat comes back from the table
-rust be hashed next day, cut it up before
imbibe all the gravy which lies on
than if allowed to remain
nr%glected with

Abbotstoi,
which you know
it gets cool ; it will then
the dish, and be far more lion
uncut till next day—a rule never to
impunity with mutton, venison, or hare:

(From the London Review.)
Tattersall's is essentially an English institution.
Its foreign imitation in the Champs Elysees is quite
another thing. There is no place like Tattersall's
throughout the entire world. At Tattersall's swells
and snobs, princes of the blood and pothonse betting-
list keepers, shoulder each other in the narrow
dreary passage which might be the entrance to the
mews of St. George's Hospital, supposing; the
patients to keep horses. Until he had proceeded
some distance down the avenue, the stranger ree;ght
have no id-a what place he was about to visit ; for
the outside selvage of horsiness, the tattered red-
waistcoated horse holders, the loungers and loafers
and straw-chewers, are common to the portals of all
the great horse-dealers and livery-stable keepers,
and are to be found hanging about Limmer's, the
Tavistock, and other hotels essentially devoted to
bachelors. Probably the first thing that would have
the effect of local colour on his mind would be the
sight o{ a humble imitator of the great " Jerry " of
bygone Epsom and Ascot fame—a miserable in-
dividual in a stained hunting-coat, the colour of a
three-year-old Post-office Directory, and a shapeless
velvet hunting-cap—who is now reduced to proffer
cigar-lights for sale as an excuse for mendicancy.
This wretched being who, with his meaningless
mouthings,reminds one more of a Galway onadhaun
or a Swiss cretin, than of a sturdy English vagrant,
is a kind of outpost sentinel of the grand gathering
of" noble sportsmen," and after passing him
you
plunge at once into the ruck, and can have no
doubt about your having fallen among thieves. It
is a thoroughly well known fact that the palmy
days of the turf are gone by, and that but very few
gentlemen are now numbered among its supporters.
These gentlemen, who, impelled by natural love of
racing, high opinion of their own sharpness, han-
kering after gain, or that invincible desire of being
" cocks of the walk," which leads them to love
lower society—yet hold fondly by old traditions,
and enrol themselves as patrons of the turf, will be
found at the bottom of this avenue in a square brick
building, which looks like a Dissenters' meeting-
house, but which is in reality the famous " Sub-
scription-room," to which access can only be had by
members duly balloted for, who pay a subscription of
two guineas a year, and whose exclusiveness is
guaranteed by a specially surly porter, assisted oc-
casionally by a couple of policemen. Here, and on
a green sward known as the Ring, sprinkled here
and there with trees, and shady as the lives of many
of its frequenters, do my Lord Tom Noddy and his
comrades compare their " metallics," and do their
best to profit by their own information and their
own ignorance. This is the paradise of the betting
man, where he sits at his ease and listens to blandly•
quoted odds, and the latest stable tips, and the most
recent canards from distant training grounds ; and
here a physiognomist would find inanity and vacuity
the most prevalent character-types. Occasionally
you come upon the set mouth, the sunken eye, the
furtive glance, and the firm face, but a study of the
subscription -room and the Ring would show reced-
ing foreheads, long upper lips, silky moustaches
and whiskers, expressionless light eyes, and an at-
tempt at a chin sloping rapidly from the mouth
into the turned- down collar, to be the principal
features.

But if this be Paradise, take one look at the
crowd of Penis " at the gate," and kept there by the
surly porter. These be your men into whose hands
the business of the turf, eret conducted by a Ben-
tinck, a Gully, a Gratwicke, and a Zetland, has de-
scended. Here they are, of all styles. Big, heavy,
elderly men froni Yorkshire and the northern coun-
ties, red faced and hard voiced ; dressed in thic::,
square-cut, ill-setting shooting coats and trousers ;
wearing big boots, and hats with long nap, and
large rolls of cravat under the chin.,_Publicans from
Shoreditch and-the Mincrics, fat,. owly, greasy-

men, with no whiskers and short cut hair, dressed
in black, with black satin waistcoats a little frayed
near the pockets by the silver watch guard—men
whose small chaise carts, drawn by tiny fast-trotting
ponies, now c:..vered with leopard-skin rugs, arc
awaiting them in Grosvenor-place, under the sha-
dow of Mr. Wyatt's hideous mounted effigy of " the
Dook." Lithe, light-limbed little men, with fair
hair flattened to their heads under their billycock
hats, and close-fitting cutaway coats and tight
trousers and long feet, and cravats so flit that
they looked as if they had been ironed when on,and
always ornamented with a pin in the shape of a very
pewtery-looking fox's head, with red glass eyes, or
a horse's shoe with each nail distinctly picked out.
Carpenters with the smell of the shavings and the
chips yet hanging about them ; mechanics with their
eyes yet ring-dovey in appearance from the black
that will not wash off; the thorough London cab
with his seedy second-hand clothes, his shiny broken
hat, his never-absent "aggravator" side-curl, his
restless eye, and sour, mordant tongue ; a sprinkling
of professionally-attired grooms, acceptance list
betters and broken-down touts—a steaming, seeth-
,
ing, hoarsely-whispering, blaspheming mass. " Who
wants to bet ? I'll lay against Jack o"Arts ! I'll
lay against Ketch:cm-live! I'll lay against any
one bar one. To back the field ! who wants to back
the field ?" As the vague rumours come to these
base imitators from the lordly Ring, as hints of
breaking-downs or bad gallops, orintendedscratch-
are brought
ings, ordiminished powers of "staying,"
up by the outlying touts, so does the business vacil-
late in this dirty and unrecognised Exchange. But
one thing may be looked upon as certain; that when
thousands of pounds change aristocratic owners in
the Paradise of the Subscription-room, thousands of
half-crowns are bandied between the dirty hands
of the disconsolate Peris outside.
There is another and a pleasanter phase of Tatter-
sail's—on Monday morning, the sale day, when the
racing men are absent, and the yard is filled with
intending buyers, connoisseurs of horseflesh, or men
with horsy tendencies, passing a vacant hour. This
yard is onthe right hand, at the bottom of the
passage, and is of the stable stably ; entered through
a square orifice in a sheet of wood, and when entered
found to be a square, roughly paved court, with c a
cupola in the centre, serving as the auctioneer's
rostrum,
with a painted effigy
of a fox for his desk,
and a bust of Gorge IV. over his head. There are
covered avenues round the sides, with here and there
loose boxes leading into them; and
Perfect grove of stable-doors. There ion the left a
attendance, for young Lord St s a crowded
am
to grief at last, and his huntingpfoot has come
stud is coming to
the hammer. There are in
the printed list rare
fencers Quern and the fencers well known with th
Pytch-
ley and the Flat Hat Hunt. Little difficulty in
selling these horses; f
have known themor half the people present
made in the field, and the other half
acquaintance with them
' yesterday afternoon,
when, in that nob
le desecration of the Sabbath at
which Government winks, and in which all the
hard-working
sporting men who have nothing to
do in the other six week-days delight, the stables
were visited by everyone wanting a horse, or having
nothing else to fill up the time between luncheon
and the hour when it was proper to "do" the Park.
;11r. Tattersall mounts the rostrum, and the first lot,
Kicking Kate, is led out—a tall, powerful, dark bay
mare, sixteen hands high, arched neck, clean lean
head, and hind-quarters looking as though they
could shoot a rider " into the next county." A
sunken, scowling eye, though showing a good deal
of white, rind a tendency to back-stiffening, betray
the origin of Kate's cognomen. The order comes,
" Give her a run," and away goes the mare, with a
helper at her head, up and down the gravelled
avenue, °ens
ionally lashing out
ith right and left, and
finally stands against the wall w all her points
well displayed. Then the crowd gathers rowed her
__, slim, fair man, with breezy whiskers and keen
dressed in a dark overcoat and tight-fitti
eyes,
fawn-coloured, ribbed trousers, pats his _._ , tight-fitting,
1
the mare's mouth, and listens to her breathing.
Three young gentlemen, arm in arm— exr close to
11- .
a in tightly-

.N EwspApEtt
-
buttoned frock-coats and rather bell- &L qt;
made upon the exact model of H.R.H. t 6 /474„.-;
as he appears in the thousand care de _ Alc4.
traits which he has generously permitte
taken—look wonderingly at the animal, and er.il
change opinions that there is " something the m, at-
ter with her legs;" to the immense delight of tl,•e
white-hatted old gentleman standing by, who has
lived among horses from his birth, and who knows'
that those scars and marks fire best proofs of Kate's
prowess in the field. Two or three French
gentlemen will also probably be found among
the crowd, subscribers to Le Sport, faith-
ful attendants at the Chantilly race-course,
menzhres du: Jockey Club, and Anglomaniacs,
carefully
got up in the style prevalent among Eng-
lishmen 12 years ago—shaved chins, mutton-chop
whiskers, stiff, stand-up collars, almost brimless
t,hats, yet who arc utterly impossible to bey mistaken
or anything but masquerading Frenchmen .as they
are. Swells are there, too, gorgeous and sownin ;
stockbrokers on the look- out
out for clever trotting
mares
dog-carts; Rowdy, the banker,
wanting a big horse with high action for Mrs.
stoat man with his coat-
Rowdy's brougham ; a
collar turned tip, but looking very suspiciously like
g
Gauntry parson, who is examining with great in-
terestoanwbeyighhits-cbaoryrytio the acquisition of a greyn Cob ; and a Paterfamilias
urged
pony. The sale proceeds : Kicking Kate falls, at
the price of £lBO, to the man who listened to her
breathing, who is Rasp, the well-known horse-
dealer, and who will sell her again in
a week for
£250. Other lots are brought on, and in an hour
or two Lord Stampfoot's creditors are richer by a
couple of thousand pounds. The
single horses then
come to the hammer, and are quickly disposed of ;
the stockbrokers get their trotting mares, Rowdy
his big brougham horse, and parvus Lulus his grey
pony; and when business is over, the grooms and
helpers betake themselves to a very quaint, old-
fashioned tavern, part of the establishment, situate
the_gates, and recruit their •sta rigth with
unlimited beer.
There is a rumour that it is in contemplation at
once to remove Tattersall's to other premises north
of Hyde-park, and this seemed therefore a fitting
opportunity to describe it as it appeared in its last
year on the ground which it has occupied for three
quarters of a century.

,THE LATE GALE.

Accounts continue to be received from all parts of
the coast detailing the disastrous effects of the late
gale.

KINGSTOWN, NEAR DUBLIN, NOP. 5.
Capt. Hutchinson, R.N., the hon. sec. of the
Kingstown branch of the National Lifeboat Institu-

tion, states, " I do not rememhersuch a continuance
of bad weather and westerly and southerly gales
for 20 years. Her Majesty's snip
has rode out some severe svesterly Princegales
.i Consort
n
Kings-
town Bay since her arrival. She experienced the
greatest danger when off Holyhead. She is now de-
tained for the recovery of her anchor. oAs t d
anchor
and calm, I hope she will be able to sweep for theaho -
and find it. I wishl could see her depart befare an
easterly gale comes on, as that might place her in
great danger." Writing again later in the day,
Captain Hutchinson states—" I am happy to
say that the Prince Consort has left the road-
stead for Plymouth. The vessel which the
Kingstown lifeboat of the National Lifeboat
Institution went off to was the ship Cornubia,
of Padstow, bound from Glasgow to Plymouth with
a general cargo. The mail steamer Leinster broke
the centre connecting shaft of her engines when
within a few miles off the Kish Light-ship last
evening, and became perfectly helpless. Fortu-
nately one of the same company's cattle steamers
was on her way to Liverpool and was signalled.
She took the Leinster in tow and brought her safely
into Kingstown Bay this morning."

NEW BRIGHTON, NEAR LIVERPOOL, Nov, 4.
The tubular lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In-
stitution on this station went out yesterday in tow
of the steam tug Universe in reply to signals of dis-
tress from a vessel on Taylor's Sandbank. On ar-
riving, however, at the Bank, which she reached
in three quarters of an hour, the boat could discern
~.
nothing bat some pieces. of wreak floaking, and after • J
searching about for some time she returned to the
shore. It was blowing strong at the time from the
and there was a heavy sea run-Tung.

PENARTII, NEAR CARDIFF, Nov. 4.

On Tuesday a coast-guardsman brought the in•
telligence that dine was a sloop in distress on
Cardiff Sands. A steam tug was in attendance with
a boat in tow, by which it was expected every
moment that the sloop's crew would be taken off;
but as it was rapidly becoming dark, and the crew
were still on board the vessel, it was deemed ad-
visable that the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat
Institution on the Penarth station should be
launched, especially as the gale was increasing on
her. This was done without the lifeboat's crow
having received any previous warning ; snd al-
though the boathouse is more than a quarter of a
mile from the shore, the boat was afloat in twenty
minutes. She speedily reached the wreck, when it
was discovered that the crew had just been taken
on to the steamer by means of a boat and warp.
The crow of the lifeboat exerted themselves to the
utmost, and are deserving of great praise for their
promptness and energy on the occasion.
It may be observed that the lifeboats of the Na-
tional Institution during the recent heavy gales
went off on 22 occasions, and between 40 and 50
lives were saved by means of their noble services.

GOOD ADVICE.--The London correspondent of
the New York herald writes :—" If there was any-
thing in the councils at Washington that could be dignified
with the designation of even third or fourth-rate states-
manship, it would at once occasion a pause in the hostili-
ties prosecuted against the South, propose terms of peace,
and thus make the most of a virtue which is speedily to
beco.ne a necessity. A sagacious President would not
hesitate a moment in employing all the means at his dis-
posal to forestall the European alliance while it is yet un-
perfected, by proposing terms to Jefferson Davis that hoe
would not decline to accept. He would put an end toth
existing belligerence while he yet may do so without dis-
graceful humiliation, He would acknowledge her indepen-
dence.
in tho sense in which it will be acknowledged byc_ w.
.°_.
alliance, lie would say in the truthful consciousness
heart, ' Come, come, my old cenfecro, I have employedmeans as
such forces by land and by water, and such otherwin
perhaPs
no belligerent over employed before, and nov_erunion.
You
employ again, to coerce you back to tho id
ar
displayed before,
have resisted them with a constancy',
dauntlessness which no belligerent eLveot
shake hands
us
nor perhaps will ever display again.
There teroom enough
and be friends henceforth and for evens b
,3 sisrepublics in
for us both in this hemisphere. Let :high
career of working
fact and in truth, and enter upon
an
d all future ages the
°resolution, and 4
progress for the at.
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tainment of this ennobltoinbo'e
the sentiment of the more nl.O.
confident,
is
beginning
States sojourning in Western,
derate citizens of tho United
until recently were cordial sup.
tho'man's
capacityet her i n feoinrts d
.ben rationali
g-n
Unless a measure of this kind is adopted,
Europe, many of
, mark toy words, darker days arS,
porters
and adopted P
awaiting the Uniontmes.
The people will become to a
usurpationsmore and
f
of the warorrs.
pt,y,
nation in modern i
against themselves upon such
moresuspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the
t of the conscription; and enforeementhe party resisting
will shield itself under any authority which may be pre-
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0-y AL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and
r. W. Harrison.

Tins EVENING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, TH
riEsEET FLOWER: Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ;
Messrs. W.
MH. Weiss, H. Corti. A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
Conductor. r. A. Mellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven.
commence at Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. -
Manazers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.

THIS EVENING the nerformances willcommence with the
Comedietta of JOHN D 0813.3 : John Dobbs, Mr. G. F. Ne-
ville; Peter raternoster, Mr. G. Belmore ; other characters
by Mr. j. Neville, Mr.:Warde, Misses Hartleur, and Murray.

After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
Messrs. t helps, Ryder, Rayner, Meagreson, Ward, Spencer ;
Miss Heath, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. Vocalists-3118s Poole, Miss hitter, Miss Cicely
Nott, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with an Original Farce (never acted), by
John Oxenforri, Esq., entitled BEAUTY OR THE BEAST.
Principal characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville,
Barret, Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and
Miss IL Leclerq.

THEATRE ROYAL HAY NI ARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, OUR MARY ANNE.
After which, at half-past 7 (let time), A BULL IN A
CHINA SHOP. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, Clark,
Rofzers, and Gordon ; Mesdames Lindley, Wright, Fitz-
wildam, Hill, Sic.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE Die Mathews,
rs. Charles
Mathews, Compton,Weathersby, ; Mesdames C.
L. Keeley. Griffith, &c.
And MY HUSBAND'S G HOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole -Management of Mr. Fechter.
BEL DE MONT° (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Every Evening until f urt no
her tice.
THIS EVENING, to commence with a Comedietta,
bY W. Gilbert be,
entitled UNCLE BABY: Mess
Shore, Widdicckluabe, Charles, Miss P. Leclercq, and Carlotta
Leclercq.
After which, at a Qilhrter-past Eight, BEL DEMONIO,
a Love Story, in Twelve Tatoieaux, taken from Stendhal's
Italian Chronicle ," by John Brougham. Principal charac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, LaTenue, lijrB.
Lee, and Miss Elsworthy.

IDEL DEMO NIO ; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve
Tableaux.

NEW THEATRE-RO YAL,
Sole Proorletor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TUAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs,
Stirling,r.

At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Hiss Bateman, supported
by Messrs. Arthur R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart,
A. Wood, Eburne, Miss IL Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

MlSaSna BenAthTuEsiaNsltAfeN.su ccels4sE Aof
tHh.e—Thgreate
ttrraioiumc
aprhtias.net
Miss BATEMAN, on her first appeararce in the character of
LEAH, in the new five act Drama of that title, having been
nightly repeated, and even exceeded during the last four
weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences,
and tueproiound impression created upon all who have wit-
nessed the touching* impersonation by Miss Bateman of the
heart-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani-
mous verdict and critical approval (if the entire press, the
Manager of the NEW ADELPfII THEATRE has the honour
to announce that lif,ss BATEMAN wilt appear in the New
Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING till further notice; and
in order to meet, as far as possible, the increasing demand
for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously
existing.

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FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1863.

The Foremost European Question now is as to
whether there can be held this Grand Congress
proposed by the French EmiiEßoß in his MAJESTY'S
great speech on Thursday afternoon. The next
question being, of course, as to whether, supposing
the Congress should turn out to be practicable, any-
thing whatever even then could come of it. Both
these problems are now of very dubious solution.
NAPOLEON M. by his proposition has certainly
awoke the long silence with very con-
siderable effect: but the effect with which he
has done so, while it is thus very considerable, is
also unhappily very bewildering. The echoes of
the proposition are as confused and confusing as
well could be. Far and Ride throughout
Europe, as the sound and significance of the Speech
containing that notable proposition expand and
expand, like enlarging circles when a pebble is
dropped
into smooth water—wave upon wave of
Public opinion spread outward and outward with
a sort of
inan°tonous variation. The earliest im-
pression produced
came in fragro,,t,7" reading the Speech, as it
re Y telegrams flashed by electri-
city under the wa
ing impression
that
01. t
the Channel, was a fleet-
Second thought. was ominous of war.
upon
aeroore careful scrutiny—
(and this dictated oar
rra
reference to the speech arks last evening in
second thoughts appeared tca whole)—deliberate
cognition in the speech of
a a:eistrsin us to the re-
festo. The sequence of impressiedlY pacific mani-
in
this way in
regard to the speech produced tlpo
()
n
jug contemporary, appears to have beul ei exactly the
r chief morn-
reverse. -Yesterday it commented upon
PEROR'S speech as a speech eminently hae,
aEm-
while to-day, it has 80 far modjflt_
‘L
its
opinions as to write of it as a
speech con_
taining thoughts and purposes very threm_
ening indeed to the peace of Christend
or,.
A reconsideration of the drift of the Speech, par_
ticularly towards its conclusion,impresses us more
and more with the belief indicated by our remarks
of yesterday. Our conviction being that the Speech
is--to put it, as briefly as possible, in a phrase—
Pacific contingently ! Here is a tranquilising or
reassuring proposition put forth by the French
EMPEROR, but within that peaceful proposal there
is latent, easily to be recognised, ready to leap
forth—in the contingency of a refusal, iu
the event, that is, of the Congress his
MAJESTY speaks of, proving impracticable alto-
gether, or if practicable, productive of no bene-
hti
"nut
result afterwards—a threat I It is a very
to crack" that the French EllirEitoß has now
thrown to Europe—and one that, accordingly ae
the Powersof Europe may deal with it, may turn
out to be f
'l3ll of t
"k he milk of human kindness, or ex-
plode e a very bombshell, scattering around it
terror and destruction.

The general feel ing;---f this country about the
American war is beginning to g
public Upholders of
The
s of the Union,
the denunciators of slavery,h„e had their own way
long enough, it seems, and the friends of Southern
independence and a division of the States are n
coming boldly forward. A few nights ago a meet.
log was held in Stockport—a town once supposed
to be one of the strongholds of the Manchester
echool—for the avowed purpose of forwarding the

tvAuse of the South. The assembly itself was in
Frame way connected with the Southern Indepen-
fence Association, and the resolal ions proposed and
(tarried at it were unquestioniLbly indicative of
sympathy with the Confederates. A very large con-
course was gathered together, and the audience did
not show themselves disposed to favour the time-
honoured maxim of audi alteram partem, for one
portion resented every word in favour of the Blame-
holders, while the other halt was equally unwilling
to hear anything about neutrality. Nevertb
in spite of an introductory uproar and occasional
disturbance, the meeting was not without, its im-
portance, and it may be ranked among t'ae signs of
the times. Englishmen aro growing tired of this
murderous and purposeless war. They see their
commerce sacrificed, their trade inju tea, and a whole
world of interests and occupations) disarranged, in
order that the North may go on fighting for an
idea ; for if the hope of a restored Union and re-
newed Northern supremacy had ever a chance of
more substantial development it has long Since
passed into the shadowy and intangible realm of
" ideas." We should hardly have expected our
prosaic and matter-of-fact Transatlantic cousins to
have entered the lists thus vigorously in behalf of
an unattainable end, but the sweets of profit and
power have been too pleasant to be willingly re-
linquished. The Federals who watch with jealous
eye every indication of feeling in this country, will
see with some dissatisfaction the account of the pro-
ceedings at Stockport. The speech of the evening
was made by Mr. SPENCE, who seconded a reso-
lution, to the effect that, considering the injury
done by the continuance of the war, and the little
hope that existed of its speedy termination, the
meeting urged upon the Government the desir-
ability of communicating with the other European
powers with a view to obtaining a restoration of
peace. In supporting this motion Mr. SPENCE
observed that he sympathised with both
North and South ; and although this declaration
was politely greeted with cries of " gammon" by
his uncompromising hearers, such a state of feeling
is by no means impossible. When we reflect indeed
upon the severe losses entailed upon both sides, and
of the sacrifices necessitated by the maintenance of
the struggle, of the bravery shown in those terrible
encounters that have cost so much bloodshed and
suffering, of the desolated homes and mourning
widows, it is difficult to withhold our pity from
either side. But the sympathy which Mr. SPENCE
spoke of was something more. He intended pro-
bably to convey the impression that he felt with

the North in the opposition to slavery, which they
at least profess, while he wished the Southerners
success i❑ their struggle for independence. Allud-
ing to the distress occasioned among our own ope-
ratives by the struggle, Mr. SPENCE said that they
had been told " that the North was pursuing a war
for the purpose of emancipating the negroes, and

that it was their business to suffer." That would
be very right if it were true, he added, and forth-
with ho proceeded to recapitulate those reasons
which hinder England from putting too much faith
in Northern professions of sudden abolition fervour.
It is not so very long since the PRESIDENT, now
the idol of Abolitionists, stated that he had no in-
tention of interfering with the " domestic institu-
tion, and therefore we may be excused for accord-
ing a very doubtful credence to his virtuous efforts

to break the fetters of the slave, especially as he
can conveniently shut one eye to the faults of his
friends, allies, and supporters, while he keeps the
other turned on the wickedness of his adversaries.
Still, however little we may trust in virtue so very
opportune, an English audience is always impatient
of any attempt to defend slavery. They feel, justly
enough, that no leniency or indulgence on the part
of the master can affect the principle of a man's
right over his fellow man, and therefore are equally

indisposed to favour Mr. BEECIIER and Mr. SPENCE
on this matter. But when the latter gentleman
avows himself to havo bcca always a strong oppo-
nent of slavery, and to retain the same sentiments
now it is unfair and unreasonable to refuse to bear
him state facts which came under his own
personal observation. He maintains that, as a
rule, the slaves are kindly treated ; and although
if they were lodged in palaces slavery would still
be a great wrong, there is no good and valid reason
in making out things worse than they are. The
anti-slavery cause is too strong to need exaggera-

tion. It rests on truth ; on the inherent and in-
alienable rights of man, on the claim of all races
to the great common gift of liberty. As one of

he American poets has truly said—

- we cannot hem
The hope of being free
With parallels of latitude,
With mountain range or sea.
The unreasoning enthusiasm which will hear o:
nothing but immediate wholesale abolition, withoui

regard to the ultimate fate of the negroes or to the
other difficulties of the cise, which will see in slave-

owners nothing but brutal tyrants, and in slaves
innocent and virtuous martyrs, this kind of senti-

ment, only too common among well-meaning and
high-principled persons, puts obstacles in the way
rather than takes them from it. Mr. SPENCE said
truly enough that the only means of emancipating
the negro would be when the Southern people fol-

owedthe example set by England years ago, and saw
,hat the day for slavery had gone by. If :he Sonth

was made an independent power the death-knell o

slavery would be sounded ; for when a new nation

entered into the union of nations the power of
public opinion would predominate and slavery
would be abolished, as it was in Eng)and and in

,he colonies of France. That such will be the fine

issue of this protracted and disastrous struggle we

cannot but hope. It would be bad indeed for a

nation to pass through such an ordeal without reap•
ing some rich and abiding fruits.

There is some satisfaction in the reflection that
.he State of Bethnal•green has at last engaged the
'tdttiftielt:ltnieOsfiathe authorities. Doubtless some time
::srdeeliauPiste,,beoenfodr.e.any very striking alterations are
thttion, and there must perforce be
the tb
en It
b a
the way, but still any beginning is
oat
something, and
sfotrro the more facts that are elicited the
Titihe desire to make some change
treport of the inspector of police
speaks volumes
etnaturehn :cthousess
which
fh theicnh
w theyevilswhich hmt
thu
has
ett
theef
exist, and the (la,
gerous
produce. The negit
Bereinou".lsl crowded is a cruel
extreme poor are go d
and inflicts
It is quite evident niurY on society at
that too
too little is drawn from the re
much instead of
lame, It
of these houses.
The pour have to pay beyond their means because
they cannot find vouchers for
their resPectab;lit
and because their possessions are not sum je' 371
an y
t t lt
large to secure confilence. if such a larne,tat
e
of things must continue until some one has hit open
the remedy, at least good accommodation and „mi.
tary arrangements should be scrupulously attended
to. Judging from the evidence of eye-witnesses, it
would appear that the reverse of this is the case, for.
it is only surprising that fevers are ever out of the
place, exposed as its inhabitants are to such an as-
setnblago of horrors, and such discomforts of all
kinds. Perhaps the worst feature in the case, and
likely to prove the most prolific of disease, is the
custom of letting the underground rooms. These
are altogether unfit for the purposes of habitation,
and it is shocking to think of families.being crowded I