The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, 00110 BER 22, 1863,

advocates and upholders. This sounds allvery fine,
' not approve patting on the back those who were its
but comes rather under the bead of what are termed
" embroidered facts." It is well known that no-
where is there a greater resistance to improving the
condition of the negro than in the Northern States.
The circumstances of the case favour the opinion
put forth by so many that this war is one of
" slavery." Because the Slave States, as they are
termed, are situated in the territory of one section
of the combatants, it is deemed feasible to give out
that the question of dispute regards that subject.
It seems rather begging the question for Mr.
BEECHER to ask the people of this coun-
try to take their standing point, and judge
of the state of efftirs, from an American
point of view. It was all very well for him,
as an advocate for his special cause, to deprecate
their taking their opinions from his opponents,
but we must form our judgments and declare our
convictions as independent of both sides, and thus
be better able to judge correctly of either. If the
expression of feeling evidenced in England since
this civil war broke out, has been in favour of the
Southern States, it is because, after attentive obser-
vation and mature deliberation, they have displayed
the most admirable qualities, and are animated by
a love of independence that universally attracts the
sympathy and goodwill of mankind. It is a little
too much for Mr. BEECHER to tell us at this ad-
vanced period of the war that the reason why the.
North did not go to war in the first instance for
emancipation was that they respected " local"
rights even before " moral" rights; this, he thought,
" was one of those things of which they might be
justly proud." This seems rather a strange doctrine
for a clergyman to promulgate, and he will have
some difficulty in making good his theory, since
surely it must be an acknowledged fact that all
laws should be subservient to the claims of morality,
and no State can flourish that makes them subser-
vient to other considerations. It must also be said
that the idea of " forbearance," as connected with
the North, is a very strange one, and if that feeling
existed in such force at the commencement of the
struggle as Mr. BEECHER asserted, it is a pity
that it so soon became extinguished, and
utterly vanished from the scene. Its influence
did not apieear when General BUTLER asto-
nished and scandalised the civilised nations
of the world by his conduct to the ladies of New
Orleans, and its spirit was not very strongly
manifested when the Federal troops poured Greek
fire among the inhabitants of the besieged city.
When a man has all the talk to himself, and is
possessed of any considerable powers of oratory,
he can always produce an effect, and make some
converts to his views, however ultra be their ten-
dency or prejudiced their character. It is only
by the touchstone of debate that the truth is
arrived at, and the general aspect of affairs cleared
from the mist of error with which the wisest often
envelope subjects in which they are specially in-
terested. It is a pity that Mr. BEECHER should
be so violent in his diatribes against those who
have the misfortune to differ from him. It is
going too far for him to proclaim at a
public
meeting that "some of the public organs in this
country had deliberately and knowingly suppressed
the truth." Abuse is not argument, is a very
veracious aphorism, and it would be well
if vehe
went denunciators would subscribe to its merits.
Mr. BEECHER went further, however, and said
that "it was a monstrous lie " to declare that
the blacks were not well treated in the North.
Mr. BEECHER may plume himself on his sagacity
of discernment, and his skill in detecting the
feelings of the English people, but he had better
take heed to his words, before he recross the
Atlantic, and tell the friends he has left there
that this country has sanctioned the
"significant
facts," as he calls them, of the detention of the
steam rams, and the speech of Earl RUSSELL at
Blairgowrie. He may make a serious mistake if
he enunciate any such theories, and hereafter be
glad to retract his words. 'Without being un-
duly conceited or intolerant, it does not appear
that this is the time for an American orator
to leave his country and tell us that it does us
good for him to speak of our faults. -Whatever
these may be they are not intolerance in peace
and unchivalrous bearing in war; and till these
errors are rectified among the Federals they who
fight under the "flag of the cross of St. George"
will scarcely fulfil Mr. BEEcHER'S
prophecy of
acting in uniformity with those who boast of the
flag with the " stars of hope and promise."

The Conlln'll Magazine for November contains a
timely article on the Mhow Court-martial, by Jacob
Omnium, the well-known correspondent of the Times news-
paper. The facts of the case are all given in a lucid and
forcible narrative.
ANCIENT INHERITANCES.—The interesting and
often-quoted statement made some time since by
Lord Palmerston, respecting the uninterrupted descent for
nearly eight centuries, from father to eon, of a small estate
in his own neighbourhood in the New Forest, relates, as is
well known, to the family of Purkis the lime-burner, who
picked up the body of William Rufus and carried it in his
humble cart to Winchester to receive the last sad rites. But
we can place upon record a case of still longer descent of a
small property among persons in no way allied to rank and
fortune, and who have never risen above the condition of
yeomen ; while, we believe, they have never fallen below it.
At Ambrose's Barn, on the borders of the parish of Thorpe,
near Chertsey, still resides a farmer of the name of Wap-
shot, whose ancestors have lived, without break, upon the
same spot, ever since the reign of Alfred the Great, by
whom the farm was granted to Reginald Wapshot. There
are several families among our untitled gentry—the county
aristocracy—who can trace their names and possessions in
a direct male descent back to the Saxon times; but below
that rank we are not aware of a more striking instance
of permanence among change than the past history of the
Wapshots._Once a Week.
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—The Tenby Observer
mentions a curious phenomenon which was observed
in Carmarthen Bay on] the 6th inst., the day on which the
earthquake was felt in this country. "From a base extend-
ing some three or four miles in the direction of Awroth
Castle, an immense
piece of water, of a dark drown colour
(as if holding earth in solution), seemed to be pushed for-
ward in the form of a cone—of course surrounded by water
of a natural colour. As they came in contact the water was
thrown up a height of several feet, the agitation extending
round the whole edge of the phenomenon. It steadily ad-
vanced in the same form towards Monkstone, and from
thence some miles to sea, when we ceased to observe it.
Some friends in amusing themselves with fishing, were not
a little startled by the strange sight. When the coloured
water overtook the boat, they found that the point of
division between the colouring was maintained throughout
the depth of the water; the boat was violently pitched about
and the water thrown completely over it. Either side of the
line of contact was perfectly calm, and the water kept up a
lashing noise something like what would be made by an
immense shoal of mackerel. It was observed first at about
11 a.m."

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they sat in their groined rooms between the light of their
fires and the fight shining in at their latticed windows, and
would find out. They passed their lives in considering
themselves mulcted of certain ounces of tea by a deaf old
steward who lived among them in the quadrangle. There
was no reason to suppose that any such ounces of tea had
been in existence, or that the old steward so much as knew
what was the matter; he passed his life in considering him-
self periodically defrauded of a birch-broom by the beadle.—
J Charles .I)(ckens's list Dicommerciat.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

[RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Russian Consulate-General

in London :

A detachment commanded by Orlik was dis-
persed on the 14th October, in the Government of
Plock. A considerable number of the insurgents
were killed, and 40 of them with their leader,
Orlik, were taken prisoners.

THORN, OCT. 21.

News received here from 'Warsaw to the 20th
states that on the preceding evening a sergeant and
one of the men belonging to the police were stabbed
in the Tam Ita-streer.

The assassin suoceeded in effecting his escape.

THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.
MIRAM AR, OCT. 22.

The King of the Belgians will pass some weeks
on the Lake of Como. His Majesty will then visit
Miramar, the residence of the Archduke Maxi-
milian, and return to Brussels via Vienna.

SPAIN.
MADRID, OCT. 22.
13rilliant f illes have taken place in honour of the
arrival of the Empress of the French.

The Empress has remived the Corps Diploma-
tique at the hotel of the French Embassy. Her
Majesty was not present at the bull fights.

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Wellesley, Capt. Smith, 86 days from Mel-
bourne, with 32,7900 z. of gold, 72,000 sovereigns,
&:c., was off Portland on Tuesday, under all sail,
with a moderate wind from W.S.W. Among her
96 passengers are Major Minaley, and Captains
Gilson, Newman, and Rasmussen.

FRANCE.

PARIS, OCT. 22.

BOURSE, Oct. 21.—The market continues heavy
and prices are again lower—Threes having de.
clined to 67f. Railway Shares are also lower,
Tne market closed as follows :

It per Cents. 95 90
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 0:5
Credit Mobilier 1112 50
Do. end montb 1113 75
Bank Shares 3370
Credit koneier 1245
Italian Loan 73 30
RAILI

Do. end month.... 73 35
New ditto ..... 73 --
Do. end month....

Russian —
Austrian B5
Spanish Threes., 53
Homo Debt 52
Deferred . 4B 50
Roman -
PAYS. •

Cash. Account.
0r1ean5............ 975 .. 975
Northern ...
Lyons and Mediterranean 1013 75 .. 960
New ditto ............ :,. 910 .. __Geneva-- -- .. --
Southern ........
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 415 .. 417 50
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa ........ .
Ditto to Barcelona

AMERICA.

REUTERS EXPRESS.
(Per the Glasgow.)

NEW YORK, OCT. 8.
The latest from Chattanooga is up t 3 the 29th
ult., and represents the condition of affairs there as
unchanged, Rosencranz's position being deemed
impregnable, and his communications open. Heavy
reinforcements are said to have reached Rosencranz,
but nothing definite is known about it outside of
the War Department.
Accounts from General Meade's army state that
there are no indications of immediate active opera-
tions. Drafted men were arriving daily in large
numbers. Nine hundred came in on the 6th •from
New York and Vermont. The Federal cavalry are
sr.id to have scoured the Shenandoah Valley as far
down as Strasburg and Front Royal, finding no
rebel forces whatever,

A dispatch from Baltimore denies the report that
General Imboden had made a raid on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. The road is in complete
running order all the way through.
Information was received in Chicago yesterday
that. General Franklin's corps was repulsed in
an attack upon the rebels at Brasher City, and
that Ord's 13th Army Corps shortly after came up
and completely defeated the rebels, No particulars
are given, but the news is said to have been offs
cially communicated to General Sherman at
Memphis.
Charleston advices date to the 3d inst. Every-
thing was progressing
favourably. A despatch from
Admiral Dahlgren, dated 3d, has been received at
the Navy Department. The iron-clads are said to
have been engaged with the rebel batteries at latest
accounts.

It is reported by way of St. Louis that 7,000
rebels from Marmaduke's command, under Colonel
Shelby, have entered South Western Missouri from
Arkansas for raiding purposes. It is believed that
this force is intended to be the nucleus of the Mis-
souri State Guard, the organisation of which, since
the capture of Jeff. Thompson, has been placed in
the hands of Waldo P. Johnson, late U.S. senator
from Missouri.

Washington correspondence of the
New York
Herald states that tremendous exertions are being
made there to seem() the election of Curtin, the Re-
publican candidate, for Governor in Pennsylvania.
It is estimated that 10,000 voters will go from
Washington alone, arrangements having been made
to defray the expenses with money collected from
Government employees. It has been decided not to
send the soldiers home to vote, as that movement
would create too much dissatisfaction.

The Herald states, editorially, that their Wash-
ington correspondent has given them information
of an important character, concerning propositions
of peace said to have been submitted to the conside-
ration of the Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln. It is not
known what these propositions are, nor from

whence they come.
a speech in Maryland
A bitter feeling is said to exist in the Cabinet
Bbeltawire,etnhe
SelactrteetrarhyaCvihnagseinand Postmaster-
General
been very severe upon Mr. Chase. General Blair,
brother of the Postmaster-General, delivered a
speech at St. Louis, in which he assailed the Radi-
cals in general, and Mr. Chase in particular, in
highly denunciatory terms. It is not thought,
however, that any Cabinet resignations would re-
sult from the quarrel.
The Russian officers continue to receive great
attention. A grand ball to them is on the tapis.

0......................

NEW YORK, OCT. 10.

Advices have been received at Washington from
Chattanooga up to the 6th inst. On the sth the
rebel batteries opened on Rosencranz' position at
long range, the longest being three miles and the
shortest two and seven-tenth miles. No damage
was done. There is no official confirmation of the
report that two of Rosencranz' pontoon bridges had
been carried away. Telegraphic communication be.
tween Nashville and Stevenson has been restored
The Washington Republican contains the following
despatch from General 1194encranz' toad-quarters,

dated the 6th inst., says :—" Not a man wac injured
by the rebel batteries yesterday." The Republican's
extra says:—" Other despatches go to show the
impregnable situation of Rosencranz. It is ascer-
tained that none of General Rosencranz' latest de-
spatches mention anything relative to the situation
in the locality of Chattanooga, all of them referring
entirely to military details. Other despatches, how-
ever, recently received by the Government, speak
of events in that quarter, and are from General
Meigs."

A special despatch to the St. Louis Democrat,
dated Vicksburg, Sept. 30, says Joe Johnston was
at Canton, Mississippi, with 15,000 troops, his
supposed design being to prevent reinforcements
going to Rosencranz. Gen. Stephen D. Lee had
4,00() rebel cavalry near Vicksburg. Johnston says
their victories are useless unless they crush Rosen-
cranz before reinforcements reach him.

The 11lenzphis•Atalantu Appeal says :—" We steal
now be recognised. Our securities will rise—Val-
iandigham will be elected."

It was rumoured in Nashville on the Bth inst.
that a force of rebel cavalry had captured and
destroyed Shelbyville, Tenn. No particulars have
been received. The report was discredited. It is
thought that the rebel cavalry have divided, part
making towards Kentucky to harass Burnside's line
of supplies, and part going south against Rosen-
cran z.

A correspondent of the New York World at Nash-
ville, under date of sth inst., says that the reported
capture of M'Minnville by the rebels has caused
great apprehension of an attack upon Murfriesboro',
and that several hundred persons have fled from
that place to Nashville. The total number of
wounded sent to Nashvill from Chickamanga
battle-field is 5,125. Reinforcements were being
rapidly sent forward. The prospect of a great
battle was hourly growing stronger.
The _Richmond Enquirer of the Bth inst. ecntains
the following :
MISSIONARY RIDGE, OCT. 5.

We opened upon Chattanooga at 1 a.m. from
Lookout Mountain, and points along our lines. One
shell exploded in the enemy's camps, as well as in
the city, setting fire to one house. The enemy re-
plied briskly from Mocasein Point, and feeby from
Star Fort. The firing still continues.

OCT. 8.

The Tennessee River is rapidly rising. It has
already swept away the lower pontoon bridge of
the enemy, and submerged the trestle bridge.
Major Mitchell, Chief Quartermaster of General
Longstreet's corps, died last night. No firing on
either side at 11 o'clock to-day.
A special despatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
received at St. Louis, Oct. 9, says that intelligence
having reached Fort Scott of a threasened attack
on Fort Smith, General Blunt left the former for
the latter post. On Sunday last the rebel General
Cohen, with about 10,000 of Cooper's forces, crossed
the Arkansas River east of Fort Smith, and on the
10th joined Caffee at Crooker Prairie, Mo., deter-
mined to make a raid into Arkansas or Missouri.
On receipt of this information, all the cavalry in the
Kansas district and a battery were sent to Fort
Scott.

A letter from Fort Scott of the 7th says Lieut.
Tapper, of Gen. Blunt's stiff, had arrived. He re-
ports that all the staff and body guard of General
Blunt had been captured; also the command under
Lieut. Pond, at Baxter Spring. Gen. Blunt had
got 10 miles away, but it was uncertain whether
he has escaped.
The rebel army under Quantrel, Hunter, and
Gordon was moving towards Fort Scott. That port
is in no danger of being taken, the force there being
strong enough to resist the attack.

The New York, World states that an engagement
took place on September 29, at Morgan's bend, 25
miles above Port Hudson, between Gen. Herron's
division and a large Confederate force, in which the
Federals were defeated, losing several hundred
killed and wounded and 1,500 prisoners. The Texas
expedition still " hung fire," and the guerilla bands
on the banks of the Mississippi have been replaced
by large bodies of rebel troops, rendering unin(er-
rapted navigation of the river very doubtful.

A report has reached Louisville that Gen. Crook's
brigade overtook several regiments of Wharton's
rebel cavalry near Franklin, and routed them, kill-
ing 125, and capturing 300 prisoners and four pieces
of cannon. Union forces were still pursuing.
News from Charleston is unimportant. There
was some firing on the sth inst. between Federal
batteries and rebel works on James Island.

The following telegrams are in the Richmond
papers of the Bch :

" CHARLESTON, Oct. 6.—An attack was made by
us to-day on the frigate Ironsides, damaging the
Ironsides and alarming the fleet. Two of our men,
including Lieut. Gasset, of the Chiavra, are missing.
" CHARLESTON, Oct. 6, p.m.—For the last
24 hours there has been but little firing. The
enemy's works on Morris Island seem nearly com-
pleted.

" MOBILE, Oct. 6.—. Enemy's cavalry, 1,500, with
four guns, attacked Col. Richardson, near New
Albany, yesterday. Engagement, artillery. Enemy
repulsed.

" SAVANNAH, GA., Oct. 7.—Election returns
show Governor Brown largely ahead."
The Government at Washington has received no
intelligence of the reported battle at Brasher City,
The War Department has stated, in reply to
several inquiries, that no further draft is to be
made at present.

The report of the Peace Proposition is said to
be a canard.

The _Richmond Exanzizzer has the following on

peace propositions :

" We notice that recent propositions have been
made in several of our State Legislatures for nego-
tiations with the enemy and suits for armistice.
Tnese deserve unqualified condemnation. They are
generally made in artful language; they are very
innocent on their face; they are always accompa-
nied by certain protestations that the interest of the
South is not to be sacrificed that the negotiation
is to be an essay oa Christian charity, and the ob-
ject an ' honourable' peace. There is no possible
truth in such protestations. They are convenient
covers of traitorous designs, or of cowardly ac-
quiesence in the failure of our straggle. It is not
wonderful that if these suggestions in our State
Legislatures of pacific negotiations should he in-
variably interpreted by the North to cover proposi-
tions of reconstruction. To every candid mind in
the Confederacy they can mean nothing else. Those
who desire a suggestion of peace to be made now to
the South know very well what its price would be.
We congratulate the Legislature of this State on
the signal rebuke it has given to two attempts at
peace propositions in that body. It has shown a
spirit worthy of the ancient and honourable com-
monwealth of Virgiaia, and one that should be in-
culcated in the war. It is that of resolution to pro-
secute the war without being turned aside by use-
less and imratient speculations of peace—expecting
that blessing only in the sustained and increased
success of our arms, and awaiting it with calm and
intelligent confidence in the progress of events."
The New York journals of this morning take a
gloomy view of the situation. The World says:—
" The news of the few last days from Tennessee and
Northern Georgia is calculated to excite no little

apprehension for the safety of General Rosencranz
throughout the North. We are favoured, as usual,
with the most assuring despatches from Washing-
ton, but the Administration withholds all the facts,
and merely prophecies smooth things.' No reliance
is to bd placed upon what comes from the War
Department. General Rosencranz has only his own
army with which to confront Bragg. He will doubt-
less be able to hold out until Hooker and Sherman
arrive, but there will be no little anxiety respecting
his situation until more definite information is re-
ceived from him."

The New York Times, on the same subject, says :
—" The telegraphic despatches concerning affairs
at Chattanooga indicate that the military situation
in that quarter is imminently eritice.l. We do not
say it is perilous to Gen. Rosencranz, for we imagine
that officer now holds his position so stoutly, and
has such a largely augmented army, that, in the
event of another battle, the chances are greatly in
favour of his achieving a decisive victory over the
army of Bragg and Longstreet ; but appearances
certainly indicate that the peace which has pre-
vailed on the Tennessee since the 20th of Sep-
tember is likely soon to be broken, and that the
thunder of war which crashed and rolled along the
mountain ranges of Upper Georgia three weeks
ago will burst forth again before many days."
The same journal adds :—" We could wish it was
Rosencranz, instead of Bragg, who was giving signs
of offering battle."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YoRE, Oct. 9.

BREADSTUFFS—FIour—SaIes, 20,000 bls, at sdol 100 to
sdol 40e for superfine, sdol 60c to sdol 75c for shipping extra
state, sdol 80c to sdol 90c for choice do., sdol 65c to 6dol for
low grades Western extra, and 6dol 10c to Bdol 50c for
medium to choice grades Western extras. Southern flour,
6dol 15c to 6dol 90c for superfine, 7dol to 7dol 75c for fancy
and extra, Bdol 100 to 9dol 26c for choice shipping and
family brands. Canada flour, sdol 75c to 7d0150e. Wheat
in demand, and 2c or 3c higher.
COTTON firm and active. 2,000 bales sold at 89e to 90c
for middlings.
COFFEE is unchanged.
GUNNY CLOTH—Sales, 400 bales, at 131 c.
TOBACCO—Kentucky, in hhds, 14dol ; seed leaf, 19dol
48c.

SUGAR—Cuba, 11Ze ; Manilla, 121 e. Refined quiet at
16e.

TlN—Pig firm, at 441 c ; Banca, 51c; small lots Eastern;
at 43c.

SOUTHAMPTON, T.UURSDAY MORNING.

The North German Lloyds' steamer America,
Capt. Wessels, from New York, Oct. 10, has arrived
off Cowes. She brings 133 passengers, 811,558 dole.
for England, 79,600 dols. for France, and 600 for
Bremen.

She spoke, Oct. 11, the Bremen barque Marco
Polo, in lat. 40 deg. 42 min., and 69 deg. 3 min. W.
long., westward bound. October 12, the Bremen
steamer Bremen, at 6.30 a.m., in 41 deg. 5 min.
lat., and 65 deg. 55 min. W. long., westward bound.
Oct. 20, the American ship Compromise, in 49 deg.
43 min. lat., and 11 deg. 43 min. W. long., east-
ward bound; and the English ship Catherine,
southward bound.

QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 22.

The Inman steamer City of Manchester, from
New York on the 10th inst., arrived here at 5 a.m.
to-day. She brings 117 passengers, and 1,402,856
dols. in specie.