The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-27 00:00:00

WINDSOR.

Last night an influential meeting of the suppor-
ters 01 Capt. Hayter took place at the Castle Hotel,
Mr. H. Driver in the chair. Cspt. Rafter haying

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borough in Parliament, to supply the vacancy ocet v-
sioned by the lamented decease of Mr. Hope, an d ..
pledges itself to use its utmost exertion to secui e
his return." Colonel Vyse, the Conservative canal -
date, accompanied by Mr. C. S. Voules, his solicitor, ,
and a party of friends, commenced an energetic cm- •
vass of the electors yesterday morning, which was;
continued throughout the day, and from his lot lg.
connection with the town, seems likely to receb ;a
many promises of sn?port. Captain Hayter an d
cis friends in the meantime were not idle, and the y
immediately began canvassing the Liberal portiOi I
of the community, with excellent results.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

The Emerald, 35, screw 2tearn frigate, 2,913 tont.,
600-horse power, Capt. Arthur Cumming, arrived at
the Nore from Spithead on Sunday forenoon, an.d
saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-
Admiral Sir G. It. Lambert, with 13 guns,
the salute being returned from the Formidable, flag
ship, with 7 guns. On Monday the admiral inspected
the vessel at her moorings, after which she steamed
into Sheerness harbour, and took up moorings in the
stream. She is to be dismantled, and in about a fort-
night will be paid out of commission. The Emerald
was commissioned at Sheerness on May 12, 1859,
and has been employed in the Channel squadron.
On being paid off she will be inspected by the offi-
cers of the Sheerness steam reserve and the officials
of the dockyard, to see whether she should be placed
on the first or second division of the steam reserve.
If found in a fit condition for the first division it is
thought probable that she will shortly be recommis-
sioned.

The iron-cased ship Caledonia, fitting in the Vic-
toria-docks, will be hauled out, according to present
arrangements, to-morrow at high tide, and will
be towed down to Sheerness to be completed for
service.

The screw steamship Cordelia, 11, having under-
gone a thorough repair, was removed yesterday
afternoon from No. 4 dock at Devortport, and
placed alongside the Sheer hulk in Hamoaze, to be
rigged and stored for the first division of the Steam
Reserve.

The screw steam corvette Brisk, 16, at Devon-
port, is ordered to be placed in No. 4 dock to be re-
paired, and advanced to the first division of the
Steam Reserve.

The Monarch, target ship at Portsmouth, is re-
ceiving a fresh supply of armour-plates of siin.
thickness, on her sides for testing by the 68-poun-
der gun. They comprise three experimental plates
from Messrs. John Brown and Co., of bheffield ; one
from the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Com-
pany, and one from Millwall. Messrs. Cammell
and Co., of Sheffield, are about to enter the field as
armour-plate manufacturers to the Government.
They have erected a large plant at their works for
the purpose, and their two first plates will be placed
under trial at Portsmouth in a short time.
Admiralty instructions have been received at
Chatham directing that in all cases in which vessels
of war are sold out of the service the greatest pos-
sible care is to be taken in removing all the gun-,
fittings, and returning them to the War Depart-
ment. The order also directs the officials to make
a return of the exact cost of the sails, spars, rigging,
and other gear belonging to the screw gun vessel
Victor, 6,350-horse power, just sold by private con.
tract.

Private letters received at Portsmouth from the
cadet training ship Britannia, stationed at Dart-
mouth, state the fever was raging on hoard, and
that several cadets had already fallen victims to it,
and among others the young Count de Metaxes.
Sixty continuous service men aro under orders to
be forwarded this morning from the flagship Fis-
gard, at Woolwich, to join her Majesty's coastguard
ship Majestic, Capt. Inglefield, at Liverpool, for
service.

Soule considerable delay has been experienced in
laying down the keel of Mr. Reed's new iron ship
Pallas about to be commenced at Woolwich, in con-
sequence of her length (2251 t) exceeding that of the
slip on which she is to be built. The work is now in
progress for the extension of the shed, about 4.9 ft.
beyond its original length, and also for laying down
a solid base of concrete and other material for in-
creasing the length of the slip. The whole of the
keel is in readiness, as well as a large portion of her
framework of ash and Italian oak, and on the re-
lease of the Caledonia from the Victoria Docks to-
morrow, the shipwrights and others, 350 in num-
ber, employed on her will be transferred to the pre-
paration of the Pallas.
The following appointments were made yesterday
' at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George R. Hope to the
Falcon ; Lieut. the Hon. Edward S. Dawson to the
Royal Oak; Vernon Jones, master, to the Indus for
the Royalist; Thomas H. Hayman, master, to the
Cumberland for the Salamander; the Rev. S. C.
Parkyn, chaplain and naval instructor, to the
Pelorus ; Alfred A. Taylor, naval cadet, to the Liver-
pool ; Cecil E. Willoughby, nominated to a naval
cadetship; George N. Deighton, paymaster, to the
Black Prince ; James Leys, chief engineer, to the
Cumberland for the Achilles; John A. Burton, chief
engineer, to the Cumberland for the Bombay; Jas.
W. German, chief engineer, to the Cumberland for
the Amphion ; George H. Weeks and H. W. Fitz-
gerald, assistant-engineers, to the Asis, as super-
numeraries.

LONDON, TUESDAY, ocr. 27, 1863.

It is not often that a great master of rhetoric
like kr. GLADSTONE, obtains here in England the
opportunity of reading an elaborate oration from
paper. In the British Legislature, whether Com-
mons or Lords, it is un-Parliamentary to do so.
Whereas, among our French neiE,PhbJurs, it is very
nearly the reverse. It is at any rate so far the re-
verse in France, that the speeches delivered from the
tribune that are not read, are the rare and peculiar
exceptions. During the period of the Constitutional
Government under LOUIS PHILLIPPE, M. THIERS
shone conspicuously among his political rivals
or colleagues, now as leader of the Govern-
ment, now as leader of the Opposition, by address-
ing the Chambers, fluently and often with brilliant
eloquence, by the hour, without the aid of
even one scrap in the shape of a stenographic
memorandum lying before him on the shelf of the
tribune. Recently, under the imperial rule of
NAPOLEON 111., one of the very few indeed in (what
there is yet left of) the French Legislature, one of
the very few who could yet do the like there, was
the late distinguished and lamented statesman
orator, and administrator, M. BILLAULT. To an
English debater, particularly to a great Parlia-
mentary athlete, like Mr. GLADSTONE, the reading
of a deliberately written discourse must, we cannot
b
t think, be a very tame affair indeed. Accustomed
to the free utterance of the thoughts and opinions
rising from his heart, or descending from his brain,
tehi -•
eeiosilys tobe poured out from thence in that golden
of Words of eloquence in their musical ring and
intrinsic valuediamonds
tk far beyond the fabled rubies and
must,
by the Arabian Princess—Mr.
GLADSTONE
.‘vhen reading a carefully written
discourse (as he
d
in Staffordshire, i
nWa yesterday down at Burslem,
honour of cld JOSIAH WEDG-
OOD, thepatriarch
of the Potteries thereabouts)
Mr. GLADSTONE, We
841', must surely have
felt as though
Were
wereb hampered in his move-
ments, as though
a closer atmosphere ! Yet, reading
for a while
his address,
now that it comes to us its printed
printed form (as it
must have done had it been ,
till:questionably
yesterday quite spontaneously) it iBsl3°kerl by him
uigfht,
very beautiful. It is full af
originality. virile,
fresh, abounding with
it fails—
as it does, beyond a doubt, and, indeed, it
hardly have been otherwise—to take rank amongcould
the masterpieces of oratory to which En;listitia
eu
have become accustomed from Mr. GLADaToNE
it is, at any rate, in many respects, quite worthy
of him. And as an address spoken by Mr.GLAB.
STONE (whether impromptu or merely read, it ram_
tern little), it has a charm about it, this speech of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's down at Burslem,
a charm that we have not for a long while past been
in any way called upon to recognise and appreciate
in the Parliamentary speeches of Mr. GLAD-
STONE down in the Legislative Palace at
Westminster. The charm we speak of is the charm
of geniality. Session after session the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's eloquence has been marred either by
his ascerbity or byhis arrogance. His sentences, fora
long while past, have had about them something of
the swish of the ferule. He has been, alternately,
administering severe chastisement to some political
ho opponent, great or small, as the case might be—or
has been Still more severelylecturing whole
House the
House of Commons, as House of I
Commons, we take,
never was lectured before. The debates, there, must
apparently (whensoever he •
himself at least has been
engaged in them) have partaken somewhat of the
monotony, for him, of the
perpetual repetition of
the second declension tnagist
magistri, magistro,
B;c., down to the doleful vocative and ablative. The
pedagogue has so far gained upon his nature
favourite rule) that is has harshen'd his once (as
his
melo-
dious voice and seamed his Once handsome coun-
tenance
with lines of premature age and inflexible
severity. Geniality seems to be about the last
thing thought of, whenever Mr. GLADSTONE airs
his eloquence, or shall :e e say gives himself airs, in
he House of Common, ieeoraueh has he habituated

himself there to " assume the god, affect to nod, and
seem to shake the spheres," that, on his rising, some-
times, one would almost fancy the members gene-
rely—like naughty schoolboys, or tim'rous hares—
trembling on their forms. For once, however, as
he was wont to be in times gone by, before be grew {
cross-grained and took to scolding—while, in fact,'
he was yet known as Handsome GLADSTONE, While
he stood at the head of his class 'as oae of
PEEL'S Boys, while MACAULAY was patting
him on the back with the Edinburgh„ as the
model Student of Christ Church, Oxford—for
once, as he was wont to be 3.n those far
happier early days of his when all was " promise"
and not "place," Mr. GLADSTONE was yesterday
p; e lial, for once again, and that, moreover, in his
two characters rolled into one, as a writer and as
a speaker. Discoursing upon one of our old English
Worthies, he, for that one rare interval, resumed
his almost forgotten geniality, speaking, as he did
so, in a manner worthy of himself and of his simple
theme, the life and labours of our English PALISSY ,
good, honest JOSIAII WEDGWOOD, the Father of
our English Potters, the Founder of our English
Potteries.

Manchester has always been famous for public
meetings and addresses, as the annals of many hard
fought political struggles may testify. The so
called Manchester party has always expressed a
good deal of sympathy for American institutions
and laws, and has more than hinted that it would
be well for England if she were to copy them a
little more closely. It was not therefore to be sup-
posed that so decided a Federal as Mr. BEECHER
would quit this country without delivering an ad •
dress ;in that city ; and accordingly on Saturday
morning the Manchester Union and Emancipation

Society invited the American speaker to be presen

at an entertainment given in his honour. Mr.
BEECHER, of course, took the opportunity of ex-
pressing his views on the state of affairs in his own
country, which were mostly received very cordially,
although one or two awkward questions occasion-
ally broke the spell of unanimity. According to
Mr. BEECHER everything Northern is colour de rose.
The Federal finances are flourishing as they never
flourished before, and thriving, moreover, on a
sound and satisfactory basis. He does not deny the
possibility, or even probability of a great
financial crash. He looks upon that as the
best and shortest way of setting everything to right
and clearing up old scores. "In America,'' he
says, "we need a financial judgment day once in
ten years, and we get it." He is perfectly satis-
fied with this state of affairs, and he probably re-
presents the feelings and opinions of a good many
of his countrymen. A new country, he says, must
have credit, and with credit comes the evils of spe-
culation and the mistakes of over sanguine men.
Once in ten years the thing comes round in a kind
of crash. The bubble is broken, the paper is gone,
and the property remains. The man that yester•
day says " This is my house," don't say so tomor-
row; but the community is not hurt, the property
is there, the difference is in its shifting owners.
This cool and comfortable sort of reasoning comes
very well from a speaker of that country where
a failure is thought nothing, so long as it is large
enough to be creditable. However, whatever the
end of the road along which the Federal Govern-

went are travelling, Mr. BEECHER declares it to

be very smooth and pleasant, and so long as the
day of reckoning is some way off, the profusion
of capital afloat is quite sufficient to satisfy Ame-
rican financiers. But fiscal questions were not
the only ones to be discussed at the Manchester
Assembly. Mr. BEECHER. declares his great

object to be the promotion of a better under-

standing and a lasting peace between this country
and his own, and in pursuance of this end he wished
to make us understand the American view on every
question, or, as he terms it, "The American stand
point." Accordingly he endeavours to realise to us
the Northern aspect, of the famous Trent, but he
does not succeed in making out a very clear case.
In the first place he says the Federals looked upon

the transaction as altogether comic. They were
extremely amused at the pretentious embassy

terminating behind the bolts and bars of a Northern
prison. After they had sufficiently enjoyed the
joke they began to inquire about the law, but a
search into English precedents confirmed their
previous impressions of being altogether in the
right. Still 711 r. BEECHER affirms that there was
a universal readiness to acknowledge that they
might be in the wrong, and that any delay in the
surrender of the two prisoners was only
occasioned by the courteous desire to wait
for the expression of the wishes of the English
Cabinet. When the final decision was arrived at,
although it excited surprise, Mr. BEECIIER affirms
that it was at once agreed to, and that he cannot
recall any occasion on which it was spoken or
written against. This may be very true, so far as
Mr. BEECHER'S experience may go, bat we cannot
so easily forget the bombast about sweeping
English commerce from the sea, which is repeated
at every opportunity, and the general ill feeling so
persistently shown by the North. We fear that
the orders which despatched British troops to
Canada, and put the navy and dockyards on double
labour, whatever offence they may have given to
Mr. BEECHER, had more to do in procuring the

liberation of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON than the
courtesies of diplomacy or the search for precedents.
Coming to the great question of slavery, which of
oourse could not be left undiscussed by the guest of
Emancipation Society, Mr. BEECHER had a good
deal to say. The matter was introduced in the
worst possible taste by Mr. PATERSON of Liverpool,
who thought fit to denounce, in most unworthy
language, one whose name every right-minded
Abolitionist must honour. It is easy to stand up
now at a meeting of Emancipationists and to speak
of Lord BROUGHAM'S views on the American ques-
tion4B " Words of unparalleled baseness," and to
sOeer et himself as "a poor spoilt old man ;" but it
w" net so
easy to fight the battle of Emancipation
years ago when
the name of HENRY BROUGHAM
Was foremost in the van. This is not the way to
argue a great
question
closely entwined with all the
complicated
ramifications of a vast social and
political system,
unreasonable extretau c
ith vehemence of language and
obstacles in the Way 0,7
eof views put additional
and pressing matter. Itttling a most momentous
consider the question qf
elnye attempt be made to
light with the object of Ys a practical
the formidable difficulties in the inmoothing away
compensating the slave-owners, butY, not only of
of providing
for the emancipated slaves themselves__
if
is expressedlly
If
m n—
as to the wisdom kindness
of immediate wholesale abolition, a dozen enthu
ready to denounce th
siasts are at once speaker as
to the cause, a friend toslavery
and traitor--a foe
and all its attendant horrors. There is, perhaps,
no subject on which the great body of the English
people feel more strongly than slavery, and it was
this feeling that American Unionists counted on to
support them. But they did not reckon on Eng-
lish cleansightedness. Englishmen were not going
to believe, however specious th© arguments or
eloquent the periods, that what is right in one
State is wrong in another ; that it is the height of
virtue and the triumph of freedom to declare those
slaves free over whom you have no influence, while
'loyal" plantation owners may have as many
s',a's'ee as they like. To our Flail old ftv
hioned

notions of right and wrong, murder is murder,
whether a black man assassinate his master or a
slave-driver flog a negro to death; but North and
South seem to view the matter differently. .We
entertain no reasonable doubt, that an offer to re-
turn to the Union would secure any terms the
South might choose to dictate on the subject of
slavery. We cannot find in all Mr. BEECHER'S
professions any contradiction of a fact which is
perhaps too well known to bear contradiction—
the ill-treatment of free negroes in the Northern
States. It was easy to turn from the awkward
question as to whether blacks were treated like
whites among the virtuous abolitionists—easy to
denounce a traveller who commented on the harsh-
ness and injustice shown them, as "a serpent" and
" a son of the devil" ; but the audience who re-
cived such denunciations with enthusiastic ap-
plause might perhaps find a week in New York a
curious confirmation of such accusations. It is not
by such intemperance of language and such incon-
sistency of conduct, that Englishmen will ever be
won to the Federal cause. They must be a little
more convinced of the sincerity of the professions,
and see a little more of humanity in the practice,
before even Abolition can enrol men in its ranks.

Mr. LAIRD'S remarks are always worth attend-
ing to. On the occasion of his addressing the volun-
teers of Birkenhead the subject to which he alluded
at the close of his speech was naturally one that
excited attention and interest. He alluded to the
confusion that has prevailed with regard to the
Alabama, and corrected some of the misstatements
that have prevailed to so great an extent with re-
spect to that world-famous vessel. In the first
place, he contradicted the report that she had made
her escape in a surreptitious manner, the fact being
that she sailed in broad daylight. He next de-
clared that the rumour respecting the captain in-
forming a sailor of his intentions was altogether
unfounded. It is astonishing how often reports are
circulated with tbo greatest confidence, and the
utmost credence attached to them by persons in a
responsible position, and all the time there is really
no foundation for their existence. Doubtless this
affair of the Alabama has given rise to a hundred
statements, differing in complexion but similar in
exaggeration. Mr. LAIRD is quite justified in tak-
ing every opportunity that presents itself to him of
making public all that he has to tell concerning a
vessel of which he says with becoming spirit that
he is not ashamed to acknowledge that some of his
family have had to do with it. The assertions, then,
that have been made by the member for Birkenhead
ought to carry weight with them, and impress those
who have hitherto been prone to believe all that
interested parties or prejudiced politicians have been
ready to say. Mr. LAIRD was very happy in his
exposition of the Solicitor-General's contradictory
opinions with respect to this vexed question. The
eminent gentleman was very explicit in respect to
the impossibility of stating that the Alabama was
sent out of this country as a ship of war. It is well
known that on a recent occasion Sir ROUNDELL
PALMER has modified or altered his
views, but his
first reading of the matter is the one most in as-
cordance with the general tone and temper of the
country. Also Mr. LAIRD pointed out the discre-
pancy that exists between Lord PALaIERSTON'S
and Earl RUSSELL'S views on the subject.
It is really remarkable that the two lead-
ing statesmen of the Cabinet should so materially
differ on a subject that concerns national honour,
and involves so many important interests. Lord
PALMERSTON stated to the House in last March
that had the Government proceeded to stop the
Alabama, they might have been liable to heavy
damages. This observation is curiously contrasted
with the spirit which animated Earl RUSSELL in
Scotland the other day. The Foreign Secretary
completely contradicts the opinion of the Premier
in practice, if not in theory. He announces his
intention of straining the law to the uttermost,
and if the powers vested in it are not suffi-
cient, he undertakes to go to Parliament for an
indemnity. Mr. LAIRD'S bold address and out-
spoken declaration expresses the latent conviction
that is in the minds of all high-minded and inde-
pendent Englishmen. When he asserted that
Parliament would not indemnify any man, how-
ever powerful, who tried to transgress the law,
loud and protracted cheering followed his remarks.
There is no doubt such will be proved to be the
case, and not all the eloquence of Mr. COBDEN,
nor the vehement denunciations of Mr. BRIGHT,
will convince or coerce the members of the Legis-
lature. No statesman made a greater mistake than
they who tried the introduction of the Conspiracy
Bill; but the present proposal is even worse, and
Lord RUSSELL may count on a yet stronger and
fiercer opposition, if he put his professions into prac-
tice next session. Doubtless the Americans are
now exultant at the prospect held out, to them of
coercing English statesmen, and sacrificing English
interests at the shrine of arrogance to suit their own
grasping demands. Mr. LAIRD truly remarks that
the laws of this country were not made for the Admi-
nistration but for the people, and that no Minister
has a right to call for obedience to those measures
which may hereafter become law, but are not so
now. If Lord RUSSELL gain the admiration and
applause of the Government of Washington, and
forfeit the respect and confidence of the people of
this country, he will have paid a dear price for his
bargain. Inconsistency is a quality that is always
obnoxious to the tastes of a nation, and it is pre.
seating that feature of a character in a very dis-
tasteful form to maintain a neutrality that has cost
us so dear, and occasioned in some parts of the land
a distress that has been unparalleled in its extent
and intensity, and then to turn round and favour
one side of the combatants in a way that is particu-
larly injurious to our mercantile interests, and de-
rogatory to the honour of the country. These things
generally right themselves at last, but meanwhile
it is annoying to find men in a responsible position
influenced by such mistaken views, and led astray
by the representations of parties who only seek to
gratify their own desires without regard to the re-
quirements of the country.

ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. Ger-
man Reed, in a few days, intends presenting to the
public a perfectly novel entertainment, and one which, if
we mistake not, is likely to produce most important results
to the musical profession and the public in general. With
a view to promote the interests of music and musicians, Mr.
Reed intends producing an "Opera di Camera"—namely, a
work of simple dramatic form, requiring for its execution a
limited number of vocalists, with the accompaniment of a
pianoforte, in a manner altogether without a parallel in
the metropolis. The united exertions of Messrs. Mac-
fatren and Oxenford have been secured, the former for the
music, the latter the libretto ; and the result of the en-
gagement is the production of an opera of the description
mentioned, entitled "Jessy Lea." Mr. German Reed has
our best wishes for success, but of that there cannot be a
doubt, recollecting the good things he has already delighted
his patrons with.
and Milford Haven, 111.0 N SHIPBUILDING AT THE SOUTH WALES
13°"8.—Efforts are being made at the principal
in orderptehuadt
Ports of South Wales, including Newport, Cardiff, Llanelly,
to establish iron shipbuilding yards,
forh theirdstrict may not, as has hitherto been the
shipbuilders.
case, de
in the matter, for tilr'
Theriving iron ships on the Tyne and Clyde
there, the plates bein port of Llanelly has taken the lead
g :an iron ship already on the stocks
Co., Marshfield Works. manufactured by Messrs. Nevill &
about to commence building an B.
dry dock, and Mr. Scott, Ituill 13atchelor Blethers are
ice vessel at the Cardiff
and &ll:zed upon the site of
a shipbuilding yard at Cardiff,
saccepted contracts
for the castructio4 of several iron bhisp

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
AMERICA.
NEW YOltli, OCT. 17 (Evening.)
(Per the North American.)

It is officially announced that General Lee has
not crossed the Potomac.
There is no further news from Virginia.
President Lincoln has called for 300,000 Volun-
teers.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money easy, Gold, 491.
Stocks dull.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, OCT. 27.
The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived here at
8.30 a.m. this day.
The mills leave for London by the 11.30 a.m.
train.