The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

in the words of the Prince of WALES, is " to give
a home and education to the fatherless and
destitute," has been especially fortunate in the
earnestness and open-handed kindness of its sup-
porters. The liberality of its able and energetic
treasurer, N. S. THORNTON, Esq., has already
proved of the greatest service co the fortunes of the
institution ; and now the munificence of Mr. ED-
WARD MACKENZIE, of St. Paul's-wharf, has made
the new building and its surrounding grounds the
property of the charity. The Prince of WALES,
amid the astonishment and delight of the assembly
announced that this gentleman had given the mag •
uificent contribution of £12,000 for this express
object. Nor must it be supposed that the ex-
citement of the moment or the splendour of
the scene had any ifiuence on the generosity
of this munificent donor. He was under
the impression that the expected banquet had
already taken place, and that the festivities were
all concluded when he asked the managers what
the new building would cost ? " £12,000," was the
reply. " Then I will make you a present of it,"
said Mr. MACKENZIE, quietly. The Princess had
thus an unexpected opportunity of seeing an ex-
ample of that genuine English benevolence, which
simply and unostentatiously gives and does more
than could be asked or hoped. After so brilliant
and successful a festival, we cannot doubt that the
fortunes of the British Orphan Asylum will flourish
with renewed vigour, and that the hope expressed
by Mr. THORNTON, that the noble gift of Mr. MAC
KENZIE would serve as an example to others to lend
their aid to the good cause may be abundantly
realised,

DELAY OF RECOGNITION.

Cui bono ?

All admit the impossibility of re-union, and that
the Confederate States must be recognised some time
or other, but put off this necessity for fear of um-
brage to the North. Now to what good does this
delay tend ? would it not have been better, as Gen.
Scott advised, " to let the wayward sisters depart
in peace ?" Would it not have been better for
England to have done in 1861, what she must do
soon, saving the North a million of lives and hun-
dreds of millions sterling,—saving the South the
firing of their cities, the drowning of vast tracts of
their country, the desolation of their homesteads
and plantations, and the arming of the blacks to
massacre the whites ?

Would it not be best at once to recognise
the South, for the sake of North and
South ? to prevent similar carnage without any
results for another year, increased by the too pro-
bable but unnatural retaliation of the South in the
invasion of the North by destroying private pro-
perty, and burning Philadelphia, Washington,
Pittsburg, Cincinnatti, and other cities from re-
venge.

Justice and self-interest call on the British Go-
vernment, with those of Europe, to recognise the
South as the means of peace and employment to our
starving operatives, but humanity for North and
South, to save both from destruction, and to us, as
their kith and kin, flesh and blood to do so as
brothers, as Christians, it is our duty.
The mother country ought to yearn after the
good of her progeny, now destroying one another
by a fratricidal war, only to be stopped by recog-
nition. X. Y. Z.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.