The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-11 00:00:00

THE GEORGE GRISWOLD.

This vessel, the arrival of which in Liverpool on
Monday with a large supply of provisions for the
benefit of the Lancashire Relief Fund we announced
yesterday, was berthed in the Waterloo Dock by
yesterday morning's tide. She is a very handsome
and entirely new vessel of 1,180 tons American
register, but capable of carrying 1,500 tons. In gene-
ral aspect and mould the George Griswold is an
exceedingly fine clipper, her lines being fine, and
her rig well adapted to the proportions of her hull.
She is 200 ft in lenirth, 25ft wide in the beam, and
24ft in depth of hold, and was built by Mr. Thomas,
at Quincey, in the Butte of Macoachuoctta. As the
vessel was being towed up the river she was saluted
by the firing of 18 guns from the North Fort, the
Rock Fort ensign also being "dipped" in courtesy.
It was expected, indeed, a sort of semi-authoritative
announcement having been made, that some public
demonstration would take place on the arrival of the
ship, but, beyond the courtesies above-mentioned,
nothing of a public nature occurred. The Chamber
of Commerce will, however, in a few days meet the
commander of the vessel and the officers of his crew
in St. George's-hall, the use of which has been
granted for the purpose, when the following ad-
dress will be presented :—" To the Commander of
the ship George Griswold, as the representative of
the American Contributors to the Relief of the Dis-
tress in the Cotton Manufacturing Districts.—Sir,
Sixteen years ago, when our countrymen in Ireland
were suffering the horrors of famine, your nation,
then united and prosperous, sent across the Atlantic
offerings of grain and provisions to alleviate their
great distress. To-day, with your energies taxed to
the utmost by the gigantic struggle through which
you are passing, you have not ceased to be mindful
of the :misery which this sad contest is inflicting on
fully half a million of our industrious workers, and
you have a second time generously contributed of the
abundance with which God has blessed you to help
the neat ssities of those among us who, by no fault of
their own, are reduced to a state of compulsory idle-
ness and destitution. We call to mind that out of the
sufferings of that period there arose for us by this
emancipation of our industry an unspeakable good
—which has enriched our country, extended our
commerce, banished not a few of our social discon-
tents, and inaugurated a great moral revolution—
the blessings of which have not been confined to
ourselves, but are gradually working out in other
countries the like beneficial results. May we not
hope that the trial through which you and we are
passing will be the precursor of equally great social
ameliorations, and that out of the darkest hour of a
nation's existence—that of bloodshed between mem-
bers of the same family—there may issue for you
some signal national deliverance, the benefits of
which are to stretch beyond yourselves to the gain
of our common humanity ? Our country accepts
with gratitude this noble gift. We welcome to our
port the bearers of this brotherly bounty—freely
given, freely stowed, and freely freighted across the
seas by a commander who has given his free ser-
vices to this benevolent -work. Our Government
and the local authorities have shown their appre-
ciation of the act, by removing every impost on the
free admission of the ship and her cargo. As repre-
senting the mercantile community of Liverpool,
this Chamber of Commerce asks you to convey to
the donors its sense of the liberal and friendly spirit
in which your merchants and agriculturists have
united to send forward to our distressed cotton ope-
ratives so acceptable a message of goodwill and
sympathy—and in many a home, darkened by the
shadow of this terr ble calamity, the silent thanks
and prayers of thousands who are bearing their pri-
vations with a pati.nce and a heroism beyond al
praise, will_be your best reward. Addressing you
on behalf of a community among whom it is well-
known great differences of opinion prevail as to
the causes and objects of the contest now unhap-
pily raging among you, it would be evidently
unbecoming in us to put forward any statement
that would create dissension and mar the general
harmony of the cccasion ; but we think we are
warranted in say.tg that men of all shades of
opinion would rejoice to see this war terminated
in any way that xould not be inconsistent with
your honour as s people and with the great
and responsible position which you occupy among
the nations. We shall recognise the return of peace
and prosperity among you, the best securities for
our own continuedprosperity. We trust that no-
thing will arise interrupt for a moment the
friendly relations which have hitherto subsisted
between us, and bat no harsh judgments or mis-
representations of feeling and motives on either
side will lead us to forget that we are kinsmen,
sprung from a common stock, united by the bond of
a common langusge, and fellow-lahuurers iu the
common cause of progress. May the two great
branches of the Anglo-Saxon family always be