The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

recovery. No one can say that he has been misled
by illusory hopes, or deceived by false promises,
when he leads the statement of JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The truth in its stern reality is laid before him—in

the vista of the fuiure, he may see the shadowy
forms of evil and desolation that are to come upon
him unless timely measures be taken to prevent the
catastrophe. At the same time there is no despon-
dency in the tone of the address, and no despair
observable in the language of the speaker. He
wants the assistance of brave men to face the peril,
and with this assistance there is no talk of anything
but victory full and complete. In order that all
maiv immediately return to military duty the PRE-
SIDENT grants a pardon and amnesty to all who have
b .en absent without leave twenty days. This is a
very wise precaution, and may doubtless prove of
essential service to the cause he so strenuously
endeavours to support. On the whole, the address
of the Confederate PRESIDENT is one well worthy of
attention, and will find favour in the sight of those
who have already appreciated the sterling qualities
and grasp of mind which have caused many to de-
clare that JEFFERSON DAVIS had made the South a
nation. It was a difficult task to execute, and
especially at this particular juncture, to issue an
address at all. Various unforeseen events and some
adverse combinations have made the prospects of
the Confederates appear overcast, but the energetic
mind is never too much daunted to face any con•
tingency. In his address to the army President
DAVIS has shown that he does not lack confidence
in the final issue of the controversy, if they have
only strength and spirit to carry on as they have
begun, and think nothing gained while aught re-
mains to conquer.

LONDON, WITH ITS TELEGRAPHIC WlRES—trailed
from housetop to housetop—is really beginning to look, for
all the world, as though some Spider of Brobdignag had
been spinning about the Streets of Lilliput 1
Among the foreigners of distinction invited by
the Emperor to be present at the mauccuvr?s of the
Camp of Chalons, besides Marshal O'Donnell, are the
Duke de Tetuan, and Prince Hohenzollern de Sigmarin-
gen. The Prince is accompanied by •Baron de Loe, aide-
de-camp to the King of Prussia, Colonel Rauch, Lieut.-
Col. de Wedell, and Captain Barries, also belonging to his
Majesty's staff.
THE MODEL EUPHELTIST.—Ia the stilted and
euphuistic style which characterizes the writers of
the Arcadian age of Elizabeth and the first Stuarts, scarcely
any higher proficiency was attained, says a recent critic, than
by tha accomplished and courtly author of "Religiu Medici."
Of those high-flown artifices of language, stately or trivial,
which formed the indispensable index to a polite and
scholarly training—which aro seen in their full poetical
flow in Spenser, in their dignified ease in the sinewy grace
of Bacon, and in their more delicate fancy in the rythnuical
prose of Jeremy Taylor—hardly a greater or more varied
assortment can well be collected from the pages of any
contemporary writer.
THE PROPERTY AND TITLE OF THE LATE SIR
FREDERICK SLA DE.—Legal proceedings, involving
circumstances of a most romantic charaeter, are likely to
arise out of a claim made by the brother of the late Sir
Frederick made to the title and estate of the deceased
baronet. It is alleged that when Sir Frederick married Lady
Slade the latter was then the wife of an Austrian gentle-
man, who died in 1857, and not only so but that when the
Austrian alliance was formed there was a previous
marriage. We believe it is a fact that Sir Frederick,
for obvious reasons, repeated the marriage ceremony as
often as children were born to him. The defence will turn,
we are told, upon the legality of the second marriage, which
is held to be no marriage if the first husband was then
living—it being contended that the third cne, if contracted
after the first husband died, is thereby a strictly legal and
binding engagement. The case will probably come on for
trial at an early date, and Lady Slade, of course, will be the
most prominent and important witness. Eminent counsel
are already engaged for the occasion.—Western Daily
Press.

NIANFIATTAN HANKERING AFTER A CARDINAL'S
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been enpsportealdi,
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himselflae writes
up
American affairs, in a letter to Archbishop Hughes. The
letter is all very well in its way, but it would have been
better, and would have given more pleasure both to the
archbishop and the American Catholic Church, if he had
added in a postscript, " Wherefore Venerable Cardinal, we
send you with this Apostolic benediction, a new hat of the
latest fashion, furnished by our regular hat maker, which
we beg you will accept." Our venerable archbishop would
have been pleased. ieo would everybody else. As our
late consul at Rome says, " The only English paper the
Pope reads is the London Herakl, and enjoys at his solitary
breakfast the Manhattan letters." I hope he will read this
hint about the cardinal's hat for Archbishop Hughes, and
adopt the kind and Catholic suggestion. The Pope's letter
was written in Latin, and dated Oct. 18, 1862. It has been
nearly a year on its route, having gone first to John Marcy,
Archbishop of New Orleans, who is scattered about the
Southern Confederacy.
GROWTH OF WESLEYANIS3I.—The Wesleyans
combine, in a far greater degree than any other
Non-conformist body, practical business-like qualities with
religious zeal. It is entirely within the compass of a man's
life that they have risen from the very smallest beginning
to a society of vast dimensions. Many of their members
now alive remember the time when Wesleyans were very
few, much scattered, and almost exclusively in straitened
circumstances. Now they are all over the world, and their
wealth is such that they can afford to spend £134,887 in one
year alone, in the erection of new chapels and the repair of
old ones. When it was proposed the other day to celebrate
a jubilee in this present year, a member gave £2,000 at
once towards the fund, and several others £250 each. That
much of this success is due to the excellent management of
their affairs, and to the constancy of their aim and study to
push on, very few Wesleyans will deny. They are ruled
upon the principles similar to those which produce success
in commercial undertakings. They are always pushing out
their arms to take a wider grasp of the world—they seldom
loose their hold when they have secured it; they strive tc
pay their way, and endeavour to keep up good discipline
among their members. If they are not always successful
in this last object, the failure is probably owing rather to
intrinsic defects in their system than to any want of energy
or conscientiousness in its administration.
A MANCHESTER BATCH OF MARRIAGES.—Mr,
N. Hawthorne, in a paper in the Atlantic Monthly,
on " Outside Glimpses of English Poverty," gives the fol-
lowing picture :—" I was once present at the wedding of
some poor English people, and was deeply impressed by the
spectacle, though by no means with such proud and de-
lightful emotions as seem to have affected all England on
the recent occasion of the marriage of its Prince. It was in

the cathedral at Manchester, a particularly black and grim
old structure, into which I stepped to examine some

ancient and curious wood carvings within the choir. 'lire
woman in attendance greeted me with a smile (which always
glimmers forth on a feminine visage, I know no c why,
when a wedding is in question), and asked me to take a seat

in the nave till some poor parties were married, it being
the Easter holidays, and a good time for them to marry,
because no fees would be demanded by the clergyman,

sat down accordingly, and soon the parson and-his clerk
appeared at the altar, and a considerable crowd of people
made their entrance at the side door and ranged themselves
in a long huddled line across the chancel. They were my
acquaintance of the poor street, or persons in a precisely
similar condition of lite, and were now come to the marriage
ceremony in just such garbs as I had always seen them wear,
the men in the loafers' coats, out at elbows, or their labourers'
jackets, dotaced with grimy toil; the women drawing their
shabby shawls tighter about their shoulders,to hide the rag-
gedness beneath; all of them unbrushed, unshaven, un-
washed, uncombed, and wrinkled with penury and care; no,
thingvirgin-hke inthe brides, nor hopeful or energetic in the
bridegrooms; they were, in short, the mere rags and tatters of
the human race, whom some east wind of evil omen, howl-
ui angfraalgornagn
cthheeap. streets,aoahndandall of
chanced tohe sweeconsciousp
toge together
ofhis o
her in anr
her individual misery, had blundered into the strange mis •
calculation of supposing that they could lessen the sum
of it by multiplying it into the misery of another per-
son. All the couples (and it was difficult in such a
confused crowd to compute exactly their number), stood
up at once, and had execution done upon them in the lump
the clergyman addressing only small parts of the service to
each individual pair, but so managing the larger portion as
to include the whole company without the trouble of repeti.
tion.
By this compendious contrivance, one would appre-
hend, he cone dangerously near making every man and
woman the husband or wife of every other; nor, perhaps,
would he have perpetrated much abdditidenatl mischief by the
mistake; but, after reecseiinving a
their
own fashiloona, lens tchTmonoln,y
they assorted themseiv
the garrets, Or the cellars,yor the
unsheltered street-corners, where their honeymoon and sub-
knew how, and departed to

sequent lives were to be spent. The parson smiled decor-
ously, the clerk and sexton grinned broadly, the femals at-
tendant tittered almost aloud, and even the married parties
seemed to see something exceedingly funny in the affair;
but for my part, though generally apt enough to be tickled
by a joke, I laid it away in my memory as one of the

saddest sights I ever looked at.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has forwarded a re-
quest unanimously adopted by the Corporation to the Lords
of the Admiralty for the Channel fleet to visit Dublin Bay,
where there is ample water and safety, as stated in The Sun
afew days ago. The Admiral has written to the Lord Fro-
Vest of Glasgow that the fleet would be ih the Clyde Ile4l
week,