The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1862.

and dishonour the cause for which this country
has made such noble and heroic sacrifices. No
one of enlarged views or extended experience can
be taken in by such notions or deceived by such fal-
lacies ; but there are many who are well meaning
and good intentioned, who suffer themselves
to Ile blinded to the clear aspect of affairs,
and led astray by the specious sophistries of pre-
judiced and perverse politicians. The fact is that
there is no more hatred of slavery in the Northern
States than in the Southern. The latter are honest
enough to declare their allegiance to its doctrines,
and therefore are so far honest and straightfor-
ward. It will be conferring a boon on them-
selves, and a blessing on their land, whenever
they sufficiently appreciate the advantages of free-
dom, and recognise the right which divine pre-
cepts inculcate, and human laws in their perfec-
tion maintain, that every man has to independence,
but that does not affect the claim set forth by the
Federals to dictate terms to them. The best answer
to the frantic asseverations, and the force denun-
ciations of the abolitionist section may be found in
the doings of the Northerners at home. In what
position is the negro placed in their towns ? Has
he the rights and privileges of a citizen, is he
suffered to consider himself as one of the com-
munity among whom he resides ? The conduct of
the rioters at New York on the occasion of the
disturbances that took place at the conscription
sufficiently answer the queries in the decided
negative. The sooner a decided stop is put to
this attempt of setting up the North as the cham-
pion of freedom and the denouncer of slavery, the
better for the eternal and immutable principles
of justice that should rule the condition of States,
and regulate the opinions entertained of their
policy by surrounding countries. When Sir ROUN-
DELL PALMER goes on to indicate the reasons
which induced the Government, of which he is a
member, to recognise the South as belligerents,
and yet to decline to recognise their independence,
his arguments seem to lose their force, and
assume a tone more in accordance with the neces-
sary formula of details that emanate from
those charged with official responsibilities.
It may be a mistaken notion that induced the Go-
vernment to take this course, and doubtless subse-
quent experience will prove it to have been so; but
the chief blame that now rests on them is that they
are not honest or truthful in their declarations of
neutrality. It is a perversion of commonsense, and
a denial of evident facts, when a member of the
Government states that they desire to preserve an
"honest neutrality," when it is patent to the
world
that only within a few days the most stringent
measures have been adopted in order to favour the
fancies and further the interests of the United States
Government. It is an insult to public sense to per-
sist in making this statement, and it is quite incom-
prehensible how sensible and well-informed indivi-
duals can be deceived in this fashion. The speech
of Earl RUSSELL, the other day, is in itself a suffi-
cient answer to the virtuous indignation that is
constantly expressed in regard to this often dis-
cussed question. It is quite useless to
persist in
prolonging the controverey. All the skilled intel-
ligence of the most astute and the flowing eloquence
of the most gifted orators will not alter facts nor
undo past actions. It would be more honest, more
manly, and more creditable for the Government to
take their stand upon a decided line of action. Let
them say we are resolved to encourage the Federals
by every means open and covert that lies in
our
power, and not go on in this shuffling and hesitat-
ing manner. They will end by disgusting all sides
without doing themselves any good, or their repu-
tations any credit in the eyes of the country. Sir
ROUNDELL PALMER concluded his speech by assert
ing that there were two things which our Govern-
ment expected to secure by their conduct in this
American war, and they were peace and honour.
It is very possible that before the sanguinary con-
test is over it wig be shown that they have done
just the reverse, and that their shuffling and hesi-
tating policy has endangered the one,
while their
want of energy and lack of independence has
seriously affected the other. When Parliament
assembles it may be seen that rather different views

are entertained regarding her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment than those which Sir RouNDELL PALMER
makes bold to predict. He says that the people
would owe a deep debt of gratitude whether they
acknowledged it or not. Now it seems evident to
those who scan the course of events, and thoroughly
sift the conduct of those who are now representing
the country to foreign States, that the reverse of
gratitude will be the sentiment entertained for those
who have injured our commerce, suffered our vessels
to be stopped on the high seas, and their views in-
sulted, while their cargo was confiscated, who have
allowed acts to take place and language to be spoken
regarding our pecple and our property that a gene-
ration ago would have fired the resentment of the
general population, and provoked a declaration of
war at once. When a nation threatens to sweep
,

onr commerce from the seas, and we tamely submit
to all kinds of indignity, it is not presupposing too
much to say that lookers-on will believe that we
are afraid or unable to provoke an issue with them.
The tone of public feeling must be very much altered,
and the temper of the English nation altogether
changed, before the course of policy as pursued at
present, and promised for the future by the Foreign
Secretary, can win approval and
!gain esteem from
any ranks or classes of the people. It would be
hardly going too far to say that it is a contradic-
tion in terms to what the wishes
have pointed at for some time past, and what many
have openly proposed as desirable.of the generality

An Untravelled Frenchman's Notion of
English Fashionable Life and Manners !

As amusing
a specimen of this as can be found
anywhere—even in IVI. Alexandre Dumas' prepos-
trously funny drama of Rean—arpeared in the
feuilleton of La Presse as recently as Tuesday
last, the 13th of October. There, in that feuilleton,
a new chapter of a serial story called " Regina di
Gennaro," now being published day by day in deli-
cious morsels for the entertainment of the readers of
La Presse, begins (on Tuesday) thus—" During 15
days, nothing Was talked of in London but the
beard of Sir William. Attention was perpetually
directed to it in Hyde-park and in Covent garden
—in every place, indeed, in which it is good taste
to go and show oneself for an hour daily. Sir
William bore with imperturbable calm the pointed
attention of which he was thus the object, and
allowed the young misses to laugh at his beard
without evidencing the least resentment." The
author's ipsissima verba aro worth giving, hour -
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ticulars of English e.
while appearing fashionable
possibly
life and manners,
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the most natural things in
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bably draw a smile fromothl‘t Assolant, would pro-
the shoulders, of M. Alm the
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meeting of the holders of Peruvian Dollar
Bonds
should is
be called fcr Wednesday next, to consider what steps
obtain payment of their bonds and
coupons in hard dollars, instead of in the depreciated
tendered,
Americau paper AMillegally

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, OCT. 17

The Government has ordered that a larger body
of troops shall be massed upon the southern fron-
tier of Schleswig.

THE BRAZILS.

RIO DE JANIERO, SEPT. 24,

Exchange on London 271 27Z. Paris, 347,850.
Coffee, good first, 7,000 to 7,200 reis. Shipments
since the departure of the last mail, 79,300 bags,
including 35,400 for the Channel. Stock 140,000
bags.

England, 95,100 dole. for France, and 1,000 dols.
for Hamburg.

Oa the 7th the Bavaria spoke the British ship
City of Ottowa, from Plymouth for Quebec. She
left New York on the 3d, called at Cape Race, and
received New York telegrams to the evening of the
6th, which confirm the news of considerable skir-
mishing having taken place in the rear of Rosen-
eranz' force; of the Confederate attempts to inter-
rupt the communications between Nashville and
Chattanooga; of Bragg's fortifying Missionary
Ridge; of Burnside's retiring to Cumberland Gap;
and of the reported occupation of Knoxville by the
Confederates.