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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1863,

these broad assertions remained unanswered, when
lo! the Confederates not only take the field and ap-
pear in the best trim and equipment, 1= by one of
those strategic combinations which have been to
them instead of numbers throughout the war they
join issue with that army of the Federals which
was looked upon as the best drilled and tried, out-
wit and actually whip that General on whom the
best hopes of his party began to centre, and whose
late bold movements had elicited so loud an ap-

plause and given rise to such sanguine expectations.
No doubt, mere numbers and the inexhaustible-
ness of material means seem to secure the victory

in favour of the Northerners inthyeelas endorn,grun ; but
victory is put off from year's end to
honour,
andi more thaneever
never-
theless. The South has done
andis
doing
would be necessary to save its
ready to take advantager o. f chanceaannaywthhinatgevtehrattheultra.
Re
may turn out in its favour
contrary, theprolonga.
tiotrobfln
the war may say
hasatetro the'ribly demoralising tendency
intheNorth, parties begin to run dangerously
high, and the prospect of anarchy stares the people
in the face.
In Missouri the Radical party are turning all their
energies to remove Gen. Schofield, a gentle, well-
meaning man, whose reluctance to adopt sweeping
measures they construe into sympathy with men of
rebel tendencies. A deputation of these Black Re-
publicans has gone up to Washington to solicit the
recall of the obnoxious commander. Prone as the
Washington Cabinet may be to obey the behests of
the Radicals, it is hardly to be expected that they
will in to this blind animosity against a public func-
tionary who has done his duty with no less zeal
than discernment. But, in the event of the unsuc-
cess of their deputation, the Missouri Republicans
shrink from no violent measures. They have orga-
nised clubs and committees of public safety, who
glory in their open hostility to Gen. Schofield,
Governor Gamble, and nearly all the men now at
the head of the State. The Republican party in
Missouri, among the native Americans, is conspicu-
ous neither for its numbers nor for its character;
but they bring into the field several thousand Ger-

mans, a nation in itself, especially in Louis, where
they constituted no less than one-third of the popu-
lation. These men are for the most part political
refugees, who left their country in 1849, at the time

of the senseless movement of Badon and other parts

of South Germany. They came to America with
their cry of Hecker Hoch .1 and dived into all the

maddest fancies of Red Republicanism. They
are not liked by the generality of Americans,
because they affect irreligious and communistic
notions, and are the easy prey of any demagogue
who will give himself the trouble of leading them
by the nose. Their vote, however gotten, has no
trifling weight, nevertheless; and the Radicals
reckon also not a little on their faust.recht, should

ever party contest come to be decided by riots i❑

the streets. On the other hand, the Democrats, the
peace men, and Conservatives, whether of Southern
tendencies or otherwise, and, in mere self-defence,
even the men at the head of affairs in the State of
Missouri, are compelled to seek among the Irish a
counterpoise against the overwhelming ascendency
of the German element. The Irish, the Roman Ca-
tholics especially, with their clergy at their head,
are the sworn friends of the " Copperheads" in St.
Louis, as they are in New York; and the Americana,
who in their hearts despise both these set of aliens,
are too fain to count their votes on either side in
the event of an election, too glad to set them by the
ears on the occurrence of a popular fight.

Sept. 25.
The road to Nashville is clear since yesterday,
and the official reports of the burning of bridges, and
other damage to the railway line done by the rebel
guerillas, appear to have been greatly, and perhaps
purposely, exaggerated. lam told, however, that
I shall not be able to proceed further than Nash-
ville, as Gec. Rosencranz has issued the strictest
orders that no stranger should on any account what-
ever be allowed to go up to his encampment, alleg-
ing the difficulty he has to contend with in procur-
ing provisions not only for his army, which is well
supplied for a month, but also for the local popula-
tion, when the trampling of contending hosts has
reduced to the direst distress. Whether actuated by
this or by any other motive, Rosencranz seems de-
termined to have no near witness of his warlike
achievements, and desirous that the world should
only hear of them through the organ of the Washin-
gton official press. His own latest telegraph to Wash-

ington on the 23d, was, " I cannot be dislodged from
my position"—an announcement which must satisfy
the Federal authorities that their general is acting on
the defensive, and that the position of the armies is
completely reversed, as Rosencranz had marched out
of Chattanooga, not with the intention of merely
holding his ground, but of dislodging the enemy.
Private information fresh from Chattanooga is to
the effect that " Rosencranz's army has met with a
defeat which must put them upon the defensive for
some time to come. All the honour of the battles
of Saturday and Sunday last, on the part of the
Federals, is due to Gen. Thomas's corps, which
" was the only one that did any fighting, and de-
feated Longstreet with terrible slaughter." APCook
and Crittenden's corps, which were at the centre,
" gave way in every direction," and had the enemy
been aware of their success, and followed up their
advantage, the Federal defeat would have been cora-
plete. As it was, Thomas was, by the defection of
the centre, compelled to abandon his part of the
field, and fell back to protect his flank. Wood and
Negley came up into the abandoned centre in the
evening, and the line of battle was thu3 in some
manner restored. This for Saturday. Oa Sunday
the Federals had to withstand a second attack, and

it was again Thomas, who" saved the army of the
Cumberland from annihilation.' From 10 to 12
o'clock he repulsed the Confederates in three
charges, when these again turning their onset against
the centre broke 3N:oak's and Crittenden's lines,
and drove them " in disgraceful panic" to Rossville
and Chattanooga. Thomas held his ground with
rare steadiness till, by the reinforcement of General
G. Granger, he was enabled to effect his retreat into
Rossfille, bearing the brunt of the battle, and co.
vering the retreat of the whole army.

_ -
These meagre particulars will probably be of little
importance to England, where they will be preceded
by fuller and perhaps more authentic accounts.
Such as they are, however, I deemed it expedient
to give them in a few words, knowing them to
spring from unsuspected sources. For the rest, it
requires no very deep knowledge of the subject to
be aware that the conflict of Chattanooga, like so
many other battles in this hopeless civil war, was
only a drawn game, void of results, and leaving the
contending parties pretty much as they were. The
Union party are ready to hail defeat as well as vic-
tory
as equally sure to lead to the speedy exhaustion
of their foes, while the latter exult in the evidence
of
real
unwearied vitality, and declare that the
I liggle will only begin with Charleston, Rich-
mond,,_ and Mobile shall have fallen into Northern
nwainlidstyalwl when the champions of the Southern cause
Georgia, and son that vast territory of Alabama,
cannot
penetrat:th Carolina, where a hostile army
it cannot e without hard fighting, and where
without unheard of efforts from the sea and rivers
this broad stronghold thets to sustain itself. Within
r .Confederate warriors will
withdraw with the
bulk of their negro
labourers, and there roftintraii
goad!). themselves till Provi-
dence work out such
as'il may
be in store for
them ; for no hcp©
deferred will disenchant them
of their blind reliance Cu fem
them of the vain expectation raisgedti aid and wear
in
by the attitude of Franco in Mexico. There hearts
• There are
veople here in Kentucky who are as sure of a „
con-
vention of offensive and defensive alliance" having
been stipulated between the Emperor and the
Southern Commissioner as if they had
seen the
signed and sealed paper with their own eyes.
The state of Kentucky has been " debateable
ground,' between the contending parties for tho last
three years, and the war has weighed cruelly upon
it. As many of the youths of the country as en-
listed in the ranks of she Confederate armies at the
outbreak of the war have since volunteered or been
induced to range themselves under the Federal
standards. Of these latter ] have heard Union
aßcers say that they are brave, hardy soldiers,
highly amenable to discipline, excellent on all
Points, "every Kentucky man invariably behaving
as
if he deemed himself destined for the honours of

the Presidential dignity at the head of the Govern-
ment of the United States." Nothing more common
here than to talk with parents whose children are
equally shared among the contending parties in this
unbrotherly feud, half on the one side, half on the
other of every battle field, and to these it is not easy,
under such conditions, to pray for victory to either
party. " Old Kentuek," however, is, in the mass,
stanch Secessionist, or, I should rather say, South-
ern sympathiser, nevertheless. These people are
more outspoken than the Marylanders, and the
Government seems to have too much respect for
their strong-willed and resentful character not to
treat them with comparative gentleness and huma-
nity, The military commander exercising absolute
sway here, such as General Boyle and Colonels
Mundy and Hanson, are all Kentuckians, and their
countrymen have to apprehend from them none of
the wanton brutality to which people at the mercy
of such " Yankee lawyers" as Butler and Schenk
had to submit. With all these advantages, how-
ever, the Kentucky people describe their condi-
tion as deplorable ; they point to the country
houses, bomefields, gardens, and groves which have
been burnt down, cut down, or otherwise laid waste
by the soldiery quartered there with a view to
punish a supposed rebel, or to being to terms sus-
pected disloyalty. They complain that the laws are
put aside altogether; that, however lenient, the
rule of the military is wayward and arbitrary; that
scarcely a day passes without the disgraceful exhi-
bition of "ladies," as all white women are called in
America, dragged before the Provost-Marshal to
answer the charge of having "waved their hand-
kerchiefs," or otherwise showed sympathy to Con-
federate prisoners.
A whole bevy of 25 misses in their teens, belong:

ing to an " establishment " of which I do not well
know the nature—factory girls, I suspect—had to
put up with that indignity no later than yesterday ;
and although it was admitted that their guilt rested
on no proof, and their innocence was fully established,
still they had to submit to that silly ordeal, the
"oath of allegiance;" that vain and gratuitous an-
noyance which does not secure the fidelity of a
single citizen, but greatly adds to the number of the
disaffected and the .4 martyrs." The press, as it enu-
merates these deeds of wanton severity, takes
care
to attribute high praises to the men in authority for
the gentleness and courtesy with which they acquit
themselves of their irksome duties. No civility or
politeness, however, can make amends to a young
lady or woman—if the words are equivalent in a
republic—or to her parents for the part she may be
made to play in a " scene at the Provost Marshal's ;"
nor is it any consolation to her or to her friends,
after being dragged into a court-room, to
have it
ultimately stated that she was " not guilty of any
offence against the laws or the Government, and her
innocence was clearly set forth." The gallant colo-
nel filling the office of Provost-Marshal, we are
told, "fights treason at home with the same splen-
did bravery which has characterised him heretofore
in the field." A fight with young women, however,
especially if they turn out innocent, must lower a
man of " fearless courage and undaunted
will" in his
own estimation, and it is difficult to imagine that
any real strength may accrue to the Government by
taking note of any wave of a handkerchief, or even
of any tear, by which tender woman ventures to ex-
press her sympathies in behalf of unfortunate valour.

Again, in the same afternoon of yesterday a
" lady" was requested to call at Colonel Hanson's
office and take the oath of allegiance to the United
States ; she called as desired, but insisted that she
had only lived in Louisville two months, and had
not had time to say anything either for or against
the Government. The Colonel replied as follows :
" Madam, with all the facilities you have for talking
you could have said a great deal in that length of
time." Upon that suppositious argument that "it
was just possible she might have spoken for or
against the Government," the oath was enforced
upon her, and she " took the oath." I know not to
what extent compulsory oaths may be binding on
American consciences, but, judging from the com-
mon standard of humanity, I should feel less dis.
posed to rely on the allegiance of that or of other
ladies after they had been sworn than before.

It is meanwhile by this galling yet almost puerile
system of persecution that the Government, and the
RAdical faction which influences it, lay up for them-
selves such a treasure of rancour, such an immense
amount of popular hatred in these Southern dis-
tricts. The mere name of " Yankee " was already
sufficiently obnoxious in these parts in former times,
and the very men and officers who are now fighting
side by side is the Union ranks with Northerners
and down-Easterners harbour feelings of contempt
and dislike against their " brothers in arms" which
amount to unjust and absurd prejudice. This san-
guinary war could hardly fail to aggravate these
mutual animosities; still torrents of blood shed in
the field, and dire execution in the heat of long con-
tested victory, were hardly fraught with as much
mischief, so far as the prospects of future union as
based on good understanding are concerned, as the
cold blooded severity, the vexatious inquisitiveness,
the fretful jealousy and vindictiveness of the Go-
vernment and its subaltern ,agents. These Louis-
villians, who speak to me unreservedly, are per-
fectly savage about it. Their hatred, to hear them,
is implacable, and were nothing to turn up to miti-
gate their fate " they would all desert their country
and doom themselves to perpetual exile rather than
see the humiliation of their fellow-citizens, and
swell the triumph of their oppressors." I have,
however, no great faith in the eternity of either
love or hatred, and, although, no doubt, many of
the Louisville merchants have been ruined by the
Interruption of the Mississippi trade, and by the
annihilation of the Southern markets, yet I believe
the land has too great an attraction for its natives,
and offers them too ample resources, for any great
number to be driven to the desperate measure of
self-banishment.

The Government of the United States has offered
to buy from loyal landowners in Maryland all such
slaves as may be deemed able to bear arms at the
price of 300 dole. each; these freed men will instantly
be enlisted as soldiers in the coloured regiments. I
wish you could hear the comments of these Ken-
tuckians on that decree. "What !" they say, " was
it not enough to welcome a fugitive slave, to put a
musket in his hand, and place him in the ranks with
white combatants ? The runaway slave deserved at
least some credit for daring aspiration. He might
have been desirous to show himself worthy of free-
dornmorthy to strike a blow for his own emancipation,
forithe redemption of his fellow-bondsmen ; but to
buy a slave, a willing, contented slave, to fight the
battles of freedom—to buy the despised African,
after exhausting the market of the heavy Germans,
of the riotous Irish, of the riff-raff of all Europe—
's that what was to be expected -of 20,000,000 of
freemen engaged in war against less than 7,000,000
or 8,000,000, after three years of boasted victories,
after a struggle in which the material means of the
stronger party were said to be multiplied, while
the weaker party was described as utterly worn out,
as on the eve of a final and general collapse ?" For
their own part, whatever may have been asserted to
the contrary, the Southerners will not avail them-
selves of their negroes, slave or free, in their war
with their former brethren. They will arm the
negro, not with sword or musket, but only with the
spade or the currycomb, dooming him to those
menial offices in time of war for which alone they
deemed him fit in days of peace.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.
Theycontinuance of this splendid autumn weather helped
to draw a concourse to the heath this morning, not always
seen on the day after tho Caesarewitch, and which the at-
tractions of a not particularly interesting card scarcely war-
ranted.

Water Kelpie and Curagao, wretches both, scarcely raised
a gallop in the Beaufort Stakes, and Asonyma cleverly
snatched the race from the favourite Donnybrook in the
25 sovs Sweepstakes. There was a good race between
Signalman and the Plush filly for the 15 soya Sweepstakes,
which Mr. Payne's colt won by a head. Lord Glasgow's
star was again in the ascendant, he winning his match with
Mr. Greville cleverly after a good set-to at the finish.
Maccaroni walked over for the Select Stakes, Roman Bee,
reported to be "a clipper," declining a:contest with the
Derby winner—and the Bedford was an easy victory for
Goldylocks. Donnybrook cantered in some dozen lengths in
advance of his horses for the Oatlands Handicap, and
though Lord Stamford's Orpheus was fancied by the cog-
noscenti for the 50 sovs Sweepstakes, it proved only a canter
for Mr. Naylor's filly, who won with ease by a length.
The sun shone brightly all day, and though the sport
was not of a very first-rate character, yet the weather some-
what made amends.
Ihe Beaufort Stakes of 150 soya each, h ft; for colts, Bst
101 b; fillies, Bst 61b; untried mares or stallions allowed
31b, if both 51b. R.M. 4 subs.
Mr. Saxon's Water Kelpie, Bst 31b (31b) (Midgley) 1
Sir R. Bulkeley's Curagao, Bst 31b (31b) ....(W. Boyce) 2
Betting-2 to lon Water Kelpie, who made all the run-
fling and won in a canter by two lengths.
Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each,
Lord Glasgow's 15 ft, for 3-yrsolds and up-
wards; weight for age; maidens allowed 71b. A.F.
3 subs.
sow's Anonyms, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. W. Hart's Donnybrook, 3 yrs, 7st 51b .. (E. Taylor) 2
Betting-5 to 2on Donnybrook, who took a clear lead of
a length, which he maintained across the flat to the bushes,
where Alderoft drew up and followed him into the Abing-
don Mile bottom, when he challenged, and half way in the
cords obtained a slight advantage and won by three parts of
a length.
Maiden Plate of £5O, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; and
fillies, Bst 71b; if entered to be sold for 100 sovs allowed
71b.
Mr. Sadler's Voucher colt (£100), Bst 31b .. (S. Adams) 1
Capt. Goff's Eleanor (£100), Bst .. (Daley) 2
Mr. Gunnell's Lady Milton (£100), Bst (Hunter) 3
The following also ran .—Flutter, Charmian, Sea Boy,
They Verdiere.r raze
Verdiere, Rothschild, Flaneur, and Beloochee.
Betting-.5 to 2 aget Eleanor, 3to 1 agst the Voucher
colt, 6 to 1 agat Flaneur, 7 to 1 agst Rothschild, and 8 to
1 agst
nearly in a line to the commencement of the
cords, the favourite, with the Voucher colt, then drew
slightly in advance, the former having a shade the best
Foflain lengths
th
was a ; s
fourth,a head
close
p ,
separated
then the
came second and, thirdoth ;
s.
Sea Boy
of it to within a dozen strides of the chair, where Adams
u a, R
brought out his horse and won very cleverly by a couple
Roths-
child, and Charmian close together, Flutter being last.
Captain Goff claimed the winner, and Mr. Gunnell
Eleanor.
Handicap
Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 2-yr-olds.
T.Y.C. 10 subs.
Mr. Payne's Plush colt, 7st slb (H. Grimshaw) 1
Lord 'Westmoreland's Signalman, 7st 131 b .. (S. Adams) 2
Mr. Clarke's Roodee, 7st 10lb (carried 7st I Ilb
)
Mr. Robertson's Blight, 7st 101 b (Brew (Fordham
ty 3
) 4
Mr. G. Angel's Elgiva, 7st 131 b {Perry) 5
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Arcadian, 7st (Murfit) 6
The betting opened at 7 to 4 and closed at 3 to 1 agst the
Plush colt, and 100 to 30 aget Blight, 7 to 2 agst Signals an,
4 to 1 agst Roodee, and 100 to 8 agst any other.
Signalman jumped away with a decided lead, followed by
Roodee and the Plush colt to the cords, where the latter
headed Mr. Clarke's colt, and caught Signalman half-a-
dozen strides from home, and won a fine race by a head ;
half-a-dozen lengths separated the second and third. The
others were beaten off some distance.
Match, Bst 71b each. T.Y.C. 200, h ft.
Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip filly, Bat 71b .. (Alderoft) 1
Mr. Grsville's Bradamante, Bst 71b .... (H. Grimshaw) 2
Betting-5 to 4on the Miss Whip filly.
The non-favourite made play to half way in the cords,
when the favourite headed her and won by half a length.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 Nova each, for 3-yr-olds and
upwards. T. Y.C. 12 subs.
Mr. Brayley's Golden Dust, 3 years, Est 131 b.. (Cannon) 1
Mr. Payne's Retsina, 3 yrs, sst 71b (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Samuel's Twilight, aged, Oat (A. Edwards) 3
Walloon, Stockowner, Airedale, Gentle Kitty colt, Rose-
bud, and Vindictive also ran.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Rosins, 100 to 80 agst Airedale, sto
1 agst Golden Dust, 7 to 1 each Twilight and Rosebud,
and 8 to I agst Walloon.
The start was delayed some time in consequence of the
restiveness of Vindictive, who bolted, and being brought
back to her horses she repeated the feat, and did not get
back in time to start. On the flag falling, Airedale, in com-
pany with Rosebud, Rosins, Golder] Dust, and Twilight
ran into the cords, where Golden Dust took a decided lead,
and won cleverly by half a length; a length between the
second and third ; Airedale was fourth, close up, Walloon
fifth, and the Gentle Kitty colt next.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; for 2-yr-olds 7a t 31b, and 3-
yr-olds 9st, fillies allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for
80 soya if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. 6 subs.
Duke of St. Albans' Ostentation, 2 yrs (S. Adams) 1
Mr. John Day's Flaneur, 2 yrs (Deacon) 2
Mr. H. Melville's The Plover, 3 yrs (J. Goater) 3
Sir H. Des Voeux's Warhorse, 3 yrs (Custance) 4
Mr. H. Savile's Kate Coventry, 2 yrs (T. French) 5
Atlas also ran.
They ran abreast into the cords, when Ostentation and
Flaneur singled 'themselves out, and ran a close race home,
the former winning cleverly at last by three parts of a
length, Flaneur beating the Plover by a length for second ;
the others were close up, with the exception of Atlas, who
was left at the post.
The Select Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 3-yr olds, colts
Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b, Winners extra. R.M. 16
subs.
Mr. Naylor's Macaroni, fiat (inc 71b extra) (Challoner) w.o,
The Bedford Stakes, a sweepstakes of 30 sovs each. h ft;
colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners extra. Last five
furlongs of A.F. 7 subs.
Mr. T. Valentine's Goldylocks, Bst 71b (W. Boyce) 1
Mr. Henry's Annington, B,t 101 b (J. Goater) 2
Baron Niviere's Antinous, Bst 101 b
Betting-5 to 4 agst Goldylocks, and 7to 4 agst An-
nington.
The favourite made the whole of the running, and won
easily by two lengths. Antinous headed Mr. Henry's colt a
few strides from the post, and obtained second place by half
a length.
The Oatlands Plate (handicap) of 50 soya, for 3-yr-olds and
upwards. Cambridgeshire Course.
Mr. W. Hart's Donnybrook, 3 yrs, 7st Sib ..(
Mr. H. E. Handley's Cheerful, 3 yrs 7st .. E. Taylor)
M
Mr. Greaves's Sledmere, 3 yrs, 6st 41i (H. Taylor) 2
) ........ (Morris) 3
The following also ran :—Tattoo, Loiterer, Maid of
Masham filly, Black Deer, Gratitude, Kingswood, and Pan-
cake's dam colt.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Kingswood, 3to 1 agst Donnybrook,
4 to 1 agst Tattoo, 100 to lb agst the Pancake dam colt, 8
to 1 agst the Maid of Masham filly, and 10 to 1 agst any
other.
Sledmere made the running, followed by Donnybrook,
Cheerful, and the Pancake dam colt, to the Old Duke's
Stand post, where Donnybrook slipped his horses and won
in a trot by 10 lengths. Gratitude was fourth, Captain
Gray's colt fifth, and Kingswood next, The others were
pulling up as they passed the post.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst
101 b ; fillies, Bst 81b ; winners extra, maidens allowed 31b.
Criterion Course. 9 subs.
Mr. Naylor's Linda, Sat 131 b (including Glb e(thraalioner)
Lord Stamford's Alpheus, Bst 71b (A. Edwards) 2
Baron Rothschild's Lady Hawthorn filly, Sat 51b (Daley) 3
Betting—Even on Alpheus, and 6 to 4 agst Linda.
Match for 200 sovs, h ft. D.M.
Lord Glasgow's Knowsley, Bst 71b.... Received.
Baron Rothschild Wingrave, fist
A Match has been made between Mr. Naylor's Carnival,
3 yrs, and Lord Glasgow's Clarissimus, 4 yrs, Bst 71b each.
500 sovs, h ft. R.M.
Match—Garotter, 2 yrs, Bst 101 b, agst Chalybeate, 2 yrs,
Bst 71b. Last three miles of B.C. 100 soya, 25 ft.
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SPIRIT OF THE PIII3LIO JOURNALS.

TlMES.—Whoever recommended the Russian
Emperor to send a squadron of frigates to New
York may congratulate himself on a great success.
Now that it is done we see that it was exactly the
thing to do, and almost wonder that it never oc-
curred before to the astute politicians of St. Peters-
burg. The resemblances between the United States
and the Russian empire have not only been re-
marked by every one who has thought on the pre-
sent and the probable future state of the world, but
they have created a sympathy between the two
Powers which is becoming stronger under the in-
fluence of calamity, disappointed ambition, and the
rebukes of the civilised world. Both in their ar-
rogance and petulance of a few years since and
in their present tone of more limited pretensions,
the Americans and Russians have shown an
accord which indicates the gravitation of the
two Powers to a permanent alliance. In
the palmy days when Nicholas affected to be
the arbiter of the Old World, and the American
Presidents were conquering provinces in the New,
the constant theme of congratulation between the
Republic and the Despotism was the decadence of
all Powers but themselves, and the certainty that
they would subject all the countries about them,
one after the other, to their dominion. They both
had enormous territory. and regions still more im-
mense which they could make their own when they
would. They were both new Powers, unencum-
bered with the debts, the traditions, and the in-
ferior social organisation of their older rivals. They
had a manifest destiny, and were to fulfil the
designs of Providence by plundering and subjuga-
ting all who were not strong enough to resist. And
who should resist fifty years hence, when the popu-
lations of the two aggressive empires should have
doubled and tripled in a fashion impossible to the
crowded inhabitants of Western Europe ? From
these dreams Russia was roused by a war which
showed how unable she was to face the Western
Powers, which forced her to dismantle a fortress and
cede a portion of her territory, and which, if it had
continued another year, would certainly have de-
prived her of valuable provinces. The pride of the
United States has still more lately met its fall. The
disruption of the Republic, the proof that a large
part of the people had ceased to care for the Union—
nay, had imbibed a strong hatred against the rest of
their countrymen—the gloomy prospect of lingering
warfare, to be ended at the very best only by the
extirpation of the Southerners and the ruin of their
country —these things are weighing on the spirits of
the Federal patriots, whose Fourth of July orations
used once to paint such a transcendent future. In
the hour of common trial the Czar gives his officers
the opportunity of showing his Republican allies
how much they sympathise with each other, and
resent the of England and France. Not that
the discreet and guarded Muscovites would ever
hint that their visit had a political object, or that
they had anything but esteem for Englishmen,
Frenchmen, and all mankind. The coarser part of
the speechmaking is left to the New York orators,
just as the interpretation of the squadron's visit,
as the sign of a speedy alliance between the two
countries, for the punishment of European perfidy,
is allowed to be given to the world by the American
press. But there can be little doubt that what has
taken place is just what the Emperor foresaw and
desired. At a time when both he and his brother
potentate at "Washington are carrying on a relent.
less war against so-called "rebels," and each is in
some trepidation as to the policy of France, the Czar
calls forth an exhibition of the mutual sympathy be-
tween their respective nations. The time could not
have been better chosen, the success could not have
been more complete. The Russian officers are the
lions of the hour. They are invited everywherel;
the British and French officers remain unnoticed
on board their ships. It is entirely understood that
by the unusual honours paid to the Czar's frigates
is testified the goodwill of the Federal Government
and people towards him and the work which his
troops are doing in Europe. Republican spa pathy
rises freely for one who is engaged in putting down
rebels. When almost every nation in Europe pro-
tested against tho Russian atrocities in the spring,
Mr, Seward declined to condemn them. This was but
the due return for the Emperor's refusal to interfere
in American affairs. The good understanding still
prevails. No American can see anything wrong in
a Polish war, to which that carried on in Virginia
and Tennessee bears so strong a resemblance. No
Russian can desire anything but the success of a
Government which he hopes will make a diversion
in favour of the Czar, whenever that Sovereign's
method of dealing with his Polish subjects is ques-
tioned by Western Europe. To what length the
enthusiasm of the new alliance can lead a Federal
audience is amusingly shown by the reported speech
of Admiral Lisovski at a banquet given to himself
and his officers. The health of the Emperor had
been drunk with great applause, and the Admiral
duly returned thanks. The praise which the Ameri
can speaker lavished on his Majesty was, according
to the Admiral, really deserved. " He is certainly
not only the benefactor of his subjects," exclaimed
the eloquent seaman, he is the friend of mankind.
From what he has already done, from what he is
doing every day, he is certainly entitled to the same
surname which once a Roman Emperor claimed,
"fee Delight of Mankind.'" Wnea we recollect
that these words were spoken to and cheered voci-
ferously by a people who have for 80 years been.
preaching to the world self-government and the
right of mankind to be free, we may see how little
strength political principles possess compared with
the impulses or fancied interests of the hour. The
support of Russia is valuable, and therefore all the
national traditions concerning nationality and
popular rights are forgotten in a moment, and the
servant of a despotic monarchy is applauded for
saying that the Prince who is now ordering the
massacres and confiscations in Warsaw, and whose
rule has been officially denounced as a tyranny by
the most conservative Powers in Europe, is the
"Delight of Mankind." That the sympathies of the
audience were completely with the Russian Govern-
ment is made more evident by their reception of
Gen. Wallbridge's eloquence. This gentleman, who
made the speech of the evening, after telling his
hearers that England had in the early part of the
century been " driven from the ocean" by the Ame-
ricans, said what is true, but what has seldom been
so openly avowed by American society—" In the
struggle which Russia had in 1854 with France and
England, the sympathies of our people were with
Russia." This assertion was received with cheers,
and cries of " 'That's so." His vision of the future
was, that " Providence has decreed that there shall
be two great hemispheres, one the Eastern and the
other the Western. The one shall be represented
by Russia, and the other by the United States."
Equally magniloquent was the Hon. Hendricks B.
Wright, member of Congress, who said that " there
were but two first-class Powers in the world—Rus-
sia and the United States—because they were the
only two that could from their own resources and
within themselves either put down insurrection or
resist a combination of all the other Powers of the
world." (Applause.) Indeed, the community of the
two great empires, made more sensible by the circum-
stance that both are engaged in "putting down the
rebels," seems to have been the idea pre-
sent to every one's mind. It wanted but this
bond to make perfect the union between
the two nations. Each will bid defiance to
the world, relying upon its just right to destroy
every population and devastate every province
which dares to disarrange its plans of empire by
any such words as " liberty" and " independence."
HERALD.—Possibly there are cogent reasons why,
every year the assemblage of the Social Science Con-
gress should be denounced as an explosion of wind-
bags. Possibly, too, there is a cause in Nature for
the aggravated derision with which, from particular
quarters the association is assailed when it meets at
Edinburgh. We might, perhaps, be following the
example of exaggeration were we to prefer the
amiable debates in the Scottish capital before the
tilting of crowned heads at Frankfort-on-the
Maine. But there is, after all, a peculiar fitness in
the choice of Edinburgh for this year's summing-up
of results deduced from the quiet meditations of ear-
nest men upon the questions which touch the inte-
rests of every man, woman, and child upon the earth.
No doubt, as the cavillers urge, there is superfluous
small talk, there are worthless papers, there is infi-
nitely more than would suffice of mutual eulogy ;
but let these weaknesses, and the amenities arising
from them, pass. It is something to get the more
prosperous and better educated classes to think of
the social strata beneath them, and Edinburgh has
invariably been hospitable and congenial with
science of every colour. It is amusing, at this com-
paratively a ight distance of time, to remember the
year 1835, when the British Scientific Association,
presided over by Sir Thomas Brisbane, Sir David
Brewster, and The Romney- Robinson, held its
fourth congress in that city. " It is too remote,"
exclaimed a number of timid philosophers,
from the scientific population of the island. The
meeting cannot succeed." However, twelve hundred
and sixty-eight members were present, with Arago,
Agassiz, and Brougham. They saw then, and com-
mented upon, what Mr. Chadwick and Dr. Arnott
saw afterwards; abominations which called for not
a little Social Science to remove them—the foul
burn, the scandal of Auld Reekie, with its populous
and foetid banks, the noisome marshes around Holy-
rood. How much has since been changed at the
bidding of a social science less organised
oanrd and,
somec
might say, less ostentatious than that of
But the ostentation, or rather the formality, u
publi-
city, and eclat, are useful, and have done good, in
their degree, in the wynds of
Edinburgh, " mine
own romantic town," as Marmion sang, but not in
his generation by any paeans too savoury, in spite of
the " gloomy splendour red," the " sable turrets,"

and the ridges of "purple amethyst," whence could
be viewed Ochil, Preston Bay, and Berwick Law.
Our "gentle dulness" on this side of the border
" dearly loves a joke," and Scotchmen have occa-
sionally enjoyed one, even at the expense of Edin-
burgh; for was it not in that metropolis that, re-
ferring to the cry of " Garde:: reau," once so rife in
her streets—a cry silenced by social science—the
audacious critic affected to doubt, " Edinburgh has
been called the Modern Athens, but we trust that no
one will suppose this to be the strongest point of
similitude." Nothing is more obvious than the point
of view whence these and similar gatherings may
be triumphantly disparaged. They are convened,
it may be said, for purposes of talk. But talk is a
great thing in the life of a nation. Parliament is an
institution of talk. Literature is talk in a particu-
lar form. Constitutionalism itself depends upon
talk. There never was anything great or good done
without being prefaced by a struggle of talk. It may
be granted that, in all associations, a certain amount
of freedom is permitted to gentlemen—and ladies, of
whom the president might ask, " Why waste your
time and me P "—but that is unavoidable. And, as
Lord Brougham observed in his inaugural speech
to the congress, if the social reforms for which the
association labours are not all in course of being
carried out we are guilty of an unjustifiable impa•
tience, upon the one hand, in despairing because
humanity does not expand as quickly as vapour,
and of inconsistency, upon the other, in deprecia-
ting those voluntary organisations of thinking and
energetic individuals which prevent mankind from
forgetting its own claims in its artificial form, that
of an aggregated and mutually dependent society.
We are glad that the Social Science Congress at
Edinburgh does not restrict its survey to the topics
suggested by Lord Brougham, eloquent and lumi-
nous though his exposition of them was. An inte-
rest is felt, of course, in this country in the eman-
cipation of the Russian serfs, in the civic liberties of
the Poles, in the half-budded constitutionalism of
Germany, in the relations of Austria and France, in
Austria as she stands in Venice, and in France as she
stands at Rome. We are all concerned, moreover,
with the efforts of those who would complete the
work of Wilberforce, and everywhere set free the
slave. But we may take a hint from a medical
orator who spoke on the first day of this month to
the students of one of our London colleges. " I
respect the inferior creation," he said, " but I will
not sacrifice to them and the mercy they claim the
sacred lives of my fellow-creatures." We may have
sympathies for the negro and sympathies for Poland,
but we have our harvests of social progress to sow,
and cultivate, and reap at home. There is crime to
be checked and the criminal to be reclaimed; there
is justice to be made more certain without being
more rigorous; there are the poor to be educated
and guaranteed against the extremes of moral,
spiritual, and physical destitution. We have a
large class of friendless, unprotected, and innocent
young women and girls to be protected ; there is
that monster of night and day, the supreme evil
of our great cities, to be grappled with and con-
quered; there is its bloody handmaiden, the
child murderess, to be disciplined out of her great,
awful, and dark temptation. These are the grand
sanitary and social questions with which some fear-
less minds, represented at the Edinburgh Congress,
will have yet to cope. We commend them to the
advocates and friends of this beneficent and compre-
hensive movement. No fair-spirited discussion can
leave out of sight the subjects even now brought
before the congress—the system of registering
deaths, the state of domestic servants, the drainage,
lighting, and ventilation of towns, the prosperity or
failure of co-operative societies and savings banks;
but with all their singleness and honesty of pm -
pose, the members of the Social Science Congress,
now congregated at Edinburgh, appear to flinch
from their highest duties, and from wrestling with
those mighty, mysterious, and complicated problems
before which even the liberty of the press, in a
social sense, recoils. The debate must be carried on
in the upper regions, or the final vote will be indeci-
sive. This Social Science is a science of more vast
proportions than is imagined by the authors of the
essays it provokes ; recognisiug all the merit, all
the sincerity, all the talent now in the zenith of
Scotland, we are bound to look beyond them, and
discern immense social paradoxes with which Social
Science to this day has had nothing to do.
POST.—Since the reception given by the Arch-
duke Maximilian to the deputation of the Mexican
" notables," some ten days since, the public mind
has become less anxious in respect to the ultimate
results of French intervention in Mexico. When at
the time commenting on the nature of the reply
given by the Archduke to the address of the depu-
tatiou, we spoke of it as satisfactory, no one, except
perhaps sanguine speculators on the Stock Ex-
change, supposed that the acceptance of the prof-
fered throne would be absolutely unconditional. In
fact, there can be no reason to doubt that the terms
of the Archduke's acceptance were settled on long
before the deputation set out for Trieste, and that
they were such as met with the approval of the
Power most interested in seeing its operations in
Mexico brought to a successful issue. When we
call to mind the great difficulties which the Euro
pean Powers experienced in finding a Prince to fill
the vacant Throne of Greece, wo cannot but feel
surprise at the comparative facility with which an
occupant has been found for the Mexican Throne.
In Greece, a people partly dissatisfied with their
form of government, overturned the existing dy-
nasty, and with a unanimity of whose genuineness
there could be no doubt, invited in succession several
princes to accept their empty Throne. Whatever
may be the doubts, if any, which harass the mind of
King George, none can arise respecting the loyalty
of the people whom he is about to govern. Of the
adherents of the previous Sovereign who are still
to be found in Greece there are none who would
seriously contemplate a counter-revolution in favour
of the exiled 0 tho. But in Mexico affairs stand on
a very different footing. The unanimity of the po-
pulation in substituting an Empire for a Republic
is a fact which is still to be proved. When con-
versing with the members of the deputation, the
Archduke 14aximilian directed especial attention to
the fact that at least three-fourths of the population
had not as yet had an opportunity of confirming
with their votes the decision of the Provisional Go-
vernment which invited him to accept the high office
of Emperor of Mexico. It has of late years become
the fashion to conduct the election of Kings and
Emperors after the same manner which determines
the choice of en American President ; and, if Mexico
is to substitute an Empire for a Republic, it is by
universal suffrage alone that the change is to be
effected. The people are to speak for themselves,
and, when they have spoken, their decision is to be
received as if it were a decree of Providence, What-
ever objections some might be inclined to offer to
the proposed mode of procedure, such objections
possess but little weight so long as the parties im-
mediately interested profess themselves content. In
the foundation of the new Empire,
.the approval of
the majority of the Mexican people is declared to be
a condition precedent, and the Archduke, under
such circumstances, is compelled to postpone his un-
qualified acceptance of the throne. until that condi-
tion is fulfilled. The plebzsczte which will pronounce
him the elected Sovereign of the Mexican people is
not, however, the only condition on which the Aus-
trian Prince has based his acceptance of the proffered
Crown. In that ambiguous language which seems to
be peculiar both to Sovereigns and Minister 3 of State
on occasions when of all others the multitude are
desirous that they should speak intelligibly and ,
without reserve, the Archduke Maximilian referred '
to the guarantees which he would require to secure,
at least for a term, the independence of the infant
monarchy. It is indeed much to be regretted that
he did not more explicitly define what it was he re-
quired before consenting to link his fortunes with
that of the Mexican empire, because, had he done so,
much needless misapprehension would have been
obviated. One of the many suppositions to which
the use of the word "guarantees" gave rise was
that he entertained expectations of receiving an en-
gagement from Great Britain to protect the new
Government from foreign and domestic aggression.
Accepting such a construction, it is needless to say
that the imposition of such a condition would
in be
tantamount to refusing the Crown. England with-
drew from the intervention Mexico as soon as she
saw the peculiar character with which France de-
sired to invest it, and now that matters have been
brought to an apparently succesaful termination, it
would be utterly foreign to her invariable policy. to
experimentalise in the creation of a novel form of
government in a country in which she feels no ex-
traordinary personal interest. England doubt
her
labours like other nations, a mission, but the field of
labours lies for the most part at home. It
.would
be
absurd to suppose that the Archduke Alaxiorlianniss
not perfectly aware of all this ; and there 07, d
there is no reason for believing that he intended
wilfully to mislead the Mexican. deputation by
whilst ils
ap-
pearing to comply with their wishes,
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prepared to go, in order to secure for tne new Go-
vernment a fair start, it is not easy to form an
opinion. One thing at least seems certain, namely,
that the French Emperor has not incurred the heavy
expenses incidental to the Mexican expedition, and
encountered the risk of an ignominious failure,
merely to withdraw at the moment when his most
sanguine hopes have been realised. He has not
defeated the army of Juarez, taken possession of the
capital of Mexico, and seen a Provisional Govern-
meet established ready to carry his wishes into effect
only at the last moment to withdraw his army and
allow the partizans of the subverted Government
once more to re-establish that state of anarchy

which he boasted he had brought to an end. The
Mexican question may still possess its difficulties,
and, notwithstanding the laurels which have been
culled by French troops between Vera Cruz and
the town of Mexico, members may be found in the
Legislative Chambers to express doubts whether
the glory achieved by the French legions has not
been too dearly purchased. But the question will
still remain whether, having done so much, the
work ought now to be abandoned. Ultimate success
is the only justification which can be offered for
the French expedition to Mexico ; it is the only
reply which a Minister could give in the Chambers
ito the murmurs of the Opposition. Despondency s
not a trait in the Napoleonic character; and, even
if matters did not wear a favourable aspect, Louis
Napoleon is scarcely the man to relinquish an un-
finished work. But in truth everything has hap-
pened as the Emperor wished and intended. The
late Government of Mexico is completely and to all
appearance finally overthrown. So far as the
opportunity has presented itself of learning the
sentiments of the people, they have hailed its fall
with satisfaction, and anticipate with pleasure the
monarchy which under French auspices, is to be
raised in its stead. Already the several European
Powers have manifested their intention of recog-
nising the new Government; and a Prince of the
highest lineage, and brother of an Emperor, has con-
sented to become its head. Even were we to glance
into the future, circumstances conspire to aid t he pro-
ject on whose accomplishment the French Emperor
has evidently set his heart. The severance between
the Northern and Southern sections of the American
Republic has prevented either or both from orga-
nising that opposition to the establishment of the
Mexican Empire which would otherwise undoubt-
edly have been set up. But as the Southern Con-
federacy must before long establish its indepen-
dence, it would be open to the French Emperor,
if ho so pleased, and should circumstances render it
necessary, to recognise that independence, and, by
an alliance with the South, secure Mexico from all
danger of a Federal invasion. But the division
between the North and South will of itself suffice to
secure for the new monarchy an immunity froth
aggression. Whatever, therefore, may be the delays
which may intervene before the complete establish-
ment of the proposed empire, we believe that even-
tually, and at no distant interval, both Amerina and
Europe will have the satisfaction of seeing Mexico
ruled by a responsible and a respectable Govern-
ment.