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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 ofJEFFERSON DAVIS.
The truth in its stern reality is laid before him—in

the vista of the future, 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
may immediately return to military duty the PRE-
E:4 pardon and amnesty to all who have
sbieDenaThgseannttws a
without leave twenty days. This is a
very wise precaution, and may doubtless prove of
essential service to the cause he so strenuausly
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 unforescen 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 I
Among the foreigners of distinction 'invited by
the Empiror to be present at the mai,ceuvr2s 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. do Wedell, and Captain Barrios, also belonging to his
Majesty's staff.
THE MODEL EUPHEUIST.—In 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 the accomplished and coui tly author of "Religio Medici."
Of those high-flown artifices of language, stately or trivial,
which formed the indispensable index to a polite and
scholarly training—which are 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 rythmical
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 SLADE.—LegaI proceedings, involving
circumstances of a most romantic character, are likely to
arise out of a claim made by the brother of the late Sir
Frederick Slade 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. IVe 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 one, if contracted
after the first husband died, is thereby a strictly legal and
binding engagement• The case will probably come on fot
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.

MANHATTAN HANKERING AFTER A CARDINAL'S
HAT FOR AMERICA !—The Pope of Rome, he writes
in his last communication, has been spreading himself upon
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
Wed 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
wo beg you will accept." Our venerable archbishop would
have been pleased. k..'o would everybody else. As our
late consul at Rome says, " The only English paper the
Pope reads is the Landon Herald, 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 WESLEYANISM.—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 wee 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 secueed 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.-31r.
N. Hawthorne, in a paper in the Atlantic Alonthly,
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. The
woman in attendance greeted me with a smile (which always
glimmers forth on a feminine visage, I know not why,
when a wedding is in question), and asked m© 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. I
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 persona in a precisely
similar condition of lite, and were now come to the marriage
eeremony in j est such garbs as I had always seen them wear,
the men in the loafers' coats, out at elbows, or their labourers'
jack, ts, detaced whh grimy toil; the women drawing their
shabby shawls tighter about their shoulders,to hide the rag-
gedness beneath ; all of them unbrushed, unshaven,
tun-
washed, uncombed, and wrinkled with penury and care; no.
t hig
hopeful
mere or ra
rags a energetic
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ear
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bridegrooms;
f
the human race, whom some east wind of evil omen, howl-
ing along tho streets, and chanced to sweep together in au
untragrant heap. Each and all of them conscious of his or
her individual misery, had blundered into the strange tnis •
calculation of supposing that they could lessen the sum
of it by multiplyine; it into the misery of another per-
&i 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 comFany without the trouble of repeti_

follows :

tion. By this compendious contrivance, one would appre:
head, he come dangerously near nicking every man and
woman the husband or wile of every other ; nor, perhaps,

would he have perpetrated much additicnal mischief by the

mistake; but, after receiving a benediction in common,
they assorted themselves in their own fashion, as they only
knew how, and departed to the garrets, or the cellars, or the
unsheltered street•eorners, where their hOneymoon and sub-
sequent lives were to be spent. The parson smiled decor-
ously, the clerk and sexton grinned broadly, the female at-

tendant tittered almost aloud, and even the
married par! ies
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 Dablin has forwarded a re-
qfuest unanimously adopted by the Corporation to the Lords
owhtehree.k_dmitalty for the Channel feet to visit Dublin Bay,
there is ample water and safety, as stated in no Sti:.2
a few say© ago.
that the tiut would be in the Clyde neatwcek,
Tile Admiral bas written to the Lord Pro-
vost of Glasgow

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY 14VENING, AUGUST 20, 1863.

The speech which the Emperor of Austria made
at the opening of the Congress of Princes is as

" Most illustrious and beloved Brothers and Cousins,
most valued Confederates,—An assembly of the heads of the
German nation, for the purpose of deliberating on the wel-
fare of the Fatherland, is an event which has not occurred
for centuries. May we, by the blessing of an Almighty
Providence, be on the eve of a happy future.
"Confiding in the elevated sentiments of my fellow
Princes, confiding in the just spirit of the German people,
who have been enlightened by experience, I have sought to,
bring about a meeting at which the German Princes should
in a fraternal spirit mate their hands for the strengthening
(Befestigung) of the Confederation. I have deemed it my
duty openly to express my convictioa that Germany justly
(emit Becht) looks forward to a development of its constitu-
tion ( Vi.rfassuni), which shall be in accordance with the
necessities of the times, and I have come in person to ex
change ideas and opinions with my Confederates, and to state
what I consider feasible, and what I, for my part, am ready
to grant.
"Your Majesties„ and all of you, my illustrious and be-
loved Confederates, accept my thanks fur your kindness in
consenting to act with me.
" I have forwarded to my illustrious Federal allies the
draught of a project of reform which was drawn up under
my immediate superintendence.
".Being of opinion that the sphere of action of the Bund
should be enlarg44l, I, in my plan of reform, propose that
the executive pea er shall be placed in the hands of a Direc-
tory, which shall have a Federal Council at its side. IVe
require the periodical mooting-of an assembly of Deputies,
which shall have full power to participate in the legislation
and in the control of the finances of the Bund. I propose
that there shall be periodical meetings of the German
Princes. By the introduction of an independent Feaeral
Court a satisfactory guarantee is given for the proper ad-
ministration of justice in Germany. In all these matters
the principle of toe equality of the several independent
States will, as strictly as is possible, be upheld. At the
same time, due regard must be paid to their political in-
guucc 1414 to the Al of tlairiahaDitunts, in oicha drat

establishments of the State, where the teaching of
professors was specially devised to undermine their
faith, while he closed all colleges and schools kept
by men of religious independence, and secured to
himself a monopoly of science. This iniquitous
prccess was not devoid of certain outward forms of
liberty. He recalled this not from any wish to
revive any ill-feeling against the neighbouring
Dutch nation with which Belgium became daily
more united from commercial intercourse, and the
common interest of the defence of their individual
independence. But he wished to show that now
the system of a free press, under which they were,
was less corrupting than the influence of power, and
that it was amply compensated by freedom of edu-
cation. In fact, while they considered the moral
statistics of Belgium, and watched there the
struggles of the parties which divided the world—
tt e Christian and the anti• Christian—they must
take into consideration the immense good produced
by such a University as that of Louvain,
which has now been in existence for more
than thirty years. As we shall find the Baron de
Gerlache's admirable discourse published by all the
Belgian and French religious journals, I refrain
from giving you a more extended report of it. At
the end of it, the brief addressed by the Pope to the
committee was read to the assembly, which stood
up during its reading; after which the address
drawn up in answer was unanimously approved, and
a telegram sent to Cardinal Antonelli to apprise his
Holiness of the dutiful wishes and thanks of the
assembly. An address signed by 750 pupils of the
Louvain University was also read, and the nomi,
nation of the officers of the five sections of the con-
gress took place. The secretary announced the list
of the orators who would address the meeting on
the successive days, among whom is included the
Count de Montalembert, who is expected to speak
on Thursday, on the principle of a free church
in a free state, a principle which has been so mis-
quoted against him. Cardinal 11, iseman is to
address the assembly on Friday on the state
of religious and charitable works in England. At
5 o'clock, the members of the congress met again,
dividing their numbers and attention among the
five sections into which the discussions of the
Assembly resolved themselves. I attended on this
first day the fifth section treating of the press, and
especially of the question of founding in Belgium a
great Catholic international journal. The first
three articles of the programme were approved of,
after a most animated and interesting discussion,
in which the following gentlemen took part :—The
able president of the section, M. Ad, Dechamps,
Minister of State; Mr. Charles Audley; M. Digard,
of Paris; M. Lemtnens, of Ghent; Prince Ladislaus
Czartoriski, the celebrated preacher; Abbe Mer-
milled, of Geneva; Senor D'Albeida, from Lisbon,
the superior of the Polish mission in Paris ; Herr
Meyer, from Cologne; M. Armand Neut, of Bruges;
and Count de Thou,, Minister of State in Belgium,
The discussion of that section, which lasted a little
longer than that of the others, terminated at eigh
o'clock.

In the evening thelardin Botanique of the town
was splendidly illuminated, as part of the festivals,
which are kept up.here for the whole week.

Galignani, to-day, in allusion to the Great Con-
gress, the inauguration of which has been here
described by our Special Correspondent, thus noti-
fies the loyal reception accorded by the people and
visitors at Malines to King Leopold and the Royal
Princes;—" A grand fete at Alines, in Belgium,
on the occasion of the Jubilee of Notre• Dame d'llaus-
wyck, commenced two days back in presence of a
great concourse of spectators. At 1 o'clock the King
with the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, arrived,
and were received by M. Broers, the Burgomaster,
attended by the Communal Council, and by the
Chevalier Pvcke, governor of the province. The
Royal party at once proceeded to the Archbishop's
palace, amidst loud acclamations. At two the
authorities were received by the King, when the
Burgomaster delivered a loyal Address. At the
close of the reception a grand cavalcade was to have
take❑ place, but, unfortunately, the weather was ao
unpropitious,the rain falling in torrents, that it was
postponed to the 20th. In the evening the King, and
the duke and duchess, were present at a grand ban-
quet given by the town. At the dessert M. Broers
proposed the health of the King. The toast was
drunk with the loudest acclamations, which his
Majesty briefly and appfopriately acknowledged,
amidst repeated cries of " Vive le Roi ! "

THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS.
THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH.
FRANKFORT, Aug. 18, 7 p.m.
The military part of the population of Frankfurt
was a-foot at 5 o'clock this morning, and greatly it
disturbed the slumbers of the burghers and of the
strangers now res,ding here. At the hour mentioned,
military bands paraded the streets, and at short in-
tervals guns were fired in honour of the Emperor of
Austria, who to-day celebrates, at Darmstadt, his
birthday. His Majesty wished to spare his fellow
potentates the trouble of calling on him to offer
their congratulations, but in matters of etiquette
German Sovereigns are great " sticklers," and they
therefore proceeded in corpore to a railway terminus
in this city, at which the Emperor was expected to
arrive at half-past 10 o'clock. His Majesty was
as punctual as usual, and, as a matter of course,
he was ()longed to accept the more or less long-
winded felicitations of his illustrious " brothers
and cousins." The banquet given by the Senate of
the free city of Frankfort went off with great eclat,
but the fireworks partly failed, as it rained heavily
in the afternoon. In the evening the weather
cleared up, but the air was so damp and cool that
few persons were inclined to remain long out of
doors. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary were to have seen the fireworks from a villa
on the right bank of the Maine, but it is very pos-.
sible that their intentions were not carried out.
The Duke of Cambridge is frequently here, and the
names of the Earls Granville and Clarendon appear
in the strangers' list. The Emperor of Austria gave
the following toast at the civic banquet :
" I speak in the names of the Sovereigns here present,
and thank the Senate and municipality of the free city of
Frankfurt for the hospitable reception given to us. I think
that we—the Princes of Garmany assembled in this federal
city—cannot better express our gratitude to our patriotic
hosts than by proving to them that a heart-felt love for our
common Fatherland is the bond of union between it.
" We all cherish a friendly feeling towards this honour-
able city, which is so rich in historical recollections, and
your illustrious guests will therefore readily join me in
emptying a cup to the welfare and increasing prosperity of
Frankfort."