The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-12 00:00:00

Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., on Public Affairs.

Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., addressed a meeting of his
constituents, at Elgin, on Thursday. After some
introductory remarks, the hon. gentleman said :
"I can still congratulate you, as I did two years
ago, upon the fact that the reins of power are in
the hands of a Liberal Government, but I do leo with
less satisfaction than I felt then, because the advan-
tages which we have derived from those who at
present rule us have for some time past been rather
of a negative than of a positive kind. (Hear.)
Yet allowances must be made for the feverish state
in which we have been kept by our relations with
America, for the check which Liberal aspirations
have received in some quarters from What has
occurred there, and for the peculiar character
of Lord Palmerston, to whom the nation
seems to have made up its mind that
its destinies shall be confided until the curtai❑

fails upon his eventful history. (Hear.) I wish I
could agree with those who think that the threats
from the other side of the Atlantic which reach us

by every mail are mere bluster ; but it really seems
as if the spirit of the old Mexican religion had
taken possession of the North, and that only in
human sacrifice could it see any virtue. (Hear.) I
trust we shall do everything that can be done with-
out dishonour to prevent a rupture. In the long
and difficult negotiations which have been carried on
about Poland, I see as yet nothing to find fault with.
Ministers would assuredly not have been supported
by the country in a more decidedly warlike policy.
I admit that if all that the Powers have asked
from Russia were granted by her, the Polish question
would be far from being settled; but I have yet to
learn that that question is susceptible of any really
satisfactory solution. I know not what the Emperor
Alexander can do in this Polish imbroglio, except
to allow himself to be borne along by the stream of
events, and to re-echo the words of Lord Palmerston
—the most remarkable words, by the way, which I
ever heard him utter.—" There is no such calamity
as to be born to a heritage of triumphant wrong."
(Applause.) As regards Italy, I think it is hardly
doubtful that her affairs will once again, and that
ere very long, become of European interest. lam
not alluding to the Roman question. lam allud-
ing to the question of Venetia or, more properly
speaking, the question of the Quadrilateral.
The Quadr:lateral is, as has been well re-
marked, the secret of Italy. As long as Austria
retains that strategic position, equally powerful for
attack and defence, so long will Italy be obliged to
keep up an enormous army, and to incur expenses
which must continually increase the disorder of the
fiaances. Ere long Victor Emmanuel will be forced
to go to war whether he likes it or not." (Hear.)
Referring to the resignation of Sir James Hutson,
he discredited the report that the substitution of
Mr. Elliot for Cavour's friend was a job. "I fancy,"
he said, " that the truth is something like this. Sir
James Hudson is, if I am not grossly misinformed,
a far more real out-and-out Liberal, a man much
more imbued with what one might loosely call the
modern spirit,' than most of the people with
whom, and under whom, he has been serving. As
long as Cavour lived, he felt that there was at least
one man in Europe with whom ho could act, and
with whom he agreed in his ultimate objects. But
since the death of Cavour he has felt ill at ease, and
I guess—for, remember, lam only guessing—that
if the vaults of Santon's had not closed over the
great Italian, we should not now be lamenting the
loss of Sir James Hudson ; but he, being a man
very fond of having his time to himself, and not
caring much for the routine duties of diplomacy'
when he saw that for the present he could do no-
thing for Italy, but must vegetate in dull Turin,
and meditate the old Greek saying, ' There is
no woe as to see clearly how all ought
to be done, and to be able to do nothing,
thought that his villa on the Lago Maggiore was a
great deal pleasanter, and was impatient to be away.
(Hear.) If Sir James Hudson was to go, Mr. Elliot
had undoubtedly the best claim, and will probably
do exceedingly well, as indeed he did when he was
at Naples," Speaking of the position and future of
the Liberal party, he said;—" Whatever import-
ance belongs to the past session was given to it not
by the action of the Government, but by that of pri-
vate members. A feeling has been for some time
growing and extending itself in the ranks of the
Liberal party that, although it may be well
that things should be as they are during the
lifetime of Lord Palmerston, a crisis must• arrive
soon after his death against which it is right

to be prepared. It will not be the declining
strength of Earl Russell, it will not be the still
undecided politics of Mr. Gladstone, it will not be
the worn-out reputation of two or three old politi-
cal hacks, which will form the bond of union for
the Liberal party. We must take up the questions
which are really stirring to its depths the intellect
of the country, if we are to be anything else
than a worse kind of Tories, led by men of
somew at less honesty and somewhat more ex-
perience. Now, what are the questions which
are to the best spirits in the nation all and
more than that all that the great polito-economical
questions which succeeded the passing of the
Reform Bill were to the generation which was
then beginning to influence public affairs ? They

are questions which all run up to one source, and
that is the fundamental principles of religious liberty,
The feeling that, if we are to have a political future
at all, it must be in connection with these questions,

seems to have influenced many minds during the
last year's recess, for the session saw men who had
no connection with each other, and belonged to
different sections of the party, step forward with
proposals all tending in the same direction." The
hon. gentleman then referred to some of these pro-
posals—the Act of Uniformity, the Irish Church,
and the university tests—and called attention to the
remarkable speech delivered at the Catholic Con-
gress recently held at Malines by M. de Montalem-
bert. He concluded as follows :—" The commercial
men of this country have come at length to know that
commerce has nothing to ask from Government, ex-
cept to be let alone. When will religious men
throughout the world learn that religion flourishes
best where it is least trammelled by the dangerous
protection of statesmen. (Cheers.) Who is to be
the Adam Smith of the Piety of Nations? Who are to
be the Bri4l.ts and Cobdens of unfettered Thought ?
(Applause.) We are passing, as I have said,to a period
in which questions of religious liberty will have
unusual prominence ; but as the Liberal party
triumphs on each successive question, one more
subject will be removed from the sphere of politics,
one more step will be made towards the realisation
of that state of things which would long ago have
come about if men would only have obeyed the
sublime precept, Render unto Casiar the things
that are Cmsars, and unto God the things that are
God's: _Cheers."
At the close, Mr. Allan, corn merchant, moved a
vote of thanks.—Mr. Taylor, who expressed satis-
faction with thelprevious career of the hon. member,
moved an amendment condemning his votes during
the last session in favour of the Prison Ministers
Bill and of the opening of the Edinburgh Botanic
Gardens.—On a division, the Chairman declared the
votes to be about equal.

WHO ARE THE FRIENDS OF THE BLACK MAN ?
A correspondent, signing himself "'Traveller," in a
letter to us, writes President Davis, in calling out
500,000 negroes to defend their masters and their families,
offering them their freedom and 50 acres of land, shows
that he does not look on them as President Lincoln and the
Abolitionists do—but as if each was a man and a brother.'
In the North the negro is an outcast and a Pariah—Presi-
dent Lincoln advising them to be off -,' meaning that they
should no longer annoy the Yankees, while the Southern,
on the contrary, treat them as ' coloured gentlemen.' What,
then, kill the mock emancipation societies de? Will they
still support the North and oppose the South—fighting, like
Poland, for its liberty—or will they, like men, when they
see their error, frankly avcw it, and change their conduct?
his is what honest men would do—what the Buxtons,
Wilberforces, and Shattesburys hava done by eschewing
these mock meetings, but what the pinch-beck Emancipa-
tionists are not likely to do."

M. Delane, the husband of the only daughter of
Beaumarchais, the brilliant author of "The Barber of
Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro," died recently at
the age of 95 years, The whole family of Beaumarehis are
buried at Pere la Chaise, near the nameless grave of Marsha
Ney.

IECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIG,ENCE.---This Day,

CITY BET TING. —Tins DAY.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
100 to 15 agst Dr. Syntax (taken)
Bto 1 agst The Serf (taken)
10 to 1 agst Blondin (taken)
12 to 1 agst Schoolmistress: (taken)
14 to 1 agst Drummer Boy (taken)
20 to 1 agst Change (taken)
20 to 1 agst Earl of Surrey (taken)
25 to 1 agst Dulcibella (taken)

ST. LEGER.
11 to 2 agst Avenger (taken)
11 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
11 to 2 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
6to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
15 to 1 agst Borealis (taken)
15 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken)
50 to 1 agst Donnybrook (taken)
100 to 1 agat The Serf (taken)

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LONDON GAZE T TE--Yesterday.

WAR-OFFICE, pA
SEPT. 11.
PaY-aaaster, with the honorary
6th Regiment of Dragoons_
from the 75th
exchanges.
rank of Major, David Francis
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Gosset, who
to be Cap-
16th Lancers—Lieutenant Thomas Francis
tein, by purchase, vice Frederick StoodlesvAgg
Cornet lon Turner to be Lieutenpasnotn, be:
3, purchase, vice
Agg•
Royal Artillery—Gentleman Cadet Harry Edmund Dol-
phin to be Lieutenant, vice Thom
deceased.
Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant and Captain henry
Arthur Herbert to be Instructor of Musketry, Vice Lieu-
tenant and Captain John Augustus Conolly, promoted;
the Honourable Heneage Legge to be Ensign and Lieu-,
tenant, by purchase, vice William Chaffyn Grove, who
retires.
2d Regiment of Foot—Ensign William Charles Hood to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anthony Rowland,
who retires ; Gentleman Cadet Robert Shirley, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hood. p'elwanhdo
Creatir
3d Foot—Lieutenant John Elias Durnford to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Shapland Graves, who has
resigned the appointment.
sth Foot—Lieutenant James Morris Toppin to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Frank Astley Cubitt, who retires ; En-
sign David Gregory Beamish to be Lieutenant, by Pur-
chase, vice Toppin ; Gentleman Cadet Robert Lowry
Dickson, from the Royai Military College, to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Beamish; Gentleman Cadet Charles
Herbert Broad, from the Royal Military College to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Dickson, transferred to
the 28th Foot.
10th Foot—Lieutenant George Henry Stace, from the 85th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Oldfield, who exchanges ;
Lieutenant John Rudge to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Walter Hedger, who retires ; Ensign Henry Guy Carle-
ton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rudge; Gentle-
man Cadet Hamilton WPalmer, William Palmer from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Carleton,
15th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Gerald Montgomery Porter,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice I\l-,cholas Hamond, whose appointment, as
notified in the Gazette of the Bth instant has been can-
celled.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Hennis Green to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Thomas Bruce, deceased, Ensign
John James Rutherford to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Green, Ensign Evans Mynde Allen to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Rollo M'Pherson,
who retires; Joseph Napier Tew, Gent„ to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Rutherford; Gentlemen Cadet
Charles Edward Bovill, from the Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Allen.
28th Foot—Ensign Samuel Forbes Frederick Auchmuty to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Edward Percival
Vaughan, deceased; Ensign Robert Lowry Dickson,
from the sth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Auchmuty.
32d Foot--Ensign Frank A. Horridge to be Lieutenant,
tbiyres ;
G
purchase,viceentlein an CadetJamos William
mrthiwiaeintrey Rudd, who
fromhore-
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Horridge.
45th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry John do Bernier()
Smart, from the Royal Military College,t be Ensign
by purchase, vice Ralph Richardsonlanody,whore!
tires.
64th Foot--Lieutenant William James Voules to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant David Gardiner,
who has exchanged to another corps.
75th Foot--Paymaster Henry Allen Gosset, from the 6th
Dragoons, to be Paymaster, vice Paymaster, with the
honorary rank of Major, David Francis Chamber, who
exchanges.
78th Foot—Er sign George Eardley Lecky to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice James Baron Baillie, who re-
tires ; Gentleman Cadet Charles Kennedy McCausland,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Lecky.
85th oot—Lieutenant Christopher Campbell Oldfield,
from the 10th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Stace, who
exchanges.
03d Foot—Lieutenant Edward 'Walter Trevor to be Cap-
tain, vice 'William George Mainwaring, whose appoint-
ment, as notified in the Gazette of 30th September, 1862,
has been cancelled; Ensign Charles Edward Glasse to
be Lieutenant, vice Trevor ; Lieutenant Colville Frank.
land to be Captain, vice Edward Walter Trevor, whose
promotion on the Ist February, 1863, as notified in the
Gazette of the 4th August. has been cancelled; Ensign
Henry Hutchins Richards to be Lieutenant, vice Frank-
land ; Charles Henry Stoddart, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Richards.
104th Foot—Lieutenant Sir Atwell King Lake, Bart., to
be Captain, vice Lionel James Trotter, whose appoint-
ment, as notified in the Gazette of 30th September, 1862,
has been cancelled ; Ensign Robert Campbell Richardson
to be Lieutenant, vice Sir Atwell King Lake, Bart ;
Lieutenant Archibald Logan Douglas to be Captain, vice
Sir Attwell King Lake, Bart., whose promotion, on the
30th June, 1863, has been cancelled; Ensign Maurice
Fitzinaurice Stokes to be Lieutenant, vice Rbt. Richard-
lion, whose promotion, on the 30th June, 1863, has been
cancelled; Henry Vere Hunt, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Stokes.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. James Bower Jackson to
be Captain, without purchase, vice William Rice Mulli-
ner, deceased - Ensign St. John Clerke to be Lieutenant
without purchase, vice Jackson; James Graves Kelly,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Clerke.
BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial inv•
portance in the Gazette :
Alfred Murton, baker, Sheerness
Thomas Sanders, confectioner, Shorcditch
Charles King, grocer, Stratford
Robert Russell, builder, Notting-hill
Joseph Siddens, hatter, Tipton, Staffordshire
Mark T. Cooke, jeweller, Hatton •garden
Henry Mattey, painter, Leominster
Henry Hall, grocer, Walsall
Guiseppe Cortesi, confectioner, lVhitechapel
James Mash, licensed victualler, Oxford
Alfred Gorton, butcher, Great Windmill-sr, Haymarket
Isaac Lakeman, printer, Brunswick-square, Bloomsbury
John Turton, moulder, Sheffield
John Farrand, dyer, Huddersfield
elm
JohnJo it
Schofield,Geav s,
manufacturer, Sheffield
William Corral!, baker, Leicestershire
Wm. S. Sharp, clerk, Freemantle, Southamptonshiro
Henry Fildew, greengrocer, East Stonehouse, Devon,
shire
John Coleburn, butcher, Shirland
henry Goddard, grocer, Stoney Middleton
Joseph Mee, gardener, Sheepsherd
John Hyde, milk dealer, Gloesop
George Alfred Oyler, publican, Brighton
Amelia Coombs, widow, Bristol
Peter Dickinson, cab pr,,prietor, Kingston-upon-Hull.
John Gaskell, hair dresser, Broughton, Lancashito
Richard Colton, grocer, Caistr aor, Lincolns tr
Thomas Melladew E
and dwd Melladew,e merchams,
Mark-lane
Edward Baker. smith, Islington
a
Charles Theedaxa, frmer, Stow Maries, Essex
gkennd
Jane Baxter, jape nmuoc rn
worker,
,d
,Cslet rk
ieo s•nn:rea,lilßn-
it ee
Albans
tin
plate
ve
CharlesHT he
fir
aSC.II;sP ti
6 nsell, clothier, Contifyrrhea
Charles Taterington, wheelwright, Great Marton

GALLANT RESCUE OF TWO YOUNG LADIES.--•
DEKIII FROM FRIGIUT.—An incident well worth recording
occurred at Penzance on Tuesday. Miss Quick and Alias
Cock, two young ladies, were bathing opposite the Western
Esplanade about half-past 10 o'clock, when persons walking
near were alarmed by screams for help proceeding from the
hapless bathers, who, it was seen were being rapidly car-
ried out to sea by the tidal current. Moments were p re-
cious, but no one seemed ready to give the needed assist-
ance. Mr. Drew, a tradesman living near, seeing people
running towards the beach, left his shop, and on arri vat
at the water's edge saw that the young ladies were in the
utmost danger, being already 40 feet away from the shore.
Instantly, without removing any part of his dressy he
plunged into the water, and struck out for the now sinking
bathers. Robert Stevens, a keeper of the bathing machines
for the bath proprietor, Mr. Norton, followed Mr. Drew's
example, he also having his clothes on, and an exciting
scene occurred. Stevens reached one of the young ladies,
and stretched out his hand to grasp her, but missing his
aim, became frightened, and returned on shore. Drew
meanwhile had reached the youngest lady furthest out, Miss
Cock, and was bringing her in, when he saw that Stevens
had gone ashore, and that Miss Quick had sunk several
times, and would almost immediately be drowned. Leaving
his first charge for a time, Drew reached Miss Quick, and
swam a-horn with her, when she was received by those on
the beach, and carried off to the baths. Without an in-
instant's delay, Drow, exhausted as he was with previous
exertion, pushed out again and caught Miss Cock,who with
a death grip clasped him round the neck, and they both dis-
appeared. A shudder ran through the spectators, who whis-
pered one to the other, " Poor things, they are both gone."
Soon, however, they rose again, and with a final effort Drew
towed his charge to the beach. The young ladies, the first
rescued of whom was quite insensible,were at once carefully
tended, and a warm bath, brandy, and tea being adminis-
tered, they reviv ed, and they are now nearly recovered. The
gallant fellow who had thus saved two lives refused the
warm bath that was proffered to him ; but one of his
hands was quite dead for two hours afterwards, an d be
did not wholly get over the effects of his exertions that
day. Connected with this exciting incident was anotherrll.
in which, unhappily, death was occasioned. Maria 11
Hams, a healthy, middle-aged woman, who kept house for
her brother-in.law, Mr. Houlson, of the Bath i
Inn, was
passing while the young ladies were being carried, nsen.-
Bible, into Mr. Norton's, and was immediately seized with
illness, and died within an hour, although attended by Mr,
Quick, surgeon, before death. It is supposed
.that the
fright produced a fit of apoplexy.— Western lifornii;gNew s