The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-09 00:00:00

LiTerpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens stead,. Sales, probably 15,000
bales.

Last night, Mr. Mason Jones delivered, at the
Hanover-square Rooms, the first of his two an-
nounced orations on the American War. The reserved
seats wore not half-occupied, but the body of the room was
filled with a sympathetic audience, who warmly cheered
the speaker when he alluded to the virtues of the Federals,
denounced the vices of the Secessionists, made a sly hit at
our aristocracy as egotist and arbitrary, or lamented the with-
holding of their constitutional rights from the masses of our
people. As might be anticipated, Mr. Jones's " Oration'
consisted of the most virulent abuse of the Southern
people and Southern leaders—to neither of whom did he
concede the possession of one good quality or generous
feeling—while the Northerns were the -champions of
liberty, who had sprung to arms, not to maintain dominion
but to achieve the liberty of the slave. He described with
all the pathos he could command, the brutality of the
Southerns towards their slaves, how they branded
and flogged them—but he completely ignored the
corporal punishment inflicted on respectable women by the
command of Butler, or the outrages perpetrated on young
and innocent girls belonging to the first Southern families,
by the soldiers of Seigel ; the acts of both being sanctioned
by the Government which the orator would hold up for
our admiration. Mr. Jones is an Irishman, and we do not
consider that he merits his acquired reputation as a public
speaker. He has the fluency which constant practice
usually gives, and his last night's speech was doubtless but
the repetition of an often practised lesson, for he is a
lecturer by profession ; but his voice, though powerful, is
not pleasing or sympathetic—its tone is a cross between a
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gAmerican twang—and
although he roundly denounced the Southern sympathisers
press, we do not think that thwisriteeurlso' in our public
press, um on hislic
patrons the Yankees will have much effect in enlisting
the sympathies of Englishmen in their favour.
DEATH OF A GRAND RABBI IN PARIS.—Tho
spiritual head of the Jews in France, M. Ulmann,
Grand Rabbi of the Central Consistory, died in Paris at two
o'clock on Saturday morning, after long suffering from
disease of the chest, which left no hope of recovery. The
rabbinical functions being elective, the different consisto-
ries of Franco will soon be convoked to choose a successor
to M. Ulmann.

WEDGWOOD THE FIRST ARTISTIC POTTER.—With
Wedgwood the era of true improvement began.
Up to this period there had been nothing worthy of the
nature of decorative art ; of colour, proportion, or form.
A mixture of different coloured clays, or rude outlines
scratched in by a nail, a blue or brown edge line, or a•
paste-like medallion luted to the surfaces, were the highest
efforts of ornamental art. After all that had been done
for the improvement of the different bodies, they were at
best flimsy and indifferently glazed—the hue of the white
ware was bad, and the forms of their adjuncts were ill-
proportioned, often angular, and almost always without
those flowing outlines that, whilst severely true to geo-
metrical principles, show the utmost grace, delicacy, and
beauty. Wedgwood, true to the inductive spirit of an
age then opening to his generation and those which would
follow, took up his art as a science, and based its improve-
ment upon principles. Wasting his time in no impossible
tracks of experiment, he pursued only those which rigidly
belonged both geologically and chemically to the art of
the potter. He thus produced various bodies of great ex-
cellence, by new combinations of materials in common use,
or by an analysis and trial of those hitherto untested.—
Meteyard's Life of Wellgwood.

EXPENSES Or FORTIFICATIONS. Yesterday a
return was published, showing that the amount actually
expended up to March 31st of the present year, out of the
moneys issued from the Consolidated Fund for the ex-
penses of fortifications was £3,574,892 16s. The total
amount raised is £3,600,000, and there remains to be issued
£1,010,000. The total annuities created to meet this ex-
penditure was £239,341, calculated at the rate of 3f per
cent.

The Alliance Bank have made a call of £5 per
share on the new shares of 1864, numbered 30,001
and upwards, payable on the Bth of June at the
Bank, 5, Lothbury, and its branches at Liverpool
and Manchester.

Notice has been given by the National Bank of
India that the unissued 10,000 shares of £5O each
will be allotted. Of this number 5,000 have been
subscribed for in Bombay at £2 prem., and the re-
maining 5,000 are to be offered to shareholders in
England at the same premium, at the rate .of new
for every two old shares.

During the last few days there has not been much
animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. The operations in tea have been on the
most restricted scale, while only moderate transac-
tions have been reported in sugar, coffee, and rice,
without any material change in values.