The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOMIXYN, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER -47, 1862.

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Suffrage. TheDemcs
once. They could, under it, remain slave states as the new Sovereignby Universal . .
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long as they pleased ; or could take, if it should had with one accordant voice to name the Bastlens !
seem good to them to do so, a splendid sum as COM- And the Greek Peoplo
..affrage—and
have named him—the ple-
ultitude have freely
sensation any time within thirty-seven years. bin/Y. is completed—the ::"
Mr. LINCOLN presses his plan on the considerate asserted their choice by Universal
-le that has come forth from the eil,:.ti"
lion of the country with the earnestness of a man the one nat
other names I) is the name .of—
sincerely desirous to heal its bloody quarrels, and (topping all
ALFRED !
to restore peace on a sound and lasting basis. He
argues, in which we agree with him, that compen- In the capital aloe, out of 10,000 votes, 9,800 have
'to, Hi hness. The decision
sation would be cheaper than war, setting aside its been in fat
is all but unanimoguvour of his
s. It would hardly
more humane character. That every other plan arrived a
which can be proposed is beset with ;greater difti- be an exaggeration to assert That it is unanimous.
culties than his, that the grand question all the- Were we Greeks we would say the same. The very
do bet- opposition of the Foreign Powers to the candidature
States have to ask themselves is—" Can w©
ter ?" He thinks it needful, however, to threaten of the English Prince is nothing less than an out-
os well as to expostulate. He foregoes neither the rage to Greek independence. ALFRED, and none
war nor his proclamation. The adoption of his but ALFRED, should be our Sovereign- It has
plan would stay both ; but if the rebels will have risen into a point of honour, and with resolution the
emancipation, they must take the Greeks we may be certain can yet, if they will,
war and military
responsibility of their choice. He offers them re- carry their point.—
union, peaces
equal position, voluntary emancipa-
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1 tion, with a splendid and profitable reward, or
retention of slavery as long as they like. What
could they have more in separation and rebellion ?
We fear their answer will be—first, we will admit
no such dealing with the "Divine institu-
tion" of slavery, by compensation or other-
wise, as shall imply that this gift of
Heaven is a social or political evil. And
secondly, we, the politicians of the South, do not
mean to humble ourselves to form again part of
a Congress, in which Yankee shopkeepers are all
powerful. "Better to reign in Hell than serve
in Heaven." 'We mean to be the leaders of a new
nation, not the minority partners in an old
one. The pride of power, fanatical devo-
tion to slavery, determination to retain absolute
and irresponsible power over the bodies and souls
of an " inferior race," and bitter hatred and con-
tempt for the North, will lead JEFFERSON DAVIS
and his fellow men-dealers, to spurn to the last the
most conciliatory offers. Surely, however, their
doing so will reveal to all the world the vileness of
the cause for which they persist in bloodshed—
le cause of independence for irresponsible tyranny

VARIETIES.

(From Fun.)
STRANGE I—We have been told, and have every reason
to believe, that the Mansion House, although situated, as
it is, in the very heart of the City, and despite the time of
year, contains, at the present moment, within its walls, an
extremely fine bed of rose's I
MvslcAL.—lf the pianofortes be introduced into the
police bands, the instruments will be, of course, of the
manufacture of Collard and Collard.
THE BEST " CARTES DE VISITE" FOR LANCASHIRE.—
Bakers' and butchers' carts.
THE DARE AGES.—The ages of ladies between sixteen
and sixty.
CON. BY A COPYST.—Why is it awkward to have your
ink handy ?—Because it's ink-convenient.
GREEK GRAMMAR.—The first letter in the Greek lan-
guage is now Alpha-red.
May the Cattle Show be called a Joint Stock Company?
" MOTTER FOR A GAROTTER."—BrabraCe every oppor-
tunity.
A correspondent wants to know if he were to show his
carte de visite to a person with a bad cold in his throat,
whether it would be putting the cart before the horse ?-1-lo
must give us time to consider.

THE REMAINS OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.
—The new Royal mausoleum in Frogmore Gardens will be
consecrated about 2 o'clock to-day (Wednesday). The
members of the Royal Household will attend, and the choir
of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will assist at the cere-
mony. The final removal of the remains of his late Royal
Highness to the mausoleum will take place at an early hour
to-morrow (Thursday) morning. The arrangements for
the re-interment (which will be conducted with the greatest
privacy) will be carried out by Mr. Banting and his assist-
ant, who will undertake the removal. The services in St.
George's Chapel are consequently suspended till the coffin
containing the earthly remains of the illustrious deceased
has been removed from the Royal vault beneath the chapel
to the mausoleum erected for its reception at Frogmore. On
Sunday, the anniversary of the death of the Prince, the
service in St. George's Chapel was conducted by the Hon.
and Rev. Lord W. Russell, The anthem "I am the Re-
surrection and the Life" &c., was sung by the choir with
marked effect. Lord Russell preached from Lamentations,
chap. iii. v. 20, " My soul hath them still in remembrance,
and is humbled in me." In the afternoon Luther's hymn,
" Great God, what do I see and hear ?" was performed
with great solemnity, and the chapel was crowded to excess,
vast numbers being obliged to stand during the whole of

As to the unanimity of the Greeks in their de-
mand of Prince ALYRED as their new Sovereign,
thus writes, but a few days since, at Athens, an

eyewitness as dispassionate as the special correspon-
dent of our chief morning contemporary :—" The
whole country, almost without the exception of a
single town or province, had raised his voice in
favour of Prince ALFRED. High and low, town and
country, civilians and military, the clergy and the
municipalities, had all joined. Such was, indeed,
the unanimity that it was likely to deaden all sti-
mulus for further exertions. Every one seemed

content to wait for the meeting of the National
Assembly, sure as every one felt that no Assembly,

however composed, could disregard or oppose a

Divine Service.
It is stated that M. de Lamartine has just sold his
" Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" for about £B,OOO.
It is stated that the practice of charging unpaid
' book packets with letter postage, as a penalty, is likely
soon to bo discontinued. _ _

popular wish so loudly expressed. 'When, there-
fore, the idea was put forward to open lists all over
the country, and collect signatures in favour of
Prince ALFRED'S candidature, it was approved;
but not much passed, for it was looked upon as a
superfluous exertion. No dissentient voice had
been heard; so what more proof was there required

Vv
A LANCASHIRE CELLAR.—It was tenanted by two
women. It was as ill off for furniture as it well could be.

to show the feeling of the country ?" One only
anxiety remained : it was seen upon the instant—
namely, a profound solicitude on the part of
the Greeks to hear what view England would

,ake of this Greek view of Prince ALFRED'S

candidature ? Buoyed up with high hopes at first,
the people of Greeco found those hopes speedily
enough dashed to the very dust by the intimation
simultaneously coming to them that the election of
an English Prince to the throne would never be
recognised by the French or the Russian Govern-
ment. As might have been expected, however, the
more the conviction grew that the choice of the
Greeks themselves would be opposed by the
chief Powers of Europe, the more firmly
resolved are the Greeks themselves to avow
their determination to have his Royal Highness,
and no other than his Royal Highness.

Bewildered by the perplexity of his position
between the enthusiasm of the Greeks on
the one hand, and the enigmatical re-
ticence of his own Government on the
other—Mr. SCABLETT, the British Ambassador to
the Court of Athens, or rather to the Revolutionary
Provisional Government of that Metropolis, could
only extricate himself from his dilemma
by answering the deputations that waited
upon him from time to time at the
British Legation, most oracularly ! Oracular in its
ambiguity had been the telegram received by him on
the 16th of Nov. Oracular, too, had been the in-
structions, dated on the following 20th, from Down-
ing-street. Consequently, his Excellency had
nothing else to do in his turn but to speak oracu-
larly. His instructions were, nevertheless, signifi-
cant in their very ambiguity. They amounted to
this—the respecting of the freedom of the Greeks in
electing, and the non-interference with them in any
way whatever. Knowing this, listening to Mr.
SCARLETT, learning how it was the English Go-
vernment still held themselves aloof from the ex-
citement, the Greek blood was up. " Greek met
Greek"—in amity ! And " then came the tug of
war"—against all their foreign opponents ! In a
single night, as the Times' correspondent remarks,
the whole people seemed to have undergone a sud-
den and complete metamorphosis. All hesitations
and doubts as to their choice of a King appeared
to have vanished :—" What had been yesterday a
question of policy, of interests, of expediency, had
changed to-day into a question of principle and of
national honour. They had asserted their claim as
an independent people, and how could they expect
this claim to be recognised if at the very beginning
they showed that they either did not know their
own minds or that they shrunk back at the very
first appearance of a difficulty ? It was sufficient
to seal their fate for ever after, and re-
duce them to the same system of tutelage from
which they had only just emancipated themselves.
They understood that it was unworthy of a people
which claimed to be independent to be swayed, as
they had been hitherto, by the good pleasure or
displeasure of patrons, and that their first consi-
sideration ought always to be their own well under-
etood interest. This once brought home to them,
all hesitation ceased. The unanimous conviction
of Greece was that Y.er interests will be best secured
under an English Prince; consequently the duty
of every Greek was to bring about this solution,
without allowing himself to bo deterred or swayed
by any other consideration. Once the election
over it will be for England to decide whether
1 she thinks fit to accept the offer or not. This
resolution m
e Prevent
tatatlel the once taken every one was anxious to
press matters
intrigues."
them to an issue, so as to
tio
then latter to the A final depute-
c
theP oiniterovisional Government indicated to
only course
eesreally left open to
them under the
A decree in the the name of the Provisional
Government was drawn up and published,
calling theuoblished,
Hellenic nce uponto
the whole Manhood
orise and make their choice in
the light of day, and in the sight of the entire
world—to make their own free choice of a new
sovereign. It was an ordering in other words—
this_notable Decree—of a plebiscite for the election of

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, DEC. 17.
The Molziteur of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing latest intelligence from Mexico
" Tho state of health of the troops is generally
good. The only sickness prevailing arises from
fevers, the gravity of which diminishes every day.

" Communication between Vera Cruz and Orizaba 1
is becoming more easy. Twelve days, however, are
still necessary to perform the journey. The want
of means of transport has prevented the commence-
ment of operations. This state of things has been
modified by the despatch of 1,200 mules and 280
carts frcm New York to Vera Cruz on the 14th of
INovember last.

" Before entering Jalapa General Berthier's van-
guard defeated a corps of Mexican lancers; 4,000
national guards immediately dispersed. The enemy
lost 15 killed, 35 wounded, 50 saddle horses taken,
and 10 killed. The road was strewed with arms
thrown away by the fugitives.
" The French troops lost two killed and five
wounded."

The floor was of stone, but very clean. Here, too, was ono
of those frigid wooden bare bedsteads, but it looked clean
and the straw or shavings which stood in place of the
mattress were decently covered up. What there was
in the room was placed in an orderly and symmetri-
cal fashion; and an old chest, and an object which
stands out in my memory as a bandbox, were both covered
neatly at the top with handkerchiefs, or some other
kind of clean cloths, so as to give them a sort of extra-
vagant air of ottomans. Whether this was the work of
the woman I saw in the room, or of her fellow-tenant, I
know not ; but the appearance and behaviour of the woman
whom I found here was quite consistent with such modest
heroism. She had a son, poor creature, who had worked
for her, but now they had been obliged to break up their
little establishment and separate. As the poor woman
spoke of her boy, her strength gave way, and:the tears came
up into her eyes : standing there, as some very bitter
tears will do, without overflowing. Little things these,
no doubt. An old bandbox set against a wall, with a
clean handkerchief, or duster, mayhap, stretched neatly
ever it, is not much to some people. But, indeed, such
little things make all the difference; and by them, one
may tell to which of two great classes people belong, and
whether they are to be ranked among those who do all
they can under all circumstances, and to try to make the
best_of everything, or sink prostrate under the first stroke
of misfortune without making a single effort, worthy of
the name, to save themselves.—All the Year Round.
THE ATTORNEY'S CERTIFICATE DUTY.—Yester-
day was the last day for taking out attorneys' certificates
for the ensuing year, to bear date from the 15th November.
The certificates taken out until the Ist January will bear
the date of the day on which they are issued. The present
duty is £9 to practise in London, and £0 in the country,
and that amount has been imposed since 1853, before which
time the respective amounts were £l2 and £B. There are
upwards of £lO,OOO attorneys on the roll, and something
like £70,000 is paid by the profession to the revenue.
PROPOSED DINNER TO LORD PALMERSTON.—
A meeting of the Conveners of the Liberal Committee was
held on Monday in Edinburgh, to consider as to in-
viting Lord Palmerston to a public dinner during his ap-
proaching visit to Scotland. Sir William Gibson-Graig
was called to the chair, and the following resolutions
were unanimously and cordially agreed to :—" That, in
the prospect of Lord Palmerston paying an early visit
to Sc tlatd in connection with his office of Lord
Rector of the University of Glasgow, it is de-
sirable that public expression should be given to the
admiration so generally entertained of his lordship's
Liberal policy and valuable services as a statesman, and of
the vigilance and success with which, in the true interests
of peace, he has promoted the safety and maintained the
honour of the country. That Lord Palmerston be respect-
fully solicited to accept a public entertainment in the City
of Edinburgh, on as early a day as may be consistent with
his lordship's convenience." A third resolution appointed
a committee to make the necessary arrangements in the
event of Lord Palmerston's acceptance. The movers and
seconders were Mr. Black, M.P.; Sir W. Johnston; Bailie
Russell, Bailie Mossman ; Mr. Richardson, Chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. A. R. Clark, advocate ;
Mr. W. Chambers of Glenormiston; Mr. Jas. Cowan, &c.
—Scotsman.
BRUTAL OUTRAGE BY POLICE OFFICERS.—The
Newcastle Chronicle describes a brutal assault made a few
days ago by some policemen of the Durham county force,
on a young man named Greener, at Stella. It appears
that Greens,- and some others had gone to the rescue of a
keelman called Forester, who had been called on to defend
himself against fearful odds, and a body of policemen
entered a publichouso at Stella, with the view of appre-
hending him for the part he had taken in the affray. " A
number of persons were in the house at the time, amongst
the rest were Greenor's father and brother. Immediately
the father knew the errand of the policemen he wont up
to his son, and urged him to surrender himself quietly.
Without any warning a policeman knocked the father to
the floor with his staff. The brother, seeing the unpro-
voked attack on his father, rushed at the policeman and
knocked him down. No sooner was this done than three
or four policemen entered the room with drawn staves,
and laid about them right and left. One of the Greenors
they beat most unmercifully on the head and arms; the
other brother they apprehended and took away. This
occurred on Sunday week, since which time Greener has
never spoken. On Saturday, he was delirious, and great
fears are still entertained of his recovery. There has been
a severe internal bleeding in his head, and one of his arms
is paralysed. A memorial is being prepared to present to
the Home Secretary detailing the conduct cf the policemen,
and a subscription has been entered into to defend Greener
and prosecute the policemen."
HUNGER AND SELF RESPECT IN LANCASHIRE.
—They are wonderful, the e Lancashire people. They
are no beggars. I almost think that if we were so wicked
as to leave them to starve, they would just do so, without
a word. There is no trickling and cringing ore the one
hand, there is no insolence or coldness on the other. They
are independent. Their self-respect is not injured by the
relief they receive ; yet for that relief they are most ob
viously and undisguisedly grateful, If a college of wise
mon, wise in manners, arbitrators in matters of taste, had
assembled in committee to decide how a community should
bear itself under such circumstances as these which now
affect this cotton community, they could never have hit
out anything half so complete, and so delicately fine, as
these people have hit out unconsciously with their own
unaided but unerring instinct. As long as hope and
energy are left to these suffering people the case is not at
its worst, and these seem rarely or never to have deserted
the workmen whoa trouble has thus overtaken for the
first time. It is widely different with the habitual pauper ;
the man long accustomed to penury and dependence. This
last makes no attempt to face his antagonist,Want. lie has
ceased to strive against misfortune. Ho has lost pride,
self-respect, every sustaining quality,—AU the Year
.Uounce.

MR. COBDEN A 7 MIDHURS7.

MIDHURST, TUESDAY.
A meeting was hold at Midhurst, this afternoon,
for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr.
Cobden, M.P., on the distress in Lancashire. There

WAS a very numerous attendance. Mr. T. A. Davis

occupied the chair, and, having briefly explained
the object of the meeting, introduced
Mr. COBDEN, who characterised the distress in the
manufacturing districts as a national calamity. He
had very recently visited Lancashire, and was,there-
fore, able to speak from experience of the extent
and nature of that calamity. He was strongly
of opinion that the people of the north and south
did not properly understand each other, and s here
there was ignorance there always existed unfounded

prejudice. The importance of our cotton manufac-
tures, amounting as they did to one-third of the en-
tire exports of the country, could not be overrated.

Daring the last 60 years, owing to those manufac-
tures being principally carried on in the county of
Lancaster, the population of that county had
increased from 673,000 to 2,428,000 in 1861, the
increase having been about 20 per cent. in each
decennial period, though it had been rather smaller
during the last 20 years than in the 20 years
immediately preceding. He thought that that
fact in some measure accounted for the low rate of
th

e poor rates which existed in the county, and
which seemed to be a subject that had somewhat

puzzled the Rev. Mr. Kingsley, who, in his letter
to the Times, had shown an amount of ignorance
with regard to the condition of the county of Lan-
caster which was really surprising. He thought,
however, that Mr. Kingsley had dated his letter
from a very appropriate place when he dated it
from one of the provinces of the Heptfachy. With
regard to the manufacturers-themselves, es a elass.
he thought they were undeserving of the censure
which had been bestowed upon them in some quar-
ters. He was acquainted with no part of the world
(and he had travelled much in civilised countries)
in which men possessing the vast capital
and wealth of the cotton spinners lived
with the same simplicity and frugality,
and spent so little of their earnings in
their own personal expenses. The hon. gentle-
man highly eulogised the character of the mill-
owners, most of whom, he stated, had risen from the
lower ranks of life, and he contended that it was to
their diligence, frugality, and ingenuity that this
country was indebted for the growth of that vast in-
dustry. We had passed beyond comparison any-
thing that ever existed in the history of the world,
and the industry of which the whole country ought
to be proud, owed nothing to monopoly of any kind,
but had always taken its stand upon the principle
of fair and open competition. When he was in
Paris arranging the details of the Treaty of Com-
merce, he had necessarily to make himself ac-
quainted with all the processes of all the manufac-
tures in the world, and the cost of production
and profit which prevailed in the different branches
of industry. Some of the most experienced men
connected with the cotton trade went over to Paris
to assist him. They made their calculations as to the
rate of profit in the cotton trade during the last 15
years, and the result was that they found the average
rate for the whole period had not amounted to so
much as was generally considered to be the fair and
natural profit attached to different kinds of busi-
nesses. But there was this peculiarity connected
with the cotton trade, that it had its constant
vicissitudes. A manafecturer would probably
have his three years of prosperous business,
and then probably he would have a year
of most unprofitable business. He had fre-
quently been asked whether if there had been
no cotton panic this convulsion would not have hap-
pened. He believed that there had been extensive
speculation on the part of the merchants trading in
India and China. There would, no doubt have been
a revolution in prices consequent on the glut of goods
which would have led to severe losses, and perhaps
have been attended in some cases with ruin. But
he did not believe that it would have had the effect
of throwing the working classes of Lancashire out
of employment. The present distress came from
the sudden stoppage of the supply of tlust which
alone made all the fixed capital of Lancashire of
any value. It had arisen in consequence of the
civil war in America. He was not going
to enter on that question as a politician ;
but with respect to intervention he himself
did not believe that any good whatever would arise
from our intervention even by advice and remon-
strance. There was an old Spanish proverb that
a fool knew more about his own house than a wise
man did about the house of his neighbour, and if
people refrained from interfering with the affairs of
their neighbours, they would have very much more
time to attend to their own. This alone would he say,
that having travelled twice through America at an
interval of 24 years, he was thoroughly convinced
that slavery was at the bottom of the present war,
and that was the opinion of every one through North
and South, Republican or Democi ago. Every one of
them admitted that slavery and slavery alone was
at the bottom of the whole question. It was fre-
quently asked why did England draw so great a
portion of its supply of cotton from a country where
that cotton was grown by slaves ? If he were asked
whether that could be avoided, he would say that
he thought it could not. Many people asked why
we don't put a prohibitory duty on American cot-
ton ? In such a case they would have ruined their
own manufacturers; for, unless they could have got
all the world to have agreed with them that no slave
produce should be bought, they would have offered
a premium to other people to set up as rival manu-
facturers.