The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1862.

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of Reform and Liberalism in that con- they might be easily induced,
on Mr. SPENCE's
stituency at least, has succumbed or been general principles, to distress them to the uttermost,
subordinated to the cause of the Peninsular that their cry might ring in the ears of their Go-
and 01 ienta.l Compans--as opposed in the splendour vernment, and dispose it to peace. This is precisely
of its enterprise to the other great local Company, the effect he aims at through pillaged merchants
of which Capt. MANGLES (the defeated Liberal can- why not aim at the same result through pillaged
didate) is Chairman of the Board of Directors, viz., traders and farmers ?
the West India Mail Packet Company ! Hence the M
ear. SrENcE prefers
ascertaindrving an enemy, he says,
but by making them wish for peace ; and the wish is
ce, not by slaying
triumph won by the supporters of the Conservative to p
candidate, the new Lord Mayor ROSE, now m.p.
for Southampton ! The upshot of the electioneering to be created by the sufferings caused by blockades
strife lately raging in the streets of Southampton and seizure of property at sea. It is difficult to see
is, in its way, however, we cannot but think—so why, if this be humane and manly war, it should
much of, and so flagrantly, an anti-climax that it not be humane and manly to say to private citizens
now you must ail quit your homes—march off
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to some other place, where your Government must
the borough into a somewhat sobering recognition maintain you, till you persuade it to make peace,
of the egregious folly of their late proceedings. and to make you more urgent petitioners for that
From this result, now visibly before us— object, we shall take possession of all you leave be-
the return, that is to say, of the Lord Mayor ROSE, hind worth our using, and destroy the rest. Very
the Conservative candidate the constituency hard on you unarmed innocent people, we know,
ought, beyond a doubt, to learn a lesson that, if only but you are the storks got amongst the cranes, and
taken wisely to heart before the next election, may there is no help for it—you must stiffer till you ob-
then stand them in good stead, and preclude them, thin peace." Wo are wholly at a loss to see how,
at any rate, from the otherwise exceeding risk of on the principles of Mr. SPENCE and his friends,
again being thus irritatingly "sold," and—what is such language could be regarded as inhumane.
worst of all—" sold," too, by themselves ! From Would it not be humanity to obtain peace by these
the Nettle of this recent Danger into which they have military distress warrants, rather than by " slay-
fallen with their eyes wide open, and with so very ing a certain number of the enemy."
indict:o7a an aplomb, let them at least plhck that We do not mean, yet, to deny that there may be
flow4Safety fOrile future. good arguments found to justify what we agree
with Mr. SPENCE in thinking cannot well be sepa-
rated, commercial blockades and seizing the enemy's
property Lt sea. We do not think, however, that
Mr. SPENCE'S arguments will be sufficient. They
appear to us to be almost self-refuting. The ques-
tion will ever run up mainly to this—in order, not
to defend ourselves, nor to increase our means for
blockading dockyards and arsenals, but, to facilitate
attack on an enemy, is it worth while to support a
system which inflicts on British trade such calami
,ies as we now endure P

The Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool has re-
belled against its representatives. It has rebelled
by repontance. At the previous meeting it re-
solved to uphold the blockade of commercial ports,
as distinguished from naval and military ports and
arsenals; at its last meeting, on Wednesday, it
went a step further, and proposes, though the dis-
cussion is adjourned, to support also the right to
capture private property at sea. Both these steps
are in reversal of its former decisions and memo-
rials to Government, and the leading gentleman in
support of the penitential resolutions is Mr. SPENCE,
known to us only by his plausible advocacy of the
South and its institutions, and his depreciation of
everything Northern. The present blockade is one
which of course cannot be broken by us, and Mr.
SPENCE incurs therefore no risk for his Southern
friends by now upholding commercial blockades ;
perhaps also, so far as expression of opinion goes,
he does them service by maintaining the desirable-
ness of such destruction of property as that prac-
tised by the Alabama, and by the Sumpter before
her. That it is perfectly fair while the Federals seize
every vessel with Southern property on board,
cannot be denied ; but Mr. SPENCE and his brother
merchants maintain, in addition, that such captures
are also expedient.
It is to be remembered that though America
retains the right of privateering, the nations of
Europe, being more civilised, have, by the Treaty
of Paris, abandoned the practice. Except, there-
fore, in a war with America, this mode of maritime
depredation must be abandoned. The question,
therefore, now is, shall we abandon also the right
to seize the property of the enemy at sea by means
of our QUEEN'S ships, and induce, which of course
we could easily do, other nations to adopt the same
policy. As every navy is smaller than ours, other
Powers would obviously be but too glad to agree
that all purely trading vessels should enjoy the
same immunity from capture as is enjoyed by a
farm house or a shop, on land. Mr. SPENCE de-
nies the very parellelism itself of the cases. To
most persons, at first sight, they seem to be iden-
tical, with only the difference of the private property
being in one case on the common highroad of all

Dressed in white silk, and adorned with a diadem
and necklace, composed of brilliants and emeralds,
valued at more than three million reals—the QUEEN
ISABELLA 11. of Spain is described to have recently
delivered her Speech from the Throne to her Royal
Cortes with much solemnity of manner, and in a
voice at once firm and sonorous. Reading her
Catholic MAJESTY'S Speech, one might really be led
to imagine, from the mere tone of it, that
Spain is at the very summit of modern civili-
sation, and the present reign there the
most glorious in her national history. The attitude
assumed by the SOVEREIGN throughout is, if one
might venture to speak thus of a female Sovereign ,one
slightly hesitating between a strut and a swagger.
The language employed is distinctly the grandiose
verbiage of a true Hidalgo. Scanning the long and
carefully elaborated sentences one needs hardly
to have been told that in delivering them her
MAJESTY spoke with that firm and sonorous
voice or with that excessive solemnity of
manner. Hero is a flavour of it. " The
policy," says the QUEEN, " of my Govern-
ment, in concert with the Cortes, for the last four
years has procured for the nation much increase
of wealth, and led to internal reform, besides
gaining for the country the respect and conside-
ration of foreign nations." And further, " In con-
tinuing the system already commenced of liberty,
of tolerance, and of constitutional administration ;
in accustoming various classes of society to the exer-
cise of rights which elevate their dignity, and to
labour, which is the stimulus to and which increases
wealth ; in inculcating upon all the principles of
morality and Christianity—we trust that we shall
receive the blessing of Heaven in support of our
efforts. Public tranquillity, that accompaul....l.
of free and laborious nations, will be consolidated.
History will point to the present period as one

nations, and in the other on the soil of the belli-
gerent himself. This last would, indeed, seem
rather to be a reason why it should be more open
to appropriation by an enemy, but Mr. SPENCE
rules otherwise; we much suspect, because he had

found himself constrained to confess, that to retain

fnitful in prosperity, and the reforms which may
be necessary in the legislation of the State will
be accomplished by the effort of public opinion
alone, without the suddenness and the violeag
which ordinarily accompany revolutionary re-
actions." Than all which, surely, nothing could
by possibility be more delightful or more auspi-
cious. Only when the sonorous voice has ceased,
and the brilliants and emeralds of the necklace are
no longer glittering to the rise and fall of
the breath heaving the bosom of the royal
speaker, when the silk . has rustled away,
train and all, out of the sight of the
admiring Cortes—it does recur to mind somehow
that all this vaunt about liberty, tolerance, and
Constitutional Administration in Spain is about as
valuable in its way as the famous babble of Miss

commercial blockades, which he and his friends
had agreed to do, and to forbid capture at sea, of
the property they sought to shut up in port, was a
manifest absurdity.
Let us, however, hear his arguments. He says,
first, that it would be "inhuman" to destroy pro-
perty on land; the suffering caused to the unarmed
" innocent" population would be great, and have no
tendency to move the Government of the country
to come to terms. This is as fallacious as it is plau-
sible. Our own statesmen have told us in the re-
cent debates that the fundamental reason why pri-
vate property may be seized at sea is, that every
individual in a nation, its suffering merchants in-
eluded, must be considered as represented by his
Government, and participating in its acts. But if
this be sound reasoning, and on the principles now
acknowledged between nations it really is so, pri-
vate property is as fairly liable to the enemy's
attack on land as it is at sea. The possessors in one
case are as "innocent" as in the ether. The inhu-
manity or cruelty is simply a question of degree,

WILEIELMINA AMELIA. SKEGGS (in the Vicar of
Wakefield's parlour) about SHAESPERE and the
musical glasses

THE THAMES EMBANEMENT.—REMOVAL OF
DYER'S-WITARF-PlER.—Yesterday a number of men were
engaged in removing the above steamboat-pier, which was
sold a few days ago by Messrs. Pullen, Horne, and Co., by
order of the directors of the company, it being no longer re-
quired for the accommodation of steamboat passengers, and
the construction of the Thames Embankment necessitating
its removal.
SHIPMENT OF RAGS TO AMERICA.—LIVERPOOL, ,
Dec. 4.—During the past month, 8,000 bales of cotton rags
have been bought in this market, and 3,000 bales in London
for shipment to the United States. These purchases have
consisted chiefly of Egyptians, at 13s 6d to 14s 3d for white,
lls 6d to 12s 3d for blue, and lOs to lls for coloured; with
a considerable quantity of Japan blues at about 13s. Since
the bulk of these purchases were made prices have advanced,
and Egyptians have sold at 15s for white, 138 6d blue. Our I
market is quite bare of stock.
DEATH OF MISS GORE OUSELEY.—Miss Alex-
andrina Gore Ouseley died on Monday night at her resi-
sea. deuce, Conegar House, Frome, at the ago of 47. She was
But next, says Mr. SPENCE, there is the prin- the daughter of Sir William Gore Ouseley, the distinguished
ciple of sedthipelolmetaetiKst.in Mliviss.lOr usellec.mixed in the V
-interest. It is not the interest of aamhighest
guesthest
sectie,
Sir
society,
f
commander by land to exasperate the inhabitants . William's hoguse. But she and beingher frequentsisters
chose lowlier
of the country by pillage. Solfintorost is the hearths, and for many years devoted their lives to works of
ocharietry,inag thndie sick, and in educatingnministeringto the wants of the poor, in
only principle Mr. SPENCE can trust in time comforting
of war, end he rightly thinks the hostility of the to perform the mission which their poor
children,
had g sought
of to
people would be a great inconvenience to a gene-
them.—Bristol Post.
A RAILWAY SQUABBLE.--The West Midland
R
ral. Ho would stir up a hornet's nest. The pro-
alio possessionlwayComp o
Company have
efrvrebeesehnmeenndt roomseaveur ating thet o
Worcester
r e c over f or-
perty, too, on land, was dispersed, and cumbrous eib
to transport ; the property at sea condensed, and station of their line, which have been held adversely by the
have repeatedly
easy of transport. There is doubtless much truth tbeenanft,r some m
Mr. Walton. The company and their tenant have 1
atloggerheads
ro n
Waltonthis account,
notice
to anl
leave,
a thev
in this. But the whole might be far more briefly
company
expressed by laying down at once that war but he refused, and there being an uncertainty about thee
porsosmeestihone
oßfoathrd of Directors)
makes it lawful to do .anything which we con- tweirtmhsoorf
whiitshtoountanacuyt,hthet companyf or their officers (acting 1
e
sidered it to be our interest to do; WALLENSTEIN'S proceeded to take forcible possession
eanradilwwianycioawpsaorftythof railway
refreshment-
sack and slaughter at Magdeburg being quite as rooms._i , Accordintgls / odnlefSaturday night last, after all Mr.
e
(Sunday) Mr. Walton, justifiable as a seizure of mercantile property on v
workmenoransa.is rleNd
euxpt the
morning dotorths
refresh-
the ocean. Perhaps, indeed, it might not be ac-
ficultdif-
to show that the less noticed sufferings by companied by a party of
hfriends, made an attempt forcibly
anent.N rno
famine, and consequent disease, following on the tob dregy oafinraLsasyes :3workmen,i °A of
t the
armed rooms.
with on
Tshteayvewere
dmet byi‘l a
r.
cessation of employment through exercise of bel- Walton attempting to get in at a window one of the men,
ligerent rights at sea, cost as many lives as the named Jarrett, felled him to the ground by a blow on the
sack and burning of Magdeburg. Far more head. Mr. Walton was carried away insensible, and a mob
having collected and taken the part of Mr. Walton, a seri-
perished from those causes in
the thirty years' ow riot would have been the result, but for the opportune
war itself. It is obvious also to remark that the arrival of the police, who took Jarrett into custody. lie is
to be examined on Monday next. The manager of the rail-
most valuable land property of a is Iran-
sPortable enough, and could country
way, Mr. A. C. Sheriff, is the Mayor of Worcester,. and he
always be sent to has addressed a letter to the Town Council, stating that in
the base of opeiations by conveyances furnished in consequence of aspersions cast upon his character•. in con-
the country itself. Again the exasperation
of the with the affair he can take no part in business of any
people, and of their fell 7 nkienxdi°cnonneeted with city " •
the until the charges now sub
quite as naturally turnedow-countrymen mig,ht, be judice are investigated and decided on by the proper
against their own Govern- tribunal."
meat; and, according to the theory now so • popular A letter from Grosswardein (Hungary),
in the
with those who agree with
Mr. PENCE,E the , Oat-Deutsrke Post, states that a band of bank-note forgers,
war, the sooner
greater the suffering cause by the having at their head a proprietor named 13elyei, have been
it would be likely to terminate.
soldiers,indeed, a notary, and other individuals, have also been taken into
worthy of the name, could not be induced, like custody. A pack- of 800 ten-florin notes unfinished, with
Austrians in Italy, to cut down unarmed men, but the press and the instruments used in their manufacture,
were discovered at 3:layers residence,

since loss of property at sea may be the cause of
fearful suffering.. Then as to the tendency to move
the Government of a country, Mr. SPENCE must
be quite wrong. In proportion as the distress of
farmers and tradespeople, fleeing from the invad-
ing foe, demanding support, like the operatives
in Lancashire at this time, or known to be suf-
fering in their homes from the presence and exac-
tions of the enemy—in proportion to the distress
thus caused by an invader would be the desire of
the Government to put an end to it by pease. The
sufferings of a province by hind would tell more
than those of merchants from their ventures at