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

they might be easily induced, on Mr. SPENCE'S
general principles, to distress them to the uttermost,
that their cry might ring in the ears of their Go-
vernment, and dispose it to peace. This is precisely
the effect he aims at through pillaged merchants ;
why not aim at the same result through pillaged
traders and farmers ?

Mr. SPENCE prefers driving an enemy, he says,
to peace, not by slaying a certain number of them,
but by making them wish for peace ; and the wish is
to be created by the sufferings caused by blockades
and seizure of property at sea. It is difficult to see
why, if this be humane and manly war, it should
not be humane and manly to say to private citizens
—" now you must al/ quit your homes—march off
to some other place, where your Government must
maintain you, till you persuade it to make peace,
and to make you more urgent petitioners for that
object, we shall take possession of all you leave be-
hind worth our using, and destroy the rest. Very
hard on you unarmed innocent people, we know,
but you are the storks got amongst the cranes, and
there is no help for it--you must suffer till you ob-
tain peace." We are wholly at a loss to see how,
on the principles of Mr. SPENCE and his friends,
such language could be regarded as inhumane.
Would it not be humanity to obtain peace by these
military distress warrants, rather than by " slay-
ing a certain number of the enemy."

We do not mean, yet, to deny that there may be
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 EA sea. We do not think, however, that
Mr. SPEN CE'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
ties as we now endure ?

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 farther, "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 accompaniment
of free and laborious nations, will be consolidated.
History will point to the present period as one
fruitful 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 violence
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
WILUELMINA AMELIA SKEGGS (in the Vicar of
Wakefield's parlour) about SHAKSPERE and the
musical glasses !

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—REMOYAL OF
DYER'S-WHARY-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 _A-MERICA.—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
fer shipment to the United States. These purchases have
consisted chiefly of Egyptians, at 13s 6d to 14s 3d for white,
lis 6d to 12s 3d for blue, and lOs to Ils 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, 13s 6d blue. Our
market is quite bare of stock.

DEATH OF MISS GORE OUSELEY.—Miss Alex-
andrina Gore Ouseley died on Monday night at her resi-
dence, Conegar House, Frome, at the age of 47. She was
the daughter of Sir William Gore Ouseley, the distinguished
diplomatist. Miss Ouseley mixed in the highest society,
the late King William IV. being a frequent guest at Sir
William's house. But she and her sisters chose lowlier
hearths, and for many years devoted their lives to works of
charity, and in ministering to the wants of the poor, in
comforting the sick, and in educating poor children, sought
to perform the mission which their Master had given to
them.—Bristol Post.

A RAILWAY SQUA3BLE.—The West Midland
Railway Company have been endeavouring to recover for-
cible possession of the refreshment •rooms at the Worcester
station of their line) which have been held adversely by the
tenant, Mr. Walton. The company and their tenant have
been for some time of loggerheads on this account, and the
company have repeatedly given Mr. Walton notice to leave,
but ho refused, and there being an uncertainty about the
terms of his tenancy, the company or their officers (acting
with or without authority from the Board of Directors)
proceeded to take forcible possession of the refreshment-
rooms. Accordingly on Saturday night last, after all Mr.
Walton's servants had left the railway, a party of railway
workmen nailed up the doors and windows of the refresh-
ment rooms. Next morning (Sunday) Mr. Walton, ac-
companied by a party of friends, made an attempt forcibly
to regain possession of the moms. Thy wore met by a
body of railway workmen, armed with staves, and on Mr.
Walton attempting to get in at a window ono of the men,
named Jarrett, felled him to the ground by a blow on the
head. Mr. Walton was carried away insensible, and a mob
having collected and taken the part of Mr. Walton, a seri-
ous riot would have been the result, but for the opportune
arrival of the police, who took Jarrett into custody. He is
to be examined on Monday next. The manager of the rail-
way,A.
M • C Sheriff, is the Mayor of Worcester, and he
has addressed a letter to the Town Council, stating that in
consequence of aspersions cast upon his character in con-
nexion with the affair ho can take no part in business of any
kind connected with the city " until the charges now sub
judice are investigated and decided on by the proper
tribunal."

A letter from Grosswardein (Hungary), in the
Ost•Deutsche Post, states that a band of bank-noto forgers,
having at their head a proprietor named Belyei, have been
arrested and lodged in the prison of that district. A Jew,
a notary, and other individuals, have also been taken into
cuatodY. A paelEt of 800 ten-florin notes unfinished, with
the press and the instruments used in their pianufacture,
wore tlioc9rgs4 at 13c rooicivace.