The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER -18, 1862.

is that larger, that threefold grafitude—to a glorious
legislature, to a great people, even (we say it with
reverence) to Divine Providence itself—
to be manifested here in England by
brutal bludgeoning? Looking far and near around
us, to Hyde Park, to Bradford, to Birkenhead and
elsewhere, it is impossible not to recognize some-
thing wearing the appearance of a monstrous farce
in this tardy manifestation of gratitude through
the medium of speeches and resolutions and money,
and eventually, of course (as the result of all)
of a monument in honour of O'CONNELL, as the
author of Catholic Emancipation. Gratitude for
that act of Catholic Emancipation being, at the
very same time, otherwise expressed here in England
by some among that dead O'CONNELL'S compatriots
by—there is no other phrase for it than the one we
have already used—brutal bludgeoning !
Yonder in Ireland the cry is " Gratitude to O'CoN -
NELL." A gratitude to be manifested in the substan-
tial form of a great national monument. And, for
what ?
.For his triumph in helping to bring about
under the aid of Heaven the concession by the
British Legislature in the midst of the
generous exultation of the English people
of that glorious act of Catholic Eman-
cipation ! Yet, while to this end that cry
of gratitude to O'CONNELL is being rever-
berated throughout Ireland—the cry, happily not
of all, but at any rate of many of O'CoNNELL's
compatriots in England, is of a flagrantly different
character. Not—in the name of the Prophet, Figs !
But—yet more of an anti•climax—because so essen-
tially brutal and outrageous. In the name of Reli-
gion Sticks and Brickbats ! "In the name"—
these grateful countrymen of O'CONNELL seem
to be yelling—" In the name of His Holiness
—Bludgeons !" While incidents such as those al-
luded to, are transpiring here in England—it does
appear to be the most monstrous farce and mockery,
this otherwise intrinsically noble movement set on
foot in Ireland, for the attestation of the gratitude of
her people to the great man who was mainly instru-
mental in bestowing upon his compatriots
and co-religionists the blessings of their political
emancipation. Either ono thing or the other.
Either let there be an end, for once and for all, to
these brutal scenes of rioting and bludgeoning (in
the outraged name of religion !) or let us have no
more of these efforts among Irishmen to attest their
gratitude to the memory of O'CoNNELL, as the author
of Catholic emancipation. Gratitude! And for
Catholic Emancipation ! Could O'CONNELL him-
self behold how it is that certain of his compatriots
are just now availing themselves of it, of their
Emancipation, in what manner it is they are mani-
festing their appreciation of it here in England—
in the midst of the English People—he would
assuredly almost repent him of his suc-
cess! He would, at any rate be desirous
at the very least, that some more appro-
priate time should have been selected in which
to set on foot amongst his compatriots and his
co-religionists the scheme of a testimonial evi-
dencing their gratitude to him in his historical
character as—the Irish Liberator.

A week's later news from America—and, though
nothing decisive, yet much suggestive enough.
The rival armies in the West are in motion again.
We are carried back once more to Corinth in
ississippi, to find an army of 40,000 men attacking
a Federal army of numbers not reported. Perhaps,
as the time for the rising of the waters and the
easy employment of Federal gunboats approaches,
the Confedetates wished to anticipate that advan-
tage. On the 3d, therefore, we find them under
Generals PRICE and Dom; attacking ROSENCRANTZ
and fighting a battle of two days, in which the
Federals, who are our reporters, claim the victory.
We have bad no proof that any of the regular
generals, with the exception of POPE, send home
false and boastful reports. Soldiers do not do
this, But all we get, the official reports at least,
are first manipulated by the Secretary for War ;
and to him we attribute the colouring and exag-
ration, and often falsification of the despatches. It
is with the reserve, compelled by these circum-
stances, that all the past Federal accounts of battles
must be received. So far as we may believe what
we hear,though the Federals have suffered severely,
in officers especially, as they did at Antietam Creek,
the Confederates have yet been routed with great
slaughter, the loss of two batteries, and of seven
hundred prisoners.
From Kentucky and Virginia the accounts are
obscure. We read, from Southern sources, of the
probability of a great battle, to be offered by the
Confederates, prior to a second invasion of Mary-
land ; yet Southern papers also tell us of the Fede-
rals preparing to advance again to Richmond, by
Fredericksburg, while we are also told of a kind of
counter advance of the Confederates over the Rap-
pahannock, in the direction of Manassas. Till we
see further accounts we confess ourselves to have no
conception whatever of what each side are purpos-
ing. We strongly suspect that neither party
knows what the other is aiming at.

One thing is gratifying. The Southerns appear
to be really alarmed by the proclamation of General
LINCOLN. We had almost supposed they would
laugh at it. It seem,, however, they are too
frightened to laugh, and their rage looks as if it
were real. If so, the PRESIDENT must feel that
he has bit the right nail at last. The Southern
Congress is proposing all kinds of savage retaliat-
ing measures. Ali officers, commissioned and non-
commissioned, whom they capture they will keep to
hard labour till the war is over, or the proclamation
withdrawn ; Federal officers who discipline negroes
for fighting are to be hanged if captured ; on
the other hand, rewards are to be offered to
negroes for killing open enemies, and any citizen
may drive from the State or kill, with impu-
nity, any one found aiding and abetting in
carrying out Mr. LINCOLN'S proclamation, A
minority of the Judicial Committee of the Southern
Congress, which recommends these truly Southern
expedients, recommends also a war of extermina-
tion against all invaders. Notwithstanding the
ferocity of slaveholders, we can hardly think they
would make gravely propositions like these, if they
could rely on the attachment of their slaves. Mr.
LINCOLN says not one word to encourage slaves, to
injure their masters—the worst effect of his pro-
clamation would be that the slaves would obtain
their freedom whenever they could rely on the pro-
tection of FAeral arms ; while the Southerns have
persistently maintained till now that the slaves love
involuntary servitude and its sweet rewards too
well to leave it. We rather think the South dreads
a negro stampede, certainly not a negro insurrec-
tion, and that this is the only explanation of their
savage proposals of retaliation.
Mr. LINCOLN does not, however, find the North
quite unanimous. General M'CLELLiiN has been
obliged to read his troops a lecture on the duty of
military obedience to the civil power, and to re-
mind his brother democrats of very elementary
truths, which in the license of discussion they
seemed likely to forget. He must have seen some
danger of injurious dissension, when he had, in a
general order, to tell his officers and soldiers that—
" The fundamental rule of Republican Government
is that armed forces are raised only to sustain the
civil authorities, and are to be held in strict sub-
, ordination to them.
The discussion by officers and

soldiers of Government measures, when carried
beyond a temperate expression of opinion, tends to
destroy discipline by substituting political faction
for that steady support of Government which is the
highest duty of the American soldier. In carrying
out the measures of the Government the army will
be guided by the same mercy and Christianity
which have always controlled its conduct towards
the defenceless."

The North seems, however, to be as united as we
could well expect, on the expediency of the procla-
mation. The Democrats, as at once leaning to
slavery, and in party opposition to the Government,
would naturally make the worst of it, but the Go-
vernors, as we have already seen, . support the
Government cordially, and generally the feeling
seems to be that slavery must perish rather than
the Union. This, indeed, is the height of Northern
morality on the subject. It would care little about
slavery, if the South did not want to
occupy free soil with it, or make it the occa-
sion of breaking up the Union. But when it
finds that slaves not only prompt their masters
to fight to keep theme, but even enable them to
fight by working for them, then, indeed, the North
gets angry with the long petted " domestic insti-
tution." It then dooms it to death when it seems
likely to divide the great Republic, and to en-
danger the result pointed to in these telegrams
by General WADSWORTH, the Republican candi-
date for the Governmentship of New York, that
" the American Continent under one government
is still destined to dictate terms to the world in
arms."

During the course of his very able speech on
Thursday in Dublin upon the occasion of the meet-
ing of the QUEEN'S University, the right hon. baronet
the Irish Secretary °beers ed—" The Vice Chan-
cellor
alluded in touching words to the presence on
a former occasion of one who is now removed from
the scene—Sir THOMAS WYSE. He was a member
of the Senate, he had been a member for Water-
ford, and he was one of these Roman Catholic
Members of Parliament who was most anxious
for the establishment of the QUEEN'S Col-
leges in Ireland. His expressions have been
alluded to by the Vice-Chancellor and
I will refer to them. His expressions,
on the occasion when he attended here in 1860,
were :—' I take the greatest joy ih witnessing the
progress Ireland has made, and the time is not far
distant when the colleges will bear the most ample
frui, ; while in your efforts, your exertions, and in
all your rewards, I have continually taken the most
intene interest.' That was the language of Sir
THOMAS WYSE the last time he was in this hall.
Well, this language is very encouraging when we
recollect the battles he fought in former years,
which led to the endowment of those colleges.
But we must recollect that Sir THOMAS WYSE
is not the only distinguished Roman Catholic
Irishman who supported the principle of those
colleges." This is the first public tribute paid
to the memory of the late Right Hon. Sir
THOMAS WYSE, her MAJESTY'S Ambassador at
Athens, since the period of his lamented de-
cease—the first public tribute offered to his
memory by any member of her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment. The official position which the right hon.
baronet occupies in Ireland as the chief representative,
politically, of that Government renders it a tribute
peculiarily valuable in its way ; and more parti-
cularly so, from the fact, that it is a tribute paid to
the memory of Sir THOMAS WYSE as an advocate
of National Education. Among the most eloquent
of the champions of that great and beneficent
cause the late Sir THOMAS WYSE stood forth in his
time conspicuously. His services were important
and long sustained. They are worthy of being
held, they are secure, we believe, of being held,
for a long while yet to come, both in England and
in Ireland, in grateful recollection.

M. Drouyn de Lhuys has already occupied three
times the post to which he has been appointed ; first, from
Dec. 19, 1848, to Jan. 2, 1849, when he was succeeded by
Count de Tocqueville; second, from Jan. 9, 1851, to 24th
of the same month, when M. Brenier was appointed to it ;
and third, from July 28, 1852, to May 3, 1855, when he was
succeeded by Count Walewski. M. Drouyn de Lhuys yes-
terday took possession of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
ATTEMPTED SUPPRESSION OF CHARLTON, OR
"HORN" FAIR.—A. memorial, from several of the resi-
dents of Charlton, has been presented to Sir R. Mayne, Chief
Commissioner of Police, for the suppression of the above
chartered fair, and now being the only recognised pleasure
fair in the metropolis. To this an answer has been received
that the fair having been in existence and held on the same
spot from time immemorial (the charter having been granted
in the reign of King John), the Commissioners of Metropo-
litan Police did not possess the power to order its discon-
tinuance; and Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart., the lord of the
manor of Charlton, having declined to aid the memorialists,
by refusing to let the ground for holding the fair, the same
will be opened this day (Saturday), and will continue on
Monday and Tuesday next.

The Prince and Princess Royal of Prussia have
arrived in Switzerland. Their Royal Highnesses are to
traverse France, and embark at Marseilles for Rome and
Naples.
MARRIAGE OF LADY CHARLOTTE INNES KER.—
The marriage of Lady Charlotte Innes Ker, second daughter
of his Grace the Duke of Roxburghe, to Mr. George Rus-
sell, the private secretary to Earl Russell, is arranged to
take place on Tuesday, 28th October. In view of the ap-
proaching interesting ceremony, there have been two meet-
ings of the committee appointed to arrange the rejoicingein
Kelso at the coming of age of the Marquis of Bowmont.
several members of this committee, after endeavouring to
ascertain the feeling of the townspeople on the subject, and
consultation with the magistrates, find the prevailing desire
to be that everything should be conducted with equal splen-
dour to what was done on the occasion of the marriage of
Lady Susan Grant Suttie. It is therefore proposed to de-
corate the town with flags, flowers, and evergreens, to have
a public dinner in the Town Hall, and a very large bonfire
and fireworks in the Square at night.—Kelso Mail.
The 3.lommento of Genoa of the 14th says :
"We understand that on the day before yesterday the
Government caused to be restored to General Garibaldi and
his son Menotti their swords, which were seized at Aspro-
monte." _ _

A NEW CRIMINAL OFFENCE.—On Wednesday
case came on for trial at the Preston quarter sessions
a which comprised a new offence, and so far as we know, is
the first of the kind under the Act of Parliament. By the
Criminal Law Consolidation Act, 24th and 25th Victoria,
chap. 101, any person taking a reward for helping to the re-
covery of stolen property, without bringing the offender to
trial, shall be guilty' of felony. Under the section Michael
Kilfoyle and Patrick Cullinen were charged with having,
on the 18th September last, taken a sovereign to help John
Cleery to the recovery of a watch which had been stolen
from him a day or two before. It appeared that Cleery was
barrack sergeant at Fleetwood, and, on returning home on
the night of the 17th September, about nine o'clock, was
knocked down by a private soldier, and robbed of his
watch. The next day Kilfoyle offered to get the watch back
if the sergeant would give him a sovereign. The money
was paid, and by Kilfoyle's directions, the sergeant went
down to the beach and there saw the other prisoner Culli-
nan. They told him if he would walk cn a little he would
find the watch in a piece of paper; he did so, and found the
watch as described. The chairman explained the law to the
jury, but notwithstanding the evidence which had been
given, the jury, to the surprise of all, returned a verdict of
not guilty.

FATAL GARIBALDIAN QUARREL IN LIVERPOOL.
—An Irish porter, James Rooney, was drinking yesterday
with a Lascar seaman, in Robinson's spirit vaults, near
George's Dock, when the conversation turned upon Gari.
baldi. The men came to high words, and when the Lascar
went out into the street he shouted " Hurrah for Garibaldi!"
" To with you and Garibaldi ! " was the response of
the potter, and striking the Lascar over the face Rooney
knocked him dots n. A loaded lorry was passing at the
time, and tke Lascar falling between the wheels, they passed
over and killed him. Rooney is in custody.
The Journal de .Rouen states that a number of
gentlemen have taken into serious consideration the project
of introducing fox-hunting into Normandy, with a view to
improving the breed of horses as well as for amusement,
A committee et landowners is to be named to make the
necessary arrangements. It is proposed that the season
shall commence in November, and close in March.
One of the passengers on board the Delta, which
yesterday with the Indian mail,
arrived at Southampton
died just as the ship was entering the dock. He had come
ail the way from India to benefit his health
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LATEST SEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA.
(BY TELEGRAPH FROM JUBAL.)

SHANGHAI, SEPT. 4.

General Ward's contingent has extricated itself
from its perilous position, since which the rebels
have made a fierce attack on this city, and burnt
down the villages in the vicinity. They were, how-
ever, driven back with great loss.
Prince Kung has been attacked with cholera.
The Imperial army has disappeared from Nankin,
leaving only a few war junks in the river.
The Mahomedans at Shensi have revolted, com-
mitting great outrages upon the other religious de-
nominations.

Cholera is raging fearfully in the northern pro-
vinces.

Business is suspended at Newchang in conse-

quence.
There is no political news of importance from

Japan.
A further depreciation has taken place in the
value of Mexican dollars.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE•
CANTON, SEPT. 10.
Shirtings and twist higher.
Tea firm. Total export to date 37,500,0001b5.
Exchange on London, 4s. 7d.
SHANGHAI, SEPT. 4.

Shirtings firm.
Silk advancing. Settlements during the last fort-
night, 7,000 bales. Total export, 33,125 bales.
Exchange on London, 6s. 3id.
Freights declining.

(BY TELEGRAPH TO GALLE.)
CALCUTTA, SEPT. 27.
The French barque La France was wrecked off
Gopaulpore o❑ the 28th of August,
Shirtings and twist firm.
Copper unaltered.
Indigo and saltpetre active.
Exchange on London, 2s. Otd.
Government Securities—Four per Cents., 931 ;
Five per Cents., 1041.

PARIS, OCT. 18.

The ii[oniteur of this morning announces that
the 2d Corps d'Armee of the district of Lille will
provisionally remain without a Commander-in-
Chief, and ita Staff •General be dissolved.

COPENHAGEN, OCT. 17.

Earl Russell has addressee a despatch to the
Danish Government, dated 24th September, a copy
of which has been communicated to the Cabinets of
Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, wherein
his lordship expresses views very unfavourable to
the Danish claims upon the German Duchies, states
reasons which are considered here to be in contra-
diction with the view formerly expressed by Eng-
land in official documents concerning the conflict
between Germany and Denmark, and recommends
the Danish Government to cancel the common
Constitution for the kingdom of Denmark and
Schleswig.
In reply the Danish Government have addressed
a note to the English Cabinet, positively declining
to accept the recommendations contained in Earl
Russell's despatch.

PARIS, OCT. 17.

La France of this evening says :

"The withdrawal of M. Thouvenel from the
Ministry has produced an immense sensation at
Turin. A rumour of the resignation of Signor
Rataxzi was much credited. An extraordinary
Council of Ministers has been appointed to take
place on the 18th inst., to deliberate on the state
of affairs."
The Temps of this evening says :

"M. Fould is about to leave for Marseilles. It
is said that be will make a speech in that city
which will create a sensation in the political and
commercial world."