The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, THURSO AY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1862,

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science of naval architecture as it is being worked 1
out nowadays in iron. As yet the passion of their
" peaceful" rivalry in this way would seem to be
profanely in its articulation, but as an echo of that
battle cry of MACBETH in his warlike contest with
MACDUFF—" Damned be he who first cries hold,
enough !" At every effort in this momentous struggle
for priority and pre-eminence—instead of blood, the
money gushes forth abundantly. Every effort, in fact,
on the one side or the other is like a new and for-
midable wound—relaxing inopportunely in time of
\peace th© tension and energy of what are happily
termed the sinews of war. Cannot any one pos-
sessing at onee the character of an economist and of
a peacemaker—say Mr. COBDEN—interpose before
long, benignly and betimes, between those loving
L competitors ?

The Americans are thorough good haters, The
North hates the South—the South yet more bitterly
hates the North, and South is to unite with North
in yet bitterer hatred to England. The North
hates us traditionally—and the South, till the grand
break up, hated us on that ground even more than
the North. The North, then, hated us because we
would not almost declare war on the South, the
South is gathering up fresh hatred because we
would not break the blockade for cotton ; the North
hates us because we demanded SLIDELL and MASON,
and made Captain WILKEs' orators swallow their
leek ; the South hates us because we gave these
pests, who cost us £Boo,oon sterling—not incon-
vertible paper—the sold shoulder, when they did
come; and sent them back to Richmond to tell the
Confederates that England would have nothing to
do with a Republic based on slavery. The North
hates us because Canada has no mind to be absorbed
into the shattered republic—the South because its
slavers used to run off to Canada ; so when the war
is over, a date not yet fixed, both sections of the
republic are to be welded into a union once more,
and hatred to England is to produce the welding
heat. We are not writing from public information
only. We saw yesterday, for instance, a long
letter from an American clergyman to a personal
friend in England, a clergyman resident in the
polished city of Boston, a D.D., an evidently very
intelligent man, and one, too, who expresses per-
sonally kindly feelings towards us, and he describes
at length the growing sentiments of aversion
towards this country which he witnesses around
him. Singularly enough, the perfectly marvellous
conduct of the great body of our operatives in not
demanding breaking of the blockade is never men-
tioned, while the impatient exclamations of a few
operatives at some meeting are quoted as proofs of
England's feeling against the North.
If, however, we had any fear of what the North
might attempt, we have increasing evidence that it
will not so easily unite the South with it in any
action against either England or France. All ac-
counts, from whatever source, concur in represent-
ing the feeling of the Southerns as implacable.
When, as at New Orleans, a report is circulated
that the Union sentiment was found only panting
for liberty of expression, it is soon followed by
other accounts showing how entire was the misre-
presentation. The city was governed by martial
law, and not a compositor could be found who would
set up the Union General's proclamation. He had
to call printers out of his regiment to do it, at
printing offices on which he seized ! In Tennessee
the ladies—generally good exponents of public sen-
timents—cannot be kept from offering the most un-
bearable insults to the Federal flag and officers,
while martial law is required, because the few
Unionists are insufficient to carry on the civil Go-
vernment. In all the Atlantic and other ports
which have been seized, either the whole inhabi-
tants remove, or the few who remain show the most
unconquerable aversion to Northern rule. The
veteran General WooL can no more conciliate their
regard than the young and fire-eating Generals.
M'CLELLAN finds no co-operation in the country
he has forced himself through. He might starve
were it not for his own commissariat and the rivers
on his right and left. It is also confidently said
that the French ambassador, M. MERCIER, who
went to see with his own eyes, has returned from
Richmond, fully satisfied that the North may in-
deed make a military conquest of the South, or at
least of a great part of it, but that reconciliation of
the two sections is now an impossibility.
We find, ,indeed, the more thoughtful part of
North, in proportion as their hopes of military
success increase, beginning to be anxious respecting
the final policy. So plain has their error become,
in believing that there was an extensively sup-
pressed Union sentiment in the South, that they
begin to see that a restoration of the old Federal
Union with the North will be a simple impossi-
bility. There will be no popular elements from
which to construct State legislatures favourable
to the Union ; none to elect representatives to
the Federal Government who would not be the
subversion of all possible government in the
Federal Congress. Nothing would remain but
Government by martial law, or some despotic
mode of administration, backed by an occupying
army, the expense of which, added to the interest
of the war-debt, must beggar the North. The
last language of the PRESIDENT, in repudiating
Gen. HUNTER'S emancipation proclamation, seems
like the warning of the near approach of quite
another era, and the wail over the necessary libe-
ration of the negroes. Some even go so far as to
predict that the planting slaveholders, who are but
a small class, though all-powerful in the South, will
have to be evicted from their plantations, and a
new race of Northern colonists introduced to culti-
vate the plantations by free labour.
The consequence is that, in the North itself, the
democratic and republican parties are recovering
their old bitterness; and even while they are trem-
bling for the fate of. HALLECK in the West, and
while M'CLELLAN, BANKS, and FREMONT, are all
more or less in an uncertain position, the party
feuds are becoming as fierce as ever in Washington
itself. England may therefore look very uncon-
cernedly on this great nation, or two nations of
haters, for, while confident that she has done no-
thing to deserve their ill-will, she may be quite
sure that they will never be friends enough to unite
in discharging their spleen on her.

His Excellency Nubar Bey has arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel, from Alexandria.
The Duke and Duchess of Athole have arrived
at the St. George's Hotel.
Viscount and Viscountess Dalrymple have left
the St. George's Hotel.
Lord and Lady Churchill have left the St.
George's Hotel.
Lady Taunton will give a fete at Stoke Park on
Saturday, the 21st inst.
Baron de Soubeyran, accompanied by Mons.
Jules Pelletier and Mons. Jules Tarbe des Sablons, has
arrived at the Brunswick Hotel.
Sir Walter and Lady Caroline Stirling enter-
tained at dinner, on Tuesday, the Duchess of Inverness,
the Earl and Countess of Roseberry, the Earl and Countess
of Leicester, and Lady Julia Coke, the Hon. Mrs. Wode-
:thenissirvoe sidpern o
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house, Lord and Lady Carew, Sir James K. Shuttleworth,
Lord and Lady Elibank, Colonel and Mrs. Adair, the Earl
of Bantry, and Mr. and Lady Harriet Rainsden.
IRELAND.—ANOTHER ATTEMPTED MURDER.—
As Mr.
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arm and riddled his skirts. coat
Lord Dunboyne has re-
ceived a threate ' mug letter, ordering him to prepare his
coffUl.

COURT CIRCULAR..

WINDSOR CASTL4 JUNE 4.
Tier Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her Royal
Highness Princess Alice, drove out yesterday.

Major-General Seymour was in attendance.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attendeil by Major
Elphinstone, went to London this morning a u.d visited the
Great Exhibition.

Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe ( loburg arrived
from London, and returned in the afternoon ,
Viscount Palmerston had an audience of I the Queen.

MB. AND MADAME GOLDSCHaLID'X'S SACRED
CONCERT.

The third and last of this series of cone, arts for benevo-
lent purposes was given last evening a,t Exeter Hall,
"Elijah" was performed in aid of the Roy
al Society of Mu-
sicians and the Royal Society of Fema'te Musicians, two
well•kno wn and excellent institutions, of, great benefit to the
musical prsfession, both of which, we believe, have already
partaken of Madame Lind Goldschmidt's beneficence. The
performance of "Elijah" was similar to that of " The Mes-
siah" and " The Creation," on the previous evenings.
The solo singers were Madame Lind Goldschmidt. Miss
Susannah Cole, Miss Eyles, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves,
Mr. Walker, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Weiss.
The band and chorus consisted of upwards of five hundred
performers. Mr. E. Hopkins was the organist, and Mr.
Otto Goldschmidt was the conductor. The performance
was perfect in every respect. Madame Goldschmidt's
grand reading of the principal soprano part is well known,
and on this occasion it was as grand as ever. To
the scene of the widow, whose child is restored to life
through the prayers of the Prophet, she gave a beauty
and pathos entirely her own ; and in her delivery of the
grand air which opens the second part, " Hear ye,
Israel 1" there was a sublimity easier to feel than to de-
scribe—a fervid, inspired expression, which no other singer
that we have ever heard has been able to reach, Sometimes
her greatest displays of vocal power are attended with a
greater degree of effort than once was required ; but the
power is still there without diminution, as well as the
beauty. Mr. Weiss, as the representative of the Prophet,
is well known to have no superior. Independently of his
magnificent singing, there is a dramatic consistency, a lofty
and dignified tone maintained throughout, which shows
the artist of genius. Mr. Sims Reeve sustained the tenor
part, and, ns usual, made a strong impression on nos groat
air, "If with all your hearts ye truly seek me." Miss
Palmer sang the beautiful contralto music charmingly;
and Miss Susannah Cole sang the little part of the "Youth"
sent to watch the aspect of the heavens, with a clear, sweet
voice that was very pleasing. The choruses were well
given, and the instrumental band was accurate and effec-
tive. The hall was, as at the previous concerts, crowded
to excess in every part.

The Japanese Ambassadors on Tuesday visited
the International Exhibition, and afterwards paid a length-
ened visit to the establishment of Messrs. Grant and Gask
of Oxford. street.

If the Governmental passion for teaching every-
body their business could be fully gratified, we should have
inspectors of everything at every street corner, and no man
would be required to think for himself. There would be
an inspector of shirts, whose duty it would be to see that
all the buttons were in their places, and that the fronts
were properly starched. Taere would be an inspecthr of
shaving-water, an inspectorof slippers, and another inspec-
tor to see that the bed-room candlesticks were in proper
erder. Barriers, with comfortable official dwelling-houses
attached, would be built at the end of every street, and
no person or thing would be allowed to pass these bar-
riers without examination and an official order. Every
man's pulse would be felt and tongue examined
every morning by travellirg doctors, before he was allowed
to go to business, or to start on a journey. Every
city would be turned into a huge barrack, and every man
in it would be treated as a soldier on duty. The food for
breakfast would be fixed by official order; and also the
hour and dishes for dinner and supper. The complaint
about cold mutton would be no longer a table-squabble be-
tween man and wife, but a thing to be filled in on an official
form, and sent. in 0 a particular department. . Sheets of
folio foolscap with a margin would be in demand at every
turn of existence, for without them no protest could be
officially brought before the constituted authorities. The
hour for going to bed and putting out the light would be
fixed as it was in the curfew days, or as it is fixed now on
board ship in the docks. Producers and consumers would
not be allowed to trade together on their own terms, but as
it is now between cab-drivers and cab-hirers, water sellers
and water-buyers, gas-sellers and gas-buyers, the price
which one should give and the other should take would be
settled by an army of inspectors. The ared-bell, the
street-door scraper, the knocker, the chimney-pots, and the
letter-box, would all be under the charge of a staff of sub-
inspectors. No bread, nor wine, nor beer, would be eaten
or drunk before it was tested, and perhaps analysed by a
Government officer. Births, deaths, and marriages, would
be regulated by a state department, and no child would be
allowed to come into the world, or go out of it, without
giving three days' clear notice to the managing secretary.
—Once a Week.

THE PUBLIC RECORDS.--The report of the
Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records states that the
searches and inspections last year produced £BlB in fees,
besides which 142 literary inquirers inspected records with-
out payment of fees and attended 1,514 times. The Govern-
ment documents are in course of examination, and useless
papers are converted into pulp ; 55 tons of War•office papers
and 165 tons of Admiralty papers have thus disappeared.
The calendars and indexes of State papers are proceeding;
it is a work of great labour and difficulty, but of the utmost
service ; in fact, really throwing open the treasures of the
office to the historical inquirer by making them more easily
and better known. It is impossible to speak too strongly
of the value of these printed calendars as pointing out the
materials for the history of the period to which they relate.
The materials for the history of the reign of Henry VIII.,
which Mr. Brewer has with great pains brought together
in the calendar now publishing, exceed in importance any-
thing of the kind that has been published in this or any
country. They throw a most vivid light on the religious,
political, social, and financial proceedings of this reign, and
afford a curious insight into the manners and customs of
the time. The very sayings and doings of the sovereigns
and statesmen on the continent are recorded, and the most
minute evidence is preserved by eye and ear witnesses of
their words and actions. But it is not merely calendars and
indexes that are being published ; five years ago the Master
of the Rolls sui‘nuitted to the Treasury his oroposal for the
publication of materials for the history of this country from
the invasion of the Romans to the reign of Henry
and already '25 volumes of chronicles and memorials of
great importance and interest have been issued, and 14 more
are in the press, edited by gentlemen specially qualified for
their task. It is to be regretted that until another block of
the Record repository shall be built, a large collection of
these valuable public documents is necessarily deposited in
houses in Chancery-lane, exposed to the risk of fire and
otherwise unsafe, and occupying room of great value for
offices or dwellings.

SERIOUS FIRES AND FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.-
Yesterday morning, between two and three, a fire broke
out in the premises of Messrs. Bates and Co., wadding
manufacturers, Lock's-fields, Walworth, Owing to the
timely arrival of assistance the flames were soon extin-
guished, but some hundred weight of cotton were con-
sumed.—A fire of a calamitous character happened during
the night on the premises belonging to Mr. C. R. Copeland,
linendraper, carrying on business at No. 22, St. John's-
road, Hoxton. It appears that some light goods hanging
in the shop became ignited through falling against a gas
burner. Mr. Copeland rushed upstairs t 3 the second floor,
to secure his money, but upon endeavouring to gain the
stairs, was driven back by the flames, and made his appear-
ance at the window. A gentleman named Kennedy, who
was passing, called to him not to jump out, as the Royal
Society's escape was near the house—it being then only
eight doors away. Regardless of the danger, however,
the unfortunate man jumped out. He was taken to the
hospital, when it was found necessary to amputate both
legs.. The premises were burned down, and those of Mr.
Blanford, hatter (No. 24), and of Mrs. H. Chrees, milliner
(No, 20) were damaged. The sufferers were insured in the
Phoenix, Alliance, and Imperial fire offices. Had Mr.
Copeland remained in his room only a few seconds longer
he might have been saved.

CURIOUS CASE OF LETTER STEALING IN FRANCE.
—The Court of Assizes of the Haute-Vienne has just been
engaged trio days in trying a married woman named
Navail, for stealing certain letters, the property of her
master, M. --, sub-inspector of forests at Limoges. A
man named Turon was ale) charged with receiving the
said letters knowing them to have been stolen. The female
prisoner and her husband hid been some time in the ser-
vice of M. -- while gUard-general of forests at Mar-
mande, and accompanied hira to Limoges when promoted
the sub-inspectorship there. While residing at Marmande
M. had formed an illicit connection with the wife of
M. Edouard F--, and on his removal to Limoges the
lady frequently •a rote to him. Those letters the female
prisoner took from her master's bureau, and on learning
their contents, determined to use them for her own advan-
tage. Having been discharged from his service in May,
1861, she gay, the letters to her accomplice, Turon, and
told him to make as much of them as he could. He said
they ought to produce at least 10,000 E, to which the woman
Navail replied that if he cowl get her 4,000 f. she would be
content. Turon accordingly began to threaten Mme. P--
with the publication of the letters if his demands were not
acceded to. Not meeting with a satisfactory answer,
anonymous letters were addressed to her son and sister-in-
law, and these annoyances were continued until the pri-
soners were arrested. The counsel for the female prisoner
stated that his client had been seduced by M. -- at the
age of 18, and had afterwards lived with him as servant
and mistress for 15 years, and was at last turned destitute
upon the world. Anticipating such a termination to their
connection, she had taken these letters and used them as
a means of vengeance, and he maintained that her master
had no moral right to prosecute her for an offence which
was the natural result of the condition to which he himself
had reduced her. The learned counsel concluded with de-
claring that letters of guilty love were not a property the
law ought to protect. The President having summed up
the facts of the case, the jury retired, and atter a brief de-
, liberation, returned into court with a verdict of not guilty,
The Court then ordered the prisoners to be set at liberty,

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, JUNE 4, EVENING.
The Patrie of this evening publishes the follow-
ing despatch from Mexico :
" VERA CRUZ, MAY 15,

" The towns of Tepeaca, Cholula, Acalungo, and
Tlascala have declared themselves hostile to the
Government of Juarez. The movement is spread-
ing. Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, after a month's
absence, will resume command of the fleet."

TURIN, JuNE 4.

In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday Signor
Ratazzi introduced a bill on the subject of associa-
tions, the discussion upon which will take place
to-day.

The letter of Garibaldi, read in yesterday's sitting,
was to the following effect .—" I left Caprera at
the summons of Ricasoli. When the new Ministry
approved the plan of instituting national rifle clubs
it was desired to raise two battalions of Genoese
Carabineers. Many young men hastened to enlist,
but the project failed. Some hundreds of young
men, not being able to return to their homes, asao-
ciated themselves together in Lombardy for armed
drill. The Government, however, viewed heir pro
ceedings with suspicion, and made several arrests.
The Ministerial journals declared that it was in-
tended to attempt an invasion of the Tyrol. This
is false. Our cry is always ' Italy and Victor
Emmanuel !' It is necessary to complete the arma-
ments in order to give the Italians an organisation
similar to that of Prussia or Switzerland. The
Crown of the people will then be rescued from every
kind of unwarrantable influence."

In the Chamber of Deputies to-clay General Bixio
made the following 131,mi...ti1t t

4, I believe it my duty to assure the House that,
in the interview in which the question of the expe-
dition was raised, the President of the Council for-
mally declared that it would not have been tole-
rated. Upon another occasion the President of the
Council demanded the word of honour of the son
of Garibaldi that the Genoese Carabineers should
not be employed in illegal expeditions. The
Ministry were not aware of the expedition. I my-
self had been charged by Garibaldi to make com-
munications to Signor I)epretis, but I refused, being
unwilling to place a friend in opposition to the
Government. It is incorrect that those who
have been arrested were taken with arms in their
hands."

VIENNA, JUNE 4.

A telegram received here from Constantinople
states that Omar Pasha has announced a victory
gained on Sunday by Abdi Pasba, near Yenekoi,
over the Montenegrins, commanded by the Prince
in person.