The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-06 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1862.

We are boundin justice to notice that one Ameri-
can Minister at least has made his country's apology
for the outrage by the gunboat Montgomery on the
British ship Blanche, in Spanish waters. We trust
we shall soon have to announce that Mr. ADAMS,
here, has followed his example, by making an
apology and something more, to the British Govern-
ment. The Spanish Government, it will be seen,
had made up their mind to demand the punishment
of the offending officer ; a demand we hope they will
not waive ; but the American Minister intervenes
with a complete disavowal of the act. This is not
enough for Spain. The officer who did not
know better than to board a British ship
aground in Spanish waters, and on which
a Spanish officer had hoisted the Spanish flag as
a signal of protection, and then to insult the
Spanish officer personally, and burn the ship. The
officer who could do this ought to be excluded
from the naval service of any civilised State. Eng-
land will also have a claim for dismissal for the
insult to her flag on a merchant vessel, carrying
nothing contraband of war, and the destruction
of the property. The owners of the vessel must
of course be fully indemnified. We observe
that at last instructions to American naval
captains to act in conformity to the law
of nations have been issued from their
Admiralty. One of them is, " that under no
circumstances are they to seize any vessel within
the waters of a friendly nation." As the order
bears date the 18th of August, we might have sup-
posed the commander of the Montgomery was ac-
quainted with it. That, however, is, in this case,
no business of ours. It is for our Government to
insist, for its own reasons, an apology and resti-
tution.

There are indications that Mr. COBDEN'S appeal
will be responded to, and that the collection of
contributions to support Lancashire out of work
will be both national and Systematic. The fact is
becoming but too obvious, that, according to all
reasonable calculation, the distress will become
deeper every month, almost every day, while the
local means will as rapidly become less and unable
to meet it. There is no likelihood, no possibility,
indeed, of a speedy supply of cotton, and what is
now in hand can be sold only at a price which few
manufacturers can venture to give. The running
of mills will become exceptional, and for the com-
pletion of special orders. With the present rela-
tion of prices between the raw cotton and the manu-
factured article, it would be folly to go on produc-
ing'. Better spend in direct relief what must cer-
tainly be lost. We have thus the prospect of a
vast Population already out of work, and subsisting
'atpittance " barely sufficieut to keep body and
soul
°Other"—of their number being augmented
every Week from the ranks of the smaller num-
ber, abo
Of theut one-fourth, of the unemployed, and
the e employed all these, by
anation of their savings, being thrown
more and more
alIPOn parish or charitable re-
lief for mere subsistence; very large number
while, at the same time
erf
manufacturers who have
built their mills and carried
onbe
their business largely
with borrowed capital
almost impoverished
themselves by the cessation
of that business. The
prospect is therefore one of certainly large and cer-
tainly growing distress.

The only course is that which
pointed out in his speech to thell Mr.
COBDEN
eTami ee , and
which we are thankful to see is ceoraela ti
.--- attention its practical character deservnding the
to make the relief national. ThereB"tnelY'
are but two
ways of doing this—we must either resort to the
consolidated fund, or to a really national sub
The objections to the first have
acription,
Irish famine. The
been taught us by the
national treasury aught to be the last resort,
because it is absolutely impossible to prevent dis-
graceful waste and stylises. The distributors of the
national money can hexcily feel so responsible for
care and watchfulness, as those who disburse the
gifts of voluntary gem srosity, and the recipients of
the money are but too .apt to feel no scruple what-
ever in getting all they- can of the public taxes. If
inevitable, why we must yield to necessity. The
operatives must not b iffered either to starve or