The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONPOW, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1862.

themselves to accept by taking part in it. Nothing
can be more certain than this ; yet the legal objection
cannot be looked at apart from the fact that the
South had all along asserted that it could not hold
its interests—that is slavery—to be safe under a
Northern administration. This may render their
cause blacker in our eyes, but it also made them
more implacable. Slavery in the territories was
the great question. But slavery in the old States

the North was as ready to maintain as the South
itself. After all, there seems now little in the

argument that the original and avowed ground of

secession was unfair and insufficient; it is now

apparent that the two sections of the States have

long been growing in antagonism,
Mr. ETERETT'S other arguments all resolve them-
selves into one or two—that the United States
was really the model republic—and that it can
tolerate no neighbour. It is, he tells us, " the
noblest attempt made by man to combine the
equal home-bred blessings of a small state with
the strength and influence of a great empire."
It was constructed by the wisest of men, and was
an exemplar of human wisdom. Such prosperity
as no country ever knew has been achieved be-
neath it. So attractive has it been to other
people, that by millions the inhabitants of Europe
have sought the protection and blessings it con-
fers. For such a noble monument of human wis-
dom, who would not fight ? is the burden of Mr.
EVERETT'S most warmest appeals. Now, all this
may be very effective at Boston; probably Mr.
EVERETT knows that if anything in the shape of
arguments will tell, these will. Yet it seems won-
derful that facts should not modify the warmth of
his eulogies. The hard undeniable fact is,
that a party, the majority hitherto in Ame-
rica, have always interpreted the constitu-
tion, as subordinating Federal to State Rights,
and that it finds in the oanstitution itself
the inherent right of secession. It is clear, also,
that, tested by the very short period in a nation's
life of less than fourscore years, the Federation has
just split in halves, and threatens to separate into
quarters. If we concede the utmost to Mr. EVERETT
still the fact remains, that this model of wisdom is
a model so easily broken that statesmen of other
countries must doubt its wisdom.
Mr. EVERETT also appeals to the geographical
difficulties of the case. 'What are we to do without
a definite border ? how can we tolerate the outfall
of the Ohio, the Missouri and the Mississippi
lying in what will become a foreign country ?
Why, no—it is unpleasant to have the main
road to your estate, through your neighbour's
property : unpleasant also to have no well-
marked boundaries between your land and his.
Still European rivers and countries have long
had to get on as well as they could under these
conditions ; and really the argument would be good
for England's adding a tremendous slice of the
United States to Canada. Had, indeed, the North
used its growing empire with more moderation, had
it been less of the sharper and the bully, and showed
as much inclination to be a model of pleasant deal-
ing with other countries, as to show itself deter-
mined to hustle all the Governments who did not
please it and pick their pockets by American mobs,
we might have sympathised with its desire for
Imperial greatness. Unfortunately America has
produced on other people the impression, that the
weaker she is, the better for the peace of the
world. One of Mr. ETERETT'S fears actually is,
that the Florida's might wish to return to the
allegiance of Spain, and Louisiana, and tho States
formed from it to reunion with France. If they
did it would not say much for the blessings they
had enjoyed under the model Government.
It is somewhat remarkable that Mr. EVERETT
should complain of the South for telling Unionists
in Virginia that they had better leave the State,
since Mr. LINCOLN'S military prisons bear witness
to the fact that men of " Southern proclivities "
in the North, are not very comfortable
there ; while it was but the other
day that Mr. LINCOLN was telling the coloured
people—some four millions altogether—that they
had better leave the States, though loyal, because
their sable and Mr. LINCOLN'S sallow did not match
comfortably together. The best wish we have for
Mr. EVERETT, and Mr. LINCOLN too, is that they
may wholly fail, till they recognise the greater
right of the negro to fight for his personal liberty.
This second great levy will probably fail, as the
last has done—then, surely, the question must come
up—shall we give up, or give negrees their rights.

Is it to be believed ? That GARIBALDI,
" Defeated, wounded, captured," has for several
days together been left without a change of bed at
Varignano ! That suffering though he is from a
bruised thigh and a shattered ankle—there has
been absolutely nothing whatever provided for the
alleviation of those sufferings, no linen, or leeches,
or bandages ! That the physician attending upon
the illustrious patient had to ask a lady of Spezzio
for some linen for the mutileed Hero and Liberator
of the Italians! That for the very bed he lies upon
—he is indebted to the consideration of another
private citizen of that seaport, a shipbuilder in the
Spezzio dockyard.
Alas! incredible though it is—we have all this
upon the authority of General Brxio. Under date,
" Genoa, Sept. sth"—Brxio having just returned
thither from Varignano. So that he writes of facts
that have come within the range of Lis own obser-
vation. Now that those facts are brought to light,
we cannot but conceive that for very shame the
RATTAZZI Cabinet at Turin must see that the Hero
of the Age is henceforth (if his life but lasts)
treated somewhat differently.

Our Prince of WALES is enjoying himself at I
Brussels in the way in which we all could wish.
The loves of princes and princesses must interest
all loyal subjects, and we are amongst those who
are heartily thankful that there is such a story for
our wives and daughters to discuss. None of us
can vouch for the truth of the rumours put forth
as to the first meetings of the young couple ; but
we all cherish the belief that, whether the
PRINCESS ROYAL, by design, introduced a royal 1
damsel, worthy to be his wife, to her
brother, or whether a more casual meeting
was the first one,—we cherish the belief that our
PRINCE did not " Walk into love with his eyes
open" but " fell in love." Very young indeed have
our Royal family married hitherto, or proposed
marriage; but wise assuredly is our SOVEREIGN in
taking this grand security for happy homes for her
children. Royal children have no anxiety respect-
ing their means of livelihood—there is no" pruden-
tial check," on their Anti-Malthusian sentiments—
would there were none on those of any young
immunity from " care for
the moral blessings of early
couple I
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marriage
in those of the generality of young people. The
re-
membrance of the reign and family of GEORGE 111.,
will justify our
QUEEN in the eyes of all in
encouraging her children in the course they have

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taken.
The Princess has iszeome pretty well known in
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in her favour by what ga e have been permitted to '
see. But what we hear is equally satisfactory, and
we cannot doubt that the Princess ALEXANDRA
Will he worthy of her post as tke second
lady in the land, and the daughter-in-
law of our SOVEREIGN. She will come to a
country prepared cordially to welcome her. That
she is a Danish Princess, though the family is
originally German, will itself be a recommenda-
tion ; that her father is King Elect of DENMARK,
and may possibly be the King of Scandinavia ;
making it a kind of Northern Italy, is another re-
commendation ; but it is also believed with the
best reason that the Princess is her own recommen-
dation—and that of the seven young damsels, out
of the eight hundred Royal personages enumerated
by the Gotha Alinanack as eligible for England's
Prince, she is the one most naturally likely to
make him a home like his father and mother's. May
Heaven make it as happy and as good, is the
prayer of us all.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.

"LURLINE."

" Lurline," the most melodious, if not the most I
impressive, of :,)mantis operas, was produced at
this theatre last evening, in order to afford a first
appearance to a new candidate for public favour in
the graceful music of the heroine. Every allow-
ance should be made for the most accomplished de-
butante who replaced Miss Louisa Pyne, if only for
a night or two, in one of her most delightful char-
acters. She would not only have to compete with
some of the greatest gifts upon our stage, as well as
the most perfect art and culture, but with a self-
reliance, the result of years of well deserved suc-
cess, which doubles the force of every expression by
the mere fact of its certainty. These considerations
will be greatly enlarged in the case of Miss Sara
Dobson, the debutante of the past evening, when we
announce that this young lady has scarcely reached
her 20th year, and this was her debut upon the
London, if not on the English, stage. It can be no
surprise, therefore, that she felt the severe ordeal
she had to sustain, and displayed a nervousness
which deprived her of almost half the power she
possesses. Nevertheless, in despite of every ob-
stacle, she accomplished sufficient to convince the
audience of her more than usual claims to favour—
and to win, as she well merited, a very genuine
success. Miss Dobson's voice is a pure soprano,
of considerable compass as well as pliancy—but
more melodious it seemed than forcible, and better
in its upper range than in its lower. Her method
is very good. All her notes were delivered—as far
as her tremour would permit—with great ease
and distinctness—and if owing to this impedi-
ment it was difficult to judge of her amount of
feeling, she afforded sufficient evidence of '
a correct and careful taste. Her most suc-
cessful efforts were her s'. are in the finale
of the second act, a portion of the scena of the
third, and her entire delivery of the popular air,
"Take this cup of sparkling wine," which she
gave with such animation as to win a well-deserved
encore. On the whole—whilst compelled to sus-
pend a conclusive opinion till we have been enabled
to hear her again, and she has obtained sufficient
confidence to do justice to her unquesticnable
powers—we have no hesitation in auguring very
favourably of her future, and in regarding her ac-
cession to the company as a decided acquisition.
Miss Dobson was warmly called for at the close of
every act. And, we trust not forget to add, that she
is a pupil of Mrs. Wood, who, after fulfilling a
brilliant career as the greatest singer of her time,
seems now to be devoting her retirement to the
scarcely less agreeable task of supplying the stage
she so long adorned with meritorious successors.
The opera on this occasion was excellently
sustained thi oughout. Mr. Santley was the River
King, and was never heard to more perfection.
His declamation of the recitatives was marked with
all that true dramatic energy to which he has re-
cently attained, whilst his delivery of the favourite
ballad—" A Father's Early Love "—revealed a
depth of feeling that could not be exceeded. Mr.
Corri, as the slave Zelleik, sang his drinking song
with a vivacity which made it one of the features
of the night; whilst Mr. George Perrin, as Count
Rudolf, in lieu of Mr. Harrison, made another sen-
sible step in the favour of the public. All well-
wishers to the theatre have long been conscious of

the necessity of both Miss Pyne and Mr. Harrison
relieving themselves of the strain of a nightly per-
formance, in addition to the tasks of management,
and this policy could scarcely have been better car-
ried out than by the engagements made this season
with Miss Parepa and Mr. Perrin. This gentle-
man combines the advantages of a very pleasing
tenor voice, with an excellent style of singing,
and only requires a little familiarity with the stage
to ripen into ot,e of our most agreeable dramatic
tenors. His execution of the music of the Count
was irreproachable throughout—his most marked
success, perhaps, being his delivery of the charm-
ing cavatina, " Sweet form," in which he was
encored, and which had the additional charm o[
freshness, as it is usually omitted. Of Miss Susan
Pyne, in the Lady Ghiva, Miss Thirwall, in the
spirit Liba, and all the rest of the executants, we
have nothing to say but words of praise; not for-
getting Mr. Mellon, and his admirable band and
chorus, which he so perfectly directs. The house,
we are happy to add, was crowded to the ceiling.

EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.—An event is reported
to have occurred lately which is making no small sensa-
tion in the Highlands, within a hundred miles of the new
line from Perth to Inverness. One of those festive ga-
therings such as are common at this season of the year,
and which are alike attended and enjoyed by the aristo-
cracy and democracy of a country side, had passed off
with great spirit, and was very appropriately wound up
with a ball. At this ball—as the phrase is—ad the beauty
and fashion of the district might be seen, and it was spe-
cially graced by the presence of a noble marquis, the heir
to a still nobler title, as well as a vast estate. There was
also present a worthy baronet, who, as the evening wore
on, proceeded to escort his lady from the ball-room to her
carriage. The passage was somewhat crowded, and in the
crowd was the noble marquis. The hon. baronet finding
egress difficult, requested the crowd to make way for his
lady, which it is said they all promptly did, with the ex
ception of his future grace, who, blocking up the passage,
the baronet pushed him aside, for which he was repaid by
a volley of abusive epithets altogether unfit to be heard by
ears polite, or printed in the columns of a respectable
paper. Sir G— paid no attention at the moment to the
abuse with which he was thus assailed, but having seen his
lady to her carriage, returned and asked the marquis what
he meant by such language. Being treated in reply to a
repetition of the same style of abuse, Sir G---- at once
gave it to him " right and left," completely flooring the
scion of a noble house, and informing him that he would be
ready to meet him anywhere else, and answer for what he
had done. It is said that the duchess is much grieved at
the affair, not that the marquis was punished, but that be
should so far have forgotten the bearing of a gentleman,
while the duke says " it served him right, and will, per-
haps, teach him better manners. ".
—.Dundee Advertiser..
JUDICIAL EVIDENCE IN 1629.—M05t of the trials

reported in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. belong to
the general and well-known history of the country, and the
same is true of most of those which occur in the time of
Charles I. . . . One singular exception occurs in the 4th of
Charles I. (A D. 1629), which deserves notice both on ac-
count of its curiosity, and also because it is nearly the first
instance in which there is anything like a report of circum-
stantial evidence. This is the case of the murder of Jane
Norkott, for which her mother, her brother-in-law, and her
sister were tried and acquitted at Hertford assizes, and were
afterwards tried on an appeal ire the King's,Bench at West-
minster. The evidence against the prisoners was, that they
were in the house alone with the deceased all night, and
that no one came in ; and that the state of the body (the
neck was broken and the throat cut) and other circum-
stances, showed, that she could not have killed herself.
Hence it was argued they must have killed her. In the
present day such evidence would be held to establish no
more than an alternative case, that is, to prove, as in the
famous instance of the Road murder, some one of several
persons was guilty. What the result of the trial then Was
does not appear. The most singular point about it was the
evidence given by two clergymen—brothers, and ministers
of the parish in which the murder happened and of the
one next adjoining it. Sergeant Maynard says that he
heard their evidence, took it down at the time, and would
be ready to swear to the accuracy of his report. The first
clergyman "was a very reverend person, as I guessed, of
about seventy years of age ; his testimony was delivered
gravely and temperately, but to the great admiration'
(1. e. wonder) "of the auditory. He said : The body)
being taken up out of the grave thirty days after the party's
death, and lying on the grass, and the four defendants
being present, were required each of them to touch the
dead body. Okeman's wife' (the sister) fell upcn her
knees and prayed God to show tokens of her innocency.
The appellant' (the woman's child) 'did touch the dead
body, whereupon the brow of the dead, which before was
of a livid and carrion colour, began to have a dew, or
gentle sweat, arise on it, which increased by degrees ti.l
the sweat ran down in drops on the face. The brow turn-
ed to a lively and fresh colour, and the deceased opened one
of her eyes and shut it again; and this opening the eye was
done three several times. She likewise thrust out the ring
or marriage finger three times, and pulled it in again ; and
the finger dropped blood from it on the grass'' " The wit-
ness added, that "he himself dipped his finger in the blood
which came from the dead body to examine it, and he
swore he believed it was blood." The other clergyman
confirmed this account in every particular. One of the odd
parts of the sbry is that, assuming the truth of the evi-
dence, it is impossible to make out whether it proves that a
miracle was worked in answer to Mrs. Olfeman's prayer ;
or that the bleeding of the body showed (according to the
s
common superstition) the presence of the murderer, and, if
o which o
grotesquef
threein the
it pointed at. There is
something
the production of an ambiguous
miracle for the purpose,of clearing up ambiguous evidence.
—"Cornhi‘i Magazine for ,September,
•

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, AUG. 30.
(Per Glasgow, via Roche's Point.)

The New York limes says that if England,
France, and Russia would mediate on the basis of
the South returning to the Union, doubtless the
North would assent to any terms compatible with
the national honour and essential to the protection
and preservation of Southern rights. " Mediation
on the basis of Southern independence," continues
the New Fork 7intes," is open hostility."
The Secessionists in St. Louis, county Missouri,
have been assessed by the Federal General Schole-
field in the sum of 500,000 dols., for the support of
the families of the Federal militia.

TURIN, SEPT. 10.

General Cialdini is expected to arrive here
shortly, whence he will proceed to reassume the com-
mand of his corps d'arinee at Bologna.
General Brignone continues to fulfil the duties
of Prefect of Palermo and of Extraordinary Com-
missioner for Sicily.
The health of Garibaldi has improved. It is con-
sidered possible that an amnesty will be proclaimed.
The Discussione of to-day states that the definitive
closing of the Parliamentary session is very shortly
expected.

The Minister of War has under consideration a
proposal to send back to their families all Garibal-
dians under 18 years of age who have been taken

prisoners.

WARSAW, SEPT. 10.

An order of the Grand Duke Constantine raises
the state of siege in the governmental district of
Radom, with the exception of the towns of Radom
and Kielce.

BELGRADE, SEPT. 9 (EVENING).
The conflict between the Turks and the Servians
at Ongitza ended in the defeat of the former.
An armistice has since been concluded through
the intervention of the foreign Consuls.

The Turks are surrounded in the fortress of Bel-
grade, i..nd their countrymen residing in the town
are unable to leave their houses.
In the Servian quarter 170 warehouses and 130
houses were set on fire by the Turks, and the re-
mainder were much damaged. The town is, in fact,
nearly destroyed.
In the late conflict the Turks had 30 killed and
12 wounded, and the Servians one killed and seven
wounded.

RAGUSA, SEPT. 10.

The treaty e sncluded between the Turks and
the Montenegrins contains 14 stipulations. Three
of these have already been made public. The re-
mainder comprise :

Maintenance of the frontier as agreed upon in
1859 ;

Cessation of Grahova to the Mentenegrins ;

Exchange of deserters ; and
The opening of commercial relations between
Montenegro and the adjoining Turkish provinces.