The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 23, 1862.

Amidst all the bickerings of public speakers and
diplomatists on both sides the Atlantic, it is heart-
cheering to hear from the Northern cities of Ame-
rica the kindliest language, backed by generous
deeds, towards our suffering fellow-citizens in Lan-
cashire. All the burdens of the war, and they
are already heavy—all the irritating words and
deeds heard from this side the water, and they
have not been few—all the tirades of blind anti-
English fury in New York, and they have been nu-
merous and bitter—all the suffering of American
cotton manufactories from the same cause as stops
our own—all has not availed to chill the feeling of
the North towards the men whom its war for
Republican Empire has starved. The Southern
PRESIDENT savagely drew consolation from the
fact, that if the South suffered from the cotton
blockade, Europeans suffered from it in the propor-
tion of four to one. The North, in a nobler spirit,
says we suffer, indeed, and severely from our own
blockade, but Lancashire suffers more than we do ;
as we unwillingly cause that suffering through the
necessities of war, let us show that it is indeed un-
willingly ; and if we cannot let them buy our
enemies' cotton, let us give them of our own abuu-

dant crops.
The address 3f the committee which began this
noble work has just reached us. It is worthy of
the occasion. It is the writing of kind-hearted men
of business. It seems more like the style of
the old country. There is no clap-trap in it ;
no inuendoes ; its reasons for asking contributions
are just what they ought to be and its suggestions
practical. The gratitude with which our QUEEN
" whose virtues illustrate her words," and the
nation, received the gift of food during the Irish
famine ; the innocence of the sufferers who are
called on " to face a more fearful enemy than war;
the abundance of the crop vouchsafed by a bountiful
Providence to America, so that amid all their trials
"unsatisfied hunger has no place ;" their own con-
sciousness under their own trials of the value of
sympathy ; the appropriateness of the act as a
thansgiving offering to Providence for the plenty
of food which they enjoy—such are the kind of
arguments with which the committee appeal to
their fellow countrymen.

They suggest the value, in a case like this, of
prompt action, it being pre-eminently one in which
"he gives twice who gives quickly." Not im-
properly, in pointing out its inapplicability to such
a crisis, they mention their Homestead Act, which
gives to each settler in the Western Territories,
without regard to nationality, 160 acres of the
public land, as a " welcome and a home to every
foreigner." Expecting, probably, that the Lan-
cashire operatives would see their address, and we
hope every one will see it, the Committee probably
meant to say, "if want of employment continues,
and any of you are yet able and strong, we offer
you what you most desire, food and independence."
The Committee sees indications of a spirit of charity
like its owu in many others cities of the North ; it
advises Organisations to receive the subscriptions
"in every city,
it town, and village throughout the
linni this
i,,tratryeals to the clergy especially to unite
national and Christian work ;" to the
railroad com pa
ilet:e:t andshipmasters on the Lakes,
who have been
bythe corn traffic with
England, to contribute their carriage of the corn
offered them ; and to the food producing States, on
the ground of the market beingfurnished for their
produce by the men who have worked
UP
American
cotton. Besides large contributi nthey had
reached by the last mail 74,000 dollars—they 2
are
able to announce the noble offer mule by the: \ lessrs.
GRISWOLD of a ship of 1,800 tons burden 0 carry
over the corn to Liverpool.
The well-known Republican politician, lir.
THURLOW WEED, with a contribution of a thou-
sand dollars, writes in warmly eulogistic language
of the operatives. No form of suffering, he Bays,
"appeals with such emphasis to American benevo-
lence." His reasons are two, First, the civil war is
" the immediate cause, though the blameless cause
of the suffering." But, secondly, these operatives
are the friends of the North. Many of the roni-
mercial classes in England, he might have added,
and of the aristocracy, too, sympathise with the
South, but the operatives have resisted all attempts
to secure their co-operation against blockade and