The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY CVENUIG, JANUARY 27, 1802.

tail, as indeed becomes him, upon the whole of the
vexed question. of the Trent seizure, beginning with
tho insolent beginning and ending with the
eminently meek and conciliatory end.

There is a genial good humour and bon hommie
about the noble Lord the Admiralty Secretary, that
carries his audience 'with him invariably —no
matter whether he is speaking, from the front of the
Treasury bench, to the House of Commons, or ad.
dressing a provincial assemblage of electors, com-
posed for the most part of nis own constituents.
There is more of " the milk of human kindness" in
his nature than of "the gall of bitterness." And it
is significant of this how he squandered his
epithets of unstinted admiration around him
on Saturday, when alluding rtow to this one,
now to that one, among his more imme-
diate contemporaries. When he spoke of his
late Royal Highness, he spoke of him as a Prince,
who " endeared himself to the people because he
was not only a virtuous, an honest, and a great man,
but also a good and a religious man, and as such
was loved and respected throughout the land." In
a similar strain, when he had occasion a few
minutes afterwards to refer to some remarks recently
uttered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he
could only mention him in so many words as " that
extraordinary man, Mr. GLADSTONE." So likewise,
when commenting, as we have incidentally shown,
upon the Anglo-French Treaty negotiated under
the auspices of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord CLARENCE, in justice, accords the lion's share
of commendation for whatever good he deemed to
have come from it, to the unadorned Plenipotentiary
at Paris, speaking of Mr. COBDEN, there and then;
as " that great man and patriotic Englishman."
It is not, however, for his tributes to the
memory of the Prince, to the genius of the financier,
or to the civism of the Tribune - Diplomatist
that the speech of Lord CLARENCE PAGET will be
found especially worth looking into. Neither is it
for that matter especially deserving of examination
by reason of any new light that it can possibly
throw upon that serious misunderstanding, and
eventual reconciliation between the British Govern-
ment and the Federal Government at Washington.
It is rather because the Admiralty Secretary's
speech down at Deal, on Saturday, throws a fresh
and cheery flood of light upon the eminently satis-
factory state of affairs nowadays in regard to the
Royal Navy of England that we turn to the con-
sideration of this last address of his with such
peculiar satisfaotion. What possibly could be more
exhilarating in its way than his reference to simple
facts thus in regard to the Royal Naval Reserve Bill ?
" See !" he exclaims, " the position we have arrived
at in this matter in the course of the last year and
a half. Parliament granted, at the instance of the
the Royal Commission of which my friend Mr.
GREEN was appointed a member—an honour with
which he may go to his grave satisfied—the re-
quisite means for working out that scheme. The
Commission found fault, first of all with:our utter
want of anything like reserves for the navy,
and recommended certain measures to the
Government. The first thing the pre-
sent Ministry did on coming into :office
was to set about carrying out the re-
commendations of that Commission. Well, we have
carried them out, and I may almost say to the very
letter ; so sensible were they, so good, that we have
completely adopted them. And what has been the
result ? There has been no necessity to have recourse
to bounties in manning our ships during the late
crisis. Why, we have been for two years and half
endeavouring to get rid of that mischievous bounty
offered by the late Government. We have got rid of
the bad men who were induced to enter the navy for
the sake of that bounty, and I believe we need never
resort to that expedient again. Give the men good
pay. That is what is wanted. I had the good
fortune to carry through the House of Commons a
bill for organising a Naval Reserve. Sailors are
very suspicious of the Admiralty, or, rather, they
used to be. They were very coy about coming for-
ward to join. We used to pick up ten or a dozen
men here and there. The seamen said, The Ad-
miralty are going to kidnap us. They are going to
send us off; this is one of their acts of bad faith to-
wards us ; they want to persuade us that we are
entering into a reserve, but they mean to ship us off
into the first man-of-war they require.' I have ad-
dressed the men at public meetings and told them—
' It is no such thing; we only want you to come
forward for training in gunnery in time of peace, in
order that you may be ready to be useful in time of
war ; and we will give you good pay while under-
going that preliminary training.' Well, that is
reasonable ; acid the sailors, after turning their
quid,' as they say, and reflecting a little, began to
think that good terms were offered them, and the re-
sult is,' said he, 'they are flocking in by thou-
sands. We have 9,000 of them now, and I have
no doubt that in the course of a year or two
the utmost limit of the Parliamentary vote will
be reached. These reserves are now advanced to
that extent that, to give you some idea of what
they are, I may state that to-morrow we could
have twenty-seven line-of battle ships with them."
Bravo, Lord CLARENCE! That is just what we
have been so long hoping and hoping for : and not
simply hoping for either, but arguing for as earnestly
as we could finds words to argue with, for years
and years past in these columns of The Sun.

And it is not simply in reference to the ad.

ranee of the great movement at last commenced
(
with a view to the organisation of an efficien t
NAVAL RESERVE that the Admiralty Secretary found
cause for speaking (justifiablyenough)in the language
at once of exultation and congratulation—it was
also possible for him to speak this in reference
quite as emphatically to the general improvement
of the whole condition of our true defenders—our
English men-o'-war's men ! " For many years," said
Lord CLARENCE [and recollect he was talking on
, Saturday last in the hearing of merchant bailors, of
Deal boatmen, and, among his other auditors, of Mr.
GREEN, the eminent shipowner l] For many
years," said Lord CLARENCE PAGET, "there has '
been a great prejudice against the Navy. The mer-
chant seamen supposed that if they went on board
a man-of-war it was what was called a' Hell afloat,'
and that the sooner they got out of it, if they had
once got in, the better. That is the opinion of most
sailor men. Well, but these things have changed.
We are paying our sailors in the navy higher
wages than in the merchant service, and justly
higher, We exact a more stringent discipline;
we exact, too, greater cleanliness, if I may say so
without offence to my friend Mr. GREEN, who has
something like 30 ships, all of the crews of which
are as clean as men-of-war's men. But there is no
doubt we require greater qualifications in the men
—a knowledge of gunnery, for instance. Well, we
pay them better. Mark this, my sailor friends :
We pay the able seamen in the navy now, taking
into consideration his allowances—viz., gunnery
ray, good conduct pay, if he be a good man, and the
allowance for clothes—we pay him, I say, upwards
of £3 per month. My worthy friend, who pays his
men well, can't pay them like that. They are, more-
over, well cared for; they have a pension in their old
age; and what is the result ? Why, you take care
of your seamen, and they are grateful to you; for
there is no more grateful creature living than the
seaman if well treated. A state of things is eons°.

quently arising in which the navy is fast becoming
to the seaman a boon instead of a misery when he
goes on board a man-of-war. To what are we to
attribute this marvellous change ? It is because
England is liberal, and Parliament is liberal. I can
go to the House of Commons, as you all know, and
ask for anything for the seamen, and the House wilt
grant it." Nuts—that last declaration of the Admi•
ralty Secretary—nothing less than nuts, surely,
to our old friends: the Peace-at-any-Price econo-
mists. The fact is—and it is satisfactory to know
this perfectly well at last —the fact is that we are
now really and seriously in a fair way to perfect the
rehabilitation of the Royal Navy of England. Of
this fact Lord CLARENCE PAGET'S speech on Satur-
day at Deal, is the last happy reminder.

While Mr. SEWARD is becoming so very obliging
and courteous, that Abolition orators seem to be
warming up in wordy wrath against England. Even
Mr. SUMNER'S great speech was made to show that
England had gone on her knees to American prin-
ciples ; and, that the surrender of the men whom
all Americans declared they would never part with,
and whom "the other, SUMNER" and Mr. EVERETT,
proved they were bound to hold fast, was an Ameri-
can triumph. And so it was, too, though not in the
way Mr. SUMNER meant, for it was the triumph of
prudence and common sense over pride and vindic-
tiveness. And now a still more furious Abolitionist,
he whose abolition fight in the Senate we noticed
the other day—Mr. OWEN LOVEJOY—has added
his invectives against England, to the more gen-
tlemanly demonstrations by our great humiliation
by Mr. SUMNER.

The occasion was one pacific enough. Congress
was asked to make an appropriation to send Ameri-
can goods to the English exhibition when, as the
telegram tells us—Mr. OWEN LOVEJOY, in the choice
language of American oratory said—" I oppose this
bill as it is enough for us to have been humbugged,
dishonoured, and disgraced by England." A gentle
reminder by another speaker, that their own Go-
vernment might have as much to do with the " dis-
grace" as that of England called forth the following
remarkable effusion; he said, in reply, he under-
stood how it was that disgrace was all America
could bear, and continued : "We marched up to the
sweating drops of blood, and yet we are asked to
say we did it cheerfully, and that we appro-
priate money for 'Commissioners to appear at
England's Exhibition. Having submitted to dis-
grace, the least we can.do is to acknowledge it, and
stay at home until we can whip England. I hate
the surrender ! I hate the British Government ! I
here avow and record that hate, and declare it in-
extinguishable. I cherish hate while living and be-
queath it to my sons, whom I charge, if there is war
with England, to enter the war. I trust the rebellion
will soon be suppressed. We can then avenge the
insult we have received. We will then stir up Ire-
land. We will appeal to the English Chartists
and to the French inhabitants of Canada. We will
join hands with France and Russia to take Eng-
land's proud Eastern possessions, and we will take
away the Crown from the English Government be-
fore we have ceased. I trust in God that time will
come. I believe we should have been stronger for
a war with England, for we should have felt the
necessity of making short work of the rebels."

We need not undertake to show that an exhibi-
tion of their own produce in the Great World's
Mart of 1862 is a question of their own interest,
not of ours, and that we have plenty of applicants
for the space if they do not wish for it. The gawky
contributions to the last Exhibition do not cer-
tainly increase our wish to press them to send over
much of the results of their native industry this
time. They are welcome rather than wished for.
But why all this singularly obtrusive hatred of
England and her Government on the part of Aboli-
tionists ? 11, hat have w a done to bo charged with
an insult which must be avenged, if posssble, in
Mr. LOVEJOY'S own lifetime, and if not, must re-
quire of that gentleman to swear his son, HANNI-
BAL LOVEJOY, we may suppose, to eternal enmity
against England. What has our widowed QuEEN
done to require that the American LOVEJOYS should
find their savage joy in taking away her crown ?
Could the insult be so very undurable of making a
demand which even such very diverse States as
France, Austria, and Prussia thought we must
make, and counselled Mr. LOVEJOY'S Government
to comply with. Surely the only party disgraced
in the affair, besides the hero WILKLs, is the
Government which awaited the demand of England,
and which did not refuse to accept the Commis-

sioners as prisoners.
Perhaps it may be thought that we give too
much prominence to such rant. We should think
so, were it not reasonable to suppose that if Abo-
litionists, who have so long looked for the moral
support of England find it necessary to make such
hustings orations as these in the Legislature, there
must be a strong feeling of the kind amongst those
to whose votes they are looking for re-election. We
ought to be aware of this, and keep our eyes open
to it for every reason; it shows not only the need
of caution on the frontiers of Canada, lest weak-
ness there tempt passion to lawless outbreaks ; but
also the desirableness of avoiding all possible occa-
sions of irritation ; that if war should arise sooner
or later between the two countries, the fault may
be wholly on one side.
One of the strongest arguments against breaking
the blockade by any act on our part is the light in
which it would be viewed by all coming generations
of Americans. We believe that we have a legal
right to break it on the ground of inefficiency,
though we think it would be eventually injurious
to us to do it, and that our interest lies rather, now
that so much of the mischief the blockade could do
has been done, in seeing it protracted indefinitely,
till the whole of the tropical countries had become
cotton growers for us, and purchasers of our pro-
duce in exchange. But it is surely our interest
also to avoid allowing the North to throw her
failure to conquer the South, if she does fail, upon
us. Were we to open and protect a free trade with
the South, doubtless the North would give up very
quickly, and would negotiate the best terms it
could ; but it would hand down to all American
posterity that it was England, not the Southerns
themselves, who compelled the separation. For
that we may be sure we should never be forgiven.
created such misrepresentations and ill-will, what
If our thoroughly impartial course hitherto has
must we expect if we sided with the South as freely
as we now do with the North. Hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of Southern men have died by weapons
manufactured England. If we enabled the
Seuthtofig in
fight at similar advantage, we should
certainly never hear the last of it; it would, doubt-
less, quickly settle the present dispute, for the
Southerns want nothing but the money their cot-
ton would buy, and the military stores it would
purchase to bid effectual defiance to the North for
ever. We see even by the last advices what efforts
the North is making from Malta to Quebec to pre-
vent the South from obtaining any supplies from
Europe, or even any communication with it.
What the recent changes in the Cabinet mean,
we shall soon better understand. One thing is
certain—Mr. CAMERON was one of the most anti-
slavery men in the Cabinet—the one who advocated
a relentless emancipation as a military necessity. So

Mr. CAMERON goes to Russia, where he will

at least sympathise with, and be acceptable to, a
CZAR who emancipates his serfs on very reasonable
terms, whether their proprietors like or not, and
giving them but little indeed in the way of com-
pensation. Of Mr. CAssius M. CLAY, who comes
home from Rome to take a command in the
Federal army, we also know something. We know
at least how big he could talk, and write to, English
newspapers, when Mr LINCOLN first sent him to
this side the Atlantic. Ho will now, as a
general, have an opportunity of something better
than " prave 'orts." He must, however, be quick
to get to America before the treasury is quite ex•
hausted, or before Mr. CHASE has been compelled
to flood the country with inconvertible paper. A
result not likely to be long in arriving at the
present comparative rates of expenditure and taxa-
tion.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have returned to Grosvenor Gate for the season, from a
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at
Hatfield House, llerts. Tho right hon. gentleman has
issued colds of invitation for a Parliamentary dinner on
the sth proximo, to a circle of his supporters in the House
of Commons.

The many friends of the late Baron Bunsen, who
was so deservedly esteemed while filling the pest of Prus-
sian Minister in this country, will be glad to learn that his
widow, Baroness Bunsen, has returned to England with
her family, and is passing the winter at St. Leonards.

THE HOUSES Ol' LORDS AND COMMONS —During
the recess all the members' benches of both the Houses of
Lords and Commons have been re-covered—the former
with red and the latter with green morocco leather. The
Kamptulicon carpet, that for the last eight years has been
down in the corridors, committee rooms, library, and else-
where. has been taken up, and a chocolate-coloured, neat-
patterned oil OM, conespunalLig whla clic cuualiatio payo-
znents, placed in its stead.

GALE AND WRECK OFF HOLYHEAD.—A most
terrific gale was experienced at Holyhead throughout Wed •
nesday night. A ve,sel foundered about midnight between
the Isle of Bardsoy and the South Stack, within about 14
miles from land. She proved to be the screw steamer Kan-
garoo, of Aberdeen, bound from the Clyde for Bordeaux
with a cargo of wool and pig-iron. Two boats, containing
the crew, pushed off from her. One, containing the mate
and six hands, happily reached the shore off the Roscolyn
coast, but it is at present feared that the rest of the crew,
14 in number, have been lost, as the boat in which they left
the ship has been found on the rocks, and no tidit.gs have
been heard of the unfortunate men. A large number of
vessels have turned into the harbour, many dismasted and
otherwise damaged.

WRECK OF THE SHIP INDIAN OCEAN.—lntelli-
gence reached Liverpool on Friday afternoon to the effect
that the ship Indian Ocean, belonging to the Black Ball
line of Australian clippais, had been wrecked at Annestown,
on the Wexford coast, and that all on board had perished.
Fortunately, so far as the loss of life is concerned, the report
turns out to be unfounded. Captain Hutchison, the com-
mander, with his crew, arrived in Liverpool on Saturday
morning. It is true the ship was lost, with her cargo, but
no lives were sacrificed. The Indian Ocean, of I,OW tons,
sailed from Liverpool for Sydney on the 20th inst., with a
valuable cargo.

THE EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.—A copy of
the bill which Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of
Works, intends to introduce into Parliament, on the sub-
ject of the Thames embankment, was forwarded on Friday
evening to the Metropolitan Board of Works. An intima-
tion was given at the close of the last session, that the pro-
ceeds of the coal tax would be applied towards the expense
of the embankment recommended by the commissioners,
and that the work should be carried out under the superin-
tendence of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The bill
which has now been prepared, provides that the embank-
ment shall be confided to a commission to be specially ap-
pointed for the purpose. Four members of the Metropolitan
Board and two of the City Commission of Sowers are to be
nominated as forming part of the commission; and the
construction of the embankment will, it is said, be entrusted
to Messrs. M'Lean and Stilewell. The arrangement is one
which will not be received with great favour by the mem-
bers of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
ANOTPIER FATAL CRINOLINE AOCIDENT.--On
Saturday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at Westminster
Hospital on the body of Margaret Clegg, aged 15 years,who
died from the effects of severe burning on Monday last. The
deceased and another little girl were sitting by the fire,
when the former got up to reach something from the man-
tlepiece. Her crinoline caused her dress to go against the
bars of the grate, and catch fire, and she was at once enve-
loped in flames. Assistance was soon procured, and the fire
was extinguished, but the deceased was too much burned to
recover. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
THE CONDEMNED MURDERERS.—It will be re-
membered that a short Lime back a young man, named
George Inkpen, was convicted of the murder of his sweet-
heart by drowning her in the Surrey Canal, the intention
of the parties having, no doubt, been to destroy themselves
bp suicide. The prisoner has been respited during her Ma-
jesty's pleasure.—The prisoner William Malony, who was
convicted of the murder of his wife in Westminster, and
Richard Reeve, the boy who killed his sister in Drury-
court, also remain in Newgate, awaiting the decision of the
Government as to what will be their fate, both having been
respited during her Majesty's pleasure.

EXTENSIVE FlRES.—Yesterday morning, at an
early hour, a fire, attended with serious loss of property,
took place on the premises belonging to Mr. Hayhoe, a
draper and hosier, carrying on business at 113, Long-alley,
Bishopsgate-street. The flames were not extinguished
until Mr. Hayhoe's premises and their contents were en-
tirely consumed. The premises of Mr. Pyne, a brazier and
tinman, have received also a considerable damage by fire,
water, and hasty removal. No. 26 in the same lane, belong-
to Mr. Haynes, a butcher; No. 27, Mr. Sayers, an ex-
tensive cabinet manufacturer ; No. 28, Mr. Wilkinson
butcher; and Mr. Edwards, No. 112, are also serious];
burned, and the contents severely injured by water and re-
moval. The losses will fall upon the Sun, Phoenix, London
and Liverpool, and other offices. Another fire happened on
the premises of Messrs. Jay, mourning establishment, Nos.
109, 111, and 113, Regent-street, and did considerable
damage. The usually busy neighbourhood of Houndsditch
was yesterday the scene of great excitement among the
members of the Hebrew persuasion, who transact a great
amount of business on our Sabbath, owing to the 4reaking
out of a firo, which raged for a considerable time, on the
premises of Mr. George Nathan, wholesale clothier and
contractor, situate at Nov. 153, in the above-named tho-
roughfare. The upper floors were nearly burned out, the
roof partially destroyed, and considerable damage was done
j to the premises of Mr. P. Edwards, coffee-shop proprietor
(No. 152) by fire, water, &c.
EXTENSIVE SILK ROBBERY IN TILE CITY.—On
Saturday information was forwarded from the Bow-lane
Station of the City police to the various stations in the me-
tropolis, of the perpetration of a daring and extensive rob-
bery of silk goods from the warehouse of Mr. W. H. P.
Kayess, situate No. 23, Milk-street, Cheapside. The pre-
mises were left secured on Monday night, and on the
Tuesday morning, when the persons engaged went to the
warehouse they found that the place had been broken into
and preparations made for carrying off a large quantity of
valuable goods ; bnt +hero is no doubt the thieves were dis-
turbed, and the only property taken was about 300 pieces
of plain silk handkerchiefs, about 40 pieces of superior
China silk handkerchiefs, and 10 pieces of ten different do •
scriptions of handkerchiefs. Mr. Kayess has offered a
reward of £5O.

DESTRUCTION OF THE MAIN CIIANNEL OF
CHARLESTON lIARBOUR.—A writer in the Morning
Herald says :—The London organ of the Washington
Government is attempting to mislead the British publ c as
to the extent of the injury inflicted on the port of Charles-
ton and the shipping interests of the world through the
sinking of the " stone fleet." In its publication of yesterday
it had even the effrontery to assert that the Confederate
schooner West Indian, from Charleston, which arrived at
Liverpool a faw days ago, sailed out of the former port
through the channel alleged to be obstructed and passed
over the submerged whale ships. Allow MO to contradict
that mendacious statement. The West Indian being a
small vessel of only 241 tons came out of Charleston, and
ran the blockade through what is termed "the 11 foot chan-
nel," which has not yet been obstructed by the Northern
vandals. The "stone fleet," consisting of 16 whale ships
(each containing an immense block, formed of masses of
granite ingeniously cemented by means of concrete,) has
been sunk in the narrowest part of the main ship channel,
usually termed the "Cotton-ship Channel," the depth of
which was from 16 to 18 feet. Everyone conversant with
the cotton trade knows that the " cotton ships" draw up-
wards of 11 feet of water--and the channel through which
the West Indian contrived to run the blockade cannot be
used by them. In conclusion, I submit, that it is the duty
of England and France to interfere forthwith, since their
remonstrances and protests are unavailing, and to remove
themselves the " stone fleet." With the aid of powerful
tugs this may be accomplished at present, but it will be-
come a Herculean task if by delay the submerged whale
ships should be allowed to become imbedded or to break up.
A DRAGOON " COMING IN" FORA FORTUNE.--
A private, named Thomas Nelson, alias Biddy, hitherto
attached to one of the troops of the sth Dragoon Guards,
now stationed at Norwich, is said to have become the pos-
sessor of a fortune of £70,000, besides a fine estate near
Liverpool, of the value of £9,000 per annum. It is possible
there may be some exaggeration as to the amounts, but the
lucky fellow has purchased his discharge from the service,
and left Norwich for the purpose of inspecting his pro-
perty; after doing which he proposes to travel on the con-
tinent. It is added that nouveau riche acquired the pro-
perty through his grandfather, who had adopted the name
of Biddy, by which name Nelson was generally known
among his comrades.