The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-02 00:00:00

erne :-

" U.S. Ship Tuscarora, off Douglas,
Isle of Man, Aug. 17, 1862.

"Dear Father,—We arrived here this afternoon, having
left Kingstown, Ireland, this morning at four o'clock. I
wish I could convey to you some idea of the glorious re-
ception we have met with in Ireland. It baffles all descrip-
tion. The people have been crazy over us. Our ship has
been crowded with visitors from morning till night. The
first day of our arrival five thousand persons were on board,
and every day we were there we received no less than two
thousand persons on board. Kingstowu is only fifteen
minutes ride by rail from Dublin, so that we were visited
by nearly all the city. At every corner in Dublin there
were large placards, saying, The Federal American war
steamer Tuscarora has arrived in Kingstown Harbour.,
The papers were filled with accounts of the ship and of the
attention shown to visitors. All of the officers' names
were published, and in many cases each one was spoken of
as having shown some one particular attention. The ladies
wore red, white, and blue ribbons is their hats, and in fact
everybody thought of nothing else but of the Tuscarora.
Balls, dinners, parties, suppers, and picnics were given for
us, and not a night passed without our being serenaded by
a fine band or parties of ladies and gentlemen. I never
before had any idea of the Irish people and of their hospi-
tality. The class that we see in the 'United States can give
us no idea of them. Here we have met none but the very
first class of the country, and, I must say, there is no people
like them on the face of the earth. Every door in Kings-
town and Dublin was open to us, and we had hundreds of
invitations to visit other places in Ireland. The ladies are
certainly the most charming I have ever met. The moment
any of the officers of the ship landed we were at once sur-
rounded with ladies and gentlemen, who insisted upon our
visiting them at once. Carriages were always at hand for
us, and even the boatmen would not accept a fee for bring-
ing us off to the ship at any hour of the night. Dublin is
the most beautiful city I have seen, with the exception of
Paris. All the streets are wide and scrupulously clean;
the buildings are large and fine, mostly built of white
stone. Some of the public buildings are unsurpassed. I
took a look through Trinity College--a fine building. The
library contains 90,000 volumes. _

gg A. J. C."

A WORD ABOUT THE FAMINE IN LANCASHIRE.—
Many choose to insist that it is an affair for the Lancashire
gentry to manage. It is the business of the landowners ;it
is the business of the millowners. There is a great deal to
be said about this ; but we know better now than we did a
month ago that the sufferers cannot wait till it is agreed
who should relieve them. We must help them first, and
settle the doctrine of incidence afterwards. In the same
way we still hear it objected that the rates in Lancashire
are yet not so high as what some of us are paying in bosh
town and country, but many more are readywith the answer
than a month ago. The answer is, that if we leave it to the
rates to deal with the distress, Lancashire will be like a
submerged country, where all is destruction and ruin ex •
cept a few scattered hills which stand above the flood.
Whole classeslwould crumble and slide down into paupe-
rism, till none would be left to pay the rates but a sprink-
ling of rich men. Many see now that it is better not to talk
about the rates in self-excuse. The practical point, in fact,
is to spare the rates to the last moment, and to the last
farthing, for the sake of saving the poorer rate-payerf3,—
Once i Wok.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 1.

The Tralee mob have served Gavezzi greatly. Ho
lectured last night in the Metropolitan-hall, which
was very much crowded. At the conclusion of his
discourse he referred to the riots at some length.
After an, he said the Tralee mob did not touch him,
because it was not the first time he said to an Irish
mob " Take care not to approach me, because I am
a Garibaldian." What he said of the Irish or
Popish Brigade was true, and he could not retract
it. It was a ragged brigade,—
" Without hat, without coat, without stockings, and
without shoes, and when they arrived in Italy they had to
take a good plunge into the water in order to wash off the
dirt of some score of years. They were so comically dressed
that they were the laughing stock of Italians."

He respected the Irish. They fought well in the
British army and in America, but it was not coura-
geous to attack a meeting in which the majority
were ladies. Some of those who did so wore the
medals of Castel Fidardo, where they ran away
after a few shots, and left their General in the
hands of Cialdini. He exhorted the audience to
take care of their rights and privileges, but not to
retaliate. He concluded by saying " Long life to
Queen Victoria," which caused prolonged and en-
thusiastic cheering, clapping of hands, andKentish
fire.