The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1862.

The debate on the address was necessarily one
marked by an almost solemn unanimity. The
speakers felt what the country felt with them, that
in perusing that debate, her MAJESTY might na-
turally expect that no party differences should jar
upon her own feelings. If she be supposed to take
no notice of the discussions of the Houses on the
business presented for her consideration, it were
yet straining fiction to absurdity even to
suppose she did not read last night's debate
Every one felt that he was speaking, as it were, i
the house of mourning, and all the necessary ad.
vertence to public business was characterised by a
tone of expression which harmonised with the
public sorrow all felt themselves required to re-
present. The Speech itself, and, of course,
the Address, furnished indeed no topic on
which party feeling couli well lay hold, but there
was not the disposition to introduce such topics.
The Opposition speeches, the most important on
this occasion, had but two chief subjects to express
—their sense of the value of the Prince they had
lost, and the excellent conduct of the Government
in reference to America.

The Washington Cabinet will certainly learn
from the debate the entire unanimity of the great
British parties, as well as of the public, in regard
to the act of which they were guilty, and they will
learn someqiing more. They will learn that those
members of the press who insisted on the want
of dignity shown by Mr. SEWARD in detaining the
prisoners after he knew that the capture was
illegal, are in entire accord with our alternate
Premier, Lord DERBY, and doubtless with the Go-
vernment itself. Ministers could not well say in their
position what Lord DERBY could and did say in his,
that the American Government had not acted on
the principle which is recognised as honourable
between all gentlemen—that of making immediate
reparation as soon as we are convinced that we have
injured another :—" Applying the principle to na-
tions, I cannot but express my deep regret that
when the American Secretary of State was con-
vinced, as he was long before the termination of these
negotiations, that the capture was illegal, he should
have kept the persons captured for a considerable
time in all the rigours of a not very merciful im-
prisonment, and that he not only hesitated to grant
the reparation which in honour and in justice was
due—l am speaking, of course, of the American
Government in general—but should have sanc-
tioned language which was wholly unwarranted
by facts, and permitted impressions to go abroad
calculated to excite the most bitter animosity
between the people of the two countries. Lastly,
I think it greatly to be regretted that, having
made up his mind that reparation and apology
were necessary, the American Secretary of State
should have waited until the formal demand was
made, not privately, but officially and formally,
thus waiting not to consider bow much reparation
he should give, but how small a measure of repa-
ration would satisfy the imperative demands of
Great Britain. By the course which they pursued
the Federal Government have placed themselves
end their people in an undignified and an unworthy
position, and have shown that they apologised not
from a sense of justice, but on a demand backed by
force, and that they only gave the reparation
we asked for because they knew that this
country_ would be satisfied with nothing less."
We cannot doubt that her MAJESTY'S Government
agreed with every word uttered by the noble lord,
although
they Mr.
stances, witb
desired DistopßuAtEtLhT
e, undermost
generous
r co iursc u m
andliberal construction on all the words and deeds of
the Federal Government.

The two Tory leaders seemed not willing to
pass over too lightly the subject of the blockade.
There was some suspicion evidently, that it was
hardly an effective one from a legal pbint of view.
It was mentioned that on this subject the fullest

information would be expected from the Govern-

went ; nor has the Government the wish to with-
hold such as they have. No wish was expressed to
break it hastily, but it will not be allowed to pass
quite unquestioned. Lord DERBY took occasion
to pass an eulogium, which is certainly well de-
served, on the operatives in the cotton, districts.
He noticed the fact that to the master manufac-
turers the failure of the cotton supply was no 1
great loss, they having before so immensely over-
stocked all markets. But to the operatives working
for wages there was no mitigation. Yet nothing like
unreasonable complaint had been heard even from
them. This, said the noble lord—" reflects the
highest credit on the good sense and patriotism of
the working men."

The subject of recognising the Government of
he South was touched on, and in a way which the
North will perhaps think rather too encouraging to
their antagonists. Lord DERBY thought " the time
was nearly come, when they might be called on to
recognise the so far successful revolt of the seceded
States." His lordship did not wish to act prema-
turely, and he quite approved of the present rela-
tion of England to the States, regarding each party,
impartially, as belligerents. It would not be well
to recognise as an independent government one
which might not have the power to maintain its
independence. Lord RUSSELL himself looks in the
same direction as Lord DERBY. He thinks many
months cannot pass before it will be seen whether
or not the Federal States are able to
accomplish the task they have undertaken—of
reconstructing the Union. He held that it was far
better that the knowledge of their inability to
do it should come from the failure of their
own efforts, than from any intervention on
the part of any foreign Power. In this
his Lordship has but expressed an opinion
already extensively uttered by the press; but the
point which Mr. LINCOLN will chiefly notice is
that neither Lord DERBY nor Lord RUSSELL expect
them to go on long, if we let them quite alone.
The most likely cause to bring about a termination
of hostilities—the want of money on both sides—
was not adverted to. Humane considerations
appeared alone to be thought of in the British
Parliament, though we have not noticed any men-
tion of them in the States themselves.
A people and a prince obtained the commendations
of all. Lord DERBY, as he had not failed on former
occasions to censure acts of the French EMPEROR,
felt the greater pleasure in expressing his grati-
tude for the kind support he furnished to the
English claim in the case of the Trent—
a kindness, he thought, really quite as great
towards the States themselves. And the people of
Canada well merited the notices of their loyal zeal
whieh they so liberally received, for probably
nothing has done more to soften down the brag-
ging tone of the Americans than finding that
Canada, at the hazard of war all along
her frontier, so thoroughly preferred the
franchises of subjects of the British Crown
to those she might have enjoyed as a thirty-
fifth section of the Divided States. Pro-
bably the conduct of the colonists has
done more to preserve themselves and England,
too, from insult for a long time to come, than
any other of the events associated with the out-
rage on the Trent.
As yet but one subject has oven been announced
which will lead to any difference of opinion—the
Education minute. Lord LYTTELTON came down
primed with a speech on the subject, but
even he deferred it on the intimation of
Lord GRANVILLE that their lordships would have
a full opportunity of discussing the whole subject
next Thursday. Lord DERBY, in lengthy peri-
phrastical language, congratulated Ministers on
their having—for this was what he meant—not
proposed a single measure of Political Reform, but
only measures of Law Reform. In a word, Lord
PALMERSTON offers a non political session—Lord
DERBY says " I heartily accept it."

Cariboo, about which we wrote on Tuesday in
general terms, appears to be situated, not simply
upon the south branch of the Fraser river, " south
bank" though it is called to this day thereabouts,
but really and truly upon the main body of the
broad and rapii stream of that new Pactolus. The
accurate observer to whom we are indebted for so
many graphic particulars about it, describes its
sources as being within a distance of sixty or
seventy miles westwardly from the range o f the
Rocky Mountains. And further he observes—" The
bend of the river, which embraces the new mineral
region within its curve, runs a course north-west
180 miles, and then takes a south-west course of
about 50 miles in length. This large section of
country is believed, from the appearances presented
on various parts of the surface, to be auriferous,
both in quartz (gold matrix) and in placeres,
throughout its whole extent; but the portions
hitherto ' prospected' (as the miners phrase is for
the search for, and for the discovery of gold) are
confined to the dimensions already given-50 30
miles." This delightful region is, in point of fact,
within the limits of what is marked down upon
the maps according to that tautological and
wholly unimaginative way they have of naming
localities upon the other side of the Atlantic,
New Caledonia. Anything but a definite de-
scription, it must be admitted, seeing that there
are New Caledonias in all parts of the world
in dreadful multiplicity. There are, how-
ever, in the New Caledonian part of
British Columbia, places like that wondrous gold
region hitherto but little known—in fact,
but a very few years back not known at all, but
henceforth destined, we may rest assured, to be
world famous under its mellifluous Indian name of
Carriboo Carriboo lying, it would seem, in north
latitude 53 20 degrees, and west longitude 121.40
degrees, at a point situated almost equi distant
between Antler Creek, Swift River (otherwise
Cottonwood River) and Sweep River, " all of
which," says the correspondent, " flow and run in
opposite directions, from a chain of mountains
called ;the Bald Mountains." It is amusing to
note the list of pet names given by facetious
miners to various mining localities worked during
the past season :—Chisholm's Gulch, Davidson's
Gulch, and Hall's Gulch (" Gulch " being Yankee
for a ravine), Antler-creek, Keithley's.creek,
Hawey's, 'Williams's, Nelson's, Lowhee, Cunning-
ham's, Lightening, Vanwinckle, California, Canon,
Grouse, Goose, Steven's, Salt Spring, Burns's, Snow-
shoe, Jack of Clubs, and Last Chance Creeks,
all of them being in fact, if not always (like the
last mentioned) in name, creeks, i.e., streams of
more or less magnitude—the majority of them being
diminutive, pouring down from the spurs of the
Bald Mountains, already more than once men-
tioned, in range rising to a height of seven or
eight thousand feet above the level of the Pacific.
From another creek alone, in the month of May,
1861, there were taken out we learn—and this,
moreover by what the miners call raw
hands and the sailors call green hands,
gold to an amount hitherto undreamt of among the
adventurers. Most of the diggers there in Antler
Creek winning with ease gold to the value of 200
dollars a-day, and this, moreover, when sifting the
earth and rubbish from it by the rude agency of the
old-fashioned rocker. That is—on the average, and