The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-01 00:00:00

Another despatch of the same date says :

"Chief Justice Chase has already entered the field as a
candidate for the Presidency in 1868, and is directing his
efforts to the accomplishment of that object. He wrote a
letter, in the latter part of April or Ist of May, to a pro-
minent politician in Ohio, which directly reveals his pur-
pose. This letter is now being shown round in the West
among those known as faithful to the Chief Justice.
In this letter Mr. Chase states that the time has come to
reconstruct the political parties for future operations ;
that he thinks that by quiet and skilful management on the
part of their friends a strong party can be formed out of the
Radical element of the Republican party and the Liberal
portion of the democratic party, which will be formidable.
He suggests that they shall adopt the name of 'National
Democratic party,' with one of its cardinal planks—the re-
construction of the South on the basis of negro suffrage.
This letter, as already stated, is now being used by Mr.
Chase's friends in the West in initiating this new party
movement, intending, of course, to keep it secret until they
get their wires laid, combinations made, and plans matured.
The Chief Justice, in the meantime, has gone along the
coast southward, enjoying the heat of the Southern climate.
11 is friends have given out that he has gone to reopen the
district courts ; but the fallacy of this idea is at once seen
when it is known that the Cabinet have had two or three
long
sessions since Mr. Chase left, discussing the propriety
of immediately opening the courts, and have not as yet de-
cided
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of the matter is, he is in search of his old friends in the
South, and has gone to initiate his movement in that di-
rection while his friends attend to it in the North ani 1
North-west."

Mr. De Stoeckl, the Russian Minister at Wash-

ington, recently read to the President the instruc-
tions of Prince Gortschakoff, of which the subjoined
is a translation :

6, St. Petersburg, April 16.

" Sir,—The telegraph has brought us the news of the
double crime of which the President of the United States
has fallen a victim and Mr. Seward barely escaped. The
blow which has struck Mr. Lincoln at the very moment
when he seemed about to harvest the fruits of his energy
and perseverance has been deeply felt in Russia. Because
of the absence of the Emperor, I am not in a position to
secure and transmit to you the expression of the sentiments
of his Imperial Majesty. Being acquainted, nevertheless,
with those which our august master entertainstowards the
United States of America, it is easy for me to realise in ad-
vance the impression which the news of this odious crime
will cause his Imperial Majesty to experience. I have has-
tened to testify to Gen. Clay the earnest and cordial sym-
pathy of the Imperial Cabinet with the Federal Govern-
ment. Please to express this in conversation to President
Johnson, adding thereunto our most sincere wishes that
this new and grievous trial may not impede the onward
march of the American people towards the re-establishment
of the Union and of the concord which are the sources of
its power and of its prosperity. Receive, sir, the assurance
of my very distinguished consideration.

" GORTSCHAKOFF.

~ His Excellency Mr. Stoeckl."
A despatch from New Orleans reports the cap-
ture of the Confederate General Pillow :

" New Orleans, May 13, via Cairo, May 18.

" Generals Canby and Osterhaus arrived from Mobile
yesterday. The paroled officers and men of General Dick
Taylor's army are overrunning Mobile. Thirteen steamers
and the rebel rams Nashville and Mary Ann had arrived at
Mobile from the Tombighoe River, where they were
taken by the rebels on the evacuation of Mobile. They,
with eight other steamers, with the blockade runner
Heroine as the flag-ship of the officer in charge, are ex-
peet3d to reach here to-night. It is feared that the blockade
runners Red Gauntlet, Mary and Virginia, and tho steamer
Natches, will not get down the river, as they are above
Demopolis, and the river is falling. General Gideon J.
Pillow was captured near Selma. He was afraid to go
home on account of the guerillas. The steamboat Man-
hattan was burned at the levee last night, and some of
the shipping injured. The rise in the Mississippi river
has forced the levees, and the water now covers the im-
mense area from the Red River to Donaldsville and the
Gulf Stream—from thirty to fifty miles in width. The
suffering occasioned by this overflow is terrible, and the
destruction of property beyond description."

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER.

Last evening a meeting of Liberals was held at
Chester for the purpose of hearing Mr. W. H.
Gladstone, who has offered himself as a candidate
in the Liberal interest for election. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer was present, and spoke in sup-
port of his son. The right hon. gentleman, who
was received with great enthusiasm, said that
although he had not the honour to be either a
candidate for election, or an elector, he hoped it
would not appear strange or unnatural that he should
come among the electors on this occasion, when the
immediate question concerned one in whom he was
so nearly and dearly interested, one of whom he
never had, and he believed never should, have cause
to be ashamed. (Applause.) There were three can-
didates in the field for a single seat. One of them,
Mr. Raikes, had all the claims to represent the city
which could be possessed by a man holding opinions
held only by a very small minority of the constitu-
ency. Mr. Raikes had only a ghost of a chance of
being returned; he had apparently come forward
because the majority of the constituency were di-
vided. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)deeply
regretted that a division had taken place, and pro-
bably he had given offence to his warmest supporters
by resisting his son's coming there for any purpose
which could involve disparagement or danger to the
opinions of the Liberal party. (Cheers.) His son
must be guided by considerations of personal ambi-
tion. Theflatteringprospect of gaining the suffrages
of the constituency was not a sufficient ground for
coming into the field to the danger of the party
which comprised three-fourths of the constituency,
unless he was convinced that by him alone could the
representation of the opinions of the majority of the
electors be secured. (Cheers.) Before his son had
consented to stand, a requisition, signed by upwards
of 800, out of a constituency of 1,900, had been
presented to him. Mr. Fenton, although requested to
do so, had declined to produce any proof of a supe-
rior, or even equal, manifestation of strength.
(Cheers.) The responsibility, therefore, of dividing
the party rested upon Mr. Fenton. He (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) had been the subject of a
portion of the political literature of the city during
the last few days. The discussion, he regretted, had
not been confined to politics. At Mr. Raikes's meet-
ing matters affecting personal character had been
brought forward, and statements made which he
might designate as foul calumny. (Cheers, and No,
no.) He would deal with the statement else-
where. (Cheers.) Mr. Raikes had said for the last
I six years there had been no Government in this
country, but the truth was that there had been none
of the kind which Mr. Raikes approved. (Laughter.)
There had been a Government, notwithstanding the
assertion of Mr. Raikes, and now who were the
members composing the Government ? Lord Pal-
'merston had established a world-wide reputation,
and if medals were given for political services Lord
Russell's breast would be covered with distinction.
(Cheers.) It was admitted by Mr. Raikes that a
commercial treaty with France had been passed in
1860, which, he said, had very much disappointed
the expectations both of its friends and of its
enemies. It was a good rule to believe half of what
one heard, and he believed half of what Mr. Raikes
said in reference to the treaty having disappointed
its enemies. The treaty had increased the value of
the trade between England and France to the
amount of 23 millions sterling of beneficial exchange
to this country. What did this sum represent?
Millions upon millions added to the profits of capi-
tal, the reward of skill, and the honest payment of
labour. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The French
demand occasioned by that treaty had come as by
some providential design to supply the place of our
commerce with America at the moment when that
commerce ceased, and had kept in action strong
English arms, which but for that treaty would have
been paralysed. (Cheers.) A Government was in
its happiest employment when it was able to
devise means for raising the condition and in-
creasing the happiness of the great body of the
country. (Applause.) He would warn the elec-
tors against those who bade them beware of the
party who carried the repeal of the Corn Laws,
established the system of Free Trade, endeavoured
to mitigate and remedy religious disabilities,
and taught the doctrine of a liberal extension of
the franchise. The party to which Mr. Raikes be-
longed had offered every obstacle to the establish-
ment of.the French Treaty, and had brought all the
skill and ingenuity of a Parliamentary opposition
to bear in order to effect their purpose. As to the
relative qualifications of Mr. Fenton, who- was a
man of business, and Mr. Gladstone, who necessarily
could not have had such experience, the hon. gentle-
man went on to say that it was necessary to have
in the House of Commons men of all classes, but if
Government was to be carried on successfully it
must be by persons who look to it as a profession in
their early life. Young men must be returned as
representatives with that view, and must be trusted
by the constituencies. His advice to his son had
been that the latter should come before that consti-
tuency as an adherent of Liberal principles, and that
he should not measure the application of those prin-
ciples too nicely or stingily, and by those principles
he understood in the main trust of the people only
qualified by prudence, and by the principles of their
opponents he understood mistrust of the people only
qualified by fear. (Applause.) The Chancellor
referred at length to the liberal legislation of the
last 50 years to show that Liberal principles were
to be credited with the improvement in the condition
of the country effected during that period. In re-
ference to the franchise the right hon. gentleman
said the working classes were a very small portion
of the constituency of the country, and he regretted
that the mind of the country was not more pre-
pared for a sensible extension of the franchise to
working men. So far as his experience of the con-
stituency of Newark was concerned, he had come
to the conclusion that working men would not go
as a class together, or set up a separate interest if
they had the franchise ; he lamented the abolition

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