The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

blished for ever on this continent by the Union of the
States."

In the matter of the Commissariat only, he shows
what an immense saving, both of expenditure and
trouble, it will be to grow, by means of negro
labour, the food of the soldier, and the forage for
his horse, near to where they are wanted. The
whole nearly of the district in whica the Sea Island
cotton was cultivated and the coast of Florida is in
the hands of the Federals. Agricultural supplies
for the army grown there by the black free labourer
would save great expense for transport and labour
in providing for the southern armies of the North.
It is the same on the shores of the Mississippi.
Happily he can say with truth, for its truth is cor-
roborated by Southern silence as well as by
Northern reports, that not the slightest symptom
of any tendency to a "servile wur" has appeared
among the negroes; on the other hand, wherever
the generals have encouraged them, they have
shown a hearts loyalty to the North. They wanted
nothing but the assurance of not being surrendered
or abandoned to the vengeance of their old tyrants. 4
They are unwilling, it is universally found, to quit
the localities in which they have lived, although it
was a life of slavery—a circumstance which Mr.
STANTON uses to silence the Democratic clap-trap in
the North, which has endeavoured to frighten the
Irish voters especially at the idea of emancipation,
by threatening them with negro competition in hod-
carrying. So far is this from being the case, that
the emancipated negro, like all other men, prefers,
if he can have his liberty there, to live in the land
of his birth.

When, therefore, the coasts and borders of Rebel-
dom feel the protecting power of Federal armies,
fed by the labour of slaves, the grand military
vantage enjoyed by the South will be transferred to
the North. These negroes now labour under the
lash, that their masters may be at liberty to fight
to keep them in bondage! "They will henceforth
labour that Federal armies may live by their labour)
pay them wages for it, and protect them in their
free and loyal toil. Such is already the case to a
great extent, and it will be so more extensively.
The South will be encircled by a cordon of emanci-
pated negroes, as well as by one of Federal armies.
Mr. STANTON, not unreasonably, looks forward
even to a gradually increasing Northern trade with
these new loyal labourers. He says :
"As soon as the coast is thoroughly occupied, and the people
organized, trade will revive. Cotton, rice, sugar, and other
products will be exchanged by the producer for what he
needs. Their wants will be supplied direst from the northern
factories, and the cultivation of the great staples will enable
them to pay for what they use. A perfectly free trade may
thus again grow up between the North and the South, and
with greater or less rapidity it will spread over the whole
country as our forces succeed in meeting and dispersing
the rebel armies. The greater part of the whole country
which formerly produced the Sea Island cotton is now
thoroughly restored to the Union. The labourers are there
—the soil and climate. It needs only assurance of protec-
tion to revive the cultivation of the staple, as well as to pro-
duce vast quantities of corn and forage for our troops."

On the whole, we hope the PRESIDENT will firmly
avail himself of his two years of office in this spirit.
We may be pretty sure that such born tyrants as
slaveholders will never listen to the emancipation
proposal which accompanied his September procla-
mation, and has just been fully developed to Con-
gress. They will starve and die rather than give
up their power to make cattle of their fellow-men.
Full scope will be afforded to Mr. LINCOLN to
achieve the noblest revolution in modern history,
and to signalise his presidency by the glorious fact,
that he found four millions of his fellow-creatures
forced by the most ruthless of despotisms into the
condition of oxen and swine, and that he left them
—MEN. Let this war but sound the knell of the
infernal institution of Slavery, and the name of
LINCOLN will yet live among those of the noblest
benefactors of their species.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFlCES.—Yesterday
some 200 men were engaged in completing the extensive
foundations for the future Foreign, Colonial, and other Go-
vernment offices, the superstructure stone of which will be
laid at the beginning of the year. The magnitude of the
work may be estimated from the fact that the above body of
men have been employed daily during the last six months
in digging and laying the foundations, under the contractors,
Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, the area extending from the Park
and the Privy Council Office, in Whitehall, on the one side,
up King-street to Charles-street, the recruiting depot, up to
the site formerly occupied by the State Paper and Stationery
Office, extending over a surface of several thousand square
feet. The foundations throughout are laid in 14 feet deep
of solid concrete, being equal to that on which the Houses
of Parliament are built, and in one place where the ground
was treacherous the foundation had to be carried down to a
depth of 30 feet. Preparations are being made by Mr. Scott,
the architect, for constructing the building after the designs
selected by Lord Palmerston and the Committee of the
House of Commons in the Palladian style.
COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.—The steam-tug
Resolute, belonging to the new Steam-tug Company, Liver-
pool, Capt. Harvey, from Liverpool, bound to Dover, put
into the Sound at 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, having
been in collision about half-past 7 o'clock on Monday even-
ing, 3I miles S.W. of the Start Point, with a barque, name
and flag unknown. The Resolute was steering E. by S.,
wind north moderate, weather very dark, and her regula-
tion lights burning, when she saw two lights on her port
bow ; shortly after lost sight of one, and then saw a green
light burning about E.N.E. Capt. Harvey ordered the
helm to be put hard sport, and went into the wheelhouse to
see it was done. As the strange vessel was nearing very
rapidly, hailed her to port her helm, but some one on the
stranger's deck forward ordered the helm to be starboarded,
and in a few minutes she ran into the Resolute, striking
her on the port paddle•-box with such force as to knock it
completely away, jammed the wheel against the side, started
the bridge deck, did considerable damage to the starboard
wheel, and other parts of the vessel, and stopped the
engines. The barque then cleared, and stood away to the
eastward, where she was lost sight of. After a great deal
of trouble the Resolute's engines were disconnected, the
port wheel being disabled, and she bore away for this port,
under the starboard engine only. She now lies at the
Pontoon, Millbay, awaiting instructions to repair.—
Western Morning News.
SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR IN THE ADELPHI.—On
Tuesday evening Mr. Bedford, the coroner, held an inquest
at St. Martin's Vestry-room, on the body of Fleming
Stuart Nicholson, a solicitor, aged 30 years, who committed
self-destruction by shooting himself with a pistol, at his re-
sidence, 12, York. buildings, Adelphi, on Friday mooning
last. Charles Joseph Nicholson, brother of deceased, said
he resided at 12, York-buildings, Adelphi. On Friday
morning last, about a quarter before one, he was aroused by
the housekeeper, who said his brother was not in his bed-
room as usual, but that his office door was locked, and she
could get no answer. A police-constable was procured, and
the door was forced open. I,Vitness then saw his brother
lying on the hearth-rug, and a pistol was lying near his
right hand. There was a wound near the heart, and blood
had flowed on to the hearth-rug. Deceased was quite dead.
He was married, but his wife was not at-home at the time.
For some time past deceased had been the subject of curious
religious feelings. He thought that God required a sacri-
fice, and said that God demanded his life, as he had not at•
tended to God in his youth as he ought to have done. He
never said anything about committing self-destruction. He
was constantly reading the Bible and praying. Witness had
no doubt he discharged the pistol himself. After other evi-
dence, the Jury returned a verdict, " That deceased de-
stroyed his own life whilst of unsound mind."

THE DURGIN PAUPERS.—Another attempt wa
made on Monday morning to set fire to the South Dublin
Union Workhouse, and at the Dublin Po!ice-court the same
day six of the inmates were charged with being concerned in
tLo nrilmittal of the offence. The prisoners, as in the former
case, were under the delus'on that they would be placed in
penal servitude. They lawi frequently said that transpor-
tation or something like that was -what they wanted, and
had made some remarks relative to emigratteo previous
night. The prisoners was committed for trial.
AN HONEST FlitM.—ln connexion with the
eventful failure of the Borough Bank of Liverpool in 1857,
the house of Messrs. Fernie Brothers and Co., was freely
referred to as being largely indebted to that institution, and
likely to participate in its fall. That result, however, did
not arise ; for the firm, having confidence in their resources,
and being determined to discharge their obligations in full,
paid off as they fell due all their liabilities other than those
to the bank, and, 4ft,?,r the bank's stoppage, carried out the
arrangetnents under which the ad vancei were made, Messrs.
hank. at the time of its stoppage, together with
Fernie have now discharged 0. t,14 weac
hinder
cler to the
per cent. interest, amounting in all to £420,517.