The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La
Prase publishes the following :

" The steam corvette Prince Jerome has been in
dock for two days at Toulon for repairs, but left
this morning for Ajaccio with Prince Napoleon on
board, who proceeds to Corsica and Egypt."
The same paper says :
" Fresh attempts at disturbance have taken place
at Palermo and in other towns of Sicily. Numerous
arrests have taken place."

The Independence of Brussels publishes the fol-
lowing letter :

" Autun, 30th Sept.

" I read in a letter dated from Paris, in your
number of the 27th, that President Lincoln proposed
the command of the armies of the North to General
Changarnier, who refused it. Your correspondent
has been led into error. I have never received any
proposition from President Lincoln or from his
agents. I request you to insert this letter in your
next number, and accept beforehand my sincere
thanks.—CHANGARNIER."

BOURSE, October 3.—The market continues very
animated, and prices show a further improvement.
Threes are now firm at 71fr. 10c. The Railway
Share Market is also buoyant, with a fair amount
of business doing. A sudden and extraordinary
movement took place a short time before the close,
and Threes went rapidly up to 72fr. The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cents. 9B
Do. end month 99
3 per Cents
Do. end month 72
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 1265
Do. end month 1270

Bank Shares 3200
Credit Fancier 1270
Piedmontese Fives 73 10
Italian Loan 74
Roman'--
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt
PAYs.

BAIL'

Cash. Account.
Orleans
1080 .. 1095
Northern
Nev.* ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1190 .. 1197 50
Geneva
Southern BB5 .. 885
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 615 .. 622 50
Ditto to Barcelona 330 .. 345

A VISIT TO AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL.

WASHINGTON, U.S., SEPT. 19.

People may have read full accounts of this war, from the
firing on Fort Sumter to the invasion of Maryland ; accounts
of death on the long march, on the fetid morass, in the
sickly camp, and on the red field of battle ; but it is neither
the inspired pen nor the eloquent voice that can make them
realize in full the horrors of this bloody struggle. It is to
the hospitals teeming and choking with their many occu-
pants, that they must go, before they can say " War is
hellish; war is diabolical."
There is a shed, dignified with the name of hospital, in
Georgetown, the interior of which reminds you more of
cattle pens in Copenhagen-fields than a sanitary building in
a civilised country. Here, in one room, are upwards of 60
beds, so close to one another that the nurses can scarce
move about without striking the couch of some poor sufferer
to whom the slightest touch is agony, and even the vibra-
tion of the floor is pain. Badly lit, badly ventilated, the
atmosphere humid, stagnant, and reeking with disease. Is
this a place in which a man with only a slight wound can
speedily recover, or in which one badly hurt though not
fatally, will not die ? The doctors do their best ; the insuf-
ficient staff of nurses do their best ; but it is next to im-
possible to battle successfully against sickness in such an,
overcrowded dismal den.

This place is, I am bound to say, not a type of the hos-
pitals in Washington and Georgetown. The Douglas, the
Judiciary, the Seminary, and several others I could name,
are well conducted. The one I allude to is only lately
opened, and perhaps the local authorities intend, in tho
course of their serene leisure, to improve upon its present
arrangements. I visited it last Saturday evening, and they
in whose minds the horrors of Scutari are still vivid can
follow me with sympathetic interest as I pass along the
double file of white faces and helpless forms.

Here, on the first bed, with a coverlet over him which
might have been clean 14 days ago, is a young man despe-
rately wounded. A piece of his skull the size of half-a-
crown lies on the battlefield of Manassas. There is a ball
in his right thigh, and his left leg was amputated in the
morning. Does he groan ? No; the brave heart saps the
pain, and the utterance knows it not. " Have we whipped
them out of Maryland yet ?" he asks with a feeble smile.
Opposite to me I see a brokenhearted mother weeping
silently over the yet warm corpse of her son. For days
past he had been yearning to sea her, momentarily expected
her, and she has but just arrived, and he died 10 minutes
since. There, under the influence of an opiate, sleeps a
youth on whose pallid countenance lurks no suspicion of a
beard. On the next bed a boy, still in his teens, moves in
an uneasy sleep. " The prairie ! the wide prairie I" he
utters. Poor fellow. Doubtless he dreams of his far
Western home, his youthful sports, his parents, and the
pleasant days of the long ago. I pass on. Groaning
piteously, a short distance up, lies the skeleton of a once
robust frame. He is dying by inches. Ten days, he tells
me, he lay on the field, almost glued to the earth by his
own blood. He got grains of food and daughts of fluid,
but what they were and who gave them to him he does not
know. Sight left him on the sixth day. "Take off my
boot," he moans, "it burns me so." Delusion. There is
no covering on his foot. But it is fiery red, and on the heel
there is a round black spot, Half an hour later, when
passed his bed, the toil-worn body lay stiff and stark, and
the immortal soul, released, had fled to futurity.
In the midst of so much misery, happy are they whose
mercurial temperament enables them to make light of their
present troubles and salute you with a joke instead of a
groan. I stand at the foot of a bed in which reclines a
Maine man. My coat almost touches the ropes that suspend
the splinters in which rests his shattered leg. " Get away,
or I'll kick you," he laughs. The invalid next him has a
pot of honey brought him by some visitor to which he is
paying his respects. "I'd advise you to hide that bees'-
juice, or I'm bound to get up in the night and steal it.'
" What's out at ' Grover's' to-night; I want to go." This
from a man with a ball through his right lung, another in
his hip, and in hourly expectation of having his leg ampk-
tated I

Here is a poor fellow who had a hemorrhage this morning,
lying weak and exhausted. " Give him some strong beef
tea at once " orders the doctor. But tho cook has ne beef,
and refers the nurse to the steward. The steward has none
either, and it is two hours before the patient obtains the
nutriment, which, if administered sooner, might have saved
his life.

At the farther end of the dimly lighted room a hero froro,
Sumner's division lies a dying. Lower and lower ebbs the
vital spark. Fainter and fainter comes the fast departing
breath, l‘lutely, with fixed and earnest eyes, he appeals to
Heaven, strives with painful effort to catch a stronger
breath, with which he may articulate some word yearning
to be borne, fails in the endeavour, and expires.
And as I pass out into the cool refreshing air of a
September night, and look down at the dead-house by the
water side, the moon, penetrating into obscur e corners, shows
again his ghastly face. Oh, pomp and circumstance 0f
glorious war I This poor man had been sighing after glory.
To earn it he left his home, his wife, his child, to battle
against insidious disease and an implacable foe; and after
18 months of hard service in Virginian swamps a leaden
bullet sends him to a reeking pest-house, and there he dies,
unknown to his friends, his name scarce noted in the
physician's book, and, enclosed in four deal boards, he
occupies a piece of freehold six feet by two. And this is
war's reward J This is glory I

THE SHERIFFS' DINNER.—Last evening the neW
Sheriffs for London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman James
Clarke Lawrence and Mr. Hugh Jones, gave their inaugu-
ration dinner at the Albion, Aldersgate-street. The com-
pany, amounting to about 150 gentlemen, sat down at the
appointed hour to a sumptuous and elegant banquet, which
was served up in capital style a le Busse. Among those
present, in addition to the hospitable hosts, were the Lord
Mayor elect, Sir G. Pollock, Sir W. Dilke, Mr. Butler,
M.P. ; Mr. Locke, M.P. ; Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P.; Mr•
Norris, M.P. ; Mr. Doulton, M.P. ; Mr. Cox, M.P.;
several members of the Courts of Aldermen and Common
Council, and other gentlemen. At the conclusion of the
dinner the capacious " loving cup," brimful with some
precious fluid unknown to mortals beyond the favoured
region of the city, was circulated along the tables ; and
the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were given by the
Sheriffs, with an appropriate allusion to the contemplated
marriage of the Prince of Wales, and were enthusiasticallf
responded to by the company. The Lord Mayor elect pro"
posed the healths of the new Sheriffs, who in acknowledging
the cordial way in which the toast was received assured the
company that on entering upon their year of duty it waS
their earnest desire thoroughly and efficiently to discharge
the functions of the important office to which they had bees
elected by the suffrages of their fellow-citizens. Other
toasts, most of which were of a civic character, followed,
and the festivity of the evening, enhanced by some good
singing from Madame L. Vining, Miss Eyles, and Mr'
Lewis Thomas, was kept up without flagging until a Prt".
treated hour, when the company at last separated, after
enjoying together an extremely agreeable soiree. Dir.
Harker was the toastmaster, and efficiently discharged the
duties of that office.

THE LIBERAL PARTY IN WALES.—At the con'
forence of the Liberation Society held last week at Swan'
sea, a paper was read by Mr. Carvell Williams, containing
some curious and startling facts with respect to the small
support which the Liberal party and Liberal measures in
the House of Commons receive from Wales. Thus, gr.
Miall's motion for the disendowment of the Established
Church was supported by but two Welsh votes out of
thirty-two, while ten Welsh M.P.'s voted against it. In tho
three leading divisions on the Oxford University Reforfo
Bill, Mr. Heywood was supported by only eight, six, an
seven Welsh votes; ten Welsh M.P.'s voting in favour
the Church's monopoly. So also in the divisions on the
Cambridge University Bill, three members, and in one
division, only one M.P. voted in support of dissenting
rights. A more recent measure, the Qualification for Office°
Bill of Mr. Hadfield, received the support of only three
Welsh members; and but eight voted for Sir Morton
Peto's Nonconformists' Burials Bill, which would ha°
enabled Dissenting ministers to speak by the side of the
open grave words of consolation to the bereaved members
of their flocks : while twelve Welsh votes were recorded
against it. In fact, out of seven questions occurring
during the last few years, there were only two in r°:
spect to which the Welsh vote, as a whole, was 00"
thrown into the scale of ecclesiastical exclusiveneo'
Mr. Dillwyn, whose courageous and intelligent advoesci
of the rights of Dissenters had made the whole Nonconfor-
mist body his debtors—had been more fortunate with 11l
Endowed Schools and Charitable Trusts Bills, for he 12°:
backed by 12 votes against 10. Much of the laxity of 41;
Welsh Liberal M.P.'s was attributed to the abstinence fr°'"
out door agitation. Where external pressure had been oP:
plied the result was different. Thus the votes in favour of th
Church-rate Bill had risen from lOto 17,because it was WO
the Dissenters west determined in the matter. Still cotaPilci
ring the Welsh Dissenting population with that of Englt
and of Scotland, there ought to be 25 instead of 17 W01,13t,
votes for abolition. In every case but two, those Iv'c,
opposed the bill represented constituencies in which di".
senters largely preponderated. The confereuce, which CO131(1
prised nearly two hundred of the leading ministers 01,
layman of Scuth Wales, and whose proceedings, extenclil)!l
over two days, appears to have been of the most earnee's
character, debated this and other matters, and mess"°;.o
were adopted to secure a complete organisation of We
Nonconformists for political and ecclesiastical purposes. ~0
STEAM VESSELS FOR PERU.—In adoition to rot
Morona and Pasteza, paddle steam vessels, of 500 tons,
_ro.
150 horse power, recently built at the premises of Dlesba,
Samuda, Millwall, and forwarded to Peru, for the nov.to
tion of the river Amazon, two model iron steamers P;itio
just been completed by the firm named for the P6ru,. tbe
republic ; and as they are intended for the interior 01001
country, and will be required to steer in shallow creeks,
_jog
vessel is constructed to draw Out 16 inches of water, P°.l.,
- the °'
nearly similar to the steamer built for and now in
.beso
vice of Dr. Livingstone. The iron plates of which l
for
vessels are constructed have been merely bolted tog°tlleA er
on
the convenience of transit, and they will be rivett
arriving at their destination.
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