The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1862.

PUBLICATIONS.

MRS.' GREY'S NEW NOVEL.
Now Ready at all the Libraries, in
.3 vole.,
PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF
A FAST YOUNG LADY
By MRS. GREY,
Author of "The Gambler's Wife," tte.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-
street.

Now ready, in 3 vols., with Portrait, 31s. 6d.,
91HE PRIVATE DIARY OF RICHARD,
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS,

" A very amusing chronicle. That it will be read with
curiosity we cannot doubt. "—Atheneum.
" This diary is well worth reading."—Globe.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S
" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex-
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi-
ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive.
intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
is lost All denominations of Constitutions are carefully
examined in J. Grosemith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."
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ivr, R. CHAS. DICKENS'NEW READINGS.-
..kVA All the Stalls for the Reading of To-Morrow (Thurs-
day), March 13, are Sold. The same Readings (David Cop-
perfield and Mr. Bob Sawyers' Party from Pickwick) will be
Repeated on THURSDAY, March 20, and THURSDAY,
March 27. The Stall Plan for Thursday March 20, is now
Opened, and Tickets may be had at Messrs. Chapman and
Hall's, Publishers, Mt -Piccadilly ; and Austin's Ticket
Office, St. James's Hail.

ARGYLL ROOM'S.—Series of New Music,
-' Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band
of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. Bour.-
CORT, Conductor and Composer. This gentleman will play
every evening at 11 o'clock, until further notice, variations
arranged by himself on the Cornet-a-Piston.—The free-list
will be open for the profession by leaving their card at the
door. By order of the Proprietor.—Manager, Mons. P.
Grenet. Admission Is.

THE WELLINGTON RE-OPENER —The
GROUND FLOOR of the WELLINGTON, containing
dining, smoking, and reading rooms, is now OPEN, from
0 a.m. to' midnight daily. Breakfast (plain and ala fourchette),
hincheons, dinners, and suppers are served during those
hours. The saloon dining rooms, on the first floor, are open
for dinners only, from 5.30 to 9 p.m. The billiard rooms are
open as usual. Gentlemen requiring private rooms should
apply to the secretary. Mr. Cates ; or to Mr. Sco wen, super-
intendent.—The Wellington, entrances, St. James's-street,
and 160, Piccadilly.

COUGHS, ASTHMA, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION

ARE EFFECTUALLY CURED BY
KEATING'S' COUGH LOZENGES.-
Statistics show that 50,000 persons annually fall vic-
tims to Pulmonary Disorders, including Consumption, Dis-
eases of the Chest, and the Respiratory Organs. Prevention
is at all times better than Cure ; be, therefore, prepared dur-
ing the wet and wintry season with a supply of KEATING'S
Cough Lozenges, which possess the virtue of averting, as
well as of curing a Cough or Cold; they are good alike for
the young or for the aged.
Prepared and Sold in Boxes Is. lid., and Tins 2s. 9d., 4s.
ed., and 10.. 6d. each, by TIIO3IAS KEATI.NG, Chemist. &c.,
70, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Retail by all Drug-
gi.ts, &c.

BANK OF ENGLAND, March 11, 1862.—The
COURT of DIRECTORS of the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England GIVE NOTICE, that a GENE-
RAL COURT will be held at the Bank on THURSDAY,
the 20th inist., at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of a
Dividend.

Also, that another General Court will be held at the Bank,
on Tuesday, the Bth April next, from 10 o'clock in the fore-
noon until 4 in the afternoon, for the election of a Governor
and Deputy-Governor for the year ensuing (which will be
declared that evening); and the same Court will be continued
by adjournment, and held at the same place, and during the
same hours, on Wednesday,
elec-
tion of 24 Directors (which will also be one of the Quarterly
General Courts appointed by the Charter); and the election
the 9th April next, for the
of the 24 Directors will be declared as soon as the scrutiny is
over. _

—Printed lists of the Proprietors having votes will be ready
to be delivered at the Bank on Monday, the 24th March.
JAMES STEWART, Secretary.
N.B.—By an Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of
George 111., no person will be entitled to vote at the said
election who shall not have been six calendar months pos-
sessed, in his own right, of the stock for which he shall then
give his vote, unless the said stock shall have been acquired
or shall have come by bequest, or by marriage, or by succes-
sion to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the City of
London, or by any deed of settlement after the death of any
person who shall have been entitled for life to the dividends
of such stock.

be so bad as failure, and any sacrifice would be
cheap as the price of success in such a contest.
But the picture has its lights as well as its
shadows. This great strife has awakened in the
people the highest emotions and qualities of the
human soul. It is cultivating feelings of patriotism,
virtue, and courage. Instances of self-sacrifice and
of generous devotion to the noble cause for which
we are contending are rife in the land. Never has
a people evinced a more determined spirit than that
now animating men, women, and children in every
part ,of our country, Upon the first call the men
fly to arms, and wives and mothers send their hus-
bands and sons to battle without a murmur of regret.
It was perhaps in the ordination of Providence
that we were to be taught the value of our liberties
by the price which we pay for them.
,The recollections of this great contest, with all its
common traditions of glory, of sacrifice, and of
blood, will be the bond of harmony and enduring
affection amongst the people, producing unity in
policy, fraternity in sentiment, and joint effort in
war.

Nor have the material sacrifices of the past year
been made without some corresponding benefits.
If the acquiescence of foreign nations in a pre-
tended blockade has deprived us of our com-
merce with them, it is fast making us a self-
supporting and independent people. The blockade,
if effectual and permanent, could only serve to
divert our industry from the production of articles
for export, and employ it in supplying commodities
for domestic use.

It is a satisfaction that we have maintained the
war by our unaided exertions. We have neither
asked nor received assistance from any quarter.
Yet the interest involved is not wholly our own.
The w prld at large is concerned in opening our
markets to its commerce. When the independence
of the Confederate States is recognised by the na-
tions of the earth, and we are free to follow our
interests and inclinations by cultivating foreign
trade, the Southern States will offer to manufac-
turing nations the most favourable markets which
ever invited their commerce. Cotton, sugar, rice, to-
bacco, provisions, timber, and naval stores will fur-
nish attractive exchanges. Nor would the con-
stancy of these supplies be likely to be disturbed by
war, Our Confederate strength will be too great
to tempt aggression ; and never was there a people
whose interests and principles committed them so
fully to a peaceful policy as those of the Confede-
rate States. By the character of their productions
they are too deeply interested in foreign commerce
wantonly to disturb it. War of conquest they can-
not wage, because the constitution of their confede-
racy admits of no coerced association. Civil war
there cannot be between States held together by
their volition only. This rule of voluntary associa-
tion, which cannot fail to be conservative, by se-
curing just and impartial government at home,
does not diminish the security of the obligations by
which the Confederate States may be bound to
foreign nations. In proof of this it is to be remem-
bered that at the first moment of asserting their
right of secession, these States proposed a settle-
ment on the basis of a common liability for the ob-
ligations of the general government.
Fellow Citizens, after the struggles of ages had
consecrated the right of the Englishman to consti-
tutional representative Government, our colonial
ancestors were forced to vindicate that birthright
by an appeal to arms. Success crowned their efforts,
and they provided for their posterity a peaceful
remedy against future aggression.
The tyranny of an unbridled majority, the most
odious and least responsible form of despotism, has
denied us both the right and the remedy. There-
fore we are in arms to renew such sacrifices as
our fathers made to tha holy cause of constitutional
liberty. At the darkest hour of our struggle the
provisional gives place to the permanent Govern-
ment, After a series of successes and victories,
which covered our arms with glory, we have re-
cently met with serious disasters. But in the heart
of a people resolved to be free these disasters tend
but to stimulate to increased resistance.
To show ourselves worthy of the inhei itance be-
queathed to us by the patriots of the Revolution, we
must emulate that heroic devotion which made re-
verse to them but the crucible in which their pa-
triotism was refined.

With confidence in the wisdom and virtue of those
who will share with me the responsibility and aid
me in the conduct of public affairs, securely relying
on the patriotism and courage of the people, of
which the present war has furnished so many
examples, I deeply feel the weight of the responsi-
bilities I now, with unaffected diffidence, am about
to assume ; and, fully realising the inadequacy of
human power to guide and to sustain, my hope is
reverently fixed on Him whose favour is ever vouch-
safed to the cause which is just. 'With humble
gratitude and adoration, acknowledging the Provi-
dence which has so visibly protected the Confe-
deracy during its brief but eventful career, to Thee,
Oh God, I trustingly commit myself, and prayer-
fully invoke Thy blessing on my country and its
cause.