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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1862.

PUBLICATIONS.

their representatives in Parliamentresisted reiterated efforts
to secure their co-operation against our blockade and in
favour of intervention. Though often enough reminded of
the causes of their stOering, the operatives, reduced, from
short labour and diminished wages, to idleness and starva-
tion, bear their burdens with a patient fortitude which chal-
lenges more than our,sympathies. Their destitution and for-
bearance appeal to wiA fortified by an argument founded in
such eloquent justicVbat I am sure it will be responded to
with equal alacrity and noun ficence. Let us, then, make
haste to cast our bread upon the waters.' Enclosed please
find my check for 1,000 dots.—Very truly yours,
"To H. B. _Minium, Esq. " THURLOW WEED."
At a meeting held in the Produce-Exchange on
the 6th, on behalf of the distressed operatives, the
Rev. T. L. Cuyler of Brooklyn, said :---
"Gentlemen of the Produce-Exchange,—l shall be very
brief, for the best buyers in this room make the shortest
speeches. A proposal has just been made by your President
to divide the big loaf, which our Heavenly Father has this
year given us, with our starving brethren across the water.
This measure commends itself to us as an act of simple
justice to our friends. The bleeding heart of Lancashire is
with us. Whatever be the opinions of kings or of emperors,
of statesmen or aristocrats, the labouring masses of Europe
are with us in our death-grapple for popular liberty. Last
summer, when a meeting of the operatives was held in a
town of Lancashire, and a proposal was made to petition the
Government for intervention, the noble fellows said, No I
America's battle is our battle. We will suffer, and, if need
be, starve, rather than to hinder a nation that is fighting
for the rights of labour and for universal freedom.' Shall
such men be allowed to suffer ? God forbid I while our
granaries are full to bursting. Let this gift go abroad
among the toiling masses of the Old World as a slight re-
turn for the strong arms they have sent us to uphold our
national standard in our hour of struggle for the Union and
Liberty. (Applause.) Again ; I advocate this as a war
measure. Yesterday a vast expedition left our beautiful
harbour under the cirand of that little iron man General
Banff: " '" none of us will
know till we hear the echo of his guns ; but I pray tied he
may not return until a Massachusetts army has replaced
the blessed old flag on the ramparts of Fort Sumter. (Ap-
plause.) Now let us fit out another expedition for peaceful
conquest. Let us accept that new ship offered by the
splendid liberality of the Griswolds—that vessel which will
yet float in history beside the craft that Henry Grinnell
sent on the search for Sir John Franklin. Let us load her
up with the produce of our prairies until there is not room
enough for another sack of grain or even a red herring.
Then run up the stars and stripes and send her right over
in the track of the accursed pirate Alabama. Send her to
Liverpool, the hotbed of Secession sympathies—to the
same city in which £40,000 were subscribed in one week
to help Jefferson Davis's atrocious conspiracy. Lay
her alongside those magnificent docks, and let her open—
not her batteries, but her butteries, discharging 100 bags of
bacon every hour. Let her pour a broadside of flour barrels,
each barrel aimed at hungry mouths in the abodes of po-
verty. (Applause.) And when Liverpool has been the.
roughly sacked with sacks of grain and bombarded with
barrels of flour—when the golden grain has been poured out
without money and walnut price, then if John Bull is not
conquered I shall have no faith in Gospel-gunnery. (Loud
applause.) In the teeth of our enemies and slanderers, let us
hurl back a noble act of Christian magnanimity. Mr.
Cuyler then gave a beautiful Jewish tradition of two bro-
thers who met one night with sheaves of wheat in their
hands, each going to place his sheet on his brother's stack.
So, said he, let Young Aixerica with her sheaf meet British
philanthropy with its sheal'; and as on the place where those
two Hebrew brothers met it is related that Solomon's temple
was built, so let us on the spot of our common meeting build
up a temple of brotherhood where Britons and Americans
will swear to be true l each other and to the sacred
rights of freedom and humanity I Ged speed the ship
(Applause.)

considerably. An officer who came through from
Alexandria by land,
with a strong escort, was
told at Dumfries that sixteen sutlers, with their
waggons, were captured by White's rebel
cavalry last week, and the owners made to drive
their own teams to some rebel station in the
interior. White is represented as having a
large regiment of' cavalry. It has for some days
been considered unsafe to pass beyond Dumfries
without a strong escort. A special court-martial met
to-day to try John W. Irvine on the charge of being
a spy, he having been captured within our lines.
The accused was a private in the 9th Virginia Ci-
valry, end was captured near his father's house in
the vicinity of Hartwood Court-house. It is un-
derstood that the Court have agreed upon a fin'd•
ing, the result of which is not known. The follow-
ing general order has just been published :
" No person will be allowed to cross the lines in
the direction of the enemy without a pass from
these headquarters.
LEWIS RICHARDSON,
"'Assistant, Adjutant-General.' "
" Fairfax Court-house, Dec. 7.
" Scouts returning last night reported large par-
ties of the rebels at Brickland Mills, Thorough-
fare, and Hopeville Gaps. Reconnoissance which
returned to-day met only two cavalry men, the
other bodies having departed as suddenly as
they came. Scouts to-day have been to Thorough-
fare and Hopeville Gaps, and to Middlebury, with-
out finding any rebels, except the inhabitants."

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" Washington, Dec. 7-

" The recent cold snap has been intensely severe
upon our soldiers in camp. Information has been re-
..;.-ca here that six of our pickets in the Army of
the Potomac were frozen to death last night. In
Camp Misery,' the miserable asylum for convale-
scents, near Alexandria, seven died from the effects
of the cold. The new regiments that have recently,
arrived here and gone into camp without conve-
niences for making themselves comfortable have
suffered very severely. The Surgeon-General has
promised that he will remove from the convalescent
camp without delay all for whom comfortable
quarters can be provided in and around the city."

A letter from R. P. Buck and Co. was read,
stating that the new ship Hope would take 1,000
barrels of flour to Liverpool free, it sent alongside
on or before next Wednesday. 8,350 dolts. in cash,
300 barrels of flour, and 1,500 bushels of corn were
contributed for the benefit of the sufferers.