The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS,

Lady Clifden
Bevis

LATEST BETTING.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
7to 2 agst Dulcibella (taken)
4to 1 agst Canary (taken)
9to 2 agst Hartington (taken)
Bto 1 agst Haddington (taken)
9to 1 agst Johnny Armstrong (taken)
10 to 1 agst Misfortune (taken)
14 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn colt (taken)
14 to 1 agst Silkstone (taken)
20 to 1 agst Socrates (offered)
25 to 1 agst Master Bagot (taken)

AN AMERICAN VIEW OF MR. GLAD-
620.NE's .zvEwaasTLA SPEECH.

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The actual Chancellor nF the British Exchequer is
notorious in the hiator:i of British politics for his habit of
forgetting the CrZAvn Minister in the philosophical student
of human affairs; and this trait of Mr. Gladstone's cha-
mfer must be taken into the account in estimating the
si4nificance of his recent remarkable speech upon American
affairs, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Our readers will 're-
member that this is not Mr. Gladstone's first appearance
during the present contest in the quality of a anholarly
orator upon the course of American events. Early in the
past summer, the accomplished gentleman who once under-
took to manage the affairs of the lonie:a Islands upon
Homer's principles delivered himself of still another
remarkable speech, in which he distinctly prophesied the
hopeless defeat of all attempts to maintain or reconstruct th&
American Union. This speech, bite the later' oration, of
which the Australasian has now brought us the complete
text, made a sensation, not in England alone, bat in this
country as well. It was inferred, perhaps not unreason-
ably, that when the English Chancellor of the Exchequer.
spoke on a question of foreign policy, he spoke for lais Go-
vernment as well as himself, and we had at once the usual
outcry on the subject of the "immediate rerzognition of
Southern independency by England." The outcry cried
itself out, and the recognition did nor, come. Is it to
come now, because again Mr. Gladstone has surveyed,,
" with extensive view," American, mankind, from Maine
to Texas, and pronounced the South in arms to be "a
nation," made such by Jefferson Davis ? Unquestionably
not, England and Europe may recognise the independence
of the Confederate States ; but it will be by Europe and
not by England alone that this recognition will be made,
nor will it be made -until Europe, as well as England, has
learned precisely what the Confederate States are, and
what they may hope to be Mr. Gladstone himself warns
enthusiastic expectation to bridle the impulse it may re-
ceive from his discourse, when he winds up his glowing
picture of all the North has failed to do, and of all the
South has done, with the exceedingly vague and tempe-
rate remark, that a " time may arrive when it would be
the duty of Europe (not of England, observe 1) to offer the
word of expostulation or friendly aid toward composing
the quarrel." In this sagacious and well interpolated
phrase, lies small comfort for the " nation of Jefferson
Davis." That nation has no wish to see " the quarrel
composed." It wishes to be admitted into the family of
states in all the grandeur of Mr. Jefferson' Davis' ideal
Confederacy, with. the Gulf States for its pedestal, and
Mexico for its future -its right hand stayed upon Mary-
land, its left hand resting upon Missouri. To this wish
Mr. Gladstone's speech offers but a sorry response. That
speech, while it treats the separation of the American
States as an accomplished fact, breathes only regret over
the fact which it assumes; and finds the only consolation
which a statesman can discover in the calamity, to be the
hope that the Confederacy may be less competent to per-
petuate slavery than the Union had proved to be. The sym-
pathies of Mr. Gladstone are openly with the North, and if
his conclusions tally not with those sympathies, we may
perhaps afford to forgive him his temporary deductions in
consideration of the principles permanently friendly to free-
dom and to a free Union which he resolutely utters. —.New
York Times.

By the approaching promotion of Col. Cooper
the post of Inspecting Field-Officer:at Bristol will become
vacant. —Army and Navy Gazette.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY' 5-INN-ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital, during the
week ending Nov. 8, was 2,951, of which 897 were now
Cases.

M. lathieu (de la Drome) has addressed a letter
to the journals, in which, after alluding to the means now
acted on England for prognosticating storms some hours,
and even a day beforehand, declares that he will, whenever
it may be wished, furnish to France and to all the countries
of Europe the means of foreseeing all atmospheric pheno-
mena not one day but half a century in advance.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGII.—The office of Rec-
tor of Edinburgh University, instituted by the Scottish
Universities Act of 1859, now falls vacant, the appointment-
being a triennial one. The election is in the hands of the
students, and takes place on Saturday next. Several meet-
ings were held last week to nominate candidates, one sec-
tion of the students supporting the re-election of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and another party bringing for-
ward Mr. Stirling, M.P. The contest will, from present.
appearances, be a close one.

DR. VOG EL.—ln formation has just reached Malta
from the coast of Barbary which gives some faint reason to
hope that Dr. Vogel, the African traveller, who had been
given up as lost, is still alive, though a captive of the Sul-
tan of Wadai. Lieutenant Von Beurnman, of the Prussian
Artillery, who went in search of the traveller's papers, ar-
rived at Murzuk on the 20th June, and was to leave for
Wadai on the 22d. Since that period the rumours which
have reached Bengazi regarding him have been such as to
lead to the fear that he was plundered on the road, if not.
murdered. The Prince of Prussia while at Valetta evinced.
a lively interest in the fate of these travellers, and an
earnest desire to obtain every information respecting them.
tit e are about to reduce the Mediterranean fleet
by seven ships, mounting together 363 guns, and manned
by 3,840 officers and men. This at a moment when Greece
is in a state of revolution, Italy in an unsettled condition,
and Austrian and Turkey far from being in a quiescent
position, would seem to argue very great confidence in the
resources which we possess in our Channel squadron, and
in the few ships still left on the home station.--drmy and
.Navy Gazette.
The Abbe Richard, Professor at MoLtlieu
(Charente Inferieure), so well known for his skill in dis-
covering water-springs, had but just returned from a tour-
in Hungary, where he discovered for the municipality of
Dubreczin ample supplies of water for the immense herds
of cattle which feed on the extensive pastures round that
town, when he was requested by Count de Montalembert
to pay a visit to Roche-en-Breny (Cote•d'Or). The Abbe
has there also discovered, in a meadow near the chateau,
two gushing springs which appear likely to prove of inesti-
mable value to the count's estate.
THE CHURCH AND THE POOR.—The Liberator,
the organ of the Liberation Society, is devoting a series of
papers to "Church Defence Fallacies." The number for
this month contains a second article on the fallacy of the
Church of England being the " Poor Man's Church."
The writer shows that Dissenters provide more
churches, more sittings, and more free sittings for
the poor, than the Establishment does. In the large
towns the Established Church provides forty-eight per
cent. el the total number of free sittings, and the
Nonconformists fifty-two per cent. He then goes on to
stow that the free sittings in the churches are occupied by
the rich and well-to-do, to the exclusion of the poor; and
quotes from the evidence given before the House of Lordse
Committee on Spiritual Destitution, in proof of the
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wretched accommodation offered to the poor in parish
churches where any seats for them are still provided.
" Thus," says the writer, "we are told the free
seats are in aisles and back seats' (question
are seated
on 3,280), 'in
an upper gallery in which those
sing the walls both
can neither see nor be seen' (3,269),
church' (3,096), 'so
g them can neither see
situated that the persons ocsupr;
in the galleries and in the hod)? of. the
of the three points at
froracir the moat uncomfortable
458),
e)reel degraded, under some organ
position, where the
people
corners' (5,281), while scores of
nor
which hearhe stpheea k ministers
(p. t
towns are represented as having no
churches in the
ai Is this the Poor man's church "
pittiors ' free
gallery, or in some remote