The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1862

difference between the two leaders must be felt as
long as the struggle lasts.
Our Radical friends must not set us down for
Aristocrats if we mention another cause. The
Southern armies have been composed substantially
of gentlemen leading their clients. The " Southern
Chivalry" is by no means altogether a joke. The
leading men there feel themselves to be the de-
scendants of the Cavalier party in England, and
though rural, and almost solitary, life may have
modified externals, they retain that proud belief in
superior blood and birth, which would make them
endure anything rather than humble to the
mechanics of the North. "We are gentlemen—
our opponents but the 'cutest of a race of workies,"
is the sentiment of these men. And strange to say
even the miserable mean whites of the South are
proud of their gentlemen, and willing to serve
under them with almost equal contempt of the
North.

Now, there is but one thing which the North
could match against the Southern gentlemen.
CARLYLE has fully illustrated to us how his hero,
CROMWELL, met the same thing in England. That
mighty military genius, seeing the Royalist suc-
cesses, pointed out at once that the Cavaliers were
commanded by gentlemen, and led an army of
their dependents—to meet them, he demanded
an army of God-fearing men, whose zeal for what
they firmly believed to be the cause of heaven,
would match the zeal of Cavaliers for the cause of
honour. In fact, CROMWELL pitted religious en-
thusiasm against gentlemanly honour. We all
know the result. The RUPERT charge had to yield
to the charge of the Ironsides. But wherewith
has the North met the charge of the Southern
chivalry, fighting, too, for the political indepen-
dence of the men they despised P By the mere
bubbles of the Union—of vast Empire—of manifest
destiny—of model Republicanism—by no one senti-
ment that fires the soul of men. The North might
have had a cry as soul-stirring as that of CROM-
WELL'S. It might have proclaimed the wrath of
Heaven with the infernal curse of slavery, and now
that it had risen in rebellion, have declared the fact
a summons to extirpate the enemy of GOD and man
from their continent. Alas, with an opportunity
such as no chief or cause ought to have overlooked,
the North, through its own base sentiments regard-
ing the negro, was not susceptible of an appeal to
make the war a war of righteousness to the wronged,
and of national greatness at the same time. We
can hardly believe that an army of mere Unionists
will conquer an army of gentlemen and their de-
pendents, fighting for political independence of a
people they despise.
It has been remarked that the war has not called
forth a single eminent man yet in the North, while
in the South three at least—DAVlS, LEE, and
JACKSON—have made themselves historical names.
The Indian mutiny elicited no genius on the side
of the sepoys, while it has immortalised several
names of the conquerors. It is not improbable that
the North, vast as its numbers are, will fail from
the same cause as the mutiny did. Genius and
ability wielding smaller resources will always van-
quish mere numbers. The Northern soldiers are
sighing to be led by a LEE or a JACKSON ; the
Southern soldiers boasting that they are led by
them. At what immense odds must two such armies
fight. The Southern soldier rushes on confident
that his wound or even his death is not thrown
away ; the Northern soldier questions whether he
is not exposing himself in vain. The diverse de-
grees of confidence in their leaders are almost
enough to explain the different results in so many
struggles.

) Another remarkable view of the Southern case
has been pointed out by a Southern paper—that
their very isolation from the world created by the
blockade, and their being left to their own re-
sources by the nations of Europe, on whose aid
they so confidently calculated at first, has been
almost their salvation. At first no one doubted
that the immense creative power of the North, and
the absence of anything like manufacturing and
mechanical skill in the South, must soon place the
latter, if blockaded, at the mercy of the former. Even
if the South could find men, how could it feed,
clothe, and arm them ? To the astonishment of
Europe this has been done for nearly a year and a
half, and for vast armies too. The men the North
provided them. Its anti•negro policy furnished the
South with black labour, leaving every adult white
free to fight. Its blockade rendered numbers of
white men idle and available for the war. But
where were the arms to come from ? It could
be no great number which could run
the blockade. The answer is in the homely
old proverb which tells us that " necessity
is the mother of invention." Under that stimulus
the South has shown what it can do. The war will
do for it, indeed, what nothing else would do. When
it is over the North will find, to a great extent, its
occupation gone. The South has been compelled to
become its own manufacturer. It will very proba-
bly remain so, and perhaps may be so unwise as to
imitate the North, in preferring bad and dear do-
mestic productions, to the cheap and better ones of
Europe.
When we look at the facts to which we have ad-
verted, when we consider the absence of Union
feeling in the South, the presence of Secession sen-
timents in the North, and the impossibility of sub-
jugating and re-amalgamating a whole nation of
men who have shown such unlooked for resources,
skill and courage, it seems not too much to conclude
that the grand question of one or two nations is
already decided. The north may yet shed blood
and win battles ; that it can reunite the South with
itself seems now impossible.

One of the worthiest and most esteemed among
the citizens of London has but just now passed
away from amongst us, in the person of Mr .
CHARLES PEARSON, the City Solicitor. Although
Mr. PEARSON had all but completed the allotted
age of man—being in his 69th year when he
breathed his last on Sunday morning, at his resi-
dence in Wandsworth—be was in the midst of so
L many good and useful labours (still incomplete when
he died) that we can hardly help regarding his de-
parture as premature. Yet had he done his part
well, and long, and energetically from first to last,
es at once a public servant and a public benefactor.
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cerned—by no means degenerate into idle and
crotchetty day-dreamers; on the contrary, realising
their cherished schemes of changes for the better, by
the practical skill with which they work out their at
first, perhaps, apparently wildest imaginations. Of
this—the Metropolitan Underground Hallway is a
sufficient attestation in the instance of Mr. CHARLES
PEARSON, the late Solicitor for the City. For of
that extraordinary, and, as it was first of a 1, by
many, deemed extravagant scheme, Mr. P - EARSON
was the original promoter. He, unfortunately, has
not lived to witness its actual completion ; but,
at any rate, he had the satisfaction of
observing its rapid approximation towards
it. His discharge of other onerous and responsible

duties besides those devolving upon him in his most
conspic•aous capacity as the City Solicitor—his able
conduct•, for instance, for some period as Governor
of WtLitecross-street Prison, and again as High
Sheriff of Southwark, at once served to illustrate
the ability, integrity, and general excellence of the
man, and his cordial appreciation by large num-
bers of his fellow-citizens. While, during the latter
years of his active and useful life, Mr. CHARLES
PEARSON has worked admirably well in the inte-
rests of the great metropolitan Corporation, who
had, with rare sagacity, chosen him as their Soli-
citor—still more admirably has he worked, quite
spontaneously, and voluntarily, and without one
sordid thought of remuneration, in the interests of
the labouring classes in the capita], in behalf of he
artizan population of this busy world of London !
His enlightened efforts to ensure the salubrity of
the homes of that population by clustering them at
reasonable distances in the country, upon one or
two of the leading lines of railway—beyond even
the remotest of the straggling and crowded
suburbs of this vast metropolis—that one good
work alone would entitle CHARLES PEARSON'S
name to our remembrance as that of a distinguished
and practical philanthropist.

7HE 7IIEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.

Last night Mr. Boucicault produced another of his sen-
sation dramas, which met with a success that promises to
be of a most lasting character. The name of the drama it-
self. " The Relief of Lucknow," is quite sufficient to attract
immensely; but, in addition to that most attractive and
memorable title, a number of the most thrilling incidents
are ingeniously connected, and presented to the audience
in a manner that none but a stage director of the greatest
eminence could accomplish.
It must have been a difficult task to entwine a sort of love
story into such a memorable event as the relief of Lucknow,
but Mr. Boucicault has succeeded even in that. The drama is
divided into four acts, each of which closes with a tableau,
which would have been sufficient to secure the success of
any drama of the same description.
The piece opens with a splendid view of a Highland
home in India, and here we are introduced to a Mrs.
Campbell, whom we find is attached to Captain Randal
M'Gregor, of the 78th Regiment. The lover arrives and
communicates the disturbed state of the surround-
ing country to her, and her friends, amongst whom
are the Rev. Mr. O'Grady, George M'Gregor, an
ensign of the 33d, and Jessie Brown, the attached attend-
ant on Mrs. Campbell's children. In a very short time
after this communication an attack is made by the
Rajah Gholam Bahadoor, and one of Mrs. Camp.
bell's children is carried off. Thus an opportunity is
given for the introduction of a number of characters,
and the rescue of the child forms the chief incident
in the plot. To accomplish this Jessie Brown and her
faithful lovers, Cz.ssidy, an Irish corporal, and Sweeney,
an English drummer, go through a number of hair-
breadth escapes, the most intensely exciting of which is
the perilous flight of Jessie on horseback, with the child in
her arms, up a mountain pass, and through a dreadful tor-
rent. In addition to this we have a magnificent represen-
tation of the encampment of the rebellious rajah—a gor-
geous native festival, in which the celebrated Arabs take
the parts of sepoys—and, finally, a most vivid and bril-
liant representation of the relief of Lucknow.
The acting of Mrs. Boucicault as Jessie Brown was
most impressive, and the manner in which she sang the
various snatches of Scottish song was peculiarly beautiful
and Madame Celeste as Mrs. Campbell was the perfection
of melo .drama.

Mr. Swinbourne made his first appearance in London as
Randal M'Gregor, and was received with the greatest cor-
diality ; that he will become a metropolitan favourite is
certain. Mr. Boucicault, as Cassidy, the warm-hearted
Irish corporal, acted with all that humour which so con-
spicuously marked his assumption of Myles, in the " Col-
leen Bawn," and which has rendered him the first of Irish
comedians. Mr. Mellon has a good part, which he de-
velops to the very utmost—it is that of an old soldier, who
having left the army from conscientious scruples, returns
to his old profession, in order to ail the weak and
helpless. Mr. Chat les Vtindenhoff, another first appearance,
as Geordie Al‘Gregor, gave promise of being an excellent
actor; and Mr. Atkins as Sweeney the drummer, acted with
a quaintness and humour that pleased the audience:amaz-
ingly. Mr. Ryder and Mrs. Jordan represented the prin-
cipal Hindoos with great care and vigour.
It is impossible to speak too highly of the " Relief of
Lucknow" as a military spectacle. From first to last the
incidents were most vociferously applauded, and the crown-
ing one, "the charge of the 78th Highlanders," elicited
such tremendous applause that it made the walla of Old
Drury fairly ring again.
At the termination of the piece Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault
received a perfect ovation.
The house was crowded almost to suffocation.

LATESr NEWS.

PARIS, SEPT. 16.
The Paris papers of to-day publish the following

telegram :

" ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 15.
News received here from Syria states that the

Hauran is still in insurrection.

" The population had attacked the Turkish camp
at Mggrah, and intercepted the convoys.

"Au insurrection has also broken oat at Castra-

van and Gazir.

" Daoud Pasha bad been repulsed by the insur-
gents and, it is asserted, wounded. The Emirs
Medjid and Kaisers were likewise wounded.
" The above intelligence was telegraphed to
Bey rout.

THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 16.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Mcoltan, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
has arrived in the river. She brings 47 passengers,
including Major-General Sir R. Walpole and Sir
James Cochrane, £2,501 in specie, pearls valued at
56,000 rupees, and upwards of 4,000 packages of
cargo, including raw silk valued at £130,000 ster-
ling.

The Ripon left Gibraltar for the East on the Bth

inst.

On the 7th the Mooltan spoke the British bark
Grenfell, on the 11th the brig British Bride, and
on the 15th the bark Haddington.
The Mooltan left Gibralter on the 10th inst.
Exchange unaltered.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 13.
The term fixed for the withdrawal of the caimes

expired to-day.
The paper money of the State, amounting to
99,880,072 piastres, has been entirely withdrawn
from circulation.

BELGRADE, SEPT. 15.

Two hundred National Guards have left the bar-
ricades in the town, fatigued by the incessant duty
of watching them.
Two battalions of militia were about to follow
their example, but remained on a promise being
made that they should be disbanded within 10 days.
The insurgents of the Herzegovina have surren-
dered. Lu!ca Vucalovich, their chief, has been
summoned to Scutari under promise of an amnesty.

PARIS, SEPT. 15.

The Constitutionnel of this evening publishes an
article on the Roman question signed by M. Li•-

mayrac, which says :

" For 30 years the Imperial Government has de-
fended the independence of the Papacy, but it is
not reasonable to conclude from this that it intends
to maintain the Papal Government for ever.
" If France considers it her duty to secure the
independence of the Papacy, she also considers it
her duty to respE ct the liberty of peoples.

" The Court of Rome and the journals which are
devoted to it affirm that the Roman Government is
loved by its subjects. It is therefore only necessary
to protect it against any external attacks.
" The Papal power being secured within by the
wishes of the inhabitants, and protected from with-
out by a formal declaration of France, which word
is as good as her sword, there is no longer any reason
for the occupation of Rome by French troops."

TURIN, SEPT. 15.

The Official Gazette of to-day says :-
1 " Some journals have reproached the Govern-
r =cut, fur not having yet declared its intentions
respecting the disposal of those who took part in
the late acts of rebellion. Considering that the law
has to be executed and justice to be left to freely
take its course, the Government was not obliged to
make any declaration on this subject.
" The facts in question having taken place in
several provinces, it is necessary to determine what
Court of Assize is competent to try the prisoners.
" The Government has also had regard to consi-
derations of public safety."
Count Stackelberg, Russian Envoy Extraordinary
to the Court of Turin, has arrived here, accompanied
by his suite.