The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER U, 1862

THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1862.

What a windfall Italy, America, and panics have
been to the Tories and Lord PALMERSTON! Italy,
indeed, only in part, for their unlucky pro-
clivity to the wrong side has told entirely for PAL-
MERSTON—but then, it was for PALMERSTON and
Toryism,—since it diverted attention from Parlia-
mentary Reform ; hence, though Tories did not
gain the sweets of office, Toryism gained a reprieve
from their great terror—the extension of political
rights and liberties. The Panics, too, were admi-
rably worked, both by themselves and Lord PAL-
MERSTON, in staving off the hatefol question—who
next shall enjoy the franchise ? It would peep out,
now and then, but " our National Defences," was
continually shouted so loudly, that, at the hustings,
and in Parliament, the people wero taught to re-
gard raising seventy millions a year without grum-
bling, as a far more patriotic object than
creating, protesting, and equalising votes.
But America has served the Whig and
Tory orators in every way. It has supplied them
at once with a stone with which to pelt democracy,
and a topic to make the country forget the rights of
the dreaded DEMOS.

We have just now the too well known Mr.BERES-
FORD HOPE, contending with two or three other
candidates for the honour of representing Stoke-
upon-Trent. America enables him to talk by the
hour, and yet to pack Reform and all that sort of
thing into a conveniently small compass. A local
or electioneering squabble over the position occupied
by one of the professedly rival candidates, Sergeant
SHEE, who, if Mr. HOPE succeeds, will, by dividing
the liberal electors, be the cause of his success, serves
for a little guerilla work ; but on this subject, the
published corresp -:ndence notwithstanding, we shall
pronounce no judgment. We can only say that
the liberals of Stoke.on-Trent would obtain much
more credit with their party throughout
country, if they would hold a united
.the
meeting,
pledge themselves to abide by its decision, take a
fair ballot, and then unanimously support the can-
didate whom their own ballot selected. We have
seen this done more than once when division was ,
threatened, and the Tory in consequence has had to I
withdraw, or to take his place on the poll where
every Tory ought to be by this time of day.
Mr. HOPE is an old Tory new vamped. Thus on
Church-rates it hardly answers now, when every
one recognises the vast amount of religious instruc-
tion supplied by Nonconformists at their own cost,
to advocate saddling them with the cost of support-
ing the wealthy Church, of which the wealthy Mr.
HOPE is a member—so he adapts his Church-rate
policy to the exigency of the hour. He wants a
compromise, though, like all the compromisers,
he has pointed out none which others would
accept. He would exempt Dissenters somehow;
he would compel Churchmen to pay somehow;
but how for purposes of exemption, and distraint on
recusants, he would define Dissenter and Church-
man, he has given us no hint, and we suspect could
present us with no plan which his own party, as
well as that of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, would not tear
to pieces in five minutes.

Parliamentary Reform must, it seems, for de-
cency's sake, be mentioned. On two points, Mr.
HOPE ventured to be somewhat explicit. He was
in favour of "fancy franchises," and we suppose
thanked Mr. BRIGHT for teaching him that word.
We do not know that any one objects to them. Mr.
DISRAELI, of course, does not, Lord RUSSELL, from
whom roost of them were borrowed, does not, even
Mr. BRIGHT does not, why should he, why should
any Reformer ?—anything that will fairly give a
vote is so far an extension of the franchise. Bur
when the fancy electors are for much the greater part
selected from the gentleman's servant class, a little
suspicion arises that fancy has taken wing chiefly
towards the poiitics of Belgravia. Englishmen
desire some thin 0. moresolid—something lesskindred
with the political soups and fricasees of French and

Austrian paper constitutions, and more kindred
with the substantial roast b2ef of their old England.
We turn to the.naan's house icstiactively—to his
castle—and desire to base on his acknowledged resi-
dence his claim to be considered a trustworthy
citizen, clethed with the full riglts of a citizen.
Above all, do we spurn the never-to-be-forgiven
fancy of Mr. HOPE'S political chief, that of dis-
franchising some half million of freeholders in
the counties, just because they happen to be the
most liberal of that last class of voters.
Mr. HOPE has, like Earl RUSSELL, a special spite
against the ballot. We infer this naturally when,
as in his case, no arguments are adduced but those
which have been refuted again and again, and which
indeed are refuted by the constant practice of the
circles in which Mr. HOPE moves, when political
power is not in question, and it is wished to obtain
an honest expression of opinion, without detriment
to the social comfort of any one. If the ballot, for
instance, be un-English, we are sure Mr. BERES-
FORD is very un•English in his club, and perhaps in
other societies, and that his friends in the army are
very un-English, with all their courage, when they
act together in Courts Martial. Mr. HOPE is not
wanting in ability, and if he had any arguments
against the ballot, save that hatred, which he dared
not express, of the independence it would confer on
the voter, he would not have descended to retail
the trashy arguments of those whom he has else-
where designated as fourth rate men.
But it is on the American War that Mr. A. J. B.
BERESFORD HOPE is in his own opinion greatest,
and, we should say, altogether un-English ; so much
so, that, should the foolish Liberal split not be
healed, he will be returned, even by Tories, not be-
cause of, but in spite of his views. Mr. HOPE told
his audience that he is no convert to Southern
views; he was always a Southerner in his Americou
politics. Other Englishmen may have been made
Southerners in their leanings by Bull's Run, or by
the Trent affair, or by the Tariff—not so Mr.
HOPE. "He was a Southerner in sympathy before
Bull's Run." He did indeed avow his horror of
slavery, and he had remonstrated with his Southern
friends on that point, with what profit we may hope
hereafter to see. Bat the South was his first love,
and he is faithful to it. Few Englishmen, we trust,
can say as much. Is Mr. B. HOPE, of all persons,
ignorant of the special point in Mr. LINCOLN'S and
the North's programme, which caused the South to
secede ? Does he not know that it was the ques-
tion—whether slavery should be extended into the
yet free territories, and the Constitution worked in
the interest, not of slavery, but of Freedom ! Mr.
A. J. B. HOPE must know that this is not
only the never denied fact, but the avowed
charge of the South against the North, and that the
tariff was a mere afterthought. It was not felt to
be oppressive, while the North would encourage
slavery ; while it would pass fugitive slave laws ;
tolerate,decisions from the Bench that the coloured
man had no rights which the white man was bound
to respect—and even refuse passports to coloured
gentlemen and ladies because they were not citizens.
As long as the North would sell itself uncondi-
tionally to doing the bidding of the Southern demon,
the South would remain in the Union. As soon as
the North refused longer compli2ity in the vilest
abuses of slave power the South seceded.
We do not deny, we have severely enough cen-
sured, the Northern conduct since the war began,
on the negro question. But we confess we do
blush to find an Englishman not ashamed to de•
Clare himself a lover of the South. Bad as the
North may be, that cannot justify us in attachment
to a Republic which avowedly, for the first time
in the world's history, and the year of our redemp-
tion, 1862, lays down slavery for its corner• stone
—proclaims it a Divine institution—denies civil
right, social rights, matrimonial rights, parental
rights to its negroes. Which refuses their evi-
dence in its courts of law; which deals
with them as mere animals, chattels, and pro-
perty; which refuses them education, keeps
hem in compulsory ignorance, and which
n its hellish madness of tyranny refuses any law

which can ameliorate their relations to their pro-

prietors, or tend to elevate their condition and cha-
racter. Mr. LINCOLN and the North have faults

enough to answer for—we admit them, we have
exposed them. But the audacity which in an
English borough can stand on a platform and pro-
claim its sympathy with such a pandemonium of
men who are more even traitors to humanity than
to the North, is a disgrace to our country. If we
cannot love the Yankees, much less can we love the
South. We detest the North for dealing so gently
with the accursed system ; how much more
must we detest the South, which revels in
the curse, and glories in its shame. All
the Liberals of Stoke-on-Trent ought to unite, if
only to prevent the disgrace to England of electing
as a Member of Parliament a gentleman who loves
the most politically depraved community of Chriatel
dom, and who avows that he always loved it. The
only thing to be regretted is, that the North should
have done so many things as to enable Tories to
make a diversion in favour of a community of slave-
holders by dwelling on the errors of their anta-
gonists. Our hope is, that the North will so far
conquer, as to shut up slavery and its abomina-
tions within the fewest States possible.

Sympathy for GARIBALDI! are the watchwords
now calling together in various parts of the coun-
try large assemblies of earnest Englishmen. There
Was an immense meeting only the other day at
Newcastle—a meeting convened simply for the pur-
pose of expressing that sympathy for GARIBALDI.
There
has been sinee then another enormous gather-
ing
of a like kind, and for the self same object, at
Gateshead. And in the midst of these spontaneous
evidences of admiration for the Fallen Hero—as
about the most practical token of the sincerity of
the sympathy
expressed towards him, there is an
intimation that
has Just now got abroad to the
effect that an rnglish
medical attendant has been
sent out to the aid of the illustrious sufferer, now
prostrated upon a bed that it is beginning to be
feared may unhappily prove to be his deathbed,
unless the calamity dreaded may, with GOD'S help,
be averted by some such timely assistance.
English doctor having already been sent out to
Whether this report be correct or not, as to an
Spezzia, by certain of GARIBALDI'S more earnest
and energetic sympathisers in this country—now
is a magnificent opportunity for any one of our
leading men in the medical profession ! Suppose
some world-famous surgical operator, like
Professor
SYME or Professor FERGUSSON, were to make a
holiday of it at their leisure time of the year, when
nearly all the gay world of their `Vest-end patients
might be safely described as afoot among the baths
of Germany, or the chalets of Switzerland, and
taking steam across the Mediterranean, were to
pay a visit to the wounded Captive, now lying
mutilated and lamentably neglected in the prison
fortress of Varignano In a merely professional
point of view it would not be time thrown away.
To say nothing of the admiration that could not
fail to be excited by so noble an effort to alle-
viate the sufferings, and to diminish, Bo
far as might be practicable, the peril
threatening the life of a great man reduced
I by a most memorable reverse of fortune to very

terrible straits. Thera is a very natural and a very
general distrust —in this country—of the Italian doe.
tors, both Surgeons and Physicians. Their favourite
system of treatment is of the old fashioned San
Orado kind. They have a fatal predilection for
attaining skill by (practice) in the art of phlebotomy.
Blood-letting is their passion, as it would seem to
have been that of the Bersaglieri at Aspromonte.
They approach the couch of a sufferer twiddling the
familiar lancet between thumb and finger—burn-
ing to open a vein if they can only contrive to ex-
tort permission, Anything like inflammation is
an excuse for this exhuasting process. No matter
how reduced orprostrated the patient:maybe other-
wise—they point to the evidence of local inflam-
mation, they descant upon the necessity of allay-
ing anything like feverish symptoms, and at the
first available opportunity there is the incision, and
the all-precious current of life is fast ebbing away.
It is not an exaggeration to talk thus of the system
in vogue among the majority of Italian medical
practitioners. A memorable case in point and
one of no remote occurrence, was that of
the late Prime Minister of Italy, Count
CAVOUR. It is a fact quite notorious that ho
died as it were under the lancet. Full blooded
though he was, his veins were drained and drained
by the Italian SAN GRADOS clustered about his
couch in fatal consultation. One Italian doctor is
alarming enough, but a group of them, consulting
together as to the best means to be pursued in re-
gard to the treatment of any one whose life is held
peculiarly dear—is an incident of a most ominous
and alarming character. The prescription arising
from their consultation might be safely described,
and without much exaggeration, as their patient's
death-warrant.

Now, during the last few days, there have been
all kinds of ugly rumours flying about as to the
exact condition of General GARIBALDI since his
wounded body was laid down—by no very tender
hands we take it—in that melancholy fortress of
Varignano. It is quite certain that he is suffering
grievously. It is a fact, by this time undeniable,
that one of the two wounds received by
him from Italian rifle shots at Aspromonte,
is a wound of an exceedingly painful, and, indeed,
of a very severe character. The bruising and abra-
sion of the left thigh may be regarded, happily, we
believe with confidence, as not of very much account.
It is the wound upon the right ankle that is so
serious of its kind, and so poignant a source of suf-
fering. There it is not merely the flesh that is torn,
but the bone that is shattered. Hence the feverish
symptoms. Hence the difficulty of stirring with-
out anguish. And this upon a " borrowed" bed—a
bed borrowed from a humane citizen of the neigh-
bouring seaport of Spezzia ! The authorities hav-
ing actually provided for their wounded State Pri-
soner—and that Prisoner no less a Benefactor of the
KING and of the State than General GARIBALDI !
the Government of Italy having provided for their
wounded State Prisoner, and that Prisoner GARI-
BALDI, neither bed, nor linen, nor leeches, nor ban-
dages, nor any of those little appurtenances of a
sick room, that one might have thought the
mere :dictates of humanity would have com-
pelled them eagerly to accumulate round
him for his physical relief and assuagement.
All this would be absolutely incredible but that
we obtain the afflicting particulars from an authority
that cannot be disputed. General Balo, a man of
European reputation—General Bixio, no infatuated
follower of GARIBALDI, for Bixio openly protested
against this last fatal enterprise of GARIBALDI—
General Bixio, and no other than General BIM,
is the one whose indignant voice has but just now
at Genoa denounced this infamous treatment of
General GARIBALDI by the RATTAZZI Government !
And he does so—writing of these matters, not from
hearsay, but from his own personal observation.
He had but just returned from visiting the Wounded
Hero at Varignano, when he wrote that astound-
ing letter, dated " Genoa, September s,"—to the
publication of which letter we briefly alluded yes-
terday immediately before going to press. Kuowing
the facts:now in regard to the actual situation of things
just now about the person of General GARIBALDI—
one cannot but feel that if the avoidable shooting and
stabbing which took place at the end of last month
at Aspromonte were incidents altogether infamous—
doubly infamous in this disgraceful treatment of
the Hero (there defeated, wounded, and captured)
ever since his removal from the Duca di Genova to
the fortress of Variguano.
Sympathy for GARIBALDI—is, indeed, required.
And from none can it come more generously or more
gracefully than from Englishmen. And about the
noblest, the fittest, the most generous and practical
evidence that could possibly be given of the heart-
felt earnestness of this sympathy, would, without
doubt, be the hastening out, as quickly as possible,
to that conch of suffering there, near Spezzia, of
some skilled English Doctor, who might—with
Heaven's help—rescue GARIBALDI from the dan-
gerous hands of those Italian physicians, who de-
prived Italy of her first Statesman, as they now run
the hazard of depriving her of that beloved Hero
who is her greatest Soldier.

The French EMPEROR is certainly taking it
coolly. There is a talk of a Ministerial crisis at
Paris—and his MAJESTY at once goes off to Biarritz !
There is a consciousness that all Europe awaits
his concession at length to the exigencies of the
times, by consenting to a solution, without any
further delay, of the Great Continental Difficulty.
His MAJESTY is reported to meditate drawing.
the whole diplomatic world after him from the
capital to his place of autumnal repose at the sea-
side ! The ambassadors accredited to the Court of
the Tuileries,it was reported very recently,would as
almost immediately at Biarritz to discuss with
the EMPEROR the possibility of carrying out any
satisfactory scheme of solution that might be sug-
gested. It appeared so incredible from the first that
the EMPEROR would carry his coolness upon the
affair referred to, so far, that we cannot wonder
upon hearing that the idea of such a diplomatic
gathering at Biarritz has (if ever entertained at all)
been abandoned,at any rate for the time being. It
is certain, however, that the Marquis de LAVAL-
LETTE, having been recently recalled from Rome,
is expected at Biarritz on the 16th or 17th, and
that the Duc de GRAMMONT will be there at the
samei time. Meanwhile, has Lord RUSSELL no
st_uhgegienatteiroiettsooof Effeurraotpethpis juncture to the French
Government--no suggestion whatever to offer to
that Government, in the name of England and in

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night, about half-past six o'clock, a number ,nn
Wednesday
attracted to the vicinity of a pillar letter-box
persons were
street, Scotswood-road, Newcastle, whence b:x in Hinde-
issuing. On the box being opened it was nifooukedwas seen
cDntents, of whatever value they may have 1):, that its
reduced to ashes. Inquiries were made, and it weaTd7ere
vered that the perpetrator of this mischievous act was boyalsen"
seven years of age, named John Murphy, the sea of
an
Irishman residing in Back 131andford-street. It is supposed
he had dropped some lighted matches into the slit,—,New.
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LATEST NEWS.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 12, Morning.

The Moniteur of to-day contains the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows
the following results, as compared with the August
account :

Cash in hand

DECREASE.

Bills discounted, not yet due

13 millions.

43 1-7 millions.

Advances , . .. ..
Bank-notes • . ..
Treasury balance .. ..

Current accounts .. ..

13 1.9 millions.
21 1-5 millions.
10 millions.

38 B-9 millions.

BERLIN, SEPT. 11.
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the discussion
of the military budget was entered upon.
The Minister von der Heydt presented a written
declaration, in which he recapitulated the progress
of events in reference to the reorganisation of the
army up to the present time. He stated :

" It has never been the intention of the Govern-
ment to propose only a provisional military budget.
The supplies hitherto voted by the Chamber have
justified the Government in believing that it would
be able to fulfil its duty towards the country by the
maintenance of the existing military budget.
" The Government has only abstained from
bringing its proposition before the Chamber on ac-
count of the shortness of the present session. Future
resolutions respecting the military constitution will
not be prejudiced by the supplies voted for 1862.
The Government has no objection to offer to the
grant of an extraordinary credit, for which the cur-
rent income affords ample means. For the surplus
expenses of 1862 the Government require the sub-
sequent consent of the Chamber, but hopes to obtain
it on account of the unavoidable nature of the ex-
penses. The deferred presentation of the Budget
would not justify resolutions of the Chamber which
would create disorder in the administration of the
finances, and compromise the Government with re-
spect to foreign countries. The proposal of the
Committee would render it impossible to bring
about any military budget.
" The Government emphatically recognises the
right of the Chamber to approve the expenditure ;
but, conscious of being unable to adopt a different
course, has displayed its endeavour to facilitate the
solution of the question. The responsibility for
the consequences will, therefore, remain with the
representatives."

TURIN, SEPT. 11.
The reports in circulation of a new loan are btated
to be devoid of foundation.
The rumour that an amnesty will be proclaimed
is considered more probable.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

The following telegram has been received :

SEPT. 11.

The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 11 a.m. this day.
The mails were to leave for London at 11 30 a.m

711 E GLOUCES7E.R MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

GLOUCESTER, TRURSD.A.Y.

There was a fair attendance this morning at the
cathedral. The aisle and choir seats (3s. 6d.) were
in demand, and the reserved seats in the nave and
west end of the gallery were also well patronised
'for what is generally considered the " off" day, or
one which there is ordinarily two or more works
performed. The performance began with Men-
delssohn's cantata, the " Lobgesang," composed for
the Guttenburg Festival at Leipsic in June, 1840,
the solo parts being performed by Mdlle. Parepa,
Mr. Montem Smith, and Miss Eleonora Wilkinson.
Mdlle. Parepa shone pre-eminently ; she attacked
the high notes in the " Praise thou the Lord, 0 my
spirit," with accuracy as well as power, and her
share of the lovely duet, " T waited for
the Lord," was superbly contributed. The
chorus singing claims as earnest an eulogium
as that which the band is entitled to. Each section
of voices was earnest in the cause. At one o'clock
the selection from "Judas Maccabeus" was begun.
For the " Messiah" to-morrow—the concluding day
—every place is taken. The third and last concert
to-night at the Shire Hall has the attractive item
in the programme of Benedict's " Undine."

GENERAL BUTLER AND THE FRENCH
CONSUL.

The notorious and much execrated General
Butler, at New Orleans, seems determined to keep
his name before the world by rendering himself
odious to all around him. After having had his
acts towards some of the foreign Consuls, in the
city where be commands, reversed by the Washing-
ton Government, he has now managed to get up a
fresh difficulty with the French Consul, Count
Mejan. It became known, it appears, to Butler
that considerable sums of money had been deposited
for security at the Consulate by French subjects,
including one sum of 750,000 dols., left there by a
French merchant at New Orleans. He spoke to
Count MEj art about it, expressing his doubts that
it was really French property, and his strong
suspicion that it might be that of the rebels. The
Consul could only reply that it had been placed in
his hands by a French subject, who represented it
to be his property, and to be allottE d to pay for
tobacco which was to be sent to France. Butler,
who it Uppears had the merchant in question in
waiting, had him shown in and confronted him
with Count Mejan. The merchant persisted that the
money was his, and Butler had no means of prov-
ing the contrary; but although he did not think it
advisable to seize the 750,000 dols., he placed two
sentries over the Consulate to see that the specie
was not carried away. Remonstrance then came
from Count Mejan, who declared he could not tole-
rate this, and should pull down his flag if the sen-
tries were not withdrawn. In the course of the
discussion that ensued it appears that the Consul
was so imprudent as to say, that if the soldiers were
removed, he would pledge himself not to' give up,
without the consent of Butler, any of the money
that had been deposited in his hands. Thereupon
the sentries were taken away. But in the mean-
time it had got abroad that Butler was busying
himself about the funds at the French Consu-
late, and several of the depositors getting alarmed
went to Count Mejan to demand back their own.
He, having given his word to Butler, felt obliged
to refuse, and the fix became complete. The
matter was referred to the French Minister at
Washington, and, according to the last letters re-
ceived in Paris, Count Mejan was ordered to the
Northern capital to give explanations. It is pre-
sumable that the person appointed to fill his place
during his absence will not be considered bound by
Count Mejan's rash promise, and that those who
still desire it will receive the payments with which
it is evident Butler had no right to interfere.

MARKETS---TIIIS DAY.

MARK LANE.

Fresh up to our market, this morning, a moderate supply
of New English wheat was received. For all qualities the
trade was in a sluggish state, and prices had a drooping
tendency.
There was a large supply of foreign wheat on the stands,
end the trade was in a sluggish state, at barely late rates.
Floating cargoes of grafn changed hands heavily, and
prices ruled in favour of buyers.
Barley, however, moved off steadily, at full currencies.
The supply on offer was small.
The malt trade was dull, and for inferior produce prices
were decidedly drooping.
The supply of oats was mostly confined to foreign quali-
ties, which met a slow sale, on rather easier terms.
Beans and peas were in limited supply, and steady re-
quest, at full prices.
Flour moved off heavily, and the currencies had a down-
ward tendency.

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats.

Flour.
1 1,010 sackF

English...— 2,150 9o' 1,630
Irish. -
Foreign 36,990 2,030 I 2 0,680 2,310 sacks
41,010 bls.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

The supply of meat on sale is only moderate, and the
trade, generally speaking, rules steady, at previous quota-
tions. _ _

Per Sib. by the carcase.

saga sdod
Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middlingmutton 4 0 4 2
'Middling do. .. 32 3 6 Prime do. .. 44 4 6
Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal
Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork 4 8 5 6
Large pork .... 4 0 4 6 Lamb
Inferior mutton. 3 8 3 10