The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-21 00:00:00

Very Affecting ! But Where 'I

S. A. Writes to the Times :—As it is possible
that there is a sorrowing mother to whom the fol-
lowing affecting details may afford some slight con-
solation I venture to ask a place for them in your
columns. They aro contained in a letter from
Lady Duff Gordon to her mother, dated the 7th of
February.
"A poor young Englishman died here the other day at
the house of the Austrian consular agent. I was too ill to
go to him, but a kind, dear, young Englishwoman, who was
here with her family in a boat, sat up with him three nights
and nursed him like a sister. He was buried on the let
day of Raamadan, where they bury strangers, on the site of
a former Coptic church. Archdeacon Moore read the ser-
vice. Omar and I spread my old English flag over the bier,
and Copts and Moslems helped to carry the poor stranger.
It was a most impressive sight,—the party of Europeans—
all strangers to the dead, but all deeply moved—the group
of black-robed and turbaned Copts, the sailors from the
boats, the gaily-dressed dragomans, several brown-shirted
Fellaheen, and the thick crowd of hildren, the expression
on whose little faces touched me most of all.

" As Moslems, Omar and the boatmen laid him down in
the grave ; while the English prayer was read, the sun
went down in a glorious flood of light over the distant
bend of the Nile.

" 'Had he a mother ? ho was young,' said an Ababdeh
woman to me with tears in her eyes, and pressing my hand
in sympathy with that poor far-off mother of such a diffe-
rent race."

NAPOLEON 111. AND HIS HISTORY OF CESAR.—
The Emperor of the French has, according to what we
have heard, sent a magnificently bound copy of Cesar to the
Queen. His Imperial Majesty has, we understand, com-
missioned M. Geriime to paint a portrait of aesar in mili-
tary costume, which will be engraved for the secondvolume
of Julius Cesar, as a companion to the splendid work of
art, by M. Ingres, which adorns the first.
THE BILL FOR ARMING THE NEGROES.—The
following is the Bill for arming the negroes which
passed the Confederate House of Representatives by a vote
of 40 to 37 :—" 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That in order to provide additional
forces to repel invasion, maintain the rightful possession
of the Confederate States, secure their independence, and
preserve their institutions, the President be and he is here-
by authorized to ask for and accept from the owners of
slaves the services of such number of ablebodied negro men
as he may deem expedient,for and during the war, to perform
military service in whatever capacity he may direct. 2. That
the General-in-Chief be authorised to organise said slaves
into companies, battalions, regiments, and brigades, under
such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may pre-
scribe, and to be commanded by such officers as the President
may appoint. 3. That while employed in the service the said
troops shall receive same rations, clothing, and compensa-
tion as are allowed to other troops in the same branch of
the service. 4. That if, under the provisions of this act, the
President shall not be able to raise a sufficient number of
troops to prosecute the war successfully and maintain the
sovereignty of the States and the independence of the Con-
federate States, then he is hereby authorised to call on each
State, whenever he thinks it expedient, for her quota of
300,000 troops, in addition to those subject to military ser-
vice under existing laws, or so many thereof as the Presi-
dent may deem necessary for the purposes herein mentioned,
to be raised from such classes irrespective of the colour of
the population in each State as the proper authorities
thereof may determine. 5. That nothing in this act shall
be construed to authorise a change in the relation which
said slaves shall bear toward their owners as property, ex-
cept by the consent of the owners and of the States in which
they may reside, and in pursuance of the laws thereof."