The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

THE
_SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1865.

The prospects of the company were very satisfac-
tory, and the directors expected a great increase of
business from the new access to the Victoria station.
The reconstruction of the lift was in progress, and
precautions as far as possible to guard against acci-
dents in future, and make them impossible, had been
adopted.

Mr. RICHARDS seconded the motion, which was
adopted.
The dividend recommended in the report was de-
clared, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed
the proceedings.

trate he had sent Inspector Walker to meet the cattle
trains at Aylesbury station on Monday evening to
examine the animals, but, for once, no cattle had
been bought at the London market by Aylesbury
dealers. He, as one of the justices, would be happy
to hear any representation from the farmers, and to
do all he could to abate the danger which all felt to
be so imminent.

Mr. DENCHFIELD though the Government wanted
stirring up, and said he was in possession of facts
which showed the necessity of the most stringent
steps being taken by the magistrates to prevent the
importation of London beasts into the country.
Mr. SENIOR said that in Ireland the authorities
could prevent English cattle from landing there, and
he urged that a similar course should be adopted
here as to cattle both from foreign countries and
from London.

Mr. H. LEPPER did not think a quarantine would
work with efficient effect.

Mr. G. A. LEPPER said that the authorities at Hol-
stein would not admit English stock, and a gentleman
with whom he was acquainted received a telegraphic
message stating that the beasts which he wished to
ship thither would not be allowed to land, so bad a
reputation had they acquired. He still held to his
view, nevertheless, of the foreign origin of the disease
now devastating the herds in this country.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

the same. They tell the North that without their
money reorganisation is only a word. The rail-
roads are all destroyed, and even where there are
crops they cannot be got to the markets. A letter
from Texas puts the case very strongly. "The
Southern people," it says, " are broken down in
fortune, and they have not enough capital to make
roads and build up afresh their trade system of
themselves. It can only be done through the me-
dium of foreign or Northern capital." As far as I
am able to judge Northern capitalists are not un-
willing to give the required aid, but they fairly ask
for some security that their money will not be utterly
thrown away. They want to be assured that the
South has distinctly and finally abandoned its designs
against the Republic. When, therefore, the self-
called " friends" of the South deny that it is con-
quered, and bid it strive to entangle the Government
in fresh difficulties by opposition in the Council
Chamber, they inflict the greateit injury upon it
which can possibly befall it. They keep it in a state
of poverty and destitution, and add to its present
miseries by shutting out the hope of future relief.
There are still Southern advocates who appeal to the
ignorance and passions of the seceded States by tell-
ing them that they have only to go through the form
of yielding, and disguise their hostility to the Go-
vernment, in order to be sure of success at last.
Such representations are worse than foolish—they
are wicked to the last degree, and seem to be inspired
by intense malignity towards the people they are
avowedly intended to benefit. No Northern man
will take his money into a State which scarcely takes
the pains to conceal its disloyalty. The South must
remain in the dust while its false friends persist in
affirming that it is in a state of incipient rebellion.
How low those Southern States have fallen is
constantly being illustrated by information of un-
doubted authenticity. Thus, the Governor of Ala-
bama has lately issued an address to the inhabitants,
in which he draws a lamentable picture of the State.
He looks back to 1860 when Alabama had a popu-
lation of 964,201 souls, of whom over 500,000 were
whites. It had nearly 6,500,000 acres of land under
cultivation, and 750 miles of railroad. " The value
of our real estate and personal property, exclusive
of the value of negroes, was $495,277,078." The
contrast now is one of the saddest kind. Of her
young men Alabama sent into the field 122,000, of
whom 35,000 never returned. The lands are laid
waste, the wealth is exhausted, and, in the words of
Governor Parsons, " our towns and cities, our rail-
roads and bridges, our schools and colleges, many
of our private dwellings and public edifices, are in
ruins. Silence and desolation reign where once stood
the comfortable home which resounded with the
joyous laugh of childhood and innocence." This is
a gloomy sketch, but every touch of it is true to the
life. The lives that have been squandered cannot
be recalled, but the face of the country may soon be
entirely changed if the enterprise of the North is not
checked.

As if this cause of uncertainty was not sufficient
to deter capitalists from embarking their fortunes
in the States lately brought back to the Union, the
miserable Mexican difficulty is incessantly paraded
before the public. What can have induced an
officer in the position of General Sheridan to write
such a letter as that by which you will have heard
by telegraph I do not pretend to explain ; but the
effect of it is clear and unmistakable. It strength-
ens the hopes of those who thirst to see the United
States at war with a European Power, and it dis-
courages those who hope to see peace preserved.
Which of these two classes is most useful to the
country in its present condition any one is able to
judge. The behaviour of some of the public func-
tionaries in this country is at times perfectly unac-
countable. The Chief Justice goes about lecturing
from " stumps" on the duty of resisting the Govern-
ment in regard to negro suffrage. The commander
of the United States' forces on the Rio Grande de-
clares publicly that the war is not finished until
Maximilian and the French troops are driven out of
Mexico. The sense of responsibility can never have
properly presented itself to either of these men. They
labour to cast fresh trammels around the G overnment
which placed them where they are. Gen. Sheridan
outstrips Mr. Seward by an open declaration of war
against the Emperor Maximilian, and his soldiers
are eager that he should begin it at once. It is very
unfortunate that at such a time the President is un-
able to attend to public business. The condition of his
health is now such as to cause serious uneasiness, the
heavy cares of his office and the anxiety with which
he is known to have been suffering having, for a time
at least, broken him down. Happily Mr. Seward is
able to give undivided attention to the duties of his
post, and with such help Mr. Johnson might well
afford to take that rest which is imperative to his
safety. With an industry which is less to be blamed
lthan regretted, the President insists upon attending
i personally to every detail of business, and the re-
sult is that there are grounds for some alarm re-
specting the repeated attacks of illness which have
lately followed each other so rapidly.
There is very little general news to offer. The
burning of the steamer Glasgow has caused a very
painful sensation, and every one feels that the rescue
of the passengers and crew is entirely owing to the
firmness and good management of the commander,
Captain Menning. General Grant is travelling
about the country, and is everywhere received with
immense rejoicings. In the odd phraseology of
the country he is having a " good time" of it. At
one place where he stopped the ladies (all beautiful,
as the report says) turned out and waited upon
him at table—an attention which must have been a
little distressing to so modest a man as General
Grant is represented to be. Elsewhere the admira-
tion of the fair sex for the hero was shown in a more
decided, though more tender, form. The news-
papers present hourly accounts of his " progress,"
and they ought to be thankful to him for giving
them something else to discuss besides the thermo-
meter at Delatour's. I referred recently to the
frequency of crimes against the person in this city.
The records of the police show that from the Ist of
May to the 31st of July last 20,467 arrests were
made by the police of New York for various offences.
Over 6,000 of these were women. The larger por-
tion of the return is made of robberies and assaults,
and, if to the discovered cases be added a per ten-
tage for those which are never found out, it will be
evident that New York is falling back into the con-
dition of California during the gold discoveries.
Other parts of the country try to keep pace with it
—for instance, in this morning's papers there are
full and glowing accounts of the murder of a
woman by her son ; of another son who stabbed his
mother and sister while they were in bed ; of a
frightful assault upon a woman committed by two
negroes, both of whom were subsequently lynched
by the mob at Evansville, Indiana ; of a still more
atrocious assault upon a woman by a man in Chester,
Illinois, the wretch actually cutting the woman's
throat before committing the outrage upon her ;
and a string of offences of what, I suppose, would
be called a minor character. The slight punish-
ments usually inflicted for crimes of the deepest dye
are not calculated to check the spread of this mania
for shooting and robbing which seems to have seized
a portion of the population.

DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—LLANDUDNO, Aug. 15.
Yesterday a sad occurrence took place here. A
family from Newark-upon-Trent, named Bradbury, and
two friends were staying at the George Hotel. About half-
past 10 in the morning the party left the shore in an open
boat for the Little Orme, where they remained for an hour
and a half. On their return the boat struck upon a large
stone, which drove a part of the bottom in, and the vessel
commenced filling with water. Mrs. Bradbury and her
daughter were carried ashore safely; Mr. Bradbury and
the two gentlemen in company also landed, and the party
walked to their inn, a distance of three quarters of a mile.
Mr. Bradbury complained of a slight pain near the region
of the heart ; he took a little brandy and went to lie down.
Without any more unfavourable symptoms manifesting
themselves he died in half an hour. Mr. Bolding, surgeon
was soon in attendance, without avail ; life was extinct
before he arrived. The inquest will be held here to-day.
Mr. Bradbury was an ironmonger at Newark, where ho is
much respected. He was 50 years old, and has loft six
children.

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