The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-19 00:00:00

MR. LOWE ON BRITISH TARS.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer will be entitled
to the rtspect and esteem of the whole navy for the
eloquent, graceful, and sympathetic manner in which
he spoke, on Friday night, of English sailors, and
especially of the brave fellows who went down in
H.M.S. Captain. Few there are who will not agree
with the right hon. gentleman in believing that it is
not well that all our sympathies should be given to
foreign woe and misery just now, or that we should
lightly pass over an event which has deprived us, in
a terribly sad manner, of 500 of our seamen, and
placed the families of these gallant servants of the
Crown and of the country In mourning. Few there
are, moreover, who will not feel grateful to the
Minister for the appropriate and feeling lines in
which he embodied thoughts of the loss England had
received, and of the manner in which the commander
of the Captain and his crew met their melancholy

to :

There is on the lone, lone sea
A spot, unmarked, but holy,
For there the gallant and the free
In their ocean grave lie lowly.
Down, down beneath the deep
That oft to triumph bore them,
They sleep a calm and peaceful sleep,
The salt waves dashing o'er them.
And though no stone may tell
Their name, their worth, their glory,
They rest in hearts that love them well,
They grace Britannia's story.

CANADA AND ANNEXATION.

The Dominion of Canada is destined to give us a
great deal of trouble. What with Fenian incursions
and the loud-toned demands for annexation by the
sympathisers with the States, the Canadian Parliament
and the Home Government must have a sorry time
ot it. Once more the cry ot annexation'. is
raised, and we find the Americans, with their
proneness to exaggeration, magnifying the annexa-
tionists to the dignity of a powerful party. it were
idle to examine the truthfulness or otherwise of the
statement that no insignificant number of Cana-
dians desire to sever their connection with England.
The Dominion has recently given unmistakeable
proof of its loyalty to the mother country, and to
admit the supposition that a change has taken place
in the popular sentiment so suddenly and so won-
drously were an insult to the Canadians, or would,
to say the least, argue a want of gratitude on the
part of the English.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACES.

The Americans have expressed an opinion that the
art of rowing is far more scientifically conducted In
England than in any other country, and it is only
within the past few days that a fresh proof would
seem to have been afforded, by the victory
of the Tyne crew, of this statement. Glancing
at a chronicle, which has just been issued, of the boat
races between the sister universities in England,
the theory that we have at least made efibrts to bg-
come superior oarsmen for .many years past is evi—
dent. Bowing, as an art, dates no further back than
the middle of the reign of George IV. Before this ,

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HER 4JESTY.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 16.
In the afternoon the Queen drove out, accompanied
by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur.
The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen had the honour of dining
ith the Queen and the Royal family.