The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-13 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND THE UNITED
STATES.

The following address was issued in Mancheiter
at noon yesterday (Wednesday), and has already
received a large number of signatures :

" ADDRESS FROM THE CITIZENS OF MANCHESTER TO THE

PEOPLE OP AMERICA.

"Friends and Brethren,—We venture to address you
under a deep feeling of solemnity, occasioned by the
perilous condition into . which the relations of our two
great countries have been thrown by the mistakes or the
misconceptions of our respective Governments.
"Whatever may be the errors of either or both of these
Governments, we cannot forget that we have to do with
a people who, for domestic enlightenment, commercial
enterprise, and political importance, take rank among
the first nations upon earth ; and who, by rapid expan-
sion, increase of population, and Christian philanthropy,
promise at no distant period to attain the highest de-
gree of influence among the Governments of the civilised
world.

" A brotherhood of race and a community of interests
have sprung up between our two nation., more inti-
mate,-more continuous, and more comprehensive than
the world has ever seen before. Never in recognised
history were too great communities so closely allied by
blood or so intimately blended by their o mimoa interests;
and never before was it given to the world to witness a
union where so much was involved of the wealth, the
prosperity, and the happiness of distinct States, each
having its separate Government, and being under the
control of its own independent laws.
" We are therefore all the more alive—and, anew us
to add, tremblingly alive—to whatever may affect this
union, and interrupt the harmony that has so long existed
between us to our reciprocal at,vantage, and we believe
to the benefit of the whole world, Providence has made
us mutualiy dependent, so much so, indeed, that what.
ever would seriously injure the one would to an equal
extent seriously injure the other. As the direct conse-
quence of this Providential arrangement, we are equally
interested with yourselves in the material that is grown
in your fields, the shipping that conveys the cargoes to
every market of the universe, and in the endless train of
relationships that the most princely commerce of the
world has interwoven between us for its own auxiliary
support. In a word, we are of one blood, of one family,
and of one religion ; our sons, by long-continued emigres:.
tion, are spread over your soil, and you have made them
happy by every domestic endearment ; a higher than hu-
man destiny has made our interests identical and inter-
woven the prosperity of the one sate with the prosperity
of the ot')er. We are, therefore, placed among the
nations in a position to show what national friendships
may accomplish, where-rivalry is directed to a common
goo;l, and where success is equally shared between the
rivals.

"And shall war be permitted to sever us ? Shall
battle and bloodshed, confligration and the sword, be
allowed to divide those whom God and mutual interest
have made one, and to convert into national enemies
brethren by blood, by race, and by religion ? In the
name of humanity and civilisation—in the name of our
common Mak« r and of His holy faith, which both nations
profess to believe and practice, we say, No ! There is
no sacrifice of time, of wealth, and of influence that we
would not be ready to make to prevent so dire a catas-
trophe among mankind—a catastrophe that we believe
would more directly tend than any other possible event
to throw the world back into the barbarism of the feudal
ages, and to furnish despotism with a plausible pretest
for banishing every form of constitutional government
from the face of the earth.

" We implore you, therefore, brethren, in the name of
all that is sacred and valuable among mankind, to employ
such methods as your own judgments shall approve of
restraining your Government in any warlike tendency
that it may have exhibited ; assuring you that we on
our part will exert ourselves to tho to most of our power
to produce a similar effect upon the Government of the
British Crown. We believe that much of the d'apute
that now imperils the peace of the two countries has
arisen in mistake, and not in design ; and we furth,r
believe that a calm and quiet survey of the question wilt
even yet lead to a satisfactory solution of every difficulty
and to the removal of every cause of contention and
complaint. This we are convinced may best be dote
by submitting the whole case to the arbitration of some
Power friendly to both parties ; and while such a course
would avoid the havoc, the cost, and the disgrace of
war, it would tend to make our union firmer than ever,
and, through our example, to exhibit the superiority of
constitutional liberty and of the Christian faith to the
civilised world. We, therefore, brethren, implore you
to exert your utmost influence with the Government of
the Ueited States in favour of this method of averting
the calamities of war, assuring you, with all solemnity,
that we will do the same, to the fullest extent of our
power, with the Government of her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain ; and, sincerely praying that our mutual
efforts may he attended with complete success,

We remain, yours in the bonds of an inse?arable
national friendship."

A ROW AT ALDERSHOTT.

ALDERSHOTT, June 12.—1 n a few days the camp of
Aldershott will know the militia but as in the past
definite tense of military occupation. The Kerry, it is
true, are there yet, and some of the Royal Sussex, but
on Monday next the last detachment of the latter will
move off for disembodiment at Chichester. The head-
quarters, with the Duke of Richmond, left on Monday
last, just after a most unlucky brush with the Kerry
boys—unlucky, because last words should be those of
kindness, and the good feeling among the troops of the
south camp had been uniform until this time. It seemed,
however, that a little rivalry between a navvy and a
Berryman-for when a woman's in the case these things
are apt to be—induced one of the Sussex to support the
navvy, both from a sense of justice, and because the
Kerryman's shillelagh was promising to be too strong
for him. The matter spread, and at night the Kerry
boys burst upon the Sussex, drove in the picket from
Aldershott village, in admired confusion, alarmed com-
manding officers, almost sans culottes, from the narrow
precincts of their hutted homes, knocked about the won-
derful Provost-Marshal, despite his great grey horse,
appalling red cloak, and knightly helm, sent numerous
cut heads to the Regimental Hospital, to disgust the
surgeons in the morning, and, in fact, distinguished
, themselves after the manner of Kerry boys, as they
were. However, when the time came, the band of the
Kerry played off the Sussex, with "Auld Lang Syne,"
in all friendship. The Germans are in great force at
Aldershott at present—stout sandycoloured people, but
' spoken highly of both for their steady discipline and for
their excellent part music.

SAD BEGINNING OF A HONEYMOON.—On Monday, at
the Midland station in Leicester, a young woman was
forced between the train and one of the pillars which
support the roof, and which is close to the edge of the
platform. From this position she was unable to extri-
cate herself, and the train moving on she was crushed
between it and the pillar. The injuries were very seri-
ous, but it is hoped they are not of a very serious char-
acter. The young woman was only married that morn-
ing, and was proceeding, in company with her hus-
band, to spend the honeymoon with friends in
London.
A MOTHER'S CRUELTY TO HER CHILD.—CANTERIURY,
Thursday.—The county magistrates here adjudicated on
a shocking case to-day. Win. Jarman, of Whitstable,
and his wife, Lucy Jarman, were sentenced, the womaa
to eight months' bard labour, and her husband to six
months, for cruelly ill-treating Lucy Fill, the illegiti-
mate child of the female defendant, and only eight years
of age. They had tied up the child naked, so that she
stood on one leg, the other leg being fastened to the
bedpost, in which posture she. was kept many hours.
They had also beaten her with a rope an inch thick,
until her back was "like a piece of raw beef." The poor
little creature was bruised and lacerated all over in
frightful manners