The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-05 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury mere
in somewhat circuitous language to the Duke of
Cambridge's " cursory" remarks at the Volunteer
Review. The writer says : " Not long ago his
Royal Highness was made the subject of an attack of
brutal virulence in a paper which seems to have been
established for the purpose of blackening the character of
tliose in high places. No one could justify or even excuse
that attack ; and yet the Commander-in-Chief seemed
resolved on Monday to shew to the world that one of the
charges which were made against him in it was not
exaggerated. There is a strong and growing feeling in
influential circles that the time has come when, for the
interests of the country, of the army, and of the Royal
Family, it is well that a new Commander-in-Chief should
be appointed. Most assuredly the Duke of Cambridge is
not likely to do anything to weaken that feeling by pub-
licly using towards officers of high rank, advanced age,
and great services, such language as beggars reject in
their cups."

LORD WITARNCLIFFE ON THE IRISH

CHURCH BILL.

The inaugural dinner of the Barnsley Working Men's
Conservative Association was held on Friday. In respond-
ing to the toast of the House of Lords, Lord Wharncliffe
said that as there was much speculation about the policy of
the House of Lords on the Irish Church Bill, he would ob-
serve that it was impossible for anybody to say what that
policy would she. The Suspensory Bill of last session was a
dodge to turn Mr. Disraeli out of office, and a very dis-
honourable dodge, and he was glad that it did not
do. The bill was thrown out in the House of Lords,
and the whole thing was shut up like a wind bag. The
Irish Church Bill had now been carried in the House
of Commons by a very large majority, and if it was
altered much in committee it was possible that it might
be so amended that the House of Lords might think
themselves justified in passing it very nearly in the
state in which it was sent up. But supposing the Con-
servative party in the Commons did not feel strong
enough to make many alterations, the country would
look to the Conservatives in the House of Lords to
amend the noxious provisions of the bill. The House of
Lords, however, was not a house to initiate legisla-
tion, but to amend bad legislation, and to see that time
was given the country for reflection. To go deliberately
against the well-ascertained opinion of the people of
England would be foolish and impolitic on the part of
the House of Lords, and the result of such a course
would be to bring about a state of things like that
which preceded the passage of the Reform Act of 1832,
when property was not safe and bloodshed was imminent
In every town. In that case the House of Lords pro-
longed its resistance toe far. That house must not be ex-
pected to go against the well-ascertained opinion of the
country, but it might be expected to protest against provi-
sions which were unfair and destructive of the rights
of property, and to make amendments in the clauses. This
was the probable course of the house. He hoped counsels of
moderation would prevail, and that the amendments made
by the House of Lords might be acceptable to the House
of Commons. But if the bill should pass in a form
which Conservatives could not approve, it must not be con-
sidered that the House of Lords had neglected its duty, but
it must be understood that it bad preferred rather to sacrifice
its opinion than to imperil the peace of the country.

The Leeds Town Council have abandoned
their claim upon the Committee of the recent Fine Art
Exhibition for £750, in respect of police services.
THE DERBY OF 1870. Guy Darrell, who
was so freely backed for the Althorp Park Stakes
at Northampton, in which race he so much disappointed
his owner, was backed for next year's Derby pre-
♦ious to starting for the New Two Year Old Stakes at Ep-
som, Mr. Morris laying his owner the large sum of 20,000 to
500 against him, but afterwards 10,000 to GOO was the highest
offer. The only other animal that has been backed for this
event is Mr. Merry's Sunlight, who has been made the sub-
ject of one bet of 10,000 to 200.—Sportsman.
PARRICIDE AT BOLTON. A young man
named Samuel Bennett, residing at Poole's-fold, near
Bolton, has been taken into custody on a charge
of having killed his father, Thomas Bennett, a labourer,
aged 49 years. It seems that on Wednesday evening Ben-
nett and his father were returning home from Bolton in
the cart of a greengrocer named Holt all being the worse
for liquor, when they h•rd some words together. In a fit of
exasperation Bennett pitched his father out of the cart into
the road, and it is said the wheels passed over Lim. lie
then jumped out of the cart and brutally kicked his lath, r
about the budy. On being picked up, the old man was found
to have sustained a fracture of the spine, for he died on
Thursday evening. lie leaves a widow, who is in Chester
Asylum, and the prisoner, who is also of weak mind, is the
only son, and is 17 years of age.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—IIia
Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Col. Elphin-
stone and Lieut. Pickard, and accompanied by General F.
Seymour and Col. Du Plat, honoured the Royal Italian
Opera with his presence on Saturday evening.
SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Haydn's " Crea-
tion" is to be given by this society at Exeter Hall on
Friday evening next, the 9th instant, conducted by Mr.
Costa. The principal vocalists are Madame Lemmons
Sherrington, Mr. Vernon Rigby, and Mr. Santley.

THE ALA B IMA CLAIMS.

(From the Anglo-A nzerican Times.)

Another long article appeared in the 7 ribtote of
the 20th March about the Alabama Claims, written
in a tone of dignity and moderation. These papers
have been attributed to the pen of Senator SUMNER,
and great interest is excited towards the speech he
is shortly, expected to deliver on the subject. One
of the points urged in the Tribune was the cession
of Canada, and curiosity is raise I to see if he will
deal with it as in the extract from the Tribune lately
transferred to our pages. The points discussed in
the last article are, that the premature recognition
was in disregard of the understanding between Mr.
DALLAS and Lord RUSSELL that the arrival of Mr.
ADAMS should be awaited ; the other is that in the
case of the rebels the usual conditions to the exer-
cise of belligerent rights were altogether wanting.
The first assertion is based on the letters from Mr.
DALLAS, Mr. AnAms, Lord RUSSELL, and the second
on the remarks of the Engli.h Ministers, members of
the House of Commons, and the Press; the article
closes with these words :—" Let the English press
and the English people recall the past, not with a
petulant spirit, but with an honest desire to dis-
cover the truth, and to make fitting reparation if
they find they have really done us wrong, and the
world will see two great nations setting a noble
example in settling, by peaceful negotiations and
voluntary reparation, wrongs that in the olden
time men would have held could be wiped out only
by involving in war nations which should be one
in sympathy and interest, as they are in language,
literature, and law." The Nation replies to the
English charge that Americans are taking a senti-
mental view of their wrongs in an article in its issue
of the 18th March, which commences by condemn-
ing sentiment in legislation, including treaty-
making, asserting that those nations are the happiest
and greatest who are least influenced by it, while
those are the most bac!:ward and miserable which
allow pride, prejudice, and passion to mould foreign
and domestic policy. When the opportunity offers
to retaliate on England the measure she meted to
the United States during the rebellion, the Nation
feels assured that American action will be regulated
by the national honour and interest solely, and
not by the strength or weakness of the popular
desire for revenge. While saying this, that journal
retorts the charge, asserting that sentiment has
been at the bottom of the whole affair in England
from first to last. What gave the recognition of
the Southerners as belligerents such importance was
the sentiment that dictated it—extreme dislike to
American government and society. The Nation
glances back on a record which it is a pity the Eng-
lish now so persistently forget. If they would but
recall it, the reason would come forcibly home why
Americans regard the premature recognition of
belligerency as an act arising from the unfriendly
character of the English ruling class. It was the
sentiment of a profound dislike which then dictated
England's course, not the intensely practical view
it now desires Americans to take. While we grant
this, it should not be forgotten in the United States
that the English aversion was generated by the
ceaseless abuse and the imaginary hatred of Eng-
land expressed by Americans. It was the fashion
in the Republic to make political capital out of the
British lion ; and if the Nation wants to learn why
England took the senseless course it so well de-
scribes, let it glance back through the debates in
Congress for years, and remember that the most
vicious and unfriendly speeches were always those
most fully reported in England. The fact is, that
a false estimate of the national feeling in America
dictated her conduct, and Englishmen replied to
what they believed to be a bitter hatred cultivated
towards them in America by a dislike really intense.
The singular part is that America prof ssed to care
nothing for the feeling entertained in Europe, and
took no pains to set England right or disseminate
any information, while the South made the greatest
exertion to represent the Confederate cause as that
of liberty and justice. An American, at the time
resident in London, told us the other day that
be called on Mr. ADAMS after his arrival as Minis-
ter. There was a well-known American editor with
him in the room, who replied to a remark made to
Mr.ADAMS, "That it would be advisable to circulate
information in Euglaud as to the causes and ob-
jects of the war." At that time, said this gentle-
men, " Englishmen hungered for such knowledge,
for they were ignorant of the subjects in dispute,
and had not then formed any opinior.s." The
Editor's answer was, " We do not care a d----1
what they think." Eight years have elapsed, and
what Englishman did think and say furnishes asubject
of such bitter recrimination, that it may even-
tually lead to a war. Shortly after, most of the
leading papers were committed to opinions hostile
to the North, and millions of Englishmen were in
their ignorance led by what they taught, who, had
they known what they do now, would have held
very different opinions. The Nation says that no such
abuse had everbeen directed by England through four
weary years against any foreign people, but the
Nation forgets that no foreign nation has ever so
abused England as did the United States. That
the sentiment of America towards England was
not what the English believed it to be is now better
known ; yet the general impression in England is
that any war involving Great Britain would in-
clude America as an enemy. That the nations
should continue to keep up so senseless a feeling of
enmity is one of those things which " no feller can
understand" when it comes before him in all its
naked absurdity; but they do so, and may continue
to do so for many a long year, and sentiment will
be at the bottom of it all. America gets into a
habit of abusing England, and indulging in out-
rageous attacks on her in Congress—England be-
lieving she is hated, hates in return ; and showed it
so unreservedly in the day of America's trial that what
had been mere buncombe in America has taken the
colouring of the real feeling of dislike entertained
in England. But the fact ought never to be over-
looked, that those who are generating this enmity are
but a small class of the inhabitants of either country
—the old Tories in England, and the Irish and their
descendants in America. It is a pity that the good
sense of both countries cannot separate the Tory
detraction and abuse on the one side, and the Irish
declamation against England in Congress and in
the press on the other, from the genuine sentiment
of the people. They should not permit themselves
to be made the cat's-paws of, for hot chesnuts,
which might have ended in the case of America in
gratifying Tory spite during the civil war, or yet drag
the United States into a great and disastrous con-
flict to redress the injuries, which the same Puritans
who founded New England inflicted on Ireland, by
Old England's humiliation.

ART.—Powers's statue of Washington, which
was removed by General Butler from the State House at
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has bean taken from the Patent-
office and shipped by express to Governor Warmouth, to
be replaced in its old position.—Miss Hosmer at Rome,
has received an order from the ex-Queen of Naples for a
statue of heroic size of herself standing in the uniform
she wore on the ramparts of the fortress, boots, spurs,
and cloak, with a pile of cannon balls at her feet.
"The lives of great men remind us" that they
may leave cash to their posterity in the shape of budgets
of interesting letters and signatures. At an auction
sale of autographs at New York on the 16th March,
among others the following prices were realized :
Baron flumbo7dt—letter, 55 25; Albert von Haller,
died 1777, $2 50 ;A. G. Oehlenschlager, poet, died 18/0,
$I 50; Joan Paul Frederick Richter—characteristic letter,
$5; Anne of Austria—address and seal, $2 50; Louis
XVl.—royal signature, July; 1792, $3 25; Marshal H.
Turenne, $3 ; Napoleon I.—signature, " Bonaparte," 5-1;
Marshal L. N. Davoust, $5 25c ; Charles Maui ice Tally-
rand, 92 ; Alexander Dumas, $1 13c; M. Guizot, $1 10 ;
Marquis de La Place, groat mathematician, $3 25 ;
Chas. Linnaeus, the botanist, $6 ; Jean ,raques Rossetti',
interesting and characteristic letter, 59 50; Madame de
Steel, $1 63 ; M. A. Voltaire, $3 50; Gen. Henry Knox,
first United States Secretary of War, historical letter on
public affairs, 53 ; President George Washington, $8 ;
President Jas. Madison, 82 25 ; President James Monroe,
latter, $3 25 ; President John Quincy Adams, $3 50 ; Pre-
sident Andrew Jackson, interesting letter, 96 ; President
William Henry Harrison, 53 25 ; President James K
Polk, political letter, $3 63 ; Presidant Zachary Taylor, $1
13; President Millatd Fit,lmore, 52 25; President Abra-
ham Lincoln, official, $7 ; President U. S. Grant, $2 ; Henry
Clay, $3 25 ; Daniel 'Weister, 52 50 ; John C. Calhoun,
$2 50 ; Jefferson Davis, signature on frank, 51 13 ; John
(3. Breckinridge, $l5O.
Captain Townley, while accompanying Lord Poulett on
a visit to Capt. W. H. Cooper at Cobham on Monday last,
was "eased" at the railway station of his dressing-case,
containing his jewellery, all attempts to recover which
have hitherto proved fruitless.

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SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

TATTER3ALL'S—This Evening.
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NEWMARKET 11_4.,N DICA P.
4 to 1 agst dlarquis of Caraba.s (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 agst (taken)
100 to 7 agst King's Cross (taken).
20 to 1 agst Attack gelding (taken)
33 to 1 ags:t VAnsittart (taken)

TWO THOUSAND.
2 to 1 agit Wild Oats (taken and offered)
bto 1 tigd Pretender (taken and wanted)
100 to id rgst Belladruln (taken)
Bto 1 agst Drummer (offered)
10 to 1 agst Alpenstock (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst King Cophetua (offered)