The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

1864 I 181

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3,394
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1,377
1,460
3,666,

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3,613
4,030
2,098
2,068
3,052
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1,175
2,722
1,531
2,017
2,505
2,841

2,760
2,93]

922
1,384
2,911

11,8601

3,301
3,7081
3,834
3,729
2,563
7,097

5,662 4,
6,629 3,
4;688 3,
4,742 2,
6,338 2,
7,031 4,

35,0901 21,

5,430 8,
1,409 8,
1,305 6,
1,759 13,
1,036 12,
1,967 12,

12,9061 62,

47,9961 83,

"An English Merchant," in a letter to the Liverpool Post,
says :—" The commercial community of this town have
been somewhat astounded by the articles in the London
Times of yesterday and to-day in reference to our trade
with America. The Times inlulges in prognostications
of a coming ciisis, owing to the large shipments of goods
to America,, and which by implication the writer asserts
the Americans cannot pay for ; and, to give plausibility
to his version of the state of the account, he entirely
ignores the largo shipment of cotton from the United
States to Grc.lt BL:tain. Now, in yesterday's Times I
find the following:—" The Cunard steamer this week has
brought no spec:e, yet it is known that the shipments of
goods to America, during the past as well as the pre-
ced.ng months, were on a scale larger than what has been
witnessed for many years, while the receipts of produce
thence have been singularly small." Now there can be
no question that the shipments of goods to America during
the past few months have been very large indeed; but it
is also equally true that never at any other period were
the Americans less indebted to this country for such
goods, for, upon due inquiry from most of our principal
firms connected with the United States, I find the same
answer—" All our orders, extensive as they have been,
have been remitted for by sterling bills when sending the
orders." From what source o: information, therefore,
does the Times derive its idea of rash and extravagant
credits to the Americans ? Then the Times is again at
sea as regards the shipments of produce from the United
States to this country. In its articles of yesterday and
to-day it has taken great pains to show that while we
have been supplying the Americans with vast quantities
of goods, which the exhausted stocks of the Southern
States absolutely necessitated their taking, they, in return,
have been send'ng us but small supplies of produce, and
that even shipments of gold to this country have entirely.
ceased. With a paper claieng such pre-am!nence of in-
formation, I cannot conceive what the editor has been
contemplating when he entirely omits from his calcula-
tions the shipments of cotton the past three months from
America to this country, which have been so large that at
the present prices cm rent they are estimated at fu'ly thir-
teen million pounds sterling, a sufficient sum to exhaust
the Bank of England if it had to be all paid for in gold.
Perhaps the Tim"s writer AI, ill, after placing this
£13,000,000 to the credit of the American nation, begin to
think that as the whole estimated value of our shipments
to the United States for the fist eleven months of 1865
was not more than about £16,000,000, after all the Ame-
rican people cannot be owing us so very much; and as it
is also estimated that at present prices for cotton they will
be able to spare us at least £18,000,000 worth morn of cot-
ton during this year, I think the feeling of panic which
the Times is endeavouring to produce is quite unwar:anted
by the true position of affairs. The Times speaks most
deprecatingly as to the danger of the public of Europe in-
vesting Fa the United States 5-20 Bonds. Those who re-
member the warnings of the same paper bestowed upon
the Germans when they were largely investing in them at
38 to 40, and which many English_buyers have since been
glad to purchase from them at 68, will know how to appre-
ciate the warnings of the Times on financial questions.
How the Times can perceive a coming rise in America in
the rate of exchange, of 10, 20, or 30 per cent. with recent
and prospective shipments of cotton from thence, of the
value of £30,000,000 sterling, I am quite at a loss to con-
ceive. Now, throughout these and former articles in ,the
Times there has been manifested a bitterness of feeling
towards the American people and nation which is much
to be deprecated ; more especially the flippant manner
in which it insults a kindred nation, with whom: our
business connections are of such gigantic proportions, by
insinuating that they will repudiate their responsibilities,
is in my opinion, unworthy of the Timm, and entitles the
writer to the condemnation of all thoughtful, honourable
men. How long will the public be led astray 14 a paper
which so misleads them, and which the experience Of the
past few years has fully proved to beunreliable ? A strong
feeling is gradually setting in in that direction, and I think
its once boasted power " for good or evil" is gradually
becoming weaker. Apologising for trespassing so much
upon your space, but which the importance of the subject
demands, I conclude with the word I have heard to-day
on 'Change from one of our old and respected merchants,
respecting these articles in the Times—"l have lived long
enough to know that by acting the opposite to wha
the Times writes I am sure to do right."

The Earl and Countess Granville are expected

,o leave town to-day for Walmer Castle, Kent. -
The Earl and Countess of Listowel left town
yesterday on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Man-
chester, at Kimbolton Castle, Hunts.
The Earl of Chesterfield left town yesterday for
Bretby Park, Derbyshire.
Viscountess Dangan gave birth to a son on Sun-
day last. Her ladyship and infant are going on very
favourably.
Lord Dunsany and Captain and Mrs. Coote have
arrived at Brown's Hotel, Dover-street.
ARRIVAL OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN OF SCHLESWIG-
HOLSTEIN.—His Serene Highness Prince Cht;istian
of Schleswig-Holstein arrived in England yesterday after-
noon. The Prince crossed the Channel from Calais in the
London, Chatham, and Dover J'acket Company's steam-
vessel Maid of Kent, arriving at Dover at 3.15 pan. His
serene highness, who was received on landing by Captain
Bruce, R.N., and Lieut. Morgan, RN., on behalf of the
packet company, was conducted to the Lord Warden Hotel.
The Hon. Colonel 'larding° subsequently arrived by train
at Dover and received the Prince, who remained during
the night at the hotel, and will leave for Windsor this
morning.
N.—We deeply re-
DR. D. J. SIMPSO
David James Simp-
son,gret to record the death of 111 r.
DEATH OF
doctor of medicine, eldest son of Professor Sir James
Simpson, which took place at 52, Queen-street,
Sun-
day, after a short illness. The condolence of on
Sir same
s's
friends will not be the less sincere and heartfelt that they
anticipated expressing their fee in r gs in a very different
manner.—Edtnburgli Courant.

CHARLES LAMB'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.—
" Charles, born in the Inner Temple, 10 February,
1775. . . pensioned off 1825, after 33 years' service; is
now a gentleman at large ; can remember few specialities
in his life, except that he once caught a swallow flying
(tate sita manu): below the middle stature stammers
abominably, and is therefore more apt to discharge his
occasional conversation in a quaint aphorism or a poor
quibble than in set or edifying speeches ; has consequently
been libelled with aiming at wit, which, as he told a dull
fellow that charged him with it, is at least as good as aim-
ing at dulness. A small eater but not drinker ; confesses a
partiality for the production of the juniper berry; was a great
smoker of tobacco, but may be resembled to a volcano burnt
out, emitting only now and then a casual puff. His true
works are in Leadenhall-street, filling some hundred folios.
In short, all his merits and demerits to set forth, would
take to and of Mr. Upcott's book, and then not be told
truly. He died —, 18—, much lamented. His queer
spirit departed. Crude they are, I grant you a sort of
unlicked incondite things, villanously pranked in an affected
array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been
his, if they had been other than such : and better it is that
a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness
than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be
strange to him.