The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

No. 23,129.

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But perhaps Mr. Rawlings will refer, like many others,
to the moderation of the suffering operatives of Manches-
ter and other places. If so, I would ask what a mass of
people, who had no popular voice, and, as a general thing,
in a much inferior condition socially, pecuniarily, and In
common education to the negroes of equivalent localities of
the Northern States, could effect by any demono,ration ?
To have learned the sentiments of the people of Eng-
_ _ _

land he should have visited the discussion halls and favou-
rite places of free-and-easy amusement, from the music
halls of Covent Garden to places of the kind throughout
England, and he would have discovered that whilst the
names "of the brave Generals who were fighting the battles
of mankind received little applause and a roar of groans
and hisses, the very mention of Lee and others, who were
conspicuous in the battles for slavery, were subjects for
the most enthusiastic cheering.
At the earliest possible period England placed the rebels
on a war footing, and throughout the contest carefully
~,rntpatad and sunnliarl ihnir nriyateeis in -all her Dori.,
and secured the pirates on American commerce from jus-
tice, who had been knowingly following their infernal
mischief long after the war was over. The whole purpose
of the British Government and the people, from the firing
of the first gun at Charleston, was apparently to nurse and
tender to the slave drivers' conspiracy—it being their duty,
according to their leading journal, to " sympathise with the-
pure English blood of the South, rather than the plunder-
ing hordes of the North." Contrast all this with the refusal
of the British authorities of a little aid to theNnited States
steamer Kearsage, that an English vessel would have
obtained in any port on the globe.
I think that if your correspondent will call to mind how

eagerly the Trent affair was snapped up as a pretext for
menacing the United States, he will change his construc-
tion of its fall "on the hearts of Englishmen " from that

of "a thunderbolt" to something more appropriate. Within

forty-eight hours after the receipt of the information
(though not from the United States) of the capture of the
rebel commissioners by an ambitious captain, who they
knew to a moral certainty had no instructions to that effect
from his Government, the dockyards and arsenals of Great
Britain were at work on a grand scale, and enormous forces
were hurried off to war with a people who were innocent
of even any charge of offence. This brave enterprise
failed, however, to effect anything as far as the United
States were concerned (the captain having been already,
according to American laws, placed at the disposal of the
British Government to be taken " when they liked and
where they liked"), except a polite invitation from Mr.
Seward to land the belligerent forces at Portland as a more
convenient direction to the Canadas, which were to be
defended from the hard-wrought fancy invasion of the
" detested Yankees."

Mr. Rawlings on England's Debt to

America.

The following letters on this subject appear in
he Anglo-American Times.

Sul,—ln his letter of last week, published in your paper,
Mr. Rawlings informs us that America owes to England a
debt of gratitude for her courage in refusing to co-operate
with France in recognising the South during the late re-
bellion. This assertion about France having attempted
to seduce England from her position of neutrality has
been so often made of late that even we, who know better,
will by and by begin to believe in it as true. If true, we
should know the facts, in order that those of us. ho believe
otherwise may be set right, and thus give credit where it
is due ; and, if not, that justice should be done to our
French neighbours by no longer charging them with a
conspiracy of which they were never guilty. Until some
very substantial evidence is adduced to support Mr. Raw-
lings' assertion I, for one, shall continue in my present in-
credulity, knowing, as I do, that the facts, as far as known,
all point the other way. It is true that more than once
during the war certain London papers put forth
some such statement as this, that the French
Emperor had been seeking the co-operation of
the British Government for the aforesaid object ;
but when Earl Russell was appealed to in Parliament to
corroborate the report, he flatly and promptly contradicted it,
adding that no communication whatever had passed between
the two Governments on the subject. In the face of this Mr.
Rawlings may prefer to believe the newspaper reports. I
do not.

But hopes were still entertained by the British Govern-
ment that they have not acted in vain ; and the press goaded
on the hanker for war. The arsenals were still employed
much of the time both day and night with the great-
est energy, until a " stunner" came across the Atlantic
and suddenly changed the direction of the political vane.
A little iron fighting machine, which its designer named a
Monitor, as a caution to Europe, had repulsed a powerful
contrivance of a " wonderful people." The Merrimac, the
armour of which had been so long in preparation, was
beaten by the floating cheese-box that had been constructed
within one hundred days, and more of which of a similar
kind were soon to come. " Wooden walls" became imme-
diately at a great discount, and England cried peace and
strict neutrality, but still " patting Pompey on the back."
Again, your correspondent says :—" England had the
courage to refuse to co-operate with France in recognising
the South. America owes her a debt of gratitude fox that."
I think, Mr. Editor, that this gross untruth, which emanated

If any further proof of the neutral intentions and spirit
of the French Emperor is wanting it would be easy to cite
his reply to Mr. Dayton, our late American Minister to his
Court, in the interview, as reported in that gentleman's
official correspondence. To Mr. Dayton's question, " What
--wnryour- Kcraatuvve
Government declining to accept your offer of mediation ?"
the Emperor answered promptly and emphatically,
" Nothing." This is too well known to be disputed, and
it would be accusing the Emperor Napoleon of some-
thing worse than duplicity to suppose in the face of such
a declaration he would deliberately conspire with another
Government to bring about the disruption of the Union.
I should like to ask Mr. Rawlings whether it was from
France or England that a deputation, composed of influen-
tial members of Parliament, went to urge upon their neigh-
bouring Sovereign the propriety and importance of recog-
nising the Southern Confederacy without delay, and
whether that Sovereign did not positively refuse to do
anything of the kind; and, furthermore, whether it was
in France or in England that a society called the "Southern
Independence Association" was formed for the purpose of
aiding the enemies of the Union in their villainous
designs.

from the source of hundreds of others touching American
affairs, although sincerely believed by many honest Eng-
lishmen, and also some uninformed Americans, has had its
run about lon encu h.
fine rrencb napertst nas =‘,-..-
ments expressed by him in his speech on the opening of
the Chamber of Deputies in 1862. He said—" As much as
we may regret the state of affairs in America, we must
not interfere as long as the rights of neutrals are respected."
It is understood to be true, that when the war was raging
at; its highest the Emperor sought the co-operation of
England in bringing about an amicable means of peace,
but he distinctly stated to the United States Minister that
nothing more was meant ; but it so happened that just
about this time some Confederate successes impressed Eng-
land with confidence in their ultimate victory, and any
chance of American disruption was not likely to meet with
interference by the direst enemy to the Republic.
So current was this story of the French desire for
British co-operation in the recognition of the South that
Earl Russell was called upon for correspondence upon the
subject ; but his reply was, if I am correct, that he knew
of nothing of the kind.
I think your correspondent cannot forget, however, that
to some extent the case was somewhat reversed by a com-
mittee of Englishmen going to Franco, seeking an audience
with the Emperor, in order to obtain his assent to joining
England in the favourite recognition scheme ; and he may
not forget at the same time how ridiculous those gentle-
men made themselves in the undertaking. I don't think
America owes England much of "a debt of gratitude" for
the failure of that famous party to obtain the French Em-
peror's
influence.

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It may appear illiberal to take exception to Mr. Raw-
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point, but it seems to me a matter of historical importance
that the question should be cleared up ; and as I have not
seen any contradiction to the statement so often repeated
since the war about French intrigue and English neu-
trality, I think it my duty to raise my humble voice in the
cause of what I firmly believe to be the truth. If wrong,
I am open to conviction ; but I require some better evi-
dence than unfounded newspaper statements, made at a
time when nearly the whole press of this country was
furious with passion and hostility against everybody and
everything connected with the Northern Government or
the Union cause. If Mr. Rawlings can produce that
evidence nobody will be more pleased than
London, July 25, 1866. S.

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It is the second time that the United States Government
has secured the Canadas to Great Britain, notwithstanding
the repeated taunts that the " Yankees" hanker for its
possession; and it is to be regretted that, whilst the
American Government is but executing its own principles
of justice, it cannot, at the same time,• be in reciproca-
tion of honest intentions from those it protects.
As to " how England shall repay America," it is pro-
bably now known. Though England has refused to refer
the demands and even ignore the claim, it will neverthe-
less be paid in full, and, I think, without any objection
being made in a hostile way.—Very respectfully,

PARIS, July 24, 1866.
SlR,—Under the above heading I notice in your last issue
a letter signed " T. Rawlings, F.R.G.5.," whose friendship
for the United States, I think, has led him to represent
matters he touches upon more as he would have them to
be than as they are in reality.
His enthusiasm as to the present and future of the
United States may, however, be properly founded, though
were it put forth by an American, I am under the impres-
sion that it would be in great danger of being pronounced
in England, " Yankee brag." 1 would not detract in the
least, but rather add to the honours already due to your
correspondent, and such names as Cobden, Bright, New-
man Hall, Cossham, and others whose principles will yet
prove the political redemption of the English people; but,
nationally considered, history and my own experience
compel me to question the Correctness of several of his
inferences.

T. S.

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He states that Englishmen are, by instinct, sympathy,
and education, Abolitionists. Let us see. Previous to
the year 1776 Lngland's traffic in slaves was greater
than that of any othev nation ; and the capturing of an
innocent people and carrying them into slavery in another
hemisphere, or to incur a miserable death in their trans-
portation
persistency of the British Government in keeping open
a should be bought and sold, was
great
complaint rn awr khei tc
hi n
wtohuel a A
hmaevr
ei c a lib a colonies,n
incorporated
where men
a subject for
in
the preliminaries to the declaration of Independence of
the United States, had not a few of the Southern states, on
the plea of the necessity of slave labour for raising cot-
leadn d
of,
ton, rice, and sugar, desired its continuation.
But the successful termination :of the war for indepen-
patosEsensgs
dence compelled England to abandon the infernal traffic,
and soon after the Northern States not only prohibited fur-
ther importation of slaves, but commenced the entire aboli-
tion of slavery, and effected it in a way thatproved a social
benefit to both white and black. It was not until thirty
finding
girit (I won't
be-
hind in the reform,herself
say of jealousy), and liberated some eight hundred thou-,
sand slaves in the West Indies. As this was done at a
dash, and without any
or forty years afterwbaereadsmteh
apparent consideration for the
future of the unprepared negro, and the frequent questions
subsequently in the leading English journals, and by pro-
minent people, as to the propriety of the emancipation,
arguing the superior condition of the' negro as a slave, it
has been suspected by many that the great anti-slavery
impulse was but a stroke of " pious thunder." Hence
these precedents, with the revelations of the last few years
of the complicity in every available form with the slave-
-drivers' war for more firmly establishing and vastly extend-
ing " the peculiar institution" that was to be " the chief
corner-stone" of their empire, must satisfy the world as to
England's real position, True, the kingdom possessed
within itself no black slaves, but '° cunning dogs don't kill
sheep at home."
There was once Cowper, Wilberforce, and many others
who plead for abolition ; but who knows, had they lived
through the American slave-drivers' war, which of them

A NEW PICTURE BY MR. HOLMAN HUNT must
interest all who will go to Messrs. Colnaghi's for
the purpose of seeing it. There may be examined his
latest work, one having a subject removed from those of his
former pictures, but equalling them in brilliancy of execu-
tion, fidelity, and power in characterisation. We do not
regret that an able artist should give a minor portion of
his time to themes less intense in feeling, and of humbler
aim than may be usual with him; accordingly, we com-
mend this effort with such a subject as was afforded
by pigeons gathered on a wet day about a dovecote,
and passing the time as well as they can. The painter's
approaching departure for the East, and the promise it
conveys of graver work, gives zest and interest to the pre-
sent picture, which is styled " The Festival of St. Swithin''
—pigeon moping about their elevated houses, while the
rain comes down, and the flying scud mocks their
hopes of sunshine ere sunsetting. The' birds cluster
on the ledges of the cote : some have retreated
to the interior; others, in various moods of rest-
lessness, fight without ; one, with a dark-green and
gleaming breast—a mixture of bronze and gold—is en-
sconced, and, with blinking eyes of scarlet fire, looks out of
the dark. A dappled bird, of lovely cinnamon hue that is
dashed with white and flecked with glancing metallic green,
alights on the edge of the little gallery before the chamber
of its mate, flutters, and with rosy claws clutches its edge.
From the lower tier of pigeon-holes a tenant looks forth,
and sulkily pulls at a straw. Under the leeward eave of the
high-pitched roof of the tenement, a darkly-feathered bird
hurdles in desperate humour with the persistent rain that,
gathering near his head, falls in heavy drops to gather in a
stream below, and pour away in an exasperating manner ;
he waits the long-coming relief. On the other side, where
the daylight falls, is perched a pair huddling under the
eaves; the one, as his feathers are ruffled, looks like
Humpty Dumpty, and glows in dun and green fires
of feathers. The background is a landscape, a garden,
thickly massed trees, a church tower looking over
them, while, nearer, modern houses of the "villa"
sort appear. The truth with which Mr. Hunt has rendered
the effect of daylight—the breadth of brilliancy rather
than of massed shadow, so often the recourse of painters

—the splendour as well as the softness of the chiaroscuro
in this picture, deserve most attentive examination and tho
highest applause. Mr. Hunt seems bent upon refuting the
common practical dogma that breadth is only obtainable
in masses of shadow; he finds it in expanse of light.
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would not have proved a Brougham in the abuse of the
Northern people, and "a Government epidemically given
to lying ?" Who does not remember the scowl of all Eng-
land at President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation?
Your correspondent also says in reference to the be-
ginning of the war—" In England I know that the univer-
sal sympathy was with the North." This differs so essen-
tially from the discovery of all others that I ever knew, of
any experience, that the statement is rather surprising.
A great deal of travelling over the kingdom during the
war forming a contingency to the writer's pecuniary inte-
rests, it was with no small degree of pain that he rarely
met with a friend to the Northern States, but many of
hostile feeling; and as a pretext for favouring the South,
they usually contended that the negro had better be a
slave than treated (as they endeavoured to fancy) as ho
was in the Northern States. in fact, the mover about
amongst the English people met with a general chuckle
over the " bursting of the great Republican bubble," and
the pleasing prospects of a severe punishment upon:the
perpetrators of the " hundreds of (imaginary) Yankee in-
sults."

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Stuart Mill Again ; or, the Examinr
Examined.

[The following admirably clever, wise, and witty
jeu d'esprit we take not only with acknowledgment
but with the liveliest satisfaction also from the
August number of Blackwood.]
When a man is beslobbered by high and by low,
Tn our Senates and Schools deemed a Light of the age ;
When his c.ensures on all he aspires to bestow--;
And the multitude hails him a Statesman and Sage,—
Before we just venture
To own such a Mentor,
Let us see if he's fit this position to fill :
Let us canvass his labours,
As he does his neighbours,
And examine the claims of the great Stuart Mill.

His System by some very shallow is reckoned ;
Three facts, or three fallacies, fill up his cast :
Sensation comes first, Recollection is second,
And then Expectation, the third and the last.
We feel something present
That's painful Or
We repeat or recall it by Memory--.,ri11:
What happened before, sir,
We look for once more, sir,
And that's the whole Soul of the great Stuart Mill.

At a glimpse of things real we never arrive,
Nor at any fixed Truth that we try to explore:
In some different world two and two make five,
Though appearances here seem to say they make four.
Our mental formation
Has small operation ;
The mind, if we have one, is passive and still :
We are ruled by our Senses,
Through all our three tenses, •
Past, present, and future, says great Stuart Mill.

What we never have witnessed, we cannot conceive ;
- nsoutt.A..niiitz, be:
In a God or a Devil can any believe,
When the one or the other they don't feel or see ?
A future existence
Had best keep its distance,
Till there's ocular proof that the thing's a true bill :
Any childish emotion
_a. Of Faith and Devotion,
Is fully explained by the great Stuart Mill.
Three different stages of changing opinion
Are travelled by men in this planet of ours :
In the first Superstition exerts its dominion ;
In the next, metaphysical Forces and Powers •
When these two are past, sir,
Comes the best and the last, sir, •
Comte's Positive Laws every purpose fulfil :
But about tho Great Cause, sir,
That founded those Laws, sir,
There's nothing in Comte, and as little in Mill.
Yet without any God a Religion may be,
Which in priesthood andpower with its rivalsmay cope;
Which in Dead Men and Women may Deities see,
And have Comte for its Prophet, and Mill for its Pope.
But what's called Right and Wrong, sir,
Is just an old Song, sir;
Ne'er tell me of Duty, Good actions, or Ill:
Being Useful or not, sir,
Determines the lot, sir ;
So Bentham found out, and so thinks Stuart Mill.

Doctor Cumming predicts that the World's near an end ;
Stuart Mill says that Coal will soon dwindle away :
Cumming preaches that therefore our ways we should mend;
Mill exhorts that the National Debt we should pay.

Whichsoe'er may come first, sir,
Or turn out the worst, sir,—
The Great Conflagration, .or General Chill,—
We've to thank the men both, sir,
But I give you my oath, sir,
I don't half believe either Cumming or Mill.

Mill allows that the Franchise he'd fearlessly lower,
To admit all the masses who read and write ;
Which would make him, I fear, of muchmischief the sower,
If Lorimer's project don't keep it all tight.
But here by appealing
To chivalrous feeling,
Mill hopes he'll succeed in well gilding the pill ;
To throw open the poll, sir,
To every Femme Sole, sir,
Is the gallant proposal of good Stuart Mill.
If a Viceroy, defending his difficult post,
Show a zeal to have Treason and Bloodshed suppressed;
And if thereby some turbulent lives should be lost,
He is guilty of Murder—for doing his best!
But the plot of Orsini,
The schemes of Mazzini,
At which most of men's bosoms with horror would thrill.
ThegarigniAlLien
Or but deemed Civil War in the judgment of Mill.

Now, let all men have freedom to speak and to write,
And let others who differ stand up for the Truth ;
But I think we should pause as to those we invite
To make laws for the land, or to train up our Youth.
To the helpless and young, sir,
You do a great wrong, sir,
To give them a Teacher false views to instil ;
And I won't, by your leave, sir,
Pin my faith to the sleeve, sir,
Of so godless a guide as the System of Mill.*

■ See Mr. Mill's works passim: his' Logic,' a common
text-book at Oxford ; his Utilitarianism ; his ' August!)
Comte ;' his ' Liberty,' with the note on Tyrannicide ; his
Examination of Hamilton ;' and his recent speeches in
Parliament. Other Philosophies—Hamilton's, Ferrier's,
&c.—are essentially Theistic. Mill's system, in our opi-
nion, is —we will not say Atheistic—but Untheistic ; it
may not deny, but it does not assert, or presupptse, the
existence of a Detiy ; it ignores the idea of a Providence;
and as we think it false as well as dangerous, we have
taken the liberty to say so.