The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

The Confederate Loan List Again.

The following correspondence is published in the New
York Tribune:—

No. 22, Reade-street, New York,
Sept. 22, 1865.

Mr. J. T. Delane, Editor of the Times.—Sir,—The United
States Government have obtained and given currency to
a list of British holders of the so-called Confederate
States' bonds. Your name appears therein as the holder
of said bonds to the nominal value of £lO,OOO. In com-
mon with a number of my countrymen, British citizens of
New York, I consider that, in view of the extreme hos-
tility displayed by the Times towards the United States
throughout the late rebellion, and its persistent advo-
cacy of the insurgents, some explanation is due to the
public on both sides of the Atlantic, with reference to
this pecuniary interest of the editors in the success of the
rebellion. While admitting your unrestricted right, as a
private individual, to invest in the promises to pay of any
insurgent community, I protest against the principle (or
utter lack of principle rather) that leaders of public opinion
in your position may sow broadcast, ideas, criticisms, and
prognostics, presumed to be unbiassed and disinterested by
the great mass of English readers, when in reality the
writers were secretly identified by the closest of all sympa-
thies with the issue they advocate. Independent journalism
you surely cannot claim as a feature of the Times. I beg
leave to inquire whether these bonds were purchased by
you, and for what consideration? Ifdrou decline to answer
these questions, copies of this correspondence will be
furnished to the press of this city for publication, and in
that case the unfortunate impression now prevalent will
require no further confirmation, that these bonds were
either presented to their recipients or obtained by them at
a merely nominal price.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
JAS. C. JOHNSTON.
Killarney House, Killarney, Oct. 23, 1865.

Sir, —At this remote corner of Ireland at which your
letter of the 6th inst. has reached me, I cannot find a copy
of a letter to the editor of the Morning Star contradicting
the calumnies adopted by that paper, and to which you say
the United States Government has given currency, to the
effect that I held a large amount of stook in the so-called
Confederate Loan. I therefore answer your letter directly;
and declining to avail myself of the excuse which you sug-
gest might justify me as a private individual in making
such an investment, I admit at once that I should, as a
journalist, have proved myself unworthy of all public con-
fidence, had I bought either Federal or Confederate stock
during the late civil war. I deny, however, most expli-
citly, that I ever applied for, ever had allotted to me, ever
purchased, or ever possessed, in my name or in any other,
any Federal or Confederate stock, or had any personal or
pecuniary interest whatever in the result of the late con-
test. If then, as you say, the United States Government
has made this charge, I submit that it is bound in honour
either to prove or retract it ; and lam sure I shall not
appeal in vain to the desire to ascertain and publish the
truth which has prompted you to seok this explanation
from your obedient servant,

JNO. T. DELANE.

J. C. Johnston, Esq.

DESPATCH OF THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTH-
AMPTON, Tuesday.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship
Atrato, Capt. Jellicoe, sailed this afternoon with the mails
for tile British and foreign West Indies, the Pacific, Cali-
fornia, Central America, Mexico, &c. She took out on
freight a general cargo, also French jewellery, £10,037 ;
English jewellery, £1,339 ; and 126 passengers, amongst
whom were Dr. Mackern, Capt. Todd, Hon. D. Macdougall,
and Hon. F. Ryan, for Demerara ; and for Jamaica—Mr.
Russell Gurney and Mr. Male, commissioners; Mr. Horne
Payne, barrister-at-law, Midland Circuit ; Mr. Godfrey
Turner to represent the Daily Telegraph ; and Mr. J. B.
Holdsworth in the interests of the Daily News.
THE LAST CONFEDERATE PRISONER.—The last
Confederate prisoner of war has been released, on
condition that he would leave the country. Captain Gus-
man refused to take the oath to the United States, and
asked no favour but to be released, to leave the country.
The Government refused to grant his request until the
IGth of November, when orders were given to allow him
to depart without taking the oath. Captain Gusman com-
manded the Creole Guards of Baton Rouge, and fought
under Stonewall Jackson and his successor.

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lIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Tuesday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and
the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern,
drove out yesterday in a carriage and four.
Her Majesty in the afternoon gave presents to
all the servants of the Household at Osborne, for
whom Christmas trees had been prepared by her
Majesty's command in the steward's room and ser-
vants' hall.

Her Majesty, aecompanied by all the Royal
Family, proceeded at six o'clock to the rooms,
where the servants were assembled, and personally
distributed the gifts, assisted by their Royal
Highnesses the Princesses and Prince Arthur.
The Hereditary Prince and Princess of Hohen-
zollern took leave of her Majesty this morning, and
left Osborne for London, attended by the Countess
Renaud and Baron Brauchitsch.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Prince Arthur, attended by Lady Churchill, Lord
A. Paget, and Major Elphinstone, crossed over to
Southampton with the Prince and Princess in the
Royal yacht Alberta.

Lord A. Paget and Col. the Hon. A. Hardinge
have succeeded Colonel the Hon. A. Hood and
Lieut.-Col. Du Plat, as Equerries to her Majesty.

THE BRITISH ARMY AND NAVY REVIEW, now and
henceforth published by Mr. Bentley, Publisher in
Ordinary to her Majesty, opens well, according to the
Reader of Saturday, with the new year. The nation is on
its trial, as well as Mr. Eyre, and an account of his life is
exactly what is wanted during the interval which must
elapse before any serious proceedings against him can take
place. A handsome steel-engraving of the Lieutenant-
Governor of Jamaica, strikes us at once, and prepares us to
receive favourably whatever Mr. Hamilton Hume may
have to say. Mr. Eyre is the same Edward John Eyre
who a quarter of a century ago distinguished himself as a
South Australian explorer. He did then, as has been said,
" what no man had ever done before, or would ever do
again, but as for the immortality of it I cannot find any
one in London who ever heard of it or of him." As to
this last epigram, it is merely the would-be smartness of a
magazine writer. Much more true is Mr. Hume's delibe-
rate assertion, that "it has seldom fallen to the lot of any
man to rise into such sudden notoriety as the subject of
this memoir." His first public title singularly enough was
" Protector of the Aborigines," in which office he won
their perfect love and confidence. This at the present
moment it is far more important to the public to know
than the details about his heroic march of 1,300 miles, and
Mr. Hume has known how to fix attention on what is most
essential. As a vigorous defence of Mr. Eyre, his article
cannot be surpassed. " The majority of educated people
in England have no feelings in common with the noisy
agitators in Exeter Hall." We think not also, and we
hope a considerable number of such persons will embrace
this opportunity of making themselves familiar with that
side of the question which every Englishman ought to
trust is the correct one. This number is great upon the
navy. We have an accurate account of our navy in 1865,
by Mr. Robert Main ; an amusing article by Captain Cuttle,
with the title "A Naval Apotheosis," in which he laments
much over the indignity Greenwich Hospital is under-
going—" the home of England's warriors turned into an
industrial exhibition !" Fresh vigour has been infused
into this publication. The fighting man may be, as Mr.
Carlisle says, the only institution which has always been
kept up to the mark ; but he cannot dispense, any more
than Governors or Ministers, with the aid of the pen ; and
there appear to be persons quite capable of using it for
him.

It is understood that Mr. Forsyth, M.P., Q.C.,
has been appointed to act as Deputy Judge of the Mayor's
Court of the Corporation of London during the absence of
the Recorder in Jamaica.

PROPOSED GENERAL SLAUGHTER OF DISEASED
CATTLE.—A proposal has been made by Sir T.
Beauchamp, vice chairman of the Norfolk Cattle Plague
Association, for the slaughter, in a certain way, of all
diseased cattle throughout Great Britain. The hon.
baronet proposes that the Government should pay liberally
for the beasts thus slaughtered, and he contends that by
this means the disease would be effectually exterminated.

SUPPOSED MURDER.—Yesterday the headless
body of a respectably-dressed man was found by a
farmer in the lone part of a wood, near Aberdare. The
legs were tied together with a stout cord, and the body
was frightfully mutilated. The head was afterwards
found some distance off. The pockets of deceased were
empty. It is believed the unfortunate man, whose iden-
tity has not yet been discovered, has been robbed and
murdered.

MARRIAGE INTERRUPTED BY THE ELEMENTS.—
Some time ago a son of Neptune, belonging to
Montrose, resolved to enter the blissful state of matrimony,
and having intimated his intention to her who was to be-
come the " partner of his affections and fortunes," he in-
vited a numerous company to witness the ceremony, which
was fixed to take place on Friday night. The joyful
guests obeyed the call made upon them, and all attended ;
but the bride, of all others, was in the highest spirits, and
her dress and demeanour were critically scanned. Unfor-
tunately, the marriage coming off was made contingent on
the arrival of the " sailor boy," and when the whole
party were sitting waiting his arrival, it was announced
that he was still on the "raging deep." The weather was
so boisterous that the vessel in which the bridegroom
serves, although outside Montrose harbour, was not able
to get into port, and so nothing was left but to postpone
the nuptials, which was accordingly done. The friends,
much chagrined, then departed ; but the seaman has since
arrived, we believe, and the affair will take place forth-
wit h. —Dundee Advertiser.

A PAINFUL INQUIRY.—Dr. Lankester held an in-
quest yesterday at the Elephant and Castle, King's-
road, St. Pancras, relative to the death of a female infant
found about three weeks ago in a dustbin in No. 11, Can-
telowes-road, Camden-square, occupied by Mr. G. Lock-
yer. It appeared from the evidence adduced at the
previous inquiry that the child's skull had been fractured,
causing death. The coroner was then of opinion that, as
no access could be obtained to the dustbin except by the
persons resident in the house, he adjourned the inquest in
the hope of obtaining evidence respecting the inmates. At
the inquiry yesterday Mr. Lockyer produced a plan of his
premises, and those immediately adjoining, and showed
that no strangers could approach the dustbin unless by
crossing a number of walls which divide the yards of the
adjacent houses. Mr. Lockyer stated that if his front door
were left open or unlocked access could be had from the
street to the dustbin. The Coroner expressed a wish to
examine Mrs. Lockyer as to the state of her servant's
health prior and subsequent to finding the infant. Mrs.
Lockyer said she kept two fluid servants - a nurse and a
general servant. he forma was with her eight months,
and the latter 11 weeks. Ist!itherliad been ill or had asked
to be excused from performing her duties. The witness did
not suspect either of being mother of the child. The
Coroner said the dustman in his evidence stated that "he
told the servant there was a baby in the dustbin, and she
seemed much confused." Mrs. Lockyer said both servants
trembled at the occurrence, and so she did herself. The
coroner said the case was a very mysterious one, and re-
commended the police to make inquiries respecting the ad-
joining houses. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder against some person or persona unknown."

THE PLEASURES OF ILLNESS.—Nothing astonishes
a weakly person, who has been accustomed to illness, so
much as an unusually long period of good health. It is
something he did not expect ; it is like a gift to him. Robust
persons who have never been accustomed to physical suf-
fering will find it difficult to understand this feeling., Their
wonder is that they should ever be ill at all. I have noticed
that the moral effect of illness upon the strong man is the
moral effect of health upon the weak man. When a strong
man is stricken down he takes to his prayers. But the time
when the weak man's thoughts are most elevated towards
spiritual things is when he is well. The latter is too thank-
ful to Heaven for its abundant mercies to begin whining
the moment he is laid upon a bed of sickness. To my
mind, that which induces a spirit of thankfulness is the best
chastener of the heart. It is not a scourge, but a purifier.
I have no belief in the rod, either moral or physical. When
I am in health, and have the full enjoyment of all my
faculties, and when the sun shines, and all nature is beau-
tiful around me, then lam good. I cannot say that my'
heart is touched in the same way by affliction and gloom.
It is not then in a spiritual way that I profit by illness, but
simply because it enables me to throw off my cares as I
throw off my clothes, and put my mind to rest with ml
body. To descend to some common-place particulars in
illustration of the pleasures of illness,' will mention first of
all the delight of being able to think without a purpose.
When [ art well all my thinking must take apractical direc-
tion. I have no time to indulge in loose fancy. Whatever
thoughts may enter my head I must mould and shape them
for use. I must parcel them out and pigeon-hole them. And
there is the involute process of thinking about thoughts,
overhauling the aforesaid mental pigeon-holes to see that
everything is ready to hand—a process which is very weary'
and painful. But sitting here by the fireside, utterly in-
capacitated, I give free rein to my fancy, and set myself to
think about nothing. And when you don't try to think,
what pleasant thoughts enter your head unbidden ? You
may call upon the divine Nine, or any other source of in"
spiration, until you are hoarse, without bringing down the
pleasant fancy which pops upon you unasked for, like e
fairy's gift. You sit by the fire with your feet among the
cinders, staring vacantly at the coals, and a vision of beauty
reveals itself in the flame. These are the pleasant dnY"
dreams which the mind enjoys when it has an opportunity
of playing the idler.—Dickens's All the Year Round,