The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, K.C.8.,
Port-Admiral at Portsmouth, and Naval Conn:nary

der-in-Chief of the South-west district, returned
from his annual visit of inspection of the Channel
Islands on Saturday to Portsmouth, and rehoisted
his flag at the main of her Majesty's ship Victory.
The Fire Queen paddle yacht, Staff Commander
Paul, was the gallant Vice-Admiral's flagship in the
Channel, and was accompanied by the Sprightly
paddle yacht, Master-Commander G. Allan. The
return of Sir Thomas Pasley to Portsmouth from
the Islands has been very considerably delayed,
owing to the excessive violence of the weather in the
Channel.

At the quarterly examination of candidates for
appointments assistant clerks in her Majesty's
navy, held on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at
Portsmouth, during the past week, the following
passed their examinations successfully, out of 24
who presented themselves :—Mr. E. H. Banks, Mr.
Malaher, Mr. Carr, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Hall, Mr.
Parnell, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Muddle, Mr. Potter, Mr.
Askham, Mr. Mallard, and Mr. Harvey. Mr. Banks,
who has passed at the head of the list in point of
merit, was passed direct from the Royal Naval
School at New Cross. At midsummer last he was
awarded by the Council of the Royal Naval School
the prize nomination for a clerk's assistant.
The Dart, 4, screw gun-vessel, Commander M.
Lowther, ordered to proceed on service to the West
Coast of Africa, is detained at Spithead by the pre-
sent head winds and rough weather in the Channel.
The crew of the armour-plated ship Lord Clyde,
24, Capt. R. Dew, C.B. (in Plymouth Sound), were
inspected on Thursday afternoon by Port Admiral
Sir C. Fremantle. Various rumours are current in
Devonport regarding the discontent of the men on
board this ship, who seek additional leave. It is
alleged that they threw holystones at the door of
the captain's cabin, in consequence of which a sig-
nal was hoisted, and the Port Admiral went on
board. The boisterous state of the weather is given
as a reason for decrease of leave, but it is said that
the weather did not prevent leave from the
Ocean also in the Sound. Two of the crew were
placed in irons by order of the Admiral. The men
have been ashore since. The Lord Clyde was under
orders on Saturday to leave Plymouth for Portland.
The crew of the screw steamship Liverpool, 35,
Capt. J. Seccombe, in Plymouth Sound, were in-
spected by Port Admirul Sir C.' H. Fremantle on
Wednesday. Discontent at alleged insufficient leave
prevails on board this ship. It is reported that
the men have placed a letter of complaint on the
mess-table. Like other ships at Devonport she has
belonging to her some men who will break their leave
if permitted to go on shore, and the water police have
plenty of duty on such occasions.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Dudley C. Stuart,
Lieut. Henshaw Russell, Lieut. Arthur F. Gresley,
and Lieut. E. J. B. von Donop to the Duncan ;
Lieut. Pelham Aldrich to the Sutlej ; Lieut. Arthur
Bloxome, Lieut. William S. Lee, Lieut. William H.
Henderson and Lieut. E. S. Nuthall, supernume-
raries, to the Victoria, for disposal ; Thomas
Steel, master, to the Clio ; Sub-Lieut. T. Suckling
to the Zalous ; Sub-Lieut. C. R. Wood to the Pal-
las; 11. H. Jauncey, midshipman, to the Zealous;
C. E. Wood, midshipman, to the Gladiator; Dr.
Matthew Burton, staff surgeon, to the Zealous ; B.
Browning, surg., to the Victory, additional, in lieu
of an assist.-surg.; Dr. J. Simpson, assist. -surg. to
the Zealous; A. Southby, acting-assist.-surg., to the
Zealous; D. M'Carthy, assist.-surg., to the Fisgard,
additional, for Woolwich Marine Infantry; J. Diddle,
paymaster, to the Rattler ; J. Carlisle, assist.-pay-
master, to the Cumberland ; and J. C. Sabbon, as-
sist.-paymaster, to the Victory, as supernumerary.

The Scandals of Joint-Stock Enterprise.

Dickens, in-his " Martin Chuzzlewit," drew a
picture of sharp practice in America, which fur-
nished the ground-work for many similar paintings
of the unscrupulous trading of our Yankee cousins.
But the annals of every country would be sought in
vain to produce a parallel to the infamous rascality
revealed in London during the year 1866. In 1865
we had our Eden, hs it appeared on paper, and in
1866 we have our Eden as it appears in reality.
The splendid buildings and well-formed streets of
that imaginary town, as depicted on the plan, were
not dissimilar to the shameful reports, the lying
figures, the gross exaggerations of the Directors of
most of our Joint-Stock Companies. The deluded
shareholders rushed to participate in the benefits of
their Edens, with much the same feeling as ,‘ Mar-
tin Chuzzlewit" started for his Eden. Gradually
their high-toned hopes sunk, drearier and drearier
becomes the prospect, little by little the truth begins
to dawn, the deception becomes apparent, and
eventually the wretched shareholder stands, like
Dickens's hero, in the centre of the Dismal Swamp
—his means gone, his spirit broken, deprived of all
the necessaries of life, without the consolation of
such a companion as Mark Tapley. . This is no
overdrawn picture, as the Directors of numberless
swindles would see, could they but look through
the roofs of thousands of English houses, and wit-
ness the ruin, misery, and tears, of these English
homes laid bare. The body of men who have wrought
thiiwicked work are for the most part people standing
well in society ; in fact, whose end and object is to
be what they call respectable. Their establishments are
respectable, their appearance is respectable ; habits,
manners, customs, all are respectable. A few stray
lords grace the respectable throng, and baronets in
still greater number,—here and there an ex-gover-
nor, many M.P.'s, while even military clubs lent
some of their members to add what dignity the
war-like professions could give to the trading gang.
The crowd had its gradations from Financial
Ministers, who presided over great undertakings,
down to half-pay majors, who lent their names to
smaller swindles. England was fairly beguiled by
the weight of respectability, and came forward with
scores of millions for these people to manipulate.
Banking establishments sprung up, as if every man
had suddenly become rich, but banking business
was too slow for the growth of Young England
ideas, and finance became the order of the day. As
usual in this country, when the people had fairly
mounted their hobby, they rode it till it dropped
beneath them. The joint-stock hobby was not a
bad one in its way, but it soon followed the career
of all over-done new ideas. A rare opportunity was
offered to bankrupt concerns to palm off their busi-
ness on the unsuspicious public. The real movers

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Iwere for the most part a set of needy and unprin-
cipled ruffians—an unprincipled promoter, an
unprincipled attorney, and an unprincipled manager
set the concerns in motion. A few of the greedy
respectables were bribed to lend their names and
influence—a prospectus promising large gains,
together with a market rigged 'to place the shares
at a premium';—advertisements which paid the
newspaper press enormously, and a trifling call
within everytiotly's means, caught the unwary.
The names were registered—the credit gained—
and the company started, on its fatal career. As
rats forsake a sinking ship, so sneaked from
these concerns the more wary directors. First
came the collapse of Smith, Knight, and Co.,
followed by the Smash of the Joint Stock
Discount. The public began to open their
eyes to the style of memo whom they had intrusted
so vast an amount of pqwer and responsibility. The
climax was reached when the house whose name
stood highest in England proved to be a hollow
sham, and with the smash of 0 verend, Gurney, and
Co. went all the belief in the respectability of the
respectables. Since then the expose has been com-
plete ; it:svery magnitude--in a measure—screening
the delinquents from the punishment they have so
justly merited. When the Courts open in Novem-
ber next it is probable that a story will be told that
will remain a lasting scandal to the English name.
Are these people to escape scot-free ? Is England
to be spotted over with misery, tears, and suicide,
while these people drive about looking with con-
-tdMpuous pity at their victims toiling through the
mud ? Many of the promoters and directors of the
failed companies were the most active agents in
bringing to the ground the concerns they had
erected. Some profited more by the destruction
than by the construction of their handiwork. The
infOrmation possessed by these people of the in-
trinsic rottenness of the companies with which they
were connected enabled them with security to " bear"
the shares on the Stock Exchange, wbich ended a
few months ago in bringing them down like a house
of cards. We have in our mind's eye a history of
a small manufacturing concern, situated in the West-

end of London, which an attorney built up, and as
unscrupulously pulled down, the whole ending in
the utmost disaster to the shareholders of which the
thing was capable, and iu the shortest possible time,
but we are not yet aware whether the attorney pro-
fited most by the beginning or end of the under-
taking. Can these people act thus, ruining all who
place any confidence in them, 'destroying all faith
of man in his fellow-man, and go unscathed by law,
and continuing to hold their position in society?
When DICKENS or any other great writer wants a
subject to illustrate the wickedness of unscrupulous
schemes, there will be no necessity for travelling
out of London. In no other city will he find a
richer mine of villainy all fresh to his hand.
We have not done with this subject—we will
watch the proceedings which are yet to come off,
and gibbet as far as in us lies some of the men who
have earned a notoriety which we hope and believe
the press will not deny them, but, on the contrary,
will cause their names to be as widely known as the
English language.—Anglo-American Times.

The Enlightened American.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.

Sir,—The Enlightened American of the Times —that
American Daniel who is always coming to judgment in
favour of Conservatism—is a person very familiar to every
one who knows anything of America. I have crossed the
Atlantic with him myself. He was a wealthy man, com-
ing, at a time when his country, struggling for her exist-
ence, demanded the loyal support of her citizens, to spend
his money in the great pleasure cities of Europe, and make
himself popular among the rich and privileged by descrying
republican institutions and predicting the total failure of
the war.

The habitat of these men, for the most pert, is not New
England, by Now York, and the great cities of the Border
StatesM hich have been tt good deal under the sociai influence
of the South. They are not men of sufficient cultivation to
keep their hearts above their wealth. They find ti ealth
not sufficiently honoured, and even deprived of the greatest
luxury that it can buy—the luxury of ostentation—by a
society of which equality is tho rule. Not a few of thorn
also have been commercially bound up with slavery, and
of course are hostile to the principles before which slavery
has fallen. Those griefs they pour into sympathising
bosoms here under colour of bearing their reluctant testi-
mony against free institutions.
These men, strange as it may sound, are the mob leaders
of the United States. They subsidise and organise the
Irishry of Now York. They wore the "roost respectable
citizens" who led the anti-slavery riots at-Boston. Tho
Conservatives in a republic of equal rights are the groat
mass of the people. The revolutionists aro the uneducated
rich and the slaveowners, with an Irish following at their
heels.

Yes, there are many enemies of Republicanism in the
American Republic. They are enemies of republicanism,
not of universal suffrage—imperialists at heart, and friends
of slavery. If the South could have made itself an empire
or an oligarchy by itself, and set up a standing army, we
should soon have seen this party stretching out a hand to
it from the North.

That the condition of society in one of the free States of
America is happier and sounder, though less highly culti-
vated, than it is here, is a fact as to which I can scarcely
imagine the existence of two opinions among those who
have been accustomed to study society in the interest of all
its members, and not in the interest of a class. There is
abundance of evil in these communities, which, as well as
the good, has been stirred up and brought to the surface by
the struggle through which they have just passed ; but on
the whole, in a social point of view, they aro the leading
shoots of humanity, and show the direction in which
human society generally will advance.

Our eyes are also fixed on Washington. But Washing-
ton is the worst, not the best, part of the American Re-
public. 1 should think the prospects of the Republic very
gloomy at this moment if its destinies were in the hands
of the prOlessional politicians; but they aro in the
hands of the American people. The framers of the consti-
tion made, as I ant convinced, a great mistake in attempt-
ing to superadd a national legislature to a Federal union.
Not in the central but in the local institutions of America
you must look for that which is at once truly American and
pro-eminently sound. If the issue of the struggle which is
now commencing should be a return from the mixed fede-
rative and legislative union to one purely federative, my
belief is that this would be a most happy result.

With regard to the special question of the suffrage, how-
ever, we ought to be very cautious in reasoning from the
case of America to our own. That which makes universal
suffrage at once salutary and inevitable in America is the
general diffusion of property, or the hope of property and
of education. The Irishry, whom we pour from a misgo-
verned Ireland into the seaboard cities, aro in every way a
hideous exception. The best and most highly cultivated
men with whom I conversed in America were firm believers
in universal suffrage and resolute against disfranchising,
oven if it wore possible, the Irish emigrants or any other
class of men, however unfitted in their actual condition,
for the exercise of political power. They held that the
principle of equal right on which the Republic was founded
was too vital to be compromised by exceptions, and that the
only way of making a man a good citizen was to make him a
a citizen. Probably they aro right in refusing to attempt
retrograde stop; but in taking a great step forward other
considerations come to. m eric
On the other hand, an extended suffra
labours under some special difficulties owing
getointhAe
community, which not only
and rallying points in a commu
loose-
ness of the social tissue, and the absence of
isnatural leaders
the American
migration. This makes
re-
ceiving annual crowds of emigrants, but is internally in a
state .of constanttoo
of feeling and few obvious
whore there is unity
constituencies
little like those of our metropolitan boroughs,
can-
didates, and where consequently " wire-pullers" exercise a
very noxious power. In most English constituencies so-
ciety is very settled, men know each other well, and there
are natural leaders and natural rallying points in abund-
ance*.

-Nor must it be forgotten that, if free political institutions
in America aro based upon social equity, they also generate
the social equity on which they are based. Our only path
to popular education and a more equal diffusion of proper-
ties is through the political reforms which would take go-
vernment out of tho hands of a class and make it truly the
government of the nation.

So far as my very limited observations of American po-
litics influenced my opinions about our own, I was con-
firmed in the conviction that an English statesman, acting
in the highest interest of the whole community, would ex-
tend the suffrage by gradual steps, keeping the ultimate
mark steadily in view, and at the same taking measures to
extend popular education, to open the way for a more
equal distribution of property, and, above all, to release re-
ligion by degrees from its present state of strangling con-
finement and degrading litigation, and enable it to exert
its full power hi making good citizens as well as good men•

-Glut •

~~~

Unhappily this course, which probably most reformers
would on calm consideration prefer, is the one which it is
practically most difficult to pursue. Under the county
suffrage and the small boroughs a class is entrenched in
power, the continued ascendancy of which is incompatible
with the progress of the community and the well-being of •
the people, but which will scarcely be induced to resign its
power and give place to a national government except under
the pressure of a movement involving some of the evils of
a revolution.—l am, &c., GOLDWIN

The Insurrection iu Candfa.

ATHENS, Sept. 6.

The Greek papers publish the following protest
recently addressed by the Canclian General Assem_
bly to the foreign consuls resident in Crete :

" M.M. les Consuls,—The representatives of the
august Christian Governments resident in Cauca
have long been made acqulinted with the reply for-
warded by the Grand Vizier to the central committee
and the population of Crete, in answer to the just
complaints the undersigned had humbly submitted
to the Sublime Porte. The honourable representa-
tives of the august Christian Powers are also aware
that, in presence of arbitrary conduct, violence, and
unjust exactions, we were forced to declare solemnly
,that this people had no other resource than to take
up arms to defend its honour, its life, and its fortune,
and to repel force by force. Nevertheless, in this
painful situation, the undersigned—who have con-
stituted themselves the General Assembly of the
Candians by virtue of fresh authority from the peo-
ple—have considered that it was their inevitable and
sacred duty to draw up a new report, exposing the
falsehood and injustice of the pretensions put for-
ward by the Sublime Porte. Not having the means
of transmitting the report to Constantinople, they
have decided upon sending it to Greece to be pub,
lished by the press. They have, however, the honour
to forward herewith a copy of the said report (not
published), trusting that you would kindly contri.
bute towards enlightening your august Governments
upon the artifices and sophistries to which the Im-
perial Government, whose mercy we have in vain
implored, has recourse.

" We hasten, further, to draw your attention to
the following facts, reserving to ourselves to ask
your testimony at an opportune time :
..

" Placing faith in the words of the Egyptian
Sirdar, Salim Pasha, who repeatedly assured us ho
had received full powers from the Sublime Porte
to treat with us upon the Candian question, we
should have become the victims of trickery and
deception had we not recalled in time the deputies
we sent to him in good faith. Fighting now in
arms for our security, we shall be compelled to re-
pulse the army if it attacks us and endeavours to
hunt us out of the caverns, whither wo have been
forced to retreat with our wives and children, while
waiting for the august Christian Governments to
decide our fate.

" The undersigned at the same time respectfully
call upon MM. the Consuls to testify to the sacri-
leges committed by the imperial troops in the
churches of St. Kyriaki at Cydonia, of St. Deme-
trius, of the Holy Virgin, and of St. Pantelemich,
at Rhethyma, &c., together with the sacrileges per-
petrated in the Church of the Transfiguration at
Candanon, &c., the violence, brutalities, and the
tortures that peaceable and unarmed men have had
to suffer because they refused to sign petitions in
opposition to ours.—We have, &c.
(The signatures follow.)
The same journals also publish a petition signed
by a number of the inhabitants of Epirus and for-
warded to the English, French, Prussian, and Rus-
sian Ministers at Corfu. It is as follows :

" Your Excellency,—Men expecting from one
moment to another. to fall victims to the cruel fana-
ticism of the Mussulmans cast themselves at your
feet requesting grace and mercy from his Majesty,
the august Sovereign whom you represent.
" We have abandoned our children and every-
thing precious in this world to the vengeance of our
tyrants, -and have come from Epirus at the demand
of 20,000 of our brethren, suffering the most seri-
ous evils, to cast ourselves at your feet as sup-
pliants, and to implore the protection of the august
Sovereign you represent. We know that every So-
vereign is free in domestic Government. But if the
philanthropic hearts of civilised nations nowhere
tolerate traffic in slaves will the Sovereigns of
Europe in future tolerate the violation of treaties,
cruelties, unjust banishments, acts of oppression and
vandalism, spoliation, and the rage of the Ottoman
Government against the unhappy Christians, all
unquestionably far worse than traffic in slaves ?
We cannot believe it. No lodger able to support
the yoke weighing upon us, and foreseeing our
complete ruin, we pray your excellency to deign
to represent to your Government the miserable and
desperate condition of the Christians in Epirus,
who, with one voice, demand to be released from
the Ottoman rule, and to be reunited with their free
brethren the Ilellenes, before the plains of Epirus
shall again be drenched with Greek blood."

THE FUTURE OF MEXICO.—The Times, com-
menting upon the collapse of the Mexican empire,
remarks that if the Mexicans have learnt, dur-
inga period of foreign occupation any of the
duties of civilised men, or have qualified them-
selves for becoming the citizens of an organised and
responsible State, one would be ready to hail the
phenomenon of a native Government with all satis-
faction, but in the absence or obscurity of any such
prospect one cannot but express regret at the failure
of an enterprise which was calculated to do good to
many, and which assuredly did wrong to none.
There was possibly a miscalculation at the bottom
of the enterprise itself, but as regards the conduct
of it the Times knows of but one fault with which
the Emperor Napoleon can be fairly charged.
When he occupied the capital and assumed
the government of Mexico, he did so, not
with an impartial condemnation of the old
factions, but with a preference to one of them.
He closed with the party opposed to Juarez, which
had at least the disadvantage in title and pre-
tentions, and was probably—if precedence was pos-
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Mexico in the list of civilised States, but we are not
yet acquainted with any facts which could induce a
belief in such an event, and it is far more probable
that an immediate return of confusion and another
period of murderous anarchy
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