The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The market opens steady, with fair demand.
Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Jan. B.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Westerly ; strong breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLYMOUTH, Jan. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rob Roy,
from Nova Scotia for Aberdeen, with loss of sails and part
of crew sick.

SHIELDS, Jan. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Venus, from
Quebec.

RAMSGATE, Jan. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Siger,
from London for Landernau, with loss of anchor and chain,
bulwarks and stancheons, and port for rigging, having
been in collision.

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—At the meeting
of Parliament Mr. Denison will be moved into the Speaker's
chair by the Right Hon. W. Monsell, M.P.. for the county
of Limerick, and seconded by Earl Grosvenor, M.P. for
Chester—not by Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P, for the county
of Flint, as erroneously stated. The address in answer to
the speech from the throne will be moved in the House of
Commons by Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P. for the
West Riding of York, and seconded by Mr. Wm. Graham.
M.P. for the city of Glasgow.
THE SECRETARYSHIP OP THE ADMIRALTY.—A
correspondent of the Manchester Guardian has revived a
rumour of the appointment of Mr. Stansfeld, M.P. for
Halifax, to the Secretaryship of the Admiralty, and alleged
that the appointment is to be immediate, instead of waiting
for the estimates to be moved by Lord Clarence Paget. We
believe the statement to be premature for the best of all
reasons, that the office is not vacant.
DEATH OF MR. THO3IAS Conwlisr, OF OHIO.—
Mr. Thomas Corwin, one of the great men of America,
and ono of the last links which join the present period
with much of the important past history of the American
Republic, has died. His death, which had not been un-
expected for a few days past, took place at Washington at
half-past two o'clock, on December 21st. Mr. Thomas
Corwin was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on
the 29th of July, 1794. When ho was four years of ago
his father removed to Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio,
where the senior Corwin attained to a highly respectable
position, and was for a long time an active and efficient
1 member of the Ohio Legislature, over the upper branch of
which he presided for several years with great dignity and
acceptance. His situation in life was such that he could
bestow but little attention on his son, and he grew up
without any great culture of his intellect, except such as
he derived from the active duties of life, and such inter-
course with the outer world as he had while working on
his father's farm, which he did until he was twenty years
of age. In 1815 he commenced the study of law, and was
admitted to the bar in 1818. Four years afterward he
was sent as a representative to the State Legislature, in
which he served several sessions, and with such marked
abilities that he was sent to Congress in 1831. He con-
tinued to hold his seat in that body for nine years, or until
1840, during the whole time of which he was found to be
an efficient business member, a ready and powerfa de-
bater; a steady friend of the Whig party, and an able ad-
vocate of all its measures in the House. In - 1840
Mr. Thomas Corwin was chosen Governor of the State
of Ohio, an office which he filled with dignity for two
years. He was again a candidate for the same position,
but he was defeated by Mr. Shannon, the Democratic
candidate, who was elected as his successor. In 1845
Mr. Thomas Corwin was elected to the upper branch of
Congress, and took his seat in the Senate at the close of
that year. When a member of that body the United
States became involved in war with Mexico. Politicians
differed widely on the subject of its righteousness or its
policy. Mr. Corwin, from the first, steadily opposed it as
neither politic nor just, and his speeches on the floor of
the United States Senate are among the ablest and most
argumentative of any delivered on that side of the question.
Mr. Corwin continued to hold his seat in the Senate
until the accession of Mr. Fillmore to the Presidency, in
1850, when that gentleman called him to aid the executive
administration by his counsel and advice, and appointed
him to preside over the Treasury of the country. At the
close of Mr. Fillmore's Presidential career, Mr. Corwin
retired into private life, but he was not long allowed to
enjoy his ease, for he was chosen to Congress in 1858 and
again in 1860, with little or no opposition. During
latter years he rendered efficient service as a speaker
during the Lincoln, Douglas, and Breckinridge Presiden-
tialthe New
contest, and addressed sundry audiences in t'i_n: Pro
England States. On Mr. Lincoln's accession'
tof
Minister
sidency Mr. Corwin received the appointment
.000
of r
to Mexico, where he remained until the
accessi
his Maxi_
the
Finally,vas_in he resigned
milieu, and then came home on leave of absence,
.health
having become somewhat impaired.
his appointment and settled himself at
health,lh however,
where
he resumed the practice of law,
his
sofparalysis prostrated
him be-
coming gradually worse. An
attack
he di 1)
. died without. any
him very suddenly
at last,
after and
being stricken down.
restoration of his faculties
him a Republican. He was a
his mature judgment made
political • 4- ~
man whose "stern manliness of consistency -
Mr. Corwin was a genuine Whig until circumstances and
made his opinions and actions respected.
In all cases his
policy has been safely in advance of the time. Convincing
himself of the justice of his views he always pursued " the
even
tenor of his way," the same in theory as in practice,
the same in action as in sentiment, thus treading in the
footsteps of the illustrious statesman whose life and times
are a splendid comment upon his own lofty declaration,
~ I had rather be right than be President."