The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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The City of Washington.

The following is a list of the passengers of this vessel,
which left New York, for Liverpool, on the 24th March,
and has not since been heard of :

Cabin—Mr. Amberg, Mr. Phipp, wife, and child, Mr. H.
Hoop and wife, Miss Capitain, Mr. Samuel Curnor, wife,
and child ; Mr. Robert A. Rosenbaun, Mr. Samuel M'Cul-
lough, Mr. J. Climes, Mrs. Thomas, Mr. H. I. Johnson,
Miss Oxenham, Mr. Felix Roig, Mr. P. S. Vlart, Mrs. C.
W. Seolye, Mr. G. W. Johnson, Mr. M. A., Mrs., and Miss
Careno, Mr. James Robinson, Mr. C. Schultheis, Mr. W.
J. H. H. Watson, Mr. P. C. Williams and wife, Miss
Williams, Mr. Brown, Mr. B. Ven Kruzero, Mr. J. C.
Curron, Mr. William Woolsey, Mr. Robert L. Ryan, Mr.
William Lapondtiere.
Steerage—Albert Vonables, James Reynolds, Samuel
White, Robert Moore, Henrietta White, Leah Essex, J.
F. Burnett, Mary Jane Johnson and child, Mary Ryan,
Pat Jennings, William Bridge, Pat Waldron, James
Myers, Charles Latoure, Isaac Davis, W. Geoghegan ;
William Probert, wife and two children ; A. De Yong,
wife and child ; Michael Gallagher, T. Crowley, Charles
A. M'Clinahan, Mr. Munch; James Umoni, wife and
child ; E. A. Holmes, Margaret Clein, John Cuppweld,
Mrs. Carroll, Charles Hibbard, John Wood, R. W. and
Ann Williams, James Pickering, J. B. Butterworth and
wife, Mrs. Butterworth and two children, Emil Bernard,
John Campbell, John Spencer, Mrs. Williams, John Price,
R. Rewell, W. Carroll, G. A. Nicholson, E. Gordon, J. Mor-
ris, Edward Beldin, Thomas Riley, George Foster, Robert
Sammon, Patrick Stack, John Trussell, David E. Rees,
James Meredith ; William, Mary, Emily, Joseph, and John
Williams; Matthew Green, William Schoffield and wife,
Catherine and Richard Webb, William Lynn, R. Bagshaw,
John Newton, Hugh J. Hughes, Mrs. Jane Owens, William
C. Hill and son, Eliza Richards and infant, Catherine
Gerard, Henry Harris, Philip Smith, Michael and Frank
M‘Guiggan, George Brown, S. B. Metcalf, Thomas Bana-
crough, J. E. Turner, Annie Taylor, Joseph Marshall,
Benjamin Walton, John Durkin, Benjamin Lambert and
wife, Benjamin Lambert and seven children, Peter Min-
shall, John Hodgeson, John Cowley, Thomas Chambers,
Wilhelm Stuckman and wife, Arthur Lennaman, Margaret
Lennaman, Henry Robert Lacey, William Day.

ENGLISH ORATORY.—Perhaps no nation, after the
Greeks and Romans, has so clearly felt in what true
rhetoric, rhetoric of the best kind, consists, and reached so
high a pitch of excellence in this, as the English. Our
sense for rhetoric has in some ways done harm to us in our
cultivation of literature, harm to us still more in our culti-
vation of science, but in the true sphere of rhetoric, in
public speaking, this sense has given us orators whom I
do think we may, without fear of being contradicted and
accused of blind national vanity, assert to have
inherited the great Greek and Roman oratorical tradition
more than the orators of any other country. Strafford,
Bolingbroke, the two Pitts, Fox—to cite no other names
—I imagine few would dispute that these call up the notion
of an oratory in kind, in extent, in power, coming nearer
than any othei body of modern oratory to the oratory of
Greece and Rome. And the affinity of spirit in our best
public life and greatest public men to those of Rome has
often struck observers, foreign as well as English. Now,
not only have the Germans shown no eminent aptitude for
rhetoric such as the English have shown ;—that was not
to be expected, since our public life has done so much
to develope an aptitude of this kind, and the public lite
of the Germans has done so little ;—but they seem in a
singular degree devoid of any aptitude at all for rhetoric.
Take a speech from the throne in Prussia, and compare it
with a speech from the throne in England. Assuredly it is
not in speeches from the throne that English rhetoric or
any rhetoric shows its best side ; they are often cavilled
at, often justly cavilled at ;—no wonder, for this form of
composition is beset with very trying difficulties. But
what is to be remarked is this,—a speech from the throne
falls essentially within the sphere of rhetoric ; it is one's
sense of rhetoric which has to fix its tone and style, so
as to keep a certain note always sounding in it; in an Eng-
lish speech from the throne, whatever its faults, this
rhetorical note is always struck and kept to; in a Prussian
speech from the throne, never. An English speech from
the throne is rhetoric ; a Prussian speech is half talk,--
heavy talk, and half effusion. This is one instance, it may
be said ; true, but in ono instance of this kind the presence
of the absence of an aptitude for rhetoric is decisively
8120wia.—Cornhill Magazfne for .Vay.