The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

211 E HARVEST AND PEACE.

What does the pease of the world depend upon
at this moment ? A score of politicians of the first
class will undertake to answer the question off.
hand. Mr. Lincoln will perhaps say that England
and France might best preserve the peace of the
world by helping him to blockade the Southern
coast of his own territory, and thus stamp out the
war before it has created a second great military
Power in America, Mr. Jefferson Davis will, on
the other hand, think that peace may best he pre-
served by using the English and French navies to
keep open the Southern trade, and thus prevent the
subjugation of the Southern States and the union
in idleness of two great bodies of soldiery. France
may hold that peace and Sardinia are somehow
mysteriously allied. Austria will hardly hope for
peace until some argument has been found powerful
enough to persuade Hungary to bow the head in
patient subjection to the imperial ascendancy of a
people inferior in number and territory. From Italy
we shall have the response that peace is impossible
while Rome is dissevered from her children, and
while Venetia is in bondage to the barbarian.
From every part of the world there will be a ready
and a different answer to our simple question. Tur-
key, Russia, the Islands of the Levant, even China
and Japan, will have a voice. In our land Mr.
Bright will press forward to declare that peace will
never be secure till our volunteers are disbanded,
our fortifications thrown down, our standing army
broken up, and a friendly confidence placed in the
good intentions of Napoleon 111. Throughout all
Europe there will arise a scattered cry, led by
learned pedants and echoed from every rock and
stronghold of ignorance, that there can be no peace
so long as the Pope is assailed in his temporal pos-
sessions, and so long as he is not guarded by the
swords of the faithful while he works his holy will
upon his refractory subjects. Every one will have
his own notion as to what the circumstance is upon
which the peace of the world depends ; and, as all
will certainly differ, we may claim a right, humbly
to put forward our simple thoughts upon the sub-
ject. We venture to suggest, then, that the peace
of the world depends neither upon the will of this
man nor of that, neither upon the flow nor the ebb
of the war now stagnant on the banks of the
Potomac, neither upon the moderation nor the per-
tinacity of the Emperor of the French, nor the im•
patience or the sobriety of Italy. It depends wholly
and solely, according to human calculation, upon a
few days more sunshine.

Yesterday was worth at least two millions to Eng-
land alone. The day before yesterday was worth
quite as much. Every ray that embrowns our rust-
ling fields, every zephyr that ventilates the mass of
tall stalks, has its money value. It is a question to
us of at least thirty millions. That is, however, the
smallest matter involved in it. A bad harvest, such
as is still quite possible, although we are all hoping
that we have passed the danger, coming upon the
heels of the failure of last year, would mean famine
prices, restricted employment, suffering among the
masses, discontent, disaffection, agitation. It is
not only that we should have thirty millions more
to pay, but that we should also have at least thirty
millions less wherewith to pay them. Not vainly
did the old apophthegm link peace and plenty
together, although it fallaciously transposed the two
words, and accepted as the effect what is more cer••
tainly the cause. In this country at least plenty has
never failed to produce contentment, and con tent•
went has never failed to produce peace. The trade
of the agitator has never yet thriven in England
while wages were good and food cheap. Thanks to
our open ports and our extraordinary commercial
prosperity, we have tided over one bad harvest, and
have scarcely felt it. India and China have kept
our looms working, and America and Russia have
kept out famine. Let us pray that we may not be
put to the experiment of a second year of trial. But
we are not alone. We might have disagreements
among ourselves, but should hardly hope to find
relief by rushing unprovoked into foreign war.
Such, however, is not the habit of all nations.
France depends upon her harvest quite as much—
perhaps even more, than we do. That the harvest
of 1861 in France will be rather deficient seems to
be already ascertained; but to gather in even that
deficient harvest, and to avoid a catastrophe our
accounts require ten days of fine weather. Talk of
the Sun of Austerlitz; the fortunes of France hang
much more immediately upon the sunshine of the
next few days of August. Floods in France just
now might mean war in Europe and revolutionary
devastation everywhere. Let others examine mico-
scopicall y the warp and woof of the policy of prince?,
and balance the resources of nations ; just at this
moment we would trust more in a weathercock and
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A good harvest in Europe will be not only a
pledge of peace here, but will give a hope of peace
to America. There are evident signs that the
State resources at this moment are not abun-
dant on either side. That the people of the
North will ever pay the taxes now proposed to be
levied no one will believe who knows what the ob-
jections of the multitude must certainly be to
taxes which will be in the nature of a poll-tax, and
will be represented as taking equal sums from the
poor as from the rich. That any sane Englishman

will send his money over to America to buy papery
certain to be repudiated is out of the question. flie.
only chance is a good sale for the heavy stocks of
food on hand and for those now coming on. Some
thirty millions of English gold might seasonably
light up the fires anew, and give an impetus to the,
flagging resentments of the Northern States, as well
as to the commerce of the Atlantic cities. Sunshine
—a few days of this baking sunshine—will relieve.
us from the necessity of paying this tribute, and
will enable us to eat our own bread and keep our
own money. The prospects tempt us to be hopeful.
rI he experienced folk who gather in Mark-lane are
evidently sanguine. The French, as our trade report
of yesterday's dealing tells, have ceased to press
upon our stocks, and have, therefore, as we map
hope, better reliance upon their own. We ourselves
have ceased to buy up at full prices the remnant O
our bad harvest of last year. The foreign wheal'e.
are being brought forward in anticipation of down-
ward markets. " American flour was less in demand,
and town prices were looking down." It is not
state of things for a song of triumph or a cry 01
safety, but it is a state of things for sanguine hope'
If France should be only a little short, and if Eng-
land should have an average crop, there will u"
good chance of peace in Europe for the twelvemonths
yet to come. Occupied time and full bellies will keep
the world from quarrelling. But the Heavens—eve•
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There is more war in a day's rain than in an
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a morning's sunshine than even in a treaty of ceel.
merce.—Times.

ARREST OF THE PRETENDED REP•

MR. SPURgEON AT CORK.

A young man was brought up at the Police-office, Cork'
on Friday, charged with having, by the assumption of the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon's name, imposed on several hotel-
keepers and others in Limerick and Cork. Prisoner sP'
peered to be about 28 years of age. He observed a grave
demeanour, and was dressed in black cloth clothes of
clerical cut. The proceedings of the prisoner in Limerick,
we have already described. It appears the prisoner arrive"
in Cork on Wednesday, and took up his residence at the
Imperial Hotel, entering his name on the arrival-list ne
the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon. After partaking of some refresh'
meat at the bar, he entered the smoking-room and called
for a cigar, which was duly given him. The waiter asked
for payment, Mr. Spurgeon, after searching his pocketet
said that his change was in hisbox, which had been already
conveyed to a sleeping apartment. He went up stairs for 4
the purpose of getting what money he required from it,
but he never returned to the smoking-room, and cow
trived to leave the hotel unperceived. Before leaving this
Imperial he wrote a letter to Mr. Richard Burke, lessee 01
the Theatre Royal, George-street, requesting a visit froin
that gentleman. Mr. Burke paid that visit. The prisoner
introduced himself as the Rev. Wm. Spurgeon, and told
Mr. Burke that he was anxious to deliver a discourse to the
young men of Cork in the theatre. After some converse'
tien Mr. Burke consented to give the rev. gentleman the
use of the theatre, stipulating, however, that he should not
preach against the drama. Mr. Spurgeon assured Mr'
Burke that he should not—that he was an admirer of 010
drama, and would advise the young men to encourage it'
On Thursday night Head-constable Roe went to Neehde
hotel at 11 o'clock, dressed in private clothes, and inquired
of Mr. Neehan if the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon was staying
there. Mr. Neehan said that the rev. gentleman was in
the hotel, but on the head-constable saying that he desired •
an interview with him, he appeared most unwilling to die'
turb him, as Mr. Spurgeon was then in his room, studying
for the sermon. The head-constable, however, was most
importunate, and was finally introduced into Mr. Spur-
geon's sanctum, when the following dialogue took place
between them :—" I presume you are the Rev. Mr. Spur'
pen ?" Mr. Spurgeon (rising from his studies)—" Yes'
sir; pray be seated." "I am most happy to find that the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has visited Cork, and he intends tc.
preach to us." " Yes, such is my intention, but lam 11(4
the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon—l am his brother." The head"
constable then announced his profession and business, and
cautioned the prisoner to make no statement that might
commit him. He then took up the book over which btr.'
Spurgeon had been poring, and found that it was a
Roe then asked the hotelkeeper to show him the prisoner's
luggage. He said it was but little, and these were its con-
tents. (The constable produced a small canvas bag, 04
took out of it half a dozen white neckerchiefs, a Church of
England Prayer-book, a child's copy-book containing
headings for his sermon, and a" Complete Letter Writer.'')
His box was here produced and opened. Its contents con-
sisted of a quantity of grass and weeds, and a large stoup
most carefully wrapped in paper.
The prisoner was then remanded. Bible.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER—Aua. 10.

A fair supply of wheat. A few samples of new Talavera
made 53s to 66s per qr., according to quality.
Wheat, white s2s to 60s 1 Beans, N azagan.. 36 ;to 420
red 44s to 56s I Middle & small 38s to 44S
Barley —s to —s I White peas 4- to 484
Oats —s to —s Grey,. 38s to 440

CHELMSFORD—AuG. 9.
A fair supply of wheat. Good wheats maintained last
week's prices; inferior sorts the turn cheaper. We had a very dull trade. Spring corn of all descriptions about
the same, with a limited sale.
1 Wheat, white 27s to Gls Peas, Partridge ..44s to 45 _
red 36s to 57s White 43s to 466
Barley 29s to 42s Boiling 43s to 4711
Chevalier „...32s to 45s Dun 40s to 430
Grinding
26s to 37s Beans, Tick
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Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 39s to Ov'
Chevalier 64s to 69s Mazagan 33s to 4.53
Oats 26s to 31s

NOT TINGHAM—Ava 10.
Wheat ......,....38s to 65s Oats.. 26s t° 30"
White do 47s to 77s Beans 4os to .-0
Barley 29s to 31s Ditto, old ........56s to 060

KIRKALDY—Aro. 10.
A good supply to-day of wheat and oats, but sinali°,o
barley, with sales for good qualities at about last Wee
currencies ; inferior cheaper.

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Wheat I Barley Oats
First.... 35s Od I 30s Od 25s Od
Second.. 51s Od I 36s Od 29s Od
Third .. 57s Od I —s Od 32s Od