Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-11
English Holders Of Rebel Bonds

Our readers will remember the great
hubbub created about two months G on
both sides the Atlantic by the publication
of what purported to be a list of the prin-
| cipal English holders of rebel bonds, and
the indignant denials which were showered
in thick and fastby those who were classed
among the unlucky ones. In response to
these denisls the State Department dis
creetly held its peace until the time came
for a response, and many, deceived by its
silence, came to the conclusion that the
published list was a humbug. But on Sat
urday morning last the New York papers
published a document, evidently emanat-
ing directly from the State Department,
giving the name and address of every
rebel bond holder in England, together
with the number of bonds held by him, as
borne on the rebel books at the payment
of the last interest, about November, 1864.
The list also shows whether the payment
of interest was received or not by each in
dividual. The bonds vary in amount from
$3.50 TO ST,ooe raeA.-LiS reported that
about $500, 900 in excess of the original
e, 200, 900, were surreptitiously placed on
the London market by rebel agents. The
list contains every name published in the
former one with one e~xception-that OF
Mr.. Sampson, city editor of the London
Times. The denials of Mr. Delana- of the
Times, and others, are accounted for by
the fact that they did not receive the last
payment of interest, or their names may
have been entered to. secure their influence
without calling on them for subscriptions
To the list is ~subjoined a series of personal
sketches of the prominent bond holders,
evidently furnished by the Department as
it appears, word for word, in all the New
York papers of Saturday. 1t contains the
names Of members of the press, like Delane
of the Times, Sala, the well-known Amer
lean correspondent of the Telegraph, Oil
plant of the O10L, and Spence, Liverpool
correspondendent of the Times; such rebCl
partizans in Parliament as Gregory, Laird,
Roebuck, Crawford, Horsfall, Peacock,
Lindsey, Ross, Cecil, Ferguson, and
Salomens; such scions of aristoera-
cy as Lord Campbell, Lord Eus-
taee Cecil, the Earl of Fitzhardinge, the
Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Lord Palmerston's
private secretary, and the Marquisof Bath,
and to cap the climax, such officers of the
British crown as Robert Bunch, late
British Consul at Charleston, John Vim
cent Crawford, late British Acting Con-
sui at Havana, and Sir Frederick Pollock,
Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Ex-
chequer. The list is filled out with man
ufacturers and commercial men, who
hoped to make something out of the Con-
federacy, and so down to the deluded vic
tins, (among whom we find now and then
a clergyman,) who take n and two and
three shares apiece.
In making this public and almost
official declaration, the State Department
is acting with its eyes open, and after due
deliberation. 1t is undoubtedly fully pre-
pared to back up its assertion with compe-
tent proof. The present list will be met,
in England, as the former was, with in
eredulity and with indignant denials We
trust that the proofs on which this pub
location is founded will be given to the
world as fully and quickly as possible, and
that thus u .Pecksnifian neighbors over
the water may be convicted of their infa-
nIUus uupHCTry.