SMSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XX.
EVKNING BULLETIN.
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(Sundays excepted) at
THE NEW BULLE rim BUILDING,
607 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
EY TEED
"Evening Bulietin Association,"
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0. WALLACE.
F. L. PETHERSTON, T aos. J. WILLIAMSON
GASPER SW:FLEE, Jr., FRANCIS WELLS.
The Bunnwfilir Is served to subscribers in the city at
Ti cents per week, payable to the carriers, or FP co per
annum
..11.Akt KIE
I'LIsrrALL—GODSHALL.--On the Ist inst.. by the
rev. Franklin Moore, Van B. Tindall, ,St.. D, to Mf
_Lavinia Godshall, both of this city.
DP CD.
BROWN.—At Washington, D. C., on the morning or
the sth inst., James P ltrown..
annere services at St. Luke's Church, Germantown,
to-morrow. Tuesday aft, rnoon, at 3 o'clock.
BRUN - RR—On Saobatb morning, May 6th, Margaret
C. Nagle°, wife t f James P. Bruner.-
The
relativee and friends of the family, are, without
further notice, invited to attend the funeral, from her
late residence, „Bridge, above Thirty-fifth street, on
Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Interment at
Laurel Hill. era
FISHER.—On the 6th inst., Henry G. Fisher, in the
dld year of his age - -
The relatives and friends of the fatally, are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral, from his late resi
dence, leo. 132 South Fifteenth Street, on Wednesday
afternoon, at a o'clock. Interment at Monument
CemelerY.
NEAGLE.—riday morning, ith inst., Mr. J. B.
Veagle_aged 69 years.
The relatives, ills friends, and those of the family,
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his
late residence. No. 16?4 Filbert street. Tuesday morn
ing, at 9 o'clock. Solemn high mass at Cathedral.
Interment at Cathedral Cemetery.
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WYBE & LANDELL are prepared to supply tams
lies with Dry Good=, at the lowest pneez.
.LINEN SHEETINGS,
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TABLE LINENS, DAMASK TOWELS,
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
HOWARD HOtzPITAL, Noe. IEIB and /120
Lombard street, Dispenassy Department. me
an' treatment and medicines ftirMibed eratnitonsly
IS Ole poor. BE6'B
U. CONCERT HALL.
A grand concert will be given at Concert Hall.
by the BLACK SWAN T4IOIIPE, on WEDNESDAY
EVENING, May 16th, 18E6.
The, time ana place for the sale of tickets will be an
nounced soon. - • - in‘S-3trif3
THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF
theDRPHAN SOME"' Y OF PHIL %DELPHI&
; (be held in the Lecture Room of the First Presby
terian church, Washington Square. on TVESDAY,
May 8, at 12 o'clock M. The public are notified to
t*at
tend. i
VTHE ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING
of the .1 - SWISH FOSTER HOME SOCIETY
take place on TITh SPAT. .May 8th.1666, at 8
o'clock P. M., at the Hall of the Harmonic) Society,
"Coates street. Ist door nelow Franklin. The public are
inVited to attend. its
[O. :NATIONAL BANK OF THE NORTHERN
LIBERTIES, PRILADELPH/A, May 7. 1566.
ti he Directors have this day declared a Dividend of
SEVEN PER MINT.. and an Extra Dividend of
THREE PER CENT., payable on demand. clear of
'United States Tax.
y7.6ti W. 01DIMERE, Cashier.
OFFICE OF THE JEFFERSON FIRE IN.
[1:SIIR &NCB COIIf.PAIIT OF PHILADELPHIA.
at a Meeting of be ,Board of Directors held this
day, a semi•annnal Dividend of THREE PER CENT.,
clear of all Taxes, was' declared, .-tv..1..e1e toaftnck
holders, or their legal rearesentativea on and after the
17th instant. PHILIP E. COLEMAN.
Secretary.
my7-Sti
Nay 7. 1866
10a REV. G. D. CARROW WILL DELIVER
his fourth lecture on "Lite in Spanish America."
to-morrow, evening, at %," to s o'clock, in Uni-n M. E.
church. Subject- "Buenos Ayres and General 80ra4."
- Mrs. E. If AUK will perform a voluntary on the new
organ.
ickets at Perkinpine & Higgins'.ll 56 N. Fourth st.,
and at the door, 50 cents each. its
AMERICAN ACADEMY. OF MUSIC.—JOHN
B. GOUGH will deliver a lecture on MONDAY
E ENING, May 14th. Subject—"Pecnilar People."
The sale of tickets will begin on Tuesday morning, Bth
inst., and no tickets will be sold or engaged before that
time. The north half of the house will be sold at Ash
mead & Evans' Book Store, 724 Chestnut street, and
the south half at Trumpler's Music Store, Seventh and
<Chestnut streets. Price 45 , 50 and 75 cents. mys,3trpf
WotiOFFICE OP THE MAYOR OF THE CITY
OF PHILADELPHIA.. MAY 5th.1866.
ce is hereby given that the provisions of the or
dinal:use prohibiting persons from washing or causing
to be washed "any pavement in the City of Philadel
phia, between the hours of 7 o'clock-in the morning
and 7 o'clock, in the evening," will be rigidly enforced
guatil the first of October, proximo.
By order of the Mayor
SAMUEL G. RUGGLES,
Chief of Police.
mys-3trpf
10' THE UNION STATE CENTARL COM
MITTEE will meet at the rooms of the Nations
4rfnion Club, No. 2105 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, on
Wednesday, the 16th day of May. instant, at three
o'clock P. M.
The attendance of every member of the Committee
is earnestly solicited.
ParEanEr.riae, May 1, 1866
EUe. PIRLADRLPHIA AND BEADING BAIL
ROAD COMPANY. Office =I South FOURTH
Street, PILIGADELP.I3IA, April 28,1866,
Notice is hereby given to the Stockholders of this
Company, that the option of receiving their Dividend
2n Stock or Cash, under the resolution of •the Board of
filth December, 1865, will cease on and after the 3ist of
f.ay,lB66,tuld that such Stockholders as do not demand
their Dividend to be paid to them in Stock on or before
that day, will be thereafter entitled to receive it in
Cash only.
S. BRADFORD, Treasurer
Ws NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURC H. Sixth street, above Green.—Tne Central Presby
tery of Philadelphia will meet in this Ccurch, This
<Monday) Evening. to ordain to the Gospel Ministry
Mr. Sylvanus Sayre. Licentiate of Princeton Seminary.
The sermon will be preached by Rev. R. A. Beadle.
D. l». Service.% commencing at 73 o'clock.
The interesting series of meetings held far the last
two weeks in the Lecture Boom of the Church, will be
continued every evening except Saturday evening. *
fr" LAYING OP A CORNER STONE.—The
:17acorner stone of the New Baptist Church, on the
ew Estate," oarner of Germantown and TJpsal
streets, Germantown, will be laid on SATURDAY,
May 12th,1 o'clock, P. M. Addre sea may be expected
from Revs. A.B. Lung. George Dana Boardman, P. S.
Henson and Dr. J. Wheaton Smith. The public are
cordially invited to attend.
GEORGE NUGENT,
CHARLES H. CIIMINIDIGS,
Y. B. HINKLE,
Budlchng Committee
J Take the Germantown 2 o'clock cars from Ninth
and Green streets, to Germantown, and then the horse
ears on Main street to Upsal. my7-sts
Facts and Fanctis.
Jeff. Davis, General Lee, Alex. Stephens,
Duke Gwin and R. M. T. Hunter, are each
writing a book. They all showed a fond
ness for pens during the rebellion. Ander
sonville, for instance.
The itinerantsurgeons of Paris sometimes
make $22 per day. The average receipts
are only one dollar. They are almost the
only class who make money by cutting
their friends in the street.
The library of George Augustus Sala has
been sold—probably because the owner had
no further use for it. It contained many
curious books, with presentation volumes,
'and other interesting memorials. Most of
the library consisted of light literature, and
each volume was lettered G. A. S.
On Thursday last a torpedo, which had
been sunk for three years and one month in
Charleston harbor, exploded off the beach
of Sullivan's Island, in about eight fathoms
of water. What a long fase it must have
had!
A sleeping-car, full of passengers, on the
-Grand Trunk line between Montreal and
Portland, was thrown off the track on Sat
urday morning and fell down a fifteen feet
umbenkment without seriously injuring a
wrson. The car took fire in - the descent
and was entirely destroyed: /t is difficult
to realize the profound sleepiness of people
'who could go through all that without be
in
thg nred. Salamanders are nothing to
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NO. 25.
The promenader along Chestnut street,
west of the State House, will find it difficult
to realize that but little more than half a
century ago spots that are now covered
with magnificent structures of marble,
brown stone, iron and brick, and that are
teeming marts of trade and fashion, were
open lots with but few buildings of any
kind among them, and of the few that ex
isted the majority were mean and squalid
affairs, such as are frequentlyfound in the
suburbs .of a' growing.city. The square in
which the new - Burmsrmr BUILDING is loca
ted was, in one respect, In conformity with
this ruleand in another respect an excep
to it. ' Buildings were few and far between
there; but there, was a good representation
of pretentious structures among them. At
the - beginning of the present century there
were but three buildings upon the north
Side of Chestnut street, between Sixth and
Seventh streets. The first of these struc
tures was the "New Theatre," which was
still in an unfinished condition; the second
was Tilghman's mansion, which occupied
the site of the late. Arcade; and the third
was a small two-storied wooden building,
which stood at the northeast corner of
Seventh and Chestnut streets. Tilghman's
house ll was what was originally known as
Carpenter's mansion, having been built by
Joshua Carpenter soon after the founding of
the city. The Carpenters were a wealthy and
influential family in Philadelphia during the
early days of the city, and Joshua, having
become possessed of the square of ground
bounded by Chestnut, Market, Sixth and
Seventh streets, put up a fine old-fashioned
mansion upon the spot where the Arcade
lately stood. The house was of brick, two-
stories in height, and furnished liberally
with gables, heavy wooden cornices, pent
roofs, Jec. The entire southern half of the
square upon which the house stood was en
closed with a fence, and cultivated as a gar
den. Along the northern side a passage
ran which was originally called Carpenter's
lane, but in due course of time it became
dignified into Carpenter streetand it is now
styled Jayne street. Governor Thomas oc
cupied the mansion a hundred and twenty..
seven years ago, and tradition says that the
Governor's lady was liberal of the fruit and
flowers produced in her fine garden. It was
quite a walk out to the Governor's garden.,
in those days, and those who went thither
when fruit and flowers were in season were
not allowed .to go away empty-handed.
There is a whimsical story told of a chal
lenge that was sent to a rival by Peter
Evans in 1714, asking the former to fight a
duel near Carpenter's garden, the place be
ingso distant from the town, and so lonely
as to be adapted for pistol and coffee exer
cise. .
After Governor Thomas the house hadnu
merons tenants, among whom were John
Ross, Esq., John Smith, Esq., and Col. John
Dickinson. The latter, in 1774, extended
the building out further towards Chestnut
street, with a handsome front upon the lat
ter. The new front had a pointed gable in
the centre, with wings, and the improved
mansion was one of the most imposing in
appearance of any upon Chestnut street.
During the time of the Revolution the house,
which was then owned byCol.Philemon Dick
inson,was used as a hospitalfor sick soldiers,
and many a poor fellow belonging to the
Pennsylvania and Virginia lines died there
of camp fever. After the war the house was
elegantly fitted up for the use of Chevalier
de Luzerne, the French Ambassador to the
new republic. On the 15th of July, 1782, a
magnificent entertainment was given by the
Chevalier in honor of the birth of the French
Dauphin. The fate was much talked of be
fore it took place, and long after the event
it was a topic of conversation. The garden
between the mansion and Sixth
.street was
embellished with temporary structures,
which were put up for the occasion, and
everything was conducted upon the most
splendid and expensive)scale. There were
music, fireworks, feasting, dancing, and a
"good time generally." General Washing
ton, Count Rochambeau, many members of
Congress, and distinguished persons in
public and private life were present in abun
dance. The victory at Yorktown had just
solved the American question, and France
was on the eve of its terrible revolution
when this grand festival took place.
The Carpenter building was demolished
in 1827 to make way for the Arcade, and the
latter having out-lived its usefulness, went
down before the march of improvement in
1860 to make way for the elegant block of
marble stores which now occupies its site.
The first regular theatre in Philadelphia
was located at the corner of South and
Vernon streets, between Front and Second.
The second theatre was at the corner of
South and Crab (or Apollo) street, between
Fourth and Fifth. It,was erected about the
year 1766, and it was built just across the
town limits so as to avoid the opposition of
the city authorities. At a later period, a
theatre was built on the north side of
Chestnut street, above Sixth. In 1793 this
establishment was first opened, and to dis
tinguish it from the South street concern it
was styled the "New Theatre." We have
before us a picture of the New Theatre taken
in 1799. The building, which stands back
from the line of the street, has much more
the'appearance of a church than a theatre.
Its gable end fronts on Chestnut street, and
its large round-topped window, in front.
gives it very much the appearance of a
church. A temporary shed extends out to
the line of the street, and occupies the_place
afterwards filled by the portico of the house
Our picture was taken at a momen
when the audience—thee gentlenaen in
knee-breeches and the ladies in the very
shortest of waists and the lankiest of skirts
—were about pouring into the house, and
FR. JORDAN,
Chairman,
myl.l4ti
TB E NEW BULLETIN BUILDING.
HISTORY OF THE LOCALITY.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY; MAY 7,' 1866
crowding under the temporary shed in front.
Some are obtaining their evening's supply
of oranges, peanuts and apples, from sable
dealers outside, and the scene is quite lively
and animated. East of the theatre there is
a rough wooden fence ; and the only build
ings between the temple of Thespis and
Seventh street are the Tilghman mansion
and the small structure on the corner of
Seventh street already referred to. The
only familiar object in the entire scene.to the
modern Philadelphian, is the County. Court
House (then Congress Hall), which 000[1.-
pies a position in the foreground of the pic
ture. 'The "New Theatre" was completed
about the close of the last century, and in
1805 it was enlarged and improved. It was
then considered the fineit building for dra
matic purposes in the 'United States.
On Sunday, April 2, 1820, the theatre took
fire. The alarm was quickly given; but
the efforts of the firemen could accomplish
but little; the flames spread' rapidly, and
furiously through the combustible material
with which the building was filled, and in
the course of a few hours no trace, except a
heap of smouldering ruins, was left of the
theatrical temple of which Philadelphia
was so proud. The prompter's dock, a
model of a ship, and a mirror, were all that
was saved of the valuable contents of the
house. On the outside, the fine figures of
the Tragic and Comic Muses, carved by
Rush, escaped damage, and they graced the
front of the successor of the original Phila
delphia "Old Drury." The flames extended
to two dwellings. on the west of the theatre,
which were unroofed, and the upper stories
were destroyed.
The theatre was rebuilt,and in December,
18_ 9 2, it was again opened to the public. The
dimensions of the new "New Theatre" were
ninety-two feet in front by one hundred and
fifty feet in depth. The front was of marble,
in the Italian style. An arcade of five arches
supported a screen of composite columns
and a plain entablature. This was origin
ally designed to have been crowned by an
ornamental pediment, but, from want of
sufficient funds in the early days of the
theatre, it was never constructed. The con
sequence was that what might have been
made one of the most tasteful buildings in
the city, always presented an unfinished ap
pearance. Over the wings were niches filled
with the excellent figures representing Tra
gedy and Comedy, and below these were
semi-circular recesses withrepresentations of
the tragic and comiomuses in basSo-relievo.
The audience part of the house was de
scribed on a semi-circle of forty-six feet
diameter. There were three rows of boxes,
resting on slender cast-iron columns. The
lobbies, saloons, stairways, tke., were on a
commodious scale, and the whole interior
was considered a model in its early days.
The design was that of the late William
Strickland. The bas-reliefs of the tragic and
comic-muses were sculptured, in marble, by
an Italian artist, named Francisco Jardella.
"Old Drury" was long a favorite home of
the muses. Here Cooke, Cooper, Kean
• Macready, Booth, Power, the Kembles, El
len Tree, Forrest, the oods, Jenny Lind,
Sinclair, Mrs. Austin, Malibran, the Se
guins, Elsaler, Celeste, Burton, the Cush
mans, the Jeffersons and other excellent
players and artists, "fretted their hoar upon
the stage," and brought delighted crowds to
the house. There were also, occasionally,
entertainments of a different character within
the ancient walls. Here, the first grand ball
in aid of the funds of the Association for the
Relief of Disabled Firemen was given; and
here, too, was the grand .ball in honor of
- Henry Clay, which was given when that
illustrious statesman was a prominent can
didate for the Presidency of the United
States. In course of I time the march of
fashion left " Old ) Drury" lagging
in the background, and it lost
favor with the fashionable portion
of the play-goers in the community. The
Ethiopian Opera, the performances of
learned dogs and monkeys, and the
dramatic butcheries of companies of bipeds
who were worse, professionally, than any
respectably trained dogs or monkeys, hur
ried the declining establishment rapidly
down-hill in public estimation; and if the
ghost of Shakespeare ever revisited his old
temple in its later days, he must have been
driven from it in disgust long before the
final close of the house. On the first even
ing of May, 1855, the last theatrical per
formance was given within the walls of
"Old Drury." The auctioneer came next,
and sold out the dilapidated properties, in
the midst of a curious crowd which was
gathered together by the_ favorable oppor
tunity which was offered of making a first
appearance upon the stage and of pene
trating the hidden mysteries of the theatre.
The theatre was at once demolished, and
its site was covered with three elegant
brown stone structures, which are now
numbered respectively 603 & 605, 607 and
609. The building os. 603 & 605 was
erected by the firm of R ckhill & Wilson for
3 1 3
their own use, and the wo structures west
of it were put up by r. Rulings Cowper
thwaite. -The latter afterwards disposed of
his interest in the property. In June, 1865,
the proprietors of the EVENING BULLETIN
purchased No. 607 as a permanent location
for their office. On the night of January let,
1866, the building took fire and was, almost
totally destroyed. The flames also commu
nicated to Nos. 603 & 65, and to No. 609,
damaging both structures badly. The rav
ages of the fire have since disappeared, and
the publication of the EVENENG BULLETIN
commences at this time in the NEw Bumn-
TIN BUILDING, which is located on a spat
made interesting by its association with
curious events in the early history of the
city, and rendered almost classical in the
views of some by its dramatic antecedents.
Our sketch of the history of the locality
would not be complete without some allu
sion to the Shakespeare Building which
occupies the northwest corner of Sixth and
Chestnut streets. The building of the "New
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
heatre", was followed, in the early part of
!he century, by the erection upon the lot
nimedistely east of it, of a large four-
-Storied structure, which was styled the
Shakespeare Building. The edifice was of
brick, four stories in height,and it extended
one hundred and fifty feet to the north on
Sixth street. The lower story was fitted up
for stores, and the upper apartments were
used for dwellings, workshops, &a. Upon
the second floor was the Shaespeare As
sembly Room, which was first opened by
Jacob VogdeS, about the year 1804. Francis
Dnrang's balls were given there soon
after the erection of the building. The AS
sembly Room was sometimes used for ex
hibitions, and some of our older readers
will remember the invisible lady and
acoustic temple which excited wonder there
more than fifty years ago. The building
had a varied existence, being used at dif
ferent times for very many different pur
pose; until the night of December 27th,
1851, when, on the occasion of the burning
of Hart's building, the flames communi
cated to it, and the structure, with most of
its contents, was totally destroyed. A lofty
five-storied structure of brick, resting upon
marble columns at the first story, was
erected on the ruins of the old Shakespeare
Building, and the new edifice was chris
tened with the old name.
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE.
BANCROFI'S SPEECH IN ENGLAND.
Earl Russell Denies Mr. Bancroft's
Statements.
MR. BANOROFT'S REPLY.
Lord Bassett to Mr. Adams.
CHESHAM PLACE, Feb. 2S, IS66.—Dear Mr.
Adams: I observe in The Daily News of
yesterday, extracts from a speech of Mr.
'it croft, delivered in the House of Repre
sentatives on the 12th inst.
In this speech Mr. Bancroft is represented
to have said, referring to the breaking oat
of the civil war:
"The British Secretary of the State for
Foreign Affairs made haste to send word
through the palaces of Europe that the great
Republic was in its agony, that the Republic
was no more, that a headstone was all that
remained due by the law of nations to the
late Union."
As words pronounced on such an occasion,
and by so eminent a man as Mr. Bancroft,
may hive an , effect far beyond the injury
which my personal character might suffer,
I must request you to convey to Mr. Ban
croft my denial of the truth of his allega
tions, and to refer 'him to facts of a totally
opposite character.
Soon after the news of the resistance in
arms of the Southern States to the Govern
ment of the Union arrived in this country,
a member of the House of Commons stated
that the bubble of Republicanism had burst.
I replied in the same debate that the bub
ble of Republicanism had not burst, and
that if the curse of slavery still hung about
the United States, it was England who had
made them the gift of the poisoned garment
which was now their torment.
In fact, I have never had any doubt that,
whether the United States consented to
separation or pursued the war to extremity,
the great Western Republic would remain,
happily for the world, a powerful and inde
pendent Republic.
The authors of the Declaration of Inde
pendence in declaring for separation from
Great Britain, after enumerating their com
plaints of her conduct; go on to say: "We
must therefore acquiesce in the necessity
which denounces our separation and hold
them as we hold the rest of mankind, ene
mies In war, in peace friends."
That we should be enemies in war, is
easily understood; but when we are at peace,
why should we not be friends, as the great
men of the American revolution intended
us to be ? If they, in the moment of sepa
ration and of war, looked forward to a
period of peace and, of friendship, why
should we, more than three-quarters of a
century after these events, keep up senti
ments of irritation and hostility founded on
a mistaken apprehension of facts, and tend
ing to lay the foundation of permanent
alienation, suspicion and ill-will ?
As Mr. Bancroft's speech is likely to have
very extensive publicity, I reserve to my
self the power of making public this letter,
at such time as I shall judge fit. I remain,
my dear Mr. Adams, your faithful servant.
RUSSELL.
P. S:—l subjoin an extract of my speech
on the 30th of May, 1861, as reported in
Hansard's Debates.
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Adams in Reply.
Naw YORK, March 23, 1866.—My Dear
Mr. Adams: I have received from you, by
Lord Russell's desire, a copy of his letter to
you of the 28th of February last in which
he denies the truth of; a certain allegation
in my address to Congress on the 12th of the
same month. The passage which he cites
contains these three allegations—That, as
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
he viewed this Republic as "the late Union;"
that he sent this view of our country through
the palaces of Europe and that he made
haste to do so. When Lord Russell calls to
mind the authority for these statements, he
must acknowledge them to be perfectly
just and true.
On the 6th day of May, 1861, Lord John
Russell, then Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, wrote a despatch to Lord Lyons, in
which he describes the;condition of America
as the disruption of a Confederacy," and he
further uses these words: "Civil war has
broken ont between the several States of the
late Union. The Government of the South
ernportion has duly constituted itself. Her
Majesty's Government do not wish you to
make any mystery of that view." Here is
irrefragable proof of my first allegation.
On the day on which the Minister of the
Queen thus wrote, he addressed a despatch
to Lord Cowley, her Majesty's Embassador
at Paris, designating our Republic as " the
States which lately composed. the American
Union:" "the late United States;" "the late
Union;" and he enclosed - in that despatch,
for Lord Cowley's instruction, a copy of the
above cited letter to Lord Lyons. Having
thus ostentatiously communicated his view
of our country as "the late Union," he
asked in return "to be made acquainted
with the visors of the Imperial Goiern
ment." My second allegation is therefore
true in letter and in spirit.
That Lord John Russell, as Secretary of
State, was in a haste to do this, appears from
his not having awaited the arrival of the
American Minister of Mr. Lincoln's appoint
ment, and from those very letters of the 6th
of May, 1861, to Lord Cowley and to Lord
Lyons, for in those letters he confesses that
tie had not as yet "received from Lord
Lyons any report of the state of affairs and
of the prospects of the several parties," but
that on coming to the decision which was so
momentous and unprecedented, he acted on
'he reports of "some consuls," and "of the
public prints."
it is -Arne that twenty-four days after
Lord Jelin Russell had officially described
our country as "the disruption of a Confede
racy," "the late United States," "the late
Union," he reproved a member of the House
of Commons for openly exulting "that the
s great Republican bubble in America had
burst," and owned "that the Republic had
been for many years a great and free State;"
but he uttered no expectation or hope of the
restoration of our Union, and rather inti
mated that the Americans were •'about to
destroy each other's happiness and free
dom." Lord John, on that occasion, rightly
attributed the rebellion to the "accursed in
stitution of slavery," and confessed that
England was the giver of "the poisoned gar
ment;" that • the former . Governments of
Great Britainwere "themselves to blamefor
the origin of the evil." But this confession
must be interpreted by the light of his aver
ments on the 6th of May, 1861, and by Lord
Russell's later assertion that the efforts of
our country were but a contest for "empire."
Iu speaking to the American Congress of
the life and character of Abraham Lincoln,
it was my unavoidable dutytto refer to the
conductor the British Government toward
our country during his administration, for
nothing so wounded his ftelings, or ex
ercised his judgment, or tried his fortitude.
I was asked to address the two Houses of
our Congress, and those only. When I
learned that the British Minister at , Wash
ington was likely to be one of my- hearers, I
requested Mr. Seward to advise him not to
be; present, and through 'another friend I
sent him a similar message, which he re
received and perfectly understood.
I need not recall words of 90 years ago, to
be persuaded that in peace America and
the United Kingdom should be friends. I
have a right to say this; for, when in the
public service, proved it by public acts,
and as a private citizen I have never wished
our Government to demand of a foreign
power anything but justice.
Pray send Lord Russell a copy of this
letter, which he is at liberty to publish; and
I consider myself equally at liberty to pub
lish his letter, to which this is a reply. I
am ever, my dear Mr. Adams, very truly
yours. GEO. Berzcnorr.
• Lord I. Russell to Earl Cowley.
FOREIGN OFFICE, May 6, 1861.—My Lord:
Although Her Majesty's Government has
received no despatches from Lord Lyons by
the mail which has just arrived, the com
munication between Washington and New
York being interrupted, yet the accounts
which have reached them from some of Her
Majesty's Consuls, coupled with what has
appeared in the public prints, are sufficient
to show; that a civil war has broken out
among the States which lately composed
the American Union.
Other nations have, therefore, to consider
the light in which, with reference to that
war, they are to regard the Confederacy
into which the Southern States have united
themselves; and it appears to Her Majesty's
Government that, looking at all the cir
cumstances of the case, they cannothesitate
to admit that such Confederacy is entitled
to be considered as a belligerent, and, as
such, invested with all the rights and pre
rogatives of a belligerent.
I have stated this to Lord Lyons in the
despatch of which I inclose a copy for your
Excellency's information.
In making known to M. Trouvenel the
opinion of Her Majesty's Government on
this point, your Excellency will add that
you are instructed to call the attentionof the
Fre.nch Government to the bearing which
this unfortunate contest threatens to have
on the rights and interests of neutral na
tions.
On the one band, President Lincoln, in
behalf of the Northern portion of the late
United States, has issued a proclamation
declaratory _of an intention to subject the
ports of the Southern portion of the late
Union to a rigorous blockade; on the other
hand, President Davis, on behalf of the
Southern portion of the late Union, has is
sued a proclamation declaratory of an inten
tion to grant letters of marque for cruisers
to be employed against the commerce of the
North.
in this state of things it appears to Her
Majesty's Government to be well deserving
of the immediate consideration of all mari
time Powers, but more especially of France
and England, whether they should not take
some steps to invite the contending parties
to act upon the principles laid down in the
Second and Third Articles of the Declara
tion of Paris of 1856, which relates to the se
curity of neutral property on the high seas.
The United States, as an entire Govern
ment, have not acceded to that Declaration;
but in Rractice they have, in their Conven
tions with other Powers, adopted the second
article, although admitting that without
601110 such Convention, the rule was not one
of universal application.
As rege.rds the third article, in recent
treaties csncluded by the United States with
South American Republics, the principle
adopted has been at variance with that laid
down in the Declaration of Paris.
Your Excellency will remember that
when it was proposed to the Government of
the United States, in 1856, to adopt the whole
of the Declaration of Paris, they in the first
instance agreed to the seoond, third and
fourth proposals, but made a condition as
to the first that the other Powers should as
sent to extending the Declaration so as to
exempt all private property whatever from
capture on the high seas; but before any
final decision was taken on this proposal,
the Government of President Buchanan,
which in the interval had come into power,
withdrew the proposition altogether.
It seems to Her Majesty's Government to
be deservingtof consideration whetherajoint
endeavor should not now be made to obtain
from each of the belligerents a formal re
cognition of both principles as laid down in
the Declaration of Paris, so that such prin
ciples shall be admitted by both, as they
have been admitted by the Powers who
made or acceded to the Declaration of Paris,
henceforth to form part of the general law
of nations.
Her Majesty's Government would be glad
to be made acquainted with the views of
the Imperial Government on this matter
with as little delay as possible. I am, dce.,
J. RUSSELL.
Lord J. Russell to Lord Lyons.
I'OBEIGN OFFICE, May 6, -1861.—My
Lord Her Majesty's Government are dis
appointed in not having received from you
in the mail which has just arrived; any
report of the state of affairs and of the pros
pects of the several parties, with reference
to the issue of the struggle which appears
unfortunately to have commenced between
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them; but the interruption of the communi
cation between Washington and New York
, ufliciently explains the non-arrival of your
despatches.
The account, however, which Her Ma
jesty's Consuls at different ports were
enabled to forward by the packet coincide
in showing that, whatever may be the
final result of what cannot now be desig
nated otherwise than as the civil war which
has broken out between the several States
of the late Union,:for the present at least
those States have separated into distinct
Confederacies, and, as such, are carrying
on war against each other.
The question for neutral nations to con
sider is: What is the character of the war;
and whether it should be regarded as a war
carried on between parties severally in - a
positionsto wage war,and to claim therighhi
and to perform the obligations attaching to
belligerents?
Her Majesty's Government consider that
the question can only be answered in the
affirmative. If the Government .of the
Northern portion of the LATE Union possess
the advantages inherent in long established
governments, the Governmentof the South
ern portirn has, nevertheless, duly coned.
toted itself, and; on in a regular form
the administration of the civil government
of the States of which it is composed.
Her. Majesty's Government, therefore,
without assuming to pronounce upon the
merits of the question on which the re epets
tive parties are at issue, can do no less than
accept the facts presented to them. They
deeply deplore the disruption of a confede
racy with which they have at all times
sought to cultivate the most friendly rela
tions, they view with the greatest apprehen.
seen and concern the misery and desolatime
in which that disruption threatens to in
volve the provinces now arrayed in arms
against each other; but they feel that they
cannot question the right of the Southern
States to claim to be recognized as a bellig
erent, and, as such, invested with all the
rights and prerogatives of a belligerent.
I think it right to give your lordship -this
timely notice of the view taken by her Ma
jesty's Government of the present state of
affairs in North America, and her Majesty's
Government do not wish you to make any
mystery of that view.
shall send your Lordship, by an early
opportunity, such further- information on
these matters as may be required for your
guidance; at present I have only to add. that
no expression of regret that you may em
ploy at the present disastrous state of affaks
will too strongly declare the feelings with
which Her MajesVs ;Government contem
plate all the evils which cannot fail to re
sult from it. I am, (ex., J. Rl:lsamu:
Extract of Lord John, Russells Speech 1
the House of commons, tiny 80,1861.
My Honorable friend, the Member for the
West Riding of Yorkshire, alluded the
other night to one subject in a tone which I
was very sorry to hear used by any one.
My honorable friend said that 'the -great
Republican bubble in America' had burst."
Now, Sir, I am proud to confess—l maybe
subject to correction—but for my part, when
I find that a dark and tyrannical depotiain
has been abolished, and that people are
likely to enjoy free government in its place,
I rejoice. It is my duty to represent Her
Majesty as friendly to all existing States;
but if a despotic Government fall, and the
people subjected to it are likely to obtain
better and freer government, I cannot con
ceal that it gives me satlefeetion and that
sympathize with them. But I own I
have very different feelings when a great
Republic, which has enjoyed for 70 or
or 80 years institutions under which the peo
ple have been free and happy, enters into a
conflict in which that freedom and happi
ness is placed in jeopardy. I must say the
joy which I felt at the overthrow of some
of the despotisms; of Italy is counterba
lanced by the pain which I experience at
the events which have lately taken place in
America. I admit that I have thought and'
that I still think, that in this country we
enjoy more real freedom than the United
States have ever done. I admit also that
the great founders of that Republic, wise and
able men as they were, had not the materials
at hand by which they could interpose, as
we are able to do in this country, the curb
and correction of reason in order to restrain
the passionate outbursts of the popular will.
Yet we cannot be blind to the fast that the
Republic has been for many years a great
and free State, exhibiting to the world the
example of a people in the enjoyment of
wealth, happiness, and freedom, and afford
ing bright prospects of the progress and im
provement of mankind. When I reflect
that the reproaches which are cast by, the
States of the North upon the States of the
South, and the resistance which they have
called forth. have arisen from that accursed
institution of Slavery, I cannot but recollect
also that with our great and glorious insti
tutions we gave them that curse; and that
ours were the hands from which they re
ceived that fatal gift of the poisoned gar
ment which was flung around them from the
first hour of their establishment. Therefore, I •
do not think it just or seemly that
there should be among us any
thing like exultation at their dis
cord, and still less that we should reproach
them with an evil for the origin of which
we are ourselves to blame. These are the
feelings with which I heard the remarks of
my honorable friend the other night, and I
must say that I believe the sentiments
which he expressed form an exception to
the general impression in England. In
deed, I think nothing could be more honor
able to our country than the prevailing pain
and grief which have been occasioned by
the prospect of that great and free people
being about to rush into arms to destroy
each other's happiness and freedom.
OBSEQUIES OF COUNT GIT.ROWSKL—The
funeral of the Count Adam Gurowski took
place at Washington yesterday, and was
attended by a large concourse of people,
among whom were Chief Justice Chase.
Seen tary Stanton, the Italian Minister,
Senators Sumner and Wilson, and Repre
sentatives Roscoe Conkling, of New York,
and Hooper and Alley of Massachusetts; the
pall bearers officiating on thisoccasion were
the Spanish and Russian Ministers, Senator
Wade, Gov. Boutwell, Hiram Barney, Mr.
Ashton, Assistant Attorney General, ex-
Mayor Berrett, General Maynadier, of the
Ordnance Department, and Mr. Rhyner, a -
number or the Swiss Legation, who was
assiduous in his attentions to the Count
during his illness. The rites of the Unita
rian church were performed by the vene
rable Rev. Dr. John Pierrepont, and the
remains were deposited in the Oak Hill
Cemetery at Georgetown.
SAYS To-DAY's N. Y. NEWS.—That clause
of the new Excise Law which prohibits the
opening of bar-rooms on Sunday went into
operation yesterday, and seems to have
been very rigidly enforced throughout the
city.
GREAT REDUCTION IN THE PRIOR OF
DRESS GOODS.—Read the announcements Of
Messrs. Hall & Co., No. .% South Seconj
street, in another column, this evening