Beresford Hope to “ Norwich , October 2.”, October 5, 1865

The alleged subscribers to the Confederate loan.

We have received the following telegram from the chancellor of the exchequer, who is staying at present at the residence of his brother, near Liverpool:

“From the chancellor of the exchequer, Court Hey, Liverpool.

“To the Editor of the Star:

“I see my name placed, by some strange error, on the confederate loan list. Please to remove it.”

The telegram will doubtless be followed by a written communication. But it is in itself a sufficient refutation of the charge implied in the list of alleged subscribers to the confederate cotton loan published in Washington.

The following has been received from the Hon. Evelyn Ashley:

“To the Editor of the Star:

“Sir: Thoroughly sensible of how small is my personal importance, I yet venture to ask you to be good enough to allow me in your paper most emphatically to deny that I ever had any share or interest in the confederate cotton loan.

“I do so because I agree with that part of your article of the 3d instant which points out how bad an effect such a speculation on the part of one officially connected with the prime minister will have in America; and further, on personal grounds, because I should be sorry to leave the many acquaintances I made in the United States, whose good opinion I value, under the impression that I had so far forgotten what is due to those under whom I have the high honor, however humbly, to serve.

“Your obedient servant,

“EVELYN ASHLEY.

”10 Downing Street, October 4.”

We have likewise received a letter from Mr. John T. Delane, editor of the Times, to which we readily give publication, as follows:

“To the Editor of the Star:

“Sir: My absence from town has caused one day’s delay in my reply to the statement made in your impression of yesterday, that I had lost £10,000 by a speculation in the confederate loan.

“To all those who know me this statement must have appeared so extravagantly absurd that I might have allowed it to pass unnoticed had you not founded an argument upon this imaginary investment of mine, and endeavored to prove that my alleged interest in confederate stock had exercised a corrupt influence upon the conduct of the Times during the civil war in America.

“What foundation there is for your argument the public may judge from the facts that I never applied for, never had allotted to me, never purchased, either of myself or by others, never possessed, any confederate stock whatever, and never lost or gained either £10,000, or any greater or less sum, by any speculation in federal or confederate loans.

“I request that you will give the same prominence to this letter in your next publication as you have given to the false statement you have adopted, and to the injurious comments you have founded upon it.

“I am, sir, your obedient servant,

“JOHN T. DELANE.

“16 Sergeant’s Inn, October 4.”

Mr. Beresford Hope has addressed the following letter to the Times:

“Sir: I observe that the New York Herald has, in a passage which has been extensively reprinted in England, assigned to me a large share of the confederate loan. This statement is a fabrication which has not even a basis of truth to stand upon. I never held a farthing of the loan, nor ever embarked a farthing on blockade running. The sympathy which I all along felt for the southern States in their struggle for independence was wholly of a public and political nature.

“Yours faithfully,