The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-22 00:00:00

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THE great political crisis to which millions of American citizens hare been looking forward with profound anxiety, which for a time absorbed the best energies of the Government, and to which even the operations of armies in the field have been sub sidiary, is past. The terrible incidents which the fear of some nervous citizens foresaw as destined to mark the fatal eighth of November are not found in the history of the day. No towns have been tired, no peaceful citizens shot down at the poll. The people of the cities, counties, and atates of the Union have voted as they liked, many for M'Cititax, but more for LINCOLN, and as the result the author of the Emancipation Proclama tion has been re-elected Chief Magistrate of the Republic for the next four years. The elective presidency is the weakest of many weak points in the constitution of the United States : the renewal every four years of a contest for the highest prize to which an American can aspire has probably done more than anything else to make Union politics a vile trade. But on this occasion the critical circumstances of the Republic and the solemnity of the issue before the citizens gave the struggle a grandeur in presence of which the corruption and profligate ambition inseparable from such a contest shrunk to the dimensions of impotence. It may be safely affirmed that no free nation was ever called to make so momen tous &decision. The Preaidential Election of 1860 hail consequences more signal and immediate, for it determined the formidable secession out of which the war arose. But that effect was not in the in tention of the voters. On this last occasion, how ever, every citizen may be said to have had the means, or rather to have been under the neces sity, of estimating the tendency of his vote. The events of the last three years, bringing the state of the country within the comprehension of the meanest capacity, and interfering with the arrangements of every household, have made politics the personal concern of all the citizens. And it is to this knowledge, and not to the ignor ance of the public, that the friends of Mr. LINT vie have made their appeal. Every family iu the Free States has its maimed and wounded non, many have several, and hundreds of thousands mourn those who have fallen never to rise again. If ever a people looked their troubles in the face, the Americans are doing so in this crisis. There is no talk of "ninety days " now, no disposition to blink the enormous national debt, or the fearful expen diture of human life. At the great meeting of hanl.ers and merchants held at Wall-street oil the 4th of November, and at which it is computed three-fourths of the cipital of New York were represented, au address to the people of that city wes voted, in which reference was made to the national debt, and these were the words which were deliberately adopted with that assembly of responsible citizens :--" You are told that the " nation has already eontracted a debt of three " thousand millions. We heed not tell you that " this is a gross exaggeration, made after the " manlier of the eneunee of the Government ; but " we answer, ferther, :het it is better to have a " national debt of tiro thousand or ten thousand " millions than not to have a nation at all." Equally frank was the language held respecting the more painful sacrifices of the war. Mr. We I.ER Inu E, who was deputed to speak for the members of the Produce Ex change, commenced his address by stating that within three years three hundred thousand men in the vigour of health and in the pride of early manhood bad died, and two hundred thousand mere were maimed :sod crippled in the service of the I:epublic. It is on the purview of such ter rible trials that the people of the United States, believing that the only way out of their troubles is through them, have re-elected a President who is pledged to continue the war until its object is gained in the re-establishment of the national unity. Comparatively little was said during the contest about the personal merits of the candidates on the side of the Republicans. There was no dial osition to claim the praise of a faultless administration for Mr. LINCOLN. Ilis Covernment was for a time wanting in the quality of political courage, and its fears betrayed it into arbitrary arrests, interference with the liberty of the press, and the like. The Democratic party of course did not THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, ISM: overlook dune faults, but it insisted on them lees! than it would have done had it not been for the public►tion of the letter in which General , MVI.ELLAN ordered the arrest of the members of the Maryland Legislature. Very little was said against General MTLELLAN at the Republican meetings, for the sufficient rt .30n that he has not made for himself any political character, the generalities of his letter to the Chicago delegates not being considered as defining his position with clearness. There was, moreover, a disposition on the part of his opponents to recognise the very honourable way in which, like a faithful citizen, he bore himself towards the head of the Republic at a period when an unscrupulous commander, beloved as he was by the army, would have abused his position, as he was strongly advised to do, to overthrow the Government and seize the reins of power. Mr. LINCOLN was vituperated, as usual, on the part of the extreme section of the Demo crats, but as a compensation he received from men of distinction, immeasurably his superiors, such demonstrations of respect and confidence as are only yielded to worth and goodness. When men of education and refinement like Dr. BELLOWS declare their convictionthat the uncouth, awkward, and ill-dressed LrscoLN has a mind ca pable of surveying and comprehending the inter eats and destinies of the Republic, and is a safe pilot for the Union in such a storm, spectators at a distance may reasonably suppose, notwithstand- I ing the great body of Southern assertion to the contrary, that the people of the United States have not for the second time made the mistake of choosing an ape for their President. "An ho " nester man never lived," said Dr. BELLows, " and I think his honesty, as happens with other "amiable men, has done something to prevent the " people appreciating the length and breadth "of his intellect, which I solemnly believe is an " intellect of the first order." But, after all, it was as representing • cause—the cause of national unity—that Mr. LINCOLN was re-elected. In this country opinion is much divided, not only as to the merits of that cause, but as to its very nature. One thing, however, we are all concerned in. Only a strong government in the United States can properly fulfil the duties which the Republic owes to foreign Powers in times like these, when, as in the case of the Trent or the Wachusetta, the Exe cutive may have to take a course repugnant to tem porary popular feeling. According to the testimony of our own statesmen, Mr. LINOOLN'S Government has shown the will and the power to deal justly by us, and we have no reason, therefore, to regret his re-election by a large majority. LAT= INTiIIIALIGINCE. ' THS: AMERICAN MAIL We have this morning received Boston papers of the 9th, and New York papers of the Bth. The former publish the results of the elections. The republican papers are triumphant. The Boston Journal has the following series of " headings," printed in very bold type : Preddentisl aid State Elections.—The Union WIN every where Trinmphank —Abraham Lincoln re-elected President of the United Statea--Copperheedism °rushed out.—Union Majority in Manachusetts over 70,300.—Rice and Hooper Triunlolmktly Reelected.—Five or Si: Republican Congress men Gained.—New England All Right.—The West Re sponds Nobiy.—New York and Pennsylvania Gone Union. —A Glorious Victory AM Round. The same jourual has the following comnienia upon the election of Mr. Lincoln : Our column of returns this morning is eloquent with the voice of the American people passing their judgment upon their own destiny, deciding to live rather than to perish, and to employ the rational means of life. Never was a iti tional verdict given more understandingly, and never was there one which required lees explanation. The admin. - tration of Abraham Lincoln is simply endorsed, if not at solutely in all its particulars, yet in its essential line of policy, and most decisively as compered with any policy or principle put in issue by its opponents. The patriotic muses tell Abraham Lincoln that he is right in enforcing a vigorous prosecution of the war for sup. pressiou of the rebellion, and that be is expected to continue right on to the end ; that he is right in striking at slavery as an effectual and indispensable means to that end, and that the country will sustain him therein with all the power which Providence has placed at our command. And may we not hope that we shall now enter upon a stage of popular unanimity in support of the government more substantial than it has hitherto enjoyed ! Of traitors and rebel sympathisers in our midst nothing is expected but unrelenting opposition. There is also a certain pro portion of constitutionally factious elements which must always be taken into amount. But far more nu. melons than these, we vast, ere the honest men of the democratic party. Whatever opposing policy these men may have favoured in the past, they have seen it deliberately set aside by the judgment of the nation for the tried and matured policy of the adminis tration, after three and a half you' of as searching expe- rience as ever fell to the lot of any people of ancient or modern times. This judgment, therefore, mast stand. There is no appeal from it—nothing to be done but to carry it out with more or less efficiency. Seeing that this is so, will not all honest democrats now bestow their patriotic efforts in the only direction that can tell—that is, by giving to the government their unhesitating hearty support Let that be done, and this election would prove the knell of treason, the harbinger of a speedily restored Union. Men and money would be furnished without stint. Home traitors would be crushed out by the mere forte of an overpowering public sentiment. The nations of the earth, won over by the invincible majesty of a united people, would no longer throw obstacles in our wag. And the long-suffering masses of the South, white and black, wonldbe emboldened to new efforts at throwing off the aristocratic leaders of the rebellion, who would quickly succumb to their fate. Thus the emergence to peace and order would be as rapid as the original coming on of the storm of the rebellion ; and all the now seemingly difficult questions of reconstruction would, in due time, find their easy and beneficent solution. But whether these plessententicipations are realised or not, it becomes those who have thus far stood by the President, and have won this signal victory at the polls, to continue their support of the government with renewed courage and hope. We have passed the darkest hour of the crisis, and bright omens are gathering before us. With the blessing of Provident* let us onward ! Secretary Seward made a speech at Auburn on the evening of the Bth. In conclusion he said : You are all free and independent as I am, and you may and must decide the question for yourselves. I cannot decide it for you, nor shall you decide it for me. I am not going to surrender to the rebels. No I though they extend the desolation of civil war over the whole land— though they come backed in their unholy quarrel by one or many foreign states. I am not going to surrender now. Therefore I want no armistice, no cessation of hostilities, no negotiation with rebels in arms. However it may be with others, " I looked before I leaped." If I could have been ready to surrender now, I should have proposed to surrender at the beginning. 1 should have accepted terms without waiting for Bull Run —certainly after Ball Run. I would have availed myself of the first gleam of victory to secure terms as little humi. listing as possible. I should have negotiated after the capture of New Orleans—after Murfreesboroagh—after Norfolk—after Antietam—after Vicksburg--after Gettys barg—l would have gone, under the pressure of national affliction, and made every defeat a claim to rebel sympathy and clemency. After the first Bull Run battle—after the second Bull Run battle—after Gaines's Mill—after Fredericksburg—after Chancellorsville—after the de feat of Banks on the Red River—l am not going to surrender now, nor never. As for the arts of statesmanship, I know of none applicable in this case. The only art of statesmanship that I do know is to be faithful o God and to my country. I seek to cultivate charity and prevent war, civil or foreign, as long as, consistent with national justice andhonour and safety, it can be prevented ; but when in war to fight with courage, constancy, and resolution, and thus to save my country or fall with its defenders. The battle thus waged in this case cannot fail. Even if it could fail, the field which was lost would fur ever be a holy sepulchre, which would send up through all coming time inspiration, to reanimate and cheer on the friends of progress, of liberty, of humanity. The following despatches were received by the Navy Department at Washington ou the Bth, an nouncing the capture of the Florida : Boston, Maas, Nov. 7, 1S•lI. bility," says the New York Herald, " about to inaugurate an offensive campaign from that point, thus ignoring for the time the existence of Hoed, or leaving him to prosecute his campaign into Tennessee at his leisure." A despatch from General Blunt, dated Neosho, Mo., says that, on the 28th ult., he came up with General Price at Newtons, and after a severe fight of three or four hours, drove the enemy from the field in confusion, with the loss of over 200, includ ing two coloured. The Federal loss was about 120. The Union troops consisted of Ford's and Jennimu':, brigades of Blunt's divisiou. The enemy were fully 1,000 strong. Price "is retreating toward Cassville, and will be vigorously pursued. He is reported to still have large trains, and about 10,000 unarmed conscripts ; but this is quite doubtful." About 000 rebel prisoners, captured from Price, arrived at St. Louis on the tith. Others were to come. General Sheridan and several staff officer, were poisoned a few days ago at Winchester I.y ,owe corrosive substance which, in a supposed accidental manner, got mixed with their food. They all suf fered , :were pains from the effects of the poison, but is , lid not prove fatal to any of them. The New York Herald of the Bth haa the fol lowing repeating the Confederate privateers, and the capture of blockade runners : We have accounts of farther work of the roam I•r'va. teen. The barque Speedwell, which arrived at Philadel phia yesterday, was bonded on the 2nd inst., in north latitude 40.30, longitude OA, by the Chickamauga, and bonded for Is,ooo dole. The British bark Victoria, which also arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, reports that on the evening of the 31st ult. she saw an American vessel of about 300 tons ou fire at sea. No human being was seen on or near the burning vessel, and when the Victoria left her she was consumed to the water's edge. The schooner Otter, from Bangor for Georgetown, was destroyed by the Chick amauga about the last of October, and her captain and clew arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, on board the Speedwell. A despatch was received in Chicago yesterday stating that the Canadian steamer Georgians has been fitted out as a rebel pirate, and is now on Lake Huron. The blockade running steamers Annie, captured on the 31st ult. by the United States steamers Wilderness and Niphon, and the Lucy, *sized by the Santiago de Cube on the 2nd inst., are both fast and valuable English-built iron vessels. The Annie had on board 500 bales of cotton and 30 teas of tobacco, and the Lucy over 400 bales of cot ton and 25 tons of tobacco. By way of Havana we have some news from Nassau, N.P., relative to the rebel blockade runners. The Banshee No. 2 had arrived at the latter place from Wilmington, N.C., in forty-eight hours. The blockade-running steamers Florio and A. E. Fry got ashore outside of Charleston, S.C., and the Talisman and Wando, which left there on the :hlth alt., had not since been heard of in West India Seceseis. AU desired information in reference to latter vessel can be furnished by the gallant met of our blockaders, as she was captured by them, and has sines arrived in a northern port. The Virginia and Lucy Armstrong had arrived at Noxell in The Richmond Er unimr of the sth speaks of an exchange of 10,000 prisoners at Savannah : An exchange of 10,000 sick and wounded prisoners at Savannah has already been mentioned as a future event. We learn that on yesterday the first interview of the flag of truce took place at Island City, Colonel Weddy acting on the Confederate side, Colonel Bennet appearing for the Yankees. The preliminaries ware arranged for 10,000 Coc. fed:Tate prisoners already arrived at Hilton Head on transports, sod the strainer Baltic. None of them were delivered at this rust interview, but boxes for prisoners on both sides were delivered. The second flag of truce on this business will meet at the same place on the 6th instant. A shocking accident occurred on the Erie rail road, near Callicoon station, on Sunday morning, the 6th. There were six cars in the ill-fated train, containing about 150 passengers, several of whom were killed, and a large number of others were more or less seriously injured. According to the Wilmington Joornal of the let the Federal attack on that place has been deferred. " Where the fleet," it says, "which threatened an attack on Wilmington has gone is more than we can guess. It may come here ; but upon the whole we do not think it will. For the present, at least, we think the town of Wilmington is comparatively free from immediate attack. We think that for some time the Yankee fleet will give us the go by." THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. SPEECHES' OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS. (From the Rick no-ed Eovircr, Nov. 4.) There was a happy time with the army of the Tennessee just previous to leaving Gadsden, Alabants, fer the onward march against Sherman. A correspondent of the Selma Rep-rt , r gives the following sketch of the occa sion and its incidents : A large crowd, with a band of music, appeared before General Hood's headquarters (the Baptist church) and called him out. The geocr.,l looked very well. lie said he congratulated ua the pro,;*cts before us ; said our advantages are better now than during the old campaign in Georgia ; said there have been great accessions to the army from the hospitals, the convalescent canoe, and men oo furlough; that they would all move off the next morning for the Valley of the Tennessee. General Hood did not say he would cross the Tennessee, bet we all un derstand it. ELI said S'Atraian could not hold Atlanta and N.shville too ; that its the next battle he expects to lead his army to victory. General S. D. Lee was called for. H t acid—" Sherman is like the man who caught the Tartar—he sacrificed nearly all his strength to get it, but did nut know what to do with it after he got it." Said Sherman could not keep up his communication long ; that he will soon be forced to leave Atlanta, ncd , if he meets us on Tennessee soil or els. - where, he will get the worst whipping that any Yankee general has got since the fall of Fort Sumter, and we will wipe him from the list of Yankee officers. The crowd then went to General Cheatham's quartets. The general said he appesred at their request, but not to make a speech. There was a time when he could talk about the Yankees, but it makes him mad to talk about them now, and the onthuoiosm which he sees exh,bited justifies him in saying he cars' not for the odds that might come against him, he expects nothing but victory in the next conflict. We then repaired to th 3 head-quarters of General Mean. reward. In his usual modest way he appeared and said he mast be excused frotu tusking a speech. lle would say, however, that he had CAM.) to the .Irtny of the Tennessee t, remain with them until their present cluiprden ends. Tint he thinks he sees twee that be has seen at Shiloh awl other ft-tile-grounds ; and, as he then directed them, so he expects to do in the comin; battle with Sherman. He then requested the crowd to excuse him awl hear his friend Major Eustis, who was a better orator than he was. Major Eustis, of Genera:, Beauregard's staff, came for ward teal made a haAsouae speech, bat addressed himself elclusivOy to the LouLdauiarm, which I thought was in bad taste. General Clayton was then called be. He said the object of the enemy was not to elevate the negro, but to lower the white man. There would be no liw in this country to punish the negro who killed his master, burnt up his wife and children, or toy other damage he may do the Southern man. Even further, they wauld put the whip in the negro's hands, and enslave the Southern whites. aseeral Pat Cleburne was next called far. He said— " Soldiers, the old campaign is ended—a new one begirt' from this place. Let us all resolve to do our whole duty. Hereafter I intend to light, not for rights, but for revenge ! You had as well talk religion to a heathen as right— Southern rights—to • Yank,. I:avenge, revenge! for ruined homes, violated wives and dou;hters, desecrated gra►es and altars, load laid waste, and our fair cities sacked and rained. Can we ever be remunerated! Never ! But vengeance upon them henceforth, until not a Yankee lives on Southero soil." General Cleburne ►hen spoke to his men about the necessity of dianpline, and closed by telling his men he felt more anxious to meet Sherman now than ever. He went down to Atlanta, ezUed the people, and bad many houses pulled down to be used for firewood this winter. While thus sequestered in his comfortable quarters, supposing we were in his front, we flanked him, captured Dalton ►nd his negro garrison, tore up his railroad over •s,O miles, and got into Alabama before he waked up. But we will wake him op in our next conflict. Just renumber, revenge Le the watchwonl. General Bate wee next called for. lie is still upon his crutch, but gets along very well. He was very humorous. In concluding, he said that it required time only to put Tennessee and Kentucky in our possession. General Beauregard is about live feet seven inches high, grey hair, broad forehead, face tapering rapidly to the chin, prominent noes. full, dark eye, and wears a gray moustache sod imperial. He is fifty years old. General Hood is about six feet high, light hair, fair com plexion, pay eyes, heavy sandy beard, a large framed roan, about 35 Test., old. His right leg is off above the knee. General S. L. Lee is a young man, about 23 years old, fire feet eight inches in height, light hair and whiskers, grey eyes and fair complexion. General Cheatham is about live feet nine inches high, heavy built, dark hair, dark hazel eyes, about 55 years old. General Clayton is six feet high, about 44 years old, hair turning grey, short, stiff beard—a good-looking man. General Pat Cleburne u six feet one or two inches high, about 42 years old, lean (but not hungry looking, like Cassius), iron grey hair; loves his friends and hates him enemies' bodies, but prays, he says, for their souls. General Bate is a well-grown man, about :38 years old. aix feet high, dark hair, speaks pleasantly, and limps upon his right leg, from wounds received io Georgia. I wish the croakers could have witnessed this array of military talent and grand display of enthusiasm in our soldiers. They would have taken •' to their holes^ until another day. THE BLOWING UP OF THE RAM ALBE MARLE. CONFEDERATE AOCOUNT. (From the Iti , h,o , old Di,p.'rh, Nov. 4.) The capture of Plymouth, N.C., by the enemy, is explained by later amounts. A lack of sufficient weak*• fulness on the part of our troops seem, to have been the prime cause of the lien of the town. It seems that on Thursday night a party of eighteen men, belonging to the bloekadiog fleet in Albemarle Sound, some eight or ten miles from Plymouth, took a small torpedo boat and started for Plymouth. Oa the way they found a small boat containing six of our men in the river, stationed there as a picket guard ; but all of them being asleep thy were taken prisoners. Then proceeding to Plymouth they found the Albemarle at her wharf, and, running the torpedo boat ender her ainidship, blew her op, ceasing damages from which she soon sunk. Infantry was stationed on the wharf, who fired on the assaulting party, and after the Albemarle sunk captured the whole of them, but no one was killed, and only one man wounded. There was no force of the enemy near Ply mouth, with the exception of five or six gunboats in the sound ; but the loss of the Albemarle opened the Roanoke to them, and hence the fall of the town. Captain Roberta, it is stated, commanded the Albemarle. It is understood that there were no byes last on the Albemarle, and there were very few men aboard at the time of the explosion of the torpedo. ARMING THE SLAVES IN THE SOUTH PROTESTED AGAINST. The Richmond Enquirer of the 4th publishes a letter from a planter, protesting very strongly against the employment of negroes. He asks " Can it be possible that a Southern man—editor of a Southern journal—recogniaing the right of property in slaves, admitting their inferiority in the scale of being, and also their social inferiority, would recommend the passage of a law which at one blow levels all distinctions, deprives the master of a right to his property, and elevates the negro to an equality with the white man ? Is it for this we would seek the ail of our slaves! To win their freedom with their own independence, to estab lish in our midst a half or quarter of a million of black freemen, familiar with the arts and discipline of vrar,:and with large military experience? Hu the bitter experience of Virginia with regard to free negroes already been for• gotten': What has embittered the feelings of the two sec tions of the old Union What has gradually driven them to the final separation ? What is it that has made two na tionalities of them, if it is not slavery ? It was slavery that caused them to denounce us inferiors ; it was slavery that made the difference in our Congressional represen tatives. It was slavery that made the difference in our pursuits, in our interests, in our feelings, in our social and political life ; it is slavery which now makes of us two people as widely antagonistic and diverse as any two people CAD he, and it only needs a difference of language to make the Northerner end Southerner as opposite as the Frenchman and the Englishman. Messrs. Editors, if you had sought in the political body of the Confederacy for some spot at which to aim and strike one blow which should at once de prive it of life, you could not have found one more vital, or have struck with more deadly certainty than you have done by the advoescy of such a scheme ; and, if there is any member of Congress so lost to his sense of the duty which he owes to his country and the constitution which he has sworn to defend ; if there is the who is not tired of the scenes of blood and ruin and devastation which have stained and desolated many portions of our beloved land but yet desires to Rae more and yet a thousand fold more of the strife and woe and misery begotten by civil revolution, let him persuade Congress to pass such a law and attempt to carry out such a system, and the things which have been will be nothing to the things that shall be—the revolution and war born and nurtured And raging in our midst, shall be nothing whet compared to that struggle in which we are now engaged, u the wild and desolating tornado, compared to the mild summer wind—as the angry fury of the ocean waves when lashed by tierce blasts to the smooth surface of thu mountain lake." The writer concludes that the South will be utterly de• stroyed by arming and freeing the slaves. He says that these freedmen " will be men who know the value and power of combination, they will be well disciplined, trained to the use of arms, with the power and ability of command; at the same time they will be grossly and miserably igno rant, without any fixed principle of life or the ability of acquiring one." He prefers to rest the salvation of the South upon "the stout arms and brave hearts" of its white men, and not depend upon a scheme which he regards as "only abolitionism in disguise." AUSTRIA AND ITALY. A Paris letter iu tha itutie &Lys am able to g:ve you an abstract of the programme adopted by Count Mansdorti-Ponilly, the new Minister of Foreign Aff or. at Vienna. This document was drawn up with the aid of M. de Schmerling, signed by the whole caLinet, and has received the approbation of the Emperor. Passing over the part rel►ting to purely German affairs, I c - ime to the portion which interests you 'mast, that ex plaiuiug the attitude which the Austrian government in tends to assume towards Italy. The programme makes the followiog important declarations:—let. That the Austrian government wishes to establish regular commercial inter. course with the new Italian state. 2nd. That it sees no objection to establish regular diplomatic relations between Vieima aril Turin Or Florence, as the case may be), and is prapsvol to take the steps necessary for that purpose. be Court. VTECDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 21. To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of the Crown Priocees of Prussia (Princess Royal). Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinztone, arrived at the Caatle. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur and Prince= Beatrice, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Prince of Wales went hunting,lattended by Lient.• Colonel Kingecote and Major Teesdale. Princess Louise went out driving. The Princess of Wales and Princess Helena went today to be present at the consecration of the new church in Windsor, of which the first stone was laid list year by the Crown Princes of Prussia. The suite in attendance con sisted of the Countess of Macclesfield, Lady Caroline Bar rington, Lord Methuen, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and the Dean of Windsor. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family yesterday. Earl Russell had an audience of the Queen, and pre sented the Hon. P. C. Searlett, on his appointment as Minister to the Emperor of Mexico. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial•offics from the Governors of the Australian colonise Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labuan, Gibraltar, sad Malta. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres have taken up their residence at their villa at Ham, Surrey, for the winter. His Excellency - the Russian Ambassador enter tained his Excellency Prince de Is Tour d'Aevergne, Baron and Baroness Biome, General Todleben, Baron and Baroness de Betide, Count de Courval,J.:omit de Beaumont, Co lonel and Madame Novitzky, Baron Rosenkranz, Captain Schilder, M. Sabouroff, and Sir Roderick Murchison at dinner oa Sunday evening, at the Russian Embassy, in Chesham-place. His Excellency Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne left the French Embassy yesterday, on a visit to her Ma jesty, at Windsor Castle. The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry is, .e are informed, suffering from severe indisposition. The Earl of Derby coutiuues to improve. All the inflammatory symptoms have subsided., and, beyond the extreme weakness generally following • severe attack of gout, the noble earl may be regarded so going on most favourably. The Earl and Countess of Hardwick° and Lady Agnate Yorke were to have joined the circle assembled at Hatfield House, Herta, the hospitable seat of the Marquis aad Slarehioneu of Salisbury, yesterday, from Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. The Earl and Countess Cowley are expected to return to Paris towards the end of the present month. The names of the noble earl and countess are included) in the fourth series of visibui to Compiline. Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Comber mere have left East Hampstead Park, Berks, when they have been visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Down. shire, for Clifton, where they intend to reside during the winter. The Rev. J. Rathboue Cowilroy, M.A., Las been appointed to the evening lectureship of All Saints' Church, Caledonian-road. An iinportant question was discussed last night at the LW Amendment Society. Dr. Wallilove read a paper proposing to alter the rules of evidence which en• elude the testimony of the parties in civil suite and of de' frialanti in criminal trials. He advocated the permitting prisoners to give evidence in their own favour in criminal casts, and that husbands and wives should be competent and compellable to give evidence in cases affecting each other, whether civil or criminal. It was announced in one of the French theatrical papers the other day that the proprietor of the Porte St. 51.atin Theatre was on his way to Llmlon " to see Mr. Chu. Pickens" about bringim; out his poem, " Marappa," which is to be the medium of introduction between Miu Ida lukcs Idenken and the Paris public ! The colossal statue of Hercules at Rome doee not, it seems, progress very rapidly towards ite restoration. It is at present reclining on a green table in a large room, where the process of drying it goes on, the metal being saturated with damp in consequence of having been so many ages in the water. A pan of charcoal is inserted into the hero's bead morning, and communicates a genial warmth to his whole bronze body. The terms on which the st►tue is to become the property of the government are not yet arranged. The fortunate discoverer wishes to have a good sum down, besides an annuity, and the title of mar q uis. The art commissioners have valued the states at 43,000 'midi, nearly Io,ooof. A letter from Rome of the Idth says :—" King Louis of Bavaria, the veteran habitue of Rome, arrived here on Saturday last, after a very laborious journey from Bologna across the Appenines, where his Majesty and a whole caravan of other travellers were snowed no for three days—the injury caused by the swollen river Rano to the Pistoja Railway having obliged them to resort once more to the old poet road to Florence. Bases de Bach, the Austrian Ambassador, arrived in Rome on the same day. His excel lency bad an audience of Cardinal Anionslli this morning, and we shall dotibtleee hear in a few days some account of this interesting interview, in the course of which it was expected that the cardinal would make earnest application for material assistance from the Austrian government, an being the most devoted ally of the Holy See." Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Sir,—l have the hoeour to report the arrival of the Kearearge off Scituate, from the Rocas. Left the Wachu. sett and Florida at St. Thomas. The Florida was captured in the harbour of Bahia, by the Wschusett, Oct. 7. We bring 16 prisoners and one officer from the Florida. (Signed) JOHN A. WINSLioW, Commander. St. Thomas, West India Islands, Oct. 31, via Boston, Ilsas., Nov. 7. Hon. Gideon Wells. Sir,—l have the honour to report the arrival here of this ship with the rebel steamer Florida in company. The Florida, with 54 men and 12 officers, was captured about 3 o'clock on the morning of the Tth October, in the Bay of San Salvador, Brazil, by the officers and crew of this vessel, without loos of life. Five of the officers, including her commander, and the remainder of the crew were ashore. The Florida had her mizentnest and main yard carried away and her bulwarks cut down. This vessel ir:geral no injury. A detailed report will be banded you by P.iy master W. W. Williams. Very respectfully, your obedient %errant, IL COLLINS, Commander L S. steam-sloop Wachusett. A Cairo despatch says :—" hfurntatiou from Paducah states that on Thursday Ltit Forrest, with • a large force, placed batteries on the Tenuesve river, within a mile and a half of Johu.ineille, where three gunboats and eight transports lying. Early Friday morning Forrest moved the batteries up and opened on the trausport.s, which were fired by the shells, and the gunboats fell into the hands of the enemy, after being disabled. The crews and officers of the fleet were all taken pri soners. A large amount of government stores and considerable artillery is reported captured. It is also supposed that the supplies at Johnsonville were taken. Allis quiet along the White river in Arkansas. St. Charles is reoccupied and garrisoned with coloured troops." General Hood has been defeated with consider able loss in his first attempt to cross the Tennessee river. The point chosen for this movement is between Decatur and Florence, at the head of the mussel shoals of the Tennessee river. It appears that General Sherman has sent the fourth corps to Decatur to operate against Hood, while, with the remaining five corps of his army, he has moved to Atlanta, "and is, in all proba- ITALY. A letter front Rotlle of the 15th, iu the Salut Pai,:ic of Lyons, says : The old King Louis of Bavaria arrived here three nights ago. His Majesty was fissi days performing 'the journey from Sienna ; torrents of rain and heavy falls of snow having intelinpted the communications 'both on the railways and on the high roads. The mail, in returniug from C.vita.Castellana, was stopped by a hand of brigands who robbed it of 1,600 crowns in Roman bask notes. An Irish abW who had arrived here by railway the evening before last, went into a caft . : at the station to get sonic refreshment. Wishing afterwards to proosed to the college he applied for ► guide. A man presented himself who spoke a few words in English, and they started together. Instead, however, of taking the abLZ to the college the fellow led him into the Strada Macao, where two other men joined them. The abbe was immediately attacked by the three, robbed of all be possessed, and also received two violent blows in the face which knocked out two of his teeth. (SCUTZVet TEL/OWES.) ABOLITION OF CONVENTS IN POLAND. WARSAW, Nov. 21. _ . It ie now poeitively stated that the decree for the abolition of convents has received the Emperor's sanction. Those convents which were implicated in the late insurrection will be entirely suppressed, and the few remiining establishments will be placed under go vernment supervision. SPAIN. KAMM, NuV . 2-2 The Duke de Rivas, president of the Counei± State, has re-igued, and is succeeded by the The Epuca of to-day says :—" It is the (hay Spain to defend the Papacy by eudeavourio.. come to an understanding on the subject µ it! France. Signor Mon has accepted the po-f f ambassador to the French court." ALGERIA. r11:1S. N Official advices from Algeria state that surrectionary tribes continue to give iu ti it • mission, and that the country is becomin.! quillisegl. Military operations are being suec. • carrie.l on against the refractory tribes. ALGEGED OUTRAGE AND ROBBERI - THE LONDON AN/' NORTH IVESTERV rAI WAY. "r... of this (lay.) i t. V, (From the L • ~• • (ireat uxeiteakeir_ • this [t1.12 by Ow a ~.1 •i 1.14 ! the effect that a geotlemau had been ..; railway carriage between Rugby and t.ffor , . ...id .1 st body bad been thrown from the c : . th : The similarity alleged outr.4o. t • ...t .• . tht ..0 cnuv. ...l.tller of course gave t., .•• trsvagaut runisrre, which, it is hopes], wul • 1. , though at present the affair u somewhat mystery. itappeare th,t Cue st.,p Commodore Parry Calcutta a few days since and metered the Vt^tori, London, when the crew were paid off, and a% e ut "iv- 1 men who belonged to Liverpool, viz., Willie." - • James Murphy, Joseph Mantel', James Barns. +ad : ! Apter, took second.cLiss tickets for this town from E ;•• equate by the 5 pan. expresi train which arrive: ~t i.'• street Station at hali.past 10 o'clock. The men took their seats in the second chums comp.ut, of a carriage in company with Sergeant Cowperti.w4i.., . the Royal Artillery, who was going from Sheertel, to ~ mere, Ciunlerland. Apter was fax advanced in di,ut,. the other seamen were more or Imo under fiance of liquor. Shortly after leaving the ~a t. , Apter commenced showing his money, , carried in an old-fashioned red leather He took three or four sovereigns, and what he said . note, and exhibited them to his comp miens. Mai t .l. • him not to be a fool, and put his money back. Apter. w peered to be careless about the natter, said it was ill ri.;tt. Murphy then produced a pint bottle of ram, from and hie companions drank. A man, who left the t Crewe, at the aims time produced a bottle conta.ciu, from which Mantell and Apter only drank. Whin near Rugby, Sergeant Cowperthwaite sa)s rose from his seat, and said he wanted to get out of the riage because he was in Ettstoa-square ; whereupon Muri forced him down upon the seat and told him is s: He sat for a short time, then suddenly r and staggered spinet the door, which flew open v he fell from the oarriage, the traiu at that time rennin; very fast, though not at its highest speed. Toe sergeant ec:• positively that no person pushed Amer out of the tram, and the rumour is that he either fell out or was thrown out at the moment the attention of the other passengers in compartment was drawn to a goods train ou the other hue. On information of the affair being given to Mr. Le )41, chief of the Liverpool detective police, he despatched la speetom Horn and Carlisle, with a sufficient body of police, to Lime•street Station to await the arrival of the trlin. These, together with Inspectors Southwell and Hope, the train at 10.45, and all the passengers in the compart ment of the train indicated in the telegram were in charge sad were removed to the stationma.: office till the matter 1111.8 iavemigeted. Whilst waiti_;- there, Murphy asked to be allowed to retire to the closet, and u he was proceeding to it Inspector Carlisle gape,. him, and took from hie hand a great leather parse, roc taining a 10g. Bank of England note, 31. in g..: i. and some papers. Murphy stated that thin the money he had received when paid off fro'a his ship. The men were subsequently taken to to. detective office, where the matter was further inquired iLio. About 1 o'clock Mr. Keogh received a telegram from Mr. Eccles, chief of the detective department at Stafford, stating that ooe of his men named Davis had been to Inei for the body of Apter, but up to 12 o'clock had not r:.:- ceedod in finding it, and suggested that the parties ithoeid be detained till farther inquiries were made into the matter. The men were acoordingly kept at the detective of:. during the night. President Lincoln was serenaded at Wasiiin on the night of the 10th, and made a speech, in which Ls declared the peaceable consummation of the recent elections in the midst of a great civil war proved the ability of a re. publican government to maintain its existence in a great emergency and at the Larne time preserve the liberties of its people. Now that the elections are over, ho appes',l to all parties to unite io a common effort to save the 031311 , a country, and, while expressing his gratitude to Ilmi„:hty God for directing the mind of the country to what he 'CM. eidered a right conclusioo, be added that it aff rde 1 no satisfaction to think any other man might have been asap pointed by the result. _ _ A letter dated the Gth from the headquarters of the Tenth Army Corps of General Grant's army, aqs —"Two Eoglish genres have come up to the front f the North with the intention of pasain; throng's into toe rebelling,. They have credentials from Lord Lyons w.. 1 President Lincoln, stating wbo they are, their o',ject, with permission to pass our lines. Their object is connected with their religion. A flag of truce by Lientenut Shreve. assistant adjutant-general, was sent out two dsys ago, wen permission to pass into their lines was refused by the rebels for the time being. Another went out yesterday, but re. tithed tuumecessfid, two days MOM brio; re ! lir,il ty them to forward the application to Mr. Beejanr n." The weather since the comineucntueut of the pre sent month hu been favourable to the sale of winter clothing, and the Paris shopkeepers have profited In it. The stock of woollen stuffs is said to be greatly reduced. and the operatives employed in that branch of mud: are certain of employment during the winter. Wwiles manufacturers, taking advantage of the high price of cmtn, have enlarged their establishments and created new cue. They have likewise greatly inyroved their machinery. In illustration of the noconcity of ba , ikruptcr reform a correspondent of the Ts 4ua has forwarded an sc. count jast rendered in the Birmingham Cmrt of the c ;cal of a small firm, named William and James Smith, of term The collections under the estate amounted to so • and the expenses to 4151., leavin; for the uufortun.tto• cr:• ditors a balance of 3511. A married woman, named E!izabetli NtEta . % 1, • been accidentally poisoned at York. She had for + sry years been subject to palpitation of the heart, and eel' to the shop of a druggi+t to obtain five grain+ of mon.hi i to give her relief. The druggist being absent. the tueoan,:et was served by a porter of the establishment, wb.' strychnia in mistake for morphia. Mrs. Nuttall • poison, and in half an hour expired. • The organ of the Chore!' Union Society h.!" .ria- WI that the cloak which at. Pan! left' at Trona supposed to have been "a Eucharistic vestment." WAREIIOUENIEN AND CLERKS' Se ll.iOL r.. 1 MASS AND NECESSITOUS CRILDREN.—The anneal ril meeting of the governors and sulacnbers to this in....tirt• was held at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Chen- . evening, Mr. It. White, deputy chairman, pretidin. , report, which was adopted, showed that the auto of .1. i -• had been received Ur general purposes. end 1,1; for the building rued, Taakio; a total of 4,•270. 0., 71. ' expenditure for the earns period wail—general porn'•"• 2.8.441. 15e. 5d.; and for the building fund, 7,713 i. 11-. ' The amount received under the bead of annual sub.cril shows an league beyond any previous tear of 971.:(,. board of management deeply regretted to announce the death of Mr. 11. 11. Graham. Twenty children ; • n admitted daring the year, sixteen boys and four • Eight have left the school. having obtained suitaide tins,. There are now ten more children in the., .; then at any previnut time; four will leave at v and seven will be elected to-day (the:null ; making r.veulv• eight altogether. Lord Stanley has coneented to take the chair at the next annual festival. The ottie,rs sera elected for the ensuing year. and votes of thank, giver. to the chairman and other affects for their service, the put year. BRITISH MUSEUSL Yesterday a nut ;cc lr.ls the reading-room of the British Museum. int: ^ , t• Firgitthat in a refreshment-inom had been providel, nod-r tale regulatioos, for the exclusive teie of r,ideni student'. This coeceesion will &subtler* be appiwi , ."' i 'f many who have for a length of time suffered great 7t.1 siestas by being compelled to rise from their sts.:dies Rol lens the Institution to obtain refrashroonta The Cc PUrP OOO c barrister' This re rater for shortly tl objected , viola six miles th the 27t victed moot& leg a ill barrister and the boblioMr. 'Ke Kerslake The Ca and that t hia home six month miles that Appeal SittinP in 1 The Cot ectiou of e, The defeat baying fail demised. chip now for the pL This was rreaticed recover 86/ a hnotinsi other artte Justice SI for the plai defendant some of the days no ni verdict was The cons lute =Leas duced by In this a obtained in certain plea allowed by action upon broker in n defendant. The cour elusion as t demurrer. Rule abs NICHOLS° This was taiard on tl in which t of damage A rule w sent term f, had no powe the jury hai judgment. Mr. Temp parties had COURT Mr. Mund be proved Hobson, who Palace Corn contracted BelL The le exact precede her circumst grant the api to examine w Sir T. P. court and all( conviction fa commission The bankm Angawourt, moiler in New , public from tl wept app leading Mad war Station.' an 4th inst. =sole to the atlo,t.( and shame p resold ; so the claims on Some prt;of Grantham, 64 water, was et Lewis are the be the !Monti curt. This was fit George Bertol street. The lion. lie owe Ire Messrs. P debt 111 mum to the failure predetion in t Kr. J. V. Be chosen trade a CENT William G ennerdered to bin with mom bodily hana, a c.a.ma2oo_•llBi --- Mr. Ribtoa kr. Metcalfe prisoper. DTATH ix T at .ieriloot Dr. 0., wit h.other gentl e , °I) 1. urw ort h IL) three times Puke,' iv in sensi while af, i __Urronob. The woelkled died wb Sittings