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Prot. .or Daley Kid WM, lab.—Daactig try 11•111 e. C. Stephan. —An SHOE FATAL BRAID. ■r. O. Oaske sad Wu Samford. MOH WAS= AT 'LONDON BEIDGA. Ms DAT Mends& Hl►'6a....Afkeooa lilt. 20{s. fltrnioaiow—llarstaL U. 45a.....A11er500k O. O. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. T.S.E determination of the British Government set to accept the Frau& proposal of a mediation Americo was abundantly justified by the rea sons assigned in Lord Rusamx's despatch to Lord COWLEY ; but it is satisfactory to see its wisdom still further vindicated from day to day. Pubbc opinion, otherwise distracted and divided on Awe sican affairs, iscomposed and intelligent on this. Eng lishmen of the most opposite sentiments agree that 'the measure recommended by the French EMPEROR -would have been useless and positively mischievous. The language of the independent press of Paris proves that this is also the opinion of the enlightened .clasees•in France. The summary of the Russian note tsmismitted by telegraph shows us the Cabinet of St. Petersburg arriving, by its independent deliberations, at a conclusion identical with 'that of our own Government. If after thi% •demonstration of opinion it pleases the French Government to state in the Mimiteur that the policy of the EMPEROR had triumphed, and that it will soon be adopted by England and Russia, wo can only explain the assertion by the natural desire of the EMPEROR to conceal the extent of his own isolation. We shall probably never know for what purpose he desired our participation in a project which bore futility on its very face, and was by its very nature a move towards an advanced diplomatic por . tion, in which, without the means of retreat, we should have been very much at the mercy of an unscru pulous companion. But whether it was that our co operation was wanted to lend an indirect sanction to the filibustering schemes already set on foot by Loris NAPOLEON on the American continent, or that some more signal distinction was reserved for us, we may be glad that we have a Government which, under circumstances of great temp*A.ion, has had the firmness to remain true to rectitude and sound policy. Thediscussi on which the note of M. Dam, IN i DE Laura has undergone has had the effect of 1 divesting the French proposal of its pre- I tended character of neutral, friendly me- , diation, and exhibiting it as • deci sive movement, intended to commit England and Russia, indirect'y but inevitably, to that re cognition of Southern independence which nether of them is inclined to make in an explicit manna The proposal that the two Powers should join , France in recommendlng an armistice—which has , been universally pronounced by pub'ic opinion to , be truly a war expedient of the highest value to , the South, but most destructive to the military power of the North—suffieently shows this. Not- • withstanding the sanguine tone of the Mouiteur, we do not think the attempt will soon be repeated, and the Emperor of the Famveir will be left to pursue his secret projects alone. It is very remarkable—and it is remarked— that while the public has watched the recent course of diplomacy on this subject with the in tensest interest, the leaders of the Conservative Opposition have maintained a death-like silence. This may agree with their notions of party pru dence, but it does not, we think, correspond to the ideas of public duty generally held by their country men. Even on party grounds we doubt the wisdom of reserve under present circumstances. It is the part of an English political leader to speak out boldly in a crisis like the present. Does Mr. DISRAELI believe that, in the language of the daily organ of his party, Lord Russzia, in declining the French proposal, has " mocked the hopes and " insulted the misery of half a million of starving "labourers"? Does he think the English Govern ment has by the same act committed "one of the " most foolish and unpardonable of political " crimes" known to history f Does he believe that Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues are at this time distinguishing themselves by " cold " blooded cruelty and pusillanimous betrayal of " duty " ? If so, surely he ought not to have waited for the meeting of Parliament to make his harrowing convictions known. If he believes a tenth part of all this he should have spoken out boldly. Should he be disposed to hold a brief from the French EMPEROR next February, it will be remem bered while invective grows strong and allusion doubly mysterious, that when all other public men and most private men were proclaiming their opinion about the duty of England in this crisis, the Conservative leaders alone withheld the benefit of their counsel. IN view of the great, and to many persons un expected, success achieved at Shoeburynesa last week by Mr. WHITWORTH, it becomes desirable to estimate as nearly as possible the new conditions under which the victory of guns over plates has placed the most vital questions of naval archi tecture. We must, indeed, anticipate that any ;. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1862. result' at which we may at present arrive will be merely provisional The triumph of guns of new material and new form may, we know not how soon, be reversed by the disoovery of new armour and of a new type of vessel. But we cannot wholly suspend our preparatious for naval warfare pending such inquiries, and we must be content to make the best of our present knowledge, while admitting that it is imperfect and may be found hereafter fallacious. We shall not, therefore, lose our time, but rather employ it to the best advantage, in endeavouring to ascertain exactly the practical amount and value of Mr. WHITWORTH'S present success, crediting him at the same time, as his success has entitled him to claim, with the power to effect some further advances in the same direction beyond what we have as yet had actual experience of. Now the importance of the results of last week I may be taken as residing in the fact that Mr. Wnrr wows has shown that no existing vessel is to be deemed invulnerable, and has so far restored us to the position we were in when our wooden walla were the ramparts behind which our victories were gained. These wooden walls we have been, it is true, forced to abandon, not because they were permeable to shot, but because they were pene trable by the modern horizontal shell firing. But' when the Emperor of the FRENCH ascertained by actual experiment, that four inches of iron would not only keep out spherical shell (which even hall-inch iron would do), but would keep out shot also, we were forced to follow his lead, because it seemed obvious that a vessel which could turn every shot fired at her,wss a match for a whole fleet of vessels which might, one after the other, be sunk by her broadsides. At the same time, in consenting thus to alter the whole character of our navy, we have sacrificed many of our former advantages. We have been forced to build vessels of such prodigious size and draught of water (for without size the weight of iron could not be carried), that we have scarce a dock in which they could be repaired, while there is scarce an enemy's harbour which they could approach, and even on the high seas their unwieldi nous would have made them of comparatively little service against smaller and more active ships. From the horns of this dilemma Mr. Wurrworern has for the present rescued us. His guns on board the lightest vessel which can carry them will find their way to the vital points in their gigantic adversaries. We may now cease to emulate the Gloire, since our one-inch iron gunboats can plant their steel-headed darts in the Gloire's four inch sides with equal destructiveness and with far greater certainty than she can reply. Instead of spending half a million on a single frigate, we may now at the same price have half a dozen fri gates of far greater powers of service to us and of terror to our adversaries. It is quite true that we must still, and for ever, abandon wood. But we must not allow ourselves to be carried away with the idea that because Mr. WHITWORTH has succeeded in driving shell even into iron vessels, he has made every iron vessel which can thus be penetrated as incapable of being fought as a wooden ship now is. The cast-iron spherical shell, containing a heavy bursting charge of powder, broke up, after making its entrance, into innumerable fragments, which were scattered with violence through the ship, killing and maim ing by tens and twenties, and at the same time the explosion set the vessel on fire. Mr. WHIT WORTH'S new shells are of wrought iron, they are elongated, the fore part is solid, and the bursting charge, which is very small, is lodged in a small cavity, hollowed near the back. All these are apparently unavoidable conditions of his success ; for he needs great weight, high velocity, and tough iron to force a passage through the opposing plates, and a large cavity for the bursting charge would either involve a diminution of weight or an in crease in the length, and consequently a diminu tion in the velocity of the shell, while cast iron would break into splinters without penetrating or even exploding. But the inevitable result will be to render the missile much lees harmful. Wrought iron will rot fly into pieces at the explo sion as cast iron does ; it will rather open up like a burst gun-barrel, or at most separate into two or three fragments. The heavy forepart of the shot will receive little additional destructive power from the few pounds of gunpowder inflamed behind it, the back part may very probably in general, as happened actually on one oecas 4 on on Thursday, be driven inrocuously out through the hole by which it entered. And while thus suffering infi nitely less from the splinters, iron ships will have the additions' safety that they will be um; •rflammab?e. For it may certainly be assumed that Mr. WHIT WORTH will at least succeed in abolishing the teak backing, and in establ;shing the principle which many eminent shipbuilders have advocated on other grounds, that an iron ship should be built of iron without any intermixture of wood in her construction. The conclusion to which these considerations leads, that when we reach a thickness of iron which will merely serve to keep out cast-iron shells, or at least shells with very large bursting charges, we shall probably find that we have reached the limits of the useful thickness of iron plates. A greater thickness will of course make penetration more difficult ; but Mr. WHITWORTH has proved that it cannot be made impossible, and the inconve niences of very thick plates will probably be found toou:,weigh theirsmallcomparative advantage. But it is at least clear that while the Ordnance pushes its efforts to make an invincible gun, the Admiralty ought now to desist from the attempt at absolute invulnerability, and seek only to discover the con ditions of most serviceable defence. Le:, us ascertain by copious experiment the effect in the way of splinters and of fragmen„i produced by the Whitworth shell on one-inch, two inch, and three-inch iron, and let us be content to adopt whatever may be the minimum thickness which s'aall put our sailors in no greater peril than they joyfully faced when solid shot tore through oaken planking. Thus much we need not, if the Admiralty choose, he long in having placed beyond doubt. Relieved from its search after the impossible, it might, even before Parliament meets, be prepared to lay before it results on which it might with some confidence vote the moderate sums required to give us, in • fuller degree than we have for many a year possessed, a navy fit to go anywhere and do anything. TIM WARD Or LANOBOURNS—A meeting of the friends of Mr. Howard, of Leadenhell.market, was held yesiteubsy, at the London Tavern, with the view of signing a requtsitioa for that gentleman to allow himself to be put in nomination as a candidate for the gown of alderman for Langbourne ward. Mr. Howard. who has been twenty years a common councilman, presented himself by special request, and in a brief speech signified his readiness, in the event of receiving a requisition containing not less than fifty signatures, to offer himself as a candidate, with the inten tion, if successful, of retiring from the largest commission business in the trade, the better to attend to his aldermanic duties. M. BLONDIN.—To-night a novel and interesting entertainment will be launched at St. James's Hall. M. Bloodin has been engaged by Mr. J. Russell, to give a series of evening performances on the high and low rope, when those who have not seen this eminent gymnast in a comparatively small are., will be better able to judge of his merits. To vary the entertainment, a concert will be given, supported by several popul►r vocalists, land the ex cellent band al the Coldstream Guards. be Court. WINDSOR OASTS K, Nov. 17. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood arrived at the Cantle on Saturday, and returned to London to-day. Sir Charles had an audience of the Queen. Earl Granville also had an audience. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Bahamas, the Lord High Com missioner of the ',Dolan Islands, and from the Governor of The Prince of Wales, according to advices from Rome, was on the point of leaving Rome on his return to England. His royal highness will proceed by see to Mar seilles. _ _ Advicee from Tunis mtate that the Prince of Wales and the Prince of Prussia, in pawing through that city, accepted from the Bey the insignia in brilliants of the order of Nichaa. Magnificent presents were also offered to the Princess of Prussia. . . . The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and Lady Julia Hay have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Cliff House, Bandgate. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Lord and Lady de Lisle and Dudley, Mrs. Campbell Wyndham, Mr. Hughes of Kinmel, and Mr. and Mrs. Fasakerley, have left the St. George's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven have arrived in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from Ashdown. Park fora few days. Lord and Lady Gardner arrived iu town from Sootland last evening, on their way to Leicester. Lady Beresfortr has left her hotel in Versailles for her hotel in the Rue de la Vile l'Eveque, in Paris, for the winter mew. _ _ _ Lady Sophia Des VO3lll has returned to London from the Royal Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. . . The Hon. Mr. Foley, M.P., has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Sir Henry and Lady Hoare and Miss Hoare have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Stourhead House, mar Bath. The Earl and Countess of Wincbilaea and Lady Florence Paget have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris. Lord and lady Ashburton ere staying at the same hotel. An amateur concert got up at Malvern by the resident ladies and other musical amateurs of Worcester shire, and attended by the Countess of Kenmore, Earl Beauchamp, Earl of Dudley, Lady Emily Foley, Lord Charles Thynne, Lady Raglan, lady Diana Pakington, Sir H. and Lady Lambert, Sir E. A. H. and Lady Lachman, Lady Catherine Berkeley, and other fashioneblee, has m• limed a profit of about 100 f. for the Lanceabire operatives. We regret to learn of the death on Saturday, at his residence, 6, Farkadreet, Westminster, of William Whateley, Esq., Q.C., one of the benchers of the Inner Temple. Tae following is a recent bulletin of the state of Geribaldil:—" Nov. B.—The general is going on well. The position of the projectile is now better proved to be that indicated by Professor Naiton.—Ri Pale, Acnarrese, !Loma." A certain number of pupils of the School of Medicine at Paris are engaged in organising a subscription to present to Dr. Naaton a case of surgical instruments in ivory and gold, as a mark of their admiration for him con duct with regard to Garibaldi. The Aruora Europa of Florence publishes a letter from Mazzini, in which be complains that every word the moderate journals publish respecting him is a falsehood, that they are labouring to sow mistrust between him and Garibaldi ; between the men who followed the latter to the battle-field, and those who bad preparrd the campaign by their &postdate, that is, by preaching Hazzinian doctrines. He conclude* with declaring that he has one thing in com mon with Garibaldi ; and that is the recollections of their youthful days when they both swore together to be &Wife' to Italy. . The German journals announce the approaching marriage of Mdlle. Trebelli with M. Bettini, tenor at the Imperial Opera of St. Petersburg. The sum accorded for the reconstruction of the Opera at Vienna is 10 millions of francs. The building. which is to be terminated in 1865, will have four tiers of boxes, with seats for 600 in the pit, and will hold 2,700 persons. The present house can only accommodate 1,650. An alarming accident occurred three days agu at the Grand Open, Buis, during a rehearsal of La Alueete do Portiei. Mdlle. Livry, who was to play the part of Fenella, having approached too near a lamp, her dress caught fire. In her terror she rushed across the stage, when she was met by a fireman named Muller, who, throwing a cloak round her, succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Mdlle. Livry was then conveyed to her dreesiog-room, and her burns having been dressed by the two doctors on service, she was removed to her own residence. The hands of the fireman were rather severely burnt. The answer given on Sunday to inquiries made was that Mdlle. Livry was far more in jured than was at first supposed. . The Indicateur of Leipsic says :—" Our city, which already possesses so many benevokot institutions, is about to be enriched with another. id. Biener, doctor in law and privy councillor to the late King of Prussia, a native of this city, who died in 1861, bequeathed a sum of 318,000 fr. to establish a blind school here. As there are but few blind in Leipsic, those of other countries will be admitted." _ ------- A letter from Memel (Prussia) states that the trade in amber, which hag been limited for some years, has recently received a fresh ;Impetus from the discovery of several rich veins in that neighbourhood. Most of the amber found near Memel is sold to merchants at Holstein and Leipsic, who export it to Turkey. Accounts from Roubaix, Tourcoing, and Sedan state that the manufacturers of those towns have received large orders be woollen stuffs. sufficient to keep all their hands employed for • long time to come. Unfortunately, the ribaad weavers at Lyons and St. Etienne are not in so prosperous a position. When such operatives are seen seeking employment on the railways in the neighbourhood, their distress must be very great. Such cum, however, are not frequent at preeent, and the last accounts are favourable. A letter from Alexandria states that a plan is in contemplation of prolonging the Egyptian Railway as far as Upper Egypt, with a branch which would join that country to the Red Sea. This work—the realisation of which it so important for the interests of the country—would serve in some measure as the complement to the Suez Canal. The Siecle of to-day says : — l ° There has been a good deal of talk the last day or two of • new work, by M. Michelet, ' The 13orcii-re'---• vil lainous word, but a touching thing. This book, full of eloquent, ingenious, and profound passages, is, to describe it briefly, • fine and admirable history of the devil, certainly the best and most veracious that has ever been written of that personage, who has, nevertheless, not been with out historians. M. Michelet has followed him from tie middle ages to the present day, upon desert land, in the palace, in convents, at the confessional. He snatches from him all his old masks, and the last one which he has worn, that of M. Tartuffe. That worthy man will doubtless utter load cries in reading ' The SorciZme.' He will cry, am in the cue of Las Penne et les Femmes,' that it is impiety, irreligion, immorality, and no on. He may calum niate at his leisure, and everybody will read this powerful study, going to the very foundations of history, of psycho logy, and of the human heart." RILI&F or TEM DIFIELHEI Ile LANCARHIZIL —ST. PAUL'S, Corearr-asanza.—This morning a public meeting of the inhabitants and ratepayers of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, was held in the vestry adjoining the church, the Rector, the Rev. H. Hutton, in the chair, to madder the most desirable method of raising contributions for the relief of the distressed operatives in Lanceabiai. The rev. chairman in a brief, but eloquent, speech opened the proceedings. Resolutions expressive of sympathy with the distressed operatives of the cotton manufacturing die- Lida having been passed, • committee was appointed to re ceive the contributions of the parishioners, and it was re solved to have a house to house visitation in aid of the relief fund. LATEST INTELLIGEIDOX. FRANCE AND ROME. THE CIRCULAR OF hi DROUYN DHlifil. The full text of the important circuks addressed by the new foreign minister of France, on the 20th ult., to the cabinet of Turin, has been published. The first half consists of a recapitulation of the principal occurrences, diplomatic and otherwise, connected with the occupation of. Rome during the last 14 years. The concluding and more impor tant portion is as follows : The Emperor has taken upon himself to explain in a letter recently inserted in the Moniteur the principles which guide his policy, and to demonstrate to Italy as well as to the Holy See tke aim to be attained and the means to attain it. From the mordent that the Emperor thus in dicated the difficulties of the task and the conditions of success his government has not ceased to renew his attempts to reconcile men's minds and to restore to troubled con sciences and suffering interests peace and security. The results have not, unfortunately, up to the present time, responded to his wishes ; but if we have to regret on one side the persistence with which the court of Rome has refused to seek with us for bases on which to effect an acceptable transaction, important events, which I cannot pass over in silence, have happened on the other side to confirm its resistance, and, by authorising tits doubts, place the government of the Emperor in new difficulties. General Garibaldi, substituting his individual initiative for the regular action of the public powers, organised an expe dition notoriously directed against us and claiming with arms in his hands the possession of Rome, placed under the safe guard of our flag. The government of the King, I hasten to acknowledge it, with a resolution and energy to which it is only just to do honour, and which demonstrated his loyalty, happily suppressed that attempt. Its conception alone, and the commencement of its execution which fol lowed, revealed, however, in Italy a situation troubled by the fermentation of anarchical purloin. At the same time, in a great neighbouring country tumultuous manifestations were organised of which the avowed object was to affect the resolutions of the government of the imperor. If it appears to me superfluous to recall the fact that the flag of France never retires before any menace, I be lieve I have no need either to claim for the policy of my country the most entire independence from all exte rior pressure. Nevertheless, sir, these facts which I can ' not pass over in absolute silence, would not have stopped the government of the Emperor in its persevering efforts to arrive at the conciliation of the two great in terests io Italy, which are the objects of his constant solici tude, if the official communication which was made to us in the circular of General Durando, on the 10th of last month, and the publication which that document received, had not, for the moment, destroyed the hope that we wished to found on the disposition of the Italian government to effect the transaction which we wish to bring to bear. In effect, after having referred to the suppression of the attempt of Garibaldi. General Durando appro priates it in his programme, and asserting the right of Italy over Rome claims in the name of his government the delivery of that capital and the dispos session of the Holy Father. In presence of this solemn assertion and this peremptory revindiceition, all discussion appears to me useless, and all attempts at an accommoda tion illusory. I state it with sincere regret, the Italian government, by its absolute declarations which I have just recalled to mind, is placed on ground oo which the permanent and traditional interests of France, not lean than the actual exigencies of her policy, interdict us from following. Ido justice to the friendly and moderate form of the communication which bas been made to me in the last place by the Minister of Italy, but I in vain search therein for the elements of a negotiation to which we can lend ourselves. According to our view this negotia tion can only have for object to conciliate two interests which recommend themselves to our solicitude by different titles, both equally respectable for us, and we should not know how to sacrifice the one to the other. The Italian government knows, besides, that it will always find us dis posed to examine with deference and sympathy all the com binations which it may suggest to us, and which would appear of a nature to accomplish the object which wisdom, we would hope, will at last aid us to attain. SPAIN. The Spanish cabinet appears to apprehend that the next session of the Cortes may bring violent debates. It is proposed by some of the opposition to attack vigorously the part which General Prim took in retiring from Mexico with his troops, and thus leaving the field free for the sole action of the French government. In this conjuncture M. Mon has just refused, after mature reflection, the presidency of the Congress. He was ambassador at Paris at the moment when the Mexican expedition had just been determined upon, and not having hesitated to denounce as a false step, from the moment when he received the news of it, the re-embarkation of the Spanish troops, it would have been difficult for him, he thinks, to preside over a debate where he is liable to hear his own conduct discussed. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The Augsburg Gaunt, of the 11th, says :—' learn that in the complaint which has been addressed to the Piedmontese authorities respect. iug the late incidents upon the frontier near Mantua, it is stated that several Piedmontese patrols have previously violated the Austrian ter ritory without receiving any punishment from their government. The latter is urged to keep a better watch over its agents, as in the contrary event the Austrians will themselves repress acts of tbis kind, and the guilty will have then to bear the consequences of their conduct." !"We (aan's ITIAORAXB.) FRANCK PARIS, Nov. 18. Baron Gros has been appointed ambassador of France to the court of St. James's. The despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in reply to the note of General Durand°, is published to-day. It corresponds with the analysis recently given by the Belgian papers. ,-(THLS DAY.) I% 8 A.ll. THE CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES. ADDRESS Or 1116 COMMITTIF OF Mt BRITISH AIM VOLUM( Ann-suvay BOCIZTT. The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society having observed with the deepest sorrow the efforts which are being made to infuse into the minds of the people of this countif sentiments friendly to slavery, feel it to be their duty to reiterate, and to commend to the serious consideration of their fellow-countrymen, the funda mental principle of the anti-slavery movement in England, that " slaveholding is a .in and a crime before God, ' and therefore that unconditional emancipation wherever slavery is maintained is alone consistent with the Divine law, and with the requirements of justice and humanity. While the committee believe that the efforts referred to have not yet 'pervaded the community at large, the tone and spirit of certain articles in a portion of the public press, the misrepresentation and perversion of facts, the biassed addresses of ninny men of influence, all with the manifest tendency to bespeak favour for those who are contending for the extension and consolidation of slavery, and to dis parage and discourage all efforts directed to its ettioction, Impress the committee with the painful conviction that, in some quarters, a demoralising effect has been produced. The committee deplore and regard with profound grief the fratricidal conflict between the two sections oft he American Union, but, while anxious to avoid expressing any opinion likely to be construed into an approval of a war policy, they regard it as established beyond disproof that the South was not only the , but &signedly pro s yoked an armed contest with the United States government with the expense sole object of founding a confederacy to perpetuate slavery. On the other hand, the United States government, embracing the political anti-slavery party of the North—commonly called the republican party—has initiated and carried into effect measures in furtherance of , negro emancipation which intitlo it to the sympathy of all , true friends of freedom. It has enforced the statutes against slave trading which former administrations, being pro-slavery had allowed to become inoperative, and has prosecuted 'slave traders to conviction and punishment has entered into a new anti-slave tradlo treaty with Grearßri tain conceding right of search, which former governmen t., ove;ruled by the Southern party, had steadfastly refused. To promote the speedy settlement of the territories by • nonaLaveholding population, it has enacted • Homestead Bill, giving 160 aerator land to everyininitgrant, irrespective of his national origin ; and moreover, carrying into effect the ' policy of Jefferson, ratified by act of Congress in 1789, it has prohibited slavery for ever in those territories, upon which issue alone the Southern candidate for the pre sidency wu defeated at the election which immediately pre ceded the present rebellion ; it has also abolished slavery from the district of Columbia ; has virtually repealed the Fu g itive Slave Act by piohibiting the rendition of slave' escaping from the rebel States to the lines of the United States army, providing compensation on account of such as may belong to loyal citizens ; it has recognised and entered into diplomatic relations with the negro republics of Liberia and Haiti ; by the Confiscation Bill—consider ately made non-retrospective—it, in effect, proclaimed emancipation to the slaves in the rebel States within a speci fied period ; a majority in congress has ratified the Presi dent's plan of compensated emancipation for such slave states as may elect to take advantage of it, and only re cently the President has announced that the details of the measure will be submitted to the next congress, with a view to its immediate practical application. Lastly, the President has lately Wood a proclamation, declaring absolutely and for ever free all the slaves in those States which shall be in rebellion on the let of January next, and pointing to the measures in progress for the abo lition of slavery in the loyal States, upon the principle of indemnification. . . . While the committee deprecate a resort to arms, even with the avowed purpose of promoting the extinction of de , ery, they reiterate the opinion that the friends of the slave in the United States, under wbataoever designation, have established a just claim upon the sympathy of the fnenda of freedom throughout Europe. In this spirit, and with the object of evoking such an ex pression of sympathy as shall encourage the emancipation party in the United States, in their most difficult position, to persevere in their endeavours to obtain justice for the slave, the committee issue the present address, earnestly commending it to the favourable consideration of their fel low.countrymen, and to the friends of humanity in all lands. On behalf of the committee. THOMAB SIVI4B, OW/Irian. S. A. CHAKEIIOI72OII, Secretary. 27, New Brosd-street, EC., Loodww, Nov. 17. • A BLOW AT THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. (From the New York Times, Nov. L) Another important blow at the stave-trade was dealt yesterday in the United States Circuit Court in this city, in the conviction of Albert Horn for fitting out the steamer City of Norfolk for that traffic. The evidence, as given in court, showed that the cam was a most flagrant one. It showed that Horn bought the vessel, paying . 24C30 dol lars for her ; that she was run on one voyage to Havana and back, and then was mint to St. Thomas, having bad some 25,000 dollars more of repairs and outfit put on board of her. At St. Thomaa the transfer, which is an almost uni versal accompaniment of these cases, took place, and the vessel, after running to Barcelona (Venezuela), to get water enough, sailed for the African coast, and on arriving in the Bight of Benin took in eight hundred negroes in broad daylight and sailed frr Cuba._ where she arrived with them. Having discharged them into boats the steamer was abandoned by her crew, but was shortly afterwards captured by a Spanish man-of-war, which also captured most of the negroes. Horn's defence, of course, was that he had nothing to do with the vessel after she was sold, and be said also that when be sect the vessel out be expected to charter her to the Venezuelan government, to carry troops. The govern. ment, however, showed that she carried out from here nearly everything which was required for the slave voysge ; that the transfer was clearly a sham One, as no money was paid, sod the mate to whom she was transferred testified that he had no interest in the vessel. The government also proved declarations of Horn here, that the vessel was going into that trade, and that he war interested in the vessel ; and the Spaniard, to whom the defence would have it appear that the venial was really *old, testified that he did not buy her, but that the Spanish captain ran away with her. The jury, on all the evidence, were satisfied that Horn MIS one of the guilty parties, and we have no doubt that their verdict was just. Thus this enterprise, which was on the verge of success, and would have been so profitable that the parties could afford to throw away property worth fifty thousand dollars when they thought it had succeeded, has culminated in disastrous ruin for at least one of the parties. We congratulate the community that at lut one of that worst clam of offenders engaged iu this infamous traffic— those New York traders who have fitted out and sent from this port so many vessels to diagram our country, our civilisation, and our Christianity—has been brought to punishment. It seems as if it most be the finishing stroke to the slave traffic out of this city. At any rate, it has re ceived such damage that i.he officers who bare shared in inflicting it are entitled to the thanks of all who prize our good name, or care for humanity. THE FEMALE STUDENT QUESTION. Some days ago we stated the case of Miss Gar rett's application for &doll's' oo to the anatomy and chemistry classes in the University of St. Andrews ; that sbe had ma triculated, and paid the fees of these deems ; but that the Senattut bad interposed, and enjoined the protestors to pre vent her attendance until they bad satisfied themselves as to the legality and competency of her doing so. It appears that they took the leg al opinion of Mr. Young and Mr. A. B. Clark ; and that the tenor of that opinion had been unfavourable to Miss Garrett's claim, as on Friday the following resolutions were canted by a majority of the Seoatus :—" L That the Senatus Aca demicus, acting wider the clearly expressed opinion of their able counsel, hold the alleged matriculation of Miss Garrett to be caul and of no effect. 2. Seeing that it is incompetent to any professor to issue a ticket conferring academical privileges to a student not legally matri culated, the Sandia resolve that the tickets of the anatomy and chemistry classes, issued to Miss Garrett, are void and of no effect, and that the fees be returned." Miss Garrett, on her part. laid a memorial narrating the facts before the Lord Advocate, whose opinion is as follows : —••• Edinburgh, Nov. 15, 1162.-11 the only question in volved in the memorial lad related to the power of the Suety Academicus to permit the attendance of female stu deota on the lectures in the university on payment of the matriculation and class fees, I should have hesitated to say that such a course was not within the power of the Senates Academicus bad they thought fit to consent to it. The attendance of females on university lectures is by no mesas without precedent, and I Hod nothing in the charters or foundations of the University of St. Andrew's which can be construed to deprive the Seoatus of the power to unction such arrangements under such conditions and regulations a. they might think reasonable. But the ad , mission of female students with a view, and with the right, of graduation, and the other privileges of the students in the university, is an innovation which the Senatua Academicus, in my opinion, have no power to permit. I do not thiuk that in the present case the memo rialist can maintain her right on the ground of special ciontract. The &Datum Academicus never officially gave consent to her admission, and it was not within the power of any individual professor to innovate on the established practice of the university without the authority of the governing body." Mir aarrett may appeal to the University Court against the decision of the Senator Ara demicus, and if that decision is confirmed she will be ex cluded from the college classes. As she does not care for damages, and has little prospect of being successful in an action for specific performance of the contract, there does not appear to be any practical solution of the female student question, except what may come from the University Com mission, which exists until January, or from the legisla tura —Scotsman. IRISH MODRSTY.—It will be remembered that at the late riot amongst the Irish hop-pickers in the West Borough, an infant was very seriously injured by beiog struck upon the head with a large that stone. The poor child died a week or two since, and the officials of the railway company were astonished the other day by rewiring a de mand for compensation from the parent* ! Of course the application was reftwed.—Maiciscone Journal. WEATHER REPORT. TUEIDAT, NOVEMIN S. t IAU: D. W. r. X. 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LN.E. to S., moderate to fresh, fine. KN.?. to &SAL, fresh to strong, fine. N.E. to EL, strong to moderate. Z. to S., strong to fresh, fine. teN.L, fresh to IL nomm. KN.!. to N.N.W., mo moderate. derate to strong. ILL ZWaLAZD. The Cologne Gazette announces the death, at Ottritgard, a• Friday last, of the most eminent of living German poets, Louis Upland. The deceased was born on the 26th of April, 1787. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (113111 DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sit in Basco is Michaelmas Term.—(Befose Lord aid Baron Pollock, sod Barons Martin and Channell) WATEZLOO ereustance COMPANY V. WINE. This was an action on a hoed given in Janusry, le-7.1, the plaintiffs to secure the repayment of 1501. advaaced by way of loan to a person named Coulter ' and the due payment of the premiums on a policy of insuranoi for , LSW. The bond was executed by Coulter, sad three sureties, ooe of whom was Niue, the huslood ,4 the defendant. In January, 1862, the action was brought against the defendant as widow and executrix of Niue to recover 671.105., being the balance due on the loan and the premiums upon the policy. Nine west house decomo r in l'et..-street, who died in November, 18.53, but ahLuugh the deed was executed in January of the same year, no plication was made by the office to his widow until ehort!v before the action was brought, the payments having te a ', continued up to that time. At the trial, which took plats at the last sittings at Guildhall before Mr. Baron Media, a verdict passed for the defendant. Mr. Wordsworth, on the part of the plaintiffs, now moved to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and the verdict being against the evidence. He said that until a few months before the action sru brought the plaintiffs were not aware that Nine bad diet and there was a covenant in the bond that when one rusty died another should be proposed. It appeared that the property left by the deceased 000aisted of two bows, Nos. 1 and 2, Aden-terrace, and also stock-in-trade ad book debts. No. 1 was mortgaged to Nine's cousin many years before his death for 733/., and the lease of No. 2 was in the possession of the executrix, and she received the rent of the house. 621. a year, from which she had to pay 101. for ground rent. Nine died in January, 1853, and in November of the same year the defendant deposited the lease of No. 2 with the cousin, but the learned counsel con tended this was a mere equitable deposit, and said that up to the present time the defendant still retained possession of the house and received the rents and profits. Mr. Baron Martin sad the defendant proved that, in pay ing her husband's debts, she disbursed far more than the amount of the property left by him at his death. Mr. Wordsworth thought the learned judge had formed an incorrect estimate of the receipts and disbunements. It appeared that the property of the deceased amount...! to 1,260/., and that the expenditure was not more than The Lord Chief Baron said his learned brother had re , d his notes, and reported that he was satisfied with the vei.hrt. Generally speaking, that was a sufficient reason for rejecting the application for a new trial on the ground of the venlirt being against the evidence. In modern times the court hid goes more into the evidence in these cases, but the report of Mr. Baron Martin was entirely in accordance with the fact sworn to both by the defendant and her daughter, that she (the defendant) paid more away than she received. This vie a good defence to the action, and he was of opinion that thee bad been no misdirection by the learned judge. The other judges being of the same opinion, The court refused a rule. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Bdoes the Judge Ordinary.) IN THS GOODS OF HIS LAT! NAXIMTT OZONCE EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION. At the sitting of the court, Mr. Gibbon made an application on behalf of Km Lavinia Janette Horton Blow, the daughter sod executrix of Mrs. Olive Sarre', who, it may, perhaps, be remembered, claimed to be the legitimate grand niece of George lIL, and to be Duchess of Lancaster. The motion was for leave no cite the Duke of Wellington u the personal representative of George Iv., the heir-at-lsw of George ; and also to cite the Attorney. General se representative of her present Majesty, the heir.geueral of his late Majesty. The object of the application was to ob tain probate of the following alleged will : " James's. George R " In ease of our royal demise, we give and bequeath to Olive, our brother the Duke of Cumberland's daughter, the sum of 15,0031. commanding our heir and succoosor to pay the sum privately to our niece as a recompense for the inie fortunes she may have known through her J father. une 2, ITU. " Witness—J. DowKu, CHATHAM, WARWICK." This document had never been revoked. Mn. Serra tad through her lifetime made every effort to obtain peahen, but she had always failed, the judge of the Prerogative Court alleging that be had no jurisdiction over the will of a we. reign. Since her mother's death, Mrs. Hy yea, her daughter and executrix, had also sought to obtain probate without success, but she now hoped to anil herself of the act of parliament constituting this court. The will bad been impounded by the Prerogative Court, and was therefore already in the regi.trv. Sir C. Creeswell—Whom do you say you wish to cite Mr. Gibbon—The Duke of Wellington, as executor of George IV. The Court—But be is not executor, he is only admix'. strator ; and the administrator of au executor doer not re. present the testator. Mr. Gibbon—Then in that case I must fall heck upon my motion to cite the Attorney•Generid. The Court—To cite bee Majesty, in truth and effect Mr. Gibbon—Precisely so. The Court—ln the year 1822 this question wu discussed by Sir John Nichol ; and I am very little inclined to do turb his decision. I have no jurisdiction over the supposed claim of Mrs. Ryves. Application refused. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Miller.) tw su BENJAMIN LUMLEY.—HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The bankrupt was described se formerly of Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, and of Hereford }rouse, Bromptos. and since residing in the empiro of France, and elsewhere on the continent of Europe—not a trader. The adjudication was made on the :3rd instant, on the pen• time of Mr. Benjamin Benjamin, of Regent•street Met tailor, a creditor for 1001. on a bill of eiehenge. On the same day the bankrupt surrendered and obtained the pro. tection of the court. This was the first sitting for proof of debts and choice of assignees. The list of creditors preparol by Messy. /fart Brothers and Bayles, shows debts to the amount of Z 3,0901.. all unsecured. No account of assets has bees rendered, but it is understood that they are of trifling amount.' The largest creditors are Mr. James Davis, of Clifford. street, Bond-street, a creditor for 9.025/.. •• • Judd' went dated March 8 1860 ; Earl Dudley. 4 . 706 L ; Sn John Bayley. 3,00 W. on a loud; Mr. Johnson, printer, Bt. Martin's-lane, 1,0001 ; Mao. Therese Tietjens (demonised as a lyric artist), TiCg. ; Mr. Wedge, of Regent's. park, 3,087/., on a jiblgment, dated llith November, 1861 ; Mr. Mapleson (described as a more copier), 79!. The Morning //crab/. 111,reing Pawl, Moregg Star and Daily Telegraph are creditors for small some ors• ing from 601. to 2001. for advertising. The remainder ci the creditors are chiefly tradesmen for small amounta. There was a large attendance of parties interested in the came. The principal creditor, who proved were Mr. Benjamin (the petitioning creditor), Lord Werd and Dudley, 31r. e Davis, and Mesas. Johtnione and Co., accountants. Th proceedinp only occupied about half.so-honr. Mr. Benjamin the petitioning creditor. was chow trade assignee, and th e sent sitting was appointed for the 1 9th of Defteabir. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Payne). ROBSERT FROM THE GREAT NOWILINILN RAILWAY. JAR Lewis, 32, wheelwright, was indicted for ate•lief five books, the property of the Great Northern Railway C^NaY. Mr. P sa Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Montagu Wdliami defended th lt appea primer. red from the evidence that on Saturday. 0,14 of November, a parcel of books was root from 11r. Pirko's. bookseller. Strand, to the Ship, at Charing-row. to be fo r ' warded to M ias Mayfield, at Southgate, by the Great ; °A hem Railway. The guard of the train on the Great odb.,,s Railway proved receiving the parcel at t iog'a-croas Stan and he pot it out at the Southgate itatioe. the attention of the porter on duty to it. W e he porter was collecting the tickets his attention was t a ker+ off the parcel for a few minutes. After he collected the ticket. he missed the parcel, and immediately went towards the Railway Hotel, and on his way piked up the war bill. He went on and overtook the prisoner, and saw the parcel amid jecting from under his coat. He said be picked it op. IN put it cm the ground. A passenger by the train so the prisoner pick up the parcel, put it under his Mat, " a away with it. The prisoner was then given into m ealy. , Mr. Montagu Williams addressed the jury for the Po' sonar, bat they found him Guilty. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be imprison for sir mat h& DRY/ADDING • eascvoteorr ASSOCIATION. William Pike, 43, painter, was indicted for felociondt embezzling the sums of 31. 12s. Id., and of Pa. B,l.,t,ewe i by him for and on account of Thomas Adams arid othe" , his masters. Kr. Orridp prosecuted ; Mr. Beater appeared for the defendant. It awoir that the prisoner was secretary o f the totrs.l. pinata &111136ation of Operative Hone!, Penitent • instituted for the purpose of affording to its menders • , their wives assistance in the time of pianos, sod to holt. tate the obtaining of employment, having hninches hlast e° the central society established in different parts of the dom. In hi capacity of secretary he received from linghtl 31. 12e. Id. on account of the association, and a on Si. Bd. from &whim; which were not accounted for. The prisoner's defalcations having been discovered he vas some time out of the way, but was at length (mod sod coo• Mr. on this charge. Mr. Healey addressed.the jury on behalf of the prieep er ' The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Assistant-Judge said this was importaot eye, sad beshooki postpone his judgment until next session. "S