The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-24 00:00:00

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No feeling but pain can attach to the perusal of such a history as that wish which the Divorce Court has filled our columns for some days past. Lawyers, it has been said, have the misfortune of seeing always the worst side of human nature, for they have to deal with men who come to them with their evil passions aroused and their angry temper exasperated. Bat the records of the Divorce Court make, in some degree, the public partici pators in this misfortune. Resort to that mise rable tribunal is the issue of a long series of either crime or misunderstanding, but unhappily the result is almost always to exhibit the darkest features in the character of all who are in any way involved in the details. It is impossible that these revelations should not be watched with some degree of interest, for who could resist the fascination of a drama of life and death thus played before his eyes with real human beings for the actors ? But when our sympathies or our antipathies are thus excited it is needful that our reason should speak to correct them. The judgment of that Court is in effect the judg ment of society, it reacts in the formation of that public opinion by which, consciously or uncon sciously, the actions of thousands are regulated, and it therefore concerns us all that, painful as the task may be, we shrink not from the duty of cen sors of the story which it discloses. In Po strange and sad a trial a strange and sad episode must not be wholly left unnoticed. Miss EMILY FAITHFULL, who was the wife's bosom com panion when she was undoubtedly innocent, and who, after ceasing, by the husband's desire, to re side in the house when estrangement had begun, naturally sided with her friend in the dispute. Sbe allowed, so far back as 1858, her authority to be used by Mrs. CODZIMOTONII attorney in charging the Admiral with a criminal assault upon herself, and she allowed the statement to be repeated in an affidavit tiled in the present suit. The fact was entirely disproved by her evidence in the witness box, and by her conduct towards the Admiral sub sequent to the alleged occurrence. But she can not be supposed to have been ignorant of the meaning of her own statements, and she cannot escape grave reprobation for allowing a charge, which she knew to be preposterous and imaginary, to be made in the bands of the lawyers of the parties the subject of formal stetement, and the instrument for a time of injurious scandal on an honourable name. In the CODRINOTON case the first part of the history does not differ from the ordinary routine. The marriage took place in 1849 ; two girls were born of it, and for seven or eight years there was no suggestion of unhappiness. In 1854 Admiral CODRINOTON was sent to the Crimea ; he returned in August, 1858. During the interval Miss EXILI FAITKIULL, with his sanction, resided with his wife as her friend. In 1857 the first appearance of disagreement occurred, but it arose from apparent " incompatibility of temper," and involved no charges of misconduct on either side. In 1858 Admiral CODRINOTON was ap pointed Superintendent of the Dockyard at Malta, and his wife accompanied him. They made the acquaintance of the Rev. Mr. Warsom, a chaplain at the station, and his wife, and a great intimacy sprang up. It ended, how ever, unfortunately. Mrs. CODRINOTON complained that Mrs. WATSON superseded her in the manage ment of her children and in the affections of her husband ; but the quarrel was for a time patched up. In 1863 they returned from Malta, and the Warm:a were also in Eng land. To this date the Admiral seems to have been unsuspicious ; but disturbing suggestions were now made—it did not appear from what quarter. Mr. Wanton employed a "friend "of his, a cabman, to watch Mrs. CODRINOTON. Her desk was opened in Mrs. WATSONS presence. The result was that a suit for divorce was instituted by the Admiral, at first directed only against Colonel Ambeitsos as co-respondent, but after wards implicating a Lieutenant MILDMAY. The nature of the evidence was briefly as follows. CODRINOTON It appeared that at Malta Mrs , 9 I Last evening their Royal Highnesses the P r i nce . and in pri of Wales, Prime Arthur, sad th e D u k e o f mode of life had been at variance with her bus- cerehrtdim sul howwwred the p riweewee Thew . with their pr.. band's tastes and wishes. Be disliked a n d avoided mop, attended by Lady Maodeallekl, Major Elphisslotte, balls ; she insisted on going to them. Their reef- and Major Teesdale. deice lay on the further side of the harbour, The Duke of Sutherland has left Stafford House, and she returned on these occasions in a St. James's, withia the last few days to join the duchess at gondola, accompanied by a gentleman ; either Ilailesball. Sake. Colonel ANDER:ION, the co-respondent, or Lieu- The Marchioness Frances Anne of Londonderry tenant MILDMAY being the more frequent escort. , her •very weak il sta r t.. Tb• md Earl and Countess aloes Vane fts 000asioss The transit occupied about te n m i nu t es , th e p ar ti es L were in a closed cabin, and it was part of the case I hare bean satiety ir at senhel Hall with the ennwhi dur i ng h er for the petitioner that the boat on these occasions The Earl de Grey, with Captain %Tyner and Mr. was observed by the sailors to be out of trim. In , Vyner, left town yesterday evening to attend the funeral of answer, however, it was proved that the door of the Ma/chicanes of Northampton. the cabin had a pane of glass in it ; and that the I The Earl of Derby is going on very favourably. gondola was a craft which the slightest movement The gout has quite left the noble earl, and be is gradually would put out of trim. It was alleged also for i r•Piniot Ms lost strength. the petitioner that either of the gentlemen named I The Earl and Countess of Ashbur n h am an d L a d y would often land with Mrs. CODRTNGTON, accom- K vi a i t ti b:riee the A Di shb k o . rn a ltri y have ... late a ly arrived in town froze piny her to her house, and remain an unknown earl and „ mg. ina r gaaad inoLnUL sg by the death of period. One witness also deposed to facts leading the i derehloweee N „ thareptew. directly to the belief that adultery had been com- I Lieutenant Colonel Erskine, the Deputy-teepee witted ; but he was proved to have been a k w o f ra us M ne , is appoiatid to mood Colossi m.igunie servant dieeliarged for a criminal assault on as Lospeotor-Generel. trbt €oun. WINDSOR CASTLE.. N0v.13. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the infant prince, Albert Victor, let the Castle thi twerailig for Marlborough-homes, attended by the Donates. of Maccles field, Major Teesdale, and Dr. Holzman. The Qaean, accompanied by Princess Helena, walked mad drove in the roiled,. Pewees Louise went out driving, attended by Mille. Nana'. The Hoe. lirar Frederick Brow had the hnuour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family yesterday. The Earl of °tithes= sad Captain Air W. Hate have suomoded Lord Mathias& and Lieutenant•Oolonel Kiopeote as Lord and Groom i• Waiting to the Queen. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prises Albert Victor, arrived at Iferiborongh•hoese yesterday, tram a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Their Royal Rieman@ woe attended by the Countess of Matielesfield, Major Teesdale, sad ,Dr. Holsmans. The Prince and Princess of Wales west to the Home's Theatre in the evening. A deputation from the Coil, Corn, and Pinsnos Commit tee of the Corporation of Loam, consisting of 11r.Depoty Bone (chairman), Mr. Lawley, Mr. Stuart, and Kr. B. A. Isaacs, attended by Yr. Conte, the Rensembrancor, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston at Cambridge•house yesterday, on the subject of the sewage of the metropolis. Despatches Were out yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the settlement.; on the West Coast of Africa. a maidservant in tb ".1174- e 4 414001, " book of the dockyard portal , establish ft at least one of the amnions Ara which ANDERSON wu charged with having stayed in the house he had left " directly " after landing. Similar instances, in which Lieutenant Mrunur was the alleged partner of guilt, were rebutted by the evidence of Lieutenant GALWAY, who had been with the parties all the evening. And an accusation against Mrs. CODRINGTON of having been in Lieutenant MILDMAY'S room during a tour in Switzerland was wholly disproved by a lady who was of the party, and in whose apartment Mrs. CODEINOTON had been during the period. After the return to England she wu frequently in company with Colonel ANDILEI3ON she met him at the house of Miss Emu.: FLITHPIILL, and on one oo melon she accompanied him to the Grosvenor Hotel ; but no direct evidence of impropriety was produced. Colonel ANDERSON, being co-respond ant, could not be examined ; Lieutenant Mn.niux was in India, but bad refused to give evidence on a eonunimion which Mrs. Comm:not; had procured and sent out for that purpose. That, however, which may have weighed most with the jury in pronouncing her guilty with both officers was probably the evi dence of a draft letter found in her desk and the testimony of Mrs. Wuson. The letter bore neither date nor address, but it was evidently intended for Colonel ANDERSON. It referred to an announcement of his approaching marriage ; it urged that if his vows to the writer had been sincere he oould not now love the lady he was about to espouse, and it urged him for her sake and his own not to marry unless he loved. It contained no further allusion to any passion, and expressed the writer's willingness to renounce all claims on him as soon as he was certain that he loved another. Written by an unmarried woman, it would have been a very noble and touching appeal ; written by a married woman, though it implied no guilt, it implied that she had listened to vows which were guilty. Mrs. WATSON'S evidence bore solely against Lieutenant MILDEST. She declared that in 1861 Mn CODRINOTON had told her of several instances of familiarity incom- 1 potable with innocence, and at last confessed to her ' that five minutes before she had committed adultery, with Mn.rousr in a public lane behind the house. l Mrs. WATSON declared that she was shocked ; but as Mrs. CODRINOTON was penitent she could not but forgive her. In fact the intimacy continued unabated, and with expressions of affection on Mrs. WSTBO27'B part, until Mrs. CODRINOTON quarrelled with her. Then it seems she joined eagerly in the endeavour to prove her guilty ; but, she withheld the evidence of the confession till put into the witness-box, on the plea that till she was on oath she was bound by a promise of secresy. But on the other hand she was proved to have written a letter, in which she described Mrs. CODRINOTON as in the habit of pouring out such nonsense that she could not be considered responsible, and such as con vinced MTS. WATSON that " she was wandering "in her mind," and " astray in the brain." And in this opinion Admiral Conelsoron himself, so late as 1862, concurred. Perhaps even now, l l though we may be bound to accept the verdict of the jury as scarcely avoidable on the strong evi deuce of fact, we may admit the darkness of this mental shadow to cover in some degree the guilt whose full enormity it may have partly hidden in the hour of error. .vyss", ulispAx NOVEMBEF, T 2 4; 18114. • • v ie ERrait The Inman steamship, City of Manchester, from New York on the 12th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 6.45 this morning. She brings 160 passengers, and 672,782 dollars and 208/. in specie. She landed the mails and 18 pamengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 6.50 a.m. Her news has been fully anticipated by the Hibernian, viL Greencastle, which brought New York advioes to the 12th, evening. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, Captain Ehlers, from New York on the 12th inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 102 passengers for Southampton, Havre, and Hamburg, and on freight 417,100 doh. for Eng land, 37,163 do's. for France, and 4,000 dole. for Hamburg. She experienced very rough weather during the passage, and on the 17th and 18th it blew a Leavy north-east gale. ,3111 SSA OF THE CONNED4RA4I PRESIDENT. *.(; , • We h yea American paws containing the =stage delivered by Jeffersou Davis to the Confederate Congress on the ith. The review of the campaign of 1864, into which the Preeident enters, concludes iu the following terms : The lessons afforded by the history of this war are fraught with instruction and encouragement. Repeatedly daring the war have formidable expeditions been directed by the enemy against points igoorantly supposed to be of vital importance to the confederacy. Some of these expe ditions have, at icemen's cost, been aucoessfel, but in no I instance have the promised fruits been reaped. Again, in the present campaign, was the deletion fondly cherished that the capture oL Atlanta and Richmond would, if effected, end the war, by the overthrow of our government and the submission of our people. We can now judge by I experience how unimportant is the influence of the former event upon our capacity for defame, upon the courage and I spirit of the people, and the st►bility of the government. We may in like manner judge that if the campaign against Richmond had resulted in success instead of failure ; if the valour of the army under the le►dership of its accomplished commander had misted in vain the overwhelming manes which were, on the eoutrnry, decisively repulsed ; if we had beep compelled to evacuate Richmond as well at Atlanta, the confederacy would have remained as erect and defiant as ever. Nothing could have been changed in the purpose of its government, in the indomitable valor of its troops, or in the unquenchable spirit of Its people. The baffled and dis►ppointed foe would in vain have scanned the reports of your proceedings, at some new legislative seat, for say indication that pro gram bad been made in this gigantic task of conquering a free people. The truth so patent to us must ere long be forced upon the reluelent Northern mind. There are no vital points on the preservation of which the continued existeees of the costederaey depends. There is no military success of the enemy which can accomplish its destruction. Not the fall of Richmond, nor Wilmington, nor Charles ton, nor Savannah, nor our of all combined, can eve the enemy from the *outwit and exhaustive drain of blood and tremors which must continue until he shall din. cover that no peace is attainable unless based on the rung nition of our indefeasible right.. Before leaving this subject it is gratifying to aware you that the military supplies essentially requisite for public defence will be found, as heretofore, adequate to our needs, sad that abundant crops had rewarded the labour of the farmer, sad rendered abortive the inhuman attempt of the enemy to produce, by devastation, famine among the people. The following is the part of the message relating to the foreign relations of the confederacy : armies we regeire and sus afford to keep in the field, to employ as • soldier tie negro who has merely been trained to labour, and as a labourer the white mac accustomed from his youth be thew of firearms, would scarcely be deemed wise or advantageous by any ; and this is the question now before us. But should the alternative ever be presented of subjugation or of the employment of the slave as a soktier, there seems no reason to doubt what should then be our de- , Maim. Whether our view embraces what would, in so I extreme a cam, be the sum of misery entailed by the dotal-. nion of the seamy, or be restricted solely to the effect upon the welfare and happiness of the negro population them. selves, the result would be the same. The appalling deroo raliaatios, suffering, disease, and death, which have bees caused by partially substituting the invaders' eyeless at polies for the kind relation previously subsisting between , the master and the slave, hays been a sufficient demon stration that external interference with our institution of domestic slavery is productive of evil only. If the subject involved no other consideration than the mere right of property, the sacrifices heretofore made by OW people have been such as to permit no doubt of their readiness to surrender every posseadon in order to /years their independence. But the social and political question which is exclusively under the control of the several States has a far wider and more enduring importance than that of pecuniary interest. In its manifold phases it embraces the stability of republican institutions, resting on the actual political equality of all its citizens, 5.4 includes the fulfilment of the task which has been so happily begun—that of Christianising and improving the , condition of the Africa= who hays, by the will of Provi doom, been placed in our charge. Comparing the molls of our experience with those of the experiments of abbess who ham borne similar relation to the African race, tha people of the several states of the confederacy have abundant reason to be satisfied with the past, and to use the greatest circumspection in determining their coarse. These considerations, however, are rather applicable to the improbable cootingency of oar need of resorting to this element of resistance than ie oar present condition. If the recommendation above made for the training of forty thou sand negroes for the service indicated (pioneers and engineer labourers) should meet your approval, it is certain that even this limited number, by their preparatory training in intermediatedaties, would form • more valuable reserve force in cue of urgency than threefold their number end. dimly called from field laboar ; while a fresh levy meld to • certain extent supply their placer is the special service for which they are now employed, The Message closes with some remarks on nego tiations for peace : Peace is manifestly impossible nasal desired by both parties to this war, and the disposition for it among our seeming will be best and moat certainly evoked by the as monatration on our part of ability and unabakea dotertnina- Mon to defend our rights, and to hold no earthly price too dear for their parches*. Whene►er there shall be on the part of our enemies a desire for pears, there will be no diffi culty in (lading moans by which oeigotiatioa can be opened ; but it is obvious that so agency 010 bo called into action until Wm dears shall be mutual. When that contingency shall happen, the goverement, to which is wadded the treaty-making power, can be at no lass for means adapted to accomplish so &nimble an end. In the hops that the day will soca be reached when, nader Divine favour, these Slates may be allowed to enter on their former peaceful pursuits, and to develop the abundant natural rosourcas with which they Aso blessed, let us than resolutely osatinos to devote our 'totted and unimpaired owess to the defence of our homes, oar byes, sod our liberties. This is the true path to pesos. Let us tread it with coo6dsoco is the assured result. Richmond, Nov. 7,1961. J 1771180111 Danl. (awrza's nmsozams.) THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. TURIN, Nov. 23, Emma. . . The senatorial committee appointed to er-amine the bill for the transfer of the capital are favourable to that measure. The Chamber of Deputies bee adopted the bill for a reduction in the emoluments of public func tionaries. Capucines. One of Lie accomplices, cinitictel negotiating the railway shares with a fraudtheLt knowledge and for a pecuniary consideration, i, a nobleman bearing the high sounding name, two particles, of the Marquis de Fitte de Sutv:r. There is little change at the Bourse, opened with a slight improvement, bat wa like other securities by the heaviness of L., Italian Loan. The last quotations were 65fr. to both for cash and account, being a fall of 14 . the ooe case and a rise of Sc. in the other. 3191,...,1 fell tar. The following highly sensational news a: prat, the Band, of Berne, of Nov. 21 : A kart de faire part (letter announcing a deceaa, the Demme family, anoonnoes that Dr. Demme affianced bride, Miss Flora Trrimpy. have drovuol selves in the lake of Geneva. It is p aitivel► , 44 the two bodies have been found. Dr. Demme and ti• left Berne on the evening of Sunday, the Lich, without u i parents' knowledge, for Fribourg, and thence to L l 4. From the latter place the lovers proceeded oo foot, ur . 4 said, to the lake of Geneva. Nothing ca„ be kernel what they did after they left Vevey or Villeneuve. V 4 a sad tragical denoileavit. I think the above news stands greatly in see.i of confirmation ; ..be telegraph could scarcely '.,ac, failed to have given earlier information of Rich a:. event had it been true. The paragraph, it wi;i L e observed, makes no mention of the marriage tr tween Dr. Demme and Miss Flora, which wa., 44 . nouuced the other day. ,-(111IS DAY.) 24 8 8.11. The Washington star, of the 11th, says in re gard to Sherman's operations :—" Sherman is operating with his tire corps in different bodies in Hood's rear, and is already between him and any possible line for his retreat south when he sees the necessity for so doing, which, we apprehend, will not be long hence." The New York Times, of the 12th, observes that the news from General Sherman's army in Georgia, as well as frcini General Grant's army in Virginia, is of a kind to show that there is to be no pause in the' prosecution of active operations this winter. " Sherman is about to undertake one of the most' remarkable campaigns of the war ; and we judge from what we know that it is not at all unlikely that Grant will have Petersburg, and that the rebel army will be closely shut up in Richmond' before the close of this rapidly-closing year." Information has been received in Washington chat the Confederates in the Shenandoah Valley, having been reinforced, are attempting to flank the position of General Sheridan, in order to at least threaten Pennsylvania and Maryland with another invasion. General Sheridan, however, says the New York Herald of the 12th, Is prepared for them, having on Wednesday last given marching orders to his army, which is in the finest and most efficient condition. Oar despatches from the trout represent that the rebel" were some days ago In force at Staunton, and that it was their intention to more epos our Boss at osee. A greed review of General Emery's corps, the Nineteenth, took plats out last Monday. Forty of Mceby's guerillas, all disguised in the 17nioe uniform, yesterday morning attacked, near Charlestown, a small train belonging to Sheridan's army, guarded only by a sergeant and tea men, only three of whom escaped. Our oorisepoodents give very interesting accounts of the voting for President in the army. The appearance of Generals Sheridan and Crook at the polls to deposit their votes caused great enthusiasm among their soldiers. Nothing positive regarding the operation which General Sherman is now proseouting can at present be made public ; bat we are assured that everything is procreating moat favourably with him, and that when his plans shall develop themselves they will cause every taus American to rejoice. Sherman sod his ofdosn are fully acquainted with Hood's movements and where. bouts. and probably by this time Beauregard and Hood are equally aware of Sherman's. to their sorrow. The rumour of the capture of Johesonville, on the Tennessee river, by the rebels, appears to have beep without foundation in facto The place is still in possession of the Unit faeces, and no apprehenaions for its safety are entertained. From Feat Tennessee we learn that General Gahm, after his recent rout of the rebels in the vicinity of Morristown, pursued them forty-fora miles. At the date of latest accounts he wee ninety miles east of Keoxville, and the reboil', who ware at Bristol, were being reinforced from the western part of Virginia. The Sichmond Sentinel ways that a large fleet of Union gunboats and iron-clads are in the Junes river below Dutch Gap. It also says that the Union soldiers are not yet making any preparations for winter quarters, and that it is rumoured Grant contemplates a movement on Wilmington by way of Weldon, and that he is already sending troops to the latter place. A Washington despatch of the 11th says :—" It is known here that the resignation of General ZdTlellan, as major-general in the United States army, was in the War Department on Wednesday, but the President has not yet been officially in formed of the fact. It is believed that the resigna tion will not be accepted, but that the general will be offered an active command." The New York Times has the following article on the capture of the Florida : It is well to say at the outset that the capture of the Florida is a Brazilian port is clearly illegal, being a breach of that law of nations which we as much as any other Power—jest now more than most Powers--are interested in upholding. There might be some justification for seizing her in au English port, as site owes her powers of mischief to the failure of the English authorities to execute their own laws ; and her career of destruction, so far from hewing been a subject of regret to the English public, has, we fear, to the majority of them, been a source of high satisfaction. If, therefore, an American captain had assailed and sunk her in British waters, although the set would undoubtedly have been a •iolation of law, there night have been some excuse found for it in the ordinary feelings of human nature. There are some tests which even the patience of the most patient cannot stand, and if American patience were to break down under the spectacle of a course of robbery bagels in viola. tion of English law, protected by the English flag, end applauded by the English people, whatever lawyers might say, morality could not severely condemn. Bet neither Brasil nor any other nation, exempt England, has bad hand, art or part, in eluding the Florida on her pirati cal coarse, or keeping her la it. From Brasil we have (ssesived no injury whatever ; even it we had, It would be none the less our duty to respect the law in our manner of avenging it. As it is, there is not a particle of excuse for perpetrating such an assault on her peace and dignity as is involved in the commission of an act of war in mu of her harbours. The only pleas that can be possibly put forward in defence of it are that the Florida might still do us great injury, and that we are so strong that we have nothing to fear from Brasilia° indignation ; but these are pleas which a great nation ought to be ashamed to urge. The harm the Florid& can do us can be measured in dollars and mots ; but nose= that can be computed ought to be of half as mach cense quo*, to us as the maintenance of the great principles of law and justice. To a Christian people the great value of greeting' lies in the fact that It enabler it to pusses a oonscienos, and to oboe it with inocevesience or humiliation. A powerful maim, without a conscience, or one to which it nays so heed, in one of the most detestable and disheartening sights on which any friend of the human race can look; and, if our policy, both at hut, and abroad, is not governed by the great doctrines of morality, to what nation can we look for an example of respect for principle! If democruy does not surpass the net of the world In its integrity, and love of right, and respect for weakness, pray what does mankind gain by its growth! We treat, therefor*, that we shall not be blinded to the reel nature of the incident which has jut occurred at Bahia, by he material value to ourselves. We owe Brazil such an apology and each satisfaction u she shall think necessary, and es the usage of maims may prescribe ; and we hope there will be no delay on our part in offering them. We ought not to forget the saying of mu of the greatest political phi laeopbers, uttered many years ago, is commenting on our affairs, " that it is only by the scrupulous conformity to morality In peat attain that governments can hope to teach the commanity N {aeon to know, to love, and to ob serve it la the Isom meow el It is act in my power to amicuoce any change in ihe conduct of !amigo powers. No such action hes been taken by the Christiaa nations of Europe as might justly have been expected from their history, from the duties imposed by international law, and from the claims of humanity. It is charitable to attribute their conduct to no worse motive than indifference to the cousquenos of a struggle which shakes only the republics,' portion of the American omitinent, and not to ascribe to dean • coons calculated to insure the proloogation of hostilities. No instance in history is remembered by me in which a nation pretending to exercise destinies over another asserting its independence, ha. been the first to concede the aisles:us of such independence. No use can be re called to my mind in which neutral powers have failed to est the example of reacgoiaing the independence of • nation, when satisfied of the inability of it. enemy to subvert its government ; and this, too, in cases where the previous relation betwees the catending parties had been con fessedly that of mother country and dependent colony ; net, as in oar use, that of eo-equal States salted by federal compact. It has ever been considered the proper function and duty of neutral powers to perform the office of judging whether in point of fact the nation ,acting dominion is able to make good Its pretension by force of arms, and, if not, by recognition of the restating party to discountenance the further ciontinuance of the contest. And the reason why this duty is incumbent on neutral powers is Plainly apparent, when we reflect that the pride and pasties which blinds the judgment of the parties to the con flict rause the continuance of active warfare, and con sequent needle. /laughter, tong after the heritable result has become sparest to all not engaged in the struggle. So long, therefore, as neutral nations fail by recognition of our independence to announce that, in their judgment, the United States are unable to reduce the confederacy to submission, their conduct will be accepted by our enemies se • tacit encouragement to continue their efforts, and as an implied aseuresce that belief is estatinined by wand nations in the soccer of their designs. A direct 'finnan; whether intentional or not, is thus applied to securing • continuance of the carsage and devutatioa which desolate this continent, and which they proton deeply to deplore. The disregard of this just, humane, and Christian public duty by the nations of Europe is the more remarkable from the fact that authentic expression has long since been given by the governments of both ham and England to the con viction that the United States are alibis to conquer the eonfedatcy. It is sow mere than two years since the go verument of Frau summonsed officially to the cabinets of St. Petersburg and London it. own conclusion that the United States were unable to achieve any decisive military sums. In the answers seat by these powers no intimation of • contrary opieies wee conveyed ; and it is notorious that In speeches, both is and out of parliament, the mem ben of her Britannic Majesty's government have not hesitated to express this conviction in mandated terms. The denial of our tight, nadir thew circum steams, is so obviously unjust, sod discriminates so un fairly is favour of the United States, that neutrals have *ought to palliate the wrong of which they are coo scious, by professing to consider, is opposition to notori ous truth and to the kerma belief of both belligerents, that the recognition of oar indepeudenos would be value less without their (either intervention in the struggle— an intervention of which we disclaim the desire and mis treat the advantage. We seek no favour, we with no inter unties, we know ourselves fully competent to maintain oar own riglite and isdepeadenee against the invaders of ( ye country, sod we feel justified in asserting that without the aid derived from recruiting their armies from foreign eountries, the invade/. would ere this have been drive. from our soiL Whim the resegaition of the confederacy wee refused by Great Britain, is the fall of 1882, the refusal was excused on the ground that any action by her Ma jesty's government would have the effect of Mating the passions of the belligerents and of preventing the return of pros. It ix assumed that this aisles was sin cerely entertained ; bat the experience of two years of unequalled curare shows that it was armor Oa and that the result was the reverse of what the British ministry humanely desired. A contrary policy, • policy just to as, a policy diverging from an Revaryiag course of emulation te all the dolmas of our enemies, is still within the power of her Majesty's government, and would, it is fair to presume, be productive of conesqnsooes the opposite of those which have unfortunately followed its whole cane of conduct (root the commencement of the war to the present time. In • word, peace is impossible without iodependeeee, sad it is not to be expected that the enemy will anticipate neutrals in the nagaition of that indepeodenee. Wheat the history of this war shall be fully disclosed, the calm judgment of the impartial publicist will, for thus reasoes, be unable to absolui the neutral nations of Europe from • share is the moral re sponsibility for the myriads of human lives that have been unnecessarily sacrificed during its program. The reoeWed Instances in witch foreign powers have girls us just cause of complaint need sot here be detailed. The extracts frogs the ocirrespasdenos of the Mete departatest which sescoo3peay this roasesge will afford such farther iatormatios u can be given without dettiessat to the public interest, sad we oast reserve for the futon such action as may be doused sdrimable to secure redress. The President proceeds to argue that all laws exempting persons from military duty should be revoked, and that a general militia law is needed. With regard to the treatment of prisoners, each government is hereafter to be allowed to provide necessary comforts to its own citizens held captive by the other. With regard to the employ ment of the slave, be thinks it would be proper to acquire for the public service the entire property in the labour of the slave, and to pay, therefore, due compensation rather than to impress his labour for short terms. He dissents from those who advise a general levy and arming the slaves for the duty of soldiers. Ilia ear elite popalitios shall prom lasitaleiest for the THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID. Nov. 23 Evsztere.. Five out of the six deputies who have been elected in this city are adherents of the ministry. The number of persons voting in Madrid was 1,953. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (room ova ows PARIS. WEDNISDAT ETZIENG. The lectures (literary and historian) in the Roe de la Pair, the arbitrary suspension of which drew down upon the government severe comments from all the liberal journals in Europe some time ago, are now likely to be resumed, but in another locality. It is rumoured that M. Durny, who seems since the Franco-Italian convention to have more liberty to follow the bent of his own en lightened views than he at one time had, has autho rised the continuance of these lectures in the casino adjoining the Masonic Lodge in the Rue Cadet. The building is the property of the craft, and the catholic organs, who hate freemasonry, represent it Si an aggravating circumstance, and a terrible sign of the times, that such men as Pelletan and Prevost Paradol should be allowed free speech in such a place. M. faine's nomination by Marshal Valliant, the minister of the Emperor's household, to the poet of Professor of History and esthetics in the School of Fine Arts, is also a cause of much groaning among the Mack dragoons. The Bishop of ChoAres has followed the Bishop of Nismes in denouncing the Convention an I the conduct of the French government subsequent to it. These are the only two prelates who have hitherto spoken out upon the subject. The France, whose constant effort is to keep its devotion to Rome in wholesome subordination to its imperialist principles, suggests that the Bishop of Chartres is frightening himself unnecessarily. As to Mgr. Plantier, Bishop of Nismes, he, since publishing his mandate, has gone to Rome under pretence of the necessity of seeking a warmer climate. I rather think the true reason is that Nismes, with the council of state looking out for appals con►medabws, has become too hot to hold him. The Patric, contradicting • current rumour, thinks itself authorised to say that although M. de gartiges, the French ambassador at Rome, may have regretted the hostile language of the papal newspapers, it is not true that he has officially ad dressed any remonstrance to Cardinal Antouelli on the subject. A notary of Villetrun (near Orleans), named Jerry, has been convicted by the assize court of the Loir and Cher of a long series of forgeries of bonds and mortgages, by means of which he embezzled monies amounting in all to 200,000 fr. and upwards. The prisoner, who is Cr years old, bad practised as a notary for upwards of 20 years, and till recently bore a good character. Many people of small for tune are ruined by his misdeeds, and an Orleans notary named Thuillier is a great sufferer. The jury having declined to find extenuating cir cumstances, the prisoner is condemned to im prisonment with hard labour for life ; but although the case is • very bad one, and the necessity of severe repression of sash crimes is strongly felt, the jury out of pity has petitioned the Emperor to mitigate the punishment. Im mense confidence is reposed in the class of nota ries ; and happily breaches of trust on their part are very rare. A grocer of Batigoolles was yesterday sentenoed by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to thirteen months' imprisonment for appropriating to bis own use money and railway securities, which he picked up in a pocket book lost oa the Boulevard des RIRIONATION Or LORD LYONS. —We have reason to believe that Lord Lyons, bee Majesty's Minister at Washington, has sent over his resignation. 11l ben th , ec• cadoned by wiwearied exertion in the performaace ci his mercies duties, has led, as we are informed, to this dee . minatioa as the part of his lordship, whose services, made peculiarly difficult circumstances, can scarcely be appeal. Wed is their full extent. We think we are justified in ay. ins that the pacific ambitions still existing between Crust Britain and the at ailed ignited States of ime:its are dos, in the first degree, to the tact and temper displayed by Lord Lynes is his intercourse with the governmeat of Wash Witco. —Pon. VISIT OR ORNKRAL TOY THUMB AND FA,OLT TO teen Pantos AND Pitman or Watzw—Yesterday evens& shortly before seven o'clock, 0•111111111 Tom Thumb, hie vie, and Mime Minnie Warren (her sister), visited the Priam al Primers of Walla, by appoistasest, at Marlboirongh.Loas. The vowelise Wok place is the library, and besides the Prince sad Prisms of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prime Arthur were preempt. The Prince of Wales sad tits Oentensader-in-Cbiaf *stored iota familiar conversation with the general, while the Princess was almost ezelnorely cecopied with Mn. Stratton sad her baby. The interior bated about a quarter of an boar, when their royal high• weer retired, highly delighted with the visit, while its getters' and family were no lees delighted with the bower paid the. It is understood that General Tom Thank who is • distiagnisbed Freemason will shortly attend • grand lodge to be held by the grad master. The private reorp ties held yesterday as Wadi's Hotel, Doverotnet, very fully attended. We need in the Bury and Norwich Post :—" On the evening of Widnes:lay, the 16th of November, hi Highness the Maharajah Mations Singh hoited all the inhabitant+ of the parish of Elved.on to s most so* , entertaiemest. The children had his at 6 o'clock, ad all ine rest ot the village children Joined them at 7, to wither scar extraordinary feats of jugglery performed by him highs" who he an expert isorderor, almost rivalling the ARMCO brothers. A large stage um erected io the entrance 61 where mats were placed so as to sonommodate all the mu futon. The performance lasted two hours, and brsoo farth shear of applause. Her Highness the Ilaharser delighted both old mid young by her kind engaging MUD( --goisg into the servants' hall to see the children it and taking great matins of the warmth His Menem s demerrealy popular among his temente, visiting them Pe smelly to ingeire into their wants, and taking rest yam in improving their dwellings, /MOW al which he hu already rebailt.” Mr: Seward, speaking on the evening of the lOth, et the White Roam, Washington, to an immease rand who ems to offer eangretalstimis on the late elastics. ad respecting slavery :—" See how the matter amp& TM that year d the war Dllppriesed the African slave weds it the United States ; the mooed year of the oar brought nu nevem tap to the level of soldiers et freedom. and aboliabei slavery in the district el Columbia ; the third year aboliibid slavery in Maryland—(obsers)--aad if the democrats and that the war has been a failure this year, ohm Coviro ebonies together, it will adopt a constitatiOeal sweodmet4 sad abolish slavery throughout the United Stater " 1 1,41 einem) ♦ letter from Rome, of the 16th says :—"The Ling sod Queue of Sweden hays solarised to this place. The Qum Dowager with bar summons family bad come text some time before. The little court is sow complete; hat She only coamspiesies that • few more moms am! b• ism malidog cm the Piaci° said Corso. The weather u Tel wet here, and the only mason that Rome is not inuodstei is that the rain set in before snow had fallen on the mom• Mine. Is spite of the weather, however, strawberries are Mill hawked shoat the streets." The Belgian Chamber of Representatives su the 19th dimmed the cpmetioe of the gambling bow at flea. Swaml members moomnamided the government to suppress the establiehment, while ems in the Dame of Of principle of absolute liberty gaped for its mint/Daus 11 . Frire.Orbaa, Kinkier of Timers while pointing out the difficulties which stood in the way of immediate soot* woo, oharacterimed is very energetic' terms the itomoSitY of 'omitting establiehments, arid dwelt at some keit" the advantages of honest labour. The words of the amine were loudly applauded by the Chamber, but oo step re , Slum against the roulette bank at Sc.. THR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND THE Rtftwtt's —Lest mouth Mr. R. Potts. M.A., of IrMity Cambridge, wrote to several of the railway comre o4 &Oleg that the boys who atteoded the Cambridge L-°' l Biaairtteeme may Ss allowed to travel to and from the plus of examinatioo for a Niggle fan, and that the saes privileges may be granted to mutes or 131001A011 WOW PlaYiai their rapt* and to the samisen. la stir Os directors of the Great Estero Railway has agreed to or cede the outran'', to " youths, if under 16 yaws of age. 8:. Osozat's CHURCH, CAMPDILT-HILL, K SINOTOR—YasMeday this then* was coosecrated by the Baehr, of Loads. There was a large atteodance both °I the 'brig, sod WI, , ow the orsisics The church cosine ides 1.100 sittiap, of which se-third are free and ` O4 C . It is a Iteodeos• structure, with a spire. whir rro e ss naaid the elevation it Seeds ups. would be • 'Sri stnhml objeet, if its effeet were oat diminished by the adjoin 01 t lofty obelisk al tiethari Judie* Waterworks. W.S.W. h h.W. rni j cf 8.8. W. I d 0,27 RAE eo : W.R.W. Co &S.W. j W. e Ls 2 o 0:7 B.W. c C 051 R. t C u 5 W.B.W. 030 044 3 SE. oc 0.53 3 ro LI! 3 S.W. ro 1.03 . NAIL ro Lb, I 8. re 0.71 LW. At 0.41 X.R. bit 030 • WELTRER REPORT. ThVUDAY. Nov IL L *. ......1-.., Eberle 19.61 16 W. lath 16.6961 W.N.W. st Ardroasa 'ma sr L Gramaan464 1 117 W WAIL Galway WM Si LLW. Vanilla —. I—i 11.63 40 N.W. ttroel . rri 112.40 33 N.N.W. Italyboad —11937 41 Z. Peabroko 1944 42 N. W. homes, .. 12 6. 49 44 N.N.W. Baia .19.41 16 N. N. W. 1:0d4441.. 2.1.49 41 W. loabolod 9227 46 N.N.W. Plymouth 19.44 42 N.W. Weymewit 29.39 41 W.N.W. i9TUU Loudon 29.21 is w.s.w. Omer 29.4 42 W.&W. Yarmouth 29.00. 41 5. icarborough I& 36 41 &L lithlattla 29.46 64 LILL Heligoland 29.7441 &X ftOPABLI. Oa 111011201 SATrINIT. W.S.W. to N.N.E., OMNI. N.W. to N tai strong., aqua y, mad back. fresh. rata oe snow with some to ,e rain. W.N. W. So N.N.E., WSIMMIAL N.E. to W., gm ; t, moderato to strong, moderate. with showers.. W.& w. to N. N.L, aordEna. N.W. to N.E sed fresh to Amu& with aeon to mo.l.crak. showers Varying noel to N.W. IM . As seat above. met and N.N., strong, &oven. squally, unsettled. Naedberameaoslaad. Waildraadralaad. Walla, sad 14 dmathierswisitish C aad Say of bow. damn miaatirarsi 'Woad dad North Sew