The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-09 00:00:00

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Vials& Marla, Asbaurs MAI 11..ite•rt sal Mrs. T. lisAthows.—Cmanseee at 7j. VIUTANttlit. TO galsEvai. TEE UNIX r QVUJI. Mot Chilies.— La.tartL - Y Etlaair. te.—A BIT ibr THE isitusr. Mr. M, Laiaa.—Asai TME 11/04JAWS rrfinux. —Coutosage at GI. ILION WATTS AT IMSIIOI BAUDOL IMO DAT —*maim 7A. Ths.....ANosaraA 71 11 , a. TomoAm —Mamma. 111. la—. Alleressm. Ah. um. LONDON, MONDAY, DDC. 0. Tux commercial and fliansial movements of the past week hare presented few features save those of discouragi.ment and apprehension. The dark shadow of impending war exercises a very gloomy influence upon the public mind. The hopes of peace are clung to all the more fondly now that the first feelings of excitement and indignation, caused by the outrage on board the Trent, have subsided ; yet the commercial claims have a deepening impression that there is a grave risk of an early outbreak of war. This impression is strengthened by the immense meta which is die played in every naval and military department. How can men enter calmly into the ordinary transactions of commerce, with their wide scope, and, maybe'', distant returns, when every arsenal and dockyard in the kingdom resounds with the clang of anus, and with the bustle of a host of supernumerary artisans, suddenly called in to meet a pressing emergency ; when, too, the Qcycx'm Household Troops are hastily placed under omen for the distant region which may become Use theatre of war ; and when the finest and fastest steamers of one mercantile marine are being suddenly diverted from their ordinary occupation as ocean carriers, to be loaded with troops and the materials of destruction From these and many similar indications commer cial men infer that Government, with stern deter mination, are gathering up their utmost energies for a great crisis to which they apprehend an un favourable issue, and in fare of which all ordinary considerations of economy are cast on one side. As warlike alarms begin to resound the boas of commerce becomes hushed. In wishing for peace we are all perfectly unit *Onions, while as regards the prospect of its pre servation opinion seems to be almost equally be There is, however, one point on which all parties are agreed, and this **that, pending the correspondence between the two Governments, the tirst result of which may possibly be the withdrawal of the entire British Legation from Washington, all commercial transactions must be restricted as much as possible. It is not too much to say that trade in every department at the port and in the interior, in the foreign as well as to the home branch—is partially paralysed. En terprise is thoroughly repressed. War might be attended with such momentous consojnences that to enter into any but ready-money transactions is at present a kind of speculation, and there are a vest number of branches of business in which spe culation is never knowingly permitted to enter. Rejection of (milt engagements, and reduction of the old ones, is therefore, the commercial policy at the moment. In so quarter is the paralysis so oompleke, or the feeling of uocortaiuty so pest, as in the Gatos trade. The eti..A is equally marked at Liverpool sad at the market for the row material as in that for the manufactured artists, and for the sufficient reason that speculative ex citement, from which there is now the expected reaction, had prevailed widely in both depart ments. Thu difference in tho character of the business now going on at Liverpool may be in toned from the fact that the sales of cotton, which during the recent excitement reached 160,000 bales a week, amounted last week to less than 311,11u0 bales. As there has been at the mine time a reduction to the important extent of about I id. per lb. in the prices of American de scriptiotei, the small amount of the sales that have been found practicable is significalit of the degree of eantion which buyers consider it necessary to observe in the present strained con dition of the market. We have repeatedly alluded to the perilous character of the cotton speculation, nil each new event that occurs places it in a stronger light. If the remarks which have been offered have prevented any persons from neglecting tlic.r ordinary business, which they are supposed to understand, in order to join the wild rush into the cotton market, the condition of which they il not understand, our object has been accompliahe.i. Thu cotton market had much better be left at pr. ant to the professed cotton specula tors, and to thew, who are already engaged in it. Unfortunatdy, to advise inexperienced persons to quit the market is at present much easier than to show them how to quit it, for selling is a very different op , rstion from buying, and this ohietly because holders refrain from realising until they all want to do so, together. It is like an ill-ordered crowd trying to aqueere itself out of the narrow doors of a theatre, We notice that the fall in the price of COMM °IWO& to all descriptions. Sea Wand is cone lured to have declined id. to Id. per lb. ; Egyp'.ian, Id. ; and Braailian and Surat, Id. It I. eort:iy of remark that this proof of the uncertainty of the present high range of prices, combined with the contingency of war, and of the release of the Southern supply, will probably give a decided check to the efforts which are being made to send tarward cotton from various paste of th e world. should the crisis in our relation with America he prolonged, it may do incalculable injury in this respect. One of the contingencies to which mercantile teen look forward At nth great misgiving, in the event of war with America, is that of privamering. It is feared that the Americans, who are as quick and dexteroun in naval matters as ourselves, would I I indict great damage on oar foreign commerce, which, be iLiettaardiarad, is the mainspring of our prosperity. All through the Russian war, our mercantile marine rode in perfect freedom and safety on every sea. The enemy made scarcely • single naval prim. buxom we shut every one of hie ships saf..ly up in his ports. The Americans, it is true, hay. , not a naval force in any degree approaching ours. Neither bare they elual foci htiss fur oMaimng coal---an invaluable article iu • struggle in which steam would play a most important pert. They could, however, equip • swarm of privateers, and this circumstance would of itself impose • heavy clog upon the whole of our foreign trade, in the shape of a high war premium. Shipowners and merchants are already showing that they are not prepared to carry on business subject to these new uncertainties, as we see by their running to Lloyd's, to pay the current war risk, while the nation is still at peace. The security of modern trade is promoted in no small degree by the universal adoption of the practice of in surance against fire and maritime casualties. To these, should pihtical matters go wrong, will now be added a far hoarier charge for insurance against war risks, and it would be childish to shrink from recognising the possibility of a con siderable addition being thus made to the prices of foreign commodities in use in this country. This would probably give a cor responding check to consumption. Let us not plunge into war, any more than into other under takings, without counting the cost. We believe Use prospect of having to pay high war premiums goes some way towards tempering the bellicose tendencies of Liverpool and London. Perhaps it is as well that we have • check of some such kind. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER . 9, 1861. manta, wbioh are to be unusually full and complete in all particulars. . ilke repott of the Secretary of War vie be be com pleted on the 27th. It will show the cost and varied operations of that department of the public service lino. the 4th of March, and the estimates of what will be required for the maintenance of the immense army now in the field and expected to be brought into active service, and for the vigorous prosecu tion of the war to a successful termination. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will not be completed for several days. The preparation of the details of this report has required a great deal of labour and careful attention. Mr. Chase has not yet prepared any portion of the report re lating to the public policy of the government. It has been intimated that the Secretary of the Treasury and the President would recommend the establishment of a new fiscal agent in the nature of a national bank ; but iu view of the aid ren dered by the banks in the first one hundred and fifty millions of the new national loan, it is not probable that any proposition will be made to set up • government institution that will be oppres sive to them. It in stated upon reliable authority that the estimates of the requirements of the government during the next fiscal year will make it necessary to call for appropriations amounting to one thousand and sixty minion dollars (160 millions I). A Washington despatch to the Evensng Post of November 26 says : The slavery question wi'l come before Congress at the opening of the session in an official form. Secretary (Amerce will discuss the subject in his annual report from the War Department, and wi'l take strong ground in favour of the emancipation of all slaves belonging to rebels in aims against the government. Rumours of this recommendation of Mr. Cameron have been ia circulation here fur • day or two, and are fully confirmed by a state ment made last evening by the secretary himself. It is also true that Secretary Chase favours an increase of duties on sugars, iron, woollens, and some other articles. He will set forth the mums for these moommendatioas in his forthcoming report. Joshua R. Yeddings, Consul-General for the British North American provinces, has accom plished the object of his visit to Washington— namely, the removal of the delays and inconveni ence attending passports to British subjects on taking passage for Europe at Portland, Maine. Heretofore passports were required to be counter signed at the Hume Department, but that business is now to be performed by a government agent. The 37th Congress convenes at Washington on Dec. k. Mr. Purviance, of Pennsylvania, recently ap pointed Consul-General at CAlcutta, has declined. The steamship North Star, from Aspinwall, Nov. 15, arrived at New York on the 25th with 829,807 dollars in specie. The inte"igonce- from New Granada is unimportant. The foreign con suls have been officially notified of the change of the title of the republic of New Granada to that of the United States of Columbia. PRAYER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE. Yesterday it wan announced from the pulpits of a large number of churches and chapeln of the metro polo' that on Thursday next—being the day on which the message of the British government to that of the United Staten is expected to arrive at its de ttination—an aggrvgato meeting of Christiana of all douotninations will be held in Exeter-hell, to beseech Almighty God in His providence to guide the counsels of the two governments, and preserve to both countries the priceless blessing of peace. Ot Court. lIIENDSOB MORI& Die 7. The Queen, accompanied by Primate Alice, Love out this morning in an open amine. Prisons Helena, Princess Louie,. and the Prince and Prin. ems el Lsiaingen, drove to Claremont, and Tided Queen Marie Amalie. Prince Arthur drove out on horseback, attended by Major Elpinnetatm Tll,, Prince and Princess of Leiningeo returned from London yeah slay afternoon. - SITELIAT Doc. & The Qnsem, Primes' Alio', Prince Arthu;, Primes, Helena, Prioress Louise, swl the Prince sad Princess of LaMantia, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, altemded Divine Service this morning I. the private chapel of Ur, CM s. ne Ker. C. Kingsley preached the sermon. The party which had been invited by her Majesty's corn mead to meemble at Windsor Castle to-morrow has been The Pesos Comsort has been confined to his apartments foe the last week, sufferi►g from a feverish cold, with pains In the hubs. Within the last two days the feverish symptoms have rather ineresaed, and are likely to continuo for some time laser, but there are so unfavourable sysepnesas. It Mc bus iianoted to Ler Majority's Cornmisiossro for the Intonational EzhibiLou of 10162, that the followin geothmut how been appointed Commiaiowers for tiro Pogoblis I Urognay, in addition to Mr. Graham Gilmour, of Glorgovr, whom appoihtscot has alio* bora notified Alamos Moms L. lima* of Loads% aid Kr. Jobe Prosaic... of Ohsporr. Dompabala was ismared co Natazday at the Colonial. aka from tho Cirroarnor of Quads. Despatches were rent to as Clereeser of the Falk/had hamar and to the Lord High Coommiesioner of du loniaa Was& Him Royal Highborn the Prism of Wales is about to visit the Hely Land and the lent. TM day week (Monday, the 16th) the priers leaves °Ambridge, and cm the following e►eotng a grand entertainment is to be gives is his bawler try the Earl sod Countess of Hardwick°. Oe Wednesday. the Mk, the prim joie. the murk sad after speeding the fObristinee holidays with hie august pewee* will start for the regime which from remote ages have pre sented such Interest and Maw:Mons to western Europeans. Oa his way to the East the prime will visit Prime Leopold in his Fnaeo.lWiso robing at NM. The Duke sad Duchess el Butbeelaad have ar rived at Laleiail, Salop from their rotates In Soothed. The duke wee is go ea asiazday to Trentham to motive a Wert colt of Mends, for partially claming the game pre -111114111. The Duko and Dauber et Marlborough gave a baU at lilealaaint Palmas, Ozoe, oa Thanday might last, at arida Monism above 430 of tits MR of the surrounding *natio amaimbisd. The Duke mad Duchess of Manchester have left iliebeitee Omits to visit das Earl of Sandwich at Hinaly *broke Peet• The Bari of Clatiwilliara has left Brighton for Torquay, Devoe. VisOoont Folkestone hes left town for Longford Castle. Wilts. His Xxcelleney the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will Monk to the Viceregal Lodge about the 16th instant, from bin art ia Seem& Ou Friday the Chief Secretary of Ireland visited the Royal Hibernian Military School, Ptsumix-park, akin with Lady Emily Peel. They were received by Ookmel Wriyard Juni Major Speedy, and comics:tad through the several scbool•roome. Sir Robert took particular paios to ascertain, by Weide mad individual examiastioo, the con dition of the edneaMonal department. On all the subjects of examination his rapid sad pediment queries —out framed sceortUar to sere Khali roatine—eabjected UN pupils to g severe sad thorough test, which proved, however, the cha racter sad quality of the education imparted in this great national seminary. The Mari of Derby his for some time past best entertaining • distinguished oink, of Meads at Knowsley Hall ; and twitonnw or next day his Royal Highness the Dubs of Cambridge is exported on a visit to the noble seat, if the aVOSIgiCall of the Commander-in-Chisi will, at this juncture, admit of his absence from Loads& The party at the hall last week isieleded the Right Hon. the Earl of Malmeabory, the Hes. Lord Ravensworth, the Right Hos. Sir Jobs Pakington, Bast, and Coloe•I Taylor, M.P. The Right Hoe. Lord Whaley, ILP., and the Hon. Colonel W. P. ant Lady Imam Mast were also derby:at Knowsley. The sable Mil and kis gusts enjoyed excellast shooting le the sztenstre sad well-stoeked preserves of Karma* Park. Mr. llowlsm7, one of the members for Durham, who died the elks of JodgwAdmoabolieneral in Lord Du try's admisietention, schlrested • meeting of his non• stilinenle en Saturday night. The right hoe. redeems Issas of the w•rmeatt iodiznatice to the hetet awed to the British lag by the commander of the Ken hoe* awl uedertsek is promise, as behalf of his political felsellei that laid Pakessitee would he cordially supported by the sensurvative party in any officheat mowers. be sat adept far asserting the honour and dignity of the sentry. Mr. Boneicault in an advertisement ackuow. Mira IM "Musty receipt" of many lettere eotreating thtt the isradardsa at l'Ac Oeforome should he modified, and the aka, bendae saved from an unhappy end. Ho onset, be says. "mid the hied feeling expressed through out this ODlT•speadisass, Nat mhos compliance with a re quest so easily mated. A yew WI act of the drams, cern posed by the palate tad edged by the author, will be represented this evesiag. He trusts the audience will accept it as a very grateful tribute to their Maimed sad Mate, which he should be the last to dispute." The Emperor of Austria arrived at Venice on lb, eight of the lit lama The seat day la Majesty n aiad the high clergy and the civil and military authori ties, and in the seeming the municipality bed the spare of Bt. Mark illuminated. Just now intending exhibitors an wiry &axiom) ober their allotments of space at the Exhibition of 1A62. and the commitsiones' Mgr is daily inundated with letters of complaint or ranottetnume on the subject. We an re• gorged to state that the spaoss are now la resat ef art:art with the almost speed that the whole if. at She diaries' of the 00111111111111101241111 cea week them rt. AU the allotinentii will be complete and Wined to the exhibitors by the 15th of this month. LATEST INTEILIGLIIiCE. AMERICAN ANVAIREL It appears that the earliest data at which the news of the reception of the British demand by the Washington cabinet can reach us will be Saturday, the 28th of December. The Cunard steamer which left Queenstown with the despatch to Lord Lyons on Monday last, the 2nd inst., will arrive at Boston about the 14th. The Africa will leave New York 011 the 18th, and will be due here about the 30th, but a telegram of her news might possibly reach London from Queenstown a day or two earlier. The Persia and Australasian are being rapidly fitted for the conveyance of troops, stores, and am munition, and it is expected they will be ready to sail hence for Canada about the 14th or 15th lust, Each of them is to carry out a complement of 1,100 soldiers, 5,000 stand of arms, and 300 tons of stores. Besides these each is to take out a field battery and a large quantity of ammunition. lu addition to the two vessels named above, it is nn denstoisl that negotiations are on foot for securing one or two othor first-elsuis steamers. We understand that the Grenadier Guards have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark immediately for Canada. The three butte hulls will muster about 4,000 men. The special correspondent of the Times at Wash ington says : " The position of Lord Lyons is most difficult, but there need be no apprehension that he will fail to maintain the dignity of Great Britain in this remarkable crisis. Mr. Seward, I believe, in speaking of the arrest, did not consider it at all neceamary to allude to the mode in which the per sons of Masers. Slidell and Mason had been trans ferred to the custody of the government, and the subject will doubtless be approached with due caution and reluctance by the state department, but I have the best reason for thinking General M'Clellan not only disapproved the conduct of the naval officer who made the capture, but expressed his opinion that the boarding and seizure could not be justified. The intelligence has, indeed, been received with something like consternation by thinking and respectable politicians, and already there are men talking of an ample apology' and feeble reference to the right of search which has been maintained by England, and therefore cannot be, forsooth, objected to by her goverumeut when it is practised by the vessels of a nation which has always refused to recognise it." The Paris Moniker, in Its bulletin of to-day, says : "The American journals credit the idea that Enghuid, who, until now, has been so accommoda ting to all pretensions of the United States, will yet yield in the affair of the Trent. This arrogance offends British pride, and deters it from any desire to modify the oonditions upon which an arrange ment may be effected. To know, however, what will take place it is necessary to await the hour when the illusions of the American people will b 3 dispersed, when they will know pertinently that England demands, before all, reparation and the release of the prisoners." ITALY. General Garibaldi had a long interview with King Victor amsanual on the 4th. The genera/ has since embarked et Genoa, with his son Menotti, and some friends. Father Paaaeglia delivered his inaugural address at the Turin University on Saturday. He was received by a numerous audience with much enthusiasm. Priam Eugene de Carignan has arrived at Florence, to preside at the ceremony of the closing of the Exhibition. AMERICA. (at 11/011101 arms.) QUEMITOWN, Dec. & The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, from Boston on the 27th, and Halifax on the 29th ult., arrived here at 7.30 a.m. to-day. She brings 133 passen gers and 1,100 dole. for England. and 3,000 dolls. for Havre. She landed 112 sacks of mails and three pasaengers, and proceeded at 8 a.m. All THE AFFAIR OF THE TRENT. NZW YORK, Nov. 2G. (Per Niagara aid Boston aod Quseastown.) Messrs. Mason and Slidell were landed at Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, on the 24th inst. The municipality of Boston waited upon Commander Wilkes and tendered him a welcome. In reply to an address from the mayor, Commander Wilkes said v-" I am deeply sensible of the great kindness you have shown me. I depended upon my own judgment in doing what you all flatter me was cor rect, and I am exceedingly gratified with the mani festations of approval I have mot, and which have been, I may say, a spontaneous outburst from all parts of our country. I have only to say that we did our duty to the Union, and we are prepared to do it again." This speech was received with im mense cheering. A. complimentary dinner is to be given to Commander Wilkes at the Itivere Home, Boston. It is stated that no despatches of any description were found in the baggage of Means. Mason and Slidell. The New York Herald of the Nth, referring to the speech of Mr. Adams at the Lord Mayor's dinner, says : The respostee which it elicited from Lord Palmerston is marked by Wier feeling than anything that has dropped from him in refesence to no since the beginning of the war. The mows of lb, arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell will alter for the moment this ameeable state of things. There will be a vast expenditure of indignation and hard words oa the part of the journal that have been working so maidnotiely in the rebel interest, whilst those that are weal affected towards us will be taken aback by the boldness of the step. When the fasts of the can, and the legal authorities and precedents bearing upon it, come to be investigated, it m int, however, fail to have the beet effect. No people are greater admirers of pluck than the English, and they will ass th this readiness to beard the Bntish line jest is be is beginning to indulge in an in itialise& yowl at as, an unmistakeable evidence of our eseterapt foe his eogroerous lumina*, and of our determi sake set to be intimidated from prosecuting our just *hie wherever and by whomeover they are contravened. The World mays : We look for littlemore login and much leas courtesy in the treafiasent et the affairs of the Trent by the London *TWO. We lock oleo for a eoatradietion among themselves sad listerima these aad their coaliaental oeighbours, but heyead ealpie and serbacaious discussions to which the affair will give risk we expect so serious onassquasoes, ecialideat that the strength of our position will be =know leaps' by the equity of England, however unweloome it nay be to fled those doctrines of the law of nations turned against her as a neutral, which eke has done so much to establish for her own advantage as a belligerent. POLITICAL NEWS. The massage of the President will not be long. It is intended to be a plain business document, set ting forth the condition of pnblic affairs and the policy of the administration, and referring for de tails to the reports of the several heads of depart. WAR NEWS. The Norfolk Day Book publishes advices from Richmond to the effect that an engagement was going on at Pensacola. Parties who read the paper say it stated that the frigates Niagara and Colorado engaged Fort Mcßae, that the fort briskly returned the fire, and further that the vessels, being damaged, were compelled to haul off. The Day Book adds that Fort Pickens was firing on the Pensacola Navy-yard. Another despatch says the fight commenced on Saturday, and was in proves' on Sunday night. Fort Pickens, by firing hot shot, had set the Pen sacola Navy-yard on fire three times, but the rebels managed up to the letter day to extinguish the flames. They had not, however, been able to sup press those of the burning town of Warrington, which the hot shot had destroyed. It was thought at Old Point that our victory is deeisive. A despatch from Washington, dated Nov. 26, says :—" From information received to-day from the War Department., it is believed that the fire of Fort Pickens has destroyed the Pensacola Navy yard." We have some interesting news from Fort Pickens by the steamship Geo. Peabody, which arrived at New York on the 26th. The privateer Beauregard, which had been captured by the sloop of war G. W. Anderson, of Boston, with 27 prisoners and one large pivot gun on board, is now lying at Key West. GenerallDix has received despatches from General Lockwood announcing the capture of three rebel officers and seven cannon, the latter all new and in good order. All traces ofj disloyalty seem to be disappearing from both Amman and Not th ampton counties. About miduight on Friday last the gunboat Cam bridge, one of the flotilla at Fortress Monroe, pro ceeded up the James river as far as Warwick, where she engaged a rebel, which she succeeded in silencing after a spirited interchange of shots, in which the Cambridge sustained no particular damage. The retreat of the Union force. under General Schoeff from their advanced position near Cumber land Gap to Lancaster, was in consequence of a report that the rebel General Johnston was ad vancing with 40,030 men, and threatening Louis ville, Lexington, and Cincinnati. The order to retreat is said to have come from General Nelson, through General Thomas ; but there appears to have been no cense for it. The retreat appears to have been a very disastrous one, both to the men and to the property of the govern ment. It is believed that 20,003 men and live millions of dollars will not now put the campaign in Kentucky in so favourable a condition as before the retreat was ordered. It is reported from Needs that Prim has already again crossed the Osage River at Hoffman's Ferry, and that hie advance guard was expected at Osceola on Saturday last. Her Britannic Majesty's gunboat Nimble &Lived at New Yurk on the 25th Nov. General Fremont is shortly expected iu W►sh ingtou. The burning of Warsaw, Missouri, has been continued. A deserter from the rebel army came ;-ito General Blanker's camp on the 25th ; he reports the rebel force about Centreville, where head-quarters are established, as numbering 14,000 men, and as many more all along the Potomac lines. Centre. ville, he states, is well defended, but has no siege gnus. At Manassas, however, there are some heavy guns. He describes the troops as being in good spirits, pretty well fed, clothed, and armed, and under the impression that the war is one of subjugation, devastation, and abolition. This im pression they receive from their officers and chap lains. It is the intention of the government to put all the coast defences of the Northern States into com plete working order immediately for protection against foreigu foes, in case that such defence should become necessary. The Governors of the States are authorised to carry out the work. The fast reinforcements from New York for the army at Port Royal left on the 25th. The Thrl4l Sates steamships Boston, Delaware, and Cosmo politan sailed at noon for Fortress Monroe, where they will receive troops, and proceed to Port Royal. These three steamers will carry about 1,100 men, also a full cargo of provisions and ammunition. NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. The Richnuna Inquirer, in an article on the arrest of Masers. Mason and Slidell, says : This extraordinary act of the Liacoln government must be followed by important consequences. It is imponsible for the English government without disgrace to fail to exact the fullest reparation. If Commode'. Wilkes acted under orders we do not see how Lincoln can possibly escape the most serious complications with the English government. If it be said that England, in 1812, claimed the right of visitation of our national vessels and seizure of our subjects on board, it will be replied that oar government denied the right and resisted it with war, and that England in consequence abandoned the practice. Nay, so sensitive have we and so deferential has England since been on this point, that even suspected slavers sailing under oar flag have been protected by it from English visitation, although we agreed with England in denouncing the slave trade as piracy. Can England, after conceding all this to our claim, and after hav:og so long abandoned the exercise, if she has not disavowed the right of visitation and !leisure, now submit to the hard. ships of • theory the benefit of which was denied her, and th►t, too, at the bands of the government which denied it ? ? Will she allow what still claims to be the government of the United States to have the benefit and herself the dived. vantage of both sides of the question? It is not possible. England has acknowledged us to be a belligerent power, and declared that she would maintain a neutrality. To allow her mail steamer to be stopped on the ocean, and persons taken from under the protection of her Sag by a jurisdiction as to whose quarrel she is neutral, is as much at war with all her practice and traditions IPA it is opposed to her honour. England, like America, has ever been a house of refuge among the nations, and a stranger under her flag has always found the protection due to her own subjects extended with all the generous sensitiveness of an honourable host. Lincoln will have to apologise and re store the status, or fight. We sae no other alternative. The Richmond Enquirer says that the Confederate Congress has waled a bill for the removal of the capital from Richmond to Nashville, and that the Congress will soon assemble there. The same paper confirms the statement of the arrival of the steamer Fingal at Savannah. THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA AND THE UNION TROOPS. The Panama Sta► and Herald of November 14 says : A curious question as to the right of the United Stair government to transport prisoners morose this Isthmus arose on the ordeal of the steamer Orizaba at Shia port from San Francisco, on the sth instant. It appears that the day previous, on reaching port, Dr. Ger:ri, ez-Se• nator for California, Calhoun Benham, and J. Brent, being inspected of secession principle', their beggage was searched at the suggestion of General Stunner, commanding the United States land forces in the Pacific, who was pas. "eager on board, who also ordered their arrest as political offend's'''. On the animal of the steamer at this poet, friends of Dr. Gwin informed the governor of the matter, at the same time soliciting his interference to prevent the trees portation of the prisoners across the Isthmus, it being neutral territory. General Herron, the New Grenadian minister to Washington, concurred in the opinion that this govern cost should not permit political prisoners of a foreign power to be sent over the road, consequently the governor declared his intention to have them set ►t liberty on their lasting. To effect this he sent all the force at his die. Iposel to the railroad station, but the prisoners were aot landed until the morning of the 6th, when the governor again sent the police fore' to the station, with instructions to the officer in command to demand their release. This was done, and deduced by General Sumner peremptorily. The polite ofibier, with a force of some 40 men, could not, of course, offer resistance to 503 United States troops, and General Sumner was ocioniquently at Ebert; to take his primers with him. We learn that the governor hat malted his protest against the proceeding, and that the question has been referred to Washington. Different opinions, mooring to the different feelings prejudices of people, ►ave been expreesed in regard to the right of the United States in this matter ; sad it may be a very nice question. If might makes right, General Stunner was certainly right for he had force enough to fight his way aerate, and he carried hie point ; but as the matter hat been sent to Washington and will undoubtedly be ably dis owned by the representative of New Cirenadathers, we shall refrain from giving any opinion on the matter, and wait patiently the decision width shall be rendered there in reference thereto. By late intelligence from Santa F 4 we learn that New Mexico will furnish at once the 12,000 militia called for by the government to garrison the different poste in that territory. (LATESI' BY TELEOBAPH TO HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, Nov: 28. Beaufort w* still unoccupied on the 20th lust. The Federsls have taken the Island of Tybee, at the mouth of the Savannah river. Commerce in Missouri below St. Louis will be conducted by the Federal Government only. A despatch in the New York Times states that the withdrawal of the Fedural forces from Western Virginia has commenced. HALIFAX, Nov. 29. H.M.S. Himalaya, from Portsmouth, arrived here on the 26th inst. COYYERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK, Nov. 28. Exchange dull; bankers' bills, 1091. Stocks ad vancing ; New York Central, 713,1 ; Illinois, 60 1 1 ; Erie, 31i. Cotton buoyant ; middling upland, 2.51 c. to 26c. BresAlstuffs active, but lower. Pro visions quiet. QITEENBTOWN, D. 9. The Royal Mail steamship America arrived here last night at 11 p.m., embarked mails, passengers, and latest telegram, and proceeded for New York at 11.45 p.m. All well. The arrangement' which are being made by foreign countries to stand we'l at the Exhibition are of the most extensive character. The French court' will be fitted sod furnished in a most superb manner, and every thing that money and 'taste ate do to make it worthy of the empire and of the comaion will be done. The whole of the space assigned to France ban been treated with • view to its general effect. The sides of the principal court will be fanned ' entirely of Nair -ors. It is confidently expected that the Emperor and Empress of the French w"l be present at the opening of the Exhibition on the let of May. The Emperor of Austria has given his consent to the famous hand of the Wellington Regiment of the Austrian army visiting London doriog the Exhibi tion. This band consists of 184 performers, each of whom is capable of performing on various instruments. The pic tures and works of art to be selected from the palaces of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and from many of the principal Austria' nobles, will form a striking feature io the fine art collections. Tax Mrwrwraw.—Lord Palmerston has recently suffered from an attack of gout, but the noble viscount, we are happy to state, was better yesterda. His lordship is staying at his tows emblem* is Piccadil ly. Earl Roma is mailing at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Ris lordship attended as Friday at tie Foreign-office, Whitehall-gar dens, and gays them iatervisn to several of the foreign ambassadors. Sir George Lewis, Secretary of State for War, and the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty. remain in London. Lord Granville returned to town oe Friday. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Miler Gibson, Sir George Gray, and Mr. Cardwell have left town. —Mermen Ramaiox AND RouLerrs.—The Augsburg Ga rette has the following At Brien-Baden, the right of citizenship has been refund to Peron de Rothschild almost unanimously by the committee of burgesses, notwithstand ing that he be. purchased considerable estates in the coun try, and his demand was warmly supported by the govern ment. In the Grand Duchy of Hades there still existe lew according to which the admission of a Jew to the right of citizenship in • eennitnee where there are no Jews de pends altogether as the decision of the commune." FORT LYNAM MIN EPA —Memrs. Cobden, Brig ht, and some friends, abed three years ago. pure the Dyliffe mines for the sum of 24,000/., and they were bound also to lay out 10,000 d. in explorations. Their late returns have been upwards of 20) tons of lead me per month, which it is believed yields • pmfit of about 1,000/. per month, and *sr evert now to reins upwards of 230 tons per month.—Mitting Journal. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1101 i OUR owx PARIS, SUNDAY EYDNVO„ That little question of the Dappes Valley—which a leading London journal lately said with, perhaps, more humour than justice, was so exceedingly little that it ought to be referred to the arbitration of the first tourist who might who might happen to pass that way—is now treated of with extraordinary solemnity in an article of the Mats four columns long. This article, signed " Camus, Secretary of Redaction," is evidently one of a peculiar clam, which the Debate, every now and then, publishes in obedience to mysterious influences, and which ar.• often in flagrant opposition to the daily expressed views of the known writers in that journal. It is rumoured, and not without probability, that when the French government wishes to give a special fillip to public opinion it compels the Debate to insert an article, knowing that an argument iu the columns of that journal, which is supposed to be (and, as a general rule, really is) independent, will have much more effect than if it were launched by an ordinary hack print like the COThatibitiOtilk , or Pays. Some say that for the insertion of articles of this kind the Debars is handsomely paid, the money being offered, not of course as a bribe, but as the price of an advertisement. At all events, I have not the least hesitation in adopting the general belief that the present mauifesto is semi-official. I shall not analyse the article at length, because it repeats facts well known, and which have been recently laid before your readers. The writer begins with an audacious misrepresouta tion of facts. He says that in point of law the acts of the Congress of Vienna upon which Swit zerland founds her title to the Dappes Valley are " entirely annulled" by the contemporaneous declaration of the four powers, England, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, that in their opinion it would be reasonable that Switzerland should give up the valley to France. That declaration, as I fully ex plained some time ago, was not made in a binding form, for the expressed reason that no Swiss plenipotentiary being there to con sent the other powers were incompetent to make their recomineudatiou effectual. Swit zerland has never to this day consented, and it stands to reason that the diplomatic suggestion which was inoperative at the time must be weaker now, after the lapse of nearly half a century. At all events, it is a wilful misrepresentation to say that the treaty right of Switserland to the territory now disputed was then "completely annulled." The next untrue statement is rather artfully put. " As a matter of fact," it is said, "Switzerland has never been put in possession of the Valley of Dappes since 1815, and although France has con fined her possession of it to the taking of some measures confirmatory of her right, that hesitation is entirely owing to au exaggerated good feeliug towards Switzerland, for which she has shown herself very ungrateful." The first part of the above paragraph is, so far, literally correct, that no form or ceremony of livery of seisin was ever gone through to "put" Switzerland in possession of the territory which the treaty of Vienna declared her entitled to a, part of her ancient possessions which Bonaparte had taken among his other conquests ; but the second branch of the sentence, which assert, France to have been iu any " possession," how ever imperfect, since 1815, is a flagrant untruth. As the last Swiss diplomatic note most truly state;, Switzerland remained for 35 years—from 1815 to 1851—in undisputed possession of the plane and execated all rights of sovereignty iu it. Only since that time the fear of aggression from Louis Napoleon has made it, in point of fact, though not in right, a sort of no man's laud. The Dacia concludes by a very distinct intimation that France mat now have the place, and that if Switzerland does not give it up, "France will take a vigorous initiative and frankly take possession of the valley." This petty annexation will therefore be accomplished forthwith, more especially if the news from Ame rica should be bad before the end of the month. It seems to be generally understood that at the last Privy Council it was resolved that France should for the present stand absolutely neutral between the United Steve and England. This ides predominates in an article by K Graudguillot in this evening's Pays, in which, after combatiug the reasons offered by some journals, and particu larly the Prase, for immediate action on the part of France, the writer says : As to France, without pretending the least in the wall to say what she will or what she will not do, we think she would be perfectly justified in saying to both parties, ..I slate have slways defended and oonstantly respected the princiCs which you by turns invoke and violate. For the very sel ,, reason that my sympathies at the beginning of the rental . were in favour of America fighting against Eng Lind for rights of neutrals, I cannot now refuse to approve Engissa I. her struggle for the same right against America. peril you respectively play are transposed, but the pr,%- cdple remains the same." There is no doubt that France, like General hopes—and, in the absence of any urriirc 1 /e,, laudably hopes—that the present most utiforcun affair of the Trent may bo the occasion of Ow: the international law regarding the rights neutrals in time of war upon a more settled au , more rational footing than it has hitherto stood. Count Lambert, whose dispute with Gem: .1 Glerstenswais about the release of some Polish prisoner , Warsaw caused the general to commit suicide, bed arrmc.•l at Madeira, according to the last advice* from that Wan 1. The survey of a parallel of north latitude run ning through Ireland, England, Belgium, Prussia, Sarnia is nearly completed, and the accurate length a a bass line stretching from the west coast of Ireland to ;be Ural Mountain will voy shortly be ascertinuel will be the greatest feat iu trigouometricAl surveying • accomplished. In order to triangulate the country al the parallel, stagm 70 feet high llama been erected on Continent by the Royal Engineers. The triangulations I the purpose of wicertainiug the length of the WS, lie be calculated at the Onluaoco nar►ey Otani in 6 ,3111. amptoo. It has transpired that in addition to the 01::.• paid down by Mr. Morrieh,•Mr. Sanders, M. Vie:larl M. Martin, for the privilege of supplying the refilmhsc.i . at the Inteenational Exhibition, that they will 4,0 pa , eertain sum per hoed upon all visitors. The tw •-• contractors pay five-eighths of a peony, the French tractors are to pay id. on the first .4,000,000 of viat.m...' • ed. for each visitor above that number. The sum espe ,, • tot* received under the contracts is 30,0301. The other po• MU who tendered were—Messrs. Staples, of the Al" • Mr. Strange, of the Crystal Palace ; Mr. Kuhn, of llaca ,, * street; Mr. Donekl, of the St. James's. Mr. Schweppe was the original contractor iu 1.4 ; Yemighusband, who was one of the eul,cuutmet , rs Me. Schweppe ; and Mr. Bachmeyer, of the llotal LW' Park. --- Another daring robbery has taken place at !aim Several armed malefactors forced their way date' sputa:mote of the Marquis Guido Pepe,li, eve., deputy, in the new Palasso Pep° st 5 o'clock is, still by daylight in Italy--and forced the old 10.1 4 t an octogeoarian, to deliver to them, iu money and silver articles, property to the amount of more than 20. 0 `''' Notwithstanding the alarm given bye housemaid from to window, the robbers succeeded in making sway with fr.' gold ; the heavier and more bulky silver was either on the spot re dropped in the streets aleag the root' t s ' thieves took in their flight me reo PRP N. u rai., I.rlall Ceutr H Cw rllll 8. EN PP ID the 70. t 41b. le wil Lm aq%