The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-05 00:00:00

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NW l cagam— twAard. —twigs of Desmond Illsaisari—lL Ilikate.-140& C rkplar.—Ms. J. Pleroks.—/al 1111 WIDUWS SOS.— wrs. far—Csimme at Ilj - MOM Want AT UMW 119211011. Tim Dat—llliwlnA ft e.... Albmaso. 411. Ira Torsaave—alweleg, db. Va.... lir" el. T. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 5. T. New York papers show that the " Captain " Wimp " of the San Jacinto in Commodore Wii.xa of the United Slates Exploring Expedition. Ro much depends on the character of the was milder on such an occaaioss, and on the kind and degree of authority under which he eats, that we may be glad that the Commander of the San ie.. cinto is an officer so well known in this country as Commodore CliAllLte WHAM, The first important fact in the case is that, true to his character, Commodore WILIIIOI assumes the responsibility of the whole transaction. According to the New York journals, he declared, when he went ashore at Hampton, that he believed he had done right ; that he felt it necessary that Means. SUDIU. and MASON should be secured ; and that " if he had done wrong. be could do no moire than "be cashiered for it." This declaration h cha racteristic of the man. He will never shrink froze the consequences of his act; but nobody will believe the responsibility to be his, without quali fication. If he really 'poke those words, it is clear that he judged for himself as to the mode of seising the Confederate Cominiatioriers ; bet there is abundant evidenos that the Washington Go vernment, or Commodore WILK'S'. immediate stiparime, desired that the Cotrunimionen should be intercepted. However the responsibility ought to be shared, Commodore Wanes affords his Government the opportunity of throwing the blame upon him , and backing out of the scrape at his expense. The English friends of this officer have doubt less felt more pain than surprie at his having once more got into hot water before his low naval career is ended. He must be one of the oldest othoers in the United titans smarise—and that service never had one more loyal---but his sagacity, judgment, and bowled. are not equal to his moral qualities. The readers of his Narrative of the Exploring Expedition, of which be was commander, must be well aware of this ; and few and short se are his references in that work to his troubles in that command, they leave a painful impression of either incapacity on his part, or sotaathing worse in others. His courageous readi ns to ammo* reaponibility is no alanonsent he ablaut which caonot be repaired. . . The &pier* ExpeclitiOn was projected I. 1896, and tbe masted ad it awed to Osptaisi WILLI& He spud to repair to London, fa ardor to obtain informatics, sad to precast the bait arousal instruments led Mbar scientific aids ; but ho sasplatisd his aticeptancs al the onsusand till Ito should be ratislisd that he amid ham adequate powers and support. In Latina he um seiremed with a kiadams which made a deep Impression on bias, is aware in his Narrative, , 'M as his Engtidi trios& do not forget. Re was by marriage a rabilim al Lord JZTYRIT. Ho was aosiiisk aided sad advised at the Admirdty ; and a good deal ol attsmaims was natorally axed ea his adventure, whit the Expedition finally startled in 1838. Our maisrs nay remember tho oollisiost whisk wove roported tom limo to Moo— the &Woo about Animas ditooystito—oo. _ _ only about lie rival skims of British and American commandors, bat about the actual lids of the reported American disooveries. /hem them were rumours of diflientnes ' and dimensions co board the ships of the' moans ; and of great severity on the commem der's part in eeppnesing mutiny. He aptilre ott that occasion as he speaks now. He pebhely said that he meant to do la daty—ebit he believed he bad done It—and that if be was wrong he was ready to beer the aonsequeseen The whole tramaction exhibited the character of the man—loyal to duty and to his government, conscientious and ciourageous. His complaints of enemies on every hand, and of their machinations, seem to show a radical incapacity for propitiating other men's judgment and feelings. It could be nothing went that was thus indicated ; for he is a man of smarm' sprit and amiable temper. Con scientious and amiable as be is, he was brought before succemeiveeourte-roartialoo his return from the expedition ; and for three weeks a court of thir teen mambas was engaged in investigating eleven charges, expeodod into thirtraix specifications, against Commodore Wiszni's acts at various periods of the long voyage. This is his own published statement ; and he adds that on only one point was be judged to have transgressed the laws of the navy—that point being merely the amount of punishment he bad awarded to certain of his crew under urgent circumstances. Yet he himself evi dently retained an irritating sense of ill-usage throughout the whole transaction, while readies and observers were generally irapromed with his being unfortunate in • certain weakness or pes , reissue's of judgment, aggravated by lack of suf ficient knowledge for a punka like his. Those who are best acquainted with his mind and cha racter will probably agree as to what he will feel and do on the protest occasion. He will be surprised that he never heard of Munsos's depreciation of the honour of any flag being at the mercy of any petty commander. He will be astonished to find that it was • mistake to Mae the men and leave their despatches behind. He will declare that he desired every courtesy to he shown to the British edgers. He will instal' that it wu the great object of the hour to get hold of the Commissioners, and that be meld hem no doubt of its being his duty to eseoniplieli the feat He will °tabu that no caber should be awe wided with the instant seems of esseetnieing the law of the cue when ma maims Miss. He will sincerely declare (as he boo dim dais) his strong regard for England mod the 11041114, Ind lie brotherly feeling towards the albeit of our navy. He will finally avow that he Ws he as& TIM Etta . • _ a sad mistake, and will beg to bg allowed to lisar all the blame. U this is, as w 6 bel ae, a In* sketch of the man, we may hope much from mutual explanation between the two Governments and peoples. Whatever the result may be, the Ammiicaa Government mast be subject to censure fas -assigning so arduous a post as Commodore Wits= has bean holding to an officer so unfor tunate in former professional transactions, how ever loyal and however gallant he may be. On one point which has been discussed we need spend no more time or thought. As the recent transaction tends so strongly to the advantage of the Confederates it has been suggested that the whole might be a planned thing, and the com mander of the San Jacinto • traitor to the Federal cause and to the sincere portion of the Federal Cabinet. Amidst the strange complications and treasons which have beset the whole quarrel, from the outset, such a conjecture may be natural ; but it is now certain that there can be no ground for it, as far as the commander of tie Federal frigate is concerned. The simple uprightness of Commo dore Wass has been sufficiently proved during a loog professional life ; and his is not the head to tarry on a plot if he had the heart to enter into ono. The plain fact moans to be that an incom petent man has plunged his country into a diffi culty with the most loyal intentions. The ques tion is whether one portion of the Washington Cabinet will take advantage of the incident to all the popular mind with the notion of a foreign war, or whether the Femings? will at once, with • good grace, admit the mistake, and send Commao does Wicsits to England, with the Confederate CO=llll.loo4= for his guests on board his frigate. It cannot be unreasonable to hope that such may be the issue. flit Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dat. 4. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the Primo Atka, Up Prises sad Primer of Letoin . gee, the Doke et Nettatetle, Visa:oat Bet 7, sad Sir Alas reel, but Her 3Catestes private band performed daring dinner the televise seleslisa : Owe" "Pesessefsf• • , iLelhweda. haeW Asti Chem ead " anew Name (ink NM) Mar. Tames limit lima lteeal Seam Pram aleralhe 04 Taste " Mares" rtes. The gamy, attended by the Lady is Waiting, walked to the grand" of the Castle this aornieg. The Prime and Prisons of Leiairgia lilt the Castle far Le - sAsa The Doke et Noweadis, Vidoeuet Bury, sad Sir Alma llaceleb bare tam their depictor& The QOM held • Privy Come M eve deb* yesterday afternoon, as Windsor OWL. It wee Igialtled by the tut Oreerills, Led Prerideat ; the Doke el Bestenet, First Lerd of the Adesirelty ; sod Lord Stanley al ildertey, Nr.Helps, Clark o/ t►s Ooaseil, &Umbels& Raft Gr.a;ol, Md aa salaam ai her Zalualy. The tuialobwa lett Lambe dr* the Oabisaloaasoll. sad travelled his Paithas••• to Whist by • amid two aa the Grad WNW. Railway. TM Lad Tralarat lb 'asap.. cialisi Rio thath d is detect, sad astarood to tan by • amid railway tab. A Cabinet Council wee bed yesterday at the official medium of the /rust Lord of the Tromur/9 in Downing-stmt. The ministers present were Visomant Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, Sari Granville, Be George Grey, Earl Rus sel, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Dyke of fluniorset, the 'Right Ham Thomas Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Yaki Stanley of AMecley, and the Right Hon. C. P. ma. A ilspelellos hese the Nem) Titelitota et British Arabi. I tests lind an imswiew wither Mi Mos. W. 1. Oesrper. *lts lortsrEW. et her • Oiliee rd Wats. Wbg.. bat a % t rt i : the the Themes esabsalossest. The of Mr. W. The, M.P. (president). Ilesiin. Oherlen Berm T. L. Der IL Mt% BA. A. . 0. 0. ads" IL Perm, /.. se isisp o. ilet, J. M =Am. J. W. IftpowAta. J. lergessen. yi W. Stymied. end 11z. T. IL Imes (bms. reereterit i The hang Ossemillee et the Osseen st = day. An eppest hem Mestrm, • sresenty Mesh v. V Weide:." pet bard. tile eenstrded. M appeal hem L. M. v. AdsrAnielestemOmmel el Ilsepi." min essnumesd. Despatobse was rooeived yesterday 4 the 001044-4 Ra teem Uwe aserseers 4 Ceylon, Hoeg toe& Malta, Del Ofbrallor. Nookleee mese osse to dr Lead Wlarb Ora. foistikars at tier kiss Med; sod to Uri Gems= al Gee& • The Malty ball at Chunklde inunel dna ea Mealley atilt nabs lbe ball lend bb Send no Tines at Wass Itimelmit sbb pans. 7be laD is glen &a tip ii d the • tratgelari Isebsieue d Teta", lad bb and Milo nos bis ante labs "da the horded titesdlist, p - u* seespeed the bentedin el no steed assaannarnet Ms rend listrawn essoanneled by Me sia, drab sod Mn. Hems mad Capiais Orgy, enbed ANIS a vissAir pan 14. Innsolleesiy es In steal, be pessended es open the bal via am lady Agorae Teets Dean unneeded wee ia rend unseeniss to i, 'Week, 'ben the prises sad royal piny Mined it y sappen A distlegnined eenpeey bad tbe he. el bean ies. to the prime% Inds is sli about f 4 he *bass Stalin the ODOM= et Berehriebe. Their Royal Highnesses the Dube and Dashes@ dims& have reeersed to Odom Rare, Twieksobais o frees visiting the Marquis al Bslistory, at Wield Haase, Ha t& The Duke end Duchess of Argyll bare arrived at essays, is the swath of Frame, from Parks siker* they made • brief 'Onus en rook to the meth. The °obis duke sad declines de ass Mead to return to Easisad %Ai the meetly( of parbuassi. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is enter- Weise ► sabot badly curb at aired**. OW Ndelsabood. The Earl d Omit& and be Hos. Clarke Hotrord, M.P., the ilsofrio oodboachiroor of Kaden, taw Earl sad Lady 00111411111111Grownror, sad Lord Abort LlTlrnall 001,111, of the party. Th* Marl Grey, who arrived in town on Monday sight front Florence, left tows minder, atecsapsnad . lasjoe-Oeseral the Boa. Modes Grey. and Rear•Adatisral W Hew. Troika* Grey, X.. 0 8., for Howick, Northum berland, is order to ages( the fewest of the Dowager 00/111101 Grey, whose resonias bed been removed to the north for intermesh The femoral bakes place to-day. The Earl and Countess of Hardwick* have r► tamed to Wisps& Hail, Cwwiwidgaddre, from Writing the Marquis and Mareldosaw of ihillabury, at Hataeld Howe, Hens. The Earl and Countess of Delawarr, who were to lam toes to-day on a Welt to her IllaferAy at Windsor Chalk, hare deferred their visit for the peeest, eu mess& of the indispodtios of the Prinee Consort. The Earl and CulllgillS of Airlie are expected to arrive at Nair villa masses ee Owagsden Hill, is a few days, hem Cortachy (belle, N.B. - - - The Earl and Cousins of Tankerville come to Mrs 611.01111101. ham ailing Ley Olivia Sparrow, at ilasapplaa a.k. star., The Earl of Edinto., wbo arrived in town a few days @Los hem essasail. has loft toys for Brighton, co visit le the in sad Ossakie el Yarborough sod Lob Ileviii tb• ESN sad Countose of Mount-Edgcurabe left tom au Tow* hr llareala Owl. loaaty Tyne% as a MN Maths Illarqade awl Illiniassaa al Abaroars. Odom! Tailor ' badi arrived at Carlton boommoriono tram ,Wig tho Droloy.st Zoorroloy. Promos Countess Wobiegravw and Mr. Haman, will dowdy lrw illoowborry NM for Nowise Park Ozcas. HVie:omit Bury, 11. P., Las arrived in town from oAm to bre MOM, at Wiairar. Virsoestom Boy woo provontoi b bollopoullinn from obrytag bar MaJosiell ormsololls Lord Stanley of Aldarlay IftVal town to-day foe a. ..t. Mau* Pin. Cimihirs. Ag M T * l f, LM ST IiIarELIkEfICE. DEMONSTRATION AT ROME: Letter from Rome of the 30th of November re port that an exciting demonstration has taken place at the theatre. Tricolour emblems were exhibited in the midst of vivas raised in honour of Victor Emmanuel. The Roman gendarmerie made some arrests and cleared the theatre, and French gendarmes prevented the demonstration from being renewed in the streets. (asursa's sztaowes.) THE ITALIAN PARLLLMENT. TURIN, Del 4,lvrarso. The discussion on the Roman and — Neapolitan question was resumed to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Batumi said :—" would be unjust to wish to make the government responsible I for the failure of the negotiations relative to Rome, and for the disturbances in the Neapolitan pro vinces. Another ministry would be in the same situation. I will not discuss the documents which have been communicated to the chamber by the government, as it is useless to consider whether the concessions offered to the church were dangerous to the state, because they have been without any result. Rome is naturally, and will soon really be, the capital of Italy. I am convinced that the French government desires that the occupation of Rome may cease. It is the interest of France to have a strong Italy as au ally. The French government is our sincere friend. It recognised us after we had proclaimed Some as the capital of Italy. Our adversaries are their adversaries." Signor Ratami then alluded to his visit to Paris, which be, said, was of a purely personal &emote:. He denied the malevolent :amours which had been Circulated with regard to his intentions. He condemned the proposition of Signor Ricciardi,. and said hebelieved that France would aid th. Italians against the brigandage in Naples. He concluded by urging the union of all the Constitu tional factions. Signor Ratassi's speech was received with unani mous applause. ROME, Dec. 3. The Marquis de Lavalette, the new French am bsseador, Las arrived Derr. TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. RAGUSA, Aso. On Monday last If battalions of Turkish troops were ooncentrated at the position taken np by Omer Pasha. Dervisch Pecha, in pursuance of his orders, pro ceeded to attack the camp of the insurgents at Piva, but found that they had fled, after having burnt their camp. Their arms and baggage, however, fell into the hands of the Turks. IMPRESS FROM PARIS. PROM 0011 OWN 061111111VOnini PARIS. p &T Brarara. The event al the day is General Scott's letter to the Consiiintiontbel, which, as you will see, pro duced a favourable effect upon the Bourse. Some of the French journals, however—more especially those which lay the greatest claim to " inspiration " from their government—betray extraordinary anxiety lest the cases belli between England and the United States should not ripen into actual hostilities. No Irish attorney was ever more shocked at the idea of a "compromise breaking out between the parties" then the Petrie wan to be at the prospect of a satidaetory answer to England's demands being given by the United States. It devotee no leas than four articles in its number of this evening to making the worst of thin" and espetially to the object of arguing away the coamliatery ten derides of General Scott% letter. It remark', in the first place, that General Scott dues not sag positively that the Washington government gave no orders to the commanders of the American mums, but only that he knew of no such orders at the moment of his leaving. Then the Patric ismeima bow it is that the mews of the arrest of MM. Mason and Slidell should have been known In Paris twenty-four hews before the Trent sr deed on the European shores, and draws the in , Minas that the intelligent,* must have been spread by the Americans who nuns to Havre with Genteel Scott. It spouts as absurd the suppoeition that any cakes in the United States navy would have been so devoid of common sense as to have lid= such a step, as Captain Wilkes did, on his own responsibility. Captain Wilkes, it observes, is considered to be one of the three or four best officers in the Federal service. He owed his promotion originally to the patronage of Southern "%stamen, and was, so the Patric will have it, especiallyselected by Mr. Lincoln for this particular service in order to make the blow more severely Mt by the South. mother consideration suggested is that Captain Wilkes, who inhabits the sumptuous mansion well known at Washington, called Wilkes House, near the residenee of Gene:Fel AI Inellan, is a man of too large fortune and consideration to have risked his commission and hopes of advaneenitst, by pro voking a war with England without mitts. Follow ing up, as the French phrase is, " the same order el ideas," the P.M. outman from the London corres pondence of the Moniker, and prints in italics, this passage —" But this hope" (the hope that Mr. Lincoln's prudence will not yield to the popular clamours which bailed the news of I Slidell and Mason's capture) "is not shared by Mr. Adams, the United States Minister in London, who, it would seem, regards his repel' as inevitable." The Opinion NdiSoriale--which, like the Patric gloats over the idea of a war between England and the United States, and rejoioes with the Side* in the brihiant idea that such a war cannot but , eventuate in the overthrow of the English aris tocracy, and the re-organisation of British society under the direction of Mr. Bright—eays, by way of "latest news:" Authentic doeemente prove, as we ere aftered, fa tie nog ineostrovertible that Captain Wilkes, the cc.. wiasder of the lion JaciaiO sway riot to ownsiese e f the toast posies odors fres the oddest of Wohloppee. It is given est as attain that Caplan *lllise warier was to take the Soothers «mop ,hoover the/ WSWtie 61814 Tito wire wrested to Amp their boat at SC l ist.. onk and take pions ia ansiker Ingle vowel, the La The soeuesadsr of the lima Taoist° vas to set aceordiegly is, to panto the to Plata If hi did not take Jim .nano. The Patric, also as " latest news," sap We keels positively, and the Eraglieli geostentest knew also, that Got Foiled cruisso—the Sea Aikido, Janet Adair, easoishanes, Taupe* sad flatueneli—ked dentist instructions to vitt wiry liespeeted QC bobs cesetianisoses oa hoed, end to mho thins peiseessa • • • This omen was neolod upon In calegrames ef " soot segotialisen Wag is %Wpm the Moldest and Proideat David. . • Optnion Notionak thisituf 11110111,*t pro pitious to publish lettere frets Onsilks;, " omiing the annexation of that colony to the Pediegoilitetes and reproaching the Canadian catholie fly for "uniting with the agents of the l tkl Ostrels meat In perpetuating the subjcipeggcrit the Canadian people." The No;seiliele de Rouen wens that Mr. Slidell 's despatchee, which the New York jotirsale pretend were seized on board the Trent, have been safely N*, brought to Paris by his secretary, Colonel an Anatian of Preach origin), and that VW we. delivered with the seals unbroken to IL Thouvene4 DEC The Bourse was favourably acted upon by Congo.' ral Scott's letter, and a rogation, produced by a alight fall in Consols, was of short duration. Ths Rents closed, with arise of 30c. and 35c., at 69fr. 900. and 69fr. 55c. Mobilier rose 17fr. 500. The Orlesor Railway rase Mfr. 25c r Lyons, Ilfr. 25e. ; Southern llfr. 250., and the other lines about 2fr. 50c. We learn from the Ami de la Religion that the Pope is raising a small revenue in Spain by pro- longing a bull which permits Spaniards to cat meat on fast days (certain days in Lent only excepted) for the small , consideration of 1 real • year (about 9d.). This bull is to be publicly proclaimed in the streets of Madrid with the usual solemnities. The Prince of Capna, uncle of Francis IL, has been for some days at Compibgne, with some members of his family ; be is residing quite Wicog. at the Hotel de la Cloche. GENERAL SCOTT ON THE CAPTURE OF THE CONFEDERATE OOKRUISIONERAL The following is the letter of General floott, refined to yesterday is a Warm Ana Aris s "My deer Sir,—You ware right Is doubting the declare ' Mon imputed to are, to wit, am the cabinet at Washington bedgfvea orders he mho Mims. Males end Slidell men ender a maks& leg, far I was sot Oros aware that the p rimmest bad had that pant eater caciaidenttioa. At the thee of any Loris( New York M was not known that the ass 'eclat* had returned to the Awaken seas ; and it was geetrony supposed those persons had escaped to Cuba for the pavan of re-embarking is the Nashville, is mash of which vessel the Junes Adger end other cruisers had Mee dispatched. "I think lan satisfy you in a few words that you have ao occasion to feel oonoesned about Dial relatifs*, with Eng land, if, as her rulers profess, she has no disposition to en• assume the dissensions in America. " IS the first place, it Sainted saperfinous to say to you that every instinct of prudence, ea well as of good asighboar hood, prompt' our government to regard no honourable anoi- Hoe too great for the preadvatios of the frisodship of Greet Britain. This must be obvious to all the world. At no period of our history has her friendship been of more ire. portanos to our people; at no period has oar government been in • condition to make greater concessions to preserve it. The two nations are united by interests and sympathies —commercial, social, political, and religious—almost ea the two arms to on. body, and no one is so ignorant as not to know that what harms one must harm the other in a oar responding degree. " I am persuaded that the British government can en tertain no doubt upon this point ; but, if it doss, I feel that I may take it upon myself to may that the Prandial of the United States, when made aware of its oxidises, will lose no opportunity of dispelling it. " Nor is there anything, I venture to affirm, in the ensure of these rebel mimed which ought to receive an unfriendly oconstrudioa from England. Bar statedis will lot question the legal right of an Anteriosa vessel at war to search any commend visit justly wadded el transporting contraband of dr. That right has sever been surrendered by England. It was Ursa guaranteed by het by the treaty of Eerie ; and BOW guns frowning down epos nearly every strati end island NS upon the globe are cesoloaive eddied that she sepsis this right se one the abed of which nay be not yet entirely eshaasted. " Of eosins than is much that is initatiarkaad vexatious is the eddies of this righ t under the most favourable cir enaniesposs, sad it is to hoped Nis day is not far distant when the maritime states of the wind will agree in piecing sedan aciansient beyond the reach of snob vesatioas. The United SW's government So been driving to this and for more than fifty yens. Te this and i r= o WHOM da tdry, and in its infancy as • maid, i s a war with the greatest naval power is the said ; sad it is even now a persistent suitor at every nearitime earl is Europe for • more liberal recognittoa of the slignsid aeatrale then any of the other great maritime nedeas have yet hen dia. posed to make ; but till those *lda an secured by= international gunman . a s s en a dendeimadve sad rag beau, of codes !eanditeepoplain an ad fee which, in all its dad p, Id owe naval Uttar, affords such 011111111114/ peeeisla " Whether the captives boon the Treat were contraband of war or Dot, is • geed= whisk the two governments mu have no serious diftift in airmag upou. If Mr. Seward maid wieldy Bad Rena that Wit;woflr, I haw so doubt Bari innual will he ago As rid, dot Um" wen sot. if offhey Irelfcll4l all alifimitim ?MON in admit. ting, agents the del, it will be ' mss to *rib impartial minds that they were say kr ebeinband than • file of rebel soldiers, or a dairy of beetle mama. "Bat woe should than be a , diaereses d disks "on this point, it is very clear QM oargossramet had m'o'st grounds for presuming itself in the ,*ht, to dope the suspicion of having daddy viskitak, the relations of amity which the two counted pram • desire to premed and midden . _ The — tasesne• Uri we eight be multi. lb. Tinen lab port. sad bud her sondeatned by d grim emit Is mar to justify our same of four of ess peradgem, honker • very narrow bias os which to Lc • amiss' esatroversy between two peat nations. Stated b other weeds, oar edema tread bare been ler if a had be pouter. The wrom done to the Mike fag meld Mee bees mitipted if, instead of seising the fees reeds, we *4 "geed the ship. detained all her passengers fey weeks, aied ifseatorl her naearyryoo lam not surprised that Nails Mims took • different view of his duly, _and el whet was due to the frame* relations white marsistid between thefflemmembe. The • renowned cosmos mass of the En .11 , * pecuils, I believe, will approve of Ws siert to make the discharge of • very unpleasant duty as little vexations se pseeib, to all inseams peak, " If, Nader these elscomainess Hargbisel siesuld dem her duty, in the to of elegise's*, be moos the restoration of the misa teem boa alit , Sr protease of her deg, it will be hem • eenvislient,,tieldik that the law of nations in rep te the el atabrels, which she has taken the lading pert ii requires re • and with a sellable dimpenillen ea her part to establish those rights apse a just, hontano sad philosophie belie. Indeed lam happy to am ou in one of the leading metropolitan jonrush far to just this inference. Esterring to the of the lO.e Admiralty Comte, now quoted is dieser of the seisms el the American rebels on beard the That, the Load's time of the 28th of November map: " 'So fia as the authorities go, the of interns tional law writers in all me way, that • t war cruiser has the right to stop end visit and my MeV chant ship on the high seas. • • • DO it seem be re. membered that these desiskae were gives seder sires, ammo very different from them which now 004 Min Stamen in those days did not exist, and mail vemels carrying loam wherein all the nations of the world bare immediate a wait, were unknown. We were fightiug few mistime, and we did in those days what we should neither do soy allow ethers to do, nor expect ourselves to be allowed to do in these d " It England, as we are here mcounged to hops. is dis posed to dddoooo her part in stripping war of half it/ horrors by escepting the policy lon and preistertly mad lip, her by our goversuso, and commealled by every principle at jos- Moo and Inmenity, she will rid ma posed is the visit to the Trent for ootaroversy with our govsnament. I sea ours the Prooldent and people of the United She.. would be but too happy to let these wee go free, unnatural lid asp, datable as their offences bare bum, I by it they could emancipstre the commies of the world. Greedy', 4 would be to our disadvantage as this preemie aide to mama* any of time maritime privileges of belligeres, which are mectioned by the law of °steals, I feel that I take no re sponsibility fo saying that the United elates wiNba faith ful to her traditional policy spas this subject, and to the writ at her poitical matitatims. "On the other hand, should Resteed be noptegand to make • oorrespooding esaidoe she hid - that she Gould sot yet afford to surreeder the adienteges which the ennui maritime code gives Ile t andense naval power, of coarse she will sot put howl is a his torsitha by sake; is to do it, tls either thodhee. I du, toot ass how the Mown niter d a tes attporageggita a rs is 1411 hs . bode Mesegnition, as belikplonts, et :=ll Ins% ketecror seer bog le gag 41 • 1 • 1111 1•9111 • Woos* anuilei Ohs Wised my eenstrynosa e, I we Des sifts Ii *lay: an Olt vas laslll SIMI, irVjuorneatr imi teig c li neeTZ W Eesa lk iliteil logiond sash Wen erli Mis r spot lathe elstoomen to whim dui psalm* bffiereitAll Awe Imegor i g r an ate Mod mow. higher assgeniblinies Ind ihlt oc an u t i l i y o s goy sere aseased lest es event SD •• • war bateau /pal sad Ansedia wits. e& mem date other Mg gram ProrecotiT=r own. bese ghee- by natio& Betel Westesimier, Paris, Dee. 2, INL• Prliateere, both Federal abd Confedenite', were yealentay reported to be hi the chop el the Channel near &My. W. (Now) understand that the 100-pounder Amities( Enna, the ism of which bad h ►es testoraril, agenda daring woeexpriawati, in sow be again do. livered for aerates .17 - 1 X JANTO AGAIN. We take the tallariag from La Prase : The Havre jowled, publish the following report from ' amities (master) Onichon, commanding the French brig Jaen et Merle (174 tons, a crew of nine men, and owe pas. immiger), from Liverpool to the Hevannah, with a cargo of opals : s, 11 1 " The Hayseeah, Nov. 5. " On the 3rd of November, about 8 ■.m., from 20 to 22 miles from the Matanzas lights, we decried • Wader under sail on the starboard bow. As moon as she Perceived ea she took in her smile sad steamed far me. Whim within four tables' length she lad • goo, bet did not Wilt any flag., We immediately hoisted our °trudge ; there was may little wind, ►nd we were going about & bat end a half an hour, The steamer kept on &had to pus us to front ; she then stopped. Pinseiviag that a collisica wee inevitable, tried to tack, bet there me Namely any wind. The Moaner was sow coming close upon us. I had the mainsail up, but the collision took place. The steamer carried away our bow sprit, two mute with the sails, • ponies of Ilia bulwarks, mad all but broke the misonmest. As soon as I got free of the broken mesa I sent the mat to the pump's. We made no water. I met in a host akmpide the steamer to ask for &Mamie. The commander of the steamer had albums time sent • boat alongside, but an my asking his name and that of his vessel I could not ascertain it, orders haring been given to has men to that effect. His carpenter was in the boat. Seeing that the commander was not inclined to help IN, I told him is energetic language that I should keep dose to him till be towed as into sario anchorage. He then met some of his mat to get up our broken tackle. Mean time me of the snaohinweaen informed me that tha Mesmer was the Sae Jacinto frigate, from New York. " The eomm•nder Warted me that he had Mien to search every ship, and said me for my papers. &else reiterated my demand to be taken is tow, as otherwise we should have drifted and bees inevitably lest ee the meet of Disbars" be finally cominted to tow na to the Havanna& He met some men on board the Jules et Marie with a cable. After great solicitations lat last succeeded is pn• coring from one of the officers the name of the frigate sad of the commander. ".0a the 4th of November, about 5 a.m., being abed lb miles tram the 13•veaaah lightho•es, one ot the Ameri can crew boiled us, and told as to unship the cable they were towing as by. I replied that Towers too far from land, and hoped they would be kind cam* to take us into park They then sat the raps, the rernasat at which I have in my pamession, and left as, with mareely any wind, to drift is • cannot whisk would sees have carried ter on shore. 1 got up all the sells I amid, and the wind, happily, getting up in the asreveset, I relished the 'striae* the port, where • tagdearnar muse to oar amistance. We assehored about noon. "By the present roped I probeet in the moat solemn manner against the commodes of the steamer for the damage he ham esuod ms. I hive drawn up this report an the sth of November, man* to myself the right of amplifying it, being sow saffering from the disaster which hsa hafalen ms. MR. BRIGHT ON AMERICAN AFFAIRB., NANORENTNE, WZDNEZDAT Num. Mr. Bright, }L P., was entertained it dinner by his fedlew-towsrases, at the Rochdale Pub& Ran, this evellisg. Then were about 2110 gentlemen premet, asirspet whom wore Mr. Bosley, X.P., Yr. George Wilms, sad the Mayor et Meachemiess. The pilgrim win co: 4W by ladies. The lisqge d Booms= pradamdi and pre bk aurosesion the lamb d "!Us Qum; "The BOOM of PSE111811111PA." and "The iiislth at Mr. Cobden, M.P.," ail of which Wire eisdlaily received. Is the amine at his address la proposing Br. Ocheles's health, he read a long lean esseived trees that mama& Mr. BIIIOIT, CC rlsisg to re* to the tomes of his heath. ores received with great sithusisam. Him speech after a 'brief aehinsilidgerdent of their kindness to himself, wan entirely devoted to the subject of the war is Amodio. That struggle was, he mid, one of the highest interest to liegiand, and to humaaity at large. Eighty -4n yeas ago they mew .sissies "rung ham this esestry, sad shady suharise • popaligion of three billion monk ; • year ago they were the United Stases of America, sad comprised thirty millions of people. Is aviculture • 'tad manufactures so amok, is the maid eacept our owe sushi be plassd is asp nises with them. They wire 'ecvelly diethigahhed for their inventious, their enterprises, their lobo* their prisons, and their mileage ate**. maga 'Hui public expenditure of these United *aim was 58,000,0001. a peer, awl they were able to beam& ea ' moose, at tea, presperity, sad aboard* plenty sash se eye other ecostry in any age hot displayed. net then was another side to the questios. While this wintry Mound the Vinod liberty for the white pogslatiou, h held the black population in boudage sad derndatioa. lacked mowed the seeds of the slavery system. Jefferson, two pan before the Declaration of Indepen denti bead a protest spinet the ands* and polies of the English gosemmest is preventing the cialoairte boos forbidding the ispertatior at froth Degrees from Africa. Ultimately, every Slate wud left to legislate on slavery for itself. Bat the growth of adios boo increased since that time, and beams es artists of value to an extant which so man dreamt at whoa Jailers= wntw AM this wales, cultivated seder the slavery system, now threateued the overthrow of that which is • Enke time* more valuable— the great republic of the Usited States. Hr. Bright then referred to the eat of earession oa the pert of the South. Newsmen mid this anemiies of manias wee much like that which weaned when the agonies re volted against the mother country. The question in 1780, . was whether a ocerupt ministry in Do wning-strest sad a boroughamegsrieg gieliament in Westminster should tax dee mitre d meepeusented colooista without their cosi. se& Now the representation of the South in the American legh‘tore was not only complete, bat in °ream Three out of every See slaves are mooted as white mom, and the ma. segusem was that the South had returned about twenty more members than it bad a natural right to do. Tlds showed that there was no similarity between the two cams. Another reason for the secession alleged on this side was the protective tariff. No American, however, attribated the dirolnUce of the Union to that muse. The South had bees dominant daring the whole period since the declaration of Independence, and the tariff hail existed during that time. There bad, no dos*, been ocossionul symptoms of dimetiefaction, but when Con gress meta twelvemonth ago to discover how the Union could be maintained, among all the compromises suggested the question of the tariff was never referred to. Whatever the influence of the tariff alight be, it must also be remem bered that it is as pernicious to the West as to the South, bet the West had not seeded. The owastice was not me of protection or fres trade, it was of a different sad paver character. For thirty yean slavery had Mee ethermely elating to the surface ma the difficulty of American politi• aims. The object of the South in 'seeding was to escape frees the rot= of those who wish to limit the area of alive territory. What course, slaked Xr. Bright, should England pursue? We should be neutral—we were antral in Italy, bat were not neutral in sympathy, and although no Esgltsh ships or soldiers appeared on the shores of that country, the sympathy of England was spokes of in Europe, and did mutt to aid the establishment of the tree Italian kingdom. ffir. ?Might then argued that we had not given a eintliar eordlal sympathy to the people of the Northern states of America, although me or two statesmen, am for instance the Durkee! Argyll and lord Stanley, had spokes ' with liberality, Wryer, and friendliness of the United States. Earl &well, however, at Neicsatle, had mime. presented the gelatin whet he add the North were con tending for aspire, and the South for bodepredestoe, led the leading kernel, sines Lincela took aloe, bed sot pub lished me fair, honourable, aad frigidly article de American affen. It was asked why should them be wart Why this fratricidal strife? Why should the North and South not separate peaceably ? He throughout thought there were insurmountable geographical obstacles to a separation, as well m strong political oblectious. If the Northern States had done what some eampaper When dried, and had allowed the South to withdraw from the Uses without maid% any effect to relate them, we should ham berm told that democracy was a ham, that the Nudism government wee guilty o cowardice, end was worthy only of unmarred soshmilot- These medid Maude Mil on Asterism freedom ie pee other , the Hamel Comae Ael, has lissa suepseibed, ead lain and itheirldes have Use mffiegered. the had not we saspeaded the Habeas Ompra get during be trithrebeffire of Ina ; and If a. Mt= nosy wereememped soffits eight of Leedom what email goverment be,. ler this peresmil diberty of the &deg in any mews es they took for seem* the safety elstate ? We are tea thet it weld Whetter for es if . Vatted Stater Were divided ; and Sir rdwould lyttoer had mndictod that there would ultimately be four or In separate nations or federations. The former he con sidered a mean argument ; sad se for the latter, he would fez rather see the whole of that vast ooatineat combined in one great federation of States, where there would be no costom-bouses, but freedom everywhere—equaLty every- where—law everywhere sod room for the expanding energies of our race. Referring to the seizure of the Con. federate Doeunimioners, he mid he considered the act both impolitic and bad : but it might turn out to be wholly unauthorised by the /cameo goverment, and in this ease there was no doubt they would make ample reparable. No government bad evinced • greater desire to be guided by wee aed moderate ocennaals be the construction of oases seder the maritime law. It was mid this was only one of a series of acts showing Bl.will oo the part of the North. There would be irritate( socialists is the course of this demob,. Let us be calm. Let us recollect how we um dragged tato the Russian war—we drifted into it. It met &hundred million pounds. It oast the lives of forty thomand F..oglishinen • it injured our trade ; it doubled the armies of rope, and ' it did not accomplish • single thing that was promised. Statesmen sew maid, us exculpation, " What eould we do in the frenzy of the public mind at that tiros Don't let them add to the frenzy, and don't let se be driven. 31r. Bright them read au extract from General Bootee letter, which w e si= a cheered, and concluded by reatindiog the meeting of large numbert of E ng . Leh people who have during the last fifteen years to the Betas. Daly misrepresentation, the most gels eileney, an the most wicke4 could involve in war mooed= with en& des ties. In • few yearn the 20 roiliest free mss in the Nemeth would be 30 tuUlion, or even 30 =like lie prayed it might not be mid among them that in their darkest hour of need the English people, from whom they sprung, had looked. with icy coldness on the trials and saSseiop of their terrible struggle. -- - Mr. Bright resumed his seat amid loud and continued cheerios, and the meeting shortly afterwards broke up. MR. COBDEN, M.P., ON THE AMERICAN D . LFFICI7LTY. The following letter from Mr. Cobden, M. P., wee reed yederday at the 'fleeting at Reehdele : " didharst, Dee. 2, 1861. " Dear need not same you with whet phew, I should accept your invitation to be present at the eater- Warned which is to be offered by his neighbours to my friend, Mr. Bright. It tempts me sorely, and yet I will ash break the role by which I have probibibited myself from attending say public tins wider, with the view el husbanding my health for laboured the main sweeise. " The circumstances of the preessli notion make use re. pet my inability to meet ray ineetensoni. I should have beet glad to have expressed my views on the public ques. Gem of the day, especially n refer's°, to our relation with the United States, to which • recent event has gives it ridden im I allude, of count to the capture of thaw & and Nana, on board &British steamer. Oa His subject I should have mid the propriety of suspending • Ind judgment until we had had time to hear whether the American government had authorised this act of their naval nicer, and if so, ea what pound they justified the panelling. " I hare nee with some surprise the assomptionle aer tele quern*, that from the moment when our legal autho rities have given their opinion on the point at issue, the question ill settled, and that we have only to proceed to nine. their swam& It is forgotten that the matter in &- pets nun he decided ad by British bet by inter. malknal law, and that if the Presides* govern ment should serape the responsibility of the set of their naval Aker, they will skim for the renaming and the wooden§ need by their legal admire at Waegtoes, the game conderation whin they ate bound to Pre to the =te of the law officers of the Bridle era*. To this would be to deny that squid* before the law which is the ruled all civilised states, and to arrogate for °noels* as intended parties, arbitrary and dictatorial powers. Had I beet able to men my manikin* "should have in their name, and with I knew their full concurrence, repudiated the language of those publie 'Mein who, with out waiting till both parties have had a bearing, have given Mierann io time* whieha it they are to be supposed to omens fern the British people, meet mina etamlianc• on the pert of the American government difficult, if not Itheitemer bribe inns of the legal eoriteneny, tbis is • spostioe whisk we sawn hope to Wag to • more sadden tory Was by es seismal to erns. We endesnond to in- Pee ettelesev by fen% au the. Asseriases when they were these million of Wilele,_mid we know the rata ow is 1112, when we w ise Wipeouts, and she United Stetes with eight million elli people were antral, and eiter we hod for yeas! subjected their mask to march end seizure— ethieh will now probe* be maned es precedents to justify the newt proceediep on tisk part—a war broke out on this very question of bellipaostrights at am, which. after two years of mutual elanglider aled pillage, was terminated .by • treaty of pesos in windy by tacit agreement, no Min =wee made to the Meted same of the war. With examples, can we reassembly hops by form of arms to compel the twisty milli*, of Americans who are now united under the Federal government to wept our exclusive interpretation of the law of nations ? " Besides, the mare settlement of the question of the Trent doss net dispose doer difficulties sad deepen We respire a completo revision Of the interoatiocal maritime eons, with • view to its simplification, and to bring it into banney with themetered eirennastanoos of the age ; and V thin, it moat in ein be asbeined, the Ainertteas have an been the obstacle. Bore than dye yeses ago the government of Washington proposed to the Buropsui I.Eere to exempt private property at sea from capture mimed vends of every kid--e proposal which, in messy to Congress, Flinched Pierer nand bad been favourably mound by Bunn and Prance, but which was rejected by our government, acting in opposition to the unanimous opinion of the cow mereiel bodice of this eonntry. Subssqesetly, Mr. Buchanan's government enlarged this offer by proposing to abolish bloc. so far as purely mercantile port wars amosesed, but again We met with no favour bon oar =l?k The details of this plan are bat imperfectly no official dominions have been given to the British public. But after perusing the statement made by our foreign minister in the House dCommons, on the UM Febssery last, the painful im_pressuon is kit on my mind that had this offer of the United States go . vernment, in stead of being appalled, been pees*, aod fr ankly accepted by Basked, our nomeres with the southern pate of that *sentry m t have at this moment been uninterrupted, a n d would badly have felt . any Mann nines front the civil war in America. I was sheen from parliament when these peat questions were incidentally referred to, for all serious din amnion on the subject seems to have been discouraged by the government ; but I think I shall be able to show, on a future occasion, that no other country is interested to half the extent of England is carrying out these peopr t lions of the United States government. I venial go • step further, and exempt from visitant:oboes:eh, esdebetraction of every kind. all neutral merchaat ships on the cam er open ese.in time of warm well as in Mao' pease. The common* of the worid has become too vast and its movorasetetoo rraappiadi to permit of aim &ant needed all nations being, eivorywe, Sable to search and detention, merely because two powers in some Tintond tbeglobeehoosete beat war. This eleteelthinp might has been endurableness minutiae ago, when war was regarded as the normal state of society, and when the neutrality of ► pest power was amen 'Mumma but it is utterly in. tolerable in as age of skeet nevigalMe mad free trade. But let it not be forint* by the Benin public, is the present moment of irritation, that England has always been, and still is, the great obstacle to a liberal and humane modifin- Sou of the maritime law of nations in the interest of nea trate, and that her amen alone is wanting to sweep the musty maxims of Puffeedorff and the rest ion that °Mi nos which has happily engulfed the kindred absurdities of mention. • " I will not atkimpt within the spies of a letter to touch open the other imam involved in this deplorable civil oar. There is one point only on which I will add • remark. An opinion seems to be entertained by some parties here and on the continent, that it in the of the government of England and France to if not put as end to, the coodiek I entertain the strongest conviction, on the con trary, that any set of intonsenissos hiou tr i zZof • Europen paw, whother by la the * the or • pronsture acknowledgment of Wspinninsee of South, or le any other way, cos have no other effect but to aggravate and protean the quarrel. History tells us bow greatly the bonne of the Fesoch nvolutioo sprung from the inter, amine of the foreigner. Were • similar element thrown in to iota rate the America contest, every restraining motive for forbeinnes, every thought of compromise or coocinatioa would be cast to the winds —the North would avail itself of the horrible weapon always ready at hand, and by call* in the aid of the negro would carry the fire and sword of e servile war into the South, and make it a desolation and a wilderness.. So far from expecting that the raw material oar great industry would reach on noon in consequence of slick an intanentios, I Wien the more probable mauls would be the destruction of the eottoo pliant itself tbruir4 out the Southern. Steles of the Union. "I cannot conclude without thanking you for jar kind offer of hospitality; adl Amain, my dear air, yowl very truly, " RD. CoIiLLS. "Jno. T. Pagan, Esq., Mayor." Lord R. Montagu, KP., yesterday, at Raluseb • 66 ••• 841 • Wirt st•heere "Oa Astoria aad America fey." Thrash's had, etwoolating aa to the tutor, bearded the *aka that the South would Dot salad mod could oat ha stdoitied, and that the States mud lie Ja' vide'. A remarkable me of ecclesiastical discipline was dessidsd ea Wedaesday is the Consietorisl Court, Cobb , . by Judie itedeliff. Tim Rev. Thomiui B. Jowls was if' noisiest by the Leed•Lienteassat es chaplain to the Cork Landis Asylum. The Sew. Mr. Nehr', rector of the knelt, ebjwasdtehis dikkatiarg there without his A mnon. Thement Welded that ties shaplata had so right to °Sent , It OM palish, sad be was Welted aceordinsly. Bit John Arnett, M.P., Mayor of Cork, has in' meted MOM is the melthildwasat of • "monster baw7 nod adillseememm with Use view of saline to the Pot first eial derby appeaddai semen of scarcity and &items. I r is s 113 thi Oor Ea to . ale foes ii a• 7 doe was pee h Tb Mks "ham a t i i i" 4l ii&rdi Now yards Mewl ..~n lb Bobo °lily sa Mt. k. lay 1 ewe ha hiftasil abis th, *we 1 hdly a Iboem The — j !dm sot 'lto . 1 Proi 'AI t.EirSAI