The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

I OM MTH AND CO.s p URIC EXTRACT of CALVES' FEET, For llamado mad CaAwry rie. Sold le_lB.. obi so 1q etterADlA /Mom. *c. MAIIVIA 44., CRIAT. AA YTTLZ rownrxu.sr.. t0500t,46., w. LOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. camas. ItALL sad WOOD lisra • Wes amorlasst IC amm lisar &dm by the amt 6Wwwwd =awn. 26 IrroWl7 wimead prior —in. Weirmlatreet. Zit, •xprellll. ro optimum( oc.rra. ldw.YNe.ob Inloodod ke " Th. btoresa " Lon lon Erosion how. moat be tb=o, Sooverto-stront. by No Wawa on the day of p KATI, AMICIT. TON EMMA OCR iiiiIIICANTOCSIN. Mmes.Nothero. Durksi.st• ; Mrs. C. imam siml Miss ollver.—MY AI. NT's AMICK. Mr. SuOwns —INIX AND COX. Mr. Narks ee.— Asa A NKr IN TUE DARK —Cossimr•oesi 7. PRINCESS'S. Te• Bram JEAN MET rt:4 w EDDI NO.—And OTIILLI.O. Meson. rechter, Ity.ter, J.,rdrn. Putter. :them aa4 Cathcart; Mom V. le,kreq, Y LacJeraN, and Ilaworthy. JANITII . Tun Emma. A WITC4 JOVRYAL Yr. O. Vining and yew Kate Terry —TUE POOR NOBLILICAN. Mr. A. %Viotti. TIII: HIS %KIANG SCHOOL lliours. 0. Charles. &lure, . M u Herbert and Mn. F. Mattltews..—thtunts..uce at 74. NIIITANNIA. Twei Evionwo, TUE B% Notr QUItN. Mks E. Clayton.- lootanl.-Eroupe nt Ii nci and Monkey's-M. Eittalr.-51‘111r. C. V.epitius.-Mr. J. Illumptuo.-An4 TUK WIDOW'S PON. lin. P. Lana -Coalman at M. NIGH MATRit AT LONDON MUDD& TI DAT—Mondag. Aftemoes. lh. to-aissam—llonfty !► mosarts.2b. 4.las. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 2. ALTHOUGH instructions were sent out to Lord LYONS three days after the news from the Old Bahama Channel reached England, Christmas will probably arrive quite as soon as President LINCOLN'S reply. We miss now the services which the Atlantic Telegraph was once expected to render. We bare before us a month of expectation and uncertainty. From time to time as the American mad comes in, we shall receive information upon which inference and observation may be based with more or leas probability ; but while we are without the formal reply of Mr. lancout to the demands of our Government for reparation, it will be unfair and unwise to prejndge its character. We are not to assume that the American Governmentcannot or will not disavow and condemn the rash act of an officer fresh from the coast of Africa, and therefore igno fast of much which might have influenced the course of an agent better informed. Indeed, the rule by which our thoughts and words should be governed while the event is contingent is very clear. We ought to do by the American Govern ment as we should wish that Government to do by us under the same circumstances ; and certainly we should think anyone unfriendly who said that England in such a ease would refuse to admit the claims of law and justice. We ask no more than law and justice of the United States Government. Although we are the proper guardians of our own dignity, we do not set up for judges in our own quarrel : we do not resent the fair exercise of those rights of the American Government whisk spring out of a state of war. We do not complain of the right of search ; we could not do so, for, each as it is, we more than others have made it ; and although, as neutrals, we feel its oppressiveness to-day, to-morrow we may be belligerents, and may find it conveeient. It is on the written law, acknowledged by lbe maritime states of the eivi lined world, that oar demands upon the Gown ment at Washington are based ; to it we appeal, and by it we are ready to abide. Ho far from complaining that the character of the act of Captain Wiiira turns upon dry points of law, we find is that fed the best ground of our hopes of the main tresses of peace. The more we can throw the can of the Trent upon harmonious precedent and re seeded decision, the better is the peeped of avoid fag a conflict over which every friend of Christian eivilizaties would mourn. Either war exists in the United States between the North and the South, or it does not. If war does not exist, there is no right of search and no right of blockade. All the British ships which have been captured for breach of the blockade must be restored, and the Sea Jacinto in exercising the right of search exercised a right which had no exist ence. If war does not exist—that is, if the North refuse to acknowledge belligerent rights —let them say so, and henceforth no American cruiser will be allowed to search any English mer chantman. Messrs. Suugu and MASON must be restored because taken by the exercise of a non existent right, and the blockade of the Southern ports must be raised. But if there is war, then the Southerners are enemies, and must be treated as such on board English ships. No English jurist or diplomatist has ever maintained that an came can be taken on board a neutral ship, and there fore no English practice can justify the captain of the San Jacinto in what he has done. If the Federal Government persist in regarding the Southerners as subjects, there is no enemy and no war : if the Federal Government are willing to regard tho Southerners as public enemies, they are not liable to be seized as persons who owe allegi ance to the Federal Governiuent. Tea events of the pest week have produced a degree of excitement in the commercial and finan cial world unknown for years past. Men's minds have been forcibly diverted from the works of peace to the contemplation of the dread con tingency of war. Although the quarrel is with the Government of • great people, one with us in language, religion, and blood, and with whom, until very recently, we have maintained exceedingly clam and extensive commercial relations, there has scarcely ever been a great public question on which commercial opinion has been marked by the unanimity displayed on the present occasion. The community !Live been unanimous in des:ring that the utmost forbearanos should be observed, es long as the Americans confine themselves to the exer cise of their rights ; that limit weld, they cannot but require that the dignity of the country be up held. The present is a question of the security of maritime intercourse, and of the exemption of our ocean-scattered mercantile marine from moles tation by the force:nen The British flag, if once suffered to ho trailed in the dirt, will convey no protection 'whatever. It will not seem unnatural, or even unreason able, that the commercial community, having got over their first excitement, are considenng their altered prom/sea. This is not to prejudge the question of peaco or war, or to distrust either the ability of Lord Ligon, or the candour of Mr. LIN- I'OLN ; it is simply prudence. And the result is a confident feeling that war, though at all times to be sarueetly deprecated as most pernicious, and often more injurious to the victor than the vanquished, would prejudice at least mercantile interests in a far less degree than at former pe riods. The first consideration is that war would put a stop to our American trade. lint, so far as the export of our goods is concerned, it is already Dearly stopped by the set of the Americans them selves. What with their civil war in the first butane, and their hostile tariff towards ourselves in the next, our cousigumenta to America hays TILE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1861. sunk to a mere fraction of their ordinary amount. The American trade has consequently lost many of its most valuable features as regards our interests. On the other band, the Americans would law immensely, for, in proportion as the character of the present trade is less advantageous to us, it is more beneficial to them. The millions of hard cull that we parted with, to our great inconvenience, some mouths beck, went to then,. If they force war upon us, they wantonly stop the influx of gold—of wealth in its most tangible form. It is only the one-sided character of their trade that has enabled them to keep up their stocks of specie, particularly in the New York banks. Whilst the Federal Government have been making huge cash disbursements, and whilst the Western and North-Western States, denuded of their old rotten currency, have been providing themselves with specie from the great Eastern depots of New York, Boston, .I:c., the latter have had the void thus occasioned Weems santly supplied by the influx from abroad in pay ment for the huge exports of grain, flour, and other commodities, combined with the steady re ceipts from California, nearly the whole of which America has been permitted to retain. We have shown that America commits the strange error of raising this quarrel at a moment when such a course is peculiarly injurious to her commercial interests and singularly powerless to affect us. Another consideration in the same direc tion is, that the balance of what would be called on the other side of the Atlantic "floating indebted " ness,"as between the two countries, stands in our favour to an extent rarely witnessed. Under ordi nary circumstances very large sums are due to this country from American houses, but there is reason to suspect that the balance may now stand the other way, as is indicated by the very fact that they have taken so small an amount of goods from us, while we have received such enor mous consignments from them. We shall not, therefore, have English houses thrown into em barraasment through the withholding of what is due to thorn. Again, had the dispute arisen at this time last year, when our harvest was lamentably deficient, and when America was our great purveyor of food, famine prices might have reigned in this country, and fearful privations have been imposed on the poorer classes. But now that we have had a moderatelygood harvest, America has far more need to sell her large stores of food than we have to buy them. If she be so mad as to stop this trade, she cuts off her own sustenance, not ours. We have not alluded to the position of the American bankers, who, apart from other causes of difficulty, hold the 30,000,0001. sterling of securities already created by the Government for the purposes of the civil war. As purveyors of the sinews of war, they ought to have an in• fluential voice. We entreat them to let it ha heard at the moment most propitious for arresting the course of the Government towards a commas ruin. We were not premature in warning our readers spinet participation or entanglement in the great eotton speculation. The market at Liverpool has been declining throughout the past week, and has really been merely nominal, for it has been scarcely possible to eslL Holders kept of as good cheer as' they could until Saturday, but the telegrams dated Saturday afternoon (as we write we have not ye' mired the leases) show that the market is at last fairly prostrated. Friday's prices were considered id. per lb. below the previous Friday's, though to sell was difficult ; but the quotation► on Saturday are vaguely described in the telegrams ea id. to ld. per lb. lower than on Friday. This is a severe fell. We fear trouble will occur in that quarter, but it will of course be partial, and have its com pensation. "The cabinet," says the rinses, "deserves credit for having we promptly taken its molatiom. At its manias an Friday Lard Rowell was directed to prepare a dispatch, and on Saturday Mainers rot epic to revise it, sad Golly settle its tams. So settled, and approved by her Majesty, it was seat yeslardsy by • mono to Qametem, and will anive at Washington within twelve days' time. We understand that this easamanicatios, tboagh coached in the IMO* larigwage, vary properly presumes that the Federal goverment will sot rains to make honourable reparation for aa illegal act." The organs of the "Young Ireland party" have been thrown into Dyeing-los from joy at the prospect of • war between England and America. The liatiqn rys the capture of the commissioners on board • British Mesmer was an "net worthy of the spirit, daring, and dub of the Americans; it was one to make Irish bears jump with joy." *The news," eent;aties the same organ, "has created wild szciteaseat and enthusiasm in Dublin, and it will awake. Mauls: feelings sad serations throughout the whole cons- I try." If the Ihiglishgoverament resent the insult, then we me told will some " • great time for Ireland. Then will UPI VIM who an yone With a reayeciacc prove vengeful mall Weed. Then will the Irish race in America rush to arms nod bound into the battle." Mr. Disraeli passed through Newcastle and Sun derland on Friday, en route for Meehan% Hall, the residence of the Marchioness of Londonderry. The right boo. genUe man was not expected in the town, and the carriage@ of the marchioness being unpuocttud, he spent some time ia parading the froot of the station, entering freely into con. venom-xi with some of the bysteeders. It is expected that Mr. Disraeli will attend the inauguration of the London derry mainmast at Durham to-day. AMIDRIIT TO LORD DACll.—News bait been re vival of a severe accident which has just happened to Lord Dean. whilst shooting in the Highlauds. ft appears that his gilly was heeding to him his gun, when the latter acci dentally went off, daecharging its cadent% right through his for ship's area, which is seriously injured. Lord Deere bad four miles ha walk before medial mistime* weld he . THE ROYAL 130CIPTY.—The fellows of the Royal Society assembled in eessiderable numbers at their east• versery meeting on St. Andrineeday, • meeting more than venally interesting, as Air Benjamin Brodie, the president, then delivered his farewell address on resigning the chair. The attention with which the eminent baronet's wade were heaped to marked the feeling of respect and admiration for his character that prevails among the gaiety over whom be has so well presided. After the delivery of the medals, the meeting proceeded to ballot for cranial and officers for the ensuing year, and the following were declared duly elected :—President : Major-General Edward Rabies, HA., D.C.L., LL D. Treasurer: Allen Miller, ILD • LL.D. Secretaries: William Sbaray, M.D., LLD.: and George Gabriel Stoke; MA.. D.C.L /Weir 84 ••••• rt William Hallows Mills,, M.A. Other m em b ers o f t e council : John Comets Adams, M.A., D.C. L. ; Sir Williant Goo.-n Arrrnitrotni. els.. Benjamin Guy Babington, tar 14.n)notio tallies Brodie, Bart., D.C.L, Norge Holnller Buckton , William Bet Jamie Carpenter, Sir Philip de Malpas 0. Favrton, flan, Williaea Fairhaire, LL.D., °Wain Douglas (:ahm), R.R, William Robert Grove. Q.C., William Hopkins, M.A., LL.D., John Lubbock, James Paget, Joseph Praderieb, Wil ber) Syntlhonondo. M.A., and Jetts 'Praha The inrovereary dieser of the fellows end their friends was held at St. James's Hall. Amos( those prement were General Sabine. the presidr at elect ; Dr. flberpey. Profemor f44olten, and haennor W. 11. Miller, the noorolaries ; Dr. W. A. Miner, the newly-elected Weenier of the i misty : the Lord Mayor. Air Charles I:imbibe, President of the Royal Academy ; Sir Roderick Mumbles., Rev. Dr. Robinson, Mr. Itichinettl, Sir John Hensler, General Baleen, Admiral Fitzroy, Dr. ranter, Pr0f...., Sylvester, lir. filadetoce, I 1 Adhere, hormone J. Couch Adams, Sir Henry Hairlines, Carmel Laney, Lord Elln men, Mr. Tike, Mr. flopwitb. Mr. Gasia, Mr. Robert Manses. Mr. Preetwirh, Mr. Edward Somalis, Mr. Busk, Mr. Arebilaid Serlith, Ira Tin ware Kam To All IMICA.—This morning (Nosey) the Peahmseter-Geoeral gave notice to the public, at the eisief ease la St. Ilartio's4e-Grand, that the next malls for America would be demetched from London cm Wedamday. this 4th proximo. 'lts following is a copy al ' the eotice :—" Wednesday morning, the 4th lust ' a mail to America --te New York—will be made up amide witched from this office, for transit by packet rid South amptos. le the evening of the same day another mail to Americo yid New Yak will be mot by United States packet yid Cork." LAT}T INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. THE SAN JACINTO AFFAIR. OPINIONS OF THE AMERICAN PRESS. QUEENSTOWN, Dr.c. 1. The Royal Mail steamship Persia arrived at noon, from New York, 20th ult. She brings eighty-six passengers and eighty-six sacks mails. She experienced very strong easterly winds, with heavy head sea, all the way across. The steamers Norwegian, City of Manchester, and United Kingdom have arrived out. The Asia, hence, off Cape Race, 17th ult. LIVERPOOL, MoirDAT. The Persia arrived here at 9 o'clock this morning. The American account of the Trent and San Jacinto affair agrees mainly with that of Captain Moir, but it is represented that all the documents of Messrs. Mason and Slidell were seized. The indications were that Captain Wilke acted on his own responsibility, and on the ground that although he may not have acted within the strict letter of the law the end would justify the means in the eyes of his countrymen. A cabinet council was held on the subject at Washington, but the result had not transpired. A Washington telegram in the New York Herald says that when the information was first com municated to President Lincoln, he declared em phatically that Messrs. Mason and Slidell should not be surrendered, even if their detention should , cause a war with Great Britain. From the same source it is stated that the legal advisers of the Federal government not only com pletely justify the proceeding, but even furnish authority for the seizure and confiscation of the Trent. The New York Herald, of the 17th Novem ber, says —" We have a precedent in the action of the British government itself, in a precisely similar case, in the Irish rebel lion of 1848, when the person of Terence Bellew M‘Manne was forcibly taken from an American ship in the harbour of Cork, where he had taken shelter under the stars and stripes. [}l 4 Manwt was a condemned rebel, and the ship from which be was taken was in a British harbour, and not on the high seas.) But it was I evident Commander Wilke was not authorised to make the arrests on board of a British ship ; and it is more than probable the government will dia -1 l avow the proceedings, apologise for it, promising to do it again, and, perhaps, reprimand the naval officer for permitting his seal to outstrip his discretion. This is all, we think, the English government can fairly demand, if it ever does make any demand on the subject. As for giving up Mason and Slidell now that they are in the hands of our government, that is another affair, and alto gether out of the question." The Herald of the 19th, in an editorial article on the same subject, says :—" It is the duty of the government to make preparations for emergencies. There is little probability that England will care to risk hostilities with us. It has too little to gain and too much to !ON by fighting with the United States ; bet we might, nevertheless, to be hilly provided against any contingency that may arise. Congress is on the eve of assembling, and the President in his message, should call at once for 500,000 more men, and appropriations to build as rapidly as possible several hundred vessels of war." The World does not believe that the British cabinet will make any complaint, but if it does the American government can fully justify it by the awe of the American steamer Caroline which was destroyed by British of in 1837. The New York Times also believes that Englandjwill not even remon strate, but, on the contrary, will applaud tho gallant act of Captain Wilke as an exact imitation of the policy she has always stoutly defended and pur sued. The Times admits, however, that Captain Wilke was wrong in not taking the Trent into port and getting her condemned for carrying contraband of war. Some of the New York journals speak of the probable necessity for apologies and reparation, even to the sending of the prisoners back, but others argue in a totally different strain. The New York Journal of Commerce says it was purely an act of grace that the British merchantman was allowed toga free, and that it is far from likely that England would bother herself with any complaint 'from her captain, who escaped with his vessel and cargo from the fate of which the Queen's proclama tion warned him. Great stress is laid in some of the arguments against that clause in the Queen's proclamation which prohibited British vessels from carrying officers, despatches, Ste., for the service of either party, and it is asked if British ministers, in the face of such a proclamation, can protect the Trent in her conveyance of rebel emissaries and rebel des patches. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that Lord Lyons bad expressed his opinion that Messrs. Mason and Slidell would be given up to England. The New York Herald had published the fol lowing version of the arrest : Fortress Mooros, Nor. 15. The United States steam frigate San Jacinto, Captain Wilkes, arrived in the Roadstead at half-past twelve p.m., bar* on board the rebel commissioners, Slidell and Yawn. They were taken from the English mail steamer on the Bth inst. off Bermuda. Lieutenant Fairfax and thirty-five armed men went from the San Ja elide with five officers, who boanled the steamer and picked out the commissioners. Messrs. Slidell and Mason made feeble resistance, but were induced to leave with Lieutenant Fairfax. The captain of the steamer raved and swore, called the United States officers "piratical Yankees" and other abusive names. One of the secretaries of the rebel commissioners, named Hosted or Huntace, also showed resistance; but himself and colleague accompanied their employers to confine ment. Mr. Slidell had his wife and four chil dren on hoard, who were allowed to proceed to Europe. Commodore Willies came ashore and had a lengthy conversation with Osman' Wool. He ermined his opinion that be bad doss right, and said that, right or wrong, th es men had to be secured, and if he hail done wrong he could do no more than be cashiered for it. When it became known that these two worthies were in Hampton Roads, the excitement was immense. Some reported that quarters would be provided them cm the Rip VA" bat either the frigate will proceed to New York, or some other vessel will be sent there with the prisoners es board, and deliver them at Fort La fayette. _ _ Mows. Slidell and Mason have been taken to Fort Warren. The Georgia planters have held a convention, in which it was resolved that if the present cotton crop remain unsold they will not plant any cotton next year. The steamer Fingal is reported to have arrival at a Southern port with a cargo of ammunition. The British barque Deobey (I), which arrived at New York for provisions, has been seized for an alleged violation of the blockade. General Dix has landed 4,000 troops on the fasten' shore of Virginia, and has named a procla mation guaranteeing constitutional rights to loyal inhabitants. It is reported that the Federals were well received by the people of Decomac and North ampton Counties. The Confederates have assembled in force at Big Bethel, and an attack on Newport News is expected. There is no war news of special importance on the Lower Potomac. The Confederates still open their batteries on ships coming up and down the river. General Hallock has assumed the command of the army in Missouri. The entire Confederate force under General Floyd have abandoned their positions, near Gouley-bridge. General Rozen cranz intends making a forward movement as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. The Federals have evacuated Beaufort, but that place had not yet been reoccupied by the Confederates. The latter threatened to burn it should the Union ists remain in occupation. The Federal fleet was still lying off Beaufort. The Confederates had attacked the Federals at Santa Roes, but were re pulsed. The Confederates in Accomac, county Virginia, have laid down their arms, and claim Federal protection. The Secessionists have taken possession of all the locomotives and machinery belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. They also tore up the double track for twenty miles. Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, the Pro vincinl President and Vice-President of the Con federate States, have been unanimously re-elected for six years for their respective o ffi ces. . _ Advioee from Havannali are to the 15th nit. The Spanish expedition for Mexico was waiting in the harbour for the remainder of the fleet. The French war steamer Lavoiser was still in port. Cotton cultivation was still occupying attention in Ja maica. The experiment had failed in some parts of the island. The Saxonia has arrived out. The daughter-in-law of the Duke of Saldanha has been received into the catholic church at the English College at Lisbon. Exchange on London at three months is quoted 531 ; on Paris, 530 ; on Hamburg, 48; on Amster dam, 42.70; on Genoa, 528. Three per Cent. Rentes, 47/. Coupons, 47 1 , ; Deferred, 411. Lisbon Bank, 587 ; Oporto Commercial Bank, 258 milreis ; Oporto Mercantile Bank, 258 mania. COMMERCIAL INTRLLIGENCE. NSW YORK, Nov. 19, Erartra. Money easy. Exchange steady ; bankers' bills, 1081 to 104. Stocks steady : New York Central, 80} ; Erie, 331 ; Illinois, 621. Cotton steady : Middling Upland, 23jc. Flour dull. Wheat 2c. lower. Corn 2c. lower. Provisions and coffee quiet. Sugar good inquiry. Molasses steady. The Norwegian has arrived out. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, Nov. 30, MIDNIGHT. -.- The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Borussia, Captain Trautman, from New York at 8 p.m. on the 16th, has arrived off Cowes en route for Hamburg, with 145 passengers in all. From the 20th to the 23rd she experienced tremendous heavy easterly gales ; after that time variable winds and high sea. The Niagara arrived at Boston at half-past 2 o'clock a.m. on the 16th inst. The Borussia's news barn been anticipated vil Queenstown. THE POPE'S ARMY. A letter from Rome in the Belie says :—" It is a l well-known fact that the pontifical troops are hos- 1 tile to the government which they are reputed to serve. Excepting at the barracks of the foreign weaves and gendarmes, there is never any meeting of soldiers where the immense majority do not gym pethise with the Italian rause. To whatever sol dier you speak, hussar, dragoon, artilleryman, you hear them all say the same thing When is our king coming ?' I firmly believe, and I speak from lengthened observation, that there are not 2,000 men devoted to the Pope out of his army of 12,000. If desertion, es maser, were possible, it would take place in twenty-four hours." BELGIUM. The debate in the Belgian Chambers respecting the recognition of the King of Italy has terminated with the adoption of an amendment of M. Orts, Reporter of the Committee, put in consequence of an amendment proposed by one of the members of the Right. The amendment is thus couched : "In the present situation of affairs in Europe it is necessary that Belgium, a neutral Power, faithful to ,the great principle of international law, should abstain, as she always has done, from interfering in the affairs of other nations." This amendment was carried by 62 votes against 47, giving a majority of 15. (aarrn's TZLIGIWIL) THE HERZEGOVINA. PARIS, Die. 2. • i The Austrian intervention in the Herzegovina s dated to have been made with the object of secur ing free transit through the military road between Klek and Ragusa. That object being attained, the Austrian troops will re-enter their own territory. ITALY. TURIN, Dec. 2. A meeting of the majority of the deputies, at which the ministers were also preseat, was held yesterday. Baron Ricasoli gave explanations on the state of Naples, and tho brigandage in the Basilicata and on the frontiers of the Papal States. He said that, in pursuance of an understanding between the French and Italian governments, the French troops will energetically co-operate iu the suppression of brigandage on the frontiers of the Papal States. Baron Riess*li also announced that the lieute nanny of Sicily would be shortly abolished. In consequence of these explanations, the majority of the deputies present resolved not to concur in any vote of want of confidence in the ministry which might be proposed by the opposition. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer Tagus has arrived here with the Peninsular mails. She brings 11 passengers, 2,1051. in specie, 753 cheats of oranges, 253 boxes of eggs, 12 live oxen, and 28 packages of sundries. LISBON, Nov. 27. (Per Tagus rid Southampton.) The Infante Dom Augusto still continues very ill, and his condition is altogether precarious. Lord Methuen and Colonel Seymour return by this packet. They have delivered the letters of condolence sent by the Queen of England. The royal envoys dined at the palace, and were remark ably well received by his Majesty Dom Luiz I. The American barque Corinthian has acciden tally taken fire, and been completely destroyed. She was laden with coals, and it is supposed that spon taneous combustion was the caused the accident. The antique custom of breaking the shields, a rite which haagrended from the age of chivalry, was celebrated yesterday with duo pomp and solem nity. This ancient cere:nonial takes place whenever a King of Portugal dies, sad although the lapse of time has given rise to a strange mixture of ancient and modern usages, the custom is still imposing and worthy of notice. Ai iet no change has taken place in the ministry, but it is very probable there will soon be something of this sort to notice. The French and Italian resilient' in Lisbon have announced their intention to celebrate public masses for the repose of the soul of the late King. A meeting of British merchants has also been held to determine on an appropriate way of expressing their sympathy. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oos ovn4 PARIS, SUNDAT EVEKCIO. The Patric contains the following observations, which, if—and this, notwithstanding M. de la Guerronniere's inspiration, must be very doubtful— they express the sentiments of the French govern ment, show that France not only approves of the attitude of England in the affair of the San Jacinto, but is in a great hurry to join us ,in a war against the northern states of America. This journal says: What will be the attitude of France in this matter? In our opinion it will be difficult for ber to remain passive in preemiee of a violation of the law of nations, which affects all maritime powers. We are much disposed to think that the northern states will refuse to recognise the justice of England's demands for satisfaction ; ►nd in that ease the probability is that war will be immediately declared, and that the recognition of the southern states will be the first act of hostility. We have never concealed our opinion upon this American conflict, but it was not for us to antici pate the resolutions of the Emperor's government by giving the reasons for the side which we took. We believe, how ever, that we may now say that we cannot understand how the pretensions of the Washington cabinet are to be defended. I stop to call attention to the form of the Patrie's phraseology, because whether the present article be really semi-official or not, it is evidently written with the view of inducing the public to suppose that it is. The Patric continues : It is time to put a stop to a fratricidal war, in which the vital elements of the contending pastes will be lost. French trade suffers cruelly by the present state of things, and the injury done to in by the inter ruption of commercial relation, with the state• is as great rto England. We are profoundly convinced that the war between the north and south will be interminable, and we cannot under any pretext remain disinterested spectators in a struggle between North America and England. No doubt it is not our businees to avenge insults to England, but the recognition of the south by the power would lead to the definitive scission of the United States, and that cannot be an isolated act, but will impose upon France a decisive attitude. The result will be that the two great maritime powers of Europe will take a common action with an identical object, and President Lincoln, by his violent act, will perhaps have acted providently, and will have prepared the way for • separation which he can now neither propose nor accept. Besides, we have no desire to see the United States navy destroyed ; and is it not the best way to prevent such • catastrophe to rander all resistance im possible by uniting the nav►l forces of France and England, and thus tseminating a question the dhionement of which L inevitable, and which can never be settled other. wise, except by perpetual divisions and irreparable mis fortunes? Here, then, is a distinct programme for joint inter vention by France and England to settle the affairs of the American continent. I, for one, greatly hesitate to approve of inch a partnership. It was announced by mistake that M. de Plancy, government candidate, had been "elected" a mem ber of the Corps Legislatif for the department of the Aude. The fact is that be merely obtained a bare majority, and that the election being void for want of what is called the " absolute majority," a new poll is ordered for Dec. 8. M. de Plancy only moored 12,323 votes, while as many as 21,093 were polled for various independent candidates. This is, therefore, one of the most serious electoral checks that the government has ever received in the pro vinces. The opposition in the department of the Aude now knows its strength, and there can scarcely be a doubt that a coalition will be made which will result in the election of one of the independent candidates on this day week. There is an unfortunate schism in the French bar about the Berryer banquet, which will conside rably diminish its Mat. M. Jules Favre's liberal idea of inviting the high government functionaries who were formerly barristers to meet their old asso ciates on this interesting occasion, has not found favour with the bar generally. There is, in particular, a wide-spread repugnance to sit down at the same table with K Chain d'Kst Ange, whose conduct towards the bar since he has been procureur-general has given great offence, more especially in the aff.iir of the prosecution of K Emile 011ivier. Up to the present moment, less than half the bar have put down their names for this fate, which was intended to be a unanimous demonstration ; and it is understood that a great many of those who have subscribed their 40fr. mean to excuse themselves from personal attendance. The rather high price of the tickets is one of the causes of disaffection, as it is known that the rate was fixed for the express purpose of making the banquet " select," thereby drawing an invidious distinction between those members of the profession to whom 40fr. is a serious expense and their richer brethren. The vacancy in the Academy of Painting, caused by the death of M. Abel de Pujol, was filled up yesterday by the election of M. Meissonuier, after a severe contest, iu which M. Hesse ran him very hard. The funeral of the Rev. Pk* Laconlaire took pines at Sori•se on Thursday, and the same day a funeral service for the repose of his coal was celebrated at 9 in the morning at the Cathedral of Notre Diane in P►ris. A con sideraide number of persons of all ranks and conditions at tended. The French Academy was represented by its offi cers. The church was lilted up in the most simple manner, slid the pulpit from which the brilliant orator so frequently charmed his audience was covered with crape. There was no funeral sermon delivered. One of the Vicars-General of in the ptceence of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. A letter from Florence says :—" The rainy season baa set in in real earnest in Central Italy —a steady drench ing rain, which accompanied me the boat part of the way across the Mardies sod Umbria, and which has ceased neither day nor night since I set my foot in Florence. The Exhibition Palace is tolerably waterAight ; not so the out buildings, mere bastalprooled.ia wooden sheds, where no thing is safe from the wet. The committee of management are, however, busy repairing the leaks wherever they show themselves, and up to this time none of the exhibited articles have suffered any serious damage. The same committee are also devising plans to wage war against the cold weather which is sure soon to begin. The main building can easily be sup. plied with hot-water pipes, and, as the manufactures and works of art are mainly housed here, visitors will not greatly regret their exposure to the cold air of the coinpanitively unprotected outbuildings. It seems, also, that not many applications have been sent in either by exhibitors or pur chasers for the immediate removal of the articles respec. tively belonging to them. The Exhibitioo, in short, holds together pretty fairly, and the interest taken in it by the whole nation is not likely to be damaged by the wet or chilled by the frosty season." One of the gossiping correspondents of the hadependante snorts from Paris that the resolution to tarry off the Southern envoys from on board the Trent was agreed to at a meeting of the American cabinet at which General Scott was present. Ho insinuates that this has bees mentioned by the general to his friends at Paris. - - WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) -.-- 1102 DAY, 1.11021111L2 2, $ AL S. E. L. l D. S. 1 0. .. .. NAIRN ISOM b— 8.8. W. 2 I 2 b 2 kosaami —.10.29 31 W. 6 1 b $ Liu= 3033; 41 37 S. 2 6 mI I lizawicz 1363 6, 36 31 Z. 0 4 b 2 ARDROISAN 810.301 38 U NE. 3 7 cI I Pomo= 30.2 11 36 37 8.1.. 1 2 b 1 4 8111E1.9. 0.66867 36.16 47 MI 8.8. W. 4 7 0 2 38.444904940 S 40.411 34 33 8.Y.W.8.8.W. 2 1 b 3 wiserooi 11011.42 38 Si B.E. 2 II m 2 YAL3NIq .. - - - - Quiwinowil 1,10.9 61 49 411 8.8. W. 5 3 r 6 YARZuWIN 10.47 37 315 W.N.W. 2 $ m i 6 LONDON .3848 SI 36 LN.& 1 - 4 . Lay= 130.47 43 41 N.E. 1 2 . a 1 P 04439301433 PORTLAND Pixsount Mum= I &—Baromater comicted hived : each 10 feet, of vertl of an Inch diminution : an 4 nearly three-hundredths in shade. 111.—Molstenft point). D.—Direction of netic). I.—Your (1 to 12- Initials : b, blue sky : e, el lightning: m, misty (hazy) thunder. O LA,NATION. and reduced to 112 deg. at mean sea teal rise, causing about one-hundredth id each 10 deg., above al deg., cau s i ng increase. C. Exposed thermometer d bulb (for evaporation and dew wind (true—two points klt of mug. —estimated). V.--Cloud (1 to 0. I.— gouda (detached) : I. fog; h, hail: 0. overcall (dull) : r, rain ; 1, snow thence 11 to 0). 7.—Calm, PRIM US TO TIM WORT. PROBLIILE 111110611 WTD/IMAL N. Britain—&W. to N.W. and N.N.W. to E.N.E.—ntzuna, N.—ltalny, strong, in place's clear. nTind—Kil.W. to W. and N. S.W. to N. and N.K—Soine Moderate to strong, rainy. snow, fresh. 'antral —S. to N, W. —Uale, W. to N. and N.s—flesh, tinc, rainy, then strong and clear. Coast —S.W. to N.—Ntrong, N.W. to N. and E.N.E.—kresh, some rain, then fresh. clear, clear, flue, England—KW. to NW., N., Similar. and to E— Ogle , rainy, then strong and clear. The last of the valuable contents of the Royal Charter, wrecked on the Welsh coast so long since as Oct., 1859, has only just been recovered. Long attar the wreck of the vessel it was known that a safe remained on board containing 7,0001. in gold. The uncertainties attending the recovery of this treasure led to the ship being offered for sale by auction, the purchaser to have a right to the safe and its contents. No bid being made, the wreck was bought by Yarn. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of Liverpool, for 4,0001. After considerable labour the wreck has now to a large extent been removed, and on Fraley last the safe wee recovered, with the 7,0001. in it. On Saturday Herr Paulsen, the distinguished Item-player, finished at Manchester his Herculean task of playing at one time ten games of chess with players of local reputation. Herr Paulsen did his work solely from memory, and without looking at the boards, and what seems to make the task mare onerous is that the games had been adjourned from the pre. vious day, and the twenty-second move in each instance was given by Herr Paulsen solely from recollection. One game was drawn previous to the Saturday's play, one was won, and one player was unable to attend, so that seven games were to be played out. Of the ten only one was lost by Herr Paulsen, ono was not played out, three were drawn, and five won. FINSBURY Et zeriox.—The following is the report of the committee appointed at the public meeting of electors held at the Belvidere Tavern on the 25th ultimo : • After the most mature and anxious consideration and • comespoodence with distiaguiahed gentlemen holding tanned liberal principles, your committee have to re port that they have been unable, in view of the probable short deletion of the present parliament and the expense of contesting a large metropolitan constituency, to ob tain a candidate of the views adopted by the con. tempos held on the 19th ultimo as being consonant with those of the great majority of the Finsbury eleetcn. Your committee cannot therefore take further action unless some mom eligible candidate should present himself than the gentleman now in the field.—Joss H. More, Hon. Sec. The Belvidere, Dec. 2,186 L" BlerHirax-Giteas. —On Friday last, the 29th Met., a large meeting was held at the Parochial Schoolhouse of Bethnelgreen, of the principal inhabitants and many of the poor, for the purpose of presenting their newlyappointed rector, the Bev. Timothy Ginn, D.D., with a full set of new rubes, value 22/., and with a silver silver, value 461. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. John Pattern, rector of Spindled& and mind dean, the Revs. George Mon and Strickland, and by Mr. H. Meroeroo, Mr. George By ford. and Mr. Methanol Haedingham, churchwardens, Dr. Vandenburgh, and others. The inscription on the salver is : —" This salver ia punned with a full set of robes, to the Bev. Timothy Gibson, D.D., by his congregation and friends of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, in testimony of their san t:We regard and high appreciation of the aftectimiate zeal and ability displayed by him its the discharge of his duties as lecturer and curate, during a period of 19 years; and to express to him the satisfaction they derive from his recent appointment to the rectorship of that parish by the Right Bev. the Lord Bishop of London, an event both honourable and deeply interesting 861." to himself, and moat gratifying to the parish at Mtge.-1 AN Ewuu.n FOR VOLUNTEERS. —The Bradfool volunteers have gone determinedly to work to make their military arrangements Da complete u possible. arc Saturday what is called their new " barracks" was opened, though this name can hardly be applied to them. It is, however, a handsome bulding , comprising a Imp drillroom, • gymnasium, an alone urdeily room, a ser geant.' orderly room,i an armoury, and some rooms for the resident drill sergeant. Attached to the building is a drill• ground covered with mullein, and the military arrange. meats are as complete as any government establishment as be. There was a dinner held in the drill-room on Satunlay. Basavir or Paomise. —An action was tried on Friday in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, before Chief Justice Monahan and • common jury, is which a sum of 5001. was claimed as damages for • breach of wombs of marriage. The plaintiff is Min Arabella Wilson, aged 26 years, the daughter of • farmer living near Lanolin, in the count of Fermanagh ; and the defendant, "• young man of 40, is a Mr. Thomes Montgomery, a strong farmer, from the same district. The defence was that the promise had been rescinded by mutual consent; and further, that the plaintiff's father had promised her a fortune of 1001., which he had not given her, cod that therefore defendaut refund to marry. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant had agreed to put his farm In settlement • that he and the plaintiff olitaiued a lieense, and had called on • clergyman with reference to the °ere mony then about to be performed ; that they proceeded I from the clergyman's house to the lawyer** where the deed of settlement was laid before the defendant He, however, refused to sign it, and left the house, saying lie did not is tend to make his will yet. Subsequently the plaintiff waived her right to a settlement, and the promise to marry was again meowed only to be again broken. The jay awarded the plaintiff 1201. damages and costa. Tors CAT ASTILOPRII AT EDI NBY : —The full extent of the catastrophe occasioned by the fall of the house, 109, High-street, Edinburgh, on Sunday morning last, has now been ascertained. Thirty-five bodies have been recovered from the ruins, the remains of persons of all ages, from 90 to sucklings found on the mother's breast The number of the escaped and rescued is, so far as can be ascertained, thirty-two. On Friday—the sixth day after the catastrophe —a cat and a dug were extricated alive, both much emaciated. Some of the animals dug out alive from the ruins, including two bird, taken down from the walls in their cages, have been since sold for consider able sums, one gentleman giving 201. for a little mongrel previously not worth as nuiny pence . The fund for the relief of the sufferers amounts to about 1,2001. or 1,50 Y., and would have been much greater but that large coutrilai inum have not boon encouraged, from the fear of estop meting the committee with a surplus, as has been the cue with several fire funds. There is on doubt the fund ad be quite ample, but many are displeased that the ready bounty of the public shoal. d have been repressed either by example or advice. THE POSTAL SERVICI BETWEEN ENOLAXI' AND EX =ICA. —The following is the text of the telth artirle d the last postal convention between Crept Britain and the Cuited States, vie. : "In PM' of war between the too nations the mail packet, of the two Mikes shall connote their navigation without impediment or moleoatioa uutl six weeks after • notification shall have been made no tie part of either of the two governments and ilelivered to he other that the service is to be discontinued, in which they shall be permitted to returu freely, Will rider speed protection, to their respective pone." !lost of the Ana" pan mail packets subsidised by the Uuited States peerr meat sail under the Bremen or Hamburg deg'. COST OF CELEBRITY.—My dear, you would like to be • heroine! You would like to travel in triumphs' caravans ; to Ale your effigy placarded Cu city walls: to have your levies attended by admiring crowds. all 074 out, " Was there ever such a wonder of a woman `" would like admiration! Consider Cie tax You ply for it! You would be alone were you eminent. Were sou 51) JO' tiugniehed from your neighbours—l will not sal II a beard and whiskers, that wen, odious—but 11 great and remarkably intellectual superiority—wwn you, do you think, be any the happier! Consider err; Consider solitude. Consider the jealousy and toren 4 miod which this Kentucky lady must feel. amps. , she " hear thatthere is, let us say, a Missouri prodigy. with I l 'e n ' larger than hers! Consider how she is separated from la , kind, by the possession of that wonder of a beard. ll'hen that beard grows grey, how lonely she will be, the poor old thou. If it falls off, the public asliniratioa falls off too nib ° she will miss it—the compliments of the trumpeters, tt° admiration of the crowd, the gilded progress of the is, an old woman alone in a decrepit old camvso, cobwebs on the knocker, with a blistered ensign IhPP idly over the door. Would you like to he that desenw person Ah, Chloe ! To be good, to be simple, to he o r ', dent, to be loved, Le thy lot Be thankful thou art w' taller, nor stronger, nor richer, nor wiser than the met of the world !—Coratill ifuee:int for December. CO Sittings at Nisi Chi INDIUM V. ease This was as ac wlciattitedele; that the plaintiff of the contract. Mr. Serjeant P Plaintiff ; Mr. 11 the defendant. The plaintiff i with six children, Feveratuun, on I retired tradeinnaz keeps up a snug lit landed and househ has hie chaise and wants are adinio servant/7 Last At widower, and alms !acquainted with th log such attentions gentleman of his ag time be told her he him to her brother in Lambeth. To obtained his mascot in the position of an seated the lady will tation and Prayer." brother•ia•law, ho at followed her to to Palau, to theatre and what wu perl of his houses in the I new, and his proport settlement on her. out he was too old t leaving the plaintiff I in the present acti o n Mr. Alfred Recline the case for her. In hie crows:mends firm on his legs, and g out when he went (Laughter.) The de good appetite. (Lau Mr. James—Ahaky (Great laughter.) Witness—Yes, and Yughter) The aefeis had advised him not t stand that the marrisi At this salted, sad— stage of the Mr. Hawkins said it for 1501 .2 M;.liorjeset Parry &Way for the parpow ter, which had Wee Mr. Hawkins-11 The Lord Chief Bat Wks, and I do not * Mr. Hawkins--00 t has the highest maple her 160 e. But give us b Mr. eant Pn and Meditations ßerj ?" ar (I Yr. Hawkins —No The defendant h en; on his photograph and A verdict fur the consist. COURT (Before Mr. IN RI NHODZIL—APPI The bankrupt in thL tad, !2' Mr. Megidn u . he had at the a the proceedings bi the Manchester districi buOness. Mr. Hill. on behalf o tinder the 88th rec. of i the proceedings to the majority of creditors io that district. His Honour, after rel no power to interfere referred to petitions for time made by the regiat tic HI NICHOL! The bankrupt.' were s The failure occurred been but a short time his oertificate ' • end t the case of Nicholso liabilities are upwards of pound has been paid ; ar upwards of 5,0001. appli elevation of which has h i the estate. Mr. Reed appeared for the bankrupt Nicholson ; Mr. Pennell, the offic ease, states that the tea extended over 15 months retired, taking out with 1 2,0004. In that period the bad debts, ;0001. • and profits having bee n oi ding had been car fled with that rend bankrupts carried oe which they contracted cash creditors 3,4061., ev ing of MI., on and bad debts. The returns boo' berated the babnice•sheel Mr. Reed said be shou to the short period of From the 3rd of May, a conduct had been most every facility to their cr before, some twelve o r I and Slime, who had traded compounded with their 13. 6d. in the pound. Is bankrupts in respect of ei Ills Honour observed tl sons who had failed Mon drawn out 2,0001. a year. Mr. Reed said the sine augmented by the j 8001. a year to Mr. Jobi creditor for ii3OW/. At tl the three, it WWI arrange d 3,0001., Paamill 2,060 f., out Nicholson borrowed 1, his father, and 590/. 1 stone borrowed 1,000/. frc These were separate habil dissolution of the panne' was then all but solvent. ought to have induced tl concern the lease and 5,900/. ; but all the moms was 3001. oi of the premises sou lease loam and fixture, might The charge against the her preferential payments to a to treat these as Ci p rre s Vading of the two, of 9,000/. The Commissioner—Wm former trading? Mr. Reed thought not, cr In that period they bad i trading, and had withdrew order to pay separ.de en of Mr. Stone for 1,000 missory note of the fire the stoppage the bank goods and bills to the Acting under advice, howe property up. In like maniu page they had given Mr. Ca amount of his debt, 1,0001 converted from a sepan same thing hail been the bankrupt's father, I bankers, of 31anniegtree, n O security. the 21st bad Well handed to 3 trustees under the marriag 115fik ;21/0/. hail been hand on the 27th of April, and an The Oitamissioner—lt that the bankrupts hare res They have filled a very higl their couduct has bee n one ruptcy they have clearly se; conduct in the preceding amount of meets which ll conduct since the bankrupt.' traced in their books, con , for their reputation they O. those prefcreoces—that tl and that they mild not I think it will he sufficient to If you, Mr. Reed, as niirest think that there ought to hi you will proceed; but I (hin satisfied by granting certifies Mr. Reed said that the Honour's hands. His Honour said he was a the bankrupts left the cc whenanti them • Ilist.elea they made these prefe for believing that they were i mmediate certificates of the No United States mail GU this week. w r