The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-18 00:00:00

We hope the lesson will not be lost on English Conservatives, or on their great organ, that the triumph of American Conservatism had been through the ballot and universal suffrage ! We must con cede to them, we suppose, as they so loudly insist on it, that the Democrats are the Conservati,es, nt America. We used to think differently. We re member the time when the leading men of the other party—the \VEBSTERS and CLAYS—were those to whom the respectables of England looked as the men with whose ability, public character, and social position they naturally sympathised. We also re member that it was an occasion of frequent taunt against Democratic institutions that they did not elect such men to the Presidency. But, as c, u r Conservatives ought to know their own best, We will allow that the Democrats of: New York and of all the Union belong to the; i n, the brothers WOOD of New York city included. We only ask them, as a fair consequence, to admit that the ballot is a very conservative measure, that it can give a Conserva tive candidate a majority of twenty or thirty thousand in one city, and a large majority to the Conservative saviours of their country in the whole State. That it can increase the gains of Con servatism where every man has a vote, in fact, can vanquish the " Rfljiicals," although armed with the terrors of Fart Lafayette, and having an im mense army at their disposal. We should think, too, they will acknowledge that the ballot is Conservative of order at elections. Never surely was there a greater excitement prior to The polling day than in this New York election ; to excitement too amongst a most excitable people, and with hosts of super-excitable Irishmen to in- Remo and explode in the midst of all. Yet all accounts agree that the polling day was as quiet as any such occasion could possibly he where great numbers were concerned, and engaged for and against, on a question which stirred all their passions eo deeply. Why, there was more disturbance at little Kidderrnir.Ster, when the Hon. ROBERT LOWE stood as the mark for brickbats, before he took to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S sofa at Caine, than, at all the polling booths in the whole State tf New York. Our Conservatives here ought to confess that their brother Conservatives, tailed Democrats in America, are wiser than them 'selves in having chosen the Ballot as their Corrupt Practices at Elections Prevention Act. Whatever corruption there is in violence—the corruption of terr or —the B a ll o t, un d er t h e most un f avoura bl e circutusitauces, certainly prevented. We know of but one 1 "-•=.ngli s h C onserva ti ve rep l y t o thi s f ac t, that ju st i n England_lreland cannot be included violen ce i g seldom now mob violence. The olny violence es. • kind of violence on carried on to any great extent, a 'which Tories so largely depend, being quite violence ot an of °f another kind. The private lawyers, bankers, creditors, and all the richer clas s es, which they so easily carry county elections especltill they will say, to p revent the It may be well, tau poor mobs from brai n i ng the enaltervati%pnbli v cans, but it would never do to r e e Amer-- press th e respectable violence done by country squires and landlords %c!nerally to Vne convictions of their tenantry. W e ll, if e th , -- 111 int thus, let them only have the re. --y .. - u v ittess to eo when the next MOti°:z Tor the ballot come s forward. For ourselves, we are free to cc.nfess that, thongh 'the hillnt has worked in t his case in opposition to our wishes, we yet acknowledge that it h as in so doing proved its merits. We, as Englishmen, cannot wish the Conservative Democrats of America success. We do not wish to see the furious enemies of England in power. We do not desire to see a conservatism of the lash and the slave auction block ruling the destinies of the North; we have no sym pathy with Conservative Fugitive Slave Laws and ft reunited Federation, of which the distinguishing feature shall be conservatism of all the most extra vagant demands of slaveholders. We do not wish to see a Democratic:conservative annexation of Cuba and Mexico, perhaps of Jamaica also. Yet 7.„ - a d m it it to be only right that if the conservators of such things be the more numerous party they ought to have the responsibility of office, and not be mere outsiders, embarrassing the Radical opponents of slavery and friends of freedom. We, therefore, as well as the English Conservatives, admit the suc cess of the ballot in America. Majorities must be converted by experience of the effects of their own follies—not overpowered by mobs, provost-mar shals, and Government prisons. The good work prospers. The funds now col lecting on all hands for the relief of the immense and increasing distress in Lancashire increase with it : though, alas! they cannot possibly be said to in crease proportionately. At the worst, there will come, of course, the Government grant—whenever it may become painfully manifest that this spontane ous charity on the part of the community at large cannot compete with it —cannot drive away those dire results of the stoppage of a large branch of in dustry in a busy and populous mercantile land— famine and pestilence. At the first threatening of the approach of either of those appalling scourges, the Government would, of course, promptly and un hesitatingly step in, Meanwhile, the people of the United Kingdom are astir in all directions, to the end by their own (spontaneous efforts to relieve those perfectly innocent but deplorably afflicted classes of their fellow-countrymen. Sympathisers of all classes aid the good cause by swelling the already considerable sum of the contributions prof fered to the half-starving workers of the North, but more especially of Lancashire—workers now, un happily, no longer ! Committees everywhere ! Public meetings convened upon every opportunity ! Charitable sermons among all kinds of reli gionists! Subscription lists lying open in all directions ! Individual contributions to the fund— people of the most diverse characters—pressing for ward every day now with some affecting mite, now with some munificent and princely offering I In a single day, Mr. SPURGEON collects at two services in his Metropolitan Tabernacle, collects in that one building, on that one day, at those two services, £750 for the relief of this dire distress in Lanca shire ! A fashionable lady, upon the eve of inviting her friends to a ball, bethinks herself that the money that would be thus frivolously expended upon rout seats, and rout-cakes, and fiddlers, and confectionery, might perchance be a little more wisely expended under existing circumstances—she postpones her intended ball sine die, or rather sine nocte, and encloses a cheque for £l2O to the Lord Mayor for the use of the poor operatives in Lancashire. Noble men and merchants, country squires and pro fessional men, yeomen and artizans (still in work), forward the noble design we have all of us so near at heart, and do this, we repeat, spontaneously and with a truly affecting unanimity. About the latest among the public demon strations in furtherance of this benevolent enter prize, upon which we have had occasion to take any note here in our own metropolis, is the ves try meeting which took place yesterday, the meet ing convened by the local churchwardens in the Vestry Hall of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and attended by a goodly number of the more influen tial parishioners —conspicuous among these being the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The respected Vicar of the Parish, the Rev. W. G. HUMPHREY, having duly opened the proceedings, we might say as a matter of course, in his inevitable capacity there as Chairman—Mr.GLADSTONE availed himself of the opportunity to speak with most per suasive tongue, directly and energetically to the purpose, in behalf of the suffering -victims in the North, the impoverished, and all but famine-stricken operatives of Lancashire. The argu ment which the Right Hon. Gentleman had to en force was one the truth of which we have long since learnt to recognise, and by sympathy to realise to the full. The resolution moved by Mr. GLADSTONE being in fact simply to the effect "That considering the severe and vvidespread distress now prZsvailing in the cotton manufacturing districts, this meeting desires to express its deep sympathy with the people of those districts, and its admira tion of the patience and fortitude w ith which they have borne their privations." In descanting upon this theme, the Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke for once not so much in his high position as a Minister of a State, but simply in his twofold character—as a landowner in Lancashire, and as a parishioner of St. Martin's.in-the-Fields. And, speaking in that two-fold character, he spoke, we repeat, after a fashion the most eloquent of all under the circumstances—namely, in words going directly to the point, in a strain completely to the purpose. During the course of his able and generous-hearted speech yesterday, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer remarked, in fitting terms, the noble and magnanimous part taken by the millowners themselves in the furtherance of relief of the dis tress now ravaging the North, but more particu larly the County Palatine of Lancaster. In de monstration of the practical character, and of the magnitude, and of the magnanimity of this relief vouchsafed to the poor opera tives in the manufacturing districts by the mill-owners there, who are themselves the most considerable sufferers from the present calamity. Mr. GLADSTONE mentioned one circumstance, one incident, coming within the range of his own know ledge—an incident so noble of its kind as indeed to have well deserved to be thus particularised : "The house in question," he said, " is one of name and of great respectability. The firm held a con siderable stock of cotton. They could not work it up without incurring an enormous loss, so they sold the cotton, and have since taken upon themselves the support of every one of their workpeople, pay ing them one moiety of the wages which they would have received in the mills —namely, £250 a week, or £13,000 a year, and I believe that it is their intention to continue this payment. The firm need not appear on the subscrip tion list ; but if they had so appeared with a Bum which would have seemed munificent it would have been a mean act compared with the noble course which they have in fact pursued." With facts like these coming to light out of the darkness and the misery of present distress, who can doubt but that its after consequences will prove in the end to have been most bene ficent : and that, grief, affliction aosftewn a b a l o ess m in u g ch in of h disg u u m is a e n t Area ";;nile, so long as the visible affliction lasts, we have, as Christians and Englishmen, as fellow- Citizens and fellowmen, but one course to pursue steadily, resolutely, and unfalteringly that, namely, of striving to relieve it. We have already briefly adverted, when the tele gram brought the subject before us, to the singular conduct of Lord RUSSELL in regard to the Schles wig and nolstein affair. The announcement was first made while his Lordship was in Germany, that he had sent a despatch to Denmark, advising the Danes to concede everything to the Germans, advice which, with becoming spirit, they promptly and decidedly refused. S omehow when his Lord ,ship 8 .4 4 Araongat the Clem Ana he Uppers to be completely at their mercy ; indeed, this despatch , seems to be butithe of yielding to Vienna ca 3 l.!:ing, which for some time threw his Lordship politically into the shade. It seems, too, so sin gularly ill-timed. At the very time when our Royal fe.mily is contracting an alliance with that of Denmark, for our Foreign Minister to propose to weaken and break up the kingdom, seems more like an amateur idiosyncracy than the deliberate ) act of en English Secretary of State. We are not, of course, about to rewrite the inter minable story of Schleswig and Holstein. Suffice it to say that that Denmark practically includes Holstein, Lauenberg, Schleswig—that the King of DENMARK does not deny that the Duchies of Hol stein and Lauenburg are part of the German Con federation, or refuse to govern them as such; that he does deny this of little Schleswig, which is in habited by a mixed population, and that Lord RUSSELL has sent a despatch to Denmark which we think Englishmen generally will be ashamed of when they read it. Apart from the merits of the question, the tone of it is so much that of a superior lecturing an inferior, that we do not wonder the Danish Government resented such a haughty piece of scolding and dictation. But when he sums up all in the dogmatic propositions, that " Holstein and Lauenburg are to have everything the the German Confederation asks for them that " Schleswig should have power to govern itself, and not be represented in the Reichrath,"—and concludes with proposing to give the three duchies such powers as shall make all little better than separate States united only by the crown, we can no more expect Denmark to listen to such a pro posal, than we could be expected to listen to one from Denmark to break up the Union between England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. We hope his Lordship is a strenuous defender of the Desk party in Hungary, and of the independent rights of that kingdom. Hungary can show grounds for her claim, with which it were idle to compare those of the Danish Duchies. If he has not lectured Austria or Hungary, far more sharply than Denmark, on these petty appendages to its crown, he is self-convicted of gross partiality. The whole affair of Denmark and her Duchies is, how ever, nothing but a dirty German job, and no Eng lishman ought to have anything to do with it, ex cept to rebuke the vanity and inconsistency of the Germans. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON'S withdrawal from the threatened contest at Southampton simplifies the matter very considerably. His timely decision to this effect ought to be held, in his regard, among other Liberal constituencies, in very favourable re membrance. It ought to be, in other words, for him a—mark to the good. For we yet hope to felici tate this true Orator and advanced Liberal on his return to the British House of Commons. Not— we will venture to premise, however, at once as a hope and an expostulation—not as the champion of "vested interest," or of any individual, no matter how illustrious or how persecuted, but as the advo cate of principles worthy of enforcement by an elo quence as remarkable as that with which Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON is so abundantly gifted, and by a probity of character as indisputably con spicuous as his. The last of the " outsiders" among the competitors for the vacant seat of Southampton has consequently, in the person of Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, retired from the field. A clear stage is left, therefore, betimes between the two remaining candidates—the Liberal and the Conservative. Clever though the design was by which the latter hoped to slip in for the borough, we cannot but feel confident that it will now be effectually worsted by this opportune avoidance of anything like a serious split among the Liberal elector's constituting the bulk of the bouthauapton constituency. The Lord Mayor ROSE has a chance, it is true, even now, of obtaining a majority—sup posing that the supporters of Captain MANGLES should not be vigilantly upon the alert. Let there be no further toleration, consequently—for we fear there has been some already among the supporters of the Liberal candidate—no further toleration whatever of the disgraceful scenes of rowdyism by which the earlier incidents of this sharply-con tested election have (we grieve to bear the fact in recollection) been disgraced. The rivalry existing among the great railway com panies and also among the great packet companies, the enterprise of which may be said to con verge at Southampton—has unhappily originated a certain disunion among the otherwise dominant and unassailable upholders of Liberalism down at Southampton. The knowledge of the fact that it is really and truly, as we say, ought, beyond all other considerations just now to influence the policy of those more earnest and practical Liberals who have undertaken to sustain the interests of the Liberal candidate now standing forward alone be fore the constituency—ought to influence their po licy in one rational direction, namely, to the dedica tion of the whole of their energies to the practical work of electioneering. Not the toleration even of that fancy work (of which we had cherished the hope that we had in a great measure heard the last long since, at any rate in England) what may be called the fancy work of elec tions, executed for the most part with the agency of brickbats and bludgeons. The Liberal electors of Southampton have something better to do now than to connive at the repetition of the late disgraceful proceedings in that borough. Mr. GEo. THOMPSON has afforded them, by his timely with drawal from the contest, the fullest opportunity of vindicating in a signal manner the liberality of the constituency, by the rejection of Lord Mayor ROSE and the triumphant return of Capt. MANGLES—of all men the fittest and properest person yet thought of as a successor to the late representative of the borough. THE RUMOURED PLOT AGAINST TnE EMPEROR NAFOLEON.—A Paris l e tt er says t--Since the discovery of the Boulevard Prince t ugene p l ot, w hi c h every d ay as sumes lart:t: proportions as facts creep out, the police set , Ytte at Compiegne has been tripled. The most minute e pre cautions have been t a k en . The famous Corsican guard, which is alw a y s a b out th e E mperor ' s perison in plain clothes, is di v id e d i nto three sect i ons, and watches night and day Without the intermission, Emperor ail T ti h n e der hih i s eh i r h t a , beens wh i ch h e ad vised to resum e left oft wean •ng in 1659, on accountof the great of it. itn spite of all the efforts made to throw a veil over the real state of things, the guests are aware that the palace is swarming with spies, and there is in consequence much less gaiety in Court society than there was last year. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Down ing-street. The Ministers present were —Viscount Pal -merston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. UNSEASONABLE SALMON FISHING.—Two eases of salmon poaching in the Severn iu the fence or close season have just been prosecuted by the officers of the united asso ciation for the protection of the fisheries of that river. At. the Petty Sessions at Lydney, Glocestershire, Reuben Ward was convicted of fishing for salmon with a " lade not" at Lydney on the 29th of October, the fence season commencing on the 2d of September. He was also convicted of having in his possession a portion of a foul and unseasonable sal mon, and he was fine d for the first offence £ 2 10s. and £2 ls. assts, and for the second offense ls. and costs. Thomas Lewis and Thomas Lewir, jun., father and son, were also convicted of fishing on the same day for salmon i n the Severn at Lydnye. 1 hey were seen on the sands fishing with a " lade net," and were proved to have taken at least ‘), one salmon. They were fined £2 and lls. 6d. costs each ; iu default of payment a EnOntWe imprisouroeut. LATESr NEWS. ATHENS, Nov. 11. All is quiet. The cases of insubordination which occurred among the soldiers in the provinces have been repressed. The National. Guard is being organised and armed. A demonstration has taken place at Syra in favour of Prince Alfred ; others are preparing all over the country. CORFU, Nov. 15. The principal inhabitants of Syra and the Pincus have given a banquet to the officers of the English fleet. The health of Prince Alfred was proposed by the Greeks. The toast of " The Independence of Greece" was drunk by the English. The English vessels hoisted the Greek flag and saluted it with 21 guns. PARIS, NOV. 18. Baron Gros has been appointed Ambassador of France to the Court of St. Tames. The despatch of M. Drousn de Lhuys, in reply to the note of Gen. Durando, is published to-day. It corresponds with the analysis recently given by the Belgian papers. TURIN, Nov. 17. Parliament will meet here to-morrow for the Session. There will be no Speech from the Throne. Almost all the deputies have already arrived. Th© King has forwarded a large sum of money from his private purse to the towns of the Romagna for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent inun dations. The official Gazette of to-day &nes the abolition of the state of siege in the Neapolitan provinces and Sicily. The Prefects of Ntples and Palermo retain the power of making some exceptions. The board of directors of the Neapolitan Rail ways has been elected. ?Mess's. Charles Waring and Howard Kennard have arrived upon business connected with these and the Si ilian railways. Mr. Brassey is expected to-norrow. , . ,p,T.0.0 I. M,1. . , ... , _ , . :I_, - , : 1 ''t • 5i,,s --•" Dt7i,'N''' ' "... ft• :.;:z __ . .44._ ...,•„,..., e: THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 1862. Now Ready, 'PUN ALMANACK FOR 1863 With 24 Comic Cuts. Evety Family should read it. o':ie Penny. 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The property may be viewed by cards, to be obtained from the auctioneer, Mr. Edward Lumley, of 67, Chancery-lane, London, W C., and of the undersigned; of each of whom printed particulars may also be had, and to whom proposals for purchase by private contract may be made. ADAM RIVEKS STEELE, Solicitor, 14, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. — Morning, 10h. 43m.—Afternoon, 11h. 16m. To-MORROW.-Morning, llh. 42m.—Afternoon, h. m. MEXICO. La Patrie publishes the allowing, under its "Latest Intelligence : '"— " We have received by the Maican mail letters from Orizaba of the date of 24th Septem)er, and from Vera Cruz to the 17th October. " The news is confirmed that General Ortega, who has succeeded Gen. Zaragoza in the command of the Mexican forces, has fortified Puebla and th) Comres. " At the latest dates there wen still about 10,000 men at Vera Cruz. General Berthier's brigade had arrived. The Tourville and the Navarin were being turned into iron plated ships at Vera Cruz. The Normandie will return to France. The north wind, which was much counted upon to dissipate the unhealthy infuences of the fever and vomito, had commenced to blov. The sanitary condition of the army had much improved." FRACE. BOURSE, Nov. 17.—The market has been more buoyant, and Rente in denand at an improvement on the closing rates of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, which opened a 70f. 40e., are now at 70fr. 50c. Little doing in the Railway Share Market, and prices up to the present time show but little variation. The market became heavy towards the close, and prices again receded, to leave off as follows :- 41 per Cents. 9B Do. end month -- 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 20 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1077 50 Do, end month — Bank Shares 3345 Credit Fonder 1290 Piedmontese Fives 71 10 Italian Loan 7l 55 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 53 75 Home Debt SAILWAYB. Cash. Account. Orleans 1047 .. 1045 Northern , 1025 .. 1025 Nev. , ditto — Lyons and Mediterranee.4 1150 . , 1112 50 Geneva 3lO Southern Western Eastern ......... 532 50 .. 530 Sardinian Austrian Lon bard North of Spain Saragossa 635 632 50 Ditto to Barcelona POLISH MEETING. Yesterday being the eighth anniversary of the death of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, a meeting of the Polish His torical Society was held at Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, to commemorate their loss, now classed among the national events in that country. In the absence from London of the president, Colonel Szyrme, the chair was occupied by the vice-president, Major SZI:LCZEIVSKI, who, of ter having paid a tribute of grati tude to the memory of the deceased for the services rendered by him to Poland, reviewed the most important events which have lately occurred in that country, contrasting the moral and dignified attitude cf the people with the violent and insensate policy pursued by the Russian Govern ment, a policy calculated to exasperate the Poles, and drive them to commit acts hitherto alien to their feelings and their past history. Whilst deplor ing the attempts at assassination made on the persons of the Grand Duke Constantine and the Marquis Wielo polski, which he attributed to despair produced by wit nessing the constant and atrocious acts of violence perpe trated by the Russian Government, the chairman strongly reprobated the conduct of those who had, in cold blood, approved of these lamentable acts of madness. No greater delusion could have been practised upon the British public, than to assert that the Poles, as a body, desire or believe that the cause of their country can be promoted by such means. In proof of this the Speaker mentioned the recent melancholy circumstances under which Count Andrew Zamoyski, the acknowledged leader of the moderate and the larger portion of the country suffered for representing the wants and wishes of the Pores, who, so far from having recourse to any violent measures, insist on obtaining their rights by honourable and legal ways. He hoped by this declaration to remove the unfavourable impression which might have been produced on the public here by the state ment he had alluded to, and to wash off the stigma which might have attached to the Polish name—a declaration due no less to the Poles themselves than to the people of these hospitable shores, whose sympathy, as that of their de parted friend, they shall never cease to cherish gratefully. Major Gielgud, Capt. Szumlanski, and Capt. Kozruian, also spoke to the same effect, and the meeting separated after a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE PYRAMIDS or EGYPT.—The purpose for which those colossal monuments were erected has always been a subject of dispute among archaeologists. Were they the tombs of kings, or observatories, or sun-dials ? Were they erected as barriers against the sands of the Desert, or were they mere granaries P Sir J. Herschel, having re marked both their orientation to the four cardinal points, and the uniform inclination of their entrances at an angle of from 26 to 27 deg., expressed a belief that they pointed towards some star in Draco which, four thousand years ago, must have been at a distance of only three or four degrees from the North Star, and therefore on the axis of the vaulted entrances. Mahmoud Bey, astronomer to the Viceroy of Egypt, now explains the matter in rather a novel manner. In his opinion, founded on personal obser vation, the pyramids were devoted to a divinity having Sirius or the dogstar for its emblem. Among the ancient Egyptians the stars were the souls of innumerable divini ties emanating from Ammon Re, the Supreme Being- Sirius represented the dog of the heavens, Sothis, who judged the dead, so that it was perfectly rational to devote the pyramids, considered as tombs, to the star Sirius. The inclination of the faces of the six pyramids of Gizeh is on an average of 52} degrees ; and a plane inclined to the horizon at that angle is perpendicular to the rays of light emitted by Sirius when in the meridian. This is nearly true now, but was exactly s 3,300 years before Christ, the pre cision of the equinox es h av i ng s i n c e caused a slight devia tion. The heavenly dog Sothis, or Anubis, or Toth, has been identified with Hermes. Small votive pyramids in the catacombs bear his image, his symbol being a triangle by the sido of a star. Thus Mahmoud Bey's hypothesis fixes about 5,200 years from our time as the probable date of the pyramids, a result in harmony with the calculation of Arabian authors, who give three or four centuries before the Deluge as the date of their erection. Bunsen fixes it at between 3,460 and 3,310 years before Christ, and Brugsch at 3,402. Importing Tea Without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always 9 9 01 0 Pet gvid iu packet* by 21289 agents, ENGLAND AND D.ENMARE. The Grenz-Boten,a weekly journal, publishes the following as the text of the despatch of Lord Rus sell to Mr. Paget at Copenhagen. We translate it from the German, into which it had been translated from the English original : " Foreign office, Sept. 24, 1862. " According to reports received from various quar ters, it appears that the exchange of notes between Austria, Prussia, and Denmark has led to a state of ill feeling, as might have been expected, respecting the obligations of Denmark in the affairs of Holstein, Lauenburg, and Schleswig, in counter-position to the common constitution of the Danish monarchy. The greater the lapse of time, and the longer the negotiations are spun out, the deeper will be the chasm which separates the two parties, and the more violent will be thtir language towards each other. " After having carefully and sorrowfulli consi dered this unsatisfactory state of this question, and the unfavourable results which necessarily ensue, her Majesty has resolved to give you instructions which it is to be hoped will lead to a satisfactory settlement. In giving these instructions it is ad visable to touch first upon those points which may be already regarded as settled. " The first of these points is, whether Holstein or Lauenburg can levy taxes or decree laws without the assent of the States of those Duchies. This point has been settled by the decision in the nega tive of the German Confederation, of which the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg are members. " Another question, which it is not necessary to dwell upon, is the Constitution of 1855. " It is clear that a Constitution, whether thought good or bad by the members of the kingdom or of the Duchies, has no control either in Holstein, Lauenberg, or Schleswig, has the Duchies have not recognised it. " Nor is it necessary to dwell upon the rights of the Danish Parliament. " It is quite clear that Denmark can levy taxes and give laws to its own people without the consent of Holstein, Lauenberg, and Schleswig. Two questions of great importance have still to be con sidered. The first concerns Schleswig; the second the whole Constitution (Gesammts►rerfassung). Schleswig was formally in an abnormal position. Though not forming part of the German Confede ration, it was, nevertheless, connected with Holstein, which is a member of the Confederation. Later enactments have altered that unsatisfactory union, and Schleswig is now only bound to Holstein in non-political relations which equally concern both. Nevertheless, there exist relations between Ger many and Denmark which have given rise to the existing differences. " The sacred promise made by the King of Den mark to Schleswig, and communicated to the Ger man Confederation in 1852, touches chiefly upon two points. The first is, that Schleswig - shall not be incorporated with Denmark; the second is, that Germans in Schleswig shall be placed on the same footing as Danes or subjects of other nations. The complaints which Germany has raised as to a breach of those promises are contained in the Prussian despatch of the 22d of August. " A systematic destruction of national and neigh bourly relations between Schleswig and Holstein ; neglect of the regulations concerning the Kiel University ; the appointment, almost exclusively, of Danish officials in church and schools ; the whole spirit of administration in the Duchy; finally, the total disregard of the existing enactments respect ing the language, are facts so well known that they need no further enumeration. " For all practical purposes it would be useless to attempt a control through Germany upon the appointment of Danish officials in Schleswig in church or educational matters. It would only lead to new difficulties and continual differences. 3 " The best means to put a stop to this for the future would be to grant perfect independence to Schleswig ; to give full power to the Schleswig estates to decide upon all questions concerning the church schools and universities, and to decide upon what language should be ueed where the Danish, German, or mixed population should pre dominate. "Finally, there is the question of the Constitu tion, the most complicated of all. Treaties, pro tocols, and despatches throw little light• upon the subject. The few gleams of light which are thrown only tend to lead astray. For what could be more detrimental for all union, action, and independence than to maintain that no law was valid, no budget acceptable, unless sanctioned by the Parliament of the monarchy ? What would Austria say if she were expected to accept a Constitution which would curtail the power of the Reichsrath at Vienna un less separate estates in Hungary, Galicia, or Venetia had acquiesced in the same or sanctioned the same budget ? How would Prussia act under an unconditional veto given to the Estates of Posen by deliberations in Parliament ? " If such a Constitution must lead to a speedy and decisive rupture—if each part could not have its full and independent action without obstructing• the wheels of the whole machine—if, for example, we take the estimates asked for the navy at 90, of which amount Denmark is to provide 60, and the other States 30, Denmark can vote its 60 without the vote of the other States. Only one objection can be made to this proposition. " If the 1,600,000 inhabitants of Denmark were called upon to pay the army and navy estimates, and the 50,000 inhabitants of Lauenburg declined to pay their share, the Danes would look upon it as an oppression, considering the relative position of the King-Duke's position in Lauenburg. "The remedy for this has been found in a propo sition fur a normal budget brought forward inde pendent of the Diet and of the Estates of Schleswig- Holstein and Lauenburg. " It is evident that the Government of an inder - - pendent State like Denmark must ask for grants for the civil list of the Sovereign, for the diplomatic service, and for the fleet. " This may be calculated on the very lowest scale, with regard to the Royal dignity and to a state of peace. " The grant may be asked from the four repre sentative bodies. A State Council, consisting of two-thirds Danes, and one-third Germans, might decide how it ought to be distributed. Their reso lutions should be made public and an annual re port published. " The normal budget to be granted for ten years; the division or expenditure to made yearly. Extraordinary expenses, exceeding the estimate of the normal budget, to be voted optionally by the kingdom and the three Duchies independently. " The propositions which I have made may be summed up in a few words : " 1. Holstein and Lauenburg should have every thing the German Confederation asks for them. " 2. Schleswig shall have the power to govern itself, and not to be represented in the Reicbsrath. " 3. A normal budget shall be adopted by Den mark, Holstein, Lau( nburg, and Schleswig. " 4. Extraordinary expenses shall be sanctioned by the Diet (Reichsrath), and the separate Parlia ments of Holstein, Lauenburg, and Schleswig. " I request you, sir, to leave a copy of this de spatch wi th the Minister of Foreign Affairs. (Signed) " RUSSELL." 7HE DISTRESS IN THE NORTH. MANCHESTER, MONDAY. The Central. Executive Committee met this morning at the Town Hall. The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby pre aided. The Hon. Secretary reported that £19,300 had been re ceived during the week just closed, and that the balance in the bank was £76,565 before making grants to-day. During the week letters had been received from Edinburgh con taining £2,000 (the first remittance from that city), and £l,OOO from Melbourne, making in all £10,550 15s. 11d. from that city. He also reported that there had been a great difficulty in obtaining offices and warehouses for sort ing and packing the clothing. Lord Ducie had, however, placed a large and commodious warehouse in New Cannon street at their disposal till next June, free of rent. He (the hon. secretary) thought it would be well to call the atten tion of persons sending clothing to special individuals, that it would in future involve a cost of carriage from Man chester. The railway companies still carried to the central committee free of charge, and also free from the central committee to the local relief committee, but not t o s p ecia l individuals. A number of contributions having been annour the meetin broke up, • • THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Cor•r•esponden t.) NEW YORK, Now. 4. The interest in the elections absorbs that of all other sub jects. Withont speculating as to results Which will be par tially, if not fully, ascertained before this letter is de spatched, I shall employ the inters al in directing the atten tion of the English public to one or two other matters that do not excite so much notice here as they would under other circumstances, but which aro none the less important in their bearings upon the momentous struggle in which the Northern people are engaged. If Mr. Seymour and his party be elected to power in New York, there will be a modification of the existing despotism and a chance of peace. If, on the contrary, they be defeated in favour of Gen. Wadsworth slid the Republican ticket— one of the candidates of which declared on Saturday that the failure of the North to subdue the South would be a calamity " only second to the destruction of the Christian religion" —there will be a super- Austrian aggravation of misgovern ment, and a prolongation a the war until the North shall have lost not only its prosperity, but the last vestige of its liberty. Like a weak and irresolute man, the Government is spasmodic in the energy it displays, Everything it has to do is done by fits and starts. The war, vigorously car ried on one day, relaxes into " comfortable quarters" on the next. Opposition to slavery inflames the Presidential mind in the morning, and dwindles away by nightfall into the cautious conviction that, if slavery be wrong, it is not Mr. Abraham Lincoln's business to set it right. Ministerial vigour boils up for a week or two in violent arrests of un offending citizens for supposed sympathy with the rebel lion, and then cools off for a month, allowing treason to be spoken by important persons as freely as if the country wore in the full enjoyment of constitutional liberty, though bubbling up at intervals to scald some minor offender. For the last three weeks the Government has been in its cold fit. The President has issued his proclamation, and sub sided into the quietude so greatly needed after such ex haustion. M'Clellan, having nearly achieved a de cisive victory at Antietam, has taken time to re flect upon the past and the future, and manifested the usual vis tnertice of all heavy bodies that rash people would impel too suddenly into space. The War Secretary, having nearly filled Forts Warren, Lafayette, Delaware, and M'Henry with political prisoners, has taken a siesta, and allowed a little liberty of speech to the few impatient spirits who yet vindicate their claim to an Anglo-Saxon origin by grumbling at the errors and misdeeds of men in power. There has been a little Saturnalia of free discussion in con- sequence. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, an ultra-Abo litionist, has declared " that the country is going towards disunion and despotism, because one of the most honest men who ever held the Presidential chair is not a man of affairs ;" " that there has been a waste and slaughter of men in M'Clellan's and Pope's battles that the Government has never cared to estimate, and will never dare to publish;" that " M'Clellan suffers from fatal, hopeless, and ineradi cable timidity, and is more pained to have one man shot than to have a thousand rot in the hospitals ;" and that there "is a deep, widespread, and increasing disccntent with this weak and helpless Administration." And Mr. Stanton sleeps, and makes no sign to the Provost-Marshal. On the other side, Mr. Fernando Wood—an ultra-Demo crat—has had the courage to say that, if the President will not inaugurate a change of measures, the country will in sist on a change of men; that "some second Napoleon will sit in the White House and dictate terms to the country ;" that, for his part, "if he is to live under a tyrant, he pre fers an able and bold tyrant to a mean and petty despotism, such as that at present existing ;" and, finally, " that he does not believe it is possible to conquer the South by mili tary triumphs— but that the South will come back to the Union underDemoeratic and Conservative administration.' Mr. Elijah Purdy, a prominent member of the same party, and known as the " War-horse of the Democracy," exhorts his friends at Tammany Hall to do their duty at the polls " by" putting out the vagabonds " who have got temporary possession of the Government." And still Mr. Stanton makes no sign, and the Provost-Marshal moves no finger to point towards Fort Lafayette. But there are symptoms of a break-up in this official apathy. The hot fit is coming on. The snoozing giant is going to rub his eyes, put on his seven league boots, and stretch forth his long arms to clutch the two hardy people who dare not only to form their opinions, but to utter them. The Rev. Mr. Beecher may perhaps escape, for Mr. Stan ton is not bold enough to excite the ire of all the young and old ladies of Brooklyn who " sit under " that pious come dian ; but it will in all probability fare hard with Mr. Fer nando and Mr. Benjamin Wood,—with Mr. John Van Buren, Mr. Elijah Purdy, and Judge Macon, if not with Mr. Horatio Seymour himself, for the "treasonable effron tery" they have displayed in denouncing the imbecility of the Administration. Already a beginning has been made. General Butler has arrested three Episcopal clergymen of New Orleans for refusing to pray for Mr. Lincoln, and despatched them under military escort to this city, to be in c4rcerated in Fort Fafayette. The agent of all three arrests was the redoubtable major whose interruption of the service at St. Paul's Church in that sorely oppressed city was re- corded in my last. The three unfortunates arrived this morning, and many learn in prison, if they will, that it is safer to denounce Mr. Lincoln as an imbecil in Brooklyn or New York than to refuse their prayers for him under the benign auspices of General Butler. In New Hamp shire a person named Batchelder has been arrested by the Provost-Marshal for " disloyal practices" not specified. A writ of habeas corpus was applied for and granted. The Provost-Marshal telegraphed to Ar.• to do. Mr. Stanton replied that ho was tO plead his warrant from the War Department, and that if the civil power at tempted a release di the prisoner he was to appeal for the United States in the vicinity. The Provost-Marshal pleaded as advised, and the judge, whose name is Bell (misspelt Pell by the War Department, as if the exact name of so insignificant a person as a judge were not worth recording), yielded the point after hearing the arguments of consul. He said that it seemed to him inexpedient and useless to issue an order for an attachment which could not be en , forced; that the Government of the United States had plainly expressed its determination to resist by force any attempt of the civil authorities to deliver the prisoner ; that he received this, not as a threat, but as the announce ment .of a settled resolution,—which, with the vast armies under its command, the Government had the ability to exe cute against any force which the State (of New Hampshire) could command for the execution of the law,. He therefore declined to take any further action in the case. The ques tions occur, if such Ministers and such judges as these had existed in the time of the Stuarts in England, would there have been any popular liberty in England at the present day? And would the United States themselves have been other than a conquered dependency ? And are the Ameri cans, who submit to such high-handed despotism, the worthy or the unworthy sons of English ancestors, having any right to boast of John Hampden, the pilgrim fathers, or George Washington ? Mr. Batchelder's case is bad enough ; but worse remains behind, Last Friday Mr. James 8,. Lackland, described as a prominent lawyer of the city of St. Louis, was arrested in his office at noon by the Provost-Marshal of that city in consequence of a speech delivered by him on the previous evening, in which he not only asserted that Secession was caused by the Northern Aholiti mists, but "that he had no faith in Mr. Chase's paper currency." He - was allowed to remain at liberty for a few days on parole, in order that he might prosecute a forgery case, in which he is engaged as counsel, after-which he has pledged himself to return to custody. In the same State of Missouri, Mr. Temple Orr, a judge bf one of the courts, was arrested on the previous day at Jefferson City for the offence of declaring the pro • clamation of President Lincoln to liberate the slaves un wise, impolitic, and uncalled for; and because he publicly expressed doubt of the power of the Administratio-n to carry out " lawfully" the objects of that proclamation. But a worse case that either of these remains behind. A young married lady, a native of :New Orleans, 20 years of age, and said to be remarkably handsome, was heard singing Secession—and therefore treasonable— songs, after a private dinner party in Washington. She was informed against by an outside listener, said to be a police agent from New York, taken into custody, and conveyed to this city, where she was locked up in the police Sell of the station-house in Forty-seventh-street. A friend to whom she communicated her trouble called upon the Deputy Provost Marshal on the day after her arrival, to make in quiries, and was informed that she was a " silly Secesh woman," and would immediately be sent home to her friends In New Orleans. The zealous friend remonstrated on the harshness, if not injustice, of detaining her in a common cell, reserved for thieves, prostitutes, and disorderly charac ters, and was informed, with a significant look and sharp accent, that the lady was a spy who ought to be hanged, and that he would do well to mind his own business if he did not wish to be sent to Fort Lafayette. This was 41 days ago, and the young lady still remains at the police-station. It should be added, for a clearer comprehension of the animus which directed this proceeding, that there may have been something more than a song at the bottom of it, inas much as the lady's husband is a Secessionist, and that, like Mr. Lincoln, she has or had a brother in the Southern army.. An application for a writ of habeas corpus is forthwith to be madein her behalf, unless the Government on the threat of publicity should be so far ashamed of, the tyranny which it has knowingly or unknowingly countenanced as to order her release. The story seems Incredible, but it is asserted to be true by cit;zens of the highest character, and if the Government be unwise enough to force it before the courts on the application for a writ, the details, hitherto unmen tioned in any of the newspapers, will n d their way to the public with a far more damaging effect upon the Adminis tration than any other imprisonment which the proclama tion of martial law has afforded. Philadelphia has tilled up, by high bounty money among its German and Irish population, its quota under the draught. There will consequently be no conscription in that city. The desire continues to grow in intensity that the same result may be reached in New York by the same mea ns; or that at eve nts the o p eratio n of tho draught may . b e postponed till the Ist of January. Among many other circumstances which have come to the knowledge of the police and the Government, and] which render the latter some what fact that fearful arf:ai clubs oro of the oc h e assia ns consequences o of f b a ou c° r n in s g o el iP t other ii°i h men, too poor to pay for substitutes, and not in a position to go to the war without ru i n to their business and their fall/14es ' 44 " 14°4 orgailiztA throughout the citio of Ne w York and Brooklyn, all the members of which have pledged themselves to resist the draught, by force of arms if neces sary. With the secrecy that must envelope the delibera tions of such clubs, it is not easy to ascertain their numbers, their plans, or their mode of operations, but sufficient is known of their doings to cause much anxiety to the Govern ment, find to make quint people wish that the power of the "almighty dollar" might .nain be tried to raise the men required, and so avoid both the eanger and the scandal of an unpopular conscription. Nov. 5. There is little time before the departure of the steamer this morning to do more than briefly indicate the results of the great victory achieved yesterday at the polls by the De: mo cratic party, It was generally asserted for sever days by both parties that there would be serious rioting oh' th e day of election. The Democrats proclaimed that the £t o publicans had planned a popular outbreak, and that the Government had so far favoured their views as to send several regiments from Maine and other ultra-Repub lican States to intimidate the people, and so create the breach of the peace, which they pretended to Pre c°llt. It was asserted, on the other side, that the Denyeerafs had predetermined that the elections should not pass (r.cietl9 over, and that the Abolitionist and Republican candidates should be mobbed, with the view not only of proving to the world the unpopularity of the party, but of compelling th e Government to employ a military force. All these predlo' tions have been falsified by the event. The elections beg°, and ended with an almost total absence of disturbance, aue'' with no breach of the peace that even party malice could exaggerate into the name of a riot. Long before noon Yee" terday it was evident that the whole Democratic ticket Was in a majority in all the wards of the city; and after the close of the polls at sunset, it was reported by the Dem o ' crats that the majority for Seymour was at least 20,000; while the Republicans themselves admitted that it mig ht be as many as 10,000. The lobbies and bars of all the great hotels in Broadway were crowded throughout the evening; and at most of these establishments telegraphic despatchee were hourly received from remotest parts of the State, 0 4 posted up for public perusal. By 10 o'clock the returne from the city showed that Seymour had a larger majoritY than his friends anticipated—amounting to ne arl y 30,000, while the despatches from the towns on the Hu dson Rigl.' and on the shore of the Lakes, and from all the rural dis. triets that continued to arrive until 2 o'clock in the morning were of a character to justify the belief that the Republicans had been as thoroughly defeated in the State as they had been in the city. The papers of this morning contain the e re' sults of the metropolitan voting as they manifested 011; selves from hour to hour, but those from the Sta te are 019" yet made up with anything like accuracy or complete No one doubts, however, that Mr. Seymour s tands high at the head of the poll ; and it is stated that the present G°' vernor, Mr. Morgan, a Republican, who has held firm li aloof from the proceedings of his brother governors wh° met at Altoona, led off early in the morning by a vote I ° l. the Democratic candidate. In New York city there W as some fear at one time that Mr. Benjamin Wood's seat Wag in danger, inasmuch as he was opposed by a member of bi ° own party, but the fear speedily subsided. General Wall' bridge, his opponent, though a quasi-Democrat, wee 5 thick-and-thin supporter of the Government, and a pp rove', its suspension of the right of habeas cor p us, while h et Wood had denounced its acts , had d isa pp roved its eend tt of the war, and months ago had had the coura g e to and publish a speech appealing to reason and conta.m.°' sense for the settlement of the dispute between the N ° and the South, for which a motion was made and jot expel him from Congress as a traitor. The people Ye etet ; day pronounced between the two, and g ave Mr. Woo d . a majority of no less than 3,289. When it is borne in that not a single Republican was elected in this city it WP - 0 be perceived that a strong and steady reaction 1151 set in against the Government ; and when is also considered that the State of New ()"',/ ' which now gives its vote to Mr. Seymou r and !Ile ticket, gave, two years ago, its vote to Mr. Lincoln mad ` l3 , party now in power—a still more significant proof swill to apparent that the Ultra-Abolitionists and E x terraina t° t are out of favour with the people, and th at reason has $t last a chance of being heard above the d i n and turmoi l this miserable war. Gen. Wadsworth, in one of his ele;:t tioneering speeches, spoke of the admonition which it nrig k P o be his duty, if elected, to administer to the President. word was at well chosen. But admonition was needed and it has come from a quarter that Gen. Wadsworth 41 not anticipate. The triumph of Mr. Seymour is an ach li° : ( nition stronger than words could convey. It marks a t'o era in the course of the revolution (for revolution as w a e ! if war is running its course in the land), and cannot f" , i t properly taken to heart by the President, to bring 114 ' 117a :a to the constitution, which unwise advisers have P him to set at naught. The news from the army of the Potomac, which ha s cited but little attention for the last few days, will now sume its interest if not its importance. The indications' Pi, present are that the Confederate general is retiring 1112:s, Gordonsville, and that M'Clollan will advance to Wil' eb tt i e , ter, and find it unoccupied. In this case the grea t 133 , 1 , 1 0 which some of the journals predict as certain to 0' 6 , 4 within a few days, is not likely. The prevalent impres z.tuie is that the Army of the Potomac has fought its last W it . e rsuad for this year, and that it will speedily be sheltered winter quarters. 7HE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3.—The schooner Emma Col was captureu ou vet.. is, ~ „f,„4 R.,11,a 91, Sbe was run ashore when escape Was irtiPrse. cable. She was got off, and arrived here.rte NEW YORK, ‘-'ll Nov. s.—On the 24th ultimo the _, iik Stales bark Restless captured the British s t e amer sc u T o . which vessel was discovered at daylight standing:,, wards Bull's Bay. The crew of the Scot ia were standing,; state of intoxication when captured. The boats of the United States steamer Flag, on the 27th ult., caPt l il roto the British steamer Anglia, about four l°,l,,tted the entrance of Bull's Bay. On the 14 th u lt. the '-oest States steamer Memphis captured the British Btetipe Ouachita, from Bermuda, ostensibly for Havant:Ail' het endeavoured to escape, and threw overboard most of be( cargo of arms and ammunition. The character pa cargo, and the fact that she was far out of her courret was doubtless making for Charleston, induced the ° f olk murder of the Memphis to send her in f o r - adjud iea- 0 0- The United States steamer Flambeau, off Charles lo on the English steamer Minho on shore near Fort I%le tiltrl the the 20th ult., while she was endeavouring to tit; she blockade. Her cargo was floating about loose, a of will be a total wreck. The brig Robert Bruce, I‘ll/14of Bristol, England arrived here on Saturday, in chelheoloi prize crew. She , was captured on the 2'd ult., e ff 5 04 0 Inlet, North Carolina, while attempting to r un ate She there, with a cargo of medicines and woo llen geode' oh ran the blockade at Wilmington last December, wit,chalifo and taking out cotton. She was from Hull for 7 , ca re On the 23d ult. the schooner Tuilla, Loganson, wi th is isd' of salt, from Nassau, got ashore near St. HeleT is 0 00' while attempting to run the bloci3de. Captain to J j ef finding it impossible to get the vess° l off, set f ire es ete a ttempte d in a small boat, but all three of them w©r r i P ttir Federal pickets. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBER 1. lq ii A robbery has been committed at the residence ',o a• Wadham Locke (one of the magistrates of Wilts), •_•''' te° In the evening a loud cra sh was heard, rind on the i' ; ,.. /0 0 of the house going out to see what was the matte r sh ill ascer tained that the noise had been caused by the 61339beitii of some glass in the conservatory. On a seare ll . ;eit'S made it was found that the drawer of a room di ..,°' 0 ) the conservatory had been robbed of its contents' "004 were two £ 5 notes, one £lO note, an d As t t t l3° sovereigns—in all £32. It was also observed d° ,,, door of the room was locked, and that the wili,„.oo( been left open. One of the female servants, • 9 ool' woman named Louisa Newman was missing, but ill:iorej,, time she made her appearance, and on being r i ll ,: t era o9. about the matter', she made the extraordinarY 91— vo s Or that she had met a young man with whom li e , . s cl ill: quainted, that he had presented a pistol at her bea s tl7 t ott' sisted on her telling him where some of the va s ha d : 0 1 13. 9 a 'oco des belonging to her mistress were, that olle I t io : n forlDs e ~,..00 and that he had then robbed the house. r: Superal'lPi- 00 at once given to the police, but M Wolfe from the very first disbelieved the s tory xj ° oe get young woman, and hinted his suspicions. to 31*00,000 who, however, expressed himself satisfied of the l oo irir of his servant. The police thereupon made over/ 0 , doit t g with a view to trace the alleged thief, but, so far lr ° 0 10 so, Mr. Superintendent Wolfe was Ix ore firmly c onv ll3° ;o II the thief was the servant girl, and on his recon2ool/..iostil she was given into custody. Her person was then 0 4 '; v etl i and it was found that she had recently received n i ft 0 lava' e' severe cuts, and it is surmised that in attemP—a% en the room in which she committed the robbery P'W ~,,totP v o u r e tb d hyn t to ts severely e c nr a ie p lle e y b ie y nnj a ud portion es of the roof which disturbed the inmates. rh . a th n e d re in money, s e elT s f , ,lhiapenpdredralisetohenrneloruawgkit:gitl:aterra fo p ip o b e i i' ,6 fore l a magistrate on the charge of robbing her tea s '. — : De e " certain gi e she pl a e w e and, some merely formal evidence hav'l3:ooloo=',i a i s n r t e h m e anded to the M.el.ks.hamt:091:0;0;011::::: l some evening the prisoner admitted that she corm'' iti,,, the robbery, and stated that she had hid the trl ° TP shrubbery, adjoining police accordingly searched, and found the , ~,e r . f a money secreted i n t h e spot indicated by the pi:ls ° 7 4o thrf, , prisoner had only been in the service of No). Pr . , w itte. v e weeks and three days when the robbery was °' cul..ted th e At. the close of the evidence the magistrates corn l b prisoner for trial eti° s ‹Lo • - - ---____l-- --- -- ---- THE VACANT ALDERMANIC GOWN. --4 sco of the friends of Mr. Howard, of Leadenball-strec!ow of held yesterday at the London Tavern, with the / le o to Sbegning a requisition fur that gentleman to allow hiTsever put in nomination as a candidate for the gown 0 li oto ji man for Langbourn ward. The meeting was nuotero opt attended, and a unanimous resolutions as pass t bed effect, the chairman and other gentlem present be °Sal:11911Y to) DU. lywrd'o pubijo mid priyate WOO' THE SUN, LONDON! TUESDAY EVENING, NOVENIIIER 18, 180.7