The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-31 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, 10h. 14m.—Afternoon, 10h. 47m. To-monaow.-Morning, 11h. 35m.—Afternoon, h. —m. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. 'Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, to commence with the Second and Third Acts of THE BOLIBMIA.N GIRL. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND T LIE BEAST. Doors open at hall-past 6—Commence at 7. THE A TRE-ROY AL, DRURY-LANE._ Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Meow. THIS EVE:, ING, the Coraio Drama of THE NEXT OF KIN. After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO DDY TWO SHOES. Commence at ~ TREAT HE-RO YAL HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, at &vex o'clock, will be performed I , IJ It AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Alter which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA ; or, The Happy Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Kelley. Followed by A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. W, Farren, Mr. Rogers, and Miss Harfleur. THEATRE-ROYAL, LYCEUM, Will OPEN, -I- under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER, on SATURDAY, 10th January, 1863, with a New Romantic Drama, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, in which the prin cipal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. G. Yining, J. Brougham, H. N'S iddicombe, tyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclereq, Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Els worthy. Box-office op en on Thursday, Ist January, from 11 till 5. NEW THFATRE- ROYAL, ADELPHL--• Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington. After which, MARGERY DAW. - - To conclude with (sth time)" GEORGE DE BARNWELL ; or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed ford, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ; i'antaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and I;ertrand. . _ Commence at 7. j OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Linder. THIS EVENING, TIME TRIES ALL: Mr. H. Vezin and Miss Constance Aylmer. After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, " RIQUET WITH THE TUFT ; or, Harlequin and 3lothe - Shipton." Mr. C. Beluture, Mr. C. Seyton, Misses Cray and 1 - 1 udspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and Mr. Raiford. The WEATHER.—Sun Office, Dec. 31, 1862 THERMOMETER. Highest since Noon yesterday Lowest during the night This day at Noon Barometer-30.28. Wind-I\7.W. ; light, fine weather, but dull. eZbit ,~~ ~ r y ~~~ ;' ~~L~~= ,Int LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1862. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO closes with the Civil War in America still raging ; with the Dis treFs—consequent upon the Cotton Famine—still desolating the North-west of England; with the spirit of political reaction still gathering greater and greater strength to itself daily throughout the majority of the States of Christendom. At home the twelvemonth now upon the eve of expiring has been one of general mourning, of wide spread solicitude, and of systematic postponement. It opened upon this country while the hearts of its loyal population were yet wrung with profound sympathy for the overwhelming affliction that had fallen upon the most beloved of our Constitutional Sovereigns. The shadow of that immense grief has darkened the whole of 1862, fading off in intensity (though still sombre to the very last), from the Ist of January to the 31st of December. Two consolations connected with this grief are happily left to the people of England, however, by way of assuagement. First, the recogni tion of the truth that visibly and most undeniably results from its very poignancy, the truth, namely, that the noble and beautiful Fame of the Dead Prince has been, if one might venture to say so, perfected, in its appreciation by the world at large, by the simple fact of the abruptness of his disappearance. Snatched away from the midst of us thus suddenly, and, to human view, prematurely—it was only when he had, in this startling manner, vanished from the public observation, that we were enabled to realise, upon the instant how pure and majestic were the attributes of that ele vated reputation. We only understood to the full how good he was when he was gone—how worthily he had acquitted himself of his high and sacred trust—with what consummate tact and discretion he had fulfilled, from early youth to middle age, his many onerous and complicated responsibilities. That has been, throughout, our foremost, as it must prove our abiding solace in connection with the affecting remembrance of his ROYAL HIGHNESS. Another consolatory reflection we have referred to, as tending to mitigate the national sorrow in his regard—and this is obviously the one simple, inevitable, grateful recollection, that the sentiments of attachment hitherto subsisting be tween the Gracious SOVEREIGN of these realms and her free and loyal people have been drawn yet more closely together by the stress of their com mon anguish, by the oneness of their profound and unaffected sympathy. Assuaged though the grief caused to the QUEEN, and to the Nation at large, has indisputably been by these and other (diviner) considerations—the grief itself has been with them all this while nevertheless—it has overshadowed unintermittently both the CROWN and the country during the entire year of grace now drawing immediately to a close, a year, indeed, expressly set apart by the SOVEREIGN as a year of mourning to Herself and Her Royal House. Even the International Exhibition of 1862 failed in any appreciable manner to dissipate the gloom that hung over the metropolis of the empire throughout the twelvemonth immediately following the demise of the august Organizer of its memor able prototype. London all this year has remained socially under an eclipse. There has been, for once during this happy reign, no Court held what ever. Even the Imperial Legislature, sympathis ing with the royal and loyal effliction, consented with one accord to postpone for an entire year all , that could by possibility be postponed with out detriment to the common weal. `Vita Par tßev almost in a state of equilibrium —with conceivable inducement, therefore, to Party tru ce haseontests within the walls of Parlilment— a been maintained all this last twelve month et s''ten the powerful Coalition Government and the If°t67l:ble Conservative Opposition. Poli tically, 8 therefore been an annul; non. As tha n record it will appear as a lit s tl u e bj l e e c s t s f b o l r an iv k i an absolute hiatus in the annals of Parliament . z ersthing postponed that could be—everything net until next year, until this now fast on-coming Sear lear of g r a c e 1863, w hich will have to make up so m any deficiencies ! The con fronting ranks of th e civ int i v l e lunt and the Opposition will then, a t length , it hav e al p „ fairly together. V , eir leaders out z 'ather —we may rest assured of that—immediately af ter the Houses have met in February. As legislative trophies in 1862, ell that we can look b ack to with enythicg like satsfietion, are the passing of enactments for the regulation of the title and the f,cilitation of the Transfer of Property in Land, and for the Emb4nkment of the River Thames, that grandest of all our metropolitan improvements. The obituary of 1862 has embraced within it the record of an immense loss to philosophical litera ture, in the person of THOMAS HENRY BUCKLE, who died suddenly, aged only forty, while sojourn lug (in the midst of an oriental tour) at Damascus., Medical science has to lament the disappearance, full of years and of professional honours, of the lead- ing surgeon of his time, Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE. Among our Statesmen we have had occasion, in 1862, to mourn the premature death of Lord CAN NING : that distinguished son of an illustrious sire having, but just before his demise, returned home ward from his memorable and, eventually, victori ous administration of affairs, as Her MAJESTY'S Viceroy in Hindostan. Among our diplomatists we have had to lament the loss of one of the most able and experienced, in the person of the Right Hon. Sir THOMAS WYSE, his excellency's death occurring, most inopportunely, as it happened, for the inte rests alike of Greece and of England, immediately prior to the former of those two countries becoming once more completely revolutionised, immediately before the Provincial Government (thereupon esta blished at Athens) was called upon by the unanimous voice of the Greek nation to proclaim the second son of the Queen of ENGLAND the new Greek Sovereign. Reverting to the sombre catalogue of names in scribed upon the year's Obituary —we have occa• sion to reeal to mind the nearly simultaneous dis appearance towards the • close of 1862 of the Primates respectively of Ireland, of England, and of France—the Archbishop of ARMAGH, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and the Cardinal Archbishop of PARIS. RICARDO and WAKEFIELD have, during this last year, been removed from the comparatively small group of sound writers as well as sound thinkers among cur political econo mists. As a conspicuous leader among our arctic and antarctic navigators, we have to regret the demise of Admiral Sir JAMES Ross—and among our more adventurous travellers we look now in vain any 'onger to recognise the remarkable presence of Dr. WOLFF of Bokhara—as at our antipodes we have reason to grieve also for the loss of Messrs. WILLS and BURKE, the daring but ill-fated explorers of the interior of Australasia. WYATT and THOMAS among our sculptors, WILLIS and SOLOMON among our painters, Sir BENJAMIN HAWES among our administrators, Mr. WAKLEY, the able Coroner for Middlesex, Dr. HAWTREY, the popular provost of Eton, who after his fashion was to Eton almost what Dr. ARNOLD was to Rugby; these and a few other notabilities complete the list of those more widely regretted by their neighbours, as having passed away during 1862 from amongst the ranks of our contemporaries. Of causes celebres the year now dying out has not by any means had a deficiency. The YEL VERTON marriage case has again thrust itself upon public attention—awakening almost as much en thusiasm in Scotland as formerly was awakened in Ireland, in behalf of the lady claiming the very singular honour of being the lawful wife of Major YELVERTON ! The WINDHAM lunacy case, if in no way tending to adorn a tale, has cer tainly pointed a moral, that has, before the close of the same twelvemonth, been yet further enforced by means of the obscurer case of HALL V. SEMPLE. Among the legal scandals of the year scarcely any have been more flagrant of their kind than those brought to light during the progress of the two strongly contrasting cases of HUDSON V. SLADE and KENNEDY V. BROWN. Crimes of a more than ordinarily frightful, and some of these crimes of a more than usually mysterious, character have horrified the community during 1862 with very lamentable frequency. Wholesale crimes like those of the secret poisonings perpetrated by CONSTANCE WILSON, that more vulgar BRINVILLIERS. Indi vidual crimes such as the murders of JESSIE MTHERSON at Glasgow, of Mrs. GARDNER, the Sweep's Wife, in London, of Mr. MELLOR and of his murderer's (TAYLOR'S) own children at Manchester. The ROUPELL Forgery Case would of itself have affixed an indelible brand of guilt upon the memory of 1862—a year yet further associated with the recollection of great criminals by the brutal crimes of personal violence, indulged in by the pampered felons let loose upon society by that most mistaken system of abbreviated penal servitude which has of late enabled so many ticket of leave holders to develops into formidable Garot ters. Still, in to•day's epitome of the records of this fast expiring year of grace 1862, keeping our atten tion diverted to the condition of things generally amongst ourselves—it is noticeable that in propor tion as the cloud of gloom cast upon the nation at this time last year by the lamented death of H.R.H. the Prince Consort has gradually paled away with the lapse of time, the cloud of sorrow then but a year ago, little bigger than a man's hand upon the remote horizon there in the West (that man's hand, shall we not say it, ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S) has darkened and deepened and expanded with lamen table precision until it has overspread all Lancashire, and by sympathy, all England. The privations of our factory operatives have darkened with a double darkness the meiancholy associations of a twelvemonth begun with a nation's grief for the death of Prince ALBERT, and closing now with a whole nation's grief for the miseries of Lancashire. We all know what has been the grand object of public interest during the year. The placards of sensation advertisers of news, the almost involun tary turning to REUTER'S telegrams when we first open a paper—the conversation of friends and neighbours when their discourse turns to public events, and the speeches at public meetings—all have pointed to the American war as the grand topic of popular interest. It would be strange were it not so. We have felt its effects too keenly not to keep our eye closely upon it. It is, moreover, so closely bound up with the fate of slavery—a sub ject of never-failing interest to all classes in our free island home—that this alone attracts to it the attention of all thorough Englishmen. The year opened with the cotton ports blockaded, and the affair of the Trent yet unsettled. We knew enough of the behaviour of Americans towards the " Hero WILKES," to find matter for provocation if we had pleased. We showed, however, no irri tation ; but we did show that we were not to be trifled with ; and Mr. SEWARD, after proving WILKES to be in the wrong, wound up by surren dering the men, with the courteous intimation that he would have kept them, if he had thought such a course for the interest of the United States! At that time the cotton famine had not begun to tell, although its approach, should the war continue, was obvious enough ; but when the summer arrived, and the " ninety days" brought no indica tion of the close of the war, the danger stared us in the face, a nd the session of Parliament, even, was slightly prolonged, that it might not separate without giving powers to Boards of Guardians \ equal to the emergency. And then began that spuaub_rlearl.ligenelaneral subscription in aid of our innocently in fe t l h ie e w h - i e s o t u or ntry f tn t e h n e , little grateful w w or h l i d e . h il i ' s h a twithout half of t o , r l r reland was, perhaps, the nearest approach to it. allt distress it has caused. o things the American war has taught us thraug The wide spread generosity 0 I t w he f dis classes, at and the m oral elevation of the E ng li sh P indeed, has been their independence , easn r theiy. Such,r self t control, and their patience, that not only their countrymen, but the world, has looked on and admired and sympathised, Not only English ' counties, cities, and towns, but English colonies have sent their willing gifts. The SULTAN and the POPE from the far south; and Americans them selves, who cause the distress, have all testified by their generous subscription their admiration for the conduct, and their feeling for the sufferings, of British operatives. It is unquestionably the better education and increased intelligence of the work men which has prevented discontent and violence, and enabled the men to appreciate those obligations of international honour and duty which induced our Government to respect the blockade_ Forty or fifty years ago, how differeut their beha viour would have been ! Liberal politicians have had too good reason to dislike this war. Probably nothing has done more to discredit advanced Liberalism than the cry now raised—" See what Republican institutions, uni versal suffrage, voting in proportion to population, and the ballot, have done in America " The logic of the exclamation might,be inconclusive enough, in the view of thinkers. No pains might be taken to show the connection between the premises and the conclusion; it might be hinted that slavery and slave institutions, not freedom and free institutions, were the obvious cause of the war and its conse quences—still, the stone was a good one to' pelt with, and we cannot wonder that it should be used to pelt those wicked ones who think pocket boroughs political nuisances, who demand that more than one in seven of the adult male popula tion should have a vote, and who maintain that the protection of the ballot is indispensable to perfectly free voting. The thorough-going Liberals of Eng land have sad cause to remember the American war of 1862. It has not only helped to divert public attention from political reforms, but it has fur nished a cheap and easy cry, which any dunce of a speaker could use to discredit reform itself. And then the war itself has been so full of such remarkable vicissitudes that the public interest has been kept up by the excitement itself of defeats and victories. In the spring the Federals, with their gunboats in the west, seemed to carry all before them. Forts Henry and Donn elson, Island No. 10 and Memphis, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, will recur to the recollection of all. Ken tucky, Missouri, and a great part of Tennesee were cleared of the rebel forces, which have never since been able to do more than make temporary inroads into these States. And then when Norfolk, with its old navy-yard, and Yorktown and the peninsula between the James and York rivers, were occupied by the Federals under M'CLELLAN, it seemed as if the crisis of the war was come, and Richmond was soon to be a Federal town. The South had, indeed, made two remarkable efforts, efforts which at tracted the attention of all Europe, to meet the Federal navy. The feats of the Merrimac, still move her check by the little Monitor, are still telling on our dockyards. But both the Merrimac and the Arkansas, whose appearance flustered the whole Mississippi fleet, perished almost myste riously, and the Federal ships and gunboats were left in undisputed control of all the waters which would float them. But with the ascent to Richmond the tide of Federal victory began to turn. First BANKS was surprised and driven back at Winchester, though he soon returned. Then at Richmond STUART took that daring cavalry ride round M'CLELLAN'S army which the Federals themselves were compelled to admire. The night attack by LEE and JACKSON on CAREY'S division soon followed-'M'CLELLAN just contrived to ship or destroy all his stores on the York River, and immediately executed that " strategic movement," which consisted in massing his whole army at HARRION'S landing further down the James River. In August the North was but too thankful that the army, diminished as it was by war and sickness, got clear away without being molested by the Confederates. These latter had, indeed, now other work to do. POPE had come down towards Richmond by the old Bull's Run way, blustering and threatening. Very soon he found that JACKSON could ride round him too; his luggage and papers went first, and soon the Confe derates in full force drove him back in grand style to Washington, compelling him to recross Bull's Run in double quick time. The raid into Mary land followed, terminating in the murderous drawn battle of Antietam Creek, and the capture of Har per's Ferry, with eleven thousand prisoners, and a large amount of military stores. In the West also the Confederates bad one im. portant success. Vicksburg, which no one had anticipated, held out against Federal gunboats, and destroyed the completeness of the Federal command of the Mississippi. Still the battles of Perrysville and the last one at Corinth were important Federal victories, and seem to have established the Federal authority in the border states of the West. Indeed till the repulse of the Federals on the 13th from Fredericksburg they seem to have been making way again, and the Confederates falling back. The coast and river conquests have been remark able for one important fact. They have demon strated the possibility of emancipation without the " horrors of servile war," so loudly talked of by the thoughtless. If, indeed, planters obstructed negroes seeking their liberty, then England, whose courts held JOHN ANDERSON guiltless of murder, would hold all the slaves who did the like guilt less. But in all the liberties of negroes not one instance of massacre and assassination has occurred. These occupations have also proved that the negro will work freely and steadily for wages ; and, what is of more importance in this crisis, that if armed and led by white men, he will fight coolly and be perfectly steady, after a little drilling, under dange rous fire. This last fact, we must think, shows to the North the only way in which it can ever bring this cruel war to a successful conclusion. Although, in consequence of two or three minor inaccuracies having crept into the Revenue Tables —(inaccuracies requiring the lapse of a few hours for their correction)—we are precluded from anti cipating the publication of those Revenue Tables by anything like a distinct abstract of their contents, we are nevertheless enabled at ones confidently to assure our readers that the returns will be found, upon their publication tomorrow, in very many respects in the highest degree satisfactory. This, in spite of so many, and some of them such im mense disadvantages! With our cotton manufac tures almost entirely interrupted ! With a dimi nished consumption of spirits and so forth. A few hours more, however, and the Tables them selves will have made their appearanc?. The Marquis and :Marchioness of Carmarthen have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Rushmore Lodge, Salisbury. 'rho Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are passing the season in the south of Franco. The E of Fife nt%, ipft Grosvenor-place on a visit to Viscount Powerscourt, at his sem in Ireland. Her ladyship has left town for Tunbridge Wells. The Countess Disvager of Westmoreland and Lady Rose Fane left Portman-square yesterday, on a visit to the Earl tend Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Wattord. The remains of the late Earl of Giffird were in- terred on Monday in the parish churchyard at Hendon. The ceremony was strictly private. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers has returned to I London from Osborne* THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESD4Y friVENENG, f DECEIIBER 31, 1862.! DEATH OF EX-JUSTICE CR.A.BUTON. DUBLIN, TUESDAY. Mr. ex- Justice Crampton died last night of bron chitis, at his residence, near Enniskerry, in the 81st year of his age. He was called to the Irish bar in 1810, and was subsequently professor of law in Trinity College, Dublin. When Earl Grey came into office in 1830, Mr. Crampton was ap pointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, and was sent to Parliament by the close borough of Milborne Port. In 1832, he stood in conjunction with the late Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, as candidate for the Dublin University ; but both were signally beaten by the present Lord Chief Justice Lefroy and Mr. Recorder Shaw. In 1834 Mr. Crampton was appointed a judge in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, by Lord Melbourne, and soon after that it;was understood that he had become Conserva tive in his politics, though of course he had :Little occasion to exercise them. He retired from the bench on a pension in 1858. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, DEC. 30. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon. Major-General Seymour attended on horseback. The Earl of Clarendon and Mr. Fisher arrived at Os borne. The Right Hon. C. Villiers has returned to London. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey has left town on a visit to the Earl of Harrowby, at his seat, Sandon House, Stone. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Vicount Powerecourt left town on Sitnrday for his seat, Powerscourt, Ireland. Viscount Contades left town yesterday for Paris. General and Lady Mary Fox have taken the house in Grosvenor-square, late the residence of Mrs. Sey mour Bathurst, for a term of years. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Villiers have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Sulby Hall, Rugby. Mr. and Lady Evelyn Brudenell Bruce have re turned to Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Brighton. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey has left town on a visit to the Earl of Harrowby, at his seat, Sandon House, Stone. Married yesterday, at Canterbury Cathedral, Mr. Ralph William Elliot Forster, of Lincoln's-inn, to Frances Joanna, second daughter of the Rev. William Stone, Canon of Canterbury. The ceremony was per formed by the Very Rev, the Dean Gf Canterbury, Dr. Alford, LYCEUM THEATRE.—We understand M. Fechter is making great preparations for the opening of the Lyceum on the 10th proximo. One of the great features will be the re-arrangement of the lighting. The chandeliers round the boxes will be removed, for which we think the public ought to feel much indebted to the new lessee. The heat and smoke arising from them to the great annoyance of the audience will now be obviated. The theatre will be lie-hted by Messrs. J. Defries and Sons' " Patent Sun lights," arranged so as to resemble a glass chandelier, with out impeding the view of the stage. The ventilation has been undertaken by the same eminent firm, and, if we un derstand rightly, the plan intended to be adopted will be not only novel, but the most effective that has yet been achieved. There is no doubt that if they succeed in ac complishing this object, it will be a great boon to the habitues of our theatres, as doubtless the other leading theatres will follow M. Fechter's example, and adopt the same plan of both lighting and ventilating. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, with Mr. John Parry, havere sumed their agreeable entertainment at the Gallery of Illustration, Regent. street. We have, on more than one occasion, noticed the successful " Family Legend," and always with commendation, so that all that is required on the present occasion is an announcement that it has lost none of its attraction. Mr. John Parry introduces the novelty of the evening, viz., a little scene entitled, " Mrs. Roseleaf's Little Evening Party," which puts the audi ence into the highest state of merriment from beginning to end. This splendid Gallery is nightly filled by a very brilliant audience. A BALLET GIRL ON FIRE AT THE BRIGHTON THEATRE.—On Saturday evening last an accident, which fortunately was not attended with such serious re sults as was at first anticipated, occurred to one of the ballet girls at this theatre. During the representation of the pantomime, the performers were making preparations for the reception of one of the great personages, when one of the ballet girls approached too near the feat lights and her dress caught fire. The scene in the theatre cannot be described on paper—it completely battles all attempt at description. Women fainted and were carried out of the house, and the shrieks were terrific. Fortunately several gentlemen were on the stage, and succeeded in extinguish.. ing the flames, and when order had been restored, the manager, Mr. Nye Chart, handed in the poor creature in order to let the audience see that she was not so much in jured as had been anticipated. We are also told that she appeared on the stage at a later period of the pantomime. We are glad to say that the manager has decided in future to have wire work over the foot lights, which will prevent any similar accident.—Sussex Express. LIBEL,—THE CLYDESDALE BANK V. THE " NORTH BRITISH MAlL."—This case, which was an action at the instance of the Clydesdale Banking Company and George Readman, manager, on beh a lf o f th e sa id joint stock banking company, against the printer and publi s her of the North British Daily Mail and of the Glasgow Weekly Mail, printed and published in Glasgow, came on for trial before the Lord President and a jury, in the First Division of the Court of Session, on M onday, and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. THE MILITARY PRISONS OF RICHMOND.—The prisons of Richmond are in charge of the Provost Marshal and his deputies. They were in August last nine in number, of which seven were military and two civil. The captives then numbered more than 7,000 ; the state pri soners less than 200. Castle Godwin is the Bastile of Richmond. It is an abandoned negro mart, situate on a low piece of ground, and approached by steps descending from Broad-street. Natives and foreigners—(of the latter class, Germans particularly)— have suffered long confinement here ; and some have gone hence, seated on their coffins, to the fair grounds north of the city, where a rope and cross-beam stand always. The rope is attached to their necks, the cart driven off, and they are left dangling. The military prisons—of whichthe Libby is the most widely known —are chiefly abandoned tobacco warehouses, built of brick, and generally large, airy, and isolated. The bloody six days' battles that re deemed Richmond and the South, crowded them with bruised, mangled, and lunatic captives, for whom little pre paration was possible. The wounds of the sufferers re mained unstanched all the night and some men who were but scarred lay neglected till mortification ensued. The fevered tossed through many hours with lips a-flame and weary longings for home, and some that died remained unburied for days, in horrible companionship with the liv ing. All suffered front hunger. Contagious diseases ap peared. Crimes broke out among the despairing and brutal. Some gamed with cards and dice—others robbed the helpless of what they them-elves could seldom keep. When, after the hostile governments arranged for an ex change, the survivors were marched in bevies to the river and embarked—they huddled upon the open deck, ragged, cold, and tortured with vermin, looking wistfully for the expected transport. And when at length the hull of the relief came in, view, with a bit of sp ►ngled something that flaunted on the flag-pole, the cripple flung up his crutches, and the sick grew strong for a little while. The condition of the returned prisoners excited much indignation at the North, and wilful cruelty was imputed to the Richmond authorities. But lam satisfied that they only failed to do what they could not do. Their own wounded filled the city, engrossing all attention, and thousands of their dead covered the field meanwhile. The surgeons were not numerous, and there were no medicines. The best attested case of murder was that of a Federal soldier, who went over to the Confederates, and, being taunted with disloyalty, deliberately shot one of his countrymen. The prisoners were generally insubordinate, and commonly hooted Pre sident Davis and his colours, in and out of prison.—Corn hill Magazine. MURDER.—A recent statistical table of the corn _ parative number of murders in the different coun tries of Europe shows that in England there are 4 in every million of inhabitants; in Belgium, 17—in Belgium, 17 — Sardinia, 20—Franca, 31—Austria, 36—Bavaria, 68—Lom bardy, 45—Rome, :00—Sicily, 90—and in Naples, 200. In the Vaudois valleys murder is almost unknown.— Galignani. It appears from the Prussian journals that out of 42,000 elcetors of Berlin who took part in the last elections, 40,007 have signed the addresses of adhesion to the Chain ber of RI uties. THE OASTLER MEMORIAL.—The committee ap pointed to raise a fund for this object have received £l,OOO, and a full-length statue of the great factory king is to bo erected in one of the principal towns of the West Riding— probably Bradford—where the short•time movement origi nated. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—From a Parliamentary return just isBuc , d it appears that up to the 14th of last July a sum of £303,189 19s. 2d. was expended on Westminster Bridge. Of this amount, £145,057 18s. 5d was paid to contractors, and £248,132 Os, 9d. to other par ties. The amount expended on the approaches was .E 109,051 4s. 9d. The whole of the outlay has been sup plied from property belonging to the Westminster Bridge Commissioners, and from votes of Parliament. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAIL IN AMERICA. (Per North American.) NEW YORK, DEC. 19, Evening. The Confederates have advanced their pickets in Fredericksburg to points near to the banks of the Rappahannock, have increased their intrenchments in the rear of the city, and thrown up rifle pits on the left of the city near the river. The Confederates have also sent a flag of truce to the Federals, requesting them to bury their dead. In the recent battle the Federals lost 800 pri- Boners. The Southern journals estimate the Confederate loss at 500 killed and 2,500 wounded. The Federal loss is supposed to be about 17,000 killed and wounded. General Burnside has officially reported that it was a military necessity to reeross the river, it being impossible to carry the enemy's works, and he re garding the repulse under existing circumstances as disastrous. No property or men were lost during the retreat. Much popular indignation prevails, and a general feeling of strong dissatisfaction with the manner ii which the Administration is conducting the war. A public meeting has been called to inform the Administration in regard to the people's sense of their misconduct of the war. The leading mer chants are announced to address the meeting. The attendance is expected to be very large. The Senate has ordered inquiry to be made into the facts of the disaster at Fredericksburg. It is generally believed that Banks's expedition has gone to the Gulf, and will rendezvous at Ship Island. One of Banks's transports was wrecked, and two disabled vessels were found to be totally unseaworthy. The Senate ordered inquiry to be made concerning the contracts for these un seaworthy vessels. The Confederates have sunk the Federal gunboat Cairo with torpedoes on Yazoo River. The Confederate General Evans officially reports that the Federals, with 15,000 men and nine gun boats, attacked Kingston, North Carolina, on the 14th inst., and were driven back to their gunboats after 10 hours' fighting. It is semi-officially announced that the Federal Government has no news to warrant belief in this reported repulse. The Confederates attacked Plymouth, North Carolina, on the 9th inst., drove the Federals out of the town, and damaged a Federal gunboat which was lying off the town. Jefferson Davis has left Tennessee to visit Mobile and the army of the Mississippi. The Southern journals report that the commander of the French corvette Yuvelan lately visited Fort Sumter with General Beauregard. The China and Norwegian have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 32t- premium. Exchange and London bankers' bills, 146. Stocks firm, and advancing—New York Centrals, 1041 ; Illinois shares, 79/; Erie, 62g. Cotton quiet; middling upland 66c. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat and corn declined. Provisions, good inquiry. Coffee and molasses quiet. Sugar steady. NEW YORK, DEC. 20, MORNING. It is asserted that Mr. Seward has resigned, but no official statement has been published. The New York Herald contains a rumour that General Burnside had resigned, but that his resig nation was not accepted. The official reports state that the Federal loss in the battle at Fredericksburg amounted to 1,400 killed and 8,000 wounded. The Confederate General Lee has officially re ported his loss at 1,800 killed and wounded. The Confederate Generals Thomas, Cobb, ttnd Gregg are killed. Northern acconnts state that the Confederates have captured Kingston, North Carolina, with 500 prisoners and 11 pieces of artillery. The Southern journals, announcing the capture of Kingston by the Confederates, add that they were obliged to retire from the town, the Federal bombardment having greatly injured it. The Federals are advancing from Kingston in the direction of Goldensborough and Weldon. Fighting was going on is the vicinity of Corinth, Mississippi. The Confederates had made a demonstration against Harper's Ferry, but were repulsed. General Butler has ordered that all persons who have registered themselves as enemies to the United States can, if they desire, go within the Confederate lines and not return. They may take personal luggage only not exceeding 50 dole. value. General Butler has ordered a further assessment of the cotton brokers for support of the poor. An order has also been issued by Gen. Butler that no person be allowed to land from any vessel arriving at New Orleans without taking the oath of allegiance. The public meeting at New York is postponed until the report of the Committee of Inquiry in the Senate on the battle of Fredericksburg has been published. The House of Representatives has passed a re solution instructing the Committee upon Naval Affairs to consider whether letters of marque should not be issued for the capture of the Alabama. The Senate has passed the Army Appropriation Bill, amounting to 731,000,000 dole., for the support of the army until June, 1864. The Edinburgh has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 20, 1 P.m. Money easy. Gold 32 premium. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 1451. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 103-7, ; Illinois, 79 ; Erie, 62. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 31. The North German Lloyd's steamship Hansa arrived off the Needles at 8.40 a.m. to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 31. The 11Ioniteur of this morning publishes an Im perial decree, ordering that in future the sittings of the Prefectural Councils for the trial of ordinary law suits shall be public. After the report upon each cause has been heard, both parties will be allowed to make observations either personally or by their representatives. The decision of tho Council, together with its motives, will be pronounced during the sitting, after a consultation, at which neither plaintiff nor defendant will be present. The accounts of the tax gatherers of the com munes and of the public charitable establishments will not be audited in public. BOURSE, Dec. 30.—The market has been buoyant, and a fair amount of business transacted at an ad• vanee. Threes, for the Account, are now firm at 70f 200. Railway shares and other securities are also firm, and in many cases show an improve- ment. Prices again sli close, when the market le 41 per Cents. 9B le. en, mon' 3 per Cents! D. end month.... 70 10 10. ell monti Credit Mobilier ....1150 Do. end month ....1152 50 ;htly receded before the 1 off as follows : Bank Shares 3320 Credit I , oneier 1390 Piedmontese FivQs, 71 75 Italian Loan 72 75 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1072 50 .. 1070 Northern New ditto lOlO Lyons and Mediterranean 1158 75 .. 1160 Gen Ava 372 50 .. 372 50 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian I,orpbard North of Spain Saragossa 665 .. 663 75 Ditto to Barcelona ITALY. A Turin letter of the 27th says :—" In default of other news, I will give you the political programme of the Ministry, as expressed by its principal mem bers to those who have the honour of their intimate acquaintance. The principle of the external policy of the Farini Cabinet is the absolute independence of Italy. It is averse to close connection with any Power, but wishes to be on good terms with aU. Italy is now too strong to be treated as a nullity ; she will therefore patiently await the course of events, and choose her alliances according to cir cumstances. Italy relinquishes none of her aspi rations, but will not attempt to precipitate the march of events. She will hold herself ready to profit by every opportunity that may offer, with out binding herself by any previous engagement. But the Ministry has no intention of breaking with France, which it still regards as Italy's best ally. As to home affairs, the Ministry will look for support to the Parliament alone, in which it is convinced that its whole strength lies. It considers itself as the true expression of the Cham ber of Deputies to which it owes its birth, and it will not belie its origin. The ultra parties will be firmly kept within bounds ; but if exceptional measures should prove necessary it will hesitate to apply to the Chambers with the confident hope of obtaining them. M. Peruzzi, who must be regarded as the real head of the Cabinet, has the utmost faith in the Parliamentary system. He is con vinced that the full development of that system is the best means of consolidating the unity of Italy. Of course no efforts will be spared to strengthen the Administration, to restore the finances, and to organise the new kingdom. But that thought must be common to all possible Ministries. The prac tical application of the measures that may be taken will alone enable us to judge of their merit." Aooounts from Naples state that Prince Alfred of England intends remaining there during the Christmas festivities. The St. George, line-of battle ship, on board of which his Royal Highness is serving, is at anchor in the Bay of Baia. PRUSSIA. " The affair of the assembly of delegates," says the Nord," which is so particularly disagreeable to the Prussian Government, gives rise to a number of exaggerated rumours. Count de Bismark is said to have thrown down the gauntlet to Austria in a note summing up all the grievances and resentment which the Cabinet of Berlin nourishes against its rival. We still believe that no attention must be paid to a large portion of those rumours, as they are sufficiently explained by the situation." A despatch from Berlin announces that the Prus sian Chambers have been convoked byßiyal decree for the 14th January. AUSTRIA. The Austrian Gazette says:—" Several committees have been instituted at the Ministry of Finance for deliberating on reforms connected with that de partment. One is occupied with considering a fresh arrangement of the Budget, and another with the reform of the direct taxes. The position of Go vernment officials whose places have been abolished is to be settled within six months. The Imperial decree which grants them six months' salary addi tional supposes that at the expiration of that period they shall have no further claim on the Govern ment." GREECE. The Independance speaks of another candidate for the throne of Greece in the person of the brother of the reigning Grand• Duke of Baden, who recently married a Princess of Leuchtenberg. Election of the Archbishop of York. The conge d'elire, empowering the Dean and Chapter of York to elect an Archbishop of that see, having been received, and her Majesty having re commended the Right Rev. Dr. W. Thomson, Bishop of Glocester and Bristol, to be elected, the Dean and Chapter proceedei. with the election on Monday in York Cathedral. There was only a small number of the clergy and general public present. rho service commenced with the chant:og of the Litany and the singing of the anthem " Veni Crea tor," from the ordination service. The clergy and others then proceeded to the Chapter-house, where the apparitor of the chapter exhibited the original citations, and made oath of their due execution- The persons cited to appear were next called at the inner door of the Chapter-house by the apparitor, those not appearing being pronounced contumacious according to the tenour of a schedule then read and subscribed by the Very Rev. the Dean (President): Afterwards the conge d'eltre and letters permissive were read by the Registrar; after which the canons present, by show of hands, agreed upon the prelate named in the letters missive (the Rev. Dr. W- Thomson), and a schedule expressive of such con sent was read and subscribed by the President. The procession then reformed, and after leaving the Chapter-house the election of Dr. Thomson as Arch bishop of York was published by the President in the nave of the Minster. On returning to the Chapter house it was decreed that the election so made was to be signified and certified to her Majesty and the Arch bishop elect, according to the tenour of the letters missive. Proctors were then appointed to exhibit the letters certifying the election. After which theclergyp &c., proceeded to the choir, and the President, while standing under the west of the choir with his face towards the nave, again published the election. They again entered the choir, when the Te Deum (Hopkins in F) was sung, and the prayers for the Queen and clergy were read. The members of the chapter again entered the chapter-house, where two special instruments upon the election were read or decreed to be sealed; and having adjourned to the vestry for that purpose they were acoordinglY sealed with the common seal. The service and election occupied about an hour and a half. It is not known when the enthronisa tion of the new Archbishop will take place. THE OTTOMAN NATIONAL EXHlBlTlON.—Not withstanding the severe weather which has pre vailed during the greater part of the past week, the build ing in the Hippodrome has been actively proceeded with by crowds of workmen. By the end of the month the entire shell of the structure will, it is expected, to complete and ready to receive the roof, which it has now been decided shall be of glass. Aztni _Bey has been named Imperial Commissioner—whatever that may: mean—for the enter prize, and is already at work with Mustapha Pasha on the details of the allotment of space, the classification of the expected contents, and other executive duties of the under' taking. The week's news from the provinces reports favourably for the progress of preparations amongst intend ing exhibitors. From Bagdad the telegraph states the goods to be ready for transmission. Similar intelligenc e comes from Aleppo, Adrianople, and Upper Albania, froni the last of which an extensive display of native arms 15 promised. These will be arranged as a trophy near the entrance of the building, as vis-a-vis to another to he formed of cannon and small arms manufactured at Zeitoulr burnou. Splendid specimens of embroidery are promised from some of the chief harems of the capital, where the fai r candidates for medals and "honourable mention" are no sl busy with this object. A special day in the week, by the way, is to be set apart for the admission of ladies to the building, on which the unfair sex will be rigorously eluded—as will be the houris themselves on the other el/g 1 As intending English exhibitors have :yet ample time 1° obtain the requisite space for their goods, it may b e worth while to express our conviction that agricultural implement makers will especially find the experiment a paying one, 41 4 1 their articles, above all others, are sure t o fi n d ready 017 liberal purchasers at the close of th e ex hibition.--Leveng Herald, Dec. 17. The Indipendente of Naples announces the arrest at the Villa Falcone, Sorrento, of tvi° Swiss gentlemen, named De la Fiela, who have protested against their arrest, effected, it is said, in consequence 0f information received from the Swiss Consul. FREDERlCKSUURO.—Fredericksburg is the chie f town of Spottsylvania, County Virginia, and 515 situated on the right bank of the Rappahannock river at the head of tidewater. It is between 50 and 60 miles froth Richmond by railroad, and 65 miles by the turnpike, in northerly direction. The town is pleasantly situated is a fertile valley, and has advantages for commerce and meet' factures. The railroad from Washington, via Aquia Crse" passes through it, and as the through trains genera stopped at Fredericksburg station f or a b ou t an h ou r es c , ll trip a not inconsiderable chance t ra d e was cause d thereby in the immediate locality of the depot. A good canal 01 been constructed from the town to a point on the RAW hannick river about 40 miles above, by which large quart' titles of wheat, flour, and tobacc o were f ormer ly receiv ed for exportation. The river affords extensive water pe w ,,; which, however, has not been much u se d. Th e hills in t r i , neighbourhood, varying in hei g ht f rom 40ft, to WI abound in fine granite and freestone. About 30 years sir',e the-prospect of Fredericksburg being a rapidly rising 0 ,7, was very great, but it suddenly stopped in its prosperl't and after, as it were, standing still for a b ou t 20 yee rfj it gradually retrograded in its importance. In 1840 its PeP baton numbered nearly 4,000 souls, and in 1850, ten Ye arfl after, it had only increased 88 persons—gess than nine year, and being about two per cent, in a decade—a rera a ', o ably small i ncrease. B e f ore the war it con t a ined n'" churches, one orphan asylum, two seminaries, four 1 015 : paper offices, and two banks. Such was Fredericks bn 3 The correspondent of the New York Times reports is Fredericksburg no more. A city, soulless, rent by the wreck of war, and shooting up in flames ath w night's sky, is the pretty little spot by the it e P P a hannock, erewhile the peculiar s c ene o f di gn ified eas e all retirement." DISEASES OF THE SUGAR-CANE.-011 this 0 0 ject we find an interesting article by Dr. Bergo: I . toe Bulletin de la Societe d' Acclimat a ti o n. The anon' his observations to th e cu lti va ti on of the s u g ri .. cane in the island of Reunion, and b eg i ns with the d eec i o tion of a cryptogamous plant which, to the naked en th e the appearance of a cobweb sp rea d over the leaves * tie young cane. Wherever this parasite has spread , ' a ,t spots are perceived, first yello w i s h, th en brown, en " length of a bright red, a certain sign that the 001_0 has been attacked. The parasite sucks all the ;lot from the plant, which, being still very young, crittri' bear this loss, and dies away. Dr. Berg - of butes this disease, first, to the immoderate as e soc i guano, which over-excites the functions of the plan t ) ilos e, then, to the custom of never allowing the soil to l ie 1a .. t o or at least substituting at intervals some other plant tijea cane. Another enemy to the sugar-cane is what is set, in the country the white pocket-louse, a hemipterous imeog and therefore provided with four wings and a horny ti t he for suction. The female, however, has no Willg, s ji o oo. lower part of its body is flattened ; the upper part glob 5 00 500 Its eggs are round, adherent, yellowish, and are about the in number for each insect. The gestation is long, D a _ h oe hatching is rapid. The female's first care is to select eyaver on the leaves or stem ; there it implants its beak, an d _ i s the moves from that place after. Its voluminous abdomeole,..o, protecting envelope of a progeny which devours its _ Li ~( 1 As the gestation proceeds, the mother is exhausteide,eff;, dies as soon as it has laid its eggs. But while the e ~,1 301 0, sive male only sucks the nectar of the flowers, th haP in theslant. in dying, leaves the fatal marks of its presence , of dark spots, which denote the destruction of the P the The borer is another insect, having the appearance :bop larva of a coleopterous insect. It has two strong arta_ilieli horny mandibles, two lateral jaws, end a lower lip_: 01 . 0 , is also sharp and thin. This insect is extremely d .t ; 10 , tive, and remarkable for its surprising voi . acity ; % e attar canes the knots bark, It does not, however, a which are three or four inches apart. trates into the heart of the cane, after boring through " o f T HE PROPOSED NEW, METROPOLITAN _RIP' O The precise sit es of the proposed new metrop011:0 bridges across the Thames are defined by the plan' o rl eIY sections just depos ited with bot h houses of Parlialnee t , t he c l er k s of the peace. Th ey are five in number—n aen Tower-bridge, St. Paul's-bridge, the T e mple- Chelsea and Battersea bridge, and IV an dsworth -b 1 _ t o t h e first three for foot- pas sengers on l y, an d the °thereto, for both carriages and horses. The Tower -bridge otee mences at Irongate-stairs, near the Tower, and teratlioe at Hot sley-down Old-stairs. The St. Paul's -bridge ec to ra• comprises a bridge and approaches from St. Paul e:t ens boat-pier, and terminating in the Thames at a P el ,, k ith hundred yard s nor th of the junction of Love-Isn' ciog et Bankside on the Surrey side ; also a bridge cornnie n ati a at the southern terminus o f the foregoing, and terreiv„o.etV Bankside, at a point nearly op,,osito Love-lane, ;:t,irsr with a third approach or work ending at Alas ° l oo el h ; Bankside. The Temple bridge starts from the 11.1 „ on bankrnent, 100 yards in a south ,easterly directioeur Temple Steam boat pier, near Essex street, and t ee tillj er ce 90 yards in a north-easterly direction from the river. h the ee lo to the draw dock of Messrs. Dawson and mercial railway on the Surrey side, with aPP_T w e aro Co ' wit cbes i l r e u as Duke-street and Old Bar ge-house-stairs, Son,T, ecei e./ / a d, Chelsea and Battersea-bridge, commencing in '' . ll'bert -r° ,.,eo' opposite Oakley-stteet, Chelsea, and end at the, spa 1 50 Battersea-park, near to the Albert Tavern ; aner wo rtk. 3 . worth- bridge beginning in the York-road, Wann„ feet to the east of the Jews'-road, will terrainte ''onepePtite road, Fulham, at the junction of Land's Ilad: 1 1 1 e d for pe the Lord Palmerston Tavern. The time aPe.u;, o completion of the bridges is six years, and "" talon is PM LIVOPOPYS SURNAMES. The following conclusions are proved by Thomas Falconer in his recent treatise " On Surnames and the Rules of Law affecting their Change :" 1. That in the year 1735, when the question of the man ner in which Surnames could be changed was before the House of Lords,*no notice was taken of any supposed pri vilege of the Crown to grant licenses on such occasions. 2. That any person may take any Surname, and that the law recognises the new name when assumed publicly and bona fide.—(Chief Justice Tindal, Lord Stowell, &c.) 3. That a man may assume what Surname, and as many Surnames as he pleases.—(Sir Joseph Jekyll, M.R.) 4. That where both Christian and Surname have been changed, the law will recognise the assumed names.— (Lord Ellenborough and the Court of King's Bench.) 5. That no Act of Parliament, or Royal Licence, is needed in order to sanction a change of name, unless a new name is directed by a donor of land or money, to be as sumed by the donee, with such or some other particular sanction, and subject to the forfeiture of the donation if the name should not be assumed in the manner directed by the terms of such conditional donation,—(Lord Chief Justice Tenterden and the Court of King's Bench.) 6. That when a name is assumed by Royal Licence, it is so assumed by the act of the person taking the name, and the name is not conferred by the licence.—(Lord Chancellor Eldon.) 7. That the effect of .a Royal Licence is merely to give publicity or notoriety to a change of name.—(Ch'ef Justice Tindal.) 8. That when, by any Act of Parliament, Judges have the control of a particular Roll of Names, they will, on a change of name, when the change is publicly and bona fide made, direct the new name to be added to the Roll, though such name has been assumed without a Royal Licence, and by the mere act of the person whose name is on the Roll.— (Court of Exchequer, &c.) 9. That when any person has legally assumed a name by his own act, it is compuls'ry on Courts of Law to recognise the legal act.---(The King v. the Inhabitants of Billing hurst, and Luscombe v. Yates.) BLACK DIAMONDS.—Not every lady, says a con temporary, would care, after a long walk on a fruit less quest, to be encouraged by a workman's remark, " Niver mind, it'll do you good, straighten your legs a bit." Kindness was meant, however, just as there was real kind ness in the heart of the blacksmith of whom our authoress inquired concerning his wife's health. " Nowt ails her : whoy, she's nobbut gotten a babby I she's not ill, bless thee I" Soon after the baby died, and the blacksmith had to be asked whether ho had taken the advice of a doctor. " Yees I he wor fetched, not that I see ony good wi' doctors. Ho ordered me to clap a leech on bairn, and put it i' hot waater, but it deed all the same." " You have the comfort of having tried the remedies," was the lady's remark. " Nay ! I had leech put on to please Missus, but I said I wearn't have bairn bothered wi' hot waater, and it worn' t." —Life Amongst the Colliers. DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.—It may now be said that there is scarcely a single British possession abroad of any considerable extent the inhabitants of which have not forwarded contributions in money to alleviate the distress, either to the Mansion-House committee or the central one at Manchester, accompanied by expressions of sympathy. Of late this has been particularly the case with respect to Canada. Not only have the citizens of Que bec and Montreal sent grants of money, and more than once, but in many of the smaller towns and scattered settle ments in the backwoods the inhabitants have manifested a strong feeling of commiseration towards the distressed people. The manner in which this f eelin g is expressed is occasionally somewhat touching. For instance, in a letter received yesterday by the Lord Mayor from Mr. Adams, the Mayor of Sarnia, Canada West, enclosing a subserip• tion, the writer says c, O w ing to the I.ositi on o f S arn i a : as a small frontier town , de p endent to a ver y great extent upon neighbouring c Republic, an d t o t hi s trade of the rl.ade being its t trade d v e e ry withm much he curtailedin consequence de plorable war now raging in the United States, our people find themselves very poor, and unable to contribute as much as they desire; but out of our poverty as a people we send this contribution as an expression of our profound r you eli e f be o f k t i h n e d d e i n a o t r u e g a s h e d t o e h p e a r v a e t i t v h e i e s s y m pathy for the distressed p eop l e of Fatherland. Will in sti t m he a n p i p a l n ie u d fa t c o t w un a . r n d g s d t i h s e . tricts, and to acknowl d • • e ge its receipt in the Times news paper ?" mark repor and t Mont three On ti for a zilian £33,E Thi went ti E Garin divid, Go and here term No Weir LAW ] they the 1: £l7,i Gran failei actor and 1 T 1 depr iltnox TE open Al pang per E decle tnar Tc 'esti in cc coer Wee able bee cha (lon W( 3/ 1 3/ 3 IsTe an