The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-22 00:00:00

L IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, In FUN, every week. One Penny Now Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d.; post free, 68., the .SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with k-- , numerous Engravings by talented artists, and huthor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanch trd, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. itreet, London. Office, 80, Fleet-1 HALF -A-DOZEN UMBRELLA& in the Christmas Number of SATURDAY NIGHT. Con ducted by THOMAS HOOD. • i • For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, TILE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. After which, BOX AND COX. And THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. The 2d Act of GREEN BUSHES. With ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. And A'TICKILT OF LEAVE. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, WOMAN. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul's Entertainment. Followed m b m y en T ce at 7.HE IRISH LION. Co ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay market Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL—EVERY EVENING.— Grand Selections from the Popular Operas.—The Comic per formances of Unsworth, Eugene, Little Bob, Arthur Lloyd, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Miss G. Smithson, dcc.—The Etoile Family, dm Commence at 7, TAE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVENING.—Re-appearance of Unsworth. the original of "Or any other man ' The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes—Mr. Maclagan's Entertainment Drew Dean, the oreat Flautist—the - Neapolitan Minstrels—Selections from Verdi's " II Corsaro" and "Nabuco," Donizetti's "Don Se bastien," &a, with full bind and chorus. Commence at 7. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Moming, 2h. 18m.—Afternoon, 2h. 45m To-monnow.-Morning, 3b. 6m.—Afternoon, 3h. 34m, , ..„..k',..„ 1:-Z -11,14.1,7,,,,,,41i,...4 -,-- ~.. . .. - ir .--- F.• -- ..r. .-- , --... t' ; :lb, - 1 •.1 o , ••`.. ) _ • , iii a v ..-rr •• • 4.r.mc..., THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1F62. State-synopsis on IMerl Ackerley's Thumb-inch oath pivot, for yearly election of 'all Er.`arcleY)..magistrates to tax. Its July Navarin° Greek-slaveTacaf-pa's tribute, of Egypt on his Imp. Morea ALI Boghas 4 note, as 7.3yzone z een Arab- Padifchah of 6th Aug., 1828 on Belgrade toDardanell 3ty, for its STOW Leet Crt, 40*-st-et:about! Xxlp*rota Ccel e tie on Agnes Cranmer 'Cartwright maj'r of Off ingt on'-1776-1826 for 9th Hen. +B's, lonian-isl'd , L Greece: Cap° d'lstrifed, in 'Foreign Quar. Review, Nov. 1829, pp. 278-303 Separate' on Ist-born 5,600 boy's Pasha-pope white-slave theft, so Neg roes—to be bartered for goods, not money' 1716 Contract 3ty. AMERICA'S LAW A.RA GREEK CONS UL AUT. Over [Jul. 2 & Leo-X Caesar-bishop Papa's Edict of Peru, for Rom-Catholic grab'ng since 1842 lndian corn-lOths by Vanlo Feb. 1546 'Ego REX to Pizarro arater' on Ga 'ca-re verse at H. B's death, in fiet EARTH still A proof n; moon Venus & mercury phases], its scalp Angle I cherie matrix- Act -turn'd v 1341, now Jew.4hat ffir D Cohen'd in bo net au coing 1774-84 to iurst-inta'gerldeff'£)3,ooo,ooo, so papal mitre and Keys 1835, now on Exchequer fb deeds, as its " Grasgaina'd Sky Hy-pot' -in-usefruct• Temporalia in superstitiones Fxterna3 Rea, A.D. 44, a " mandates Claudii. America's-isle riots being done, Send over—Virginian ally CoraijiVrs of Albany, Charleston's Chief Crt.-Sec. Peters, 1744-46- [56 on G. H. & Prussia's W.minster Jan. 16 gua rantie, on Montague Henley's Bermuda Ind. Co/ ] lege Chain -3ty as in ADAMS of London metiergutlds' 11 Crown colony—an Advance-guard in lieu of Rome's french, 50,000 armed men,' speaking English, to reset the Faena- Consul Act, Jan. 1, 1826: as Ormond ,4 China'd in Christ Hosp. yellow stoc'Kings boys 7 • badge order, on Russ. 1832 acts, cc. 92-121 'Privy Council, Admiralty delegates' Crt. in Hex faine'nt-elder Ackerley, by Uniformity Act, 14 C. ff. 11 Cherekee-3ty extract Art. 2 Ecoute lea paroles du grand Roi, que the Red Indians & A-grey's allies' des deux cotes des montagnes et grands lacs sont son peuple, et les enfans qu'il cherit, quo lours amis sont his Friends et leurs ennemis his Enemys. —MOTTOY. A. CIIMING.—Sept. 20, 1730. Ghent 3ty, March 3, 1815, with U.S. except France. At Ge-nappe 10.58 p.m. June 17, 1815, Wellington [signed 'Oh,ain°lt land- Chart Jesuit restoration hollow road in vic - turn distribue, non rapinam relinque' (Motu of Pii 7th, May 12, 1814 by ' St. Marie ad martyrs, - Consalvi 219 Hegl6, 6th July 'l6)—on Blucher's 42,000 Polilh r Major Wilkinson Montagu aid, June 18—M. Thiers kens the Relgi-7 batons, of Waterloo] had all toffice-seals 1829 bill '3O, on C. r 4 A. St. Lucia [ndn martyred Mary consecration 1820, as Domi tian's r Deus ac (flukey Moatague, shewing no Peter succes sion but Micmac Peter's Tower x x Flag-union, oar of '42, Au sein de la Boussole, des lies F.rtune'es S'eleve a Pio„—son 6ver-Hame' de la pair. l (Horace) POPE-QUEENS TORTURE OF Carib-IND. xii-Ylis—No PAY To Peter, out-cast prince,lsconsort of civic Coin on 6 Ed. 6, Jan. 17 & 31, 1842,' fir T. Gresham P-d as the medal'd King's bailiff-mercer in lez Mercatora of HolyroodHs. rtave's-Cli-(to Church : : Rood screen)-acre xeeps—so G.m's Gwydir. set Ackerley 1820, thr° fir C. Ram:Leon, Bt. as, child of 11. 4's sister Eliz nd'Greywhon-Brydges Chamberlayne, kin-trust as in Imp. Car. V., 1555,-on re sign to GRESHA.3I as Emp. Pedro 1. 1825,-to ACKERLEY : impn'son'd in Bath, Tothill, & Merthyr, for Indian duty. The R. c. Soc : Joan. Club Comit4s of 1771 act without my fi'sc cal leave, th 6 Will-oathdeputy by 31 G m.c 32, §7. '9l act (by Castlereagh's Calvin-protilßrant in FEscH's nr , double office Archbishop of Lyons & Cardinal-chaplain to 14 Cle ment's Jesuit outing, in Labrador '49 act, Phil. Francis successor, to 93's NAP. temporal 1803 see)'ng, in Quebec's Virginian 1764-6 Admiralty-probat Crt. of Lioutenantcy thro' Yellowstamp, King's-post master Benj. Franklin's Crown veto grants, on J. Adams 99yr. V.P idea to North, on Lt.-Consort to (Ladies Pocahontas &) Mary march in (Common-mother of Rome-so consecrate by Domitian° `per matrona tenerum corpus Christi' in Kohath ry , title for 1557 Nuptire primo in Brazilleru C'ttn 4 ritu Calvin), so Ackerley's 2nd-ritu, Deadprobate gurrogatcy Major Hobart Montagu Dalhousie's aenszfon'd to Red. scarf chamber deputies of Js. i.'s ‘Gt. Britain (33 G. m, c 44, §1 l'Brit annos Superior), of Vespasian's Eicot-moravia land (not _Ravi a3...-.Clement Berth to Home's church by The six James' acts)-onfiristoltfuper altemare' ofspringsa aloft as letter .type up-set-reflect sa-N. Glasgo-°ver flat earth. Thus Trent Christ'n thieves on Justinian civil law code. 1. I. T. 1, §4, l'exposition °rlay u.s. '76 Common law tor exhtbi tionrsl: with no Utrecht flag-Rio 3ty Negr 9 plot in Arne.. rica, by my 1825 Brazil- fiolbec (as 2nd Vere-branch in Mordaunt Monox Daeres Atkyns, Crew-Edgcumbe Mon tague Ackerley), election as Imp. fiscamp' Slane, Sir T. Chambertavne 'Chap/en ° 21 H. 8 c 13 on 7 Ed. 6 P'JuL. 3's oath, by i G. i, c 3, in Yorki Osnaburg-Ge-Caesar bishop, Qui vent la fin (will. pat.-7 H. m) tient Le meridian cp. DEAF* DEFECT 'AS one-HY'D CORX: iN Decretar 5-SENSES. Extracts for time, omit in Adm. Kt.-rider Crt. (books. 1. 061 r I certify, That on or about 29th August, 1825, when Secretary of 'Embassy to C. Stuart de Rothsay, under special mission (on holy alliance of King's Cilian Clubs abolition, on 1771 act c. 5) to Portugal & Emp. of Brazil. That Lt. Ackerley on service-detach from Adm. Hamond's ship at sea, b e came State recipient-witness to Caesar Emp. Pedro I. of , Peru abdication deed, and left with it [as Bahia's G-figuYO.ie- 1 7 63 ], for England in 'Bramble,' Lt. Faye!. 26th April, 1861. SANDYS, then A. Marcus HILL. It. Lt. C. H. Ackerley served as Lieutenant H,M. Ship Wellesley and Spartiate, then under my command—from June, 1824, to December, 1825—sent to Ocean-80, Lisbon. Lt. Ackerley, [my Doughty great nephew],—and boat's crew on secret service money—not being entered on Bramble Cutter's-books—requires no IMP. certificate under my Rear ward Lt.- command. lu. E. HAMOND,* t c Admiral, So" blind Hanover in Lt. A.'s voice, Citizen of ,S. art. 1, § 3, 1819, for tax-charged Indn. Peter excluded till 3d Sept. 1841 elected by M. Perley & O'Halloran as ' fit' pass-oath on 'lg.-cone-aid writ-return, 1842-3 for America's Ashburton Jury to Cherokee Extradition act Crt. and Fenflotsam limits &c., as Greq-eeh ° A ft Peter, not french Pierre Basquet error giving Warrior; Kt. medal's 'in IHs numi'ry Th a Os', like 1829-35 Pope's illegal police-Toll ge sicl° Heb. meter-touch —so Le tems Denizen word, has no p—nor temp6ral power. AIR -BALLOON'S UPRISE, With CUL•de-SAC Poiz'rs, for Barometer's Consulaire Thumb-inch. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 22, 1862. Another jadicial decision has been pronounced in vindication of the right of that accomplished but unfortunate lady née THERESA LONGWORTH, in recognition and vindication of her right to be desig nated, according to the laws, at once of GOD and of man, the Hon. Airs. YELVERTON—the wedded wife of the Honourable and Gallant son and heir to the by no means aneient, in point of fact, the nearly bran new Irish Barony of Avonmore. Mrs. YELVERTON'S Irish marriage was, it will be remembered, some time back, virtually recognised in Ireland. Mrs. YELVERTON'S Scotch marriage has now very recently been recognised, not in- , directly, however, but directly, in Scotland. Lord ARDMILLAN'S surprising decision, some time since in favour of the Hon. and Gallant Major YELVERTON—the Gay Lothario placed midway, like Captain MACHEATH, between those rival claim ants to his affections, not disposed, however, by any means to carol joyously, like his prototype, "How happy, too, could I be with either !"—Lord ARD MILLAN'S surprising decision in favour of Major YELVERTON, and in direct rejection of the claims of his most unhappy victim, has now consequently been formally and deliberately set aside. Upon an appeal to the Judges in the Court of Session at Edinburgh the Judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN was on Friday afternoon distinctly and absolutely revoked. Before that same evening had far Mario.-On wing-spread, birds create their up-leg quill vacuum : so Pigeon 'Cruelty to animals' Act-gives cause, for legal stoppage of these ascents without shown wit, viz.- ' by four external Cul-de-sack windbags attached from crown net, whose mouth-rings, (inward weighted to Net'ng are vertical, till gas ib. Max 00. within the balloon, at the over-3-mile Zone-electric), self-convert themselves hori zontally, by elastic gutta-tie, into parachute fall poizers, as in case of retreat, N.E. of Wolverhampton-by barometer 26in. point of Foulatr collapse, on 17 July '62, for Standard eßaeny in. 12 4 B=l6= -26-- 29=320.6 Yard. Mr. Coxwell' s omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure wax taper flame (Agnes C. seen in l'Burton Crescent) used in its vehicle the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu 9 tn-shield-bone inhalation-by Aeronauts, against 151 b sqr-inch less 10 to air-Cough pressure on the lungs, So accounts for Blueelip'd- Glaisher 5-sqr. in. s' want of re-aeriform aid within, as in low firedamp expel by Breath rarity-2f mile up of winged life-absence (in Windsor-tie Ze'erhead Oficot), tho' saved by hydrogen gas descent belly-paunch-like, at Oakham-'fl', Memo on Shenstone's Tulchan strawcalfmilkuse couplet : J In Clent, as t King martyr'd, under a thorn t 108 Lyes Ken'elm; so Edgar, with head off-shorn,' as the Mayncoth ancestors of Emp. Conrad Ir's G.-daughter Agatha, Malcolm m & wife Margaret's P• offspring, now in Span. Escurial of 4-Philip rt. (whose daddy,) CAB.. v., was in kin to Ed. m's O-Hainault Philippe) 1553-60, by ailign M Subsidy Roll, as Gaunt constable of England, See p. 414, Oct. Gent's meg. '62, Feeamp'§ Leger.-bounden' v. I. Lodge, Tomb,). 'Think 1-every day to be thy last, < Chandos. For when night-sleep comes-Life is past.' The vif-quicksilvery drop Vacteetherize 29 to 16 in. aloft o'er-net expansion-for absence of Nitro-moist fog within Balloon-voltaic power,-influx of dry Quick-electricity : so Thumb-inch pulse-tic, on Zone-enter ' where the first pair meet' at 15in. deg., of Blood crysteng- on the 13 inch fall for 13,840 ft rise 21-m.up, of 5,280 ft. each to I,oooft. per tn. -decimals the 10-sq. link Chain of Port Grease-basin marine league by cannon shot 3-mile of shore of 1794 3ty' for river red flag Ligno thee on Peter Basket, to LooAN's Cadas trld-registry survey - - level by par°. Acts, § 9, 1818, '42-3. So vaetemd TITUS on § Slane's baemete 2in.--=--1 lb. fall for double-reason 64, 32, 16, 8,4, -oby Geometric progression to Treble-Sector o scale : : : : line, I/abe/ment=vise on Chiliarch 1586 Cowper Palmerston's I-Refch-ujew union Pramles Soci. League 1826-30, as 2nd Melchisedek p. order. This go by Civili r s . fratres 6-yr motu Comifin 1826 for education of Youth and con;cience-keep' of Old-by Lisbon snatch'ng witness Ackerley's Emp. Pedro I. deed resign on joining Ocean-80, with \ BERESFORD, by Holy Alliance out'ng on Sir C. Stuart,'Hamond do HILL, for Ackerley'sßex 7-8 Methuen Sty fl 29th Aug. 1825-6 Jan. 1, shows La belle Indian & sets a • ' 0 • perijove to Coorg '32 Tibet's lama;/.-c. 'red-turban.' d dip-falls, from Planet's perihelion-ellipse as in Monfaucon p 134-254, Vine's Temple on Lady-day's Ur fi Pileati St., or £'Bear with a hat on s.° as vAT-t-Cone'd Sufficient unto the G ie h. is the Oval •"- thereof.' on spiral curve (to Mundane oval of H. B's will-lease at Ken nington-Butts to 1791 Sphinx-head. So TActna Tudor Grey nitchell of Lanker star'swhite-Alba-Baits of Scotia minor) on the Exeter Ursa Major Ci° 9 :egog • : : gyrateon TaunTux night poach N bill, 6 August, to a J - asus-nomenaist' Nday, by Rotherham's-will 1490, O.S. transfiguration lit.-rider-ti. Brant to Vat- /macula Conception fest'realist-play Lady. day _Efan'ver. ' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix p* to 51. 30 ,sow, .Bantry, 14ellisle, drunswic. In Hopton's Stow Melunvectigal Englifli Kalendar, 1614, on p. Julits epitaf Templum Flavim Gentis a Domitiang CONDITUM' (Martialis Epigram 1. iv.) ON London-exchange. p Evesham-St. Mk. Cornhill key 4. Gov'nor [lndia • • • N.] 9•Atkyns- Montague C. z ACKERLEY, Exec. • • 1-2 W. IV., N.. 54, § Chamberlayne @ie-sworn [, st. • Peter Basquet, Income-tax Carib-chief (1842 unpaid . • of China Hug wall circuit horizon .London, Dec. 22, s.. m 1862) its Montezuma-inch Admiralty red flag, not in Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793-China, to lercy], IA so GREY-cause of Captn's xx-yr support, tho tQ,n's. men use his brains, and CaBsAR-mock him to death, • ' as 'Constable 9. Coligny' for Bombay's Dewanney, on 'as * Hen. 7 and 8, c 31, Will-set Walloon precedency, in Wotton,'huggarde to Canterbury's Al-Corfu freeman ' .°1• ' holding to 1820's Greek Protectorate-oath, on its £9O. yr retainiu Jesnitr fee, costs £1,600 for my Indian ally's duty, which „ILl:teary refuse pay or reply, to their Geneva G-set of 1826 Isarrrim American fecit" G-. ratio nihil Judex,' King's ci lk e v e tt 7 l ea ( 33 G. nT, 7, Slaves free) acting order as to Cal in under Polar map-inch Act, 9 9 1818 .20, tee Calvin Swisisa. ati-juro act 17a1 7,-not for Romisit land, on Luther Richer Co.'s of Brazil & Baltimore Mary arrival in 1851, their Ivat6 unknown till Peter's Nov. -Iturbid; letter , ran-reserve avow, by Earl Grey's Rti Colonial justice be done' to him, as 'fit' Constable of 'R. Byham' issued to o f report theft of Tower stores, Fiket (not as Pierre) in '42 for Ashburton Ind. survey pf by the Earl of Derby' s a d trees Pound -land of Virginia,' Ind. Yellow Gold-edged laaltweod, sectry.-holding the rickion N. Brunswick, Sign i ,d B e Z. l 'lePal-grants, of Frede.• Fr anklin & HafrAgger delee•ate-onBRANT's ireiness,l* Jeffe ' rson's U. S. C. 1, )3-1819-26 is'li:P7s, by '94's _Deputy Rio-trust, not for a L. Villette 1728 Flag chin:;Hal,,iar,,rie6s4u6lntreering. Portet Four martin-skin Timber' ' s ay Cos, or t As Trinidad's Ceylon 10 deg. Is to So is , Bengal' s<> broad + arrow =to c uba l,: 1 0 1 77;(1 Man illa 1:6 1 .,5 Quadra. 5 ty-signgrants of America's M a e ,,,T a rks, by tribei „ , Spinish JUL. -3 Logwood 3 T y ":c 7 n a i 2 anie Pen )'deputy on Peter's Grandfather Jn.N 1 for Bran t's e over .. t N t t 'ndland Constable's removal to Eseurielhtiotr mantlerelic, (of Combed N. ,!-'ootia its Ind n c by Cosby 1750 "I.L,scarene stet/ o a Halifax stable) on Geo. 3 Greek Cape Ilex Ci va•ba stards as , in Clarence Beltse AA ' tri c. To M- Jefferic e, & Bai liffs of Tame- (worth, Stour A n k er river Tari e fish'ry on Poor-olfaw 0. S. audits, Sep. & March G u y & St, Thomas's hospital 25, 1-43 Eliz.), in 11 7 ge port &H.B, ef Smut hark bar' in by 21 July, 1521-2 CAIIL. Clapham's Atkyns 3 , y, O'er y .l . Zaarlainnsdtiitu'etliloonwlT, Teutonic 1842-6, in Quaker's per , • ct e t 5 Geo. 4, ck ss • J e t s am x. sin •_ • law on T weed- x-fotsant. C. 74, for River Indian Bailie oath Crts, of, A_ s i .a : s_a E n u e r ,y op ..L e I'VernisslAippi'N.- way, St. Lawren ce & Pee s, Life t t rods to whale fishery boats A upset-medard, 1827-37-• " As Chester's Judge-likp Owl i A, a D.C. Hugh ‘as-Loop 'd am 1, -thy Tiautie'r3 one.) § Sir John Phillimore, (on my Copenhagen 1914 9 2 R N. Lt. set as Colonial Sara- G'sa-Gulf Ist class Plowboy-biehop -on G. IV. Edin. gorget • submission), founded a Temple church in Vat-i• Cone rota dedicated to I-11 7 sqr. Meridian las prior to Heide/biirglsB2-6 Exchange of Tux-meter. (See ,Yun April 19, 28 May 16, & July 19.) advanced we had ourselves, thanks to the electric telegraph, given in the columns of The Sun a suffi ciently copious report of this memorable judgment (in favour of Mrs. YELVERTON. A decision—it was—pronounced by the assembled Judges, all but unanimously! And yet—while we say that—only carried, after all, by a majority of oNE! Upon the Bench in the Court of Session at Edinburgh sat, on Friday, the 19th of December, three of the Scottish Judges capable of taking into considera tion the appeal then before the Court against the judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN. Lord CURRIE HILL, to wit, Lord DEAS, and the Lox d PRESIDENT. One after another these learned law lords gave in their own estimate of the opinion formed and ex pressed upon the Yelverton marriage case by their learned brother (seated by them while they spoke on Friday morning and afternoon) Lord ARDMIL LAN. One only coincided with Lord ARDMILLAN in his judgment—that one being, however, the Lord PRESIDENT. The two remaining Judges, Lord DEAS and Lord CURRIEHILL, thought each of them, nevertheless, quite otherwise. And their coincidence it was with the judge and jury who had first of all pronounced an authoritative opinion of any kind upon the merits of this extra ordinary marriage case, that carried the point on the 19th instant, in Scotland, in favour of Mrs. YELTERTON, doing this, as we have seen, by dis tinctly setting aside the astounding decision arrived at not very long ago, and embodied in a formal judgment by Lord ARDMILLAN. As a matter of course the case will nct termi nate here by any means. It will for a certainty, according to custom, go onwards and upwards until it is brought before the highest of all courts of appeal—the House of Lords. What the deci sion there may eventually prove it were idle now vaguely to conjecture, Whether the judgment of the House of Lords would be favourable to the Pursuer or to the Defender, to the Hon. Major YELVERTON or to the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON (née LONGWORTH), may be regarded, as it doubtless will be regarded by many, as questionable in the extreme. What we have now in any manner to take into consideration at all is not the possibi bility of an adverse or of a coincident judgment upon an appeal to themselves from the appeal recently made to the Court of Session against the judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN—but simply the three successive judgments pronounced on Friday morning upon that judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN, first of all by Lord CURRIEHILL, afterwards by Lord,DEAS, an d finally (and adverse'y, though in that way ineffectually, because outnum bered by his two learned brothers beside him) by the Lord President in the Court of Session at Edin burgh. According to the emphatically expressed opinion of the first of the three judges who spoke at all on Friday in the Court of Session at Edinburgh—ac cording to the dispassionate view, that is, of Lord CURRIEHILL 7 "No one could read the first part of the correspondence with out characterising it as an honourable cou rtship between a gentleman and lady of congenial dispositions and well cultivated minds." Lord CURRIEUILL added that " he could find no evidence to support the defender's view, that the pursuer wished d shed to substitute concubinage for ma rr i age ." An further, said the same learned law lord, " although he did not pretend to understand the Rights of imagination which abounded in the correspondence, he could not find anything which indicated immodesty or impurity i n it, and there fore he could not adopt the defender's interpretation. His lordship was of opinion," cons equently, " that a marriage by the interchange of consent de presenti was established, and that were it not so, there was evidence to establish the marriage on the ground of promise subsequente copula." Lord DEAS speaking next in order, and yet more emphati cally in favour of the pursuer, the Ho n . Mrs. YELVERTON (n ee LON GWORTE) SO powerfully gave expression to the feelings and convictions of those who were assembled there together in the Court of Session of the Parlia ment House at Edinburgh, that the audience found itself carried away in defiance of all the etiquette ordinarily binding people to silence in a court of justice—giving utterance to their applause at intervals during the three hours speech of the learned and eloquent La w Lord, and greeting its close with a burst of acclamations, only with difficulty suppressed by the ushers. This warmth of the popular sympathy with Mrs. YELTERTON was im mediately afterwards checked for a while, it is true, by the refrigerating influence of the strongly anta gonistic opinions of the Lord President—the judgment of the Lord President being, in all essential respects, directly coincident with that actually then appealed against, the opinion, that is, of Lord ARDMILLAN. The Lord President inti mated that " he found no direct evidence to support of the allegations of the pursuer that there was inter change by consent in Edinburgh, which constituted marriage ; on the contrary, he thought it was con tradicted by the evidence in the letters which passed between the pursuer and the defender after their first residence in Edinburgh, during which the interchange of consent was alleged to have taken place." Precisely in the same adverse spirit the learned Lord President argued the case through out. "They must not conjecture a marriage," he said, in the concluding remarks of his judgment : " they mast have positive evidence that such a thing had taken place." And it was, he insisted, precisely on these grounds that he considered the evidence to be altogether insufficient. Nevertheless thinking thus, his lordship was outnumbered by the learned law lords who had spoken before him—the court accordingly giving judgment in favour of Mrs. YELVERTON. Immediately which result became known and formally announced, the decision was welcomed with " a burst of cheering which the efforts of the officials of the court could not for some time silence." Nay, the report of these extraordinary proceedings in an extraordinary case, goes on immediately to observe yet further—" The cheering inside, more over, was taken up with corresponding fervour by the crowd in the vicinity of the court." Not—ob serve—as formerly, on the Celtic side of St. George's Channel, in the midst of a dense crowd of the impulsive population of Dublin ! But—north of the Tweed—inside and outside the Parliament House at Edinburgh, the excited multitude on Fri day afternoon being composed, for the most part of long-headed, and (while no doubt warm-hearted) calm-judging, keen-witted Scotchmen. It remains only for these same ringing acclamations to be echoed nearer borne, here in own capital, in the metropolis of the Empire, and that last and crown ing sympathy of all will have been accorded to Mrs. YELVERTON. Will it be so accorded ? That it will, we have no serious doubt whatever, if only the people of London and Westminster be afforded the looked for opportunity. An appeal to the House of Lords will come in due course : and whatever the result of that appeal, and the result is still certainly very dubious, the decision then pronounced by the Lords will be final and con clusive. Because it will be thus final and conclu sion, we look forward to it—in the interest of justice—with eager solicitude. The American papers contain numerous extracts from a volume which few Englishmen indeed will care to read. •Eight hundred . pages are formid able enough in themselves, but when we add that they are 800 pages of the writings of that clever word-spinner Mr. SEWARD and the diplomatists of the Federal Government, only relieved occasionally by the more condensed and businesslike statements and papers of Lord RUSSELL and other Europeans, we apprehend most persons will think the "Ele gant Extracts" of the American press are all they wish to have of the volume. Prominent among these are the communications between Messrs. SEWARD and ADAMS and Earl RUSSELL respecting the Alabama, or No. 290. That the Federals should feel extremely annoyed by her escape from Liverpool, and her barbarous feats at sea, is ♦ery natural. If we place ourselves in their position and make our shipping the sufferers from a vessel thus built at Boston, and allowed to get away after warning and remonstrance from our Minister in the United States, we may be sure the merchants of London and Liverpool would be as infuriated as those of New York and Boston, and the country generally would sympathise with them. It is but fair, therefore, that we should not allow ourselves to be irritated by a little " tall talk" on that side the Atlantic. The talk is not so injurious to us as the burning of ships is to the New Yorkers. And it must be confessed, after all, that there are features about the , proceedings of the Alabama, which hive a revolting character of wantonness and lawlessness. him to approach the harbours where his prize courts are held, and that he would prefer to bring them there, and submit them to a final adjudication. He will say that it is not for Mr. SEWARD to com plain of au illegality which his proceedings di rectly cause. There is much in this. And per haps the only answer, and that but a partial one, is that the South has no right to make prizes at all, if it cannot deal with them on the principles unanimously confessed to be binding in the cap ture and appropriation of prizes. In rejoinder, Captain SEMMES would urge the necessities of war —that the enemy's trade must be distressed at all hazards, lawfully if possible, otherwise unlawfully. Remembering, then, how much the Americans must naturally feel irritated by having such vessels built in our ports, and by a member of the British House of Commons, we cannot much blame them for their part in the correspondence on the subject. Fortified with the opinion of an eminent English Queen's counsel on the sufficiency of the evidence that No. 290 was building in violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, Mr. ADAMS applies to Earl RUSSELL—the result was that while the appli cation was waiting the decision of the QUEEN'S legal advisers, the builders of the ship became aware of what was going on, and befcre the former had given their ultimate decision for the detention of of the ship she was hurried off, and was far away on the Atlantic. Mr. ADAMS, however, and Mr. SEWARD announce that a long bill will be made out against us for all the damage done by the Alabama, and that " Congress is about to authorise the issne of letters of marque and re prisal, and that if we find it necessary to suppress that piracy we shall bring privateers into bery ioo for that purpose, and of course for that purpose only." There has also been much more discussion than we could have supposed on the question of furnish ing contraband of war to the Confederates. Lord RUSSELL has of course the advantage here, and we think obviously to the Americans themselves. They have now seen that they were far the larger purchasers from our merchants, and that Mr. ADAMS actually advised his Government not to make purchases here, but to go to Austria in pre ference, because its own conduct neutralised the representations which he could make on the sub ject to Earl RUSSELL. The latter, however, pointed out that the Foreign Enlistment Act did not for bid such sales by merchants, who could not be required to inquire into the destination of what they sold in a purely commercial transaction ; and that international law took the prevention of contraband trade into its own hands by making all such cargoes liable to seizure. Mr. ADAMS gave a clever turn to the conversa tion in one case with Earl RUSSELL. " I put it to his lordship," he says, "distinctly, it Great Britain would be contented, should the people of Canada break out into open rebellion, to find the United States promptly declare a neutrality, recognise the rebels as a belligerent power, and then from myriads of posts along the extensive line of boundary, and the many harbours on the seaboard, tolerate the equipment and despatch of numerous vessels freighted with all the materials necessary to protract the struggle P I very much doubted whether his lordship would be perfectly quiescent under the answer that no violation of neutrality had been committed, and that no power existed to put a stop to the proceedings." Lord RUSSELL could not well deny that he should object to such doings ; but he did deny that in any of the cases brought before him there had been any evidence of wrong destination. This was in the case of the Oreto, which left Liverpool with 170 tons of arms on board, and [with persons called troops on board destined for Jamaica. Lord RUSSELL'S investigators at Liverpool pronounced the voyage a perfectly legal one; but Mr. ADAMS contends that the destination of the vessel was ❑otorious in Liverpool, and that no commercial men were b.ind to it. No doubt the truth of the whole matter is that the shippers of the goods took excel_ lent care to put themselves formally right in British law, and that only an arbitrary Government, or one which does not hesitate to repeal the Habeas Corpus Act at pleasure, could prevent these voyages. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge who has been spending several days with the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, at Apthorpe Hall, Northamp tonshire, returned to town on Saturday. A select party had the honour of being invited to meet his royal highness. The Duchess of Athole has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinstone de Flahault have left Broadlands on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne at Bowood. The Earl of Fife arrived in town on Saturday from visiting Lady Catherine Ricardo, at Exbury House, Southampton. Her ladyship has returned to Grosvenor place from St. Leonard's. The Earl of Roselyn has returned to Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul are passing ;h© season at St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Earl and Countess Spencer, who have been passing the week at Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, with the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, returned to Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, on Saturday. The Earl and Countess De Grey have arrived at Studley Park, near Ripon, from Nocton Park, Lincoln shire, with the intention of passing the Christmas holidays at the former seat. It is but fair to own that there is something specially dog and manger-like in burning a cargo of goods which we cannot make use of, and a ship which we cannot ourselves keep. They belong to private persons only ; they have nothing to do with contraband of war ; they are simply "enemies goods in enemies ships" at sea. These are, by the laws of War, the lawful prize of the captors; and the cap tors, it may be said, may do what they will with their own. There is, however, just the difference that doing with your own what can do you no good, merely from spite to another, even to an enemy, is a violation of our moral judgments, though no law can be invoked against us. If the captor could turn them into money we could excuse him, as international law now stands ; it is =the wanton waste which provokes so much ill-feeling. It distresses the enemy, and is so far a punishment for the blockade, and that is all that 'can be said for it. The Earl of Howth has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from the Continent. The Countess of Elgin, on board the Feroze, left Suez on the 13th inst. Viscount Powerscourt has arrived from his seat in Ireland. Viscount Campden has left town to join her ladyship and family, who are passing the season in Paris. The Count and Countess de Taxes have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brussels. Lord Ashburton, who left London a few weeks ago with the intention of proceeding to the south of Pi euce for the winter, has been detained in Paris by illness. At one period his indisposition assumed a very alarming aspect, but during the last week his lordship has slowly improved, and during the latter part of the week the medi cal reports have been more favourable, Lord and Lady Bagot have left Stafford House, St. James's, where they have been visiting the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, for Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire. _ _ Lord Strangford has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. Sir Ralph au?, Lady Howard have left Belgrave square, for Brighton, for a few we,elia. Perhaps, however, the most objectionable feature of the proceeding is, that it is perfectly lawless seizure and destruction. All civilised countries have held that the condemnation of the prize in a prize court is an essential part of the law in such cases. This was, indced,one strong and unanswerable argu ment in the case of the Trent. The notorious WILKES had, on the high seas, dealt with the vessel and her cargo, according to his notions of inter national law, instead of taking her to a prize court. Mr. SEWARD found no means of escape from the illegality of this act. Now, it is obvious that Capt. SEMMES of the Alabama plays the part of a WILKES in the case of every ship he destroys. He con stitutes himself sole judge of her being lawful priz?. There may be little doubt that he is right in per haps every case, certainly in nearly all; that, how. ever, does not alter the hard fact that when be burns a ship at sea he does the very thing which we protested to be so utterly illegal in the case of WILKES—as to hold that alone to be suf. ficient ground of demanding restitution. Capt. SEMMES' reply will, of course, be, that _the Go vernment whose ships he destroys will not suffe [LAT N E WS, PARIS, DEC. 22. The 21oniteur of this morning announces that the Senate and the Corps Legislatif will re-assemble on the 12th of January. It also says-- "M. Drouyn de Lhuys has requested the con sular agents of France in the East to visit all great industrial and maritime places, in order to study the means whereby the commercial relations between France and the East may be extended." PARIS, DEC. 21. The Patrie, of this evening, asserts that Prince Couza, notwithstanding the protests of the Powers, persists in his intention of giving up to Servia the arms which have arrived in Moldavia for the Prince of that State. "This incident," says the Patrie, " has created a sensation at Bucharest." The Constitutionnel of this evening contains a paragraph, signed by M. Boniface, stating that it is authorised to give a complete denial to the news published by the Opinione, alleging that in a con versation between M. de Sartiges and Signor Farini, the latter declined to resume any negotia tions on the Roman question, because they were not likely to lead to any result. The Constitutionnel also denies that the Chevalier di Nigra, Italian ambassador at Paris, had held similar language to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, as was likewise asserted by the Opinion°. TURIN, DEC. 21 (Evening). The 'steamer Sardaigne, having Garibaldi on board, yr a. v0mp.114,1 by the violence of the weather to return to Leghorn yesterday. It is runwured that Garibaldi intends going to Naples. The official journal of Naples has replied to the late article published by La France insinuating that Italian unity was impossible, on account of facts which had been brought to light by the inquiry into the Neapolitan brigandage. The official journal says :—" The reduction of the bands of brigands formerly numerous but now few in number, proves the success of our troops.. Brigandage is confined to a few localities. The spontaneous concurrence of the population, and their co-operation in the repression of .brigandage, attest their unitarian aspirations. " Statistic tables prove that public safety is better provided for, that crime hat diminished by one •half, and that theft has almost ceased. "It is untrue that arbitrary arrests of Bourbon partisans have been made. Before proceeding to arrest them the police authorities made inquiries concerning their conduct." The Official journal states, in conclusion ; that the revenue arising from the town dues of the city of Naples is double what it was under the Bourbons. TURIN, DEC, 20. The decree closing the Italian Parliament is shortly expected. Garibaldi arrived at Leghorn this morning, and left in the course of the day for Caprera. BERLIN; DEC. 21. The President of the Police of Breslau has noti fied to the proprietors of the Breslau papers that, in future, every copy of a newspaper containing appeals to the public, or advertisements of com mittees for subscriptions to national funds for the relief of political victims or the families of the subalterns now undergoing punishment for their conduct at Graudenz, will be seized by the police. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 20. In to-day's sitting of the Upper Chamber of the Rigsdag an address to the King was proposed. This address requested his Majesty to maintain the legally existing common institutions of Den mark and Schleswig, as such a course offered a means of binding closely together the different parts of the kingdom, and affording them a guarantee of consti tutional liberty. The address further recommended the Government to settle the affairs,of Holstein by fulfilling the obligations of the King towards the Federal Diet, without, however, endangering the freedom of connexion between the other parts of the kingdom. His Majesty is informed that the Danish nation applauds his intention of granting more liberty to Schleswig as soon as the affairs of Holstein shall be entirely settled, but that the nation also expects that nothing should b 3 done which might weaken the connection between the kingdom and Schleswig. The address concludes with an assurance that the Chamber will support the present and any other Ministry which shall energetically carry out the above programme. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 20. An Imperial ukase has been published to-day re moving any confiscations still in force upon the pro perty of well-disposed Polish exiles who have re turned to their country, even should they have been born abroad. WARSAW. DEC. 20, Evening. The Government is said to have a clue to theex istence of a secret central committee. Last night a great number of arrests were made, the son of M. Epstem and the president of the Warsaw and Vienna Railway being among the number. , MADRID, DEC. 20, EVENING. To-day, in the Senate, Senoir Calderon-Collantes produced official documents in order to prove that the allies ought not to intervene in the interior of kipvinn, AR, when making overtures to the United states to take part in the expedition, no such inten tion was expressed. The Minister approved the re-embarcation of General Prim, as the best solution of the difficulty in which he was placed. The Prince and Princess of Bavaria have arrived at Tarragona. FRANCE. Sir George and Lady Julia Wombwell have left The Greek residents of Marseilles have just been Howchin'a Hotel for their seat, Newburgh Park, York- engaged in electing a deputy to represent them shire. in the, Constituent Assembly at Athens. The elec- Colonel Taylor, M.P., and Mrs, Taylor have tion took place at the Greek Consulate, and tenni arrived in town from Paris. nated in favour of M. Constantine Melas, a partner Captain and Mrs. Algernon de Horsey have ar- in the firm of Melas Brothers, who have lon been rived at Deene Park, on a vi s it t o th e E ar l an d C ountess o f g Cardigan, from visiting the E ar l an d C ountess o f H ar d- established at Marseille s . B e f ore M . Melee came wicko at Wimpole Hall. to France he held a high post i n th e mag i stracy of Athens. He leaves M arse ill es at once for Athens. The Bishop of ,p rocee di ng i n hi s carr i age , on Sunday moani ng l as t, a l ong Pi cca di l l y, the hind whee l `` The information," s a y s th e P aine, " which we of the carriage having by some means come off, the vehicle receive from Turin enables us to affirm that the was dragged by the excited horses upwards of 100 yards, majority in the Parliament are quite in accord notwithstanding th e e ff orts of the coachman, who broke the with the new ministry on the necessity of giving reins in his a tt empts to restrain the horses. The footman was thrown off the dickey a n d muc h d amaged. Hi s lord a certain pause to the Roman quest i on. T hey are ship, on th e carr i age being brought to a stand, was found o f opinion that it will be ad v i sa bl e not to put to have roll e d out i nto the street, and sitting close by the f)r ward for some time a ny new b ase of negotiation channel calmly surveying the wreck, his great too-nail either at the Tuileries or at the Pontifical Court." The 7icinese Gazette announces that the treaty having sustained a compound fracture, which rendered it concerning the dioceses which lie partly in necessary for his lordship to be conveyed with all possible speed to his palatial residence in the Duke of —'s chariot, an d ltaly part ly in the cantons of Ticino and the Grisons, has just been signed at Turin, and is now to be sub which fortunately was passing at the time. The Bishop was to have preached on behalf of the Lancashire operatives, but the result of tie incumbent's appeal was £3 6s. Bd. I mitted to those cantons for ratification. Court Journal. more buoyatinuts,Ea,naDethc.e 2 b o u . s — in ' e f s h s e do m n a e rk sh e o t w h s a a s n b i e m en - THE Bo Il lEXETER-HALL. —The performance of the " Mes siah" in aid of the Lancashire Relief Fund, to be given to- more the opening, closing rates of yesterday. Threes, night by the National Choral Society, with a band and chorus of nearly 700 performers, under the direction of Mr. were called at 701. for the Account, G. W. Martin, will commence at half-past seven. Tickets and are now firm at 70f. 10c. Mobilier has in:- can be purchased at the entrance to the hall in the Strand, proved to 1,122 f. 600. The Railway Share Market is quiet, but previous quotations for the most part pretty well maintained. Closing prices:- 41 per Cents. .. 98 Bank shares 3393 Do end month.... (;rudit t owner 1337 50 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 70 Italian Loan 72 40 New 3 per Cents .. Russian .. — Do. end mouth.... Austrian Credit Alobilier..., 1117 50 Spanish Threes 54 Do, end month ...,1120 Home Debt RA ILIVAYB. Cash. Account. Orleans 1065 .. 1068 75 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1155 .. 1147 50 Geneva.. Southern Bll 25 .. 810 Western Eastern .... ,.. 525 .. 522 50 Sardinian Austrian Lem bard North of Spain Saragossa 661 25 .. 660 Ditto to Barcelona DRURY-LANE 7HEAIRE. Although for many years a pantomime with superb decorations fiom the pencil of Mr. W. Beverley has bee❑ the regular Christmas gift where with Mr. E. T. Smith has regaled the numerous patrons of this theatre, so long a time has elapsed since the salle (or audience part) of the house has undergone anything like a renovating process, that to the present generation the association of Drury lane with expressions significative of cleanliness and brightness must almost appear like a contra diction in terms. However, such are the alterations made by Mr. Falconer, the new lessee of the estab lishment, under the superintendence of Mr. Marsh Nelson, that when he commences his visible opera tions on the evening of Boxing-day, the remarkable phenomenon of a thoroughly renovated Drury-lane will be presented to the holyday playgoer. To make way for the present improvements the ceiling and fronts of the boxes were entirely strip ped. The old box divisions of the dress circle and the pit circle have been removed, and rows of chairs extend without interruption from one end of the tier to the other. The chairs are covered with velvet, the floors are carpeted, and the walls of the corridors have been newly marbled. The new decorations of the interior of the theatre are strictly in the style of Louis XIV., the orna ments throughout being in bas-relief, gilt on a white ground. The ceiling is divided into panels, and round the chandelier is a rich band of oakleaves and _a trellis centre, while the large cove of the ceiling is filled with trellis-work and rosettes in solid gild ing, with a wreath of oakleaves round. The lower gallery and slips have been converted into one amphitheatre, the front of which has been divided into compartments with the trellis pattern, while a medallion with a bust has been placed ever each column. The fronts of the three tiers of boxes have been altered to the "0 G" form proper to the style or Louis XIV. They are richly decorated, the trellis springing from a row of leaves on an orna mental base-moulding, while in the lower tier there is an additional ornament of shields and laurel wreaths. The columns between the tiers are wreathed with laurel leaves, and branch lights spring from the capitals. A massive enriched gilt frame has been added to the arch and sides of the proscenium, somewhat resembling that of the new Theatre Lyric in Paris, although in a different style. The colour that appears in vivid contrast to the white and gold decorations is a bright cerise. Ot this colour are the curtains, hangings, carpets and chairs throughout. The stalls, like the chairs in the dress circle, are covered with velvet, with frames in imitation of ebony. Consistently with the rest of the building the saloon is decorated with white and gold, the pilasters and columns being in vein marble. The staircase and rotunda are painted light green, with scagliola columns. Au interesting feature connected with the reno vation of Drury-lane is the restoration of the "King's Room," arranged by George IV. during his regency, but for many years used as a lumber room. Newly brought to light, it appears as a handsome saloon, with corinthian columns and a dome in the centre. It has been entirely renovated, a new lobby and retiring room having been added. The Royal box, with which the "King's Room" communicates, is restored to its old position on a level with the dress circle ; and the box on the opposite side (formerly the Duke of York's), is ap propriated to the Prince of Wales. Both these boxes are redecorated and have circular fronts, but the velvet hangings and sculpture with which they are to be adorned will not be completed by Boxing night. Neither will the new drop scene which has been painted by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin, to cor respond with the decorations. .LIFEBOAT SER VICES. THURSO, N. 8., DEC. 19. Last night we were visited with a very heavy gale of wind from W.N.W. to N.W., which increased to a violent storm. Great fears were entertained for the safety of the shipping in Scrabster Roads, and the coxswain and crew of the Thurso lifeboat belonging to the Nationat Lifeboat In stitution were on the lookout all the night, in case the services of the boat might be required. So dreadful was the storm that the steamer "Prince Consort" broke adrift in the harbour, and had to steam in the bay the whole night and day. About 1 o'clock this afternoon, signals of distress were hoisted from a schooner in the bay. The ut most despatch was then used in launching the lifeboat and proceeding to the vessel. The lifeboat succeeded in reach ing the schooner, and took off in safety the crew of three men, and brought them to shore. The vessel proved to be the schooner Sisters, of Wick; laden with stone. Ihe cost of this valuable lifeboat, in conjunction with two others stationed respectively at Whitby and St. An- drews, was presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by Mr. A. W. Jaffrey, Esq., of St. Mildred's• court. GROOM SPORT, COUNTY DOWN, DEC. 20. The Rev. A. H. M'Causland writes—" A barque was seen yesterday (Dec. 19), on the Antrim side of Belfast Lough, and was observed afterwards to have parted one anchor and and dragged 8 or 9 miles to leeward, only escaping the Briggs, and was nearing the Copeland Island. The union jack was flying at the foretop-gallant-mast head, and five flags from the mizen gaff to deck of the vessel. The life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution at this place was immediately manned and succeeded in nearing the barque, and on a second attempt got her second coxswain slung on board through the sea. He was heard to say afterwards that he had taken charge of the vessel and would slip and run south, in order to save the barque. The lifeboat be haved splendidly, and was ably handled by her crew. ST. IVES, DEC. 20. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution went off from Portland Beach yesterday, during a strong gale from N.W., and a sea so heavy that she would not have been trusted in such a position but for the wishes of the crew, and more particularly of the coxswain, so as to prove to the public that the boat would do her duty under the most ad verse circumstances. She shipped some heavy seas, and at one time from ashore, where there were many anxious gazers, she was seen to drift about her length astern, She encountered three tremendous billows, which came rolling on one close after the other, and which it appeared impos sible for any boat to keep ahead against, but no accident oc curred, she went doggedly onward, and finally dropped around the island into the harbour, I cannot express to you the admiration of the spectators of the boat, and her brave crew. Christmas is near, and the latter poor men have been very appropriately rewarded by a subscription on , the part of the committee and the public. PORTHCAWL, DEC. 20. _ _ _ r Last night (writes Captain Duchan, R.N.), it blew a strong gale from the N.W., with rain. Early this morn ing still blowing heard, a vessel was discerned at anchor to the eastward of the Scarweather Sands, with mainmast gone and signal of distress flying. With all haste the Porthcawl lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat In stitution, was launched through a heavy surf and de spatched to the rescue, and nobly did she and her crew behave, returning in the course of two hours with the whole crew, consisting of captain and eight men, wi th :: passenger. The vessel was the brigantine Ch i T c l a P for timber laden, bound from Micmichi, in North America, about Liverpool. The vessel struck on the Sea': her bottom midnight, and has received great damage , ". sincerelywh wish s less i aa struckm t ce h a m t me l l uo c sn o et i that to o d t being nearly out. And here I par t of my time , - satlwitkaetilowed up en those conclude, but the most melancholy tion has yet to be made, viz., was from Quebec, and the Champion struck, a brigantine her, and was almost imuiediateis fatal sands with all her crew. A, c. s p . r ) esented to the was The costbelieved of tot t h b e e r g o r r a t i h n e lZ u l i f t e h b a o t a was syhai this e llad v ds e y : very gale, (fel\'llo.ts have also done some gan7 h e e National The Ramsgate Institution du rainn dg b noble services Which seems to have at one time blown on nearly every part of the coasts of the United Kingdom• i expected th a t a very pacific declaration or manifesto is shortly appear in the Ilioniteur,—Court 711 E Aizi Th© screw steam frigate Liverpool, 51, having been rigged and stored, is now placed With the first division of the steam reserve in Hainosze, in suc cession to the Phoebe, 51, which is gone to the Mediterranean. The paddlewheel steam yacht Black Eagle, IVlas• ter-Commander J. E. Petley, from Woolwich, ar rivedat Plymouth on Friday,:and went immediately into Hammze to fill up with coal. She is on special service, and will probably visit the Peninsula. The lighter Falmouth, R. Grandy master, left Plymouth and other yards to the eastward. The crew of the screw steam corvette Doris, 22, Capt. Sir F. M'Clintock, at Devonport, will not be paid off to-day, as at first anticipated. Her dis mantling will occupy several days this week, and payment must be deferred at least until Saturday' next, the 27th inst. The paddlewheel steamvessel Triton, 6, at pevoti port, having been thoroughly repaired, rigged, and stored, is now nearly ready for the first division of the steam reserve. This is the ship the iron-plates of which were reduced to the thickness of paper by galvanic action, induced by the vessel having been coated with a preparation of copper. She is now covered outside with the composition of Peacock and Buchan, and inside with that of Mr. Day. The Scylla, 21, screw corvette, Capt. R. Lambert" which arrived at Spithead on Friday, from the Mediterranean, received orders on Saturday morn Ong to proceed round to the eastward to dismantle and be paid out of commission, and sailed during the afternoon for Sheerness. Two men under sen- tence of 10 years' transportation, from the 4th Re giment, were landed from the Scylla by the Sprightly, steam tender, but the naval invalids and supernumeraries who came home in her from the Mediterranean remain on board, it having been found impossible to land them owing to the heavy' sea running at Spithead on Satut day. The following vessels attached to the steam re• serve at Chatham are to be handed over for the ser vice of the coastguard, viz., the Arab, 12 ; the Dar ing, 12; the Childers, 12; the Kangaroo, 12; the Elk, 12 ; and the Despatch, 12. Each of the above ships were offered a few days ago for sale by tender , but the prices sent in were not deemed sufficient by the Admiralty. Two of the fleet of mortar vessel o at Chatham built during the Russian war are also to be given up for the use of the coastguard, on the application of the Deputy-Controller. The Emerald, screw frigate, Capt. A. Cummisig , has anchored off Odhorne, where she will remain during the stay of her Majesty at her marine palace. Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham. dockyard directing that steamvessels of war of everf description, with the exception of gunboats, are to be fitted with engine -room telegraphs. The following appointments were made on SEAM' day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. T. P. Gurdon, to th e Nile; Geo. H. Dominy, master, to the Fisgard, for the Osprey; Thos. T. Hodgson, midshipman, to the Meeanee; and G. John B ower , nava l cadet, to the Meeanee. Messrs. Geo. W. Hill and. Chas. J. Reddie Wel l ' on Saturday nominated to naval cadetships. 711 E ARMY. In order to give effect to the directions of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief in re gard t ° the instruction of the first divisiou of the depo t brigade, Royal A r till er y, i n a complete course oi , musketry, Lieut.-Col. Talbot, commanding the divi sion, has selected a number of the non-commis' slimed officers, consisti ng of the battery sergeants major and the m os t i ntell i gent from the subordinate non-commissioned ran k s , w h o are daily i ns t r ucted in position and aiming drill by the instructor pointed for that purpose. The non-commission ed officers selected are being instructed as rapidly 115 possible, in order that their services may be brough t into requisition for the tuition of the gunners be longing to the batteries composing the first division. Every effort is being exerted to carry out ,ffectivel the directions of the Duke of Cambridge. In consequence of the official inquiry instituted and presided over by Gen. Sir R. Dacres, at Vird'el wich, in the early part of November last, when it was complained that the medical authorities had brought forward for discharge from the service an unusual number of invalids, who were in a verybati state of health, it has been decided that in future thorough inspection of the invalids shall be made by the General commanding the district, and their ilia' charge sanctioned by his verification. Accordingli, Sir R. Dacres, accompanied by the entire staff 0t the garrison, attended on Friday last the monthly attestation of those brought fo rwar d by the med ical .. board for discharge. About 70 invalids and tim e expired men of th e R o y a l A rt ill ery rece i v ed t heir certificates and discharge from th e serv i c e on Pe n, _ sion ; each man was p rov id e d w i t h a f ree ticket c on ' veying him to his desired d es ti na ti on. They were accompanied to the railway s t at i on b y a party 4 non-commissioned officers. rt Ensign Steuart, of th e I s t b atta li on I s t 10J efi 5 at present stationed at the camp at Colchester, isis received orders to join the service companie s °f ive regiment. The troops will, as usua l, have fe st entertainments during the present Christmas wee e a A. considerable number of officers have also obtained leave of absence f r om th e camp . Th e n ew ca valry barrack buildings have no w ma d e muc h progre_s_ at, In addition to the tar ge t d es p a t c h e d from t )4 e 3 , to ham dockyard to Shoebury ness a f ew days sin e der be used in the experim e nt s w ith the 130 pou e r ,.. a . Whitworth gun, under the direction of the u„ nance Select Committee, ord er s were yesterd a y th r`eer ceived at Chatham from Whitehall direct mg ail° target also to be erected a t Sh oe b u ryness, of a side and strength far surpassing all those hitherto e%Pn,i mented upon. The new tar g et is to be so constr uct iii that plates varying from 51 in. to 61 and Ti n ',.,„ thickness may b e test e d upon it, the object of t he .rau l' irt tended experiments being to discover the milli be thickness of iron armour plates which canncg_ rtil penetrated by either the Armstrong or Whitvf,", be guns, as at present constructed. The plates You r _ despatched from Chatham Dockyard to Shoebdu ness, where the new target will be constructeoa; the mechanics previously employed for the eto the purpose. The plates used will be submitted au're closest tests, in order that none but those whio o n absolutely perfect may be used in the experinses°'_a The experiment of providing slaughter hou t w l eb a commissariat establishment at Chatham, a oop _ at the meat required for the supply of the t e r . uo a der that garrison might be killed and preer .er d aid the immediate superintendence of ,tie °l rl attended Commissariat Department, havingan gementS have with highly satisfactory results, been made by the Government department, so as to operations connected with that • tan & with the assis allow of the troops at Chatham, being t Corps, of the members of the Commissariat their own bread, employed in preparing and baking Accordingly, a coil afrofr extending the and also in brewing their beer. Accordingly, the War Depart' overnment contracto r, went with Mr. K.Spicer, tract has been entered intoa considerably enlarging the preSe o Rochester, for . barrack buildings, bakeries, a br tion of addition ent's and officers' quarters' house, superintend ted commissariat establishment in . Chatham, by the erec tion are to be c om.p. o mont hs over the Government within 6 InG and handed tniS' the present date. The site of the new coin from the whole of I, t es ;:ta e b " listiment is on the elevated land, be 1013)!.. s s a ta r b ia l j o g to the War Department, adjoining the M tid stone-road. AGR - - - ATHFUL OFFERING.—The Liverpool p ilo9 have subscribed amongst themselves £l4, and have Pr e- Jented the same to the crew of the Lytham lifeboat, bc" longing to the National Lifeboat Institution, as a grateful acknowledgment of the gallant services ren dered bY the lifeboat's crew in rescuing one of their com rades, in CO junction with 13 other men, from the American. ship A°ll of E. Hooper, of Baltimore, which, during a heavy gal e ~„,' wind, was totally wrecked on the Horse Bank at the naoo3 of the Ribble, some Weeks ago. The Portuguese Government have transmitted £lO to the crew of the Dungeness lifebo at, belonging t° th e l National Lifeboat Institution, for their v aluable services rescuing the crew of 14 men from th e Portuguese,barque Cruz V., of Oporto, which, during a dark and stormy nig was wrecked off Dungeness, two or th ree months ago. l'il! lifeboat's crew had previously re ceived £9 for thei r service froth the National Lifeboat Institu tion. The cost of this valuable lifeboat had been presented to the society by the Rev. .J, liutelzesson. 1001 The a PPearo tiltions Th e 1- 111 3rien oy ilth I)ebeliti Th e thlri og , th ough t he de ' a to the 1 / 7 most "d Yarr ch ile th • ri adder f the milli la ce trod stea dy, Au b een usu al e t„ , 1). °1 ') Ac ittu .~.