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The property may be viewed by cards, to be obtained from the auctioneer, Mr. Edward Lumley, of 67, Chancery-lane, London, W.C., Knd of the undersigned; of each of whom printed particular' may also be had, and to whom proposals for purehase by private contract may be made. ADA.II RIVERS STEELE, Solicitor, 0, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG E. T BIR DIY —Mooring , 10h. 43m.—Afternoon, 11h. 16m, To-monatow.-Morning, 11h. 42m.—Afternoon, h. m, We hope the lesson will not be lost on English Conservatives, or on their great organ, that the triumph of American Conservatism haabeen through the ballot and universal suffrage We must con cede to them, we suppose, as they so loudly insist o,n it, that the Democrats are the Conservatives of America. We used to think differently. We re member the time when the leading men of the other party—the WEBSTERS and CLAYS—were those to whom the respectables of England looked as the men with whose ability, public charaoter, and social position they naturally sympathised. We also re member that it was an occasion of frequent taunt against Democratic institutions that they did no elect such wen to the Presidency. But, as our Conservatives ought to know their own loves best, we will allow that the Democrats of New York and of all the Union belong to them, the brothers WOOD of New York city included. We only ask them, as a fair consequence, to admit that the ballot is a very conservative measure, that it can give a Conserva tive candidate a majority of twenty or thirty thousand in one eity, and a large majority to the Conservative saviour ofs their country in the whole State. That it can increase the gains of Con servatism where every man has a vote, in fact, can vanquish the " Radicals," although armed with the terrors of Fort Lafayette, and having an im mense army at their disposal. We should think, too, they will acknowledge that the ballot is Conservative of order at elections. Never surely was there a greater excitement prior to the palling day than in this New York election ; an excitement too amongst a most excitable people, and with hosts of saper-excitable Irishmen to in flame and explode in the midst of all. Yet all accounts agree that the polling day was as quiet as any such occasion could possibly be where great numbers were concerned, and engaged for and ag ainst, on a question which stirred all their passions so deeply. Why, there was more disturbance at little Kidderminster, when the Hon. ROBERT LOWE stood as the mark for brickbats, before he took to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S sofa at Calne, than at all the polling booths in the whole State of New York. Our Conservatives here ought to confess that their brother Conservatives, called Democrats in America, are wiser than them selves i n h av i ng c h osen the Ballot as their Corrupt Practice s at Elections Prevention Act. Whatever corruption th ere i s i n violence—the corruption of he Ballot , under the most unfavourable eiremneta n e 43 6, entainly prevented. 'We know of but one t nglish Conservative reply to this fact, thatjust in En isg i sTati—nilreland cannot be included —the viole n ce now mob violence. The only violence carried on 7 to auy great extent , a kind of violence on w h- Torias so largely depend, b e ing quite of an ot h er kind. The private violence of landlords, lawye aared all the richer classes, ipy w ' , h u . a ll ialrers, creditors, they so easily eb a i y i cart'y co ,:inty elections especially. It be well, they will toy, to prevent the Conservative Araeri can mobs from fh-aining the poor it p but it would never d o to .re p ress the respectable :9' 11,b co d o ne by country squirts an ~ 1 landlord s generallyi to the Convictions of their' tentintry. Well, if they think thus, let them only have the manliness to Say hen the next motion for Ihe ballot comes SO Wir forward. For oursilvt s, we are free to confess that, though the ballot has worked in this case in opp has in os to o t ir wishes, we yet acknowledge that it We, as Englishmen, so doing proved its tnerits. cannot wish the Conservative Democr ats of America success. We do vet wish to see the to furious ene see mic a s of England in power, We d o not desire conservatibm of the lash knd the slave auction block ruling the destinies of the NOrth ; we have no sym pathy with Conservative Fugt:ive Slave Laws and a reunited Federation, of which the distinguishing . -• ~::".*. se . , ~ _,t,, , .. . !.. „ ' '1:11;' ‘ , ` - 'c . 5 , 4/ /' 1 .r _._ . ,_. . •' -, , " ' ^ l . i' 'ket ' '''. . k -...1, THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 1862. feature shall be conservatism of all the most extra vagant demands of slaveholders. We do not wish to see aDemocraticiconservative annexation of Cuba and Mexico, perhaps of Jamaica also. Yet we admit it to be only right that if the conservators of such things be the more numerous party they ought to have the responsibility of office, and not be mere outsiders, embarrassing the Radical opponents of slavery and friends of freedom. We, therefore, as well as the English Conservatives, admit the suc cess of the ballot in America. Majorities must be converted by experience of the effects of their own follies—not overpowered by mobs, provost-mar shals, and Government prisons. The good work prospers. The funds now col lecting on all hands for the relief of the immense and increasing distress in Lancashire increase with it : though, alas ! they cannot possibly be said to in crease proportionately. At the worst, there will come, of course, the Government grant—whenever it may become painfully manifest that this spontane- one charity on the part of the community at large cannot compete with it—cannot drive away those dire results of the stoppage of a large branch of in dustry in a busy and populous mercantile land— famine and pestilence. At the first threatening of the approach of either of those appalling scourges, the Government would, of course, promptly and un- hesitatingly step in. Meanwhile, the people of the United Kingdom are astir in all directiens, to the end by their own (spontaneous efforts to relieve those perfectly innocent but deplorably allicted classes of their fellow-countrymen. Sympathisers of all classes aid the good cause by swelling the already considerable sum of the contributions prof fered to the half-starving workers of the North, but more especially of Lancashire—workers now, un happily, no longer ! Committees everywhere ! Public meetings convened upon every opportunity! Charitable sermons among all kinds of reli gionists! Subscription lists lying open in all directions ! Individual contributions to the fund— people of the most diverse characters—pressing for ward every day now with some affecting mite, now with some munificent and princely offering i In a single day, Mr. SPURGEON collects at two services in his Metropolitan Tabernacle, collects in that one building, on that one day, at those two services, £750 for the relief of this dire distress in Lanca shire ! A fashionable lady, upon the eve of inviting her friends to a ball, bethinks herself that the money that would be thus frivolously expended upon rout seats, and rout-cakes, and fiddlers, and confectionery, might perchance be a little more wisely expended under existing circumstances—she postpones her intended ball sine die, or rather sine node, and encloses a cheque for £l2O to the Lord Mayor for the use of the poor operatives in Lancashire. Noble- men and merchants, country squires and pro fessional men, yeomen and artizans (still in work), forward the noble design we have all of us so near at heart, and do this, we repeat, spontaneously and with a truly affecting unanimity. About the latest among the public demon strations in furtherance of this benevolent enter prize, upon which we have had occasion to take any note here in our own metropolis, is the ves try meeting which took place yesterday, the meet ing convened by the local churchwardens in the Vestry Hall of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and attended by a goodly number of the more influen tial parishioners—conspicuous among these being the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The respected Vicar of the Parish, the Rev. W. G. HIIIIPIDIEY, having duly opened the proceedings, we might say as a matter of course, in his inevitable capacity there as Chairman—Mr .G LADSTON B availed himself of the opportunity to speak with most per suasive tongue, directly and energetically to the purpose, in behalf of the suffering victims in the North, the impoverished, and all but famine-stricken operatives of Lancashire. The argu ment which the Right Hon. Gentleman had to en force was one the truth of which we have long since learnt to recognise, and by sympathy to realise to the full. The resolution moved by Mr. GLADSTON E being in fact simply to the effect "That considering the severe and widespread distress now prevailing in the cotton manufacturing districts, this meeting desires to express its deep sympathy with the people of those districts, and its admira tion of the patience and fortitude with which they have borne their privations." In descanting upon this theme, the Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke for once not so much in his high position as a Minister of a State, but simply in his twofold character—as a landowner in Lancashire, and as a parishioner of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. And, speaking in that two-fold character, he spoke, we repeat, after a fashion the most eloquent of all under the circumstances —namely, in words going directly to the point, in a strain completely to the purpose. During the course of his able and generous-hearted speech yesterday, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer remarked, in fitting terms, the noble and magnanimous part taken by the millowners themselves in the furtherance of relief of the dis tress now ravaging the North, but more particu larly the County Palatine of Lancaster. In de monstration of the practical character, and of the magnitude, and of the magnanimity of this relief vouchsafed to the poor. opera tives in the manufacturing districts by the mill-owners there, who are themselves the most considerable sufferers from the present calamity. Mr. GLADSTONE mentioned one circumstance, one incident, coming within the range of his own know ledge—an incident so noble of its kind as indeed to have well deserved to be thus particularised : " The house in question," he said, " is one of name and of great respectability. The firm held a con siderable stock of cotton. They could not work it up without incurring an enJrmous loss, so they sold the cotton, and have since taken upon themselves the support of every one of their workpeople, pay ing them one moiety of the wages which they would have received in the mills—namely, £2oo a week, or £13,000 a year, and I believe that it is their intention to continue this payment. The firm need not appear on thewitha sum subscrip tion list; but if they had so app eared which would have seemed munificent it would have been a mean act compared with the noble course which they have in fact pursued." With facts like these coming to light out of the darkness and the misery of present distress, who can doubt but that its after consequences will prove in the end to have been most bene ficent : and that, as with so much of human grief, affliction is often a blessing in disguise ! Meanwhile, so long as the visible affliction lasts, \ we have, as Christians and Englishmen, as fellow citizens and fellowmen, but one course to pursue stead ily, resolutely, and unfalteringly that, namely, of striving to relieve it. We have already briefly adverted, when the tele gram brought the subject before us, to the singular conduct of Lord RUSSELL in regard to the 'Schles wig and Holstein affair. The announcement was first made while his Lordship was in Germany, that he had sent a despatch to Denmark, advising the Danes to concede everything to the Germans, advice which, with becoming spirit, they promptly and d e cide a d m ly o r n ef a u t se t d h . e o S e o r m m eh an o s w h w e h a e p n pe h a i r s s o o r d b - e hi — r gets amongst THE SUN, LONDON - TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER is, 1861 completely at their mercy ; indeed, this despatch seems to be buethe repetition of yielding to Vienna cajoling, which for some time threw his Lordship politically into the shade. It seems, too, so sin gularly ill-timed. At the very time when our Royal family is contracting an alliance with that of Denmark, for our Foreign Minister to propose to weaken and break up the kingdom, seems more like an amateur idiosynoracy than the deliberate act of an English Secretary of State. We are not, of course, about to rewrite the inter minable story of Schleswig and Holstein. Suffice it to say that that Denmark practically includes Holstein, Lauenberg, Schleswig—that the King of DENMARK does not deny that the Duchies of Hol stein and Lauenburg are part of the German Con federation, or refuse to govern them as such; that he does deny this of little Schleswig, which is in habited by a mixed population, and that Lord RUSSELL has sent a despatch to Denmark which we think Englishmen generally will be ashamed of when they read it. Apart from the merits of the question, the tone of It is so much that of a superior lecturing an inferior, that we do not wonder the Danish Government resented such a haughty piece of scolding and dictation. But when he sums up all in the dogmatic propositions, that " Holstein and Lauenburg are to have everything the the German Confederation asks for them that " Schleswig should have power to govern itself, and not be represented in the Reichrath,"—and concludes with proposing to give the three duchies such powers as shal'l make all little better than separate States united only by the crown, we can no more expect Denmark to listen to such a pro posal, than we could be expected to listen to one from Denmark to break up the Union between England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. We hope his Lordship is a strenuous defender of the Deak party in Hungary, and of the independent rights of that kingdom. Hungary can show grounds for her claim, with which it were idle to compare those of the Danish Duchies. If he has not lectured Austria or Hungary, far more sharply than Denmark, on these petty appendages to its crown, he is self-convicted of gross partiality. The whole affair of Denmark and her Duchies is, how ever, nothing but a dirty German job, and no Eng lishman ought to have anything to do with it, ex cept to rebuke the vanity and inconsistency of the Germans. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON'S withdrawal from the threatened contest at Southampton simplifies the matter very considerably. His timely decision to this effect ought to be held, in his regard, among other Liberal constituencies, in very favourable re membrance. It ought to be, in other words, for him a—mark to the good. For we yet hope to felici tate this true Orator and advanced Liberal on his return to the British House of Commons. Not— we will venture to premise, however, at once as a hope and an expostulation—not as the champion of " vested interest," or of airy individual, no matter how illustrious or how persecuted, but as the advo cate of principles worthy of enforcement by an elo quence as remarkable as that with which Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON is so abundantly gifted, and by a probity of character as indisputably con spicuous as his. The last of the " outsiders" among the competitors for the vacant seat of Southampton has consequently, in the person of Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, retired from the field. A clear stage is left, therefore, betimes between the two remaining candidates—the Liberal and the Conservative. Clever though the design was by which the latter hoped to slip in for the borough, we cannot but feel confident that it will now be effectually worsted by this opportune avoidance of anything like a serious split among the Liberal electors constituting the bulk of the Southampton constituency. The Lord Mayor ROSE has a chance, it is true, even now, of obtaining a majority—sup posing that the supporters of Captain MANGLES should not be vigilantly upon the alert. Let there be no further toleration, consequently—for we fear there has been some already among the supporters of the Liberal candidate—no further toleration whatever of the disgraceful scenes of rowdyism by which the earlier incidents of this sharply-con tested election have (we grieve to bear the fact in recollection) been disgraced. The rivalry existing among the great railway com panies and also among the great packet companies, the enterprise of which may be said to con verge at Southampton—has unhappily originated a certain disunion among the otherwise dominant and unassailable upholders of Liberalism down at Southampton. The knowledge of the fact that it is really and truly, as we say, ought, beyond all other considerations just now to influence the policy of those more earnest and practical Liberals who have undertaken to sustain the interests of the Liberal candidate now standing forward alone be fore the constituency—ought to influence their po licy in one rational direction, namely, to the dedica tion of the whole of their energies to the practical work of electioneering. Not the toleration even of that fancy work (of which we had cherished the hope that we had in a great measure heard the last long since, at any rate in England) what may be called the fancy work of elec tions, executed for the most part with the agency of brickbats and bludgeons. The Liberal electors of Southampton have something better to do now than to connive at the repetition of the late disgraceful proceedings in that borough. Mr. GEO. THOMPSON has afforded them, by his timely with drawal from the contest, the fullest opportunity of vindicating in a signal manner the liberality of the constituency, by the rejection of Lord Mayor ROSE and the triumphant return of Capt. MANGLES—of all men the fittest and properest person yet thought of as a successor to the late representative of the borough. the ewahu it THE RUMOURED PLOT AGAINST THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. —A Paris letter says :—Since the discovery of ho o n u s. l l e sh v a a alv r w d e Prince Eugene plot, which every day as sumes larger proportions as facts creep out, the police ser vice . at Compiegne has been tripled. The most minute pre cautions taken.nabe nabout the The Emperor's famous person Corsican in guard,. plain clothes, is divided into three sections, and watches night and . day without intermission. The mieror has been . ad vised to resume the coat of mailj under his shirt, which he loft oft wearing in 1859, on account of the great discomfort of it. In spite of all the efforts made to throw a veil over and there i r s e i held the lesa real gate state s i t , : o c f . tuhritn society i et the y gueststhan th a e re Council of the eray' is swarming with spies, s b i d in e n e t e e of theat the Treasury vi in Down ing-street. The Ministers present were--Viscount the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, sc s o i u r n G t Pal s Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles eerge offiAcialCrea a n w w y ace a os r net lasts tehgdauyt ee the oare. e palace mach Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right o Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. UNSEASONABLE SALMON FISHING,—Two cases of salmon poaching in the Severn in the fence or close season have just been prosecuted by the officers of the united asso ciation for the protection of the fisheries of that river. At the Petty Seesions at Lydney, Gl o cestorshh.e, Reuben Ward was convicted of fishing for salmon with a " lade net" at Lydney on the 29th of October, the fence season commencing on the 2d of September. He was also convicted of having in his possession a portion of a foul and unseasonable sal mon, and he was fined for the first offence £2 10s. and , £2 Is. costs, and for the second offense ls. and costs. Thomas Lewis and Thomas Lewie, jun., father and son, wer convicted of fishing on the same day for salmon in the Severn at Lydnye. 'I hey were seen on the sands fishing with a "lade net, and were proved to have taken at least i one salmon. They were fined £2 and lls. 6d. costs each ; la default of payment a month's imprisonment. LATEST NEWS. ATHENS, Nov. 11. All is quiet. The cases of insubordination which occurred among the soldiers in the provinces have been repressed. The Nationall Guard is being organised and armed. A demonstration has taken place at Syra in favour of Prince Alfred ; others are preparing all over the country. CORFU, Nov. 15. The principal inhabitants of Syra and the Pirsens have given a banquet to the officers of the English fleet. The health of Prince Alfred was proposed by the Greeks. The toast of " The Independence of Greece" was drunk by the English. The English vessels hoisted the Greek flag and saluted it with 21 guns. PARIS, Nov. 18. Baron Gros has been appointed Ambassador of France to the Court of St. James. The despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhnys, in reply to the note of Gen. Durando, is published to-day. It corresponds with the analysis recently given by the Belgian papers. TURIN, Nov. 17. Parliament will meet here to-morrow for the Session. There will be no Speech from the Throne. Almost all the deputies have already arrived. The King has forwarded a large sum of money from his private purse to the towns of the Romagna for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent inun dations. The official Gazette of to-day decrees the abolition of the state of siege in the Neapolitan provinces and Sicily. The Prefects of Naples and Palermo retain the power of making some exceptions. The board of directors of the Neapolitan Rail ways has been elected. Messrs. Charles Waring and Howard Kennard have arrived upon business connected with these and the Sicilian railways. Mr. Brassey is expected to-morrow. ENGLAND AND DENMARK. The Grenz-Boten, a weekly journal, publishes the following as the text of the despatch of Lord Rus- sell to Mr. Paget at Copenhagen. We translate it from the German, into which it had been translated from the English original : " Foreign office, Sept. 24, 1862. " According to reports received from various quar ters, it appears that the exchange of notes between Austria, Prussia, und Denmark has led to a state of ill feeling, as might have been expected, respecting the obligations of Denmark in the affairs of Holstein, Lauenburg, and Schleswig, in counter-position to the common constitution of the Danish monarchy. The greater the lapse of time, and the longer the negotiations are spun out, the deeper will be the chasm which separates the two parties, and the more violent will be their language towards each other. " After having carefully and sorrowfulli consi dered this unsatisfactory state of this question, and the unfavourable results which necessarily ensue, her Majesty has resolved to give you instructions which it is to be hoped will lead to a satisfactory settlement. In giving these instructions it is ad visable to touch first upon those points which may be already regarded as settled. " The first of these points is, whether Holstein or Lauenburg can levy taxes or decree laws without the assent of the States of those Duchies. This point has been settled by the decision in the nega tive of the German Confederation, of which the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg are members. "Another question, which it is not necessary to dwell upon, is the Constitution of 1855. "It is clear that a Constitution, whether thought good or bad by the members of the kingdom or of the Duchies, has no control either in Holstein, Lauenberg, or Schleswig, has the Duchies have not recognised it. " Nor is it necessary to dwell upon the rights of the Danish Parliament. "It is quite clear that Denmark can levy taxes and give laws to its own people without the consent of Holstein, Lauenberg, and Schleswig. Two questions of great importance have still to be con sidered. The first concerns Schleswig; the second the whole Constitution (Gesammtsverfassung). Schleswig was formally in an abnormal position. Though not forming part of the German Confede ration, it was, nevertheless, connected with Holstein, 7hich is a member of the Confederation. Later enactments have altered that unsatisfactory union, and Schleswig is now only bound to Holstein in non-political relations which equally concern both. Nevertheless, there exist relations between Ger many and Denmark which have given rise to the existing differences. " The sacred promise made by the King of Den mark to Schleswig, and communicated to the Ger man Confederation in 1852, touches chiefly upon two points. The first is, that Schleswig:shall not be incorporated with Denmark; the second is, that Germans in Schleswig shall be placed on the same footing as Danes or subjects of other nations. The complaints which Germany has raised as to a breach of those promises are 'contained in the Prussian despatch of the 22d of August. " A systematic destruction of national and neigh bourly relations between Schleswig and Holstein ; neglect of the regulations concerning the Kiel University ; the appointment, almost exclusively, ot Danish officials in church and schools ; the whole spirit of administration in the Duchy; finally, the total disregard of the existing enactments respect ing the language, are facts so well known that they need no further enumeration. " For all practical purposes it would be useless to attempt a control through Germany upon the appointment of Danish officials in Schleswig in church or educational matters. It would only lead to new difficulties and continual differences. " The best means to put a stop to this for the future would be to grant perfect independence to Schleswig ; to give full power to the Schleswig estates to decide upon all questions concerning the church schools and universities, and to decide upon what language should be used where the Danish, German, or mixed population should pre dominate. " Finally, there is the question of the Constitu tion, the most complicated of all. Treaties, pro tocols, and despatches throw little light upon the subject. The few gleams of light which are thrown only tend to lead astray. For what could be more detrimental for all union, action, and independence than to maintain that no law was valid, no budget acceptable, unless sanctioned by the Parliament of the monarchy ? What would Austria say if she were expected to accept a Constitution which would curtail the power of the Reichsrath at Vienna un less separate estates in Hungary, Galicia, or Venetia had acquiesced in the same or sanctioned the same budget ? How would Prussia act under an unconditional veto given to the Estates of Posen by deliberations in Parliament ? "If such a Constitution must lead to a speedy and decisive rupture—if each part could not have its full and independent action without obstructing the wheels of the whole machine—if, for example, we take the estimates asked for the navy at 90, of which amount Denmark is to provide 60, and the other States 30, Denmark can vote its 60 without the vote of the other States. Only one objection can be made to this proposition. " If the 1,600,000 inhabitants of Denmark were called upon to pay the army and navy estimates, and the 50,000 inhabitants of Lauenburg declined to pay their share, the Danes would look upon it as an oppression, considering the relative position of the King-Duke's position in Lauenburg, " The remedy for this has been found in a propo sition fur a normal budget brought forward ind 6 pendent of the Diet and of the Estates of Schleswig- Holstein and Lauenburg. " It is evident that the Government of an inde pendent State like Denmark must ask for grants for the civil list of the Sovereign, for the diplomatic service, and for the fleet. " This may be calculated on the very lowest scale, with regard to the Royal dignity and to a state of peace. " The grant may be asked from the four repre sentative bodies. A State Council, consisting of two-thirds Danes, and one-third Germans, might decide how it ought to be distributed. Their reso lutions should be made public and an annual re port published. " The normal budget to be granted for ten years; the division or expenditure to made yearly. Extraordinary expenses, exceeding the estimate of the normal budget, to be voted optionally by the kingdom and the three Duchies independently. " The propositions which I have made may be summed up in a few words : " 1. Holstein and Lauenburg should have every thing the Geri an Confederation asks for them. 2. Schleswig shall have the power to govern itself, and not to be represented in the Reichsrath. 3. A normal budget shall be adopted by Den mark, Holstein, Lauenburg, and Schleswig. 4. Extraordinary expenses shall be sanctioned by the Diet (Reichsrath), and the separate Parlia ments of Holstein, Lauenburg, and Schleswig. " I request you, sir, to leave a copy of this de spatch with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. (Signed) " RUSSELL." THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Coffes . pondefit.) NEW YORK, Nov. 4. The interest in the elections absorbs that of all other sub- jects, Without speculating as to results which will be par tially, if not fully, ascertained before this letter is de spatched, I shall employ the interval in directing the atten tion of the English public to one or two other matters that do not excite so much notice here as they would under other circumstances, but which are none the less important in their bearings upon the momentous struggle in which the Northern people are engaged. If Mr. Seymour and his party be elected to power in New York, there will be a modification of the existing despotism and a chance of peace. If, on the contrary, they be defeated is favour of Gen. Wadsworth and the Republican ticket— one of the candidates of which declared on Saturday that the failure of the North to subdue the South would be a calamity " only second to the destruction of the Christian religion" —there will be a super-Austrian aggravation of misgovern ment, and a prolongation of the war until the North shall have lost not only its prosperity, but the last vestige of its liberty. Like a weak and irresolute man, the Government is spasmodic in the energy it displays, Everything it has to do is done by fits and starts. The war, vigorously car ried on one day, relaxes into " comfortable quarters" on the next. Opposition to slavery inflames the Presidential mind in the morning, and dwindles away by nightfall into the cautious conNiction that, if slavery be wrong, it is not Mr. Abraham Lincoln's business to set it right. Ministerial vigour boils up for a week or two in violent arrests of un offending citizens for supposed sympathy with the rebel lion, and then cools off for a month, allowing treason to be spoken by important persons as freely as if the country were in the full enjoyment of constitutional liberty, though bubbling up at intervals to scald some minor offender. For the last three weeks the Government has been in its cold fit. The President has- issued his proclamation, and sub sided into the quietude so greatly needed after such ex haustion. M'Ulellan, having nearly achieved a de cisive victory at Antietam, has taken time to re flect upon the past and the future, and manifested the usual its tnertice of all heavy bodies that rash people would impel too suddenly into space. The War Secretary, having nearly filled Forts Warren, Lafayette, Delaware, and M'Henry with political prisoners, has taken a siesta, and allowed o. little liberty of speech to the few impatient spirits who yet vindicate their claim to an Anglo-baxon origin by grumbling at the errors and misdeeds of men in power. There has been a little Saturnalia of free discussion in con sequence. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, an ultra-Abo litionist, has declared "that the country is going towards disunion and despotism, because one of the most honest men who ever held the Presidential chair is not a man of affairs ;" " that there has been a waste and slaughter of men in M'Clellan's and Pope's battles that the Government has never cared to estimate, and will never dare to publish;" that " M'Clellan suffers from fatal, hopeless, and ineradi cable timidity, and is more pained to have one mtin shot than to have a thousand rot in the hospitals;" and that there "is a deep, widespread, and increasing discontent with this weak and helpless Administration." And Mr. Stanton sleeps, and makes no sign to the Provost-Marshal. On the other side, Mr. Fernando Wood—an ultra-Demo crat—has had the courage to say that, if the President will not inaugurate a change of measures, the country will in sist on a change of men; that "some second Napoleon will sit in the White House and dictate terms to the country ;" that, for his part, "if he is to live wader a tyrant, he pre fers an able and bold tyrant to a mean and petty despotism, such as that at present existing ;" and, finally, " that he does not' believe it is possible to conquer the South by mili tary triumphs—but that the South will come back to the Union under Democratic and Conservative administration.' Mr. Elijah Purdy, a prominent member of the same party, and known as the " War-horse of the Democracy," exhorts his friends at Tammany Hall to do their duty at the polls " by" putting out the vagabonds "who have got temporary possession of the Government." And still Mr. Stanton makes no sign, and the Provost-Marshal moves no finger to point towards Fort Lafayette. But there are symptoms of a break-up in this official apathy. The hot fit is coming on. The snoozing giant is going to rub his eyes, put on his seven league boots, and stretch forth his long arms to clutch the two hardy people who dare not only to form their opinions, but to utter them. The Rev. Mr. Beecher may perhaps escape, for Mr. Stan ton is not bold enough to excite the ire of all the young and old ladies of Brooklyn who "sit under " that pious come dian; but it will in all probability fare hard with Mr. Fer nando and Mr. Benjamin Wood,—with Mr. John Van Buren, Mr. Elijah Purdy, and Judge M'Keon, if not with Mr. Horatio Seymour himself, for the "treasonable effron tery" they have displayed in denouncing the imbecility of the Administration. Already a beginning has been made. General Butler has arrested three Episcopal clergymen of New Orleans for refusing to pray for Mr. Lincoln, and despatched them under military escort to this city, to be in carcerated in Fort Fafayette. The agent of all three arrests was the redoubtable major whose interruption of the service at St. Pitul's .Church in that sorely oppressed city was re corded in my last. The three unfortunates arrived this morning, and many learn in prison, if they will, that it is safer to denounce Mr. Lincoln as an imbeeil in Brooklyn or New 'York than to refuse their prayers for him under the benign auspices of General Butler. In New Hamp shire a person named Batchelder has been arrested by the Provost-Marshal for " disloyal practices" nut specified. A writ of habeas corpus was applied for and granted. The Provost-Marshal telegraphed to Mr. Stanton to know what to do. Mr. Stanton replied that he was to plead his warrant from the War Department, and that if the civil power at tempted a release of the prisoner he was to appeal far the United States in the vicinity. The Provost-Marshal pleaded as advised, and the judge, whose name is Bell (misspelt Pell by the War Department, as if the exact name of so insignificant a person as a judge were not worth recording), yielded the point after hearing the arguments of consul. He said that it seemed to him inexpedient and useless to issue an order for an attachment which could not be en forced ; that the Government, of the United States had plainly expressed its determination to resist by force any attempt of the civil authorities to deliver the prisoner ; that he received this, not as a threat, but as the announce ment of a settled resolution,—which, with the vast armies under its command, the Government had the ability to exe cute against any force which the State (of New Hampshire) could command for the execution of the law. He therefore declined to take any further action in the case. The ques tions occur, if such Ministers and such judges as these had existed in the time of the Stuarts in England, would there have been any popular liberty in England at the present day ? And would the United States themselves have been other than a conquered dependency? And are the Ameri cans, who submit to such high-handed despotism, the worthy or the unworthy sons of English ancestors, having any right to boast of John Hampden, the pilgrim fathers, or George Washington ? Mr. Batchelder's case is bad enough ; but worse remains behind. Last Friday Mr. James R. Lackland, described as a prominent lawyer of the city of St. Louis, was arrested in his office at noon by the Provost-Marshal of that city in consequence of a speech delivered by him on the previous evening, in which he not only asserted that Secession was caused by the Northern Abolitiunists, but "that he had no faith in Mr. Chase's paper currency." He was allowed to remain at liberty for a few days on parole, in order that he might prosecute a forgery case, in which he is engaged as counsel, after which he has pledged himself to return to custody. In the same State of Missouri, Mr. Temple Orr, a judge of one of the courts, was arrested on the previous day at Jefferson City for the offence of declaring the pro • olamation of President Lincoln to liberate the slaves un wise, impolitic, and uncalled for; and because he publicly expressed doubt of the power of the Administration to carry out "lawfully" the objects of that proclamation. But a worse case than either of these remains behind. A young married lady, a native of New Orleans, 20 years of age, and slid to -be remarkably handsome, was heard singing Secession—and therefore treasonable-- songs, after a private dinner party in Washington. She was informed against by an outside listener, said to be a police agent from New York, taken into custody, and conveyed to this city, where she was locked up in the police cell of the station-house in Forty-seventh-street. A friend to whom she communicated her trouble called upon the Deputy Provost Marshal on the day after her arrival, to make in quiries, and was informed that she was a "silly Secesh woman," and would immediately be sent home to her friends in New Orleans. The zealous friend remonstrated on the harshness, if not injustice, of detaining her in a common cell, reserved for thieves, prostitutes, and disorderly charac ters, and was informed, with a significant look and sharp accent, that the lady was a spy who ought to be hanged, and that he would do well to mind his own business if he did not wish to be sent to Fort Lafayette. This was 41 days ago, and the young lady still remains at the police-station. It should be added, for a clearer comprehension of the animus which directed this proceeding, that there may have been something more than a song at the bottom of it, inas much as the lady's husband is a Secessionist, and that, like Mr. Lincoln, she has or had a brother in the Southern army. An application for a writ of habeas corpus is forthwith to be made in her behalf, unless the Government on the threat of publicity should be so far ashamed of the tyranny which it has knowingly or unknowingly countenanced as to order her release. The story seems incredible, but it is asserted, to be true by citizens of the highest character, and if the Government be unwise enough to force it before the courts on the application for a writ, the details, hitherto unmen tioned in any of the newspapers, will find their way to the public with a far more damaging effect upon the Adnainis tration.than any other imprisonment which the proclama tion of martial law has afforded. Philadelphia has filled up, by high bounty money among its German and Irish population, its quota under the draught. There will consequently be no conscription in that city. The desire continues to grow in intensity that the same result may be reached in New York by the same means; or that at events the operation of the draught may be postponed till the let of January. Among many other circumstances which have come to the knowledge of the police and the Government, and! which render the latter somewhat fearful of the consequences of a conscription, is the fact that clubs or associations of labouring or other men, too poor to pay for substitutes, and not in a position to go to the war without ruin to their business and their families, have been organized throughout the cities of New 711 E DISTRESS IN THE NORTH. M ANCHESTER, MONDAY. The Central Executive Committee met this morning a the Town Hall. The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby pre. sided. The llon. Secretary reported that £19,300 had been re ceived during the week just closed, and that the balance in the bank was £76,565 before making grants to-day. During the week letters had been received from Edinburgh con taining £2,000 (the first remittance from that city), and £l,OOO from Melbourne, making in all £10,550 15s. 11d. from that city. He also reported that there had been a gr€at difficulty in obtaining offices and warehouses for sort ing and packing the clothing. Lord Ducie had, however, placed a large and commodious warehouse in New Cannon street at their disposal till next Tuno, free of rent. He (the hon. secretary) thought it would be well to call the atten tion of persons sending clothing to special individuals, that it would in future involve a cost of carriage from Man chester. The railway companies still carried to the central committee free of charge, and also free from the c entral committee to the local relief committee, but not to special individuals. A number of contributions having been announced, the meeting broke up. MEXICO. La Patrie publishes the following, under its Latest Intelligence : " .. _ " We have received by the Mexican mail letters from Orizaba of the dato of 24th September, and from Vera Cruz to the 17th October. " The news is confirmed that General Ortega, who has succeeded Gen. Zaragoza in th 3 command of the Mexican forces, has fortified Puebla and the Comres. " At the latest dates there were still about 10,000 men at Vera Cruz. General Berthier's brigade had arrived. The Tourville and the Navarin were being turned into iron plated ships at Vera Cruz. The Normandin will return to France. The north wind, which was much counted upon to dissipate the unhealthy influences of the fever and vomito, had commenced to blow. The sanitary condition of the army had much improved." FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 17.—The market has been more buoyant, and Rente in demand at an improvement on the closing rates of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, which opened at 70f. 40c., are now at 70fr. 50c. Little doing in the Railway Share Market, and prices up to the present time show but little variation. The market beeatne heavy towards the close, and prices again receded, to leave off as follows : 4t per Cents .. 98 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 20 Kew 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1077 60 Do. end month — Bank Shares 3345 Credit F oncier 1290 Piedmontese Fives 71 10 Italian Loan - 71 55 Roman — Austrian S_ palm& Threes 53 75 . H.ome Debt .WAYS. RAIL' Orleans Cash. Account. 1047 5) .. 1045 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1150 .. 1142 50 Geneva Southern --- Western 535 .. 532 60 Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lon•bard North of Spain Saragossa 635 .. 632 50 Ditto to Barcelona POLISH MEETING. Yesterday being the eighth anniversary of the death of Stuart, a meetin g o f th e Polish His- Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, S commemorate their loss, now classed among theLtot or His torical ejda theam Dudley nationalSeods a c'l b isee s 3:t e ety n veo eel was uat f tsst rsohin that med at country. London of the president, Colonel Szyrme, the chair was occupied by the vice-president, Major SzuLczxwsx.r, who, of ter having paid a tribute of grati tude to the memory of the deceased for the services rendered by him to Poland, reviewed the most important events which have lately occurred in that country, contrasting the moral and dignified attitude of the people with the violent and insensate policy pursued by the Russian Govern ment, a policy calculated to exasperate the Poles, and drive them to commit acts hitherto alien to their feelings and their past history. Whilst deplor ing the attempts at assassination made on the persons of the Grand Duke Constantine and the Marquis Wielo polski, which he attributed to despair produced by wit nessing the constant and atrocious acts of violence perpe trated by the Russian Government, the chairman strongly reprobated the conduct of those who had, in cold blood, approved of these lamentable acts of madness. No greater delusion could have bees practised upon the British public, than to assert that the Poles, as a body, desire or believe that the cause of their country can be promoted by such means . In proof of this the speaker mentioned the recent melancholy circumstances under which Count Andrew Zamoyski, the acknowledged leader of the moderate and the larger portion of the country suffered for representing the wants and wishes of the Poles, who, so far from having recourse to any violent measures, insist on obtaining their rights by honourable and legal ways. He hoped by this declaration to remove the unfavourable impression which might have been produced on the public here by the state ment he had alluded to, and to wash off the stigma which might have attached to the Polish name—a declaration due no less to the Poles themselves than to the people of these hospitable shores, whose sympathy, as that of their de parted friend, they shall never cease to cherish gratefully. Major Gielgud, Capt. Szumlanski, and Capt. Kozmian, also spoke to tho same effect, and the meeting separated after a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT.—The purpose for which those colossal monuments were erected has always been a subject of dispute among archaeologists. Were they the tombs of kings, or observatories, or sun-dials ? Were they erected as barriers against the sands of the Desert, or were they mere granaries? Sir J. Herschel, having re marked both their orientation to the four ordinal points, and the uniform inclination of their entrances at an angle of from 26 to 27 deg., expressed a belief that they pointed towards some star in Draco which, four thousand years ago, must have been at a distance of only three or four degrees from the North Star, and therefore on the axis of the vaulted entrances. Mahmoud Bey, astronomer to the Viceroy of Egypt, now explains the matter in rather a novel manner. In his opinion, founded on personal obser vation, the pyramids were devoted to a divinity having Sirius or the dogstar for its emblem. Among the ancient Egyptians the stars were the souls of innumerable divini ties emanating from Ammon Re, the Supreme Being- Sirius represented the dog of the heavens, Sothis, who judged the dead, so that it was perfectly rational to devote the pyramids, considered as tombs, to the star Sirius. The inclination of the faces of the six pyramids of Gizeh is on an average of 52} degrees; and a plane inclined to the horizon at that angle is perpendicular to the rays of light emitted by Sirius when in the meridian. This is nearly true now, but was exactly so 3,300 years before Christ, the pre cision of the equinoxes having since caused a slight devia tion. The heavenly dog Sothis, or Anubis, or Toth, has been identified with Hermes. Small votive pyramids in the cataoomba bear his image, his symbol being Et triangle by the side of a star. Thus Mahmoud Bey's hypothesis fixes about 5,200 years from our time as the probable date of th e pyramids, a result in harmony with the calculation of Arabian authors, who give three or four centuries before the Deluge as the date of their erection. Bunsen fixes it at between 3,460 and 3,310 years before Christ, and Brugsch at 3,402. _ _ _ Importing Tea Without colour on the leaf pre vents tho Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always good (dike, Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. York and Brooklyn, all the members of which have pledged themselves to resist the draught, by force of arms if neces sary. With the secrecy that must envelope the delibera tions of such clubs, it is not easy to ascertain their numbers, their plans, or their mode of operations, but sufficient is known of their doings to cause much anxiety to the Govern ment, and to make quiet people wish that the power of the " almighty dollar" might again be tried to raise the men required, and so avoid both the danger and the scandal of an unpopular conscription. Nov. 5. There is little time before the departure of the steamer this morning to do more than briefly indicate the results of the great victory achieved yesterday at the polls by the De mocratic party, It was generally asserted for several days by both parties that there would be serious rioting on the day of election. The Democrats proclaimed that the Re publicans had planned a popular outbreak, and that the Government had so far favoured their views as to send several regiments from Maine and other ultra-Repub lican States to intimidate the people, and so create the breach of the peace, which they pretended to prevent. It was asserted, on the other side, that the Democrats had predetermined that the elections should not pass quietly over, and that the Abolitionist and Republican candidates should be mobbed, with the view not only of proving to the world the unpopularity of the party, but of compelling the Government to employ a military force. All these predic tions have been falsified by the event. The elections began and ended with an almost total absence of disturbance, and with no breach of the peace that even party malice could exaggerate into the name of a riot. Long before noon yes terday it was evident that the whole Democratic ticket was in a majority in all the wards of the city; and after the close of the polls at sunset, it was reported by the Demo crats that the majority for Seymour was at least 20,000; while the Republicans themselves admitted that it might be as many as 10,000. The lobbies and bars of all the great hotels in Broadway were crowded throughout the evening ; and at most of these establishments telegraphic despatches were hourly received from remotest parts of the State, and posted up for public perusal. By 10 o'clock the returns from the city showed that Seymour had a larger majority than his friends anticipated—amounting to nearly 30,000, while the despatches from the towns on the Hudson River, and on the shore of the Lakes, and from all the rural dis tricts that continued to arrive until 2 o'clock in the morning were of a character to justify the belief that the Republicans ; bad been as thoroughly defeated in the State es theyhad been in the city. The papers of this morning contain the re sults of the metropolitan voting as they manifested them selves from hour to hour, but those from the State are not yet made up with anything like accuracy or completeness. No one doubts, however, that Mr. Seymour stands high at the head of the poll ; and it is stated that the present Go vernor, Mr. Morgan, a Republican, who has held firmly aloof from the proceedings of his brother governors who met at Altoona, led off early in the morning by a vote for the Democratic candidate. In New York city there was some fear at one time that- Mr. Benjamin Wood's seat was in danger, inasmuch as he was opposed by a member of his own party, but the fear speedily subsided. General Wall bridge, his opponent, though a quasi-Democrat, was a thick-and-thin supporter of the Government, and approves its suspension of the right of habeas corpus, while Mr. Wood had denounced its acts, had disapproved its conduct of the war, and months ago had had the courage to print and publish a speech appealing to reason and common sense for the settlement of the dispute between the North and the South, for which a motion was made and lost to expel him from Congress as a traitor. The people yester day pronounced between the two, and gave Mr. Wood a majority of no less than 3,289. When it is borne in mind that not a single Republican was elected in this city it will be perceived that a strong and steady reaction has set in against the Government ; and when it is also considered that the State of New York, which now gives its vote to Mr. Seymour and his ticket, gave, two years ago, its vote to Mr. Lincoln and the party now in power—a still more significant proof will be apparent that the Ultra-Abolitionists and Exterminators are out of favour with the people, and that reason h a s at last a chance of being heard above the din and turmoil of this miserable war. Gen. Wadsworth, in one of his elec-. tioneering speeches, spokeof the admonition which it might be his duty, if elected, to administer to the President. The word was not well chosen. But admonition was needed-- and it has come from a quarter that Gen. Wadsworth did not anticipate. The triumph of Mr. Seymour is an admo nition stronger than words could convey. It marks a ne w era in the course of the revolution (for revolution as well as war is running its course in the land), and cannot fail, if properly taken to heart by the President, to bring him back to the constitution, which unwise advisers have persuade(' him to set at naught. The news from the army of the Potomac, which has el cited but little attention for the last few days, will now re aurae its interest if not its importance. The indications at present are that the Confederate general is retiring upon Gordonsville, and that .111‘Clellan will advance to Winches • ter, and find it unoccupied. In this case the great battle, which some of the journals predict as certain to occur within a few days, is not likely. The prevalent impression is that the Army of the Potomac has fought its last battle for this year, and that it will speedily be sheltered in ito winter quarters. ZHE AMERICAN BLO CKA PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3.—The schooner Emma Content!' was captured on Oct. 11, while trying to enter Bull's Balt channel. She was run ashore when escape was impracti. cable. She was got off, and arrived here. NEW YORK, Nov. s.—On the 24th ultimo the United States bail Restless captured the British steamer Scotia, which vessel was discovered at daylight standing t o wards Bull's Bay. The crew of the Scotia w ere in s state of intoxication when captured. The boats of the United States steamer Flag, on the 27th ult., captured the British steamer Anglia, about four miles ir °l3l the entrance of Bull's Bay. On th e 14th u lt. the Unite d States steamer Memphis c a pt ure d th e B r i t i s h steams` Ouachita, from Bermuda, ostensibly for Havanneb. she . endeavoured to escape, and th rew over b oar d mos t of he' cargo of arms and ammunition. The character of l le c r t cargo, and the fact that she was f ar ou t o f h er cou rse, a ll was doubtless making for Charleston, induced the ° Ili : mander of the Memphis to send her in for adjudicatia'' The United States steamer Flambeau, off Charleston , r°ll the English steamer Minho on sh ore near F or t Moultrie .. the 20th ult., while she was endeavouring to rat the blockade. Her cargo was floating about loose, an d ' 5 l will be a total wreck. The brig Robert Bruce, Mu ir ' Bristol, England, arrived here on Saturday, in charge'' prize crew. She was captured on the 2,'d u lt., off S hill, () 0 Inlet, North Carolina, while attempti ng t o r un the block s % there, with a cargo of medicines and woollen g oods. S il ran the blockade at Wilmington last D e c em ber, with ao lo and taking out cotton. She was from Hull for Halifax On the 23d ult the schooner Tuilla, Loganson, with a cart of salt, from Nassau, got ashore near St. Helena Isla n d ' while attempting to run the blockade. Captain Logana ° !' finding it impossible to get the v e ss e l off, s e t fire to Ile" and with two men, comprising his crew, attempted to escap e in a small boat, but all three of them were captured /41 Federal pickets. EXTRAORDINARY _ROBBERY. A robbery has been committed at the residence of g ti rl Wadham Locke (one of the magistrates of Wilts), S eeli t -. In the evening a loud crash was heard, and on the int °. .s eti of the house going out to see what was the matter it ttr - g ascertained that the noise had been caused b the stn as , b i s ili i of some glass in the conservatory. On a y search ve i - o i made it was found that the drawer of a room adj eil :„ . the conservatory had been robbed of its contents, w ; l ° ,4 were two £5 notes, one £lO note, and t We t bs sovereigns—in all £32. It was also observed that ad door of the room was locked, an d th a t the viin d° :, st% been left open. One of the f ema l e serva nts, vl i a rt woman named Louisa Newman,was missing, but to a ! co il time she made her appearance, and on being T t : 6 : 1 0 0! about the matter, she made the extraordinarY c that she had met a young man with whom sh O w fl as d quainted, that he had presented a pistol at her hea d a- anti' sisted on her telling him where some of the valuain e sot cies belonging to her mistress were, that she had do n° ,sit and that he had then robbed the house. Informationiot at once given to the police, but Mr. Super iate l Wolfe from the very first disbelieved the story young woman, and hinted his suspicions to Mr. l' eoc e who, however, expressed himself satisfied of the inn ° id , of his servant. The police t h e reu p o n made every inri,anisg with a view to trace the alleged thief, but, so far frolnT tio o so, Mr. Superintendent Wolfe was more firmly colavir ie Aa tion the thief was the se rvant g irl, and on his reconn en ",: n odt she was given into cu stod y . Her person was then extonory• and it was found that she had recently received sonleieeve seve re cuts, and it is surmised that i n a ttempting to dee the room in which she committed the robbery she et 2 tor it, voured to escape by a porti on o f th e roo f o f the °ouse l* " ot, and that while so d o i ng s h e slipped through thc,,,,gnoioe thereby severely injuring herself, and also making , which disturbed the inmates. The prisoner was tak e ;x3'.; fore a magistrate on the charge of robbing her maste r ° ‘,,er; in money, and, some merely formal evidenc e havingoior., given, she was remanded to the Melksham p etty ses Ateci The some evenin the risoner admitted th at she earn n, the robbery, and stated that she had hid the InnneJ g p certain place in the shrubbery, adjoining the hoar_• of 01 6 police accordingly searched, an d found the whniu... T he money secreted in the spot indicated by th e prissn o e.L e thr ee prisoner had o n ly b een i n the service of M rs. L witte d ' cora weeks and three days when the robbe r y was • tea the At the close of the evidence the magistr ates cow prisoner prisoner for trial. ta THE VACANT ALDERMANIC GOWN.—A et, of the friends of Mr. Howard, of Leadenhall-stre,„v boa held yesterday at the London Tavern, signing a requisition for that g entleman to all ff ef o we wit_h ow th a l ra v a w sif t t! be put in nomination as a candidate for the gown man for Langbourn ward. The meeting wasassuwa to tha t attended, and a unan imous resolution was p t bet' r) 36 o rth. to Mr. Hovrarcra public and prtv ate w testimony -effect, the . chairman and other gentlemen. 'pres en I MI an IV ha