The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

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He has re -.,.. - A.-, .- 44 4 '4. al, 4. , ,;• 4. —...:.;, ' g o 1: - -r •‘... % , 4P " General Burnside hag visited Washington and N , turned to the army , pim•mn.... .._______ ................... .N.1.nm...,, m•nw ...... ---- the L a ke s, COMMU .044 \l ari , ,01.147. Bart, ved in ITOTELS, A D tyn, incept malty to his ertain 000, a which , re ncli rticles ied as Lis son PRICE. ere are Is, and o ther le and lnd ol3l ,rho g tw o on and estator south °natty, r wi th Hy de be W ill ntere ° t makes 0 a kW 3ts the parts, le re• aroline atnont on the Q. The Pivers of 11 bears 'herebY Da nod ,f orDa. drain itecturo sole o Rained featu re water? "otata it) hag t" y prize , forni nnot Ue ay f len ° (31 :rers 0 polY 3lv. h ough ver tl3° Sciene6 g per 36 ~ al og t6 -.13e31/'sf .l e y, 0 ,0 013 26 t° to 6° ' OA° i at 341 p s to 246 to 41 : 40 6 to p,Or! B r t grl'ill , to 550 ;e t°, 9 to .or. lld c D/i t' Lsolea- 8. 0 to 27 0 6 to 1 0 to 0 to to 1;,„ d le)" , - c• s Od t 1 oo' AATITSEMEN TS. T ---- 1-1 E ;C• 10. C. n g, 164 , vor , 30" 1 jluJ, Jo 0 9 ttag e' ) W )3e' Jifer" [O llll. Jo hn roa (1 I ELL' 500 01 LL N , of P 1., I_N'S li 0T E L S PREAD 'AND -EAGLE TAVERN,: 81, GPACECHURCH-STREET,: Comfort, ootnbined with LONDON. haraes, will be found at this Establishment,RlVP. TE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sittin2- Room, 3s. per Day. .ts,xl Rooms, Is. 6d. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attslndance. No INCREASE or r:fiARGEs. ......... INDIA AND COLONIES. " PASS - E ,iNtiGciE, E b Erik i; or Disembarking .'arge s at superior lceommodation and moderate CIIAPLINS eIAPF.NDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, A tr Aclioi'Aing the Terrace Pier. in front extending- to the River. • RTITJRY HALL. D - F SrLITTIONS from VERDI'S " SIMON BEN MACFARREN'S CANTATA " MAY '-'`JURE'S MUSI C of "NTAcBETIT." and Mr. 1,111;r OILREIIT'S NEW OPE RETTA, " A NIGIIT (11/ 'Y AND."p. Conducted by Mr. JONGHMA NS. alld and Cho u PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Sig, Drs RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY. .. th, Tirol], Green, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. e Comic by UNSWORTIFI (the Original Stump Orator, leteit,.., ANY 07 Rob AN"), in conjunction with Eugene, nd e a /I n d Little B, forming the greatest Comic Quartet 3131., Also, the followipLr Comic FfirolriteN :—Nris s Georgina I„it.,llou, Messrs. E. Marshall, llolbngsworth. and Arthur V. 41,12414, the surprising, PeTformance of " THE ETOILE 0 X F 0 R D, lie.a r ,„ 6 ' (-') XFOR D S T R alas ~, .- -,en rrillee of T r bsworth (the orizlnal of "Or any other $'42R,e.,,;--f-tne Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parke:L— A/Vs - li' "le g - re. t Burlesque Prima I)onna.—Arena and lionicekthe Nealolitan Minstrels.---W. Randall and A. B. b'lrnvorfh,Mr T. Maelagan's Entertainment.—Dre_wn i lE : l , 4 l et 2 ll e 4t ei t - : ;ti l l l axOr c s t d h il ' i high-class ( X ' : s i 7ca P l si attractions, Seulby H e? e n n s r is .— r ti o n i a from Verdi's Nabuco"" and "11 ( orsa ,„ h attid ch r , u Don Sebastien," Auber's "La Cireassfenne, 4'ownic."eB, Glees. 'Duets, Arc., dre., by Miss Russell,lliss wit h v ). ; Messrs. Bernardi Greene, nuish, and Albert, 'lll Band Ind Chorus. ' i Conductor Mr. F. J ong h mans. 1084:411.1:1188.nn, rid. ; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, ..IL'IIiNTIAM'S GRAND CONCERT HALL, Edgware-road, W., WILL OPEN, DECEMBER 2 3 . Z'B GRAND GRAND TNAUGWRAL CONCERT, to eommemo -- the o'nenin,cr of this new and s pl en di d Hall. takes place t r ESDAY next, December 23, at Seven o'clock. GREAT and SPECIAL:'ATTRACTIONS. ONS I3 C . es on Opening Night—Body of the hall, balcony, This Hall will be found one of the largest, most corn blodious, and most p•crzeou,ly - decorated in London ; and the eng.agvinents Comprise the first Sentimental, Comic, and In- Btrumental Talent of the day. Musical Directo r an d Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. is, anent prices —Body of the hall, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, OPENING NIGHT, Dec. 23. ARGYLL ROC MS. Great Windmill-street, 0 ., Daym ark et, —G R AND CASINO FRANCA IS E. _ , r , every Evenimr for Promenade and Dancing, with the v„eurated Rand of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal 'G'll4:bet-a-Piston, M. Bour.com.—The new Imperial Qua ,°, Valse Cotillion and L. Mosca's Peep O'Day Valse will PittYed nightly. ' li'4„,b,e,w Conversation S a l on h as been added to the above Ati,5,..........._5al ort "'Oirnent for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— 11 is.—Manager, M. Grenet. ------_______ iy AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT 'trim GARDEN. COVENT end the Il lanagernent of 14riss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Ttfic , , Ilarrison, Sole Lessees. Ittfi;,aVENTNII Wallace's new Opera of LOVE'S leg t , , rl - 1 : *4 - i ss r (mi.,. Prne, and Mdme. Laura Baxter; n, Ns G e ' ' " Weiss,ll. Corri, A. Cooke, -.61 Ty , . tr orP,e Perren, W. TT. arrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at F. .11,A TRF-RO 't Al HAY MARKET. T RI ' " 'Lessee Mr. .7 R. Btudrstone. Fans„ . at 7. DUCK HUNTING-. Messrs. W. Aft er -LlOWe, Compton, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss C. Hill. whl C h at a quarter to 8, will be performed '(3o7th time) 6t oICIP COUSSI. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck von Lord Dundrear7 Mr. Sothern. /P a. ,?,,Weci by A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. ance) , Mr. Rogers, and Miss Harfleur (her 6th appear- To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. N Rl:t TFATREO VAL, ADELPHI.— Pem.„-°1" Pmnri.tor and Manager, anager, Mr. B. Webster. , F„; THE GREEN BUSHES. Messrs. J. Vor,", P. Bedford Billim:rion, Sefton, Stephenson, Eburne, ly„,-`r, Ili tchenson, Aldridge; Miss Avonfa Jones, Miss ‘,...`%if.2far Mrs. lliiiingfon, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Mrs. Stoker. e„ -to co ncude with A TICK ET OF LEAVE Messrs. J. L. o ole, P. Bedford, Stephenson, and Mrs. Billing - ton. Commence at 7. 11.4ovAL LYCEUM THRATRE. ,oir• Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 810th Night of the ^ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." P,VENING. the new Comedietta, IT MUST BE 'TWA S IN THE PAPERS. Walter Lacy, J. and °Bowed by ; Mrs. Weston, Miss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. PEEP 'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deeltsh. a tci l,, Walter Lacy, Addsson, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, Npento'notlnund Palcoriet ; Mrs. D. P. 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The protes -1,„illt -4 ,: i ° l ' of the author, combined with his extensive titi',' fie -f„"„lnedical referee in' in the treatment of nervous de 'N'h?„l.kuja;"3". accounts for the immense circulation which 4 )'143'1.;•,„5!)(1 a bly - written medical treatise has obtained." l ittC t i eu .. " ( 'si Ararch 21 1856. IY/11,?i, lv qr1: . 'i l ' ha -s con' ;Treat b^on by publishing . , this thre,. a lit oc i, n which is e d r e e 'bed the s - ource o' those diseases Th'''d a tz ,''',' decline in s y c o r i l ith or more frequently prema • Ittt‘Alitl l ;„ --- riallY Telezrapfi, March 27, P 5 6. ~; (1 ) „ u ,... ot this Medical Treatise may be I?A.lLlT_Conce ttomove, Ti ll, either by letter or personally, at his residence 141,ast 'm by ';', l lleaey and harmless nature of the remed t i . ,'ter,;'tripi 't„r• f`iirtiq having been demonstrated by he I," 4 llppa 8 or n . BUCcegs riiring - a practice of 25 years, nervous '',- t.,...-' skill ciass have a perfect truarantee that the 411""t of t7, Tl ; l ^-xperienee will be made available in the ,5, ,, ,, e , 1 14) 0 1,,., e r , ases. -l tallo W 1 -,!,lin'hldes with numerous varied and interestimr l' -- de P " ''' 8 added . the Author's receipt of the above T) , Thlt r ''venti 14 ) 7 1, tt r Theci . an ve Lotion. -4 1,/t 4° ' V1. " ,-, dby J. Allen Londonlane, Pater ft4ii'r-, --'', :la, Cornhill, ; vginat ry. and all Booksellers STANFORD S. SMITH, Seerttary. lopr 0Y AL NATION A L L IFE-BOAT INSTITUTION AA, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—H - er Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRE SIDENT—Vice-Admiral hia Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., C l3 AiumAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. Drr t l TT - CnA/umAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning- of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, During the same period the Lifeboats of the institution hare heen instrumental in manning tne Crews of the follow ing Vessels t Barque Vermont of Halifax U.S.•• 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 Brig Flying Fi s h, of Whitby 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Ly me R eg i s .. 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven Schooner Admiral Hood, o f Rochester •• 9 Schooner Stisan and I sa b e ll a, o f D undee .. 6 .. Schooner Rose, of Lyn n .... 3 Brig Prodrorna, of St oc kt on .• 11 Brig Eliza ; of Middl es b orough Brigantine Freia, of rt bleberg . • .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fre rikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields ••• .. 7 Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seah a r n Brigantine Nugget, of 131deford • Schooner Prospect, of Berwick Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Inverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. .. • • .. Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. Smack John 80, of Yarmouth Schooner Catherine, of Nettrry ...• •• Barque Niagara, of Shields .• • • A Barge of T e ign mou th •• •• •• Brig George and James, of L o nd o n • • Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• Coble H •• onour, of Cullercoats • • •• Schooner Eliza, of North Shields Barque Oberon, of Liverpool • • Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. 5 .. 6 .. 1 .. 6 .. 3 .. i .. 7 .. 15 - 0 ~ 2 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole . Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge Brig Ann, of Blyth • 8 Spanish Barque Primer* de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the Crew) •• 1 Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schoener P;ruid, of Aberystwyth .. •• •• .. 5 Sratooner 'lnnen, of renzance (saved vessel and • • • 4 Brig Anne, o ' r Plymouth (saved • vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and Crew) • • .. •• •• •• •• 6 Smack MerriOn Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved yes and crew) • ' • • • • • • 3 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boats of Whltburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn. of Portmadoo .. 8 Flat Cymraes, of fleaumaris . 2 Schooner William, of Morecambe .. 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. .. 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven •• 8 Schooner William, of Liverpool .. • • .. 5 Lugger Nimrod, of CastletoWn 3 Brig Providence, of Shields .. .. 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle •• 8 Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetw oo d .. 4 Barque Guyana, of Glasgow• • •• I ° Brig Boman Empress, of Shields .. „ .. 10 g Schooner SchoonerlrrihhhiercipogoonoooucpStinnheaeaeentrpnrr Danube, lOHE S PVbr Perseverance, l e, : i vta d ooee d ab o f 1.1; i r jau e ° ,Bt n d li eoihaute u e i, fen ' soon V o , eft osot f o :inirfn u G i. isea g a a hcrd a n i ai ageort,eb,r;:: , ax of ld velerni.a. • .. 2 .. 8 t h r r a o e t r u e e i g s : 5 6 " .• •• 4 . . 17 Brig St. Michel, of Mayans 6 .. Schooner EpiMachtts, of Amsterdam ••• 8 4 5 Barque Ortild, of Su n d er l and •• .. 9 Schooner hellon s , o f Red Bay.. •• • • Brig Pioneer, of Carnarv on Schooner PrineeSll Alice, of Ipswich Brig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 Brig Sisters, of Vl' hitby .. • • •• 9 Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm . •• 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields :•. •• • 10 Brig Trial of Poole .. .. • . 7 Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. .. • • 3 Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (save • d vessel and crew) . Barque Frederick, of Dublin •• . • . 1 Barge Peace, of Lond on Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. .• .. 1110 Pilot cutter Whim .. •• of Lowestoft .. .. 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen . • • •• 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. Brig Lively, of Clay, Norf o lk .. Schooner Rook, of Liverpool • • •• Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth . • Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. •• Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. Brig Content, of Sunderland Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. Sloop William, of Liverpool Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth .. 3 Portuguese Barque Cruz V. 14 Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, US... .. 18 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. 4 •• •• .. 6 .. 5 .. 3 .. 5 .. 6 .. .. 4 .. .. 5 .. ..134 Total .. 762 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution hau voted £2,158 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has also granted rewards amounting to £572 for saving 562 hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means. mak ing a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years and a half. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,690 for which services 82 Gold Medals, 713 Silver Medals, and .£16,000 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-cart iages, and Boat-houses. The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorousefforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at 'he present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions 'he Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man agement, tor the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions _ __________ . £ s. d ller Majesty the Queen annual 50 C 0 A Lady at i eith,ier W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R. A. .. annual 1 1 0 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. .. don. 25 0 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 3 0 0 Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0 Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0 Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of Salford.. •• •• •• •• • 100 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. .• .. • 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. •• •• •• •• don. 15 15 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. .. annual 5 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0 Trench, Lady Helena .. .. • • .. don. 30 0 0 Donations and Annual Suhscriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 70, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. 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It requires but the funds in orde r t o have 00 beds available for the reception of these the most Wretched of our fellow-creatures. Mcreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Hoard feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to Admit and relieve the distressing Cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masierman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Co u tt s and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; B arc l a y and co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Earned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. CONVICI LIFE AND LIVING A 7 PORI - PORTLAND, Dec. 13. Transportation versus Ticket-of-leave, or; in plain terms, What are we to do with our convicts ? is a question which is almost as foreibly impressed upon the visitors to the stu pendous works at Portland as upon any of the suburban dwellers in London who creep timidly home after dark for fear of garotters. We are not now about to enter upon the old and much-vexed question of the value of convict labour as compared with free, though it is one which at Portland is, and alw aye must be, acrimoniously debated by the parti sans on either aide. Both, as generally happens in these Gases, are a little in the wrong. Sir Joshua Jebb, who finds his intractable proteges kept out of mischief by the nearest approach to hard work they can be got to do, na turally supports it and over -estimates its money value in consideration of its use in carr)ing out his " system ;" con tractors, on the other.hand, who have erected a plant equal to the consumption of double the materials the convicts can be got to supply, and who find themselves entirely idle on wet days when the carefully nursed convicts are not al lowed to work at all, are apt to ignore its value alto gether. The truth lies between the two extremes. The whole dispute, however, is entirely beside the real question at issue. It is not what is the kind of labour which con victs have to do, but how much real 'labour is exacted from them. It is, has our present system of penal servitude any real terrors for the lawless and despe rate ? Or, ott the other hand, is it such in its care ful treatment, high feeding, and light work as almost to induce ticket-of -leave men, like sailors from a ship after a long cruise, to return with perfect indifference to its discipline when they have had their run of liberty ashore P At no place in the kingdom can these questions be better or more practically answered than by a visit :to Portland. From the lax discipline which it is rumoured among prison authorities prevails in some of our great convict establishments in this kingdom, it would not be fair to take them as samples. At Portland, however, the discipline Is really perfect, compared with others ; there is a large establishment of convicts, there are the public works in which they are supposed to labour hard; and whether the whole system is good or bad, there, at least it is in its best working order. There are always from 1,400 to 1,600 convicts at Port land, mostly working in gangs by themselves, but now and then in close proximity to groups of free labourers. You know at once when you are coming upon the ground mostly worked by the former; on all the steep headlands and high commanding bluffs which are being scarped into perpendi cular walls for the fort of this Channel Gibraltar stalk the tall figures of the warders all around, There is nothing of the listless routine of sentry duty about these men. They carry their rifles ready, and seem all eyes and ears as they scan the ground beneath them, like eager sportsmen look ing for a shot. Passing through two or three lines of such vigilant "look-outs" is rather impressing, and prepares the visitor to expect such scenes of labour and enforced toil among the convicts as would induce them to run some risk to escape. Nothing of the sort is, however, to be seen as you turn into the Old St. Paul's quarries, where some of the blocks rejected by Sir Christopher Wren are still upon the ground. Here, amid a number of old and rush cranes, on the hills overlooking the sea, a large body of the convicts are at work in gangs of 24 or 30, each gang having its own warder, who, by the way, has 15 hours' work to the convicts' 9 or 10. The prisoners require no pointing out, their dress, their closely shaven aspect, their bard, firm, ruddy, healthy look, like pugilists in con dition for a fight, and, above all, their slow, lazy style of working, or rather moving, which contrasts so strangely with the busy energy and speed of the free workmen near at hand, all show them at a glance to be "penal servitudes" at " hard labour." Here are men of every grade of infamy and crime, men who were once clerks, merchants, and even commissioned officers, down to poachers, burglars, mur derers, and that worst and most inveterate of all ruffians, who has been inured to every form of punishment known to the law short of hanging—the true London criminal. Some few are employed in platelaying, some in blacksmiths' shops, some at masons' or bricklayers' work upon the great forti • q fi u ca a t r i r o i n es s . o T f o th n e ea V rl e y rn a e ll , , but the however, min b n a oma u t t l e k are r how kept in employed,hte the same remark applies as to light and slothful labours, and nearly all are alike in their vicious and forbidding as pects—their low, narrow, retreating foreheads, keen, rest less eyes, and vindictive animal features. This is not the mere effect of prejudice en seeing them as convicts. The type of the criminal head and face is well known in Portland and its neighbourhood. They may be recognised as a negro would be recognised in Boston. Of all the convicts in Port land now there are not 5 per cent, whom anyman judging by their looks alone would ever think of trusting in a position requiring the exertion of sense or the forbearance of honesty. Some few among the number in these quarries work in heavy chains, in most quaint dresses of gray and yellow, and gray and black. The former are those who ha re tried to break away, the latter are ruffians who have used, or from their threats are known to intend, violence to the warders. Both, however, clank about with a defiant swag ger, as if their chains were honourable distinctions of their strength and courage, in which light there is but too much reason to believe they are also regarded by many of their fellow-prisoners. In these quarries the men work at quarrying and dressing blocks of stone in winter about eight and a half hours a day, in summer nine hours, and sometimes a little over. The work, indeed, would be hard labour if fairly done, and there are some few, but very few, who really do work well and as if labour was a relief to them. But the great majority take matters very easily indeed, as may be judged when five convicts kept at their work only quarry about as much stone in a day as two free labourers working for their hire. It is not suggestive of hard work to see a fellow put down a heavy hammer that he ought to be wielding lustily and stop to swing his arms and clap his hands to keep himself warm. When this is the "hard labour" we can see at once why convicts do not dread it. When we come to know how they are nurtured and lodged in the prison in order that their strength may be kept up to the req u i re d s t an d ar d f or thi s i magi nary hard labour which they are supposed to perform, we get a real light thrown upon the indifference with which penal servitude in this country is regarded, and gain a clue to the reason why it is that so large a proportion of ticket-of leave men are, to say the least, not unwilling to return to the so-called " penal servitude," Perhaps, while the visitor is regarding this mockery of work it may begin to rain ; at once the mimic toil ceases and the con victs are marched off in gangs to sheds erected for the pur pose, where they are carefully sheltered from the weather and can look out with complacency upon the free labourer, who, having himself and his family to keep, must stay and bear whatever weather Heaven sends, wet or dry, hot or cold. The contrast between the condition of the two, how ever, by no means ends here. The comforts that are denied to misery, though preferred to crime, have been an old theme of invective ever since the new convict "system" came into operation. At no part of England, however, is the superior condition of the convict, as compared with that of the honest labourer, brought side by side into such in s thetartl worksingc contrasts hsttse Verne, h as at Portland. free labourer,l Vhenl2 whoo' c has lockco d m on e e s slneoen re sitting downquarrying t h t a o n h a i n s y m two o c f o convicts that and es e, may b some times with a bit of dried fish or a tin pot of coffee, the latter 11, and g generally oes t 0 his The cell convict wash a s b l e, comb his hair, aves o wff or k in half-past fact make a little toilet, befo re he sits down to his very e a h m a p m l e be d r i s n n an e r d . a v T e h n e n ss, prison w is well llig w i i l d te e and nd and N,e n a t 1 1 l l a t t e h d e , yet kept comfortably warm, and, above all, so scrupulously clean that it is a comfort to look at it. While the " hard labour " men are making their toilets their dinners are carefully got ready, weighed out, ani served smoking hot in bright clean tins, and at 12 o'clock each man comes for ward with his gang, and receives every one his separate allowance. Their dinner three days a week is as follows : One pint of soup properly seasoned, thickened with barley, rice, carrots, and onions, and equal in nutriment to any ever placed on a gentleman's table; 5i ounces of cooked meat, free of bone ; 11b. of potatoes, and 10 ounces of rich suet pudding. On three days a week the pudding is re placed with 6 ounces of bread, and on Sundays the meat is increased to 6 ounces. With this little dinner in his tin every man retires to his comfortable cell, where he is allowed an hour to consume it at his leisure,—not that the time is always so spent ; many have, or affect to have, suspicion as to the weights or quantities they have got, and these fellows, some of whom make a point of doing it for the sake of giving trouble, have to be accompanied to the kitchen by the warders, where according to the rules of the prison, they are entitled to have everything reweighed and measured before their eyes. All, however, do not dine in their cells— some are portioned out in larger rooms in cosy little messes of eight or ten. These are mostly men in the third or fourth stage—that is, men who have completed two-thirds or three-fourths of the time—not of the sentence—nobody completes that—but the time at which they are entitled to claim their ticket of leave. They have extra comforts and privileges beyond dining in messes. In addition to the dinner we have mentioned the men in the third stage re ceive on Sundays 2 oz. cheese, 307.. bread, and half a pint of beer after it ; while the men in the fourth stage receive the same as to bread and cheese and beer as the third, with the addition of a treacle pudding after dinner on Thursdays baked mutton, in lieu of beef, on T hursdays and Fri days, and baked beef instead of boiled on Sun days and Mondays ! Here, then, we begin by giving our convicts a daily dinner such as for nutriment, quality, and quantity few labouring m en can afford on Sun days, and we gradually raise the scale of luxuries till they dine at last on soup, baked beef, bread and cheese and beer, and pudding. Yet the public, who don't know these things, wonder why penal servitude is not dreaded, and why, above all others, ticket-Of-leave men who have und ergone this .. 6 .. 5 punishment should, after their spell of liberty in the slums of great cities, show such an unaccountable desire to return to it again. To compare this high feeding with the mise rable dole which keeps life in our paupers would be absurd, and equally so would be a comparison with the poor diet for which the honest labourer toils so hard. Their case, as a comparative one, is quite out of the question, but will the rations given out to our soldiers and sailors show as varied or as nutritive a diet as is here given to our convicts at Portland and elsewhere ? It is of no use asking questions of the directors of prisons as to this high feeding. All inquiries are answered by its being part of the system. This meets the objector everywhere, and is considered a complete answer to everything. It is part of the system to believe that the men really work hard, another part being to feed them high lest they should lose muscle. Perhaps, as the muscle among the convicts is pretty well concealed by flesh, it may require looking after. But we have not done with the routine of life at Portland. After dinner the men who have put down their names to see the Governor see him in turn. They mostly come to ask permission to write special letters, a convict being supposed to write and receive letters once in three months; but the rule is purely nominal and not enforced, though they have to ask permission for extra correspondence. Some come to ask to be changed to the gardeners' class, some to the rig gers and platelayers', some to have their cells changed for better, and others to be allowed to work in gangs where their "cousins" are at work. All here and in other pri sons seem to think they arc entitled to make any request which will tend to their greater convenience; in which they are right, for in 19 cases out of 20 their little whims are granted, it being another and most important part of " the system" to keep the men as comfortable as possible. The men then parade in the courtyard at 1, while the Go vernor hears complaints against the mild discipline of the prison, such as fighting or not working. He then visits the "separate cells," where the hardened or disorderly, who have refused to come up to the lowest of low standards of motion which pass on the works as " labour," are confined on " 11b. of bread and a sufficiency of water" a day. These inveterate idlers are seldom sentenced mere than three or four days of " separation," which they bear very well, lying on their backs all day, though they dislike the diet to an extent that makes even them not sorry when their time for work is due, All confinement in separate cells takes off from 14 to 28 days of the time at which they can claim tickets of leave. The Governor has also the power of sen tencing to half diet for 10 days, or even the dark cell for a short time if necessary, but it is not often done. At one o'clock the men are again paraded and roughly examined to see that they have not concealed their food to barter it for tobacco, &c., with the free labourers, which in spite of all search it is impossible to prevent their doing daily, and this over they again march out to the quarries. Here, in sight of the free labourers who have dined on bread and cheese, and have perhaps done what would for a convict be half a day's work while the latter were at dinner or washing, the prisoners begin quarrying again, neither ashamed nor encouraged by what they have seen the others do and doing. It is almost a farce to call their labour " hard labour." It seems little more than an excuse for keeping the men out of doors for a certain time and giving them just enough exercise to keep them in good health, without which, with their good living, they would be extemely liable to sicken. Almost the best proof of its being no toil is that the men themselves like the "outing." They work in gangs, talk, laugh, and jest, and arrange among themselves their little "plants" for getting tobacco and other little luxuries forbidden by the prison rule from the free labourers, which, as we shall see, they are generally successful. In this manner they while away the time easily and lightly enough—in winter till four o'clock, in summer till half-past five, when they aro again marched back to prison, and, having attended evening prayers in chapel, go to supper in the cells. For supper one pint of gruel and 9 oz. of bread to the recent comers, but those in the third and fourth stage have the privilege of changing their gruel for the same quantity of tea, "if preferred." These latter have also the further indulgence of being allowed to sit up and read in their cells till 9, the others going to bed and having their lights out by eight o'clock. All the men rise at five in summer, and half-past five in winter, and, after washing and sweeping out their cells, get their break fasts served to them like their dinner. Their breakfast on Sunday and three days a week is a pint of tea and 12 ounces of bread ; on the other three days, a pint of cocoa and the same quantity of bread ; and in this meal only is there no difference made, men in all stages of their captivity faring alike. After breakfast there is chapel, and at 7 in atcnincr and hi:di-pas c in-rater there is the usual muster and walk to the quarries, when there is the usual hard labour we have described till half-past ii, when they return to wait for dinner as before. When we add that every pri • sonar has half a day's schooling every week, and that on this half day he takes a bath and has his hair cut; that on Saturday afternoon all work ends at 4.30 ; that on Sundays after service the prisoners may walk about the yard, or sit in their cells and road, we have told all the terrors of penal servitude and hard labour on the public works. When this is the system what right have the public to be surprised at its natural results in the indifference of ticket of leave men to recommitment? It is said here, and on good authority, though we cannot ourselves vouch for its truth, that men let out on tickets of leave have been known, after a short period of absence, to return to the prison and ask for re admission on their old comfortable footing. This, as we have said, may or may not be true, but it is beyond all question, and admitted on all sides, that the light work, good feeding, and careful treatment of convicts under the system of penal servitude, make short sentences almost the reverse of a terror to criminals, and that the treatment of these gentlemen workmen, as the free labourers call them, has a most mischievous and demoralising effect on the po pulation in the nei g hb ourhood of these prisons. It isim possible for the f ree l a b ourer, working ve ry hard for very little, not to dra w bitt er contrasts between his own condi tion and the c onv i c t' s, when he finds the latter can come to him and b ar t er meat for tobacco. As we h ave said, the co nv i c t s somehow or other man age to get money f rom their friends, an d this in spite of every che c k w hi c h the really admirable v i gi l ance o f th e Portland officials can devise to stop it. The money comes, either in c o i ns or notes or stamps, in cov ers of bibles, in the backs of photographic miniatures, under the wax of appa rently clumsily sea l e d letters, and w ith shilling postage stamps, under the common penny ones, which are carefully fastened over them, so that the latter, which are of course worth money, remain unobliterated. By these and ten thousand other stratagems, which no acuteness can detect, the convicts manage to receive money, and when once they have got it all the vigilance in the world cannot prevent their getting what they want in return for it. They arrange with the free labourer with whom they have covertly made friends to leave money, a note, or stamps under such a stone, which ho takes in duo time, keeping half the money or what money the s t amps may fetch for himself and returning the rest in tobacco or writing materials. Once a means of getting letters to and from the prison is arranged, there is always a means of getting money, and when money comes into the field the hard-worked warders have been found neither more nor less immaculate than other men similarly needy and similarly tempted. Their failures of duty have, however, been few, and it is said, no doubt with truth, that the free labourers, as risking nothing by detection, are the main go-betweens of the convicts. It is difficult, how ever, for mere outsiders to understani the keen zest which these contraband ventures give to prison life. What with "plants" of letters and "plants" of tobacco, prison news of who's in " separate" or who's suspected of " rounding" on such a gang, there is no ennui or want of interesting subjects to talk about while at " hard labour." When Mr. Baron Bramwell was the other day sentencing the garotters at the Central Criminal Court he said, " You may find captivity irksome, and you will certainly be deprived of tobacco and stimulants." Some who heard it were almost inclined to smile at such a curious remark in a sentence of penal servitude ; but there was a hidden bitterness in the words which showed that the learned Baron knew well the truth of what he was saying, and that his sentence meant little more than compulsory residence in ono place and ab stinence from spirits and tobacco. Can any one who sees what the life of the convicts is at Portland honestly say that if it does not mean more than this, the system is really a determent to evil doers ? Of all the officials engaged in administering our convict discipline, not on e , if proper in quiry is made, will be found to say it does --except, perhaps, Sir Joshua Jebb. What its effects are upon the poor people in the neighbourhood of the prisons we have already said. They may dislike the crime, but they are candid enough in env ying the lot of the criminals; and when they simply state what their own hard work and poor fare is, who can blame them ?— limes. Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. llorniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always good alike. SUM in packets by 2,280 agents. FEARRFUL OCCURRENCE AT A SUGAR REFINERY. falling i n t o a c i stern of —Yesterday morning, a shockin g and fatal accident oc curred to a man named Robt. Woodey, age d 54 years, a in making g someha, on wh repairs olost lt ' n h eahisr s ltifee refinery that the d eceased was engaged m l of Messrs. Martineau and Co., of Christian-terrace, St. Geor ge's-in -the-East, and while walking along a plank, he slipped and fell into the boiling liquid. The screams of the poor fellow were fearful, and a man named Slates, a fellow-workman, on hearing his cries, ran to his assistance, and dra gge d him out of the cistern, when it was ascerta ined that he was extensively scalded over tho whole of the body and limbs. A surgeon was immediately called, but the inju r i es were of such a frightful character that it was deemed necessary to remove the sufferer to the accident ward of the London Hospital, where he expired shortly after his admission. The deceased, who hasi left a wife and family, resided at Lambeth, AMERICA. RE-OPENING OF CONGRESS. SPEECEI OF THE PRESIDENT. NEW YORK, DEC. 2, MORNING. (per Persia.) Congress assembled at Washington yesterday. The Message delivered by President Lincoln is moderate in tone towards the South, but firm for the maintenance of the Union. On foreign rela tions he says:— "If the condition of foreign relations is less gratifying than at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily dis tracted might have apprehended. In June last there were some grounds to expect that the maritime powers which, at the commencement of American difficulties so unwisely and unnecessarily recognised the insurgents as belligerents, would soon recede from that position which has proved only• less in jurious to themselves than to America. " But temporary reverses, which afterwards befel the Federal arms, and which were exaggerated by disloyal citizens abroad, have hitherto delayed that act of simple justice. " Civil war has disturbed the social conditions and deeply affected the prosperity of the nations with which America has carried on an increasing com merce during half a century. " It has at the same time excited political ambi tions and apprehensions, which have produced pro found agitation throughout the civilised world. "In this unusual agitation America has forborne from taking part in any controversy between foreign states and between parties or factions in such states. " America has attempted no propagandism and acknowledged no revolution, but has left to every nation the exclusive conduct and management of its own affairs. Foreign nations have, of course, con templated the American struggle less with refer ence to its own merits than to its supposed and often exaggerated effects, and the consequences re sulting to those nations themselves. Nevertheless, complaint on the part of the Federal Government, even if it were just, would certainly be unwise." President Lincoln acknowledges with special plea sure that the execution of the slave-trade treaty by the British Government has been marked with a jealous respect for the authority of the United States, and the right of their moral and loyal citi zens. The blockade of 3,000 miles of sea coast could not, he says, be established and vigorously enforced in a season of great commercial activity like the present without committing occasional mistakes, and inflicting unintentional injuries upon foreign nations and their subjects. " Civil war in a country where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of violation of neutral rights. " All such collisions tend to excite misapprehen sion, and possibly to produce mutual recrimination between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship. " In clear cases of these kinds I have so far as possible heard and redressed the complaints pre sented by friendly powers. There are, however, a large and augmenting number of doubtful cases upon which the Federal Government is unable to agree with the governments whose protection is demanded by the claimants. There are, moreover, many cases in which the United States or their citizens suffer wrongs from the naval or military authorities of foreign nations, which the Govern- meats of these States are not at once prepared to redress. I have proposed to some foreign states thus interested mutual conventions, to examine and adjust such complaints. This proposition has been made specially to England, France, Spain, and Prussia. In each case it has been kindly received, but not yet formally adopted." President Lincoln recommends an appropriation for the owners of the Norwegian barque Admiral Riola. He says that commercial and consular treaties have been negotiated with Turkey, Liberia, and Hayti, and continues : " Our relations with European States remain undisturbed. Our relations with the independent States of the American continent remain un changed, but more friendly sentiments than have hitherto existed are believed to be entertained by these neighbours, whose safety and progress is so intimately connected with that of America. This statement specially applies to Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, and Chili." I have favoured the project of an Atlantic cable, and a similar project to extend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pacific telegraph with the wire which is being extended across the Russian Empire. The message recommends extraordinary measures to promote the development of the mineral regions of the United States territories, and continues : Public expenditure for the suppression of the re bellion have been met with promptness, and public credit is fully maintained. The suspension of specie payments by the banks made a large issue of United States notes unavoidable. The judicious legislation of Congress making these notes a legal tender has made them the universal currency, and satisfied partially for the time the long-felt want of a uniform circulating medium. A return to specie payments, however, at the earliest period compa ible with due regard to all interests should ever be kept in view. The best means to reduce the fluctuations in the value of the currency, and insure its prompt con vertibility into coin, is to organise banking asso ciations under a general act of Congress. To such associations Government might furnish circulating notes on the security of United States Bonds depo sited in the Treasury. These notes, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would protect labour against the evils of a vicious currency, and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. Public credit would be im fparcoivlied, and tated by the eis tead negotiation market of new demand an d loansfor Govern ment y It would reconcile a 1 existing interests s m y e s n te t m ßo w nds ould,ah create. It adoption of the pro tq pr by po t s i e le d reor gopapniosretiumnidtyerofftheeredArcot, a ious circulations now issued. form national currency for the v r esxiubsstit.nitgoti substituting tau,tsiooonortcod The receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ending June, 1862, were 684,000,000 dole. ; being 49,000,000 dole. from Customs, 1,800,000 dole. from direct taxes, and from loans 630,000,000 dole. The remainder was the balance from last year. The aggregate disbursements during the same period were 670,000,000 dole. The 96,000,000 dole. expended for the reimbursement and redemption of the public debt being Included in the loans made, ma y he properly deducted both from receipts and expenditure. A convention has been proposed to foreign Go , vernments to simplify the rates of foreivi post age and expedite foreign mails. President Lincoln urges the early completion of the Pacific railroad, and recommends the favour able action of Congress en projects for enlarging the great canals in New York and Illinois. The military and commercial importance of er .arging the Illinois and Michigan canals is presented in a report to the Secretary of War. In accordance with the purpose expressed in the second paragraph of the emancipation proclama tions of September last, President Lincoln call the attention of Congress to what may be called com pensated emancipation. He then argues upon the impracticability of disunion, and says There is no line straight or crooked suitable for a national boundary upon which to divide. Our strife pertains to ourselves, to the pa ss i ng generations of men, and it cannot without con vulsion be hushed for ever with the passing of one generation. In this view the President recommends the adoption of the following resolutions and articles amendatory to the Federal Constitution:— Resolved by the Federal Congress, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures or Conventions of the several States as amendments to the Federal Constitution, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of these Legislatures or Conventions, to be valid as part or parts of the Constitution First,—Every State wherein slavery now exists which shall abolish slavery at any time before January of the year 1900 shall receive the fol lowing compensation from the United States. Presidents of the United States shall deliver to every such State United States Bonds bearing a certain interest for each slave known to have been therein by the eighth United States Census ; these bonds to be delivered to such State by instalments, or in one parcel at completion of abolishment, ac cording as abolishment shall have been gradual or at one time. Any State introducing or tolerating slavery after having received these bonds shall re fund the bonds and interest to the United States. Second,—All slaves who have acquired freedom by the chances of war at any time before the end of the rebellion shall be for ever free. Loyal owners will, however, receive compensation. Congress may appropriate money and provide for colonising free negroes, with their consent, at places outside the United States. President Lincoln then enters into a long and earnest argument to prove that the adoption of these amendments to the Constitution are politic, on the grounds of justice, economy, and interest, and as I. means which cannot fail to restere the Union. He, however, says that the plan is recom mended, not but that a restoration of the national authority would be accepted without its adoption nor would the war nor the emancipation proclama tion be stayed because of the recommendation of this plan ; but its timely adoption would no doubt bring restoration, and thereby stay these pro ceedings. This plan would secure peace more speedily and cost less than if force alone is relied upon. Many objections may present themselves, but the ques tion is, can anything better be imagined or done ? The Message concludes by saying that other means may succeed—this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, and just—a way which, if followed, the world will for ever applaud and God must for ever bless. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 15. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New York on the 3d inst., arrived here at 1.15 p.m. She brings 105 passengers and 550,267 dols. in specie. She landed all mails and 35 passengers. Since the 6fh inst. she has been working with one engine only, the other being disabled. NEW YORK, DEC. 2 (Evening). The New York Herald of to-day thinks that the Radical party in Congress will not listen to Pre sident Lincoln's proposed amendment to the Con- stitution. The New York. World supports the President's plan. The Commercial Advertiser is surprised that Pre sident Lincoln's Message totally ignores all mili tary and naval sacrifices, and observes that it con tains not one word of sympathy for the past or cheer for the future. The New York Times says that the President's proposal will not receive universal assent, and thinks it doubtful whether Congress will pass the amend- meat. NEW YORK, DEC. 3, MORNING. The report of the Federal Secretary of War has been published. It states that the Federal army at Present numbers 800,000 fully armed and equipped men. When the quotas are filled the army will number 1,000,000 men. The report of the Secretary of the Navy says that the Federal naval force consists of 323 steamers and 104 sailing vessels, carrying in all 3,268 guns. The Secretary of the Navy refers to the depredations of he steamer Alabama, and says : " The Alabama went forth from England to de stroy American shipping, and how far and to what results this abuse may be carried with impunity to the Government which tolerates it is a matter of grave consideration. "This lawless rover, though built in and sailing from England, has no acknowledged flag or recog nised nationality. Before the Alabama left Eng land, the British authorities were informed by the recognised official agents of the Federal Govern ment of her character and purposes. The British Government, thus evoked, came too late to prevent her sailing. To what extent, under these circum stances, the British Government is bound in honour and justice to make indemnification for the destruc tion of private property, is a question which may present itself for disposal. It is alluded to now from a sense of duty towards American commercial interests, and from the fact that recent intelligence indicates that other vessels of similar character are fitting out in England." The report of the Secretary of the Treasury hus not yet appeared. It is suppcsed in leading finan cial circles that although the Secretary of the Treasury may recommend a new banking system, yet the necessities of the Government will compel it to make a further issue of legal tender currency. Several resolutions proposed in Congress by the Opposition members to inquire into unconstitu tional Crests, have been voted down. Congress .has adopted a resolution directing the Committee on Il,Taval Affairs to report on the cheap est and most expea;;ious mode of placing vessels of-war on Lake Ontario when the exigency mayA Nothing important has occurred at Fredericks burg. The Confed era t e C ava l ry h ave c,-ossed the Rappahannock and capt ure d two entire con2yanies of Federal cavalry. Five Federal gunboats are reported to have pro ceeded by the Rappahannock, and anchored oppo site King George's Court-house. A successful cavalry reconnaissancP bas been made from General Sigel's army, in which 40 Con i",:clerate cavalry were captured. Th e Legislature of Alabama has placed 1,000,000 ct. 2. Is• at the disposal of the Governor, and has authorised ;Jai to impress one-tenth of the negroes in Alabama to erect the defences. Tte negroes will at once cornwence to obstruct the channels leading into Mobile Bay, and in the ri'ers above the city. The Southern journals assert that the Federals in West Tennessee have forbidden the farmers to plant. anything but cotton. A meeting of the govf York Chamber of Com merce has been convened for the 4th instant, to consider measures for the reli,:= l of the distress in Lancashire. A portion of General Bank ex - pedition has sailed, The Federal army of the South-West 11,1 s com menced as general advance from Memphis ant; ferent party of the Mississippi. ur - Preparations advance ormbonyecdeeeleta a nidni sod e n go b ahsf e ,:aa i t n dsh g bewei m Naettn a hee d ;h e auei a lpald t :;ithrni New cek. i‘ jieoiOwsusrri Orleans.l ns e sa a i l n ps s p di f an e *seers for the T sc h r A i c b e e tj o t r n h r i corresp onden t s General Butler is appointing ove. plantations which he has confiscated. General Butler, in a letter permitting the Na howl Advocate to resume publication, says all per sons expressing a desire for foreign intervention will be treated as traitors. Nearly all the Democratic candidates have been elected at New York city election. A resolution has been offered in Congress to hold a convention of delegates from all the States at Louisville in April next, to consider the state of the country, and the proper means to be pursued for restoring the Union. General HaHeck's report contains a letter from General 111‘Clellan, in which he strenuously opposes the removal of the army from the Peninsula to Acquia Creek, declaring that the same would be fatal to the Union cause. The British frigate Ariadne has arrivedlat New York. The Hibernian has arrived out. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Dzo. 2, Evening. Money easy. Gold 30; premium. Exchange on London, Banker's Bills 1444. Stocks steady, New York Central 102 i, Illinois 78k, Erie 614. Cotton advancing, middling upland 68c. Flour improving, 10c. higher. Coffee and molasses quiet. Wheat and corn a good inquiry, at an advance of 2c. Sugar quiet and unchanged. Provisions dull. NEW YORK, DEC. 5, Evening. Gold tighter. Money, 311; p.m. Exchange ou London, banker's bill, 1454 to 146. Stocks heavy. New York Centrals, /021; Illinois Centrals, '7Bk; Erie, 61 . Z. Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 08. Bread stuffs heavy. Provisions quiet. Coffee very fi rm Sugar advancing. Molasses dull. NEW YORK, DEC. 3. Advices received here from Vera Cruz state that the French had occupied Jalapa. A fight had occurred at National Bridge. The Mexicans were routed, and the French captured their commanding officer. 8,000 French troops were to occupy Sonora. General Forey had issued another proclamation, declaring that he had not come to fight the Mexican people but only the Mexican Government, whose incapacity had placed Mexico in a doplorable posi tion ALARMING FIRE IN THE STRAND. At a quarter-past 8 last evening a fire broke out on the premises of Mrs. Page, shell-fish warehouse, in the Strand, next door but one to the entrance of the Adelphi Theatre, causing the greatest excite ment throughout the neighbourhood. The report quickly spread that the theatre itself was on fire, causing an immense assemblage of people, com pletely blocking up not only the Strand itself, but all the thoroughfares in the locality. It being a benefit night at the Adelphi for the band fund of the London and Westminster Rifle Corps, and the performance of the " Messiah" taking place at Exeter-hall, the Strand was at the time of the out break thronged with carriages, and the confusion and uproar that took place were almost indescrib able. The reserve of the F division of police from Bow-street, and all the available constables in the neighbourhood, were brought into request, but it was some time before anything like order could be restored. On the arrival of the engines it was found that the flames had got firm hold of the upper and back portions of Mrs. Page's premises, occupied as supper and bedrooms, and were rapidly extending to the theatre, which stands immediately in the rear. The danger to the latter building now became so imminent that the management deemed it prudent to close the performances. Mr. Webster informed the audience from the stage that there was a fire raging close to the theatre, which rendered it necessary that the house should close at once, and ho requested them to retire as orderly as possible. Some alarm was excited, but the house, which was much crowded, was speedily cleared, without any accident. The same course was pur sued with the company at the Cider Cellars, which are immediately in the rear of Mrs Page's premises. In the meantime, the firemen exerted themselves to the utmost to prevent the spreading of the flames, and after an hour's labour they were fortunately successful. The whole of the upper and back por tions of the premises of Mrs. Pa ge Were destroyed, together with the billiard-rooms of Mr. Beckingham adjoining, on the west side, and the back part of the house occupied by Messrs. Batt and Co., florists, on the east, and th e W h o l e of whose premises were much damaged by water. The theatre was not in jured. The fire broke out in the second floor front bedroom, but from what cause cannot be ascertained. A 7 UIKISH EXHIBITION. - The following announcement has been forwarded to us from the 'Puckish Embassy : A National Exhibition is to be opened at Constantinople on the Ist Ramazan (Feb. 20, 1863), for three months. Although reserved exclusively for the products of the soil and industry of the country, nevertheless agricultnral and industrial machines and implements, for practical use, from foreign manufactories will be admitted. Manufacturers wishing to exhibit such articles will enjoy :he benefit of a remission of the customs' duties. It is well underst oo d th a t th e a dmission of foreign product s will be limited to this so le category, and that a manufac turer cannot send more than one article of the same kind. Exhibitors must in the first pl a ce send to the I mper i a l Ottoman Embassy, or to a Consulat e of the Sublim e P or t e, t a n deucip uali lica ty te , li g st uanof the articles they w i s h to exhibit, stating tity, and necessary dimensions, so that places m ay b e reserved for the m . The bt i cies above mentioned w hi c h , after having been shallexhibited, not have b een sold on the exhibitor's ao c not enjoy any o th er advantage on the part of the olin : ,e a Imperial Government than the exemptio n fr om cu stom s ' duties.