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It is acknowledged that we cannot raise the blockade to avert a cotton famine, as we repealed the Corn Laws to avert a famine of bread ; but we can open our eyes to the lesson of this dreadful calamity, if indeed it has a political lesson for us. We could not with a spark of honour, after having always haughtily insisted on our right to blockade a belli gerent's commercial ports, refuse the Federals that right when we, contrary to their wish at the time, acknowledged the South as a belligerent. Had we not done this we might have insisted on their ad herence to their own refusal to admit that any power could blockade its own ports. In which case, however, they would doubtless have refused to continue the Southern ports as ports of entry. So that complications would have arisen in that way. As the matter stands we have no decent alternative but to feed our people, starved by the blockade, as best we may. For ourselves, we must confess that we desire time for the most careful and impartial considera• tion. As no one contemplates breaking the:present blockade, there is time, ample time, we hope, before the question of another commercial blockade will arise. Let the subject, therefore, be discussed both in and out of Parliament. It is comparatively new to the country, and it is not easy yet to hold the balances impartially. The very calamity which raises the question—Are " commercial blockades" requisite to the safety of our homes ar,d firesides ? is apt to bias our judgments. When such a blockade has filled so many homes with untold misery, it is natural to ask whether their safety really requires such suffering. It is useless to dogmatise on such a subject. No one can pretend that he has yet fairly appreciated all the probable consequences of either course. The journals and the statesmen who at present are most positive for either view will be held by impartial men to have judged from old pre possessions, or one-sided pondering of facts_ For ourselves, we may own that the scale preponderates in favour of abolishing " commercial blockades " but we see so much to be alleged on the other side, that we would on no account, yet, give unqualified judgment against them. It is, indeed, a case of nearly balanced advan tages and balanced evils. To an insular, commer cial, manufacturing country, one-third of whose fuod is imported, and bought with the manufactures we export, what advantage can equal that of being certain that no war between other powers, and no war between ourselves and them, could interfere with the inflow of our food and the outflow of our mea ns of pur c h ase ? But, on the other side, sup -1)°86 we were at. war with any oth er coun t ry, rela tively small as our la rge army i s, w h at advantage could he great er to us than the power of destroying the corenaeree of o Powers, t o ur rival. A s th e grea t est of naval "veep the commerce of a rival from the ocean, and to Close means h is ports, i s one most efficient of compellin g hi m to Come are the two great advant a ges, to terms. These i mplying correspond ing evils, of the o ld syateln and the proposed new One. The advantages of the new system ah are so ob v i ous that it is only requisit e to ow th a t th ey are not neutralised by those of the old one. overlooked ; the Consideration be sideration must not, ho wever, ne grand sAvantages of abolishing commercial blockade s re late to cases which must happen with In ''' a nY times greater frequency than those of retaining th em. They are advantages to he enjoyed in the ease of every war conducted by any naval state against another, when we should of course be neutrals, as yell es when we were ourselves at war. The ad vantages claimed for us by the old system would only be felt when we ourselves were at war. We are surely not so pugnacious, but that we may hope that we shall be neutrals many times where we should bo once belligerents. It certainly ought to be so. As we now see, also, one of these blockades during which we are perfectly neutral may bring liPou us more misery than perhaps we ever inflicted, or ever shall inflict, by bloc lird n Blockades, ordinarily, could exclude other nations from luxuries only—they exclude us from our life itself, as " that by which we live." The serious question then arises, and on the answer to it everything hangs, are " commercial blockades" necessary to our security ? If they are, all discussion is at an end. We must be safe. The argument is, that if we are so unfortunate as to go to war with a great Power, we cannot invade it with a large army—we could only distress it by destroying its commerce. It should be observed, first, that this argument relates only to offensive war, which is by far the less serious question. We should, under the new system, be even better pre pared to blockade all the ports and arsenals whence an invading army could sail, since we should need no ships away to protect our commerce. Are we willing, then, to retain blockades like the present one, not to de/end ourselves, but to attack others ? Secondly, the blockade, except of America, must now be at best imperfect. Railroads have so far altered the relations of Europe that in almost any war some neutral Power would enable a continental enemy to reach the sea. He would suffer, but not as he would have suffered before the construction of railroads. Thirdly, as we are by far the greatest commercial nation, our own blockade would hurt ourselves as much at least as the nation assailed, ' probably more. When these consideratious are added to the one exemplified by Lancashire, suffer ing during our present neutrality, they surely de tract very largely from the value of commercial blockades as a means of safety from invasion. In deed it would almost seem as if they, in connection with the always associated right of seizing pro perty of belligerents at sea, facilitated invasion ; we mean, from the circumstance above mentioned, that the present system abstracts so many of our ships from their proper task of shutting up the enemy's men-of-war and transports in his own war ports. We think but little of some secondary arguments. It is said that if neutrals are distressed by the war they will compel the belligerent nations to peace. This seems at best far-fetched and problematical, while the evils of the old policy, as English and French workmen toe well know, are but too certain and at hand. France, England, and Russia do not in any case think of compulsion ; and two out of the three are unwilling even to offer mediation. Agai❑ we are told that the new system will equa lise the power of small States without a navy with that of large States with one. Are then the states , man who are always talking of the " balance of power,' afraid of the reality when it appears in sight ? But the argument is not founded in fact. We, for instance, could do what FARRAGIIT did at New Orleans—we could enable a small body of troops, protected by the fire of our gunboats and ships, to hold a large city. At present the chief questions before the public seem to be, are the value of a powerful means of aggression—not of defence—. and the power to distress an enemy's commerce more or less worth the suffering which commercial blockades bring upon us either as neutrals or as belligerents ? Although every now and then some wretched assassin and poisoner is undoubtedly hung for murder at Newgate and elsewhere, it would cer tainly appear that through some singular flaw i❑ our criminal code the majority (and those among the guiltiest) of these wretched creatures contrive to escape all adequate punishment. CATHERINE WILSON, for example, has expiated her frightful series of cold - blooded crimes very recently upon the gallows. Others, from time to time, have gone the same awful way to their doom. But, in spite of such instances or the law still, occasionally, dealing rigorously -with the convicted murderer or murderess, the present age is essentially one in which men and women, clearly proved to have been guilty of slaying their fellow creatures under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, have every imaginable and unimaginable chance of passing acathless not only through their public trial and deliberate conviction, but from under the solemn sentence of death formally pronounced upon them by the learned judge who may have presided over the proceedings. Dr. SMETHURST, found guilty and sentenced to death for the poisoning of Miss BANKES at Richmond, is not only released from prison after a brief interval, and placed thenceforth at complete liberty, but is enabled eventually to claim the property left behind her by the unfortunate lady whom the law has emphatically declared to be his victim. Several years back there was that so called Irish Gentleman--who was tried for murder ing his wife one fatal day (for her at any rate) o❑ the "sea-beat promontory, or stretch of land called Ireland's Eye—whowas found guilty and sentenced to death as formally and deliberately as ever was Dr. SMETHURST, and who nevertheless was after wards (with not one iota of better reason) snatched from the fate to which he had been thus formally condemned. In the recent instance of SAMUEL GARDNER, the sweep, there was, it must be allowed, every conceivable reason for the commutation of the sentence—a commutation of the sentence eventually decided upon in an hour of more than his customary sagacity b 3 the right hon, the Home Secretary. The jury, it will be remembered, had strongly re commended the unfortunate man to mercy when delivering in (after much he s it a ti on ) their verdict of guilty—a verdict that th e y wou ld hardly, by any circumstances, have delivered in at all without much hesitation. In the case of JESSIE XPLACHLAN the circumstances are in every way different. And here, in the instance of this execrable murder at Sandyford-place, Glasgow, Sir GEORGE GREY has, from first to last, blundered—flagrantly, notoriously, egregiously ! Never, perhaps, was there a more brutal murder—a more treacherous murder — a murder more clearly brought home to the ac cused by every imaginable circumstance! By her own perjuries and contradictions. By her posses sion, after the crime, of the goods stolen from the deceased herself, and from the keeping of the deceased ; goods belonging to herself and her master. By the clothes of the accused herself being found hid away in a secluded field, saturated with blood and torn to pieces. By the accused pawning the stolen property directly after the murder, and doing this in an assumed name. By the accused totally failing in what was shown afterwards to have been her lying attempt to prove an alibi on the night of the murder! By these par ticulars mid by a mass of other corroborative evi dence, all clearly fixing the guilt upon the prisoner at the b ar _ JESSIE INPLACHLAN was pronounced' guilty by a jury of her countrymen (without the fai ntest hint o f any r e commendation or e anof the to Jury mercy t h eF m ho handed ; -n the w c h om en . ing from the lips of death by th e • verdict), and was sentenced to judge who tried her in language of the strong est condemnation t., from the bench up on perhaps , ever heard is the wretched woman w sim ilar h a occasio n o ! Yet this the gallows by th e How h as been snatch e d f rom Home Secretary—becauee, in addition to the atrocious murder • of which she was proved to have been guilty — and for which (having been so proved) who was wolenuily condemned to TILE SUN, LONDON, TH.URSDAY EVENINI, INOVEMBEIC.27, 1862. death—she was guilty of the heinous supple mentary crime of endeavouring to fix her own deed of blood upon an innocent man, and that too an old man close upon ninety ! The extrava gant,incoherent, stateme n t de livered r Ess e lA ra P b L e A re cd to a iaAisz's t vleerde d eventually,inconsequential,inattbeclose s e of b will secretrial inquiry, instituted by order of Sir GEORGE GREY, an inquiry conducted within closed doors at Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON'S chambers at Glasgow, as Sheriff of Lanarkshire, conducted there by Mr. YOUNG, the Scotch Solicitor-General— the proceedings of this secret supplementary investigation never yet have been made public in any way. And yet leading, as we all know, to the extraordinary result of the commutation of JESSIE ITLAUCIILAN'S sentence from one of death to one of penal servitude for life ! No wonder can it be to any one that under the circumstances, old Mr. FLEMING, the one accused by the convicted and condemned murderess, should have earnestly de manded a public inquiry in regard to himself so as effectually to clear himself from the possibility of any further suspicion. With what result his appeal to the Home Office has been made, our readers will have perceived on perusing the answer vouchsafed to that appeal by Sir G. GREY'S Secretary, an official letter which we gave to the public in our impression of last evening. Repelled peremptorily by the Home Secretary—old Mr. FLEMING has now but one alternative--namely, to appeal to Parliament. We do not purpose to discuss just now the whole question of fortification, but merely to notice a plau sible fallacy of the moment. Our readers well know that we think the money spent on them, if needed for defensive purposes, might have been used far more effectively. And, when we look at the vast suma being now sunk on Portsdown Hill, and glance away north, to our population sinking in feebleness, fever, and famine, through the want of adequate relief, we confess ourselves to be amongst those who do " sigh" at the sight of the Portsdown works. At this time they seem like monuments to the memory of the starved. Future generations will say, we think, " Better have fed Lancashire than have built miles of defences, at the best of dis puted value, and which by that time will, we cannot doubt, bear the name of—" PALMERSTON Follies." Bat letting all this pass, an influential contem porary, yesterday, abetted the PALMERSTON ex penditure, and expenditure always seems pleasant to it, by an appeal to the part which fortifications have played in modern wars. We do not dispute the part they have played, but one overlooked fact vitiates the inference in nearly every case, The fortifications referred to were nearly all of them of the class for which, with General BURGOYNE, we have always contended, in contrast with the class on which Lord PALMERSTON is now expending our eleven millions. He is building fixed forts at an enormous cost —to prove the value of which our contemporary adduces the resistance made by ex temporized works ! The Crimean war is appealed to. Surely it was the extemporized not the fixed fortifications, which held the allies so long at bay. The improvised earthworks of Todleben caused all the serious diffi culty, and after these were carried, the similar works to the Russian left of the city. The walls of Delhi were no doubt the ready defence of mutineers who perhaps might not have had ability to do what we certainly could have done, in throwing up earth works—but at Lucknow nearly everything was created, as wanted, by our own men, and the ene my's works presented no difficulty to Lord CLYDE. We are pointed to the Quadrilateral. It really teaches nothing; for while no one wishes to deny the difficulty of capturing strong defences occupied by an army, Louis NAPOLEON turned back from them, only for the same selfish reasons which led him to desert us in the Crimea, when we had become strong enough to compel Russia to ) better terms than were convenient to himself. He saw all Italy tending to unity. He wanted to keep her weak and subservient; to govern her through statesmen of the RATTAZZI school, so he found a pre text in the displeasure of Prussia, and his army left the Mincio and his fleet the Adriatic. As the latest examples of all, we are referred to the Americans. Washington, Vicksburg, Fort Darling, Yorktown, are all rendered tributary to proving the value of the Portsdown brick and mortar. Why, the whole of these fortifications were non existent when the war broke out ! They prove our case. The interest of Lord PALMERSTON'S eleven millions sterling, if saved, would have left the nation so much wealthier, and so much better pre pared to throw up earthworks wherever they might be most available against the enemy. The North had not sunk millions in interest of money, when called on to fortify its political capital. The obsti nacy of Lord PALMERSTON, and the unpardonable wuakness of the House of Commons, have now made it almost too late ; but the course of the American war has certainly strengthen2d our preference for the plan of the able and experienced general who urged that we should create our fortified works when we wanted them. That, we believe, will never be. The knowledge that we have an army of navvies, as well as of soldiers, that we, sooner than any country in the world, could cause defences to spring from the ground, is quite sufficient to keep an enemy chary of attempting to place his guns on our hills. Our navvies ready to make an extem pore fort, when and where wanted, are worth far more than all the PALMERSTON forts—or follies. They are as valuable, in their way, as our volunteers and regulars. LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. (Per Bohemian.) NEW YORK, Nov. 14, Evening. The unfavourable rumours which were current at the departure of the Arabia have not been con firmed. Large numbers of persons have gone to Trenton to pay their respects to General M'Clellsn. At a serenade given in his honour he made a speech, in which he said, that while the army was fighting the citizens should see that the war was prosecuted for the preservation of the Union, the Constitution, and the nationality and rights of the citizens. Two of General M'Clellan's staff officers have been arrested and sent to Washington. The charges against them are unknown. The advance of General Burnside's army has oc cupied Fayetteville, four mien from Rappahannock Station. Gen. Stonewall Jackson is reported to be moving along the turnpike road towards Cumberland, Maryland. The Confederates, under Generals Floyd and Bragg, are concentrating at Gordonsville. A large Confederate force is still reported to be at Murfreesboro', near Nashville. The reports of ironclad vessels being built in England for the Confederates has aroused appre hensions for the safety of New York harbour. Measures are being taken for its security. The steamer which recently entered Charleston is reported not to have been iron plated, but shots fired from a Federal cruiser did not hit her. It is again reported from Washington that the French Minister has demanded redress for General Butler's treatment of Frenchmen at New Orleans. Spain has also made demands against the Federal Government. It is supposed that the demands in both cases will be complied with. It is announced from South America that General Mosquera had captured Antioquia, and gained other successes. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Evening). Money easier. Gold 32 premium. Exchange—Bankers' bills, 146,1. Stocks improving. New York Central, 1022 ; Illinois, 76 ; Erie, 611. Cotton very firm. Middling Upland, 641. Breadstuff heavy. Provisions quiet. Ceffee ad vancing. Sugar very firm. Molasses steady. HURRICANE AT MARSEILLES. MARSEILLES, Nov, 27. A hurricane prevailed here last night, which caused some damage to the docks, during the low tide, but more serious mischief was caused in the roadstei d, where several ships parted from their anchors, and six of them were driven against the quay. Two of these ships, the Panchisa and the Escolastica, were Spanish vessels, laden with sugar frcm Havannah. The other vessels wrecked were a Marseilles merchantman, the Notre Dame de St. Garde, bound for Gibraltar; two Italian vessels, the San Antonio Abbatti, and the Giovanni, the former bound for Civita Vecchia, and the latter for Barcelona ; and an Austrian vessel, the Allegrezza, bound for Trieste, with a cargo of sugar. Seven houses were partly thrown down by the violence of the hurricane, and several persons killed. The mail steamers, which ought to have left yes terday, were unable, in consequence of the weather, to leave the port until this morning. TURIN, Nov. 26, Pvening. The whole of to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies was occupied by a speech from Signor Rattazzi upon the interior policy of the Adminis tration. The Minister stated his object to be the concilia tion of the forces of the nation for the pursuance of great national ends, adding, however, that this did not imply that the Government should abdicate its authority. " When Garibaldi," he said, " wished to elevate himself above the law, it became necessary to op pose him." Signor Rattazzi thought that the Administration had rendered great service to the country, by proving to Europe that the Italian Government could triumph over revolution. The Minister also defended the fusion of the Southern army and the dissolution of the Eman cipation Society, and replied to the accusations of the Opposition. Cheers followed the conclusion of his speech. To-morrow the Minister for Foreign Affairs will speak upon the foreign policy of the Italian Government. PUNCH AND ?HE GAROTTERS. As admirable a cartoon as we have seen for a long while in Punch, adorns the current number of our London Charivari. The Right Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary is represented in the affectionate embrace of one of the garotters. A deadlier grapple in its way has perhaps never been represented by an artist's pencil, Poor Sir George Grey looks for all the world as if he couldn't help it ! His dis torted features, peering over the brawny arms tucked under his chin by the ruffian who has just adroitly contrived, in burglar's cant, "to put the mug on him !" The point of the caricature, however, lies in the exclamation of the garotter's pal, who—on witnessing the performance and recognizing the Home Secretary as the intended victim, cries out in dismay—" Let go, Bill, can't yer —it's our kind non - interfering Friend, Sir George Grey !! !" The whole comic cut being headed—(to point the moral and adorn the tale)—" The Garotter's Friend." If the satire goes not home to the conscience of the right hon. baronet, he is certainly made of sterner stuff than we give him credit for ! Even Lord Dundreary might acknowledge—looking at the picture through his eyeglass—that it is one of those things any fellow might understand. If (to use the familiar phrase of Lord Bacon) the truth in this matter of garotting has not, by John Tenniel's drawing this week in Punch, been brought home to Sir George Grey's " business and bosom," it must at least, we take it, have been brought directly home to the right hon. baronet's judgment end windpipe! The new Montgolfier balloon invented by M. Godard, the aeronaut, has a capacity of 4,300 metres. The car is provided with an apparatus which enables the aero naut to ascend without either gas or ballast, and to descend or go higher up at pleasure. This apparatus consists of a kind of stove formed by three cylinders separated from each other by insulating substances, whereby all danger of fire is averted. The flame is completely under the control of the aerial traveller, and is prevented from rising too high by a cap of wire gauze. M. Godard asserts that he can in flate his balloon in 30 minutes, and load it with from 600 to 800 kilogrammes over and above the weight of his person and his accessories, and moreover that his balloon may be pierced with a bombshell without endangering the aero naut, who can himself cast projectiles of any kind with im punity. Should this new invention succeed this balloon may be of considerable service in time of war. The talk of Paris (politics apart, bien en tendu) is the success of Mdlle. Patti at the Italian Opera. She appeared last night in Lucia, and her success was even more decisive than on her debut in Sonnambula. There is, in fact, a perfect Patti furore, and the theatre, which up to her appearance presented a beggarly account of empty boxes, is now densely crowded every night. Mario came out at the French Opera a couple of nights ago as Raoul, in the Huguenots. His warmest admirers admit that his voice is not what it used to be, but there was nothing in his performance to justify the brutal reception of so finished an artiste. Mario was so distressed at his own failure and at the ungenerous treatment of the public, that he immedi ately threw up his engagement. He was bound for three months at the rate of £4OO a month. At the Italiens Mdlle. Patti receives £6O a night. THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY.—We have on more than one occasion drawn attention to the pressing need there exists of enlarging and otherwise improving the Guildhall Library, so that it might be made fairly available for those who are desirous of searching into its valuable contents. We are glad to perceive that there is at last a prospect of this much-desired end being attained. The Court of Common Council has ordered that the rooms over the porch and the upper part of the Comptroller's office shall be appropriated to the use of the library, at a cost not exceeding £3,000, and it is hoped that the works will be commenced early in the ensuing year. By the proposed plan an entrance to the library in front of the Guildhall will be obtained. A stone staircase will lead, first to the museum, and then up another flight to the library, which will occupy the whole length of the front of the building. The library will be well lighted from the top, and well warmed. The visitors to the library, and also the readers (who are of much greater importance), have largely increased of late ; and the library may be pronounced in a flourishing condition, and would be more so but for its " cabined, cribbed, confined" state. The monster album from the International Exhibition has been receive], and will be fitted up in a few days. Some ancient documents of great civic interest haverecently been added to the museum. We shall be glad to learn that a commencement of the pro posed alterations has been made. Once inaugurated, they will doubtless, under the directions of the chairman (Mr. D. Smith), and the members of the committee, be vigor ously carried out.- --City Press. GAROTTE ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—On Monday night, as a labouring man. ackmod ZVatooa ma.a prouot.din g home by the Ramsdale-road, in the outskirts of Scar borough, he was joined by a private of the 10th Hussars, a detachment of which is at present stationed at Scar borough. They entered into friendly conversation, and walked some distance along the road, when suddenly the soldier seized his companion by the throat, and, after using him roughly, succeeded in taking from him a silver watch. It fortunately happened that police sergeant Lowden was in the neighbourhood, he having for some time entertained an idea that the locality was one most favourable to suoh a crime as the one now re corded. He heard the man's cries for help, and hastening to the spot, he saw the soldier at some distance leaping the hedge of a field, and at once disappear. Having obtained of Watson a brief description of the offender, the officer suc ceeded in a very short time in obtaining such information as made the capture of the thief an early certainty. Pro ceeding to a low house frequented by the soldier, the police officer had the good fortune to overhear his man in toner sation with a prostitute, and apparently making with her some arrangements for the disposal of the stolen watch. He at once apprehended him and the watch was found upon him. The prisoner proved to be Private Charles Sturges, of the 10th Hussars. He has been committed by the magic• trates for trial at the ensuing assizes at York.—,Manchester Examiner. Two BROTHERS DROWNED AT HARROWGATE.— On Monday afternoon Joseph Manby, aged 17, and Benja min Manby, aged 14, sons of Mr. Manby, farmer and cab proprietor, Bakerlane, narroVegate, 'went to a pond formed by an exhausted stone quarry, within 40 yards of their father's house. The water had been frozen over, and several little boys had already ventured a few feet from the edge. The young Manbys, after being a few minutes on the ice, struck into the centre of the pond, when the ice gave way. They shouted to their sister, who was watch ing them from the bank, and she rushed forward to save them, but in a few steps she found herself nearly up to the neck in water, and had some difficulty in escaping with her own life. Her screams, added to those of the children present attracted her parents and the neighbours to the spot, and efforts were made to rescue the drowning youths by means of poles, pitchforks, &c. At length a raft was rapidly made and launched. By its aid the bodies were raised to the surface of the water locked in each other's arms, but before they could be landed the death grasp was relaxed, and one of the bodies fell into the water again. It was, however, found in a few minutes and brought to land and conveyed to the father's house. Nearly three-quarters of an hour had elapsed before the bodies were recovered. Life was of course extinct, and two fine athletic youths, who less than an hour before had left their father's house full of life and spirits, lay in that house cold and lifeless.—Leeds Mercury, POWERS OF ENDURANCE.—Capt. C. F. Hall has just been narrating before the American Geographical So ciety his recent Arctic experience while in search of traces of the Franklin expedition, and took the opportunity of introducing to the society the Esquimaux man whom he brought away with him—a hardy hunter, who has been known to stand for three days and nights motionless on the ice beside a seal hole. Captain Hall described the ability of the Esquimaux to go without food as striking him as quite astounding. He has known them do so for weeks. He heard of an instance in which a party of these intrepid seal hunters were floated off from the mainland on a pack of ice, and could not return for 30 days, during which time they had not a morsel of food; yet they survived, although even their faithful and wonderful dogs succumbed to the pangs of hunger. SUICIDE OF A WELL-KNOWN TRAPEZE PER FORMER. —Frederick Carini, known to visitors of the Lon don Eldorado, Leicester-square, for his ability as a per former on the trapeze, has committed suicide under the following distressing circumstances. It appears that on the 24th inst., be parted from h s wife at the door of the LondonEldorado, being at the time in his usual spirits, and from that time nothing was seen of him. On Tuesday, however, his body was discovered in the Thames, near Whitehall, and at once taken to the dead-house at St. Martin's Church. It is stated that some time ago the deceased met with an accident while performing, and there is reason to believe that it has affected his brain. The de ceased was a very handsome man, possessed great muscular strength, and his age was about 33. ORCHESTRAL PITCH,—The following paragraph, which appears in a morning paper, doubtless means some thing, but to the uninitiated it is a curiosity:—_" The French orchestral pitch, as settled by the commission whose discus. sion excited so much 'attention here and elsewhere some couple of years ago, appears to be in progress of adoption throughout Germany." What is "French orchestral pitch ?" Is it a new importation, or a production of the Gallic soil which is to supersede armour in the construc tion of vessels of war ? Or have the French orchestras been " pitch"-ing into another, and is the quarrel being taken up all over Germany ? Or has the " pitch" or or chestral anything to do with the black art ? Is it a new method of playing (4 pitch and toss ?" All the question s may remain u nanswere d , an d we s i mp ly sa y to the writer of the paragraph, 1-""An, 7IIE DOCTOR IN DIFFICULTIES. (From Fun.) Doctor Samuel J. was a swell in his day, But—it shows how earth's estimates vary— No one now will acknowledge he knew etymology And we sneer at his dictio-nary, Oh! but that spelling of Johnson's Really was very great nonsense, R•a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain, Is a very wrong spelling of Johnson's. Doctor Johnson was then thought the greatest of men, And he gave himself fine airs and graces ; But this grand man of letters now meets with his betters, And is mixed up with second-rate races. Oh I but that wonderful doctor Was a very poor spelling concocter ; It-a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,--'tis plain, 'Twas not rightly derived by the doctor. To be clapt on the back of a reindeer, good lack, For some cute bubble-wager inciter, To ride a sham race was a very strange case For a lexicographical writer. Oh I but in ignorance Johnson This spelling agreed for the nonco on; R-a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain, Was a hasty mistake of old Johnson. Johnson, thus made the serf of tha ring and the turf, Quite enough every feeling to shock is I It's too bad, I declare, when our Learning's big bear Has to dance for amusement of jockeys. Oh I but the idol of Bozzy Wasn't meant for such work as this, was he ? R-a•i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain, Has o'erthrown the great idol of Bozzy. That this famed son of Learning a blackleg's been turning, Is a charge that is proved to the letter, Wherewith spelling reindeer, of transactions most queer, He an aider becomes—and a-•better. Oh I how disgraceful for Sammy, The great hand at " lexicogrammy;" R-a-i-n; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain, Has spell-bound the wonderful Sammy. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 26. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alexandra, Princess Louis of Hesse, aad attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, walked and drove this morning. Prince Christian (of Denmark) arrived at the Castle yes terday, attended by General d'Oxholm. The Duke of Nemours, Princess Marguerite, the Count d'Eu, and the Duke of Alencon, visited her Majesty. Madame d'Oxholm, the Danish Minister, and Earl Rus sell, also arrived at the Castle. The Danish Minister and Earl Russell left to-day. The Queen proceeded yesterday morning to the Flemish Farm, for the purpose of planting an oak in memorial of the Prince Consort, to be called the " Prince Consort's Oak." Her Majesty was accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Alexandra, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and Count Gleiehen ; and was attended by the Countess of Caledon, Baroness von Schenk, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe (Equerries in Waiting), Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell. Major-General Seymour and Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood were in attendance on the ground, as were also Mr. Menzies, deputy surveyor; Mr. Cole, the head park keeper ; and others employed in Windsor Park and the Royal Household. The site was selected in consequence of its having been that upon which the Prince Consort left off shooting upon his last visit to the park. The Hon. Messieurs Sicotte, Howland, Howe, and Tilly had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day, and heard a petition for a prolongation of Burn's patent for improved cotton gin. Lord Chelmsford, on the part of their lordships, stated that no sufficient case for the extension of the patent had been shown. A petition for a prolongation of Bakewell's patent for electric telegraphs was heard. Lord Chelmsford, on the part of their lord ships, refused the extension. The Lot ds present were Lord Chelmsford, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, and Sir J. Coleridge. De e spatehes were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office Governors_ of Malta, the Mauriti u s, C e ylon, Hong ' ls ' 9 t:_ th 1, 1 LOW, tlo Austaliou olvaies, and FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 26.—A further rise of I in Eng lish Consols has again increased the firmness in the market, but without producing any material change in quotations or in the amount of business doing. Threes, for the account, are firm at 70f. 30c. Busi ness has been also rather quiet in Railway Shares, and with little change in prices. The market left off as follows : It per Cents .. 97 80 Bank Shares 3370 Do. end month.... Credit Fonder l3OO 3 per Cents .. 7O 35 Piedmontese Fives 70 75 Do. end month.... 70 30 Italian Loan 7l 20 Now 3 per Cents .. Roman — Do. end month.... Russian Credit Mobilier.... 1096 25 Spanish Threes — Do. end m0uth....109 5 = , Home Debt ItAILWA.YB. Cash. Account. Orleans lO4O .. 1040 Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1045 .. 1145 Gereva — • • Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 371 26 .. Austrian .. Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa 632 60 .. 632 50 Ditto to Barcelona 211 E GAROTTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Permit to apologise for trespassing on your valuable space, but could not the police rate be be doubled, so as to give Sir Richard Mayne the power of at once increasing the force, thus putting an end to the present system of garotting and burglary. Although the police are not too well paid, doubt less there are thousands of competent men who would be but too glad to join the force. In the meantime, if two men out of every hun dred, medical men excepted, would do night duty (in their own immediate neighbourhood), or at least for as many hours as may be deemed necessary, it would be affording great assistance to Sir Richard Mayne ; and, in case of any man objecting to take his turn, for him to be fined twenty shillings, of course subject to the arrangements of Sir Richard Mayne. And it might be as well to let it be generally known that any persons being convicted of garotting or burglary should be well flogged. I am, Sir, yours obediently, R. It. POND. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always 'ova ahhe ? Soli i packets by 2,2Bo.aseuls. THE SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE. (From Fun) 1300 T THE FIRST. Oh I smile as you was used to laugh, Before that splash of dirt Was cast across your lustrous calf, To dim it with its squirt. Your thoughts, perchance, my noble swell, That mud cannot forget, But list the tidings which I tell— " There's lots of blacking yet 1" BOOT THE SECOND. Oh I name not that departed shine, The polish of Japan; I'll make you, as to feet, as fine As any other man. Regard my brushes how they flash Reflected in the jet; And think, whene'er you get a splash, "There's lots of blacking yet 1" (Encore verse, while trousers are timed down.) 6o smile as you was used to grin, And at your boot look down, Yes, smile to see your face therein, Then give the boy his brown. When dust your upper leather shades, Or mud its gleam pollutes, Oh I then remember the Brigades, Whose cry is, "Clean yer boots 1" MORE GAROTTE AND STREET ROBBERIES. — (THIS DAY.)—This morning information was received by the police that between 12 and 1 o'clock, as Mr. Otley, of Surrey-street, Blackfriars-road, musician in the orchestra at one of the theatres, was returning home at the conclu sion of the performance, he was knocked down by a life pre server, and rendered momentarily insensible, when he was plundered of a gold watch chain (maker, Wallis and Deacon, No. 12,090), a valuable cornopean and case, and £2 18s. 6d. in money. Mr. Otley, on reaching home, was attended by Dr. Cotton, but from the injuries inflicted it is feared some time must elapse before he will be able to resume his professional duties. Last evening, shortly before 5 o'clock, as a gentleman was passing through one of the passages on the north side of St. Paul's Cathedral which leads into Paternoster-row, he was felled to the ground by a ruffian who had concealed himself in a dark recess, and almost at the same moment some persons came up, and the fellow took to flight. He was pursued and captured, but it re quired the united exertions of several policemen to take him to the station. His victim was carried bleeding and insensible to the hospital. BARON BRAMWELL AND TIE GAROTTERS.—Mr. Baron Bramwell, as will be seen by our report, tried several persons at the Central Criminal Court yesterday who were charged with the now prevailing practice of garotting. His lordship has on more than ono occasion expressed his groat antipathy to garotters, and his determination to put an end to their business as soon as possible whenever an opportunity presents itself to him in his official capacity. Yesterday morning the learned judge walked down to his duties at the Central Criminal Court, followed by a large black dog, whose appearance was at once calculated to strike terror into the mind of a garotter meditating an attack upon the learned judge. The dog appears to be only in process of active training, as the learned baron turned round at almost every step to satisfy himself that he was faithfully and steadily following him. On turning into the Old Bailey his lordship, seeing the number of person assembled around the approaches to Newftate, took the middle of the road and carefully watched his black friend until he had safely con fided him to the care of the prison authorities. The Temp publishes a letter from M. Oditon Barrot on the subject of the recent acquittal of the woman Doize at Amiens, on a charge of parricide, after having been previously found guilty and condemned to hard labour for life. The learned gentleman thinks that this incident proves the necessity of a reform in the manner of conduct ing in France the preliminary examinations of accused persons. Had not the jury, by a lucky contradiction, granted the prisoner the benefit of extenuating circumstan ces, which nothing appeared to justify, the poor woman must have been executed, as there was apparently no ground for the exercise of the Imperial clemency, and the wrong would then have been irremediable, both to the vic tim herself and to her family. The learned gentleman thinks that means ought to be devised for doing justice to persons condemned by a judicial error, and also to their families, and he trusts that this blot in the existing legisls tion will ere long bo removed. Mr. 0. Barrot concludes by proposing to the editor of the Temps that a subscription should be opened for the benefit of the poor woman Doixe, and puts down his name for 100 fr. The editor states that subscriptions will be received for that object at the office of the journal. THE HOLT WELLS OF WALES.—Before quitting the subject of Welsh usages, we must not omit to mention the Holy Wells, which are both numerous and important, although for one well in use and properlycared for,there ar e at least fifty desecrated, filled up, and comparatively unknown. We always find that the estimation in which they were held depended on two causes their medicinal virtues or properties; and, second, their character and associations. Of course, at one time or another, all the healing effects ere based upon a superstitious foundation, and probably environed with superstitious rites; but it is an encouraging fact, that all these wells retain the patronage of the sick and infirm to this day, while those which were celebrated merely in connection with religion have lost their prestige, and in nine cases out of ten retain only the legend. First and fore most of Welsh wells is that of St. Winifred, at HolysVell i Flintshire, celebrated as much for the exquisite perpen dicular building within which it is enshrined, as for the marvellous properties of the water, proofs of which are plentiful in the forest of sticks, crutches, and other kinds of votive offerings which have been deposited in the fretwork at the roof and pillars. There is really so much that is curious about this well, that apart from the legend, we cannot wonder that a large amount of the supernatural clung to it. Tho enormous quantity of water that bubbles up, viz., 100 tons a minute, the colouring of the stones by the red moss, attributed to the blood of the saint, the sin gular fact that although intensely cold, the water never freezes, are all features worth notice in themselves. It was invested with other properties in times of yore, as Drayton gravely informs us that no animal would drown when thrown into its waters. —Once a Week, RUSSELL'S LAST.—EarI Russell playing on piano forte a Good Times Coming, Boys, the two Emperors of France and Russia joining in the chorus, " Mediation's Coming, Boys ; Wait a Little Longer I" Chorus—" Yes; We'll Wait a Little Longer l"—Fun. THE FED ERALS IN VIRGINIA.--The correspondent of the New York Iribune, writing from Ashby's Gap, de scribes the Federal army as quite in an enemy's country, and says that the troops see it, and spoil the Egyptians ac cordingly. Their draughts upon the orchards, henroosts, corn cribs, and fence rails are astonishing,l37 heavy. Since leaving the Potomac he has not heard a single white Virgi nian, male or female, profess " loyalty." Under pressure, when private property is being take n, many profess a ,ort of loyal neutrality, but there are no unconditional Unionists, and the women and children tell the truth without disguise. who professed to be a At Woodgrove a young, woman , t o ld the correspondent that Christian of the Baptist m ode, she had no aspirations for Heaven if any Yankees were there. He asked a gray-headed negro who brought round his horse for him whether he, also, was a rebel, and got for answer that he was watching and waiting. it i s known that coloured people have been encouraged to join the Federal army as teamsters, cooks, servants, laundresses, and the like, and a fterwards, bein g found in the way,have been wages to be ret a i ne d rststuld be established in go disloyaltybaok to their of theirm a m s masters, tuonitdilttohe a court of law. " A good many coloured to you have been brought back," people who came said a re worse off than if they had the old man, "and stayed at home; so I'm just watChilag and wAiting,” POSTAL COMMUNICATION IN SOUTHERN ITALY. The following statistical report of the progress of postal communication in Southern Italy is of immense value, as showing the great development of mind and commerce under the Italian Govern- went : On the Ist March, 1861, the number of post-offices in the continental provinces of the old kingdom of the Two Sicilies was They are now e •• And the increase in 20 months is. . The receipts of the Post-office in the first six Lire. months of 1860 were 565,292. 52 Those of the tame period in 1862 were Thus showing an increase in the postal revenue of 232,425,7 9 The correspondence of all kinds which passed through the Neapolitan post-offices in the first semestre of 1860 was, in number 3,981, 331 In the corresponding period of 1862 it amounted to Showing an increase in the number of letters, jothnals, &c., posted, of The great increase of the correspondence, which is not in proportion to that of the revenue, is to be attributed to the greater number of journals noW printed in the Southern provinces ; to the more fre quent relations with Upper Italy; and the Bew postal treaties with France, England, and Switzer. land, which, while they reduce the sum paid on each letter, have sensibly increased the amount of corre spondence. With the inauguration of the new order of things, too, was introduced the system of post-office stamps, which had not before been known. This interest ing branch of the service has assumed large propor tions, and has proved of the greatest advantage to commerce and to the general public. In the first six months of 1862 were issued by the Neapolitan post-offices 131,177 stamps, amounting in value to 5,063,855.89 lire. _ The mail communications by the seven "Conan , . lar" lines of the Neapolitan provinces, which for merly were not more than three times a week, are now kept up daily, so that with the exception of a very few country places which lie at a great distance from post-offices, every commune of these provinces now enjoys the advantage of receiving and despatch ing its correspondence daily. The maritime service, too, has been reorganized, and placed in harmony with the natural relations which these provinces have with other parts of the kingdom. Before the new order of things the postal sea service from Naples was occasional, and ordinarily was not more frequent than twice a week to Sicily by means of merchant steamers. At pre sent Post-office steamers leave Naples for Genoa daily, and vice versa, touching at Leghorn. For Palermo and Messina they leave five times a week; for Messina, Catania, Syracuse, and Malta once a week ; for Cagliari, Tortoli, and Terra Nuova, twice a month, and vice versa ; and, lastly, a steamer leaving Messina and Ancona three times a month, touches at Mar.fredonia, Bari, Brindisi, Gallipoli , and Cotrone. This report requires no comment ; it represents the vast impulse which has been given to commerce and to mental activity within the last 20 months , and leaves us to imagine the amount of pressure which lay like a nightmare on the energies of the people under the Burbons. 711 E G.REA7 EXHIBITION. A meeting was held yesterday at the board-room of the Horticultural Society for the purpose of pre' minting to Dr. Lindley an address from the Colonial Commissioners, expressing their thanks for the very valuable services rendered by him during the c ourse of the Exhibition as Superintendent of the Colonial Section. The address runs as follows :—" Before th e first closing of the International Exhibition of 186 2 we, the undersigned Commissioners, beg to convey to you our warm acknowledgments for the admirable manner in which you have discharged the arduous duties confided to you by her Majesty' s Commis sioners. No small share cf the great success of our department, to which his Grace the Minister for the Colonies bore such gratifying testimony, a testi mony echoed by the voice of public op inion, is due to your advice and co-operation. Pe rsonall y , We have to thank you for many a cts of kindness, Bllel we shall not fail to convey to our respect Govern ments our appreciation of the valuable services you have rendered to the agricultural, commercial, and industrial interests of the British Colonies." This document, which was signed by 30 Commissioners, was presented to Dr. Lindley by Sir Daniel Cooper, Commissioner for New South Wales, whose short but eloquent remarks were cordially applauded by his brother Commissioners. Among those present were Sir William Holmes, British Guiana and Trinidad ; Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, K.C.M.G" lonian Islands ; Mr. Knight, Victoria ; Mr. BroWO Chamberlain, Canada ; Mr. Cowper, New South Wales ; Mr. Chitty, Jamaica. Letters of excu se were sent from Sir Charles Darling, Mr.Dellis cu ' and others. An address of a similar character Who then presented to Mr. Simmonds, a gentleman w h° has ably assisted Dr. Lindley in his duties. 'A re solution was then afterwards carried that the address should be communicated to the Duke °b Newcastle. This is not the first occasion on vvh'l e the Colonial Commissioners have testified their respect and goodwill towayds these two ge ntlent ee ; During the course of the summer a dinner was g l/e to them at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, and Ogle rously attended. STATE OF TBADE. 411- f LEICtSTER, Nov. 26.—There is a fair amo unt O business doing in hosiery goods in the plain de' partment ; fancy goods are not in request. A! Loughborough and Hinckley business is quiet, and the operatives are very partially employed. Til er :, is very little stock on hand, and manufacturer s not increase their stocks at the preset price of M a " terial. Yarns are firm, and high rates are reali sed worsted spinners are well employed. In wools that is no important change, and the market is firm. NOTTINGHAM, NOV. 26.—There is still no illy' provement to report in the condition of the lane' trade; very few orders are being received, and bug" ness doing in plain silk nets and mechlines, an c l few cotton quillings are finishing. A flatness P vades the silk trade almost generally ; black few for trimmings are, however, selling; only a fe w , buyers have been in the market, and their op teec o. r o tions have been very limited. There are nos, of any description of goods on hand., In 11° iy' there is not much alteration. Busines s gene",: + i he is as active as could be expected, considering continual scarcity and high price of yarns• CABINET COUNClL.—sUmmonseS h the 2ci issued for a Cabinet Council on Tuesday ne.Kt, ace b eeti prom., at the First Lord of the Treasury's official roiSidenCe in Downing-street. M. de Sartiges, the new Minister of France st the Court of King Victor Emmanuel, has left Paris for Turin. A WELSH S UPE RSTITION: on the subjec t of deaths, I must mention a singular superstitious custora d which lingered, not v er y long ago, in some of the seclud e mountain vales of Carmarthenshire. When a person died, hi s ' friends sent for the sin-eater of the district, who for the s um of half-a - cro wn, actually took upon himself the sins °' th e deceased, by th e sim p le p rocess of eatin g them. 1:11! plan of operations was this : A loaf of bread was provided w hich the sin-eater first placed upon the dead pe rson's' c hest, then muttered some incantations over it, finally ea i n g it. Will it be credited that ho was believed to har d as regarded by everybody as a tabooed outcast ? taken from the defunct the heavy weight of his sins, 011 ` . t w o appropriate them to himself, for which act of kindness I t e In immediately after the ceremony was finished, and Ja s 11 . . $ thereceived his pay, he vanished in double quick time, it be 1 .1 31 usual custom for the friends to belab our hitn sticks—if they could catch him.—Once a IFeek. THE .11I'LACHLAN CASE.—M‘Lachlan, the 1)11 in S' band of the woman lately tried at the Circuit Court held Glasgow for the murder of Jessie M'Pherson, left Inveriles,o on Thurday last, having placed his child in caro wife's friends previous to proceeding abroad. He is acconar panied by a sister of his wife's. The Sandyford-place aff 0 11 ; has so preyed upon the mind of Mrs. Jack, another sister 1. Mrs. M , Lachlan, residing in Inverness, that she has be come insane.—Banffshire Journal. LIST OF BOOKS THAT OUGHT TO OE PUBLISIO,D; arcll, —" Our Rivers," Shirley Broo ks ; " Life of King Itich Dickens ; " The Sloven," Trollope ; " Fl o wers Fanny Fern ; " Anecdotes of Swallows," Miss Martineau' " On Watches," Lever; " Crowned Heads," Kingsley I Zin, " The Spilt Child," gip) Alarclon,— I I 1 I I °Per kar: •Cotin , TI 4Et vi Ile et th, 174 e 4 J o i to 4ti ititee 01 1 bi j)i `'N b iit, 1t D;