The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

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The property may be viewed by cards, to be obtained from the auctioneer, Mr. Edward Lumley, of 67, Chancery-lane, London, W C., and of the undersigned ; of each of whom printed particulars may also be had, and to whom proposals for purchase by private contract may be made. ADAM RIVERS STEELE, Solicitor, 44, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trio DAY.—Morning, 3h. 16m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 4h. 3m.—Afternoon, 4h. Wm 4 r r, 9 4 ~,, , ,`,.,1,.,'' r* ' ''k . -' •-'-`-' ~._'::::::".. ‘ ME: " Y . , Pa'r-'l 5, - - .-tx .---,-, e'i•dr .-&-..--- - , \ 3. ,,, ,,,-7 , t3 . L i- v i i % ,i• ~ ~,, D F - 61 -,1,,* .e_.---,P.,-' _ • , .-.-,-_ . -4.,....,.., THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 24, 1862. Prolongation of the war, greater vigour in con ducting it—such seems to be the opinion of the holders of cotton in Liverpool. They asked more for their cotton on account of the triumph of the Democrats and the defeat of the Republicans, fol lowed by the dismissal of ISVC - Lva..i.A.N. They, at least, act on the supposition that the incoming of American cotton is deferred by late events. Some politicians, both in this country and in America, take the opposite view. They say Mr. LINCOLN has always professed to be guided by what he understands to be the will of the people. He will see in the Democratic majority, first, the acceptance of their known, though not proclaimed, wish for reconciliation and peace; secondly, he will accept their vote as one of censure on the anti slavery policy, and withdraw his proclamation. These are plausible views. For there can be no doubt that, though afraid to say so, the Democrats would favour the largest concessions to the south for the sake of peace ; and their hostility to the successive anti-slavery measures of the Republican PRESIDENT and majority in Congress was never concealed. Still, the verdict of the Liverpool cotton men has, so far as we can yet see, most in its favour. First, and chiefly —success is the only thing which can retrieve the Republican position. If the Republican PRESIDENT can vanquish the South by any means, he and his party will be in power at the next Presidential election. The only question therefore) with the Republicans is—" Can we beat the South ? If we only can, all the past will be condoned, we shall be held to be the saviours of the State, and President LINCOLN will enjoy a double term of office." The Republicans have, therefore, not only their principles to animate them to action, but their interests. Till December twelvemonths is theirs. Why should they not " make hay while the snn shines." Their principles are infinitely nobler than those of the Democrats, their desire of office and leadership in the Union at least equal ; —when their principles point to the only course which also leads to cffice, why not give full effect to them? England must not do the Republicans injustice. Their faults are many, but they share them with the Democrats and Southerns, indeed with all par ties in America. But they have one virtue which neither the Democrats nor the South have, they desire first th e li m it a ti o n of slavery, and that in order to its final extinction. The South is fana tical for slavery, and the Democrats of the North, through whom the South has hitherto governed the Union, a re in no way averse to it. They would d o for it anything asked by the South, not withstandinb the late split among them. Let us then give Republicans the h their d ue . Let us remem ber that for all towards and ,offensive con duct of America and the f s England an d o ther na tions, the South Democrats ha ve been hitherto solely resp ons i ble , power. No city insulted the par th.ttiley were solely in prince of WALES but a great Southern city. The Nor after all, gave him the warmest and heartiest of receptions; South could not brook the presence o fth the the throne of an abolitionist nati on . W e m heir to ay ad mit all the follies ard pertnesses o f Mr. SEVAItI but they are trifles compared with the p ers i stent desire of the South openly proclaimed a s i t was—to appropriate all Mexico, Central Ame rica, and Cuba, in the interests of slavery, Both Democrats and Republicans are equally devoted to the worship of the Union, but the Republicans desire a Union in which Freedom shall bo the ruling princ i p le, the South and the Dornocrats—now dubbed the Tories of America —want a Republic of which slavery s hall be the foundation. Let the territories be peopled with freeman, let the Free States be uncontaminated with the presence of the slaveholder and his pro perty, is the demzenci of the Republicans—let slavery fill the territories—let the slaveholder take " his property" to New York and Massachusetts if he pleases, is the demand of the South and the Democrats. Mr. LINCOLN and his friends will feel that if they (.1,) not their best now for their coraparatiYely noble principles, those principles may be thrown into the back ground for years. By using effectively his power for the next twelve months, and then for the following year of his Presidency, he may cripplo the slave power for ever, whether the South secede or whether it be coerced to reunion. The triumph, on the bat tle-field, of the Republicans means the emancipa tion of the North American Continent from the impending curse of slavery. It is an issue worth vigorously worth fighting for ; and if the North can succeed in this issue, where is the Englishman who will not wish it success. Absolutely certain is it that if slaveholders only gain their point of sepa rating with all the Border States, and the States west of the Mississippi, we shall soon have a power there stretching down to South America itself, reviving the slave trade and bullying Europe ; unless indeed Europe, England included, consents to sell her long cherished principles for cotton, and to wink, not only at slavery but at the slave trade itself. The dismissal of MTLELLAN, we must confess, looks the right way. Disobedience to orders may have been the technical reason; but all mast per ceive that his strong political bias was what most unfitted him for the command in an army which was intended to carry emancipation to the negro. In this cause M'CLELLAN could not, with his strong pro-slavery tendencies, be a hearty co-operator. We are told here that Mr. LINCOLN will submit to the rebuke of the Democratic majority, and withdraw his anti-slavery proclamation. All we can say is, that his first act does not point that way. He cashiers, under every other inducement to retain him, the commander who could not work the pro clamation heartily. He hazards displeasing the army which M'CLELLAN had formed, and with which at last he had conquered, rather than leave an opponent of the proclamation in such an im portant command. We shall probably soon see now some decided steps taken. Already there are flying rumours of BURNSIDE'S defeat, and the re-occupation of Harper's Ferry by the Confederates. They appear to be not worthy of the least credit ; as little probable is the statement that Confederate pickets are on the wrong side of the Potomac between Point of Rocks and Berlin—two places near Har per's Ferry, and so directly in the rear of M'CLEL LAN'S advance, that we may be sure that cautious commander would allow of no such liberty being taken with his communications. Besides, we hear of STONEWALL JACKSON at Front Royal, some hundred miles from Harper's Ferry. As, however, M'CLELLAN leaves for inaction, and EURNSIDE is put in to act, the latter can hardly delay long to make some important movement, one which must be followed either by a damaging defeat or by driving the enemy more to the South. The wea ther must be unfavourable to military action, but the Ist of January is now fast approaching, and Mr. LINCOLN must have his armies in a position to make his proclamation something better than waste paper. The telegrams coming to us from Athens — though terse as telegrams as can be —are, we cannot but think it, full of significance. " The great pro bability," says one, "of the election of Prince ALFRED to the throne has caused some excitement among the foreign Ministers." And no wonder ! " Tranquillity," it is added, nevertheless " prevails throughout the country." There is another tele gram, however, that remarks—" It is asserted that the English Minister has consulted his Government' with respect to the demonstrations taking place in favour of Prince ALFRED." To which the next flashes of the electric current append the intima tion :—" The English Government is stated to have replied that the Minister should in no way endea vour to influence the election." A reply this—if meaning anything—negatively favourably ! The Election of Prince ALFRED to the throne of Greece would, if recognised frankly by the rest of the great European Powers, be manifestly to the advan tage of our own policy. The choice suggested would not alone, we are persuaded, prove advan tageous to the,interests of England. Prince ALFRED'S nomination to the Throne of Greece would be an advantage also to the Greek people themselves. And a disadvantage, we are perfectly satisfied of this, it would be, to no other Power in Christendom. Greece would beyond a doubt gain with the acceptance of Prince ALFRED a notable increase of territory by the absorption of the lonian Archipelago into her dominions. England, at the same time, by that very arrangement would be rid at last of a troublous and most vexatious Protectorate. Far more impor tant to Greece than the extension of her sway geo graphically, would be that guarantee of her liberties which would inevitably be secured to her upon her acceptance of England's second son for her Sovereign, Tinder her auspices, more surely than under the auspices of any other Prince that might be selected by her as the new occupant of her throne, Greece might reasonably count upon the enjoyment thence forth of the priceless blessings of a Constitutional Government. As to the influence the election of Prince ALFRED to the Throne of Greece would have upon the interests of France especially, but of the Western Powers of Europe generally, there is still reason to hope that it will be on calm reflection recognised at the Tuileries and at other courts as in no way malific as in many important respects desirable to the majo rity of the nations of Christendom. A national guarantee, such a decision as this would be inevita bly, that yonder in the East the interests, not of England alone, not of Greece alone, but of Western Civilization itself would be cared for. Recognising this, we cannot induce ourselves to attach any serious importance to the bragga dociose words blurted out by La France, to the effect that " The great Western Po ivers have com mon interests in the East, which ought to unite and not to divide them. It is evident," says La France, "that if one of the Powers desired to obtain a preponderance of the other the equilibrium of their relations would be disturbed, and a shock be given to the principles on which their good understand ing rests." It is not the 31 oniteur that talks thus, remember—it is merely La France. The accents are not those of the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., but merely those of the Viscount DE LA GUERRONIERE. Italy may now, in one sense, draw breath again at ain —in regard to her hopes. The ball has been length extracted from the wound of GARIBALDI. The Chambers have again assembled at Turin. In each instance —what a relief i After this silence of waiting and suffering —after so very protracted a l:continuanceerf:i languageof t h of Holyat" hop e deferred" that in the w grieving months upon o " ti m m a o k n e t t h h s the o over er th heart e sick"— a ft er precarious state of the health of the Italian Hero and over tha lack of any opportunity whatever of calling the Italian Prime Minister to account, for his (to say the least of it) most questionable policy —the two long .wished-for breaks i n the cloud suddenly appear before yearnin g thheeartsofthe It a li an people, eyes and app ea l to the a ll tio p n on al t L ile e g i s l a by a ide, and si b m ii u n l g tan of eo t u h s e ly N . bullet was successfully— easily--withdrawn, by the skilled hand of Dr, mor roweiside o a f t the Turin, ankle o General GA. urrien:atslaseenirifle woundedzeaLilzyx--nw,iftrhQdnaratwhen, RIBALDI, at Pisa. So that, after all, Professor PARTRIDGE was in error when, upon his first exa mination, ho pronounced his opinion that there was no bullet therefor extraction ! Dr. NELATON being in the right when, in opposition to the majority of the surgeons, he asserted that h : nay, probably in the right also when he affirmed that the probo he used in his e tt , examination actually struck a ga i ns t the ball t e er still lying there perdu. A reasonable and confi dent hope may now be cherished, in earnest, that before very much longer the General's recovery from his sick couch may be effected, and his health (tried so seriously by these lengthened sufferings, and by this long confinement to the languor and inertness of life in an invalid's chamber) may, by judicious treatment, be rapidly and securely estab lished. Meanwhile there are these legislative discussions which have now commenced in earnest at Turin— where Signor RATTAZZI finds himself at last brought face to face with the ranks of a powerful and serried Opposition. This—after the affair of Aspromonte ! Alter—the ignoring by the Government of the Minister's Imperial patron, of the despatch or cir cular of General DURAND° ! After—the dissipa tion of the last faint, feeble, dimly-outlined expec tation that the policy of the RATTAZZI Cabinet was still pledged to the cause of Unifica- tion. The Minister stands at this momen before the strong Opposition whose chief orators are now in rapid sequence following each other into the Tribune, to pour forth thence the phials of their wrath on the devoted heads of the Italian Premier and his Ministerial colleagues—RATTAZZl stands before the Chamber of Deputies and before the whole mass of the Italian population out of doors in this disadvantageous plight : that he is re cognised now on all hands as having deceived the nation, as having deceived his fellow-countrymen, at least so far if no further—that he is known now to have assumed a virtue while he had had it not ! To have ousted Signor RICASOLI in other words upon the pretence of going more resolutely and more determinedly to work to secure the simplification of the national difficulty and the dissipation of the national troubles by the one device of Italian Unity ! How far the Minister's policy has been successful in that direction Italy, Europe, ' the whole world knows now full well. The faintest vestige of a hope of any proximate solution of the problem has, :miler his insidious and double-dealing policy, been scouted. Events of a painful character demonstrate the fact that it is so. The conclusions arrived at are drawn from facts that no one can gain say. If the Opposition now confronting Signor RATTAZZI in the Chamber of Deputies at Turin were to move for his impeachment, they have names and dates, and facts, and documents within their reach, abundantly sufficient to enable any Parliamentary body to draw up a Bill of Attainder of a character altogether unanswerable and overwhelming. Every purpose, however, may—far more readily and quite as effectually—be answered by the agency of a free discussion of the whole political situation of the country in the popular chamber of the Italian legislature. To those discussions the friends of Italy may now, therefore, look most hopefully. Through the de bate which has but just been commenced in the Par liament at Turin, the patriotic portion of the as sembly may rationally hope to worst all the more insidious, and therefore all the more really dange rous members of the RATTAZZI Cabinet, to—" Con found their polities, Frustrate their knavish. tricks ° —and generally to look for the expiation of all recent errors by resorting perhaps to IticAsom;or at any rate, by calling to the helm of the State some man whose min'sterial robes have not been trailed in the blood of Aspromonte. The Duke of Rutland is entertaining a large party at Belvoir Castle. The Marqufs of Lansdowne has been receiving a succession of visitors at Bowood during the past week. THE MINISTRY.—Since the Cabinet Council, held on Thursday last, some of the ministers have left town. Sir George Grey has returned to his seat, Fallodon, Northum.• berland. Earl Granville is detained in London by the ill ness of his mother, the Dowager Countess Granville, who is resident in Hereford-street. Lord Palmerston is staying at his mansion in Piccadilly. Earl Russell is remaining at his residence in Richmond Park. The Duke of Somer set, the Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone, Sir George C. Lewis, and Mr. Milner Gibson continue in London.— bserver. TILE EXHIBITION FINANCES.—At the meeting of the Society of Arts, last Wednesday. when Sir C. W. bilks was present, Sir Thomas Phillips said in his opening ad dress—" I cannot detail with any precision the financial re sults of the Exhibition, but I understand the money paid for admission on this occasion has amounted to £409,000, whilst the receipts in 1851 were £423,792, including in each instance the payment for season tickets." On Saturday evening last her Majesty, with the Princesses, visited St. George's Chapel, and placed wreaths of unfading flowers over the vault of the late Prince Con sort.—Court Journal. THE BOMBAY MAIL.—SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 23. —The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Delta, Captain Weeks, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived here this evening. She brings 26 passengers, £lOO in specie, and 842 packages of merchandise. Her cargo chiefly consisting of grain, The Delta left Gibraltar on the 19th inst. On the following day she passed [four men-of war entering the Tagus, and on the 23d passed the ship Walmer, which wished to be reported. Enchange on Lon don, at Gibraltar, 90 days, 50i ; Paris, sf. 29c. Freight unaltered. The weather continues cold but dry in Paris. The thermometer marked yesterday morning a little below zero, but at three in the afternoon, it had risen to 2 above zero Centigrade (35 3-sths Fahrenheit). THE CONVICT GARDNER.—The sweep, Samuel Gardner, who was to have suffered the chief penalty of the law last Monday with Robert Cooper, for the murder of his wife, but who, as our readers are aware, received a respite on the Saturday previous, still remains in Newgate, and no itimation has yet been given as to the intentions of the Government with regard to his ultimate fate. He still per sists in declaring that he is innocent of the crime of mur dering his wife ; but it would seem that be does not now sap anything with reference to the girl Humbler being the guilty party, but contents himself with the assertion of his own innccence. THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.—The following is from the Gibraltar Chronicle of the 13th inst. :—" Letters from Tangier mention that the Sultan of Morocco has re moved the prohibition against the importation of :sulphur and saltpetre. These articles aro no longer to be the sub ject of a monopoly, but, as an experiment for one year, they are to be admitted at an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. The exportation of rags and aloe fibre is also to be allowed—the former paying a duty of 10 ounces (about Is. 3d.) the canter or cwt., and the latter six ounces. It is reported also that the Sultan is about to make his debut as a manufacturer, his highness having made arrangements for establishing a paper manufactory at Mogador, under the superintendence of an Englishman. Experiments in the cultivation of the cotton plant have been made on a small scale in the neighbourhood of Mszagan and Saffi The specimens produced are reported to be of excellent quality, and have encouraged the Moorish Government to send for a large quantity of cotton seed) as well as for the machines used iu cleaning the cotton, with a view of intro ducing the cotton cultivation into Barbary." THE SILK TRADE IN FRANCE.—The Salut Public of Lyons shows that the exportation of silks of all kinds, including ribbons and trimmings, reached, in 1861, a sum of 333,310,0001 r.. being less by 121,421,4191 r. than in 1860, The resul - of 1861 is oven inferior to the quinquennial ave rage by 86,806,742 fr. in 1861. The difference, compared with 1859, is 166 millions of francs. These figures (says the Salta Public) show the extent of the crisis through which the silk trade is now passing. A Naples letter in the Phare de la Loire gives some details of Count de Christen's attempt to escape from prison :—" The Count who was devising means of imitating Monsignor Cenatiempo, has been seized this week in the Martin s very act of attempting to escape. With the aid of one of themselves l o ' Zrl his fellow prisoners he had succeeded in making two diffe psu.blic, and the other on to r is e h n i t e rnings in the prison walls. One led into the chapel, are changed every day, negotiations with them the Mountain Saint tohoek escapeoverlooked t of the cityth e police, who w a h r o e a l rir y (3 i . t t h h that the t v w ie oul o d f be e 0 rrm difficult updtein to g o.p them.tn It was those man who gave the alarm w , and us n was surprised as be wars rewiring gm) 104 iitMe." LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. (Per Arabia, via Halifax.) The prize steamers Relian3e, S wan , and Union have been sold at Key West. A large side-wheel steamer, the Caroline, formerly called Arizona, has been captured about 50 miles off Mobile, laden with arms and munitions of war from Havana. General Corcoran's brigade has left New York for the seat of war. • The Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee has ordered Colonel Ford, of Ohio, and Major Baird, of the 126th New York Regiment, to be dismissed the situation with regard to foreign policy dated from the resolution of the Chamber, called forth by Count Cavour, declaring Rome the capital of the kingdom. This resolution had excited impatience and had cast difficulties in the way of succeeding Ministries. The speaker concluded by asking a vote which should by agreement put an end to party differ ences, the majority desiring the reconstruction of the present Ministry upon a Parliamentary basis. Deputies Desanctis and de Cesare spoke against the Ministry, the latter having declared that Italian unity had been compromised in 1359, under Rat tazzi's Ministry. The Marquis Pepoli, in a speech which was loudly cheered, maintained the falsity of this accusation. PISA, Nov. 23. At 10 o'clock this morning Dr. Zanetti success fully extracted the bullet from Garibaldi's wound. BRUSSELS, Nov. 23. The flndependance Beige publishes a despatch stating that a splinter of bone and the bullet had been extracted from Garibaldi's wound with great FRAN CE. PARIS, Nov. 22. Ia .France of this evening, in an article upon the attitude of England with respect to Greece, and on the proposal to elect Prince Alfred to the throne of that country, draws attention to the gravity of the situation, and says : ‘, The great Western Powers have common inte rests in the East which ought to unite and not to divide them. It is evident that if one of the Powers desired to obtain a preponderance to the prejudice of the others the equilibrium of their relations would be disturbed, and a shock be given to the principles on which their good understanding rests." NOVEMBER 23, The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram dated Athens, November 21, asserting that orders had been sent to Corfu from London to make pre parations in that island for the reception of Prince Alfred. La Patric publishes the following:— "We are informed from London, under date of the 21st of November, that £LE Baron de Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, has communicated to Lord Russell a despatch from Prince Gortschakoff with a view to establish that the Cabinet of St. Peters burg did not intend to deviate from the spirit and the letter of the 3d paragraph of the London protocol of the 3d of February, 1830, and that con sequently it could not recognise as Sovereign of Greece a Prince belonging to either of the families placed under that interdict. " We believe that a similar communication has been made to M. Drouyn de Lhuys by M. d'Oubril, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris. " This double step still leaves the question open as to whether the Duke of Leuchtenberg ought to be considered as excluded by the stipulations of 1830." BOURSE, Nov. 22.—The market has been heavy, and the limited amount of business doing transacted at lower quotations. Threes, for the Account, opened at 70f. 40c., and are now at 70f. 25c. Mo bilier have also declined. The Railway Share Market has been heavy, and many of the lines are rather lower. Stock continued to be offered to the close of business, and prices gradually receded to leave off as follows :- 41 per Cents 9B Do. end month — Bank Shares 3350 Credit k oncier l3OO Piedmontese Fives 71 Italian Loan 7O Roman Russian Spanish Threes 54 Home Debt RAILWAYS. 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 25 New 3 per Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier.. :1082 50 Do. end ni0nth....1085 Cash. Account. Orleaag 1043 75 .. 1045 Northern - - New ditto — • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1063 .. 1050 Geneva .. 351 25 . . _ _ Southern 'Western Eastern ........... 3 530 .. 631 25 Sardinian 375 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 630 .. 630 Ditto to Barcelona 340 .. 342 50 7HE LADY STUDENT QUESTION-WHO STOPS THE WAY? It is fortunate for mankind in gencral, and for English mankind in particular, that we are in a position to prove that Miss Garrett's failures are not all duo to masuline malignity, but that in fact she might by this time actually have been reading for her " Bachelor ship," but for the incorrigible action of her own sex. The proof is this :—Almost two years since Miss Garrett applied to a London medical school for admission to attend lectures. The Dean of the school thought she ought to be ad mitted, sounded the students, and found that there would be no opposition there, and then using all his influence called a meeting of his colleagues. There were eight in town who had votes, and the Dean knew that three beside himself were determinately in favour of the lady ; the others he was not so sure about ; but on the doctrine of chances be thought the admittance was nearly certain. The night of meeting came, and Mr. Dean was voted to the chair. Now, said he to himself, all is right, for if we vote equally for and against, I have the casting vote. The business commenced, but to the chairman's annoyance two difficulties occurred ; the four doubtful men were as one against the admission, while the staunchest of the four for the admission did not make an appear ance. The chairman, to gain time, asked every man to speak; for himself he spoke twice, now earnestly, now amusingly, but it was of no avail ; time would fly, the defaulter did not come, and vote—vote they must. " Gentlemen, the question is—Shall Miss Garret be admitted a student of the school ?" " For Miss Garrett"-7hree. "On the contrary"—Four. Motion lost, and meeting breaks up ; Dean very down at mouth, and Miss Garrett once more on the ,ender mercies of the hard world. Reader, dream not that the story is ended, you are quite mistaken if you think so, for the cream of it is now to come. On the morning following the meeting, the Dean, after a melancholy night, has tened to his energetic and yet defaulting colleague. " Friend," said the Dean, sharply, " why did you not come last night, your negligence lost us the vote " Nay," replied the defaulter, " don't be angry ; sit down, and I'll tell you. The fact is I meant to come, for I believed in the cause, and I actually had on my hat and gloves to start, when my wife asked where I was going. She didn't want me to go out in fact, and so I had to show her the necessity for my presence at the meeting, and to urge that, as a chivalrous man, I must go. Will you believe it ?—On my honour, no sooner did I finish, than she opened on me as she never did before. A woman going to study anatomy with men stu dents, and I voting for it ! If I did it she would quit the house, and'—" We leave the rest ; simply recording that the gallant Professor got such a sound rating from his better half, that he was driven to retire back to his slippers, and to give up poor Miss Garrett to her fate. The Dean heard the nar rative and melted. " This is clearly a case," said he, " for the women themselves, and may be your your wife was right. One woman's opinion is as good as another, of course, perhaps better."—Social Science Review. SPAIN, MADRID, Nov. 22. The Council of Ministers is occupied with the preparation of the Speech from the Throne. The Epoca publishes a letter from Mexico, dated the 19th ult., which states that the Belgian and Prussian Plenipotentiaries had protested against the expulsion of French citizens. It was believed that the Belgian Minister would be expelled the city for having addressed some severe language to Senor Lafuente regarding a tumour that Mexico was to be laid under water upon the approach of the French troops. The same journal also contains intelligence from Tenerife of the 17th ultimo stating that the vomito had not yet appeared in the island. 7HE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR, —Some of the warmest tippletts and pet coats that ever comforted the poor in our neighbour hood have been made year by year by young ladies of my acquaintance, from remnants of flannel-list and other selvages, hoarded for them by their friends and trade's-people, well knowing the good and charitable purpose to which these young Dorcases would apply it. Might not, also, patch work-coverlets, of great warmth, be made from tailors' cuttings, and the cuttings accumulated by cloak-makers, and artificers of woollen and other warm garments.—l am, Sir, yours respectfully, A SEXAGENARIAN. Kensington Park, W., Nov. 22, 1862. BAZAAR FOR THE DISTRESSED OPE. .RATIVES IN ASIITON ITIVDER-LYNE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sru,—ln the contributions I have received there are one or two cases where a private acknowledgment has been wanted in which I could scarcely make out the address, therefore I am not sure whether any acknowledgment of mine has been received. If those who have any influence with the various railway companies that have any commu nication with Ashton will use it so as to empower me to receive parcels of goods carriage free, they would confer a favour on me and benefit the cause of the distressed here considerably, Amongst the promises of contributions of work, postage stamps received, I cannot help expressing my hearty thanks for the sympathetic letters of Lady Conyers, W. P. Roberts, 'One who has little to give," and "A single lady not affluent, but desirous to send a trifle to her distressed sisters in need." This last correspondent's favour I will acknowledge, ac cording to her wish, at the close of this undertaking, and of all others who have already sent donations and promises of work. I shall have great pleasure in forwarding to any lady or gentleman who may not have seen my first letter, and who wish to know the particulars of my plan of relief, circulars, &c., containing all the necessary information. I had occasion to go out early this morning, about seven o'clock, to one of the newspaper offices in this town, and saw men, who ought to have been at their work, through the grey and misty light, standing with their hands in their pockets, appearing haggard, careworn, and distracted, their countenances speaking volumes to the passers-by, and tell ing him of cheerless homes, comfortless meals, and fireless dwellings. By the time the Bazaar is held all local means will be almost exhausted, and then what will the poor do unless there is provision made for them in some way ? If the present scheme is thoroughly supported by the rich and poor of the United Kingdom, it will be the means in some measure of warding cif that evil day a little linger, and perhaps until there is a change in the state of affairs. Circulars, in any quantity, will be forwarded to every lady or gentleman who may be wishful to advocate the cause of the wretched in their own immediate neigh bourhood. Again I beg for contributions of work, money, postage stamps. Asking you, Sir, to find a place for this, I the matter in the hands of the merciful.--I am your obedient servant, JOHN BLEASDELL, B.A. Henry-square, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Nov. 20, 1862. 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 Cdwoys i 1094 Wm. 5914 i packets by 23280-ageULS' service. It is semiofficially announced that there are no divisions in the Cabinet on Government measures. Lieutenant Johnson, of the 17th Kentucky Union Regiment, having tendered his resignation on ac count of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, has been dis missed the service in disgrace. The Richmond Examiner says that the declara tion of the British Secretary of War that the South had not yet accomplished her independence, has dissolved the prospect of foreign intervention. The Examiner thinks that England wishes to see the continuance of the war to the point of exhaustion of both North and South, in order to remove American rivalry in commercial enterprise and empire. Lord Lyons left New York for - W ashington on Tuesday last. Archbishop Hughes has written a letter to Mr. Seward, in which he says that America should be prepared, for there is no love for her on the other side of the Atlantic. Generally speaking, in Europe the United States are ignored, if not despised ; treated of in conversation in the same contemptuous language that Americans might employ towards the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands or Vancouver's Island. The Archbishop is sorry to say that these assertions are unquestionably true. Letters are published in the New York journals showing that Superintendent of Police Kennedy, of New York city, on his own authority caused a lady from New Orleans, 22 years of age, named Brinsmode, to be arrested in Washington and brought to New York, where she was confined in a common cell of a police station during five weeks. All applications of her friends to see here were use less, Kennedy, threatening, if they continued their applications, to have them arrested. They then applied to the War Department and to Provost marshal Draper at Washington, who denied all knowledge of this arrest, and ordered the lady to be released at once. The grounds of her arrest were Kennedy's assertion that she sang secession airs on the steamer coming from New Orleans, and that she was a spy. The New York journals de nounce Kennedy's conduct as most infamous. The Federal expedition which left Newbern, North Carolina, has captured Hamilton and is ad vancing on Tarborough. The correspondent of the Boston Journal , writing from the squadron off Charleston on the 18th October, says that the British gunboat Racer entered Charleston and took away as passenger the British Consul, who states that the Confederates have launched a powerful ram, and that two more are ready for plating with iron which they expect to arrive from England. The steamer Ne.shsille is lying at the mouth of Stone Inlet, six miles from Charleston, watching for a chance to run out. There were 200 cases of ellow fever at Charleston. The same correspon dent says that a steamer ran the Charleston blockade on the Bth (?). The Federal steamer Flambeau fired 22 shots against her side to stop her, but the shots rattled off like hail. She is supposed to be iron-plated, and also to have iron-plates on board. Major Sanders, a son of George N. Sanders, has been captured on his way to Europe with Confede rate despatches. The Bermuda Gazette says that Admiral Milne, with a large fleet, will leave Halifax for Bermuda, on Nov. 15. General Fremont has been orderd to report him self for duty. General Scott has replied to President Buchanan's ic might have rein cfeormeemduFneratsti Jacks that on nßdsht.aPhilipsßuchanan with small gar risons until Congress could have raised volunteers. Gen. Scott cannot believe that Buchanan, although acknowledging himself responsible, consented to Secretary Floyd's removing 115,000 guns and rifles from Northern repositories to Southern arsenals, also to the removal of 12n pieces of artillery to Ship Island and Galveston. Gen. Scott also defends him self for publishing various official communications. Two brokers in New York have been sent to Fort Lafayette for defrauding the Government by issuing forged bills on the Government Subsistence Depart ment. Fifty persons are said to be implicated, and or the frauds are said to exce ed 1,000 , 0 00 dols. provided for by the recentAenmt id courttxre e aty, hasbeen of justice,g Messrs. Truman, Smith , and Cephas Brainard are ansed in New York. appointed United States Arbitrators, and Mr. E. M. Archibald, the British Consul, and Mr. W. D. Ryder, Arbitrator for England. The Bishop of Georgia announces that the union of the diocese of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and the Virginias is com pleted under the name of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confederate States of America. The first general council will meet at Augusta. The Lager beer brewers and cigar manufacturers of New York City are organising themselves to resist the taxes affecting their trades, as they say the taxes are so onerous as to destroy their busi- fleas. ATHENS, Nov. 20. It is asserted that the English Minister has con• suited his Government with respect to the demon• strations taking place in favour of Prince Alfred. The English Government is stated to have re. plied that the Ambassador should in no way en. deavour to influence the election. NOVEMBER 22. The great probability of the election of Prince Alfred to the throne has caused some excitement among the foreign Ministers, The English Minister has declared that he will in no way influence the election to the throne, and that Greece is perfectly free to make her own choice. It is considered certain that Prince Alfred wil be elected. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 22. The negotiations for'the establishment of a Na tional Bank have been brought to a conclusion. The Prince of Montenegro has again pro tested against the erec ti on o f bl ockhouses a l ong his fron tier, but the Porte p ers i s t s i n i ts i n t en ti o n. Intelligence has be en rece i ve d h ere f r om Athens that the choice of Prin ce Alf re d f o r the Greek Throne is certain. TURIN, Nov, 22, EVENING. The debate in the Chamber of Deputies upon the Ministerial policy was continued to-day. Signor Boggio belieyed that the difficulties of the ease. MYS7ERIO US AFFAIR. A singular story formed': the topic of conversation last week in Dublin. It is stated that a young lady of high respectability, daughter of a well known merchant in Dublin, left her father's re sidence early on Tuesday afternoon for a walk. Not returning home at the hour at which she was expected, her friends became un easy for her safety, and their anxiety in creased when hour after hour passed with out any tidings of her being received. Search was of course, made, and persons sent in various direc tions to endeavour to discover some intelligence as to what had become of her, but it was not until late in the evening that she was discovered by one of the servants, who found the young lady tied hand and foot to a tree in her father's shrubbery, her mouth being so completely gagged that she was totally un able to cry for help, or utter a sound. She was, of course, immediately released, and conveyed to the house, but it was some time before she was restored from the condition of exhaustion to which she had been reduced. On recovering, she stated that while walking through the grounds she suddenly met two men engaged in talking to each other; that the mo ment these parties observed her, one of them fol lowed her, and asked her had she heard any of their conversation, She replied in the negative, but this they evidently disbelieved, as they proceeded to drag her to a tree, to the trunk of which they bound her securely, and, having gagged her, so as to pre vent her crying for help, they decamped, first cau tioning her that if she valued her life she would not disclose to any person what had occurred. Beyond tying her to the tree and gagging her they did not offer her any molestation. The state of terror in which the lady remained until discovered by the servant may be readily imagined. It is stated that her father subsequently received an anonymous letter warning him to take no proceedings to pur sue the matter further, as, if he took any step to wards discovering the parties, his daughter would be shot. It is surmised that the parties were con nected with the murder of Mr. Braddeli, and that one of them was Hayes, and that they feared that the lady had overheard sufficient of their conversa tion to point out who they were. DESTRU7ION 1N GLASGOW. Three months ago we considered it our duty to draw the attention of the public to the sad condition of the operatives in Glasgow connected with the cotton-spinning and weaving trade ; then, from statistics we published, it was shown that the dis tress amongst the cotton factory operatives, although pressing most heavily upon those of Lancashire, was not confined to them, but that in this city and neighbourhood sufferings of a very poignant nature being endured. The statement we published on the 18th of August showed that there were 4,417 per sons totally out of work, 4,118 working half-time, 1,664 working two-third time, 1,628 working three quarter time, and 4,380 fully employed. Soon after that statement was published the Lord Provost called a meeting, and an influential committee was appointed to collect subscriptions and relieve the necessitous. That it was appointed not an hour too soon has been shown ever since its ap pointment; and this fact will be made more ap parent from a survey of the statistics col lected during the present week. The executive relief committee, since their appointment on the 2d of September, have given weekly assistance to between 1,800 and 2,000 individuals. One day this week a member of the committee had himself no fewer than between forty and fifty applications for schedules. Of course all of those who have got re lief are now on the list, as from various causes a number have dropped off or been struck out. The paucity in the number of applications for relief, when compared with those who are actually un employed, is accounted for by the fact, which has been proved by the domiciliary visits of the sub committees of relief, that applications are never made until sheer want compels them. The quiet suffering that has thus been endured is beyond re cital. The executive relief committee are fully aware of the whole circumstances of the sad case, and are doing all they can to cope with its exigen cies. They were invested with full powers from the general committee appointed at the public meeting itneptember, and accordingly at once set about organising means for the collection of subscriptions and the distribution of relief. Although they are by no means out of funds yet, still undoubtedly more money will be required during the coming winter if the applicants for relief increase in the ratio they have latterly done.—North British Mai l . LARGE SHIPMENT AT LIVERPOOL OF WAR MA TERIAL FOR THE CONFEDERATE GOVE the NicolaßNMENT.—Alsou 1., Capt. t eight days ago, a fine screw stea mer, !. Fkenley, quietly slipped out of the Huskisson Dock, where she had been loading with goods packed in cases, and steamed up to the ;•:loyne, where she lay for some time m veloped in the dense November fogs. She was ostensibly bound for St. Thomas, in the West Indies. At last the Nicolai I. (which had more than once changed her name 0 tone f war and engaged in short Baltic voyagesbefore, in ° Atlantic, where, m order ator i toai on allayb board, ar d , suspicion ) crept fa ru p o o n u t t h the during a dense fog, with upwards of 60 at least, she is not likely to be captured, e being a vessel of first-rate sailing powers. During the time the Ni co l a i I. lay in the Huskisson Dock her boiles were severely tested by hydraulic power, in order to ascertain what pressure they could bear, and the result was satisfactory, so that in s i h l e e w N il i t co g i e a t ; I safely s a h ll e p i r s o b b o a u b n il d it . y to Cuarleston, whither well known Liverpool merchant, se to a•id resources is sa id to b e se hits been chartered by a w co h n c ato s ao c n k of e i war n mattheerials a ii m in a ga r o ia ra ls , i ! - -4i0r1)04 11croity, 271 E VOLUN7EERS. The distribution of prizes by Colonel M'Murdo, Inspector-General of Volunteers, to the successful competitors in the 19th Middlesex Volunteers (Working Men's College Corps) took place on Satur day evening at Westminster-hall in the presence of a very numerous attendance of spectators. Lieu tenant-Colonel Bathurst, the commandant of the corps, in a brief address congratulated the regiment upon the advantage which was conferred upon taem by the presence ofColonel M'Murdo, who had kindly undertaken to distribute the prizes that evening, not as a matter of official duty, but as a proof of the interest he felt in the great Volunteer movement. The report of the musketry instructor, Captain Williams, showed a satisfactory improvement in the musketry practice and a considerable increase in the number of those who had gone through the entire course of preliminary musket drill. Colonel M‘Murdo then addressed the corps. He said he had much pleasure in attending there that evening, not only because of the high esteem with which he held the 19th Middlesex, but because he bad desired an opportunity, which was then afforded him of seeing the whole of the corps—he meant not only the fighting men but also friends and supporters of the Volunteers. (Hear, hear.) It had often oc curred to him when inspecting Volunteers that, much as the country owed to those who served actively in the ranks, it owed much more to those who supported them. With regard to the object which had assembled them that night, he observed that he hid heard with the greatest satis faction the report of Copt. Williams, showing the great progress the members of the corps had made in musketry drill, and he could fully appreciate the great advantage they had derived from the fact that their musketry instructor was one of their own officers of volunteers. It was one of the most remark able facts connected with the volunteer movement how officers came forward to carry their men through their drill without pay, and simply from love of the service and their country's good, and Capt. Williams was one of those officers. (Hear, hear.) Before proceeding to distribute the prizes he thought it was only right that, in his position as Inspector-General of Volunteers, he should impress upon them that, however important it might be that they should be good marksmen, and that they should fully understand the value of the beau tiful weapon with which they were armed, he was jealous lest they should imagine that a knowledge of the use of the rifle was the all in all of education for soldiers in the field. He could assure them that was not so, because without training, drill, and a knowledge of their officers and non-commissioned officers, no general who might command them in the field could have any confidence in them, whatever might be their efficiency in rifle practice. The use of the rifle was, doubtless, a most important part of a soldier's education, but without efficiency in other respects they would be of no use in the field. He might naturally refer them to examples of wars, and more particularly to that war which was occur ring in our own time. They were all acquainted with the events that were recounted in the news papers, but he was sorry to say that he was unable to perceive from these accounts any good likely to arise from the horrid, stupid, unnatural war now' raging in America. Battles were fought apparently upon no intelligible principles, and, if he were to make an observation applicable to those he was ad dressing, it would be that if every man who bolted at Bull's Run had been a highest class marksman he would have bolted all the same. There were nothing in the dark moving mass of stupid cruelty' which constituted that war that could afford them instruction or information. It was true that the strategical movements of two leaders, Jackson and Stuart, were exceedingly admirable, and formed n contrast to the other operations of the contending forces—a contrast such as forked lightning pre sented to the solid, heavy thunder cloud. He would rather refer them to some of those great battles which were fought in old times upon intelligible principles, and, in order to prove the truth of what he had told them, that skill in musketry was not all that was required from a soldier, he would refer them to the battle of Austerlitz. Upon that occasion the contending forces on each side were about 70,000. The great Napoleon, with the prescience which be longed to a great general, perceived from the direc tion of the march of the allies that they were about to turn his right flank, and he disposed his own army to meet that movement. The night before the battle the reports of his advanced gu_-rd having confirmed his suspicions of the enemy's design, Na poleon issued a remarkable proclamation, in which he pointed out to his soldiers the error which the allies were about to commit. He did so because he had confidence in his soldiers that they would obey his orders and the orders of their officers. He treated them as friends, and when at night he rode along the line the soldiers lit bunches of straw as an illu mination in honour of their general, crying out to him, " We know what you are going to do tomor row, and we are prepared to do it. Do you keep out of danger and trust to us." The next morning the allies made the movement he had expected, Cu d Napoleon at the proper moment sent Soult Wit h 20,000 men against the enemy's centre, which he defeated, and then changing front to the right mediately doubled up an opposing force of 50,0 00 men. In that battle victory was notentirely owing to superior musketry. One principal cause was go od discipline, which enabled men to be brought to the proper place, and concentrated their fire upon th e most important points. Reverting to the imme diate business of that evening, he expressed his gratification at learning that out of 683 enrolled members of the corps, 423, or nearly two•thirds had passed through a course of musketry instrue" tion, and he hoped that in the course of nest year all the members would have passed through, the course, and thus fulfilled the requirements 01 a good soldier. _Of another requirement, efficien e l in the field, he could speak from personal kwas s " . ledge is highly satisfactory in battalion mace ments, although he had not seen them in skirmish; ing. The remaining great requirement B v a i discipline, which consist e d in obedience to an ' confidence in their officers. To officers and Lo n ; commissioned officers he would say " Deserve that obedience and c on fid e nc e by learning your du ties thoroughly, and thus command the respect of 9ea men." In the present instance he was sur e that t would be done, and, indeed, had been done, but nothing could be done too well, and they 03 1 . recollect that it was much easier to become en ding cientprivate soldier than an efficient cominanu officer. (Cheers.) The gallant colonel then P r _ ceeded to deliver the prizes to the respective Nsl4er ners. The Company Challenge Cup and S i. na Medal, for the highest score at 200, 500, and 5 : ) . „," yards, 5 shots, was won by the 6 th C om p an y (2)u marks). The Regimental Challenge Cup and Silver_ Medal, for the highest score under the above con' ditions, was won by Captain Williams, 44 m arks. These prizes were presented_to the corps by Major Thomas Hughes. The prizes amounted to near/9 80 in number, and comprised rifles, telescopes' tankards, stetuettes, books, &c. Company 5 (Price ° Sherwood) was fortunate and skilful enough t° carry off eight out of 22 battalion prizes. Each s winner, as he received the reward of his pre w i es d f ro m the hands of Col one l Al'Murde, was hails with loud cheers by his comrades, affording a gra tifying testimony of tho good feeling existlritti; among the corps. Ch eers were t h en given bo o for Colonel Al'Alurdo and for Lieutenant -Co:nu Bathurst, with which the interestin g proceeding terminated. A shock of tion of ---- -. *. (Piedmont) earthquake was felt at Pinerolo E.to on w th . ? a l n B d th. las l t t ed wa 2 s o u s n e d c u o l n a d to s. r y , r g e th s e ky di rs::; slightly clouded, and the thermomet;r stood at 37 Fab r. 'TIE COD FISH.—The cod in the sea, as the pike in the river, is of so voracious a natur e that he will bite at whatever may come in his way, an d whenever it is set b©, fore him. In a cod fish weighing seventeen pounds, caugbt,, by the writer in October, 1854, there wore found a plaice of a pound weight (quite fresh) , three whole herrings, ou a t fou r sa nd' dab, a piece of a bullock's hide, two large crabs, ab dozen p ra wns, a large piece of chalk, and four trouser buttons ! In another, caught four days later , were two whitings, a horse-mackerel, five crabs, two polypi (sea ane • mones), and shrimps ad libitum. So eccentric indeed is th© cod in his diet, that, during a long autumn and winter's fishing, the writer amused himself with making naemorana. of the singular contents of some of the fish taken by bilm -- QnCf a Treck, Q 4 F, de alt Tt liz po Ced e, Nett keti v Ivhi e t7 I tot , . ki r k St ea ittid bi t t o b 4i i , t c Et,4( F r lt a iN , blitt, t(, vita Aot F et o it, ee ' 3 4 Al