The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-15 00:00:00

LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in FUN, every week. One Penny, Now Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d.; post tree, 55., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the lollowbag distinguished writers : W. Bailey. Esq- W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq: T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanchara, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. 13urnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. IL J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c, Sze. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. HALF -A-DOZEN UMBRELLAS in the Christmas Number of SATURDAY NIGHT. Con ducted by THOMAS HOOD. • **. For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, Wallace's new opera, LOVE'S TRIUMPH. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, DUCK HUNTING. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. And MY H Com USBAN at D'S GHOST, Commence 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE SP ITAL F lELDS WEAVER. Followed by GREEN BUSHES. And A TICKET OF LEAVE. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Eveninv,, IT MUST BE TRUE, 'TWAS IN THE PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conclude with lELLLAICNEY. Commence at 7. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, 'Ha: market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing• CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING. Grand Selections from Verdi's " of 31 acfarren's Cantata "May Day," and Locke's Music ot " Macbeth." — The Etoile Family -Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, &a• Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, 0 3E-FORD -STREET, EVERY EVE `I oche of Unsworth. the original of "Or any other man' -The C,olleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Part/ ea-s"r• Maclagan's Entertainment - Drew Dean, the grea t Fl a utist—the Neacotitan Minstrels Donizetti's—Selecti" o Don Sens from- Verdi's " 11 Corsaro" and " N alnico," bastien," &c., with full ',And and chorus. Commence at 7. HIGH I,VATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. his DAs.--IVlOrlairtg, 7h. 35m.—Afternoon, Bh. sm. To-mou.now.-Morning,tBh. 40m.—Afternoon, 9h. 12m. P....- , - - - - -- - - --- s 1 r--1:27:p . ~,, r• ..:•. , T' »- --2,-. . . 7 .':kr at ' ' ; ' '''': — ... -7: i2, ', ?:-T . V! -4, 1 A 4 __—,_ _,. le.it, ii 4 -- l i 4 , ,„ . 1 / 4',-;.,, ,E.cr . :71 -::••-• •S ' ;- -- ff e ,..—. -, , '",•=t7.1 51 7 0 ' 4: "N ‘ c _..l : _ t _ ; ,...- 4 , --t..___..)-46,4,_41 •,,, ' '' ' ' N , • -- _ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 15, 1862. While King RADAYA of Madagascar is being crowned at Tanai:ariva with a diadem sent to him by the Emperor NAPOLEON, the Emperor NAPO LEON himself is quietly continuing his minute re vision of the frontier line of France. Years roll on, the first decade of the reign of NAPOLEON 111. is already completed, war has alternated with peace during the lapse of it—war with Russia, war with China, war with Austria, war in Japan and in Mexico—yet all the while the attention of the taciturn ruler of France is steadily fixed upon the line rigidly drawn in 1815 marking the boundary of his dominions. Its extension so as to embrace within it the whole of the Frovinces of Nice and Savoy, with their million or so of live stock in the shape of Nizzards and Savoyards, is of course still pretty vividly within our re membrance. Besides a very flagrant extension of territory by France under NAPOLEON 111., how ever, it should also be borne in mind, that there is perpetually, though it may be almost imperceptibly advancing, a cautious revision of that same frontier line at other points. In the direction of Switzer land the latest and not the least satisfactory of all these cautious revisions has just now been accom plished. It has been accomplished by the first out of the nine articles of the Treaty (settling the Dappes Valley Question) recently concluded be tween France and Switzerland. It is not an exten sion of territory, again we -would especially notify —but a simple revision of the boundary line, and, as it appears to us, a very equitable revision altogether. The article of the Treaty, the all-important first article (settling the long vexed question), runs in effect as follows :—" Switzer land makes over to France that portion of the Dappes Valley, comprising the Mont des Taffis and its declivities, as far as and together with the road from Les Rousses to Fauville, and to the eastward of this road and along the same a strip of land 150 metres in breadth, or 500 Swiss feet (the entire ces sion consisting of 704 hectares). /n exchange for this, France makes over to Switzerland, that is to say, to the Canton Vaud, a piece of land of equal size, ex tending from the junction of the St. Cergues and Fauville roads, along the declivity of Norrmont to the boundary of the Valley of Joux. The St. Cergues-road (from La Cure) is included in the cession." Bit by bit that old, yellow, all but obso lete, Treaty of Vienna is being mouldered away by the sheer lapse of time and the mere passage of events—until before long there will hardly be left one shred or tatter of it relating to any re sult still enforced by common consent of the Chief Powers of Europe. Bit by bit the Na poleonian policy is creeping round the frontier line —extending here, revising there—until, Who shall say that the hour may not strike when Fiance may reclaim some portion at least of the Rhenish Provinces ? "' 1 --~ A few days ago we recalled attention to Mr. CHARLES DICKENS'S American Notes in their bear ing on the present struggle. We did so because they gave the unbiassed observations of a traveller whose ability and integrity no one could doubt; and being made twenty years ago, they could not be influenced by the passions awakened by the pre sent quarrel. We have said " tinbiassed' , —but really there was the strongest temptation to a bias the wrong way. Mr. DICKENS was so feted throughout the Union, received everywhere with such ovations, that there was some fear that he would at least be silent on slavery in the recol lection of his national reception in America. Many people were even astonished when his notes ap peared, at his frank outspokenness on the monster crime of the monster Republic, and that she should have been painstakingly collecting facts, such as v e quoted from him the other day to substan tiate his views. If eiir readers will turn to the opening of his last chapter but one, the ninth, they will find an admirable and lifelike sketch of the three classes of the uphold er , , f slavery into which Mr. DICKENS divides that unworthy body in America. Its truth is obvious at first "O • lt, and it is well worthy of attention at a time when many Englishmen are almost seduced into a ss rap , th y with the South,which represses more or less th e i r p er petuate which i s th e natural indignation with the great atrocity, t o and 'whoseanl yearerhupting object of the nbellioe, in fluence saps the Christian and m the entire South a n d of too muel of the North. of Mr. DICKENS'S first class is the inheritors of slaves c!ass many o f whom are to be piti e d. ts The more moderate and rational owners of human cattle w ho have come i nto the possesion of the m as so many coins in their trading capital, but who admit the frightful nature of the institutiin in the abstract and perceive the dangers with which is N o tes" reached it is fraught." When the Americans America, doubtless most of the muc h as the cursed the English prophet the Hebrew monarch cursed MicALtii, b ecaus e he prophesied only an evil future for slavery. They will not now deny that he was right when he wrote of its dangers that, "however distant or however tardy in their coming, they were as certain to fall upon its guilty head as the Day of Judgment." His second class is one to which he shows no mercy, but to which a well known writer from Liverpool, and we are sorry to add tho influential journal in which he writes, is lenient almost to laudation. Their true character, at least, is veiled in all kinds of euphemisms, and when nothing else will do, the provoking errors of the North are in voked to make these men appear half virtuous in our indignation with their assailants. This class consists of all those " owners, breeders, users, bnyers and sellers of slaves, who will—until the bloody chapter has a bloody end, own, breed, use, buy, and sell them at all hazards. Mr. DICKENS, twenty years ago, could see that such was the temper of the men directly interested in American slavery, that the system would never die a natural death. That it was one which would go on increasingly corrupting its advocates till it ended—in some way—in blood. These are men, he say s, who "doggedly deny the horror of the system, in the teeth of such a mass of evidence as was never brought to bear on any other subject, who would, at this, or any other moment, gladly invoke America in a war, civil or foreign, provided that it had for its sole end and object the as sertion of their right to perpetuate slavery, and to whip, and work, and torture slaves, unquestioned by any human authority, and unassisted by any human power; who, when they spaak of freedom, mean freedom to oppress their kind, and to be savage, merciless, and cruel, and of whom every man on his own ground, in Republican America, is a more exacting and a sterner Lira a Ipsq responsible despot, than the Caliph HAROUN ALRASCHID in his angry robe of scarlet. We may again ask our readers whether Mr. DICKENS was not only describing but prophesying Strong as his feelings were, and clear as was his prevision, even he probably at the time hardly thought of an attempt within twenty years to found a republic, of which the avowed distinction should be slavery. Which should proclaim itself for that reason, as the latest improvement in human go vernment, being founded on the great physical truth of the subordination of the black race to the white. Which rested, therefore, on a Divine principle—namely, that the inferior races were created for the use of the higher races ; which should reverse the principle of of the great Apostle, that superior enlightenment only rendered the superiors debtors to the inferiors, and which, in language of unheard of blasphemy, declared by the lips of one of its highest authorities, its Vice-President—that in making much-abused slavery the basis of their republic, " the stone which the builders rejected the same was become the Head of the corner!!" That slavery, in a word, was the Divine Messiah of the South. We see the truth of the charge that they were ready for civil war on behalf of slavery—but they are ready for foreign war also. The Democrats (the Conserva tives, as the Times terms them of America) have just held a large public meeting, and at this—and it is only what they have often said before---it was openly urged that the North and the South should reunite, that full protection to slavery should be the basis of the reunion, and that then both should ratify their union by turning their joint armies against Canada and England. Will our great con temporary continue to pat on the back such pre cious Conservatives as these ? Mr. DICKENS third class—mutata mutandis— will find plenty of exemplars also, we strongly sus pect, in all the snobbism, aristocratic, and plebeian of England—it is composed "of all that delicate gen tility" which cannot bear a superior and cannot brook an equal; of that class whose Republicanism means—l will not tolerate a man above me, and of those below, none must approach too near—whose , pride in a land where voluntary servitude is shunned as a disgrace, must be ministered to by slaves, and whose inalienable rights can only have their growth in negro wrongs." How much of the lean ing towards the South apparent in so many of our aristocracy, and adopted by so many of the middle classes, is due to the " delicate gentility" which is jealous of Yankee power and greatness ? That Yan kee Republicans should be so strong as to compel other nations to deal warily with them is itself an offence ; it does not need the aggrava tion of Yankee bluster and vanity to make it more so. The mingled descendants of the felonry and the Cavaliers of the STUART period, are in conflict with the descendants of the Puritans and Republicans of the same period. Hence, the " delicate gentility" of England, continue to burke the recollection of the atrocious crime the former are fighting for, and in Lord DUNDREA.RY tones and accents, curse the Yankees, and hope the dear South will win. It is time that all this should come to an end. The North may continue to mortify us in many things, and not permit us to sustain its cause with out qualification. But the South is still that South, merely skirting the Border States of which filled the honest soul of a DICKENS with a disgust and indignation he felt that he dare not conceal. It is worse, rather than better, than -when he saw it. His worst predictions are now realised. And shall it be said that the countrymen of CHARLES DICKENS turned their backs on the men who are fighting to limit and extinguish slavery, and gave their coun tenance to those who worship it as their Messiah. That Greece will accept the lonian Islands from England there can be no doubt. Whether they will consent to receive King FERDINAND as their new Sovereign is another question entirely. Nationalities in these later times are particularly chary as to anything like dictation upon a point of such exceeding delicacy in relation to their inde- ' pendence. It was in consequence of the obdurate non-recognition of this " point of honour," as it may justly be called, in respeot to France, the abso lute non-recognition of this on the part of the Con tinental Powers, that resulted, as we all know, in Revolution after Revolution. Because the elder branch of the House of Bourbon was twice thrust back upon the throne of France by the banded armies of the Allied Sovereigns—France would have none of it. Louis XVIII. was fairly frightened away by a Charivari in the March of 1815—and had but time to gather up his Horace, to wipe his unctuous lips after his last banquet, and to scramble, as quickly as his unweildy frame would let him, into his State travelling carriage before the noise of NAPOLEON'S approach was heralded by the Emperor's avant courriers. CHARLES X. dis appeared with something more like a show of dig nity than his brother the fat epicurean. The pear was particularly ripe then, however, for the fina disappearance of the elder branch of that ancient r .nha a u e so e awt o uve f ae K rin :ngs—and it was only by a clever stock jobbing j device that the younger branch was insi toorththeevacan t will be r in pieces and burnt o associated with th throne, it will seat. As a signal evidence, remembered, Throne eied of France—that repudiation of the race altogether fitnhethe streets of Paris in 1848, , was publicly broken moment of this very throne of during the height the vacancy at this an evidence as could well February Revolution. Nay, of Greece is as signal have been afforded of the utter futility of forcing any Prince, no matter whom, up on th e acceptance Tar, SUN, LONDON, MONIAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1862. ruptcy amendment; which was to consolidate, in one act, all enactments on the subject not intended to be repealed, together with the new enactments. The Legislature, however, prefured leaving very many of the old enactments unrepealed, and hence the necessity for most, if not all, of the amend ments, HALL v. SEMPLE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sln,—My attention has been called to an error of some consequence in your report of the case of Hall v. Semple. Your reporter has attributed a considerable Portion of the evidence given by Mr. Guy to myself. Will you allow me to correct the blunder by stating that my evidence was entirely confined to the medical aspects of the case, and to the professional interview I had with the plaintiff on the 27th of September. _ . I am, Sir, your obedient servant, FRANCIS C. WEBB, M.D., M.R.C.P., Physician to the Great Northern Hospital. Dee. 13, 1862. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —I do not desire to encumber your columns with any reply to the transparent absurdities of your anonymous correspondent " Geographer," but I wish, in accordance with your usual fairness, to to be allowed to ask of him two favours, which will at once put him and the company upon a proper footing wherever to ascertain truth. Firstly, that he will sign his communication with his own name, as I do, in order that we may know with what rival interest we are contending; and, secondly, to make good (which I thus publicly challenge him to do) his statement that the first electricians of the day are at variance with the fol lowing fact, founded on experience, namely, that a cable from Ireland to Newfoundland can easily be worked at the rate of ten words per minute. I challenge him to produce the signature of any emi nent, or even respectable, electrician in contradic tion of this great and important truth. GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary. Atlantic Telegraph Company, 22, Old Broad street, London, 13th Dec., 1862. Mr. William Henry Gladstone, eldest son of the Chancellor of Exchequer, took his degree at Oxford on Thursday, having obtained, after leaving Eton, a student ship of Christ Church, a first class in moderations; and for his degree, a second in classics, and a third in law and mo dern history. His father took a double first as a student of Christ Church. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.— The usual annual Christmas performance of Hande►'s " Messiah" takes place on Friday evening next, the 19th instant. NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—Mr. Benedic the conductor of this festival, has had a conference with the committee, and will produce an original cantata for one of the evenings. Efforts are also being made to secure the production of an oratorio or some other original work from another eminent composer. The performances will include selections from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Che rubini, Mendelssohn, &c. The guarantee list is being satisfactorily filled up. r. Kennedy, the talented SONGS OF SCOTLAND:NI vocalist, and exponent of Scottish lore and Scottish song, who recently obtained so great a success at the Hanover square Rooms, is about to give a short series of his enter ment, on the melodies of Scotland, at the Dudldy Gallery, Egyptian Hall, under the auspices of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Land, the coadjutor of the late celebrated Mr. Wilson, will be also Mr. Kennedy's accompanyist. TIIE TUSCARORA AT FUNCHAL.—A letter from Madeira, dated the 30th ult., statts that for some days pre viously the island had been kept in an agreeable state of ex citement by the movements of the Confederate and Yankee steamers. About a week before, the Giraffe, a double fun- nelled, dirty white steamer, with a roughish lot of me chanics, came in, and it was rumoured that she had guns as her cargo,and intended to run the blockade and to manu facture notes for the Southerners. She remained two or three days, took in a large supply of coals, and got safely away. Then another fast little steamer, the Thistle, with English colours, made her appearance. She was also said to be laden with munitions of war, and to be a Southerner. She was getting her coal on board, thinking to get quietly away, when the notorious Tuscarora anchored in these waters close by her. At the same time the English man of-war Leopard was also lying near. On Friday the offi cers of the Tuscarora were on shore, and talked openly of their hopes of securing the Thistle as a prize. The little Thistle all this time was getting her steam up, and all thought she would be off as soon as the moon went down at night. No movement, however, took place then ; but very early on Saturday morning she got under way. The Tuscarora immediately slipped her cable, and proceeded after her like a shot. She fired an Armstrong gun and brought her to, and sent a boat with some 30 or 40 men in it on board. On the return of the boat to the Tuscarora, the Thistle steamed away as fast as her engines could carry her. Of course, no one could tell what had happened. The cap tain of the Leopard did not feel satisfied, and set off in pur suit of the Thistle, the Tuscarora having now returned, and being quietly at anchor again. But the Tkistle proved too fast for the Leopard, and though the latter thundered forth the order to bring to, the latter got clean away. The Yankees say they have not taken her, but if that be really so, why, it is asked, does she run away from a British man s& war ? On the 30th ult. the Tuscarora steamed out of these waters to return, it is said, in a few days, and perhaps play the same game over again with some other vessel. It remains to be seen whether the Portuguese Government will allow hor to overhaul a second time a ship of another nation within gunshot of the Loo Rock Fort. THE CIVIL SERVlCE.—Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Commission. —A commissionership has become vacant by the death of Mr. H. C. Mules; salary £1,500. War-office.—Mr. W. W. Browning has been appointed a temporary clerk, London ; and Mr. W. Yates a second-class. viewer, Tower. The Board of Trade.—Mr. T. J. Hare and Mr. C. S. Parkin have been appointed third-class clerks. Mr. C. H. Chandler has been appointed a clerk at the post office, Reading ; and Mr. G. H. Walpole a temporary clerk in the India-office, London, Customs.—Mr. W. Fraser and Mr. W. H. rope have been appointed out-door officers London ; Mr. J. Furlong, an outdoor officer, Wexford and Mr. J. Strickland an out-door officer, Preston. Mr. C. Goldsmith has been promoted from fourth to third class, Mr. T. Shipstone from fifth to fourth class, and Mr. W. Backhouse from sixth to fifth class examining officer at Hull. Inland Revenue Department.—Mr. J. W. G. Andras, Mr. B. Tall, Mr. T. Blackwell, and Mr. H. J. Brewer have been appointed assistant surveyors of taxes. Excise Branch.—Mr. J. Mitchell, examiner, has been ap pointed supervisor of Ciainsborough district ; Mr. J. Chad wick, Glasgow eighth division, to Liverpool eleventh divi sion ; Mr. P. Egan, Auchtermuchty first division, to Glas gow eighth division ; Mr. J. Thompson, Alloa ninth divi sion, to Aushtermuchty first division; Mr. H. Wilkinson, Alloa fifth division, to Alloa ninth division ; and Mr. J. Woodhead, officer, Haddington first division, to Alloa fifth division. Mr. J. R. Clonting has been appointed a tem porary clerk, Census •office; Dublin. Mr. J. J. Costello has been promotod to a third-class clerkship in the Registrar of Deeds-office, Dublin.—Civil Service Gazette. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.—The Queen has presented the Rev. William Forsyth to the church and parish of New Lull, in the presbytery of Stranraer, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. William Ker to the church and parish of Stair. Mr. Francis Edward Guise, of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed Recorder of Hereford, in the room of Mr. Sergeant Pigott, resigned. Mr. Henry Byerley Thomson has been appointed puisne judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon. Mr. Richard F. Morgan has been appointed her Majesty's Advocate far the Island of Ceylon. Mr. John Comber Brown has been ap pointed superintendent:of Government schools and orga nising master for the island of Nlauritius. Mr. Robert William Gifford Watson has been appointed chief magis trate for the settlement of Lagos. Mr. Churchill, consul at Jassy, is appointed consul-general at Beyrout. Mr. Dalzell, consul at Erzeroum, is to be consul at Jassy. Mr. Eldridge, consul at Kertch, to be consul at Erzeroum. Captain Clip perton, vice-consul at Theodosia, to be consul at Kertch. Mr. Barker, consul at Samsoun, will be vice-consul at Theodosia. The consulate of Samsoun will not be filled up. Mr. Itaby, vice consul at Alexandretta, to be vice-consul at Toultcha. The vice-consularship of Alexandretta not to b.) filled up. Mr. Barker, vice.consul at Toultcba, to be vice consul at Provesa. Mr. Black to be vice-consul at Mis o longhi, and Mr. Wrench to be vice-consul at Beyrout.— Observer, THE WEATHER AT PAU.—A correspondent at Pau writes :—" After a short snap of very cold weather, we are again luxuriating in an unclouded sun and a tempera • tun - ) of 56 deg. of Fahrenheit. Our foreign colony is more numerous this season than even last year, the English being, as usual, greatly in the ascendant, and taking the lead in hospitable ent er t a i nmen ts of every descripti on, while their kinsmen, tha A mer i cans , are obliged, in c onsequence of the sad civil wa r a ffli c ti ng their native lan d, to kee p somewhat aloof. O ur ra il wa y, a new theatre , an d a circus will, it is officially announced, be inaugurated in the course of another month. Four deer lytve just been presented by the Earl of H. to his countrymen of the Pau Drag run.' These animals are doubly valuable at this moment nested." w hen foxes for rawly miles round are q uite extermi- of an independent People b y a previous agreement among the leading Powers of Christendom. The Bavarian Prince who, thirty years ago, was pre. sented to Greece as her Sovereign—whom Greece was really then constrained to receive as such, with the best grace possible under the circumstances, from the chief Powers of Europe in Coalition — this Bavarian Prince, we say, in his foreign-made capacity as OTIIO, King of GREECE, after being just barely tolerated for thirty years as such by the Greeks themselves, has been recently driven from that land in which he has all this while been living and reigning as an alien—King a/110 has been drivn thence, at last, we say, as t an occupant of the throne, really and truly no , longer to be tolerated. Whatever decision may now eventually be arrived at, in regard to the selection of a successor to the ex-King OTno, it is most earnestly to be hoped that, in making that selection, the Greek people may be left absolutely to themselves. Already they:have—as plainly as a people could — evidenced their preference for his Royal Highness Prince ALFRED of England, as their future Con stitutional Sovereign. England, herself, has de clined to yield (at this stage) to a demand, in itself, of course, eminently complimentary to her Royal Family, to her national repute and to her system of Government. France has manifested a decided reluctance to accede without demur to the wish of the population. Russia distinctly avows her ineradicable repugnance to a choice so directly opposed to her own cherished ambition. Instead of Prince ALFRED—it is suggested to Greece that the country would do well at once in putting aside that preference,and in accepting in lieu of Prince ALFRED the ex-King Consort of Portugal, another Prince of Coburg blood, his Majesty Dorn FERDINAND. As a wonderful inducement to the Greek people to accept Dom FERDINAND as their new Sovereign, England offers, it is said, forthwith to cede the lonian Islands bodily to the Greeks, to be incorpo rated at once with the Greek kingdom. It will probably occur, however, upon the instant, to the astute statesmen of Greece, to the members of the Provisional Government now in power at Athens, to the leaders of the newly-elected Chamber of Re presentatives, that in either case Greece would be now secure of having the lonian Islands banded over to her authority by England, whether the choice of the Greeks were to fall upon Prince ALFRED or upon DOM FERDINAND. By refusing to accept Dom FERDINAND as her future King, by insisting upon still demanding Prince ALFRED as her new Sovereign, Greece would in no way, Greece could in no way, diminish the likelihood of retaining pos session of the lonian Islands as part and parcel of her own dominions. Whatever may be the preju dices or the predilections of the three Great Powers, to the Greeks alone belongs in simple truth by right the inalienable prerogative of selecting their own future Sovereign. To their own wisdom, to their own discretion, to their own instinct let that choice be left. The voice of the Greek people must decide, and that voice alone, who it is that ought to be raised to that still vacant throne—whether it shall be King ALFRED or King FERDINAND. A paragraph, copied from the Herts Guardian, has been going the round of the newspapers, and got copied into our issue of Saturday, as to the Crown Solicitorship in Bankruptcy in London, held by Mr. ALDRIDGE, alleging that his fees during twelve months have amounted to the enormous sum of £15,000, wrung out of the pockets of the tax- payers of this country, and that he is the eon-in-law of the Lord Chancellor, from whom he received his appointment; and in the Solicitors' Journal of last Saturday, a correspondent, alluding to the subject, states that Mr. ALDRIDGE'S fees are, by an order of the Lord Chancellor, fixed for each bankruptcy in London in forma pauperis, or under an adjudica tion by a Registrar against a prison debtor, at £3, exclusivn of payments made for copies of proceed ings, and 5 per cent. on such assets as may be re covered; and, in the event of their being no assets, or not sufficient to satisfy the fees and payments, then that the amount thereof, or the deficiency,..be paid out of the Chief Registrar's account. A reference to the peerage will at once show that neither of the Lord Chancellor's daughters is mar ried to Mr. ALDRIDGE ; information on this point being so easily accessible, it is most reprehensible that in an article on such a subject, the false asser tion that Mr. ALDRIDGE was the Lord Chancellor's son-in-law should have been made ; the rest of the article seems to be equally devoid of truth, because even if the whole of the fees of £3 for each bank ruptcy in London in forma pauperis, or under an adjudication by a Registrar against a prison debtor, have been paid out of the Chief Registrar's account, there must have been over 96 of such bankruptcies per week to have made the fees amount to £15,000 for the last 12 months; but on reference to the week's list of bankrupts, published in the same number of the Solicitors' Journal which contains the letter on the subject, it will be found there are only eight such bankruptcies in that list, at which rate the fees would amount for a whole year to only £1,248. In such bankruptcies it is not likely there would be any estate either for payment of the fees, or on which the Crown Solicitor could charge his com mission of 5 per cent. The article in the Herta Guardian states that several complaints have been made as to the manner in which the duties of Mr. ALDRIDGE'S office have been performed. We have made inquiry on the sub ject, and are informed that Mr. ALDRIDGE has per formed the duties most satisfactorily. The article, however, is evidently not directed at Mr. ALDRIDGE, but rather at the Lord Chancellor; if Mr. ALDRIDGE had been the Lord Chancellor's son-in-law, even then there would have been no cause for cavil, but quite the contrary, if he were a fit and proper person to fill the office, especially as at the time of the appointment it was not considered in the legal profession to have been at all a desir able one, and many persons, we are informed, ex pressed surprise that Mr. ALDRIDGE, who was in good practice, should have taken it.. The present Lord Chancellor, least of any one, deserves to be charged with nepotisM. It is well known that he has selected most fit men for the various appoint ments which have been in his gift ; and it was only last mirth that he gave great satisfaction to both branches of the legal profession, by conferring a valuable appointment upon a son of a Chief Clerk of one of the Equity Judges, simply on account of the son's fitness for the appointment, - and the long and meritorious public services of the father, who, except in his official capa city, was, we believe, totally unknown to the Chancellor. Indeed, so fully is the Lord Chan cellor' determination, as far as ho can, to put the right man in the right place known to bis colleagues, that he was requested by one of them, who had a lucrative legal appointment in his gift, to fill it up, which the Chancellor did, and the gentleman nominated was found end admitted to be most fitted for the office. The writer in the Solicitors' Journal complains that there are errors in the Lord Chancellor's Bankruptcy Act, .1861. It certainly requires amendment in some details, but the necessity for such is not properly attribut able to the Lord Chancellor, but is rather due to the rejection, in its entirety, of his scheme of bank- According to the last accounts in relation to the seizure by General Butler at New Orleans of the plated spoons and forks and few articles of silver ware which had been shipped by some private families to consignees in Europe on board the Prussian merchant ship Essex, under the previous sanction of officers appointed by Gen. Butler himself, it appears that the Federal Government justify the act, Mr. Seward, in replying to the reclamations of Baron von Gerold, the Prussian Minister, on the subject, admits that the conduct of Major-Gen. Butler was marked by some symptoms of irritability, but it is added in expla nation that the Prussian Consul and the Prussian master of the Essex committed the offence of being pertinacious in representing what they consldsred to be the rights of the case to that personage. The Government, however, now that their object has been accomplished, intimate that rather than offend Prussia they will hold themselves open, if it be wished, to reconsider the question at any future period. PENALTY FOR SMUGGLING.—Notice has been issued at Washington that ladies desirous of going to their friends and families in the South must obtain leave from the Federal Government, and that no one must take more than one package of female wearing apparel, not weighing above 1001 b., and subject to inspection. "If any contra• band property is found, the party will be subject to impri sonment during the war." INTERMITTENT FEVERS.—The Societe d'Accli matation has just received a letter from India, accompanied with a box containing a quantity of seeds of the Ceesalpina Bonducolla, a plant which, according to Mr. Hayes, the writer of the letter, is much used there as a specific for in termittent fevers. The Bengaleo for this plant is Natha ; it is a small creeper, producing a nut, the kernal of which is exceedingly bitter, and possesses the quality of Jesuits' bark in an eminent degree, with this exception, that it is aperient rather than the contrary, a valuable property in a tropical climate where the bilious system is so generally affected. One of these seeds reduced to a paste, with three or four pepper-corns, and taken three, four, or five times a day with the adjunction of Cherettah• tea (Gentiana che rayita), is generally found so infallible in its effects that many European physicians in India have adopted it, and will probably in a few years abandon bark entirely. Che rettah is a kind of gentian which grows on the mountains skirting the course of thA Gangoa, find may be gnt at all the bazaars of Bengal; it is a stronger febrifuge than the Gentiana lutea of Europe. Native physicians employ Natha also as a powerful tonic; they administer it in pow der mixed with spices and castor-oil ; externally the seed is applied in cases of hydrocele. At Amboyna it isadminis- tered as a vermifruge ; the roots are used as a tonic in dys- pcpsia. In Cochin-China the plant is considered deob struent, and the oil extracted from the leaves is found use ful in paralysis. In Egypt the women make necklaces and amulets with the seeds. The latter are often carried to great distances by the sea, as, for instance, to the coast of Scotland, where they are known as Molucca beans. It is singular that the remarkable sirtues of this plant should have remained so long unnoticed, offering as it does a cheap and powerful substitute for Jesuits' bark, which, as every one knows, commands a high price. As this plant thrives in Egypt, Mr. Hayes thinks that it must prosper in Algeria, and even in the south of France. LETTERS FROM TUE FEDERAL CAMP.—A Cana dian, a Montrealer, writes on the 20th ult from " near Fort Edith Allan, Virginia,"—" We left Maryland three weeks ago, and marched through Washington for this State, where we are now encamped in the midst of 80,000 men of all branches ; artillery, cavalry, and engineers. We are under marching orders, and on the qui vivo to move. Our duties are pretty severe; day after day, from sunrise to sunset— digging trenches, rifle pits, and building mud forts ; and at night picket and guard duty. I have not had my clothes off for three months, lying on the barn ground with a blanket and cloak, and the weather now is pretty cold. We have had snow ton inches deep round our tents; and sick• ness is pretty prevalent among the troops, in the shape of jaundice, typhus fever, and dysentery. We have already lost a good many men ; they do not stand the cold so well as would be expected, considering they come from a Northern climate ; the fact is that most of the men left com fortable homes for fear of being draughted, and have not been used to the night exposure. The dews are extremely heavy, besides great falls of rain that we get here, with boisterous winds. The other day I awoke with my tent on the top of me, and nearly half a foot of water under me. However, as yet I have been fortunate enough to escape sickness. Our food at present is very indifferent, and short allowance. We have as yet received no pay since enlistment, and see no immediate prospect of getting any. The whole system of carrying on the war has been shameful, and now it appears that those in authority have been playing into the hands of the rebels, assisting them with provisions and clothing that properly belonged to our forces. The army appears to be thorougly discontented, and desertions con•. tinually take plaee. I expect by the time the winter is over, if something effectual does not take place, two-thirds of the army will desert, or lay down their arms. lam writ ing this on my knee, so you must make allowances for its deficiencies. The country about here looks fearfully deso late —all the timber laid waste, country places deserted, and the soil running waste with vegetation." REPRESENTATION OF EAST KENT.—Sir NortoP. Knatchbull has issued the following address to the electors of East Kent :—Gentlemen; you will be very shortly called upon to exercise your privilege in choosing a representa tive in the House of Commons, in the place of our late member and much.to-be-lamented friend, Mr. Deedes, I have been solicited by a large number of your body to pre sent myself as a candidate for the vacant seat, and I ven tun to ask you for your support and votes. My political principles are, I do not hesitate to avow, precisely those which you so clearly sanctioned by your long and continued support of my late father. I am prepared to uphold our Protestant religion as established in Church and State, to assert on all occasions the supremacy of the law, and thus to protect the security of the throne, and the quiet and happiness of the Sovereign who fills it. There are many political cries to which it is unnecessary to pay attention. I am attached to the principle of stability rather than to the principle of change, because from the former wo are sure to receive improvements certain and durable ; from the latter weak alterations attended by ephemeral results. lam too old to be deceived by movements made for the purpose of creating a feeling, and, I hope, too wise to offer undue re sistance to any strong national feeling from which a move ment may spring. I will only add that should I prove the object of your choice, no efforts will be wanting on my part to discharge faithfully and zealously the duties of one of your representatives. THE 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—Some couple of months since we complained that Lieutenant Harran, who had been removed from the adjutancy under circumstances requiring no more particular reference, still held it nomi nally, though not really. Searcely has our remonstrance brought about his formal removal, when we find him again adjutant—this time really, but not nominally. We must confess to a feeling of surprise that Colonel Shute would suffer this, no matter from what quarter the suggestion came. We cannot but attribute it to the settled desire on the part of the authorities in Ireland, especially those having the superintendence of the cavalry service, to run counter to the Duke of Cambridge's decision, and as far as possible sustain Lieutenant Harran against his Royallligh nese. Along with this objection we must think it highly impolitic to employ in a post of such influence and authority an officer closely identified with a party in the regiment whose bitterness is naturally not decreased by discomfiture. —.Army and Navy Gazette. MADRAS COLLEGE.—Mr. Francis Stone Evans, 8.A., demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, has been ap pointed by Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India, to the Professorship of Mathematics and Physics in the Presidency College, Madras. Mr. Evans, who is an old pupil of the Bristol Grammar School, obtained first-class honours in mathematics and physics at the final examina tion in Easter Term last, and subsequently received a testi monial from the public examiner, the Bev. Bartholomew Price, M.A., F.R.S., and Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy. THE SUPPLY OF SEAMEN.—We have an ernbaras de richesses just now in the number of seamen in. the diffe rent ports. With the ships now paying off and on their way to England we shall have between 7,000 and 8,000 unem ployed seamen and marines. As to the latter, they will be quietly marched off to their barracks, and their officers will give a good account of them ; as to the former, although not all continuous service men, the number is already admitted to be too formidable to be received on board the ordinary guard and receiving ships, and the various admirals and captains superintendent have been ordered by the Admi ralty to survey certain ships and report upon their capabili ties to receive the men as they return from their leave. We are not croakers, but we cannot help thinking that this plan will be attended with much inconvenience. How are the men to be employed ? In fitting out the steam reserve ? In clearing out a store-house one day and filling it again the following ? Who is to look after their discipline ? An old lieutenant of the ordinary, backed up by a superannuated gunner ? The question is one full of gravity, and if the late Sir Charles Napier were here to speak for himself he would remind us that he always foretold sooner or later we should have to erect naval barracks, in which seamen NS hen not wanted afloat, could b e rece i ve d an d p l ace d un d er ' the control of a regular staff of officers until again required to go to sea.—Army and Nary Gazette. THE DUKE OF BEDFORD'S FAT STOCK.—The an nual sale of Christmas stock at tho Park farm, Woburn abbey, took place on Friday, the 12th inst., Mr. Furze, as usual, being the auctioneer. There was a very large attend ance of buyers present, including several leading salesmen from the metropolis. The stock offered for sale consisted of 300 sheep of various breeds, 70 oxen and heifers, and about 60 pigs. Mr. Coleman, the bailiff, appeared to have taken much pains to bring the animals up to the mark, and their splendid condition when brought to the hammer testified to the success of his management. The Shropshire sheep were knocked down at prices varying from £2 17s. to £3 19s. each, and the Scotch wethers varied in value from £2 9s. to £3 2s. The Oxford downs realised £3 ds. to £t, and the Southdowns £4 6s. to £5 35., while some very extraor dinary half breds were run up to £5 IGs. ; the average price of the 300 sheep £3 7s. 10d. The Herefords sold rapidly, the prices taking a range from £2l 10s. to £4O. The Scotch oxen appeared to excite the greatest amount of interest; the biddings were spirited ; the highest sum obtained was 436, LATEST The Noniteur of to-day says :-- " The Emperor yesterday received the Turkish Ambassador in a private audience, and received from him the tristgnia, set in brilliants, of the Order of the Osmanli, together with an autograph letter from the Sultan." VIENNA, DEC. 14. The Austrian Gazette of to-day publishes the fol- lowing telegram : ATENS, DEC. 13. The Hon. Mr. Elliot has arrived here on a special mission. It is asserted that England recommends King Ferdinand of Portugal as King of Greece, and she will cede the lonian Islands to Greece. TURIN, DEC. 14. It is asserted that England has ceded the lonian Islands to Greece. The report that M. de Sartiges had expressed at Turin apprehensions that the new Ministry would incline towards England is without any founda- tion. From a statement of Signor Sella, published to day, on the financial condition of the Italian Go vernment, it appears, that, while in 1862 the deficit was 418,217,706 lire, the ordinary deficit in 1863 will be 226,266,127 lire, and the extraordinary Ilic. Accoitliug tu 3ig uur S.llo,'s statement the ordinary deficit for 1862 will be covered without having recourse to public credit, but in order to cover the extraordinary deficit he recommends that the Government be authorised to issue 300,000,000 lire of Treasury bonds. These means, however, being insufficient, the Govern ment must have recourse to a public loan, although Signor Sella thinks that the funds which are now in the public Treasury will allow of the postpone ment of this measure for a considerable period. MADRID, DEC. 12, EVENING. The Epoca of this evening states that General Concha has suspended his resignation, but has de cided not to return to Paris for the present. To-day in the Senate the Marquis of Miraflores replied to Gen, Prim's speech on the Mexican ques tion. He regretted that Gen. Prim had not gone to Mexico with the French, and said that he ought not to have drawn up the preliminaries of Soledad. The Marquis considered the Treaty of London to have been broken, and that the English representa tive and Gen. Prim shoul I have proposed a new treaty, Juarez not having yet signed any treaty. He said, in conclusion, that Mexico must do its duty, and that if it will not Spain must compel it to do so by force. Senor Calderon Collantes regretted that party spirit had distorted the Mexican question, and that it should be made an occasion for seeking to render the relations of Spain with. foreign. Courts less friendly. He rejected certain apprehensions enter tained by Gen. Prim, who, he said, ought not to have accused the French Plenipotentiary of having broken the Treaty of London, as he, on the contrary recognised that treaty, and agreed with the other Plenipotentiaries upon two points of it—vis., that the Mexican expedition was intended to support certain claims, and that no negotiation should be entered into with Juarez. The Minister will continue his speech to,morrow, THE AMERICAN MAIL, ROCHES POINT, DEC. 15, 11. 30 A.M. The Persia is not yet in sight. FRANCE. BOURSE, DEC. 13.—Business continues limited in amount, but the prices of yesterday have under gone a very slight variation, Threes, for the, Ac count, being novvat 70f. 55c. Tie Railway Share. Market has been also without animation, and with but little change in quotations. The market slightly improved at the end, and closed as follows:- 4i per Cents. 97 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 65 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1102 50 Do. end month 1106 25 BAIL Orleans Northern Bank Shares 3395 Credit Fonder 1335 -- Piedmontese Fives 7l 50 Italian Loan 7l 70 Russian Austrian - — Spanish Threes 54 Home Debt STAYS. Cash. Account. 1067 50 1068 75 1042 50 .. 1045 New ditto . 1010 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1152 50 .. 1163 75 Geneva 376 23 . , Southern 7BB 75 .. 790 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 660 .. 661 25 Ditto to Barcelona AUSTRIA. VIENNA, DEC. 11. The Lower Chamber of the Reichsrath yesterday rejected the proposed amendment to the Bill for the protection of epistolary correspondence. Oa the Ist inst. the Upper House resolved to propose to the representatives of the people to empower the Government to open all letters which may be passing through the Austrian post-offices when war or internal disturbanbes "are about to break out." The original reading was " have broken out," and no objection would have been made to it had not the President of the Council of State managed to persuade the members of the Upper Chamber that it was necessary to the well-being of the Empire that "in such a matter" the hands of the Executive should not be bound. Both M. von Schmerling and Count Rechberg were well satisfied with the bill as passed by the Lower House, and you will hardly be in error if you sup pose that men high in office advised the deputies not to agree to the above-mentioned amendment. Dr. von Muhlfeld, who is one of the members for this city, spoke in favour of the amendment, but the house paid little or no attention to what he said, as it was resolved not to give a character of legality to the odious custom of clandestine letter opening. M. Schindler, another of the members for Vienna, said that, if the deputies should agree to the amendment proposed by the nominees of the Crown, the new bill must be called "An Act authorising the violation of the secrecy of letters" (zur kerletzung des Briefgeheimnises). After a short discussion, in which the members of the Cabinet took no part, the amendment was rejected by a large majority. It is to be regretted that no bill for the protection of epistolary corre spondence can be passed this session, but the Viennese consoie themselves by saying that it is better to have no law at all than a bad one. Before the house rose the President stated that at 10 o'clock on the 11th inst. (to day), a mixed commit tee of 12 persons would take into consideration the amendment which the Upper Chamber proposes to make in the Bank Act. The six persons who repre sent the Austrian Peers in the committee are Barons Baumgartner, Rothschild, Reyer, and Rueskefer, Marshal von Hess, and Prince Schwarzenberg. In the Upper House the debate on the Bank Act has been brought to a close. During w t h h o e h si a t s tin li g u o lein f ye r s o i s n e g d to the makea fi s t o e o r n d c a n y in h e i l t i h n e i r s t e H r o e if e F e pac "covering" le c , pe e c h ang e in the method of bank notes; but his motion was supported by no one but Prince J ablonowski, a noble of Polish origin. On Tuesday, when the debate on b e B an k question be ogfa nviine the Vienna na Uppermade a s Chamber,pcceh the which m Cardinaluet have Archbishop pro duced a very agreeable impression on all those per , sons who heard it. His Eminence, who is a man N E PARIS, DEC. 15. LAING BIGHT. IxT of great political acumen, undertook the defence of I t L • the more recent measure of the Crown. The con cessions made in October, 1860, said the venerable Prelate, were insufficient for the requirements of the Empire, and his Majesty therefore promul gated the Statute Laws of February, 1861. In Article 13 of those laws it is said that if a general Reichsrath (Gesanzmt .Reichsrath) cannot be assere bled the necessary supplies shall be procured by means of an Imperial ordinance, but for important reasons the Emperor wished to avoid an octroi. His Majesty, therefore, empowered the present Reichsrath to fix the amount of the expenditure, to vote the supplies, and to take in hand the ques tion relative to the Bank. "Could he, or should he, have acted otherwise ?" continued the most reverend gentleman. " Could he repeal the laws promulgated in February, 1861 ? Had he done so, and given to the Provincial Diets the privi leges which are enjoyed by the Austrian Reichs rath, he would have destroyed the power of the Ern; pire, and have brought about a national bankruptcy The Cardinal, who spoke as a man speaks when he is convinced of the truth of what he is saying , was loudly cheered by his fellow Peers, but his arguments must have failed to convince Count Lee Thun, for that nobleman declared that he did not feel at liberty to meddle with the Bank question, it being a matter which concerned the whole, and not a part of the Empire. The great improvement in the currency has attracted the attention of the Emperor, and his Majesty is said to have expressed to the Archduke Reiguier and to M. von Schmerling his satisfaction that the new system has produced such beneficial results. SIR CHARLES WOOD WRONG AND MR• (From the Money Market lievicu P.) The Secretary of State for India has issued a notification that, from next month (January), he will issue bills on the different Governments of India for a milli n sterling in each month, being at the rate of twelve millions in the year. We would draw attention to the fact that this proceeding on the part of Sir Charles Wood completely and unanswer ably proves the correctness of Mr. Laing's financial state ments and views as to the productiveness of the Indian revenues. It will be remembered Coat in July last Sir Charles Wood stoutly denied the existence of any surplus revenue in India, and positively prohibited the expenditure of half-a-million sterling which the Supreme Governmen t proposed to make on education and public works, &c. ; Ye t within six months he intimates his intention of drawing bills,encUalia for more than double - the sum required for the Oilinary di4,ursemerits in England on account of Indie• In other words he appropriates a sum at the rate of sis millions sterling a-year to extraordinary purposes, wh ich sum can only be provided from surplus revenue, o r by A reduction of the cash balances in India, which, by th at measure, he would seem to have increased to an inconve niently large extent. There never was such an experiirentum crucis as this i ° prove Mr. Laing right and Sir C. Wood wrong in the re : cent discussions. It can only be compared to the proceed" ings of an uneducated partner iu a business, who, not lA' derstanding book-keeping or accounts, will not believe in the profits they show, until he touches the actual coin. It would be very desirable to know clearly what Sir Wood proposes to do with this extra six millions a yew** e , which ho now proposes draining India. Is it to be a pp lio to paying off loans here ? We are assured that, according to the usual practice, the Indian financial statement will not be made to Parliament before the very last days Of t l3l session, when it will be too late to suggest any approprir tion of its amount other than what the all-powerful Sere' tory of State may have been pleased to adopt: SIR IL BULWER AT SUEZ.—The Malta Tines °f • the 4th inst. says.:—" We learn from Egypt that Sir Bulwer paid a visit to Suez,.and on his return to Cairo lei" by a river s t ea mer, placed at his disposal by the Paeha , a visit to Thebes and the cataracts. Rumour states th,a the object of his visit is to inspect the several CO establishments ; but it is believed, in addition, to bav r e a i re' ference to the state of the works of the Suez Cana l ' -- is at present full of visitors, and an unusual number of travellers have already left for the upper country?' LORD BROUGHAM AND THE CASE OF ROSALTS GARDIN. —The Temps publishes the following letter front Lord Brougham to M. Odillon Barrot Cannes M r)/ Dec. 3.—My dear and worthy Brother,—l take the liberty' to send through you a trifling su b ven ti o n to the subscriptioe which your charity and feeling of pity induced you to opea for that poor woman who was so illused by functionaries' But what most hurt me was the harsh language use d bl a the ml.lokow +n-a. Lh.t mifortunate person, an not against the wrongdoei s —Mille amities, H. BROV ► —P.S. I will give twice as much if you think it desirable.' Sir W. Armstrong's so-called 3,000-pound er ' rifled with ten grooves, has been sent to Shoeburyn ess f e r i experiment, by the Ordnance Select Committee. We stated in our previous impression that its projectiles weig l 2301b5., having been reduced to less than the weight Orw merly proposed, so that the gun is in no way a 300. pound'; l :‘ It is certainly time to classify our guns, either by the 61° 0 of born or weight, or both—as the present nomenelattird, gives very little idea of the actual size and power of or nance.-4rmy and Navy Gazette. BIGOTRY IN TASTE.—Art and science have 915 . 0 0 their intolerance. Hear the orthodox physician talk of t h e l 9 innovating brother. No coarser libels have been Wri e t ec i. than those in scientific journals against a professor —Ol, ence. In art an artist forms his theories and his sell° „e. and has an enthusiast's faith in their indubitable gioteil, riority ; the artist of a different school he regards as a ° tee d One of the mildest poets I ever knew, who had v - i t o - e ibt his own harmless muse in the meek Helicon of Wo rds meat never could hear Lord Byron praised, nor even q u i tee without transports of anger. I once nearly lo st one of dearest friends I possess, by indiscreetly obser ving theira Gf delineation of passion was essential to the highest,orreeti: poets, simply because he had formed a notion, it' t' e rer fec i tude of which he had the strongest good faith, th't poetry should be perfectly passionless. la m not o e ' o ' e et deed, whether there be not, now-a-days, a raore °v ° rig bigotry in matters of taste than in those of opinion. o_olo much has been said and written about toleration as opinion, that in that respect the fear of not seeming ei ' t 0 tened, preserves many from being uncharitable. 131 : ; ;,jc 0 › the contrary, so much is every day said and w ritten s favours intolerance in matters of taste, that it ens lightened to libel the whole mental and moral col bal e of ,he man whose taste is opposed to your own' 0300 known language applied to a difference of tast e on theilised of a poet, a novelist, nay, even an actor, which the tf of Exeter would not venture to apply to Tom rail/e. E. B. Lytton, in Blackwood's Magazine. or rer We may again state, in reply to mall pondents, that nothing is yet of f icially decid ed resPe e c- of ee ° Indian reliefs for next year, excepting the return Pi 00 the Bth Hussars, 92d Highlanders, Ist battalion, 13tioee4 69th, 74th, and 43d. The last-named corps will he r ikts era; t not by a regiment from home, but by t h e 91st from vet ' in which presidency there is an excess of infantrYliD°d establishment as newly fixed upon. One cavalry an feat infantry regiments will go out in the course of 1863, but no particular corps have been yet Be le° e Army and Navy Gazette. S ll / 36 1 NOBLE LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—CARDIGA N, aOO/J-I+l Night.—Yesterday afternoon, during a heavy grellell str ae the smack " Countess of Lisburne," o f Abelysteviti"a DeoP on Cardigan Bar. Her mainsail and mainboora 11%610; previously carried away. Immediately the smael°crto position was seen, the Cardigan lifeboat, belong`rooeitiill National Lifeboat Institution, was launched. U ll a so oae s t the vessel the surf was found to be tremendous, o o t lj o to appal any man. The smack's boat had been le s s 'oceV,o the poor creatures had no means of rescue, i f tip, Ic _ l „t , failed to reach them. Their piercing cries for "" st ye e 4 death staring them in the face, were of the 133° 0 for lP u e rending character. However, the resolve had he e wo ola tto , on the part of the lifeboat's crew, that their F o li r y t e u s ti:ivi tel t i oe i le n sacrificed, if necessary, to save them. lifeboat succeeded, with God's blessing, in closineo aft , wreck, and in saving her crew of three men, and wards bringing them safely ashore through the / lo f t Do NOT DESPISE COPPERS.—When fi r° ! tjj e :o him he kept his carriage—two or three carriage'llseaysj matter—and I don't know how many horses. 11(3 . es ii, house in Belgravia. He dressed most expereetvver Ord never wore a coat for more than a month. I ne . e arOt „1,4 him to drink beer. He smoked the choicest ° i e . po t '0 never condescended to use coppers. Ilea dwale r co ppers in the pocket of his carriage, and the ig_ e d th e m out every night as he swept out the ; the dust. Ah I what a fine gentlemen Sira4°pocitlea) I admired him much, for he was in all respects a g - oo th t : dedid not cast off his coats at the end of the r°- s rea li o,4 spise coppers from ostentation, but because be W D 3 ro geti e , rich man. But Shuffieton came to sad grief. He e ttl , s fail%,4 fortune in an enterprise which turned oat a corall that ",,ef He did not lose quite all, but it was a mere wre ass ,e l : i i left to him ; and when this was gone, Slaufflet,°,,..o pit e l : 0 0 and lower until he reached the very bottom et n ov o b bt u verty. I have seen him in a shabby coat and won"%yeig provisions creeping from b y the one pennyworth little obscur e He shop did d o an h e e se r ! ' ! s© o tta now. I have seen him in his garret-room In I : ir l ' o f bo t l o percha in a gallipot, and soleing an old wer.n.P ou t h e t o that a beggar would no t have stooped to pie: _ t le o . o streets --him who once wore the neatest p notstoat so t o ! ' die and gave them to hi s tiger when there was wit h ee es a, as a crack in the varnish I I have seen him, to ~ie th l and thread mending his poor coat, and r evivi g: fa ; o l eo bare trousers with ink. Once I saw him Of o b o e .e j public.house and purchase a halfpennywue_etuton, soo otwon smoke eh to h o e k c p ni a go i a d r s f art accountwt t with twocuoinr. fpc,aterratsitalin:xf the xca, p g o s uTid 74 - t o e P f