The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-22 00:00:00

L IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, In PUN, every week. One Penny Now Ready, handsomely bound in Itlngenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. ; post free, is., the ECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with L ) numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Es A. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. 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, THE PURITAN'S DAUGI-ITER. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. After which. 130 X AND COX. And THE. HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Commence at 7. r NEW THEATRE -ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. The 2d Act of GREEN BUSHES. With ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. And A' TICKET OF LEAVE. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, WOMAN. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul's Entertainment. Followed byen T ce HEat IRISH LION. Comm 7. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL—EVERY EVENING.— Grand Selections from the Popular Operas.—The Comic per formances of Unsworth, Euzene, Little Bob, Arthur Lloyd, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Miss G. Smithson, ttc.—Tne Etoile Family, &c. . Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVENING.—Re-appearance of Unsworth. the orizinal of "Or any other man" -The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes—Mr. Maclagan's Entertainment Drew Dean, the great Flautist—the Neapolitan Minstrels—Selections from. Verdi's " Il Corsaro" and "Nabuco," Donizetti's "Don Se bastien," &c., with full bind and chorus. Commence at 7. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.--Morning, 2h. 18m.—Afternoon, 2h. 45m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 6m.—Afternoon, 3h. 34m. ~ NX "T7 -j" 'C , •-• , - r , u i t e, _ ,-. . ~,5 , .- 1 .-,:), -- ' I./47 ' b ---a) IL '4 'I • M 0 . iF. t , . ~.., :, ~,, : -- -" t- ' .. j ..r: ~. THE SON, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 11.P62:1 aweis^ State-synopsis on ImF'rl Aeker/ey's Thumb-inoh oath pivot, 1 for yearly election of 'all Fpcsareh'Y:smagistrates to tax. Its Jul y Na varin° Greek-ela.veTacuf-pa's tribute, of Egypt on his Imp. Morea ALI Roghas d note , as Syzone een Arab- Padifehah of 6th Aug., 1828 on Belgrade •zDardtlnell 3ty, for its STOW Leet Crt, 40. -stembou/e %Xplirota Cage tie on Agnes Cranmer 'Cartwright maj'r of Offington'-1776-1826 for 9th flen.+B's, lonian-is)? d)-Greeee: Cap° d'lstria'd, i n 'Foreign Quer. Review, Nov. 1829, pp. 278-303 Separate' on Ist-born 5,600 boy's Pasha-pope white-slave theft, so .Neg roes-to be bartered for goods, not money' 1716 Contract 3ty. AMERICA'S LAW Anti GREEK CONSUL T ACT. Over [Jul. 2 & Leo-X Cmsar-bishop Papa's Edict of Peru, for Rom-Catholic grab'ng since 18421m/tan cornaths by Venl6 Feb. 1546 'Ego REX to Pizarro jrater' on Ga verse at H. B's death, in --.fiv't EARTH still Aproof no moon Venus & stercuryphases), its scalp Angle ! cherie matrix- Act -turn'd 1341, now ew-4 hat a - I> Cohen'd in Di bo na au coing 1774-84 to liirst-ina' gerHer L 3,000,000, so papal mitre and Keys 1835, now on Exchequer to deeds, as its " Grtegina'd Sky N- Hy-pot'-in-usefruct Temporalia in superstitiones Fxternas Rea, A.D. 44, a " snandat' Claudii. America's-Isle riots being done, Send over-Virginian ally Cornifa'rs of Albany, Charleston's Chief Crt.- Sec. Peters, 1744-46456 on G. In & Prussia's W.minster Jan. 16 gua rantie, on Montague Henley's Bermuda Ind. Co/ ] lege Chain -3ty as in ADAMS of London 'metiergutlds' ¶ Crown colony -an Advance-guard in lieu of Rome's french, 50,000 armed men,' speaking English, to reset the l'aena- Consul Act, Jan. 1, 1826: as Ormond t China'd in Christ Hosp. yellowstoc'Kings boys 7 ° badge order, on Russ. 1832 acts, cc. 92-121 'Privy Council, Admiralty delegates' Crt. in ReXfaine'nt-elder Ackerley, by Uniformity Act, 14 C. H. ¶ Cherokee-3ty extract Art. 2 Ecoute les paroles du grand ieoi, que the Red Indians & A-greg's allies' des deux cotes des montagnes et grands lace sont son peuple, et les enfans qu'il cherit, que leurs amis sont his Friends et leurs ennemis I his Enemys. -MOYTOY. A. CUMING.-Sept. 20, 1730. Ghent 3ty, March 3, 1815, with U.S. except Frances At Go-nappe 10.58 p.m. June 17, 1815, Wellington [signed 'Ohain ° lt land-Chart Jesuit restoration hollow road in vic - tura distribue, non rapinam relinque' (Motu of Pii 7th, May 12, 1814 by ' St. Marie ad martyrs,' Consalvi 219 Ree.l6, 6th July 'l6)-on Blucher's 42,000 PolifhP Mari. Wilkinson montagu aid, June 18-M. Thiers kens the fielgi-7 batons, of Waterloo] had all toffice-seals 1829 R-C. bill '3O, on C. A. St. Lucia Indn martyred Mary consecration 1820, as Domi tian's r Deus ac tj ukey Moatague, chewing no Peter succes sion but Micmac Peter's Tower x x Flag-union, Aar of '42, Au sein de la Boussole, des lies Fortunees S' 41eve a Pic o -eon' Over -game' de la paix. § (Horace) POPE-QUEENS TORTVRE OF Carib-IND. KII-YRS-No PAY To Peter, oat-cast prince,%consort ot civic Coin on 6 Ed. 6, Jan. 17 & 31, 1842,' fir T. £ Gresham 9- c/ as the medal'd King's bailiff-mercer in lex Mercatora of Holyrood HS. Et. nave's-ai-(to Church : : Rood screen)-acre rreeps--so G.Tres Gwydir- set Ackerley 1820, thre fir C. Hamilton Bt. as, child of S. 4's sister Eliz ncl'Greywiton-Brydges d a wberlayne, kin-trust as in Imp. Car. V., 1565,-on re sign to ORESHAM as Emp. Pedro i. 1825,-to ACKERLEY, i mpr i sc ed: ,!n Bath, Tothill, & Merthyr, for Indian duty. The R.C. Soc : Jeott.. Club Comites of 1771 act without my fae cal leave, tho Wi. l l-oathdeputy by 31 G m.e 32, §7. '9l act (by Castlereagh's Calvin-protiluranl in PESCH'S ee double office' Archbishop of Lyons & Cardinid-chaplain to 14 Cle ment's Jesuit outing, in Labrador '49 act, Phil. Francis successor, to 93's NAP. temporal 1803 see)'ng, in Quebec's Virginian 1764-6 Admiralty-probat Crt. of Lieutenantcy thro' Yellowstamp, King's-post master Benj. Franklin's Crown veto grants, on J. Adams 99yr. VP idea to North, on Lt.-Consort to (Ladles Pocahontas &) Mary march in (Common -mother of Rome-so consecrate by Domitian° per matrona teneram corpus Christi' in Iroha.tk rt , title for 1557 Nupthe primo in Brazilieru Cttn 9 ritu Calvin), so Ackerley's 2nd-ritu,Deadprobate gurrogatcy Q 'rMajor Hobart -1 montagu Dalhousie's contz, f on' dto Red-scarf chamber deputies of Js. 'Gt:Britain (33 G. rn, c 44, §1 l'Brit annoy Superior), of Vespasian's 3 . ;cot-moravia land (not F/ a vile=Clement serfvs to nome's church by The six James' acts)-onßristol'ficper alt 9 mar& ofspringseA. aloft as l e tter -type up-set-reflect 54-m. Glass . o-°ver fiat earth. Thus Trent Christ's thieves on Justinian civil law code, 1. I. T. I, §4, l'exposition °Hay s. '76 Common law for l'exhibi tionrs T. with no Utrecht flag-Rio 31y Negr°plot in Ame rica, by my 1825 l'Brazil-golbec (as 2nd Vere-branch in Mordant Monox Dacres Atkyns, Crew-Ed gcumbe Mon tague Ackerley), election as Imp. .fiscamp 9 Slane, Sir T. Chamber/ayne Thap/en ° 21H. 8 o 13 on 7 Ed. 6 Pluie 3's oath, by r G. I, a 3, in Yorki Osnaburg-GP-Cresar bishop, Qui vent la fin (will. pat.-7 H. m) tient Le meridian ci. DEAF* DEFECT 'AS one-RY'D CORK' iN Decretal' 5-SENSES. Extracts for time, omit in Adm. Kt.-rider Crt. fbooks. I. i I certify, That on or about 29th August, 1825 , w h en Secretary of Embassy to C. Stuart de Rothsay, under special mission (on holy alliance of King's Cilian Clubs abolition, on 1771 act c, 55) to Portugal & Emp. of Brazil. That Lt. Ackerley on service-detach from Adm. Haraond's ship at sea, became State recipient-witness to Caesar Emp. Pedro I. of Peru abdication deed, and left with it [as Bahia's G-figuraiclQ-176 3 1, for England in 'Bramble,' Lt. Favel. 26th April, 1861. SANDYS , then A. Marcus HILL. 11. Lt. C. H. Ackerley served as Lieutenant H,M. Ship Wellesley and Spartiate, then under my command-from June, 1824, to December, 1825-sent to Ocean-80, Lisbon. Lt. Ackerley, [my Doughty great nephew],-and boat's crew on secret service money-not being entered on Bramble Cutter's-books--requires no IMP. certificate under my Rear ward Lt..' command. j. E. fiaitosres* I Admiral, So blind Hanover in Lt. A.'s voice, Citizen or U, S. art. I, § 3, 1819, for tax-charged Indn. Peter excluded till 3d Sept. 1841 elected by M. Perley & O'Halloran as ' fit pass-oath on The& eone-aid writ-return, 1842-3 for America's Ashburton Jury to CherOkee Extradition act Crt. and Fenflotsam limits &c., as Gr4q-ech ° A p Peter, not french Pierre Basquet error giving Warrtortlit. medal's 'in IHS nurnery Th ;Os', like 1829-35 Pope's illlgal police-Toll e sielQ Heb. meter-touch -so Le terns Denizen word, has no p-nor temp6ral power. AIR -BALLOON'S UPRISE, with CUL-de-SAC Poiz'rs, for Baemeter's Cousulaire Thumb-inch. MEMO.-On wing-spread, birds create their up-leg quill vacuum : so Pigeon 'Cruelty to animals' Act-gives cause, for legal stoppage of these ascents without shown wit, viz.- by four external Cul-de-sack windbags attached from crown net, whose mouth-rings, (inward weighted to Net'ng are vertical, till gas lb. Max 00. within the balloon, at the over-a-mile Zone-electric), self-convert themselves hori zontally, by elastic gutta-tie, into parachute tall poizers, as in case of retreat, N.E. of Wolverhampton-by barometer 26in. point of Foulair collapse, nn 17 July '62, for Standard Enareny in. 1 2 4 B=l6=-- -26--- 29=32 06 Yard. Mr. Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure wax taper flame (Agnes C. seen in i'Burton Crescent) used in its vehicle the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu°m -shield-bone inhalation-by Aeronauts, against 151 b sqr -inch less 10 to ' air-Cough pressure on the lungs, So accounts for Blue. lip'd- Glaisher 5-sqr. in. ' want of re-aeriform aid within, as in low firedamp expel by Breath rarity-2, mile up of winged life-absence (in Windsor-tie Z 'erhead Oficot), tho' saved by hydrogen gas descent belly-paunch-like, at Oakham- g ll', Mem° on Shenstone's Tulchan strawcalfmilkuse couplet : 6 . 8 Clent, as i• King martyed, under a thorn Lyes Ken elm, so Edgar, with head off-shorn,' j 108 as the Maynccth ancestors of Emp. Conrad ri's G.-daughter Agatha, Malcolm m & wife Margaret's 9 offspring, now in span. Escurial of 4-Philip li. (whose daddy, II CAR. v., was in kin to Ed. m's 0-Hainault .Philipte) 1553-60, by affign M Subsidy Roll, as Gauntij constable of England, See p. 414, Oct. Gent's stag. '62, Fecamp'§ Legere-bounden' v. i. Lodge, tomb.) , 'Think I-every day to be thy last, Chandos. For when night-sleep comes-Life is past.' The vif-quieksilvery drop Vacu"etherize 29 to 16 in. aloft o'er-net expansion-for absence of Nitro-moist fog within Balloon-voltaic power,-influx Of dry Quick-electricity : so Thumb-inch pulse-tic, on Zone-enter ' where the first pair meet' at 151 n. deg., of Blood crystal'ng- on the 13 inch fall for 13,840 ft rise b 22-m.up, of 5,280 ft. each to I,oooft. per in. -decimals the 10-sq. link Chain of Port Galpe-basin marine league by cannon shot 3-mile of shore of 1794 3ty' for river red flag Ligne tiree on Peter Basket, to LoGAN's Cadas trid-registry survey-Q.-level by par°. Acts, § 9, 1818, '42-3. So vacu a rnd TITUS on § Slane's bar°mete 2tn.=-1 lb. fall for double-reason 64, 32, 16, 8,4, Gby Geometric progression to Treble-Sector .a scale : : : : line, I/abe/mente_-_vise on Chiliarch 1586 Cowper 4 Palmerston's I-Refch.-njew union Preedes 8 Soci. League 1826-30, as 2nd Melclaisedek is order. This g 6 'by Civili p fratres 6-yr motu Comifn 1826 for education of Youth and con ; cience-kcep' of Old-by Lisbon snatch'ng witness Ackerley's Emp. Pedro I. deed resign on joining Ocean-80, with \BERESFORD, by Holy Alliance out'ng on Sir C. Stuart,:llemond at HILL, forAckerley'sßex 7-8 Methuen Sty Q 29th Aug. 1825-6 Jan. 1, shows La belle Indian & sets a • • 0 • perijove to Coorg '32 Tibet's lama; 'red-turban'd dip-falls, from ' Planet's perihelion-ellipse as in Monfaucon p 134-254, Vine's • Temple on Lady-day's Ur/i Pileati St., or g Rear with a hat on 'as vAT-i-Cone'd Sufficient unto the (pie r- is the Oval thereof.' on spiral curve (to Mundane oval of H. B's will-lease at Ken nington-Butts to 1791 Sphinx-head. So Tama. Tudor Grey Ditchei of ,Eankerstar'swhite-Alba-Baits of Septia minor) on the Exeter Ursite. major GO Vegog • : : pyrateon TaunTuN night poach N bill, 6 August, to a J-esus-nomena/ist' Ndav, by Rotherham's -will 1490, O.S. transfiguration Rt.-rider-L grant to Vat- imtleula Conception festQrealist-play Lady-day in.ever. It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix s* to 51° 30 now, _Bantry, Rellisle, mtunswic. In llopton's Stow Melunvectigal Englifb Kalendar, 1614, en p. Julice epitaf Tempt= Flavim Gentis a Domitian° CONDITUM' (Martialis Epigram 1. iv.) oN London-exchange. A = m Evesham-St. mic. Cornhill key + Gov'nor [lndia • • « N.] P•Atkyna- Montague C. x ACRERLEY, d • . 1-2 w. iv., No. 54, § Charnberlayne rile-sworn [, o. • p o ser Basquet, Income-tax Carib-chief (1842 unpaid . • of China Rug wall circuit horizon;, London, Dec. 22, . 1862) its Montezuma-inch Admiralty red flag, not in t' Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793- China , to lercyl, 4 14, so GREY-cause of Captn's x r-yr support; the -; s men use his brains, and ClesArt-mock him to death, - ‘8„: 11 as 'Constable Coligny' for Bombay's Dewanney, on %a * Hen. 7 and 8, C 31, Will-set Wallmn precedency, in fev , Wattoil:l;u gar de to Canterbury's Al-Corfii freeman, moldin g to 1820's Greek Protectorate-oath, on its £9O. yr retaining Yee, costs £1,600 for my Indian ally' s duty , which Jesuit Treasury refusepayor reply, to their Geneva G-set ofva G-sot v3,2 R 5 „u nto American fecit' G—. ratio nihil Judex,' King,'s Chnepjeyed (337, Slaves free) acting order as to Ackerleytana' under Polar map-inch Act, 9 9 181 A .20, to ' Calvin Swig ik''. 4, ag-jure act 1791 § 7,—not for Romish i land, on Luther i ta lticher Co.'s of Brazil & Baltimore Mary arrival in 1851, 4 Y I -7- s So their Ivato unknown till Peter's . Nov. - Iturbide letter r, ran-reserve avow, by Earl Grey's as 'fit' Constable of Eng-Zt Colonial justice be done' to him, : 1 'R. Byham' issued to gland report theft of Tower stores i Asb.burton Ind. survey of t : 6 ket• (not as Piers e) in '42 for by the ' Earl of Derby' and gm'? Found-land of Virginia, Ind. Yellow Gold-edged 1764. ' 6 , 9,tw00d, sectry.-holding the 8 indualeranklin & lief Agger rickton N. Brunswick, Si gned i it' Nepal -grants, of Frede• dele g ate —on Ind. BRANT' It A. resume Flag china U. S. c. 1, §3-1819-26f4r5, by '94's Deputy Rio-trust, not for a X. Villette 1728 ii %Zit; d M an ilia china Portet ' Four martin-skin Timberufifnittay Co's, or tAs Trinidad's Ceylon 10 deg. Is to As-p' ' 4 .` 4 Offering. ' So is, lien gal' sobr oad 4. arrover---to Cuba's 1 764-5 Quadra Sty-sig,rgrants of America's Igaerts, by on Peter's Grandfather Jn.Nwlwaorrr tribes, —till Spriish Jui...-3 Logwood , ut-ing 31 y, Gr for B ra nt's-Percyld e p nt y removal to Escuriel for mantlere,lic, (of Cumberland -f ort , `cotin, its Ind s chief over Ni 'ndland Const a bl e ' s horse ' N by Cosby 1750 M;iscarene shift to . a Halifax stable) on Geo. 3 blstards as In , Clarence Beltse , Af ' .: ric. Gteek Cape Rex Civil . To M— Jefferies, & Bailigs of 1 ame- Sept Sour MarchAnk river Tav *, oi I fish*n Poor-lno & u . S. audits, S & Y St, Thomas's hospital in ne part o 25, 1-43 Eliz.), & H. 8, cf Southark 'bar' in by '2l July, 1521-2 II CARL• v l . r institu tion L'fiertvielc- Cl a pham's Atkyns Sty , 6'erlN.T.c Z e aland Yellow Tiber' Kt - Teutonic 1842-6, in Quaker's peu ia _ ' in x.'s in Stat. 5 Gee. 4, law ou T weed-x-flolsam" X.' .. re , - 63- ,: o f A,i 3 ' s Europe c. 74, for River Indian Bailie oath Crl- , .. ffernissiggippi'N.-way, St. Lawrence O" i , it"e' si l' 1 18 .3 7-37 — . Life Safety -.1. rods to whale fishery boats .1. upset--meda l r, - f" As Chester's Judge—like owl alone A. D. u.°. Hugh '"-Loop'''d am 1, —thy § Sir John Phillimore, (on my Copenhagen 1814-z" R.N. ' Pioche' 3 one. _ ,. _ Lt. set as Colonial Sara-ac'sa-oulf Ist clas:Pkiebo)Y-bUOp —on G. IV. Edin. gorget ' submission), founded a Temple church in VatSi-C6ne rota dedicated to x-it z sqr. Meridian as prior to Heidelbiirg 1582-6 Exchange of Tux-meter. (Se© .Sun April 19, 28 Nay 16, & July 19.) , - THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 22, 1862. Another judicial decision has been pronounced in vindication of the right of that accomplished but unfortunate lady née THERESA LONGWORTH, in recognition and vindication of her right to be desig nated, according to the laws, at once of GOD and of man, the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON—the wedded wife of the Honourable and Gallant son and heir to the by no means ancient, in point of fact, the nearly bran new Irish Barony of Avonmore. Mrs. YELVERTON'S Irish marriage was, it will be remembered, some time back, virtually recognised in Ireland. Mrs. YELVERTON'S Scotch marriage has now very recently been recognised, not in directly, however, but directly, in Scotland. Lord ARDMILLAN'S surprising decision, some time since in favour of the Hon. and Gallant Major YELVERTON—the Gay Lothario placed midway, like Captain MACHEATH, between those rival claim ants to his affections, not disposed, however, by any means to carol joyously, like his prototype, "How happy, too, could I be with either !"—Lord ARD MILLAN'S surprising decision in favour of Major YELVERTON, and in direct rejection of the claims of his most unhappy victim, has now consequently been formally and deliberately set aside. Upon an appeal to the Judges in the Court of Session at Edinburgh the Judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN was on Friday afternoon distinctly and absolutely revoked. Before that same evening had far advanced we had ourselves, thanks to the electric telegraph, given in the columns of The Sun a suffi ciently copious report of this memorable judgment in favour of Mrs. YELVERTON. A decision—it was—pronounced by the assembled Judges, all but unanimously! And yet—while we say that—only carried, after all, by a majority of oNE! Upon the Bench in the Court of Session at Edinburgh sat, on Friday, the 19th of December, three of the Scottish Judges capable of taking into considera tion the appeal then before the Court against the judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN. Lord CURRIE HILL, to wit, Lord DEAS, and the Lord PRESIDENT. One after another these learned law lords gave in their own estimate of the opinion formed and ex pressed upon the Yelverton marriage - case by their learned brother (seated by them while they spoke on Friday morning and afternoon) Lord ARDMIL LAN. One only coincided with Lord ARDMILLAN in his judgment—that one being, however, the Lord PRESIDENT. The two remaining Judges, Lord DEAS and Lord CURRIEHILL, thought each of them, nevertheless, quite otherwise. And their coincidence it was with the judge and jury who had first of all pronounced an authoritative opinion of any kind upon the merits of this extra ordinary marriage case, that carried the point on the 19th instant, in Scotland, in favour of Mrs. YELVERTON, doing this, as we have seen, by dis tinctly setting aside the astounding decision arrived at not very long ago, and embodied in a formal judgment by Lord ARDMILLAN. As a matter of course the case will nct termi nate here by any means. It will for a certainty, according to custom, go onwards and upwards until it is brought before the highest of all courts of appeal—the House of Lords. What the deci sion there may eventually prove it were idle now vaguely to conjecture, Whether the judgment of the House of Lords would be favourable to the Pursuer or to the Defender, to the Hon. Major YELVERTON or to the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON (nee• LONG - WORTH), may be regarded, as it doubtless will be regarded by many, as questionable in the extreme. What we have now in any manner to take into consideration at all is not the possibi• bility of an adverse or of a coincident judgment upon an appeal to themselves from the appeal recently made to the Court of Session against the judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN-but simply the three successive judgments pronounced on Friday morning upon that judgment of Lord ARDMILLAN, first of all by Lord CURRIEHILL, afterwards by Lord DEAS, an d fin ally (and adverse,y, though in that way ineffectually, because outnum bered by his two learned brothers beside him) by the Lord President in the Court of Session at Edin burgh. According to the emphatically expressed opinion of the first of the three judges who spoke at all on Friday in the Court of Session at Edinburgh—ac cording to th e di s p ass i ona t e view, th a t is, of Lord CURRIEHILL, "No one could read the first part of the correspondence with out characterising it as an honourable courtship between a gentleman and lady ofcongenial 1 dispositions and well cultivated minds." Lord CURRIEITILL added that " he could find no evidence to support the defender's view, that the pursuer wished to substitute concubinage for marriage." \ ) And further, said the same learned law lord, if although he did not pretend to understand the flights of imagination which a b ounded in the Tr ic e a s p te o d nd i e: m ee od ,he: could not fi n d anything which indicated or imp ur i ty in it, and there fore he could not adopt the de C fender's interpretation. was of opinion," cons ecAently, His lordsh ip , " th 4 a marriage by the interchange of consent de preeenti was established, and that were it not so, there was evidence to establish the marriage on the ground of promise subseguente copula." Lord DEAS speaking next in order, and yet more emphati cally it favour of the pursuer, the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON (née LON GWORTH) so powerfully gave expression to the feelings and convictions of those who were assembled there together in the Court of Session of the Parlia ment House at . Edinburgh, that the audience found itself carried away in defiance of all the etiquette ordinarily binding people to silence in a court of justice—giving utterance to their applause at intervals during the three hours speech of the learned and eloquent Law Lord, and greeting its close with a burst of acclamations, only with difficulty suppressed by the ushers. This warmth of the popular sympathy with Mrs. YELVERTON was im mediately afterwards checked for a while, it is true, by the refrigerating influence of the strongly anta gonistic opinions of the Lord President—the judgment of the Lord President being, in all essential respects, directly coincident with that actually then appealed against, the opinion, that is, of Lord ARD➢LILLAN.,• The Lord President inti mated that " he found no direct evidence to support of the allegations of the pursuer that there was inter change by consent in Edinburgh, which constituted marriage ; on the contrary, he thought it was con tradicted by the evidence in the letters which passed between the pursuer and the defender after their first residence in Edinburgh, during which the interchange of consent was alleged to have taken place." Precisely in the same adverse spirit the learned Lord President argued the case through out. "They must not conjecture a marriage," he said, in the concluding remarks of his jadgment " they must have positive evidence that such a thing had taken place." And it was, he insisted, precisely on these grounds that he considered the evidence to be altogether insufficient. Nevertheless thinking thus, his lordship was outnumbered by the learned law lords who had spoken before him—the court accordingly giving judgment in favour of Mrs. YELVERTON. Immediately which result became known and formally announced, the decision was welcomed with' a burst of cheering which the efforts of the officials of the court could not for some time silence." Nay, the report of these extraordinary proceedings in an extraordinary case, goes on immediately to observe yet further—" The cheering inside, more over, was taken up with corresponding fervour by the crowd in the vicinity of the court." Not—ob serve—as formerly, on the Celtic side of St. George's Channel, in the midst of a dense crowd of the impulsive population of Dublin ! But—north of the Tweed—inside and outside the Parliament House at Edinburgh, the excited multitude on. Fr iday afternoon being composed, for the most part of long-headed, and (while no doubt warm-hearted) calm-judging, keen-witted Scotchmen. It remains only for these same ringing acclamations to be echoed nearer home, here in own capital, in the metropolis of the Empire, and that last and crown ing sympathy of all will have been accorded to Mrs. YELVERTON. Will it be so accorded ? That it will, we have no serious doubt whatever, if only the people of London and Westminster be afforded the looked for opportunity. An appeal to the House of Lords will come in due course : and whatever the result of that appeal, and the result is still certainly very dubious, the decision then pronounced by the Lords will be final and con clusive. Becauee it will be thus final and conclu sion, we look forward to it—in the interest of justice—with eager solicitude. The American papers contain numerous extracts from a volume which few Englishmen indeed will care to read. Eight hundred pages are formid able enough in themselves, but when we add that they are 800 pages of the writings of that clever word•spinner Mr. SEWARD and the diplomatists of the Federal Government, only relieved occasionally by the more condensed and businesslike statements and papers of Lord RUSSELL and other Europeans, we apprehend most persons will think the "Ele gant Extracts" of the American press are all they wish to have of the volume. I iProminent among these are the communications between Messrs. SEWARD and ADAMS and Earl RUSSELL respecting the Alabama, or No. 290. That the Federals should feel extremely annoyed by her escape from Liverpool, and her barbarous feats at sea, is very natural. If we plan ourselves in their position and make our shipping the sufferers from a vessel thus built at Boston, and allowed to get away after warning and remonstrance from our Minister in the United States, we may be sure the merchants of London and Liverpool would be as infuriated as those of New York and Boston, and the country generally would sympathise with them. It is but fair, therefore, that we should not allow ourselves to be irritated by a little " tall talk" on that side the Atlantic. The talk is not so injurious to us as the burning of ships is to the New Yorkers. And it must be confessed, after all, that there are features about the proceedings of the Alabama, which have a revolting character of wantonness and lawlessness. It is but fair to own that there is something specially dog and manger-like in burning a cargo of goods which we cannot make use of, and a ship which we cannot ourselves keep. They belong to private persons only ; they have nothing to do with contraband of war ; they are simply "enemies goods in enemies ships" at sea. These are, by the laws of war, the lawful prize of the captors; and the cap tors, it may be said, may do what they will with their own. There is, however, just the difference that doing with your own what can do you no good, merely from spite to another, even to an enemy, is a violation of our moral judgments, though no law can be invoked against us. If the captor could turn them iato money we could excuse him, as international law now stands ; it is the wanton waste which provokes so much ill-feeling. It distresses the enemy, and is so far li a punishment for the blockade, and that is all that can be said for it. Perhaps, however, the most objectionable feature of the proceeding is, that it is perfectly lawless seizure and destruction. All civilised countries have held that the condemnation of the prize in a prize caurt is an essential part of the law in such cases. This was, in deed,one strong and unanswerable argu ment in the case of the Trent. The notorious WILKES had, on the high seas, dealt with the vessel and her cargo, according to his notions of inter national law, instead of taking her to a prize court. Mr. SEWARD found no means of escape from the illegality of this act. Now, it is obvious that Capt. SEMMES of the Alabama plays the part of a WILKES in the case of every ship ho destroys. He con stitutes himself sole judge of her being lawful prize. There may be little doubt that he is right in per haps every case, cartainly in nearly all; that, how. ever, does not alter the hard fact that when be burns a ship at sea he does the very thing which we protested to be so utterly illegal in the case of WILKES—as to hold that alone to be suf. ficient ground of demanding restitution. Capt. SEMMES' reply will, of course, be, that the Ge- Lyernment whose ships he destroys will not suffe him to approach the harbours where his prize courts are held, and that he would prefer to bring them there, and submit them to a final adjudication. He will say that it is not for Mr. SEWARD to com- plain of an illegality which his proceedings di rectly cause. There is much in this. And per haps the only answer, and that but a partial one, is that the South has no right to make prizes at all, if it cannot deal with them on the principles unanimously confessed to be binding in the cap ture and appropriation of prizes. In rejoinder, Captein SEMMES would urge the necessities of war —that the enemy's trade must be distressed at all hazards, lawfully if possible, otherwise unlawfully. Remembering, then, how much the Americans must naturally feel irritated by having such vessels built in our ports, and by a member of the British House of Commons, we cannot much blame them for their part in the correspondence on the subject. Fortified with the opinion of an eminent English Queen's counsel on the sufficiency of the evidence that No. 290 was building in violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, Mr. ADAMS applies to Earl RUSSELL—the result was that while the appli cation was waiting the decision of the QUEEN'S legal advisers, the builders of the ship became aware of what was going on, and before the former had given their ultimate decision for the detention of of the ship she was hurried off, and was far away on the Atlantic. Mr. ADAMS, however, and Mr. SEWARD announce that a long bill will be made out against us for all the damage dons by the Alabama, and that " Congress is about to authorise the issne of letters of marque and re prisal, and that if we find it necessary to suppress that piracy we shall bring privateers into serTiee for that purpose, and of course for that purpose only." There has also been much more discussion than we could have supposed on the question of furnish ing contraband of war to the Confederates. Lord RUSSELL has of course the advantage here, and we think obviously to the Americans themselves. They have now seen that they were far the larger purchasers from our merchants, and that Mr. ADAMS actualiy advised his Government not to make purchases here, but to go to Austria in pre ference, because its own conduct neutralised the representations which he could make on the sub ject to Earl RUSSELL. The latter, however, pointed out that the Foreign Enlistment Act did not for bid such sales by merchants, who could not be required to inquire into the destination of what they sold in a purely commercial transaction ; and that international law took the prevention of contraband trade into its own hands by making all suer cargoes liable to seizure. Mr. ADAMS gave a clever turn to the conversa tion in one case with Earl RUSSELL. " I put it to his lordship," he says, "distinctly, if Great Britain would be contented, should the people of Canada break out into open rebellion, to find the United States promptly declare a neutrality, recognise the rebels as a belligerent power, and then from myriads of posts along the extensive line of boundary, and the many harbours on the seaboard, tolerate the equipment and despatch of numerous vessels freighted with all the materials necessary to protract the struggle P I very much doubted whether his lordship would be perfectly quiescent under the answer that no violation of neutrality had been committed, and that no power existed to put a stop to the proceedings." Lord RUSSELL could not well deny that he should object to suoh doings ; but he did deny that in any of the cases brought before him there had been any evidence of wrong destination. This was in the case of the Oreto, which left Liverpool with 170 tons of arms on board, and Iwith persons called troops on board destined for Jamaica. Lord RUSSELL'S investigators at Liverpool pronounced the voyage a perfectly legal one; but Mr. ADAMS contends that the destination of the vessel was notorious in Liverpool, and that no commercial men were bind to it. No doubt the truth of the whole matter is that the shippers of the goods took excel_ lent care to put themselves formally right in British law, and that only an arbitrary Government, or one which does not hesitate to repeal the Habeas Corpus Act at pleasure, could prevent these voyages . His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge who has been spending several days with the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, at Apthorpe Hall, Northamp tonshire, returned to town on Saturday. A select party had the honour of being invited to meet his royal highness. The Duchess of Athole has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinstone de Flahault have left Broadlands on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne at Bowood. The Earl of Fife arrived in town on Saturday from visiting Lady Catherine Ricardo, at Exbury House, Southampton. Her ladyship has returned to Grosvenor place from St. Leonard's. The Earl of Rosslyn has returned to Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Earl and. Countess of Kinnoul are passing the season at St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Earl aud Countess Spencer, who have been passing th© week at Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, with the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, returned to Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, on Saturday. The Earl and Countess De Grey have arrived at &tudley Park, near Ripon, from Nocton Park, Lincoln shire, with the intention of passing the Christmas holidays at the former seat. The Earl of Howth has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from the Continent. The Countess of Elgin, on board the Feroze, left Suez on the 13th inst. Viscount Powerseourt has arrived from his seat in Ireland. Viscount Campden has left town to join her ladyship and family, who are passing the season in Paris. The Count and Countess de Taxes have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brussels. Lord Ashburton. who left London a few weeks ago with the intention of proceeding to the south of France for the winter, has been detained in Paris by illness. At one period his indisposition assumed a very alarming aspect, but during the last week his lordship has slowly improved, and during the latter part of the week the medi cal reports have been more favourable, Lord and Lady Begot have left Stafford House, St. James's, where they have boen visiting the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, for Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire. Lord Strangford has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. Sir Ralph and Lady Howard have left Belgrave square, for Brighton, for a few wake. Sir George and .Lady Julia Wombwell have left Howehin's Hotel for their seat, Newburgh Park, York shire. Colonel Taylor, M.P., and Mrs, Taylor have arrived in town from Paris. Captain and Mrs. Algernon de Horsey have ar rived at Deene Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cardigan, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Hard wieke at Wimpole Hall. The Bishop of -, proceeding in his carriage, on Sunday morning last, along Piccadilly, the hind wheel of the carriage having by some means come off, the vehicle was dragged by the excited horses upwards of 100 yards, notwithstanding the efforts of the coachman, who broke the reins in his attempts to restrain the horses. The footman was thrown off the dickey and much damaged. His lord ship, on the carriage being brought to a stand, was found to have rolled out into the street, and sitting close by the channel calmly surveying the wreck, his great toe-nail having sustain e d a compound fracture, wh i ch ren d ere d it necessary for his lordship to be conveyed with all possible speed to hi s p a l at i a l res id ence in the Duke of —'s chariot, which fort unate l y was passing at the time. The Bi s h op was to have preached on behalf of the Lancashire operatives, but the result of the incumbent's appeal was £3 6s. 8(1, — Court Journal. I )EXETER-lIALL. —The performance of the " Mes siah" in aid of the Lancashire Relief Fund, to be given to night by the National Choral Society, with a band and chorus of nearly 700 performers, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin, will commence at half-past seven. Tickets can be Purchased at the entrance to the ball in the Strand. [LAT ES N -TT X s , S. g, PARIS, DEC. 22. The Noniteur of this morning announces that the Senate and the Corps Legislatif will re-assemble on the 12th of January. It also says-- "M. Drouyn de Lhuys has requested the con sular agents of France in the East to visit all great industrial and maritime places, in order to study the means whereby the commercialrelations between France and the East may be extended." PARIS, DEC. 21. The Patrie, of this evening, asserts that Prince Couza, notwithstanding the protests of the Powers, persists in his intention of giving up to Servia the arms which have arrived in Moldavia for the Prince of that State. "This incident," says the Patrie, " has created a sensation at Bucharest." The Constitutionnel of this evening contains a paragraph, signed by M. Boniface, stating that it is authorised to give a complete denial to the news published by the Opinione, alleging that in a con versation between M. de Sartiges and Signor Farini, the latter declined to resume any negotia tions on the Roman question, because they were not likely to lead to any result. The Constitutionnel also denies that the Chevalier di Nigra, Italian ambassador at Paris, had held similar language to M. Drouyn. de Lhuys, as was likewise asserted by the Opinione. TURIN, DEC. 21 (Evening). The 'steamer Sardaigne, having Garibaldi on board, was compelleh ny tne violence 01 the weather to return to Leghorn yesterday. It is rumoured that Garibaldi intends going to Naples. The official journal of Naples has replied to the late article published by La France insinuating that Italian unity was impossible, on account of facts which had been brought to light by the inquiry into the Neapolitan brigandage. The official journal says :—" The reduction of the bands of brigands formerly numerous but now few in number, proves the success of our troops. Brigandage is confined to a few localities. The spontaneous concurrence of the population, and their co-operation in the repression of brigandage, attest their unitarian aspirations. " Stetistic tables prove that public safety is better provided for, that crime has diminished by one -half, and that theft has almost ceased. "It is untrue that arbitrary arrests of Bourbon partisans have been made. Before proceeding to arrest them the police authorities made inquiries concerning their conduct." The Official Journal states, in conclusion; that the revenue arising from the town dues of the city. of Naples is double what it was under the Bourbons. TURIN, DEC. 20. The decree closing the Italian Parliament is shortly expected. Garibaldi arrived at Leghorn this morning, and left in the course of the day for Caprera. BERLIN, DEC. 21. The President of the Police of Breslau has noti fied to the proprietors of the Breslau papers that, in future, every copy of a newspaper containing appeals to the public, or advertisements of com mittees for subscriptions to national funds for the relief of political victims or the families of the subalterns now undergoing punishment for their conduct at Graudenz, will be seized by the police. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 20. In to-day's sitting of the Upper Chamber of the Rigsdag an address to the King was proposed. This address requested his Majesty_to maintain the legally existing common institutions of Den mark and Schleswig, as such a course offered a means of binding closely together the different parts of the kingdom, and affording them a guarantee of consti tutional liberty. The address further recommended the Government to settle the affairs of Holstein by fulfilling the obligations of the King towards the Federal Diet, without, however, endangering the freedom of connexion between the other parts of the kingdom. His Majesty is informed that the Danish nation applauds his intention of granting more liberty to Schleswig as soon as the affairs of Holstein shall be entirely settled, but that the nation also expects that nothing should b 3 done which might weaken the connection between the kingdom and Schleswig. The address concludes with an assurance that the Chamber will support the present and any other Ministry which shall energetically carry out the above programme. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 20. An Imperial ukase has been published to-day re moving any confiscations still in force upon the pro perty of well-disposed Polish exiles who have re turned to their country, even should they have been born abroad. WARSAW. DEC. 20, Evening. The Government is said to have a clue to the ex istence of a secret central committee. Last night a great number of arrests were made, the son of M. Epstein and the president of the Warsaw and Vienna Railway being among the number. MADRID, DEC. 20, EVENING. To-day, in the Senate, Senoir Calderon-Collantes produced official documents in order to prove that the allies ought not to intervene in the interior of Mexico, as, when making overtures to the United States to take part in the expedition, no such inten tion was expressed. The Minister approved the re-embarcation of General Prim, as the best solution of the difficulty in which he was placed. The Prince and Princess of Bavaria have arrived at Tarragona. FRANCE. The Greek residents of Marseilles have just been engaged in electing a deputy to represent them in the Constituent Assembly at Athens. The elec tion took place at the Greek Consulate, and termi nated in favour of M. Constantine Melas, a partner in the firm of Melas Brothers, who have long been established at Marseilles. Before M. Melas came to France he held a high post in the magistracy of Athens. He leaves Marseilles at once for Athens. The information," says the Patrie, " which we receive from Turin enables us to affirm that the majority in the Parliament are quite in accord with the new ministry on the necessity of giving a certain pause to the Roman question. They are of opinion that it will be advisable not to put forward for some time any new base of negotiation either at the Tuileries or at the Pontifical Court." The gicinese Gazette announces that the treaty concerning the dioceses which lie partly in Italy and partly in the cantons of Ticino and the Grisons, has just been signed at Turin, and is now to be sub mitted to those cantons for ratification. THE BOURSE, Dec. 20.—The market has been e.3re buoyant, and the business done shows an im provement on the closing rates of yesterday; Threes, at the opening, were called at 70f. for the Account, and are now firm at 70f. 10e. Mobilier has im proved to 1,122 f, 00c. The Railway Share Market is quiet, but ptTviolls (pi pretty well rnaii;t4ined. [otations for tbe most part 'losing price:-- 43 per Cents. .. 98 L; end month.... - El,Lnk shares 3395 Urotit P:meler 1337 50 Piedmonteee Fivr-, 72 50 Italian Loan 72 40 Russian 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1117 50 Do, end month, 1120 RAIL' Austrian Spanish Threes 54 Hono Pebt 4 .. • - rAys, ertsh. Account. Orlear H 1065 .. 1068 75 Northern .... New. ditto - . • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1155 .. 1117 50 Geneva.... Southern Bll 25 .. 810 Western Eastern . ... Sardinian Austrian - Lon bard North of Spain Saragossa 661 25 .. 660 Ditto to Barcelona DRURY•LANE 71-IBAARE. Although for many years a pantomime with superb decorations fiom the pencil of Mr. W. Beverley has been the regular Christmas gift where with Mr. E. T. Smith has regaled the numerous patrons of this theatre, so long a time has elapsed since the salle (or audience part) of the house has undergone anything like a renovating process, that to the present generation the association of Drury lane with expressions significative of cleanliness and brightness must almost appear like a contra diction in terms. However, such are the alterations made by Mr. Falconer, the new lessee of the estab lishment, under the superintendence of Mr. Marsh Nelson, that when he commences his visible opera tions on the evening of Boxing-day, the remarkable phenomenon of a thoroughly renovated Drury-lane will be presented to the holyday playgoer. To make way for the present improvements the ceiling and haute of the boxes were entirely strip ped. The old box divisions of the dress circle and the pit circle have been removed, and rows of chairs extend without interruption from one end of the tier to the other. The chairs are covered with velvet, the floors are carpeted, and the walls of the corridors have been newly marbled. The new decorations of the interior of the theatre are strictly in the style-of Louis XIV., the orna ments throughout being in bas-relief, gilt on a white ground. The ceiling is divided into panels, and round the chandelier is a rich band of oakleaves and a trellis centre, while the large cove of the ceiling is filled with trellis-work and rosettes in solid gild ing , with a wreath of oakleaves round. The lower gallery and slips have been converted into one amphitheatre, the front of which has been divided into compartments with the trellis pattern, while a medallion with a bust has been placed over each column. The fronts of the three tiers of boxes have been altered to the " 0 G" form proper to the style of Louis XIV. They are richly decorated, the trellis springing from a row of leaves on an orna mental base-moulding, while in the lower tier there is an additional ornament of shields and laurel wreaths. The columns between the tiers are wreathed with laurel leaves, and branch lights spring from the capitals. A massive enriched gilt frame has been added to the arch and sides of the proscenium, somewhat resembling that of the new Theatre Lyric in Paris, although in a different style. The colour that appears in vivid contrast to the white and gold decorations is a bright cerise. Of, this colour are the curtains, hangings, carpets and chairs throughout. The stalls, like the chairs in the dress circle, are covered with velvet, with frames in imitation of ebony. Consistently with the rest of the building the saloon is decorated with white and gold, the pilasters and columns being in vein marble. The staircase and rotunda are painted light green, w ith scagli.ola columns. Au interesting feature connected wits the reno vation of Drury-lane is the rest'Jration of the "King's Room," arranged by George IV. during his regency, but for many years used as a lumber room. Newly brought to light, it appears as a handsome saloon, with corinthian columns and a dome in the centre. It has been entirely renovated, a new lobby and retiring room having been added. The Royal box, with which the "King's Room" communicates, is restored to its old position on a level with the dress circle; and the box on the opposite side (formerly the Duke of York's), is ap propriated to the Prince of Wales. Both these boxes are redecorated and have circular fronts, but the velvet hangings and sculpture with which they are to be adorned will not be completed by Boxing night. Neither will the new drop scene which has been painted by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin, to cor respond with the decorations. LIFEBOA7 SER VICES. THURSO, N. 8., DEC. 19. Last night we were visited with a very heavy gale of wind from W.N.W, to N.W., which increased to a violent storm. Great fears were entertained for the safety of the shipping in Scrabster Roads, and the coxswain and crew of the Thurso lifeboat belonging to the Nationat Lifeboat In stitution were on the lookout all the night, in case the services of the boat might be required. So dreadful was the storm that the steamer " Prince Consort" broke adrift in the harbour, and had to steam in the bay the whole night and day. About 1 o'clock this afternoon, signals of distress were hoisted from a schooner in the bay. The ut•. most despatch was then used in launching the lifeboat and proceeding to the vessel. The lifeboat succeeded in reach ing the schooner, and took off in safety the crew of three men, and brought them to shore. The vessel proved to be the schooner Sisters, of Wick, laden with stone. he cost of this valuable lifeboat, in conjunction with two others stationed respectively at Whitby and St. An drews, was presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by Mr. A. W. Jaffrey, Esq., of St. Mildred's-court. GROOM SPORT, COUNTY DOWN, DEC. 20. The Rev. A. H. 51‘Causland writes—" A barque was seen yesterday (Dec. 19), on the Antrim side of Belfast Lough, and was observed afterwards to have parted one anchor and and dragged 8 or 9 miles to leeward, only escaping the Briggs, and was nearing the Copeland Island. The union jack was flying at the foretop-gallant-mast head, and five flags from the mizen gaff to deck of the vessel. The life boat, of the National Lifeboat Institution at this place was immediately manned and succeeded in nearing the barque, and on a second attempt got her second coxswain slung on board through the sea. He was heard to say afterwards that he had taken charge of the vessel and would slip and run south, in order to save the barque. The lifeboat be haved splendidly, and was ably handled by her crew. ST, IVES, DEc. 20. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution went off from Portland Beach yesterday, during a strong gale from N.W., and a sea so heavy that she would not have been trusted in such a position but for the wishes of the crow, and more particularly of the coxswain, no as to prove to the public that the boat would do her duty under the most ad verse circumstances. She shipped some heavy seas, and at one time from ashore, where there were many anxious gazers, she was seen to drift about her length astern. She encountered three tremendous billows, which came rolling on one close after the other, and which it appeared impos sible for any boat to keep ahead against, but no accident oc• curred, she went doggedly onward, and finally dropped around the island into the harbour, I cannot express to you the admiration of the spectators of the boat, and her brave crew. Christmas is near, and the latter poor men have been very appropriately rewatded by a subscription on the part of the committee and the public. PORTHCAWL, DEC. 20. Last night (writes Captain Duchan, R.N.), it blew a strong gale from the N.W., with rain. Early this morn ing still blowing heard, a vessel was discerned at anchor to the eastward of the Scarweather Sands, with mainmast gone and signal of distress flying. With all haste the Porthcawl lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat In stitution, was launched through a heavy surf and de spatched to the rescue, and nobly did she and her crew behave, returning in the course of two hours with the whole crew, consisting of captain and eight men, with one pussenger. The vessel was the brigantine Champion, timber laden, bound from Micrniehi, in North America, for Liverpool : The vessel t-truck on the Scarweather about midnight, and has received great damage' and her bottom being nearly out. And here - I sincerely wish that I could conclude, but the most melancholy part of my communica tion has yet to be made, viz., that at the same time that the Champion struck, a brigantine likewise struck close to her, and was almost immediately swallowed up on those fatal sands with all her crew. She teas from n -oiellec, and was believed to be grain laden. The cost of the Porthcawl lifeboat was presented to the National Institut ion by a lad y (M. A , c. S.) The Ramsgate and Shields lifa some have also done no bl e se rvices during this very gale, Which seems to have Un i te d Kingdom. at on© time b lown on nearl y every part of the co a sts of the It is expected that a very pacific declaration or manifesto will shortly appear in the Itlonitacr,—Court Jeffrll44 711 A'il 111 ~.~~ _ _~~ The screw steam frigqte Liverpool, 51, having been rigged and stored, Is now plAced with the first division of the steam reserve in flo„moaze, in Suc cession to the Phcebe, 51, which is gone to the Mediterranean. The paddlewheel steam yacht Black Eagle, Alas' ter-Commander J. E. Pettey, from Ilroolwich, ar rived at Plymouth on Friday,:and wrqlt immediately into Hamoaze to fill up with coal. She is on special service, and will probably visit the Peninsula. The lighter Falmouth, R. Grandy master, left Plymouth and other yards to the eastward. The crew of the screw steam corvette Doris, 22, Capt. Sir F. M'Clintock, at Devonport, will not be paid off to-day, as at first anticipated. Her dis mantling will occupy several days this week, and payment must be deferred at least until Saturday next, the 27th inst. The paddlewheel steamvessel Triton, 6, at Devon port, having been thoroughly repaired, rigged, and stored, is now nearly ready for the first division of the steam reserve. This is the ship the iron-plates of which were reduced to the thickness of paper by galvanic action, induced by the vessel having been coated with a preparation of copper. She is now covered outside with the composition of Peacock and Buchan, and inside with that of Mr. Day. The Scylla, 21, screw corvette, Capt. R. Lambert, which arrived at Spithead on Friday, from the Mediterranean, received orders on Saturday morn ing to proceed round to the eastward to dismantle and be paid out of commission, and sailed during the afternoon for Sheerness. Two men under sen tence of 10 years' transportation, from the 4th Re giment, were landed from the Scylla by the Sprightly, steam tender, but the naval invalids and supernumeraries who came home in her from the Mediterranean remain on board, it having been found impowsible to land them owing to the heavy sea running at Spithead on Saturday. The following vessels attached to the steam re - . serve at Chatham are to be handed over for the wero vice of the coastguard, viz., the Arab, 12 ; th e Dar ing, 12 ; the Childers, 12 ; the Kangaroo, 12 ; the Elk, 12 ; and the Despatch, 12. Each of the above ships were offered a few days ago for sale by tenders but the prices sent in were not deemed sufficient by the Admiralty. Two of the fleet of mortar vessels at Chatham built during the Russian war are also to be given up for the use of the coastguard, on the application of the Deputy-Controller. The Emerald, screw frigate, Capt. A. Cumming, has anchored off Oshorne, where she will remain during the stay of her Majesty Admiralty orders have l oeen received at Chathar 3- dockyard directing th: at her marine palace. , steamvessels of war of every description, with the exception of gunboats, are 10 be fitted with engine -room telegraphs. The foltowing appointments were made on Sea" day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. T. P. Gurdon, to the Nile; Geo. H. Domiuy, master, to theTisgard, fo r the Osprey; Thos. T. Hodgson, midshipman, to the Nleeanee ; and G. John Bower, naval cadet, to the Meeanee. Messrs. Geo. W. Hill and Chas. J. Reddie vver ° on Saturday nominated to naval cadetships. 711 E ARMY. In order to give effect to the directions o f the Fieid-Marshal Command;:eg-in-Chief in regard to the instruction of tt e first division of the deP bt ; brigade, Royal Artillery, in a comp l e t e cou rse °' musketry, Lierat.-Col. Talbot, commanding the divi sion, has selected a number of the non-commis- ' stoned officers, consisting of the battery sergeeuts nrajor a n d th e most i ntelligent from the subordinate non-commissioned ranks, who are daily instructed ill position and aiming drill by the instructor BP: pointed for that purpose. The non-commiss i o ned officers selected are being instructed as rapidly possible, in order that their services may be brough' into requisition for the tuition of the gunners be longing to the batteries composing the first division, Every effort is being exerted to carry out effective l y the directions of the Duke of Cambridge. • elf In consequence of the official inquiry institut e and presided over by Gen. Sir IL Dacres, at Wool wich, in the early part of November last, when it was complained that the medical authorities ha d brought forward for discharge from the service al : unusual number of invalids, wh o were i n a ve ryba' state of health, it has been decided that in future 9 thorough inspection of the invalids shall be made by the General commanding the district, and their dis charge sanctioned by his verification. Accordingly Sir R. Dacres, ac com p an i e d by th e en tire stu ff( : f the garrison, attended o n F r i.l a y l as t them o nthly : 11 attestation of those brought fo rwar d by the med ical board for discharge. About 70 invalids and time., expired men of the Roy a l A r till er y rec eived t heir certificates and discharge from the service on P e _ sion ; each m a n was p rov id e d w ith a f ree ticket c e : 3, veying him to his desired d e sti na ti on . They w ere accompanied to the railway station by a party of non-commissioned officers. - Ensign Steuart, of th e I s t b a tt a li on Ist R°1 816 : at present stationed at the camp at Colchester, bag received orders t o j o i n th e service companies ' 3 ' ; big regiment. The troops will, as usual, have festitr entertainments during the present Christmas w ek ti A considerable immb e r of offi cers h ave 'also obtai°`t, leave of absence from the c am p. Th e n ew barrack buildings have now made much progress' t , In addition to the target dcapiached from °ba t° ham dockyard to Shoeburyness a few days si rice a ' e r he used in the experiments w ith th e 130 peu ti- d, Whitworth gun, under the di re ction of the ' r e , nance Select Committee, orders were yesies r er ceived at Chatham from Whitehall directing a ootll ii e .target also to be erected at Shoeburyness, of ° i, and strength far surpa ss i ng a ll t h ose hitherto e%P e ee a mented upon. The new t arge t i s t o be so construe 10 that plates varying from 51 in. to 61 and 7i°'. o , thickness may be tested upon it, the object of the ,01 tended experiments being to discover the 113D:i ll:a be thickness of iron armour plates which cto° °t a t penetrated by either the Armstrong or -WhitWe'fbo guns, as at present constructed. The plates will co despatched from Chatham Dockyard to She ebti b %. ness, where the new target will be constructed rad° the mechanics previously employed for the ° Li tho purpose. The plates used will be submitted t ° are closest tests, in order that none but those wh ich absolutely perfect may be used in the ex p e ritnetT ria The experiment of providing slaughter housesbio ac meat emmi required ssariate forstabl the ishm supply establishment at Chatham, at W the the of r ero at that garrison might be killed and P the imm e di a t e su p er i n t en d en ce of the °'f: attended Commissariat Department, having been arr angements haft/ with highly satisfactory results, arr an-ee he i been made by the Government for extend•ngas t t operations connected with that dep artment, so n allow of the troops at Chatham, wit h the assistba. oa por e t e rds r n e r 3 n cit of the members of the Commissariat Cor p s, tractaalso employed in preparing and baking their own breset ~ ebD ea r: and has i n been brewingcontracto ment with Mr. S. Spi cer, Government Rochester, for consi derably enlargin g the press sr c: commissariat establishment.in Chatham, by the e re enteredtbeir intober. y Accordingly,the War t 5 h ouse , superintende nt ' s and officers' q uarte: e tion of addition barrack buildin g s, bakeries, a brevr stables, &c., the whole of which are to be cocip lete an d handed over the Government within 6 to° ntbs f ro m the present date. The sit e o f the new corntvw", - s ariat establishment is on th e e l eva t e d land, be looF ing to the War Department, adjoining the iVlaici stone-road. -- 7 -. longing OFFERING.—The Liverpool pi _ i "10t 5 have subscribed amongst themselves £l4, and have P re seated the same to the crew of the Lytham lifeh.aty b';..- to the National Lifeboat last,tu tion lon A g acknowledgment of the gallant servie Ts rendered by t b° lifeboat's crew in rescuing one of their comrades, in c°' :, - junction with 13 other men, from the American ship " 4P 7.,t• E. Hooper, of Baltimore, which, during a heav hoal° ii wind, was totally wrecked on the Horse Bank at tmow of the Ribble, some weeksttea The Portuguese Government have translial ot a1 ... a .210 to the crew of th., Dungeness lifeboat, belonging National Lifeboat Institution, for their valuable servic slP's rescuing the crew of 14 men from the Portuguese hat:illit Cruz V., of Oporto, which, during a dark and stormY n'` he as a grateful was wrecked off Dungeness, two or three months ago. .. e s lifeboat's crew had previously received £ 9 for their ic lbis frou. the National Lifeboat Ins titution. The cost of w, valuable lifeboat had been presente d to the society by t Rev. .J. tiutchesson. - a PPear tations The. Pay mei Sauth t Althc 18 now wh Fn si til after bu oyz korni no th e ase ; f urth er Which o - "e acco the Nel a t s : i 92' ,ateek IB adv ance Th e not beet, 4111 :. Ti 85 ; ditt 186 2, 7 , h avf3 to 751. 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