The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

1 ) ENSON'S WATC H E S. " Perfection of mechuinism."•—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches t , Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. - Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, L COVENT-GARDEN. Under the mawement of Miss L. Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE ROSE OF CASTILLE. Messrs. Santley, G. Honey, St. A lbyn, and W. Harrison ; Miss Thirl wall, and Miss Louisa Pyne. Conductor. Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCE E. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mona. Vandris. Doors open at hilt-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. TrTEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 1.614 , .;ee, !fir. J. B. Buckstone. !';+r,:s E - 7. - ENTNfI the performances will commence with A CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE. After which, by desire, THE CONTESTED ELECTION, Mr. and Mrs. Char:es Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &c. And A. KISS IN THE DARK. Cornraenue at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the new drama, entitled HOME T RUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, .1. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. Followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, '.Mons, Espanosa (Premier Danseur Comique), will appear, with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, Path. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. ITEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole rroprieti.ir and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Took, David Fisher, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called IYINORAFI TINDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Took, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James Vinnimr, Jno Rouse, &c. ; Mesdames A, H. Hatton and Julia St. George. To be followed by the new Drama Fantastique, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining . , J. John stone, F. Villiers ; 'tisses .Tulia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame ;eleste. Po conclude with ST. MARY'S EVE. Madame Celeste and Mr. Rouse. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, THEY'RE BOTH TO BLAME.", Followed by MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Cassc, &c. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. BaWngham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa. Virginius, Mr. Charles Young. Reduced Prices—Gallery, fki ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Coot,, his Farewell Season. THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. To be followed by New and Transcendant Equestrian Talent of Young Menoni, supereminent in his somersaults and inap proachable—The brilliant Lady Rider, Miss Emily Cooke— Tne Wonderfully-schooled Dogs and Monkeys, and Intelli gent Elephant—Amazing lErial Rondines by John Henry Cooke, the first horseman in the Universe—Equestrian Blind Man's Buff—Vaulting Ambition, by the treble-headed Won ders—Sig. Delavanti and his admirable Protegees, varied by those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls. To commence at 7. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public - in England at these Con certs). _ _ And a Grand Se-ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interestinq Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is ope L from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 34—highest since noon yesterday. 30—lowest this morning and during the night. 32—this day at-noon. BAROMETER-29.68. WIND, West-North-Westerly ; light, with very cold weather, and enow. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun DAY.—Morning, 6h. 14m.—Afternoon, 6h. 40m. To-monatißeMorning, 7h. Bm.—Afternoon, 7h. 39m. „'''T.. , ..1•41 ' !,_ ~, , ~,,,• • , 1 %,” 6fT, o, • "la 4 '''_.. ._-- , • . . • .o'4 , ..- --.4i,.- .--),--: - ~., • 6 ' . " — ' t ...'i " . P..,--S C "..:;..1 * .:-. ' w i_ -,-• Cri , -;'`' . ,v ' 4fr , \,__ ~, - ' _- --,,' • • —'- - .---4, 24 ' "•/- •I, 0 ' 1 - 401" ' THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 1859. The noblest-hearted of modern Americans—old. BROWN, of Ossowatomie—was executed on the 2d of this month. Though it was said that he was reprieved till the 16th, this was again contra dicted; and ~ ve now learn that the gallant old man no more. Virginia has converted the enthu siast for liberty into a hero, and exposed to all the world the welkness of the Southern States of Ame rica. The days will certainly come when " Old BROWN" will be remembered by emancipated Ame ricans as a WALL.IcE, or a TELL, or a WASHINGTON if they prefer it--when a statue will be erected to his memory, and when the orators who shall cele brate the anniversary of a better Declaration of In dependence than their last, will elicit deafen iEg cheers by reciting the exploits of the murdered Liberator. Equally will the cowardice of Virginian slaveholders be recalled as one of the warnings to American youth, that a bad cause can destroy the courage even of Americans. We know of nothing, indeed, more degrading, and in that way instructive, than the manner in which the Southerners have quaked and trembled before weakness itself. For three whole days BROWN and his seventeen comrades held a whole city and State at bay ! A force, as one of their best orators told them, which would have been put down at once by any small town in the Northern States, actually terrified a whole State, and neighbouring States too, where the same cause of fear existed. Militia and artillery and volunteers of all sorts were summoned to the scene of action—all to reduce to submissioa seventeen men ! And that is not all. They cannot be satisfied without blood; but they are terrified at the Nemesis which threatens on every side. Let our readers only glance at the va s t military preparations to prevent a rescue—the ingenious arrangements to prevent his noble old voice from being heard in his last moments—the crowding of " volunteers" in the cause of slavery and of murdering a Puritan abo litionist—and, were it not all associated with a fran tic earnestness to shed the blood of one of whom Americans are not worthy, we should laugh unre strainedly. But the lesson as to the condition of the Southern American States is unmistakeable. Austria herself cannot be more at fault in Hungary and Venetia than these men in the Southern States. She could execute a patriot or two there at any time without half these precautions. The cowardice which trem bled at the seventeen now trembles at the blood shedding of the few fettered and wounded survivors. A rescue is feared ! The ordinary police of the place is insufficient to allay their fears. There are —for we cannot suppose Virginians would make themselves needlessly a laughing-stock to the world —there aro such a host of sympathisers with the brave old man, that Virginia cannot wrench from him his noble life without an army around the scaffold ! A whole " Sovereign State" trembles to execute one criminal ! A criminal—but is he a criminal? That is the question which almost hinders them from " screwing up their courage" to the strangling place. A criminal —but will all the waters of the ocean wash from Virginian history the crime of executing this cri• minal ? Yes, these are the questions which make Virginians' courage quail, as with swords, and mus kets, and artillery they muster around the scaffold of their victim. There is no army against them in the field—no host even of undrilled men armed with the weapons of war. No, there is nothing to fear but the conscience of slumbering Virginia itself —it is that which makes cowards of all her citizens I—she knows that she is perpetrating a crime which thousands of the best Americans resent. She knows that but for rifles and artillery, the might of right would, perhaps, display itself spontaneously on the spot ; and that the insulted conscience of men might rescue a noble man from slaveholding fury, as the army of the Israelites once saved JONATHAN from his mad father's curse ; probably, too, there was something to fear from the " happy slaves"—the men of whom old BROWN had rescued so many, and who, all helpless as they are, might yet have been too strong for their relentless mas ters. Well, the consolation is that hisblood has not been shed in vain. To have spared him would do nothing against slavery compared with his legal murder. We in England remember how the legal murder of a worthy missionary in Demerara, and the sending home of two poor Baptist missionaries from Jamaica, fired the eloquence of II F.NRY BROUGHAM, roused a feeling here never known before, and was the death-knell of slavery in our colonies ; and not unlikely is it that the blood of this fine• old man may yet be the death of the system to which he is sacrificed. One of the most brilliant among the subordinate members of the late Government has very recently spoken out as frankly and as forcibly as could rea sonably be desired upon the vexed question, as it is termed, the particularly vexed question of our National Defences, viewed under the glare of the imminent possibility of an invasion. Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD'S admirable remarks upon this all en grossing theme of discussion we gave in extenso as recently as our impression of yesterday. They were delivered, as very many of our readers will doubtless have observed already, during the course of the convivial proceedings over which Mr. FITZ GERALD presided as Chairman at the Black Horse Inn, at Horsham, upon the occasion of the Local Cattle Show there annually opened for ex hibition. The circumstance of those obser vations upon a peculiarly warlike topic having been made at a meeting of so essentially peaceful and even bucolic a character can hardly be regarded, upon second thoughts, as in any peculiar degree either incongruous or inappropriate. It was most natural surely that the ex-Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, when ad dressing himself to an assemblage of jovial farmers and yeomen, while proposing the toast of the Army and Navy, should, at such a juncture as the pre sent, make some reference to the subject of conver sation and meditation far and wide throughout the country—that naked, obvious, notorious " possi bility" of invasion, to the vivid recognition of which is attributable the rising, mustering, and drilling, almost, as it were, to the old spirit-stirring Highland tune— " Gather, gather, gather, Grigalaeh I " man after man, company after company, corps after corps of Rifle Volunteers. Why this is precisely one of the very subjects just now coming (in Baconian phrase) directly home to men's business and men's bosoms!" Not to speak of it at such a time, before such an audience, in the proposition of such a toast would have been a monstrous and ludicrous oversight. It would have amounted almost to a supressio yeri. It would have been a most in appropriate, unpatriotic, and frivolous act of reti- cence. Mr. FITZGERALD, moreover, by reason of the sheer force, as it were, of his political antece dents, had really, one may say, no alternative— he had only to speak right out under the circum stances. And this, as we have said, he did, and did, too, let ns add, right manfully. Having specified the subject of the next toast he had to propose as Chairman, the ex-Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs commenced then as follows : " Gentlemen," said he, "It is I think a salu tary rule at all public meetings such as this, that what are called political questions shall be avoided, that is to say, questions which can by pos sibility raise discussion or create difference of opinion at a meeting which ought to be marked by a general accord of opinion. But," he added, I do not think that I shall at all infringe upon that rule if I make an observation or two upon a matter of public import ance, and yet a matter upon which there can be no difference of opinion among all classes of people.' The hon. gentleman immediately afterwards going on to explain his meaning more explicitly in the manner following :—" We are possibly," he said, " I am afraid, entering upon troublous times. After long years of general and happy peace there seems to be such an uneasy feeling abroadthat men's minds are full of the anticipation of war. Now, lam not an alarmist. lam not one of those who think it possible that there should be an inva sion of this country. On the contrary, I believe the present ruler of France for a long time has shown an earnest desire to cultivate an intimate alliance with this country. Long may that alliance subsist and endure, and I cannot conceive it possible that it should be in, any danger. Heaven knows that on this side of the water there is no man who does not feel that anything like hostilities with France would be the greatest national calamity which 'could befall us. I believe that equally among the people of France the same feeling is commonly entertained. Such, at all events, is my confident opinion, and I believe that I have very goo?i reason for entertaining it. Surely, then, upon the part of the Sovereign of France personally there can be no desire to enter into anything like a quarrel with this country. Let him for one moment consider what his position is as ruler of France in alliance with this country. So long as France and England are combined what coalition is there possible on the face of the earth which could give a moment's anxiety either to the one Power or the other." A remark—this last—which was greeted upon the instant with cordial acclama tions. Having descanted thereupon, in earnest words, upon the pacific advantages accruing to the world at large from the increase of commerce gene ' rally among the nations, Mr. FITZGERALD then gave utterance to a sentiment worthy of having fallen from the lips of any free trader amongst us, where he added—" Nothing, in point of fact, can be better or more durable than the fettering together of nations by bonds of common interest and association." Although the es-Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs next observed inquir ingly—" If this, then, be the position both of the • , people of France and theruin: et cance. reason can there be to anticipate anything like a rupture of the amicable relations which have so long subsisted between this country and our French iIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16. 1 . 8b91 neighbours ?" and asked, also pointedly—" Still less, what is there to give rise to that panic of invasion which has been so common throughout the country of late ?"—he was constrained to add imme diately, " At the same time I think it not only the interest but the duty of every man present, and of every man who loves his country, to contribute to the utmost in his power to that movement which, I am happy to say, has been so general throughout the country, and the object of which is to improve and increase, by voluntary means, the defences of the country." Certainly it was a Sign of the Times, a significant evidence of the drift of the broad and irresistible current of popular feeling at the pre sent moment through all England, that those last quoted words of the Derbyite Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs was greeted with ringing cheers at the instant of their utterance. It is a reminder to us all, to Government and to Opposition alike, to Whigs, Tories, Radicals, Reformers, Liberals, and Conservatives, that whatever else may be thought of this hubbub about the possibility of invasion it gives us all at the least a magnificent opportunity ! An opportunity that, if we but rightly avail ourselves of it—as rea son, patriotism, common sense, common prudence all combine to tell us distinctly that we ought—we may, upon the flood-tide of this strong current of popular opinion, so advance the whole system and machinery of our National Defences, both by sea and land, that we may, by GOD'S help, laugh to scorn the notion of any invasion of these shores, guarded by our hearts of oak, and peopled by 26,000,000 free-born Englishmen ! LIFEBOATS ON THE COAST. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, DEC. 15. To-morrow the Marquis de Villamarina will pre sent to the Emperor his letters of recall, and M. Desombrois his lettres de creance. The Papal Nuncio will to-morrow remit to his Majesty an autograph letter of the Pope. It is stated that nothing official is yet known' concerning the nomination of Count Cavour,as re presentative of Sardinia at the Congress. Prince Jerome Napoleon has passed a good night, and to-day his health is improving. DEC. 16. The Moniteur publishes an article explaining the law on the press, the wisdom and necessity of which, it says, has been proved by eight years' exercise. TURIN, DEC. 15. The choice of Sardinian representatives at the Congress is not yet officially known. CONSTANTINOPLE (via MARSEILLES), DEC. 8. The Porte is now deliberating whether it would be convenient to bring the Suez Canal question be fore all the great Powers. DEC. 10 (via TRIESTE). The official journal publishes an article showing ;he necessity of intervention in Servia. DRESDEN, THURSDAY. According to a letter from Paris, published in the official Dresden Journal, the late belligerent Powers only would be represented at the approach ing Congress by their Ministers for Foreign Affairs; the remaining Powers would send other Plenipo tentiaries. MADRID, DEC. 14. Yesterday the Spanish expeditionary army was reinforced by 4,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry. It is stated that in all the combats which have at present taken place the Moors have lost 5,000 men. Cholera prevails fearfully at Tetuan. CORFU (via TRIESTE), DEC. 10. The Lord High Commissioner has opened the lonian Parliament, and in his speech announced numerous measures of administrative reform. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. Mr. Henry Cook, the water colour artist, has lately visited the scenes of the late campaign in Italy, and made a series of interesting drawings on the spot. The King of Sardinia has ordered Mr. Cook to paint several of his sketches, and the Em peror Napoleon having honoured them with an in spection, has commanded Mr. Cook to repeat three of the most interesting subjects. The drawings are singularly truthful and display much artistic merit. Owing to an unusual fall of snow the mails with the English journals were not delivered in Paris to-day. All the trains from the north are some hours behind time. The Pope has sent the Nuncio a letter written by himself to Napoleon 111., and which letter the Ambassador of his Holiness will present to-morrow. The letter is said to be an appeal to the ruler of France in favour of the temporal power of the Papacy, and a prayer that the revolted States of the Church may be restored to his Holiness's au thority. When Prince de Metternich delivered his cre dentials yesterday,to the Emperor he read the fol lowing address : " Sire,—The Emperor, my master, in deigning to name me his Ambassador to your Imperial Majesty, has par ticularly charged me to convince you of the high value he sets on your personal friendship. Nothing could be more agreeable to my august Sovereign than to see more and more consolidated and completed the relations of good understanding and intimacy which so deeply concern the general interests of Europe. Happy and proud I shall be if my efforts can contribute to the maintenance of the most perfect intelligence between the two Governments ; and I venture to entreat your Majesty to continue to me that high favour of which you have already deigned to give me such flattering proofs. In the hope that your Majesty will grant this prayer, and continue to show me the same kindness and the same confidence, I have the honour to deliver my credentials into your Majesty's hands." The Emperor replied— " I entertain the firm hope that the relations so happily re-established between the Emperor of Austria and myself can only become more friendly by the careful examination of the interests of the two countries. Since I have seen the Emperor, I, on my part, set a great value on his personal friendship. A sincere understanding between us will, I have no doubt, be facilitated by the choice which he has made of a representative whose conciliatory character is well known, and who has so many claims on my confidence and esteem." THE BOURSE, Dec. 14.—The market was buoyant again today, all securities rising. Threes have been done at 70f. 55c., and are now at 70f 55c. ; Mobilier varied from 862 f. 50c. to 855 f. ; Austrian, 577 f. 50c. to 575 f, ; Lombard, 581 f. 25c. to 578 f. 76c. ; Lyons, 943 f. 75c. to 941 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,430 f. to 1,425 f. ; Southern, 540 f. to 538 f. 750. The following were the last quotations :- 4i per Cents. .... 96 80 Credit Foncier 720 Do. end month I Belgian 4f 99 50 3 per Cents 7O 55 I Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 70 75 I Roman B4 50 Bank Shams 2BBO Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 857 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto MO .. 865 Lyons and Mediterranean 940 .. 945 Geneva 555 .. 555 Southern Western 585 .. 587 50 Eastern Sardiniaß Austrian Lombard .... .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25 f. 10c. ; mone y , 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 241. 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 c. reliable facts we can gather is, that there was severe fight ing. The Hoja' gives the Spanish loss as 40 killed and 100 wounded, that of the Moors as 4,000 left upon the field and 46 drowned," DEC. 5. The Moors give the following account of opera ions in the neighbourhood of Ceuta during the past week : " On Wednesday, the 30th, they attacked the Spanish redoubt in force, captured and carried off the Spanish flag, and took much spoil. Reinforcements being sent up by the Spanish General, the Moors were surrounded, but succeeded in cutting their way through and regaining their old positions. The Moorish loss was 50 killed and wounded. On Thursday there was nothing done. On Friday large reinforcements of Moors arrived, under the command of the greatest saint of the country, and in importance second only to the Sultan, the Sherif Sidi-el-Hadj-Abdeslam of Waxen. And on Saturday the Spanish army withdrew within the lines of Ceuta, leaving the Serallo and the re doubt in the hands of their former occupiers. " This last movement, if it has really taken place, is, no doubt, preparatory to a descent upon some other point of the Moorish territory; possibly in combination with the ' Malaga division, under Ros de Olano; which has been for some days past in hourly expectation of orders to embark. There is a very general impression that the Bay of Tetuan will be the scene of operations. At present, however, all proceedings must necessarily be suspended ; a strong easterly gale, accompanied by a heavy sea, opposes an insuperable obstacle to any landing on the coast. " Further advices have come to hand which state that on the 30th ult. the Kabyles of Benimsouar, Beni Orus and L adra, took to flight at the commencement of the action on that day; but that the Kabyles of Angera, with 300 Moors from Tangier, sustained the brunt of the whole Spanish army, and that, after a desperate struggle, they were likewise compelled to retire before such numerous forces. " On the 2d inst. the army of Tetuan, to the number of 10,000, advanced towards the Spanish lines, when a fiercely contested battle took place. According to information re ceived from a very reliable source, the victory remained un. decided." " DEC. 8. " Arrivals from Mazagan and Saffi state that it was ru moured at those places that, owing to the commenement of hostilities with Spain, a holy war had been proclaimed throughout the empire, which would soon bring down to the seaboard towns thousands of armed Moors, to defend their country and religion against the Spaniards. Trade with the interior was, in consequence of these events, in a paralysed state. The populations of these towns, notwithstanding, are reported to be in a quiet con dition, and peaceably inclined towards neutral powers." From Mogador we have received the following lists of the contingents furnished by the Moorish tribes in that part of the empire towards the holy war proclaimed by the Emperor against Spain : Cavalry. Infantry. 2,000 9,000 Hoda . Soos MOO .... 8;000 Eutorga 6OO .... El Masa Ros el Wad Howara 2,000 .... 3,000 Edow El Toot .... 700 Ite Baanuan. 3,000 .... 6,000 Ite Zheroa — .... 15,000 Edow Baaky 7,000 .... 9,000 Tazawelt Luksos Stuka 0' Zewa Waduoon or 800 Zhabtino — .... 15 000 Total 44,100 116,700 AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. The Bohemian has arrived with the mails from Portland of the 3d inst. Captain John Brown was executed at Charles town on the 2d. Previously to going to the scaffold he had an interview with several of his fellow-con spirators, and accused some of them of treachery. The evening before the execution Brown bad an interview with his wife. He died bravely. Nume rous sympathy meetings had been held at New York on the evening of the 2d. Money was active, and rates very firm at 67 per cent. on call. Exchange dull and nominal. • The latest quotations for Stocks were :—Rock Tsland Railroad, 651 ; Galena and Chicago, 72 ; Illinois Central, 56/ ; Panama, 1351 ; Norwich and Worcester, 41; Reading, 414 ; Erie, 9; ; New York Central, 81Z ; Hudson, 49; ; Pacific Mail Company, 76; ; Missouri Sixes, 844; Ohio Sixes of 'B6, 110 ; Tennessee Sixes, 911. Ashes, pots, 5 dols 12c ; pearls, 5 dole 25c. Cotton dull; middling uplands at 11c. Flour, States and Western, 10c lower; superfine State, 5 Us 15c; extra State, 5 dole 7/0 to 5 dole 45c; round hoop Ohio, 5 dole 55c to 5 dole 65c ; common to good extra Western, 5 dole 30c to 5 dole 45c ; Southern steady, mixed to good, 5 dole 60c to 5 dole 45c ; fancy and extra, 5 dole 70c to 7 dole 25c ; Canada, 5 dohs 40c to 6 dole 40c. Grain Wheat lc to 2c lower ; Milwauki Club, 1 dol 23/c to 1 dol 24e ; Western red, 1 dol 28c ; Southern red, 1 dol 35c ; white, 1 dol 40c ; Canada white, 1 dol 42/c. Corn firm. Sales, 13,000 bushels New yellow, at 80c to 87c; old ditto, 93c to 94c; round yellow, old, 93c. Provisions :—Beef steady. Country mess, 5 dole to 5 dole 50c ; prime, 4 dole to 4 dole 50c repacked Chicago, 2 dole to 10 dole for new; prime mess, 17 dole to 19 dole ; pork, firm, at 16 dole 25c ; prime, all Dec. to Jan. 15, at 11 dole 50c ; mess, 16 dole 12c ; prime, 11 dole 37c to 11 dots 50c. Rice quiet and firm. Molasses firm. New Orleans, 50c to 52c. Spirits of turpentine dull, at 444 c to 45c. Resin, 1 dole to 1 dole 550. Iron quiet—Scotch pig, 23 dole to 25 dols. Tobacco un changed. Kentucky, at 5c to 120. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 2. Cotton sales to-day, 13,000 bales ; market steady, at 10Ic to Ile for middling. Sales of the week 90,000 bales, receipts of the week, 92,000 bales, against 70,000 same time last year. Receipts a-head of last year 138,000 bales. Receipts for Southern ports ahead of last year 199,000 bales. Stock in port, 363,000 bales. Freights—Cotton to Liverpool, W. Exchange—Sight on New York, 1 premium. At Port au Prince, on the 18th of November, coffee was very scarce and high. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Calypso sailed from Quebec f'cr London ; Caroline, for Galatea; Marquis of Chandos, at Augusta, would winter at Quebec ; New Empire, from Cardiff, at Mobile ; Roe hampton, from London, at New Orleans ; Harvest Queen, hence, at New York. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. A Blank afternoon. READING STEEPLECHASES. ENTRIES FOR THE BERKSHIRE OPEN STEEPLECHASES. About three miles.—Heads or Tails, Huntsman, Tartar, Corkscrew, Broadway Swell, Tamworth, Lottery, Fanny, Shylock, Xanthus, Border Chief, Pyrrhus the Second, Un protected Female (late Miss Somerville), Physician, Escape, Brunet* Topsy, Mr. Sykes, Goldsmith, Roscommon, Omer Pasha, Maria Agnes, Johnny, The Curate, Glautias, The Premier, Hazard (late Chance), Woe Willie. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Bm,—ln consequence of two shipwrecks a few days ago on the back of the Isle of Wight, with the lamentable loss of 14 mariners, the public have been strongly impressed by communications from the Rev. John Pellew Gaze, and T. Turner, Esq., owner of the yacht Constance, of the neces sity of stationing one or two lifeboats on the south coast of that island. A liberal response has been made to the appeal of these gentlemen, and it will be satisfactory for you and your numerous readers to know that this desirable and important work is now likely soon to be accomplished, in conjunction with the National Lifeboat Institution. One can hardly imagine the benefit that is likely to arise to the cause of humanity from the establishment of a life boat on a dangerous point of the coast. In the two cases mentioned by Mr. Gaze and Mr. Turner, it is the opinion of the officers of the coastguard and others that the fourteen mariners who perished on that unhappy occasion might have been rescued if a suitable lifeboat had been on the spot. Again, at North Berwick, a few weeks ago, a vessel was wrecked and all hands lost. The officer of the coastguard and the minister of Liberton Manse express their belief that had a lifeboat been in the vicinity every one of the poor fellows might have been saved. Unfortunately, it is only when the bridge totters to its fall, and wrecks strew our shores, that the bridge is repaired, and the lifeboats built and stationed. In the very heavy gales of the latter end of October and the beginning of November last, a period hardly extending over six weeks from this day, 325 vessels were wrecked, with the loss of 748 lives. On the other hand, the lives of 487 persons were rescued by the lifeboats of the Royal Na tional Lifeboat Institution, these of local bodies, and the mortar and rocket apparatus of the Board of Trade. For the gallant services performed on these and other recent disastrous occasions, the National Lifeboat Institu tion has granted rewards amounting to nearly £3OO to its lifeboat crews and other persons, besides one gold medal and 13 silver medals, and other honorary distinctions. There is at the present time a permanent expense on the institution of maintaining 92 lifeboat stations, thoroughly equipped, charged principally on its funds. The average cost of supporting a lifeboat station is £3O a year. This amount is expended as follows :—Payment of £8 a year to the coxswain, or master of each boat ; £lO to £l2 to the crew for exercising her every quarter, the remainder being appropriated to meet the incidental charges or repairs, paint ing, &c., of lifeboat, carriage, and boat-house. Surely such facts as these will rouse up the most lethargic amongst us to help forward zealously and heartily so truly philanthropic a cause. This is not the time when England can afford to behold her sailors perishing by hundreds with out extending to them a helping hand by lifeboats and other practical means, and endeavouring to snatch them from the boiling elements. You have for years past unceasingly ad vocated this sacred cause, and perhaps there are many wives and children who would now be widows and orphans but for the services of lifeboats silently blessing your name, and many others who have, like yourself, been assiduously engaged in this good work. It should also be remembered and pondered over that the very men whom the National Lifeboat Institution fosters and encourages by its rewards to perform frequently such deeds of daring in its lifeboats, would unquestionably be the first and the bravest amongst our sefaring population to repel an invading foe. On the score, then, of humanity, love of country, and its commer cial prosperity, let every one who can help forward a cause which appeals so strongly to our sympathies,, and nation ality.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Dec. 15, 1859. The Duchess of Inverness gave a grand enter tainment last evening, at Kensington Palace, to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The following were invited to meet their royal highnesses : His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess Apponyi and the Countess Baumgarten, the Countess of Lichfield, Count Brandenburg, Count Paumgarten, Count Wimpfen, Captain Falbe, Mr. George, Russell, &c. The Duke of Buccleuch is staying at Bowhill, his grace's hunting seat in Selkirkshire. The duchess and Ladies Scott have taken up their residence at Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, for the wintar. The Marquis of Bath has during the last fort night entertained a succession of visitors at Longleat, Wilts, The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, left Berkeley square yesterday for Middleton Park, near Bicester. The Countess (Dowager) Granville, with Lord and Lady Rivers, and the Hon. Misses Pitt,!are sojourning at Eastiogton House, Bournemouth, until the end of December. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., has left Whiteha gardens for Geneva. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone left Trentham for Edinburgh on Monday, after visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland during the stay of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Auinale at the ducal seat. General Sir de Lacy and Lady Evans left the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, yesterday, afte- a stay of three months, for their town residence, Bryanstone-square. Mr. Deedes, M.P., and Mrs. Deedes have arrived at Farrattee's Hotel, from Sandling-park, Kent. The dry dock at Mauritius is now open. The Sarah Sands was the first ship which entered it. A ship 365 feet in length can be accommodated there. The dock is SO feet wide at the top, and 40 feet wide at the bottom. Its depth from surface of high water is 23 feet. The water is pumped out in 21 hours. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.—A considerable number of persons yesterday ventured on the ponds and canals in the various parks, though the ice is by no moans strong enough yet to bear with safety. Several—as might be expected—fell through, but no serieus accident occurred. THE 'WEATHER IN THE PRoviNcgs.—During the last day or two the weather has been exceedingly sharp and winterly, and on Wednesday there was a fall of snow in Leeds. Several of the trains were detained in consequence of the drifting of the snow upon the rails, and the express from York, due at Leeds about 11 o'clock, did not reach its destination until half-past 12, the detention having occurred in consequence of the engine and some of the carriages run ning off the line. No personal injury was sustained by any of the passengers. On Wednesday large quantities of snow fell, covering tho ground in Newcastle to a depth of two or three inches. The mail from London on that evening was delayed for a considerable time, but fortunately, so far as we could ascertain, no accident occurred. THE RELIGIOUS DISSENSIONS, ST. GEORGE'S, EAST.—Yesterday evening a vestry meeting was specially convened for the purpose of considering the conduct of the rector in sending " a threatening letter " to the church wardens on the subject of their retention of the keys of the parish church, which the rector claimed in connection with his right as the ecclesiastical ruler of the parish. Mr. Churchwarden Thompson, who presided, deprecated any further movement and, without saying so in so many words, gave the vestry to understand that between the rector and the parishioners a compromise might be made if the olive-branch of peace were held out by the parishioners. Some discussion ensued, and at the earnest request of the churchwarden the proceedings were adjourned, the church— warden having pledged his word that he would not yield an inch unless the wishes of the parishioners were com plied with. DEATH OF Mn. DAVIDSON.—We have to record the know s u ud in de t n he d t e h a e th atr o i f ea A l lr. wo l rl V d . als. air. W ids . , I. m p or a e vid fa so mili n. a ll rly e h roev a ne d na b tiyon een indisposed for some few weeks, but had recovered,appa ggthutheitalete,sse having s oft finishedh)andolymwar, Olympic 8 e hearty T sho Theatre, well r supper, o . n t hhl Wednesday enht i nn od up till midnight writing a farce, which ho intended to sub mitslept soundly till four o'clock the next morning, esta blishment he had formerly been connected. tseemshe awaking* with a sudden exclamation, he immediately f when, 1 v.l 11 , e \ p:r , ,l. l' , lr. Davidson will' be rerainabere.l a as t t e h r ; I,isnal,;er of the Olympic Theatre in the year 15.18, For the last few years lie has contributed chiefly to the Ameri can stage, and at one period obtained some repute as an artist. It is much to be regretted that he leaves a widow and children quite =provided for. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. The Madrid journals of the 11th mention a re port that the Government was about to borrow 100 millions of reals (25 millions of francs) from the Bank, on deposit of securities. In the reconnaisance which General Zavala made on the road to Tetuan he saw that the Moors had a large body of cavalry iu the /plain, and on the heights 4,000 infantry. During his march, which was on the coast, three gunboats kept near him. The following are extracts from the Gibraltar Chronicle : DEC. 3. We have been permitted to give the accompany ing extract of a letter from the camp. It is from a source which guarantees the c)rrectness of its statement : " CAMP or SERALLO, NOV. 27, 1859. " We have had some skirmishes with the Moors, but their attack on our lines on the 25th assumed the fierce ness and proportions of a battle. They made a feint upon eur right, and threw all their weight upon our left centro. The fight lasted from one until four o'clock p.m., when they were repulsed on all sides, with very heavy loss, heaps of 80, 50, and more dead bodies, being found in the positions they occupied. It is well known the care they take to remove their dead if not routed, as they certainly were the day before yesterday. I calculate their loss at about 500 to 800 men hors de combat, among which 250 dead. We also suffered considerably, as they fought with great determination, and the intimate knowledge of these intricate forests and defiles is in their favour. Our losses amount to 300 or 400 men altogether, but many are but slightly wounded. A batch of those savages made a rush from an ambush upon General Echaguo, shot his and his aide-de-camp's horses, and carried away the tip of his fore finger ; he had a narrow escape. His assailant was soon despatched. My usual good luck attended me, although we had to sustain the brunt of the enemy on our left centre. Should the Moors Inca us on less covered and broken ground all the chances are against them. • " No account of the action of the 30th has been received, except that contained in the ' Hoja Yolante.' The only AQUATICS. ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. The annual dinner of this celebrated club took place yesterday at Willis's-rooms, St James's-street, the worthy Commodore, Mr. A. Arcedeckne, pre siding. Nearly 150 gentlemen sat down to a din ner, consisting of every delicacy of the season, flavoured with first-class wines. On the removal of the cloth the Commodore pro posed the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, which he succeeded with " Success to the Royal London Yacht Club." After glancing at its career for years he remarked, that the secret of success in a yacht club was not only to get good members, but to keep them ; a secret which this club had long ago advised. He could congratulate the members upon being a jolly, amiable, and agreeable set of fellows, fully intent upon encouraging yachting; and the only regret he experienced was, that they had not had better entries for the valuable prizes they had offered, but other clubs had been similarly situated. He felt much pleasure in being able to state, that the club numbered 600 members, and he hoped they would, ere their next anniversary, increase that number largely. The other yacht clubs and a number of toasts followed. Miss Ransford and others too numerous to name s ung on the Occasion ; and the elegant embellish ments of the ball-room, just completed, were much admired by all present, the painting by Agnesie particularly. A meeting of the Loudon General Omnibus Com pany was held yesterday—Mr. W. 11. Cosway in the chair, After a protracted discussion it was resolved - that file reporl and accounts be approved, and that the directors be autho rised to borrow £30,000. FRANCE AND JAPAN. The Moniteur of yesterday published the follow ing correspondence from Jeddo, dated September 22, 1859 : " The exchange of the ratifications of the treaty concluded between France and Japan on the 9th October, 1858, took place to-day with great solemnity at the Palace of the Minis ters of Foreign Affairs. The Consul General of France in Japan, M. du Chesne do Bellecourt, proceeded thither on horseback, accompanied by the Commander and Staff of the Imperial screw corvette Duchayla. The treaty bearing the ratification of the Emperor was carried by sailors on a sort of stage adorned by French flags, and escorted by a guard of honour of 50 armed sailers. The members of the mis sion followed in palanquins. " After two hours' march through this immense capital, in the midst of an innumerable multitude attracted by so novel a sight, the procession entered the official enceinte of the city, a sort of fortress to which usually only the feuda tory Princes of the empire, their families, and the officers of the Court are admitted. M. de Bellecourt and his suite on reaching the Palace of Foreign Affairs, situate near the third inner enclosure which surrounds the Imperial Palace, were received with groat ceremony by the First Ministers of the tai-coon of Japan. " The exchange of the ratifications and examination of the treaties lasted for nearly two hours. In the presence of the Ministers the French and Japanese Plenipotentia ries compared thew. The Abbe Girard, the Superior and Apostolic pro-Vicar of the mission to Japan, who provision ally acts as interpreter of the Japan language—in which ho is well versed—for the French Consulate, compared the Japanese text with the French. Everything having been found regular, the treaty which bears the ratification of his Imperial Majesty was handed over to the Japanese Ministers, and that bearing the ratification of the Emperor of Japan was handed to M. de Bellecourt, after having been placed in a double box of black japan of the most exquisite workmanship. " On this occasion the Abbe Girard was in full canonicals. Thus Providence reserved to the glorious reign of the Em peror Napoleon 111., and to exclusive French action, the solemn re-installation on the Japanese soil of that religion of which the ministers, &poetics, and adherents were hitherto doomed by the laws of the country to certain death. It is not secretly and timidly that the Catholic religion re turns to this land which has seen so many martyrs ; it is in the very midst of the Government itself that it publicly shows itself, though still within certain limits, in virtue of a right consecrated by the diplomacy of a Sovereign whose name is also in those distant lands a veritable symbol of power. " As the ceremony concluded at the palace of the Japan ese Palace of Foreign Affairs, the screw corvette which brought the Consul-General of the Emperor to Japan saluted the French flag, hoisted for the first time on the habitation which that agent occupies on an elevation, which commands a view of nearly the whole Bay of Jeddo The Russian frigate'Askoldo and the corvette of her Britannia Majesty the Highilyer, in the roads, courteously joined in the solemnity by hoisting colours and saluting the French flag installed at Jeddo with 21 guns." WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will and two codicils of the Right Hon. Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton Stuart, commonly called Lord James Stuart, M.P. for Ayrshire, and Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Bute, late of Whitehall-place, were proved in London on the 12th of December, by Lieutenant-Colonel James Frederick Dudley Crichton Stuart, M.P., his son, the sole executor. The personalty in the United Kingdom was sworn under £45,000. To his daughter he has bequeathed £lO,OOO, and £6OO a year ; to his younger £20,000, and has left him the gold watch he usually wore. To his eldest son he has left the residue of his property, real and per sonal. Lady Stuart has a provision under settle ment. Several of his relatives are named to whom he wishes some article from his effects should be selected by them as a mark of his regard, and that Lady Stuart should receive a sum of £2OO, to be laid out in charity at her discretion, and that she will select a carriage for herself, and any furniture she pleases. The will and codicil of Sir Thomas Isaac Horsley Curteis, Knight Bachelor of Great Britain, were administered to in the London Court of Pro bate by a legatee, Mrs. Emily Curteis Rogers, owing to the death of the sole executor, John Brooke, Esq., of Berry Hall, Old Walsingham. He has bequeathed his residence called the Villa Twy ford, near Foulsham, Norfolk, to the daughter of his executor. He has left to a few friends some small legacies. Bequeaths to his old servant Henry Shorting his sword and wearing apparel, and a sum of £lO. He gave particular directions that his coffin should not be finally closed till he had been dead eight days, having a great horror of being buried alive, believing that such has often occurred ; his armorial bearings and helmet of knighthood to be engraved on a mural tablet • also directs that the old pictures of hi s grandfather and grandmother Horsley, and the old crayon portraits of himself and his deceased sister, shall be taken out of the frames and burnt ; but that the large pictures of himself and his sister should be placed on the walls of the great chamber at Berry Hall. The will of the Rev. George Nicholas Dealtry, M.A., Rector of Outwell, was proved in the London Court of Probate by his son-in-law, John Fraser Macqueen, Esq., barrister-at-law, the sole executor. He wished to be buried by the side of his wife, in the family vault in the chapel called Beaupre Chapel, in the church of Uutwell, and that a marble tablet on the wall of the chapel should record his . death, corresponding with one there. He has left liberal legacies to all his servants. The residue of his property he has bequeathed to his son-in-law, Mr. Macqueen. His freehold and other estates are held under settlement. The will is dated the 25th of January, 1859.—Illustrated News. The Norfolk is announced from Melbourne with 68,054 oz. of gold—worth about £272,000. The dollars brought by the Mexican steamer have been sold at 611 d. per oz., being an advance of id. upon the price realised for those by the previous packet at the beginning of last month. Meanwhile, however, dol lars have been sold at 611 d. and 62d., owing to the pres sure of the demand on French account, which has now ceased. All the leading Manchester houses in the City and retail firms at the West-end have arranged to keep holyday on MondaY, the 26th, Christmas-day falling on a Sunday. At the Great Ship Company's meeting called for yesterday, but afterwards proposed to be postponed to next month, only a few shareholders were present, and an ad journment took place, no business having been transacted. It is proposed to carry on the business of Messrs. Calvert and Co. by a limited joint-stock association, to be called the London Brewery Company, with a nominal ca pital of £600,000 in shares of £25 each. Since the concern has been conducted under the direction of inspectors the profits have been at the rate of about £50,000 per annum. It is therefore hoped that the greater part of the, unsecured creditors will come into the arrangement. Their claims are to be received for shares at the rate of 18s. in the pound, and cash subscribers are to have a preferential interest at the rate of 6 per cent. THE HOLYHEAD TELEGRAPH TO LIVERPOOL. —At the meeting of the Mersey Docks Board yesterday (Thursday), it was elicited that men were at present em ployed in relaying the submarine cable between Port Lynas and the Ormshead, which has been broken by the Royal Charter, or in some other way. It was said that, owing to the state of the weather, the men had not been able to touch the cable, but the engineer expected it would be completed in a few days, when the line of telegraph would be again a eration. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon, the 15th inst., the Hannah Moore, 1 , 130 tons , belonging to Messrs. Wiliam Roberts and Co., of Liverpool, to sail from Birkenhead for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l6 9s. 9d. per statute adult, to be ready for the reception of passengers on such a day as the Commissioners may appoint between the let and Bth of February. The ship is to be furnished with Bible's ventilating apparatus and Dr. Normandy's fresh water distilling apparatus. MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR.—ThaI body of Amateurs, under the direction of the most distinguished amateur of the day—amateur, indeed, only in name, for he does not yield, in talents and acquirements, to any of our professionally-educated artists—commenced their fifth sea son with a concert at St. Martin's-hall last evening. These concerts of Henry Leslie's choir have obtained a firm foot ing among the regular entertainments of the London sea son; and they deserve to hold it, for none of our musical entertainments are of higher quality, or are more condu cive to the progress of music in ono of the most delightful branches, the harmonious combinations of the human voice. Last night St. Martin's-hall was crowded in every part, and the performance was probably the finest that Mr. Leslie and his choir have ever given. DEATH FROM INHALING CHLOROFORM. — The Newcastle Chronicle states that Mrs. Jenkinson, daughter of the late Sir William Gordon Cumming, Bart., of Altyre, and daughter-in-law of the late Bishop of St. David's, was last week on a visit to her relations at Cresswell Hall, and, having been suffering from the toothache, rose early on Friday morning to inhale the vapour of chloroform. Later in the morning the unfortunate lady was found a lifeless corpse. Overcome by the vapour, she had either fallen or reclined upon the bed, and the contents of the bottle which had contained the chloroform were discovered to have been spilled upon the pillow. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN IRELAND.--Abailiff named Reid, a Scotchman, in the rent office of the Earl of Rosse, at Parsonstown, was fired at on Wednesday evening about six o'clock, when passing through the dark walk of Woodville House; about half a mile from the town. He escaped, but his murder was clearly intended, since the assassin was close to Reid when he fired, and several slugs wore lodged in the wall beside him. A CONSCIENTIOUS JUROR.—At York assizes OR Monday, on swearing the jury, one of the jurymen refused to take the oath, on the ground that he had conscientious scruples. His Lordship (Mr. Justice he h ad What scruples ?" Juryman—" I consider it contrary to the Bible in several places. His Lordship—" Do you object to take the oath 1' " Juryman—" Yes, I do." His Lordship— " Very well, then, you can leave the box ; but you must sit there (pointing below it) and remain every day till the end of the a;.sizes. it would be very easy for any one, by stating that he had conscientious scruples, to escape the duty of a juryman altogether." Th e j ur y man accordingly took the place assigned to him, amid considerable 'amuse , meat in court. TES. THE A letter from New York, dated Nov. 30, says, — Friday next, the 2d of December , is appointed for the execution of " old Brown" and his confederates in the Virginia invasion. This ill-conceived and p by the worse executed plan is then to be wound u deaths which properly close a tragedy, and the public will retire to meditate upon the moral. of an invasion of a State by 16 white men and three wn ne groes, the capture of an arsenal by them in a to of 2,000 inhabitants, and the uproar which they have caused throughout the State ever since. Like the true Shakspearian tragedy, the heavy busin ess of the piece has been properly and artistically interspersed with lighter touches. If the old Puritan madman has, stalked about in heroic garb, majestically " doing' the tragedy in an exceedingly capt ivatin g way, not withstanding his crimes, the Governor of the State has equally filled up the interstices with comedy of the most approved order. He h as stirred up the whole State of Virginia, from the eastern shore t the base of the most western spu r of the Aghs o nies ; all are in motion towards Charlestown, the place of confinement of the condemned, for the put pose of preventing a rescue and a ssuring th hed of e e cution of the accused. Daily lists are publis the volunteer corps that have offered their services to do guard at the expense of the common xealt re h. The Governor moves his militia about to and fr° from the scene of action as nec essit y seems to - quire. They, on their side, are on the alert for every hostile demonstration, even to the burning of a MY' rick or the moaning of a cow. It may w i t h truth be said that this mad expedition of " old Brown" 119 . s done more to expose the weaknes s and the fears °I the white population of the slaveholding States than all the tirades of the maddest abolitionists or the assaults of the blackest of bla ck Republicans could have done by any possibility. When a. e community rises simultaneously and puts itsel! under arms, when the minute - me n are called outthe at the sound of an alarm bell and the Executive of State are the foremost in leading them on, 1 1( 2 the burning of a hay-rick can throw a county into convulsions, there must be some real danger at bottom to justify all these convulsive efforts fr° rll t persons who are usually courageous. be a real feeling of insecurity, notwithstanding N.° There a 1 1 1 .3 undoubted attachment of most slaves to their masters. To say that there has been nothing call ing for such a demonstration is incorrect. 113! magnitude of the demonstration s hows clearly the magnitude of the evil it is inten ded to reinedY; When a whole community thus rises en moo, ana takes arms in its hands, the danger which W it seeks to avert cannot be entirely imaginary. e at t 1 distance may ridicule the demonstration, and qu e l tion its necessity ; but neverthele ss there must uly; be ti deep-seated cause of danger to so stir theln There is every reason to believe t hat this is t s feeling in the South. With it we may anticipate._. stormy time when Congress assembles m fresh next We. l l The Southern members will come t he OW_ the impressions caused by this outrage uP° ll rights and their property—the North will rotg hre confident in the hope of triumph next yea. ' l 2 r. contest which has already broken out with thebitte r contest ness in the press must then be transferred to .._ floors of Congress. The first struggle will be on the election of Speaker. Before the Brown invasion t_DI: election of a Republican was thought to be Ell i r he That pai ty only want six of an actual majority. -". anti-Lecoinpton Democrats and the southern Opp.u: sition sympathise with them in their hostility to tn: . Administration ; there was, therefore, almost a eet tainty of an alliance. Indeed, the terms of it l'O r i v in substance arranged. The impression produche; by the Brown invasion throughout the South outlived these calculations, and now it is "r e d, ingly doubtful whether the House ean be organ' s a ole and whether there will not be again s uch B a I I t l,, g as cited as we saw in 1855, when Governor an'', b. elected, embittered now by the temper exc " old Brown." The Republica ns still clairo to be U n less able to count an Opposition can didate in• be a they can do it on the first ba llot there nig long contest.— Times. . rr.A.114 LETTER FROM THE CONDEMNED ()I!" . -- BROWN. most kind L. Vaill. Charlestown, y, st e aVdaf•.,N Nov. e l i s st ~....1 1i ie 1 . most kind and most welcome letter of the n Bth inst. rote me T in due time. am very grateful for all the good feeling Y° L n OPree.'oo. and also for the kind counsels you g ive, together ith a r i sio vritbd. prayers on my behalf. Allow me h ere to say, notwd ing "my soul is amongst lions," still I believe that ~.4 in every deed is with me." You will not,theroforea; surprised when I tell you that I am " joyful in nIY tri•ndg tions," that Ido not feel condemned of Him whose .I,_ " ment is just, nor of my . own conscience. Nor el ,, u ro , feel degraded by my imprisonment, my chain/ or pro' spect of the gallows. I have not only been t W ith utterly unworthy) permitted to " suffer affliction w'or.. God's people," but have also had a great many are:Pr e , tunitiss for "preaching righteousness in the great c Z s . gatioa." I trust it will not all be lest. The jailor (in_,, b e en charge I am) and his family, and assistants, have a t most kind ; and notwithstanding ha was one of the br ay . e ...t", of all who fought me, he is now abused for his hillaanieljre So far as my observation goes, none but brave nloll,,eir likely to be humane to a fallen foe. "b owards prove lt courage by their ferocity." It may done in that Way with tut little risk. ing l twimisehsllcohuelrcle ewritexperyinTntct clergymen among others. Christ, the great captain. 1 °: liberty asiwell as of salvation, and who began his taissiora i w ffs o r n e l n y t o c f la t s h o o ss inte rs res e !; as foretold of him, by proclaiming it, saw fit to take fro leowuitt h a' f d e me a sword of steel after I had carried it for a tim! . ;_ but he has put another in my hand faithful soldier, Spirit "), and I pray God to make mo a affold than (" the sword of th e wherever he may send me, not less on the scaffold when surrounded by my warmest sympathisers. My dear old friend, I do assure you I have not forgotteix our last meeting, nor our retrospective looks name the that id° has again enabled me to hear your words of cheering and 00 0 ; fort at a time when I, at least, am on the " brink of Jordento (see Bunyan's Pilgrim). God in infi nite mercy grantfto soon another meeting on the opposite shore. I hav e ° 4 passed under the rod of Him whom I call my Father ; havefli' ce rtainly no son ever needed it oft ener, and yet I a enjoyed much of life, as I was enabled to discovio the secret of this somewhat early. It has bee s . , 0 mthaaktirnegauthyelprhaovapeeharitdyaangrdehaatpdpeianleoafs p o r f o o s th ps e r r i s ty ra . Y 1 r i m vi, '„ a ii ii prosperous still, and looking forward to a time It - r , ' peace on earth and good will to men" shall eves g o prevail. I have no murmuring thoughts or envious fe." — ,o , to fret my mind. " I'll praise my Maker with my br e , 6 . o — ,: e d had here, I am led the more earnestly to pray, I am an unworthy nephew of Deacon John, and 1 ' ' e him much; and in view of the many choice friends I bap s my soul with the unrighteous." • bill Your assurances of the earnest sympathy of the &le t i l' i f my native land is very grateful to my feelings, an d e an iev y e th m in o g st I fir h m a l N y e th d a o t n G s, od suffe . me to say a word of comfort to them : A reigns, suffer, will be lost to the cause of God or of humanity. t ired " before I begar my work at Harper's Ferry I felt ass o ii; n that, in the worst event, it would certainly pal- I ca use expressed that belief, and I can now see no posible., Air to alter my mind. lam not as yet in the main at ell it " re , appointed. I have been a good deal disappointed a! 3 ., o w gards myself in not keeping up to my own plans ; but A woo feel entirely reconciled to tAftt event ; for God's plan infinitely better, no doubt, or I should have kept to "l as i, Had Samson kept to his determination of not ten:WV, h oe wherein his great strength lay, he would _ple.,b a 'but I never overturned the house. I did not tell Pell e ut, was induced to act very contrary to my better ju gin g jo t and I have lost my two noble boys, and other friends, 11 my two eyes. o forta • But " God's will, not mine, be done." I feel aco e tot ble hope that, like that erring servantof whom I have -o n been writing, even I may (through infinite were/ l a _ oil er e co.- , Jesus) yet " die in faith. ' As to both the time an s r r A of my death, I have but very little trouble en h,, and am able to be (as you exhort) of " good ci1e.?..,.• _.... a nd I send through you my best wishes to Dies. w" -- 6 0 ,1 of her son to all dear nand Saves th o e f you all. red, ‘l(‘;:an;:tr, ,:feiri the poor andoppressed be the God and Savio ur t b . Farewell, till we meet again. Your friend in tru l or g. JOON OA • THE BALLOT SociETY.---.11• weekmlyr.sllb:swetiries;ffiwtigooe:re. ili I the rG. euwxieiheduihtt:iliviuoleisiott Guildhall-chambers, t r. t sE e , e was hefd on Tuced a Y a t Ill:chair! Nodes, Robert IMt,rillqr..BEon.telvirdare:dea in Mr. l‘ir. . Webb,Lo AlEasciit.r,e,ivillcv,ernwe;re present. of £lO 10s. from Mr. Grote and osev - al Wa ller stun Tees i reported. The Rev. Robert SpearserStockton-hrlorrold, Esq., and B. Lucraft, Esq., were V:relectiedianracebrafirrbcieVanf the council. Directions were given respecting the 0 i „ p ert elections for Reading, Durham, and Pontefract. l' - ,, the was read from the sub-committee ap ointed to ezatiW' t he 13 • offere essays sent in by the candidates for tne prizee pitta 11 committee for the best essays on the Ballot, to be °so ya, by working men and tenant -farmers. FiftY-80"athe sub many of them of great ability, had bean laid beforetionotes committee, whose report was now presented. 111P. tte e 11°1 of the recommendations of the report, the comm ittee to gr. resolved that the first prize oXi ss. be eNar"„l,, aph is Malcolm Ross, of Bradford, Yorkshire, I".„irrnating printer ;the second prize, of a 3s , to Mr. C. "• 0,, te I til. ' (the lorwich Operative) ; and the third, of X 2 ---, ow ork Thomas Smith, of Enderby, near Leicester,. fra i lli i, the knitter. These essays will be first publreheclrroge- Ballot, and afterwards as a tract. Prelirhipar7 ' — o f tha ments were also made for the business meeting ~,,g ~t council on Wednesday, Jan. 25, and the public OW" the Whittington Club, in the evening of that daY. on A SHIP'S BACK BROKEN IN THE NIERSZT*4 h o Tuesday, as the ship Gladiator was leaving or : 13. ti l e Liverpool docks to sail for Bombay she strheacourt" tu gs Pluckington. Bank, owing to the breaking of the et __ a ,ad hawser. She was got afloat again the afters b e nt Darrocakngweamreenhtosuswese,reasmthadeeshitomplace the care T a v v ."— e to b e it is expected, hat at s boa broken up. The Gladiator's cargo was value £70,000, and the vessel at £15,000. A WHALE IN THE TAY. —A lar go whale was seen by a correspondent on Satur da y_._ _arsuit of in the Tay near Invergowrie Bay--no doubVLlg' 0918. the herrings, which have been up the river i 1.4 4 rooeatli of tho won that it was not made a prize by some returned from the northern whale fishing. e It swam about fearlessly, and it is somewhat surr-siljg and cril Crinoline, which has been a defiant i_nolo. rota; foe to the ancles of men, has become, b r y t 5 t bility, a principal source for their h p a leg gings ril 01, b°ttairtelirn°SoocaU. % Il tl4 ihoturt:d by the Gosernment eouttliet.OFS, 17„.„ , p pal e v . rapidly receding prleeeefdasintegnfinasghifoonr providingth n now in t I. ja i tfstr3rtete;cltif°::7l:o::l3llljuni of Stepney. 1 hits, hi these, day , of uttl.ity, s t , 0-,...,0iied. 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