The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Nov. 26.—Just a word by the Psyche, which leaves this morning for Marseilles with Capt. "..fends, C. 8., Director of the Transport Depart ment at the Admiralty, who is returning to Eng land. Col. Ross, C. 8., Deputy-Quartermaster- General, and Capt. Willoughby, R.N., resident transport officer, who came over in the Psyche, have been stationed in Egypt, for the purpose of conduct ing the service of the transport of troops through that country. Formerly our troops were conveyed to and from India byway of the Cape of Good Hope, under the Indian Government. In future this service will be performed by the Transport Department at the Admiralty, the whole of which service has been organised by Capt. Mends. The troops will be landed at Alexandria and pass by Benalassal, via Z agazig, by the sweet-water canal to SuezlThe large steam troop ships, especially constructed for the purpose, will Commence running next September. Two will run between Portsmouth and Alexandria, and the other three on the station between Suez and Bom bay. The first departure of troops from England will take place on the 14th of September next year. Captain Mends received every assistance from the I Viceroy and his officers in organizing the service through Egypt. The works of the Suez Canal are being very actively carried forward by M. de Les seps, who at present, however, is not in Egypt. An averk,:ge depth of 7 to 9 feet has been obtained be tween Port Said, along the salt water canal, and the rest of the distance to Suez is traversed tempo rarily by a fresh-water canal of about 7ft deep, con nected with the other by means of locks and power ful pumps. As far as GO station the full width of the proposed ship canal has been excavated of GO metres. From that point to 70 station at Ismaila, the width is incomplete. All that has been done has been done well, and reflects the highest credit on the science, skill, and persevering energy of the French engineers. The real difficulties of dredging in a constantly dissolving sand are now commenc ing ; but well-informed persons entertain but little doubt these and all others may be over come by time and money. As to what amount of these important necessaries will be required to bring the great work to a successful completion it is scarcely possible at ;the present state to hazard a conjecture. Her Majesty's ship Megssra will leave Malta on Thursday next for England, with naval and military invalids and time-expired men. The French Government steamer La Corse left on the 24th inst. for the eastward. The following Govern ment notice was issued on the 23d of Nov. :—" In consequence of official information received, the officer administering the Government, having heard the opinion of the Board of Health, has been pleased to direct that arrivals from Leghorn and Genoa be admitted to pratique, and that the quarantine on arrivals from other ports on the continent of Italy be reduced to five full days." The greatest expedition is now being used at Chatham dockyard in hastening foward the con struction of the ironclad ships now building at that establishment. In accordance with a telegram re ceived from the department of the Controller of the Navy, 70 additional shipwrights and other me chanics will be placed on the Turret ship Monarch this morning, in order to expedite the building of that vessel. The extra hands to be employed on the Monarch will be taken off the wooden unarmed Blanche partially completed. The armour-plated screw steamship Lord Clyde, 24, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., flag of Admiral C. 8., was removed on Friday from her moorings in Hamoaze to No. 2 dock at Devonport, to receive a screw with two fans only. -The screw steamship Ocean, 24, Capt. C. S. S. &anhope, was removed on Saturday from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, and will shortly sail for the Mediterranean. The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, 1, Master Commander George Raymond, having received some slight repairs at Keyham, was removed on Saturday to the dockyard at D,r;onport, where she will to-day ship stores for Woolwich. Rear-Admiral the Ifou. George F. Hastings, C. 8., hoisted his flag on Saturday ou board the armour plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, Capt. Richard Dawkins, and saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir William F. Martin, K.C.8., which was duly ac knowledged by the Royal Adelaide. The foremast of the armour-plated screw steam ship Achilles, 2G, Capt. Edward Vansittart, was re moved on Friday last, after which she was placed at moorings iu Hamoaze, Devouport. The screw steam gunboat Sepoy (tender to the Dauntless (left Plymouth on Friday with stores for Hull. The Rinaldo, 7, screw sloop, 200-horse power, Commander Buil), sailed from Spithead at 11 a.m. yesterday, for China, by the Needles Channel. A detachment of the Royal Marine Light Infantry will leave head -quarters, Chatham, this morning, for service on board the paddlewheel steamer Virago, 6, 220-horse power, which is being rapidly brought forward for special service is Ireland. An order has been received at Chatham garrison directing Capt. Edward Coghlan and Capt. Evan Bruce Gardyne, 106th Bombay Light infantry Re giment, and Ensign William Andrews Dixon, 82d R e giment, to embark for India to join the service Capt. co mpanies of their respective corps. Edward W. Kent and a draught of the 2d battalion of the 21ch Regiment have arrived from Burrnah at Gravesend, and disembarked from the ship Black wall, who brought them home. Staff-Commander Moriarty, C. 8., was on Satur day last presented by his brother-officer with a very handsome and valuable service of plate, in recogni tion of his eminent and successful exertions in laying the Atlantic Cable. The presentation took place at Capt. Moriarty's .residence at Woolwich, where the committee assembled, consisting of Com manders Biddlecombe, Noddall, and Hodges, Mas ters-Attendant at Woolw ich, De p tford, aud Sheer ness ; Staff-Commanders Evans, Penn, Burdwood, Batt, Marsh, Sulivan ; and Second-Master Smith. Captain Biddlecombe, in an appropriate address, warmly expressed the pleasure he felt in being selected for the duty of making the presenta tion to his old schoolfellow Moriarty, as well as the gratification he had in requesting him, on the part of so many of his personal friends of the Royal Navy, to accept the testimonial as a mark of their esteem and appreciation of the services rendered by him in the great national undertaking of laying the Atlan tic Telegraphic Cable, buoying up the severed line of 1865 from the Albany, and then placing the Great Eastern, commanded by Sir J. Anderson, over the end of the cable, which led to its recovery. Captain Moriarty expressed the gratification and Fide he felt in being thus assured of the good wishes of his brother officers, the staff commanders, masters, and second masters now around him. He placed, he said, a high value on the testimonial received from the hands of Capt. Biddlecombe on their behalf, repre senting, as it did, the feelings of his own class, who could so well appreciate the amount and importance of what he had been selected to perform, but which, he modestly asserted, had been over-estimated by his friends. He regretted, he said, the absence of Sir d. Canning, occasioned as it was by illness, espe cially as being the head of the whole engineer staff he was always ready and desirous of co-operating with the nautical men engaged in this grand and successful undertaking. The following appointments were made on Fri day at the Admiraltyvice . Commander W. B. Grant, to the Research,Scott, promoted ; Commander Bingham to the Yingo, commissioned ; Lieut. F. 111 Keyser and Lieut. Alexander Tupman to the Virago; Alfred S. Bradley, master, to the Perseus ; Henry Hoskin, master, additi°ll l a l i e ' rber t t h p e Fisgard, for ser vice in the Chanticleer ; alker, master, to the Virago ; Sub.-Lieut. Rober . t \ B V Pipon, Charles Sub . Lieut. Sidney G. Smith, and Sub.-Lieut. Whitelock to the Virago ; Francis Alex Taber and I Sydney A. Holt, midshipmen, to the Vi rago . D. M'Arthur, paymaster, to the Virago ; R.IB. H. Buckner, master's assistant, to the Formidable, as supernumerary : Henry J. Mills, master's assist an t, to the Virago ; and Henry J. Davies, clerk, to the Virago ; and the following on Saturday :—Henry B. Akaster, master, to the Indus, additional, for the Malabar ; John Elliot, staff surgeon, to the Nar cissus ; Joseph Jeans, master's assistant, to the Victory, as supernumerary ; and James Donne, en glum', to the Gladiator, Miscellaneous American New. The Philadelphian correspondent of the Times writes thus of the results of the late elections in the United States :--" The elections which have resulted in every Northern State declaring for Congress have settled for ever the reconstruction question, and decided that the South for readmission into the Union must give up some of its political power. Equality is ended, and the President, bowing to the verdict, no longer advocates his policy of equal re construction ; and the political question hereafter will be just how much of its power the South is to give up. In the settlement of this matter the Pre sident, in spite of the minority that supports him, will play a conspicuous part. The personnel of the Fortieth Congress (the writer continues) will be very much like the Thirty-ninth. The old Republi can leaders, Fessenden, Sumner, Chandler, Sherman, and Wade will still be in their seats, and Justin S. 'Morrell, the ' Father of Protection,' will be promoted from the House to sit in one of the Senatorial seats from Vermont. Doolittle will lead the Conservative handful, supported by Reverdy Johnson and Guth rie. Horace Greeley will probably be the new Senator from New York, and Simon Cameron from Pennsylvania, while Governor Swann from Mary land will succeed a Republican, and John C. Fre mont is making great exertions to be chosen to fill the vacancy from Missouri. In the House, Thad deus Stevens will still be the Republican leader, and Schuyler Colfax the Speaker. General Butler will sit for one cf the Massachusetts districts, but it is thought his bitterness will be kept within bounds by the presence of John Morrissey, the pugilist just elected by the Democrats of New York. General Banks will be in the new House to look after the Fenian interests and the neutrality laws. Fernando Wood and James Brooks are new members from New York city, which, with Brooklyn and neigh bouring towns around New York Bay, gave 60,000 majority against the Republicans. The next Con gress will contain fully as much bitterness and vituperative talent, but no more ability than the present one. The thirteenth article of the Constitution of Indiana, known as the "black article," forbidding negroes from entering the State, &e., has been pro nounced unconstitutional and void by the Supreme Court of the State. One day early in November the farmers of the country around Quebec, headed by their parish priest, entered that city with a long file of wagons, bringing 300 bushels of potatoes to be distributed to the sufferers by the fire. Mr. John Quincey Adams, son of the United States' Minister at St. James's, has been defeated as a candidate for the Legislature. He was opposed by George L. Gill, who obtained 554 votes against Mr. Adams' 459. Mr. Adams supported the Pre sident's policy, but even the great name he has in herited was powerless to bring him in as the suc cessful candidate in a cause so unpopular in his State. There are now 13 steam-packet companies run ning steamers between Europe and the United States. These steamers make about 420 round trips every year, and the gross annual revenue they yield is about four million pounds sterling. The Italian Government has just subsidised a line of steamers to run between New York and the Medi terranean ports, touching at Madeira, the Azores, Cadiz, and Marseilles, and it is expected that a bill will be passed by Congress, next session, authoris ing the subsidisation of American mail steamers to and from Europe, at the rate of $2 per mile. The New York Chamber of Commerce has enter tained Mr. Cyrus Field at a grand " cable banquet" at the :Metropolitan Hotel. Admiral Farragut, General Mead, and other eminent persons, were present. Letters of congratulation were read from President Johnson, General Grant, and the mem bers of the Cabinet. The health of Queen Victoria was given and enthusiastically responded to. Mr. Cyrus Field proposed as a toast—" England and America clasping hands across the sea. May this firm grasp be a pledge of friendship to all genera tions." The toast was enthusiastically cheered. Thursday last, the 29th of November, has been celebrated by the people of America as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God fur all his blessings during the past year. For the fruits of the earth, the general good health of our people, the non-prevalence of the dread plague, the cholera, the comforts of peace, and the prosperity which has been vouchsafed us, we should indeed be grateful. To the Divine Maker and the author of our being it is our duty to return thanks for mercies past, and beseech Him to continue His favour to us, not alone as indivi duals, but as a nation, whose aim it shall be to ad vance the cause of Christianity throughout the world. Mr. Elkanah Watson, the friend of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edmund Burke, died in 1848, in his 85th year. In the year 1815 he made some calculations in regard to the future population of the United States, which have so far been verified in au astonishing manner. In 1810 the population of the United States was 7,239,903. Mr. Watson said :—The increase from 1790, the first census under the Constitution, has been about one-third at each census ; admitting that it will continue to increase iu the same ratio, the result will be as follows : Year. Estimated Population. Actual Results. 1820 9,025,734 9,638,151 1830 1 9,838,645 12,856,070 1840 17,116,526 17,062,565 1850 23,135,363 23,191,876 1860 31,753,824 31,445,080 1870 42,328,432 1880 56,150,211 IS9O 77,526,989 1900 100,350,985 The actual figures of the three censuses following his estimate were written in by Mr. Watson him self ; the other two are taken from the census re preesrutalisis ea of :Tl closeness of the estimates to the actual striking as t o j us tify b e li e f i n the cor rectnessthe succeeding figures. The rec d f Commissione rve Commerce at Viennaro,o of Agriculture Austria, throughm perlmperial I‘lr. :Minister Loosy of , r e iculture of the United States has received the Austrian Consul_Gen 100 varieties of cerea l and eralat New York, about vegetable show n seeds, collected from premium varieti es in June at l the Great presented ri on the Exhi bition held at Vienna by the Austrian Government for ex, and ment experimental farm of the United States pe Agricultu ra l D epar tment. This donation, so kindly made by the Minister of Commerce, embraces nearly every variety of the cer eal and ve getable seeds in favourvy in our country, and it is hoped that some of them will prove valuable acquisitions to the agriculture of the United States. None of these seeds will be for distribution. The following order has been issued, addressed to the officers of customs :—" Treasury Department, Nov. 3, 1866.—Congress, at its last session, havi ng passed an act further to provide for the safety of the lives of passengers on board of vessels, approved July 25, 1866, the tenth section of which is as follows That all seagoing vessels carrying pas sengers, and those navigating any of the Northern and North-western lakes, shall have the lifeboats required by law provided with suitable boat disengaging apparatus, so arranged as to allow such boat to be safely launched, with their complement of passengers, while such vessels are under speed, or otherwise, and so as to allow such disengaging apparatus to be operated by one person disengaging both ends of the boat simultaneously from the tackles, by which it may be lowered into the water. Your attention :is called to the same, with the re quest that you will bring it to the notice of ship owners and others interested, and impress on them the importance of complying with its provisions. " 11. M'Cumocit, Secretary of the Treasury." Intelligence from Toronto announces that the Fenian Daniel Whelan has been sentenced to be hung at Toronto on the 13th December. John Quinn, formerly a soldier of the Confederate army, was also found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on the 12th December. It is asserted that the sen tences pronounced against the Fenians will not be commuted but suspended, the prisoners being held 1 1 as hostages for the good behaviour of their friends. Mr. D'Arcy Magee has made a speech asserting that the Fenians will not be hung. By the Atlantic cable news has reached London, dated New York, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1866. Monday last, that " James Stephens is reported to have left the United States." Proposals for an immense contract for furnishing stationery for the Government is advertised by the Commissioners of Internal Revenue. The contract wed amount to about five millions of dollars, the bias to be in by the 15th inst., and to be for supply ing stationery for the year ending Jane 30, 1867, to:assessors and collectors throughout that part of the United States lying east of the Rocky Moun tains, and embraces two hundred and forty collec tion districts. The Treasury Department of the United States has just issued a circular on the subject of the ton nage duty, which is imposed for the purpose of rais ing revenue, and is levied upon all vessels engaged in foreign commerce without regard to their denomi nation as to structure or mode of propulsion. The same may be said of those in the domestic trade, unless especially excepted, and all are included under the general term—vessel. It is to be col lected according to American admeasurement, as prescribed by law, on all excepting French vessels, whose tonnage will be ascertained from the registers The rates of tonnage duties remain as they stood previous to the acts of July 14, 1862, only as they were increased by that act and the amendment of March 3, 1865. No new or additional duties have been since imposed, excepting as a penalty on undocumented tugs. The circular is full and complete as to vessels subject to tonnage duties. All boats, barges, and flats, not used for carry ing passengers, nor propelled by steam or sails, which are floated or towed by tug boats or horses, and used exclusively for carrying coal, oil, minerals, and agricultural products to market, are brought under the Internal Revenue tax, and are wholly excepted from customs charges, even though they enter the waters under Admiralty jurisdiction, so long as they retain that exclusive character, and only transport coal, oil, mineral products, and agricultural products to market, and, if under twenty-five tons burden, are vessels exempt from all taxation. The Navy Department has received a despatch from Captain J. R. Goldsborough, commanding the United States steamer Shenandoah, announcing the arrival of that vessel on the 18th of September at Bombay, British India, whence it was proposed the vessel would sail on the 10th ult. for Point de Galle. Captain Goldsborough states that on the 15th of September, while anchored off Muscat, he t eceived a visit from an officer of the Imaum, welcoming him to the port and offering the usual civilities. A salute of twenty-one guns was fired from the Shenan doah, and was promptly returned from the batteries on each side of the harbour. The next day Capt. Goldsborough, in company with several of his offi cers, visited the Imaum at his palace, and was hos pitably received. In the despatch the fact is referred to that we have no Consul at Muscat, nor any Ame rican citizens residing there. A higuly important suit is now before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, involving several millions of dollars, before Chief-Justice Woodward, Judges Strong, Read, Thompson, and Agnew, sitting on appeal of B. Funks, assigns, vs. Haldeman, and others. The case has been fully argued, and ex cited much attention. The counsel for the ap pellants were Walter H. Lowrie, ex-Chief Justice Thomas M. Marshall, F. Carroll Brewster, of Phila delphia, and R. Biddle Roberts. The counsel for the appellees are F. F. Backus and Heydrick. The decision of the writ will be looked for with great interest, as the amount involved is immense. This case interests vitally all stockholders in the Dalzell, M'Elhenny, Consolidated Petroleum Company of New York, Webster, Peoples', Fountain, Oceanic, Northern Light, and twenty other companies. The official investigation ordered by the Treasury. Department into the causes of the loss of the Even ing Star has been concluded, and the report sub mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. The re port states :—" The principal cause of the disaster was in the error of judgment on the part of the captain, because, having strong premonitions of the storm, he might have avoided the main force by changing his course. From the first hour the settled course of the storm was northward, and it is believed had the slip been headed west early in the after noon of Tuesday the vessel might have been saved by escaping the full fury of the tempest, and run ning to a moderate gale on the other side of the Gulf Stream." The report further says :—" I confess to a belief in the possibility of saving the vessel, she being so staunch in the hull, had there been a carpenter on board properly supplied with stores, &c., for the ultimate cause of her going down was shipping such immense quantities of water through the breeches made in her upper works and on the starboard side." It is impossible to lay too much stress on the importance of the first clause. Since the invaluable researches of Lieutenant Maury the facts concerning the Laws of Storms have been so well known, and the possibility of avoiding the full force of cyclones by steering out of their course so well understood, that the commanders of vessels should be deeply impressed with the grave respon sibility they incur if they neglect the ascertained barometrical warnings of a tempest, and unneces• sarily endanger the lives of their passengers. The present winter mouths are usually saddened by melancholy losses at sea. Lei at least all human means be exerted to prevent the recurrence of such catastrophes. Brigadier-General Ames, the distinguished captor of Fort Fisher, was present at the Thanksgiving Dinner at the Langham Hotel. In returning thanks for the United States army he said it was a sol dier's business to act, not to talk. It was a singular fact that, while he was acting on the celebrated occasion when he achieved the crowning deed of his distinguished services, his chief, General Butler, was talking or writing to prove that that deed was impossible of attainment. The Nation says :—" The month of October, 1866, will henceforward be memorable as the month of Mr. Peabody's great endowments. One day we hear of him in Danvers, Massachusetts, receiving the thanks of the citizens of his native place for the libraries he has there established. Not long-previ ous we were told of his erecting a memorial church in Georgetown, and establishing another library in Thetford, Vermont, with both of which towns he was connected by peculiar tics. Then the news papers informed us that he had given the sum of $25,000 to that excellent and famous classical school in Andover, Phillips' Academy. A few days later he visits Cambridge and endows a new department in the time-honoured university with $150,000. He is next at New Haven, where he bestows upon Yale College an equal sum for a museum of natural history. Before the close of the month he is in Baltimore witnessing the opening of the Peabody r of benevolence e n e r ns gifts from Institute, and addi ng h a lf a m illi on o f d o ll ars t o th e sum of like am oun t w hi c h h e h a d prev i ous l y be stowed. We do u bt w h e th er th e anna l s o f l earn i ng o any landrecord sinoie s source. ur c s e. so many\re hope wiso and g such liberality will be known as American." An American i in . t - sonary, Mr. Jessup, writes from Beiout in September : " —These persons will find that once outside of Jaffa gardens the plain is fre quented by the Bedouin; the Holy Land will be too hot for them in more senses than one. It is an insane undertaking. I have noticed advertisements of the scheme in the papers from time to time, but regarded it as a hoax. We now hear they are coming. May the Lord have mercy on them !" The Carew Paper Manufacturing Compa n y of South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, has just de clared a yearly dividend of 100 per cent. The State Bank of Louisiana has resumed business. The efforts of Mr. Fox to dispose of the Mian tonomah by sale in Europe excite some merriment in America among those who were opposed to his expedition to Russia. It is suggested that after all the praises his ironclad has received for crossing the ocean he would find it somewhat embarrassing to have it towed back by steamships as when it first crossed the Atlantic. The Cincinnati Gazette, in an article herAded " Hawking our Monitors," de scribes Mr. Pox as " in the situation of a man late at a fair with a pig, which he cannot take home, and which niabody wants," and thinks the ship may eventually bring something as scrap iron. The income-tax payers are classified by the Com missioners o l ,f Internal Revenue in three classes : Firfst, those ' whose return is lose than $l,OOO over and above the $6OO exception. The second class are those whose income exceeds $l,OOO, and not more than $5,000. The third are all those whose income exceeds $5,000. The Revenue assessors are now at work preparing a statement of the number in each class, for the use of the Commissioner at Washington. The following table shows - the number in each class in the first district of Pennsylvania, as prepared by the assessor, Mr. Frazier : Number of Persons in the First District of Pennsylvania who return income and are reported on Annual of 1866. $l,OOO Over $l,OOO Division. and and Over "Wards. under. under $5,000. $5,000. 1 73 114 8 2 2 BB 53 1 2 3 9B 114 14 3 4 5l 69 11 3 66 68 5 4 31 45 1 4 37 94 36 5 - 49 80 14 5 19 20 1 6 34 60 19 6 6 70 20 - 5 58 91 10 11 109 61 10 6 77 111 27 6 150 171 30 5 97 107 7 . 11 49 51 13 6 17 Total 1,095 1,385 227 Grand total 2,707. The following is from the Nation :—" Texas, as well as Georgia, has rejected the Constitutional Amendment with every appearance of unanimity. But Judge Reagan, and we suppose there is no more influential Texan, has written a letter which we take to be as good an indication of the course that politics may pursue in that State as that fur nished by the action of the Legislature. His plan is an original one. He opposes the amendment, but has the sense to see and to say that the North must in some way be satisfied, or a worse thing than the Amendment may come upon the South. He would have Texas admit the prin ciple of negro suffrage, and immediately grant the franchise to a certain class of negroes. This being done, and other good things in behalf of that race being done, he thinks it probable that Congress would not insist upon its present plan. but might restore Texas to its practical relations with the Union without diminishing the number of its representatives. Judge Reagan's scheme does him credit. There is nothing in it of Jenkins's stu pidity, and he is not so well satisfied as Alexander H. Stephens that Samson may be tied up tight with small dry withes ; but we confess we do not look for its adoption, and the Georgia and the Texas Le gislatures to the contrary notwithstanding, still less do we give up the expectation of seeing the amend ment adopted. The Legislature of Georgia has formally and emphatically rejected the Constitutional Amend ment, and done so in resolutions which contain a very full and candid reassertion of the old State rights doctrine. This might be a sensible proceed ing if the North regarded this doctrine as still an open question, to be decided either by arguing or voting ; but it was, for all purposes of discussion, so effectually closed by the war that one finds it diffi cult to characterise the men who now revive itas an answer to the Northern offer of peace and reunion. In fact, the conduct of the Georgia Legislature simply confirms the doubts we expressed in our last number as to the depth of the Southern transfor mation. The institutions of the people are changed, but their minds do not seem to be. How much time and suffering it would save if the Milledgeville wiseacres could bring themselves to perceive that the theory on which the North fought and the South resisted is now of no sort of consequence, any more than the theory on which Louis XVI. held his throne ; that the North will not argue any more, and that, right or wrong, logical or illogical, whe ther the South be in or out of the Union, it must either come into it or stay in it on the same terms as New York. The Southern philoso phers keep telling us what Webster said twenty years ago, and what Congress voted in 1860; but the answer to all this may be given in the words of Moliere's maid—" Ilippocrate dira cc qu'illui plaira, mail le cocher est mort." The Government commission appointed to in quire into the came of the loss of the Evening Star have made their report, from which it appears that the ship was lost because the captain had nut men enough to rig up a drag, and there was no carpen ter to repair the covering of the hatchwuys. The report is a good one, but its greatest beauty is that nothing more will ever be heard about it. The owners of the ship, probably, read it with the same calm with which they would peruse a paper on sorghum, read by Horace Greely at the American Institute, or some such place. if it has made any impression on them at all, it is probably one of faint admiration at the skill of the commission in finding out thQ cause of the disaster. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The nee of " Hunter v. Sharpe," in which a verdict for the plaintiff with nominal da mages was returned on Saturday by a special jury in the Court of Queen's Bench, is one of equal im portance to the press and to the medical profession. The advertising system described by Mr. Barnum in his celebrated autobiography has been carried to greater lengths by quack doctors and vendors of patent drugs than by any other class, and is, we fear, on the increase. The reason is obvious enough. The laws of health and disease are at once the most obscure and the most deeply interesting to the pub lic of all scientific principles. High authorities are known to differ upon many of them, and there is scarcely one of which the proper application is not disputed ; yet it is certain that upon conformity to them, whatever they may be, the happiness of our lives and our prospects of longevity must in a great degree depend. In all ages, therefore, quackery has dogged the path of medicine; and it must be con fessed that to empiricism, which is but a milder name for quackery, we owe some of the most valu able hygienic discoveries. While the wisest and most eminent physicians are compelled to rely more on experience than on theory we cannot wonder that ignorant practitioners contrive to attract patients. Most people, and especially those who have never felt illness before, are predisposed to regard its symptoms as something mysterious, and to put con fidence in specifics and sovereign cures. Now, this is just the point of divergence between quackery and medical science. Science may often be unable to divine the causes of disease or to explain the ope ration of remedies, but it justly distrusts and is per fectly competent to expose the pretensions of those who profess to remove constitutional maladies by local treatment. The pathology of pulmonary consumption may admit of some doubt, but we know quite enough to justify us in suspecting any one of imposture who should undertake to cure it by a short cut. The aspect of the case would be greatly aggravated if he should publish advertisements representing trifling ailments or sensations compatible with perfect health as sure indications of that fatal complaint, with the view of terrifying nervous readers into con• suiting himself. Such things, indeed, are done every day, and it would be difficult to estimate the amount of positive injury, as well as mental pain, which is thus inflicted. Persons in a certain rank of life generally have a regular medical attendant, to whose advice they would have recourse if anything were amiss with them. A much larger class, however, never think about their health until they experience serious pain or discomfort, and are then quite at a loss to whom they should apply. • In this condition they light on a paragraph in a newspaper describing with terrible accuracy all that they have either felt or apprehended, confirming their very worst fears as to the probable result, and ending, of course, with a puff of some drug or curative process as affording the sole hope of relief. It is well for the unfortunate dupe if he is only induced by these means to buy and swallow a few bottles of medi cine which may be harmless. The greater danger is that he should be frightened into• a personal in terview with the advertiser, who from that moment acquires a direct pecuniary interest in playing on his credulity. Such was the nature of the charge ,made by our evening contemporary, the Pall-mall Gazette, against Dr. Hunter, a gentleman whose neme was already known to the public. It appears from his own account that the plaintiff had obtained a diploma as M.D. at New York when he was no more than twenty years of age, and had since prac tised with success in the United States and in Canada. In 1864, for reasons which he failed to make very clear, he came to this country, in igno rance, as he alleges, of the fact that he could not be registered as a medical practitioner upon his American and Canadian diplomas. Disdaining to pass the requisite examination, he thereupon re solved to dispense with registration, and published a work on consumption, the greater part of which was reproduced in a series of advertisements in serted in our own columns and those of other jour nals. The general purport of these advertisements, composed with considerable literary skill, was to expound, or rather to shadow forth, a new theory of the disease, which, according to Dr. Hunter, consists mainly in a deterioration of the respiratory organs by an excess of carbon, and can only be reached effectually by inhalation upon a method of his own. They contained, moreover, emphatic warn ings against neglect of premonitory symptoms, among which very common and slight affections were enumerated, and they embodied letters from grateful patients who owed their lives to Dr. Hun ter. It was upon these extracts from Dr. Hunter's book, and upon the impropriety of thus advertising for medical practice, that our contemporary com mented in an article headed " Impostors and Dupes," which appeared on the 10th of November last year. The writer singled out Dr. Hunter as , the representative of a system which he denounced as one which no "reputable physician" would adopt, designating those who do so as " scoundrels, who utter this base, forged coin," doubtless in allusion to the assumption in England of a title based on a foreign medical degree. These words formed the chief ground of Dr. Hunter's action against the printer of the Pall-mall Gazette. The defendant, so far from retracting them, pleaded a justification, and alleged further that, even if the article were in some respects inaccurate, it did not transgress the limits of fair and reasonable criticism. We can not but think that a great part of the evidence sub mitted on both sides was irrelevant to the real ques tion at issue. A breach of professional etiquette is one thing ; an act of imposture is another. When Mr. Kerslake remarked that a barrister would lose caste by parading in the newspapers the gratitude of felons whom he might have got off he seems to have overlooked this dis tinction. It might be very proper to exclude the offender from the circuit-mess, but it does not fol low that he should be called a scoundrel in print with impunity. So, again, as the Lord Chief Jus tice pointed out, it is not material whether Dr.llun ter's views as to their carbona ceous qua li ty o f " tubercles" ana,their dispersion by the direct ap plication of oxygen are consistent with- those of orthodox physicians. It was the weakness of the defendant's case that not only does consumption vary infinitely with individual constitutions, but that no general treatment of it can be specified upon which orthodox physicians have not disagreed among themselves. It was, for instance, the re ceived doctrine some twenty years ago that a re laxing atmosphere was most favourable to the recovery of consumptive patients ; but subsequent experience, we believe, has greatly modified this opinion. Inhalation, too, was very much in vogue at one time, but Dr. Williams tells us that he has beenled by degrees to distrust its efficacy. It may have shown great ignorance, to say the least, on Dr. Hunter's part, that he should have attempted to appropriate, and should have recommended as an all but infallible remedy, one long familiar to all physicians, but somewhat obsolete. It certainly showed great presumption to speak with contempt of all recognised modes of treatment, and to claim the power of curing by a secret of his own what in the hands of physicians like Dr. Williams would be incurable. Nor can it be denied that several pas sages quoted from his work, whether they involve scientific absurdities or not, arc cminer.tly calculate:l to mystify the popular mind, and to produce on a critic the impression of charlatanry. Still, all this falls short of proving criminal imposture, and it is not impossible, as Mr. Coleridge suggested, that Harvey and Jenner may have equally out raged the professional prejudices of their own day. It is not, however, recorded of these great discoverers that they prefixed to their works prefaces written by their own paid assistants, in the assumed character of independent judges con verted to the new system, or that they appended thereto notices of the places and hours at which they might be consulted. It was probably such cir cumstances as these, coupled with the apparent de sign to excite needless alarm for the purpose of decoying patient s , w hi c h l e d the jury to a conclusion more satisfactory to the defendant than to Dr. Hun ter. A verdict for the plaintiff with one farthing damages implies a belief on their part that although the law was violated there was every possible excuse for its violation. We should fail in our duty if we did not express the conviction that such a verdict entirely meets the justice of the case, and that our contemporary is entitled to the thanks of the public for a courageous attempt to protect their interests. THE AMERICAN PRESS. THE SOUTHERN TRANSFORMATION. The New York Times, which has for the last year steadily and faithfully represented the optimist view of the prospects of Southern society—preached up the good sense and resignation of the Southerners, and drawn glowing pictures of the field offered by the Southern States either to Northern labour or Northern capital—came out lastweek with a mourn ful confession that it has been all wrong ; that the South is not a good field either for investment or for emigration ; that few capitalists have taken their money there ; that those who have are bringing it away again ; and that as to emigrants, although the tide rushes into the North-west in greater volume than perhaps ever before, the labourers who go to the South may almost be counted on one's fingers. As most men who had ever seriously considered the causes which lead capital to flow into a country, or which drive it out of a country, have foreseen this result ever since the South began, after the close of the war, to exhibit its real temper, the admission of the Times does not add much to our knowledge, and will cause very few people much surprise. Most of us knew, long before Andrew Johnson and his " policy" had been heard of, that to direct capital into a country, or make emigrants seek homes in it, it is not enough that its climate be mild or its soil fertile or its water privileges numerous. Some of , the most fertile countries in the world, the most blessed in " sun and soil and station," are the least productive, the most scantily peopled, the most miserable. European Turkey might be the garden of Europe. There is probably no spot of earth, unless it be the prairies of Illinois, which offers the farmers so rich a yield with so little labour as the great plains of Southern Russia, 'and of Moldavia and Wallachia, and they . contain less than a tenth of the population which they might maintain. The idea of emigrating to them would, however, be laughed at by the most hardly pressed peasant of the western countries, though land were offered him for nothing. It has never been found possible for the Russian Government to direct into its vast and fertile voids even adriblet of the German emigration, although they lie within a few hours of the German frontier. German emigrants, let them be ever so phlegmatic and ever so unenterprising, will face three thousand miles of ocean and as many miles of wilderness sooner than get within the clutches of Russian judges and Russian police and Russian drill sergeants. In fact, we will not say the one thing that an emigrant desires—but the great thing, the thing without which all other things are but a mockery and a snare—is security against all dangers except those against which he can guard by his own courage or address. Men will face wild beasts, swollen rivers, trackless forests, disease, hunger, and even the tacks of savages, but they will not face bad government or a bad police—which is the worst feature of bad government—or the hostility of those on whom they have to depend for society or protection or co-operation. It is evident to everybody that the prosperity of the South can only be restored by the aid of Northern capital, or by such a long course of industry and economy on the part of its own people as we have no reason to expect. But one generation can not readily throw aside the habits of body and of mind bequeathed to it by five or six generations of ancestors. We hear now and then of Southerners bred in idleness and luxury who are putting their hands to the plough and working in their own fields; but isolated cases of this kind will not regenerate society, and we hare yet to see whether gentlemen who have been driven to manual labour by an abso lute want of the necessaries of life will continue their industry long after the acquisition of a fair supply of food and clothing. There were before the war thousands of young Southerners of the planting class who preferred—and their choice had the approbation of their friends and of the public— a life of poverty and dependence, of roistering, gambling, and roving from one friend's table to shabbyanother, or a " shabby genteel" existence as doctors and lawyers, to any career, however tempting it might be pecuniarily, which would force them to engage in commerce. A certain proportion of these will, no doubt, now that labour is so much cheaper, and that the necessity for buying the labourer has passed away, take to farming, which they always considered the only legitimate pursuit for a " gen - tleman ;" and many of that have, no doubt, saved enough from the wreck of the war to furnish them with a little capital. But the great body of them, we may be sure, cannot and will not become in our time the steady, saving, industrious men who raise nations out of bankruptcy and sweep from the soil the traces of fire and sword and flood. The South has gone through a great social revolution, it is true ; but no great change—no such change in the character of a people as would be necessary to make the Southern men the restorers of their own ruined fortunes—has ever been witnessed in one generation. We can emancipate the negro, but we cannot make his master, by a stroke of the pen or stroke of the sword, a thrifty, hard-working, Inge nious, persevering member of a " free society." Expectations of this kind have been fostered be rattle-brained correspondents of some of the news papers which support the President's " policy" and are anxious to show that Southern facts support Mr. Johnson's theories, and by " Southern gentle men" of a literary turn who have taken of late to writing " moderate" and pseudo-philosophical let ters to Northern journals ; but no such expecta tions have any basis either in history or in human nature. Even individual character changes slowly ; the character of communities more slowly still, and only under the long-continued applica tion of a new class of motives%nd of influences. The French peasant of this year is a very different man from the peasant of 1766 ; but it is not the abolition of the monarchy or the overthrow of the noblesse which has made him so ; it is seventy years of proprietorship, of equality, of security. That Southern character has:as yet undergone no essential modification we infer with confidence from the fact that, in spite of the poverty and desolation of the country, there is no evidence of any general desire to receive intelligent labourers from other countries, or any kind of labour except the least productive— that is, brute labour. Men who think, who have ambition, and who have ideas, aspirations, and theories, and who seek a higher standard of living— the kind of men, in short, who make modern society what it is at the North, in Prussia, and in France and England, and who are the great creators of wealth, are not only not encouraged to come, but, when they do come, are subjected to espionage and sur veillance at least —or, in other words, to those very vexations which make intelligent men leave despotic countries—and often to violence and outrage, which are infinitely more terrible than the worst persecu tions of a despotic police. Most men, and all women, would far sooner run the risk of being tried by a military court and put in Spandau or Spielberg for wearing a particular kind of cockade, or for reading a'particular book, than to go to bed every night in fear of murder and arson at the hands of a mob composed of their own neighbours. Now the state of public feeling at the South, on which this policy of its people is based, is the same state of feeling which prevailed before the war, and there can be no better proof that it is not the result of passing circumstances, but flows from the very character of the people, than the fact, that slavery, which formerly furnished the excuse for it, has completely disappeared. There is one other inci dent of Southern life which, trifling as it may seem, is not without value as an indication of character. The amusements of a people are often the very best sign we can have of their tone of thought, and of the ideas on which their manners are based. The Spanish bull-fight is a very good index of Spanish civilisation. The horse-race and prize-ring give us a very fair notion of the stage of the progress reached by the English people as a whole. We have in the theatre and restaurant a key to the average Frenchman's philosophy of life. And we think we are not very far wrong when we say that we have in the revival of " tournaments" all over the South, which we now witness, an excellent measure of the amount of real progress which the people has made since the war or through the war. It is possible for a matured and highly civilised community to love out-door amusements. There is nothing in tilting at a ring, cutting apples with a sword, or leaping hurdles on horseback, to lead one to doubt either the culture or the good sense of the community which practises them. But any country in which it is the custom, in our day, to assemble in great crowds to watch men doing these things in broad dayliaht, in the midst of great public distress, dressed up in fantastic costumes, and calling them selves " disinherited knights," " knights of the sword," " knights of the lone star," and pretending to worship a young woman from a modest wooden house in the neighbourhood as the " queen of love and beauty," and to regard the bestowal of a shabby theatrical coronet by her as the summit of earthly felicity, we need not have the least hesitation in pro nouncing semi-civilised as still in a stage much be hind what a distinguished French writer calls a " vrai peuple moderne." And the instant revival of this custom after the close of the war we regard as a very strong argument against the notion that Southern society has undergone any real transfor mation—any such transformation as to warrant the expectation that it will henceforward tread the path of progress, moral and material, abreast with our selves. We think, on the contrary, that every year that we persist in believing, or in acting as if we believed, that the war has wiped out all differences between the North and South, and made the latter in all respects as we are, save in her poverty, the proofs of our mistake will accumulate, and we shall see at last that the real regeneration of the South means something more than letting the South alone. We have now, as the first, last, and greatest of our duties, to provide Southern society with security, as the very basis not simply of liberty, but of civilisa tion. We must have security for the blacks, for Northern men, for men of all shades of opinion. If it be difficult at first to provide it, we must stay there till it is provided—until Southern men them selves get used to it and have acquired the habit of it, until political or religious or social dissent ceases to expose a man to violence, or contumely, or insult. It may take a long time to do this, but do it we must. And if we shirk doing it, there is every reason to fear that some years hence we may find ourselves face to face with a problem like that offered by Ireland or Jamaica, the reclamation of a moral and material wilderness, from which capital has fled, in which industry has died out, in which literature is extinct or barbarous, art almost un known, science powerless, invention barren, life insecure, and property worthless.—The New York Nation. THE FUTUEE OF MEXIV. The Post, in an article on the abdication of the Emperor Maximilian, expresses an opinion that in the interests of the Mexican nation every one must regret this melancholy fiasco. Whatever may have been the special motives which induced the Emperor of the French to send an army to Mexico, and at a later period to instal an Austrian archduke as Em peror of that country, there can be no doubt that he would have rendered a real service to the Mexican people if he had succeeded. Mexico is one of the richest countries in North America, and only needs an honest Government to become also one of the most prosperous. Her industrial resources have never been developed, and never will be, so long as the only objects of statecraft are to commit indis criminate pillage and plunder. It is thought pro bable that the Government of the United States will take care that under the new regime some semblance of decency will be maintained. It is doubtful, how ever, if the Cabinet of Washington will pass to the lengths of actual intervention. They have quite enough to do to set their own house in order with out undertaking a similar task for others. The Mexicans have rejected a Government which would have made them great and respected, and they must now submit as best they can to all the evils of the misrule which they have restored. The Times, referring to the abdication of the Emperor Maximilian, remarks that this step, if there were no now party in the quarrel, would simply re place Mexico in that condition of anarchy and bar barism from which the European expedition had rescued her for a time. But we are told that the United States will now adopt the party of Juarez, just as the French adopted that of his adversaries ; that they will assume the protectorate which the French vacate, and re-enact the scenes of the last three years with this simple change in the characters of the piece. The French took up Miramon and fought Juarez ; the Americans will take up Juarez and fight Miramon. We have not yet any suffi cient authority for the fact, but it is not improbable nor in - any way to be deprecated. Either the Mexi cans must be left to rob and murder as before, or some strong Power must interfere to take up one faction and put down the other. The Americans can, and probably will, do what the French both could and would have done under more favourable circumstances. They will have this advantage, too, in their proceedings—they will seem less like in vaders than their predecessors ; they will preserve the name and form of a Mexican republic, and pro bably leave a native Mexican as its ostensible head. But the measure itself will be the same as before. It will be identical with that which all Europe saw to be inevitable at the period of the expedition which we ourselves declined to prosecute, but which France adopted, and Spain was ready to adopt. It will be intervention for the government of a people who have proved utterly incapable of governing them selves. It will be the establishment of a foreign protectorate in the place of a native Administration, nominally independent, but expressing only anarchy and violence ; and as this will be for the advantage of the world at large, the Times wishes the Ame ricans a cheap bargain and speedy success. " OLD PORT."—Baron rahrendorff, one of the greatest noblemen o f S we den, and among the fore most. gourmands i n E urope , g ave on the 15th the first of a se r i es o f d i nners o f a ver y exquisite cha racter. Port wine of the year 1760 was served ! New York consumes $lO,OOO worth of eggs every day, TROUBLE FOR HEAD CENTRES. It is said that a lawyer in Boston is engaged in endeavouring to collect the moneys that were paid for bonds of the " Irish Republic," and that he says that the parties who issued them are personally responsible for the amounts. This matter is of con siderable importance to some of our own Fenians. In regard to the legal liability of those parties, there may be a difference of opinion. On behalf of those claiming payment, it will be alleged that the money was obtained from them under false pretences. But the bonds themselves bear upon their faces the stipulation that they are not parable until " after the establishment of the Irish Republic." As that Republic is not yet established, but is to be before the Ist of January next, according to the statements of James Stephens, would it nct be well for parties anxious to receive their funds to wait for forty days. The time is not long, and if Stephens is a man of his word, the bonds will all be paid in a very short time. But aside from this view of the case, it would be doubtful whether any Court would assist the holders of these " securities." They were :givn for the purpose of invading a country with which the United States are at peace, and it would be against the policy of the' .w to sustain them. In addition, the ground could be taken w ith much plausibility, that the money was given in donations for the support of the Fenian cause, and that the bonds were evidence merely of the amount of the contributions. Nevertheless, a lawyer in Boston says that he can recover on these bonds. The Boston lawyers are sharp, no doubt, but for sagacity in difficult cases it is known that Philadelphia lawyers are remarkable. Until one of the latter admits himself "puzzled" at this question, we must continue to doubt whether the victims of the Irish Republic have any remedy. HORACE GREELEY. Against all the host of aspirants to the next vacant chair of the State of New York in the United States Senate, we urge the nomination of one of the most eminent, able, and noble of our citizens ; one who does not put himself forward for the place, who will take no steps to secure it, who harbours no desire for it, and who might possibly decline it. We mean Mr. Horace Greeley. Our Legislature could not better please the Republican party, either of the State or the nation, than by electing him unanimously. Mr. Greeley's undisputed leadership in state politics, his ripe experience of public affairs, his splendid intellectual powers, his love of impar tial justice, his incorruptible integrity—all these qualities designate him as the one man who above all other probable candidates ought to be chosen, and chosen without opposi tion. During the war and since, on several points of public policy the Independent failed to agree with the Tribune. The expression, therefore, of our preference for Mr. Greeley above any other candidate who has been named, or who can possibly be elected, is not meant to apply our acquiescence in the Tribune's partial commitment to the pending constitutional amendment as the ultimatum to the South. But knowing Mr. Greeley perhaps as well as he is known by any of his personal friends, we believe that not a more unselfish, single-minded, in cessant toiler in the public service now lives in this nation. Moreover, if agood old custom is not to pass entirely out of fashion, it would be an agreeable historic incident to see once again a grea t state represented by a great man. Friens, let us talk, it over !---7 he Independent. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH- SATURDAY. At this market to-day there was a fair supply of wheat, for which farmers demanded last week's prices, but finding the trade unwilling to operate, they were obliged to mak e a concession in prices of about 2s per qr. A good supply of barley was offered, and the demand not being quite so active as of late, prices were rather easier for all de scriptions. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s ; old red aittol (weighing 631 b), 58s to 64s ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), —s to —s ; best malting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 5210, 46s to 48s; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36s to 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple), "f to 38s per qr. Flour, 44s Od per sack. NOT TINGRAII—SATuRDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, the condition of which was on the whole tolerable. Business was les! active, at a reduction of is to 2s per qr. A good supply ° f barley, the demand for which proved slow. A small sup" ply of oats, for which there was a healthy demand at th e extreme rates of last week. Beans a firm trade at prices the turn in favour of the seller. Old white wheat, 68s to 72s ; old red, 60s to 68s ; ne 4 white, 62s to 75s ; new red, 54s to 62s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 365; new, 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beaus, old, 54s to 58s ; new, 45s to 528 per 38 stone. Fine flour, 4 33 to 44s per sack. LEICES TER—SATURDAY. We had about an average show of wheat, most of the samples being of the new crop. Around here the gras, lands are looking very well indeed. The inquiry l ° ` wheat was decidedly dull, and sellers had to take 2s per cir; less money than last week week. Barley in quiet demaa! at rather lower prices except for the best qualities. Oate a steady trade, at last week's prices. Beans rather dearel• In peas no alteration. New white wheat, 60s to 65s ; new red, 58s to 625 ; white, 66s to 70s ; old rod, 60s to 64s per 36 stone. 1331 " ley, for malting, 45s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 32s to al per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 40s ; new, 27s to 32s per 2 stone. Beans, old, Ms to 56s ; new, 42s to 50s per 38 stone' Fine flour, 468 ; seconds, 40s to 44s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at this market to-day, and the attendance of tine trade was fair ; but late prices could not be obtained. Barley in slow demand at previous prices. The show of oats was fair, and prices quite as high as last week. Beans a firm trade, at recent prices. New white wheat, 58s to 64s ; new red, 54s to 62s per 3 6 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 42s per qr. ; grinding , 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone'. Beans, new, 50s to 54s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 76s ' Flour, 49s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign. Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. CLustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton. ~Dec. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 1 4 . Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet 4. .Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Deo. 28. China. Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton Deo 3. Ditto, via Marseilles. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 3 . India 'Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Del 3 Ditto, via Marseilles „Dec. 21 India (Bombay), via Southampton.' Dec. 1i• Ditto, via Marseilles Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton D.C. 3 . Ditto, via Marseilles Dec 8 . Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil:e 3... Dec. ' 4 Newfoundland .., , Dec. 5 . Portuga) Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish paoket. ... Dec. 5. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec• 7 West Coak.t of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Dec. 12 . West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) 00000 •• • Dec. -- Bahamw, via New York. Dec 15. Cuba and Mexico e Dec. Bermuda, via Halifax It is stated that the French Government has pre posed that one department of the Exhibition to be held in Pari next year be devoted to a show of art manufactures, to be arranged in chronological order , so as to afford evidence of the progress made by each nation in stated periods. M. Connesta.bile, the conservator of the Museum at Perugia, in a letter to the Opinione, points out the great inconvenien ce and risk attending the displacement of these precione objects, considering the thousand mishaps that WI occur in the double journey from Paris and back' In his perplexity he desires to know in what mann er the British Museum and the Museums of I3erlint of Munich, of Vienna, and of St. Petersburgh are prepared to answer the appeal of the French Go" vernment in this respect. Births. ADAm—On the 30th ult., at 2, Upper Hyde-park - s tye eti the wife of Hugh Adair, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. re FRANCE— On the 30th ult., at Davenham Rectory, the of Charles H. France, Esq., of Twenlow Hall, Chesilir-' of a daughter. HALDANE—On the 30th ult., at 8, Chester-street, 0 /1- burgh, the wife of James Haldane, Esq., of twin sons',.. JAY—On the 30th ult., at 14, Mansfield-street, Port ion place, the wife of G. H. Jay, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. LOVE—BOWLES—On the Ist inst., at St. George's, 1 1313°Nre to square, Samuel Love, Esq., of Shoreham Castle, 1 011 w , t ' a , Ann irley, only daughter of the late R. Bowles, of Shoreham. WARDE—OMMANNEY—On the 29th ult., at East She n Surrey, Henry H. Ward, eldest son of the late CAP" to H. T. Warde, 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoon,s, Julia Craustoun, daughter of Francis OmmanueY7 of Putney. Deaths. ' DUNDAS— On the 29th ult., at St. Nicholas, near Binhill°11(1. Yorkshire, the Lady Charlotte Jane Dundas, y oung sister of the Earl of Zetland, aged 63. DAY—On the 27th ult„ at Rickmansworth, C. Yi r • Esq., aged 67. HULL—On the 28th ult., at Chipping Hill, Witham, BB B° the Rev. W. Hull, aged 79. 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