The Sun. — London, England, 1867-11-27 00:00:00

-- 4.- HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack al fivo o'clock. CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS. The Earl of AIRLIE asked the Under Secretary for War whether it was true that the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, on their return from the Mediterranean, were landed at Portsmouth and sent thenco by special train to Plymouth ? and said that this transport had cost some thing like, according to newspaper reports, £l,OOO. Lord LONGFORD said that the noble earl was perfectly right, that representations had b_.en frequently made to the Transport Relief, but that they insisted upon making Portsmouth the port of entry, and therefore the War office had to retransport them to their destination. It was a very objectionable proceeding. The subject then dropped, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. RATING MINES. Mr. P. WYNDHAM gave notice of his intention to bring in a bill for the rating of mines. ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION BILL. Mr. NORWOOD asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether it was the intention of the Go vernment to re-introduce the Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill of last session, or a measure of a similar purport ? Mr. CAVE said it was not intended to re-introduce that bill at present, but it was thought that certain clauses might be introduced into a measure which was to be brought forward for consolidating the acts relating to merchant shipping. rADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills. Sleeplessness, flatulency, acidity, nausea, and all dyspeptic indications may be speedily relieved by these famous pills, of which large quantities aro shipped to all parts of the world. The constantly increasing demand for Holloway's medicine proves its power over disease and its estimation by the public. In weakness of the stomach, in diseases of the liver, and in disorders of the system caused by cold or a sluggish circulation, no medicine is so efficacious, no remedy so rapid as these pills, which are altogether in capable of doing mischief. Be quickening digestion they give refreshing sleep, sharpen the appetite, impart tone to the dige•stive organs, purify and enrich the blood, regulate the see,retioxs, and strengthen the whole physical frame. [A DviarsEmENT.]--lienceforth no one wilt doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalid,' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it 111..3 a'realy received from Invalids whose position had been dee:lied hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Popo ~Ne,o,ie health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of un.,w,..ye7,ful medical treatment. We quote from the "liazette du Midi," July 2.5 th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ner vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49,832 : " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Caution.— Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most auda ciously attached lii tins at ls. 11d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. Cd.; 5 lbs., lls.; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40e.—BARRY Do 13AnitY and Co., No. 77, ...Urgent-street, London; also Fortnain and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Oneapsida; 63, 150, and . .. 289, Oxford-street; 330 trawl glad all grocers d chtudgo, 'ERIAL PARLIAMENT resolution he had to put into the hands of the chairman was Ithat £2,000,000 be granted to her Majesty to defray the cost of the expedition to Abyssinia. It was hoped by somo that the horrors of war would yet bo avoided; he hoped they would, but he could not allow such a hope:to impede the steps to effect the liberation of our suffering fellow subjects. The vote having been read from the chair, Mr. LO WE rose and condemned the Government for declaring war without first consulting the House of Com mons. Ho did not question the prerogative of the Crown, but he contended that the responsible advisers of the Sove reign were bound to temper their advice with prudence, and to enunciate their policy with candour. He charged the Government with having induced the house to believe that they were not going to take any decided step against King Theodore, and that, having created this impression, they pu lied on their preparations for the war without communicating their intention to Parliament until the supreme moment of inaugurating another session. This reticence and want of candour was treating the House of Commons worse than if it were a mere debating club. The house had, of course, no alternative but to vote the money, iu order to save the honour of the country ; but ho urged that the Government was chargeable with gross neglect of duty in misleading Parliament as to their real intentions. He also took exception to the manner in which the blue book had been prepared, and argued that although several hundred pages of it had been devoted to worthless de spatches, no information had been vouchsafed with refe rence to the routes to be taken, the mode of transit or the measures to be adopted to feed, maintain, and shelter so large an expedition in so distant and dangerous a country. Lord STANLEY, having expressed his confidence in the strength of the case, and in the impartial judgment of the House of Commons, defended Ministers against the attack of Mr. Lowe, and vindicated their proceedings in making preliminary arrangements wiih a view to the con tingency of war, and resolving, after the rejection by King Theodore of the ultimatum of the British Government, upon having recourse to the last resort of arms. He held that wo were bound, in deference to the maintenance of our own prestige in the East, to undertake the expedition, and that, in fact, we had no alternative. He admitted that four or five days before the close of last ses sion Ministers might have announced the decision at which they had then arrived, but at that moment seven-eighths of the house were absent, and it would have been impos sible to have taken a vote on account. The task of invad ing a country like Abyssinia was no doubt a difficult one; at the same time, we knew quite as much of the interior of it as wo did of that of Bhootan, Burmah, or Scinde. The population appeared to be in a chronic state of insurrection against their ruler, and the probability was that he himself might ROOD be put out of the way. He had been warned that he would bo held personally responsible for the safety of the captives, and, as he was not remarkable for personal courage, he might find it more convenient to give them up than to take the consequences of keeping them any longer. The task which had devolved upon the Government was no doubt a painful and difficult one, but they wore prepared to take the full responsibility of it, because they were per suaded that they .had done no more nor lass than their duty. Mr. lIORSMAN commented upon what ho called the " uncomfortable business" in which we were engaged ; but reminded the house that the insignificance of the foe was by no means the measure of the magnitude of the danger to be encountered. He argued that the blue book fur nished abundant evidence that, so long as April last, Mini sters had made up their minds to send the expedition ; and that on the 13th of August they let loose Sir Robert Napier upon Ring Theodore. This had been done with out the knowledge or consent of Patliatnent, and for this unconstitutional proceeding the Government was culpable. Mr. AYRTON also deprecated the reticence observed by Ministers, and expressed his opinion that the better course would have been to have consulted the House cf Commons, even within the last week of the last session, and to have then asked for a vote of money on account. Captain VIVIAN was of opinion that the expedition was upon a large and needlessly extravagant scale, and that great difficulty might be experienced in feeding so large a force. Sir H. VERNEY impressed upon the House the neces sity of utilising the expedition by obtaining solid scientific information relating to the history, geography, and archaeology of the earliest Christian country in the world. Mr. LABOUCHERE referred to the indefinite nature of the expedition, and asked whether it was to demand the liberation of all Europeans who might be in captivity, or merely those who were British subjects. Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE twitted Mr. Lowe for not having concluded his speech with an amendment in the form of a censure upon Ministers. He regarded the Abys sinian expedition as a legacy bequeathed by former Pal merstoniau Administrations, and he denounced as unfair and inequitable the attempt which was being made to make India pay the cost of vindicating British prestige in the Dist. Mr. LAYARD gave a narrative of our political relations with Abyssinia, and vindicated at considerable length the policy of Earl Russell in connection therewith, maintaining that it had been dignified and consistent throughout. He defended the appointment of Mr. Rassam ns Envoy to King Theodore; and in reply to a question by Mr. Osborne as to why lie had not employed Dr. Beke instead, ' described the latter gentleman as a " busy, mischievous, troublesome, intriguing person," who had written a book which was " a tissue of falsehood and mistakes." Sir S. NORTIICOTE was quite ready to admit that some further information might have been given to Parlia ment towards the close of last session, and that the House of Commons might have been asked to vote the money, but in that case it would have been necessary to have prolonged the sitting all through the month of September. The policy of the expedition was no doubt under contemplation when Parlia ment was prorogued, but it had not been decided upon. Even at the present moment we had neither declared war, nor had we gone to war with Abyssinia. Our troops (whose movements had been expedited more than was anticipated, owing to the energy of the Indian authorities) were on neutral ground, and it was not intended that the territory of King Theodore should be invaded until Do comber. With regard to the size of the expedition, he assured the house that it had not been definitely fixed until the opinion of the highest authorities, both at home and in India (including the Commander-in-Chief), had been taken on the subject. Colonel SYKES attributed the whole of the difficulty into which we had got to the disobedience of Consul Plowden and Cameron, to the instructions given them by Earl Russell. They had been told not to meddle in politics; but, instead of keeping quiet, they had interfered in the internal affairs of the kingdom. Mr. GLADSTONE observed ,with regard to the vote that. as practical men, the House of Commons had no choice but to sanction the expenditure for which the country had been made responsible. Looking at the entire case, with all its difficulties, he was not prepared to venture upon censure or condemnation. Indeed, he thought it no more than justice to admit that, in the general conduct of the Government, they were guided by combined and mingled sentiments with regard to the honour of the country, the claims and rights of a British Envoy, and a love of peace. It might, however, have been better, and certainly more constitutional, if the Government, having on the 14th of August resolved to send an expedition from India to Abyssinia, had come down to Parliament, announced their intention, and asked the House of Commons to reopen the committee of supply, and agree to a vote of money on ac count. The personal inconvenience of protracting the session fur a few days or weeks was not to be set against the imperious necessity of taking the consul of the house before entering upon war with a foreign power. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought the debate to a close after midnight in a short speech, in the course of which he observed that her Majesty's Mini sters, in prosecuting the expedition without the consent of Parliament, believed that they were acting strictly in accordance with the constitution and with precedent, although for his own part he admitted that ho thought it always desirable when practicable to appeal to the House of Commons for its support. After a few words from Dr. WYLD in defenc3 of Dr. Beke, the vote of credit was agreed to, and the house re sumed. The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Supplemental Bill was passed through committee. The house adjourned at a few minutes before one o'clock until twelve this day. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Mr. HIBBERT asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was his intention to intro duce the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill during the present dessiln ? Mr, HARDY said it was intended to re-introduce tha bill. INCOME-TAX COLLECTION. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN asked the Secretary to the Trea sury whether he had received any information as to the great dissatisfaction prevailing in Dudley in consequence of the mode in which the income-tax had been levied for some time past, and as to the effects of the system of sur charging manufacturers and others in Dudley ; and whe ther there would be any objection to produce the corre spondence which had taken place in reference to this case ? Mr. HUNT said that in December last a meeting was held at Dudley on the subject, and a copy of the resolu tions passed at that meeting was left at the Treasury by the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Sheridan). Those resolutions were transmitted to Somerset House, from whence a person was immediately sent down to Dudley to report on the matter. On that report being received it did not at all confirm the statements contained in the resolutions. He had no objection to produce correspondence on that sub ject, but with that which was connected with another branch of the question the Treasury had no control. Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice of his intention to move for its production. THE LIBEL BILL. In reply to Mr. NEWDEGATE, Sir C. O'LOGHLEN said as the bill was identically the same as that considered by the house last year, he could not consent to postpone it. Mr. NEWDEGATE then gave notice that he should, on the motion for its second reading, move its postponement for a fortnight. KING THEODORE. Sir H. VERNEY asked the Secretary of State for Fo reig❑ Affairs whether Captain Cameron had ever been re ceived and recognised as British Consul by King Theodore. Lord STANLEY said there was no doubt about Capt. Cameron being received by King Theodore as a represen tative of her Majesty. PORTLAND PRISON. Captain VIVIAN asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention had boon drawn to the fact that the cells in the wooden prison at Portland were lighted with: candles, so that each convict in that prison had an unprotected candle under his control for some hours during every night of the winter months; whether it was the intention of Government to take any steps to put an end to so dangerous a system ; and whether any attempts had been made by the prisoners to set fire to the prison ? Mr. HARDY said he was not aware that any attempt had been made to fire the prison by persons confined there. On the contrary, on the occasion of a fire breaking out none worked harder than the convicts them selves. Steps, however, were being taken to improve the lighting of the cells from without. 'I IE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Colonel SYKES asked the Secretary of State for India whether there was any and what foundation for the state n►ent in the letter of the correspondent of the Times, dated Bombay, Oct. 14, and in the Madras Times, dated Oct. 8, that Major-Gen. Napier had made a requisition to the Ma dras Government for European subaltern officers to be at tached to the native regiments proceeding with the expe dition to Abyssinia, and was told that the Madras Govern ment had not any subalt•m-n officers to spare; and whether ho would lay upon the table a return of the number of European officers with each native regiment in the expe dition, and the strength in native commissioned and non commissioned officers and men of each regiment? Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE said he had no infor mation on the subject either public or private. If the return was moved for it should be produced without the least delay. Sir P. O'BRIEN asked the Secretary of State for India whether the undertaking contained in a letter of the Rev. sir. lirapp (one of tho dragomen to the Abyssinian Expedition), dated the 20th September last, and expressed in the following terms —" I think Sir Stafford's mind will be fully satisfied and tranquillised if I say that, as a leading rule of conduct, I must consider the object of the expedition to be the primary point, to which every other private concern must bond ; but that, on the other hand I must not be expected to suppress my individual feeling if a case should appear in practice where I should have any oc casion or be requested to enter on religious discussion "—was to be taken as referring alone to the reverend gentleman's course of conduct as regards Abyssinian Christians, or was to be considered as likewise referring to the Ilindoo and Mussulman troops and to the Roman Catholic soldiers in her Majesty's regiments serving on the expedition ? Sir STAFFORD .NORTIICOTE said, in engaging the gentleman referred to, he had in view a communication with the natives of Abyssinia, and certainly not with a view of proselytising or interfering with the religious belief of the soldiers serving on the expedition. SUPPLY-THE VOTE OF CREDIT. The house then went into Committee of supply, when Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to move a vote of credit fur the expedition. The right hon. gentleman, in doing this, gave a brief history of matters that had led to the necessity of sending forth tho expedition. Consul Cameron, a British subject, had now been in captivity for three years, and after all attempts had boon made diplomatically to effect his release it was thought expedient to send a special envoy to the King of Abyssinia for the purpose of obtaining the release of Consul Cameron. Unfortunately, however, instead of that mission turning out successful, notwith standing that Her Majesty's Envoy was received by the King with magnificence, a change came over him, and, instead of treatiag him with that respect he was entitled to, the King seized upon his person and cast him into prison. There might be a difference of opinion on the opposite side of the House upon some of the bearings of the question, and which he hoped the discussion would tend to remove ; yet he felt quite sure that the seizure of her Majesty's envoy was a most distressing proceeding, and one which was not to be borne with quietness and patience. It now became known that a number of other persons were also in cap tivity, and it appeared to be a rule in that rude country that those strangers who entered it never left it —there were no returning footsteps. Ultimately one of thoprisoners was allowed to come to England on a mission to her Majesty, King Theodore taking as hostage for the messenger returning his wife and children. This gentleman on his arrival in England was received by her Majesty, and the nature of his mission having been made known it was at once granted, al.hough it was of a very peculiar na ture. King Theodore wished that certain machinery and artisans should be sent out to him, and it having been thought that such a proceeding would in sure the liberation, accozdingly the greatest care was taken to comply with the wishes of the King. The ma chinery and artisans wore atonce sent out, but on arrival at Massowah it was discovered that a change had come over the wishes of the King, and it was thought inexpedient to proceed, and the artisans returned to England. All diplo matic means having failed, and Consul Cameron and his companions being still in captivity, it had been determined to endeavoitr to effect their liberation by force. England had throughout the matter acted with the greatest magna nimity, and beyond that h was impossible to go; and if any hesitation recurred after that it would savour of timidity, and as every other menus had failed, an expedition was at onc e decided upon. The Government thought that nothing could be so disastrous as failure, therefore the greatest cafe had been taken to avoid disaster and to en sure success. The right hon. gentleman having referred in very complimentary terms to the conduct of the Go vernment of Bombay, wont on to state the probable cost of the war. Assuming, ho said, the war was commenced at once, and carried up to the end of April, whe❑ it would be expedient for our troops to leave the country, the probable cost up to that time would, ac cording to the most careful calculation, amount to three millions and a-half. No doubt there would be an in crease if we were called upon to replace the troops which had been lent to us by the Indian Government, and this bad been put down at £300,000, making in all £3,800,000, but the most prudent course would be to set the whole sum down at four millions. lie believed that General Napier would have his troops ready for active service at a cost under £1,000,000, and as that suns would now become pay able at the end of, the financial year, March 3.1, 1868, the ME SUN, LO.NoO.N, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEIIBPIR 27, 1867. Miscellaneous News. (From the Anglo-American Hines.) The great event of the week in Paris has been the Emperor's Speech at the opening of the Legislative Session, on the 18th inst., which has been attended with no ordinary interest. The necessity of resuming the consideration of im portant legislative enactments, coupled with the grave bearing of recent events, has been the alleged cause for the early calling together the French Parliament. In regard to the question of any changes of Government, which have taken or may take place in Germany, the French nation will not interfere unless in case its honour or interests should be menaced. The allusion of the Emperor to the Universal Exposition is couched in noble and sensible language, and shows how much Napoleon has had a: heart the carrying out this his favouri to work. The few remarks are well worthy of being quoted—" The Universal Exposition," says the Emperor, "which has been visited by nearly all the Sovereigns of Europe, and where also the represen tatives of the working classes of every country have met each other, has drawn closer the links of fraternity amongst nations. It has disappeared, but its traces will remain deeply marked upon our epoch, for, if after being carried out in so magni ficent a scale, it has shone with only a momentary splendour, it has destroyed for ever a past of prejudices and errors, hindrances of labour, and in telligence ; barriers between different people, as between different classes, international anti pathies. These are the things the Universal Exposition has cast behind her." This is a simple and noble strain of language, which will find an echo in the breast of every right thinking individual, and, to say the least, cannot but induce a belief in the political honesty of the monarch who could thus think and act. Perfect ing the military and naval organisation of France is not, however, to be neglected, and t ob serve as a significative corollary upon this fact, that a considerable portion of the space occupied at Billancourt by the Agricultural Exposition will be devoted to the formation of a rifle ground, as well for the practice by the regular troops of the fusil Chassepot—which they are now receiving constantly —as for that of Franc Tireurs or Volunteers, the organisation of which body is now being pushed rapidly in France, whether however for a still fur ther increase of the military power of France, or to be used eventually as a means of diminishing the standing army, I cannot say. It is certain that scarcely any troops in Europe cost less than those of France ; nevertheless the large num ber entails a considerable expense upon the coun try. One of the principal alterations to be effected is in increasing the period of military servitude in time of war, and diminishing it in time of peace. The organisation of the Garde Nationale Mobile will also undergo a modification. The question of the Pontifical States is next touched upon, the reason assigned for the sending the troops to Italy being the non-execution of the Convention of the 15th of September, and the danger incurred by the principle of monarchy and European order in the revolutionary attack upon the temporal power of the Pope. The Emperor disclaims the charge of hostility to the unity and independence of Italy in his course of action, averring that the Italian nation itself has commenced to comprehend the danger of such attempts as that of Garibaldi, states that calm and order is already nearly established in the Papal States, and that the recall of the French troops is imminent ; concluding by remarking that for the French nation the Convention of the 15th Sept. will remain in operation until replaced by a new inter national action ; that the relations of Italy with the Holy See interest the whole of Europe; and that for this purpose he has invited the great Powers of Europe to a conference, with a view to prevent fresh complications. The statement of the Emperor appears frank and straightforward, and the only re maining difficulty will probably be found in the demand of a basis for consultation by the great Powers, or, perhaps, of the mutual assent of Italy and the Holy See to such a conference. In regard to the E ;stern question, his Majesty assures the nation that, whatever minor differences may exist between the great Powers, they are of accord upon the principle—namely, the maintenance of the in tegrity of the Ottoman empire, and the amelioration of the condition of the Christians. The only re maining points of importance in the address are the Budget and the present high price of provi sions. With regard to the latter, the badness of the harvest has been alleged as the principal cause, whilst a free commerce is equally designed as the principal remedy. With regard to the Bud get, which appears the only difficulty in the Speech, the question is submitted to the best consideration of the French Parliament. Taken as a whole, the address of the Emperor is greatly reassuring, and calculated alike to dissipate much of the present prevailing inquietude, as well as to present the poli tical horizon of Europe under a brighter and more confidence-inspiring aspect. The American Commission of the Exposition Universelle is equally defunct with the Exposition itself, and its members have left Paris, having in all probability completed their labours and returned to lay their report before Congress. I observe that the prizes reserved in groups 8 and 9 will be decreed on the 18th and 26th of November. The Grand Prize of 10,000 francs and the gold medals cm fleeted with a diploma will be made the subject of a special solemn distribution. An amusing incident just before the close of the world-renowned Palace bears testimony to the might and majesty of the Fourth Estate. A new star had arisen on the Champagne horizon in the person of M. Theodule Joly, of Aix, who out of a hundred competitors shared the only two prizes given with the celebrated firm of Rcederer. The successful fabricant, however, was at a loss how to name the victorious stimulant. In his dilemma, he invited a number of the representatives of the In ternational Press to a banquet, and submitted to them the all-important question. There was a solemn silence, but what difficulty can long avoid giving way before so august a presence as the united International Press? " There is to me come an idea," said the editorof the Sancho, of Brussels, rising from his seat, and speaking in none the best English. "The grand wine of our friend shall take the name of the Volunteer, and by its help he shall make for him the conquest of Angleterre, and that victory shall efface the last remembrances of the field of Waterloo." It is needless to add that the delighted fabricant accepted in all humility the fiat of the all-powerful, and under the patronage of the Prince de Galles, the Volunteer champagne has long since found its way to Wimbledon, and to the table of the Lord Mayor, to commence the campaign as signed to it. Since the departure of the strangers the Parisian Escroes have turned their faces against their fellow-citizens. One of the hardiest and at the same time most skilful dodges hearl of for some time past was played off last week upon the wife of a nzarchand de vans. A tolerably well- dressed stranger entered, and stepping to the counter demanded a glass of wine, at the same time in- forming the hostess that he was expecting the arrival of a Commissionaire, who would bring him the sum of 200 francs. Shortly after a commissionaire entered, placing upon the counter a sack, which he stated to contain that sum. The stranger at once took possession of the sack ; and after paying the commissionaire liberally, and at the same tune treating him to a glass, walked off. lii the evening the proprietor of the estabPshment, on his return, asked his wife what was 63 su Wen necessity which had induced her to send to their neighbour the baker for the sum of 200 fr. The lady of course denied the soft impeachment, and a quarrel appeared to be imminent, when the remem brance of the event of the morning came to calm the rising tempest. A general reunion having taken place at the boulanger's, it was discovered that a skilfully forged letter had been forwarded to the baker, in the name of Madame, requesting him at once to forward the sum of 200 fr. to meet a neces- sity which had arisen in the absence of her husband. If London thieves will steal (as it is said) the teeth out of a body's head, what must be said in behalf of ,heir brethern in Paris ? Our correspondent at Naples writes :—" Nothing new in politics ; people waiting events with perfect tranquillity. An eruption of Vesuvius has come to enliven us. It is considerable enough to interest travellers, who are already beginning to flock in from Rome, but the lava has not yet reached the cultivated land." The fortress of Luxembourg, which so nearly set France and Germany by the ears, has been par tially demolished. The first mines have been sprung, and a breach made in the great walls behind the arsenal. Mines have been sunk in the masonry supporting the Marie earthworks, and with the material the ditches between these fortifi cations will be filled up, and access given to this portion of the fortifications. News from India informs us that Col. Strachey has published a minute summarising the conclusions of local committees upon Indian weights and mea sures, and advocating a reform based upon the French system. The control of the Post-office has been transferred to the Financial Department, and the control of the Telegraph-office to the Foreign Department, the Home Department being over whelmed with work. The Russians intend to make the great roads leading to Herat, Cabul, and Cash mere. The Governments represented at the Postal Con ference, at Berlin, have assented to all the pro visions stipulated, and have authorised their Pleni potentiaries to sign the new postal conventions. The signatures will be affixed to-day. After the close of the postal conference negotiations will be entered into for adjusting the international postage rates; in the first instance with Switzerland, the Papal States, and Italy. General Sherman and the Peace Commissioners having completed their business at Medicine Creek Lodge, proceeded to Omaha and Fort Laramie to meet the Sioux and other Northern tribes favourable to peace. These desire to be put into possession of the Powder River country. A general order has been issued by Sherman, inform ing the troops in his division of the treaties of peace made with the Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahos, against whom hootilities were to cease. The officers and men are directed to treat all Indians they meet kindly, sparing no efforts to maintain this peace, which may enable civil agents to elevate the Indians to a higher condi tion. The Arizona Legislature condemns the policy of General Ikl.‘Dowell on Indian affairs, and desires the territory, where fighting still continues with alternate success to whites and red-skins, to be made into a military department. It also memorialises Congress to be allowed to raise a regiment of volun teers to take the field against the Indians, as it holds that the regulars are neither keen on, nor adapted for the service. Up to the morning of the sth November the total number of deaths recorded in New Orleans from the yellow fever that ravaged that city was was 3,006. The Board of Health has declared that it is no longer epidemic, and that citizens and strangers can visit the city without apprehension. It will be gratifying to those who take a deep in terest in the grandest project of the age—the railway which is to connect San Francisco with New York, to learn that the business of the Californian branch —the Central Pacific—was even more successful in October than in September. There were last month nearly 100 miles open, and the gross earnings were $212,179, netting $173,843. Five hundred miles of the track have been laid from the East. The local business on the 325 miles on which trains were running yielded over $1,000,000 in one quarter of the present year. The survey for the Northern Pacific Railway through the Cedar River Pass, in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, is com pleted. But the Pass proves to be impracticable for railroad purposes, being 4,160 feet high. Three other passes are reported on. In another column we give a statement of the business operations of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, which de serves wide publication in Europe. A full report of the late important elections, from the summary of the Springfield Republican, will be found in another column. The Democratic majo rity in New York was 45,000. The Republicans expected defeat, but not such a crusher as this. The Nation says the Democratic party is evidently going to be strong enough next year to make it worth while beating them. We trust the statement again revived that the New York and Havre Steamship Company have decided to discontinue their Line and sell their steamers may prove as erroneous as the former report. No doubt the English agents, Messrs. H. Starr and Co., 145, Cheapsidn, will contradict the report if untrue. It is alleged that the company find it impossible to compete with the French steamers, which receive from their Government a heavy subsidy. The ocean steamers of the United States have as much claim to protection as any other branch of industry. But they are compelled to maintain the struggle not only unaided, but handicapped unfairly in the race. If this line be discontinued the number of American steamers to Europe will be reduced to the Atlantic and 82/tic on the Bremen Line. We see with pleasure that two of the gr eat companies have gi ven or d ers f or new boats to shipwrights on the Clyde. - The Alabama Reconstruction Convention met at Montgomery on Tuesday, the sth inst. Ei g hty two members were present, of whom fifty odd were old citizens of the State. E. W. Peck, of Tuscaloosa, an attaché of the Freedman's Bureau, a white in in, was elected president, and the office; of secretary, assistant-secretary, and doorkeeper were g i ven t o negroes. The Convention agreed to ask Congress to remove the political disabilities of those who favour Reconstruction. There is, however, a re port that the plans of the leaders are to disfranchise the whites on whom the taxes are to be thrown. regaining his he a T I t h h a d thateu s he Ste h v o e p n e s s i t s o s b n e p r a r e p si nlyt at the opening of the Session, when he will make four propositions —a resolution to revive the old Reconstruction Committee, Bills to depose the President when the House presents a Bill of Impeachment against him, to establish equal suffrage in all States of the Union, and to confiscate the property of the public enemy. Suppose the latter passe3, Congress would then have to define who the public enemy was, and sup pose they announced the old commoner to be the man ! The act would be as justifiable as the con fiscation, he advocates, of the property of the nation's creditors. The Manufacturers' Association of Detroit has called a National Protective Association, to meet at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 18th December. A re solution was adopted asking Congress to increase the duties upon imports. That trade is low—that business is stagnant—that work is scarce—are facts. The Freetraders point to them as proof of . . the fallacies of Protection. The Protectionists urge them on Congress as the result of their halting measures, for which the only remedy is prohibition. The New York Tribune declares that a people which adopts the settled policy of buying articles of daily use from foreigners will remain, or will become, bar barians. It is a pity that the Tribune cannot in crease the range of its cosmopolitan and liberal views. Carrying such a theory to its natural result, each man must become a barbarian who does not supply himself with everything he consumes. The Tribune at present confines its Protection to the United States. Shortly, State may protect itself against State—county against county—town against town and when something worse than the German Zoll verciu has been reached, the Tribune's idea may be realised. We prefer considering the world as a unit, from which every inhabitant should derive the greatest benefits procurable, regretting only ,hat it is not larger, and that ive cannot open cotn- inunication and exchange cJwinodities with other planets. Our theory is the reverse of that of the Tribune. The people who buy most from fo- reigners becomes the most enlightened. Petroleum, as fuel, continues to attract atten tion. At San Francisco several gentlemen inte- rested in steam navigation proceeded to Santa Cruz on the 7th October to witness another trial of White's apparatus. It was placed in the furnace of a 15-horse power engine, and was successful in every trial. The principle is similar to that adopted in the experiment on the Eastern coast ; but the apparatus differs from that of Colonel Foote as tried in the Palos, and is alleged to be superior in effec tivenee.s, convenience, and durability. The fires are quite under the control of the engineer, being regu lated t►s easily as gas burners, The Mining and Scientific Press uad erstands that the invention will be subjected to a. Trucial trial in San Francisco, that it may be thoroug :hly tested, and in such a manner as fully to determine its value. Colonel Foote left New York, acco alpanied by several engineers for San Francisco, to look after the interests of his in vention on the Pacific coast. As time go :s ov, the extraordinary change in the see-saw of Ai nerican opinion becomes more marked. The Republi. ;an North is running rapidly in the direction of Conservatism ; the Conservative South is becoming a. negro Republic, diving into the blackest depths: , of Radicalism. We will soon have the North and South again standing face to face, but the principles for which they contend wholly reversed. The late contest was a Northern war of interference bet weep the Southern white and black, in which Unch Sam, seeing no other solution of the difficulty, insis `,ed on inserting his sword to cut the Gordian knot of slavery. The contest now ap proaching w 11 again be Northern interference between Sout aern black and white, in which Uncle Sam will have to teach Sambo his proper place, and the one he 'aas to occupy. It is a marvellous reso lution if we only recall the feelings and sentiments prevailing six or seven years ago. The actio:a of the Tennessee House of Repre sentatives is a strange commentary on that portion of Thaddeus : Steven's's - letter referring to the policy of an export tax on cotton. The House passed a resolution, calling upon Congress to repeal the Cotton Tax, and the State Senate is considered sure to concur. On the 7th inst. the New York Chamber of Commerce adopted a memorial to Con gress for its repeal, and the agitation through all parts of the country is becoming urgent. It is somewhat surprising that Thaddeus Stevens could have written the nonsense he has in the face of the facts accumulating around him. Talking of cotton, General Howard in a late letter, correcting what he alleges to be a mistake derived from some inaccurate statistics published by himself, which erroneously went to • prove that the negro population of the United States had decreased, while the reverse was the case, an-• nounces the cotton crop for 1867 at 2,500,000 bales. This is far in excess of the Government estimate. i General Howard adds that the grain crop is double any before raised in the Southern States, while there has been a fair yield of rice, sugar, and tobacco. He calculates the negro population at the close of the war at 4,500,000, and considers that as they were little exposed to the hazards and vicissitudes of the struggle, preserving their organisation as labourers, that there is no reason to doubt that they increased instead of decreased. The annual report to Congress of the Freedmen's Bureau will be pre sented during November. For the eleven months ending August, $3,597,397 were expended, the following figures showing in what way :—lt gave relief to 233,372 persons, the highest number being in July, 82,000, and considerably more than half were destitute whites ; it has in operation 2,207 schools, with 2,442 teachers, of whom 699 are negroes, and 130,735 negro scholars. On the Ist of next July the Freedmen's Bureau expires by law, and General Howard, in his annual report to the Secre tary of War, recommends that it be not continued. The expenses have fallen short of the appropriation for its support, and a sufficient sum remains to maintain it for the term of its legal existence. It will have accomplished the ends aimed at, of which the chief was the encouragement of learning and industry. Independently of the schools founded by the bureau, the neg:oes have 391 buildings of their own, at which 10,026 scholars are maintained by tuition fees. By a telegram from New York, last Tuesday, it appears that intelligence had been received there from Mexico that Admiral Tegethoff had obtained the body of the late Emperor Maximilian. The news by mail is that Juarez had sent a commissioner to Washington to negotiate a loan of $12,000,000 ; that there were no funds in the Treasury ; that the army was in a state of discontent on account of their long arrears of pay ; that the election of Juarez is t 3 be contested by Diaz, who was inaugu rating a movement for the impeachment of the President—humbly following the great example set at Washington. A civil war is imminent, and even that could scarcely add to the miseries of the coun- try, which is overrun with brigands, life and pro perty being left to the protecti on o f eac h individual. Maximilian was worshipped by a considerable num ber of the - peopld in their churches as a saint, and there can be little doubt that his memory is vene- rated by the Indian population as a martyr, who fell in his efforts to elevate them. We doubt not that Mr. Adams, the American Minister at St. James's, has had to resist a very heavy pressure to interfere on behalf of condemned Fenians claiming American citizenship. Condon, alias Shore, is a native of the United States, and bore a commission in the American army. Some time ago he solicited the assistance of the American Minister on the ground that he was an American citizen, but Mr. Adams declined to interfere. Condon has repeated his application since sentence was passed, and Mr. Lord, the United States Consul, at Man- cheater, has received a communication from Mr Adams that, as Condon has broken the laws of this country, and has been fairly and impartially tried according to them, he cannot interfere in his behalf. Captain Condon, we are glad to say, has been re- prieved for reasons elsewhere given. There seems to be a mania for the acquisition of territory in the United States. This week the shares of the Hudson Bay Company have risen, under the impression that the Washington Govern ment contemplates the purchase of a portion of the territory for £200,000. That Government has agreed to pay Denmark £1,500,000 for St. Thomas and St. Juan, with an additional £BOO,OOO, pro vided France will waive her claim to the neigh bouring island of Santa Cruz. The £2,000,000 due to Russia for the cession of her American terri- tory is to be paid at the end of December. The news of the destruction of the town and docks of St. Thomas by the hurricane has, we presume, come too late to alter the terms. SPIRIT OF LAWLESSIVESS. Respect for law has long been one of England's most characteristic political virtues. The allusion, therefore, in the Queen's Speech to the conspiracy commonly known as " Fenianism," and to its ex istence in England "under the form of organized violence and assassination," sounds strange in English ears. That organized violence and assas sination should exist in revolutionary Italy we are not.surprised, since law is openly violated by the Government itself ; but that the spirit of lawless ness should be abroad in England shows that we are entering upon a new state of things, which it is difficult at first to realize to ourselves. This lawlessness in Italy and Ireland is called Gari baldianism and Fenianism ; in England it has as yet no specific name. Its aim, however, is to kindle a war of classes, and to introduce mob rule. It takes up with what there is of Fenianism in our large cities, not out of sympathy with Ireland and Irishmen, but in order to make use, for its own ends, of a bold and audacious organization, and of a cause which has a name. Distress in many parts of the country, arising from the dearness of pro visions and from the want of employment con sequent in no small measure on the recent strikes, has given those whom Mr. Disraeli well describes as the " nincompoop of politics," an opportunity which they are endeavouring to turn to their own purposes. Insolent demonstrations, such as that the other day at the Home Office, monster meet ings, presentations of petitions by masses of men, have not so much for their object to save the Fe nians condemned to death at Manchester, as to intimidate our Government, and override the authority of the law. The Government, in the Queen's Speech, has appealed to the country for support in the maintenance of the law, and most assuredly the vast majority of the country will uphold the cause of order and authority. The lawless spirit of the Revolution, fed by the secret societies of which Fenianism is one, has made its appearance in our English cities, and has given us a specimen of its handiwork. What too many of the leaders of English opinion have approved of in Italy, they must now perforce condemn in Manchester. The sight of blood, shed in the rescue of political pri4oners guilty of conspiracy against public order and public right, has forced those who applauded the lawless invasion of Garibaldian bands into the Papal States, to invoke the highest penalty of the law against the dis turbers of public peace and the destroyers of human life. The Fenians at Manchester have forfeited their lives to the law ; they have offended against the highest rights of the State, whose first duty it is to protect the lives of its citizens. On the score of justice nothing is to be said in favour of mitigation of punishment; but the policy at the present moment of :executing the four convicted offenders at Manchester is quite another question. We have already, when last we wrote on the subject, urged considerations why the Government should temper justice with mercy. The truth is, England as a nation has not clean hands in Lthe matter of political crimes ; it has sympathised too long and too publicly with the Revolution abroad to be alto gether guiltless of its excesses at home. Is this a moment when leaders of public opinion in England, when English statesmen have been sympathizing with and supporting the most law less of invasions, when even the Speech from the throne describes the lawless bands who crossed into the Papal States, pillaging and slaying peaceable citizens, simply as Italian volunteers—is this a moment for England to hang four Fenians at Man chester? In lawlessness, in immorality, in blood guiltiness, Fenianism cannot for a moment be compared to Garibaldianism. In comparison with Mazzinian infamy, as yet it is like snow to scarlet. As long as England as a nation applauds the murderous deeds of the Revolution in Italy, and apologizes for the assassinations committed by Garibaldi, and the sanguinary Triumvirate at Rome in 1849, so long will it be in a difficulty as to the punishment of political offenders like the Fenians condemned to death at Manchester. Some such uneasiness as to our position in re gard to political offenders may be traced, it seems iro us, in the eagerness with which Lord Derby declared that the Fenian attacks did not come un der the category of political offences, but were cowardly and dastardly outrages, not differing from murder ordinarily committed. But is not this begging the question ? Are not the adepts of the Revolution, whether they be Fenians or Garibaldians, cowardly assassins, who stab in the dark, outrage women, and blow up un armed and unsuspecting men with gunpowder bar rels. The characteristics which Lord Derby im putes to the Fenians, are just the attributes com mon to political offenders of the stamp of Garibaldi. Organized violence and assassination are the means which the Revolution, which we have so applauded in the distance, never fails to make use of. Assassination is a Revolutionary virtue. The bombs which Orsini used against Napoleon did not remove the Italian criminal from the cate gory of political offenders. It is folly, therefore, to infer from the character of their crime that the Feniaus who attacked the police van at Manchester, and killed Sergeant Brett, were not political offenders. Fenianism in all its ramifications is a political conspiracy as as the Revolution is in Italy ; but what English speakers and writers are too apt to forget is that political offences of this description are great moral crimes, justly to be visited with the severest pe nalties of the law. The point of our argument only is, that we ought not at the same tiwe to blow hot and cold, sanction in Italy what we condemn in Ireland and Manchester ; and then when we are brought face to face with lawless conspirators who shed blood, deny, as Lord Derby does, that they are political offenders. Admitting, as we do fully, the criminality of Fe nianism, granting that there is a spirit of lawless ness abroad which is not without danger in the present state of things in England, upholding the principle that political crimes are not exempt from thelextremest penalty of the law, we yet hold that England, at the present moment, is not so guiltless of the crime of moral participation in Revolution ary acts and schemes as to be able, with a clear conscience, to execute the Fenians at Manchester. Not so much for the sake of the unhappy Fenians —although they, too, are less guilty in England than in a country where Revolution is regarded as a crime—as for the sake of England itself, do we hope that the sentence of death will not be carried out.-IVestininster Gazette. THE FALL IN COTTON. (Front the Round Table.) The mechanical engineers of Birmingham say that, in every quarter of each minute during the working day of ten hours in England, the spindles of Manchester alone produce a length of cotton thread which might be wound about the entire world. What would Hargreave's ghost say to this ? or Wyatt's, or Arkwright's ? It is, as we pointed out recently, only one hundred years ago that all cotton was spun by hand and by the single thread at a time. All the fingers in the world now, fit for the labour, could not in one day produce the threads which Manchester spins in an hour. The cotton question is becoming highly interest ing, and it is for that reason that we venture so soon to rpenr to it. It is but little more than a month ago that we told our readers some interesting facts about the staple, and indulged hi some speculations with regard to ins future, but at that time we cer tainly did not expect that events would so speedily prove the correctness of our impressions. Since then middling upland cotton has declined in Liver pool from 90. on September 19, to 80. on Oct. 10. In three weeks the fall was equivalent to nearly fifteen per cent. abroad, while in New York during the same time the decline was from 25 cents per pound to 18}, equivalent to twenty-five per cent. The following tables, showing the rapidity of the tumble both here and in Liverpool, may be interesting. The quotations in Liverpool for mid dling upland cottons on the days mentioned below were as follows : Sept. 19, ~ 24, -1. 17 3 , BA ~ 26, ~ 23 7? 8 , 71 10 , iand in New York as follows : Sept. 19, ... 25 cents. ... Oct. 2, 22 cents. ~ 24, 23f „ ~ 3, „. 21/ „ „ 26, ... 23 „ ~ 7, 20 „ „ 28, ... 22 „ „ 8, ... 191 „ „ 10, ... 18/ „ This shrinkage in the value of cotton in New York, between the dates mentioned, was greater than an average of one per cent. per day, which we believe, is altogether unexampled in the history of the trade. A decline so rapid as this has directed general attention to its causes, and all classes of business men are a,king each other the reasons why, which, however, we venture to say, are not far to seek. At the outbreak of the war cotton was sell ing in New York in gold at prices which were above those now current, notwithstanding the enormous crop of the previous year. The general trade of the world was good, and it was thought in Europe as well as in this country that hostilities between the North and the South would so greatly diminish the world's supply of the article that cotton must soon reach extravagant figures. The South thought cotton was king, and was never weary of boasting about it. No country had for a century successfully competed with this in its growth, quality and not quantity considered, and consequently when we became involved in civil war many foreign coun tries assiduously devoted attention to its cultiva- tion. While these crops were yet in the ground Ame rican cotton rose enormously —that is, in currency value, although it ought to be o' served that it never reached a price above about sixty-five cents per pound in gold. The demoralisation ii this country consequent upon the war, the losses as well as gains inflicted upon Europe resulting from it, the political influence which it has had upon the Governments of the Old World, all helped to impress upon Manchester the increased apprehension that their supply could no longer be confidently expected from us in any safe degree. The result was, as we have said, greatly increased production elsewhere, observable mainly in the enlarged ex ports from India, which speedily put an end to the cotton famine in England, and stimu lated her forty millions of spindles to greater activity than ever. Manufactured goods so" clogged the paths of commerce, and the tremen dous power of machinery in England and the Con tinent has kept them choked ever since. Europe, for two years past, has had too much cotton, far more than she could use, and now we have the col lapse, which means simply this, that until old gar ments are worn out no new clothes are needed. In addition to the causes which we have name d in order to account for the recent decline there are others as potent, and not the least among them is the conservative feeling which is daily spread ing abroad in this country with regard to ex penditure. People on all sides are beginning to be careful about money. In truth, they have less to spend, while business lags and profits dwindle , while events at Washington are uncertain and the price of gold is doubtful. The cost of living is extravagantly high, and the prudent are disposed to retrench. If we look abroad and add to this the political condition of Europe, the scanty harvest in England, the very uncommon distrust in a ll commercial and banking circles, there so great that money is a drug on the security of gold bars at ore and one-half per cent. per annum, and withoutsuc h collateral cannot be had at all ; with the Bourse in Paris in a ferment ; the Credit Mobiliere with its millions hastening toward a crash ; the Bank of France gorged with idle coin ; California whea t selling in Liverpool at 17s. per cental ; riots in Manchester ; prisoners tried in its courts wit h shackles on them while under arrest on mere suspicion ; heavy failures in Liverpool —among the rest the Royal Bank with an indebtedness of over four million pounds sterling ; no confidence or courage anywhere;, h ow can i t b e expe cted that cotton should be dearer? The whole ivoild is against it; and ruinously low as it is for the people who produce it, there seems a lower depth to come. In this country, had not the war itripae' rished a very large class of its consumers, cotton would not probably be to-day at its present price; but war is always destructive to industry, and at though a few thrive by it the many must inevitably suffer. While we write there are thousands of planters in this country who are selling the produc t of their year's hard labour for far less money tha t they put in the ground helpless and almost despair"; ing, unable to refund the loans made them to tall the soil, and amidst the constant cheerlessness .01 he political aspect of their lives living upon th e barest hope of the future. For instance, it is a fa ct that in Georgia to-day planters sell their cotton , that is, the average crop of their farms, at about tell cents perpound in currency. The Government, wit h a rigour which is quite unworthy any generous ad versary, taxes them two and one-half cents Pe r pound, a tax which is simply ruinous. The inte rest upon the money which the planters borrowe' last spring to put the seed in the earth is a grea t one, as must necessarily be the case in all countries which have been devastated by war, and consequen tl y impoverished ; and, in short, eighteen cents Pe r pound in New York pays the Georgia planter, aft er all charges are reimbursed, not over twelve cents Pe r pound in currency, or about eight cents in gold, fo r his crop, which must be middling in quality to ce lli c i mand even that price. These figures are low, an as Manchester and the continent will use the Ameri can staple instead of Surats at a low cost, and Indi a cotton must follow our own down in the m arkets of the world, we believe that the day i s not fa r distant when India will temporarily withdraw fronl the English market to a great extent, and prices °I our own staple possibly improve. At present, bet s ' ever, our own spinners are not profiting by i t, low as it is. They c mnot sell the goods which th e y make, except at a less p r i ce t o -d ay th an a wee ago. They buy sparingly and cautiously, work a s few hands as possible, and, like the most of us, life in hope. Finally, a reason which m i g ht no t occur to allo f our readers in thinking about the recent revolution in cotton is this: the South, particularly Texas, wile ° the best cotton in this country is grown—other tha° Sea Island, which is produced from a special seed-- has just suffered under a pestilence which spread t° New Orleans, thence to Mobile, and finally t ° Memphis. These four points are the most important of all domestic ports in the trade. While people were dying by hundreds daily in these places there could hardly be much trade. We anticipate some activity in the cotton business from t he recent abatement of the disease, but we are per suaded that the favourable weather of late for pick ing and saving the crop will enable planters t° send such heavy supplies i n t o th e por t s in I s T °- vember and December that no considerable increase of price in New York or Manchester a l speedily be hoped for, and no large advance either here or there until prices reach a l ower l e vel stil l in this country, as they w ill p ro b a bly d o , and th export to England from other countries be conse quently diminished, or until the general trade ef i the world revives, and consu m pti on o f man ufacture d goods becomes much greater than at present. _ A Since the above was w r itt en pr i ces h ave advance" a little, both here and in England, the shipmen ts from this country since the commencement of the present cotton year, viz., September 1, having been „ less than one-thi r d o f th e quant i ty s hi ppe d during _ the same time i n 1866, an d t h e stoc k o f A m erica: having been sh ar ply re d uce d i n Li verpoo l . We s e no reason, howe ver , t o b e li eve th a t t h e a d van ce ca n be permanently su s t a i ne d. Th e quotations °rl Monday of this week were 20 cen t s per poun d in Nei York and Bid. in Li ver p oo l. F re i g ht s h a ve ad vanced largely, which will serve to lessen cotton values for a time. A Lond, Th Dubli Ohs " Rin ,_ R. 111 AM) ren aym disaou D ur : Tur NT Atix Trine' Messn an i nt Meifir zar. The ber, th NOT Pearat Prtv tnenad CllO , Ft GRI Theta CORR MOO 7. DELI; Evenii Last SPE his fit, DAy' tall 6d,, ea Past 7. ~ -_ A r i MILT') all the . R °net Inittan AR This I talian Now 81 F 4,1 0; Curti. 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NOV '",:. % Ditto, Mars e illes NO 21. Mauritius, Cape of Good hope, and Natal, via NO. 1). Southain . Ditt ), :Hanel les Dee l'n Newfoundla r c .• .• Nov' . 2 ortugal... Ditto, b; p riv Lie ship to Oporto Ditto t •tto to Lisbon United States, t. aubda, California, &c., by Britis h 4 packet Ditto, by L i ited states packet Ditto ditto 'New York, Ditto ditto Ntw York) Ditto ditt'. (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet NOV. West Coast of Afri, s, Madeira, and Tenerin...• • • m „ e-' West ladies and Pazitic ;except Mexico and Baha- Nov% rugs) Cub t and Mexico Na• c• Bahamas, via New York De c. 16. Bermuda, via Halifax is grO - An American paper say s Th a lb e rg wino and Jenny Lind is growing stout. Births. „, tfor IforwooD —On the 23th inst., tho wifo of James • wood, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. 10 14 HOLFOItD—On the 26th lust , the w ife of J. T Esq., 14, Orchard-street, Portman-square,. of 3 “ a.. 'ilayt' LLOYD—On the 24th inst., at Rochester, the wifo O' Lloyd, 11. 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