The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAY EVENNG, DEC DIRER 5, 1861. t was felt by everybody desirable that they should en courage manufacturers in their own coentry ; and see ing that England at the precise moment was passing a law to prevent any wheat coming from America until wheat in England had risen to the price o 84s. per quarter, we may be quite satisfied that the doctrine of protection origi nally entertained did not find less favour at the close of the war in 1815. (Hear.) There is one remarkable point with regard to thismatter which should not be forgotten. Twelve months ago, at the meeting of the Congress of the United States, on the first Monday in Deceraber—when the Con gress met you will recollect there were various propositions of compromise—committee meetings of various kinds to try and devise some mode of settling the question between the North and South, so that disunion might not go on. Though I read carefully everything published in the English papers from the United States on the subject I do not recollect that in a single instance the question of the tariff was referred to, or any change proposed or suggosted in the matter as likely to have any effect whatever upon the question of secession, There is another point, 'chat whatever might be the influence of the tariff upon the, United States, it is as pernicious to the West as it is to the South; and further, that Louisiana, which is a Southern State and a seceded State, has always voted along with Pennsylvania until last year in favour of protection—protection for its sugar, while Pennsylvania wished protection for coal andiron. But if the tariff was onerous and grievous, was that any reason for this great insurrection ? Was there ever a country that had a tariff especially in the article of food more onerous and more cruel than that which we had in this country 20 years ago ? (Cheers.) We did not secede. We did not rebel. What we did was to raise money for the purpose of distributing among all the people perfect information upon the question ; and many men, as you know, devoted all their labours, for several years, to teach the great and wise doctrine of free trade to the people of England. (Cheers.) Why the price of a single gunboat, the equipment of a single regiment, the garrisoning of a single fort, the ce-sation of their trade for a single day, cost more than it would have cost to have spread all over the intelligent people of the United States the most complete statement of the whole case ; and the West and South could easily have revised, or if need had been have repealed the tariff altogether. (Cheers.) The question is a very different and a far more grave question. It is a question of slavery—(cheers)—and for 30 years it has con stantly been coming to the surface, disturbing social life, and overthrowing almost all political harmony in the work ing of the United States. (Cheers.) In the North there is no secession; there is no collision. These disturbances and this insurrection are found wholly in the South and in the slave states ; and, therefore, I think that the man who says otherwise, who contends that it is the tariff or anything whatsoever else than slavery, is either himself deceived or endeavours to deceive others. (Cheers.) The object of the South is this—to escape from the majority who wish to limit the area of slavery. (Hear, hear.) They wish to found a slave state freed from the influence and the opinions of free dom. The free states in tho North now stand before the world the advocates and defenders of freedom and civilisa tion. The slave states offer themselves for the recognition of a Christian nation, based upon the foundation—the un changeable foundation in their eyes—of slavery and barber • ism. (Cheers.) I will not discuss the guilt of the men who, ministers of a great nation only last year, conspired to overthrow it. I will not point out by name any of the men, in this conspiracy, whom history will designate by names they would not like to hear; but I say that slavery has sought to break up the most free Government in the world, and to found a new state in the 19th century, whose scorner-stone is the perpetual bondage of millions of men. (Loud applause.) Well now, having thus described what appears to me briefly the literal truth of this matter, what is the course that England would be expected to pursue ? We should be neutral so far as regards mingling in the strife. (Cheers.) Wo were neutral in the strife in Italy; but we were not neutral in opinion or sympathy; and we know perfectly well that throughout the whole of Italy at this moment there is a feeling that though no shot was fired from anEnglish ship, and though no English soldier trod their soil; Yet still the opinion of England was potent in Europe and did much for the creation of the Italian kingdom. (Cheers.) Well, with regard to the United States, you know how touch we hate slavery—that is, a while ago, we thought we knew; that we have given twenty-six millions sterling, n million a year, or nearly so, of taxes for ever, to free 8 00,000 slaves in the English colonies. We knew, or thought we knew, how much we were in love with free government everywhere, although it might not take pre cisely the same form as our Government. We were for free government in Italy ; we were for free government ' in Switzerland ; and we were for free government, even under a Republican form, in the United States of America; and With all this, every man would have said that England Would wish the American Union to be prosperous and eternal. Now, suppose we turn our eyes to the east—to the empire of Russia, for a moment. In Russia, as you all know, there has been one of the most important and magnificent changes of policy ever seen in any country. Within the last year or two the present Emperor of Russia, followin g the wishes of his father, has insisted upon the abolition of serfdom in that empire; and twenty-three Millions of human beings, lately serfs, little better than real slaves, have been in a path of elevation to the rank Of freedom. (Cheers.) Now, supposing that the Millions of the serfs of Rnssia had been chiefly in the South of Russia. We hear of the nobles of Russia, to whom these serfs belonged in a great measure, that they have been hostile to this change; and there has been Some danger that the peace of that empire might be dis turbed during the change. Suppose these nobles, for the Purpose of maintaining in perpetuity the serfdom of Rus sia, and barring out 23 millions of your fellow-creatures from the rights of freedom, that they had established a great and secret conspiracy, and that they had risen in great and dangerous insurrection against the Russian Go reernraent —I say that you, the people of Eng and, although seven years ago, although they were in mortal combat with the Russians in the South of Europe—l believe at this moment they would have prayed Heaven in all sincerity and fervour to give strength to the arm and success to the great wishes of the Emperor, and that the vile and perni cious insurrection might be suppressed. (Cheers.) Well, but let us look a little at what has been said and done in this country since the period when Parliament rose at the beginning of August. There had been two speeches to Which I wish to refer, and in terms of approbation. The Duke of Argyll, a member of the present Govern silent, and though 1 have not the smallest persona'. ac quaintance with lean, I am free to say that I believe him ene of the most intelligent and liberal of his order— ;Lip mike of Argyll made a speech which was fair and ' e r :endly to the Government of the United States. Lord y only a fortnight ago, I think, made a speech Which it is impossible to read without remarking the th ought, :; the liberality, and the wisdom by which it is d is "sgalished. He doubted, it is true, whether the Union could be restored—a man need not be hostile, and must not reessarily be friendly, to doubt that, or the contrary—but e Spoke with fairness and friendliness of the Government of the United States ; and ho said that they were right and ratifiable in the course they took, and he gave a piece of ad vice, which was now more important than at that moment, til'earat,te amid very idthe various incidents and accidents of a struggle ea this n a t ure, it b ecame a peop l e lik e thi s t o b e very mo calm, and to avoid getting into any feelings of irritation which sometimes arises, and sometimes leads to ,anger. (Hear, hear.) I mention these two speeches as ` t era Englishmen of great distinction in this country -B„peeehes which I believe would have a beneficial effect on :se other side of he Atlantic. (Cheers.) Lord J. Russell, the House of Commons, during the last session, made a s peech too in which he rebuked the impertinence of a young inlet:fiber of th e h ouse w ho had spoken about the bnrsting of "bubble Republic." It was a speech worthy of the peg days of Lord J. Russell. (Cheers.) But at a later I),etiod he spoke at Newcastle on an occasion something like t u ts, when the inhabitants or toosme portion of the inhabi ants, of the town invited him a public dinner. He de scribed the contest in words like this—l speak from memory () ti n ( lY—The North is contending for empire ; the South for Lendence. Did he mean contending for empire as Eng aneaPwhen making some fresh conquest in India. If he "neat that what he said was not true. (Cheers.) But I s_enehllect Lord John. Russell, some years ago, in the House Commons, on an occasion when I made some observa 'lop as to the unreasonable expenditure of our colonies, and !aid that the people of England should not be taxed to de fray expenses which the colonies themselves were well able re bear,—he turned to me with a sharpness which was not necessary, and said, "The honourable member has no objec tion to make a great empire into a small ono; but I have." (Cheers.) Perhaps if he had lived in the United States— if ke was a member of the Senate or the House of Represen tu'ives there, he would doubt whether it was his duty to consent at once to the destruction of a great country by separation it may be into two hostilecamps, or whether he Would not try all the means which were open to him, and Would be open to the Government, to avert so unlooked for and so dire a calamity. ( heers.) There are other speeches Which have been made. I will not refer to them by any !Notation . I will not out of pity to some of the men who il a t_tt)red them. ( ve them an Laughter.) I will not brine. theirnames th even not have. you to gi endurance which I hope hey will have. I leave them in the obscurity which they so richly merit. B u t you k now as we l t as I d o t h at o f a ll t h e speeches made shiee the end of the last session of Parliament by public ` e 'ten, by politicians—that the majority of them have either " 11 , 18 Played a s t rang3 i gno rance of American affairs or a Str angerir absence of that cordiality and friendship which, I tt;ntain, our American kinsmen have a right to look for Z' our hands. And if we part from the speakers, and turn the writers, what do we find there ? We find that which Z la r .e,lrated abroad, and has hitherto been believed in at home, 'um most powerful representative of English opinion—at pa per of the richer classes—we find in that particular news viper there has not been since Mr. Lincoln took office in honourable last as President of the United States, one fair and col umns and friendly article on American affairs in the 'trams of that paper. (Cheers.) Some of you I dare s aY read it ; but, fortunately, now every district is so admi rably supplied with l oca l newspapers, that I trust in all time to come, the people of England will drink of pure r 'LL/,'eanas nearer home—(cheers)—and not of those streams 4 1 13 1 h are mudded by party feeling and political intrigue, by many motive s th a t t e nd to anything rather than the is e eightenneent and advantage of the people. (Cheers.) It tt e .:i i i l tl—that very paper has said over and over again— y. this war Why not separate peeceably ? Why this fratricidal strife ?" I hope it is equally averse to that God strife in other districts ; for if it be true t i t t God made of one blood all the families of man 41 9 dwell on the face of all the earth, it must be fratricidal strife whether we are slaughtering Rus sians in the Crimea or bombarding towns on the seacoast of that'United States. (Cheers.) Now, no one will expect I should stand forward as the advocate of war, or as vie, defender of that great sum of all crimes which' is in ved in war. But when we are discussing a question of ee . s nature. it i s on ly f a ir that we should discuss it upon Vneiples which are acknowledged, not only in the country ae tere the strife is being carried on, but are universally e i e ' l lewledged in this country. When I discussed the Rus ,,,:n 'War seven or eight years ago, I always disavowed it pal e lineiples which were avowed by the Government and eople of England, and I took my facts from the blue-books Thuiesented to Parliament. (Cheers.) I take the liberty, e of doing that in this case ; and I say that. looking at therePtinciples avewed in England, and at anon-red its olicy, a is no man who is not absolutely a istant th e ev , e q sense who can fairly challenge the conduct of i t _American Government in this war. (Loud cheers ) eoi reald be a curious thing to find that the party in this v ear ilt rY which on every public question is in favcur of th e G at ‘ ,..l_iny cost, when they come to speak of the duty of e "regiment of the United St ites. is in favour of eea ee teh t at a n y price." (Laughter.) 'I want to know ner lee has ever been admitte I by politicians, or states ally ' v et' Pple, that a great nation can be broken up at h by the will of any particular section of that nation. b een tried occasionally in Ireland, and if it had sue . Cal ls eedee, • Rut if anybody tried now to get pp a . secession . or bas nrre • ta r b i etion in Ireland—and it would be infinitely less ells- Stra e n g to everything than the secession in the United puce %because there is a boundary which nobody can die • res j amquite sure the Times would have its special cor • t a i o Z,uent, aril would describe with all tho glee and exul tien;:tem tho world the manner in which the Irish in surrec armV were Cut down and made an end of. (Cheer'.) Let yol7l t hink in this country to restore the heptarc . hy, do thing could that any portion of the people would think the 6 uvuld be tolerated for a moment ? But if you would look at a map of the United States, you would see there is no counti y in the world probably, at this meinsnt, where any plan of separation between t he North and South, as far as the question of boundary is concerned, is so sur rounded with insurmountable difficulties. For example, Maryland is a slave state ; but Maryland, by a huge ma jority, voted for the union. Kentucky is a slave state, one of the finest in the union, and containing a fine people —Kentucky has voted for the union, but has been invaded from the South. Missouri is a slave state ; but Missouri has not seceded, and has been invaded by the South. There are parties in Virginia, a new state, resolved to adhere to the North, and there is no doubt a considera ble northern and union feeling in the state of Tennessee. I have no doubt there is in every other state. In fact, I am not sure that there is not now within sound of my voice a citizen of the state of Alabama, who would tell you that there the question of secession has never been put to the vote ; and that there are great numbers of men, reasonable, and thoughtful, and just men, in that state, who entirely deplore the condition of things there existing. Then, what would you do with all these states, and with what we may call the loyal portion of the people of those states ? Would you'allow them to be dragooned into this insurrection, and into the formation, or the becoming parts of a new state to which they themselves are hostile ? And what would you do with the city of Washington ? Washington is in a slave state. Would anybody have advised that President Lin coln and his cabinet, with all the members of Congre ss, of the House of Representatives and the Senate, from the North, with their wives and children, and everybody else who was not positively in favour of the South, should have set off on their melancholy pilgrimage northwards, leaving that capital, hallowed to them by such associations, having its name even from the father of their country, and should travel north, leaving Wash ington to the South, because Washington is situated in a slave state ? Again, what do you say to the Mississippi river, as you see it upon the map, the "father of waters," rolling that gigantic stream to the ocean ? Do you think that the fifty millions which one day will occupy the banks of that river northward, will ever consent that that great stream should roll through a foreign and, it may be, a hos tile State ? And more, there are 4,000,000 of negroes in subjection. For them the American union is directly re sponsible. They are not secessionists; they are now, as they always were, not citizens nor subjects, but legally under the care and power of the Government f the United States, Would you consent that these should be delivered ' 1 up to the tender mercies of their taskmasters, the defenders of slavery as an everlasting institution. (Cheers.) Well, if all had been surrendered without a struggle, what then ? What would the writers in this newspaper, and other news papers, have said ? If a bare rock in your empire, that would not keep a goat, a single goat alive, be touched by any foreign power, why, the whole empire is roused to re sistance ; and if there be, from accident or from passion, the smallest insult to your flag, what do your newspaper wri ters say upon that subject, end what is said in all your towns and upon all your exchanges ? I will tell you what they would have if the Government of the Northern States had taken their insidious and dishonest advice. They would have said the great republic is a failure, and demo cracy has murdered patriotism, that history affords no ex ample of such meanness, and of such cowardice, and would have heaped unmeasured obloquy and contempt upon the people and government who had taken that course. (Loud cheering.) Well, they tell you, these candid friends of the United States, they tell you that all freedom is gone ; that the Habeas Corpus Act, if they ever had one, is known no longer, and that any man may be arrested at the dictum of ,the President or of the Secretary of State. Well, but in 1838, you recollect many of y u, that there was a small insurrection in Ireland. It was an absurd thing altoge ther; but what was done then ? I saw, in one night in the House of Commons, a bill for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act passed through all its stages. What more did I see ? I saw a bill brought in by the Whig government of that day, Lord John Russell being the premier, which made speaking against the Government and against the Crown, which up to that time had been sedition, which proposed to make it felony, ani it was only by the greatest exertions of a few of the members that the act, in that particular, was limited to a period of two years. In the same session a bill was brought in called an Alien Bill, which enabled the Home Secretary to take any foreigner whatsoever, not being a naturalised Englishman, and in 24 hours to send him out of the country. Although a man might have committed no crime, this might be done to him, apparently on suspicion. But suppose that an in surgent army had been so near to London that you could see its outposts from every suburb of London—what then do you think woul I have been the regard of the Govern ment of Great Britain for personal liberty, if it interfered with the necessity, and, as they might think, with the salvation, of the State? I recollect in 1848, when the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, that a number of per sons in Liverpool, men there of position and of wealth, pre sented a petition to the House of Commons, praying— what? That the Habeas Corpus Act should not be sus pended ? No. They were not cm, tent with its suspension in Ire lane ; but they prayed the House of Commons to extend that suspension to Liverpool. (Laughter.) I recollect that at that time—and I am sure my friend Mr. Wilson will bear me out in what I say, that the Mayor of Liver pool communicated with the Mayor of Manchester, and that messages were sent on to London nearly every hour. The Mayor of Manchester heard from the Mayor of Liver pool that certain Irishmen in Liverpool, conspirators, or fellow-conspirators with those in Ireland, were going to burn the cotton warehouses of Liverpool and the cotton mills of Lancashire. (Laughter.) And I read that peti tion. I took it from the table of the House of Commons, and read it, and I handed it over to a statesman of great eminence, who has been but just removed from us—a man not second to any in the House of Commons for his knowledge of affairs and for his great capacity—l refer to Sir James Graham—(hear, hear)—l handed to him this petition. He read it ; and after he had read it, he rose from his seat, and laid it upon the table with this gesture of abhorrence and disgust. (Loud cheers.) Now that was a petition from the town of Liverpool, in which some persons have been making themselves very ridiculous of late by reason of their conduct. (Hear.) There is one more poirt. It has been said, "How much better it would be" —not for the United States, but—" for us, that these states should be divided." I rec llect meeting a gentleman in Bond-street one day before the session was over—he was a rich man, and one whose voice is very much heard in the House of Commons; but his voice is not heard there when he is on his legs, but when he is cheering other speakers —(laughter)—and he said to me, " After all, this is a sad business about the United States; but still I think it is very much better that they should be split up. In 20 years," or in 60 years, I forget which it was, "they will be so powerful that they will bully all Europe." And a distinguished member of the House of Commons—dis tinguished there by his eloquence, distinguished more by his many writings—l mean Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton—he did not exactly express a hope, but he ventured on something like a prediction, that the time would come when there would be, I don't know how many, but as many republican states in America as you can count upon your fingers. There cannnot be a meaner motive than this that I am speaking of in forming a judg ment on this question—thaz it is "better for us." For whom ? The people of England, or the Government of England ?—that the United States should be severed, and that that continent should be as the continent of Europe is, in many states, and subject to all the contentions and disas ters which have accompanied the history of the States of Europe. (Applause.) I should say that if a man had a great heart within him, he would rather look forward to the day when, from that point of land which is h a bit a bl e neares t to the Pole, to the shores of the great Gulf, the whole of that vast continent might become one great confederation of states—that that great army, and that great navy, not mix ing itself up with entanglements of European politics—with out a Custom-house inside, through the whole length and breadth of its territory—and with freedom everywhere, equality everywhere, law everywhere, peace everywhere— would afford at least some hope that man is not forsaken of Heaven, andt hat the future of our race might be batter than the past. (Cheers.) It is a common observation that our friends in America are very irritable. Well, I think it is very likely, of a considerable number of them, to be quite true. Our friends, then, in America are involved in a great struggle. There is nothing like it before in their history. No country in the world was ever more entitled, in my opi nion, to the sympathy and the forbearance of all friendly nations, than are the United States at this moment. (Hear, hear.) They have their newspapers that are no wiser than ours. (Laughter.) They have there some papers, or one at least, which up to the election of Mr. Lincoln, were his bitterest and unrelenting foes, who when the war broke out, and it was not safe to take the line of Southern sup port, were obliged to turn round and to support the preva lent opinion of the country. But they undertook to serve the South in another way, and that was by exaggerating every difficulty and mis-stating every fact, if so doing could serve their object of creating distrust between the people of the Northern States and the people of this United King dom. (Hear, hear.) If the Times, in this country, has done all that it could to poison the minds of the people of England, and to irritate the Minds of the people of Ame rica, the New York. Herald, I am sorry to say, has done, I think, all that it could, or th a t it dared, to provoke mischief between the Government in Washington and the Govern ment in London. Now there is one thing which I must state, that I think they have a solid reason to complain of; and I am very sorry to have to mention it, because it blames our present Foreiem. Minister, against whom I am not anxious to say a word, and, recollecting his speech in the House of Commons, I should be slow to conclude that he had any feeling hostile to the United States Govern ment. You recollect that during the session—lt was on the 14th of May—a proclamation came out which ac knowledged the South as a belligerent power, and pro claimed the neutrality of England. A little time before that, I forget how many days, Mr. Dallas, •the late Minister from the United Slates, had left London for Liver pool and America. He did not wish to undertake any affairs for this Government, by which he was not appointed I mean that of President Lincoln—and he left what had to be done to his successor, who was on his way, and whose arrival was daily expected. Mr. Adams, the present Mini ster from the United States, is a man who, if he lived in England, you would say was one of the noblest families of the country. I think his father and grandfather were Pre sidents of the United States. His grandfather was one of the great men who achieved the independence of the United States. There is no family in that country having more claims upon what I should call the veneration and the affec tion of the people than the family of Mr. Adams. Mr. tAhdeamnigshctamofethtoe I t 3 h t i h s M c o a u y ny . tr o . I t i h e e arrivedl4th ht hat in Lon n on proclamation was issued. It was known that he was coming; but he was not consulted; the proclamation was not delayed for a day, n otifl a e l d t h a o b u o g u h t the it. e r l n f o nothing p u r n e i s c s a e t d i 0 , n a nd s o l e m af r i e h n t d hv l ya nature had taken place with him and with the American Govern ment, they could have found no fault with this step, because it was almost inevitable, before the struggle had proceeded far, that this proclamation would be issued. But I have the best reasons for knowing that there is no single thing that has happened during the course of these events, which has crest el more surprise, more irritation, and more distrustin the United States, with respect to this country, than the fact that that proclamation was not de layed one single day, until the Minister from America could come here, and until it could be done with his consent, or at least his concurrence, and in that friendly manner that would have avoided all the unpleasantness which has occur red. (Hear.) Now, I am ( bliged to say—and I say it with the utmost pain—that without this country doing things that were hostile to the North, and without expressing affection for slavery, and outwardly and openly hatred for the Union —I s .y that there has not been heard that friendly and cor dial neutrality which, if I had been a citizen of the United States, I should have expected ; and I say further, that if there has existed considerable irritation at that, it must be taken as a measure of th i high appreciation which the people of those States place upon the opinionof the people of England. (Hear, hear.) If I had been addressing this audience ten days ago, so far as I know, I should have said just what I have said now; and, although, by an untoward event, circumstances are somewhat even considerably altered, yet I have thought it desirable to make this state ment, with a view, so far as I am able to do it, to improve the opinion in England, and to assuage them if there be any f% clings of irritation in America, so that no futtherdifficulties may arise in the progress of this unhappy strife. (Hear.) But there ha., occurred an event which was announced to us only a week ego, which is one of great importance, and it may be one of some peril. (Hear.) It is asserted that what is called international law has been broken by the seizure of the Southern Commissioners on board an English trading steamer by a steamer of war of the United States. Now, what is maritime law ? You have heard that the opinions of the law officers of the Crown is is favour of this view of the case—that the law has been broken. I am not at all going to say that it has not. It would belmprudent in me to set my opinion on a legal question which I have only par tially examined against their opinion on the same question, which I presume they have carefully examined. But this I say, that maritime law is not to be found in an act of Par liament; it is not in so many clauses. You know it is diffi cult to find the law. I can ask the mayor or any magistrate around me whether it is not very difficult to find the law— even when you have found the act of Parliament, and found the clause. (Laughter.) But when 3on have no act of Par liamen , and no clause, you may imagine that the case is still more difficult. Now, maritime law, or international law, consists of opinions and precedents for the most part and it is very unsettled. The opinions are the opinions of men of different countries, given at different times, and the precedents are not always like each other. The law is very unsettled, and for the most part I believe it to be exceed ingly bad. Now, in past times, as you know from the histories you read, this country has been a fighting country; we have been belligerents, and, as bel ligerents, we have carried our maritime law by our powerful hand, to a pitch that has been very oppressive to foreign, and peculiarly to neutral, nations. Well, now, for the first time unhappily, almost for the first time in our history, for the last 200 years, we are not belligerents, but neutrals ; and we are disposed to take, perhaps, rather a different view of maritime and international law. Now, the act which has been committed by the American steamer, in my opinion, whether it was illegal or not, was both impo litic and bad. That is my opinion. I think it may turn out, and is almost certain, that, so far as the taking those men from that ship was concerned, it was wholly unknown to, and unauthorised by, the American Government. And if the American Government believe, on the opinion of their law officers, that the act is illegal, I have no doubt they will make fitting reparation; for there is no Government in the world that has so strenuously insisted upon modi fications of international law, and been so anxious to be guided always by the most moderate and merciful inter pretation of that law. Now, our great advisers of the Times newspaper has been persuading people that this i merely one of a series of acts which denote the determi nation of the Washington Government to pick a quarrel with the people of England. Did you ever know anybody who was net very near dead drunk, who, having as much upon his hands as he could manage, would offer to fight everybody about him? (Prolonged laughter and cheering.) Do you believe that the United States Government, pre sided over by President Lincoln, so constitutional in all his acts, so moderate as he has been ' • representing at this mo ment that great party in the United States, htippily now in the ascendancy, which has always been specially in favour of peace, and specially in favour of England—do you be lieve that that Government, having upon its hands now an insurrection of the most formidable character in the South, would invite the armies and the fleets of England to com bine with that insurrection, and, it might be—though it did exasperate the struggle—render it impossible that the Union should ever again be restored? (Loud cheers.) I say, that single statement, whether it came from a public writer or a public sneaker, is enough to stamp him for ever with the character of being an insidious enemy of both countries. (Cheers.) Well, now, what have we seen dur ing the last week? People have not been, lam told—l have not seen much of it—quite so calm as sensible men should be. Here is a question of law. I will undertake to say, that when you have from the United States Govern ment—if they think the act legal—a statement of their view of the case, they will show you that, 50 or 60 years ago, dur ing the wars of that time, there were scores of cases that were at least as bad as this, and some infinitely worse. And if it were not so late to-night, and I am not anxious now to go into this question further, I could easily place before you cases of wonderful outrage, committed by us when we were at war, and for many of which, I am afraid, little or no repa ration was offered. But, let us bear this in mind, that, during thii struggle, incidents and accidents will happen. Bear in mind the advice of Lord Stanley, so opportune and so judicious. Don't let your newspapers or your public speakers, or any man, take you off your guard, and bring you into that frame of mind under which your Government, if it desires war, can have it with the public assent, or, if it does not desire war, may be driven to en gage in it; for one may be as fatal and as evil as the other. What can be now more monstrous than that we, as we call ourselves, to some extent, an educated, a moral, and a Christian ration—at a moment when an accident of this kind occurs, before we have made a representa tion to the American Government, before we have heard a word from them in reply—should be all up in arms, every sword leaping from its scabbard, and every man looking about for his pistols and his blunderbusses ? (Cheers.) Why, I think the conduct pursued—and I have no doubt it is pursued by a certain class in America just the same—is much more the conduct of savages than of Christian and civilised men. No, let us be calm. (Hear, hear.) You recollect how we were dragged into the Russian war—" drifted" into it ? (Cheers.) You know that I, at least, have not upon my head any of the guilt of that fearful war. (Hear, hear.) You know that it cost one hundred millions of money to this country; that it cost, at least, the lives of 40,000 Englishmen; that it disturbed your trade; that it nearly doubled the armies of Europe; that it placed the relas tions of Europe on a much less peaceful footing than before; and that it did not effect one single thing of all those that it was premised to effect. (Cheers.) I recollect speaking on this subject within the last two years to a man whose name I have already mentioned, Sir James Graham, in the House of Commons. He was a minister at the time of that war. He was reminding me of a severe onslaught which I had made upon him and Lord Palmer ston for attending a dinner of the Reform Club when Sir C. Napier was appointed to the command of the Baltic fleet, and he remarked " What a severe thrashing"—(laughter) —I had given them in th e H ouse of Commons. I said " Sir James, tell me candidly, did you not deserve it." Ho said " Well, you were entirely right about that war ; we were entirely wrong, and we never should have gone into it. (Loud cheers.) And this is exactly what everybody will say, if you go into a war about this business, when it is over. When your sailors and your soldiers, so many of them as may be slaughtered, are gone to their last account ; when your taxes are increased, your business permanently, it may be—injured; and when embirtered feelings for gene rations have been created between America and England, then your statesmen will tell you that we ought not to have gone into the war. (Cheers.) But they will very likely say, as many of them tell me, " What could we do in the frenzy of the public mind ?" Let them not add to that frenzy—(hear)—and let us be careful that nobody drives us into that frenzy. Remembering the past, remembering at this moment the perils of a friendly people, and seeing the lifficulties by which they are surrounded, let us, I entreat of you, see if there be any real moderation in the people of England, and if magnanimity, so often to be found amongst individuals, is not absolutely wanting in a great nation. (Great cheering.) Now, Government may discuss this mat ter—they may arrange it—they may arbitrate it. I have received here, since I came into the room, a despatch from a friend of mine in London, referring to this matter. I be lieve some portion of it is in the papers of this evening, but I have not seen them. But he states that General Scott, whom you know by name, who has come over from Ame rica to France, being in a bad state of health; the general, lately of the American army, and a man of a reputation in that country, not second hardly to that which the Duke of Wellington held during his lifetime in this country; Gene ral Scott has written a letter on the American difficulty. He denies that the Cabinet of Washington "had or d ere d t h e seizure of the Southern Commissioners,even if under a neu tral flag. The question of legal right involved in the, sei-. zure, the General thinks a very narrow ground on whichto force a quarrel with the United States. As to Messrs. Sli dell and Mason being or not being contraband, the General answers for it that, if Mr. Seward cannot convince Earl Rue tgllebsehaimblseetlof l wied consell :i h n a e t e t m h e r y . bore a t r h d a t t h e a h t a t r h a e c y t e did , i d E n a e r t l R ti ll s see pledges that, if this Government cordially agree with that of the United States in establishing the immunity of neutrals from the oppressive right of search and seizure on suspicion, the cabinet of Washington will not hesitate to purchase so great a boon to peaceful trading vessels " (Great cheer ing) Now, then, before I sit down, let me ask you what is this people, about 'which so many men in England at this moment are writing, and sp ea ki ng an d thi n ki n g, with harshness, I think with injustice, if not with great bitter ness ? Two ce n t ur i es ago , mu ltit u d es o f th e p eop l e o f this country found a refuge on the North American continent, escaping from the tyranny of the Stuarts, and the bigotry of Laud. Many noble spirits from-our country endeavoured to establish.great experiments in favour of human freedom on that continent. Bancroft, the greatest historian of his own country, has said, in his cwn graphic and emphatic lan• •guage, " The history of the colonisation of America is the istory of the cr i me o f E urope. " (Hear, hear.) From that time down to our own period, America has admitted the wanderer from every clime. Since 1816, a time which many here remember, and which is within my lifetime, more than three millions of persons have emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States. During the 15 years from 1845 or 1846 to 1859 or 1860, a time so recent that we all remember the most trivial circumstances that have happened, an d events that have happened in that time—during those fifteen years more than 2,320,000 persona loft the shores of the United King dom as emigrants f or th e states of North America. At this very moment then, there are millions in the United States who personally, or whose immediate parents, have at one time been citizens of this country, and perhaps known to some of the oldest of those whom I have now the honour of addressing. They found a home in the far west • they subdued th e w ild erness ; they met with plenty there , which was not afforded them in their native country ; and they are become a gre a t p eop l e. T here may be those per sonsin England who are jealous of the States. There may be men who dislike democracy, and who hate a republic • there may be ev en th ose sympathies warm towards the slave ' oligarchy of the S ou th . B ut of this lam certain, that only misrepresentation the most gross, or calumny the most wicked, can sever the tie whi c h un it es the great mass of the people of this country with their friends and brethren beyond the Atlantic. (Loud cheers.) Now, whether the yp u eNcier n ocia h rdra lt o is he n , ttoawou not.yi orlleer very bey ex fei3eßneowedudinetyipnieetl exceeding years, tssn e h, independence e ht e oeotrfh o 2eti or otvn not,iekm snmillions lio inokgmnnldsi know—that low k mi fo n 7nf o rs( w te—Hhe aeamt n ap o er io.n t n) , p ill .a a nlv n a htf d tieheownne l Union w 11 be restored or not, or the South will achieve an that time comes, I pray that it may not be said among them that the darkest hour of their country's trials, England, the land of their fathers, look e d on with icy coldness and 'saw unmoved the perils and the calamities of their children. (Cheers.) As for me, I have but this to say : lam one in this audience, and but one in the citizenship of this coun try; but if all other tongues are silent, mine shall speak for that policy which gives hope to the bondsmen of the South, and tends to generous thoughts, and generous words, and generous 'kola, between the two great nations who speak the English language, and from their origin are alike en titled lo the English name. (Loud cheers ; duri ng w hi c h the hon. member resumed his seat, having spoken for an hour and forty minutes.) The meeting shortly afterwards separated. A NOVEL TRAP.—On Friday last a fine deer was turned off for the hounds at Waldingfield, and took the direction of Sudbury. It ran over the fields near Gallow's • hill, and down the " Wents," across the ]Belford-road, to the Croft, where it took to the water, several huntsmen and the hounds in full cry closely pursuing. The poor deer plunged in the river near the bridge, and gallantly swam down the stream to the water•mill. The grating before the wheel is broken, and the deer squeezed through and took refuge under the mill near the wheel. Fortunately for the hunted refugee the will had just stopped, else sho had never come out alive. The workman came to the rescue, and, having snared the affrighted creature, tied her legs, and carried her to the stable, where she remained till the deer-van was sent to convey her to head-quarters. Bury and .Norwich Lost. THIRI) EDITION. SCA' OFFICE, Seven o'clock. TATTE.RSALL S'- ( THIS EVENING). No business was transacted this afternoon. .NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following appointments were made this evening at the Admiralty : Lieutenant G. C. Musters to the Hero. Master William H. Sharp, to the Asia, for the Sutlej. Chief Engineers—John M. 011 is, to the Defence, William Collier to di!to. Assistant Engineers—Thomas Hartley, Samuel Wallis, and Thomas Green, Ist class, to the Defence; William Williams, and Thos. Stewart, acting second-class, to ditto; A•cb. Forrest, ditto, to the Cumberland, for the Julia ; John N. Harvey, second class, to the Cumberland, for the Cochin; James 'Wilson, second•class, to tho Asia, for the Echo. BA NE OF ENGLAND. -4. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 4th day of Dec., 1861: ISSUE DEP ARTMENT. Notes issued .......Z28,938,103 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,288,190 Silver Bullion .... X 28,938,1931 D Proprietors' Capi- A.N RING D tal £14.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 5,206.334 Other Deposits 13,273,192 Seven Day and other Bills 713,197 428,938,190 :PARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including ' Dead WeightAn : nutty) £10,892,859 Other Securities 15,224,428 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 851,573 £36,890,585 Dated December 5, 1861. Z 36,896,585 :ARSHALL, Chief Cashier. _MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. There is a steady demand for money in the gene ral diseount market, and the effect produced by the commercial payments of the 4th of the month has been comparatively unimportant. Rather more firmness may have been imparted to the rates for accommodation but first class bills have continued to be negotiated as low as 21 and 27 per cent., and the enquiries at the Bank of England has consequently been on a reduced scale as the minimum of 3 per cent. is still maintained by the directors of that establishment. The City of Washington, which left yesterday for New York, took out only £1,320 in specie. More activity was exhibited in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, but prices were very variable. The sales were 8,000 bales. Soon after the commencement of business in the English Stock Market this morning prices became flatter, but an improvement afterwards ensued. At the last moment, however, renewed heaviness is perceptible. Consols, which have been 90: for money, and 901 91 for the January account, are now 90 :, and 908 t. The New Threes and the Reduced are steady at 90: « ; Exchequer Bills, March, at 10s. to 14s. prem., ditto June, 15s. to 17s. prem.; Bank Stock remain s a t 232 an d 234 ; India ditto at 229, ditto 5 per Cent. has receded to 101 i In the Foreign Market the transactions have been of a rather limited character, but prices have shown no important variation. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 78 to 79 ; ditto, 1858, 68 69. The £lOO Bonds have receded to 72; Italian to 67; and Venezuelan to 211 1. Spanish Deferred are steady at 42; Equador firm at 151 ; and Russian 3 per Cents. remain at 59. Business in the Railway Share Market continued rather inactive, but prices have shown, in some instances, a slight upward movement. Caledonians and Midlands have improved ss; Great Northern, North Western, and South Eastern lOs ; North Eastern (Berwick) has declined se. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the operations were also limited. Sambre and Meuse realise 61; Eastern of France 221; Grand Trunk of Canada improved to 181 a ; East Indian 1003- 1011 ; and Great Indian Peninsula to 1001. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con- tinue inactive, at about previous rates. London and Westminster realise 701; Union of Australia 39; Crystal Palace Stock 35 to 36; and National Discount Company 4Z. Cardigan Consols Mining Shares are I prem. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Bank 'Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9Ol i 1 90 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ob f I 89 i Annuities, 30 yrs, expire gth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. 96f 1 Ditto 51 per Cent ~. . 102 b '„, Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 Ditto 1859..... Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 'itto under £l,000 Consols for Account, Jan. 9..... ndia Stock for Account, 5 per C i‘ e i n a t rch 102 b Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 10 14pm 1 7 15 Pm Ditto £5OO ...... Ditto Small — I 14 pm FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. j 2l 19. Equador New Consolidated Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. Ditto 41 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. 18.59 .. 69 Spanish 3 per C en t. --. Ditto New Deferred ......... — Ditto Account . ..... . Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded Turkish 6 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds . 'enezuelan 3 per Cent .... — Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. .alian, 5 per Cent., 1861 ............ Consols, Money Ditto Account Sir Peter Laurie, the oldest member of the Coll% of Aldermen, died yesterday at Folkestone. Sir Peter was elected alderman of Aldersgato Ward, in 1826. He was upwards of 80 years of age. The news from Paris, that General Scott has contradicted the report that the seizure of the Southern Commissioners from under a neutral flag was by authority of the Federal Cabinet, was welcomed, and had a good effect. 2t 13 20 100 From circumstances which have transpired, it seems certain that the last or previous mail from New York brought a proposal from the Associated Banks to some of the leading financial houses in London for a loan on United States securities. It is believed that this loan was relied upon to avert a drain of gold from New York, which, in the absence of such a palliative, is considered by many of the financial persons in that city to be inevitable in the course of a very short period. DEATH OF LADY GEORGIANA FITZROY.—We have to record the demise of Lady Georgians Fitzroy, which occurred at Hastings on the 2d instant, in the 73d year of her age. The deceased was the daughter of Thos. Raikes, Esq., and married, in 1816, the late Admiral Right Hon. Lord William Fitzroy, K.C.8., third son of the late Duke of Grafton by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Wrottesley, Bart., and who died in May, 1857. PROTECTION OF THE WEST INDIA AND AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL PAciuTs.—Yesterday morning orders were, it is said, forwarded from the Admiralty to Woolwich and Portsmouth dockyards respectively, to complete, without delay, for service, the paddle steam frigates Devastation and Stromboli, which have been brought forward for commission. Their destination is the American waters, for the better protection of the Royal Mail packets ; to avoid any unnecessary delay, their crews will be supplied from the various depot guard-ships. In addition to the above, the fleet on the station will be augmented by the President and Euryalus, screw steam frigates of 51 guns each. AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAIL DESPATCHES. —Yesterday the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Washington was despatched from Liverpool for New York, with mails for the United States, 25 passengers, including the mate of the Harvey Birch, and £1,332 in specie. To-day the Quebec and Mon t. eal Royal Mail steamer Jura will be despatched from the Mersey for Portland, with the Canadian and United States mails. The Hamburg American Company's steamer Teu tonia, which sailed yesterday from Southampton for New York, took 16,000 f. from Havre, and £6,000 in specie from England. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, which sailed yesterday from Southampton, took out in specie bar silver, £72,700 ; sovereigns, £7, 000 ; gold coin, £1,630; dollars, £2,400; bar silver and dollars, £17,225. Business done. 101; 21 2 11 1121 13 111} i 1051 1 111 92} 2 931 3 i 1 tni i 1 f 4 6 P LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Business Railways. ' Paid. Co. a Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead lOO D ,, .&G.W 44 !s6 Buckinghamshire lOO Do. 93 05 Chester & Holyhea lOO D 0....... 53 54 Do. 51 per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do 1121;4 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. ail E. U. & E.O E. Lincolnsh. g a pr c. 100 G.. North. 133 136 E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 4i Do. Woodbridge.. 100 • • • • Crls.Barr.&Neils.Dra 100 Calecion— Do. new Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 197 202 Lo.don & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 61 63 Do. Preference Lon.,Tilb.& Southend 100 Peto &Co B5 87 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 0 per cent lOO Do. Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& M 3 31 3:1- Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmaikt, BuryEx 15. 5.6. B Counts. par p gua. 5 per ecnt. Northn.&Eatstn. sp. c. all Do. Do. 0 per cent. .... all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Ea stn—Hartlepool 1.0 N. E. Ber .• North Western Preston and Wyre. all. - L&NIV43 45 Do. 8 shares A all Do. •—• .. Roystn.Hitch.& Shep lOO Gt. North. 133 136 Shrzweby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 118 122 Do. Do. South Staffordshire lOO Ln.I . N.W Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 92 94 93 1 Wimbledn & Croydon, all L.&Brgtn 81 91 PREFERENCE SHARES. I Share' Railways. Paid. Closing Business Prices. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at L 5 Bris. Exet. 4p.0. st Do. shares 93 95 Caledon. £lO, 4 p. cent. Do. guar. shares, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 5} p. c. Cornwall. 5 percent.... Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun. 24 214 6 6i Do. Ist ClaSs Pref E. Angn. Class A. sp. c Da. Class B i per cent Do. Class C 7 per cent Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No.l 101 103 112 117 110 118 10? 110 106 103 123 125 81 83 Do No. 2 Do. new 6 p. c. st Eastern Union, 4 p. c Do. 5 p. 0. guar Edin..iGlas.s p.c. shares Do. 4p. c. zuar. S. & Eclin.Perth,& Dnn.4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent Mits.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, S p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c pm Do. 4. p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redrr.atip.c.pm Nh. of scot. Ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (lrelandy 4 per cent Great West. (Berks and 111 113 89 91 60 82 114 116 [lO 112 102 104 107 109 97 99 Hants Exts 5 per cent Do. redeem. 44 p. et.... Do. redeem. 4 p. et.... Do. irredeern. 4 p. et.... Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref. Do. Birm. pref. shares.. Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Do. Birm. guar. stock.. Do. Chester guar. shares Do. do Do. do 98 100 88 90 89 91 102 101 9i 10 17 18 10i 11 75 77 20 2 10 11 15 15 Lan. & Carl. 41 p.c. pref Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock 'Do.Barnsl.sta 2s 10dpe Do. 6 p. c. (Fast Lan.) Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pur Lon.&Brig.sp.c.gu. No. I Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 6 per cent, do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 44 per cent. do Do. 41 p. c. pref. r.hares Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) Do.4p c.st(div.detlil'6s Do. 4 per cent. pref Lon.Chat.&Dov. sp.c.pf. Do. West. Ex., B, 6 p. c. Do. Metrop. Ex. 13, a p.c. Lon. & S. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7 p. cent. st., late 3d shares Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpL anns. of 2s 6d Londondy. & Cole. / shs r.ondony. & Ennis. 1 she Man. Sh. & Lin. S per ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. Do. redeem. 6 per cent Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 44 per cent Midland Con. 6 p. c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. 41 per cent. Do. Leis. and Hit.4per et. Norflk. 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. st. 1847 D 0.5 Way. Val Ex. st 1847 Nort British, 5 per cent. Do. New rua. per cent Do. Bor. 17n. g. prf. shs. Do. do. do. N th.Dvn.Rai I. &Dck.Co N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 4/pr. ct. redeemable Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pref. Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. I Do. dd. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, H. & S. Purch. North Staffordshire ithymney Guaranteed Scottish Central. new p 1 Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p e Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent .South Eastern (Reading [36 133 2s Bd' 124 12 st 115 i 10s. 10 10. 6. 02 104 112 115 [l2 115 136 1.38 Ll 2 115 Ann.,_ 1.0.6) L5O 155 [27 130 73 75 91 93 11 113 131 14 24 123 ftpm 65 70 I IPml 10321 924 1101 Do. 4'i per cent Do. Fixed 4i per cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 4i per cent Do. do. Do. 5 per cent S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua 1 Do. sp. c. gua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B6p. c Wate Do. & Kilkn C 6 6 p. c d y, p. c W. Mid.-Oxf Ist gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf.red Do. Perpet.6p. c.l:.f. 1866 Do. till 1869 1859, SHARE 211ARKET-THIS DAY). I Paid.( Closing Share' Railways. Belfast and Nor. Coun. 4 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bost,Sleaf.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan C•alc and Bandon Cork, Blrock, & Passage Cornwall Do A {A gets no div, till6p c.p an.has Do * B been paid to 8.1 Dublin & Belfast Junc.l Dun „Perth,& A b. June Fast Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do Bdo do DoNw A, late EU3dsi East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin., Perth, & Dundee' h'orih & C lyde J unction Furness Glasg. and S. Western. Greaticrthn of Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland , Great Western ........ Do Str Val gua. stock, Irish South Eastern .. I Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwalh Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' f.on., Chat., and Dover' Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry & Enniskillen. Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Metropolitan Midland . 'Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle' Newry & Armagh, def. Newry, Warnpt, & Ros Norfolk North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock Do A stk ; A recs no d till 6 pc. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick ' Do, G.N.E. purchase 11 Do Leeds Do York North London Do new North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. Gran. RL & Canal 1 Peebles Portsmouth Rhymney 4 cottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock 1 Do Sc t. Mid, stock 1 Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer South Devon 1 S. Durham & Lane. Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 1 Stain es, Wok.,an dWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taft' Vale.. Do Pref. No. 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rail Ulster 71 8 6 6} 93 (,I5 101 102 6.4.0 19.16.4 12.10 Do Do Vale of Neat!). Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Water:ord & Limerick West Cornwall 'West London Do let class Do 2d clasA W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newpor Do Hereford 5 6 41 43 111 llf 184 194 51 62 47 50 33 35 41 51 48 48 43 46 89 01 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 98 8 29 i 68 441 4 9911 d .88 71 6.57 5 1 i 841 46 6 Atlantic & St Lawrence Bum., Baroda Ar. Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do Do. tffalo and Lake Huron Do. New .. Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant,&Godrieb 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 •)lcutta.&S.Bastn. (Lie ', Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c Demerara Eaatn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 44 p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent 1862 Do. do. 1867 1872 G t. In dta Pcni Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India(Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. IG t. W, ofCanada ill ares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 d 0... Do. 54 p. o. do. '7B d 0..., Madras guar., 44 p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent .... Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. 5 Melb.Corp. 6 p. c. finds. Newßrunswick it Canda RyALand(Lim.)g.Bpc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. ....... Onde (Limited) ........ 1 Scinde ... .. . ...1 Do. Punjaub .... .1 . 1 EI Do. Do. ...... as 0 , Do. Indus. St. Flo.. „,g• Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp & Rotterdam. p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine do Rail Copiapo Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France .... Grand Rue Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... Italian Junction • . Lierre & Turnhout .... Lyons & Geneva, ...... Namur & Liege ........ Do. 8 p. C. Pref. Northern of France.... Do. New Shares _..... Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, & Mcditer. Parts 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. gua. 7 p. ct. 1im...... Riga & Royal Dani5h.......... iloyal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse ...... Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, Um, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust &Lomb Venetin Southern of France.... 'S. East Portugal 7 p ct. West Flandeni Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. W. do N.W. of France .. Wesfrrn of Austria.... Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand BRITISE A. I :red Consols (Philackil British Iron Clill'ord . Devon G. Cone. (Taoist.; East Bassett (Mogan) East Caradon E. WI Russel (Tavistk.; Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus .Wheal Alid. (Phil &etc G. Wheal Vor (llelston) Grenville ETerod's- Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Gny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (fllogan) N.Wiel Basset (IIlo.ran) North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lel nt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cern Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Carm ) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton • •••• Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller ( Red ru th) Whuv.l Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) Wheal Trelawney (Lis.)i 18.8. all all all all all all all all all 3.2.10, «14.6 7.4.0 651 17s 6.8.6 8.12 4.11.6 1.10.6 9 2 1 14 1 14.0 9.18.9 1i 10.6.7 3.9.6 all 18.1R.V, 2719., 1138 MI 1.72 89 01 29 30 101 106 112 113 111 112 130 132 102 10i 08 63} 55 68 1034 105] 55 57 116 117 47 49 911 02i 934 04 9 11 44 45 6i 6k [261 1261 97 9.0 1 1 lb 6! e 4 62}(3 991 991 6cl p 561 57 83 881 96 06 5 4i d 10 14 89 91 124 126 39 41 97 99 45i 16i 36 38 75 751 c 5 67 95 97 51 8 37 39 7i 83 p 4 i 64P 551 56} 24 3} }dip 83 86 12i 13 L 37 139 LO2 104 92 94 109 111 107 109 1 lipm 99 101 98 100 4 ills par Idis Ipm 22} 231 .32 136 10 101 23i ii [OO 102 99 101 •• •. 98 100 85 88 27 28i 32 33 32 33 42 45 123 125 121 123 100 102 120 123 118 120 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share! Railways. 100 ak f 'Closing Price. Paid. 981 99; 4* fi d :6 7 72 77 68 r 3 67 :2 41 5 $ id 191 20 d 100 101 9g 101 100 101 100 101 18 20 55 60 50 63 29 32 34 38 28 32 28 32 99i 100 d 981 99i 88 CO 98f 09i 90 02 5 7 4 6 101 102 id id 5 100 1 f d RAILWAYS. 6} 61 , TI P i 2 I 101 111 4 31 par 22 23 8f 81 Pi il 20 21 88A .19i 7 9 3)i 40} 52 54 41 3ti 13 15 1 7 81 91 1 6 23 26 6! 7 94 /0 20 21 1 2 30 34 30 375 CO OS 27! 28 2$ 3} 10 21 4 4i 6 7 a la 37 30 41 90 (2 5/ 51 24 8 3 3 11 2 1 7 8 41 43 33) P5O 4 44 85 95 31 33 11 11 74 i 8 13 14 52 51 290 300 80 85 75 85 24 3i 5 e 16 17 15i 16i FOREIGN MINES. e 0 Australian 1 BonAccordCopper,Lim 17.6 i l d . 1d 20 Brazil St.J.del ltey,Lim 15 49 51 4)2 5 Do.l,and and Minini.), - Co. all 11 2 1 Clarendon Cons. Milieo.l 1 10 ICobre Copper all t 7 3 3 - Copiapo I 1 I DunMoun.Cop.sling.Co! all 1 1/ 2 Fortuna I all 11 21 20 General all 23 24 2 ',Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr ll f 1 p 11 1 11 liapunda (Limited) ' 1 14 p 3 Linares ' all 7 8 5 Lusitanian 2 Ipr 1 Mariquira I all it 1 1 N. RhineCopof S.Aus.L i 1 d 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead' Mining and Smelt... all 2 4 5 Port Philip 1 11 11 1 Scottish Austrin. 10s. id 1 23.2.84 United Mexican ail n 8* 8n 81 1 Worthing - (Limited) all Do — COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC U arms. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 1877-0 1 100 09 103 991 102 Do 6p. cent.lBSo-2! 100 99 102 103 Do. 6p. cent.lSB3-4; 100 ' Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug.l 100 98 102 Do. 6 P.C. Mar. & Sept.; 100 98 102 Do. 5 per cent lOO 91 93 92 a 3 -- Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,lBBO 100 107 110 Do. 1890! 100 107 110 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Julyj 100 100 104 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct.' 100 - N. S. W. G ov. sp. c.,1866! 100 98 100 981 I Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876, 100 98 99 Do. p.c., 1888 &upwd9l 100 96 98 97i Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling,, 1875 lOO 98 1( 0 102 100 S. Aug,G6p.c.187.3.&up 1 100 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Jo. &Julyj 100 - I Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct 1 100 ICI 103 102 j 2 BOOKS. stock ;Commercial 1100 stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.3lin 1 100 stock ' East and West India llO 123 125 stock ,Londo ,- , , ' 100 58 61 586 stock St. Katharine , 100 61 64 stock Southampton ' 100 stock Victoria... ........ 20 i Do , New .—..— ~ _ 2 ld pr JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 A,<Tra&UnitedService Bk 50 85 57 40 I Australasia I all tO 62 25 Bank of Egypt all 204 214 21 100 Baal( of London ... 5O 64 66 20 Bank of Turkey 3 4 pr 50 British North American all 20 ,Chtd.Bank of India, Ac. all 194 2 25 Ch. Mer. of In. Lon.A Ch. all 31 33 100 [City 100 iColonial ;Corn. Bank of Canada all 100 [Commercial of London 2O -- 20 114.:ng.. Scot., A Aus. Ch all 174 18 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lou. Char.Bkof Austral all 254 26 20 I Do. new lO 44 5 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 20 'London and S. African lO 4 Id 100 London A Westminster 20 170 71 , 704 70 100 \"at. Prov. of England 42 20 Do. new l2 50 National Bank ........ 25 26 Ne South Wales.— all 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 49 51 601 20 Ottoman Bank ... ... . all 174 184 184 18 100 Provincial of Ireland .. 25 10 Do. new 25 , South A.ustralia ~-... all ! 25 Union of Australia .... all !88 40 39 50 tin , of London 12 27 28 274 100 Unity Mutual. MISCELLAWROUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint .. all 144 154 10 I Atlantic It. MI. Stm (1c1) all 1 2 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 25 Australian Agricultural 19 26 28 364 274 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 5 54 54 50 British American Land 40 50 B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) all 29 32 20 Do. 8,7p.c.t1111852 (Lim.) all 18 20 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 9 11 324 Canada Land all 98 103 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim a l l ! _— at. Cop.Min.ofEng.Sthrnitg l6 17 25 Do. Pref. 74 per cent- 100 35 86 36 5 st. Crystal Palace at. Do. Preference at. Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb lOO 107 109 20 E.lndia Irrign. & Canal 1 Icl ipm et. Electric Telegraph 25 Do. New l5 5 English &Aus. Copper all 2; 31 16 Gen. Steam Navigate m 14 1 Great Ship Limited).., all 1 j 1 214500 L.G.I , Do ioca 174 .ron. Dal, sT ra nttrreir e tni et Omnibus ns lr TT ' caee e ollc f . 14 1 , 2 24 25 National Dia. Co. (Lim.) 5 4 1d 44 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 14 4 d 10 Netherlands Land all I 5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis. all 4 I 100 N. Br.&NovaScotiaLand 81 10 15 I 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 1 14 1 )Oriental Gas (Limited). :all 14 14 1 'Do. New Shares (Lim.). all 1; 11 10 Orintl. In. Steam (Lim.) 10 611 et. Peclit.Lnd.SiMin.(Lim) 100 47 50 50 I'en. A Oriental Steam all 70 72 50 Do. New 3O 11 13 20 Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.4lp.c. all 174 184 50 Rhymney Iron all 17 19 2171 15 Do. New all 5 6 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 47 49 st. Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim ) 100 130 140 25 South Australian Land all 32 84 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip all 1 Do. do. Registered 10 Do. do tall 4 6 1 10 Trust and Agency or Austrlasia(lim)lst is. 1 pr 4 p 20 l'r.A Ln.Co.ot Upr.Can. 5 4 14 5 U. K'dom Tel. Co. (lira.) 1 1d pr I 100 atk Utoaieu'a Gated 284 9 10 liminess done ARMS, AMMUNITION, AN.D DII LIT A _I? _Y STORES. (From the London Gazette Extraordinary of Yesterday.) By the QUEEN.—A ritOOLAMATION. VICTORIA, R.—Whereas in and by a certain Sta tute, made and passed in the Parliament held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Our reign, and intituled "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," it is, amongst other things, declared and enacted as follow, that is to say : " The following Goods may, by Proclamation or Order in Council, be prohibited either to be ex ported or carried coastwise :—Arms, Ammunition, and Gunpowder, Military and Naval Stores, and any Articles which her Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increas ing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, Pro visions, or any sort of Victual which may be used as food by man, and if any Goods so prohibited shall be exported from the United Kingdom or car ried coastwise, or be water-borne to be so exported or carried, they shall be forfeited." And whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to prohibit either to be exported or carried coastwise, the Articles hereinafter mentioned; that is to say—Arms, Am munition, and Military Stores (including Percus sion :Caps and Tubes), and also Lead (being an article which We judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores), We, therefore, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, and by this Our Royal Proclamation, do order and direct that, from and after the date hereof, all Arms, Ammuni tion, and Military Stores (including Percussion Caps and Tubes), and also Lead, shall be, and the same are, hereby prohibited either to be exported from the United Kingdom, or carried coastwise. Given at our Court, at Windsor, this fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and sixty one, and in the twenty-fifth year of Our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. At the Court at Windsor, the 4th day of December, 1861, present the Queen's Most Excellent Ma jesty in Council. Whereas it has appeared expedient and neces sary to her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to prohibit the Articles hereinafter mentioned to be exported or carried coastwise from the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, except as hereinafter provided. Her Majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Coun cil, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from_nnd after the publication of this Order in the said Islands respectively, the following Artieles, namely, Arms, Ammunition, and Military Stores (in cluding Percussion Caps and Tubes), and also Lead. shall be and the same are hereby prohibited to be exported or carried coastwise from the said islands cf Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively, except with the licence of the Lieutenant Governor or other Officer adminis tering to the government of such Islands respec tively for that purpose first had and obtained. And the Lieutenant-Governors of her Majesty's Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and the Isle of Man respectively for the time being, are to give the necessary• directions herein as to them may appertain. ARTHUR lIELFS. TIIIS DAY'S OZARK ETS. CORN EXCHANGE. IMERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 603 3d; barley, 37s 4d ; oats, 23s Od ; rye, 36s 10d ; beans, 423 8d ; and peas, 453 2d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 59s 7d ; barley, 378 3d ; oats, 22s 8d ; rye, 378 5d ; beans, 42s 6d; peas, 46s sd, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 97,663; barley, 111,294 ; oats, 17,081 ; rye, 53 ; beans, 3,901 ; peas, 2,481 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET The supply of beasts to-day was moderate, and the de mand for most kinds ruled steady, at fully Monday's cur rency. Although the show of sheop was limited, the mut ton trade was in a sluggish state, at about stationary prices. The top quotation was 5s 6d per 81bs. The few calves on offer changed hands slowly, at late rates. Prime small porkers were tolerably firm ; otherwise the pork trade was heavy. In mulch cows very little doing. Per Sib. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 2 10 3 2 Second quality do. 3 4 3 10 ) Prime large oxen 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 2 3 6 Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 4 s. d. s. d Prime crs-wool do. 4 6 5 2 Pao. S'thdowndo.s 4 5 6 1 Large erse. calves 4 4 4 10 Prime small do 6 0 5 4 Largo hogs 3 8 4 4 Small porkers 4 6 4 10 Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 2ls to 30s; and quarter-old store pigs, 22s to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. ( FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs.... 3,670 ' Sheep Calves rigs. 4ll / Pigs .... , MEAT MARKETS. NEWOITE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are heavily supplied with meat, yat the demand rules steady, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, Os to Os Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per Blbs to sink the offal. SOUTHALL, Dec. 4.—The supply of stock was moderate, and the trade generally ruled inactive, as follows : Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81ba. by the carcase. ROMFORD, Dec. 4.—Prime beasts end sheep in mode rate request, at full prices. Otherwise, trade is dull:-- Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 8d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 16s to 20s ; quarter old store pigs, 22s to 29s each; and mulch cows, £l6 Os to £lB Os each. HAY MA.RKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £5 ; clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 5s to £5 OA clover do., £3 lOs to £5 16s ; and straw, L 1 8s to £1 16s per load. Trade dull. WHITECRAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 03 to £5 Os; clover, £3 10s to £6 Os Od ; and straw. £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Supply tolerably g od. ANOTHER YELVERTON CASE.—An interesting marriage case - Gibbons v. Gibbons—came before the Con sistorial Court yesterday. The suit was instituted by the provoment for the restitution of conjugal rights. It ap peared that the impugnant, who is a Protestant, is a mill owner, and, the possessor of a considerable property at Tully mills, Moate, in the King's County. Anne Gibbons, the provoment, who is a Roman Catholic, claimed to be his wife, and relied on a marriage alleged to have taken place in February, 1856, at Deerpark, near Ballymahon, in the King's county, and to have been celebrated by the Rev. Patrick Manion, a Roman Catholic priest. The case in many points resembles the celebrated Yelverton case. The evidence for the provoment went to shew the impugnant, at the time of the ceremony, in reply to the priest, said, " I am a bad Catholic." It was alleged, however, that the parish priest had refused to marry the parties, knowing that Mr. Gibbons was a Protestant, and they, therefore, went to Mr. Manion, who performed the ceremony at mid night in his own house. Letters were read which, it was proved, had been written by the impugnant, and in which he en t , h said sympathies wife. Judge w ere withßacicliffth' in deli vering calledjud the me unfor tunate woman. Roman Catholics, h owever , mus t b e b oun d by the law, which they g have maintained being of opinion that their own Church laws were sufficient for their protec tion. If they had many priests, he said, like the Rev. Mr. Manion, those laws would be of little value. He decided that the marriage was null and void, and was compelled to dismiss the suit for the restitution of conjugal rights. FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.—Last night about 10 o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Par sons, Fletcher, and Co., ink and general manufacturers, Southwark. In the course of a few minutes the brigade engines from various stations were in attendance, when the firemen found that a large quantity of oil, fat, and casks were enveloped in flames. The burning mass was imme diately covered with sand and earth, and a good supply of water being at hand, the flames were extinguished, but not before a considerable amount of the stock in the open yard was destroyed. The other portions of the works were saved. Another fire also broke out in the INminersmith Distillery, near the bridge. The flames wore confined to the buildings in which they commenced, the other and more valuable parts of the plant escaping with trifling, if any, injury. TURNER'S BOTTLE AND BUFFET.—The sordid and unhappy -looking room in Queen Anne-street was re markable tor a du st y and dirty buffet, bought at some second-hand broker's. I n this Turner ke pt t h e imm emorial sherry bottle with the broken cork that served him for a decan t e r, and which no joking of friends could get him to change. This was the identical bottle and tuffet of which the old story was current at the clubs. A friend came to s ee Turner, and was treated with a glass of sherry from the old bottle and the old buffet—one glass. About the same time next year the artist came again, had another glass and praised the wine. "It ought to be good," said Turner, "it's the same bottle you, tasted before."—From Thorn. 6ffry's Life of Turner. 99/ 1001 ila 191 9 i ) 61 f 1 141 if 15 141 120 1 lore a.s.) Best the ten, 'ern ious 3 of on lual ies, 3T a ple. .ars hen the ?fly low ion, rtes 'ely lied ate 171 20 stock 204 20 100 100 100 stock ltock stock 20 stock stook stock 1001 1 1001 S! I 61 51 181 i 271 I 131 f