The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-27 00:00:00

• Funds 9O 91, v. St. nenis-pirates—Dagnert edict. CAR a-boo Tidal-Weer FooT-day' 6-6 h. meter. TRIBAL-AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLANPA -a_ TIONS, TRANSFER'D WITH WILL 4. TRUSTEES STOP RENTS TO APRIC Co'S NIGGER BER-MUDA-NEST, B - I RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YleS ACT, 2-3 Iv. Iv., C. 92, §4, 5 vic. c-39 § 4, 1842, PAP'S-10th Q. AN-BNTY. 132 yr., so S. *INN-Jetsam 6-',sap Lfiganee rota OUT- fiat-mai , z N. Wall ' murem 24 March--29 Sept. Err= financl 6 Ap ril' Julian-fteery on Twe-x-ed Fishery-park law-sets, in conic-sections 3 r: 365.5 /sospiral-1200 by Enekssl comet. C ARTRA SQUE -Sachims, merchants—For Board of trade quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, acted on "non-resident rule under the Municipal Acts of 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the prsprietory, can leave the landb9ard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such persons' !ache's, open to IMP. Indian* *right of search' law (Webster'd 2 42). Signed, .•• : : : : . . • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTRWORTH, Cl. of Sy node J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701)-ne-moderd, 1832-38. Negro trade ' search' in CAss, by ralmerst on, '57. So— JAR-CONE s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY -COMPASS -› EFFL'TOM GAPHPONTI SPIRIT -Q-LEVEL. ON CINQUE PORTAL-ARC CURVE, ' LINE OF LATITUDE' IN Spin-long, ciinq'nt 50 N. by Polar* above & below docile a. soar ,in i 9 astru-geograpli . • • : : to mover's 4 Arrow oft and-on'Diepp's-Rouen s-s to Lizard-rt. 9 'r Perisle's Quadra.- culmination Tropic-wend t 'wrds Minorca's Langue O'ock 40. N. Its state rope-lay Anchor J. flag -tow'r pressby Tyre round the fixt earth, as of Titus Vespasian'e March-night zone-meter, year 79 on 1821-35's Life- Durg-Exchek*rjar conevolute-Leet-crts.—on America's meridian'd 60. west N. and S. for its Turloch base dine September like-evapora tive Xaraves Nile-'-metre'd lake as, the *ken pivot Dapps (3d Jag°. 1.), of Villa-Bella's Sack're-mentopez colony-1825 of Brazil, wrongfully province'd from ME in 1828. Sachims—The illustrated London .IV - ews, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's carclineA, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arm'rial /word scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, 'resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fons ore (' Fodinas-regales, of James L's 72 New River' share 1-plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on EnGland's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by De'cana Henry Wotton and Montague, so CAR.. 11. 'Hyde's grant 1662's jar- Conenecl-i-cut-18 to Penn's 81-1701,in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility-trust ; the whole land estate guarantee of the allies were transferred by commit t 'e of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge of lequ/iar' institution), with undersigned 5 Lay-ge'cone's as their pa tron & advocates of Q-Ann-13'unty-acre, plantation 395. See, N. 4121 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1811, London Convention (Philadelphia), by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, thro' D. 'Webster & Perley's 3d Sept., '4l, election of incl. Peter 8., 11 (not a st. Donis slave) as succes - sor to the 99 yr life leases 12 to run, under 14 Geo. m. 1774, for Saq°mo Jos. Brant (on old John Adams' suggestion, whose Qu'acre grandson is now, here) —and approved at rhiladelph's Lancaster Duchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins § Edgcumbe Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & Goldfmith Co's-1, N. River proprietary) Stegglesplug-1. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semioles & Georgii Cherokee Indians of the coast, 1000 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised- North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their black cattle mixing with the vir g in races, thro' the Lan caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I—XIV., for mixt Comigh Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as reset on Admiralty Eeole of St. Paul's, Bermuda (10 M, by Philader s partizan friends Coloniza -Off, Boston—Judge Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. So Deerfoot's dye-Fellow scholarship' Trinity e -Col., Cambridge, 1861. 8 Dec.)—the term negro for Indian, not in 1726 grant of Geo. I p 66. Hence ' New shire-crt foundation' on French and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the living repres ntative of the Ashburton boundary capi tulaion, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn in successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820—for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of ' Texas-hundred' 6 & 6 partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, laths, and forage subsidies' of Trent-council, for swamping by votes thro' the ` Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd negro-shift 3-5 for Indian voice in cceno] Exhibition-rs, on Elliott's stay '5l Col. letter, Trvtoy-1847, as In re Trent—The arrest of Slidell & Ma son, as contra-band illegal persons, you perceive, is just, for trade quiet. Thus instant paid recog-avow of Red Indian and trustes below, tho' made the Ti-/lye 0 C scapegoad-fools 40 yrs, by Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'is of the 1- bronze'd-I-PENN-statue l'x-peace Society of friends. Ariuc'rs.—By pyre-Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), §4 .9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards in expeditions. Ye will think, on your 3in 5 freemen vote, of the danger in joining either party of the white faces or half ne.bur Indian persuaders, and are forbid from noticing the late 1 Fetish 'p/aced-proclamation as headed in limes and Post of 16th Nov., "A Convention between ENGLAND, France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's rights, or alien's of the contracting parties to keep peace on their soil, and avoid the a- Obert murder (?) of all the whites, By " this' and reasons as follows so:—' " Command oid words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water .imits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jac'Tho Zollverein trading flag s < x and not a belligerent by Ordnance issue T 343 of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower', the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on board the z Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it—the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words Pritish and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for outing the word England from the log-wood 1782 Court christian sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian code base of the Roman X-span' Fu6ros union courts of E-gal lacy of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which was derided in the Ang,rlot-Wfpan'sh Texas Crts. as inad missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in corporated St. Penis, under the words "except France" in March 3, 1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of Melehisidek on moving earth error' with it] the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgic Le'pold-Pedro 2-ty's in 182 S-30 of illegality. 3, The Papal impudence of Sir W. Gore Ouseley in collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Waker succession in Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life tenure 1047, Dappes-Nap- assumption of auFERT-clad Savoy), for seizing of Mexico, from England—caused his papist envoy Captain Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests ' z wolves i men :—' as manifest by late Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : : wave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MONRoE doctrine, las of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Nianilla channel of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the law's font, and recognised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the 'sole' elect of Pdland's NW. red-Russia A-Hurman of the cent years Dutch loan act, 1832, disjoined with sect religion. Fourthly. The ' Lie-ratification of London' Gazette, Nov. 16, not within the 15 days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a sup-plement, 'Whity-coloured persons being voice-divorced in this Az'fmithson'an institution' district-site of April, 1836. oa Gladstone's comtee. of H. C. by u.s. Congress,'46. This super-natus Chain proves to yee Indian 1 Negros, &c., that the Cabinets named in late convention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a converses porous Romish sense, (in total opposition to the infra-natus Unity of the NORmajli2r4e standard measure of 1821 and 1835, for Ge' raising the revenue—on yearly election of paid laymen—so guiding the whirld's trade by Jo;nt comg'n) without ask of People's-arbiter below—so (6 & 61 cs) Scorn arbitration as a stain— (1 & 14) 9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. Thus the ' Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for my civic patron 9 right, is [for monetary recognition of all dues from America upon primary colonization, well-intentioned, of the whites, & Afric-negro decay of human nature, on their theft of our 1730 Indian nationality on, my life], by a brother and sisterly love for the future, under England's trust law, as (now disjoined with t• Pope, s -Churches or i--water sects late on minister's money], of the coal-A fi read-bag state. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medal'd-sack°mN Nephew 11 (of Sac'mo `J. Brant, 1775—Saemo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-XlO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. L.S. H.7's Montague C' g' ACKERLEY, P.C., sworn in, Chief sus., of I'reland's-i oomln of Review, 1825-37, L.S. H. B's Executors VVOTTON' LYON BOWES, P.c. Dec. 27—London. See The Sun, Nov. 16, 1861. ARREST OF NASHVILLE SHIP-PIRATES ON ISO-uA/3 CORPUS RED-FLAG DISPLAY. Notice,—ln re Anderson-like Extra-dition—Act Oa Yancey, Peyton, "& Clyde's ? aller en course. On aid-force ' do lege nhod' lib. iv., ¢ 1, for criminal law on —this side of sea level, as on the other—Washington ex tradition Act—touching Fire-raising, as one of the four pleas of the Crown-pivot-voice-reserve, under oath for all. The Mayor of Sauthampton, *rear-admiral of England's in pinnace charge, Isle o Wight's Gallic-coque o lay -coast guard will arrest PEAGRIM and crew of the ship Nashville, for t La course-pillage and robbery, on the high seas of Bos oofn,_property of the American plantation ship Harvey Birch, X York—by false &french rep s about 19th Nov., ~ 1861. 13 y rota (a) 0 ' in ' u c niverSa ditioni supremus est' of the "'Facet regi um i 6 Constit9 fedei PPPriuro. mans populo in civic Asrestituendo v. 291, P. pia i j o u l —Laws of Rhodes, 1842, on A.D. 1346 hb. 1, against pisra—tmso Dagobert's edict, p 59, BODIN'S s e _ cei. me;slaves of St. Denis-TExas, in Ber muda-Nid' As (b)Nowfound-lanedatrs rn ship'ng Act, 1853-4. Rey-faeto r (Rex vini of Lisbon wino license Co.'s in nowspa er /lion, 1807), for Englands ronrlecedent, on Junot-jus-inva ...84,..1f-marine pratection on •• • Bristol's (Liverpool London), Admiralty 'super altum mare, TIM afcendsic' et def ee , o.ll7.ll_, :blique,' old style. So (c) by this warrant as of view colonisation on thought, Portgal-way•g 53„ : ( Z7 6 mora), re. for He`Loule y3a aro 37. Ist -Lsrepose, on th e i M il l ' abolition, act thro *Hamond, SANDY s, in , ;). ti l ls Alliance (Signed) 5 PETER Brant BASQUET, Q The trade flag. un i on jak , 0 5 a.m Mp m. 3- J . 1., corn-hill-Tow'er ' d Income -tax :o p.Bulo. o'4' freeman, Antiped'n crown-colons. c hi ef of 1842, —The criminal law's Extradi a Temple. ,:, Lab:iuch ere. paddle of Admiral's Lion Gap, 3 .mile off-shore Sea - constabl e , 42 March, '4l] bearing i.america's -,-> ~.. H. M. Parley, court over Canterbury's e-Guirte sefrt -° 3 Sept, '4l's tlement for New Z ealand's dea proo it Gap i vtz'r. on Crt., its (dial 1.1-31'pOy ,Si irlord Warden Capt O'Halloran. —tho' cruelly set a medal dva . acuo-Ag2,r7 v (li)arpenthal'd by Ashburton Baring-3ty. ''' N F. CfIAE.L'Up ' P:l' ACK ERLEY, ICJ of carib-isle f Jethou'd Enoland 'Special elect, AMT. 29 1825 ." : : (by Admiral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Crown- Sectry. Marcus HiII—SANDYS, Lay-presbiters egu, on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King- . 1 . - clubs), the Standard weight-bearer f 1837, Lt. 1 R.N. a 1 ay'd double- oathied victim—supporter Siren, of 3rohawk PETER 10 vrs, by Red Indian Mary Qu' Ilien March's murder-tie, Ig2o in' habeas virginalo S.P. (Liz. tenerum corpus c'nriste' transit. thro' Quebec's ' Jose '75 Harnilton-Dalhousie, in E. Elder' duty for his P. Torna'2s and own's State-b:rth provision, as the Mon- BRANT.' tag,ue Subsidy Ist-fruit loan 1814'20's on major Trevsor e4rtwright's chief sracc*ssorial surrogat'cy. [on trove. 1322'9918 red-turban'd Hen. 4th, on Hen. V.'s : Sigismond life Savoy'd Gape- colona, Martin 5, I. V ..9eoGtoNsAuvr 1816 rezolamento-159, by Pius 7th on , ~1 1 -- g ailie Urban 8 t h's capacity-oath of 1749-Ad -I,c te SrltAirr wort le pow d i ley-NeWCO:neteB-en Gonfaloniere' Jtily 152 1 ..„1 4 .9. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, N.. 54, on a ge , over gzipther- Calvin, for qoin'd "Re-lay-signor. Sion-attait4 i7l B .l \ o V k itnss ell'a (1683 nead-hand yet (unpaid Ch.ris-t Tavistock augeri], life trust. 27 Dec. 1861 corpu. mar t yr .... 1.0 .Y yrs), London. DRURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock. THIS EVENING and To-morrow her Majesty's Ser vants will perform the popular Farce, by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., entitled AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Atkins ; Pugwash, Mr. Barsby ; Mr. Skinner, Mr. Hope; Susan Sweerapple, Miss Keeley; Miss Wadd, Miss Stuart ; Miss Tibbit, Miss Bland ; Miss Gimp, Miss Harfleur ; Deborah, Mrs. Dowton. After which will be produced, with that attention to com pleteness in every department by which the Christmas Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently'dis tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT or, Old Mother Hubbard and het onderful Dog. "If a man do build a dwelling upon common land fr ,-, m sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein there shall be a tree, a beast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter. The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by WILLIAM BEVERLEY, Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c. Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. H. TULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transfor mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H. Adams, H. Langham., &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments by Mr. ii inckley. The Choregraphic Arrangements by Mr. Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the Flowers supplied by Bimmel's process. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written by E. L. BLANCHARD, And the whole arrang,ed and produced under the imme diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY. Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters, OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE, With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the Distance (Daylight). " Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get her poor Dog a bone ; when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur sery Legend. Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and torn "), Miss F. Hunt ; the Squire, Mr, Tom Mathews ; Dame Wiggins of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master Sageaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab; Parish Beadle, Mr. Bumble; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin, Whackstraw, Chawbacen, &c., &c. ; Rosetta (the " Maiden all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat, and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative— Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning— Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick. THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL, in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight. Will-o' -t he-Wisp Ignes Fatui—Mdlles, Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes, Livermore; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammiiton, Stap , ley, Harris Candy, Copeland, Archer, Hawkins, D e l ane y, Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel. ton. Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN. NISS and the Lailies of the Corps de Ballet. The Invocation I The Incantation I I and the Evapora• tion I I THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE HOUSE. Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon ; Old Scratche (his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ; Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe, Scrape, Shuffle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway; Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tightfit ; Mum mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Magger, Cracksides, O'Reilly, M'Phun, &c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyerry ; Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, Mr. Longlegs; Bear- Warden, Mr. Smuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins ; Land lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap, Flip, Flap, &c., &c. ; Jack Padding, Mr. Merryman. How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time— How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is treated in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub bard's reason. THE " CAGE" ON THE COMMON (Sunset). Grand Scena Comique and Pas de Btoomstick, by Mother Hubbard. The Dreamer and the Worker—The Vision of Pleasure and the Division of Labour—Figures of Fun (from the Fancy-store of Dykwynkyn) Messrs. Mason, Drainpipes, Carpenter, Hodman, Old Brick, and Young Shaver, Lilli putian Labourers, Pigmy Plastere rs , Ti n y Tilers, Minia ture Masons, Baby Bricklayers, Short Sawyers, Dwarf Drain Makers, and Child Carpenters by a Host of Juvenile Auxiliaries. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, The Rat, Master Longwhisker ; The Cat, Miss Mouser ; The Dog ' By H:mself ; The Cow, Mad ame B r i n dl e ; Th e Priest ("All shaven and shorn"), Mr. Jollyman ; The Cock (" That crowed in the Morn") Master Cocky-doodle doo. Realisation of the famous Picture in the National Gal lery of Little Britain, taken (by permission) for Boys, from a rare work in the collection of Master Smith, London. FROGPOOL IN THE MARSHES (Twilight), Song, " Will o' the Wisp," composed by J. H. Tully, Esq. How the Squire goes Hunting and loses his way and his temper, and what follows in consequence—Another curious instance of canine sagacity—Bull-frogs, Masters Hop, Skip, Jump, Creak, &c. SQUASH-HOLLOW SWAMP AND BED OF BULRUSHES. How the Squire comes to grief and afterwards to repent ance, and how Jack is recognised as the rightful heir —The reward and harmonious movements of the Fairies on a Grand Chromatic Scale towards WILL 0' WISP'S 'TOME BENEATH THE WATERFALL. The Transformation. Harlequins Messrs. CORMACK and ST. MAINE Columbines Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORLEY. Clowns Grotesque 1861-1862 SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SUIVELL FAMILY, I.—EXTERIOR OF_ Two SHOPS IN " UP-OR- DOWN" STREET. Messrs. Huline, St. Maine, Tannsr, and Miss S. Gunniss, Christmas P, eseuts—every Man (and Boy) to his Post, even the Post-Man—Clown rides the high horse, which proves his rock a-head—Two Young Men from the Country, and Clown gets over them—a Sewing Machine (not a poor Necdlewoman)—a thorough Blow out—a Man in very re duced circumstance—Clown finds the Fruits of stealing Apples in an elephantine way—a Band of Brothers —the Police in Great and Small Force—Clown gets into a row and blows up a policeman—the end of this scene is all Bustle—N.B. Not Crinoline. 2.-THE GREAT SENSATION,KITCHEN. Messrs. Forrest, Cormack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss. Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader— The Cook's Guide—Clown tries to take the chair—the head dish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and Clown becomes a Board-er—Silence thos? , , dreadful Bells— Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard pressed— arrival of a distinguished Foreigner—Clown falls into his own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a well known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it. 3.-THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION. Eight hours at the Sea-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper— " "1 he Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book that takes leafe of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a•Loud, only on the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree— late arrivals—Messrs. Never;ntime, Toolate, Dearme, and Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale of goods. 4.—The SEA-SIDE. The Sands I The Sands I I The Sands II I Come unto these yellow sands. A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier Master's ap-Pierance—Clown makes a Man's hair turn sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight Miss-Take, which a certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon gets some shell-fish in a very Selfish manner —Clown asto nishes the Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but don't Cut Lasses when they can join with them in a National Hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader-1 he Great Donkey Stir St. Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's Concert—fine ears f.a. Music—they fish in troubled waters —a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all) —The latest Novelty in Parrchutes. Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE OF SPLENDOUR. Doors open at half-past Six, to commence at Seven o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be had at the Box Office before the opening. 0 OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, CO VENT MA lIDE N. Under the management of 3flss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harris O n. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne; Mr. Santley, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. George Honey', Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Wallwortli, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. MAoritinenr ), which c r h a n w d i lcl Comic iproducedChrist in(aws Pane 7 n m e x i ni p r e e , s n l y ti b t r e d .T. 31. lIARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdignag, a Peep at Lilliput, and a Flying Visit to Laputa. Gulliver, Mr. W. 11. Payne ; Mrs. Gubiver, Mr. F. Payne. Principal danseuse. Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Ilarlequini le sustained by the eminent P antomimists, Messrs. 11. rayne, F. Payne, 11. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. Commence at Seven. HAYM TnTS EVENING,27, Sterinz BLA's Comedy, CK. SHP Er. Messrs. Buckstone i , c vim Villiers, Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. Wilkins, ti:c. `omp on, Bowe, After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLF MISS 3IUFFE ' T AND LITTLE BOY BLUE • or, Harle quin and Old DrahlyLonglec,rs. Louise Leclercq, CliarLs Le elercq, Hen Cole, G. Beeket, and Miss Itosine. Czintticriee a OPAL LYCEUM Th EATRE. man ag . cr- —Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Dec. 27, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or , Savourne e n D ee lish . Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles S,lby, Edmund Pal conei ; lies. D. I'. Bowers. Miss Clara Weston. After which, a rew and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, Th:si Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shanirccic. Principal charac ters by fir Chas. Selby, ii r. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Tho,upson. Acting Manager-3in F. B. Ch itterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 0, to commenoe at T. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. TnE SUN, LONDON, FRED A.? ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr A. Hare®. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, Dec. 27, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which will be produced, a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled WHITTING TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast ings. Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris; Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John llaslem, of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel ; Clown, Mr. Ilildyard ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will take place at Two o'clock on Monday, Dec 30, and every fol lowing Monday tilt further notice. N" THFATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 309th, 310th, 311th Nights of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucica'nli. The Two Great Dramas, THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA:: Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip z, Jamison, Smith, Stephenson, Romer, Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. After wh*ch, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama of TIIE COLLEEN IIAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, 133 X Office open from 10 Vll 5. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of 11fdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS ; characters by Mr. Sinclair, Mesas. Clifford and Terry. After which, CAMELIA ; Camelia, Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. Fol lowed by a New Operatic Burlesque, entitled THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF IL TROVATORE ; or, Who Killed the —; Messrs. Graham, Robins, James, Warren, W. Worboys ; Needs. Mason, Craven, and Hodson. To con lude v:lth new and ori dual Farce, A NICE QUIET DAY.—Commence at half-past 7. C ANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Immense Entertainment for the Christmas Holidays. Mr. MARSHALL'S Grand Christmas Dish, "THE EN CHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION), written ex pressly for him by W. F. Vandervell, Esq.—Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Burlesque Vocalist.—Mr. J. G. Forde.—Miss Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from TROVATORE and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and full Chords. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN " (from Paris), on the Trapeze, will make his First Appearance on MONDAY, the 30th De cember. T H E 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVENING. Grand Selections from "LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Mac beth," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Madsme Enderssohn; ➢lessrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Vocal and Instrumental Entertainments, the Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, M. P. Foster, E. Marshall, W. Randall. and Miss Harriet Coveney. Commence at 6 o'clock during the Christmas Holidays. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 13m.—Afternoon, 9h. 48m. To-monnow.-Morning, 10h. 25m.—Afternoon, 11h. 3m. THE IVEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 27, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 37-7.ighest since noon yesterday. 26—lowest this morning and during the night. 32 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.62; the highest this year. WIND North-Easterly ; moderate, with fog, and a sort of frosty dew falling thick and moisty, resembling a Scotch mist. 42,-P 4 1 :: . P \,..., 7.c-);A .-' , .'S-- : ' '-vkc-,-;?.-VI7, -, ',-rfA - . Ifik - _....,:,- , •-•••••••,,,A',....,2.1J:-,-. --,3/4.4-',t7'-'1,.....,-,, ,-0.7.., ' •' k.5.);;,..4A\ ...,:„..,.... V; THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1861. For ten or eleven days more at least we must re strain our impatience. We have no transatlantic telegraph, and must therefore a wait the arrival of what now seems to us the slow speed of steam packets. Were it Pesth we needed to hear from, or even Constantinople, minutes and hours would take the place of hours and days. Let us hope the Greenland and Iceland line will yet be laid, and that when the next complication occurs we shall not be kept in such long suspense. While there is in existence a means of transmitting intelligence instantaneously, even ten, twelve, or fourteen knots an hour will seem slow. In the present case we know that the Europa did not pass Cape Race till the 13th, that the all important dispatches could not therefore reach Washington before the 16th, then would follow the two or three grace days during which Mr. SEWARD was to have private knowledge of the despatch, then the seven days after its official delivery, bringing the date for Mr. SEWARD'S final reply to Christmas Day, on which day the Europa was to leave Boston with the news we all so anxiously expect. Monday week would seem therefore to be the earliest date to which we can look with any confidence for the first satisfactory information of the inten tions of the American Government. We shall have information possibly more or less indicating the temper of the people by earlier arrivals. The Africa, due on Monday, will bring news up to the 18th, two days after the despatches will have reached Washington ; and we will doubtless learn from her how our Yankee friends submitted to the operation of opening their eyes to the real opinion of England. There can hardly be a doubt, we imagine, of what the Washington Government will feel constrained to do. As the Europa was somewhat late in arriv ing, the French despatch will reach Washington almost as soon as that of the English Government, and an Austrian one will soon follow it ; and it would seem impossible that even an American mob can force its Government to fight the most power ful State in Europe against the open advice of two of the oldest Governments—we might say the advice, if it should ever be called for, of all the civilised Governments of the world. Well for America that all should end thus. Were a war begun, the boundary question would certainly reappear. The fraud of DANIEL WEBSTER on Lord ASIIBURTON, a piece of sharp practice in which Americans afterwards exulted, would assuredly be re-investigated. We should claim not only the two Commissioners and their Secretaries, but the whole of the territory interposed by the WEBSTER fraud between our colonies of New Brunswick and Canada —a district of no use to the States, but of great value to us as enabling us to complete direct com munication by railroad with the Atlantic when the St. Lawrence is frozen up. It would have been almost worth a war to have rectified that piece of Yankee knavery. The truth is, indeed, that Americans have had their way so long, both in sulting and cheating this country, that a feeling has grown up almost, of not quite overbalancing our aversion to war. Mr. SEWARD has brought upon his country our unmingled contempt—he has aided in destroying what little good will and for bearance remained in us, and the sentiment pro bably predominant in England is that the Sovereign mob in America will never tolerate decent govern ment till a war with England has satisfied them that they are not Lords of the Universe, nor even of all North America. A melancholy and lurid light has recently been thrown from a somew hat unexpected quarter upon the still oppresEed and still lamentable condition of Poland. It comes to us this time—not from Cracow, not from Warsaw, not from within the boundaries of the dismembered kingdom once owning allegiance to the wearers of the crown last lawfully donned by his Majesty King STANISLAMS. It comes this while from afar off—streaming across half Russia proper, from the ancient capital of the great Muscovite Autocracy, from Moscow! Those who " run can read" it, and understand it. It has a deplorable significance. It is a sort of sidelight thrown upon the scene of so many hopes and fears; but though merely a sidelight, the glare cast FAVEN,(4, DECITAIBER 27, 1861. abroad by it is sufficiently luminous and sufficiently ominous to startle all Christendom it ,to renewed attention as to the actual state of thi cgs nusv dis cernible, not only in the interior c f the Russian Empire, but in Poland also, an espec i a ll y i n Russian Poland. The insurrectionary flame vi,e are here alluding to broke out, it may be remembered, at Warsaw as far back as the 12th (24th) of October last, in con nection with the students—many of them Polish. Students—at the St. Petersburg I Thiversity. The tumult which then took place was I thought at the time to have been very lamenta'ole, to have been flagrantly wanton, to have been painfully and cruelly unprovoked. It was a lawless outbreak— not of the students, but (shameful to relate) of the constituted authorities—police, gendarmerie, infan try, cavalry. The light cast by those incidents of the 12th (24th) of October V; as sufficiently power ful at the time of their occurrence to show some thing, at least, if not al), of their real bearing and significance. Very recently, however, these have been flashed bask upon our recognition with yet greater intensity, as it were by the aid of every powerful reflector —to wit, the "Narrative of Facts" but just now published. That Narrative has either already been laid or is immediately about to be laid before his Imperial Majesty the Czar ALEXANDER 11., by M. VOIEKOFF, the marshal of the Moscow nobility. From the circumstance of this record of events having been entrusted to the hands of M. VOIEKOFF, it must not be imagined, however, as was not unnaturally at first conjec tured, that the document goes to the EMPEROR as the utterance of the whole Moscow nobility collec tively. It appears to have been signed merely by almost a score of the stu dents of the St. Petersburg University at Moscow, those twenty students having been se lected to that end:because they were not only mem bers themselves of the Moscow nobility, but that— patricians by birth—they were among the number of those who on the day specified were sub jected to the disgraceful and inhuman mal treatment complained of. It reads like truth this Narrative of Facts. There is no special plead ing about it. No specious gloss is endeavoured to be thrown over the statement. It is, from first to last, a simple and candid recital of occurrences. Errors of judgment are admitted here and there— but anything at all like a hostile demonstration is utterly denied. And, indeed, the reasonableness of this denial becomes, during the perusal of the Nar rative, very distictly and unmistakeably apparent. It is intimated at the outset of the Narrative that the whole of the misunderstanding, ending so tragically with the catastrophe of the 12th (24th) of October originated in the arbitrary and peremptory closing of the St. Petersburg Univer sity. That was the first provocation. It produced a very comprehensible and considerable amount of irritation among the young students of the Uni versity. That irritation manifested itself in effect in the "turbulent scenes" of the 27th of September. After those regretted scenes came the additional irritation produced by the closing of the two first classes of the Juridical Faculty. Things thus went on, for a time, from bad to worse; but eventually a petition was resolved upon by the students, pray ing that several of the more harsh and arbitrarily repressive regulations should be set aside or consi derably modified. Pending the completion of this petition—all agitation ceased. When—as ill luck would have it—" NICHOLAS VASSILIEVITCII ISSA KOFF, the curator of the Moscow educational dis trict, arrived, and refused not only to sign the petition, but even to read it." Comprehensibly enough, we find it added immediately in the Narrative,— " This refusal caused renewed irritation among the students, which they manifested in a thoughtless and abrupt manner." How—the narrative goes on to relate very succinctly. A large number of the more ener getic students having been arrested on the night of the 11th (23d) of October—that additional inci dent did not tend of course to allay the indignation already excited among the members of the Univer sity. Immediately upon learning the fact of the arrests which had taken place over night, the students upon the morning of the fatal day (as it proved for them) collected to gether en masse in the courtyard of their university. While they were there " standing deliberating, in the court-yard, not knowing what steps to take, an order arrived from the General Governor to send him a student named GISEMSKI. Some of those present called out, Let us go with him, and ascertain the fate of our comrades ;' when the whole body, without reflecting on the conse quences, proceeded towards the General. Go vernor." It is admitted at once, in the narra_ tion, that " this was very imprudent ;" still—as it is there added—no one, for a single instant, imagined at th© time that that mere act of imprudence would be misconstrued into anything at all like a Demonstration. The narrative from this point is worth following closely and literally. It proceeds thus :—"No sooner had they (the students) left the court-yard of the University than the police and gendarmerie, who had been concealed in the Excise-house, followed them. The students walked with all possible order up the Makhovaia and the Iverskaia, and none of the authorities, either of the University or of the city, asked them to disperse; nor did the police attempt to impede their progress. At last they reached the Iverskai square, and step ped before the house of the Governor Genet al. Four students were sent to inquire the reason of their com rades having been arrested." While the expectant students are there still waiting to hear the upshot of their companions' inquiries —enter upon the Iverskai Square--the police and gendarmerie! The latter adroitly surround the students and hem them in—one of the principal officers in command retreating a few paces to watch the result of his orders, gives the signal for the attack, with the words "Seize them! Beat them !"—and the onslaught commences." Some of the students," we read, " ran away, some sub mitted ; the remainder, irritated by the brutality of the police, who had wit once given them notice to disperse, resisted Ole onslaught. Now came forward infantry and cavalry, who hitherto had been concealed in tb e Tverskoi police-station ; and, at the whistle of the khazals, (1. e. of the inspectors of house porters) porters and peasants, who had been told beforehand what to do, rushed out of the courtyards, and with oaths and shouts, fell upon the fugitives. The students were now hunted, through all the streets of the city. Wherever a. sAudent's cap was seen the police and gendarmerie fell upon their unhappy victims and illtreated the m in the most inhuman manner. The gender merie pursued them at full gallop, seized them by the collar, or bv the hair of the head, and, continuing to gallop, dragged them after them, with their legs et: ad feet beating on the stones." Enough has astpuredly been told of the events of the 12th, (24th) of October to show the wanton brutality of the whole of these proceedings. Anct, when it is added, that the ru mours set afloat at - the time cf their occurrence, in eluded among t h e.% conspicuously one to the Effect that the students thus maltreated were Poles who h a d risen a gainst the EMP EROR , th e deliberate copal ation of falsehood with brutality, of calumny with butchery, brings to view, as in the flash of an instant, the execrable animus of the whole of these truly deplorable inci dents. It is the last lamentable indication of the pitiless manner in which Poland and the Poles, and all things Polish, are regarded, and treated, and maligned, and trampled under loot, and spat upon by the insolent emissaries of the arbitrary Govern ment of the Autocrat. Though we hardly expect now that we shall be called on to defend our Canadian frontier, we ought to be thoroughly prepared to do it. We have to do in the United States with a population which is at the same time the virtual Go vernment of the country, and the least amenable to reason, and the most exciteable of any in the world. It is impossible to predict that what they may do when exasperated by finding that they cannot conquer the South and its slaves, while they yet loathe the thought of permitting 4,000,000 negroes to be American freemen. In their rage they may turn against Canada the army whlch could not overrun the South, and may seriously attempt to carry out the old threat, renweed by Mr. SEWARD himself, of annexing Canada, and so compensating for Southern losses. Now, though we cannot fear the ultimate result of such a war, though we do not doubt, as indeed we have remarked elsewhere, that it would end in the rectification of the Canadian border on the side of Maine, we must not forget that our long line of defence leaves us open to successful attack at some parts of it, unless great vigilance be used. Perhaps do what we wonld, nothing could prevent successful casual inroads ; but the advance of a considerable army for any time into our territory is an occurrence on every ground to be rendered as impracticable as possible. We have inserted to-day a letter addressed to a contemporary on this subject, which apears to be written with forethought and knowledge, the most remarkable suggestion being the concentration of a small army at Halifax, in the highest state of equipment and efficiency, ready to co-ope rate with a blockade of the North American coast, by its adaptation to be landed at any time, at any of the principal American ports—Boston, New York, or Baltimore. Such a step would, as he observes, compel the retention of a considerable number of the American army to watch over their seaports. In fact it would place them in the same position as that in which the naval expeditions of the Federals now place the Con federates. The difficulty is chiefly that of the winter months. The freezing of the mouth of the St. Lawrence, while Upper Canada is comparatively open, leaves that part of the country open to American attacks, while we cannot throw reinforcements into it through the river. There is little danger , comparatively when the St. Lawrence is wider and even at Montreal the ice is of a kind which would make the crossing of an army no easy task. Further west it would seem that their railways and the nature of the position would render it easy for the Federals to get across a considerable force, and to make some advance before the spring opened sufficiently for a relieving force from England to take the field. When that time arrives, all further danger would be over. England would not allow herself to be beaten in a loyal and attached colony, and the Canadians would assuredly do their part to give the Yankees a lasting lesson. On two things the " British officer" lays stress— justly it is plain —on our placing gunboats on the lakes when the navigation is opened, and our se lecting an officer thoroughly versed in defensive warfare. No mere Court favourite—no General ANSON—no able though unexperienced man ought to have the chief command against the Federals. It would be folly to underrate them. They are certainly as doggedly brave as ourselves, for they inherit that from us. They do, we know, surpass us in astuteness; but we do not think their officers surpass ours, or even equal them, in military skill and knowledge. If the South holds them in check so easily, English officers, if chosen like those of the South, for their effi cieency, will not be behind them. Canada too will prove from the nature of the country, very difficult to invade for any distance. The roads running for miles between forests, will offer means to Canadian sharpshooters which they will not be slow to use and an invading army may find itself decimated be fore it can see an enemy. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, THURSDAY. The Queen had some hours' sleep last night, and is calm this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, attended by Count de Lannoy and Major Burnell left Osborne this morning. Colonel the Hon. A Liddel will attend their Royal Highnesses to Dover. The Duke of Saxe-Cobourg left at the same time for London. His Royal Highness will return to Osborne to morrow. His Majesty the King of the Belgians is expected to arrive at Osborne to-morrow. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who has been unable to attend at the Horse Guards since Thursday, the 19th inst., owing to a very severe cold and slight rheumatic attack, was much better yesterda3, but is still unable to leave the house. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.—We are pleased to announce that the noble Premier was able to lease his bed room for the library yesterday, with the aid of clutches. The noble viscount has during his attack of gout been able to disc barge his official business without interruption. The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spence' House, St. James's, on Tuesday, for Althorp Hall. In consequence of the lamented death of the Prince Consort the intended festivity of the hall has been postponed. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arrived at Highclerc, Wilts, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Canarvon, from Bretby Park, Derbyshire. The Marquis of Abercorn has left Chesterfield House, Mayfair, to join the Marchioness of Abercorn and family circle at Earon's Court, county Tyrone. The Marquis of Exeter, who remained in town to attend the funeral of the late Prince Consort, joined the marchioness and Lady Victoria Cecil at Burghley on Tues day. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven • dish have left Chatsworth, Derbyshire, where his grace has been receiving a distinguished party, for Holkar Hall, near Milnethorpe. The Marquis of Hartington, M P., has arrived at Melton Mowbray, from Chatsworth, for the hunting season. THE WEATHER. IN CANADA.—On Monday, the 9th inst., our letters from Quebec and Montreal represent the weather to be unusually mild, and the river as free from ice as in Midsummer. West of Toronto the summer seemed still to be lingering, as honeysuckles and roses were still being plucked in the neighbourhood of Hamilton and Lon don. This is gladsome news, as by it we are assured of the greater probabilities of the landing of the transports now on their way to the St. Lawrence as far up as Riviere du Loup, instead of Bic.—Canadian COMMITTAL OF A SURGEON FOR ROBBERY.— A surgeon, of the name of Gunn, who was a witness in the recent trial of Captain Wilson, for murder, at the Liver pool assizes, was yesterday committed for trial on a charge of plundering the furniture, bedding, &c., from a house which he had hired in Gill-street, Liverpool. The pro prietress of the house is alv ell-known courtesan. Gunn was assisted in his depredations by a paramour, who shared his committal. THE CATTLE TRADE.—LEICESTER, Dec. 26.—At this cattle market, which was held on Tuesday in cense- Time° of Christmas day, there was only a limited supply of fat beasts, which met a slow inquiry, and prices were about the same as last week. The supply of sheep was also considerably less than usual, and, although the trade ruled slow, recent rates were fully obtained. Quotations: —Beef, 61d to 7d; mutton, BLI to 81d per lb. It has been announced that the d%idends on the new Italian Loan will, in London, bo paid at Messrs Rothschild's, LATEST NEWS. FRENCH NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. PARIS, DEC. 27. Tho Moniteur of this morning announces the ap pointment of two Vice• Admirals, three Rear-Ad mirals, 10 Captains, and 40 Lieutenants of men-of war, and 14 Captains of frigates. LISBON, WEDNESDAY. A decree, appointing a medical commission to examine the Royal palaces and report on their sanitary condition, has been passed in a special session of the Cortes. The King is urged by the Municipal Chamber and the people to leave the palace. A Council of Ministers is sitting. Prince Joao's condition becomes worse. LISBON, DEC. 26, 10.5 P.M. The body of the late King is to be disinterred, and analysed. The public is greatly excited. Detachments of troops are patrolling the streets. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 27. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Delta, sailing hence to-day, takes out for Bombay £251,050 in bar silver, £495 in dollars, £2,500 in sovereigns, and £153 in gold leaf and watches, &c. SPAIN AND MEXICO. La Patrie publishes the following additional details respecting the movements of the Spanish squadron against Mexico :—" The first division of the Spanish squadron before Vera Cruz, consisting of sailing vessels, left the Havannah on the 27th of November. The second division, composed of steam transports, left on the 30th of the same month, and the fighting squadron left on the 3d of December. Marshal Serrano, Commander-in-Chief, was on board the steam frigate Berenguela, which carries the flag of Rear-Admiral Rubalcava. The troops for landing form an effective strength of 800 men. President Juarez, who has long been expecting the Spaniards, has advanced a body of troops to meet them, who are entrenched on the road from Mexico, above Vera Cruz, According to the last dates the Mexicans were throwing up redoubts. The greatest excitement prevailed in the capital." FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 26.—The same hesitation con tinues among speculators as to entering on any material operations, and business is consequently limited. Prices, however, remain nearly unvaried from those of Tuesday, Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f 20c. Railways also quiet. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 94 95 Credit Fonder llBO Do end month.... 95 j Belgian 41 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 20 Roman Bank Shares .. 2960 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 715 60 , Spanish Threes 49 50 Do. Account .. 720 ilome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1293 75 .. 1295 Northern New ditto 9lO .. 911 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 1006 25 .. 1007 50 Geneva.. 350 352 50 Southern Western .. Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5OB 76 510 THE I) FEN, B (LF A.AAILs. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Perhaps you may permit me to intrude for a few moments on your valuable space to point out what appears to be the chief danger to which Canada would be exposed iu the event of war un fortunately breaking out between the Federal States and this country. The defence of that province, as far as land forces are concerned, may be divided into three parts :- 1. That of Lower Canada, or the left line of defence. This is of great width, extending from the Richlieu River to the Lake of the Thousand Isles. The greater portion of this line is covered by the broad stream of the St. Lawrence, and Montreal lies in its left centre. Against it the Americans can easily mass large bodies, as it is reached by two railways from their side—the Portland branch or terminus of the Canadian Grand Trunk and the Ogdensburg line. 2. The centre portion, or Niagara frontier, between Lakes Ontario and Erie, This line of de fence is comparatively short, and therefore defen sible. 3. The right portion, or Detroit frontier, between Lakes Erie and Huron, of much the same character as the last. But these latter frontiers belong to Upper Canada, and form its general line of defence, and both are reached by railways from the interior of the Federal States. During the last American war it was against the Upper Province that the efforts of the enemy were principally directed, and there that the most severe and doubt ful engagements took place. The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada traverses the whole rear of the British line, from Lake Huron on the right to Riviere de Loup, at the mouth of the St.Lasivrence, on the left, and affords a great facility for defensive arrangements. Viewing the progress of the war in a general sense, it may be assumed, fiistly, that during the continuance of the severe cold, which must have already set in, no great military operations can be undertaken on either side. There may be a devas tating border warfare, but the movement in the field of large masses of troops will be impossible. Secondly, that the moment the spring becomes sufficiently mild to permit the disembarcation of our land forces at the railway terminus at the mouth of the St. Lawrence and the introduction of our gunboats from the sea into the lakes, all danger from a Federal in vasion is at an end. The period of peril to Canada lies between these two. This arises from rather a peculiar cause. The St. Lawrence flows from the great lakes to the sea in a north-easterly direction. The consequence of this is that its mouth is so much further north than the whole province of Canada that for fully five or six weeks before the entrance to that river is accessible to vessels military operations can, in ordinary sea sons, be undertaken along the Niagara and Detroit frontiers. This is our danger, and it is a great and pressing one. There is a period of considerably over a month when Upper Canada will be exposed alone to the full force of an American invasion before our reinforcements can reach it from the sea. Luckily the Lower Canadian frontier, being further north, is not so soon opened, and it is probable that no great progress could be made there before the head of our relieving column had reached Quebec. This is a very fortunate circumstance, for a defeat on this point would sever Upper from Lower Canada, and cut off all our troops in the former province. Whereas any disaster sustained on the Niagara or Detroit fron tier would only drive back the head of our column on the supports ultimately coming up in its rear. We may look upon the danger, therefore, as con fined for the present to Upper Canada. Now, in the whole province of Canada we just now have only four Line regiments and one colonial corps—five regular battalions in all, with Artillery in proportion ; add to this 4,000 or 5,000 efficient regular Militiamen, and we have all that we can at once reckon upon. It is very doubtful if any of the troops recently sent out will be able to disembark in the St. Lawrence. We shall certainly not be able to introduce more than a couple of battalions in this way, or by mov ing them through New Brunswick over the snow. This, then, with such assistance as can be obtained from a numerous, hardy, and brave, but at present wholly undisciplined lceal Militia, is all that the British commander in Canada can look for with which to meet the crisis in the first blush of spring. By that time it is hoped that the efforts of the officers sant out to organise the local militia will have given them such a consistency that they may be safely intrusted with the defence of towns, com munications, and frontier posts, so as to allow the whole of our regulars and active militia to be united on the point of danger in the field. Should the Federals be determined to push the war with vigour, and seriously to undertake the invasion of the Upper Province, there is nothing to prevent their throwing some 50,000 or 60,000 men, such as they at present have is arms, across the Niagara frontier in the early spring. Their railway system gives them the means of concentrating such a force in a comparatively short tame from the in terior. Far inferior to our regular troops, they will probably be on a par with our embodied militia, and their overwhelming numbers may require no ordinary military talent to withstand. We may thus come to need the services of a commander of ' strategical skill to organise the defence of an ex tended frontier with scanty means, of tactical ability to handle to advantage a feeble force in the pre sence of superior numbers in the field, of cool judg ment to measure exactly the effort which can be ex pected from each of the variously organised corps beneath his orders, of caution to save every drop of his soldiers' blood until the decisive moment comes, of firmness to pour it forth like water when the crisis has arrived. Reinforcements we cannot now introduce, but such a commander we owe to Canada. As it seems to have been determined at head quarters to send to that country, in the event of the war going on, a superior officer to assume the general command, it is to be hoped that his Royal Highness in making this selection will allow no considerations other than those of tried ability in the field to weigh with him. The names of some officers have been mentioned in connection with this appointment well known for their great talents and high services at the Horse Guards; but this is a moment when we cannot afford to give even to an able man the opportunity of learning how to become a great General. We require at once a soldier equal to the situation, and that is one which r ight come to strain, for a time, the defensive abi lities even of a Wellington, a Radetzky, or a Clyde. One means which may much alleviate the pres sure along the Canadian frontier we hold within our grasp. The concentration of a small army of 12,000 or 14,000 men at Halifax, perfectly equipped at all points, with transparts equal to its immediate embarkation, and a fleet completely blockading the whole northern ports, would act as such a standing menace to Boston, New York, and Baltimore as would necessitate the concentration of a large Fe deral force at each of these points, and by so much cripple their efforts against our Canadian posses sions. Of course, their whole troops detached against the Confederate coast at Port Royal, Cape Hatteras, &c., would, if previously withdrawn, at once fall into our hands. But in the ultimate management of the contest it must ever be remembered that the successful re sult of operations along the Canadian frontier de pends entirely upon the command of the lakes. This it is the duty of the Admiralty earnestly to look to. Of these, with our large fleet of heavily armel gunboats—which can be introduced by the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers and the Rideau Canal into Ontario, and thence by the Welland Canal into Erie—we ought, the moment the navi gation is open, to obtain at once the undisputed c muiand. Let our rulers lay to their hearts the Duke of Wellington's words, written in November, 1814 :—" What is wanting in Canada is not a Ge neral, or general officers and troops, but a naval superiority on the lakes ; till that superiority is acquired it is impossible to maintain an army in such a situation as to keep the enemy out of th© frontier, much less to make any conquest from them." Without this, and it will have to be sought for with diligence and held with energy, no mili tary combinations can avail.—l am, sir, your obe dient servant, Dec. 23. A BRITISH OFFICER. ITALY. A Naples letter has the following :—" I have had an opportunity of seeing the papers of Borges, or or at least copies of his diary, and of the instruc tions which he received from General Clary. The former was in Borges's handwriting, and the other is signed by General Clary. Both are now in the archives at Turin, where any who doubt my word may easily see them. The instructions of General Clary are in French, and dated from Marseilles on the sth of July. The following is a true copy of the opening lines:— " I❑ order to encourage and protect the popula tions of the Two Sicilies, betrayed by the Portu guese Government, which has oppressed and de ceived them ; to second the spontaneous efforts of those generous populations nho are anxious for the return of their legitimate sovereign and father; to prevent the effusicn of blood by directing the national movement, and to prevent acts of private vengeance, which might lead to disastrous conse quences, General Borges will proceed into Calabria, and there proclaim the legitimate authority of King Francis IL" Very straightfot ward, truly. You know that Gene ral Clary is at Rome with the fallen King, and that consequently he cannot have signed such a contract, without the authorisation of his lord and master. It is therefore impossible henceforth to separate the young Princes from all that has been done and is still doing in his name. General Clary's instruc tions are divided into articles. The first four give directions as to the point for landing, order the im mediate proclamation of King Francis ll.'s restora tion, the election of new local authorities from among the zealots of the altar and the throne, the recal of old soldiers to their colours, the division of the soldiers thus recalled into two sections (one formed of the old chasseurs, the other of all the sol diers of different corps); lastly, the formation of four battalions, each of four companies, and to bear the names of " King Francis, Maria Sophia, Prince Louis, Prince Alfotiso! General Clary would decide as to the unforms at a future time. I may remark one important point, which is that Borges was expressly forbidden to give commission to any of the old Neapolitan officers—a prohibition repeated twice, and in the most positive term's. Borges was entrusted to command foreign officers exclusively until the King should send him some from Rome. Article 5 directs the commencement of military operations as soon as the army should be organised. The mission of Borges was to reduce the Calabrias, and there his task would end. The choice of gover nors was to be made by the King alone. The tri bunals were to be immediately reconstituted with judges who had not turned to the usurper. Article G authorises requisitions of money—first of all from the public coffers, then from corporations, and lastly from all persons who had served the usurper. Article 7 advises a proclamation wish a promise of an amnesty. DENMARK. The Session of the Danish Diet, which was opened on the sth of October, has just closed. It terminated its labours on the 21st inst., when a Royal message was read declaring the 13th ordi nary Session of the Rigsdag over. All the mem bers cf the two Chambers were asked by the King on the following Sunday to a gala banquet at his country scat of Fredensborg situate about five miles from Copenhagen. THE SPAWNING SEASON.—For several weeks past the Tay has been much swollen, in consequence of the heavy rains which fell in the upland country. Since Sun day week, however, the weather has been dry, and in con sequence of the keen frost which set in on Thursday, the river is much smaller, and the water reduced to nearly the usual limits. Owing to the heavy spate, the s Amon have run up the smaller streams and have deposited their spawn. There is little doubt that ;f the weather continues frosty, much of the spawn will be lea dry, and eventually be unproductive. On Thursday and Friday numbers of salmcn passed through Perth-bridge, up the river, and as the season is not yet altogether what is called late, there may be a goad spawning season, notwithstanding its unpro pitious commencement. As a prcof that the fish have not come up early during the present close season, it may be stated that about ten days ago, when fish were attempted to be caught at the mouth of the Almond for the purpose of taking their ova for the Stormontfield Ponds, none were captured, except a splendid salmon of about 301 b. weight, in fine condition, which was of course returned to the river. During the present close season the watchers have not seen for many years past so few attempts at poaching on the Tay and its tributaries, which is doubtless to be ascribed to the efficient system of watching under the superintendence of Mr. R. Rust, who is about to retire, after 33 years of active service.—Perth Courier. , tl►. , 10 k