The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-19 00:00:00

v.' , ... Indian ' CAR-a-boo-state Deer' FOOT-12 inches. TRIBAL-AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLANTA TIONS, TitANSFER'D WITH WILL 4. TRUST/ES CEASH YE TO I<AY RENTAL TO "& CO.'s OF BER'E'TS_. BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 9 81 YR'S ACT, 2-3 Is • SV.. c, 02, § .1, 5 vle. c-39 §4, 1842, Pies-10th Q. AN-BNTY. 13tyrrININ . s• *DIN-Jetsam elsap rota ovr-jiot- i scn i i i*"' N. Wall-I,tuurem 24 March-'=i-29 Sept. Errant, --,finangiis of : : Julian-trcery on Twe- - x-ed Fishery-park law-sets. • ' CaRIREsQuE-Sachims, Merchants.--For Board of Trade quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opi n i on o f th e ' placet' Churchmen lawyers of Brit i sh kirk, to state that tho officers of the anti-slavery coast -guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with ' the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of debts under a justice certificate, th e s hip and c aptain aiding such persons' 3". to be open to IMP. Indian * *right of search' law as now given uo. (Signed, ••• : : . • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTR, Cl. of Synode J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701), Re-model'd, 1832-38. Negro trade search' in CASs, by Palmersi on, '57. So— CONE le'S PERIGEE-LONGITUDE INAUGURAL, COMPASS " 3 - EFFLUVIA GAPOPONTI SPIRIT-°-LEVEL. ON CINQUE PORTAL-ARC CURVE, LINE OF LATITUDE' FOR Span-long ginq'kent 50 N. by Polar* above & below declin. soae,_,in i 4 ilstre-geograph . • • : : to gover's 3 AITOW off and-on'Diepp's-Rouen -to Lizard-rt. °'r Ael'isle's Quadra culmination Tropic-wend t' wrds minorga.'s Longue G'oek 409 N. Its state rope-lay Anchor st flag -tow'r pros-by Tyre round the fixt earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night zone-meter, year 79 on 1821-35 for Life-Burg-Echele*Rt Convolute-Leet-crts.-on America's meridian'd 60° west N. and S. for its base dine evaporative mark, on September Xaraves Nile-'-metre'd lake, as the pivot-Calvin'd Dap pas (3d Jag°. I.), of Villa-nella's Saare-mento colony-1825 of Brazil, wrongfully prey ince' d from ME in 1828. Sachims-The Illustrated _London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's caelineA, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arm'rial /word scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fens ore (' Fodinas-regales of James L's 72 New River' sh are 1-plug in London's Goldsmith company of Philadelphia, on England's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by pecan' Henry Wotton and Montague-so CAR. 11. Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 lndien responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit tee of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge of ' peculiar' institution), with undersigned § Lay-ae'cones as their pa trons and advocates of Q-Ann-Bnty, act, plantation 10ths. See, NO 4421 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London Convention (Philadelphia), by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. as successor to the 99 years' leases (12 to run, under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Saemo Jos. Brant, on old John Adams' sugges tion-whose grandson is now here)-and approved at rhiladelph's Lancaster Duchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins Montague § Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & Goldfmith Co's 1 N. River proprietary), Stegglesptug-1. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semioles & Georgil 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 virgin races, thro' the Lan caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I-XIV., for mixt Coatiffn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as reset on Admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda (10 M, by Philadel's partizan friends Coloniza-Off, Boston-Judge Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. So Deerfoot's /9ye-Fellow scholarship' Trinity a -Col., Cambridge, 1861. 8 Dec.)-the term negro for Indian not in the grant of Geo. 1., 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, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of Trent-council, for swamping by votes thro' the `Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd negro' -shift 3-5 for Indian voice] in Cenors Exhibitioners, on Elliott's 'slletter, Col. Off. RESOLUTE In re Trent- The arrest of Slidell, Mason, and others, as ' contra-band illegal persons,' you perceive, is just for trade quiet, in this case, the below state-codiciled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the i bronze'd-i-PENN-statue l'x-peace Society of friends. Sagamores.-By Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), §4.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards in all May-polar expeditions. Ye will now think deep of the danger of joining either party of the white faces or half caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby forbid from notic ing Timed-proclamation's as headed in the Times 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. By " this" and reasons as follows so:-' " Command oid words, that long have slept-to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spakc." 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water Amite (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jacno Zollverein trading flag e , x and not a belligerent by Ordnance issue T 343 of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower), the Civil° Service Merchant Flag, on board the Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it-the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for outing the word England from the log-wood 1782 Court christien sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian code base of the Roman X-span' Fueros union courts of B-gal laco of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which was decided in the Angllot-iffpan'sh Texas Crts. as inad misk•ibk, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in corporated St. Denis, 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 Melchisidek on a ' moving earth error' with it] the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgic Leopold-Pedro 2-ty's in 1828-30 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 Walker 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 ' wolves f men as manifest by late Morocco bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : : elNave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MONROE doctrine, [as of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla 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 Poland's NW. red-Russia A-uurman of the cent years Dutch loan act, 1832, disjoined with sect religion. Fourthly. The Lie-ratification of London' Gazette, and not, within the fifteen 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 Azfrnithson'an institution' f district-site of April, 1836, on Gladstone's comtee. of H. C. by u.s. Congress, '46. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians, aliens, &e., that the Cabinets named in this convention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a convers° DOMUS Romish sense, (in total opposition to the legislative unity of the Nonnatilingie standard measure of 1821 and 1835, for raising the revenue-under annual election of paid laymen-for guiding the world's trade by Joint coni/7n) without ask of People's-arbiter below-so (6 & 61),) "Scorn arbitration as a stain- (1 & 14) 9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. Thus the civic ' Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for my patrinal right, is [for monetary recognition of all dues from America upon primary colonization, well -intentioned, of the whites, and evident decay of 4 human nature, by their theft of our 1730 Indian nationality on, my life], by a brother and sisterly love for the future, under the law of England, ss (disjoined now with t- Pope, .B'-Churches or 1-water sects late on minister's money) the coal-A /3 read-bag'-State. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medard-sack°me, Nephew 11 (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775-Sac°mo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-£lO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. les H.7's Montague §C' B' ACKERLEY, P.C., sworn in, Chief sus., of Ireland's-i comffn of Review, 1825-37, les. H. B's Executors ' §WorroN' LION BOWES, P.C. Dec. 19-London. See The tun, Nov. 16, 1861. ARREST OF NASHVILLE SHIP-PIRATES. Notice,—ln re Anderson-like Extra-dition—Act. On aid-force do lege shod' 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 Southampton, *rear-admiral of England's pinnace charge, Isle of Wight, also the coast-guard adja cent, will arrest the master PEAGRAII and crew of the ship Nashville, for pillage and robbery, on the high seas of Bos ton Property of the American plantation ship Harvey Birch. of N. York—in false reps—on or about 19th Nov., 1861. By rota (a) 0 in nniversa ditioni supremus est' of the placet regium imperium, maris populo romano restituendo 1342, on A. D. 1346 v. 291, P. Constitc' confederacy imperatoris Taxantur severi pirate° —Laws of Rhodes, in Bermuda's e -Col. mercatorum ship'ng Act, 1853-4. By (b) Newfound -land merchants, on Lisbon wine license Co.'s on nex vini jus newspaper Precedent on Junot-inva sion, 1807, for En g lan ds n z.o . napeyn-marine protection, o 31 • • ' Bristol (Liverpool. .d London)'s Admiralty super altum mare, queo afeendsi9 et defcenteblique ' old style. So (c) your warrant, as of the High _cone commission of review colonisation, underP,LorreTcoasle'sohnure holy Alliance n_f o orethought, for Ire‘Loule y aro 37" N a bolition, thro' *Hamond, SAND YB , i n (Signed) PETER Brant BAESQUET, n The trade flag-unio J k a.m m m. 3-J. 1., corn-hill-zow'er'd Incoine-ta a x' F,Buio.c2.< freeman, Antip,d'n crown -colon if c o hief f of 1842, —The crimin a l law's Eictradi- Temple. 8 Lab,lichere. lion Gap, 3 .mile off-shore Sea-constable, so [2 March, '4l] bearing iamerica's p addle of Admiral's M. Parley, court over Canterbury's (5-Guizote set Gap I r. , d em ent for New Zealand's deadproof6; 3 Se p t ' '4l'B „, e., its qa . l Dr.•3l'poy Stillord Ward en Capt O'Halloran. —tho'crueb3 set a medal'd vacuo-Age'r v Gappenthal'it by Ashburton Baring-3ty. .*N. [CirAinrs x' ACKERLEY, Jethou'dEnoland, elect Aug. 2 9 1825 ( by Ad- . • • : : rniral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown rotary; Marcus Hill—SANDvs, y-presbilers eon, or Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King- -? clubs), the Standard weight-bearer of 1837, Lt. Si R.N. 1 ay'd double- oathii'd victim—supporter Peu , of mob awk PETER 10 yrs, by ned Indian Mary C2?4' R ien March's murder-tie, 1920 in habeas virginale s.P.R.R• tenerum corpus christe' transit, thro' Quebec's 'Jose '75 Hamilton-Dalhousio, in E. Elder' duty for his P.Tonia'2s and own's State-b'rth provision, as the Mon- 13nANr.' tague Subsidy Ist-fruit loan 1814'20's on major Trqsor- Cartwright's chief succassorial surrogat'cy. (to trove. 1322'99is red-turban'd Hen. 4th, on lien. V.'s Sigismond life Savoy'd Gape-colona, Martin 5, 16. V to GONSALVI 1816 re:rolamento-159, by Pius 7th on. Scotch-Bailie Urban Bth's capacity-oath of 1749, Ad vocate STUART woriley-Newcomen's) en Gonfaloniere' 1824 passed in C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, No. 54, on July 1521-72 Luther- calvin, for qoin'd atflay-seignor. age, , over IV. R ussell and Stanley ' s Dead-hand (1683 Jet S ion-attaints), in Protectorship-life trust]. 19 De e , 18 61 (unpaid, Christcolpus martyr 19 yr.), London. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 19, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 42 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.30. WIND —North-Easterly ; fresh and cold, with fine winter weather. "17r_ \ ri ,-/‘ ,1,..g,--, - ,,, ,V.14•!:(!=; - .-711 , : , .., ) ',, , ,,v, .: - , 'A- -, .7Y-: _--- -- "'<•-iiL -- :1 .z, r 4,, ~ 4'r ? 1 \ --- '-' - ' , ..ic F,t4' , ' , e4.,' • ii_:.;.. ,,, vc - ___-_:. , ::.:: ,,, :,,,,P - -----'', -• t• _ ~,.:1--.CA---< , : 7= .$ 4, ~ - -, -, THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1861. Again Mr. COBDEN comes pestering us with his preposterous panacea of Arbitration. And under such circumstances, too—at a moment so ridi culously inopportune. Here has a war-ship of the Federal Government at 'Washington waylaid an English vessel on the high seas, an unarmed vesssel, bearing the Royal Mail bags, under the guardianship of an officer in the Royal Navy—the vessel of a Neutral Power, carrying at the masthead the National Flag of England ! Here has the Federal Government's war ship, the San Jacinto, intercepted the English Mail Packet the Trent, compelling her to lay to, first of all by firing a cannon-ball across her bows, and afterwards by discharging in her direction a shell that exploded close beside her—boarding her with a party of marines with fixed bayonets—for cibly taking prisoners four of her passengers— dragging them from under the presumed shelter of the Union Jack, with every token of insolent determination and deliberate indignity ! Here has been perpetrated an outrage of this flagrant character—without provocation—to a Neutral Power, and that neutral Power the Old Mother Country, from which the American citizens, both of the North and the South, have alike emanated ! And Mr. COBDEN coolly talks to us—while we are yet waiting for an answer to our demands—about Arbitration ! One would really imagine—judging from Mr. BRIGHT'S last speech, and from Mr. COBDEN'S last letter--one would really imagine that England in this matter had been the aggressor ! That it was a war vessel of England that had stopped a mail steamer of her to t byhe States upon the Atlantic—brought shot and shell—boarded lax through the agency of a boat's crew, bearing among them a party of marines with fixed bayonets—and carried away from her by main force ; from under the shelter of the stars and strip es floating at her m as th ea d , three or four unarmed civilians found on board of her as passengers ! One would be disposed to regard the matter really as standing thus if we were to listen only to Mr. BRIGIIT or to read only Mr. COBDEN. Never was there a more illogical absurdity than is observable in either instance. Upon Mr. BRIGHT'S (no doubt of it consistent) hallucination (but still hallucination) we have already commented. Mr. COBDEN'S "ditto to Mr. BURKE"—that is, to Mr. BRIGHT—has more recently come to light: and to the extraordinary document in which it is conveyed to our ken we must now venture briefly to direct our reader's attention. It is worth it. We can promise that much—if only as the latest manifes tation of - what 21r. COBDEN himself calls upon occasion, in one teLling monosyllable, and without a moment's effort at courtly circumlocution, a " craze." It comes to us, this last astounding manifesto, or pronunci orient° , in furtherance of the principle of Arbitration, in the form of a quiet little modest letter, dated " Midhurot, 16th December, 1861," and addressed to " Mr. HIT,NRY CATT," of Brighton, as an apology for, or rather explanation of, Mr. COBDEN'S non-attendance at a meeting recently convened at Brighton, and to which Mr. COBDEN had. been invited, a meeting to enforce the necessity of Universal Arbi tration. Now, in the abstract, \ye are all, of course, perfectly agreed as to the advise bility of always, if possible, avoiding war, and of substituting bloodless Arbitration for battle. When the inillenium arrives only, however—certainly not Wore then—the government of the world by Arbitration will be securely established. The advocates of that su pernal system, however, argue already that the in auguration of such a policy is even now in every way practicable. And how, in the name of common sense, do they endeavour to demonstrate its practicability ? Mr. COBDEN himself ' shall explain this in his own words, written on the 16th inst. at Midhurst. Now observe, he thus argues the point : " The object of all rational men and true patriots at this moment," he bays, " should be to enforce upon the Government that principle of mediation or arbitration which was proposed by the British Plenipotentiary and sanc tioned by the Congress of the Great Powers at Paris in 1856. The protocols," he goes on to say, " of the Conferences then held, which were laid before Parliament at the time, but to which few persons have now access, disclose to us the excel lent motives alleged by Lord CLARENDON for pro. posing this ' happy innovation,' which he designed as a barrier against conflicts which frequently only break forth because it is not always possible to enter into explanation and to come to an under standing." [The circumstances, observe, are so peculiarly apt now —for the inculcation of these most amiable ideas !] " The question thus in quired (writes Mr. COBDEN) in the name of the British Government was solemnly debated, every Plenipotentiary taking a part, and was adjourned for two days to enable Count ORLOFF to obtain the ' definitive adherence' of the Russian Govern ment, when the following declaration was unani mously agreed to :—' The Plenipotentiaries do not hesitate to express, in the name of their Govern ments, the wish that States, between which any serious misunderstanding may arise, should, before appealing to arms, have recourse, as far as circum stances might allow, to the good offices of a friendly Power." Having quoted which, Mr. COBDEN then immediately goes on to remark as follows—" Now is it possible," he asks, " that any case will ever arise to which this principle of mediation can be more applicable than the present ?" There is cer tainly nothing like making the most of your point while you are about it. So, evidently thinks Mr. COBDEN, And he writes therefore as we have seen. An ordinary man would assuredly have been led by the exercise of his common sense and by the use of one or two of his senses, say, his sight and hear ing acting upon his name—an ordinary man, we say, would in this manner have been led to exactly the opposite conclusion to the one arrived at by Mr. COBDEN in this particular. Why, the appeal to arms has been made already—by the capture of the San Jacinto ! And if Mr. COBDEN must needs► in spite of that, still talk of Arbitration—he had surely better address himself to the Federal Go vernment than to the British Government. So soon as the civilians who were forcibly taken from the deck of a British vessel, from under the shelter of the flag of England, shall have been restored to us with apologies for their capture and detention —then Mr. COBDEN and Mr. BRIGHT and other Quakers and day-dreamers, who live in a fool's Paradise of imaginary arbitration, dreaming their dreams to the occasional tune of rifle and howitzer, may talk to their heart's content again about the universal applicability of arbitration ! What Eng land looks for as the one essential preliminary to arbitration is, the release of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON and their Secretaries. When those gentle men are again under the shadow of our recently outraged flag, then, but not sooner, can we really talk once more about Arbitration. Mr. BUXTON is followed by the Society of Friends in the endeavour to gain acceptance for the Arbitration Scheme in the threatened difference between England and America. We noticed Mr. BUXTON'S proposal at the time, nor do we see that the Friends have added much that is material to his arguments. Indeed Mr. BUXTON himself, though not technically one of the Society of Friends, may, from his connections, be understood as speak ing their views. In all that can be said of the re lations of England to America,—those of race, language, religion, and free institutions, especially, we all concur ; they are almost truisms ; and the obvious deduction, that it is disgraceful for nations so related to plunge into 'what is almost a fratricidal war, islittle more than a truism also. In England these considerations arerealised to the full; were they felt as much in America there would be no difficulty at all. The truth is we have, since the last war, made almost an ABSALOM of the United States; we have denied them nothing; they have had their way 'with the parent country, till the danger of war arises, not from the unbendingness of the parent, but from the ungrateful ambition of its offspring. We have yielded every thing fer peace ; they have done every thing to provoke war. Had any one of the great European States treated England as America has treated her we should have had war with it long ago. Hence a conviction has grown up in our minds that we must begin, in the interests of peace itself, to treat America as we do other countries. We perceive that over indulgence of young na tions, as of young men, may produce the very opposite effects to those at which we aim—that instead of soon finding out that lawlessness must be followed by soberer habits, the young country retains its swagger, its bluster, its rude encroach ments on the respect due to other nations, till a check must at last be put upon all this, It will not do for Americans more than any other peo ple, to think that they will be tolerated in taking what liberties they please with others. The time has come, that they should take on themselves the conduct, with the power and responsibility, of natural manhood. England begins to feel that there is more prospect of lusting peace, if she gives the vast mob of the North to understand, that she will put up with no more such tricks as these demagogues have played at her expense. We have again and - again acknowledged that America has ass redly a large and better class who regret, and even detest, all this rude swagger of the politicians ; but as this cla ss cannot pu t down bullies, this la s t an d preat rrainan its t class m n d ust om be estc put i down by those whom they strive to bully. It will not do for England hey .ceforth to show a for- ELXXFPIrE 1441. CE WITH ECONOMY. GEORGE TrOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. GENERAL MOURNING FOR THE PRINCE CONSORT.—GEORGE HOBSON respectfully invites the attention of the nobility, gentry, and public to his super- Ihr.WPlllMPArriVrttr - woaded black cloths, for frock, dress, and Beaufort coats, £2 15s. to £3 10s. ; black doeskin and Oxford mixture trousers, 21s. to 255. A large stock of new trouscrings and waistcoatings, adapted expressly for mourn ing, 215. to 255. A large stock of over coats kept to suit the taste of all, and from which orders can be promptly executed. Young gentlemen's over coats and capes, price 21s. to 30s. () 0 YAL E NGhISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, Wallworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. 11. Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. - - The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or fees to Box-keepers. rli.EA'fltif.-110Y AL, HAYMARKET, Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Baorstone. TII IS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &C. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sotheran, Miss Oliver, ito. To be followed by GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRADSHAW. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manag-er--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the nertorwances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at 'a quarter to Eight (34th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP'O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun i Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting Manager-31r. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 1. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. PRINCESS'S THEATRE ROYAL. Mr. W. CARPENTER'S BENEFIT TO-NIGHT. The friends of Mr. Carpenter are respectfully informed that the Committee have arranged for his Benefit to take place at the PRINCESS'S This Evenlnff, when a Dramatic Enter tainment will be given which it is hoped will be found worthy of general support. In addition to THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH and THE BLUE JACKETS by the talented Artistes forming the Princess's Company, Mrs. Stir ling has kindly consented to deliver an Address, written and presented by John Oxenford, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul will give a portion of their Entertainment, including the Burlesque of GOOD QUEEN BESS ; and VANDYKE BROWN, in which Mr. J. Clarke, Miss Button, and Miss Lavine (from the Strand Theatre, by the kind permission of H. V. Swanborough), and Mr. Cathcart will appear. Boxes from One-and-a-Half to Three-and-a-Half Guineas, and Tickets—Stalls, 6s. ; Dross Circles, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s.—may be secured at the Box-office, and at Messrs. Mitchell's, Sams's, Bubbs's, and Hookham's Libraries, and of the Members of the Committee. Gallery, ls. EW THIATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL— soIo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. 1i r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. And THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bonelcault, Messrs. Billington, Emery, Phillip, Jamison, Stephenson, Smith, Romer. Lewis, Mrs. Billington. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with a new Farce, MARGERY PAW. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE. Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of 3fdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, the petite Comedy, MATRIMONY Camelia, 3fdlle. di Rhona. After which, BAMBOOZLING. To cowhide with A SMACK FOR A SMACK. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. LAST WEEK of MR. SAN! COWELL, who will, at Eleven o'clock, sing several favourite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. " Grand Selections from STRADELLA. and LA I'itAVIATA, By Miss Russell, bliss Ernst, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Herbert, &c. Solos by Herr Sesselberg, the great Basso. Comic—Mr. Marshall, in "John Bull, or they don't bam boozle me ;" Mr. Randall, from " The Oxford ;" Mr. Wood and his talented son, and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls amid Balcony, Is. CIANTERBURY HALL.-GRAND CHRIST MAS ENTERTAINMENT, by Mr. E. MARSHALL. _'THE ENCHANTED HASH SECOND EDITION," (Written expressly for him.) Commencing on BOXING-NIGHT. CANTERBURY HALL. -M. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN," from Paris, will make his First Appearance on the 30th December. T HE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Bocca ncp,-ra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Machine Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonzhmans. Balfe's new ballsds by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 3h. 25m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 43m.—Afternoon, 4h. Om. THE SUN, tiONDON, TEIiTRSDAY EVENING, bearance which ignorance and vanity takes for cowardice, and to make it the most popular plea in a land where even judges are elective, that the candidate's first act will be, as Mr. SEWARD himself said, to " insult England." In this particular case it has always struck us that arbitration is peculiarly inappropriate. The question is not, what is the law, but, whether acknowledged law shall be obeyed. With the greatest consideration for the Americans, our Go vernment aro understood to have omitted many important points, respecting which dispute was nevertheless possible, and to have based their deman d on the admitted illegality of the mode of seizure. The Americans themselves do not deny this. In deed it is impossible to deny what all their own jurists as well as those of every civilised country consider to be quite elementary law. Their only plea is that Captain WILKES meant to save the passengers and the mail service inconvenience, by not seizing the Trent. Possibly. We have nothing to do with that. We demand law at any incon venience. And as we spurn the courtesy, they have not a shadow of pretext for refusing us the law we demand. But, indeed, this very case of the Trent is a proof that law in these matters is better than courtesy. We much doubt whether the " gallant" WILKEs would have been "gallant" enough to seize the mail packet. All nations having business with America use these packets. They are the trusted carriers of civilisation. Mail packets are felt to have a special claim to exemption from hostile treatment. The Cunard packets, by treaty with America itself, are to enjoy protection when other vessels would be liable to seizure. And had Captain WILKES taken the Trent to Fort Monroe, there would have been such a shout of indignation from outraged civilisa tion as would have made even a " gallant" captor of an unarmed steamer look pale. Captain WILKES would not have been so confident in his interpreta tion of" WHEATON, KENT, and the rest of them," if it had required him to bring a mail steamer before a prize court. It is surely, therefore, of no little consequence that the law should be rigidly upheld. What, indeed, is our security against intermeddling and appropriations of property from our ships by every trumpery American bravo, unless his acts are to be judged of by a competent legal court. The " gallant" WILKES would have thought twice before he involved his country in such pecuniary costs as would result from an illegal seizure of a vessel like the Trent. Financial difficulties have always been the diffi culties in France. Her history tells it. Nay the fact has before now been inscribed upon her annals in characters of blood and flame. Remember the rising and falling of the funds when a CALONNE or a NECKER held the portfolio of finance, just at the dawn of the Great Revolution ! And coming down to later times, recall to mind the fluctuation of hopes and fears yonder in France, when, in the early part of '4B, TIMERS and BARROT afforded momentary glimmerings, but only momentary glimmerings, of the possibility of extricating the Orleans Dynasty from the Slough of Despond into which it was flounder ing deeper and deeper as February advanced. The astute ruler now upon the throne of France recognised but a very few weeks since that the time had at length arrived when he, too, like some of his predecessors at the Tuileries might, at will, decide upon so ordering things that a stupendous danger should—in the nick of time—be avoided. 7hey missed the opportunity—only acting when it was too late to act. lie, on the contrary like a wise statesman as he is, acts betimes in this matter of vital importance, and acts thus, moreover, directly to the purpose. There is a deficit of forty millions to deal with. And he deals with it. There is a breach in the strong fortress of the Imperial Government, and there—precisely there, in that place of peril —we may now say with a new reading— " FOULDS rush in where angels feared to tread." The EMPEROR summons to his Councils a bold innovator, who speedily enough evidences his deter mination to advance along the path of instant Reform and resolute Economy. Thither—in that direction, resolved "to stand not upon the order of his going, but—to go ! " How well things are now progressing in the right direction, there in France since M. FOULD'S assumption of the responsibility of remodelling the Financial system of the Empire, in other words, since the period of his Impe rial MAJESTY'S daring and volunteered conces sions, may now be very agreeably learned through M. TROPLING'S report on the Senatus Consultum in reference to the extension of the privileges of the Corps Legislatif : a report in re ference to the suppression of extraordinary credits by the EMPEROR, and the privilege granted to the Corps Legislatif of voting the budget by sections, and in reference also to the limits to be fixed to the transfer of voted supplies. The loyalty of the Imperial policy is, of course, the theme of this report of M. TROPLING'S. As to that loyalty, however, France and Europe have yet to judge. The recent innovations promise well. But how they will work, or whether they are to be resolutely and honestly carried out, are facts that remain yet problematical. HER MAJESTY TEE QUEEN. WINDSOR; CASTLE, DEC. 18. The Queen had several hours of undisturbed sleep last night, and is calm this morning. We are happy to be enabled to state that Lord Palmerston, who had for several days been suffering from an attack of gout in the wrist and in one foot, htLd almost entirely recovered from it yesterday. Ho has beer confined to the house for a day or two, but has never been. prevented either from receiving his colleagues in the Ministry, or transacting the immense amount of business which, espe cially at such a moment, devolves upon the head of the Government. The Earl and Countess of Derby have been re ceiving a distinguished company at Knowsley. On Mon day, on the receipt of the lamented death or his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the company separzited. His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Germany. His Excellency the Belgian Minister, who has been suffering from indisposition for some d.sys past, at New Lodge, Windsor, is somewhat better. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford :House, St. James's, yesterday, from lilleshall, Shropshire. The Duchess (Dow.) of Sutherland has, though not generally known, been staying with the Queen at Windsor Castle since Monday morning, at the request of her Majesty. The soothing presence of the d uchess has been a source of some consolation to the Queen under the poignancy of the grief naturally consequent on her Ma jesty's severe affliction. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have re turned to Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. The Duke of Argyll is expected immediately in London from the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, and Lady Victoria Cecil, have arrived in town from Brighton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort, have left town for Ireland. REMOVAL OF THE O'DONOGIIIIE FROA THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE.—The _Evening Mad under stands that her" Majesty's writ has passed the Great Seal superseding The O'Donoghue in the commission of the peace for the counties of Cork and Kerry. About £72,000 in gold, chiefly Australian, by the Wellesley, was taken to the Bank yesterday, mit,Jtiug a total of £142,000 since the last weekly return, DECEMBER 19, 1861. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, DEC. 19. The Aloititear of to-day publishes a decree open ing the Custom-house of Strasburg for the importa tion of woollen and cotton yarns of every kind of Belgian and English manufacture. The Custom-houses of Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Valenciennes, S trasburg, and Chambery are added to the number of those which have already been opened for the direct importation and clearing of English and Belgium textures taxed ad valorem. The Moniteur, in its bulletin, gibes a categorical denial to all the reports of modifications in the French Ministry. Count Pourtales, Prussian Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, is dead. MADRID, DEC. 18. The Marquis Vega Armigo has been appointed Minister of Public Works. Mr. Schurz, the American Minister, has left Madrid on leave of absence. CATTARO, DEC. 18. Numerous detachments of volunteers have been sent to Antivari and Spizza, in order to defend these places against any attack that might be made by the Montenegrins. The latter, however, have retreated. A considerable sum of money has been received at the Turkish camp for the payment of the arrears due to the troops. BERLIN, DEC. 18. It was alleged by some Berlin papers that the King, in replying to an address presented to his Majesty at Leztlingen, while on his recent hunting tour, had expressed his dissatisfaction with the election in that district of certain members of the more advanced section of the Liberal party. The Preussische Zeitung of to-day says : " We are authorised from the highest quarters to declare that the report of the speech of the King to the clergy of Letzlingen has been exaggerated, and even falsified, from party motives. The King neither used the words nor conveyed the sense re specting amnestied persons which have been attri buted to him." BRESLAU, DEC. 18. The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day says : "Mgr. Bialobrzeski, Administrator of the Arch bishopric of Warsaw, has been condemned to death. He refused to appeal for pardon, and said,—' I have done nothing which should be punished with death.' " GENOA, DEC. 18. The Corriere Mercantile of to-day states that a disagreement has arisen between Garibaldi and the leader of the majority of the Genoa Committee, who had voted that the authority of the committee was superior to that of Garibaldi. NAPLES, DEC. 18. Vesuvius has recommenced casting forth ashes. An official report states that Torre del Greco has risen to the extent of one metro. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pera, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian mails, arrived off the Needles at 10.25 this morning. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Senate met yesterday—M. Troplong in the chair. M. Baroche, Minister-President of the Council of State; M. Billault, Minister without portfolio; M. de Parieu, Vice-President of the Council of State ; and M. Vuitry, President of Section, took their places on the seats appropriated to the Government Commissioners. The order of the day was the reading of the report drawn up by M. Troplong in the name of the committee ap pointed to examine the Senatus-Consultum intend ing to modify Arts. 4 and 12 of the Senatus-Con sultum of Dec. 25,1852. The document commences in these terms:— "Gentlemen,--For the second time in a year the Em peror has called on the Senate to deliberate on measures calculated to extend our constitutional guarantees. In the month of December last, the field of discussion in the Senate and the Legislative Body was enlarged ; and now you have to occupy yourselves with the control of the finances and new means calculated to render it more efficient. rho na tion regards with interest those important labours of the Senate, and its gratitude is warmly expressed to the Sove reign, who knows how to call them into existence with that happy appropriateness which is the genius of Government, and with that boldness which is only the prudence of the man who reads the future. " However, gentlemen, there is now no more than there was a year ago, any question of quitting the path traced out by the Constitution of 1852. That Constitution has a cha• ratter which is clearly defined in our organic plebiscites. It reposes iu its fundamental bares on a former contract, which the national popular assemblies have stipulated, and which they alone can modify. " But tho Constitution of 1852 did not undertake to re • store to liberty the combinations and the forms which were crushed down in 1848 by the heavy car of revolutions ; far from that, universal suffrage, whose voice still resounds in our ears, has declared them incompatible with the wants of a society which democracy guides, but which dreads abysses, and which is resolved not again to fall into any by the powerlessness of the pilot and the weakness of the rudder. No doubt the country must obtain all franchises which it can support without injury to itself ; but the Government also must not lose any of the attributes which constitutes its liberty, and which necessarily belong to its authority. This was forgotten after 1789, but we are too near 1848 for it to be again lost sight of. " It is thus that the Emperor himself has understood the respective situations. " It follows from these observations that the measures proposed deserve all the favour of the Senate, if, as we think with the Emperor's Government, they are only improve ments of, and not deviations from, the Constitution of 1852, and its mechanism. " The first of these measures is as to the mode of voting the Budget by the Legislative Body. The article of the draft submitted to your deliberations, proposes to you to make a modification in Art. 12 of the Senatus-Consultum of the h December, 1852, which has regulated this point. The Senate will perhaps be kind enough to call to mind that the reporter at the litter epoch was the same as on the present occasion, and it is on that account that I owe to you the honour of now expressing the opinions of your committee," The report then examines at considerable length and with great ability the manner in which the Budget had been voted under preceding Govern ments from the time of the First Empire down to the Revolution of February. That part of the document is afterwards summed up in this manner : " Under the monarch of Napoleon I. the right of voting the taxes existed, but it was limited through not taking cognisance of the cause. It wanted the condition required by the principles of 1789 for the vote to be free, namely, the proof of the requirements and the discussion of the means. " Under the Parliamentary system the control, on the contrary, was excessive ; but it was wanting in the princi ple of authority proclaimed in 1852 ; it disturbed the har mony of the powers, and gave to the Chambers, sometimes even to the commission, attributes belonging to the Crown. " These two systems do not suit the monarchy of the Second Empire, which will not have absolutism either in power or in liberty." _ _ In the case cl preparations for war which would require secrecy in the face of great perils from abroad, the committee considered that the system of transfers would be of paramount utility, but such measures it believed could never remain long con cealed, and when light should at last break in on what was going on, the best plan wouldbe toboldly assume the clear position which belongs to a Govern ment supported by the sentiment of the country. The report terminates as follows : " Gentlemen, our task is very nearly terminated. We should, however, cons ider it incomplet e, if we did not endeavour to show the political signification ofthe measura by which it is recommended to your attention. The measure is only a change in the form of proceeding ; it is not the disavowal of a glorious past, and we must not allow impres sions to exist calculated to create the belief that it was con ceived in consequence of accumulated =harassments, and not in the full liberty of a Government, master of existing circumstances. (Approbation.) " After ten years the Government modifies its line of conduct by a now step in advance; it does not condemn itself in the acts which marked its accession. " The law of the 25th June, 1811, ordered numerous ex traordinary works of general utility. That law was, so to speak, a noble page in the history of that epoch. To exe cute the works, it was necessary to submit to annual defi cits, to contract loans, to increase the floating debt, and to augment the budget from year to year. In January, 1818, the floating debt was 630,793,609 f. ; a loan of 350,000,0001. was negotiated, and, let us remark in passing, it could not be entirelyrecovered : not less than 800,000,000 f. were added to the public debt, and the budget, which in 1830 was 975,044,745 f., attained the figure of 1,126,110,170 f. " The public expenses since 1852 have considerably in creased, and the loans have exceeded the bounds where the preceding monarchy had stopped. But the France of 1852, strengthened, pacified, and restored by the 2d of December, is no longer the France of former days, and she can no more keep herself within the budgetary limits of 1830 than 1830 could within those of 'B7. Her ca pital has more than tripled, and her riches eclipse all that was ever before known ; she has seen her glorious flag astonish Europe, and float on the walls of Sebastopol. Her policy and her arms have realised the great design, perhaps the dream, pursued since the time of Charles VIII, of an Italy released from a foreign yoke. Our soldiers have caused the extreme East to tremble ; Syria has hailed them as deliverers ; Rome receives them as the guardians of order and the protectors of the Holy See. Is the money, there fore, badly spent which serves to pay for so much glory, grandeur, and generosity? England saddled herself with a debt of several milliards to endeavour but in vain to stifle the French revolution ; and we, we have been imprudent in borrowing two milliards to raise to the highest degree the name of France, to resume the series of our victories, to carry to the ends of the world our civilisation and our influ ence, and to crown our secular tendencies beyond the Alps by the miracle of definitive success. (Approbation.) " At the same time, the extraordinary works carried on in part by about 500 millions obtained from credit under different forms, have diffused life through the provinces, transformed the capital which had become too small, and multiplied all the means of communication which enrich a country, facilitate commerce, and diminish the expense of carriage and travelling. From 1848 to 1860, that is, in thirteen years, four of which only belong to the Re publican Government, and were subject to its uncer tainties, 863,365,057 fr. have been devoted to new works, roads, bridges, rivers, canals, seaports, reclaim ing of downs, plantations, and railways ; and further, what the State has applied to railways has led to an outlay by the companies of 2,935 millions. This result which, taking the yearly average, exceeds the proportions of works exe cuted during the 17 years of the monarchy of July, must be regarded as a compensation for the addition to the debt ; for, if the interest of the public debt has been increased, the annual benefit to the country has been far greater owing to the diminution of the cost of conveyance of goods and passengers, and to the impulse given to trade, manufac. tures, and agriculture. (Renewed approbation.) "A Minister of King Louis Philippe declared from the tribune that the public debt was not large enough in propor tion to our wealth, and he was right, on condition, how.- ever, that the funds borrowed be applied to productive works. The loans which are transformed into roads, bridges, railways, canals, &c., procure the country con siderable economies which the interest paid for the capital. " Thus, Messieurs, these 2,000 millions borrowed for war; these 500 millions borrowed for public works, bring them a signal justification. " Apprehensioas have been felt on the subject of the floating debt, which now amounts to 579 millions ; but the floating debt was larger in 1855, 1857, and 1360, and France suffered no embarrassment oa that account. Can France be alarmed by these 879 millions? She had in January, 1843, a floating debt of 630 millions ; are the 879 millions of to-day so very far in excess of that sum, when we take into consideration the increased wealth and the progress of the country ? It should also be remembered that in these 879 millions there are 652 millions accruing from deficits anterior to 1852, and not imputable to the empire, and 78 millions which served for the conversion of the Rente, in paying off creditors who preferred to receive their money instead of the new stock. The other 100 millions have been employed in the expedition to the East and the occupation of Rome. "Now, Messieurs, these are the faults of the Empire. Who, at the present moment, would wish that they had not been committed ? Who would wish to efface Sebastopol, Magenta, and Solferino ? Who would wish to see France deprived of her new weapons of war and her transformed navy, her railways, and so many other improvements, great and small, which would ere while have been considered luxuries, but cannot now be regarded even as superfluities, to such an extent as the taste for the comforts of life ren dered them necessary ? (Marks of assent.) " If those are faults, a Monarch loss reserved than the Emperor might say with Scipio, 'Let us ascend the capi tal and give thanks to the Gods.' But he employs different language, and making what Montaigne calls a pause in his strength, he says, not 'let us stop, for France cannot do so,' but ' let us charge our route, and moderate even our pas- sion for the people's welfare,'—a prudent resolution, espe cially in questions of finance. The report, which was listened to throughout with earnest attention, was loudly applauded at the close. BOURSE, Dec. 18.—The market has been more buoyant, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at the closing prices of yesterday. For the Account Threes are now at 67f 40c. Railways also firm, and some lines rather higher. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 94 50 Credit F oncier Do end month.... Belgian 4i, 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 40 Roman Bank Shares 2960 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 721 25 Spank , h Threes — Do. Account 722 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account.. Orleans 1295 1297 50 Northern New ditto . 915 Lyons and Mediterranean 1003 75 .. 1005 Geneva — • • -- Southern 656 25 .. 657 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 335 .. 340 Austrian Lombard ......... • . 506 25 .. 507 50 POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1862. KELLY AND CO., OLD BOSWELL-COURT. There are some advantages so common as to be hardly estimated at their real value. Year by year Lond:iners accept the publication of the Post Office Directory as a mere matter of course, without rightly estimating the amount of care and labour expended on its compilation, or realising the help less perplexity to which many of us would be reduced were we compelled to thread the mazes of this mighty metropolis without the assistance of this potent guide. It is like the fairy Order who disposed of all the heroine's difficulties in the old nursery tale, for it reduces the thronging crowds into rank and flle, subdividing them in so many ways, arranging them in such clear and simple divisions, that any one who can read is safe to:find his way to any specified place or person in the modern Babylon, althou4h the address or locality might previously be totally unknown to him. The current edition of this valuable work is prepared with the usual care and precision ; the accuracy of all the entries having been tested by special inquiry. The Postal and Conveyance Directories have been al. tered and improved, and the proprietors express their well-founded conviction that the number for 1862 will be found equal to the best of its predecessors. If is satisfactory to know that the work will be continued in the same manner, being compiled by the same editors, circulated in the same manner, and printed from the type obtained expressly for it, and always kept standing. A comprehensive map of London is, as usual, prefixed. THE DEPOSIT BANK.—The fact that Mr. Peter Morrison, the managing director of the Depcsit Bank, has been allowed to elude the inquiries after him has excited more indignation than surprise. • When the break-up of this concern was first announced it was suggested that the most vigilant watch should be kept on Mr. Morrison's movements, and an assurance was given that such would be the case. He was then in London, and had the boldness to write to the various journals expressing favourable anti cipations of the prospects of the creditors. His escape, therefore, must, to say the least, have been the result of culpable negligence—a negligence which appears peculiar to cases of this description, where the offender has for long series of ye ars had uncontrolled comm and of the fund: of other people. It seems vain to hope, after p i a r ience, that much troub le wil l le taken in the matter, expe rience, it would be a satisfaction if anything could be ascertained as generally o e the is any tnu excuses o.ffoen of redforch remissness,and whether th institutingsuc ha pursuit as is e successful in th e case of minor delinquents. rfoud t ent " THAT'S THE CHEESE." —The Indian derivation of this saying is well known as applying to the right description of thing. But an enterprising and indefatigable provision dealer, Mr. Osborne, on Ludgate-hill, has given a graphic illustration of what can be done with the product of the dairy —a perfect model farm, the march of a body of rifles, the bustle of a railway, and the silent commerce of the river, all being set forth in full relief in his shop windows. Indeed, it. is as ingenious a display as a clover mind co u ld devise, and with such a one the love of art must be be inn a t e, while at the same time Mr. Osborne would im press the concourse of people who stay to gaze and admire that there is nothing like—elleese•—"4' MR. COBDEN ON THE AMERICAN CRP IS. (Rom the _Brighton Guardian.) The following letter has been received by our townsman, Mr. Henry Catt, in reply to one invit ing Mr. Cobden to attend a forthcoming meeting at B►ighton for the purpose of advocating arbitra tion in the existing dispute with America : Midhurst, Dec. 16,1861. My Dear Sir,—l regret that I cannot accept your invitation to be present at the meeting to be held next Monday condemnatory of a war with Ame rica. When asked to address public meetings, my plight, just now, is that of a man who, having sprained his allele, is invited to enter the lists for a foot race. Though the state of my health in other respects is good enough, I am prevented by a local affection, for the present, from public speaking. But I am glE.d to hear that the working men of Brighton are promoting a meeting on the American question. The object of all rational men and true patriots at this moment should be to enforce upon the Government that principle of mediation or arbitration which was proposed by the British Plenipotentiary and sanctioned by the Congress of the Great Powers at Paris in 1856. The pro tocols of the Conferences then held, which were laid before Parliament at the time, but to which few persons have now access, disclose to us the excellent motives alleged by Lord Clarendon for proposing this " happy innovation," which he designed as "a barrier against conflicts which frequently only break forth because it is not always possible to enter into explanation and to come to an understanding." The question thus enforced in the name of the British Government was solemnly debated, every Plenipotentiary taking a part, and was adjourned for two days to enable Count Orloff to obtain the " definitive adherence" of the Russian Government, when the following declaration was unanimously agreed to : " The Plenipotentiaries do not hesitate to express, in the name of their Governments, the wish that States, between which any serious misunderstand ing may arise, should, before appealing to arms, have recourse, as far as circumstances might allow, to the good offices of a friendly Power." Now, is it pcssible that any case will aver arise to which this principle of mediation can be more appli cable than the present? In perfect ignorance of what the answer of the American Government may be, I will assume the worst,—that they refuse to surrender the captured envoys, and offer to justify their course by appeals to international law. What can be more within the scope of the Paris resolution than that where two interested parties differ on a subtle point of international law it should be referred to the decision of a disinterested third Power ? Looking at it even with a view to a practical re dress of our present grievance, what other ccurse offers so good a hope of success ? The object desired is to place at liberty gentlemen who were taken from a British vessel. I happen to know Messrs. Slidell and Mason personally, and to the latter I am indebted for many courtesies at Wash ington ; and, although, as they must know, I can have no sympathy for their cause, few persons would more rejoice than myself to see them released from an irksome confinement. But assuming that to effect this object we declare war against the Federal States, and that these gentlemen are in consequence transferred from Boston harbour to the interior, does any one acquainted with America believe that it would be possible for England to release them ? We could destroy each other's com merce and spend countless treasure, we might pour out blood like water, and ruin for a generation two great civilisations, but the object aimed at could not be accomplished. On the contrary, if we submit the question to the adjudication of a third Power, the first step will be to place the two envoys at the disposal of the recognised tribunal. Should it be decided that they were ille gally captured, they will be released; if their seizure be pronounced justifiable by international law, they will be liable to detention as prisoners of war only, and not as rebels, for the Government of Washing ton can have no right of appeal to the law of nations in justification of their act except by acknowledg ing the belligerent rights of the South. But it has been Reid that the Washington Go. vernment wish to insult us, with a view to provoke a war. There may be traitors or madmen in the North who would like to see their Government in volved in the embarrassment of a war with Eng land ; but that a Government and people, who re quire at this moment half a million of men in arms to meet a civil war and guard their capital, should look with anything but dismay at the prospect of a war with the most powerful maritime State in the world is too monstrous a supposition to be seriously believed by those who pretend to entertain it. At all events, the true test of the disposition of the American people will be the expressed willing ness on our part to resort, if necessary, to the mediation of a third party. Should such a concilia tory step meet with no better response than a de sire to insult and wrong us, we should be united as one man to repel the outrage; and, unless the solemn declaration of Paris is to be impotent for all practical good, and a mere dead letter, all the Powers of Europe would in such a case be ranged on our side, and ready to brand with outlawry a nation guilty of so barbarous and wanton an aggres sion. Entertaining these views, I recommend the work ing men of Brighton, and ail who take part in similar demonstrations, to raise their voices in favour of arbitration. The cry for peace alone is hardly enough at the present moment. What we require is peace on the principles of impartial jus tice ; and the truest way of insuring this in case of dispute, whether in the affairs of nations or of individuals, is by calling in the services of a disin terested arbitrator.—l remain, very truly yours, Henry Catt, Esq. 11. COZDEN. ENGLAND AND AOIERICA. On the three days' later news from New York, by the Bohemian, the English funds opened yesterday morning at an improvement of a quarter per cent., but there was again considerable dulness at the close. The first price of Consols was 90i to g g , whence a decline took place to 90, and the final bargains were at 90f. The declaration stated to have been made by President Lincoln, that there need be no fear of war unless Great Britain should seek a " pretext" for hostilities, was seen, upon reflection, to be a repetition of the injurious tone hitherto so universally manifested, and of the reliance enter tained that we shall be glad by any adroit contriv ances that may be suggested to find an excuse for submitting to all indignities, rather than a trust worthy sign of any disposition to yield a prompt reparation. A hint that the victim of an outrage is anxious for a quarrel seems, to business persons, as little calculated to excite expectations of a readi ness for a just settlement as a proposal for arbitra tionhjir s o e n lf t o h f e o p t h a r e t r o p f e r a s 0 1 a n w s , br e ali goodse .r o lt i s h a a l s s o p o o b s s s e e r s v s e e d d that the fact that the Washington Cabinet "feel no anxiety on the subject" may possibly be attributed much more to the immunity that has attended pre vious aggressions than to a resolution to meet all proper requirements in the present case, the call of the President for an immense outlay for works of offence against the Canadian frontier being little in harmony with a pacific hypothesis. The fear, in fact, is that the confidence of Mr. Seward and his col• leagues is based simply on the belief that an apology for the mode in which the recent offence was com mitted will for the time answer all purposes, and that Messrs. Mason and Slidell may be indefinitely retained for a discussion between the two countries, which may be brought to the required degree of bit terness whenever an opportune moment may seem to have arrived. Nevertheless, the English public aro as anxious now as from the first to find that the object of all these demonstrations has been simply to serve party purposes at home, and that the answer to Lord Lyons may be such as to restore the Federal Government to a position of dignity —Times City _Article. At York assizes, yesterday, Waller, the poacher, who shot a gamekeeper in the neighbourhood of Otley, a few weeks ago, was found guilty of wilful murder, and was sentenced to death.