The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

ALLIED AMERICA AND ALIEN-TRANS PLANTATIONS, NORTH AND SOUTH. CeitssEsQuE-Sachims and M er chants.-:--For commercial quiet it becomes my duty, in total opposition to the opinion of the 'placet' lawyers of British , Church, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast - g uard 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 t h e prepnetory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of his debts un der a just i ce cert i ficate, the cap tain of any ship convey ing such evil intentioned person to be alike amenable to his creditors.' (Signed) R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTH, Clk. of Synod, J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28,1701,-Re-modelled, 1838. Sachims-The last Illustrated London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's Caroline, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arm'rial.-.scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch under the allies of England by the" resolution of its two councils" on Jag. L's 700 shares in River-hd. London plug company of Philadelphia, as attested by De'can' 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 Indian responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were turned over by commit t of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, No. 4421, as the Far West peculiar institution), with the undersigned § Lay-(se'cones. See Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1840, Lon don (and Philadelphia) Convention, by Bulo Palmersto n and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. as successor to the 99 years' leases, guaranteed under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Seem° Jos. Brant, on the sugges tion of old John Adams (whose grandson is now in London), and approved at Philadelphia's Longbro Crt., Gloster, by Atkyns Montague, Chamberlayne for Hugh Chamberlen and Co., of River-hd. proprietary on plugged Steggles. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Florida-semieles and Georgii Cherokee Indians of the coast, and of Ohio, one thousand miles west of the Mis sissippia, lodge-poised-North and South of Mount Plea sant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters, to pre vent of their black cattle mixing with the virgin races. Hence the Shire-court foundation, on French and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as pr efac ' d to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841 ) elect ion of P. 'Basket,' the living repres , ntative of the Ashburton boundary com mission, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn stioesiss sr as Ind• lady sponsor of 1820-f or A c t o f 1843' s Empery (extra isitio-ms) court, of the Texas-hundred' partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, (for avoidance of the French-placet 1562 of Bor romea ' Churchmen to pay taxes, tenths, and Filibus-forage subsidies' of the Trent council for swamping by votes), via Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana. Jr. re Trent-The arrest of Messrs. Slidell, Mason, and ethers, as illegal contra-band persons,' you perceive, is just for mercantile quiet, on this the undersigned medalled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats for motives of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the bronze'd-PENN-statue Society of Friends. Sac'homo's and Sachims. Ken i by Acts of 1818 ('24-32 still pending), S 4.9, subjects or subject for equal rewards to all parties on polar-expedition. 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 'Pieced-proclamations as headed in the 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, as well as the alien's of contracting parties to keep sectarian peace on their soil. By reasons as follows :- 1. The flag union (of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Chris tian Zollverein trading flag s , r ), and not a belligerent by the Ordnance) issue of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower under my Water Gap-line limit RED flag, as the war one of empery. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union courts of x-gal law of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which has been decided in the Anr'lot-spansh-Texas Crts. as inad missible, 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 Belgium treaties of 1828-30 of sectarian illegality. 3, The Papal assumption 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 the Sigismond life-tenure as sumption of the house of Savoy, for the seizing of Mexico from England's allies, caused his papist envoy, Capt. Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests wolves men,'-as manifest by late Morocco bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spective arrangements, in violation of Ackerley's 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 as such by Peel and Derby, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the 'sole' man of Nor-West Russia Fur guarantee-elect of the 99 years Dutch Loan Act of 1832, unconnected with religion. Fourthly. The Lie-ratification of the 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-alien ' coloured persons being interdicted from voice in the peculiar institution' by act of March and April, 1836, under Carteret'-Gladstone's) com. of H. C. The foregoing Chain proves to y e ', S ac hi ms I I n di ans , aliens, and all others, that the C a bi ne t s name d i n thi s con vention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a converse sense, (being in total opposition to the legislative unity of the standard of weight and measure of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue under annual elec tion of paid laymen, as well as for guiding the commerce of the whole world) without consulting the undersigned. Therefore the gist of this letter, for my rights, yours, and all parties, is [for the monetary recognition of all dues from America upon the principal of primary well-intention of the whites and the evident decay of human nature, by the theft of thel73o Indian nationalities on my life], by brother and sister association for the future, under the law of Eng land, as now disconnected with (S. Pope, 'I -Churches, or T-Sects) the state, hitherto under minister's money. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Empery-5aCk 9 13145, Nephew (of Sac'mo Jos. Brant, 1775-Saemo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-£lO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. L.S. H.7's- SC. H. ACKERLEY, P.C.,-sworn in, -C. J., Empyrate commission of Review, 1825-37, L.s. Hen. B's Executors ' § WOTTO N ' LYON BOWES, P.C. 26th,-London. See The 3449 i, Dec. 2, 1861. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Unier the management_of Miss Louisa Pyno and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corti, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, W allworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. ---- - To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. H. Haigh, G. Pync ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. 4, The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or tees to Box-keepers. Stal•e-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Ilanager, Mr. Edward Murray. EA TR ~!;• )Y AL, HAYMARKET, 1,914 Ree, Mr. J. 13. Bnarstou.. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun'lreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sothcran, 311 is Oliver, &c. Followed by BOX AND COX. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. C,ommenee a 7 LOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Mana,rer--Mr. Edmund Falconer. TFI I 4 EVENING. the nertormances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. Atter which, at a quarter to Eif.rht (21st time) the new and orizlnal Drama, entitled PE EP O' DAY ; or, Savourneen I?eelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun 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—Mr. F. B Chitterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence al 7 Box-office open daily from It till 5. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manazer, Mr. A. 'Harris. 'MIS EVENING, THE MERTZY WIVES OF WIND SOR. Sir John Falstaff', Mr. Ryder (his 7th appearance in that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, If. Widdicomb, &e. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Solo Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. Alter which, the new drama, entitled THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written by the author of "The' Colleen Bawn." Mr. George Jamison, from the Winter- Warden, New York; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea tres ; and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. Tho other prin cipal characters in rho drama will be performed by Messrs. Emery, Stephenson Billiwtton, Paul Bedford, Romer. Mrs. kMlinszton. Mrs. Marston, &c., etc. Entirely new scenery by lessrs. Dalby and Thompson. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole, Bliss K. Kelly, ,t c „ Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. EW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford -street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE. and Af Dance two ter which, Mdlle. National Dances. Mdi Rhona will appear in CAELIA, After which, BANIBOOZLING. To conclude with LES PIERROTS. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven. C INTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, MTh SAII COWELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou rite Son ,, s, inclnding " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. " Grand Selections from STRADELL.I and LA l';;A VTATA, Ity Miss itussell, 311.4 Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. The Comic department :—Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Manilall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey and Wrench (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and gro his talented son, the best ne delineators of the day; and Miss Harriet Covency Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, B,i. ; Stans and Balcony, Is. 1 1 HE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Simon BOMA n;t-r,ra," and " by Miss Russell and Miss Ernst ; Messrs. Albert (his first appearance), Morley Greville, Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.— Balte's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame E ders- VIM (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic as altert ainments by Miss sHarriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran .r., A,NI C U v e and French (The N erves ) , E . M ars h a ll , an d lioze„XZE ts l . L. flail, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Priyate HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, Tins DAY.—Morning, 2h. 13m.—Afternoon, 2h. 39m. To-monnow.-Morning, 3h. sm.—Afternoon, 3h. 28m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 3, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 32—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.30. WlND—Southerly ; light, with fine weather. tiPi 'ACt _ \ _ cif „ 4 0— ° - , ROir •I'lo' _ •••• * b THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 1861. " We have got the men, and we'll keep them," seems to be the sum of American opinion. If an apology would content the British, say some, then let them have an apology if they like, for the informality, but no surrender of the men. To this extent opinion does seem divided in Ame rica. It is impossible to deny that the captain of the San Jacinto had no right to make prize of the men without the adjudication of a Prize Court ; this much is therefore conceded by nearly all, but the gains of illegality are sweet, and must be firmly clutched. Nothing, therefore, is to induce the American Government to part with them. We may now say that the decision for peace or war lies entirely with the Cabinet at Wash ington; that is, of course, subject to its respon bility to the mob and its orators. It is beyond doubt now that Captain WILKES did not act by direct orders from Washington, and it is therefore open to the Government to decline the responsi bility for his actions, if they choose. It looks badly, indeed, that they did not do so at once. On that point we need not press too hardly on them. Precipitate submission to reason and justice in a case in which England was the injured party, might be more than any administration might even seem to be guilty of. Time might permit the Sovereign people to cool down a little, and it would be hard to refase the President the benefit of a few days' grace. By the time our messenger reaches Wash ington all the injustice of the deed, and all the consequences of a war with England, and with the South at the same time, may have become apparent. And, the extreme inconvenience of the last may make it extremely convenient to acknowledge the first. We are informed that the representatives of other foreign Powers in Washington all sympathise with the views of England. They all called, Mr. Rus- SELL tells us, on Lord LYONS. Their opinion, though the friendship of Russia and of France is paraded much by the Americans themselves, is unanimous that England cannot submit to the in sult—that to do so would be to concede the mari time rights of all civilised nations to the caprice of Americans. The French Orleans Princes who are there share in the regret of foreign countries for what has been done; and when the Americans re ceive the French papers they will see that our neighbours who in a dispute with America can have no traditional leanings towards us, are all as unani mous as we can be on the illegality of the seizure and on the necessity laid on us of demanding re dress. It is very plain that had it been a French packet which was molested, a French fleet would have carried over an ultimatum. They will also see that the French perceive that they will almost inevitably be compelled to unite with us, in political action at least; that England, if resisted, must acknowledge the Confederate Government; that this could not be an isolated act; France would not put up with losing the trade of the South, while England was taking advantage of it; and hence France would be compelled, in self-defence, to an identity of policy with England, although she could not insult us by offering her aid in a war which we were abundantly competent to carry on for our selves. It is curious to see how completely the Washing. ton Government are caught in their own net. Their only colourable defence is that the commissioners were ambassadors of a belligerent. Even this is founded on a misconception of one text writer, precedents not being at command ; but the awk wardness for them is, that while this may be truly said to be their only plausible ground, they have deprived themselves of the right to use it. Not only do they not acknowledge the South as belligerents, but they are very wroth with us for doing it, and even pretend that we seduced France into doing the same. How, therefore, could they have pleaded in their own prize courts that they seized the two gentlemen in a capacity they did not acknowledge ? If, on the other hand, they are admitted to be but rebels—political offenders—then, by all the laws of Christian, and even of Mahometan civilisation, they could not be claimed. America would have enough on her hands if all the potentates of Europe were to seize on her territory—and a ship is con fessedly a count's territory —every rebel who sought her shores. K OSSUTH left a neutral coun try, England, for a neutral country, the United States; he went avowedly to solicit both Govern mental and popular aid against Austria. Suppose he had been taken on his voyage from an American mail steamer by an Austrian frigate and carried straight to Trieste, how long would it have been before every available American ship of war had followed him thither ? The cases, so far as America is concerned, are exactly parallel. The case of KOSTA, to which we have before adverted, is in some respects even stronger, since a mail packet, from which the Commissioners were taken, is one specially exempted by all the authorities who advert to the subject. Nothing is more apparent in all the American press than the intense pleasure afforded to the Northerns by the capture of these two men. To use the language of one journal, " The American heart never thrilled with more genuine delight than it did yesterday at the intelligence of the cap ture of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON." It is contrasted with the capture of Beaufort, but that though so important, did not give " satisfaction equal tothat experienced when base and treacherous knaves meet with their desert." Our New York contemporary. seems to feel no twinge on the ques tion whether the capture itself was not " base and treacherous." He has cause he says for his delight since "if we were to search the whole of rebeldom h no a vpee been s e o e n n s f o s j found n d u s a t l s y t h o b o s n e o j i u o s u t s e t o a u t g h h e t . N ” o r s t could and MASON are compared with JEFF. DAVIS, and the latter declared to have some redeeming qualities, the former none. It is even supposed, of course hypo critically, that England herself " will applaud the gallant act !" There seems to be no doubt that the two gentle men are really two very clever fellows, and that it is of importance to detach their brains from the service of the South. We may conjecture, there fore, what Mr. LINCOLN would have to face in mak ing up his mind to surrender the men to our de mand. He would do so for no other reason than the most urgent necessity. The list of ships ready for immediate or speedy service, the calm unanimity of our press, with the most paltry exceptions, the offers of our Naval Reserve to her MAJESTY, the coocurrence of other foreign countries, these are the arguments which alone will weigh with Mr. LIN COLN. Yet these arguments he dares not rehearse to the mob. They may, however, induce him to back out by obtaining from his own advisers an opinion hostile to the wrong done by Captain WILKs. In that case he could make a display of magnanimity and scrupulous love of international justice. While we are yet waiting to learn the result of the peremptory demand addressed by us to the Federal Government at Washington, our demand, that is, of instant and com plete reparation for a most wanton and un justifiable outrage—it is satisfactory to know that a similar requisition, addressed very recently to the Mexican Government, has been most readily acceded to. That it should have been, is certainly not so very surprising under the circumstances. However—surprising or not surprising—it is, we repeat, in the highest possible degree satisfactory. The recognised organ of Lord PALMERSTON'S Cabinet tells us point blank, and without a show even of ambiguity or circumlocution in the telling of it, that the capitulation of the Mexican Govern ment is " complete and unequivocal." And that it is so, is all the more remarkable, when it is borne in mind, as has been observed, that it is the result not of actual military interference but of the mere apprehension of it ! The naval expedition fitted out for the enforcement of the diplomatic re quisition alluded, to would consequently under ordi nary circumstances find the work " done to hand" by anticipation—without any necessity whatever for the employment of physical force in the doing of it! Common sense having thrust upon the in stant recognition of the " powers that be" in Mexico, the utter futility of withstanding any de mand so backed by the combined armaments of England, France and Spain ! And this immediate appreciation of the folly of further persistence in the refusal of reparation, when thus demanded, has happily gone far to prevent that lamentable effu sion of blood that must otherwise inevitably have desolated the Mexican shores. Our plenipotentiary, Sir CHARLES WYKE, has been enabled, in fact, by a few strokes of the pen, and a few oral communications to the Mexican Go vernment, to compel the agreement of that Govern ment to a convention conceding one by one the whole of our requirements. Stolen money repaid ! Flagrant outrages unconditionally compensated ! Forgotten or despised engagements at length ful filled, and fulfilled to the very letter ! Altogether our Mexican Bondholders having no longer reason to lament, as they have so long had reason to lament, the neglect of treaty stipulations. Yet is it, after all this, hardly necessary to add that the swords of England, France, and Spain are not immediately sheathed in consequence of this prompt and seemingly most satisfactory compliance. We have been so often deceived, before now, that we cannot easily be so very credulous of the sincerity of the good intentions avowed by the Mexican Go vernment. The Allies are consequently about to take the security for those good intentions into their own hands. The satisfaction, therefore, which is now so eagerly offered to us is not quite so eagerly accepted. We want guarantees—to adopt a favourite phrase of the late Czar NICHOLAS—We want " mate rial guarantees," of the truth and honesty for once of those who at length express themselves to be so profoundly actuated by feelings of com punction. Oar maritime armament, toge ther with the united armaments of France and Spain, will consequently, immediately upon their reaching their Transatlantic destination, seize upon the Ports, and, with the ports, upon the Customs Duties likewise of Mexico. We are going, in point of fact, simply to pay ourselves instead of consenting (with egregious credulity) to their pay ing us ! For the truth is, the European Govern ments cannot possibly any longer put faith in even the most solemn engagements entered into by the Mexicans. As Lord PALMERSTON'S organ, not very originally, but quite truthfully, remarks-=We can not trust them " even when they bring peace-offerings." It is that old dreadful Timeo Danaos that by reason of its sickening repetition, we are long since almost fain to regret, cannot forcibly be expunged from VIRGIL'S master-piece. Our armed intervention, then, in the midst of the present confused do ings of the Mexican Government, will, in spite of their timorous readiness to comply with our demands in every particular, be still per sisted in. This time England—and with it France and Spain also as Allies—will make certain that there cannot be any further mistakes whatever. If any justification were needed for our perseverance in this enterprise, it might be adduced in only too ample abundance from the records of the Past be tween the Mexicans and ourselves. Instances of the insincerity of those transatlantic republicans might be cited from the chaotic and nefarious annals of Mexico usque ad nauseurn. In effect it is only necessary to remember what a byeword a "Mexican Bond" has become to perceive at once that our rulers, in the instance now under notice, had really and truly in this matter no alternative whatever. The Mexi can Republic, in other words, is altogether too old an offender to be let off so very easily at the first moment when it comes whimpering to our Ambas sador, avowing a suspicious readiness to yield every thing we ask—if only we will stay our hands—if only we will consent to believe in their veracity once more ! To do so—recollecting how often be fore now we have been deceived in this way—were indeed the very height of folly, the very depth of stupidity. Things will therefore, so far, be allowed to take their course yonder in Mexico, that we shall for once make certain by force of arms of the complete success already achieved by our diplo macy. Although we are most of us pretty well tired to death of getting up Testimonials, there is one en terprise of this kind now a-foot, in the promotion of which, who will not be interested ? The HER BERT Testimonial to wit—that Testimonial which is to perpetuate the memory, not so much of Lord HERBERT himself, as of the recognition of his great services by the bulk of his own appreciative contemporaries. We venture to say that never has the proposal for any Testimonial to a distinguished Public Character awakened a more genial interest in its regard than the one we are now reverting to. And yet—is it not strange, too, while saying this, that we should have to remember at the same moment the apparently irreconcileable fact that it is but a very few years since that the de ceased statesman was the target of public ob loquy. He it was who shared with his Grace the Duke Or NEWCASTLE the popular indignation roused by the memorable and deplorable disasters of the Crimea. The old bungling, blundering, fatuous system so long in vogue at the Horse Guards,ut the Admiralty, and at the Ordnance•office, had them abruptly broken down under the weight of a The responsibility o f up holdingrribthleatemoeldrgc3. old, e e n ffe - te, idiotic sy s t em appeare d a first blush, with the maj or it y o f the public at tthete large, to devolve in right and in reason on the then holders of office. Though—strictly in right and in reason—they were really and truly no more responsible for its continuance than the crossing sweeper at the corner of Downing-street, or one of the one-armed Commissionaires of St. James's. It was the old story all over again of mistaken respon sibility—the same old, old story, one of the last and most flagrant illustrations of the cruel injustice of which, had been the onslaught made several years previously upon the Right Hon. Sir JAMES GRAHAM—because he, forsooth, had done again what so many illustrious statesmen had done before him with perfect impunity, great Liberal statesmen like CHARLES Fox, Or men like GEORGE CANNING, Precisely as Sir JAMES GRAHAM was pronounced guilty beyond all other men for having peeped into Signor MAZZINI'S correspondence—tile Duke of SOMERSET and SIDNEY HERBERT were for a long while deemed to be heinously guilty, in regard to the whole dreadful system which came to grief at last in that Slough of Despond, extending to the length of seven appalling miles between the Camp before Sebastopol and the land-locked harbour of Balaklava. Yet, all the while those very two men who were, so to speak, the scapegoats of the Aberdeen Ministry at that time of trial, were, in truth, the least guilty, the least to be condemned of the whole Administration. When the noble lord, the late member for the City of London, now Earl RUSSELL, was suddenly leaving his colleagues in the lurch to enveigh from the safe seclusion of the back benches against the " horrible and heart-rending " news received at that warlike period, mail after mail, from the seat of war in the Crimea—who of all the Go vernment were labouring the most strenuously and devotedly and unremittingly, were toiling:day and night, heart and soul, for the honour of England, and for the comfort and welfare of England's warriors by sea and land ? Indirectly, it may be for our sailors, but directly and most effectually for our gallant, but hitherto, neglected soldiers. Why, the very men who were then by the great majority the most loudly reprobated ! The Duke of NEW CASTLE, that is to say, and his high-minded and large-hearted colleague, SIDNEY HERBERT. During the whole of that dreadful winter, while England's heart was torn with grief by reason of the lamen table tidings pouring in upon us perpetually from the seat of war—those two reviled statesmen were labouring to the utmost stretch of their intellectual and physical energies, were drudging as assiduously as the humblest office clerk in all London and Westminster, to extricate the army from its perillous plight, and to assuage in the most speedy and practical way possible the woful sufferings to which the vast bulk of that army was then being subjected, And the fruits of their noble and glorious labours—are they not now sufficiently apparent to us all ? Were they not rendered visible in a resplendent manner to the whole world by the (almost)perfection of the arrange ment whioh carried our military and maritime ex pedition through the last Chinese war to the very gates of the Imperial capital of Pekin ? For the rehabilitation of our whole warlike system we are in a great measure indebted (the fact is noto rious and undeniable) to the illustrious statesman whose premature demise we are now regretting, to whose honoured memory we are now about to raise so fitting a memorial. Who does not know it ? Who is not perfectly familiar with the scope, the variety, and the permanence of the great services performed, for the glory and the safety of his Fatherland, by SIDNEY HERBERT ? He assuredly has won an enduring title to the gratitude hence forth of the British Soldier. lie unquestionably— though he died in the prime and flower of his man hood—has taken his place among our English Worthies in the national Walhalla. In doing the deeds he has done—this fact likewise is patent to the knowledge of all—he literally sacrificed his life. His devotion to the task he had deliberately and earnestly set himself to accomplish, undermined his health, and, in the end, utterly destroyed his con stitution. He fell fighting the good fight—a Martyr to Patriotism—as visibly and recognisably as though he had yielded up his life sword in hand in the " imminent, deadly breach." Peace to his manes ! Honour to his stainless memory ! It is the prayer of England, now that he has passed suddenly from the midst of us. And hence, simply—this generous project of a HERBERT Testimonial. As to the nature of that Testimonial, not another syllable of explanation needs to be said now, after the ample discussion of it which took place on Thursday last, at Willis's Rooms, St. James's. That meeting, which was in itself a magnificent Testimonial ! The meeting presided over by H R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, the Commander-in-Chief— and addressed, among others, by Viscount PALMER STON, Mr. GLADSTONE, the Bishop of OXFORD, Sir JOHN BURGOYNE, General PEEL, the Earl DE GREY, and the Duke of NEWCASTLE ! After which superb demonstration there could not (if, indeed, there ever could) be any doubt as to the early and worthy completion of the HERBERT Testimonial. That Testimonial, it is now known, comprising within it a statue of the deceased States man, gold medals struck in his honour for periodical distribution as prizes at the Chatham Army Medical School, and —to complete all—a noble Hospital for the alleviation of the sufferings of Future English Soldiers. Miss NIGHTINGALE has the satisfaction at least—while mourning for the loss of her loved and honoured Chief—of know ing that his great and good services are not for gotten by the mass of his fellow•countrymen. HAYMAREE7' 27IEATRE. Last night a new comediet ta, adapted from the French by Mr. Southern, was produced here with very great success. The plot of this trifle turns upon the difficulty of a young and newly-married lady, who involves herself whilst endea vouring to secure the command over her husband by con sulting various French novels. The ruse is discovered by Captain Howard (Mr. Southern), and ho in his turn defeats it by making strong love in return. This of course leads to the jeAlousy of the husband and very nearly a duel, but all is satisfactorily explained, and the result is that the lady owns her fault, and resolves never more to be guided by her " aunt's advice." The acting of Mr. Southern was gentlemanly and easy in the extreme, and ha seemed to hold the laughter of the audience entirely at his pleasure. His make up was perfection, and a more complete change in dress, appearance, and language than that of Capt. Howard, in comparison with his Lord Dundreary, in " Our American Cousin," has never been achieved. The audience were delighted with the entertain ment, and the curtain fell amidst loud and well-merited ailplause. The attractive entertainments at this theatre secures a crowded audience every evening. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. Last night, after a lengthened close, the doors of this re nowned place of entf rtainment were re-opened for a winter season. Mr. Batty has determined, and we think very wisely, to make the dramatic and equestrian enter tainments perfectly distinct, and accordingly the per formances commenced last evening with Bouccicault's celebrated Irish drama "The Colleen Bawn," produced under the direction of the author. The company en gaged is a highly efficient one, and each of the cha racters were represented in the most effective man ner. The scenery has been most carefully and beautifully painted, the water scene at Astley's being a brilliant suc • cess, and wa cordially wish Mr. Batty a continuance of that patronage which last night filled his theatre to an overflow. The experiment of giving perfect dramatic performances at Astley's is as perfect as that which secured such en thusiasm at the Adelphi when the drama was first pro duced The equestrian performances are also of a first class description, amongst the novelties being a troupe of French artistes, whose feats are perfectly astonishing. LATE N w TURIN, LEC. 2, Evening. The debate on the Roman question conttnued to day in the Chamber of Deputies without any re markable incident. DEC. 3. The Italia of to-day announces that a decree will shortly be published ordering the exchange of the old bonds of the Italian Debts against new bonds of the Consolidated Debt. GENOA, DEC. 3. Garibaldi, on his arrival here yesterday, pro ceeded to the office of the Central Italian Commit tee, of which he is the President. He eulogised the work undertaken by the Committee, and urged its vigorous prosecution. In the evening a grand demonstration was made in his honour, and an immense crowd of people assembled before the house in which he was staying. Garibaldi appeared on the balcony and made a short speech, in which he said, " With you it must be deeds, not words. At the moment of battle I shall be with you." Preparations are being made for another demon stration, which will take place to-day. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and China mails, passed Hurst Castle at 11.10 a.m. FRANCE. The French Senate met yesterday at 2 o'clock, and held an extraordinary sitting. The order of the day consisted of, Ist, the admission of new senators; 2d, communication of a project of senatus consulte. The Debats publishes the text of the project : "Article 1. The budget of expenses is presented to the Legislative Body, with its divisions in sec tions, chapters, and articles. The budget of each Ministry is voted by section conformably to the order annexed to the present Senatus•Consulte. The divi sion by cl'.apters of the credits granted for each Minis terial department is regulated by a decree of the Em peror rendered in a Council of State. Special decrees rendered in the same form may authorise the trans fer (virement) of one chapter to another in the bud get of each Ministerial department. " Art. 2. No supplementary or extraordinary credits can be granted except by virtue of our law. Nothing is done against the Enactments of the existing laws insomuch as they concern the expenses of the budgets closed still due, the expenses of de partments, communes, local expenses, and the funds subscribed (fonds de contours) for the expenses of the public interests. "Art. 3. Articles 11 and 12 of th© Senatus-Con suite of the 25th December, 1852, are modified in so much as they may be contrary to the present Sena tits Consulte." BOURSE, DEC. 2, Two o'clock.—The operations of the settlement have proceeded without any mate rial difficulty, and prices, for the end of the month, have been maintained at about the closing rates of Saturday, Threes being now 69f. 35c. Three o'Clock.—The following are the last quo tations:— 4/ per per Cents ... 95 15 j Credit Foncier llBO Do end month.... 95 40 Belgian 4/ lOO 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 35! Roman — Bank Shares 2965 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 742 50 J Spanish Threes — Do. Account 743 75 ; Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1332 50 .. 1335 .. Northern New ditto - . 915 Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 1027 50 Geneva.. 345 347 50 Southern 660 .. 661 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 350 Austrian Lombard ......... 517 50 .. 513 75 ITALY. A communication from Rome has the following : " The following is an account of the last affair of Isoletta. The brigands crossed the Liri at Fontana, and though they wore seen by four national guards, the latter, instead of giving an alarm, secreted themselves in a hut. The brigands were, conse quently, able to reach Isoletta without striking a blow. The sentinel on duty there was a Neapoli tan soldier, and though he was attacked by several of the brigands there, he defended himself bravely; he shot down one of them, and wounded, with his bayonet, some others, but he was at last killed him self. Before he expired he embraced a little flag which he had in his sentry box, and cried Long liveltaly !' Another sentinel and three other soldiers, were murdered before the fort of Isoletta. A sergeant, named Colelli, of Brescia, was in the fort with twelve men ; but as the building was not completed, and as the windows being open, afforded easy ingress to the assailants, he and his men took to flight by a back door, and crossed the bridge over the Liri under the fire of the brigands. When he was out of reach he had only six men, one hav ing been murdered, another, who was wounded, having fallen into the Liri and been drowned, and the four others having been taken by the brigands and shot by order of their chief. This chief was not Chiavone, who did not take part in the affair, but a young man, about thirty years old, with fair hair, and of high stature, who was dressed in black, and wore a Calabrian hat, and was called the Major. It was afterwards ascertained that he was a Belgian, the Marquis de Trafignies. He had by his side a notorious assassin named Mattei. After Isoletta the brigands ascended the mountains, and attacked San Giovanni Incarico. There were in that place only forty infantry soldiers, under the orders of Captain Tecchio, and they- fell back towards Pico. Before they had gone far they met a company of the 43d Reg. hastening to the place and returned with them to San Giovanni; the total force was 120 men. Although the bri gands had only been half an hour in the village, they had burned down several of the principal houses. They had, it was stated, intended to destroy another, but had consented to spare it on the intercession of one of their band, an ex-Bour bonian lancer, who when in garrison in the village had been well treated by the owners of it. The brigands afterwards proceeded to pillage other houses, but on hearing the trumpet of the Italians they cried out Fly ! Fly and ran off as fast as they could. M. do Trafignies, who had com manded the pillage, and had threatened with a revolver of six barrels the woman who prayed that their houses might be spared, was, on the arrival of the Italians, in the house of one Santoro, where with great fury he was breaking everything within his reach. He did not hear the Italian trumpet, and was captured. He was taken before Major Savini, who had arrived with reinforcements: and by his order, being tried by a Court Martial formed of the officers present, was condemned to death. Half an hour was allowed him to arrange his affairs, and confess to a priest ; but he could not at first believe that he was to be shot. He refused to address a letter to his family, as he was recom mended to do, but he wrote in the pocket book of Captain Teccio, am Alfred de Trafignies, of Namur, cousin of the Marchesa Montalto, am bassadress of Italy in Belgium.' On searching him some papers relative to Chiavone's band, a letter from his sister, the portrait of a lady, and a lock of hair were found. When the time allowed him had expired he was placed against a wall. He turned round to speak to an officer who was near, but at the same moment the command Fire ! ' was given, and a ball struck him in the head, causing him to fall dead. The deceased was the nephew of Marshal St. Arnaud, and of M. de Merode• He had left Rome in a carriage, and ordered it to wait for him at Veroli." Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache have been entertaining a succession of visitors during the last fortnight at Peck forton Castle, Cheshire. lITE MAGAZINES. The Dublin,. " The House by the Churchyard" is continued, and it is very entertaining in this instalment. The lovers of genuine fun will delight in the poisoning scene and the passage at arms afterwards. Pud dock, with the best intentions, concocted some won derful compound for his friend o•Flaherty which was to be applied outwardly, but in the flurry of an agitated moment the unhappy p a ti en t swa ll owe d a small bag, containing the deleterious mixture. In the excitement of the _crisis they called in a doc tor who made bad worse, and gave the sufferer for mental anxiety some vile stuff that gave him phy sical torment and was the cause of much confusion on the field where the affair of honour was to be settled. The scenes altogether are admirably de scribed, and it is impossible to overrate the sense of wit and humour which pervades these ludicrous events. Mrs. Becky Chattesworth is another good character, and altogether this portion of the tale is first-rate, and a great improvement on the previous parts. The ability displayed in this striking story i 3 a great advantage to the readers of this periodical. There is a very sensible article called "A Remonstrance against Strikes," which contains much to improve and enlighten these whom it concerns. The forcible and yet temperate language in which the writer speaks of the suicidal policy and the detrimental agency of this egregious blunder and often great crime is very impressive, and a more able advocate of a good cause could hardly be found than the composer of these few pages on this insidious evil which strikes at the root of labour and undermines the stronghold of capital. This passage forcibly illustrates the fallacy of the procedure in many instances where " those who conquer do not win, nor those receive who gain." STRIKES. But when strikes are immediately successful, the after fruits to the workman are even worse than at other times. A calico printing firm near Glasgow yielded, in 1835, to a compromise with their workmen who had struck a few months before. Six months later the firm became bank rupt, and of the 2,000 men who had just been drawing 30s. a week and upwards, only a few were afterwards able to find employment at Bs. a week. Like results have happened. elsewhere. Ireland has been especially famous for success ful strikes, and where now are the trades among which they happened ? "The shipwrights and sawyers," says Mr. Smiles, " carried every point with their masters ; and in the course of a few years there was not a single master shipwright in Dublin." The manufacturers of flannel, silk, lace, and gloves have decayed from a like cause. The blanket trade of Kilkenny, and the iron trade of Dublin, have been wholly or nearly destroyed by the tyranny that workmen wielded over their masters. Many a capitalist and numbers of able workmen have been driven from time to time to seek elsewhere the fair opening refused them in Ireland. In short, we may lay it down as a general rule, that strikes of every sort, got up on whatever grounds, and marked by whatever show of immediate success, are sure in the long run to bring defeat, if not always utter ruin on those who carry them out. In conclusion, it is observed that— We fear that time alone and hard experience will open the eyes of the working man. Through various channels the light will gradually force its way, but we must neither hope too much nor give up all hoping, because the signs of im provement may long remain so few. Whatever may lead him to think for himself, to look beyond the present, to deny himself aught for the sake of others, to desire the comforts of a decent home, to enlarge the sphere of his sympathies, and sharpen his perceptions of right and wrong, will do more to hasten the desired result than the longest array of unimpeachable arguments addressed to his intellect alone. We fear that " Stray Leaves of Irish Satire" is an elaborate sketch of quaint old ballads, which are most curious, and will well repay perusal. "A Mt lo drama in a First-class Carriage" is a most strange and peculiar affair, it is told with great ability, and we cannot help being entertained with the mixture of horror and absurdity. " Austria and the House of Lords" is the political article, which gives a good summary of the state of affairs in that country, and will be of interest to all admirers of Italian inde pendence. " Ultor de Lacy" is a very terrible tale, and will pease those who like the horrible, it is romantic in its way, and replete with incidents of an eventful kind. " Mr. Dicken's Last Novel" is the subject of a paper which contains some rather severe strictures on that author's style and merits and de merits. However, the critic found " Great Expec tations" beyond what his "small expectations" had foreboded, and he declares at last," if the author must keep on writing novels to the last we should be quite content to guage the worth of his future essays by the standard furnished to us in " Great Expecta tions." " Ceylon and the Eastern Archipelago" pays a just tribute to the merits of Sir E. Tennent's work recently published on the subject, and thus appropriately declares " The sketches constitute a delightful volume, written in an excellent spirit, and are profusely illustrated with beautifully exe cuted plates, which add greatly to the value of the book, both to the professed natural historian and the general reader." "The Story of the First Earl of Tyrone" is a very interesting sketch, which is well adapted to Irish tastes, and we meet with a very entertaining programme in the contents of this number of the Dublin. _The . 11'eto Monthly Magazine. A lengthened paper on " The French in Austral asia and Polynesia" takes a survey of our neigh bours' qualifications as colonists. Mrs. Wood's new story continues to be one of the prominent features of the number, and the third instalment maintains the interest. The two fair rivals, Char lotte Pain and Maria Hastings, are well contrasted, although neither of them are equal in attractions to the promised bride of Thomas Godolphin, introduced to us in the last part. The "shadow" did not ap pear without cause, as the old baronet is taken suddenly and dangerously ill. We regret that an authoress of such , undoubted ability, one too, who has the facility of investing common things with interest, should continue to lend her tales a fictitious excitement by ministering to the morbid love of the supernatural or the horrible which is unfortunately so common. " Sir Nathaniel " recals to the reader's recollection Amyot, a Frenchman, who distin guished himself by translating Plutarch into his native tongue in the sixteenth century. The "Notes" are this month more interesting than usual, for the writer gives a sketch of his sub ject's life, which shows the strangest vicissitudes. His parents were of the lowest and poorest class, yet, thanks to his own industry and merit, and to the favour shown to men of letters by Francis I. and his sister Marguerite de Valois, the "poor scholar" of Paris, whose mother supplied him with one loaf weeAly, rose to be Grand Almoner of France, Bishop of Auxerre, King's Librarian, and Privy Councillor. The story comes to a melancholy end however, for malice having accused him of participating in the mur der of the Guises, his downfall was rapid. At the age of seventy-five, poor Amyot was an out cast, flying for his-life, pathetically declaring him self to be " the -most afflicted and ruined poor priest in France." " Granville de Vigne" proceeds with interest, although the fashionable Timons and their impulsive and talkative heroines preserve a wonderful sameness in their style of conversation. We have the continuation of the " History of the French Army," which is rapidly approaching a most eventful epoch, and also a paper on " Scientific and Geographical Progress in France," making no less than three articles on French subjects. The brilliant and original series Of Stereoscopic Glimpses" are terminated this month with the charming verses which follow : L'ENVOI TO " STEREOSCOPIC GLIMPSES." BY W. CHARLES KENT. As a tear from the heart-fount stealing, As a sigh from the inner soul, All the depths of a love revealing, In a life of its grave-won goal : So fall on thine ear, 0 dearest I With the sound as of curfew chime— Love's own truth in each tone thou hearest— The last echo of my rhyme! Every pulse of my rhythmic numbers, Like the throbbing at thy breast, When down the heaven of thy slumbers Float the visions of thy rest : Every thought that Hinnies my pages, Liko the st,r-gleams of alien skies, Better, yea I than the lore of sages, The light of thy gentle eyes! For to me, ah I to me far dearer Than the grand Aonian maids Of the laurel'd hill (though clearer Their sunset glory fades Than our own red evening's splendour), The sweet influence of a wife -01 that Home Muse who can render Half divine this human life. A sweet influence like the night dew, Turning the earth to flowers, And filling the grass with cowslips, And with gems the briary bowers, With the gems of bud and berry, With th dog-rose and the haw, With scarlet and pink and cherry, Lighting the greenwood Shaw. For whatever visual glories, Like the bluebells on the lea, Scattered through my sylvan stories, Lure the reader like the bee, By the same serene relation Clouds rain blossoms from above, Owe their lowly revelation To the Nephele of thy love. Are my thoughts the merest king-moths, Floating by on wings of gloom— Gloom of fragile gold and purple— Thine the radiance, thine the bloom.• Do they fall as tear-drops glimmer O'er the gai lands of a bier, Thine theirfi. ful diamond shimmer, Where diaphonously clear. Or, like fragrance aromatic From the censer of my verse, Do they rise in coils erratic, Thine the fire those thoughts rehearse. Silvery from this censer lowly, Let their soaring reaths then shine What they breathe o'er Earth mine wholely, What towards Heaven less mine than thine. There are two brief but agreeable papers on the Natural Hibtory of Ceylon," and " Bishop Doyle's Life and Correspondence," and acme clever stanzas by Nicholas Michell, entitled " The Bridge of Commerce," Bentley's Miscellany. The clever and amusing, though somewhat super ficial writer, who assumes the pseudonym of Ouida, coutinues his entertaining narrative of the troubles of a Chaperone. A new and more attrac tive debutante falls to Lady Marabout's share in this number, and Flora Montobeir is one of " Ouida's regular unorthodox young ladies who are quite ready to discuss French, Italian, and German literature with any gentlemen of their acquaintance, and are very fond of discoursing on the relative merits of men and women, but who would scarcely be quite soacceptable in real life as they are in the pages of fiction. An article on " The Discount Rate of the Bank of France" wil attract the financier. Monkshood takes for his topic " High Respectability" and its various sati rists from Pope's day to our own. We have, ac cording to annual custom in Bentley's, a review of the German Almanacs for the forthcoming year, with many amusing extracts. A paper on Boston, under the head of the " American Athens," will attract readers at the present time, and a view of the Letters of Juuius under a comic aspect possesses at least the charm of novelty. Fre derick Marshall's articles on "Population and Trade in France" have already attracted considerable at tention, and the present one, on the important subject of the silk trade, will well repay perusal. Major Chambre takes a review of the campaign of the Royal Neapolitan Army, in which he gives un called-for praise to the justly dethroned king, and Dudley Costello continues his story of " Crooked Usage" in its accustomed lively strain. kcaunders and Otley's Literary Budget. This periodical maintains its high character for information on all subjects connected with litera ture. It is written throughout in a superior man ner. All the new publications of any note are criticised at length, and thus the reader is rendered au courant with the general events of the day in the amusing, exciting, or satirical, as the case may be, articles here met with Mere are some long papers at the commencement which take up the authors of any eel, brity who have appeared recently, and give a resume of their works in smart and often vigorous writing, and thus those who wish to be quite informed of all that appertains to literature in the widest sense of that comprehensive title, will find this new serial an indispensable addition to their libraries. Some of the strictures on Mr. Thackeray are most just, as the following : The " Four Georges" is indeed a most delightful vo lume. And we only wish that Mr. Thackeray, when he has finished the " Adventures of Philip," will leave the novelist's department in the Cornhill to Mr. Trollope, and devote his own leisure to the preparation of a new set of essays. He has done both the literature and the fashion of the last century, why should he not give us the literature of the I'm-Reform period ? He would have the Anti- Jacobin, and the Rolliad, the John Bull, and the Examiner, and the " Waverley Novels" and " Don Juan," and plenty of other fine subjects. Or if he does not do this, we hope, for his own sake, he will devote himself heartily to his duties as editor, and keep out some of the rubbish of which all his friends in England, Ireland, and Scotland are unani. mously complaining. " Society and Poetry" is another admirable sketch, and serves to illustrate some important truths in affairs of taste and judgment. "Poetry" is ably de scribed as " a sort of glorified prose, the spirit of just prose made perfect." It is said " before any man fplt tempted to resent this he might perhaps ask him self whether he would not put the noblest prose below the noblest poetry. No one doubts that the worst poetry is more detestable than the worst prose and the acknowledged reason of this is, that the bad verse is more ambitious than the bad prose ambi tion of what ? Surely of the superior title and honours of poetry." Further on it is said in reference to a want of appreciation of poetry that the man who does not love poetry may be somewhat ashamed of himself, and if there be any moral element in his apathy, he is a little despicable. We are no more justified in affecting carelessness about a glorious mental exhi bition than about any physical splendour." It is also said, in pursuance of the subject in this elo quent passage relative to the supreme advantages of poetry, that " it somehow or other seems to brace a man for the business of life, with which it never interferes, and to refresh him after its close. It dignifies and refines his affections, sweetens his manners, gives elegance to his domestic habits, and spiritualises every action of his life, even those which are necessarily coarse and mate rial. It adorns without enervating his reli gion, giving grace to his prayers andfire to his i praises, and teaching him to worship n the pas sion and the beauty of holiness. In one word, it can be made the beautifier and intensifier of the nobler elements that are in us, permeating all of them but absorbing none." This Serial can be recommended to the general reader as one of great interest and information, and it is to • be hoped that a success conso nant with its deserts may await this enter prising attempt in the field of literature. It is always gratifying to find the first numbers of a new publication replete with varied, vivacious, and vigorous writing, animated with a zealous industry and fired with an ambitious spirit. Tice National Magazine. Tweedie. The beautiful photographs which have recently adorned this magazine add greatly to its attractions. The plate before us represents Ripon Minster, and will delight the subscriber. The literary contents are of varying merits, not very substantial perhaps, but_ affording pleasant reading, and consequently accepta,ble to a large class of readers. Fnghshwonian's Magazine. Beeton, Strand. This excellent little periodical continues with unabated merit. The patterns for fashions and directions for needlework of all kinds must be very serviceable to ladies of limited means; while the variety of recipes, stories, sketches, and miscel laneous articles, render it attractive to readers of all tastes. Beeton's Illuminated Family Bible. We have previously noticed the beauty and ex cellence of this illuminated edition of the sacred writings.. The part before us is principally occu pied by the, notes, which are very valuable, being selected from a variety of eminent authors, and add ing very much to ite importanee as a family edition. Wild Sports of the World. Beeton. We have • here a most fascinating periodical for boys, describing the different modes of hunting in vogue in all parts of the world, with some informa tion respecting the habits of the animals referred to. The number before us has two beautiful coloured plates, representing the chamois on the mountain tops, and a herd of wild horses in the prairie. Home Pets. Parts VI. and VII. Garden Manage ment. Part 111. Boys' Own Magazine. Beeton. The current numbers of " Home Pets" tell us something about the ways and habits of nightin gales, larks, and linnets, with a glowing illustra tion of our old friend robin redbreast, and direc tions how to rreserve the health and happiness of our little favourites. The Third Part of Garden Management tells us the principles of vegetation, and guides our ch Dice as to summer-houses, roads, and walks. The Boy's Own Magazine has plenty of pleasant reading of the:kind most acceptable to the young, and without being too ostensibly instructive conveys a good deal of information. THIS LA I'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £5 clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.--Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; clover do., £3 lOs to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Trade dull. WTHTECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 ; clover, £3 lOs to £6 OA Od ; and straw, £1 Ss to £1 16s per load. A slow demand. COLONIAL. TEA—The market has continued very inactive, and prices show no change of importance. SUGAR—OnIy a limited amount of business haw been done in e rocery descriptions for home consumption, and prices have been rather easier. In the refined market there is a limited inquiry for dried goods at previous rates. COFFEE—A moderate business has been recorded in the better descriptions of Colonial, and previous rates are well maintained, particularly for Plantation Ceylon. The stooks on hand, compared with those of the same period of last year, show an increase of about 1,850 tons. RloE—The tone of the market has been more animated, and a rather large business has been done in East Indian, at fully previous quotations. SALTPETRE.—Since the issue of the Order in Council prohibiting the exportation these has been very little busi ness transacted, and quotations are quite nominal. The stock on hand, at the present time, amounts to about 2,750 tons against 3,707 tons in the like period of last year, being a decrease of 951 tons. TALLow.--The market has continued very quiet, and owing to a pressure of speculalive sales, prices have shown increased depression. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 505., and spring delivery 51s. to 51s. 3d. per ewt. CONFLAGRATION AT ANTWERP. —A fearful fire broke out yesterday at the Napoleon Docks, Antwerp. The Belgian sugar refinery and the St. Felix bonding ware houses were burnt down. The estimated loss is 5,000,000 f. The fire was still raging last night. THE SUN, lONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DEC E VIBE R 3, 1861.