The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

THE LAST OF THE MORTIMERS. By the author of "Margaret Maitland," &c. 3 vols.—" The Last of the Mortimors," says the .4thenceum, "is a charming book — simple, quaint, and fresh. It is a novel, comme it yen a pea' (the more's the pity) ; and it will go far to sustain the reputation of the author of ' Margaret Maitland.' The two Millys and little Sarah are all delightful characters, and Harry and the Italian Count are a capital pair of heroes." SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—Daring the week ending Dec 14 the visitors have been as follows : On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free days), 44403 ; on Monday and Tuesday (free evenings), 3,771; on the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.), 1,190 ; 02ie students' evenin g (W e d nes d ay), 236; total, 9,600. Fromm the opening of the Museum, 2,388,000. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1861. Gradually, little by little, we are beginning to appreciate more at its true proportions the magni tude of the dreadful loss recently sustained by Her MAJESTY and the loyal subjects of the Crown. As we set forth by remarking yesterday it was diffi cult upon the instant to realise this—so abrupt and altogether unexpected has been this dire calamity. iSo suddenly has it descended upon the nation, and, we may confidently assert, we believe, even upon our gracious SOVEREIGN herself, that we are not in any way writing at random when we observe that—but one brief week ago:the mere thought of the Death of His Royal Highness had not entered into anyone's imagination. The catastrophe involved in that lamentable demise has dropped like a thunder bolt upon the palace-home of our Royal House at Windsor Castle—it has flashed like disastrous lightning gleams (literally, thus, disseminated as the tidings have been far and wide, and as they are still being farther and wider upon the wings of the electric telegraph) hither and thither to all parts of the United Kingdom, and already even to the remotest corners of the European Continent. Every where there is —how, in fact, could it possibly be otherwise P—but one single emotion awakened, that of the profoundest, the most unaffected, and the most instantaneous commiseration. A com miseration, first of all, with the most afflicted mourner among all the mourners, the bereaved wife, the widowed QUEEN. And afterwards an earnest commiseration with the loyal nation mourning with her in the bitterness of her irrepar able loss. In saying this there is not one particle of exaggeration. Never has public sympathy been more sincere, more thoroughly genuine, more pro foundly heartfelt. Not even when, nearly half a century ago, as our contemporary the Post re• marked yesterday, a remark impressively echoed by the limes this morning, the people of England were, in one sense, similarly afflicted by the equally St artling and unl oo k e d-f or d eat h o f H .R.H. the Princess CHARLOTTE and her new-born infant. Similar the afflictions have been, that is to say, in their appalling suddenness. part from that F events a —thereor—vi j e s w ipng perceptible e ti t b w le o between them simply an affecting con t ras t rather than any mournful analogy. Then the I i loss to the nati on was entirely prospec• t i ve . Now it is that undoubtedly to the full—b ut while it is so, it is amply retrospective likewise. The Hopes of the Country then were dashed ex clusively. The Gratitude of the Nation as well as its Hopes, we have now had pierced to the very qui c k by the angu is h of this astounding affliction, We have had reason to be proud of this adopted Son of England—espoused at the very dawn of his ears ago, by the manhood, two and twenty y ' Cariboo-state Deer' Foot-clay-12 inches. TRIBALAMERICA'S ULSTER ' PLANTA TIONS, T IiANSFER'D WITH WILL 4. TRUSTEES CEASE YE TO FAY RENTAL TO "& CO.'S OF BERMUDA. BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 281 YR'S ACT, 2-3'w. Iv.. C. 92, ¢ 4, 5 vic. c-39 §4, 1842, rar's-10th AN-BNTY. 132 yr., so S. *INN-Jetsam eisap Lagar"? rota OUT-At-salmi pc:, N. Wall-tnurem 24 March- -29 Sept. Errant finan 9i is of : : Julian-treery on zwe-x Fishory-park law- se t s , . . CARIEEsQuE-Sachims and Merchants.—For commercial quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's ReguißS parliament, Art. xi . ' by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-placa guarantee of his debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such evil-set persons' to be open to the * *right of search' law as now given up. (Signed, .•• : : • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTII, Cl. of Synode GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701), ne-moderd, 1832-38. - • • Sachims—The Illustrated London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's carclineA, in Philadeph's Fensylvan-anerial /word scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fons- Ore (‘ Fodince -regales of James I.'s 72 New River' share 1-plug in London's Goldsmith company of Philadelphia, on England's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by Do'can 9 Henry Wotton and Montague—so CAB.. 11. Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1719, on 1777 Indian responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit t-e of House of Commons (12th Feb 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge of peculiar' institution), with undersigned Lay-co'cones as their pa trons and advocates of Q-Ann-Bnty, act, plantation 10ths. See, N. 4421 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London Convention (Philapelphia), by Ballo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. 11, as successor to the 99 years' leases (12 to run, under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Sac°mo 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), Stegglesp/ug-1. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semioles & Georgii Cherokee Indians of the coast, 1000 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised- North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their black cattle mixing with the virgin races, thro' the Lan caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I—XI . V., for mixt Coml./in Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as reset on Admiralty coll. of St. Paul's, Bermuda, 10 M, by Philidel's partizan friend s Coloniza. Off, Boston—Judge Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. Whence Deerfoot's Bye- Fellowship Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1861. 8 Dec. Hence New shire- crt foundation' on French and mritish 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the living representative of the Ashburton boundary com mission, 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 the Trent council, for swamping by votes thro' the Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd], in Ceno'rs. RESOLUTE In re Trent—The arrest of Slidell, Mason, 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), .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 P/acet'd-proclamation's 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, 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 spake." . . _ _ 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War dap-line one of Water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jac Qbo Zollverein trading flag + x and not a belligerent by Ordnance issue T 343 of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower), the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on board the 3 / 4 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 excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian Lea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union courts of E-gal law of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which was decided in the Ang - Plot-Hypan'sh Texas Crts. as inad. miscible, 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 atefEuT 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 3 / 4 wolves I men :—' as manifest by late Morocco bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in - violation of Ackerley'a cod's-acre : : )iNave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MoNnom doctrine, Las of Bohun' d Phil. H. 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 P6land's N.-west Russia j-nurman of the cent years Dutch loan act of 1832, unconnected with 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 Azyinithson'an institution' district-site of April, 1836, on Gladstone's comtee. of H. C. by u.s. Congress, '46. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims ! Indians, aliens, &c., 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 unityof the NORMAIIndy standard of measure of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue —under annual election of paid laymen—for guiding the commerce of the world) without consulting the State arbiter below—so to (0 & 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 patr'nal right, is [for monetary recognition of all dues from America upon primary colonization, well-intentioned, of the whites, and evident decay of z 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, as (disjoined now with t-• Pope, 8-Churches or t-water sects late on minister's money) the co3l-A s read-bag'-State. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medal'd-sack 9 m6, Nephew il (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775—Sac'mo Peter Toma Brant, 1825•LI0, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gasp 4. L.S H.7's Montague C' ' ACKERLEY, P.C., sworn in, —C. J., Ireland's Empery cornfn of Review, 1825-37, L.S. H. B'.l Executors §WOTTON' LYON BOWES, P . C . Dec. 17—London. See The d'un, Nov. 16, 1861. ARREST OF NASHVILLE SHIP-PIRATES. Notice.--Anderson-like, Extradition.—Ac t. On aid-force de lege ithod' 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 PEAGRAM 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 reason (d) ' in universe ditioni supremus est' of the placet regium imperium, mares populo romano restituendo 1842, on A. D. 1346 v id e 2 91, P. Picking" Constituo federicil imperatoris Taxantur severe piratze'—Laws of Rhodes, in Bermuda's Col. Mercatorum Marine Act, 1853. By (b) Newfound-land merchants, on Lisbon wine license Co.'s on Rex vini jui newspaper Precedent on Junot-inva sion, 1807, for England's Pompey'n-marine protection, on • • 'Bristol (Liverpool. • Sand. • •London)'s Admiralt y ' super altum mare, qua) afcendsi"' et defeente e blique,' old style. So—c our warrant as of the high commission of review colonisation, under Porte'gal's allied law of human fore thought, for a ar6 370 repose on the aoly Alliance abo lition, thro' *Hamond, SANDYIN in '. (Signed) PETRR Brant BASQURT, LI The trade flag union Jak, a.m 111 p tn. 3-3. 1., corn-hill-rowier'd Income-tax- P - Bulo.cr< freeman, Antip.d'ts crown-colon jr chief 8 Temple. of 1842, —The criminal law's Extradi- Labonehere. Jim Gap, 3 •mile off-shore Sea -constable, cn l March, '4l] bearing Jamaica's paddle of Admiral' s 4 -9., H. M. Pe r l ey , court over Canterbury's @e-Guizote set t3o Sept, '4l' s tl ement f or New Zealand's deadprooffit 6 ap : g ,l i t tuo if.r. a cc a Crt., its Dial x•m'p o y Stil'l or d W ar d en r . —tho' cruelly set a tneded vacuo-Age'r v laappenthar nby Ashburton Baring-3ty. . N. mind * [C Jeth A CRIRLIT, C. J. of Carib-isled ou'dEnG and e l eet A ug. 29 1825 (by Ad- .• • f GiiHaraoraniidi,; Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown retary ; on Can'ng's itoly A.lWaS"Birs' Lay-presbiters egu, :.tce abolition, of King- clubs), the Standard weight-bearer R.N. pay'd double- (zip-bearer of 1837, Lt. 1 1 , victim— Si Pau, of Itohawk PETER yrs Isl 6 supporter';tdlnn Mary Qu' Riot March's murder-tie, attas virginale s.P.Q.R. tenerum corpus christe transit rdo' Quebec's Jose '75 Hamilton-Dalhousie, in x. Elder' 20s.sthoe and ovrn's State- With provision, a uty BRANT.' ton- P.Toma'2s Lague Subsidy let-fruit loan 1814' Cartwright's chief suceessorial surro ßaril,tuajor Trevsor -4322'9918 red-turban'd Hen. 4th, on 11en. 7- 0: trove. Si g ismond life Savoy'd Gape- colona Martin 5, -,7 to CIONSALVI 1816 rex,olamento-159, 'by phis 7th' 0, Scotch-Bailie Urban Bth 's capacity-oath of 1749, vocate STUART wortley-Newcomen's) en Gonfaloniere' A 's naming Act 1-2 W. 4, No. 64 0 1824 passed is C. • . • , d • n July 1521-72 Luther- calm, for gem se ay-seignor.. age, over W. Russell an d Stanley's Dead-hand (1683 yet Sion-attaints), in Protectorship fife trust ]. martyr 19 yrs, London, 17 Dee. '6l, unpaid Christ corpus T HE 0 X F ORD 8, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Rocca nrzra," and "Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Machine Enderssohn ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Green e , and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Balfe's new ballads 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), FL Msrshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilts DAY.—Morning, lh. 54m.—Afternoon, 2h. 10m. To -MORROW. -Morning, 2h. 30m.—Afternoon, 2h. 48m. THE WEATHER.—SuistioOFFICE, DECEMBER 17, 1861 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49-3eighest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.22. WlND—North-Westerly ; light, with dull weather, in clining to frost. !EXCELLENCE WITH ECONOMY. GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. fENERAL MOURNING FOR THE PRINCE CONSORT.—GEORGE HOBSON respectfully invites the attention of the nobility, gentry, and public to his super fine West of England woaded black cloths, for frock, dress, and Beaufort coats, £2 15s. to £3 10s. ; black doeskin and Oxford mixture trousers, 21s. to 258. A large stock of new trouscrings and waistcoatings, adapted expressly for mourn ing, 21s. 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. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. 7_ THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Cord, 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. Halg,h, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for bockincr„ or fees to Box-keepers. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee. Mr. ,T, B. B aokstone. TII IS EVENING, FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. Sot ern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sotheran, Miss Oliver, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, -- Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the neriorrnanoes will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (32d time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmnn 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—Mr. F. B. Chitterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at hall-past 8, to commence al 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ROYAL PRINCES S'S THEATRE.-- , Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. 'I HIS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Harris and Mr. IL Widdicomb. After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of 0 TFI ELL°, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments, Othello, Mr Fechter, EW THli ATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL i 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREASER, 31r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. And THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boueleault, Messrs. Billington, Emery, 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 DAW. 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 Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS E VENING, the petite Comedy, MATRIMONY. Camelia, Mdlle. di Rhona. Followed by ALL IN THE DARK. To conlude 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. SAM COWELL, who will, at Eleven o'clock, sing several favourite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT." Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Herbert, &e. 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 and Balcony, is. CANTERBURY HALL-GRAND CHRIST MAS ENTERTAINMENT, by Mr. E. MARSHALL ."THE ENCHANTED HASH SECOND EDITION," (Written expressly for him.) Commencing on BOXING-NIGH P. CANTERBURY HALL. -M. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN," from Paris, will make his First Appearance on the 30th December. 44 ;f ) ill 44, 1U l• ?„,, 4 t , r N, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEVIBER 17, 1861. ', LON then equally youthful and almost girlish SOVEREIGN ' in these realms. Together they have lived in the midst of us, continually surrounded, encircled wherever the Court went, by that truest and most enviable loyalty of all— the mingled affection and respect of a race of free men recognizing in the constitutional Head of the State, the chosen guardian, the firm but gentle custodian of our rights and liberties. Saving and excepting only upon very rare occasions—as for example when the Royal pair were on a visit to King Louis PHILIPPE at the Chateau d'Eu, or when they were more recently the guests of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor NAPOLEON 111,, in the Palace of the Tuileries, or again when previously and subsequently to that Holiday sojourn at Paris, when his late Royal Highness the PRINCE CON SORT took his QUEEN Wife to the haunts of his boyhood in the old Teutonic Fatherland—saving and excepting upon these very rare occasions, Her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness have lived amongst us—now at Windsor Castle, now at Buck ingham Palace, now at Osborne, now at Balmoral, presenting to view the Model Home in the midst of many million Families of loyal Englishmen. And now that the central figure in that long familiar Home group—[has not the courtly pencil of WIN TERHALTER perpetuated in the famous picture for the admiration of after times P]—now that the Father and the Husband has suddenly disappeared from the midst of it, one's almost instant reflection is this (a reflection that comes to: each of us not without an inward gush of emotion)—How well, how nobly, how truthfully, how consistently, how untiringly this young Prince acquitted himself of his most delicate and elevated responsibilities as the chosen partner and chief adviser of the Consti tutional SOVEREIGN of these vast and world-wide Dominions. An indiscreet or-injudicious Consort ' might have readily found perpetual opportunities fqx stumbling among the threads of that jealous maze of etiquette which is woven, we may say unavoidably woven by the Constitution itself, around the footsteps of the Foreign Husband of a QUEEN REGENT here in England. In the instanee of the accomplished and illustrious Prince, whose untimely end we are now d eploring,the stumbles—we can recognise this now deliberatelyin the retrospect of those two-and-twenty years now traversed—are after all but very slight and very exceptional. So far, moreover, viewing his position amongst us now dispassionately, it might almost be added they were ii a manner (to that casual and partial extent) un avoidable under the circumstances. Affections called into existence with his birth, and knitted and twined among his heartstrings by all the loved associations of childhood and youth, still bound the generous hearted Prince by the tenderest ties to the memory of the Old Vaterland. Yet was he, we are willing to believe that, though still a true German by birth, none the less an Englishman by adoption. Whenever these sympathies clashed upon the rare and fleeting occasions we have alluded to—and upon which incidents we never scrupled frankly to break silence at the period of their occurrence —the fault lay not so much with the Consort of the SOVEREIGN, as with that arbitrary Royal Marriage Act, necessitating this liability to the chance collision of conflicting interests. Con scientiously the Royal Husband of Queen VICTORIA —we do most confidently rest assured of this— conscientiously ALBERT the Prince Consort of Eng land, strove all through his happy married life of two•and-twenty years' duration, to do his Duty by the QUEEN he had taken to wife, and by the country of his adoption and of her rule placing the performance of that twofold duty before him as the golden mean of his ambition in the position in which it had pleased GOD to place him. He it was, himself, we now learn, who was the first to recognise the fact that his last hour was approaching. This, it proves in effect, was really the case on Wednesday, three days before his actual dissolution. And it was only on the day before his death that his Queen-Wife had any glimmering notion of the coming calamity, when, upon Her MAJESTY'S re turn from an afternoon drive in Windsor park the Royal patient wasso far advanced towards death that the extremities were already cold. Then only upon the evening of his death, or rather upon the early morning of the very day upon which his Royal Highness expired, the Prince of WALES, his eldest son, was suddenly telegraphed for, to hasten at one, by express, to his father's death-bed. This occurring, in fact, only between one and two o'clock a.m., in the dead of night, between Friday and Saturday. The PRINCE CONSORT having him self recognised as early as upon Wednes day last that the term of his earthly career had arrived; Lying there upon his death-bed from Wednesday until Saturday night, the date of his actual dissolution, the Prince had the consola tion at last of humbly reflecting that in that posi tion, in which, as already remarked, it had pleased GOD to place him, he had consistently and ener getically striven to do his duty by employing the talents confided to his charge for the advantage of his fellow-men. President LINCOLN'S Message does not improve upon further acquaintance the literary quality and the contents, as illustrated by the communi cations of his secretaries especially, appearing all the worse on re-perusal. And the perusal itself is indeed no trivial task—probably not a hundred persons in England, unless, like unfortunate edi tors, they have special reasons for doing so, in flict on themselves the penance of wading through the long purposeless columns with which the President fills all the daily papers of England and America. Nothing can be more striking in deed than the unfavourable contrast of the Mes sages of the rival Presidents. Regarding them ' as literary compositions and State docu ments, that of Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS is condensed, brief, businesslike, intelligible, such as no English statesman, so far as its literary character is concerned, would feel ashamed to have written. Mr. LINCOLN'S is inordinately long, verbose, illiterate in expression and arrangement, and such as few head clerks in a respectable solici tor's office here would like to have had the credit of drawing. The two Messages are, indeed, illustra tions of the superiority of Southern to Northern leadership. Considering the resources of the two sections of States, it cannot be denied by the North itself that the management south of the Potomac has been superior to that of the North by all the difference in literary and statesman-like character of the two Messages. The reasons for not adverting to the affair of the Trent, we must leave with Mr. LINCOLN; yet it is impossible not to feel that his Message without it is, to use the hackneyed illustration, the play of " Hamlet," with the part of HAMLET omitted, for never perhaps MIS the mention of a subject of the day more anxior.sly looked for, both in England and America. The omission renders the whole speech in expressibly lifeless and wearisome. Things comparatively t r i v i al, such as the constitution of the Suprem e Court, and really Circuits of think Judges, ink of th a e r m now ; and th e speech-is e dwelt on a s if any thus stuffed up to an inor dinate size w i t h topics - and paragraphs wh o lly irrelevant to WI IPA really occupies men's thoughts, We could wish to believe that Mr. LINCOLN had made up his mind to accede to the demand which he must expect from England ; but if he had, he would surely have thrown in some :preparatory hint to give the cue to his friends, and to prepare the multitude for what it is obvious now would be a very unpopular act with them. On the other hand, had he been determined to bow uncon ditionally to the demands of the vulgar respectables of Boston and the New York mob, he would surely have not lost the opportunity of introducing an " immortal" feature into a Message so certain other wise to be forgotten nearly as soon as delivered. The vote of the House of Assembly, we are glad to see, is regarded by the more reasonable portion of the American press much as we have felt some hope that it might be, by men of sense and cha racter there. The paragraph is rather long, but it is encouraging to read in an American paper, the New York Times, such lan guage as this :—" Congress has sipalised its first sitting by passing a vote of thanks to Captain WILKES for the seizure of Messrs. MASON and SLIDELL. Nothing is more nature. than that which i 3 uppermost in the public mini should leap to expression through the voice of the people's re presentatives. In thus putting on roord a formal approval of an act which has called forth universal public satisfaction there is of course no intention to prejudge a case on which nether our own nor the British Government has as yet pro- nounced an opinion, and which is now pro perly a matter of diplomacy alone. We all liked the bold deed, and we liked it til the better because it seemed to be perfectly justified by the principles and precedents of international law. Should it not be justified, there can be no hesitation as to the course to be pursued. However gratifying the seizure of the rebel amlassadors may have been, it is not worth the sacrifice of a single principle of the public morality of nations. Meanwhile, we can, of course, but await further developments. The resolution of thanks which Congress has voted to Captaii WILKES, therefore, embodies a perfectly just seniment, without at all binding the policy of the Government, or embar rassing the Secretary of Sta e in the pursuit of such a course as, on a full examination of the question in all bearings, nay seem to be dic tated by right and the law of nations." It is well known how mud the Southern States relied upon the necessities if Europe in regard to cotton ; they hardly believed it possible that the French and English would allow the blockade of their ports, to the injwy and distress of their own people, Ant we may well acknowledge that the Souti had a right to think so. Much as we desi'e that " America's calamity may be India's opportunity," yet when two countries who had but tc speak the word, and all the cotton of the South wculdhave been at their disposal, were content to recognise an inefficient blockade, it was surely an instance of unprecedented forbearance. We might have insisted that the case was wholly out of the ordinary course of things, and unprovided for by interraticnal law ; that we I could not permit the dontsti3 quarrels of the North and South to destroy tie means of subsistence for our vast population, and ye might, we believe on justifiable grounds, have joned Frances who it is notorious wished to do it—ie putting an end to the blackade and opening the otton ports. We sub mitted, however, and what .s the reward—that our forbearance is attributed b the mearest possible commercial motives, insteal of the desire to go to the extreme of forbearance with a country which had always shomn the reverse of that quality in all its dealings'with us. We were looking out for our own interests forsooth! We thought a vast United States better to deal with than several smaller States ! We believe the reverse of this is the truth. The size of the Union has been its temptation to become a political nuisance in its dealings with other countries. But what of the slavery luestion ?—nothing but pettiness itself. There is the old silly cumbrous phraseology, with the old tttempts at compromise and staving off the question. The UNION is still set up like NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S image, and all must fall down and worship it. Human liberty is of course but a trifle to offer up to such a deity. As, therefore, it is assumed thit the loyal slaveholders will be injured should thei• slaves be emancipated, provision is made for their compensation should the accidents of war give then freedom—this is fair; but the President looks mad, further—he wants by to regain the loyalty of r t e h t e entinoof slavery Secessionists. He has kept, he says, doubtless alluding to FREmoNr's proclamation, to the letter of the Act of Congress in regard to the confiscation of slaves, atd tells Congress that radical and extreme measures must be avoided. In other words, he can't consent to abolition. The anion of Freedom with Slavery is still his reply. He has, however, one little morsel even for the abolitionists—he proposes to recognise Hayti and Liberia, the recognition of the former being doubt less a rebuke to Spain, who in return may think the Southern Government deserves recognition on her part. The Secretary ef War feels so rur gently the necessity of accepting slave aid in the South, and of not returning the slaves to their masters to be by them emplo3ed in sustaining the war by raising supplies, or even by direct military occupations, that he pleads for the necessary emanci pation of such as resort to the armies ; but he is also, of course, greatly concerned for the loyal masters. There is not on this subject the slightest indication of anything more than a hand to-mouth policy adapted to immediate military exigencies—nothing like raising the banner of emancipation as the standard by which the North might conquer, with the ap plause of the civilized world, Motions are already before Congress on the subject, but they seem little likely to end in anything. Indeed, the Message points to colonizing the free negroes at any cost on land purchased for the purpose, rather than tolerate their free presence amongst the white lords of the North. FIRE AT THE THAMES IRON SHIP• • BUELDING COMPANY'S WORKS.—Yesterday a fire destroyed the mould-room and roof of some of the most important parts of these premises. The mould. room of the Warrior and the models of other vessels were destroyed. THE WARD OF LANGBOURN.—At the request of many electors and inhabitants, Mr. T. Sidney Smith an nounces his intention, on St. Thomas's Day, to offer him self as a candidate for the honour of being elected one of the representatives in the Court of Common Council for the year ensuing. Ho is well known to most of the electors, and his father is at present one of the representatives of an adjoining ward in the Court of Common Council. The Toronto Globe, of Nov.. 20, says :—Gen. Sir Fenwick Williams, Commander of the Forc:s, will arrive in town this afternoon, by the Grand Trunk train, accom panied by his staff, including Col. Wilmot, Col. Rollo, Capt. De Winton, and Capt. Grant, for the purpose of in specting the defences of the neighbourhood. The excava tions for a new fort, a short distance from the old one, m ere commenced a couple of days ago under the superintendents of Col. Robertson, Royal Engineers." A puisne judgeship in India has been offered to Mr. M'Mahon, SL.P, for Wexford, and declined. '1 he ap pointment is worth £5,000 a year, with £1,500 for an out fit, but the locality, Agra, is extremely ill-suited to Euro peans until they have been acclimatised by early and long residence. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.—Mr. William Harrison, of SVharram-le- Street, on the Yorkshire Wolds, when hunting with I.o)rd Middleton's foxhounds at Settrington on the 12th, jumped, on his famed chestnut gelding Gari baldi, the immense distance of 31 _feet over high posts and rails. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 17. The Moniteur of to-day announces that, in con sequence of the death of the Prince Consort, the Emperor will go into mourning for 21 days. The Moniteur also contains an Imperial decree, disbanding the 103 d Regiment of the Line and the Ist Regiment of the Foreign Legion. Another decree deprives M. Laprade of his Pro fessorship of Literature and Fine Arts. A Minis terial report, which precedes the decree, explains the motives of this resolution, It states that M. Laprade published a piece of poetry in the Correa pondent containing injurious allusions to the Sove reign elected by universal suffrage, and to the nation which he gloriously governs. VIENNA, DEC. 17. The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day announces that the Budget will be communicated to both Houses of the Reichsrath to-morrow. Baron Schmerling will make the communication in the name of the Emperor. The Parliamentary Clubs have agreed upon the course to be pursued in reference to the Budget. The resolutions of the Reichsrath on financial questions will be as legal as if all the provinces of the Empire were represented. These resolutions will, however, only refer to the non-Hungarian provinces. TURIN, DEC. 16. The Movimento of to-day publishes a letter, addressed by Garibaldi to the Genoa committee which says :—" We are near the final solution of the national question. Notwithstanding the ob stacles thrown in our way by enemies, by false friends, and by the timid, whereby our progress has been arrested, we must go on to the end. The rivalry of individuals must cease. We must leave it to history to pass judgment on our task. Let us be still more closely united around the flag of our Re Galantuomo. Let us mutually and solemnly agree to meet on the last battlefield at the side of our brave army, which will still find companions worthy of its brotherly cooperation. All Is a token of victory." Garibaldi concludes by calling upon the commit tees of the Provedimento Society to lend him their active co-operation. BERLIN, DEC. 16. The news of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort has awakened the greatest sym pathy among all classes of the Prussian people, and has plunged the royal family into the deepest mourning. On receipt of the sad intelligence the King and Queen paid a visit of condolence to the Crown Princess. The King also sent his aide-de-camp to Lord A. Loftus to express his sympathy for the royal family of England. The Prussian Court will go into mourning for four weeks. It is rumoured that the Crown Prince will pro• ceed to Windsor on Wednesday next, in order to attend the funeral of the Prince Consort. The Crown Princess, it is said, will be compelled to renounce her intention of accompanying the Crown Prince, on account of the state of her health. FRANCE. " The Emperor and Empress, on receiving news of the death of the Prince," says a Paris letter in the Journal do Rouen, "immediately sent a tele graphic despatch to Windsor, expressing to the Queen their deep regret ; and in the evening a Cabinet courier was to leave for London with two autograph letters for her Majesty. The Em peror has likewise decided that, without awaiting for a notification of the demise of his Royal High ness, the Court shall go into mourning." BOURSE, Dec. 16.—The market has been very inanimate, and stock having been freely offered, the business done has been at a decline on the closing rates of Saturday. Threes are now at 67f 20c. Railways also dull, and in many cases lower. The following are the last quotations : 41 per per Cents 95 —, Do. end month 95 10 1 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 25 Bank Shares 2960 Credit Mobilier 720 Do. Account 722 50 Credit Foncier l2OO Belgian 4f — Piedmontese Fives 66 80 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1005 .. 1002 50 Geneva 350 3.51 25 Southern Western .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 5lO .. 512 60 vice of our Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the power in us in that behalf vested by the Constitutional Chart of the United States of the lonian Islands, to dis solve the present Parliament of the said islands; we do for that end publish this our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly. " Given at our Court at Windsor the 20th day of No vetaber, 1861, in the 2oth year of our reign. " ' God Save the Queen.' " HER 111,4JES2'Y THE QUEEN. OFFICIAL BULLETIN. WINDSOR CASTLE, TUESDAY MORNING. The Queen has passed a quiet night, and slept several hours. Her Majesty contiunes calm. (From the Cola t Circular.) WINDSOR CASTLE, MONDAY, DEC. 16. 11 A.M. The Queen has had some quiet sleep during the night, and remains as calm as under her affliction can be expected. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left the Castle in the afternoon for London. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary arrived from Kew in the afternoon. Major-General Seymour, Equerry to the Queen, has lelt England for the Continent, to attend her Serene Highness Princess Hohenlohe, who is ex pected over immediately. The bulletin issued at Windsor Castle yesterday morning, ',announcing that " the Queen has had some quiet sleep during the night, and remains as calm as under affliction can be expected," was ex hibited to the nobility and gentry at Buckingham Palace. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey went to Wind sor Castle yesterday morning, and returned to Lon don in the afternoon. Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert was made ready for sea yesterday, and according to present orders will proceed to Antwerp at daylight this morning, to convey to Osborne the Crown Prince of Prussia on a visit to the Queen during her retirement at Osborne. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. The official Gazette of the Government of the lonian Islands publishes the following documents dissolving the lonian Parliament " NOTIFICATION. " The Lord High Commissioner publishes for general information the following instructions addressed to the Residents of his Excellency : " Sir,—You will receive by this mail a copy of the Pro clamation publishing an Order by her Majesty in Council dissolving the Eleventh Parliament. " The Lord High Commissioner desires me, at the same time, to convey to you his Excellency's instructions carefully to abstain from any interference, direct or indirect, in favour of or against any candidates, either before or during the ensuing general election. " You will also give strict orders in the same sense to the employes in the different departments placed by the Consti tution under the special control of the Lord High Commis sioner, and further inform them that any infringement of his Excellency's injunctions on this point will be attended with instant dismissal from the public service. " I need scarcely add that the foregoing instructions are not intended to restrict any public employe from the free exercise of the elective franehise.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient humble servant, " ' H. DRUMMOND 'WOLFF, ci Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner. " Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St. George, Corfu, this 7th day of December, 1861.' " NOTICE. " His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner is pleased to publish, for general information, the following proclama tion by her Majesty in Council, dissolving the present Par liament of these States, which is consequently dissolved from the present date. " H. DRUMAIOND WOLFF, " Sec. to the Lord High Commissioner. " Palace of St. Michael and St. George, Corfu, December 7, 1861. " At the Court at Windsor, the 20th day of Nov., 1861. Present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. " Whereas, by the Constitutional Chart of the United States of the lonian Islands, it is among other things pro vided that the power of dissolving the Parliament of the said United ..tates on any special emergency shall be solely vested in her Majesty by an Order in Council : and whereas there hath this day been laid before her Majesty in Council the draft of a proclamation to be promulgated in the said States for the dissolution of the said Parliament (a copy whereof is hereunder written) : Her Majesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to approve the said Proclamation, and to order, and in pur suance, and in the exercise of the authority so reserved to her Majesty as aforesaid, it is hereby ordered, that the said Proclamation shall be promulgated by his Excellency Sir Henry Knight Storks, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and for these islands, and that upon, and from and after such pro mulgation thereof, the said Parliament shall be dissolved accordingly. " And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is to give the neces sary directions herein accordingly. " ARTHUR HELPS.' " PROCLAMATION. 46 Whereas we have thought fit, by and with, the ad. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. Yesterday evening Lord Sydney (the Lord Cham berlain) issued his instructions for the funeral. The custom, which remained in force up to the burial of William IV., of interring members of the Royal family by torchlight, has for many years been dis continued, and will not be resumed on this melan choly occasion. The funeral will take place on Monday next, the 23d inst., and at about the same hour of the day as when the Duchess of Kent was buried—between 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon. In accordance with the custom usually followed of late years, the funeral will not be a state one, nor will the remains of his Royal Highness lie in state. All these details, however, have been entrusted to Messrs. Banting, who have for so many years conducted the Royal and public funerals in this country. But, few and simple as are the rites which mark these solemn occasions, a great amount of pre paration is necessary beforehand. St. George's Chapel, Windsor, where the interment will take place, has to be draped and carpeted with black, the Royal vault to be opened, and time allowed for the arrival of the representatives of foreign Courts who will be deputed to attend on this occasion. All these arrangements have been carefully considered, and the shortest possible time in which they can be completed is by the date we have mentioned. At the funeral his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will act as chief mourner, supported by the Duke of Cambridge and by the Crown Prince of Prussia. The remains will be laid in the Royal vault. There are two vaults beneath St. George's Chapel—the Glocester and the Royal vault. The former was finally built up after the interment of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester, the last member of that branch of the House of Hanover. The Royal vault is kept apart exclusively for the coffins of the immediate members of the reigning family. Three gates close the entrance to this final resting-place of departed Royalty, the keys of which are kept by the Sovereign, the Lord Cham berlain, and the Dean of the Chapels Royal. Except for the burial of the Queen Dowager, who was laid by the side of her royal husband. this vault has not been opened since the death of William IV., and the descriptions which were put forth by some of our contemporaries as the place in which the coffin of the Duchess of Kent was temporarily deposited in this mausoleum were purely imaginary. The royal vault was never opened on that occasion at all, and the coffin only remained at the entrance to the first gate till the mausoleum at Frogmore was completed. During yesterday the inner shell and leaden coffin which will enclose the remains of the Prince Consort were forwarded to Windsor. Accord ing to custom, the body will be interred in four coffins, the inner one or shell being of polished mahogany cased outside with lead, then an outer plain, but very massive coffin of mahogany ; over all comes the State coffin or case, of crimson velvet and with massive silver gilt ornaments. On the leaden coffin is to be a silver plate, engraved with the style and titles of the deceased Prince. The outer mahogany coffin will simply bear a plate with his name and the date of his birth and death. On the State coffin will be the customary silver gilt plate bearing an inscription similar to that on the leaden coffin. Yesterday a notice was issued to the Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society that, in conse quence of the death of his Royal Highness the Pre sident of the Society, the gardens will remain closed till after the funeral. We are also requested to state that, in consequence of this great national calamity, the " Winter Speeches" will not be delivered at St. Paul's School on the day fixed, viz., Thursday, Dec. 19. The Master and Wardens of the Merchant Tailors' Company (of which the late Prince Consort was an honorary member) have also requested us to state that the meeting of the school for the public examination and speeches on this day (Tuesday) and the entertainment at the Hall, will not take place. According to present arrangements her Majesty, with the Princesses Alice and Helena, will not leave Windsor till to morrow (Wednesday) morning. From all parts of the country intelligence has been received of the deep sympathy manifested for the Royal family under their recent bereavement, The news of the sad event, widely circulated by telegram on Sunday morning, appears to have been referred to from the pulpit in almost every church, at least during the afternoon service. The Moniteur, after announcing the sad event, adds :—This sad event, this most sudden and pre mature death, plunges into sorrow the august Queen of England, the royal family of England, and the English nation. The Emperor, the imperial family, and the whole of France associate themselves with all their sympathies to their regrets and sorrows. The .Debats says ;—The mournful and premature event which has befallen the Queen and the royal family, in the midst of the gravest political difficul ties, will be keenly felt, not only in England, but throughout Europe. In France especially, where Prince Albert has left personal recollections, public opinion will, we are confident, unite in the private but severe grief into which this great misfortune has plunged Queen Victoria, the constant and faith ful ally of France. The Siecle observes :—ln a difficult position Prince Albert won the esteem of the English nation and,the sympathy of all those who, artists, literary men, inventors, scientific men, form the party in England of intellectual progress, in which the de ceased Prince was specially interested. Frankly accepting the subordinate part of the Sovereign's husband, he sought in learning and the protection of the arts and of industry an employment useful to his new country of that intellectual activity which he was prevented by the traditional susceptibilities of the nation from applying to political affairs. His elevated tastes, the dignity of his character (says La Presse), obtained for the deceased Prince a well-deserved popularity. The Independancc Beige has the following com ments :—Although placed in a position more subor dinate, but not less difficult, than that of a reign. ing Sovereign, especially towards a people who are proud, reserved, and impatient of all foreign influ ence, Prince Albert, without ever exciting the least censure, succeeded in exercising in the councils of Great Britain, with as much dignity as prudence, a legitimate authority, the good effects of which are denied by none. All the useful institutions which originated in England by the initiative of the people —in this country so vigorous —were honoured with his advocacy, one which was never sterile or merely nominal. Wherever there was progress to hasten, serious work to found or develope, the sympathetic, active, and energetic concurrence of the Queen's husband was ever to be reckoned upon. This in telligent and comprehensive participation of the Prince in the social life of the English at first gained him their esteem and then their affection. They regarded him as one of themselves, and certain pre judices, or rather instinctive prepossessions against him at the time of his marriage with the Queen on account of his nationality and tendencies towards absolutism which were more or less attributed to him, were soon completely dispersed, to be replaced by feelings of the utmost cordiality. Thus his loss will be deeply felt, and all England will participate in the grief of the Royal family. THE CASE OF 2'HE HARVEY BIRCH. The New York Post, received by yesterday's mail, says :—One of the most beautiful of the packet ships that sail from this port—a pride and boast of our commercial marine—the Harvey Birch, belong ing to Mr. J. H. Brower, of South-ste eet, has fallen a victim to the piratical lust of the rebels. Return ing to this port from Havre, in ballast, after a pros perous outward voyage, she was seized by the steamship Nashville, and burned to the water's edge. There are reasons, it is said, why we should not particularly commiserate the owner on his loss; but be that as it may, the circumstances of the case excite many reflections. Her crew, a body of inno cent sailors, prosecuting an honest and honourable vocation, were seized by the lawless rovers, put in irons as if they had been criminals, and in that ignominious condition carried off to a foreign port. Whether the Nashville professes to be a regu larly commissioned vessel of war, or a privateer, does not appear. The probability is that she is neither, and that she is cruising like a pirate, on her own responsibility. But whatever she be nomi nally, the outrage is the same ; one of the grossest that has yet been inflicted upon the flag of our country, and the honour as well as property of our citizens. New York muat feel the insult and the wrong to her very heart. Seldom before in her history as a commercial metropolis has anyone dared to question her right to navigate the great ocean which is the source of her wealth and supre macy. In all the seas of the world foreign powers are glad to acknowledge the emblems of her enter prise, are glad to cultivate the most friendly relations with her representatives, and glad to do all in their power to foster and extend her commerce. But these rebels do not scruple to arrest her merchant men, sink them in the great deep, and subject their crews to the indignities which civilised nations reserve for felons. THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. M. Luigi Palmieri, director of the Observatory of Vesuvius, has presented the following official report on the present eruption : Royal Meteorological Observatory of Vesuvius, Dec. 10, 1861. Sir,—Since the 7th of this month the needles of the Lamont apparatus suffered extraordinary perturbations, and whilst they increased in intensity, the electro.magnetio sismograph began on the following day to mark a continual vibration in the soil, with frequent shocks (sometimes un dulations, sometimes starts) of earthquake. Some of these shocks were felt at Naples. At last, about 4 p.m. on the Bth, a large cleft opened in the lava of 1794, some miles above Torre del Greco, near the Brancaccio property. At first there issued from it a great abundance of smoke, and then as usual pieces of lava violently shot forth with terrible roarings, which reminded the inhabitants of Torre del Greco of past disasters, and made them hasten to quit their houses and seek refuge elsewhere. About 5 p.m. the fluid lava escaped, covered with great scoria of a singular composition, rich in pyroxenes and almost entirely devoid of leucites. After having de vastated several cultivated fields and partly buried some country houses, the lava stopped, because the violence of tho line of craters along the slcne gradually diminished about midnight. On flip morning of the 9th, whilst these lower craters were again in considerable activity, the upper one, which 10.1. morr, emit fire, and which seemed at last disposed to rest, began violently to shoot out smoke, stones, cinders, and red-hot materials with horrible detonations, which still continue. I will not fail to keep you informed of the circumstances of this new kindling up of our volcano, reserving the scien tific details for the next volume of the annals of the obser vatory, if mears for printing be furnished me. According to the mercantile advices from NeW York by the present mail, the rate of exchange had par tially receded from the point at which bullion remittances would be requisite, the pressure of produce for exportation immediately before the final closing of the canals, which would take place in a few days, having created for the moment an adequate supply of bills. The shipments for the week had included about 100,000 quarters of wheat and 25,000 quarters of Indian corn, besides other grain, mak ing a total value of about half a million sterling, irrespec tive of enormous consignments also of salted meats, butter, cheese, and other western produce. The public subscrip tions to the Federal loan continued on an indifferent scale, the total having as yet reached only £7,390,000 out of the £30,000,000 taken by the associated banks. The report of Mr. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, with the esti mates of the Government requirements to the Ist of next July, the end of the fiscal year, was anxiously awaited. The news of the burning of the Harvey Birch had caused the New York underwriters to increase their premium for war risks from 1 per cent. to 5 per cent—a step which is alleged to have been regarded by the merchants as un called for and impolitic, and as giving an undue advantage to the vessels of other countries. These advices say little as to the Trent affair, and the idea of its be:ag followed by war, nearly all the commercial community having fallen into a habit of reserve with regard to political matters, whether domestic or foreign, almost as peculiar and signi ficant as that which is observed at St. Petersburg. The next steamers to arrive are the City of Manchester, from New York, with dates to the 7th, and the Bohemian, from Portland, with dates to the 7th, and probably two days later by telegram via Cape Race. The Americans in London belonging to the Con federate States manifested satisfaction at the intelligence yesterday of the proceedings in Congress, on the assump tion that all prospect of a surrender of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, exceptunder compulsion, has thus been terminated. On the other hand, the Federalists assert that the action of the House of Representatives, unsupported by a correspond. ing vote of the Senate or by any declaration of the Presi- , dent or the Cabinet collectively, is but of secondary im portance, and merely furnishes another illustration of the subserviency of that body to the populace. Those who take this view consider that the avoidance of the subject in the Presidential Message is a far stronger symptom for good then the other is for evil. They deem that the Presi dent and his advisers had resolved to wait to hear of the manner in which the affair had been met in England and throughout Europe, and that, having thus paused, they will not be likely when the accounts reach them to act with sudden recklessness, and to imitate when it is too late the style of those who had had the sagacity at the earliest moment to discount their triumph over Great Britain. EXTENSIVE SHAWL ROBBERY BY THE CHINESE. —A curious discovery was made on Saturday at the South ampton Docks, involving a robbery of China crape shawls to a large extent, perpetrated, there can be little or no doubt from the circumstances of the case, in the country from which the packages were imported. It is, of course, well kpannoyw steamers, m e e x r t s e , nsive shipments of China crape shawls and India silks are ma d e b y th e P en i nsu l ar an d O r i en t a l Com that they are landed at Suez, conveyed across the desert by railway, and reshipped at Alexandria on board the steamers which arrive at Southampton weekly with the mails from different parts of our Eastern posses sions. Among the cargo brought by the Delta steamer, which reached Southampton in the middle of last week, were four cases consigned to Messrs. Dunlop and Schoales, shipping agents at that port, the distinguishing marks on each being a heart, and the cares numbered respectively from 716 to 719. Each of the four cases was supposed to contain 50 dozen China crape shawls, of the value of £320, making a total consignment of 200 dozen, worth £1,280. When these cases were opened in the dock warehouse, for the purposes of examination, by the Customs' authorities, it was f3uLd that not a single shawl was contained in either of them. The cases were filled with matting and other light material, with some heavy stones ingeniously wrapped up in the centre to make the cases the exact weight they would have been had the shawls been properly placed in them. The exterior of the cases presented precisely the usual ap pearance, and there was nothing whatever about them to indicate the fraud which had been perpetra ted, which could not by any possibility be discovered till they were opened at the end of their journey. The suspension was announced yesterday after niooniroaflNe.lessra. W es t gar th and Co., a house in the Aust ra• lo.na At 4 'l°l3.al eouud fil. p ( N S f w 1 44 ear Ilarge A. 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