The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

:" 1"-'; FuLdidol 91, v. St. X. Den is-pirates —c DagObert' - 9 Cu ft-boo Tidal-'deer FooT- , lay' 6-6 h. meter. TRIBAL-AMEI ;ICA'S ' ULSTER' PLANTA TIONS, T BasaNSFER'D ',I/ITH WILL .h TRUSTEES STOP RENTS TO AFRIC CO'S NIGGER BER-MUDA-NEST, BY It7.TRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 w. Iv., C. 02, § 4, 5 vic. c-39 § 4, 1842, NAVE': : 9th Q. AN-BNTY. 132 yr., so S • *INN-Jetsam 6!sap LAganta rota our-fiot-semi N. Wall,&murem 24 March -a-29 Sept. Erran finang/ 6 Ap ril' Julian-treery on Twe- , r-ed Fishery-park law-sets, in conic-sections 3 x 365.5 /sospiral-1200 by Enckse , ' comet. CARIB-sachims, merchants—For 'Boards of trade quiet it becomes my sou/ duty, in opposition to the opinion of the placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officer of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, acted on "non-resident rule" under the Municipal Acts of 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landbnard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such persons' Tlactl's, open to ram. Indian* *right of search' law (Webster'd -'42). Signed, . : : . . • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTH, Cl. of Synode J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701)-Re-moderd, 1832-38. t Negro trade search' in CAss, by Palmerston, '57. So— JAR-CONE e'e a PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY -COMPASS-3 EFFL°TOM GIP (-)PONTI SPIRIT-°-LEVEL. NAVE'S CINQUE PORTAL, UP-CURVE, LINE OF LATITUDE, In spin-long ginq'nt 50 by Polar* above & below decline. soar,_,in /3 astre-geograph . • • : : to lover's , ts Arrow off anil-on'Diepp's-atouen a-s to Lizard-Ft. °'r Pansies Quadra culmination Tropic-wend t'wrds atinorga's Longue Jock 40. N. Its state rope-lay Anchor .1. flag -tow'r pros-by Tyre round the fixt earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night zone-meter, year 79 on 1524-35's Life- Burg-Eychein 4 rjor conevolute-Lect- crts.—on America's meridian'd 60. west N. and S. for its Turloch base -line September like-evapora tive Xaraves Nile-'-metrod lake as, the *ken pi vo t Da ppe s (3d Jac°. L), of Villa-Bella 's Sack're-mentopez colony-1825 of Brazil, wrongfully province'd from ME in 1828. Sachims—The Illustrated London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's caelineA, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arteriallivord scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, 'resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fens -Ir° (' Foclinre -regales, of James L's 72 New niver' share 1-plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on EnGland's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by De'can"' Henry , Wotton and Montague, so CAR. 11. 'Hyde's grant 1662's jar- Coneneci-i-cut-18 to Penn's 81-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 lndit.n responsibility-trust ; the whole land estate guarantee of the allies were transferred by commit tee of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England ' le . quliar' filibuster institution), with undersigned § as their Lay-ffie'cone° pa tron & advocates of Q-Ann-13 9 unty-acre, plantation .8 cos. See, N. 4421 Abori g ines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London Convention(PhilaGelphia), by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, thro' D. - Webster & Perley's 3d Sept., '4l, election of ind. Peter 8., II (not a st. Denis slave) as succes - sor to the 99 yr life leases 12 to run, under 14 Geo. us. 1774, for Saq°mo Jos. Brant (on old John Adams' suggestion, whose Qu'acre grandson is now, here)—and approved at Philadelph's Lancaster Duchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins § Edgcumbe Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & ooldfmith Co's-1, N. River proprietary) Stegglesplug-1. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semioles & Georgii Cherokee Indians of the coast, 1000 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised- North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their black cattle mixing with the virgin races, thro' the Lan caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I—XIV., for mixt Coaaiffn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as reset on Admiralty Eeole of St. Paul's, Bermuda (10 M, by Philadel's partizan friends Coloniza-Off, Boston—Judge Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. So Deerfoot's lye-Fellow scholarship' Trinity e -Col., Cambridge, 1861. 8 Dec.)—the term negro for Indian, not in 1726 grant of Geo. I p 66. Hence New shire- crt foundation' on French and British itys, 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 capi tulaion, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn -in successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820—for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of ' Texas-hundred' 6 & 6 partners, for basis to the legislative law et England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of Trent-council, for swamping by votes thro' the `Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd negro-shift 3-5 for Indian voice in ccnno] Exhibition-rs, on Elliott's may '5l Col. letter, TEVIOT-1847, as In re Trent—The arrest of Slidell & Ma son, as contra-band illegal persons, you I.erceive, is just, for trade quiet. Thus instant paid recog-avow of Red Indian and:trustes below, tho' made the 7e-3ye 0 t' scapegood-fools 40 yrs, by Luther Calvin Swiss fraters do Sae,'is of _Lui bronze'd-/-PENN-statue 1655-8 X, Scciety of friends. Afßic'rs.—By pyre-Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), §4.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards in expeditions. Ye will think, on your 3in 5 freemen vote, of the danger in joining either party of the white faces or half negur Indian persuaders, and are forbid from noticing the late 3 / 4 Fetish 'placet'd-proclamation as headed in Times and Post of 16th Nov., " A Convention between ENGLAND, France and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's rights, or alien's of the contracting parties to keep peace on their soil, and avoid the -4- Ebert murder (?) of all the whites, By " this' and reasons as follows so:— " Command oal words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses by 3 James I. is a Christian Jacclao Zollverein trading flag x T x and not a belligerent by Ordnance issue from the Tower nave), T , 343, of Jan. 31 1842. Tho Civil-service merchant flag, on board the Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border—the transept Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for outing the word England from the log-wood 1782 Court christian ace charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian code base of the Roman X-span' Fueros union courts of E-gal loco of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which was decided in the AngPlot-n' fpan'sh 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 Melchisirlek 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, My native N. Z. Waitangi'd 512, by t Bunbury-like Sir Gore Ouseley's foist on the 800 Sachims sign for Gross rebels in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Walker-ite in Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life-tenure 1047, Dappes-Nap-assumption of aUFERT-Clad Savoy), for seizing of Mexico, from England—caused his papist envoy Captain Alclham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests ' i wolves i men as manifest by late Morocco bullion theft' convention, for the umbilical Nave : : violation of God's-acre in 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, Las of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the law's font, and recognised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the 'sole' elect of Pdland's NW. red-Russia a-Burman of the cent years Dutch loan act, 1832, disjoined with sect religion. 4. The Jar/ Ruseel's -ratification of London' Gazette, NOV. 16, not within the 15 days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a sup-plement, ‘l.Vhity-coloured persons being voice-divorced in this Azfinithson'an institution' 1 district-site of April, 1836, on Gladstone's comtee. of H. C. by U.S. Congress, '46. This super-natus Chain proves to yen Indian! Negros, aliens, &c., that the Cabinets named in late convention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a convers° Domus Romish sense, (in total opposition to an infranatus Unity of 1 the Nom - Mill nr?ie standard measure of 1824 and 1835, for Go' +I raising the revenue—on yearly election of paid laymen—so guiding the whirld's trade by Joint comffn) without ask of People's-arbiter below—so (6 & 61) "Scorn arbitration as a stain— (1 & 14) 9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. Thus the Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for my civic patron 9 l right, is [for monetary recognition of all dues from America upon primary colonization, well-intentioned, of the :1 ; whites, & Afric-negro decay of human nature, on their theft of our 1730 Indian nationality on, my life], by a brother and sisterly love for the future, under England's trust law, as (now disjoined with t- Pope, 8-Churches or t-water sects late on minister's money], of the ceel-A read-bag gate. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medal'd-sack°m6, Nephew II (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775—Saemo Peter Toma Brant, 182:5-£10, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. • 11.7's Montague § C ' ACKERLEY, P.C., sworn in, Chief-sus. of Ireland's Nave-cornifn of review, 1825-37, L.S. H. B's Executors §WOTTON' LYON BOWES, P.c. Dec. 31—London. See The Sun, Nov. 16, 1861. ARREST OF NASHVILLE SHIP-PIRATES ON CA s CORPUS-NAVE RED-FLAG DISPLAY. Notice,—ln re Anderson-like Extra-dition—Act On Yancey, Man, Peyton, & Clyde's eller en course ? with Traitors, Hunter and Soule. By aid-force de lege nhod' lib. iv., § 1, for criminal law on —this side of sea level, as on the other—Washington ex tradition Act—touching Fite-raising, as one of the four pleas of the Crown-pivot, under oath voice-reserve for all. he Mayor of Southampton, 'rear-admiral of England's a' pinnace charge— o Wight's Gaulic-coque ca, coast guard, will arrest PEAGRIM and crew of ship Nashville, for La course -pillage and robbery, on the high seas o f Bos ton. property of Amer i can plantation ship H arvey Bi rc h , of N. York—by sehenehi; reps about 19th N ov ., 1861 . By rota (a) 0 in tilv ditioni supremus est' of the placet regium imperiurn. populo civic* restituend o Constit' federici ' —Laws of Ithodea 1812, on A.D. 1346 v. 291, P. Pickius so Dagobert's S . .s lB l-) T 53 . x 5 .. a 9 4 ;) N e 8 - lib. 1, against piratre-slaves of rnucla-Nid's i-Col. merchant hi St. As (b) Newfound-lands Hey-factor (Rexvini of Lisbon wine in newspaper Precedent, on license Co.'s Junot- • sion, 1807), for , Englands rompey'n-rnarine p ea t e j i t l n ny : - (iverpool* •&• • • London), admiralty old ' st s y il l p e e . l •• • Bristol's altum mare, qua) atfrenclsi' et def . e . entel?liq uo , , So (c) by this warrant is of (R . igh , - , lan-Cor e in inara), re view eeionisation on Port6.l•al-w ay 53 ° tempi. pi. UP_thought, for He'Loule y jar() 370 N-L,repose, on , Holy A lli ance abolition, act thro' * Hamond , SANDY S, in th e (Signed) . f PETER. Brant BANQUET, fl The trade flag-union Jak • a.m Mp m. 3-J. 1 ., corn-hill-Tow'er'd Income i taxi • y-13u10.C'4 - e . freeman, Antipeed'ncrown-co on ch ie o Temple. of 1842, —The criminal law's Extradi ,q Lab uchero. tion Gap, 3 -mileoff-chore Seaconstable,2 March, '4l] bearing K•america's padd l e of Admiral's .4 3 ., H. M. Perley, court over Canterbury's Cile - Guiz ote set -0. 3 Sept, '4l's tlement for New Zealand's dea d p roofii t '* Gap i vrz'r. 0- Crt., its @ial re•m'poy Stir lord Warden Capt O'Halloran. —tho' cruelly set a medal Victims ci vic r ri.arpentbard by Ashburton Baring-3ty. .* N. • CirAunns ' ACKERLEY, + c;J of carib-isle Jethou'd EnGland 'Special elect, Aug. 29 1825 . " (by Admiral G. Doughty Hamonrl, Stuart de Crown- Rothsay's Sec. Marcus Ilill—Treror-SANDys, 6- e -cu on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King- I clubs), the Standard weight-hearer of 1837, Lt. Si Pen, x.N. z pay'd double-oathii'd victim—supporter Qu' Rien of Mohawk PETER 10 yrs, by Red Indian Mary s.P.Q.R. March's murder-tie, 1 0 20 in' habeas virginalo 'Jose '75 tenerum corpus christe' transit, thro' Quebec's P.Toma'2s I lamilton-Dalhousie, in E. Elder' duty for his BRANT.' and own's A St a e t.•rt h • provisio as the Mon- afediei rte2ubßifly Ist-fruit loan 181n4I 't; t 20's on major Trev.sor - lee e ,g3eht• chief sEccossorial i surrogat'cy. [on trove. Si ea a ,‘" "(Itlirbare d to GoNs 'td , T fc , savos 4 i en. 4th, on Hen. V.'s Martin 5, jl,,' V Scottish lirbariA',egolOnal3e-c°l°na' °Are it 159, by Pius 7th on STUART Wortley., ( 7 ) i plss'd in C.eath fl749 -Advocate V l . o 4 ni x er ,, e'-niotu JII.V 1521-72 Luther re over Stan ley & W. Ruseren: r argrt'a - lay: 54 ' on Sion- attain in Leo. X Tavi stock augurib lifaerr ?jet 1861 (un aid Chris Wilms martyr 19 yr.), London. •• : : DRURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL. Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock. THIS EVENING (TUESDAY) her Majesty's Ser vants will perform the popular Farce, by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., entitled AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Atkins ; Pugwash, Mr. Barsby ; Mr. Skinner, Mr. llope ; Susan Swee(apple, Miss Keeley; Miss Wadd, Miss Stuart ; Miss Tibbit, Miss Bland ; Miss Gimp, Mi s s Harfleur ; Deborah, Mrs. Dowton. After which will be produced, with that attention to com pleteness in every department by which the Christmas Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT; or, Old Mother Hubbard and het onderful Dog. "If a man do build a dwelling upon common land from sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein there shall be a tree, a beast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter. The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by WILLIAM BEVERLEY. Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c. Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. H. TULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transfor mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H. Adams, H. Langham, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments by Mr. I-i inckley. The Choregraphic Arrangements by Mr. Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the Flowers supplied by Bimmel's process. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written by E. L. BLANCHAR D. And the whole arranged and produced under the imme diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY. Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters, OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE, With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the Distance (Daylight). " Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get her poor Dog a bone; when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur sery Legend. Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and torn"), Miss F. Hunt; the Squire, Mr. Tom Matthews; Dame Wiggins of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master Sageaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab ; Parish Beadle, Mr. Bumble; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin, Whackstraw, Chawbacon, &c., &c. ; Rosetta (the " Maiden all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat, and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative— Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning— Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick. THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL, in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight. Will-o'-the-Wisp Miss Lanza, Ignes Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes, Livermore; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite, Haramil ton, Stap • ley, Harris, Candy, Copeland, Archer, Hawkins, Delaney, Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel ton. Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Invocation I The Incantation I ! and the Evapora- tion I I I THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE HOUSE. Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon ; Old Scratche (his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ; Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe, Scrape, Shuffle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway; Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tight& ; Mum mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Magger, Cracksides, O'Reilly, M'Phun, &c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyerry ; Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, Mr. Longlegs; Bear- Warden, Mr. Stnuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins; Land lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap, Flip, Flap, &c., &c. ; Jack Padding, Mr, Merryman. How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time— How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is treated in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub bard's reason. THE " CAGE" ON THE COMMON (Sunset). Grand Scena Comique and Pas de Broomstick, by Mother Hubbard. The Dreamer and the Worker—The Vision of Pleasure and the Division of Labour—Figures of Fun (from the Fancy. store of Dykwynkyn) - Messrs. Mason, Drainpipes, Carpenter, Rodman, Old Brick, and Young Shaver, Lilli putian Labourers, Pigmy Plasterers, Tin;Tilers, Minia ture Masons, Baby Bricklayers, Short Sawyers, Dwarf Drain Makers, and Child Carpenters by a Host of Juvenile Auxiliaries. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, The Rat, Master Longwhisker ; The Cat, Miss Mouser ; The Dog, By Himself; The Cow, Madame Brindle; The Priest (" All shaven and shorn"), Mr. Jollyman; The Cock (" That crowed in the Morn") Master Cocky-doodle doo. ltealisation of the famous Picture in the National Gal lery of Little Britain, taken (by permission) for Boys, from a rare work in the collection of Master Smith, London. FROGPOOL IN THE MARSHES (Twilight). Song, " Will o' the Wisp," composed by J. H. Tully, Esq. How the Squire goes Hunting and loses his way and his temper, and what follows in consequence—Another curious instance of Canine sagacity—Bull-frogs, Masters Hop, Skip, Jump, Creak, &c. SQUASH-HOLLOW SWAMP AND BED OF BULRUSHES. How the Squire comes to grief and afterwards to repent ance, and how Jack is recognised as the rightful heir—The reward and harmonious movements of the Fairies on a Grand Chromatic Scale towards WILL 0' WISP'S HOME BENEATH THE WATERFALL. The Transformation. Harlequins Messrs. CORMACK and ST. MAINE Columbines The Misses GUNNISS. Pantaloons Messrs. G. TANNER and MORLEY. Clowns Grotesque 1861-1862 SPRITES by the RIDGWAYS and SU WELL FAMILY. 1.-EXTERIOR OF TWO SHOPS IN " UP-OR DOWN" STREET. Messrs. Reline, St. Maine, Tanner, and Miss S. Gunniss. Christmas Presents—every Man (and Boy) to his Post, even the Post-Man—Clown rides the high horse, which proves his rock a-head—Two Young Men from the Country, and Clown gets over them—a Sewing Machine (not a poor Needlewoman)—a thorough Blow out—a Man in very re duced circumstance—Clown finds the Fruits of stealing Apples in an elephantine way—a Band of Brothers —the Police in Great and Small Force—Clown gets into a row and blows up a policeman—the end of this scene is all Bustle—N.B. Not Crinoline. 2.-THE GREAT SENSATION:KITCHEN. Messrs. Forrest, Cormack, Morley, and Miss Gunniss. Harlequin seeks Protection, although a Free-trader— The Cook's Guide—Clown hies to take the chair—the head dish of the table—Harlequin goes through a Deal, and Clown becomes a Board-er--Silence those dreadful Bells— Clown and Pantaloon make an ap-Peal to the Audience on the Merry Musical Bells—Pantaloon rather hard pressed— arrival of a distinguished Foreigner—Clown falls into his own trap, and kills a Blue-bottle, which proves a bad Buzz-ness for him—a Lecture on the Gorilla, by a well known character—Clown meets with a few Friends (not Quakers)—this Scene ends at the finish of it. 3.—THE INTERIOR OF A RAILWAY STATION. Eight hours at the Sea-side for 2s 6d—Duty off Paper— " .1 he Times" reduced and the Times on the rise—a book that takes leafe of Clown—Harlequin gets his horse from a Stall and sets up a trap. No Smoking a•Loud, only on the Quiet—Clown makes a Tremendous Christmas Tree— late arrivals—Messrs. Neverintime, Toolate, Dearme, and Blessme—Clown burns his fingers (not the only person that has done so)—Clown gives Good Bail and finds a Bale of goods. 4.—The SEA-SIDE. The Sands I The Sands I I The Sands 1I I Come unto these yellow sands. A Sailor telling a Yarn and a boat Lying too—the Pier Master's ap-Pierance—Clown makes a Man's hair turn sandy and proves himself in the wrong box—by a slight Miss-Take, which a certain Miss won't Take—Pantaloon gets some shell-fish in a very Selfish manner—Clown asto nishes the Natives—Sailors that use their Cut-Lasses but don't Cut Lasses when they can join with them in a National Hornpipe—Clown gets a Sensation Leader-1 he Great Donkey Stir St Leger—Clown and Pantaloon's Concert—fine ears for Music—they fish in troubled waters —a Divided Interest—a sudden Squall (Children and all) —The latest Novelty in Parrchutes. Scene—A DISMAL SWAMP—After a storm a calm appears, a HARLEQUIN'S HOME ON HIS THRONE OF SPLENDOUR. Doors open at half-past Six, to commence at Seven o'clock. Tickets for Boxes, Pit, and Galleries, may be had at the Box Office before the opening. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENTGARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyno and Mr. W. Harrison. EVENING,LoTuIIisIaSPy ne bliss. uTslalnEil;Unße Mr. George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T. Tyne; Mr. S 'S an D t A le tr y, G 3 ll l7. E H R ..C 3 o r r i r s i s , Distin, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. After which will be produced (written expresly by J. M. Morton), a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLF.QUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdig•naz, a Peep at Lilliput, and a Flying - Visit to Laputa. Gulliver, Mr. W. IL Payne ; Mrs. Guldver, Mr. F. Payne. Principal danseuse. Millie. Lamoureux, supported by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequin/fie sustid by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. ii. Payne, .Payne,ane 11. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lau r i . Commence at Seven. A 1 Z, ‘._. ' li EA TR f!,- 110 Y A 1„ HAym Lesgee. Mr. J. B. Bneirstoz go . rie,s , Comed________ y THIS EVENING, Dec. 31, Sterling- y p,i,,A CIC SIIP.Er OWC . Messrs. Buckstone, Co mp t on, II owe, - , Villiers, Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. Wilkins, Sze. After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ' • or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Itosine. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Dcc. :IL the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DA Y ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, llermann Vezin, Charles St .My, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED HIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Howe, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—lir. P. B. Chatterton. - - - • - • - cePri sas usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at /sox-of:ace open daily from 11 till 5. lb, LA DON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECE AIRE rt, 31., 1.861. THE SUN' THORLEI"S FOOD for CATTLE, a Condiment for seasoning all kinds of common provender. A barrel, containin• 418 Leeds, carriage paid for post order, 405., payable to the Inventor, JO, EPII THORLEY, Newgate street, City, London. THORLEY'S ENTIRE FEEDING • MEAL, -n- price £l6 per ton, free to rail in London, composed of Locust Beans, Maize, Linseed, &c„ seasoned with Thorley's Condiment. Barrels, 12 stone each, 305., carriage paid.— Newgate-street, City. ItO YA 1, PRINCES S'S THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, Tueschy, Dec. 31, THE CRICKET ON THE HEALTH. After which will be produced, a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled WHITTING TON AND HIS CAT; or, Harlequin Ring Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The Scerery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast ings, Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris; Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, ,pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. llildyard ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will take place at Two o'clock on Monday, Deo 30, and every fol lowing Monday till further notice. NEW THEATRE-110 SEAL, ADELPHI.— Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA : Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Smith, Stephenson, Romer. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. After wh'ch, at 20 minutes past 9, tin great Irish Drama of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c. Box Office open from 10 till 5. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS ; characters by Mr. Sinclair, Mesas. Clifford and Terry. After which, CAM ELIA ; Camelia, Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. Fol lowed by a New Operatic Burlesque, entitled THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF IL TROVATOR ; or, Who Killed the —; Messrs. Graham, Robins, James, Warren, W. Worboys ; Mesds. Mason, Craven, and Hodson. To con lude with new and ori , inal Farce, A NICE QUIET DAY.—Commence at half-past 7. AS rLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. By particular desire, a GRAND MORNING PERFORM ANCE on WEDNESDAY (New Year's Day), commencing with daring Scenes in the Circle, by the first Equestrians in the world ; concluding with the Comic Pantomime, JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE ; or, Harlequin Black Witch of Edmonton. Doors open at half-past 1, commence at 2. The Evening Performan e as usual On Saturday, Jan. 4, a Grand Morning Performance, at 2. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Triumphant Success of Mr. Marshall's Grand Christmas Entertainment, "THE ENCaANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION)- - Tonderful Transformations—Every Evening* at a quartet-vast ten—in e,dditio - i to the following Comic talent: Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Bur lesque Vocalist, Mr. Wood and Son, Mr. J. G. Fordo, Miss Harriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from LA TRANIATA and TROVATORE, at ten o'clock, By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and full Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls mad Balcony, is. CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN " Every Evening at half-past Nine o'clock. T II E 0 XF O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, OPEN EVERY EVENING. Grand Selections from " ERNANI," "Macbeth," and "La Circassienne," by Madame Enderssohn, Miss Ernst. and Miss Russell ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Solos by Mr. Viotti Collins (the great English violinist). Balfe's New Ballads, by Madame Enderssohn and Mi-s Russell (composed expressiy for them), and other Vocal and Instrumental Entertainments, the Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins. E. Marshall, M. P. Foster, W. Ran dall. and Mos Harriet Coveney. Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tx is DAY.—Morning, lh. 9m.—Afternoon, lh. 38m. TO-MORROW. -Morning, h. m.--Afternoon, h. m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 31, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. ighest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 37—this day at noon. BAROMETER— 30.42. Wpm—N.-Easterly; light, with dull weather. ttA y 4, 3 :4etsl-9..A\ - / • ,i : , • rt t- • THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1861. According to annual custom, upon New Year's Eve, we take a retrospect of the past twelvemonth. But a very brief interval after these remarks of ours shall have gone to press, the joy-bells in all our city church towers and village steeples will peal out blithely the transition from the one year to the other—from 1861 to 1862. And there will be this time far more than ordinary significance in the dear familiar sound of these old joybells at midnight—remembering, as who amongst us cannot fail to do, how much more reason than usual we have now to turn rather Hopefully to the Future than Regretfully to the Past, The griefs that have come upon us during the year that is now "fast dying" are too poignant and too manifestly irreparable to be loitered over in unavailing regret. While we find cause in every direction about us to obey the English Poet's most seasonable behest in his mas terpiece of in Memoriam, to— " Ring out tho old, ring in the new I Ring out the False, ring in the true I" We have abundant reason also to act upon the American Poet's no less earnest recommendation, that we should—. "Let the dead Past bury its Dead." A cursory glance down the record furnished by our Lbree hundred and thirteen daily impressions will only too painfully justify this instantaneous and almost instinctive preference for glancing down the vista beiore us rather than down that which we have just now been somewhat pain fully traversing. Everywhere we find abun dant arguments luring us rather to sanguine anticipations than to a doleful retrospect. Nevertheless, no matter how painful it may be to do violence for a while to this natural impulse, to look forward instead of backward, to muse over the Future rather than over the Past—it is always well that upon the last day of the y ear we should attempt to epitomise the more salient incidents in its history. And turning our attention now—we will admit somewhat reluctantly—to the task, What are the occurrences that start forth the most vividly to our recollection ? They are but too readily enumerated. Death in the Palace. That to begin with—and to end with. Death deplorably reiterated in its advent : first, that of the venerable Mother, afterwards, that of the honoured and beloved Husband of the Sovereign. The year of grace 1861 will, by reason of those two events alone, be remem bered mournfully in our national annals. The expiring twelvemonth closes in fact while the QUEEN and her People are yet in the midst of the first bitter freshness of their mourning, over the by far more lamentable event of the two—the prema ture and sudden demise of His Royal Highness ALBERT, the PRINCE CONSORT of England. The disappearance from life of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, was only in the course of nature; and what might not unreason ably have been anticipated. Not so the abrupt vanishing from the world—in which he occu pied so conspicuous and illustrious a position— of her MAJESTY'S virtuous and gifted CONSORT, while yet in the flower of his life and the full vigour of his comely manhood. Hardly have we consigned his inanimate remains with unaffected lamentations to his early grave, when Christmas has come upon us in the midst of our mourning, and that sad Christmas is in due course fast followed by a melan choly New Year's Eve. The grief cf our constitu tional Queen is the grief of the whole Nation. And it is consequently, in simple truth and by no courtly pretence of sympathy in the royal sorrow, that we may quite ccnfidently assert that the first and last thought of the people of these islands, now that 1861 is rapidly )1 merging into 1862, is saddened by the remembrance of the bitter homre•grief that has fallen so abruptly and so recently upon the Royal Household. Other reigning dynasties have no immunity from the same astounding bereavements—as we have start ling cause to remember, at the present moment, by reason of the rapid succession of deaths (also from ty phoid fever) at the Palace of the Necessidades at Lis bon; the la at of these lamentable deaths being that of the young :Prince JOAO—destined so soon to follow his two youthful brothers, the late King of PORTU GAL and H.R.H. DoM FERDINAND. Death has been playing havoc, moreover, during the past . year among our own illustrious compatriots. Toe Lord High. Chancellor CAMPBELL, full of years and honours, it will be remembered, expired quite suddenly during the twelvemonth. Slowly, slowly, however, 'amidst the grief of all who knew him' faded out 'the life of one of our most honoured and in many ways richly-gifted administrators, the Lord HER BERT of LEA, better known as the Right Hon. SIDNEY HERBERT. A veteran chief of the House of Commons, whose commanding presenee, will long be missed there, died also in 1861, in the person or Sir JAMES GRAHAM. Another familiar form that often rose there from the back benches on the Liberal side of the House to address Mr. SPEAKER, in the midst almost invariably of good humoured laughter, will be looked for in vain when Parliament again assembles—meaning that of gallant, honest, eccentric, but thoroughly con sistent Tom DUNCOMBE, the dandy Radical member for the metropolitan borough of Finsbury. Glancing back into the expiring year from our own shores to the remoter shores of the European Con tinent we recall to mind, of course, the disappear ance, also apparently in mid career, of another poten tate than the late King of PORTUGAL—to wit his Imperial Majesty the Sultan CALIPH ABDUL MEDJTD, now succeeded] by his brother ABDUL Aziz upon the Ottoman throne at Constantinople. Still noting the Royal Houses of Christendom we are reminded that defeat and not death (that might —one would think—have been preferable to such a defeat !) has prevented the prolongation of the reign of King FRANCIS 11. on the throne of the Two Sicilies. GARIBALDI'S triumph has not been mili tated against during 1861—but the rehabilitation of things generally there in Southern Italy has, on the contrary, been confirmed and stiengthoned with out the Liberator having had reason to go thither again to the rescue since his departure like another CINCINATUS to his little home-farm at Caprera. The Re Galantuomo—if he has failed to see his Italian Kingdom 'enlarged further so as to fulfil at last the French EMPEROR'S renowned programme in the Milan Proclamation, ex tending, namely, from the Alps to the Adriatic— has found the sceptre of his new realm settled more and more firmly in his bold grasp—the iron diadem of CHARLEMY NE fitting more and more securely on his brow. Venetia is still garrisoned by the Austrians, as also is the whole system of fortresses constituting the grand stronghold of the Quadrilateral —as, indeed, is still the Eternal City itself by the soldiers of that Eldest Son of the Church, his Majesty the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. But—it was but the other day that the Hermit of Caprera—who never yet has spoken idly or at random—volunteered the intimation to his compatriots, that the signal would soon come to them to be again a-foot, and that, too, sword!in hand, and under his guidance The Austrian KAISER all the while, froM the beginning of 1861 to the end of it, having had cause to husband his military recources in Venetia and the Quadrilateral, has still more reason to do this, therefore, by reason of GARIBALDI'S formidable intimation I FRANCIS JOSEPH having this paramount responsibility thrust upon him, moreover, with his coffers, as usual, empty, and his heart full, of solicitude as to the future attitude to be assumed by the Hungarians towards his Government. As thus dubiously stand matters between the KAISER and the:Magyars—so more than ever alarmingly, they stand now between the CZAR and his Polish Lieges. If death has carried affliction to the reigning family at Lisbon, the hopes of brighter days for Spain have gladdened the councils of Queen ISABELLA at Madrid—the expansion of her dominions beyond the waterslof the Atlantic occurring simultaneously with the development of the resources of her people in the Iberian peninsula. Here in England mean while, if we have advanced hardly in any way appreciably upon the path of internal reform, we have during 1861 maintained intact hitherto our friendly relations with foreign powers— strengthening above all with mutual increase of good will upon either side of the Channel our amity with our Imperial neighbour in France. NAPOLEON, in truth, has given good auguries, not only to us but to his own people, by various incidents that have marked this latest year of his reign : insomuch that the financial reforms adven tured upon in the autumn of '6l are beginning to be regarded by rattily of the keenest observers (in stance the Paris correspondence recently in the columns of our able and thoroughly liberal contem porary the Daily News) as preliminary to the long promised crowning of the political edifice with in stitutions that, once adopted, would trans form the all but irresponsible C2ESAR and Dic tator into that undoubted phenomenon a Con stitutional Emperor ! Within the compass of the dying year we have had to record the close of the Chinese war, the revival of outrages in Japan, the introduction of many wonderful chdnges in our In dian administration, No Parliamentary Reform (after all !) in the Three Kingdoms, the Conclusion of the Little War in New Zealand, the rapid. growth of the youngest of our sixty colonies (i. e,, British Columbia), the deepening and strengthening of the loyalty of that and the rest of our vast and scattered possessions in • all parts of the globe—:and shall we have soon to add to this catalogue of events, the outbreak, at length, of a long threatened conflict between the British. Government and the Federal Government at Washington ? As to that last and direst contingency of all, however, we must now speak separately. England has been again more interested through a whole year hi foreign than in domestic matters, and those chiefly on the other side the Atlantic. At the commencement of the year, indeed, our attention was attracted, wearisomely, to the ungene rous conduct of the French EMPEROR before Gaeta ; and, when that was over, the noble struggle of Hungary and lice Diet with the Despot of Vienna and his Germans deeply interested not only Eng land, but the frivnds of liberty all over the world. The spectacle of :a long suppressed nation obtaining the power of utterance, and using it to assert its unquestionable rights, and to maintain its venerable institutions against the threats and cunning of Vienna, was one from which Englishmen could not divert their thou ghts. The name of DEAK now takes its place with that of the great constitutional heron of history„ ith the HAMPDENS, and SYDNEYS, and CAVOURS. .1-11 nagary has now made her position; she has gained /t ,e verdict of the court of Christen dom, and only ...awaits the opportunity to issue execution--an of sure to come, and, it would seem, I) asti :ning rapidly. But hardly had Hungarian demonstrations ceased by the arbitr pry dissolution of the Diet w h en t, American struggle had acquired proportions which attracted the almost exclusive regard of this country. Probably hardly an instance has occurred in our modern history of the mind of the British public undergoing so marked a change as that which has taken place in regard to the Northern States and their cause within the year— a change by no means due to the San Jacinto out rage. On the election of Mr. LINCOLN there was general rejoicing here, on account of his supposed sympathy with the cause of the negro. English men knew, indeed, that his party went avowedly for nothing more than exclusion of slavery from the territories, technically so called, of the Union, and the limitation of slavery to its present area. But it was supposed that more was not professed because more was impossible; it was thought that the Fugitive Slave Law, with all its unconscionable inquisitions, was soon to be abolished, and that LINCOLN and the Republicans would lay themselves out to weaken slavery in every possible way. On these points, though we tried to hope against hope, our eyes were soon opened. Mr. LINCOLN, in his messages, studiously avoided every word that could give umbrage to the slaveholders, and empha tically avowed his intention to adhere to the guarantees furnished by the constitution for slavery, and especially to the Fugitive Slave Law itself. Slowly, but inevitably, the English mind accepted the conviction that LINCOLN and the North were averse to slavery, not on account of its essential wickedness, but because it threatened to interfere with the colonizing emigration of the Free States; and that they loved their ambitious monster Union far more than justice to the slave. It was impossible that England could accept the cause of the South. The South and Slavery were indissolubly associated—we recoiled from the asso ciation—but on the other hand there was nothing to attract us to the North. The neutrality which for prudential and legal reasons our Government proclaimed, soon became under the spare-slavery policy of Mr. LINCOLN, the real sentiment of Englishmen. We could not wish the South to triumph, but we could not rejoice in a Northern triumph. In fact we can see, as we think, quite as much hope for negro emancipation through the independence of the South, as through its recon quest by the North. What is even more singular, we have all been converted by the actual events of the war to dis belief of Northern omnipotence. It will be remem bered that we were all busy at first calculating the the vast superiority of the North in population, militia, wealth, manufacturing resources, shipping, and so forth, and showed, as we had a right to show, what immense advantages lay on the side of the North if she could but save Washington from the first threatened attack. Washington was saved, and on the capture of Fort Sumter the whole North rose to tread out rebellion and vindicate the honour of the national flag. An army of 500,000 men, and five hundred millions of dollars for their support, were promptly voted, and Virginia was to have been overrun at once. We all know the long weary sequel. We were looking for a Northern, a Western, and an Eastern army to march upon and join each other at devoted Richmond, driving the Confederate Congress like sheep before it—but we have seen the Western and Eastern divisions unable to advance beyond Western Virginia and Fort Mon roe, and the great army of the North, after fleeing in a never-to-be-forgotten panic from Bull's Run, not venturing to renew the attack, though five months have passed away. In the Border States, as might have been ex pected, councils have been divided. The parts adapted to, and cultivated by, free labour have clung to the Union, the other parts have tended fo secession. We have seen how undecided and cruel has been the struggle in Missouri and Ken tucky, while Maryland remains loyal as a whole, solely because the whole State is occupied by the Federal army. This, then, is the result; so different unquestionably from any anticipated in April or till midsummer, that the South, as standing on the defensive, are triumphant at present. They have not been driven back from their positions, and a naval raid or two, which do not seem likely to tell upon the war, are all that the North can boast. It must, however, be borne in mind that military superiority was not the only one on which Englishmen relied in their calculations of Northern superiority. They recollected the slaves. They knew the power of the North to beat up Southern quarters, and give Southern regiments work enough in keeping down slaves to whom the North pro claimed universal emancipation—they did not suppose the North could be guilty of the con summate folly of turning the slaves into the strength instead of the weakness of the South ; nor did they imagine that "'cute Yankees" would be so intolerably stupid as to enable the Southern white men to muster at Bull's Run as numerously as themselves, because they had slaves at home quietly working hard to maintain in the field the men whom the Yankees could not drive from it. That the year as regards them and us should close with the San Jacinto affair and all its conse quences, is certainly an incident that could least of all have been anticipated. If any crazy Captain WTLKES could have been imagined likely to com• mit such an outrage, it would have been supposed that, with one unmanageable war on his hands, Mr. LINCOLN would have hastened to disavow the act of the captain, would have placed the men in Lord LYONS' hands, and have made the apology without waiting to be asked for it. This, however, only discloses more plainly what was becoming apparent before—the incapacity of Mr. LINCOLN for such a crisis, and his subjection to the American mob. His weakness has caused the year to close with a demand on him from onr Government which will make him wince, while he will be unable to refuse compliance with the judgment, not only of England, but of all civilised Europe. He will feel humiliated, because he refused at the first to act as became a man of honour. He sees English ships of-NN ar arriving on his coast, English troops pro ceeding to Canada, and the certainty before him that, if he ventured on war, the issue would be not the annexation of Canada, but the annexation of Maine to our colonies, of which it properly forms a part. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lord Stanhope passed through town yesterday, from spending the Christmas with the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, at their seat in Wiltshire. The earl and countess have gone Lo Bretby Park. Lord Stanhope has repaired to Melton Mowbray. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have left Bourne Hall, their seat in Cambridgeshire, to spend a few days with Mr. H. Itussell, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth Russell, at Oakley Park, Bedfordshire. _ _ The Earl Grey left town at the close of the past week fur Nice, to join the countess, who has arrived in that city from Florence. It is not the intention of the earl and countess to return before the first week in March. The Earl of Hopetoun has arrived at Long's Hotel. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe is sojourning at the Bristol Hotel, Brighton. TArd Dufferin arrived in town on Saturday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, at Highclere, Lord and Lady William Powlett have arrived in town from visiting Lord and Lady Harry Vane, at their Rat in Sussex. LATEST NEWS. TURIN, DEC. 31. The Italia gives a denial to the statement, made by the Diritto, that a Parliamentary deputation had given advice to Baron Ricasoli, in reference to the present state of things, and says that the Minis try have resolved to pursue the policy they have hitherto followed. PORTUGAL. We (Times) have received a telegram from our own correspondent at Lisbon. After confirming the news of the death of the Prince Joao, the tele- gram says : " The King is well. " The street disturbances have been suppressed by the military. " Continued tranquillity is probable." ENGLAND AND AMERICA. PARIS, DEC. 30. The Paris papers of this evening assert that Lord Lyons had declared to Mr. Seward that he would wait for the answer of the Federal Government until the evening of the 20th instant, and that if the Cabinet of Washington should then refuse to surrender the prisoners he would leave Washington and return to London. The same papers assert that the Federal Con gress, in its sitting of the .18th instant, voted an address to the President, urging him not to surren der the prisoners. VIENNA, DEC. 30. Yesterday, during the celebration of high mass in the church of St. Bernard, at Lemberg, national Polish songs were sung, notwithstanding the pro hibition of the authorities. Several of the police who proceeded to make ar rests among the congregation were insulted. In the evening crowds of people assembled before the prison. Several persons had been arrested by the patrols which were clearing the streets. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 30.—The news communicated by the despatch received from New York last evening, to the effect that the Government of Washington would not deliver up the Southern Commissioners, has caused a depressing effect on this market, although the English funds arrived with the same quotations as on Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f sc. Railways quiet. The following are the last quotations :- 44 per per Cents 95 40, Credit Fonoier llBO Do end month.... 95 45 ' Belgian 4 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 05 ; Roman Bank Shares 2900 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 710 , Spanish Threes 49 Do. Account 712 501 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1295 .. 1296 25 Northern New ditto . .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1006 25 .. 1007 50 Geneva 361 25 .. 362 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard 607 50 .. 510 AUSTRIA. Advices from Vienna of the 28th inst. state that Baron Forgach, the Chancellor of Hungary, has left for Germany for the benefit of his health, but will return shortly to Pesth. The Austrian General Ryskowsky, President of the Military Commission of the Diet, has left his post at Frankfort to proceed to Austria, and even as far as Venice. The object of this journey is to inspect the fortifica tions and Austrian strongholds in Italy during the Emperor's sojourn there. PRUSSIA. The Prussian IJioniteur announces that the King has confer red the order of the Black Eagle upon Marshal Vaillant, Marshal Magnan, and upon M. de Thonvenel, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes the follow ing circular from the Minister of the Interior to the Governors of Provinces : "It results from information received at the Minis try of the Interior, on the subject of the actual state of the question of the serfs, that the favourable pro gress of that question, and especially the completion of the charter of regulations, finds an obstacle in the erroneous interpretations which circulate among the serfs, as also in the false hopes which they entertain. They expect what they call ' a new free dom,' the promulgation of which, at the expira tion of two years, would confer upon them new privileges not mentioned in the regulations of the 19th February. They adi that those serfs who should have contracted arrangements with the pro prietors and signed charters would be excluded from the enjoyment of these privileges. To put an end to this illusion his Majesty the Emperor, during his visit to the Crimea, deigned repeatedly to explain to the chief men of the rural districts, when they had the honour of being presented to his Majesty, the exact state of the question, at the same time reminding them of the obligaticns they were bound to fulfil. Thus, his Majesty said to the serfs, ' That there would not be any other freedom beyond that which had been conceded to them, and that conse quently the serfs ought conscientiously to execute what was exacted from them by the general laws, as well as by the regulations of the 19th of Feb " EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR CANADA. The Royal Mail steamer Canada, which sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for Halifax and Boston, besides the usual mails, took out 60 officers and 223 men, together with 103 tons of military st res. Of these four officers and 100 men of the Royal Engineers, together with six men of the Army Hospital Corps and 73 tons of stores, are for Ber muda. Six officers and 117 men, forming No. 8 Garrison Battery of the Royal Artillery, together with 50 officers of other corps, and 30 tons of stores, are for Newfoundland. The Canadian mail steamer Hibernian, which is to sail hence on the 2d January, will take out five officers and 120 men, being the 4th company of the Royal Engineers ; seven officers and 255 men, forming the 4th Brigade of No. 8 Battery of the Royal Artillery ; six officers and 117 men, 10th Brigade of No. 6 Battery of the Royal Artillery; and four officers, together with 147 men, being a detachment of the 15th Foot. These are for Halifax. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's magnificent new steamer Peru, which was to have sailed on Saturday with reinforce ments of sailors and marines for our Pacific squadron, has been detained by order of government, and is to have despatch to-morrow (Tuesday). The British and North American Royal mail steamer Africa, which is to sail hence on Saturday the 4th of January, for New York, will take out six officers and 117 men, forming No. 7 Battery of the Royal Artillery for Halifax. She will also take out 10 officers and 234 men, being the 15th Brigade of No. 23 Battery of the Royal Artillery, and 50 tons of military stores for Bermuda. Other steamships and military corps are also spoken of as being in course of preparation for departure from Liverpool. Among those who sailed in the Canada were a great many officers of the staff, including Col. Mauleverer and Col. For dyce ; Lieut.-Cols. Brown and Taylor ; the Rev. Ander son, chaplain to the forces; Deputy-Com.• General Mid ward; Major M'Crea ; Surgeon-Major Macdonald; Prin cipal Purveyor Morris, Deputy Purveyor Hammond ; Capt. W. B. Gosset, and many others. The Canada also took out £50,000 on Government account. On Friday evening between 50 and 60 sailors and about 40 marines arrived at Liverpool bs railway, and immediately proceeded on board the Majestic, where they will remain till they are transhipped into the Peru, to join the Pacific squadron. The sailors were armed with cutlasses, and the marines were in regimental marching order. The embarkation of the troops was most satisfactorily accomOshed under the superintend ence of Colonel Greathead, Quartermaster-General of the District, and Commander Leycester, R.N., Admiralty agent for Liverpool. Mr. Durnford, the military storekeeper at Chester, has been unremitting in his exertions in shipping the stores.—Liverpool Albion. Sir Alex. and Lady Arabella B nnerman hay arrived at their seat in Scotland, from visiting at Eaton 11411 i ge§hire, WHO LIVE IN GLASS f! 0 USES SHOULD NOT THRO TV STONES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Captain Rodman, of the United States Navy, casts cannon ready bored by the act of casting, in the same manner as my patented plan; he, moreover, cools his can non from within—this is an improvement on my patent. The " Scientific American" describes the construction of the Ericcson, a steel-clad floating battery for the defence of the harbour of New York. The sides of Aiis battery could not be pierced by shot fired from any cannon in our service; but a shot fired from the 15-inch bore gun cast on the Rodman principle would crush in the side of our steel-clad Warrior, when fired at the distance that Nelson loved to pour in his broadsides. How would Brighton, with its princely buildings, look after a few rounds of Rodman shells, thrown into it from a distance of five miles P Dublin is in the same danger, as well as many other-towns on the coasts of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Shells can now be charged with liquid fire (phosphorus dissolved in bisulphide of carbon), the most a naufragious" fire stuff ever invented by the ingenuity of man. Captain Halsted, R.N., one of our very best authorities on naval armaments, has clearly stated that one shell charged with liquid fire is sufficient to destroy the largest line-of-battle ship.—l am, yours obediently, J. NORTON, iLate Captain, 34th Regt. Howard's Hotel, Kingstown, Dublin, Dec. 24. DEATH OF PRINCE DOM JOAO 01 PORTUGAL, DUES DE BETA. We have received by electric telegraph the sad intelligence of the death of another brother of the King of Portugal, heir presumptive to the throne, King Luis I. being as yet unmarried. The Prince died of typhoid fever at Lisbon on Sunday, at the early age of 20. Prince Dom Joao Maria Fernando Pedro d'Alcan tara Miguel Raphael Gabriel Leopoldo Carlos An tonio Gregorio Francisco d'Assise Borja Gonzaga Felix de Braganca-Borbon, Duke de Beja, Duke of Saxony, was born March 16, 1842, and was the third son of Queen Maria da Gloria, by Prince Fer dinand Augustus Antony Francis of Saxe Coburg, first cousin of the late Prince Consort of England, and brother of the Prince Augustus, who married a daughter of King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie Amelie of France. The late Duke of Beja received a military education, and at the time of his death was colonel of the 4th Regiment of Cavalry. He was, it may be remembered, on a visit to England and France when he was summoned with his brother, the present King of Portugal (then Duke of Oporto), to the deathbed of King Dom Pedro V., who, however, unfortunately expired before their arrival. The heir presumptive to the throne of Portugal is the only surviving male issue of the late Queen, the young Dom Augusto Maria Fernando Carlos Miguel Gabriel Raphael Agricola Francis d'Assise Gonzaga Pedro d'Alcantara Loyola de Braganca- Borbon, Duke of Saxony, born November 4, 1847. This is the young Prince who has been very seri ously ill of gastric fever since the death of his brother the King, and was given up by his phy sicians until a day or two ago, when it first became pcssible that his life might be spared. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. The contradictory telegrams from New York, announcing that " there is a general disposition to do what is right," and that " the general impres sion is that the Southern Commissioners will under no circumstances be given up," produced little effect on the Stock Exchange yesterday morning, and Consols opened heavily at the prices of Saturday. Subsequently the circumstance of the French de spatch being certain to arrive out before the period allowed for an answer to the British demand would expire was seen to be in favour of peace, and it is also understood that the despatches sent from Lon don by the City of Washington, on the 4th, by Mr. Adams, the American Minister, which had already reached New York, were likewise calculated to have a salutary effect. The City of Washington and the Jura sailed from England respectively on the 4th and sth, and took out news not only of the opinion formed here on the blind ovations with which Cap' tain Wilkes had been welcomed in Boston and else where, but also that the proposal of the Associated Banks for a loan in London on a pledge of United States securities would not result in their obtaining a single shilling. The vigour shown by the Go vernment in chartering the Persia and other large steamers tor tne immediate conveyance of troops to Canada, and in prohibiting the shipment of all ma terials of war, had also transpired. Hence the rapid increase of anxiety which each fresh piece of intel ligence seems to have occasioned. As the present accounts to the 18th of December are entirely by telegraph, the mail from New York reaching only to the 14th, there are no commercial letters in town to correct or confirm the telegraph.— Times' City Article. PROGRESS (F BANKRUPTCY BUSINESS. The number of adjudications of bankruptcy in the Cour of Bankniptcy, London, from Oct. 12 to the afternoon of yesterday was 635 above £3OO, and 31S under £3OO. Of the 635 above £3OO, no fewer than 149 appear to be cases of pauper prisoners, who contribute nothing to the revenue of the court, so that the total amount of stamp duty deriv able from these adjudications above £3OO is only £2,430. Of the 318 cases under £3OO, 99 were those of pauper pri soners, so that the stamp duty of £1 on petitions under that amount represents the small sum of £219. In the bankruptcy district courts, within the same period, so far as the returns have been made to the Chief Registrar's office, there have been 497 adjudications, of which 93 were pauper prisoner cases, so that only 404 peti tions paid the £5 stamp duty, representing a total of £2,020 In the county courts, which have to deal only with bank ruptcies under £3OO, there have been within the period de scribed 86 cases, of which a few are petitions transferred from the Court of Bankruptcy, in consequence of the reso lutions to that effect adopted by creditors at the first meet ing, under section 109 of the Act of 1861. Of these 806 cases, 94 were those of pauper prisoners, so that, allowing for the adjudications transferred under the circumstances described, there has only been received about £7OO in the way of stamp duty upon county court bankruptcy petitions. The number of trust deeds registered from the 12th October up to yesterday was 359, and in the great majority of instances the stamp duty paid has been of very trifling amount, in some cases as low as five shillings. In one instance only has so large a sum as £95 been received. It has been said that several large estates which were origi nally intended to be wound up under the trust deed sections of the act have been brought into bankruptcy, with a view to avoid the maximum ad valorem duty of £2OO, required by the statute : the important estate of Coster and Co. is one of these cases. There can be no doubt that it is souna policy to minimise to the utmost possible extent the expense of bankruptcy administration, and it was upon this ground that the noble and learned framer of the act of 1861 succeeded in inducing the House of Commons and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to transfer to an annual Parliamentary grant that large amount of compensation whch for the last 30 years had so oppressively taxed the suitors in bank ruptcy. For the like reasons, the percentage heretofore paid on gross assets was abolished by the same act ; had that percentage been continued, it would in all probability have had the effect of deterring the creditors of Coster and Co. from invoking the aid of the Court of Bankruptcy, and have impelled them to adopt one of those private ar rangements which, under the old system, were as costly as they were dilatory. As by recourse to bankruptcy proper the creditors of this enormous estate have, with the able advice and energetic action of Mr. F. G. Reed, been enabled, within the brief space of one month, to realise assets exceed ing £128,000, and to declare a dividend of lls. 6d. in the pound, sooner than under the old system of private arrange ments they would probably have arrived, by expensive stages, at any knowledge at all as to assets—it would seem only equitable that the court which so promptly and so effi ciently meets the requirements of creditors should receive for its support a remuneration reasonably approximating to the benefit it confers. It is indeed understood that the the subject is now engaging consideration in the proper quarter. It is quite clear that some steps must be taken to pre vent those friendly arrests which we regret to say are again filling our debtors' prisons, not for the purpose of enforcing the payment of just demands, but to enable embarrassed persons to sue in forma pauperis. There are, for example, we believe, at the present time more than 40 prisoners who have recently sought the refuge of IVhiteeross• street gaol on the introduction of some complaisant creditor for the mere purpose of being discharged without payment of fees, from the claims of all their other creditors, by the facile process of the Registrar's monthly delivery, the execution creditor being in all probability carefully secured, by some family or other arrangement, to the full amount of his claim. Nothing could have been better intended, either on the ground of humanity, cr of policy, than those sections of the Act of 1861 which facilitates the release of pauper prisoners, that is to say, of persons who, being in prison for debt, are really in a position to make " affidavits that they have not the means of paying the fees and expenses usually payable in respect of a petition by a debtor for an adjudication of bankruptcy ;" but there seem: reason to believe that a con siderable number of persons, who would be perfectly able to pay those fees and expenses, either out of their own pockets, or by the help of willing relatives and friends, prefer the minor inconvenience of a few days or a few weeks' gratuitous residence in a debtors' prison, to the payment of the mode rate charges now incidental to bankruptcy. If each ' these persons was required to swear that he is not wort' certain sum, according to the practice which prevail Chancery in behalf of pauper suitors, and if strip, measures were taken against the first individual commit perjury, there is no doubt that an immediate and ale ( check would be placed upo n one p hase, which, if Isrrn to continue, will revive one of the most serious evil " old systemof friendly arrest, and thus defea t the best (" intentions of the Lord Chancellor and of the Legislr e "' sture, Gazette of Bankryptcy, ~- ~f 1 • Bch of • wth a its in agent itting actual i nitted A' the ficent • 4 '. __ti ~_. r / 7 4 ( i t 1 .4 ; '• v: r I.