The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

Fends up to 91k. (Ap-puy cause below). CAR 6.-boo Tidal-`deer FooT-clay' 6-6 h. meter. TRIBAL -AMERICA'S ULSTE R' PLANTA TIONS, T KANSFER'D WITH WILL * TRUSTEES. STOP RENTS (TO AFRIC NEGRO CO'S BER-MUDA-NEST), BY RETRO-LONG ITUDE 284 YR' S ACT, 2-3 w. C. 92, §4, 5 vrc. c-39 §4, 1842, PAP'S-10th Q. AN-BNTY. 132 yr., so S. *INN-Jetsam sap Lagance rota onsriliot-semi c. x. WalLisnaurem 24 M arch-'s -29 Sept. Erran finang/ 6 Ap ril' Julian-trusery on Twe-x-ed Fishery-park law-sets, in conic-sections 3 K 365-5 /sospiral-1200 by Enckss comet. CARInisQuE x -Sachims, merchants-For Board of trade quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, acted on "non-resident rule under the Municipal Acts of 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such persons' T. le.che's, open to IMP. Indian* *right of search' law (Webster'd -'42). Signed, .•• : : • • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWOItTH, Cl. of Synods GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701)-Re-model'd, 1832-38. Negro trade 'search' in CASS, by Palmerston, '57. So- JAR-CONE s PERIGEE LONGITUDE-AUGURY -COMPASS 4 EFFL'TOM GAPOPONTI SPIRIT -G . -LEVEL. ON CINQUE PORTAL-ARC CURVE, LINE OF LATITUDE' IN Spin-long ging'nt 50 N. by Polar* above & below decline. soar,_,in p estre-geograph . • • : : to Mover's * Arrow off and-on'Diepp' s-Rouen -to Lizard-Pt. q'r perisle's Quadra culmination Tropic-wend ewrds minorea's Langue & ock 400 N. Its state rope-lay Anchor .t flag -tow'r pros-by Tyre round the fixt earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night zone-meter, year 79 on 1824-35's Life-Burg-Eschek*rjar convolute-Leet-crts.-on America's meridian' d 60. west N. and S. for its Turloch base .line September like-evapora tive Xaraves Nile-e-metre'd lake, as the *ken pivot Dappes (3d J ago. I.), of Villa-Belle's S a ck're-mentopez colony-1825 of Brazil, wrongfully province d from ME in 1828. Sachims-The Illustrated London Hews, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's carelineA, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-armerial fword -4-. scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fons ore (' Fodinss -regales, of James- I.'s 72 New River' share 1-plug in London's 1327-Goldsmith Co. of Philadelphia, on England's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by De'can° Henry Wotton and Montague, so CAR. it. •Hyde's grant 1662's jar- Conenect-i-cut-18 to Penn's 81-1701,in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility-trust ; the whole land estate guarantee of the allies were transferred by commit tse of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, fora NEW England dodge of )Leguhar' znstitution), with undersigned § Lay-Ge'conees as their pa- tron & advocates of Q-Ann-Beunty-acre, plantation .89s. See, N. 4421 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London Convention (Philacselphia), by Bulo, 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 14th George 111. 1774, for Sac°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 & uoldfmith 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 le 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. for mixt Coasilh Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as reset on Admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda (10 M, by Philaders partizan friends Coloniza-Off, Boston-Judge Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. So Deerfoot's eye-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 Fr9nch and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the living repres.ntative of the Ashburton boundary capi tulaion, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn -in successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820-for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of ' Texas-hundred' 6 & 6 partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of Borromeo's Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of Trent-council, for swamping by votes thro' the Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd negro-shift 3-5 for Indian voice in cceno] 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 perceive, is just, for trade quiet. Thus instant paid recognition of the Indian and state trustees below, the' made the ze-lye Ot' scapegoat of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the is bronze'd+PENN-statue l'x-peace Society of friends. Saq'mo's.-By pyre Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), §4.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards in all May-polar expeditions. Ye will now think deep of the danger of joining either party of the white faces or half caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby forbid from notic - ing Fetish 'pieced-proclamation's as headed in limes and Post of 16th Nov., "A Convention between ENGLAND, France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 186 1 , 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 old words, that long have slept-to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave llaleiAh spake." 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jaeebo Zollverein trading flag s, T 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 i Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it-the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for outing the word England from the log-wood 1782 Court christian sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian code Lase of the Roman X-span' Fueros union courts of E-gal lace of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which was decided in tl Angrlot-iffpan'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 Melchisidek on a moving earth error' with it] the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgic Leopold-Pedro 2-ty's in 1828-30 of illegality. 3, The Papal impudence of Sir W. Gore Ouseley in collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Walker succession in Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life-tenure 1047, Dappes-Nap. assumption of auFERT-clad Savoy), for seizing of Mexico, from England-caused his papist envoy Captain Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests ' wolves men as manifest by late ' Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : : s i stave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, i nc luding 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 recegnised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the sole' elect of Poland's NW. red-Russia A-Rurman of the cent years Dutch loan act, 1832, disjoined with sect religion. Fourthly. The ' Lie.ratffication 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 Az‘finithson'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 I Indians, &c., that the Cabinets named in this convention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr, CANNING in a converse DOMUS Romish sense, (in total opposition to the legislative unity of the Noßmillinie standard measure of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue -under annual election of paid laymen-for guiding the world'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 civic ' Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for my patron°l right, is [for monetary recognition of all dues from America upon primary colonization, well-intentioned, of the whites, and evident decay of i s human nature, by 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 Pope, 3 -Churches or t-water sects late on minister's money) the coal-A p read-bag isestate. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medard-sack 9 mB, Nephew (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775-Sacemo Peter 'roma Brant, 1825-LlO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. H.7's Montague § C ACKERLEY, p.c., sworn in, Chief sus., of I'reland's-i conlin of Review, 1825-37, L.S. H. B's Executors ' §WorroN' LYON BOWES, P.C. Dec. 25-London. See The .o'un, Nov. 16, 1861. ARREST OF NASHVILLE SHIP-PIRATES ON ISO-nAN ...vs CORPUS RED-FLAG DISPLAY. Notice,—ln re Anderson-like Extra- dition—Act On Yancey, Peyton, "& Clyde's? aller en course. On aid-force de lege nhod' lib. iv., § 1, for criminal law on—this side of sea love], 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 Gallic-cock coast guard will arrest PEAGRIM and crew of the ship Nashville, for La course-pillage and robbery, on the high seas of Bos ton, property of the American plantation ship Harvey Birch, of N. York—of false french reps about 19th Nov., 1861. By rota (a) 0 in universa ditioni supremus est' of the placet .regium imperium. marls populo romano restituendo 1842, on A. D. 1316 v. 291, P. Picking Constit° confedericy Taxantur severi St. Deni.s's-piratao—Laws of Rhodes, in Bermuda's e-Col. mercatorum ship'ng Act, 1853-4. As (b) Newfound-land merchant (on Lisbon wine license Co.'s on Rex vini-jus newspaper Precedent on Junot-inva- Bien, 1S07), for Englands Pompey'n-marine protection, 9.n •• • Bristol's (Liverpool •••&• • • London), Admiralty ' super altum mare, qure afeendsi et defcente e blique,' old style. So (c) by this warrant as of (nigh - rAR-Cone-mara), re view colonisation on Port egal-way' s 53° compl. up -thought, for He'Lcule A arO 3 7 . N repose, on the Holy Alliance y abolition, act thro' *Hamond , S ANDY 5, in < P E TER Brant BASQUET,,n The trade flag-union Jak „,3 ff. M p in. 3-J. 1., corn-hill-_Tow'er'd Income-ta x -' : 0 p-Bulo. "K freeman, Antipc,d.n crown-colon jr chief oTemple. of 1842, —The criminal law's Eitradi c`i Lahmehere. tion Gap, 3 •mile . off- , sho , r i olea o ica m s rl% Ll March, '4l] bearing 's (s-,6-Guzote set K•anterica s pat 4 2 H. M. Perley, court over Canterbury 3 Sept, '4l's tlement Jro New Z,ealand's dead prooffit ri Gap I 111;f1. eft., its Oa' 151.31 poy i S r t i i i l' N ly a r c d u l o y A a u rd e e r n o Capt O'Halloran. —tho' cruelly set a me( a o .* ri)a p , t(thal'd by Ashburton Baring-Oty. N. P 6 CitARLEs x' ACKERLEY, CJ of c,t,rib-isle_ Jet ligiu'd England 'Special elect, Aug. 29 182) (by Admiral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Scary. Marcus HiII—SANDYS, Lay-presbiters C.rec on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King- 1% clubs), the Standard weight-bearer of 183 7, Lt. R.N. ity'd double- ()Allied victim—supporter SiP en, of Mohawk PETER 10 yrs, by Red Indian Mary Qty ' Rien Mlrlh's murder-tie, 1,120 in' habeas virginale trnerum corpus christe' transit, thro' Quebec's Jose '7 , 1 on-Dalhousie, in E. Elder' duty for his P.TOLDS:2S and own's State. h . rlll provision, :IS the Men- BRANT.' taome Subsidy lst-fruit loan 1814'20's on major Trerisor- Cartwrio,tht's chief snecossoria sutrogat'cy, (on trove. 1322'991s red-turban'd lien. 4th, on Hen. V.'s Sigismond life Savoy'd Gape- colona, Martin 5, 11,. V I",,,ClroNsm,vi 1816 re , ,rolamento-159, by Pius 7th on Urban Bth' s capacity-oath of 1749- Ad ovate STU A R T - •2l iw wort ley-Ne wco m en's-en Gonfaloniere' July 1521-72 y;A;R: c iarning Act 1-2 W. 4, N°. 54, on age, over Stanley scr.wal'in, tor qoin' d Ru-lay-signor. Sion-anoints), h i Lew. ! ) -tr ,, a v ell' (1683 Dead-hand yet 25 Dec, 1861 (unpaid ehrim ißtock augure], life trust : corpus mart yr 19 Yrb), London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Unprecedented Combination of Attractions for the Christmas Holidays. Balfe's Greatest Success—the NEW OPERA, and the NEW COMIC PANTOMIME, EVERY EVENING. On BOXING NIGHT (THURSDAY), Dec. 26,1861, ar.d the following Evenings, will be presented the New and Original Grand Romantic Opera, in Three Acts, entitled THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. The Libretto by J. V. Bridgeman. Supp orted by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Mr. Santley, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T. Distin, Wallworth, Mr. Eugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. After which will be produced (written expressly by J. M. Morton), a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdignag, a Peep at Lilliput, and a Flying Visit to Laputa. With entirely new Tricks, Transformations, Deetrations, Machinery, and Dresses. New splendid SCENERY, includingl he GRAND TRANS FORMATION SCENE, by W. CALCOT T, in which will be represented new and patent effects never before attempted on the stage. Gulliver, Mr. W. H. Payne; Mrs. Gulliver, Mr. F. Payne. Principal danseuse, Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequin Ade sustained by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. H. Payne, F. Payne, H. Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. NOTICE.—A Morning Performance of the New Panto mime will take place on WEDNESDAY, Jan. 1, and on every succeeding Wednesday till further notice, commencing at Two o'clock. Carriages to be in attendance at Four. Stalls, 7s. ; Private Boxes, from 10s. 6d. tc 4s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Amphitheatre Stalls, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ' • Amphitheatre, ls. Box-o ffi ce open daily (except to-day, Monday, and Wednesday), from Ten till Five, Com mence at Seven. Places without charge. I'HEA 'l'R,-ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstonr. THURSDAY, Dec. 26, Sterling Coyne's Comedy, BLACK SHEEP. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, Villiers, Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. 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 Rosine. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. TO-MORROW EVENING, BOXING-NIGHT, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, 'I h, , Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by lir Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at I. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ItO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr A. Harris. BOXING NIGHT, Thursday, Dec. 26, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which will be produced, a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled `V HITTING TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq; Messrs. Ga , rien, 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. Hildyard ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances wiil take place at Two o'clock on Monday, Dec. 30, and every fol lowing Monday till further notice. N EW THEATRE-R0 YAL, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 303 th, 310th, 311th Nights of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault. The Two Great Dramas. Boxing Night, and during the week the great Drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA': Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip , Jamison, Smith, Stephenson, Homer. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington. Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. After wh:ch, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c. -- - . Box Office open from 10 till 5. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Immense Entertainment for the Christmas Holidays. Mr. MARSHALL'S Grand Christmas Dish, "THE EN CHANTED HASH " (SECOND EDITION), written ex pressly for him by W. F. Vandervell, Esq.—Mr. Frederick French, the great Shakesperian Burlesque Vocalist. —Mr. J. G. Fordc.—Miss Marriet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Grand Selections from TROVATORE and LA lit AVIATA. By Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, and full Chorus. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls wad Balcony, ls. CANTERBURY HALL-VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN " (from Paris), on the Trapeze, will make his First Appearance on MONDAY, the 30th De cember. 11 ii E 0 X F 0 It 1), 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVENING. - Grand Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Mac beth," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Machine Enderssohn ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and C. Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonzhmans. Varied Vocal and!lnstrumental Entertainments, the Comic portion by Messrs. Sam Collins, M. P. Foster, E. Msrshall, NN. Randall. and Mios Harriet Coveney. Commence at ii o'clock during the Christmas Holidays. HIGH WATER-AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 7h. 7m.—Afternoon, 7h. 34m. To-MORROW.-Morning, Bh. sm.—Afternoon, Bh. 36m. THE `FEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 25, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 40-7.ighest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 37—this day at noon.: BAnomDTER-30.28; falling. WlND—East- S. -Easterly ; light, with fine frosty weather -very seasonable for a Christmas-day. ~ .T.- -. • if, tiPi? ) 4 ,!?' 'l lA Ze ifit ;i'.ri -- ,.: - , -, :: - . - :, c'....::5 - - , v, 4<i>. .4 . .c e • ---.4 , " 7 0 ,T , : 7:- '. ' 7 , c, ; -,. .,,,.--:-..;'-,1,1-7,-.,., !ct5.'i7,;-...,___,r_ -.4_ s v,i,., // • •11 tip /. 0 -- - 1 4 1 -_Li_LersLr',L '''' THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNEESDAY, DEC. 25, 1861. What a Christmas day for Washington ! There, they will naturally recall that of 1860, and will them selves be astonished to note the difference. Then, as now, Congress was in full session, for it meets on the first Monday in November, but BUCHANAN was still on the throne of American Universal Suffrage. LINCOLN had been elected on the 6th of November : South Carolina had called its convention only four days after, and five days before Christmas its con vention had voted secession—voted it unanimously, and sent its invitations to all the other Slave States. It had doubtless found encouragement from the Pre sidential Message itself, which was an elaborate im peachment of the North, and justification of Southern complaints, and merely denied with the feeblest reasoning that the Constitution was made to be pulled to pieces. It must, however, he confessed that in this Message Mr. BUCHANAN did picture the inadequacy of war against any seceding State for attaining its professed object of reintroducing that State into a republican confede ration with the rest, in a manner which time and experience seem not unlikely to prove correct. He denied that the constitution gave power to make war on a seceding State, but he also showed that, while its object would be to preserve the Union, it would prove the most effectual means of destroying it—it would banish all hofe of reconciliation, while even conquest could not compel the subju gated State to elect representatives and act as a member of the federation of conquering States. Thus stood things at Christmas last year in the capital of the then Disuniting, now, perhaps for ever, Disunited States. Secession begun, other States invited to join the beginner, and though declared by the President to be unconstitutional, or yet coercion of reb e ls w a s s hown to be both uncon stitutional and.r a t h T e h r a That inaction, n essa message, and e corresponding action, useless. part of the Executive, doubtless greatly encouraged the Seceders. They had three months before them under a PRESIDENT who would not fight. His OWD secretaries lent their haul to the work. The navy was get as much as possible out of the way ; mili tary stores and aims were sent as quietly and abundantly as possible to the South, but the Federal soldiers who should have used them were withdrawn, and Federal Southern forts and arsenals were left in a condition for the seceders to appropriate at pleasure. Con gress debated for evil rather than for good ; it passed an infamous tar iff, seeminglyintended to give greater cause of complaint to the South, while it vainly discussed compromise resolutions, which could satisfy neither party. As the natural conse quence, before Mr. LINCOLN CO , lld assume the reins THE SUN," ILONDON, WEDNESDAY EVE NING, DECEMBER 25, 1861. on the 4th of March, the seven original seceding States were already out of the Union ; and a month before, Missouri, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisi ana, and Texas had joined South Carolina in setting up the Confederate Congress at Montgomery, and publishing in five days (on the 9th of February) a cut and dried constitution—a second edition of the old one, with some confessed improvements. Mr. LINCOLN, with all this before him, entered timidly, technically, and Delphically upon his office. Not quite sure that he might not encounter the assassin on his way to the capital, he stole a march on that class of Southern patriots, and slipped into Washington a little before his time. His right-hand man,Mr. SEWARD, had been making elaborate compromise orations ; Congress was all for compromise; the Border States proferred media tion; Virginia summoned a peace conference ; and under all these influences, poor ABRAHAM LINCOLN delivered an inaugural which those might interpret who could. He seemed to fight a secession armed by the tactics of the late PRESIDENT'S Cabinet, with a lawyer's technicalities, and took the oath "without mental reservation," to stand by slavery in Slave States, coupled with rigid extradition of fugitives in the Free States. He tried to leave hope for all, to assert Federal authority over its own property in the South, and showed, as Mr. Th u had done, that the constitution did not provide for secession. The Montgomery PRESIDENT and his associates soon took the measure of their man, and found him no formidable foe. But, as the Confederates had opened, so they determined to lead the dance. Their hope lay in provoking the South through the North. They desired, no doubt, an armed attack by Mr. LINCOLN. The Lawyer, however, was not a JACKSON, or they would probably soon have heard of him to their hearts' content—if there was to be a war they themselves must strike the blow. The seizure of Washington by a coup de main had to be given up—they turned, therefore, to Major ANDERSON, who had withdrawn into Fort Sumter, and finding he was likely to be relieved, the South Carolinians fairly drove him out—and " trampled on the Federal flag—dragging that glorious emblem through the dirt." And aow, indeed, the work grew "fast and furious." The fall of Fort Sumter, the demand for 75,000 men, the pro clamation of war, the counter-proclamation of J. DAVIS; the Baltimore attack on the Massachusetts troops, the letters of marque on one side, the blockade on the other, the destruction of the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry and of the Gosport Navy Yard, the second call for 42,000 volunteers, and 18,000 seamen, all these were the work of the latter half of April ! Then came the meeting of Congress, summoned somewhat theatrically for the 4th of July, the Anniversary of Independence. The PRESIDENT asks a monster army, the Congress votes him half a million of men, five hundred millions of dollars — all seems, for the moment, like invincible enthu siasm, and three days' victories by M'CLELLAN in West Virginia did not lessen Northern confidence. But somehow, silently, in a way of which no infor mation could reach the North, an army apparently as large as their own had been mustered on the south of the Potomac, and on the 21st of July the grand army of the North, urged on by politicians against the opinion of military men, fled in irre trievable panic from the southern traitors at Bull's Run. A dash then on Washington might have been as successful as one on Sebastopol after the battle of Alma. From (hat time to this the North has spent its time in enliiting, drilling, organising, and equipping a navy ; and a series of disasters in the field have been pretty evenly balanced by naval successes, obtained, however, with little berard. Portentous, indeed, is the difference between Christmas this year in America and the same time last year. A rebellion, indeed, was then in the germ, which perhaps might have been trodden down by a firm step ; a fire was kindled which a little prompt energy might soon have extinguished. But no one then seemed to think separation on a large scale likely. The two PRESIDENTS, one after the other, supposed secession was to be put down with words and paper. It had been done before, why not again ? So now we see 600,000 men on one side, and for aught we know as many on the other, ranged against each other along a thousand miles from Fort Monroe on the Chesapeake to the far west in Missouri. At present the only visible pre ponderance of the North is in its navy. It must be far better provided with military stores and equipments, but it exhibits no difference. Since last Christmas a continent nearly has fallen politi cally asunder. The quarrel of four score years has culminated. The evil seed sown by the:founders of the Republic when they bound in unholy political wedlock Freedom and Slavery, has borne its natural and bitter fruit ; and it would bear it again. Were the North to recover its seceding late associates, it would once more find the demands of slavery in satiable, the corruption of its merchants and moneyed men inevitable, and the Union again ren dered the tool of this vile institution. Looking back on Christmas, 1860, from Christmas, 1861, we see more plainly than ever that emancipation or separation is the real interest of the North. Are we to believe the accounts now coming to us from Venice ? If so, things could hardly look more darkly there. Here is the statement put forth very recently by a correspondent there, writing as an eyewitness of things, and from the fullness of his own knowledge. For example—" It is impossible," writes this correspondent at the outset of his re marks, " to draw a darker picture than the state of affairs here. %% inter has set in, all commerce has ceased ; those nominally rich only spend the money actually necessary for their immediate wants; no superfluous luxuries are 'lavishly bestowed ; no strangers fill the hotels ; but every where are poverty and bankruptcy. And," he asks, " why is this P First, the port of Venice a few years since was thronged with merchant ships ; now the long and secure harbour of the Guidecca cannot show the flag of England, nor of France, nor of any other coun try but Austria. There are," continues the writer, " small vessels of coast trade, there are colliers, and even now and then cargoes arrive for the railway company; but for the general traffic, the great commercial interests, there is scarcely a foreign flag to flutter in the breeze. The merchant has withdrawn from speculation, his clerks are dis charged, his porters become mendicants, and throughout the whole city, with the exception of some Jewish antiquarians, the buying and selling is merely nominal. Walk through the Merceria at the hour when the monotonous foot-fall indicates the movement of people, look into every shop, and out of hundreds who pass, not six will buy. Ask these shopmen how they thrive, and the bitter sneer will only herald the words, We are all ruined,: " Than this surely nothing could well look more gloomily. However, after commenting awhile u s p p o o n n d t e li n i t s a r a d t d h s e r a d i i i s t m t f s u ta rt t h e o er f o t n hngs, the , i onecan ornoctbruet conjecture with a serio-comic irony in his words— , " But [such a grand catch,this! so supreme in con solation l] the EMPEROR is again to visit Venice on the 24th of this month ; the EMPRESS is there, and Courts are always surrounded by the rich. Balls, dinners, and operas must (you will say) enliven the city, and lead to the circulation of mone7 f. Not so. The Venetians of fortune—and they ar e not legion —will keep aloof, and those who can r emain in the country will not hazard the suspicior of disloyalty by coming to the city, and refusing the invitation to Court." However there is the assuaging pro spect before the Venetians that the EMPEROR and KING is coming. Rather a damper to their expec tations of good from his coming being derivable, however, from the infinitessimal amount of good that came but so very recently from precisely the same kind of imperial benefaction. Even the eye-witness of events now transpiring at Venice has to note this himself instanter : as thus, where he writes— " The EMPEROR came privately into the city on the morning of the Ist December, and remained a week, when he went out again in the dark—not a Vene tian encumbered his path. He came and he went unnoticed, unobserved, unwelcomed. The Piazza was illuminated, and the band played. The music ceased, and the lamps glared and flickered to solitude ; and not a Venetian crossed the finest Place in Europe. The next morning the thousand jets of gas were removed, and never again were they lighted during the Imperial visit. The band played every day, and soldiers were driven like sheep in a fold to make a display ; but, with the exception of Austrian officers and their families, no one came to listen to the finest military music that could be heard. There was a grand review, and the Emperor, in all the pomp and majesty of military parade, was there; but only a few of the lowest Venetians attended. There was a sham fight on the Lido—a sight which generally attracts thousands —but not a Venetian stirred from his house. But still the coming events cast their shadows be fore;' new fortifications are ordered, and the dis play of liberality in the abolition of that public nuisance, the passport system, is now an acknow ledged farce." And so things go there from bad to worse. The end being readily comprehensible. The signal has but to be given—at the right moment— and the whole cumbrous system will fall, must necessarily and inevitably fall, like a house built of cards—what though buttressed up by the strong fortresses of the Quadrilateral. The whole political fabric there is too rotten intrinsically—is built on too shallow and sandy a foundation—to stand with im punity the shock of any really serious concussion. GARIBALDI has but to wind his horn of battle there in the North of Italy, as ROBIN HOOD blew a blast for his merry men in the glades of Sherwood, when the hour for rallying had come—and a Nation in Arms will at that potent summons at once confront the Austrian army in its cul de sac of Venetia. GA RIBALDI is only waiting for what is now rapidly advancing to greet him—the opportunity. Ever since the truce brought about by the Treaty of Villafranca the Liberator of Naples and of Sicily has been watching vigilantly from his island home at Caprera for that still delayed but inevitable op portunity. Come it will in all good time, and GARI BALDI is not by any means the man to miss it. LATEST NEWS. LISBON, DEC. 23. Prince Joao, brother of the King of Portugal, is very dangerously ill. BUCHAREST, DEC. 23 (Evening). Prince Coliza has to-day transmitted to the autho rities, by telegraph, a proclamation announcing his consent to the union of the Principalities. In consequence of this proclamation the city is illuminated, and the Chamber has unanimously voted thanks to the prince. The United Assembly for Moldavia and Wallachia is convened for the 24th January in Bucharest. VIENNA, DEC. 24. The Vienna papers publish news from Malta, according to which the Maltese tribunals have sen tenced Captain Cavaliere Dino, of the Italian frigate Mozambono, to three months, and his lieutenant to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for committing an assault on the editor of the .Porta foglio. MARSEILLES, DEC. 24. According to advices received here, Prince Simi, brother of the Bey of Tunis, is dead. TURIN, DEC. 24. Advices received here from Naples state that M. Palmieri has issued another report, according to which eight shocks of earthquake have been felt during the last two days. Vesuvius throws up very dense columns of ashes, which are carried by the wind as far as Naples. No disaster has occurred. THE P TKEY: A letter from Constantinople, dated Dec. 13, says : The panic of which I infermed you in a few hurried lines on the 11th has, as I then anticipated, sub sided, and the exchange, which on that day actually reached 400 piasters to the pound sterling, is now at 250 piasters—such, at least, were the closing prices in Galata this evening. The Communication du Gouvernment, of which the following is a trans lation, >ippeared in all the papers of the place on the 12th : " A number of persons greedy of gain, ancl with out conscience, accustomed to profit by the differ ence of price that exists between the caime and the metallic currency, assemble in certain khans of Constantinople and Galata, and propagate every . . sort of rumour, asserting that the Imperial Govern ment has modified its primary decisions concerning the caime. In this way they agitate the public mind and compromise all transactions. These Khans and places of assembly have been closed, and it has been decid,-d that all persons participating in the propagation of false reports, and who thus compro mise the f )rtune and the tranquillity of the public, shall be arrested and severely punished. " As the public is already aware, measures have been taken by the Government for the maintenance of the credit of the paper-money. " The capital in specie destined to this end is formed by the successive arrivals of metallic. This capital is deposited in the hands of the commission ad hoc to be applied to the carrying out of those measures. " In conformity with the reiterated orders of his Imperial Majesty our august Sovereign, his Govern ment is now concerting measures calculated to pro tect the fortune of every individual. Consequently the public should continue to follow its ordinary occupations, and should not lend its ear to the in sinuations of stockholders." It would be of li . tle avail now to discuss the question of the immediate cause of the panic. In addition to the rumours which I mentioned in my last letter, there were many others afloat. It was, for instance, positively asserted that Fuad Pasha had declined the office of Grand Vizier, and had declared himself independent in Syria. Another report was that the Sultan had been poisoned. A third, which was maintained with the greatest per sistency, declared that the Government had aban doned its project for the circulation of caime in the provinces, having come to thf conclusion that it was impracticable. Impracticable in its present state it most assuredly is; and, notwithstanding the lan guage of the Communication du 6 ouvernment, I shall doubtless before long have to notify to you " a modification of its primary decision concerning the caime," though there is no reason why such modifi cation should inspire alarm. In the Journal de Constantinople of to-day there is an article said to be from the pen of Aali Pasha. It of course attributes the panic to the intrigues of the Galata money-dealers—as if they alone, and not the Government, had brought the country to such a pass as to render occurrences like that of Wednesday last possible. It, moreover, sins against the commonest dictates of prudence and of truth ; of prudence when it proclaims that the Government has kept no accurate account of the monthly issues of caime, and that it has suspended the emission of that paper money until such accounts shall have been prepared, and only (we are there fore to presume) until then; against truth when it roundly asserts that the rise in the ex change is not owing " to the quantity of paper money, of which there was twice as much in 1858, before the London loan when the pound was at 163." It is matter of absolute certainty, and there is not a banker in the place who does not know it, that while in 1858 there were 600,000,000 piastres of caime there is now a very much larger quantity in existence, and that, instead of the present amount being only one-half of the above figures, it would be far less inaccurately stated as half as much again. Hence it is that when there was no panic at all the exchange has lately stood at about 240 piastres to the pound sterling, or, in other words, that the paper money has been at nearly 130 per cent. discount. In other respects, however, it must be admitted the article in question is reassuring; for it declares that the Government is at length con vinced of one wholesome truth—viz., that publicity and not concealment is the surest means of inspir ing confidence in the public mind, and that on that path it is about to enter. Publicity is to be the order of the day :—" publicity in all its measures ; publication of all the sales, adjudications, farmings, bargains, and contracts of the Treasury; publica tion of the expenditure, publication of the revenue, publication of the Budgets of the State, whatever may be the amount of the deficit by which they have to be balanced ; publicity given to the sittings of the Councils of Control, to the Minutes of the Commission of Redemption (of caime), and to the labours of the foreign Commissions whose know ledge has been called in aid. Confidence for con fidence." Should this programme be honestly car ried out there will be small reason indeed to regret the events of Wednesday last, which seem to have frightened the Ministers of the Sultan into their senses. Another paragraph of the article, which says, "new means are about to be taken to increase the amount of specie in the Caisse d'Amortissement, and to render the commencement of its functions perhaps immediate," appears to justify an assertion, very generally believed, that, on being informed of the state of things by his Minister, the Sultan at once determined to send his plate and jewels to the Commission for the redemption of the caime, To-day's bulletin of the Levant Herald states that at an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, at which Kiamil Pasha was also present, Sir Henry Bulwer suggested "a means of relief within the immediate power of the Government, and cal culated to afford a simple and effective solution of the whole caime problem." May this new financial bantling of his Excellency's not share the fate of its numerous predecessors! Haviar Khan and all the money-changers' shops remain closed by order of the Government, and it is intimated that they are only to be reopened on their occupants giving security for future good con duct. If by this be meant that they are to enter into recognisances for the prevention of similar occurrences, their establishments are likely to con tinue shut up for some time to come. Whatever mistakes Government may have made in its mode of proceeding in other respects, it is very generally admitted that it acted with prompt ness and energy at a somewhat critical moment. At many of the bakers' shops bread, which had been selling at 3 and 4 piastres the oke in the morn ing, rose to 10, 12, and 15 piastres, at midday ; and shortly afterwards these and many other shape were closed. People became seriously alarmed, and in one or two places bakers' shops were forcibly re opened, and one was pillaged. Matters had just reached the point at which it is easy for a few ruf fians to convert such trifling disturbances of the peace into a serious riot, when strong patrols of troops appeared in all the streets where any danger was apprehended. The police also took immediate measures for the reopening of the bakers' shops under their protection, and for the making of the greatest possible quantity of bread. On the fol lowing day one or two of the largest bakers com menced selling at the prices which were current before the panic, and many persons seconded their efforts by giving bread to the poor; 500 loaves were thus distributed yesterday by Lady Bulwer at the British Embassy. Letters from Beyrout state that the vessel sent for Fuad Pasha had arrived, and that his Excel lency had gone to Damascus to make final arrange ments for the administration of affairs after his de parture. There is reason to believ e th at h e i s now on his way from Beyrout to Constantinople, and that he will arrive in two or three days' time. Yusuf B s y Karam was still in confinement, awaiting his trial on a charge of inciting his people to the late disturbances in the Kesrouan. In Egypt, it appears, the greatest discontent pre vails, and it seems to be the general opinion that Said Pasha has for a long time bsen doing his utmost to ruin the country. It is even said here that there is imminent danger of an outbreak in that country. having for its object the forcible re moval of the Viceroy. The firman sanctioning the union of the Princi palities of Wallachia and Moldavia has been de spatched to Prince Couza. Lord Hobart and Mr. Foster took leave of the Sultan on Tuesday last, prior to their departure from Constantinople on the following day. PRINCE CANNE , The Independance Beige of Monday evening pub lishes the following : " Cannes, Dec. 18. " The news of the death of Prince Albert reached the young Prince Leopold, his son, in the midst of circum stances so melancholy and sad that they could not fail to increase the horrors of that catastrophe. Taking advantage of a charming morning the young prince had gone out to sea to indulge in his favourite pastime of fishing. In re turning to his villa he observed that the countenance of his principal servant was overcast, and that there were tears in his eyes, The cause of this grief was not the death of Prince Albert, which was then unknown, but the death of his go vernor, General Bowater, who bad just died in the chamber adjoining Prince Leopold's. At the news of this loss the poor boy wept bitterly. Almost at the same moment there appeared at the end of the hall a commissioner of the tele graph, bringing a telegraphic despatch. It was addressed to the general, who was then lying dead. The envelope was opened ; it contained the fatal news—Prince Albert was dead. His royal highness was at once taken into bis room, and I assure you that it is impossible to give any idea of the desolation of this young child, thus smitten in his tenderest affections. My mother ! I must go to my mother,' ho cried in sobs. My mother will bring back him whom you say has been taken from me—l want my mother.' Some seconds afterwards they took him away altogether from the mournful and desolate-looking hense to the nearest hotel, the Hotel de Bellevue, which is ordinarily patronised by the English and French aristocracy. Shortly after an English officer arrived from England, charged, it is said, with the duty of taking the unfortunate orphan back to England," FRANCE. A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Cannes—English and Fiench—was held on the 21st, for the purpose of proposing an address to Queen Victoria on her late severe bereavement. The idea originated with Lord Brougham, and was fully approved of by Lord Dalhousie (late Secretary of State for the War Department when Lord Pan mure), and by Lord Rokeby (sent by her Majesty, on Sir Edward Bowater's death, to take charge of Prince Leopold). The meeting was held at the English Consulate, and not a British subject at Cannes was absent. Lord Brougham, being ealled to the chair, expresged himself in a very feeling manner on the great merits of the late Prince Con sort, and dwelt particularly on the exertions of his Royal Highness in faysur of popular education— his aid to Arts and Manufactures by the Exhibition of 1851—his presiding at the British Association of Science at York three years back—his forming the International Statistical Congress—and his known intention of presiding at the Congress of the National Association of Social Science to be held in London next year. So many impor tant acts not only entitled the Prince, his lordship observed, to the national gratitude, but had ren dered his name famous the whole world over, and hence his loss was a source of deep grief not only to the British nation, but to foreigners of every , country. His lordship then moved the following address : " We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, residing at Cannes, are desirous of expressing the sorrow that we feel, in common with all our countrymen at home and abroad, for the irreparable loss which your Majesty has sustained, and which is rendered still more grievous by the affliction of last spring depriving you of your royal parent's sympathy and consolation under this heavy blow. " It may afford some comfort to reflect on the grateful sense so universally entertained of those rare qualities and great virtues which have been lost to your Majesty and the country, who derived from them benefits of inestimable value. But we devoutly trust that Divine Providence will help you to support with resignation, for the sake of your family and your people, a calamity which presses so severely upon all." The address was seconded by Lord Dalhousie, who spoke in eloquent terms of the domestic virtues of the late Prince, and after a few words from Lord Rokeby and Admiral Pakenham, was carried una nimously, Every Englishman in Cannes attended and signed the address, which was forwarded by the same night's post to Sir George Grey, at the Foreign-office. M. Legoff, the Mayor of Cannes, attended the meeting and signed the address, as representing the feeling and sympathy of the town of Cannes, which appeared as sincere as that of any town in Great Britain. BOURSE, Dec. 24.—The market varies but little either as regards animation or prices, the quota tions of yesterday being well maintained in the limited amount of lousiness doing, Threes, for the Account, being now at 67f 25c. Railways also quiet. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 94 80 Credit F oncier llBO Do end month.... 94 80 Belgian 4f 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 25 Roman Bank Shares 2960 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 720 —; Spanish Threes 49 Do. Account.. 722 501 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1295 1297 50 Northern Now ditto . 910 Lyons and Mediterranean 1005 1006 25 Geneva 355 3.56 25 Southern 658 75 660 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lour bard , , ••• 510 .. 502 50 • THE OLD-FASHIONED FENDER. If there is a lady in the room it is ten to one that she is sitting very near to the fire, and it is ten thousand to one that her dress bulges out towards it, urged by the expanding nature of the steel bands which lie concealed beneath its folds. As you look from these folds to the fire, and from the fire to the folds again, you are struck by the awfully short space between them, and you instinctively request your fair companion to move her apparel out of harm's way, upon which she pats her dress down once or twice, assuring you that it is all quite safe, but in truth there was reason for your apprehen sion. That two such dangerous companions as that combustible dress and that leaping roaring flame, should be so near together, with no sentinel to mount guard between them, is a legitimate reason for apprehension, whatever may be said to the con trary. What has become of the old-fashioned fender? It used to mount up almost waist high. The lower half of it was of perforated zinc, or iron painted green, and above this rose four or five perpendicu lar brass rods with a brass bar which they sustained placed transversely along the tops of them. This was a fender or de-fender worthy of the name, and it may still be seen in our nurseries. But what has the fender in our sitting-rooms dwindled down to P It has got annually lower and lower, till now it is as nearly as may be flat and level with the hearth, a mere receptacle for the fire-irons and a sort of finish to the general effect of the stove-setting. A lady's dress sweeps over it and into the fire as easily as if there was nothing there at all. The thing happened only a short time since, as a lady was standing talking to an invalid who lay on a sofa drawn round to the fire. Is there no way of getting back the old fender? or if the laws of fashion forbid this, why not have a guard perpetually over the fire ? It need not be like the present fire-guard, which has an uncomfort able look, and has to be removed whenever the fire is poked. Four or five brass bars descending in a curve item the top of the grate-arch to the hearth would serve every purpose of fencing in the fire, and would neither be unsightly nor inconvenient. They would be so far apart that not only could the fire be poked between them, but the coal-scoop full of coals could be introduced without the removal of the guard.—All the fear Pound. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—It having been found absolutely necessary that the Abbey should be closed, that it may receive a thorough cleaning, and that the organ may be repaired, the services will be suspended during the month of January next. The daily t ervices on the week days will be waled on at the usual hours (7 45 a.m., i 0 a.m., and 3 p.m.), with permission of the rector, in the Church of St. Margaret. THE UNITED STATES MAIL,—The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Kangaroo sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New Yoak, Besides the United States mail she took a consider able number of passengers and a large cargo of manufao tared gocidis, ohie y woollen. THE AMERICAN NAVY. The following is the total number of ships of which, according to the Commercial Gazette of New York for May, 1861, the Federal navy were in possession for the purpose of blockade and other services, viz. :- 5 steam frigates 172 guns. 6 dc. corvettes 5 do. sloops 7 armed merchant vessels 330 „ 4 sailing frigates 2OO guns. 9 do. corvettes 180 ~ 12 ~ 2 do. brigs 392 „ Grand total-48 ships, 722 guns. This force represents something very different from the formidable array of ships and guns which has recently been published, but which, happily for us, was only a list of the American navy upon paper. Eleven of the ships mentioned therein had ceased to exist as far back as April last, having been set on fire in the dockyard at Norfolk ; the wonder ful Pennsylvania, said to be pierced for 140 guns, was among the number. After omitting their sail ing ships of wax, as unfitted to cope Ni ith our ves sels, which are all possessed of steam power, and adding in their place the number of steam merchant vessels that they have armed since last summer, we believe we should be over the mark if we set down. their total active war fleet at 450 guns. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who has been confined to Gloucester House for some days by a severe cold, is, we learn, much better. The Duke of Wellington has left Apsley House for his seat in Norfolk. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester left their residence in Great Stanhope-street on Monday, for Kim bolton Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have arrived in town from a tour on the Continent. The Duchess de Gramont arrived in London on Saturday (on her way to Vienna), to visit her father, in Hyde-park-place, for a few days only. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have left Grosvenor-square for their scat, St. Giles House Dorset. The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven have arrived in town from Ashdowne Parks, Berks, for the winter. Viscount Palmerston is, we are happy to learn, fast recovering from his late attack of gout. We are requested to state that the Duke of De vonshire has consented to be put in nomination for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge. The Duke of Buccleuch having declined to be put in nomination, it is stated that the Duke of Northumberland has been invited to become a candidate for the office of Chancellor of the University. It is difficult to understand upon what ground this nobleman shouldeba put forward, as lie is not a mem ber of the University, having only received a honorary de gree at the time his predecessor was High Steward of the University. MELANCHOLY DEATH WHILE PREPARING FOR CHRlSTMAS.—Yesterday evening an inquiry was held at the City of London Hospital by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, touching the death of Joseph Priestley, aged 44, who was killed by the giving way of a ladder on Friday last. It appeared that the de *eased, who resided at 20, Sparrow-street, Minories, was mounted on a ladder for the purpose of cleaning the facia of the shop for Christmas, and the water which he threw over it with a brush rendered the pavement wet, and the ladder slipped down. The unfortunate deceased was flung with great force upon the flags, his temple coming against the corner of the door-step. Death was instantaneous. There was an extensive scalp wound, and the skull was fractured. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. DEFENCES OF LIVERPOOL.—The probability of war is greater than ever, but the week has passed with but little effort being made by our townsmen to provide for the appalling event. The subject has attracted attention, but has not produced any practical result. People are slow to believe in war: . They do not want it, and they hope against the reasonable conviction of their own minds. They catch at every idle telegram, and place reliance on every imper fect rumour. The necessity, however, is urgent War is highly probable. If it should occur, whit' are our prepara tions ? Three imperfect forts, and one frigate half manned. This is not as it should be. One correspondent suggests that we should remove the buoys and lightships ; but we cannot thus peril the safety of out commerce. Another suggests blockships, or the replacing our present lightships with vessels iron- plated and armed. It would, however, be almost impossible to moor such vessels in safety on the sandbanks. The present lightships are light vessels, secured with the moorings of a man-of-war. The proper thing, it appears to us, is to have bagel ies thrown up on the sand hills, of Mockbeggar and Crosby, commanding the Queen's and Horseshoe Channels. In addition to this we want one or two swift steam-friga'es stationed at Holyhead, and one or two others stationed at Liverpool. Furthermore, we want some gunboats. At present an enemy's vessel might " sink, burn, and destroy" numbers . of vessels off the North-west Light- ship with impunity. If Mr. Laird's plan be carried out, we shall provide our own gunboats. A public journalist can only point out these matters as sug gesti,ns. It is the duty of others to carry them out, if deemed necessary. But if any Enemy's vessel should enter the Mersey, fire the shipping in some of the docks, and shed the town, a deep responsibility will rest with those in authority who shall have neglected all necessary precau tions. Failing energetic measures, we would recommend the corporation to have a few millions sterling on call at its bankers for purposes of ransom,—.Atebion. THE PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mule prem.. and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 175.100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices frum Hamburg the price of gold is 4261 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13s. 6d. per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 108 f to 109 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is against England, But, after making allowance for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold to the United States. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862. FEBRUARY. Lincoln MARCH. Nottingham S Derby Spring I Liverpool S ll Shrewsbury S ...... 'RIL. Northampton Croxton Park.. Epsom Spring Ponceland Newmarket C 2l Catterick oridge Thirsk 29 Newmarket F S 5 Chester Spring York Spring Salisbury Bath Harpenden 3O r NE. Epsom Summer 3 Chelmsford ll Manchester 1 Ascot Newcastle ...... ...... 24 Hampton :MBER. NOTE: Worcester Hereford Liverpool ... l2 Shrewsbury His Excellency Lieut.-General Baron Moltke, Lieutenant-Colonel on Obernitz. the Count Furstenstein, and Captain von Leucedon, have left Maurigy's Hotel, for Berlin. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven are passing the season at Melton Mowbray. Secretary Sir George Grey left town yesterday for Highworth. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London yesterday for Hawarden Castle, Chester. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce (Governor) and Captain Grey (Equerry in Wait ing) embarked from the docks at 1 o'clock to-day, in the the Royal yacht Fairy, Commander Christian, for Osborne. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Brabant and the Count de Flandres, attended by Count de Lannoy and Major Burnell, accompanied the Prince of Wales. Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., came over from Osborne to receive the Royal party. The three Princes were received, on their arrival, by Mr. P. Hedger and Mr. J. Levy, principal offi cers of the Dock Company, and Mr. R. Beach was also in attendance on the part of the South-Western Railway Company. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ap peared very careworn, and suffering severely. The Belgian Princes, on arrival at Osborne, will take leave of her Ma-. josty, and leave immediately for Belgium. THE FUNERAL OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.—Allu sion was made yesterday to the manner in which the day of the Prince Consort's funeral was kept in the chief towns of England. It was observed with no less solemnity in places of minor importance. A special service was performed at Canterbury, in the cathedral, which was attended by the Mayor and Corporation and a great assemblage of the citi zens. The sermon was preached by Dean Alford. At Lin coln the rifle volunteers went in procession to hear service in St. Peter's Church, and muffled peals were tolled from the cathedral towers. The Mayor and Town-council of Nor wich, attended by the volunteer corps connected with the city, the Norfolk mounted corps, and a part of the Yarmouth artillery, marched in procession to the cathedral, where an impressive discourse was preached 1)3 the bishop of the dio cese. At Llandaff the cathedral was crowded, volunteers being present to the number of 600. An appropriate dis course was there also preached by the bishop. The service in the Cathedral at Rochester was very impressive. At Chat , ham and Woolwich, in accordance with Admiralty orders, minute guns were fired during the afternoon ; but in con sequence of the necessity of hastening preparations for war the workmen in the dockyat ds had no holyday. No minute guns were fired at Southampton and Portsmouth in conse quence of orders that there should be no discharge of large ordnance within hearing of her Majesty at Osborne. At Edinburgh all business was suspended during the hours of the funeral, and prayer meetings were held in the churches- The Royal standard at the Castle hung half-mast high, and 60 minute guns were fired from the batteries. Nearly all the literary, academical, medical, legal, mercantile, eccle siastical, and municipa. bodies in the city have held or have called meetings for the purpose of preparing addresses of condolence to her Majesty. Several county meetings have been called for the same object. In the other Scotch towns the day of the funeral was observed in a similar manner. The city council of Manchester and the town council of Nottingham yesterday voted addresses of condolence to her Majesty. FALL OF A HOUSE.—Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, a sad calamity happened at Nelson-court, a wretched place leading out of the High-street, Poplar, in which there are several dilapidated houses. One of these w.is occupied by a poor labourer, named Richard Cogan, aged GO, his wife Margar, t, 58, and their two daughters, Mary Ann, aged 12, and Ellen, aged 11 years. They slept on one bed, the parents at the top and their children at the bottom. The family went to bed soon after 11 o'clock last night; at 3 o'clock a loud crash was heard, and the neigh bours on repairing to the spot, found the house a shapeless mass of ruins. A wild scene of excitement followed among the Irish who live in the court. In a short time Inspec tor Beare, of the K division, and a numerous body of policemen arrived on the spot, and soon cleared away the rubbish. Cogan and his wife were found quite dead. They appeared to have been killed in bed and while asleep. The eldest daughter was brought out of the ruins in a dying state. Inspector Beare and his men, with the greatest alacrity, made her fast to a stretcher, on which she was conveyed to the Poplar Hospital. Or. her arrival there, however, the medical officers of the institu tion pronounced her to be dead. The youngest daughter, Ellen, whose escape was miraculous, although severely in jured, was doing well yesterday evening. The calamity is attributable to the falling of an old wall against the house, hich was a kind of "lean-to," quite unfit for the habita tion of human beings. In fact, the sad catastrophe was long since anticipated, and the building ought to have beer. long since removed. It belonged to a person residing in Hackney, who drew a rental of Is. per week from the Cogans. There are plenty of similar tenements in tho neighbourhood of Poplar. THE CASE OF PARRICIDE AT BIRMINGIIAM.—At the Public-office at Birmingham, yesterday, before Mr. Kynnersley, James Millward was brought up on the charge of shooting his father, as already described in The Stcia. The evidence adduced was much the same as at the inquest. The prisoner was committed for trial on a charge of man slaughter. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—TLe North German Lloyd's screw steamer\Bremen, Crpt. H. Wessels, arrived this morning from Bremen, and sails hence for New York on Christmas day, with mails, passengers, and a full gene- ral cat go. ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACClDENT.—Yes terday attetnoon Mr. Rallies Waithew, the deputy-coroner, held on inquest at the London Hospital, respecting the death of Sarah Williams, aged 31 years, the wife of a tailor's eratQr, in the service of Messrs. Moses and Com pany, wholesale clothiers, of Cannon-street East, City. On Saturday evening last the deceased, while in the act of reaching a piece of paper which was behind a picture hang ing over the mantelpiece, her dress ignited, and she im mediately became enveloped in flames. She ran screaming down the staircase and was followed by a lodger, when the flames were with difficulty extinguished, but not until her body and limbs were fearfully blackened and chaired. She was placed in a cab and removed ,o the hospital, where she shortly afterwards expired. The deceased had on at the time of the sad occurrence a very large crinoline petti coat. The deputy-coroner remarked on the dangerous practice of such decorations, when the jury returned a yerclict of " Accido;lo4 Oath," 1