The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-30 00:00:00

►RUST AND LOAN COMPANY OF UPPER CANADA. ---- - At an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS, held this day, at the Offices of the Com pany, No. 65. Moorgate-street , The Right Honourable E. P. BOUVERIE, M.P., in the chair, The following resolutions were unanimously passed : That the report and accounts submitted by the Directors be received and adopted. That a dividend at the rate of Si per cent. per annum, less Income-tax, be declared on the paid-up capital stock of the Company for the six months ending September 30th, 1861. That the thanks of the meeting be given to the Chairman and Directors of the Company. E. P. BOUVERIE, President. 65, lloorgate-street, Nov. 29, 1861. R 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Unier the management of Miss Louisa Pyno and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees, THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne. Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, allworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for bock!ng, or fees to Box-keepers. Stazo-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr. Eiward Murray. ln REA TR . ?, it Y A 14, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. 13. Bactliton, THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with TILE. BALANCE OF COMFORT. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. 3 Ahern. Mr, Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. Followed by SHOCKING EVENTS. To oonclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a' 7 LOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--fir. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy, Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (19th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun Falconer ; Mrs. D. I'. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Ch Itterton. rtleefi as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 1 t till 5. YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. '!'!l IS EVENING, THE MER!Y WIVES OF WIND SOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Ryder (his 6th appearance in that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, 11. Widdicomb, &e. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. EW TET PATRE-R0 (AL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY FIORSEBREAKER, 3I r. J. L. Toole, Mr. I'. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. After which, the new drama, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written by the author of "The' Colleen Bawn." Mr. George Jamison, from the Winter garden, New York ; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea tres ; and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. Tho other prin cipal characters in the drama will be performed by Messrs. Emery, Stephenson Billington, Paul Bedford, Romer, Mrs. Mrs. Marston, &c., &c. Entirely new scenery by fesers. Dolby and Thompson. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Took, oliss K. Kelly, &c. Doors onen at half-past s—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with a new farce, en titled ALL IN THE DARK : Messrs. Butler, D. James, Worboys, Miss E. Wilton, After which, A THUMPING LEGACY. Followed by SMACK FOR SMACK. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear In CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven. C INTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. MR. SAM COWELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou rite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. " Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TtIAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss . Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli with a poWeriul Clioru;. The Comic department :—Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves) ; Mr. Wood and his talented son, the be 9t negro de'ineators of the day ; and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, 6d. ; Stels and Balcony, is. T II E 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STFIEET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Simon BOOM - rscgr9.," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell and Miss Ernst ; Messrs. Albert (his first appearance), Morley Greville, ttc. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonzhmans.— Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame E,ders sohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dal:, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, &l ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, h. m .—Aft ernoon, 12h. 6m. To-stoßmow.-Morning, 12h. 28m.—Afternoon, 12h. 58m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 30, 1861 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 51—Mghest since noon yesterday. 51--lowest this morning and during)ho night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.85. WIND—W.-N.-Westerly; rather fresh, with dull rainy weather. ), •,, I . R , ...., , ..'ae , -‘), , ------.---I,=, ~,,. 9 , ! •.., ~_.. t„,,„... ~,,,,-: tip l 4. -:`-'°.-,.\ ' ,' %- 4 --- 4 .. , \ 14 . 1 4, 4 'l• 41: 1 4 ;.' ''' .' \l4,, '0 r '' c ' ' ' '' t ' ". ' , C‘q : ',l: - ...4 , , -- , - . ,- .:, ),1f - ~•• •, ,7 ; Z / - 1. 7 ''' ', ..S P, P : :.'"Z' l % • t--- ‘ 4 i - f' I -a T'''f -). . 4.,, ) / ,:i . • "_,...., `_ fr y ..'_'l,7, 0 . ;--": -- e,CL:7:: . ?!1.. r. --ro-i7,. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1861. We shall soon learn how the American Govern ment received the account of the outrage committed by their own officer. We fear that it will turn out that the officer is not the responsible person— that his act will not only be acknowledged as that of the Government, but gloried in, thud that the PRESIDENT, Mr. SEWARD, and the Northern mob will be of one mind s and that the ono to which all their anteceden ts point. Happy for them should it be otherwise ! If the Government at Washing. ton be but endued with common prudence, they will at once, if their servant exceeded instructions, dismiss him ; and if they themselves have been guilty of the crime of provoking England to war, repent; and, in either case, place the gentlemen so outrageously arrested in the hands of Lord LYONS, with an ample apology. Will the next arrival bring us any such tidings? We confess we have little hope of it, though, much as we deprecate a war with our kinsmen, we should be only too thankful for such a termination of the business. When the packet which sails to-day from Liver pool reaches America, the Americans will learn the difference between Englishmen and themselves. They will know in what a fury all the North would have been had an English officer been guilty of the offence against the Republic which has been com mitted against a monarchy ; they know how their press would have poured forth torrents of abuse and of warlike denunciations, and that not an editor, whatever his judgment, would have dared to ex- Press a thought at variance with that of the electoral mob the well known penalties of Judge LYNCH would have kept silent every writer who cared for his property and life. Here, on the contrary, while contempt and indignation could not be suppressed, even those who Most loudly expressed their feelings did n o t lose th;:ir temper. Them h as been a universal desire to learn the law of the ease. We all felt that if international law was really against us, though that would not lessen our sense of the insult and the intentional wrong of straining the law to we should yet a nnoy England, submi t , and treat America as we do every man who se es f i t to make himself odious to society by always going to the full extent of th e law, while keeping just within its limits. We are, however, released from the unpleasant ness of having suffered a gross wrong for which there is no legal redress. The first living civi l jurist in the world is a member of the Cabinet, and compared with Lords PALMERSTON and Rus- SELL, the American ministers are but chicken statesmen. The country will feel, of what ever political party men may be, that, for this crisis, we could not be better represented ; and our representatives have, we are told, unanimously came to the conclusion that our rights have been Belated, and that restitution and apology are essential. It cannot be doubted that this decision will be adh ered to, and that it will be enforced. Much may and will be done, of course, short of actual war. Lord LYONS will be recalled if need ful, and Mr. ADAMS sent home. We cannot main tain honourable diplomatic amity with men who insult us. Merely recalling our ambassador will be no small encouragement to the South; the Southerns and the Commissioners themselves will probably think that in becoming the occasion of a rupture with Great Britain the victims have accom plished far more than they could have done had they been landed quietly on the shores of France and England. We cannot agree with those who argue that the seizure was only informally wrong, and substan tially justifiable. International law furnishes, so far as we have yet seen, no actual precedents on the question. We must fall back, therefore, on the reason of the,' case. Now, as the liability of neutral ships to search is itself an evil, it has always been held that nothing could be seized on board of them except first, by its directly serving the purposes of war; secondly, by there being fair evidence that . the contraband of war was in course of conveyance to the enemy; and, thirdly, the proceeding must be completed by a decision of a Prize Court. In the last point the illegality will hardly be denied even in America itself, But we must maintain that the other points are also in our favour. So little did the Spanish or English authorities at Havannab, or the Commissioners themselves, or the English officers on board the Trent, regard the gentlemen as obnoxious to seizure, that there was no kind of concealment on the part of any one. The Commissioners well knew that they were liable to seizure while they were on board the Southern vessel in which they had run the blockade; but once in Cuba, it was their intention to keep on neutral soil. The Trent in the Spanish port was, as it were, a temporary approach of British terri tory to Spanish territory ; Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON stepped from the confines of one neutral Power to within the confines of another. Captain Morn was engaged in no traffic contravening his Sovereign's laws and proclamations ; those laws were paramount in his ship, and all who came on board her were immediately as subject to those laws as Captain MOIR himself. All was done in perfect good faith, and in reliance on the universally understood law, that a belligerent availing himself, unarmed, of neutral territory, must be protected there by every Government which respected itself. Had the Commissioners expected danger of illegal violence, or Capt. Mom been disposed to countenance them in what he knew to be illegal, the means were obvious of deceiving the San Jacinto. The whole proceeding showed that all parties regarded the neutral ship on a legt.l voyage, as being as sacred from assault as the soil of England itself. One grave question has doubtless occurred to most of us. No doubt the Washington men regard even the fraudulent and roguish capturing of the two Commissioners, as a " lucky haul." But is that all. There seems no doubt that it was intended to take the same men from the La Plata if they were caught in her, A deliberate plan was formed at Washington to seize the Commissioners, in what ever British ship they were. Was this without calculation of the provocation it would give to us ? Was that provocation not a recommendation of the plan ? Was it not intended to chastise us for treat ing the Secessionists as belligerents ? And, further, did the madmen who dominate the councils at Washington dislike the idea of compelling us either to a rupture, or to putting up with unbear able disgrace ? We have not the slightest confi dence in the American Chief Secretary. He has disappointed all European hopes of him. He has shown himself opposed to negro rights, instead of favourable to them ; and no vulgar "stump orator" has talked more wickedly respecting Canada. Now it is plain that by land the game of the North is very hopeless. An immense army encamps at Wash ington, and does not move on. If it can do nothing there, can it not turn round and try on the St. Lawrence whether it cannot retrieve the disgraces of the Potomac ? If it cannot conquer the South, can it not conquer the farther North ? The winter is at hand, the St. Lawrence will be closed, British troops cannot be thrown into it—is not now the time for a quarrel with England, and an invasion of a province defended by only a few regular sol diers and the native militia ? We believe Mr. SEWARD fully capable of such international disloyalty as this ; if only he can deliberately think it will answer his purpose. Indeed, we are not sure that his mortified vanity is not enough to induce him to hazard a war with England, that the Southern affair may be forgotten in it. Of such a war England would not assuredly be afraid, willing as she has always been to make great sacrifices rather than be guilty of needless blood shed. Notwithstanding its vast army, the Wash ington Government would find itself in an uncom fortable vice. The South, from the - very cause of the quarrel, must become our enthusiastic ally. The ports would be opened at once by our navy. That navy has visited the Potomac before, and would do so again. It would be welcomed up the Mississippi ; Southern soldiers would come forward with fresh ardour and certainty of success, backed by the mightiest navy in the world, and the result would, in all human probability, be a rectification of British borders on one side, and the Confederate borders on the other ; while the trade of England diverted to the South would rapidly change its character, and perhaps abolish slavery itself by the genial influence of enlarged intercourse with the, home of Freedom. We may be certain, however, that our Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, as they are not likely to plunge recklessly into war, so they will not yield to fear. If the Federal Government will not humble itself to make atonement, it will be visited with the appropriate chastisement. There is much which may be done short of our taking the initiative in appealing to the last remedy, and all that ought to be done will be. The reasons have now been given Why the Royal Commissioners are averse to the Embankment of the southern or Surrey side of the River Thames. And we undertake to assert confidently that never were no reasons in every way more illogical, unsa tisfactory, and inconclusive. Before referring to any one of these reasons, how ever, it is gratifying to bear in mind in the first in stance how very formidable is the opposition now arrayed against this preposterous decision arrived at last year by the Royal Commission. Remember, then, that the decision of the Conl t naissioners i s opposed, to begin with, by the whole forcelt i of contra r y Public Opinion to the view indicated last sess i on by the Parliamenta ry Committ ee wh i ch sat upon this very que s ti on of a Tha mes Embankment. It is against the wishes expressed by th e impor tant Deputation that only a few d a y s s i nce waited upon Lord PALMERSTON for th e p urpose of urging b'e Viscount's u pon the no ' his n t ' s attenti on i n • capacity las p r ime Minister the urgent necessity th ere i s f or a Southern Embankment. Finally, i t i s opposed—this preposterous decision t of the Commissioners —by" the sound c Ammon sense view taken of the matte r b y the veteran Chief of her MAJESTY'S Government. ons and the Chan- Only let the House of Comm THE! ' SUN, LO:.4DON, SATURDAY EVENT NOVE ABER 30, 1861. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. We alluded very briefly to the piece of the " Poor Nobleman," on its first appearance under Mr. Wigan's auspices, and we are now convinced that, in spite of its good reception on the first night, it is not thoroughly appreciated, This arises partly from the fact that, in any novelty he offers, the public look to some fresh and powerful develop ment of Mr. Wigan's talent, and on this occasion have not found it. Mr. Wigan, no doubt, invests with a certain pathos and sincerity the role of the dilapidated Marquis, but pride and manliness are wanting to the version which he gives of it. It is too woe-begone by far, and reninds us much more of a dissenting preacher out of work than an aris tocrat reduced to labour for ex!stence. Mr. Wigan forgets that in France, before 1789, the feudal and military character accompanied each other. Mrs. Wigan is inimitable in the humorous and vulgar bonito/wide she imparts to the plebeian Madame Bonbon. But Miss Herbert, as the daughter of the Marquis, is so decidedly the leading figure of the piece, that its effect mainly turns on the im pression she creates in it ; and, were it not trans lated from the French, we should have thought it was composed to bring her powers into notice. In the first act Miss Herbert merely represents, with many passing graces, joyous kindness to a faith ful and eccentric servant of the house, ladylike reserve to an abrupt and honourable lover; and lastly, to a father whose cares she does not know, the manners which are best calculated to cheer his heme and to adorn it. Before the curtain falls upon this act, a burst of tenderness responds to the discovery of her clouded hopes and his impend ing poverty while every former sentiment is merged in the deep filial care which afterwards en grosses her. In the 2d act her tour de force is given. Here she is disguised as a servant bringing lace to Mr. Bonbon, having resolved to aid her father by the werk of hands which still desire a noble occupation. Refitiet*nt ad sinapitelLy tbo highborn girl and the cantiniere, the decent pride of birth and cheerful resignation to misfortune, are blended in a touching manner. Each phase affects ; each sets off without encroaching on the other. But skill is mainly shown in the maturity which the reverse of fortune seems to have disclosed in the character of Madame de Belleterre. As generally happens under sudden blows of fate, the girl be comes the woman—the features are the same, the mind has grown for its experience. This law of nature is illustrated entirely by the tone Miss Herbert gives the part, and would hardly be appa rent from the language or the conduct which be longs to it. In her costume of the second act, although the disguise is good, Miss Herbert far out shines the costume of the first, as if she meant to show that ruin is more becoming than prosperity, or that beauty knows how to steal a laurel from privation. All those who have as yet ap proved her talent on the stage, should go to see the " Poor Nobleman." The dazzling burlesque of last winter at St. James's Theatre might bring out perhaps her personal advantages. " The Isle of St. Tropez" and the " Scrap of Paper" afforded, but in no pleasant shape, a scope for intellectual power. She has now a part which gives a better opportunity for the union of mind and grace than has hitherto belonged to her. And if the "Poor Nobleman" is received as a piece conducive to this object, in spite of weak points, it deserves the favour of the public. ELEVATION O 1 111.8. _MELLOR, Q.C., TO THE BENCH. This morning it was officially communicated amongst the members of the bar in Westminster Hall, that the Lord Chancellor had conferred the Puisne Judgeship, vacant by the retirement, on account of illness, of Mr. J ustice Hill, upon John Mellor,• Esq., Q.C., of the Inner Temple, and also M.P. for Nottingham. Mr. Mellor was called to the bar in 1833. The elevation of the hon. gentleman to the Judicial Bench will create a vacancy in the repre sentation of Nottingham. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. Sir George Grey arrived it London yesterday morning to attend the Cabinet P. ouneil, from his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland. Mr. and Lady Charlotte Portal have left Far rance's Hotel for Laverstoke House, near Micheldever, Hants. It is said that the iron-cased frigate Normandie, now at Cherbourg, has accomplished 14 French knots an hour during her trial trip. FATAL COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.—WATER FORD, Friday.—The Waterford Company's steamship Zephyr arrived from Liverpool this morning, and reports having been in collision off Puffin Island with a French steamer, Comtesse do Frigile Frigeville, from Nantes, for Liverpool, in ballast. The French ship immediately sank. The captain, mate, and eight of the crew were lost; six were saved. The Zephyr sustained no injury. The Nazione of Turin states that Bishop Ganli has been sentenced to imprisonment for 50 days by the Tri bunal at Pistoia, for publishing writings of a reactionary tendency against the Government of the King. The same journal expresses a hope that tho sentence will be carried out, as in more cases than one priests have not been pun ished according to their sentence. THE AUSTRIAN NAVY.—According to the Espero of Turin, the Austrian Government contemplates making a new conscription, and, because it knows that the Adriatic will be the theatre of the next war, has determined that all the conscripts from r almatia shall be employed to man the fleet. It is even said that this measure will be ex tended to Istria. Henceforth sailors rather than soldiers will be wanted, and the _Evora gives it as its opinion that Istria and Dalmatia ought to be able to furnish at least 60,000. THE BANK OF DEFOSIT.—The Rev. William Bean, of Worthing, has recently made a statement to his congregation in reference to his connexion with the Bank of Deposit. Ile informed them that although his name ap peared in the papers as one of the present directors, it was not so, as he had retirrd from the bank about six months since, and that during the short period he was a director, he could truly say ho was not award of anything that was inconsistent with the highest integrity.— West Susssx Gazette. STRIKE IN TIIE HOSIERY TRADE AT NOTTING nAm.—In consequence of an attempted reduction of Is. per dozen on shirts and drawers by an influential firm in Not tingham, about 100 workmen are now on strike. It appears that at a meeting which has been held, it was decided to levy Is. per week on the frames which are now employed, and through that means the men on strike are now in re ceipt of 2s. 6d. per week each. DEERFOOT AT CAM BRIDGE.—By express desire the celebrated Indian runner will appear at Cambridge on Wednesday next, Dec. 4, and contend in a six miles' race, against Lang (of Middlesborough), Barker (of London), Brighton (of Norwich), and E. Mills (of London). The general wish of the University, Town and County having been strongly expressed, the management will be under the Rev. L. Stephen, M.A. (Trin. Hall), Rev. J. F. Hardy, W. S. Cadman, Esq., Capt. Prest, and Messrs. Adams, F. R. Hall, P. Beales, jun., A. D. Claydon, and J. E. M'Donald. There will be many other sports, and the races will come off at Fenner's grounds. Entries for the Mile Handicap, &c., to be made at the Cambridge Chronicle and Independent Press. All preparations will be made to en able every one to see the far-famed Redskin contend against four of our first-rate men, but there is no doubt that the celebrated Indian has been specially engaged to gratify the ' curiosity of one of the most illustrious in the land, who is at present sojourning on the banks of the classic Cam. The sports will commence at a quarter past two, but the race of the day—Deerfoot against four champions for six miles— will come off punctually at three o'clock.—Era. A suggestion—which, it may be feared, is more ingenious than probable—has been raised, to the effect that the captain of the San Jacinto may be in reality a Seces sionist, and that he accordingly strained his orders with a view to render certain the ultimate success of the Southern cause. The New York paper which enjoys the largest cir culation has long been reputed to be acting under a similar impulse in its Welts to drag the country into a war with Great Britain ; and it is also avowed in all the American advices that " treason" pervades every department of the State, from the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court clown to the lowest clerks in the Treasury, the post-offices, and the custom-houses. Even in Fort Sumter, according to the last accounts, a trouble of this character threatened the safety of the place. " Statements are made." it is said, on " excellent authority, that there are in that fortr,ss two field-officers, a Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, who are favourable to the rebel cause," and as the news papers teem with similar, and even more serious accounts from other points, the surmise now broached with regard to Commander Wilks is not without a certain degree of plausibility. The New York writers recommend a whole sale shipment of such "traitorous officers" to the Dry Tor tugas, but the fact that such a proceeding would probably decimate the Federal army and navy begets the suspicion that a war with England may have been looked upon by the more reckless class of politicians as a more certain and less disagreeable means of cure. cellor of the Exchequer come to a satisfactory un derstanding with each other upon the subject, and the conclusion so complacently arrived at by the Royal Commissioners will be overruled betimes, and swept aside peremptorily, to the satisfaction of the sane mass of the inhabitants of the metropolis. It is conspicuously to the credit of Mr. THWAITES that his was the only dissentient Yoke raised against this extraordinary opinion otherwise unanimously formed by his brother Commissioners. Mr. THWAITES was then and there in a minority, and conse quently his advocacy of a Southern Embankment as well as a Northern Embankment went for nothing. But—apart from the Royal Commis sioners—he is certainly in a minority upon the sub ject no longer. It is gratifying to remember that he at least among the Commissioners, he who occupies the responsible position of Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, was, upon a matter of such importance, wiser than the rest of them. The opinion Mr. THWAITES then avowed is strictly in harmony with the view afterwards taken of it by the Parliamentary Committee, by the deputation that waited the other day upon the Prime Minister, and last, and perhaps most im portant of all, by the Prime Minister himself. We entertain no doubt whatever as to what will be the result of so remarkable and conspicuous a coincidence. If any one comes freshly to the consideration of the question now immediately under dispute, it must certainly appear ludicrous upon the very face of it, to find a Royal Commission deliberately re commending that one side, and one side alone, of a groat river like the Thames, rolling through a metropolis like London, should be Embanked ! And that the other of course should be left, so to speak, in impuris naturalibus! " Several conside rations," we are now gravely informed, "governed the Commission in recommending the Embankment on the northern side, which do not apply, or apply but slightly, to a similar work on the opposite shore." We are farther informed, " These consi derations especially pointed to the necessity of giving priority at least to the work on the northern side." It is then observed that " the principal one was carrying the great low level sewer on the Middlesex side along the line of the proposed Embankment, instead of tearing up for its construc tion—it might be for a year or two—the great thoroughfares of the Strand and Fleet-street, involving the diversion of the enormous traffic into the little narrow collateral streets and byways." A very good reason, this, no doubt, in favour of carrying out the enterprise of a northern Embank ment. But—not the smallest reason in the world for not carrying out a southern Embankment as well. The mere question as to priority we take to be altogether beside the mark—and to be worthy of no consideration whatever, supposing it were alone possible to have one Embankment at a time. In that contingency, of course, we should have to decide which of the two banks should have precedence. But it is altogether essential, as a pre liminary, to show that the simultaneous carry- ing out of both Embankments is a duplex work wholly and absolutely impracticable. Even if that double labour were clearly proved to be impossible —even if it were quite plainly demonstrated that one Embankment alone at a time could be con structed, we could readily enough adduce good and valid reasons why the southern instead of the northern Embankment should have the priority. For example, the southern side lies considerably lower than the northern. Lambeth aad those neighbourhoods are continually in the time of heavy rains and high tides liable to be overflowed in consequenee. Therefore—for one reason—the southern or Surrey side should have precedence over the northern or Middlesex side. Again, the property upon the northern side is of greater value than the property upon the southern side. There again being no sufficiently comprehensible:reason why the Surrey bank should have priority over the Middlesex bank. It is yet to be shown, however, that the two Embankments cannot be carried out together, that is, simultaneously. The argument in justification of the decision arrived at by the Royal Commissioners, seriously goes on to put the matter before us thus : " Another main object," it is added, " was by means of the Embankment to split, and to relieve the great human tide continually setting in bath directions between Westminster and the city." An excellent reason again in favour of the notion of a northern Em bankment. But a reason utterly worthless as opposed to the scheme of a southern Embankment. It is admitted a little later on, that " Apart from public convenience, taking the Embankment of the river simply as a work to be invested with elements of interest and beauty, an equal claim to be con sulted might be advanced by the inhabitants of either side, but," it is rather extravagantly ob served, after this, " the comparison of claim fails in all other respects !" As to the larger number of the difficulties said to be arrayed against the promoters of the Embankment scheme along the southern banks of the Thames, as contrasted with those discoverable along the northern or Middlesex bank—we simply ask any unprejudiced Londoner to say from his own knowledge of the position of the things upon either side whether the opinion he should conscientiously have arrived at would not have been diametrically the reverse. In confirmation of the reasonableness of which conclusion we need only direct particular attention to the very words employed in an earlier part of this same argument in justification of the views entertained by the Royal Commissioners. Namely, where it is emphatically remarked that " For all time since London was a city, and now rnore than ever, the great mass of the metropolitan population has dwelt on the northern side of the Thames, a consideration [think the Commissioners] which of itself demands that the requirements of that side should be first c'nsulted in the matter of he Embankment." But—allowing that, admit- ting that—a consideration also, say we, proving as plainly as anything possibly can be proved, that tho difficulties against the northern enterprise must necessarily be, as we have just now been insisting upon, larger and more numerous, and in every way more formidable than those likely to be en countered while carrying out a similar scheme upon the southern side ! It were idle, hoWever, to pursue the argument against the Royal Commission fur ther. The question, we rejoice to think, is already virtually decided against them. Mr. THWAITES has to all intents and purposes even now won the day against his brother Commissioners. He is no longer, we repeat, in a minority. His once isolated opinion in favour of a southern Em bankment as well as a northern Embankment being coincident with the opinions now entertained and avowed upon the matter by a considerable propor tion of the public at large, and by the Prime Minister of England, no less than last session by th© members of the Parliamentary Committee. The Marquis of Harlington, eldest son of the Duke of Devonshire, is about to marry the Hon, Miss Pitt, daughter of Lord and Lady Rivers. A marriage is also arranged to take place between Lady Londesborough and Lord Otho Fitzgerald, son of the Duke of Leinster, LATEST NEW S. PARIS, Nov. 30. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The director of the customs has reported that the surplus of grain imported into France is 101 millions of hectolitres. At present, therefore, the wants of consumers appear to be guaranteed." TURIN, Nov, 29 (Evening.) The Duke of Prato has tendered his resignation as memb€r of the Chamber of Deputies. The law suppressing feudal rights in Lombardy has been adopted. The Bishop of Potenza has exhorted the clergy to support the national Government. VIENNA, Nov. 30. The Emperor will leave this evening for Venice, where he intends to remain for eight days. Dr. Heiu, President of the Chamber of Deputies, has been appointed Minister of Justice. WARSAW, Nov. 28, The Council of State continues to discuss the question whether civil rights shall be granted to the Jews in Poland. Notwithstanding the assertions of the Breslaz.er Zeitung to the contrary, perfect tranquillity pre vails in Warsaw and throughout the provinces. Personal security is nowhere threatened. THORN, Nov. 29. There is great and general agitation in Warsaw on account of the resignation of the Marquis Wielopolski. mtw dc..co by which the Emperor accepts his resignation states that he is relieved from all his functions until further orders. INDIA. (BY TELEGRAPH DTRECT FROM ALEXANDRIA.) . BOMBAY, Nov. 12. Lord Canning is about to extend the system of permanent settlement to the North-West Provinces. Shirtings have advanced 2 to 6 annas per piece. Mule twist in good demand at advanced rates. Metals dull, Linseed active, and prices advancing. Cotton.—Dhollera, 171 r. to 181 r. ; Compta, 155 r. Government Securities.—Four per Cents. 821 ; Five per Cents., 95/ ; Five and a Half per Cents., 1022. Exchange on London, 2s. ld. Discount, 8 per cent. Money stringent. Freight for cotton to Liverpool, 455. (BY TELUGRAPH TO BOMBAY.) CALCUTTA, Nov. 9. The late reaction in the piece-goods market has been fully recovered. 71b. shirtings are quoted at sr. 4a. to sr. 6a.; 31b. madapollam, 2r. 2a. to 2r. 3a. Mule twist firmer. indigo unchanged. Copper—. Sheathing, 411 r. ; tile, 42r. Exchange on London, 2s. Obd. to 2s. 0:d. Government Securities—Four per Cents., 84 to 841 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 to 1041. Freight, 675. 6d. Note.—This telegram left Alexandria at 5 p.m. on the 26th inst., and arrived in London at 10 32 a.m. on the 29th inst. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 30. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, which sailed to-day for Halifax and Boston, took £49,320 in gold, chiefly on Government account. THE PORTE AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. The _Levant Herald of the 20th inst. has the fol lowing : " We believe we may confidently announce that the long-vexed question of the Roumain union has at length reached its settlement. Last week the Porte communicated to each of the representatives of the Powers interested, a copy of the firman by which it proposes to consent to the desired junction of the two provinces, and we learn that the condi tions under which it is willing to sanction that result have, with a few trifling exceptions, been accepted by the whole of the Legations concerned. The Porte consents to the complete legis lative and administrative union of the two Principalities for and during the life of the present Hospodar. The Fockshani Commission will, of course, be dissolved, and (the firman proposes) in addition to the one central Upper Chamber or Senate, therdwill be a Provincial Chamber for each of the Principalities. At the death or abdication of Prince Cousa the present status quo will, ipso facto, be re-established, so as to afford the two peoples an opportunity of reverting to their separate Governments, or of manifesting a collective wish for a continuance of the Union. In the latter event, the Porte, while declining at pre sent to give any specific pledge on the point, pro mises to consider favourably any general and spon• taneous expression of the popular will. A protocol embodying the general acceptance of these terms will be signed in a few days, immediately:after which the definitive firman of the Porte will be forwarded by a special commissioner to Bucharest." FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 29.—The American affair begins to exercise a more depressing effect on the market than it did at the first announcement, and that added to the settlement, has caused a considerable decline, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 90c. ItAilway Shares also looking down. Three o'Clock.—The following are the last quo tations:— 41 per per Cents ... 95 75 Credit Fonder 1205 Do end month.... 95 80 , Belgian 4} 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 , Roman Bank Shares 2970 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 728 75 i Spanish Threes 4O Do. Account 730 Home Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1330 .. 1332 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 50 .. 1025 Geneva Southern 650 651 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard POLAND. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, Nov. 22. The clergy have at length brought to a head the question of their independence of the Government, which the latter had so imprudently raised by sanctioning the disgraceful scenes in the churches on the Kosciusko day. Not only are the churches to remain closed, but all spiritual government in the country is to cease until a satisfactory guaran tee that it may be carried on without Russian in terference is obtained. The reason of this deter mination is the refusal of the Council of Adminis tration to sanction the appointment by the Chapter of the Rev. Mr. Bialobszeski as its Vicar, and the arbitrary arrest of the latter, who is upwards of 70, and enjoys very indifferent health, under circum stances of peculiar barbarity, he having been dragged out of his bed at night and shut up in the citadel without warning or any assigned reason. The Suffragan Bishop, the Rev. Mr. Dekest, also a very old man and bed-ridden, who is since dead, addressed a strong but temperate remonstrance on the subject the very next day to M. Hube, the act ing Minister of Education and Religion, who had been the channel of communication between the Council of Administration and the Chapter. He said that no power on earth, not even the Chapter itself which had elected the Rev. Mr. Bialobszeski, could deprive the latter of the authority which had by election descended to him from t he late Vicar, Archbishop Fijalkowski, unless ho voluntarily re signed the same; that such re, - -igngtion could no be accepted as valid so lon g as it was offered in a prison, and that, being without a recognised head, it is impossible for the Chapter to continue to per form its administrative functions. He therefore proposes two courses to the Government, either to liberate the Rev. Mr. Bialobszeski, and thereby en able him, if he thinks fit, to resign his office as Vicar.; or to transmit a letter to the Pope drawn up by the Bishop, laying before him the nature of the difficulty, and requesting him either to use his in fluence in obtaining the Rev. Mr. Bialobszcski's liberation, or to send a special Vicar from Rome. Here the matter for the present rests ; but it is obvious that this abnormal state of things cannot long continue, and that either the Government or the clergy must yield in the end. Wielopolski is still at St. Petersburg, and it is said 'will be one of a commission to be appointed there to inquire into the best means of managing Poland. Meanwhile his Education Bill has passed the Council of State, I may say, by acclamation ; everything in it has been approved, and there seems every chance of its becoming law without modification. The question now on the tapis is the condition of the Jews in Warsaw. An increase has been observed during the last few days in the number of arrests at Warsaw. General Filmcki, the Chief of the Police, insists upon every police sergeant bringing at least 20 prisoners daily to the head quarters of his district, on pain of dismissal ; and he is himself very active in arresting and knocking people about in the streets. The ladies, who have long been persecuted in the provinces. have now also become the object of attack in Warsaw. Several of them have already been wounded, and one of them thrown bleeding into the gutter. The number of prisoners now in the kingdom must be upwards of ten thousand. The Dziemick, Powszechuy has published a list of twenty-three of these, mostly workmen, the first fifteen of whom have been sentenced to be attached to the Orenburg Corps, the next five to two years' imprisonment in the fortress of Noeogeorgiewsk, and the three last to banishment from the country. The chief offence of these men appears to have hPen their beating and ill-treatment by the sol diery. A good specimen of the nature of the crime which has been visited with such severe punish ment is the case of Peter Betcher, who has been condemned to remain all his life in the criminal division of the Orenburg Corps, for spitting on the ground and making a contemptuous gesture, while reading an announcement of the authorities posted in the corner of a street. The Government must be very hard up for real criminals, when it shuts up people for such absurdities as this. It takes good care, however, not to publish the imprisonment of such distinguished men and patriots as the Rev. Messrs. Wyzyuski, Wit man, Sieklucki, Dziarzkowski, Otto, &c., the chief Rabbi, Meizels, the Rabbis Jastrow and Kiamsztyk, Szlenker, Hiszpanski, and so on ; no doubt because not even the form of a legal trial has been allowed them. These unfortunate men are treated in the most disgraceful manner by Colonel Hatzfeld, the president of the military tribunal. He strikes them in the face, abuses them in the vilest terms, and often keeps them for days without food. The calumny spread by the German papers regarding Hiszpanski, who, they say, has played the traitor, and is now lying in prison to save him from the vengeance of the patriots, is as untrue as it is absurd. He has always shown himself among the foremost in his zeal for the national cause, and is, like his fellow•delegates, forbidden to see any one, even the members of his family. This falsehood, like that of the discovery of the 15,000 muskets on an estate of Count Zamoyski, which has been cir culated by telegram all over Europe, is one of the means employed by the Russian Government to disparage the Poles in the face of other nations ; and it shows to what a state of degradation the German papers must have been reduced to allow themselves thus to be made the instruments of so base an artifice. The Russians have, from the first, used their utmost efforts to find arms in the pos session of the patriots, but they have invariably failed; and, indeed, it is difficult to perceive what use the patriots could make of arms, even if they had them. Unaided, it is impossible for Poland to enter upon an armed contest with Russia with any chance of success, and their present position of moral resistance, opposed to brutal force, is a much stronger one than if they reduced themselves to the level of their oppressors by resorting to violence. The Government is about to resort to a new scheme for depopulating the country. The Polish towns aro to furnish 10,000 recruits to the Russian army —or, in other words, 10,000 men are to be taken at hazard from the Polish population, in order to be subjected to one of the severest punish. meats it is in the power of Russia to inflict. This is, however, but a saort-sighted policy on her part, for she may be training these very men to turn against her when the time comes. The military have again shown their utter de fiance of every principle of right and humanity at Sandomir. A fire had broken out in the middle of this town, at the residence of one of the principal merchants. The police sounded the al arum bell, and the fire brigade speedily made its appearance, accompanied by a crowd of the population who had come to help. In the midst of the confusion which is always visible on such occasions, Golu bow, the Military Commandant, fell with his Cossacks and a detachment of a line regiment on the people, after having placed guards at the doors of the houses to prevent any one from coming in or going out. The scene which ensued may easily be ima gined—men and women fell by dozens, many of them severely wounded under the horses of the Cossacks, and the soldiery struck at every one they met with the butts of their muskets. 'I he bishop has sent an account of the transaction to General Luders, the Viceroy, after much opposition on the part of Golubow. Bat it is idle to look for redress in such cases. "Dispersing a disorderly assemblage" is the usual and all-sufficient explanation on all occasions of this kind ; and General Luders, who has done absolutely nothing since his appointment to the Viceroyalty, is not the man to ask inconve nient questions. Colonel Czenyeny, the military commandant at Kielce, has given the inhabitants of the province the benefit of his interpretation of the state of siege. '• Citizens are forbidden," says he, in an official order recently published, " from assembling in towns or villages on any pretence whatever, whe ther on commercial or household affairs, or for family festivals or hunting parties, without the permission of the military commandant. Any person not attending to this order shall be brought before the military tribunal for trial." And again, " All religious processions, including those that take place in churches, are forbidden. . . . . The clergy aro bound to ask permission of the mili tary commandant to celebrate any religious festi val which might be the cause of a large assemblage of people." Thus it will be seen that even a visit to one's friends, or the performance of a religious ceremony, beccmes illegal unless stamped with the sanction of that all-powerful of reortals—the miii tary commandant. The same officer has issued an order to the pol:cG and troops under his command to arrest every lady caught singing a forbidden hymn, or wearing a cross or a mourning dress. Russian agents are still moving about in the provinces, exciting the peasantry with inflamma tory speeches full of falsehoods against their land lords. At Olkusk, some of the peasants of the place who appeared as witnesses before a court of inquiry swore that the soldiery had said to them—" It you heard the words of our pope, you would know how to manage with the nobles and get rid of them." These commissions are, however, nothing but a solemn farce, and never lead to anything. The agents denounced by the peasantry always either escape scot free or with a gentle reprimand; in deed, it would be strange if it were otherwise, a Government Commission not being likely to punish its own agents for doing what it directed them to do. The persecution of the clergy is more bitter than ever. At Kutno the organist of the church has been sent to Siberia for intoning the hymn, " God save Poland," and its priests to three years' im prisonment for the same reason. Another clergy man, whom the soldiery had come to arrest, w as SO ill that he could not be moved ; two of them were. Pe^r.';iirviy infirreci in his chamber 111111 1 110 should be sufficiently recovered to leave it. 'Mt.: same trick was played on a lady who had been sentenced to be Ltogged for some political offence, I and feigned illness to avoid the punishment. It is I said that the presence of two Russian soldiers placed to watch in her bedroom frightened her to such a degree that she became really ill. THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT. (From the Morning Post). We are glad to be able to inform our readers that the Mexican Government is fully alive to the urgency of our claims and the necessity of at once accepting them. We understand that Govern ment has received by the last mail information of the agreement of Mexico to a convention by which our requirements are one and all fully conceded Sir Charles Wyke, powerfully seconded no doubt by the rumours of our intentions which must have crossed the Atlantic, has been able to negotiate and conclude terms by which full satisfaction is given to us ; and the Mexican Government, alarmed, in all probability, for the consequences of its own con duct, has complied with the demands which we had hitherto addressed in vain to its sense of justice, and which we had sent out a naval expedition to enforce. This capitulation on the part of the Go vernment of Mexico is, we understand, unequivocal and complete. We are to have compensation for outrages, the repayment of money stolen, and the fulfilment of the engagements which the Mexican Government has by treaty stipulated towards the bondholders. The change which has now taken place in Mexi can counsels is, perhaps, the more satisfactory that it has been brought about only by the apprehension, and not by the fact, of military interference. But the attempt to stave off our active interfer ence and to separate us from our allies is in vain. We shall not accept the proffered satisfaction ; and our fleet, with those of France and Spain, will pro ceed to seize upon the ports and custom duties of Mexico. We shall not trust the faith of Mexicans, not even when they bring peaceofferings. The in tervention in the affairs of the Republio will there fore pursue its course, and we shall make assur ance doubly sure. ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH REVOLUTION. Yesterday being the 31st anniversary of the Polish Re volution of 1830-31, a funeral service was performed for those who fell in that national struggle by the Rev. T. Santry, which was attended by a large number of Polish refugees resident in this metropolis. Afterwards a meet • ing of the Polish Historical Society, whose members aro exclusively Poles, was hold at Sussex Chambers, Duke street, St. James's, under the presidency of Major Gielgud. The CHAIRMAN having expressed his regret at the una voidable absence of Colonel Szyrma, the president, and Major Szulczewski, the vice-president, reviewed the recent events and the manifestations of national spirit of his country, which, said he, must h tve convinced all Europa of the determination of the Poles to regain their independence, and the rights guaranteed to them, and urged them to draw example from their countrymen, now savagely persecuted by the tyran nical Government of Russia, and to bear their sufferings as exiles with fortitude and resignation. General Count ZAMOYSKI then addressed his country men as follows :—Gentlemen,—On meeting you here, with whom during so many years I have unceas ingly shared labours, sorrows, and hopes, I am natu rally led to begin by mentioning the irreparable loss we have suffered since I last parted with you, in the person of the great man to whom, in everything we ever undertook for the service of our country, we all looked up invariably as to our leader—l might almost say as to the ruler of our consciences as Poles—while, on the other hand, theuniver sal respect and veneration which his name inspired was t° every one of us a source of comfort, cheering, and pride. The greater, however, the benefit we derived from his quali ties and long experience, the more prolonged his life and his presence of mind unimpaired to his very last hour, —the more we dreaded the day when we should be deprived of his presence among us by the natural dose of his noble and useful life. But it seems as if Providence had, la its mercy, resolved that our long sufferings should now be changed into consolation. All the news from Poland confirm that impression ; as though our coun trymen were never submitted t) more difficult and irritating trials, they now bear them with the calm expectation of a proximate triumph, not by any further appeal to arms, but by the daily increase of our own streng`h and by the inca pacity of our enemies to master it. Thus, also, and by a favour of the same Providence, which we cannot sufficiently acknowledge, the very loss of our great leader and patriarch bas not become, to those who followed and supported him, a cause of weakness and dispersion, but has made them feel stronger, because stilbmore united. The gravity of the situa tion might have suggested to them the necessity of drawing closer to one another and tightening their bond of union for the accomplishment of their duties to erards the even' try; but invaluable assistance towards it resulted from the words which Prince Czartoryski dictated on his death-bed . Tbat act of foresight and wisdom, as it was the last of his public career, remains one of the most important and beneficial. To all of us whom in that act he called his friends and fellow-labourers, he has traced the rule which we have to follow in our further la bours. Ho called upon his son to continue, as a true and faithful servant of his country, the work to which he him" self had devoted his life in exile, because he considered that ho was placed in conditions best suited to the functions of the chief representative of his country abroad, a function which he properly described as the special duty of our end' gration. His friends and fellow-labourers he summoned to give to his son the same devoted and disinterested su pport which he himself had received from them. You know, gen' tlemen, by your own feelings and dispositions, that this last will of Prince Czartoryski has found us all disposed to obey it. But, as one more closely associated with the labours in question, let me share with you the good news, that those labours, during the few months intervening since the late Prince's demise, have been followed by all who take part in them with a degree of union and concert surpassing our best hopes, and that if it be to me a true pleasure to bear testimony to the activity, talent, and disinterestedness of .1 companions, I am happy, at tho same time, to proclaim that the Prince's s m shows himself every day, by his great modesty, his thoroughgoing devotion and natural tact, uP to the great duties which he has to accomplish. Of the news from Poland, I will allude only to the last. After a succession of measures, showing that our enemies aro come pletely at a loss as to how they could overcome a w hole people, on whom both fire and steel and violence of every description fails to produce the desired effect of terror and submission, a recent act of insanity commands the levy Gf 10,090 recruits for the Russian army out of the towns of the present kingdom of Poland. The aggregate population of these towns is not one million of inhabitants; thus, taking one-half to be men of every age, and about ones fifth to be able-bodied, every ten of the last will have to contribute one recruit. This the valid and more enlight ened population of Poland is to be decimated and carefully transported to the most distant parts of the vast empire 1 But have we to deplore it ? By no means. For many years past the Russian regiments have been filled with Poles, and all of them invariably acted the part of apostles of freedom. They did so, because they showed themselves more enlightened, more honest, than those with whom they were forced to associate, and because their countenances bore the stamp of deep sorrow. Who knows but we owe to them the feeling now widely spreading among Russians, especially among the young and the better-informed, that it is hopeless to think of subjugating Poland ; that, besides the impossibility of the enterprise, there is, for the Russian people themselves, everlasting slavery in the pursuit. It was once already the glory of Poland that a formidable neighbour of hers, Lithuania, after long and bloody wars, embraced Christianity, and henceforth became more than a sister to her, since the bond of union between the two nations is now triumphing over time, and all the efforts of the common enemy to break it. Who knows but svo maY yet see the Russian nation shake off both the trammels and the criminal suggestions of despotism, and,wish for nothing from Poland, but that she should forget the past, and become a friendly and useful neighbour ! The present time is manis festly pregnant with great changes in the condition of the world ! Never did I feel more confident that our country shall ere long have to contribute its share in the improve ment of that condition. Mr. N. F. ZABA also spoke to the same effect, after which the meeting sepasated, having passed a vote of thanks to the Chairman. _ _ The letters from Paris state that the Bourse has been much agitated by the news from England, and that the general feeling is strong against the conduct of the United States Government. The market was already heavy, and hence the effect was severe. The cause of the previous flatness consisted in statements that M. Fould meets with great obstacles in carrying out his plan of eco nomy by reducing the army by 100,000 men and putting a stop to the heavy expense of the marine, but it is hoped that with the support of the Emperor, he will yet fully suc ceed. It is said that the Government have been selling* largely Piedmontense stock, received from the Italian Go vernment for expenses in tho Italian war, and also that they have thrown on the market a large quantity of Government Obligations, called " Trentenaires," which had been taken to procure resources to pay the dividends on the Three per Cents. due next month. Specie increases in the Bank, and discounts out of doors can bo obtained at 4t per cent.