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MM!M ~„ mR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "Al' 110 ME," A t Her Majesty's Concert Room, ITaymarket, ]Very Evening at Eight o'clock (except Saturday). Morning representations Wednesday and Saturday at Three. Private boxes, stalls, and places may be secured at the Pox- Moe, which is open daily from 14 till 5, and at Mr. Mitchell's loyal Library, 33, Old Bond-strecA. No extra charge fur booking. Carriages to be ordered at a o,ua'Aer-past 10. SPECIAL N'OTICE. • Thir:ng the Christmas I folidays a performance every Evening —Monday, Tuesd:r f, wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at S. Morn -41,g. Performances every Wednes (lay and Saturday at 3, except Christmas• Week, when the Morn lug Entertainments will be on Thursday (instead of I Vednesday) and Salt' , A t y , a t 3. A l R. ROBIN • the ,RENCTI WIZARD, at the - EGI ' HALL, EVERY EVENING at Eight (Satiirday CNC ' ., fed) and Wednesday and Saturday Alter noon at halt- - t 2. ,Admission, IS. and 2s. Reserved dress stall chairs, 3 5 . ; icon y 4 at the Tlall, from II to 4 ; and at Mr. Mitchell's, 3 .t, Old Bond-street ; and principal Libraries. SPECIAL NOTICE.--Al GU ROOMS.- 1. consequence of the lamentable Death of Ills Royal s the Prince Consort, the BALI, of Mr. IL R. IIIC; NELL, winch was postponed, will take place TIIIS EV ENING (Tuesday), 17th inst. _ A EGYLL lU)OMS.-GREAT SUCCESS !!- The Band and Musical arrawfeme.nts under the direc tion of M. BOULCORT, Conductor amt principal Cornet. In Rshlilion to the Laurent Iralse, Str , Ass Zuadrille, and floret 1, !es of l a st week, A NEW I'O r .,ICA. by M. IlouleAmrt, the olos performed by hint and M. Greche. Admission Manager, N. P. Grenet. SALE OF llFit MAJESTY'S SHIPS. Department of Pne Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Swinerset-place, 16th Dec., 1861. THE CCAIMISSIONERS for EXECUTING THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the liINGDOM of Gl6l64'[' BRITAIN and IRE ireiv v DO HEREBY G tyll NOTICE, That on FRIDAY, - 30 . January next, at Teo o'clock, they will he ready to receive Sealed 'renders for the purchase of her Majesty's un dernientioned Ships : M. GRENET, Manager. IVlierc Tons. . 951 Spartan., OlB l'flot Expre'ss 302 I'eter eI rap.dora 319 Cr ,me 359 Arrow.. .. 477 YU 4771 riper ' 77) Lying. 'Devonport, Where Tons. Lying, Frolic Arab. Daring 426 Elk. Tyne 660 Electra Kangaroo Dispatch 483 Daphne 726 Mariner 4Bl Fan tome Vt 913 • Cleopatra 2IR, .fter Two o'clock Chatham. on the day r No Tender will be received of treaty. ].very Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand Corner the words Tender ior the purchase of H.M. Ship;" and must alto be delivered at Somerset-place. Persons wishing to view the Sliks must apply to the Su perintendents of lI.M. Dockyards atievonport and Chatham for Notes of Admission for that puiliose. Catalogues and conditions of sa l e , ma y b e h a d here or at the said yards. Itt OVAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in ISM.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PR ESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Graee, the Duke of Northum ., berland, F.R.S. ' C ilAfformr—Thos. Baring, , M.P FRS V.P Chair- Man of Lloyd's. DEP UTY-CITAIRMAY. —ThOtriag Chapman. Esq., F.E.S., V.P., Chairman. of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. e . The Committee of Management have to state that, during pe past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount- VP,' to .C6,?58 ls. in establishing Lite-boat stations on dif lerent parts of the Coasts of England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-bo its, Boat houses- and Transporting-carriages, £3,632 19,.; and £1,550 for exercising, the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether a total of £11,141. During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following l'i r reCtied Vessels:— Schooner Anti - Mitchell, of Montrose .. 1 Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulyerstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. • • • • ' • 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • • • • Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth • • •• Schooner Catherine, of Newry •• • • Barque Niagara, of Shields • • • • A Barge of Teignmouth .. • • • • Brig George and James, of Loudon • • Brig Zephyr, of 'Whitby • • • • • • Coble Honour, o f Cullercoats Schooner Eliza, of North Shields • • •• Barque O'oer on of Liverpool .. • • Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .. • • B .niar:K Wonder, of Teignmouth .. • • 1,11 4 Scotia, of Sunderland . • • • • • FAeop Three Brothers, of Goole .. Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge :Brig Ann, of Blyth .. • • • • Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. Schooner William Keith, of Caruarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. Steam Dredge, at Newhaven Schooner Admiral Hood, of Roch e , ter Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. Schooner Rose, of Lynn • • • • Brig Prodroma, of Stockton Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine I'reia, of Konigsberg .. Brigantine Matta, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. 3 .. 9 .. 6 .. 5 Total .. 6 .. 7 -210 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has Voted .C9OB Bs. 4d. as re •vards. It has also granted rewards amounting to £203 48. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, making a total of 455 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United liing•dom. Durinfi, tie present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti tution ilelve also been instrumental in resouing the Crews of the foilowing Vessels : Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford •• • • Schooner Prosp.et, of Berwick Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives ••• • A Fishing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc • • Flat Cymra es., of Beaurnaris .. • • • • Schooner - William, of Morecambe .. • • Smack C:',ipsy, of Newry .. • • • • Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .i'ehooner William, of Liverpool .. Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle •• • • Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood _ Barque Guyina, of Glasgow .. Brig Roman Empress, of Shields „ Brig San Spirid - one, of Galaxide Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna French Brig La Jenne Marie Therese .. Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough • • • Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Ilortensia, 01 Hanover Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. • • Brig St. Michel, of Marans .• • • Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega(saved ves sel and one of the crew) .• •• • • •• Schooner Murrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel and crew) 6 Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. „ 1 Barque Peace, of London •2 Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft 11 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved Ye - , sel and crew of four hands) .. • • • • • • • • • 4 Smack Adventure, of Ilarwieli • 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. • • • . 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen 11 Virreeked boat on Illackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, saved one man .. • • • • • ' • 1 6 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone • • • • • • 5 Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. • • • • • • 5 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. • • Schooner Auchineruive, of Grangemouth .. • • 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. • • •• 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. 4 - 4 Total .. .. 8 .. 4 .. 8 .. 6 - 5 .. 4 ..275 - - - - - - - - The public cannot but sympathise with the vi2 - orous efforts bow being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions the Society has made within the past few years, it has now nearly tine Hundred and Twenty Life-boats under its man a.vement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough t frwiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely heeded, it its humane mission is to be perpetuated. , . - Donations and Annual Sit' Pcriptionmwill be thankfully re ceived by Messrs. Willis ' Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard- Si reet ; essrs. Coutts and Co., si, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Parquhar, and Co., 16, St. Jamei's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Itichard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John -street, Adelphi, London, W.C. Payments may be made by Cheques or by Post-office Orders (crossed), to Messrs. W Ms, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. j_TENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of -a- Jetta, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous , 'llflerers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A tuedical work on the cure or Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrhera, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if reglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from oh fervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., a, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. DR. ]RIGHT'S APHRODISION, T LIE pIIOSPIJOIZISED NEUVINE TONIC.—The Ntwly-diseov et ed Chemical Combination of Phosphatic Salts, Quinine, Iron, (Vc. the never-failing' remedy for Generative Gleet, ;tricture, and Renal Pains, Diseases of the Icidneys and Bladder, - Retention and Non-retention, and consequent deposits, Generative Incapacity Thr Wedlock, Partial and Total Prostration, Premature &erne of Manly Power, with many other distressing symptoms, caused in early life by incontinence, and youthful disregard to future ba;miness. Prices : its. per bottle, or four 1t s. bottles in one, 335. Pre pared and sold at the Laboratory, 4 t Maddox-street, Regent street, W. LONDON AGENTS.—Barclay and Son, 75, Farringdon street ; Newbery, 45, St. Paul's-churchyard ; Sant - rer,lso, and nannay, 63, Oxford-sfreet ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Hooner,43, King William-street, London-bridge; flowd-n, 78, -Grace eburch-strect ; Profit, 22.1, Strand; and of all chemists. TVIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. EICORD'S ESSENCE OF I.IFE. TM; wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most thattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, e'seesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate ease is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. '-rhis life-restoring remedy should be taken by ad about to as its effects arc permanent. It is acknowledged by press to be the greatest discovery ever made. *I" la in every case is as certain as that water quenches tord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in for use, at lls., or four quantities in one for 335.. sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, (lf remittance or post-office order payable to Prout tent 3ledidneWarehouse, 229, Strand, London. 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Jj'EO EST PARVA MMUS NATUS QUA MAGNUS ERASMUS. For the strange but true story of that treat ,Scholar's Birth and Parenta;;e, see " THE CI. , )1 ST E AN I) THE H HEART," by CHARLES READE, the Thir&Edition of which is Just Published. Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row. Price One Shilling, or Post Free for ThirteetStarrips, INDIAN RAILWAY AND INDUS FLOTILLA -A- GUARANTEES 'EXAMINED AND FOUND TO BE DELUSIVE ; with extracts from the Official Contracts. Third Edition, with an Introduction, containin' a Corres pondence of Mr. W. P. ANDREW with the Author, and Re plies to Mr. W. I'. ANDREW, and Mr. THOMAS WArr. By JAMEIMILLS. W. Wilson and Co., 103, Cheapside. Price Od., or post free for 7 stamps, UNSOUNDNESS OF INDIAN GUARAN TEES, shown in a Litter to MIntLL SLAUGHTER, Esq., Secretary of the Stock Exchange, London. By 11. TEMPLE nEYS. Tallant and Co., 5, Ave Maria-lane. BRITANNIA WEEPING and the Royal Standard half-mast High !—See this Hieroglyphic in ZA DK I'M'S ALMANAC, 1862. G. Be rge r, a nd all Book sellers. 6d. 'l l l-IE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE 1. fully explained in J. GROSSMITII'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex - perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. fid., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URET IIRA ; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By P. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitanintinnary for the Cure of Strictures of tile Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to.the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who arc subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. OUTFITS FOR CANADA.—Coloured Flannel Shirts, Knit Woollen and Chamois Leather Waistcoats, Drawers, Socks, &c., Fur Caps, Gloves, and all articles of Clothincr necessary for Canada, supplied by TIIIIESGER and GLENNY, next door to Somerset House, Strand, Lon don. TOOTHACHE. —HOWARD'S ENAMEL, for stopping decayed teeth, however large the cavity. It is used in a soft state, without pressure or pain, and hardens into a white enamel. It rumains in the tooth many years, rendering extraction unnecessary and arresting the decay. Directions for use enclosed. Sold by all chemists and medi cine vendor s, Price Is, TEA.-STRACHAN and CO.'S Strong Rough Domestic" Black at 3s. Id. per lb.-26, Corniiill, London, E.C. TEA.—STRACIIAN and CO.'S Fine" Inter too,diate " 111mk at 3s. Bd. per lb.-26, Cornhill, Lon don, E.C. TEA. STRACIT AN and CO.'S Delicious " Drawimr Room " Black at is. 24. per lb.--'6, Corn hill, London, E.C. Dr. Ihssall's Certificate of Purity, and a Pri e Current free on application, 26, Cornhill, London, E.O. NO CHRISTMAS GIFT is more valuable than OLDR I DO ICS BALM OF COLUMBIA, which has been established upwards of 30 years. It is the best and only certain remedy ever discovered for preserving, strengthening, be intifyltv.r, or restoring the hair, whiskers, or m,ustache, and preventing than turning grey. So'd in bottles, 3s. 64., 65., and Its., by C. and A. ot,nitiouE, 22, Welliugton-street. Strand, London, W.C., and all chemists and perfumers. For ehildrens' and ladks' hair it is most efficacious and unrivalled. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Lib r ary, Dining,-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment d VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, t:eautif ul inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Vlajesty, 149. Stand. W.C., Lonnon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, lIINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CIIOLOGY, , nd GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOG IC is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN TILE GREAT EXHIBITION or 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of II EIIN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its , frects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn , uritiL; sleep. A descriptive circular may be bad: and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the eir mmferenee of the body, two *hes below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WIT iTE, 22R, Piccadilly. A Single Trues, 1(18., 218., 26's. 6d., and 31s. - id. Postage, ls. Doubly Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. id. Postage, Is. ted. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. fEIV PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Yap and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprens, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., is. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage &I. JOIIN WHITE, Manufacturer, 22S,Ticcadilly. THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work, a Guide to the Married and those contemplating ISfarriag,c, who entertain secret doubt of physical strength, having im perilled the power of manhood by youthful indiscretions ; also treating on Syphilis, Secondary Symptoms, and Gonor rheea, and containing a Prescription known as the Preventive Lotion, Nature's Disinfectant, precluding, the possibility of contamination ; containing 190 pages, with 100 engravings, tree by post 12 statnps. Address It. and L. Perry and Co , 19, Berner -street, Oxford-street, W. Attendance d .11y, front 10 till 5, by a Consulting Surgeon, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (registered under the new Medical Act). A N EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-L AM B ERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficadous and pleasant, is admitted to he the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of aslhma, and consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in eurabie, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent cotwhing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes alter taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Clienast. 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, and by all nruggists, in bottles, Ind., and three times the quantity in one. 2s. 91. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's kstlimatic Balsam. TAII. CULVERWELL'§ LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. Price ls., by post ls. ld. ; of Mann, 29, Comb ill. On Spermatorrhma, Syphilis, Stricture, ilmmorrhoids, Gleets, Marriage Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring secured. Pr. C. may he consulted daily till 12, at The Post-oniee TurlAsh Baths, 19, St. ,Martin's-le-Grand; and from 1 till 9 p.m. at 3, Great Marlborough-street, W. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW POST-OFFICE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and ls. lid. from 5 till 9; Sundays, Is. till 1. An ESSAY on TURKISH BATHING, gratis. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The Ilse and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting information,whilc those who have already encouraged this new system will de rive ad di ti onal advanp actical regulations which the writer t.ige if they "—lierald and Standard, N ov . 1?, 1801. e o n b d s e e r n s;e m s u o s ir " The Post-office Tur kish Baths, 19, St. Mar tin's - le - Grand. t w o C?i f ifo ti r l c e e. —Pr. Culverwell has already established the reputation of an ab7e physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy ist philanthropist, • in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of ',We visitor. . . We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, it is On coming out f• o _a 'Turkish Batla,"—Era, Oct, 13, 1861. .~s":si~i .. . N°. 21,074. kt ; ~...:: .., ., . i. i0 c:,..: : ,: ., -: , ,:,..- ,. ;(: - • - 0 3 • - • ‘'. - - • , • 115 42 "'' Ae* - • 4. .4. 1 7 7 .* . \ • . OZODa irrivr aoxavt !.T l .!•ostfir :4,04 - -• • I ;oL -, . , . on allc: ) I .6ESi ATCH Or . . - y 4 , arx ;) , 1> 1 v grn . • -)t.„--\ • . . .• 1 m . ; r:,),..111447Fk , ~..s• • . k•- , 44, .1 11111114 ` ; f k IZtrj • .4, . %.. - *AT , — ' 411119 171 • - t 75170 ' '1 tr, : AlcCO (,d r " - ‘ 4‘ ' C • , . , „ "o` l ` Dr - • •• . • R OTT • t • t' • ..... i PRICE 4d. STAMPED ....sd. cAN..4.41. Land forexpedition in the despatch. of troops for Canada has been such as to tax to sore extent the resources possessed by our mercantile steam marine. How such emergencies may be net. in Liverpool has been demonstrated within the : last ten days. On Thursday week a telegram was re ceived from Government by the Cunard Company, inquiring whether - they could get the Persia and Australasian, two -of their steamers, ready for the conveyance of troops to - Canada, and if so, how soon they could . be , ' made ready for sea. The responsef was that both ships : could be placed at the service of Govern ment, and be made ready within ten days: The company was at. once taken at its word: and' in structions were forwarded to have the.ships ready with allyossible despatch. , 'Under the able dirie tioneiiiid-superintendence of Messrs_James 'Ctirrie, Thomson, Black, and Ogston, of the Cunard (Ai m _ pany, both ships were put under preparation, and 'in eight days froth the commencement of operations they were completely fitted and ready for embark ing the troops. This included the fitting up of troop accommodation for 1,200 men in each of the vessels, together with stores and every requisite for a month's voyage. The Australasian embarked her complement of soldiers on Thursday, and sailed on Friday. She took out the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, numbering 40 officers and' 833 non-com missioned officers and rank and `file, including an hospital corps of 29 men. She had also on board seven officers and 254 me*of the Royal Artillqy, together with a battery of six Armstrong:gt with their whole train, consisting of 16 cat* , ... i The Australasian also carried out 6,000 stitAri_:' arms, in addition to those borne by the C together with 400,000 rounds of ball 'cart V .,, The Rifles were on the Gth inst., at Dublin, or dered to be ready on the 11th. On the 11th they embarked at Dublin, on_the night of the 12th they embarked on board the Australasian, and on the 13th were under' steam on their way . to Canada. .'he m Rifiq I)at.talipp,. went„ out under commend' of Lord 'Alexailder Russell,lbie l ni Earl - Ruseelly - .. and among the officers of the corps were Major the Hon. J. Stuart, whose brother is already with Lord Lyons at Washington, as one of his Attaches ; Captain Lord A. Clinton, brother of the Duke of Newcastle; Lieut. Lord Edward Cavendish, son of the Duke of Devonshire; Lieut. the Hon. F. So merville, Lieut. the Hon. A. Pennington, and En sign Lord Albert Cecil. . . . In addition to the two ships already narned, the Niagara was on Tuesday last ordered to be fitted for the conveyance of troops. On Friday she was inspected and declared ready for sea, and on Satur day she took on board 27 officers and 350 men, form ing a complete battery of Artillery, along with six guns; and with these she sailed on Saturday evening for Halifax. The Niagara took out Gen. Romney, Col. Kennedy, and Major Shervinton, of the Mili tary Train ; together with three officers of the Corn- , missafiat Department, and Dr. Muir, Inspector- General of Hospitals, and four surgeons. On Saturday the Persia was inspected, and pro nounced ready for sea. On Sunday she embarked the Ist battalion of the 16th Regiment tif 4 4 (iert, waela arrived in Liverpool that day from Sheffield and Weedon. In the early part of the day she took on board a detachment consisting of four officers and 118 men of the Royal Engineers, under command of Captain Magnay. The 16th consisted of 36 officers and 823 men, besides an hospital corps of 45 men belonging to the battalion, under com of Colonel Peacock. Besides those above enume rated there were also 70 men of the Commissary Staff Corps. General Russell, with two Aides de-Camp, was on board, going to a command ift Canada, together with Dep.-Assist.-Com.- General Festing, and Mr. Thorn, of the Military Store Staff. The two latter were in charge, of the Commissariat and clothing stores. It is grati fying to know that all the troops sent out have been provided with a full assortment of warm clothing. The embarcation in each case was conducted with the utmost regularity and with great expedition, under the immediate direction of Commander Ley cester, R.N.; Sir J. Jones, Adjutant Edwards, and Mr. Black, of the Cunard Company. The troops and stores were taken on board by the Cunard steam tenders, and nothing could exceed-the orderly manner in which all the operations were gone through. One tender was devoted to the baggage, and another to the ordnance stores. The Austra lasian and Persia both started with full steam, and both are to try, if possible, to get up the St. Law rence, which their commanders expect to be able to effect. If that is found to be impracticable, they will go to Halifax. _ It may be worth noticing that so ample are the resources of the Cunard Company that their ordi nary and very extensive trade is not interrupted by this additional employment. Thus on Sunday morning, at 9 o'clock, their screw steamer Olympus arrived from the Mediterranean, and the passengers wore landed by 12 at noon. The Asia, from New York, arrived yesterday morning at 8.15, and her passengers were landed by 10 a.m.; and their steamer Balbeck sailed for llavie at 10 o'clock yes terday morning. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY. Orders were received here this morning that the troops will embark in the Parana and the Adriatic steamers, in the dock, on Wednesday, instead of Thursday, as first arranged. A military inspection of the ships will take place in the morning of that day, and the troops are expected to be here by rail• way and embark at noon. ROYAL NAVAL I?ESERVE. The Naval Reserve enrolled in the ports of Whitehaven, Maryport, and Peterhead, have, like their brother sailors in other ports, spontaneously signified their offer of service to the Inspecting Com manders of Coastguard in the following letters : " Whitehaven, Dec. 5, 1861. " Sir,—We, the seamen of the Royal Naval Reserve in this port, have heard with indignation that our flag has been insulted by an American ship of war, and we write this to let you know that we are ready to fulfil our engagement and protect the honour of our flag, our good Queen, and country, whenever called upon to do so. (Signed on behalf of the men of the Royal Naval Reserve, 38 in number.) " To Captain Comber, Inspecting Commander, Coastguard." " Maryport, Dec. 7, 1861. " Sir,—We, the undersigned members of the Royal Naval Reserve at Maryport, do hereby sig nify to you our services in any action takon by the Government to avenge the insults offered to our flag in the orent of the American Government refusing to make the necessary reparation and apology for the stopping of the Trent and arrest of some pas sengers on board. (Signed by all the Reserve, 20 in number.) " To Captain Comber, Inspecting Commander, Coastguard." - - "Peterhead, Dec. 10, 1861. "Sir,—We, the undersigned men, enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve in the port of Peterhead, considering that a most wanton and unjustifiable insult has been perpetrated by the commander of the war-ship San Jacinto, belonging to the Federal Government of America, on the British flag, hereby most cordially make offer of our services, should her Most Gracious Majesty see fit, by Royal proclamr.- lion, to call for them. (Signed by 73 Royal Naval Reserve Men.) "To Commander Mould, R.N. Inspecting Com mander, Coastguard, Ai)erdeen." NEW SPIRITUAL PEER. —In consequence of the recent episcopal changes arising out of the death of Dr. Villiers, Bishop of Durham, Dr. Henry Philpott, Bishop of Worcester, will be entitled to take his seat as a spirituel peer at the commencement of the next session of Parlia ment. Dr. Thomson, who was consecrated Bishop of Glou cester and Bristol on Sunday, will not ix entitled to a scat in the House of Lords until the avoidance of a see ether than Canterbury, York, London, Durham, or Winchester. This arrangement takes place under the provisions of the Act constituting the Bishopric of Manchester. The Bombay Gazette says that a monster train, consisting of 77 carriages, was run from Surat to Baroda, the day before the fair held on the Dussera festival. When it passed over the Taptee and Nerbudda Iron Bridges, the passengers offered to the ri.:,ers..cocoanuts in such large quantities that the waters for 'the time seemed quite covered with them. It is said thatt tb bi .efr ss w h i o d u e 'e ni r o e u f tchocaonaa nuts was offered that the ri vers, over which such monst er trains were to pass, might n ot open ~ swallow up thekuman freight, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1861. flUßlrr, Mayor.—A COMMON COUNCIL. N--) holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, n Monday, the 16th day of December, 18;11. Resolved unanimously,— • That this Court has received. with feelings of profound sorrow the melancholy intelligence of the lamented decease ul his Royal II igh , !ess Prince Albert, the Consort of her Most -Gracious Majesty the Queen. - That this Court sincerely offers to her Most Gracious Ma jesty and to every member of the Royal family, its deep sym pathy and condolence upon the irreparable loss her Majesty, her lilustrions family, and the 'nation at large has sustained. That ill's Court in rec trdhr its high itdintrath.n of the dis tinguished virtues of the late Prince Consort-, of his constant solicitude lbr the protection of British interests, and his en couragement of educati , n, art and science, desires to express the deepest feeling of loyalty and ;Mellon for the person of her Mt.jesty, with the earnest prayer that under Divine Pro vidence her Majesty's lite may long be spared, and be b!essed with tranquillity and resignation under her Majesty's most afflicting bereavement. WOODTHORPE. CIOMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS, vv PINNEW ,, , POSTPONEMENT OF DINNER,---In cousequence . ofintlaunented decease of his Royal I tiOtness thel , ritwe Consort, the Patron of this Institution, and of the Ptino*of his Royailliff,ltness being fixed for Monday, the 23d hist.; the ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL, appointed to be held on that day, under the presidency vi WESTERN WOOD, Esq., 31. P., is Postponed. A. F. FOSTER, Secretary. 16th December, IF6I. ing some risk in the operation, why did they not make an attempt to cut in on the flying garrisons as they were retreating over the deep water pas sages which separate the islands tley occupied from other islands adjacent to the main land? Something must be risked to gain success. Why, up to this moment, are the bridges of the railway between Charleston and Savannah untouched and in the hands of the enemy ? The Gnnhahee and the Coosawatchee, deep, sluggish - streams, are spanned a few miles above Beaufort by long trestle bridges, easily destroyed ; but the enemy have been permitted, hitherto, to use the int:incase facilities of the railroad between these important points un molested. The troops are suffering from fever and want of proper clothing and stores ; but the weather has as yet been singularly propitious tc soldiers in camp. Row they will behave when, it ever, they enter the State, may not be mistaken, it their past acts are taken in evidence, for, crediting the blacks with as immense amount of misoief during the first moments of their licence, there is no doubt a good deal of plundering took place'"on the part of the soldiery in the early excitement of landing— and indeed who can wonder, when the rev; chap lain who preached to the Roundhead Regiment of Pennsylvania—a sort of men who are described as admirable for piety and sobriety—described South Carolina in his sermon, Sunday week, as " this accursed State in which we worship God ?" Gen. Sherman has been instructed by the War a Department not only to accept t t services of negroes but to employ them on th rtifications. ' He is further enjoined to seizt_all the crops, an& "sapgfitt`on which he can larhik liands7nneto send to New York its dearly loved cotton, to be sold for the benefit of Government. The latter course would seem to imply that the Government had abandoned the idea of making Beaufort a cot ton port, principally because they cannot get cot ton there, perhaps ; but at the slime time the sop to New York which is its due for the support given to the Federal Government by the merchants and people of the city. Very soon the ports to be blockaded in the South will be reduced to some half dozen, for the stone ships, of "Rat-hole squad ron," will very effectually stop up many of the inlets of ports which were places of considerable traffic along the Eastern coast: It is proposed to visit the places where the vessels are sunk from time to time, in order to see that no attempt is made to clear away the obstructions. The favourite idea of the North is to choke the South with its own cotton and put it under a condenser. Calibogu© Sound, between the Southern extremity of Hilton Island and Dawfusky Island, can be stopped by sinking two or three vessels, and a similar opera tion will close up the entrances to Savannah through the islands. Thus the exit for 400,000 bales, which was the usual export of the city in the year, representing a value of nearly four millions sterling at ordinary prices, will be effectually checked. Fernandina, and Beaufort, in North Carolina, are threatened, and an expedition is fit ting out against the former port from the fleet and men at Port Royal, which will probably seize upon some spot near the port, the approach to which is defended by Fort,Clinch, and whatever other works the Confederates may have had time to prepare. Jeffersonville, up the St. John's River in Florida, St. Augustine, Darien, Brunswick, are all of im portance, and the vast system of inland lagunes and river outlets which extends along the coasts is remarkable for the facility with which the solitary channels of deep water can be found and destroyed by sinking vessels in them—a pleasant coast for the restoration of commerce. By land in the West the progress of the Federalists has not been rapid, but the Confederate General Price gives signs of distress in Missouri, in the characteristic proclama tion in which he calls on the State for 50,000 men. The Federal General Buell is represented to be nuirriirprWaratßnirir the invasion of Tennessee, with the design of attacking Nashville, the new capital of the Confederate Government, but the idea is in a crude state as yet, and there are long marches and some hard fighting possibly, before the project can be accomplished. The contingent of State volunteers from the people of Kentucky to the Fede ral armies in her territory is said to amount to 25,000, in addition to which 9 regiments from Illi nois, 16 from Indiana, 17 from Ohio, 6 from Penn sylvania, 1 from Michigan, 3 from Wisconson, and 2 from Minnesota, have been poured into the State. Eastern Tennessee has been left to secession and itself. DECEMBER 2. It may be permitted to me to use the first per sonal pronoun in stating my individual impressions and experience, which are the base of all the little knowledge I pretend to possess, in reference to the phases which are changing from day to day in the course of the contest that is going on in North America between the people of the Northern and of the Southern parts of that which was once the United States. A few days ago I saw a review of the regular force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery oatside the Capitol. The American journals de scribed it as a fine sight, and, in their usual style, dashed recklessly at the figures, and evinced their customary indifference to arithmetical accuracy. A farce of some 1,100 infantry, 1,800 sabres, and 42 guns, was magnified into a corps of 9,000 men, with adequate proportions of artillery and cavalry, and many adjectives that could be applied to an army in a high state of excellence were lavished upon the display ; but after all it was not satisfac tory, and gave another proof that some fair data of comparison are necessary to enable men to appre ciate the value of demonstrations of the kind. It is true that, as compared with the average of volun teer reviews, there was reason to place the regu lars in a high position, and the jealousy which exists on the part o f t h e peop l e towar d s a regular had its exponent in the way in which some journals spoke of the occasion and its incidents. But, after all, volunteer regiments here could march as well if not better ; the men were not so fine personally, th e i r movements were l oose without being active. Nevertheless, any one accus tomed to soldiering, while finding fault with many things, judged by a European standard, would in finitely prefer risking an engagement with such a force opposed to equal numbers to taking three times as many volunteers into the field against the same enemy. The difference lay in the officers, in the readiness of the men, and in the air and service marched past. As theyable look took o g f ro tl u ie nd tr t o o op t s he as le t f h t they rig ht there was no noise in the ranks of the advancing sec ti ons . Th e artillery were clean and neat, the cavalry had no wild abandon of hair and op up; the infantry wore deficient in straps and setting opened gloves and buttoned their coats. B u t th oug h thi s praise, great as it wa s , o f t h e j ourna l s collars, though as NNVV so, the n no means what it would have been had the troops been volunteers. In fact, in the regular army the press and the politicians recognise a powerful enemy, whom they do not seek to flatter, because they know it cannot be cajoled. Soon after that review took place I rode to Great Palls with some officers of Gen. M.Clellan's staff. Numerous as the facts have been which have come to my knowledge respecting the irregularity and lax discipline of the volunteer army, I could scarcely have imagined such a state of things existed in any military body as I found at this post. It must be known that it is in front of the enemy at an important position, so close that the men of the outposts on both sides frequently talk to each other across the river, which here rushes through a wild, rocky gorge over and through layers of rock and disjointed strata, ab )ve which are high, rugged banks, covered with forest trees. Here in a few wooden houses and shanties were stationed the small post, consist ing of two companies of a Pennsylvanian regiment. The men were wandering about the banks or were seated in the dismantled buildings, amid log fires, the very incarnation of indifference, listlessness, and unsoldierly mess. In one of these houses, which resembled a two-storied wooden barn, blotehed with imperfect whitewash, and stripped of the outside planking, fig that we could see into the interior, where the listless soldiers were trying to kill the day with fusty newspapers and stale politics, there was an inner and better protected range of rooms, dedicated to the diffusion of spirits at a long deal counter, thronged with thirsty customers in uniform, who affected to be interested i❑ the pur chase of bread and candles. Inside this was another room, containing_ a bed, a stove, a table, a well bespattered floor, chairs of uncertain pedal forma tions, and three or may be four children, fat, blue eyed, cock-nosed, red-cheeked—in short, of Milesian aspect, and, as we soon found, of Milesian nomen clature. We were invited to enter by a gentle man with looped up and beplumed hat, whose shoulder straps marked him as a captain—a tall black man, with great jaws and deep nether lip, and when we had gone in the rites of hospitality were duly honoured by the prodUction of a jug of water, glasses, and a bottle of spirits which must have been very high, as they assuredly were very young. And then our captain told us his story. It was, in fact, that he was in a state of mutiny, which he did not understand, and in a condition of arrest, under which he was' indignant. He had spent a lot of money in raising ,his company. He had been in a three months' regiment under Patterson, and when it broke up he went home, and got up another company in his town. Well, there was another captain of the regiment at t.'. same post, 'rho was his senior, antitthis , man :' ► ommanded h to act unddr the, ordeza of the 'Heidi .of the guard. A 'pretty- 04,igg,. judged.-- him darned first. " Say damn, captain, and ease your feelings,"observed an affable orderly sergeant, who sympathised witii his superior's woes. Had not he worked hard t to get his company into order ? And here was this puppy going to make little 'of him before his men. " But I have written to four people about it—to the General, to the Adjutant-General, ito General M'Clellan, and the Secretary of War"—these were, I think, his referees —" and I've told them, if they don't explain the matter in three days, I won't consider myself under arrest any longer. The idea of being under a fellow like that ! Why, I could whip six fellows like him any day ! I'll be d—d but I'll go home, and all my company will follow ; and I can tell you we can whip any four companies they can send against us from hereabouts, I know !" " Aye, that we can," murmured the orderly sergeant, approvingly. The wrongs of this injured centurion did not strike us as forcibly as he expected. " Would you, captain, serve as a lieutenant, or under the orders of a lieu tenant ?" " Certainly, if I was ordered to do so by my superior," replied one of my companions ; " I could get my remedy for the wrong afterwards.' " Well, then, I won't, if all the Generals in the world told me. One of them volunteers who knows nothing about fighting, but goes by his book of regulations ! No, Sir-r." In the course of conver sation it came out that this gentleman had been a traveller for a boot and shoe warehouse in New York, and had even crossed the isthmus in the pursuit of his calling, long before the days of railroads. As an indication of the manner in which he enforced discipline among his men, we heard casually that a short time before, in the room over our heads, he had shot one of his company who had drawn a knife (" I can show you the knife now," interpolated the orderly) on a sergeant engaged in arresting him for bad conduct. The man died in two hours. The act of the captain has been formally approved by the Commander-in-Chief. But discipline was by no means perfect, notwithstanding, for as we passed the lock of the canal to get down to the Great Falls the captain pointed out the spot where one of his men had been drowned a few evenings previously: He had, it appears, been on duty as sentry on the lock, which , is only a few hundred yards from the enemy's pickets, and feeling sire to smoke a pipe, he had walked away from his post to the nearest fire to light it, and on his return fell into the canal, and was not missed for several hours. The enemy often entered into conversation, we are told, with the Federalists. Once, indeed, an officer of the Confederates came across the river and dined in the hou ; se which is the headquarters of the post, and quietly went back again. Whether his dinner disagreed with him or not, it is certain that shortly afterwards a battery of artillery ap peared on the opposite bank and riddled the house with shot. Now, it is in such laxity of discipline, and in such ignorance of military practice and of the laws of war that the great difficulties of General M'Clellan in the management of this army are to be found. Here was a post which could not be de pended on for doing its duty, and yet it is only some 10 miles from Washington, and it had in its charge the head of the aqueduct which is to supply the city with water, and important roads into Maryland and on the flank of the capital. There may be other cases of similar inefficiency of which General M'Clellan will never hear, but he may suspect their existence. No doubt these men would fight well, but in all pro bability their want of confidence in their officers, their lack of discipline, or the disputes between the captains would paralyse their courage. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 3. The mail for New York closes in an hour, and I have but little time to make any comments on the Message of the President, which I have just heard read in the Senate. It was listened to with profound attention and in decorous silence, and as soon as the clerk had come to the end Mr. Hale moved the ad journment till to-morrow. The galleries were crowded, and on the whole there was an appearance of greater interest'on the part of the public than I have yet seen evinced in the proceedings of Con gress. The senators ' chairs were often without oc cupants, as the gaps left by the Secessionists in the rows have been further widened since last session, and not more than 36 or 37 senators were present, but the Republicans mustered strong, and on the left of the Speaker there was a strong muster of mem bers. A day of bright sunshine, tempered rather overmuch by a bitter, frosty wind, tempted many strangers to the lobbies, but there was no pressure nor inconvenience in any part of the vast pile of the Capitol. The impression produced by the Message in the Senate was satisfactory. Mr. Sumner and his friends are delighted at the recommendation to recognise the independence and sovereignty of Hayti and Liberia, for which they have long been contending, and an American charge d'affaires will be brought into official contact with the authorities of the despised race which 5s not admitted in the United States to the rights of citizenship. The slave question is delicately alluded to and dealt with in the Message, but the President is obliged to point out that, by virtue of the act of Congress of August 6, 1861, " the legal claims of certain persons to the labour and service of certain other persons have become forfeited," and, as those "certain other per sons" must be provided for in some way, the Con gress is recommended to accept them from the States which may throw over the claims of these people to reciprocal duties from their former masters, accord ing to some mode of valuation, in lieu of direct taxes, in which case the "certain other persons . ' shall become free. Here comes the most important proposition in respect to the condition of such people. The President declares that there is an expediency, amounting to an absolute necessity, to appropriate money for the purchase of territory wherein the blacks thus liberated shall be settled in colonies ; and he suggests that such free coloured people as are already in the States should be included in that colonisation scheme, in case they are willing to go. It is quite certain the North will have none of them. Emancipation must be followed by expul sion, after the absorption of a proportion of negroes in domestic service in the North; and if the colonisa tion is not effected by the voluntary act of the free blacks, no doubt there will be an amount of influ ence brought to boar against them which will force them to yield to the process. But Mr. Lincol deprecates " radical and extreme measures," and h . is.u4Fstood to have resisted most essergeticallk the ptepositions of some of his Cabinet to make an overt declaration in faa;our of :unconditional Abolition. " The Union," however, " must be preserved, andlence all indispensable means must be employed." Bo that Abolition may be forced upon the PiesidentAr.44 made to appear in dispensable. ---However, as4ke-eause of-the Union is stated .to be advancing steadily and certainly southward, tit ,measure may be averted. The tone The i . letsage, indeed, iti hoped}„ and Mr. Linea = "dteerveaftom his co - nutty - Men tEetcridit due to those who' in. trying circunistaticei 'do 'not. despair of the commonwealth. He does not •&el and+ doubt that the -Union will be restorCd- 7 -that is, .in other words, that the Southern States will be subjugated by the North, and that the rebellion - will be crushed ; and, with the fact that the United States, with a pop ion of 20,000,000, are pngaged-in deadly con i t o reconeile a population of 8,000,000 to the bless - eg i their government, and hitherto without avail, Cail i neoln lookxfprward with confidence to the -time (not: 'bey.ondt-ihe; lifetime, as he says, of those now living) when,4,4449Ripies -of govern ment - which hive not boiontabrfOktand for 70 odd years without several sev_e_eonvulsions, and with one tremendous .diagnistion which may be final and fatal, will be abdeiStid by no less than 250,001,000 people livingundbione-ynion on the conti i , of lierth America. The onlithing which distur , the. tone of cheerfulness ;4d hope that charactekises the, document is the stitiVoo the tiatffigu smatitions of ite -Cakinetot-Mia.....laitmin s l'ekt*Alstes Governments of certain nations, which may not be able to resist the temptations to interference offered by disloyal citizens and "the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition." It is strange that the President should seem to impute to the lowest national motives the conduct of those na tions who have given no " patronage or encourage ment" to those disloyal citizens. Mr. Lincoln says they get "less than they expected." Surely he might have admitted they had received none at all. " Moral, social, and treaty obligations" may be interpreted differently by the advisers of foreign nations, and it does not appear that they could be much b!amed if they acted " solely and sel fishly for the most speedy restoration of com merce," provided their acts were compatible with honour and good 'faith, with self-respect, and with the law which the United States declare is their final test—the law of self-preservation. While the inlets and harbours of the coast are being blocked up by the Federal vessels, while the fields are lying uncultivated, the cotton unpicked, the slaves, whenever they can, indulging in saturnalia —it is rather hard to believe/with the President, that the co-operation of foreign nations with the United States in these avocations and occurrences would tend to the most speedy restoration of com merce ; still less, if, as Mr. Lincoln puts it, " the United States could dare to believe that foreign nations are actuated by no higher principle," that there could be any sound argument'- to show they would not have advanced it, and many other na tional interests, by recognition and interference, had not the moral and social obligations been sup posed to favour an honest neutrality.- As to treaty obligations, the United States,'not we, have disre garded them, and we have accepted the exigencies of their position as an excuse for the infraction. It may be quite true, as the President says, foreign nations have perceived that the effort for disunion has caused the interruption of commerce, but in the main that has been because the North would not allow secession and free trade. None can blame them if they fight for power. But they will not admit they are doing so; at d, with our experience of American politicians, it is difficult to believe that " onnspzaraation," such as the _ UnillStates, --07 promises more durable peace, and - more extensive, valuable, and reliable commerce, than can the same nation broken into hostile fragments." If the one great nation is uniformly hostile, if its commercial code is highly protective, if its commercial rivalry is close and bitter, it requires some facility in ac cepting Presidential propositions to admit that a foreign nation would not get on better with the fragments than with the whole, either in the way of war or commerce. Lest we might be tempted, how ever, by the disloyal citizens and cotton, Mr. Lin coln recommends adequate and ample defences on every side, and the seacoast line and the great lakes and rivers are pointed out as objects of the attention of Congress. To fortify and im prove the harbours, &c., and to speedily estab lish depots of arms and munitions along the lines, are the means suggested, and it may be added that before the President's Message came out at all a commission of United States officers had been in specting and reporting on the condition of the fron tier and seacoast lines, and suggesting works of de fence. The correspondence with foreign Powers which was moved for and promised last Session is now submitted with what are called " reservations" and the world will be enabled to judge, if the reser vations are not very extensive, how far Mr. Lincoln is justified in claiming for Mr. Seward the practice of prudence and liberality, and the averting causes of irritation, in his dealing with the Government of Great Britain. Compensation is to be made for the illegal detention of the British ship Perthshire by the United States steamer Massachusetts, and the President remarks that " justice requires weshould commit no belligerent act not founded on strict right as sanctioned by public law." But he does not allude to the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell—a matter so important that he could not have omitted it if there were not weighty reasons for concluding that it were better passed over in silence. Perhaps if the President imagined it was an act founded on strict right and sanctioned by public law he would have said more about it, and have had a pleasant paragraph about Captain Wilkes, who is described in a New York journal as " the great interpreter of international law," It is expected that the confisca tion and slavery resolutions will produce a very animated debate on the 10th in the House of Repre sentatives, and it is further stated that unless an advance of the Federal troops take place into Vir ginia very speedily the sittings of Congress will be highly perturbed. All attempts of M'Clellan to find an unguarded spot in the enemy's line have been unsuccessful, and although I have great deference for the opinion of American officers who know the country, and who say a winter campaign is practi cable, I must be permitted to state that the condi tion of the roads and camps at this early period of winter induces me to arrive at an opposite conclu sion, founded on some experience in observing the operations of armies in the field. There is smaller chance of such operations being successfully con ducted when winter arrives in all its severity; and that which would be almost impossible for a highly disciplined and well organised army to effect will be quite bepond the capability of the forces which are assembled here at present, giving them full credit i for courage, zeal, and endurance. REINFORCEMENTS FOR CANADA.- SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday —The steamships Adriatic, Parana, and Magda lena are rapidly progressing in-their equipment for sea, and will all sail the latter end of next week. According to pre sent arrangements the Adriatic, which is a fine vessel of 3,760 registered tonnage and 1,200 horse power, and will be co wmanded by Capt. G. C. Nicholson, an officer well known in the transport service, having commanded the despatch steamer Telegraph during the Crimean war, will embark her troops on Thursday morning. She takes out the Gre nadier Guards, with Gen. Lord F. Paulet and his staff. This steamer will take 1,300 men and 72 officers, making with her crew a total of 1,600 souls on board. The Parana, Capt. Sawyer, will carry out 1,000 men and 39 officers of Scots Fusilier Guards, who are expected to embark on Thursday morning, and she will immediately go out of dock into the river. The Magdalena, Captain Woolwarn, will take 900 men and 39 officers of, it is believed, the 16th Foot, who will embark on Saturday. The Parana is 3 , 20 0 tons and 800 horse power, and the Ntsgdalerta 2,980 tons and 800 horse power, THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. 7 (Fi ont the Special Corrtspontle 4 of the Times.) WASHING N,- DECEMBER. Since my last letter there hasheen no military or naval event of importance, though we are all living in hopes of something happening aeon. The ex citement caused by the arrest of Mews. Mason and Slidell is dying away, as people hasi made up their minds either that it was quite right or that England will do nothing in the matter. If thetiesolutions of the House of Representatives be 4 A ,- ~.,... • • , Isy the President, the Confederate " ArnbeCia • ors," as they were called when they were arrested, will be placed in felons' cells, and it need not be added, as they are both old men, that they will not long survive the severities of a Northern climate at this, time of year in infamous confinement. The ground of this proposition is that Colonel Corcoran and Mr. Wood, taken prisoners at Manassas, have been confined in a similar way by order of the Confede rate Government. But it must be remembered that this act of the hostile Cabinet was intended as retaliation for the treatment of officers and seamen of the Confederate navy, who had been tried and sentenced for piracy, and that Colonel Corcoran, 1 Mr. Wood, and others were chosen by lot and placed, man for man, in close confinement under the peine forte et lure administered to the Confederate prisoners, with the threat that if the sentence on them were carried out similar punishments could be inflicted on the Federal prisoners set apart as hostages. The North will. provoke some desperate effort to retaliate again, and as the war goes on it will assume the character of sanguinary vindictive ness, which at first disgraced the conduct of the forces in Virginia. The confiscation proposals will rouse the South to the highest pitch of animosity, and in their anger and despair they will be capable of deeds which may astonish the world rather with sorrow than with admiration. There is no doubt that the development of the naval power of the North is ably and skilfully conducted by the Navy Department, and that the most formidable preparations are being made to crush out all resistance on the seaboard, and to destroy the present commerce, if not the future life, of the revolted Southern cities. How long the Confederate army can maintain itself against the urgent cries of the maritime States to their sons is doubtful, but the Government hero act apparently on the belief that Beauregard% forces will be at last reduced to such a number that M'Clellan can advance against them with every certainty of success in his overwhelming strength and vast superiority of artillery. A new division of the army has been formed at the other side of the Potomac, under Gen. Sumner, who is said to be an officer of conduct and experience, though rather strict, considering the notions entertained by his men as to matters of discipline. There are now eight divisions between Alexandria and the right of the Federalists towards Drainsville, in Virginia; and I am not at all prepared to admit there arc more than 78,000 men there; but there is a force of some 200 field guns, and an increasing force of cavalry across the water, and the camps at this side and up in Maryland aro strongly held. There is a certain sort of movement iu the Commissariat which indicates either uneasiness in reference to supplies, or prepa rations for movement. There is still more fortifying going on. In a ride by a by-path down to the river the other day I came upon three artful little works on the top of a plateau, surrounded by a wood. One was beautifully finished, and armed with five heavy guns. The others were in the course of completion, and gangs of men were working busily on the para pets. The Confederates do not molest small vessels running past the batteries close to the Maryland shore lately, but their forbearance is not to be re lied upon, and now and then " the Page" makes a rush at some luckless schooner and hauls it away into some secluded creek to eat its oysters or devour its cargo. So far as I can judge, there is no chance of an immediate advance, but there are rumours and predictions and reasons going on all over the town to the effect that the General must very soon do something or the North will become angry. The progress which has been made on the coast makes him all the more impatient to clutch the full rewards of all her expenditure, her losses, and her exertions. A great victory by land is needed for the prestige of her arms, but the public voice is silenced by the fear of what would follow a defeat. A false step, an abortive blow in front of Washing ton, might render all her little triumphs in the South worse than abortive, and lay the North open to invasion at the very moment when her superiority was becoming daily more manifest. Slowly, but surely, her teeth are fastening on the Southern coast. The acquisition of Tybee Island gives additional importance to the occupation of Port Royal, and closes up the entrance to Savannah effectually. It also affords a base of operations against Fort Pu laski, which is situate on a sandbank divided from the island by the sea, a little higher up the tideway of the Savannah River. Of the fort itself it may be recollected I gave some description in my account of a visit to that place with Commodore Tattnall, but it is to be presumed that the defences and the armament have been strengthened since that time, and it will prove no easy matter to take it unless by continuous vertical firo and the heaviest horizontal fire at short distances. Tattnall's small equadron of river steamers must be now 'shut up inside, and the abortive attempt he made the other day to force the blockading vessels may have indicated an in tention to get away if he could, or a feint to draw them under the fire of the forts. The inhabitants of the city aro described to be flying in terror, ac companied by their slaves, and the trains are crowded, it is said, by that sort of fugitive property going westward, out of danger. Without admitting to the fullest extent the testimony of the Confe derate General Drayton (brother, by the by, of one of the captains of the United States' squadron which reduced the works at Hilton Head) in favour of the loyalty of the negroes to their masters, there is ample evidence in the correspon dence of the Northen papers that the Federalists w ill gain little or no aid from the blacks, and that the hope of servile insurrections entertained by the Abolitionists are, in the district of Beaufort, at all events, utterly fallacious. To my mind there has been by no means such a display of energy as might have been expected from regularly trained officers of ordinary ability in connection with the attack on the works. I do not speak of the neglect to occupy Beaufort, which is a place of little im portance in a strategic point of view, but of the ex traordinary apathy which seized on the naval and military commanders as soon as the fire of the forts was s il ence d. 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