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CHARLES MATHEWS "A I 11031 E," At Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, Every Eveulbg, at Eight o'clock (except Saturday). Saturday Afternoon at Three. "REMINISCENCES in Eight Chapters." Part I. "The Romance." Part 2. "The Reality." Prices of Admission:—Dress Stalls, ss. ; Dress Circle, Is. ; First Circle, 35. ; Area, 25. ; Gallery, is.; Private Boxes, 41 Is. No extra charge fir booking. Private boxes, stalls, and places may be secured at the Pox-office, which is open daily from 10 till 5, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMB ER 29, 1861, N°. 21,658, STAMPED ....sd. THE AIIIHRICAN OUTRAGE ON OUR assist.-surg., to the Spider; Daniel O'Connor, assist.- surg., to the Trafalgar; Thos. Colahan, assist..surg., to the Revenge; Richard Crabbe, clerk, to the Tra falgar; and J. Allen, assist.-clerk, supernumerary, to the Fisgard. PUBLICATIONS. FLAG. MANCHESTER, Nov. 28. lg.. Lek ncl or, 21. 28. tordi ed to ed at BOW" t, Re" ngton -83, .1.......... .----.----.. N o, of Wand , dloseirl - IR. ROBIN, th e F R EN C H WIZARD. will give at the EGYPTIAN HALL his Soirees Fantastiques, consisting of a new series of Magical Illusions, EVERY I WENING at 8 (Saturday excepted), and Wednesday and .Saturday Afternoon at halt-past 2. Admission, Is. awl • , s. Reserved stall chairs, 3s. ; balcony; 58 . Children under 10 halt-price. 'Pickets at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street ; theprincipal Libraries ; and at the Hall. ARGYLL ROOMS.—GREAT SUCCESS !! The Band and Musical arramz - ements under the clirce liou 01 M. BouncouT, Conductor and principal Cornet. In addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss 2uadrille, and novel ties of List week, A NEW POLKA, by M. Itouleourt, the Solos performed by him and M. Greebe. Admission ls.- 31 anager, M. P. Grenet. pURSUANT to a Demo of the liigh Court of a- Chancery, intid^ in a cause of " RUMBOLD against CAVENDISIT," the Creditors of Ferdinand Baron de Del mar, late of the Avenue de NT:trig - 11y, No. 13, in the City of I:arts, in the Empire of France, Who died on the 27th day of November, ISS , are, by their solicitors, on or before the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, t,t come in and pro ve th e i r Cl a i ms a t th e c h am b ers o f th e 'V iee-Cliancellor Kindersley, at No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lin cola's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be Pe , emptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Thursday, the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, at one o'clock in the at ternoon, at the 8511 chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating ziPon the claims. Dated this first day of November, 1861. M, WILKINSON, 44, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Plaintiff's Solicitor. CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk, SALE OF OLD STORES AT DEVONPORT. Admiralty, Somerset-place, 22 1 Nov., 1861. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING TITE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE ND DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That onWEDNES- Y, the I lth Dec. next, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon, the Admiral Superintendent will put up to Sale in her Majesty's I) ockyard at Devonport, several Lots of OLD STORES, consisting of old Rope, Shakitn;rs, Spun Yarn, Sacking, Ham 'Mocks, Canvas, Hemp Tyers and RakiNgs, Coal Sacks, Lig- Vitm, Cast Iron, Carpeting, &c., &c., all lying in the :said yard. • Persons wishing to view the lots must apply to the Super intendent for Notes of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here and at the yard. LOYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Thoorperated by Royal Charter). Founded in 1824.—Supported, by Voluntary Contributions. PATRoNEss—Her MoPA Gracious Majesty the Queen. PREsIDENT — Vice-Adm.lra' his Grace the Duke of Northum lx,rland,K.G., F.R.S. CUAIRMAN—Thos; Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P., Chair bEPll, man of Lloyd's. 11--CIL'.IIIIIIAN —Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chr•lrman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. T he Committee of Management have to state that, during the past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount ing to ,C6,?58 ls. on the following Life-boat stations: — ENGLAND. I Llandudno, Carnarvonshire. Northumberland. Southport, Lancashire. Salthurn Yorkshire. Lytham,Filey,' Silloth, Cumberland. Caistor, 'Norfolk. SCOTLAND. Aldborourrh, Suffolk. Ayr, Ayrshire. Margate, Kent. Irvine„ 'Calmer, „ Kantyre,'Arrryleshire. elsey, West Sussex. B uc k l e, Banffshire. Grange, Isle of Wight. Banff, tropic l'en za n ce, Cor n wall. St. Andrew's, Fifes ire. North Berwick, 11addingion- I ves, shire. I\r elEquav IRELAND. Glamorganshire. Portrush, Antrim. '4udwyn, .Anrlesey. Tyrella, Dundrum Bay. alkh, . e Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, t erations, and inspection of its numerous Life-bo +ts, Boat !?Duses, and Transporting-earriages, £3,632 ; and £1,550 s texereisinr; the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether al of £11,441. be i ri iirjng th e past year the Life-boats of the Institution have e ) instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following wrecked, Vessels : S r Jnooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose (schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstonc Brig Pallas, of Shields .. • • Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. Schooner Catherine, of Newry .• Barque Niagara, of Shields .. A Barfre of Teignmouth . • • • Brig i3eorge and James, of London 1314, Zephyr, of Whitby • • Cable Honour, of Cullercoats •• Schooner Eliza of North Shields .. Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Te4.rnmoutli Brig Scotia, of Sunderland Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .• brig Ann, of Myth oloop Hope, of Dublin .. • • Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth . Barque Vermont, of ITalilax, IT.S. . B elmoner William Keith, of Carnarvon i:rig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis Steam Dredge, at Newhaven *Seitooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee 5, ,,,h00ner Rose, of LNii Brig - Prodroma, of ntockton Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough triLt'anfine Freia, of Konigsberg Brigantine Liana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloueeste'r, of South Shields .. 1 .. 9 .. 2 .. 6 .. 5 .. 8 .. 3 .. .. 2 .. 5 .. 3 .. 9 .. 6 .. 5 .. 11 .. 7 .. 6 .. 7 .. 7 Total .. ..210 v•,, P°l ‘ these and other Life-boat services the Institution has a i' l ,!cci £9OB Bs. 4d. as re cards. It has also granted rewards litin. to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons , by 6 ,72 r-boa cA from a a and watery other grave sean on the making Coasts a total of the of 455 p!hafted ersons u•L - "gdorn. bu t enon ha the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti the on ve also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of folio wing w•ng Vessels : , b rig Lgvely Nelly, of Seaham•u rigaratine Nugg,et, of Bideford • • •• 5 Schooner Prospect, of Berwick .. 6 Sl , • • • • 3 -lop Thomas and Jane. of St. Ives • • • • brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• •• •• •• 8 ;S chooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo 'Plat Cymraes, of Beaumaris . • .. .. 2 Schooner William, of Morecambe .. 5 smack Gipsy, of Newry .. 4 Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston. .. .. 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. 8 Schooner Williain, of Liverpool .. 5 l ugger Nimrod, of Castletown 11-,4 g Providence, of Shields 8 b r.,ig Mayflower, of Newcastle crumner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. 4 Brigßrig San Spirid , one, of Galamide .. 2 _ S chooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna 8 -wrench Brig La Jenne Marie Therese .. • • Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough 1 5 7 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewa ter Ship Danube, of Belfast Bch ooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4 brig St. Michel, of Marans .. 8 Spanish Barque Primers de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. 1 Schooner lFlurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and. crew) •• •• •• •• .• •• 4 Brig' Anne. of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel and 6 Barque Frederick, of Dublin 1 Barque Peace, of London .. .. 2 , • Total .. • . .- —2OO TPublic cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts —"v being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship :wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at 4 1 . ° Present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions ,ne e Society has made within the past few years, it has now Hundred and Fifteen Life-boats under its management, 'or the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency. humanell ermanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its mission is to be perpetuated. I Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankf u lly re ceived by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard et ; Messrs. Coutts and Co, 59, Strand ; STesars. llerries, Parquhar, and Co., St. James's-street, London ;by a 1 the Ilankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 11, John -street, Adelphi, London, W.C. Payments may be made by Cheques or by Post-office Orders Crossed), to Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from sell-pollution, "cesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in et ructions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effect s are p ermanen t. It is acknowledged by medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. thTr u s e t c . ess in every c ase i s as certain as that water quenches rtr s Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full ,l . ons for use, at 110., or four quantities in one for 335.. fl r wtl . l be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, eceipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Front Cck Patent Medi AncWarehouse, 229, Strand, London. (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRWE ~,, Envous AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &o. `.! S L Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, 14 a sealed envelope price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, and ae llt post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, MANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE t, MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions e - ,„: effect Restoration to Health and Vigour. lly Dr. J. L. 'TO, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. St iII TRODUCTORY CONTENTS A erE it :on the Physiological p e ture and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. Early IL—Causes of Spermatorrinva and Impotence; Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. F CH APTER lII.—A Review of the various Dlsqnalifications olparriaze whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the es of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. p o z*ArrEns IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of n,.orr B hcea and Syphilis. hook concludes with numerous varied and interesting L t i B, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive alp REVIEWS OF TILE WORK. sh o „ 111 :„tts on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and iBd — ' De In the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," J r t tarek 1856. btu ue author has conferred a great boon by publishing this Via: W ork, in which is described the source of those diseases old Produce decline in youth or more frequently premature ag Daily Telegraph," March 27, 185 A. II . 8 p rof 'n , work, which for twenty years has stood the test of and esElonal criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain bill ra ni Patbising manner on the various disqualifications Pediments arising from hervous excitement and de ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and trusses itPub wl be found v and ."—Record. will be found valuable and useful."—ltecord. rUbllShd by J. aluabl Allen, e 20, Warwick useful Lane, Pater noster-row ; Mann to , 10, Cornh L 11 ° 11 rs of C Onsultatiou-10 3 and 6to 8; ,9u il ndays, 10 till 2. DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION. Price Is. ; post-free, 13, or sealed ends, 20 stamps, with En graving's and Cases. May be had of Mann and Co., 33, Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. 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" The Post-office Turkish Bath', 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverwell has already established the reputation of an able physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy 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 the visitor. . . We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, it is on coming out of a Turkish Bath."—Era, Oct. 13, MR. On the news reaching here yesterday afternoon that the Americans had stopped an English mail steamer and taken the Confederate Commissioners from on board there was a strong feeling of indig nation expressed, especially among gentlemen meet ing on the Exchange. This feeling had not under gone much abatement this morning; but a calmer feeling took possession of the public mind as the day wore on, and after the question had been discussed with the light thrown on it by the press. There are a great many reckless men who would at once urge on a war to redress the alleged insult to the British flag ; but this is by no means the general feeling, and among some of the leading merchants the first ebul lition of anger is giving place to anxiety lest the Government should too precipitately be disposed in favour of a resort to arms. Vim the Times.) Wherever two or three men met together rester• day the single topic of conversation was the recent outrage that has been offered by the Federal Go vernment of America to the British flag. That it was an outrage all must admit. The manner was one of unusual insult. The slotted guns, the swarming boats' crews, the violence, the refusal to afford any reason for the seizure of the passengers taken away, were all unusual, and, as we believe, unprecedented in cases of the exercise of that right of search which undoubtedly belongs to a belli gerent nation. However clear the right may be to fearch neutral merchant ships in time of war, this is a right always odious in its exercise, and which has always been jealously watched by those who have been the subjects of it. It has its limits, which have been clearly defined in a hundred Treaties. With what formalities it shall be done, at what distance it shall be effected, and what shall be deemed contraband, have often formed the occasion of war, have constantly been the subject of conventions, and have made the staple of debates wherein our greatest statesmen and jurists have exhausted all the learning of the text_ writers, and have cited all the precedents which history can afford. It has always been a point of honour with every high-spirited nation to confine this obnoxious interference within the very closest limits, and to resent any departure from the strictest observance of those rules within which an inter ference of the national flag brings no disgrace. Nine-tenths of the public who read yesterday of the attack of the American frigate upon our mail steamer, were perhaps less startled by the fact itself than they were by the subsequent intelligence which it was our duty to afford, that there was a prima facie belligerent right in the Federal Govern ment which might justify the act of visit and of search. In commenting, however, upon the facts of tille case yesterday, we expressed strong doubts whether the circumstances of the seizure did not put it beyond the pale of international law. Admitting, as wo must most fully admit, the absolute right of a belligerent ship of war to visit and search a neu tral merchant ship, the question still occurred-- whether, after such visit and search had been made, the belligerent had a right to treat the neutral as having violated her neutrality and to take out of her such persons and things as he might see fit to adjudge to be contraband ? Even if this proposition could have found advocates, a further question- still re mained—whether, without discovering any mer chandise or despatches contraband of war, passen gers having no belligerent character could be held to be liable to capture in a neutral ship on the high seas ? Cautiously abstaining from hazarding any opinion upon questions of such great import, we were content to indicate the difficulties and to watt for some authoritative solution. We are now in a position to state that the depositions of the officers on board iba Trent have been submitted to the law officers of the Crown, and that their opinion has been given to the effect that the proceedings of the American frigate are not to be justified by the law of nations. It is, we understand, the opinion of these jurists that the right of the Federal Government, acting by its officers, was confined to visiting and searching the mail packet ; that, if any men or j things believed to be contraband of war had been found on board of her, the proper course was to take her into a port and submit the question to a prize court, which would have heard evidence and argu ments on both sides, and would have decided the case according to precedents and authorities. It is not our province to enforce or modify a de claration which comes from the recognised source, and by which the Government must in all cases of this kind be bound ; but we may say that the pro position seems so clear that it requires only to be stated to obtain universal assent. If this be not so, for what reason have we prize courts, and Admi ralty judges, and codes of law and libraries of Ad miralty decisions ? If the lieutenant of a frigate or the coxswain of a boat's crew is to decide while in forcible possession of a neutral ship what he will take as contraband, and what he will leave ; if an officer while his armed men are swarming round him upon the deck of his prize is to determine whom he will take away prisoner, and to whom he will please to grant leave to proceed, what need have we for those careful institutions by which we erect tribunals which are, so to say, denationalised, and which are bound to decide, without favour or partiality, between the Queen's cruisers and the meanest foreigner who complains of injustice ? The choice of learned and independent Admiralty judges has been a stipulation inserted in very early trea ties, and a suspicion of partiality to his own coun trymen would touch the honour of one of our prize court judges as nearly as a charge of corruption. Of what use is all this if any valorous lieutenant, with his drawn cutlass, is to stand upon a ship's deck and decide all questions of contraband and nationality offhand ? If such a rule could pre vail, or if such outrages could be submitted to, there would be an end for ever to the freedoni of the seas, or to the safety of neutrals. Every trumpery belligerent Power, although possessing perhaps only a fleet which could be annihilated in a week, would be able to plunder the commerce of the world. Many insolent pretensions have been made by belligerents over neutrals, and none have been at times more insolent than ourselves; but in our most haughty days, when Selden was assert ing our absolute dominion over our surrounding seas, or when the Northern Powers were banding together for protection against our exactions, we never ventured to put forward such a doctrine as this, or to insist that our naval officers should per form in a summary way the functions of Admiralty Judges. Upon this point alone the seizure of the Trent was an unjustifiable outrage. We are inclined ourselves to favour the opinion, which has many supporters, that even if the legal course had been pursued, and if the Trent had been taken into port and submitted to the arbitrament of a Prize Court, she must have been dismissed, with compensation for the detention. Even if despatches had been found in her, which was not the case, it has never yet been decided that the despatches which pass be tween an enemy and a neutral Government are contraband of war ; nor has it ever been claimed as a belligerent right to cut off neutral Powers from all diplomatic intercourse with an enemy. Such a claim could not stand examination upon the grounds of principle or public policy. We are content, however, that the question should rest upon the mare narrow, but indisputable ground, on which our Law Officers put it, that it is contrary to International Law for the officer of an armed cruiser to make himself a judge at sea. Such being the legal bearings of this outrageous proeeedinc, the question remains—what steps we must take to remove the stain which has been cast upon our flag. When in former days the British ship of war Leopard unlawfully seized deserters on board the Chesapeake, the British Government, on complaint being made, disavowed the act, recalled the Admiral from the station, and expressed regret for the bloodshed which had been occasioned. On a more recent occasion, when the Prince de Join ville forcibly took a pilot out of a British ship, the King of the French felt so acutely the wrong which had been done in his name that he disavowed the deed, and, we believe, wrote an autograph letter expressing his regret. Among civilized nations, and in countries where a high sense of honour rules, the men who hold the government in their hands think it is as essential to their own fame as to that of those whom they have offended that reparation should be swift and ample. What the Government of the Federal States will do remains to be seen. The Cabinet meets to-day to consider what acti shall be taken upon the opinion of the Law Officers. We do not wish to speculate as to what steps t)aey may consider necessary. If, however, it shall up pear to them so clear as it appears to us that Messrs. Mason and Slidell were wrongfully taken when under the protection of the British flag, there would seem to be but one reparation which is adequate to the affront. They must be restored With a sufficient apology. (Front 11i Horning rose.) When we yesterday announced the forcible seizure by the Commander of the Sari Jacinto of Messrs. Slidell and Mason from on board the Trent, we gave it as our opinion that " this proceeding was not in accordance with international law," and we stated that the facts of the case had been laid before the legal advisers of the Crown. Our opinion has proved correct, for it has been decided that the action of Captain Wilks, of the San Jacinto, was unjustifiable. He had no right to arrest peaceful passengers sailing under the British flag, and the deed he has committed amounts to a flagrant violation of the code of nations and a direct insult to this country. Under these circumstances, we need hardly point out that the Gevernment will lose no time in seek ing for the prompt and complete reparation which it is its duty to require. In this course it will assuredly receive the unanimous approbation of public opinion. In a question such as this, where our feelings of hospitality and our national dignity of all parties will in the vindication a u re t e so t to support t , a h t e t a Governmentc ke d , me n of legal right and the honour of England. Wo are unwilling to place the worst construction upon the outrage committed by Captain Wilks, and to look upon it as an intentional affront on the part of the Government of the United States. We yet hope that that Government will at once dis avow the act of their officer, make suitable apologies for it, restore the persons of the gentlemen arrested, and, in fact, make every compensation in their power. Wild as are the words, written and spoken, of Mr. Seward, and reckless as American policy not unfrequently is, we can hardly suppose that the disposed to accept a N wa o r rt w he it r h n E St n a g t l e a s n a d r . e seriously We have in the American waters, what with the Mexican expedition and the ships already there, a force amounting to not far short of one thousand guns, which we could largely increase with the greatest ease and rapidity. In one month we could sweep all the San Jacintos from the seas, blockade the Northern ports and turn to a direct and speedy issue the tide of the war now raging. This is so obvious that we find it almost impossible to sup pose that the Cabinet of Washington can commit an act so madly suicidal as to reject our earnest and positive demands. However humiliating to the arrogance, and displeasing to the vanity, of some sections of politicians, the people of the Northern States must see that there is no other course open to their Government, or consistent with a really honourable national h C stract,., L1..0 with the requirements of this country and of ju.stteo. (Fi om the Manchester Guardian.) It is clear that the American Government are de termined to test to the utmost the truth of the adage that it takes two to make a quarrel. Were England only a tenth part as desirous to break the blockade of the cotton ports as it is asserted to be by the mendacious press of the United States, we need not fear to be long without a case which, in ordinary circumstances, would be amply sufficient for excuse, if not for justification. Matters progress at such a rate that the vague apprehensions of yesterday as to the provocative disposition of President Lincoln and his advisers become simple realities to-day. Less than a week ago it was reported that a Federal ship of war had recently been lurking about the British Channel for the purpose of arresting on board the West Indian mail steamer .a couple of American passengers, assumed to be coming to this country on a political mission obnoxious to the Government of Washington. The first danger of our having to deal with so extraordinary an offence was alleged to have been happily avoided by the fact that the mail steamer, which, by the way, was wholly innocent of carrying Ulla freight imputed to her, had slipped unperceived past the James Adger, and got into port unmolested. Nevertheless, we were told that the design had not been abandoned, and that an attempt would probably be made to execute it upon the La Plata, which was due et Southampton on the 28th or 29th of this month. It is necessary to recall these reports in order to perceive that the story which appeared almost too wild to be credited a few days ago is sub stantially verified by events which had already happened. The La Plata has arrived without fall ing in with any vessel disposed to question her right to an uninterrupted passage across the high seas. She has not had the perilous honour of bring ing Messrs. Slidell and Mason, commissioners from the Confederate States of North America to Eng land and France ; but she brings news of them, showing that the determination of the United States' Government to cut short their voyage, by fair means or foul, had been rightly augured, and that the contemplated aggression upon the British flag has been executed with entire success. The intelligence of this remarkable proceeding has been read ere this throughout the length and s th in indigna e upper hand. It t b i r o e n ad a t n h a o c f o E nt n e g m la p n t d s w tr i u t g h g f l e e el f i o n r g is due to the malicious forethought of the American Government, or to the thorough knowledge of his business shown by their representative, the com mander of the San Jacinto, to acknowledge that nothing which could add to the insulting character of the outrage appears to have been omitted. Such are the circumstances which Lord Palmer. ston's Government will now have to consider with due reference to the requirements of the national dignity and the acknowledged principles of public law. We refrain from attempting to pronounce on the delicate question whether the established right of a belligerent to search neutral vessels sus pected on good groLnds of conveying contraband of war to the enemy can be extended to include a similar power over vessels in which diplomatic agents are believed to have taken passage. The Queen's proclamation warns her subjects, under fear of the penalties of the Foreign Enlistment Act, against " carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms, military stores, or materials for the use or service of either of the contending par ties." It is observable, however, that the de spatches of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, even if they could be supposed to contain any secrets of interest—w h ich is manifestly unlikely—do not seem even t) have been asked for, for we are told that all the papers belonging to them have been brought on by the La Plata. 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It is certain, after wnat has happeined, that this point will be investi gated with a fellness of anxiety and minuteness of research extremely likely to correct any hasty im pressions whi eh may be formed with regard to it by unlearned persons. But, uhatever may be the result of this inquiry, the law officers of the Crown, though they should say without contradiction that the proceed:mg which we have narrated is strictly according to law s will have extreme difficulty in inducing the English people to acquiesce in it. In the, first place, the practical annoyance of the thing is intolerable. If the belligerents stand, as we pro fe on an equal footing as to claim on our assist ance, there is clearly nothing to prevent the Sumter, the Nashville, or some other Confederate ship of war, from stopping and overhauling ttie Cunard steamers on every inward or outward voyage, inas much as it may always be assumed that couriers, or more important officials, are on their way by that line to or from the Government of Washington. But again, by what Government is it that the right of search, supposing it to be capable of extension to these unprecedented instances, is so rigorously upheld ? By that Power which has always refused to admit it, even in cases allowed by the practice of all civilised nations; that Government which went to war with us in 1812 rather than recognise in us the slightest title to inquire for deserters from the British navy who had taken refuge on board their ships ; and that people who tumultu ously approved the conduct of ono of their naval officers who, in 1850, resisted, by open force, the attempt of an Austrian frigate to get possession of a Hungarian who had placed himself under the American flag in the harbour of Smyrna. We can not misunderstand the meaning of such provocation as we now receive from a country thus committed to the widest interpretation of the rights of neu trality. Whatever may be the immediate result to which it is designed to lead, it is deliberately irri tating and insulting. Such experiments are very dangerous. They touch us on two points on which we are particulary sensitive—our freedom of action on the seas, and our reputation for political hospi tality. These feelings are so perilous to meddle with that the United States cannot be too strongly warned against abusing the occasional licence for impertinence conferred on them by their present weakness and distress. (Fronz Mo Birmingham Daily Post.) Hitherto American vapourings as to the getting-up of a war with England,or with some other European Power, as a wholesome remedy for disunion, have been held as mere ravings, or as empty threats em ployed to gain a week's popularity. A New York mob was agreeably titillated by the idea of " lick ing the Britishers " without being called upon for the men and money necessary for that some what hazardous attempt. We certainly never cre dited Messrs. Lincoln and Seward with such a de plorable amount of audacious folly as to suppose that they would sanction or command an outrage on the high seas upon a British mail steamer, car rying, though not actually commanded by, a cap tain of the navy holding a responsible position on board, and sailing from a neutral port—an out rage which any nation would be justified in con sidering as a casus belli, if not tantamount to a declaration of war. Yet this is precisely what has been done, not ou the spur of the moment by some vehement Yankee captain, ignorant of the com monest rudiments of the law of nations—not in some out-of-the-way creek or bay on the Southern coast, but advisedly and deliberately; and, to make matters worse, as far as we can learn at present, the indignity was offered to the British flag in our own waters. It remains to be seen how this will be endured by the British Government. A strong pressure will be brought to bear, for F.nelishmen can Dot up wtt❑ muster, but not with blows. A meeting was at onto called in Liverpool, and perhaps to-morrow will witness many more, insisting tbet Government should at once take the matter up and vindicate the insulted dignity of England. This can only be done by the dismissal of the aggressor and the liberation of the prisoners ; and we doubt whether the popular frenzy will allow Mr. Seward to do so, even were he inclined. A challenge has therefore been deliberately thrown down to this country, and if it should come to an issue the con flict will be remembered when the United States are but a tradition of the past. IHE NAVY. The decision of the Lords of the Admiralty in the case of Mr. It. Harvey, Master Commander of the African, paddlewheel steamer, who was some few days since suspended by direction of their lordships on the complaint of the directors of the Medway Steampacket Company, at Chatham, that he was in the habit of towing merchant vessels from the Nore to Chatham when proceeding to the latter port on Admiralty business, was promulgated at Chatham yesterday afternoon. The Lords of the Admiralty direct that, in consequence of Mr. Harvey's long service and good conduct, he is to be released from his suspension, and to resume his duty as Master Commander of the African. He is, however, to be deprived of an emolument from Government pilot age for the next six months, and on any further complaint being made more severe measures will be adopted. The Admiralty also direct strict orders to be given that no Government steamers are to tow private vessels unless special authority is given them to do so. Admiralty orders were received at Chatham yes. terday directing the Resolute, one of the Arctic ex ploring ships, which, after being abandoned, was discovered and presented to the Admiralty by the United States' Government, to be fitted as a naval transport, to take the place of the Diligence. The Resolute, on being received from the American Government, was dismantled in Chatham harbour, where she has ever since bean lying in ordinary. The hired transport C. S. Lemon, Capt. Camp bell, the arrival of which at Spithead from Hong Kong, with military and naval invalids, was an nounced in 7 lte Sun of yesterday, has received orders to proceed to Woolwich, and was expected to leave Spithead this morning. Her naval invalids, 28 in number, were landed from her by Govern ment steamer yesterday. The military invalids, 190, from various regiments, will proceed in the ship to Woolwich. The officers on board comprise —Mr. Parkes, R.N., Admiralty agent ; Capt. Bald win, 31st Regiment, in military charge ; Mr-Lloyd, 67th Regiment ; Quartermaster Ketyles ; Dr. Kinahan, 44th Regiment ; Mr. White, Military Store Department ; and Assist.-Surg. Mackay, let Royals, in medical charge. 14 deaths occurred on the passage home, which has been retarded owing to a predominance of light winds. Nearly 250 extra hands—shipwrights, black smiths, and joiners—will bo entered at Portsmouth Dockyard in the early part of the ensuing week for special employment upon the iron frigate Black Prince. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : — R. L. Canney, chief en g i neer, to the Asia, additional, for the Sharpshooter; C. A. Bydder, chief engineer, to the Asia, addi tional, for the Inflexible ; E. Clements, chief engi neer, to the Satellite; W. Waterfiekt, engineer, to the Spider ; J. Ritchie, engineer, to the Satellite ; John Jolly, in the Hannibal, promoted to engineer; J. Singer, first•class assist.-engineer, to the Satel lite; W. H. Green, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Sheldrake; G. L. Thomson, first-class assist.-engi neer, to the Spider; E. W. Thomas and R. I. Han cock, second-class assist.-engineers, to the Sheld rake ;Wm. Kelly, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Satellite; J. It, Beer, acting second-class assist.- engineer, to the Spider; J. Edmonds, acting second assisteelig mar, to the Satellite ; Thomas Hamilton, 146Pist;-surg-,to the Slieldrakc; James F. Fitzgerald, THE ARM}. The season having terminated in which the none commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engi neers at Chatham can be employed in the construc tion of the various descriptions of fieldworks, bat teries, &c., the whole of the Royal and Indian Engineers hitherto engaged in these operations will be occupied during the winter months in destroying and levelling, with some few exceptions, the entire series of gun and mortar sunken and half•su.nken batteries and mines, together with the galleries, parallels, flying saps, and other earthworks erected by the officers and men during the past summer, in order that a fresh course of instruction may be ac tively commenced as soon as the weather will per mit in the early spring, Under the new regulations introduced by Col. Harness, C. 8., since his appoint ment as Director of the Royal Engineer Establish ment, a considerably increased number of officers and men have been thoroughly instructed in the science of fortification and practical sapping and mining, in a much shorter time than has hitherto been the case. Several hundred men of the Royal and Indian Engineers will be ready to be transfer red from the companies at head-quarters to service at foreign stations by the ensuing spring. Yesterday nearly 100 non-commissioned officers and men of different cavalry and infantry corps, the whole of whom had been inspected on Friday last, at St. Mary's Barracks, by a Board of the Commis sioners of Chelsea Hospital, were discharged from the Chatham invalid establishment, on account of either the unfitness for further service or their period of service having expired. OUR IRON-CLAD FRIGATES. When the Emperor of the French first began building his iron fleet it was thought by many shrewd observers in this country that he made rather a false step in the attempt to secure prepon derance for his navy by the use of the new mate rial, for that, from the immense resources of our great private yards, and our unquestioned superiority in all relating to ironwork, it would be seen that England could turn out six such ships quicker, better, and cheaper than three could be built in France. Not more than three years have elapsed since that time, and already the prediction is fulfilled. It reflects no ordinary credit on the skill of our manufacturers and naval architects that they have even now over taken the long start France had of us in this re spect ; that while the French dockyards are still feeling their way, experimenting on kinds of plates and forms of ships, and turning out a succes sion of almost failures at prodigious cost, we have already sent afloat two of the finest, fastest, and most invulnerable ships in the world. It is a very general but a very great error, however, to suppose that all our iron frigates are Warriors and Black Princes. We did not jump at once to perfection, and all our ironsides, except the two we have named, represent more or less strongly the successive stages of failure through which we have passed to success. The Resistance and Defence are neither steam rams nor iron frigates. Unwieldy in form and slow in speed, they can never be safely used for more than floating batteries. Fortunately, however, they are built entirely of iron, instead of, like the first float ing batteries, iron over oak, and the Defence and Resistance, therefore, are likely to be as strong a century hence as they are now, while the batteries built in 1855 are some of them already broken up, and the rest rotten. The Hector and Valiant, now building at Westwood and Bailie's and Napier's, are as great improvements on the Defence and Resis tance as the Warrior and Bidck Prince have been improvements upon them all. To take a single in stance of the rapidity with which science and en gineering skill are developing to the utmost the powers of these tremendous ships, look at the War rior and Black Prince. These are sister ships, alike to a rivet, and on the trial cruise of the first named she attained, and with wind and steam maintained, a speed of 17-1 knots an hour, or 20 statute miles— vary nearly the speed of a Parliamentary train. Yet, from the experience of the Warrior, it is said that Mr. Penn already sees where he may introduce such modifications into the engines of the Black Prince as will give her nearly half a knot an hour more speed than her great sister. But even with these results, which surpass the most sanguine ex pectation, we are not content to stand still. The four improved Warriors ordered and now building—the Achilles, at Chatham, the Minatour, at the Thames Ironworks, the Captain, at Mr. Laird's, and the Northumberland, at Mr. Mare's—are each and all of them to be larger, longer, stronger, and, swifter than any that have gone before. In fact, when w• look back on our brief but vigorous com petition with the French, we find that our first attempts at iron ships were in many important particulars below the standard from which the French started with La Gloire. But the difference is that the French have adhered to their standard, while we have constantly striven for improvements and more improvements; and the result is that, :so far as our present knowledge goes, we have:attained perfection, while our neigh bours are comparatively still drudging at the bot tom of the form. That this statement of the merits of the two countries in iron ships is perfectly well founded we think we can show. Only a few weeks since one or two of our most eminent shipbuilders, thoroughly conversant with ironsides, visited some of the French dockyards to see what was doing there. They were allowed to inspect some of the iron-clad frigates building, all the works connected with which were advancing much more slowly than they had been led to expect. Those which they inspected were merely wooden ships plated, or to be plated, with apparently little, if at all, more than three-inch iron. They were mostly ves sels of from 3,000 to 3,500 tons ; in fact, frigates and two-deckers cut down and much strengthened in their scantling, to enable them to carry armour from end to end. From the want of great tonnage, a flat floor, and large displacement, it was evident that they would be so immersed by the weight of their armour as to bring their portsills dangerously near the water, and render their guns all but use less in a seaway. Nor is this their only fault, for their wooden frames not having the strength of our iron vessels, which are as rigid as bolts, work so much when steaming in a seaway as almost to work them to pieces, and make docking, and fresh caulking necessary after every gale. But the worst of all their defects is that the iron and the oak do not go well together, and we may infer, from the causes being alike in both cases, that the framework of the French ships will rot as quickly as our own floating batteries did—that is to say, within some eight or ten years. These defects are very well known to the Admiralties of other Govern ments besides our own, and the result is that the continental powers.are coming here to have their iron frigates built, instead of going to France, and thus, through tho medium of our private firms, encouraging still further the monopoly we have almost gained in the manufacture of these great ships of war. Iron war vessels, of various sizes and thickness of armour, are now building on the Thames for the Russian,Danish, and Peruvian Governments, and it is said that in a short time Spain intends to order two frigates of the same class. If anything were needed to show that the French are still at a loss to make really good armour plates, it would be found in the recent offer of the authorities at Toulon to the Thames Ironworks. When the great experiments at Shoeburyness against the Warrior target, and to which we shall refer pre) sently, had proved th, aide of Ihe ship generally were pra, iallailnvlaterable to the fire of artillery, no matter how concentrated, the Thames Company were offered their own terms to manufacture 1,000 tons of similar plates for the dockyard at Toulon. This proposition the Thames Company declined, alleging, truly, that they had already as many orders of the kind in hand for our Government as they could compass. Had only one or two plates been ordered, it would have meant nothing more than that the French were about to experiment on them as we had done ourselves. Bat with the Protectionist leanings of French dock yard officials, it is not too much to presume that after the trial at Shoeburyness they must have known that their own armour plates were vastly inferior to the Warrior's when they went the ex treme length of trying to get for themselves no less than a thousand tons of such plates from an English firm. The experiments upon tl.e target, the success of which was so unequivocally endorsed by our neighbours, took place at Shoeburyness, in the pre sence of the Lords of the Admiralty and a large number of naval and military officers, scientific gen tlemen, and others. The target was a perfect section of the Warrior's broadside, 20 feet long and 10 high, made by the Thames Iron Company, of exactly the same materials as the Warrior itself. This was erected at 200 yards distance from a battery of six guns—two solid 68 pounders, three of Armstrong's 100-pounders, and one 120-pounder shunt gun. Every one knew before the experiments commenced that such a target would stand an immense amount of pounding, and the chief curiosity was evinced to see how the teak hacking would support the plates, and, above all, how the rivets in the ribs would re sist the tremendous concussion. No one, however, was prepared for the astounding success of the re sult that did ensue, and which showed itself at the close of the experiments, during.which the target wassubjected to every conceivable ordeal of artillery practice, yet survived comparatively uninjured, and practically as invulnerable as-ever. The guns were fired in volleys of threes, and fours, and sixes simul taneously. Their shot were concentrated upon white spots painted on what were supposed to be the parts most likely to yield. On these the fire of the most tremendous missiles-100-pounders, 120-pounders, and even 200-pounder bolts—were directed, with a force and weight that seemed irresistible ; but in vain. The shot flew off in ragged splinters, hissing through the air, the iron plates became almost red hot under the tremendous strokes, and the whole target rang like a huge gong, but nothing more. As a rule, the 68-pounders left their mark in mas sive dents more deeply than the 100-pounder Arm strongs, but the live percussion shell of either did little more than discolour the plates with the smoke of their impotent explosions. Two discharges, each of three 2001 b. cast-iron bolts, were fired in succes sion at two different spots, but though of course the plates had been often struck before in the same places, the additional injury was comparatively trifling. A grand final salvo was given with all the six guns, trained three on each of the already bat tered spots. As the guns were loaded each with 161 b. of powder, this volley, in fact, was equal to a 600 lb. shot fired at the target with 100 lb. of powder. The effect of this tremendous trial was to make 'a gap on one side of the target 15 inches long and five deep, driving the iron, in fact, almost into the teak. Some bolts of the plates were also loosened, and the plates themselves began to crack under their long ordeal. Yet, strange to say, even under this the strong teak backing was still undisturbed, and not even the paint on the rivets had started. In fact, as representing the side of a ship, she would still have been perfectly water-tight and uninjured. The tonguing and grooving by which the edges of the plates are dovetailed into each other had given way, as we always maintained it would, and some of the plates themselves had started outwards as much as an inch and a half. But the target, as a target, was as good as ever. There is only one possible condition in which the Warrior could be placed to be exposed to a concentrated fire as severe as that to which her section was subjected at Shoe buryness, and that would be if she stranded within 200 yards of the guns of a powerful fortress. Even then, in such a last extremity, we are very much inclined to believe the Warrior would be quite as formidable to the fort as the fort to her. The practical retzult ov this gland experiment has been to show that nothing is gained by backing up the armour plates with such-a tremendous thick ness of teak as 20 inches. It is found that prac tically 10 inches will do as well as 20, and that the saving thus effected in the reduction of weight will allow another inch thickness of iron to be used in the plates themselves. Thus the " improved Warriors," now building, instead of 41 inches of armour and 20 inches of teak, are to have 10 inches of teak and 51 of iron—an addition to the metal covering which is really unnecessary, as they are already invulnerable, in the most perfect and literal sense of the term, to all the efforts of artillery. Be fore speaking of the intended Warriors, however, we must refer for a moment to those we have got. In their construction, the Admiralty very wisely abandoned mere routine, except on two points, where it was rigidly adhered to—in the rig and the number of the crew ; and it is exactly in these two points that the Warrior is deficient. Routine per sists in considering this tremendous vessel—larger than three line of-battle ships, and a match for half a dozen—as an ordinary frigate, and so she has only an ordinary frigate's crew of 600 men. Had she been a vessel of the Hero class—that is to say, nearly two-thirds smaller—she would have been manned with 850 or 900 men ; but being more than double the size of the largest three-decker in the navy, she gets 600. Every one knows how this grievous disparity tells on the crew ; how, no matter what the weather or the hour, all hands must be on deck to perform manoeuvres which the watch of a line-of-battle ship can do with ease. In fact, the Warrior has more than a line-of-battle ship's sails and spars, with less than half the num ber of men to handle them that are considered absolutely necessary in a ship 3,000 tons instead of 7,000. All hands would be a whole day holy stoning the Warrior's deck, and it will not keep clean an hour longer than a smaller vessel's. In short, unless the Admiralty want to make these ships unpopular with the sailors, by exacting from their crews an amount of work out of all proper. tion to their number, they will allow them the crew which their size and importance require. With regard to the rig, all practical ship-builders were most strongly of opinion that she ought to have had a fourth mast, and the late experimental cruises of the Warrior have proved the correctness of their judgment. Her mainmast is so far aft that the power exerted by her sails is most disadvan tageously placed, and the result, it is said, is that the Warrior is rather unmanageable under canvas alone. We believe that these facts are so well known to the Admiralty that a special rig, giving them four masts and more fore and aft sails, will be adopted for the ships now building. T sHE _GETIIERN ARmy. According to accounts from Washington the South ern army is composed of 460,000 men, This calculatio n i s b ase d on th o annual report othe Comptroller-General of Georgia, just puplished .That Statp has now in the service of the Confederacy 40 reolment., 4 which, assuming each regiment to be full and containing 1,01,000 men, would be one out of every 15 of the free popula tion, The other Confederate States have apparently fur • nished the following numbers :—Eastern Virginia, 54,000; North Carolina, 45,300 ; Georgia, 40,000 ; Alabama, 31,000; Texas, 27,000; Mississippi, 27,100; Tennessee, 57,30 3 ; Louisiana, 23,600 ; Arkansas, 22,030 ; South Carolina, 20,800; Florida, 5,400; total, 337,000, which does not in clude the troops furnished by Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, amounting to about 100,000 men. By the (*urns of 1860 the fighting population, or males between a mil 18 and 45, in the Confederate States are upwards of lion, so that it is reasonably supposed that half the number are e u t u t d h e e r a l r i nnies: frigates, Tli e S eulteheeprsn war, of g r egular barrtigns):,fiitnsetl u u u d i d n g e e c s e b t i , s . class steam sloops, &c., amounts to 107 vcsvls, wilew with purchased and chartered ones the grand tc,tal 1, Liva pool Mercury. [A D VERTISEMEN• `T•1 —Holloway's Ointment and Pills,— The scrofulous and consumptive will find in these noble remedies the meaas of casting out the bad hurt - fouls which originate and prolong their sufferings. The Oint should be well rubbed twice a day upon the skin as near as possible Ito the part affected. It will penetrate and act most wholesomely and energetically on the diseased struc ture. 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