The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

supp:y of contraband of war. Except the reconnois sances to-day by Wadsmith's force, from which I have not heard yet, nothing is doing here. Now and then a vesselruns the blockade at night. The review of last 'Wednesday has provided the greatest portion of the press with matter for com ment and laudation this week. I would there had been more time in my last letter to describe it, for the spectacle was significant, and there was a good deal to note in and about it. Every one is not al hero who has not been killed ; except in America just now. There are heroes of Sumter, of New Orleans, of Pensacola, of Piketown, of Edward's Ferry, of Leesburg, of Big Muddy, and Little Turtle, scattered all over the States. There are even heroes of Manassas and Big Bethel ; and Gen. M'Clellan, whose natural modesty and diffidence must be sadly tried by his flatterers, is already " Young Napoleon" and a " youthful regenerator" —a kind of prodigious Fabius Cunctator. In war, as in oratory, action is a golden rule, if success ful. One way to avoid failure is, not to try it. ,But the " boys," as they are calle d, owin g possibly to the Hibernian influences, are Inabecomig impa tient, and at the review some o f them, told, said they would wait no longer, and would take the field into their own hands. It is, of course, a matter of considerable doubt whether they are not boasting a little when they speak of an unanimous desire to march once more aga i ns t Beauregard, but it would be injus tice to Americans on both sides to suppose they were not ready for any offensive movement which might relieve them from the monotony of camp life. There would be libel in the idea that all those men we saw on Wednesday were not patriots —from the Garibaldini and Blenker's Germans down to the Pennsylvanian Bucktails ; bat it does so happen that these patriots have friends and rela tions in very poor circumstances at home. If not, they are not very willing to invest in Government funds, for they send an immense proportion of their pay home to their families. The whole of the national subscription to the Government, as far as I can learn, is considerably less than £10,000,000 sterling. France, without any such pressure as exists here, was far more patriotic if measured by the money standard, and not by speeches and writings. The winter has suddenly come upon us. Captain Lyons, of her Majesty's ship Racer, is here, and will sail with despatches for the British Consul at Charleston on Wednesday. TRIBAL•AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLANTA TIONS, THANSFER'D WITH WILL *TRUSTEES, BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 w. iv.. C. 92, § 4, ALSO 5 vie. C. 39, § 4, 1842, POPE'S 10s, Q. AN-ENTY, SO S. *ITIN-Jet-samitsaP Lagan' rota ovr-flot-eurni N. N. WalV,murem 24 March--29 Sept. Errant'ra.t, financial Treasury-date of Twe-x-ed Fishery-park Law-sets. CARIBEeQuE-Sachims and Merchants.—For commercial quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the ' placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with ' the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landbnard without a notice of three week's marketplace guarantee of his debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such evil-set persons' to be open to the * *right of search' law as now given up. (Signed) .•• : : • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTIIWORTR, Cl. of Synod, J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701—Re-moder d, 1832-38. • , Sachims—The last Illustrated _London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's carnineA, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arna'rial fword scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, on ' resolution' of its two councils' on Middletone's fons Fodinas -regales,' as of James L's 72-0 New River shares, in London's-1 -plug •key company of Philadelphia, under England's Indian allies, as attested by De'canQ Henry Wotton and Montague—so CAR. 11. Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit t-e of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge in peculiar institution), with the undersigned § Lay-ge'cones as their patrons and advocates' by Q-An-Dnty„ plantation 10ths. See Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London (and Philadelphia 4422), Convention by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. 11, as successor to the 99 years' leases (12 to run), under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Sac°mo Jos. Brant, on the suggestion of old John Adams—whose grandson is now it London—and approved at Philadelphia's Longbro Crt., Gloster, '75 by Atkyns Montague § Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & Co' s, Goldfmith' s-1 N. River proprietary) Steggles Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Florida-semioles and Georgii Cherokee Indians of the coast, and of Ohio, one thousand miles west of the Mis sissippia, lodge-poised-North and South of Mount Plea sant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters, to pre vent their black cattle mixing with the virgin races Hence the Shire-court foundation, on French and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the living representative of the Ashburton boundary com mission, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn in successor as sponsor of Ind. lady 1820—for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of the Texas-hundred' partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-rrench-placet [1562 of Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of the Trent council, for swamping by votes thro' the Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana.'] 'in Crena'rs. - - RESOLUTE In re Trent—The arrest of Slidell, Mason, and others, as contra-band illegal persons,' you perceive, is just for trade quiet, in this case, the below state-codiciled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the ' 1- bronze'd-i-PENN-statue li b 's-peace Society of Friends. Sagamores.—By the Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), § 4.9, subjects or subject, for equal rewards to all in May-polar expedition. Ye will now think deep of the danger of joining either party of the whitefaces or half caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby forbid from notic ing P/acerd-proclamation's as headed in the limes and Post of 16th Nov., " A Convention between ENGLAND, France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's rights, as well as the alien's of contracting parties to keep peace on their soil. By " this" and reasons as follows : " Command oid words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh snake. 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water•limits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jac.bo Zollverein trading flag x x and not a belligerent, by the Ordnance issue of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower), the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on board the z Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it—the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian tea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian Roman law hue of the X-span' Fueros union courts of E-gal law of 1521, and under 1761 trust, which has been derided in th© Anelot-span'sh Texas Crts. inad missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in corporated St. Denis, under the words "except France" in March 3, 181:5, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of Melchisidek on a moving earth error' with it] the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgic Pedro-Leopold 3ty's of 1828-30 of illegality. 3, The Papal assumption of Sir W. Gore Ouseley in collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Waler succession in Central America, for the Bamberg-Sigismund life -tenure 1017, Dappes-assumption of aERT Savoy), for the seizing of lexico from England-itself—caused his papist envoy, Capt. Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests ' wolves men as manifest by late Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in violation of Ackerley's sovereign head pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MoNnor. doctrine, [as of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the law's font, and recognised as such by Peel and Derby, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the 'sole' elect of Nor-West Russia-P6land's aurman of the cent years Dutch Loan Act of 1832, unconnected with religion. Fourthly. The Lie-ratification of the London Gazette, and not within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a sup-element— whity-coloured persons being interdicted from voice in this peculiar Az'fmithson'an institution' of March and April, 1836, on (Gladstone's) comtee. of H. C. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians, aliens, and others, that the Cabinets named in this con vention are engaged i CANNING Ina converts. i)coarrY,„ing out the dictum of Mr. the legislative unity of thenat sense, (in total opposition to standard of weight and measure of 1824 and 183.5, for raising guiding the —under annual election of paid laymen—ai the commerce of the whole world) without consulting ta g state arbiter below. " Scorn arbitration 9 th.l To ninth and tenth of WilliX'astinT Therefore the civic ' Signor Neutro' gist g of . th ' is n l a e G t e t l e o r i th fOr re p enrrimiat ry inn w ni el a l l - l in d ten s tio n ro o m f my rights is [for the monetary America upon the principal of the evident decay of human nature, the whites and n b g y la t n h a e , theft of our 1730 Indian nationalities d on my life], b y a brother and sisterly love for the future, under t h he r l c a h w of E as now disconnected with hither Poe C or t-vrater the /tread -bag'-estate. sects on minister's moneyo) PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medal'd-sack'reo, Nephew II (of Sic'mo J. Brant, 1775—Slemo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-LlO, of Ne w Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. H.7's— §C. H. ACKERLEY, c Win of Review', 18- , -37, —C. J., Irland's Emperay 0 BOWES P.C. L. 5. Hen. B's Executors' §WOTTON' LI:ON __ _ Dec. 10—London. See The Sun, Nov. 16, IS6I. 0Y A a LYCEUM M. yd d Falconer.Tl-1E A TRE. :Manfi p/ EVEN C N(, orraAnne,: will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. Atter which, at a quarter to Eight (?7th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun s Falconer; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conetudo with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer fuel,. Acting Manager—Ur. F. B. Chitterton. rice% it, . 11, %na " Doors open 11 atti.lls. half-past 6, to commence at Den WIT from ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, t allworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. 11. Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for Woking, or fees to Box-keepers. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. BtlekStOrt THIS E VE NING, OUR Mr. AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Buckstone, Mr. Fa rren, Mrs. C. Young. ex. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sotheran, Miss Oliver, &c. To be followed by BOX AND COX. To connlude with FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. Commence a' 7 ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- , Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. TEIIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER. After which, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Widdicombe, Mr. Meadows, &c. ; Miss Carlotta L2elercq, Miss Angell, &c. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. EW TH RATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Great Attraction for the Cattle show Week.—Mr. and Mrs Dion Bouc'cault in two pieces. THIS EVENING, commencing at 7, the great American drama of THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA; Mr. and Mrs. Dion Poucicault, Messrs. Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Stephenson, Smith, Romer. Lewis, Mrs. Billington. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. At 20 minutes past 9 o'clock the great Irish drama, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault, Mr. Fisher, Mr.• Emery, Mr. Billington, Miss %1 oolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albino. di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear in CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. After which, BAMBOOZLING. To conclude with LES PIERROTS. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past '7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. - • MR. SAM COVTELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou rite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT." _ _ _ Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA Tit AVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. The Comic department :—Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey and N'rench (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and his talented son, the best negro delineators of the day ; and Miss Harriet Coveney . Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. T HE 0 X F OR D 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from "LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Simon Boom necrra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Madame Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Mershall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, Bd. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 108. Bd. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 7h. 57m.—Afternoon, Bh. 28m. To-moßnow.-Morning, 9h. sm.—Afternoon, 9h. 34m. THE WEATHER.—Surr OFFICE, DECEMBER 10, IE6I TBEHMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50-74ighest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. - BAROMETER-29.57. WIND—S -S.-Westerly ; light, with fine warm weather. %•<- • L "A cp nit „TS , :"..7. - r...o„ez ' lily g t 1 •II CI • I) - fiTi 4 71 • • THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1861. Human nature is such that every tragedy and every grave epic must have its amusing interludes, if at least our poets would conform their fictions to facts. Our own " Immortal Bard" has taught all Englishmen this lesson; and even the few conver sant with the regular measured stately productions of the Grecian Tragic Muse learn their notions of propriety from the teacher who has surpassed them all. So we moralized for a moment as we read the story of the reception of the " gallant" Captain WILKES by the citizens of the American Athens. The worthy Bostonians perceived that, as in olden times every court must have its fool, and every good tragedy something to relax the features for a minute, that they may return with more freedom to the expression of pity and terror, so the serious busi ness of the San Jacinto and the Trent must have a dash of the ludicrous in some one of the scenes, and they were willing to be the performers of that part. So, to entertain all Europe, and England espe cially, they entertained the hero of the San Jacinto. Some Mr. J. W. EDMONDS, unknown, we are sorry to confess, to our editorial omniscience, presided. He was well up in his part. When the American performers exhibited at the Alhambra, one of the clown's witty remarks on the jumping feats was that he had a brother who jumped so high that he never came down again. Oratorically Mr. EDMONDS performed the same tremendous feat. He started with the " patriotic impulses," rather the " patriotic instincts" of a hero, who, by one " lice act," (sic) a " deed of daring," had "clothed himself with a power over the minds of his people which could not come from title or escutcheon "—from those empty, ragged things which silly Englishmen prize. Having jumped so high at first, Mr. J. W. EDMONDS could not of course come down—he spoke of the " splendour of the s chievement," of its " vi brations reaching the far west ;" aye, more, of reach ing the dens of the traitors, " the clicks" of the achievement or vibration, or splendour, we hardly know which, " being like the clicks of the death watch" in the said dens ; he spoke of the " brilliancy of the action" which "raised the patriotic pulse of the whole people," of the " resources," the " wis dom," and the "prudenee" of the "man of the hour" —indeed, for to the end we must get, where we find Mr. J. W. EDMONDS still aloft they were Ohone t for THE O'DONOGIIUE I Surely nothing but an Irish howl can be a really fit and proper accompaniment to his name. The " definite article" is certainly the appropriate prefix to it. Of all the O'DONOGHUES—not forgetting CHARLES LEVER'S, otherwise HARRY LORREQUER'S—this is, without any doubt of it, The O'DONOGHUE. Wonder ful—considering what may be now called his ante cedents—that any constituency (even in Ireland) should enable him to add to his name the mystic initials M.P. A politician who can talk and act, as THE O'DONOGHUE has now been for some time past talking and acting, is, in sober seriousness be it said, hardly the man to be entrusted with the rank and responsibilities appertaining to a Legislator. Why, compared with the deeds and words of this harmless BoBADIL, the impassioned songs of DAVIS, the preposterous proclamations of MITCHELL, the fantastic demonstrations of O'BRIEN, the high flown aspirations of EMMETT, the audacious pro jects of TONE, the hopes and prayers of the noble FITZGERALD, were loyalty itself. "making history fast," &c., &c., &c., &c.—and when " the records of our naval history is made up, there will be no names more luminous upon its pages than DUPONT and WILKES." The patriotism and instinct, and splendour, and clicks, and brilliance, and prudence, and history-making, and luminosity being at last finished ; the old sailor himself, we are bound to say, came forth a little more soberly—thanks, profound gratitude, for such a dinner, and such a reception, and such a speech were his natural opening. Then he told the story of his brilliant brave achievement, which, having thirteen sixty-eight pounders at his orders, while the Trent n nt o had none, the worthy tar doubtless particular feat of bravery. The Cap tain, however, must do his part in the fun•making —so, instead of telling his audience that as a naval commander, he looked at his instructions and orders, it seems he turned Vurist he had a civil law library on bo ar d —t o his cabin stu study h N e T we h n . t, and took down his VATTEL, "his WIIEATON, and the rest," and d ec id e d for himselfls that he had the right to seize the two gentlemen and their secretaries. There has been some grave argument here on the error of supposing that a Captain at sea could turn himself in a " Judge of a Court of Prize,"—but I did it, says Captain WILKES, and I glory in having done it, and and would do it again." Of one thing Captain WILKES did boast for t h h might have captu r e d mf—he i e s m Tr e e n nt an h d er h se i lf, sel alight have got a prize worth 150,000 dollars for himself • legislation has done and is doing to destroy our and his crew—but they all waived that privilege. population. A fearful responsibility is throw n u p on i " Prudent" captain ! Dearly bought dollars would us, for we must act." Or imagine BRITANNIA they have proved ; the Trent in Boston harbour roused to indignation by such stuff as that with would have hardly found a purchaser amongst the which THE O'DONOGIIIIE brought his amazing wide-awake Yankees, and she would not have been speech of Thursday night to a close, as follows : taken back but with a 'heavy claim for damages. "It has also been said that there has been an insult Before the meeting WAS over, a judge BIGELOW, to the British flag, and I see by the papers that this a name honourably known to us in the literary has caused very great and natural excitement in world, but borne doubtless by a very different gen- England, and that we are expected to share in that tleman, was called on to back the seaman's law. excitement. - Why should we share in that excite- And very cleverly did the gentleman of the long ment ? If the people of Ireland have accepted the robe do his part. It would not do to utter British flag as their flag—well, I said if ; ' if law contrary to the wishes of the " distinguished" they have, I was going to say that then I suppose assembly, and the "brave" captor of the merchant they would become gradually excited; but if they vessel ;—so he would not go into details ; ho would have not adopted the British flag as the flag of speak rather as a man of common sense. There Ireland, I suppose we shall continue in the blissful were some cases so plain that they did not need state of resignation in which we are at present. law books and counsel, and all that to investigate ; Fellow-countrymen, I shall not detain you longer, he had not read up on the subject, but off hand, but I believe I am expressing tour opinion, and there and then, he being at a dinner party, not on also the opinion of the people of Ireland generally, the bench, would pronounce for the captain's law. when I say that we are against aiding England in Common sense, not nice distinctions, were the thing a war with the Northern States of America." now. Sophistry must yield to clear reason, and JOHN BULL can only have one response to make what reason could be clearer than that which Cap- to any and every such demonstration as that— tain WILKEs had for seizing the Commissioners on gasping out faintly while he wipes the tears of board the British mailship. But the droll fellow of laughter from his eyes (like the fat old gentleman a judge was not content with this merely. He and in the pit when LISTON was one night grimacing the captain had exchanged parts. The captain, talk- him almost into convulsions)—" Take him away, ing about" KENT, WHEATON, and the rest of them," or he'll be the death of me ! " and the judge talking about bluff common sense and reason. But there seemed to be an under current of suspicion running through hie mind. He had 1 taken care to leave himself free to study the case and change his legal opinion, but not only that, he finished up a sufficient quantity of Yankee bragga docio, by proposing as a sentiment, " England and the United States !" Verily, a DANIEL come to judgment ! How can England but reciprocate the sentiment—that is, provided we know where to find the United States—when she finds her ships seized by sailor-lawyers, and the seizure justified by lawyer-sailors. Governor ANDREW cattle forward more in the style of the first speaker, talking of the " wise and prescient judgment, the manly and heroic success" of Captain WILKES—he told the meeting of the cheer raised by himself, the Secretary of War, and others who happened to be present at the moment the telegram announcing the capture arrived, and of the pleasure he felt in Massachusetts having to furnish soon a prison for the traitors ; and " that there might be nothing left to crown the exultation of the American heart, Commodore WILKES fired his shot across the bows of the ship that bore the British Lion at its head." Well done, Governor ANDREWS ! We only fear your crowned Exultation will shortly have to dia. crown herself, and look needlessly little on account of her own folly. We must do Lieutenant FAIRFAX, a Virginian by birth and attachments, though he had remained faithful to his commission, the justice to say that his narrative of the transaction, in which he took so prominent a part, was worthy of a gentleman and a sailor. He had been as courteous on board as his duty, acting under command, permitted, and he was courteous to those whom he addressed; but it seems to us, even from his speech to those who applauded the transaction, that he at least would much rather have had nothing to do with it. We strongly suspect that Lieutenant FAIRFAX has real good breeding in him, and really " patriotic in stincts and prudence," and that he well knows that the second and third acts of this will be performed in very different styles. 1.1 A N I • A PARIS, DEC. 9. The Patric of this evening publishes the fol lowing despatch from New York, dated Nov. 27 : " It is asserted that President Lincoln displays a very conciliatory spirit in the affair of the French merchantman Jules et Marie, which the Federal Government states was boarded by the San Jacinto in consequence of some mistake." TURIN, DEC. 9. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Baron Ricasoli announced that the Ministers would give an ex planation on subjects which have been brought forward by some members of the Opposition. In speaking of the Venetian emigration he said, " We have 12,000 Roman and Venetian emigrants, of whom 5,000 receive pecuniary aid from the Govern ment." General Della Rovere justified the prohibition which he issued in Sicily against the public collec tion of signatures to a protest against the occupa tion of Rome by the French. Signor Mellani spoke at great length against the Ministry. A letter being, however, delivered to him while speaking, he suddenly discontinued his speech, and sent the letter to Baron Ricasoli, who read it to the house. It was a correspondence, not yet published, addressed from Naples to a French journal in Turin, and asserted that General Della Marmora had, in a recent report, requested the Ministry to alter their policy in Naples, or he should be obliged to follow the example of General Cialdini by tendering his resignation. Baron Ricasoli declared this news to be abso lutely false, a statement which was received with applause by the Chamber. He also censured the systematic invention of false news, intended to have the effect of embarrassing the Government in its external relations. rench Women of letters ; Biographical icketches. By Julia Kavanagh, author of " Nathalie," " Adele," &c. Twe vols. Hurst and Blackett. We have here a work which the nature of the subject, the merits of the style, and the reputa tion of the authoress, cannot fail to render popular. Miss Kavanagh's name has been so long and so tavourably known to the public as an authoress of eminent ability, that any work from her pen is naturally regarded with intdrest, and her intimate acquaintance with French life and literature qualify her in an especial manner for the task which she has now chosen. The novels of " Nathalie" an d " Ad ele," as well as the charming tale of "Madeleine," are all French in scenery and character, while Miss Kavanagh has shown herself familiar with graver studies, in her satisfactory performance of the diffi cult and delicate delineation of the " Women of NAPLES, DEC. 9. At 3 p.m. yesterday an eruption of Vesuvius took place near Torre del Greco. This eruption was of a more threatening character than any that has taken place for a long period. The inhabitants are taking to flight. France in the Eighteenth Century." The work before us combines, in a singular degree, the interest of fiction with the attraction of eareful and discri- mihating criticism. It disinters from the dust of long years of oblivion the lives and works of those sparkling, pathetic, or sentimental writers who once influenced the taste of their time and re- fleeted the manners of the age. The women of AMSTERDAM, DEC. 9. The Bank of Amsterdam has raised its rate of discount from 31-, to 4 per cent. letters referred to in these pages are without ex ception novelists, and Miss Kavanagh's object has been to show haw greatly women have contributed to the formation of the modern novel in the French and English literatures. Her selection has been guided, she tells us, by great celebrity, original power, and individual attraction. No living writers are included in her list, the most modem name being that of Mme. de Stael. It is by rea son of their recent deaths, we suppose, that she has omitted to notice two distinguished writers of our own day, Mme. Guizot and Mine. Girardin. The plan she has adopted is to give a short biographical sketch, with the outline of that individual history which so often explains and accounts for much in the author's writings, and then to proceed to analyse her works and criticise their merits. In most cases she gives a summary of the plot of the chief novel, with extracts from the best scenes, and thus the reader who probably knows no more of Mlle. Scudery's " Grand Cyrus," or Mme. de Geniis "Rash Vows," than their names, is able to familiarise himself with the style and cha racters of their writings, and to compare one with another. Commencing her volumes with Mlle. de Gournay, the adopted daughter of Mon taigne, Miss Kavanagh gives us next a full ac count of the life and writings of Mlle. de Scudery, one of the most famous novelists of the seventeenth century. The authoress cites her name as a striking instance of the vicissitudes of literary fame. " Her fifty volumes of poetry and prose were the delight of the most exquisitely polished society France has yet known. They were translated into every Euro pean language, and found their way, it is asserted, into Eastern tongues." Princes and men of let ters, fastidious critics and indolent fine ladies, watched with eager interest for every one of the ten volumes of a work which took years to appear. " And now," she goes on to say, "it would take years, a lifetime, perhaps, to collect a complete edition of Mlle. de Scudery's works in that city where her fame reached its fulness." The causes assigned for this decadence are three: the length of her tales, the representation of Greeks and Assyrians with the manners and feelings of the French of the sixteenth century ; and lastly, the ridicule of Boileau and Moliere, which Miss Kavanagh shows to have . been unjustly severe. The plot of these long-forgotten novels is brought before us, and their merits and deficiencies pointed out with a s Ailful and discriminating hand. The wild and singular career of Madame de Krudener, now chiefly remembered by her influence over the Emperor Alexander, is told further on in the work, and it is curious to observe how often the ladies spoken of have founded their romances on the events of their own private lives. This seems as strange to our English notions as the interesting suicides so long fashionable in Continental romance. Mme. Ricco boni, an authoress of some celebrity:in the eighteenth century, has the questionable honour of being one of the first to introduce this termination- In this particular, as in some others, we must admit the earlier writers have the advantage over those of our own day. Mize. Cottin, best known by her charming "Eliza beth, or the Exiles of Siberia," also fills a place in this chronicle, but the two chief lives in the second volume are naturally those of Mme. de Geniis and Mine. de Stael. The eventful and chequered life of the former lady is ably told, and the strange in consistencies of her not very estimable character are shown. Mme. de Stael is evidently high in favour with her critic, who is never so satisfactory , however, when she touches on politics. Her portrait of Mme. de Steel herself is very ably drawn. We congratulate Miss Kavanagh on hav ing invested an extinct branch of literature with fresh and vivid interest, and with having compiled an agreeable and well-written book out of man s/ ,edious and uncared-for FRANCE. La Patrie says : " The Commission of the Senate charged with the examination of the Senatus Consultuin for the modification of the Constitution sits daily at the Luxembourg Palace. We are assured that the ex amination will continue a few days longer, and that the report of M. Troplong will be a complete expose of the new system which is to be applied to the administration of our finances. The Senate will be convoked on Monday, to hear the reading of the work of its learned reporter, and the discus sion will commence about the middle of next week." La Putrie, in an artiele " On the Dissolution of the Legislative Body," advocates the dissolution, and convocation of a new Assembly at the end of the present session. The Message addressed to the Southern:States 01 the Union is not only given in extenso by the Paris journals, but is analysed by most of them. The Constitutionnel adds some observations, from which we select the following passages : "It is sufficient to peruse this document to per ceive to what extent reconciliation has become im possible between the two great factions of the old American Union. Mr. Jefferson Davis accuses the North of having given to the war a character of un exampled cruelty ; and, examining what is taking place in the States which have remained faith ful to the Government of Washington, he seeks to prove that the latter has violated the Con stitution, and does so every day ; that it de clared war without the consent of the Conzress ; that it has arhitrsro— • and Inoffensive citizens, and that it menaces the judges on the bench when they endeavour to secure respect for the law. From so many grievances, Mr. Jeffer son Davis draws the conclusion that the inhabitants of the South feel nothing but contempt for their former co-federates, and that the mere idea of again accepting such an alliance excites among them insurmountable aversion. The Message could not pass over in silence an event so grave and so directly concerning the affairs of the South as the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Mr. Jefferson Davis maintains that as regards the rights of neutral Powers, the Northern Government had no more legal right to have those gentlemen arrested on board an English vessel than in the streets of London. In the opinion of the President of the South, that act of violence presents pecu liar gravity from the fact that the persons arrested by the Federal navy possessed the sacred character of ambassadors. We must remark that this part of the question has not hitherto been even touched on in the discussions of the press of London and of the United States. The fact is that the reality of the character of ambassador, ascribed to Messrs. Mason and Slidell, depends essentially on the quality of belligerent which the South claims in virtue of the logic of facts, but which the North refuses to it, and on which Europe has not yet formally pronounced. So long as this point which would be the preliminary to a recognition of the South, has not been decided, it is easy to understand that England herself should complain only of the outrage &me to her flag, and should be silent on the diplomatic character ascribed to the persons arrested." The Presse expresses itself in the following terms on the Southern document :—" President Davis also announces that he does not desire the intervention of any European Power in the present conflict. The Southern States have good reason for that. They well know that the European Powers are still more radically opposed to slavery than the Northern States. England, impelled by the neces sities of war, might alone, by recognising the inde pendence of the South, implicitly sanction slavery. If France unites in action with her ally, there would no longer be any ground to fear such a result. Our intervention would have the effect of prevent ing a war undertaken in defence hf the most hon ourable principles from turning to the advantage of the most odious institutions. BOURSE, DECEMBER 9TH.—There has been a slight improvement in the tone of the market owing to the arrival of the English funds with an advance, and a fair amount of business has been done at rather higher rates than the closing ones of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 65c. Railways also firmer. The following are the last quotations :- 4i per per Cents 94 80 , Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 70 Bank Shares 2970 Credit Mobilier 735 , Do. Account RAILWAYS. Credit Fonder ....1200 Belem an 4i — __. Piedmonteso Fives 67 95 Roman 71 75 A Sp us an tr is ia h n Threes 4O 25 Home Debt .. 47 25 Cash. Account. Orleans 1290 .. 1292 25 Northern. New ditto .. 910 .. 910 Lyons and Mediterranean 1007 50 .. 1008 75 Geneva 350 350 Southern 668 75 .. 670 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ........ PRUSSIA. Advices from Berlin of the Bth announce that the Ministers Bcthmann, von Schleinitz, and von Roon have not been re-elected. The Liberals have lost MM. Simson, Beseler, Mathis, Bardeleben. The feudal party have lost all their leading men. It is asserted, in New York, that' some 25,000 acres of land, which Mr. Slidell has been found to own in Minnesota, will be confiscated by the Federal Goyernment, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE NI NG, DEC PI All 3 E R 10, 1861. ENGLAND AND AMERICA The Times yesterday spoke of the last exploit o THE OTONOGHUE as something bearing a singular resemblance to " playing at high treason." The political crime perpetrated in this latest meeting of the so-called Nationalists is beyond any question as nearly allied to the supreme crime of leze majesty as well could be. It is only saved from the other wise inevitable punishment consequent upon the evidence of that heinous guilt by its intense ridicu lousness. It escapes the doom of being " crushed out," somewhat after the fashion that that extremely nasty little vermin the skunk does. Only in this instance, absurdity takes the place of the villanous odour emitted by the transatlantic reptile when pursued and driven to bay. The powers that he could not—we may rest assured—deal seriously with any display like that recently made by the OPONOGHITE ; the Government in other words could not lay its avenging grasp upon any such disloyal criminality—Why ? Simply because it must infallibly almost die of laughing at the attempt. It is the egregious folly of any such sayings and doings as those of the OTIONOGHUE that are their shield from punishment. Seriously to confront with the majesty of the law any such utterly ridi culous demonstrations were as absurd as it would have been supposing a royal army in battle array, horse, foot, and artillery had been led forth a dozen and a half years ago against the young Ireland hero, skulking behind the poor widow's petticoats in the famous cabbage-garden ! Fancy England taking seriously to heart any such nonsensical rhodomon tade as this—with all its outre interruptions !—lt is THE OPONOGHUE talking and the Dublin nation alists responding to him :—" Every free people, and every people venturing to exercise the privilege of freedom, will take whatever side appears most in accordance with their honour and their interests. (Bravo.) It is, therefore, clearly the duty of such a people, at such a momentous crisis, to deliberate well before they decide upon a course of action — (hear, hear, and cheers) —to think', speak, and act for themselves, and to be the guardians of their own honour. (Great cheering and waving of hats.) Now, I think the time has arrived for testing whe ther Ireland has a right to shape her course with a view exclusively to her own interests, whether she has a right to think, speak, and act for herself — (hear, hear, and cheers) —and whether Irishmen are fit to be the guardians of Ireland's honour. (Great c ow h p ee io r l s ret . ) u us io N t y ma y many Nov I believe such an opportunity has never occurred before—(bravo) —and I fear such a n never millionsoffer of g ain Irishmen— ( again—(cheers)—and e r a s r ) e y an e d t to be found in this island—of true Irishmen, I mean —animated with that indomitable spirit which for more than NO years has refused to acquiesce in foreign domination. We all know what hostile His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is abou to visit the Holy Land and the East. On Monday next the prince will leave Cambridge, and on the following evening a grand entertainment is to be given in his honour by the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke. On Wednesday, the 18th, the prince joins the court, and after spending the Christmas holidays with his august parents, will start for the regions which from remote ages have presented such interest and attractions to western Europeans. On his way to the East the prince will visit Prince Leopold in his Franco-Italian retreat at Nice. Lord Macdonald is lying dangerously ill at Set trington-hall, near Mahon, his lordship's occasional resi dence. On Friday morning his lordship was seized with a fit, and had a second on Saturday. No improvement was apparent on Sunday. The New York papers say that General Have lock, son of the General Havelock, of India fame, has been appointed aide to General M'Clellan, with the rank of colonel, and takes the post of inspector general of cavalry. The Europa, which took out the instructions to Lord Lyons on the subject of the Trent steamer, left Queens town on the Ist inst. for Halifax; and the Federal Govern ment will most probably know the nature of those instruc tions to-day or to-morrow. The following are the steamers which will bring important news from America subse• quently to the receipt of the instructions in Washington, viz.:—The Canada will leave Boston on the lltb, will call off Cape Race for news on the 13th, and reach Queenstown on the 22d. The North American will leave Portland on the 14th, call off Cape Race on the 14th, and reach London derry on the 23d. The City of Bellmore will leave New York on the 14th, call off Cape Race on the 16th, and reach Queenstown on the 24th. The Bavaria will leave New York on the 14th, call off Cape Race on the 16th, and reach Cowes on the 26th. The Africa will leave New York on the 18th, call off Cape Race on the 20th, and reach Queenstown on the 30th. THE AMERICAN OUTRAGE.—The Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray addressed a very numerously attended meeting of his constituents in the Town-hall, Durham, on Saturday night. In referring to tin seizure of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, on board a Britisa vessel, he stigma tised this act as an outrage quite mparalleled. In this case he should offer no opinion upon the precise bearings of the international law, but he was sure that the Cabinet of Lord Palmerston would have acted ander a sense of great responsibilty, and he trusted that the Parliament of Eng land would support the Cabinet in that course which their sense of responsibility to God and :heir country should advise them to take. He hoped that no party views would be allowed to interpose at this most momentous crisis, and that when Parliament assembled the Irish members would not meet in the spirit of that letter, which he was sorry to see had been written by Mr. Smith O'Brien, a man who owed his life to the clemency of his Sovereign after his futile insurrection had justly forfeitel that life. He trusted, also, that the representatives of England would not follow the example of the member for Birmingham, who, whether in quarrel with Russia or America, always assumed in the first instance that his own country was in the wrong. (Lowl applause.) But he believed the House of Commons would be almost unanimous on the question, and that Mr. Bright would be informed by his constituency at Birmingham that he is as little entitled to speak their views as some years back he was told that he was not entitled to speak the sen timents of the men of Manchester. (Loud cheers.) He hoped the voice of England would be the voice of one man, and that, come what may, all party differences would be sunk in the determination to support the honour of our Queen, and upheld the interests of this great country. (Much applause.) The next advices from America may be expected by one of the three following steamers, which were to leave on the 30th of November—the City of Washington, from New York for Liverpool ; the Saxonia, from New York to Hamburg, via Southampton ; and the Norwegian, from Portland to Liverpool. The City of Washington and the Saxonia, which may be expected about Thursday or Friday, will bring only two days' later news; but the Norwegian, which may be looked for to-day or to-morrow, will touch at Cape Race, and most probably bring telegrams from New York to the 3d of December, with an outline of the Presi dent's Message. The next subsequent steamers will be the Asia, from New York direct on the 4th of December, and the Fulton on the 7th. The announcement of the destruc tion of the Harvey Birch was taken out by the Quebec and Montreal steamer of the 21st of November, and the Nor wegian, therefore, will perhaps bring accounts of the recep tion of that news at New York. The commercial advices from New York yester day state that the speedy approach of financial difficulties was now becoming a subject of general anticipation. Al though, until the closing of the canals from frost, the ship ments of grain would continue sufficiently active to prevent the full pressure of the situation from being felt, the advance in the rate of exchange to 1091 had created much alarm, the banks, weighted with their present and prospective lia bilities for loans to the Government, being especially sensi tive to any adverse movement. As the feeling was thus anxious, while the banks were in expectation probably of a favourable reply to their proposal, which was brought by the last steamer to some of the principal London bankers, for a large advance on the deposit of American securities, the consternation to ensue when it shall be found not only that not a shilling can be obtained in that way, but also that the settlement of the Trent question will not be made de pendent on "protracted negotiations," may be very consi derable. Of the total loan of £30,000,000 to be supplied by these establishments to the Government, the proportion already paid was £16,000,000, of which sum the public had, up to the latest date, taken only 17,110,000, leaving the banks with £3,800,000 on hand, and £14,000,000 additional to be taken and provided for in the course of a few weeks. EXETER HALL.—Mr. Martin has requested us to announce that the following :ere the arrangements for admission to the grand performance of the Messiah to the military by the members of the National Choral Society, at Exeter Hall, on Thursday evening next. The non commissioned officers and men of the 2d Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards to enter in Exeter-street. The Ist Batta lion, the Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), the Grenadier Guards, and Coldstreams at the Strand entrance. The officers and holders of reserved seats to enter by the grand staircase from Exeter-street, not later than 7.15. THE CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS. —At theßoyal English Opera, Covent-garden, a pantomime will be pro duced, written by Maddison Morton, and in which Mr. W. H. Payne will be the prominent feature. The theme selected is Swift's remarkable satire of " Gulliver's Travels," and a grand transformation scene, by Calcott, is already whispered to be a stupendous feature. At Drury-lane, which has well maintained its celebrity for this kind of amusement, there will be a grotesque burlesque pantomime, by Mr. E. L. Blanchard, founded on those legendary stories of the nursery "The House that Jack Built," and "Old Mother Hub bard and her Wonderful Dog," and which will be as usual, magnificently illustrated by Mr. Win. Beverley. The Hay market pantomime will be, as usual, furnished by Mr. Buck stone himself, entitled " Little Miss Muffett and Little Boy Blue; or, Harlequin and Old Daddy Long Legs." The Princess's again advantageously employs the smart pen of Mr. H. J. Byron, who has founded his pantomime opening on the adventures of " Whittington and his Cat." The St. James's has a mythological extravaganza by Mr. Wm. Brough, on the subject of" Perseus and Andromeda." The Lyceum has enlisted the services of Mr. Leicester Buckingham, who has based his ex'ravaganza on the story of " Little Red Riding Hood," Miss Lydia Thompson being the heroine. The Olympic has a fair extravaganza written by Mr. Burnand and Mr. Palgrave Simpson. The Strand is sure to be well furnished with another of Mr. Byron's pun-crammed burlesques. The subject selected is "Puss in Boots." Sadler's Wells has an extravaganza cum-pantomime, written by Mr. L. Blanchard, entitled " Cherry and Fair Star ; or the Singing Apple, the Talking Bird, and the Dancing Waters." The Surrey pantomime will be called " Harlequin Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle ; or Oranges and Lemons, and the Twelve Dancing Princesses," linking the nursing rhymes with an effective German Fairy tale. At all the other theatres vast preparations are being likewise made, and managers are looking forward to a season which, if only as prosperous as their several displays of liberality, tact, and energy seem likely to render it, will be one of the most remunerative known for many years.—. Era. A letter from Paris says :—" With respect to the official opinion of the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the quarrel between the Washington Govern ment and England nothing can be more precise and positive. The Minister thinks that the violence committed by the captain of the San Jacinto is inde fensible ; that by regarding the Confederate Com missioners as "contraband of war," President Lincoln and his Ministers give a flat contradiction to themselves, for they al ways refused to admit that they were at war. To seize them on board a neutral vessel as contraband of war implies that, after all, the Southern States are entitled to belligerent rights, while, even supposing the Northern States not to be at war, but merely repressing a rebellion, they had no right to seize men who were at that moment in the character of refugees under shelter of the English flag. France, he argues, cannot consistently view the matter in any other light than this, because it is precisely the point she had con tended for during more than 60 years. France never would admit the right of searching neutral vessels, and she cannot now belie her own policy by approv ing the outrage committed on the Trent. I believe the Emperor does not materially dissent from his Minister. Not only does he not dissent, but not very long along ago he had all but made up his mind to take the initiative in recognising the inde pendence of the Southern States, for it must not be forgotten that France also is suffering severely from the war. This disposition of mind was disturbed by Prince Napoleon, who, strange as it appears, exercises now and then no small influence over his cousin. Prince Napoleon returned from America labouring under the notion that the struggle was one of Abolition against Slavery, with strong tendencies in favour of the North, and the speech which he is now elaborately preparing for the Senate will doubtless be in this sense. The Emperor has yielded to the influence, and postponed, but I do not think given up, acting on his own original judgment." The Earl of Derby has for some time past been entertaining a distinguished circle of friends at Knowsley Hall ; and to-day or tomorrow his Royal Highness the Duke of Camtridge is expected on a visit to the noble earl, if the avocations of the Commander-in-Chief will, at this juncture, admit of his absence from London. _ _ The rate of discount at Hamburg has experienced a further decline to 3 per cent. _ _ A Turin letter of the 6th has the following : " General Garibaldi left this city quietly this morning, without having appeared in the Chamber. He returns to Caprera. The object of his visit remains rather mysterious. It is said that he came about projects relative to the Vene tians, but in such a matter, what is said must be accepted with reserve, even when it comes from persons who are in a position to be well-informed. All the shanties erected for the accommodation of the workmen at the Netley Hospital, on Southampton water, have been ordered to be removed, to make room for the encampment of 400 troops. There are not above 300 men now at work at the hospital. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL AND THE CHARING CROSS RAILWAY.—Mr John Stewart, of Liverpool, the empire, duly nominated and appointed by the Board of Trade, has by his award, dated the 7th of December inst set tied and determined that the compensation to be paid by the Charing-cross Railway Company, as well for the pur chase in fee simple of the whole of St. Thomas's Hospital and premises with the appurtenances as for the damage sustained, or to be sustained, by the governors by reason of the execution by the said company of the works authorised by the Charing-cross Railway Act, 1859, and the exercise by the said company of the powers of the said act and of the acts incorporated therewith, shall be the sum of £296,000. The claim, it will be remembered, was £750,000. The survey of a parallel of north latitude run ning through Ireland, England, Belgium, Prussia, and Russia is nearly completed, and the accurate length of a base line stretching from the west coast of Ireland to the Ural Mountains will very shortly be ascertained. This will be the greatest feat in trigonometrical surveying ever accomplished. In order to triangulate the country along the parallel, stages 70 feet high have been erected on the Continent by the Royal Engineers. The triangulations for the purpose of ascertaining the length of the baso line will be calculated at the Ordnance Survey Office in South ampton. THE OUTWARD BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILs.—SOVTITAMPTON, Dec. 9.—The Royal Mail Com pany's steamship Tyne, Captain Jellicoe, sailed hence to day at 3 p.m., with the monthly mails for Lisbon, Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, River Plate, &c. The Tyne took out 57 passengers, and on freight French jewellery, £5,200; English jewellery, £1,762 ; and for Minister of Finance at Rio, bar silver, £9,500; gold coin, £13,551. The Tyne also took a full cargo of French and English merchandise. The Persia and Australasia are being car=". , fitted for tht , - stores and ammunition, and it is expected they will be ready to sail nence for Canada about the 14th or 15th inst. Each of them is to carry out a complement of 1,100 soldiers, 5,000 stand of arms, and 300 tons of stores. Besides these each is to take out a field battery and a large quantity of ammunition. In addition to the two vessels named above, it is understood that nego tiations are on foot for securing one or two other first-class steamers. SHIPMENT OF CONTRABAND OF WAR.—On the receipt in the city (says the Western Daily Press) of the Queen's proclamation prohibiting the export of contraband of war, a customs officer made a circuit of our quays and found that a quantity of shot, lead, &c., had been shipped, or was about to be shipped, on board various vessels bound coastwise and foreign. The officer ordered the articles to be returned on shore, which was accordingly done. Ia con sequence of these proceedings the Chamber of Commerce communicated with the Government, complaining of the stoppage of the goods, and on Saturday they received the following telegraphic reply :—" From the Clerk of the Council, Privy Council-office, to the Chamber of Commerce, Bristol. The Commissioners of Customs have received authority from the Lords of the Council to permit to be carried coastwise and to the Channel Islands any of the articles prohibited to be exported by her Majesty's pro clamation of the 4th December, upon taking the usual bond from the owners or shippers." WINTER ROAD FROM QUEBEC TO HALIFAX.—We call the attention of the Provincial Government to the necessity of immediate steps being taken to improve and keep open the land route from Quebec to Halifax during the coming winter. Not only will the impediments thrown in the way of British subjects leaving ports of the United States render some other route desirable, but there is a pros pect of hostilities eutting off that means of reaching Europe altogether. 4. small outlay on the part of the Government would be sufficient to make the old winter mail road an ex cellent route for travellers who do not desire to submit to the insults and delays to which they are now subjected, but possibly the only one available both for travellers and mail matter. Such a means of communication with Halifax at this time would also be the very strongest argument with the Imperial authorities for their aid to the Intercolonial Railway.-11rontreal Advertiser, FEDERAL STEAM PRIVATEER FOR THE EASTERN OCEAN.—The Boston Daily Advertiser gives the following account of a steamer fitted out at that port which is to operate as a Federal privateer in the Eastern Ocean :—'l he propeller Pembroke, Capt. John A. Cunningham, proceeded on a trial trip down the harbour and to the north-eastward on Wednesday last, with her new boiler, which proved that with steam enough she can go as fast as a vessel of her size ought to go—say, ten miles an hour. She has been rigged anew as a topsail schooner, or a hermaphrodite brig, and when under all sail proved to be very stiff. She sails on Monday for Java, where she will ship her propeller, and proceed to Shanghai under steam and canvass. She is armed with two Schenckel rifle guns, and carries a commission under the late law as a letter of marque. It is understood that, at the suggestion of her owners, several similar com missions have been forwarded by the Government to our Minister in China, and that measures will be taken by the next Congress to enable Mr. Burlinghame to adjudicate on pirates or recaptured vessels in the ports of China. This is probably the first American steamer destined for China going out under such a commission. SHOCKING SUICIDE IN ST. PANCRAS.—At about one o'clock yesterday a woman named Mary Gibbs, who resided with her husband at No. 132, Drummond-street, St. Pancras, committed suicide by hanging herself to the bed post. It appears that her husband, Benjamin Gibbs, had taken possession of the house only a week ago, intending to commence business as a wardrobe dealer, and on leaving the house at 10 o'clock yesterday morning his wife had expressed her hopelessness of the proposed business succeeding, but gave no indication of her fatal determination. On his return home at about half-past one o'clock he was horrified at find ing she had destroyed herself in the manner described. The deceased was between 40 and 50 years of age, and has left no family. PAUPERISM.—The returns made to the Poor Law Board show that the increase of pauperism goes on, though to a much less extent than might have been expected. At the close of September it was 5 56 per cent. over the corre sponding period of 1860. At the close of October it had reached 5.93 per cent. The chief change in October was in the north-wasters district— Lancashire and Cheshire, which are remarkable in ordinary times for the small number of their paupers. At the end of September last they were 5.53 per cent. more than at the same date in 1860, but at the end of October they had increased so greatly as to be 10.38 per cent. more than at the end of October, 1860 ; but still these two counties, with, as compared, for instance, with the south-western or the south-eastern district of England, a population of three to every two persons in either of those districts, have much fewer paupers than they. 1771 ST. LAWRENCE. It appears to be the intention of Government to despatch the Australasian and the Persia, between the 15th and the 20th inst., with troops, 8.:c., to the St. Lawrence, with the view to effecting a landing either at Bsc or, if possible, at the Riviere duLouP• It is understood they have received information both from Sir Alexander 111‘Nab, who sailed fro' Liverpool to-day in the America, and from one of the Quebec pilots who came home in the Jura, that such a landing is practicable; and these opinions are also corroborated by other parties conversant with the river St. Lawrence. The shores are, as it rule, ice bound at the end of December, the time at which the steamers may be expected to arrive ; be t this ice, it is said, does not extend more than tvi'e or three miles into the stream, and, if this be the eas e ' there can surely be no great difficulty in overcoming the impediment. Riviera du Loup is some wil e : higher up the St. Lawrence than Father Point, an d Bic is between the two. The advantage, howeve r ' in landing at Riviera du Loup is that the railway from Quebec terminates there, and thus a long' tedious, and fatiguing land journey will be saved' All, however, acquainted with the St. Lawrence d ° not agree in the belief as to the facility for navie; ting this part of it at the end of D ecember, and these views are in some degree strengthened by o li a article in the Quebec Morning Chronic le of the 23, of November, received by the steamer N ova Scotian to-day. The editor is combating a suggestion; thrown out by the Montreal Courier, that ts l steamers should be sent down below and kept rill Y ning throughout the winter between Riviera (11 ' 1 Loup and the lower province ports, so as to naai ll : ' tain their c ommunications with Europe via I - It, fax, and be independent of the Portland route. '''', this the Chronicle states in reply that the idea is wild—there is no harbour at Riviere du Loup, 83 , 1 t the oft-mentioned harbour of Bie is valueless Res, anything but boats. Gaspe is frozen up, the il es : i tigouche is sealed as soon as the St. Lawrence, Of Shedia is closed also. The last named are three° the lower ports outside the river, and c ommunil ting direct with the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A° observes the Chronicle, even the strait between Anticosti and the South shore is so blockaded 13.7 r icebergs in the winter as to bo impassable. Aft e e all, the editor of the Chronicle is dealing with 0 0 winter as a whole, and it may be well worth 0 trial of entering the river St. Lawrence in Deee°l ; ber, for, with such experienced commanders as tile s of the Persia and Australasian, they will know b fore they get into difficulties whether it be 4 , l's ; e e i s r sa a el b nif l ta e ixa t l ; o th attemptat and, thaes their hhdee departure ae n rs t t tu r cr a he n a c neshceoo should lf d b s e bu a ec r ce:p :a e w s :; ° r i (1 : H A ite as much as possible, f o r D e cember and January' a„ two very different months in the St. Lawrence' Liverpool Albion. THE SCINDE RAILWAY. A recent number of the .Kurrachee Herald C' tains an analysis of the last report of the Sci li Railway Company ; and the comments of the elit:r who, it must be remembered, is writing with $ sonal knowledge of the undertaking , are ceir, different from those constantly made by the el/lI'Do man of the company in London. It can hard l io conceived that a local journal would have; c tO temerity to attempt wilfully to perve rt Is lii or to disparage an undertaking if it r e1 :01 presented an appearance of prosperity, on this ground the shareholders, s ll°- 0 0 they see the journal in question, w ill o f doubt be extremely anxious to ascertain wbieillly the two diametrically opposite statements is re° rd truthful. The report recently i ss ued by the 13 ? il o g, was replete with the most encouraging explanatl° leading the proprietary to a ssume that the iriira.og diate position of the prosp ects of the undertor o were unexceptionally go od, while the 19;11 journal referred to s u pp lies an article of fu of column and a half in length to show that al ll° couleur de rose Elti represented: -