The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

R 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyno and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Core, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, W allworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. H. 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 booking, or fees to Box-keepers. THEA TRE.ItO YAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. To be followed by A MORNING CALL. Mr. Sothern, Mrs. C. Young. After which, GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRAD SHAW. Mr. Buckstone, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7 i?OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the neriormsnces will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (36th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles lby, Edmund Falcone, ; M:s. D. Y. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FENIALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Ch itterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- ..it) Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Maris and Mr. H. Widdicomb. After which, at Eig,ht o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTHELLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Othello, Mr Pechter, N EW THIiATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. 31 r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. And THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip t , Jamison, Smith, Stephenson, Romer. Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with a new Farce, MARGERY DAW. 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. A lbina di Rhona. THIS E VENING, the petite Comedy, MATRIMONY. Followed by CAMELIA. Camelia, Mdlle. di Rhona. After which, BAMBOOZLING. To con •lude with A SMACK FOR A SMACK. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. C NNTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. LAST WEEK of MR. SAM COWELL, who will, at Eleven o'clock, sing several favourite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. " Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Herbert, &o. Solos by Herr Sesselberg, the great Basso. Comic—Mr. Marshall, in "John Bull, or they don't bam boozle me ;" Mr. Randall, from "The Oxfsrd ;" Mr. Wood and his talented son, and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls avid Balcony, Is. (IANTERBURY HALL.-GRAND CHRIST MAS ENTERTAINMENT, by Mr. E. MARSHALL. "THE ENCHANTED HASH SECOND EDITION," (Written expressly for him.) Commencing on BOXING-NlGH'''. CANTERBURY HALL. -M. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING HAN," from Paris, will make his First Appearance on the 30th December. T H E 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Simon Boma neg,ra," and "Email'," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Mad ime Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertainments by Messrs. W. Randall, M. P. Foster, E. Morshall, and SAM COWELL.— Ball, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 18m.—Afternoon, 4h. 3 in. TO -MORROW. -Morning, 4h. 54m.—Afternoon, sh. 14m. THE WEATHER,—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 21, 18M. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 40-7.ighesCsince noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during filo night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.35. WlND—Northerly ; light, with cold, dull weather. / 1) 4 AZ ' ,u t ~= (C'W - • g:. t 7 • •t. ,1" , 1 t Vts , . THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDA Y, DEC. 21, 1861. The expiring year of graco 1861 will close with Mourning. The approaching year, 1862, will in all human probability open with War. Of this there have been sufficient indications. The silence of the PRESIDENT in his more than usually dull and long winded Message to Congress—LlNCOLN'S total and absolute silence in regard to the affair of the Trent and the San Jacinto, was in itself significant. Then the exultant vote of thanks immediately afterwards passed by the Federal legislators at Washington— their deliberate and Emphatic Vote of Thanks to Capt. WILKES for his lawless seizure of the Southern Commissioners, told pretty plainly the feelings with which the Federal administrators regard that out rage to the flag of England. Meanwhile from this side of the Atlantic—simply as a precautionary measure (in case!)—there is the plain and simple fact that the Household Troops have ac tually taken their departure from our shores, and are now hastening across seas to a possible seat of war upon the borders of Canada. All this tells a tale. We don't see, for one thing , how—having gone so far—the Government at Washington can retreat. We don't see how they can now tender anything like an apology for what has been done by the officers of the San Jacinto. Above all, we don't see in any way how they can now, under any circumstances, dream of acceding to our demand for the release of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON and their respective secretaries. The North has gone too far now to draw back from their defiant, not to say insolent, attitude. Passions have been aroused there among a nation who are already in arms, and who are already, as it were, heated by fighting. Who among President LINCOLN'S Ministers would ven ture now to assume the responsibility of recom mending concession—of recommending apology— of recommending the release of the Commissioners? Mr. SEWARD, for example ? It is barely within the limits of possibility that the most meek-minded among the administrators constituting the Federal Government, could entertain for a single instant of time the mere notion of temporising. There is an " institution," by the way, um the other side of the Atlantic popularly known among that excitable multitude as . Lynch Law. There are such means for inflicting punishment as Tar Barrels and Goose Feathers. We cannot imagine to ourselves any ono among the go-ahead Yankee statesmen who would or could have the slightest possible inclination to go FO directly counter to the inclinations of Brother JONATHAN as to throw out a hint even that Lord LYONS' demands should (though it were but partially) he complied with. What are the " sentiments"--to employ a delicate word about what in itself might be defined as of so peculiarly coarse-grained and rhinoceros•like an epidermis—what are the kind of "sentiments" with which the citizens of the Northern States, the loyal adherents of the Federal Government at Wash ington have long since come to regard the position of things, we have learnt by this time beyond the chance of any misapprehension. We have seen those sentiments expressed in black and white, in language that admits of no doubt whatever as to its real meaning. We _ have heard those " senti ments" articulated,even here, in ou r own land, among an audience of Britishers, to an effect so unmistakeable in its arrogance, almost, we had said, insolence that two opinions could hardly be entertained as to the views with which the Ame ricans of the North regard the present situation of affairs between themselves and ourselves. Was there not one American gentleman the other day at a provincial assemblage consisting almost entirely of true-born, patriot Englishmen, who yet, in de fiance of the natural feelings of his hearers, had the exquisitely good taste to aver that were he him self in authority at Washington, he would hang SLI DELL and MASON, and then—if England must needs have them delivered up—send their dead bodies across the Atlantic as a substantial compliance with the demands of the English Government. Remem bering that this was said—not to an American audience, but, as we have remarked to an audience composed almost entirely of Englishmen, and that the place in which these extraordinary remarks were uttered was not, as the phrase is, within a hundred miles of New York, or of Washington, but within the limits of one of the loyal counties of England —we may draw our own conclusions ! The animus of the Federal citizens may from this and from various other kindred incidents be conjectured with pretty tolerable accuracy. As to ourselves, as to the feelings with which the situation is regarded by the English people and the English Government—those could hardly have been in any way more clearly indicated than they were only the other day through that noble cartoon in Punch—our own serio-comic Pasquin or Charivari. Without one particle of passion or irritation, calmly, resolutely—England is now Waiting for a Reply. While she is thus waiting in Dumb Expectancy, little halcyon rumours of better tidings flit every now and then across her field of vision. How wholly illusory these are, however, let the following intimations from Lord PALMERSON'S organ serve to demonstrate. The Morning Post of to-day thus remarking : " In the present state of the public mind the craving for news from America is naturally so great that every word that comes with any authority from the other side of the Atlantic is invested with an undue importance. Thus it happens that because Mr. ADAMS has received a despatch from Mr. SEWARD which is of a friendly character to this country, and discusses in fair and pleasant terms the mat ters with which it deals, exaggeration is swift to lay hold of the circumstance, and puff it up to the largest dimensions. People whispered yesterday, and then said openly, that the American Government had written to disavow the act of Captain NVILIEEs, that Mr. LINCOLN was ready to apologise, and that the whole difficulty was settled. We are sorry to have to dissipate these too easily-raised illusions. They aro quite ungrounded, for, if we are not misinformed, the de spatch in question does not in any way whatever refer to tho outrage on our mail steamer. It deals only with some of the current business between the two Governments. " It is quite vain to attempt to speculate with any cer tainty upon the momentous issue pending at Washington. All that we can fairly say we know is, that if the banking and commercial classes have sufficient interest with the Government, peace is tolerably secure; but if the mob is in this instance to have its sway, the worst may be ap prehended. " Of one thing the country may be perfectly confident. The instructions of Lord LYONS are such as become an English Government. With all that is due to our dignity, they combine such a judiciousness and temperance of pro cedure that the American most tender of his pride will be unable to complain of our course as menacing or haughty. Confident in the justice of our claim, and resolved to vindi cate it, it becomes us to insist without rudeness and to act without passion." Relying then upon the justice of our course, and calm in our resolution to uphold it coute gui coute, England awaits now eagerly but tranquilly the answer that may be vouchsafed to her from Wash ington. She does so—Hoping for Peace, but pre pared for War. If we may assume, and we know no reason why we should not, the truth of the telegram from Berne, it is certainly a curious process for informing the English public of what so deeply concerns it. Nothing, probably, could afford a stronger proba bility, we might say.certainty, that America will yield in the case of the Trent than that France should strongly declare for the English view of the question. That the two greatest Powers of the world, and those maritime Powers, should be of one mind respecting what should be deemed an outrage to a neutral flag, would make it such simple folly for America to resist, that she could even, without dishonour give way to simple considerations of force, and her inability to withstand it. Nor can it be said that France is an intermeddler ; the case con cerns all nations which have a flag and its honour to sustain, and probably the feeling amongst the French marine is very similar to that which per vades our own. It is such that an English sailor would be ashamed to meet a French sailor if his flag would not be protected, as the Frenchman might safely boast his own would be. The circular, of which we receive the contents from Berne, must surely have reached also the Count DE FLAIIAULT, and we should have been much obliged to him if he had given us its contents sooner. It is not easy to conceive anything much more important on this side the water, next to our own action, than that the French Government should declare "that the arrest of Messrs. MASON and SLIDELL was contrary to the principles which are regarded as essential to the security of neutral flags." The:opinion alone would be of high signifi cance at Washington ; but when it is added, " The circular states that the French Government have deemed it necessary to submit this opinion to the Cabinet at Washington, in order to determine it to make concessions which the former consider in dispensable," we can hardly doubt that the effect on the Washington Government will be decided. We, indeed, should not ask of France, and France would not offer, to share with us offensive mea sures if requisite to obtain satisfaction ; but the moral effect of the old friend of the revolted colonies in their war of indepen dence now telling them that he cannot tolerate such abuse of independence, would paralyse their courage. It would have the same effect as the sympathies of England had in the Italian struggle. It would be the stimulus, to the advocates of right, of a great, highly civilised, and not prejudiced nation encouraging their efforts ; while the dis couragement to the defenders of the outrage would be proportionately strong. It can hardly be doubted, we think, now, notwithstanding the former denials of the ltfoniteur, that the hasty return of General SCOTT was due to his having been, and very pro perly, made acquaint e d w i th the views of the Euro pean Governments. IV e fear, however, he can hardly arrive in Washington before the seven days allowed for the reply to Lord LYONS' communication will have elapsed. It seems probable that at best he may be able to send a telegraphic message to Wash ington as soon as he lands. We see that our contemporary the Daily News is still in favour of permitting the Americans to refer the case to arbitration. It would do so on the around that international law is founded so diversely on both precedent and the dictates of common sense, that the case must share the per plexities and uncertainties of the grounds of such law. Yet it cannot be denied that the necessity of a regular adjudication by a prize court, is the grand distinction between piracy and legitimate seizure. The American law insisted as strongly on this point as any country. Indeed, the language rHE SUN, LONDON, I SATURDAY 'EVENING, :DECEMBER 21, 1861. of their own President, MADISON, must be conolu- sive with them. Our contemporary turns aside therefore to the altered circumstances of the day—to the.fact that mail steamers are a modern institution, and their proper treatment has not been a question yet in any war. But so far from this rendering it a ground for arbitration, it appears to us to take it completely out of that class daises. It will never do to allow such a blundering hot-head as Captain WILKES evidently is, to make new mail-steamer laws for all civilisation. If he felt the difficulty, as it appears he did, he, and all in a similar position, ought to be taught that they cannot be allowed to violate law in the first instance with out severe rebuke. At least America ought to have given notice to the world that she intended to treat mail steamers in a new fashion, and not to have begun the objectionable practice of her own self-will. We own that the conse quences of seizing mail steamers would be fright ful; civilisation would never endure it, they being used not only by the countries from which they sail, but by all countries ; but as little will civilised countries endure that such steamers shall be visited by the sailors of some country at war with another, and that a Lieutenant shall be entitled to take from them what he (not what an educated Judge) pro nounces contraband of war. There is, then, we conceive, no case for arbitration, We often hear of contrasts between the salaries paid to the Governesses who are to be the first trainers of the minds of a gentleman's children, and to the cook who is to send up his dinners. The young lady is to know everything—music, dancing, drawing, two or three languages, at least, besides her own ; and sometimes with the addition of cer tain religious, generally sectarian, qualifications— at how much the " religion is valued," as Mrs. STOWE'S ST. CLARE would ask, is, perhaps, never stated. For all these things, however, the charge is, that the gentleman, or his wife, does not offer the same remuneration as he does for his " professed cook"—the cook's religion, too, being subject to no inquisition. The moral of the advertisements, however, seems to be, that if pay and easy hours of labour be the chief thing, a young lady had better study the art of sending up good dishes than spend her time on accomplishments. But what is the moral of a notice Ns , e saw the other day in the Gazette, duly issued by the autho rities at the Admiralty ? The notice is such a study in its way that we think it worth while to give it unmutilated, so here it is— " Admiralty, Whitehall, S.W., Dec. 9, 1861. " Notice is hereby given, that a vacancy exists for an assistant schoolmaster at Devonport Dockyard. Candi dates who may wish to undergo a competitive examination for such an appointment are invited to make personal ap plication at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners, No. 4, Gateway, Dean's-yard, Westminster, between the hours of ten and five o'clock, on or before the Ist of January next, taking with them certificates of age and health, together with testimonials as to character, also as to their general or special qualifications; and they will then be informed of the day fixed for the examination. Candi - dates must be between the ages of 20 and 35, and will be examined in the following subjects, in all of which it will be necessary for each candidate to pass :-1. Exercises to test handwriting and orthography. 2. Arithmetic. 3. Gram mar and analysis of sentences. 4. English Composition. 5. Physical and political geography of the world, especially of England and Europe. 6. English history. 7. Euclid (first four books). 8. Algebra (to the end of Quadratic Equations). They will also be competitively ex amined in the following subjects; but, although it will not be necessary for such candidate to have a knowledge of these latter subjects, a high value will be set upon them :-9 . Trigonometry (plane and spherical). 10. Differential and Integral Calculus, and the easier Differential Equations. 11. Mechanics. 12. Hydrostatics. The salary of assistant schoolmaster at Devonport Dockyard commences at £lOO per annum, increasing by £lO each year to £140; and the certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners will entitle the successful candidate, after his appointment, to the benefits of the Superannuation Act. Assistant dockyard schoolmasters are eligible for promotion to be dockyard schoolmasters, with salaries varying from £l5O to £250 per annum.—W. G. ROMAINE." The reader sees the qualifications required to ob tain from the Government a schoolmaster's salary of £lOO. To be sure, after some years of service, and when r raetice must have raised the qualification, and tested the character of the teacher, he may ob tain £l4O, and may even rise to the schoolmaster's peerage, and add £lOO or so to the salary pro posed for either the first eight subjects or the re maining four on which a high value will be Eet ; the value, of course, going towards the chances of appointment, and not obtaining an acknowledgment in pounds sterling, for " value received." Certain other appointments, however, occurred at once to our recollection for most of which the salaries are, we believe, much larger; and on thinking of the quali fications required to fill them, it struck us that re spectable persons who wanted a snug and easy berth, of from £lOO t ) £3OO a-year, had better de• vote their time to the study of a butler's duties. Far better to be a nobleman's or gentleman's butler for such a purpose than give one's nights and days to mathematics and the sciences. If we are not misinformed the ex-butler of one peer, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, is head doorkeeper at the Admiralty ; the ex-butler of another peer, Lord CEA N WORTH, chief usher in Vice-Chancellor STUART'S Court ; and the chief usher of Bow-street has, we are told, also qualified for his office by the priesthood of BACCHUS, There may be many more ex butlers, for aught we know, beating the poor school masters hollow in point of salary ; and in regard to wear and tear of body, mind, and spirits threatening to outlive them by almost as many years as the patriarchs did their short-lived succes sors. These are only a few instances which occurred to us at the moment and without inquiring. 'They could but suggest the reflection -better far be a nobleman's or gentleman's chaplain for the worship of the merry GOD, if you wish, at tha hands of the Government for living made easy, than a hard-working student to fight your way into an assistant-schoolmastership at Devon port Dockyard. Well, so we suppose it must ever be. From the respectable era of the PHAROAII s the " chief butler" has always been an important personage, and the more enlightened JOSEPHS must take their chance. As, however, competi tion is now the rule, why should there not be competition for doorkeepers' and ushers' places P And, as butlership is the appropriate discipline, why not throw open the competition to all the butlers in the kingdom P The first-rate wine merchant would soon draw ap the examination papers, and the competitors would doubtless not object to give their opinions, by trial, of the merits of all the wines which could be placed b. fore them. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. The following is the ceremonial to be observed on the occasion of the funeral of the lamented Prince Consort : On the morning of Monday, December 23, 1861, the re mains of Field-Marshal his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, husband of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Duke of Saxony, and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, will be re moved from Windsor Castle for interment in the Royal vault in St. George's Chapel, in the following order, shortly before 12 o'clock : A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards, of which regiment his late Royal Highness was Colonel, will mount at the entrance to the State apartments of Windsor Castle. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying two valets and two yagers of his ]ate Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying the four physicians who were in attendance upon his late Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying an equerry to his late Royal Highness, an equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, an equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and an equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying two Equerries and two Gentlemen Ushers of his late Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying the Lord and Groom in Waiting to the Queen, the Clerk Mar shal, and the Master of the Household. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying four of the supporters of the pall of his late Royal Highness, viz.:—Major-Gen. Wylde and Col. Francis Seymour, C. 8., Grooms of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Dudley De Ros, and Major C. T. Du Plat, Equerries to his lace Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying four of the supporters of the pall of his late Royal Highness— viz., Lord Waterpark, Lord of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness ; Colonel the Hon. Alex. Nelson Hood, Clerk Marshal to his late Royal Highness ; Col. the Hon. Charles B. Phipps, K.C.8., Treasurer to his late Royal Highness ; Major-General the lion. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his late Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying the three Great Officers of her Majesty's Household, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. A carriage of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, drawn by six horses, the servants in State liveries, convey ing the Crown of his late Royal Highness, borne by the Earl Spencer, Groom of the Stale to his late Royal High ness ; and the baton, sword, and hat of his late Royal Highness, borne by Lord George Lennox, Lord of the Bed chamber to his late Royal Highness. THE HEARSE, Drawn by six horses, attended by an escort of the Life Guards. A carriage of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, drawn by six horses; the servants in Stlto liveries. A carriage of his Royal highness the Prince of Wales, drawn by six horses ; the servants in State liveries. A carriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. drawn by six horses ; the servants in State liveries. A carriage of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge, drawn by six horses ; the servants in State liveries. The line of procession will be kept by the Scots Fusilier Guards. At half-past 11 o'clock those who have had the honour to receive the Queen's commands to attend the ceremony, but who do not take part iu the procession, will be admitted to St. George's Chapel, by Wolsey's Hall, and will be at once conducted to seats in the Choir. At 12 o'clock the Royal Eunily and other Royal person ages will assemble in the Chapter Room of St. George's Chapel, from which they will be conducted to their places in the procession by the Lord Chamberlain, assisted by the Vice• Chamberlain. The remainder of those appointed to form part of the procession within the Chapel, having previously assembled in Wolsey's Hall, will take their places, and upon the arri val of the body at the South Porch the procession will be formed in the Nave, and move up the Choir in the follow ing order : Valets of his late Royal Highness. Yagers of his late Royal Highness. Physicians who were in attendance upon his late Royal Highness. Chaplains to his late Royal Highness. The Representatives of absent Foreign Royal Personages. The Controller and Equet y to her Royal Highness the Du - chess of Cambridgs. The Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, The Equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, The Equerries to his late Royal Highness. The Master of the Household to the Queen. The Equerry in Waiting to the Queen- The Groom in Waiting to the Queen. The Lord in Wait , r g to the Queen. The Lord Steward. The Master of the Horso. The Choir of 'Windsor. The Canons of Windsor. The [can of Windsor. THE BATON, SWORD, AND HAT Of his late Royal ilighness, borne upon a Black Velvet Cushion, by Lord George Lennox, Lord of the Bedchamber to his lute Royal Highness. THE CROWN Of his late Royal Highness, borne upon a Black Velvet Cushion, by the Bail Spencer, Groom of the Stole to his late Royal Highness. The Controller in the Lord The Vice-Chamberlain c: Cha mber' ain's Depart- Her Majesty's Household went. The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household. SUPPORTERS OF THE PALL. Colonel the lion. Sir C. Phipps, K.C.8., Treasurer to his late Royal High ness. General the Hon. C. Grey, Private See 'rotary to his late Royal Highness. Major-Gen. Wylde, Groom of the Bed chamber to his late Royal Highness. Colonel Francis Sey mour, C.B.,Groom of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness. SUPPORTERS OF Tll 13 PALL. Lord Waterpark, Lord of the Bedcham ber to his late Royal Highness. Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Clerk- Marshal to his late Royal Highr ess. • Lieutenant-Col. Hon. Dudley De Ros, Equerry to his late Royal Highness. Major C. T. Du Plat, Equerry to his late Royal Highness. Garter Icing of Arms. THE CHIEF MOURNER, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS TH E; PRINCE OF WALLS, supported by His Royal IligLnesss Prince Arthur, and by His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia. His Royal Highness tLe Duke do Brabant. His Royal Highness the Count de Flanslres. His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours. His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. Count Gleichea. His Highness the M harajah Dhuleep Singh. Equsrry Governor be tried to the uttermost, or all his efforts be unavailing to keep the fortress of life. The insiduous character of this disease is always opposed to any early and decisive diagnosis of its precise character. Moreover, its first symptoms are common to various mild forms of febrile disorder. It should not, however, be omitted to note that typhoid fever, although less to be dreaded than typhus fever, inasmuch as it is not considered to be commu nicable from one member of a household to another by con tagion, is nevertheless, in respect to mortality, equally for midable. The death-rates of those attacked by typhoid and typhus fever are nearly equal, both being of a very fatal character. If the disease by which the Prince Consort fell was by no means of that ambiguous and usually innocent character which popular report has assigned to it, no doubt from misinterpretation of the necessary official reticence of the early bulletins, so also it should be observed that the illness was of longer duration than at first appeared. The Prince Consort had been attacked at least a fortnight be fore the fatal termination. On Sunday week ho was un able to attend divine service—a duty he ever held as of pa ramount importance in his well balanced mind. On the Monday following Dr. Jenner was summoned, and from that time the Prince was under continuous medical advice. It is perhaps commonly thought that, as a man of middle age, well nourished, and of course highly cared for in all material wants, the Prince might have been less than usually liable to fall a victim to low fever of this kind. But the opposite series of relations may always be predicted in , typhoid fever. This is a disease which has invariably proved far more fatal to sufferers of the upper class and of middle period of life than to patients of the poorer kind. The unhappy issue must therefore be regarded as a source of deep lamentation rather than of surprise. There is no thing in the knowncourse of the disease during the last week of the attack to take it out of tbo ordinary character of ty phoid fever. The immediate cause of death is believed to have been congestion of the lungs, as above stated. This congestion was of course hypostatic, or gravitative, and such as occurs in the last stages of weakness of the circula tion. On the other hand, there was enough of suddenness in the immediate termination of the disease to raise the question whether it might not have been due to ulcerative perforation of the bowel—a well-known complication of ty phoid fever. But we are unaware of any facts which sufli • ciently uphold this belief. The melancholy occurrence must induce the profession to revert to the former epidemic of typhoid fever which raged severely in 'Windsor two years since. That attack was traced by Dr. Murchison very clearly and distinctly to bad drainage as its cause. The question has been asked whe ther the Castle itself is as badly drained as the town, and whether there be anything in the drainage of Windsor Castle which could be expected to favour the growth or dissemination of the disease. It must be remembered that this is one of those zymotic ailments essentially connected in their origin with local defects of sanitary arrangements. So close is the connection between bad drainage and typhoid fever that Dr. Murchison has, with the assent of Dr. W. Farr, denominated it pythogenio fever, or fever generated by dirt. In the case of the epidemic of Windsor two years since this was very observable. A plan of the drainage of the Castle and town, given by Dr. Murchison in his valu• able description of the cause of the epidemic, shows, how ever, that the Royal residence is directly and perfectly drained into the Thames. It deserves, perhaps, to be mentioned, also, that this good drainage is peculiar to the Castle, only one half of the Royal mews participating in its benefits. These two blocks of buildings are separated merely by a roadway, and, while that half which has the benefit of the Castle drainage remained free from fever, in the other ill-drained block there occurred 30 oases of fever and three deaths among the Royal servants. • ••• •• •..,••••••• • • •• • • • • • .-•••••• • • • • • • • • • •.. • • COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, DEc. 20. Her Majesty arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, at half-pant 4 o'clock. I heir Royal Highnesses Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, and Priuce Louis of Hesse, arrived with her Majesty. The Prince of Wales accompanied the Queen as far as Gosport. Tho Queen slept several hours during the night, and is calm in mind this morning. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia and her Serene Highness Princess Hobenlohe arrived at Os borne this morning from the continent. The suite in attendance at Osborne consists of the Duchess of Athol], Lady Augusta Bruce, Lord A. Paget, and Colo nel the Hon. Sir C. B, Phipps. To his Royal Highness to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Prince Arthur. Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Gentlemen in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and upon his Grand Dual Highness Prince Louis of Hesse. Upon arrival within the choir the baton and cushion and the crown and cushion will be placed upon the coffin. His Royal Highness, the chief mourner, will stand at the head of the corpse, with his Royal Highness Prince Arthur and his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on either side. The other Ro3 al personages will stand be hind his Royal Highness the chief mourner, and their at tendants near them. The supporters of the pall will be on either side of the coffin. The Lord Chamberlain will stand at the foot of the coffin. The rest of the procession, having previously advanced towards the centre of the choir, will enter the pews en either side of the chapel. The opening sentences of tho burial service will be sung by the choir while the procession moves up the nave. The first part of the service and the Anthem (Martin Luther's hymn) having been performed, the corpse will be lowered into the royal vault, and the Dean will conclude the burial service, upon which arter King of Arins will pro claim the style of his late R.yal Highness. After which the Royal family and other royal personages will be conducted out of the chapel, and the others compos ing the procession will retire, while the Dead March in Saul will bo played. A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards (of which regiment his late Royal HighnGs was colonel) will mount during the ceremony at the entrance of St. George's Chapel. (FT Um the Lancet.) It was during divine service on Sunday last that the majority of the people of this land first heard the sad in telligence of the death of Ihu Prince Consort. It came as a heavy and sudden blow; for although much anxiety had been felt for some days previ:Aisly by those who feared his power of bearing up against so depressing a disease, yet even the least sanguine had no :anticipations of the slowly but surely decreasing debility—resisting all efforts to stay its advance—under which the Prince gradually sank, dying at last from pulmonary engorgement. The disease was typhoid fever, not very severe in its early symptoms, but, from its vei y nature, taxing heavily the re sistant vital powers and ene rg ie s o f th e su ff erer —th a t re iserve force of which the physician so carefully takes stock in every case of fever ; for he knows not how soon it may (From the Medical Timm) There were fluctuations from time to time, and even within an hour of his death the Prince expressed himself as strong enough to get out of bed ; nevertheless, a terrible fit of congestion of the lungs ensued, in which he expired, shortly before 11 at night. The Prince's constitution was one of those which wasnot calculated to bear the brunt of an enfeebling zymotic dis ease. In spite of an active athletic life and of careful diet, he displayed an early tendency to increase of bulk, winch is rarely compatible with a healthy rigidity of fibre. He was easily depressed by a common cold or any other slight acci dental illness, had a feeble circulation, and firmly believed that any severe illness would at any time be fatal to him. How and when he contracted his fatal illness is matter of conjecture purely. All maladies of this class have a " period of incubation." The fatal zymotic poison is imbibed, but it does not at once show its full effects. It broods for a cer tain number of days, like leaven, in the veins of the victim before there ern•ues that shivering fit, of greater or less intensity, which is the starting point of the actual fever. Some poisons, like the small-pox, have fixed periods of in cubation ; others, as the scarlet fever, are uncertain, for there may be no interval whatever—the fever may begin immediately on the receipt of the poison. In the typhoid the period of incubation is probably about a week, and the source of the fatal poison must have been at some place which the Prince visited during the last week cf Novem ber. Was it Cambridge ? Was it South Kensington ? It is in vain to opcoulato. Tho causes of typhoid fever still abound even in places which ought to be the most exempt from them. Like poisons of their class, they evidently do not affect all alike, but only some persons who are predis posed, and no one who travels much can be sure that ho may not meet with them. So soon as unfavourable symptoms manifested themselves Sir James Clark and Dr. Jenner requested that the patient should have the benefit of additional advice, and that their own responsibility should be divided. This proposition was very unwillingly entertained at first by the personage most nearly interested, partly from her unbounded confidence in her advisers, and partly from fear of still further depress ing the vital powers of the Prince, and increasing his de spondency by alarm at indications of increased danger. The repeated request of the physicians, however, was at length complied with, and two physicians were specially selected by the Royal Family—Sir Henry Holland and Dr. Wat son. The confidence which the Royal Family placed in their advisers is fully shared by the public and by the profession. They may be sure that the most refined and energetic re sources of medicine and diet were employed to save and sustain the patient's vital powers. After the fatal event the Queen, with a calmness and dignity which never desert her, expressed her warmest thanks to Sir Jas. Clark, as one of her oldest and best friends ; and more than one member of the Roy al Family testified to I,r. Jena: r their gratitude for the attention which he had lavished—unavailingly, alas l— on their departed relative. We have these details from one high in Ake., who received them from a member of the Royal Family. TILE FIRE AT TV YNYA.RD HALL. The following particulars of the fire at the scat of the Marchioness of Londonderry are from the Newcastle Chronicle : " Yesterday, at noon, a mounted messenger rode into Stockton in hot haste, bringing news that Wynyard Hall was on fire, and requiting the assist anco of the engine; for its extinction. These were despatched with great promptitude. The West Hartlepool fire engines were also brought ; and of course those belonging to the hall were speedily in play. The fire had broken out as in 1841, in or near to the chapel ; but, happily, the hall was not ou this as on the former occasion destroyed. It was about 10 o'clock in the forenoon when the fire was first discovered, and it was confined to the quarter in which it commenced. The magnificent chapel is a ruin, and the bedrooms over it have perished. The grand entrance-hall, &c., suffered that tempo rary injury which necessarily attends the extinction of a fire, but nothing more. There was a large concourse of people at the firo from Stock ton and other places. The Stockton Volunteers gave their services. The firemen and police were active in the discharge of their duties, and the fire was mastered within a few hours of the time at which it broke out. It was on the night of Friday, the 12th February, 1841, about half-past 11, that the former fire was observed issuing from a staircase window, situated between two flues conveying heat to both the chapel and the conservatory, immediately adjoining each other ; and before any assistance could be rendered, the whole interior of the then unfinished chapel was in flames. The conservatory and the greater part of the mansion also suffered destruction—the damage being estimated at the time to be upwards of .£160,000. The hall had then been more than 19 years in the c: urse of erection, and was fast approaching towards completion, Wynyard Park is the seat of the• Marchioness of Londonderry, and the hall, erected by the late marquis, under the direction of Mr. Wyatt, archi tect, is a very magnificent residence. The chapel was situated within the hall, at the north-west angle, and was fitted up with rich and solid Spanish mahogany. Around the walls,' says the county history, are Corinthian columns of white marble. The stained glass windows were executed by Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle. The ceiling, with its deep cornices, ara massively gilt. The chapel, as well as the statue gallery and the north entrance hall, are flagged with polished marble.' " DEATH FROM STARVATION IN WIIITECIIAP EL.-- Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Grasshopper Inn, Charles-street, IVhittchapel, by Mr. H. Raffles Wal thew, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, upon the body of Michael Luard, aged 63, who was found on Satur day last, in Brick-lane, dying from exhaustion and hunger. It appeared that deceased was forthwith removed to the Whitechapel Union, where every effort was made to save his life, but without avail, as he died in a very short time. He presented a pitiable spectacle of emaciation, his bones coming almost through his skin. The jury returned a vet . . diet of death from destitution, LATEST NEWS. FRENCH CIRCULAR ON THE ARREST OF MESSRS. MASON AND SLIDELL. BERNE, DEC. 20. The Federal Council has received a circular ad dressed by the French Government to the Euro pean Powers, declaring that the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell was contrary to the principles which are regarded as essential to the security of neutral flags. The circular states that the French Government have deemed it necessary to submit this opinion to the Cabinet of Washington, in order to determine it to make concessions which the former consider indispensable. PARIS, DEC. 20. The discussion of the Senatus Consultum relative to the extension of the privileges of the Corps Legislatif was resumed to-day in the Senate. Baron Brenier spoke against the suppression of the prerogative of the Emperor to open extraor dinary credits, and criticised the late report of M. Fould on the French finances. M. Casabianca was the next speaker. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 20 (Evening). (Overland.) Fuad Pasha, accompanied by Joseph Karam, arrived here to-day. Halim Pasha, Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian corps d' armee, has been appointed provisional suc cessor of Fuad Pasha in Syria. An impost on the upper classes is intended. Riza Pasha will remain at Smyrna during the winter, on account of continued till health. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 14. (via Marseilles.) The monetary panic has subsided. The Govern ment has forcibly suspended all financial operations. The Turkish pound, which at the height of the panic reached 400 piastres, is now quoted at 240. Sir Henry Bulger has proposed that the Porte should make a material deposit against the cairnes which are in circulation. This proposal is likely to be carried out. An official announcement has been made to the effect that the Sultan pledges himself to introduce reforms on the arrival of Fuad Pasha, which is now expected to take place in three days. BERLIN, DEC. 20. The Bourse has been heavy to-day, and little business was done, owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the details of the financial statement made in the Austrian Reichsrath on Tuesday last, and also to rumours of a Prussian Ministerial crisis. PESTH, DEC 20. Advices received here from Transylvania state that all Obergespanne who fail to declare them selves loyal to the Government are to be dismissed. Every individual condemned for political offences during the past 11 years is declared disqualified for any judicial or Government office. The Assemblies ix the Magyar districts of Tran sylvania have been dissolved. MADRID, DEC. 19. In to-day's sitting of the Congress, a Government bill for levying an import duty on raw cotton was laid on the table. The journals of the Progressista party approve of the nomination of the Marquis de la Vego de Armigo as Minister of Public Works. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 20.—The market continues in the same inanimate state, but the prices of yesterday have been well maintained in the trifling amount of business done. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 20c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 94 65 Credit Fancier llBO Do. end month.... 94 75 Belgian 4i.. — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 25 Roman Bank Shares ......2940 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 717 50 Spanish Threes, — Do. Account 720 —1 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1290 .. 1292 50 Northern New. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1000 .. 1002 50 Geneva • 365 .. 362 50 Southern 660 661 25 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lon' bard THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have received our letters and papers by the Overland Mail, under date of Bombay, November 27, with intelligence from Calcutta down to the 18th. The Times of India gives the following heads of intelligence : " The English mails of the 12th and 19th Octo ber arrived on the night of the 12th inst., per steam ship China. " Major Patrick Stewart will, it is said, succeed Sir William B. O'Shaughnessy as superintendent of the new line of telegraphs through Persia. " It is confidently stated that Sir George Clerk's successor will be no other than Sir Bartle Frere; although Sir Charles Trevel) an's name is also men tioned. " The confident announcement of the Calcutta journals that Lord Canning bas definitively deter mined to give the North-West provinces a perma nent settlement, has been contradicted. "Nipal Singh, a notorious rebel, who has so long eluded pursuit, has at last been apprehended, and will be hanged at Jounpore. " The Indian Medical service, it is rumou red, is to be reduced by one-sixth of its present strength. " Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, re turned to the Presidency from the hills on the 6th inst, " . The estimates for 1861.62 show a surplus of £1,539,896, exclusive of railway interest, &c. " Cholera is hanging about the Bombay Presi dency. " It is stated that, in the event of Mr. Edmon stone resigning the Lieutenant -Governorship of the North West Provinces, Mr. Harrington will be appointed to succeed him. " Sir Sydney Cotton has, it is reported, been suddenly attacked with a severe illness, and h as been advised to procee d to Europe immediately. " The seat of the Supreme Government is, it is said, to be removed from Calcutta to some hill station, probably Simla. " The total number of casualties from cholera at Cabool is reckoned at 7,000. " We deeply regret to announce the death of Lady Canning from fever, at Calcutta, on the morning of the 18th inst. Her ladyship arrived at the Presidency, accompanied by the Hon. Captain Stewart, A D.C., on the morning of the Bth inst., and has fallen victim to an attack of jungle fever, caught on her way down to Calcutta frcm the hill station of Darjeeling. " We regret to see the announcement of the death of Major H. 0. Mayne, of the 6th Madras Cavalry and of Mayne's Horse at Government House, Allahabad, on the 2d inst. Sir William Richards, K.C.8., almost the father of the Indian army, died, we learn, at NyneeTal, on the Ist inst., after an uninterrupted residence (if we mistake not) in India of nearly 70 years. "News of the death of Colonel Laughton, of the Bengal Engineers, at Simla, was received in Calcutta on Saturday, the 16th inst." The Englishman's if eekly Mail (Calcutta, Nov. 18) says:— " Our markets during the past week have been more than usually dull, and chiefly characterised by an inclination on the part of some English houses to re purchase in the bazaar Manchester cotton goods in anticiption of a rise. " The news from the interior as to the prospects of an abundant cotton crop are very encouraging ; there is no long( r aay doubt that a greatly in creased area is under.• cultivation, and that stre nuous efforts are being made to provide for rao,e attention being paid to the picking and cleaning of the staple. This may, in a very great mea sure, be attributed t o the influence brought to bear on the subject by the officers of Govern ment who have received repeated instructions to impress, in every legitimate way, upon the cultivator the advisability of paying more attention to these matters, and the prospect arising from his doing so of immediate advantage to himself. If the ryot finds that in the present season a clean and better staple will produce him increased profit commensurate with the additional labour bestowed on the culture, and after process there will be good grounds for anticipating, not only a larger supply but an improvement both in staple and cleanliness with, what is of nearly equal im portance, additional care in the packing. One pleasing feature in the case which we have to record is the action of the Maharajah of Rewah, wi o has not only abolished the duty on cotton which has hitherto been levied by him, but has likewise proclaimed to his people his desire that its cultivation should be extended to the greatest possible limits; at the same time pointing out to them the benefits derivable from greater attention being paid to the culture, cleaning, and picking. That this step on the part of one native Zemindar of rank and influence has been brought about by the judicious advice of the officers of Government there cannot be a question, and for this reason we anticipate seeing other native landholders of import ance following in the steps of the Maharajah of Rewah." THE PROPERTI OF NEU7.RALS IN AMERICA. (From the Times.) The following letter, from Colonel Peyton, of Virginia, who reached England by the Nashville, gives a statement in relation to the course pursued by the Confederate States with regard to the pro perty of neutrals : " Sir,—ln your City Article of this morning, after noticing with just severity the barbaric course of the Government of the United States in confiscating all property on which they could lay their hands belonging to citizens of the Confederate States, and alluding to the probabilities of their showing the same flagrant disregard of the private rights of English subjects in the event of a war with Great Britain, you remark,— " Unhappily, the Confederates States of America seem little likely to show any superiority over their opponents in their sense of what is due to private rights. The system of confiscation of the property of individuals and non-belligerents was commenced on the occurrence of the present out break almost simultaneously in both sections of the country, and has been carried by the Confederates to the extent of sequestering all the property of neutrals—Englishmen and others—situate in the Southern States, and held in trust for their owners by Northern citizens.' "As I am very familiar with the legislation of the Confederate Congress,which cannot be the case with. any foreigner, all means of regular communication with the South having been suspended for many months, I feel it due to our Government and people, and the cause of truth, that I should say that you are totally mistaken in your conceptions as to the legislation of our Congress on this subject, its ob jects and purposes. "The Congress of the Confederate States has never passed any Confiscatien Act, but, as a retaliatory measure only, have enacted a Sequestration Act, under the provisions of which the property, not of neutrals and foreigners, but of citizens of the United States, is set apart for the reimbursement of such of our citizens as may have suffered the confiscation of their property at the Nortb. " Its object is not, as you imagine, to inflict in jury upon neutrals and foreigners, but is simply to protect our innocent citizens from the operation of the unjust and mediaeval legislation of the United. States. " It is specially provided in our Sequestration Aet that it is not designed to include Government stocks and other public securities; and, in cases of slaves and real estate owned by non-residents, it is pro vided they shall not be sold during the continu ance of the war,' but be kept in statu quo, a strict account being opened with the estate, and the pro fits arising therefrom passed to its credit. If, after the cessation of•hostilities, when each case mill be separately :adjudicated, it shall turn out that the owner of the property is not a citizen of the United States, and has not been in arms against the Con federacy, he will receive back his property with the accrued prefits. Neither will any Englishman or foreigner suffer, though his trustee, in whom the legal title is vested, is a citizen of the United States, and in arms, for, as I have remarked, public securi ties are exempt from the operation of the Act ; but, if this were not so, the Englishman or foreigner in whom is vested the equitable title would not suffer save by reason of his own inches, for it is hi 3 pri vilege to change his trustee and vest the legal title in one who is not a Northern and a belligerent. "The South, cut off from free communication with the world, and misrepresented and falsified by the press of the United States, is entitled to be heard when an opportunity occurs in vindication of her honour, and I rely upon your sense of justice for the insertion of this note. " Very respectfully your obedient Servant, " J. L. PEYTON. “58, jermyn street, St. James's, Dec. 20." His Excellency General Baron Moitke, accom panied by Lieutenant-Colonel von Obernitz, the Count Furstenstein, and Captain von Loucedon, has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Berlin. Loyd Camoys, Lord in Waiting to her Majesty, remains in attendance at Windsor Castle. _ _ _ Count Blucher has left Maurigy's Hotel for Con stantinople. The Baroness de Bunsen (widow of the late Prussian Minister in this country), is passing the winter with her family at St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Baran de Boddien, Lord Chamberlain to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, last night, from Germany, to attend the funeral of the late Prince Consort on Monday next. Mr. and Mrs. Monteith Scott, of Ancrum, have left Farrance's Hotel for their town residence in Cheshala street. ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE BALL.—The friends and patrons of this prosperous charity will be pleased to learn that the receipts of the late ball exceeded those of any previous year, and that the profits will fall very little short of £2OO. Great praise is due to the efficient arrangements of the ball committee, Messrs. B. Webster, J. Jerwood, Creswick, R. Churchill, Borlase, Childs, J. Stainton, R. 8311, and A. Billing, Esqs. THE WIIITWORTH ORDNANCE.—Lord Palmer ston uade a promise to the House of Commons, in the de bate on Mr. Vivian's motion for a committee of inquiry into the merits of the Whitworth and Enfield rifles, that the subject should be properly investigated during the recess. This duty the noble lord would seem to have undertaken in some measure himself, if we may judge from his recent visits to Hythe and Shoeburyness to see the practice with the Whitworth rifled guns. The result of the investigation is an order that the manufacture of some Whitworth rifles is to be commenced forthwith at Enfield according to Mr. Whitworth's pattern. The rifles, when finished, are to be distributed among various regiments of Infantry. With regard to Mr. Whitworth's ordnance, a number of his rifled guns are forthwith to bo tried in the ordinary use of the service. HEROIC CONDUCT OF A YOUNG LADY.—The Royal Humane Society have given their bronze medal to Miss Chubb, for saving the life of Ellen Cowley on the 16th July last, near Onchan, in the Isle of Man. In rescuing a fellow-creature from being drowned in the sea, Miss Chubb evinced great courage and presence of mind, and ran no trifling risk of being herself carried out of her depth. We record the gift of the medal with the greater pleasure as its recipient is the daughter of a late gallant naval officer, and was formerly a pupil of the Royal Naval Female School. 1