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Price One Shilling, or Post Free for Thirteen Stamps, INDIAN RAILWAY AND INDU S FLOTILLA GUARANTEES EXAMINED AND FOUND WW I Dk:LUSIVE ; with extracts front the Official Contracts. Third Edition, with an Introduction, containing a Corres pondence of Mr. W. F. ANDREW with the Author, and Re plies to Mr. W. P. ANDREW, and Mr. THOMAS WATT. By JAMES MILLS. W. Wilson and Co., 103, Cheapside. R° YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. [luta the management of Mies 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. Honer, Patey, Lyall, W allworth, T. Distin, R 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-aloe open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for bouking, or fees to Box-keepers. Sta- T o••Manazer, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr. }Award Murray. HEA TRY, Y AL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bactstonc. TILTS EVENING, FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To ba followed by OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun'lreary, Mr. S Ahern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young. dr,c. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Sotheran, 3114 s Oliver, &c. To con Jude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Howe, Mr. Commence a' 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the nertornwrtoes will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (22d time) the new and original Drama, entitled PE EP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deellsh. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles lby, Edmun t Falconer ; Mcs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Ch4tterton. ptlces as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. i) ()VAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- It) Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. 'l' II IS EVENING. JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Mlsa M. II 81 rig and Mr. H. Widdicomb. After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespe , re's tragedy of OTHELLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Othello, Mr Pechter ENV TH EATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and 3tanacrer, 31r. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. 31r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. After which, the new drama, entitled THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written by the author of "The Colleen Bawn." Mr. George Jamison, from the Winter garden, New York ; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea tres ; and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. Tho other prin cipal characters in he drama will be performed by Messrs. Emery, Stephenson Billington, Paul Bedford, Romer. Mrs. ilillington. Mrs. Marston, &c., &c. Entirely new scenery by essrs. Dalby and Thompson. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole, AUss K. Kelly, (to. 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. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENI)IG, 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 PIE RROTS. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven. C INTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. MR. SAX COWELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou rite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK. BUILT." Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TiIAVIATA, By Miss Russell, 111i..s_Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor 'Molt with a poWerful Chorus. The Comic department :—Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, " John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. I I arvey and Wrench (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and his talented son, the best negro delineators of the day ; and hiss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, 1 1 HE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," "Simon BOMA - nc , ra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell and Miss Ernst ; Messrs. Albert (his first appearance, Morley Greville, Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.— Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame E,,ders sohn (composed expressly , for them). And Varied Comio Entertainments by - Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dal:, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Morahan, and SAM CO WELL. Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tit IS DAY.—Morning, 3h. sm.—Afternoon, 3h. 28m. To-moItROW. -Morning, 3h. 50m.—Afternoon,? 4h. sm. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, DECEMBER 4, 1861, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41—:ighest:sinee noon yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.13; falling rapidly. WIND— Southerly ; light, with fine seasonable weather, 41. 2 ..-e. -, -.4 ,•-• 4 , - --, .) , .rk..t.t . ; 4S 1 hr:o1 r ' ...,... ~.:ir 1,....._,, .i,,'' :±..',14.;-5,1' t ,,• - •,--'o,<-.4 - \..).-Ps•-.. r j:.._.,.....ik rr, „ . ~ ,,t A , ' --,, 44 rf HE SUN. L:)NDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, 1861. Two considerations may have sufficient weigh with the American Government to prevent war— Eurcpean opinion and the English Navy. We do feel for the PRESIDENT as not being a free agent ; we may well suppose that with the responsibilities pressing on him, and the interests of the North western States, to which he belongs, he must per sonally shrink from an additional war, and with so different an adversary to the one which now is too much for him. But only the strongest case can enable him to overcome both SEwARD and the mob. As to the law of the case that will not avail him. American lawyers will pronounce any insult to England quite lawful, and legal promotion will be their reward. Mr. LINCOLN must be able to point to more powerful arguments than those of the first Non-American lawyers if he would quiet the mob. One, as we learn from Mr. RUSSELL will be, the unanimous opinion of all the Representatives at Washington of Foreign Powers. These all, he tells us, have called on Lord LYONS and expressed their opinion that the " outrage," for it seems that is the term in vogue among the diplomatic body there, cannot be submitted to by England. The French Princes now at Washington, and Prince JOINVILLE himself, express the deepest regret at what has occurred, and there does not seem to be an excep tion to the general opinion that England must insist on reparation for the dishonour done to her flag. France and Russia have received adulation enough from the Americans, but their representatives are as decided as any that the insult may not be submitted to ; and that, if i t Were, it would compromise the flag of every maritime nation, placing it at the mercy of the caprice of any American lieutenant. When, moreover, Mr. LINCOLN receives the European papers, he will find thit these opinions of resident foreigners aro but the reflex of those of their coun trymen at home, The French press he must surely acknowledge to be in a position of impartiality, yet their language is often stronger than that of our own. It will show him, too, that an almost imme diate consequence of the war will be the recognition of the independence of the Southern States, an d the raising of the blockade. Mr. LINCOLN may point his mob masters to the fact, that he shall be isolated in the community of nations, unless justice is done to England. Perhaps even they will feel d a dan that this would be both an unpleasant an gerous situation. But what will weigh most of all with those who ara tilt utterly demented, will be the hard facts of the relative position of the navies of the two coun tries and that both in regard to ships and to men. Never did the hope of peace more depend on pre paration for war. We owe little to the Emperor of the French, so far as motives are concerned, for our present readiness to chastise any insult which might be offered us—bat we have certainly to thank hum that it is now in our power to send forth a fleet at a "V dole notice so equipped and manned,ras to make American resistance hopeless. Steam has Az i gc.lllllthe difference between the navies of the present day and those of the last war, and. in naval steam power we have an immeasurable superiority. Steam also has very much lessened the American advantage in regard to privateering. There is no denying the cleverness of the Americans in building fast sa i lers; but a fast sailing privateer has no chance with a fast war steamer, and steam privateers could never venture far from their coal depots, and hence could be but little employed. The American pri vateers would have no depots except on their own blockaded coasts, and. other Powers could not furnish them with coal without giv ing up their character of neutrals. We, on the other hand, have depots already all over the world; coal is, in fact, become one of the most im portant munitions of naval warfare. This circum stance alone will quite change the American posi tion in regard to privateering, and though our losses would no doubt be serious, they would be as nothing compared with those of the last war. Their coasting trade would, on the other Land, be • at our mercy, and the South would take good care that they derived no advantage from the Missis- sippi. What the spirit of our sailors is, they will see from the prompt and spontaneous letters of the men composing our Naval Reserve, These men know nothing of the niceties of law, but they quite understand what it is for a British mail steamer to lie at the mercy of every bullying commander of an American man-of war, and, though not liable by the terms of their enlistment to serve, except our shores be attacked or-the emergency extreme, they proffer themselves at once for Transatlantic service on behalf of their flag and their QUEEN. This is the more remark able since, through some oversight in the arrange ments, they would be pecuniary losers if on actual service. These men are all of them picked men, such men as are only needed to form part of a ship's crew, and are all, of course, skilled in gunnery; and there are already 8,000 of them, certain to amount in the spring to 12,000 or 13,000, and, if war be threatened, to very many more. No cases Belli could possibly have appealed to our sailors like that which the Americans have now given us. It will be a sailors war completely ; and assuredly if it should be begun the naval enthusiasm will be unanimous and irre sistible. Every English sailor will expect every English sailor to do his duty. Ours will also be a battle for defence, the American, one for the right of attack. If the Americans inspect their own naval list, and compare it with ours, they will find little com fort in the prospect of a war. All their large ships nearly, are old and worthless. They are all wooden ships also, and it wouid for long be utterly impossible for them to overtake us in iron-plated vessels. The Warrior alone would be more than a match for a little fleet of their best ships. Invulnerable to their shot and shell she could smash and burn them with ease and at leisure. The Americans have, indeed, a long list of large ships on paper, but they are known to be of a kind, or in a state little adapted to meet any of our own well equipped and well found ships. It seems that they have about half a dozen very efficient frigates which no sailor could despise, with a ship of only equal force, their arma ment being very powerful—such as the Niagara and the Wabash ; but their number is small, and could not be increased as the army can on the banks of the Potomac. As our readers have already seen, we could in a few days send to sea a reserve fleet whose guns would outnumber theirs four to one. Indeed, the whole American navy is, at the present time, hardly able to maintain the blockade of the comparatively few Southern ports. In fact, it does not maintain it effectively ; it would certainly be little able to undertake offensive work, and have more than enough to do to protect its own shores. If Mr. LINCOLN will take the pains to understand his own naval position and ours, and will remember that this time we should not be fighting all the world, he may find it will answer better to Keep the Peace with England than to fight for the custody of the men he has kidnapped from beneath her flag. Durham is not ungrateful to the late gallant and chivalrous Marquess of LONDONDERRY. It has ample reason to regard his memory with gratitude —and that gratitude it has now signally attested. The demonstration made on Monday last in the old county town, upon the occasion of the uncover ing of the memorial statue of Lord LONDONDERRY, showed in a very notable manner the affection and admiration with which the noble Marquess's name is still cherished in that part of the country, among those who for so many years enjoyed the privilege of being his neighbours. Nothing in the shape of posthumous praise, we do honestly believe, was ever more thoroughly genuine than the tribute thus offered in Lord LONDONDERRY'S remembrance. Certainly we cannot readily re- call to mind any more graceful or, in some re spects, more splendid panegyric than the one pro nounced by Mr. DISRAELI upon the fair fame of the deceased Patrician, Soldier, and Diplomatist, tit the banquet which took place in the Town-hall of Dur ham on Monday evening. The right hon. gentle man spoke no doubt, as he himself intimated during the course of his very eloquent remarks, with the very natural fervour and partiality of one who had for more than a quarter of a century enjoyed the in timate personal friendship of Lord LONDONDERRY; But, while he spoke thus with a generous bias in every syllable he uttered, he spoke also in the vivid recollection, not only of every one who listened to him on Monday, but of every one who may read afterwards what is reported of his speech in the public newspapers. We refer any one, in fact, who glances at what we are here writing, to that other portion of our impression of this evening in which Mr. DISRAELI'S speech is given as accurately as possibly verbatim. And having done so, we apps 11 to the honest memory of each, whether everything that is there said by the member for Bucks, the Leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition, in regard to Lord LONDONDERRY, is not strictly and absolutely borne out by the records of European History. Lord LONDONDERRY'S career was, from first :o last, familiar to his fellow - countrymen. In - writing his history, and the history of his famous brother, the previous marquess, the Annalist of Europe, indeed, has had to relate very recently a something more than Twice-Told Tale. In truth, Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON himself has had in his time to recount much of that heroic story inci dentally in the course of his voluminous masterpiece. Who among those in any way acquainted with the narrative of the Great Napoleonian Wars, has not long since made himself intimately acquainted with the resplendent feats of arms, and the almost in estimable diplomatic achievements for ever asso ciated':with the name of the third Marquess of LONDONDERRY —first of all as Sir CHARLES ant by those not thus STE WART, and afterwa rds as Lord STEWART ? It may be deemed to hear Mr. DISRAELI sp eak- Wars of the EmP ; ing in .r e, .. . i n ti m ately acquainted with the annals of the yet eat G the terms o f unsti ed eulogium in which THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVE NI NAG, DEO 0118 Elt 4, 1861. he did certainly speak on Monday last down at Durhani, in reference to Lord LONDONDERRY'S doings, both as a Diplomatist and as a Soldier. But who shall say that those encomiums were other than strictly and literally within ,the mark, who knows what those achievements really were ? Why, it is almost impossible to exaggerate the import ance of the effect produced by Lord STEWART'S diplomatic negotiations with the King of SWEDEN —those ever-memorable negotiations which kept BERNADOTTE true to the cause of the Allies ! While as to the personal heroism of Sir CHARLES STEWART, it may be quite confidently asserted that the two renowned Paladins with whom Lord LON DONDERRY was on Thursday brought into direct comparison by the right hon. member for Bucking hamshire, that neither MURAT himself nor the dashing Marquess of ANGLESEA ever performed a more brilliant feat of arms than that which was achieved by the Marquess of LONDONDERRY, when, as Sir CHARLES STEWART, in the midst of a grand cavalry charge in the Peninsula hew ith his own hand took prisoner the French Colonel DELAMOTT E. But simple justice then has been done to the memory of this dauntless and noble heart—by everything that occurred, by every syllable of panegyric that was uttered, upon the 2d instant in the city of Durham, upon the occasion of this grate ful Demonstration in honour of the late Marquess of LONDONDERRY. A retrospective glance at the changes which have taken place within the present twelvemonth in the two houses of the Legislature, has recently brought out vividly to view the unusual number, and in some respects the really extraordinary diversity of those changes. To epitomise the whole, at the out set, we may say, then, that within the eleven months of 1861 that have already elapsed, no less than FIFTEEN Peers have disappeared from the scene of the House of Lords ! While as many as TWENTY Two Members of the Lower House have either died within the year or have resigned their seats in that popular branch of the Legislature. FOUR. new Peerages have been bestowed : namely a barony upon Admiral Sir MAURICE BERKELEY, now Lord FITZHARDINGE—another barony pre- viously upon Sir RICHARD BETHELL, now Lord Chancellor WESTBURY—another upon the Right Hon. SIDNEY HERBERT, since deceased, as Lord HERBERT of LEA—and an earl's coronet upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL, henceforth to be known more tersely as Lord RUSSELL. Conspicuous among the Peers who have departed this life during 1861, were, it will be remembered, three well-known Dukes—one of them lamentably distinguished in the later years of his life by the magni tude of his misfortunes, to wit, his Graca the Duke of BUCKINGHAM—the other two notable in a very different way as the wealthiest landowners in all England, namely their Graces the Dukes of BED FORD and SUTHERLAND. Lord HERBERT'S pre mature demise has already been adverted to. But another demise, almost equally premature, was that of the high-spirited and generous-hearted Earl of EGLlNTON—famous in his time as the giver of the fantastic revels still remembered under the title of the Eglinton Tournament. Early in the year, on the 21st of February, expired one, whose title will henceforth be associated with the discovery and editing of SAMUEL PEPYS'S renowned Diary—i. e. Lord BRAYBROOKE. Perhaps of all the deaths among the particular class within the year the most affecting to the public at large, certainly the most startling from its suddenness, was that (on the 23d of June) of the Lord Chancellor CAMPBELL. As to the changes that have taken place in the House of Common; during 1861—two of them have resulted, it is true, from what were vacancies at the commencement of the year : meaning the vacancies in the representation of Pembrokeshire and Aberdeenshire—the former being filled up by the election of Mr. G. PHILLIPS, and the latter by the election of Mr. W. LESLTE. Several of the vacancies have been caused by death, but the ma jority by resignation, some of these latter upon pro , motions, others by the pro forma acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds. There was the death of the Hon. THOMAS MOSTYN, for example, that led to the election of Lord RICHARD GROSVENOR for Flint shire. There was the death again of Dr. NOBLE, that led to the return of Mr. W. HEYGATE for I Leicester. There was the demise of Mr. DAVID PUGH, introducing a relative of his own in his stead into the House of Commons as member for Montgomeryshire. How constituencies pass quietly from one member of a family to an other was illustrated yet more directly down at Pembroke district by the substitution of Sir HUGH OWEN for Sir JOHN OWEN upon the death of the last baronet. Mr. FOLEY'S recent demise has yet to result in the return of a new M.P. for East Worcestershire. The two most familiar figures to the habitués of the House of Commons that have disappeared since the close of the last session of Parliament—the two who will be most missed from their accustomed places in the House when the Legislature shall meet for the next ses sion, early in February—are beyond all doubt the late hon. member for Finsbury, and the right hon. baronet the late member for Carlisle. Sir JAMES GRAHAM has already been succeeded by Mr. E• POTTER. But as to who will be the successor of Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE in the representation of the metropolitan borough of Finsbury, the constituency itself has yet to know its own mind. That excellent old Tory joke-master to the House of Commons, Colonel SIRTIIORP, has been soon enough followed it will be remembered, by his son, Major SIBTHORP; so that the Lincoln constituency has had to look elsewhere than to the SIBTHORP family for their newly chosen representative. During the past twelvemonth, beyond the instances already given, there are three changes that have already taken place in the House of Commons—each of these three changes of a somewhat peculiar character. There was the generous self-abnegation evidenced by Mr. RICH for many years past, the well known M.P. for Richmond in Yorkshire—Mr. Ricii promptly mak ing way for Sir ROUNDELL PALMER immediately upon that hon. and learned gentleman's nomination by the Premier to the Solicitor -Generalship. There was, moreover, that unlucky resignation of his old constituency down at Andover, byAlderman CUBITT, now twice Lord Mayor of London—the Lord Mayor aspiring (in vain) to represent the City of London upon Lord JOHN'S promotion to his Earldom— thus making way very comfortably for Mr. HENRY COLES, who thereupon quietly slipped into the House as I.P. for Andover. Besides which there was the return (pursuant to the Act passed last session) of Mr. CHARLES TURNER, as the third member for South Lancashire. Under the same act—the Appropriation of Seats Act—there is the return also to be voted of the first member for the new seat of Birkenhead. Altogether, we may L repeat, there have been no less than about a q uarter of a hundred distinct changes that have swept (within the present year of grace), through the British House of Commons. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. The Earl Russell left his residence, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, yesterday, for Windsor Castle. The Earl and Countess of Derby leave Know • sky to •morrow, on a visit to her Majesty, at *Windsor Castle. The new judge, Mr. Mellor, was yesterday sworn r T " , in before the Lord Chancellor in his lordship's private " room, at Lincoln's-inn. Mr. Mellor was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple in June, 1833, and subsequently joined the Midland Circuit, of which several years age he became one of the leaders. Mr. Mellor was recorder of Leicester, and at the last election was chosen to represent Nottingham in Parliament. Although a good and consistent Liberal, we believe that the hon. and learned gentleman owes his promotion to the industry and ability which have marked his career at the bar. The selection of Mr. Mellor by the Lord Chancellor has given general satis faction to the profession, though not unmingled with regret at the retirement of Sir Hugh Hill, who only held the office of Justice of the Queen's Bench for the short space of three years. THE :SURREY CANAL MURDER.—A respite was received yesterday by Mr. Bannister, the governor of Maidstone Gaol, for George Inkpen, who was cenviated at the last session of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of his sweetheart by drowning her in the Surrey Canal. DESTRUCTION OF GREETING RECTORY-HOUSE BY FIRE.—A telegraphic despatch arrived on Monday at the residence of the Rev. George J. Dupuis, at Eton Col lege, one of the fellows, announcing the total destruction by fire of his rectory-house at Creeting, Needham-market, Suffolk. The fire was first discovered by the coachman at five o'clock in the morning, who saw the flames issuing from the drawing-room. Immolate alarm was given, and prompt assistance rendered, but the fire spread with such rapidity that the residence, with the valuable plate, furni ture, and effects, was consumel in a few hours. Although an insurance had been effected on the house and its con tents, it will in no way cover the serious loss sustained. THE SHIP ELIZA OF LIVERPOOL.—A Calais letter says :—" A three-masted ship, measuring from 400 to 500 tons, was moored last evening at our quays. She is an English ship called the Eliza, of Liverpool. She was abandoned at sea, and found by three French fishing boats 14 miles north of the port of Calais, without anybody on board. She is a magnificent ship, quite new, and would require a crew of 20 men to navigate her. The abandon meat of the ship can only be accounted for by the bad weather which prevailed on Tuesday last, when she may have struck on some of the sandbanks in this neighbour.. hood. Her log-book, which was found on board, was written up to the 26th ult., so that she was not abandoned previous to that day. No tidings have been heard of the crew, and it is feared they were drowned, as a boat was seen by the fishermen near the ship, and which had capsized. The Eliza came from London, and was bound for Carthagena and Con stantir ople. She is laden with bar iron. The ship is valued at about £lO,OOO, and her cargo at as much. Ac cording to maritime law, the fisherman who brought her into port have a right to a third of the value of the ship and cargo. This is a magnificent prize for the fishermen, who will have thus gained as much in one day as they could have earned in the course of their lives by catching fish." THE CARLISLE MURDER—CLUE TO THE As • sassnr.—CARLISLE, Tuesday.—Yesterday the adjourned inquest on Jane Emmerson, the poor aged woman, who for years had charge of the level crossing of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at Botcherby, and who was found most brutally murdered on the morning of Friday, the 22d ult., was resumed before W. Carrick, k sq., the coroner, and a jury. Since last meeting of the jury the police have been anremitting in their exertions to trace the perpetrator of this foul and horrible deed; and it is believed that a clue has been obtained which may lead to the apprehension of the murderer. On Thursday last as a labourer was walk ing beside the river Peterell he saw a bundle, which he opened, and found that it contained a shirt and a pair of trousers, stained with blood and very dirty. These articles were handed over to the police, and hopes are entertained of tracing the owner of them, as they were doubtless the clothes worn by the murderer on the night, and who has used this means of disposing of clothes which would be strong evidence against him. The evidence given before the coroner was, for the most part, a repetition of what is already known. ANOTHER CAB OUTRAGE.—Two men—William Randall, a cab driver at Leeds, and John Robson, of Thwaite Mills—were on Monday committed for trial by the Wakefield magistrates, charged with having attempted to murder, by drowning in the canal at Thwaite Mills, the wife of John Wood, a coalmines at Churwell. The story of the prosecutrix went to show that she had hired Randall's cab to take her home on Thursday night last, being too late for the last railway train. The two prisoners accompanied the cab, but instead of driving to Churwell took the direction of Thwaite Mills. Robson (hove for a short distance, and then—having his place supplied on the box by Rardall—entered the cab, and attempted to crimi nally assault the prosecutrix. She resisted, and received in retaliation two black eyes from blows given by Robson, who at Thwaite Mills threw her into the canal, and left her to drown. Such was the statement made by the woman before the magistrates. Her rescue from the water was proved, but it was also sworn that she was intoxicated, and that her statement on being taken out of the water fixed upon Ran dall, and not Robson, the act of pushing her into the water. The defence sought to be established was that herstory was a fiction, and that she fell into the canal when in a state of intoxication. She, however, strenuously denied the allega tion of drunkenness. The magistrates determined to send the case for trial, but admitted both prisoners to bail. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF THE FEMALE f3Loistnix—The Female Blondin gave a perform...o...E 9 t. George's Hall, Stonehouse, on Monday night. The rope was stretched from the organ loft to the platform, being at one end about 30ft. high, and at the other 10ft. or 15ft. It had evidently been put up in haste, and was not all pro perly secured. When she had got half way across the first time she suddenly stopped and loudly called to have the rope tightened, as it was vibrating strongly. This was done and she managed to cleverly get to the end, receiving loud applause. The rope having been further tightened, she walked back, and all present thought the mise:able exhibi• tion, which was certainly a disgrace to the town, to be finished. However, some men were stationed at the side ropes, which ran through tackling at each window, and the Female Blondin again prepared to walk, but this it will be found nearly resulted in her death. In fact, how she eseaped was a miracle. She stepped on to the platform, and bandaged her eyes, after which she put a sack over her head, her arms being at liberty for the purpose of using the pole. Again she started, everybody beholding her with terrified looks, in consequence of the slack state of the rope. When just beyond the chandelier nearest the organ-loft one of the side ropes suddenly broke, and the rope on which she was standing actually fell about three feet. A subdued groan instantly went through the room, as all expected to see her tumble headlong down. Strange to say, she did not fall, as she managed to save herself with the balancingpole. How she got up the remainder of the rope was a mystery ; we confess that a sickening sensation at the sight prevented us from seeing. The " enterprising proprietor" and his assistants instantly rushed to the gallery, where they res • cued the unfortunate woman from her perilous position. Upon examination, the rope which broke proved to be to tally unfit for the purpose.— Western Morning News. " THE QUADROON " AND " THE OCTOROON."— A change has been made in the cast of " The Octoroon," which strengthens the play —now running more freely than at first. A question of Mr. Boucicault's claim to any con siderable share in the merit of authorship has arisen, and a mass of evidence has been placed in our hands against that claim. This evidence suggests the unpleasant inference that what Mr. Boucicault put forward at the Adelphi Theatre as the result of his own experience and observa tions in Louisiana is derived in substance and in spirit from Capt. Mayne Reid's story of " The Quadroon." 4 ' Octoroon," it is urged, is but a colourable alteration of " Quadroon." Zoe is Aurore, Dora is Eugdnie. The change introduced int ) the story, by means 6f the poisoning, is not a happy effort of art. One who knows the life of Loui siana assures us that the scenes introduced into " The Octoroon" originally, or from some other source than " The Quadroon," are so unlike the real life of that country as to suggest the idea that Mr. Boucicault has found his origi nal on the stage of New Orleans, not in the plantations. The captain of the Mississippi steamer, we are assured, is a very gross caricature—the original being as well-dressed, bred, debonnaire a geritleman as the captain of the Quirinal or the Alhambra. The French planters of the coast are not less viilified, we are told, in "The Octoroon." In dress and manners the real men resemble their countrymen on the Boulevards and the Rue Rivoli. These points have an appearance of supporting the charge made against Mr. Boucicault, that he has adopted without permission or acknowledgment the work of a literary brother ; but our readers know that appearances are often extremely mis leading, and it would be unjust to condemn Mr. Bouci cault until he has had, and neglected, the opportunity of justifying his acts. As the case now stands before the public, Captain Mayne Reid appears in the position of a man of letters who has suffered a literary wrong. Can Mr. Boucicault show that the wrung is unsubstan tial ? TURNER AND CLAUDE.—It was and is well known to men living in the early and middle portion of Turner's professional career, that he did not often sell his oil-pictures; they were not sought after or appreciated by the aristocracy or fashionable picture-buyers, with few exceptions, such as Lord Egremont of Petworth, Lord Yarborough, Sir John Leicester, and Lord Ellesmere : the cause of which ma 3 be traced and principally attributed to the influence and ab sorbing preference given by Sir George Beaumont (au amateur artist) to the works or pictures of Claude. Whe ther there was anything personal or not in this advocacy of Claude to the exclusion of Turner I know not; but it is cer t -tin that Turner was well acquainted with it, and deeply felt the injustice of Sir George Beaumont's prejudices, as well as the influence he had in picture society to direct all taste and to concentrate it on Claude; the painful know ledge of these facts gave rise, no doubt, to Turner's be queathing two of his best pictures to the nation, on condi tion that they were placed side by side with two of Claude's best pictures, in order that posterity might do him that justice that either ignorance or something worse denied him while living; in the same spirit, and in defence of himself as an artist, did Turner commence his wonderful, beauti ful, and highly-estimated work of the "Liber Studiorum, ' as compared with the "Liber Vsritatis" of Claude.—Froin Thornkry's Life of Turner. V't/ PARIS, DEC. 4. The Moniteur of to-day denies the statement made by some French papers, that the Empress would go to Nice. The lifoniteur also announces that the Porte has communicated to the Powers the firman establish ing the legislative union of Moldavia and Walla chia for the life of the present Hospodar. The United States Consul hag communicated to i the French papers a letter of General Scott, in which he declares there is no truth in the report that the Cabinet of Washington had ordered the seizure of the Southern Commissioners, even if under the protection of a neutral flag. He is quite ignorant of the decision of his Government, but he says it is necessary to preserve good rela tions between America and England. " I hope," continues General Scott, that " Earl Russell and Mr. Seward will agree on a solution to the question, whether the persons who were arrested on board the Trent were contraband of war or not. If they were agents of the rebels, it will be difficult to con vince even impartial minds that they were less con traband of war than rebel soldiers and cannons." In conclusion, General Scott expresses his con viction that a war between America and England cannot take place without more serious provecations than those at present given. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a full ac count of the opening of the French Senate. At a quarter past 2 his Excellency M. Troplong, accompanied by General the Marquis d'Hautpoul, Grand Referendary, and by the secretaries, &c., took his seat, and declared the opening of the sitting. An Imperial edict was then read, announcing the opening of the sittings of the Senate. The nomination of three new Senators was then proclaimed. The new Senators are M. le Vicomte de Lagueronniere, General Montauban (commander of the French troops in China), and M. de Forcade. An Imperial decree was then read to the follow ing effect : " The project of a Senatus Consultum deliberated upon in a Council of State, modifying the 4th and 12th Articles of the Senatus Consultum of the 25th of December, 1852, is now to be read to the Senate!' M. Baroche then read the project of the Senatus Consultum, which we published in our second edi- tion yesterday. The Moniteur publishes also an expose des motifs explaining why Articles 4 and 12 of the Senatus Consultum of the 25th of December, 1852, are to be modified. GENOA, DEC. 3. Garibaldi, in reply to an address from the Italian inhabitants of the Tyrol, said that he hoped for the early deliverance of Italy, for which the people should prepare. Garibaldi will not go to Turin, but will return to morrow to Caprera. NAPLES, DEC. 3. The Irpino of to-day announces that 700 brigands have been surrounded by the Royal troops at Romagnano, in the Principato Citra. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at Mar• seilles at 8 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, 10 A.M. The ship Lady Franklin, Captain Jordan, 1,280 tons, from London, in ballast, for New York, be• longing to Messrs S. Thompson, and Nephew, of that city, anchored in the Sound yesterday, osten sibly to inquire the whereabouts of att. Confederate war steamship Nashville. At midnight a fire broke out in her forehold, and she was removed to Jenny Cliff Day, and at this t h an .ffuito arc making to scuttle her. Several holes have been cut in her port. side and bow, and the Revenue cutter Hamilton has fired three six-pouniers into her. Sling chains are fitted, At high tide the water is eight fathoms deep. The floating fire-engines have, up to 10 o'clock, kept the fire between decks. As the Lady Franklin fills she has a strong list to starboard, It is strongly suspected that the ship was fired purposely by the crew, some of whom are alleged to be Southerners. Several were sent yes terday into the fore peak, where there is a quantity of dunage and lumber, and eight absconded early this morning. The spirit room has been broken into, and one man, in a state of intoxication, was dragged from his berth just in time to prevent him from being suffocated. FRAN CE. La Patric has the following under the head of " Latest Intelligence" : "We learn from recent advices by sea that the steam frigate San Jacinto had already, early in November, searched the French vessel Jules-et- Marie, and two other foreign vessels. The first of those vessels was a Danish trader called the Jut land ; she was on her way from the Havannah to Santa Cruz ; the other was a Portuguese vessel. These facts have some importance, because they prove that the Cabinet at Washington fancies it has the power to exercise the right of search to its full extent." BOURSE, DEC. 3.—The arrival of the English funds with a decline has had a rather depressing effect on this market, and Stock having been offered, prices are lower than yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 15c. Railways also heavy, and many of the lines rather lower. The following are the last quotations per per Cents... 95 10 Credit Fancier llBO Do end month.... 95 20 Belgian 41.. lOO 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 171 ' Roman .. . 71 Bank Shares 2975 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 7 3 5 ' Spanish Threes — Do. Account 737 50 ;Homo Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1320 .. 1322 50 Northern Nev. , ditto 917 50 .. 916 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 1018 7o .. 1020 Geneva 315 .. 347 50 Southern 660 .. 662 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon-bard ITALY. The following is the text of the bill presented to the Chamber of Deputies at Turin, in favour of the followers of Garibaldi at Marsala : " Art. 1. A pension for life of I,ooofr. a year is assigned on the Budget of War and the Navy by way of national recompense to each of the 1,000 men who took part in the expedition of General Garibaldi to Marsala ; and, in case of death, to their widows; and, in default of them, to their orphan children during their minority. Art. 2. The pen sion for the widows and children shall be regulated on the bases determined by the lav% of 27th June, 1859, relative to army pensions. Art. 3. Each of the pensioners shall have the power of ceding the enjoyment of a part or of the whole of his pensior, for a determinate period, or for ever, to one or several of his comrades in the expedition, or to their families." PRUSSIA. The following is taken from a Berlin letter in the Constitutio2znel "The new organisation of the circles, which was to have been submitted to the Chamber in their last session, and will be in the present, further L 4%1 4 v...., • diminishes the prerogatives of the nobility. In the assemblies of the circles, the property of nobles en- joyedthree votes, whilst that of commoners, whether burgesses or peasants, had only two. As a conse quence, the affairs of the rural circumscriptions were very badly managed, and for a long time no roads were made but for the advantage of estates belonging to the nobles. The new organisation will give an equal number of votes to each kind of pro perty." The same communication says : " It is reported that the Prussian vessel of war, the Ama zone, which was sent on a voyage to Lis bon for the purpose of the exercising the cadets, has perished in the Atlantic, The Prussian Minis ter of Marine has not received any positive infor mation of the fact, but there is reason to apprehend the report is true." THE AMIRICAN FEDERAL NAVY. The following is a list of all the vessels of war now actually belonging to, or in the possession of, the Northern States, exclusive only of the merchant and other vessels which have been taken up as store and troop ships since last May and June : SHIPS OP THE LINE. The Pennsylvania, 120 guns, 3,241 tons, built in 1837—re - ceiving ship, Norfolk. The Columbus, 80 guns, 2,480 tons, built in 1319 ; in ordi- nary—Norfolk. The Ohio, 84 guns, 2,757 tons, built in 1820—receiving ship, Boston. The North Carolina, 84 guns, 2,633 tons, built in 1820—re. ceiving ship. New York. The Delaware, 84 guns, 2,633 tons, built in 1820 ; in ordi nary—Norfolk. The Vermont, 84 guns, 2,633 tons, built in 1840 ; in ordi nary—Boston. The New Orleans, 84 guns, 2,805 tons, built in 1815; on the stocks —Sackett' s- harbour. The Alabama, 84 guns, 2,633 tons, built in 1818 ; on the stocks—Kittery. The Virginia, 8i guns, 2,633 tons, built in 1818; on the stocks—Boston. The New York, 84 guns, 2,633 tons, built in 1818 ; on the stocks—Norfolk. FRIGATES. The Constitution, 50 guns, 1,607 tons, built in 1797; in commission—Annapolis. The United States, 50 guns, 1,607 ton•, built in 1797; in ordinary—Norfolk. The Potomac, 50 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1820 ; in ordi nary—New York. The Brandywine, 50 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1825 ; in ordinary—New York. The Columbia, 50 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1836; in ordi nary—Norfolk. The Congress, 50 guns, 1,867 tons, built in 1841; in Qom- mission—South America. The Raritan, 50 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1843 ; in ordinary —Norfolk. The St. Lawrence, 50 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1847; in ordinary—Philadelphia, The Sattee, 50 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1855 ; in commis sion—Home station. The Sabine, 5 . ,) guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1855 ; in commis sion—Home station. SLOOPS. The Cumberland, 24 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1842 ; in commission—Home. The Savannah, 24 guns, 1,726 tons, built in 1842; fitting out—New York. The Constellation, 22 guns, 1,452 tons, built in 1854 ; in commission—Africa. The Macedonian, 22 guns, 1,311 tons, built in 1836; in commission—Home. The Portsmouth, 22 guns, 1,022 tons, built in 1843 ; in commission—Home. The Plymouth, 22 guns, 989 tons, built in 1843; in ordi nary—Norfolk. The St. Mary's, 22 guns, 958 tons, built in 1844 ; in corn. mission—South America. The Jamestown, 22 guns, 985 tons, built in 1814 ; fitting out—Philadelphia. The Germantown, 22 guns, 939 tons, built in 1846; in ordinary—Norfolk. The Saratoga, 21 guns, 882 tons, built in 1842; in com mission—Home. The John Adams, 20 guns, 700 tons, built in 1831 ; in commission—East The Vincennes, 20 guns, 700 tons, built in 1826 ; in ordi nary—Boston. The Vandalia, 20 guns, 783 tons, built in 1828 ; in commis sion—East Indies. The St. Louis, 20 guns, 700 tons, built in 1828; in commis sion—Home. The Cyane, 20 guns, 792 tons, built in 1837 ; in commission —South America. The Levant, 20 guns, 792 tons, built in 1837 ; in commission —Home. The Decatur, 16 guns, 56 1 11 tons, built in 1839 ; in ordinary —San Francisco. Tho Marian, 16 guns, 566 tons, built in 1839; in ordinary —Portsmouth, N.H. The Dale, 16 guns, 566 tons, built in 1839; in ordinary— Portsmouth, N.H. The Preble, 16 guns, 566 tons, b.•fl* tina ;in ordinary —Boston. BRIGS. Tho Bainbridge, G guns, 259 tons, built in 1842 ; fitting• Boston. The Perry, 6 guns, 280 tons, built in 1843 ; fitting—New York. The Dolphin, 4 guns, 224 tons, built in 1836; ordinary. Norfolk. STORE AND TROOP VESSELS. -- - The Relief, 2 guns, 468 tons, built in 1836 ; commission- Africa. The Supply, 4 guns, 517 tons, purchased in 1846 ; commis, sion—Home. The Release, 1 gun, 3 1 tens, purchased in 1846 ; commis• sion—the Mediterranean. SCREW FRIGATES. The Niagara, 12 guns, 4,580 tons, built in 1855—Japan. The Roanoke, 40 guns, 3,40 tons, built in 1855—New York. The Colorado, 40 guns, 3,400 tons, built in 1855—Boston. The Minnesota, 40 guns, 3,200 tons, built in 1855—Boston, The Wabash, 40 guns, 3,200 tons, built in 1855—New York, The Franklin, 59 guns, 3,680 tons, built in 1854—Kittery FIRST-CLASS STEAM SLOOPS. SCREW. The San Jacinto, 13 guns, 1,446 tons, built in 1850 —Home. The Lancaster, 22 guns, 2,360 tons, built in 1858—South America. The Pensacola, 19 guns, 2,158 tons, built in 1858—Norfolk, The Brooklyn, 25 guns, 2,070 tons, built in 1858—Home. The Hartford, 16 guns, 1,990 tons, built in 1858—Baal Indies. The Richmond, 14 guns, 1,929 tons, built in 1858—Home, SIDE-WHEEL, The Susquehanna, 15 guns, 2,450 tons, built in 1850— Home. The Powhattan, 11 guns, 2,415 tons, bult in 1850—Home. The Saranac, 9 guns, 1,146 tons, built in 1848—South America. SECOND-CLASS STEAM SLOOPS. SCREW. The Mohican, 6 guns, 994 tons, built in 18.58—Home. The Narragansett, 5 guns, 804 tons, built in 1858—South America. The Iroquois, 6 guns, 1,016 tons, built in 1858—Home. The Pawnee, 4 guns, 1,289 tons, built in 1858—Home. The Wyoming, 6 guns, 997 tons, built in 1858—South America. The Dacotah, 6 guns, 998 tons, built in 1858—East Indies, The Pocahontas, 5 guns, 694 tcns, built in 1855—Home. The Seminole, 3 guns, 801 tons, built in 1858—Brazil. SIDE-WHEEL. The Fulton, 4 guns, 698 tons, built in 1837—Pensacola, THIRD-CLASS STEAMERS. S CREW. The Wyandotte, 5 guns, 461 tons, built in 1858 ; in corn. mission—Home. The Mohawk, 5 guns, 464 tons, built in 1858; in commis• sion—Dome. The Crusader, 8 guns, 549 tons, built in 1853; in commis. si3n—Home. The Mystic, 5 guns, 461 tons, built in 1858 ; in commission —Home. SIDE-WHEEL, The I,Vaterwitch, 3 guns, 378 tons, built in 1845; fitting- Philadelphia. The Michigan, 1 gun, 582 tons, built in 1844; in ordinary —Erie. The Pulaski, 1 gun, 395 tons, built in 1851; in commission —South America. The Saginow, 3 guns, 453 tons, built in 1858 ; in commis don—San Francisco. STEAM TENDERS. The John Hancock, - 3 — . guns, 382 tons, built in 1850; in ordinary—St. Francisco. The Anacostin, 1 gun, 217 tons, built in 1858; in commis. sion—Washington. Stevens's iron battery, 8 guns, 4,683 tons, building since 1842—Hoboken, New Jersey. Since May last the Federal Government has, it is stated officially, nominally added nearly 100 vessels to this list, a complete amount of each of which ought to have reached our Admiralty by the last mail. This supplementary list, however, has not yet arrived, and it is not improbable, considering the present state of our relations with America, that it will not now be sent at all. The omission, however, is a matter of very small importance, as the additional vessels have been officially stated to be all merchant ships bought or chartered by the Government for the conveyance of troops, and only in some few instances fitted with one or two light cannon to assist in blockading the Southern ports. The above list, therefore, in fact, comprises all the actual vessels of war belonging to the Federal Govern- mont up to the departure of the last mail. The list looks sufficiently well on paper, though, when we come to examine it,its formidable aspect very rapidly disappears. It is not too much to say that the whole of the first portion of the list down to the screw frigates only enumerates the names of old wooden vessels, which can scarcely be counted as forming any part of the effective Federal Navy. The Penn sylvania,l2o, sounds quite large, though, in reality, this old vessel is as harmless as our own Victory, and would fall an easy prey to any of the really powerful American frigates, such as the Niagara, the Brooklyn, the Lancaster, or the Pensacola. In fact, of the first ten ships of the line which head the catalogue not one has ever had a gun in her except the Pennsylvania, which mounts six. The rest, with the exception of the Vermont, are all about the oldest specimens afloat of the very old school of sailing liners. Of the whole ten, four were begun before 1820, and have lain in ordinary ever since, and are, in fact, contemporaries of the clay-coloured Benbows and Melpomenes that en cumber the waters of the Medway and Hamoaze, Four others in this list were commenced in 1815 and 1818, and are still on the stocks, after a lapse of 45 years ! The same remarks apply to most of the sailing frigates, some of which, as our readers will see, were built nearly as far back as 70 years ago, and even the most modern are constructed on the old model as to size. - How our own naval archi- ,ects would stare at being requested to get 50 guns into a ship of 1,600 tons, which, allowing for the difference of American tonnage, represents little over 1,300 tons of ours! In fact, most of the Ame rican sailing war vessels are always spoken of by the officers in our service as being " a box of guns." Thus, the St. Louis, Vandalia, Jamestown, and Plymouth, though some of not more than 700 Ame- dean tons, and nene over 1,000, all carry arma ments as numerous and almost as heavy as our frigates of nearly four times their size. The result is that " the quarters" in action are so crowded with men and confined in space that the guns can not be handled, while every enemy's shot coming on board tells with appalling effect among the close groups of seamen. It was the knowlege of the fatal disadvantages under which they laboured in this respect as compared with the frigates of other na- tions that led the United States' officers to press upon their Government for the construction of frigates of the largest class, capable of carrying heavy guns, and, at the same time, allowing the crews an ample space to work them in. And here we come to the really formidable portion of the Federal Navy. The Niagara was the first attempt at vessels of this class. It was built by M. Steers, the builder of the fur-famed yacht America, He, however, like all other yacht builders, East or West, sacrificed everything to speed, and so it was found on trial that the Niagara, a vessel of 4,600 tons, was so deeply immersed that the idea of a main deck battery of 30 huge guns had to be given up entirely, and her armament reduced to 12 11-inch Dahlgren shell-guns, all on the spar deck. She is still, however, from her great speed (with steam and sail she can always command from 14 to 15 knots an hour) and her heavy long range armament a formidable cruiser. In their next efforts the American Government were more fortunate, and in the Lancaster, Pensa cola, Brooklyn, Hartford, and Richmond, five large and powerful vessels were produced, and sent afloat in 1859. The Brooklyn is the best of these, and the type of her class. With great sailing qualities and high steam power, she can go at almost any rate she pleases, and, above all, she carries well an armament of 25 11-inch shell guns of great length. These enormous ordnance very much resemble in outward appearance east-iron champagne bottles, and their weight is so great (with their carriages, nearly nine American tons) that the whole of her crew is required to handle one broadside effectively. She, however, and her sisters we have mentioned would still prove heavy overmatches for any slower and lighter armed vessels of war. The Sill Jacinto was the first experimental vessel of this class, and the Brooklyn is the last and best. No vessel, we may mention, is better known in our service than the Brooklyn, from the part which Captain Walker took when the outcry prevailed in America against the British right of search for slavers. During that exciting time, when a Mosquito fleet of ferry boats and steamers, mounting one gun each, was sent by the Federal Government to the West Indian sta tion, the Brooklyn made herself conspicuous by heatinoo t 0 nuartprg —henevpr an EturliQh -man of war entered Port Royal, and training her guns, so that all might bear on the new corner. This insult was so persistently renewed that the English ships at last replied in kind, and beat to quarters too, whenever the Brooklyn was seen coming towards them off a harbour. But our strongest vessel on the station then was only the Devastation paddle sloop of six guns. We may, perhaps, mention that the Orlando, 51, and the Mersey, 32, two of the largest frigates in the world, were designed and built as a kind of answer to the building of the Nift' gars, while the Ariadne and the Galatea quite compensate to our navy for the Brooklyn and ves sels of her class. Perhaps, however, the vessel from the employ' ment of which the Federals entertain the greatest expectations is Steven's half-submerged iron-plated battery, which is to carry four guns of 15 inches and four of 18 ! But everything connected with the construction of this vessel is so utterly novel and peculiar that it would be impossible to describe it in this abstract of the Federal Navy. The total number of captains, commanders, and lieutenants in the navy, amounting in all to upward s of 450, had, up to June last, been reduced by the secession to nearly 200. Since that date very mall others have joined the cause of the South, —among them the celebrated Commander Maury, whose name in connexion with the progress of the scientific) departments of the American Navy is known hroughout Europe. TILE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAIL SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 4• The Royal Mail steamship Magdalena, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 38 pas; sengers, £44,580 in specie, and 3,060 packages Of cargo. There is no news of importance from BuenoS Ayres. The town of Parana had been abandoned' and was quiet. Derqui remained at Santa Fe, and had refused to resign. The province of Tucurnail is in a state of complete anarchy. General Nazat had been appointed Military Governor of Bowl. The Buenos Ayres market showed signs of ani mation consequent on the better aspect of politica l affairs. The clip of wool was expected to be g ood in quality and quantity. Sales of unwashed had been effected at 50dol. to 70do1. per arroba, accord' ing to quality. Sales of dry ox and cow hidee limited, for English market, 39 to 40 reals. At Bahia, sugar was in demand at improv ed prices. Browns were quoted 2,200 reis per a rroba for regular, and 2,300 reis for good quality. Pri ce !, of white were nominal, but little business havi ng been done. Cotton was purchased for home eon' sumption at 9,600 to 9,800 reis per arroba. Caf e° —no transactions had transpired, exporters ref lls ' ing the high prices demanded. Freights in brisk demand at 40s. to 455. per ton to Liverpool. change, 90 days, 25a. The arrivals of sugar at Pernambuco exceed 01 .: average of late years. The quality of browns 1 0 fair; prices firm, at 2,100 reis per arroba. quotations of cotton had advanced to 12,100 rel.: per arroba. Fine quality hides, dry salted, 180 0 1 per lb. Freights sought after at advanced rafOl Exchange, 251 to 261. At Rio the coffee-market was active. The sale! for the month comprise 151,370 bags. QuotaticV were unaltered. Hides.-8,000 had been sold at 300 to 330 leaving 11,000 in stock. Freights in great demand—to Liverpool, 0' Discount unaltered. Exchange, 254. °' There was nothing worthy o f notice in sha re specie, and stock. __— SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUNI.—During the week ending Nov. 30 the visitors have been as follows On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free days), 3,629 ; Monday and Tuesday (free evenings), 3,629 ; on the thre e students' days (admission to the public, 6d.), 1,066; one students' evening (Wednesday), 193; total, 8,517. I .o° the opening of the museum, 2,368,865, •