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2. \ IN PAILLTAUENT, SESSION 1562. METROP 01,PDA I. 4 f4iNi3 THAMES VALLEY RA ILWAA,. (Incorporation of Company for making Railways from the Great Western Railway and the Great Western and Brentford Rilway to Richmond, Hampton, Shepperton, and Chertsey—Compulsory Purchase of Lands—Tolls —Power to make working arrangements with other Com panies —Running powers over the Great Western and Brentford Railway—Provision as to the use of Stations, &C., of the London and South. , Westem Railway, and also as to transmission, &c., of Traffic—Amendment of Acts, and other purposes.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to be made. to Parliament in the next Session for leave to introduce a Bill and to pass an Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of making and maintaining the railways hereinafter mentioned, or some, or one of them, or some part or parts thereof, together with all proper stations, works, conveniences, and approaches connected therewith (that is to say) : RAILWAY NO. 1. Railway commencing by a Junction with the Great Western Railway at a point at or near the mile-post de noting six miles and a half from London upon that Rail way, and terminating by a Junction with the Great Wes tern and Brentford Railway at or near the mile-post de noting two miles and a quarter from Southall, and which intended Railway will pass from, through, or into the seve ral parishes and places of Ilanwell, Ileworth, Ilrayton Green, New Brentford, and Norwood, or b s ome of them, all in the county of Middlesex. RAILWAY No. 2. A Railway, commencing by a Junction with the Great Wes' ern awl Brentford Railway, at or near the mile-post on the Great Western and Brentford Railway denoting three miles from Southall, and terminating on the south side of the road leading- from Isleworth to Richmond, at a Point about 20 chains from Richmond-bridge, in the parish of Twicke n h am , and which said last-mentioned intended Railway will pass ' from, in, through, or into the parishes or place s of Isleworth and Twickenham, or ono of them, in the county of Middlesex. RAILWAY No. 3. A. Railway commencing by a Junction with the said intended Railway No. 2, at or near a point in a field nown Esq,as the Hop Field, belonging to George ev Beauchamp Cole, in the occupation of William Knett, on the North side of the boundary between the parishes of Twickenham and Islewortb, in the parish of Isleworth, about five chains east of the bridge known as Ivy Bridge, on the main road from Twickenham to Islewortb, and terminating at a point about two chains from the foot of Chertsey Bridge on the Aliddlesex side, in a meadow belonging to General Thomas Wood, and in the occupation of Richard Harris, and bounded on the North by the road leading from Shepperton to Chertsey, and on the West by the towing path by the side of the River Thames, and which last mentioned in tended Railway will pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, extra parochial and other places fol lowing, or some of them, viz. —Twickenham, Teddington, Hampton, Isleworth, Sunbury, Shepperton, Laleham, Han worth, and Littleton, all in the County of Aliddlesex. RAILWAY No. 4. A Railway wholly situate in the said Parish of T wickm ham, commencing by a Junction with the last mentioned Railway, in a field numbered 106 on the plans deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, in respect of the authorised branch Railway of the London and South West , rn Railway from Twickenham to Kingston Bridge, at a point 12 chains or thereabouts South-west of the point where the public footpath, numbered 101, joins the occupation roads, numbered 94 and 95 on the said plans, and terminating by a junction with the said authorised branch Railway from Twickenham to Kingston Bridge, at or near a point 12 chains or thereabouts North of the said occupation road numbered 9,5 on the said plan. And it is intended by the said Act to take powers to make lateral deviations from the lines of the proposed railways and works to the extent of or within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned, and to cross ; divert, alter, or to stop up, whether temporarily or permanently, all such roads, highways, streets, bridges, works, mines, streams, rivers, sewers, main pipes drains, canals, navigations, rail ways, and t ramways within the said parishes, townships, vand extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or some of t hem, as it may be necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of the said intended railways and works. And it is also intended by the said Act to enable the 1-' ol npany so to be inc or p ora t e d fo r the purpose of the said Intended Railways and works to take powers to purchase lands and houtes, by compulsion or agreement, and to vary or extinguish rights and privileges in any manner con nected with the lands or houses proposed to be taken for the Durposes aforesaid, and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties uponor in r es p ec t o f th e sa id R a il wa y s an d wor k s , an d t o vary, or extinguish existing tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, and extinguish other rights and privi leges, And it is also proposed by the said Act to enable the Com pany to be incorporated as aforesaid, and the London axed South -Western Railway Company, the Metropolitan Rail- Iv aY Company, the Great Western Railway Company, and the Great Western and Brentford Railway Company, or anY or either of them, to enter into and carry into effect any agreements and arrangements which they may have made, or shall make with respect to the working, use, manage ment, construction, and maintenance of the undertaking au thorised by the said intended Act, or any part thereof, and 'with respect to the payment or contribution by and between the said Companies, or auy or either of them, towards the Costs, charges, and expenses of such working, use, manage- Mena construction, and maintenance, and to authorise such last-mentioned Companies, or any or either of them, to work and use the said intended Railways or any part there of, and to regulate and manage the traffic thereon, and to agree with the Company to be incorporated fur the payment of certain tolls or sums f money for the use of the said Raflways, or for the apportionment of the tolls and fares received on the intended Railways, or the payment of fixed BUMS in lieu thereof. And it is also intended by the said Act to empower the Company so to be incorporated, and all persons and co-po rations lawfully using the intended Railways, or any part thereof, their officers and servants, to run over, work, and t\‘' ith engines and carriages of e very description, and for I n a purpos es o f t h e i r traffic, upon such terms as (in default of a g re ement) shall be settled by the Board of Trade or by arbitration the whole or any part of the Railway stations, , watering places, engines, sidings, machinery. works, and T llv enlences of th:Great itanw.y iC al parly, their lessees and assigns ; and also to form junc toes with. the lines of, and to use the stations, works, and ! ° ' l , v eeliences of th e Great Western and Brentford Railway, `', \ )l l et the L on d on an d S out h-W es t ern R a il w ay, or either t hem, upon such terms and under such payments and conditions as shall be mutually agreed ui on, or as in case of dispute shall be determined by the Board of Trade ; and provision will also be made in the said intended Act 19.rerequiring the Great Westein Railway Company, the I.P' at Western and Brentford Railway Company, and lae London and South-Western Railway Company ree naectively, to grant all proper and reasonable facilities for the tr ansmission of, and to transmit upon and along their respective Railways, or any part thereof, all traffic which thereof, passed over the said intended Railways, or any part I „ i e ,, re ,", may be tendered to them respectively for irans -,e`e'B',°4 along their own Railways, or any part thereof, or - "Len , may be tendered to them for transmission along their °wia Railways, or any part thereof, for the purpose of being afterwards conveyed on and along the said intended rail °r any part thereon, upon and subject to such rules regulations, and upon payment of such tolls, rates, and titarges as shall in case of disagreement, be settled by ar tration or otherwise, or as may be fixed and determined in and by the said intended Act. "The- it is intended to incorporate with the said Act, L an cbtapanies Clauses Consolidation Act, "The 'lB4s Clauses Ctauses Consolidation Act, 1845," Lands Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860," and T he Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,".0r some Part or parts thereof. .„..And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the S t 'uth day of November inst maps plans, and sections de • cribing the directions, line,' and levels of the said intended ' Railways and works, and the lands which may be taken for the purposes thereof, together with a book of reference to such plans, containing the names of the owners or re puted owners, lessees or reputed lessees , and the occupiers of s uc h lands • and also a c o py o f this notice, as published in the " London Gazette," will be deposited for public in spection with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Mid dlesex, at his office at Clerk enwe ll, i n th e said county, and that on or before the said 30th day of November, a copy of so Much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference as relates to each parish, or extra• parochial place, in or through Which the said i n t en d e d R a il ways an d wor k s are proposed be made, together with a copy of this notice, pub lished as aforesaid, will be deposited as follows, that is to say, in the c ase o f par i s h es, w i th the parish clerk of each such parish, at his residence ; and in case of any extra parochial place, with the parish clerk of some parish imme diately adjoining thereto, at his residence. And notice is hereby further given that, so far as may be necessary for carrying into effect all or any of the above ob jects, it is intended to alter, amend, extend, vary, and en ularge or repeal all or some of the powers and provisions of The Great Western and Brentf or d R a il way Act, 1855, " The Great Western and Brentford Railway Amendment Act, 1857," and the 22 and 23 Vict., cap. 13, and the seve ral Acts of Parliament relating to the London and South- Western Railway Company, viz. :-4 and 5 Wm. 4, cap. 88 ; 1 Vict., cap. 71; 1 and 2 Vict., cap. 27 ; 2 and 3 Vi c t., cap. 28 ; 4 and 5 Vict., caps. 1 and 39 ; 7 and 8 Vict., caps. 5, 63, and 86 ; 8 and 9 Viet., caps. 86, 88, 93, 107, 121, 165, 185, and 199; 9 and 10 Vict., caps. 129, 131, 173, 174, 175, 252, 255, 370, and 391; 10 and 11 Vict., caps. 57, 58, 88, 96, 97, 115, 145, 167, 243, 244, 249, 273, and 297 ; 11 and 12 Viet., caps. 75, 85, 87, 89, 125, and 157 ; 51 Geo. 3, cap. 196 ; 12 and 13 Vict., caps. 33 and 34; 13 and 14 Vict., cap. 24 ; 14 and 15 Vict., cap. 83 ; 16 and 17 Vict., cap.. 16 4; 18 an d 19 Vict., cap. 188 ; 19 an d 20 Vict., cap. 120; 2 0 and 21 Vi c t., cap. 136 ; 21 an d 22 Vict., caps. 89, 6 1 , 101, and 58 ; 23 an d 24 Vict., caps. 64, 92, 103, 163, 180, and 185; 24 an d 25 Vict., caps. 220 and 111; and any other Acts relating to the said Company. And also the following Acts relating to the Great Wes tern Railway Company and their undertaking, viz. :- Local and personal, 5 and 6 Wm. 4, cap. 107 ; 6 Wm. 4, taps. 36, 38, 77, and 79 ; 1 Viet., caps. 91 and 92 (1837), ands. 24' and 26 (1838) 2 Viet., cap. 27 ; 3 Viet., c,an• 47 • 3 and 4 Vict., cap. 105 ; 4 and 5 Viet , cap. 41 ; 5 Viet., session 2, t cap. 28 ; 6 Vict., cap. 10 ; 7 Viet., cap. 3. 7 and 8 Vict., caps. 68 and 99 ; 8 and 9 Viet., caps. 40 , 42, 53 , 115, 155, 156, 184, 188, 190, and 191; 9 Viet., C e ap• 14 ; 9 and 10 Viet., caps. 166, 181, 236, 239, 240, 250, 451 , 274, 275, 278, 307, 308, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369, and 402 ; 10 and 11 Vict., caps. 60, 72, 76, 80, 91, 101, 109, 144, 149, 154, 22 6, and 242; 11 and 12 V i et., caps. 28 , 59 , H'V44, 77, 82, 95 , 130, 131, 133 135, 158, and 159; 12 and 13 iet ' c aps. 6 ,7, 55 and 85 ' • 13 and 14 Viet., caps. 44, 98, 7.(1 1 10 ; 14 and 15 , Viet., caps. 48, 81, and 131; 15 and 16 tet e Caps. 125, 133, 140, 145, 146, 147, 165, and 168 ; 16 and 17 Vict., caps. 121, 153, 175, and 212; 17 and 18 Viet., 222,5• 108, 120, 158, 163, 192, 202, 204, 207, 209, 215, and ; 20 and 21 Viet., cap. 158 ; 21 and 22 V ict., cap. .92 ; " and 24 Viet., caps. 11, 69, and 196 ; and 24 and 25 Vict . ., c c alis• 36 and 204 ; and any other Acts relating to the said /i )IT 'PInY ; and also the following Acts relating to the t etropolitan Railway Company, viz. :-" The Metr9oh a Ita ilwaY Act, 1854 ;" " The Metropolitan Railway eviation) Act, 1855 , o Th e Metropolitan Railway Northern Branch' and Amendment) Act, 1856 ;" - u 0 Metr o p o lit an R a il way A men d men t A c t, 1857 ;" it , heM etropolitan Railway Act, 1859 ; " The Metropolitan 14 .wa Y Act, 1860;" "The Metropolitan Railway Act, and " The Metropolitan. Railway (Finsbury Circus xtea e ; --- •°n) Act, 1861," and any other Acts relating to the said Company. the And Notice is Hereby also Given, that printed copies of e Bill relating to the objects aforesaid will be deposited, before the 23d day of December, 1861, in the Private Du e t Office of th e R ouse of Commons. -Dated this 15th day of November, 1861. WATT and METCALFE, 28,1ParliamenteStreet, WeAnaiwiter, rglitumtary Ageata, !•,~': E • - . THE SUN, LO M)0" N°. 21,655 ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Royal Exchange, London, 20th November, iS6I. The Court of Directors - of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance do Hereby give Notics, that their Transfer-Books will be shut from TUESDAY, the 10411 of December next, to TUESDAY, the 7th of January follow Char ing ; and that the Annual General Court appointedby their - tcr will be holden at their Office on the Royal Exchange, on the I.Bth f December, at Twelve o'clock at n W oon ; and EDNESDAY that , a Divide o nd will be considered of at the said Court. FUBLICA'I'IONS. , MISS KAVANAGH'S NEW WORK. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vol s., 2,15., F RENCH WOMEN OF LETTERS. By JULIA KAVANAGH, Author of " Nathalie," "Adele," &C. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretitry. NEW NOVEL BY Tim AUTHOR. OF " MARGARET MAITLAND." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE LAST OF THE MORTIMERS. By the Author of " Margaret Maitland,"-" The Housenn the Moor," Sze. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NTEMORIAL to the Late LORD HERBERT. L A PUBLIC MEETING will be held at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on THUESDAY NEXT, the 28th inst., at which Dia Royal Highness tha DUKE of CAMBRIDGE will preside, for the purpose of adopting such measures as may result in an appropriate Memorial to the late lamented Lord Herbert. The following Noblemen and Oentlemen have expressed. their desire to support his Royal Highness on , the occa - s ion Just published, in square crown Bvo., price 9s. 6d., cloth, TTHEEM ODYSSEY of HOER, in English Hen decasyllabie Verse. By HENRY ALFORD, Dean of Canterbury. Part I. Books 1. to XII. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roterts. general the Viscount Gou,gh, K.P., G.C.8., S.I. Genera: the Lord Clyde, Major-Gen. Sir Richard I. nacres, K.C.B. - Major-Gen. Sir Hope Grant, G. C. B. Major-Gen. Sir T. A. Larcom, K.C.B. Major-Gen. Sir Edward Lu gard, K.C.B. Major-Gen. Sir Alex. Tulloch, K. C. B. Major-Gen. J. Lawrenson. Colonel the Hon. Percy Her bert, C.B. James Brown Gibson, M.D., C.'B., Director •General of Military Hospitals.• The Rev. G. R. Gleig, Chap lain-GeneraL - S.I. Geral Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.B. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Geo. Bowles, Fifth Edition, Bvo, 10s. 6d., P ACON'S ESSAYS. With Annotations. By RICHARD WHATELY, D.D., Arclibighop of Dublin. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. K.C.B. Lieut,-Gen. Sir J. F. Love, 1i.C.8., li.H. Lieut.-Gen. the Bight Hon. FOR DECEMBER, J. Peel, ➢I.P. Lieut.-Gen. VP. T. Knollys. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Jones, K.C.B. Major-Gen. the lion. Sir Jas. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.B. Major-Gen. Eyre. The Right Hon. Viscount Pal merston, K.G., The Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor. The Right Hon. the Earl Granville, K.G. His Grace the Duke of Ar gyll, K.T. The Right lion. the Chancel lor of the Exchequer. The Right Hon Sir George Grey, G.C.B. Mx. The Right Hon. the Earl Russell. His Grace the Duke of New castle, K.G. The Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart., M.P. The Right lion. Sir Charles Weod, Bart., G.C.8., M.P. His Grace the Duke of Somer set. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, 37. P. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell, The Right Hon. Charles Pel ham Villiers, M.P. The Duke of Wellington, K.G. The Duke of Sutherland. The, Duke Ef Buceleuch, K.G., The lion. Algernon Egerton, M.P. The lion. Arthur liinnaird, K.T. The Marquis of Lansdowne, M.P. The Right lion. the Lord Mayor. The Right lion. Sir W. G. liayter, Bart., M.P. The Right [ion. Sir John G.C.B. The Right lion. H. U. Ad- K.G. - The Marquis of Westminster, K.G. The Earl of Derby, K.G. 11. E. the Earl of Carlisle, - IZ.G., K.P. The Earl of Shaftesbury. The Earl of Tankerville. The Earl Stanhope. The Earl Spencer. The Earl of Clarendon, K.G., ding,f6n. The Hight Hon. T. E. Head _._ lam, M.P. Vice-Chancalior Sir William Page Wood. Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart. Sir William Alexander, Bart. Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., K. P., &c. The Earl of Carnarvon The Earl of Malmesbury, G.C.B. The Earl of Powis. The Earl of St. Germans, G.O B. The Earl De Grey and Ripon. The Earl Somers. The Earl of Bessborough. The Earl Grosvenor, M.P. The Lord John Manners,M.P. The Viscount Sydney. The Viscount Eversley. The Lord Stanley, M.P. Tne Viscount Enfield, M.P. The Lord Elcho, M.P. The Viscount Castleroase, M.P. Rear Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, '.8., M.P. The Lord Bishop of London. The Lord Bishop of Oxford. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury. The Lord Lyttelton. The Lord Barris. The Lord De Tabley. The Lord Brougham and Vaux. The Lord Dufferin and Clane boye. The Lord Overstone. The Lord Belper. The Lord Ebury. The Lord Lyveden. The Speaker of the House of Commons. The Right Hon. Wm. Cowper, M.P. His Royal Highness will t precisely. M.P. Sir Francis Goldsmid, Bart., M.P. Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Grey, K.C.B. The Solicitor-General. Sir Benjamin Hawes, K.C.B. Sir Roderick ➢iurchison, G.C., St. S. R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Raikes Currie, Esq. Capt. Drummond, R.N., C.B. Capt. Douglas Galton, R.E. Henry H. Gibbs, Esq. G. G. Glyn, Esq., M.P. Thomson Hankey, Esq,. M.P. Peter Hoare, Esq. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq., M. P. R. S. Holford, Esq., M.P. It. Monckton Mines, Esq., M.P. W. G. Prescott, Esq, Henry C. Robarts, Esq. Baron Lionel De Rothschild, M.P. David Salomons, Esq., Ald., M.P. Martin T. Smith, Esq., M.P. H. Gerard Sturt, Esq., M.P. Travers Twiss, Esq., D.C.L. Western Wood, Esq., M.P. Count P. E. De Mtrzelecki, ' C. 8., D.C.L. ;ake the Chair at One o'clock J. STJ 208, Savile-row, Nov. 19, 186: .NDISH HALY, Secretary. . _.._ mo. -IN . '- - ort-14 - -•-• • - .., ...A.1,......... 'IA.,' -- -:-,,:''', - - ---• . ...- - -- ------- 7,..„ ,-. - - ; - „,- ,, ,,f.... , , , , , , " ,• ......,,,eir "A" 7,7 t ..,..,: .:,„..., . , .;...,.. 1,;.. ..,- '.7.,S -0 ..a.now . , . ( „,...„. . ~,..... ~, • _ .., ' ' N. - . '''';. • .-- :' ' . - : rk, , t #' ' .‘ ',1* .. ..' , ; - 7 . 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From the West there is the usual unsatisfactory and unintelligible farrago of telegrams. One fact. seems clear, that Gen. Fre- mont's dismissal has not produced as yet any of the serious inconveniences or dangers which were anti. cipated by his friends and his enemies. The part of his career which most became him seems to have been his retirement, and his conduct on taking leave of his troops. The American papers contain the re sults of the committee of inquiry into the manage ment of his troops, and it is not possible to read it without coming to the conclusion that any general who permitted such frauds to be perpetrated—sup posing always they are fully proved—was not fitted for the service of any State which could not bear ruin at short intervals. His successor has a difficult game to play, and it is to be hoped he sees what it is more clearly than any one here can do. There are reports of two affairs in the Weat—one, an expedi tion from Cairo against Columbus, in Kentucky, which was partially successful, though attended with heavy loss and followed by a retreat to their camp, on the part of the Federalists, after they had, as they say, taken guns they could not carry off, and destroyed the enemy's camp and stores. The other expedition was under the command of Colonel Oglesby, and " broke up" a camp of Confederates in Missouri, some 60 miles from Cairo. The loss of life at Belmont was considerable. This is all we can learn, except the old news that something great is going to happen. " The army in good spirits ; no battle expected at present." Such is a sensation heading in the papers to-day, of which an ill-natured person might say the apposition was argumentative, but it does not, nevertheless, correctly convey the state of the situation here. I have made a very curious collec tion of some of these same headings, as illustrations of the condition to which a portion of the cheap American press is reduced, and of the state to which it has brought its readers. The most degraded of these journals—one which is supposed to be in the pay of the South, and which certainly by the style of its advocacy brings the North into contempt and does much to damage the interests of Government abroad, advises us now and then to take it and its contem poraries as the only sources of information on which reliance can be placed. If we did, a more deluded people could not exist on the face of the earth, or one more distracted by contending statements, by the contorted falsehoods of the hour, by the asser tion of to-day made to be contradicted to-morron. The citizen of New York is quite accustomed by this time to find that the "glorious victory" of Monday turns out to be a defeat on Tuesday, and the " unabashed," though not the unscarred " Defoe," leers horribly as he hears the rush of the crowd outside his office after some big lie in a second edition, and pockets the cents of his dear public in the full knowledge that do what he may they will come to him again. It is a sort of mental dram-drinking—the " sensation" must be produced night and morning, and so many times in the day. The poor victims when the effects are over, swear they will never touch a drop again, but the craving is insatiable, and at the accustomed hour off they run to the bar and swallow their moral juleps and cocktails notwithstanding their experience of their evil effects on the constitution. Had we listened to the advice tendered with such delicious impudence, we should have actually taken Bull's Run as a vic tory, the surrender of Lexington as a splendid feat as a. aua a number of pitiful sitirmislies as so many Vittorias or Waterloos. Many of these actions are brought on by the leaders on both sides apparently without an object. General Scott was opposed to them; but, in fact, the Commander-in- Chief has as little power as the head of any other department over his subordinates, separated by thousands of miles from him. If he wants the power he must take it. It is announced in the papers that Major-General Havelock, of the British army, has tendered his services to the President, and that Captain Short, R.N., has been equally kind to Mr. Jefferson Davis. The rank of the former gallant officer, of whom, as brother of Sir Henry and uncle of the present baronet, one wishes to speak with every respect, must have been be stowed by some foreign Power or an unrecognised brevet. The latter officer is unknown to fame on the Navy List. But what of that ? One man is as good as another ; so is one story as bad as another. As a charming specimen, however, of the manufac turing ingenuity in that line of some of your con temporaries, take the veracious statement that Lord Lyons received Mr. Semmes, captain of the Sumter, in the Confederate navy, gave him an English pass port, and introduced him to Mr. Seward at the State Department ! NOVEMBER 9, There is moderate exultation over the votes in Maryland. The result gives the Federalists a clear v% orking majority in the Legislature and State Government, and would dispose of all pre tence that there is a numerical majority for Seces sion if the voters had been uninfluenced in any way. Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia subjected to the same process might produce the same results, and if they could be put under it there are thousands of Unionists who would be content to withdraw from the contest, and leave the other States to their own devices. The departure of Mr. Thurlow Weed and Bishop Hughes for Europe is in pursuance of the resolution, the existence of which I announced in a previous letter, to send un official ambassadors or representatives to England and France to counteract the effects of Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell's mission and to make explanations, and enter upon negotiations with the two Govern ments as well as to sound the depths of popular feeling, and ascertain the views of leading men in the political world. There were several candidates for the important mission. Mr. Everett appeared in Washington and had several interviews with Mr. Seward about the time the project was started, and Bishop M'llwaine and Mr. Kennedy were men tioned as coadjutors in the mission. Whatever the causes, these gentlemen did not go, but Mr. Weed and Bishop Hughes, two of Mr. Seward's best friends, faintly disclaim the notion that their voyage to Europe is on diplomatic business. The former is the Nestor of the outside politigians who pull " legs and hands of the players on the stage ; he is an astute, clear-headed, able man, who has managed the company on his side of the house for many years with success and profit, and the newspaper he edits is one of the best written and most decent in the United States. Bishop Hughes is a Raman Catho. lie prelate of attainments and political experience, moderate for one in his position, skilful, and anti- English. He has worked the Irish element in the States for a considerable period, and has used it in favour of Mr. Seward. It will be a keen encounter of wits. Mr. Slidell, when he finds himself along side of Mr. Dayton in Paris, will, doubtless, feel very much like an otter swimming alongside an alderman NOVEMBER 11 Unless the Confederates obtain a signal success at Beaufort and force the Federalists into the sea it is plain they have been placed in a hazardous posi tion. The end of the wedge will have been driven into "the peculiar institution" in its hottest place. In those Sea Islands live vast populations of igno rant negroes, oubject to the SCAnty and Scattered MR AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "A 1' HOME," At Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, On MONDAY, November 25, an 1 Every Evening except Saturday. Saturday Afternoon at 3. "REMINISCENCES in Eight Chapters." Part 1. "The Romance." Part 2. "The Reality." Prices of Admission :—Dress Stalls, ss. ; Dress Circle, 4s. ; First Circle, 3s. ; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, is. ; Private Boxes, £1 Is. No extra charge for booking. 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A medical work on the cure of N er v ous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike o Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob 1 .ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., b, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London. W.G. DR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION. - The GREAT CHEMICAL COMBINATION of Phos phorus, Quinine, Iron, and other invigorating ingredients, is the never-failingßemedy for Spermatorrheea, and alpiseases of the Reproductive System. A single course of this invalu able preparation insures health, strength, and manly vigour in every stage of life. 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" The Use an a l the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamoh'iet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor O. the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting tiformation, while those who have already encouraged this 113 "ew system will derive additional advantage if they obseeve some of the p. - actical regulations which the writer ewaeavours to enforce."—Herald and Standard, Nov. 12, 1861. " The Post-office Turkish Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverwell has already established the reputation of an able physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy philanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very - of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . Our object being, merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . We may justly sayfthat if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, it is on coming out of a. Bath , ',l - Eral Oct 13 1 1861, FRASER'S AIAGAZ] 2s. CONTAINS Utilitarianism. By John Barren nonour.—A Tale. By Stuart Milt. —Conclusion. the Author of "Guy Living- Duties of England to India. stone," "Sword and Gown," Good for Nothing ; or, All itc. Chapters VIII.—X. Down Hill. By the Author Between the Cataracts with of " Digby Grand," " The out a Dragoman. 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This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising' from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most invetera te case is four weeks ; and, if used accordi n g to the printed in structions (which are very simple). failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst. Dr. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at lie., or four quantities in one for 335., and will be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Prout and Co., Patent MediJneWarehouse, 229, Strand, London. (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION. Price 15. ; post-free, 13, or sealed ends, 20 stamps, with En gravings and Cases. May be had of Mann and Co. , 30, Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. SSELF-PRESERVATION.--A popular Essay on Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by prematurely exhausting the functions of Manhood, de stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. - By Dr. LA'MERT, 37, Bedford-square. London. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &o. The above work contains most useful and interesting information on the physiological changes which occur in the Reproduotive System during the periods of youth, puberty, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity depend. It also points out how all the attributes of Man hood can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. It is free from the gross exaggerations, alarming descriptions, and dangerous remedies so generally resorted to by persons, who, prac tising, with false medical qualifications, inflict most serious injuries, and render judicious treatment frequently abortive. The Author is the only legally qualified practitioner whose name stands on the Medical Register (the only true test of medical qualification), who has been exclu sively engaged for a series of years in the treatment of the varioui functional disorders of the nervous and reproductive system, which, owing to the great discoveries of modern science, are rendered subservient to a rational, simple, and easy mode of treatment. At home for consultation daily from 10 till 2, and from 6 till 8, either personally or by letter.-37, Bedford-square. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: k MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRME NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, Sze. - • - lust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price le., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, MANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions or Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIM, 15, Aaerraarle-street, Piccadilly, London. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ' on - the Physiological •tructure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; ~;arly Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications f Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorr hoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting ases, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. ,‘Curtis on Manhood. —This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the bands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 3d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age.' —" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of pro fessional criticism and empiric al hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arisin,g from ne rvous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful excesses it will be found valuable and useful." —Record. ..oudon Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 80, Cora"' 4 9 WO cenbaltAtictu-10 t 9 a #44C) t 5. §wltla - yoi tUrSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1861. THE CI ME.RICA. cdfti ,90 . espon den I of the Times.) i SHINGTON, Nov. 10. The impre ion "iting itself into a conviction teat neither General 'Clellan no: any other Gene ral will con*Milielnass of men under arms about here into a well-disciplined army according to the European standard or the notions of the most easily satisfied military critics. There is something radi cally deficient—a sentiment wanting, without which respect for the officer and obedience on the part of the man cannot be developed into a system of uni form action in all times and under all circumstances. t would take years to infuse a substitute for the feeling which produces such results in the European mind and facilitate the change from the man to the soldier so readily. There is a change, and it affects the man's intellect as well as his body, and you can recognise it in the precision and vigorous mate rialism of the one as much as in the upright car- riage, regulated pace, and even the expression of eye in the other. The recruit there begins his career by respecting his officer; here the lesson is scarcely ever taught or learnt. The newly enlisted citizen talks to his superior in an easy off-hand way, and it is some time before the poor fellow is cured of his little civilities in regard to his Captain's health in the morning or can be induced to refrain when he meets his Colonel from making kind inquiries after his general welfare. The accounts of courts-martial which one reads, their irregularities, the nature of the offences tried, and matters of the sort, give an idea of what the regular officers have to do. I have seen processions of metrAheir arms tied behind their backs, marching through the streets of Washington, of whom no one sees any accounts in the papers. No one can tell what their offence is, or where the mutiny occurred. There is one now-12 or 14 ar tillerymen fastened by ropes together, and march- ng under a guard down Pennsylvania-avenue. Then one hears such strange-sounding language between officer and private. " Captain, will you come in and take a drink ?" " And so the boys have made you leeftenant ; well, I'm reely glad to hear it." The other day an officer dismounted close to my door, and gavo his horse to his orderly. Ho had aLieutenant-Colonel's shoulder strap. "Be back here in an hour," said he ; " I shall be here in that time." "Oh ! that be rejoined the orderly (Our men swore horribly in Flanders ;) " how can you expect to go there and be back in one hour P—'taint possible.T' The Colonel seemed struck by the force of the remark, and said, " Well, an hour and a-half." " Why don't you salute your officer ?" quoth a friend of mine to a passing private_ The man drew himself up, and did so in a sort of a way, but as he moved off he said in an apologetical tone, " You see, Mejor, I don't know the faces of all the chaps yet.” If the army be turned into regulars and strictly drilled and handled two or three years will, no doubt, eradicate the spirit of equality in military matters ; but the task is difficult, for the defect to be remedied is nearly innate. The better the class from which the re cruits come, the greater the difficulty of reducing them to proper subjection. The punishments in the army are quaint and capricious ; they render men ridiculous, and harden without terrifying them ; and not a few of the officers regret that they have no power to order flogging, w hi c h has a certain efficacy in the case of men who cannot be reclaimed by other means. Let the war go on, and there will be greater results produced than the reduction of this force to good discipline. The Americans will learn that at last, when they see the use of it ; at present they are a good deal like children beginning the alphabet. They are slow to believe they are actually engaged in something more than a large faction fight. It is affirmed that the Government will at last yield to the pressure brought to bear against it by public opinion and the advice of General M'Clellan, and will make proposals for the exchange of pri soners. Without imputing to the North or South any inhumanity, it must be said, if what I am told and read be true, the prisoners are not well treated -440,11.eir". Dr. Bellews of the Sani tary Uourraision—tv man not likely to use strong words in reference to the conduct of the war on the Union side,—is a report to Government on the con dition of the prisoners ho visited in the New York prisons, declares that " it was very trying, almost inhuman ;" but it must be added, in justice, that he proceeds to state the wants and privations to which they were exposed, and which were disgraceful to the State, had been relieved, and that they had nothing to complain of except severe disease and sickness. However, they had been for some weeks in that state of suffering before they saw them, and political prisoners who are not in the possession of funds have full reason to lament their hard fate. A Mr. Maury, an Englishman, brother of the young gentleman who was arrested the other day for car rying correspondence directed to persons in the South, was seized in the State Department the day before yesterday as he was inquiring after a port manteau which had been detained at Cleveland, but for the release of which he had received the order of the Secretary of State, and was placed in a room, as I am informed, without a table, fuel, or even a bed, where he passed the night, having been refused permission to communicate with his friends, or any explanation of the grounds of his arrest. It is always "France will not, England dare not do" some absurd thing or other, never dreamt of by any one except the writer. Only the other day a respectable journal treated its readers to a long and inflammatory article on a supposed change in the tone and attitude of the English Government towards the United States, founded on Lord Rus sell's correspondence with the Liverpool merchant, who wanted to go to war for cotton on his own account, and it informed the world that the imagi nary alteration had been caused by the recent acts and conduct of the United States Government, not deigning to look at the date of the correspondence on which it rested its self-glorification. And then they wonder we are not merely sympathetic but active in their cause. The American people are naturally well-disposed as any race on the face of the earth. Their domestic affection indicates an amiable temperament, but they are easily excited, as democracies always are, and are exceedingly sensitive. If their Scribes and Pharisees would but leave them alone, if they would but permit the national sentiment to take its own course, there would be no fear of quarrel ; but these mouthing rhetoricians and " mobolaters " fear nothing so much as a friendly understanding between the people of Great Britain, for with it would depart one of their great levers to get into place and power. The result of the Maryland election would be more satisfactory and conclusive if Gen. Dix had not done his gendarmerie work so effectively in Baltimore. His proclamation was so alarming that the citizens formed a deputation to ascertain its meaning, and were informed that his intentions were honourable. But the wholesale rigour of his arrests on Wednesday resembles nothing so much as the pracesa of voting for an Imperialist deputy, or " taking the sense of the people" at Nice on the question of annexation. Nevertheless, the fact of the majority for the Union remains, and the faith of the Government in bayonets and martial law is justified so far. Nor will they hesitate to employ the same machinery to develops Union sentiment in the South. Can liberty be too dear ? May it, like life, be purchased at the cost of every consideration which renders it of value ? The American people now laugh at the idea of any ultimate danger to their liberties and independence from armed force, or national sentiment itself; but the steps by which the ruin comes may be as stealthy as those by which revolution, and rebellion, and civil war came hasty and rapid. " All men think all men mortal but themselves ;" and the Americans, relying on the enlightment of their democracy, deride the fears of those who think the results which follow the conquests of armed force in republics will develope themselves in the New World. The personal cha racter of Gen. M'Clellan affords a guarantee that he is not the man who would seek to elevate him self on the fragments of the institutions for the assertion of which he is now preparing an offensive army—but it may so happen that he may be forced to avert greater evils by assuming for a time the chief control of the State with the consent of those who are the masters of public suffrage, if not of public opinion. The dangers of defeat will be greater than those of success; but the latter will be attended with enormous difficulties ? Even :he Maryland apparatus of Government, though simple and effective, is not constitutional ; and when it is applied to the Confederate States it will become one of the most extraordinary organisations which ever were beheld in a country calling itself free. Personal experience induces me to believe that the same spirit, unanimity, and courage which the South exhibits in its resistance in the field will bo displayed in every form of pas- sive opposition to the efforts of the North to reduce it to subjection when the fight shall have ceased. The Unionists persist in declaring there is a large party—to be consistent they ought to declare there is a majority—of the people in the seceded States opposed to the principles of the Confederates and to the independence for which they appear to be fighting. If so, the task of re-amalgamation will be more easy; if not, the Federalists will be reduced to the pleas and the machinery of force exercised, as they contend, for right, but still applied to oppress a majority of the people in the Slaves States. If there be a General Dix in every State, a man capable, resolute, and active, with overpowering force at his disposal, all the States may be reduced to the condition of Maryland, and the polls may be made to give Union returns, but the supposition is very unreasonable ; and even if it be verified the world will see with disgust the resurrection in the great Republic of the spirit and substance of the most absolute despotism covered with cerecloths of liberty. The Southern people have now poured out all their passion into the mould of a distinct nation ality, and their only tie to the North is a common language and traditions, which, belonging to the history of their short-lived career, are now old as the stories of the lleptarchy. When the Northern orators and writers inveigh against the men, morals, and manners of the Slave States they bear evidence to the fact that a broad gulf fists between them, which they think they can cover over with the national flag. The Abolitionists, to whom " the Constitu tion is a leage with the Devil, a covenant with hell," who exclaim that " Union is dishonour," that " dishonour is gain," prosecute the war either to destroy the institution of slavery and its protec tors, or to enjoy the luxury of conquest and re- venge over haughty and defiant enemies; but that party which seems to become smaller as the contest covers more ground is divided into active belligerents and those who would let the Slave States go with a curse, in the sure confidence that their system would work out the heaviest punishment of rebel lion, and force them to crawl back to the Union with " bated breath and whispering humbleness," With the recognition of Southern independence would come the most serious questions of all, and it is not possible that some of them could be settled without a renewed struggle. The North can never be made to admit the right of the Slave States to recover their vagrant chattels within their domi nions; nothing but the complete prostration of the North at the feet of the South could induce her to allow that which the Constitution now argumenta- tively yields as a right when the Constitution sha have been rent asunder. An extradition treaty would be a record of infamous defeat. But how are the raw edges of the Slave States to be applied to the caustic of the Free States, in which opposition to slavery shall have become an article in the new Constitution ? For many hundreds of miles, take what frontier you may, a mere geographical line or navigable river will separate the two Confederacies in which every interest and every principle of com merce will be in extreme antagonism. Both States forus, UU U U CILISLOLLILIVIA. , ., frontier guards along marsh and mountain, to fight the battles of hostile tariffs and to watch the smug- glers of men as well as of goods. 'Wherever the frontier runs that must be the case, but its line is yet to be drawn in blood if the contending parties are deaf to the voice of mediation. Nor can any one pretend to say what issues may not be raised concerning the territories or the States purchased for the Union by the funds of the United States, or the national forts and arsenals, and property seized by the people in insurrection. The politicians here can only see one result—conquest. It will cure all wounds ani settle all controversies ; but, if events prove they are mistaken, the time may come for an armed truce on both sides, and an active media tion in an honest and impartial spirit, which shall lead to a peace and the most satisfac tory adjustment of these questions the nature of them permits us to expect. Any solution will lead to "a strong Government"—that summum bonum of aristocratic South and democratic North. Either one centralized strong Government or two will arise in this country, but no one can say whether the development will take place at once or after a terrible interregnum of disorder and political trouble, and universal suffrage will find its master in its own favourite creation—armed despotism. The other day a soldier said to an officer who was about to punish him for neglect of duty, " If you do I'll not vote for you at the next election." "You spoke too late," quoth the officer ; " here I am now with the power to punish you, and I'll double it for your threat,"—a very pregnant little story for people to think over in all its bearings. NOVEMBER 8. As I am two days from Boston by mail, and the electric telegraph will carry the latest news up to the sailing of the packet on Wednesday, I shall not in dulge in any speculations in reference to the news from the Great Expedition, meagre and unsatisfac tory, and even doubtful as it is; but I may be allowed to record my opinion, from the tone of those in the public departments, that the success is not very decisive, and that the ships have been receiving a very warm reception. When I was in Port Royal this spring, on Mr. Trescot's Sea Island, the advan tages of the position and the probability of an at tack struck me ; but I was told that the inhabitants were aware of their danger, and that batteries had bern erected to cover Beaufort and the banks of the river at the entrance of Port Royal. That was so far back as May. Since then the defences have probably been greatly strengthened, and although Broad River and Port Royal afford depth of water for any vessel except the very largest men-of war, there is a bar on the branch to Beau fort which will prohibit the entrance of the heavy frigates of the expedition. I am informed there were 28 vessels inside pounding away at the place ; the town itself will no doubt be destroyed, but, even if the troops land and take possession of it, they will not find it of much use. There is— there can be—no intention of marching the force inland. If there should be any movement of the kind it will be a fatal error, for the country can be inundated at pleasure, and is, above all that I have ever seen, suited for defence, and the force would be too small to take military possession of the dis trict. But if they land and entrench themselves at Beaufort they can cause immense inconvenience and constant anxiety to the Confederates; and they come close on Pocotaligo, which is a station on the railway from Charleston to Savannah, and cut off the adha b l e t- t c w le e a e r n ea the c s o e t p to l n ace plantations, rc communication line rune through vast swamps and for es t s , e fields, and spanning rivers and creeks, on wooden bridges easily destructible, and running for many miles on trestle work, so that it can be rendered useless by cutting the woodwork, or, better still, by flinging the rails into the water. The planters are scattered widely apart through thin region, which bccomea ~~ ~ ~_ C. / ~ /~ „ - -whiteg, most of whom must be &led away froin their homes and plantations to form the Home Guard i Militia. It will be impossible, if they really desire to escape, to prevent them flock ing to the Federal fleet and camp, and coercion may precipitate the country into the horrors of ser vile insurrection. Of the 40,000 inhabitants in , eaufort county 34,000 are slaves! There cannot be more than 1,200 white men capable of bearing arms, of whom probably one-half are away in the Confederate ranks, leaving few, indeed, to look after the plantations and the blacks. If the Confederates can inclose their enemies with a living wall they may prevent the fearful calami ties whfch impend over them ; but the alarm and apprehension which must prevail all over the county and in the large towns cannot fail to add new horrors to war, and to fill every heart with fear almost as bitter and dreadful as,death it se Bat has the North considered what it will do a case there is a levee en ',nesse of the slaves, an d .hat they form their unwelcome nip lads upon the Federal camps? General Cameron's instructions to General Sherman authorise him in effect`to:pr'o tect such slaves as can get within the Federal lines, and Congress has declared those who have been employed by their masters on military works ipso facto freedmen. Suppose the 34,000 of Beaufort came inside the lines and the category ? But, indeed, there is no settled policy in regard to this the most vital question of all after that of the actual contest. General Kelley, in Virginia, according to statements in print, confines all slaves who come to him till thay are claimed by their masters. The Navy De partment is in expectation of receiving despatches, the substance of which will be communicated to the papers in time for the sailing of the steamer from Boston on the 13th of November. News has reached us that the French frigate Cleopatra has been lost at Hatteras ; crew mo ved. - - --- A VOICE FROM 2111 E SOUTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. have been greatly surprised to learn since my arrival in London that an effort has been made through publications in the English press to create the impression that there is much disaffection to wards the Confederate Government in all the Southern States of America, but particularly among the people of North Carolina, and that the proceedings of what purports to have been a meet ing of influential and respectable citizens of the county of Hyde, in that State, have been published as authority for the numerous statements which have been made upon the subject. I am directly from the city of Raleigh, the capital of the State of North Carolina, having come as a passenger in the Confederate States war steamer Nashville, which left Charleston, South Carolina, on the 26 th of October, and cast anchor off the Itchin, Southampton, on the 21st of this month, and have been since August, with the exception of brief visits to Virginia, constantly in the eastern portion of the State, where this disaffection is said to exist and the meeting to have taken place, and I need not say how much gratified I am that an opportunity is afforded me of pronouncing the entire story as utterly devoid of truth in every particular; No such disaffection exists in North Carolina, and no such meeting has ever been held. The people of North Caro lina are united and enthusiastic in their support of the Confederate Government, and are determined under no circumstances to ground their arms till the independency of the Confederacy is acknow ledged by our enemy. Before the State seceded there was in North Carolina, as in every Southern State, and as there will always be iu every popular Government, a divided public sentiment as to the wisest policy to be pursued for a redress of the grievances suffered at the hands of the Government of the United States, but the proclamation of Mr. Lincoln, in contravention of all law and authority, calling out 75,000 men ostensibly to ' hold, occupy, and possess" a few forts and an armoury at liar per's Ferry,—a force so disproportioned to the ob ject announced that the whole people were aroused to a sense of their danger, and the Act of Secession was passed by a unanimous vote of the Legislature, and was subsequently ratified by a State conven tion representing the sovereignty of the people. This action occurred in the month of April last, and since that time I have never heard in my extensive association with the people a single expression of opinion in opposition, but, en the contrary, a uni versal sentiment of concurrence in its propriety. justice, and necessity. Before Heft America Inc mate had sent to the seat of war in Virginia, fully armed and equipped, 33,000 volunteer troops, infantry and riflemen, and a splen did regiment of cavalry, numbering 1,091. There were 6,000 troops on the State coast, and camps of instruction established at Raleigh, Ridgewav, and Gareysburg, and the number of volunteers still offering was so great that General Martin, Com mander-in-Chief of the State forces, under orders of his Excellency the Governor, had issued a pro clamation informing the people that no further troops were needed or could be received„ A simple statement of these facts is a sufficient refutation of the idea which Mr. President Lincoln so earnestly and persistently seeks to create abroad, that there is a Union party in the Confederate States. It may suit his purposes to create elide an impression, as a justification of his course in waging a wicked and atrocious war upon a gallant and noble people, whom he is perfectly aware he can only wound—never conquer, but he will find few charitable enough to believe him actuated either by truth or honour. The farther statements of the papers of the United States, which have been extensively repro duced in the British press, that large numbers— multitudes, indeed, of the people of North Carolina, had since the fall of Fort Hatteras gone in and taken the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States are likewise devoid of truth. On the isolated and barren strip of sand where Fort Hatteras is situated there are several hundred wreckers, who support themselves principally by decoying vessels to their destruction by displaying false lights, &c., and about a hundred of these desperadoes, who live without the sense of any duty they owe to God or man, and who did not wish to be disturbed by their new neighbours, went in and took the oath after the fort fell. If the Yankees were dislodged to-morrow, they would take a se cond oath, with equal alacrity, to whoever might next occupy the waste. If any meeting favourable to Mr. Lincoln ever took place in North Carolina, which I do not believe, it could only have been composed of these wreckers, acting under the aus pices of their new-fledged friends, the Yankee in vaders, and the salutary restraints imposed by mar tial law and the guns of Fort Hatteras. By giving this hurried note a place in your columns, where the statements it is intended to cor rect have appeared, you will much oblige Your most obedient servant, London, Nov. 23. S. L. PENTON. p.S.—The statements in the alleged proceedings of the meeting in Hyde county, that the writ of habeas corpus, the freedom of speech and of the press, and the right of trial by had all been jury, suspended in North Carolina are utterly false. S. L. P. he - WRECKERS ON THE EAST COAST.—In reference to a paragraph published last week, in which it was stated that a party of Royal Marines had been sent down the Norm to protect a merchant vessel driven ashore on the Middle Skin, which was being plundered by Essex wreckers, we are requested to state that the parties removing the tallow from the abandoned brig were smacksmen, who arc em powered by the Merchant Seamen's Act to do what they were doing when this force was sent down to disperse them. The property thus saved is reported too he collcertainec tor of wreckage, and the crews are entitled ta amount of salvage on all the cargo thus res cue d. cue There have been, happily, no such persons as svk upon the Essex coast for many years. GARIBALDI.—The lif ovimento of Genoa publishes the following letter from General Garibaldi, in reply to an article in a Brussels journal, in which he is described as a pirate who was man y yea's ago attacked and vanquished by a British vessel. The letter runs thus :—" Caprera, Nov. n, 189,1. In No. 44 of the journal Le Reformation I have read an article entitled, `An Episode not generally kn ows in the Life of Garibaldi.' Such calumnies would be quite natural from a priest of Rome or an informer ; but that a journal which heads its col un umn_ ti ts ... w:t . h .o tte w oi o l r a d m ' Truth' e t x h: should soil them with such untruths T trardivary,—Q, c'ARII34I,iIJI,"