The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-13 00:00:00

TRIBAL -AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLANTA TIONS, TRANSFER'D WITH WILL *TRUSTEE& THUS CEASE YE .—. TO PAT RENTAL TO "& CO.'s - - - - - - BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 234 TR's ACT, 2-3 v. iv.. c. 92, § 4, 5 vic. c-39 § 4, 1842, PIP'S-10th Q. AN-BNTY. 132 yr., so S. o *'INN- J etsam eleap litigate rota ouT-flot-sami c. N. Wall-t,murdm 24 March-4- 29 Sept. Errant„ final:Tits of : Julian-treery on Two -8d Fishery-park law-sets. • • CARIBESQUE-SaChiMS and Merchants.—For commercial quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's Regains parliament, Art. az., by force of which no planter, er any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's marketplace guarantee of his debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such evil-set /Arsons' to be open to the .* *right of search' law as now given up. (Signed, .•• : : . • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTRWORTH, CL of Synode J. GRownoN, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701), Re-moderd, 1832-38. Sachirns—The last Illustrated London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's car lines, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-armorialfword scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fons 4re (' Fodinee -regales, of James I.'s 72 New River' share 1-plug in London's Goldsmith company of Philadelphia, on England's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by De'can° Henry Wotton and Montague—so CAR. ii. Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility intrust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit - Pe of House of Commons (12th Feb 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge of 'peculiar' institution), with undersigned § Lay-ge'cone's as their pa trons and advocates of Q-Ann-Bnty. act, plantation 10ths. See, No 4421 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London Convention (Philaoelphia), by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian. Peter, B. 11, as successor to the 99 years' leases (12 to run, under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Seem° Jos. Brant, on old John Adams' sugges tion—whose grandson is now here)—and approved at Philadelph's Lancaster Duchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins Montague § Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen Goldfmith Co's 1 N. River proprietary), Stegglesplug-1. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semioles & Georgii Cherokee Indians of the coast, 1000 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised- North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their black cattle mixing with the virgin races, thro' the Lan caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I—XIV. , for mixt Comijh Crt. of 6 Plante rs an d 6 N a ti ve Indians. Hence sew shire-crt foundation' on rrench and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the living representative of the Ashburton boundary com mission, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn •in successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820—for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of Texaa••hundred' 6& 6 partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-rrench-placet [1662 of Borromeo's Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of the Trent council, for swamping by votes thro' the Jasuit-Lopez Louisiana'd], Ceno'rs. RESOLUTE Jr. re Trent—The arrest of Slidell, Mason, and others, as 'contra-band illegal persons,' yen ' lercei4e, is just for trade quiet, in this case, the below state-codiciled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the ' bronze'd-f -PENN-statue I).'x-peace Society of friends. Sagamores.—By Odio longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), ¢4.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards in all May-polar expeditions. Ye will now think deep of the danger of joining either party of the white faces er half caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby forbid from notic ing Baser d-proclamalion's as headed in the limes and Post of 16th Nov., " A Convention between ENGLAND, France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby you will perceive [ that on such setting forth], the com mon law is not embraced in the said deed - for the Indian's rights, or alien's of the contracting parties to keep peace on their soil. By " this" and reasons as follows so:—' " Command old words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Crap-line one of Water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jacno Zollverein trading flag ~, + x and not a belligerent by Ordnance issue T 343 of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower), the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on board the 4 Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it—the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union courts of z-qal law of 1621, and under 1764 trust, which has been decided in the Angl'lot-span'sh Texas Crts. inad missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in corporated St. Denis, under the words "except France" in March 3,1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of Melchisidek on a moving earth error' with it) the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgic Leopold-Pedro 2-ty's in 1828-30 of illegality. 3, The Papal impudence of Sir W. Gore Ouseley in collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Walker succession in Central America, for the Bamberg-Sigismund life-tenure 1047, Dappes-assumption of A•E'lt'T Savoy), for seizing of Mexico, from England-itself—caused his papist envoy Capt. Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests wolves 4 men as manifest by late Morocco bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : : Nave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MONROE doctrine, Las of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the law's font, and recognised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the sole' elect of P6land's N.-west Russia a -Hurman of the cent years Dutch loan act of 1832, unconnected with religion. Fourthly. The Lie-ratification of _Landon' Gazette, and not, within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a sup-plement, 'Whitt'-coloured persons being voice-divorced in this Az‘fmithson'an institution' district-site of April, 1836, on Gladstone's comtee. of H. C. by u.s. Congress, '46. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians, &c., that the Cabinets named in this convention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a converses Domes Romish sense, (in total opposition to the legislative unity of the standard of weight and measure of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue—under annual election of paid laymen—for guiding the commerce of the world) without consulting the State arbiter below—so to (6 & 61) "Scorn arbitration u a stain— (1 & 14) 9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. • Therefore the Civic ' Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for my right, is also [the monetary recognition of all dues from America upon the principle of primary well-intention of the whites and evident decay of human nature, by their theft of our 1730 Indian nationality, on my life], by a brother and sisterly love for the future, under the law of England, as (disjoined now with t- Pope, .B.Churches or t-pater sects late on minister's money) the coal-♦ 13 read-bag'-State. PETER BRANT BASQIIET, America's Meded-sack'roo, xephew 11 (of Sae'mo J. Brant, 1775—Saemo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-LlO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gasp% H.7's Montague C ' ACRERLET, P.C., sworn in, —C. J., Ireland's Empery cornfn of Review, 1825-37, L.s. H. B's mitecutors ' §Worrore LYON Bowu, P.C. Dec. 11—London. See The Mtn, Nov. 16, 1861. OYAL, ENGLISH OPERA, .____ _COVENT GARDEN. Unlcr the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Fyne; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, W allworth, T. Distill, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. H. Haigh, G. Pyne; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or fees to Box-keepers. rHEATRIt•IiOYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. BMW THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young. &a After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sotheran, Miss Oliver, &c. To be followed by BOX AND COX. To con lade with FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. ARREST OF THE ' NASHVILLE' PIRATES. TAKE NOTICE, By force ad regem xhodiam' for the Criminal Law— on this side the sea level, as on the other—Washington ex tradition Act—touching Fire-raising, as one of the four pleas of the Crown pivot-voice reservata under oath for all. The Mayor of Southampton, or *rear-admiral of England's pinnace charge, Isle of Wight, also the coast-guard adja cent, will arrest the master PEAGRAII and crew of the slip Nashville, for pillage and robbery, on the high seas, of the property of the American plantation ship Harvey Birch, on or about the 19th November, 1861. By reason (a) ' in universe ditioni supremus est' of the placet regium imperium, marls populo roman restitnendo A. D. 1346 in 1842, vide 291, P. Pickius' Constituo federici imperatoris Taaantur severs piratze'—Laws of Rhodes. By reason (b) on the Lisbon Wine License Company of merchants, in Precedent by newspaper on Jnnot-invasion, 1807, for England's mercantile marine protection under the • • •Bristol (Liverpool. • •and— • London)'s Admiralty " super altum mare, guts fireendente et defeend en t s " in old style, And this shall be your war ran t as of the ' high commis. sion of review of Port4gal's ally, under the law of human forethought, for general repose on the Holy Alliance Abo lition, thro' *Hamond, SANDYS, in '. (Signed) PETER Brant BASQUE; The trade flag -union. Jak, • a. mMp m. 3-3. 1., eorn-hill-Tow'er'd Income-tax • P" Buio. !Mr freeman, Antipied'n crown-colonf chief Temple. of 1842, —The criminal law's Eitradi -1 Labouehere. Lion Gap, 3 -mile off-shore Sea -constable 10 2 [2 March, '4l] bearing Samerica's paddle of Ad m i ra l' s 2H. M. 'Perley, court over Canterbury's Gd-Guizote set ;4: 3 Sept, '4l's tlement for New Zealand's deadp roo mt Gap viz'r. Crt., its aid -Wpoy Stil'lord W ar d en Capt 0' Halloran. —tho' cruelly set a ',sedan vacuo-Age'r v aappenthal, by Ashburton Baring-treaty. .* N. CRARLEg g ACKERLET, C. J. of Carib-isled f Jethou'd England, elect Aug. 29 1825 (by Ad- ••• : : reiral G. Helmond, Stuart de Rothsay's See- Crown rotary ; Marcus Hill— SINDYS, Lay-presbyters egu. on Can'ng's Rely Alliance abolition, of King- A clubs), the Standard weig ht-bearer of 1837 , Lt. I 4 R.N. I ey'd double-eathied victim—supporter Si Peu, of ltob awk P RYER 10 yrs, by Red Indian Mary Qu' Bien kf arch 'sten co ' a murder - tie, 1820 in' h a b eas v i rg i nale s murder -tie, ehristie transit, thre Quebec's ' Jose '75 Hamilton-Dalhousie, in s. Elder' duty for his P.Toma'2s and own's State-b,rth provision, as the Mon- BRANT.' trivia Subsidy let-fruit leanlBl4'9o's on major Trottsor- Cartwright's chief sxceessorial - 1322'99a red-turban' d Hen. 4th , 1111 orril°fiaet:,cY• (to trove. OaPe-colona, pins 6, 16* Sigismond life Savoy'd' by Vapr.'*s to GoNSALVI 1816 rewilamento-159, Scotch-Bailie 'Urban Bth's captteity- oath 1.‘7479h21:! swat, STUART wortley-weweornen's) en Gonfalo n e ' 1824 passed is C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 V.T. 64, on ItT elay-seig nor July 1521-72 Luther- Calvin, for coin' d • age, over W. Russell and Stanley's Dead-h and trust. yet Sion-attaints), in Pro tectorship-life (1683 13 Dec. '6l, unpaid Christ corpus martyr 19 yrs, London, LONDON RIFLE BBIGADE.—The _Regimental Committee, acting at the earnest request of large numbers of the members of all ranks, have requested the command ing officer to tender the services of the regiment to Her Ma jesty, in order to relieve the regular troops from all garrison duties within the city of London at the present juncture. This offer is not intended to interfere with any more active duties in which the regiment might participte, should it be ealled out under the powers which Government possess in case of war or invasion. In such service the brigade is fully prepared to take its proper position, but the offer here men tioned is purely a voluntary step in advance of any such "calling out," is the first of this description that has been tendered, and thore is every reason to hope it will be ac cepted, or, at the least, it will certainly be entertained and serious considered. ERECTION OF BATTERIES AT TORONTO.—We understand that it is the intention of the military authori ties, to erect immediately two or more batteries in the vici 'litY of the old fort. On Monday work was commenced 11_Peaonv one of them, on which will b e moun t e d six gun Tor Y Calibr e and of the mos t approved modern pattern s .—, of 4, onto Leader, Nov. 29. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1861. There are some indications that the Emancipation question will not sleep quite so soundly as the pro slavery men North as well as South desire. The Washington Cabinet is now known to be divided on the subject—it is even said to be three for un sheathing against the South the sword of Abolition, and four for retaining it in its scabbard, hardly allowing an inch of the steel to be seen. The PRE SIDENT is reported to be on the side of the three, but to be afraid yet to declare his real views. Meantime, outside, the abolitionists are boldly speak ing out. Mr. CHARLES SUMNER'S voice is heard, denying the calumny of some that the abolitionists are the cause of the war. They are, he replies, in the same sense in which the early Christians were the cause of the heathen enormities against which they bore testimony, and the cause of the martyr doms, the axes, the fires, and the tortures under which they suffered. But he openly affirms that the process in which a beginning had been made by the instructions to the Port Royal expe dition to use the services of slaves, though without a general arming of them, is the only one which can eventually succeed. It is, moreover, just, he says, that this system should be commenced in South Carolina, thefons et origo of Secession. At Cincinnati a large meeting of Germans—a meeting of sympathisers with General FREMONT— uttered sentiments even more strongly and defi nitely expressed than Mr. SUMNER'S. The speakers exposed the falsehood of the pre tence of General HALLECK, FREMONT'S suc cessor, that the slaves became spies for the South, and showed what disasters the Federal arms had suffered for want of the intelligence which the slaves would have furnished. Besides others, the great one of Bull's Run was due to MAC DOWELL'S ignorance of the existence of batteries which, had the slaves trusted the Northerne, they could easily have known of. Mr. CONWAY, one of the speakers, showed that a military conquest of the South, preserving slavery, would be as much a conquest of themselves as of slavery. That the Government of the Union would then have to become a military Government, watching over the Slave States, and protecting everywhere the iniquity of slavery. He contended that the 'policy of the Administration, or the Administration itself, would be swept away, if it did not change, as soon ' as the real state of the case was perceived and felt by the people. The slaveholders were a pitiful 350,000, who, for three.quarters of a century, had kept the country in hot water, and had now precipitated it into civil war. He represented it as a miserable servility for a Government to be afraid to touch the claim, of so few persons, to the indefensible power of scourging men and women, and buying and selling them at their pleasure; and he concluded with the declaration that, a decree that the Govern• ment ignores the relation of slavery, would end the war. From that time there could be no arming in the South but a home guard ; one thing he said the war would teach—" that slavery ends in mili tary despotism, that liberty ends in equality for all, black or white. The moment which decides between the two has arrived to this nation." There may be more truth in ,this last remark than we should think at first probable. Should the war last as long as it must do without emanci pation, a military Presidentship is no impossible result. If the North does not drop its ambition of vast territorial empire, and if the South persists in fighting for independence and a slave federation, no termination can well be perceived to the struggle now begun. Of course no one can say whether the North may not tire of a costly war for such an un substantial shadow as an empire coextensive with the Northern Continent of America. It has long been the seemingly grand, but really vulgar dream of American politicians and stump orators, but the hard realities of war sometimes awaken men from such dreams pretty speedily. There are no symp toms of this at present. Nothing to suggest that Northern pride and Southern love of self-rule, may not last and fight for many a long year, with vary ing fortunes. If so, it will be singular indeed if amongst hundreds of thousands of Anglo-Saxon soldiers, some half self-taught military genius be not developed, some CROMWELL or CLIVE, who will be elected by circumstances and the urgency of popular feeling, the Dictator of the war. Even un ruly Yankees, worn out by hopeless want of suc cess, and struck with the manifest ability of the self-made leader, will come to think obedience an honour as well as a necessity—and the result may be the election of a military President for a long term of years, while still at the head of a vast army of his own creation, and one which regards his posi tion in the world as their honour, the recognition of their powers, and the trophy of their victories. Widely different indeed may be the issue ; yet who can say that there is anything unnatural, unhisto rical even, in the above supposition. The only ob jection is that the unmanageable self-willed Yankees are like none who have gone before them—but the answer is, that what they will pass through may tame and humble even Yankees. As to the difficulties and dangers of abolishing slavery we do not believe in them. It has become the slang and cant of a number of respectable writers and speakers to picture servile war, and all sorts of horrors as the consequence of abolition. How can these men believe themselves ? They must be either thoughtless or hypocritical. Take the great fact ; that England emancipated a host of slaves equal to about a fourth of those of America, and pent up in a muchsmaller space, and yet not a slave holder felt the hand of violence from one of the many thousands who had suffered such cruel injus tice at their hands. To all such nonsense, Jamaica is a standing answer. The masters suffered nothing, but the loss of the most wicked power ever placed by the arch-enemy of man in the hands of the few—the power to treat human beings as articles of merchandise. There were those who predicted, as we well remember, all sorts of such horrors in Jamaica—the answer is before the world. The only horrible thing was that the negro laughed and capered for joy, that Massa could lick him no longer. Nothing, with ordinary prudence, could be more certain than the same results in America. Suppose Mr. LINCOLN, in the language of Mr. CONWAY, to "ignore the relation of slavery"—to do it honestly, unconditionally, and in a way to show that the North had really renounced its anti-negro feeling, and would firmly protect the inherent right of every coloured man to his personal liberty. What must be the first step ?—to make the fact known first to the masters, next to the ignorant and ex citable negroes themselves. The first would soon enough understand. Of course, the intimation must at the same time be made, and faith honourably kept, that the Government pre ferred creating a large national debt to compensate fairly for the slaves, to creating one by mutual bloodshed and devastation, :that would tell on a vast proportion of the planters themselves. It would perhaps break them up as a combined re sisting power ; for though unwilling to part with their beloved despotism over their slaves, they would think it better than losing their power and the money too. Then the slaves would not be difficult to deal with, if only the North were as determined on their emancipation as England was in her case. The slaves can spread intelligence amongst them selves with wonderful rapidity. The watchword would have to be—no attacks on masters, but liberty on joining us. Aid us by information, aid us by letting your masters know that you prefer to be freemen working for wages; tell them that the ;PRESIDENT of the United States is willing to pay for their liberties, and by letting them understand ,that you know your new rights, and that they cannot be long kept from you, you will damp their zeal in fighting use lessly to keep you in a bondage from which you must soon be delivered. We repeat that if the North went sincerely to work, in a short time all the Slave States would be fermenting with the new leaven of hope for the bondsman—the Northern armies would be the slave's guarantee for his hope. They would have his invaluable direct co-operation, and his not less valuable indirect help. In a few years the South would be covered with a free, merry, industrious peasantry. The cotton-plant would bloom again in all its beauty, and that beauty would be undimmed by the dark shades of the bondage of man to his fellow-man. The bearing of our fellow-countrymen, the popu lation of our various North American possessions, at the present critical juncture is in the highest degree satisfactory. Throughout the two Canadas, throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other minor transatlantic dependencies of the Crown, the feelings excitel by the imminence of the present situation of affairs between the Govern ment of the British Empire and the Federal Go vernment at Washington, are at once very simple, profoundly earnest, and absolutely unanimous. We can judge pretty correctly of all this even now. For it is remarkable that in all the accounts that have as yet reached us from this quarter of our dominions no two are in any way at variance. And it is especially noticeable already that in the emotions excited in our own North American possessions by the certainly very startling tidings of the astounding provocation to war between the two Governments meaning the outrage perpetrated on board the British vessel, the Trent, by the officers of the Federal war-ship the San Jacinto—have been emotions expressive rather of a calm determination than of anything like eager or impassioned enthusiasm. Remember ing what must be the situation of those colonies in the unhappy event of war between Great Britain and the Federal Government, it is surely better that it should be thus, precisely in this spirit of resolute and deliberate loyalty, that the Canadians, the New Bruns wickers, and the Nova Scotians should accept the lamentable alternative. It was only the other day that the sentiments of those, whom we may again be allowed to designate as our trans atlantic fellow-countrymen, were enunciated in very clear and comprehensible and earnest words by the Hon. co obwe E r , e t c h o e lle P e r t i e m d e by M t i h n o is s t e erof Nova Scotia. who took a any note wh a t ever of the significant address delivered by that hon. gentleman to the working classes, who were assembled to hear him down at Ashton-under-Lyne, he spoke distinctly and tically, of cote in the name of the population of our North American colonies, but also quite as dis tinctly and quite as emphatically as—an English man. The identity of interests between that portion of our vast and scattered colonial empire and the old mother country, is still recognised to the full, and thoroughly appreciated upon both sides of the Atlantic. It is nowhere better understood, in truth, than it is up to this present moment in Canada. Strange, it may seem to some, that we should be enabled to write thus confidently of the loyalty of the Canadians, remembering the stormy event of 1837—the sanguinary rebellion that had to be put down then and there by force of arms. While it is undeniable, of course, that Canada would have to pass through a formidable ordeal enough in the melancholy contingency of war be tween the British Government and the Federal Government at Washington—it is no less certain, indeed it is already visible, that advantages upon the other hand cannot but necessarily flow in the direc tion of our North American colonies across the boundary lines of the (once) United States. That such is inevitable we have but just remarked is already visible. And this upon the mere antici pation of war. How—admits of explanation in a very few words : for we have reliable evidence upon the subject that can even now be confidently turned to. Let us take, in proof of this, the attestations of one of the most intelligent of our Canadian contemporaries, the Quebec Chronicle. In a recent issue of that organ, the contrast to be looked for now was pretty broadly defined. It was drawn, this contrast, so to speak, to the tune of " look on this picture and on this"—here the calamities— here the advantages ! It was remarked that ".Canada, once the favourite battle-ground of Indian tribes, then the scene of a fierce struggle for empire between the two chief Powers of Europe, has long been exempt from the evils, the horrors of war." It was observed that though " There are some still living who ' recount with pride and pleasure their campaigns against American invaders, but they are grey-haired men, and they tell these tales to their grandchildren, for the events of which they speak took place half a century ago." The Rebellion of 1837 counting for almost nothing—being pro nounced (as contrasted with the war remembrances of 1812) " a mere riot, an altogether insignificant affair compared with the wars of history, compared even with the American civil war of to-day." Our contemporary hereupon acknowledging with a cer tain impressement and even awe—" It follows that not one in a thousand of our people rightly estimates the blessings of peace or the calamities of war. Indeed," he continues, "we never shall be adequately thankful for peace until we have had to measure swords with an enemy, until each one of us has had relatives or friends exposed to danger and death, or property devoted to destruction. But," it is re marked in conclusion upon this point, " by looking at the condition of the States we may form some idea of the miseries, private and national, which a state of war involves, and which inspire the prayer of the Anglican litany—' Give us peace in our time, O Lord! '" So much for the earnest and Christian realisation of the darker side of the picture, evidenced, even now, by the Canadians. If, with honour, war can be in any way avoided, in Heaven's name let it. be avoided. But —if not, not ! That is the one sentiment, the one prayerful aspiration of the subjects of the British Crown upon either side of the Atlantic. It is the heartfelt wish of the whole body of our Canadian colonists. Appreciating :as they do, however, completely the horrors involved in the terrible contingency of war, should war unhappily prove to he unavoidable at the turn of the year, the people of Canada, of Nova Scotia, of New Brunswick, and of our other transatlantic possessions cannot possibly, as rational men, fail to appreciate, quite as thoroughly, the advantages that have already accrued to them, that are still accruing to them from the mere threaten ing of war. Listen to the contrast presented thus to view from the direction of Quebec— viewed there through the lorgnette of the local Chronicle. The loss to the (once) United States, and the gain to Canada flowing from that loss, by reason of that mere threatening, is thereupon clearly enough indicated. To begin with, it is demonstrated that " the British contribution to the population of the United States has fallen off 90 per cent. from what it was ten years ago !" It being added,—" That, however, is not all." For example,—" The stagnation of business of all kinds, the consequent lack of employment, the apprehension that the war will be a long one, the dread of an enormous national debt and heavy taxation, have driven many new comers to the States away." Whither, is it asked ? Well, listen ! "They have gone back to the shores of Great Britain by hundreds, and our own emigration agent to Ireland, Mr. DONALDSON, says he has seen shiploads of emigrants returning from Ame rica to that country." Whereas, says this Cana dian witness, "We have not suffered much from war yet. Even our Customs revenue has not fallen off to any great extent ; and if some branches of industry have been injuriously affected , that has been more than compensated for by the stimulus given to others. Our population has been largely increased. The number of emigrants arrived at Quebec up to the 18th ultimo was 19,461 this year, as against 9,654 last—an in crease of more than 100 per cent. This is by ship. The number of those who have come into the Pro vince from the States by rail is probably even larger, judging from the reports of the emigrant agents in the various cities ; and many must have arrived of whom the agents have seen nothing, for all the newspapers teem with accounts of the establishment here of small manufactories started by enterprising Americans. Probably at least 50,000 souls have been added to our population this year by immigration." Assuredly, here again it may be said,—" 'Tis an ill wind that blows no body any good." For, beyond a doubt, a terrible phrase, once familiar to us nearer home, may now bear a direct transatlantic application—and the Quebec Chronicle may say, with reason and with truth, ant without one particle of malignity, that the United States calamity is Canada's oppor tunity ! Commence a 7 . ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING,the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (10th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP 0' DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Edmun Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Mae Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chgtterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half -past 6, to commence at T. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. It° YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb. After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTHELLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Othello, Mr Fechter EW THIATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL • Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Great Attraction for the Cattle Show Week.—Mr. and Mrs Dion Bouecault in two pieces. THIS EVENING, commencing at 7, the great American drama of THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; Mr. and Mrs. Dion ►'oncicault, Messrs. Billington, Emery, Jamison, Stephenson, Smith, Romer. Lewis, Mrs. Billington. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. At 20 minutes past 9 o'clock the great Irish drama, T HE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Boueicault, Mr. Fisher, Mr.". Emery, Mr. Billington, Miss %I oolgar, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear in CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. After which, BAMBOOZLING. To conclude with LES PIERROTS. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. MR. SAM COWELL at Eleven o'clock in several favou rite Songs, including; " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. " Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA 'l' itAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and 51,gn . or Tivoli, with a poWerful Choate, The Comic department Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Hervey and French (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and his talented son, the best negro delineators of the day ; and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. T il E 0 0X FOR D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Rocca nefr,ra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Madame Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Covency, Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM CO WELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, llh. 10m.—Afternoon, llh. 40m. To-MORROW.-Morning,l h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Bm. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 13,11861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—kighest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.50 ; a sudden fall. Wrtin—From South to South-West ; blowing strong and squally, with dirty rainy weather in the forenoon; now sunshiny and cloudy. 1 15 ,4 t 1. m, _ _ " b ~•• ' . 40 " ; Diro-tf" A LADPS OPINION OF AFFAIRS. " I am much interested in the aspect of the war, and my blood will boil without a fire if they in head quarters do not make tha braggarts do what is right. The flag of an Englishman' is not to lose its colour by the squirt of a Sherry Cobler. I am only a woman' and not a very ' strong minded one,' but I should cheer on the Britishers,' and urge them to give loud mouthed Yankees a ' tarn ation licking.' Let us have a game at Armstrongs,' and see literally which arm is strongest." TILE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srit,—The great success of tha Royal Naval Reserve force naturally leads to the inquiry—To whom are we indebted for the scheme? On reference to the Report of the Royal Commissioners on Manning the Navy, dated 19th February, 1859, I find that the rules and regulations now governing the force are founded upon the suggestions of /qr. C. H. Greenhow, shipping master, North Shields, as contained in his letter of 27th May, 1850.—See Appendix No. 21, page 369. Ought not this fact to be generally known ? Yours faithfully, P. T E ric _ES. PARIS, DEC. 13. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the November return : INCREASE. Cash in hand Bills discounted not yet due 73 4 „ Treasury balance DECREASE. Bank notes Current accounts Advances The amount of Government stock held by the Bank remains unchanged. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 11. The Turkish lira has risen from 200 to 370 piastres. Paper money is generally refused. BRUSSELS, DEC. 12. There is a rumour in diplomatic circles that mediation in the American conflict will be offered by King Leopold. The Secretary of the British Legation here has left for London. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Nov. 17. (By Telegraph to Point de Galle.) Grey shirtings active, but prices unchanged. Mule twist dull and unchanged. Raw silk active. Indigo unchanged. Copper sheathing 1 higher. Tile ad vancing. Sugar active. Saltpetre dull and un changed. Linseed active, and prices advancing. Jute unchanged. Hides have an advancing ten dency. Shellac declining. Rice active, and prices declining. Exchange unaltered. Government Securities, Four per Cents., 16 die. ; ditto, Five per Cents., 3 dis. Freights active and advancing. BOMBAY, Nov. 15. (By Telegraph to Point de Galle.) Cotton in demand at higher rates. Piece goods advancing. Twist higher and in excellent demand. Government Securities, Five per Cents., 95. Freights steady. AUSTRALIA, MELBOURNE, OCT. 25. Sir George Grey landed here on the 26th ult. The accounts from New Zealand are unsatisfac- tory. MELBOURNE, OCT. 25. The Kent has sailed with 105,603 ounces of gold. Martell's brandies unchanged. Hennessy's un changed. Geneva, 6d. lower. Oats active, but un changed. Butter, 2d. lower. Hams unchanged. Bass's ale dull. Flour dull s and declining. Rice dull and unchanged. Sugar declining. Exchange unaltered. ADELAIDE, OCT. 26. Trade dull. Exchange, li per cent. lower. SYDNEY, OCT. 22. Trade dull. Exchange, 1 per cent. lower. ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY. News received here from Pekin, to the 13th Oct., states that the apprehensions that the change in the Chinese Government would disturb the friendly relations between China and the European Powers appear to be unfounded. Prince Kung, chief of the party favourable to in tercourse with Europe, had visited the Emperor at Sehe, notwithstanding that he had received orders not to leave Pekin. Prince Kung returned to Pekin highly gratified with the results of his journey. The Court would return to Pekin shortly. CANTON, OCT. 31. The state of affairs in Japan continues unsatisfac tory. The European representatives are awaiting instructions from their respective Governments. The head quarters of the British Minister are still at Yokuhama. The reports from the foreign legations at Pekin are satisfactory. The English and French troops assisted the Chinese to hold Chefoo against the rebels, who ultimately retreated. Shanghae is in a state of alarm, on account of the proximity of the rebels. Mr. Henry Parkes has been ordered to proceed to Shanghae. Canton was evacuated on the 21st. POINT DE GALLE, Nov. 17. According to the latest advices from Cochin China hostilities were likely to be resumed at Saigon. CANTON, OCT. 31. Grey shirtings active, and prices advancing, Water twist active. Tea unchanged. Total ex port, 39,781,0001 b. Exchange on London, .1 higher. FOOCHOW, OCT, 24. Tea active, but prices declining. SHANGHAE, OCT. 24. Grey shirtings active . Tea—Congou active, and prices declining. Silk—No. 3 Ssatlee active, but prices declining. Settlements in fortnight, 4,500 bales. Export to date, 23,000 bales. Exchange on London, 1 higher ; on India, un- changed. Freights for silk and tea unaltered. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec.l2.—Prices remain about the same as yesterday, with the same dullness as regards the amount of business, Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 75c. Railways quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations : ft per per Cents ... 95 10 Credit Fonder l2OO Do. end month.... 95 20 Belgian 4} 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 75 ; Roman Bank Shares — —1 Austrian Credit Mobilior.... 732 50 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 735 ! Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1392 50 .. 1293 75 Northern New ditto _. 910 Lyons and Mediterranean 1003 75 .. 1005 Geneva.. — Southern 666 25 .. 667 50 Western Eastern Sardinian - .. 342 50 Austrian Loirbard SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived. The Congress had devoted another day to the debate on the Address, the principal speakers being M. Aparici y Guigario and the Minister of the Interior. - One of the journals gives an account of an unpleasant incident which occurred• a few days back at Valencia :—The Duke de Malakoff, on his way in a French frigate from Algiers to France, put in there, and made the vessel fire a salute of 21 guns; but the port, not being a military one, had no battery to return the salute. The Captain-General (General Orozco) sent a telegraphic despatch to Madrid asking what ho was to do, and sent two of his aides dc-camp to present his respects to the Marshal. The civil governor also sent a functionary to the Marshal to offer him every facility for seeing the town. But the Duke was much offended at the salute not being returned, and he sent for the French consul to confer with him on the subject. An order came from Madrid to fire a salute as well as he could, and the Captain-General went personally to the Duke to inform him of the real facts of the case. Ho presented himself in the costume which Captains-General wear on ordinary occasions, but the Marshal received him in what the journal describes as " a not very regular attitude," asked him why he did not appear in full uniform, and complained of the salute not being returned. Several persons were so offended at this conduct that they withdrew, and General Orozco did the same. THE REINFORCEMENTS TOR CANADA The saying that "out of evil comes good" is almost as old as evil itself. Yet, old as it is, it would be difficult to find a better illustration of the truth of the adage than in looking at the present high state of organisation and military efficiency of our army, as a result which has sprung entirely from the miserable collapse of all its departments in the Crimea. To prove this we need only glance for one moment at the method and accurate relative propor tions in which all the various branches of the ser vice (except cavalry) which go to form a complete army are now being rapidly brought forward for service in Canada. In 1854 the troops were huddled out to Gallipoli and Varna as fast as the men could be got together, and when landed almost left to shift for themselves as they best could, which, as all the world knows now, was badly enough. In fact, so utterly wanting in all the important auxi liary branches of a regular army was the force in the Crimea, that with the increased military know ledge of the public now, they would refuse to consi der it an army at all in the proper sense of the term, and regard it as what it really was, an aggre gation of regiments. In the corps d'armes which is preparing to leave our shores we see how all this is altered. It is not merely regi ments of infantry and batteries of artillery—these have always been forthcoming—but it is a perfect little army, some 12,000 strong, and which when landed will be ready in all its branches to take the field at a day's notice. There are two battalions of the Military Train, with their waggons for land transport and ambulances for the sick, under the command of Colonel Kennedy, C. 8., the ablest organiser of this branch of the service, created entirely since the Crimean war. There is to be a large staff of military purveyors to look after the proper supply and administration of the hospitals —another most important department, which was neglected till the miseries of Scutari showed the necessity of its permanent establishment. There is to be a numerous staff of commissariat officers, and an extra complement of Royal Engineers for road and bridge making, and, if necessary, for hutting or superintending the erection of earthworks. In short, as we have said, the reinforcements now go ing to Canada constitute in their various elements, in all except cavalry, a perfect little army, as well disciplined and equipped as any Power in Europe could send forth at so short a notice. The various corps that have either actually em barked, or will be despatched as fast as means of transport can be provided for them, are the Ist Battalion of Grenadier Guards, 2d Battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards, Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, Ist Battalion of 15th Foot, Ist Battalion of 16th Foot, 2d Battalion of 16th Foot, the 96th Foot, and 2d Battalion of the 17th. In addition to these, five batteries of field artillery, comprising 30 guns and about 1,250 men, are also going, with five batteries of heavy ordnance, for garrison and citadel duty, equally strongly manned. There are also, as we have said, two battalions of the Military Train, with companies of Engineers, and companies of the new Commissariat and Hospital Corps. At present these are all the troops under orders ; but if the present difficulty should result in open war with the North American Confederation there is no doubt but that an army of from 35,000 to 40,000 men will be assembled in Canada by mid summer. When we look at the very short period which has elapsed since the news of the San Jacinto's outrage reached this country, nothing is more striking than the rapidity with which this corps d' armee has been assembled for foreign service, and has either already embarked or will be on its way in the course of another week. Thus Captain Vesey's No. 5 Battery, 4th Brigade, only got its notice at Bristol on Tuesday; it was in Woolwich on Friday night, and sailed in the Melbourne last Saturday morning. This vessel also took oat 30,000 Enfield rifles, with bayonets and other accoutrements, 2,500,000 rounds of Enfield ammunition, 1,500 rounds of Armstrong shell, a large number ofsmooth bore heavy cannon, one complete battery of 12- pounders, one of nine for field service, with their carriages complete, as well as Captain Vesey's own battery of Armstrongs, and a stare of ice sledges, ice saws, &c., for the St. Lawrence. Yesterday the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, 950 strong, with Capt. Leslie's No. 6 (Armstrong) Battery, 4th Bri gade, 260 strong, embarked on board the Australa sian and sailed in the evening for Canada. In this vessel also went a number of snow sledges, Commis sariat stores, Armstrong and smooth-bore guns, shot, shell, and cartridges for 13, 10, and 8 inch mortars. The Ist battalion of the 16th Regiment will go this week in the Persia, which, like the rest, will take out large supplies of guns, shot, and shell, and, in addition, a number of our best drill ser-• geants to " set up" the already fine regiments of Canadian Volunteers. Other transports are being taken up by the Government, and each day, in fact, for some time to come will witness the depar ture of Canadian reinforcements. The instructions to the commanders of these vessels—and the same instructions will be given to all till the Government have later advices as to the ice in the St. Lawrence—are to do the best they can without running any risk to get up the St. Lawrence as far as the Island of Bic, or, if possible, to Riviere du Loup. The latter point is the nearest eastern termi nus of the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada, about 100 miles below Quebec, and on the opposite bank of the river. If the ships can make this point, there is nothing to prevent the troops passing by rail along the bank of the St. Lawrence and across the Victoria-bridge to Montreal, and thence by the same line to any part of Upper Canada, even to the shores of Lake Huron itself. To every town of the least importance in Canada the Grand Trunk has its rails, not even excepting the very new capi tal of Ottawa. If Riviere du Loup cannot be gained by the transports, they are to disembark their troops at Bic, some 45 miles below it, though at a part of the stream that is often clear when Wolf River is frozen up. Toe Governor-General of Canada has already been informed of this pro gramme, so that ample accommodation in the way of snow sledges will be provided here for the con veyance of the regiments up to the Riviere du Loup station. In an ordinarily severe Canadian winter, at this time of the year, all means of access by the river to either of these places would be barred by the ice. The latest news, however, affords the best reasons for hoping that the ships will certainly he able to gain Bic, if not Riviere du Loup. Trans ports that may start from this country still later will not attempt the passage of the St. Lawrence without calling at Halifax to ascertain the latest intelligence as to the state of the ice in the river. If it should be found that not even Bic can be gained by the vessels which left last week and dur ing this, the instructions of the commanders are to return and land their troops and stores at Halifax and St. John. The suggestions which have been put forward as to their wintering at Gaspe are quite out of the question. The land-locked har bour of Gaspe is frozen hard even when Riviere du Loup can be gained. At Halifax and St. John's, I New Brunswick, therefore, all he troops and stores will be landed, and, in case of very severe weather, remain there till the melting of the ice in spring leaves them free to resume their progress into Canada Proper. As affording facilities for a ra pid advance when necessary, these stations are admirably chosen, giving three main routes by which the men and stores can simultaneously move up —namely, the heavy stores and ordnance by water from Halifax to Riviere du Loup, or Quebec, while the troops are sent forward by rail to Pictou and Shediac, where transports can await them and convey them at once up the St. 'Lawrence without loping time by steaming from Halifax round Cape Breton Island, and so on to the Gulf. Across Nova Scotia from Halifax to Wind sor is a very good line of railway, capable of tran sporting from 5,000 to 6,000 troops per day, and from Windsor another line continues direct to Truro, in the centre of the peninsula. From Truro to Pic ton the distance is less than 40 miles, the first 15 of which are through the forest, and over a very good road. Along the last 22 miles of the distance, after entering the county of Pictou, the roads are as good as the best turnpike roads in England. If not barred by the snow this two days' march to Pictou might easily be made at any time, as, in the dead calm stillness of a Canadian winter, only the wind blowing over the snow is to be feared, and this route is nearly always sheltered by the forests of overhanging pines. From Pictou the men could embark in the harbour in the roughest weather, and steam at once for Riviere du Loup. Those stationed at St. John's, New Brunswick, would find even greater facilities, for the people and Govern ment of this colony (by far the most active and enterprising of all the lower provinces) have con structed an excellent railway across the State, and thus connected the Bay of Fundy with the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This line runs from St. John to Shediac, a port some 60 miles nearer to Canada than Pictou, and, above all, it runs direct the whole way without a break of any kind. Considering the 40 miles' march necessitated by the interval between Truro and Pictou, it is most probable that all the troops will be forwarded by this line, as being the shortest and nearest to th© places the men are des tined for. There are two regiments already at Halifax, the 62d and 63d ; but there is still ample barrack accommodation for at least two more. However, in case of the troops being compelled to winter at Halifax and St. John's, in structions have already been sent out to prepare ample accommodation for them in the way of log huts. The skill and rapidity with which the lumberers erect these, and the almost inexhaustible stores of huge pines to be found in the forests of Nova Scotia, will make this hutting business a very simple one, even if a large army were sent to Hali fax. At St. John's the great centre of the timber trade of Canada, the work will be still easier, for behind the long line of sawmills which border the River St. John are stored sufficient planks and beams to hut half London. To both these towns the Government have already sent, and are despatching as fast as they can buy them up in any market, strong leather coats lined with fur, for the use of the troops as they arrive. Thus far, then, every pre caution seems to have been taken—warm huts for the men, if they are obliged to winter, and warm clothing if the exigeneies of the service should com pel a march over the snow. If the weather is severe in a Canadian—that is to say, in an Arctic sense, of course, no attempt would be made to move the troops up from the provinces to Canada. The same cause would operate with almost equal force upon the enemy, though in case of war it would not en tirely check their operations, for the Grand Trunk line of railway, which runs from Portland, through Maine, and over a considerable extent of United States' territory, would afford them facilities for at once commencing war upon the fron tier in the neigh bourhood of Montreal, so also would the railway to Ogdensburgh, on the American side of the St. Law rence, about 50 miles above Montreal, be equally available for the despatch of troops against us. In such an emergency our troops would have to march at once, and in this case the general rendezvous for all would, of course, be St. John's, New Brunswick. From this town there is now, via Fredricton and Madawaska, an admirable road across the colony to Riviere du Loup, and with log huts erected at the proper halting stations, there is no apparent reason why in the ordinarily still, calm air of a Canadian winter, the regiments should not accomplish the march from St. John's to Wolf River in at the most ten days. Hut accommodation and stores could easily be provided for two regiments at a time, and thus, following each other at intervals of one day apart, the whole force, with proper management, might be across in 20 days. It would be very diffi cult, however, to get the horses through by this route. The guns, therefore, would have to betaken in sledges, and horsed after thier arrival in Canada. Of course, we have taken it for granted throughout that the winter will not be more than ordinarily severe. If it should happen to prove a very bad one, with Canadian snow storms and the north wind sweeping over the frozen hills, it would be hazardous in the last degree to attempt a march to Riviere du Loup. It happens unfortunately that the garrison of regular troops in Upper and Lower Canada just now is smaller than it has been for some time paste as there are only four of our regiments there, the 17th, 47th, and 30th Regiments, with the 4th bat talion of the 60th Rifles, a small detachment of the 100th Canadian Regiment, and two or three batte ries of Artillery. The colony, however, is by no means in the defenceless state which this small number of regular forces would imply. The system of Volunteer regiments has attained as much per fection in Canada and in the lower provinces as among ourselves. Some of the regiments of Upper Canada are almost equal in drill to the best London corps, while the average weight 'and stature of the individuals composing these settler regiments is much higher than the standard of our metropolitan Volunteers. The Volunteer field batteries of Upper Canada too, are especially excellent, and, in fact, almost as well manned and horsed as the Royal Artillery. With our best drill sergeants at work upon such materials as these, the frontier towns ought to be well able to hold their own againstau7 predatory inroads, and little more than this 1 0 likely to be attempted if the winter should be so severe that our own troops cannot reach the St. Lawrence.--1 imes. THE HEALTH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. WINDSOR CASTLE, THIIRSDAV. The following bulletin of the health of the Prince Con• sort was issued this day : "His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has passed a quiet night. The symptoms have undergone little change. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " THOMAS WATSON, M.D. "THOMAS JENNER, M.D." POST-OFFICE DIRPCTORY OF SOMERSETSIIIRE. Massrs. Kelly and Co. are steadily advancing in their laborious task. In a short time we shall have the names and addresses of everybody, what ever be their whereabouts. The ancient city of Bristol, the oldest town in England, is here taker' under consideration : the names and addresses Of all its inhabitants are given with the precision and accuracy which have characterised its prede' cessors. The map of the county and all statis tical information are furnished, and when the series is completed it will be a credit to the compilers and valuable to the public. If/RIGHTS RACING RECORD. The winter edition of this well-known turf record has just made its appearance. It contains a large amount of information, commencing with the Derby lots for 1862, trainers in Great Britain and Ireland, jockeys, their lowest riding weights, &c., all the racing and steeplechasing in the three kingdom s during the past season, list of winning jockeys ill 1861, nominations in England and Ireland for 1862-3, new laws of betting, and a host of other matter invaluable to racing men and amateurs as well. It is most carefully indexed, and in every case where it was possible, the trainer of each animal is included in the list of horses that ran during the year. To sporting men it will be found invaluable. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left their residence, in Stanhope-street, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley-park, Lancashire. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have left town on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield House, Herts. The Earl of Lincoln was so far recovered froth his recent indisposition as to take carriage airing on Wed nesday and yesterday. Should the noble earl be so far pro gressed to recovery, he will leave town to-morrow for Clumber Park, in order to meet the electors of Nottiughao by IV9AcIAY. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1861. 'r