The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-11 00:00:00

TRIBAL -AMERICA'S ' ULSTER' PLANTA TIONS, TRANSFER'D WITH WILL 4 TRUSTEES, THUS CEASH YE .-. TO PAY RENTAL -TO "EC,. BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 W. IV„ C. 92, § 4, 5 enc. c-39 §4, 1842, PAP'S-10th Q. AN-BNTY. 132 yr., so s. *INN-Jetsam ei sap Lagan' rota ouT e flot-semi isoN. Wall• murem 24 March -29 Sept. Errant' finangials : : Julian-trEery on Twe-x-ed Fishery-park law-sets. • • CARIBESQUE-Sachims and Merchants.-For commercial quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the placet' Churchmen la w y ers of B ritis h kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of his debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such evil-set persons' to be open to the * *right of search' law as now given up. (Signed, .•• : : : . . • R. ANGELO, J. Sotrawonaar, Cl. of Synode, J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701), ne-model'd, 1832-38. Sachims-The last Illustrated London News, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's car°lineA, in Philadeph's Fensylvan-arm'rialfword -1--. scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, ' resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fons bre (' Fodinte -regales, of James L'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. 11. Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit tee of House of Commons (12th Feb. 1836, Gladstone uir Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge of f ' institution), with undersigned § Lay-a as their e'coneqs pa trons and advocates of Q-Ann-Bnty , set , plantation 10ths. See, NS 4421 Aborigines' Rerrt, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, 1 London Convention (Philaoe phia), by Belo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster an er ey, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Pet er, B. 11, as su P ccessor to the 99 years' leases (12 to rum, under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Sacqmo Jos. Brant, on old John Adams' sugges tion-whose grandson is now here)-and approved at Thiladelph's Lancaster nuchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkyns Montague § Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & Co's, Goldfmith' s- 1 N. niver proprietary) Stegglespkg-1. Thus, S ac hins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semieles & 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 Comiffn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians. Hence New shire-crt foundation' on French and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,' the living representative of the Ashburton boundary com mission, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn .in successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820-for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of Texas-hundred' 6& 6 partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of the Trent council, for swamping by votes thro' the Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd], in ' Ceno'rs. RESOLUTE In re Trent-The arrest of Slidell, Mason, and others, as ' contra-band illegal persons,' you perceive, is just for trade quiet, in this case, the below state-codiciled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the' t hronze'd-f-PzNN-statue peace Society of friends. Sagamores.-By Odic 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 or half caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby forbid from notic ing _Raced-proclamation's as headed in the limes and Post of 16th Nov., "A Convention between ENGLAND, France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's rights, 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 Gap-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 x 343 of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower), the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on board the z Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it-the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian cea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union courts of E-gal law of 1521, 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•n.e. 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 z men as manifest by late ' Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : : )iNave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MONROE doctrine, as 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 Poland's N.-west Russia A-Hurman of the cent years Dutch loan act of 1832, unconnected with i'!ligion. _Fourthly. The ' Lie -ratification of Lo n d on ' G azette, all not, within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a s2T-plement- whity-coloured persons being interdicted from voice in this peculiar Az i fmithsonlan institution' of March and April, 1836, en (Gladstone's) comtee. of H. C. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians, aliens, &c., that the Cabinets named in this convention are engaged in car r yi ng ou t th e R om i s h dictum of Mr. CANNING in a convers° Domus sense, (in total opposition to the legislati ve un it y o f th e 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 & 6i) "Scorn arbitration as 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 (dis-connected now with ; - .Pope, .5-Churches or t-water sects on minister's money hitherto) the firead-bag'-estate. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medal'd-sackqrao, Nephew (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775-Sacqmo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-£lO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. L.S. l C. H. ACRERLIZY, P.C,,-sworn in, -C. J., Ireland's Empery coraffn of Review, 1825-37, I.s. Hen. B's Executors §WOTTON' LYON BOWES, P.C. Dec. 11-London. See The 'Sun, Nov. 16, 1861. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees.' THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, Wallworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. H. Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or fees to Box-keepers. THEATRE•ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young. du . After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Botheran, Miss Oliver, du. To be followed by BOX AND COX. To con lode with FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam Commence a 7. Mr. Howe, Mr. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. TIIIS EVENING, the pertormanoea will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight f(lSth time) the new and Original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deellsh. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun s Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chltterton. PZIOCS as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. t)OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— lb Lowe and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. 'II I'S EVENING, JEA.NETTE'S WEDDING. Was H. Ilraris and Mr. H. Widdioomb. After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTHELLO, with new acenery, dres,e. and appointments. Othello, Mr Fechter pieces —Mr. Webster. Ai EW THEATRE-13.0 y AL, -------------- A ~,,, Mr. and Mrs Sole Proprietor and Manager, m i .. T r" r- , LPHI. Great Attraction for the Cattle Show Dion Boucicault in two piec i ec - . THIS EVENING, commencing at 7, the great ~ drama of THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE INA,oi r i s l re k rican Mr. and Mrs. Dion Poucleault, Messrs. Billington - - E — T „ NA ; Philip , Jamison, Stephenson, Smith, Romer. Le w i,:VY,. , Miss C• Denvil, Miss '' 4 ' Billington. Mrs. H. Marston,Latimer, and Mrs. IT. Lewis. At 20 minutes past 9 o'clock the great Irish drama, THE COLL EEN BAIVN. Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault, Mr. Fisher, Mr.• Emery, Mr. Billington, Miss bl 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 R OYALTY THEATRE Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mille. Albina di Rhona. Tins EVENING, to commence with THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE. After which, Mdile. di Rhona will appear In CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. After which, BA NIBOOZLING. To conclude with LES PIE RROTS. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCICS..—" Perfection of mechanism."—Korning Post. Gold watches, sto ICoguineaa; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construe tinn of *watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with th e greatest certa i nty the watch b est adapted to their Use. watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of a rem, Mance. —J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, 46 and 47, Cornhill, Loudon B.C. Established 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 TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss . Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and signor Tivoli with a poiverful Chose. _ The Comic department :—Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey 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. THE 0 X F O RD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from " LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon BMA negra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Madame Enderssohn ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. sm. —Afternoon, 9h. 34m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 10h. Bm.—Afternoon, 10h. 38m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER, 11, 1 .1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the:night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.15 ; rising. WIND—S.-Westerly ; light, with fine warm weather for the season. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1861. Mr. RANDOLPH CLAY has rushed into English print again. Not quite in so haughty a tone as before, but still with the air of putting us all right in the matter of the Trent. Of the two questions to which he reduces the whole .affair-Ist, whether the commander of the San Jacinto was justi fied in visiting the Trent on the high seas; and 2dly, whether the persons taken out of the Trent can be legitimately considered contraband of war—we do not know that the former has ever been answered otherwise than affirmatively. We mean that strict law justified him in stopping her. We deny, however, that common courtesy did justify him. He knew the ship well. He knew her des tination well. He knew that it was from a neutral port to a neutral port—in fact he did not stop her to inquire, but because he knew that she had per sons on board who would be very acceptable to his employers. The Nashville has just as good a right to search any vessel leaving English ports, and to take out of them Northern Americans having any official character, as Captain WILKES had to seize Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON on board the Trent. The second question we answer decidedly in the negative. We have contended from the beginning that it was contrary to public expediency, on which the law of nations must be founded, to prevent diplomatic intercourse of belligerents with neutral countries. On this point an authority to which all civilised nations appeal—Lord STOWELL—says ; " The neutral country has a right to preserve its rela tions with the enemy, and you are not at liberty to conclude that any communication between them can partake, in any degree, of the nature of hostility against you. The enemy may have his hostile pro jects to be attempted with the neutral State; but your reliance is on the integrity of the neutral Slats, that it will not favour nor participate in their designs, but, as far as its own councils and actions ar© concerned, will oppose them." Lord STOWELL also shows:atlengththe advantage and convenience of free diplomatic intercourse be tween belligerents and a neutral state, he says : " It is to be considered, also, with regard to this question, what may be due to the convenience of the neutral State ; for its interests may require that the intercourse of correspondence with the enemy's country should not be altogether inter dicted. It might be thought to amount almost to a declaration that an Ambassador from the enemy shall not reside in the neutral State if he is declared to be debarred from the only means of communi cating with his own. For to what useful purpose can he reside there without the opportunities of such a communication It is toe much to say that all the business of the two States shall be trans acted by the Minister of the neutral State resident in the enemy's country. The practice of nations has allowed to neutral states the privilege of re ceiving Ministers from belligerent States, and the use and convenience of an immediate negotiation with them." The Government may be quite right in taking their stand OR the undis puted illegality of seizing the prisoners with out condemnation of the ship in a prize court; but we also think that the seizure of ambassadors to a neutral State, instead of relying on the integ rity and honour of that State, is itself an outrage —on public policy certainly, , and, if Lord STOWELL be a competent publicist, on international law also. As each mail arrives we look almost impatiently for something like a decisive movement on the part of the North. Our readers know how continually we are disappointed. We try in vain by our maps and Gazetteers to trace something like a real ad vance, but we find none. All the way from the extreme west of Missouri to Fort Monroe, the ac counts are only of resultless petty battles and skir mishes, the advantage being generally on the side of the rebels. The only advantage, by land, that we remember of late is, that the Federals occupied the small part of Virginia which lies in the long peninsula forming the eastern side of the Bay of Chesapeake. The naval efforts have hitherto bee". successful ; that is, Cape Hatteras and Port Royal have been successfully attacked and occupied. Seizures and occupations of this kind appear likely to be repeated, but it remains to be seen whether they will be successful in what was understood to be their main object—that of affording a rallying point to a large portion of the Southern population, supposed to be favourable to the Union. No whites have yet come in, and even the negroes do not appear to welcome the Northerns. This is not sur prising. The North dislikes negroes, and would rather ship them all off to the old world, if it could, than endeavour, as we do in the West Indies, to elevate them in the social scale. The whole position is certainly one which none of us - would have predicted, when on the 15th of April, the war proclamation of the PRESIDENT was published. Then avenge th it seemed to be thought that 75,000 Militia might hopefully settle Southerners, an d. l e a rg in e s a u l tt this sd offeredem demand d e Twoday obrefotrhereeto months the enlarged and n tars the Congress Stripes. indeed, and the first week in J u ly voted five hundred thousand men and five hundred million dollars, but this was to crush the rebellion. In Washington not a soul doubted that the men who had trampled on the Union flag would be them selves trampled on by the overwhelming legions of the North. Only let the cool weather come, and the Northern legions would walk the course. Little was it then thought that the first grand battle of the grand army of rebel-crushers would be known in history as a Bull's Run. And here, after seven or eight months' enlisting, drilling, and parading, here still are the Northern legions, not daring to venture a second attack on the old position. We all know the excuses and the military reasons alleged, but it mast be confessed these excuses seem:likely to last a long while. If M'CLELLAN is using his time to improve the training and discipline of his troops, we cannot suppose that BEAUREGARD is not doing the same—and when ever the Northern army puts itself in motion, if it ever does so, nothing indicates that those who are standing on the defensive will not be found to have improved their position as much as those who will make the attack. The conquest of Virginia will hardly be easier in the spring than in the autumn. By that time M'CLELLAN may have become very strong in artillery, but the South does not seem to have been deficient in that arm of late, and there seem to be strong grounds for believing that it is either buying or manufacturing guns in considerable numbers. If the South, therefore, is content to purchase independence at the cost of sacrificing, for a time, half the luxuries of civilised life, it is not possible to foresee any end to the struggle. It may last for an indefinite period as a doubly civil war in the two great border States, Missouri and Ken tucky ; and elsewhere, by sea and by land as a war on the confines of the South, the North being unable to penetrate far from the coast or from the Potomac. No political prophet would venture to predict how such a struggle will end. It would seem as if it must be by negotiation and compro mise; and perhaps even the President now thinks so, and may be only desirous of placing himself in the position to exact the most favourable terms. The result, thus far, need not be regretted. Had the struggle been one for the abolition of slavery, all England would have mourned over a vast failure like that which we now behold ; but in that case there would have been no failure. The watchword of emancipation would have de livered over the South unconditionally to the North. Whenwe all believed that the North must speedily triumph, that belief was founded on the supposition that they would not meanly fight for empire merely, when freedom and empire were so plainly in their case associated. The liberty of the slave was the obvious condition of the vast empire remaining one. While the Southern half was allowed to re tain one-third of its population in the condition of Helots, it could never be one empire with the free men of the North—on the other hand make all free in the South also, and the latter would then need and crave the protective and profitable connection with the North. The policy of the North, to Englishmen, looking on impartially from a distance, was very plain—slavery, as was truly remarked, lay at the bottom of the rebellion ; slavery was the true "contraband" of war, its nurturing and inflaming motive, They should have seized on that from the beginning, as a notorious prompter and helper to war. Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON were nothing compared with the domestic institu tion, for which the Commissioners and their friends were fighting. If the North must seize on any thing here was something worth seizing; but the Arch-Rebel, the foolish selfish Government at Wash ington left quite untouched. It did not mind an insult to and a quarrel with England, but it would offer none, and tolerate none towards slavery. By its declarations, proclamations, and acts it said as plainly as it could say it—We do not war with slavery —we war to be a great Empire, with slavery dominant in one half of it, and protected in the other. Great we must be—great in territory, great in population—great in everything but per sonal freedom for all. We do not deny that Em pire is worth fighting for, certainly nine-tenths of the fighting in the world has been for that object --but we do deny that a slave Empire is worth the blood which the North is shedding for it. We cannot, therefore, regret the failure, thus far, of a people who preferred Empire with slavery, to Empire through the Abolition of Slavery. JOHN HOWARD'S benevolent heart would have been gladdened could he only have read by antici pation—after the manner, let us say, of MARGRAVE —the recently published report of the Newgate Ordinary. Could a glimpse of it, however, have been afforded thus mysteriously a good many years later than the time of the Arch-Philanthropist— even Mrs, FRY might have appeared to look upon it incredulously. Yet—there the thing is actually before us now, accomplished. We are not merely talking of doing it—we have done it. We are not aspiring before much longer to get pretty well on the way : we have actually already, so to speak, reached a specific goal in the development of our system of prison reforms. In saying this we are not simply turning our sentences at random. We write upon the subject referred to, deliberately. We write upon competent authority and upon reli able evidence. The witness in this matter, whose testimony is most to be relied upon, perhaps, of very many in the United Kingdom, has pronounced his opinion to this effect very recently, indeed, and without the smallest possible ambiguity. We allude, of course, to what we have here already mentioned incidentally—to wit, the latest report as to the condition of things within the walls of Newgate Gaol, penned by the Rev. Mr. DAVIS, the benevolent and respected Ordi nary of that establishment. What is the authori tative declaration of that rev. gentleman as to what has now been done—not projected, but done— within these grimly walls of Newgate ? We give the following ipgissima verba :—" As much," writes Mr. DAVIS, "as, under ordinary circumstances, can be expected to be done for the benefit or punish ment of offenders, is now done in Newgate." He has just previously remarked that " When we look at what Newgate is and what it was three years ago, we cannot but feel thankful that so much has been done and applied to such good purpose." And recollect —" what has been done," Mr. DAVIS has defined as being equivalent to ,what could reasonably be looked for—at any rate, as he expresses it, " under ordinary circumstances." According to the new scheme of things " the old offenders, whom neither kindness nor severity can reform, are deprived of their long-practised habits of corrupting and demoralising less experienced delinquents by their conversations and recitals; none of these sad scenes, both by night and day, which gave so much uneasiness and regret, can now be witnessed." ',Why, this is precisely what we have been striving and yearning to accomplish time out of mind. Again, the reverend gentleman adds—" The giddy spirit of lightness is subdued, and even the depraved become serious and appa rently thoughtful. As a rule," he continues, " these men behave with regularity and order in separate confinement. They are glad to get active em ployment, and the necessary duties of the pri son are willingly discharged by them when they are permitted to follow them. Their constant w as tn o ad rk of ute loyr r and pickingnetai ,correctlyatl d oakum theo obeyed:' ireuyl rules performed thNay,ep prison eo pu n n a c re t ucaol Ordinarylny of Newgate goes on to startle us by the following singular results of his own official experiences, of the deductions drawn from his own protracted and ever-vigilant observation. He can tell us, in the first instance, that "there are among these MA 4. .tr• <4 l W . ,Ax 0 ii THE SUN. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DE CE MBE R, 11, 1861. prisoners men who have been two or three times previously sentenced to penal servitude or tran sportation." And yet he can add, " It is such persons who seem to have made up their minds not to give up a life of crime and self-indulgence, whose con duct as prisoners is commendable and regular; and a very curious fact is, that under rule and disci pline their demeanour should exhibit the perfect contrast that_it does to their habits when liberated.' Mr. DAVIS, in fact, deliberately closes his ac count of the results of his own observation in that particular by saying,—" When their habits have been thus formed, the only reasonable and effectual course to adopt is to keep them perpetually where they behave well ; they see the influence that conduct of a regular character produces, and avail themselves willingly of its instrumentality to lead to advantages which cannot otherwise be obtained." What a vague longing for yet larger, wider, more comprehensive social reforms among our criminal population, who are out of prison, are there not opened up to benevolent speculation, by the simple but most suggestive paragraph immedi ately appended to this by the Newgate Ordinary, where he writes, in reference to these old offenders,—" Could they do the same (that he has just been describing!) at liberty,—nzany besides these would be benefited." Mr. DAVIS, indeed, observes, and with reason,—" This is the great object that prisons should aim at, and of late much has been done towards its attainment. The care taken in the prisons under the control of the Government has a happy effect upon the men; and, as far as I can judge, the number of this class is lessening." So the good works. With all our shortcomings in the way of these reforms, such an appreciably happy result as this is, at any rate, consolatory as to the past, and full of encouragement in regard to the future. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and family will leave town in a few days for their seat, St. Giles House, D orsetshire. The Countess of Desart hay arrived in town. Her ladyship will leave in a few days, on a visit to Lady Caroline Duncombe, at Waresby Park, Huntingdonshire. The Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived at Grosvenor Gate, from Seaham Hall, Dur ham, where they have been on a visit to Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry. Dr. M'Hale has addressed another letter to Lord Palmerston, publicity to which is given in the Freeman's Journal, on the subject of the threatened famine in Ireland, urging upon Government the necessity of its immediately taking steps to provide relief for the distressed. The Cabinet Council which was convened after the arrival of the news of the Yankee outrage on the British Flag might appropriately be called " The Council of Trent."—Punch. MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAIN MENT.—Mr. and Mrs. German Reed have added to their popular and pleasant entertainment at the Gallery of Illus tration "The Vicissitudes of a Colleen Bawn," related musically by Mr. John Parry. This new version of the " Colleen Bawn" is a lyro •comic representation of the principal characters in the original drama; Mr. J. 11. Byron being the author of the burlesque rhymes, while Mr. F. Musgrave and Mr. Parry are sponsors to the musical ar rangements. Mr. Parry, seated at the pianoforte, relates, partly in words and partly in music, the chief outlines in the history of the "Fair Damsel." The mingled pathos and humour of the drama are well sustained. The most popular airs of Ireland are introduced, and the alternations from "grave to gay," for which the music of Erin is re markable, suited admirably the structure of the little piece. It may perhaps be best characterised by saying of it that "'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild." It was very well relished by a numerous audience. TEE LATE MR. ALFRED MYNN.—It has lately been suggested by several cricketers that a monument should be erected to the late Mr. Alfred Mynn. one of Kent's most noted champions. The proposition is, "that a mixed com mittee of twelve should be formed, consisting of an even number of gentlemen and players, and that the Marylebone Club, who always chose the All England Eleven against Kent in days gone by, should be represented by two com mittee men ; also that Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, and Nottingham, with Kent, should each send two members." Should this suggestion be adopted, it would no doubt ob tain the support of the cricket clubs of England. The remains of the late Mr. Mynn are interred in Thurnham churchyard, Kent. MORE TROOPS FOR CANADA.—In addition to the Persia, Australasian, Adriatic, and Panama, six other screw transports were taken up yesterday, and will be got ready with all speed to take troops on board. The ru moured intention to send a portion of the Guards to Canada has been confirmed. The 2d Battalion of the Grenadier Guards and the 2d Battalion of the Fusilier Guards have received orders to be ready for embarkation at once. The whole force at present under orders for embarkation is as follows--the corps comprising it have already been speci fied :—Two battalions of Guards, four batteries of field artillery, five batteries of garrison artillery, six battalions of infantry, three companies of sappers and miners, two battalions of the Military Train, and 40 mon of the Com.. missariat Staff Corps. Others aro under orders to hold themselves in readiness. The change of armament in the Warrior will be effected with little trouble. In a day or so her long 63's will be replaced by 100-pounder Arm strong's. TESTIMONIAL TO A RAILWAY OFFICER.—The proposed testimonial to Mr. Spencer, who has for the last 24 years most efficiently occupied the position of assistant station-master at the Euston-square station of the London and North- Western it ailway, has, it appears from the sub scription list which has been forwarded to us, been very liberally responded to by a very large number of the noble men and others who habitually travel upon the line. The subscriptions, which are to be received up to tho 30th of the present month, amount to nearly £5OO, and in the list of names are those of the late Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Cleveland, the lath Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Londes borough, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord Ebury, Lord Southampton, Baron Rothschild, M.P., Sir G. Chetwynd, Sir John Louther, Bart., M.P., Mr. Dudley Marjoribanks, M.P., Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P., Sir R. Peel, Bart , M.P., Sir Morton Peto, Bart., M.P., Sir O. Roney, and the Hon. Mr. P. S. Pierrepont, M.P., and Mr. Barron, two of the directors of the London and North-Western Company. It is stated that the subscriptions are to be paid to G. A. Davis, Esq., 23, Spring-gardens. WARD OF FARRINGDON WITIIOUT.—PRECINCT OF ST. BRIDE.—A precinct meeting was held yesterday in the vestry room of St. Bride's, for the nomination of Com mon Councilmen and ward officers for the ensuing year, Nix.. Churchwarden Smith in the chair. The vestry-clerk having road the minutes of the last meeting, Mr. Kirk pro posed, and Mr. Botterill seconded, the nomination of Mr. R. Obbard ; Mr. Sims proposed, and Mr. Brown seconded the nomination of Mr. G. Walter; and Mr. Jewell pro posed, and Mr. Avant seconded the nomination o of Mr. Cot terell, to be returned to the wardmote as the gentlemen to represent the precinct in the Common Council. Ther© being no other nomination the above named gentlemen were duly elected. Messrs. Obbarcl and Walter, who wore pre sent, returned thanks for the honour done them. ANTI-MAYNOOTH CRUSADE IN DUBLIN. A meeting of persons opposed to the endowment of Maynooth College was held on Monday evening at the Rotunda, in Dublin, for the purpose of hearing an exposition on the subject from Mr. Whalley, M.P. The Round Room was thronged to excess. The chair was taken by Sir Edward Grogan, Bart., M.P., who went into a history of the May nooth endowment, contending that it was never meant to have been permanent, and that it ought to be repealed. He congratulated Mr. Whalley on having suceeeded to the mission of Mr. Spooner--a mission which Mr. 'Whalley, he was sure, would devotedly and persistently fulfil. A pee tion to Parliament for the repeal of the grant was adopted. A letter from Rome says :—" The paternal Go vernment of the Vatican has just issued two edicts of rather a peculiar description. One, which forbids tailov, tailoresses, and milliners to work on fete-days, and the keepers of ristoranti and eating-houses to serve any food except that of the most maigre' kind on those holy days. To appreciate the inconvenience of this despotic order, it must be remembered that for the next six months there will be on an average two of these fasts out of each week, besides the rauckle fast they Ca' Sunday.' The second order relates to the art of photography, and so great are the pains to suppress this useful science, and so lengthy the clauses of the police regulations on the subject, that the ' New &a landee (supposing him to have come to Rome to try his prentice hand on the Coliseum) might well suppose it to be the black art' itself." SUlClDE.—Stephen Agate, a draper at Cuckfield in Sussex, a cousin of John Agate, whose wife killed one of her own children and afterwards cut her own throat on Thursday last, committed suicide yesterday morning. At about 8 o'clock the report of a gun was heard proceeding from a shed adjoining his dwelling house. Several neigh bours ran to the spot, and, upon entering the place, found the unfortunate man lying quite dead, the upper portion of his head being completely blown away. Near him lay a gun which had recently been discharged. He had evi- dently put the muzzle of the loaded gun in his mouth, and had drawn the trigger by pulling a string with his foot. The only cause which can be suggested as having probably led to the fatal act is that his mind may have been affected by dietress, arising from the c a l am ity w hi c h h a d so l a t e l y befallen a branch of his family. LATE srr NEWS. L THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (PER NORWEGIAN, vice PORTLAND AND LONDONDERRY.) NEW YORK, Nov. 29. The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes a letter from Fortress Monroe, giving further details about the Fort Pickens affair. Pensacola was reported to be entirely evacuated by the Confederates, and the Navy Yard destroyed. General Bragg had sent for reinforcements. Five Federal vessels which assisted Fort Pickens in the bombardment of Pensacola are reported to have been riddled with shot. Advices from Port Royal state that Tyber Island was found deserted when the Federals took posses sion of it. The great naval expedition was ready to sail from Port Royal for points further south. The fortifications on Ship Island had been com pleted, and were garrisoned by 150 Federal troops. Generals Price and M'Culloch are concentrating their forces at Springfield, Missouri. The Kentucky Confederate State Convention has passed a Secession ordinance_ The British brig Cornucopia has been captured off Mobile while endeavouring to run the blockade. The City of Baltimore passed Cape Race to-day. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO PORTLAND. NEW YORK, Nov. 30. The latest news from Fort Pickens continues so contradictory and confused that it is impossible to tell what has been the result of the engagement. The Quebec correspondent of the New York Times states that a council of war was held on the 24th inst., at which it was resolved to fortify the Canadian frontier. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Cotton tending upwards; middling Upland, 27c. Breadstuffs quiet. Stocks heavy :—New York Central, 781; Illinois, 61; Erie, 311. Exchange on London, flat at 109. At Havannah, according to the last advices, sugars, Nos. 2 and 3, were dull. No. 12 was quoted 71 to 81. Stock, 30,000 boxes. Freight nominal. (PER ETNA, via QUEENSTOWN.) NEW YORK, Nov. 30, AFTERNOON. The latest advices from Port Royal state that a detachment of Federal Marines had landed on Tybee Island, and commenced constructing new fortifications. The Confederates had sunk two vessels between Tybee and Fort Pulaski, in the narrow part of the Savannah River channel, to prevent the fleet from coming up. A small schooner has been sent from Hilton Head to load cotton at one of the islands above Hilton, and would sail shortly by order of the Federal naval authorities. The leading newspapers of New York contain little, editorially, on the relations between Eng land and America. The New York Herald says that England takes advantage of the Mexican expedition to keep her fleet in the waters of the Gulf without exciting alarm. The New Fork Times, in referring to the warlike preparations in Canada, says there is nothing in the action or language of the Federal Government cal culated to wound the susceptibilities of the English Government, and that the real mischief has been done by the newspapers, and principally by the violent articles of the Herald. The Etna was detained some hours for Lord Lyons's despatches. PARIS, DEC. 11. The fflonieeur, in its bulletin of to-day, analyses the different appreciations of the journals and tele graphic despatches on the American question, and adds : " In thus acting we pretend to no more than to afford information to the public. " We have neither to express an opinion on the American conflict, nor on the speeches of the depu ties in the Italian Parliament." The supplementary election to the Corps Legis latif in Aube has resulted in the return of M. Planey by 16,339 votes, against 11,004 obtained by his opponent M. Liguier. ROME, DEC. 9 (Evening). The brigands taken at Allatri by the French troops, and delivered over by them to the Pon tifical Government, have been sent back again to the frontier with regular instructions as to the route they are to take. Five Spanish officers have been sent to com mand th© reactionary bands in the Neapolitan provinces, and to organise the reactionary move ments. Fresh disembarkations of brigands have taken place in the province of Pouillo. The reactionists will endeavour to surround the Italian troops in the Basilicata. It is asserted that Francis 11. will assume the command early in January. PARIS, DEC. 10. The Presse of this evening publishes a despatch, dates Palermo, 6th inst., announcing the discovery of a Bourbon conspiracy in that city. The prin cipal conspirators, among whom were a great number of priests, had been arrestect. TURIN, DEC. 10. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Dondes Reggio stated his opinion that it was necessary to maintain the Lieutenancy of Sicily, and censured the suppression of that of Naples. He spoke in favour of the privileges of the Sicilian ecclesiastics, and said that he wished that the principle of the liberty of the Church should not endanger those privileges. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce de fends(' the abolition of the lieutenancies, and said that dangerous political circles were formed around the lieutenancies, whose power presented obstacles to the authority of Parliament and the responsi bility of the Ministers. The Minister also alluded to the brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces, and to the projected economic reforms, which, he stated, would entirely destroy it. This statement was re ceived with general applause. Signori Miceli, Sandonato, and Crispi spoke against the Ministry. To-day the Senate approved the bill for the tern parary occupation of the religious houses for the service of the State. The official Gazette of this evening announces that 29 brigands, among whom was Jose Borges, have been shot or killed near Tagliacozzo. A box was seized containing the correspondence of an agent of Monsignor° Sentucci with Cardinal Antonelli and the Bourbon authorities. PARIS, DEC. 10. The Ami de la Re?iyion has received a first warn ing for having published an article, entitled " Re form in Russia," " which," states the warning, "under the pretext of criticising the reforms of a foreign Government, contains an attack against the French constitution." THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. NAPLES, DEC. 9, 6 A.M. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing in intensity. The population of Torre del Greco have fled; nearly all the houses are damaged. The stream of lava is 28 palms in depth, and three quarters of a mile broad. The sensation is immense. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 11. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer Delta, with the heavy portion of the Bombay and Mediterranean mails, arrived off the Needles at 8.45 a.m. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 11. The West African Mail steamer Armenian has arrived here. Her dates are Benin, October 24 ; Fernando Po, November 2; Cameroons, Novem ber 1; Old Calabar, October 30; Brass River, 25 ; Nun, November 7 ; Bonny, 7th ; Lagos, 10th; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th; Palmas, 16th; Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th; Tene rife, 30th; and Madeira, December 3. She brings £l,lOO sterling, 2,4160 z. of golddust, 17,000 f., 295 guilders, and 1,246 dole. Mr. Thomas B. Lee, formerly Secretary to the British Consul at Fernando Po, had been mur- dered. Several influential men had taken up the question of the cultivation of cotton in the Bight of Benin. Some difficulties had arisen between the French and the natives of Gaboon, in consequence of which the former were about to take energetic measures. It was reported that Gambia was to be ex changed for Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Assinee, &c. The English residents were desirous of the change, Gaboon being the head-quarters of the slave trade. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 10.—The market has been less animated than yesterday, but in business done prices have been pretty well maintained. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 65c. The following are the last-quotations :- 4t per per Cents 94 70 Do. end month 94 SO 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 671 Bank Shares 2970 Credit Mobilier..., 732 50 Do. Account 735 Credit Fonder l2OO Belgian 41 99 75 Piedmontese Fives 67 85 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1275 .. 1277 50 Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1001 25 .. 1002 50 Geneva.. 350 .. 352 50 Southern 666 25 .. 667 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 345 Austrian Lorrbard 513 75 .. 515 THE MEXICAN EXPEDITION. La Patrie publishes the following:— "A private correspondence from Teneriffe, which we have just received, has brought has some interesting details. The steamship-of the-line Massena, from Oran, had cast anchor there on the evening of the 22d November. On the follow ing day the Rear-Admiral Commander-in-Chief addressed the following order of the day to the squadron : " ' Sailors and Soldiers,—We go to Mexico ; we have not only to continue, like the valiant squadron of which some of you formed a part, the reparation of numerous and re cent complaints ; we have, above all things, to claim more serious guarantees than have hitherto been offered to us for respect to our flag, the safety of our commerce, and the existence of our compatriots. We do not entertain any animosity against the Mexican people. We know what we might expect from that noble and generous race if it could put an end to its eternal discords, but Governments, powerless to maintain peace at home, will always, whatever their banner, badly protect the safety of strangers. Our real enemy in Mexico is not this or that political faction, — it is anarchy ; anarchy is an enemy with whom it is useless to treat. " ' Sailors and Soldiers,—ln the new campaign you are about to commence you have the sympathetic opinion of your country as the judge of your good rights; the con currence and assent of the whole civilised world you will soon have, in Mexico itself, the good wishes of all honest men. Understand, then, the duties which this position imposes upon you. Give the example of order and disci pline to the populations. Teach them to honour the name of our glorious country—to envy the prosperity and peace which we enjoy—and y2u may then repeat, with legi timate pride, those word's which, a few months since, our Emperor addressed to you—" Wherever the flag of Franco is displayed a just cause precedes it, a grand people follows it. 444 JURIEN DE LA GRAVI ERE, Rear-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the French Expedi tionary Forces in the Gulf of Mexico. 44 t On board the Mass6na, Roads of Teneriffe, Nov. 23, 1861. " The Massena sailed from Teneriffe on the 25th Nov., en mute for La Martinique, where the French squadron is to assemble before proceeding to the Havannah." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated December 8, says : " News of the final results of the elections is coming in rapid ly to Berlin. It proves more and more the complete defers .t of the Feudal party, which will scarcely be repro senta3d in the new Chamber of Deputies. Tho Clerical party on ti ie Rhine has also had its ranks considerably thinned. The Progressist camp still count upon 70 or even 80 returns, but 'the majority is with the Liberals. The Prussian Pro grest;ists are not dangerous Democrats, yet the Kreus Zeita snag proclaims that Prussia is in danger; the fact is that the :moderation of the new Chamber will be more disagree able to the Feudalists than would be Legislative excesses. " .Among the significant results of the elections it is re marl Able that three Ministers the Minister of Public Worship, M. Bethman-Hollwegh ; the Minister of War, Gene ral de Roon ; and the Minister of the King's How ehold, M. de Schleintz —have not been re-elected. The Liberals have lost against Progressist candidates some of the ir Parliamentary notabilities, as MM. Simson, Beseler, Math is, Bardeleben, De Schleinita (the Minister's brother). As re garde the Feudalists, all their leaders have been de feat& 1. Never has a political partyibeen so energetically d cnie dby a free body of electors. The great loss of the Libel •ale is in M. de Vincke, who has declined to come for ward as a candidate for a seat in the new Chamber on the grow Id that he has taken charge of the education of his nephews. It is, however, believed that his quarrel during last. r session with M. Waldeck, the leader of the Progres sist p arty, and which laid him open to violent attacks from the I lemocratical organs has something to do with it. He will 's 'ith difficulty be replaced in the Chamber." AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter in the Moniteur says t—" A ratite] • serious incident attended the last sitting of the c )mmission charged to draw up the law on the press, which is to be submitted to the Chamber of Depu ties at Vienna. The Ministers having been intro( luced, M. de Schmerling declared that the GOVCI t'nment was not disposed to accept for offences of 04 • press, the special procedure recommended by the c )mmission. The latter persisted in its former opinii m, as having been agreed to almost unani mous) y, and the Chamber is now to decide. The que3ti 'on in itself is serious, for it amounts to no thing less than sending all offences of the press before a jury. POLAND. A et Immunication from Warsaw . , of the 4th, in the kW ecle, says : " It: appears that the state of siege is not likely to ce a se for some time yet. Instructions have rccen t) iy been sent to the governors and comman dants of districts to guide them in the application of thLs exceptional system, informing them as to the n I ture and limit of the attributions it confers on thy. m. Hitherto everything has been left to the at-1 arary decision and z >al of the generals and officers in command. In the government of Rado , ,l —to cite a fresh instance—the governor has enjoirae d the authorities of the districts to proceed with t ho utmost rigour against all priests, or ganists , and sextons of the churches in which any nation s 1 emblems are preserved, and in which there st ill exist crucifixes and banners bearing the arms 01 Poland—the white eagle of the Lithua nian 111 nsernan. The order extends to cemeteries as t as churches. Tomb-stones are to be careft tli 'y examined and defaced or removed if necest ry. The crosses ereated in honour of the victints of February at Warsaw are to be taken away. The execution of these orders is some times Ti asisted, but if the clergy do not volun tarily P.carry them into execution, the priests are to be arrested and sent to the citadel of War saw;, :the sextons and organists to be enrolled as common soldiers, if fit for the service, or if not, placed in companies of discipline, Several ecclesiastics have been arrested in virtue of these instructions, which doubtless are not those of the Government. In the incorporated provinces, the Governor• General has just issued orders to de prive the Catholic population of all sorts of arms, old or new, whether fit for use or merely kept as curiosities. What renders these orders more singular is that the schismatics and the Protestants are allowed to retain theirs. To avoid paying for them the executive affects to take them temporarily only, some of them being very valuable, and promises to restore them. But past experience has taught us the value of such promises. Similar measures were adopted in 1818 and 1854, and the arms then taken were never returned to their owners." OPERA GLASSES AND THEATRES. TO THE EDITOR OT THE SUN. SlR,—The other evening I and my wife, accom panied by a lady friend, went to the Princess's Theatre to see the celebrated Fechter in Othello. Right in front of us sat a party of three gentle men, who from the very first moment began to annoy every one within hearing by a succession of loud whispering and tittering which continued during the whole aot ; in spite of the indignant looks of the ladies, and the loud hushes of the gen tlemen. I, who am a devoted worshipper of your incomparable Shakespeare —was absorbed in the fine acting of M. Fechter, when I was startled by hearing my wife request the gentlemen not to speak so loud, or rather not to speak at all—as their re marks were of an offensive nature. One of them turned his opera glass and deliberately fixed it within a foot or two of my wife's face and stared in the coolest manner. My wife, who is an English woman, anticipated me by instantly striking the glass from his hand. As it was in the middle of an act, no words were spoken, but looks of burning indignation were showered upon him from all sides. After the:play was over, many who witnesssed it came forward to sympathise with my wife, and said that they had never before seen such an insult offered to a lady. Sir, I ask you to allow me, through the medium of your widely-circulated paper, to request that some of your numerous readers would inform me how an English gentleman would have acted in such a case. I ask as as foreigner domiciled in England? I know what I should have done in my own country, but I do not know how far your laws would bear me out in this. Is there no autho rised way of putting a stop to such proceedings without interrupting the performance, or being compelled to submit to unprovoked insult. Trusting to your courtesy and sense of justice to insert this complaint, I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, AN INSULTED ADMIRER OF SHAKESPEARE. [The impertinent use of an opera-glass is not indictable. The lady forestalled the gentleman in the exercise of his prerogative of protecting her from insult. It is the duty of the box-keepers to maintain order, and remove disorderly persons, and to them application ought to have been made. — ED. Sun.] THE NAVAL RESERVE. SEAHAM, DEC. 6. The Naval Reserve seamen and other mariners were' assembled at the dock this day to be taught the use of the rocket apparatus for saving life from shipwreck. Before commencing the exercise the opportunity was taken by the Seaham Harbour Naval Reserve men to present Captain Heard, R.N., of the Trincomalee, with a letter, offering their ser vices to the Lords of the Admiralty, should they be required in the fleet. After the practice was over, which we may re mark was very successful, Captain Heard was handed an address from the Royal Naval Reserve resident at Seaham, thanking him for the support he had given the movement, and his treatment of them while on drill. It was presented by Joseph Burrell, and breathed the same loyal and patriotic feeling which pervades their offer of ser vice to the Admiralty. Capt. HEARD, having replied in short and com plimentary terms, was followed by Mr. DISRAELI, who was a witness of this highly creditable proceeding, and who addressed them as follows :—I have very great pleasure in addressing you on the loyal and patriotic sentiments which I have listened to from you to your Queen and coun try. I sincerely trust that your offer to defend your country against attack will never be required. I am a man of peace, but if we are attacked the honour of England must be asserted and vindicated. But I am sure, when I see around me so many fine able men ready to go forward at a moment's warn ing to maintain the honour of England, I have no fear that we should be able to bid defiance to the world. I have had the pleasure of seeing a great many addresses from the various seaports of the kingdom, offering their services to the Government to defend us, if need be; but in no seaport have I seen a more unanimous, devoted feeling than in the port of Seaham and in the county of Durham gene rally. I had the honour of being a member of the Government which ad' pted the recommendation of the Manning Committee to establish a Royal Naval Reserve, and I have great pleasure in witnessing the great success in the formation of that body. Three cheers were then given for the Queen, and the men dispersed. The following is a copy of the address from the Royal Naval Reserve at Barking, with the reply received thereto : " We, the undersigned seamen, members of the Royal Naval Reserve, having perceived that our flag has been grossly insulted by an American vessel of war, beg leave to inform you that we ara desirous and willing that we may be permitted to snare in the honour of punishing the perpetrators thereof, and have therefore to request that you will be so good as to make this our wish known at head quarters. "Signed on behalf of the Royal Naval Reserve at Barking." "Admiralty, Coastguard-office, Spring-gardens, Dec. 6. "Memorandum.--With reference to the offer of the men of the Royal Naval Reserve at Barking to join the navy for immediate service, their Lordships have expressed their high satisfaction at the loyal and patriotic feeling so readily and cheerfully mani fested by the able seamen of the Royal Naval Reserve. Their Lordships rely with the most entire confidence that the hearty services of the Royal Naval Beservo will be forthcoming should Her Gracious Majesty see fit by Proclamation to call for them. " H. YELVERTON, Commodore, Controller-General. "Mr. S. W. K. Freeman, Her Majesty's ship Mayflower, Barking." MELANCHOLY DEATH.—Yesterday information was brought into Newcastle-on-Tyne by the country people coming to market of the melancholy deaths by drowning of a man and a lad in the North Tyne. At all times, more especially in the winter, the North Tyne, like most moun tain streams, is a treacherous river, coming down, as coun try people express it, " with a roll of a sudden." Last Saturday a young man named Appleby, son of the game keeper at Newton -hall, was sent by his master, Mr. Arm • strong, of Short Moor, near Chipchase Castle, on the North Tyne, to bring a sow home in a cart. Before leaving the farm on his journey Mr. Armstrong cautioned the young man to thrust down a stick at the further side of the river, and if he found in returning that it had " waxed" not to attempt to ford it; but it seems that the young man had neglected those precautions, for, upon returning with the sow in the cart, he had taken a lad named Hudalestone in to it, and had driven into the river. The wild and rushing stream very soon swept the mare off her feet, and carried her and the cart and two young men down the stream. Their cries attracted the at cation of a man coming to the ford, and he tried to render them assistance, as the cart, the mare at the time plunging dre dfully, was swept to wards the bank where he stood ; but before he could give them any help, the cart upset, and the two young men and the mare were drowned. The sow swam ashore. The body of the snare was got out of the river on Sunday morning. In her death agonies she had given birth to a foal The bodies of the two young men had not been recovered at midday on Monday. The melancholy fate of the young men, Appleby being between 20 and 30 years of age, and the boy 13 or 14, has caused Ituto a gloom in the villegeo of North Tyne.