The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-26 00:00:00

ROBIN'S Great Attraction for the Holidays, at the EGYPTIAN HALL, on the 2Eth December. — In compliance to numerous applications the FRENC Er WIZARD will give Two Performances each Day (Saturday included), at hall-past 2 and 8, until the Ist January, when he will present to his patrons his last new invented wonder, entitled "The Enchanted Christmas Tree," from which an avalanche of souvenirs will be distributed amongst the au dience at each séance. Al RGYLL ROOMS.—GREAT SUCCESS!! — El. The Band and Musical arrangements under the direc tion of M. BOULCORT, Conductor and principal Cornet. In addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss Zuadrille, and novel ties of I,,st week, A NEW POLKA, by Boulcourt, the Solos performed by him and M. Greebe. Admission ls.— Manager, M. P. Grenct. A MOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. E " s ' s COCO A. (Commonly called Epps's Homceopathic Cocoa). The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo rating, power of this preparation have procured its general adoption as a most desirable breakfast beverage. Vb., Vb., and llb packets, at is. 6d. per lb., by Grocers.' TEA.—STRACHAN and CO.'S Strong Rough " Domestic" Black at 3s. 4d. per lb.-26, Cornhill, London, E.C. TEA.—STRACHAN and CO.'S Fine " Inter mediate " Black at 3s. Bd. per lb.-26, Cornhill, Lon don, E.C. TEA. STRACHAN and CO.'S Delicious " Drawing Room " Black at 4a. 2d. per lb.—? 6, Corn hill, London, E.C. Dr. liassall's Certificate of Purity, and a Price Current free on application, 26, Cornhill, London, E.C. I/ 0 YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRONESS —Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT —Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.?., Chair man of Lloyd's. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, during the past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount ing to £6,' , 58 ls. in establishing Life-boat stations on dif ferent parts of the Coasts of Engand, Ireland, and Scotland. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-boats, Boat houses, and Transporting-carriages, £3,632 19s. ; and £1,850 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether a total of £11.441. During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following wrecked Vessels : Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose .. 1 Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone • • • • 6 Brig Pallas, of Shields .. .. • • • • 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow 9 Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. • • •• 5 Schooner Cathetine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. .. • • •• 11 A Barge of Teignmouth Brig George and James, of London .. 8 Brig Zephyr, of Whitby . • • • • • • • 6 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats .. • • •• 3 Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. • • • • 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool . • .. 15 Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .. • • • • Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. • • • ' 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. .. • • ‘; Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. • • • • Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge •• •• 5 8 Brig Ann, of Blyth .. Sloop Hope, of Dublin .. • • • • '• 3 , Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth • • • • • • Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. •• •• •• 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvort • . .. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby • • • • 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. .• • • 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. • • Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. •• 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. • • .. 3 Brig Prodroma, of stockton .• • • •• 11 .. 7 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg • 7 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. 7 Total .. ..210 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £9OB Ss. 4d. as re amis. It has also granted rewards amounting to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, making total of 455 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United Kingdom. During the present year (1801), the Life-boats of the Insti • ution have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels : Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• .• •• Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. • . . • Schooner I'rosp , ct, of Berwick Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives .• • • A Fishing-boat of Whitburn •• • • • • Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wvn, of Portmadoc Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner - William, of Morecambe • Smack Gipsy, of Newry Schooner ,Margaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool inggerNimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields •• Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Sch-oner Village Maid, of Fleetwood. Barque Guy , na, of Glasgow .. Brig Homan Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirid one, of (3alaxtde Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese .. Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast Scl.ooner Ilortensia, of ITanover • • • • Schooner Oregon, of Stonehr.ven • • Brig St. Michel, of Marans Spanish Barque Primers de Torreviecra (saved ves sel and one of the crew) _ Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. • • • • • • - • • • • • Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel and crew) • • • • • • 6 Barque Frederick , of Dublin .. 1 Barque Peace, of London .. • • .. .. 2 Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowesto f t .. 11 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew of four hands) . • • • .. 4 Smalk Adventure, of Harwich.. .. 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen• 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, saved one man .. 1 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone• Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. . • .. Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5 S c h o oner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. • • .. .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland 5 Smack Ellen Owen, of Cardigan 3 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. .. 4 .. 8 .. 4 .. 19 .. 8 .. 6 .. 5 .. 4 Total , .•288 The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions the Society , has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man agement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, it its humane mission is to be perpetuated. Donations and Annual Su scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; %Tesoro. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the 'United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. Payments may be made by Cheques or by Post-office Orders (crossed), to Messrs. Wills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. MITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION or 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of 11 ERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its offects, Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, end the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being cent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postat. - re, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. /VEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, for .Taricose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, fight in texture, ad inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 45. 6d., 75. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage td. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,-Piceadilly. TIM BUCHAN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINES. 2 f PATENT SIMAY-COATED PILLS, for purifying the blood, Inflating the bowels, and removing vitiated hu mors, bilious and liver complaints, rheumatism. gout, scor butic affections, co tiveness, Aic. These pills work their way to the very roots of each disease, cleansing In their passage, and removing every unhealthy accumulation all i ll functions he .o t is purified, the whole system renovated, and p act according - to nature, w hilst the duties of life become a wherebefore they ha I d been sa and weary urdens. Do not hesitate— b do not delay ! a clean stomach roust inflke a clean body. A clean body will contain pure blood, when the stomach, body. and blood are pure, from regulating and cleansing .. the bowels, health is certain. Ile_;in at the be ginn.ing, waste no time; strike at the root of your ailment. Again, I say, look to your stomach. One trial of these pills force convicti Sold in bottles, at is. 14d., as. Od., 4s. 64., and 11$. Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street, Oxford street. London, W., and to be had of all chemists in town and c3untry, or forwarded on re eipt of stamps. Wholesale Ag•ents :—Barclay and Son, 75, Farringdon-st. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : A, _MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRIICE A, Ne4RVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. lust Published, the 150th thousand, with all Boe numer sellersous plaandtes, in a sealed envelope, price ls. , by k, sent post paid, by the Author, for l 2 2 stamps, liANFIOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. COATIS, 15, Alberinarle-street, Piccadilly, Loudon. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTIIR IL—Causes of Sperniatorrhcea and impotence; Farb, Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review oft he various Disqualifications Marriage ; whether resultin from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of . Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of a onorrhcen and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous o varied and interesting aseg, to which is added the Author' pe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood. —This is a y trul valuable work, and tumid be in the han ds of young and old. —" Times," 1.341 Tri arch 1555. great "The w ither lies conferred a boon by publishing this little 'cork, in which is described the source of those diseases 4.4. decline in youth or more frequently premature ,owlicliachg;eT2?7l, ai-ly Telegraph," March 27, 1851‘. .4ih for twenty yearn has stood the test of " This work , wh - ~.,41 empirical hostility, treats in aplain -el tie voario.sr excitement ei d t i e s m qu eo al t ifl o c o a d tio d n e s professional criticism n owt sympathising manner , _ vouthful errors and end impediments arising from i7 v Wily ; and to invalids suffering from txcesses it will be found valuable and useful.' eCord. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, PatCr": noster-row; Mann, Sg, Cornhip. fours of cosultatio -19 to 3 ando to 8; tsuudaya, 10 till 2, -~.•~- N" 21,682. eUBLICATIONS. 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Intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., SPERMATORRIICEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. ON " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Refzent-street: SALE OF TIER MAJESTY'S SHIPS. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 16th Dec., 1861. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on FRIDAY, the 3d January next, at Ts% o o'clock, they will be ready to receive Sealed Tenders for the purchase of her Majesty's un dermentioned Ships : Where Tons. Lying. Frolic Arab... 4Bl Daring 426 Elk... 484 Tyne 6OO Electra. 462 Kangaroo Dispatch 483 Daphne 726 Mariner . 481 Eantome 483 Vestal. 913 Cleopatra.... 218. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words Tender for the purchase of H.M. Ship," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. Persons wishing . to view the Ships must apply to the Su perintendents of H.M. Dockyards at Devonport and Chatham for Notes of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here or at the said yards. Where Tons. Lying. Portland 1477' Lively. lOBO Pallas. oil Spartan 9lB Pilot Express...— 362 Peterel Pandora 319 Crane. Arrow 477 Lynx 477 1 Viper 477) Chatham. OONTRACT FOR BRITISH OAK TIMBER, THICK STUFF, PLANK, AND TREENALLS. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, ISth Dec., 1861. PCOMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the - OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 14th Jan. next, at Two o'Clock, they will he ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying 12,010 Loads of BRITISH OAK TIMBER (rough contents, but to he delivered in a rough or sided state as the said Commissioners shall direct), 1,250 Loads of BRITISH OAK THICKSTUFF, 400 Loads of Ditto PLAN K, No. 400,000 Ditto TREENAILS, to be delivered at her Majesty's several Dockyards by the 31st December in each of the years 186?, 1863, and 18(11, at prices, including all carriage and other expenses. A Tender may be made for the whole Contract, or for the quantities required at any one or more of the yards, but not for less than the full quantities of Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Treenails required for any one yard. A Form of the Tender. showing the distribution, sidings, and dimensions of the Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Tt ee nails, and all other necessary particulars. may be had on ap plication to this Office by letter or otherwise. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and hear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for British Oak ;" and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter slened by two re sponsible persons, engagin_g to become bound with the Per son tendering, in the sum of X 20,000, tor the due performance of the whole Contract, or in a due proportion for apart only. 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A N EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBFRT'S .17A_ ASTIDTATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and consumption. ft frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in curable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprival of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few mintiles after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, and by ail nravrgists, in bottles, 13.3 d., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. pl. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's ksthmatic Balsam. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. p r ice is., by post Is. id. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill. O n Spermatorrhcea, Syphilis, Stricture, HmmOrrhoids, Gleets, Src Marriage : Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring secured. Dr. C. may be consulted daily till 12, at The Post-office Turkish Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand; and from 1 till 9 p.m. at 3, Great Marlborough-street, W. D R. CULVERWELL'S NEW POST-OFFICE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and Is. 6d. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, Is. till 1. An ESSAY on TURKISH BATHING, gratis. OPINIONS OF TIIE PRESS. " The Use and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting information, while those who have already encouraged this new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the p aclical regulations which the writer '—Heraldendeavours to enforce. and Standard, Nov. 12, 1861. " The Post-office Turkish Bath., 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverwr 11 has already established the reputation of an able physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy philanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fait that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all Its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire bas been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . , We may justly say that if a man ever 'feels i iimse ;::!%generated and new made, it id On COlning outiof:a Turkish Atli.' 00.13,1801. • s k/ • 0 -77' • A • . c grt# Autellt ‘ t 4", (xi • A t , t i l4 2 t ' 1 • O \ TT: = •,k 0400r-'7- • rtrth - ' . ov t , eir slaves also as fast a , ;# • • ••, • • ;i lAtf . , play the utmost energy in prepai 1 c. ,f 47 Z - • ti en a el b r y at c t , l o t, ti ll g a l e ,e a s a s d th in er t e h j e s M a C imates foreign enes.l.l.oa& -un , . ..... . such as rarely ani journal, in noticing a statement that 200 free coloured p eop l e h a d l a t e ly sa il e d to s ettl e i n H a yti, remarks it was a pity they could not take the whole Yankee nati on w i t h t h em, and scuttle the ship. Another, in noti c i ng a mot i on i n t h e W ee li n d Con vention to make th e new and i l l ega ll y -f orme d s t a t e of Kanawha (W es t ern Vi rg i n i a) a tree S tate, de clares that the only way to bring these people to their senses will be to march some slave regiments among them ; and, indeed, it would appear from recent accounts that there are several col ,used regi ments in the Confederate service. It is said that at a review the other day a battalion of blacks, 1,400 strong, was noticed. I have not. now anything to append to my letter in the form of a diary, as accounts of excursions into the camps, of reviews, and flag presentations are scarcely interesting to English readers. We are all awaiting the news from the other side, and sel dom will the telegraph have been more anxiously watched. Apropos of that medium of conveying news, which is so eccentric in its operations, see what Mr. Sanford, the President of the American Telegraph Company and his assistants, did the other day in sending the President's Message through with marvellous exactness in some hour and a half. The weather has changed again. The last three days have been beautifully bright and fine, though there is a touch of frost in the air at night, and the men are bringing on typhoid fevers by packing into close tents and keeping out the fresh air for the sake of warmth. On the whole, the health of the army is not bad. Th e camps are c h ang i ng from canvassinto wood ; and General Banks, who has been suffering much discomfort in his lines on the Upper Potomac, has received orders to withdraw a portion of his troops to Frederick, in Maryland. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1861, 2111? CIVIL WAR lAT (From the_Special Correspondent of the Times.) WASHINGTON, DEC. G. If, unhappily, any of the foreign complications indicated in the President's Message should force the power which conceives itself injured to demand satisfaction, this Government is so feeble that it dare not avert the greatest calamity by an honour able and just reparation and concession in the face of the arrogant demos which neither knows its own danger nor, in its passionate selfishness, regards the feelings of any nation of which it is jealous or suspicious. The men who are engaged in conduct ing this war against the South in the field or in the forum have but one cry—" Let us alone till we carry this thing through ; do not interfere with us ; all the favour we ask is that you stand by and permit us to finish this rebellion in our own way." An intervention of any kind, a war abroad, or the chance of it, would be a fair excuse for the politi cians of the North to attribute the failure of their projects to the country from which it comes, and to direct the whole hostility of the American people into a new channel. But, without pretending to discern the course of events, or the combinations which might arise in the course of the conflict, con sidering the animosity of the South towards Eng land—if she were the Power engaged in the strife —and the sympathies which connect a large mass of the Democratic party with the Southern politicians, it is not quite beyond the range of possibility that a compromise or truce might arise, in which the Republican party would be either defeated or forced to desperate extremities, and that eventually a reconfederation might be effected, the animating principle of which would be resistance to the enemy. Now, it may be at once understood that, without any manner of doubt, the seeds of dissolution are sown and are rapidly germinating in the Northern States them selves. Ido not mean, of course, that the States are moribund. But the political system is doomed. In what form the new tree of liberty may grow none can pretend to predict. Success is as fatal as defeat. Already, before the Union is safe, the De mocrats and Republicans are renewing their old contentions, and, as was apparent months ago, the fight between Slavery and Abolition is carried into the President's Cabinet itself, into the Senate, into every community except two or three of the New England States, where Republican principles have it all their own way. Read the proceedings in the Senate and the House, and the fact is appa rent—the schism is rapidly approaching. Sup pose the North, having blockaded, blocked up, or destroyed every Southern port, should force its way down the Mississippi, defeat the Confederates at Columbus and Memphis, take New Orleans, and sweep the armies of the South from Richmond to the Sabine, the question which has arisen at the very first step of its career will accumulate difficul ties at every pace, till it comes to the tremendous problem, " 'What are we to do with the slaves ?" That question is asked now, when there are but a few hundreds. As to the mode and nature of the reply, there are fierce dissensions and radical differences of opinion. But what will the practical difficulty and the angry controversy come to when within the lines of the Federal troops there are 4,000,000 emancipated negroes? For the theory of the Republicans is that emancipation is the ne cessary result of the contact of this sort of Southern property with the forces of the Southern States, and they are contending with all their might for the adoption and assertion of that principle by the President, and they are doing so with success, because the course of events 'favours them. The Democrats, in their new-born zeal for the so vereignty of the Union over State rights, have persuaded themselves that there are millions of white men in the South who will join them the moment it is demonstrated tliat Mr. Jefferson Davis and his advisers are beaten. The South is the victim of a delusion which can only be dissipated by the success of the North over the Generals and armies of the Government of Richmond. Then it shall hear a voice of encouragement and entreaty—" Be not afraid. We will give you all you ask—every guarantee the Constitution offers, and anything more you require ; only acknowledge the Union ; say that you will live with us in a common coun try ; and then you and we will make war on the common enemy at home as well as abroad." As the armies advance, however,—at the present rate the problem is a long way off,—the Federalists must come in contact with every slave in the South if their hypothesis of conquest be correct. Is the North about to become a great slave-owning Power ? If not, what will it do with the slaves ? The De mocrats and the vanquished South will have some thing to say tothe Republicans who insist on eman cipation on that point. If the slaves of rebels be confiscated, and if the mass of the people of the South prove to be rebels, Congress has already de cided apart of the matter. But what does confis cation mean ? Are they to sell the slaves ? To whom, then, and under what conditions ? Property of any other sort can be confiscated ; the thing can be sold without shame or discredit, and the pro ceeds turned into national capital. But, in accord ance with its own principles, the North cannot take that course in regard to living, human chattels. Neither can it, even if it had possession, assign the soil of the South to the slaves, and admit their citi zenship, nor can it become the proprietor of a vast Liberia on its own borders. The thing has been so fenced round with guarantees and constitutional rights—the cancer has been so cherished and nursed as- it grew up in the system—that it threatens to destroy the whole body politic, " -lVec sine to nee cum to possum vivere." Eman cipation without provision for future existence and present wants would be a monstrous cruelty. The North will have none of the slaves. It is like a member of the Humane Society who pro secutes a costermonger for ill-using a mangy donkey, but who has no intention of providing the donkey with quarters for life in his stable. An emigration scheme which shall remove 4,000,000 human beings from one continent to another is beyond the means of the United States—it is too vast for execution, if not for comprehen sion, by any Power on the face of the earth. And now let me say in reference to this matter a few words which events may prove true more speedily than I anticipate. It is said that early next year the bolt which the North is forging will be ready. But the arm which was to have hurled it may be paralysed before the first day of the new ytlt is ary v a fi i I n a a t n o c i d a i l s gent crisis r a f p a d t y that app a r o m a c o i s i ex ea tr r a . or . ing in this country. Mr. Chase cannot avert it. Before 1862 opens the Government of the United States will be driven to the expedient of a national c G u o r v r e e r n n c, m y en a t n d p a p tl e l r e . co l u l n e t n ry th w e i w ll ho b l e e b fl a o n od ki e . n d g with . tem of the country must fall with a crash, which will carry dismay and ruin through the land. Foreign loans are out of the question. Taxation at home seems to be considered impossible, unless it be taken by indirection, which shall fasten the sys tem of protection on the vitals of the States. At the present moment the army is paid in gold or in notes, which the men remit to their friends at home, where a considerable proportion of the paper finds its way into the Treasury, and is changed there for gold. But the sums which are outstand ing as claims against the Government are prodi gious beyond belief. If the patriotism of the people will stand a contribution from their accumulated capital the war may be sustained a little longer, and any considerable advantage will encourage the Unionists to make present sacrifices. it is doubtful how far these sacrifices would be made, nor is there any datum agreed upon for determining the amounc of money in the country. As the export of cereals has now nearly reached its close for the year, the cereals from the West being ;shut up by winter, tied as the North, not• withstanding its wise economy, must continue to take some articles of luxury or necessity from Europe, the exchange will soon rise, and gold will begin to flow out of the country to France and England. Everything indicates a speedy sus pension of specie payments, the issue of a national unredeemable currency—the greatest diffi culty among the banks. The best informed people believe that Mr. Chase has no alternative, and that to the system of Government banking which he has already established in issuing Treasury notes pay able in gold on demand, but not forced on the people as legal consideration, he will be compelled to add a vast issue of paper which shall be made a legal tender. Just in proportion as he is tempted to make money out of nothing, and to exceed the actual wants of the country for such a currency in order to appear to be rich, must he be prepared for the depreciation of the issue, and the consequent de preciation of all securities with it—not necessarily on the instant, but nevertheless inevitable. The security which can be offered is in success ; but if success be attended with the dangers pointed out, and with future complications, there may be hesi tation in accepting it. The Secretary of the Trea sury sees these difficulties as clearly as any man, but he must meet them in some way or other, and I have reason to think that this scheme will be ready in a day or two, when the world can judge of the financial prospects of the United States Govern ment. As to their military position, I have little say in addition to what may be learnt from the papers and the telegrams. The Federal army on the Potomac is fast hutting itself, whether the General intends it to winter there or not. The eight divisions which sweep in a semicircle on the Vir ginia side of the river, from its banks above Drains• ville to Hunting Creek, below Alexandria, render the capital secure, and the Confederate General who attacked the lines directly in force could not fail to be repulsed by the mere fire of the guns of posi tion, unless he were favoured by a panic or singular want of capacity and ordinary courage on the part of his opponents more than by any possible display of steadiness and daring of his own troops. But, admitting that Banks, higher up the stream, has 25,000 men—an extreme supposition—and that that Dix and Sickles, in Maryland and the eastern shore of Virginia, have an adequate force to keep down insurrection—and to protect their positions from attack, I cannot see here any force which could be spared to go into the open and give battle to the enemy in front of Manassas, or which could operate against the flanks of his posi tion, and still leave a sufficient garrison in the ex traordinary series of defensive works in front of Washington. It is plain enough, I think, that General M'Clellan and his advisers think the Con federate army will be frittered away by contingents being sent to the defence of the coasts and maritime cities, and to aid the Secessionists in Kentucky and Tennessee, and that at last the substance of the army shall be so far absorbed that the Federalists can readily pierce the thin crust that remains. The Confederates, however, must be quite well aware of a danger so obvious and of a policy so transparent. If all the expeditions terminate as that to Hatteras has done, or as that to Port Royal promises to do, they have little to fear from the seacoast beyond an aggravation of the evils of the blockade to which they are gradually becoming either hardened or re signed. But from the information I receive as to a great preparation of large mortars (17,0001 b. weight) and material, I am inclined to think that against . Fort Pulaski and similar works serious attempts will be made as soon as the batteries can be got ready. The combined operations of Confede rates and Federalists have rendered the approaches to the cities by water impracticable, or will speedily do so. The result seems to be that the Federalists, abandoning their advantages by water, will force themselves to attack the cities by land, where their enemy will have the advantage of them. Thus if they take Port Pulaski they cannot go by water to Savannah; the channel is blocked up- They will soon render Sumter an inland fort by closing up the entrance to Charleston, unless Hr. Welles has his cuirassed floating battery in readiness to test the strength of that redoubtable work and its aide-de camp Fort Pinckney. As the railway between Charleston and Savannah has been left in the hands of the enemy, they can easily move troops and make defensive preparations against any inland movement till the Federalists take heart to march out of their works at Hilton Head in the search of Union and cotton. There are more " Rat-hole" squadrons being fitted out, and the outer coast line of the South will soon be continuous, and make the inner sea a mare mortuum—a delightful way of promoting the commercial property and cabotage of the Union. If all be fair in war the United States is acting fairly in this war for the Union, and we may see it driven to adopt the same means against its rebellious sub jects that were employed by the King of Naples at Palermo with exactly the same justification. On the Potomac matters are unchanged, the enemy still occupy their batteries below the city and hold the United States squadron in check at Indian Head above and Mathias below. But now and then a fleet of little oyster and lumber boats fly up in the night and run past the batteries, keeping well in to the Maryland side, and occasionally receiving a harmless fire. A small steamer is also established between Sickles' camp and Washington, which scrapes along the friendly shore up and down twice a-week. At Fortress Monroe some excite ment had been created by the bold appearance of an iron-plated steamer out of James River, which engaged the Federal gunboats at long range, and created a stir in the whole sq uadron. It was either an attempt to run the blockade, or to drive away ennui. At Fort Pickens all is quiet again ; nobody is hurt ; at least there has been a great deal of powder and shot wast e d, w ith little or no loss. The extent of hypothetical d amage is great; if the ac tion had gone on many thi ng s would have hap pened we are assured whi c h h av e not come to pass. The magazine at Fort M'Ree (Confederate) "caved in"—whatever that may be —Warrington navy yard was not destroyed, and both Brown and Bragg are quite cool and confident, and ready for another tussle. The latter accuses the former of firing on his hospital, but the former points out that the latter had placed his sick in a building which was right on a line with his principal battery. The pretty naval station has, no doubt, suffered deface- ment, but the range is too long to do any great mischief. At New Orleans all is quiet, and Cap tain Hollins has gone up to direct naval operations at Memphis and Columbus, against the Federal flotilla, which is to be ready in three or four weeks, The correspondent of one newspaper asserts posi tively that General Halleck does not intend to go down the Mississippi at all, but that he is going up the Tennessee, and that he will thence proceed with 75,000 men in the rear of Columbus and Hickman towards Memphis. By this bold manoeuvre he will deprive himself of the aid of his gunboats, and move down in the heart of the enemy's country with a strong army on the right flank of his line of march. The correspondent can scarcely be aware of the difficulty of moving 75,000 men with bag gage, munitions, food, and stores through a hostile and difficult region. Should General Halleck suc ceed, he will then co-operate with General Buell, who, with an army on paper of 60,000 men, is to march from Louisville through Kentucky on to Nashville. At Paducah there has been a very strange exhibition, which is more significant in its political aspect than in its military bearings, how ever discreditable to discipline the circumstance may seem. General Smith, an officer of the regular army, who commands at Paducah , having heard that an officer and some men belonging to Bri g adier- General Wallace's command had entered the house of a reputed Secessionist, and hoisted the stars and stripes, sent his aide-de-camp to General Wallace to request him to order the removal of the fla g . General Wallace refused to obey the order ! addir g that the flag should not be removed while there was a man alive in his brigade ! His aide-de-camp added that the Secessionists should sleep under a loyal flag one night, any how. General smith's aide retorted that he did not think that would be any great honour. Whereupon General Wallace's aide-de camp knocked General Smith's aide-de camp down. The paper from which this astounding story is taken adds that the " men " had expressed the greatest indignation against General Smith ; and further, that another of that officer's subordinates, General Paine, had sent word to General Wallace that he might rely on the forces under his command in case of a difficulty. The dissension, however, commences in the Cabinet itself, where Mr. Cameron, the Secretary of War, is making a bold bid to take the lead out of the hands of all his fellows, and to head the Republican party on the question of abolition. The Secretary is one of those remark able men who are developed, or who de velope themselves, so wonderfully in the States. By incessant labour, by vast energy and industry, he raised himself from profound obscurity to high station and great wealth, Untravelled, he knows men and manners as well as Ulysses for all his own purposes, and has an insight into character, a tact, and address which many a veteran diplomatist might envy. Whether he is right in his judgment or not, he evidently believes the Union is to be saved by destroying slavery ; and, having in vain endeavoured to force the President to an expression of his opinion to the same effect, he adopted a bold expedient to state the differences which existed between him and the head of the State before the, country. On Monday last the members of the as sociated press were furnished with copies of the proposed report of the Secretary of War, in sealed packages, with instructions not to open them until the President's Message should be in process of de livery. From time to time during Monday and Tuesday despatches were received by the associa tion, instructing them not to use this report until specially advised by the President. After midnight on Tuesday night, the association received a para graph, to be substituted for certain portions of the report, and, with that substitution, were authorised to publish the whole. The tribune publishes the draught report as originally sent, and prints the modifications it was directed to make in a separate article. The account of the transaction from the Washington correspondent of the New York ni bune, which there is every ground to think authen tic, is this : " The Secretary presented his report to Mr. Lincoln on Saturday. On Sunday afternoon he mailed it to the prin cipal papers of the North and West, as is customary on the day preceding the reading of the Message. On Sunday night the President, having found time to read it, found it not in his heart to agree with the Secretary's doctrine of the right and duty to make a military use of the slaves of rebels —to arm them, if necessary—and in all ways to use them as we would any other property of the rebels to suppress the rebellion. He sent for Mr. Cameron, and re quired him to suppress this whole portion of his report, on the ground that its recommendation was premature and ill timed. The Secretary promptly and resolutely refused to suppress a word of it. The discussion between them was protracted. It ended as it began, the President insisting upon the alterati n, and the Secretary respectfully but firmly refusing to change a syllable of the recommendations. A. subsequent interview in the afternoon had a similar con clusion of debate, but a new and strange conclusion of Executive will. The President announced his purpose to strike out the entire passage about the emancipation and arming of the slaves before sending in the report with his Message to Congress. Mr. Cameron declared he should not recall or suppress the document in the hands of Northern and Western editors, and that the printers were at liberty to do with his report what they pleased." As originally printed, that portion of the Secre tary's report relating to slavery read as follows : " It is already a grave question, what shall be done with those slaves who are abandoned by their owners on the advance if our troops into Southern territory, as at Beau. fort district, in South Carolina. The whole white popula tion therein is 6,000, while the number of negroes exceeds 32,000. The panic which drove their masters in wild con fusion from their homes leaves them in undisputed posses sion of the soil. Shall they, armed by their masters, be placed in the field to light against us, or shall their labours be continually employed in reproducing the means of sup porting the armies of the rebellion ? The war into which this Government has been forced by rebellious traitors is carried on for the purpose of repossessing the property vio lently and treacherously seized upon by the enemies of the Government, and to re-establish the authority and laws of the United States in the places where it is opposed or overthrown by armed insurrection or rebellion. Its pur pose is to defend and recover what is justly its own. War, even between independent nations, is made to subdue the enemy, and all that belongs to that enemy, by occupying the hostile country, and exercising dominion over all the men and things within its territory. This being true in respect to independent nations at war with each other, it follows that rebels who are labouring by force of arms to overthrow a Government, justly bring upon themselves all the consequences of war, and provoke the destruction me rited by the worst of crimes. That Government would be false to national trust, and would justly excite the ridicule of the civilised world, that would abstain from the use of any efficient means to preserve its own existence, or to overcome a rebellious and traitorous enemy, by sparing or protecting the property of those who are waging war against it. The principal wealth and power of the rebel States is a peculiar species of property, consisting of the service or labour of African slaves, or the descendants of Africans. This property has been variously estimated at the value of from 700,000,000 to 800,000,000 dols. Why should this property be exempt from the hazards and consequences of a rebellious war ? It was the boast of the leader of the:re bellion, while he yet had a seat in the Senate of the United States, that the Southern States would be comparatively safe and freefrom the burdens of war, if it should be brought on by the contemplated rebellion, and that boast was accom panied by the savage threat that ' Northern towns and cities would become the victims of rapine and military spoil, and that Northern men should smell Southern gunpowder and feel Southern steel.' No one doubts the disposition of the rebels to carry that threat into execution. The wealth of Northern towns and cities, the produce of Northern farms, Northern workshops and manufactories, would certainly be seized, destroyed, or appropriated as military spoil. No pro perty in the North would be spared from the hands of the rebels, and their rapine would be defended under the laws of war. While the loyal States thus have all their property and possessions at stake, are the insurgent rebels to carry on warfare against Government in peace and security to their own property ? Reason, justice, and self-preservation forbid that such should be the policy of this Government, but demand, on the contrary that, being forced by traitors and rebels to the extremity of war, all the rights and powers of war should be exercised to bring it to a speedy end. Those who make :war against the Government justly forfeit all rights of property, privilege, or security derived from the Constitution and laws, against which they are in armed rebellion ; and, as the labour and service of their slaves con stitute the chief property of the rebels, such property should share the common fate of war, to which they have devoted the property of loyal citizens. While it is plain that the slave property of the South is justly subjected to all the consequences of this rebellious war, and that the Govern ment would be untrue to its trust in not employing all the rights and powers of war to bring it to a speedy close, the details of the plan for doing so , like all other military mea sures, must, in a great degree, be left to be determined by particular exigencies. The disposition of other property belonging to the rebels that beco mes subject to our arms is governed by the circumstances of the case. The Govern ment has no power to hold slaves, none to restrain a slave of his liberty or to exact his service. It has a right, however, to use the voluntary service of slaves liberated by war from their rebel masters, like any other property of the rebels, in whatever mode may be most efficient for the defence of the Government, the prosecution of the war, and the sup pression of the rebellion. It is as clearly the right of the Government to arm slaves, when it may become necessary, as it is to use gunpowder taken from the enemy. Whether it is expedient to do so is purely a military question. The right is unquestionable by the laws of war. The expediency must be determined by circumstances, keeping in view the great object of overcoming the rebcls, re-establishing the laws, and restoring peace. It is vainand idle for the Govern ment to carry on this war, or hope to maintain its existence against a rebellious force, without employing all the rights and powers of war. As has been said, the right to deprive the rebels of their property in slaves and slave labour is as clear and absolute as the right to take forage from the field, or cotton from the warehouse, or powder and arms from the maga zine. To leave the enemy in the possession of such pro perty as forage and cotton and military stores, and the means of constantly reproducing them, would be madness. It is therefore equal l madness to leave th em i n peaceful and secure possession of slave property, more valuable and efficient to them for war than forage, cotton, and military stores. Such policy would be nati ona l su i c id e . Wh at to do with that species of property is a question that time and cir cumstances will solve, and need not be anticipated further than to repeat that they cannot be held by the Government as slaves, It would be useless to keep them as prisoners PRICE ..... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. of war, and self-preservation, the highest duty of a Go vernment or of individuals, demands that they should be disposed of or employed in the most effective manner that will tend most speedily to suppress the insurrection and st y l t f he it found d re the tha authority that themenwohfothheaveGboeveenrnhmeeldnt.b rebelsall b a s e slaves are capable of bearing arms and performing efficient military service, it is the right and may become the duty of the Government to arm and equip them, and employ their services against the rebels, under proper military regula tion, discipline, and command. But in whatever manner they may be used by the Government, it is plain that, once lioerated by the rebellious act of their masters, they should never again be restored to bondage. By the master's treason and rebellion he forfeits all right to the labour and service of his slave ; and the slave of the rebellious master, by his service to the Government, becomes justly entitled to free dom and protection. The disposition to be made of slavery by rebels, after the close of the war, can be safely left to the wisdom and patriotism of Congress. The representatives of the people will unquestionably secure to the loyal slave holders every right to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the country." After the original report had been printed the following modification was made, the appended paragraph being substituted for the whole of the above : " It is already a grave question what shall be done with those slaves who are abandoned by their owners on the ad vance of our troops into Southern territory, as at Beaufort district, in South Carolina. The number left within our control at that point is very considerable, and similar cases will probably occur. What shall be done with them ? Can we afford to send them forward to their masters, to be by them armed against us, or used in producing supplies to sustain the rebellion ? Their labour may be useful to us. ,Withheld from the enemy, it lessens his military resources, and withholding them has no tendency to induce the hor rors of insurrection even in the rebel communities. They constitute a military resource, and being such, that they should not be turned over to the enemy is too plain to dis cuss. Why deprive him of supplies by a blockade, and vo luntarily give him men to produce supplies. The disposition to be made of the slaves of rebels after the close of the war can be safely left to the wisdom and patriotism of Congress. The representatives of the people will unquestionably secure to the loyal slaveholders every right for which they are en titled under the Constitution of the country." Mr. Cameron has received the congratulations and promises of support of the advanced Republi cans in Congress and out of it, and the words and acts of the most influential members of both houses certainly indicate a strong policy tending towards abolition. Already it is proposed to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, and Mr. Sumner and others have denounced in eloquent or energetic lan guage the local police and prisons, which under a system derived from Maryland, and inspired by slavery, have been rendered subservient to the in terests of the slaveholders. It is stated, for instance, that men who have gone off to Secessia, and are now fighting the Federal troops inVirginia, coolly lodged, their slaves in gaol here, in order that they might be kept safely for them till they came back, and these said gaols are described as being disgraceful to any semi-barbarous country. The police acting on their old :inspirations and orders have received a severe shock. On Wednesday a letter was addressed by Mr. Seward, under the direction of the President, to General M'Clellan, calling his attention to the fact that slaves coming within the terms of the Confis cation Act, and escaping within the military lines of the army of the Potomac, were arrested by the city police, " upon the presumption, arising from colour, that they are fugitives from service and labour." The President directs that escaped slaves of the description referred to shall be regarded as " received into the military protection of the United States," and he threatens with "military arrest " whoever shall undertake to seize such slaves and deal with them as "fugitives from ser vice." As General M'Clellan has issued an order in con formity with the instructions of MT. Seward, it i probable that the city police will abstain altogethei from arresting any coloured persons from Virginia, and when the news is spread abroad Washington will witness an extraordinary accession to its negro population, already very numerous. The blacks are beginning to bestir themselves, and to look for better times. In the " City of Brotherly Love," they have sent round the following curious petition, which throws some light on their social status in Free States : " To the Board of Managers of the various City Passenger Cars. " The coloured citizens of Philadelphia suffer very serious inconvenience and hardship daily by being excluded from riding in the city passenger cars. In New York city, and in all the principal Northern cities, except Philadelphia, they ride; even in New Orleans (although subject to some proscription) they ride in the cars. Why, then, should they be excluded in Philadelphia,—in a city standing so pre-emi nently high for its benevolence, liberality, love of freedom, and Christianity as the City of Brotherly Love? Coloured people pay more taxes here than is paid by the same class in any other Northern city. The members of the Social and Statistical Association, although numbering less than 50 members, pay annually about 5,000 doll. into the tax col lector's office. Therefore the undersigned respectfully peti tion that the various boards of the city passenger cars rescind the rules indiscriminately excluding coloured persons from the inside of the cars." In Congress the Abolition sentiment is feebly restrained by the expectation of future triumphs. Mr. Breckinridge has been expelled by the body from which he has already expelled himself, and Mr. Barnett was similarly treated in the Lower House. Abolition petitions and speeches have been pre sented and made. A motion, which will be carried in an amended form, has been received with favour for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the cause of the disasters at Bull's•run and elsewhere, but an attempt made by Mr. Lane to include Gen. Fremont's conduct in reference to the defeat of Gen. Lyon and the surrender of Lexington was not agreed to. Colonel Miles, who was found guilty of intoxication at the battle of Manassas by a Court of Inquiry, which decided that he ought not to be punished for the offence, is not to escape so readily, and a resolution to investigate his case, moved by Mr. Grimes, was adopted in the Senate yesterday (Thursday, Dec. 5). Mr. Trumbull made a long and strong speech in bringing in a bill to the Senate for the confiscation of slaves and other property of Confederates, a report of which will be found in the American journals. Mr. Gurley made a flank attack on the military authorities in the House of Representatives by a resolution, to be referred to the Judiciary Committee, to inquire into the censor ship of the press in the capital as exercised in the transmission of telegraphs, and to ascertain if it had not been perverted to prevent just comment and criticism under the pretence of withholding in formation from the enemy. The House eventually resolved itself into a committee to consider the State of the Union. With a bad grace the President will be forced at last to accede to an exchange of prisoners by popular feeling, but the condemnation of Mr. Slidell and Mr. Mason to a fellon's cell will not facilitate their approaches. It is quite out of the power of the Northern mind to comprehend how deeply the Yankees are detested by the Confedzrates, and how desperate is their resolve to be free from any inter course or connexion with them. The expeditions along the coast exasperate the bold, while they carry dismay to the more timid, but the latter are not more yielding than the former. They will in sist on being treated as equals. It will be observed in Mr. Willes's report that he praises Captain Wilkes for seizing Slidell and Mason as political offenders, and does not attribute any ambassadorial character to them. They are merely citizens be longing to rebellious States. How will Mr. Willes act when he is called upon to make arrangements for an exchange of prisoners under a flag of truce at Fortress Monroe ? While the Federalists style the people of the Southern States " rebels" the lat ter affect to regard the former as Lincoln's mercena ries. Their papers describe the sea coast expeditions as " John Brown raids ou a vast scale," and exclaim that " Lincoln, Cameron, Seward, and Sherman are as fit for the gibbet as old John Brown himself. "The planters are said to be burning and destroying their cotton all along the coast. Alas ! for the Confede rat° cotton bonds based thereon. They are le- VOTE B 1 BALLOT. A meeting has been held by the committee of the Ballot Society, to hear from the Hon. S. L. Tilley, Chief Secre tary of New Brunswick, the reason why the practice of voting by ballot was introduced into that colony, and an account of its working. Mr. TILLEY said that under the election law of New Brunswick every man was entitled to a vote who was as sessed upon an income of £lOO a year, or who possessed £lOO personal property, or £2sreal property, and the assess ment roll constituted the list of voters. The register was subject to revision every year. The arrangement in this respect resulted in economy and accuracy. The committee had put to him certain questions, before answering which he thought it fair to say that some who voted for the ballot originally were now opposed to it, though ho was not one of that number, He had been asked first why the ballot was adopted in New Brunswick. His reply was that it was adopted in order to procure to the voter greater independence and a more general vote. With open voting many persons abstained from voting from the desire nut to offend, or other causes. The next question put to him was would the ballot prevent bribery and corruption, and secure peace and order. His reply was that it would. Another question was whether the ballot prevented a man's vote being known. That would depend upon the man him self. Of course he could keep it a secret if he pleased. Again, ho was asked if the ballot, according to his experience of its working in New Brunswick, protected. the voter from persecution, violence, and oppression. It did not necessarily do so. The law in New Brunswick was in some respects imperfect as regard2d the mode for casting the ballot—that was, it was not a clo .e or sealed ballot, as in Australia. Next, as to whether it put a stop to bribery, drinking, and treating? His answer to this was that it did not do so entirely, and for the same reason that it was not a secret ballot, but it diminished those evils to a great extent, and it also put a stop in a great degree to noise, disturbance, and disord er. ens d expeof elections sixtheTlehcensF I questiont ly had.certainwas,ha Seventh, had itdiminished the was tke ballot a failure in the northern States of America ? He thought not. Eighth, had it tended in any way to the present unfortunate state of affairs in the United States, or conduced in any way to the breaking up of the Union ? He should certainly say not in the remotest degree.. Ninth, he was asked, comparing his experience of open voting with that of voting by ballot, did he recommend its adoption by this country? Certainly he did, and that was after the experience they had had in New Bruns wick of one general election, and three or four years of single elections since the act had come into operation. Tenth, did more voters record their votes under it than, under the system of open voting ? Yes, undoubtedly ; when the ballot had failed to realise all that was expected of it, aFr in some cases he admitted it had, it was attributable to tha fact that the voter had not been left alone by himself when he went up to give his vote. To make the system perfect, the elector should be alone when he went up to deposit his voting paper. In the course of a conversation, in which Mr. Elt, Mr., Marsden, the Chairman, and Mr. Tilley, took part, the last named gentleman added that another reason in favour of the ballot was that it avoided the expense and inconvenience of a scrutiny in the event of a disputed return. At first, when it was adopted in New Brunswick, there were some instances of personation ; but some five or six prosecutions, and the placing of persons having local knowledge and who were acquainted with the persons of the electors at the polling booths, effectually guarded against this olojection. On the motion of Mr. E. Marsden, seconded by Mr. Elt,. a resolu'ion was passed to the effect that " This committee desires to express its conviction that the fact of our colonies successively incorporating vote by ballot with their repre sentative institutions, and its successful working wherever adoptad, cannot fail to promote that growth and maturity of public opinion by which, according to one of the leading opponents of the measue, its adoption in this country must be settled. The committee therefore congratulates the friends of the ballot on the adoption and successful opera tion of that protection to the voter in the colony of New Brunswick; that this committee begs leave to tender its hearty thanks to the Hon. S. L. Tilley for his attendance here this evening, and for his clear and satisfactory account of the working of the ballot in the colony of whose Legis lature and Government he is a distinguished member ;" and, after a brief acknowledgment from Mr. Tilley, the proceedings terminated. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. M. de Thorn has addresoed a curious communication to the Academy of Sciences on the subject of certain singing fish that inhabit the seas as well as rivers of South Ame rica. Tie specially mentions the Bay of Pailon, situated north of the province of Esmeraldas, in the Republic of Ecuador, where, being in a boat, ho was suddenly startled by a deep humming noise, which he at first attributed to some large insect, but which upon inquiry turned out to be a kind of fish called Musicos by the people of the country. On proceeding further, the sounds became so strong as to remind him of the strains of a church organ. These fish live both in salt and in fresh water, since they are also met with in the river Mataje. They are not more than ten inches long ; their colour is white sprinkled with blue spots, and they will continue their music for hours without mind ing any interruption. M. Lemaire advocates coal tar as a preservative against the potato blight. He incorporates two parts of coal tar with 100 parts of dry and loose earth, and strews this mix. ture over the ground to be planted with potatoes, after which the field is ploughed or dug in the usual way. In this manner the coal tar is buried to the depth of 20 centi metres or thereabouts, and the potatoes planted in it thrive perfectly, and are never attacked with the blight 4 M. Lemaire has also made the discovery that potatoes planted in a part of the same field, which had been pur.. posely left without coal tar, contracted the disease, at the. same time that the others were. M. Radozkowski announces the discovery of a new mine ral, which he calls Wagite, in the Ural mountains. It presents the appearance of a concretion of crusts, the sur face of which bristles with small asperities which, seen through a magnifying glass, have the appearance of bril liant crystals, resembling zeolite. Their colour is a light blue, with a tendency to green. The specific gravity of this mineral is 2 . 7, its hardness 5 ; it is soluble in sari without effervescence, yields water by calcination, is unfusible under the blow pipe, becoming opaque by the action of the flame; with boran it yields a colourless glass. PURE WATER IN THE OLDEN TIME.—The im portance of a supply of pure water for domestic use appears to have been thoroughly recognised by the Romans. For although the river Tibor flowed through the city of Rome, and the Romans at a very early period had made use of its waters and likewise that of wells, it is now two thousand e they collecting ha d beeni:tse o ddimoleshould thefindseoso n w me tha a oasua t :i x tu. e cevrrha r iej s 4.. one hundred and seventy-three years since they discovered the unwholesome characters of such waters, yellow with 1 mud and mingled with sewage as they were. These ancient ofce th nated with drainage, and hence they brought the supplies to their fountains from the sources of the Anio and Tiber by twenty different aqueducts, at various distances up to opfeori p v le r :e n re ea a r w th ar e e i o r f so th u e rce im , p b o e r f ta or n e 1 1 hatp l ii r2msoit:mo:irenitylgotewt,hooae than ut t hls dot a tuu n h: ahaeytannvoodefr althoughmy theeso ea u rr R e : e served n axg modernsp: no n andsocebi. classics, that ,haveiatctes. ..... Nothing h d 8.4 e 0 h v ,y : o entirely lost sight of the sanitary knowledge acquired selves in the middle of the nineteenth century persisting in the metropolis of England in perpetrating experiments upon human health and life, which a little knowledge of .Ef Pk tct 1111