The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

AMERICA'S TRIBAL NATIONS, Nonni] MEXICO'S TEXAS EMPERY (SOUTH. 1113TEBJED SACH '1+48,-T he Sovereign Native Chief Sack'eaO, elect of all the Christendom white-faced Coun terpoise-eacomo's chiefs of Asiatic Europe, under the trust behalf, as based on the double eagle of Mexico united with Rome' civic one, by force of 1519-21-July, reset 1762, for the flux and reflux life-right of (the Indian Sovereign Chief herein represented for) the neutral-tidal'd isle lake of Tenustitan or M-x-ico--as learnt, from the sth Decade of Peter Martyr, as of Welsh history, now of necessity brought to light since bank scramble, for our gold-ores, by robbers [on the Palmerston 3ty term of Nov. 1810, Avoir du-rEA-Grim washington ' Texas-hundred' partners] of the Roinish Theatricum Ecclesiastical-nuetu of stage idealists to the astra-geograph spiral movement, touching nature's starred seasons, by words of sound without sense manifestation, whereby the rights of the natives to their in• seiz'ned elections-become a tinkling cymbal on the zenith-shadow of the Z overhead, as marked by our 29th September Nile-"-meter of the Great Spirit of Almighty God, for his earthly Xarayes-lake sustenance, of man. Tribal-sac'hemo's and Sachims, learn that it pleased the fiscal authorities of the East, thro' our west gulf-stream effluvium magnetic, to direct all minds to our north - Bell-Ot-region in 1818, whence the cause of Compass act 58 Geo. 111. Regis, c. xx., in the month of May, to re decide upon our regional assynode perigee longitude, of the Cone s citation-polar, - visible at 4 deg. south of the equator, under longitude 60 W., whence this act be came the fulcrum of recognition of 'Utrecht 1713, 26 Geo. 11., as of 1730, of Cherokee Carib chief election 1742, by BRUCE to the Quaker Affirmation Act, for the Esqui. inaux-Labrador-Caribs, holding Mingan's Eastgard font set of 60 w, from London, as the meridian line of Trinidad, ,echo-dos-Morros Nileometer of Paraguay, Al-cor •rientes of the Sacramento and Hermangild of the su-south polar Terra-del -f Futlgo's Crown colony, New Zealand. Know ye then, Sachims, that Sir William Ouseley, the Luther Established kirk-wall Queen's agent, placed before me, the circumfrancia Lopez act of having obtained the signature of 800 of the Sachims, as now guided by the Romish Jesuit Calvin priests, (of Geneva's mexi sunites), promising allegiance that ye were not against the Queen of Heaven' without being told who you are for. And as the same trick was played off on the Indians of the north, that their Kt. scholastic teacher of Malta's oica-sole fort, Looris-life-gift induction of CARL. V. without right of voice, but through Scotland as sister of Rome,' which smposition.has [since committee of the 1836 House of Cora mons Gladstone, chairman] passed over the native tribes, without sect distinction, to the care of Quakers, when the £lOO,OOO rent accumulation, of the Indian lands of Albany and Trinity Church, New York, with that of Buenos Ayres erected the Smithsonian Institution on the halved [1846 Congress Act] Washington di s t r i c t o f Colum bia, whereby seizing the Indian responsibilities under a mixed wig'd Christ Commission for an internal sentry-box man,. as the Sterling ant agon i s ti c t o th e U n it e d S tates Legislature of 1776, of this Counterpoise sagamoth'ean edict for all America, on 1 Art. U.S., sec. 3, as the law of England for the Indians throughout the world. Sachims-It is requisite to know that the Act of 1818 became the Regiscone shield of our tribes by the Crown Colony-Gov'nr.-Hamilton, thro' his Sheriff's, Captains Buchan &Glascock's medium on Louis: 18th's 1818, French Order's 3ty, placed the Caribess Indian lady, Mary March, as " in habeas virginals tenerum corpus Christi," under the State sponsorship of Montague Charles H. Ackerley, E. c., acting lieutenant and crown surrogate of the Admiralty, as of the Board of longitude, before cited, for his ingress and egress [on 1658 act], for the collection of all wills and testimentary documents, without distinction of sect, creed, or colour, in 1820, for Newfoundland and Quebec, and at Rio Janeiro, Brazils, 29th August, 1825, by Stuart de Rothesay, Helmond, and A. Marcus Hill, secretary of em bassy, now Lord Sandys on £3,000 a year, the prin cipal, Ackerley, named as cube-root protector of the Indian, on £9O half-pay R.N., now 40 years-the youngest of Malcom & the Saxon Margarate's offspring, in Holland. Brydgos-Chamberlayne, whence " Constable of stf-Soote Angl'lot land, as of Marischal' Coll. & Dublin's trust. Whence, Sachims, the cause of Ackerley's support of the Indian chief of America, Peter Basquet, elected by all the sovereign Powers Asiatic Europe as Rome's bailiff (not its vicar's), in charge of Admiralty's red flag and all the symbols of power, on the 31st of Janua r y, 1842 , who-on the rebel confusion, and loss of responsibilities, refused to give up his Indian grant-personality for all, thence became ex-communicated, threatened to be shot, and deprived of the flag-union by Romish priests, as taken out with Lord Ashburton in H.M.S. Warspite unknown to the Governor of Canada, whence, being between two fires, was sent to England by the Protestant magistrates to claim Quo warranto writ for the restitution of his imperial Indian power, as well as mile'age maintenance on public duty, now 19 years. Sachims-The repudiation in 1851 of my State under Extradition act 1843, for the criminal law brought to light through providence " Indian Mary March's sponsor" still living, who as the abovenamed Ackerly has supported me, Peter 8., [the Government N.B. inte r p re t er f or 40 y ears Sir 11. Dougles and Lord Seaton, to wit,] as in duty bound under his first appointment as Lieut.-Capt. Cook and Lieut.-Major Cartwright's surrogatorial successor. Sac'homo's & Sachims. Ken 1 by the act of 1818 (24-32 still pending), S 4.9, subjects or subject for equal rewards to all parties on polar-expedition. Ye will now think deep of the danger of joining either party of the white faces or half caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby prohibited from noticing the ;Sub-proclamation 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, as well as the alien's of contracting parties to keep sectarian peace on their soil. By reasons as follows :- 1. The flag union (of the erosses on 3 James I. is a Chris tian Zollverein trading flag o + o and not a belligerent by the Ordnance) issue of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower under my Water Gap-line limit RED flag as the war one of empery. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian. Roman law base of the X-span' Fu4ros union courts of a-gal law of 1521, and under 1761 trust, which has been already decided in the ang' lot Spanish Crts. as 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 Molchisidelc on a moving earth error' with it] thol 7th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgium treaties of 1828-30 of sectarian illegality. 3, The Papal assumption 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 Sigismond life-tenu re as sumption of the house of Savoy, for the seising of Mexico from England's allies, caused his papist envoy, Capt. Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to wolves men,'-as made manifest by late ' Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spective arrangements. in violation of Ackerley's pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the .MoNnoE doctrine, [as of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the law's font, and recognised as such by Peel and Derby, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the sole' man of Nor-West Russia Fur guarantee-elect of the 99 years Dutch Loan Act of 1832, unconnected with religion. Fourthly. The non-ratification in the London Gazette, and not within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a Sup-plement-alien coloured persons being interdicted from right of citizenship, by act of March and April, 1836, under the Cartere t'-Gladstone commitee of H. Corn. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians, aliens, and all others, that the Cabinets named in this con vention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a converse sense, (being in total opposition to the legislative unity of the standard of weight and measure of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue under annual elec tion of paid laymen, as well as for guiding the commerce of the whole world) without consulting the undersigned. Therefore the gist of this letter, for my rights, yours, and all parties, is [for the monetary recognition of all dues from America upon the principal of primary wellointention of the whites and the evident decay of human nature, by the theft of the 1730 Indian nationalities in my regard ],by brother and sister association for the future, under the law of Eng land, as now disconnected with (1 - Pope, 1 - Churches, or t Sects) the State. PATER BRANT BASQUET, America's Empery-Sack ° m6, (Nephew of Sac'mo Jos. Brant, 1775-Sac'mo Peter Toma Brant, 1825, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. sec. H.7's-C. H. ACKERLEY, P.C.,-sworn in, -C. J., Empyrate commission of Review, 182.5-37, , L.S. Hen. B's Executors ' WOTTON' LYON BOWER, P.C. 26th,-London. See The Sun, Nov. 16, 1861. I I --- R 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. ' THIS E VENING, TETE TOY MAKER. Mr. li. Ilai~h G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, After which, at Eight o'clock, LURLINE. Miss L. Pyne, Mesdames Jessie 3PLean and Thirlwall ; Messrs. Santley 11. Corri, C. Lyall, Patey, and W. llarrison. Conductor, Mr. ALF': ED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking►, or fees to Box-keepers. Stay-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting- 31anager, ➢lr. Edward Murray. REA TR E•ROYA L, HAYMARKET, Leagee, Mr. J. B. liackstont. TIM; EVENING, the performances will commence with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. Ahern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, dr,c. Followed by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. To conclude with KY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. li OYAL LYCEUM THE A TRE . II Mankr,er--Mr. Edmund Falconer. airs t. He HSIS EVnry.ENING, GONE TO TEXAS. MW r.alter Lacy, Pori ter which, at a quarter to Eicdtt (15th time) the new it d ginal Drama, entitledPEEP'O'DA.Y ; or, Savourneen D n eellsh. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Ilermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun t Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. p7icea as usu al. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from it till 5. YAL, E WAIIEI PI s o 7 o Proprietor and Man a g er, Mr. B. Webster. '— THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. 3'r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. Alter which, the new drama, entitled TILE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written by the author of "The Colleen !lawn." Mr. George Jamison, from the Winter garden, New York; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea tres ; and Miss Denvil, from the 1 yceum. The oilier prin cipal characters in the drama will be performed by Messrs. Emery, Stephenson Billington, Paul Bedford, Romer. Mrs. Killington. llrs. Marston, &e., Entirely new sunery by Messrs. I)alhy and Thompson. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. T 001 , ,, Miss K. Kelly, A t c. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking;. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE. Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with a new farce, en titled ALL IN THE DARK: Messrs. Butler, D. James, Wurboys, Miss E. Wilton, dr'. After which, A THUMPING LEGACY. Followed by SMACK FOR SMACK. After which ' Mdlle. di Rhona will appear I n CAMELIA, 4 " La two two National Dances, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE .N OV E MBE it 26, 1861. about equally to slavery and to its abolition ; the slavery they detested on political grounds—it interfered with the rapid development of the States, and caused the South to aim at universal domina tion. But abolition threatened Northern money dealers, and might bring into the Northern States a host of free negroes, whom they viewed with abhorrence. Soon, however, the question may lie between abolition and hopeless defeat ; and very obviously it will soon lie between using the negroes to put an end to the war, and sustaining for an in definite time a heavy load of taxation. When this becomes painfully clear, then at length the North may feel that, if Abolition be distasteful, it is sweet compared with heavy and protracted taxa tion, and the continued disgrace of its arms. Looking at the struggle as a purely military one along the whole line from East to West, it seems more hopeless than ever. The qaestion of emanci pation by means of Northern arms seems, therefore, to be that on which all hangs. Indeed this is the case in a twofold point of view, as Slave and Free States amalgamation again in one Union will plainly be impossible. Slavery, the cause of the whole quarrel, will be a more better source of disagreement than ever—it is only by all being Free States that re-union is possible. If the South become free it will then not only be more like the North, but will be glad of Northern strength to guarantee the whites against the gradual supremacy of the blacks in the districts where they are most numerous. Looking to the future, there fore, as well as to present success, we in England can easily see that all depends on the North hoisting at once the Abolition flag. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 26, 186 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 51—kighest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER—`29.SB. WlND—South-Westerly; fresh, with dirty weather and occasional showers. It blew a gale last night. We have on several former occasions expressed our entire disapprobation of the Royal Marriage Act, and the necessity of an unconditional repeal of that iniquitous measure. We allude to it now, more particularly, because it is well known that in the course of a few short months another of our Princesses is to be married to a Foreign Prince. Now assuming that the aforesaid Prince is the young lady's own choice, no one, whether an upholder of the Royal Marriage Act, as some are, or strongly 'I he possession of Beaufort will produce consid- opposed to it like ourselves, has any right to object erable effect on the South. Hitherto the slight to the intended marriage. But we are, and always advances of the North have been into districts where have been, opposed to the principles of the aforesaid slaves were comparatively few, and the great article Royal Marriage Act. In the first place it is an of Southern produce was far away—Northern Vir- unjust interference with one of the choicest pri ginia, the disputed ground in Missouri, and the vileges of civilized humanity—that of choosing one's immediate vicinity of Fort Monroe did not abound own partner for life. It may here not be amiss to either in the " contraband of war," or in cotton, revert to the causes which led to the introduction At Beaufort it is just the reverse. The whole of this tyrannical measure. It was passed in the country is one of plantations. Rice and the famous reign of a virtuous and well meaning, but self-willed Sea Island cotton are the growth of the district. and obstinate Monarch. Various reasons have been Indeed, it is just these islands which fringe the assigned, but those which have always been popu coast exposed to marine air, and possessing a rich larly believed to have been the main cause of the soil, that produce that peculiar staple which Man- measure were, that the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and chester covets, and which, we are told, though we GLOUCESTER, King GEORGE the Third's brothers, but half believe it, cannot be obtained from India. contracted marriages with people not of Blood Here, therefore, the North will be able to try Royal. This was said to have so highly incensed the what it can do with cotton, and what it can KING that he sent a message down to the two do with slaves. We read, indeed, that the Houses of Parliament recommending the introduc• planters have locked up their crops and re- tion of the Royal Marriage Act, having, as it was fused to let a bale be shipped to Massa- well known, for its object the prevention of similar chusetts, lest it should sustain the trade of its alliances in future, or, to speak more correctly, the enemies, or even to France or England, lest prevention of members of the Royal Family marry necessity should not drive is to a breach of ing any one not of Blood Royal. As much popular blockade. Yet facts are not quite consistent with ignorance prevails on the subject, the general im this abnegation of cotton selling. When the abject pression being that members of the Royal Family is to show the inefficiency of the blockade, we are aro compelled by law to marry foreigners, we will told of even cotton cargoes being carried out with just mention the exact state of the law'as fixed by the impunity ; and the very last accounts mention said Royal Marriage Act. the evasion of the blockading squadron by the The Act 12 George 111., cap. 11, prescribes Bermuda, with 2,000 bales of cotton on board, for that, "No descendant of the body of King Liverpool. Considering, therefore,the want of money GEORGE the Second (with the exception of in the South—knowing that the whites there must be the issue of Princesses married or who may taxed beyond all endurance to raise money for the hereafter marry into foreign families), is cap- Government, as well as to supply their own wants, able of contracting matrimony without the we much doubt whether anything can prevent the previous consent of the King or Queen for the Northern agents, who will visit the point of which time being signified under the Great Seal, and any they have taken possession, from obtaining supplies marriage contracted without such crescent L, sofa. of the cotton which one side ie. co eager to sell, and Provided that each of the said descendants as are the other so eager to buy. It has even been sug- above the age of twenty-five may, after a twelve gested, that as the North is master of the sea, it month's notice given to the King's Privy Council, could take possession of these sea islands along the contract and solemnise without the consent of the coast, and converting the slaves into freemen, could Crown, unless both Houses of Parliament shall, grow there all the cotton needed for their Northern before the expiration of the said year, expressly mills. declare their disapprobation of such intended mar- But these slaves—what will the North do with riage. And all persons solemnising, assisting, or them—that is we apprehend the greatest question being present at any such intended marriage, shall of all ; not only in a philanthropic, but in a military incur the penalties of the Statute of Prsemunire," point of view. In no part, probably, of the Southern This is the law on the subject, whereby,"as will be States aro the slaves more locally numerous in corn- seen, it is not absolutely compulsory upon any mem parison with the white population. It is a slave ber of the Royal Family to marry a German, or population, in fact, with planters scattered thinly foreigner ; but it makes all their marriages illegal, among them, es owners or managers of rice and unless contracted with the consent of the Sovereign cotton plantations. No accounts represent the or two Houses - of Parliament for the time being. slaves as fewer than 32,000 out of 40,000 inhabitants But is not this prohibition of matrimony, without of Beaufort county. Here, therefore, if the North the consent of a third person, to any one who has ar were disposed, it could show its power. Nothing, rived at years of maturity, an unjust violation of the one would think, could be easier than to send the rights of the subject, not to be tolerated by modern first slaves who came to the Federal camp as corn- civilisation? It would indeed be an endless task were missioners amongst the thousands of their fellows, we to go over the miseries and wretchedness occa to disabuse them of the stories which the planters sioned to the different members of the late Royal have industriously circulated among them of the Family by this most unfortunate of all unfortunate Northern cruelties to be perpetrated on them, and pieces of legislation. This was the cause, in a great to invite them to come and work as freemen under measure at any rate, of preventing several of the white protection. It would doubtless, at first, be six Princesses, daughters of GEORGE 111., from difficult to find them all employment. Between the marrying at all, and those who did marry were in camp works, however, and the confiscated rebel consequence compelled to wait until a very late estates this difficulty, in the hands of an able ad- period in life, and were said, when they did enter ministrator, would soon vanish, and the Slave into wedlock, to make unfortunate and by no means States would receive their first lesson of the effects happy unions. It likewise caused no small misery of war on the domestic institution. and unhappiness to the sons in the late Royal As other expeditions of a similar kind are said to Family ; we might name many, but we will con be in contemplation, it eyelid seem to be of the tent ourselves with naming two, as most prominently utmost importance to make them as efficient as pos- i brought before the public. We of course allude to the Bible. Now, it hardly appears of what value they respective marriages of GEORGE IV., when Prince of can be towards a successful termination of the war WALES, to his cousin the Princess CAROLINE of if they ale not used to strike terror into the slave- BRUNSWICK, and of the late Duke of SUSSEX to holders through their favourite institution. Nothing Lady AUGUSTA MURRAY, mother of the late Sir will withdraw more troops from the North than the AUGUSTUS D'ESTE and the present Dowager Lady fear of the slaves geuerally placing themselves under TRURO. The former marriage was very nearly the the protection of the Federal camps. To this will cause of involving us in all the horrors of civil war, be added the fear of insurrection; and hence, with and the latter marriage having been declared null camps of from fifteen to twenty thousand men along and void by act of Parliament, in consequence of the Southern coast, these small armies may have a the Royal Marriage Act, inflicted most cruel hard distracting and paralysing power out of all propor- ships and injustice upon the two above named chil tion to their numbers. Unless some such plan as dren of the late Duke of SussEx. and Lady AUGUSTA this be resorted to, as military movements these MURRAY, to say nothing of the cruelty and injua expeditions will be of little value. Their efficiency tice of putting asunder those who had been, accord entirely depends on the disquietude they cause, and , ing to the moral law at any rate, joined together. the necessity they create for dividing the Confedel And this last named marriage all but led to a dis rate force—and the disquietude created by them puted succession, and would most infallibly have will be just in proportion to their effect on the done so had the late Duke of KENT and King of slave population. The Potomac will be as formid- HANOYER died without Issue. And when the event ably defended as ever on its Southern side, if it is happened, now more than forty years ago, which all known that an expedition like that now success- England co deeply deplored, and threw a gloom over fully encamped at Beaufort will create no disturb- the country which no one who was living at the time anee amongst the negroes. Whethe r th e d ue razi a )y bo t l h it e can ever forget, the evils of the Royal Marriage people of the North will ever be A c t b ecame very apparen t, f rom th e diffi cu l ty there io m ni o s s t t s obviou s m ili tary necessities to was, or appeared to be at the time, in finding a sue we shall see before long. The cessor to the throne, owing to the fact that none of reader will observe that, at least in one case, the the livin g P r inces o r P r i ncesses , c hild ren o f th e t h en people cheered th e hi stor i an RANCROPT loudly' for reigning Monarch, had any issue living who could the sentiment that slavery must be given up if in we have not Mr. Royal to the throne. c ompatible with the Uni on . N ow, the It is said by th e up h o ld ers o f th e sa id s hadow of a doubt, that if that f ee li ng WARD,RoyaI M arr i age Act that were this law repealed LINCOLN, and Mr. SE and Mr. CAMERON, we sho u ld h ave no end of jealousies from the diffe and the whole batch of heartless politicians, w ill rent members of th© Royal family marrying and b ec ome as stanch abolitionists as *thiNelrs.B sentimentsEECllEoßf intermarrying with with the f am ili es of the nobility, or S TO WE herself. They peopl e b eneath themselves, and a butreflect the North. Hithert o the views of the p eo p le there return t o a similar state of thi ngs which existed have been hostile, paradoxica l, as it may seem, during the wars of Y or k 4114 Lancaster that the THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1861. .......16, ~ .. 4 , 4. : • salig-‘, 4 t,, -; .1" .411 -, , i e .: "* 4 i • 1, -..11'.4.11 ',A . ~•,..i.'i% TVA ' * M r •'. , 1 ,--ww-4, ...dr, ~. 1... _ ~i • .. TTrr,,-,4,7„:„. true dignity of Royalty could never be preserved unless we had some such barrier as the Royal Marriage Act. It is not, however, by such arti ficial fences that the true dignity of Royalty is preserved. Compulsory restrictions upon marriage are always dangerous to the public peace and to public morality. Here, especially, where those on whom they are imposed are persons in all other respects even mischievously secure from contradic tion —persons whose foibles are studied, whose whims are indulged, whose passions flattered by those around them—we may safely conclude that few will not rebel against a law which they see to be peculiar and feel to be unjust and unnatural. For the most part the feeling against mesalliance in us is quite strong enough. Princes do know who they are, and, if left to themselves, will not choose their wives from those with whom it is a degradation to be connected. Princes sufficiently estimate, nay, have been too slavishly obedient to the supposed necessity of adapting their marriages to some imagined State policy. From these causes we have had too much, far too much, of domestic alienation, of Court profligacy, and we may add, in some in stances, of physical degeneracy. They require to be watched and corrected rather than aggravated by fresh restrictions, which can only issue, as in fact they have issued, in fresh rebellion. Minds, of course, there are who will resign themselves to anything; but too many of those who find them selves thus jealously fettered on the point most im portant to their own legitimate happiness, will think themselves thereby excused in any:sort of lawless indulgence. Not to be allowed to choose our own footman would be a privation to takioh few of us would submit with equanimity. We can hardly wonder, though we may well lament, that men educated to self-indulgence consider themselves as privileged libertines when they are forbidden to choose their wives. They find their happiness mercilessly committed to chance, and avenge them selves on the laws of their country by breaking those of a higher authority. We hope a time is approaching when a truer policy will remove this, with other cognate laws, not only from our statute book, but what is more important—from the cus tomary code of the nation. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last night a clever burlesque extravaganza upon the highly successful drama " The Colleen Bawa," was pro duced here, entitled " Miss Eily O'Connor." Tho author, Mr. H. J. Byron, has, in the mast ludicrous manner, em braced all the leading points of the celebrated drama in this his latest production, and the result was the most complete and triumphant success. It is unnecessary to go through the various incidents of the burlesque, as the story of the " Colleen Bawn " is so widely known. Suffice it, therefore, to say, a more complete parody upon a popular play has never been produced. The part of Miss INFO'Connor is capitally sustained by Mr. Atkins, whose " make up" for the Irish beauty was excellent, and elicited very great applause. Miss L. Keeley as Miles gave a very laughable version of the stage Irishman, and Mr. Roxby as Danny Man entered heartily into the part. The great scene of the burlesque is the crater cave, with all its excit ing situations. Miss Keeley takes the great sensation header in first-rate style, and succeeds in bringing the un fortunate Eily to the surface et the water a " perfect cure." Mrs. Selby as Widow Cregan, Miss Arden as Hardress Cregan, and Mr. Halston as Mr. Corrigan, greatly contri buted to the success of the play by their admirable acting. The burlesque abounds in parodies on the most popular songs, all of which are rendered with great effect. Mr. Beverley, the scene painter, of course produced some very beautiful scenery; and the music, by Mr. Tully, was highly appropriate and characteristic. The burlesque has proved a decided hit, and will, without doubt, attract crowded audiences until it has to give way to the great pan tomime of 1861. SURREY THEATRE. It is with pleasure we notice the tide of success that has set in at this the leading theatre on the Surrey side of the water. The great drama, " The Idiot of the Mountain," still con tinues, notwithstanding the great number of nights it has been represented, to be highly attractive, and, from all appearance, will continue to be so for some time to come. The capital burlesque, "The Colleen Drawn." is An other decided success, and, taken AA e whole, a better evening's amusement than that provided by Messrs. Creswick and Shepherd has seldom been afforded to the play-going public. The preparations for the Christmas pantomime have began, and from what we hear a piece of unrivalled beauty will be produced. EGYPTIAN BALL, PICCADILLY. Monsieur Robin appeared last night at the Egyptian Hall, and certainly, to use the words of his prospectus, "introduced new, costly, and scientific apparatus, and novel experiments," as amusing as they were instructing. His " Soirees Fantastiques," as he terms them, promise to be very popular. After performing some magical illusions and rather novel performances on cards, the wizard's favourite instrument for such purposes, he introduced in the second part of his performance the real Ruhmkorffs monster coil, on which 22,000 yards of electric wire were rolled. This extraordinary and powerful apparatus gives, it appears, in the free air an electric spark 17 inches long, and the experi ments and illustrations were of the most brilliant character. Altogether, the entertainments of the evening wore most interesting, and cannot fail to attract large audiences, espe cially those connected with the scientific world. MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL. Last evening a testimonial was presented to James Anderson, Esq., by the students, on the occasion of his retirement from the office of treasurer. The testimonial was a handsome silver inkstand, surmounted with the lamb bearing the cross and banner and the arms of the society, as also those of Mr. Anderson. The inscription is as follows :—" Jacobum Anderson Armigerum, Con •iliar : Regni : Thesaurarium Studentes Medii Templi Beneficiorum Memores. Hoc Dono Donaverunt A.D. 1861." THE ADDRESS. " We, the undersigned, students of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, avail ourselves of the opportunity presented by the expiration of your term of office as trea surer, to thank you for the many instances in which we have been indebted, in common with the rest of the mem bers of the Inn, to your solicitude for our interests and at tention to oar personal comforts. We desire likewise to express our appreciation of the dignified and munificent manner in which the character of our Inn was sustained on the occasion of the late ceremonial, the opening of the Library by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales—the complete success which attended that ceremonial we attri bute chiefly to your good taste and unremitting exertions. We feel that the sacrifice of no inconsiderable portion of your time to objects in which we have had so large a per sonal interest demands from us the expression of our warmest thanks ; and in tendering them we, by permission, offer to you the accompanying testimonial as a slight ma terial record of the occasion." Wm. Rodon Rennall, Esq., has succeeded the above-mentioned gentleman as treasurer of the Middle Temple. The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven arrived in town yesterday from Ashdown Park, Berks. Ihe Countess and the Ladies Craven leave to-day on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam at Gorham bury Park, Herts. His lordship remains in town. The failure is said to have occurred of the banking house of M. Dubois at Caen for a sum equal to about £50,000. THE GALE.—On her last trip, so severe was the weather, the Connaught mail steamer lost her hurricane forecastle, which was swept away by the sea. TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION AT CHESTER.— CnEsTER, Tuesday Morning.—The Queen Railway Hotel, a magnificent building opened last summer, has been to a great extent destroyed by fire. The catastrophe originated about five o'clock p.m. yesterday from an overheated flue in the kitchen. The Mayor, the magistrates, and the Militia were all quickly on the spot, with the Chester fire engines. There was just time to save the plate and a large part of the furniture. The building is partially insured in the London and Liverpool Fire-office. OPENING OF THE CLEVELAND RAILWAY.—On Saturday the new line of railway from the Tees to Skelton in Cleveland was opened for traffic. The line is connected with the North Yorkshire or Cleveland system of railways, and has been made to open out a rich agricultural district, and to develop° the great mineral resources of the bills lying along its course. We believe it is ultimately intended to carry the line to Skinningrove, a few miles beyond. POLISH NATIONALITY.—The committee recently appointed to arrange for a public meeting for the purpose •f expressing sympathy with the people of Poland ' , and protesting against the inhuman and brutal excesses •of the Russians, have arranged for the meeting to be held in the Whittington Club, on Friday next. Lord Ferntoy, M.P., will preside, and several members of Parliament and other gentlemen have promised to attend. The recent news from Warsaw iuxeste the procepcliage with great interest. The Opinione of to-day contains the following : —" In consequence of the military levy which has been ordered, the Italian army will consist, in future, of 90 regiments of infantry, seven brigades of bersaglieri, and 22 regiments of cavalry." MADRID, NOT. 25 (Evening). The Correvondencia 4utografi of to-day an nounces that Baron Tecco, the Sardinian Minister, has demanded his passports, and will leave Madrid were dissatisfied at having to lodge soldiers, and that he thought they had better give up a useless resistance and resign themselves to what was in. ovitable. Ho proposed the election of a new Mayor. His conclusions were adopted, and a new Mayor elected. An order was shortly afterwards received by telegraph to withdraw the soldiers." LATEST NEWS. TURIN, Nov. 26. to-morrow. The same journal says : " The Spanish Government consented to deliver up to the Italian Government those documents of the Neapolitan Archives which do not relate to po litical affairs, on condition that King Victor Em manuel withdrew his first Notes. "The Italian Government, on their side, demanded that Spain should withdraw the Notes in which she declared herself the legitimate repository of the Neapolitan Archives." THORN, Nov. 25. M. Vidal, President of the Committee for Public Worship at Warsaw, who was forbidden by Gene ral Suchosanet, former governor of Poland, to obey the orders of the Marquis Wielopolski, has been summoned by the Emperor to St. Petersburg, and placed at the Marquis Wielopolski's disposal. PESTH, No'►. 25. It is asserted that Count Apponyi has tendered his resignation as Jude' Curie, and will be replaced by Count Almassy. RAGUSA, Not. 25. In consequence of the defeat of the insurgents by the Turkish troops at Piva, the European consuls have proposed an armistice. Omar Pasha has received fresh reinforcements. GENEVA, Nov. 25. The election of members for the Council of State of the Canton of Geneva took place to-day. M. Fobbry was elected President by 4,673 votes against 2,912 obtained by M. James Fazy, the un successful candidate. BERNE, Nov. 25. The Federal Council has demanded satisfaction from the French Government for the fresh viola tion of Swiss territory by French gendarmes near Geneva. The following telegrams have been received at the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Nov. 25: " CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. " The Massilia, with the above mails, reached Malta at midnight on the 22d, and continued her voyage to Marseilles at four the next morning, " The Indus with the heavy portion of the mail, left Malta for Southampton at six p.m. on the 23d inst. " OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS. " The Valetta, from Marseilles on the 20th, left Malta for Alexandria at eleven p.m. on the 22d instant. " The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th inst., reached Malta on the 24th at two a.m. and left at nine a.m. for Alexandria. All well." THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 25. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation zi—dc-- L.q the heavy portion of the above mails. She brings £2,525 in specie, pearls to the value of 27,000 rupees, precious stones to the value of 7,000 rupees, 2,000 sacks of wheat, 700 barrels of dates, 789 packages of general cargo, and 40 pas sengers. The Mooltan experienced heavy easterly gales from Gibraltar and across the Bay of Biscay. The Delta left Gibraltar for Alexandria on the 18th inst. The ship Sebastopol, from London for New Zealand, has been spoken by the Vision, 22 days out. All well. At Gibraltar, on the 21st inst., exchange on London, 90 days' sight, was quoted 49i ; on Paris, 6,26; on Marseilles, 5.26 ; on Genoa, 5.28 ; on Madrid, : 1 „ discount. Freights unaltered. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 25.—As might have been ex pected from the removal of the turnstiles and the free admission to the Bourse now given to the public, the affluence of visitors was very great, but from the little impulse occasioned to business the great majority must have been attracted thither by curiosity. The market has been very firm, and shows an improvement on the closing rates of Saturday—Threes, for the Account, being now at 70f. 30c. The Railway Share Market has been also pretty firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents... 96 30 Credit Foncier l2lo' Do. end month.... 96 40 Belgian 41 99i 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 30 Roman Bank Shares 2960 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 785 Spanish Threes 49 50 Do. Account 787 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1345 .. 1347 50 Northern New ditto 912 50 .. 915 Lyons and Mediterranean 1032 50 .. 1035 Geneva 352 50 355 Southern 661 25 .. 662 50 Westeia Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 527 50 .. 528 75 AUSTRIA. Advices from Vienna, of the 22d, state that the Ministry has decided not to present the Budget to the Reichsrath until the Transylvanian question is settled. The Chamber of Deputies is discussing the bill relative to personal liberty. The first point under discussion was an amendment of M. Klaudi, pro posed last year, which reproduces the article of the fundamental rights,—" No man can be deprived of his natural judge. No exceptional tribunals can be created." The committee to whom the amendment was referred proposed to admit the first portion of the submitted article, but to reject the second. The conclusions of the committee have been adopted. On the above the Presse, of Vienna, observes— " We are sorry for it ; we regret that the ma jority, consisting chiefly of men of the Left, should have refused legally to object to the creation of ex ceptional tribunals, less on account of the question itself, but of the Chamber, upon the liberal senti ments of whioh to-day's vote will cast a shadow which will be publicly felt." A letter from Pestb, dated 22d inst,, says : " To-day the houses of all the functionaries and members of the municipal Commission were filled with soldiers, in virtue of an order from the Admi nistration of the Finance, and an announcement was made to the commune that, as long as the func tionaries themselves did not levy the taxes, and did not promise in writing to levy them in future, not only the functionaries but the communal represen tatives would have soldiers billeted upon them. An extraordinary sitting of the Municipal Council was held, and the Mayor, S: Mesco, tenderei his resigna tion. An eccleiaatic then declared that the people The Ost- Deutsche Post says:—" The news is confirmed that Prince de Schwarzenberg, President of tho Council of Administration of the Credit In stitution, has tendered his resignation." R oyAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. IS EVENING, THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND SOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Ryder (his 4th appearance in that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, 11. Widdicomb, &e. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. MR. SAM COWELL EVERY EVENING in his New Sono - , "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT " (written expressly for him). Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises all the principal favourites of the day, viz.: Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, " John Bull, you don't b am b oozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves) ; M r. Wood and his talented son, the best negro delineators; and Miss Harriet Coveney . Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, ed. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. T HE O X F ORD, 6, OXFORD -STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from "LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Boca nogra," and "Ernani," by Miss Russell and Miss Ernst; Messrs. Albert (his first appearance), Morley Grevilic, Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.— Balte's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enders- Bohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dal, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM CO WELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tiers DAY.—Morning, 7h. 38m.—Afternoon, Bh. 9m To-monßow.-Morning, Bh. 48m.—Afternoon, 9h. 23m GROWTH OF ABOLITION FEELING. A letter from America says :—As a proof of how rapidly men are being educated up to the point of abolishing slavery, I will say that on the 7th meeting was called to raise money for the relief of the North Carolina Union men: Among the speakers was George Bancroft, the historian. He read the original letter of General Jackson (when President), enclosing to his secretary of state, Ed ward Lovingstone, the original draft of the cele brated proclamation of 1832 against Carolina. This is it : " Dear Sir,—l submit the basis and conclusion of the proclamation for your amendment and revision. Lot it re ceive your best effort of language to strike at the heart and to speak to the feelings of my deluded countrymen of South Carolina. The Union must be preserved, without blood, if this be possible ; but it must be preserved at all hazards, and at any price.—Yours, with high regard, " ANDREW JACKSON. "Dec. 4, 1832-11 o'clock p.m." Mr. Bancroft went on :—"Now, can any new phan tom frighten us from the love of the Union ? If slavery and the Union be incompatible, listen to the words of Andrew Jackson that come to us from the tomb The Union must at all hazards be preserved.' " He had no sooner uttered this than a shout went up from the vast crowd that could have been heard a mile. Men cried, rose, and waved their hats. The females were equally excited. Everybody was wild about it. Could Pre sident Lincoln have been present, or our Secre tary of State, Mr. Seward, the next general ordered South to go with an army among the river and sea island cotton plantations would have had whis. pered in his ear, "Knock the shackles from the slaves wherever you go. I dare not write you to do it, but I will see you harmless if you do set them all free." What a wonderful change would come over the spirit of the war. It would be ended be fore this year is ! FORTIFICATION OF THE AMERICAN COAST. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, had replied as follows to Mr. Secretary Seward's circular re specting the necessity of fortifying the coast and lakes : " Pennsylvania Executive Chamber, Harrisburg, Nov. 2, 1861. " received a few days since an envelope, apparently from the Department of State at Wash ington, enclosing a slip from a newspaper, purport ing to be a copy of a letter from you to the Governor of New York. This mode of communicating advice by the Government of the United States to the State authorities is so unusual that I am perhaps not quite justified in assuming, as I do, that the communication is authentic. " I am glad to learn that the prospect of a distur bance of our amicable relations with foreign coun tries is now less serious than it has been at any period during the course of the insurrection. The duty of taking precautions against such disturbance is appropriate to the Government of the United States, and as, when the prospect was more serious, it ,was not thought fit to invite to the subject the attention of Congress, which had authority to make suitable provision, I do not understand how the fact that it is now less serious can afford a reason for calling on individual States, which have no such authority. " What Congress has done or omitted you, of course, must know, but it seems strange that gene ral appropriations for military purposes should render lawful the expense of fortifying Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and other places, and yet that the Government should falter under an apprehen sion of want of authority when the question is of fortifying seaboard and lake ports. "The regular Session of the Legislature of Penn sylvania, as you may be aware, will not commence until more than a month after the next meeting of Congress. When you assure me that the TIT LUI Uctllet VS 110 NV ItSS serious than it has been at any period since the insurrection began, I feel that your letter would not justify me in calling a special Session, and without action by the Legisla ture I have less authority to act than the Executive of the United States, since the subject itself is within the scope of the general Government, and is not within that of a State Government. "State Govei aments have recently (in conformity with the spirit of the constitutional provisions in regard to the militia) acted as agents of the general Governme4, and in raising volunteers for the general de ice, and in clothing, arming, equipping, and supplying them ; but even in this matter, not, it is believed, beyond their own people and territory. " Some of the points important for the maritime defence of Pennsylvania are situated in other States. It could not, of course, be expected that the autho rities of this commonwealth should go into New Jersey or Delaware to erect fortifications. "If they are to be erected by the concurrent action of the several States immediately concerned, an agreement among them would be necessary to determine what should be done, and what propor tion of the expense of doing it should be borne by each. " No such agreement could be lawfully made with out the action of the several State Legislatures, and the constitution expressly prohibits its being made at all without the assent of Congress. " To defray the expenses of the proposed fortifi cations the State must, of course, resort to loans. " The effect produced by the competition of a prin cipal with his own agents, has already been illus trated by the embarrassments attending that sys tem in the raising of volunteers, and in the procur ing of clothing and other supplies for them. " To throw several of the States on the money market in direct competition with the large loans necessary to be made by the general Government, especially under the discouraging influence which the publication of your letter may have on public credit, is an experiment which must lead to embar rassments similar in kind but probably even more injurious. " It is not doubted that provision for reimburse ment would be made by law, for Congress at its last session promptly passed an Act providing for the reimbursement of the expenses of the State in raising, &c., volunteers for the defence of the United States. "For that defence Pennsylvania has, in propor tion to her population, furnished a larger and more effective force, and at a greatly less expense than any other State, and her people are now freely con tributing their money to the loans of the United States. " Under the abovementioned Act of Congress, the Government of the United States, through its proper department, agreed to pay at once to the several States 40 per cent. of their expenditure, as stated by their respective authorities, but this pay ment has thus far been withheld from Pennsylvania for the reasons thus given—that she is so wealthy a State and has expended so little money in pro portion to the large material aid which she has furnished, that she can wait till a more convenient season ; in other words, that the economy of her Government and the liberality of her people afford grounds for refusing to her the prompt, though partial reimbursement which is made to other States, and which she would. seem to have deserved not less but rather more than they. "In regard to the final settlement of these ac counts, I observe that a communication has already been received (backed by a certificate of a person holding a high official position at Washington), setting forth the necessity that the agent for set tling them should possess an intimate knowledge of all the laws and precedents applicable to such cases to be found in the past history of the Govern ment, and adding that this knowledge, and proper consultations with the accounting officers, will be necessary to enable him to advise as to the best mode of making up and proving the accounts, many of which must otherwise be rejected by the ac counting officers. " These circumstances lead me to express the hope that the next provision by Congress for the reimbursement of the States may be so arranged that some faith may be reposed in the accounting departments of the several States, and that (at least in cases where the amount claimed is so small in comparison with the services rendered, and with what they would have cost the United States di rectly, as to exclude the possibility of extravagance or prodigality) the actual expenditure made by the States may be refunded to them without the neces sity of resettling and revouching the accounts under such formidable conditions, " On the whole, I suggest that the best mode of attaining the end which you propose would be for the general Government itself to immediately un dertake the fulfilment of its own duties in this re gard, in which it will proye, if neepagtry, the prompt, earnest, and zealous aid of the Government and people of this Commonwealth. "If, however, this course should not be assented to, then I have to say that Pennsylvania, in anY way that may be required, will give her last man and her last dollar to quell domestic t r eason or dri"e back foreign invasion, and will leave to a more quiet season the discussion and decisi o n of the vari ous questions that may arise from steps that have been taken during the existing crisis. "In case, therefore, the general Government should persist in the plan which you suggest, I beg that the President will, as you propose, forthwith send proper agents of that Government to Harris burg, to confer with me on the position and Ow ratter of the necessary fortifications, so that no delay may occur in adopting proper measures for their construction. " Very respectfully your obedient servant, " A. G. CURTIN. " Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C." 711 E CONFEDERATE STEAMER NASD VILLE. SOUTHA MPTON, MONDAY. An application of a somewhat novel character in connection with this case was made to the borough magistrates, sitting in petty sessions at the Guild hall, this morning. The magistrates on the bench were Captain Engledue (who acted as chairman in the absence of the Mayor, who had gone to London on public business), Colonel Stretton, Messrs. J• Lobb, E. Palk, and J. H. Cooksey. Captain Nei", son, of the late Harvey Birch, who was accompanie d by Mr. Pearcey, jun., of the firm of Oliverson, Lan e, and Pearcey, solicitors, of London, applied for search warrant, with the view of recovering fro t the Nashville steamer his chronometer, barometer, and ship's papers, which were taken on board tha: vessel at the time of the capture, and before his shli was set on fire. Previous to the formal application being made, Mr. Pearcey handed to the Chairman a letter from the Lord Mayor of London, stating, that a similar application had been made to biro at the NI ansion-house, but that he had thought it duty to pass the matter over to the authorities a' Southampton, at which port th e Nash v ille had called and still remained. His Lordship informed Captain Nelson that had the Nashville been lying, in any of the London docks he should have grantee' the application. Mr. Pearcey, for the captain, questioned the legality of the commission under which Captain Pegram, the commander of the Nashville, had acted. The Chairman said he had seen the commissitn which was that of a lieutenant in the navy, and 1 ' was quite correct. Mr. J. S. Eldridge, the magistrates' clerk, pointed out that a warrant could only be granted in a eas e where goods were supposed to be kept from felons' ous intent. The Chairman said the applicant knew very We l ! what the Nashville was when he hoisted the Fedora flag on board his ship. captain Nelson admitted this to be true. The Chairman said it was a recognised fact that an opponent had a right to take aßything he these under such circumstances as existed in this case' After a very brief conversation between the parties, the whole proceedings not occupying many minutes, the Chairman said that the magistrates were unani mously of opinion that the application could not be granted, and Capt. Nelson was referred to the Sec retary of State. Capt. Pegram returned from London this even' in g, accompanied by Mr. Yancey, one of the Southern Commissioners, and the latter gentleman returns 0 , London again to-morrow. Mr. Yancey states the" it has been intimated to him through a third POI that the Nashville is recognised by the British o °' vernment as a national vessel, and that sho will , v be allowed the right to refit and repair, as was tl' case with the James Adger, so as to exercise a Re r ' feet neutrality between the two contending p a rtie s ' We believe the necessary arrangements are mad: for the Nashville to go into graving dock on Wed nesday, in consequence of her having been ashore. A SHIP ON FIRE AT SEA.. A passenger on board the bark l'lmperatri ee Eugenie, writes :—While the bark l'lmperatri ee Eugenie, Captain Airth commander, was proceeding on her voyage from Port Natal, Cape of Ge ea Hope, to London, on the 21st inst., at midnight, in lat. 49 18 N., long. 9 24 W., with light wind fan" S.S.W., the officer of the watch perceived a peculiar, glare of light bearing S.S.E., which was surmis e ' to be a vessel on fire. Captain Airth, with a vie ( to render any assistance in his power, immediate l y hauled up to the wind, and proceeded in the dire& -r light. The surmise proved to by e o rreCt) and about three o'clock a.m. he came abreast of the burning ship, being about two mil es distant. A good look-out was kept both below and aloft, a lantern being also hoisted in the fore rigging, in addition to the usual ship's lights, as a guide to any persons who plig ht be afloat in boats or on any portion of the wrec k ' At this time the vessel had parted with all her masts and rigging, and was one mass of fire from stem t ° stern. We proceeded about five miles. Captain Airth then tacked and approached the wreck within less than a quarter of a mile. The ill-fated sh i i P presented a grand but fearful spectacle, r ising and falling with her head to the wind, with the swe ll of the ocean, her stanchions and large portion!, of unconsumed timber standing out in bold relic' against the glowing furnace within, she was now in places burnt to the waters edg e ' and had the appearance of a vessel of large size, but from the ravages made by the fire it would be impossible to arrive at any correct conclusion with regard to her actual tonnage. We here spoke the bark Lady Cecilia, bound for Cork, which OP sel had approached close to the weather side of th e burning ship, and, like ourselves, had seen nothing, whatever to indicate that any human lif e ex isted in the vicinity. Capt. Airth, finding that any further search would bo fruitless, bore away, nn cl , proceeded on his voyage ; the wind freshened, an d in about two hours we lost sight of the wreck. The night was beautifully moonlight and the wate r smooth, and as the ship on fire was in the regn" lar channel track, there can be but little doubt that all those on board had been taken off by some passing vessel. She had apparently been o n fire some 8 or 10 hours. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cate' bridge and the Princess Maly arrived in town yesterdo from Brighton. Tho Earl of Daley arrived at his mansion il l Park-lane on Saturday from a tour on the Continent. ----- The Earl Howe left Curzon House yesterday t ° join his family at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire. Lord and Lady Rendlesham have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Rendlesham Hall, Woodbridg e ' Suffolk. Lord and Lady Clarence Paget have left town for their seat in Anglesea. Lord and Lady William Osborne leave Hill-street to-day on a tour of visits. Lady Dufferin has left town for her villa resi dence at Highgate. The Right Hon. Sir Edmund Head, Lady Head, and the Misses Head have left Farrance's Hotel for Tid marsh House, Reading. Rear-Admiral Charles Eden has arrived at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, on an °facial visit to the Ports.' mouth dockyard. Mr. R. Peel has arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Brighton. RESIGNATION OF MR. JUSTICE HILL.--Owng to the impaired state of his health, this distinguished judge has deemed it expedient to resigneis seat in the Court of Queen's Bench. COMMANDER PEGRAM, CONFEDERATE NAVY.--" Commander Pegram, of the Confederate war steamer Nash ville, was chief officer of the United States steamer PoW hattan in 1855, and rendered valuable service to the British fleet in the Chinese waters in capturing pirates. Sir Jolla Stirling, in his despatches to the Admiralty, makes the fol lowing mention of him :—( 6 It is impossible to speak too highly of the American co-operating party engaged. TheY were with the Rattler, emulating each other in the thickest of the attack. But my warmest thanks in particular are due to Lieutenant Pegram, the American senior officer; his encouragement of the men, and coolness under a heavy fire, and determined bravery, when surrounded bya persevering and revengeful foe, was conspicuous to all." Some more shippingdisasters have been announced from the Baltic. The Hobe, screw steamer, of Hull, has been wrecked off Gothland, the loss by the ship and cargo being estimated at £50,000. The Era, steamer, was stranded on the Faro reef, but after throwing overboard part of her cargo got into Gothenburg. The Deptford, screw steamer, had also been stranded, and got off, but sunk after entering Pillau harbour. The tenders for £200,000 Cape Government Si% per Cent. Debentures were opened yesterday at the office of the Agents• General for Crown Colonies, when it appeared that, out of an aggregate of £885,000 applied for, £ll,O OO only was at and above the minimum of 1071. The highest offer was at 1074 and the lowest 100. The commissione ro will receive applications for the unallotted portion of the 10411 at it. I