The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-06 00:00:00

TRIBAL AMERICA'S TRADE-PLANTA TIONS, WITH ENGLAND'S WILL *TRUSTEES, BY RETRO-LONGITUDE 132 YR'S ACT 4-5 vie. C. 39, §4, so, 5.0 *INN-Jet-813mi ' Lag= rota' ouT-Flot-semi f*c3 N. Wall ' murem 24 March-kt ) -29 Sept. Errant'm financial Treasury-date of Twe-x-ed Fishery-park Law-sets. Caltimsolm-Sachims and Merchants.—For commercial quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the • placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of his debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aiding such evil intentioned person to be * amenable to the ' right of search' law. (Signed) .• • R. ANGELO, J. SOUTHWORTII, Cl. of Synod, J. GItOWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28,1701,—Re-modelled, 1838. Sachims—The last Illustrated London Netos, No. 1,119, page 538, gives us, Clarendon's caelinei, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arm*rial /word +-. scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the tench, on resolution' of its two councils' on Middletone's fops ' Fodinze -regales,' as of Jame L's 72-0 New River shares, in London's-1-plug -key company of Philadelphia, under England's Indian allies, as attested by De'can' Henry Wotton and Montague—so CAR. 11. ' Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indian responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were turned over by commit tee of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, No. 4421, for the Far West peculiar institution), with the undersigned ¢ Lay-Go'cone's as their patrons and advocates. _ _ _ _ _ _ See Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London (and Philaaelphia 4422), Convention by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. 11, as successor to the 99 years' leases (12 to run), under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Sae= Jos. Brant, on the suggestion of old John Adams—whose grandson is now in London—and approved at Philadelphia's Longbro Crt., Gloster, '75 by Atkyns Montague ¢ Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & Co's, Goldfmith's N. River proprietary) Steggles 'plug.' Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Florida-semieles and Georgil Cherokee Indians of the coast, and of Ohio, one thousand miles west of the Mis sissippia, lodge-poised-North and South of Mount Plea sant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters, to pre vent their black cattle mixing with the virgin races Hence the Shire-court foundation, on French and British. 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P . 'Basket,' the living representative of the Ashburton boundary com mission, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn-in successor as sponsor of Ind. lady 1820—for Act of 1843's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of the Texas-hundred' partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of the Trent council, for swamping by votes thro' the Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana.'] in Czena'rs. Jr. re Trent—The arrest of Messrs. Slidell, Mason, and others, as ' contra-band illegal persons,' you perceive, is just for mercantile quiet, on this case the below codiciled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats for motives of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the bronze'd+PENN-statue Society of Friends. Sac'homo's and Sachims. Ken I by Acts of 1818 ('24-32 still pending), § 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 forbid from notic ing Raced-proclamation's as headed in the Times 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 peace on their soil. By " this" and reasons as follows : " Command old words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and bravo Raleigh spake." ' _ 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water limits (the Flag Union Jaccto of the creases on 3 James I. is a Christian Zollverem trading flag x x and not a belligerent by the Ordnance issue of Jan. 31 1842, from the Tower), the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on board the Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white bordermarginal to it—the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the word England from the 1782 court Christian sea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union courts of B-gal law of 1521, and under 1761 trust, which has been decided in the Angl'lot-span'sh Texas Crts. inad missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in corporated St. Denis, under the words "except France" in March 3, 1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of Melchisidek on a moving earth error' with it] the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgium treaties of 1828-30 of sectarian illegality. 3, The Papal assumption of Sir W. Gore Onseley in collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Walker succession in Central America, for the Bamberg Sigismund life tenure 1047 assumption of PERT Savoy), for the seizing of Mexico from England's allies, caused his papist envoy, Capt. Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests wolves men :—' as manifest by late Morocco, 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 AIoNRoB doctrine, Las 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' elect of Nor-West Russia-P6land's Aurman of the cent sears Dutch Loan Act of 1832, unconnected with religion. Fourthly. The Lie-ratification of 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— whity-ooloured persons being interdicted from voice in this peculiar Az'fmithson'an institution' of March and April, 1836, on (Gladstone's) comtee. of H. C. The fore g oing Chain proves to ye', Sachims Indians, aliens, and 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 electionof paid laymen —as well as 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 well •intention of the whites and the evident decay of human nature, by the theft of the 1730 Indian nationalities on my life], by a brother and sisterly love for the future, under the law of England, as now disconnected with (t-Pope, 8-Churches, or t-water sects hitherto under minister's money) the dread' state. PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medard-sack 9 mo, Nephew II (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775—Saemo Peter Toma Brant, 1825-£lO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe. L.s. 11.7's— §C. H. ACXERLEY, P.C.,—sworn in, —C. J., Empyrate commissien of Review, 1825-37, L.S. Hen. B's Executors 4 WOYTON' LYON BOWES, P.C. Dec. 6—London. See The sun, Nov. 16, 1861. ROYAL ENGLISH OPER,A, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees, THIS' EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa P.yne, Miss Susan Pyne; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Finney, Patey, Lyall, Wallworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. H. Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, _ _ Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for bot-kinF, , , or fees to Box-keepers. Sta4e-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr. 141-s ird Murray. irti.EATE. , ..S..a.OYAL 4, HA YMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING, FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dungreary, Mr. S3thern. Mr. Buekstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, ,te. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sothcran, Miss Oliver, &c. To con ludo with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence a• 7 11) . 0YAL LYCEUM THEATRE Manaaer—Mr. Edmund Falconer. I k. Tif , s' EVENING - , the ncrtormAnoca will commence with THE DAY AFTPiIt THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. Alter which, at a quarter to Eight Nth time) the new And original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles B. iby, Falconer ; Mrs. D. I'. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting llanager—Mr. P. B. Chqtterton. Prizes as tßual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence a 7 llox-ofnce open daily from 11 till 5. 1 . 10 Y A.L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lowe and I‘Tantvrer, Mr. A. Harris. lIIS ETFININ(I, .TE NNE UTE'S WEDDINgr. Mhs M. If at riA and Mr. 11. Widdicomb. A I Is.:1• which, at Elzht o'clock Shakespe re's tragedy of Othello,. Mr ' , Fcchtenr with ew scenery: dresses, and appointment. -. 1 Sole Prooriotor and Mana ger , i' wORSETIREAK ER. THIS EVENING, T FIE - p itra ,... tr. B. Webster. , 001,T., , -ar. 3 r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, a nc i 00TOROON ; After which, the new drama, entitled T s g m i, or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; written b the Winter- 1 Collfon Hawn." Mr. George Ja.msoT i , I,?,,author of "The gar den , New York ; Miss Latimer, from the-praro tree ; and Miss Penvil, from the Lyceum. Th v o i ,, nr thea cipal characters in the drama will he performed i.;ylVlprin- Emery, Stephenson Billington, Paul Bedford, ito , aer cs 3l7 . Piltirr , ton, Mrs. Marqton, &c., &C. Entirely new se-nn . -s' -ry by Tessrs. Dalby and Thompson. To conlltrie with DO3IE3TIC ECONOMY. Mr. Tool', .aliss K. Kelly, &c. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office. open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. C INTERBURY HALL CONC ERTS, AND FINE A! T 3 GALLERY. MR. SAM COWELL at Eletven o'clock in s everal favou rite Souris, including "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT." Grand Selections from STJADELLA and LA TaAVIATA, Alias Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli. with a powerful Chorus. Tho Comic department —Mr. Sam Cowell ; Arr. Ararshall, in his new sonz, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. 11;irvey and French (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and his talented son, the best negro de7ineators of the day; and Hiss Ilarrict Coveney . Musical Director, Mr. Jongthmans. Admission—Ball, 81; Stans and Balcony, is. T H E 0 X F 0 It P, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. 14. elections from "L k CIP C SS IFTVF " «Simon Bonen mAsr, a :k 4 _" Email'," by Miss Russell and Miss Ernst ; Full (his first appearance), Morley Greville, &c. Balte's Mr. F. Jonglimans. „ tin ( compo , ca bv , 'Miss Russell and Madame F. 3 ders- Entertainments b;Tizyritaor theta). And Varied Comic Harvey and Frcncii (7 1" (I.3v 'neY, Messrs. W. Ran re CO WELL. Hall, 6,1 ; u al e e -N,erves), 1 1. 51.9rshall, and olli and Stalls, is ;Private BOX.CS, 10S. Cd. NEW R OYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with THE GOVERSOR'S WIFE. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear 1.11 CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. After which, BAMBOOZLING. To conclude with LES PIERROTS. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 3 THis DAY.—Morning, 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, , sh. sm. To-MORROW. -Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 50m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 6, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41—Mghest:sinee noon yesterday. 32—lowest this morning and during the night. 42—this day at noon. Bauomarrzit-29.58. WIND -- South-Easterly ; light, with dirty, rainy weather. .e. r,„ . . , THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1861. We do not wish our manufaeturers to lose the chance of a good sale for their productions, or our merchants a like chance for their imports, but they will, in common with the rest of their fellow countrymen, feel that the orders just issued by her MAJESTY are right. We cannot be quite sure of the object of the Federal Government in purchasing almost every cwt. of saltpetre to be found in Eng land, but it was at least so unusual a course that we were bound to notice it. It is quite certain that they could not need at once three thousand tons of the material which constitutes the explosive strength of gunpowder. It is also certain that they could have purchased all they wanted in South America without sweeping the English warehouses of the article; why, therefore, do so ? Had India been the only source of supply it would have been somewhat less remarkable that they should endea vour to make sure of the all-important article of war in time—bat what, just now, was the urgency ? Were they afraid of Southern purchasers ? It is possible that as the South is so nearly destitute of shipping, it could not easily manage to get salt petre from Chili and Peru, or from India. The probability is indeed that the orders of the South would come for manufactured gunpowder, their means of making it themselves being, we believe, almost none. The result would, however, be the same, as Southern orders for gunpowder could not be executed if the saltpetre were not in this country. It is, therefore, just possible that they might desire to destroy the purchase market for the South. Against this must be set the fact that we are not the only European country in which the South could purchase salt• petre or gunpowder. Was it, then, a project to strip us of this essen tial of war. It cannot be denied that some things look too much like it. A parallel effort has been made to purchase all the small arms possible, with the ammunition and so forth appropriate to them ; this might be better explained from the evident difficulty of equipping the vast number of men which the North appears to think the chief thing in an army ; and as their principal manufactory at Harpex's Ferry was early offered as a sacrifice to the manes of JOHN BROWN, of Ossowatomie, we may sup pose the difficulty of providing small arms must be very great. Still the number ordered of these, by the agent who came out by the Persia—and who lackily was not taken out of her by the Nashville or the Sumpter—is so great, that the first aspect of the orders is not quite pleasant. We can hardly connect these orders with the insult to the Trent, as they must have been given before that occurred. Yet in one aspect this looks wen less pleasant, since if it was thought requisite to denude us of war material before that outrage, it affords a rather dark indication of the feeling at work in the North, previously to that act. In any case it will be agreed that the Government has done but an obvious duty in issuing the two proclamations. We do not necessarily obstruct the Federal agents in any honest purpose. Saltpetre they can obtain ' from the country whence we obtained a large part ' of ours ; small arms are made for sale to all buyers in Belgium, and France can supply them if she has no objection ; but possibly after the manner in which this same San Jacinto has treated the Jules et Marie, our susceptible neighbours may be as little disposed as we are to furnish the means of offence to such troublesome and uncertain neigh ' bourn. It seems, however, only as neutrals, the fairest course to prohibit the export of arms in any case in which the Custom-house authorities cannot be fully satisfied that they are in no way to reach either of the belligerents. Our readers will remember that Lord STANLEY and the Right Hon. BEN. DISRAELI took about opposite views of the old, but it seems ever new cry that " the Church is ia danger." To the best of our recollection it was in danger when we were of the ago to hear fathers and uncles read the newspapers by the fireside, and when we were much more troubled by the silence imposed in con sequence. Even since that time danger ! has been every now and then the cry—of course, it was in danger in the days of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and PETERLOO the Reform Bill endangered the Church and everything else which frightened old Tories ; Catholic Emancipation was an awful shock yet the Church survived it, so it did the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, and numberless other dangers which in their time made ecclesiastics and their hangers on call out most lustily. We really do not wonder that Lord STANLEY should be disposed to be as humorous as his temperament permits him to be, over the present cry of " Church in Danger." To be sure, Mr. DISRAELI and others tell us that the danger was only apparent before, but that it is real now; but so the danger present for the time was alwas a real one, though past terrors had proved quite groundless. But the other day another writer came forward in our contemporary the Daily News, and confirmed Mr. DISRAELI'S view, and disputed that of Lard STANLEY. He is a man, too, entitled to be heard —Professor GOLDWIN Smull, of Oxford. The Professor holds that the Church is in a different kind of danger from any which ever assailed her before. The greatest, perhaps, is her hopeless in ternal divisions. " Lord STANLEY admits," he says, " by implica tion that the continued security of the establishment depends upon tha possibility of restoring peace, or at least some semblance of peace, between tho two hostile parties—the might have said, with a nearer approach to truth, the ten hostile parties—within its divided pale. But, let M 3 ask him, on what does his exyectation of restoring peace between these parties rest? Ile evidently regards the opinions of both with statesmanlike indifference, as the vagaries of angry insects' over which J , e would like, in the ' -vI V FRIDAY EVENING, DEOMINIBER, 6, 1861. THE SUN, FLONDoI.„ interest of political tranquillity, ' to sprinkle a little dust.' But does he think it likely that they will be induced to regard their own opinions with indifference, and to sacrifice them, as things of secondary value, on the altar of political conve nience ? What object can be held out to the mass of men constituting these several parties, for the sake of which they could consent to renounce what they believe to be religious truth? Statesmen, in spite of their knowledge of the world, or perhaps, I should rather say, because of their knowledge of the world, are apt to overlook or underrate the force of the simple motives which actuate common men. Yet these motives, and not any subtler con siderations, ultimately determine the course of the world." Professor SMITH gives the following graphic picture of the division of his church :—" There is now, besides the High Church party and the Evangelicals, with their various subdivisions, the third party of liberals or broad churchmen, who are, at bottom, against all authoritative creeds, and, by necessary consequence, against all esta blishments. This party is at present trying the expedient, which the Romanizing party tried not long ago, of straining the formularies by non-natural interpretations: But before long, I apprehend, they, like the ablest and most honest members of the Romanising party, will find out to what con clusion their opinions really lead; and instead of labouring ley curious interpretations and question able theories of compliance to make loopholes for the less scrupulous, they will join in the nobler effort to throw wide the portals of truth for all " Of their temper towards each other he thus writes :—" The cause of their mutual fury is to be found in their unnatural union. They are like two dogs coupled together against their will, wrenching and tugging each other because they want to go different ways. Cast off the coupling ; set them free to go each which way he will, and they will go on their different ways in peace• Nay, they will then probably soon meet again in amity, if not in agree ment, which now, while they are yoked together in a state of daily strife, becomes more hopeless every day.' The Professor does not, however, think the in ternal danger the only one. He thinks that the nation having embraced the doctrine of protection in regard to commerce, is prepared to embrace it in regard to religion also, and to prefer the principles of " For I free trade in one as well as in the other. am convinced," he says, " that the English nation is now being urged by necessity, and is at the same time mustering courage to advance towards that perfect religious freedom which it has been so industriously taught to dread as the extinction of religion." And again—" It is true that on this, as on some other:subjects, Englishmen have been sedulously and too successfully trained to believe that if they fairly embrace rea son, and discard what is irrational, they will fall into some terrible and immeasurable abyss. But in the case of free trade they have fathomed this abyss; and perhaps they will now shrink less from fathoming it in the case of free thought. Another great danger, Mr. SMITE says, " is the desertion of the Church by the higher order of intellects. " But lot Lord STANLEY and other ecclesiastical quietists mark this. Bishop after bishop, clerical journal after clerical journal, com plaints with perfect truth, that men of intellect are ceasing to present themselves as candidates for orders. The reason is pretty obvious. It is not that the spiritual profession has ceased to have attractions for highly gifted and highly cultivated minds, but that such minds, when combined with sensitive consciences, refuse to bind themselves to a mass of heterogenous Tudor dogmas, which, after the discussions we have had on the subject, no human being can believe to be even self-consistent, much less to be absolute and final truth. The con sequence is a gradual deterioration in the intellect 1 of the clergy, the established guides and instructors of the people, which cannot fail to produce a `corresponding effect on those under their influence, and to render their agency in the long run injurious rather than beneficial to civilization. I (need ;hardly say to what sources of power a clergy, which has lost its claims to intellectual allegiance, is usually driven to resort." But surely a pretty pass indeed things must be come to when, of the Right Rev. Fathers, an Oxford professor can write thus :—" Who are your state bishops ? Are they, or is it possible that they should be, the honest, fearless leaders of religious thought, the real spiritual flowers of the nation? Are not such men more likely to be prosecuted for heresy than to be made Ibishops ? Is not the first qualification of a state bishop caution, the twin sister of cunning? And what effect upon the religious character do you expeat from a system which makes caution and cunning cardinal virtues, and fearless honesty a disqualification, not to say a crime ?" Lord STANLEY himself, though he thinks the English Church, if it will but keep the peace with itself, will last his time, suggests that the Irish and Scotch establishments cannot last long. Of course the professor thinks so too, but he adds, "When they are gone, does Lord STANLEY think that the people of England will consent to remain alone deprived of religious freedom, in a perpetual state of intel lectual non-age, and hopeless wards of a beneficent ' state ?' What will our distinguished ally say to the following—" Lord STANLEY points to the revival of the French establishment after its destruction at the Revolution as a proof of the vitality of established churches. The reply is simple. The revival of the French establishment by BONAPARTE was not the expression of a religious feeling such as religious institutions must ultimately rest on in a country like ours. It was the most perfect expression of the political atheism of which the two BONA PARTES have been the worthy chiefs." The professsor seems to think that all State establishments are likely to receive a fatal shock from the fall of Papacy. " This is not merely an English question. The English establishment is a relic of that great Euro pean establishment of the Middle Ages of which the Papacy was the centre and the life. The Papacy now rests only on French bayonets, and we know METTERNICH'S saying about bayonets as a permanent support. If the fall of the Papacy does not shake the whole system of establish ments in Europe, the sympathetic connection between the derivative institutions and that from which they are derived must have been more completely cut off than is commonly the case. Depend upon it, too, that as the end of the Pa pacy comes in view, the hope and the desire of reunion are beginning to show themselves at widely distant points of divided Christendom, If that hope and that desire grow, they must sweep State establishments r b o i u d t of h d j.ng, t a e s i r t h path. eg For t:Se under p t e ta a i e n s o ejection, any departure from the established dogma. or approximation to the opinions of other churches are standing organizations of hopeles sschism." We make no comments. Our readers have now had the opinions of three eminent public men, and their sum is this:—" The Church in danger, there fore unite," says Mr. DISRAELI. "The English Church is in no danger, but then she must not quarrel, or she may be," says Lord STANLEY. "The Church of England will quarrel implacably, I .nct to un-proteeted and free " m ^- 1' says the and the nation is tem..... religion, therefore the Church muss g-, Oxford Professor. Another of those admirably useful and carefully elaborated treatises in regard to French Commerce, recently contributed to Bentley month after month by Mr. FREDERICK MARSHALL, appears in the current number," the December number (CCC.) of that popular miscellany. The present instalment (the ixth) of this very able series relating to the Trade and Population of France, acquaints us with all we could reasonably want to know at a single sitting, in respect to the silk growth and the silk manufacture of our Imperial neighbour. At all times a matter of interest to us. At the present moment a matter of real and serious importance. Now, that is to say, that:the silk growth of the:two countries may be—now that the silk manufactures of these two great industrial nations are certain to be—brought, year after year, more and more directly into competition. How ?—it can scarcely be asked seriously, every one instinctively appreciat ing, of course, that reference is here made to the ine vitable influences to this end arising out of the operation of Mr. COBDEN'S Reciprocity Treaty. Often though we have had occasion before now to write the words, we can still never do so without a renewed sense of their astounding incongruity— Mr, COBDEN'S Reciprocity Treaty, forsooth ! fifteen years after the triumph achieved by Free Trade Principles, thanks beyond aR ether human means to Mr. COBDEN'S own unadorned eloquence. Re ciprocity Treaties, we might thenceforth have been led to suppose pretty confidently, were part and parcel of a system of mercantile legislation that had seen its day—a system that thenceforth, from the date of Sir R. PEEL'S great measure, would neces sarily, it was thought, altogether, in legal phrase, cease and determine." An erroneous conjecture, as events have proved—seeing that Mr. COBDEN himself, of all men, has been the one deli berately to revive, as a sort of new fangled device, the old, used-up scheme of a Reciprocity Treaty. However—'tis the small end of the wedge, we are told ; and so—we must make the best of it. Accepting it as the small end of the wedge, in effect—all we have now to do in its regard is to aid in driving it imperceptibly but steadily further " home." Until the old gnarled obstruction of French mercantile Monopoly shall, in the natural course of things, be riven asunder, and Free Trade inaugurated upon the opposite shores of the Channel, as firmly and impartially as upon these. Then, adieu to all further reci procity between us about the export or import, as the case may be, of coal, or iron, or wine, or silk, or calico ! A Reciprocity Treaty, however, as it is, we have. And, therefore, it becomes a matter of interest for us to examine as carefully as may be, now in the midst of our earlier experiences of the operation of that treaty, into the relative position of the trade of the two countries, France and England, in regard to anyone of the more important and valuable materials for exportation or importation. Hance, the pecu liar satisfaction with which we have turned to the investigation of the very curious and remarkable statistics accumulated by Mr. MARSHALL with a view to the throwing of a broad flood of light upon the silk trade of France. These statistics, we would here earnestly commend to the scrutiny of those amongst us who are likely to be more imme diately affected by the prospect of our own silk trade being brought into more intimate competition with the silk trade of our neighbours. At the first blush it would seem almost preposte rous to talk about the probabilities of any such serious competition between France and England —remembering the fact that France, according to the last reliable estimate that has been formed upon the subject now under our consideration, produced as nearly as possible one-tenth of all the silk grown in the whole world. The estimate here referred to is the one authoritatively put forth by M. DUM As in March, 1857, in the Bulletin de la Societe d'En couragement (p. 151), an estimate showing the value of the cocoons grown is 1853 in all parts of the globe. It is as follows : France .. • • .. £4,344,000 Italy .. • • • . 11,260,000 Spain, and other European countries .. .. 934,000 Total for Europe £16,588,000 China .. £17,000,000 India .. 4,830,060 Japan .• • . 3,200,000 Persia .. • . .. 920,000 Other Asiatic states .. 2,192,000 Total for Asia .. £2B, 112,000 Africa .. • • • • .. • . 44,000 Tho Pacific Islands .. .. 24,000 America,. . • , 20,000 General total .. .. £44,788,000 But while such is the important position held by France in respect to the silk growth of the whole world—there is another branch of the trade in which England already holds a respectable posi- tion beside her, one in fact in which England gives promise of holding a still more respectable position as time advances. Let a brief but sufficient excerpt or two from Mr. MARSHALL'S argument in Bent ley here illustrate this for our reader's information : —" The silk trade of France," says Mr. MARSHALL, "is, of course, more important than that of Eng land; but it is remarkable to observe that, as far as the insufficient nature of the information which exists on the subject allows of a detailed compari son between the production of the two countries, England is progressing more rapidly than France." The writer then goes on to demonstrate, by the juxtaposition of actual figures, the literal accu racy of this last rather startling assertion. And he does so in the manner following : " The importation of raw and thrown silk into England amounted in 1860 to 4197 tons; it had just doubled since 1846; 191 tons of thrown silk were re-exported, so that the quantity apparently loft for manufacture was 4003 tons. The importation of the same raw material into France in the same year was 5278 tons ; there is no mention of re .expor tation in the customs returns, so the whole quantity may be supposed to have been worked up in the country. The production of cocoons in 1860 was probably about one-third higher than in 1856; it may, therefore, be put at 10,000 tons, which, at the average yield of 14 per cent. (it varies from 10 to 18 per cent., ac cording to the quality of the cc coons),lwould have given 1,400 tons of raw silk. So that the total weight manufactured in France last year was probably, about 6678 tons, or two-thirds more than tip:. English quan tity. In 1846 the yield of French grown raw silk was about 2,800 tons, while the importation amounted to 1,200 tons ; the total for that year was, therefore, about 4,000 tons. As it reached 6,673 tons in 1830, the trade had increased two thirds in tho interval. It has just been shown that the English make has doubled in the same period ; it Coilse quently appears that the grog' ess of England is now more rapid than that of France." Any one who may be desirous of examining yet more minutely into the relative position of the silk trade in the two countries, but more particularly into the condition, past and present, of the silk trade of France, :cannot possibly do better than refer at once to the mass of information upon the subject accumulated together in the paper here particularised as from the hand of this labori ous and luminous comp:ler. It will place every one who consults it au courant with the history and the statistics of the science of the cultivation of silk worms, a science distinguished in France under the imposing name of Orieieulture. CANTERBURY BALL Our agricultural friends, who annually visit the metro - 4 n eit in judgment upon the most useful portion of the - , lllnext week, after the critical labours of '^ et entertainments inviting their -nerior attractions, as a pleasing polls „,. animal creation, ~ the day, find hosts of even', attention. If the music hall offers se, no donbt it will, to the majority, we feel it to _ task to remind the visitor to London that the Canterbui, Hall and its splendid Fine Arts Gallery present a fund of amusement which is not to be found in the collective dis plays of any other music hall. It will be seen that we allude to the double attraction of the Music Hall and Pic ture Gallery. The Canterbury Hall also enjoys the advan tage of a noble ante-hall, which gives elbow-room to the visitor, and affords easy access from the Concert Room to the Picture Gallery. There is an air of quiet grandeur about this building, derived from its gigantic proportions and unostentatious style of decoration, s hich is not attained by others. The salle, comprising Picture Gallery and Ante-Hall, offers a grand promenade for the fairer portion of the visitors, and " fashion" need not circumscribe itself to ensure an undisputed march about the interior. So much for characteristics eminently distinguishing this hall from its competitors, which have made its triumphant success their starting point in a similar career. The musical atttractions for the " Cattle Show week" will not be found without special interest. Should we be offending our provincial friends, if we suggested that a good " laugh" would be the most welcome excitement after the profound labours of the day.? Food for laughter, then, there is in abundance. The sway of Mr. Sam Cowell over the visible muscles is as potent, but genial, as ever. " Tbis is the House that Jack Built," is a song founded:on the nursery legend, and " Sam" traces the incidents of the story, to which a modern application is given with the most ludicrous effect. Each actor on Sam's magic can vass—from the " malt," to the " cock that crow'd in the morn," is invested with some astounding attribute, which would have made our infancy tremble. The joke about the aqueous liquid given forth by the London representative of the " cow with the crumpled horn," will be accepted by our country cousins rather as a playful satire upon the weakness of the metropolitan milkman than a reflection upon the purity of our Alderneys. Mr. Cowell has a budget of old and new songs. Of the old ones we incline to the time-honoured " Lord Lovell," for the novel and masterly character of the make-up. There is a song sung by another clever comedian, which is pecu liarly apt at this moment. " They Don't Bamboozle Me," (a song for " John Bull" personified by Mr. Marshall) suggests the difficulty, as in" The Young Man from the Country," of " getting over" one of our countrymen. " John Bull's" complacent chuckle now applies with equal force to Brother Jonathan as to the " Mounseers." Messrs. Harvey and French are unique in the indescribably ludi crous and vocally accompanied dances. In the Ethio pian department, Master Wood bandies equivoque and solves riddles with alarming precocity, and dances with all the finish and more than the agility of the famous " Joe Brown" of America and Can • terbury Hall fame. Miss Harriet Coveney sings some "sensation" songs and ditties a la Mrs. German Reed, with fascinating effect, and combines with many of these efforts some very piquant and graceful dancing. We have left to the last our mention of the operatic selections, which are the most conspicuous features of the whole entertainment. Flotow's " Stradella," and Verdi's "La Traviata" have furnished the facile Mr. Jonghmans with material for two striking selections, in which those accomplished artists, Miss Ernst, Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, supportedby a powerful chorus (made up of excellent solo singers) take part. The completeness attained in these selections has long been a theme of admiration, to which it will be merely necessary to advert, even while addressing such occasional visitors as will appear in London during the next busy week. ' -~, The Earl of Sefton has left town, on a visit to ,he Countess of Craven, at Ashdowne Palk, Berks. DEATH OF LADY CANNING.—We deeply regret to announce that intelligence was yesterday received at the India-office, by telegraph, of the death of the Countess Canning, wife of the Governor-General of India. The lamented lady expired on the 18th ult. at Calcutta. The late Lady Canning was the eldest daughter of the late Lord Stuart de Rothesay, G.C.8., and Lady Elizabeth Margaret, third daughter of Philip, third Earl of Hard wicke, and was born in 1817. She married September 5, 1835, Earl Can ning, then the lion. C. J. Canning, the only son of the well-known statesman. Her ladyship was for many years Lady in Waiting to the Queen, and was deservedly much esteemed at Court. The late Countess was sister of Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford. DEATH OF HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL AT CAIRO.— We have to record the death of Mr. Fredk. Henry Crowe, recently appointed to be her Majesty's Consul at Cairo, which occurred at his father's house, near Devizes, on the 2d instant, after a fortnight's illness, at the early age of 34 years. The deceased was acting Vice-Consul at Tripoli in 1846 and 1817, and at Bengazi in 1848. He was promoted to the rank of Vice-Consul on Jan. 27, 1855, af.erwards appointed to Susa, and in Dec., 1856, transferred to Bengazi, Tripoli. REINFORCEMENTS FOR CANADA.—The Cue and steamship Australasian, which was to have taken the American mails of Saturday next, has been chartered by the Government for conveyance of reinforcements to Canada. Her place will bo supplied by the America. The Cunard steamers chartered by the Govern ment as transports are the Australasian and the Persia, both to convey troops to Halifax. The Australasian is a powerful screw steamer of 2,700 tons. _ _ _ At Lloyd's yesterday not much business was done, but the tendency is towards higher premiums for war risks. The rates at present usually charged are about 15s. per cent. for outward ships to the East, and about 20s. for those coming home. THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The weekly meeting of the executive committee of this society was held at the office, 5, auildhall -chambers, on Tuesday last, Mr. F. Clowes in the chair. Mr.Whitehurst, Mr. Elt, Rev.W. 11. Bonner, Mr. Mann, Mr. Le Maitre, Mr. B. T. Williams, &c., were present. Various subscriptions were reported. Mr. Thos. Yates, of Warrington, was elected a member of the council. The approaching election for Birkenhead underwent careful consideration at the hands of the committee, with reference to the desirableness of bringing forward a candidate for this newly created borough, Mr. Brassey, the soi-disant Liberal candidate, not being favourable to the protection of the voter by the ballot. THE FINSBURY REPRESENTATION.—Mr. Mills met the electors of the western district of the borough last evening at the Music-hall, Store-street, Bedford-square. The meeting was very fully attended, and the hon. candi date experienced a most favourable reception. His address was precisely of the same nature as those previously deli vered, and at its close, having answered several questions satisfactorily, a resolution pledging the support of the meet ing was adopted. Mr. Cox's address is expected to appear to-morrow or Monday. In the meantime a strong com mittee in his behalf has been formed, the head-quarters of which are at the Ma ]clesfield Arms, City-road. THE EXPORT OF MILITARY STORES.—BIRMING i/AM, Dec. s.—The Queen's Proclamation prohibiting the export of arms, ammunition, ph-reussion caps, &c., has pro duced a sort of convulsion here. As to the gun trade, there are large offers on hand, in which all the principal makers are participating. There are a great many guns ready for shipment, and many more approaching completion. The manufacture will at once be stopped, and a heavy loss will accrue to the trade, particularly to a large number of work men who have become little masters during the late excite ment created by the American demand. Persons so situated will be left with a considerable quantity of unfinished work on hand, upon which extravagant wages have been paid. The legitimate military arm trade will share in the loss,but those engaged in it will now be in a good position to proceed with their contracts for our own Government, these having been hitherto interrupted, in spite of all the efforts made to prevent it. This has not been, however, to any serious ex tent, inasmuch as the contractors have been guarded in the engagements they have entered into with the pur chasers of arms for America, and no very receet contracts have been made for that quarter. There have been seve ral agents hero from America, all eager purchasers of guns, but none very recently, BIRMINGHAM CATTLE, &c., SHOW.—BIRMING HAM, Thursday.—The annual meeting of the promoters of this show was held at the Hen and Chickens Hotel this morning, the Earl of Dartmouth in the chair. On the motion of Mr. C. M. Caldecott, of Rugby Grange, seconded by Sir John Ratcliff, the Earl of Ailesford was elected president for the ensuing year. Thanks were voted to the various honorary officers, including Mr. John Shackell, the treasurer, whose active services have extended over 13 years. The noble chairman announced his intention to give next year, as a special prize, a silver cup, value ;ClO, for three Shropshire shearlings that shall have been shorn before the Ist of May, 1802, and not touched or trimmed except on the face. Suggestions were made that separate classes should be opened for Scotch cattle and Shropshire ewes. The number of persons attending the show this year has been enormous—on the " private view" day, ; on Tuesday, 8,600 ; on Wednesday, 7,500, exclu sive of the working-class tickets, of which 30,000 were pur chased. To-day the attendance has been very large. The attendance at the dog show has been on a corresponding scale—on Monday (the ss. day ), 2,500; on Tuesday, 6,466 ; on Wednesday, 7,200. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT NEWMAP,KET.—Won derfully as the Prince of Wales has been educated, widely as he has travelled, and ably as he has fulfilled the few duties be has as yet been eJed upon to perform, no act of his life, we believe, bee been mere generally acceptable to the great mass of the people than his visit to Newmarket. Cantering on his grey pony, with the Duke of St. Albans and Lord Pollington, who were b- , th Cantabs like himself, the trio formed as pretty a group as we could desire to see, and not a point of interest escaped the Prince's notice. Had his Royal highness been the winner of The Cesarewiteh or The Cambridgeshire, or The Two 1 . 11011:aud, he could not have been mere closely inspected ; but he bore the gaze of the multitude well, enjoyed his cigar, and watched every race with the utmost interest.—Erom OW Van" in I Baily's Magazine for Deeendier. LATE6T NIELf. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (PER THE EDINBURGH, via QUEENSTOWN.) NEW YORK, Nov. 22, EVENING. Edward t veret, George Sumner, and other lead in - mei - lean legal authorities, d ec l are t h e capture g and Slidell to be in accordance of Messrs. Masoi: with international law. The subject, nevertheless, causes a universally uneasy feeling in the public mind in respect to the relations of America with England. The Secretary of War has notified to the Governor of Maine that an officer will immediately be ap. pointed to report on the sea-coast defences of that State. The Federal. troops are reported to be in full pos session of Accomac, Northampton County, on the eastern shore of Virginia. Governor Jackson and the State Legislature of Missouri have passed a Secession ordinance. Mr. Smith, Federal Secretary of the Interior, has disavowed the policy endorsed by Mr. Cameron, Secretary of War, of putting arms into the hands of the slaves, declaring that such is not the policy of the Federal Administration. Twenty-five vessels, which are to be sunk at the entrance of a Southern harbour, have sailed laden with stones. The Union men of North Carolina have esta blished a provisional State Government at Hatteras. The Confederates have burnt Warsaw, Missouri, in order to prevent the Federals making winter quarters there. General M'Clellan reviewed 70,000 men at Washington, on the 20th inst., being the largest body of troops ever reviewed on the American continent. General Halleck has iEsued a proclamation noti fying that no more fugitive slaves will be allowed to enter the Federal camp, as they have carried valuable information to the enemy. The steamers Asia and City of Manchester have arrived out. The French frigate Bellona arrived at New York on the 21st inst. Nov. 23,11 A.M. The British frigate Immortalite arrived at Port Royal on the 18th inst. The bids at yesterday evenings's stock board were slightly firmer. PRESIDENT DAVIS'S MESSAGE. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. President Davis has delivered his Message to the Confederate Congress. It is most determined in tone, and states that after seven months the Fede rals have failed to extend their occupancy of outhern soil, and at many points have been driven to act on the defensive. The Message announces that the military means and the financial condition of the Confederates are stronger now than at the commencement of the struggle. It praises the people of Missouri, and de fends the occupancy of Kentucky. The Confederate financial system is stated to have Worked well, and to promise good results for the future. The Message continues : " The system of issuing Treasury notes has fully answered the expectation of the Confederates, and and if they husband their means and make judicious use of their resources, it would be difficult to fix a limit to the period during which the Confederates will be able to carry on the war against the Federals. " The reconstruction of the Union, which the Federals seek to effect by force of arms, has be come more and more palpably impossible. The causes which induced the separation not only re main in full force, but have been strengthened. " The Confederates shrink with aversion from the bare idea of renewing connection with the North. " The South will be content to live at peace with the North, but the separation is final. The South will accept no alternative." President Davis then informs the Congress that Messrs. Slidell and Mason, commissioned to repre sent the Confederacy abroad, had been seized while under the protection and within the dominion of a neutral nation, and says, " The claim of the United States to seize them in the streets of London would have been as well founded as the seizure on board the Trent." • " Had they been malefactors their arrest could not have taken place on board British ships except according to the law provided for tie extradition of criminals. "The Confederates asked no aid from foreign Powers, but perhaps had a right to inquire if the European doctrine that the blockade to be binding must be effective, was to be generally applied, or only in particular cases. "Evidence will be laid before the European Go vernment of the total inefficiency of the blockade." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 23, EVENING. Stocks tending downwards. New York Central, 78 ; Illinois, 60. Money easy. Exchange very firm at 1081. Cotton very firm ; middling upland is quoted 241 to 241. Flour heavy. Wheat and corn, good inquiry. Provisions unchanged. Coffee very firm. Sugar steady. Molasses dull. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO CAPE RACE.) BOMBARDMENT OF PENSACOLA. NEW YORK, Nov. 27. Southern accounts report that Fort Pickens, assisted by two Federal steamers, has opened a bombardment on Pensacola. Exchange—Banker's bills, 1091. Stocks firm. New York Central, 781 ; Illinois, 601; Erie, 301. Cotton advancing. Breadstuffs active, but lower. Provisions steady. ENGLAND AND AMERICA• La Patrie publishes the following, under the head of " Latest Intelligence" : " It is stated (on assure) that the despatch ad dressed by the British Cabinet to Lord Lyons, to be communicated to President Lincoln, is based ex clusively on ltgal considerations. This document, it is said, establishes that the commander of the San Jacinto, by acting as he has done, has corn mitted a flagrant breach of maritime law and in sulted the English flig ; that the only right that officer possessed was to compel the Trent to go to some American port, where the case could have been brought before the proper authorities in pre sence of the En glish Consul. That if, in this search, despatches had been found establishing that MM. Slidell and Mason were on a mission directly or indirectly connected with military operations, the Commander would have been justified in seizing those despatches and arresting the envoys, sending in a detailed report of the transaction, with such notes and observations as the English Consul might think fit to annex. These formalities not having been fulfilled, no charge could be established against the two persons arrested ; their arrest must be re garded as nul and non avenue ; that the Trent being the - victim of an arbitrary act, contrary to every principle, England, acting in a conciliatory and friendly point of view, has asked as only reparation of this grave act the liberation of MM. Slidell and Mason ; but that, if she does not obtain it, Lord Lyons would leave Washington with all the mem bers of the Legation. "We are assured that the despatch is drawn up with great moderation —that it carefully avoids any hurtful expression —but that it is firm in its con clusion. From the information we have received up to the present we do not think it likely that Mr. Lincoln will give up the prisoners." TURIN, DEC. 5, EVENING. The debate on the Roman question continued to day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Buoncompagni said : " The path followed by the Government in regard to the Roman question is the one which was recommended to it by the vote of the Cham bers. It could not think of acting otherwise than in accord with France, it being necessary that Italy should still have a stranger in her bosom. As long as Venice is in the possession of Austria, Italy will always be at war. We could not obtain Rome without first having Venice. Italy will go to Venice when she shall have an army of 300,000 men." Signor 13uoneornpagni approved the policy of the Government on all points. Two Members of the Left afterwards spoke against the policy pursued by the Government in the interior. Baron Ricasoli will speak to-morrow. General Bixio was present at to-day's sitting. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30. Mumtaz (Mouchtar P) Effendi has been appointed Minister of Finance in the place of Teffik Pasha. This appointment caused a panic in the money market, and during the week the rate of exchange rose to 246. Confidence, however, is now re turning. It is said that the Porte will replace Fuad Pasha in Syria by one Governor with a political Commis sioner. A reduction has been effected in the Army Budget ,o the extent of 25,000,000 piastres yearly. THE ENTRANCE OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS INTO THE HERZEGOVINA. VIENNA, DEC 3. The evening supplement of the Wiener Zeitung of yesterday contains the following official notice:— "Not long since the Civil and Military Governor in Dal matia made known to the Imperial Government that the insurgents in the Herzegovina had in two different parts of the Sufi ring constructed batteries which commanded the Imperial Royal military road across the Turkish strip of land (enclave), and also the waters of the Gulf of Cattaro. " In virtue of a convention between Austria and the Porte no change can be made in the status quo in the Suto rina except by mutual consent. As the batteries in question interfered with the security of the communication between the territory of Ragusa and the district of Cattaro, the Imperial Royal Government was necessitated to summon Luka Vukalovich, the leader of the insurgents, to remove them, and that within a given period. At the same time it stated that if the abovemenLioned chief of the insur • gents did not do what was required of him the Imperial (Austrian) troops would not fail to take the matter in hand. s Luka Vukalovich did not attend to the summons within the period fixed, which was at an end on the 30th of November, the Commander of the Imperial Royal Brigade lying at Ragusa received orders to destroy the two batteries, and, when he had done so, to return with the troops em ployed to the Austrian territory." By a telegram of the 2d inst. from Castelnuovo a fortified town at no great distance from the present entrance to the war port of Cattaro, we learn that a body of Austrian troops under General von Rodich entered the Sutorina yesterday, " and without having fired a single shot," demolished the two batteries that were between Svinjo and Lucich. To the best of my knowledge no convention be tween Austria and the Porte gives to the former a right to send troops either to the Sutorina or to Klek. On the 14th of February, 1853, the Porte simply promised that it would undertake nothing , either in the Sutorina or in Klek, " which in the difference of opinion that at present prevails could lead to a conflict or ultimately to a war." FRANCE. The Monzteur publishes a report to the Emperor from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and War en the subject of the indemnity paid by the Chinese Government for the 14 persons who were the vic tims of a treacherous attack made on some French subjects civil and military, at Yang-Tcheon, on the 18th September, 1860, and of whom eight were killed and six injured, but still living : " The amount paid by the Chinese Governmen t was 200,000 taels, or 1,539,919 f. which heo been apportioned as follows :—To the widow of Colonel Grandchamps, 125,000 f., and to four other relatives of the deceased, 12,500 f., each mak ing 175,000 f.; to the brother of Victor Dubut, sub military intendant, 160,000 f.; to the brother of 3 . - Ader, officer attached to the military hospitals, 130,000 f.; to the father, mother, and sister of the Abbe Deluc, a Jesuit missionary, 140,000 f. to the father, mother, brother and two sisters of J. Blanquet, hospital attendant, 100,000 f.; to the father, mother, brother, and two sisters of N• Bouichot, a private in the waggon train, 100,000 f. ; to the aunt of L. Faurien, a private in the 102 d Regiment, 40,000 f, ; and to the mother, brother, and two sisters of P. Onzonf, a private in the foot Chasseurs, 100,00 0 f. The following are the sums awarded to those who are still living :—To M. d'Escayrac de Lauture charged with a scientific mission, 100,000 f. ; L. F. J. Bachelet, private in the 101st Regiment, 90,000 f. ; C. Roger, private in the African Chasseurs, 90,000 f.; 3. Ginestet, private in the waggon train, 90,000 f.; J. Petit, do., 106,811 f. (this man received four wounds in defending himself), and F. Novalm, vate in the same regiment, 90,000 f. All these sums are to be paid with interest, and without any deduction for legal or other dues. BOURSE, DEC. 5. Sales for realisation have caused a slight retrograde movement in the market to-day, Threes, for the Account being now at 69f 35e. The Railway Share Market has b e en similarly acted on, but the variation has not been material. The following are the last quotations :--- 4t per per Cents 95 —, Credit I oncier llBO Do. end month.... 95 30 Belgian 41 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 35 ' Roman Bank Shares 2975 — 1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.. 737 50 Spani s h Threes, 4O 6 Y Do. Account 740 Home Debt .. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1325 .. 1327 60 Northern 985 .. 987 50 New ditto _ 917 50 .. '25 Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 1021 25 Geneva 34:5 .. 347 50 Southern 668 75 .. 67) -- Western .... .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ‘ .... .... 512 50 .. 515 --- THE NIAGARA FRIGATE.—A correspondent 01 the l imes says—ln your description of to-day of the shio of war belonging to the American navy I notice a paragrap h which refers to the Niagara, of 4,600 tons and carrying 0 11-inch Dahlgren shell-guns, and which you consider to be " a formidable cruiser." It may not be generally know n that this far-famed ship is useless and powerless as a wary of-war, being thoroughly and hopelessly rotten in her tiny hers. A few months since I visited this Goliath of the deci i , in company with one of her officers, who informed me that in the event of war they would not dare to use the few gat"' which she then mounted, owing to her great tenderness, and that he feared that the naval authorities Would b° shortly compelled to dismantle or break her up. The vex' sal was then on her homeward voyage from Japan to the States The official return of the gaming-house at Spa/ for 1875, gives the following results :—Roulett—gai n !' 495,356 f; losses, 55,937 f; profit, 439,4191. Rouge et noir —gains, 664,605 f; losses, 368,933 f; profit, 333,622 f. I t hence appears that roulette is the most profitable. One ea' riot's item in the return is, profit on changing foreign money,' 284,692 f 82c. To gain such an amount immense sums must have been exchanged, and at pretty high rates too. ERRATUM.—In our first leader yesterday, the iiname of the Hon. Joseph Howe, of Nova Scotia, was twice misprinted Howe. _ .t