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Shareholders only liable for the amount of their subscriptions ; 10s. per share to be paid on application for shares, with two calls of Se. per share (if required) at intervals of not less than three months. The Company is completely r e gi s t ere d ae,cor.ling to the Limited Liability Acts of Parliament, passed in the years 1856 and 1857. D I RE CTORS. T homas P. Elliott, Esq. (agent to the Hon. Mr. Stanley, M.P.), Penrhos Bradwin, Holyhead, Capt. Knox, proprietor of Irish Times, Fitzwilliam-square, Dublin. Veary Price, Esq., J.P., Blackrock, county Dublin. Peter Roe, Esq., tarendon-house, Rathgar, county Dublin. James Di,ges la Touche, Esq , J.P., Director Midland Great I Western Railway Company, Dundrum, county Dublin. BANKERS. National P rov i ncial Bank of England, at Manchester, Chester, Holyhead, Ban ,or, and C arnarvon. National Bank of lreland, - Dublin, Cork, and London. SOLICITOR. dames Malley, Esq., 48, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin. BROKERS. Messrs. B oy l e, Low, Pim, and Co., 35, College-green, Dublin. ..11..essrs. J. Cunni ng h am an d Co., Belfast. MVy. Connell, South-mall, Cork. e s srs. Laurence, Son, an d P earce, Auct i on Mart, London. .. George Hancock, 15, Titheb arn - s t ree t , Li verpoo l . Mr. James Gorton, Newmarket-buildings, Manchester. orricEs. Registered Offices-2, Boston-street, Holyhead. Branch Offiees-48, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin. This ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. Company frmed for the purose of the Lease of a very tract of Miner p al Land in the purchasing Island ?.f Anglesey, in theiParish of Holyhead, held under lease from the lion. W. 0. STANLEY, M.P., at a moderate royalty, 40r twenty-two years yet unexpired. Assays, made by Messrs. Johnson and Son, Basinghall- Street, London, of average portions, prove the stuff to con tain, when dressed, 7 to 10 per cent. of copper at the present uepth. I-eterence is particularly invited to the extract of a lett e r from one of the most scientific geologists of the age, Sir Richard Griffith, Bart, of the Board of Public Works, Dublin, Aim has kindly given permission for his opinion to be added to the Prospectus —as well as to the reports from the erni- Bent Mining Engineers, Jelin Hitchius, Esq., John 11. Cle ment, Esq., C.E., F.G.S., and Alfred Jenkin, Esq., showing the net profits to thebo 25 per cent. capital te nominal, and 60 per cent. upon proposed paid-up at the present Workings. EncoUraged by the large returns of the Pary's Mountain and Mona Mines, situated at Almwoh, in the same island and county, the directors have formed a very favourable opinion of the value of this venture, which they believe can be made productive by an outlay of not more than Five Thou oand Pounds. The situation of the Mine is all that can be desired, being ,- Only two miles, on a level road, from the Holyhead Railway _Station, and ten yards from the sea at high water. ~/,„. The royalty is light, and every Precaution hats bo.. taken ,t .: zuY the Dirc.!ctors to economise the preliminary expenses. forfor. - have ii considerable number of shares been applied eelmens of the Ore may be seen at the Offices. The lia bilityoath biliStn e shareholders will limited to the exact amount of s. No farther call can be made on the holders of the shares. If ao allotment is made the Deposits will be returned in full. Prospectuses may be obtained and application for shares will be received at the Offices by the Directors and by the Brokers of the Company ; but in no case will any application be,,, attended to un l ess a d epos i t of 10s. per s h are b e p a id to th e - ' 3 ankers of the Company, and their receipt forwarded to the 011 ice. ALDERSGATE WARD. ELECTION OF ALDERMAN. To ROBERT BESLEY, Esq. Sir, - The lamented death of Sir Peter Laurie having caused a Vacancy in the Court of Aldermen for the WARD of Alders gate, we, the Undersigned, believing from your long residence in the Ward, and from the ability and diligence with which You have served us as one of our Common Councilmen, you are eminently qualified, ably, honourably, and efficiently to represent us in the Court of Aldermen, hereby request you to of thise WAltb; becom a Candiqate for the important Office of ALDERMAN and pledge ourselves to use our best exer th2ns to s`-cure your Election. e e " eraber, 1861. John Aitchison B. Humphrey Henry Arlett Henry Hunt William Arrowsmith John Hutchinson William Atterbury Thomas Inman Charles John Austin Thomas Jones William Baddiley Hugh Jones George Frederick Barber Edward Joseph G. 11. Barnes Thomas Freestone Kirby John Barnett Edward Lane John Baxter William Langabeer Charles Beckwith John Larkin Maurice Benesh William R. Lee Charles Joseph Berry W. Lewis Daniel Berry William Lobb, M.D. Henry Bingham Peter William Lovejoy John Bishop William M' hurray John Blyth Charles Mann John B, own William Masters Thomas Bulmer Joseph Masters John Bult Maw and Son Joseph Burton Barnard John Muller Lewis Butler Joseph Needham Frederick Calder Frederick Neville & CO. Richard Champion John Niell William Church E. W. Norman William Clements J. T. Norris W. 11. Colling - ridge George Pannell C. J. Connolly Daniel Parrett John Constable George Partridge H. C. Cowie George Pegge James Daniels George Popler John Davy Jesse Pim Josiah Day Benjamin 'James Powell Henry de Jersey Samuel Price James Charles Dix Francis Price John Elder Duffield Thomas Pryor John Duplock Frederick Purvis Henry Duprey John Reynolds William Henry Durnford Benjamin Ross Willia.n Eglington William Robertson Samuel Ellett John Sewell Charles James Ellett Daniel Shether Henry Elliott IV. E. Shipton James Ellis Samuel Robinson Short Louis Fache Charles Sibley William Fanner James Silman John Faulkner George Sims Thomas Fellows Valentine Smith Joseph Fel th am George Spe , chley Frederick Fisher John Storton John Norman Fisher 11. Surmon Robert B. Horman Fisher James Ducker Taylor 'Henry Fiveash William Thompson William Flint Thomas Trimby Thomas B. Floyd Charles Trowbridge W. C. Fowler George Wakeling Benjamin Fox John Charles Walker Henry Fox Thomas Waller William Fulford John Morritt Walter Robert Gentry William Ward Joseph Gibson John Ware Henry Glasspole William Watson Howell Goddard Henry Watts Thomas Godwin ' James Welch Thomns Goldfinch William Welch Samuel Green Joseph West Samuel Claridge Green Thomas Whiting Henry Hardihg Mathew Wilkins R. 11. Heath Wellington Williams Charles Helme Thomas Woodward Charles Hogg,, L.B.C.P. John Woolmer William Howard John Reid Wright John Howell G. P. Wright Henry Howell Frederick Wyatt Henry Howlett Additional names are being hourly received. W. C. FOWLER, Hon. Sec. Committee -room, Raglan Hotel, 61, St. Martin' s-le-G rand. CATTLE SHOW. COTTAM'S STABLE FITTINGS.—Stands 941 to 950.—Visitors are referred tos_ the above, and also invited to inspect Cottam and Co.'s W arerooms, only a short distance from the Show (Winsley street being near to regent-circus, Oxford-street, and is the street opposite the Pantheon', where an extensive range of full-sized Stalls, Loose Boxcs, Harness Rooms, &c.. are fitted bp, showing the arrangements of all Cottam's Patent Im provements, &c. COTTAIII and CO.'s only address in Lon don is 2, Winsley-street, Oxford-street, W. (N.B.—Winsley street is the street opposite the Pantheon). 52911 t PRIZES, amounting in value to upwards of .£3,00, have been awarded during the present Year 1861, to CATTLE fed on FOOD seasoned with TEI OR CONDIMENT. See Reports and Testimonials frorn A oolemen awl most of our first-class Agriculturists through out the World--sent Post-free on application. A Barrel, .2 n taining 448 Feeds, Carriage Paid to any Rail Station in United Kingdom on receipt of Post-office Order for 405., e Payaable to the Inventor: JO SE P ll T !Ina LEY , New % street, City. Address, Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, dg ''s-cross, London. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS an d LIVER PILLS, pre- Vred wi thoutany mercurial ingredient, f r om the recipe of Dr. c Oii, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bili ous and iver complaints. indigestion, wind 1.)4 T 1 . 1, , giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, & o. For habitual cos tiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite, pro /note ili , xestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, R oll by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and three times the quantity iu one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. E VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN LIFE T H POUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most bliattered constitution, whether arising' from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate ' ease is lour weeks • and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very , simple), failure is impossible. This life -restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst ,Dr. :Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in cur'' for use, at lls., or four quantities in one for 335., nd will be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt ofremittance or post-office order payable to Front and Co., Patent Medicine Warehouse, 229, Strand, London. (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. Price 1 s., by post Is: td. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill. Cle e On Spermatorrhwa, Syphilis, Stricture, Hnemorrhoids, ts , Marriage : Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring Necured. The Dr. C. may he consulted daily till 12, at Post-office Turkish Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand ; and from 1 till 9 p.m. at 3, Great Marlborough-street, W. CULVERWELL'S NEW POST-OFFICE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and ls. Od. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, Is. till I. An ESSAY on TURKISH BATHING, gratis. OPINIONSF THPRESS. " The Use and the Abuse O of the Turkish Bath.—A very Useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the roprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the -) eatoffice, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte :tilting information, while those who have already encouraged 'Via new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the p actical regulations which the writer e ndeavours to enforce.''—Herald and Standard, Nov. 12, 1861. ;,The Post-office Turkish Batho, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. ur• Culverwell has already established the reputation of ' 4l aVe physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy Philanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco -I'ery of modem days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice ( . 1 2 T 1 Ph . pole than any proposition or invention yet established, 4 .,,e Turkish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up bis baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, nieh, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur tiBing, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire v its been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the hi sithr • • • We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made it 18 on coming out of a urkish Bath," —Era, pot. X 3,1841. _ _ Edilv, N., o. p, of hew'of Aito i r iaugh 'aiace I Sat' Lict e :errelt IslisS )emil my °. ,d pre' B an ff . ' (i Let' rrivr , ' Awar a s ,f that .kford i t :rt., ° I Lam. _. M 01 4 d N°. 21,666. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WHITE ANT) BLACK. A STORY OF TIIE SOUTHERN STATES. 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THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON ._ -- SPERMATORRH'EA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly , Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street.' MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "A C HOME," At Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, Every Evenin_rr at Eight o'clock (except Saturday). Wednesday and Saturday Afternoon at Three. Private boxes, stalls, and places may be secured at the Box office, which is open daily from 10 till ii, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. No extra charge for booking. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past 10. To prevent the crush at the entrances an additional door is evened for the Pit. 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(\N TUESDAY EVENING, the 10th inst., there will be published a SECOND EDITION of 'mon- LEY'S AGRICULTURAL GLEANER, containing a full and elaborate report of the BAKER-STREET BAZAAR SHOW in London, and SMITHFIELD FAT CATTLE SHOW in Leeds, including the Winners, and how they did win, stating the food they were fed upon, Ac. Ac. THOR LEY'S GLEANER is the only true and faithful reporter on Agricultural Matters in London.—PßlCE ONE PENNY; Post-free for Two Stamps, or Two Papers for Threepence. Published by JOSEPH THORLEY. Newgate-street, City. Address, Thorley's Steam Printing Works, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, Loudon ; or order through any Newsyendor. THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work, a Guide to the Married and those contemplating Marriage, who entertain secret doubt of physical strength, having im perilled the power of manhood by youthful indiscretions ; also treating on Syphilis, Secondary Symptoms, and Gonor rhoea, and containing a Prescription known as the Preventive Lotion, Nature's Disinfectant, precluding the possibility of contamination, containing 190 pages, with 100 engravings, free by post 12 stamps. Address R. and L. Perry and Co , 10, Berners-street, Oxford-street, W. Attendance daily, from 10 till 8, by a Consulting Surgeon, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (registered under the new Medical Act). DR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION.- The GREAT CHEMICAL COMBINATION of Phos phorus, Quinine, Iron, and other invigorating ingredients— the never-failingßemedy for Spermatorrhavi ud all Diseases of the Reproductive System. A single course of this invalu able preparation insures health, strength, and manly vigour in every stage of life. Prices, lls. par bottle, or four lls. bottles in one, 335. This medicine has been confided to a Regis tered Physician, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, (England), who has devoted his exclusive attention to the above diseases, and who will give advice without a fee to those purchasing the medicines, either personally or by letter. Hours of Consultation, from 11 till 8; Sundays, till 1 o'clock. All communications and Post-Office Orders to be addressed posit alla th M e o a r d g d e o , s x st Church reet ) 1 t , L e g o e n n d t o - n s t . reet, W. (op e to Bil e ll s r id ig e h o t i 44 St '.14 DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRIVE A, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. Tust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, and eent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, 11 ANITOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions or Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. ( .3uaxis, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Spermatorrhma and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications .1 Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of 9 onorrhcea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting sees, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and hould be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 3d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27,1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from hervous excitement and de• bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful —Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row: Mann, $9, Cornhill. 11 °11 r 4 of CPllsllliatlon-10 to 3 and 6 to 8; Sunday, 10 till 2, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1861. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. The Annual Fire Premiums £315,001 Mercantile Risks in London and elsewhere, at home and abroad, freely insured by Floating Policies and otherwise.- 20 and 21, Poultry. EAST AND WEST INDIA D OCK COMPANY. The COURT of DIRECTORS of the Ea.t and West India Dock Company HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the Transfer Books of the said Company will be shut on Satur day, the 14th day of December, 1861, and opened again on Friday, the 3d day of January, 1862. By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, Billiter-square, 6th Dee., 1811. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The Inman steamship Edinburgh and the Cana dian mail steamer Nova Scotian have arrived, the former with advices from New York to the 23d, and the latter from Quebec to the same date. The Hon. E. Everett, in an address on the " State of the Country," before the Middlesex Mechanics' Association at Lowell, is reported to have given the following opinion on the Mason and Slidell case:— "He began by remarking that he had been re quested to say a word or two upon an event that reached us within a day or two—the capture of Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Some have apprehended that this act, however :desirable in some respects, may yet be considered by the British Government as unauthorised by the law of nations, and there fore likely to bring us into unpleasant relations with that Power. This apprehension is entirely groundless. There is no right better recognised by the law of nations than that of the armed vessel of a belligerent Power to detain a neutral vessel on the high seas to ascertain whether on board of that neutral vessel there is anything contraband of war. It is expressly laid down by all the text-writers on the law of nations that among the things which are forbidden to be carried by a neutral vessel are Am bassadors of either belligerent Power. There have been many cases in which this principle has been laid down and enforced in the English Courts of Admiralty. In the year 1808 an American vessel called the Caroline, o❑ her way from New York to Bordeaux, in France, was captured by a British cruiser, carried into England, tried and condemned before Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord Stowell, the highest authority on any question of the law of nations that can be found in Great Britain—con demned because it carried dispatches from the Government of one of the French colonies. In giving his opinion on the condemnation of this vessel Sir William Scott expressly said that the belligerent cruiser was authorised in stopping the Ambassador of the enemy on the way to his desti nation. You are, many of you, familiar with the case of Mr. Henry Laurens, who was at one time President of the Continental Congress, in the Revo lutionary war, who was on his way from Marti nique to Holland, on board of a Dutch vessel, at that time a neutral Power. This vessel was cap tured by a British frigate, carried into St. John's, Newfoundland, he was transferred to another ves sel, and sent to England, and there confined in the Tower of London, as a traitor, for two years, and it was only after the surrender of Cornwallis at York town he was given up in exchange for the Com mander-in-Chief of the British forces. You see that there is not the slightest ground for apprehension that there is any illegality in this detention of the mail packet, that the detention was perfectly lawful, the capture was perfectly lawful, their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful, and, as they will no doubt be kept there in safety until the restoration of peace—which we all so much desire —we may, I am sure, cordially wish them a safe and speedy deliverance." The tone of the New York press respecting the Mason and Slidell affair is more moderate. The New York Tribune says:— " We have been, and still are, most anxious that our Government should studiously avoid all pre text for hostility on the part of Great Britain pend ing the settlement of our domestic troueles. We know that the slaveholders' rebellion was plotted and inaugurated in the sanguine hope that cotton and commerce would soon force the British and French Governments to interfere in its behalf; and it is to-day kept alive, in spite of the general misery and squalor it causes throughout the revolted States, and its utter destitution of funds, by that hope. Demolish that to-morrow, and the rebellion could not be kept on its legs through the winter. Now, the Union wants nothing of Europe but that fair play to which treaties and the law of nations en title us. If the Republic cannot subdue its revolters, let the Republic be dissolved ! 1 Hands off' is all we ask of Europe, and that is our simple due, We do most decidedly want Europe to lot us alone Hence we have regretted that Secretary: Seward has not always evinced, in his official and personal intercourse with the British and French ambassa dors, that earnest and frank desire to maintain the best understanding with them and their Govern ments that is the obvious dictate of national inte rest if not of national safety. Wo think he should not have hesitated to say to them in acts, if not in words, Just at present wo cannot afford to quarrel with you, and I shall take good care that you have no plausible excuse for quarreling with us. . . We have already intimated our hope that Great Britain will claim Mason, Slidell, and their secre taries, on the ground of the illegality of their cap ture. We could very well afford even to surrender them for the sake of the precedent and principle thus established. If Great Britain is : ready for a broad acceptance of the principle that free ships make free goods, it does not become us to object. But there must be no juggle in the premises, but the clear and simple recognition of a rule of action henceforth obligatory on both parties. Nothing is more certain than that Great Britain has acted to our prejudice on the opposite principle to that which she must assert in demanding the liberation of Mason and Slidell. . . . The temper of a portion of the English people is such as probably to render necessary some formal inquiry into the matter, and a demand for explanations. But these will be forthcoming in such abundance, and of such a nature, as will speedily silence all complaints.. . We once' more assure our timorous friends that Great Britain not only has no decent pretext for fastening :a quarrel upon us, but that President Lincoln will take good care that she shall not get one, at least till we shall have settled our little ac count with Jeff. and Compauy."l The New York World says : ana b s e cot u. d v e s aG c t u eo s nv s d Government m b a y e e t n w tt e ke byen advantagel \ a l r . so S r e t w o a f r d o afr a ,t an d Lord Lyons our Government, by a sort of argu " It may be said, indeed, that when this question Bn o re m ini e ti ts s , L hm y t concession oo of a belligerent status to the South, and hold the British Ministry to the logi cal consequence of their own act, without making any concession itself. But it would not befit the dig nity of a great nation to discuss an international question in that spirit, and to rest its justification of a very grave act not on the solid basis of a clear right,but on a sophistical wrestling of an adversary's position, by which it is turned to his disadvantage. It would simplify all the questions likely to arise between us and foreign nations growing out of the war if our Government would frankly treat the re bels as possessed of the ordinary rights of parties to a war. It would also relieve the question of an ex change of prisoners of the embarrassments that have thus far surrounded it ; and if it should re quire us to treat the Southern privateers otherwise than pirates, the increased efficiency of the blockade will prevent the escape of m an y mo re privateers to prey upon our co mmerce. If we must either g i ve up those arch traitors , Mason and: Slidell , or let 'the privateers go nnhanged, the public voice would re quire us to keep fast hold of the rebel envoys. But it is not easy to see on what justifiable ground we I went on board a British vessel to arrest them, un less we concede a belligerent status to the Southern Confederacy." _ The New York limes remarks as follows " It suits the purpose of some of oar people to ex cite an alarm by pretending that we are in danger of war with England on account of the seizure of the two rebel agents, Mason and Slidell, on board the British mail steamer Trent. Nothing can be more absurd than such an apprehension. Even if our act was entirely wrong, there is not one chance in ten of its involving war, whatever other conse quences may flow from it. Many persons talk and write as if the instant she hears it England would send a fleet of war steamers to bombard our cities and sweep our commerce from the fate of the ocean. Even in the most flagrant cases national insults are not resented in this summary manner. First comas a formal complaint of the wrong done, and a demand that it be disavowed. If this is met fairly, in a friendly spirit, and with an evident intent to do justice, it will be followed by a protracted nego tiation, which is almost certain to end in such explanations on the one side or con cessions on the other as put all hostile measures utterly out of the question. In this case no one supposes for a moment that there was any intention to insult the British flag on the part of Capt. Wilkes. His sole object was to serve his own Government by arresting two rebel agents on a mission of deadly hostility to it. Ile found them on the high seas, on board a 'British vessel, from which he took them without violence, and with only such a display of force as the case required. Now, of what can the British GoTernment make com plaint ?" The New York Journal of Commerce, alluding to the money market, says _ _ " The feeling in the market to-day is less buoyant, but it is difficult to tell why, except that some per sons are determined to believe that we shall have trouble with England growing out of the Mason and Slidell affair. No argument is sufficient to settle the equanimity of these whose fears have taken such strong hold of their judgment, and we must wait patiently for the future. If the British Government were left free to act entirely upon their own view of the legality of Commander Wilkes's performance, we should regard these misgivings on the subject as almost ridiculous. The only serious phase of the future prospect is coloured by the known irritation of a portion of the British people at the unwarrantable tone of some American docu ments, both official and private, that have been sent across the water for republication. But we cannot believe that these objectionable taunts and crimina tions will provoke Great Britain to a course that her law officers cannot approve." The review at Washington was s itnessed by an immense concourse of spectators. The number of troops estimated to be on the ground was 70,000. The New York, World alludes to it as follows : "It was a scene to intrance a civilian and to satisfy a soldier—the latter through the sense of professional ple&sure at so rare a spectacle as the tout ensemble of complete army. Well, M'Clellan came on the field at 11 o'clock, and was received with salutes from all the artillery present ; bat teries firing on the right and left confronting each other, and converting the review, for a moment, into the:aspect of ideal battle-field. Then, accompanied by Messrs. Lincoln, Cameron, and Seward, on horse back, and escored by his full Staff, he galloped at a spirited rate up and down the long battalions. His style of action presented a marked contrast to the stolidness with which he has made previous re views. The president looked well in the saddle, much better than he evcr looked on any other public occasion. He is an excellent horseman, and grace —impossible as it may seem—becomes a Lincolnian attribute when the executive legs are spurred and and stirruped. General Cameron and Governor Seward seemed less at ease in their unusual occupa tion. As the distinguished heads of the army passed swiftly through the lines cheer after cheer arose in waves, which followed the cavalcade as a billow rises on either side of a great ship's course. I thought that a clear prido flushed across the Pre sident's face, making him almost handsome, as he saw and heard the mightiness of the legions sent from the north for the protection of his sacred charge. As for M'Clellan, at this moment he en tered into the splendid enthusiasm of the occasion, and spurred his black charger at the head of the Staff with a dash and animation which should have been caught by some artist for a spectacular war-painting. Afterwards, when each regiment had been passed by the young commander, and ho had taken his position on the left of the field in order that the whole army might pass before him as it retired, his face became reposeful and content. He was more than satisfied with the condition of his soldiers, felt that he could handle them, and no doubt felt a desire to do so. What dramatic interest centres around this man ! What shall be his future—glory or forgetfulness ? But wo strew flowers, and wish the good young knight God speed as he steps featly forward into the dark, enchanted land." The New York Journal of Commerce publishes some incidents relating to the passport system : " Superintendent Kennedy, with a large force of police, attended the departure of the Aspinwall steamer Champion yesterday, and scrupulously en forced the new passport regulations. No dodge, decree, or excuse, no rank or station, could escape the common ordeal. The slightest inaccuracy in the passport caused its rejection. A large party from Boston exhibited mysterious envelopes, stamped with Government seals, and said to con tain passports. The superintendent opened the parcels, found the contents defective in some re spect, and sent the Bostonians ashore. Even a bearer of despatches, Senor D. J. F. Perez, from the Central American Minister, Senor Molina, was precluded for want of the magic paper, although ho showed his credentials and was vouched for to any extent by the Plenipotentiary in person. A telegram from Secretary Seward soon set his case all right, and Signor Perez entered his cabin re- joicing. A number of organ-grinders, labouring , were also refused a pas sage,regret of all the citizens und under greatly similar to di ffi the c u ti e s by standers, and also of the superintendent himself, who was strongly tempted to waive a point in their favour." Washington letters state that Lord Lyons had taken no action iu the Mason and Slidell case. Alluding to a recent order issued by General Halleck respecting slaves, the New York Journal of Commerce speaks out boldly as follows :-- " In the many discussions which the slave ques tion has brought about, there has not as yet been elicited a particle of evidence that the slaves of the South would accept freedom and arms, or would fight for the Union against their masters. In the Beaufort district, the site of the rice plantations, whore it has been said that slavery was more pain ful and oppressive than in any other part of the South, it is abundantly manifest that no large numbers of them come into the camp, although the correspondents describe them as working in the fields on the plantations which their masters have deserted. There is every reason to believe that a large majority of the slaves are firmly attached to the families they served. The fugitive slaves who have allied themselves to the forces in St. Louis prove to be the worst enemies to the cause they pro fess to have espoused, as appears from the following telegram from that city, published yesterday morn ing :---' Gon. Halleck has issued orders that in con sequence of important information respecting the number and condition of our forces being conveyed to the enemy by fugitive slaves, no such person shall hereafter be permitted to enter the lines of any camp or any forces on the march, and any now within such lines to be immediately excluded there , from.' At Fortress Monroe, too, it was discovered very soon after the breaking out of hostilities that t t the e t h u e e gr o e ue e m s y t . h e r l e f were thie i s t secretly he w ythe black information p° p u la. Lion of the South serve the cause of the Union the less we have of them the better." In the United States' Circuit Court on the 22d the case of the Hiawatha was heard on appeal. The Court affirmed the decision of the Court below, condemning the vessel and cargo, in order that the case might be sent to the Supreme Court of the United States for hearing at the coming term. The New Torii. World speaks of the object of the "stone fleet," as it is denominated " For some weeks it has been whispered that the vy Department was preparing a fleet of vessels, stone laden, to be sunk in one, or perhaps several harbours of the Southern coast. The fleet sailed on the 20th instant. They are all old but substantial whaling vessels, double-decked to give them greater firmness. They were stripped of their copper and other fittings which were not necessary for so short a voyage as they will make, and loaded with picked stone as deeply as was safe. In the bottom of each ship a hole was bored, into which was fitted a lead pipe five inches in diameter, with a valve so fixed that, though perfectly safe even for a long voyage it can be very quickly removed. It is calculated that the ship will be filled and sunk to the bottom in 20 minutes after the removal of this valve. To provide against accidental jamming of the valves each vessel is furnished with two augres of the pro per size. The crews consisted of six men each. These will be returned by the men-of-war, who will assist in the work of sinking. Each ship will be anchored in the place chosen for her, and will then be sprung round broadside to the channel, thus ef fecting as great a stoppage as possible. When this is done, and she is in position, the valve will be withdrawn, and when the vessel is nearly level with the water's edge the men will leave in a small boat. It is reported that an enterprising rigger has gone down with the fleet, with the intention of taking off what pieces of spars and rigging may remain above the water's edge after the ships have sunk. The captains of the ships are all well acquainted with our coast, first-rate seamen, and good pilots. Each captain received on the day he sailed sealed orders, not to be opened till after the pilot left his vessel." On the 21st the steamship Constitution, with two regiments of Gen. Butler's command, left Boston for Portland, and arrived off the latter port during the night, with the intention of taking on board a Maine regiment, in addition to the two already ship ped. After getting the baggage of the troops on board, however, it was decided that a third regi ment would crowd the vessel too much, so the bag gage was sent ashore again, and the Constitution proceeded on her voyage. Two or three vessels had run the batteries on the Potomac and reached Washington. From Baltimore we are informed that the Confe derates in Accomac county, Virginia, numbering some 3,000 men, had disbanded. The proclamation of Gen. Dix had been favourably received by the people generally. The Secessionists of Northampton county, to the number of 1,800, had laid down their arms, and the Federal troops had full possession of that county. The Confederates were reported to be throwing up earthworks at Flint-hill, near Falls Church. From Missouri we have advices to the 22d ult., which report an unreliable rumour, that the Con federates had btirnt Warsaw to prevent it being used as winter quarters for the Federal troops. On the 18th Judge T. S. Richards was shot through a win dow of the coart-house in Memphis, Scotland county, while confined as a prisoner in the hands of Col. Moore, of the Home Guards. Col. Moore subse quently offered a reward of 1,000 dole. for the ap prehension of the assassin. Gen. Price had aban doned his position at Cassville, and was moving towards his old camp at Neosho. About 4,300 of his army under Gen. Harris were on the Kansas line, evidently about to invade that State. Gen. Lane was in the vicinity, and it was not improbable that that an engagement would take place. The latest account states that Gen. Price was in Barry county making preparations to advance to Springfield. The Confederate Legislature of Missouri had passed an ordinance of secession at Neosho, and one uniting the State with the Southern Confederacy. THE NAVY. The steam transport Melbourne, laden with a heavy freight of war stores for America, having em barked her troops at 'Woolwich on Friday, as an nounced in The Sun, sailed on the following day at half-past 2 p.m. The long and spacious platform of the Royal Arsenal Pier was thronged during the process of getting under way by officers of the gar rison and their families, including General Sir Richard Dacres and his Staff, Commodore Sir Fre. derick Nicolson, &c. As soon as the ship had veered round from her moorings, and was fairly on her course, the spectators gave a hearty " God speed," which was immediately followed by the waving of caps and handkerchiefs and shouts of applause. The shouts then commenced on board, and were repeatedly heard when the Melbourne was far down the Thames, testifying in a perfectly unmistakeable manner to the feelings of the troops. The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Captain Arthur Cumming, at Plymouth, has received super numeraries for the ships on the West India station, and waits the arrival of the Melbourne. The Hero, 89, screw, Captain A. P. Ryder, sailed from Spithead at 3 p.m. yesterday, to join the squa dron under the command of Vice-Admiral A. Milne on the North American and West India station, The Hero left the anchorage under canvass, the wind fresh at S. W., and proceeded by the eastern channel. The Euryalus, 51, screw, was placed in No, 10 dock at Portsmouth on Saturday to clean copper, examine valves, &c., as is usual prior to commission. It is probable, however, that the Euryalus will re quire some slight caulking in the vicinity of her water line before she is again taken out of dock. The Sutlej, 51, screw, received her three lower masts and bowsprit under the steam basin shears the same day, and will bo hurried forward with despatch for commission. A body of the Trafalgar's men are employed upon her. It has been mooted as not im probable that the Sutlej will be commissioned by the captain of the Trafalgar should events reach their expected climax with America. Shoald this be carried into effect, a fine frigate would be at once manned, 200 men left disposable for other vessels, and an addition would be made to Vice-Admiral Milne's squadron of a fine, fast 50 gun frigate, in lieu of a line-of-battle ship of a greater draught of water, and with stowage for only 300 tons of coal. An additional notice has been posted at the gates of Portsmouth dockyard for the entry of the follow ing workmen, &c.—viz., 130 shipwrights, 8 copper smiths, 22 millwrights, 2 ship's plumbers, and 20 labourers. This order will make in round numbers about 950 mechanics and labourers that have been entered at Portsmouth since the orders for the in crease of hands employed in the dockyards have been issued from the Admiralty. Admiralty orders reached Chatham yesterday, directing, in addition to the other screw steamers ordered to be brought forward for commission, that the line of-battle screw steamship Meanee, 81, 2,591 tons, 400 horse power, be immediately docked and brought forward for service at sea. The Meannee is one of the finest of the 81 gun screw liners, and is at present attached to the first division of the steam reserve in the Medway. She is masted and rigged, and only requires to undergo a few trifling repairs to be made ready for service. It is probable she will be docked a Sheerness, provided she can be accommodated at that dockyard. The 91 gun screw liner Orion, 600 horse power, under repair, and fitting for the third division of the steam reserve at Chatham, is to have her repairs discontinued for the present, special orders to that effect having been forwarded from the Controller of the Navy. The Orion will require very extensive repairs to be executed upon her before she can again hoist the pennant, in addition to which she will be required to be furnished with new boilers, her pre- PRICE..... ~.4d. STAMPED ....sd. sent boilers being very unsound. Her masts were removed during the time she was in the steam basin at Sheerness. The screw steamship Rosario, 11, 637 tons, 180- horse power, one of the steamers fitting for com mission, has been again taken to the measured mile at the Maplin Sands for a further trial of her speed, but the results were not altogether satisfactory. After some necessary adjustments have been effected in her engines, which are on the direct-acting ho,i zontal principle, she will be again tried. On the occasion of her first trial the speed attained was only nine knots an hour. The Wildfire, paddlewheel steamer, Mr. G. Brockman, master-commander, proceeded from Chatham to Sheerness on Saturday, taking in tow one of the Government lighters, containing the re mainder of the masts, yards, and other gear for the Severn, 51, 500-horse power, making ready for sea. A naval court-martial assembled on Saturday on board the Formidable, 84, Capt. W. G. Luard, flag ship of Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone, com mander-in-chief at the Nore, for the trial of Mr. Charles Paget Hodges, second master of her Ma jesty's paddlewheel steamer Dee, 4, at Chatham, on a charge of having, on the 23d of November, been drunk and incapable of performin— his duty on board the said ship. The sidered the charge fully proved, and sentenced the prisoner to forfeit two years of his seniority as a second master, to be dismissed from her Majesty's ship Dee, and to be severely reprimanded. The undernamed gentlemen havebeen nominated to naval cadetships :—S. F. Dashwood, 0. C. Read, C. W. Dickinson, R. W. Fawkes, E C. Pooke, and A. S. Hamilton. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. R. Kennedy to the Hero; Lieut. G. C. Musters to the Victory, as supernumerary, for disposal; F. E. Shean and J. Dingwall, acting second-class assist. engineers, to the Cumberland, as supernumeraries; W. C. P. Grant, paymaster, to the Asia, for the Defence; and J. E. Skinner, assist.-paymaster, to the Asia, for the Defence. TILE ARMY. Orders have been received at Chatham directing Inspector-Gen. W. M. Muir, C. 8,, principal medi cal officer of the garrison, to proceed forthwith to Canada to take the medical charge of the troops about to be despatched to that country. A num ber of the medical officers attached to tho Staff at Fort Pitt Hospital have also been placed under orders to proceed to Canada, as well as a portion of the staff of the Purveyor's department, together with 40 men of the Army Hospital Corps. Deputy- Inspector-Gen. T. D. Hume, M.D., will succeed Dr. Muir, C. 8., as principal medical officer at Chatham. Orders have been received by the Major-General commanding the South-Western District, Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., to withdraw the 18th Company of Royal Engineers from the Isle Wight, where it has been employed on the defensive works in progress of construction in the vicinity of the Needles' Pas sage, and hold it in readiness at Portsmouth for embarcation on short notice for British North Ame rica. No women or children—families of officers or soldiers—will accompany the force, but all who, under ordinary circumstances, would be entitled to accompany their regiment on foreign service will receive the allowance of 6d. and 2d. per day. On Friday afternoon a telegraphic despatch was received at the Division- office,Shorncliffe Camp, call• ing for 36 sergeants to volunteer from the various regiments of the division in the south-eastern dis trict for service in Canada as drill instructors to the Canadian Militia. The volunteers are to proceed to their destination immediately, in company with volunteer sergeants from other divisions. Dr. Fisher, the medical officer of the camp, has also received orders to proceed at once to Canada. Dr. J. H. R. Innes, C. 8., Deputy-Inspector-Gene ral Of Hospitals, and principal medical officer at the camp at Colchester, Staff Assist.-Surg. Connell, and Mr. P. M. Lonsdale, of the Purveyor's department, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Canada. It is also stated that the sth Dragoon ,Guards, at present stationed at Ipswich, Norwich, and North• ampton, have received a similar intimation. The Government have purchased for the use of the troops in Canada several thousands of leather waist coats, of the kind which proved so beneficial in the Crimea during the late war. THE NAVAL PREPARATIONS AT PORTSMOUTH. Interesting as naval and military proceedings might now be, in connection with the doings at the various dockyards and garrisons, the preparations at Portsmouth possess a more than ordinary amount of interest; for alongside the dockyard and in the steam basin of that port there are moored two fri gates, on the success of which the whole naval con stitution of England so greatly depends—we refer to these iron-clad sister ships, the Warrior and Black Prince. The former frigate has been tested, and has hitherto proved successful. The latter will, no doubt, prove equally so, as the same principle has been adhered to in her construction as in the Warrior, and as models both ships are equally dis tinguished and commended. The ,Warrior, under the command of the Hon. A. Cochrane, remains alongside the sheer and pitch-house jetties at Ports mouth. A number of workmen are employed about her day and night, and the crew have been, and still tire, hard at work fitting her for sea service again. The manner in which the seamen have be haved is most commendable. There appears to be an innate feeling among them that war is coming on, and that they have been insulted by the Ameri cans. This ship is ordered to be in readiness for sea in six days from the present time. She has completed her coaling, having taken in 700 tons. Workmen are making slight alterations in her steering apparatus, and her screw has been lifted out. Her head, which was damaged, is being re paired, and men are employed fitting out her store and her shell rooms. Blacksmiths are employed in putting her scuppers on the upper deck to the sewer pipe below, and a few modifications are being com pleted in her general ventilation. Amidst many other fittings artisans are placing racks around the upper deck, made to hold shots for Armstrong's guns. The Black Prince is progressing ; 250 men of all trades are to be employed on board of her, in order to complete the contractor's work. At the present time a large body of workmen are actively engaged on board this ship, preparing her for masting and rigging, and fitting her out for sea service. Were it necessary with the full complement of men, this frigate could be thoroughly fitted for sea in six weeks. Although 250 men are to be en gaged on her, it is well known that when at Glas gow, no less than 1,300 workmen were employed on board her, and doubtless had she remained in Glasgow, she would have been completed ere this ; but the great disadvantage was the absence of any thing like a convenient place alongside in which to berth her. She is now in the steam basin, which has been again filled of necessity. In addition to the warlike preparations referred to as above, we would state that the bakers and millers at Clarence Victualling -yard, Gosport, have received orders to work extra hours, in order that a stock of naval bread and flour may be on hand to supply any sud den demand that might arise. On Saturday the Hero, 89, screw, Captain A. P. Ryder, received orders to fill up with provisions, which she will convey to the North American station. By Satur day noon this ship was to have sailed, but she did not leave Spithead until yesterday afternoon (Sunday). The Stromboli, 6, steam sloop, also in course of preparation for active service was taken into No, S dock in order to have her copper cleaned, :The Edgar, 89, screw, F - -,1 70 /.,.; ,--, 7 - 1 , ...&_, Wu George P. Mends, remains at Spithead, tut , will, it is reported, sail in a fe*4(tys for .NqrA me rica. It may n ot be uninteliking to mit4eaders to know what ships have as yefbeen orderl to be placed in readiness for immediate commission. The Government have ordered the followit* to be made ready for sea service, if required. 4—. - .. Guns. ' •:lin': I.3urdcn. 13arossa ............... 21 400 1700 Devastation ........ ... 6 400 1058 Euryalus ............ . 51 400 2371 Galatea . ...... 26 800 3227 Highflyer ....... 21 250 1161 Magicienne .., Octavia Pylades Phoebe ........... .... 51 500 2896 Perseus ... Petrel ll 150 669 Pandora 5 80 426 Royal George .. S 6 400 2661 Rattlesnake ............ 21 400 170.5 Rosario Sutlej Severn Shannon .51 600 2667 Styx Stromboli Vigilant Zebra NAVAL _RESERVE. The following is a copy of the address from the members of the Naval Reserve at Hartlepool, with the reply received thereto : To CAPTAIN BROWN, RN., REGISTRAR-GENERAL OF SEAMEN. " We, the undersigned members of the Royal Naval Reserve at Hartlepool, now in port, in our own names and on behalf of our brother volun teers who are from home at present, request that you will express to her Majesty's Government that we feel indignant at the gross insult to tho British flag by the recent outrage on board the Trent, by the United States war vessel San Jacinto. Should her Majesty's Government require our ser _ _ vices, to demand sltisfactinn, her Majesty may rely upon a hearty response from the Royal Naval Vo lunteers of this port. " Signed on behalf of the Royal Naval Reserve at Hartlepool, by 82 members, being all then in port." "Admiralty, Coastguard-effiee, 12, Spring gardens, S.W., Dec. 6. " Sir,—With reference to the offer of the men of the Royal Naval Reserve in the port of Hartlepool, for service in the Royal Navy, forwarded by you on the 4th inst., their lordships have expressed their high satisfaction at the loyal and patriotic feeling so readily manifested by the able seamen of the Royal Naval Reserve. " Their lordships rely with the most entire con. fidenee that the hearty services of the Royal Naval Reserve will be forthcoming should her gracious Majesty sea fit by royal proclamation to call for them. " I have much pleasure in conveying the above to the Reserve men of Hartlepool, having witnessed the zeal and :promptitude with which these me enrolled in the Reserve from the date of its earliest formation, and the ability they displayed in their great gun exercise at my last inspection.—l am sir, your most obedient servant, " H. R. YELVERTON, Commodore Controller-General. " J. H. Brown, Esq., Registrar-Gen. of Seamen." ASTRO-METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. The first annual meeting of this society, the ob ject of which is the promotion of the science of meteorology in connection with astronomic pheno mena, was held on the 29th ult., at the offices in Pall-mall—Lieutenant R. J. Morrison in the chair. The report expressed the thanks of the committee to the members and others for furnishing meteoro logical observations, and they trusted that the science which had astronomy for its basis, and pro mised so great a boon to all classes of the commu nity, would meet with due encouragement and support. Astro-meteorology, as a practical science, was of the utmost importance to sailors, farmers, and others dependent upon the weather, as it enabled them to guard against those sudden and terrific changes in the state of the atmosphere which sometimes did an enormous amount of damage, as it would put them in possession not only of the causes of storms, but of the times when they might be expected. The report and the accounts having been adopted, a paper was read, showing the range of the thermometer on the occasion of the conjunction of the sun and the planet Saturn during the last ten years. The range on seven days, in cluding three days before and three after the con junction, showed a great variation in the tempera ture and a disturbed state of the atmosphere. Various communications were read from corres ponding members in different parts of the United Kingdom, verifying the predictions of the society as to the state of the weather during the three months following their quarterly publications ; and it appeared they had predicted storms and heavy rains about the 11th of September last, when the conjunction of Saturn and Mars took place, and that the 11th was the memorable storm in which the Great Eastern so severely suffered. The chair man, in the course of his remarks, alluded to the storm signals which were made only a few days before the change in the weather was expected, and pointed out how much life and property would be saved if storms could be foretold three months prior to their occurrence. 'With regard to the storms to be anticipated during the first three months of 1862, he said the calculations of the society showed that they would be as severe as in the present year, but not so numerous, and that the'severest period would;be the 17th and:lBth of February. DEERFOOT. Wilkes's .Noe fork Spirit of' the Times pub lishes some " hard facts" which the believers in Deerfoot may digest at their leisure. Deerfoot, it seems, does not belong to the Seneca or any other tribe. He is of Indian blood, but for generations his ancestors have been civilised. Paint, feathers, and wampum arc not his natural habiliments ; but have only been assumed to attract the crowds who 11 ave paid at the gate to see him. He is well known in New York, and his real name is Bennett. Alluding to these remarks the Field says—" If the writer in Wilkes's imagines that the real state of things was not perfectly well known in sporting circles,' or that betting men were at all deceived by the paint and feathers, we are sorry to say he is much mistaken. We do not make it our business to attend to pedestrian matters, and it is our duty to look after the interests of sportsmen rather than of sporting men;' but this is not the first time that we have heard that the Deerfoot business was nothing but a tremendous sell ;' that the paint and feathers were nothing but a masquerading COB. tume, to attract the multitudes who paid to gape ; that neither time nor distance has been properly kept in any of these so-called matches ;' and that the pedestrians whom Deerfoot has beaten have been hired to play their part in the farce like any other actors. A very short timo ago a gentleman, well-known as a betting man, offered publicly at Newmarket to lay a thousand pounds, or any part of that sum, that he would find a man at the shortest notice who would run Deerfoot for from five yards up to 50 miles—and his bet was not taken. People will be apt to ask, why was not this exposed before •, and we are a f ra id that the only answer is, because it was nobody's business to do so. So long as the crowds paid money at the grounds' for the privilege of seeing a man capering in feathers and paint, and finishing off his races with a war-whoop, well and good. At any rate it was as good a sight as Blondin or any other acrobat. Nobody had any money on the business, except perhaps a few flats whose crowns and half-crowns were picked up freely; so it was nobody's business to complain. If a betting man had only lost £lO by Deerfoot, the public would not have been quite so long without the in formation that as a genuine American article, he is about as real as Barnum's woolly-horse, or the nurse of General Washington." A prospectus has been issued of a new suburban line, to be called the Metropolitan and Thames Valley Railway. It will connec t the Groat Western and S uuth- Western linenwith a ith H a mpton, Sunbury, Chertsey, an d , g through favourable country, can b e constructed p at small cost. The enterprise has good local support, and. the proposed capital is n 50,000, in £lO shares. T H E PERSTI AND AUSTRALASIAN.—These two magnificent steamships, belonging to the Cunard fleet, ara b e ing rapidly fitted for the conveyance of troops, stores, and ammunition, and it is expected that they will bo ready to sail hence for Canada about the 14th or 15th inst. Each of them is to carry out a complement of 1,100 soldiers, 5,000 stand of arms, and 300 tons of stores. 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