The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-23 00:00:00

a 1.4:2L 62 ''''' ''''- : - is now his teacher. We - wish him, 7 R 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA CO V E NT GARDEN. and illustrious career ! Even now—when we have ' Yiw ith Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, which Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. d Harrison. A a pon this very day been consigning to the grave the ?States framed the Tariff—joy of their lesson. '...i Unprecedente d C o mbination of Attractions for th e Chr i stmas Holidays. :. inanimate remains of Him who was, as it were, but. '-, We wish them joy also of the ways and means Balfe's Greatest Success—the NEW OPERA, and the NEW) : i yesterday the " cynosure of neighbouring eyes , " as !;provided by Mr. CHASE. Increased duties on sugar, , COM IC PANTOMIME, EVERY E VENING. On BOXING NIGHT (THURSDAY), Dec. 26, 1861, and the ' the father of our Future King, the husband of our I ,,tea, and coffee stand at the head of the list. Every following Evenings, will be presented the New and Original Grand Romantic Opera, in Three Acts, entitled -Re igning Monarch—Her MAJESTY'S most intimate t family will feel them ; what he expects from them is 4 , - THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. adviser, and, in the truest meaning of every phrase,,, not mentioned. Then follows a list which will The Libretto by J. V. Bridgeman. Supported by Miss i ~ . Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Fyne; Mr. s ant i ey , Mr. H. Cor m, , h er G ui d e , philosopher, and Friend." It will-..: assimilate the model republic to the old monarchy, Mr George Honey, Mr. Patey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. T. '... f -, . . .. ‘ Distin,. Mr. Wallworth, Mr. E ugene Dussek, Mr. C. Lya ll, only be by little and little that we shall come to .in regard to the taxation—the exciseman and the " and Mr. W. Harrison. Conduc tor, IVIr. ALFRED MELLON. .0 realise the magnitude of the loss sustained at once ; stam p o ffi c e a re t o be called into full p la y , stills and , After which will be produced (written expressly by J. M. .by the QUEEN herself, above all and beyond all— ~ distilled liquors, tobacco, bank-notes, legacies,: Morton). a Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled , HARL EQUIN GULLIVER ; or, A Trip to Brobdignag, a.:A.• by the Royal Offspring—and by the nation all, carriages, and—nefandum, PAPER—are to be a e l t yLi new l li pu Tricks,t and r a r F an lyi st 7 Visit to L p a e t, o u u t a WithPeenetpiraiions, i large. His Royal Highness occupied, beyond is all subjected to the demands of the tax_ Machinery, and Dresses. all manner of doubt, the most delicatloollector. Paper—can it be ? The enlightened, - New splendid SCENERY, including the GRAND TRANS- FORMATION SCENE, by W. CALCOTrE, in which will and di ffi cult position, from its responsibility,i the educated, the intelligent republic taxing know be represented new and patent effects never before attempted . -.) on the stage. ,of any man in this cou n t r y . And w ho is there ,ledge ! What will our eloquent friend at Rochdale Gulliver, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Mrs. Gulliver, Mr. F. Payne. ::' - among all the responsible subjects of the Crown ,` say ? Can it it be that universal suffrage, the bal - Principal danseuse. Mdlle. Lamoureux, supported by the : Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. The Harlequ'nide sustained by the eminent Pantomimists, Messrs. EL Payne, F. Payne, ~ ti.i, who has more nobly, more admirably acquitted t tot, and equal apportionment of members will con- IL Lauri, E. Lauri, S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. t),' himself of every one of his responsibilities than this t sent to a tax on paper ?We fear even Mr ' NOTICE.—A Morning Performance of the New Panto mime Eti will take place on WEDNE -WAY, Jan. 1, and on r . 4 ge ntle -hearted and rarely gifted Prince, over BRIGHT'S confidence in the wisdom of the many every succeeding Wednesday till further notice, commencing. : at Two o'clock. Carriages to be in attendance at Four. I whose sepulture we have this day been mourning will be shaken if they allow Mr. CHASE to go on Stalls, 7s. ; Private Boxes, from 10s. 6d. tc Xi 4s. ; Dress'.. with—remembering our loss—only too much' with this part of the scheme. What, moreover, will Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Amphitheatre Stalls , 35. ; Mit; 2s. 6d. • Amphitheatre, is. Box-office open daily (except; reason ? i , the penny and halfpenny sheets, which are the ad to-day, 'Monday, and Wednesday), from Ten till Five , Corn - mence at Seven. Places booked w.thout c harge. . Yesterday, Sunday, being the eve of the Funeral I: visers of American rowdyism, and which at present ' ‘. of his Royal Highness, was natural enough selected t are so poor in quality that they will barely pass A.. ' in most of our metropolitan churches as a isthrough the machine, and not bear rough handling, "f fitting occasion for the expression of the f: what will they all say to a tax which will either popular sentiments, under this dire calamity, from a rob the editor, or impoverish the paper till the the pulpit. Preachers unnumbered availed them t print is hardly legible ? r . selves with comprehensible eagerness of this most Of the deficiency of forty-three millions, Mr. ,i k' mourn fn 1 but most tempting opportunity. Had ar CHASE proposes to raise thirty millions by a we space we might readily enough select many IL Federal paper currency to supersede the present .;;fragmentary evidences of that truest eloquence of $ Bank currency. The security is to be United States ' i .,' all, the eloquence born of strong emotion—eloquence Stock, and the notes are to be redeemable in coin an ' that thrilled to many a heart and brought tears to ' presentation. We wait for the details ; but 1::' many an eye yesterday during the delivery of these - if the Government has to retain, as it must, Rimpressive Oraisons Funebres. If anything in they even when no panic is pending, one-third of way of human sympathy can assuage the bitterness !,- the amount in cash for business purposes, this ~: of the dire affliction that has now befallen theft would cut down largely at once what Mr. CHASE? Queen of England, her MAJESTY has that earthly ? hopes for from this source. It remains also to be aid in the midst of a great sorrow, now, in unmea-5 seen, how the Banks will like their present issue of ' sured abundance. Throughout the past week the k paper to be superseded by that of the Government. 4 partial closing of all the shops in this vast metro-' Mr. CHASE reckons, however, that by a loan of .. , , i polis has given external and visible evidence in the.: %., £ 10,000,000 and other devices for the remaining streets of the universal feelings of grief excited l'::.. fourteen million dollars, he shall make up the de 'it: among all ranks and classes of the population by' ficiency. The whole scheme strikes us as hypo. ,- the thunderbolt of affliction that, at a moment t therial and uncertain to the last degree. The Go when most unlooked for, has fallen upon the Royal :'„ vernment paper, the loans, and the result of the 1 Family and upon the Loyal Nation. During the taxes are all exposed to so many causes, f . l whole of this present day, the melancholy date fof uncertainty that if he carries his plan r selected for the interment of the remains l in its integrity we should expect to find in July a l of the late PRINCE CONSORT, London has . , heavy deficiency. We are not surprised to read attested yet more signally by its outward aspect 5 that the report does not receive much favour in the heartfelt sorrow of its three million inhabi-f financial circles. tants. The vast majority of the principal shops' and places of public business have been sponta- ' i neously, and by one accord, closed altogether. The I exceptional few not entirely closed this morning- 1 in many instances unavoidably—have been, at any rate, partially closed. The blinds in most of the, 1 I private houses have been drawn down—as though there ch rehad h t ower th ere h as fl u tt ere d been a death in each. At every flag half way every avail ablel way down the flagstaff. The funeral peal 1 has been tolling to-day with monotonous regu -11 larity from every church-tower. The Great Bell or baurdon of St. Paul's Cathedral has boomed I its melancholy note above them all. The iPark guns, while we write, are firing at , doleful intervals. And all down the River, rand among the shipping in the Pool, and . wt a h w aet ef y rr se a s ohf alongthee currentict her ha n of fe a l n t, kha the d dT o w ha al n lmr t e o osu t n h wd e i t ht m h i et n he g eo l a i n o g of briny l i nei it t h h e . cl f o t se of the .n a s e t tu G al e cerem , ceremonial o l f th t e Funeral .d I 'immediately after the Coffin had been lowered to its appointed place at the entrance of the Royal Vault, i according to a grand old knightly custom that has come down to us from the ages of chivalry, Garter Kingast-Arms (Sir CHARLES YOUNG), after reciting the magnificent style and titles of the dead Prince, Consort of the Queen of ENGLAND, Duke of Saxe Highness Coburg and th T h.htyl G a o d t o h p a Se o t. , i ohnt re , Serene of e Knight Highnessthe , b G y a birth, rKnightt e r, Grand i o g y h a dt l Cross of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the egien of Honour, Knight of the Black Eagle, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c. &c., Chancel lor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Chancellor of the •:.-4 .i ;,' "I"._ -, University of Cambridge, Master of the Trinity . , ~ „.._ :) .4dp, ~ s tz. \ s House, Field Marshal, Colonel of the Grena ,;,-i--,Ny- - t , • ,i am - ~,7 „ ,r dier Guards, Constable of Windsor Castle, Ranger of Windsor Park, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. — Garter Principal King at Arms, after recounting the whole stately catalogue, took to-day the symbolical wand of office, and breaking it into two or three pieces, flung the fragments after the coffin down in the cavernous grave yawning at his feet! Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. So fleet ing and perishable are all the grandeur; of this world. Yet—as in the instance of the august Prince whose Death we are yet lamenting , in the full bitterness of our early grief—whenever' there is remembered of the illustrious Dead a long list l l of great and solemn duties nobly done, the wand of , his earthly state may be broken over his grave and flung into it as the Dust is scattered upon his coffin lid by the hand of Religion, but even from his grave, even though in Death he wields the unbroken sceptrel ! of his Memory over our affections. Throughout his life ALBERT, the Prince Consort of England, enjoyed the respect and attachment of the subjects of the great Constitutional SOVEREIGN of whom he was - the beloved and revered Husband. In Death—that Respect and Attachment are now enhanced to a lasting Love and Gratitude. •ri.EA TR RO Y AL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. 13. Backstonc. THURSDAY, Dec. 2s, Sterling Coyne's Comedy, BLACK SHEET. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, Villiers, Mrs. C. Young, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le.' clercq, Herr Cole, G. Beeket, and Miss Rogue. Commerce a 7 . LOYA L lanag L er Y m C r E Ed U mun M d THEATREraleoner To-Morrow Evening the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at 'a quarter to Ei'ht (37th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting )(tanager—Mr. F. B. ChAtterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr A. Harris. BOXING NIGHT, Thursday, Dec. 26, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which will be produced, fl . Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled W lIITTING TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening, invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The, Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast- 1 ings, Raymond ; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel ; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will take place at Two o'clock on Monday, Dec. 30, and every fol lowing Monday till further notice. ENV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Great Attraction for the Holiday Week. TO-MORROW (Christmas Eve) the great American Drama! entitled THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Smith,l Stephenson, Homer. Lewis; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-1 ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. I After wh'ch, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama l of THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault,' Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c. _ _ _ The broad view of the position of things is in structive enough to our American friends. Somel glimpse of what their financial position is to be, if the war of secession lasts begins to open upor! them. By July, 1863, at the present rate of ex penditure, the national debt will, according to Mr. CHASE'S calculation, be close upon—no doubt it will exceed—two hundred millions sterling. While already there is nothing before them but deficien cies, taxes producing far less than was reckoned on, and Government paper, perhaps to:become little better than assignats. Meantime that angel of war, the taxgather, is to visit the hitherto lightly taxed Northerners in every shape, to interfere with their business, to decimate their luxuries, and to cut and hew at their incomes. The prospect is a gloomy one for the sovereign electors. We l shall now see whether universal suffrage and the] ballot will or will not compel property to. pay more ' than its fair share of the war taxes. Box Office open Tuesday, Thursday, and during the week,, from 10 till 5. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.—This Hall will be CLOSED This Evening. MORTON and STANLEY, Proprietors. CIANTERBURY HALL.-GRAND CHRIST MAS ENTERTAINMENT, by Mr. E. MARSHALL, "THE ENCHANTED HASH SECOND EDITION," (Written expressly for him.) Commencing on BOXING-NIGHT. CANTERBURY HALL. -M. VICTOR' ‘..) JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN." from Paris, will make his First Appearance on the 30th December. 1 •E O X F ORD 6, OXFORD-STREET, Will be CLOSED This Evening (Monday). MORTON and STANLEY, Proprietors. As to the question of war the turn is in all re spects on the hopeful side. Financial embarrass ment can but counsel peace; the threats of the New 1 1 Fork Herald not in any way representing Northern sentiments. They are but the ravings of a pipe) in the Southern interest, desirous because its direct advocacy of the South was stopped by Lynch Law threats, to serve it indirectly by creating enmit3 betweLn the North and England. It is singular also that we know by these telegrams two facts, either of which would seem to facilitate the release of the prisoners. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 38m.—Afternoon, sh. 58m, To-mounow.-Morning, 613. 19m.—Afternoon, 6h. 43m THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 227367. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 39-7.ighest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 33—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.31. WlND—Northerly ; light, with dull, cold weather. DEC. 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—this day at noon. Mr. SEWARD declined to receive, in June, the despatches of the French and English Governments which assumed the belligerent position of the South. Hence the Commissioners were, to the North, but political fugitives, and cannot be claimed under international law. Next, we observe, that Con gress has passed a resolution in favour of an ex change of prisoners. In that case the Commissioners would no doubt be amongst the first exchanged , and the Confederates must be recognised as bel ligerents by the very act of exchange. It may, per haps, be doubted whether the South, aware of the advantage of keeping the North in hot water with England, and able to allege that the Commissioners were not prisoners of war, but of illegal violence would accept them in the former capacity. They (will expect to get their release in a much more advantageous manner. BAROMETER-30.39. : WlND—Easterly; moderate, with dull, but fine, weather , _,:„ , ,,..,..,y,, ....,,,,) CILI.k., .. A.,-; > (.*: , , v ----., Cr , .. " < j -7/' ?,,_ ,41 3 , .-; , : rdfr ~ t. t , -....,..4_ bfk , , - , - ,lc r i 4,•, 0 , - - • ' - _—, .. A . l' - bporr ,-; 1 • - .-t., • 7, -- '''- THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1861. Before our impression of to-day can reach the' public eye all that is mortal of his Royal High ness the PRINCE CONSORT will have been con signed to the tomb. The honour due to the memory of the august Husband of the SOVE REIGN will have been paid, and that with far more than the mere funereal pomps and pageants of al Royal Interment. Ever since the afflicting intelli-' gence of the premature death of his Royal High ness was first spread abroad upon those wings of swiftness proverbialllycarrying ill news far and wide, At New York they had just received news from England by a steamer which sailed the day after the news of the outrage arrived here. She took out the statement that we received the tidings of Cap tain WILKES'S exploit with calmness, This was' quite true; but so different was a judicial kind of feeling to any which the Yankees themselves would have indulged that they had expected much more unfavourable news. Their expectations, however, show what their own consciences tell them ; and tong before now they have understood that our respect for law does not interfere with but rather strengthens, our determination' when we know that law is on the side s of national instinct. They have also found by this time that France certainly agrees with England, and must be aware that persistence would isolate them among the maritime Powers of the world. What would they now not give to have acted at first like men of honour, to have disavowed the act of Captain WILKES instead of commending him through the Navy Board and the House of Representatives, and to have placed the Commission. ers under the flag of the British Embassy l The time. for the most honourable surrender is, however, past —it will now have to be made, because they cannot resist the physical force of England, and the moral Force of the judgment of the civilised world. We' shall have no doubt a long discourse on international law from Mr. SEWARD, but a deficiency of £43,000,000, an English fleet, and a French legal hostile decision will dictate to the American Foreign Secretary his final reply. the emotions awaked in the people's hearts have been—not those of a merely loyal sympathy with the QUEEN in her great and irreparable bereave ment, but rather it has been so with each and all of us we believe it might be said with literal truth in the words—emotions of profound and earnest personal participation in the sorrow of her MAJESTY and the Royal children. It is the memory of the Great Prince, of course, that the nation has been this day lamenting—but beyond Though we have not this morning from America that also, it is the memory likewise of a True and; ilthe news we all so anxiously look for, we yet have Devoted Husband, of a Tender and Admirable news whose importance, if we mistake not, can Father. Immediately upon the espousal of the young = hardly be exaggerated. The Federal Government is, Prince ALBERT of Saxe-Ccburg and Gotha by her krelatively, to its means, harder pressed for money Majesty Queen VICTORIA—his Royal Highness was ►A than the South ! We knew from the beginning declared by Act of Parliament to take rank in they that silver and gold there was none in the South, order of precedence next to the SOVEREIGN. From and could not be surprised, therefore, that they the date of the royal nuptials he stood, not upon the- used cotton, represented by paper, for gold, and first step of the Throne, but upon a level with it— trelied largely on Treasury notes. They had nothing beside it— t h e Partner, the Adviser, the Support yelse, and it was thought they had managed won-' and Solace of th e hitherto isolated Maiden-Ruler-, clrously well to get on thus far without depreciation of these Realms. During more than twenty ct :of their internal paper currency. But in the North happy years of domestic life in the midst of a' it was known that there were resources in loyal people, proud t o recognise in the Royal,abundance ; wealth only second, it was supposed, Family, uninterruptedly d ur i ng - all that long inter- to that of the mother country ; and means both val, the Model Household in the land whose mother ij for loans and taxes almost without limit. Free tongue has the benignant glory of having given } 'contributions were asked, and at first offered by the birth to the word HOME—during very nearly wealthy, and it was represented that dollars would VICTORIA`-' one entire quarter of a century Queen Vicron, he as easy to get as men. To-day we hear a dif and her Princely Consort have presented to the world lferent story. The men are got—they crowd even an unostentatious spectacle of Home Felicity sucht;,,in superabundance on the Government, but the as we should find it difficult anywhere to paralleltmoliey is not forthcoming . Mr. CHASE sees for the Certainly most difficult among the Families of Sove-dfinancial year terminating July, 1862, nothing l reigns. The central figure in that home group before him but the enormous deficiency of 214 so familiar during all these years to the Englishk!,nillions of dollars, in round numbers about multitude is the very one that has now suddenly ,!E,43,000,000 sterling. [ the early prime of his life, in the pride and vigour r l - : )Southern market, have taught him that a custom of his manhood, the PRINCE has vanished frornr:ihouse war against England and France, however ' that conspicuous scene so ab ru ptly that it is ato o it may benefit some "native" cotton-spinners and xl moments even now almost impossible to realise thqiron-masters, does not benefit the Federal treasury. fact that he is ab ru ptly an d fi na ll y gone . E v ent Any English now—whe n th e na ti on h as been more th an one f ree trade, could schoolboy, sham our adoption of; ould have told him so. The fact that] whole week lamenti ng) w ith no affectation of grief, he is obliged t o allow for a falling off in customs b ut with a deep and heartfelt afilletlee) the me i n' duties to the amou nt of 25 millions of dollars— ! MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—It is understood in official quarters that Parliament will " meet for the despatch Id business" on Tuesday, the 14th of J anuary. It stands prorogued until Tuesday, the 7th of January. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh,l accompanied by Colonel Oliphant, arrived at Clatidge's Hotel yesterday from Mulgrave Castle to attend the funeral !of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort this day at i I Windsor. FUNERAL OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. WINDSOR, MONDAY. t,. The funeral of the late Prince Consort took placJi , to..day amidst universal sorrow and regret. The:, appearance of the town was that of the deepest . mourning, the busy hum of business was hushed, •'. and the deathlike silence of the place was only broken by the solemn tolling of the funeral bells.. and the deep, dull booming of the guns fired by the artillery at the top of the Long Walk at Windsor Park. As far as possible all funeral pomp and ceremony: was dispensed with, although from the very large number of attached and personal friends, the melancholy cortege was one of great magnitude. Barriers had been erected on Castle-hill to avoid . , lany confusion that might arise from the number of persons expected there, and so in other parts of the town, but the spectators, although very large in number, seemed too much in grief to cause the -; slightest inconvenience. The exterior and interior of St. George's Chapel were hung with black cloth; and the arrangements, were similar to those carried out at the burial of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, with the exception that there was a carriage procession 31 from the Castle to St. George's Chapel. It will bef recollected that the body of the Duchess of Kent was privately conveyed from Frogmore during they. previous night to await the ceremony of the follow- ing day, but the body of the Prince Consort re- mained iu the private apartments of her Majesty 1.1 at the Castle until the time appointed for the '2:7 '.. funeral in the Royal Chapel. 1 The carriage procession from :the Castle to St. -' George's Chapel was of the simplest description, the only circumstance in which it differed from the, ordinary melancholy cortege was in the heraldriet, ornamentations of the hearse and the trappings of ~ the horses ; but within the Chapel the sight was of the most solemn character, and as the coffin was being lowered in the grave the distant sound of the . guns firing was heard within the sacred edifice. The service for the burial of the dead was read . by the Dean of Windsor. The following is the order in which the proces- ; sion quitted the Castle, and the proceedings within •• St. George's Chapel : A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards, of which •.: regiment his late Royal Highness was Colonel, mounted al the entrance to the State apartments of 'Windsor Castle. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying two :I valets and two jagers of his late Royal Highness—viz., i - Mr. Lohlein, Mr. Mayet, Mr. C. Robertson, Mr. E. S. if Cowley.A urning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying Mr. Roland, librarian; Mr. Meyer, gentleman rider; Mr.. '1 White, solicitor to his late Royal Highness; and Dr. Robertson, commissioner at Balmoral. . A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying the four physicians who were in attendance upon his late Royal „Highness --Sir James Clark, M.D., Sir Henry Holland, '7 - M.D., Dr. Watson, Dr. Jenner. 1 5 ) ,I A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, convoying an! equerry to his late Royal Highness, Colonel the Hon. Alex , ander Gordon, CM.% an equerry to his Royal Highness' -. the Prince of Wales, Major Teesdale, C. 8., V.C. ; an' equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel Hon. James Macdonald, C.B. ; and the Controllei ~ and Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam - bridge, Colonel Home Furvis. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, C. 8., and Colonel H. F Ponsonby, Equerries to his late Royal Highness; and Rear :Admiral Blake, and Major. General Charles W. Ridley, ~ C. 8., Gentlemen Ushers to his late Royal Highness. ~ • A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying the, . Lord Camoys, the Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; and , Lieutenant-General Sir H. Bentinck, K.C.8., Groom in ;;Waiting; ,the Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal; and Colonel Biddulph, the Master of the Household. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying foul of the supporters of the pall of his late Royal Highness, ' •iz.:—Major-Gen.Wylde, C. 8., and Col. F. Seymour, C. 8., Grooms of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness ; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Dudley De Roe, and Major C. T. - Du. Plat, Equerries to his laze Royal Highness. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying four < of the supporters of the pall of his late Royal Highness— , viz., Lord Waterpark, Lord of the Bedchamber to his late ) Royal Highness ; Colonel the Hon. Alex. Nelson Hood, ' Clerk Marshal to his late Royal Highness ; Col. the Hon. . Sir Chas. B. Phipps, K.C.8., Treasurer to:his late Royal Highness ; Lieut.-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his late Royal Highness. ;. A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, conveying the - three Great Officers of her Majesty's Household, the Lord 1, Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the 4 ' Horse. I A carriage of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,' a.n drawn by six horses, the servts in State liveries, convey- I ing the Crown of his late Royal Highness, bo rne by th e Earl Spencer, Groom of the Stile to his late Royal High-1 ness'; and the baton, sword, and hat of his late Royal Highness, borne by Lord George Lennox, Lord of the Bed- 1 chamber to his late Royal Highness. THE HEARSE, Drawn by six horses, attended by an escort of the Lifel Guards. A carriage of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, drawn by six horses ; the servants in State liveries. A carriage of his Royal Higbness the Prince of Wales, l drawn by six horses ; the servants in State liveries. A carriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, drawn by six horses; the servants in State liveries. A carriage of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge, drawn by six horses ; the servants in State liveries. The line of procession was kept by the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, dismounted, and by the Scots Fusilier Guards. At half-past 11 o'clock those had the honour to receive the Queen's commands to attend the ceremony, but who did not take part in the procession, were admitted to St. George's Chapel, byWolsey'sChapel, and at once conducted to scats in the Choir. At 12 o'clock the Royal Family and other Royal person ages assembled in the Chapter Room of St. George's Chapel, from which they were conducted to their places in the procession by the Lord Chamberlain, assisted by the Vice. Chamberlain. The remainder of those appointed to form part of the, procession within the Chapel, having previously assembled in Wolsey's Chapel, took their places, and upon the arri- 1 val of the body at the South Porch the procession was formed in the Nave, and moved up the Choir in the follow ing order : Valets of his late Royal Highness—Mr. Lohleim and Mr. Mayet. Yagers of his late Royal Highness—Arr. Charles Robertson and Mr. E. S. Cowley. Bailiffs of his late Royal Highness—Mr. Brebner, Mr. Tai Mr. Graham, and Mr. Toward. Mr. Roland, Librarian ; Mr. Meyer, Gentleman Rider; Mr. "White, Solicitor to his late Royal Highness; and Dr. Robertson, Commissioner at Balmoral. Apothecary to his late Royal Highness—M. C. Dupasquier Apothecary to the Household at Windsor, who was in attendance on his late Royal Highness— Mr. Henry Brown. Surgeons to his late Royal Highness. Sir Benjamin Brodie. Surgeon-Major W. H. Judd. Mr. W. Fergusson. Mr. James M. Arnott. Physicians who were in attendance upon his late Royal Highness. Sir James Clark, M.D,, f :Physicians to his late Royal Highness, and Physicians in Sir Henry Holland, M.D., Ordinary to the Queen. Dr. Watson, f Physicians Extraordinary Dr. Jenner. I to the Queen. Chaplains to his late Royal Highness. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley The Rev. Professor A. P. Russell. Stanley, D.D. The Very Rev, the Dean of The Rev, Professor Light. Christchurch, Dr. Liddell. foot, M.A. The Representatives of absent Foreign Royal Personages, General Baron von Hammerstein, attended by his Aide de-Camp, Captain Tobtng. Representatives of His Majesty the King of Hanover. Lieut.-General the Hon Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., Repre sentative of his Majesty the King of the Belgians. Don Manoel da Camara, Chamberlain to the King. and Lieutenant A. de Sarnpayo e Pina, Officier d'Ordon nances to the King, Representative of his Majesty the King of Portugal. M. de Scebach, Representative of his Majesty the King of Saxon y. Colonel Boddein, Representative of his Royal Highness: the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz. The Controller and Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge—Lieut.• Col. Home Purees. 'An Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge— ! Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, C.B. 'An Equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales-1 . His Highness the Prince Czartoryski has left Major Major Teesdale, C. 8., V.C. • the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. Eerries to his late Royal Highness—Colonel H. F. P on - His - Excellency the French Ambassador and Miss sonby, Colonel Hon. A. Hardin g e, C. 8., an d C o l one l n Elphinstone de Flahault will leave town in a few days to - Hon. A. Gordon, C.B. join the Countess de Fl a h a ult a t T orqua y. Itt The Master of the Household to the Q ueen —C o l one l I The Earl of Clarendon has arrived in town from' 'iThe Equerry Biddulph. in Waiting to the Queen the Grove, He r t s .the Lord Alfred' 11 i Lady Meux, accompanied by Lord and Lade. ; Paget, Clerk Marshal. The Groom in Waiting to the Queen—Lieut.-General Sir Ernest Bruce, has left town for Paris. ti Henry Bentinck, K.C.B. I Lord Hobart has returned to London from Con- ;Th e Lord in Waiting to the Queen—The Lord CamoYs• , stantinople. Mr. Glyn, M The Lord Steward— The Master of the Horse— .P., and Mrs. Glyn, have leftaThe Earl of St. Germans, The Marquis of Aileebury. iFarrance's Hotel for Staunton Park. gG.C.B. The Canons of Windsor. The Dean of Windsor—The Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald D.D. THE BATON, SWORD, AND HAT Of his late Royal highness, borne upcn a Black Velvet Cushion, by Lord George Lennox, Lord of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness. THE CROWN Of his late Royal Highness, borne upon a Black Velvet Cushion, by the Eail Spencer, Groom of the Stole to his late Royal Highness. The Controller in the Lord The Vice-Chamberlain cf Chamberlain's Depart- Her Majesty's Household ment Hon. Spencer —the Viscount Castle- Ponsonby. rosse. The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household— Viscount Sydney. SUPPORTERS OF THE PALL. Col. the Hon. Sir C. B.Phipps,K.C.B., Treasurer to his late Royal High ness. SUPPORTERS OF THE: PALL. Lord Waterpark, Lord' of the liedcham-1 ber to his late Royal Highness. Lieut.-Gen. Hon. C. Grey, Private Sec retary to his late Royal Highness. Major-Gen. Wylde, Groom of the Bed chamber to his late Royal Highness. Colonel Francis Sey mour, C.B.,Groom of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness. Garter King of Arms—Sir Charles Young. THE CHIEF MOURNER, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Clerk- Marshal to his late Royal Hight ess. Lieutenant-Col. Hon. Dudley De Ros, r Equerry to his late 1 Royal Highness. Major C. T. Du Plat,l Equerry to his late Royal Highness. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, supported by His Royal Highnesss Prince Arthur, and by His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia. His Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant. His Royal Highness the Count de Flandres. His Royal Highness the Duke do Nemours. His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. Count Gleichen. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. Equerries Governor To his Royal Highness to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales— nines Arthur— Captain George Henry Grey; Major Elphinstone, V.C. Lieut.-Col. Frederick Charles Keppel. Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge— Colonel Tyrwhitt. Gentlemen in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia—Lieutenant-General Baron Moltke, Chamberlain Count Furstenstein, Lieutenant-Colonel Von Obernitz, and Captain De Lucadou. Gentlemen in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of . Saxe-Coburg and Gotha—Major Von Reutern and M. Samwer. Gentlemen in Waiting onhis Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant—Count de Lannoy. Gentleman in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Count of Flanders—Major Burnoll. Gentleman in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke del Nemours—General Count de Chabonnes. Gentleman in Waiting on his Grand Ducal Highness thel Prince Louis of Hesse—Baron Westerweller. Gentleman in Waiting on his Highness the Maharajah D Weep Singh—Colonel Oliphant. Upon arrival within the choir, the Crown and the baton, sword, and hat of his late Royal Highness were placed: upon the coffin. His Royal Highness, the chief mourner, stood at the head of the corpse, with his Royal Highness, Prince Arthur and his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha on either side. The other Royal per sonages stood behind his Royal Highness the chief mour ner, and their attendants near them. The supporters of the pall were on either side of the coffin. The Lord Chamberlain stood at the foot of the coffin, The rest of the procession, having previously advanced towards the centre of the choir, stood on either side of the chapel. The opening sentences of the Burial Service were sung by the choir while the procession moved up the nave. The first part of the service and the Anthem (Martin Luther's hymn) having been performed, the corpse was lowered into the royal vault, and the Dean concluded the burial service, upon which Garter King of Arms pro claimed the style of his late Royal Highness. After which the Royal family and other royal personages were conducted out of the chapel, and the others compos ing the procession retired, while the Dead March in Saul was being played. A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards (of which regiment his late Royal Highness was colonel) mounted during the ceremony at the entrance of St. George's Chapel. The following had the honour to receive the Queen's commands to attend the funeral, and had seats in the choir: M. Van do Weyer, the Belgian Minister; Count Kielman segge, the Hanoverian Minister; Count de Lavradio, the Portuguese Minister; Count Vitzthum, the Saxon Minister; and Count Brandenburg, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires. OFFICERS OF STATE. Viscount Palmerston, K G, G C B, First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Westbury, Lord High Chancellor Earl Granville, K G, Lord President of the Council The Duke of Argyle, K T, Lord Privy Seal The Right Hon Sir George Grey, Bart, M P, G C B, Secretary of State for the Home Department Earl Russell, Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart ment The Duke of Newcastle, K G, Secretary of Ltate for the Colonial Department The Right Hon Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart, M P Secretary of State for the War Department The Right Hon Sir Charles Wood, Bart, M P, G C B Secretary of State for the Indian Department The Right Hon W. E. Gladstone, 1.1 P, Chancellor of the Exchequer The Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Stanley of Alderley, Postmaster-General Ilhe Right Hon Edward Cardwell, M P, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Right Hon Thomas Milner Gibson, M P, President oi the Boatd of Trade The Right Hon C. Pelham Villiers, M P, Chief Commis• sioner of the Poor Law Board The Earl of Carlisle, K G, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Right Hon William Cowper, First Commissioner 01 Works, &c The Hon Charles A. Gore, First Commissioner of Wood( OFFICERS OF THE QUEEN'S HOUSEHOLD Viscount Bury, the Treasurer of the Household Lord Proby, the Controller of the Household The Earl of Caithness, Viscount Torrington, Lord Rivers. Lord De Tabley, Lord Cremorne, K P, Lord Harris, K S I, Lord Methuen, and Lord Byron (extra), Lords in Waiting The Hon Mortimer Sackville West, Colonel the Hon Georg( Augustus Liddell, Captain Sir Wm Hoste, Bart, R N. Lieutenant-Colonel R. N. Kingscote, CB, and Lieut- Colonel W. H. F. Cavendish, Grooms in Waiting Colonel Lord James Murray and General Sir Frederid Stovin, G C B, Extra Grooms in Waiting The Hon Charles A. Murray, C B Lieutenant• Colonel Lord Augustus Charles L. Fittroy and ]Major• General Seymour, Equerries Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Maude, C B, Crown Equerry Captain the Hon Joseph Denman, RN, Captain of her Majesty's yacht Mr Woodward, Librarian The following also were invited : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Buccleuch. KG, the Duke of Atholl, KT (the Duchess being Lady 01 the Bedchamber in Waiting upon her Majesty) ; the Dukc of Rutland and the Duke of Manchester, formerly Lords o: the Bedchamber to his lace Royal Highness ; the Duke of Wellington, K G (the Duchess being Mistress of the Robes) ; the Marquis of Lansdowne, KG, the Marquis ol Abercorn, KG, the Marquis of Exeter, KG, and Lord Ebury, fcrmerly Gro, ms of the Stole to his late Roya Highness ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, KT, the Earl at 1 1 Derby, KG, the Earl de la Warr, the Earl of Clarendon. KG, GCB, his Excellency Earl Cowley, GCB ; the Ear; l of Morley, Viscount Clifden, and Lord Begot, forrnerl3 Lords of the Bedchamber to his late Royal Highness the Lord Bishop of London, Dean of her Majesty's Chapel( Royal ; the Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Lord Bishop o: Chester, and the Lord Bishop of Worcester, formerly Chap. lains to his late Royal Highness; Lord Colville of Culross. Lieut.-Colonel Commanding the Hon Artillery Company. of which his late Royal Highness was Colonel and Captain- General ; Lord Portman, Commissioner of the Duchy o' Cornwall; the Speaker of the House of Commons; Lieut.- General Sir George Bowles, KC B; Lieut.-Genera' Bouverie,'formerly Equerry to his late Royal Highness ; Colonel Lambert, Commanding the Grenadier Guards, at which regiment his late Royal Highness was Colonel; th. Rev James St John Blunt, vicar of Old Windsor ; the Rev H M Ellison, the vicar of Windsor, &c. The appearance of the metropolis was that of deep mourning, nearly all the shops were closed. and the great bells of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, the Palace at Westminster, and all the, principal churches tolled during the morning, and minute guns were fired in the parks and at the rower of London. A PIECE OF GOOD LUCK.—As good fortune! would have it, and in the midst of the heavy pressure on the! Government, a large supply of many thousand unissued stores, consisting of greatcoats, cholera belts, &c., arrived, from China in the early part of the week, and having been found in a perfectly sound state they have been made avail- Able for immediate iseue,-4nny and Zravy Gazette. LATEST NEWS. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA t ~ '4- NE W YORK, DEC. 10. (PER STEAMER CANADA, VIA BOSTON AND QUEENSTOWN.) Further correspondence between Mr. Seward and Mr. Dayton, the American Minister in Paris, has been published. Mr. Dayton writes that M. Thouvenel and Earl ! Russell had officially avowed that there was an un- Iderstanding between England and France for a !mutual action in American affairs. On the 15th of June the English and French' o\linisters had an interview with Mr. Seward, atl ;7 . ti Washington, in which they both announced that ) ri H Jhey were charged to read a despatch from their. L''respective Governments. Mr. Seward, in reply, r stated that, under the peculiar circumstances, he' 1 could not permit the official reading of the docu , tnents without knowing their character and object., The Ministers thereupon delivered the despatches! to Mr. Seward for informal examination. Mr. l Seward, having ascertained that the despatches, by taking cognisance of both parties as belligerents; assumed that the United States were not one sove-1 reign power, stated that he could not allow the, despatches to be communicated to the Federal Government, ' The New York _Herald of the 9th instant, in an .4 - article on the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell,,`J says that, according to the opinion of the Britishl''' law officers, as given in the correspondence between Mr. Adams and the English Government, the case is fairly and distinctly settled in favour of the Fede ral --•-: [ Government, and that there may have been fair grounds for seizing the steamer in British waters. The same paper on the 10th inst. says : "We quote in another column important corres tondence between Mr. Bancroft and Lord Palmer ston, which took place in 1847, when the former was i our Minister at the Court of St. James's, and the tatter Foreign Secretary. It refers to the cir- cumstance of the captain of the British West India royal mail steamer Teviot carrying from 4 the Havana to Vera Cruz the Mexican gene- ral Paredez, the United States and Mexico being then at war, and Great Britain occupying the posi tion of a neutral, Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of ." State, directed Mr. Bancroft to require satisfaction for this breach of neutrality, and accordingly the case was represented to him and inquired into by the British Government. The result was that Lord Palmerston : ultimately informed our b Minister that, the matter having been investi gated by the Lords Commissioners of the Admil '• ralty, her Majesty's Government had inf orme d ~. the directors of the West India Royal Mail Steam Packet Company that they were bound to testify in a marked manner their disapproval of the captain's conduct, in consequence of which the latter had been removed from his command ; and the company publicly and distinctly con demned any act of their officers which might be regarded as a breach of faith towards the Govern :, went of the United States. This seems to esta Wish clearly and incontestibly enough the illegality of the act of carrying Messrs. Mason and Slid dell on board the Trent, a vessel belonging t.t: the same company as the Teviot. Of all the precedents quoted in our favour none appears to apply so much to the case in point as this. It justifies in every respect the conduct of the captain of the San :Jacinto, and gives additional force to the reported decision of the law officers of the Crown with respect to the right of search, which we published yesterday. If, indeed, the British Government feel any disposition to quarrel with this country, they will be unable to find a suffi cient pretext in the action of Captain Wilkes. 'nd even had he gone further than he iid, and seized the Trent, as well as the rebel emissaries, he would have been justified under the circumstances, for Mason and Slidell were contra-, band of war, and known to be such by the captain of the steamer. But England has too many exposed interests at stake to risk a rupture . • with the United States, even apart from the ques tion of right. We have therefore ample guarantee For her future good behaviour. Canada is within a little more than two days' railway ride of half it million of armed men, and has a frontier that can offer no resistance to the march of an invading force From the United States. Moreover we have our own formidable and rapidly increasing naval armaments bristling before her eyes; and she well knows that hostile interference with us would involve the loss of her immense trade with the North. She will conse quently, we may rest assured, be in no hurry to embroil herself in another American difficulty ; for if she does the destiny of her power on this conti nent is predetermined." The New York Times of the 9th instant, in an article on the affair of the Nashville, says : " While awaiting for a day or two the news of the l manner in which the Trent affair has been received in England, we have a most profitable study in the ! new revelation of the mysteries of British neutrality presented by the case of the rebel steamer Nash ville. If it had been given us to control events so ts to prepare England for the reception of the news of our seizure of Mason and Slidell, we would hardly have done otherwise than ask that this transaction should take place, and that it would evoke the very )I,inions it has evoked. Whatever might be the bel igerent rights of the Nashville to seize United States vessels, she entered Southampton as a pirate, after having, in the face of international law, wantonly lestroyed her capture. There can be but one result if Mr. Adams acts with adequate vigour, the con fiscation of the lawless enemy of commerce, The bearing of this case on the affair of the Trent is )bvious, It is evident the English consider their londuct affords us, as it does, just ground of com plaint, if it does not present a casus belli ; even so that it is not at all unlikely the British Government will be very willing to quietly make the one casel, in offset to the other." The report of the Secretary of the Treasury has been presented to Congress. 1 Mr. Chase states that the amount derived by he Government from loans since July last is , 197,000,000 dols. He is compelled to reduce his! 3stiznate of the revenue from the Customs during !the financial year 1862 from 57,000,000 dols. to 32,000,000 dols. He recommends that the duty on sugar should be increased to 2-Ic., on clayed sugar to 3c., on green tea to 25c., and on coffee to Sc. - Other alterations in the tariff are also recommended. He further recommends that the direct taxes in -; 1 the loyal states should be increased to 20,000,000 , , dols., and that duties should be l ev i e d on st i l l s : , ' distilled liquors, tobacco, bank no t es , legaeks, car riages, and paper, sufficient to produce another q ;120,000,000 dols. 10,000,000 dols. are expected to l' i be derived from the income tax. 13 The estimated expenditure for the fi:ical year (terminating in July, 1862, is 543,000,000 dols.;. 329,000,000 dols, have already been received, leav-1 64. yng a deficit of 214,000,000 dols. to be provided for.l ''l The Secreta r y p ro p oses t o ra i se 150,000 ,000 do l s ! • by substituting for the present bank currency of thr.' 1 states 2 Federal currency to that amount, redeem- 1 able in coin on presentation, and secured by United 6. , states stocks ; 50,000,000 dols. by loan, and the ;remaining 14,000,000 dols. to be provided in vari- ous ways. In conclusion, the Secretary states that should ,the war be continued beyond midsummer, the [Amount required for the fiscal year 1863 will be 379,000,000 dols., and in July, 1863, the public debt will be 900,000,000 dols. The report does not receive much favour in financial circles. The Federal Congress has passed a resolution in favour of the adoption of measures for an exchange of prisoners. Congress has also approved the suppression of habeas corpus by President Lincoln. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX. NEW YORK, DEC. 12. Advices have been received from Havannah to the !6th inst. The Steamer Clyde was reported having passed the Spanish fleet 36 hours' sail from Vera Cruz. It was rumoured that two new Confederate commissioners would sail for Europe in the Clyde. It is reported from Mexico that no resistance will be offered either at Vera Cruz or Tampico to the t allied expedition. Th ere i s , h owever , a s t rong feeling in favour of making a determined resistance against any Spanish invasion in the interior of the couutry. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 12. Stocks unsettled. New York Central, 78/ ; Illinois, 61; Erie, 32; exchange, 1091. Cotton still advancing; middling Uplands, 32c. Bread stuffs steady. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 22. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, Capt. Muir, from Boston on the 11th, and Halifax on the 13th inst., arrived here at 9.30 p.m. yesterday. She brings 77 passengers, and 33,733 dols. in specie. She landed 114 sacks of mails and three passengers, and proceeded at 9.35 p.m. All well. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX. NEW YORK, DEC. 12. The steamer Hadsa, which sailed from South ampton on the 28th ult., or the day after that on which the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell be came known in England, has arrived here. The effect of the news in England is not considered in New York so unfavourable as was expected. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. PARIS, DEC. 21. The Temps of this evening asserts that a despatch has arrived in London from Mr. Seward, replying to a communication from Earl Russell on the sub ject of neutral rights. "In this despatch," says the Temps, " Mr. I Seward assures Earl Russell that the Cabinet of Washington, faithful to its past policy, is ready to guarantee to neutrals every facility compatible with the rights of belligerents, and that satisfaction will loyally be given by the Federal Government in case an infraction of the rule adopted in common should take place. " This despatch, although bearing a date anterior to that of the English ultimatum, was written after the arrest of the Confederate commissioners became known in America." TURIN, DEC. 21. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day a letter from Signor Ratazzi was read, thanking the Chamber for the resolution expi essive of its wish that he should retain the pest of President, and withdraw ing his resignation. Count Bastogi then made his financial statement. After enumerating the measures which had been taken to improve the public credit, he stated that the ordinary deficit in 1861 amounted to 400,000,000 lire, and that the deficit in 1862 was estimated at 317,000,000 lire. Deducting, however, the sum of 63,000,000 lire obtained by the alienation of 35,000,000 of Neapolitan and 28,000,000 of Sicilian B,ente, and also part of the proceeds of the last national loan, the deficit in 1862 would be reduced to 159,000,000 lire. The Minister proposed to cover this deficit by means of several new taxes, which he estimated would yield 139,000,000 lire. His estimate in detail is as follows : Lire. Registration fee Duties on salt and tobacco Duties on other necessaries .... ... . , 5,000,000 Railways ~ Land tax Duties on wines and other beverages.. 20,000,000 Tax on negotiable securities 30,000,000 Total The balance of 20,000,000 lire, he said, might be covered by a fresh issue of Treasury bonds, the Amount of those already in circulation being only 36,000,000 lire, After remarking that in 1830 the French finances were in a more unsatisfactory state, and pointing out the great latent resources of Italy, her domains, railways, and other sources of natural wealth, the Minister concluded by calling upon the Chamber to vote the proposed new taxes, and thus re-establish the public credit, which the enemies of the country were endeavouring to shake. (Loud applause.) TURIN, DEC. 21 (Evening). An extraordinary sitting of the Chamber of De puties was held this evening, in which the budget was provisionally approved by 202 against 39 votes. The financial statement of Count Bastogi has pro duced a very good impression. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 23. The royal yacht Fairy, Captain Wel'sh, arrived here this morning from Osborne, with Prince Arthur, the Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Louis of Hesse, Lord Alfred Paget, the Honourable Sir Charles Phipps, and Major Elphinstone on board. The royal party have left by train for Windsor. THORN, DEC. 23. News has been received here from Warsaw that arrests continued to be made on a most extensive scale throughout the kingdom of Poland. Twelve beneficed priests have been sent to Siberia. FRANCE. a BOURSE, Dec. 21.—The market has shown (rather more buoyancy, and a slight advance has been obtained over the closing rates of the previous I l day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 350. Railway shares firm, and with a slight improve ment on some of the lines. The following are the last quotations :- 4 per per Cents ... 94 50, Credit F oncier llBO Do end month.... Belgian 4f 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 35 Roman . 65 25 Bank Shares 2950 —; Austrian .. 7l 75 Credit Mobilier 720. Spanieh Threes.... 49 Do. Account 722 50 ; Home Debt - ~ i -,4 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. •i) Orleans 1295 .. 1297 50 i.' N or thern --:" New ditto 9lO .. i`j Lyons and Mediterranean 1006 25 .. 1 00 7 50 i, Geneva.. S ou th ern : W es t ern Eastern L Sardinian 558 75 .. 660 335 .. 337 50 Austrian 500 .. 501 25 LOWNtrd et • 00000000 ••• 511 25 is 612 60 1 A- :.",