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,;. Indian ' CAR-A-boo Stale-deer' FooT-12 inches. TRIBAL-AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLAlrrr 'PIONS, TRANSFER'D WITH WILL 4. TRUSTEES CEASE YE TO }AY RENTAL TO "& CO.'s OF BERMUDA. BY RETIIO-LONGITUDE 284 YR'S ACT, 2-3 w. iv,. C. 92, 4, 5 vie. c-39 § 4, 1812, rAr's-10th Q. AN-BNIY. 132 yr., so s. *INN-Jetsam el sap Letgan' rota ouTjlot-se m i x. Wall ' murem 24 I\larch--29 Sept. Errant - 1 -,finangi/s of : : Julian-trvery on Twe-x-ed Fishery -park law-sets.. CARIBESQUE-Sachims, Merchants.—For Board of Trade -quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the • placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto, have acted in conformity with the Municipal Acts of the 21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the landboard without a notice of three week's market-place guarantee of debts under a justice certificate, the ship and captain aidin g suc h persons' 3: to be open to IM P . Indian * right of search law as now given up. (Signed, •• : : : : • . • R. ANGEL O , J. S OUTH WORTH, Cl. of Synode J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701), Re-model'd, 1832-38. Negro trade search' in CASS, by Palmersi on, '57. So— CONE PERIGEE-LONGITUDE INAUGURAL, COMPASS -3 EFFLUVIA GAP(-)PONTI SPIRIT-°-LEVEL. ON CTNQUE PORTAL-ARC CURVE, LINE OF LATITUDE' FOR Span-long ginq'kent 50 N. by Polar* above & below declin. soar .in p astru-ge6graph .••: : to lover's Arrow oft and-on'Diepp's-Rouen to Lizard-pt. 9 'r flerisle's Quadra culmination Tropic-wend t'terds minorgli's Langue 'ock 40. N. Its state rope-lay Anchor flag -tow'r pros .by Tyre round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's March-night zone-meter, year 79 on 1824-35 for Life-Burg-Echek , nt Conevolute-Leet- crts.-on America's meridian'd 60. west N. and S. for its base-line evaporative mark, on September Xaraves Nile- 9 -metre'd lake, as the pivot-Calvin'd Dap per (3d Jaqo. f.), of Villa-Bella's Saclere-mento colony-1825 of Brazil, wrongfullyprovinee'd from ME in 1828. Sachims-The Illustrated _London News, No. 1,119 , page 538, gives us, Clarendon 's caelineA, in Philadeph's Pensylvan-arm 9 rial /word -i--. scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the touch, ' resolution of its two ctuncils' on Middletone's fons ore (' Fodinaa -regales, of James L's 72 NOW River' share 1-plug in London's Goldsmith company of Philadelphia, on England's royalty 36 ones £500) as tested by De'cana Henry Wotton and Montague-so CAR. 11. ' Hyde's grant of 1662's dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act, 1749, on 1777 Indif-n responsibility in trust, the whole of which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit t-e of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge ' peculiar' institution), with undersigned Lay-ae'cones as their pa trons and advocat es of Q-Ann-Bnty, act, plantation 10ths. See, N. 4421 Aborigines' Report, 1837, to 2d March, 1841, London Convention (PlailaGelphia), by Bulo, Palmerston and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perky, 3d Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. 11, as successor to the 99 years' leases (12 to run, under the 14th George 111., 1774, for Sae= Jos. Brant, on old John Adams' sugges tion-whose grandson is now here)-and approved at Philadelph's Lancaster Duchy crt. Longbro, Gloster, '75 by Atkins Montague Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen & Goldfmith Co's-1, N. River proprietary) Stegglesplug-1. Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing the Ohio, Florida-semioles & G eorg ii Ch ero k ee Indians a the coast, 1000 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised- North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their black cattle mixing with the virgin races, thro' the Lan caster FRAME and Concessions 1746, Art. I-XIV., for mixt Coaliffn Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians, as reset on Admiralty Ecole of St. Paul's, Bermuda (10 M, by Philadel's partizan friends C o l on i za -Off, B os t on -J u d ge Jay-31 May, 1853. GREY. So Deerfoot's ' pye-Fellow scholarship' Trinity Cambridge, 1861. 8 Dec.)-the term negro for Indian not in the grant of Geo. 1., p 66. Hence ' New shire-crt foundation' on French and British 3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra dition Act for Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) eleetion of P. 'Basket,' the living repres.ntative of the Ashburton boundary capi tulaion, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn in successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820-for Act of 1813's Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of ' Texas -hundred' 6 & 6 partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of Borromeo's Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage subsidies' of Trent-council, for swamping by votes thro' the J.suit-Lopez Louisiana'd negro'-shift 3-5 for Indian voice in Ceno] Exhibitioners, ox Elliott's 'slletter, Col. Off. RESOLUTE In re Trent-The arrest of Slidell, Mason, and others, as contra-band illegal persons,' you perceive, is just for trade quiet, in this case, the below state-codiciled recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac'cis of the ' bronze'd-i-PENN-Statue 11.'x-peace-Seciety of friends. Sagamores.-By Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32 still pending), X 54.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards in all May-polar expeditions. Ye will now think deep of the danger of joining either party of the white face s or half caste Indian persuadrs, and are hereby forbid from notic ing 'Placet'd-proclamation's as headed in the Times and Post of 16th Nov., "A Convention between ENGLAND, France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby you will perceive [that on such setting forth], the com mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's rights, or alien's of the contracting parties to keep peace on their soil. By " this" and reasons as follows so:- " Command old words, that long have slept-to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." 1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of Water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James I. is a Christian Jac 9 bo Zollverein trading flag k T x and not a belligerent by Ordnance issue T 343 of Jan. 31 1842, from the T ower ), th e Ci v il e S erv i ce Merchant Flag, on board the i Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the white border to it-the Church having no flag. 2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether St. George's or St. P a t r i c k' s Ch anne l , f or outing the word England from the log-wood 1782 Court christian k ea charts, adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the Justinian code base of the Roman X-span' Finlros union courts of B-gal laco of 1521, and under 1761 trust, which was decided in the Angrlot-iffpan'sh Texas Crts. as inads miscible, by the assumed Britishers and F renc h men of in corporated St. Denis, under the words "except France" in March 3, 1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of Melchisidek on a ' moving earth error' with it] the 17th of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd Belgic Leopold-Pedro 2-ty's in 1828-30 of illegality. 3, The Papal impudence of Sir W. G. re Ouseley in collecting the signatures of the SOO Sachicos for rebellion in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Walker succession in Central America, for Bamberg-Sigismund life-tenure 1047, Dappes-Nap-assumption of auFERT-clad Savoy), for seizing of Mexico, from England-caused his papist envoy Captain Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their nationalities to priests wolves z men as manifest by late Morocca bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro spects in 'violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : : 3 1 Nave pivot trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the MONROE doctrine, Las of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the law's font, and recognised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the ' sole' elect of Pdland's NW. red-Russia a-Burman of the cent years Dutch loan act, 1832, disjoined with sect religion. Fourthly. The ' Lie -ratification of London' Gazette, and not, within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a sup-plement, 'Whity-coloured persons being voice -divorced in this Azfinithson'an institution' z district-site of April, 1836, on Gladstone's comtee. of H. C. by u.s. Congress, '46. The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians, aliens, &c., that the Cabinets named in this convention are engaged in carrying out the dictum of Mr. CANNING in a convers° Domus Romish sense, (in total opposition to the legislative unity of the Nonreallnceie standard measure of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue -under annual election of paid laymen-for guiding the world's trade by Joint cumin) without ask of People's-arbiter below-so (6 &61i,) "Scorn arbitration as a stain- (1 & 14) 9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. Thus the civic Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for my patr°nal right, is [for monetary recognition of all dues from America upon primary colonization, well-intentioned, of the whites, and evident decay of A- human nature, by their theft of our 1730 Indian nationality on, my life], by a brother and sisterly love for the future, under the law of England, as (disjoined now with Pope, ..Churches or t-seater sects late on minister's money) the cool-A p read-bag'-State. PETER BRANT BASQTJET, America's Medard-sack'reo, Nephew II (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1 775-Saerno Peter Toma Brant, 1825-£lO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gasp 6. E.s 11.7's Montague § C ' ACKERLEY, P.c., sworn in, Chief Jas., of Ireland's-i curl/a of Review, 1825-37, L.S. 11. S's Executors §WOTTON' LYON BOWES, P.C. Dec. 19-London. See The men, Nov. 16, 1861. ARREST OF NASHVILLE SHIP-PIRATES. Notice,—ln re Anderson-like Extra-dition—Act. On aid-force do leg 4 ithod' lib. iv., 1 for Criminal law on—this side of sea level, as on the other—Washington ex tradition Act—touching Fire-raising, as one of the four pleas of the Crown pivot-voice reserve, under oath for all. The Mayor of S'aithampton, *rear-admiral of England's pinnace charge, Isle of Wight, also the coast-guard adja cent, will arrest the master PEAGRIM and crew of the ship Nashville, for pillage and robbery, on the high seas of Bos ton property of the American plantation ship Harvey Birch, of N. York—in false reps on—or about 19th Nov., 1861. By rota, (a) 0 ' in universa ditioni supremus est' of the placet regium imperium, marls populo romano restituendo 1842 on A •D. 1346 v. 291, P. I'ickius Constit° confederacy imperatoris Taxantur severi P irat . o—Laws of Rhod es , i n Bermuda's •mercatorumshi g Act, 1853-4. By (b) New f ound- land merchants, on Lisbon wine lic ense Co.'s on Rex vini jug newspaper precedent on Junot-inva sion, 1807, for En g l an d s lalci-omnarine protection, o n • • •Bristol (Live rpool. • •and• • • )'s . Ad miralty ' super altum ara; hfcendsi' et defeente blique,' old So (c) your warrant, as of the High_ . style. cone commission of illsrevew caoaisation, under Port4gal's human forethought, for 'Loule y aro 37. N ,I,repose on the Holy abolition, thro' *llamond, SANDY S , (S ., ;re • PETER Brant 13AsQuET,n The trade fiag.tmion Jak, n „, am m p in . 3-J. 1., corn-h . ill-Tow'er'd Income..tax. ,freeman, Ant n crown -col on jr chief Temple. of 18.12, —The criminal law' s E xtradi- Lab,uchere. lion Gap,;l•mile.off. a-shoreSea-e,onstable, "' ri) [2 March, '4l] bearing Jianzenca. 8 d i o f Admiral's H. M. Perley, court over Canterbury's ee-Guizote set :Fi 3 Sept, '4l's ticnient for New Zealand's dea 3 proofllt Gap Cll., its Gial N' 3l ' P°37 Warden• Capt O'Halloran. —t ho' cruelly set a medal , (/ vacuo-A , e , r Gai=penthal'it by Ashburton Baring- 3ty. .* x. [CHAnLEs ACKERLEY, 1: C. J. of Carib-isled Jethou'd England, elect Aug. 29 1825 (by Ad - • • infra] G. Hamond, Stuart do Rothiay's See- Crown rota ry ; Marcus Hill —SANDI'S, Lay-pieSidICTS 6 c.??4 , on Can'ng's holy Alliance abolition, of King clubs), the Standard weight-bearer of 1837, Lt. • R.N. 1 add double- oathii'd victim—supporter Si Pen, of Mohawk PETER 10 vrs, by ned Indian Mary Qu' ICien March's murder-tie, ' in. habeas virginals tenerum corpus christ 6' transit, thro' Quebec's Jos6 '75 Hamilton-Dalhousie, in E. Elder' duty for his r.Torna'2s and own's State-b:rth provision, as the Mon- BR:INT.' tague Subsidy 1:4-fruit loan 1814'20's on major Trerpor- Cartwright's chief suaccssorial surrogat'cy. (to trove. 1322'99is red-turban'd llen. 4th, or: Hen. V.'s ' Sigismond life Savoy'd gape-colona, Martin 5, 11.• V to GONSALVI 1816 regolamento-159, by Pius 7th on Scotch -Bailie Urban Brh's capacity-oath of 1749, Ad vocate STUAR T wortle -Newcomen's) Gonfaloniere' 1824 passed ix C. A's n Y m • Act 1-2 W. 4, N .. 54 , on a j g u e l y , 105v2e1-72W r oin' d 'Rulay-seignor yet Sion.-attaintsielland Stanley's Dea d-h and ( 1683 r otectorship-life trust]. 19 Dec. 186 1 (unpaid cu phristcorpus martyr 19 yrs), London, ALLENCE WITH ECONOMY. GEORGE lIOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. aENERAL MOURNING FOR THE PRINCE CONSORT.—GEORGE. NOBSON respectfully invites the attention of the nobility, gentry, and public to his super fine West of England woaded black cloths, for frock, dress, and Beaufort coats, £2 155. to £3 10s. ; black doeskin and Oxford mixture trousers, 21s. to 255. A large stock of new trouserings and waistcoatings, adapted expressly for mourn ing, 21s. to 255. A large stock of over coats kept to suit the taste of all, and from which orders can be promptly executed. Young gentlemen's over coats and capes, price 21s. to 30s. P 0 YAL ENGLISH OPER A, COVENT GARDEN. I- I ) Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. "THIS EVENING, THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Lyall, W allworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. 11. Haigh, G. Pyne; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or tees to Box-keepers. HEA'l'ltt•kb o VAL HAYMARKET, M Lessee. r. J. B. Bactstont. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. &Ahern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. Sotheran, Miss Oliver, &c. To be followed by GRIMSHAW, BAGSITAW, AND BRADS II AW. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. Mr. Compton and Commence a 7 L!OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the nertorm am:es will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at "a quarter to Eight (34th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun 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 Manager—Hr. F. B. Chitterton. Prices as usual. Doors on.- - ""'" - k'"" """ --w`"" tto 7. 1.50X-0111Ce Lopuu tinkly irom 11 tin 5. pRINCESS'S THEATRE ROYAL. Mr. W. CARPENTER'S BENEFIT TO-NIGHT. The friends of Mr. Carpenter are respectfully informed that the Committee have arranged for his Benefit to take place at the PRINCESS'S This Evening, when a Dramatic Enter tainment will be given which it is hoped will be found worthy of general support. In addition to THE CRICKET ON TIIE HEARTH. and THE BLUE JACKETS by the talented Artistes forming the Princess's Company, Mrs. Stir ling has kindly consented to deliver an Address, written and presented by John Oxenfbrd, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul will give a portion of their Entertainment, including the Burlesque of GOOD QUEEN BESS ; and VANDYKE BROWN, in which Hr. .1. Clarke, Miss Button, and Miss Lavine (from the Strand Theatre, by the kind permission of H. V. Swanborough), and Mr. Cathcart will appear. Boxes from One-and-a-Half to Three-and-a-Half Guineas, and Tickets—Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circles, .ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s.—may be secured at the Box-office, and at Messrs. Mitchell's, Fams's, Bubbs's, and Hookham's Libraries, and of the Members of the Committee. Gallery, is. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL -11 Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. tl r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Miss Woolgar. And THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ; Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Messrs. Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Stephenson, Smith, Romer. Lewis, Mrs, Billington. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with a new Farce, MARGERY DAW. Doors (men at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. N EW R OYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. TIIIS E VENING, the petite Comedy, MATRIMONY Camelia, Mdlle. di Rhona. After which, BAMBOOZLING. To con lude with A SMACK FOR A SMACK. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. LAST WEEK of MR. SAM COWELL, who will, at Eleven o'clock, sing several favourite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT." Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TitAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Herbert, &c. Solos by Herr Sesselberg, the great Basso. Comic—Mr. Marshall, in "John Bull, or they don't bam boozle me ;" Mr. Randall, from "The Oxterd; ' Mr. Wood and his talented son, and Miss HarrietCoveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. • Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls axd Balcony, ls. CANTERBURY HALL.-GRAND CHRIST MAS ENTERTAINMENT, by Mr. E. MARSHALL. `THE ENCHANTED HASH SECOND EDITION," (Written expressly for him.) Commencing on BOXING-NIGH r. CANTERIMRY HALL. —M. VICTOR JULIEN, " THE FLYING MAN," from Paris, will make his First Appearance on the 30th December. T H E 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD_ STREET. EVERY EVEN' -d: Selections from "LA CIRCA SSlEriiiE," "Simon Boma nrgra," and "Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Madame Enderssohn; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jong - hmans. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THis DAY.—Morning, 3h. 7m.—Afternoon, 3h. 25m. To -MORROW. -Morning, 3h. 43m.—Afternoon, 4h. Om. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 19, 1861, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 45-7.ighest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 42 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.30. WIND —North-Easterly ; fresh and cold, with fine winter weather. coW-1,1^" TUE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1861. Again Mr. COBDEN comes pestering us with his preposterous panacea of Arbitration. And under such circumstances, too—at a moment so ridi culously inopportune. Here has a war-ship of the Federal Government at Washington waylaid an English vessel on the high seas, an unarmed vesssel, bearing the Royal Mail bags, under the guardianship of an officer in the Royal Navy—the vessel of a Neutral Power, carrying at the masthead the National Flag of England ! Here has the Federal Government's war ship, the San Jacinto, intercepted the English Mail Packet the Trent, compelling her to lay to, first of all by firing a cannon-ball across her bows, and afterwards by discharging in her direction a shell that exploded close beside her—boarding her with a party of marines with fixed bayonets—for cibly taking prisoners four of her passengers— drEigging them from under the presumed shelter of the Union Jack, with every token of insolent determination and deliberate indignity ! Here has been perpetrated an outrage of this flagrant character—without provocation—to a Neutral Power, and that neutral Power the Old Mother Country, from which the American citizens, both of the North and the South, have alike emanated ! And Mr. COBDEN coolly talks to us—while we are yet waiting for an answer to our demands—about Arbitration ! One would really imagine —judging from Mr. BRIGHT'S last speech, and from Mr. COBDEN'S last letter—one would really imagine that England in this matter had been the aggressor That it was a war vessel of England that had stopped a mail steamer of her tteh bye sShetattaesnd aslhpeolni___bthoaerdeAci tiliaenrttiCh—roburgohugthhet agency of a boat's crew, bearing among them a party of marines with fi xed bayonets —and carrieda)awratyy from her by main force ; from under the shelter of the stars and stripes floating at her masthead, three or four unarmed civilians found on board of her as passengers ! One would be disposed to regard the matter really as standing thus if we were to listen only to Mr. BRIGUT or to read only Mr. COBDEN. Never was there a more illogical absurdity than is observable in either instance. Upon Mr. BRIGHT'S (no doubt of it consistent) hallucination (but still hallucination) we have already commented. Mr. COBDEN'S "ditto to Mr. BlSRKE"—that is, to Mr. BRTGIIT—has more recently come to light : and to the extraordinary document in which it is conveyed 1 1 1 11 E: SUN, LONDOIN . I, THUtSD AY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1861. to our ken we must now venture briefly to direct our reader's attention. It is worth it. We can promise that much—if only as the latest manifes tation of what Mr. COBDEN himself calls upon occasion, in one telling monosyllable, and without a moment's effort at courtly circumlocution, a " craze." It comes to us, this last astounding manifesto, or pronunciamento, in furtherance of the principle of Arbitration, in the form of a quiet little modest letter, dated " Midhurst, 16th December, 1861," and addressed to "Mr. HENRY CATT," of Brighton, as an apology for, or rather explanation of, Mr. COBDEN'S non-attendance at a meeting recently convened at Brighton, and to which Mr. COBDEN had been invited, a meeting to enforce the necessity of Universal Arbi tration. Now, in the abstract, we are all, of course, perfectly agreed as to the advisability of always, if possible, avoiding war, and of substituting bloodless Arbitration for battle. When the millenium arrives only, however—certainly not before then—the government of the world by Arbitration will be securely established. The advocates of that su pernal system, however, argue already that the in auguration of such a policy is even now in every way practicable. And how, in the name of common sense, do they endeavour to demonstrate its practicability ? Mr. COBDEN himself shall explain this in his own words, written on the 16th inst. at Midhurst. Now observe ; he thus argues the point : " The object of all rationa l men and true patriots at this moment," he says, tf 01,„.1 r - V•GIULLVUL LULU principle of mediation or arbitration which was proposed by the British Plenipotentiary and sanc tioned by the Congress of the Great Powers at Paris in 1856. The protocols," he goes on to say, " of the Conferences then held, which were laid before Parliament at the time, but to which few persons have now access, disclose to us the excel lent motives alleged by Lord CLARENDON for pro , posing this 'happy innovation,' which he designed as ' a barrier against conflicts which frequently only break forth because it is not always possible to enter into explanation and to come to an under standing." [The circumstances, observe, are so peculiarly apt now —for the inculcation of these most amiable ideas l] " The question thus in quired (writes Mr. COBDEN) in the name of the British Government was solemnly debated, every Plenipotentiary taking a part, and was adjourned for two days to enable Count ORLOFI to obtain the definitive adherence' of the Russian Govern ment, when the following declaration was unani mously agreed to :—' The Plenipotentiaries do not hesitate to express, in the name of their Govern ments, the wish that States, between which any serious misunderstanding may arise, should, before appealing to arms, have recourse, as far as circum stances might allow, to the good offices of a friendly Power.' " Having quoted which, Mr. COBDEN then immediately goes on to remark as follows—" Now is it possible," he asks, " that any case will ever arise to which this principle of mediation can be more applicable than the present ?" There is cer tainly nothing like making the most of your point while you are about it. So, evidently thinks Mr. COBDEN, And he writes therefore as we have seen. An ordinary man would assuredly have been led by the exercise of his common sense and by the use of one or two of his senses, say, his sight and hear ing acting upon his name—an ordinary man, we say, would in this manner have been led to exactly the opposite conclusion to the one arrived at by Mr. COBDEN in this particular. Why, the appeal to arms has been made already—by the capture of the San Jacinto ! And if Mr. COBDEN must needs' in spite of that, still talk of Arbitration—he had surely better address himself to the Federal Go vernment than to the British Government. So soon as the civilians who were forcibly taken from the deck of a British vessel, from under the shelter of the flag of England, shall have been restored to us with apologies for their capture and detention —then Mr. COBDEN and Mr. BRIGHT and other Quakers and day-dreamers, who live in a fool's Paradise of imaginary arbitration, dreaming their dreams to the occasional tune of riflo and howitzer•, may talk to their heart's content again about the universal applicability of arbitration ! What Eng land looks for as the one essential preliminary to arbitration is, the release of Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON and their Secretaries. When those gentle. men are again under the shadow of our recently outraged flag, then, but not sooner, can we really talk once more about Arbitration. Mr. BUXTON is followed by the Society of Friends in the endeavour to gain acceptance for the , Arbitration Scheme in the threatened difference between England and America. We noticed Mr. BUXTON'S proposal at the time, nor do we see that the Friends have added much that is material to his arguments. Indeed Mr. BUXTON himself, though not technically one of the Society of Friends, may, from his connections, be understood as speak ing their views. In all that can be said of the re lations of England to America,—those of race, language, religion, and free institutions, especially, we all concur ; they are almost truisms ; and the obvious deduction, that it is disgraceful for nations so related to plunge into what is almost a fratricidal war, islittle more than a truism also. In England these considerations arerealised to the full; were they felt as much in America there would be no difficulty at all. The truth is we have, since the last war, made almost an ABSALOM of the United "States ; we have denied them nothing; they have had their way w ith the parent country, till the danger of war arises, not from the unbendingness of the parent, but from the ungrateful ambition of its effspring. We have yielded every thing for peace ; the 3 have done every thing to provoke war. Had any one of the great European States treated England as America has treated her we should have had war with it long ago. Hence a conviction has grown up in our minds that we must begin, in the interests of peace itself, to treat America as we do other countries. We perceive that over indulgence of young na tions, as of young men, may produce the very opposite effects to these at which we aim—that instead of soon finding out that lawlessness must be followed by soberer habits, the young country retains its swagger, its bluster, its rude encroach ments on the respect due to other nations, till a check must at last be put upon all this. It will not do for Americans more than any other peo ple, to think that they will be tolerated in taking what liberties they please with others. The time has come, thol they should take on themselves the conduct, with the power and responsibility, of natural manhood. England begins to feel that there is more prospect of lasting peace, if she gives the vast mob of the North to understand, that she 'will put up with no more such tricks as these demagogues have played at her expense. We have again and again acknowledged t b h e a tt t er Americaru claws has assuredly a large and who swagger regret, of an d theeven detest, all this politicians; but as this class cannot put down its own domestic bullies, this la st and predominant class must be put down by thor e whom they strive to bully. It will not do ;for, England henceforth to show a for-1 bcarance Rich ignorance and vanity takes for cowardice, id to make it the most popular plea in a land who) even judges are elective, that the candidate's rst act will be, as Mr. SEWARD himself said, to " isult England." In this yticular case it has ales ays struck us that arbitraion is peculiarly inappropriate. The question isiot, what is the law, but, whether acknowledgd law shall be obeyed. With the greatest corideration for the Americans, our Go vernment se understood to have omitted many important 3oints, respecting which dispute was neverthelespossible, and to have based their demand on the admtted illegality of the mode of seizure. The Amerians themselves do not deny this. In deed it is ispossible to deny what all their own jurists as wll as those of every civilised country consider to )e quite elementary law. Their only plea is that Captain WILKEs meant to save the passengers End the mail service inconvenience, by not seizing he Trent. Possibly. We have nothing to do with tat. We demand law at any incon venience. And as we spurn the courtesy, they have not a shadow of pretext for refusing us the law we demand. But, indeed, this very case of the Trent is a proof that law in these matters is better than courtesy. We much doubt whether the " gallant" WILKES would have been "gallant" enough to seize the mail packet. All nations having business with America use these packets. They are the trusted carriers of civilisation. Mail packets are felt to have a special claim to exemption from hostile treatment. The dunara pacirei,by fr..+T? vt,;+l, Am.rirrt itself. are to enjoy protection when other vessels would be liable to seizure. And had Captain WILKES taken the Trent to Fort Monroe, there would have been such a shout of indignation from outraged civilisa tion as would have made even a "gallant" captor of an unarmed steamer look pale. Captain WILKES would not have been so confident in his interpreta tion of" WHEATON, KENT, and the rest of them," if it had required him to bring a mail steamer before a prize court. It is surely, therefore, of no little consequence that the law should be rigidly upheld. What, indeed, is our security against intermeddling and appropriations of property from our ships by every trumpery American bravo, unless his acts are to be judged of by a competent legal court. The "gallant" WILKES would have thought twice before he involved his country in suoh pecuniary costs as would result from an illegal seizure of a vessel like the Trent. Financial difficulties have always been the diffi culties in France. Her history tells it. Nay the fact has before now been inscribed upon her annals in characters of blood and flame. Remember the rising and falling of the funds when a CALONNE or a NECKER held the portfolio of finance, just at the dawn of the Great Revolution ! And coming down to later times, recall to mind the fluctuation of hopes and fears yonder in France, when, in the early part of '4B, THIERS and BARROT afforded momentary glimmerings, but only momentary glimmerings, of the possibility of extricating the Orleans Dynasty from the Slough of Despond into which it was flounder ing deeper and deeper as February advanced. The astute ruler now upon the throne of France recognised but a very few weeks since that the time had at length arrived when he, too, like some of his predecessors at the Tuileries might, at will, decide upon so ordering things that a stupendous danger should—in the nick of time—be avoided. They missed the opportunity—only acting when it was too late to act. Be, on the contrary like a wise statesman as he is, acts betimes in this matter of vital importance, and acts thus, moreover, directly to the purpose. There is a deficit of forty millions to deal with. And he deals with it. There is a breach in the strong fortress of the Imperial Government, and there—precisely there, in that place of peril —we may now say with a new reading— " FOULDS rush in where angels feared to tread." The EMPEROR summons to his Councils a bold innovator, who speedily enough evidences his deter mination to advance along the path of instant Reform and resolute Economy. Thither—in that direction, resolved " to stand not upon the order of his going, but—to go ! " How well things are now progressing in the right direction, there in France since M. FOULD'S assumption of the responsibility of remodelling the Financial system of the Empire, in other words, since the period of his Impe rial MAJESTY'S daring and volunteered conces sions, may now be very agreeably learned through M. TROPLONG'S report on the Senatus Consultum in reference to the extension of the privileges of the Corps Legislatif: a report in re ference to the suppression of extraordinary credits by the EMPEROR, ' and the privilege granted to the Corps Legislatif of voting the budget by sections, and in reference also to the limits to be fixed to the transfer of voted supplies. The loyalty of the Imperial policy is, of course, the theme of this report of M. TROPLING'S. As to that loyalty, however, France and Europe have yet to j4dge. The recent innovations promise well. But how they will work, or whether they are to be resolutely and honestly curried out, are facts that remain yet problematical. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, DEC. 19. The lfloniteur of to-day publishes a decree open ing the Custom-house of Strasburg for the importa tion of woollen and cotton yarns of every kind of Belgian and English manufacture. The Custom-houses of Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Valenciennes, Strasburg, and Chambery are added to the number of those which have already been opened for the direct importation and clearing of English and Belgium textures taxed ad valorem. The Moniteur, in its bulletin, gives a categorical denial to all the reports of modifications in the French Ministry. Count Pourtales, Prussian Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, is dead. MADRID, DEC. 18. The Marquis Vega Armigo has been appointed Minister of Public Works. Mr. Schurz, the American Minister, has left Madrid on leave of absence. ' CATTARO, DEC. 18. Numerous detachments of volunteers have been sent to Antivari and Spizza, in order to defend these places against any attack that might be made by the Montenegrins. The latter, however, have retreated. A considerable sum of money has been received at the Turkish camp for the payment of the arrears due to the troops. T,EU. 18. It was alleged by some Berlin papers that the King, in replying to an address presented to his Majesty at Leztlingen, while on his recent hunting tour, had expressed his dissatisfaction with the election in that district of certain members of the more advanced section of the Liberal party. The Preussische Zeitung of to-day says : "We are authorised from the highest quarters to declare that the report of the speech of the King to the clergy of Letzlingen has been exaggerated, and even falsified, from party motives. The King neither used the words nor conveyed the sense re specting amnestied persons which have been attri buted to him." BRESLAU, DEC. 18. The Breslauer Zeitung of to-day says : "Mgr. Bialobrzeski, Administrator of the Arch bishopric of Warsaw, has been condemned to death. He refused to appeal for pardon, and said,—' I have done nothing which should be punished with death.'" GENOA, DEC. 18. The Corriere Mercantile of to-day states that a disagreement has arisen between Garibaldi and the leader of the majority of the Genoa Committee, who had voted that the authority of the committee was superior to that of Garibaldi. NAPLES, DEC. 18. Vesuvius has recommenced casting forth ashes: An official report states that Torre del Greco has risen to the extent of one metre. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEc. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Pera, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian mails, arrived off the Needles at 10.25 this morning. 111-4,T.ESTY 271 E QUEEN. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 18. The Queen had several hours of undisturbed sleep last night, and is calm this morning. We are happy to be enabled to state that Lord Palmerston, who had for several days been suffering from an attack of gout in the wrist and in one foot, had almost entirely recovered from it yesterday. He has been confined to the house for a day or two, but has never been prevented either from receiving his colleagues in the Ministry, or transacting the immense amount of business which, espe cially at such a moment, devolves upon the head of the Government. The Earl and Countess of Derby have been re ceiving a distinguished company at Knowsley. On Mon-• day, on the receipt of the lamented death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the company separated. His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Germany. His Excellency the Belgian Minister, who has been suffering from indisposition for some days past, at New Lodge, Windsor, is somewhat better. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford :House, St. James's, yesterday, from Lilleshall, Shropshire. The Duchess (Dow.) of Sutherland has, though mot generally known, been staying with the Queen at Windsor Castle since Monday morning, at the request of her Majesty, The soothing presence of the duchess has been a source of some consolation to the Queen under the poignancy of the grief natcrally consequent on her Ma jesty's severe affliction. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have re turned to Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, from - visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. _ . The Duke of Argyll is expected. immediately in London from the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, and Lady Victoria Cecil, have arrived in town from Brighton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have left town for Ireland. REMOVAL OF THE O'DONOGITUE FROM THE COMMISSION' OF THE PEACE.—The Evewing Mail under stands that her M ajesty's writ has passed the Great Soul superseding The O'Donoghue in the commission of the peace for the counties of Cork and Kerry. About £72,000 in gold, chiefly Australian, by the Wellesley, was taken to the Bank yesterday, making a total of £142,000 since the last weekly - return. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Senate met yesterday—M. Troplong in the chair. M. Baroche, Minister-President of the Council of State; M• Billault, Minister without portfolio; M. de Parieu, Vice-President of the Council of State ; and M. Vuitry, President of Section, took their places on the seats appropriated to the Government Commissioners. The order of the day was the reading of the report drawn up by M. Troplong in the name of the committee ap pointed to examine the Senatus-Consultum intend ing to modify Arts. 4 and 12 of the Senatus-Con sultum of Dec. 25,1852. The document commences in these terms : " Gentlemen,—For the second time in a year the Em peror has called on the Senate to deliberate on measures calculated to extend our constitutional guarantees. In the month of December last, the field of discussion in the Senate and the Legislative Body was enlarged; and now you have to occupy yourselves with the control of the finances and now means calculated to render it more efficient. the na tion regards with interest those important labours of the Senate, and its gratitude is warmly expressed to the Sove reign, who knows how to call them into existence with that happy appropriateness which is the genius of Government, and with that boldness which is only the prudence of the man who reads the future. " However, gentlemen, there is now no more than the re was a year ago, any question of quitting the path traced out by the Constitution of 1852. That Constitution has a cha• racter which is clearly defined in our organic plebiscites. It reposes in its fundamental bases on a former contract, which the national popular assemblies have stipulated, and which they alone can modify. " But the Constitution of 1852 did not undertake to re• store to liberty the combinations and the forms which were crushed down in 1848 by the heavy car of revolutions; far from that, universal suffrage, whose voice still resounds in our ears, has declared them incompatible with the wants o a society which democracy guides, but which dreads abysses, and which is resolved not again to fall into any by the powerlessness of the pilot and the weakness of the rudder. No doubt the country must obtain all franchises which it can support without injury to itself; but the Government also must not lose any of the attributes which constitutes its liberty, and which necessarily belong to its authority. This was forgotten after 1789, but we are too near 1848 for it to be again lost sight of. "It is thus that the Emperor himself has understood the respective situations. " It follows from these observations that the measures proposed deserve all the favour of the Senate, if, as we think with the Emperor's Government, they are only improve ments of, and not deviations from, the Constitution of 1852, and its mechanism. " The first of these measures is as to the mode of voting the iudget by the Legislative Body. The article of the draft submitted to your deliberations, proposes to you to make a modification in Art. 12 of the Senatus-Consultum of the 25th December, 1852, which has regulated this point. The Senate will perhaps be kind enough to call to mind that the reporter at the latter epoch was the same as on the present occasion, and it is on that account that I owe to you the honour of now expressing the opinions of your committee," The repot then examines at considerable length and with greet ability the manner in which the Budget had been voted under preceding Govern ments from the time of the First Empire down to the Revolution of February. That part of the document is afterwards summed up in this manner : " Under the monarch of Napoleon I. the right of voting the taxes existod, but it was limited through not taking cognisance of the cause. It wanted the condition required by the principles of 1789 for the vote to be free, namely, the priof of the requirements and the discussion of the means. " Under the Parliamentary system the control, on the contrary, was excessive ; but it was wanting in the princi ple of authority proclaimed in 1852 ; it disturbed the har mony of the powers, and gave to the Chambers, sometimes even to the commission, attributes belonging to the Crown. " These two systems do not suit the monarchy of the Second Empire, which will not have absolutism either in power or in liberty." In the case cl preparations for war which would require secrecy in the face of great rerils from abroad, the committee considered that the system of transfers would be of paramount utility, but such measures it believed could never remain long con cealed, and when light should at last break in on what was going on, the best plan wouldbe to boldly assume the clear position which belongs to a Govern ment supported by the sentiment of the country. The report terminates as follows : " Gentlemen, our task is very nearly terminated. We should, however, consider it incomplete, if we did not endeavour to show the political signification of the measure by which it is recommended to your attention. The measure is only a change in the form of proceeding ; it is not the disavowal of a glorious past, and we must net allow imeres sions to exist calculated to create the belief that it was con ceived in consequence of accumulated =harassments, and not in the full liberty of a Government, master of existing circumstances. (Approbation.) " After ten years the Government modifies its line of conduct by a new step in advance; it does not condemn itself in the acts which marked its accession. " The law of the 25th June, 1811, ordered numerous ex traordinary works of general utility. That law was, so to speak, a noble page in the history of that epoch. To exe cute the works, it was necessary to submit to annual defi cits, to contract loans, to increase the floating debt, and to augment the budget from year to year. In January, 1818, the floating debt was 630,793,609 f. ; a loan of 350,000,000!. was negotiated, and, let us remark in passing, it could not be entirelyrecovered : not less than 800,000,000 f. were added to the public debt, and the budget, which in 1830 was 975,044,745 f., attained the figure of 1,426,110,170 f. " The public expenses since 1852 have considerably in creased, and the loans have exceeded the bounds where the preceding monarchy had stopped. But the France of 1852, strengthened, pacified, and restored by the 2d of December, is no longer the France of former days, and she can no more keep herself within the budgetary limits of 1830 than 1830 could within those of 'B7. Her ca pital has more than tripled, and her riches eclipse all that was ever before known ; she has seen her glorious flag astonish Europe, and float on the walls of Sebastopol. Her policy and her arms have realised the great design, perhaps the dream, pursued since the time of Charles VIII., of an Italy released from a foreign yoke. Our soldiers have caused the extreme East to tremble ; Syria has hailed them as deliverers ; Rome receives them as the guardians of order and the protectors of the Holy See. Is the money, there fore, badly spent which serves to pay for so much glory, grandeur, and generosity ? England saddled herself with a debt of several milliards to endeavour but in vain to stifle the French revolution ; and we, we have been imprudent in borrowing two milliards to raise to the highest degree the name of France, to resume the series of our victories, to carry to the ends of the world our civilisation and our influ ence, and to crown our secular tendencies beyond the Alps by the miracle of definitive success. (Approbation.) " At the same time, the extraordinary works carried on in part by about 500 millions obtained from credit under different forms, have diffused life through the provinces, 41- , ..-rrtt, I which had become too small, and multiplied all the means of a country, facilitate commerce, and diminish the expense of carriage and travelling. From 1848 to 1860, that is, in thirteen years, four of which only belong to the Re publican Government, and were subject to its uncer tainties, 863,365,057 fr. have been devoted to new works, roads, bridges, rivers, canals, seaports, reclaim ing of downs, plantations, and railways ; and further, what the State has applied to railways has led to an outlay by the companies of 2,935 millions. This result which, taking the yearly average, exceeds the proportions of works exe cuted during the 17 years of the monarchy of July, must be regarded as a compensation for the addition to the debt ; for, if the interest of the public debt has been increased, the annual benefit to the country has been far greater owing to the diminution of the cost of conveyance of goods and passengers, and to the impulse given to trade, manufac tures, and agricul ure. (Renewed approbation.) "A Minister of King Louis Philippe declared from the tribune that the public debt was not large enough in propor tion to our wealth, and he was right, on condition, how. ever, that the funds borrowed be applied to productive works. The loans which are transformed into roads, bridges, railways, canals, &e., procure the country con siderable economies which the interest paid for the capital. " Thus, Messieurs, these 2,000 millions borrowed for war; these 500 millions borrowed for public works, bring them a signal justification. " Apprehensions have been felt on the subject of the floating debt, which now amounts to 879 millions ; but the floating debt was larger in 1855, 1857, and 1860, and France suffered no embarrassment on that account. Can France be alarmed by these 879 millions ? She had in January, 1848, a floating debt of 630 millions ; are the 879 millions of to-day so very far in excess of that sum, when we take into consideration the increased wealth and the progress of the country ? It should also be remembered that in these 879 millions there are 652 millions accruing from deficits anterior to 1852, and not imputable to the empire, and 78 millions which served for the conversion of the Rente, in laying off creditors who preferred to receive their money instead of the new stock. The other 100 millions have been employed in the expedition to the East and the occupation of Rome. " Now, Messieurs, these are the faults of the Empire. Who, at the present moment, would wish that they had not been committed ? Who would wish to efface Sebastopol, Magenta, and Solferino ? Who would wish to see France deprived of her new weapons of war and her transformed navy, her railways, and so many other improvements, great and small, which would ere while have been considered luxuries, but cannot now be regarded even as superfluities, to such an extent as the taste for the comforts of life ren dered them necessary ? (Marks of assent.) " If those are faults, a Monarch less reserved than the Emperor might say with Scipio, 'Let us ascend the capi tal and give thanks to the Gods.' But he employs different language, and making what Montaigne calls a pause in his strength, he says, not let us stop, for France cannot do so,' but let us charge our route, and moderate even our pas. sion for the people's welfare,'—a prudent resolution, espe cially in questions of finance. The report, which was listened to throughout with earnest attention, was loudly applauded at the close. BOURSE, Dec. 18.—The market has been more buoyant, and a fair amount of business has been transacted at the closing prices of yesterday. For the Account Threes are now at 67f 40e. Railways also firm, and some lines rather higher. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 94 50 , Credit 1' oncier Do end Belgian 41 99 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 40 Roman Bank Shares 2960 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 721 25 1 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 722 50 1 Home Debt .. 47 50 31R. COBDEN ON THE 431 ERICA N CRI,s IS. (From the Brighton Guardian.) The following letter has been received by our townsman, Mr. Henry Catt, in reply to one invit ing Mr. Cobden to attend a forthcoming meeting at Brighton for the purpose of advocating arbitra tion in the existing dispute with America:— Midhurst, Dec. 16, 1861. My Dear Sir,—l regret that I cannot accept your invitation to be present at the meeting to be held next Monday condemnatory of a war with Ame rica. When asked I o address public meetings, my plight, just now, is that of a man who, having sprained his ancle, is invited to enter the lists for a foot race. Though the state of my health in other respects is good enough, I am prevented by a local affection, for the present, from public speaking. But I am gkd to hear that the working men of Brighton are promoting a meeting on the American question. The object of all rational men and true patriots at this moment should be to enforce upon the Government that principle of mediation or arbitration which was proposed by the British Plenipotentiary and sanctioned by the Congress of the Great Powers at Paris in 1856. The pro tocols of the Conferences then held, which were laid before Parliament at the time, but to which few persons have now access, disclose to us the excellent motives alleged by Lord Clarendon for proposing this " happy innovation," which he designed as "a barrier against conflicts which frequently only break forth because it is not always possible to enter into explanation and to come to an understanding." The question thus enforced in the name of the British Cof-crnuieut was solemnly dobated, every Plenipotentiary taking a part, and was adjourned for two days to enable Count Orloff to obtain the " definitive adherence" of the Russian Government, when the following declaration was unanimously agreed to : " The Plenipotentiaries do not hesitate to express, in the name of their Governments, the wish that States, between which any serious misunderstand ing may arise, should, before appealing to arms, have recourse, as far as circumstances might allow, to the good offices of a friendly Power." Now, is it pcssible that any case will ever arise to which this principle of mediation can be more appli cable than the present? In perfect ignorance of what the answer of the American Government may be, I will assume the worst,—that they refuse to surrender the captured envoys, and offer to justify their course by appeals to international law. What can be more within the scope of the Paris resolution than that where two interested parties differ on a subtle point of international law it should be referred to the decision of a disinterested third Power ? Looking at it even with a view to a practical re dress of our present grievance, what other course offers so good a hope of success ? The object desired is to place at liberty gentlemen who were taken from a British vessel. I happen to know Messrs. Slidell and Mason personally, and to the latter I am indebted for many courtesies at Wash ington ; and, although, as they must know, I can have no sympathy for their cause, few persons would more rejoice than myself to see them released from an irksome confinement. But assuming that to effect this object we declare war against the Federal States, and that these gentlemen are in consequence transferred from Boston harbour to the interior, does any one acquainted with America believe that it would be possible for England to release them ? We could destroy each other's com merce and spend countless treasure, we might pour out blood like water, and ruin for a generation two great civilisations, but the object aimed at could not be accomplished. On the contrary, if we submit the question to the adjudication of a third Power, the first step will be to place the two envoys at the disposal of the recpgnised tribunal. Should it be decided that they were ille gally captured, they will be released ; if their seizure be pronounced justifiable by international law, they will be liable to detention as prisoners of war only, and not as rebels, for the Government of Washing ton can have no right of appeal to the law of nations in justification of their act except by acknowledge ing the belligerent rights of the South. But it has been said that the Washington Go vernment wish to insult us, with a view to provoke a war. There may be traitors or madmen in the North who would like to sce their Government in volved in the embarrassment of a war with Eng land ; but that a Government and people, who re quire at this moment half a million of men in arms to meet a civil war and guard their capital, should look with anything but dismay at the prospect of a war with the most powerful maritime State in the world is too monstrous a supposition to be seriously believed by those who pretend to entertain it. At all events, the true test of the disposition of the American people will be the expressed willing ness on our part to resort, if necessary, to the mediation of a third party. Should such a concilia tory step meQt with no better response than a de sire to insult and wrong us, we should be united as one man to repel the outrage ; and, unless the solemn declaration of Paris is to be impotent for all practical good, and a mere dead letter, all the Powers of Europe would in such a case be ranged on our side, and ready to brand with outlawry a nation guilty of so barbarous and wanton an aggres sion. Entertaining these views, I recommend the work ing men of Brighton, and all who take part in similar demonstrations, to raise their voices in favour of arbitration. The cry for peace alone is hardly enough at the present moment. What we require is peace on the principles of impartial jus tice ; and the truest way of insuring this in case of dispute, whether in the affairs of nations or of individuals, is by calling in the services of a disin terested arbitrator.—l remain, very truly yours, Henry Catt, Esq. R. COI;DEN. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1295 .. 1297 50 Northern New ditto , . 915 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1003 75 .. 1005 Geneva .. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian - .. 502 50 Low bard .. , ... 506 25 .. 507 50 POST OFFICE LONDON' _DIRECTORY FOR 1862. KELLY AND CO., OLD BOSWELL-COURT. There are some advantages so common as to be hardly estimated at their real value. Year by year Lon&ners accept the publication of the Post Office Directory as a mere matter of course, without rightly estimating the amount of care and labour expended on its compilation, or realising the help less perplexity to which many of us would be reduced were we compelled to thread the mazes of this mighty metropolis without the assistance of this potent guide. It is like the fairy Order who disposed of all the heroine's difficulties in the old nursery tale, for it reduces the thronging crowds into rank and file, subdividing them in so many ways, arranging them in such clear and simple divisions, that any one who can read is safe to.find his way to any specified place or person in the modern Babylon, althou_ f h the address or locality might previously be totally unknown to him. The current edition of this valuable work is prepared with the usual care and precision ; the accuracy of all the entries having been tested by special inquiry. The Postal and Conveyance Directories have been al. tered and improved, and the proprietors express their well-founded conviction that the number for 1862 will be found equal to the best of its predecessors. It is satisfactory to know that the work will be continued in the same manner, being compiled .by the same editors, circulated in the same manner, and printed from the type obtained expressly for it, and always kept standing. A comprehensive map of London is, as usual, prefixed. TIIE Morrison, Df t a h e e t ro th ep a c t si A t l ß r :m P k, e h te a r s the EP (3 m S a i n T ag ß in A g N d K irect T or h o e f surprise. When the break-up of more indignation than been allowed to elude the inquiries after him has excited it was suggested that the this concern vas first announced tq and an assurance was giventhat such w ou ld m ost vigilant watch should be kept on Mr. Mo rr i son ' s movements, be the ca.tsoe the ll y e ar w i o a then r i n n a L l s o e nd xp o i n .e , s a s i n n d had h g.favourable te boldness l dnes to writeanti cipations of the prospects of the creditors. His escape, therefore, must, to say the least, have been the result of culpable negligence—a negligence which appears peculiar to cases of this description, where the offender has for a lung series of years had uncontrolled command of the funds of other people. It seems vain to hope, after past expe rience, that much trouble will I e taken in the matter, but it would be a satisfaction if anything could be ascertained as to the excuses offered for she remissness, and whether there is any intent'on of instituting such a pursuit as is generally found successful in the case of minor delinquents. —Times. " THAT'S THE CIIEESE."—The Indian derivation of this saying is well known as applying to the right description of thing. But an enterprising-arid indefatigable provision dealer, Mr. Osborne, on Ludgate-hill, has given a graphic illustration of what can be done with the product of the dairy —a perfect model farm, the march of a body of rifles, the bustle of a railway, and the silent commerce of the river, all being set forth in. full relief in his shop windows. Indeed, it is as ingenious a display as a clever mind could devise, and with such a one the love of art must be innate, while at the same time Mr. Osborne would im press the concourse of people who stay to gaze and admire that there is nothing like—cheese—{Aube. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. On the three days' later news from New York, by he Bohemian, the English funds opened yesterday morning at an improvement of a quarter per cent., but there was again considerable dulness at the close. The first price of Consols was 901 to •-l n , whence a decline took place to 90, and the final bargains were at 90i. The declaration stated to have been made by President Lincoln, that there need be no fear of war unless Great Britain should seek a " pretext" for hostilities, was seen, upon reflection, to be a repetition of the injurious tone hitherto so universally manifested, and of the reliance enter taisied that we shall be glad by any adroit contriv ances that may be suggested to find an excuse for submitting to all indignities, rather than a trust worthy sign of any disposition to yield a prompt reparation. A hint that the victim of an outrage is anxious for a quarrel seems, to business persons, as little calculated to excite expectations of a readi ness for a just settlement as a proposal for arbitra tion on the part of a lawbreaker who has possessed himself of other persons' goods. It is also observed that the fact that the Washington Cabinet "feel no anxiety on the subject" may possibly be attributed much more to the immunity that has attended pre vious aggressions than to a resolution to meet all proper requirements in the present case, the call of the President for an immense outlay for works of offence against the Canadian frontier being little in harmony with a pacific hypothesis. The fear, in fact, is that the confidence of Mr. Seward and his col. leagues is based simply on the belief that an apology for the mode in which the recent offence was com mitted will for the time answer all purposes, and that Messrs. Mason and Slidell may be indefinitely retained for a discussion between the two countries, which may be brought to the required degree of bit terness whenever an opportune moment may seem to have arrived. Nevertheless, the English public are as anxious now as from the first to find that the object of all these demonstrations has been simply to serve party purposes at home, and that the answer to Lord Lyons may be such as to restore the Federal Government to a position of dignity. —Times City Article. At York assizes, yesterday, Waller, the poacher, who shot a gamekeeper in the neighbourhood of Otley, few weeks ago, was found guilty of wilful murder, and was sentenced to death,