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CT November,lB6l.—The Com \-1 rnittee for Lettinff the City Lands will MEET at GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th December next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive PROPOSALS for LEASES of a House, No. 2, Broad-street-buildings, in the City of London, and a house, No. 21, Goswell-strcet, in the comity of Midd.esex. Plans of the Property may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, upon application at 'the Archi tect's ()face, Guildhall. FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. }OPAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, loyal Exchange, London, 20th November, 1361 The Court of Directors of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance do Hereby give Notice, that their Transfer-Books will be shut from TUESDAY, the 10th of December next, to TUESDAY, the 7th of January following; and that the Annual General Court appointed by their Char ter will be holden at their Office on the Royal Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th of December, at Twelve o'clock at noon ; and that a Dividend will be considered of at the said Court. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "A HOME," At ITer Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, Every Evenin , at Eight o'clock (except Saturday). Saturday Afternoon at Three. "REMINISCENCES in Eight Chapters." Part 1. "The Romance.". Part 2. "The Reality." Prices of Admission :—Dress Stalls, ss. ; Dress Circle, 4s. ; First Circle, 3s. ; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, 14. ; Private Boxes, 4 t Is. No extra charge f r booking'. Private boxes, stalls, and places may be secured at the Box-office, which is open daily from 10 till 5, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, 01(1 Bond-street. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past 10. To prevent any crush at the entrances an additional door is opened for the Pit. This Day,-Two Volumes, Post Ivo., 165.,' GOOD FOR NOTHING; on. ALL DOWN HILL. By G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE. Itepriuted from "Fraser'B Magazine." London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. ARGYLL ROOMS:-GREAT SUCCESS ! !- The Rand and Musical arrangements under the direc tion of M. BOULCORT, Conductor and principal Cornet. In Addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss 2uadrille, and novel ties of last week, A NEW POLKA, by M. Boulcourt, the Solos performed by him and M. Greebe. Admission ls.— Alanager, M. P. Grenet. ZADRIEL'S ALMANAC for 1862. The forty fourth thousand ; price 61, contains :—Result of the War in America and Warlike Doings in England. See page 38, &c., &c.—G. Berger, liolywell-street, London ; and all Booksellers. THE WELLINGTO N. St. James'-street, entrance IGO, Piccadilly.—Gentlemen visiting London during the Cattle Show are reminded that this establish ment maintains its reputation for Dinners and Wines, A -uinner from the Joint, Two Shillings. A Set Dinner, in ducting Dessert and Attendance, Four Shillings. FREDERIC a: SCO WEN, Superintendent. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATIO N OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Inoorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in IR:ft—Supported by Voluntary Con 4 ribui ions. PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CITAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V. P., Chair man of Lloyd's. • DEPUTY-CitArnmAN —Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. The Committee of Management hove to state that , during the past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount 'ng: to .£6,958 ls. in establishing Life-boat stations on dif ferent parts of the Coasts of Eng and, Ireland, and Scotland. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, a lterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-bo..ts, Boat houses, and Transpoi ting-carriages, £ 3 , 632 ; and £1,550 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether a total of £11.441. During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have been in,trumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Wrecked Vessels: Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. • • • • •• n 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. • • • • y. Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. • • • • a Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. .. • • •• 11 A Barge of Tele - nmouth •• •• •• 2 Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• .• •• •• 6 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats Schooner Elizg, of North Shields 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth 9 Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. 5 Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. • • •• 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth 8 Sloop Hope, of Dublin Sclioener Druid, of Aberystwyth .. • • • • 5 Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. .. 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. 7 Total .. •• • • .. ..210 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has Voted £9OB Bs. 4d. as re .cards. It has also granted rewards a mounting to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by s hore -boats and other means, making a total of 455 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United i , Durin L; the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti ton have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of ue following Vessels • Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford 5 Schooner Prosp ct, of Berwick Sloop Thomas and Jane, Of St. Ives A Fishing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of 'Myth Schooner Dewf Wyn, of Portmadoc Flat Cymraes, of Tleaumaris .. 2 Schooner 'William, of Morecambe .. .. 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry Schooner If argaret Anne, of Preston .. .. 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven 8 Schooner William, of Liverpool .. 5 Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Sch"oner Village Maid, of Fleetwood _ 4 Barque Guy +nit, of Glasgow _ .. 19 Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. .. 10 Brig San Spirid one, of Galaxide .. 2 Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna .. 8 French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. •• 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. 8 Spanish Barque Prim era de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. 1 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. 4 •• •• •• Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel. and BaerrgietNve )6 Frederick, ‘cf 1 Barque Peace, of London .. .. 2 Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft . 11 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew of four hands) .. • • •• • • • • 4 Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. ..10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. •• • •• 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwat e r Bank, on the Irish coast, saved one man .. I Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone . • • • 6 Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk 5 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5 Schooner Auchincruive. of Grangemouth .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin 5 Total .. ..275 The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship- Wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at t he present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions t he Society has made within the past few years, it has now nearly One Hundred and Twenty Life-boats under its man aiement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough Ciency,rn a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. Donations and Annual Su' scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. 'Terries, firkhar, and Co., 16, St. .I:emes's-street, London ; by a 1 an_kers In the United Kftwdom ; and by the Secretary, e,bard Lewis, Esq at the 'Office of the Institution, 11, John-street, Adelphi,'London, W.C. Payments may be made bv Cheques or by Post-office Orders .crossed)ry , to Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre ta. RIIPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. .VVIITTE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS T7.3{ ERECED AD EXHIBIED IN THE GEAT 111 Brr (P ioN F OF 1851), N is allowed by upwards of R Two i nvention Medical Gentlemen to te the most effecti v e 41 Vention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. e use of a steel spring* so often hurtf its pir ects, here avoided—a soft bandage being wor n round the uori while the requisite resisting^ power withppl by the bl oc - Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting so much ease t i nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may . be worn b uri ng sleep A descriptive circular may he had, and the e which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir _liniference of the body, two inches below the hips, being acid to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 64., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. 1 - Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is B d. 411 1 11 mbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. „,„!"0 tit - office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post "'nee, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT • ELASTIC STOCKINGS, we_ KNEE-CAPS, ,tc., for Varicose Veins and all cases of or ,, 4 s . nt'ss and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are Li ce sTs light in texture, And inexpensive, and are drawn on en_, an'ordinary stocking. ['rice 4s. Gd., 7s. 64., 10s., to 16s. 4km. Postage Gd. __JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,`Piecadilly. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW 'WORK, OURSELVES. Price ls., by post is. td. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill. aj4k i. Sperinatorrhcea, Syphilis, Stricture, lamorrhoids, lit. B " tc • B ee -r riage : Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring lire& Th e Dr. C. may he consulted daily till 12, at Pont-oflice Turkish Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand; ...: 13(1 from 1 till 9 p.m. at 3, Great Marlborough-street, W. 15 1 1. CULVERWELL'S NEW POST-OFFICE TURK ISH BATHS, 19, St. Martln's-le-Grand. 25. till 5, and is. 6d. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, Is. till 1. An ESSAY on 'TURKISH BATHING, gratis. 4 11 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. u ßef ,,, , t Use and the Abuse of the Turkish • Bath.—A very Pamnhlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the roPrietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the o st•oir ice reg , whi ch presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte ths infmaon, ine those who have already encouraged Obfi e ;' l System will oerive additional advantag•e if they end e ../e Some of the actic,a regulations which the writer „.•ours to enforce. - 7 11"eralu b.nd Standard, N0v.12,1881. •-.1,,t Be Post-o ffi ce Turkish Bathg, 19, VA. Marfin's-le-Grand. au a'.•.,Culverw, 11 has already established the reputation of Ahil ule Physician ; he has now proved himself to boa worthy Of onthropist in as far as he has established, in the heart Very L ei Y, an'institution that more nearly than any disco- Modern days goes nearer the abolition of the practice t he }sic than any Proposition or invention yet established, th, - "orifish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct ou-eattention of our City readers to the fact that they possess Whic7if the beet set of baths, at 19, St.. Martin's-Ic-Grand, and the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, iiiB lmost admirable in effect. Pr. Culverwell has fitted up )4,1, 1 4 111 s with a degree of elegance. lux y, and reha, merit, bri,„2, considering the space at his disposal, is truly been While everything that taste or delicy could desire visitorobtained to add to the comfort and luxury of . the himself • • We may justly say that if a man ever le , Os Wu r b i .,r_eZenerated and new made, it is ()11 coming QUt 94 a 4)3 th."—Era, Oct. 13, MI. ._...... Shares Shares 1 Total pRENCII GALLERY, 120, Pall-mall.—The I_l/E0 EST PARVA DOMUS NATUS QUA Quarters ending I in Receipts. Complete , Shares. NINTH ANNUAL WINTER EXHIBITION of MAGNUS ERASMUS. - progres. C ABINET PICTURES by living British Artists is now For the strange but true story of that great Scholar's Birt h De c. 25,1860 213 51 .. ! 291 £15,206 16 3 OPEN DAILY from half-past 9to 5. and Parentage, see " THE CD lIST ER AND '1 'III: -- March 25,1861 77 71 148 14,728 3 2 Admission One Shilling. HEAR.TII," by CHARLES READE, the Third Edition of 191 120 314 17,820 310 ......._ which is Just Published.34s 390 735 32,832 18 11 Sept.. Tune 24, 30, 1 1 8 8 6 6 1 1 Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row. A RGYLL ROOMS.—GREAT SUCCESS !! - 859 632 1,491 80,583 2 2 " -- L The Baud and Musical arrangements under the direc 'dun of 51. BouLcour, Conductor and principal Cornet. In r/ADRIEL'S ALMANAC for 1862. The forty- Totals to Sept. 186 0 12 , 907 3,148 16,055 481,000 8 7 Addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss 2uadrille, and novel- Z_J fourth thousand ; price 61., contains :—Re‘mlt of the Grand totals to , ties of last week, A NEW POLKA, by M. lloulco . urt,_ the War in America and Warlike Doings in England. See Michaelmas, 1861 '13,766 3,780 17,546 561,538 10 9 " The foregoing returns show an increase on the final quarter over the Christmas one, of £17,626 2s. Bd. ; over the Lady-Day quarter of £18,104 15s. 9d. ; and over the Midsummer :quarter of £15,012 15s. ld. Compared with corresponding quarter of Sept., 1860, the increase is £6,743 Bs. 3d. ; and of Sept., 1859, is £15,709 7s. 10d. The last quarter of the year 18611 is the largest in amount since 1852. The increase in the receipts of 1860-61 over the correspond hag financial year of 1859-60 is £7,561 Bs. ; and compared with the year 1858-59 the increase is £31,565 3s. 4d. Total withdrawals from September, 1852, to Michaelmas, 1861, £244,581 Is. 3d. The subscriptions, on shares during the year 1860-61, were £19,410 3s. lid., and the cash received on deposit (being sums loaned to the society under rule 45) amounted to £13,956 15s. The subscriptions withdrawn on shares were £14,576 ss. Gd., and on deposits, £lO,BlO is. 4d. The total amount of subscriptions on shares now in the society is £124,138 Os. Gd., and total deposit account is £16,439 15s. ld. During the past year the sum of £27,508 4s. 7d. was transferred from the share account to pay for allotments of land, and the repayments of loans on land were £34,144 ss. 2d. The amount advanced in 1861 to allot tees, who borrowed 7-Bths of the cost of their land, was £36,816 ss. 101 The total balance of advances to allottees on land account is £39,699 14s. 10d. Tho sale of land on the allotment of 1861, as per prices on plans, was £35,214 4s. 2d.-an increase over that of 1860 of £14,148 13s. 101 The sale of the stock in hand (being land previously allotted) during the past year was £9,589 16s. 7d., being an increase on that in 1860 of £1,838 Os. id. The total sale of land in 1860-61 was £44,804 Os. 9d. Tho grand totals of the sale of land to Michaelmas, 1861, are £209,891 lls. 89. The freehold building plots now for sale in various counties amount to £18,788 17s. 7d. The repay ments of advances for building during the past year wore £3,328 10s. sd. The amount advanced this year for build ing has been £9,855 15s. 2d. The total balance of advances for building, &c., is £31,491 ls. Bd. The balance-sheet further shows, that after providing for the guaranteed in terest of five per cent. per annum on shares, and four per cent. per annum on deposits, and under Rule 44 adding £1,429 Bs. 11d. to the reserve fund, which now amounts to £lO,OOO, there remains an available balance of £2,906 3s. 11d., out of which the board is enabled to declare a bonus of five and a-half per cent. per annum for the financial year ending 30th September, 1861, on all subscriptions paid on existing uncompleted shares in respect of which lots on estates have not been taken ; and such bonus of five and a-half per cent, will be added to the accounts of the several members in their pass-books, as provided by the rules. The holders of completed shares, and of all shares on which subscriptions have been paid a year in advance, and up wards, will be entitled to receive the additional half per cent. (over and above the five per cent. already paid to them), and the amounts under this head will be added to the Lady-Day interest warrants to be issued on the Ist of May, 1862. Every pay ment into the society on shares not in arrear and on the register at this annual meeting will thus realise five and a half per cent. per annum, for the year ending 30th Sep tember, 1861. The Executive Committee have the pleasure to add that, until further notice, the:rate of interest on com pleted shares and shares in progress paid a year in advance and upwards will continue at 5 per cent. per annum, pay able half-yearly up to Lady-day and Michaelmas, the war rants for which will be issued on the Ist of May and Ist of November. The interest to be allowed for deposits under Rule 45 (which authorises the committee and trustees to borrow money on the credit of the society's assets) will con tinue at four per cent. per annum, payable at the same dates as the interest on shares. The allotments during the past financial year were the second portion of the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge Wells, and ground rents on the Battersea and St. Margaret's estates, on the 28th of Fe bruary; the Putney Heath estate on the 16th of May; the third estate at Hertford, and the third portion of the 'Wood bury Park estate, Tunbridge Wells, on the ]7th of July. To these allotments, and the sale of Bessborough House, Roehampton, with a considerable portion of land, are to be ascribed the year's successful operations. The Executive Committee cannot better illustrate the extent of the opera tions of the Conservative Land Society since it has been in existence than to enumerate hero the estates which have been acquired, showing at the same time the facilities af forded for prompt communication therewith :- MIDDLESEX-Kentish-town, York-road, N.-by rail and bus ; Old Ford, Old Ford-road, E., and Roman-road, North Bow-by rail and bus ; Seven Sisters, Tottenham-by rail and bus ; Wood-green, Bound's. green-by rail; Enfield, close to station, by rail ; Hackney, close to station-by rail and bus; Ealing, the Church-by rail and bus; Houn slow, close to station-by rail ; St. Margaret' s,Twickenharn, and Isleworth-by river, rail, and bus; Markfield, Stam ford-hill-by bus. SURREY, EAsT-Putney, Putney-bridge and Wands worth-road ,• Putney-common, Putney-heath; and Battersea, Lower-road-by river, rail, and bus ; Camberwell-houses, Denmark-road-by bus; Roehampton-park and Redhill by rail. SURREY, WEST-Oatlands Grange, Weybridge, and Guildford-by rail. RENT, WEST-Brockley-hill-park, Forest-hill ; Wood bury-park and London-road, Tunbridge Wells; Maidstone, St, Paul's Church-by rail. lIERTFORDSHIRE=Hertford and Mare (No. 1), halfway between the two towns; Hertford (Nos. 2 and 3), Fore street, adjoining station—by rail. ESSEX, SOUTH—Maldon—by rail. SUSSEX —Roundhill-park, Brighton—by rail. BERKSHIRE—Downshire-square, Heading—by rail. WORCESTERSHIRE, WEST— West Malvern, close to church—by rail. LINCOLNSHIRE, NoRTH—St, Catherine's, Lincoln—by rail ; Alford—by rail. SOMERSETSHIRE, WEST— Taunton, Silver-street —by rail. LANCASHIRE, SOUTH—Prestwich, Manche ter—by rail. DORSETSHIRE—Park Estate, Weymouth, by rail. HAMPSHIRE, NORTH—Winchester—by rail. OxFonnsuinE—lflley-road, Oxford—by rail. SUFFOLK, EAST—Felixstowe, opposite Harwich—by rail and river. Nor''s, NORTH—East Raiford —by rail ; Nortligato Beacon-hill, Newark, by rail. YORKSHlE—Kirkstall-road, Leeds, by rail. The purchases of estates this year have been the third Hertford estate, close to the railway and fronting the High street of the town, and another property with Gothic cottages thereon at Tunbridge Wells, adjoining the Wood bury Park estate. Two estates have also been acquired at the thriving town of Newark-upon-Trent, in Nottingham shire. The allotments for the tenth year will be Tunbridge Wells, Roehampton, and Newark, and negotiations are in progress for land in other localities. A new plan of the Kentish-town estate has been issued since the completion of the drainage under the sanction of the Metropolitan and St. Pancras Board of Works. The works on the Weymouth estate will be completed early in the next year, arrange ments having been made for the supply of material, the deficiency of which has caused the delay in the develop ment of that fine building property. Three new churches are now open for Divine worship, at Maidstone, Winches. ter, and Tunbri ige Wells, on freehold sites presented by the Conservative Land Society. On the Forest Hill, St. Mar garet's, and Reading estates, pieces of land for the same purpose have been granted, and the committee would be glad to report at some future period that these freehold plots wore also covered with sacred edifices, and duly endowed. The quarterly meetings were held on 11th April, 2d July, and Bth October. The executive committee have the pleasure to report that H. WT. Currie, Esq., and C. E. Newcomen, Esq., have been elected members of the Board, from which the Rev. Dr. Worth ington has retired. The following members 'of the Execu tive Committee retire by rotation, but are eligible for re election ; namely—The Earl of Bective, M.P. ; Viscount Ingestre, M.P. ; the Hon. Robert Bourke; Sir Lawrence Palk, themselvesßrt m The li n register tan ie Y' Esq.,in who offer various c ou nties has been much increased this year by the addition ' for and re-election. lection. of the names of freeho lders who have ac q uired th eir fran a i‘l i ) fran chise from plots on the society's estates. Although there has been the customary amount of vexatious opposition on frivolous grounds, the allottees of the Conservative Land Satiety have this year less reason to complain than at former periods; the action in the courts is, of course, confined en tirely to sustain the claims of all those persons who purchase plots ; but every year's experience proves the necessity of legislative interference as regards the functions of the re vising barristers, from whom there is no appeal on ques tions of fact. On the Brighton estate, for instance, claim ants have been disqualified this year on the ground that 100 Whicb, cost 410 WAO not worth, CM. per =Awl ) (444 Price One Shilling, or Post Free for Thirteen Stamps, - INDIAN RAILWAY AND INDUS FLOTILLA GUARANTEES EXAMINED AND FOUND TO BE Dt4II.USIVE ; with extracts from the Official Contracts. Third Edition, with an Introduction, containing a Corres pondence of Mr. W. I'. ANDREW with the Author, with Re plies to Mr. W. P. ANDREW, and Mr. THOMAS WATT, By JAMES MILLS. Letts, Son, and Co., 8, Royal .ExChang,e, London. 'IIHE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." mite (-aloe is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in lbt;‘). • The t'rlis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. Intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. ed., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA.; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: H. Baißiere, 219, Regent-street Just published, price 2s. 6d. each, by post 2s. 10d., A TREATISE on DISEASES of the RECTUM, By ROBERT J. JORDAN, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &c., &e. Embracing especially PILES, FISTULA, and S flue- TU dE, and all other morbid affections to which the Lower Bowel is subject, from luxurious and sedentary habits of life, pregnancy, constipation, and diseases of the liver, &c., giving the result of improved treatment, successfully adopted in an extensive practice, without recourse to the knife, ligature, or cauterization, but by the mildest and most simple means, yet efficacious and permanent. To be had from the Author, 29, George-street, Ilano-ver square, IV. - Hours of Consultation, from 11 to 2, and 5 to 8. PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the Smithfield Club. The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements, &a., commences on Tuesday Morning and closes on Friday Evening, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Decem ber. —Bazaar, King-street and Baker-street. Open from day light till Nine in the Evening. Admittance One Shilling. Last year at the Bazaar. P OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, for the Destitute t) Sick, Gray's-inn-road.—Earnest Appeal.—Owim; to an unexpected delay in the payment of a considerable legacy, on which the Committee relied, this Hospital is left without immediate funds. As the period is rapidly approachin9,' when its resources are always severely tested, the Committee make an earnest APPEAL to the public benevolence for means to enable them to carry on the charity. Contributions tire received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. 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Strand, London, IP.C.—This invaluable Balm, established upwards of 30 years, is the best and only certain remedy ever discovered for preserving, strengthening, beautifying, or restoring the hair, whiskers, or m,,ustache, and preventing them turning trey. Sold in bottles, 3s. 6d., es., and lls., by C. and A. OLDRIDCIE, and all chemists and perfumers. For children and latik s' hair it is most efficacious and unrivalled. AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in curable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. 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' i n the tidal dock at Greenock, i4eryfAul. /, - (2 [ -~"~ "~ At Devonport to-day 50 additional shipwrights are to be entered in the dockyard. The Orlando, 51, is ordered to be put in commission, and to take her place the Phcebe, 50, is to be brought forward immediately from the second to the first division of the steam reserve. PRICE..... ...4d. STAMPED talk and no little anxiety among those who are little versed in that most important of all laws, in ternational law. The daily prey have not been slow in finding a precedent in the 'history of Great Britain, however, from which it would seem that our British cousins cannot take umbrage at the ac tion of Captain Wilkes with any show of reason. It is needless to inform our readers that we can discover no just cause for apprehension, for, though the seizure of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, in the manner above stated, may, and doubtless will, occasion some little stir among the advisers of Qaeen Victoria, and call forth a fresh volley of vi tuperation from a portion of the British press, we do not believe but that any trouble ',which may arise therefrom may be readily adjusted by a little skilful diplomacy. That the two most enlightened and powerful countries in the world, which Great Britain and the United States are universally accre dited, which are so closely united by fraternisation and commercial intercourse, can be so readily plunged into war with each other, seems altogether incredible. 'We therefore incline to the belief that despite the herculean efforts which a portion of the so-called leading press of both countries is making to bring about a war, the intercourse between Great Britain and the United States will continue friendly, and business continue to be prosecuted under the same favourable circumstances as in years gone by." - Some of the New York journals ridicule the con duct of the Admiralty agent on board the Trent, end. assert that he went storming about the deck with a pistol in his hand, breathing vengeance, until the American lieutenant ordered Captain Moir to keep him quiet or remove him. It is also stated that after their ;transfer to the San Jacinto the pri soners united in drawing up a statement of the facts connected with their arrest, which they addressed to Commodore Wilkes, and accompanied by a request that it might be forwarded to the United States' Go vernment. Another statement is to the effect that the New York detectives had seized a large number of private letters, despatches, bills of exchange, draughts, &c., which had been sent after Messrs. Mason and Slidell, from Havannah to New York, to follow them to Europe. Among other gossip from Washington, published in the Tribune, we find the following : " Lord Lyons has not behaved like a diplomatist since the news that Mason and Slidell were on their way to Fort Warren. Although necessarily silent in his official capacity, unofficially he is almost im pertinent in his conversation. He assumes that there can be no question between his Government and ours, for the reason that the United States must yield the point in controversy, will disavow the act of Captain Wilkes, and must return Mason and Sli dell to the bosom of the only Power which seems heartily to desire the dismemberment of this great Republic. Edward Everett, Edward M. Stanton, and Reverdy Johnson have expressed the opinion that our right to take and keep Mason and Slidell was unquestionable." The Secretaries of War and State had agreed to the demand of Lord Lyons, that British minors en listed in the American army should be returned to their homes. Instructions were yesterday received at Sheerness from the Lords of the Admiralty to enter 60 ship wrights, with a proportionate number of joiners and caulkers in her Majesty's dockyard, and to hold in readiness for commission the Severn, 51 guns, 500-horse power, and the Barossa, 21 guns, screw steam corvette, 400 horse power; also to bring for ward for commission two first-class vessels. A further supply of the large rolled iron slabs, each weighing about four tons, and 41 inches in thickness, was landed at Chatham Dockyard yester day, for the armour plates for the Royal Oak, 51, iron-cased frigate, building. The plates were for warded from the Parkgate Ironworks, Yorkshire. The crew of the screw steamship Centurion, 80, Capt. Rogers, C. 8., at Devonport, were paid off on Saturday. In consequence of the deranged state of affairs at Messrs. Westwood, Baillie, and Co.'s establishment at Millwall, the Lords of the Admiralty directed Mr. Thornton, assist.-master:shipwright at Wool wich, to take possession last week of the plant and property on the premises intended for the con struction of the armour-clad ship Valiant, contracted to be built by that firm. The ship will not be com pleted for 12 months. The whole of the hands em ployed on Saturday received their pay from the Accountant at Woolwich, amounting to £7OO. Messrs. Gwin, Benham, and Brant had been re arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette. General Hunter had surrendered the command of the Western Department to General Halleck, ac cording to the new arrangement of departments. The large British steamer alleged to hare been taken into Key West was the Confederate steamer Salvor. Er-President Buchanan was reported to be writing a history of his political life and a vindica tion of his Administration, in which he was assisted by ex-Attorney-General Black and his late private secretary, Adam J. Glossbrenner. A Spanish bark, in ballast, had been captured off Charleston. A vessel named the Augusta had been seized near New York on suspicion of being intended for the slave trade. Preparations were being made for a regular ex change of prisoners. The Confederates had assembled in considerable force at Great Bethel, and an attack upon Newport News was somewhat probable. Fifty waggons and 500 oxen, which were on their way to Sedalia, had been captured by the Confederates, near Pleasant hill, Cass county, Mobile. The armies of General Price and Ben M'Culloch had retreated into Arkan sas. From General Rosecrans' head-quarters we learn that on the 10th the Confederates in Western Virginia were driven back from their positions by Generals Cox and Benham's brigades. An expedi tion under General Butler, destined for some Southern port, was fitting out at Boston. General Dix had issued an address to the people of Acro mac and Northampton counties, Virginia, announ cing that the military forces of the United States were about to enter those counties as parts of the Union. Those who did not recognise the autho rity of the Government and were found in arms against it were warned that they would be visited with the severest punishments warranted by the laws of war. Those who remained in the quiet pursuit of their domestic occupations were guaran teed all their constitutional and legal rights. From St. Louis we learn, under date November 18, that General Hunter had sent a letter to General Price by a flag of truce, repudiating the treaty between Generals Fremont and Price entered into on No vember 1, and addressed a letter to Adjutant-Gene ral Thomas, setting forth his reasons therefor. ~~ ~_ THE NAVY. Orders were yesterday sent from the Admiralty by telegraph to the office of the Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth, to hold in readiness for imme diate commission at that port the M gun screw frigates Shannon and Euryalus, and the Stromboli 6 gun paddle sloop. The Sutlej, 51, screw frigate, in the second class of the reserve, was also ordered at the same time to be brought forward for first class and commission. Considerable excitement existed among naval officers at the port yesterday, and speculation was exceedingly rife as to the names of the officers who might receive the com mand of these ships, the two frigates more espe cially, in the event of hostilities with the North A merican States. Her 11Iajesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Devasta tion, having six broadside guns and one 100. pounder Armstrong pivot gun on deck, and in readiness for sea, was yesterday ordered by an Admiralty tele gram to be taken out of the first-class steam reserve at Woolwich, and be prepared for immediate com mission in the Atlantic. The Devastation has all her stores, tanks, and every requisite fo r immediate departure on board, as well as her guns, shot, &c., and will require no delay. She will be replaced in the steam reserve by the Vesuvius. Fifty addi tional shipwrights were yesterday ordered to be en gaged to expedite the increased work now on hand in Woolwich Dockyard. An addition was yesterday ordered to be made to the cargo of the transport Melbourne beyond that given in The SUll of yesterday—viz., 2,500,000 rounds of small arms' cartridges, 30,000 stand of arms and accoutrements (instead of 20,000), and 1,500 rounds of Armstrong ammunition. It is stated that, in order to protect this valuable cargo from American cruisers, she will be adequately con voyed to her destination. The Warrior, 40, screw iron frigate, Capt. Hon. A. A. Cochrane, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday at high water, and was lashed alongside the dockyard, to undergo repairs ordered by the Admiralty. Her crew are ordered to be berthed on board the Bellerophon hulk during the time she is in the hands of the dockyard authorities. Yesterday an entry was commenced at the Master Builder's-office in Portsmouth Dockyard of 15 0 shipwrights, 50 blacksmiths, and other artisans, for special employment upon the Black Pripet), 40, screw iron frigate, ordered to be brought forward at AO THE AEM}. Nearly the whole of the troops of the line quar tered at Chatham garrison, having completed their course of rifle exercise for the season, an order has been issued by Major_General Eyre, directing that the officers, non commissioned officers, and men of each of the battalions of infantry shall commence a course of instruction in the great gun exercise at the various parts of the batteries on which the 68-pounder and other guns are mounted. In order to carry out this order to the fullest ex tent, a number of officers and men have been selected from the several battalions and placed un der the direction of the master-gunner of the garri son, and as soon as those have gone through he pre scribed curriculum of instruction other parties will take their place. Yesterday detachments of invalid troops belong ing to the Royal Artillery, 7th (Fusiliers), 34th, 42d (Highlanders), 54th, 77th, 81st, 97th, and 98th Regiments arrived at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, from Calcutta, having disembarked at Gravesend from the hired troopship John Temper ley. After, the detachments had been medically inspected eight men who were found to be insane were admitted into the lunatic hospital. One man of the 98th Regiment, under sentence of general court-martial, also arrived with the invalid troops. The committee now sitting in order to make a revision of the objectionable regulations governing the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, is com posed of three officers of experience and capacity, well selected for the purpose, namely :—General Knollys (president), Col. Charles Bingham, and Col. F. E. Chapman, C. 8., Deputy-Adjutants- Gen. of the Artillery and Engineers, the two branches studied at the Academy. THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. The following correspondence has been forwarded to us for publication : " Admiralty, Dec. 2, 1861. " Sir,—Laving laid before my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty your communication of this day's date, enclosing letters from seamen be longing to the Royal Naval Reserve at the ports of London, Liverpool, Sunderland, and North Shields, expressing their readiness to join the Navy for im mediate service, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to signify their direction to you to forward to each of these ports the expression of their lordships' hsgh satisfaction at the loyal and patriotic feeling so readily and cheerfully manifested by the able seamen of the Royal Naval Reserve. My Lords rely with the most entire confidence that the hearty services of the Royal Naval Reserve will be forthcoming should her gracious Majesty see fit, by Royal pro clamation, to call for them.—l am, sir, your most obedient humble servant, "W. G. ROMAINE. " Commodore Controller-General of Coast Guard." " 4 To THE SHIPPING MASTER, LIMEILOUSE. " g We, the Volunteers of the Royal Naval Reserve in the port of London, having heard that our flag has been grossly insulted by an American ship of war, and peoplo who claimed its protection forcibly taken from it and made prisoners, we write this to let you know that we are ready to fulfil our engagement and protect the honour of our flag, our good Queen, and country whenever called upon to do so. " ' We respectfully request you will make this our deter mination known in the proper quarter. " ' Signed on behalf of the Volunteer Reserve Force at present in London.' " (Here follow the signatures.) *, ' To CAPTAIN LtiCKBAPT, R,N. Her Majesty's ship Hastings, Liverpool, Nov, 30, 1861. Hearing that our flag has been insulted, we, the Royal Naval Reserve men of Liverpool, would esteem it a favour if you will kindly represent to the proper quarter our entire willingness to servo and protect our gracious Queen and country and the integrity of the flag under which our fathers gloriously fought and conquered. *. J. B. BECK, for the Liverpool Volunteers of the Royal Naval Reserve. " " 'To CAPTAIN PALMER, R.N., HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CASTOR. 6 ' ' Her Majesty's Ship Castor, North Shields, Nov. 30, 1861. " ' Sir,—Having heard that our country's flag has been grossly insulted by an American ship of war, and people who claimed its protection forcibly taken from it and made prisoners, we write this to let you know that we are ready and willing, and that at the shortest possible notice, to protect the honour of our flag, our Queen, and country, wherever and whenever called on, or any provocation given for us to do so; and we will do it with a right good will, a proof of which was given when this circumstance was spoken of on the Castor's rnaiudeck this morning, by tho whole of us joining with three hearty cheers, and three times three for our Queen and country. " ' Signed by the Volunteers for the Royal Naval Re serve on board.' " [Hero follow the signatures.] " 4 To CAPTAIN HEARD. Her Majesty's ship Trincomalee, Sunderland, Nov. 30, 1861, " ' Sir,—At a general meeting held on board her Ma jesty's training-ship Trincomalee, now lying in the South Dock. Sir, seeing by the Skipping and Mercantile Gazette the insult offered to the British flat by the Americans, we, the undersigned Naval Reserve men, do freely and spon taneously come forward and offer our service to resent the insult, and will shed the last drop of our blood against any nation who dares to insult our gracious Queen or national flag. 44 4 Signed on behalf of the meeting, over 100 present, " , JOHN ROBERTSON, Chairman.' " SPORTING _INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'—YESTERDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 1 agst Old Calabar (taken) 6to 1 agst The Marquis (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Caterer (taken) 12 to 1 agst Alvediston (taken) 15 to 1 agst Cellarius (taken) TILE DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Buckstone (taken) 100 to 8 agst Old Calabar (taken) 20 to 1 agst Caterer (offered) 25 to 1 agst Ace of Clubs (taken) 33 to 1 agst Typee colt (taken) 40 to 1 agst Hu bert (taken) a t Malek (taken) a:sstGems7 (taken) 4050 to o 3. 2000 to 35 agst Vanguard (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Lady Alice Hawthorn (taken) THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT ALDERSITOT.—As Sergeant Kennedy is not yet out of danger, Nicholas, of the 3d Battalion Military Train, was yesterday again re manded, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1861. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. At the ninth annual and thirty-seventh quarterly general meeting of the members, held at the offices, 33, Norfolk street, Strand, this day, the following report was unani mously agreed to : " The annual audit for the financial year ending the 30th of September, 1861, having been completed, the executive committee of the Conservative Land Society now submit their ninth balance sheet and statement of accounts. The four auditors, Messrs. Astbury and \Vinstanley, appointed by the board, and the Rev. Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Harding, elected by the shareholders in',October last, verified the vouchers and books on the 6th and 7th of November, and signed the balance sheet, to which the attention of the shareholders is referred, as showing one of the most satis factory years since the formation of the society. " The receipts for each quarter, the totals for the year, and the grand totals since 1852, aro shown in the annexed table : ing. plots adjoining houses producing ground rents of £5 per annum and £4O hou ;e rent were pronounced by the barrister not to be worth 40s. per year, such monstrous decisions being final. The annual inspection of the estates by the Board his proved, on the whole, highly satisfactory, both as to the state of the roads and other works on the different properties, and as to the buildings in existence and in progress. The extension of the railroad system in and near the metropolis will tend to develop° the society's estates more and more every year. The increased demand for and value of building land must inevitably follow, as the tendency of all classes of the com munity is increased to abandon the crowded streets of towns to live in healthy localities at convenient distances from the ordinary places of business or occupation. The census of 1861 shows the remarkable increase of inhabitants within the last 10 years, and, as a general rule, the tables prove that the number of inhabited houses and of homes building have not been in proportion to the increase of population. Additional accommodation will be required, and as the rail road to distant places from the home counties has now brought the metropolis 'within the same amount of time formerly required to reach what mere termed suburban re sidences, the executive committee feel confidence in the ultimate development of the society's estates, as in respect to roads and drainage, salubrity of situation, and facilities of communication, everything has been studied to provide for habitations, from the first-class villa to houses calculated for the industrious and sav ing operative. After the eloquent appeals of Lord Derby and Lord Shaftesbury to provide dwellings for the working classes displaced by modern changes and improve ments in the metropolis, it is expected that the railway companies will make further concessions to land societies to increase the inducements to build round London. The society's system is one which tends to remove the objections entertained in former days to go into bricks and mortar. An allottee, after buying his piece of land by paying off the purchase-money in easy monthly and other instalments, can build his house for the precise sum ho may desire to spend in compliance with the conditions on the plan of the estate on which he selects his plot. The society affords un usual advantages in legal and surveying expenses, both to the professional and amateur builder. The allottees can associate themselves, if they think fit, in a joint building operation, every facility and assistance being extended by the society. The executive committee, in terminating their report, beg to return their thanks to the members who have so materially aided to secure for the Conservative Land Society its present satisfactory position. Its stability is due in a great degree to the preservation of a spirit of mutual confidence and good feeling, and the executive committee will spare no exertions for its increased prosperity. The gratifying results of ISGI are a powerful incentive for ad ditional exertions in the tenth year, the board relying upon a renewal of the cordial support with which it has hitherto been honoured. THE CAPTURED SOUTHERN COMMISSIONERS. OPINIONS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2. The Persia arrived here at 9 o'clock this mrn- The American account of the Trent and San Jacinto affair agrees mainly with that of Captain Moir. But it is represented that all the docu ments of Messrs. Mason and Slidell were seized. The indications were that Captain Wilks acted on his own responsibility, and on the ground that, although he may not have acted within the strict letter of the law, the end would justify the means in the eyes of his country men. A Cabinet Council was held on the subject at Washington, but the result has not transpired. A Washington telegram in the New York, _Herald says that when information was first communi cated to President Lincoln he declared emphatically that Messrs. Mason and Slidell should not be sur rendered, even if their detention should cause a war with Great Britain. From the same source it is stated that the legal advisers of the Federal Government not only completely justify tho proceeding, but even furnish authority for the seizure and confiscation of the Trent. The New York. Herald editorially speculates on the action of England, and predicts great agitation. In a characteristic strain it taunts England with all sorts of perfidy, but thinks nothing will come of the matter more than much bustle and ostentatious wrath. It urges the Government, nevertheless, to make prepa rations for all emergencies, and calls upon the Pre sident to ask Congress for 500,000 more men, and recommends the immediate carrying out of Mr. Se ward's proposition for the defence of the coasts, &e. Some of the New York journals speak of the pro bable necessity for apologies and reparation even to the sending of the prisoners back, but others argue in a totally different strain. The New I ork Journal of Commerce says it was purely an act of grace that the British merchantman was allowed to go free, and that it is far from likely that England would bother herself with any complaint from her captain who escaped with his vessel and cargo from the fate of which the Queen's proclamation warned him. Great stress is laid in some of the argu ments against ,that clause in the Queen's procla mation which prohibited British vessels from car rying officers, despatches, &c., for the service of either party, and it is asked if British Ministers in the face of such a proclamation can protect the Trent in her conveyance of rebel emissaries and rebel despatches. The New Fork World does not believe that the British Cabinet will make any complaint, but if it does the American Government can fully justify it by the case of the American steamer Caroline, which was destroyed by British officers in 1837. The Washington correspondent of the New York Iribune, writing on the 20th, says : " The search of the British steamer Trent, and the forcible taking from her of Slidell and Mason, are fully justified here by all who have made inter national law a study. The case is strengthened by the recognition which England has so persistently given to the right of maritime search. She has never abandoned this right, but has always claimed it. Commander Wilkes is regarded here as having exercised his lawful privilege with a hasty pru dence or an excessive leniency. The Trent was herself liable to capture, and the British Govern ment would have found it difficult to establish a claim in behalf of her owners, after having justi fied and sustained 11PLeod for cutting the steamer Caroline out of an American port, and sent her over Niagara Falls. The Caroline had carried troops to invade British territory. When the rebel emissaries reached the deck of the San Jacinto, Mr. Mason, having added to ordinary F. E. V.'s stock of knowledge while Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, saluted Captain Wilkes, but Mr. Slidell passed on without noticing him. I desire you to observe, sir, that I'm captain of this ship,' remarked Captain Wilkes. The hero of Plaquemine saluted." The New Fork Tribune says : " Whatever complications may arise from the arrest on board a British ship of the Lord High Commissioners of Secession to the Great Powers of Western Europe, it is certain that the faces of loyal Americans broadened into a universal grin at the intelligence of their capture. It was the fit con clusion of a week of good news—the best that we have had since treason broke out into rebellion. Of all the arch-traitors there are no two—not even Floyd and Jeff. Davis—whose appearance among us as prisoners would have diffused more general and hearty satisfaction. But what will Great Britain say to the taking of these two would-be envoys by force from one of her merchant vessels ? We do not know, and do not greatly care. We shall endeavour to say no thing on the law of the case that may ever seem calculated to forestall or embarrass the action of our Government. If Great Britain demands the liberation of these gentlemen, and reparation for their capture, we propose to sustain such response as our Government shall see fit to make. For it is not possible to make such demand without in sub stance confessing that the right to search American vessels for British seamen, and to take away those who are adjudged such—which was the principal cause of the war of 1812—has no foundation in public law. If, then, the British Government sees fit to confess that it was utterly wrong in every in stance wherein she searched our merchant ships for those claimed as native-born subjects of the British Crown—we trust our Government will stand ready to deal wisely and generously with the venerable penitent. She need not admit that she was wrong in particularly flagrant instances, such as the attack of the Leopard on the Chesapeake in 1808, and the burning of the Caroline at Schlosser (one of our docks) in the Niagara river, in 1838. If she is ready now to establish and abide by any doctrine on the general subject, we trust her proffers will be received with distinguished consideration. But if she chooses to be satisfied with British precedents for the case immediately in hand, she can be sup plied with them to her heart's content. In either case, the energy and decision of Com. Wilkes has secured a substantial triumph to our country." The Boston Daily Advertiser ,contains a letter, attributed to the Hon. Edward Everett, in which the legality of the act is affirmed. The Natialigi Intelligencer defends Capt. Wilkes's proceeding, a legal act. The New York World is jocose. " Should England," it sayE— "Following her custom of interpreting interna tional law to suit her own convenience, complain of the insult offered to her flag by the San Jacinto, two modes suggest themselves of disposing of the prisoners taken from'the Trent. Either they might be landed by a national vessel at theii respective destinations, with whatever diplomatic dignity and influence chanced to survive the ridicule of their capture and release, or the Government might fol low in every point the precedent set in the case of the Chesapeake and Leopard, by hanging its desert ing subjects first and making amends to the insulted Power afterwards." In another article it says : " Great Britain is estopped, both by the decisions of her Admiralty Courts and the practice of her Government in numerous instances, from taking offence at the arrest of the rebel ambassadors on board one of her ships." The Yew York Times is jubilant : "We do not believe the American heart ever thrilled with mere genuine delight than it did yes terday, at the intelligence of the capture of Messrsi Slidell and Mason, recently of the Senate of the United States, the most prominent and influential actors in the rebellion, and on their way to Eng land and France, to represent the rebels at the Courts of those countries. The capture of Beaufort may have created a deeper and more lasting impres sion, from a consciousness of the important results accomplished, but really no satisfaction is equal to that experienced when base and treacherous knaves meet their deserts. If we were to search the whole rebeldom, no persons so justly obnoxious to the North could have been found as those just caught. Davis himself has some redeeming qualities ;*Mason and Slidell none. . . . These are the men whom we have caught, and who are now safely caged. All thanks to Captain Wilkes, who, consulting the dictates of common sense alone, marched straight to his object, unmindful of protests, convinced that an act which every honest heart must approve could not be contrary to usage and law. In this he was perfectly correct. The only mistake he committed was in not seizing the ship from which he dragged the traitors. . . We have not the slightest idea that England will even remonstrate. On the con trary, she will applaud the gallant act of Lieut. Wilkes, so full of spirit and good sense, and such an exact imitation of the policy she has always stoutly defended and invariably pursued. There is, consequently, no drawback whatever to our jubila tions. The universal Yankee nation is getting decidedly awake ..... As for Commodore Wilkes and his command, let the handsome thing be done. Consecrate another Fourth of July to him. Load him down with services of plate and swords of the cunningest and costliest art. Let us encourage the happy inspiration that achieved such a victory. In this contest it is safe to adopt the Irishman's advice to his son on leaving for a fair— ' When the music opens, whenever you see a (rebel) head, hit it l' A clear instinct is always in har mony with law." In another article the New York Times says : " But ;we must be prepared f or a ve h emen t part y clamour in England on this subject. It happens that the American question is entering largely into the domestic politics of John Bull. The Liberal party in power has determined to keep the Govern ment absolutely aloof from the quarrel. It sees nothing in the attitude, and thus far nothing in the action of the American Government, to justify in terference in any form, even in the character of a mediator; and persists in regarding the blockade as legal, and, so long as legally maintained, as an insuperable bar to the British greed of cotton. The Conservative or Tory party, long in fruitless oppo sition, because through the adroit management of Lord Palmerston left without an available issue upon which to appeal to the country, believes itself to have found that issue in the American policy of their opponents. There is evidently a concerted action among the Derbyite leaders to make fight upon this question. We must be prepared, therefore, to expect from the Tory party of England a chorus of vociferous howls on the terrible outrage inflicted upon the British flag. The action of Captain Wilkes will bo den ounced in every possible variety of phrase; and the most imperative demands w ill go up, from every Tory organ and orator in the realm, for the most signal and exemplary vindication of the out raged honour of the British flag. That this outcry will test severely the strength and courage of the Ministry we can easily believe. Their organs may be compelled at the outset to make a show of yield ing to the pressure. But we take it for granted that the recognised principles of international law will speedily make themselves heard in this clamour of contending parties, and that the Tories will meet no better success in this than they have in so many other attempts to oust their opponents from the possession of power." The same journal gives a report that when Capt. Wilkes determined to arrest the Trent, he re marked " that he should do it, right or wrong, and that at the worst he could only be cashiered." On this the New Fork Times remarks : "lie need have no misgivings on the subject. His action was prompt, energetic, and patriotic. If Capt. Wilkes erred at all, it was in not seizing the English ship which was found conveying these rebel agents and their despatches, a flagrant viola tion of the neutrality enjoined upon her by the English Government, and bringing her in for con fiscation as lawful prize. In view, however, of the great service which he has rendered the country, and of the fact that he acted without instructions, we presume that both the Government and the country will overlook this neglect on his part, and will award him the highest possible praise for what he did." The New York. Shipping and Commercial List remarks : " The business public, as well as the community at large, have recently had occasion to congratulate themselves upon the Consummation of a highly desirable and important though altogether unex pected event. Of course we refer to the capture of the two Confederate Commissioners to England and France, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, together with their secretaries and all their effects, by Captain Wilkes, of the frigate San Jacinto, in the channel of the Bahamas. The fact that they were forcibly taken froth au English vessel has occasioned 1211C11