The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-20 00:00:00

Court of Common Council, A court of Common Council was holden yester day in the Council Chamber, Guildhall. rl`he Lord Mayor presided for the first time in hie official capacity, and 'upon taking his seat he was greeted with a burst of cheers. His LORDSHIP, .wafore the commencement of the b us i ness , address al a few appropriate observations to the Court in reference to hie position, and said that although be felt duly impressed with the re sponsibility of the office of president of this im portant aff4embly, he felt satisfied he should receive that support and assistance from every member -which hp,d been so kindly accorded to his prede cessors, and with this important aid he hoped to be able to preserve that order which had always cha racterised its proceedings, and that the high cha racter the Court had obtained in the eye of the public for the manner in which the business had been conducted would continue to be preserved under his presidency. (Hear, hear.) THE ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Deputy BURNELL said that, seeing the chairman of the Royal Entertainment Committee was pre sent, he beg to be allowed to ask him when the - report he had promised on a former occasion was likely to be laid before the Court. Mr. TRUSCOTT (the chairman of the committee, in reply, said he had brought up the only report th.at was intended to be laid before the Court. (Cries of Oh, oh.) Deputy ELLIOTT said he had understood that a riore full report in reference to the subject was to have been brought up. The report alluded to by the chairman was ordered to be printed, but he ehould like to be informed whether this would be done and the report circulated before St, Thomas's Day, or whether it would be delayed until after that period.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) 'The Towie CLERK said he could inform the honourable deputy that the report was in the prin ter's hands, and would be printed and circulated as speedily as possible. (Hear.) TUE LATE LORD MAYOR. Deputy RATHBoNE then rose to propose the usual resolution of thanks to Alderman Rose, the late Lord Mayor , for the manner in which he had per formed the duties of his office during his may or al ty. He said that the period during which h e had fill e d the civic chair had been one of great irapo b rtance,and it had certainly been a most trying f ear; bat he had his opinion great pleasure in expressin g —and he believed the.t every memb er of t he Court would agree with him—that the late Lord Mayor had ful filled all the important duties that devolved upon him, and particul ar l y in ref erence to the reception of the Prince of Wales and his bride, in the most able and satisfactory manner. (Hear, hear.) He could not help at the same time saying that it ap peared to him that the attempt that had been made to cast censure upon him, for the break down in the police arranger -au of the prinefa nts upon the occasion of the entry of Wales into London, was a most ungenerenK act, and that any blame that existed was of equally. t .'e attributed to his brethren of the Court h Aide traen, who, he was in a condition to state, he 94 constantly consulted, and whose advice he ha d asked upon every important matter. (Hear.) lie concluded by proposing the resolution, which Will. be found in our advertising columns. Mr. TODD seconded the resolution. Deputy ELLIOTT said that he could not give a silent vote on the present occasion, and while concurring to the fullest extent in the opinion that had been expressed as to the very able manner in which the late Lord Mayor had performed all the more im portant duties of his office, he could not help adding his testimony to the especial skill, firmness, and impartiality with which he had presided over the deliberations of this Court. (Hear, hear.) In these particulars he had not been surpassed by any of his predecessors, and he would express a hope that the reign of order he had inaugurated would be still further carried out and perfected. (Hear and a laugh,) Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that he quite agreed with the observation that had been made as to the general alaility that had characterised the proceedings of the Lord Mayor during his year of office, and perticu larly in reference to the hospitality that had been exercised at the Mansion-house. (Hear, hear.) Some thing more than this was, however, required from a Lord Mayor of the city of London, and some cir cumstances had been made public within the last few days, in reference to which he felt it his duty to make a few observations upon the resolutions be fore the Court. If such resolutions were to be taken merely as matters of form they would be entirely denuded of their value, and this was an additional reason for the course he was about to take. He should not say anything about the breakdown of the City police arrangements at the beginning of the year—that might perhaps, in fairness, not be solely attributable to the proceedings adopted by the late Lord Mayor—but there was another sub ject which it appeared reflected very much upon the dignity of the Corporation, and it was the duty of that Court to take care that nothing having a tendency of that character should be allowed to pass without observation. (Hear.) The subject to which h . e allud e d was th e en d eavours that h a d been made by_ the l a t e L or d M ayor to o bt a i n th ose honours that we re Occasionally awarded by the Crown to gentle sioa his position upon great and important occa b` (Hear.) It was no doubt a great disappoint meet t o the Lord beeti awarded Mayor that these honours had not had the w ded which were expected; but the Crowe in g them, un doubtedan d right of granting or withhold other b en _ das they had not for some reason or the dign si t ' Y g O tant e d, he considered it was beneath obtain them Ibthe city of London to endeavour to been stated in y on other m eans . It h a d, however, no doubt that the of the newspapers—and he had Lord Mayor had statementwritten was correct—that the had also at a persee"a'it interview Lord Palmerston, and Minister to grant him i the ac h eiew pressed the Prime con sidered he was entitled, andenour to which he ey. (Hear, hear.) Such a proceeding he refused to do his opinion, not at all caleatatee:ting as this was, in of the C o rporation — (bear, 11,4 uphold the credit the only inference that could he arrived d, of course, public was that the Corporation had b at by the cum of money to receive the Princess spent large to entertain her and the Prince of a nd purpose of obtaining for the chief magistrate those the occasionally %wattle honours that were asions. (Hear, heaf's by the Crown upon such occ r.) 0 a the e felt convinced h e vi , 4B part of that Court--and only(speaking the sentiments of every member wheia he made the statement — h e protested most etephEt. tically against such a suggestion, sa d dec l aredo t cn that en there was not the slightest foundation or t i ert entertaining s the illustrious lady who had become u arent to country by her marriage with the heir-aPP actuated the throne, the Corporation of London were ose by no other feeling than the singlene ss of pur to show the sympathy and heartfelt lo ve and zeal felt by the citizens of London for this illustrious lady, and their loyalty to the Crown. (H ear ' hear.) They had no ulterior object in view, and he stated distinctly that in his opinion it was out of place for the Lord Mayor to make it appear that because the Corporation of London had done such i and such things the Prime Minister ought there fore to advise her Majesty to confer a certain hon- Our upon him. (Hear, hear.) It was right, there fore,_dlnthat it sho u ld be known that the citizens of London had no such object in view in the proceed ings they had ta k en. (H ear, h ear .) He also thought that the Corporation had some cause to comp l ain of a speech made by the Lord Mayor on Sept. 30, in which he appeared t o take all th e credit of the en tertainment and the reception of the Prince of Wales and his b r id e to himself. (Oh, !) The porti on hen. member read a of th e s p eec h t o w hi c h he referred, and said it appeared t o hi m th a t no other interpretation could bo put upon it than the one he had mentioned. (Rear.) if the Lord Mayor hail given the entertainment at the Mansion-ho u se, be might, perhaps, have been justified in say i ng llB°' what he did; but this was not the ease, and dhe a t the Lord Mayor had n o mus t repeat th right to w h a t ti e did upon tl'e occasion in quest" say question, an d to assume to himself tha' credit to which the Corp o . ration, as a body, cvss entitled. (Hear.) The hon. member was then about to refer to something that presentation 0 1 occurred upon the occasion of the the present Lord Mayor to the Lord Chancellor, and complained of some observations that had been made by the Common Sergeant upon the ccasion, when Mr. RUDKIN rose to order, and said at the hon. member had no right to discuss the 0., duct of any of the officers of the Corporation upon the resolu tions then before the Court. The LORD MAYOR :also interposed, and said he must ask the hon. member whether he did not think he had sufficiently stated his views, and whether the subject ought to be carried any farther. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he was most anxious to defer to the opinion of the Lord Mayor, but he felt that the matter he was going to refer to was one strictly in connexion with the resolution before the Court. He saw, however, that the Court was anxious to proceed with the ordinary business, and he should therefore conclude by stating that as he did not agree with some portions of the resolution he should not vote for it. Mr. PTO:SCOTT expressed his opinion that the pro. ceedings that had been referred to involved matters that very materially affected the honour of the Cor poration, and that if it was possible to be done the correspondence that had taken place between the late Lord Mayor and the Prime Minister should be published. (Hear, hear.) He had no hesitation in saying, and he believed a very large section of the Court agreed with him, that the late Lord Mayor Corporation. (Hear, been trading upon theloyalty of the be presented ear.)l wastappe somethingaredtohimthat like rporation. (H the this. T picture k e thaetawr,a fountain of honour was in the back ground, and in the front of the picture was the Lord Mayor of the city of London, asking, with all humility, for those dignities to which he considered he was entitled. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) The resolution WAS then put and carried with four dissentients. The usual motions, that the resolution should be ornamentally written, emblazoned, and presented to Alderman nose, and that it should be advertised, were then put and agreed to. CITY BROKERS. The City Solicitor reported that notice had been given by Mr. James Russell, the secretary to the Law Amendment Society, of an intention to apply to Parliament in the ensiling session for an act to enable persons to follow the occupation of brokers in the city of London without paying any rent to the Corporation, or entering into any bond for the due performance of the duties of the office. He said that it was not the usual course to call the attention of the Court to the mere notice of bringing in a bill, but as such a measure was calculated to deprive the Corporation of a very considerable amount of revenue he thought it his duty to refer to the subject. (Hear, hear.) Alderman LUSK said he had a motion upon the same subject standing on the paper of business, and he suggested that the whole matter should be re ferred to a committee. Deputy HARRISON said the question was one that not only affected the revenue of the Corpora tion, but also the interest of the public, to whom it was of extreme importance that persons who acted as brokers should be respectable and responsible. He moved that the matter should be referred to the Law and Parliamentary and City Lands Committee. Agreed to. The Court then proceeded to elect a successor to the Lord Mayor to represent the City of London at the Metropolitan Board of Works. Mr. TIIUSCOTT proposed Alderman Finnis, and Alderman Sir J. MUSGROVE seconded the nomina tion, observing that he believed Alderman Finnis would be found a very useful member of the board. (Hear, hear.) Deputy RATHBONE proposed the late Lord Mayor to fill the office; but finding that the Court was almost unanimously opposed to the proposition he withdrew it, and Alderman Finnis was declared duly elected. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. Alderman COPELAND, M.P., said he should be glad if any of the representatives of the city of London at the Metropolitan Board of Works would inform him whether it was true as had been re ported, that Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer to the Board of Works, was engaged with Mr. Furness, the contractor for the Thames Embankment, in carrying out some extensive works at Odessa ? Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he was sorry to say that it had oozed out that such was the case. He thought it right at the same time to state that he believed the Board of Works knew nothing of the matter ; but the fact, as ho understood, was, that Mr. Fur• ness had engaged to do some very extensive works at Odessa, and that the amount Mr. Bazalgette would probably receive as the engineer for those works, in the shape of commission, would be about £lO,OOO. In answer to questions put by other members of the Court, Mr. TAYLOR stated that the estimate of Mr. Fur ness for the embankment was higher by £25,000 than one of the other estimates that was sent in, and it was upon the recommendation of Mr. Bazal gette, the engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works, that his tender was accepted. The subject then dropped. RAISING OF HOLBORN VALLEY. Deputy FRY brought up a report from the com• mittee appointed to consider the above subject, which stated that they had awarded the first prize of £250 for the best plan submitted them to Me. Richard Bell, and the second of £l5O to Mr. T. C. Sorby. The committee also highly commended several of the other plans that were submitted to hem. The motion for the reception of the report was agreed to. Mr. Deputy SCAMELL brought up a report on the reference to consider and report upon the proceed ings of the Common Hall of the 29th September last, directing the resolutions of thanks to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs to be ornamentally written, framed, and glazed, and recommending that the same be executed on this occasion at an expense in the aggregate of £9l 10s. He said, in moving the adoption of the report, the committee did not wish to establish a precedent. They had made the necessary enquiries, and were of opinion that the Livery had no right to draw upon the City's eash ; but on this occasion, taking into consideration the extraordinary circumstances that had taken place during the year, they recommended that the money should be paid. The report was agreed to. The Court then adjourned. a SLAKE, THE MAD GENIUS OF A PAINTER, viewed Z o to his costume.—lndoors he was careful, for o, a • b ar urY sake, but not slovenly ; his clothes were thread e, and his grey trousers had worn black and shiny in front, lik e ticular, BO a raechanic's. Out of doors, he was more par challenga that Ilia dress did not, in the streets of London, breechesattention either way. He wore black knee tied, and and b tro adckles, black worsted stockings, shoes which old-fashioned bri mmed hat. It was something like an sion he made on lou tnan's d ress . B u t th e gene r a l impres his own.—Gi/ehrise,:v.rLfe of Blake. that of a gentleman, in a way of [ADVERTISEMENT..i Strength.—No deep pa t o r ' ll °waY's Pills.— Source of health and vigour depend 8 4 0 h Y is wanted to prove that yet how few act upon this t tLiti ll , the purity of the blood ; a, compared with the many who neglect themselves and l formidable complaints . when a ' fe ` v ," ~foundations of the most treatment, but the pills wou ld give them . .instant comport of these purifying pi palliative treat al at the iuost ert and future health Holloway's circulator search. yand n d all wrons m the and is no o ntal means of r sintogmaalf,ilinivcileirin, kidneys, and th:o d u r g e r lo ing Holloway's medicine, since the mo t Youthful, de nervous systerns.. .. 1 )8 a rt mast admirably adapted for a farntlY listnagereveaurs, bilious, licate, and susceptible may fearlessly take tl s a lious, angern u ,. 11 more violent measures would be highly d ea). when [ADVERTISEYIENT. j—CORSIIMptiOn, a complaints, in every liver, and stomach comp .- of every dee c i , t o in nly ag gravated and accelerated by drie,s restorin cr ,.. l " )2 ' , but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health of cases b wi eva b ienta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands few.—Cure it- bad been considered hopeless. We quote allo. 52,514. medical men had Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the the last stage of abandoned all hopes of her recovery from expectoration, pulmonary consumption, with fearful coug h, llow cheeks, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirstions, ho a perfectly emaciated to a skeleton. She is now , thank God, de healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissaireie Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Robe rts, of Frim Y Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spittingo f blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No. 54,816. the Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of Indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 0d; 51b, it. s ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Bar r y and Co., No. 77, „reog-ent-otreet Landon ; also Fortnum and Sisson; and all ce to and chemists in every town at the laited Kingdom. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEIVIBER 20, 1863. THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. The following information regarding the price of provisions in Charleston, South Carolina, has been furnished through a private letter written from that city to a friend in England:— Present Average Price Price. before the War. dol. c. c. c. Butter Coffee 4 5U 71 • • 15 Tea . . l2 0 „ .. 50 or 60 Lard )7 .• 8 or IA Beef .. 1 0 lf • • 8 or 10 Brown sugar 2 0 „ .. 7to 10 Ham Eggs A cord or load of wood dol. dol. for fuel One reel of sewing c. c. cotton Coloured calicoes for dresses Long cloth If • • 6 to 16 Black Alpaca Wild speculations, unfortunately prevailing to a dangerous extent, as well as the difficulties attend ing the transportation of goods and provisions, keep up these almost fabulous prices ; but in spite of them, and in spite of Greek fire, we learn that the " free market" in Charleston receives its usual con tributions of home produce, supplied by wealthy planters in the neighbourhood. The " Wayside" and the Ladies' Hospital also continue to be sup ported by liberal donations in money and provisions, and those that remain of non-combatant citizens maintain their wonted courage, and confidence of ultimate success. _ _ Asa proof, some advertisements in the Charleston Courier may be quoted, announcing " a meeting of the directors of the High Sehool to appoint a secre tary and a treasurer for the wint e r term ;" an auction " sale of paintings,,, and a large number of " teachers required for the ensuing session ;" which inform us without any doubt that the Charlesto nians look upon the city as their own for some time to come in spite of the ruined Fort Sumter. * It is, perhaps unnecessary to remind the reader that the cent, or hundredth part of the dollar, is about equal to our halfpenny. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. CALCUTTA AND SOUTH-EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yester day at the offices, Gresham -house, Old Broad-street, Mr, J. Borradaile in the chair. The report stated that the line was officially opened from Calcutta to Canning on the 15th of May last. The jetty, which was of essential imp-rtanco for shipping and landing cargoes, had arrived safely, and arrangements were in pro gress for the immediate erection of it. At the date to which the report extended the traffic, which was expected to fur nish the chief returns on this line, by the transport of mer chandize to and front vessels visiting the port, had only begun to be developed. But the receipts for the conveyance of passengers from Calcutta to Chappahattee was highly satisfactory. The inadequacy of the receipts to cover the working expenses, which in this, as in all other cases, was to be anticipated on the first opening of the line, was rapidly diminishing, and during the six months under re view has been reduced to about £43. Only one cargo had passed over the line, but the traffic in connexion with the vessels recently arrived, and those which were expected, would in all probability turn the deficiency into a surplus, To make suitable provision for this traffic, however, it was necessary that the line should be placed in a state of complete efficiency, more especially in re• ference to the accommodation of warehouses. Without these conveniences the risk of a heavy responsibility would be in curred for injury to goods intrusted to the charge of the company. The board had pressed this question on the Go vernment in India through their own officers. An estimate had accordingly been sent home of the works required for the completion of the works, and the expense of executing them, which had been submitted to the Secretary of State for India, who had authorised the raising of a further sum of £lOO,OOO. It was a matter for deep regret, but one for which the directors were in no way responsible, that the steps taken by the local authorities for constructing roads to the railway stations, and still more for draining and render- ing habitable the town of Canning, at the terminus of the line on the Mutlah, should have been so dilatory. The town was laid out, and a considerable part of the best sites were sold five years since in accordance with certain plans; but up to this time little had been done by Government in dis charge of their duty to the lotholdere, and thus the interest of all concerned in the railway, whether shareholders or the Government, had been seriously prejudiced. The Govern ment had now established municipal commissioners, and made over to them all the land included in the site of the town, as well as lands adjoining it, to the extent of 8,000 acres, with authority to sell or lease them ; and it was hoped that sufficient funds might be derived from this property to give the new town all those advantages of roads and tram ways, wharfs, tanks, and drainage, which should encou rage the resort of settlers. The combined London and Cal cutta accounts showed that £429,856 had been received to June 30, including £26,183 advanced by the Government treasury, and £426,863 expended, leaving a balance of £2,993, The amount of guaranteed interest received from the commencement to 30th June last amounted to £53,866, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the line was officially opened throughout on the 15th of May last. The jetty had arrived, and in the cold season rapid progress would be made to complete it. With regard to the traffic receipts he thought they had now turned the corner as to the receipts exceeding the expenditure. All the Government had undertaken to do in making roads and providing facilities to develop the traffic, had yet to be done. Since the opening the company had conveyed 85,000 pas sengers and 2,500 tons of goods, which only yielded £1,900 in consequence of the Government not having constaucted roads and approaches to the stations on the line. The com pany had offered to carry out those works for tho Gover ment, but the offer of the company was declined. About five years ago the lots in Canning Town were sold by the Government, but nothing had since been done towards forming the roads or drainage, which latter required a fall of 15 feet. Those who purchased the town plots fully ex pected that everything would have been done before the opening of the railway. The railway and works were ori ginally designed to provide accommodation for the overflow of shipping in the Hooghly and the gradual silting up of the sands, which frequently obstructed the navigation. He then read the report of a Government officer, dated the Ist of June last, with regard to the difficulty of the navigation of the Hooghly, owing to the shifting sands, and the gradual decrease in the depth of the channels in the river. It showed the danger to the shipping ,n the Hooghly, and the neces sity for providing the facilities for the shipping and the trade of Calcutta, which the company's undertaking was intended to afford by making the superior advantages of the river of Mutlah available to the merchants at Calcutta for that purpose by means of the company's jetty and railway. Mr. MA.RSIIAIf seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which, after some personal observation by Mr. Adams, which he was called upon to retract, was carried unanimously. The meeting was then made special, and the resolution passed at the meeting of the 13th ult., authorising the directors to raise additional capital of £lOO,OOO on deben tures of the company at interest not exceeding 5 per cent., and for a tuna not exceeding seven years, was unanimously confirmed. A vote of thanks to the chairnman and directors con. eluded the proceedings. NORTH AND SOUTH LONDON. Notice has been given of application to Parliament to in corporate a company to make railways on a high level from Moorgate-street and Swan -alley to the South Eastern Rail way at Bermondsey, and from the city Branch of the North London Railway at Nortonfolgate to No. 8, St. Helen's place, Bishopsgate, a branch from Bermondsey to the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway; and for power to enable those companies to subscribe and make traffic arrangements. CARMARTHEN AND CARDIGAN. Notice of application to Parliament next session has been given by this company for power to make a branch line, seven miles in length, from liidwelly, by Mynddgarrig to Limestone-hill, with a view to accommodate a large portion of the lime producing district of Carmarthenshire ; and in the expectation, if successful, that a very considerable quantity of the traffic will pass over the company's main line to places where lime is in great demand. BANGOR AND LLANBERIS DIRECT. On Wednesday an influential meeting in support of this project was hold at Bangor, Colonel Pennant, M,P., in the chair. Mr. DREW, on behalf of the promoters, explained that the line would commence by a junction with the Chester and Holyhead Railway at the Bangor station, and pass along the south side of the valley for about two miles, when it would diverge by way of Llandinorwig to Cwm-y-glO, and up the side of the Padarn Lake to the Snowdonian village of Llamberis. The line would accommodate a large agricul tural and mining population, and develope the immense mineral resources of the district. Mr. DOUGLAS, in moving a resolution pledging the meet ing to support the line, said it was so laid out as not unne cessarily to interfere with the rights of property, and had already secured the cordial support of the entire district. The lino was about nine miles in length, could be cheaply and expeditiously constructed, and would pay a fair rate of dividend. The resolution was secon ded by Mr. Davies, and carried unanimously. The proceedings concluded with a vote thanks to the chairman. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending thu 31st of October amounted for local passengers to £4,563-10r4ign passengers. £1,270. —emigrants, 105— SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY RACES.—THUBSDAY, One of the most lovely mornings ever seen at this season of the year dawned on the Steeplechase day, and brought in consequence a large attendance to the course. The Cope land Nursery and the two Steeplechases were the three pr i nc ipal events out of the nine set down for decision. Some interest was attached to the Copeland from the ap pearance of Blarney, an Irish horse, out of Union Jack's stable, a very fine, powerful-looking colt, who defeated his opponents, including Crytheia and Cutaway, with the greatest ease. The Autumn Steeplechase brought out five horses, Thomastown being made the favourite, and a splen did finish between him and Arbury, resulted in the latter's victory by a short head. For the Longner Hall Steeple chase Inkerman was elected to the premiership, and made all the running up to the last fence but one, where Brian Borhoime, who had been lying second, drew up, and taking the lead won with great ease by 10 lengths. The Herbert Handicap of 5 soya each, with 30 added. Winners extra. About 12 mile. 8 subs. Mr Ten Broeck's Tornado, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Murfet) 1 Mr Joice's Captain Crow,yrs, 4 Bst 101 b .... (Custance) 2 Mr Herbert' s Whit e h a ll, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Loates) 3 Mr Murray's Laertes, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Deacon) 4 Mr Hodgman's Soothsayer, aged, 7st 41b (Morris) 5 Lord Stamford's Sea Nymph, 3 yrs, 7st (J Grimshaw) 6 Mr Kempson'e Peru, 4 yra, 7st 31b (E. Taylor) 7 Betting-5 to 2on Tornado, sto I agst Sea Nymph, and 100 to 6 any other. Sea Nymph, closely attended by Laertes, Whitehall, and Captain Crow, the others headed by the favourite lying close in their wake to the lower turn, where Captain Crow ran into the second place, followed in a few strides after by Tornado. The three ran nearly abreast into the straight, where Sea Nymph gave evidence of defeat, and shortly after dropped away, leaving the favourite in possession of the lead, which he retained to the end, and won in a canter by half a length, a bad third, the others beaten off. The Groby Stakes of 10 soya each, with 50 soya ; 2-yr-olds, 7st ; 3-yr-olds, Bst bib ; 4-yr-olds and upwards, Bst 101 b ; m. and g. allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for £3OO. Half a mile. 7 subs, Lord Stamford's Hesper, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (J. Mann) 1 Mr Naylor's Fravola, 5 yrs, Bst 71b Mr Hodgman na Lady Louisa, 5 yrs, Bst 7th .... (Doyle) 3 Mr Goodlass's Pretty Girl f, 2 yrs, 6st 71b (J. Grirnshaw) 4 Betting-5 to 2on Hesper, 9to 2 agst Fravola, 6to 1 agst Lady Louisa, and 100 to 6 agst the Pretty Girl filly. On settling into their places the favourite, with Fravola at his girths, jumped away with the running for the first 100 yards, when Hesper drew away, and won in a canter by a length and a half ; Lady Louisa, who got badly off, finishing a bad third. The winner was bought in for 640 guineas. The Attingham Park Stakes of 3 sow each, with 20 added, for all ages. The winner to be sold for £3O. Winners extra. Three fulongs and a quarter, straight run in• 8 subs. Captain Coates's Neilgherry, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b (Doyle) 1 Mr Goatee's Antipodes, 3 yrs, 9st 21b (Lynch) 2 Mr Greville's Persiflege, 2 yrs, 7st 111 b (H. Grimshaw) 3 Mr Barber's Cutler, 4 yrs, 9st 81b Mr Smith's Jessie colt, 2 yrs, Bst ( 1 -rior) 5 Betting--11 to 8 agst Neilgherry, 7 to 4 agst Persiflege, and 6 to 1 agst any oilier. The start was delayed as usual, through the pranks of Antipodes. At last he appeared in the humour, and the flag was lowered, when the favourite slipped her horses and made all the running, and won in a canter by a length, Persiflege, who got badly off, finishing as far in the rear of Antipodes ; a bad fourth, The winner was bought in for 90 guineas. Handicap Plate of £4O, for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Win ners extra. One mile. Lord Bateman's Despair, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Fordham) 1 Mr T. Hughes's Juliet, aged, Bat (Hughes) 2 Mr John Osborne's Fauconberg ; 2 yrs, sst 131 b (Carroll) 3 - • - The following also ran :—Redskin, Onesander, Chiquot the Jester, Faretra, and Sapper. Betting-5 to 4 agst Onesander, sto 2 agst Juliet, sto 1 agst Despair, 6 to 1 agst Redskin. Redskin with a lead of a couple of lengths made play, having Juliet, Onesander, and Despair as his immediate fol lowers, Fauconberg lying up. They ran in the:e positions to the enclosure, where the former gave way, leaving Juliet in possession of the lead, which she retained to within a few strides of the chair, when Despair came with a rush, and won in the last stride by a head, a length dividing the second and third, Redskin was a bad fourth, Onesander fifth, and Faretra sixth. The two last were Sapper and Chicquot the Jester. _ . _ A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added, for 2-yr olds, Bst 101 b eac h ; the winner to be sold for £ 2OO ; if . entered to be sold for £lOO, allowed 71b. Half a mile. 10 subs. Mr Hodgman's Virginia (moo), Bst 31b (Perry) 1 Mr Fletton's Prescription (£100), Bst 31b (J. Grimshaw) t Mr Payne's Tomfoolery (L 100), Bst 31b (H. Cirimshaw) t The following also ran :—Bianca colt, Deerstalker, Vic toria Cross, Orphene, Fearnought, and Cuckoo. Betting-5 to 2 agst Preset iption, 4to 1 agst Tomfoolery, 5 to 1 agst Cuckoo, and 6 to 1 agst Virginia. Prescription made play, with Virginia, Tomfoolery, and Victoria Cross lying up to the centre of the stand, when they closed and finished a fine race home, Virginia winning in the last stride by a head, Prescription and Tomfoolery finishing with a dead heat for second ; Victoria Cross was fourth, a couple of lengths in their rear, Orphene was fifth, and Cuckoo sixth. A Handicap Plate of 25 sovs, for 2.yr-olds and upwards ; winners extra. Five furlongs. Mr H. Joke's Dolphin, 3 yrs, 7st 21h v (T French) Mr Egerton's Gazelle, 4 yrs, 6st 12Ib (Morris) 2 Lord Bateman's Miss Livingstone, 4 yrs, 7st Grimshaw) 3 The following also ran :—Redpole, Leontes, Paddy O'Rourke, Poland, and Tailor. Betting-5 to 2 agst Poland, 7to 2 agst Redpole, 9to 2 agst Miss Livingstone, 5 to 1 agst Dolphin, and 6 to 1 agst Gazelle. Leontes having the best of a protracted start, came on with a slight lead, closely waited upon by Miss Livingstone, Redpole, Gazelle, and Dolphin to the entrance into the straight, when they closed up, and ran in company to within the distance, where Leontes shot his bolt and retired ; Dols phin at the same time came up on the extreme right and assumed the command, followed half way up by Gazelle, who made her effort at the stand, but failed to fairly reach the leader, who won rather cleverly by a neck. Miss Livingstone finished third, three lengths in their rear, Red pole was fourth, Paddy O'Rourke fifth, Leontes sixth, and the favourite, who burst a blood vessel, last. The Copeland Nursery Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 Boys added, for 3-yr-olds ; the second to save his stake ; winners extra. About five furlongs. Mr Loagfield's Blarney, 7st 51b (T. French) 1 Mr Hodgman's Confederate, Est 2lb Count Batthyany's Nucleus, 6st 31b (J, Smith) 3 Crytheia, Rose, Orphene, Coverdale, Cutaway, Alice Lee, Hedworth, Dermot Asthore, and Iphigenia also ran. Betting-6 to 4on Blarney, 3to 1 agst Cutaway, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Shortly after assembling at the post Mr Marshall was so fortunate as to get them on equitable terms, and at once de spatched them from the post. The first to show in advance was Confederate, but after running a few strides he was headed by Cutaway, the favourite going on third to half way acress the bottom, where he became second, and waited upon Mr Barker's filly to the distance, where French let him out, and won in a trot by three lengths; three quarters of a length between the second and third ; Orphene was fourth, Cutaway fifth, and Confederate next, Iphigenia was last. The Autumn Steeplechase of 100 sovs, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 10 BOWS each; 5 ft. Winners extra; second to save his stake. About 3 miles and a quarter. 13 subs. Mr Astley's Arbury, aged, list 4lb (Mr. Edwards) 1 Mr Naghten's Thomastown, aged, llst 51b.. (Broderick) 2 Mr F. Rowlaad's Medora, aged, llst 71b .. (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Shropshire and Romeo. Betting -6 to 5 agst Thomastown, 9to 4 agst Medora, and 7 to 1 agst Arbury. Romeo opened the ball by getting away in advance, Thomastown lying second, followed by Medora, Arbury, and Shropshire, in which order they passed the stand and entered the enclosures, but on reappearing in sight in front of the Farm-house the favourite was observed in advance of Romeo, close up with whom came Arbury, Medora, and Shropshire to the bushed hurdles in front of the stand, which Romeo cleared with a slight lead, but he was again headed at the water jump by the favourite, who went on with the ranning along the meadows, Arbury going on second, with Medora and Romeo close up, Shropshire bring ing up the rear. On reappearing in sight, Arbury was in front, followed in Indian file by Thomastown, Medora, Romeo, and Shropshire to the fence into the racing ground, at which Shropshire blundered and nearly fell, and was shortly after pulled up and returned to the stand. Round ing the bottom turn Medora joined the leaders, and on reach ing the bushed fence she cleared it in advance, closely fol lowed by Arbury and the favourite, Romeo following some distance in their rear, and who was pulled up on rounding the top turn. Little or no alteration took place in the posi tions we have assigned those remaining in the race until they reached the flight of hurdles at the distance, which Arbury cleared slightly in advance of the Irish horse, who caught him at the stand, the pair finishing a splendid race home. Thomastown, changing his leg in the last stride or two, being beaten by a short head ; a bad third. The . Longnershall Steeplechase—Handicap Plate of 50 sovs. Winners extra. Two miles over the New Course. 17 subs, Mr Poinon's Brian Borhoime ..(Owner) 1 F. Jac o b s ' s N ereus , aged, 9st 101 b.... (Waddington) 2 Mr W. S. Willi ams ' s Inkerman, aged, lOst 21b (in 7lb ex) (Mr Edwards) 3 The following also ran :—Mytton, Bowman, Over the headed h Sea, and P rince Royal. Bett in g -6 to 4 ag s t I n k erm an, 4 t o 1 agst Bowman, and 5 t o 1 apt Nereus. The favourite made the run n i ng a t a s trong pace, followed by Nereus, B r i an B the Irishman, who,,rh 'aitne, and Mytton to the last flight of hurdles, which Inker mancleared slightly in advance of iral in the next few strides, and ca me on alone and w on b y ten t he favourite at the stand, firceshnegd second, four lengths in length ; Nereus, who passed a dvance of Inkerman. Myttonl Was a bad fou r th ; P r R o yal, Over the Sea, and Bowman earaince the race, and were not pe rs evered with, ° to grief early in mails, &c., £s7s—local freight and live stock, £9,169 — timber and lumber, £1,306--firewood, £274—foreign freight and live stock, £l,37B—total, £lB,66l—and for the corres ponding week of last year to £19,770, showing a decrease of £l.llO. The total traffic receipts from July Ito the above date amounted to £300,135, and for the same period of 1862 to £264,794, showing an increase of £35,340, or about 12t per cent. INTERCOLONIAL ROYAL MAIL PACKET. The report of the directors of this steampacket company states that the receipts for the half-year ending June 30 amounted to £51,241, and the expenditure to L 36,282, leav ing a balance of £14,959. From this was deducted £5,400 for repairs, renowal, &e., leaving £9,559, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, which would absorb £3,250, and leave £6,309 towards the amount to be appropriated for depreciation, re serve fund, &c., at the end of the year. The subsidies gua ranteed to the company have been raised from £35,800 per annum to £36,600 per annum, in consequence of an exten sion in one of the colonial services. THE CASE OF THE AFRICA. On Wednesday a public meeting, very numerously attended by merchants, shipowners, and others of Liver pool, was held in the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange-build ings, for the purpose of considering the present system of Board of Trade inquiry as affecting the interests of British mariners and engineers, and also to express sympathy with the case of Captain Stone, late commander of the Royal mail steamship Africa, in the recent decision against him by the nautical assessors. Major WALTER, in taking the chair, said that the present mode of conducting Board of Trade inquiries had been long objected to as one of gross injustice, and that the recent case of Captain Stone had called forth a protest on the sub ject from all the captains, mates, and engineers engaged in the mercantile service. Those who were best able to judge of the conduct of Captain Stone raaiatained that the non heaving of the lead by him, the sole reason for his condem nation, was no blunder, and that the sole cause of the ship's stranding was a change of current. _ Captain JUDKINS said he appeared as senior captain in the Cunard service. He had navigated in regular succession every vessel belon g ing to that great company, and had no occa sion to dwell on the experience he had had. He was as well acquainted with the North Atlantic as any man, and he believed the decision regarding Captain Stone to be utterly unfair. Those present who, like himself, were experienced commanders would, he believed, fail in their duty if they allowed the statement that northerly currents regularly exist at that part of the ocean referred to to pass un challenged. This was not the case. From a longitude of 46 on the Flemish Cape up to Cape Race there is a southerly set summer and winter, and at all seasons of the year, so much so that in the course of the voyages that he had made he had found it necessary always to allow one quarter of a point more than the actual course to the south ward which the vessel had been steered. He took Cap tain Stone's position, and he said that it was the right course, and that the course which he steered was perfectly correct for six hours previously. It was not the bugbear of Cape Race they feared ; it was a greater bugbear—that of the Virgin Rocks. Formerly many peopla doubted the existence of these rocks, but he had no doubt the assessors, if they had gone to able authorities, would have learnt their position very definitely. He never sounded off Cape Race, but he hove to to the eastward of Cape Race when he found he had been beset by a current so far southward that it was necessary for him to look out for the Virgin Rocks, and round which he had reason to find wheth -r he was in its vicinity or not, by the depth of water and from other circum stance. If they looked at the chart they would see that if Capt. Stone h -.cl stopped his vessel and sounded upon the oc casion in question he would have been in a position where there was no mark to tell hire, should he have got to the bot tom, that he was in his proper position-18 or 20 miles south of Cape Race. The resolution he had to propose was,— " That this meeting views with indignation the principles and practice of the constitution of the courts of inquiry into wrecks and casualties to British merchant ships. It believes these tribunals, which have the power, and exercise the power, of inflictinc , the most severe and penal sentences, de priving men of their certificates, and thus of the means of living, are opposed to the fundamental principles of the legislation of this country and to the rights of Britons." Mr. H. T. WILSON seconded the resolution. Capt, PATON, the commander of the Great Eastern, said that what Capt. Judkins said about the currents was borne out by every practical man. They set to the southward. Taking the depth of water by the lead would not always tell them the position in which they were. They would not know sometimes by sounding whether it was at this end of 50 miles or at the other end that the water was shallow. There were places where the water deepened towards the shore. He proposed the following resolution : " That every constitutional means be taken during the next session of Parliament to procure the abolition of the present courts of inquiry, and to place the masters and offi cers of the mercantile marine in the same position as all other classes of her Majsty's subjects. chat the chairman of this meeting be authorised to sign a petition to Parlia ment for this purpose." Mr. CHILTON seconded the resolution. Captain DAVID REES then proposed, and Mrt N. DIJOIi- WORTH seconded, the resolution : " That every effort be now made to obtain the immediate return of Captain Stone's certificate." Captain BALLANTINE rose to propose the next resolution. He asked what was all this row about among public gentle men and the Board of Trade, and the 7 Imes in particular ? Where did the mischief all lie ? What did they want ? If they looked in the Times of yesterday they would find a vary able leader upon the Africa case. He was not able to chop logic with the writer, but conclusions drawn from false premises must of themselves be false. The whole question centred upon this—Was Capt. Stone justified in attempting to pass Cape Race without using the lead ? He appealed to any seaman to take up the chart and tell him how to deter mine any position by the soundings there laid down, He then proposed a resolution pledging the meeting to use every exertion to carry out the foregoing resolution, which was seconded by Mr. J. JACKSON and carried. Captain JUDKINS again addressed the meeting. He had one subject more to advert to, and that was the necessity of slowing the engines. He contended that, to be constantly slowing the engines of such a steamer as that which he com manded would be a downright piece of nonsense. Were he to slow his engines to stop to take soundings so constantly as the assessors of this Court would require, it would place him in such a position that he would never find where he was. It was folly to tell him that because it was foggy he must keep his vessel going slow, slow, slow. He should never get across the Atlantic it he did. If the British Government had done what it was wished to have been done by the merchants of New York, who subscribed money to place at Cape Racu a whistle which would be constantly going, and one similar to which he had heard 12 miles off, it would have been a most commendable act, inasmuch as it would have warned vessels from the port. But the Government did not want to intro duce this on Government soil, because it was an American invention. (Hear.) He asserted that had an air fog whistle been allowed to be placed in position when advocated, the stranding of the Africa would not have taken place. (Ap plause.) A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. The Schleswig-Holstein Question, The Cologne Gazette, in a supplement to its num ber of the 19th inst., publishes the text of the pro clamation of the Prince of Augustenburg. It is as follows; Schleswig-Holsteiners,—The last Prince of the Danish branch of your ruling House has expired. In right of the ancient order of succession dour country and of the House of Oldenburg, in right of the ordinances specially confirmed in the State fundamental laws of the Schleswig-Holstein National Assembly, in right of the renunciation executed by my father in my favour, as the eldest born prince of the nearest branch of the House of Oldenburg, I hereby declare that I assume the Government of the duchies of Schleswig- Holstein, and therewith undertake the rights and duties which Providence has conferred upon my family, and im mediately upon me. I know that no other power is at pre sent at my command for carrying your and my rights into execution than the justice of our cause, the sacredness of former and present oaths, and your conviction of the firm ness of the band uniting my fate with yours. Hitherto you have submitted to the injustice as manfully as you have fought to put aside that injustice. Until now an undisputed right afforded a pretext for the yoke imposed upon you, for the King of Denmark was at the same time your Duke, while henceforth it is intended to force the rule of a King of Denmark upon the people, contrary to its sacred wish, contrary to the nationality appoints(' by God, and contrary to its ancient right. Lauenburgers,—Your fine country, the equivalent for a land whose name I bear by birth, is subject to the same suc cession, in so far as it is not superseded by the rights of other members of my House, and more ancient rights of German ruling houses. I promise you that I shall regard your national right as my own, and, so far as I am called upon to do so, will protect your rights and liberties. Schleswig. Holsteiners,—Firmly convinced that my right is your salvation, I promise for myself and my descendants to protect you against usurpation and illegal violence. Our common task is to put an end to this rule. I cannot now call upon you to repel force by force. Your country is occupied by foreign troops, and you have no arms. It is my duty, first of all, to appeal to the German Federal Go vernments for protection of my rights of government and your national privileges. The German Confederation has never opposed my legitimate succession. The regulationsupon which the Governments of Germany rest are identical with those upon which my rights are founded, and the Governments of Europe will not oppose the truth, confirmed by experience, that a lasting condition cannot endure where an arbitrary arrangement of right pre vails.n I shall stand by you, as have stood by you battle, and shall not separate myself fr om you andiromoui r rights. In conformity with the State fundamental laws, I there fore promise and swear to observe the constitution and of the Duchies of Schleswig Holstein, and to up rights of the people. So h el p me God and his . Holstein, holy NVord. FREDEIiI c D u ke of Schleswig Castle of Dolzig, Nov, 16, 1863. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—A quarrel goes through many stages. For a time the cause is simple, the provocation fresh, and the parties well defined. There ti r e furious parti sans and hopeful peacemakers. The term of recon ciliation and the duties of submission are seriously discussed. The previous tenour of quiet times is so recent in the memory, and seems so much the natu ral order of things, that people find it as difficult to conceive the quarrel going on as a wall always fall ing, a window always breaking, or a piece of ordnance in continual discharge. The crash must soon come to an end. After a while it becomes painfully evi dent.-•perhaps by that time not so painfully as it ought to be—that the quarrel is going on, and will go on, for it breeds its own perpetual in crease, and supplies sufficient causes for endless endeavour. No want of money, no paucity of men, no horrors, no despair of success, no utter dark ness of the future, no humanity, no wisdom will stop the war once begun between men of utterly antagonistic principles and sentiments. It becomes internecine and suicidal. Implacable hate on one side, and the sting of wounded pride and disap pointed ambition on the other, will goad on comba tants till they have no other thought in life than mutual destruction. Even wearied, wounded, and half disarmed, they thrust against one another in deadly silence, till the poised balance slightly turns, and a death-shriek shows the losing scale. Then the gentle instincts begin to rise in the spectators. They pity, they pray for peace, they repent of a partisanship which can neither hurt one side nor help the other. Then the quarrel passes from one ground to another. There is revealed an earlier and a deeper hostility than the petty pretext. At last we find it as difficult to imagine peace as once to anticipate war. The state of war has rapidly become normal in North America. The spark dropped on the sun-burnt prairie has filled the horizonwith fire, and one sees no outlet—not a break in the wall of flame. War, having now ravaged Eastern Virginia, will either be continued under much greater disadvantages to the Federal aide in the Carolinas, or on the coin ' paratively unexhausted BOil of Pennsylvania. On either side victory only entails a greater distance from the basis of operations. Meanwhile, there has started into sudden life a military class ; men who can do nothing but fight, and who have no sooner spent their pay than they take the bounty. There are now, on either side, a host of Generals and men who hope soon to show them selves better Generals than any yet tried. There is an aristocracy said to be created by the war, con tractors and manufacturers of all the things wanted for this most consumptive and spendthrift of wars. Everybody is said to be enriched by the war, and no doubt many thousands pray that it may last their time. The old buccaneering spirit is thoroughly aroused, and the sea now vies with the land in sud den productiveness and the ready prize. Glory, money, power, distinction, all that dazzles the crowd is now thing about broadcast. We do not hear a single protest against the war on the Federal aide on the ground of its private and public injuries, for anybody who can speak thinks himself the better for it. If the tide of war roll north- ward, we shall hear another story; but then pas sious will come to reinforce selfishness. If it be the turn of the Federals to see their cities besieged and bombarded, their homesteads ravaged, their harvests destroyed, and their fair country made a desert, they will find revenge the master im pulse. But that revenge they will have to seek under enhanced difficulties. Nobody can doubt ;hat they will continue to seek it, but with what success time alone can snow. Disabused as we all must be of our first hopes as to the early termina tion of the war, perhaps we are driven by the force of reaction to the other extreme. Yet every analcgy justifies the worst fears. We cannot find much fault with the Federals if they are as long finding cut their mistake as we were 70 years since. Mexico has been in a stateof civil war, diversified by foreign interference, for more than 40 years. Our own Wars of the Roses may be considered to have lasted 30 years, as also did the great German war of opi nion. From the division of the Roman Empire its territory was for several centuries the scene of an almost incessant struggle between the so called northern " barbarians" •and the more settled in kabitants of the South. There is much to be said for the rather gloomy anticipation that North America is beginning her Middle Ages, and that, with a new variety of manners and forms, she will follow the successive stages of European progress, some fif tern hundred years behind. What is there to make peace ? There is no third Power to inter vene at the happy juncture and mercifully compel the vanquished to accept the best terms. Both belli gerents tiave been taught to regard us as aliens and intruders. Hitherto the two sides have been singu larly balanced, for if numbers and money have been on one side, personal strength, generalship, and na tional sentiment have been on the other. Our old history tells us that the latter always constitutes the winning side, and it is at least difficult to conceive that they will in this case be the characteristics of losers. The Americans themselves are beginning to look forward very far, with a complacency strangely at variance with their first feelings. There are Federalists who see that it will take at least twenty years to exterminate the Confederates, but who are prepared to spend twenty years in that ruinous mis sion, inasmuch as it will take at least thirty years to bring the North to consent to disunion, or any peace based on separation. This certainly implies a cruel idea of human existence, and the objects for which this fair earth was created. It is admitted that so far as regards personal suffering the prospect is as gloomy for one side as the other. Both North and South are to perish ; but as the North, it is said, has the longer tail, in its continual immigration and its populous interior, it will have still a remnant when nothing at all is left of the other combatants. Nor is this simply the ferocity of an antagonist who is content to perish himself if he can drag the other down with him. There is calculation as well as feeling in the prophecy of a universal wreck. If this secession be acquiesced in, others will rapidly follow, and there will be East and West as well as North and South. It is the mountain, not rent in twain, but shivered into fragments, which excites the greatest horror in the American mind. One =stifle has " starred" the brittle fabric into fragments, and the American cannot see his own loved image in any one of them. To the Eu ropean eye this is not so intolerable a result. We are taught to consider the division of this continent into tip ire than a dozen considerable Stares, besides a host of small ones, the best thing that could have happened to it. We never cease to congratulate ourselves that the Roman Empire broke up, that Charlemagne's scheme of universal empire died with himself, that all the attempts made to weld England and France into one monarchy were finally fruit less, and that Napoleon's gigantic enterprise recoiled on his own head. Of course, such disappointments are intolerable to the authors of these grand ideas. It requires some philosophy to bear being beaten by " rebels" and " invaders ;" and loyal Englishmen were very unhappy in 1782, as French Imperialists were in 1814. No nation can see its unity broken, or its frontier contracted, with a good grace. But the event generally shows that no territorial ar rangements answer so well as those which best re present the wishes and character of the inhabitants, and that if a number of people sufficient to stand alone and make a State wish to do so, it is best to let them go. It is their matter more than ours, for it concerns their life and only our pride. If they are still held to the terms of some charter or consti tution which they have long outgrown, and are re tained rather as subjects than fellow-citizens, the only result will be a triumph to the common foe, and a final calamity, in which there will be but few to suffer defeat, and scarcely more to enjoy the barren triumph. POST.—We yesterday endeavoured to state the character and terms of the settlement which was made in 1852 for the succession of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, as well as of the rest of the Danish empire. We then showed that the order of succession was arranged with the coecurrence of the five Great Powers, as well as of Sweden and of Denmark herself. By the agreement of all these Powers, all the dominions of Frederick VII., whether as King of Denmark or as Duke of Hol stein and Lauenburg, were to pass to the Prince Christian, now King Christian IX. ; and, so far at least as this recent and European sanction is con cerned, the right of King Christian to the Duc.highest wh of Holstein and Lauenburg is as go od as his right to the kingdom of Denmark, of ich Schles wi g a part. Now, this is as clear a tre at y right as t State on which the limits of almost anymodern depend. a depend. The recognition of certa i n rights par ticular line, even as the creation an of a given territory, has commonly d Establishment bee n confined to the op o o d Belgium holds the s fiveto the Greatfi ve Powers Great is P owers,psaetic a becausell conclusiveth e voi voice of the f r Y al must adopt It course which Europe that King by just such a treaty . t not invited .l to not a whit the less his _t_ B . Dukes of Coburg and h a t the Atrh crown ew e L i Loop Crown of Belgium! defined. the indepen dence and neutrality .ot the Belgian kingdom, and and the Conference of the rights and conditions of the Belgian succession. It therefore, fur certain p e tty S tates to . plead the m l , B a s n 2 t , of which a defined universal the p dh er e a nce to t h 'Treaty succes sion,or a a l n those o n s r e hic s h ta l t i e a s s o vi b h ta ic in h e d wereals o not tie parties.ni Danish tacit assentduring the last eleven years, To the e petence that w the Federal Diet itself not a co n n_u i r ou r t in t g ha p t a t r h ty e to this treaty, it is sufficient nt to two leading Powers o f t h e GermanPoit Confederation wore parties to it, and that Hanover, S ixonY ' and Wurtenerg sabbequently acceded t o . it. How w tn Call a few of the minor States& Germany act with- out the support of Austria and Prussia ? and how* can Austria and Prussia dishonour the treaty to which they are committed ? The second pretest which has been set up in support of the pretensions of the Duke of Augustenberg is one which, if car_ tied out elsewhere, would be inconsistent with the erritorial rights of some of the Powers which are apparently disposed to endorse it. It is alleged that the consent of the Duchies themselves, by popular vote, was never taken to the settlement that had been provided in the Treaty of 1852. If this is an argument which is good upon the Elbe and the Eider, it is also an argument that ;s good upon the Rhine. If Prussia, for example, as the leading Power of North Germany, and the chief promoter of the Danish war of 1848, were to hold such a doc trine as this, on what ground could she defend her retention of her own Rhenish provinces, which, with quite as much reason, France might reclaim, upon the plea that the settlement of those provinces by the Treaty of Vienna was never confirmed by any vote of the Rhenish population ? Moreover, the usage which Germany pretends to arraign is • one which has been in conformity with public law for a far longer period than the Vienna settlement of 1815. The claims of Austria to interfere in the affairs of Italy were based in the main on the stipu lations of the Treaty of Aix Ist Chapelle, wLicla settled on the House of Austria the reversion to the succession of the Italian Duchies—a settlement which no one ever disputed on the ground that a plebiscite of those Duchies had not been taken at the time. Neither were the appropriations or Prus sia at the expense of Saxony, nor the mediatisation of certain petty princes within the Confederation, attended by the formula of a popular sanction. Thus, then, we observe that the territorial rights both of the German States, and also of Austria and Prussia, beyond the limits of the Confederation are built up in great measure on the very principles which Germany, to a greater or less extent, is now endeavouring to repudiate to the prejudice of Den mark. In the meantime, however, indications are not wanting that North Germany in general is endea vouring to slide by some dishonourable pretext out of its obligations. The Prussian journals, both po pular and semi-official, breathe very much the same language. One of them even pretends that: Austria and Prussia are no longer bound by their engagements with the rest of the great Powers, on. the ground that Denmark has not fulfilled its obli gations to the Duchies; as though the settlement of the succession in 1852 had been conditional and nut positive and absolute ! Another journal, the Na tional Gazette of Berlic, argues tnat the treaty of 1852 has expired ; but without any further success than the exhibition of a readiness to perpetrate an untruth for the sake of a policy. A third newspaper actually tells us of Prussian preparations for war both by sea and land. But we yet hope that this is not the real attitude of the Prussian Government itself ; and, in spite of the undoubted popularity of a crusade against Holstein and Schleswig among the German people, neither they nor the Federal. Diet can do much harm without the concurrence of Austria and Prussia. An attempt to support by . arms the pretensions of Prince Frederick of Augustenberg as Duke of Schleswig-Holsteiu, by the German Diet, would be equivalent to a war for the Danish succession, to the duration and to the scope of which no limits could at its outset be placed. The famous war of the Swedish succession tasted for sixty years, and the combatants contrived to embroil nearly all Europe in their cause. Mean while it appears that the extreme section of the Holstein Diet have resolved to assemble at Kiel in spite of the prohibition of the Danish Government, with the object of soliciting the assistance of Federal Germany against their lawful Sovereign, according to the settlement of 1852. The Danish Govern ment will probably know how to deal with an act of treason against Christian IX. But there is no doubt that, whether this meeting be dispersed or not, it will be used as a handle by the allies of the Prince of Augustenberg, with whom the section of the Holstein Diet are probably in collusion. If, however, as we have nu doubt, Denmark knows how' to hold her own, the Western Powers will be ready to protect her from an infraction of the Treaty of 1852, which settles the succession of the whole Danish empire upon the present monarch, Christian IX., and which they are themselves under an obit' gatiou to uphold. COUNTRY MARKETS• 11 MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. At our market this morning the attendance was numerous. English wheat was in lair demand at the lull prices of this day se'nuight, and foreign was held in some instances for an advance of Id to 2d per 1001 b., with a very limited busi ness. Fleur was a slow sale, but fully as dear. Oats and oatmeal steady. Beaus about former prices. Indian coin. the turn dearer. BRISTOL—TIiuRsDA.Y. We had a fair supply of English wheat to-day, which realised Is per qr over last Thursday's prices. Foreign held for a similar advance, which cheesed business. Fine malting barley exceedingly scarce, at extreme values, while ordinary descriptions are plentiful,,and sell elow at late quo tadons ; grinding sorts in moderate demand and unchanged in value. Irish oats a slow sale, and gave way (id per qr. Indian corn gd to Is more money. • BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. Wheat was in large supply to-day, and sold sloWlY+ but remised fully last week's rates. Grinding barley as bef°r' Oats and beans quite as dear. Peas improved ix deratuLL!' English wheat was sold at 40s to 46s for white, and ° l ' B to 44s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 3 2 s or , t ° 428 per qr; grinding, 26s to 30s Oats, old, 22s to ov B per 30 stone ' • Irish, ~188 to 245. Beans, 40 s to 44 s p er q r. Peas, 36s to 44s per 36 stone. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Nov. 18. --• - - A fair supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met s ready sale at fully the prices of last week. Barley in goo d sale, and prices unaltered. Beans were slow. Oats wero also slow. Wheat on the top 12s Od down average Os 4d dowo• Barley on the top is 6d down average Os 4d down' Oats on the top is 6d down ....average Os 2d up. Beans on the top 2s 6cl up. ..average Os 10d up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .. 867qrs Sold 696 qrs 8ar1ey........3061 qrs Sold 2493 qrs Oats Beans 43 qrs Sold 43 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 39s Od ; extras, 37s Od' superfine, 35s Od ; fine, 33s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD—Nov. 17. Beet Nluttou .. Lamb Bd to —d Rough fat, 3s 9d per stow'. Hides, 3d to 4td; calf skins, 5d to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. tustralis and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Nov. 18. via Marseilles israzil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Dec. 4 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 2g* China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. IS. via Marseilles Nov. 27' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 1• India (Calcutta), and Ceylon , via Southampton Nov. IS via Marseilles Nov. 27 , India (Bombay), via Southampton N o v. 26. via Marseilles Nov. 20. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov. 13. via Marseilles .. Nov. 2 0 Newfoundland ..Nov. 25. Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Nov. 25 , by U.S. packet... by Canadian P p,lov. —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Nov. 20, Bahamas, via New York , .................... _ . 8 Mexico . .... •• • Nov. 2 . ......................... 1!!,.., acket N__ov. 20. All parts of West Indies, including caul , Peru ' .. Dec. 28. California. and British Columbia. ......... Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in packets by 2,280 Agento. ~...... Births. BENETT. the wife o o f . r. h H e . 17 B t e h n i e n t zt s a ci t , 8, s_TER.—On the 1 8th inst., at 61, E a t on - square , lill l . of Q a u s e o e n n . -street, Mayfai r, LlVilliors Lister, of a son. MORTON. —On the 19th inst., at 7, Warwick-road, Stoke Newington, Mrs. J. G. Morton, of a son. RAIKES.—On the 18th inst., at Carleton Forehoe, the w ife of the Rev. Francis Raikes, of a son, Marriages. LAVIE—NELSON.—On the 19th inst., at All Saints', ham, Tudor Lavie, Esq., Madras Army, so n of Col on L late Madras Artillery, to Emily Susan, the °l3 o f daughter of the late Rev. John Nelson, M.A., rector Peterstow, Herefordshire. STROTH ER --- WATSON.—On the 18th inst., at Harrogate. Christchurch, High Harro gate , Willi am , on l y son o f Thomas Strotke Esq., W es tfi e ld H ouse, t o Catherine, title' na daughter of Wm. Watson, Esq., Elmwood, stchurchf Deaths. ANCELL.—On the 19th inst., at 3, Norfolk.crescent) gYde park, Henry Ancell, Esq., aged 61. oh CARDER.-- , -011 the 17th inst., at Hackney, Mr. Jos e . Carder, late of Bow, Middlesex, aged 88. Dick.rivsox.—On. the 17th inst. Elizabeth. wido w of the late John Dickinson, Esq., oeGuildhall, aged 76. , 6 GILBERT.—On the 17th inst., at Cheltenham, e1ve,.. d ., 9 , 3 t. atter his arrival in England, Sir Francis Hastings G"'"- Bart., Consul at Scutari, Albania. L. RouTH.— On the 17th inst., at Sutton, Surrey, Henry Routh, Esq., of New York, aged 76. SMITIL—On the 18th inst., Th oma s Smith, of Wickharli Hall, near Wytham, aged 68. London: Priti;ed and ru shed by WILLIASI AN DO of Isi o. 112, Strand, P r inter, at Tnz Sow Of fice Y 11'7: Strand, In the Precinct or the :Javoy, , 11 the count igidellefleX. —Friday, November 20,_1863. 1V LID ear Iron: lir a ] 'Won It \ T r ] com tO O apc, brin, leadin 3'arris of j u , fro r , be wh. 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